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The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-22
sELF-C0NFEsSED MURDERER.
ships Cook Would Rather be Executed
 Than stay in Prison.

ships Cook Would Rather be Executed
 Than stay in Prison.
 New York, Dec. 21.-When Frank Henry Burness, a ships cook, was placed on trial in Brooklyn to-day for the murder of Captain George B. Town send, the skipper of the lumber schoon- CT Charles Buckler, on November 10th, the prisoner admitted his guilt. In a written confession which he submitted he declared he had shot the captain de- liberately and with reconciliation, be- cause the latter owed him money, and that he desired to facilitate the trial because he preferred to be executed rather than remain in prison. The con- fession further stated that the prisoner had previously killed three men. For shooting man in Charlestown, Mass, he said that he had served three years in prison; that he had served term in Havana for killing a teamster and that he had killed man named Henry Hecker, on which charge he was ac- quilted on a technicality. The trial was continued.
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FIERCE FIRE IN NEW YORK.
FAMOUS "TWO-NINES,' ALARM
 SOUNDED. .t
Two Large Factories Wiped out-waIIs CoIinp.e and Battaiion Chief Coleman PeFishes-A Fireman Missing-Lasi Seen in the Burning BntIding-Terri- bIe Panic Among Italians. .
bIe Panic Among A Italians.

bIe Panic Among Italians.
 New York, Dec. 2t.-The famous 1.-TWO
 Mines" fire alarm, summoning more fire
 apparatus than any other alarm provid- ! ed for by New Yorks fire department,
 was sounded tonight for a terrific fire which destroyed the six-story factory
 building of the Herman Furniture and
 Plumbing Cabinet works at 1Ss. 192
 Mott street and the four-story varnish factory of the firm, run under the name
 of the H. Hermann Lumber company. 1 A quarter of million dollars damage was done Battalion Chief Martin Cole
 man is believed to have perished in the fall of two great walls of the factory. There was a frightful panic among the ! Italian inmates of the sWarming front and rear tenements opposite and in the
 rear of the burning buildings, and the Bremen and police reserves from three
 precincts had the utmost difficulty in getting the people out to the street. The fire started on the third floor,
 and when the firemen arrived the first, second and third floors were in a blaze.
 Third, fourth and fifth alarms were sent in in rapid succession and about an
 hour after the fire started Chief Crolser sent in the "two-nines'' alarm,
 Battalion chies Coleman had entered the building with number of men, in- cluding Lieutenant Jones and Father Smith, the fire department chaplain. ,E.,f G. when fire came through the walls and the building shook. The firemen saw the danger and dashed for the outside. The chaplain escaped, but beam fell and hit Coleman and Jones, pinning them to the floor. Father Smith with three firemen turned back to the rescue
 and dragged out Jones. who had man. aged to stagger to his feet. Jones in pulling himself out. felt for Coleman.
 He found him so pinned he could not
 rescue him. but got his helmet, which
 he put on and escaped. Within min ute the entire rear and side walls fell, Alter the building had been totally destroyed the body of Chief Coleman was found wedged under fallen debris in such position that the firemen were unable to reach it. Coleman was made
 a battalion chies last August. He won the Bennett medal for bravery eight years ago for rescuing two women from a boarding house fire in East 10th street.
 Richard Joyce, a fireman who was ap-
 pointed only ten days ago, was reported
 missing after the fire was out. He was i last seen in the building just before the
 walls fell.
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UNPARALLELED OPERATION.
Vertebrn Near AIeduIIa ObIongsta Re-
 moved and Then Put Back.

Sioux City, Ia., Dec. 21.-An opera tion having no parallel in the surgical world was performed at St. Joseph's hospital to-day by Dr. William Jepson, professor of surgery at Iowa state uni versity. John Norstrom, of Danbury, Conn.,, fell from load of hay, striking on his head and breaking his neck. He has been almost paralyzed for weeks. Dr. Jepson removed portion of the third cervical vertebrae, cleaned out the false growth of tissue and replaced the bone. The patient is doing well and has every prospect of recovery. Opera tions have been performed for the re- lief of dislocation of the lumbar yer tebrae but no other case is known in which the cervical vertebrae, situated so near the medulla oblongata,, has been removed and replaced.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-22
A Amnranth Election.

