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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-06
MINERAL IN LABRADOR.

Now there is talk that Labrador will be second Klon
Alike Labrador has an area of $4,000 square miles 1t
forms an immense peninsula extending 700 miles betwe
BelisIe and Hudson straits stretching back 900 miles
from its Atlantic the head waters of James
bay It's is about twelve times that of New
York state and except the seaboard is absolutely
unpeopled save few wretched tribes of wandering
Nascopee Montagnas Indians branches of the great
Cree race but wofully reduced.
Adm, nstrativey it is divided between Newfoundland
and Canada the former occupying seaboard and the
latter holding sway interior To reach the ter
rtory one has go by from Newfoundland dur
ing the summer months and landing of the in
Vulnerable harbors the coast strike inland if de-
sired The foreshore protected WERE by belt Of
islands Of which is said there 2000 extend
ing north for about ass miles and lying five twenty
miles off the mainland
There are also $500 permanent white residents
the coast according TO the report of Canadian geoogst
IL the Ungaya district at the far north bands
of pagan Eskinos, among whom a young Newfoundland
clergyman of the Anglican faith is laboring while
between them the whites lies section peopled by
Chrstianized Eskmos converted by Moravan mssiona-
Germany, who have been aboring among them
the past fifty years.
The geological Investigations in progress very
interesting and may prove of great commercial value
long been known that copper had been discov
cred various points along the also silver lead
and mica as we'll gold. seems to the aim the
syndicate of capitalists who examining the
of Labrador develop the iron mines which
situated the seacoas and involves long railway
maui while the cheap labor and the proximity of the
gion Great Britain, only 1900 miles, compared with
the longer distances TO American ports nsures that the
output be laid down with British ironmasters
Figure that will defy competition
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-06
J.PIERPoNT MoReaN,s NEW SCHEME.

Notwithstanding scheme has been offered by the Uni
ted States Steel corporation to its officers and employees
Its avowed object is to attach such officers and employees
company stimulate their zeal in its service
offers sell member Of the salared class
certain amount of the preferred stock Of the
fixed price, far from the present market price the
payments be made in instruments within three at
per cent interest deferred payments-the buyer
draw the accruing dividends After holding the shares
five years rendering faithful service the company
continuing service the holder shall be entitled
the At the end of five more, under like
conditions he will receive additional compensation if
the company's earnings justify it.
provides that still further compensation shall
be given to those included in part and to a other
charged with responsibility in managing the affairs
of the corporation" Who the coming within
classification shall be determined by the finance
mittee Under two it is declared that net profits to
the amount of s750000 100000 required to
pay interest dividends and sinking fund Whenever the
earnings s80,000000, L per of that
aside for distribution these classes
onehalf in cash and the other half in preferred stock
All the privileges apply to officers and employees of the
subsidiary companies we'll the United States Steel
corporation itself The scheme well adapted to its
declared aim Of attaching to the company its officers and
employees and will probably be accepted by most of them
since they risk little by doing 1t does not bear
character of benevoence philanthropy in any
and makes pretentons of that sort 1t be judged
only by results from the business point of view.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-06
that probably parallel any other city in
the world, says the Record Herald.

result that probably has parallel in other city in
the world, says the Record Herald
When this inaugurated in 1892, the difficult
ties Immediately presented seemed almost in
surmountable The sanguine city official would not
appeared colossal its scope and which involved
apparently long and tedious conflicts with the carrier
panies The inception the work marked by much
friction between the city and the railroad companies
new council committee railroads naugurated
policy of dealing with the roads and era of
friendly and businesske negotiation set in which result
ed in the acceptance OF many track elevation
ordinances.
But the great work Of abolishing the deadly grade
crossings in Chicago is not yet complete -Four ordinances
passed during the year 1902 require expenditure
by the railroads affected s775000 according to the
statistics of this compiled by the Railway Age
These ordinances total OF $3.50 miles OF main
track and 1654o Of other and include the consuc
ton of ninety subways. The first Of these involves
expenditure by the Northwestern 100000 by
the ST Paul. and 100000 by the Belt railway, resulting
ii the elimination twenty five grade crossings. An
other ordinance affects the Grand Trunk and other roads,
and will wipe out thirtyone grade crossings third
entails an expense s250Oo0O divided almost equally
between the Northwestern Burlin gon and Chicago Ter
ninal Transfer doing away with eighteen grade
ings fourth affects principally the Lake Shore the
sixteen grade crossings
At this rate of progress is but question of short
time when every grade crossing in the city will be
planted by modern welbuilt subway and the dangers
from these crossings entirely removed
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-06
COST OF GEORGIA COLONIES.

