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Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-07-27
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Mike Donlin made 100 hits in 70
games. He leads the New York Giants
in batting, his figures being 800.
Mathewson, Taylor and Ames. all of
the New York Giants, lead the pitchers
of the National League in the number
of games won.
Samuel Gompers, the famous labor
leader, is baseball crank of the 33d de-
gree. He never misses a chance to see
a game while moving around the coun-
try.
Billy Keller maintains his position at
the head of the American League bats
men of New York. He has an average
of .324. while Pat Dougherty is second
with .295.
Reno, New, is after the bout between
Jimmy Britt and Battling Nelson. Nell
son has assurance that the Nevada club
will bid as high as $4,000 for the mill
and looks with favor upon Reno as the
battle ground.
Johnny Evers, the little Chicago sec
ond baseman, who halls from the New
York State League, is a big favorite in
the Windy City. They regard him as
second Fred Pfeffer in the wild and
woolly metropolis.
The miserable work of the BrooklyE
club has utterly disguised local enthu.
siasts. The management and players
have come in for fierce criticism by the
Brooklyn papers, but Hanlon's crowd &C
on losing just the same.
The cost of balls is big item in the
yearly expense account of the National
and American League clubs. President
Hart of Chicago figures that he loses
from 5000 to 81 900 every year on balls
that are carried away by spectators.
Abe Attell will take trip to Europe
and engage some of the foreign cracks.
Young Corbett and Kid Herman, the
Chicago feather weight, have been look
ing for an opportunity to engage the
California crack, bat without success.
Earl Kiser, a few years ago noted
bicycle racer. is gaining great prominence
as an auto driver. He carried off the
honors at the ST. Paul Automobile Club
races, although Barney Oldfeld and
Chevrolet were among the participants.
There are four players in the big
leagues who were star football players
when at college and before they broke
into professional baseball. They are
Chrsty Mathewson of the New York
Nationals. who was fullback at Bucknell;
Overall. the Cincinnati pitcher, who was
a guard at the University of California;
Dave Fultz of the New York Americans,
who was a halfback at Brown, and Jake
Stahl of the WashingtOns, who was q
halfback at the University Of Illinois.
Mike Schreck is one of those who are
after Hart for go. and the two may
come together in the fall. 1t does not
look like good match for Schreck. Al
Hart has at least 80 pounds advantage
in weight, and this fact alone indicates
him as a winner over Schreck.
Gus Rubin has aspirations for the
heavyweight championship. He is to
meet Jim Mccormick in San Francisco.
and will then go after Marvin Hart.
Hart has no more claim to the cham
pionship than 1 have" says Gus. LET
him beat me first and thsa he can Do
come talking"
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-07-27
Humorous News Notes.

Mr.. Taft to Mr.. LOOMS: Not guilty;
but don't do it again"
The bird of peace is very liable to get
shot if it tries to land in Manchuria.
When Philadelphia does get after the
grafters, she doesn't carry a fan, but a
club
Senator Mitchell was unable to weep
q favorable verdict out of that Oregon
jury.
The Gar needs a man about Secre-
tary Taft's size to sit on the lid in Po-
land.
Look out for an execution order abol-
ishing yellow fever on the Isthmus of
Panama.
Up to the present time neither Sweden
nor Norway has threatened to build a
spite fence.
Emperor Nicholas is in need of peace
Observation-Disclosures nearer home than is
Washington.
The red flag on the Black sea is a
natural sequence to the white flag on
the Yellow sea.
Secretary Shaw talks about the $685..
+ 600 600 deficit as if almost any man owed
that amount Of money.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-07-27
In WESTERN CANADA.
WHERE MILLIONS OF FARMERS
MAY FIND HOMES
-Four Territories With Sparse Popula-
ton Have Become Two Provinces with
Ha1f-a- Million PeopIe-Best Agricul-
tural Country on Earth.

When In 1869 the Canadian govern
ment paid $500, 600 for the extinguish-
ment of the Hudsons Bay Company's
title to the whole of Western Canada,
embracing an area of we'll on to 2,OOO,-
600 square miles of land, that ulti-
mately will be used in the different lines
OF agriculture, there were wiseacres at
home as well as abroad who declared it
to be bad bargain. When again, in
the early seventies the government be-
gan the effort to build the Canadian
Pacific railway from ocean to ocean to
open up this country, some of the ablest
men inside as we'll as outside declared
the road would never pay, not because
they were not anxious to see the Domin-
Ion grow and expand, but because they
had no knowledge of what nature had
done for the great West. They believed
at best that the soil was not good and
even il good, the latitude of the coun-
try precluded the possibility of anything
like moderately successful agriculture;
but it has remained for time, but a short
period at that, to do the country justice.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-07-27
SWEPT BY HOT WAVE.
WHOLE COUNTRY SWELTERS IN
EXCESSIVE HEAT.
Thermometer Makes High Records in
Many Cities and Deaths and Pros
trations Are the ResuIt-Much Suf-
ferinS in Crowded Centers.

