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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-02-16
A Chance For Its Passage In
The Senate at The Present
Session Of Congress
NO RATE LAW
EXTRA SESSION
Amendments to Bill For Govern
nlent Of Panama Canal Zone
Agreed To and The Meas
ire Passed,

WASHINGTON. Feb. l6.--Represen-
tative Townsend, one of the authori-
ties of the Esch.Townsend freight bill,
had talk with the president regard,
ing the prospects for the enactment OF
that measure into law. Townsend,
who has canvassed the situation pret-
ty thoroughly. expressed the opinion
that there was chance for the pas
sage of the bill by the senate at the
present session. After talk with the
president Townsend said that in the
event no legislation on the rate ques.
tion was enacted at this session. an
extra session of congress would be
called by President Roosevelt, next
autumn, perhaps in October.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-02-16

The rumors set going by irrespon-
sible people here and elsewhere
through the territory since the passage
OF the coal oil bill. that II. O. Bursum
of the penitentiary would be coal oil
inspector have been effectually set at
rest by Mr.. Bursum himself who an
nounces quietly but conyincingly that
he does not want the job. that Il has
not been offered TO him and that Il is
not likely to be. Similarly the ramor
that John s. Clark will he superintend-
ent OF the penitentiary. has been laid
away. for Mr. Clark announces that
Las Vegas Is good enough for him, that
he lives there now and is going to
continue to live there. 1t Is very like
ly according to the best Information
your correspondent can obtain, that
Mr.. Bursum Will stay quietly where he
is and where he u doing very well
for himself and for the territory.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-02-16

Miss Nina Otero and Mrs. A. M.
Bergore entertained a large party OF
friends with dancing In the Palace ho.
tel tonight. The affair was one OF the
most brilliant Of the legislative SEES.
sion and was immensely enjoyed.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-02-16

The following bills were introduced,
House bill No. 81, by NJ. C. de Baca
an act providing for the collection Of
poll tax. Referred 10 the committee
on education.
House bin No, rs by Vigil, regulat-
Ing railroad fare in New Mexico, refer.
red to the committee on railroads.
House bin No, 50. by Williams, the
Sandoyal county act, which was pass.
ed under suspension Of the rules. and
later concurred In by the council.
House bill No 90. by Mr., pendioton,
An act authorizing Miss Sue Green,
leaf. 10 write a history Of New Mexico
and providing for sts adoption as the
standard history of the territory for
use In the schools. !. Miss Greenleaf n
on the ggonnd and ia doing some very
effective lobbying for her ILL.,
House bill No. si, by Mr.. Eeblett,
authorizing an appropriation of $4,000
for tho construction Of armories In Sil.
yer city. and Roswell and providing
for the Improvement cf the armories
created by tho last legislature In Las
Vegas and Albuquerque. Referred to
the committee on finance.
House joint resolution No. Q. by Mr..
Sanchez. to regulate the payment OF
capitol employees. Referred to the
committee on finance.
The house then took recess until
2 o'clock
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-02-16

The house this afternoon by a vote
of 2l TO refused TO suspend the rules
for the immediate consideration of the
Martinez libel bin which was passed
by the council yesterday. The house
has set itself solidly against the sns.
pension Of the rules on every measure
upon which there is not unanimous
agreement and the rule promises to
hold for the present at least.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06
Dogs Most Useful In Arctic Reqion

Dogs are undeniably the most use.
full animals for man in his polar expe-
ditions where sledges must be dragged
over the ice of the Polar sea- They
have the advantage also, that, unlike
horses and reindeer they readily eat
their fellows. Their weight is small,
and they can be easily carried on light
boats or on Ice foes. AS the Danish
government has forbidden the expor-
tation of dogs from Greenland, ex.
plorers usually get their animals from
western Siberia.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06
FACTS ABOUT PORT ARTHUR.
Japan Captured It in 1894, but Was
Forced to Return Il TO China.