Georgia has been considering with interest lately
the cost of being colonel It is by cheap
dignity northern scoffers have sometimes assumed.
staff has precipated the discussion The facts
of the matter somewhat obscured first by fog
levty, the chief executive who wanted
remain under the slightest misrepresentation has made
the truth clear by official order brief costs
S19425 to be staff colonel in Georgia though
what is the Of being colonel governors staff
except ceremonial occasions? In the old days it
necessary to only uniform There mild
of CONSERVATION when people heard about thenew full
with its chapeap aiguletes rubber cape
military The cost of the array set at s12425 It
all the colonies must notify the adjutant general before
the first day of April, "All Fools Day" whether they
will suits This is unnecessary humili
alton for those who only afford the ordinary uniform
of selfrespect would deny himself anything would
live crackers and oatmeal for month rather than
closed state dinner in Washington that few any
the high government officials owned pair
of suspenders 1t sign of greatness that they
admitted it Nevertheless they could have kept the hui
initiating themselves if they had thought
The feature of Georgia situation is
uniformed staff officers will be conspcuously dstin
guished their fortunate brethren every time
there is parade They keep their predcament
from the world. matter how hard they try.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-06
THE TROUBLESOME SLOT MACHINE

The slot machines into which drops nickle and
gets back-sometmes ten, sometimes much fifty
cents but usually nothing ALL be puzzled if they
conscious the Theosophsts believe about their
chances for the future The various are treating
them in such different ways The and Order society
OF Philadelphia burned up $4,000 worth of them in one
grand reform bonfire In Chicago in at least a dozen
precincts there have been raids the machines found
in cigar stores The police there have adopted
method Of treatment They break open the machines
with hammers and chises all the money within
and apply it to the Polcemen's Benevolent association
decreed that the slot machines should have
their faces turned toward the wall like naughty little
boys In Portland in the adjacent state the automac
gambling devices not be molested at ali il <hey
bear the label these machines can be played FIR er
chandise only Expert machnists begun The work
CT altering the mechanism that it delivers checks
which may be redeemed in drinks or cigars In another
western city the only interference of the authorities
with machines Of the type which displays I'VE cards as
hand in poker In the city referred the powers are
chine provided reasonable proportion 'straights"
"fushes cts. After seeing that they were not fixed"
with nendless succession of worthless hands the pow
let the device alone Here five entirely dneren
ways of daing with the agency of temptation So
many chiefs Of police with many minds, it q won
der that when graver evils handled there is
uniformity Of method?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-06
EDISON AND THE PHYSICIANS.

Thomas A. Edison who occasionally insists on being
picturesque at sacrifice Of his reputation for horse
sense is out in interview in which he declares that
medicine is played out Every new discovery of bac
terra shows us all the more convincingy that have
been wrong and that the millions have taken
was all useless The doctor OF the future will give no
medicine but will mis- patient in the care Of the
human frame in diet and and prevention of dis
ease Surgery diet antseptics these three the vital
things of the future in preservation of health and
of humanity There never SO many, able, active
minds at work on the problems of disease as now and
all their discoveries ending in the simple truth-hat
you can't improve nature"
Several hundred years from today, however, physi-
clans will be making their calls And they will not all be
loaded with surgical instruments anseptics treatses
on diets either, There constitutional weaknesses
which will attention Humankind need not be ex-
pected cease overeang occasion and it is reason
ably certain will occasionally also eat the wrong
thing So far as matter of bacteria is concerned
the general public long ago to know that there is
an endless deal of CUFF about microbes AS soon as one
microbe discovered poison for him is raked out
of the laboratory Lemon juice it has been discovered
within the last month, paralyzes the typhoid mcrobe
We will continue to have the dread typhoid nevertheless
for a century yet Colds and their dangerous extremes
will be taken for time yet in spite of diet antisep
tics and surgery Rheumatism and kindred ills Will bob
up serenely generation after generation
And even if the scientists should finally enumerate all
the microbes in world and the being finished
should feed the lot poison, and do away with Them
other strange microbes would The plague which
swept England Europe hundreds of years ago wer
never seen before and them has been seen
since Cholera has practically itself out in the
world Smallpox wearing out But other ills Will come
tc take their place.
The world is improving but it isn't exactly perfect yet
When citizen is tucked away in bed with raging fever
he doesn't any argument on what he shall eat IL
he once gets WE'LL he first to get we'll and he'll call
in the man with the pll-box.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-06
EYES ON OKLAHOMA
Territory IL. Entitled to Statehood
That is General Oolnscn-

