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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-01

was introduced February q by Mr.. Bah
cock, is as follows:
Joint resolution to authorize the asses
sor of the District of Columbia to issue
certain permits.
Resolved by the Senate and House of
Representa- ves of the United States OF
America in Congress assembled, that the
assessor of the District of Columbia is
hereby authorized, If in his discretion the
comfort of those persons visiting the capital
on the occasion of the inauguration of the
President requires the same to grant PER
mission to the proprietor or propretors OF
places in which are conducted businesses
for which licenses are required under eX-
listing law to keep such places open for the
accommodation of the public on Sunday,
March 5, 1905
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-01

grip. f.
The changes in the contagious diseases
We're follows:
Diphtheria cases We're reduced by two.
five new cases being reported and seven
discharged which leaves eighteen cases
in quarantine.
Scarlet fever shows a reduction of four
cases, six new cases being reported and
ten dischadged, leaving thirty cases IN
quarantine.
Typhoid fever cases were reduced by
thirteen cases. there being hut one new
case reported and fourteen discharged,
leaving fifty-eight cases under treatment.
No cases of smallpox being reported DIR
ing the week, the District remains free
from that disease.
The number of births reported during the
week were 165, of which 12S were white
children and II colored.
The weather conditions, reported by
the weather bureau were as follows: Mean
temperature. % degrees; mean relative
humidity, Il degrees; mean actual barom-
eter. sO13. The maximum temperature WAS
40 degrees on the 18th and the miniEaum
temperature 13 degrees the 10TH TIE
winds were northwesterly in direction with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-01

Mai Tenodor Ten Eyck, a veteran of the
civil war, died at his home in Chicago Mon
day of paralysis. Major Ten Eyck was
taken prisoner at Chickamauga and held
one year in Libby prison. Afterward he
fought the Indians. In 1871 he retired
from the army. He was born in Monmouth
county. N. j., In 1919.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-01

Text Of the Resolution.
The text of the joint resolution. which
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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-09-27
Are You Engaged?

Engaged people should remember.
that, after marriage. many quarrels
can be avoided by keeping their ui-
gestions in good condition With Elec-
tic Bitters. S. a. Brown, of Ben
nettsville, s. c., says: For years my
wife suffered intensely rom dysper
sia. complicated with q torpid liver
.iltil she lost her strength and vigoc
md became mere ,.reck Of ne
tcrmer self. Then sns: uied Electric
Bitters, which helped her at once,
and finally made her entirely we'll
She is now strong and healthy" All
druggists sell and guarantee them, a;
soc. a bottle.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-09-27
THE PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE

Clinton. September 20.-The 26th
session of the Presbyterian College of
South Carolina opened today with
brilliant prospects. The enrolment
or this first day was more than the
total for any year in the last ten. and
was more than double thai Of the
same day last yeas. The dormitories
are alrady full. and it has been nee
essary to rent other adjacent build
ings for these students who have ap-
Piled and are delayed Il Gay or two
a number Of the citizens OF the town
we're present at the opening exercises
this morning and enjoyed the address,
es of prominent men, among whom
were Congressman Aiken. the Rev. j.
C. Shire, of Abbeville. and the Hon.
". a. Stands. mayor Of Clinton.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-09-27

der rolled nearer, ominousiy. The gods
were driving their chariots over the
bridge. The chill breath passed, leav-
ing the air again to its hot inertia.
81 did not want to 60" she said at
last. with tears just below the surface
of her voice Il wanted to stay here
but Le-they Wouldn't can't
Wanted to stay here?" he said hus
kily. not turning. Here: In In
diana?"
Yes
'.In Rouen. you mean?'
'1n Plattviile'
SIN Plattville!w He turned now. as
founded.
Yes. Wouldn't you have taken me
on the Herald:" She rose and came to-
ward him. Il could have supported
myself here if ycu would, and I've
studied how newspapers are made. L
know could have earned wage. l
could have helped you make it daily
He searched in vain for a trace of rail
lery in her voice. There was none.
She seemed to intend her words to be
taken literally.
ri don't understand" he said. 81
don't know what you mean
81 mean that l want to stay here;
that / ought to stay here; that my
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-09-27