The regular meeting of Unity court, Order of Amaranth, was held in I. o. O. F. building last evening, resulting as fob- lows: Mrs. Harriet Noble, royal matron; John N. Krapp, royal patron; Mrs. Ger trude Holiday, associate royal matron; Miss Gertrude Johnson. recorder: Mrs. Elizabeth Finder. treasurer; Mrs. Clal,- issa B. Smith, conductress; Miss Grace Johnson, associate conductress.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-22
$ shipping News.

New York, Dec. 21.--Arrived: Steamer Zeeland, Antwerp, via Queenstown, Nan tucket lightshfp, at 800 a. m.
 New York, Dec. 21.--ATriyed: Steamer Citta al Milano Genoa.
 Naples, Dec 1S.-Arrived: Steamer Cali fornfa, Leghorn, for New York.
 Leghorn, Dec, 18:--Arrived: Steamer Pe- rugia, New York via Genoa.
 Bremen, Dec. 19.--Arrived: Steamer Rheim, New York.
 Hamburg, Dec. 21.--Noon. Arrived: Steamer Moltke. New York, via Plymouth and Cherbourg.
 Naples, Dec. 21.-Arrived: Steamer Lahn. New York (and sailed for Genoa.)
 Plymo9th, Dec. I.-ArTived: Steamer bourg and Bremen (and proceeded.)
 Hamburg, Dec. 20.-Sailed: Steamer Prin- zessin Victoria Luise. New York.
 London. Dec: 1--Arrived: Steamer Min- netonka, New York.
 Plymouth. Dec. 21.--Sailed: Steamer Pennsylvania from Hamburg, New York.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-22
monro. and shar,,ey Matched.

New York, Dec. 21.--Jack Monroe and Tom sharkey were matched this after noon to meet in 8 limited bout some time before March before the club of fering the best inducements. Because of Sharkey's objection San Francisco is barred from bidding for the contest. The men also agreed not to consider six-round exhibitions.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-22
ROnter Indicted

Buffalo. N. Y. Dec. 21.-The grand jury to-day indicted Charles Bonier, who is in cutsody charged with the murder of MT. and Mrs. Erns Frehr, Two of the indictments charge murder in the first degree and two charge for gerry in signing the dead mans name to deed. Bonier has confessed the forgery.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-22
sran Die. ,n F,or,t,a.

Bartow. Fla. Dec 21.--Captain War ren Tyler died this afternoon and his body will be taken to his old residence in Connectivut for interment. He was fortw years old and had lived here since 18S6 He was cashier of the Polk Coun. ty National bank and president of tht State Bank of Lakeland.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-22
TO STOP REFUNDING BONDS.
The Secretary of tho Treasury Issues
 @ Notice.

Washington, Dec 21.--The secretary of the treasury gives notice that the refunding os United States per cent. bonds, loan of 19OS-1s1s, and per cent. bonds, funded loan of 1907, now pro- ceeding under the circular of September 2S, will be discontinued after December 31. Bonds that are intended for refund- ing must be forwarded so as to be re- ceived at the treasury department not later than December 21.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-22
Berlin Has Midday twilight.

Berlin, Dec. 21.-Berlin at midday to- day was in twilight, and the whole life of the capital was carried on by artia- cial light. The meteorological office has not noted such phenomenon in a gen. eration and attributes 1t to the IghtA motionless atmosphere, in which th& city's smoke and vapors did not ascend, thus blanketing and darkening many, square miles.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-22
EIGHT KILLED IN WRECK.
"Meteor" Express on the 'FriscO De
 moIish ed-Many InjuFed.

