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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20

In the opinion OF Lyman e. Cooley,
of Chicago. one of the greatest en-
cheering authorities o. the country,
the practicability of carrying the big
inland water highway to successful
completion depends upon the mastery
of the middle Mississippi between st.
Louis and Cairo. The total distance of
the projected continuous navigable
channel from Lake Michigan, at Chi
cago, to the Eads jetties, in the Gulf
of Mexico, is 1925 miles, and the fall
is 579 feet from the lake level to the
Gulf level.
Difficulties to Overcome.
Between st. Louis and Cairo diff
ficulties that few years ago would
have been regarded as insurmountable
will unquestionably be encountered.
The slope there averages only seven
inches per mile for the entire distance
of 1853 miles. At normal low water the
volume between those two points is
Sc, 900 second feet. With the river
in normal flood it rises to ten times
that Sow and in times of extraordi-
nary flood has reached between $780,
600 and 100000 second feet. A flood
volume of such magnitude on a slope
so deep produces a waterway of i'm
mense breadth with uncertain depth
at low water.
The low water season, when the riv-
er depth is frequently less than IL
feet, averages 100 days yearly in the
district between st. Louis and Cairo.
The alluvial deposits incident to the
flood overflows must, Of course, be
taken into consideration in any scheme
for the curbing of the Mississippi 3
width that has the maintenance of an
all the year round deep channel as
it's objective. Saving banks and extern
sive levee construction must be under.
taken, it is conceded, in such a way
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20

Florence, N. 1.-THE smallest baby
ever born in Burlington county came
to the home of Mr.. and Mrs. John e.
lott of this place. 1t is boy, weighs
only pound and a half, and can be
comfortably carried around in a small
cigar box. The physician says the
child is healthy and in a few months
will be robust.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20
Needless Precaution.

Once more poor woman is laughed
at for her lack Of banking knowledge.
There is no denying it, however; she
is funny when she gets tangled up
in the paraphernalia of finance. This
is the latest tale:
A West-end banker not long ago, re-
ceived the following letter from
lady well known in social circles:
Dear Sir,-Please stop payment on
the cheque I wrote out to-day, as &C.
cidentally burned it up.-Yours, Mrs.
Blank"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20
QUOT PLAYERS USE
CHICKENS.F SPIKES
FARMERS TELL OF BRUTAL GAME
RECENTLY PLAYED IN NEW
JERSEY,

Ve1ona, N. J.-Farmers who arrived
here he other day from the vicinity
of Jacksonville, told of brutal game
of qucits that was played by two resi-
dents of that section. Henry Holland
recently became the champion quot
thrower of Jacksonville, when he beat
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20
The Produce EXCHANGE

Farmer Jones Gin Office of weekly
acknowledgements was a-goin' to
renew my subscription to-day, but l
find I amt got nothin' smaller than a
20-pOund tub Nv butter.
The Editor-I can break that all
right, neighbor; how'll you have your
change-in 'taters turnips, onions, cab
bages, beets, carrots, pie-p1ant, or
raspberry jam?-Puck.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20

Gfllimon-Im going to the mas
querade ball as a clown.
Miss Sharpe-Really, I should think
you'd wear a disguise of some kind.
AomeIike.
Bacon-Do you ever feel at home on
shipboard?
Ebgert-Oh, my, yes.
"But the state-rooms are so small?''
II know It; but live in a fat, you
know!"-Yonkers Statesman.
Distinctions Of Sex.
Lady-Is this the manicure's?
Boy-Yes'm. But We have a girlicure
for ladies. Shall I call her?-Puck.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20
Mental. Earninn.

| Thought you said you had ploughed
that ten-acre field?" said the first
FARMER. ! a. ssS.jH> i~2 ,&i.- ss!l<sa ,~e.4-
mo; only said was thinking
about it." said the second farmer.
"oh, l see, you've merely turned q.
over in your mind" I .s..:
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20
America Has Few Statues

