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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-09
MAINE LIBRARIES.

John c. Parlin of Norridgewock has
presented the public library OF that
town with an atlas of The Union and
Confederate Armies.
DIR. f. H. Sitter of Philadelphia has
made gift to the York Neighborhool
club of fine set Of J. Conan Doyles
books.
A new book has recently been added
to the Guilford library collection,
entitled A Year at Hebron. The
author is Miss Leslie G. Cameron, a
student at Colby college, freshman
class
The Hancock Point library has had
81 volumes sent in from Bangor, with
a promise of more from New York.
The library has 1874 volumes at this
time. with very good reading. The
books are free to the public.
The new public library building in
Guilford is practically completed. 1t is
fine building. in a commanding loca-
ton. and is a decided ornament to the
town. 1t will be formally dedicated
Tuesday. Jan. 26. Pres. Roberts of
Colby college will deliver the address.
About $50 was taken at the sale,
supper and minstrel show, recently
given at Harrison for the benefit of the
public library The minstrels also
went to Bolsters Mills Saturday night
and repeated their entertainment They
had a good house and took about S25.
The following new books have
recently been added to the Lincoln
library:
1.-THE Red City" by S. Weir Mitchell;
"Fair Missssippian" by Charles Egbert
Craddock: "Olympic Victory by
James Bbounally; Crested Seas" by
James Bbounally; Testing of Diana
Malloy" by Mrs. Humphrey Ward;
Lovely House" by A. l.. Wister; Way
of Man" by Emerson Hough;
romance of an Old Shipmaster' by
Ralph d. Paine: Heart of a Child by
Frank Dillon: Long Labrador Trail
by Dillon Wallace: Adventures Way
Through Unknown Labrador by Mrs.
Leonidas Hubbard; DIR. Grenfells
Parish" by Norman Duncan; Ihe
Master of the Inn by Robert Herrick:
"Fennel and Rue" by VIM. D. Howell
"Story of the New England Whalers
by John r. Spears; Adventures or
Pirates and Sea Rovers' by Howard
PYLE and Others; Last Voyage or the
Dona Isabel by Randell Parish; Ihe
Blue Peter by Marley Roberts; hirs
Spruce" by Holman F. Day; "Perais
Putnam's Treasure" by Myra Mamien
Sawyer; 1.-The Trail of the Lonesome
Pine" by John Fox, Jr; "Out OF Doors
in the Holy Land" by Henry van
Dyke; Camping and Trailing with
Roosevelt by John Burroughs; Lewis
Rand" by Mary Johnston: "Untrodden
English Ways" by Henry c. Shelley;
.Round the Fire stories" by Conan
DOYLE: THE Lion and the Mouse
.The Trimmed Lamp" by o. Henry
-"The Spanish Jade" by Maur ICE
Hewitt; "Salthaven" by w. W.
Jacobs: "Quest of the Big Blue Dia-
mond" by Newton Newkirk; "Crewess
Career" by Winston Churchill; Young
Lord Stanleigh" by Robert Barr;
Scamp Fire or Desert Lava" by VIM
r. Hornaday: "Ann Boyd" by Mil N.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-09
maine news
BREvIT|ES,
MAINE INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

The Lawrence Lumber Company Of
Jonesboro is shipping 100000 pine
boards by rail. The above concern
has about 20 large and small concerns
getting out logs and lockwood for its
mills.
The r. W. Lord Co. have received
Is carloads of cotton from the South
during the last two weeks. This Is
the largest consignment ever received
at this station. They are adding new
machinery and increasing their out
put each month.
The Machias Manufacturing Com
pany has recently had a wooden
sprinkler built by G. Herbert Libby
and Albert HIATT to be used for the
purpose Of sprinkling the logging roads
at the Gilmore Driscoll camp on Town
ship 25, when it becomes necessary to
fill in the ruts. The dimensions of the
tank are 10 feet long, feet, inches
wide, and 2 feet, 6 inches deep.
p. N. Flint sold his mill the past
week to Eben Barker and Leslie
Cummings, both of Albany. eNearly 40
years ago C. H. Fernald bought the
mill and the large farm that joins the
mill lot, and moved his family there
and commenced operations in the mill
and lumber business. Beginning with
a small capital Mr.. Fernald has made
comfortable fortune and about two
years ago he sold his mill to his SON
in-law, P. n. Flint.
Col. Clayton J. harrington has sew
cred active connection with the Pates
Street Shirt Company, and in short
time will remove from Lewiston. Col.
harrington has been o resident of
Lewiston for several years. He has
been active in the work of the First
Universalist church, president of the
Mems Club of that church.
The building of two new shoe shops
on Minot avenue, Auburn within two
years has made that street one of the
principal manufacturing centres in the
city. Besides the new industries there
are located on it the Turner Centre
Creamery and Fitz Brothers Last Fac
tory, both of which are among the
largest concerns in their line doing
business in the world today, to say
nothing of the coal and wood industries
and the storehouses of wholesale and
iobbing houses Minot avenue is the
street where the electric road connects
with the Maine Central r. r. One of
the new shoe factories. that of Howard.
Briggs & Pray was erected last year
and has been occupied for about a year
now 1t is fOur-story wooden build
ing with a basement, five floors in all,
100 feet long and 40 feet wide. The
sides and ends are devoted largely to
window space. The other new shop is
that of Lunn & Sweet. 1t was built
during the fall and the firm has re-
Gently moved into it, This shop is
built of brick and is called one of the
handsomest shops ever designed. Both
shops are admirably planned for con-
venience and saving of labor, and both
firms do a successful business. John
A. Greenleaf & Son, builders of the
Lunn & Sweet factory put up the
building so fast that people watching
it saw it grow. 1t was built from the
basement to the time the roof was on
in 104 working hours. The building uE
OF MinOt avenue with handsome new
shoe factories Is only one of the signs
of Auburn's prosperity.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-09

