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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-04

the idea is too new and original for
the courts to have many precedents
providing for aerial. navigation as: a
method Of transit; says Paris repo4t.
However,. the subject of 4: ancient
lights and ancient rights of air, ETC.,
promises to some before the courts OF
France in hundreds of different ways
in the not far distant future The first
balloon case of the kind has just been
before the court for adjustment. -.
The suit grows out of balloon acct
dent of last year. An aeronaut named
Bacon was passing in his balloon over
Paris when he unexpectedly came to
within few yards of the roofs. Final
~ he knocked down chimney pot.
Thinking him in danger some people
promptly seized the dragging guide
rope and in spite of the aeronaut's pro-
test hauled him down into the street.
He therefore had no choice except to
order them to shut their windows
while he Debated his gas bag. The gas
entered a house through a window
carelessly left open and caused an ex-
p4osion in which. a man named Gou-
zeau was killed. The question at is
sue was as to whether the aeronaut
having been an unwilling sufferer him.
self was responsible for the situation
created. The courts finally decided
against the aeronaut and sentenced
him to pay damages to the amount of
81 1000 to the widow of Gouzeau. tho
man who was killed.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-04

for the equities in the North and West
had made $10.000,000.
This worked so well he could quick
ly carry out his further plan. By
paying dividend on the first dividend
day, he so encouraged the new stock
holders that when he got together his
miscellaneous electric companies he
sold the lot, under the name of the
Consolidated Traction company, to the
same Union Traction company, and
took bonds in payment. Bonds looked
good to the public and to Blair & Co.,
Of New York, and Yerkes put away
for cold day $5,00O,000 more in cash
and securities.
He also sold his interests in the
Lake Street elevated railway and the
Northwestern elevated and the ele~
waited downtown loop for another
$5,000,000.
It had taken Yerlzes - years to
work out his well-defined plan, all
based on the problematical value Of an
act of the Illinois legislature which
was construed publicly by Yerkes to
be 99-year franchise, but which he
probably knew-for he sold all his
holdings!-to be the mere extension
of the charter of the company to which
was granted the franchise.
Carefully he hal inflated the bal
loon marked North Chicago Street
Railway" until he sold his stock at
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-04

Chicago.--Like a house of cards
flaming with fictitious money values,
the towering structure of Chicago trac-
ton securities came tumbling about
the ears Of the financial generals Of
Chicago, Philadelphia and New York
at the word of the United States su-
preme court.
1t has cost Morgan, Armour, the
Marshall Field estate, and the Elkins-
Widcner street car syndicate and 9th
ers over $75,O00,000 to realize what
Charles T. Yerkes probably knew
years before he sold his Chicago street
car securities, that certain legisla-
tive act of the state of Illinois way
back in 1865, did not, as supposed, ex.
tend the franchises for use Of Chi
cago streets for a period of 80 years.
at the supreme courts decision
values of Union Traction stocks fell in
a heap, and Chicago City railway
stocks dropped IS per cent. The ac-
tompanying table shows the losses.
The holders Of Union Traction COM
2any stocks looked, after it was all
over, like boys holding the sticks Of
balloons with only a shriveled bit of
rubber at the end of each stick as re-
minders of the buoyant beauty they
had bought from the circus day BAL
loon man.
In this case. the shriveled bit of rub
Der had cost millions, and the 'boys"
We're multi-millionaires. Those who
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-04
are known to the public best, and
their estimated losses are:

The pyramid of fictitious values in
detail is confusing tangle of bond
and stock issues of many companies,
but it's general structure is simply
this:
With $1,500,000 Yerkes in 1886
bought the North and the West side
street car lines, then horse car lines,
and made contract with himself to
reconstruct them, with great profit in
the reconstruction. Many new lines
were built by Yerkes through many
new companies. Each company was
stocked and bonded for double or more
Its valve.
Finally Yerkes had the North Chi
cago and the West Chicago and q
tangle Of outlying electric lines. The
North Chicago was stocked heavily
and bonded literally. During the
growth of each company Yerlkes had
sold part of his stock for many times
the amount of his first Investment
Then the Union Traction company
was organized with $20,000,000 of COM
mon stock and $12,000,000 of preferred
stock, and it leased the North Chi
cago and West Chicago companies
Its stock was offered to the public, and
sold to the eElkins-Wid syndicate,
of Philadelphia, now called the street
car trust" Charles Tyson Yerkes
packetsa $10,0oo,o0o Of nice hard cash
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Z mayor pledged to Immediate mu'
nicipal ownership. . !. < f. e. II -

: mayor pledged to Immediate mu-
nicipal ownership" f.
T.: This was In the face of the certainty
that corrupt politics and the spoils
system would be made worse by put
ting into politics the hundred thousand
street car employees certain means
for machine control - ,~.--@ ,-.gvs.#4.
The street car service: never was
good during Yerkes' reign, but has
constantly grown worse in most sec
tions of the. city by; the deterioration
Of cars while litigation on every hand
absorbed the big companies: The
hopes of the public were raised by the
purchase last year of two-thirds con.
troll Of the $1S,000,000 Of the Chicago
City railway stock at 5000 share by
the Morgan Field-Armour syndicate.
But the decision Of the supreme court
has depressed City railway securities
nearly $10,O00.0OO and thrown :: the
Morgan-Field syndicate into q panic
of CONSERVATION for the City, Railway
company's franchises are about to >ex-
pire and the 99-year hope has been
blighted. >-''.- 80
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-04

1886 per share It was quoted on the
stock exchange the other day at $32 a
share.
He filled the balloon labeled "West
Chicago Street Railway Co." until he
was paid on a basis of $127 per share.
The stock is now selling at about $50
share.
Then came the miscellaneous collec.
tion marked CONSOLIDATED Traction
and the sale of the well-watered
stocks of a score of underlying COM
panies, payment in bonds which he
sold at 80 cents on the dollar. In
each case he sold no real value, and
took In payment something substan-
tial.
When the balloons all were sold,
Yerkes cared not at all how soon the
public discovered that the talk about
the 99-year franchise was but a four
flush bluff which he had expected
would be called some day:
The bluff got past Judge Grosscup on
the federal court circuit bench, but
the United States supreme court
called" it, and did it in plain terms.
The 99-year franchise was the wind
which had filed all the balloons; the
sand on which had been builded the
house Of cards marked with Yerkes'
fanciful millions. -:
The day when Union Traction was
f1oated was great day in Chicago.
The event was much heralded from La
Sale street and from the ,financ ial in
situations Of the city, who had various
interests IL the success Of Yerkes'
great scheme and comb nation The
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-04

d -. = = .f-1s
public accepted it as the dawning Of
= day when they would be released
from a hated bondage Of Charles T.
Yerkes. The uniting of the North,
and West traction interests promised
to be for the betterment of the street
car service, and the advent Of the FL
kins-Widener syndicate into the street
car operation in Chicago was well
coined from every hand. Even the
newspapers, who had been fighting
Yerkes, served to aid him by their
publicity in the flotation of the trac-
ton stocks. No conditions could be
more suspicious. :: -
Early in the day it was learned that
the entire issue Of preferred and COM
mon stock had been underwritten;
that Chicago and New York had been
allotted 100000 Of the preferred and
Philadelphia $3,00O,O0O. On the stock
exchange North Chicago and West
Chicago both moved up on the strength
of the general enthusiasm over the
Union Traction deal. No one seemed
disposed to delve very far into the in
nerworkings and inner secrets of the
traction situation. For several days
this continued, and Yerkes' brokers
had little difficulty In supporting the
market for the short period necessary
to get Yerkes well out of cover.
1t was but a month or two after the
fiotation that prices of the traction
stocks on the stock exchange began to
sag. To the public this was unaccount-
able; the insiders evidently had be-
gun to realize the untenaDle founda-
Ion for the big issue of securities:
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-04

