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The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-09-25
Captain Fottcrman's Boast.

Tho Indians particularly delight
ed in making life n burden TO the
wood cutters. Near the fort was a
hill called Sullivant Hin, on which a
sentry stood all day long, watching
for signals from the wood cutters
If an unusually large force OF Indiaas
attacked them, the wood cutters
would signal for more help and an
additional detachment would be sent
from the fort. On December 21,
1866, the lookout signalled that the
wood train had beer corralled and
was attacked in force about mile
and half from the fort. A relief
party OF forty-nine men from the
Eighteenth Infantry and twenty-sev-
Ell troopers from the Second Cavalry
was ordered out. Captain w. j. Fet-
terman. who had little experience in
Indian fighting, but who was a brave
Ii somewhat impetuous officer, asked
to be put in charge of the relief par
ty. General Darlington acceded to
his request and gave him positive in
structions TO relieve the wood train
and drive back the Indians. but on
no account to pursue the Indians be-
yond Lodge Trail Ridge, long, high
ridge near the fort, extending from
Sullivant Hill. With Captain Fet-
terman's party were two civilians.
Wheatley and Fisher, both armed
with new breech-loadiug. rapid-fir-
ing rifles, which they were eager to
try In Indian warfare.
Fetterman had made the boast
that with eighty men he could ride
through the whole Sioux nation. He
now had eighty-thrae men, and the
sequel proved how little he knew Of
the Sioux as fighters when he made
his boast. The Indians who were at
lacking the wood cutters were soon
;ware OF Fetterman's approach and
immediately withdrew, allowing the
wood train TO break coral and go on
is way unmoles' ed. She Indians
seemed TO realize that the man in
command Of the soldiers was not an
experienced fshter. They kept Just
out OF range and taunted the soldiers
and made insulting motions, and, I'm
short, tried by every means TO keep
the command following them. In
this they succeeded Fettsrman was
so eager TO puish the redskins that
he forgot his orders n0d pursued the
Sioux across Lodge Trail Ridge. Once
over this ridge he was in the power
Of the Sioux. Red Clou had posted
hundreds OF Indians in ambush.
General Darlington soon found
that something was wrong. He had
dispatched n surgeon with an escort
Uf four men TO Join Fettermans par
~, but the doctor soon returned with
the information that the wooa train
was all right, but that when he at
tempted 20 cross the valley TO Join
Fetterman he found it was full OF
Indians, who were swarming about
on Lodge Trail Ridge. and that there
was no sign of the soldiers TO be OBJ
served. The alarm caused by this In
formation was deepened when the
sound of heavy firing was heard
from over Lodge Trail Ridge, indicat-
ing that fierce battle was in prog
ress. General Darlington dispatched
flfty-four infantrymen to relieve Fet-
terman. and little later forty men
were sent out. reducing the garrison
at the fort to a very small number.
Indeed, 90 small was the number of
AnfnnAava Uithlu thA ~forIsAA ~
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-09-25
LYDIA Z. .PINElHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND

MIS-. maggie GlImer- OF WeSt
Union, S. C.,writes
- was greatly rundown in health
from a weakness peculiar to my sex,
when Lydia Z. Pinkham' Vegetable
Compound was recommended TO me. It
not only restored me to perfect health.
but TO my delight / am a mother"
Mrs. Josephine Hall, of Bardstown,
KY, writes:
Il was a very great sufferer from
female troubles, and my physician failed
TO help me. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound not only restored me
To perfect health, but am now proud
rnother"
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-09-25
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.

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hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard Daedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera-
ton, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing down feeling, fatulency, indiges-
ton, dizziness or nervous prostration-
Why don't you try it,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-13
THIRD WEEK FOR FAIR.
Odd Fellows Bazaar Will Entertain
Many Fraternities.

