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Mesa free press., 1900-09-14

The special train arrived at Beth
lehem at 80 o'clock, and was met
by fully 5000 persons, all clamoring
to get a bit of news from the wreck. or
trying to learn whether loved ones
were among the victims. The news
of the wreck had reached Bethlehem
at o'clock and spread like wildfire.
All the policemen in town were gath
cred at the station, and it was with
great difficulty that the injured were
removed to the waiting ambulances
and other vehicles which conveyed
them to the hospitals. All during the
day people from Allentown, Catasauua
and other places came pouring into
Bethlehem, and confusion reigned
throughout the city.
The second section of the excursion
train, made up of persons from towns
other than Bethlehem and Allentown.
left soon after the first section, but
was tagged before it reached Hatfield.
AS it could not get through on ac-
count of the blocked tracks, it was re-
turned to Bethlehem, and there was
great rejoicing at the narrow escape
of it's occupants from the catastrophe
AS OO1OAOA VI COuuLy
visited the wreck early, and spent the
entire day at the scene. He at once
directed the removal of the dead to
Lansdale, short distance south of
Hatfield. He promises a rigorous in
vestigation into the horror.
There are conflicting stories as to
the responsibility for the accident. One
version is that engineer of the ex-
cursion train had been warned at Sou
derton, the station above Hatfield, that
the milk train was a few minutes
ahead of him. Another story is that
the train dispatcher's office at Phila-
delphia was at fault. The trainmen
refused to talk of the accident.
Fifteen hundred tickets had been
sold for the excursion to the seashore,
and it was to have been the last of the
season.
w. H. Rosenberg of Lansdale, a
Representative in the Pennsylvania
House of Representatives, was on the
milk train. He had his jaw broken,
and was also internally injured. His
condition is serious.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-14

The writer Of short story in the
Century Magazine has invented two
phrases that may find a permanent
place In political slang. Party plat
forms do not always express the real
sentiments or the intentions of those
who subscribe to them. 1t is easier to
promise than to perform the promise.
This writer speaks of a weasel word''
as one that sucks the meaning out of
another which is beside it, just as a
weasel sucks an egg, leaving only the
shell. "Weaseling," he says, is highly
expedient because one class of voters
will like the weasel and the other the
word that has been weaseled-the egg.
The other phrase is "the stained-glass
plank" Glancing through the window
at one point, dog looks yellow, while
at another he Is green, and not until
the window is thrown open can you
actually see what the dog is like. OF
course windows are not made of
"planks" which one can look through
but let that pass.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-14
Ready to Work.

It is refreshing to hear of an aspirant
for public Office who frankly admits his
ambition, yet disdains to seek posi-
ton in which he will have nothing to do
but to draw his salary.
Two wayside pilgrims were discuss
ing the corrupt practices of modern
politicians.
"Raggsy," said one Of them, ''you
don't banker after gov'ment job, do
YEP
81 don't mind sayin' I'd take one eff
I could git it, Shabbalong," responded
the other, "but I don't want no lob
that's all fat. I'm willin' to earn nv
wages"
"An' wot sort O. job would be about
your size?"
"Well, I'd like to fill fountain pens
fur some assistant secretary O. the
treasury."-Youth's Companion.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-14
ALL ALONG THE COAST
Interesting General Information
About California
MENTIONED IN THESE COLUMNS
Selections That Will Be of Great Interest To
~ Both Old And Young.