Kansas, Mo, Dec. 21.-In wreck to- day at Godfrey, Kansas, of the "Mete- or,' St. Louis and San Francisco fast train from the south. eight persons were killed and thirty-two were injur- ed. Of the injured five probably will die, while fourteen were severely hurt. The dead men, who were all residents of Kansas or Oklahoma, include the en- gineeri fireman and conductor. The in- jured are residents of the west,
 The freight brakeman, whose failure to flag the passenger train caused the wreck, has not been found.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-22
Duonsd rsnehse ne. tor s1o, ,ooo.

Sullivan. Ind, Dec. 21.-Miss Elline Sinclair, the school teacher who was ducked in the ice cold water of a pond by certain of her pupils on December, 8, filed suit against six of them to-day for $10,0OO damages.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-22
School of Embaimins at Yale.

: Hartford, Dec. 21.--The state board of examiners met ae the capitol this af- ternoon and decided to open school of embalming at Yale university Janu- ary 15 for the benefit of undertakers.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-22
Ohio Grand Master Issues Order.

Springfield, Ohio. Dec. 21.-Grand Master Charles c. Pavey, of the Ohio Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, has is sued a circular to the effect that on January 10, 1904, all saloonkeepers, bar tenders or professional gamblers shall either quit the order or those occupa- tions. In the event of a refusal to cease such callings they will be compelled to stand trial
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-22
FINLAND STILL AGROUND.
Futile Attempt of Tugs Aided by tho
 Vaderiand.

Flushing, Holland, Dec. 21.-The Red Star line steamer Vaderland and sev- eral tugs after prolonged effort failed to float the Finland to-day. Her fore- part is on the bank, while 'midships and aft she is in deep water and rises with the tide, giving her a dangerous tilt.
 The Vaderland will take the Finland's passengers back to Antwerp.
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BRITISH TARIFF EXPERTS.
ohamberIain,s commi..lon to Hold

" DOh 17T5 1 l tu.htUIu
 First sssetins January 15.
 London, Dec. 21.-The first meeting of Joseph Chamberlain's commission of tariff experts which is to inquire into the condition of British trade and to re- port with the object of drawing up a tariff reform bill will be held on Jan- uary 15. MT. Chamberlain has accepted the honorable presidency of the com mission
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-22

The very flower of artistic perfection In The Ford Companys stock.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-22

Paul Revere design in silves.js one of the most pleasing. The Ford Company.
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Old Dutch mountains for chatelaine bags, fiSni6sds ariStocratie. Ford Co.,
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Open evenings until Christmas The Ford Company.
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Small articles in real gold and silver at moderate prices. The Ford Company.
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Purchases made of The Ford Company are gilt edged investments.
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For women the wrist bag Is an accepta. ble gift. The Ford Company.
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UNION LEAGUE ANNUAL.

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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-19

No one. indeed could have imagined an ar
rangement more nicely adapted to their needs.
Still another assurance Of continued steadi-
ness, through the whole year. of the current in
the Puyaup and the other glacial streams Is
given by the fact that the entire mountain has
been set aside by the national government as a
park and that beyond it's borders extends a
great forest reserve. Taken together, these two
PARK and reserve-coVer an area Of 500 miles,
or nearly three times the size of the state of
Rhode Island The forest reserve dense with
magnificent cedar, hemlock and fir surrounds
the mountain and runs close up to the glacial
walls, its spongy duff supplying abundant
water in the winter season when the ice-fields.
on account of the cold at higher attitudes. give
out diminished flow
Such is the background of this dramatic en-
gineering proposition. The cold, constant flow
OF water, born far up the heights. offers to the
imaginative engineer his unique opportunity
Inc problem Is merely to catch it as it comes
uCWn the sleeps, to direct it against a wheel
attach wire, press button and thus give
TO whole broad valley light, heat power and
traction Neither the beauty of the great NOM
tam nor the after uses of its waters will be in
any way injured The huge fiume carving the
HOW OF the whole river. will be but a thin fne
olaWn along the side of a hill The immense
power generator will sit like a toy at the base
OF the cliff. For the rest few wires .vriJ1C
stretch through the forest down tn the cities h,,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-19

