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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
1000 Feet of Railroad Sinks,

It is reported that 1000 feet of the
completed grade work of the Lucin cut
off, east Of Promontory, Utah, have sunk
seven feet, or nearly half way to the
water level, at point heretofore consid-
cred absolutely safe. The work has
cost $4,500,000 to date The Southern
Pacific has experienced great difficulty in
the construction of the cutoff
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
whaler Sinks with Crew.

The American whaler Joseph Manta
has been wrecked on the island of Pico
one of the Azores group, and all aboard
were lost. The Joseph Manta hailed
from Provincetown. Mass. was of 116
tons and carried crew of fifteen men.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
sberman a Model Americau.

President Roosevelt, speaking at the
unwilling of a monument to Gen. Will
liam Tecumseh Sherman in Washington,
held up the famous commander as a
model American and a towering type of
the clean, able and fearless patriot
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
ChiCdQO.

--J l1OllS IdII1 NOIh DGbSTE
satisfactorily, and reports indicate 4
increased activity in the distributed
goods and in manufactures Oct
buying is of gratifying volume,
while this is most apparent III the 4
ing retail lines, the jobbing sections
also doing Il fair house trade, and h
large shipments of dry goods, furni
and carpets, clothing and foot wcars
Grain shipments for six days. ind
ing 1922, All bushels OF corn, aggra
G,274, 800 bushels and are per cent
the previous week. The wheat NH
presented the most interest. OWN
stronger buying and the scarcity oil
cereal. Corn operations were on Il
scale, and sales of futures were infiu
ed by growing supplies. Compared
closing prices of week ago Wheat
vanced 25s cents and corn and oats
declined "a cent. Live stock rec
310,503 head, are per cent undeN
corresponding week of 1902. Buyii
cattle and sheep showed less vigor
in the week, but later improved,
closing prices of both show a net Id
cents per hundredweight. Arriy&=
desirable hogs had sharp falHn
md on spirited bidding values
quickly advanced so cents. Prov
were in fair demand, principally ID
nestle account
Bank clearings, $1S5, 475,G35 are
per cent over a year ago. The move
IF currency for crop-moving purpos
normal, but there is increased o1
Of commercial paper and money is
quoted firm at per cent. Call LOAD
lnfrequent.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
CHARGE MURDER TO PENNELL.
Famous Buffalo Case to Reach Trial
Ut

at Last.
The murder of Edwin l.. Burdick in
Buffalo last February is to be brought
before trial court for the first time.
The charge that Arthur r. Pencil was
a murderer and suicide has been laid
before the Supreme Court for judicial
decision and new and startling evidence
bearing on the celebrated Burdick case
is to be produced before Justice Kene-
fick in Buffalo. Mrs. Gertrude Barnard
Paine, wife of DIR. Seth L. Paine of
Batavia, will take the witness stand,
and it is reported give sensational tes-
timony which was suppressed at the in
quest held by Police Justice Murphy last
March.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
Objects 10 statue of r. u. Lee.

One of the concluding acts of the I'm
ion Veteran Legion, which held its an
nual meeting in Dayton, Ohio, was the
adoption of resolution bitterly denounc-
ing the plan of placing a statue of Gen
eral Robert E. Lee in the hall of fame.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
Ti1lman Is Acquitted.

Ex-Lieut. Gov. James H. Tillman was
acquitted at Lexington, S. c., of the
murder of N. G.. Gonzales, editor of The
State. The jury returned its verdict after
many hours of elaboration and Tillman
was Immediately released from custody.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
Treaty Infringes Russian Rights,

Russians in the far East are savage at
America for concluding her recent treaty
with China, and declare the st. Peters
burg government will never allow Muk-
den to be opened as treaty port. Rus
sian monopoly rights are said to be in
fringed by the agreement.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
Crane ON Bridge FATS.

Eight men were killed, two are miss
ing and four were badly hurt by the coli
lapse of a traveller crane on the Pitts
burg end of the new Wabash Railroad
bridge over the Monongaheia river.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
Wrecked on the oreron Coast.

