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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-01-19
statlstics OF 1884.

The Kendall family wero all OF Mas.
saelusetts. Amos Kendall was mad4
70 Auditor ~ Congress OF 10000.
10 moved to Kentucky, practiced law
and was tutor In tho family Of Henri
Clay. Flo then edited The Argus, and
was hend OF the press In Kentuckv.
being M ablo writer and ardent Dem.
Ocrat.
John Forsyth was Secretary OF state
lSsO-'34. He was from Georgia.
In 1884 one Boston firm Imported
2v,s5o barrels OF -four from the South
for Its starving poor.
Steamers ran from Buffalo to Detroit
IN twenty-five hours, and only seven
DAYS from New York. November 20,
We will bring out the Bowles family
next. ~
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-01-19
tNo. 1880

+ Mr.. Edltor,--Please give me the de-
scendants OF Colonel Hugh Rose. OF
"Geddes."a down to the present time
and as many OF the present generation
as you can. II. 81 IL.
Manchester. Va
we have already given all we could
gain OF Rose OF Geddes" and XII
varock. Scotland. in issues OF February
II and October 81. 1907. to which ",
refer you. It would be useless for III
to repeat them here. AS to the de-
scendants of the present generation
they are 10 numerous 1t would DO I'M
possible to find them all.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-01-19

The first John had brother, James.
who Is believed to BIO the same as
mentioned by Hening. 1t Is said he
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-01-19

Confcdcrntc Vice-l'reki,lcnt.
Having been elected tby tnanl-
nous vote MS Vice prestdent OF tho
Conredernte states. llesWas inau g urated
e such on the 2ad day 0f pruary,
1852 and continued to NJ the bSsltlon
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-01-19

We will bring out the Bowles family.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-01-19

editor of The Tines-Dispatcli:
Sir,-The Confederate Column in Jour
issue of sunday. December 90. 1907,
produces an article entitled "The Bat
tie OF New Market. Va" by Captain
Bruce, of Joppa. Tenn. extracted from
THE Confederate Veteran In which
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-01-19

Not meaning to detract one scintilla
from the glory of Captain Bruce or his
men he gerrs In the Statements that
the Cadet Battalion was Immediately to
The right OF the Fifty-firs,, whereas
the fact is that the Cadets Hattai-
ion was Mt the extreme left end OF
the second line Of battle, With the ex-
ception OF Edgar's Battalion which
Cadets Battalion. Captain Bruce Is
positively wrong In his assertion OF
tho breaking OF the corps In the outset
or In the enlargement, The captain
also claims That his realnant, was tn
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-01-19
NIGHT ATTACK ON NEWPORT NEW.

Co. y. V. MI. Cadet Corps.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-12-26
CHANGE OF LAW NEEDED.

That the present laws governing the shipment of lumber from Alaska are wholly unjust and have tenden- cy to retard the development of the great lumber industry In southeastern Alaska, can not be denied. No other timber country under Uncle Sam s domain can show as many reasons to justify immunity from the process of stringent timber laws as Alaska Here are soEe of them:
 The prime purpose of the laws Tn the states in establishing forest re- serves and forbidding the cutting of timber of less than certain diameter on the stump. is to conserve the water supply for irrigation ard or desert regions and also to maintain the normal volume of water in streams that rise in such reserves and flow through agricultural or horticulture districts. It is correct that such law $ exist in such places, but conditions are different. Climate conditions here assure perpetual supply of water sufficient for all necessary pur. poses. Agricultural pursuits will never be so extensive in this district as to demand the. conservation of a supply of water.
 Another reason is that if the com bined mills of the world were to com mence at Dixons Entrance and take every stick of available and fit timber between there and Pince William Sound, by the time they had arrived there enough timber would have grow on the land covered so that they could return to the starting point and re- peat the performance.
 The principal reason, however, why the law should be changed is that, technically, the present law forbids the shipping from Alaska of salmon boxes manufactured out of Alaskan trees, excepting when the trees are taken from the forest reserve, and that hundreds of thousands of cases are shipped out each year, contrary to law. For this reason the cannery interests should combine with the in an appeal to congress for a revision of Alaskan tmiber lawS-Ex
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-12-26
wharf was erected, and ore shipments were begun in the first part of Octob-

