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so administered that the men hardly knew
they were taking It. They could not taste
1t, and it gave forth no smell. To all out
ward appearances their food was just like
that of the ordinary boarding house, ex-
cept that it was the best the market could
afford and that it was we'll cooked. In
fact for the first twenty days there was
no sign that there was anything wrong.
At the end OF that time, however. the
boarders began to lose their appetites.
Every one had bad headaches, pains in
the stomach, nausea and vomiting The
symptoms were the same throughout; and
there was no doubt but that the borax
was the cause OF the trouble.
These experiments were made over and
over again. They were continued for a
year, and then DR.. Wiley published his
first report. This contained 800 closely
printed pages. 1t gave the full story Of the
experiments and all the deductions there
from. 1t was conclusive as to the injury
done by these food preserVatiYes, and Il
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man of the County Board, nor you, tho
Masonic fraternity nor you orators OF this
occasion. This cornerstone was laid many,
many years ago by these same old settlers
in evidence here today; 1t was quarried
from the most enduring rock In the grass
hopper plague OF 74-'76; IL was shaped
when the thousand settlers were saved by
relief funds which enabled them to stay
to their work; IL was chiseled and sized
by the level heads, and squared and COM
passed by the hard, true hands which
built and inhabited those sod houses; ID
was ground and polished by the tears, the
hopes, the prayers of these gray headed
women who have literally made this county
a paradise out of a bowling wilderness.
THE precious contents, prepared for
preservation I'm this cornerstone, is the
history of the enduring faith in this state
and this county through all these years
of privation, hardship and toll of these old
settlers and OF the sturdy manhood of these
graduates of sod school houses.
"Old settlers have not forgotten, nor are
they forgotten. OF those first settlers of
1874 one is your county treasurer and one
is your representative in the legislature,
and all are held high in esteem.
"Retrospection teaches many lessons,
many not hhteu at IN TINS prlet review
You who are most chesty, who feel your
selves of greatest Importance in view of
this joyful day; you who are loudest boast
ing of the amount of taxes you pay and OF
the sum you contribute towards the cost
of this building, take the advice of Josh
Billings-go down to the great ocean, stick
a cambria needle into it's bosom, pull 1t out
and look at the hole and see how much
YOU will be missed when you depart frOI
this county"
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1t was DIR. Wiley who originated the idea
of Uncle Sans boarding house, the queer
est institution ever presided over by a
national landlord. This has been in ex-
istence for the last four years, during
which time the actual effect of prepared
meats and adulterated foods has been
tested by running them through dozen
government clerks who were pledged to
eat nowhere else and who had to subject
themselves to regular examinations as to
their physical condition.
This boarding house has been carried on
In connection with the bureau OF chemistry.
A kitchen was established and the food
was carefully prepared. DR.. Wiley has in
many cases weighed out each ration OF
bread and meat. and he has seen that every
man ate just the things required to make
the tests. They are government clerks
receiving from $50 and upward per month
and they have known that IL they broke
their oath as to eating they would probably
lose their jobs with the government for al
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-29
Talk with Dr. H. w. Wiley About the Great American Stomach

time In the future. The clerks chosen for
the purpose were from 20 to 30 years Of age.
They were lusty young fellows in the
prime of physical manhood and they en-
tered the boarding house of their own Volt
ton, agreeing to submit to its requirements.
They paid nothing for food, Uncle Sam fur
nishing everything in order to ascertain,
by actual test, the effect OF certain adulter-
ants, acids and other things upon the hui
man system.
During these experiments the boarders
we're carefully watched. They were tested
as a whole and as individuals, and IL one
lost weight too rapidly or had more than
an undue amount of headache or other all
ments, his peculiar poison was omitted for
a time, only to be resumed as he got bet
ter. BY careful experimenting upon the
twelve men DR.. Wiley has been able to
gather a large amount of accurate informa-
ton, from which himself and other scien-
lists have made valuable deductions.
These food experiments have covered diff
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ferent articles from year to year. They
started out with meats, and later on took
up certain acids and other preservatives
used in butter pickles and canned foods.
The scientists have tested different liquors,
and have, in short. carefully examined al
most every important article prepared by
man for the great American stomach.
BOrax for Meat, Fish and Oysters.
During the first year the experiments
were largely devoted 20 borax and boraclc
acid. Every one of us has seen borax.
Women frequently use It for washing their
hair and also for washing clothes. It is a
clear white crystalline substance, which
floats in certain lakes in Chile and Be-
livia, and 1t is also found abundantly in
parts of California and Nevada. The stun
is practically tasteless and one might eat a
considerable amount of it without knowing
it, If mixed with other foods. Borax and
bOracic acid are used by meat packers,
dairymen and those who prepare fish for
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-29

