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Amador ledger., 1906-05-04

necessary to develop high speed, or
the greater bunker capacity essential
to wider steaming radius. They point
out that in the Dreadnaught it was at
tempted to preserve two of these
factors, gun power and speed, but that
to do so it was necessary to sacrifice
the armor protection, which they be-
lieve such battleship should have.
No Limit to Cost.
No sacrifice in armament, speed, or
steaming radius will have to be made
in designing the new Constitution.
The only limitation placed upon the
Secretary of the Navy by the Naval
Affairs Committee is that her hull and
machinery shall not cost more than
Sc, 100000. The provision for the bat
tleships Michigan and South Carolina,
now the largest ships building for the
navy, was $4,000,0OO each, and there
is no doubt in the minds of the men,
bers Of the committee that if the
Secretary decides to go to 10000 tons
or beyond, the extra 100000 now
provided will easily accomplish it.
1t is estimated that the armor and
armament for the ship will cost some
where in the neighborhood of $780,
600 in addition to the hull and ma
chinery, and that other fittings will
bring the total for the new Constitu-
ton up approximately to $10,OOO0OO.
The Dreadnaught is planned to
carry ten 12-inch rifles. The Michi-
gan and South Carolina are to carry
eight 12-inch guns. The Dreadnaught
will be able to concentrate six guns
for bow or stern fire, with eight OH
either broadside, while the American
ships can use four guns dead ahead OF
dead astern, and sall eight ahead OF
astern on a quartering fire, with all
eight on either broadside. So that in
point of fire they are nearly as eff
ficient as the Dreadnaught, which ex-
GELS materially only in the single
point of speed. To counterbalance
shis the American ships have the de-
cided advantage in armor protection.
The Advantage of Guns.
The Constitution will have as high
speed as the Dreadnaught, and the
louble advantage over the British
ship of greater gun power and more
complete armOr protection. She will
be more able to inflict blows and bet
ter able to withstand them. She will
carry twelve Pinch rifles, so ar
ranged that she can concentrate eight
of them in firing dead ahead or dead
astern, or off the bow or quarter, and
ten on either broadside.
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Provisions for Ship,

This provision for the new America
sea fighter is in line with the desire
of the President and the earnest re-
commendation of Admiral Dewey,
who recently appeared before the
Naval Committee of the House AMI
gave a spirited talk in support of his
views as to the necessity of con-
structing larger and more powerful
battleships for the American Navy
at the time the naval estimates were
made up last fall, Secretary Bonaparte
was opposed to any such increase, but
he has since come around to the side
of the President, and is now heartily
in favor of the committee proposition.
The naval experts in Washington
have long been convinced that the
16,000-ton battle ships Michigan and
South Carolina, authorized by the last
Congress, represent the limit of posi-
bility on displacement not decidedly
greater. To go beyond, in any ap-
preciable degree, the fighting efficiency
of such ships, it will be necessary to
have not only more powerful arma-
ment, but higher speed and greater
steaming radius, to gain which there
must be heavier and more powerful
machinery and greater coal-carrying
capacity.
The displacement of the Dread
naught is but 1000 tons greater than
that of the Michigan or the South
Carolina. Naval construction ex-
Amador ledger., 1906-05-04
OXEN OFTEN To BRING TREES DOWN FROM 1He HILLS

northern Maine has increased the
value of timber lands over $50 per
cent and timber which before was too
remote has become available for mar
keting purposes.
Capital from Canada.
It is to be regretted perhaps from
an American standpoint that large
part of the capital employed in devel-
oping this new old state has been
furnished by Canadian capitalists
rather than by New Englanders them
selves.
The farming possibilities of Maine
are almost as great as the water pow
er and timber business offer, as it has
been demonstrated that the soil and
climate are particularly adapted to
the raising of potatoes on a large
scale; over 10000 bushels having been
shipped to various parts of the coun-
try in 1904.
The railroad officials realized from
the start tb =. in order to settle and
build up untry through which
their brancl. ran the freight rates
must be low enough to enable manu-
facturers to compete with more &C
eessible factories, and have borne this
Continued on Nest Page, ~Ie.o
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Magazine Section.
EDUCATION FOR INDIANS.
tsMOTHER KATHERINE'' DREXEL
SPENDS MILLIONS IN THIS
WORK.

