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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1896-06-13
EMIGRANT MOVEMENT.

The number of emigrants who ar.
rived in this country in 1892 was 623,,
684. 1t gradually decreased until 1896
when it was only 279,948. In February
of this year the increase began and
since then the people have been pour
ing in at such a rate that Colonel
Stumpf, commissioner of immigration
at Washington, prophesies that the
number this spring will equal, if it does
not exceed the record of any previous
year. There is also very heavy move
ment from east to west, and the move
ment which has been anticipated for
the past two years, as the logical result
of the business depression, promises to
reach the full tide during the present
year.-IrrigatiOD Age.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1896-06-13

ter for irrigation purposes is a matter
of public interest and subject to state
control; and that the irrigation act of
that state regulating the taking and
distribution of water from streams,
and providing among other things that
each company controlling canals or
bitches shall appoint superintendent
who shall measure to each person enti-
tied thereto, his or her pro rata share
of water, applies to and governs COM
panies carrying water for hire and also
their patrons, and one consumer can
not ignore the allotment made by the
superintendent and appropriate to him
self more water than his just share.
1t was also held in the same case
that the law regulating water rights
being in the exercise of police powers
of the state is paramount to private
contract though such contract ante
dates the passage of the law and rights
given by the contract must yield where
they are in contravention of the pro-
visions of the Standardization Age.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1896-06-13
SOUTH AFRICAN MINING IN NUTSHELL.

Probably not since the days of John
Law and his celebrated mississippi
Scheme" has the general public of Eng
land and France especially, gone into
wilder or more hopelessly reckless spec,
ulatlon. The mining stocks of the
Johannesburg region in South Africa
formed thu basis of innumerable Wild
cat concerns which have drained drv
the stock markets of both England and
France. Beyond a certain point, how
ever, sensible people who stOpt to think
a bit know the whole business to be in.
sane folly. Anyone reading the follow
ing figures from the London Statist. re-
printed here from Bradstreet's of re-
cent date, can see at glance how hope.
less is the prospect of dividends from
West Kaffir mining shares: cat the
end OF 1893 the capitalization of the
Witwatersrandt mines, on the basis of
the market price of the shares, was
about el7500OOO, the return in diyid-
ends 100000. At the end of 1894 the
capitalization was about e55,OOOOOO.
and the return in dividends about e1,-
100000. The present capitalization of
the whole of the mining companies
having their fields of operation in South
Africa cannot be far short of e3OO,OOO,-
600, while the actual dividends for 1895
were not more than e2,5OOOOG" Ger
tainly, dividends of only fve-sixths of
one per cent. should not be very entic.
ing to investors, even in these DAYS of
low interest.-IrrigatiOn Age.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1896-06-13
SECURITY AUTHORIZED.

The senate committee on public lands
reported an amendment to the sundry
CIVIL bill by which oasis of security is
established, through the state govern.
ments, for money expended in reclaim.
ing lands under TIE Carey law, by issu,
ing patents and authorizing liens upon
the land. 1t may be said here that
there seems to be willingness on the
part OF congress to adopt any reason.
able measure which will assist the re-
clamation of the lands for which that
law was intended, and it is being
amended SO as to make its execution
less difficult.-I1rtgation A0e
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1896-06-13

any bird to do, touched the water with
out any damage, and Immediately was
picked up and ready to be tried again.
A second trial was like the first, except
that the machine went in different
direction, moving one continuous gentle
ascent as it swung around in circles like
a great soaring bird. At one time it
seemed to be in danger, as its course
carried 1t over neighboring wooded
promontory, but apprehension was i'm,
medtately allayed as it passed % or 30
feet above the tops of the highest trees
there, and, ascending still further, its
steam finally gave out again, and it set
tied into the waters of the river, not
quite quarter of mile from the point
at which it arose. No one could have
witnessed these experiments without
being convinced that the practicability
OF mechanical flight has been demon
strated."
The Langley aerodrome has no gas to
llhC IT. as III Ihe case or a balloon, but on
the contrary is about /, 900 times heavier
than the air which sustains it and on
which it is made to run, somewhat IN
the way that thin ice supports a swift
skater. The power is derived from a
steam engine through the means of
propellers, but owing to the scale on
which the actual aerodrome is built,
there has been no condensing appara-
tus to use the the water over and over
again. Enough water can be carried
for only brief flight, but this is a diff
Guilty which does not belong to ma
chimes larger than the one with which
the-recent experiments were made and
in which the supporting surfaces were
only about IA feet from tip to tip. In
the trials the distance flown each time
was about one-half mile, and it Travelled
at the rate Of little more than 20 miles
an hour, but the speed of the machine
depends on whether it is going up Hill
as it were or flying on the leVel.-Er.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1896-06-13
PROF. LANGLEY'S FLYING MACHINE.

