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Bisbee daily review., 1908-03-13
pAIng-wessER LETTER.
fcnacio1 wire to L. D Oyerlock. .I

Special Wire to l.. J. OyeTlockO
 BOSTON, March 12.-Under the lead Of Amalgamated the local cop ners took a spurt up and were com paratively active. Utah and Butte have been sold short lately and they are the hardest to buy and tle easiest to move. Range closed 62 1-2 and ss and was as scarce as ever. old Dominion, Isle Royal and Shan non will be taken in hand at once.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-07-24
FEED THE BRUTE"
Man ls Always Peevish Before He
Breakfasts

Man Is Always Peevish Before He
Breakfasts.
The usual advice given to young
wives is to feed the BRUTE" and an
other warning is not to cross a man
before he has breakfasted.
From my experience" says the
proprietor of large restaurant which
serves many breakfasts, II have
learned to avoid my male customers
before breakfast. Somehow, ladies'
are not so irritable at that hour of the
day as are their husbands and broth.
ers.
MANY of my customers ere early
risers, who call in on their way to
business. If you meet them in the
afternoon they would strife you as
being most companionable men, but
before breakfast even l keep out of
their way.
'"rhey growl g: the weather, at the
food, at the wafer, at each other and
even at themselves 1t is amusing to
watch the visible change as they get
through breakfast.
with ladies it's quite different.
They are not nearly so numerous as
are the men, but the, are much more
amiable. l sometimes wonder if it is
because they wake up less hungry.
But as to that, can Only guess.
'The fact remains, however, that
man before he has broken his fast is
usually disagreeable sort of animal"
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-07-24
His SUPPORT.

A young colored man in Washington
who recently passed with credit civil
service examination was Immediately
certified for appointment to the treas.
ury department.
His old mother, darkey of the ante.
bellum type, insisted upon accompany.
ing him to witness his taking of the
oath of Office. When the official
charged with the swearing in of the
new clerk put to him the usual fornu.
la with reference to supporting the
Constitution of the United States''
the old lady's eyes were seen to bulge
with establishment. But she said moth.
ing till she and her son were outside
when, turning to him, she solemnlv
observed:
Il didn't wanter say nothin' in
there, Joe; but deed, honey, I don't
see how youse goin' to suppote de
United States when you amt been
able till now to suppote your folkses!''
illustrated Sunday Magazine.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-07-24

grown water wheel, which, with slow
revolutions, ground a few bushels Of
corn in day or turned hundred or
two spindles, to the miles and miles
of shining copper wire that in many
places already run every sort of ma
chine from a dentists drill to freight
elevator, from church organ to a
printing press, from a sewing machine
or an ice cream freezer to a black
smiths forge. But the step has been
taken and how many more will follow
depends only on the limit of ingenuity
of this ingenious age.
The first application of water power
on any scale in this country was in
Lowell, Mass, where the first great cot
ton mills were established. The sys-
tenn Of canals at Lowell, planned by
Maj. George w. Whistler, father of
the famous and erratic English-Ameri-
can artist, still stands as an achieve.
ment in engineering. 1t demonstrated
what a river could be made to do if
you could get near enough to it; it
showed the way to building up indus
tries that must have economical pow
er to be profitable; it displayed the
possibilities of water power used on
a large scale. But until way was
found Of converting water power into
a transmissab!e form it's usefulness
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-07-24
THE BRIGHT FUTURE OF "WHITE COAL"
Water Power the Most Ancient Source Of Energy Also ModenFes
Hydro EectrcityOpens.

1t is one Of the queer paradoxes Of
this century Of machinery and power
that the most ancient and crudest
form of mechanical force is becoming
the most modern and highly perfected.
Two or three thousand years ago,
when the Egyptians and Assyrians
were the doors of the worlds great
work, the latent energy locked up in
every stream that runs down hill"
was the only kind of power man had
at his disposal, except human Drawn
and brute strength. And now, after
manifold attempts at improvements,
this ready-at-hand gift Of nature
seems on the way to be mans best
reliance once more.
In the last decade water power has
been slowly pushing its way ahead of
all the better things" devised in the
last twenty centuries. To-day engi-
neers predict that the future will find
it the most economical and practical
means of operating machinery and
the most valuable factor in building
up industry. 1t is only within few
years, comparatively speaking, that
1t has been possible to use water pow
er as it is now used. Only with the
perfecting of long distance electrical
transmission has it had any value be-
yond turning machinery connected d.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-07-24