Proves Herself Inv1p chile. The,
Dreadnought Single Handed Sinks the;
Ships Of the Enemy's Fleet. Every
One OF the Powerful Battlcships: Sent
to the Bottom Before They Could Get
Within Striking Distance of Grea:
Britain's Monster Warship.
Such would be the headlines OF the
news telling Of a possible naval en-
gagement Of the future, II all should be
realized that the designers and build
els Of the Dreadnought, Just launched
at Portsmouth, England, clai,n for their
battlesh1p. < -.
This, the biggest fighting ship ever
built by any nation, will. when: CON-
pleted, have a displacement of 1880
tons, will carry a main battery Of ten
12-inch guns, and battery of 10 three
inch guns. will be equipped with four
turbine engines. guaranteed to give
her a speed Of q knots per hour
which is equal to the speed Of the fast
est cruisers now built-and will carry
protective armor which will max,
her practically Indifferent: TO me heav-
lest batteries of the enemy's ships,
should they ever be swift and clever
enough to get sufficiently near to make
their guns effective.
But not only Is the Dreadnought re-
markable for size, for arma nent and
for motive power, but in the expedition
of her construction as well. 1t has
only been four months since the. .eei
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-04

discharging four tons of metal mii,-
ute, with sufficient energy to penetrate
16 inches of Krupp steel at range Ut
5000 yards, or nearly five miles.
The three-inch guns, OF which there
will be Is in all, will be for defense
against torpedo boats and destroyers.
a service for which the six-inch gun is
too heavy and not sufficiently rapid in
its fire. =.
AS to armOr protection, tbs Dread
nought will be all that the strongest
and heaviest steel can make her, and
she will be built with a view to resist
the severe racking effects, which
played such havoc with the Russian
ships In the battle with Togo's Ships
Above the water line the heavy armor
has been carried right up to the upper
deck, and it Is nowhere pierced by
easements. Below the water line, pro
lection has been provided to meet Pc
bursting of shells beneath the water
and which fall short of the ship. Spe
c1al attention was given to this prob
lem.
The most striking and important in
novation in this new ship is the intro
duction of steam turbines Already
the principle has been applied to the
ocean going steamer, and the most re-
cent additions to the Transatlantic
liners have been equipped with this
type of engine. There will be four pro-
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-04
Editorial Rebuke,

That people can read daily papers
for years and never pay any attention
to the formation of words and SEN
fences surprises us. Some people have
devoted more time and energy to
learning to chew tobacco than to edu-
eating themselves, and some know all
about how to run the government and
yet could not spell the names of half
of the states correctly.-Osawatomie
(Kan.) Globe.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-04
INTERESTING DOCUMENT.
Parchment Obtained in Mexico Show
ing Evidences Of Ex-
IRENE Age

