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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-19
ssPanama Canal is Ei9ht Years.
Job SAYS Commissioners hOntS

1t is not so. The work upon the locks,
if a lock canal is built, will require
more time than that in the cut. The
locks will be about 100 feet long
and several hundred feet wide. They
will be so small that it will be i'm
possible to work large number of
men in them at one time, and this
will limit our possibilities"
rs 40 steam shovels the maximum
capacity of operation?"
NO, we shall install more and more
as rapidly as we can. We have now
GIL steam shovels on the isthmus and
We shall eventually be working 100
or more. think the time will come
when we shall work by night as we'll
as by day, using electricity to give us
the light
What are you doing with the old
French machinery"
I'VE are still using some of it, but
are introducing modern appliances just
as rapidly as they come. There Is no
economy in working over the French
stuff. 1t is out of date, out of repair,
and will go for the scrap heap just as
soon as new TOOLS and tracks can take
it's place."
Uncle Sans New Tools.
Give me some idea of what you
have already bought"
81 can hardly do that in DETAIL"
replied Mr.. Shonts, although we have
it item by item. We have spent more
than 100000, and this covers all
kinds of materials from steamships to
blasting powder. We have 81 steam
shovels, 1900 fiat cars, and more than
300 dump cars. We have more than
5000 tons of steel rails, much of which
is already in place. We have laid
tracks through the Culebra cut of steel
rails which weigh 70 pounds to the
yard, and we are double-tracking the
| road across the isthmus. We have a
| large number of tracks running from
the Culebra cut to a distributing yard,
| where the cars will be made up Into
large trains for heavier engines to
take off to the dumping grounds. This
will enable the engines on the tracks
to the cut to be kept busy all the
time bringing in loads and carrying
back the empties.
"In addition to these" continued Mr.
Shonts, I'VE have new and powerful
locomotives, hundreds of box cars, a
number of modern passenger coaches
hosting plants of various kinds and II
hosting engines. We have bought
more than 100000 pounds of dyna.
mite and blasting powder and 1852 rocl
drills. AS to building material, oul
lumber purchases alone have been
more than 100000 feet, and we have
also something like 100000 bricks
and 100000 square feet of roofing tile
The work of house construction is go
ing on throughout the ZOne and We
are steadily improving our quarters
for men,"
Over $4,000 Men Working.
"Just about how many men have
you at work?"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-19
tBy Frank G. Carpenter,


Washington, d. C.-"The people
would like to know just what Uncle
Sam is doing at Panama"
made this remark to Mr.. Theodore
P. Shonts, the chairman of the 18TH
milan Canal commission, as We chatted
together in his Office near the war de-
partment not long ago. In reply MI.
Shonts brought out lot of mabs and
We Travelled together across the canal
zone inspecting the work. The war
department receives weekly reports as
to just what is going on and any
changes of note are recorded by cable.
My first question was as to whether
the dirt had really begun to fly.
In one sense it has," replied Mr..
Shonts, land in another sense it has
not. The work of the canal construc-
ton is properly divided into two parts
One is the getting ready to build and
the other is actually doing the work.
The getting ready is what we are do
ing now and we are rapidly advancing
isthmus healthy. housing our men,
yards and working out a large number
the dirt has begun to fly, as far as is
possible in connection with that pre-
paration. 1t will fly faster and faster
as time sgoes, on. and within few
weeks from now we shall be making
a perceptible impression on parts Of
the excavation.
THE month before my last visit we
had moved 100000 cubic yards from
the Culebra cut, and we had then at
work an average of less than II steam
shOvels. Within short time Engi-
neer Stevens expects to have 40 steam
shovels in operation and he will then
be handling 100000 cubic yards sper
month"
Uncle Sam Really at Work.
Tell me in simple language what
100000 cubic yards means?"
I'VE generally estimate cubic yard
of earth or rock as ton. 1t is load
for two-horse team over a common
country road. The product of one
month will be enough to load a wagon
train of 100000 teams, and supposing
that each team took 30 feet on a road
way the train would be 100000 feet
in length. Dividing by 5000 feet to
the mile for easy figuring, the team
would be 5000 miles long. or jus,
about long enough to reach from New
York to San Francisco and back again
We expect to be doing that long be.
fore the Snow falls. When we are do
ing It we shall consider that we have
begun work seriously as to the exca
walton part of the problem"
where will this excavation be frs
done?
."The most OF the work now is il
the Culebra nut, and q great deal of i
will be righ there. This cut has il
the past been considered the key tt
the time required for doing the work
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-19
CAPITAL BOOSTED.

