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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-20
OLD SOLDIERS ARE
HELD AS INSANE
Representative Cox Claims
Many Are "Railroaded'
To Hospital.
WANTS AN INVESTIGATION.
WOULD HAVE SUPERINTENDENT
CERTIFY TO ATTORNEY, NAMES
OF ALL THOSE NOT JUDicIALLY
DECLARED INSANE.

Washington, March 20.-Represent-
alive William L. Cox of Indiana has
discovered what purports to be a scan
dal of national proportions. He in
tends to insist upon a thorough con-
gressional investigation and is salts
fed that the country will be shocked
by the revelations that will be
brought out if the probe is inserted
deep enough
The charges that have come to Mr.
Cox's cars and that he believes are
backed by substantial evidence affect
the management Of St. Elizabeth's
Hospital for the Insane, a Govern
mcnt institution near this city, and
various branches of the National
Soldiers Home throughout the coun-
try.
Mr. Cox is informed that old sold
iers and soldiers widows. who are
perfectly sane, are "railroaded'' into
St. Elzabeth's without so much rs
the formality of a sanity inquest OF
any kind, and that this practice has
been general affecting the whole
country. Once in the insane hospital
the unfortunates are treated as ordi
nary insane. denied personal liberties
and deprived of five-sixths Of the in
come which they receive from pen
sions
These. in brief, are the charges up
on which Mr.. Cox has begun a move
ment for congressional action. and If
II; ho 70
this alleged condition Of rottenness
will be sifted TO the bottom.
Introduces Bill as Remedy.
Mr.. Cox has introduced a bill under
the operation Of which, if it becomes
a law, the facts will be brought out.
7 has been referred 70 the Committee
on the District Of Columbia. Mr.. Cox
exrects 20 go before The committee
soon with evidence which is likely to
cause sensation. He will tell the
committee that he is satisfied that he
is not barking up the wrong tree and
he will ask the committee 10 summon
witnesses whom he will name and to
compel the production Of books and
papers.
II the committee should report his
hill and 1t should become d law, the
machinery will lie put in motion al
once to determine TO what extent, if
al all. sane soldiers and soldiers wild
ows have been "railroaded" into the
Government Insane Asylum. The bill
provides that as soon as it shall be-
come law the perintendent Of st.
Elizabeth's shall certify to the dis
trict attorney the names OF all sold
iers. sailors widows and sailors in
st. Elizabeth's who have never been
judfcially declared insane, and that
rbereupon the district attorney shall
file proceedings IN court against the
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-20
DREAM FOOD.
Hashsssh, the Strange Drug That 10
Used In tho Orient.

Used In tho Orient.
Hasheesh, that strange drug which
has given our language it's word las
sassin''-a man so frenzied by the drug
that he accomplishes murder-is used
by the Persians. Turks and Egyptians
in manner akin to the use of opium
by the Chinese. 1t is the product of a
plant grown in large quantities in the
PeloponneSus southern Greece in the
district about Tripolitza. The plant
grows to a height of about four feet.
and it's branches are thickly covered
with small leaves and studded with
tiny seeds.
The entire plant, stalk and branches,
is cut within a few inches of the root
and laid out in the sun to dry. The
branches are then rubbed to separate
the seeds. and these in turn are ground
into a fine powder, which constitutes
the drug. The drug has the power of
inducing sleep and producing pleasant
and fantastic dreams. Continued use Of
hasheesh renders it's devotees wild and
reckless and results in complete
wreck of their mental and physical
constitution.
For this reason the Egyptian govern
ment prohibited the importation of the
drug and entered into a convention
with Greece to prevent its expectation
from there to Egypt. where the con-
sumers Of hasheesh are very numerous.
The drug is practically never used in
Greece. but is now exported to the va
rious ports in England, Austria France
and Italy, and from there much, no
doubt, ultimately finds its way to
Egypt
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-20
BOARD IN SESSION
Reports to State Educational
Body Shows High Schools
Will Comply With Law.
ACADEMY RANK RAISED.

A. the meeting Of the state board of
EDUCATION held at indianapolis yester-
day. reports were received from sever
al Of the high schools Of the state Re
ports Of inspection showed the schools
10 be in good condition generally and
that practically all OF them will be able
10 comply with the rev law which
regulates The course aud the length of
the school year Before its present
session closes the board Will award
professional licenses to Il number Of
applicants.
The board has issued certificate Of
equiNalency to the Plainfield Academy.
one Of the leading Friends preparato-
~ schools Of the state. This means
that the work in the academy will be
regarded as the equivalent Of high
school work and those who are gradu-
ated from the academy will not be re-
quired TO take work in a high school as
Il preparation for teaching.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-20
Refused to Instruct Delegates
For Him at State Com
mittee Meeting.
ONLY ONE NEGATIVE VOTE.
WHEN WILLIAMS SAID mo" IN
CONVINCING MANNER, CHAIR.
SURPRISE.

