Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-02-26
BY A. KID,

The editor OF the Kid Journal has
been away out Of the state great
deal of late and has now resumed MS
work. 1t is the intention Of the pub
Usher to have the Kid Journal come
out once a week, but If there is I'M
portant news for the boys and girls
Of Oregon it may be published SEMI
weekly.
Ernest Bruce, son OF the jaDttor OF
the South Salem school, was quite
badly hurt Monday Afternoon at the
Salem Y. NJ. &. A. room. The boys
were playing indoor baseball when
the club slipped from the hands OF a
boy who was batting the ball and IL
struck young Bruce aside'of the head
so that he fell down senseless. His
father happened to be in the reading
room and took care of him. A sur
geon said no bones were broken. After
Ernest recovered from the shock he
was very pale and had no be almost
carried home. He got hard blow
but has got around all right.
Russia and England keep on
friendly terms, but England don't
like it because Russia has advanced
her army to the border Of Afganistan,
a country with whose people England
is on the best Of terms.
The expedition of the English
against the tribes on the frontier OF
India is declared by prominent men
in England to have been failure and
and the English suffered great loss OF
men and supplies, besides it cost
them great sum OF money. IL was
nothing to brag over because the
Queen of England in her speech to
parliament which has been called to-
getheI since last / wrote you about 1T,
barely mentioned the affair with the
tribes of India
February l6, $40 p. m. the Ameri-
can battleship Maine was blown up
and sunk in Havana harbor, where
she was anchored under orders from
the secretary OF war to protect Amer
ican interests which are in danger on
account OF the war between Cuba and
Spain, She was the fastest ship in
the American navy, having an aver
age speed Of ia knots an hour, and
carrying % guns and four tOrpedOes.
OF her 400 men and officers all
but about 40 went to the bottom with
her. Capt. Sigsbee and some Of the
officers escaped. 1t lis not known
whether she was blown up by tor
pedo being put under her or by explo-
sion of one Of her powder magazines
That Will be Investigated. 1t wal
thought that the Maine was undel
the direction of friendly govern.
ment-that Of Spain-and so no tor.
pedo nets were put out. No extra
guards were kept on deck. One Span
lard or one Cuban or some crank
could nave slipped up in small boa
at that time of the night and sent &
torpedo under her. However, we
must wait for the the report of the
divers to see whether she was blown
up from outside or inside.
j. X. Mulkey, of Pasadena, has in,
vented locomotive to draw a trair
over the ice of a frozen river. He
hopes to use it on the Yukon to 90 t
the Alaska gold fields. l wouldn't
like to be on it when it went into ar
air. hole.
A railroad that is operated on a
single rail runs atPatchogue, Long IS
land. Overhead it is guided By rollers
on both sides of tiange. 1t can make
sixty miles an hour and is run by elec.
tricity.
John Griggs, the new attorney gen.
eral of the United States, was farm
boy and then mail clerk and then
governor of New Jersey. Now he is
the law officer Of the United States.
Two premiums will be given by the
Kid Journal next month for the best
news item. Some occurrence like the
item about Ernest Bruce, IA copy of
LongfellOw's poems. For the best
animal story from nature, good
story book. Address all manuscript
to the editor Of the Kid Journal and
Sign your name. 1t must be by a
boy or Il girl under 10 years. We de-
cided to raise the limit one year. Now
pitch in.