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be three steps of 10 ks, each of 2s feet
rise, and will be by far the greatest
OF their kind in the world. They will
be double, and viii cost over $4,000
000. The vessels viii Ee drawn in by
powerful electric winches. so as to save
all the time possible. After passing the
three locks will come the great sum-
nit level. So feet above the surface of
the sea. The dam, which viii be 5000
feet long, will create a great lake of
120 square miles in area and in some
places IS feet deep. 1t will snbmerge
a wide stretch of the old swampy, ma
laria-breeding shores, with many mis-
cradle little villages, and Will give 20
miles of straight, easy sailing for ships.
allowing them to pass each otner with
ease and possibly doing something to-
ward cleaning their hulls of the bar
nacies. For 20 miles, therefore, a ship
viii be able TO go at full speed the
same as in the ocean. Then the steam
er will enter q canal IS feet deep AMI
SEQ feet wide, until il reaches the val
ley of the Chagres. The great dam at
Gatun will raise the Chagres water so
that that formidable obstacle will be
entirely removed. Whatever water is
not required to maintain the level of
the lake Will be conducted away by
safety weirs and the force OF the food
will be taken up by the broad expanse
of the great lake. Then viii come the
great Culebra Cut, four ard three
quarters miles long, witE the bottom
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width Of the canal only 200 feet and
the sides of the cut rising at some
points to 300 and even 400 feet. At
the end Of the cut the Pacific Ocean
IS distant pnly seven miles. There win
be an immense lock at Pedro Miguel
with a fall of 3 feet. This lock viii
cost $7,000.0O0 To cut down through
the rock, put in the concrete and ma
sonry walls and fit up the massive
gates. Next will come another great
frcsh-water lake formed by damming
up the Rio Grande, which heads in the
Eulebra Mountains and dows into the
Pacific. Beyond the Rio Grande Lake
Will come double fight of locks al
Sosa. These are estimated TO cost sl3,-
0G0, e00,' and each set OF locks viii have
n depth of % feet. After passing them
the vessel will be at sea level and pass
through 4 300-foot dredged channel
untl it reaches the 49-foot. line in the
ocean. It VII require IL hours TO pass
through the canal, but there viii be no
such annoying delays as is the case
with the Suez Canal. since the lakes
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10 live on the land four years and
three months.
The law expressly says of residence:
But no patent shall issue to any home
stead settler who has not resided upon.
improved and cultivated his homestead
for a period of at least one year after
he shall have commenced his improve
ments." That is decisive, and there i
no getting around It. You cannot sell
what you have not got, and You have
not your land until you have fu fiji el
all the requirements OF the law regard
ing 1t. and you are liable 10 get into
trouble If you try to play any games
on the Government or The Land Office.
One important point in the home
stead laws is that mo lands acquire /
under the provisions of this chapter
shall in any event become liable TO the
satisfaction of any debt contracted
prior to issuing of the patent therefor
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The SsSf WIS.

Editor National Tribune: Having
read great deal about other regi-
ments, l should like to see something
about the 21st Wis. in The National
Tribune.-Henry ]. Calkins, Witten-
berg, Wis.
The 21st Wis. was organized at Osh-
kosh, Sept. g.. 1862, and mustered out
June, s, 1867 with the veterans and
recruits transferred to the Sd Wis. The
2lst Wis. belonged 70 Johnsons Divi-
sion, Fourteenth Corps, Army of the
Cumberland,I and lost 122 killed and
1873 died from disease. The first Col
onel was Benjamin J. Sweet, who re-
signed, and was succeeded by Col Har-
rison c. Hobart, who was in command
when the regiment was mustered out
and breveued n Brigadier-General.-
Editor National Tribune
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The 4ist Ohio.

Editor National Tribune: Please pub
lish u short history of the 41st Ohio.
was 4 member of Co. Il, and served
three years in that William
Dimes, Cedar Springs, Mich.
The list Ohio was organized at Camp
Wood from Aug. &c, 1861, and mustered
out Nov. q, 1865. II was a fighting
regiment, and belonged to HaZen's Bri-
Sade, Woods Division, Fourth Corps,
Army of the Cumberland. The First
Colonel was William B. HaZen. of the
Regular Army, who WAS brevetted 4
Major-Generai and succeeded by Col.
Apuiia Wiley, who was brevetted 4
Brisadier- General and succeeded by
Col. Robert l.. Kimberly, brevetted a
BrigadierG General, and Col. L. S. Hol-
loway was in command when the regi-
ment was mustered out and also brevet-
ted Brigadier-General. The 41St Ohio
lost l76 killed and 154 died from dis
ease, in prison, etc.-Editor National
Tribune.
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The 18th Ill. Cav.