The steamer South Portland. from
Portland. Ore, for San Francisco. dur
ing binding fog, ran onto Cape Blanco
reef and was completely wrecked. She
had on board fourteen passengers and a
crew of twenty-five men, besides the
captain Fourteen persons are missing.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
Hoffman wins by s2e Votes,

The official canvass of the vote in the
indianapolis city election has been COM
pleted. The official figures for Mayor
are: John A. Hoffman, Democrat, 20
52S; Charles A. Bookwalter, Republican,
1902; George Hitz, Prohibition and In
dependent, 5,517; Holtzman's plurality,
QoR
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23

along and struck one of them squarely on
the flank. The car was damaged to the
extent of $40, several passengers receiv-
ed bruises from the impact, but the pros
trated Missouri mule arose, gave one long
bray and then proceeded1quietly with the
WnCOn. Y
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
chahnxran Has $50. 600 Fire-

The City Hall of Cheboygan, Mich.
was destroyed by fire. Loss $4,000. in
surance $50. 900. 1t was one o.. the finest
municipal buildings in upper Michigan.
The cause of the fire is unknown.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
Against New York sin.

John Alexander Dowie and his resto-
ration host of $500 persons have ar
rived i'll New York ready for the crusade
against sin. Mrs. Dowie was robbed of
a diamond brooch worth $1,000 at the
railway station Immediately upon her ar
rival
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
Put Thousands in a Panic.

Endangering the lives of thousands or
passengers and causing a panic, the
Southern Pacific ferry steamer Newark
crashed into the ferry steamer Oakland
IN the middle of San Francisco bay dur.
ans dense fog. No lives were lost.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
Rarlxruntcy Law Dis1iked,

The members of the Nebraska State
Bankers Association voted almost unan-
imously in favor Of the repeal of the
present bankruptcy law and a resolution
asking the Senators and Congressman
from that State to work to that end was
adopted
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
SAYS IT'S CURSE OF CHURCH.
Dependence on Mii1ionaires Declared
Blight of the Baptists.


There was a warm time in the Baptist
Ministerial Association meeting in st.
Louis over a proposed revision Of the
constitution to give voting privileges in
the association only to those churches
which have contributed something to
missions during the year. This was vio-
lently opposed by Rev. DR.. Boyd, who
said: ''The curse of the Baptist Church
to-day is it's dependence upon million
aires. The church was meant for the
common people," He added: IF you in
troduee this money basis into the church
you will go to hell, where you belong"
Peace was finally restored
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23

A dispatch from Odessa says news has
reached there from EAhorassan that go
lives have been lost in an earthquake
at Turshiz, Persia. Thirteen villages
were destroyed and 5000 persons are
pnow homeless.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
Train Held I'm for Taxes.

At Perry, Ok, County Attorney Hen
ry s. Johnston and Under Sheriff Sui
lens served a warrant on the Santa Fe
Railway for 1858 unpaid 1900 taxes and
tied up an extra south-bound freight five
hours
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
Presidents Assai1ant Ia Crazy

Peter Elliott of Minnesota, who was
arrested at the White House Oct. 5 and
who made violent attack upon the Of
ficers who had him in custody, has been
officially adjudged insane and recommit-
ted to ST. Elizabeth's insane asylum.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
SAYS He Has Been Rlackmailed.

Alfred A. Buck, assistant cashier of
the State Bank at Mapleton, Mimi, who
has disappeared, leaving shortage Of
$4,000. left letter saying he had been
Systematically blackmailed for twelve
years by Chicago family.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
Ratt1eship Has Fast Run.

The battleship Maine in her endurance
run from Newport News, Va, to Guile
bra, Porto Rico, showed remarkable
speed, making / ,1S5 miles at an average
of fifteen knots an hour and running one
stretch Of fifty miles at the rate of 1877
knots an hour
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
Depredations on Omaha Reservation.