Chicago gasped and suffered as she
tense heat of Tuesday. There was
higher temperature, greater general
distress, more deaths, more prOstra-
tons than on any day during the re-
cent scOrching wave, while the Their
mometer stood at 50 degrees for two
hours, a higher point than has been
reached since 1901. Eight dead and
over forty prOstrations was Chicag COS
toll to the burning sun for the one
day, while almost 100 lives and nearly
100 prostrations was the total tax lev
led on the people of the country.
From almost every city between the
Rockies and the Atlantic coast rose the
same cry for relief, as the pitiless sun
smOte down on streets and pavementS.
In every large city there were numbers
Of deaths and prostrations Philadel-
phia was the hottest place in the coun-
try, with a mark Of 90 degrees, while
New York City was but two points
lower. Chicago was the sixth hottest
place in the United States, being eX-
ceeded in temperature only by Phila-
delpha, New York, Albany, Concordia
and Washington, ID. G..
The official thermometers located in
exposed places above the street did not,
however, indicate the temperature in
which the ordinary mortal moved and
many street thermometers in Philadel-
phia and New York indicated tenn
perature of 100 or higher, some relia-
BILE instruments registering 1O4 and
1O5.
Following is the record made by the
thermometer in various cities:
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-07-27
CROP OUTLOOK PROMISING.
Favorable Temperatures Have Prevail.
ed and Corn Makes Fine Propress.


The weekly bulletin of the weather
bureau summarizes crop conditions as
follows:
Favorable temperatures prevailed dur
ing the week ended July II throughout
the country. Heavy rains interfered with
work in the Ohio valley and over large
part of the South Atlantic and east Gulf
States, but a very general absence of
rain in the west gulf district, with only
light showers over much of the Mis-
souri, and upper Mississippi valleys, at
forded favorable opportunity for much
needed cultivation. Rains would be of
great benefit in the southern plateau re-
giOn.
Corn has made splendid progress
throughout nearly the whole of the corn
belt, and is decidedly improved in the
States of the Missouri valley. where its
previous progress had been retarded by
cool weather. While the general outlook
for this crop is very promising, it has
sustained some injury on low land in
Missouri and in portions of the South
Atlantic and east gulf States, and is not
in good state of cultivation in portions
of the Ohio valley.
Further reports of injury to harvested
winter wheat are received from the CEN
trail Mississippi and Ohio valleys, the
middle Atlantic States, Texas and Okla
hOma and Indian territories, but no COM
paints Of the character are received from
Kansas and Nebraska, both quality and
yield in the last named State being bet
ter than was expected. Harvesting.
rhnp i'll -, 81, IL,
districts, is well advanced.
Spring wheat has experienced a week
of favorable weather, and continues in
promising condition. While rust is still
prevalent in the Dakotas and to some
extent in Minnesota, it is not increasing
in the first named States, and there is
very little in Minnesota. Spring wheat
is filling nicely on the north Pacific coast,
where the hot winds of the previous
week caused but slight injury. Rust is
increasing in Washington.
In the central Mississippi and Ohio
valleys and in portions of the middle At
lantic States oat harvest has been in
terrupted, and considerable damage to
both harvested and standing oats has re-
suited from wet weather. Harvesting is
largely finished, except in the more north
erly districts, where good yields are
promised.
In Illinois some wheat and oats in
shock and stack has been damaSe by
rains, and harvesting and thrashing has
been hindered. Oats, rye and barley are
ripe in the north. and some has been cut.
Corn is in splendid condition, the early
planted tasseling in the northern and
shooting in the central part. Much hay
has been damaged by rain. Grapes are
promising; berries plentiful; apples scarce
and dropping. Early potatoes promise a
light yield. The late planted are grow
ing rapidly.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-07-27
Midsummer influences
still govern general trade
and industry. but better
| New York.