Several letters asking for informa-
tion In regard to Port Arthur have
been received by The New York
Times.
Correspondents inquire if the place
does not still belong to China, IT,,
should Japan capture it. she would be
allowed to keep it, why it is called
Port Arthur, etc.
Port Arthur, the ancient seaport Of
Lu-Chung- -Cheng, was until the war
between China and Japan in 1894 in
the undsputed possession of the
Chinese. On Nov. 81, 1894, it was cap
tured by Japanese troops. BY the
treaty of peace between China and
Japan, signed at Shimonoseltl on April
II, 1895, it was ceded to Japan with
practically the whole of the Lao
Tung Peninsula, including all islands
appertaining or belonging thereto.
Owing to the action of Russia, sup
ported by France and Germany, Japan
was compelled to retrocede, under
Article |. Of convention signed at
Peking on Nov. s. 1895, all the terri
tory occupied by her in Manchuria.
and by Dec. 81 of that year the last
Japanese soldier had been withdrawn.
On March 20, 1898, China and Rus
sla signed an agreement at Peking by
which Port Arthur and Talien-Wan
were leased to Russia for a term OF
twenty-five years, which period, by
mutual agreement, might be further
prolonged, and by which China allow
ed Russia to build branch railways
through Manchuria connecting these
ports with the main Siberian line.
The Manchurian trouble, with the re-
sulting war between Japan and Rus
sia, has grown out of the Chinese.
Russian railway agreements. No
sooner was Russia in possession OF
Port Arthur than she proceeded to
make it what would, it was expected,
be an impregnable fortress.
Port Arthur owes the name by
which it is known in Europe and
America to the fact that the first
white man to visit it was an English
naval officer named Arthur.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

The extent to which Japan is be-
coming Anglicized is evidenced more
or less by the ever increasing use of
the English language there. There
are few large stores in Toxic which
do not exhibit some sign or other
written in English, and the same is
true, to less degree, of other large
cities in Japan.
At Kioto, for instance, there Is a
hotel which displays an announcement
reading as follows con the dining
time nobody shall be enter to the din.
ing and drawing room without the
gu 'sts allow"
The municipal ordinances of that
city contain the following specimen of
English literature: "Any dealer shall
be honestly by his trade. OF course,
the sold one shall prepare to make
up the safe package"
A Toxic dentist recently sent out
circular written in both Japanese
and English. The so-called English
portion read as follows: "Our tooth
is an important organ for human life
and countenance, as you know; there
fore, when 1t is attack by disease or
injury artificial tooth is also very
useful I am engaged in the dentistry
and will make for your purpose
A shoemaker in the same city dis
plays signboard containing the
words: "Shoos maid and men dead
hear"
At Nikko you can buy a bottle of
claret which has a printed label on it
like this: Weak man who is not so
hard Of his stomach takes notice Of
his health ever must use this wine
usually"
Fortunately for the buyer Of the
wine, the claret is not as bad as the
English.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06
STORIES FROM JAPAN.
Three Characteristic Bits Of the Lit.
tie Brown People.

A Yokohama newspaper says: Mr.
Yahei Ichiyama, a carver of Buddhist
images, who lives at 8 Okinacho
Itchome, Yokohama, has applied to
the department of the navy for the
capture, If possible of course, of the
Russian warship Vladimir Monomach
(G,06D, whose figurehead consists of
the image of the Russian sovereign
Vladimir Mohomach. The applicant
made the image some eighteen years
ago, spending six months in the work.
and now that we are fighting with
Russia he wants to recover 1t from
the possession of the enemy, and
hence to see the warship as well as
the image captured by the japanese
navy. She is very old craft, being
launched in 1882, and 1t is doubtful
whether she is worth capturing"
In the Kobe Yushin appears story
of "a foreign lady, apparently about
so years of age, accompanied by
young Japanese gentleman" who de-
lighted n crowd at the railway station
by waving a Japanese flag and cheer.
ing as troops departed for the war
and also distributing money among
the soldiers. Then, says the account.
"after she had exchanged hearty
turnhandshakes with the officers, she
turned to Capt. Hannosuke Miyamoto
and putting on one of his arms gold
barcelet she had worn on her right
arm. remarked: My young man.
please accept my present and fight
your best Thank you was his re-
ply. I promise you will never return
without this bracelet smeared with
Russian blood '"
Among the institutions of civliza-
ton which Japan gained from Europe
was the prison editor" Until few
years ago he was absolutely indis-
pensablc to the native Japanese jour.
mails. which were constantly at war
with the government. In the SOS
journalism was q punishable offense;
and in the '7Os and sos, though toll
Grated II was severely restricted, and
strte officials could and did imprison
editors at their discretion. Hence the
vital necessity of an editor" whose
department II was solely to go TO pris-
on. But this arbitrary Imprisonment
was abolished in 1887, and ten years
ls'cr full freedom of speech, lese maj
esty barred was conceded.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06
Japan's British Destroyers.