Guthrie. o. T.. Jan. 5-ComS aboard the
national car. OklRhorna-and step lively,
please-New York Mail and Express
There's only one OF the territories aspir-
inS to statehood that seems to be pcs.-
lively o. k.-Boston Herald
Oklahoma vii doubtless make q
touchdown. but Arizona and New Mexico
can hardly score.-Toledo Blade.
New Mexicon ard Arizona cannot get
into the omnibus Oklahoma has PEE
empted all the seating space.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat
Oklahoma declares she il having a rec
ond crop this year. Such a territory
plainly ought to be state. unless the
crop Is politicians.-Bufislo News.
Oklahoma has never heard the old song
Wait for the Wagon" Al any rate she
doesn't want 60 Try the omnibus. stag
ing is very dangerous at this season OF
the year.-Denver Times.
Arizona and New Mexico are not re-
garded by the senate committee on ter
ritories as available material from which
TO construct new states One Nevada IL
enough.-Pittsburg Times.
BY buckins the center and sprintlng
around the corners young Oklahoma -
likely TO score a touchdown. but the most
skillful puntinS will not save New Mexico
and Arixcna.-St Louis Globe Democrat
The fact that the Republican leaders
In the senate are opposed 20 the aemi--
sion OF New Mexico while the Democrats
favor IL. proves that Quay has lost none
of his influence with the opposition-P'1;s-
burg Dispatch.
Oklahoma thinks the chances OF becom-
ing a state are better II she cuts zoos.
from Arizona and New Mexico Oklahoma
In . good gussser-Pittsburg Times
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-06

course of erection here and 37eoo hixh
school building. besides a $4,000 water
works plant. which win be under con-
tract within the next thirty days.
The Geary Milling and Elevator COM
pany has an up-to-date mill. equipped
with all the ncder nappliances. inciud-
ing electric lights. for IL runs day and
night. with an output OF 90 barrels per
diem. There are two elevators in con-
nection with the mill with n total capacity
OF soocp bushels. besides three other sie-
vators located in the city. We also have
round bale cotton compress.
Our three banks are doing a good bus
mess and all our merchants prosper
ing Our active Commercial club In
always on the watch for anything that
viii add TO tbs welfare OF the city. aud
In row looking for an Ice plant for next
seasons business
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-06
KILLED BY TRAIN
J. z. Crawford First Victim Of New
Choctaw Branch.

Hsiieyyilie. I. T.. Jan. s-The nrst vic
tim Of the Hsil-yville branch Of the choc-
taw was J. X. Crawford. who met his
death here. Crawford was standing near
&c coal chutes. where his son-in-ias
Is employed. and In some manner fah
to see the approaching passenger fraia,
which came In over the Ardmore branch
He was struck and then run over. sew
s-ing both legs. He died soon after.
Mr.. Crawford had been In the efnpios
of the Ckocfaw some time previous 70
the accident. but was not az work whes
Killed
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-06
PUNISHABLE BY DEATH
Recommendation Regarding Horse
Thieves IN Oklahoma.

Guthrie. o. T. Jan. s.-The Bulletin 81
Gesry observes that horssthisyer IN thst
neck Of the woods continue 70 keep busy
Their latest 100 was done last nondss
night. when they stole two me mules
from Henry Pullman. ten miles north 81
Geary. IL would be a wise plan. the
Bulletin says. -in our Judgment. II the
next territorial legislature would trans
and paSs Law making horse stealing
punishable BY death
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-06
TEN YEARS WORK IN TRACK ELEVATION.

