The independent., 1905-08-03


Luther Burbank is perfectng new potato,
which he says will rival anything the world
knows not even excepting the famous Burbank.
It Is large and smooth-skinned and probably by
another season will have attained the quality OF
sweetness required in good product.
The government is sending out Frank Ben
ton, bee expert of the agricultural department,
to scour those portions of the globe wherein de-
sirable types of honeymakers are believed to ex-
ist. In his tour he will visit India and the Phil
ippines for the purpose of studying the giant bee
of those countries
Camille Flammarion's new perpetual calen-
dar starts the year at the vernal equinox, March
21 Every quarter should contain two months
of thirty days and month of thrty-one days.
This would make 354 days. The same dates
would occur the same days of the week and
one calendar would last life time.
Sitka, Alaska has just been found to overlie
an immense deposit of Ochre having a radius OF
at least ten miles. The ochre undoubtedly had
its origin in Mount Edgec0mb, once an active
volcano, which stands at the entrance to Stka
harbOr The refining process is simple and the
product is worth SIS per ton. It's color ranges
from light yellow to a dark brown. 1t is being
used in Sitka as a substitute for whitewash.
1t is said that peculiar state of affairs ex-
lists of the islands on the Pacific coast that
is famous for it's fishing One man has the sole
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island and then to offer them for sale as bait
Fishing is all that there is to do the island
SO everyone is dependent on this man. But he
has trick of getting drunk once a week Or so,
and then does not catch any bait, SO no one can
go fishing until he sobers up again.
John D. Rockefeller has decided to economize.
The first of his luxuries to fall afoul of his
policy is his Lakewood estate. Notice has been
served on the superintendent of the estate that
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All employees have been informed of reduction
in wages from.10 to 20 per cent. The five super
intendents' helpers who have been paid $1.50
day, must be content with $125 day hereafter.
big saving will be made by the discharge of
the superintendent. He was paid $100 month.
There are 1900 clerks in the pension office.
OF these nearly 400 are who had prepared
themselves for the professions of law, medicine
and theology. The graduates in law numbered
267 in medicine 100 and in theology 20 Forty
clerks had been authors 43 were editors, IS were
editors and publishers, 81 printers, 151 were
newspaper correspondents, four were reporters,
three were prOOfreaderS, 33 were magazine writ
ers and one confessed to have been a poet A
total of 144 clerks held diplomas from colleges
and universities
The government is preparing to install wire
less telegraph system throughout the lower Yu-
kon country to replace tie land lines that have
proved failure to large extent owing to for
est fires floods cold weather and other obstacles.
Captain Wildman, the government wireless ex-
pert is now on the yukon experimenting be-
tween Fort Gibbon and Nome. He installed a
wireless apparatus on the steamer Susie and
was in constant communication with st. Michael's
on the trip up the river to Fort Gbbon and ST.
Michael in turn was connected with Nome.
The three hundredth anniversary of the dis
covery of the Hudson river by Henrik Hudson
is to be celebrated by the opening in New York
City of the greatest international exposition the
world has ever SEEN A committee consisting
of the following societies.: The Empire State
society Sons of the American Revolution, Amer
lea Scenic and Historic Preservation society
Hudson Tri-Centennial association, the New Yorl
Society of the Order of the Founders and Pat
riots of America, Holland society," st. Nicholas
society National Arts club, Municipal Arts societ,
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