Editor National Tribune: / have
been taking your paper for quite q
while. and am very much pleased with
1t. Would you please publish a briei
history of the 18th Iii. Cav. M God
dard. Camden, Me, and David P. Ham
lin, Lidgerwood, y. Oak.
The 18th i'll. Cav. was organized al
Springfield, H., from Feb. "a, 1862
and made up from companies raised
all over the State and at different
dates. The first Colonel was Arno
Noss, who was succeeded by Col Has
brook Davis, who was bfevetted a
Brigadier-GeneraL Lieut.. -col. Ham
iiton B. DoX was in command of the
regiment when ii was mustered out
The regiment lost 3S killed and 1876
died from disease.-Editor National
Tribune.
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.operina the Mi.sis.ip,i.v

II. r Fried. Co. A, 10th Ind, has
been much interested in the Opening
of the Mississippi" and was in those
operations from New Madrid to the
surrender of Vicksburg. He helped
build the fort at RiddeIs Point TO
blockade the river and cut off the sup
plies from Island No. 10. His regi-
ment was the first to cross over to
Tiptonville, and his flag was the first
TO be hoisted over Fort Pillow and
also the first over Memphis. His regi-
ment cut the levee at Helena to open
the pass into the Cold Water and Ii
led Grants army from Milliken's Bend
to cross the river below Vicksburg,
where the 18th and 2ith Ind. crossed
on the Flagship Benton, with his COM
pany CAD landing first and throwing
out skirmish line. Ii was also with
Banks on the Red River expedition,
and the only time it got whipped was
AZ Mansfield.
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The 22d U. s.

Editor National Tribune: VIII you
kindly give short history of the 22d
U. s. and also state where the regiment
is a. present stationed?-Eugene Wip-
fler, Brooklyn, n. Y.
The 22d U. s. was organized May 4,
1861, as the I'd battalion, 18th u S.,
and its designation changed to 22d u
S. Sept. 21, 1865. May Is. 1869, the
31st U. g. was consolidated with the
regiment. Gen. ID. s. Stanley was Col
onel of the regiment from July 2S,
1866, to April IS, 1884, when he was
succeeded by Gen. P. T. SMaine. Tha
regiment Is now in the Philippines, with
headquarters at Manila.-Editor Ma
tional Tribune.
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Fourth Division of the Fifth Corps and
was killed in the Wilderness. Gen.
Wadsworth's son, James Wolcott Wads-
worth, and father of the young Speak
er, was also soldier, serving on the
staff of Gen. G.. K. Warren to the close
of the war. He is now serving his
tenth term as Representative from the
gath New York District. The Wads-
worths are the best Illustrations Of
what is called in England the landed
gentry. The family owns some $4,000
acres of the finest farming land in the
world around Geneseo, n. Y, and the
men have always been athletic, Wig
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collected and deliberate, and has so
Tar not bean rcaught by any of the
traps laid for his feet. and this leads
people generally to thinking that he
has future of far more distinction
than falls tn the lot of most reason
ably successful men. He is six feet
tall, slender, but muscular and alert,
with genial manners and the bearing
of the college athlete and soldier.
While his voice is not remarkable for
strength. yet it fills the chamber COM
pletely.
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The Goth Wis.