weather and crop reports make for
quite optimistic trade reports in the
surplus cereal producing sections of
the West. Very Favorable reports
as to fall trade orders come from
nearly all points west of the Ale
ghenies, north Of the Ohio river, and
thence westward to the Pacific
Large, though except in few cases
not record breaking, crop yields now
appear reasonably assured in that en-
tire region, and there is general
agreement that fall business already
booked exceeds that Of a year ago at
this date. Less assurance is found in
the reports from the western half of
the South, where it is feared serious
damage has been done by incessant
rains to cotton, wheat, and other
crops.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending July IS
number 166, against 127 last week,
203 in the like week of 1904, 173 in
1908. ia in 1902. and 20S in 1901
Brasstreet'S Commercial Report.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-07-27

country. When, however, timber il not
available. an excellent quality of coal
is always on hand. As early as 1887
some $4,000 tons were mined, and this
was increased to 5000 tons in 1900,
which amount has been growing annual
ly. Although mining is but in its in
fancy, enough coal has already been To-
Gated to do the whole of Canada for
centuries.
Wheat.
To turn again to the great staple Of
the country, wheat, we may remark that
year in and year ont, the entire cost Of
production to the farmer, even if he
hires everything done from the ploughinr
to the delivery at the market, is set
down by a number of calculators at
$3.50 per acre. As the average crop Of
the country, year in and year out, is 20
bushels to the acre and the average price
80 cents. or S12 per acre, the profit to
the farmer is $3.50 per acre. If he
does his work himself he. Of course,
earns wages in addition to this profit.
These figures are very conservative.
The farmers who are living on small
overcrowded farms in other countries,
or even land they can sell for $50, $40
or $50 an acre. should bear in mind 100
acres Of better producing land, where
climate, educational facilities and ey-
erything else necessary for the farmers
welfare. can be procured in Western
Canada free of charge. Settlers are now
locating at the rate of 10000 a year
from all parts of the world. The testi-
monies of these settlers. which can Be
got from any Of them for the asking, are
all the recommend the country requires
to place it in a very few years in the
front rank of the populous nations Of
the gloae. 1t is already as prosperous al
any and the success Of those who have
ventured and won is all the assurance
that is necessary for the prosperity anA
development Of the future.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-07-27
UEEE lxkAsgH1E%{ERS
sss:;zsss!5sIM AHSl1- @.
sH. 5000
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $5.T5; hogs, prime heavy.
$500 to $61O; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $525; wheat, No. =. SIC to SSc;
corn, No. 2, 56c to SIC; oats, standard,
Soc to 32c; rye, No. 2, G9c to roc; hay.
timothy, $3.50 to $500; prairie, $500 to
$11.OO; butter, choice creamery, 1Sc to
zoe; eggs, fresh, 12c to 13c; potatoes,
new, per bushel, soc to 41c.
Indianapolis-Cat shipping, $500 to
1915; hogs, choice heavy. S4.00 to $500;
sheep, common to prime, $3.50 to $500;
wheat, No. >, SEC to Sc; corn. No. :
white. soc to 56c; oats. No. . white,
BE to 34c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $3.50; hogs.
$500 to $500; sheep, $4.00 to $5.15;
wheat, No. ., SIC to SEC; corn, No. ,,
53c to soc; oats. No. 2, SOC to BIC. rye,
No. =, zoe to re.
Cincinnati-Cattle. $4.00 to $500:
hogs, $4.0O to 500; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. =, 94c to 96c; corn.
No. mixed. 57c to SOC; oats, No. 2
mixed, SIC to 33c; rye, No ,, Toe to
Soc.
Detroit-Cattle, $3.50 to $500; hogs.
$500 to $500: sheep. $3.50 to $500;
wheat, No. ,, SOC to 90c; corn. No. 3
yellow, 5sc to SOC; oats. No. ) white,
SIC to SIC; rye, No. ., TIC to 79c
Milwaukee-Wheat. No. 2 northern.
S1.O5 to $1.OS; corn, No. 3, DOC to SIC;
oats. No. 2 white, 33c to Sic; rye, No. 1,
76c to tic; barley, No. ., Sic to sc;
pork, mess, S12.77.
Toledo-Wheat, No. . mixed, 9Oc to
95c; corn, No. , mixed, 4Sc to SOC;
oats, No. 2 mixed, 30c to &c; rye, No. =,
74c to 76c; clover seed, prime, $40.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers.
$500 to $500; hogs. fair to choice, $500
to S6.1O; sheep. common to good mixed.
$500 to S5.23; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $500.
New York-Cattle. $500 to $3.50;
hogs, $500 to 5000; sheep, $500 to
S4.75; wheat, No. = red, 93c to 94c;
corn. No. ., Gle to &c; oats, natural,
white, SIC to Csc; butter, creamery, 1Sc
to zoe; eggs, western, 15c to 1Sc.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-07-27


