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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-09
No specfaI Court.

Houston, Miss, Feb. 6.-It was learned late tonight that Judge F. O Sykes, the presiding judge of this dis trlct, has decided not to convene Cir- cult Court in special session to hear the case of Roby Baskin. the self-con- fessed slayer If Rev. Mir. Hudson, as anticipated.
 When the fact becomes known to- morrow, 1t Is expected the mob which was deterred today only on the ex- pectation of a speedy trial. will be re- formed and an effort made to lynch Baskin.
 A dispatch from Oklahoma states that the company of State militia at that place has received instructions to remain at the armory and be prepared to come to Houston on a moments mo- tice.
 When the mob gathered about the jail this afternoon, Sheriff Badford, in pleading against mob violence, declared that every effort would be made to arranged the special session. Tonight, however, a message was received from Judge Sykes defining to order the spe- cial session.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-09
TRAFFIC PARALYZED
RAINS IN CALIFORNIA DOING CON. sIDERlAnLfe DAMAGE.
seven Hundred Feet of Southern Pas ene Tracks Have Been washed Awmy---Trayel at
 stnnaxts1H

San Francisco, Feb. 8.--A storm now prevailing over the entire Pacific coast. has seriously interfered with railroad and telegraphie. communication. Heavy rains have fallen in Southern California, causing washouts along the railroad lines and carrying away tele- graph poles. There has been much snow in the mountains, and should warm weather follow. there will be another rise in the rivers.
 Seven hundred feet of Southern Pa- cihc tracks have been washed away at Ocean. and trains are unable to travel is also at a standstill on the Pacific Coast Railroad and many of the county roads are impossible. Several serious washouts and landslides on the Tehachapa grade between Bakers field and Los Angeles have occurred. prostraiing telegraph and telephone lines and effectually blocking travel on the santa Fe and Southern Pacific Railroads
 In the Yosemite Valley there Is now three and one-half feet Of snow on the level.
 Bridges Washed Away.
 Los Angeles. Feb. 8.-Running at flood tide, it's angry waves foam capped ana HWiflEn8s AEom ptshlk " bank, the Arroyo Seco, fed by heavy rains from mountains and foothills. is grinding its path to the sec, tearing away ali obstructions to it's course.
 Four bridges, numberlsBs fences. out houses ana buildings. | dozen bulk heads and heavy mattresses have been taken as toll by the stream that but q day or two ago ssas puring brook.
 The main line and Glendale branch bridges on the Salt Lake Route, the big steel and concrete bridge on the main line of the Santa F'e and the Pa- sadena Avenue bridges of the Pacific Electric Lne, were washed out last night, alth ough the latter, held by It's cantilever trusses is still passabie for light cars
 On the city bridges at Avenues 26 and 43 and the big bridge at Passa- dena Avenue. danger signals are posted to prevent vehicles passing over.
 The big Santa Fe bridge at Avenue rhirty-Five sank beneath its own wight and sagged in the center fully eighteen inches, making 1t dangerous for the passage of trains.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-09
.n.,,hsrntelr Wrecked.

Coldwater. Miss. Feb. s.-FolowinS an investigation of the wreck which resulted in the death of one man anI fine injury of more than a score of tbe crew and passengers Superintendent H. Mccourt, of the Illinois Central Railroad declared the train was deih. erateiy wrecked.
 Into cooked" switch. which haa nof hean used since Saturday. the fast Chicago Flyer. of the Illinois Central from New Orleans rushed at head long speed early this morning.
 Superintendent McCourt came to the scene on enc of the first relief trains anu as soon as the injured had been cared for. began an investigation. His discovery was startling. The switch had not been thrown entirely. only about. half way and the red light rf danger which would have warned the engineer was only half showing thrown far enough to be out of vision of the engineer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-09
A CHILD SUICIDES.
Eight Year Old Girl Fires Bullet into
 Temple.

Temple.
 Pittsburg, Pa, Feb. Sword was received here today from Bolivar, Pa, of the suicide there last night of May Estella. eight years old. The child's mother died some time ago and she since has been caring for two younger children. Sunday night the child said to her father:
 Papa, am going to shoot"
 Before he had time to realize the meaning of Nthe words the girl fired A bullet into her right temple.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-09
Kahn Won't TaIIx.