Editor National Tribune: Please give
through the columns of The National
Tribune short sketch of the goth
Wis.-H. 4. Langworthy, 405 No. d.
vision St, Traverse City, Mich.
The goth Wis. was organized at Mad
ison from July 81, 1852, and mustered
out July IA, 1866, with the recruits
transferred to the 25th Wis. The first
Colonel was Berthe Pinl1ney. who was
succeeded by Henry Bertram. who was
in command when the regiment was
mustered out and brevetted Briga-
dier-General. 1t belonged to Herron's
Division. Armies OF the Trans Missis-
sippi, and lost los Killed and 146 died
from disease.-Editor National Trib-
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orc US, fond of outdoor sports, natur-
ally taking to soldering, and prompt
to respond to every call of the coun.
try to arms. They have been promi-
nent in every war in which the coun-
try has been engaged except the Mcx-
lean war, from the time of Gen. Pcleg
Wadsworth, who had some thrilling
adventures in the Revolution. They
nave also been great hunters and
SportSmen, and their fox hounds in
Geneseo are famous. With all their
wealth and blue blood, they have been
essentially 'folksy" people. associating
freely with their neighbors and very
popular with them. Every son of the
house has been brought up TO work
on the farms with the men and learu
the management of his estate in the
most practical way. James Wads-
worth. Jr., began working with tho
other boys on the farm on exactly tife
same basis with them, hoeing corn,
riding the horse rake, etc, for 25 cents
day and having his wages advanced
the same as the rest OF them, with his
years. Much OF the success that he
has had in politics, as his father had
before him, undoubtedly comes from
this mixing with the people and un-
derstanding their ways of thinking
Young Wadsworth graduated from
Yale, as all his forbears had, became
noted as an athlete, was particularly
good at baseball, and, of course, en-
listed at once for the Spanish war
Unfortunately for him there was no
fighting to be done by the time that
his regiment arrived in Porto Rico
but he gained some valuable military
experience. When the condition of
the Republican Party in New York
was a matter of earnest consultation
between the President, Gov Higgins
and other leaders. the conclusion was
arrived at to make young Wadsworth
Speaker of the House, and this ar
ran2ement was carried out consider
ably to the chagrin of a number of
older politicians, who felt that they
deserved the place. Consequently
Wadsworth has been under fire from
the moment that he took up the gavel,
and SO far he has done astonishingiy
well, considering his youth and mex
perience. No matter what nervousness
he may have felt internally. he was
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The :sSfI, Wix,

Editor National Tribune: Please pub
fish the record of the 3Sth Wis. in the
good old National Tribune.-A. Judson
Webster, Auburn. Wash.
The 3Sth Wis. was organized at Mad
ison from April, 1864. and mustered
out July 90, 1855. The Colonel was
James Bintliff. who was brevetted a
Brigadier-General, and Lieut.-Col. Col
vert X. Pier was i'm command when
the regiment was mustered out. 1t be-
longed to WilcoX's Division, Ninth
Corps, Armies of the Ohio and Poto-
mac, and lost 81 killed and Sc died
from disease.-Editor National Trib-
une.
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The both y. Y.

Editor National Tribune: Kindly
publish a short sketch of the 136th N.
Y.-S. II. Dye, Linden, n. Y.
The both y. Y. was organized at
Portage in September 1862, and mus
tered out June 13, 1865. James Wood
was the Colonel and brevetted a Brig
adier-General and succeeded by Col.
Henry L. Arnold. 1t belonged to Stein
wehr's Division, Eleventh Corps, and
lost 73 killed and go died from dis
ease.-Editor National Tribune.
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The Sth y. III.

Editor National Tribune: Please give
me a short history of the Sth y. H.
of which I was q member.-B. n.
Shipley, Minneapolis. MINI.
The Sth y. H. was organized at Man
chester from Oct. 20, 1861. and mus
tered out Jan. Is, 1865. The Colonel
was Hawkes. Fearing. Lieut.-Col. OIL
yer W. Lull was killed at Port Hudson
The Sth n. H. belonged 10 Emory 8
Division, Nineteenth Corps, Army OF
the Gulf, and lost 102 killed and 25S
died from disease.-Editor National
Tribune.
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THE PANAMA CANAL.
The Lock Plan and SzFoot Level Which Have Been Approved
By the President

and the locks will allow the vessels
going in different directions to pass
one another. For 23 miles Of the
whole 49 miles vessels will be able TO
steam as rapidly as in the open sea.
Only through the Culebra Cut will the
speed be reduced to five or six miles
an hour
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The I'd HaSs. IL. 4.

Editor National Tribune: Please pub
lish short account of the I'd Mass
II. A.-E. f. Watts, Denison, Tex.
The I'd Mass. II. A. was organized al
Readville and Boston from July 2S
1863, and mustered out Sept. Is, 1865
Col. Jones Frankie was in command
during its service. 1t belonged 20 the
Eighteenth Corps, Army of the James
and lost 10 killed In battle and 367
died from disease.-Editor National
Tri ihuill
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business matters because of the reports
of the committees which have been in
vestigating the life insurance compa-
MES and others which will proba bly,
investigate banking and other corpora
tions. The veterans have particular in
terest in Mr.. Wadsworth, because he is
the grandson of the noble Maj.-Gen
Wadsworth who commanded the
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The 10th w. Va.

