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Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-02
Hawkins, TerrlbI. Mi.hap.

Guthrie. Jan 27.-In runaway
James Hawkins. rural mail carrier.
had bon.' hrolien. II penetrated his
right lung, causing fatal injury.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-02
FORTUNATE FRENZY.
Breaking Up Furniture For Fuel Re,
suits In Cash Being Found.

Des Moines Ia. Jan. 27.-Driven to
Des Moines. Ia. Jan. 29.-Driven to
desperation for fuel Charles Wright
man resorted to breaking up the furni-
turs Of his home. only to discover a
neat fortune hidden between the musty
boards. The farmer had nearly fin
ished demolishing an old table when a
package rolled from between the
boards. Contents consisted OF $1,000
I'm well-preserved bills.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-02
ENORMOUS EXPENSES.
Japan Paid immense Amount During
Recent War With Russia,

Toxic, Jan. 2s.-'n official report
submitted to the diet shows that the
actual outlay from tie beginning OF
hostilities to their end in September
last was for the army. s4s5, 900 900, and
for the navy. 500, 100000.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-02
OIL ExPLoDEs.
Much Valuable Property Destroyed and
Two Men Hurned.

Tampico, Mex. Jan. 29.--As the re-
suit Of an explosion OF OIL property
valued at 100000 was destroyed by
'ire. Two men were so badly burned
that their recovery is despaired Of
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-02
cowsoY KILLED.
Party Trying to Separate conbatsnts
Shot In an Arm.

Sulphur. /, T.. Jan 27.--In a shooting
scrape on Governor w. NJ. Guys ranch
five miles northwest OF this city. Tom
Hudson. a cowboy was shot and in
stantly killed by another cowboy Dur
ing the fight zack Tally. foreman Of
the ranch. tried 20 separate the com
batants, and was shot in the right arm
receivim~ painful wound other cowboy
was placed under arrest.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-02
HouNoED TO DEATH.

THIS Is the Reason Given by Police
man For Shooting Himself. =.
ST. Louis, Jan. 29.-Policeman John
A. Scollard. who shot himself Friday
rather than &c before the police board
to answer charges OF immortality. died
that night. Just before dying he die
tated statement in which he declared
he had been bounded to death through
false reports concerning him.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-02
Kicked by MuIs.

Hico. Tex, Jan. 27.-John Bowie was
badly kicked In the stomach by a
mule.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-02
HAPcoop ACQUITTED.
Jury Returned . Verdict After Being
Out About Ten Minutes.

New York, Jan. 27.-The jury In the
Town Topics case returned a verdict
that Norman Hapgood. editor OF Co.
lier's Weekly. was not guilty OF Grim
inai libel The jury was out about ten
minutes.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-02
Mu.keae. E.k, 70 RuiId.

MusksEee. Jan. 27.--Muskssee Blk6
will erect at sncs sSS.sss hsme.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-02
SANE PENALTY

Another Jury DEGREES That Nordan
Must Be Life Imprisoned.
ASbeville, La. Jan. 2s.-For second
time a Jury says Walter Nordan. charg-
ed with the murder in September
1902 OF his bried OF three weeks. must
go to the penitentiary for life. on the
first trial the jury gave him the same
punishment. but new trial was grant
ed by the supreme court. Mrs. Nor
dan died OF strychnine poisoning.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-02

Should you have cough, cold
or sore chest, do not rely on time
and nature to cure. They nav do
so--they may not. Use Sir0nons'
Cough syrup. II is tslm for
sore lungs and will cure you at
enoe.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-02
Travel Right

When you have occasion to
travel, use the same discrimina-
ton in buying a ticket that you
would in buying anything else.
Assure yourself in advance of
what you may expect in the way
of comfort en- route.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-02
The rlissOuri. Kansas and
Texas Ry.

