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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-06-18

this west Of the Missouri river and it i
squalIed only by those used in the u.
8. Forest Servlcs IN California and
Warrington. Heavy ttmben from The
milk, building stone from the quarries
and concrsts samples from work under
construction are brought here from the
various sections Of the state and broken
or crushed in the different machines,
and the young engineers become famil-
lar with the building values Of the ma
tsrials with which they must work in
after years. The Forest Service has
entered into an agreement with tho
University Of Idaho for cooperation
In
Timber Testing.
The University provides in ad-
dition to the great machine
already noted . smaller testing
machine, . drying oven, . circular saw
and planer. The Forest Service will
send to the University each year one Of
its engineers to engage in testing the
Of Idaho timber and super
wise the testing work done by the Uni
versity. The results of these tests
will be published by the cooperating
parties simultaneously. Thus q new
of Forestry will be added
to the University which will be of in
creasing importance As Idaho 3 untouch-
ed forests ara cut and put on the mar
kets during the coming years.
Professor Sheldon, q Wisconsin Uni
versity man, and afterward connected
With several of the great electrical
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-06-18

companies, has had charge Of the com
bined department Of Electrical anc
Mechanical Engineering. In the neal
future Mechanical Engineering will be
separately organized, granting its owr
appropriate degree and the work will
be carried by an associate professor.
With the new forge building, the iron
working and wood working shops, the
equipment'o of the department is being
shaped to meet the new requirements.
Next year interesting experiments are
planned in
Testing Fuel Values
for the economy of fuel is one Of the
problems next to be faced in the me-
chRnical world today.
The Armory and Gymnasium stands
next the Administration Building on
the right. At the front are the Offices
of the Military Commandant and the
Professor of Physical Education. The
main room occupies the whole width
and height of the building, giving room
for military drill and for large classes
in gymnastics. The Placement is fitted
with lockers and baths, and contains
The gun rooms of the cadet battalion.
A new feature planned in the Military
Department is the organization of
mall
Troop of Cavalry
a the senior and junior classes, !
he plan has received the sane
ION of the officials of the War
department and is looked on with
interest as there is at pre-
mt no such body organized in connec-
on With tbs military department of
~ Of the state universities. The
Battalion bss = splendid
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-06-18

the state. There is sufficient rainfall
even in the arid regions for successful
dry farming; and one-eleventh of the
total acreage of the state is tillable
land, still open to settlement, and val
liable if cultivated by dry farming
methods. There is already considera-
bic farming in the state without .vari-
cation. 1t has been successfully tried
for twenty years in some localities but
only now the assurance is given by the
investigators that it can be made prof
table throughout all sections by the
Campbell methods. They point out,
too, the profit in fall blowing, in rota-
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-06-18

institution. Hereafter there will be
two professors and an assistant in
charge of the work in this department,
one for mining engineering, one for
metallurgy. and the third an in
structor in geology and mineralogy.
The allied departments of Chemistry
and Civil Engineering in which mining
students obtain part Of their instrue-
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-06-18

ing Idaho's interests il carried on in
the substation maintained at Caldwell
In connection with the U. s. Depart
msnt Of Agriculture The Irrigation
int, Professor Nelson, has just publish
ed q bulletin on dry farming that
should be studied by every farmer of
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-06-18

laboratories the building materials
of Idaho. the road-making mate
rails and timber are subjected to accu-
rate and reliable tests. The equipment
of the department has received nota-
BILE addition in q new testing machine Of
200, 600 pounds capacity, to ascertain
the strength of timbsrs, stone. iron,
etc. There il ne larger machine than
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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-11-19

Edward L. Dey me, editor of Charities,
in the current number of that magazine
again raises the question whether the
main cause for dependence and privatien
in America is mala1justment rather than
personal depravity. He says he has no
disposition to idealize the poor or to per-
nit sentimentality TO usurp the place of
reason and common sense when he chal-
lenges the traditional attitude of those
who assume personal fault or shortcoming
as an explanation for need, and who sigh
over the improvidence, perversity and ig-
norance of the poor. According to this
conscientious expert and leader of or
gained charity the truth is that indus
trial accidents. sickness. widowhood, or
phanage, insufficient food and unsanitary
dwellings are fundamental causes of de-
pendence. He finds il true that many
dependent families would be- self-support-
ing in another locapsy, and that others
would be except for iriegularity of EN-
ployment, for which they are not reSpon-
sible, and that others would be self-sup-
porting if in youth they had had different
education and environment. All OF these
illustrations point to maladjustment rath-
er than to personal fault, and hence DIR.
Devine says: 1T behooves charitable agen-
cies to weigh thoughtfully the probability
at least that herein lies the more impor-
tant part of their problem"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-11-19
MICHIGAN TO FIGHT FOR LAND.
Dispute with Wisconsin Over BOund-
ary TO Go to Federal Court.

