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Daily camera., 1897-01-09
STATE RAILWAYS IN AUSTRALIA.
Problem Successfully Solved There with
Advantage to All Concerned.

ITODleH1 successfully SOlVeu Win
Advantage to All Concerned.
The problem of state railways seems
to have become successfully solved in
New South Wales, where the annual r.
port of the railway commissioners
shows that the total traffic earnings
from the colonial railways and tram
ways amounted to e3, ,109. .59S, and tho
expenditures to el,7SS,171, leaving a
balance after paying working expenses
of C ,321,427. This, the com missioneIs
state, makes an accumulated increase
of e3,332,413 paid into the treasury
during the past eight years to meet
the interest on capital. From that sum,
however, there had to be deducted
e e375,000, installments in repayment Of
the vote of e1,00O00O made to the de-
partment for the reconstruction and
improvement of the permanent way,
the balance, e2.957.413, being the in
creased net earnings since the commits
sioners took Office. The year has been
one of considerable difficulty, the con-
tinuance OF the commercial depression,
the drought (Which has caused the loss
of 100000 Sheep and the Newcastle
coal strike having seriously affected
the traffic. Nevertheless, the revenue
for the railways alone during the past
year was e2,s2o,417, and the working
expenses 91 1.551, ,sss, or 55.02 per cent
Of the gross revenue, and return of
93 shillings, 10 pence per cent.
upon the total cap1taI cost. Estimat.
ing the amount upon which the railway
department has to pay interest at 373e
per cent. the department would have
to provide 6 ,295,59O to meet its obliga-
tions, and after paying the working ex-
penses it had provided the whole of that
sum except 927.O61, which had to be
made up out of the general revenue. #.
however. to the cost of e34.659.9s3
were added e2.192,211, provided out of
the consolidated revenue and the de-
bentures repaid. on which there was
no interest charge. the deficiency in
interest would be e1O9,OO6. The rev
enue for the year decreased 957.7S7,
while the working expenses were re-
duced G15,701. The actual decrease
was f131,069, in the carriage of wool.
grain and -four, hides. skins and tallow,
but the increase n other branches. aris-
ing out of the improved condition of the
colony, lessened it to the amount stated.
At the same time the. work of improv-
ing the various lines, modifying gradi
ents and curves, etc. has been system
atically carried on, the railways now
being equal to any in the world, show,
ing what skillful management can
achieve under adverse circumstances.
There are. however, numerous indica-
tions of improvement, and the commits
sioners look forward to largely in
creased revenue during the present
year.-Jo ohm Plummer's Australian Let
ters.
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Big Steel Chimney.

A Philadelphia firm has just given an
illustration of the advances made in
building operations by erecting a steel
chimney 217 feet high, in the remark
able time of ten weeks This steel
chimney has been erected at the Ridge
wood pumping station, East New York,
and can be seen for miles as it rears its
slender stem high above every other OBJ
ject in the vicinity. Workmen are at
present engaged in filling the big steel
tube with brick, to prevent the heat of
the great chimney injuring the metal.
The chimney's foundation runs 25 feet
into the ground and is built of concrete,
into which are sunk, to d, depth of IS
feet, steel rods two inches in diameter.
To these steel rods are bolted plates of
cast iron two inches thick, and to these
are fastened the steel plates that form
the chimney. The chimney is 90 feet
in diameter at the base, tapering at the
top to eight feet, and in high wind has
about eight inches sway. A brick
chimney has a sway of from 12 to Is
inches.-N. Y. Journal.
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The Highest CIonds.

During the past year committee
of the British Association for the Ad-
yancement of Science has been en-
gagged in measuring the height of clouds
with the aid of photography. Stimuli
taneous pictures of cloud are made
by two cameras placed 600 feet apart
and connected by telegraph wires.
From the amount of displacement Of
the cloud caused by viewing it alter
nately from each end of the 60o-foot
base line, its height can be calculated.
Some of the "mackerel-sky' clouds pho
tographed were ~ miles high. The
loftiest clouds whose elevation was thus
measured belonged to the type known
"A cirrus or "curl-cloud," the height be-
inr q little more than 17miles.-Youth's
Companion.
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RED MANS RIGHTS.
Not a Citizen Foreigner, But He May
Sue and Recover, All the Same.