A series of depredations, alleged to
have been committed by gang of white
men on the Omaha reservation near De-
catur, Neb., has reused the Indians of
the Skunk and Wolf lodges to a high
state of excitement United States Mar
shall Sloan has sent a number of depu-
ties to quiet the Indians and arrest the
guilty white men
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
Cholera Kills Kansas Ho,s

Hog cholera is devastating the south
east portion of Shawnee and across the
line i'll Douglas County, Kansas. The
farmers along the valley of the Waka-
rausa lost over 1000 animals in two
weeks,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
Prcsident Calls Extra sessien,

for Congress to assemble in extra session
Nov. ., to take up the Cuban treaty,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
q Award Not Liked by Canadians.

BY the Alaska award, as officially
made known, America gets two islands
which dominate Port Simpson, where the
Grand Trunk Pacific is to end. London
papers call the decision sacrifice on the
altar of American friendship, while Can
ada talks of Imperialism as dead. The
Canadian commissioners refuse to sign
the verdict, declaring their country be-
trayed.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
Urges an Honest Citizenship.

ExPresident Cleveland, speaking be-
fore the Commercial Club of Chicago,
called for q new crusade which shall
rescue the political holy land from the
infdels of corrupt methods, and urged all
good men of every party to join in the
movement.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23

Grant AMERICAN Claims In Alaska.
American Alaskan claims have been
granted in all particulars save the Port
land Canal, which is awarded by the
mixed commission to Canada. This in
sures the retention by Americans of ev-
cry foot of land they have believed their
own, and at the same time gives the
British the outlet to the sea which they
so much needed
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
Aberdeen, Wash. Swept by Flames.

<AUCIUOOIH3 J"OPO "
Fire which started in the Mack Build
ing at Aberdeen, Wash, wiped out the
principal business street of the city and
caused loss of over $1000,000. -Four
persons are known to have lost their
lives. Altogether $50 buildings, includ-
ing forty business houses, were destroy
cd
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
OH Production Failing OFF

John D. Rockefeller and other Stand
ard Oil directors are reported to be
greatly alarmed at the falling off in the
production in the Pennsylvania field and
to be making extraordinary efforts to Sc
cure new sources of supply.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23

II .
Just before a proceeding on the part
of Caleb ~ Shara and other Oxford cap
italist to foreclose mortgage of 80, l0O
on Oxford College for Women in Ham
ilton, Ohio, was called in the Circuit
Court, the claim was paid by repre-
sentative of the estate of President Faye
Walker The sale of the school by the
sheriff was thus prevented.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
Bryan Repudiates Altered Interview

Bryan Regulates Alleged Interview.
w. J. Bryan has authorized denial
of the report which quoted him as say
ing he believed that free silver would not
be considered at the Democratic national
convention in 1904. Mr.. Bryan said he
had not talked with a reporter in Iowa
City, from which place the report ema-
mated
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
vanouished by missouri Mule.

While team OF mules drawing
wagon was crossing North Ninth street
In st. Louis street car me speeding
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
BATTLE WITH BLACKS
LOUISIANA OFFICERS HAVE Ex-
CITING ENCOUNTER.

Tu1lets Fly for Twenty Minutes and
Three Negroes Are Ki11ed-kansas
Judge Stops Court to Save the Crops
News in Brief.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
Canada Much Disappointed.