A new YORK lawyer who lately 70.
turned from Guadalajara has brought
with him document which, ii anthem
tic, is valuable beyond price. It was
secured from a man in the Thieves
Market, in Guadalajara, who was ig-
norant Of its value and had no infor-
nation to give concerning its history
beyond the fact that he bought it from
a woman about a year ago. It is q
parchment showing evidences; Of ex-
IRENE age and bears in Latin the sem
tence which was pronounced upon
Jesus Christ by Pontius Plate, which
translated reads: 49,.
: II, Pontius Plate, here in Jerusa.
lem, regent of the Roman empire.
Judge and condemn to death Jesus,
known as the poor Nazarene, and Of
the nation of Galilee, a seditious man,
opposed to the law and to our Senate
and the great Emperor Tiberius
Caesar. And I determine that his
death shall be upon the cross, fastened
with nails, as is the custom with
criminals. Because here join and con.
gregate each day many men, rich and
poor, who have not desisted to provoke
t,rmult throughout Judea, proclaiming
this man the Son of God and King of
Israel, and threatening ruin to this
noted city of Jerusalem and it's tenn.
pie and this sacred empire. And be.
cause he had refused tribute to Caes-
ar and has had the holiness to enter
with palms of triumph and great
multitude into the city of Jerusalem
and into the sacred temple of Solomon.
n therefore command the first cen.
turion, named Quinto Cornelio, to re-
move from the city of Jerusalem this
offender, putting upon him such robes
as shall make him known to all, and
the same cross on which he is to be
cruoified, and conducted through the
streets between two robbers who also
have been condemned to death for
thefts and murders, in this manner
making an example which all people
and all criminals shall heed. And I
further command that the public crier
shall proclaim his offenses as here ex-
pressed, and that after having trav-
ersed the public streets he shall be taken
by the port of Pegora, now known as
Antonina, to the mountain of Calvary,
where it is the custom to execute all
criminels. There he shall be crucified
on the same cross that he has carried.
and his body shall be left hanging be-
tween those. of the two robbers. And
above the cross, in the three languages
which are now. generally known-He-
brew, Greek and Latin-shall be placed
the inscription: This is Jesus of
Nazareth, King of the Jews so that all
may understand and that he shall be
known to all. And let no one, of what
ever state or condition, under penalty
of losing rights and life, dare to inter-
fere with the execution of this sentence
with full rigor as have commanded,
according to the Roman and Hebrew
laws.
'Year of the creation of the world,
5232, the 25th of March,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-04
HIGH FINANCE IN OLD ROME
Modern spendthrifts Not to Be COM
pared with Antony and
Caligula.

That the accumulation of vast for
tunes was as possible in ancient Rome
as it is in the United States to-day is
shown by the Scrap Book in the fol-
lowing table compiled from authorize
tive records.
While it may be true that the wealth
of the car of Russia and John D.
Rockefeller may exceed nearly all Of
these old time boards, there can be
no question of the fact that as spend
ers Of enormous fortunes Antony and
Caligula have never been surpassed:
Croessus landed estate was val. .. 49,.
His house was valued at. ......... 4UO,eO0
Caecillus 1sidoreus, after having
lost much, left.................... 6,235, $40
Demetrius, freedman Of Pom
pey, was worth ......:............ S,S75.O0O
Lentulus, the augur, noless than. 1864, 665
paid for his house. .............. 100000
He once swallowed q pearl worth. 1000
Apicius was worth more than.... ,OO0
He poisoned himself after he had
spent in his kitchen and other
wise sQuandered immense sums
to the amount Of. :.........."... 4,l60.000
The establishment belOngingto M.
Scarus, and burned at Tusculum,
Gifts and brides may be considered
signs of great riches:
Caesar presented Servilla, the
mother of Brutus, with a pearl
worth northumberland. j, ~ 200, ooo
Caesar with the sum Of ......... $4,000
amount Of ...:....:....... 2,5oo,ooo
Milo contracted one debt Of. ..... 2,915,Oo0
Antony owned at the ides of
March, which he paid before the IT,, u.
calends of April ................ 1861, 66s
Seneca had a fortune Of. ......... 17,500,O00
Tiberius left at, his death and Cal
months lis, liz. 900
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-04

