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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-09-30
Frutos del pals

Az1tsr para ell consume On
Moscabado (claro) ~4'1o
de miel (claro) SO
centr1fuga (clara) d 4to 70
americana primera :'oe
de Ponce 4'io
Cafe existencias limitadas, 'cotiza-
sion nominal. o., ,co
Maiz @i'oo
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-09-30

(aoIetss dominicanas Maria y Lucia de
Axua con traviesas.
= Vapor espald Monserrat de Espaila.
vspor americana Philadelphia de New
York
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-09-30

Goleta americana Harry S. Smitz. De-
be haber salido de New York para esta,
ell 4 del corriente.
Consignatarios, Sobrinos de Esquia-
&c.
Goleta amer Edna S.Lord .Debe haber
salido de N. Y, para esta y Humacao,
Ell IA del corriente.
Consignatarios, Sobrinos de Ez-
quiaga.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-16

waterway argue that fl will be of ad- vantage to the railroad because it will increase population, industrialism and the export trade. For example it will, they declare make possible the con struCtion of the largest ocean going ships in lake shipyards where. they say, ships can be built cheaper than anywhere else in the world. At this time ships built on the American sea coast cost more than ships built in the yards Of other countries.
 The opening of the Panama canal will have an immediate effect on rail roads and on American economic con ditions generally. But great changes will be slow in coming and an abrupt change will not be perceivable at any time At the time of the invention of the incandescent electric light bulbs, 1t was predicted that Illuminating gas would quickly pass into disuse. There were those who confidently asserted that every gas manufacturing plant in the country would become bankrupt. But at no time since the perfection of the electric Illuminating processes has the consumption of gas indicated any tendency to diminish.
 In the same way there will be a gradual readjustment to new Condi- tions. With a lakes-to gulf waterway in prospect of nearing realization, changes will he fewer, slower and of less magnitude
Arizona republican., 1909-08-16
EVILS OF CRIMINAL LAW.

The truth is that lynching and jury corruption and all the evils of our ad ministratiOn of criminal law are the inevitable groWths of just such pro ccdures as have kept the Thaw case a continuing sensation for the morbid minded community for years. A first class spectacle is made of the most solemn and awesome processes of jus tice. Thaw and Jerome give a fine spectacle of two men matching wits. The stories about their fencing bouts. their repartee. and their badinage make good reading. But there is more of comedv about # all than of the inn pressive enforcement of the idea that murder is the great crime. that justice is ineXorable, and that its administra- tion is the highest duty of society," Baltimore News.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-16
TELEPHONES FOR CHINA.
A Modern American System Ordered
 fer Pekin.

Add an inch to every shirt tail in
 China (so some disciple of Walter
 Ballard down South has figured iD
 and our Southern states could export
 Q 800 900 more bales of cotton tO the
 orient every year. Prophetic figures
 about China-but which have to do with telephonic iistallation-were spun
 out along the same line yesterday in
 the offices of the Western Electric
 company at 4G2 West street when O.
 D Street of the Western Electric told of he contract for the installation of
 modern American telephone system in
 Pekin that has just been awarded by
 the Chinese empire to his company
 against the bids of English, German,
 French and other foreign manufac-
 tCrers.
 A commission composed of three
 Chinese government officials toured
 Europe and America about two years ago to look over telephones. The com
 mission aerted with the Western Flee
 tric I,nople-,vho manufacture the Bell Telephone company's equipment-that
 New York has the best telephone sys-
 tenn in existence A cablegram just received fiom the Western Electric's Chinese agents. the Armhold KaTberg
 company of Tientsin, announcing the award from the Chinese government is
 the result.
 The two switChboards that will first he installed in Pekin, one at each end of the city, will cost approximately $l50,pGo.
 This opening contract" explained Mir. Sweet yesterday, twill call atten i ton to the tremendous field now open to electrical companies throughout the United States, for this is but a begin
 hing and the field is open to all. It's arothcr Indication of the awakening of
 the Chinese fo the value of modern things
 China really has no telephone sys- tenn now. For all the 400, ,000. .000 or more souls in the empire there are , about 2,000 telephones. These are all of the old hand ringing, obsolete kind and are installed mainly in the homes Cf foreigners, who use them merely fof | social intercourse. not for shopping and trade as we do. They couldn't
 Usc them as New Workers do if they wanted to because each little exchange connects ' ith about 100 phones. and no two excl anges have trunk connec- tiuES"
 Hr Sweet gave a better notioi of | the possibilities ope. to enterpriSine American commissioners when he gave a forecast of what will come to pass if ! China shows an increase of only 1 per ] cent in the use of telephones in the next twenty -ears. It has been esti-
 mated that if the United States keeps 1 up only it's present rate of. telephone
Arizona republican., 1909-08-16