According to recent book of refer.
ence, Washington has 70 public stat.
ues, New York rs, Boston Sc, Phila-
delphia 80, and Chicago possibly 20.
1t is said that the total number of
public statues in the country at large
is 538. It is not stated whether these
figures refer solely to portrait statues,
but presumably they do, for American
cities have few ideal statues and still
fewer fountains.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20
For COMPANY,

q strolling into grocer's shop tho
other day, a little boy asked for half
pound Of margarine. He was being
served, and the shopman was about to
wrap the margarine up in paper when
the lad exclaimed: Please, cir. my
mnver wants to know II yern stamp
9 COW on It, cos we're having esn
my. 1.onden Farm and Homa, |
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20

On the plea
of self-defence
merchants aud
of the Middle
Wet have CIV
en- impetus to
q movement
for a great in
land waterway
system that
promises to re-
main in the
forefront of
national af-
fairs for years
to come. Prac-
tically every
section of the
country not &C.
tually within
the seaboard
zone has TAX
en- up the agi-
tatiOn for a
great inland
waterway and
is likely to
continue the
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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20

the national government is commit
ted to a policy that will place any
nav1gable stream of considerable d.
mansions in touch with ocean COM
MERGE.
President Roosevelt is expected to
make a strong recommendation in his
coming annual message on the sub
1ect of a flakes to the Gulf system
of water routes. Such an undertaking
as at present mapped out would equal
in magnitude the construction of the
Panama canal. The cost of the two
projects, it is estimated, would be
about the same. Advocates of the in
land waterways assert that they would
be OF Infinitely greater benefit to the
United States than the canal and that
without comprehensive system of
internal marine highways this nation
would be reaping only fragment of
the great commercial prestige to
which the completion of the Panama
canal entities it.
Residents, officials and leaders of
thought in Is states of the union are
already nightly interested in the in
land waterways agitation. A national
commission to measure the benefits
of the project is likely to be appointed
within short time. The recent trip
OF the president through the Missis.
sippi valley, eliminating in his ad-
dress before the Lakes to the Cult
Deep Waterways convention, Is re-
garded through the central section OF
the country as committing the present
administration to the 14-foot channel
project. The annual national Rivers
and Harbors congress that is held in
Washington just before the regular
fall session of congress begins is re-
lied upon to keep public interest arous-
ed as to the necessity of the under
taking.
Chicago Canal a Start.
"Fourteen feet through the Valley
will be the slogan with which the ad-
vocates of the inland waterways i'm,
provement projects will press their
claims before congress. They main
tain that all of the statistics and argu.
ments are on their side and that the
present condition of affairs in the com.
merc1al world is an unerring indica-
ton that the country's future develop
ment depends not alone upon the ex-
pansion of railroad mileage, but upon
the Improvement of the great water
highways of the country.
What is being urged by the business
interests of the great central country
Is settled policy of the improvement
that will begin at Lake Michigan and
terminate at the delta of the Missis-
sippf. It was for the Inauguration of
this settled national policy that the
recent convention was held in Mem
phis. This two days convention wound
up the presidents tour of the Missis-
sippi valley.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20
spikes that are ordinarily used in the

spikes Iuat are ordinarily used in the
game.
Each man picked one of the fat
test of the others chickens, and for
the opening throw of the game the
chickens were buried 80 feet apart
The rules were that every time one of
the QUOT pitchers put ringer" over
a chicken he was to get the fowl.
About four inches of head and neck of
the chickens showed above ground.
The frightened chickens struggled to
escape and lodged the iron rings as
they were thrown at them.
Finally Holland made ringer" and
then threw another quot, which rico
cheting, cut the head off a chicken.
Gesrote won the match with six ring
ers" and took all the chickens.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20
Why She Mas Not

!, Mrs, Gibson-I'm so tired. was at
Mrs. Heighton's party last night. vi.
=: Mrs. Gray-I didn't 60; in fact, did
not get an invitation: Were there
many there? -.
.'"Oh, no; it was very select.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20
Outlay Of $50, 900, 900.

Already start on this lakes to the
Gulf waterway has begun. The Chi
cago damage canal, extending from
the shore of Lake Michigan at the Chi
cago river to point between Lock
port and Joliet, ILL.,, is regarded as the
initial stretch of the great highway.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20
Not At All Difficult.

