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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-02-21
ANNUAL TAX SALE.
STATE OF MICHIGAN,
COUNTY OF SHIAWASSEE %.

The Circuit Court the Chancerv
In the matter OF the petition
OF the State Michigan
OF rain lands Tor taxes assessed thereon -
reading filing
State OF Michigan praying for decree Mc
against each parcel of land
therein specified claimed be
each such parcel OF land
so claimed by the State OF Michigan. -
IL ordered that said petition
the February
the County Shawassee Michigan
February, d.
lien claimed
Tor taxes interest charges
said Court and file with the clerk thereof acting
their objections
this
will be
for in said petition
suance OF said decree the lands described said petition
decree OF sale shall be made will be sold the
Tuesday May thereafter beginning day
the oce OF the County Treasurer
him at
State Of Michigan will
public SALE each parcel described in the decree shall
the shall CHARGED
against parcel accepting
divided fee simple interest theren
interest
passed time being and SHALL
before the close OF the be eoered
Witness the Hon. Stearns F. Smith, Circuit
said Circuit Court Of County this Goth
A. D..
STEARNS f. SMITH
Countersigned o"'u'' 'u"ee
JOHN Y. MARTIN Register
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-02-21
BUREAU OF STANDARDIZATION
In Which Absolute Accuracy of
Weights and Measures Will
he Striven For.

A million and quarter Of dollars
has been recently appropriated for
the establishment of a national bu-
reau of standards for this govern
ment, and the work of designing q
remarkable building for this new
new feature of the government ser
vice will be commenced at once, says
the Patent accord of Washington.
This is q marvellous structure. It
will be a place where the noises and
vibrations of the outside world will
not be admitted under any pretense
and an absolute unvarying tempera-
ture will prevail. 1t will be erected
on a site to be selected some dis
lance from the city, where there will
be the least possibility of the dis
turbing influences from the outside
world, and on q lot large enough
to prevent the possibility of any
other building within a distance of
a quarter of mile. There will be
double walls, each on separate
foundation resting on the solid rock.
The building, which will contain the
power plant necessary for the opera
ton of this novel department, will
be located at least a thousand yards
away. All these precautions are
taken in the battle with the vulgar
influences of the outside world.
Many of the instruments will be
placed so that it is impossible for any
one to approach them within dis
tance Of 20 or 30 feet. This
is to prevent the temperature of a
human body from affecting their
delicate constitution. Inc windows
will be fitted so that it will be
readily possible to make the rooms
absolutely dark, even on the bright
est days. No particle of sunshine will
penetrate the shutters.
There will be maintained in this
building a standard of all measures
of capacity and distance. Among
other things the new department
will establish standard electric cell
measuring standard volts and ample
means of testing all thermometers.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-02-21
THE GAMING INSTINCT.
Feeds Upon the Satisfaction Gained
Through Acquiring Money and
Pleasure without Labor.

We are now, perhaps, in position
to understand how gambling comes
to exist and why it is so fascinating,
says the American journal of Soci-
ology. 1t is a means of keeping up
the conflict interest and of securing
all the pleasure-pain sensations of
conflict activity with little effort and
no drudgery; and, incidentally or
habituaHy. it may be means of Sc
curing money-that is, potential sat
isfactions of all possible kinds,
through the gains accruing to the
winner. In gambling the risk is i'm
nninent, the attention strained, the
emotions strong; and even where the
element of skill Is removed entirely
and the decision left to chance, an
emotional reaction analogous to the
feeling in the genuine conflict is felt.
From this standpoint our problem is
not so much to account for the
gambler as to account for the bust
ness man. The gaming instinct is
born in all normal persons. It is one
expression of a powerful reflex fixed
far back in an animal experience.
The instinct is, in itself, right and in
dispensable, but we discriminate be-
tween it's applications. 1t is valued
in war and business; it expresses
itself in a thousand forms in the
games of children and in college
athletics; it is approved in such ex-
pressions as golf, tennis and billiards,
as recreation for the man of
affairs; but society justly condemns
the exercise of the instinct aside
from activities which create values.
The value may be in the increased
health and vigor which the business
man derives from the recreation, or
it may be in the creation of wealth
by this same man in a competitive
business, but the gamester pure and
simple is not regarded with favor
by society, because he creates no
values and is therefore parasitical,
and is besides a disorganizer OF the
habits of others.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-02-21
WONDERFUL ICE CAVES.
One Of Them Near Flagstaff, Arizona,
Supplying Ice for Sum-
mer Use.

