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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-08-12

From Alaska comes another news
item indicating the enormous posi-
bifities of that once greatly derideG
country. A ditch has been com.
pleted in the Klondike region which
is expected to supply water for the
largest hydraulic gold-mining oper-
ations in the world. 1t is belle eed
at Dawson that, within the next
decade, the companies included in
this enterprise will extract $1,000
100000 to $4,000, 900 from the
gravel of the region through the
new facilities thus afforded. Yet a
few years ago the Klonlike was un-
known and the whole of Alaska was
as of little or no account.
On the steam railroads of the State
during June, according to compar-
alive statement issued by the State,
Railroad Commission, seventy-nine
people were killed and 635 were in
ured. In June 1908 the number of
killed was min ETY. end the injured
'6l. There were no passengers
killed during June 1909, the fatali-
les embracing twenty-six employees,
orty-eight tlesspassers and five
thers.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-08-12

Cheat forest fires have been raging
in eastern Bradford county for three
or four days, says the rowanda Re
view, and no hopes are entertained
for the quenching of the blaze until
rain falls. So far 100 acres have
been burned over. Hnndred of men
have been working fighting the fire
risburg is coming to take charge Of
the work of staying the flames. A
strong wind Sunday swept the flames
with great fury and it was hard
work to save number of buildings
in the danger zone.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-08-12

Owing to recent ruling of the
auditor general, the local poor dis
trict will hereafter be compelled to
pay s4.15 per week for its criminal
insane that are being cared for in
state institutions. the rate heretofore
was s1.75 per week. The auditor
general bases his claim on new in
terpretation of the Act of 1855, which
he declares should be construed as
charging full rates for low rates al
lowed.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-08-12
Death OF G. ~. Osler.

Mr.. G. M. Osler died at his home
in Forksville, Saturday afternoon
at 3 o'clock, of heart disease which
he was in ill health for the past
from two years.
Deceased was in his Gath year,
and leaves a widow and one daugh-
ter, Mrs. Walter Webster, to
mourn their loss.
Funeral services were held ON
Tuesday. from the Forksville M.
f. Church.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-08-12

DR.. II. R. Warburton, son oil
Edwar d Warburton of Forks T'Ep. :,
who ecently graduated from. the
dente i department. of the IJniver
sity of Pennsylvania, has decided
to | ,cate in New Albany to prac-
tice his profession.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-08-12
The annual supper y,;ven hy [

The annual supper y!iven by the
adies' Guild of St Jnbn's church
i gill be held on the lawn ot the res
Mence of +. w. " .evlert, on We'd
nesday evening August IS, A fine
supper VIII De given from six O'Clock
untll all are served. If stormy, sup
per VIII be served on veranda
Choice .ome-made candy and priz'
0Xe5 will also be sold. Price o
\eN ,er 25 cents. Ice cream, 10 cent
tra
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-08-12

Cattawissa is without an actihg
Justice of the Peace One OF TN"
magistrates is on an extended visit
IN the West and the other is serious.
lv ill and cannot attend to business
# is likIv that such a condition has
never before existed in that section
of the state, in fact no one has ever
heard of it, What eau be done III
the matter is question that is puz
zling the wisest, and it is likely
that an opinion will be asked of the
District Attorney as to what shoult
he done should occasion require it..
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-08-12


The wealth Of United States is over
One Hundred and Ten Billion Dol
lars-mOre than the entire wealth Of
Of Great Britain and France cOmujG-
ed. 1t is increasing at the rate Of
about Ten Million Dollars per day.
Last year it increased - Billion Dol
lars against an increase in France Of
One Billion Dollars. The annual iG-
Dollars-..H6fe titan the tdtaf Wealth
of Italy.
Eight Billion Dollars of this annu-.
al income is derived from the soil,
being the value of our crops,
and it is estimated that the lands
now in process Of reclamation by
drainage. irrigation, and etc, Will
eventually double this amount,
making the total annual value 0f
crops in this country greater than
our present total income from all
sources.
The population of the United
States doubles every 80 years, It's
wealth every 20 years,
The wealth and prosperity of the
United state are not confined to
few. Out of about l6 million fami.
lies, carefully computed statistic,
show that there are one million Sly
hundred Thousand owners of stocks
,S3S, 900 building and loan stOcl;
holders S,5S8, ,8l1 savings bank de
positors 5000, ,0O0 homes owned, o
which nearly five million are uu
incumbered; twenty FIVE million lif
insurance policies carried for Four
teen Billion Dollars of insurancf
representing probably twenty mi
lion persons
Americans are home-oWniuC
home loving, and home-protecfin
nation.
Since 1880 life insurance has mo-
than doubled each 10 year periot
Baby carriages and wheelbarroy
are Included in an amended spec
ordinance passed by LosAngeh
City council recently, which provi
ed that vehicles of every sort sha
display red lights at the rear ei
and white lights in front. The ci
prosecutor Immediately pointed o
the ridiculous feature, making
exception to pushcarts, baby ca
etc, but the ordinance was
changed.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-08-12