with through trains Cover its own
rails) to st Louis, Hannibal and
Kansas City offers a solution to
tho vexed question-"How to
go?" 1t maintains first class
service; frequent trains at con-
venient hours, through chair
cars and Pullman sleepers; and
furnishes superior meals at it's
own dining stations er route.
Try the M X. & T. Ry. on your
next trip and be satisfied.
II you wish any inforna-
"a axS n N tion about prospective
W4nkf trip, write me, I'll gladly
give you the information
- and send you q copy OF
my Colder
w. s. ST. GEORGE
General Passenger and Ticket
Agent, Box Ola,
ST. LOUIS. MO.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-04
MADE DIRECTLY FROM COAL
A Wonderful Discovery
Made by Modern
Science.
BY w. r. CASTLE.

The nineteenth century, with its
wonderful progress and development,
has passed into history We are well
into the twentieth, and, in view of the
inventions which so revolutionized the
world in the past. magma ton fails to
reveal what the future may unfold But
the restless genius and intelligence q
man constantly open the doors to
something new. 1t is only occasionally,
however, that a discovery assumes vast
proportions and is destined to be revo-
lutionary in far-reaching possibilities.
This however, may well be the char
acter of the process discovered by Dr..
VIM. W. Jacques of Boston, below de-
scribed
"A process of generating electricity
directly from coal has been discovered
by Dr. William w. Jacques, Electrical
Expert of the American Bell Telephone
Company 1t has been protected by a
broad and fundamental pioneer patent,
drawn and prosecuted by the same
lawyers who have served as leading
counsel for the Telephone Company.
and pronounced by the Commissioner
of Patents who issued it to be. in his
opinion, one of the most important
patents ever issued by the United
States.
Electricity has heretofore been pro-
duced by complicated mechanism and
with enormous waste. 1t has been
generated by a dynamo electric ma
chine driven by a steam engine which,
in turn, is operated by means of steam
generated in a boiler by the combus-
ton of coal. This is long and cir
cuitous process, involving an elaborate
and costly chain of machinery, which
machinery is from the very nature of
the forces utilized, very wasteful, nee
essarily involving an enormous loss Of
power at every step. Much of the
energy of combustion goes up CHM
ney as heat or smoke; much of the
heat is lost in boiling the water to
make steam; much of the expansive
force of the steam is wasted as it es-
capes from the engine; much of the
power of the engine is wasted as fric- +
ton; and there is some loss in the dy- !
namo itself. Careful tests, made by /
the National Electric Light Associa- /
ton, of a large number of modern cleo
trio light and power plants show that
the average plant wastes 97.4 per cent.
and utilizes as electricity only 2.6 per
cent. of the energy contained in the
coal
Stated briefly the average modern
plant gets only LAO of the energy cons
tanned in each ton of coal: the other
39-40 go to waste. The most perfect
plant tested utilized only Sc per cent.
of the energy of the coal; 94.4 per cent. {
went to waste.
"This enormous waste is necessarily {
in the use of steam. The in
1exible laws Of thermodynamics tell US
absolutely of the steam engine that
here is a narrow limit of efficiency
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-04

! which We can not even hope to exceed
no matter how perfect the construc-
ton and operation of the machinery
may be.
THE newly discovered process gen.
crates electricity from coal and SO dis
penses with the complicated mechan-
ism as well as the enormous waste in
herent in the use of steam.
THE fundamental discovery is very
simple. Starting with the familiar fact
that when coal is burned in the air it
produces heat, DIR. Jacques discovered
that when coal is submerged in suit
able liquid and burned beneath the
level OF the liquid it no longer pro-
duces heat but electricity instead. The
appara tus is equally simple. Coal is
put into an iron basket, which is low
cred into a heated iron tank filled with
the liquid. Air is pumped into the
liquid. Coal and air are consumed;
electricity is directly produced.
This direct and simple process al
lows enormous electrical power 70 be
generated in very small space; thus
single lump of coal no larger than an
egg has been found to generate so
strong an electrical current as easily
to sustain weight of half a ton.
moreover, the PROCESS, oSIiiS PDi :
ly electrical, is not subject to the laws
of thermodynamics that limit the use
of steam In numerous laboratory
tests-made with apparatus of scientif-
ic value but not adapted to extended
use--there has been obtain
ed as electricity by far the greater
portion of the energy contained in the
coal consumed within the liquid.
Professor Cross, Professor of Physics
1t the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, says: The current con-
tains almost the total equivalent of the
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-04