Has Founded Many Schools, Employ
ing Indians to Build Them.-Only
EuIl-bIood Indian Catholic Priest in
the World.
Many thousands Of Indian children
in Oklahoma and Indian Territory
have been educated by means Of the
''Drexel Millions" a large portion of
which has for years been devoted to
the cause of Indian education by
Mother Katherine. formerly Miss Kate
Drexel, of Philadelphia, sister of John
H. Drexel, banker and sugar magnate,
and closely related to the others of the
same name who have made it famous
in the world of finance. 1t was
Mother Katherine who started the In
dian school at Chilocco, which has
now been taken in charge by the
government, and made the principal
Indian training school of the South
west. The two schools at Pawhuska
in Pottowatomie county. are also mon
uments of her bounty.
She keeps in close touch with her
work, and visits the Oklahoma schools
in which she is interested at least once
year. She is usually accompanied
by her sister, who is also deeply in
Amador ledger., 1906-05-04
BERNHARDT OUTFITS TRUST.
Denied PIayhouses by Theatre Com.
bine, She Plays to Vast Audience
in Tent

Nine. Sarah Bernhardt, the cele-
brated actress has entered the arena
as a trust buster" When she made
preparations for bookings in Texas,
she found the playhouses of the state
closed to her on account of her re-
fusal to appear under the patronage
of the theatre syndicate. In Texas,
therefore, she was compelled to appear
in a tent. A week or two ago, novel
method of producing a play was in
augurated at Dallas. when Sarah
played Camille" in a big circus tent,
with an audience of 5000 persons.
During the performance fully 10000
persons crowded around the tent and
would have paid to get in if it had
been big enough. AS it was the tent
only seated 1920 and 800 had to stand
or sit on the ground. 1t was the most
novel wild west show ever seen. The
tent was a huge affair, and from the
outside looked big enough to house a
three-ringed circus.
The novelty of playing in a circus
tent appealed to the actress and she
gave her Interpretation of the char
acter of Camille" as naturally, as
cleverly, and with as much force and
power as if confronted by an audience
of New Workers or Parisians in the
most modern of theatres. The thou
sands who greeted Nine Bernhardt at
Dallas desired as much to show their
Endorsement of her fight against the
trust as to be entertained by her
matchless talent as an actress.
/ Nine. Bernhardt made Arrangement.
to appear in the tent at Waco
and Austin, Texas, and Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma Territory. In other
Texas cities ON her itinerary large
halls were secured and specially equipped
for the performance.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-04
LARGEST BATTLESHlP.
TEN MILLION DOLLARS FOR THE
CONSTRUCTION OF GIGANTIC
ssCONSTITUTION."

More Destructive and Terrible than
the new Floating Giant, the English
''Dreadnaught''-O Constitution
to be Saved.
One hundred thousand dollars for
the preservation of the old frigate
Constitution, and $10,000,000 for the
construction of huge new battleship
of the same name are two provisions
to be included in the naval appropria-
ton bill.
The new Constitution is to be the
most powerful ship of war atloat. She
will excel the British Dreadnaught
recently launched by King Edward by
as much as the Dreadnaught will ex-
eel anything afloat when she is com
pleted. Her authorization may be
said to be directly the result Of Togo's
victory in the Sea of Japan. 1t was
the British naval attache on board
Togo's flagship who hurried home
after that battle and warned the Ad-
miralty of the needs of the British
navy, and this brought about the con-
struction of the Dreadnaught. Now
we are to follow and eclipse the Brit
ish naval wonder.
The Navy Department has secured
full information concerning the plans
of the Dreadnaught, and the arrange
ment of her powerful armament, so
that it is known exactly what umst be
done to beat her.
In order that the department may
not be L lmpered in any way in deter
mining upon the plans of the new Con
stitution the forthcoming bill will pro-
vide that the Secretary of the Navy
may use the contingent fund to secure
from ship-builders the
world over, if he so desires, before
finally accepting the design Of the ten
pacifier.
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been made, as nature has done so
much and man so little.
More than 1000 square miles, or
2, 100000 acres, of land still remain
ployed and unimproved, waiting
for capital and brains to make it yield
large returns. The resources are al
most beyond limit or belief.
Thousands of Lakes and Rivers.
In this state alone there are over
five thousand rivers and streams with
more than fifteen hundred lakes as
reservoirs, to furnish power for in
Vulnerable manufacturing plants.
Besides natural water power, Maine
is rich in timber, which in this age
is a most valuable asset.
The timber lands of northern Maine
can, with judicious management, be
made to yield for generation after
generation and supply vast amount
of lumber and wood pulp. The larg-
est paper mill in the world, is located
at Millinocket on a small branch of
the Penobscot River where drop OF
one hundred and fifty feet furnishes
5000 horsepower. From this mill
is turned out each day between 160
and $50 tons of newspaper, made from
wood pulp.
1t is commonly supposed that paper
making from wood-pulp is one of
the greatest menaces to our forests,
but exactly the opposite is the case,
where the forests are handled intelli-
gently.
The modern policies adopted by
many paper makers in regard to per-
petuating the forests are doing much
for the cause of forestry.
One Maine company has secured the
ownership of 100000 acres of forest
Amador ledger., 1906-05-04