Editor National Tribune: Kindly pub
lish short history of the 10th w. Va,
and oblige-G. w. McCloud. Mystic
Iowa.
The 10th W. Va. was organized at
Camp Pickens. Canaan, Glenville,
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Clarksburg, Sutton, Philippi and Pied
mont from March II, 1862, and mus
tered out Aug. 3, 1865. The first Col
onel was Thomas NJ. Harris, who was
promoted to Brigadier-General and
succeeded by Col. Morgan A. Darnall
1t belonged TO Thoburns Division
Eighth Corps, Army of West Virginia
and lost 95 killed and 146 died from
disease.--Editor National Tribune
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THE GRANDSON OF A VETERAN.
YsUn8 "Jim- wadsworth, Speaker Of the
Now York Mouse Of RepresentatIvea.

Since Mr.. LonSworth's marriage the
most prominent young man in the Ma
ton is James w. Wadsworth. Jr., of
Gensseo, N. Y. Only 2s years old and
having served but one term in the Leg
islature, he was, all the same, selected
for Speaker of the House for a session
Of extreme Importance politically and
otherwise. 1t IL important In politics
because of the forthcoming State ele2-
ton. and 1t is particularly important in
The National tribune., 1906-03-22

Johann Most, the noted Anarchist,
sipelas. Most was born in Bavaria, in
1915, and became prominent in 1871
in Vienna as a Socialist agitator. He
speedily got into trouble, was put in
prison, and after release forced to leave
one country after another, until he set
tied i'll England, and began the pub
lication of Die Freiheit, which he made
ferociously anarchistic. He was so in
temperate that he was finally impris-
oned for 16 months for melting mur-
der, and came to New York "a years
ago. From the moment he landed he
became storm center. When McKin-
ley was assassinated Most published
such encomiums of the murderer that
the police arrested him. and he was
sentenced to one years imprisonment
This seemed to cool him off q little. and
he applied himself more assiduously to
pulsive-looking man, with his face dis
figured by an operation performed in
childhood. His intemperate habits made
him positively hideous as he grew older.
The formal elimination of J. Edward
Addicks from Delaware politics took
place last Saturday, when action was
taken to have united Republican
Party in the State. In the meeting of
the Executive Committee 1t was stated
that Addicks had been a candidate for
the Senate for something like II years.
with even less chance of success than
when he started. Any further adua-
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Just how thes o
fittl le sound
IL gnifiers
come to yGC.
with the instrU-
ncnts for plac-
ing them In the
ear holes, and
the picture at
the side shows
one of them In
aN
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-11-01
sun MARKS on China.

Hunting for stilt marks on old
china is often good fun In itself. Al
most every old piece OF fiatware. that
rs. plates. plattors. saucers. etc.
shows three little rough spots, more
or less clearly marked, on both
sides. usually In the margin. These
spots were made In the firing by
the eockspur OF stilts-little tripods
used between the plates 10 Diling
them ap In the kiln. The three
points where the eOckspur touched
the plate caused a defect In the
glaze. Unfortunately. stilt marks
are not az sure a mark OF anthentie-
Ity as some collectors have supposed,
for they are sometimes lmpereeptibie
on the old staffordshire. Further
more. they appear very frequently
On modern tableware OF the cheaper
sort. aud 20 are no Sign Of antiquity.
Country Life In America.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-11-01
BOARD
WILL LOOK
AT LANDS
Many Desirable Farms VIII
Be Considered by Board
for New Institution

The governing board of the new
proposed home for the feeble mind
ed, composed of the governor, the
secretary of state and the state
treasurer, will next week visit
number of sites for the proposed
home. Some time ago bids were
Opened, and large number of tracts
of land we're offered and prices
named. The board has visited a few
of these places. and will next week
take all the time the members can
spare from other duties, and make
examinations OF the sites. In few
Instances the size of the farms sub
mitted has prevented them from re-
ceiving serious consideration.
In some cases there are number
OF small farms joining that belong
to different owners, and have differ
ent prices attached. These will be
considered in groups.
Among the most desirable places
that will be examined are:
Ben Hayden, 80 acres, at $50; Gill
bert & Patterson. 500 acres. s65; L.
II. Turner, SIS acres, s65; the PEN
itentiary group, Yankee, Scott. Whit
ney, Mccormick. Jones, Tolman and
Others at prices ranging from $50 to
$3.50; Cusick, Wagner. 500 or 600
acres, at $40; J. p. Minah, Breyman,
Brown, Culver, Townsend, etc, $40;
Bunce, Tlllmon Ford, 100, $25 to
s35; Mark Skin. 500 acres at $40,
and a number of others. II the mem
bers of the board are not candidates
for a position In the home by the
time the selection is made they will
be playing In good luck.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-11-01
Halloweens Visit Quarterback Owens

