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The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-02
UNIQUE STREET RAIL WAY.
In Which the Horse and the Passen-
gers Ride Together-owned by q
Woman.

If the spirits of the poor. departed
car horses are allowed to return TO the
land of the living, they must chuckle
(if car horse spirits do such an un
seemly thing when they witness one
Of their kind standing on the back
platform of a street car. meditatively
chewing a straw and viewing the
landscape Ger as the car merrily
glides on Its way into the town. But
that Is a spectacle that presents itself
many times a day just outside the
great city of Denver, Colorado.
A short line of street railroads
called the Cherrelyn Line, leads from
one of the city terminals to the little
town Of Cherrelyn. 1t ascends gradu-
ally from the city. and its motive
power, an ancient and decrepit speci-
men Of the genus "car horse" creeps
slowly up the hill, stopping frequently
for breath Once at the top however,
his labors are over for the time be-
ing. He is unhitched from the car.
climbs aboard the rear platform, and
proceeds to make himself comfortable.
When the hour of departure is reached
the driver gives the car a gentle shove
and the whole outfit goes spinning
down the hill to its starting point.
The Cherrelyn Line is owned and
controlled by Mrs. George II. Bogue,
of Denver. who claims that it is the
only all-gravity system in the world.
There was a similar line operating in
southern California a few years ago,
so the claim to that distinction may be
disputed Be that as it may. how
ever, It IS one of the sights Of Denver
"a street car on which both horse
and passengers ride.
The rolling stock Of this road rep
resented by the single car-is not
exactly up ts date in style or finish.
It is shabby and worn. and the rear
platform. not originally designed as
a stable, droops disconsolately. The
The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-02
POSTMASTER OF OLDEN
TIME.
Ninety Years Ago Incomes Arg
umented by Acting as Agents.

The postmaster Of today may think
he has troubles of his own, but there
was a time about the year 1917, when
queer things we're expected of post
masters. An old pamphlet dated
April 5th, 1917, states that a new
daily and thrice a week paper" was to
be printed "at the seat of government"
After the virtues Of the proposed publi-
cation were set forth the editor-to-be
says
"Postmasters are hereby authorized
to receive subscriptions for the Gaz-
ette, and for all moneys collected and
transmitted to the editor, at the city
of Washington, a discount Of 10 per
cent. will be allowed. Distant sub
scribers will have their papers care
fully packed and punctually forwarded
to order. 1t is to be presumed that a
copy of this pamphlet was sent to
each postmaster in the United States.
Under the system that then existed
this method was entirely proper and
it is claimed that postmasters derived
considerable income from such sour
ces.
The prospectus" further states that
"a competent reporter will be employed
to furnish the proceedings of Congress
for the Gazette" and that all Inter
esting articles of intelligence will be
carefully selected and published.
The Editor-to-be, in writing of him
self says:
"As the humble guardian Of the pub
lie veal, he will occasionally use the
privilege he has a right to exercise,
in expressing his temperate disappro-
baton of such measures Of the coun-
try. II those opinions should some
times be erroneous, he wishes them to
be ascribed to the common falibility
of human judgment, which cannot be
always in the right. AS far as 1t may
be possible, he will labor to be I'M
partial, but that there will be bias,
and that that bias will be in favor OF
the present dominant party. he has to =
much candor to deny and too muc'l
honesty to conceal. What he can d
within his humble sphere, shall be done
for the good of the country, and II
he fails he will console himself with
the reflection that he had discharged
his duty to the utmost of his ability
and power"
The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-02
THE HORSE IS A PASSENGER ON THIS CAR.

sides Of the car, both inside and out,
are decorated with the carvings and
writings of tourist fools
Whose names are like their faces,
Always seen in public places.
Mrs. Bogue is not exactly a million
alre as the result of operating her own
railroad and drawing all the salaries
and dividends, and she appreciates
the deficiencies Of rolling stock and
road-bed But she takes keen de-
light in the management of the road
and finds It a paying investment.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-02
VERY BAD BREATH.

Senator Clay, of Georgia, told the
following story to a number Of his
colleagues In the Senate cloak room
few days ago:
"Sam Jones. the evangelist, was
holding meetings in my home town
last summer In the open air. His
subject for the particular evening Of
which I speak was Death He had
been preaching some fifteen or twenty
minutes when he reached the climax
of his theme with My Friends. think
Of 1t. Think Of It, say. And you not
prepared TO die. At my every breath
q soul drops dead" Then small boy
away back n the rear exclaimed, why
The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-02
AUTOMOBILE SKATING.
Skates Run by Storage Battery
Strapped to Mans Waist.