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Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1909-12-23
PROMINENT OH|OAN, DEVOTEE TO TAFTSI
FAV0R|TE GAME HAS.EYE ON PRESIDENCY
Two. Golfers May Play For Presidency

KF Judson Harmon becomes the
Democratic nominee for president
of the United States in 1912. as
n Ex-Governor r. b. Glenn OF North
Carolina and many other distinguished
Democrats believe. and IL President
Taft is nominated to succeed himself,
two Ohio golf players, both from Gin
cinnati. will play finish game against
each other on the national links that
year.
Both are inveterate golf players.
more or less expert Both have served
on the bench and as cabinet officers.
Harmon having been attorney general
in Cleveland's second administration.
They are devoted friends of many
years standing. Harmon is Jud to
Taft, who is Bill to Harmon.
Despite their political differences,
each has crowed over the advancement
OF the other. though Harmon supported
Bryan against Taft in the 1908 cam
paign. and of course Taft was sorry
politically when Harmon was elected
governor of Ohio that year over the
Republican candidate.
Harmon. in fact, gave Taft his first
opportunity for a jurist's career when
he resigned in 1887 from the superior
court bench at Cincinnati Governor
Foraker appointed Taft, then young
ster of thirty. to the vacancy, and
Judge Harmon returned to the practice
of the law.
Governor Harmon is nearly sixty
four years old. Should he become pres
ident in 1913 he will be, with the sin
gle exception of William Henry Har-
rison, who served only one month be-
fore his death. the oldest chief exeeu-
tive in the history of the nation.
Ex-Governor Glenn undoubtedly
spoke for many Democrats the other
day when he said of Governor Harmon
as probably the next presidential nomi-
nee: Il think he is the best man for
the place, and / know from experience,
for came in contact with him as at
torneg general of the United States
when was federal district attorney in
my state. He is an exceptionally able
man, and his election as governor on
the Democratic ticket in state which
had one of its own sons as the Repub-
lican presidential candidate was a re-
variable political feat. Everywhere /
have been in my tour of the country /
found Harmon was the leading candi-
date"
Ever since the third defeat of Bryan
and the election of Harmon to the gov
ernorship the Ohio executive has been
regarded as distinctly in the running
for his party nomination to the presi-
dency Since the death of Governor
John A johnson of Minnesota, by
many Democrats and Republicans re-
garded as the most likely candidate to
succeed Bryan as standard bearer
Harmon's chances seem TO have grown
throughout the country. With the ex-
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to practice his profession. His father
was a Baptist preacher. who determine
ed that the son should get a college
education regardless Young Jud at
fifteen, when the civil war began. took
advantage OF his fathers absence ons
day and Joined the rural militia COM
pany of his neighborhood on a cam
paign to stop General Kirby Smith
from invading Ohio. The reverend par
ent found the boy camped with the
company under circus tent and took
him home and sent him to college. o
ROBERT DQNNELL
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ERA OF HIGH PRICES APPROACHES
CREST YET DISTANT IN. FUTURE

