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The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-04-24
DOWN RAcETRAck GAMBLING.
In Brooklyn, Easter Day Witnesses
Unusual Demonstration-Gov
Hughes Speaks.

New York, April 20.-A remarkable
demonstration against racetrack
gambling, that at times assumed the
form of a personal tribute to Governor
Hughes, was made in Brooklyn Sun
day. The demonstration began in the
streets leading to the Bedford branch
of the Y. M. G. A., where the governor
was announced to address an anti-race-
track gambling meeting, and attended
the speaker from his carriage to the
platform of the spacious hall.
The mass meeting was nonsectar-
ian affair for men, called, the chair
man, the Rev. John F. Carson of the
Central Presbyterian church, said
with the object of "impressing upon
our representatives in the legislature
the necessity of their changing their
views regarding racetrack gambling
and he added: eff they do not change
their views, we will see to it that we
change the men,"
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-04-24
INFANT DISEASE CAUSES ALARM
Doctors Are Perplexed as to an Effect
i've Remedy.

Sporadic cases of infantile paralysis,
which are again appearing in New
York, have aroused gravest fears of
many eminent physicians and the
department of health that New York
is again on the threshold of another
epidemic of this disease, which rem
ders 80 per cent of those attacked
cripples for life.
Similar to Spinal Meningitis.
During last years epidemic more
than 1000 cases were under observa,
ton in the various hospitals, and 1t is
estimated that 80 per cent of the pa
tients were permanently crippled.
Infantile paralysis is similar in many
respects to spinal meningitis. The ad
vance symptoms are the same and the
diseases are believed to be related.
Although seldom causing death, In
fantile paralysis is held by physicians
to be one of the most terrible diseases
with which humanity is a icted.
DR.. ]. F. Terriberry, who is II
charge of the clinic of the New York
Hospital for Crippled Children, and
pioneer in the investigation, declared
that 60 per cent of the cripples in the
world were made such by infantile
paralysis.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-04-24
IN CHELSEA, $4,000 HOMELESS
Sum of 100000 Donated to Care for
Boston Suburb Fire Victims.

Boston, Mass, April 21.-Many
thousands of people Sunday walked
through the ruins of the fire which one
week ago swept through Chelsea. 1t
was an orderly crowd, and the militia
men and policemen on guard had no
difficulty in handling it.
Many of the church societies had
big out-ofdoor meetings in the public
squares and parks.
One more body was found in the
ruins. 1t is believed to be that of
Captain Benjamin F. Knowles, Grand
Army veteran. This makes the 18th
body thus far found in the ruins.
The general relief committee in a
statement today declares that $4,000
people were made homeless and that
$1,000 of these need not only tempo
rary accommodations, but must be re
habilitated at least to the extent Of
absolutely necessary housekeeping
equipment, which will involve the ex
penditure of fully 100000.
This fund at present amounts to ovel
5000, 900, and is steadily growing.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-04-24
What's the Trouble.

That there has been some emer-
gency in international relations of the
United States which convinced the
administration of the urgent need of
squeezing out of congress every cent
possible for navy is believed by rea-
son of recent developments. The
emergency is so serious that the presi-
dent and Secretary Root have taken
steps to inform several prominent con-
gressmen of it in hope Of securing
more favorableattitude toward the four
battleships measure.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-04-24

PERSIAN FRONTIER IN TURMOIL
Russia Lands Troops to Protect Her
Rights.


Tif1is.-The situation on the Persian
frontier arising from the activity OF
marauding Kurds has not materially
improved. The Persian bandits again
concentrated in force yesterday and
renewed their attack against Belesu-
var. The Russians countered with
energy, and their artillery bombarded
several villages in which the brigands
had taken refuge. The Russian COM
mander has orders to dispense ana
entirely wipe out the bands.
The foreign Office at st. Petersburg
is keenly interested in Russia's little
frontier war in Persia. 1t is the hrst
occasion to raise for the active appll-
cation of Russia's rights under the
Anglo-Russian agreement to endeavor
to preserve order in northern Persia
The operations themselves are consld'
cred of minor Importance, and they
will quickly come to an end as soon
as the subsistence of floods permit the
movement of Russian detachments
Russia counts upon the support oil
Great Britain and no interference py
any other power.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-04-24
Phipps and His Baggage.