Sue and Recover, All the Same.
The suit of Clemens Whirlwind ct
al. VS.. Chris Won der Abe involved, be-
sides other things, the right of Indians
who are tribal Indians" to sue.
Whirlwind and other Indians left their
reservation at Rose BUD agency, South
Dakota, undar a contract and bond
made by ''Buck Taylor" He used them
in "Wild West show" AT st. Louis
Taylor made contract with Won der
Abe, by which Chris was to pay the
Indians the salaries they had been re-
ceivinv. The show started on the road.
but eventually busted" The Indians
assigned their claims to Whirlwind.
He brought suit and won. Chris de-
MED that Ahe~a was anv contract with
the Indians, and he denied also that the
Indians had any ri ight to sue. The court
of appeals affirmed the conclusion OF
the trial court, Judge Flitcraft's.
When Indians are ON their reservations
there are certain limitations as to their
contract rights. But when OFT their
reservation, they are not debarred from
appealing to the courts for the enforce
ment of personal rights. Judge Bond,
who wrote the opinion, remarks that
it is a. part of the American creed that
all men are created equal before the
law. In the administration of justice,
no advantage is conferred by race, rank
or riches, he says. Upon this principle
we have builded on this continent the
fairest fabric of freedom which has
met the eye of time. We cannot in JUS
tice or humanity deny the application
of this principle to the original owners
of the soil, nor refuse to any person.
though neither citizen nor foreigner,
the equal protection of the laws of any
state, while he is denizen within its
borders."-St Louis Republic.
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SLAUGHTER OF FELINES.
Medical Students Are on Still Hunt for
Cats to Be Dissected.

At this period of the year each Of
the medical students in Chicago is re
quired to dissect an animal and mount
it's skeleton. The animal preferred is i
cat. There are some 200 medical stu
dents in Chicago IN their first year, and
each of them is instructed to keep hi
eye open for a cat, and they have been
prowling down alleys in search of fe-
lines, and perhaps half of them have
been lucky enough to be successful in
their search.
1t is not an easy thing to find cat
when you want cne. Ordinary mortals
see plenty of them as they squall
through the night outside of their Win
dows. But it is different with the med
ical student. When he wants a cat II,
finds it very difficult to get one, AMI
therefore he is forced to make a very
thorough hunt before bagging his
game. On this account the medica
student finds it better to make the resi-
dence districts his hunting grounds,
where he may be able to catch some
very tame feline who has wandered
from its house and home to sun itself on
the steps.
The stray cats are much harder to
capture, because they are not as tame
and have been taught by sad experience
to regard all men as their enemies. The
pet tabby is less suspicious and falls ali
easy prey to the medical student when
she wanders from her own firesida.
Hence it is that most of the cats which
are being made martyrs to science are
well groomed and high bred. Fully d
score of beautiful Angoras and nearly
as many Persian cats have been captured
alive and chloroformed by the students
during a recent week.
There is a student at one of the med
ical colleges who has been so success
full in capturing cats that he has been
making business of it and is laying by
store of money to help pay his eX-
penses through the college. He has a
winsome way of saying PUSSY. pussy"
which few cats seem able to resist, and
as result has caught 16 during a
week, which he has had very little diff
ficulty in selling to less fortunate hunt
ers of the feline pets.-Chicago Times
Herald.
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"FreedOm from
OsCillatiOn."

In its issue of Febr'y 18th
the Railway Age" of Chi
Cago gives very interesting
account of some record
breaking runs on the Bur.
lington Route between Ga
lesburg and Chicago. The
article says in conclusion:
"The Burling,on's main
line track allows the high
est speed to be made with
remarkable freedom from
oscillation. The train 'purrs'
over the joints with a de.
lightful rythm and the pas.
senger seldom realizes that
he is riding at an extra Or
binary gait"
Freedom from oscillation
is something the Burlington
is famous for all over the
country. No matter how
great the speed, the train is
as steady as any moving
object can be.
How could it be otherwise
with such a track. such roll.
ing stock, such engines as
the Burlington's?
Daily camera., 1897-01-09
INDIANS HATE ENGLISH.
They Refuse to Speak It After
Leaving School
The Rigid Rules Against the Use of Their
Own Tongue Cause Them to De-
spise the White Mans
Language.