A motion to exclude reporters from
the Oakland Club of that city has re-
suited in complimentary vote in ia
vor of the newspaper men.
Surveys have recently been made for
the purpose of establishing an electric
plant to propel line of cars from
Portland Or, to Mt. Hood.
Two ordinances have been intro
duced in the San Francisco city coun-
Gil making it unlawful to visit sa-
looms where gambling is going on.
Morosco's Burbank Theater.-The
hit of the season. Last week of the
| favorites, Mr.. James Neill and the in
comparable Neill Company, presenting
Dion Boucicault's great racing drama,
"The Jilt." Next week, the Oliver
| Leslie Company in "The Prisoner of
| Zenda"
Judge Greene yesterday found it
necessary to wake up sleeping juror
in the Carter case. 1t was Gerril Win
son, a potter who gained his honor's
| displeasure. He sat with closed eyes
and bowed head, apparently alb
| sorbed in profound consideration of
the evidence and the arguments OF
the counsel.
William Wilkerson, a farmer living
near Colfax, WASH, has cut this sea-
son in Walla Walla county, with a
header, 1910 acres of grain in 2S3
days, and has now gone to the Pa
louise country, where be expects to cut
| 1000 acres more before the close of the
harvest season. He uses a fourteen
| foot header, drawn by eight horses,
and has four wagons to haul the grain
| to the stack.
Juror Winsor was not so wise as he
looked, for presently, during a pause
in the proceedings, long-draWn
snore, redolent of comfort and obliv-
ion, drew the eye of Judge Greene
in his direction. For a moment his
honor gazed in amazement. Then he
deliberately gathered together the
waste papers within reach of his desk,
twisted wadded wove and otherwise
squeezed and compacted them in a
ball about the size of hat, and rose
in his place. He took the improvised
projectile in his right hand and drew
back his arm; pausing a moment to
discern the strategic point in the en-
emy's works, he bent forward and
swatted Winsor square on the nose
The shot did it's work well, and there
was no more drowsiness during the
hearing.-Alameda Encinal.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-14
"He was not strong" says the Amer

"He was not strong" says the Amer
lean wife Of the murderer Of King
Humbert. ''He was afraid of mouse.
He wouldn't have had the courage to
commit such an act" The anarchist all
over-timid, cowardly. weak. Afraid Of
q mouse, but not afraid to slay king!
In ninety-nine cases out Of one hundred
the anarchist is an insane criminal.
What is to be done with him and his
kind? Hanging one doesn't deter the
others from murder, although it may
inspire with wholesome fear the rela-
lively sane persons whose reckless ut
terances excite their fury. They exist
In every city in the world-a powder
magazine which the torch Of an incen-
diary editor or spark from the speech
Of a reckless orator may stir to fear
full activity!
Mesa free press., 1900-09-14
One of the charges which the Chinese

One Of the charges which the Chinese
make against the foreign devils" Is
that they dig up the soil and thereby
release evil spirits which prey upon
human life. 1t is true that much NOR
tality followed the founding Of the En-
glish settlement at Hongkong, and
deaths have been frequent since the
digging In and around the new German
town of Tsing-tan. A writer in the
Forum offers the explanation, which
the Chinese are too superstitious to ac-
cept. The soil in both places is disin-
tegrated granite, and has been so long
occupied by dense population that,
except where it is frequently aerated
by agriculture, it is reeking with dis
ease germs. The "evil spirits released
by the spade are bacteria.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-14

this city.
''The selection of ingalls, would be
another move in line with the alleged
Vanderbilt plan to weave all the rail-
roads of America into one vast sys-
tenn under single head.
"The interests that are bringing the
name of Ingalls, to the front control
majority of the stock, and could
have dethroned c. P. Huntington at
any time within the last few years,
but they believed he had earned the
position he held, and declined to hui
initiate him.
But he insisted upon putting all
the profits into improvements, and
those who did not, like him, have an
abundance of other stocks that were
producing, were nettled at
this absence of income from their in
vestments in the stock of the road,
where value became purely specula-
tive. Now it is said new blood is to
be infused into the management
through ingalls,.
A reporter of the Associated Press
questioned c. P. Tweed, who was
Huntington's confidential adviser, as
to the various stories concerning the
Southern Pacific's presidency.
'"The directors will not meet until
next week." said Tweed, "and while
several names have been informally
mentioned, I think am safe in saying
no one has been decided upon def
nitely."
Mesa free press., 1900-09-14
A GOOD THING
The Poor Ride Free in Boston--A Street
Railway Corporation With Soul.

[Boston Transcript The Boston
Elevated Railway Company is carry
ing on a valuable work here. 1t is
the custom of the management each
year at the beginning of the hot sea-
son to send to the otlcers of the char
liable associations and the pastors of
churches situated in the poorer sec
tions of the city many thousands OF
free tickets, each of which entities
the bearer to a free ride on any week
day. over any of the lines of the COM
pany. Last year fully 100000 such
free tickets were issued and cOrre-
spending number of children, mothers,
sick and aged persons, to whom the
expenditure of nickelS for pleasure, or
even health, would be hardship, were
enabled to spend day or an after
noon in the pure air of the country,
woods, or seashore, away from the
heat, noise and dust of city Ienements
These tickets cost those who receive
them nothing and entitle the bearer
to exactly the same privileges as
though cash fares were paid. The
method of distribution is simple:
Tickets are sent to representatives of
the churches and associations, ire
spective of creed or nationality, in
quantities commensurate with the
number of persons, more or less de-
pendent on each institution, and the
only limitation, if such 1t can be
called, placed by the company upon
the distribution is an accompanying
request that the tickets be given to
those to whom they would be benefi-
cial, and particularly to poor children
and their mothers.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-14