by experiment and experience, wreck ing the old equipment as we went along The boards we shall install in Pekin will have a capacity for 10000 telephones. The government, of course, win control the service.
 When the Chinese commission visited this country they found that the United States had about 2000 ex- changes, each larger than the two we are to place for them combined. and about 15,OOO other exchanges, any one of which is larger than either of the Pekin exchanges. But they need not be ashamed of the plant they will have in operation very soon over there"
 The contract specifics that tine equipment must be delivered at Tien- tsin by February 9, 1910. Conse- quently it has to be manufactured and sent half way around the world in just six months. The installation will be under the supervision of American en- gineers, who will remain in Pekin un- til the Chinese operators have mas tered the work.
 There seems to be no worry about the short time allowed for the delivery of the equipment Last fall when the Gutenberg exchange which handles the calls Of the busiest section of Paris, was destroyed by fire, the French gov Crnment gUI a time limit on the con- tr.'ct for new equipment that scared all the European manufacturers. American enterprise jumped in un- afraid. A switchboard was made in Hawthorne, a suburb Of Chicago, in a hurry. Then it was shipped to New York and sent to France by fast boat It was accepted in Paris by the French government just sixty days from the time work was begun on it in Illinois. New York Sun.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-16
sACCHAR|NE DISCUSSION
(Continued from Page One)

table stated that some years ago she had been given to understand that beet sugar was not good to put up preserves
 Writing concerning this subject, ] one of the largest and best known preservers of California fruit says:
 We have used this (beet sugar. very largely in our work for the past four or five years, using it almost exclusively in our fruit de- partment, and we put up as fine goods as can be made We think that alone speaks well for beet su gar. While it will not cook quite as white as the cane sugar and boils easier, yet with most goods we find it is fully as good as the cane sugar We do not use any antiseptics whatever in our fruits and have no trouble with the keep ing qualities
 "The secret of success in canning lies in a perfect steriliZing of the fruit and sirup. and one of the canners in replying to an inquiry as to their use of beet-suEar expressed the matter very tersely in the following words:
 . While We have not so far used beet-sugar, yet we believe we would have no more difficulty in sterilizing beet-sugar sirup than cane-suSar Sirup or water
 In the early days of sugar refin- ing there may possibly have been foundation for an objection of this kind, but it certainly does not exist today with the most modern methods of manufacture adopted by the beet sugar houses. The sugar which is used by the larger canners is made without the ordinary bluing used in other su- gars. There are two kinds of bluing which have been used upon sugar. viz. methyl blue and ultramarine blue. The former coloring matter is un- doubtcdly open to the objection that in contact with certain acids it is either intensified in color or. if the color of the fruit is yellow. it imparts a green ish tinge. both of which undesirable conditions were experienced in the early days of sugar manufacture Methyl blue. however, is seldom used for this purpose today. ultramarine blue being used instead, about 2 pounds of this material being used for 100000 pounds of sugar
 The utter folly of this idea that beet-sugar can not be used for can ming purposes is further emphasized by the fact that practically all the sugar used in Germany and France for the purposes of canning and pre- serving is from the beet, and for many years American refined bect-sugar was used without complaint in this country, because the mass of the pee ple were not aware that it was derived from the beet This sugar was brought here as raw sugar from Europe. refin- ed at American refineries, and con sumers purchased it under the false idea that it was cane-sugar
 But as the industry began to grow rapidly in the United StateS attention was directed to the source of sugar, ! and there has arisen this popular CT TOT. which may have been somewhat fostered by interested parties"
Arizona republican., 1909-08-16

