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Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1906-06-15
Appolnted Bank Examiner.

Sunday papers announced the ap-
pointment Of Claud Catch, Of Salem,
as examiner of national banks, to
succeed Archie johnson, of Corvallis,
on the recommendation of Senator
Charles w. Fulton.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1906-06-15
Thank You. gnel.

Dallas, Polk counA sis a progressive
place. 1t is now mdking for high
school. Salem JourfaI.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-09-29

4 man is always vain enough to be.
lieve he isn't.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-09-29
WEIGHS ONLY FOUR GRAINS
Smallest Engine in the World Truly a
Marvel of Mechanical Ingenu-
ity-lts Dimensions.

Tiny Tim as l have named this
smallest OF all engines" writes r. "A.
Robinson in the Technical World
Magazine, lis made of gold and steel,
and Is so small that a common house.
fly seems large in comparison. 1t fits
easily into the smallest 22 snort cart.
ridge, balance wheel and all. II
weighs just four grains complete.
That is about the weight of n com.
mon match. 1t takes l20 such en-
gines to weigh n ounce and 800 to
weigh II pound. Three million eight
hundred and forty thousand engines
equal one ton.
THE engine bed and stand are OF
gold. The shaft Il n in hardened
and ground steel bearings inserted in
the gold bed. These hearings are
counter-hored from the inside 10 form
a %se.f-oiling bearing. The nywhee!
has a steel center and arms, with a
gold rim. and this p%art--the complete
wheel-weighs one grain.
The cylinder Is Of steel with oc.
tagonal base highly polished. The
stroke Is one-thirty-sccond of an inch,
bore threo.hundredths Of an inch.
Seventeen pieces are used in TIE con.
struction Ct this engine.
THE feed is through the gCll base,
which is hollow. The speed OF this
engine is COCO revolutions per min
ute. When running 100 per second no
motion is visible to the eye, but it
makes a note like the noise Of a
quito, caused by the vibrating piston
rod.
The horse power is 1-i9S000 of one
horse power. Compressed air is use1
to run these engines and 1t may lie OF
interest to note that the mount re-
CURED 20 make the large engine hum
can easily be borne on the eyeball
without %winking."
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-09-29
New Danger Signal

Danger! An electrical system of sig
mailing has been perfected in Noting.
ham, England, whereby a gong sounds
on the engine and an immense bulls
eye in the cab glares with gren or red
light in the drivers face. Beyond the
spot where at present he distant sig
nal Is located on the railways, the IA
v~ention proposes that a central rail 100
yards long should be laid with a sec
ond and much larger central rail neal
the present house signal. Connected
with the signal box, the pressure Of a
roller beneath the engine on these CEN
trail rails would not only ring a bell
and cause a lamp, corresponding with
the track upon which the train has
been running, to glow in the signal
box, but bells would ring or red or
green lamps glow on the engine itself,
the color Of the lamp depending upon
which rail the signalman had connel t
ed with a negative.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-09-29
Autos in New York.

In New York state there are $3.50
automobiles registered. and it Is est.
mated hat for the United States the
number exceeds 10000, says the New
York Sun. The annual cost and oper.
alton of The New York automobiles are
said to aggregate $50, OO0, 900, from
which it is assumed that the entire
country spends about $4,000, 900 an.
nually for the delights Of motoring.
In France, owing to the strikes, the
automobile manufacturers have lost a
great deal of business, but n British
publication asserts that France has
been given undue prominence in re-
gard to the manufacture of automo.
biles, other nations doing just rs good
work and increasing the production of
such machines at Il much greater ratio
than has been the case in France.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-09-29
SURPRISING Profanity.

Hats off to Mayor Hawkins Of New
Richmond, Wisconsin. This particular
mayor presides over n town Of 1000
inhabitants, most of whom, we take 1t,
are addicted to profanity. There be.
ing no other field of strenuous en-.
deavor, he has given himself the task
of correcting the town evil. Profanity
must go, he says. 1t is useless. II is
blasphemous in the sight Of God. 1t Is
abominable in the sight of man. of
the profane man wants to wallow in
the pollution of his profanity let him
betake himself to the lumber camps,
and he must remember that when he
crosses the confines of civilization he
swears mt his peril" With some slch
comment Mayor Hawkins announces
his intention to enforce the law in all
cases of willful or i~ncXcusable Yrofan-
ity, assessing q penalty Of 500 or 4
Jail sentence of thirty days.-St. 10
seph News.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-09-29
Remarkable Railway.