Recent cable descriptions of auto
mobile skating in Paris nave been
verified. Alphonse Constantine, an
Italian who lives in Paris. has been
making many successful experiments
with his new form of automobile
skates which he invented.
The apparatus consists of two four
wheeled skates each operated by an
air-cooled motor of 1/2 horse power
capacity.
A small tank containing gasoline,
sufficient for a 46 mile run is strapped
The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-02
CURE FOR SEASICKNESS.
Electric Current Used to Quiet Nerves
of the Sufferers.

Those who have been prostratsd by
the heave and the chop-chop of ocean
vessels will be glad to learn that a
sure cure for seasickness is promised.
The ship physician of the Hamburg
American liner Patrica has found by
experiments conducted on the last
voyage of the ship that simple cleo
trie vibration chair does the work, and
so successfully did he demonstrate this
The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-02
The RAID on THE TREASURY.

"'Did you know dey would go to
roost a year agoT
Eyes, fully year ago
"'Well, dat beats ALL said George,
in an awed voice. Dem chickens
wuzn't hatched year ago. '"-Satur-
day Evening Post.
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about the skaters waist. Attached to
the tank are the ignition battery, the
throttle lever and the spark control
A speed of 81 miles an hour can be
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The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-02
HAS STUDIED STANDARD
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There is the making of a most val
uable servant of the trusts in South
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whose name does not appear Be-
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senseless with snowpa!l, snlaIl
boy, who escaped before MS identity
could be ascertained, hired a negro
boy for 5 cents to assume all plame
for the tragedy. The girl was more
frightened than hurt.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-02

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The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-02

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The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-02

Mr.. Bryan's daughter has taken to
writing plays. Senator Tillman is writ
ing q book. and Congressman Long.
worth Is accused OF writing topical
songs. BY next November we may
The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-02

Cotton fabrics OF fine quality are
found in Peru In tombs that date back
to the time OF the Incas.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-02

Sumatra is now producing about as
much coffee as Java.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-02

It is announced that the fad OF TAX
ing snuff is again coming into vogue
in France,
The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-02
Mind Unhlnged by Blow.

In his youth he was an infant phe-
nomenon. At four years of age he
read almost all of the Bible, and dur
ing his teens he acquired a reading and
speaking knowledge OF no less than
thirteen languages. During the gold
craze i'm 40 he went West and started
a stage line Within two years he had
accumulated a fortune Of $4,000 A
partner robbed him, and then -. NJ
moved back to Ohio and began the
study of law. Within a few years he
stood at the top of the bar of Cincin-
natl
one day he was defending a MUIR
derer in whose innocence he strongly
believed. AS a result of his eloquence
the man was acquitted. The same day
his client confessed that he was guilty.
~. N" rushed back to the courtroom
and started to explain, but the strain
and excitement had been too much for
him He was stricken with apopleXy
Within a short time he recovered his
physical health, but never his mental
poise
The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-02
ONLY WOMAN SHIP KEEPER.
Sacksts Harbor Navy Yard in
charge of Woman.
Some rIember Of Present Keepers
Family Has Been Stationed Here
Since Navy Yard Was Established
Hany Years Ago.

Women are steadily encroaching up
on the occupations of men, and now
another position heretofore filled by
a man has gone to one Of the fairer
sex. The charge and care Of a govern
ment naval establishment, almost for
gotten, has been turned over to her,
and for the first time in the history
of the American navy a woman has
the rank of ship keeper"
The woman is Mrs. Albert H. Met
calfe. She has been placed in charge
of the navy yard at Sacketts Harbor,
n. V, on Lake Ontario not far from
the st. Lawrence, and will receive a
salary of $3G5 a year
Albert II. Metcalfe. keeper of the
yard since 1868, died recently, and his
position was given to his widow. The
Sacketts Harbor Navy Yard is not
a big establishment. 1t consists of an
acre and a half of ground, on which
there are half a dozen small buildings
and a few guns used in the war or
1912.
Once Prominent Place.
1t used to be a prominent place,
and shortly after the close of the war
a ship-of-the-line, then the biggest
type of war craft built, equivalent OF
the first-class battle-ships of modern
times, was planned, and the building
begun at Sacketts Harbor. The vessel
was to have been the New Orleans.
The work progressed slowly, how
ever. and was finally abandoned, but
the hull of the big vessel remained up
on the stocks. Away back, probably
along in the '40's or SOS, a man
named Metcalfe was appointed ship
keeper. In 1868 he died, and his son,
Albert H., succeeded him In the posi-
tion. Some years ago all that was
left Of what was to have been the New
Orleans was torn down but the posi-
tion and title of the keeper remained.
Keeper for Thirty-elght Years.
Albert H. Metcalfe watched the gov
ernment belongings around Sacketts
Harbor for thirty years, and then
died. During all the years the Bu-
reau of Yards and Docks of the Navy
Department has regularly submitted
an estimate of 1865. to Congress for
the annual salary of the ship keep
er" at Sacketts Harbor, and that is
probably the only place where the
name ship keeper" appears In an
official way on the records.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-02
The IMMORTAL ]. N"
Most Picturesque of Characters
Goes TO Asylum.
AS a Boy lie Gould Speak Thirteen
Languages Mind Unhinged by a
Great Criminal Trial Has Been
Insane Fifty Years.