wharf was erected, and ore shipments were begun in the first part of Octob- CT.
 The copper production of southeast ern Alaska for 1908 will be consider ably less than that for 1907, but the average content or copper per ton of ore mined will be somewhat greater.
 At the Calder Bay marble quarry near Shakan and at the gypsum mine m Chicagoff Island work has been in nqgre,s throughout the year, and
 'rge production is reported from each locality.
 Enc investigations of the United ,rates Geological Survey during 1908
 i southeastern Alaska were confined
 detailed topographic and geologic mapping of Kasaan Peninsula, work Snlch was begun in 1907, and to top ograph!c and geologic mappings in ,ne vicinity ot Copper Mountain. R. H. Sargent was in charge of the topo- graphic work and c. w. Wright of the geologic. Field work on Kasaan Peninsula, covering an area of 70 square miles, was completed the last of July, and work on an area of 90 square miles in the vicinity of Copper Mountain was begun the first of Aug ust and completed the last of Sept ebmer. Detailed maps and reports on these areas are now in coruse of prep aration. During October Mr Wright visited the other important distl jets in the Ketchikan and Juneau districts to investigate .recent mine develop ments. Geological Report.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-12-26

that the flashing waves from the tall standard travel Tn every direction of the compass and can be received by every station which they reach. Generally, this condition of affairs would make no difference in social or harmless business messages, but 1t would make whole lot of difference in diplomatic messages in time of peace or with orders for warships ii time of war.
 A party of French scientists has re- gently been experimenting on th' coast of Normandy and claim to hay, originated method by which the wireless messages can be ''steered' in the particular direction in whici it is desired that it should go. They claim to have discovered method hy which the wireless message can bt steered with a rudder like ship in the sea, and to be able to send a message to any other station which they might desire without the message reaching any other station back of them or to one side.
 If it be true that they can do this thing, the great problem of wireless telegraphy has been solved. It has already been demonstrated that mess ages can be sent from the warships at Magdalena Bay in lower California to the station at the Bremerton Navy Yard, and there are reports that messages sent from wireless stations in Japan have been recorded upon in- struments upon the Pacic Coast.
 The problem of distance has been solved-it has only remained to solve the problem of secrecy.
 Granted that, the problem of wire- less telegraphy is no longer a problem at all.-Seattle Times.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-12-26
FOOTBALL FATALITIES.

According to the Chicago Tribune man who keeps track of the casualties caused by the Fourth of July, rail- road wrecks, mine explosions and similar disasters, the perils of foot ball have not been diminished. It appers that in the season of 1908 thir- teen were. killed and one hunrded and twenty-nine persons were injured at the sport. And this, too, in face of the fact that the rules of football have been revised to insure greater safety to the players. Of those injur- ed a majority were varsity students as differentiated from high school
 pupils who are popularly supposed to take much more risk in. playing foot pall than trained college athletes. but as sixty-two college players were hurt as against forty-eight high school boys, and nineteen of all others, the Chicago statistician con- pe]s a revision of the football phil osophy of accidents. The Chicago authorities explain that he has omit ted from his list sucn small mishaps as teeth knocked out, broken fingers, badly cut face and other forms of in- jury which were goups under the head of minor injuries. " In all but "broken hands, 1908 surpassed 1907. For example, "concussions ol the brain" showed twenty this year to fourteen last year; and "broken collar bones' were in tue ratio Of twenty-six to eleven: while "broken ribs' were six to three. From all of which it appears that football, "As she is piayed," is a much more dangerous and death-dealing sport than prize fighting ever was.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-12-26
CONGRESS SHOULD PROVIDE
 RELIEF


 Now that election is over and the prosperity of the country for the next four years is entrusted to the Repub- Ii can party under the leadership of William Howard Taft, Congress can "get busy' and enact legislation fav- orable to the American Merchant Marine. President-ele Taft Las stated his position clearly on the merchant marine question, and as one of the conspicious blanks of the Republican party platform was a definite promise to rehabilitate the American merchant marine, there should be no more .Jockeying on the subject.
 While ship subsidy would be welcomed on the Pacific Coast as an opening wedge, what is really needed is a favorable shipping Legislation. With law on the statute books giv- ing to the American ship owner the right to purchase foreign built vessel and place it unde the American flag, this country would soon have a merchant marine that would be worthy the name. It is well known that vessels can be built much more cheaply in Great Britain than in the United States. There are at the present time hundreds of vessels for sale in England at prices ranging from 30 to 60 per cent cheaper than similar vessels could be butt for in this country. The reasons for this are too we'll known to require comment. Legislation could be so enacted that these vessels once under the American flag could not interfere with the coast ing trade Such legislation would not meet with opposition on the part of American shipbuilders, as very few of them ever have made any money in the construction of large ocean-going vessels. With large fleet under the American flag these yards would prosper with the repair work they would receive, the government would have vessels for use ..as transports in time of war, and the spectacle Of for eign tramps supplying our fleets with coal would be thing of the past. With president favorable to an American merchant marine and a Republican Congress elected upon a atform pledged to rehabilitate the merchant marine, relief should be forthcoming.-Railway and Marine | News.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-12-26
 SUPREMACY