For years government instructors
among the Indians have been troubled
by the fact that the red men, after learn
ing English at the schools as children,
invariably return 10 their own tongues
and seem positively to hate the white
mans language.
The superintendent of Indian schools,
W. n. Hailman, in report just made to
the commissioner of Indian affairs says
that the Indians were actually taught
to hate the English tongue, because of
the rigid rules against the use of any
Indian conversation by pupils. Until
lately the great majority of Indian
teachers have labored under the delu-
sion that they can hasten the acquisi-
ton of the English language on the part
of the pupils by compulsory measures,
visiting more or less severe penalties
upon the unfortunate children who were
caught in the use of the Indian speech
The unreassnableness of such pro
ceedings, which are always punished
with more or less serious failure, ap-
pears when it is considered that am
idiom that is forced upon child by
means of penalties and other appeals
to fear is necessarily hateful TO him.
Then, in his own heart, he turns away
from it and uses it only under more or
less pronounced protests. This be-
comes quite manifest as soon as the
children are removed from the restraint
Of the school, when, for instance, they
return to their parents for visit or
more or less permanently after gradua-
ton, and when, on meeting their
former teachers, they will either re-
fuse to speak. English altogether or an
swer with shame-faced reluctance.
Prof Halman says: There is no
doubt in my mind that the unreason-
ableness of the offensive warfare made
in the Indian schools against Indian
yernacular is largely to blame for the
HHparent stubbornness with which
..',,~- Indians refuse to learn English
IT use the little knowledge thereof
=. ich they may possess. If it is argued
tnat with liberty to use the Indian YER
nacular the Indian children will engage
in conversation, possibly improper,
which the teacher can neither under
stand nor control, the fault lies not
with the child's knowledge and use of
his own idiom, but with the teachers
ignorance of the same, and the remedy
will be found not in the rpressive
measures, which must, because of their
nnreasonableness, fail of their purpose.
but in the determined effort ON the
teachers Part to acanire knowledge
Of the childs idiom.
"Proba! = rihe traditional hostile at
titude of certain scnoo1s to the Indian
vernacular is responsible for the fact
that in number of instances teachers
and other school employees continue at
the same school, working with the same
tribe Of Indians, without acquiring any
{ appreciabe knowledge of the language
spoken at the homes of their children.
This ignorance frequently extends to
the customs, habits of life, and the his.
torical development of the tribe in
question. They seem to treat the In
dams as outcasts, and the outcome of
their work corresponds with this atti-
e."-Chicago Tribune.
Daily camera., 1897-01-09
The DAILY CAMERA.
An Eminent Expert.

First Burglar-What are you doin'
now?
Second Burglar-Tm in de noospaper
line-reportin' fer de daily Churn-all.
First Burglar-How's dat?
Second Burglar-Well, when dere's a
mysterious burglary l examines de
premises, an den goes back to de Office
an dictates to me sec'atery me t'eories
about how | done it.-Town Topics.
Daily camera., 1897-01-09
Quite the Reverse.

Its highway robbery" stormed the
customer, and he flew out of the door.
The coal baron adjusted his glasses
and looked carefully at the scales.
NO." he said, softly, to himself, at
Daily camera., 1897-01-09
Filial Protection.

Did you read that touching story OF
tine little boy who saved his mother
from blood-thirsty lion?"
"No How did it happen?"
"Why, the lion ate the little boy
Chicago Record
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Bought 1t Too Cheap.

Mrs. Jones Ito her star boarder, who
is literally helping himself to butter
the second time)-Mr. Thompson, that
butter cost 40 cents pound.
Mr.. Thompson--It's worth 5O.-N. Y.
Herald.
Daily camera., 1897-01-09
Financial Hygiene.

'They say it is dangerous to hold
nickels and dimes in the mouth"
That's what; some fellow might see
them and want to borrow. - Detroit
Free Press.
Daily camera., 1897-01-09
A Mere Cipher.

Hewitt-You think you are sharp, but
] tell you a man could bunco you.
Jewett-Bunco nothing!
Hewitt-That's what meant.-Town
Topics.
Daily camera., 1897-01-09
Its Rapidity.