Ten years of track elevation in Chicago during which
<o5 miles of railroad tracks elevated cost of
S2t0s000o and in which 25 subways constructed
have resulted reduction nearly per cent in the
number Of deaths from railroad accidents in this cy-a
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-06
III. Rca.on.

From Ec-G5n jGoT~i
I've irSt been reading some statistics
O. .h.rThs ard deaths. ExtraoTsi naTy
thing, Ever zine breathe -1z1 cies,''
Great Sce.tI Way don't yn1 chew
e7ores--
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-06

Visitor Sto Nc5raska sa-ne-f-It has
been prstty hot out here this summer.
has IL not1
Fsrner-ffots Well. rarie-. Why. W.
even had 20 put ice in TIE pond 70 sse7
IRE iucxs frcrs Iavlng hard belleG egxs-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-06

BY the tine probably that the injustice CT coal
fscation by the railroads is corrected gentle spring viii
be tanning the furnace through open windows
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-06

Mexico makes short Work with monopolies To break
combine which is burg wheat the government Will
establish its bakeries and sell bread
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-06
Missouri ha

Missouri having discovered that the packers have
combine. will have occasion sit down and figure
what Missouri do about it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-06

The Pennsylvania girl who married the physician Of
the king of Italy will have happier time than she would
have had if she had married of the kings nobemen
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-06

Major Charles Dick of Ohio refuses withdraw from
he has enteredhe governorship If Dick
wants the place this is e-ninently proper.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-06

In these days OF rural telephone and telegraph the
shrewd oank robber won't ny set express
train
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-06

Lord Charles Perefcrd saws The century will be one Of
business And America will pound the cash register
harder than any ether nation
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-06

Bankers do net fai frequently but when they Co
they still have the habit Of saying that depostors will
be paid in full
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-06

One Of chrages against the Humberts Is that they
helped in saving Dreyfus France acquitted Dreyfus bat
never forgave him.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-06

How Admiral Lord Charles Beresford is chucking US
under the chin
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-06

Nordica has scored new triumph in New York There
is only Nor6ica.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-06

Hawaii considers herself kind Of tied to our
string
Mower County transcript., 1903-02-04
FARMER BEN'S COLUMN,

Twas ruminatin' the other day while
enjoyin' a piece Of my wife's home
made 1nince pie of what great and
resourceful state Minnesota is. That
mince pie was made out of Minnesota
raised meat and apples and sorgum
and beet sugar and baked in a stove
made out of Minnesota iron with Min
nesota wood for heat and with a
chimney built out of Minnesota brick
and lime for draft. We was eatin' at a
table and in a house made out of Min
nes0ta lumber with bread and butter
and johnny cake and buckwheat cakes
and oatmeal all raised right in the
"Bread and Butter state" and slice of
bacon out Of the side of a Minnesota
pig. Ny suit of clothes was woven
out of Minnesota wool and my shoes
made out of Minnesota leather tanned
with Minnesota barks My socks are
made out of honest Minnesota wool
yarn and I sleep nights under Min
nesota wool blanket. It's pretty hard
to think what we can't raise up in this
Gods country. We could fence off the
state and be pretty independent Of all
creation so far as supplies and livin'
90. The winters we hav are regular
blessin's for they freeze out skeeters
and flies and grubs and garden bugs
and such that they are never rid Of il
southern climes. I'd rather hav q
Mower County transcript., 1903-02-04

class, pair SO shoes given by Fiester
&.Thomas, E. S. Person, Zumbrota,
MINI.
Highest scoring bird. Mediterran-
can class, toilet set given by Fair
Store, Fred L. Peck, Austin.
Best Display of Games, box of
cigarsl given by Frank Guillemin,
Budd Smith, Austin.
Greatest number Of Blacks, Week.
ly Herald one year, A. A. Anderson,
Austin.
Greatest number Bluffs, Daily Her
aid 3 months, DR.. H. F. Pierson,
Austin, Minn.,
Largest turkey, buggy whip given
by Joseph Fitzthum, Jas. Penny,
Swaledale, Ia.
Exhibitor sending birds longest
distance, 25O business cards by F.
McCulloch, W. 81. Voe]ker, Winona,
MINI.
Mower County transcript., 1903-02-04
Indian Art and Industry.