Claiming 1850 damages for loss
to grass and trees, 500 OF which Is
for single cherry tree, Howard
Lyons of Hughesvllle, has begun
proceedings in trespass against the
Sullivan and Muncy Creek Tele-
phone Company.
According to the plaintiffs state
ment, the defendant company erect
ed poles, strung wires and construct
ed telephone line across his farm in
Shrewsbury township without his
consent. In the process OF construct
ing this line, workmen are alleged
to have destroyed grass, heritage and
valuable trees, { II which Mr.. Lyon;
demands raJ ment.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-08-12

1t would be difficult to find any
where else in the state as fine a
group of buildings as adorn the
campus of the Lock Haven Normal
School. They are on commanding
elevation facing the beautiful West
Branch, are surrounded by the pic.
turesque rolling hills of the Ale
gheny system, aud, most important
of all. the drainage is perfect. The
school is most fortunate in having
plenty of pure mountain water
School opens September 9th. Ad
dress the Principal for catalog.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-08-12

The post Office Department is pre-
pairing to issue a new postal card
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
called in the expert chemists of the
Department of Agriculture and has
instructed to work out formula
that will give a much better paper
than can be made under the contract
now in force.
He says the postal cards issued by
this Government are inferior to the
product of almost every other country
and that it is contemplated to make
improvements in the general style of
printing and arrangement of the type
and designs. 1t may be decided to
change also the color of the ink and
the tint of the paper.
The Government issues $4,000 pos
tai cards a month. The present four
year contract expires Dec. 81 next,
and in the meantime the Postmaster
General is giving personal attention
to devising more substantial and
ornate card.
The feminine head of the family
often wishes that right at that NOM
ent she could get n bit of informa-
ton on some domestic matter. Often
she would give Il great deal to have
the receipt for some toothsome dish.
If she had the pattern she would
make for herself or some other MEM
Der Of the family bit of feminine
gear in the newest and prettiest
fashion. Wise women keep every
copy of The Philadelphia PRESS
and carefully read the Women's
Page.
The Library of the Lock Haven
Normal School is we'll selected, ac-
curately catalogued in accordance
with the Dewey decimal system, and
the books are easily accessible. The
Library rooms are said to be hand
somer than those of any other school
library in the state. The remark
able success of the schools debating
team in the inter-Normal debates Is
due in large measure to the Library.
Write for this schools handsome
catalog.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-08-12

The Constitution was all right
when it was made but times have
chan ged, is the substance of Il recent
argu unent pat forth by an unsatistied
mind, ing that the organic law
of the land should be revised to suit
the passing whim of each new gen
eratison. 'Iet so great a student of
gov' ,rnmel 1T as Gladstone said of the
Con stitutiOn of the United States
'lt is the most wonderful instru-
ment ever struck off at a given time
by the bra in and purpose of man.
1T has been forty years since the
last amendment, the fifteenth, was
adopted During the early career
Of the Un ion, Il dozen amendments
were found necessary, the twelfth
being ratified in 1904. For sixty
years no other amendment was adj
opted. The Civil War brought
- - :, ;-,and-nnntS, rat
fled in 1865, '6S aud 10 respective
ly. 1t is grand old constitution.
Sometimes it is abused and judges
are themselves to blame for much
occasional discomfort when a decis-
ion plainly defeats the end of jus
tice under the guisc of a laws un-
cons.itutiouality Courts are made
! up Of human beings, prone to err.
| The Supreme court, composed o.
| greet iuriSts, half a century ago held
a law constitutional which forty
years later was delared, by a court
divided five TO four, uncOnStitEtiOn-
Ial. Is it necessary TO amend the
! Constitution where that court, if the
question were brought before il,
might again reverse itself. 1t il
really necessary TO amend the Con
stitution to enforce an income tax
law. 1t only goes to be proved that
the Constitution ought not to he
changed unless that change is i'm
peratively necessary to carry into
effect the sober Judgement of the
people, which many able laWefs and
jurists hold is not the case so far as
the income tax is concereed.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-30
Always on Top nlIQQrVQ
in framing. Metal frames from Sc to So. SO uUnnL y
Sunday Church
Services