Capitalist-How fast can your ma
chine gun be discharged?
Inventor-It can be fired almost as
rapidly, sir, as the average small boy
gabbles his bedtime prayer on cold
night.-N. Y. Truth.
Daily camera., 1897-01-09
Brains In Evidence.

"Did your son Henry marry an in.
tellectual woman?"
Intellectual? Why, she understands
having fannels washed so they won't
shrink even an eighth of an inch."-
Chicago Record
Daily camera., 1897-01-09
Nothing Good About Him

Brown-When you see good thing,
push it along.
Jones-I guess you will stay where
you are.-N. Y. World.
Daily camera., 1897-01-09
A Matter of Doubt,

"He's man after my own heart, pa"
"Are you sure it's not my pocket
book ?"-Town Topics.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-07
ICONOCLAST IN HISTORY.
Perry's Famous Message Was Never
Recorded I'm Washington.

OMAHA, Neb.. Nov. Cit remained for
former Omaha citizen to destroy piece of
pretty sentiment with which American pa
triotism has surrounded the immortal Com
modore Perry. A letter has been received
by Edward Rosewater, of the Omaha Bee.
from General Stanton, which shows that
the terse sentence, I'VE have met the ene-
my and they are ours, was never uttered
by the hero of Lake Erie, or that If it was
the War Departments records fail to show
the fact. In truth the following letter
rather would indicate that the gallant COM
mander of the Niagara had as much respect
for the forms that obtain between the high
officials of the navy as had any other man
of that extremely formal age. The text of
the letter received by Mr.. Rosewater reads:
History has gone on repeating Commo-
dOre Perry's famous dispatch, We have met
the enemy and they are ours. as announc-
ing his victory on Lake Erie. until 1t mas
become household property. Now, the fact
is that there is no such dispatch in the
records Of the Navy Department. And there
is nothing more to show that the secretary
of the navy ever received a dispatch so
WOrded If ii was ever sent ii was probably
to some friends and Unofficial. 1 incose you
an exact copy of the dispatch announcing
the victory
u. s. Brig Niagara off the Western Sn.,
Head of Lake Erie Sept. 10. 1913, p. m.-
SIR: 1t has pleased the Almighty to give to
the arms of the United States a signal
victory over their enemies on this lake.
The British squadron, consisting of two
ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop
have this moment surrendered to the force
under my command, after a sharp conflict.
l have the honor TO be, sir, your obedient
servant, o. H. PERRY.
. TO the Hon. William Jones, Secretary of
the NAVY, -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-07
THE MAVERICK CASE.
It's Status Explained in a Statement by
Mrs. Helen DensmOre.

CHICAGO, Nov. GA campaign in the
interest of Mrs. Maybrick is being pushed
in this city. Mrs. Helen Densmore, lately
arrived from London, and who is now STOP
ping at the Auditorium in this city, made
the following statement to-day: When
President Mckinley few months since ad-
dressed note to the English government
through Ambassador Hay, requesting Mrs.
Maybrick's release as a matter of interna-
tional courtesy, 1 had great hope. The
question of Mrs. Maybrick's innocence or
guilt was entirely ignored; her release was
asked for as a reciprocal favor. John
Bright once asked President Lincoln for
reprleVe for a convict whose guilt was
questloned-a man who had plotted a con-
spiracy against both life and property dur
ing the late civil war. Mr.. Lincoln cheer
fully granted the request. l have been in
formed that Mr. Cleveland granted a like
favor during his second term The English
government refused the request and replied
that they had no reason to reopen the case
of Mrs Maybrick. President Mckinley did
not ask that the case be reopened, he SIM
ply requested her release on the ground of
international courtesy. Notwithstanding
all previous publications in this connection,
the facts to-day are that Mrs. Maybrick s
case is no nearer a solution, so far re-
lease is concerned by the British govern
ment, than it has been at any time, and
hope that President Mckinley will follow
this matter up by explaining to the British
case reopened that he simply asked the
favor of an international reciprocal cour-
teSy, and that he will insist upon a specific
answer to specific request.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-07
$4,000 DAMAGES ASKED.
Two Assumpsit Suits Filed Against
Chicago Stock Brokers'.