expansion there will be one telephone to every five Americans twenty years hence.
 But suppose China's increase dur ing a like period" said NIT. Sweet were only l per cent-a ridiculously low figure, compared to ours-China in 1880 will have 40O.OOO telephones which with the switchbOards and other equipment will mean a Chinese eXpen- allure of OOO.OOO.O00."
 When the Chinese telephone commis- sion visited New York and European cities two years ago everybody got busy. The Western Electric sent one of the company engineers. G. F.. Pin gree. to Pekin, where he was joined by representatives from Siemens x alske. the big German concern; the Ericsson people and the English and French bidders.
 The death of the Chinese dOWager empress and of the emperor delayed negotiations for some time. The em- pire, however, will go ahead tentatively with the two switchboards, several hundred thousand feet of lead covered aerial and underground cable-most of it underground-and a first installa- tion of 2,500 telephones as a starter.
 Later on the government intends to install plants at Tientsin, Canton, Han Eow and other big Chinese cities. The switchboards will be copies of the board used in New York and the tele- phones will be of modern type. It is probable that the hello" persons will be Chinese girls. The Chinese girls make excellent operators in the China town exchange of San Francisco.
 "The Chinese" NIT. Sweet remarked "are fortunate in starting out with a trunk system of the very latest type We've had to learn and progress here
Arizona republican., 1909-08-16
AN ENTERPRIslNG SHEET.

A country newspaper in Iowa that is published for the purpose of printing the news. has the following: We were the first journal in the state to an nounce on the 11th instant the news of the destruction in Des Molncs, by fire. of the mammouth painting estab- Iishment of Jenkins & Brothers. We are now the first to inform our read CTS that the report was absolutely without foundation. Kansas City Times.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-16
HE GOT THE HooK-Durtne tbe

HE GOT THE HOOK-During the act of Decotret and Rego at the Coliseum last evening some one a little too full of "dago-rcd" suggest ed get the hook" He was not only severely roasted by the performer who was made the object of the ex- pression but also from the audience as a whole, and later was marched by Marshal Moore before the departing house after the last show. to the city hall.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-16
ACCORDING TO BOOKS.
Four Girl Candidates for Reform
 School Escaped.

Oakland, Aug. 15.-Fearing they would be sent to the Whittier Reform school. four girls confined in the Ala meda county detention home. cut the heavy screen from the dOrmitory window. slipped twenty feet down a rope made of bed clothing and es- capped. Two were TcCIptured while scaling the walls. One of these, LeOta Fox, said they attempted the escape becanse that was the way they did in books"
Arizona republican., 1909-08-16
A BLAZING HOTEL.
The Largest Modern Structure in San
 ta Barbara Destroyed.

Santa Barbara, Aug. 15-Hotel Ar lingtOn, the largest wooden structure in the county was destroyed by fire this evening. Hundreds of guests es- capped. The fire originated from cross wires.
 The alarm was given just as the guests were entering the dining room and in a few moments all were safe in the street. The building was in ruins in half an hour The loss is $75.OOO
Arizona republican., 1909-08-16
THE LUcANIA SUBMERGED
It was Necessary to Flood the Liner
 to Put Out Fire.

Liverpool. Aug. 15.-The crack lin- CT Lucania lies submerged tonight seriously damaged by fire which broke out on Saturday and necessitat- ed the flooding of the vessel
Arizona republican., 1909-08-16
STOLE A SAFE.
A Heavy Trick Turned by California
 Thieves.

Santa Barbara, Aug. 15.-After stealing a truck from an Espee con- struction cdmp near here the thieves came to this city early this corning and took a four hundred pound safe from store and carted it to va cant lot where they blew it open, get ting $50.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-16
GOING TO PRESCoTT-C.

Raber. who for the last four years has been employed on one or the other of the Tucson dailies, and more recently as city editor of the Citizen. was in Phoenix yesterday en route to Prescott, where he will make his home. He has accepted the position of news editor on the Journal Miner.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-16
AD BEEN THERE BEFORE.

Minister-Johnny, do you know where little boys go that fish on Sun day?
 Johnny-Sure. Follow me an I'll show you.-Kansas City Journal.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-16
ALL UPS AND DOWNS.

The aeronauts are still up in the air. though it is not known how long they WiI stay there.-Birmingha News.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-16
CALIFORNIA PRIMARY LAW.

San Francisco, Aug. 15.-California's direct primary law will be given its practical test here on Tuesday when the voters will make a selection of candidates for city and county off cerS.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-16
MONTANA TOWN EFFAcED.