ton, such as are employed in the manu-
facture of Ice, would, if introduced into
houses and shops, actually lower the
temperature. This is not practicable,
even If it were economical. Summer
air usually contains so much moisture
that were its temperature to be sud-
denly lowered by artificial means, a
moist ''clamminess'' would result, and
that is decidedly unpleasant. Even in
the United States Senate chamber, into
which in summer air artificially cooled
is pumped, the process employed is very
roundabout. The air is forced to low
er temperature than is needed, to wiring
out the moisture, and then passed over
hot-water pipes to raise it to about the
warmth desired. This system is TOO
elaborate and costly for ordinary uses.
Nevertheless it cannot be doubted that
one of the achievements Of the twentl-
eth century will be the conquest OF the
sun. Some way will be found to cool
the interior Of buildings by method
not too expensive for persons OF moder-
ate means. Out-of-doOrs, Of course, the
King of Day will rule as he does now.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-14
INGALLS, MAY BE PRESIDENT
Report in Wall Street That He Will Succeed
c. P. Huntington to the Position.

New York-The Mail and Express
contains the following:
"It was said in Wall street that the
presidency of the Southern Pacific
Railroad would be offered to Presi-
dent NJ E. ingalls, of the Big Four,
who is Vanderbilt ally. No one
could be found who would positively
confirm or deny the Ingalls, rumors,
but it was declared with some show
of authority that neither H. E. Hunt
ington nor Tweed would succeed the
late G. P. Huntington. These two,
however, are provided for in the latest
deal reported. Each is to retain his
present position-Huntingto as first
vice-president and active manager in
the West, and Tweed as second vice.
president and confidential attorney in
Mesa free press., 1900-09-14

Better proof of the fact that the peo-
pie are drifting away from pills ana
litigation could not be furnished than
is presented by the remarkable growth
Of technical education In the United
States. Time was when the surplus
proceeds of the farm were devoted to
educating the farmers son In law or IN
medicine. The farmer did not want his
son to be a tiller Of the soil or me-
chanic. He must be a lawyer or doc
tor; once in great while he was edu-
Gated for the ministry. These stood out
in the farmers mind as the highways
to the loftiest mountain tops Of human
ambition. But our wonderful Industrial
development has wrought a great
change in educational ideas. Even the
public schools are endeavoring in their
limited way to meet the public de-
mand for an education that trains the
hand as we'll as the mind, and which
lays the foundation for mechanical
and scientific pursuits. Realizing that
the 'polite professions" are unprofit-
able and overcrowded, young men are
now shaping their education with a
view to becoming electrical and mining
engineers. 1t is only since the war
that technical education-the applica
tion of the sciences to the needs Of man
has had any marked development.
The drift to electrical engineering, in
fact, dates back only as far as the first
successful inventions in electric motive
and lighting power, which have COM
pletely revolutionized the systems Of
transportation and Illumination. There
are now siXty-four technical colleges in
this country, all but four Of which have
been founded since the civil war. There
are eighty-nine institutions, however,
that give instruction in the different
branches Of engineering. In a recent
address before the Society for the Pro
motion Of Engineering Education in
New York Prof. Ira o. Baker, of the
University Of Illinois gave table
showing the courses Of instruction and
number Of students in these eighty
nine institutions, which was as follows:
Institutions Number Gradu-
offering of ates in
courses. students. 1899
civil QnpinQnriDp AZ R67
Mesa free press., 1900-09-14
BLOOD AND MILK MIX
Trains Collide at Hatfield, Pa. Killing
Thirteen Persons.