With the arrival of ]. S. Phipps, the
son of the millionaire Pittsburg steel
man, from Europe, all records for
baggage brought into the country by
family were smashed. One hundred
and sixty pieces of personal baggage
arrived with Mr.. Phipps, who was
accompanied by his wife, who was
Miss Marguerite Grace; three children
a secretary, valet and three nurses.
The Phippses have been abroad fol
five years, living at Melton-Mowbray
abbey, in the south of England. They
have tired of England and will take w
their residence at their mansion al
Westbury, L. l., to which place they
went Immediately.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-04-24
GETS SIGHT AFTER 80 YEARS
Blind From Early Childhood, Today
Is Cured by German Oculist-Adept
With the BraiIle Notation.

Blind from her early childhood, Miss
Alice Hollis, who is now about 40
years old, journeyed alone all the way
from Port Huron, Mich, to Wiesbaden,
Germany, and her courage has been
rewarded by the recovery of her sight.
She has just undergone successful
operation at the hands of Professor
Pagenstecherja an eminent oculist.
Of peculiar interest is the story of
Miss Hollis affection and of her brave
venture across land and sea. Losing
her sight when 10 years old, she was
educated in school for the blind in
Michigan, and since her mothers
death, seven years ago, she has sup
ported herself by teaching music and
conducting boarding house. When
she saved enough to go abroad, in the
hope of regaining her sight, she wrote
to Walter G. Holmes, manager of the
Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the Blind,
in New York City, and solicited his
aid.
Mr.. Holmes met her on her arrival
and took her to the Statendam, of the
Holland-American line, upon which
she had booked passage. Mr.. Holmes
took her to her stateroom and saw that
her baggage was properly disposed.
On every piece she carried, as well
as on her ticket, was slip OF paper
containing Braille notation, so that
by touch of the finger she could tell
what each was.
Before the ship departed Mr.. Holmes
also asked several women If they
would not occasionally look in on Miss
Hollis in her stateroom or walk about
with her on the deck, and her recent
letter to him shows they were kind
ness itself.
IF they had been my sisters" she
says, they could not have done more
for me. One of them even came and
roomed with me-" Continuing, she
writes:
81 have had an operation on both
eyes, and the doctor says I shall see
we'll with my right and some with my
left, and l can read by the aid of 6
glass all the letters on a card"
81 never saw a drawer women in my
life, to undertake this long journe!
alone" said Mr.. Holmes, recently
"Her letter, you will notice; is writer
with her own fingers in the Braill'
notation. She has been a reader o
, our magazine, and, like many Others
, similarly afflicted, made it sort of in
. formation bureau. Of course, we ar
glad at all times to assist any one"
The Matilda Ziegler Magazine, whicl
, has offices at No. 306 West Firty-thir
street, was founded and is maintaine
i, by the widow of William Ziegler, VIII
, was an arctic explorer, and is give
by her to the blind of the Unite
States who can read.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-04-24
MINES AND MINING.