stock; to get out of debt, and, most of all
and above all, worrying over their grow
ing children's mental training. The elder
children of the sos got their education
in common schools. the next classes OF
the county youth were offered a high
school in which to finish their prepare
tion for life's work. 1t is but a brief,
short period to look back upon. The
view is scarcely credible. But here to-
day we have the gray heads and gray
boards and stepped shoulders to testify
to it's reality; and half the story has never
been told.
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@@EARNEY COUNTY celebrated at
u Minden recently one Of the most
important steps in the history of
Ef34l the county, the laying of tho
- cornerstone Of a new court house.
This event marks the permanence Of the
growth of the county and establishes 1t
beyond any probability of a repetition OF
history. Once before the county was set
up. the territorial legislature having es-
tablished II as a political division of
Nebraska, but It was afterwards wiped
out as a political entity, and even the
records were lost or destroyed. The new
county of Kearney has undergone many
vicissitudes. but has fairly demonstrated
its worth. and is now enrolled among the
most prosperous of Nebraska's galaxy OF
counties The laying of the cornerstone
was made the occasion of a general cele-
bration, in which all the people took part.
Governor Mickey was a guest and Dean
Pound OF the law school of the University
OF Nebraska made the principal address.
Among the other speakers OF the occasion
was Hon. Joel Hull. the oldest settler Of
the county, who devoted himself TO a
graphic account of the early history and
many trials of the pioneers, who bore the
brunt of the hardships that won Ne
braska from the wilderness. The text of
Mr.. Hulrs speech is here given:
1.-THE first Kearney county was given
boundaries by the territorial legislature of
1859 which embraced all that is now in
cluded in the counties Of Kearney, Frank
lin, Phelps. Harlan, Gosper and part of
Furnas county, whose county seat was
then Kearney, City, then and now generally
known as Dolby Town There were no in
habitants in that large county except at the
trading posts upon the great overland road
which was located on the south side Of
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-29
Hardships Met by Pioneers.

