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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07
Wednesday, June 5.

Edna May, the American actress,
was married in London Tuesday to
Oscar Lewiston, son Of Adolph Lew.
isohn of New York, in the presence of
a few relatives and intimate friends.
Prince Eberwein of Bentheim-Stein
furt, who some time ago forfeited his
rights of inheritance and his position
in the German army by marrying the
daughter of a burgomaster, is now
bankrupt. g.
Fire at Oshkosh, Wis.,, caused losses
aggregating nearly $4,000 in the store
buildings occupied by the Brill Bag
gage company, Tobius Lucks' photo
graph gallery and the L. Struebing
Clothing company.
John G. Capers of South Carolina
will be appointed commissioner of in
ternal revenue ad interim. The ap.
pointment is to continue until Dec. 1,
when Pearl Wight of New Orleans
will become commissioner.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07
MAKING A BALLOON.
Precautions Taken to Keep the Gas
Bag From Destruction.

Precautions Taken to Keep the Ga
Bag From Destruction.
1t may interest the reader to hea
something about tie construction Of ,
big modern balloon and its eQUil III cnts
1t is made Of what is known as bal
loon cloth, which sometimes is of sill
and is seWeU in small sections OF a., u
a yard square. so that it one OF the sec
tons should burst the Whole balloon
would not collapse and destroy thf
aeronaut.
At the top of the bag is the valve tc
let the gas out when one wishes to de
scend. \ rope for opening it runs from
this valve through the center of the
balloon to the operator in the basket
The balloon is filled through the IL Eek
and this is left always open, so that
when the gas expands from the heat OF
the sun or the lesser pressure of high
attitudes the gas may escape and not
burst the cn"elope.
AS soon as the balloon is sewed TO-
gether it is blown full Of air and given
three coats of varniSh. Each coat must
be allowed to dry thoroughly befo~e
the next is applied, or else they would
never become perfectly dry, and the
balloon would be likely to be destroyed
at any minute from spontaneous COM
bustion. This spontaneous combustion
is not a bursting into flame, but kind
Of exceedingly quick dry rot. I myself
have lost three balloons through it.
Once in my factory we We're looking at
a beauty when some one shifted the
air and remarked, Thomas balloon is
gone" And so it proved to be. Five
minutes saw it destroyed-rotten 50
that you could poke your finger through
It,
Sometimes the balloon is so affected
in only a few sections, and man may
make an ascension thinking his bal
loon is all right. Protected by the fine
netting which envelops the balloon it.
self, he may even get up to some height
before discovering Ills danger In for
mer times there were many fatal acct
dents from this cause.
When a balloon is packed, talcum or
some other powder is sprinkled over
the folds to keep them from adhering
to each other. If this is neglected the
balloon will be ruined, especially in hot
weather.
AS l said, a fine netting covers the
balloon proper both to strengthen it
and to carry the weight of the basket
and its contents. All the strands Of
the netting come together in the "con-
centrating ring" just above the basket,
in which the aeronaut stands. The an
Choir and guide ropes as we'll as the
basket are fastened to this concentrat-
ing ring.
All modern balloons, besides the
valve, have a rip cord fastened to
long patch sewed in the envelope, by
means of which the balloon can be cut
in two and brought to earth instantly.
This is never used except in case Of ex-
IRENE emergency and where the basket
is within ten or fifteen feet of the
ground.-Dr. J. P. Thomas in Apple
fon'S
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS NEWS IN MINNESOTA
Happenings Of a Week Through.
out the State.

