The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-02-29

\ atteHlptS 10 spell the name OF the
city as 1t sounds when pronounced
and hence should have the Official
sanction Of the Roosevelt Spelling
Reform. Others suggest birth in
moment OF Inspiration in the re-
cesses of some Polish or Hungarian
OF Lithuanian brain and are cal.
culaterto make a Slovak 'hunk'
feel homesick at sight. As Chi
cago has foreign-born popula-
tion OF over half a million persons
there are doubtless many other mis-
spellinlgs in current use but these
are the principal ones which SO
far have come to light.
Legal searchlights turned back
ward upon the primitive transpor-
tation methods during the pioneer
days of Chicago and vicinity. last
week discovered old Shabbona. Chief
OF the Pottawottamies. and his de.
scriptions Of Indian travel and port
ages in days even before the white
man came In depositions taken
concerning the actual navigability
of the Desplaines river In the
States fight upon dam In that
river built by the Economy Light
ana Power Company, it was related
by a pioneer OF Ottawa, d. H. Ray
mond. that Chief Shabbona lived at
his home for years and often had
described to him as boy how the
Indians carried their birch canoes
around the rapids in the Desplaines
river as they had to do in going
from Lake Michigan to the Illinois
river. Old settlers have testified that
because the Desplaines was not
navigable, goods were commonly,
brought from st. Louis to the peo-
pie In the Desplaines and Illinois
river valleys until the Illinois and
Michigan canal was completed The
rivers current is very rapid at the
point where the dam in controversy
is being built and provision has
been made for waterway locks and
a pool. making In fact a $500 .oOn
link in the waterway channel from
Chicago to the Gulf, approved by
the War Department. The state.
however. is seeking to secure for
itself the waterpower In the river
II its constitution be amended next
November as is necessary to permit
1t to do SO.
A desperate plot to overthrow
the present King OF Servia and seat
an American claimant on the
throne is Chicago's latest contribu-
tion to the gaity Of the nations. That
the conspiracy is not taken serious
ly has in no way dampened the
ardor of prince" Theodore Max
Strew. of Iowa, the claimant to
the throne, and his generalissimo
and chief of staff. DR.. Ben l.. Reit.
man, who recently achieved fame
by leading an army" Of the unem.
ployed through the streets of this
city. DR.. Reitman now plans to
turn these men into an actual army
with which to besiege Belgrade and
seize the reins OF government The
money for the expedition is to
come from anonymous wine mer-
chants in this country who are
represented as casting covetous
eyes on the rich vineyards of the
Balkan provinces. prince" Strew,
the would-be founder OF the Iowa
dynasty. claims descent from Obil-
itch, the hero king of servia whose
descendants We're banished from
the country In 1904. Strew Is at
present 1t is said. employed by the
Rock Island Railroad at Numa
Iowa. DR.. Reitman plans before
long to equip ship and recruit
1900 men in his cause. Meanwhile
the conspiracy continues to con-
spire. in spite Of the activity of
the host of servilian secrets service
agents and their remorseless system
OF surveillance over the ex-Servian
population of Numa. Iowa. and mid
u IL.