Jacob Newman Free, "the immortal
~" has reached the end of his
travels. He was finally adjudged in
sane. and will spend the remainder Of
his days in the State Hospital of To-
ledo. He is now seventy-eight years
old.
Thus passes a character known in
every sizable town in every State in
the West For more than half a cen
tury he lived as the birds live. No town
or State could claim him as it's own. In
each he was at home and among
friends. 1t is his claim, and it is not
disputed, that he knows more peo-
pie personally than any other living
man.
For fifty years he has travelled up
and down and across the country. rid
ing free on nearly every railroad, and
living without expense I'm the best ho-
tells, the towns he visited, afforded.
d. II. on Livery Railroad.
Still in his possession are a hundred
slips reading Good for J. y. His
most treasured possession is a slip of
paper signed by the leading officials
of many of the biggest railroads in
the country. 1t reads: The immortal
J. N; pass him forever. Good on all
roads from now until doomsday.'
Hotel men in the towns he visited
did as much. He was never known to
have more than a few cents at a time,
but in the nifty years Of his wanderings
few landlords have been bold enough
The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-02

TO present him with a bill It is re-
corded that a hotelkeeper once offered
TO throw off half the bill when he
learned his guests identity. THE i'm
mortal j. y. glared at the landlord
then. declaring he would allow no one
to outdo him in generosity, and said
ne would throw off the other half
He seldom stopped in cities of more
than 10000 population, believing that
in the large cities his personality
would be lost. There are few news
paper offices I'm the country outside OF
the largest cities where he is not well
known. Some years ago he travelled
all over the country ransacking the
files of newspapers for his own obit-
uary. He has been reported dead
more than once.
He is an apostle of "truth," "press-
ure,' and keeper of the secret Of the
veil" For forty years he has been
promising TO lift the veil' and put ION
the pressure
Wherever he stopped in the course
Of his migrations his first announce
ment was that men called him crazy,
and that he was about "to put the
pressure on This pressure was
some mysterious force which he alone,
he believed, prevented from crushing
out Of existence all the life Of this con-
tincnt
No one has ever doubted that he was
insane He himself boasted of it, But
his is an insanity that up to now in
spired only friendship and sympathy
But behind his insanity and his fifty
wears of aimless wandering over the
t. fus sgrip g
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-12-15
"HIGH" WAGES THAT ARE Low.

Certain corporations making great parade of the
fact that few of hem because of the general prosperity
and increased cost of living have voluntarily raised the
wages of employees.
No opportunity is lost for laying emphasis on
fhe fact that American labor is better paid than is the
labor of most other countries.
Such assertion is sort Of spread gleism that is
supposed to hurt nobody and to help the corporations
a more complacent enjoyment of their profits.
But the real truth is that measured by the value of
Its product the labor Of this country, instead of being
the highest paid, is the lowest paid in the world
Census reports show that in American manufactures
The per capita production is three times the average of
European factories while wages less than twice
high
James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern and
other railroads. is authority for the assertion that train
gang his American railroads handles more than seven
times many miles of freight do the train gangs
seven times much result American trainmen receive
Jess than twice much wages.
Secretary Wilson, of the department of agriculture
In address the other day. said that American farm
band produces more rice than 400 Cinnamon Chinese
wages only 10 to II cents day, but if the rice
workers of this country got the rate for results
produced their pay would be $44 to $4S dayinstead
pf $3.50.
"Cleap labor'' never could produce the marvellous
drops and manufactures of this country Yet measured
by what it does it is the cheapest labor the surface
pf Che earth.
And is utterly false that prices are high because
0ages are high.
Compared with the prices the pays, wages
pre- lower thar. ip Europe or China.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-12-15
SHE CHANGED HER MIND.