San Franc1ScO.-SllVer DarS, 549Sc;
Mexican dollars, 81.
A strike of rich gold ore in the
Umatilla mine in the Orogrande (Ore.)
district is reported. The report states
that an ore body eight feet wide has
been encountered in the lower work
ings of the nine and that the ore
averages in value $24 to the ton.
A contract has been awarded for
building the 200 ton concentration to
be erected by the ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Concentrating company at Metaline,
Wash. 1t is stated the plant will cost
$4,000.
At a recent meeting of the executive
committee of the Montana Mining as
ISOLATION the taking over of the Pan
handle smelter at Standpoint, Idaho,
was ratified and the papers signed. A
proposition was received and favor
ably considered for refining of asso-
citation ores at Cook City, Montana,
this plant, however, to remain with it's
present owners.
Wallace, Idaho.-County Assessor
Smith reports that in 1907 there were
204 mining claims patented in Sho-
shone county, which is far in excess
of any other year. Claims represent
an area of 3211 acres.
The last carload of ore sent out from
the Westmont mine, on SLOGAN lake,
averaged 4O5 ounces of silver to the
ton. This is the third carload sent
out since the opening of the mine.
British Columbia Mines.
The War Eagle mine, in Rossland,
which was believed to have been prac-
tically worked out years ago, is now
regarded by mining men as one of the
best mines in the province.
| The we'll known Banner group OF
copper claims in Summit camp, which
has been inactive for several years, is
about to resume operations.
For many weeks to come there will
be no work done at the CRANKY mines
at Phoenix on Sundays. Manager
Hodges states that on account of the
repairs to be made to the smelter Of
the company the shipments will be
| TeuuCeu lOT SOluc llue, anu ~ LOS ueoh
determined that the mines will no
be operated on Sundays. While the
repairs are going on there will be ONT
furnace idle all the time. Last weel
the first of the battery of eight fur
naces was blown out, and during thu
time that is required to connect al
the furnaces with the new steel flu
dust chamber all the furnaces will b.
laid off one after another.
The Canadian Pacific Railway com
pany will soon be an extensive pre-
Queer of coal and coke. The Canadian
Pacific railway owns 1000 acres of Goa
lands near Hosmer, which are now be
ing opened up with force of 500 mer
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-04-24
TEXAS
STORM
LOSSES MORE THAN A
MILLION DOLLARS.
WATERS RECEDlNG RAPIDLY
RAILROADS BADLY CRIPPLED
FARMS DESTROYED

Fort Worth, Texas, April 2O,-The
indications today are that the storm
which has prevailed for the past sew
eral days in north Texas is about over.
The loss is estimated at more than
$1,000,000. The waters are receding
almost as fast as they came up, and
with no more rain within two or three
days avenues of travel will be reopen
ed and business will move again.
At this time, however, the Texas &
Pacific transcontinental line is cut in
two. There has been no train from
California, or out to the west since
Friday morning.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe is
in fair condition except between Paris
and Cleburne, where it has suffered
many washouts. At Waco the Brazos
river reached it's high water mark at
p. m. today, when the gauge showed
IS feet. East Waco is inundated by
the breaking of levee. Farms in the
lowlands are greatly damaged and
been drowned.
The situation is serious there an6
the worst of the rise is yet to reach
that point.
The crest of the flood reached For
Worth about noon today, and two hours
later the water began to recede, the
rainfall ceasingo At the time the cit!
park and vicinity was inundated to ;
depth of about 10 feet. Between For
Worth and near Fort Worth, wher'
the packing houses are, the waite
reached depth of six to seven feet
Fully 5000 persons, principally poo
people, were driven from their home
in the suburbs.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-04-24
SAYS Anna Is Married.

The Cri de Paris, which processes
to chronicle the doings of the fashion
able set of Paris, insists in its issue
Saturday that the marriage of Madame
Anna Gould, formerly the wife of
Count Boni de Castellane, an dPrince
Helie de Sagan already has taken
place. The paper announced some
time ago that the marriage had been
celebrated secretly in Germany. ..
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-04-24
Thaw Must Be Vaccinated.

Fishkill Landing, N. Y, April 22.-
Harry K Thaw is about the maddest
prisoner at the Matteawan asylum.
His anger has been aroused by the
notice he received to be prepared for
vaccination in a few days. The en-
tire 700 patients are to be given their
spring dose of vaccine.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-04-24

