Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-03-11

| thV 8Qou VIII Vi tle SDlrltS-
: Allen is Nez Perces Indian VIII,
married umatilla squaw. H,
teaches the other Indians that If the,
: VIII but listen to the voices of tn,
spirits wisdom will be learned tha
VIII enable the successful hunting O
deer and bear during the coming sea
son.
MONTREAL. Can. March S.-Alarm
Is experienced here over the non-arri
val OF the steamer Numidian, carry
ing the Canadian soldiers home from
South Africa.
The ship is FIVE days overdue and
the steamer offices here are thronged
by anxious relatives.
Mr.. w. Duddell. an electrician of
London, has discovered method of
producing musical sounds from the
electric arc. and recently gave a lee.
ture upon these investigations before
the London Institution of Electrical
engineers. 1t is only the solid car
bon, that which Is homogeneous in
its nature, that is capable of produc.
Ing these unusual sounds. The color.
ed carbons are absolutely silent. Not
only is 1t possible to obtain musical
sounds, but they may be varied SO as
to produce a tune, and to exemplify
his thesis the inventor played a pop
ular air. The variations in the
sounds are accomplished by bypass
or shunt placed across the carbons.
and which have the same effect as
the fingers and keys upon flute.
Mr.. Duddell in the course of his lee
ture arranged four arcs In series to
| increase the Intensity of the sound,
and by varying the self-induction and
capacity In the shunt circuit by means
of keyboard, of two octaves, pro
duced his tune. The keyboard may
be placed at any distance from the
lamps without depreciating the mu-
slcal effects emitted by the arcs The
inventor has also requisitioned the
| electric light arc for receiving tele.
phone messages transmitted from an
phone messages transmitted from an
other part of the building.
| WASHINGTON, March S.-Senator
Carter has been warmly commended
for having defeated that ENORMOUS
budget of $6l,O00.100, twothirds of IL
having been appropriated In order to
get votes enough to pass the other
third. A river and harbor bill is
| made up nowadays, not according to
| the necessities or the advantages of
| the streams and the harbors that are
to be improved, but in compliance
with the demands of syndicate of
senators and representatives who re-
luirc fair allotment for their dis
tricts and states. Therefore In or
Ter to secure the necessary money for
The harbors of Chicago and New York.
Baltimore and the other important
ports upon the ocean and the lakes
| and for the important rivers like the
Ohio. Mississippi and Hudson, = iN
necessary to make equivalent appro-
priations for thousands of creeks and
bays, where the money is absolutely
wasted except SO far us 1t supports
| the constituents of the members who
have influence enough to get 1t In the
bill.
The practice was begun twenty or
| more years ago. and has been growing
| more and more serious annually until
| aow the river and harbor .udget av-
cry year amounts to between $50, ,o00,-
| 900 and $60,000.000 Senator Garter
caught this scheme where he could
kill it and decided that he could not
| round UP his senatorial career by any
more patriotic act than protecting the
| public treasury against the plan t.
plunder 1t of $40.000.000. He talked
all night as often as 1t was necessary
to prevent vote upon the bill.
There was report around the cap
itol that Senator Carter was reveng-
ing himself upon the committee OF
commerce for not making mort
liberal allowance for storage rese.-
yoirs and irrigation systems in the ar
i'd stats OF the northwest, but he said
he thought the arid states had been
very well taken care of and that he
| would have pursued the same course
If there had been an appropriation for
| every creek In Montana.
There were whispers also that the
president had requested Senator Car
| ter to defeat the bill. OF course he
| denied that. Being loyal adherent
of the administration he could not do
| otherwise. and took the full RESPONSE
bility upon himself. but at the same
time the secretary of the treasury will
quietly congratulate Senator Carter on
his success and 1t will not be neces-
sary for anyone to remind them that
the bill carried an appropriation larger
than the reduction In the revenue
made by the law that was passed last
week.
Very few people In the galleries
knew what Senator Carter was talk
ing about. They could not see any
occasion for his extended remarks.
but the strategy of course, was well
understood upon the floor.