Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1906-08-30
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POLITICAL.

A. Dale InOrne,
POLITICAL.
Wednesday of next week is the last
day for registration.
Buffers first political meeting will be
ON September 10, when Homer Castle
will speak here in the interest OF his
nomination for Governor.
Ouite q number Of Butler men at
tended the Emery notification meeting
at the nixon" theatre in Pittsburg,
Tuesday afternoon. The admission
was by card or ticket, and the house
was not over crowded In his speech,
MIR. Emery talked about the relations
of the railroad men with those OF the
other great corporations or trusts about
as President Roosevelt has been talking;
and everybody not directly benefited is
agreed that this juggling of rates must
cease. If it cannot be stopped by legal
enactments government ownership OF
at least one of the great interstate
railroad systems will probably follow.
Col. Huff and his eight conferees
arrived in Butler, last Thursday noon;
took dinner with the Butler people, and
then proceeded to nominate Col. Huff
8 to 3-which was made unanimous.
This makes Col Huff the Republican
Congressional nominee pf the district
as it was expected he would be; and, as
the new law puts an end to all conferee
arrangements, whoever secures the
most votes in the two counties, two
years hence, at the Republican prim-
aries will be the nominee then, and the
chances are in favor Of Westmore-
land county man, as that county has
more than double our Republican vote.
We are the "tail of the dog" in this
matter, made so by Quay, decd. who
in his anxiety to defeat Acheson of
Washington county made 1t necessary
to put us in with Westmoreland, thus
making an illegal district, as there is
strip of land under the jurisdiction OF
Armstrong and Allegheny counties and
river between the two counties; but
we will have to put up with it until the
state is re-districted- thing that ought
to come with the session of 1909.
The Westmoreland county men were
a very agreeable and gentlemanly set of
fellows, and Col. Huff is an unusually |
bright, and very capable, business man. |
THE new railroad rate law, which |
applies to all railroads doing an inter
state business. went into effect at mid
night Of Morlday. According to its |
provisions all roads were to hase-6led
with the interstate commerce commits
sion all their tariffs and charges, show
ing not only the fdil cost of transporta-
tion from point to point, but also what
items 60 to the making up of this cost
It was stated Monday that not single
company had been able fully to comply
with this provision. The schedule OF
switching charges was the most difficult
Of complexion.
ACCORDING to an authority when you
lick a postage stamp you need not fear
that the gum is something unclean.
Postal gum is the best quality on the
face of the earth. 1t is derived from
dextrine. product secured in the pro-
cess Of making starch from potatoes,
corn and the cassava root. The starch
from these vegetables is treated by
roasting at a temperature of about 300
degrees.a at the first stage, causing it to
turn into dextrine. Further changes
make postal gum and if the. changes
were carried to the limit the result
would be grape sugar or glucose.
THE announcement that the under
ground frsight lines of the Illinois Tun
mel Company in Chicago are completed
calls attention anew to an enterprise
that is remarkable in many phases The
system is the most original and am
bilious Of recent years. Forty miles of
tunnels are constructed under the bust
ness streets Of Chicago, crossing under
the rivers fourteen times. 1t connects
with Easements of all important busi-
ness buildings, and will transfer freight
at fraction of the time and cost here
tofore spent in hauling it through the
streets.
A CURIOUS fact in connection with
the late earthquake is that the seis-
mograph on Mt. Hamilton, at the Lick
Observatory, Cal, shows no record Of
any earthquake shock. This instru-
ment is located in the so-called earth
quake belt extending down the western
cost of North and South America and
around the Pacific Ocean where it takes
in Singapore, Japan, and the Aleutian
Islands. The seismograph located in
this belt would be expected to receive
distinct vibrations. The seismograph
at Washington recorded both east-and
west and north-and. south vibrations of
considerable extent. That at the Johns
Hopkins University had the needle
thrown off the recording cylinder. so
violent was the shock, while the seis-
mograph at Victoria. B. c., also record
ed shock not so severe as that felt at
San Francisco last April, but which
was, nevertheless, quite prolonged.
The elevation or, as railroad engineers
call it. the super-elevation of the out
side rail on curves is more important
and demands more careful thought and
attention than the maintenance-of-way
engineer, the roadmaster, and the Sec
tion boss are in the habit of giving to it.
The danger of derailment due to the
centrifugal force exerted by train
against the outer rail on curves may be
greatly reduced by eleyating the outer
above the inner rail. Indeed, there is a
degree of super elevation corresponding