prevent smoke by chilling the vapors.
The limits in the construction of such
furnace are easily seen. When the
wick is raised little the combustion
is greater than the capacity of the
furnace, and smoke results. When the
chimney is raised from the bottom too
much cold air enters, the fire is chilled,
and again we have smoke.
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known being the Nazareth Institute al
MuskOgee, which was founded in 1891.
1t was beset by many difficulties dur
ing it's earlier years, but survived them
all and is now flouriShing institution.
The institutions which have pros
pered the most, and in which Mother
Katherine has taken the greater inter-
est, are, however, naturally these
among the tribes which were already
under the influence of Catholic teach
ings, the Osages and the Potta-
watomies. The Osages had of course
been instructed in the Catholic faith,
before their removal from Southern
Kansas, by the fathers at the old
Usage missions, now st. Paul, first un-
der the directions of the venerable
Father Schumacher, and later under
Father Paul Ponziglione, a near rela-
tive of the royal family of Italy, who
made many journeys among the
Osages after their removal to the terri
tory. Father Scroll. of independence,
Kan, also used occasionally to follow
the trails through what is now Okla
homa as far west as Fort Sill.
The beginning of the work among
the Pottawatomies was also made as
far back as 1871. when Father Robot,
a French missionary, offered his SER
vices to the bishop of Little Rock, who
then had Jurisdiction over this terri
tory, and struck out into the Indian
country. He settled first at Atoke, but
in 1874 moved to Sacred Heart, found
ing the famous abbey of the Benedic-
tines there, which is the only mon
Amador ledger., 1906-05-04
MOTHER KATHERINE" DRExEL.

derested in the work, and who heart
ally approves it, in common with the
other members of the family. All of
Che millions she has expended for In
1lian education have been employed
a1nder direction of the Interior Depart
ment, as her long study of the Indian
Droblem is recognized to have made
1ler one of the best authorities on the
subject in the country.
Planned the Buildings Personally.
The st. Louis and st. John schools
at Pawhuska, both founded by Mother
katherine number of years ago, are
good examples of the work she is do
ing for the education of the Indians.
Both have handsome and commodiouS
buildings, planned personally by
Mother Katherine, and have given
hundreds of Usage children their first
knowledge of the white mans learning.
Many of the teachers are themselves
Indians, graduates of these or similar
schools, who have entered with en-
thusiasm into the education of their
fellow tribesmen. The Usage schools
receive some assistance from the gov
ernment, and their scope is greatly
widened by the orders now in effect
from the agents office that every
Usage child of school age must be in
school in order to draw its share at
the annuity payments.
Used Indian Labor.
While Mother Katherine's benefac-
tions have always been liberal, it is
her plan to let the Indians do the work
whenever possible, in the construction
of buildings and work of a similar
character. When the Sacred Heart
school burned five years ago, and was
rebuilt Pottawatomie and Kickapoo
Indians made the brick for the new
structure, and did much of the work
towards it's construction, working, of
course, under the direction of white
contractor. Much of the maintenance
of this school, which is claimed to be
the Oldest west of the Mississippi river,
is borne by Mother katherine, and it
was by her visits to this school that
she discovered Albert Negahnquet, the
fullblood Pottawatomie boy educated
by her, and who is now the only full
blood Indian Catholic priest in the
world. After his graduation at Sacred
Heart, she paid his expenses through
Carlisle and the Catholic university at
Washington, finally finishing his edu-
cation at Rome, from whence he re-
turned only two years ago, to take UP
his work among his own people
Is Founder of Several Schools.
A number of schools of the same
sort have been founded and maintained
By Mother Katherine, probably the best
Amador ledger., 1906-05-04