An uphill railway, perhaps the most
remarkable In the world, is the Oroyo,
in Peru. 1t runs from Callao to the
gold fields of Cerro de Pasco. From
Callao it ascends the narrow valley of
the Rimac. rising nearly 5000 feet in
the first Sc miles. Thence 1t goes
through the intricate gorges of the
Sierras Till it tunnels the Andes at an
altitude of 15,645 feet, the highest
point in the world where a piston road
Is moved by steam. The wonder Is
increased by remembering that this
elevation Is reached In IS miles.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-09-29
ERROR IN BILL OF FADING
Young Railroad Man Found Burro
Where He Naturally Looked
for a Bureau.

There vas a tine when Senator
Elkins of West Virginia was a hustling
young freight agent in New Mexico.
His Jfice was a box car and his prIn.
cipal troubles were in making his re.
ceipts Of freight tally with his bills
of lading. One day he had a carload
of household furniture switched to his
siding. The seal of the car door was
quickly broken, as young Elkins then,
as now. always liked to keep up with
his work. He was greeted with the
bray OF an ass as the door slipped
back on its rollers. The bill of lading
was at once scanned. but there was
nothing to show that the animal
should be a passenger on this partic-
ular car. The goods were al! checked
out and then Elkins wired the general
Office thus: I'm a bureau short and
a jackass long on this carload of fur,
niture." After a little delay the an.
swer came: "All o. X. The bureau is
a burro."
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-09-29
BUILD STEEL CARS
IMPORTANT ADVANCE MADE BY
THE HARTMAN LINES,
All passenger and Freight Equipment
in the Near Future, Will Be
of This Construction
Economy in Plans.

The management of the Hartman
mes atter experiments extending
through a long period, have adopted
steel for the construction Of all pas
sehger equipment, of all box cars and
OF other cars which will permit of such
construction.
with a view to trying out the plans
which have been made for passenger
coaches, for mail cars and for freight
cars, the Hartman lines are having
constructed in the Sacramento shops
under the supervision OF Julius
hruttchnitt. director of operation and
maintenance, a model car of each kind,
with a view to ascertaining whether
the plans for the construction are the
best, and will work out as the manage.
ment believes they will. When the
plans are proved by the construction
OF the model cars, these plans will be
adopted as standard, and the Harri-
man lines will then build all their cars
with steel frames.
In the case of the freight cars, or
box cars, the company is constructing
NsaAAO' iAtlNl Vi olCCl, liz lOOlD
bsing of this material.
The action of the Hartman lines
management in adopting steel so thor
oughly and completely for equipment
is or more Importance than appears at
first glance. Some years ago the com
pany began building steel underframes
In freight equipment, which reduced
The WEIGHT nf n hny por from ohpnt
$4,000 pounds to Al 900 pounds. Steel
construction throughout will further
reduce the weight of the car between
5000 ard 1000 pounds. In a train Of
so freight cars this would mean a say.
Ing of between IS and 100 tons, or that
amount added to the possible train
load. This increase in train-lOad pos
sibilities, together with the indestruc-
tibility Of the cars, the cheapness Of
their repair and of the maintenance,
which Is fully so per cent. over the
wooden cars, means a tremendous to-
tai saving to the Hartman lines.
Still another saving that will be eff
fected by the use Of steel Is In the
way of lessened loss and damage from
wrecks. The loss of property is very
much less, as are the casualties, where
cars of entirely steel frames are used.
In the latter cars the combustible ma
terial Is reduced to a minimum, and
fires would rarely follow wrecks. With
a view to showing the possibilities in
wrecks, the management had photo
graphs taken Of steel cars which were
bent and twisted so that they looked
utterly worthless. Photographs Of the
same cars were taken after an eXpen.
diture of 5000 upon tn m, showing
them practically as good as new.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-09-29
Heavier Locomotives.

The steady tendency among rail.
roads toward heavier locomotives is
comprehensively shown in the stats.
tics of the first 800 locomotives pur.
chased by a western railroad 30 years
ago and the 800 most recently added
to the equipment. The smallest of the
latter Is over 35 per zen heavier than
the largest of the earlier period, and,
taken as a whole, the weight has been
multiplied three times and the tractive
force by two and a half.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-09-29

There is hardly any surer way to
live 10 be a very old man than to be
rich and have a lot of poor relatives
waiting for you TO die.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-09-29

When an undesirable young man
fairly dotes on "A girl she gcnerally
looks around for an antidote.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-09-29

ASIA CIGARS.
VIII not make you nervous. Ask your dealer or The
NJ. Lyman Cigar Co.. $40 nth Street. Denver.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-10-18
ORDINANCE NO. 81.