Prof. Samuel p Langley, secretary of
the Smithsonian Institute at Washing
ton and one of the leading scientists of
the country, has for years been be-
lever in the eventual practical use of
air vehicles and has devoted much time
to the study of the problem of aerial
navigation, For the past three years
he has been making experiments with
device of his own invention at his
home near Occoquan, Va, which were
conducted with secrecy, but on the 9th
ult, there were two successful voyages
of Prof. Langley's airship, or aerodrome
as he calls it, which were witnessed by
Prof. Alexander Graham Bell, the well.
known electrical inventor, who was
convinced by the two trials that the
time is not far distant when the freight
and passengers will be carried through
the air from one point to another. In
an interview with representative of
the Washington Post, Prof. Bell said:
Last Wednesday witnessed q very
remarkable experiment with Professor
Langley's aerodrome on the Potomac
River, Indeed, it seemed to me that
the experiment was of such historical
Importance that it should be made pub
lie. The aerodrome or "hying ma
chine, in question was of steel, driven
by steam engine. 1t resembles an en-
ormous bird, soaring in the air with ex.
IRENE regularity in large curves, sweep.
ing steadily upward in a spiral path,
the spirals with a diameter of perhaps
100 yards, until it reached height of
about 100 feet in the air, at the end of
a course of about half a mile, when the
steam gave out, the propellers which
moved it stopped and then, to my fur
Their surprise, the whole machine, in,
stead of tumbling down, settled as
slowly and GRACEFUL as it is possible for
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1896-06-13

c)Ols, it FORCES and it YIELDS, and it ex-
tracts from the most stubborn ores or
binary minerals and precious metals.
In our practical age the dividing line
between the scientific toy and profitable
power is the cost of production. The
price Of coal limits the possibilities of
settlement and the growth of cities.
Industries and their development are
dependent upon steam and electricity,
and the generation Of these forces upon
coal. The most superb agricultural
opportunities of the world are upon the
Pacific coast, but the varied industries
necessary for the support of a large
population do not thrive there, because
the black diamond has not been discov
cred in the Sierra Nevada or the Sierra
Madre.
This exposition illustrates another
beneticent advance in electrical devel
opment. 1t suggests an opportunity to
escape from territorial limitation OF
coal and the proAibitive cost of trans
portation. Wherever there. are mount,
aims and lakes there is water power
That this power can generate electricity
has been known, but its usefulness has
been handicapped because the mill and
factory could not be readily transplant
I'd. The most sublime concentration
of continuing force in the world is nj
agara Falls. After the unwilling of
the Statue of Liberty Enlightening the
World, which had been presented to us
by the French republic, took the rep
resentatives of the French government
to Niagara Falls When they saw it
their feelings were aptly expressed by
Admiral JOuetj, who exclaimed with
dramatic earnestness. II have seen all
the natural wonders Of the globe and
this surpasses them all. If there shall
ever be an exhibition of the universe
when the stars and planets contribute
there best, the earth will send Niagara
Falls. We are here, $50 miles frome
Niagara, and witnessing that the pow
er generated there can be transmitted
here. 1t il a demonstration of incalcu,
liable value. 1t will redeem the waste
places of the world The tumbling
torrent will become the treasure house
of the nations. Wherever water flows
electrical power may be generated,
which, transmitted great distances, will
create the mill, the factory, and the
furnace, and give that employment to
capital and labor which relieves the
farmhouse of its surplus of boys and
girls and gives the farm its profitable
market in neighboring seat of popu.
lation and industry. The next feat of
now almost accomplished,
is to be its use in transportation. 1t
is to accelerate the speed and increase
the comfort of the passenger train and
to reduce the cost for the revolving
wheels Of the freight car; it is to be
largely the substitute for the horse, for
and the road wagon; it is
to furnish the light for dwelling and
factory, for hospital and highway; it is
to give the heat for cooking and for
comfort. 1t is to be the power for the
of the mill and the press of
the newspaper; it is to be the motor
for transportation by land and sea-"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1896-06-13
IRRIGATION Law.