lands and placed the cutting of all
timber under the direction of the
Government Forestry Bureau. A
Maine woods and a close study made
of the trees growing on each acre
of this company's holdings. A plan
was agreed upon which assures a per-
petual supply of timber No tree un-
der nine inches in diameter is to be
cut At the end of sixteen years the
spruce growth will have renewed it.
self again and under this plan the en-
tire three hundred thousand acres
may be cut over every sixteen years.
At Rumford Falls on the Andres
coggin in western Maine about 54,-
900 horse power is now utilized, and a
recent state report says that $4,000 ad-
ditional horse power is available
from this stream alone.
Beyond doubt the railroads of
Maine are responsible for the open
ing and developn vt of the upper half
of this state, as = years ago only
thirty or forty mics of railway were
built north of the centre and manu-
featuring or farming was almost un-
known above this point.
Capitalists at last realized what a
vast amount of valuable territory
was being ignored, and built branch
there are nearly 500 miles of tracks
connecting thriving cities and villages
which have sprung up in the wake of
the steel bands.
The advent OF the railroad in
Amador ledger., 1906-05-04
OLD MAINE NOW YOUNG.
PAPER MAKING HAS DONE MUCH
TO DEVELOP OLD NEW ENG
LAND STATE.

Intelligent Forestry uiMPerpetuate
The Maine Woods and Furnish Pulp
for Paper-Making to Future
Generations.
When one stops to think of the
tremendous and almost magic growth
of the distant West it seems strange
that such an old state as Maine is still
largely unknown and unsettled.
Almost Immediately after the Revo-
lutionary War the settlement of
Maine began by inhabitants of other
parts of New England and its growth
has been steady and sure, with the
exception of the years of, and imme-
diately following the Civil War. TIE
population, however, has been almost
entirely confined to the lower half of
the state and only very recently have
the immense possibilities and re-
sources of the northern half been re-
allied.
1t is estimated that at least 30O,-
600 natives of Maine are scattered
throughout the other parts of the
country at the present time. Had
this vast army remained to devel-
op their native state it IS impossible
to realize tbs change that would have
Amador ledger., 1906-05-04
Chewing Gum rs. Missions.

The twenty-seventh annual meeting
of the Women's Foreign Missionary
Society of the Presbytery of Washing
ton, held recently, disclosed the fact
that three and a half million dollars
year more is spent for chewing gum
than for foreign missions. In other
words $11,000,000 is spent for gum
and only $7,500,000 for missions.
Carefully compiled data show that
$17S,000,0Q0 a year goes for candy,
$700,000,000 for jewels, and tobacco
and millinery go away up into the
millions, tobacco considerably in the
lead.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-04
Is Founder of Several Schools.

A number of schools of the same
sort have been founded and maintained
By Mother Katherine, probably the best
Amador ledger., 1906-05-04

,stery in the United States governed
directly from France. Its first abbot
was Father Felix DeGrasse, lineal
descendent of the famous French ad-
miral. Upon his death two years ago
he was succeeded by Father Murphy,
a native of Savannah. Ga, and the
first man of American birth to join
the brotherhood at Sacred Heart.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-04
The Kerosene Lamp.

The ordinary kerosene lamp is the
best Illustration of the highest type of
combustion furnace. The hot gases
passing up through the narrow throat
of the chimney draw the colder air
through the hot wire gauze at the
bottom and bring it near a tempera-
ture which will feed combustion and
Amador ledger., 1906-05-04
Hopeless Ignorance.

Flynn-"Oi tell yez they's no use
thrryin' to iddica-ate thin Choinese. %
Mulhooley-"An' phwy's thot?"
Flynn-"Oi jist asked wan ov thin
the Choinese wur-rud for st. Patrick s
day, an bedad, he couldn't tell me"
Amador ledger., 1906-05-04

perts say that an addition of 1000 tons
to the displacement of the American
ships is insufficient to accomplish all
three of the factors necessary to ma
terially improve upon them, and the
increase would be entirely consumed
by the provision for any one of these
factors. The extra guns would take
it all, as would the extra machinery
New-York tribune., 1906-12-15
PETERS FL4YS BELMONT.
Alderman Calls Him lfRdrchist 1cith
RuQn and Rradu