| striking advantage is due to the re-
| markable fuel economy which you are
| able to obtain. In order to present this
| advantage in a clear light 1 have COM
puted the radius of action of a bat
tleship of a recent type Chat is to
| say the distance which such a ship
could go without stopping to take a
new supply of coaD, if provided with
a proper equipment of your generators
! and electric motors for driving her
propellers
The computations are based on the
performance of ship like the Ken
lucky, which has a maximum speed OF
17.2 knots, and which at II knots can
steam about 1000 nautical miles, so that
she can cruise for about IA days, after
which time her coal supply will be
entirely exhausted and she will be re-
quired to stop and take a fresh sup
ply of coal before proceeding further
With your generators and electric
motors such a ship could have a radius
of action of 10000 miles, and could
cruise at u knots speed for 105 days or
Is weeks. She could, therefore re-
main at sea for three months and a
half, and could go entirely around the
earth with a fair margin to allow for
emergencies, and without stopping for
keep the sea will bring back to naval
operations some of the conditions that
obtained in the days of sailing ships, |
when ship could and did remain at |
sea for months at time cruising in |,
distant seas or remaining on blockade |
with short and infrequent absences.
Your method of generating and |
supplying power will have the further |
advantages that the weight to be as |
signed to the engines, boilers, auxiliary |
and their appurtenances |
will be materially reduced The num-
Der of men required for managing the !
and application of power
may be reduced to small fraction
of those now required for the engine
and boiler rooms. The economy of
the generation of power can be made
of the speed. Auxiliary
power and lighting can be readily and
povided. The ship will
be entirely free from vibration. The
generation and application of power
will be simpler and easier and there
will be less danger of dsablement of
he propelling power.
Yours very truly
(SigneO &C. H. PEABODY Il
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-04
(Signed)

[ went to DR.. Jacques office in one
of the Institute of Technology build
ings in Boston. last January. and he
very courteously put into operation
very inoffensive looking apparatus.
that I might see what he was actually
doing. Against the wall stood a small
sheet iron box, say four high,
foot thick and perhaps three and a
half feet long. Three cans, about
eight inches in diameter and eighteen
inches deep, were let into the top and
so that the surface or top of the box
was flush and evenly level. Those cans
were full of liquid and into each was
dropped a wire basket. about four
teen to sixteen inches deep and six
inches diameter. Each basket was fill
ed with loose coal, say half full. a
little tube ran into the liquid and
turning up under the basket, delivered
a steady column of air. The liquid was
heated to about boiling point by
small fire under the three cans. A
wire was connected with each can,
another with each basket, They unit
ed on the wall, whence two lines
crossed the room and connected with
various affairs. The doctor turned on
switches, and in a few moments,
large fly wheel was revolving at high
speed and two hundred and fifty high
power electric lamps were burning
steadily and SO brilliantly as to near
1y put out my eyes The picture Of
this can be seen herewith, the original
photograph being at my office for any
curious enough to go there. The doc
tor estimates that power so developed
will cost not over one-tenth as much
as today.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-04
BRAND THE BABY.