New York, March 2o.--As predicted
by Chairman W. J. Corners, the demo-
cratic State committee voted almost
solidly in favor of an uninstructed
delegation to the national convention.
But one voice was raised in opposition,
that of Charles p. Williams, of Lyons.
who subsequently explained that he
stood for William J. Bryan, and if
Mr.. Williams could have his way yes
terday's birthday gift to the Nebraskan
would have included the promise of a
united support by the democracy of
New York state.
The prevailing sentiment was ex-
pressed in a resolution which calls up
on the democratic electors of the state
to choose as delegates the strongest
and ablest men in their ranks and send
them to the national convention ''un-
fettered by conditions and unpledged
and uninstruCted as to candidates.
Today's meeting held at the Hotel
Victoria, lasted just eight minutes.
Each OF the 81 members was either
present or represented by proxy
One Negative Vote.
The resolution for unpledged dele
gates was introduced by Fletcher c.
Peck
The roar of ayes that responded to
the chairs call for a vote on the adop-
ton of the resolution was followed by
single no" enunciated with an en-
phasis that brought Chairman Corners
10 his feet. who was that? ?" he ask
ed
But Mr. Williams did not make clear
his attitude until after adjournment.
Conners's Prediction.
Chairman Corners before the meet
ing said that not more than three Of
the II members of the state commit
tee were in favor Of Bryan's nomina-
ton. He said the prevailing sentiment
throughout the state was for Governor
Johnson of Minnesota, but added that
he did not think the New York state
delegation should be instructed for
any one.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-20
RECONSIDERATION
House Has Decided That Pen
sion Agencies Are No
Longer Necessary.
HOUSE DIVIDED ON IDEA.

Washington, March 20.-The house
Of representatives voted yesterday to
wipe out the pension agency at Indian
apolis and the seventeen other agen-
cies scattered throughout the country.
This action followed a spirited debate
IN which the existing plan Of paying
pensioners was stOutly assailed on the
ground that it requires a general dupli-
cation of records and involves d large
unnecessary expenditure. On diviS-
Jon of the house 139 members voted to
abolish the agencies and eighty-six
voted to maintain the present system
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-20

The admission Of Oklahoma as
state means an increase in the author
lied number of midshipmen at the Ma
val academy of twelve or from 9S5 to
997. The number of cadets at West
Point will be increased only six. The
appointments to the vacancies at both
academies will be made this spring
when the congressman will designate
their appointees.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-20
MASONIC CALENDAR.

Saturday Evening, March q.
LOYAL Chapter O r : No ~ safe
aneeting.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-20

The entire population Of the world
could nc placed OIL the Isle Of Wight.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-20
NOTE TO PROTEST
Van Laningham for Some Rea-
son Made No Effort to
Prevent This.
IN STATE AGENCY CASE

The rather meteoriC career of 0. l..
Van Laningham. the former Knights
town man who is well known locally
and who, until June 1906, was connect
ed with the State Agency company,
came into public notice again yester-
day when it became known that he
had allowed one of the notes in pay
ment of the assets of the State Agency
company to so to protest. The note
for S41 900 was payable March Il. The
receiver for the State Agency company
stated yesterday he had received no
word from Van Laningham and he
does not know why the latter failed to
meet the payments. Notice has been
served on Van Laningham and his
surety of the failure to pay the note,
and that after time has elapsed suffi-
cient for explanation he Will report
the matter 10 Judge Carter, Of the supc-
rior court. so that the court may take
whatever action is deemed advisable
In a ST. Petersburg newspaper there
recently appeared the following adver-
tisement: The wife { a presene5
member Of the Donna. having given up
an hope Of getting Intelligent occupa-
ton, seeks place a. Chambermaid.'
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-20
BRIGHT SAYINGS.
a Little Batch Of Stories Related by
an Enqiishman