the sea. Nature will still be unspoiled. while
men Will ride more freely. will read more safe
~, will produce more for their labor
The generators for the production of electric
power are greater than any in the world except
those at Niagara The plan is to take water
from the Puyallup river at a point where at
nearly 1000 feet above level the stream
makes a great loop, to carry it by means of the
fume distance of ten and one-half miles down
the river, and there to precipitate it through
steel tubes against wheels in the canyon below.
At the lower end of the f1ume the water will
be discharged into a forebay and connecting
reservoir OF dimensions sufficient to hold sup
ply against any accident in the engineering de-
partments above. Out of this artificial lake
water will be hurled down hill through four
tubes LOO feet long that makes directly, at an
angle of forty-fve degrees, toward the power
station in the canyon. Each tube has diameter
of four feet and carries a column of water with
a head of $50 feet-the actual elevation being
being necessarily made for the friction in the
pipe. AT the outlet of the pipes the water.
Centrated to small stream, will issue, it is cal
culated, at the rate of nearly three miles
minute. What such speed means can be appreci-
ated only by who has seen it. AS it
solid bar of glass ice. Strike it with crow
bar and the bar will ring out if it had struck
a steel anvil. This column of water hurled for
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-19
\ HEAD OF The NE5QUALLY RIVERY

ward at cannon-shOt speed. strikes the cups of
an impulse water wheel and 1t does not re-
qulre vivid imagination to think out what
happens, the wheel being an axle and priyil-
eyed to turn round. There are four of these big
steel wheels. the periphery of which rotates at
velocity of 1000 feet a minute generating 90
600 horsepower power capable of raising o.
900 tons foot per minute.
The hydraulic arrangements by which the wa
ter does this miracle deserves further detailed
explanation. At the point of the intake at the
Puyallup a dam is to lift the surface Of the
water twelve feet thereby securing a pernan-
ent supply. The intake canal is built with solid
walls of concrete, with substantial lead gates
fiume eight feet wide and seven feet deep con-
structed of substantial timber and swung along
the side of the canyon like snake now burrow-
ing its way through promontores of solid rock
= or stretching on stills across deep ravines.
Along such a sluiceway a young river is car
ried through regions so rough that at first they
But it arrives safely at last at the river again,
after loop of twelve miles.
The site of the power house upon which the
force of the distant pool is projected is at the
foot of precipitous hill near Lake Kapowsin.
Situated within three miles of the rails of both
the Tacoma Eastern and the Northern Pacific
roads-through Ortng. the nearest railway sta
ton. is ten miles distant-it will become access
1ble to direct transportation as the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-19

Pierce County Improvement company under
whose name, as one Of the Stone-Webster COM
panies. the enterprise IS being conducted has
built branch from the tracks of one Of these
railroads for the purpose Of bringing in the ma
terial and the immense machinery needed. A
wagon road is first to be constructed throughout
the entire distance over practicable grades. The
equipment necessary for installing the huge
plant includes engines. donkey engines, every
sort of machinery and tools lumber almost
without end. The SawmS about Lake Kapow
sin have received big orders taxing their
most capacity. The materials for the canal and
fume will be hOisted from the foot to Top
or the hill by means of a wire rope tramway
anchored to the cliff
The fume. completed. will carry daily A
burden of water of 1000 900 tons. which will all
pass through the four steel tubes already de-
SCribed, tapeFing from their diameter of four
feet to mere fve-inch outlet. The plan
adopted of using an Independent tube for each
impulse wheel is an innovation in electrical en-
cheering which has been devised in order to
trio current generated from the wheels will be
stepped up" in the electricians phrase. from
$500 volts to $4,000 volts at the power-house
Thence 1t Will be sent out of the wilderness
down through a pathway cleared to a width
or nifty feet in order that the danger from trees
falling upon the wires may be eliminated All
wires in use are to be duplicated. At the trans
forming houses in Tacoma. Seattle. and other
urban centers the current VIII be stepped
down again by means Of skillful scientific ap-
plIanceS to whatever voltage may be required
for special And the uses to which the
electricity will be put in the Puget Sound cities
are. of course. practically innumerable.
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TIE MoUNTAIN N0THER