st. Andrews Cathedral a. M,
Holy Communion; 10 a. M, Sunday
school; IL a. m, morning prayer and
sermon; 1880 p. M, evening prayer and
sermon. Hawaiian services: Morning
prayer or Holy Communion, $3.50 a. M;
Sunday-school, 10:45 a. m Cathedral
clergy: The Rt. Rev. H. b. Restarick,
Rev. e. T. Simpson, Rev. w. III. Bliss.
st. Clements Episcopal-Holy Com
munion, 2 a. m; osborne, IL a. m and
5:30 p. m.
st. Elizabeth's Church (Episcopa)-
Potwine, 7 and ii a. M; 1880 p. m.
Central Union Church - Scudder;
sunrise prayer meeting in parish house,
6:l5 a. m; Sunday school, 9:45 a. M;
usual services, ii to IL; sacrament of
the Lords Supper, p. m.
Methodist Church-Rev J. r. Jones;
Sunday school at 10 a. m; morning wor-
ship at IL a. M; Epworth League at
$50 p. M; subject, "Proftable Hespis
tality''; evening worship at 1880 p. m.
1, Christian Church--McKeever Bible
School at GAS; Y p. s. G. e. at $50;
morning worship at IL a. M; evening
worship at 1880 p. IN.
German Lutheran Church (Beretania
avenue) Il Rev. w. Felmy, pastor. Resi-
Z dence 1910 Beretania avenue. Sunday
school at 9:45 a. m; service at ii a. m.
and 7:30 p. m.
Kawaiahao Church-Parker, II a. m.
and 1880 p. m.
Kaumakapili Church--Lono, IL a. m
and 1880 p. m.
Portuguese Evangelical Church -
Soares, / a. m. and 1880 p. m.
Christian Science Society-Room l,
Elite Building, IL a. m.
Salvation Army-10:30 a. m. and 6
and 8 p. m.
Seamen's Chapel-Alakea street, IL
a. m. and p. M; Holy Communion ev-
cry fourth Sunday in the month at $3.50
a. m.
Reorganized Church of Latter Day
Saints Waller, services morning and
evening.
Catholic Church Of st. John the
Baptist-S:3O a. m, high mass, sermon
collection, Sunday school; p. m.
rosary.
Roman Catholic Cathedral-6 and a
m, low masses and Holy Communion
Portuguese instructions; 8 a. m, chit
dfen IS mass with singing and English
sermon; 1890 a. m, high mass will
native sermon; 2 p. m, rosary and nat
i've instruction.; p. m, Portuguese ser
mon and Benediction of the BLESSED
Sacrament. During the week masses a
and Z a. M.
Catholic Church of st. Josephine
analua, ii a. M, high mass, sermon, col
lection, Sunday School; 8 p M, rosary
eatechism.
st. Augustine's Chapel Or. C)--Wai
kiki, Valentine, services at 9 a. m
mass with singing and English sermon
Seventh Day Adventist-7e7 Kina1
street, Williams, ii a. m; 7:30 p. m.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-30

