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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-11-07
State Teachers in January.

The annual convention of the Iowa
State Teachers association will con-
rene in Des Moines, Jan, 1, for three
days session. Most of the meetings
will be held In the West High school
building and the churches of the
city. The Commercial league and
Federation of Women's clubs will
make preparations for the entertain
ment of the 1.40O pople who will be
here to attend the meetings. Promin-
emit people from all ovr the country
will be present to address the con.
vention.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-11-07
League Work in Davenport.

League Work In Davenport.
The Iowa Anti-Saloon league IL
seriously considering the ACCESSIBILITY
of sending a representative to Davefe
port with view of securing injunc.
ton DEGREES in strict conformity to
the mulct low against the zoo sa.
looms In that city.
Their attention has been called to
the place by special newspaper cor.
respondence detailing the persistent
apology tor the Ricnter assault on
kemmerer and the mobs that chased
captain Neal about the city and final.
ly forced him to leave the town to
make his permanent home on the
coast
demonstrations by gatherings OF
men opposed to the Kemmerer prose
cution of Richter, and who collected
at the station without effort on the
part of Mayor Waldo Becker to dis.
perse them, and the Richter defense
OF violation OF the mulct law have
served to call the attention of the
anti-saloon league to the situation.
Persons in the confidence of Captain
Neal and the league have said that
the league seriously contemplates &C.
ton.
The Neal DEGREES were but partial
In enforcement, at least. Their chief
gain to the enforcement of law was
the closing of the saloons between 10
p. m Saturday and p. m. Sunday and
tie closing Of some of the wine
rooms. Otherwise 1t is understood
that the institutions use tables and
chairs, have back doors, screens and
all OF the other paraphernalia of a
wide open town. If the league goes
TO Davenport II will be to enforce
the mulct lay q detail
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-11-07
SYNOPSIS.

Burton H. Barnes, a wealthy American
touring Corsica, rescues the young Eng
Iiish lieutenant, Edward Gerard Anstruth-
err. and his Corsican bride, Marina,
daughter of the Paolis, from the muir
derous vendetta, understanding that his
reward is to be the hand of the girl he
loves. Enid Anstruther sister of the Eng
ish lieutenant. The four fly from Ajac-
clio to Marseilles on board the French
steamer Constantine The vendetta pur-
aues and as the quartet are about TO
board the train for London at Marseilles,
Marina is handed a mysterious note
which causes her to collapse and necessi-
tates a postponement OF the journey.
Barnes gets part of the mysterious note
and receives letters which inform him
that he Is marked by the vendetta. He
employs an American detective and pl"ns
to beat the vendetta at their own gare.
For the purpose of securing the safely
Of the women Barnes arranges to haFe
Lady Chartris lease a secluded villa st
Nice to which the party is to be taken
in a yacht. Suspicion is created that
Marina is in league with the Corsicans.
A man, believed to be Corregio Danella,
IS seen passing the house and Marina Is
thought to have given him a sign.
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Change Insurance Plan.

Change Insurance Plan.
Some of the Des Moines stock life
insurance companies are considering
the advisability of going on an exclu.
sive nonparticipating basis after Jan.
l. None of them has definitely decided
the matter but probably will do sc
within a short time. Nearly all of
them have been writing considerable
nonparticipating business for the past
few years and in some instances the
nonparticipating policies have formed
rs per cent of their total business.
The nonparticipating policies are
those on which the rate or annual
premium Is always the same and the
amount of insurance or income from
the policy is fixed at the time 1t Is
written. In the deferred dividend
policies the value at expiration is not
known. in advance, depending upon
the earnings Of the company.
Not Hankerlng for Brigade.
Adjutant General Thrift has writ
ten to the war department at Wash.
ington that this state isn't laundering
for brigade organization of the
Iowa National Guard, and will find
out II 1t Is absolutely necessary to
follow the letter of the Dick law and
form such an organization in order to
get the states share of the national
| appropriation for the benefit Of
guardsmen.
"If we have to have 1t, we will. II
we don't have to have 1t, we won't"
said he. Reply from the department
| Is expected within the next ten days.
Evans Succeeds Judge Cole.