An ordinance for sidewalk on Com
mercial avenue from a point 1875 feet
north of u ghth street to q point 125
feet south Of Tenth street in the city
OF Cairo, county Of Alexander and
state of Illinois.
BE 1t ordained by the city council
of the city of Cairo.
Section /. That local improve
ment shall be made within the city of
Cairo, county of Alexander and state
of Illinois, the nature, charcter, local
ity and description of which local i'm
provement is as follows
That cement sidewalk twelve feet
in width be constructed on the east
crly side of Comercial ayenue from a
point 125 feet north of Eighth street
to point 1875 feet south of Tenth
street, adjoining the lot line, In the
c ty of Cairo, in front of the following
described lots, blocks, tracts or par
cells of land, viz;
Lot 6. block Is, rs front feet.
Lot Z, block -, % front feet
lot s, block Is, rs front feet.
Lot ., block -. 25 trent feet.
Lot 10, block IS, 25 front feet
Lot II, block IS, rs front feet.
Lot ~, block 10, % front feet
Lot f3 block 10, rs front feet.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-10-18

lots or parcel Of land upon the line
where such sidewalk Is ordered, by
levying the whole cost thereof upon
the lots, blocks or parcels OF land
touching upon the line OF such side
walk in proportion to their frontage
on such sidewalk.
| Section 3. That all owners Of lots
the above mentioned sidewalk shall,
under the supervision Of the city engl
neer, construct sidewalk In front
OF their respective lots or parcels OF
land In accordance with the specifica
tons set forth in this ordinance with
in thirty days after the mailing Of
notice Of the passage of this ordinance
addressed to the party who paid the
last general taxes on the said lot. lots
or parcels of land, and In default there
Of then the said sidewalk shall be con
structed by the said city Of Cairo I'M
der the supervision Of the said city
engineer, and bill of costs therefor,
showing in separate items the cost OF
construction and supervision, shall be
| filed In the office of the city engineer
certified to by the said city engineer.
| together with list of the lots or par
cells OF land touching upon said side
walk so constructed, the names Of the
parties who paid the last general taxes
on the respective lots or parcels and
frontage thereof as provided by law.
whereupon the said city engineer
shall proceed to make tax list
against said lots or parcels of land on
said sidewalk, and said city engineer
shall thereupon issue his warrants
directed to the city treasurer Of the
city of Cairo for the collection Of the
amount of such special tax as appears
from the tax list to be due from the
touching upon the line Of such side
walk and such officer upon the re-
ceipt Of such warrants, shall proceed
to collect the same according to law
and make return thereof and IL in
case any such warrant shall be re.
turned mo property found" other
warrants may issue.
| Section A. That II any any such
special tax shall not be collected upon
the warrants issued therefor, then the
| city engineer shall on or before the
first day of April thereafter make re
| turn to the county collector Of the
county of Alexander and state Of Hi.
nois in the manner prescribed by law.
who shall thereupon proceed to collect
the same according to the statute in
such case made and provided.
Section 5. That all ordinances or
parts of ordinances conflicting with
this ordinance be and the same are
hereby repealed
Section G. This ordinance shall be
in force from and after is passage.
Adopted October II, A. IL 1906.
Approved October Is, 1906.
GEORGE PARSONS,
Mayor.
Attest: r., A, HATCHER,
Published in the Cairo Bulletin
October Is, 1906.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-10-18
ORDINANCE NO. 90.

An ordinance for Il sidewalk on
Fliteenth street from Commercial
avenue to Wa. hington avenue, in the
city of Cairo, county Of Alexander and
state of Illinois
Be II ordained by the city council
of the city of Cairo:
Section !. That local improve
ment shall be made within the city OF
Cairo, county Of Alexander and state
of Illinois, the nature, character To-
cality and description of which local
Improvement is as follows:
That a cement sidewalk six feet In
width be constructed on the no!therly
side of Fifteenth street from CONNER
cial avenue to Washington avenue
adjoining line two feet from the lot
line, in the city of Cairo, in front Of
the following described lots, blocks
tracts or parcels of land, viz:
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-10-18
ORDINANCE NO. IS.

