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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-23

A bold headline says:-"Bfg City Gas
Plant for Gary"-We thought Gary al
ready had a gas plant or at least a
pipe line.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-23

mere may be some short covering of
contracts only.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-23

Much stress is laid upon the Tidewa-
ter Railway loan and the high rate of
interest paid the security according 10
report being absolutely gilt edged.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-23

I think that wheat is close to the
cotton for pres sent, receipts light and
here is a large short interest. Any
favorable news should cause sharp
rally.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-23

Hardigan-Why, in New York the rates
they charge at the best hotels are
enormous. 1t costs YOU So to simply
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-23

Tenor of nearly all reports points to
somewhat reduced business activities
as a whole. though there is no evil
dence of this being more than usual
Weather conditions being unreasonable
and lack Of transportation.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-23

Union Stock Yards, Feb. 28.-Hogs
closed seay. Light. $3.50 to 7.o7; mix mix
rough. $3.50 10 eos. Cattle and sheep
closed unchanged.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-23

Barring accidents, the market will
rally sharply Monday. It's buying
day on Coppers, Anaconda, and Anal
gamated particularly.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-23
Stocks Grain and Provisions.


TO ass. Cattle receipts. 200; market
unchanged. Sheep receipts, 1900; mar
ket unchanged.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-23

The street is full of bears. Very few
people remain who think bull mar
ket is possible. These are signs OF
higher prices. after perhaps some slight
further weakness.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-23
GRAIN MARKET.


Estimates for Monday.
Wheat, rs cars; corn, 727 cars; oats
246 cars; hogs, $4,000 head.
Total CIearanceS.
Wheat and flour equal 900 bush
els; corn, $4,000 bushels; oats, 5000
bushels.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-23

Traders were more inclined to even
up than to put out fresh commitments
and in fact. the only real volume of
business arose from transactions d.
rected toward reducing the account
over the holidays.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-23

Weather conditions being unreasonable
and lack Of transportation.
The street is full of bears. Very few
people remain who think a bull mar
ket is possible. These are signs of
higher prices. after perhaps some slight
further weakness.
1t is said that the principal support
ing orders in Union Pacific are under
10; but number of important houses
We're picking up the stock without
trying to bid 1t UP. This buying makes
bear traders cautious as IL would be
easy to overdo the selling in attempt
ing to utilize the Hartman investiga-
ton as an adverse factor.
The lack of real news upon the
market yesterday was supplied by
statements emanating from President
Truesdale of the Laokawanna, Hill of
the Great Northern, Mr.. Stickney of the
Chicago Great Western and Thomas of
the Lehigh Valley, which one of the
leading newspaper characterizes as one
of the strongest arguments regarding
railroad interests in America and gives
food for thought.
The Aldrich bills passage may be de-
ferred until later in next week.
The requirements of the Bank of
England for gold for South American
account appear to have called for prom
Used aid from France, which consider
ing the enormous reserve held by the
English bank. was unlocked for and
this development may defer the avail
ment by American bankers of recently
established credits.
Traders We're more inclined to even
up than to put out fresh commitments
and in fact, the only real volume of
business arose from transactions di-
rected toward reducing the account
over the holidays.
The specialist in Shelters seemed to
have plenty of stock for sale on rallies,
but was a buyer on small declines. The
Guggenheim interests appears TO be
doing nothing more than putting in
sufficient orders to keep a fairly ac-
tive market In the stock. Shelters
locks like a good purchase here. Quite
little short covering now.
The gist of Mr.. Hills interview TO
day IS: He expects no business re-
| cession In the northwest; railroads are
retrenching by curtailing expendi-
lures. Business offering Great North
ern now is more than a year ago. Rail
! road facilities of the country have been
DaraIyzed bv growth of business. more
tracks and more terminals needed, a re-
cession in general business has, and
ought to help the railroads.
Barring accidents, the market will
rally sharply Monday. It's buying
day on Coppers, Anaconda, and Anal
gamated particularly.
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Northwest Receipts Cars.
Argentine Shipments.

Last Previous Last
Week Week Year
Wheat .4,296,000 4,3O4, 600 3,5S4.0
Corn 49,. 10000 $780, 10000
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The Aldrich bills passage may be de-
ferred until later in next week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-11