chicago. progression and has de-
rived added strength
from the latest government report, in
d1cating large crops. The distribution
of commodities maintained exceptional
volume. Forwarding has been very
heavy in iron and steel products,
steady in general merchandise, and
close upon 100000 bushels of grain
against S,211, Dds bushels last week
Railroad traffic almost equals the
greatest aggregate throughout the
West, and will be heavier with in
creasing deliveries of farm products
The markets for cereals, provisions,
hides, wool, and leather exhibit fur.
ther activity.
Retail dealings improved in season
able lines, stocks undergo satisfactory
reduction, and current business in
wholesale branches makes Roadway.
Interior advices reflect gratifying
agricultural conditions, liberal absorp-
ton of supplies, and mercantile col.
lections good. - Dun's Review OF
Trade.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-07-27

The suffering was intense among
workers in mills and factories and in
the great plants of South Chicago,
while the jewellers in the ghetto and
the tenement districts also underwent
severe suffering. The cumulative eff
feet of three days Of intense heat Was
generally felt, and men, women and
children were less able to withstand
the weather than on the first day.
Many in the crowded tenement dis
tricts slept on the payements or on
door steps. while thousands Of others
sought the roofs Of buildings in the
hope of obtaining some cooling wind.
The last day which exceeded the
maximum of Tuesday was July u,
1901, when 103 degrees was recorded.
This is the heat record of the Chicago
weather bureau since 1871, the first
year shown in the books. In July,
1897, the mercury climbed to 100 de-
grees, and that is the next hottest day
in weather bureau annals.
Last year the hottest day was July
II, with mark of 81 degrees, while
in 1903 the record was 90 and in 1902
it was 81 degrees. The record of Tues
day has been exceeded eleven times
since 1871, but seldom by more than
one or two degrees.
Wednesday the crest of the hot
peratures in the West and Northwest
having moderated slightly. New York
reported that an area of oppressive
heat, which recalls the record breaking
summer of 1901, had settled down over
the eastern and New England States,
already having claimed hundreds Of
victims and causing intense suffering
to thousands From all points ada
cent to New York came the same story
Of the hottest day of the summer.
The suffering in New York was par
ticularly great in the tenement dis
tricts, where scarcely breath of air
relieved the sitting atmosphere. ThoI-
sands who could afford it fiOcked to the
beaches, but in the crowds that ensued
women and children tainted and men
were overcome, making the trip from
home a doubtful experiment as far as
obtaining any comfort was concerned.
To add to the misery Brooklyn was
threatened with a water famine, w lille
the whole city was startled by the
prospect of strike of the ice men.
In Boston the thermometer shot up
suddenly in the early afternoon. Re-
parts received at the Hub showed that
the southern part of New England was
the hottest part Of the adjacent coun-
try. At Newport, Il. l., drill at the
forts and on the warships in the har
Dor, as we'll as all work which took
laborers into the glare of the sun, was
suspended at noon.
In Pittsburg the temperature was 81
on the pavement, as it was at Allie
gheny City In the latter town coal
| wagons temporarily abandoned the
coal business and peddled ice from
door to door.
From all points in the country, both
in the East and in the middle West,
came the same kind of reports, suffer
ing, prostratio and deaths being fire.
quent From points throughout Illi-
nois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan
came news of the hottest day of the
summer.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-07-27

shall attack the
task and stick to it.
For the rest. God
knows" said John
f. Stevens. chief
engineer of the Pan
anna canal, the 9TH
er day.
Il have taken
this position with
the canal commits
sion fully realizing
the magnitude of
the task before me.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-07-27

Roscoe E. Harris, aged 16, only son
of Judge Ira Harris, former Mayor Of
Colorado Springs, was shot in the heart
by a chum. Matthew DALEY, aged Is.
Death ensued within a few minutes.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-07-27