While Canada will be much disap-
pointed, the opinion is widely held i'll
official and diplomatic circles that the
lean friendship.
The Canadian claims did not find
great number Of active supporters in
London; in fact, only languid interest
was felt in the proceedings. The first
days were dull and the trial of the case
in the foreign office in Downing street
was attended by few outside Of the per-
sons concerned and the wives of the
American commissioners and counsel.
Not until toward the close, when At
torney Jacob M. Dickinson, Of Chicago,
made his eloquent and forceful appeal,
did the British commissioners rouse
themselves from their semi-lethargy.
Lord Alverstone on that occasion compli-
mented Mr.. Dickinson on his argument.
Gold Hastens Claim.
Canada's claims were strongly COM
bated by the American counsel, who
brought out the fact that these claims
were not made seriously until late in the
'70s, when gold was discovered i'll the
disputed territory; in fact, most of the
evidence against Canada was from the
utterances of prominent Canadians and
Englishmen. From the time the Anglo
Russian treaty of 1925 until long after
Alaska's transfer to the United States
in 1867, official Canada did not contest
the boundary lines laid down by Russia.
John w. Foster, former Secretary of
State, managed the case for the United
States, while the Canadian side was un-
der the leadership of Hon. Clifford Sif
ton, Canadian Minister of the Interior.
D. L. Watson, of Pittsburg, and Hannis
TAYLOR, of Mobile, were the other Ameri-
ca attorneys.
There was the best of feeling between
tie commissioners and counsel, which
was heightened by dinner given by the
Pilgrim Club, which they all attended,
Thursday. Toasts were drunk, one to
President Roosevelt and King Edward
jointly, and to Britons and Americans of
prominence, while British cabinet min
listers and other prominent representa-
tives of English public life, including
Lord Roberts, responded to toasts ex-
pressing amity and cordial good will.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
DECIDE IN OUR FAVOR
UNITED STATESs CLAIMS
ALASKA ALLOWED.
International Tribunal in Loudon
Gives to Canada Only Portland Canal
and Outlet to Pacific Ocean-Other

American ownership of the entire Alas
ka panhandle" which at times since
1867 has caused serious friction between
the United States and Canada, is recog-
nized by the Alaskan boundary commits
sion, which reached its decision Satur-
day.
BY a majority Of one, Lord Aver
stone, chief justice of England, casting
the deciding vote, the commission con-
firms the United States in its title to all
the land and every water way and inlet
it claimed except the Portland Canal,
which Canada gets as its only outlet to
the sea.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-23
America vastly Enriched.

This triumph for America, means, in
brief, that Great Britain admits the right
of the United States to about 10000
square miles of territory, instead Of
small fraction thereof, and continued
control of the many important bays and
inlets throughout the 60 miles of sea-
coast. 1t means besides American SUI
premacy in the northern Pacific and
American possession of much valuable
mineral land that Canada has claimed
for years.
Portland Canal is at the southernmost
end of this strip of territory, and the
American boundary line is merely shifted
from the southern to the northern side
Of the channel. A Canadian factory and
a small settlement of Canadians are at
it's head, and the American commission
ers, seeing that Lord Alverstone was dis
posed to grant the justice of their con-
tentions on every other point, agreed to
allow Canada to have it.
The agreement was arrived at only
after deliberations extending over a
week. All this time the chance seemed
to be that the commissioners would reach
no definite Judgment and that the dead
lock Of the joint high commission which
met in Quebec and Washington in 1898
and 1899 would be repeated.
When the first vote was taken Satur-
day, however, the uncertainty was re-
moved, for Lord Alverstone said he had
made up his mind that the American
contentious were just, except as to the
Portland Canal After luncheon the
American commissioners agreed to cede
this point, and the controversy was set
tled
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-01-08

such cases, what shall the remedy be-?
Shall it be enlarged powers Of that
body or the creation of a new and
supplementary one, exercising the
functions and invested with the pow
ersofIaIcourt? Mr.. Prouty favOrs the
latter plan, with the appointment Of
members for life. Such a body would
be removed for personal influeces and
by reason Of permanent tenure, It's
members would become experts In the
economic statutory laws governing
them In their work.
Whatever the machinery, whether
1t be commission with a large scope
or a commission assisted by court of
commerce, it is imperative that the
people shall have power, through their
government, to exercise some sort of
control over transportation companies
engaged in Interstate commerce to
the end that freight rates shall not
be made oppreSSive.-State Journal.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-01-08
Prophecies For 1908.
(BY THOMAS A. EDISON.