Lansing, Mich, Oct. 19.-The Michi-
gan Sugar company, which recently
acquired nine sugar factories in Mich
igan, has filed amended articles of as
ISOLATION. 1t was originally capital
ICED at $62,500 Now the capital is
$14,500,000.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-19
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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-10-30
sNisS Cara GOOde

benefited as sha was. Miss Goode il
president Of the Bryn Mawr Lawn
Tennis Club Of Chicago. She writes;
Dear Mrs Pinkham.-
tried many different remedies to
build up my system, which had become run
down from loss of proper rest and unreason-
able hours, but nothing seemed to help me.
Mother Is great advocate of Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound for female tr0u-
bles, having used it herself some years ago
with great success. So began to take K,
and in less than a month was able to be Out
Of bed and out Of doors, and In three nonrhs
] was entirely well. Really have never felt
so strong and well as have since.
No other medicine has such record
ofcures of female troubles as has Lydia
E. PinkhaIn's Vegetable Compound.
Women who are troubled with pain.
full or irregular periods, bachache,
bloating Tor fatulencel, displacement
of organs, Inflammation or liberation,
can be restored to perfect health
and strength by taking Lydia q.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women
to write her for advice. She has guided
thousands to health. Her experience
is very great. and she gives the benefit
of it to all who stand in need of wise
counsel. She is the daughter-in-law OF
Lydia e. Pinlxham and for twenty FIVE
years has been advising sick women
free Of charge. Address. Lynn, Mass.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-10-30
UTES Off THEIR RESERVATION
Troops Sent After Runaway In
dams in Wyoming.
Hold Useless Powwow With Captain
Johnson and Then Resume Their
March Northward.

Omaha, Neb.--Genera1 Greedy is
sued orders for 400 soldiers from
Fort Meade, S. D., to be rushed to
the end OF the railroad northwest of
Deadwood, and thence by forced
marches overland to where the run
away Utes are encamped on the head
waters of the Little Powder River,
in Wyoming. This detachment is to
head off the Indians and prevent
them from getting into South Da-
kota
This is the third detachment to be-
sent against the Utes. So urgent is
the order that a portion Of the men
will go in cattle cars, as the rail-
road cannot get enough passenger
coaches to Fort Meade by the time
they are needed
In connection with the troubles
which the War Department is having
with the runaway Indians, pa
thetic story was told by the Sioux
Indian interpreter to Thomas III. Tib-
bles, of Omaha. BY adoption Tibbles
Is member Of the Omaha tribe and
is known to every Indian in the West
The interpreter said that several
weeks ago runners came from the
Utes to the Sioux Reservations in
South Dakota, bearing the story Of
the complaints Of the Utes. They
told the Sioux that they were actually
starving, and offered themselves as
slaves to the Sioux, provided they
were permitted to come to live on
the Sioux Reservation.
The Sioux replied that IL they
came on a visit to them they would
not be permitted to starve, but that
the Sioux did not wish slaves, and
that the Government would not per-
init them to give the Utes portion
Of their lands
Word was received here from the
scene of the Indian depredations in
Wyoming that Capt. G. P. johnson,
Of Major Griersons command, with
an orderly and scout, overlook the
Utes en- Little Powder River, about
forty miles north of Gillette.
Three hundred braves, we'll armed
and with large supply Of ammuni-
ton, attended the council, standing
around a circle in which Captain
johnson and the chiefs of the tribe
held their talk.
The Indians said they would well
come war, and would not return to
the barren reservation which had
been allotted to them in Utah. The
older Indians told Captain Johnson
they would all die fighting rather
than return where there was moth
ing but starvation for them. They
insisted on continuing their way
either to the Sioux Indian country Of
South Dakota or the Crow country
of Montana.
As soon as the powwow was over
the Indians broke camp and started
northward again, while Captain
johnson returned to Gillette and re-
quested the War Department to send
him moro troops.
Ranchmen have reported the Utes
have had two war dances since they
started northward and are more de-
faint as they get further from civili-
cation They rob sheep and cattle
camps with impunity, making such
show of force that the men in
charge of the camps recognize resist
ance is useless.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-10-30
PRESIDENT APPOINTS A DAY
OF General Thanksgiving For
Widespread WeIl-Being.
Calls Upon me Nation to Make Gratc-
full Acknowledgment to the Al
mighty on November Goth.