Philadelphia, Sept 2.-Thirteen per-
sons killed and over thirty others in
jured is the appalling record of a
rear-end collision between an excur-
sion train and a milk train on the
Bethlehem branch OF the Philadelphia
and Reading railway this morning at
Hatfield, Pa, twenty-seven miles north
of this city.
The wrecked train consisted of ten
day coaches, which was the first Sec
ton of large excursion made up of
people from bethlehem, Allentown and
surrounding towns to Atlantic City.
This section carried only those persons
who lived in Bethlehem and Allen
town, and left the Union depot in
Bethlehem at 6:05 a. M, exactly thir-
ty-five minutes behind the milk train.
The latter train consisted of two milk
cars and two passenger coaches, and
had stopped at every station on the
road from Bethlehem en- route to
Philadelphia. At 6:54 o'clock the milk
train drew up at the milk platform
at Hatfield, and in less than two min
1tes the special excursion train, run
ming at the rate of thirty-five miles
an hour, crashed into the rear of the
milk train. The locomotive ploWed
through the two passenger coaches,
and crushed them as if they were egg
shells.
The milk car Immediately in front
was also badly wrecked. Four persons,
Godfrey Kaelin, his daughter Mamie,
Harold Lands and William Blackburn,
on the passenger car of the milk train,
o1r o0nf inc ctop iii or
tunately, there were very few persons
on this train.
The excursion train was a picture
of indescribable horror. The lOcomo-
tive was a mass of bent and broken
iron, and firmly held the bodies of it's
engineer and fireman beneath it's great
weight. Behind the engine six of the
ten cars were also a mass of wreckage.
The first car was broken in twain,
and the other five cars were thrown
on their sides, completely demolished.
Nine persons were killed in the first
two cars, and the others in those
coaches were badly MANNED. AS soon
as the crash came terrible cry arose
from the smashed cars, and those who
had not been injured quickly crawled
or jumped from the cars and went
to the assistance of the injured.
Many were pinned down by wreck
age and had to be freed by the liberal
use of axes With three or four excep-
tions the dead were killed instantly,
the others dying on their way to the
hospital. All the injured were first
taken to shed at the Hatfield sta
ton, and the dead were removed to a
barn. Messengers were sent to the
nearby villages for physicians and
relief train was telegraphed for from
Bethlehem. With fifteen doctors and
a half a dozen nurses, a special train
was sent from Bethlehem, but before
it reached the scene of the wreck it
was signaled to return to Bethlehem
as a special, carrying nearly all the
injured had started for that place.
On the run from Hatfield to the hos
pital three of the injured died. Great
trouble was experienced in keeping the
relatives away from the injured on the
train, so that the doctors gathered
from near Hatfield could attend to the
wounded. t',|
Mesa free press., 1900-09-14
Monthly Statement.

Washingtoo.-The monthly state
ment of the government receipts and
expenditures shows that during Au-
gust the total receipts were $40 $780,
6S8, ,755, and the expenditures SIS, 9,198,
an excess of expenditures over receipts
of $811 ,442. In August, 1899, there was
a surplus of nearly $5,000,000.
The receipts from the several sources
of revenue were:
Customs, $21 1884, ,494; internal rev.
enue, $26,O54,O74; miscellaneous, ST.
249,525.
Expenditures for the month were:
Civil and miscellaneous, $11 1863 ,SS2;
increase, $4,3O5,33 war, $15,231, 700;
increase, 100000; navy, SIS ASS, ,553; in
crease, $3.50, 900; Indians, $991 ,262; de-
crease, $225,O00.
Pensions, $13,7SO,779; increase, $3.50,
900; interest, $3,170,0S1; decrease,
$SO5, ,OO0
Mesa free press., 1900-09-14
Eskimo Lamps.

It is not generally known that the
Eskimos have from earliest times been
acquainted with a primitive form Of
lamp. Some authorities regard it as
an independent invention. The rudest
form consists of stones collected on
the beach with natural cavities into
which oil or fat can be poured, and the
wick laid at the side. In other forms
the cavities are artificially produced.
At st. Lawrence Island pottery lamps
prevail, and the size and shape bear
so remarkable relation to the isother-
NAL lines that it is possible by COM
parison to assign it's geographic posi-
ton to any specimen. With one doubt
full exception, no lamp Of ancient form
existed in America south Of the Es-
kimOS.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-14
Andree's Buoy Recovered.