Edward Baker Evans is now the
dean of the Drake college of law
His installation in the place which
has been occupied by Judge C. C.
Cole took place in the Drake auditor
ium before a large audience of law
students, lawyers and friends. II
was a notable occasion. making an
| end to a epoch in the history of the
Drake law college. 1t marked the def.
| mite laying down of the work By
Judge Cole and the taking up of the
task by Mr.. Evans. Honor was paid
| I'm them both
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extremely poisonous. Once this reptile strikes the
victims life is practically destroyed It's poison is
deadly that antdotes useless and death usually
follows the incision within hour.
Brandu began operations by lifting the cover from
basket filled with cobras revealing Shiny mass
of reptiles wound about another in oily coils.
Seating himself by the side of the basket probably
eighteen inches distant he pursed his lips and emitted
a low plaintive whistle that sounded not unlike the
note of dying bird. The whistle was almost a
monotone varied only in few notes Slowly out of
the squirming basket there rose the head of cobra
The fiery little tongue dartng in and out of it's
mouth like a tiny fork of lightning. Brandt shifted
from the whistle to low Groom, like an old Negro
nanny will use after she has sung baby to sleep
and is fearful to stop suddenly lest the unbroken
silence may the child to wake.
AS the cobra uncoed its head it gradually attained
a height of eighteen inches Then it stopped still,
and while it fixed Brandu with its eyes, the body
grew hard and tense. simultaneously the old
charmer's fingers began to wriggle mpatiently, and
the reptiles head His face bore not the slightest
indication of fear with death just eighteen inches
from the tip of his When the cobras neck
pulled either side, Brandu knew that it about
to STRIKE and with unbelievable speed his bare hand
flew through the air and caught the snake behind,
just below its ugly head. AS helpless as piece of
wet twine the viper wound itself about Brandu arm
To expert snake gives any number of warning
kill even rabbit until it has played with it for
few minutes. Contrary to common belief, the
rabbit is not afraid, and will stand still while the
snake tickes its with forked tongue When
the snake decides to kill, it gradually lunches up.
poses, and strikes quickly that the rabbit never
knows what hit it.
Incredible as it may seem, the hands and arms of
the Burmese are quicker than the movements of
snakes. and whenever a charmer grows old that
his eyes and muscles lose their quckneSs his power
the reptiles becomes less. the day arrives when
the cobra is faster than he and they pack him away
in the tomb with his charming" forefathers
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"HERE is no such thing snake charming 1t
is misnomer invented by showmen to give
added interest to the peculiar occupation. AS
practised by native Americans it is fake. disguised.
it is true. by the clever manipulation of CHASTITY
green spot lights and the creepy suggestiveness of
Oriental music; but nevertheless fake and the
about her arm neck, waist is as harmless as SO
much manila rope. and almost as lifelesS.
In captivity harmless and harmful snakes alike
the dopiest creatures imaginable If left alone
they will lie in Stupor for days at time. and it is
only when handled and thrown round by the SO
called magicians that the ''venomous vipers will
suggest the spark of life by writing their Shiny
bodies and shooting forth the little forSed tongue.
an affectonate dog. With captive snakes the great
est difficulty lies in keeping them alive By nature
they so lazy and stupid that they will not
take the pains to eat and to prevent slow starvation
it is usually necessary to give them milk baths. soak
them in starched water and force food down their
threats after pryng open their mouths with stick
Probably the greatest manipulators of snakes
the Burmese. In Burma snake charming is hered-
tary procession of fathers and sons. AS practised
by the inhabitants of India and Burma snake charm
ing is very dangerous profession. and it is only by
the lightning agility of these men that they avoid
death To appreciate their speed it is necessary to
see them operate. They handle the deadiest reptiles
in the world; but the claim of mesrnerc or hypnotic
power the snakes is all poppycock.