August Belmont and his fellow traction mon
archs received castigation from Alderman
Henry CLAY Peters yesterday in a speech before
the Committee on Railroads Of the Board OF
Aldermen He was defending Alderman Mey-
erss resolution making ten miles an hour proper
speed In every borough. Oren Root, jr.. of the
New York city Railway Company was present.
ana, looking Al him, Alderman Peters cried out:
DO YOU know who the anarchists Of this coun-
ry are the three greatest anarchists" They
are August Belmont, Tom Ryan and An
thony II. Brady. They the three mon who
are worse anarchists than any of the real anar-
cnlsts IN name ] ever knew or heard OF.
These capitalists are better treated than peo-
fie who earn their living. These mems repre-
sentstives come here as the companys repre-
sentative has to-day, and even the aldermen
treat them better than the others The COM
psnys representative to-day IS already granted
py The committee the opportunity 10 speak after
~ the rest have finished.
Some Brooklyn citizens opposed the measure.
y WAS argued by friends Of the resolution that
Increased speed would promote the use OF more
cars and relieve present congestion.
New-York tribune., 1906-12-15
T. F. NUGENT FOUND GUILTY.

Frederick Z. Nugont, Il lawyer Of No 16 Lin
coin Place. Brooklyn, was convicted yesterday
Of grand larceny by jury before Judge Cow
ing in General Sessions. Nugent was remanded
to the Tombs 10 await sentence. The complain
ant was Percy Vanderwater. of Cedarhurst
Long Island, who testified that Nugcnt swindled
him out OF $1,000
Augent was arrested in his Office on March
- by a detective from the District Attornoy's
panies. including the Gotham Safe Denosir Com
pany. the Van Courtandt Bank and the Eouta-
bic Title Guarantee Company. on February ,
he was elected from his Office at No. IS7 Green
Wich street on the complaint Of Constantine W
Schied. who said that Nugent was not only far
IN arrears in his rent but owed him SO 400
New-York tribune., 1906-12-15
CH4RGE AGAINST BUTLER.
La7cuer JTamts Tenement House
Commissioner RcmCrcd.
SJrd Sfreef.

, C,,.r1os y,-aecbIer a lawyer OF No 2S3 Broad
- ia ,,ete~,la,. that he intended 10 maze
formal anDlication 70 Mayor Mcclellan on hoil's
cor t,,a removal Of Edmund J. But4er' lelei''
House Commissioner. Mr.. Weschler Sald 'i"' n
NO, octinr i'm behalf Of several clients "h' d.
builders The application specifies htteH tlo'',oH
g -, ~ ,,,o,aI of Commissioner Butler "hlSh III
clud. charges Of not attending 10 'ile -,
commissioner OF dclegating these duties Almost en-
-. >, ,,ne, deurtv commissioners ana appear
,,,, a., his of1ce only two days each week oi be'ls
over-dscriminating in issuing permits anu u ~
forcing his rules against some buiiders ana "d-'-
Ing them against others.
Mr. Weschier said yesterday that lie repre-
some thirty builders. and gave the fifteen spetli'
charges that lie intended to make In his appIca-
ton as well as several instances showing he Al
leqed that discrimination had been shown IL Inc
.,rantiEg Of building permits. lie said:
.,u present charges, and viii prove them, too.
The Commissioner, Mr. Butler Is almost lnV!sble
and his deputy controls the office. ! want to see
- yTho Will recognize that certificates ought to
lie granted to others than members Of the knights
pp,I6ers are held up, while others allowed to
% on under similar conditions Here are some Of
Lhe t5 M certificates: Concrete I'm the yard
beiSnch too high. stair rise foli inches too high
or 700 Ia In two colors etc Builders con
trSctors get no satisfaction ana the building
trade Is being dernorazed'
mr., Tenement House Commissioners Butter was
Informed OF the charges against him he said:
a, say with the utmost emphasis that am
,,S n9n nr,,nTing the Tenement House Department
s.,n sa,e delegated no powers 20 any one. My first
aenuty is in charge of Manhattan my SECOND depu
~, III am the Tenement House Commissioners and
am rnanagng my dfParment tsI,' dl -. .nese cbar, .,
thin nre laid before the Mayor, and | snall most
tney ytnIY offer q most vigorous defence Of my ad-