was restricted to industries that could
be located on the water course and
could be conducted on big enough
scale to justify the building of large
and expensive plant. Such, for exam
pie, are the great cotton mills, the
sawmills, and the huge flour mills of
New England, the South and the
Northwest.
Whoever was the man who conceived
the idea of making water power turn
a generator of electricity and then
distributing the electricity wherever
it was wanted for miles around, he
was one Of the greatest benefactors
Of modern industry. Perhaps the first
application of his scheme was to cleo
trio light and trolley car plants in the
rural districts, where fuel is costly
and water power easily available.
Lots Of small New England towns
owe their we'll lighted streets and
their cross-country trolley service to
the patient, plodding water wheel.
But the modern hydro-electric power
plant is marvel of ingenuity 80 DIFF
ferent from its crude predecessors
that it can hardly be thought of as a
development from them. The water
power development on the St. Croix
river, for example, which furnishes
electricity for lighting and manufac-
turing purposes in Minneapolis, now
produces 1850 horsepower and will,
it is planned, ultimately be increased
to twice that volume. That on the
Chattahoochee, from which power is
provided for the region about Colum-
bus, Ca, now aggregates 5000 horse
power, while, when adjoining rights
are utilized, an ultimate development
of $4,000 horsepower is anticipated.
More spectacular than even the Nj
agara Falls plant is the Puget sound
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-07-24

power development, which, harness
ing the streams that have their source
in the glaciers Of Mount Rainier, pro-
vides electricity for railway, lighting
and manufacturing purposes to Ia
coma, Seattle and the country be-
tween, while north Of it, close to the
Canadian line, the Nooksack river,
racing down the side of Mount Baker,
has been brought into the service Of
the young city of Bellingham and its
surrounding towns.
There are innumerable small water
power developments in different parts
of the country; new ones spring up
every day. But those which serve
Minneapolis and Columbus and the
Puget sound cities, the great under:
taking at Niagara Falls, the big plant
near the City of Mexico, and two of
the three large Canadian installations
are indicative of what the future may
expect. In 1905, when the last au-
thentic figures were made, there were
more than fifty cities of North Ameri-
ca supplied electrically from transmit
ted water power-and several of the
largest hydro.electric installations
have been put into operation since
then.
Water power has driven out fuel
for operating electric installations in
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-07-24
PROBLEM FOR THE BUTLER.
Host Evidently Not Aware That Sole
Was Salt Water Fish.

Frank o. Lowden, representative
from the Ogle district in Illinois, is
becoming interested in agriculture.
He introduced bill calling for $780,
600 that one of his pet measures might
be scientifically pursued.
The son-in-law of the late George M.
Pullman has one of the best equipped
farms in the west. He lives on it,
too, having recently moved from Chi.
cago to Oregon in Ogle county. It is
one Of his delights there to entertain
his friends from the city. At the din.
ing table he calls attention to the to.
matoes, the lettuce, the beef, the lamb,
mutton. chicken, turkey or whatever
dish there may be served-all raised
by him on his farm.
John ]. Mitchell. the Chicago bank,
er, and former Comptroller of the Cur
rency William B. Ridgely we're his
guests few weeks ago. After the
soup was served there was fish.
This is fne," observed Mr. Mitchell,
asking for second helping. What
brand is it,"
Mr.. Lowden didn't know. He asked
the butler. The answer was that it
was sole.
"Sure enough it u.s. said Mr.. Low.
den. II had forgotten that it was the
season for sole. And dare say you
caught them right out of the little
lake this afternoon, didn't you, but
ler?"
And what was a poor butler to do?
Washington Star
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-07-24
GEN kEIFER's VAIN REGRET.
Those Who Knew Him Best Declare
Il Was Uncalled For.