Missoula, Mont. Aug. 15.-Practical- ly the entire town of Iron Mountain in the Occur q Alene district was wiped out by fire last night.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-10-07
Los nODbran]IIentoS en-
d Cansgjp Executive

Fin Ia session DO eSta ta~7n. So aproha-
ran los nombranientos siguientes:
Don Jose Basora Mestre, Secretario de
la Corte de Distrito de Mayaguez per
vacante del senor Tomas c. Vera. IA
lleeido; don Adofo Gomez Benjamin..
conee5al de Juana Diaz per renuncia de
don Alexandra Aponte Martinez; don
Pedro Carreras concejai de Juana Dfaz
por renuncia del senior Isaac Villaronaa,
don Jose Fajardo, eoeeial de Juana
D1az por renuncia del seil0r Jose Are
70.
Registralcres. Don Jsse Benediets.
Registradcr de la section s~gunda. .ie
San Juan don jose 3. Belaval, de la see-
ci6n pri,nera, de San Juan don Jose N.
Marquee, registrador de la propiedad de
Ponce; don Rafael Maria Sama, regis
trador de San German don Rafael Fl
RADIO Verrier, de Aguadilla.
Dichos nombramientos tienen efecto
desde ell primero del corriente mes.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-10-07
UN TRIBUNAL DE SABIOS

Nueva York, juevea-El comandante Peary anuncia
que sometera una coms6n de hombres de cencia
rcanos los datos recogdos vae de exploration al
Polo Norte las pruebas que funfa negar al
Dr. Cook ell descubrimiento del Polo.
Las afrmaciones del oomandante Peary producen agu-
IA impression el p1blico
Esperase e fao del tribunal cient6co que soetera
sus pruebas ell contradictor de Mr. Cook.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-10-07
Tn hniieDte trucu|ento

Ell teniente Sanquirico, jefe de ofcina
del cuartel general de policia, Sc ha sa-
lido del cuadrante esta manana
Cor les reporter" de la prensa hay
que ser mas correcto, ms oonedido.
No BE pucde nolestar nj offender a
t{tulo de galones. La ley sc ha hecho pa
ra todos, Ia circular de Mr.. Shanton reza
con todos los policfas, ofciales 6 guar
dias.
Sanquirico padeee un grave error 81 Sc
cree que con actos desp6tieW puede anne
drentar a los periodistas.
Ell puesto que ocupa le exige que guar
de aquellos niramientos sociales, me
ludibles y nesesariss. qne q e1igsH para
tratar con las pensonas, sean 6 n6 perie-
distas.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-10-07
ciento cicQsent1 mil
loomnbre0 nj Africa
INA PRopos1CIoN DE LOS JEFEs MILITAREs

Nueva York, jueves.-Dicen de Madrid que varios je
fes nitares traan de al Rey Don Alfonso de
que aumene ejercto de Africa hast cientO cncuenta
n hombre para asegurar rapida completa victo-
ria.
res Sc eatende para el case de que todo pals aeano
20 Ievanara en- armaa contra Espaha secundando La ae
tad de los rifenos.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-10-07
La tlDcIi1n De sts noche

Para esta noche sc anuncia una gran
diosa function en- el Municipal por ell
Cine del popular y acreditado EMPIRE
sario Rafael Colorado. Las vistas son
nuevas todas y de gran efecto.
Acudid al teatro, a sentir y a gozar.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-10-07
la paz en- Paraguay
UN TRIUNFO DEL GOBIERNO

Nueva York jueves-Dicen los despachos recbidos del
Paraguay que ha legado convenio e gobier-
no los rebeldes que han pactado la paz
Sc eloga la habidad que ha demostrado el gobierno
ogrando sometmiento de los rebedes la
ucon parecla mas pujane condc6n de penetrar en-
la capital de la rep1blica
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-10-07
In triunfo de Ian
arn1a8 e0p1no1o2

Nueva York. jueves-Ios rifenos, considersblemente
orzados han aacado las posciones avanzadas que de-
6ende ell general Sotomayor.
Las tropas espaioas han defenddo bizarramente sus
posiciones rechazano los moros, que han sufrdo un
nueyo descaabro
No ha habdo encuenros durante el dia de aver
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-24
PERSONAL POINTS.