AIRY TO Go to Federal Court.
Has the State of Wisconsin been in
undisputed possession for fifty years of
portion of the territory belonging to the
State of Michigan? And if so. what is
the State of Michigan going to do about
it? There are possibilities of striking
aspect in the situation presented by this
inquiry. If Michigan has been deprived
of a portion of valuable territory through
the error of a surveyor, and the error can
be established. will the courts disturb the
boundary line between two sovereign
States? This is the question that is like
~ to reach the Sup&me Court of the
United States, and it constitutes hard
nut for that tribunal TO crack. Two years
ago, largely through the interest taken in
the matter by the late Peter White of
Marquette, the attention of the Michigan
Legislature was called to the fact that
the government surveyor in 1871 did not
follow the instructions of Congress, and
that If he had done so a strip of territory
now assumed to be a part of Wisconsin
would constitute n portion of the upper
peninsula of Michigan. This strip COM
prises about seventy square miles, and if
the contention of the State of Michigan
is correct the city of Hurley, Wis. and
some of the iron mines south of the town
should be included in territory belonging
to Michigan. Attorney General John +.
Bird has had made a survey by Prof. ].
b Davis of the Michigan university, and
will report the result of that survey to
the Legislature when it convenes in Janu-
airy. 1t is understood that the State of
Wisconsin. learning that in the new Mich
igan constitution an alteration has been
made in the description of the States
boundaries, is taking steps to defend its
title to the territory involved, threatening
the most vigorous opposition.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-11-19
Attack ON County Fair.

President Hyde of Bowdoin college,
brunswick, Me-, in notable address to
the student body severely arraigned the
laws of Maine forspermitting the organ
ization of corporations which allow fraud
and stealing and denounced the shoddy
vices and swindles which flourish at many
of the county fairs. Said Hyde: ''The
worst vice of the American people is the
desire to get something for nothing.
Maine has the disease as badly as Okla
homa or Nevada. This State receives
thousands of dollars year from all over
the country for organizing corporations
under laws that were drafted in the inter-
est of thieves to make wholesale stealing
easy" He then referred to the local coun-
ty fair, at which numerous low and
swindling side shows were run, and com-
pared it with the country fairs in Swift
erland. He asked: "Why do the Maine
farmers allow themselves and their fami-
lies to be insulted by the presence OF these
low takers at their agricultural fai.s?"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-11-19
NEW MURDER FARM FOUND.
Rich Farmer Under Arrest as slayer
md Horse Thief.

In the belief that many bodies will be
found buried on a farm near Marengo,
Ill, and that Il series of murders SINH
lar 10 those in the Guinness case may be
brought to light. the sheriff of Mclienry
county and a force of work men have be-
gun TO dig up the chicken lot of John
RetfOrd. a wealthy farmer, in the search
for further evidence against the man. who
is under arrest. The body of Oscar lio-
ganson. wealthy farmer whose estate
adjoined that of Bedford and who dis
appeared two weeks ago, has already been
dug up in the poultry yard. John Bel
mont. another farmer, and an unidenti-
fed farm hand employed on the Bedford
place have disappeared. 1t is the theory
of the police that they were murdered
and buried on the farm. William Evans.
who lives at Marengo, spent the night at
the farm a short time before the disap-
pearance of Bedford, who has been ar
rested in Nebraska He charges that
while at the farm he was assaulted and
robbed and had to fight for his life. Bet
ford has been arrested at the home of
relatives in Bcatric Neb. Requisition
papers for his return to Illinois for trial
for murder have been obtained and a dep
uty sheriff is in the western city to bring
him back
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-11-19
powAGER EMPRESS OF CHINA.

travasant. indomita5l9. she had wis
dom, sagacity and diplomacy which as
founded all crowned and uncrowned
leaders of mankind since her dominant
authority began.
Her political career began with the
wholesale beheading of princes IN 1861,
by which she established her son on the
throne. A slaughter of reformers and
others took place thirty-seven years
latter, i'm 1898. Two years after this
she deliberately, upon advice, set about
Strengthening all Christians and foreign
ers, giving 100000 taels from her pri-
vate funds toward carrying on the
work. Her authority was complete over
about 1900 officials and over the well
fare and lives of the vast majority Of
the inhabitants of China, who number
close to 270O00,000.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-11-19
p.ycholory Of woman. Dress.