An ordinance for sidewalk on the
noriherly side Of Thirty third street
from Sycamore street to Elm Stree
and a sidewalk on the northerly side
Of Thiriyf0urth street from Sycamore
street 10 Washington avenue. in the
city Of Cairo. county Of Alexander and
the state Of Illinois.
Be il ordained by the city council Of
the city Of Cairo;
Section /. That a local improve
ment shall be made within the city
of Cairo. county Of Alexander and
state Of Illinois. the nature. character.
locality and description Of which local
improvement is as follows.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-10-18
ORDINANCE NO. 81.

An ordinance for sidewalk on
Second street from Ohio street "a
Commercial avenue in the city Of
Cairo. county of Alexander and state
Of Illinois
BE it ordained by the city council of
the city Of Cairo:
Section J. That a local improve
ment shall be made within the city of
Cairo. county Of Alexander and state
of w moi. the nature. character. 10
cality and description of which local
improvement Is a. follows:
That cement sidewalk ten feet in
width be constructed on the northerly
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-10-18
ander and state OF Illinois.

ander and state Of Illinois.
BE II ordained by the city council
of the city of Cairo:
Section /. That n local improve
ment shall he made within the city Of
Cairo, county of Alexander and state
'of Illinois, the nature. character, 10.
cality and description of which local
improvement IS as follows:
That a cement sidewalk twelve feet
in width be constructed on the west.
arly side of Commercial avenue from
Fourth street north to a point % feet
south of Sixth street adjoining the
lot line in the city of Cairo, in front
of the following described lots, blocks,
ro ctv mr. nnt,pplS NJ land viz.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-10-18
ORDINANCE NO. GO.

An ordinance fOr sidewalk on Fourth
street from Commercial avenue to
Railroad street. IN the city Of Cairo.
county Of Alexander and state Of III
inCis
Be o. ordained BY the city council
of the city Of Cairo
Section 1 That local improve
ment shall b. made within the city
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-10-18
ORDINANCE NO. IS.

An ordinance for Sidewalk ON Com
r-crcial avenue frcm Fourth street -
2 point Is feet -ogth Of Sixth street
in the city Of Cairo, County Of Alex
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-10-18
A PRETTY FIX.

The Monk-Where Is the can open
err
The Ostrich-why. thought Il was
for dessert. and / swallowed n.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1906-05-23
HAD GIVEN UP ALL HOPE.
CONFINED TO Her BED
WITH DYSPEPSIA.
love MyLife to Pe-ru-na.
SAYS Mrs. Hufaker.

Mrs Mittie Huffaker, Il. T. No g.
Columbia, Tenn, writes:
~ was afflicted with dyspepsia for
several years and at last was confined
TO my bed, unable TO sit up.
1--WE tried several different doctors
without relief.
."I had given up all hope of amy re-
Hefand was almost dead when my
husband bought me bottle OF Pc
ruHa.
AT first I could not notice any ben
eft but afte. taking several bottles
was cured sound and we'll
at. is to. Peruna I owe my life TO-
day.
IL cheerfully recommend it to all
sufferers"
Revised Formula.
'''For a number of years requests
have come to me from multitude OF
grateful friends. urging that Peruna
be given a slight laxative quality.
have been experimenting with laxa-
tive addition for quite a length of
time, and now feel sratified to an
nounce to the friends of Peruna that
/ have incorporated such a quality in
the medicine which. in my opinion.
can only enhance its well-known bene-
fetal character.
IS. B. HARTMAN. NJ. D."
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1906-05-23
MEMORIES OF TIE PAST.
The Day Intended for Appropriate
.Commemoration of the Deeds
of Heroes.

Memorial day was founded that
there might be a few hours in each
year set aside for the appropriate
who had been killed while serving the
country in the army or navy or who
had died since having so served For
a number of years it was generally
and suitably observed. Then in some
places 1t ceased to be observed at ALL
In many it was given up to bicycle
and horse racing and other sports and
festivities.
Diversions of this kind have been
widely and properly protested against
as dissertations of the day. The pro-
tests seem to have had some effect,
for observance of the occasion prom
ises to be not only more general this
year than usual but also more appro-
pirate.
Contemplation of the courageous and
self-sacrificing patriotism exhibited by
past generations is to little purpose
III II do not Undue their successors
with purpose to emulate them.
The men of to-day have confronting
them questions almost as difficult as
any which have yet been dealt with.
and the best way the sons can show
their appreciation of what the fathers
accomplished is by resolving to 60
about their work as citizens with the
same courage and in the same spirit
as their fathers went about theirs
Chicago Tribune.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1906-05-23
DECISION ON NAMES.
Report of Beard in Regard to Colorado
Points.