Gen. Keifer of Ohio is the wonder
the everlasting human wonder-of his
colleagues in the house, says the
Washington Star. The general, as
most everybody knows-they certainly
should, anyhow, for it has been pub
ltshed often enough-was speaker OF
the house Of representatives twenty
odd years ago, and those who knew
him In those days, when they heard he
was coming to Washington again,
after his election to the Fifty-ninth
congress, expected to see sedate old
fossil, decorated with whiskers and
antiquated notions, totter into the
chamber and fall into the nearest
seat.
Without going into the narrowing
details, they got something of
shock. The general is as young as
the best Of 'em, and as husky and tire
less as a buckle mate on South seas
pearl poacher. His day begins at
seven in the morning, and he goes to
bed after everybody else-young, mid
dle-aged or oid-has fallen to sleep,
and there's nobody left to talk to.
Then, reluctantly, he can sometimes
be induced to seek the "downy," where
he usually tears of about 1000 kilo;
watt hours reading and smoking and
such. A little incident which. &C.
Cured on the floor the other day best
illustrates his attitude toward life:
On this particular morning the gen.
eral appeared profoundly sad, which
in him is something of phenomenon.
His mouth turned down at the cor
ners; the starched shirt bosom, framed
in his full-dress morning vest, cracked
grouchily; his head hung in his
hands most of the time, and every now
and then he logged out his handker-
chief and swabbed away pale gray
tear. Finally the gloom that he radi-
ated got on the nerves of Jim Taw-
ney of Minnesota, chairman of the
appropriations committee, of which the
general is member, and approach.
ing Mr.. Keifer at funeral gait, Mr..
Tawney laid his hand on the suf-
ferer's shoulder and spoke most sym.
pathetically.
what in the world is the matter,
general?" he asked. "Have you heard
bad news? Is any member of your
family dead? Can I do anything?"
"No," replied Gen. Keifer with halt
sob, as he took Mr.. Tawney's hand in
both of his. "No, Jim, there's nobody
dead, and you can't do anything. I'm
an old man, and was just sitting
here thinking what a LOT Of time I've
wasted in Sleep"
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-07-24

rectly with mill wheels. Yet the most
recent and complete estimates set the
amount Of energy Americans are OBJ
tanning from the streams and cata-
racts Of the United States in excess
Of 100000 horsepower. Roughly
speaking, this represents the output
Of 100 Of the largest steam power en-
gines built. and is an amount of ener-
gy which during a year would require
not less than 100000 tons of coal,
costing approximately $30,000,0o0.
The latest authentic statistics in re.
gard to the use of different kinds of
power in the United States, contained
In report Of the united States cen
sus bureau, show that the use Of cleo
tricity increased 9,06s per cent in the
ten years from 1890 to 1900 and about
222 per cent beyond that in the five
years from 1900 to 1906. And Of the
l.592.483 horsepower electricity gen.
Grated in 1905 considerably more than
third was produced by water power.
Among the establishments which
bought their power and which used
1852 electric horsepower as against
191, 1913 horsepower Of other kinds. the
increase in five years in the use Of
electricity had been almost 142 per
cent, while the increase in the use of
other power-chieny steam and direct
water power-was less than 40 per
cent. The census reports twenty
seven electric power plants in the
United States, some Of them distrib.
uting over distances Of many miles,
and all biased upon the conversion of
hydraulic energy and its transmission
and distribution in the shape of cleo.
trical energy"
It is a long step from the old coun.
try grist mill to the turbine power
plant, from the cumbersome, moss.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-07-24
"Discomposed" by a eia TIGER

"Discomposed" by Big Tiger.
Several Indian papers print the fol.
lowing written by a native subordi-
nate in his diary while in a very try
ing position:
"Up tree where 1 adhere with
much pain and discomposure while
big tiger roaring in a very awful man
ner on the fire line. This is very in
considerate tiger, and causes me
great griefs, as have before reported
to your honor
"This is two times he spoiled my
work, coming and shouting like thun-
der, and putting me up a tree and
making ME behave like an insect. It
is a very awkward fate to me, and
the tiger is most inconsiderate."
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-07-24
A Story Of Ibsen.

Blumenthal, the great theater man.
ager Of Berlin, was once talking with
Tolstoi about Ibsen and said: II have
put good many Of his plays on the
stage, but 1 can't say that I qnite I'm.
derstand them. Do you n:,.iei sand
them? "lbsen doesn't understand
them himself" Tolstoi repiis;; che
just writes them and then sits sewn
and waits. After while bis ex-
Founders and explairers corner and
tell him what he meant"
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-07-24
Leather Candy.