A crowd of rooters from the Uni
versity, accompanied By a bevy OF
lady friends from Lusanne Hall, last
evening marched to the home OF II.
Owens, the famous quarterback
from Multnomah, and, with destruc-
tion intent. entered the rooms OF the
athlete and proceeded to demolish
and make kindling wood out of his
furniture. The picture of his future
wife was placed upon the stove; his
lamp was placed In the woodbox, and
Il is said that the bath tub and bed
miraculously changed places. so that
when the humlliated and wronged
quarterback came in tired and cold,
having no light. he fell into the
bath. Some say that all he said at
the time was blessed are those that
are persecuted"-but he didn't say It
that way.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-11-01
A Chancc for the MnekraI.er

The Edlnburg Scotsman. an old
and responsible newspaper. refers to
tho fact that at the recent medical
congress held at Toronto. an inter-
esting and suggestive paper on the
control OF milk supplies was read
by Professor Harcourt OF a Cana
dian agricultural college. The
Scotsman says: Gle had gteat
fault TO End with the manner in
which milk was kept and handled
In Canada. and he added the re-
markable statement that II COM
mission were appointed In that
country 10 investigate the conditions
under which milk was handled and
delivered 10 the customer. the re-
port OF the commission would be
worse than the recent revelations
relating TO the meat packing estab-
llshments In Chicago" The Scots
man says that II the general
handling OF milk in Canada is so un-
satisfactory. Il will hardly be con-
tended that Canadian cheese Is en-
tlreiy beyond suspicion. and Il asks
the British authorities TO exercise
increased vigilance in testing and
the purity and quality OF
imported dairy products. The Can
adams probably will not relish this
suggestion. but Il Is founded on
home statements by It's own repre-
sentative men.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-11-01
PRETTY PROGRAM
FOR STATE sOLONs
Enviablc Lot of Legislators Who
Have Nothing 60 DO HUT Look
Wise, Draw Their Pay and Solve
Few Problems Like These.
(Daily Oregon City starr

N1NAts 0ANSth wv RAoAsF
who wouldn't be state legisla.
tor? It's a snap. Nothing to do but
look wise, draw your pay and medi.
tate on a few little things like these;
Shall we be good and obey the
primary mandate by electing iona
than Bourne, Jr.. for the long term
in the United States senate and f,
w. Mulkey for the short termg
To what use and to what extent
may the waters in the streams OF
Oregon be diverted fon irrigation
and power?
How can we fix up a state banking
law and secure bank examiners who
will examine before the doors are
closedG
How can we reapportlon the legls-
lative districts in accordance with
the state law. so our county will
lose no representation?
Pass an anti-railroad pass law
NhdN Will stay pdSStus
How to compel railroad companies
to furnish cars they don't have?
How consolidate boards OF normal
school regents without depriving any
good fellow OF a Job?
How to make even convicts work
at Salem sewing grain sacks to cir
cumvent the trust and please our
farmer constituents7 Also pass MI
gratory stock law that will like
wise stay passed?
Vote $4,000 each for jamestown
and Seattle expoes, Cello portage
road (whatever that Isl and all the
other good things" said to be hun
gerIng for state money?
How to give every school child a
new book without raising taxes?
How to pinch on the unearned In
crement from the state printers Of
fee without having to increase our
own party assessment?
Then there are about 10 other
small matters. from a new tax code.
including taxation OF franchises, to
creation of a new county by dividing
wasco. TO engage the leisure mo-
ments OF Messrs. Huntley. Dye.
Jones. Campbell. Hedges and their
brot between now and
their move on Salem.
II the local solons are hard TO hnd
this fall, the foregoing may serve as
clue. Look for them In their IL
brarles, wrestling with those big
tones that have all the pictures in
the back.