BY THOMAS A. EDISON.
! The Wizard of Menlo Park" has
given utterance to some startling
prophecies. He really looks for more
great things to happen in the single
year, 1903, than during some of the
centuries that have preceded it..
Briefly noted, the most important
are:-
Time and space will be practically
annihalated; the horse as a beast OF
burden will practically disappear; the
locomotive will become a back mum.
Der; wireless telegraphy will be sue
cess.
The great storage battery of which
Edison is the inventor will be put on
the market soon. 1t means that the
horse will have to go.
Electricity may be expected to sup
plant steam as a motive force.
v Medicine will give place to surgery
and diet; the great problems of the
year are the problems of fighting
bacteria, of getting electricity direct
from coal, and Of getting power from
the elements cheaply.
The newspapers are among the great
agents that will grow better in 1908,
and in succeeding years
There will be but few more wars.
The navy ought to be increased; it is
one of the greatest stimulantS to
science.
The wonders and uses of electricity
are only beginning to become known.
Little discoveries like the Roentgen
and the Biquerel rays will lead to
great things, what cannot be told.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-01-08

The Leland crowd has made anoth.
er move" BowersOck, who Is said
to hold "key" to the senatorial
problem has been urged to pull Barker
out OF the race for speaker. In re-
turn, he is to receive the Stanley sup.
porters' votes when IL becomes EVIL.
dent that Stanley Is out Of the race,
then OF Longs men when there Is no
show for him. II Curtis should hap
pen to be the strong man, this would
Seem 10 offer Bowersock a glitterlng
prospect. II Long or Stanley should
he leaders, II would mean the election
OF those men and Bowersock then
would be nothing more than a tool
which would insure the election Of
another man. II Bowersock comedies,
the chances are much In favor Of the
latter proposition,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-01-08

II l were allowed but one utterance
on the subject, so vital to every young
man starting on the journey Of life,
would say: Don't think too much Of
the amount Of salary your employer
gives you at the start. Think. rather,
Of the possible salary you can give
YOURSELF IN increasing your skill, 10
expanding your experience, IN enlarg:
ing and ennObling yourself" A mans
or boys work is material with which
to build character and manhood IL is
life'S school for practical training Of
the faculties, stretching the mind aud
strengthening and developing the In.
tellect, not mere mill for grinding
out salary Of dollars and cents
Success.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-01-08

T. Some OF the Kansas school teachers
and county superlntendeDts are agit-
ating a movement to provide for per-
manent certificates to teach. They
argue that doctor or lawyer after
having once passed the requisite ex-
animation Is admitted to the profess
sion for life and that the same rule
ought to apply to the school teacher.
Opponents to the proposed measure
point out the fact that a life certit-
cate may now be had after proper
course Of study has been pursued and
mastered, and argue that it Is those
who have not or cannot secure this
permanent certificate who are adj.
vOcating the measure. 1t does not
seem just to discriminate against the
teachers, and the present system does
not do So The physician or the law
yer gains his diploma only after a
long and thorough course has been
taken, IAN examination showing that it
has been mastered, has been passed
The prescribed course In both case is
rigid. There are not nearly so many
applicants to enter these professions
as there are to teach. A large number
of young people engage in teaching
only as a stepping stone TO something
better, and with no thought Of
making it their profession. To these
a life certificate ought not to be
granted, for 1T would tend to lower
the standard Of the profession We
can always find teachers. What we
want is more good ones, and what we
want in the way Of legislation is
something that will raise the stand.
ard OF the profession. II the proposed
measure will do this. support it. II
not, do not.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-01-08

Senator Heltield, OF Idaho, says
that when he was campaigning last
fall in that state he did good deal OF
travelling In a buggy. One day a
wheel came of his conveyance and he
went to nearby farm house owned
By a huge Swede. "Can you tell me
where can find a monkey wrench"
asked the senator. The farmer look
ed at him gravely for moment and
replied; "This bin a sheep ranch,
bout two mile over thar you find Ole
Hansen's cattle ranch. Don't know
whar you find monkey ranch. Kan.
Sas City Journal.