Prof w. l. Thomas of the University
OF Chicago, continuing his series of arii-
cles on woman in the November American
Magazine, takes somewhat radical stand
OH the subject of dress. He asserts that
the advances which modern life has made
over savagery are represented at some
points by very thin line. Man in the
pursuit of business has tended to give up
the idea of bodily adornment and carries
OH The worlds industries largely to supply
women with those personal accessories
which they used to charm the men. New
.rtheleSs. womani is "only a pawn In the
Industrial game played by man. and the
effect of this on the character of wori-
an is altogether bad" Prof. Thomas
says that "the role of half angel and half
bird is a pretty one if you can look at
it that way, but lit denatures woman,
LAKES her thing instead of a person,
n fact of the environment and an object
Of mans manipulation instead of an agent
for transforming the world. 1t leaves So
'ciciy shorthanded and the struggle for life
harder and uglier than it would be IL
woman operated in it as the substantial
and superior creature which nature made
bar
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-11-19
SIX sMUGeLEp CHINESE DEAD.
OrientaIs Perish as Motor Boat from
Canada Hits Buffalo Sea Wall.

Orientals Perish as Motor Boat from
Canada Hits Buffalo Sea Wall.
motor boat containing ten Cinnamon
and three white men was wrecked on the
breakwater off the foot of Michigan street,
Buffalo. Six of the Cinnamon were
drowned or dashed to death against the
rock-ribbed sea wall. The four surviv-
ors were rescued by the crew of a police
boat. The three white men escaped and
the federal authorities and local detective
force are securing the city endeavoring to
round up men suspected of being engaged
in the smuggling of Cinnamon into this
country from Canada. How the white
men got TO shore was the subject of
searching investigation. The statement
of an elevator Waterman that a second
motor boat left the shore side of the
breakwater just before dawn is a clew
upon which the authorities are now work
ing and which may lead to arrests. One
of the Cinnamon left Toronto a week ago
and had been lodged in a barn on the
Canadian side of the lake opposite Buff
falo awaiting favorable opportunity TO
make landing in the United States.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-11-19
TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

The steamer Kroonland and Finland,
of Che Red Star line. are in the future
to fly the flag of Belgium.
Commercial failures in the United
States during October were 1,1S7 ia num-
Der and $15, S9S,66S in amount of default
ed Indebtedness, according to statistics
compiled by r. G. Dun & Co. This IS
Il slight increase i'm number as compared
with the 1,139 defaults in the correspond
ing month last year, but there is srrik-
ing reduction in liabilities, which amount
20 S27,414900 in October, 1907
The English debenture holders of the
Observation-Disclosures Flour Mills Company
of Minneapolis, which went into the hands
of receiver on Aug. IS, have appointed
a committee to represent their interests
and investigate the affairs of the company.
Further action against the Battle Greek
breakfast Food Company, manufacturers
of Egg-O-See, which was placed in the
hands of a receiver at Quincy. ILL.,, was
taken when a petition asking that it be
adjudged q bankrupt was filed in the fed
eral court in Chicago. John T.. Linihan.
secretary of the company, was appointed
receiver. The debts amount to about
$3.50, 900.
Some startling testimony was intro
duced by Commissioner Ladd of North
Dakota, at Fargo, in defense to action
brought by millers of the State to prevent
issuance of his bulletin against bleached
flour. 1t was testified that alcohol made
from bleached -four would kill rabbits as
result of poison left in -four by nitrates in
bleaching process. 1t was shown that
alcohol made from unbleached flour would
not kill rabbits, though twice as much
was administered as that made from
bleached -four Amount of alcohol used
in tests for each rabbit was from amount
of -four required for quarter loaf of bread
Testimony created something of q sensa-
ton.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-11-19
NEW YORK.

Expansion continues in trade and indus
trial lines, shipments over the railways
are increasing, idleness is being dimin-
ished. prices in numerous lines are high
er, collections are better, and sentiment
is brighter than it has been for twelve
months past.
In many sections retailers stocks are
badly broken, owing to conservative pur-
chases heretofore made, and as a result
requests for immediate shipments are
quite the rule.
Demand for holiday goods is increas-
ing. Practically every section, save the
South, and where the supply of water has
been insufficient for industrial operations,
as, for instance, parts of Few England,
has shared in the general improvement.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending Nov. II number 26I,
against 205 last week, 80 in the like
week of 1907, ODD in 1906, 1913 in 1905,
ard 100 in 1904. Business failures in
Canada for the week number %. which
compares with 33 last week and 10 in this
week last year.-Bradstreet's CONNER
cial Report.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-11-19
PAST AND PRESENT
AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL
CORNERS OF THE EARTH
Telegraphic Information Gathered
by the Few for the Enlightenment
of the Many.
Six Men Meet Death in Mine.

