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The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-06-25

gincs drawing transconunental flyer,
to-day.
After the trial trip the Rocket wa,
put in service hauling material TO
construction OF the road. The gaug,
was four feet eight and one-half inches
or that Of the regular wagon road
Stephenson intending that If his loco
motive failed on iron rails TO run
on dirt roads, IL is a singular fac
that the gauge OF the Rocket has beer
the standard gauge of railroads al
over the world Other widths hav,
been tried but abandoned.
when the railroad was completed
Sept 10, 1880, was set for the date o
the trial trip drawing passenger cars
The train consisted of two double
decked carriages, each seating rs per
sons-nine on the upper deck and min,
below. The weight of the train wai
not quite ten tons. The average speet
was II miles an hour. although n
times we got as high as 20 miles an
hour"
Mr.. Entwistle has not seen the
Rocket since II was exhibited at Phil
adelphia, and greatly regrets that h.,
was unable TO go TO ST Louis tw,
summers ago and see his pet one.
more before he dies.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-06-25

there and here in the city is startling
II was one continual grind, but some
how | loved the life.
Il always planned my course so as
to stand on my own feet, and / think
without any egotism | may say / did
that pretty successfully. / thought
perhaps l might one day get some
thing. for my sister, my brother and
| got 100 $1,000 Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul bonds under the will of the
late George Smith, but never in my
widest dreams did | imagine any
thing like this.
80 little did | anticipate II that
when l came east applied for only an
indefinite leave of absence. | did not
resign, for ! fully expected to return.
l didn't even close up my house, but
now shall have to stop here a year
at least and Mrs. Mason has returned
west to wind up our affairs in Aber-
deem.
George Grant Mason, latest recruit
to the ranks of millionaires, gives one
the impression that he is going to be
a distinct acquisition to that order,
though, as a well-known railroad man
said. a first-class trainman has been
spoiled in the process.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-06-25
PRIMITIVE WRITING TABLET.
Old Sand Table and Aged Man Who as
Child Was Taught to Write on II.

London.-It would be interesting to
know how many people now living re.
member the days when their three
RS" were taught them by means Of
sand-ink, pencils and paper being too
costly. An interesting reminder of
those times is the old sand writing
table to be seen at bennington, in Suf
folk.
1t consists of long, smooth board.
with a rim all round. On this surface
fine sand was sprinkled to a depth OF
about an eighth of an inch. and the
writing was traced thereon with the
forefinger. A plasterer's leveler was
used for smoothing the sand for the
next pupil.
The sexton shown in the picture
seated at the table is just fourscors
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-06-25
SHAD ARE DOOMED

that II was with difficulty that a boat
could be pushed among them. Captain
John Smith found them so when, in
early jamestown days, he pushed a
small boat up the Potomac to a water
fail above Washington which stopped
their advance. His report of this find
ing was one of the early wonders OF
America that was carried back to Eng
land.
This running" of the fish arises
from the fact that their eggs are rem
dered worthless II they come in con-
tact with salt water, so the instinct
Of the fish causes them to seek inland
streams and as a consequence in the
spawning season these streams are
alive with them when they are not
interfered with. The knowledge of
these facts on the part OF the fisher
men is. however, the downfall and the
doom of the shad, for the fishermen
have taken advantage of the annual
pilgrimage to fresh water, and have
set their nets and traps accordingly,
and when the fish start for fresh wa
ter they are brought into captivity
and are quickly transported to mar
ket
This fact was not in the beginning
Of the operation of the bureau of fish
cries such a material disadvantage,
for the fishermen had not then gone
beyond the mouths of the rivers, and
great numbers of the fish caught
spawned while in captivity and the
spawn was artifcially hatched and
used in restocking the streams. But
now this process is not possible, for
the reason that the nets are placed
far beyond the mouths of the rivers,
and If the fish are caught and held in
captivity, in the mean time spawning,
the spawn Immediately comes in con.
tact with salt water, which means the
death of the life germ in the egg. The
fisherman who formerly set their
seines in the waters of the streams
have found that more enterprising
fishermen have gone still further down
and are catching the fish ahead of
them. This has led the first fishermen
to go ahead of the second, and the
process has continued until they have
got as far to sea as II is possible TO
set net. Shad on the market are
little. less plentiful now than In for.
mer years, but this fact Is due not TO
an equal abundance in the streams,
but the improved facilities on the part
of the fishermen in capturing them,
The demand for the fish has steadily
increased, and the popularity of shad
roe has led to increased activity on
the part of the fishermen. The prob
abilities are that both the fish and the
roe will, in q few seasons, become a
rare luxury, and its total exhaustion
is regarded as a matter of compare
lively few years.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-06-25
DETERMINATION OF TooTHSoME
FISH SEEMS CERTAIN.
Fishing Season Opens With Increased
Number Of Fish Traps and
Nets Set to Catch
Them.