an EneIishman.
The sultan OF Turkey had sent the
queen of Spain n diamond bracelet.
She had the stones reset in earrings
and called the fact to the attention of
Fuad Pasha. the Turkish envoy.
His majesty" replied Fuad, will be
delighted that your majesty gives an
ear to what comes from Constantine
pie"
To the same Fuad an Englishwoman
impolitely said. How many wives
have your
The same number as your husband,
madam" said the willy Turk. The
only difference is that he conceals one
Of his and do not
When Robert Lowe married and said,
"With all my worldly goods I thee en-
dow" he grumbled to his wife after
ward, And at the time l hadn't a
brass farthing"
''Oh. but, my dear. you forget there
Is your genius
Lowe replied, well, you cannot say
4 endowed you with that"
In a much older story Frederick the
Great is represented as saying angrily
20 the English ambassador OF the day,
England is now without an ally upon
che continent except God"
Sir Hugh Elliott instantly replied,
"Yes, sire, but God is an ally that de-
mands no subsidy From Rambling
"reminiscences, by Sir Henry Drum
mond Wolf.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-20

patients in numerical order of their
incarceration. by which thu question
It their sanity shall be tired either
by a court or jury. The presiding
Judge is TO appoint counsei for The
alleged insane and TO name physi-
clans who are not in any way related
to or interested in the defendants,
who will examine their mental condi-
ton and testify under oath at the trial,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-20

To the same Fuad an Englishwoman
impolitely said, How many wives
have youT'
New-York tribune., 1908-03-01

article that having head and forked legs,
about fits Carlyles definition of man, the clothes
pin enjoys only a short life in consequence OF
the many vcissitudes of straddlng a line IN
wind and rain, getting split, lost and appro-
priated by the younger members of the family
for a playthng. So the race Of clothesplns
would soon be extinct We're it not fer the
activities of a special lathe that turns them out
at the rate of seventy-five thousand in ten
hours.
Ten lathes will fill a carload in day one
thousand boxes Of five gross each. The total
production for the country is not exactly known,
but there enough pins TO hang up the clothes
of every man. woman and child, and leave
good surplus to be split, lost and stolen. The
clothespin lathe is a wonderful machine, though
it has not yet turned out article that cannot
De borrowed by your neighbor.
Handles are next in Importance 10 clothes
pins and then spools of all sorts. ranging from
those of birch, on which cheap cotton thread is
wound, valued at one-fifth of cent, TO fine,
large silk spooIs of vanished maple. worth
three cents apiece, and even more expensive
diabolo spOos of beech. The majority of spooIs
made from birch wood, of which the annual
consumption by one spool manufacturer alone
amounts to twenty thousand cords. One spool
a second is the gait of the spool machines. a
half of spoCls. would merely keep ten lathes
busy for less than two months.
one handled machine, in which blocks of
wood sliced by circular saw. transforms
ten cords of wood daily into forty thousand
shingles, more or less. 1t is also capable of
producing thousand orange box sides or
fifteen thousand ends for orange boxes in the
same time.
Barrel headings are another product of this
New-York tribune., 1908-03-01
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simple machine. which operates with ten-horss !
power, while barrel stave machine cuts thH'7,
thousand slaves a day out Of twenty cords
elm, oak or other suitable timber. Elm IS uss
largely in a special sIat machine for making
crates. In the automatic shingIe machine IL
blocks of wood are held on a table, which r.
wolves around a circular saw. and q slice
taken off each piece as it moves in rrocessO-s
There is a gearing that draws the block nears1
after each cut
Pie plates and pianos. fruit baskets and eha1s
seats and toothDicks are among the numerous
articles that owe their origin partly or Tho-l
to the veneer machine. The inventor Of Ii
first apparatus to peel wood in paperIikl layer,
may have thought he was helping 70 conservs
the forests and that he would make Itl;.
timber so long ways. but the uses Of venss.
have seemed to expand with the productor
The legs must be steamed or boiled in a arsss
vat and cut while hot In an old form Of nal
chine log five feet lons and four feet thi-i.
is whirled against a stationary knife, bs-,;l
drawn closer at each turn by automatic sea-ins8
The thin. curling sheet of wood is cut i1'.
lengths by q rotary cutter; these lengths an
squeezed fiat and dried in press and fnalTl
packed in hitches, so-caIled, Of five hundred
sheets each. Two men operate the machEaI
with girl or boy helpers 10 carry away taa|
product. one large machine. at work out oil
doors in North Carolina, has elsven-toVt hGivsSI
which peel one hundred thousand feet # ,irbsrI
a day. The great wheel, driven from is outer
rim by gear teeth. is thirty-siX feet in GiameIa'
and weighs one hundred and seventy tbs. ~
seems a ponderous apparatus to produce sheets,
of wood from one-sixteenth to three isL:hs q
an inch in thickness.
The japanese. however. have the secret c
making veneer thinner than any mdrufac;Gre-
New-York tribune., 1908-03-01
ACRES FOR M4TCHES.
Ten Thousand annually Stripped Of
Wood for Excelsior.