The Odd Fellows bazaar for the benefit
Of the home fund closed the second week
at Odd Fellows Hall last evening. The
management believes patronage has jus
titled continuance for the third week, and
the event will close next Saturday even
ing.
The various booths, stands and amuse-
ment features will be conducted as usual.
There will be dancing at 1920 o'clock
each night. The supper room will be open
evenings.
The fraternities prevented from attend
ing on account OF Indictment weather or
for other reasons will be assigned dates
this week, as follows: The Fraternal Or
der Of Eagles will be the guests on Mon
day, the Maccabees on Wednesday night,
and the knights of Pythias organizations
on Thursday evening.
For Friday evening a general invitation
has been extended to all labor organiza-
tions through the columns Of the Trades
Unionist, and that evening has been set
aside as labor night" An escort will
be furnished by Col. D. v. Chisholm,
chairman OF the committee on visiting or
ganizations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-13
Astronomical SURVEYS True.

In the western country now. where the
government surveys are made by astro-
nomical bearings. the lines are always
true north and south and do not vary.
II is rather interesting in this connection
to know that the old Mason and Dixon
line. part of which acts as the Maryland
Pennsylvania boundary, was run by two
English surveyors who happened TO use
astronomical bearings to locate the line.
Thus it is true north line and has not
been affected by magnetic variations.
Running as it does through some rich
coal country, this has saved the states III
question some expensive litigation.
One of the first pieces Of work of the
new magnetic survey ship the Carnegie
will be to plot the compass variations In
Hudson bay. The Canadians who are
opening up the great wheat lands OF
western Canada are going to run a line
OF steamers through Hudson bay from
Churchill to Liverpool. This will give
them open water through the shipping
months.
There is nothing known of the compass
variations in these waters. The survey
will be of great service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-13
district frequently visited by vessels from

district frequently visited by vessels from
this port, as follows:
Potomac river, Md.-The following buoys
had spar markers placed alongside De-
cember S:
Kettle Bottom shoals, lower bell buoy.
Kettle Bottom shoals upper bell buoy.
Upper Machodoc flats buoy, Is, a second
class can.
The following buoys were changed,
each to a spar buoy, for the winter. De-
cember S:
Jenifer Flats upper buoy No. 80, first
Maryland Point shoal buoy No. %, a
first-c,ass can.
Old Plantation Flats Light Station.
Chesapeake Bay, Va.-The compressed air
siren fog signal at this station, reported
disabled December 3, was repaired De-
cember Z.
Thirty-five-foot Channel Lower End Gas
Buoy, No. g Lower Chesapeake Bay. Md.
This buoy was reported eNtinguished
December II. and will be relighted as soon
as practicable.
Hampton Roads. Va.-Willoughby Spit
bell buoy No. IL was reported. December
8, out of position about 500 or 600 va rds
to the eastward of its correct position
and will be replaced as soon as practica-
bic.
The following buoys were changed each
from a spar to a third-class can for the
winter December @:
Mine buoy No. 3.
Mine buoy No. 4.
Mine buoy No. 4.
Mine buoy No. y.
Elizabeth River, Va.-Channei buoy No
3. spar, found missing, was replaced
December T.
Channel buoy No. 10. SPAR found
broken off, was replaced December 8.
Channel buoy No. II. spar, found
missing. was replaced December {.
Channel buoy No. II, spar found
broken off, was replaced December s.
Lower Lambert Point buoy No. II,
temporarily a wooden spar. found miss
ing, was replaced December S.
Western Branch shoal buoy No. 50. a
second-class nun. reported out of posi-
ton November 6. was replaced in posi-
ton December 9.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-13
kwong Wal1 Hing Co.,
1900 G.

We have Just received the finest line OF Chinese
uud Japanese goods suitable for holiday presents.
Direct importers Gail and examine Branch OF
Itnnckoug China Phone NJ. 1913. delO-l4t.S
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-13
Increased Demand for Paper.

Since the PRONUNCIATION of the constitu-
ton granting liberty to the press in. Tur-
key. the demand for news printing paper
has increased to a great extent. not only
for the publication of more newspapers
but for the increased circulation of the
old newspapers. Deputy Consul General
William Smith-Lyte reports from Con-
stantinople that an American Bible house
in that city after purchasing news and
other qualities of paper for many years in
Europe has found that ii can get what il
needs from the United States cheaper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-13
Locust Pest in Panama.