Improved methods used by fisher
men in capturing the shad and the
shad roe as they enter the mouths Of
the rivers on the Atlantic coast to
spawn, are almost certainly accom-
plishing their determination in spite
of all that the fisheries bureau can do.
The season has just opened up and
there is less chance of the fish reach
ing spawning ground than previous
years for the enterprising fishermen,
not content TO take their fish up the
river after they had gotten into fresh
water where the spawn will be safe.
are stretching their nets as far out to
sea as possible. In former years the
bureau Of fisheries was able to cap
ture as high as 210.0OO,OOO eggs in
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-06-25

the Susquehanna river, as opposed to
100000 last year. On the Delaware
river, where the catch has gone az
high as l15,0OO,OOO, it last year fell be-
low 100000, while on the Potomac it
fell from 6s,OO0,OOO TO 100000. Sim
liar conditions exist in all streams
along the coast and are rapidly grow
ing worse
This condition is due, not to the alb
seace Of captured FISH or TO inactivity
on the part of the bureau, but to the
improved methods at present used by
fishermen in capturing the fish. Shad
always spawn in fresh water. and they
come into the rivers and their tribu-
taries in search of spawning grounds.
Az other seasons of the year they live
In the open waters Of the ocean. In the
spawning season they were known to
be so plentiful years ago in the Poto-
nae and tributaries of the Chesapeake
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-06-25

proceeded TO make the most damaging
statement against d'Annunzio, who,
with his friends. at first smiled, but
later began to show obvious uneasi-
ness. This troublesome spook was ac-
cordingly switched off. and a second
invoked, but matters only became
worse, for the table seemed to be
imbued with the most violent animos-
fly against the poet. II moved stead
lily in his direction. and finally leaped
at him with such violence that he was
thrown against the wall. The Mar
quis Origo. having calmed the table,
asked the spirit for its opinion as
to d'Annunzio's literary merit. "All
smoke" came the answer, smoke
which will be speedily dissipated."
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-06-25
NEW HEAD FOR PATENT OFFICE
Grit. Makes Edward 3. Moore Of Mich
igan Commissioner.

Washington.-Edward II. Moore of
Michigan has been appointed by the
president to succeed Frederick ]. Al
len as commissioner patents. Mr..
Moore, who is the present assistant
commissioner. won his appointment
through pure grit. Moore came &c
Washington when a boy to visit his
brother, who was secretary of the
Spanish claims commission. While
playing ball on a scrub team, a senate
page told him he had resigned his
place. Young Moore Immediately
hustled down to the serate chamber
and tackled Senator Morrill, OF Maine
for the job. In 1876 President Grant
appointed him inspector Of interna
revenue. and he had lot to do with
the expose OF the whisky frauds
After that he was appointed to a posi-
tion in the patent office, and in 1906
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-06-25

secretary Of state and is no stranger
to America. Formerly he was papal
delegate to Canada, and he also has
visited New York. The cardinal was
raised to his present eminence in
1903, after the election of Pope Plus
X, by whom he was appointed pom
tiflcal secretary in succession to the
renowned Cardinal Rampolla del Tin
daro. He also was secretary of the
sacred college that elected the pres
ent pontiff. Cardinal Merry del Val
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-06-25
CHASED BY sPook TABLE.
An Amusing Adventure Of Gabriel
d'Annunzlo.