the growers association, which is run
on a strictly business basis with a
high salaried manager at the head
of it. The same principle followed in
selling oranges for the members couli
be followed in buying groceries for
them, IL it were desired to cooperate,
in that way.
Another thing which will help TO
make life easier viii be the more gen
eral scientific utilization of waste.
Someday power plants will be seen
at the mouth of every coal mine. The
vast piles of coal dust and screenings
accumulated there win be burned
where they lie by electric power
which viii be sent over the wires
hundreds of miles into the factories
at tidewater. saving not only the
waste. but obviating transportation
charges. Street s<eepings, rich in
soil food, will someday be transported
to the farms instead of being dumped
/, on vacant lots, burned, or towed out
TO sea. San Francisco long ago made
use of most of its street sweeDings in
this way on the barren sand dunes
in Golden Gate Park where even pine
trees could not find soil sustenance,
and the experiment proved satisfac-
tory. The tides and the waves will
be harnessed to run factories. rail-
/ roads and even ships, perhaps by
wireless transmission. Waste land
contiguous to cities will be turned
into Industrial settlements, where
toilers in the cities can live because
Of low fares granted them and raise
on their little plots of ground much
OF the food that goes on their tables.
The Worst to Come.
! 1t will not sound like the opinion
Of an optimist when I say thar I be-
lfeve We have not yet reached the
crest of the high price era With
what is generally conceded 10 be a
state of prosperity, there will without
doubt be a general advance all along
the line in the cost of farm products.
clothing fael. and almost everything
that the ultimate consumer must
have. AS long as that ultimate con-
sumer is employed he viii succeed
somehow In meeting the demands
upon him. But it is pretty certain
that there viii be a depression again
some day. as there was two years ago.
Then will be the time when the ques-
ton OF the cost of living viii be Sri
Gus, for wages generally drop and EN-.
ployment gives out before the prices
Of commodities decrease. It does not
require a political economist or a doc
tor OF philosophy to see that Every
man and every woman knows it. The
only question seems to be the one
Is the ultimate consumer That IS a
which was asked so often during the
fixing OF the tariff. namely: who
Continued on Page 1o.)
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UNCLE SAM TAKES STEPS TO PREVENT RECURRENCE Of
mine, D6AsTERS IN WHICH THOUSANDS DIE ANNUALLY

that all miners temporarily imprisoned
in gas poisoned chambers may be en-
abled to breathe life sustaining oxygen
until they can be brought to the sur
face by the heroes of this new rescue
work. The rescue corps doubtless viii
take its place I'm popular approval
alongside the United States life saving
service. which rescues thousands every
year from death by shipwreck.
The apparatus employed by the mine
rescuers is similar TO that worn by
deep sea divers. Over the head is
placed a helmet. afr tight. and upon his
back the rescuer carries a tank con-
tanning enough oxygen to last him two
or three hours. A tube carries the
oxygen into the helmet The impuri-
ties in the breath as it is expelled are
absorbed BY a small quantity Of po-
tassium hydroxide carried in a sepa-
rate tank. The nitrogen In the air re-
manning in the helmet after the rescuer
puts IL ON above ground serves to di-
lutte the oxygen sufficiently.
Wearing this apparatus. the rescuer
can pass without peril through dense
smoke, IRE damp, natural gas, coal dust
or the deadly black damp which killed
so many OF the miners at Cherry.
Each rescuer carries an extra tank of
oxygen for the resuscitation of victims.
A mouthpiece is fitted over the face of
the man who IS overcome by foul air
of any kind. A trained man induces
artificial respiration by compelling the
body movements employed in the case
Of drowning person, ana the eXhila-
rating oxygen passes into the lungs,
revivifying the victim.
1t is the object of the government
not only to train men for this rescue
work at the several stations now in
operation and TO be established. but
also to instruct groups of miners at the
various mine centers. so that there win
be always above ground some men who
can put on the life saving apparatus
and descend to the rescue of their
comrades at a moments notice. Sew
eral miners at Cherry. who had but
few hours instruction in the use of
the apparatus, went down and helped
to rescue the twenty survivors.
The rescue corps of the United States
geological survey is of very recent
origin. Congress appropriated $150,O0O
in July, 1908, for the investigation Of
the causes of mine disasters and the
formulation of remedies. Out of that
appropriation grew the rescue corps,
now only in the infancy OF it's eff
cheney. Seven hundred lives were lost
through explosions in four coal mines
| in December, 1907. The agitation fol-
lowing these catastrophes led TO the
establishment Of the governments
rescue service.
a few figures win show the impera-
tive demand for such work. In 1906.
according TO geological survey stats
tics, 2,061 coal miners We're killed and
$500 were injured. The record for
1907 was 3,125 killed and $500 in
jured. In 1908 the deaths were Ease
WILLIAM HENDERSON. 9
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eastern and western direction, and
then some tstandc force had lifted
the whole surface Of the country and
mad shaken the mountain chain 10
fragments and scattered them in all
directions. Hence. the name Hon
duras. which means depths. chasns.
abysses.
The volcanic disturbances Of tfe
past esre evidenced in the fact that
almost the entire surface is covered,
either with andesitc and other plu-
tonic rocks. OF with pure lava Wher-
ever the primary rocks appear it IS
through the erosion OF the andesite,
which leaves exposed in the higher
ulaces. the rocks Of older formation.
Before aseertained to the con-
frary. by investigation ] was led 70
believe in the existence. on the sur
face. Of gneissoid granite and slate;
but have never found any gneiss
and the slate is a quartzose schist.
This latter formation abounds in
greater quantities than in any place !
have ever visited except in the prov
ince Of Minor Ceraes. Brazil Occa-
sionaiiy granite is found protrudlus
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EARLY MISSIONS
PROVE WONDER
Actuated By Love For Man
and Greed For Gold Ad-
venturouS Spirits Sought
Homes in Texas Plains,