Let a mother study the appearance
of her child's body well and decide for
herself whether there be about it any
ineffaceable mark by which she could
identify him anywhere and at any time
If there is nothing that time may not
efface, then let her have him marked
in such a way that she would know
him. 1t is only a question of few
drops Of India ink. an operation no
more painful than vaccinntion.-Fam
lily Doctor.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-04

potential energy of the carbon, and,
practically unlimited in quantity, can
be continued for an Indefinite time
without any other than a useful cons
| sumption of material
'These various tests show the enor-
| nous possibilities of the new process,
but it must be remembered that they
are laboratory tests and do not fur
nish sufficient data for positive predic-
ton as to the efficiency of the process
when practiced on an extended COM
mercial scale
1.-THE uses of electricity have multi
piled marvelously in recent years. Its
direct and cheap production win enor-
mously extend them in the future.
The direct and cheap production of
electricity means that it will take the
place of steam as a motive power OF.
railroads, for it has already been dem
onstrated that electrical trains may be
run at far greater speed than steam
trains. Cheap and abundant electrical
rover means cheap and fast hauling OF
freight
1T means. too, that electricity will
suppiant steam in ocean commerce.. as
steam has already supplanted sails,
for the production of electricity direct
~ from coal means far simpler ma
chinery, far greater power, far greater
speed, far greater carrying capacity
and greatly decreased coal consump-
ton.
1T means the substitution of cleo
trical power for steam power in fac
tories.
1T means that electricity viii be-
come the cheapest. as it is now the
best illuninant known
TT means radical improvements in
the industries of copper, silver lead,
iron and all other metals, for cheap
and abundant electricity mems the di-
rect reduction OF these metals from
their ores.
"Electricity is today as much of d !
staple as coal or wheat Mechanisms ,
for its general application have al :
ready been developed and only await
the cheap and abundant production of
electricity 70 be enormously extended
in use.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-04
" CHARLES r. CROSS.

Prof. Cecil H. Peabody, who is Pro-
fessor of Naval Architecture at the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology, where the Naval Cadets of
the United States receive their
training in Naval Architecture,
says:
Boston. Mass, Nov. 81, 1905.
at DIR. W. w. Jacques.
Dear Sir: Your therro-electric gen.
orators appear to be especially adapted
to the propulsion of ships. The most
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-04

Prof Charles r. Cross. Professor OF
Physics in the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology, says in q
sworn statement filed in the Unit
ed States Patent Office:
When DR.. Jaques first showed me
his electrical generator and stated the
results that he had reached, I recog-
nized at once that he had succeeded in
effecting continuous development of
electricity from the oxidation of car
bon, such as had previously been
sought for in vain by the many per-
sons who had essayed to attain the
same results.
81 have for many years been ac-
quainted with the various attempts
that have been made to derive cleo
trical energy directly from the oxida-
ton of carbon. and have known, as
has every other person who has con-
sdered the subject, that none that had
been proposed prior to that of Mr..
Jacques were in any way available
for actual service for any industrial
purposes whatever, even on the small
est scale. They have been interesting
scientifically, but, by their Ineffective
ness, have served only to make the
solution of the problem seem even
more distant than ever
The problem has been before the
world for very long time. It had
been realized that the direct CONVEX
sion of the potential energy of car
bon into electrical energy would be
of enormous industrial Importance;
many and well known inventors and
scientific men had essayed to solve
the problem and their propositions
We're universally known, but each ana
every one of them had signally failed
and was recognized by the scientific
and industrial world as having failed.
But the process of Mr.. Jacques
does produce large and continuous
current of electrical energy by the di-
rect oxidation of carbon, and so does
what had come by many to be thought
of as impossible.
The current contains almost the
total equivalent of the potential en-
ergy of the carbon and, practically
unlimited in quantity. can be continued
for an indefinite time without any
other than useful consumption of
material.
(Signed) CHARLES r. CROSS
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-24
"HEZ" BROWN TO WE'D.
Former Whitman Athlete to Make Misc
Cora Osborne His Wife.