An amazing adventure Of the poet
Gabriel d'Annunzio, who was chased
by a spook table, is related by the
Messangero of Rome, Italy. This
newspaper declares that Sig. d'Annun-
,io often goes to the villa of the Mar.
auis Clement Origo. near Florence. to
attend spiritualistic seances. During
ais last visit, a small table, from the
studio of the painter Coros, was used.
and the spirit in response to an invi-
,ation TO declare itself. answered in
The conventional manner by rapping
on this piece Of furniture. The spirit
introduced himself as that of a gen.
tleman who was killed recently in a
motoring accident and Immediately
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-06-25

ris'). This may be taken as a gen
eral title for the whole mountain
range, which is seven miles long. The
highest peak, called Pen-y-Gader. is
mountain slopes with their purple
hues intermingling with the soft gray
and green Of bowlder and fern. the
distant summit of Cader rising roy
ally above the surrounding heights
such are the features which form a
picture that once seen can never be
forgotten.
The town is picturesquely built,
house above house, up the side of the
rocky slope that rises in places almost
precipitously from the streets below.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-06-25
Too Much System.

Every large manufacturing concern
now considers "sys-am" as one OF the
commandments. Bun L can be over
done. Some ten years ago there was
not enough of It; now it seems to be
in danger Of running mad-Eugineer
ing Times.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-06-25

was born in London in 1865. his IA
ther having been then secretary of the
Spanish embassy to the. court of St.
James. He is descended from an
Irish family who emigrated to Spain
at the end of the seventeenth cen.
tury.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-06-25

was sent to the Paris exposition
While absent he was made assistant
commissioner by President Mckinley,
aud reappointed by President Roose
welt.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-06-25

scriber TO curb his temper when tele
phoning But the tones of the dulcet
voiced operator. "Dhe lyme ees beescc
senor," soothes his soul to patience.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-06-25
"HELLo" GIRLS OF MANILA.
The Work Attracts Members Of Aris.
tocratic Filipino Families.

Manila.-Manila telephone subscrib-
ers feel that, though living in what
the average American believes to be a
semi-barbarious land, the rest OF the
world has no edge" on them in being
served by comely maidens as hello
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-06-25
CARDINAL TO VISIT AMERICA.
Merry Del Val Plans Trip to Western
States.

New YorS.-Cardinal Rafael Merry
del Val, who has announced that in
the near future he will visit the mid
die and western states, is pontifical
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-06-25

Nineteen women have been elected
TO the Finnish diet This is probably
the first time in the history of the
world that women have been repre-
sentatives in any national legislature.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-06-25

years and ten, and he learned to write
on this board. These tables were
often kept in church, and writing les
sons took place after morning service
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-06-25
Old Saying Revised.

Pilpay: What is bred in the bone
will never come out OF the flesh.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-10-12

We would be pleased to have our read
ers, and the public generally, send in
such items Of news rs may come under
their observation, sJch as births, deaths,
marriages, goings and comings, etc.
Many things transpre that we may over
look, hence we ask you to assist us in
this matter that we may be able to pub.
lish ALI the news
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-10-12

STAR ROUTES.
Mails arrive from Penrose and
way at HOO a. m.
Mails leave for Penrose and
way at I 100 p. m.
Mails arrive from Stone and
way at 6:3o a. m.
Mails leave for Stone and way
at 6 80 p. m.
Office hours from a. m. to 0 p. M
Eva G. Wilcox,
Postmaster.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-10-12
LOCAL MAILS.

LOCAL MAILS.
MAILS ARRIVE.
From South 3 @ 100 p. m.
Jil l'o MAILS CLOSE
Gong South 5 s s:1s D. p: M m.
, 1907-02-07
FIRST PRACTICE GAME
AFTER THE DEFEAT.

The first practice of the basket ball
teams since their game Saturday night
with the Crescents was held yesterday
afternoon, and the result was most en-
couraging. The team having the Hun
ton brothers for forwards played a won
derfully fast game, and although weak
ened by the absence OF Moir, made 81
points to their opponents 26. The
team that vas beaten was as strong as
the team that met the C%rescents in the
first half of their game here. If the
improvement continues, the chance of
a great game on the 10th is assured.
The game did not last the full time but
the following shows clever work:
Tom Hunton threw IS field goals. Dean
Hunton threw 10 field goals and three
fouls from four tries. Price made four
goals, Roberts two, Jones two, Wheel
er 5 and Worthington 4. Neither Rob,
erts nor W%orthington made a goal from
foul, but each tried twice.
, 1907-02-07
Real and Bogus Relics.