Timber eating machines big and small that
alice and grind and carve and rip-a battery of
whirring and screeching monsters necessarily
at work in every state of the Union-account
for a constant depletion of forests estimated at
forty-fve square miles every day in the year
They are hungry these machines; they have
an appetite for timber, and many of the most
eager feed themselves without human aid. And
not always the biggest and noisest eat the most.
There little, ratIike machines, banded to-
gether, that nibble and gnaw so swiftly that
their teeth clean up the equivalent of acres of
forest in a day. These just supply the nation
with a trife like excelsior, perhaps, or tooth
picks.
Like most other wholesale devourers these
machines waste much while they consume. The
giant buzzsaw, humming and roaring its way
through huge logs in a Western forest, spills
one-fourth of its meal in practically useless
saWdust that must be burned al extra cost One
third of all the trees felled goes to the waste
dump slabs, and corners. The smaller
machines eat more closely, but make it up
fnicky palate. They disdan to touch the Ieav-
fngs of another and demand their own peculiar
forest menu.
A pretence at economy is made by such an
apparatus as the veneer machine which pcels
off strips of wood only One-thirty- second of an
inch thick, but one days peeing uses up one
hundred thousand feet Of lumber. The bulk of a
metropolitan Sunday newspaper is fairly well
appreciated, yet few would guess that fifteen
acres Of spruce trees are contained in the news
sheets and supplements of a one days issue.
Some of these timber eaters move about the
country hungrily, like beasts of prey who have
exhausted the means of subsistence in ter
ritory and roam abroad in search Of a fresh
field. The portable sawInill is of this descrip
ton Even with its oInnvOrOus appetite for
anything that resembles lumber the food supply
Inevitably runs short, sooner or later, and it
must so ten miles or fifty miles further on for d
oew pasture.
A toothpick factory, not content with any
thing except white birch, must often pick up
fits belongings and travel. Some years later it
may return to the old hunting ground, which
has become stocked with fresh growth of
birch.
In the great forests of the Northwest steel
cables, drawn by 1OO-hOrsepOwer engines, drag
logs to a skidWay, whence they descend to the
mills by gravity chute, foated down
tn a miniature artificial river, loaded
by derricks or merely hauled along the ties of
temporary railroad by powerful locomotives
At the mill the waste of the wide toothed cir
cular saw, which must needs be heavy and
thick to withstand strcssful labor unsupported. is
Iessened by the of the thinner, steel band
saw. One of these a toOthed and endless strip
of steel II inches wide and G1 feet long, whirls
between it's 10-foot supporting wheels at
speed of nearly two miles a minute. There are
also gangsaws several abreast, that travel
through log at express train speed, slicing out
all the boards that it contains at one operation.
The roundup record. [volume] (Roundup, Mont.) 1908-1929, 1908-09-11
$1,000 OPERA HOUSE FOR ROUNDUP
F. N. Wall TO Put up Large Stuc
ture For Opera House
Purpose.

F. NJ. Wall has just about COM
pleted arrangements for the cree
ton OF a large 32N1o It. building on
Main street Tor an opera house.
The building is to be erected north
Of the Wall store building ;nu will
be conveniently located for the
public.
The plans call for il first class
building OF the Dimensions above
mentioned and is to- be furnished
with opera chairs of approved pat
tern. The stage will he /. feet
wide and 10 feet deep allowing a
dressing room on each side. The
chairs will he removable SO the hall
may he cleared for dancing pur-
poses. The approximate cost oi
the building will be $1,000.
Roundup has felt the need OF an
opera house conveniently located
for some time. and Mr.. Wall is t.
be commended on his enterprise il,
going Il head with the improve.
mcnt.
The roundup record. [volume] (Roundup, Mont.) 1908-1929, 1908-09-11
NEW CONFECTIONERY
John c. Carey to Open Bon Bon Shop
in Brown-Orbornc Building on
Main Street.