Washington, September 20.-It can
now be stated definitely that the ex-
change Of the Publications Of the
treaty of peace between Japan and
Russia will take place in Washington.
shortly after the treaty has been rat
flied by their respective sovereigns. It
is probable that this will be done in
the White House as a compliment to
President Roosevelt but no definite
arrangements have been nor has it
been decided by whom the treaties
shall be exchanged.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-09-27
Land Surveying

i viii give prompt attention to al calls
Cor surveying, plating. terracing hi; sides
draining bottoms, drawing Mortgages
Titles. Prcbating, &C.
BANKS H. BOYKIN. D. s.,
Oct $50 Catchail, S. G.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-09-27
CHAPTER VII.

Il 80 ME moon had risen, and there
\ i was lace Of mist along the
S creek when John and Helen
sssss5 reached their bench. (Of
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-01
School Statistics
OF The Territory

The school laws of the Territory de-
mand that all children between the
ages of and Is must attend some
school. Between these ages at the
present time there are 1887 children
in school, as against 1928 in 1908 and
1885 in 1902. There are also 1882 chill
.dren under years of age who are at
tending, for the most part, kindergar-
tens supported by voluntary contribu-
tons. OF these a considerable number
are Asiatics. OF course, the attend
ance of these 1882 children is entirely
voluntary whereas the attendance Of
the 16,S97 children between the ages
of 6 and Is is obligatory. and nonat-
tendance can be punished by legal
methods. OF those above Is years of
age there are 1920 in school, as aginst
/, 116 reported last year OF these, 648
are in private schools and 572 are in
public schools. The Honolulu High
School. the Normal School, and the
agricultural school chiefly
provide for those who are accounted
for in the public-schools record. The
elder pupils of the private schools will
be found at Oahu College. ST. Louis
College, Kamehameha schools, and
other establishments of the same class.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-01

the mountains to the coast at the town
of San Buenagentura.
The oil steamers that ply from the
Hawaiian Islands to the coast are load
ed at the wharf at Ventura or at OLE
UNI on San Francisco Bay, with oil
that is run directly from the wells in
the mountains into the tanks on board
the vessels.
Oil operators have even put down
wells beneath the sea, and at Summer
land, in Santa Barbara County. may
be seen long wharYes reaching out into
deep water, and on the extreme ends
OF these wharves the tall derricks that
mark where the pipe goes down to tap
the wealth that mas been for ages ooz-
ing out of the rocks at the bottom of
the ocean.
The oil business of California, in fact,
has grown to such proportions that the
Standard has become alarmed at it's
development and for the past few years
has been making the most strenuous
efforts TO secure control of that field,
as it already controls the business in
the East.
The California railroads long ago be-
gan to use oil as fuel for their locomo-
tives. Not an engine on the Southern
Pacific system in that State, aside from
the switch engines in use about the
yards, now uses coal-and the use of
oil is almost as extensive on the Santa
Fe. The latter railway even sprinkles
petroleum along the line of dts road
across the desert to keep down the
dust-and, indeed the oil has come into
California for this same purpose. An
ciled road. sprinkled about once a
month for year or two, becomes al
most as good as an asphaltum paved
highway.
The production of oil is increasing in
California, and its use mainly for fuel
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-01
OF THE OCEANI

and OHIO and West Virginia.
And then in the late seventies, came
the second depression in Pennsylvania,
following upon the earlier efforts of the
Standard crowd to get control of the
production and transportation of oil.
Many Pennsylvania operators, men who
knew nothing else but oil, were frozen
out of the business in those days-and
were too old to seek another kind of la
Dor. although they were willing to seek
their kind in a new field Among these,
no doubt, were some men IN whose
memories the operations of Tom Scott
in California nearly twenty years ear
lier fingered as kind of tradition.
Naturally, looking for field for OPP
erat1ons. the minds of these men turn
ed to the old stories of SCOTS ventures.
And it was these men, coming into
Southern California at that time by the
hundred, who gave the oil business on
the Pacific Coast the impetus that has
led TO the present splendid development
But they. themselves, met only failure.
The Scott interest, of course, had
lapsed at the time of this revival, Scott
himself was dead, his lands had been
sold for the most part, and although
Thos. r. Bard remained in Ventura
county. it was as a large land owner
on his account and not as the agent for
Scott that he kept hiss residence there.
Also, he had grown wealthy; but it was
as stock grower and farmer on
prises entirely apart from the oil bust
prises entirely apart from the oil bust
ness. In fact, he seemed to have for
gotten all about his oil-well boring ex-
perience, although he hsd not forgotten
it, as the event proved.
The newcomers into the California oil
field found oil, as Bard had found it.
but they found also the same difficulty
that he had found in the handling of
the product. Try as they might, tfev
could make nothing that would burr in
a lamp of the black, refractory stuff
that oozed rather than gushed out of
the ground, as the lighter parafine oil
gushed from the spouters in PenrSvl-
vania D. c. Scott, one of the earliest
and not the least successful Of these
earlier operators. spent a fortune of
his own and several fortunes for other
people. trying to refine California oil 1T
Ventura. building some half dozen
refneries. And the best he could do
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-01