1t should be satisfactory to the Brit
ish to reflect that the torpedo vessels
are nearly all English built. In all,
Japan had twenty vessels specially
constructed for torpedo work at the
time of the last Official return seven
or eight months ago, and seventeen
of these were torpedo boat destroyers.
Two of these, the Harasame and the
Muraame, each Of 374 tons displace-
ment, were built at Yokosuka, in
Japan, in 1902, but the other fifteen
were all made,in Great Britain. The
first was the Ikazuchi, constructed by
Yarrow Poplar, in 1898, and of the
fourteen others-two in 1898, seven
in 1899, one in 1900, two in 1901, and
two in 1902-siX were built by the
Yarrow firm and eight by Thorny-
croft of Chiswick. The tonnage Of
these boats varied from 307 to 1913,
and all were armed alike with one
twelve-pounder quick-firing gun, five
smaller Quick-firing guns and two tor
pedo tubes.-Naval Correspondent
London Pail Mall Gazette.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06
Some Proverbs of the Japanese.

The man who knows Japan was
speaking the other evening of its
proverbs.
1--WE all know" he said the pro-
verb about more haste. less speed"
but the Japs put it: If in a hurry, go
round We say, very crudely, that
accidents will happen In the best reg
ulated families but the Japanese
with a view to making the phrase
n re picturesque, say; Even a mon
key sometimes falls from tree The
saying about edged tools and cut fin
gers, the people of the Flowery King
dom vary thus: If one plays with
tigers one is likely to have trouble, ;
while our oil and water won't mix
they know as you can't rivet a nail
in custard.' Where we say out of
evil good may come they say the
lotus springs from the mud Mrs.
Partington's attempt is in Japan,
scattering fog with fan building
bridges to the Clouds or dipping up
the ocean with she'll And when the
person making such an attempt has
failed the Japanese say that, after all,
thine own heart makes the world 4"
Philadelphia Press.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06
Japan's Home Coal Supply.

The coal for the Japanese feet
comes chiefly from the Island of Hok-
kaido or Yezo, to the north of the
Island of Nippon, the largest in the
empire The two ports supplying it
are Mororan on the south coast and
otaru on the west coast. At present
one company, the Hokkaido Tunka
Tetsudo Kaisha, wealthy corpora
ton, owning mines, railways and
wharyes, provides the fuel of the i'm
perial navy which is bituminous and
OF high grade.-London Globe.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

A curious custom has just been
celebrated at Kiln, near Moscow. All
the marriageable girls in the town
lined up in the principal street, deck
ed out in their simple finery, many of
them also having with them the stock
of linen, household and personal,
which forms part of their dowry. The
young men contemplating matrimony
then walked down the serried ranks
church. and collected the girls Of their
choice. A formal visit to the parents
to arrange details was then made In
each case, and date fixed for the
ceremony.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06
Russian Pottery Outside Of Russia.

Very little Is known in this country
of Russian pottery. In ST. Petersburg
there is a royal porcelain manufac-
tory where exceedingly fine and ar
tistic ware is produced, though II is
almost impossible to bring samples
out of that country, which accounts
for its great scarcity In Europe and
America. The pottery is of a bold,
semi-barbaric character, with ara
besque decorations, consisting Of
heads Of animals in relief, etc. The
industry is carried on rather srar-
ingly, and, aside from this royal por-
celain plant, there Is but little atten-
mic wares.
In the Pennsylvania Museum, Of
which Edwin Atlee Barber is curator,
can be seen a case of decorated Rus
sian pottery, which was originally ex-
hibited at the Centennial exhibition
orange colored clay. and the decora-
tions are in relief and highly colored.
The pieces are in the shape of coffee
pots, vases, plaques, etc. Another
variety is decorated with convention
allied animals, painted in enamelled
colors. There is also in this museum
a single piece of fine porcelain, artis-
tcally decorated, consisting of a cup
and saucer the product of one of the
modern Russian potteries. - China,
Glass and Pottery Review.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06
Japanese Wedding Ceremony.