I.ocustS have become serious menace
TO the agricultural interests Of Panama.
ard for several months past the govern
ment of Panama has been fighting against
the plague according 10 report from
George T. Weitzel OF the American iega-
ton al Panama City. The method of eX-
termination. he says. which is generally
adopted. is 10 dig n trench about fifty feet
long two 9eet wide and foot deep.
with perpendicu ar sides. into which the
locusts arc driven by men beating the
grass and trees with switches. In this
way millions arc collected aud then de-
s;Ioycd with a solution of strong I've
>oapsUds the trench then he nS retil.ed
nth earth TO allay the odor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-13

sistance of the governments Of those two
republics, and when the news came to
the ears Of the justices Of the new court
they sent a telegram to each of the presi-
dents Ga wing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-13
SHOOTS AT HIS SISTER.
James Henson Angered Because De-
MED Admission to Home.

Because his sister refused to allow him
to enter the family residence at 1923 T
street northwest last night. James Hen
son, colored. drew a revolver and fired at
her The bullet flew wide Of its mark and
the sister fed out Of range. Police who
were in the vicinity hurried to the house.
but Immediately after firing the shot Hem
son decamped.
The news of the shooting was imme-
diately telephoned to the eighth precinct
station and general lookout was ordered
for the fugitive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-13
Buoys in Nearby Waters.

The lighthouse authorities in charge of
this district have issued a notice regard
ing changes in channel marks on the
Potomac and in other waters Of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-13
TO RECT|FY COMPASS
Magnetic Survey of Earth Big
Undertaking.
WILL TAKE twelve YEARS
Many Deficiencies in Charts Have
Already Been Supplied.
BUILDING SHIP WITHOUT IRON
Carnegie Institutions Great Task of
Value to Mariners-Pacifc Cow
cred by Yacht Galilee.
BUILDING SHIP WITHOUT IRON

The report Of progress made during the
past year in the magnetic survey of the
earth undertaken by Carnegie Institution
will be ready shortly.
This gigantic work has been going on
for little over four years and has al
ready supplied deficiencies on the mag
netic map.
While the undertaking is colossal and
scientifically important it has attracted
little attention among laymen: first, be-
cause they hardly understood what it was
and second because the practical side of
it has not been presented to them. But
to the scientist and to the mariner who
for centuries has put up with inadequate
charts and has had to watch the apparent
ly senseless capers of the compass on
which he was supposed to rely the mag
netic survey work has been Of great Sig
nifcance
OF course the sailormen were and are
now slow to grasp 1t. But they are COM
ing to realize its value.
The photographic office is glad to make
use Of the observations in compiling its
records, and will soon be able to issue
the most reliable charts that have ever
been engraved, showing what is to be ex-
pected of the compass in different quar-
tiers of the globe.
Four Years Work.
The work was commenced in the Pacific
in June, 1904. Up to that time there had
been little except shore observations in
some of the Pacific islands since the
notable voyage of the Challenger in
lS72-76.
The work was conducted from the con-
verted wooden yacht Galilee and has
been under the general supervision Of
DIR. L. A. Bauer, formerly of the depart
ment of magnetism in the coast and
geodetic survey. The Galilee made three
successive voyages in the Pacific, trac-
ing the great circle route. zigzagging in
and out of the islands and covering in
with a network of tracks all the space
left uncovered by the Challenger.
This is only a good beginning Of the
work. The institution now has two men
in Africa, has just sent another to China,
has a man in Persia, has covered part
of South and Central America and has
just awarded contract for vessel to be
built without any iron in her for a thor
ough survey Of the Atlantic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-13
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t,LANllS. ~ ESII md RONES-that 1T
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-13
Plan of Undertaking.

1t has been the business of the Carnegie
Institution to scatter reliable observers
all over the surface of the globe, except
of course, in the civilized sections of Eu-
rope, where they have good observers at
work all the time. These European sta
tons, by the way, appreciate the work the
institution is doing and cooperate with it
in every way.
1t is thought that the magnetic survey
of the world can be completed in about
fifteen years. 1t is only big and rich
task.
The observations made are Of three
sorts-for DETECTION of the compass
needle. for dip of the needle toward the
magnetic pole and for the force of the
magnetic action on the needle. the latter
being determined by timing the swing of
the compass needle with chronometer.
The institution is doing more than TAX
ing a single series of widespread ObSer-
vations. 1t has established stations at
various points where repeated observa-
tons can be made at intervals to deter
mine the shift of the magnetic lines.
This brings in another practical point
in the observations that Is Of particular
interest to the eastern states. 1t has been
found that the lines of magnetic variation
Shift from year to year. Most of the sur
veys In the early history of this country
were made by the compass. If surveyor
were TO go over the same ground and try
to locate a tract of land by the original
compass bearings taken fifty years be-
fore he would be badly out.
1t is estimated roughly that the dei1ec-
ton amounts to about a degree for every
five years, twenty degrees in CEN
tury. Thus if north and south line a
mile long had been run by compass a
hundred years ago and one were to start
today at the south point and try to relo-
cate it by the original bearings he would
be 40 feet out at the north end of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-13
Significance Of Survey.