Stockholm-Capt Grendahl tele-
graphs the following message here
from Skjervoe, Norway:
"Andree's buoy No. has been found
here, and contains the following:
July II, 10 p. M, Greenwich
voyage gone we'll, so far. Are now at
an altitude of $50 meters. Original
direction N. 10 deg. E.; compass un-
deviating. Four carrier pigeons dis
patched. They are flying west. We
are now over ice, which is very rug
ged. Weather splendid the whole time.
In excellent spirits.
[Signed] 'ANDREE,
'STRINDBERG,
'FRENKEL.
"'Above the clouds, fine; 7:45 Green
Wich mean time"
Mesa free press., 1900-09-14

1t used to be said that there was moth
Ing, which an Indian liked so well as to
sit in the shade and watch a crew Of
white men at work on railroad en-
bankment. Since the Grow Indians
have just secured the contract to grade
q section of road which is to run near
their reservation, it must be that their
views Of life have undergone change.
The Chicago News suggests that most
Of the hard work will be done. with
Crow-bars, and that "scalpers" will be
on hand before tickets are for sale.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-14
Total ............... 9,679

A more adequate idea Of the growth
Of this kind of education may be gained
when it is stated that in 1899-99 the
theological schools had 5000 students,
the law schools 1883, and the medical
colleges 26,O88 students. In another dec
ade the engineering schools may out
strip all the professional schools IN
number of students. The commercial
conquest of the world by this nation
must come largely through the work Of
the engineer. The. field for technical
education therefore grows larger and
more attractive each year.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-14
Ranch Hands Murdered.

Sacramento, Sept. 3.-Coroner Nc
Mullen, Sheriff Johnson and Dist ATTY.
Baker were notified today of the find
ing of the bodies of two men, William
Taylor and Hansen Rasmussen, who
had been murdered on adjoining
ranches, some four miles from Folsom.
The officers left imediately for the
scene of the crimes. and the Coroner
is holding inqueStS On the bodies there
this evening.
Dist.-Atty. Baker informed the Rec
ord-Union by telephone from Folsom
that Taylor was found shot through
the head and stomach. He was last
seen Thursday, and the condition of
the body indicates that he has been
dead several days. Taylor was an ell
derly man and employed on the cattle
ranch of Prazzo brothers, who are in
the mountains with their stock, hav-
ing left him to look after the ranch.
Rasmussen was employed on the
ranch of William Carpenter, about
mile from the Prazzo place. He was
about 40 or, As years of age, and was
also alone on the ranch. His body
has two bullet wounds in the head and
one in the, right side. Thursday a
neighbor called at the ranch and found
no one at home. The house was locked.
Rasmussen appears to have been MUIR
dered at the same time as Taylor.
Each body was lying on the floor of
the house of his employer
DistAtty. Baker sta les that neither
the people of that locality nor the Of
ficers have the slightest clew to the
men. Nothing about the houses was
disturbed except a trunk in the Prazzo
house, but it does not seem that any
thing was taken.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-14

The extent Of this country never was
better exemplified than in the story
told by returned volunteer Of the cap
ture Of himself and five companions by
the Filipinos. Only six all told, but
they hailed from Illinois, California,
Connecticut, Honolulu and Washing
ton, with one whose State is not given.
It is a combination to make one gasp.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-14

There may be some pleasant features
about being king, but in the long run
1t appears to be more satisfactory to
be an American citizen with simply a
l5-cent straw hat for everyday wear.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-14

The confusion in other parts Of the
world enables the Sultan of Turkey to
look out Of the window now and then
without quite so much fear Of seeing
the bill collector.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-14

The tippee is not so selfish as the tip
per. The tippee may be getting small
wages. The Upper bribes the tippee to
give him service that belongs to others.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-14

A bunco man in New York tried to
tob a stranger by first making him
arunk. The stranger was from Ken
lucky. Another case Of the bitter bit.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-14

Well may bad men who feel impelled
to hold up railway trains hesitate be-
fore trying to commit the rash act. If
caught they are in danger Of being fined
BIO and severely reprimanded.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-14

The latest cure for rheumatism Is bee
lings. Most persons, however, will
prefer to worry along with the rheuma-
hsm.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-14
Paper.

Paper was first manufactured in the
East, and was introduced into Europe
by the Moors in the eighth century.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-14

1t is said that dogs speak with their
tails. If this be true a short-tailed dog
must be a stump speaker.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-14

Here is pointer for you, young man.
1 dental specialist says Ice cream is
bad for the teeth.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-14

Terminal Island is to have a fresh
air home.