Six men were instantly killed and
another dangerously injured and three
others had narrow escapes from injury
or death In mine cage accident at
Ellsworth Mine No. /, located in Wash
ington County, Pennsylvania. The
mine is owned by the Ellsworth Coal
Company. The three engineers, who
had been employed by the company
several years, had just completed a
survey of the mine preparatory to
starting new entries, the six foreigners
having assisted them. A heavy wooden
beam was loaded into the cage and its
ends projected beyond-the sides, the
men riding on the timber. All went
well until within seventy-five feet of
The top of the shaft the projecting
beam struck one of the planks of the
shafts cribbing displaced by expansion
due to the cold and most of the men
were dumped out of the cage. The
six fell to the bottom, distance of
225 feet, and the heavy timber fell on
top of them.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-11-19
>QZI9 &MUSL
9Ps9SRRR

Fountain Blue won the alleged handi-
cap feature at Jamaica track.
Tommy Burns writes from Australia
that after his battle with Jack Johnson
he will retire from the ring.
Marvin Hart was awarded the decis-
ion over Jack (Twin) Sullivan on foul
in the fifth round of their bout, sched-
u,ed for twelve rounds, in Boston.
At the annual meeting of the Central
Baseball Association Oskaloosa was voted
out on account of poor patronage, and
Galesburg, ILL.,, and Hannibal, Mo-, made
application for the place.
ICY" Young, the veteran pitcher of the
Boston American League team. has fur
nished room in the Union hospital at
New Philadelphia, Ohio. This is in addi-
ton to the 81 600 given the hospital as
result of ball game played on "Cy
Young day." a short time ago.
Flushed with their 16 to o victory over
Indiana, but indignant over what they
consider a deliberate attempt to knock
Quarterback Mol out of the game on ac-
count of his ability to kick field goals
and run the team well, the Wisconsin
university football team has retuhed
from Bloomington, Ind.
Minor Heir went a sensational first
half at Aurora, Ill., in his successful at
tempt to lower the State record OF
:O6A, pacing the first quarter in :30}a
and the second quarter in the same notch.
From there on he tired and finished the
mile in 2 :O5.
Shattuck defeated her old rival, Garlic
ton. by the decisive score of 10 to 4.
These teams have met regularly for the
past twenty-five years.
Samuel H. Mellor, Jr., of the Mercury
Athletic Club, Yonkers, finished first of
167 starters in the Marathon race at
Newark N ]. John J. DAILY. the giant
of Irish American Athletic Club, finished
second
Polo teams representing British Column
bia, Honolulu, Burlingame, England and
Calgary are expected to compete with the
American teams for the all-American cup
i'm the tourney to be held on March 20,
1909, at Coronado, Cal.
New York race track managers and bet
tors are jubilant. According to the YER
dict handed down by magistrate Geismar
of Brooklyn seven well-known members
of the local betting rings are not guilty
of bookmaking. The decision was based
upon the fact that the accused men had
not maintained bookmaking stands, but
had walked about the grounds making
bets with others. thus acting as both lay
ers and hackers of odds. That is held
not bOokmaking.
Thomas Evans OF the Utah Agricultural
college, right guard of the college football
eleven, whose neck was disIocated during
a game with the Colorado school of mines,
died without regaining consciousness.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-11-19
NUBBINs OF FARM NEWS.

Kansas had 6,000,00O acres of wheat
this year. The crop was generally good.
Washington State had the biggest crop
of apples, peaches and pears that it has
ever produced.
There are about 100000 farms in the
United States. Every third farm is oc-
cupied by renter.
Kalamazoo, Mich, the great celexy sec
ton, had the largest crop of that vegeta-
bic that has ever been raised there.
Leo Kelby of st. Paul has an apple
tree that has bloomed a second time this
year after producing crop of apples
Last year the dairy products of the
country alone were worth nearly $780,
OOO, 600. much more than any other crop
except corn.
1t is estimated that through lax and
imppper methods in the handling of milk
and cream a loss of over $5000,O00 re-
suits annually
Minnesota school of agriculture will open
Jan. 10. The Duluth Commercial Club
and the Dulush and Iron Range railroad
will each pay the expenses of a repre-
sentative of the leading farmers clubs
in st. Louis county to study improved
methods of agriculture.
In Brookings, S. d., an incendiary is
at large. John Welsh was the first vic
tim, losing his house, barn and granary,
with all their contents. Next day the
6end set fire to the buildings of Henry
Pottratz, who lost his all. A number of
isolated straw piles and hay stacks have
been mysteriously fred.
At a recent meeting in Kansas City
$4,000 were appropriated by the Ameri-
can Hereford Cattle Breeders Associa-
ton to advance the interests of that par
ticuar breed Of animals in the United
States. The meeting closed its session
with the election of the following named
officers w. S. Cargill. La Crosse. Wis,
president; Overton Harris, Harris, No.,
vice president; Walter Il. VFaddell, Lex
ington, Mo-, treasurer.
Forest fires are again springing up and
doing damage throughout the timber re-
gions of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Mich
igan. Bridges have been burned and con-
siderable damage is being done to farm
land and the growing timber.