all hands aft for instructions, which
had to be short and quick.
Let every man of us pick out his
man and take good aim 1t is the only
chance for our lives" The cook was
ordered to keep a boiler full of scald-
ing water to throw on them. On they
came, and grappled our fore rigging.
and hung on while they threw several
of their stinkpots on board. These are
most terrible things to deal with. They
are pots made of clay, and filled with
some chemical which suffocates anyone
coming near it, and the yellowish-
brown, noxious vapor is so thick you
can not penetrate it. The cook pour
ed a bucket of hot water on a brute
who was throwing these pots, but the
fellow in desperation clambered on
board with his two-edged sword in his
! teeth, and, while the cook had just
| filled his bucket for another dose of
scalding water, the brute Glove him
to the deck with one blow of his two
edged sword. Philippe, the gunner,
however, had seen this, and at the
same moment sent a bullet from his
rife crashing into his body. Mean
N' ~ "SiS tASAiS W Keep them
! from coming over the rail, and pick
ing them off as well as we could. 1t
| is not a pleasant feeling to know that
you are on the point of being butcher
ed The excitement gave us courage,
/ but the stinkpots prevented US from
! getting forward. But there was a
i poor fellow in bed in the forecastle
and almost in the last stage of con-
sumption. who came up the BOBBY
! hatch and called out pitifuIly, Give
me a rifle. Oh. give me a rifie!" We
! could scarcely hear him for the awful
| din, but little Tom, our cabin boy,
said he would get a rifle to Frenchy.
We let him go, and he succeeded. The
wind was freshening a little and blow
ing the fumes so that we could see
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-30

forward, and we saw that the villains
had cut or let our fore sheet go, and
were still trying to board us forward,
where there was no interruption
F'renchy came up on deck, and, with
the desperation of a dying man, he
shot down two or three of the pirates,
but one other jumped on board and
cut his head nearly from his shoulders.
Of course, we all made him a mark,
and he fell like a log. For some in
applicable reason, or possibly because
we were getting near some village or
the rendezvous of the coast guard, the
pirate cast off his grapnels at the
fore-rigging and went on his way. We
now had time to breathe freely, but
the captain could not refrain from
firing three rounds of grapeshot from
our little main-deck guns. which we
had reason to believe did some exc
cution.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-30
An Encounter With Chinese Pirates

Captain George Naunton recalls in
the San Francisco Chronicle the days
of sailing vessels in the Far Eastern
seas, when swift schooners were en-
gagged in the opium trade and were
beset by Chinese pirates. His schaon-
er, the Game Cock, carried two guns
and a large crew, with rifles and cut
lasses, to cope with these marauders.
After telling how their fleet little ship
showed her heels to one pirate proa.
he says of another voyage:
On this occasion we had an extra
valuable cargo and specie on board,
and were sailing quietly along the
coast when the wind fell light, and as
the weather was beautifully clear the
captain determined to make a short
cut through some of the islands which
were very numerous in this archipel-
ago. This was about a. m, when all
at once we saw an immense amount
of smoke over the crest of one of the
lesser islands, and concluded it must
be either a village or ship on fire
We kept off, and on rounding the
point came directly in view of wha;
had been a handsome bark; her masts
and rigging were all gone, and there
was little but the outside plankine
left On passing ner stern we could
read the last four letters of her name
which appeared to have been ''rida'
and port" The rest was all burned
away. We had barely got around tbs
point and saw this when all at onc'
big proa came out from another
point and was making directly for us
He came so suddenly that we were
caught, and before he reached us W.
could see there had been a bloody
fight, for his sides and parts of hi
dirty decks gave every evidence o
such. We were all alarmed, and go
up our rifles in good order and called
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-30
FAREWELL CONCERT ANDI'
DINNER At THE SEASIDE

Ernest Kaai's enlarged Glee Club of
twenty members, will give a special
concert this afternoon and evening at
the Seaside Hotel, prior to sailing for
the Alaska Yukon Exposition next
Tuesday. An excellent dinner will be
served during which the Kaai Glee
Club will furnish music. It would be
hard to imagine a more delightful way
of spending Sunday evening" than
dining at the Seaside on a glorious
moonlight night, and listening to the
finest combination OF native musicians
that have been gotten together in one
organization. Parties desiring to dine
at the Seaside are requested to notify
the Manager of the number of seats
required. Telephone SS4.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-30

-Most--er-fortunate you con-
suited me. I'm just the very man
to-er-cure you. Patient-Ah, that's
luckyl You are quite familiar with
my complaint, thenl DOctor-Famil-
iar7 My dear sir, we had it myself
er-this twenty years!-Comic Cuts.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-30
HONOLULU DANCING ACADEMY

Meets Monday night only after June
l, clock, Kilohana Art League, I'M
der the election of
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-30
OTTO BURMESTER

Information furnished by Otto Bur
mester at WALL, NICHOLS CO., King
st. Telephone-Store 261, Res. 1179.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-01-08
OLD B0REAS DELAYS TRAINS
Railway Service Badly Crippled BY
the Cold Weather.