One of the best of the Burmese snake who
have appeared in this country Kogoo Moolo
Brandu, an old bundle of nerves and sinew, who
played an engagement five or six years ago with an
animal show at Coney Island. This fellow the
real article brought to the United States by Bostock
He handled the cobra de capello (the hooded snake
of 1ndia), rattlers, copperheads. anacondas, boa
constructors and pythons. possibly dangerous and
deadly collection of animals could men,
ton in FIVE minutes conversation
In the hands of old Brandu. however. they were
practically harmless, not because they afraid
of him, not because he had any mystic power over
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definitely determined. Usually wind pressure of
forty pounds to the square foot is provided for
the entire exposed
1t is even possible to put in the walls of sky
scraper at the top. A Chicago architect engineer
did this recently, building his walls downward; and
last year New York builder whose supply of stone
for the lower stories delayed by the quarrymen
closed in his upper floors rather than lose time in
waiting.
evolved in response to set of conditions creating
an mperious demand. And result the steel
cage method has reduced the cost of construction,
compared with the old solid masonry method,
from five dollars to little than thrtyive cents
cubic foot
How much higher commercial buildings go
is interesting question Theoretically there is
no reason why a skyscraper of one hundred stores
thousands of feet high, should not be built.
Into the Earths Depths
TN New York many of the greatest buildings. has
i been seen have to go down into the earth for
distance equal to the height of many ordinary
structures. In Chicago, which practically floats
bed of soft sand and mud, the constructor has
still greater dficulty-which he meets with char
acteristic American ingenuity. Here are found the
great buildings resting on fiat boats. These are
made of great timbers, driven straight down into
some trustworthy stratum; else they consist of
steel rails grders in squares filled in with cement
until they form solid slab of stone and iron. Now
and then they little to side, throwing the
towering building which rests upon them slightly
out of plumb, like Pisa's famous tower All of
them settle a little; and in New York where some
of the greatest skyscrapers rest upon fine white
sand, they have settled as much as half an inch
The St. Paul Building in New York and the
Marquette Building in Chicago can both be raised
with powerful hydraulic presses, should they settle
too much Their builders knew just how much
their skeletons would weigh, almost to the ounce,
precisely as the designer of battleship knows how
much his floating fortress will dispace. More than
this, the skyscrapers architect must know the
weight of each part of his fabric that it's load
may be equally distributed over the foundation.
He must also compute live weight. such the per-
fttrp ifttra Safa md Thor fantc of Tho
colossal hive
Take monster like New York Park Row Building
the Times Building four hundred and thirty feet
below the surface The Park Row Building is three
hundred and eight ytwo feet high about seventy feet
less than the Great Pyramid of Cheops. typical
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skyscraper this. hdeous but daring; landmark seen
far out in New Jersey; a familiar beacon to every
ship entering the harbor Tier above tier rise
twenty nine stories, embraced by twenty thousand
tons of steelwork. Many of good timber had
to be furnish the thousands of great pine piles
many of them forty feet long, that driven into
the sand OF the site to support the monster. Each
of them sunk by hammer weighing more
than ton; and will bear twenty tons weight with
out sinking. When driven down as far as possible
their tops were cut off, the sand cleared away for
foot or so round the upper ends and then concrete
poured about these, forming solid rock of founda-
ton. On this base were laid the great blocks of
granite and above them the skyscraper's brick PIERS
which carry altogether maximum load of sixty-one
thousand tons
There are nearly thousand rooms in this building;
and you count four persons to EACH you have the
population of town. AS to transient visitors esti-
mate only one person for each resident during the
business day. and there is total population of
eight thousand people. who give the flying elevators
daily passenger traffic of more than fifty thousand.
A skyscraper of this magnitude will haveAts
electric light plant; gas plant; waterworks sys-
tenn; artesian wells fire department. with hose
lines and chemical extinguishers it's own police
department too. with detectives watching for petty
thieves pickpockets, beggars, and peddlers. have
compared it to great city, and its superintendent
acts as mayor. with big force of workmen under
him always busy cleaning the corridors and may
stairways of the giant structure To continue the
metaphor, its elevators complete system of
electrical railroads. with wondrous automatic
engagements for opening shutting doors, prevent
ing accidents. and indicating precisely where the
express and local cars at any given moment
An Entire City Indoors
THE new forty-one-story skyscraper, the Singer
l. Building. will have it's own telephone system,
with an intricate and perfect arrangement of pneu-
matte tubes and message delivery systems It will
contain telegraph cable. and district messenger
offices. that the of affairs seated at his desk
may communicate with Timbuktu or Central China
should his business require it.