CHICAGO, Nov. 6.-Two assumpsit suits
asking for damages aggregating $751;
have been filed in the Circuit Court against
William II. and James H Moore, the stock
brokers, who were connected with the big
Diamond Match stock deal last year. The
plaintiff in one of the actions, in which $780,
0C0 is asked, is the firm of Raymond, Pin
chon & Co.. stock brokers, while Attorney
Robert A. Childs is the plaintiff in the
other. Mr.. Childs asks for $4,000. The two
suits are the hrst ones begun against the
Moores in this county since the sensational
furry in stocks in which they figured and
which resulted in the closing OF the Stock
Exchange During all the difficulties which
surrounded the MooreS at that time there
was no litigation forced upon them in the
courts. The firm of Raymond, Pinchon &
Co. was one of the brokers for the Moores
in their speculations. The present suit is
brought to recover balance alleged to be
due in the transactions in Match and Bis
cult, in which the Moores were engaged.
The suit brought by Attorney Childs is said
to have arisen over personal transac ion
with the MooreS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-07
LABOR CONTRACTS.
Decision of Much Importance to the
Railway BrOtherhOOds.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Nov. 6.-The Su-
preme Court of Arkansas to-day handed
down a decision which is of the greatest
interest to the public in general as Well
as to the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers in particular. 1t is well known the
locomotive engineers are all employed un-
der a contract by which seniority of serv-
ice gives priority OF right to employment
so that when slackness of business demands
that one or more engineers shall be dis
charged, the last engineer employed shall
be the first dismissed. One of the senior
engineers having been discharged he
brought suit on the ground that he was
discharged without cause and in violation
of his contract of employment. Ii was co1-
ceded that his contract gives him The right
to quit at pleasure, and the court denied
mis- right to recover on the ground ;i:as 10
contract can be valid that gives only one
party thereto the right to terminate it. The
court holds that the right to rescind or ter
inmate contract must be mutual The 0e-
cision is far reaching, affecting. as It does,
organized labor OF all CLASSES working IN
der contract agreements.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-07
STEAMER IDAHO SUNK
NINETEEN SAILORS LOST DURING A
STORM ON LAKE ERIE.
Only Two OF the Crew Saved-Eight
Arctic WhaIers and Nearly Two
Hundred Lives in Peril.

BUFFALO, N. Y, Nov. 6.-The steamer
Idaho, of the Western Transit line (New
York CentraD, foundered in eight fathoms
of water at 4:30 o'clock this morning off
Long Point, on Lake Erie. This point puts
cut into the lake from the Canadian shore,
about sixty-five miles west of Buffalo, and
it's vicinity has been the scene of many dis
asters
The Idaho commanded by Captain Will
liam Gillies, of Buffalo, and having board
a crew of twenty-one, all told, left Buffalo
Friday afternoon laden with package
freight for Milwaukee, A strong southwest
gale was blowing at the time, and the
weather office had storm signals up for the
lake. Captain Gilies thought he could
weather the gale and headed straight up
the lake. Shortly after passing Long Point,
he discovered his mistake and tried to run
for shelter. The sea was running very high
at the time, and in turning the Idaho
shipped big sea which quenched the fires
in the engine and the boat was helpless in
the trough of the sea- The captain and
crew were lowering the lifeboat. when the
steamer gave lurch and went down on her
side stern first. Two of the crew, a deck
hand named William Gill, of Rochester, and
the second mate, name unknown, managed
above the water There they clung until
eight hours later, when they were discov-
cred By the outlook on the Mariposa, of the
Minnesota line
The effort of those on board the Mariposa
to rescue the two men involved the greatest
possible danger. The sea was running very
Eigh and life boats could not be launched.
Lines were thrown to the two men, but
their arms and legs had stiffened around
tie spar and they could do nothing to help
themselves. The Mariposa ran close to
the spar as possible, and efforts were made
to grasp the men while passing. This was
repeated several times, and with success at
last. The two survivors were brought to
Buffalo, arriving here shortly before mid
night. Both were in an exhausted state,
and unable to give a connected story of
the wreck.
OF those who were on board and are sup
posed to be drowned the only names known
tonight Edward Smith, of Pittsburg,
Pa., deck hand, another deck hand named
Bell, and Captain William Gillies, of Buff
falo The Idaho was an old boat, having
been built in 1863. She was 220 feet long,
and her gross tonnage Lilo.