at was a high, slightly, undulating plain,
with no streams, no timbers, no stone,
whose only building material was the ma
tive sod; and water for domestic use must
be taken from lagoons or distant streams
or from wells of unknown depth, and the
fuel must be supplied from the soil or
brought from distant coal fields.
THE fuel problem was the most serious
one the early settlers had to solve-a much
greater one than you can now clearly con-
ceive. Until corn stalks could be grown
buffalo chips gathered from the wide
prairie were used. supplemented with a
hard-earned load of willow brush hauled
many miles from the nearest stream-and
the grasshoppers were the witnesses to the
corn stalk supply.
1.-The B. & NJ. on July q 1872, was COM
pleted to Lowell The main tide of immi-
grafton to the South Platte country was to
the Republican valley and the Red Willow
and the Beaver and the Sappa valleys,
where was reported good soil, wood and
stone and water in abundance. This great
smooth prairie between the Republican and
the Platte rivers was called the big divide
Caravans OF covered wagons and the
railroad trains brought for two years a
stream of immigrants to Lowell, thence
across the divide to their destination, not
one Of the thousands thinking 1t was prob
able nor scarcely possible that this divide
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'In the spring of 1874 settlement of this
great prairie commenced in Kearney. The
locusts-called by the settlers grasshop-
pers-produced no fear Of their becoming
desolating pests-famine producers-which
they proved to be- Humesteads were taken,
several hundred during 1874 and 1875, and
actual settlement made on them.
THE grasshoppers industriously ate the
settlers crops as fast as they grew, re-
sulting in a famine-a real famine-whch
was relieved in the fall of 1875 by train
loads, of food and seed from the charitable
of more favored states Many here present
today are ready to testify to the Joy of the
settlers at the arrival of the great grass
hopper relief supplies of food clothing,
feed and seed, without which most Of them
would have been compelled to abandon
their homes and move to a country not so
cursed. The relief came the settlers were
saved; their lands were again plowed; crops
were grown; wells were bored; fuel was
made from corn cobs and corn stalks.
Until 1880 in all this county scarcely any
other than sod houses, sod stables, sod
granarles and sod school houses were to
be seen. not score Of wood or frame
houses on all the farms in this county The
county was literally dotted with sod houses.
In the last year OF the grasshOpper plague
in November, 1876, the county seat, by an
almost unanimous vote, was voted to be
moved from Lowell to a point at the CEN
ter of the county, which was afterwards
named Minden, and two years later the
records were moved to this new town. In
1880 the people voted a special levy to pay
for taking to pieces the court house at
Lowell, costing originally $4,000, and re-
In MiOdan Uhara II has since
sheltered the officers and the county
records.
I'm the same year-1SSO--an election
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could ever become inhabited, where was
found no wood, no water. no stone. Every
one who traversed that desolate loneliness
said it would be impossible to live where
was no shelter nor material to make it,
nor water or fuel.
I'm 1873, on April 10, Easter Sunday, came
a snow storm with high winds which con-
tinued for three nights and two days, the
like Of which has never since been wit
messed. testifying TO the individuality of
that shelterless prairie. In the fall Of
,1S73 came the forerunners of the locust
plague lasting until the fall of 1876.
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created a great cutlery from the packers
end food adulterators. Since then these
men have sworn war against such investi-
cations by the Agricultural department.
They have attempted to stop them, and
it is now a question as to whether they
have not succeeded
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-29
other POisOns We Daily Eat.

Other POisOns We Daily Eat.
Before 1 give my talk with DR.. Wiley
want to mention the work of the other
three years at this experimental boarding
house, the results of which have not been
published After finishing with the borax
an investigation was made as to salicylio
acid. foreign substance which is put into
beers, wines and unfermented grape juice,
and which is also largely used in soda water
syrups. Then experiment was made
as TO sulphurous acid and its salts, which
are employed in drying and evaporating
fruits for the markets, and after that ben
Continued on Page seYen-l
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with the Union Pacific at a point near the
ninety-ninth meridian, which at once at
tracted the attention and investigation of
immigrants to the value of the high
prairie lands for agriculture whose short
grasses were well known to be excellent
for grazing. but the value Of the soil for
raising crops was unknown.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-29

the markets. They are sprinkled over oys-
tiers to keep them fresh, and are often put
into the tub oysters carried over the coun-
try. They are sometimes used in butter,
milk and cream, and are frequently
sprlnkled over fresh meat and fresh fish.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-29

Copyright. 1906. by Frank G. Carpenter)
r7AsHINGTON, July 26. - Especial
IW Correspondence TO The Bee.)-I
/" spent an afternoon this week with
ISiYESl DR.. II. w. Wiley talking about
49, the great American stomach and
the queer things which go into it. DR..
Wiley is in charge OF the bureau Of chemis-
try OF the Agricultural department, and he
knows more about what man eats than any
other person connected with the govern
ment. He is Uncle Sans chief authority
on foods and he has been studying and
analysing our eatables for the last twenty
years. He has an International reputation
as a chemist and is a member of the chief
chemical societies of this country and Eu-
rope. "A large part, of the present discussion
as TO pure meats and other foods which Is
now agitating the public mind is based
upon his Investigations, and, more than
any other man. he has awakened the neople
10 knowledge Of certain Epoisons which
We are taking in daily doses.
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Bora1 and the Boarders.

HOraI and the HOhrderB.
When these facts were first published
the packers claimed that borax and boracic
acid were harmless, and Uncle Sam replied:
You may be right, but II will do no harm
TO test it," 1t was with this view that
DR.. Wiley started his boarding house. He
took these twelve lusty clerks and fed
them food which contained just so much
boracic acid, Each man ate in one shape
and another an amount about half the
size of a pea every day for the first FIVE
days. For the next five days he was given
double as much, and the quantity was
gradually increased until he sickened. He
was then put on a recreation diet, and
when better started again. The stun was
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Continued on Page sevenl
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-28
STORM TERROR in
VEsUlIAN REGION.
Great Avalanches Send Showers
Of Mud and Cinders Over
Cities.
Feared That Storms May Stir
Volcano to Another De
structive Visitation.