There will be bath rooms and barber shops, res
taurants and newspaper stands, cigar and candy
stores reference libraries safety deposit vaults and
pan paiks. olcyce seorages anu SoeiaL cluos Even
skyscraper of to-day may live hermt-wse in a kind
of troglodyte nest of his own. and have his every
want iuxuriously supplied, without ever passing
beyond the revolving storm doors that give access
to the roaring world outside.
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very simple reason that he could move his hands
faster than they could their bodies, and in the
yernacular of the race track. that was "goin some
His cleverest work accomplished with the
cobra de capello, which is very quick snake and
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hundred and fifty dollars; and now, thinking the
limit reached in this figure, the manager signed a
contract for five years lease. To his disgust he
forced to refuse offers rising gradually to forty
five hundred dollars which he readily obtained at
the end of the agreement. And to-day we see floors
at an altitude unthnkable to Our fathers, letting at
rents far higher than those of lesser elevation
1t seems comic to reflect on the excitement
caused by ten-story building few years ago In
the early seventies our architects planned SOLID
masonry walls with beams and pillars massive
enough to carry all the floors and walls. And with
each additional story the big walls were made
thicker and stronger STILL that the greater the
height the bulky and costly the lower structure
became. And the material put into these sustaining
parts not only enormous in quantity, but fast
grew prohDitve in cost on account OF its quality
know of high building put up in 1860 which would
surely supply with mere masonry half dozen
buildings of it's size to-day. Another drawback
was that the immense thickness of the walls which
covered more and more space, ate appreclably into
the rentable room-a very serious matter when
these buildings were put up thoroughfares where
land valuable that even rich men and great
corporations had to buy it by the square foot.
Thus there came time when the reckoning ele-
vator which had never called halt all, had to be
disregarded; for to go any higher with the solid
masonry method was to lose more income at the
bottom than was won at the top. And so gradually
it to be that if commercial structures We're
to go any higher, the eng neer was the man to be
looked to rather than the architect. Thus was
evolved the skyscraper designer of to-day.
Little Use for Walls
LIE taught the architect blocked ythe ever widen
i ing base of his brick walls that slender pillar
of steel might carry much his bulkiest mound;
than this, that brick and stone were needed only
to protect the iron framework from fire. In short
as engineer observed jokngly. walls were neces
sary only to keep out the wind AT any rate, the
masonry did need to be thicker than required
to give the framework true rigidty. And more
and more of the real work of the structure put
on the steel framework; and the upward march of
the skyscraper began faster than ever. Next the
steel beams made to carry the floors. and
hnaily two distinct structures were etol t
of masonry. The two fastened together. and
supported each other mutually; yet theoretically
either would stand alone, as long there was no
wind or side pressure.
BY the way. what effect forceful cyclone might
exert skyscrapers TANKS has never yet been
Arizona republican., 1907-08-20

mission has announced the following
e examinations to ba held in the course
of the next month: September ), for
the position of inspectors assistant,
male, for service in the bureau of ami
NAL industry. department of agricul-
ture. salary SS40 with promotion after
three years service to $1,000 and a sub
sequent promotion after three years of
rvice to $500; September IL and L.
for the position of local and assistant
inspector of bulls in the steamboat in
spection service at Seattle. Washing
ton, s14OO; September IS. for the posi-
tion OF foreman mechanic in the quar-
department at large. United
States military prison, Fort Leaven-
Arizona republican., 1907-08-20

SENT TO THE ASYLUM-Constan-
tine Gardner an old man who had been
sent down from Wickenburg To the
county hospital was before the probate
court yesterday on a charge of insan-
1T WAS NECESSARY TO DE-
CllNE-Governor Kibbey yesterday
received an invitation from the citizens
of Humboldt to deliver an address
there on the occasion of the Labor
Day celebration. The governor was
obliged reluctantly TO decline the in
vitation as that is the day of the open
ing of the national irrigation congress
at Sacramento and he expects to be
there.
ACTING TERRITORIAL AUDITOR
Governor Kibbey yesterday appoint
ed AdOloh W. Lautz. chief clerk in the
office of the territorial auditor, acting
auditor in the absence of Auditor Page.