novel reason was given at the
police board meeting in St. Paul last
week for the removal of patrolman
at the Rondo police station. 1t was
! reported by the sergeant that the pa
trolman had made q sleeping berth
of the tool shed at the site of the new
cathedral. He said that the patrol
man had small alarm clock in his
hat to wake him every hour when he
had to pull the patrol box.
A mud turtle was found last week
near Little Falls bearing the name M.
N. Young, 1881, cut on it's back. Mr..
Young, who is q member of the state
legislature from the Forty-eighth dis
trict, explains that he caught several
! turtles twenty-six years ago when they
| were quite small and cut his name and
the year on their backs. The turtle
found proved to be one of these.
A most remarkable flowing we'll has
been struck on the farm of George
Swift, three miles northeast of Men,
tor A 212-inch pipe was sunk to the
depth Of sixty-flve feet, when there
was sudden rush Of water and the
stream was forced eighteen feet into
the air. The we'll continues to spout
and the flow is estimated at about 300
barrels an hour.
Judgments aggregating $496,697.74
were entered Friday in the office of
the clerk of the Hennepin county dis
trict court against former insurance
company officials The entry Of judy
ments followed the filing of Judge Da-
vid F. Simpsons findings in the cases
brought by the company against the
former officials.
When Walter Lundgren, driver OF
the Minneapolis morgue wagon, got to
319 Washington avenue in answer to
summons to remove suicides
corpse he found that the body was
that of his own father, William Lund-
grec. Ill health Is believed to have !
been the reason for the suicide.
An elevator company is not subject |
to taxation on grain stored by it for |
farmers, as the grain belongs to the |
farmers and not the elevator, accord
ing to decision handed down by the
supreme court in the case Of the i
Northwestern Elevator company VS..
the state Of Minnesota
Trouble is brewing between the
Photographers union in Minneapolis
and the Western Union company and
It is said the union has threatened to
call q strike unless differences are
settled Immediately.
Several of the minister's of Albert |
Lea have secured IN Injunction to
prevent Sunday ball playing adjacent
to that city.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07
Minor Events Of Interest From AZ,
Parts Of tie W(rld, "
Thursday, May 80.

The convention OF the International
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Is in session at Dallas, Tex.
All union carpenters in Dubuque, Ia,
struck Wednesday in sympathy with
striking millmen. Building operations
are at standstill
Gardiner NJ. Skinner for many years
the oldest member Of the Episcopal
diocese of Michigan, is dead at De-
troit. aged ninety years.
The scout cruiser Birmingham was
launched at Quincy. Mass, Wednes-
day. Miss Mary Campbell of Birming-
ham, Ala, christened the vessel.
William F. Skinner, seventy years
old, who served in Stonewall jackson
brigade during the Civil war and VINO
was given medal of honor for
bravery, committed suicide at Wash
lngton by inhaling Illuminating gas
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07

OH Nystrom, OF Bigelow, was
in town Saturday.
s. Wilcox, of Route 3, was a call.
or last Saturday.
j. J. Kinmell, of Reading, was a
Worthington visitor Monday.
Alfred Nahlberg was III from
Bigelow township Saturday.
Col. j. A.Town returned last Sat.
urday from his trip to the South.
R. o. Williams. of Kinbrae, was
in the city on business Monday
AIankato is to have big carnival
during the week beginning June II.
John Hart, a prominent pioneer
of Graham Lakes, transacted bust
ness at the county capital Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. L. McConkey, Of
Brewster, came down Monday
night to attend the graduation exer-
cises.
The Missionary Society OF the
Congregational Church met Wednes-
day at the church parlors. Mrs.
Wyckof was the leader.
Conductor Crosby, of the Rock
Island road, was called to Hot
Springs, Ark, by dispatch, an
nouncing that his wife's case had
taken a turn for the worse.
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Friday, May 81.

The French cruiser Clancy, which
went ashore on one of the Saddle
islands May 20, will prove total loss
and has been abandoned.
Memorial exercises in honor of the
nations dead were held Thursday at
all the cemeteries around Chicago, at
Fort Sheridan and at Lincoln park,
around the monument to Abraham
Lincoln.
The graves of more than 5000 Un-
ion soldiers buried at Winchester, Va,
were decorated Thursday by members
Of the Ladies' National Memorial as
ISOLATION. Memorial services also
were held.
In the Western Association league
ball game at Hutchinson, Kan, Okla
homa City beat Hutchinson after twen-
ty-three innings of play by a score of
2 to 1. Neither team scored until the
eighteenth inning, when both made
one run.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07
CRIMES AND MISHAPS.