Railway service was badly interfered
with last night and today by the cold
wave and snow drifts. Most of the
trains were late, but all got through.
The Chicago Great Western road stuff
cred the least, trains running nea.i5 "a
time, except the one that left yes
terday afternoon.
On the Milwaukee road, the north
bound train last evening, due at p.
m, did not arrive until ! a. IN. The
south bound train, due at 3:l5, did
not arrive until 10 p. m. The train
from the north, due at 1910 a. m. to-
day was nsore than two hours late.
ON the Chicago & Northwestern road,
the train from the west, due at 4:45
a. III. yesterday, did not arrive until
0 p. ~. No. 5O4 did not arrive this
morning until S:45 o'clock, being about
hours late.
he Also p. IN. train on the Omaha
foad yesterday, going north, did not
arrive until $40 p. m. No. came in
ut midnight, and No. 9 not until a.
n. No. s came in on time this morn
ing, but was the first to arrive. No.
cane in three and one-h half hours late,
and No. 10 over two hours late.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-01-08
ELEVATED TO ANANIAs CLUB
Tawney Says He Has Been Taken Out
of the Criminal Class.

Washington, Jan. ct have been
elevated from the.-ranks of the Grim
tnal class to the Ananias club" de-
clared Representative Tawney, chair
man of the house committee on ap-
preparations, commenting on President
Roosevelt's special message relative
to the secret service. Mr.. Tawney re-
turned to Washington from Mime
sofa. 81 have nothing to say in reply
to the presidents, message at this
time" continued Mr.. Tawney, except
that he has misinterpreted my
speeches to the house. This contro-
versy lies between the chief executive
and the legislative branch of the gov
eminent, and there it should rest un-
til settled. The president is unwar-
ranted in trying to make an issue be
tween himself and the appropriations
committee"
Mr.. Tawney was one of those upon
whom the president placed the re-
sponsibility in the movement to re-
strict the secret service. Mr. Tawney
stated that after the special commit
tee to which the message was re-
ferred had made it's report he would
have something to say on the soor of
the house upon the subject of the Sc
cret service and the message of the
president
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-01-08
Perkins Committee Considering
Presidents Document.
TO ExPUNGE 1T FROM RECORD
Reported iCommittee Would Recon-
mend That House Wipe Out
Portion Of Annual Letter.

Washington, Jan 6.-Drastic meas
ures are being considered by the
Perkins special committee of the
house appointed to recommend to the
house action in defense of the body in
reply to the criticism made by the
president in his annual message in
referring to the secret service legisla-
ton of last year.
After a meeting of that committee
a report spread that the committee
would recommend to the house that
that portion of the annual message re-
ferring to the secret service be eX-
plunged from the record. Another re-
port was that the recent message in
reply to the request of the house for
more information On the subject would
be returned to the chief executive.
Neither report could be confirmed, as
members of the committee refused to
discuss the probable action.
A report probably will be agreed
upon by the committee at meeting
today but Chairman Perkins said that
no report would be submitted to the
house today. 1t is believed the house
will be called on to take action Thurs
day, or by the end of the week at the
latest.
One of the most interesting debates
of the session is expected when the
report of the commission is brought
into the house. Friends of the presi-
dent will resist any drastic action
that may be recommended. On the
other hand. Representatives Tawney,
Smith, Shirley and Fitzgerald are
preparing to defend themselves
against the references to themselves
In the message Their remarks, how
ever, will not be a personal defense,
as they maintain that they should not
be parties to any attempt to divert at
tention from the controversy, which
Is between congress and the presi-
dent and not between themselves and
the president.