Naples, April 49, Another disaster
has occurred in thes Nesuvian region.
Thruout the night torrents of rain fell,
accompanied by a heavy gale Of wind,
causing large avalanehes Of mud, sand,
ashes and cinders to fall over Somma
and Santa Anastasia, destroying
bridges, blocking the roads, flooding
many habitations, disturbing communi-
cation by telegraph and carrying away
portions of the railway.
Troops and military wagons were
hurriedly dispatcheds to the assistance
of the sufferers. The inhabitants of
the stricken places j mentioned were
awakened by roaring Sound, which
was absolutely new to them, and on
running out Of their houses, they found
their property threatened by a new
horror, the falling ashes sand, etc.
Their terror was extreme.
The women and children fed scream,
ing with fright into the open country
but in spite Of the avalanches, food
and gales, no loss Of life had been re,
ported up to the time this dispatch was
fled. :
It is believed that while the storms
rage, Vesuvius is liable to be CON
tinual menace to life and property,
and that the people in the region Of the
volcano. may have visitatinns Of more
serious nature than last nights ava.
lanches. Z: l.:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-28
POLICE CHILLED IN
CONVENTION RIOTS
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Missouri Republican Clubs in Fist
@ Fights in st. Louis ~
Meeting: ..i co.. r.. -, -:
IS ~ : = Z . I
sEs:.,.i.s ~ safE!2
-, .s--. - 2 y Is.

st. Louis, April Psf Following the
announcement BY Chairman Orff of the
convention Of the Missouri League Of
Republican clubs, that motion to
adjourn until May. 10 had been carried,
those opposed to the motion rushed to
the speakers stand, and the police were
called to restore order. :
The police failed to clear the hall
and the convention proceeded after
John Albus, Jr., Of st. Joseph had been
elected chairman to succeed Mr.. Orff. :
Of the credentials committee. Sam Har-
ris, secretary of the league, jumped
to his feet and declared that all the
authentic credentials were locked in
his office and that the credentials com
mittee had received spurious docu-
ments. Then the adjournment motion
was seconded and announced carried.
The disturbance followed. sa.s.#
Breaks Forth Anew. ~. -.
Hardly had quiet been restored when
the convention was convulsed again by
the introduction Of a resolution scoring
R. c. Kerens Of st. Louis for leading
the bolt in the last United States sena
torial fight at Jefferson City.
Again were the police used to re-
store order and to restrain several del.
egates who were engaged in fist
fights on the platform. :
During the excitement OrM regained
the chair, and when quiet was restored
the Kerens resolution was adopted. At
ter electing John Albus, Jr., Of St
Joseph, president, and E. NJ. Lee Of
st. Louis secretary, the convention ad
journed sine die. Secretary Shaw did
not attend. 49,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-28
STIR CAUSED BY
IRELAND DINNER
Italian Newspaper Makes Capital
Of Honor Paid American
Archbishop.

Rome, April 2s-As was expected
the dinner given by Ambassador White
to Archbishop Ireland, at which four
cardinals were guests, has caused con.
siderable stir. The ,Giornale d'Italia
yesterday interviewed Archbishop Ire:
land. Being asked if Americanism is
not the modern tendency of catholicism
in America, Archbishop Ireland said:
ssThat is a mistake. American
catholicism is neither modern nor an
cient. It is loyalty to the pope"
Cardinal Satolli also was interviewed
by the Giornale d Italia and said:
"Mr. White asked us to dinner for the
purpose Of honoring Archbishop Ire.
land. In America all, beginning with
President Roosevelt, love Archbishop
Ireland.''
Cardinal Vannuttelli said: "The din
ner was given by Mr.. White as a pri-
vate person to a friend, and he invited
us both as friends Of Archbishop Ire
land and himself. We accepted, know
ing that politics did not enter into the
matter in any way
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-28
FREEDOM FOR TWO
THRU FRISCO FIRE
Evidence Against Alleged Swim
oilers Is Destroyed by
the Flames.