Polly was sure she did not like
clergymen.
AS she recalled 1t, she never
had liked clergymen, she remem-
bered, since she was small child.
They looked at one disappearing
ly. And uncle's will was stupid,
for he had inconsiderately left all
his money to her and the Rev,
Cyril Wayne, jointly, provided
they married.
"And | will mott" declared Polly,
shaking her curls vigorously.
She had quite made up her
mind, even before she talked to
the handsome stranger at Mrs.
Nets lawn party. They had been
introduced. but, as people so often
do, Mrs. Nets had pronounced his
name so mouthily that she had no
idea what it was. Still, he had
asked to be allowed to call, and
she had assented.
The door bell rang. Polly
knew her heart was beating faster
as she went to meet him.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-12-15
FUEL FAMINE RELIEF.

Chairman Knapp Of the interstate
mission is certainly diplomatic and polite enough in his
request that presidents of the railways serving the
Northwest bestr themselves to relieve suffering prevail
ing from lack Of fuel
The commission has heard that people deprived
of the necessities of life and freezing to death
through their dependence the great railway systems
for transportation Of food and fuel.
1t might be remembered here that these people
oaly part and parcel of government partly possessed
of anarchistc notion that its own lawmakers well
the legal departments of the railroads should have
something to say in governing transportation
of freight and passengers.
However, the interstate commerce commission has at
last heard of the suffering West because people
get neither coal wood, and the chairman is moved
thereby to the expense of eegrapng to various heads
of delinquent companies request that they do
thing
The interstate act seeds another radical
vision if this is the best that body do in where
the lives of thousands of young and old literally at
stake.
Citizens of Minnesota are appealing to their COVER
for relief. If the sturdy Governor johnson will re-
spond by using his state troops to force the railroads to
do what they have plainly agreed not matter what
the consequences, example might be set that will
solve the fuel question the country over.
people that would sit meekly down to freeze to
death with their families because is ordered, either
by the incompetence crookedness of railway manage
nent hope for nothing better than the cOntemptuous
treatment they receiving.
Meanwhile it is interesting to notice that Chairman
Knapp names every road running into the Northwest
except the Union Pacific probably the worst offender of
them all If Spokane had been forced to depend the
Hartman line the city would have been frozen stiff long
ago Returned travellers from the Middle West claim
Union Pacific side tracks are TANNED with empty cars
The interstate commission to know nothing about
this line.
But the shiverng inhabitants of nearly every settle
ment in the country will doubtless be nfamed with en-
thusasism the that the Great Northern is
about to issue additional $600O00OO in stock to get
rid OF its surplus cash. and the Northern Pacific has
$93OOOOOo issue ready for the purpose. Probably
the excitement generated by this information will
serve to keep them warm through the winter.
1t will keep Wall st. from freezing at any rate-and
why should Wall ST. worry about the rest of the country
as long dividends continue to accumulate?
The time is ripe for Bryan to rise and repeat those
remarks concerning government ownership of railways.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-12-15
BIG SALE WILL SOON BE OVER

The big sale of late U. S. Army
Goods which has been going on at
720 Front av. for the past couple
of weeks will soon be at an end,
as Mr.. Kirk, who has charge of it
announces that his stock of goods
is being rapidly depleted.
Great interest has been taken
in the sale, and ever since the
opening day the store has been
crowded with eager buyers, and
in spite of the fact that an un.
usually large stock was brought
here for this sale the tremendous
selling of the past few days has
got it pretty well whitfield.
See display ad in another part
of this paper for details of the
selling for last few days Of the
sale. -"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-12-15

had sailed years before for Hawaii.
He made a division of his vast for-
tune, and once more as a plain,
ordinary Chinaman he went his
way, and his Hawaiian wife her 10
children went theirs, which lay in
the path Of the social limelight.
Everywhere the Afongs when
they were entertained by the most
exclusive in society. There has
never been a family of girls that
could create such a sensation as
the Acknowledged daughters of Chun
Along and now that his bones are
laid to rest, the tremendous wealth
| which he accumulated during his
lifetime will be the cause of much
dissension, and the tongues of the
gossips will have plenty of mate
rial to feed upon.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-12-15

for the distribution of the old Chi
naman's wealth.
The beauty, wealth and fascina-
ton of the Along girls have kept
the world Of society agog ever
since the young women came out
in society and began to turn the
heads of every man who crossed
their path. One CT the girls mar
ried Admiral Whiting, U. S. A.
Another became the wife of Lieut.
Dougherty, U. S. A.. Then Judge
Humphreys came in, a lucky third,
and so down the Line it went.
Chun, their father, was a remark
able figure in the business life of
Honolulu. When he had accumulat-
ed all the money that he could, his
almondshaped eyes lit upon the
dusky beauty of one of the Kama
kiapaaikam family of royal Ha-