IL ID a Di5 JoD, DuI
1 expect to pull through. There will be
no failure through lack of determina-
ton anyway.
"When l get to the isthmus | will
start right in. There won't be any time
wasted in preliminaries.
'There is little that 1 can say about
the plans for pushing the work on the
canal. l have not formulated them ex-
cept that l have always in mind to keep
things going.
Il expect to make Panama my home
until the canal is completed. That is
the scene of operations. and that is where
l shall be-"
President Roosevelt has authorized the
announcement that he has appointed
Charles E. Magoon of Nebraska as
United States minister at Panama. Mr..
Magoon is at present governor of the
canal zone in Panama and member of
the executive committee Of .he isthmian
canal commission.
Later information is that Gilbert John
son lost his life at Thomas Lawson's
Mexican mine in trying to prevent a
drunken miner, Jesus ROcha, from stab
bling Arnold Lawson, son of the Boston
millionaire.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-07-27
HIS MOTTO: "STICK AND Do
Panama Engineer Talks with Deter
rnination of His New Duties.

'Whatever human beings can do for
the building Of the Panama canal shall
be done To the best of my lights 1
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-07-27
tell q tale Of Advancement more ole.
Qusntly than can be given in words:

This does not include the great grain
growing province of Manitoba.
A there is at least Is per cent more
land under crop this year (Q905) on &C
count of the favorable spring for seed
ing. than there was last year, the crops
will doubtless reach these figures:
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-07-27
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Chicago.

Trade exhibits an even
1uU. progression and has de-
rived added strength
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-01-26
ENGLISH CRIMINAL LAW.
The Difference Between Hard Labor
and Penal Serxitudc.

The difference Between Hard Labor
and Penal Servitude.
The difference in Great Britain be-
tween hard labor and penal servitude
is one of period and treatment. Hard
labor varies as to period from q few
days to two years, and however we'll a
prisoner behaves himself the sentence
is never shortened. There are two
classes Of hard labor.
In the first class the punishment ad-
ministered consists of six to ten hours
work at the treadmill, the crank or the
capstan, or at stonebreaking or shot
drill. In the second class the hard la
Dor really consists Of such punishments
as may be decided by the justices in
session
Penal servitude is the modern sub
stitute for transportation beyond the
seas.
A term of penal servitude begins
with nine months hard labor in a
probationary prison, and after that the
convict is employed on public works
In penal settlement. The work is
comparatively light, and in most pris
ons we'll behaved man gets of pretty
easily. In addition to this, by virtue
OF system Of marks for good be-
havior, he has always before him the
possibility Of reducing his sentence by
at most about one year in five.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-01-26

redolence that savored of the ocean
and great winds
One day as he saw her handling a
huge water barrel by the chimes only
with strength he knew to be greater
than his own, her brows contracted
with the effort, her hair curling about
her thick neck, her large, round arms
bare to the elbow, a sudden thrill Of
enthusiasm smote through him, and
between his teeth he exclaimed to him
self:
by Jove, you're a woman
The Bertha Millner continued to the
southwark, gliding quietly over the
oil smoothness of the ocean under airs
50 light rs hardly to ruffle the surface.
Sometimes at high noon the simmer
of the ocean floor blended into the
simmer of the sky at the horizon, and
then it was no longer water and blue
heavens The little craft seemed to be
poised in 4 vast crystalline sphere
where there was neither height nor
depth-poised motionless in warm,
coruscating, opalescent space, alone
with the sun.
At length one morning the schooner,
which for the preceding twenty-four
hours had been heading eastward, rails
ed the land and by the middle of the
afternoon had come up to within a
mile of low, sandy shore. quiyerinc
with heat, and had tied up to the kelp
In Magdalena bay.
Charlio ,,ov1y %oo1- o,-o,,
Of operations. For two days previous
the Chinese hands had been getting
out the deck tubs, tackles, gaffs, spades
and the other shark fishing gear that
had been slowed forward. The sails
We're lowered and gasketed, the decks
cleared Of all impedimenta, hogsheads
and huge watts stood ready in the waist,
and the lazy Incidence of the previous
week was replaced by an extraordina-
ry activity.
The day after their arrival in the bay
was occupied by all hands in catching
bait. This bait was a kind of rockfsh
of a beautiful red gold color and about
the size OF an ordinary cod They bit
readily enough, but out of every ten
hooked three were taken off the lines
by the sharks before they could be
brought aboard. Another difficulty lay
in the fact that, either because of the
excessive heat in the air or the per-
centage of alkali in the water, they
spoiled almost Immediately if left in
the air.
Turtle were everywhere - floating
gray green disks just under the sur
face. Sea birds in clouds clamored all
day long about the shore and sand pits.
At long intervals flying fish skittered
over the water like skipping stones.
Shoals Of porpoises came in from out