]. E. Montrose of Cedar Rapids is
at the Harper.
Fred T. Myers is confined to his
home by sickness.
No halfway satisfaction if you buy
the Regis corset of McCabes.
Great embroidery showing at special
values this week at McCabe's.
p. A. Sloan and family left yesterday
for Denver, Colo, to remain for some
time.
Miss Fife Wingmuth leaves this
evening for an extended visit in the
south.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Anthony Thomas, 1908 Forty-fourtn
street, today. az
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Schumann will
leave Friday for Pipestone. MINI
where they viii make their home.
Rev. William P. Williams of Oska-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-24
TO have new hull
Silver Crescent Is to Be Taken
to Wabasha and Will Be
Rebuilt There.
LEAVES LAST OF THE WEEK
When Completed i'm August, 1t Win
Replace WenOna, Which Will
BE Used for Excursions.

The steamer Silver Crescent which
spent the greater part of last year
carrying excursions from the three
cities to different points on the Miss
issippi river and up the Hennepin
canal, will steam up the latter part IF
this week and go TO Wabasha, Mimi,
where complete new hull will be
built for the boat. The lumber for the
new hull is already on the ground at
that place and as soon as the boat
gets there the work will commence.
Besides building an entirely new hull.
The upper works of the boat will i've
rebuilt and the whole steamer will be
overhauled and put in the very best of
shape.
To Replace WenOna.
Upon the completion of the boat
which will be finished some time early
in August. it will be sent to take the
place of the Wenona. which is to run
from Burlington to Keokuk until that
time. The Wenona will then return
to this city and will engage in the
same kind of work that the Silver
Crescent did last ydor. The Wenona
will be able. to go considerably far
Their up Rock river than the Silver
Crescent could. as it has been rebuilt
during the winter with this end in
view and it's chimneys have been cut
down SO that it can go under the Mo-
line bridge. AS the trip up the canal
and the river proved very popular last
year, there is reason to believe that it
will prove even more so this year on
account of the fact that the boat can
go SO much farther up the river after
| leaving the sections of the canal above
| the dams
Ben Hershey on Ways.
The steamer Ben Hershey. which it
will be remembered spent the larger
part of the winter under water in the
government harbor at Suburban island
and which was raised to the surface
some time ago, has been taken onto
the ways at the Kahlke boat yards and
will be overhauled and repaired be-
fore commencing its seasons work of
rafting.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-24

loosa. Iowa. viii deliver the address az
Miss Julia Code, who has been
visiting in the city for the last week,
has returned to her home i'm Bradford,
Ill.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Marshall and
Mrs. T.. b. Davis returned last even
ing from their southern trip which il
cluded visit 10 Cuba.
s The silk counters at McCabe's are
all abloom with the seasons richest
silk weaves and the extraordinary
values are very apparent
From top to toe" Her hat and her
shoes are of vital Importance to the
perts will solve these problems for
you.
Mrs. A. N Roberts has returned TO
her home in Woodward, Iowa, after
visiting in this city with her brother
J. NJ. Beardsley, and with sister, vino
died recently at her home in Edging-
ton.
Mrs. Mary Call, accompanied by her
father, w. W. EgSleston, leaves soon
for Rockford for future residence
Mrs. Calls son, c. H. Call, having a
permanent and attractive position
there with the Rockford Lumber &
Fuel company. Mr. Eggleston is one
of the older residents of the city and
for several years has been a member
of the clerical force at Rock Island
arsenal, a position he has been oblig
ed to relinquish because of failing
health. Mrs. Call has been prominen
in tri-city society for years, and botl
she and her father have host o
friends who sincerely regret their re
moval from the city.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-24

number of visitors at the store tomor-
row will more than equal the popula-
ton of the city.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-24
NOT COBWEBS, BUT HAVE
SIMILAR SIGNIFICANCE
Telephone Companies Have Air Full
of Wires Across East Seven
tecnth Street.

No, dear reader, those are not cob
webs that are strung out across East
and West Seventeenth streets from
the State Bank building. otherwise
known as the Mitchell & Lynde build
ing. Also if you will look closely
you will see that those on the east
side do not connect with the new Best
building just across the street, but
stop at sundry ungainly poles. There
are Is pairs of wires (count emf on
the east side and nearly as many on
the other side.
Why, you ask, do the telephone
companies not run cables into the State
Bank building from some inconspicuous
quarter, instead of stringing one or
two pairs of wires across the street
into each Office?
Give it up.