Washington, D. C.-The President
to-day issued a proclamation nam
ing Thursday, November 20, as a day
Of thanksgiving. Its text follows:
The time OF year has come when,
in accordance with the wise custom
of our forefathers, it becomes my
duty to set aside a special day of
thanksgiving and praise to the Al
mighty because OF the blessings we
have received, and OF prayer that
these blessings may be continued
Yet another year OF widespread
well-being has passed. Never before
in our history, or in the history Of
any other nation, has a people en-
joyed more Astounding material pros
perity than is ours; d prosperity so
general that it should arouse in us no
spiriteiof reckless pride, and, least Of
all, a spirit Of needless disregard of
our responsibilities: but rather a
sober sense Off our many blessings,
and a resolute purpose, under Provi-
dence, not to forfeit them by any ac-
ton of our own.
Material weIl-being, indispensa-
Bile though it is, can never be any
thing but the foundation Of true ma
tional greatness and happiness. If
we build nothing upon this founda-
ton, then our national life will be as
meaningless and empty as a house
where only the foundation has been
laid
Upon our material well-being
must be built superstructure of in
dividual and national life lived in ac-
cordance with the laws OF the highest
morality, or else our prosperity it.
self will in the long run turn out
curse instead of a blessing
I'VE should be both reverently
thankful for what we have received,
and earnestly bent upon turning it in
to means OF grace and not Of de-
struction.
Accordingly, ] hereby set apart
Thursday, the twenty ninth day of
November next, as a,day of thanks
giving and supplication, on which the
people shall meet IN their homes Or
their churches, deyoutly acknowledge
all that has been given them, and to
pray that they may in addition re-
ceive the power to use these gifts
Alright.
In witness whereof, ] have here
unto set my hand and caused the seal
Of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington
this 22d day Of October, in the year
of our Lord one thousand nine hun
dred and six, and the independence
Of the United States the one hum
dreth and thirty-hrst
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
by the President: Elihu Root, Sec
rotary of State.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-10-30
I0l MEN DROWNED ON
FLORIDA HOUSEBOA1
Vessel Blown to Sea by Hurricane
and Torn to Pieces.
STARVED SURVIVORS AT MOBILE
We're Rescued by the Mallory Liner
Colorado After Clinging to
Wreckage For "a Hours--At-
tracted Attention by Cries.

Mobile, Ala. ~ Charles Anderson,
Otto Brink, Joseph Nelson and Chas.
Olsen, survivors from Houseboat A,
Of the Florida East Coast Railroad,
which was blown to sea and wrecked
by the hurricane of October is, were
landed in this city by the Mallory
liner Colorado They report 1O4
men drowned off this boat.
The survivors were picked up nine
ty miles Off Key West, having attract
ed attention by their cries. A small
boat was put out from the Colorado
and the exhausted and half-crazed
men were taken on board They
were almost nude, their clothes hay-
ing been torn off them.
Nelson, who was captain of the
houseboat, says that the hurricane
began early in the morning, and
tossed the boat from her mooring,
several men being blown overheard
Two big extra anchors were put out,
but the wind increased in velocity
and the house of the boat was car
ried away, and eventually the hull it.
self was torn to pieces. A number of
the men were killed, and others had
legs or arms broken.
Forty-two men who were clinging
to one side Of the wreck were res
cued by large steamer Nelson
says he and the men with him tried
to signal the boat, but could not get
a reply. When the hull finally went
to pieces he and his three companions
hung on to part of the bottom and
fioated around in the water, sub
merged to their waists till they were
picked up. BY that time they were
nearly dead from their sufferings and
terror, as a great many sharks were
in the vicinity
The first news of hurricane that
visited the towns of Ruatan, Tela,
Utilla, Coloado and FL Provence,
Honduras, on October ~, was
brought here by the Norwegian
steamer Harald, which arrived with
cargo of fruit. A number of yes
sells were wrecked, several destroyed,
and buildings in each Of the towns
mentioned badly damaged. The loss
to the owners of the fruit plantations
will, it is stated, reach almost ST.
100000. The British schooner
Southern Queen was thrown on the
beach at Ruatan and went to pieces
in less than an hours time, and the
Harald suffered somewhat and will
have to be locked A great wave ac-
ccmpanied the hurricane and swept
everything before It,
Captain Henrichsen reports that
when he left, the beaches were
strewn with vessels of all kinds, in.
GLIDING three large sailing vessels.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-10-30