The saloon of M. Solomon at St.
Paul was the scene Of bold but un-
successful holdup. A young man CIV
Ing the name of M. Wheeler showed a
revolver under the nose Of Charles
Duncan, bartender, and demanded the
money in the till. Duncan grabbed the
revolver and was shot in the hand,
after which the bandit dashed from
the saloon, but was captured after a
short chase.
A street car on Central avenue, Min
neapolfs, was struck by Northern
Pacific switch engine. The car was
damaged and the passengers were
badly shaken up. Charles Duffy had
his right leg broken and Mrs. Mary
Lundgrin suffered severely from the
shock.
William Stith of Swanville, eighteen
miles west of Little Falls, the nine
teen-year-old son of J. D. Stfth, a prom
inent merchant of that village, was
killed at Grey Eagle by being struck
with a pitched ball in game between
Grey Eagle and Swanvflle.
Fred HaDeck, q resident OF blaKeley,
was struck by a train while walking
across the track at that place and in
stantly killed. He was about sixty
five years of age.
G,lstave Firschow committed suicide
at Saltwater by placing the muzzle of
a loaded shotgun over his heart and
pulling the trigger with his toe.
Charles Kavander. seventeen years
old, was killed while braking on a
dinky engine for Drake & Stratton at
the Fayal mine near Eveleth.
Fred Chadwick aged thirty-dve, a
switchman on the Northern Pacific
railroad, was instantly killed In the
St. Paul yards.
Adolph Anderson, employed as Ia
borer in Calvary cemetery, St. Paul,
committed suicide by hanging.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07
SATURDAY., June I,

Mrs. Harriet Matilda Balm, aged
seventy-nine years, widow of Edward
Balm and one of the wealthiest women
in Wisconsin,, is dead at Kenosha
Walter S. Cheesman, president OF
the Denver Union Water company
and one of the foremost capitalists
and citizens of Denver, died suddenly
Friday.
Dispatches to Dun's Trade Review
indicate that the business situation is
still largely dependent upon the tenn
perature, which has been most irreg.
ular, but, on the whole, Improvement
Is reported.
The Southern Pacific has put its
overland and coast trains on a slower
running schedule. Traffic has been
so heavy on the various lines that 1t
has been found practically impossible
to maintain the existing schedules.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-03-30

chusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey,
New York, North Dakota, Oregon,
Rhode Island, South Dakota, Wiscon-
sin and Wyoming. In Michigan the
census is taken in the years ending
with a." The population returns for
these states was 26,263.877, an in
crease since. 1900 of 1,9O1,742. For
the remaining states and territories
the population for 1905, as deter
mined by the method il estimating,
adopted by the bureau of census. was
56.283,O59. an increase over 1900 of
4,374,040, of 81 per cent.
The population of the fourteen
states making an enumeration, II es-
timated in the same manner. would
be 26.204.762, difference of only
OF per cent from thea ctual returns.
Growth Was 81 Per Cent.
The population of continental Unit
ed States in 1905, as obtained by
adding to the returns Of the states
which took census in that year the
estimated population Of the remain
ing states and territories, 10 82,575.-
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1913. an increase over 1900 of $685.
$40, of 81 per cent.
The rapid growth of urban popula-
lation is noteworthy. The total es-
tfmated population of incorporated
places having 5000 or more sinhabit-
ants, exclusive of Los Angeles and
San Francisco, is 2S,466. ga for
1905. an increase over 1900 of 3D.
912.1S8. or 15.9 per cent, while the
estimated population of the United
States. exclusive of these cities, show
ed an increase of 4.480.O08,. or only
8.8 per cent.
The SO cities with an estimated
population Of $4,000 or more in 1906
had total estimated population of
1s.771,167. an increase of 1885,
863. or 1853 per cent in excess OF
that reported at the twelfth census.
A pair of bright little twin boys
we're born to Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Kiser,
Friday, March -. one. Of them liv-
ing but 2 few hours. It will be buried
this afternoon at 2:30 from the
hofns~Dy Undsftxker sprague.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-03-30
RAISE SALARIES OF TEACHERS.
School Board Has Adopted Advanced
Ideas as to Compensation