Lord Curzon, the viceroy of India,
has been making an earnest appeal in
behalf Of Indian art and industry. He
lamented the fact that a study Of In
dian arts, industries and manufactures
showed a progressive deterioration.
Any effort to stem the tide of mod
ern commercialism and utilitarianism
would of course be futile. In India.
he said, they were witnessing only one
aspect Of process which is going on
throughout the world that long ago ex-
tinguished the old manual industries
of England and is rapidly extinguish-
ing those Of China and Japan. Moth
ing can stop it.
The power loom will drive out the
hand loom, and the factory will get the
better Of the workshop just as surely
as the steam car is superseding the
horsed carriage and the hand pulled
punkah is being replaced by the elec-
h1c fan. Indian art, he continued,
could only flourish or be revived by the
determination of the Indian chiefs and
aristocracy to patronize it. So long as
they prefer to fill their palaces with
flaming Brussels carpets, Tottenham
Court Road furniture, cheap Italian
mosaics. French oleographs, Austrian
lusters, German tissues and cheap bro.
cades the prospect would be discour-
aging.
Unquestionably the widespread dis
tress that go frequently prevails in In
dia is in large measure due to the
failure to keep pace with the rest Of
the world In the fine arts and industry.
and il Lord Curzon shall be able to
stimulate these he will be doing an
ineshmably valuable work for the vast
country over which he has been chosen
to preside. The chief trouble seems to
be the inactivity and carelessness Of
the native princes and petty provincial
rulers, who are seemingly unmoved
by the deplorable condit lions of the
great mass of the Indian people.
I 1S y
Mower County transcript., 1903-02-04

Minnesota winter to freeze all the
malaria abroad than all the buzzards
that carry off the carriOn of three gulf
of Mexico states. There's no state in
the union so resourceful and prosperous
as beloved Minnesota.
The man that is too much above me
to hav any truck with me when Pm
down amt good enough to come
palaverin' round when I'm in prosper
ity. 1t alwus amuses me to see those
that turned you down hard when you
were poor come snOopin' and flatterin'
round when you are in luck. But it
don't count with Farmer Ben. I've
seen folks before now that felt so far
above their poor relations that they
wouldn't trOt in the same class with
'em but we're nifty glad to later hang
round and try to borrow good money
of 'em and liv off their. bounty. It
shows that it amt the real feelin's of
benevolent brotherly and sisterly heart
that possesses their bosom but Simon
pure selfishness. There was woman
that lived up to Austin few years ago
that carried her head so hig III that I
don't believe half the people in the town
knew that she had poor relations ivin' :
in almost the very same block. Those
poor relations hOWsOmever happened
to strike it rich later and bless you,
you'd hav thought that these same
folks were kings and queens then to
the woman that had been habitually
and conspicuously givin' 'em the mar
bic heart. Folks motifs all such things
quick and they size up the situation
accurately. can cross my heart and
asseverate that Farmer Ben has no use
for distinctions founded on mere
material prOsperin'. Real friends are
friends alwus whether the cupboard is
empty or bustin' full.
o 9 o
1t is discouragin' to try to get up
competition. and lower rates for the
good of the people when there are SO
many week.-Mrs. and ninnies who will
desert the cause Of competition for
few cents even when they are savin'
dollasrl over the old extortion before
competition came in. 1t looks like
when a graspin' monopoly has held up
folks for twenty years and someone
comes in and lowers rates and compels
better service that the sensible folks
would all stick like burrdock to the
public benefactor. But alwus the old
hog that has had exclusive control will
lower rates to ruin competition and
folks will foolishly and ruinously be
blinded by this temporary rebate and
hug the old hog yet insted of giYin'
him an everlastin' kick. I say it's dis.
couragin' when folks will go right back
on you after you've brought down rates
Mower County transcript., 1903-02-04

An Indiana Judge who accepted pay
from his appointees to help defray his
campaign expenses has been 'persuad-
cd by the county bar to resign. Like
ORsars wife, judges should be above
GuspiciQp.