Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-09-28

court calendar including five for divorce
Considerable criminal business will have
tn be investigated by tho grand jury.
some OF a serious nature. including man
slaughter. rape. larceny. indecent assault
and wife heating. There are 10 or more
cases to be Investigated, The term COM
mtnc"s Tuesday. October g. the Hon.
George NJ. Powers. presiding judge.
A VICTIM OF LoCKJAw.
Mrs. Edgar Cushman Of East st.
Johnsbury. aged % years, died Thurs
day evening after an Illness of As
hours of lockiaw. Mrs Cushman re-
Gently scratched her finger but APP
parcntly it healed. Wednesday morning
she awoke with her Jaws cramped and
tho progress of the disease was rapid.
She is survived by a husband and two
small children.
WAS CASE OF MALPRACTICE.
The jury in the malpractice case of
William q. sheldon vs.. j. s. Wright of
Barton Landing. which had been on
trial for the past nin' days in Orleans
County Court. returned verdict Fri
day night in favor of the plaintiff to
recover SALES and costs
DOING BIG LUMBER BUSINESS.
Taplin G. Rowell of BARTON and Lang G.
Webster Of East Burke have bought Of
David Young the piece of land. four acres
or more, just the other side of the freight
depot in Lyndon. price paid being 800.
The land may be simply used as n place
for stacking lumber and the purchasers
also have in mind the erection Of a feed
store. dressing mall and box shop Thew
ship large amount of lumber from that
station, and the latter industries may ba
tho result of the purchase These mon
are this season getting out over 3V10 40
feet Of lumber 10000 feet at their East
Burke mill. 100000 feet in South
Wheelock, and smaller amounts in several
other places. They have Just bought 2. 400
acres Of timber land in the town of West
field. good part of This being a virgin
spruce forest
HAS BIG SAVING CONTRACT.
James II. Mcdonald of Wilmington has
taken contract to saw ~. nn0 CUN feet of
Iuinber for the Is. S. Gallup Lumber com.
pany Of Rrat'loboro from tho timber hold
ings df the Gallup company in the town
OF Winhall. The contract will probably
occupy Mr.. McDonnlds time for the next
four years. Mr. Mcdonald has bought n
mill at Winhall hut n new building will
he one of tho requisites Of the entcrpriso
and he will begin its erection this week.
The mill will probably he in running or
der by December I. Both spruce and hard
wood lumber will be gotten out. Mr. Nc
Donald has resigned his position as saw
Yer at Mountain mills and will spend his
time hereafter at Winhal His family
will remain in Wilmington for the pres
emit.
GREAT POWER NEARLY READY.
When the Chittendcn Power companys
developing plant at East Pittsford is COM
pletcd. probably about November Is, tho
largest and most complete electrical de-
veloping station in western New England
will he in operation. after being in course
of construction FOR about hve years Thre.
large turbines in the main station will he
fed water at the enormous head of POS
feet developing for use in that city n
high tension current of 1920 volts.
generators. Only one-thrd of the power
generated by these machines will be used
In running the cars of the Rutland Street
Railway company. the remainder being
on sale for commercial purposes to he de-
iivered at the high pressure Of 1900
voltage. Two well equipped sub-statiOns,
one at CastletOn Corners and one at Rut.
land will transform the high tension alter
nj iAay
the wires Of the railway company. a
2ss-cell. storage battery building which la
to be built on the grounds Of the Peoples
Gas company's plant. and which will tak0
up all the fluctuations OF the varying
1oad on the street car wires caused by
Irregular traffic, remains to he erected and
ground for this final addiiio ion to the COM
pany's equipment will he broken this week
and 1t will he rushed to completion aa
fast az possible. Some OF the power dc.
velopment possibilties arc wonderful.
There Ia. between tho East Pttsford dam
which furnishes a head OF 2os feet and tho
large Chittcnden storage dam. the en-
ormous head of &16 feet, the use OF which.
the present plans of the company do not
include. The latter dam has drainage
area Of II square miles and capacity OF
%So'ooo'"o gallons. II covers 500 acres OF
ground. Below the Chittenden dam Is
measuring weir dam built by French
Bryant OF Brooklne. Mass. BY It has
been Kept for four years a daily record
or the amount Of water that hows over It,
and this Is compared with the amount Of
rainfall as determined by government
rain gauge which is kept nearby These
hsures show that IL per cent. OF the total
rainfall has fiown over the dam and that