An Erdington baker, Herbert Pros
ser, has distinguished himself by rae
ing against time In the converting of
a field Of wheat into loaves. The en-
tire field was purchased by Mr.. Pros
ser, and cut. thrashed, winnowed, and
baked by machinery. From the time
that the last of the corn was gathered
to the moment OF its withdrawal from
the oven in the shape of loaves, only
three and a half hours elapsed. This,
Mr.. Prosser claims, is worlds rec
ord. Five years ago similar feat
was performed, but subsequent sea-
sons have not been dry enough to
allow of its repetition.-London Tit
Bits.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-10-30
DSAfness Cannot Be Cured

by neutrality-suspicious. as they cannot reach the
diseased portion the ear. THERE'S only one
way to cure deafness, and that is BY constl-
tutional remedies. Deafness Is caused by an
inflalned condition OF the mucous lining OF
the Eustachian Tube. When this tube isin-
famed you have rumbling sound or imper-
feet hearing, and when it is entirely closed
Deafness Is the result, and unless the infiam-
nation can be taken OUT and this tube re-
stored to its normal condition, hearing will
be destroyed forever. Nine cases out Of ten
are cansed by catarrh ,whichis nothing but an
infiamed condition OF the mucous surfaces.
We win give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness( Caused by catarrh) that can
not be cured by Hall rs Catarrh Cure. Send for
circulars free. F.J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, 0.
Sold by Druggists, Tie.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-10-30
BURTON BEGINS PRISON TERM


st. Louis Kissing his loyal wife
and little niece tenderly, former Sen
ator Joseph Ralph Burton, of Kan
sas, smilingly walked from the Ar
cadia Valley Sanitarium, at Arcadia,
Mo-, to the Iron County jail and was
locked in a cell for the night.
Thus did the first United States
Senator ever convicted of crime
while holding seat in the Senate
begin his term in Jail, the highest
court in the land having refused to
intervene to save him from the six
months sentence imposed for having
used his influence with the Postoffice
Department to prevent the issuance
of fraud order against the Rialto
Grain and Securities Company,
fraudulent get-rich-quick concern
which hourighed in Missouri few
years ago.
1t is understood Mr. Burton will
write a book on American politics
while in Jail.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-10-30
THREE LOST LEFT ARMS.
Had Them Hanging From Window OF
Overturned Car.

Schenectady, N. Y.--One Of the
big trolley cars running from this
city to Troy failed to take the curve
at Union and Mcclellan streets,
dashed into pole and turned over
on its side. Three passengers sitting
with their arms out Of the window
were the principal sufferers, these
being:
William Lacore, Cohoes; left arm
mangled, amputated near shoulder.
Frederick Jones, Troy; left arm
completely severed; in serious con-
dition
William Fl. Riley, Troy; left arm
mangled, amputated near shoulder.
Others hurt were s. J. Maxwell
and John Brand. who have internal
injuries.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-10-30
TO Abolish British Copper Coins.

How long are we to be afflicted
with cumbersome copper coinage
instead Of small nickel one? If Mr..
Asquith wishes to merit the approba-
ton OF his fellow countrymen during
his tenure Of Office he Will do away
with this relic of barbarism, which
dates from Lyeurgus, and from
which most other countries have
emancipated themselves. The penny
and the half-penny are merely tokens
and do not represent intrinsic value.
-Trnth.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-10-30
TERRIBLE ITCHING SCALP.
Eczema Broke Out Also on Hands and
Liinbs-An old soldier Dclars.
"Cuticura is q Blessing