Recently in the supreme court of the
state of Colorado in the case of White
VS.. Farmers Highline Canal and Res
ervoir Co. (43 Pac. Rep. 1929 it was de-
eided that: The taking and use of wa
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1896-06-13
Don't Tobacco Spit or Smoke Your Liss AWAY

Is the truthful, startling title of book about No.
d 10 bac, the harmless, guaranteed tobacco habit
tS mat braces up nicOtinized nerves. eliminates
SHe nlGotlne poison, makes weak men gain
strength, ygor and manhood. You run no pi11VS-
iTi UT hhanclal risk, as No To- Bac Is sold Inv
or everywhere under guarantee to cure
Ing 1iI RnSy rounded Book free Address Ster
Sampson - ~'''' "so' ~ L.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1896-06-13
NO ROOM FOR DOUBT.

convinced l0i0 Sou' you must be
ali Lme me, facts are that the Union Pacific is leadino
roufe aPP LOIS Is the acknowledged dining car
The linz s yis through car line Of the west
Raiird M connection with the Chicago & AIta6
RaniUiu With Its excellent EQUIPMENT NJ Frol
and SdiP um 4Ra RO Cars Pullman Palace SieepeTs
every trayeIer tn tb' demands the attention of
this SfHar nearest ticket agent for tickets vi,
'O"'e' T. l.. LOMAX, G.P.&T
Omaha, Neb.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1896-06-13

A. L. Wooster, a prominent citizen of Osseo,
Mich, after suffering excruciatingly from piles
for twenty years, was cured in a short time by
using DeWitt'S Witch Hazel Salye, an absolute
cure for all skin diseases. More of this prepar-
alton is used than all others combined H.
Blatchley.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1896-06-13

Did you, ever think how readily the blood is
poisoned by constipation? Bad blood means
bad health and premature old age. DeWitt's
Little Early Risers, the famous little pills, over
come obstinate constipation. IL. d. Blatchley,
druggist.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1896-06-13

Don 1901 away your money buying worthless
leilleoeS' which are warranted to cure every dis
ease, remember that DeWltt's Sarsaparilla Is
d Blood purifier and Blood Maker. H. d.
Blatchley, druggist. " 49,
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1896-06-13
SHEEP 10 LEASE.

l have a few thousand ewes that l
will leaseto the right parties. Enquire
OF ROBT. NOBLE,
u Reynolds, Idaho.
Evening star., 1896-10-09
The Crippled Telephone Service.

In Mr.. Bryan's interesting explanation of
the difficulties confronting the local teie-
phone company in its effort to restore the
service to its former condition, published il
last evenings Star, unfortunately no dispo-
s!tion was shown to compare the cost of this
work, which is directly traceable TO the
overhead system of distribution, with the
cost of maintaining an approximately COM
plete system of underground conduits. 1t
might be important to place these two ex-
penses side by side and to calculate the ad-
vantage of maintaining the present over
head distributing wires where they are or of
substituting wherever possible the conduit
system. which Mr.. Bryan admits is far less
subject to trouble in Washington than else
where, owing TO the lack of electrolyZing
agents here. such as the overhead trolley.
1t is reasonable to assert that in city like
Washington. which has been kept free from
the invasion of the trolley by constant ef-
forts on the part of the press and the pub
lic a conduit system could be more cheaply
maintained than in Baltimore, and yet there
are fifty miles of conduit in the latter city
to only about fifteen here. y thousand tele
phones out of order ought in equity to rep
resent a heavier loss of income to the COM
pany than the mere item of replacing poles
ard wires whose breakage puts this large
percentage of the service out of connection.
Yet there seems to be no provision made for
such a rebate in behalf of the disconnected
subscribers who are the largest sufferers
from the hurricane. Their rent runs on,
without the compensating telephone service.
Perhaps if this item were expressed in dol
lars, it would stand as a heavy set-off
against that other form of dead capital
that Mr.. Bryan complains is the main rea-
son why the conduit system cannot be ex-
tended.
Evening star., 1896-10-09
The Connecticut WorkinCmen.