IN SIMPLIFYING PRACTICE.
 The -decalartion of Andrew Carne- gie-that the steel works of the United States can produce more cheaply than those of ny..other country will create no suprise among the well informed, however inconvienient to some inter- ests the statement may be at the present time. It has become well re- cognized by practical industralists, as well as by economists, that the laborer is generally worthy of his hire. In mining the cheap native labor in India and the Transvaal does not result in a lower cost of produc- ton per ton of ore than with the high priced labor of America, simply because the American miner is cor respondingly more efficient. ln metallurigcal practice, besides iron and steel, it is well known that America leads the world in copper sinelting and refining and in lead smelting and refining.
 Even in the case of zinc smelling, wherein an unusual factor in labor conditions is introduced, it is believed by some authorities that the process can be performed as cheaply in the United States as in Europe, the some- what higher cost for labor on this side of the Atlantic being offset by the lower cost of fuel. In some of the minor metal, such as nickle and alum mum, the United States is at no dis advantage as compared with Europe. Inasmuch as we do not smelt tn ore, this list practically covers the metal industry. If in any case our cost of production be higher, as in the case of much of the lead and spelter, 1t is because of the exceedingly low grade oi the ore that we work, and tho high
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-12-26
STEERING WIRELESS TELEG-
 RAPHY.

One of the greatest faults in the
 rapidly advancing system of wireless telegraphy lies in the fact that it has
 been generally impossible to preserv e
 any secrecy in the sending of messages The man who sends a message out from one station must send it to the wide, wide world.
 He can 'call" the station he desires through the air the same as an ordi- nary telegraph operator calls the city he wants over a wire. Yet there is, ordinarily nothing to prevent anyone else anyone with a streak of curioisty running through his mind from recieving and copying the same message. This has been very severe fault in the wireless. Of course it is possible to send messages in code" but when we come to con- ider that the messages are more or less broken when they traverse long distances, it becomes apparent that the "code" is almost impossible. In making sense out of imperfectly sent or imperfctly received messages the context becomes imperative.
 Telegraph operators using wires are often required to use their own good judgement in putting words to- gether, and the same thing is doubly true of the operators who use no wires at all and who must depend upon this mysterious force which is commonly called "Hertzian Waves" after the man who first discovered them.
 They cannot therefore trust them- selves in the present development of the system ot pick up the ''xzqS" messages out of the air with any de- gree of certainty because they do not know what they mean and because they cannot guess at the words which they cannot read. Tbey must have real English in order to give satis- factory results.
 And so, using this plain English, the wireless telegraph loses much of its commercial value through the fact
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-12-26
VAGARIES OF MINING TERMS.

Many of the ordinary words handled
 by mining and metallurgical men hay e
 been coined in widely separated pof-
 tions of the globe, and one may run
 across the use of a single word or term
 with such variety of meanings l (probebly due to carelessness in inn
 portation from its place of origin ) that the correct significance is not obtainable. This use of one word to note several differen thinfgs is much
 more to be depolerd than the use of several words to mean but one thing.
 Iti only natural that we snhould run across various words from differ ent languages or from different na- tions uisng the same language. Thus we are all satisfied that nothing is out of place when we use, synonym ously, the words outcrop, blossom, iron hat, quemazones and gozzan or gossan. But when we pass to the use of one word, gangue, with different meaning, we are aware that something is wrong, and we feel tendency to avoid the ambiguous word in our con- versation for fear of being misunder- stood.
 It was with a view of getting the options of mining men unanimous a. long such lines, that Mir. Emmonds hn 1nH Hn;t ol over year ago by the United States Geological Survey. There is no ex- cuse for us to be using terms with various meanings when by adopting simple and satisfying definitions we can avoid any of these useless confus- ions.
 Ore and gangue are words that needed especial attention, and at the risk of being sticklers for exact mean- ings. we reiterate two definitions which have been given former space in these columns. If these can be granted more general and precise usage, we shall be repaid.
 In this definition note the signif- cant words employed, viz, every one of them. There is now no such thing as "payore. Ores mnst produce metals. The elements must be in nature's own order.
 The word "gangue" is properly ap- piled only to the earthly or non-me- talic minerals that are common in ore deposits. The practice of regarding as gangue any metallic minerals that value is discouraged, for it permits of no uniform distinction between ore and gange.
 Pyrite, then, is not gange Tn gold ore, although there are many men who say it is. The essential point to this definition is that the sub stance of gangues does not contain metals.
 These two definitions lead us to the of third word. The word mineral" is used in two contradict ory senses. Some authorities contend that mineral is an inorganic natur- al substance containing metal; while her equally recognized writers use the word to cover organic as well as inor- agnic combinations, and either metal ic or non-metallic. It is time we get | together on this word. Is, or is not, roal mineral.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-12-26
There has been a large increase in