perintendent of government telegrapns
in all departments, serving until Sep
TENDER. 1865 He left the service with
the brevet of brigadier general for
meritorious work In addition to his
able military service, General Stager
introduced great improvements in the
telegraph batteries and the arrange
ment of wires.
Next in command to General Stager
in the telegraph service during the civil
war was Thomas IT. Eclert, whose
place of duty most of the time was at
Washington. General Eckert saw and
talked with Lincoln daily when the
tail, gaunt president was wont to haunt
the telegraph room of the war office in
quest of news from the front. Eckert
in those days was accounted almost as
good story teller as Lincoln. and the
pair used to swap yarns by the hour
while the busy operators were clicking
out messages to the officers at the front
or receiving reports of battles and
movements. General Eckert was
president of the western Union Tele-
graph company from 1892 until five
years ago. when he was succeeded by
the present head of that concern, Colo
mel Robert c. Clowry.
This noted telegrapher won his title
in the military telegraph service during
the civil war. He had charge of the
war telegraph district including Mis-
souri,, Arkansas and Kansas. In Mis-
souri, and Arkansas there was q great
deal of fierce fighting. Colonel Clowry
was ION the job early and late a
somewhat amusing story is told of his
experience in sending the first wire
less message years before Marconi
was born. Colonel Clowry was at
point in Missouri. Across the Afissis-
sippi was q detachment of the army
with which he wished to communicate.
No wire reached across the stream. 1t
was highly important that conmunica-
ton be established. Suddenly the teIeg-
rapher heard from across the river
the toot of a locomotive whistle. His
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-11

hood. Then he taught school in the
rural regions, studied law and became
a country lawyer. He entered politics
His first office was that of county
clerk in his native county of Butler
He became county judge. He was sent
to the Republican national convention
of 1888 as delegate. Again he served
as county judge. Then he was elected
attorney general of his state, where he
made a notably able record. 1t is
said however, that when he first went
to Frankfort as attorney general he
was one of the greenest lawyers in the
business But Taylor set himself to
work; studying hard, and in time be-
came master of his position 1t was
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editor of the Omaha Bee and a stand
ing candidate for United States sena-
tor. belonged to the military telegra phi
corps during the war. He did all the
telegra phing for the Union army at the
| second battle of Bull Run, when Gen
eral Pope was so soundly thrashed by
General Lee.
81 thought our army was going to
move right on to Richmond at that
time says Mr.. Rosewater, "and 1 ask
ed that l be made one of the teleg-
raphers in order that I might be one
of the first to arrive at the Confed-
crate capital. At Bull Run 1 had my
instruments placed on the ground
among the dead horses. There was
shooting going on around me, and 1
could not tell whether we were whip
ping the Confederates or they were
whipping US. General Pope was send
ing dispatches all day, stating that he
was beating the enemy. while in fact
he was really being defeated"
Mr.. Rosewater tells a story of the
first battle of Bull Run which shows
something of the difficulties surmount-
ed by the operators at the front. The
operator. he states, was a man named
Rose. 1.-THE wire was not carried to the
battle itself. but the news was brought
for ten miles to Fairfax Station, and
then sent to Washington On the day
of the battle the telegraph office, desk
chair, etc. consisted of a railroad tie
upon which the instrument was
placed"
For q considerable time Mr.. Rose
water belonged to the corps of teleg
raphers on duty at the war depart
ment, among his associates being AL
bert B. Chandler. now president of the
Postal Telegraph-C Gable company, and
David Homer Bates, who was man
ager of the war department telegraph
office and cipher operator and who now
is publishing a series of "reminiscences
of Lincoln in the telegraph office Mr..
Rosewater recently told the story of
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telegraphers. invented many improve
ments in the system before he turned
his attention to the electric light, the
photograph and his other marvels, and
even now he at times enjoys clicking
a telegraph key in the old days.
All these men foresaw very early a
wonderful future for biography, but
not all of them evinced like enthusi-
asm for other electrical devices. 1t is
a matter of record that in 1877 Alex
ander Graham Bell. inventor of the
telephone, offered General Eckert for
100000 the telephone rights for radius
of fifty miles around New York city
The telegra pher declined the PROPOSE
ton. He couldn't see it," The same
proposition is worth millions today and
will be worth more millions tomorrow.
These old time teIegraphers still take
delight in telling stories of their war
time experiences. Edward Rosewater
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rmer Governor Taylor, 1.-The Man Without State