Blanche-The most difficult thing
when going away is to make up ones
mind what to take and what to leave
behind.
Henriette-Oh, don't think so.
take all my frocks and leave my has
band -
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20
Uncle Ben Saws:

> That the woman who goes to
church to show of her clothes will
have to find some other reason for
asking st. Peter to let her inside the
pearly gates. Detroit Free Press.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20
The Paraqrapher's court.h;, E.

!. The Photographers courtship.
He Gin the parlor)-Excuse me, but
have you a pencil and sheet of blank
paper handy?
:She-Yes; but why do you want
Hell just had a 50-cent thought
Chicago Daily News. f:>@1 r.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20

merous counselors who 40 freely offer
their gratuito recommendations
form a guarantee of safety is another
question. It Is possible that confusion.
rather than knowledge, is the most
prominent result of their Efforts.
London Hospital.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20

est outlay for artificial improvement
of the Mississippi would be neces-
sary. The distance between those two
points is 764 miles. All Of the big en-
cheering feats will have to be &C.
complished within that territory. If
stable channel of IA feet can be
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20
Power of Fortune

The power of fortune is confessed
only by the miserable, for the happy
impute all their success to prudence or
merit. Dean Swift. sss
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20

First Motorist-Hullo, old char, you
down here? I suppose you are puitina
up at the Royal where I am?
\ Second Motorist- fact is, my Cal
broke down just outside the Temper
ance hotel, SO I had to pretend Il
was there had intended to put m,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20
The Present Day Advantage.

Gay %UVdHtd9e.
PA, is it better to be born lucky
or rich?"
''Well, I'm not sure, my boy, but
nowadays to be born with a pull is
the; best advantage I know of."-De-
trOit Free Press.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20

The Maid-Dost hear that? IT'S ia.
Their. Fly, sweetheart, fly!
The Courtier-Ycu mean fee!
The Maid-As you like; but this is
no time for chronological distinctions.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20
TINY Mite in Char Boy

to her cries for help and saved her
| from fatal injury
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20

While the argument is made by the
champions of the inland waterway
project that river regulation is rate
regulation and that the improvement
of the great waterways of the coun-
try will do more to regulate freight
charges than all the interstate CON-
merce laws that can be enacted, prac-
teal railroad men declare that a fur
Their lowering of railroad freight rates
is really impracticable. They point
out that with the great rail systems Of
the country operating to their fullest
capacity they are earning only fair
return on the capital invested. Fur
Their reduction in railroad charges they
maintain, cannot be made while the
outlay for maintenance and operation
remains at the present figure.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20

Sounds Likely Enough.
There are plenty of women who
would be glad to get me-" he said.
Every likely she replied pointedly:
"but none of them would care to keep
you after they had got vou!'
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20
Feared Over-Exertion

Feared Over-Exertion.
Cumso-The doctor says I must
take plenty of exercise. don't know
whether to try Indian clubs or dumb
bells.
Mrs. Cumso-I wish you would come
out with me, and wheel the perambu-
lator a little way.
Cumso-Um! nc, Maria. don't want
to overdo the thing at first, you know.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20
Medical Advice.

The public nowadays has no need
to complain of lack of advice on med.
ical problems. But whether the nu-
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20
The Waters Curls

The Waters CurIs.
One morn Jane watched the curly sea
In all its madcap capers;
Then asked, Say, ma, at night who puts
The waves up in curl-papers?'
Judge
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20
Railroads Reach Limit.

During the last decade the internal
commerce of the United States has in.
creased more than 100 per cent, while
the railroad transportation facilities
have increased only Is per cent, and
are now practically at standstill.
All of the railroad transportation ex-
perts admit that the big transconti-
mental lines are being worked to their
fullest capacity. Millions of bushels
of grain could not be moved last year
because of the railway congestion, and
the west suffered coal famine be-
cause cars were not available and the
limit of transportation had been
reached in other ways.
James J. Hill has pointed out that
not only has the limit been reached in
the movement of freight, but even
should cars, locomotives and tracks
be supplied, there is now and Is bound
to be for years to come dearth OF
terminal facilities. Mr.. Hill has esti-
mated that the cost Of constructing
suf1i railway lines to meet the i'm.
mediate demands for moving the COM
MERGE of the country would require an
outlay of $4,000, 100000. This esti'
mate, he declares, gives little or no
consideration to the future. Mr.. Har'
riman a short time since announced
that in order to meet transportation
requirements the gauge Of the railways
Of the country and the rolling stock
would have to be doubled.
"Some time ago." Mr.. Hill said, II
asked real estate man what it would
cost to get tier of blocks, one of the
narrowest, from the Harlem river to
Thirty-third street, New York. He
came back in a week and said that
$3.50, 100000 would not buy it. That
means that for terminals alone 1t
would cost $165,O00 a mile for every
mile from Chicago to New York be-
fore the line was built. The railroads
can't pay rent on such high-priced
terminal property.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20