The Spanish settlements in South
west Texas were missions and presid-
los. The claim, so often made, that
the Spanish endeavored to civilize
the Indian for his own sake is rather
extravagant when ass is consid-
cred. We see in the case of South
west Texas that no missions were
established until the French began
TO seriously encroach upon the terri
tory of Castillo. If. indeed, the New
Philippines of New Estramadura,
could be called this. France had al
national law, and claimed that discoy-
cry and settlement constituted a
sounder claim to territory than did
the bull of Pope Alexander, an arbi-
trary instrument. based on neither
reason nor logic. But the Spanish
did not make settlements for the pur-
pose OF meeting the French claim
morally; their settlements were of an
entirely military nature. For this
reason we meet the preside whereyeI
we meet mission, soldiers wherever
there are monks.
II would be unfair to say, however
aat there were among the friars not
! those who were really active in the
cause of civilization. Father Marai
in 1712. tells us that ~it was necas
sary first TO transform these Indians
into men. and afterwards to labor t.
make them Christians The views o.
| the worthy friar are a little zoo am
bigious TO permit us to know exactly
what he meant But they throw z
very Illuminating light on one poini
and that is. that the Indian had Il
labor in order to become a Christian
The fields around the missions were
tIlled By the Yndios Braves and tbs
1 French.
Castillo operated rich gold and sill
yer mines in northern New Spain
sat 's Mexico, and for years has
thought the desert north of the RID
Bravo del Norte. the Ro Grande o
today. to be an effective barrier
~einst intrusion. But the French has
shown that the three-foId terrors O
the New Philippines Laeant nothing
TO them Other methoda had to be
employed therefore. Marquis de La
guna. and Count MontcIava. vice-royi
Of Mexico. had heard of the attempi
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MINERS ARE TRAINED IN RESCUE "oR
HONDURAS OFFERS RARE CHANCES
TO THOSE SEEKING GOLD NILNLNGI

that country about the middle OF the
seventeenth century.
Worked Mines Years Ago.
The mining. however. was of the
most primitive character and was
performed, generally, by the women.
The method employed was that of the
"batea" or wooden pan At the time
of low water in the rivers. the women
gathered at the place selected, and
usually worked in community; that
is to say, the labor of excavating Of
carrying the gravel, washing it, and,
also the duties belonging to house
keeping. were apportioned, and no
matter what duties were performed in
communal interest the result of the
gold washing was shared equally. The
same method is practiced today.
When the season of high water ar
riYes she washers retire from the
river and wash the gravel of smaller
streams and high bars.
/ may be able to give the readers
a more intelligent idea OF the depo
sition of the gold in the placers. by
describing the geological conditions
and method OF working, at the only
place in the republic where system
attic placer mining has ever been car
ried on.
AT a place about two leagues from
the Guayape river, known as Que
brada Grande." a man named Fred
Bell of Terre Haute. Ind. has been
! for several years working placers and
also quartz. 81 =
The country about here is gently
rolling and on three sides, flanioed by
hills that rise, in some cases, to a
height of several hundred feet above
the level Of the guIch or ..quebrada.'
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(By F. j. Dver.l