This office was provided for by an act
of the late legislature and this is the
first time that it has been found nee
essary To fill it. The need of the office
was impressed upon the legislature by
the long illness OF Major |. NJ. Christy
during the latter part of his incum
bency when there was no one who
could legally perform the duties of the
office.
AN INFORMAL INQUEST-A COM
munication was received at the office
OF the sheriff yesterday from Sentinel
describing the death of a Mexican near
that place on Saturday night. He had
fallen under 4 train, his head was cut
off and the body was dragged along
the track and mangled. II was thought
that he had been stealing a ride and
had fallen off the train. There is no
justice Of the peace at Sentinel or
Caliente, so a jury of residents of that
vicinity was assembled and
an informal inquest was held on the /
body. The findings of the inquest
We're embodied in the letter to the
sheriff. setting forth that death was
the result of accident for which no one
now living was to blame. The COM
was put into the hands of
Assistant District Attorney Lyman /
and was presented by him to the board |
Of supervisors. Z
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS I
The United States civil service COM /.
Arizona republican., 1907-08-20
A WELL FILLED DocKET-Jus-


departments and bureaus.
A WELL FILLED DOCkET-Jus-
tice tombstone had n fairly busy fore
noon yesterday. Rodolfo Araisa, Louis
Arabello. Manuel Flores. Vicente Ro-
nero and Henry Sells were up for
drunkenness and disturbance OF the
peace and each was fined s.. Jesus
Rosa. Jose Moreno. Francisco Viasen-
or, Francisco Jiminez and Ramon Dor
ema had no money and no way of get
ting any. They were sent to Jail for
five days.
THE SCALP HUSTLERS There
was another slight run on the county
treasury yesterday by the destroyers
of wild animals. w. G. Moore of Cold
water brought in five wild cat skins
and one coyote. Francisco Martinez
contributed sixteen jack rabbits and c.
L. Braxton 22f.
KELVIN QUIET-Henry Lovin was
in the city yesterday from Kelvin en-
route to Kingman on business. He says
that Kelvin is quiet at present but that
they expect things to open up more
lively about the middle of next month.
Several companies are planning to be-
gin more extensive operations about
that time.
A FLORENCE VlSITOR-Honorable
Thomas F. Weedin Of Florence arrived
in the city yesterday evening on bust
ness and says that that town is ad-
vancing little as time goes on. They
hope to have the troublesome water
question settled at an early date which
will give an impetus TO all industries
of that fertile section. The mining in
terests are active and some transfers
of property have occurred recently.
There have been quite a number of
land buyers looking over the country
of late. more than usual. which is an
encouraging indication.
RETURN FROM PARKER-J.
Mitchell Roberts. the ore purchasing
agent for the Humboldt smelter passed
through the city yesterday on his re-
turn to Humboldt after a trip out in
the Parker country and along the Col
orado river. He says that several new
properties will be opened up this fall
in that section which give good pros
poets of shipping ore. There will be
considerable activity in Copper Basin
in October when cooler weather comes.
The country across the Colorado gives
promise of being a good mineral dis
trict. The railroad has opened to the
world fine section which is now in
its infancy. Several mining engineers
representing eastern capital have been
in the section the past month looking
over the ground and picking up claims
before the fall rush begins There will
be new 35-horse power ferry at SAINT
myers landing in the next thirty days. |
The boat is being built at the Needles. |
The business in Cunningham pass and
Bill Williams Fork gives indications of |
increased operations this winter.
RETURNED FROM FRISCO-At-
torney c. F. Ainsworth returned from
Frisco. He says that it does not look :.
very encouraging there at present and
that the city is slow in recovering from |
the recent calamitous visitations both
natural and political.
FUNERAL PRIvATE-The funeral
Of the four year old daughter of Mr.. |
and Mrs. Walter Norris who died YES
terday morning of scarlet fever will be |
held TO-DAY at five o'clock and will be
private. The little child took sick on |
last Wednesday. The boy who was also /
Ill is improving.
Arizona republican., 1907-08-20

fill eligibles FOR about forty different
kinds of positions under the various
and bureaus
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III INTEREST
THE WEATHER.
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