Announcements are out for the we'd
ding of Hugh Elmer Brown and Miss
Cora Osborne at the Osborne home IN
Seattle on New Years evening. The
groom is well known to the people Of
Walla Walla as Whitman's famous de-
batter, orator and athlete, "HeZ" Brown,
while the bride was formerly a stu
dent in Whitman academy and a leader
in the social circles Of the college.
''HeZ" Is at present taking mis- finish
ing year in the Yale Divinity school.
He is expected to pass through walla
Walla tomorrow on hfs way to visit
his parents at Dayton for few days
before going to Seattle to claim hts
bride. The Browns expect to leave
for New Haven directly after the we'd
ding.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-24
Fourth Year Class Of Pearsons Aca-
denny Does The Trick.

The fourth year class of PearsOns
academy went over to Milton Satur-
day evening and beat Columbia college
i'm basket ball by score Of 13 to 7.
The game was considerable of a
walk "a way for the Whitman boys
The lineup of the Walla Walla team
was Philbrook. Spagle, Wilson, Glenn
ems and Martin.
The boys were well treated by the
MiItonites and will play them a return
game i'm Whitman gymnasium on jan
uary 4.
The Whitman college second football
team received challenge from Kenne-
wick for a Christians game and there
was an effort made by the fellows Iert
around the dormitOry to muster up
an eleven and accept but it is probable
that there are not enough players to-.
make team.
If the challenge had been received be-
fore the boys left for their homes it is
probable that the Kennewickers would
have received a little training on the
subject How to play basketball"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-24
EMPTY CARS On s|p|NG'
Farmers Declare the Railroads Are
Negligent In Supplying Them for
Grain Shipments.

The problem most prominently before
the business men of Tacoma as well as
those throughout the state. says the
West Coast Trade, is the question of
the car shortage, and it's causes and
effects Business of all classes is seri-
ously affected, while the railroads are
making but little progress in improving
conditions The moderate tone of the
complaints earlier in the season have
become more emphatic. After the
damage caused by the heavy rains in
November. shippers were inclined to
show some sympathy toward transport
tation companies but ample time has
been given for all needed repairs, and
signed prior to those rains. Now the
railroads are refusing to furnish cars
for all sorts of farm products as well
a for the transportation of coal and
wood for fuel The inland cities, where
the cold is more intense. are badly in
need of fuel, which it is impossible to
obtain. Courts of inquiry have been
instituted all over the country TO look
into the question. and are bringing
out facts which tend to prove gross
negligence on the part of the railroad
officials in preparing for the rush OF
traffic. if not actual conspiracy to as
sist large flour manufacturers and
others in the interior, at the expense OF
the small shipper. Farmers in the IN
terror of the state make bitter COM
plants that the railroads have plenty
of cars on hand. that there are 365
empty cars now standing on the sidings
bteween Pasco and Sprague. yet the
farmers are not allowed to use these
cars to ship their wheat in and are not
even allowed to load them now ana
cannot haul the cars because Of lack
of motive power. Over million bush
els of wheat are stacked on the rail-
road platforms and in the open. in CEN
trail Washington. awaiting Shipment
while vessels are tied up at the Ia
coma woaryes waiting to load this very
wheat to transport it to the Orient ana
elsewhere.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-24

The literary free lance is bred natu
rally in New York and thrives in its at
mOsphere because the market for his
wares is stable and infinitely varied
The very life of metropolitan publish
ing lies in the search for new men ant
variety. Publishers spend great sums
upon the winnowing machinery tha
thrashes over what comes to their edi
tors desks, and no editor in the me
tropolis grudges the time necessary tt
talk with those who call in person anC
have ideas good enough to carry then
past his assistants. Publicly the edito
rial tribe may lament the many hours
spent yearly in this winnowing process
Yet every experienced editor in New
York has his own story of the stranger
uncouth, unpromising, unready OF
speech, who stole in late one Afternoon
and seemed to have almost nothing IL
him. vet who afterward became thu
prolific scribbler or the great D'Auber
j. III. Collins in Atlantic.