Bisbee daily review., 1908-08-29
REPORTING STREET RAILWAY ACCIDENTS
MAY BECOME COMPULS sorry BY LAW

mans, for it had them quivering With
superstitious fear. Again in 1856 tn1
Catholic church bells we're set ring
ing at midday TO help folks keep their
courage up, because HalIey's comet
was passing their way, and they have
rung at noon ever since Thanks TO
old Neptune, which checked the COM
cts ungoverned fight through
space and set it swinging in an orbit
OF a billion miles around the sun, 1t
now is no menace at ali 70 the earth,
for it has caught step with the sweep
of the planets and IS quite settled ia
its habits. It is a ball of metal $50
miles in diameter and now is begin
ming to come out of its sullen chill,
for as the comet approaches the sun
the heat drives out metallic yapors of
iron and magnesium, the heat in
creases and the hydrocarbons break
up into smoke or SCOT and trail behind.
The bombardment of the suns rays
upon these minute SCOT particles lights
them up in a silvery glow and also
drives them out in a. sweeping tail.
The first and a million-dollar try-out
of the new Illinois primary election
law recently, by which it was hopeu
the rule of the bosses was to be
ended, was Illuminating, very When
only the party nominations were done
there were several candidates quite
fiat as to finances, moreover the re-
suit of the county convention has
shown the same familiar faces run
ming things and In fact the whole
works." as of yore. In Cook county
Mayor Busse turned up, with a fat
finger on the push buttons, placidly
smiling on the l ,356' precinct commit
teemen," duly elected under the new
law, who were the puppets In tas
show while the moves We're all made
in the same old way by the same OLE
bosses. The cost to the candidates for
nomination OF their campaigns broke
all records. the total for the state be-
ing not far below $1,000. 900. One
candidate for secretary of state, pre-.
pared to spend $1,000 for nomination
but incurred expenses of $40 900. In
Chicago one ward contest cost the
participants S3S, 900, the floating popu-
lation of human derelicts being laid
higher prices for votes than in any
a.apaign in years. In the governor
ship contest money was spent lavishly.
bat the candidates were not liz the
-eyeryb body -for-himself and-the-deyil
the-hindmost-class," for behino
eaca there were powerful Influences
and ''bar'ls." The try-out OF ahe new
law has made II certain that some i'm
portant amendments win be presented
at the next session Of the Illinois leg
islature; as yet the people are still
in the background in making up the
states.
The harvest trust has cost the Unit
ed States heavily in loss OF exports OF
farm implements to foreign countries.
at least to Argentine in South Aneri-
ca. according to reports from the
United States consul general at Bue-
nos Ayres. Notwithstanding That the
big Argentine crops Of 1907 have put
that country into a pleasant, buying
mood. and increased the requirements
for harvesting machinery, the records
show that Of shipments from the
United States Of Agricultural nipple
ments there has been this year de
crease. There seems TO be loss o.
selling energy In a corporation 50 big
as the International. as is well illus
trated in this case In almost all
other lines Of trade there has been an
Increase OF the exports from the Unit-
ed States TO Argentine. However.
= . business interests Of the United
States are comparatively letting Eu-
rope run away with the Argentine
trade. The total imports OF Argentine
from various countries tells the tale.
For the first quarter of 1908 the Inn
ports reacaed a total OF $40. 30. .225
as against So. .6s0.SS5. the exports be
ing in like proportion. The shares OF
various countries In this business were
as follows.
Country Imports. Increase
United States ..s s.163.291 1866
United Kingdom. 25.370.0s1 5.s73.0z1
Germany ...-.. 1l.59S,7ST 3,293 ,e24