mountain and through its constant pressure re-
newng the ver-moving, wasting,
breaking ice-pack below. These glaciers-ke
all others in every part Of the world-are
resting, beating ceaselessly down the slopes at
the rate Of inch or two inches, or more,
daily, according to the weather and the season.
The ice is so beautifully clear that objects may
be dscerned through blocks twenty feet in
thickness Frequently the ice cracks with
tremendous detonations; and once in a great
while one of the most spectacular things in ma
ture happens the Wallis Wall sheer
precipice of 5000 feet on the northwest slope of
the mountain Above this precipice hangs the
Carbon glacier. $50 feet thick, pushing inch by
inch along the verge until now and then a pro-
jecting mass Of thousands upon thousands of
tons of Ice breaks off for a plunge of a mile
straight forward. Not many men have seen
this spectacle, for the trails are rugged; but
those who have it will tell you of it by
lifting their hands in awe.
The snow. which through pressure becomes
compact ice. accumulates with wonderful rapid
ity during all the winter, which in Washington
is little more than long continued rainy sea-
son. The fall of water the western slopes
of Rainier is excessive. averaging $50 inches
more than three times the average rainfall of
New York and Boston, and most of 1t comes
down in form of snow. The rainy season begins
IN November, lasting until May or June and
during these months the warm, quiet drzzle of
the sound cities falls for the most part frozen
upon the hoary slopes of Mt. Rainier Such
depths of you will hardly encounter else
where in the United States. In the foothills of
the mountain it lies twenty feet on the levels
in winter, and depth of thirty feet has been
measured time and again on the fiat stretches
of Paradise valley These vast deposits of snow
are held until late spring, when they disappear
rapidly, the rush of their waters supplemented
with rain. The water melted from the new
snow is clear crystal; that from the glacial
ice is characterized by a fine white silt caused
by the grinding of the glaciers over rock; but
neither is good to the taste nor healthfuI
though it all acquires healthfulness through
aeration in the course of plunging over water
falls its way to the sea.
The flow of the rivers issuing from the ice
fields. however, is as steady and reliable as the
ocean tides They have indeed. especially in
summer time. tide of their own-a tide which
makes practicable the great engineering enter
the dry season. in July. August and September,
the sun, begins about II o'clock in the morning
subsiding toward o'clock in the afternoon.
During this period each mountain stream
ceeds the minimum by perhaps two or three in
ches where the stream is broad two or three
feet in narrow channels. This tidal action ex-
actly suits the scheme Of the engineers, for the
high water does not arrive at the point of its
employment some miles down the Puyallup I'M
til about the hour of night when the greatest
draft is made upon the power creating force by
the myriad incandeseents In the distant cities.
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been hear of afterward and we can easily i'm
agine that some of them have been lost through
collision with these floating dangers. A COLI
sion with an abandoned vessel laden with either
coal iron steel rails would materially
damage any vessel afioat
Only few days ago. says the National Geo
graphical Magazine. a large Dutch transatlantic
liner struck submerged wreck which broke her
propeller and stove a hole in her bottom. The
steamer was abandoned in a sinking condition
but fortunately not before another steamer had
come alongside and rescued the passengers and
crew.
During interval of seven years the total
number of derelicts reported amounted to 1.628.
of which 4S2 had been identified by name. This
means an average Of nineteen per month-that
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is, it is reasonable to believe that there are
never less than nineteen of these floating dan
gers in the north Atlantic at all times. and the
records of the photographic Office show that
the average time derelict remains ahOat is
about thirty days The identified ones are easily
followed and their tracks plotted the pilot
chart from month to month A few remarkable
instances of ocean drift may be interesting.
three-mast schooner. the Fannie E. VOL
ston. was abandoned on Oct Is, 1891, and fire.
quently after that for 1.101 days-three
years and six days-at the end of which time,
after travelling about 5000 miles she was lost
sight Of
Take the case of the lumber-laden schooner.
w l.. White. She abandoned waterlogged
about eighty miles off the capes OF the Delaware