with so many sportsmen coming
up here every year, won't bears be.
come extinct?"
mo, sir; but the hunters wil]l"-
Chicago Journal.
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-01-03
COMMON
PLEAS COURT

The following cases appear or
the docket for the term of court
that convenes next Monday:
Mary l.. Dean vs Geo. Highley,
partition,
The Logan Natl Gas Co. vs. st.
Mary's Drilling Co, injunction.
Thos. b. Wolf va Isaiah Defed-
baugh, quiet title.
Mahola Hunsacker vs Carl
Mohler, partition.
Edwin Embick VS. Lucius Allen,
appeal.
Sylvester Davis vs Geo. NJ. Wal
ton, appeal.
p. II. Sweeny vs Belle C. Hyson,
for money.
Alice Spooner vs. Geo. w. Ross,
damages.
John Edwin Tritsch We Jacob
Pfeiffer, damages $4,000.
The Hooking Mfg. Co. vs. Benz.
and Marsh Jadwin, appeal.
George JOY VS. Mary joy, di-
vorce.
Geo. f. Pruden VS. j. l.. Carey,
for money.
Henry Dennis VS. Blanche, Den
mis- divorce.
j. E. Canty, admr. vs. Hooking
Mfg. Co., equitable relief.
C. w. Dowler, vs. Elmer Hamil-
ton, appeal.
Bertha Lafollette ys Edmund 2.
Smith admr., appeal.
Joseph Brooker VS. Logan Home
Tel. Co., damages.
Elizabeth Kllnger vs. Leonard
Weaver, appeal.
Mrs. John Mitchell. admr, va
Robt. Stalters, for money.
Lewis Polling vs. Thadius Floyd,
for money.
Anna Shultz VS. G.. M. Price, for
money.
David Unkle vs A. R. McBroom,
reyiyor.
Mary Donley VS. Richard Don
ley, divorce.
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-01-03
TO TEST TITLE
OF MCCLELLAN
Hearst Wants the MayoraIty Election
Case Reopened.
NE ASKS FOR REARGUMENT

Promptly Accepts the Offer Of the
New Attorney General and Files
Application For RehearIng on Peti.
tion For Leave to File quo War.
ranto Proceedings.
Albany, N. Y, Jan. 2.-The first pa
per served on Attorney General Jack
son was an application for a reargu.
ment on the petition of William Ran,
dolph Hearst for leave to begin quo
warranto proceedings to test the title
Of George b. Mcclellan to the office of
mayor of New York, of which Mr..
Hearst claims to have been deprived
by fraud and violence in the election
of 1905.
The attorney general gave instruc.
tions that copies of the papers be-
served upon the attorneys of Mayor
Mcclellan, and informed both parties
that he would give them hearing
Jan. Z.
The application filed with the attor-
ney general reiterates substantially
the allegations made before Attorney
General Mayer Further, it recites
the developments of the case before
the latter and summarizes his de.
cision denying relief, declaring that
Mr.. Mayer well knew that the prima
facie proof OF Mr.. Hearst's election
could not be forthcoming without
opening the boxes The situation Gre
ated by Attorney General Mayors de
cisions says the application was prac-
tically this: The court of appeals and
the legislature had refused TO permit
the ballots to be recounted on the
ground that this should be done in
quo warranto action. The attorney
general refused to permit new quo
warranto action to be begun, holding.
In effect that the ballots must first
be counted"
1t is further alleged that the attor'
ney general lin hasty decision" rem
dered four days after the submission
of the matter, Incorporated bodily a
verbatim excerpt from the corporation
counsel's analysis Of figures embody-
ing great and glaring errors of addi-
ton and subtraction, and that Mr..
Mayer eith,r did not read the answer
ing analysis or willfully misstates the
facts
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-01-03
Mystery Solved.