at all times and to all people am
willing to testify to the merits of Cuti
cnra. 1t saved me from worse than the
torture Of hades, about the year 1900, with
itching on my scalp and temples, and al
forwards it commenced to break out on
my hands. Then it broke out on my limbs.
| then went to a surgeon, whose treat
ment did me no good, but rather aggra
waited the disease. | then told him
would 90 and see physician in Erie. The
reply was that | could go anywhere, but
a case of eczema like mine could not be
cured; that was too old 1907 went to
an eminent doctor in the city of Erie and
treated with him for six months, with
like results. | had read of the Cuticura
Remedies, and SO | sent for the Cuticura
Soap, Ointment and Resolvent. and CON
tinued taking the Resolvent until had
taken six bottles, stopping it to take the
Pills swas now getting better. took
two baths a day, and at night / Jet the
ather of the Soap dry on. / used the
Ointment with great effect after washing
in warm water, to stop the itching at
once. am now cured. The Cuticura
treatment is a blessing, and should be
used By every one who has itching Of the
skin. | can't say any more, and thank
God that He has given the world such a
curative. Vim. H. Gray, 1908 Mt. Vernon
St., Philadelphia, Pa. August 2, 1905,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-10-30
FARMERS PLAN BEEF WAR.
Start Movement For Curing Meats
For Home Consumption.

Topeka, Kan.-The National
Farmers Congress, in session here,
resolved to make a vigorous war on
the beef trust. The war cry is cure
your meats for home consumption,
ship through country agents, and to
terminal commission agents, who
shall be members of the co-opera-
tive societies" These are features
which will lead to securing better
prices for cattle than can now be Sc
cured through the commission firms
operating at, packing centres.
The business Of the cattle COM
mission firm is not the only one to-
suffer. for the fruit growers plan to
reap part of the reward which is
now going to the commission fruit
firms by establishing cooperative
agents and fruit warehouses in the
large cities In the fruit districts. AS
relief from the arbitrary fixing of
prices for meat, which has worked
to the injury Of both consumer and
producer. the committee recon-
mended agents for shipping and re-
ceiying.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-10-30
TWO DIE TO SAVE SISTER.
Elder Child Carries Both to Spring
Dies After Rescue.


Washington, ". j. Frances, tbir-
teen years old, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Mowery, living near
Hackettstown, poured kerosene in
the stove. The explosion set fire to
the clothing of her little sister Jen-
ME, aged three, who had blown with
all her might to make the fire go,
and was standing nearest the stove.
Della Mowery, aged six, grabbed
Jennie and tried 10 smother the
flames. She only set fire to her own
clothing.
Frances, herself unframed, lifted
the two burning children, one in each
arm, ran to the farmhouse spring
and jumped in. Neighbors, sum-
moned by their screams, pulled out
the charred and blistered little
bodies. Della died almost imme-
diately and Frances within two
hours. The baby may recover, owing
to the sacrifice of her two sisters.
The father was working In the
woods and the mother was nursing
a sick neighbor Samuel Mowery,
grandfather OF the children, was
burned to death in forest fire two
years ago.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-10-30

In report to the TAX Commits
aioner Of Richmond. Va, Thomas r.
Ryan gives his annual income as
$3.50, 600. The tax on income IL 81
thousand.
BARLEY Harper, OF Lima. Ohio.
saved Vice4President Fairbanks from
drowning when he and Mr.. Fairbanks
we're boys together in Union County.
Ohio.
Senator Chauncey M Depew. Inn
proved Ia health. presided at tho
meeting OF the New York Central
Board for tho Hlrst time since last
March.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-10-30

There may be doubts In some quars
ters as to whether or not Carlyle IS
holding his own, but one thing. at
any rate, is certain, says London
Academy, that year after year visit
ors from every region Of the globe
find their way to the Carlyle shrines
at Chelsea and Ecclefechan During
the twelyemonth ending with August
"a Cheync row has had as many CALI
ers as on any corresponding period
since the house was publicly opened,
and there has been a larger number
Of Americans than usual
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-10-30

The soapmakers Of England have
combineds with capital Of SIS, 000,-
e00.
One county in California il expect
ed to market l10.0Oo,000 pounds Of
prunes.
The United States Marine Hospital
service reported five yellow eever
eases ia Cuba.
AT the dedication 81 the Madison
Square Presbyterian Church. New
York City. DR.. PaYkhurst praised the
hood qualities Ut Stanford White, ia
lrehilect