Many people possibly do not know
what a magnetic survey is and why the
observations are taken or what they are
taken for. 1t may be explained that the
magnetic north pole and the true north
pole are not identical and that the mag
netic north does not even stay in the
same spot all the time.
Vessels at sea travel largely by the
compass, experimenting this by log and
sextant when they can get a look at the
sun or stars. which is not always. AS the
vessel moves over the wide ocean spaces
the compass varies So that the magnetic
north. which controls the compass, 10
seldom or never the true north.
The charts show roughly what the
variation of the compass is in the various
and lQngitudes.. But the OBJ
servations have not been numerous enough
to make the charts accurate Also part
of the observations on which the charts
are based are made from land stations,
and these nearly always introduce some
fresh disturbance of the needle
In fact, on the travelled route from
Seattle to Alaska there is one spot that is
more disturbing than the magnetic pol /.
itself. This is due to some mountains of
magnetic iron ore on the coast. If sailors
did not know of the particular danger
spot the variation Of the compass there
would be enough to throw the ship on the
rocks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-13

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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-19
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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-19
"Old Swimmin' Hole" Saved by
High Court.

The attempt to convert the
old swimmin' hole" into a pro-
sale ditch has failed, temporarily,
at least. The Judgment dismis-
sing a petition for the improve
ment of Brandywine creek by
converting it into a public ditch
at the point where it runs
through the city of Greenfield
was affirmed by the Supreme
Court Tuesday. The petition
counted on a declared necessity
for the drainage of country prop
erty along the creek, but the only
petitioners who did not abandon
the action own property lying
wholly within the city limits, and
the court says that the city has
exclusive jurisdiction of the drain
age of its own territory, except
when a drain is constructed for
the benefit of surrounding farms.
The "Old Swimmin' Hole"
celebrated in James Whitcomb
Riley's poem, lies in the part of
the creek sought to be ditched.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-19
ELECTORS OFFICE
IS LUCRATIVE
ATTY. GENERAL JAMES
BINGHAM SAYS THAT
OTHER OFFICE HOLD
Err CANNOT BE
ELECTOR.

James Bingham, attorney gen
eral, has received several re-
quests recently for an opinion as
to whether the position of pres
idential elector is a lucrative Of
fee within the prohibition of the
constitution, which prescribes
that no person shall hold more
than one lucrative office at the
same time. These requests have
come from men who have been
nominated as presidential elect
ors, and who at the same time
are holding other places such as
that OF notary public or a men,
Der of the board of some state
institution. The encouragement
holds that the office of presiden-
tial elector is a lucrative office,
for, as he says, compensation
is provided by Section $3.50,
Burns annotated Indiana stat
utes, 101, and the duties to be
performed are to administer state
and United States laws"
According to the attorney-gen-
eral a lucrative office to come
within the constitutional prohi-
bition, must be one to which
compensation is affixed by law,
and the duties of which shall con-
sist OF administering state or
United States laws. For example
he cites that the office of council
man of a city, although there is
a salary affixed to it, is held not
to be a lucrative office within the
prohibition of the constitution,
because the councilman has no
official duties to perform except
those of a purely municipal char
acter. 1t would, therefore, be in
violation of the constitution for
one person to hold at the same
time more than one Office to
which compensation is affixed,
only in case the duties of the Of
fees consist of administering
state or United States law.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-19

Mrs. Eugene Sensibaugh OF
Elkhart county, is visiting her
sister, Mrs. w. H. Hallock in
this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac H. Parker
have returned to their home in
Chicago, after caring for the for
mer's father, Henry Parker, who
has been suffering with pneuI
monia.
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