Leather is often heavily dressed
with sugar to increase it's weight. In
order to show that their leather is not
faxed with sugar the government Of
the Australian commonwealth stamps
leather exports with an cEcial decla.
ration that they contain mot more
than 5 per cent of crystal sugar"
Certain bales so stamped we're recent
ly held back by the custom house
here as goods partly composed Of
sugar.. e., confectione-.-and were
not released till the sugar tax had
been paid upon them.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-07-24
POLICEMEN WITH EYEGLASSES.
Few Of Them on Duty Except in the
Station Houses


Attention was called some time ago
to the fact that policeman in uni
form carrying ;s:aoy in his arms was
fairly rare sight. There is another
almost as rare.
Very few persons have seen a po.
liceman on duty who wore glasses,
and no one has seen policeman who
sported spectacles. In the station
houses occasionally the desk man will
use eyeglasses as he is writing up his
book.
1t is a good deal like looking for
bearded policemen. There are few of
them. Indeed in the new generation
of police officers even the mustache is
unusual.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-07-24

a curious way in some places. In Con-
cord, N. NJ, for example, there are
large railway car and repair shops.
Some years ago complete plant Of
engines, dynamos and motors for run
ming the machinery throughout the
plant was installed. Every pound of
coal burned in Concord must come
over the lines of the railroad that
owns the shops, and it is to be sup
posed that the railroad can obtain its
fuel as cheaply as any one could. But
the expensive engines and dynamos
now stand idle and the motors that
run the machinery are operated with
current brought from the local cleo
trio supply system which generates
its power by utilizing the energy Of q
nearby stream.
The fuel bill is a mighty serious
proposition to many manufacturers,
and though the exhaustion of the fuel
supply is not Imminent it has already
begun to have its effect upon the
prices Of coal, petroleum and natural
gas. But the white coar' Of the
brooks and rivers grows cheaper as
its utilization grows more scientific
and skilful, so that waterpower cleo
trically transmitted is providing q
means Of running factories and in
dustries Of mary kinds in places
where they could never have existed
If they must depend upon coal gener-
ated steam or electricity.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-07-24
Dead.

"Silas Kidder has just answered nv
letter." said the country EDITORS as.
sistant. You know I wrote to him
and told him his subscription had ex.
PRED"
What does he say?" asked the edi-
tor.
"Dumbed If know He just sent
my letter back with some Italian
words scrawled on the bottom of it.
Looks like 'requiescat in pace.'"
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-07-24
Cash s.lII Desirable.

you can't buy happiness" exclaim-
ed the sentimentelist.
''No," answered the man who is
sternly practical. "You can't buy
happiness. And at the same time that
fact doesn't imply that your comfort
is enhanced by being broke"
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-07-24
Industrious Wisconsin Beavers.

Industrious beavers are causing a
great deal of trouble for the Kimber-
ley-Clark company on the Fence river.
Hundreds of thousands of feet of logs
are now held UP there by dam
which the beavers have conducted
so solidly as to be almost impregna.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1908-04-23
JOKE is
HOAX IN OHIO TOWN

Cleveland. Ohio, April 16.-Cleveland
and other cities in Ohio were startled
by a report that President Roosevelt
had been assassinated. The word was
spread with great rapidity. and the
newspaper offices We're besieged with
telephone calls all day.
Telegraph advices from throughout
the state show that many Of the
smaller towns heard the same rumor.
1t seems that some telegraph operator
in a small Ohio town sent the dispatch
over the railroad wire. 1t was caught
by operators all along the line. who,
thinking it correct, pushed it through.
Just why the operator sent the mes
sage is not known. He said he thought
it would be a great joke and relieve the
otherwise monotonous routine of a
quiet Ohio day..
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1908-04-23
HERO HoesoN WINS
VICTORY FOR DEWEY