Several years ago a man who was
wandering over the lava fields in the
pine woods, nine miles from Flagstaff,
discovered a narrow slit in the lava
which appeared to lead into a lateral
and much larger opening. The slit
was wide enough for man to squeeze
his way into it. At the bottom, about
20 feet from the surface, a low cham
Der opened on one side which was
found to extend about 300 feet. At the
further end the roof was high enough
for a man to stand erect. 1t was in
the month of August; large bank OF
ice was heaped against the farther
wall, but the rest Of the cavern
seemed to be dry.
In the following March the cave was
visited again and found to be as full
of ice as it could hold. 1t is now a
source of ice supply for the hot months
of summer, says the New York Sun.
The ice melts away as the summer adj
vances, but early in the season there is
a large amount, most of which is now
utilized. The ice is split into large
pieces, hauled to the surface with
block and tackle and carried away by
the CARLOAD.
In this hollow under the ground the
cold air settles in the winter months,
producing temperatures below the
freezing point. There are times dur
ing the winter when good deal of wa
ter runs into the cave. This is frozen
solid and as water continues to flow
in it is added to the frozen mass until
the cave is completely filed with ice.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-02-21
[sEAL.l
Countersigned,
JOHN Y. MARTIN, Register.
STATE OFMICHICAN,
STEARNS f. SMITH,
Circuit Judge.

To the Circuit Court for the County of in
Michigan In behalf said
description
returned delinquent
together OF
interest
lection provided
said parcels of land.
Your petitioner
the Public Acts OF 1893 delinquent
said respectively
that lands included said Schedule
returned
under the provisions
Act Public
remain unpaid.
Your petitioner further
included schedule A. as aforesaid for Of 1890
said lands
sold for said and the
been cancelled provided by - "
petitioner
collection fee and forth said
valid lien on the several parcels lands described
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-02-21
Probate Order.

State Of Michigan. County of Shiawassee, SIS
At session of the Probate Court for said
County held at the Probate ONCE, In the City OF
Corunna, on Thursday, the Esd day of January
In the year one thousand nine hundred and two.
Present. Matthew Bush, Judge of Probate.
In the matter OF the estate OF G. Hobert II.
Payne deceased; on reading and filing the petit
tion of Ezekiel Cook, praying that administra-
ton OF said estaie may be granted to Charles
b Cook. or some other suitable person.
1t Is ordered, that the oath day OF FEBRUARY,
next, at ten o'clock In the forenoon, at said
Probate ONCE, be assigned for hearing said
petition.
And 1t Is further ordered, that copy of this
oroer be published three successive weeks
previous to said day Of hearing. Ia The OwOssO
TIMES, a newspaper printed and circulating In
said county of Shiawassee.
MATHEW BUSH. Judge of Probate.
BY KATHERINE E. KELSEY,
Probate Register
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-02-21
Probate Order.

State OF Michigan, County OF Shiawassee S.
At q session Of the Probate Court for the
county Of Shiawassee, held al the Probate
Office, in the City OF Corunna, on the Cad day
OF January, In the year one thousand nine
hundred ana two.
+ Present Matthew Bush, Judge OF Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Gulielma But
terf1eld deceased James II. Laverock, as ad
ministrator with the will annexed of said
estate having rendered to this court his final
account.
1t is ordered, that the oath day of February
next, at ten o'clock In the forenoon at said
Probate once, be appointed for examining
and allowing said account
And IL is further ordered. that q CODY of this
order be published three successive weeks
previous to said day of hearing In THE OwOsso
TIMES, newspaper printed and circulating In
said county Of Shiawassee.
MATTHEW BUSH,
Judge of Probate.
BY KATHERINE E. KELSEY,
Probate Register
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-02-21
PART TWO.
WHOLE NO. 1870

petitioner
delinquent;
the same being
your petitioner Michi
against
OF
schedule
aned therein and default several sums COM
extended of
pay the lien - N' ~ p''" W i""' ="
And petitioner w ever avetc
Dated, Dec %, - -
Ard,o. ooo, ..,s PERRY f. POWERS,
oehera OF State OF Michigan
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-02-21
NEGROES IN WASHINGTON.
ommendable Progress I'm a Business
Way Has Been Made by the
COlOred Citizens.