There has been large increase in the percentage of consumers who compare the contents of the can or other package with the labels state- meLts as to quality. The housewife is exmaining the labels nowadays, and goods find or lose favor, depending on the result of her comparison of con- tents with the statement on the out ide of the packag e.-Pacific Fisher man.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-12-26
LET THE LABEL BE TRUTHFUL

LF. l n E LA BEL bE IHU IHF UL.
 The education of the consumer of manufactured food products, includ- ing, of course, canned goods of all kinds, has made much progress since
 the commencement of the food law agitation several years ago. Previous to that time the average consumer knew little and thought less about food adulteration. But when the newspapers and magazines took hold of the "evil," because they realized that it made good ''copy," and for the same reason clung to it with "a tenacity which revealed the keenness of the scent for the sensational. pound- ing away at it almost ceaselessly, the consumer quite naturally lent an ear to what was being said. He contlnu- ed to listen, with the result that he has progressed in his "education" along these lines and is more critical as regards quality than ever before.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-12-26
WITHOUT WARRANT OF LAW.

There is grave danger to our coast wise commerce in the present effort of the Interstate Commerce Comm is- sion to assume jurisdiction, hitherto denied to it over the purely water borne, port-to-port interstate traffic of our coastwise carriers. This is an aggression, unwarranted by law and revolutionary ip practice, which ought to be vigorously resisted by the united martin me interests of the United States.
 The action of the Interstate Con- merce Commission is inexplicable. For years after this budy was created In 1887, it not only never claimed, but specifically disclamed, authority over the coastwise shipping of Amer ica. In its first annual report, the Interstate Commerce Commission took this attitude clearly, when it said:
 'Other matters, and particularly whether transportation by water shall he made surbject to the act, are sub mitted to the wisdom of Congress without recommendation.
 Two years later the commission, in it's annual report, said:
 ''The act carefully limits it's opera tions to certain specified carriers, and the terms are such as are believed not to include the express companies re- exclusively by water are also omitt- ed.
 In the same report the Interstate Commerce Commit tsion asked speciti- cally for Ian extension of the law to make it apply to common carriers by water"-a complete acknowledgement by the commission itself that the law did not apply to common carriers by water. Congress, two years ago, did include express companies. under the Hepburn act, as the Interstate Com merce Commission desired, but it is significant that it did not include common carriers by water. The law, therefore, as to water carriers has been unchanged, and it is just as true now as it was in 1887 or 1889 that the Interstate Commerce. Commission has no jurisdiction over such carriers, and that it's new and sudden claim to jurSdctio is absolutely untenable.
 There have been changes in the personnel of the commission, changes in the individual opinion of it's mem- bers, and great mounting up of the ambition of the commission as a whole. But the law has remained un- altered, and in law and fact trarspor- tation by water is as much beyond the scope of the commission now as it was twenty years ago. Congress never in- tended to give the Interstate Con- merce Commission authority over water carriers. Indeed it has dis tinctly refused to give the commission such authority. In 1895 the Interstate Commerce Commission asked for an amendment to the law providing that the act "shall apply to any common carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers or prop erty wholly by railroad, or partly by railroad and partly by water when both are used for continuous car riage or shipment, seeking thus to eliminate the words 'under a common control management CT arrangement. But Congress would not and did not thus expand the authority of the com mission over sater:borne transporta- tion. What the Interstate Commerce failed to gain then in it is seeking now to gain by sheer executive asser tion of authority, or something which comes dangerously near usurpation. Rail- road and Marine News.