Washington, April 1.-THE expected
fight in the House OF Representatives over
the question whether there shall be two
or four battleships authorized for the
coming year did not materialize. while
the naval appropriation bill was under
consideration. Instead most Of the ses-
sion was devoted to a lively debate in
regard to the nav stations in the Phil
ippines. The supporters of the Subig bay
station. led by Messrs. Foss and Hobson.
were victorious despite vigorous oppos.-
ton from both sides of the chamber. Ac-
cordingly the sum of 500. OOO, as recon-
mended by the committee for improving
and developing the naval station at Olon-
gapo, Subig bay, was allowed to stand.
Mr.. Hobson. of Alabama. detailed the
situation at Subig bay from a military
standpoint, and reiterated his view in
favor of that location as a naval base
as against Cavite.
Pressed by Mr.. sherley. of Kentucky.
for information about Admiral Dewey's
real position in the matter, MIR. Hobson.
speaking with great emphasis and amid
loud applause. exclaimed tina he had tele-
phoned the admiral. and Admiral Dewey
lad replied: ut is Subig bay now and
forever II we are to nave a naval base,
A special message from President Roose-
welt urging four battleships was read and
elected loud applause from the advocates
Of the proposition.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1908-04-23
IN CONGRESS
NEW LIABILITY
LAW WILL NOT HOLD

Washington, April 16.-A good many
of the lawyers seriously predict that
the new employers liability bill, which
has passed both Houses and is now up
to the president for signature or veto,
Will be declared unconstitutional, as
was it's predecessor.
Warning of the danger Of this bill
was sounded in the Senate by various
lawyers. Senator Dolliver declared tina
he thought the dangerous provision
must have beer put into the bill by
somebody who was interested in see
ing 1T prove a failure, and begged the
Senate to change it in this regard.
Senator Clark. chairman of the D
house judiciary committee, suggested
the danger of this provision, and Sena-
tor Foraker admitted his doubts about
1T. But h Senate declined to make
any change i'm the House measure.
The alleged weak point in the bill is
that 1T provides that all Interstate car
riers by railway shall be subjected to
the various provisions. Now, there are
other interstate carriers thar those by
railway equally affected by the inter-
state powers of the federal
government, and it is declared that to
make a special set of penalties apply
to one class. but not to another.
to taxing class and reliev-
ing another. which is unconstitutional.
Along with the uncertainty of the
Senator's. it now develops that he
House didn't really expect the bill to
pass the Senate without change. Mem
bers of the House judiciary COMMITTEES
in fact. admit hat they ppose the
Senate would MAKE some changes. and
that there would be a conference. in
which the measure could be somewhat
doctored up. But the Senate. having
made no changes, there is no excuse for
conference, and the .doctoring win
have to be done by the supreme court
whose only process is that of ampmta.
tion. The chances are considered about
even that the bill will be declared
worthless in the last court.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1908-04-23
AN "AFFINlTY" CATCHES
ANOTHER N A

Lincoln. Neb., April les. r. Beman
an employe Of the county assessors
Office. and Miss Lennie Schaepe, daugh-
ter Of the elevator conductor in the fed
eral building, are missing. Beman is
married. and the two are supposed to
have eloped. Beman me- the girl while
he was employed as day watchman at
the p%ostotice. and paid her some atten-
tion. He happened to take her to the
same dance which his wife attended,
and there was a blow up. TIL girl tear
fully promised her parents to end her
acquaintance with Beman. and wrote
him a letter OF remuneration. That was
a week ago. Saturday both disap-
peared. and investigation reveals that
Beman bought two tickets to Fairbury.
The girls father insists hat a woman
friend of h girl aided in the flight.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1908-04-23
BEER WITHOUT
A BIT OF O

Chicago. April 16.-Temperance beer.
That is h promise of the dean Of
one OF the colleges for brewmasters
as a resul Of the recent election and
the apparent increase Of prohibition
sentiment throughout the country.
DIR. j. f. Siebel. dean OF the Zymo-
technic institute. OF Chicago. made the
promise at the graduating exercises
of the institution held in Francis II.
room Of h Congress hotel.
Temperance beer. according to DR..
Siebel. who is an authority. is the re-
suit Of scientific research whereby a.
means has been devised to enable the
brewer to make a product which.
while not Identical to beer, still pos
sesses many of its characteristics. In
the making of this product, MIR. Siebel
claims alcohol has been eliminated. Hn
adds. in parenthesis. that he hopee this
is true only temporarily. for it will be
remembered that he recently declared
that alcohol has more nutritive prop
critics than many foods. and proved II
by a scientific n laboratory DEM
onstration.