The Union league of Washington has
1ust made an exhaustive inquiry into
the status of the colored population
there. It finds that commendable
progress has been made in business,
In spite of good many drawbacks,
there being over SO varieties of busi-
ness in which colored people are en-
gaged, says the Star. There are more
than 1900 colored proprietors, one
fourth of whom have been in business
more than ten years. They give en-
ployment to over 2s,OS0 persons. They
have S654,761 invested in business,
and they do an aggregate of business
yearly of S1,750,O0O. Barber shops,
restaurants, cobbler shops, express
delivery and similar callings consti-
tute the larger portion, but there are
II contractors, rs fish dealers, 1870
grocers and 40 market stand pro-
prietors, and in all this lot only II
poolroom keepers and nine saloon
keepers. There are SO physicians, IL
trained nurses, ten dentists and 80
lawyers. Among other conclusions
reached by the investigation is that
colored people are not disposed to
patronize one another in these classes
of business in which the whites Sc
riously compete for trade. This is
ascribed partly to lack of confidence,
but partly to envy and jealousy.
Queen victoria's Donkeys.
BY order of King Edward VII, the
two white donkeys used by the late
Queen Victoria to draw her small car
rage about the grounds of her va
rious residences have been placed in
the royal paddocks at Hampton
court
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-15
a WONDERFUL GUN.
A NOrwegian's Invention VIII Create
Great Revolution In Warfare.

Berlin. May s.-Prof. X. Birkeland,
the Norwegian physicist, has been in
Berlin recently for the purpose of
determining the powers of his cleo
tro-magnetic cannon before a num-
ber of experts in electrical artillery.
The results of the demonstration
have been SO convincing that a firm
of artillery manufacturers has Of
fered to buy the invention for imme-
diate exploitation. provided Prof
Birkeland will increase the length Of
the piece used in the trials so that it
will throw a projectile weighing two
tons distance of - miles.
Theoretically, the device can throw
a projectile weighing two tons a dis
tance of 80 miles. or even further, by
sufficiently prolonging the tube. The
principle upon which the new gun
acts has not been made public. but it
is known that the proiectile is eX-
PEELED from. an ordinary cast iron
tube thickly wrapped with copper
wire. This tube can, of course, he
made more cheaply than the cannon
now in use. No explosive gases result
from the discharge of the new gun.
Prof. BirkelanPs invention has
stirred up great interest among tech
nical observers, some of whom are of
the opinion that it signifies greater
revolution in fighting material than
that brought about by the discovery
of gunpOwCer.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-15
CENSUS FIGURES.
They Show Large Increase I'm she
ShIpbuIIdIng Industry.

Washington, May s.-The census
bureau yesterday issued a report on
shipbuilding and repairing in 1900.
1t shows capital of $77.362,7O1, in
vested in the 1.116 establishments re-
porting for the industry. This
amount does not include the capital
stock of any of the corporations.
The value of the products is re-
turned at S74.57s. 15s involving an out
lay of $2,OOs,537 for salaries of Off
ciaIs, clerks, etc; $24,S39,16S for
wages: $3.Gs5.661 for miscellaneous
expenses, including rent, taxes, etc,
and $33,4S6.772 for materials used,
mill supplies, freight and fuel.
The report says: In 1900 the ton
mage under American registry was
only s2G.6g4. showing a loss of 461,-
631 tons since 1890, shrinkage dou-
BILE the total new registered tonnage
built in the United states during the
decade. The number of shipbuiding
establishments, from 1850 to 1900, in
creased II per cent, while the cap:-
tai invested increased 1910 per cent.
The average capital invested in the
eight navy yards in this country is
$G.7S5,OG At all the shipbuilding
establishments II the country, from
1890 to 1900, the average capital in
vested per establishment increased
129 per cent. the average wage earn
ers So per cent, and the average pro-
duct per establishment increased SO
per cent
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-15

Chicago, May S.-Lieut. II. z. II.
King, of the Twentieth infantry, sta
toned at Fort Sheridan. was badly
beaten last night by unknown men
and sustained injuries which are
likely to cause his death. His assail-
ants are supposed to be deserters
from the fort, for whom the lieuten-
ant has been searching. His head
was terribly beaten and his assail-
ants had evidently kicked him many
times in the face, after he had be-
come unable to defend himself lie
also has sustained internal injuries.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-15
THE WATER CURE.
Witnesses Examined in Regard
to Its Application.
Given TO One Native without Appa-
rent Cause--SoIdIers Instructed
Not TO Abuse PrIsOners--
The Cure Was Not
the Rule.