John e. Carey. the cntcrprsin-
hookkccpcr for the +. NJ. Wall Go.
has rented the Bruwn-Osbnrnt
building on Main Street and will
within a short time. open an up-to-
date confectionery and news sto.c
The interior OF the building has
',ce,l rcarlangrl and furnished ane
hc is now waiting for his stock q
goods to arrive before opening t.
the public.
The new place Of business is to b,
knor'n as the Roundup Confcction
cry and will carry in stock candies
truit cigar, tubaccos, stationery
souvenir post cards and all tl1c !at,
magazines and newspapers. Tn,
place will be conducted Oh up-to
date PRINCIPALS and the stock vii
be complete in every detail.
Mr.. Carey has secured tie ser
vice Of two young ladies, the Misses
Cuilney OF Helen. who have con
siderable experience in this lin" .
business. 10 conduct the store.
The roundup record. [volume] (Roundup, Mont.) 1908-1929, 1908-09-11
The Local Roundup.

Cal Milard and Fred ShanoW
made tripc to Billings with Calls
auto.
The Astor Company as usual
pleased a large audience Wendcs-
day evening.
Many shipments of stock are be
ing made along the st. Paul il the
Musselshell Valley.
The Fergus County High School
at Lcwistown opened this week
with a large enrolment.
The dance for tomorrow night at
Old Roundup has been postponed
until the following Saturday.
NJ. NJ. Klein attended the demo-
cratic convention of Yellowstone
county held at Billings last Satur-
day.
Otto Wilson has accepted pos
ition as stenographcr with Mr..
George Horkan, Of Forsyth. Otto
left for that city on Tuesday.
/ Labor Day was observed by near.
ly everyone III Roundup. \ grand
dance was given in the evening,
which was attended by large
crowd who all report /; good time.
FOR SALE.-Lot 6, block &c
townsite of Roundup. first lot north
of Haight-Blair Co.'S. drug store
on Main street. $500 cash; 500
two years time at : per cent inter.
est. Inquire at The Record office
\ Billings maiden appeared o,
the street clad only in one Of tho
far famed directoire gowns and at
tracted more attention than Il circus
parade. There was /; great cram
ing OF necks to sec-not the pretty
gown.
The editor. a. ". Eisclein, left
for Butte Monday afternoon To pur.
chase IA power press. His absence
left the satanic majesty to look az
ter the affairs Of The Record, anC
we think that this will be sutlicien,
explanation for errors and impor
feetions in this issue.
The Biiou Comedy Co.. whicl
opened in the laundry building last
Saturday evening, is pleasing thci1
patrons with a class of vaudcvill,
which is clean and up-to-datc il
every detail. The program is en-
tirely changed each evening. fol
lowed By a short interval Of dane
ing foAwhich no charge is made
Next Tuesday. their last night. ;
handsome set of Rogers ISL silvc1
ware will be given away to ths
most popular young lady in Round
up.
l.. X. Carol brought in some 20
tatoes and corn which were raise'
by dry farming on the Chas. Seely'
ranch south of town. They have
been placed on exhibit in The Re
cord office. Mr.. Geo. Smith. ;
raneher who lives on the Mussel
shell river a few miles below
Roundup, has also some dry farm
potatoes on exhibit at this office
The above mentioned specimens o
dry farming are such that Noul'
do credit to amy country.
Mr.. G. {. Morris wishes US Il
announce that the rumors whicl
J have been circulated to tn e!fcc
that he has been killing hoes an,
selling the same which had cholera
, are untrue. These hogs have bee,
inspected BY tie government in
), spcctor and it was found that the.
We're only affected bya slight attacl
I of pneumonia which had bcc1
4 caused by the change of climate
J having been shipped here iron
} Nebraska. Mr.. Morris. howcve,
} will not use these hogs until the,
l.
The roundup record. [volume] (Roundup, Mont.) 1908-1929, 1908-09-11
TONIGHT!

m ulaalbcf j the COMMERCIAL
Club OF Roundup are to be present,
1t til, meeting held tonight (Frilay)
in the Brown-Oshnrn. stnr. build
ing. Important matters are tn he
discussed at this meeting and all
mem hers are urged 70 attend this.
The roundup record. [volume] (Roundup, Mont.) 1908-1929, 1908-09-11
Hogs for sale.
G.. t. Morris.

~. y. .b'lIls.
The st. Paul il building i large
water tank elose to the depot
Business M"n-IIold Your orders
for 1909 calendars until you So.
The Records line ol samples
FO K ~ /. E-practieally new
RcmingtonStandara TYPEWRITER ata
bargain. II you want Il typewriter
this viii suit you in every respect.
Must be sold in the next ten days
so hurry up. Call ut The Record
office where the machine may b"
seen.
The roundup record. [volume] (Roundup, Mont.) 1908-1929, 1908-09-11
Unsatisfying Fame.

Fame. to the ambitious, is like salt
water to the thirsty--the more one
gets the more he Wants.-Ebers.