the whistle. For instance II one whistle
has a note eight seconds In length,
coming every half minute, another
whistle may have a note five seconds
In length coming every quarter min
ute. No two whistles within a section
where there would be the slightest
chance Of confusing them are alike.
Neither are any two lights alike
where they may b. mistaken one for
the other. There are nowadays Eve
different classes of light; fixed, revolv-
ing, flashing, colored in intermittent
There are some combinations Of these
also which provide still other varia-
tions, such as intermittent flashing
lights and group flashing lights.
OIL Is still the fuel used. Wherever
else 1t may be back number, 1t keeps
its lead over all other lights for steadi-
ness and reliability in signal work.
There are some buoys which are cleo
trically lighted and some which have
Pintsch lights. There are also some
lightshlps which are electrically light
ed. But the well-known instability Of
buoys and ships Is tie result Light
houses stick to coal oil.
The pay Of lighthouse keepers aver
ages from 800 to $1,000 year. The
Isolated ones are supplied with food
and fuel, too, and 1t is fact that It
often costs more to get these supplies
to the lighthouses than the supplies
themselves cost. Men who receive $10O
year or other small salaries do not
have charge Of first-class lighthouses.
They are the men who attend to light
ing one Of the small beacons, but even
in that case they earn their money.
| Lighthouse keepers are not allowed
to take up any occupation that would
interfere with their duties, but some
of them manage to earn an honest
penny occasionally by making shoes
or doing tailoring or other intermit-
tent work. One Is reported who
preached every Sunday at little
justice of the peace. Another taught
school.
TIE summer isn't SO bad anywhere.
On the northern Atlantic coast things
60 to the other extreme. Summer
folks become veritable pest at many
of the lights. Those which are near
the large resorts are made the objec-
tive points of hundreds Of yachting
parties, Of launches Of idlers in any
kind of a thing that will float.
When these visitors come by scores
every day and must all be taken up to
see the light-a very respectable little
climb If the tower happens to be 100
or more feet high and must all be fed
with the same facts-all of them indi.
gestible to the average mind on a sum.
mer vacatlon-and must all peek and
peer Into the private quarters of the
family, then the isolation Of January
doesn't seem to be without its redeem.
ing features.
The wife Of lighthouse keeper hal
no sinecure. One wonders what hap
. pens If a man in that position marriei
an untidy wife. According to the testi
, mony of one woman who lives in {
, lighthouse the inspector would MAKE
. short work of a domestic slattern.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-04-24

In winter time, says writer, life
In lighthouse is no joke. Even when
the house Is on the mainland, where
the keeper and his family can get
around somewhat as other folks do,
the winter Is a long, hard pull.
In the United States there are about
LOO lighthouses, built in large va
riety Of situations, not one Of which
was chosen with a view to tie comfort
and social advantages Of the occupants.
For instance, when 1t comes to linked
loneliness long drawn out the eight
| families who keep the Scotch Cap and
the Sarichef lights Off the coast Of
Alaska are candidates for first prize.
There are four of them at each light,
but they do not see each other for
months at time.
AS for seeing anybody else, passing
steamer occasionally lowers boat and
sends them mail. But. as the steamer
company charges Uncle Sam $50 every
time 1t does this the lighthouse folk
have to put up with rare visits.
Life on a lightship Is even worse
than 1t is in lighthouse. The house,
at any rate, keeps fairly steady, where
as lightship is never absolutely still,
and in stormy weather rolls and
wrenches, douses and drenches Its
crew unit they almost go crazy under
the strain. The best Of them cant
stand too long a spell Of that sort Of
thing.
The Diamond Shoals lightship, thlr
teen miles out In the ocean off Cape
Hatteras Of evil memory to mariners
was kept there once for five months In
stead of the three prescribed by the
regulations.
. Even when the crew were talf dis
tracted from the strain of their lonl
duty it did not occur to them to aban
don their post. As matter Of fac
only three or four instances have beer
, recorded Of American keepers abandon
Ing a light which was in their charge
] Probably when 1t comes to out ant
: out wintry rigors some Of the light
houses on the Great Lakes suffer NOR
Y even than those on the seacoast. The.
: become coated with thick Ice and hav'
2 also to stand up against onslaughts o
cake ice forced up out of the water ant
: driven against them with terrific force
One lighthouse on Lake Erie had t.
S stand on one occasion against Ice whicl
piled up against it to height Of fort
u feet.
But it's no summer resort In tn
q tower Of any lighthouse in winter. N
u heat is allowed, as that would caus
: dimming Of the plate glass windo,
or the lenses. The heat from tn
great lamp Is carried of by a ver
tilator overhead and the turret Is g
cold that on the New England coas
keepers say that a glass Of water wi
u quickly freeze solid If set on the wiz
= dow sill.
The big lamps. by the way. are a
u lowed to burn only four hours at
e time. If they burn longer there is az
% to be vaporization of the gases In tt
% oil, lessening the brilliance Of the ligh
u So the lamps are changed twice ever
night. When there is fog or storm
. first-class lighthouse will keep thre
y men busy all night tending to light
y and the engine which keeps tie sire
- =. whistle going.
- These whistles differ from ono a
y other, just as the lights do, 80 tn,
even If a vessel cannot distinguish
light 1t can determine its position
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-04-24
If Mexico Don't Kick,