st. Petersburg, Jan. 2.-The mys-
terry surrounding the murder Of ex-
Deputy Hertzenstein has after months
of investigation finally been unrav-
eled. Hertzenstein, who was mem
ber of the lower house of parliament
from Moscow, was murdered at his
country home near Terioki, Finland,
on July 81, 1906. A secret committee
OF the Constitutional Democratic par
ty has traced the entire conspiracy
and has obtained definite proof that
the deed was the work of the League
Of Russian People. A man named
Yushkevitch is a prominent leader of
this league, and it is alleged that he
hired the assassins to kill Hertzen-
stein
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-01-03
WEALTHY
ESTATE
Office on Spring Street,
Rear of Opera House Block.

On Monday Marshal Allen re-
ceived letter from j. c.. Coney,
of Los Angeles, California, asking
for information concerning fam
lily of Coneys in Logan. The let
ter stated that the writer has sub
stantiated claim of vast estate,
and the family inquired of are
heirs.
Marshal Allen went to the home
of Nick Till, and talked with Miss
Dora Coney, who was visiting
there from Lancaster, and she said
she knew something of the estate,
and that her family at Lancaster
would take the matter up at once.
No other Coney family lives in
this vicinity.
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-01-03
Longstreth School.

On Friday evening, December
81, 1906, our schools gave a
christmas entertainment at the
the Lonstreth Hall under instruc-
tions of our worthy and efficient
Supt. j. G. Huls, of Rock bridge,
Ohio. The program consisted of
songs, recitations, dialogues and
declamations rendered by the
pupils to an overcrowed audience.
Fully 600 people were present and
to say that everybody enjoyed them
selves Is making the affair too
brief. An elaborately decorated
tree Illuminated with beautiful
candles and ornamented with
other attractive ornaments made
it most picturesque view. The
hall was tastefully adorned with
beautiful flags and appropriate
banners of the latest designs,
enterspersed with twigs of cedar,
pine and laurel The people of
our Monday-Lorgstreth Special
School District extend to Mr..
Hus and his corps of teachers
their hearty praise and wish them
untold success and Happy New
Year.
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-01-03
PROBATE
COURT.

Application to admit to record
authenticated will of John Nc
Mahon deceased, of Athens Co.,
Ohio. Filed December 81, and
admitted to record.
Application for transfer of real
estate, devised by will of John
McMahon deceased, made by
Bridget Booth and Kate Gallagher.
Certificate to Auditor issued.
First partial account of Adam
B. Lecrone, guardian of Minerva
Hamilton, an insane person. Filed
December %; for hearing January
26, 1907.
Inventory and appraisment Of
estate of Benjamin d. Dennis de-
ceased, filed by James 9. Stone,
ex. Dec. 2S. Total appraised as
sets $1115.OO.
Order of appraisment returned
and application for private sale OF
real estate of Alice Shearburn an
imbecile, made by Charles e.
Wright guardian. Appraised
value $3.50.
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-01-03
codlfylng Commission.

Columbus, o., Jan. although
James Il, Campbell, the third and mi
nority member of the commission to
codify the laws OF Ohio, did not arrive
in Columbus to attend the exercises
OF formal qualification for office, the
work of that body will not he impeded
or delayed in the slightest degree.
Judge Hiram l.. Sibley of Marietta
and Lewis C, Laylin OF Norwalk, the
two Republican members of the com
mission, were sworn I'm and consulted
together regarding the routine mat
tiers which must be disposed of this
week in order that the work may he
gin when former Governor Campbell
arrives Saturday. Appointments VIII
not be made until Monday Mr., Camp
bell is detained in New York.
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-01-03
Found Murdered.

New York, Jan. 2. - Mrs. William
Wilson, wife of stableman in We'll
lington, N. j., was found murdered in
her home when her husband returned
from work She had evidently been
dragged from her bed, for she still
wore her night clothes. She had ap-
parently been strangled with towel,
which was twisted around her neck
Besides there was stab wound In
the stomach and a blow on the head
had made q hole in the skull.