Superintendent A. L. Brown, who
was reelected by the school board,
will receive an increase in salary for
the ensuing year from $1,000 to
$500. The board at it's last meet
ing adopted the following resolu-
tions:
college of university graduates
will be given preference for high
school work, and normal graduates
for the grades. Applications are not
desired from teachers not having an
education equivalent to that of q
first class high school.
mo person will be employed as a
regular teacher In grades who has
not had at least one years experience
in a school system employing at least
ten teachers, or three years exper-
fence in rural or village schools.
Teachers for high school work must
have had at least one years exper-
fence in high school employing four
or more teachers, or it's equivalent.
NO. person will be employed who
does not hold a high grade. certificate
In force in this state, or where last
employed. Teachers III grades. 1 to
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-03-30
New Fire Department officers.

The election of officers of the We
natchee Fire Department was held
Friday night at the rooms of the We
natchee Commercial Club; and the
following officers elected for the en-
suing year: Terry Ross, chief; c. E..
Throw, assistant chief; Cliff Godfrey,
secretary and treasurer; C. A. Har-
lin, B. j. Williams and Percy Scheble,
trustees.
The several companies will meet
later on and elect their officers.
a committee of the council met
last night and decided on purchasing
combination chemical engine and
hose wagon.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-03-30
Costly windsor Castle.

No royal castle has cost Great
Britain more in hard cash than that
Of Windsor, says the London Chron-
icle. When George ~. announced his
intention Of making it family resi-
dence parliament granted him $500, 900
toward its reconstruction. For four
years the work went merrily on under
fresh grants, and the king then took
possession Of the private apartments.
That did not end the expenditure how
ever. By the time William Nv. had
satisfied himself that there was moth
ing more to be done the castle had
swallowed up close to q million
pounds.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-03-30

S are ezyests1 "a ~ . lesst &c
eed srads county peFtiAcats- Teach-
ess q grades TO 8, md II AlEh
school, are expected to hold : 1rst
grade county certificate or Its eouiya-
lent.
Salaries: Teachers in the grades
with minimum experience will be
elected at $40 a year; teachers with
more experience may be started at
5000 a year II conditions warrant it.
A regular advance Of $50 a year will
be made with each years successful
experience in the Wenatchee schools
until the maximum of $3.50 is reach
ed. The board reserves the right to
refuse salary increase to any teachers
reported by the superintendent as
s'fair," and may by unanimous vote
give a greater increase than $50 a
year to a teacher reported as excel
lent"
Salaries of high school teachers
not yet definitely fixed.
Teachers will be paid one-twelfth
of the annual salary on the fifth Of
each month that school is in session,
beginning with the fifth of October.
Teachers will be paid one-twelfth
of the annual salary on the fifth Of
each month, except in July, August
and September. When the school has
closed in June and all reports have
been properly made, the tenth and
eleventh installments shall be paid
and the twelfth installment shall be
paid on the first day of school in
September following.
''First-That any teacher who
teaches less than one year in these
schools shall receive as many ninths
of the tenth, eleventh and twelfth in
stallments as the number of months
taught is of the school year.
'Second-That in case of resigna-
ton after the fifth or August and
prior to the payment of the twelfth
installment, only one-half of the
twelfth installment shall become due
and payable.
'Third-That teachers resigining
without giving thirty days notice
shall forfeit all claim on the tenth,
eleventh and twelfth installments of
the salary; but this shall not apply
when the resignation is due to sick
ness, or when the teacher is released
by the board, or other unavoidable
cause"
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-03-30

The skull of Alexander Pope. the poet
and satirist, Is in the private collection
Of phrenologist During some alter
atoms In the churchyard where Pope
was buried 1t was necessary to move
his coffin. which was opened at the
time to ascertain the state of his re-
mains. By bribing the sexton Of the
church possession Of the poets skull
was obtained for the night, and in the
morning a different skull was returned
instead. The cost of the skull. includ-
Ing the bride. was ESQ.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-03-30
CLEAN UP THE CITY

in few inaugurate
of city willing cooperation
of all interested. very
think follow
lions having
or contagious
hope
help that wish will be gladly
1t imperative that all premises be placed
diion possible.
s..9Y DR.
#fs City Health Omcer
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LOCAL and PERSONll