A Japanese wedding recently took
place in California according to native
custom. The ceremony was short.
Without priest or book, the bride and
groom were ushered into separate
rooms, mysteriously darkened, and in
seclusion each drank three cups Of
wine three times. This is the "San
San Guido" or three times three cero-
mony which is all there is to the
matrimonial rite. After this the two
were declared man and wife, and the
rest of the festivity was devoted 10
the wedding feast, singing and dan
cling
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06
Japan's Manufacturing Industries.

Japan has every kind OF manufac-
turing-cotton goods, telescopes, MI
croscopes, watches, knives, spoons.
electric machinery, matches. clocks.
wooden goods and a host Of other
lines. In 1870 there was almost no
manufacturing in Japan-now Japan
has over 5000 factories Of various
kinds. 1t has POI cotton mills, with
887 900 spindles, Including cotton
growing this industry employees 1,o00.-
900 people. Japan does weaving in co.
40S dwellings or establishments, con-
tanning 924,123 looms and employing
1,042,866 persons. This includes many
thousands of silk weavers.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06
LAKE BhIkALs
Body OF Water Which obstructs Rus.
sla's Advance.

AS a serious obstruction to Russian
transport to the Far East, Lake
Baikal Is attracting some attention
Just now. We were all told in our
schooldays that the Caspian the Sea
of Aral, and other lakes of the Siber-
ian steppes were relics Of an ancient
gulf of the Arctic Ocean, from which
they had received their population of
seals. Perhaps we included Lake
Baikal in the list, and the inclusion
would have this one Justification
that seals are found there, too But
Baikal must have got its seals at Sec
ond hand, any direct connection OF 1t
with the Arctic being most improb.
able. Unlike the lakes of the steppes,
whose shores slope gently down to
shallow bottom. Bailkal lies in the
heart of the highlands, and has lofty,
precipitous shores and depths of as
much as 700 fathoms. far deeper than
the German Ocean. 1t differs, in fact,
from the other Siberian lakes men
toned, just as Tanganyika and Nyas.
sa differ from the Victoria Nyan2a.
For a summary of the latest scien-
tific information on the lake we may
turn to the lately published third vol
ume of "Das Antlitz der Erde," the
great work of the veteran geologist,
Prof. Suess of Vienna. From this
we learn that Lake Bailkal has prob
ably been formed by a series of great
earth-fssures. similar to, but more
complex than, those which have
formed the deep and long African
lakes. The chief innowing river, the
Selenga, and the outhowing Angara
do not enter and leave at the two ex-
tremities of the lake, as one might
expect, but at points nearly opposite
one another not far from the south
western corner of the lake. This sug
gests that they may have once been
single, continuous river, across
whose course a long deep trough was
chopped, as it were, in which waters
accumulated to form the lake. This
popularity is the source of all the en-
gineering troubles in the construction
of the railway, for while the natural
routes to and from the lake along
the two river valleys are easy enough,
the lake itself stands athwart the
route, its steep shores affording lit
tie footing for a railway, so that for
the present trains must be carried
across it somehow.
The problem of getting round the
southwestern corner of the lake has
been somewhat simplfied for the Rus
sian engineers by a remarkable e"ent
in the geological history of the dis
trict There flows into the south
western extremity of the lake a lit
tie stream, the Kuluchna. Once this
was a longer stream, but the upper
part of its valley has been damned
across by flow of basaltic lava. The
damned up upper waters overhowed
in another direction into the Angara,
their point of influx determining the
site of the town of Irkutsk This III
verted stream, now called the Irglta.
has cut fer itself a deep gorge, and
so has facilitated the work of the
railway engineers, who, by tunne'ing
through the lava-dam will soon be able
to carry the line from the Irkuta to
the Kultuchna, and so to the south
side of the lake and the mouth of
the Selenga.-Correspondent London
Globe.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06
Japan's Mineral Wealth.