pellors on four shafts, and the est!-
mated speed is q knots an hour.
Think of it. This monster making as
high speed as the armored cruisers
which are built specially for: s2eel.
The fastest battleship of our navy Ii
the Maine, with an estimated speed o.
IS knots an hour. What could the
Dreadnought not do with her 81 Knots
an hour, her ten 12-inch guns with q
perior armor protection? She can
choose her own distance and position
for fighting, and could destroy tho
enemy's ships before they could get
within range that would make their
batteries effective.
The superiority resulting from the
embodiment Of a concentration Of
heavy gunfire is best attested, says a
naval expert, by comparing the Drea1-
n0ught's uniform armament of Pinch
guns with ships fitted with a mixe,t
armament. The maximum practical
range for fighting an action with ba*-
teries of six-inch and 12-1nch guns Is
1000 yards, the range being increased
to about 5000 yards If the armament be
composed of 12-inch and 9.2-inch guns
AS against these fighting distances a
ship with 12-inch guns only can be
effective at 10000 yards, and assuming
that nothing occurred to prevent her
remaining at that range she would be
able to crush an opponent without he:-
self being brought within the zone OF
fire of the less powerful guns Of the
enemy.
In view of all these advantages which
it is expected the Dreadnought Will
have over any other battleship in ex-
istence to-day, is it any wonder that
the naval experts of every great natioa
are watching her building with the
greatest interest, nay apprehension.
Think of the billions of treasure which
England, France, Germany, the United
States, and other nations have invest
ed in their navies. What it the III
PRODUCTION of this new type of battle
ship shall prove that these vessels are
obsolete, and that each nation must be-
gin the creation of a new navy after
the pattern of the Dreadnougnt, which
is to cost $8,000,000; moro than has
ever been put into single vessel be-
fore? Verify, the preparation for war
is an expensive international pastime-
~ WILLIS s. EDISON.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-04

there may be suppuration and evacua-
ton outward. or through the bowels,
or the suppurative materials may DO
absorbed:
* Injections Should Be Given.-1f the
Inflammation is caused. by accumula-
tons Of feces In the caecum, large
injections of warm water or infusion
of spearmint (three or four quarts in
amount) should be given, and repeat
ed II necessary until free excavations
are obtained. When Inflammation Of
the. appendix exists place over the af-
fected region q large and hot mullen
leaf poultice, containing considerable
lobelia herb, and sprinkled lightly
with ginger, and administer by the
mouth teaspoonful doses of an infu-
sion of lady slipper, one teaspoonful,
and lobelia, half teaspoonful, to q
cup of boiling water. every half hour.
Sustain the strength by broths or
matted milk or other liquid foods.
Enjoin perfect quietude in bed. and
move the bowels by injection, never
using cathartics.
Men are more subjected to appen-
dicitis than women. Children and old
people are more liable to have it than
persons in the prime Of life. Persons
who eat heartily after long fast, or
while the intestines are empty, after
having used cathartic, are subject
to it, because the severe strain caused
by the cathartic has weakened tho ca
nal throughout =
Avoid constipation, gluttony, and in
digestible substances, drink plenty Of
water, and after a fast or cathartic eat
sparingly of easily digested food, and
don't be in a hurry to have an opera
ton performed.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-04
BALLOON IN FRENCH COURT
Aeronaut Is Seized and Arraigned
for Knocking Over Chin
ueY Pot,

The balloon Is now fighting it's way
for standing before the French
courts. Though it appears to have be-
come as established a fact as the BIZ
cycle or the automobile, nevertheless
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-04
Simple Larceny.

The colored physician not having
been able to locate the malady and
check it, a white physician was called.
After looking at the patient a short
while, the white doctor inquired:
Did DIR. Jones take your tempera-
ture?''
And the old colored auntie an
swered: "Ah don't know, sab; All
amt missed nothin' 'cept nah
watch. "-Lippincott's Magazine.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-04

All communications to- the Home
Health Club should be sent to Home
Health Club or Dr.. David Reeder, La
porte, Ind, giving name and address
in full and at least four cents in post
age. All readers of this publication
are at liberty to inquire for any in
formation pertaining to the subject Of
health and at any time
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-04
Constitutional Limitations

There can be constitutional amend
ment for the regulation of divorce, but
no constitutional amendment can pre-
vent foolish marriages.-st. Louis POST
Dispatch. ,-,.-* 49, !. -. =
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-04
.Skepticism,

Many a man who isn't quite sure Of
the Bible may have unlimited faith in
an almanac. s. E.. :.=. == q ...=
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