A tooth alleged to have been drawn
from Napeoleon's head at st. Helena
was sold for $3.50. For Rants wig
only $40 could be obtained, but
Sterne's wig was valued at $1,000.
Two hundred dollars is said to have
been given for Descartes' skull,
whereas $1,000 was given for n of
Sir Isaac Newton's teeth, and $4,000
was offered for one of the teeth Of
Heloise at the time when her body
was exhumed. The waistcoat worn
by Rousseau has been priced at $3.50,
his watch at 500. Not all the relics,
however, in which there has been
traffic have been genuine. Voltaire
cannot have owned more than a frac-
ton of the walking sticks that have
been sold as his and a tradesman in
France used to boast that he had dis
posed of 1872 last walking sticks car
ried by Jean Jacques Rousseau. A
, Paris tradesman for a long time did
an equally lucrative business in the
last pair of trousers worn by Victor
| Hugo"
, 1907-02-07
Burning Oil in Engine.

The railroad company this week put
in place al engine, at a cost of $500,
to be used during the winter season
for heating the heavy oil, SO that it
will run freely, says the Lander Noun
taineer. The railroad company esti-
mate that by paying 81 a barrel for oil
that they make quite a saving over
what their coal costs them. A freight
engine consumes twenty-four tons of
coal on q round trip between Lander
and Casper, which at a cost Of Sc q
ton means $144. They burn sixty bar
rels of oil on a similar trip, which at
present costs them 81 a barrel or $12O.
but they figure that arrangements can
be made so that the cost will be but
81 per barrel. The thirty-day test be-
tween Lander and Casper has been
satisfactory in every respect, with the
exception that the weather has been
30 cold that the oil would not run free
ly from the tanks.
, 1907-02-07
A Peculiar Book.

One OF the most curious books in
the world belongs to the De Lingo
family of France. This book Is Meth
or printed nor written. All the letters
are cut out of the vellum and inter
leayed with u peculiar shade of blue
paper. The work is so carefully done
that the book Is read with the greatest
Of ease.
Rudolprus II. Of Germany offered H..
900 ducats for It; but 1t was not sold
The most peculiar thing about this
volume is that 1t bears the royal armi
Of England: but as far as a u
traced It has never been in that coun
try.
, 1907-02-07
Battles In the Blood.

An interesting record of what may
be called the battles that occur in
the blood of a fever patient between
noxious and benign microorganisms
was presented at a recent meeting of
the Royal Microscopical society.
The patient in this cas- was suf.
fering from malarial fever. The OBJ
servations were made at intervals OF
q few minutes during a period of five
hours. The defenders of the patients
life were a kind of leucocytes, which
destroyed the malarial parasites.
A l~eucocyte would engulf a para.
site, which would then be seen under
going a process of disintegration in
side the %leucocyte, and only the pig
ment granules were left. Afterward
other leucocytes would approach and
absorb even thPss granules.-Ex-
change.
, 1907-02-07
IN HANDS
OF BOARD OF TR

At the meeting last night of the
trustees of the Laramie Maennerchor
and the M~aennerchor society, it was
determined that the property of the
two concerns should be placed in the
Laramie Maennerchor. At the annual
meeting of the corporation tonight the
transfer will be made. The singing So
ciety cannot hold property itself, but
it will delegate power to a board to
manage the financial affairs of the or.
~ganization.
, 1907-02-07
ONE NOTED

STN 80 nIN mr..
DR.. Tisdel, the president of the Uni
versity of Wyoming who visited Salt
Lake recently, and spent some time at
the University Of Utah, with the presi-
dent and faculty Of that institution,
found that the practice department Of
the normal college. which, like the
University of Wyoming, is a part of
the university, was made up Of the
children of school age in a certain.
ward Of the city of Salt Lake contigu-
GUS to the university. The city pays
the practice school twenty dollars a
year for the teaching of each Of these
pupils, the practice department taking
the place of a ward school Of the city
system, and also divides the equipment
with the normal college. The practice
school is for the better training of
teachers from the normal college.
, 1907-02-07
To Make a Dull Piano Bright.