japan has gold, silver, copper, lead,
tin and mercury in abundance, besides
coal and iron. IT Is mining over 1000
tons Of coal day, nearly 100000
tons yearly and the supply is of fine
quality. apparently inexhaustible.
Twenty-Five years ago the output was
only 800 tons a day.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

Japan has over 5000 miles of rail-
way and 1,500 miles of telegraph lines
in operation. Twenty-Five years ago
not mile of this system existed. 1t
has facilities for making everything
necessary for the construction and
equipment of railroads except locomo-
tivcs. 1t runs its railroads with ma
tive labor entirely, from the general
superintendent down, including the
train dispatchers.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06
Population Of Japan.

Japan with 100000 population has
4,302,623 pupils in its elementary
schools, or 81 in every 1000; while
Russia, with 130.oOO,OoO population,
has only 4,19s.594, or 32 in every 1000.
Japan has 1852 postoffices, equal to
one postoffice for each 300 people;
Russia has only 6,029, or one for each
21,500 people.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06
Baboon's Life Insured.

An insurance agency of Kenosha,
Wis, has written a $4,000 risk on
Major Kelly, an educated baboon own
ed by a New York animal trainer.
The animal has been the sensation Of
New York society for two years, and
has been trained to remarkable de-
gree. The annual premium on the
risk is $2,600.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

Japan has about the same area as
Montana, with more than half as many
people as there are in the whole
United States. 1t raises sufficient agri-
cultural products to feed its own peo-
pie and leave good quantity for ex-
port.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06
The head of Liberty which adorns

The head of Liberty which adorns
the silver dollar of the United States
reproduces the features of a young
school teacher of Philadelphia. A
century ago the Rothschilds adorned
their bank notes with the benevolent
face Of Baroness de Rothschild
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-02-06
N0RTHFIELD.

Miss Josephine Petyt who has been
spending the last two months with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William Petyt,
returned to Harrison, N. Y, Saturday.
The Rev. DIR. Cooper of Randolph Of
iiciated at the Methodist church yes
terday in the absence Of the Rev. T..
w. Sharp. Mr.. Sharp accompanied the
remains Of his mother to Brattleboro,
the funeral being held on Saturday.
Edgar Bolton, carpenter employed
on the new high school building, fell
from the staging, where he was doing
some lathing and was quite badly in
jured. His left hand and arm received
a very severe sprain. He was taken to
his home in Montpelier on Saturday
Mrs Emma, widow Of Capt. Darius
Thomas, died at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Lewis Dodge, in Bristol Thurs
day after a long illness from pneumonia.
Besides Mrs. Dodge, she leaves son,
George d., of Waltham, Mass. The
body was brought here Saturday night
and taken to Chase & Rays undertake
ing parlors and placed in the tomb Sun
day. Captain and Mrs. Thomas were
for many years residents of this village,
Mr.. Thomas being head mechanic in the
shops of the Central Vermont railroad
when they were located here.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-02-06
WEST ToPsHAM.

C. X. Church was in Bradford over
Sunday.
R. NJ. Harvey OF Montpelier was in
town Saturday.
D. +. Bagley was in Barre and Mont
pelier Thursday on business.
Mrs. l.. F. Sanborn was in Barre and
Montpelier several days last week.
John Cunningham of East Barre yis-
tied in town several days last week.
Mrs. A. A. Persons and Miss VERNE
Bowen of Barre are visiting Mrs. i. +.
Sanborn.
Misses Esther and Winnie Sanborn
are home, having finished their school
at Graniteyille.
Fred Sanbon's horse ran away We'd
nesday, throwing Mrs Sanborn out, cut
ting her face quite badly One tooth
was knocked out and two broken off.
The horse ran home with no great dam
age to the sleigh.
Jimmie Rowhan has the contract for
the stage route from West Topsham to
Bradford, DID $724.O0 yearly. Willough-
by i. Noyes has the contract from this
place to East Barre, bid $46S.00. We
hope to see better accommodations af-
ter July LIST.