Washington, May 9.-Isadore II.
DUDE, of Watertown, Mass. formerly
sergeant in Company \, TwentysiXth
volunteer infantry, testified before
the Philippines committee yesterday.
Sergeant DUDE said that while do
ing duty at Jaro, in the island of
Panay, he conveyed a native, appar-
emily of wealth and education, to the
house of Lieut.. Conger, where the
lieutenant. Maj. Glenn and three priv
ates administered the water cure, APP
parently without any cause, The
witness described the burning of
houses during a march across Panay
and told of the act of their native
guide in cutting off the head of
Filipino with a bolo, before the
troops could get him to surrender.
Sergeant Manning placed the first
occasion he had seen the water cure
administered at Leon, island of Pa
nay. He said some Filipinos were
supposed to have knowledge of the
murder of Private O'Hearn. and Capt.
Gregg ordered witness and the men
under him to apply the water cure
to them. Capt Gregg instructed him
10 Bt tdEtlN HoJ 10 dDuSt JllC
prisoners.
Answering Senator Dietrich, the
witness said there was no doubt of
the guilt of the parties, and when
asked by Senator Culberson to eX-
plain why they were not tried, said
that before they could be brought
to trial they endeavored to escape,
with the result that nine of them
were killed, two escaped, and the
others were released.
He had not, he said. witnessed the
water cure given to any but these. In
the summer of 1900, he had, he said,
witnessed the burning of several bar
ricos by United States soldiers. The
houses were supposed to be insur-
gent quarters. He also had seen in
stances of burning on the part of
the insurgents.
He was closely pressed by Senator's
Culberson and Rawlins for informa-
ton tending to show that it was the
general understanding in the army
that the water cure was to be ap-
piled wherever information was
sought to be secured, but the witness
declared that no such rule obtained
in his company.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-15

Richmond, Va. May s.-Two lives
were lost in fire which destroyed
Bruins university school, near Char
Iottesville, Va, early Wednesday
The dead are: j. c. Knox, of Rich
mond, Va; Agnew McNeal, of Abe
marie, Va, both students. Their
charred bodies were found in their
rooms. The origin of the fire is un-
known, but it is supposed to have
been incendiary or the result of light
ming striking the building. Some of
the students escaped by jumping
from the windows, and one of the
teachers, Mr.. Sheffey, was painfully
injured in escaping the same way.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-15

Topeka, Kan, May 8.--During the
heavy fog yesterday morning an east.
bound extra freight train on the
Union Pacific ran into the regular
east-bound freight train at a cross
ing in North Topeka, causing a bad
wreck, and killing two men and injur-
ing seven others. The regular train
had stopped at the crossing, as usual.
just as it was starting up the eN-
ira, coming at the rate of 40 miles an
hour, struck the caboose, splitting it
completely in two. All the injured
Mnre Stnckmen.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-15
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
Paul Leicester Ford, the Novelist. is
Shot and Killed by His Brother,
who Then Kills Himself.