the oil could be used for lighting pur-
poses. Nobody, in those days, could
conceive of any other use for petroleum
and so the California oil fields were al
lowed to languish.
1t was known, of course, that there
was plenty of oil in the hills of Ven
tura and Los Angeles counties. Specu-
lative scientists still wrote, occasionally,
about the oil on the waters of the Sam
ia Barbara channel. The government
took advantage of this to find stretch
of still water upon which to test the
speed of new war ships when Secretary
Whitney began building up the navy.
But nobody thought of turning to ac-
count this vast store of wealth running
to waste under the hills into the sea.
The Pennsylvania measures still pro-
duced oil, and new fields were found
and exploited in western New York,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-01

purposes keeps pace with the produc-
ton In fact, its use increases rather
faster than the production. Land that
is recognized as possible oil territory,
therefore, acquires added value from
this prospective source of wealth to it's
fortunate owner. And this would be
true. In the minds of thoughtful men,
even though the use of oil as fuel were
not increasing by the natural Increase
of manufacturing industries on the Pa
eific Coast of the mainland.
Fuel oil has just begun the CONNER
cial conquest of the Pacific-the oceaa
OF the future. Only when it is in uni
versal use on sea going steamers win
the industry attain the true measure
of its commercial greatness. In this
greatness the port of Honolulu is des-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-01

W HE use OF petroleum for fuel for
ocean steamers is but new de-
parture in the industrial world,
proportions that ships are built to carry
az across the sea, and here lii Honolulu
shere IS tankage for the storage of
millions of gallons of oil.
Petroleum, before the exploration OF
ehe California fields, was of TOO high
value for lighting purposes to be thought
of as fuel. The Eastern oils, even TO
silis day are not used largely for p,ir-
poses other than lighting, although the
production has increased every year
since the first well was drilled on Oil
Greek IN the days Immediately preced-
ing the Civil War. 1t WIS the oil boom
n PENNSYLVANIA, leading tc the accurlu-
EatioTt of vast fortunes III very short Pc
RODS. that first. drew attention to the
California oil fields. The story of their
Development reads like romance ro-
nance with decidedly commercial flavor,
md IN intensely commercial climax.
The earliest settlers in Southern Cal
dornia had noted the presence of large
springs OF ground oiP' in the hills
about the Mission of San Buenaventura
and in the Punete Range on the seward
SIDE of Los Angeles. They could not
well help noting it, as the Oil oozed
rom the soil in many gulches, forming
pools of sticky asphalt in which it was
no uncommon thing for horses and cat
de and sheep to mire.
Even at an earlier period navigators
N the small craft that piled the waters
af the Santa Barbara. channel had OBJ
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-01