The result of the town elections in Con-
recticut Is regarded by the republicans as
Important beyond the indication given of
how the state VIII vote in November. 1t !s
thought to afford a pointer as to the labor
vote, which is very notable factor in the
national contest.
The democratic managers have been as
serring that the labor vote is almost solidly
for Mr.. Bryan. and viii record itself ON
election day. No particular reasons have
been offered. The declaration has simply
been made and reiterated, largely on the
strength OF the assurances of many leaders
In trade organizations who are free silver
ties. that the wage-eerners are for free
silver, and that nothing can prevent their
acting together in this election. The fact
that many Of them are members of Nc
K,nley clubs and wear Mckinley buttons
Evening star., 1896-10-09
Action nj Last.

The Commissioners have made no mistake
in adopting the suggestion so often made
by The Star that the Office of coroner
should be abolished in the District If they
had taken such a step years ago the many
farces that have been enacted from time to
time in the name of 'inQuests" would have
been avoided. Few public calamlties and
fewer great crimes have occurred in the
District of late years without affordlng
practical demonstrations of the uselessness
and worse of this relic of the ancient
method of starting the judicial machinery
in motion. Now that the Commissioners
have decided to recommend to Congress the
abolition of the office and the substitution
therefor of the position of medical exam
iner, doubtless something will be done to-
ward modernizing the judicial system of
the District in this respect. Health officer
Woodward set the pace in admirable fash
ion several years ago when he urged the
abandonment of the office of coroner, which
he then held. If it was clear to the incum-
bent that the office was useless and super
huous. it should have been an easy task
for the authorities to arrive at the same
conclusion. There IS little disposition. how
ever, to complain of the delay, inasmuch as
the proposition has now received the Com
nlSSlOnefS recommendation II is Known
that when the kreglo case occupied public
attention last spring the attention of many
members of Congress was so thoroughly
arrested by the demonstrations of useless
ness OF the coroner's office as to cause some
of them to consider the advisability of pro-
posing law abolishing the Office without
waiting for the recommendation of the
Commissioners Happily. the latter Off
cials have now acted. and probably among
the local bills passed next session will be
this admirable measure of reform
Evening star., 1896-10-09

In their coats has been brushed aside Win
the assertion that that Is a mere disguise
to save them from importantly on the part
of republican canvassers; that their loyalty
to Mr.. Bryan is pledged, and that the
pledge will be redeemed.
Mr.. Bryap's confidence of success Is
based, 1t is said, very largely on this as
sIraEce of the democratic managers. 1t Is
observed that Ills arguments are frequently
addressed directly to the wage-earners, and
it is part of his program to speak In the
labor centers of Indiana and Illinois. His
particular solicitude is for the support Of
labor. He considers that the farmers are
his beyond the power of the opposition to
draw away or estrange.
When Vermont voted overwhelmingly
against silver the democratic managers re-
piled that the voice of labor had not been
lifted in the election. When Maine follow
ed suit the same reply was made. But now
that Connecticut has followed Vermont and
Maine and declares for the republicans,
the republicans contend that the voice Of
labor has been lifted, and lifted against
silver. Connecticut. as they point out, Is
full of wase-earners. II is one of the great
est of the manufacturing states. Labor IS
powerful there and is well organized. And
throughout the state on Monday, as the re-
turns show, labor went to the polls and
cast it's ballots for the republican tickets.
The contests, it Is true, were local, but It
was well understood that the result would
count in the national calculations, and
hence the national contest was kept IN
view.
Now. as the republicans urge, if labor in
Connecticut records itself against silver,
why may not labor in other states be eX-
pected to take a like stand? Labor mas
very much the same stake in the question
everywhere. 1t finds different employment
in the different states, but employment is
the main object everywhere, and good pay
for it. The Connecticut men want the mills
open and running full time. And so do the
ren of Illinois, Indiana, and where you
please. The republicans inquire with some
show of reason: What is there longer to
Justify the claim that labor is soidly op-
posed to sound money, when in one of the
states where 1t is strongest 1t helps to
achieve pronounced republican victory?
Evening star., 1896-10-09
A Humane Man.