Should the plans of the American
government be acceptable to Mexico,
the cruiser Albany will be utilized to
convey Ambassador Creel and w. l..
Buchanan on their mission of peace
and good fellowship to the five Cen
trail American republics.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-04-24
D. C., Appropriations Pass.

The District of Columbia appropria-
ton bill was reported to the senate
Saturday. 1t carries $11 ,494,SS7, an in
crease of $1,934,3SS over the amount
of the bill as it was passed by the
house.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-04-24
DRASTIC ORDERS GIVEN
Railroad Gives Orders to Discharge
all But Citizens Of v. S.

Pittsburg, Pam order has been
issued by the Pennsylvania railroad
to discharge all foreign workmen and
to employ in their stead native Amer
lean or naturalized citizens. This ac-
ton is in line with that of big coke
companies, who not long ago decided
to discriminate against alien labor as
undesirable from the standpoint of
efficiency and because of its disorderly
tendencies. When the order reached
Pittsburg to discharge all foreigners,
some of the foremen in the cleaning
departments and section forces object
ed. When the objections reached head
quarters peremptory orders, supposed
have been issued by superintendent
of these departments, were issued to
discharge foreigners at once. The or
der means that thousands of foreigners
who have been favored in the past will
be out of employment. Foreigners
who are out of work have learned that
if they are naturalized, no objections
are made to them. AS result, Jthe
courts in western Pennsylvania have
been kept busy making citizens of
hungarians, Slavs, Polanders and ltal-
ians, who predominant.
Hold Troops for Elections.
Detroit, misunderstanding to officers
of the Seventh regiment the real rea.
8 on why the Seventh did not go to the
Philippines recently is that. the gov.
eminent fears anarchistic and labor
troubles, particularly at election time
this fall. Two weeks ago the Seventh
| was ordered to the Philippines. A
| week later the order was countermand
ed, without explanation. 1t is declar
ed here that President Roosevelt an6
Secretary of War Taft think the pos
sibility of serious rioting in the United
States is strong enough to Warrant
keeping the soldiers in this country
The Seventh was to replace the Secont
regiment, now on it's way home. Nov
no regiment will take the place of thu
Second in the islands. 1t is said thu
| government thinks the menace of dis
order by unemployed workingmen, in
cited by anarchists and radical social
lists, is really greater than the DANCE
of actual anarchists rioting.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-04-24

Perhaps the Young Things would
study better If love story were run In
with the geography, and the arithmetic
tables. In order to catch their atten-
ton, a love story Is run into everything
else.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-04-24

In the British museum there is
huge rope of hair, weighing nearly
two tons. 1t was originally made for
one of the emperors Of Japan.
One Amsterdam factory alone cuts
400, 900 diamonds every year.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-04-24
Brazil Has New Railroad,

M. Calmon, the minister of railroads,
has left Rio De Janeiro to inaugurate
the first section of $50 miles of the
new railroad between Rio Janeiro and
the city of Goyaz.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-04-24
Stanford Won Debate.

BY unanimous vote the judges in the
intercollegiate debate Saturday night
between representatives of Stanford
and the University of California de-
cided in favor of Stanford.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-04-24

Sugar is to be found in the sap OF
nearly 200 plants and trees.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-04-24

The right ear is generally larger than
the left
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-04-24
Does Not Excite London.

The London newspapers, comment
ing on the attitude of Italy toward the
porte, take different views, some OF
the papers regarding the affair as rath-
er trivial and better suited for arbitra-
ton than a threat of force. Much In
terest is displayed in the attitude Ger
many is likely to adopt.