paratus to mix oil and steam for fuel
purposes III substantially the same way
as they are mixed now wherever fuel
oil is used, but he gave the oil bust
ness of California that start toward sue
cess that was needed. From the crude
machinery devised by Edwards in his
little tinshop in the town of San Buena-
ventura is long step to the splendid
furnaces that furnish the heat for the
power that drives the ocean liner across
the sea-and yet the liners machinery
had its birth in that tinshop. There
have been many improvements, of
course, since the days of Edwards. The
timer, perhaps, would not know the
oil burner as it works today for the
grown-up child Of his own brain. And
yet it is that and nothing else.
With the successful use of oil as a
fuel for all purposes proved to dem
onstTation, the long neglected oil fields
of Southern California became at once
of great immediate and potential value.
Many of the Pennsylvanians who had
come into the country made fortunes
IN oil, for its use as fuel grew and
spread, and Thos. R. Bard turned his
attention once more TO the development
of that source of wealth that had been
the hrst cause OF his settlement IN Cal
ifor11ia. The lands that he had acquired
in the course of his business enter
prises proved to be rich in oil, and
presently he was ranked as a million
aire in new generation of milIionaires
The Ventura and Los Angeles county
oil fields were exploited It was found
that a stratum of oil-bearing sand lay
under the hills of the city Of Los Ange-
les itself, and the very fairest portion of
the town was given over to a forest of
greasy derricks, producing thousands of
barrels of petroleum daily Great oil
measures were opened in the mountains
of Kern county, and the Southern Pa
cihc railway even built branch road
forty miles in length to accommodate
the trade of the wells, carrying out oil
IN tank cars, and carrying in supplies
to the drillers and squatters
Vast fortunes were made, and are
still being made in California oil. Pipe
lines have been built from Kern couil-
tv to the shore of San Francisco bay to
carry the oil to tide water, to overcome
the cost of shipment by rail, and from
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-01
NEvADAN.

wards OF IOOOUOO barrels of oil are Kept
on storage there.
The storage capacity at Honolulu on
Oahu, IN use and in course of construc-
ton, is 100000 barrels, and upwards OF
10000 barrels of oil is kept stored in
them.
The consumption of oil on Maui dur
ing 1903 was but small. It has more
than doubled during 1904. The total
Maui consumption during 1908 and 1904
was approximately 100, 600 barrels.
The consumption on Oahu was "a, 900
barrels during 1903 and 4O5, 900 barrels
during 1904
This does not include oil supplied
to tTans-Pacific steamers, of which
there are a constantly increasing num-
Der using oil fuel
CONCERNS USING OIL.
The business concerns using oil fuel
IN Hawaii are; On the Island of Maui
Haiku Sugar Company, Paia Sugar
Company. Hawaiian Commercial AMI
Sugar Company. and Kihei Plantation
Company.
on oahu-Kahuku Plantation Com
pany. Waialua Plantation COMPANY.
Eva Plantation Company, Oahu sugar
Company. Honolulu Sugar COMPANY.
Oahu Railway and Land Company Bo-
nolulu Rapid Transit and Land Corr
De NJ, Honolulu Brewing and Mailing
Company, Hawaiian Electric COMPANY.
Alexander Young Hotel. Cation. Neil e.
Co. Honolulu Iron Works, Hawaiian
pineapple Company, Pearl City Fruit
Company, Ha waifan Dredging Com
pany, Pacific Guano and Fertilizer Com
Tany.
The cost of the oil delivered to the
consumers at point of consumption va
RES from S14O to $3.50 per barrel. ac-
cording to quality of oil and location
OF point OF consumption.
fhe efficiency of the oil as compared
with coal varies from 3.57 10 4.25 barrels
of oil as the equivalent of one long ton
OF Australian coal, showing a saving
of from 25 per cent to 45 per cent in dol
lars. besides the additional cleanliness.
facility in handling and elimination of
hand labor
The economy and incident advantages
are so great that eventually all fuel
users on any SCALE must use oil.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-01
AN ACCIDENT.

A spinster once who was antique
Daubed lots of rouge upon her Clique,
But by mistake
She made a brake
And got little on her biaue.
The people saw the crimson strique
And laughed nntfi they all grew wiuue.
The spinster saw
What made them .'Haw!,
And vanished with a fearful shriaue.
Chicago Chronicle.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-01