FClntS.
The United States Board on Geo
graphic Names AT Il meeting held III
April 4, 1906. rendered the following
decisions as regards Colorado points:
Bison. mountain, Tarryall noun
tain. Park county.
Black; mountain. Park county. tNo;
Basaltie.)
Bunalo; peak, Tarryall mountains
Park county. tNot Freemans.)
Cathedral; peaks, West Elk noun
tains, Gunnison county. Not Mendi-
cant ridge.l
Crestone: peaks. SanGre de Cristc
range. Saguache county. (Not Three
Tetons.)
Del Norte; peak, San Juan noun
tains, Rio Grande county. tNot Pin
data
Electric; peak. Sansrc de Cristo
range, Custer county.
Granite: butte. group of hills, Teller
county. tNot Catamount hills.)
Green mountain on plains at base
of front range, jefferson county. tNoi
Hendricks peak nor Mount Hendricks.D
Greenhorn; mountain. Wet noun
tains. Huerfano county. Not Cuerno
Verde)
Hunts; peak Sangre de Cristn
mountains, on the boundary between
Saguache and Fremont counties.
Kit Carson: peak. Sangre de Cristo
range, Custer and Saguache counties.
(Not Frustum)
Mesa: mountain. Saguache COUNTY.
(Not Del Norte.D
Mount Princeton; Sawatch range,
Chaffee county. tNot Chalk-)
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1906-05-23
Oldest Living Thing.

The distinction of being the oldest
living thing undoubtedly beionss to
one of the giant trees. and many at
tempts to locate it and determine its
age have been made, says LONDON TIT
Bits. A century ago De SahIolle
found two yews-one at Fortingal. in
Per,hshire. and one at Hedsor, in
Bucks-that were estimated to be re-
spectively 800 and S.24O years old
Both are still fourishins. and The
older tree has a trunk "a feet in cir
cumference A gigantic boabab in
Central America, with trunk ~ feet
through, was thought by Humboldt to
be not less than $3.50 years Old Mex
lean botanists believe that they have
now discovered life-span even
greater than this, and from The annual
rings cypress of Chepultepec' whose
trunk is IFS feet in circumference, is
assigned an age of about 600 Years.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1906-05-23
School Land Suit.

Denver-In order to settle the ques-
ton of the states right TO dispose OF
school land in spite of an attempt upon
the part of the Legislature TO assume
this right. friendly suit is to be
started to which the Biiou Irrigation
Company will he the other party. the
last Legislature passed law which
provided that any school section suit
able for irrigation purposes could be
appropriated by an irrigation company
with proper compensation to the state.
The Biiou irrigation Company desires
IN acquire a large reservoir site east
of Fort Morgan. in the center of which
is a section of school land. The State
Land Board contests its right TO take
this section, claiming that it has the
sole jurisdiction over the disposal OF
school land The suit will determine
the disputed point.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1906-05-23
SYMPTOM TUNNEL OPENED
Under tie Alps From Switzerland to
Italy.

Domodossola. Italy.-The Simplon
tunnel was inaugurated here Saturday
by King Victor Emmanuel, who left
here at 1855 a. m. for Brique, on the
Swiss side of the mountain. The royal
train passed through the twelve
miles of tunnel drawn by steam en-
CINE. the electric motors not being
ready. On reaching the middle of the
tunnel, at a height of 200 feet above
the sea level, the King was heard to
exclaim:
ut is a Cyclopic work, the result of
a century of study, seven years of
work and the expenditure of nearly
$15,O0O,000.'
At Brique the King, who was ac'
companied by Premier Sonnini, the
minister of public works, and a large
number of other officials, was received
by the President of the Swiss Republic
and the members of the Federal Coun-
ell. the National Council and the Coun
ell of State, and other officials to the
number of about 500 In the speeches
which followed the meeting of the
King and the Pre- sident much satisfac-
ton was expressed at the opening of
the tunnel, which was completed as far
as piercing the mountain wad con
cerned last February.