world excepting Australia, was New
Guinea in 1549 and for at least 200
years thereafter. Then it became
Papua and was so marked on all maps
and charts, only to finally revert to its
old name during the latter half of the
last century.
Up till about fifty years ago all the
Canadian northwest was called Prince
Rupert's Land, after the gay and deb
OMAR cousin of King Charles IL, on
whom it was bestowed by royal char
ter Manitoba was originally the Red
River Settlement, under which name
it was very prominently before the
British public in 1870 in connection
with the Red River expedition, which
was commanded by a young officer
whose name was afterward to become
world famous-ColoneI Garnet Wolse-
ley.
Brazil, where the nuts come from,
was christened by its discoverer, one
Vincent Pinzon, a pious, Portuguese
mariner. Santa Cruz (Holy Crosse, its
later name being derived from the red
timber with which it's forests abound,
while along the opposite coast of
South America no single country save
Chile retains today the precise name 1t
originally bore.
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W WING in indianapolis, which is
n not really his home. is a man
whose status is even more
exceptional than was that of
the fictional character in the famous
story of Edward Everett Hale. THE
Nan Without Country The man in
Indianapolis might be called THE Man
Without State He has a nation, he
is a citizen of the United States, but
he is an exile from his own state. For
more than seven years this man has
been in enforced exile. II is not the
policy of the United States. nor of any
)f the commemorative comprising the
United States. to resort to exile as
form of punishment. Yet this man in
Indiana polls, through a peculiar state
of circumstances. is indefinitely an ex-
lie. The indications are that he will
remain so to the end of his life. His
case is unique.
William Sylvester Taylor is the man.
the only American exile. For a brief
while he was governor of Kentucky, his
native state. the state he loves with
filial devotion. Then suddenly he
crossed the border into Indiana and
from that day to this he has not set
foot upon the soil of old Kentucky
Not only is he an exile, but he is con-
fined to the one state of Indiana and
in that sense he is a prisoner. Though
his prison is vast and beautiful its
borders conflne him. Should he pass
beyond those borders in all probability
he would cease to be an exile but he
would become a real prisoner at once
and his Jail would be small building
in Kentucky county town. his imme-
date domicile a narrow cell.
Ex-Governor Taylor is under indict-
ment for alleged completely in the muir
der of William Goebel, his opponent in
the race for the governorship. After
the legislature had declared Goebel
elected instead OF Taylor. Goebel was
shot down. On his deathbed. Jan. 81
1900. he was sworn in as governor, su-
perSeding Taylor. Shortly afterward
the ex-governor was indicted. with sew
eral others, on accusation of being con-
cerned in the plot to kill Goebel. Since
then Taylor has been in the state of
Indiana, the successive governors of
which have refused to honor a requi-
sition from the governor of Kentucky
for his return to that state to stand
trial.
Only once in these seven and a half
years has Mr.. Taylor ventured outside
IF Indiana That was in 1900, when
he attended the Republican national
convention at Philadelphia. His friends
discovered a plot to kidnap him in
Philadelphia and carry him to Ken
lucky. By adroit maneuvering they
foiled the scheme. Mr.. Taylor return
ed to Indiana, and he dares not leave
hat state because of the fear that the
governor of any other state may honor
requisition from the governor of
kentucky. This is court ssy which is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-11
NEW NAMES FOR OLD COUNTRIES

The proposal recently brought for
ward in the Dominion parliament to
rechristen Hudson bay by the name
of the Canadian sea serves to remind
us how frequently in the past geo
graphical nomenclature has been al
tered to suit national individual
capriciousness.
Australia for instance, was original
~ New Holland. Tasmania was on
its first discovery and up till compare
lively recently called Van Dieman's
Land. after the governor Of the Dutch
East Indies of that name, Tasman be-
ing its actual discoverer. Every stamp
collector. too, at all events knows that
what we now call West Australia was
the Swan River Settlement not so very
long ago, although comparatively few
people are aware probably that Vic
toria was originally Por Philip.
New Guinea, the largest island in the
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dren are all girls. save one. a handsome
boy OF thirteen They are as follows:
MISS Tyler Faustus. nineteen; Miss Alma.
seventeen; Miss Annie, fifteen: Wendell.
eight; Miss Mabel five
MIS- Taylor was Miss Sarah B. Tanner
me uaughter OF a Butler county farmer
residing three miles from Morgantown
General Taylors parents were poor. and
ne came up from the humblest home. work
ing his way gradually. gaining the conf
cehce ana esteem of the people with
wnom ne came in contact. Mrs. Taylor
says she believes her husband will be
ability.
Sitting in his Indianapolis ONCE. far
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reared. Finally death ended her exile.
A little later one of the daughters of
the ex-governor eloped and was mar
ried thus adding another blow to the
several heavy ones which have fallen
upon William S. Taylor in the course
of human events.
In view of all these melancholy facts,
the following newspaper dispatch dated
Lexington, KY, July IA. 1899, carries
a pathetic interest:
There is not a happier family in all
Kentucky today than that of Attorney
General William Sylvester Taylor. nomi-
mated for governor by the Republican
state convention here. General Taylor
had brought his family with him from
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HEART