>HE practical control of the oil
D. business of California is now III
the hands of two great companies.
viz, the omnipresent Standard Oil Conn
pany and the Union Oil Company OF
California, although there are a few
smaller companies free from their con-
troll, one being largely represented in
Hawaii through the Pacific Oil Trans
portation Company.
The Standard made an attempt to ger
in to the Hawaiian market, but were
unwilling to meet the prices quoted BY
the other two companies, which, at
present, have monopoly of the Ha-
waiian fuel oil business.
The fuel oil trade between California
and Hawaii has already assumed vast
proportions. although crude oil was
first used for fuel in Hawaii in Janu-
airy, 1908
In 1902 there was only one oil tank
vessel on the Pacific Coast, the Santa
Paula, a schooner barge of $500 barrels
capacity.
There are now seven in use by The
Union and Pacific companies alone
n ostly in the island trade. viz:
Capacity
NAME barrels.
Schooner Santa Paula ....... 5000
Steamer Whittier INSTRUMENTATION coo
Four-masted schooner Fullerton. 16. o01
Sfea MGR
Ship Marion Chilcott tx ooA
Steamer Rosecrans ..............,2O %, 600
Snip Monterey observation-disclosures "a. 600
total capacity Of ........ .124, 200
Both of these companies have orders
out for additional ships which will be
IN commission during the coming year.
The amount of money invested by the
Union and Pacific companies in cola~
nection with the Island trade alone. for
pipe lines. storage tanks, ships and
landing apparatus, is approximately
81, 100000, and the investment is con-
stantly increasing. The oil is stored
in immense steel tanks holding up TO
$4,000 gallons each.
USE AS FUEL
So far oil fuel is being used In Ha-
wall only on the Islands of Oahu and
Maui.
The storage tank capacity On Maui is
1876, $50, at Kihei and Kahuluf, and up
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-01

was to make kind of thick, yellow oil
as different from the white product of
the eastern works as lard oil is from
be1izine. 1t was demonstrated that the
California oil made a hrst-class lubrl-
cant, but that was all-and there was
not enough machinery in all California
to take the lubricator that one good
well would yield.
THE FUEL PROBLEM.
And then came new man into the
field, somewhat visionary man, with
the idea that the fuel problem of Cali
fornia--a very vital problem indeed in a
land where wood is scarce and where
there is no Goodnight find its solution
in the use of oil E A. Edwards did
not make fortune, as he deserved to
do, by the first application of the ap
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1905-03-24
Plains Cattle.

On the Spade ranch, located
in Lamb and Hockey counties
and owned by Colonel I. L. ELL
wood, the millionaire wire man
ufacturer of De Kalb, Ill.,, Colo.
mel Shropshire says 200 head OF
cattle died during one night re-
Gently, and losses on the same
ranch have been very heavy
since. He also reports similar
conditions prevailing on the
Slaughter and other big ranches
in that section. Smaller ranch
es are faring better, from the
fact that they are feeding heavi
ly.
Cattlemen through that section
are rejoicing over the fine pros
poets for early spring grass, and
it is predicted that there will be
more grass and better grass this
spring than that section OF the
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1905-03-24
The Railroad.

In the railroad department of
the daily Dallas News of last
Saturday we find the foliowing:
"Within the next few days
some definite information per-
tanning to the Santa Fe eXten
sion from the Lampasas branch
to a connection with the main
line may be had General
Superintendent F. G.. Pettibone
is due in that section of the
country as soon as he completes
an inspection of the road proper
ties in the Territory, and it is
presumed that his visit to the
branch has something to do
with the matter.
"From an official source it is
learned that while all officials
save a favored few are in the
dark as to the line, such extern
sion will follow, the indications
are that Coleman will be the
starting poiut, and not San An
gelo, and that sit is not at all
certain that the road will follow
the cheapest survey by which
it seems that a route has been
chosen that includes some engi
ueering difficulties.
San Angelo people have been
heard to express doubt as to
their city being selected as
starting point for this extension,
and it now seems certain that
their fears are we'll grounded. "
This evidently pertains to the
Amarillo & Southern" and is
on a little better basis than
some reports that we have been
getting.
1t is also reported upon fair
authority that two car loads of
wheel scrap ers were sidetracked
at Abilene Friday for purpose
OF grading in that vicinity COM
ing this way.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1905-03-24

J. w. Reed has purchased the
Geo. G. Long residence at $1,000,
and expects, with his family, to be
occupying the same by close of this
week. Mr. Long will move into
one of his rent houses for the pres
ent. The property purchased by
Mr.. Reed is on the west edge Of
the original town section, includes
about sixty acres, is very deslra-
bic location and very cheap at the
price.