WASHINGTON. Dec. 22.-With
Christmas but few days distant the
very air should radiate good cheer
and charity to all men. It is the glad
some holiday season when people are
bent on bringing joy to the hearts of
those near them, and even TO those
unfortunates who are homeless, or
friendless, or in trbulation. But in
the midst of the national prosperity,
with the earth yielding its richness
from field, forest and mine; with even
the sea giving up wealth in various
forms; and with science, welded To
commerce, snatching tribute from the
the very air We breathe, there is a
universal plant that the cost of Iiv-
ing is yearly growing more and more
burdensome until the man with a
fixed income looks fearfuily into the
unanswering future and demands
where this pressure on the earning
capacity of his brain and hands is
going to grow less.
One of the most thoughtful of the
elder statesmen" at the Capitol
was asked recently what the cause OF
the higher cost of living. and he re
piled that in his opinion the condition
complained of could be attributed 60
three things in the main, with several
contributory causes.
First, he believed that this country
not to enter into conditions abroad
had reached the limit of economical
or cheap production of farm products
second, that the great increase of gold
discoveries in the Klondike and in
Alaska generally. and in Nevada, with
the opening OF new mines in Califor
mia, and with the impetus given ts
prospecting and mining generally by
these discoveries. resulted in cheap
ening the value of the dollar and les
SEEMING its purchasing power; third
that there was very general DISPOSE
ton, II not an actual organized com
bination, to advance prices TO the con
sumer in order to increase the profits
Of the middle man."
This legislative sage did not believe
that the tariff had very much to d.
with increasing the cost OF living II
this country. although 1t probably
had helped some. He remarked thai
the troubles complained Of existed il
other countries than this. in some O
which the tariff was hardly a factor
The increased cost Of labor has hat
something to do with it, although It i
not very clear whether that is a re
suit or a cause of the higher cost o
living. The reduction in the hours o
labor helps. The increased wants o
the average consumer, fostered b,
prosperity. also helps Other causes
will occur to everyone, and need no
be gone into exhausuvely.
Condition Not Theory
As one OF our Chief Executive once
said, its a condition and not-a theo
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How the Government Is Preparing to Prevent Such
Horror Hereafter as the Cherry
Coal Mine Disaster

the breathing apparatus which the
government is seeking TO introduce at
every mine in the United States.
The saving OF these twenty lives is a
practical illustration Of the efficiency
OF the new idea in mine rescue work.
Experiments on an exhaustive scale
are being carried on by the geological
survey at a station recently established
at Pittsburg. It Is the purpose OF the
government to open stations for in
struction in such work at or near the
greater centers Of mine accidents
throughout the country Already there
is a station at the University of Illi-
nois, in the town of Champaign. which
is intended for the protection Of miners
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in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan. Iowa.
northern Missouri and western Ken
lucky. At Knoxville. Tenn. sanother
station covers Alabama. Tennessee,
Virginia, eastern Kentucky, Georgia
and southern West Virginia
Director George Otis Smith of the
geological survey In a recent bulletin
indicates that stations will be estab-
lssh coon at Ration. n. M. to take care
OF New Mexico. Colorado. southern
Utah. Wyoming and Nevada; at Salt
Lake City. central for the Utah fields
and accessible TO Montana and Wash
ington, and near South McAlester.
Okla, to take care of the coal fields
of Oklahoma. Arkansas, southwestern
Missouri and southeastern Kansas.
The promise of this protection is
hailed with joy by every miner and
every miners wife and children. while
the compassionate public. shuddering
at the horrors of the underground.
breathes more easily at the prospect
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through the everything igneous rocks.
and / have seen several zones OF con-
siderable extent of dolomite-
One of the most interesting things /
saw was a formation of basalt, in the
Department of Paraiso. The hex2-
gonal columnal form resembling that
of the Giants Causeway in Ireland.
The perfectly even and smooth ter
mini of the columns resemble those OF
Beryl
Placer mining has been carried on
in the Department Of blanche. in the
Guayape and Janai rivers ana their
tributaries, since when the memory
of man runneth not" In fact. the