decline. There is no going behind the
returns. Unless Indiana shall elect a
governor who shall honor the Kentucky
governors requisition, this ex-gov-
ernor may remain in Indiana until his
BODY snail be taken across the river
to be buried in his native soil
William S. Taylor. Attorney" is the
wording OF a sign at the entrance to
an ONCE in Indianapolis. Mr. TAYLOR
has been practicing his profession there
for years, though it is said that few
clients come. He sits in his lonely
office brooding over the past He de-
clares that he is altogether innocent
of completely in the murder of Goebel.
his successor, who was governor but
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own force had a locomotive also. The
resourceful commander of the squad
leaped into the engine cab and began
pulling the whistle cord. ToOts were
evoked in a most astonishing style.
Long toots were followed by a series
of short ones, or vice versa. The en-
gineer and fireman feared that Clowry
had gone crazy. But presently from
across the river came an answering
series of similarly insane toots. The
tslegrapher with the other force had
heard the footed dots and dashes and
was responding. Thus the Two opera
tors carried on their toot talk at will.
Wireless messages. altogether by ear,
were an accomplished feat
There is also a story to the effect
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written of him when he was attorney
general:
He is a strict member of the Pres
byterian church, never uses liquor in
any form and smokes moderately. He
is tall, rather slim and seems to be all
muscle and nerve. He rode over the
mountains of the state in making his
campaigns. and frequently he would
mount horse Immediately after MAX
ing a speech and ride thirty or forty
miles to the next town, where he would
address another crowd the same night"
In 1899 he received a plurality of
about 1900 votes over Goebel on the
face of the returns, but the legisla ture
declared that Goebel was elected. Then
came the tragedy which made Taylor
an exile. James B. Howard, a noun
taineer, is supposed to have fired the
fatal shot.
Goebel died of his gunshot wound
Feb. 3, 1900. The young Democrat
whom the legislature declared elected
lieutenant governor. John C. w. Peck
ham, only thirty-oD years old, was
sworn in as governor. Mr.. BeckhaIn
has been governor ever since, having
been elected to two full terms. A few
months ago he was named at the pri-
nlaries to succeed United States Sena-
tor McCreary in 1909.
Ex-Governor Taylor, therefore. in his
Indiana exile. has suffered the cha grin
of seeing the boyish Beckham for
nearly eight years in the Gubernatorial
chair of his native state, with United
States senatorship just ahead. Tay-
Tor, altogether eliminated from the
sphere of politics and public life, So
journinG in an alien state which is not
his home, an aging man, with no tam
gible prospect for the clearing away OF
the clouds which have overcast his
career, presents, whatever may be the
truth as to his innocence or guilt the
most pathetic political figure in the his
tory of the nation.
ROBERT DONNELL.
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that Edison. when youth, employed
the same method of telegraphing across
the Ohio river upon an occasion when
the wires were down. He appro-
priated a switch engine, established
communication by toot and talked half
a day with the operator in the engine
cab across the stream. Edison was
accounted a n1arveIously rapid sender
and receiver in those early days. 1t
was his connection with telegraphy
that led him into electrical study and
resulted in the various inventions of
universal fame and use with which his
name is connected for all time to come.
Thus has telegraphy vastly widened it's
field of usefulness in lines beyond it
self. Edison, like others of the noted
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the removal of General Mcclellan from
command of the Army of the Potomac.
After Antietam the president and Sec
rotary Stanton had urged Mcclellan to
move forward against Lee. Mcclellan
had sent messages giving various pre-
texts for delay. Finally, according to
Mr.. Rosewater, the following telegraph
came:
President Lincoln:
We are still delayed. Cavalry horses
tongues are sore.
GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN.
''The idea of stopping a great army
remarks the old telegrapher, because
of the soreness of the tongues of the
horses was more than Lincoln could
stand. Within an hour after the tele-
gram arrived McClellan's head was
off,
These veteran war telegraphers, per-
haps more intimately than any other
men living or dead, knew the relations
existing between Lincoln and Stanton,
for both the president and his grim
secretary of war were in the telegraph
office from time to time at any and all
hours, reading and sending messages
of highest Importance in the conduct
of the war Mr.. Carnegie also has
of war telegrapby which
are highly interesting, for he assisted
in establishing the government tele-
graph service. He can handle key
today as easily as he can give away
library.
In the early days of telegraphy mes
sages were received by the tape method,
the dots and dashes being printed
on a thin ribbon of tape unwinding
from a coil Receiving by sound had
become an art before the war, how
ever, and the best operators scorned
the tape. A tape operator in the field
was called plug"
ROBERTUS LOVE.
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INTELLIGENT BLIND HORSES.

The way in which blind horses can
go about without getting into more
difficulties than they ordinarily do IS
very remarkable. They rarely if ever
hit their heads against a fence or
stone wall They will sheer off when
they come near one. 1t appears from
careful observation that 1T is neither
shade nor shelter which warns them
of the danger. On an absolutely sum
less and MINDLESS day their behavior
is the same. Their olfactory nerves
doubtless become very sensitive, for
they will poke their heads downward
in search of water fifty yards before
they come to a stream crossing the
roadway. 1t cannot be an abnormally
developed sense of hearing which leads
them to do this, for they will act alike
though the water be stagnant pool
Men who have been blind for any
great length of time develop some
what similar instincts to blind horses.