San Francisco, April 2s.-It is said
that the fire destroyed practically all
evidence against Jacob and Herman Ep-
pinger, accused of swindling banks out
Of $788,000 by borrowing money on fic-
titious wheat certificates.
The second trial of Jacob Eppinger
was set for Wednesday forenoon, April
IS. the date of the earthquake. In
documents in this noted criminal pro-
eeeang pstee a1ao ab tSat ss sba estrnc
tion of all the evidence secured by the
state against the Eppingers will make
it impossible to convict the defendants
At the first trial of Jacob Eppinger the
jury disagreed. It looks now as if the
Eppingers would 60 free"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-28
ASKS CHILDREN TO
REBUILD SCHOOLS
Public School Pupils Of Nation
May Help Frisco as They
Did Galveston.

San Francisco, April 2s.-H. S. Cham
berlain, state director Of theaeducational
association for California, has sent the
8; GLOWING telegram to Nathan G: Scha-
fer, president Of the National Educa-
tional association:
Galveston suggests that the school
children of America rebuild the San
Francisco schools destroyed by fire. AZ
ter the 1900 flood at Galveston the
schools of that city were SO reconstruc.
ted and for a time maintained. Nearly
forty of the school buildings of San
Francisco were destroyed and some 25,
600 children are affected. Suggest you
direct appeal to all school Interests in
the United States asking school chill
tdren for assistance y
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-28
SHOOTS AT POSSE,
HITS Z; ESCAPES
Alleged Slayer Of Oregon City Pc
iceman Fatally Wounds Sher-
if in Exciting Chase.

WOODBURY., Ore, April 28.-Frank
Smith, the alleged slayer Of Policeman
Hanlon of Oregon City, and an escaped
prisoner from the city jail at Portland,
at / CLOCK this morning shot and
fatally wounded Sheriff J. S. Shaver of
Calkins county, and seriously injured
Captain O. D. Henderson of Company
D, @. N. G. %..z
The posse which has been pursuing
Smith for three days, surrounded him
in the outskirts of Wooodburn in a clump
of bushes about dusk last night. Short
ly after clock, Smith made a sudden
dash from the bushes and gained the
railroad, where he ran almost headlon g
into part of the posse consisting of
Captain Henderson, Sheriff Shaver,
Sheriff Culver Of Marion and two OF
three others. s-L ~
Henderson commanded Smith to
throw up his hands, and Smith respond
ed by opening fire with a revolver at
a distance Of six feet. Henderson fell
at the first shot and Shaver, q moment
later. -..sss
Before the others realized what had
happened, Smith darted into q nursery.
close to the track. The remainder of
stfssepasse hlrriedly 81, -niinde ed this
place, where it was believed Smith was
still hiding. When search was made
at daylight, however, 1t was found he
had escaped. =. =. e.
The POSSE, assisted by detachments
from the Portland police department
and the state militia, is now securing
the country in which the man is sup
posed to be hiding. :-.-<s +
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-28
WOMAN THRASHES
ELDERLY WASHER
Chicago Man Accosts Wrong Per.
son and Lands in Police
Station,

Journal Special Service.
Chicago, April 2s:-Discouraged by
the lack Of responses to his coy offers
to firt with the women he passed on
State street, H. Heserow, 40 years of
age and man of family and business,
stopped in front of the Palmer house
yesterday for more, strenuous tactics.
The next object of his admiration he
abruptly stopped. She knocked him
down and rolled him in the gutter. :. .
The woman who caused the discom-
future of the middle-aged flirt gave her
name to the police as Mrs. Ada Blast
When Policeman Thomas Walsh res
cued the man she was vigorously be-
laboring him with her fists.
Both Of the combatants were marched
thru the streets to the city hall by the
policeman. There they told their stories,
and Leander Lockard7 of Roseland cor.
roborated Mrs. Blast g statement, add.
ing that the man had accosted several
women. Walsh said1the man tried to
bride him by offering money for his
release. ~ IL
Heserow later was taken to the Har.
rison street station. The officers there
declare that he was arrested about a
year ago fer Insulting woman.