Alcohol is used by workers in fac
tories to remove the dull appearance
from highly polished surfaces ot
pianos, but the putting on of this
iiouid must be carefully done, or the
finish will be burned. and the case
have to be dressed and polished the
same as 1t was when new. This
process is costly. 80 II alcohol 10
rubbed on the dull spots with = soft
cotton or flannel cloth only q little
of the liquid should be. used. Put on
with q light stroke across the sur
face, then should follow q briak rub
with a soft silk or cheesecloth rag.
, 1907-02-07

Will inspect a powerful new wrecking
crane bought by the Union Pacific and
Just completed at that place. says the
Cheyenne Tribune. The crane will be
examined for defects and tested as to
its power.
The Union Pacific has purchased
three of these new wreckers to re
place those now in use. The present
wreckers have a lifting capacity Of
fifty tons, while the new ones will have
100 tons capacity. The old wreckers
are not powerful enough to handle the
monster locomotives now in service on
the road.
, 1907-02-07
YOUNG MAN
MARRIED SATURDAY.

Word has reached the city that John
Morgan of this city and Miss Nellie
Finnegan of Pocatello, an adopted
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. T. F. Carey,
formerly residents Of this city, were
married at P%ocatello, Idaho, Saturday
morning, at st. Joseph's church, and
that they will spend the winter in that
city, where Mr.. Morgan is at work as a
switchman. Henry Morgan has gone
to Pocatello, expecting to be in time
for the wedding, which was to have oc-
CURED today, but he found he was just
in time TO offer congratulations, a. do
scores Of other Laramie friends.
, 1907-02-07
TWO MEN RELEASED
BY CITY MARSHAL.

The two men arrested Tuesday
night by Policemen Arp and Knadler,
on information from Joe Norder of
Hanna, who claimed to have been
robbed Of $35 and a gold watch, were
released by Marshal Sigman, Norder
having failed to show up. The men
could have been prosecuted in the city
courts for ~trespass, but the marshal
preferred to be rid of them. Norder
is said to have left Hanna for Lar
annie Tuesday night, but at IL O'Clock
this morning nothing more had been
heard OF him.
, 1907-02-07
Records Bumped Into.

Some more records went glimmer.
ing at the rolling mills yesterday. The
Undetermined mill produced $3.50
pounds Of finished iron and the ten.
inch mill handled nearly $4,000 pounds
Of seven-eighths-inch round iron. One
of the bolt heading machines, in
charge Of young Mr.. Schwatke, headed
5000 bridge bolts for the day. The
big mill is today rolling car and en-
CINE axles into bars to be handled by
the merchant mill and converted into
track bolts. These bolts are threaded
in the new threading machines cold.
, 1907-02-07
BLOCKADE
is RAISED
WASHouT IN WEBER CANON RE
PAIRED AND TRAINS NOW
COMING THROUGH.
Peculiar Incident in Connection Of Ty.
Ing Up Of First-ciass Trains BY
Reason Of Aceident-Expert Ma
ehlnist Examining New Wreckina
Crane for the Union Pacific.

After a blockade Of more than two
days the damage to the Union Pacific
track in Weber canon was repaired
Tuesday night and traffic resumed ov.
er b main line, says the Salt Lake
Tribune. The Los Angeles Limited
was the first train to arrive after the
raising OF the blockade, and it steamed
into Ogden about 10 o'clock last night,
nearly five hours late. 1t was closely
followed by the Overland Limited,
which in turn wa followed by the
fast mail.
An incident BY the Way.
Passengers on the delayed trains re-
ported that they were treated with ev-
cry courtesy by the railroad officials.
Those who desired kilograms sent to
friends. notifying them OF the cause OF
their delay, were accommodated at the.
expense of the company. An incident,
by the way, illustrates the situation.
A gentleman n his wife purchased
tickets at Evanston for Ogden. They
had a in the Pullman and were on
the train which started west before the
report of the washout was known at
Evanston. They were west of Morgan
when they learned of the washout,
twenty miles from Ogden, but the bar
rier could not be overcome and the
fla went forth that the Junction City
would be reached via Granger and Nc
Cannon, an additional distance of be-
tween 400 and 500 miles.
Company Wa Poweriess.
The gentleman and his wife then
chartered the drawing room, and as
Pullman space is reckoned according
to distance, not time, and no provision
for accidents, the room for two nights
and almost two days cost only 81. The
twain were having a second honey
moon and the Pullman company was
losing a dollar per hou,, as the regular
price for such a period would have
been about $35, and the railroad com.
pany was eating up profits at about
the same ratio as the fare from Evans
ton to Ogden is some $3.50. However,
all the officials and the passengers
!. madecthe best o. a bad situation.