6VUu6 NM 61uVVNU1
{. W. hastings. Who Is engaged in
the mercantile business at Nathan
creek. Is transacting business In the
city.
Walter e. Bliss. representing the
Milwaukee Mechanics ms. Co., Is In
the city.
John Sullivan and family were Wis
itors in town yesterday from Cash
mere.
H. E. Carr, of the Lamb Davis
Lumber Company of Leavenworth,
Is business visitor in town today.
John Staple, who is engaged in
the feed business at Leavenworth. is
transacting business in this city to-
day.
Band concert Monday night, April
list.
Rev. Jessup, minister Of the Bap-
fist church, will speak at the read
ing room Monday afternoon at 6
o'clock.
The Spinsters' Return at the opera
house April Sth. Don't forget it and
don't miss it.
C. c. King, the well known Entiat
valley fruit raiser, was a visitor in
town today Mr.. King contemplates
entering the real estate business.
Geo. Lail and Louis Williams, who
are attending the state university at
Seattle, arrived home last night and
will spend their Easter vacation here.
The Wenatchee Furniture COM
pany is having fine display window
boxed in for the purpose of display
ing their excellent stock of house
furnishings.
Miss Kate B. Dallam, who is at
tending the state normal school at
Cheney, arrived in Wenatchee last
night and will spend the Easter va
cation with her sister, Mrs. Geo. H.
Ellis, Jr.
Fred Simpich, formerly the repre-
sentative of several large eastern pa
pers in the Orient and recently inter-
ested in a daily paper in Manila, P.
L., arrived in Wenatchee this morn
ing and becomes an attache of the
World-Advance Publishing Co.
3Geo. B. Pratt, superintendent of
THE fish hatcheries at Auburn, Wash,
aid formerly holding the same po-
sition at Chiwaukum, passed through
Wenatchee yesterday on his return
from the Okanogan, where he has
purchased 20 acres under the gov
eminent irrigation project through
A. M. Storch.
;The real estate firm of Fuller &
Russell yesterday sold the nine acre
fruit ranch of Mrs. Annie Phillips
to w. M. Meashaw, of Montana. The
price pal dior the tract was $4,000.
The orchard on this place is from
five to eight years old and it is To-
Gated on Washington street about
one half mile from the city limits.
:, John Gellatly yesterday sold
through the real estate firm of Bous-
qnet & Holm his residence and three
lots on Wenatchee avenue north and
adjoining the courthouse property,
to l. j. Bailey. The price paid for
this property was $4,000. There
have been a number of sales of lots
in that part of town recently. Frank
Reeves sold two lots, 25x120 to e.
A. Nichols for $4,000, and l. w.
Reeves sold two similar lots to H. c.
Littlefield at the same figure. Prop
erty in that end of town is steadily
advancing in price as it is, in fact,
throughout the itcy.
Don't miss the concert Monday
night.
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100000 More Inhabitants in r. 8

o'NO'"OO "Aoie AHHstuitdHtS IN u. >.
WASHINGTON. Marc.. 29.-There
are now nearly S,000,C0O more in
habitants in the continental United
States than six years ago. This esti-
mate is based on figures complied
by the census bureau in a special re-
port. According to it's estimates the
population of continental United
States in 1906 was S3,951,91O, this
being an increase over 1900 of T.
946,935. The population of the
United States, including Alaska and
the insular possessions, in 1906 was
93,1S2,240. The growth in popula-
ton in continental United States
from 1905 to 1906 was 1,367,915.
The five leading cities and their
estimated population in 1906 were
as follows:
New York, 4,118,O45.
Chicago, 2,049,1S5.
Philadelphia, 1.441,735.
st. Louis, 649,320.
Boston, 602,278.
Based on State Census.
The report presents the population
returns for 1905 of the fourteen
states making an interdecentennia
enumeration, together with the esti-
mated population of these states for
1904 and 1906 and the remaining
states and territories for 1904, 1905
and 1906.
The states taking census in 1905
are Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Massa-