She handed him his evening clothes.
They had been packed away all summer
with moth exterminating substance As
the odor Of tar and camphor assaiIed him
his face grew sad.
What is troubling you?"
II was thinking of these clothes"
1T seems to me that you ought to look
pleased. There certainly is no moths in
them"
II can't help my sympathetic nature"
he responded. Sometimes it leads me to
an absurd extreme. OF course, I'm glad
that the moths are gone, but-and he sigh
ed deeply-it must have been a horrible
DEATH
Evening star., 1896-10-09
The Cuban War Again.

l. is evident from the numerous contra
Gictory reports recently received from Cuba
that the fighting season in that un-
fortunate island has come again, and prob
ably hereafter throughout the winter there
Will be an abundance of dispatches with
the Gus sIoTnary amount Of variance to the
effect that the Cuban republic is on the
point of complete and indissoluble estab-
lIshmenl and that the Spanish cause is
about to be overwhelmingly triumphant
We read just now that Antonio Maceo has
attacked the trocha and has caused the
death OF over thousand Spaniards. and
almost in the same moment we encounter
the tidIngs that he has been effectualy
routed by the Spanish commander and that
the InSurgent cause has been permanently
crippled by the loss of men and arms.
Probably the truth usual lies in middle
ground and there has been series of
skirmishes magnified by the interposition
of the censorship into Spanish victories nr
expanded into insurgent triumphs accord
ing TO the places from which they We're
written There seems TO be no good reason
TO believe that the will be ended this
winter even il Spain is able to obtain the
heavy loan for which she has now appealed
TO the bankers OF The world. The govern
ment at Madrid is frankly carrying on the
war in Cuba with borrowed money and its
credit is so seriously shaken that there is
grave doubt whether the financiers VIII
make further heavy risks in the hope of
saving their former investments. There is
no solid ground for thinking that the Span
ish military genius will he better able this
winter 20 cope with the tricky Cubans than
il was last season and unless there should
De foreisI intervention another dreary cam
paign marked by occasional slaughtcrs and
persistent prevarication seems inevitable.
Evening star., 1896-10-09

Doan' yoh come a-talkin' bout yoh melan-
choly days,
October's jes' eE handsome an ez Jolly
ez kin be;
An de woods Is all a-singin', while de
breeze, he comes an plays
De Essence of Vuhginny on de branches
oh do tree.
Doan' yer come a-moh'nin bout de lea {
dat has ter fall,
When he hyahs de music playin' he
doan' wanter mics de chance,
Case he feels de frosty tinsis dat tavigor-
ates us all.
So he jes' cuts loose. he does an j,nes
his neighbors in er dance.
Evening star., 1896-10-09

That's splendid heating apparatus you
put into my house last year." said the
small, sarcastic man.
'1-er-was afraid you didn't like it, judg-
ing from some of the things you said last
winter
Its good qualities don't show off at all
times. But when cool spell like the pres
ent comes on We realize that it has great
possibilities. If you could regulate it a
little 1t would be all right"
Il guess We can regulate it almost any
way you want it,
That's good. 1 believe in always looking
out for the future. And II you'll have
somebody come up and regulate it 50 that
1t keeps the house as cold in July as it does
in October, Wen burn fires in the CRATES
all winter and never say a word"
Evening star., 1896-10-09
The Confidence of Genius.

Young man. said the editor. this is the
seventeenth poem you have offered me in
three days"
Il know it, was the answer. II like to
write poetry"
But don't you think that it is rather an
ambitious undertaking? In literature, as in
everything else, man ought to begin at
the bottom and work up
That's my method precisely. Whenever
1 write a poem, the first things 1 think
about are Its feet"
Evening star., 1896-10-09

The death Of Du Maurier takes from the
public who will be sincerely
mourned. He is one of the few cases where
genius is fully tempered and developed by
time before its expression is given to the
public. His work an artist was of
slight value, but 1t served to keep him in
touch with the ideals which at last de-
veloped his literary masterpiece.