New York, May paul Leicester
Ford, the novelist, was shot yester-
day by his brother, Malcolm Ford,
writer and athlete, who Immediately
sent a bullet into his own breast, dy
ing instantly. The shooting occurred
at 1920 a. IN. in the handsome new
mansion which Paul Leicester Ford
had built at 81 East Seventy-seventh
street.
The novelist was sitting at his desk
in one corner of his library. 1t is
supposed he was busily engaged at
some literary task. Miss Hall, his
secretary, was at her desk in another
corner of the room, about 30 feet
from Mr.. Ford. Mrs. Ford was in her
room at the front of the house on the
third floor. Malcolm W. Ford called,
as he often had done. and went to
his brother at his desk. Words were
exchanged in tone so low that Miss
Hall could not hear what was said,
though she says that possibly she
might have distinguished the words
if she had been paying any attention
to this particular meeting of the
brothers. Suddenly there was a re-
volver shot, and Miss Hall, jumping
up, darted from tho room.
Meanwhile Malcolm Ford had called
her. AS she returned to the room,
he placed his revolver to his heart,
fred and fell dying instantly. When
Miss Hall turned to look at Paul, he
was still standing at his desk, but
rapidly losing strength. She helped
him to a sofa and then ran next
door for Paul Ford's physician, DR..
Emanuel Barauch. In less than five
minutes DR.. Barauch arrived. and the
dying man, still conscious, was car
ried up to his room, beside his wfe's,
and placed on his bed. He spoke to
his wife, and asked the doctor for his
opinion, showing that he expected
death and was going to meet it calm
ly and bravely.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-15
A BAD ACCIDENT.
Brake on IA TalIy-Ho Broke and the
Horses Ran Away-EIeVen People


Redlands, Cal, May 1O.-A bad acci-
dent occurred here Friday on Eng
land Heights. A party was taking a
drive over Miley and England Heights
in n tally-ho when brake broke
md the four horses started on wild
tace down the mountain side. At "a
sharp turn in the road the tally-ho
struck the street railroad tracks and
was overturned. All the occupants
of the coach were more or less hurt,
including nine women, two men and
the driver.
All the party were from Galveston,
Texas. save two from Philadelphia,
and all have refused to give their
names, saying they do not wish to
alarm their friends. One woman is
supposed to be seriously, perhaps ia
tally in iured.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-15
Hayen is Sustained.

Washington, May s.-Judge Brad
ley, of the District supreme court, in
decision yesterday on the long
pending Knights of Labor contro.
John w. Hayes, the general secretary
and treasurer of the order of the
knights of Labor, and restrained
John \. Parsons, Emery L. Burley,
James j. Donnelly, John \. Connor,
A. j. O'Keefe and w. f. Carr from in
terfering with the order. These de-
PENDANTS are restrained from circu-
lating the official journal and using
the name or ritual Of the order.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-15
RUN DOWN BY TUG.
Martha Launch with Pleasure
Party Is Sunk.
Seven Young People Drowned, Only
Four Being Recommendations
Occurred at Toledo, O.--
Party Were sunday
school Scholars,

Toledo. May S.-Seven young peo-
pie, members of Sunday school
class of the First Baptist church,
were drowned in the Maumee river
just below the city last night at 10
o'clock as the result of the naphtha
launch Frolic, on which they were
taking a pleasure ride, being run
down by the tug Arthur Woods, of
the Great Lakes Towing Co.'S fleet.
The dead are: Irwin Swayne, Bes-
sic Lessee, Edna Lowe, aged 19; Viii
liam Tanner. aged 10; Bess Ryscrum,
Eulalie Rickard, aged II, and Grace
Waspin.
The launch is owned by Joseph F..
Hepburn. of this city, who invited
II young people to take an evening
ride with him. They started out on
a trip to Lake Erie early in the even
ing, and were returning when the ac-
cident happened.
Mr.. Hepburn, Miss Clara Marks,
arthur Marks, and Miss Grace Lowe
are the only survivors.
Mr.. Hepburn states that he saw
the lights of the approaching tug,
and thinking that it was bound
straight down the river, turned to
the east. When nearly abreast of
the launch, the tug suddenly turned
to the east in order to make the
dock at Ironville, and before the
launch could get out of the way it
was struck by the tug and turned
over and sunk, about 100 feet from
the dock
Mr.. Hepburn caught hold of the
side IF the tug and the Lowe girl
grasped his leg and both were pulled
ON the tug. The Marks girl was
picked up from a cushion on which
she foated. Arthur Marks was fortu-
nate enough to grab a piece of wreck
age and was picked up by those on
the tug. The other seven members
of the party were drowned and the
river is now being dragged for their
bodies, but they will probably not be
recovered before daylight.
The tug brought the rescued to this
city. Mr.. Hepburn was not able to
give the names of the drowned and
their companions who were saved
were not able to talk before being
taken home.
Capt. Al Fits was in charge of the
tug and says that the launch showed
no lights and that he was not aware
of its presence until the tug struck
her.