Harden; Colbert Neal; Man from
Brodneys' by Geo. Barr McCrutcheon:
THE Man of the Hour" by Octave
Thanet; 1.-The Letters of Jennie Allen"
by Grace Donworth; THE Leaven of
Love" by Clara Louise Burnham; The
Boy Forty Miners" by Everett Mcneil;
Bar 20" by Clarence Milford; Three
Years Behind the Guns" by l.. G. T.;
'All Among the Loggers' by Clarence
B. Burleigh; The Browns at Mt.
Vernon by Pansy; Myrtle Baldwin
by Charles Clark Mum; sThe
Shoulders OF Atlas" by Mary Elvinkins
Freeman: -Four Boys on the Mis-
sissippi" by E. r. Tomlinson; "Tarry
at Home Travels" by E. e. Hale;
Helen Grant Graduate by Amanda
M. Douglass.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-09
RARE METALS ON THE MARKET
Once Known Only to Chemists, But
Now Produced by the Ton.

Metals once seen only in chemical
Laboratories are often used industrially
nowadays.
Thorium. usually from Brazil, is u
constituent of the nantes of Welsbach
lamps. The United Stated and Australia
furnish the tantalum now used for
electric lamp filaments. Chromium is
also used for illumination. and vanad-
UNI from this country and Mexico. is
used to make Vanadium steel, so much
used in French automobiles.
Uranium., from certain Of whose com
pounds radium is extracted, is found
in Bohemia. Molybdenum is now much
used in making special forms of steel
for weapons or rapid tools. 1t comes
from Australia, Canada and Scandina-
via, and costs about Is cents a pound.
Tungsten. which was one of the first
of these minor metals to be employed
industrially. also comes from Australia
which exported a thousand tons of it
in the form of wolfram tungstate If
iron and maganese), between 1895 phd
1905.
In 1906 alone the United States pro-
duced a thousand tons, at about 5000 a
ton.-New York Herald.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-09
his labors as pastor Sunday,

menced his labors as pastor Sunday,
Jan. 8.
Six persons received the hand of fell
lowship at the Communion service Of the
Columbia Street Baptist church. Ban
gor, Sunday morning.
Rev. NJ. Joseph Towney gave the hand
of Fellowship to eleven at the Commun-
ion service at the First church, Port
land, on Sunday. In this group were
three whole families, one consisting of
father, mother and three sons. Three
were baptized in the evening, and in the
after-meeting five professed conversion.
The Methodist church at Hodgdon.
which has been closed for extensive re-
pairs for the past two months. was open
ed again Jan. /.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-09

Commander Peary and his party, re-
turning fanished from their futile dash
for the pole in 1906, slaughtered a herd
OF seven musk oxen on Hazen island,
OF the extreme north of Greenland. For
ivy" days and nights thereafter they
croucEed inside their snow huts. eat
ing continuously. and when they had
hhlshed, the pile of bones outside was
"as high as tall mans chin"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-09

A native of AMMAN, Inde-China, SEN
fenced in Paris for theft wrote the fol-
lowing apology to his employer: "All Ar
nantes, whether emperors. mapdar!ns,
secretaries, literary men, ana others, are
born thieves. 1t is grave and deadly
complaint and there is no cure for it
know people do not like thieves IN France
but it can not be helped"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-09

Mrs. Susan T. Mills. president of
Mills College and the pioneer woman
educator of California. has just passed
her eighty third birthday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-09

Mattresses filed with paper are used
by German soldiers
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-09

Deep-lying sediments of the ocean are
often exceptionally rich in radium.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-09

The steam power In use in the WOW, N.,er.
day Is estimated at 10000. 600 orsspo :"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-09

There Is much Of interest In this
story especially in the revelation of the
boys character development.-Chicag
Tribune.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-09

Mr.. Burleigh knows the Maine OF
which he writes: it takes only few
pages Of description of logging camp
life to determine that. He has con-
structed good out-of-door story Tor
BOYS. and one that will have the at
traction of novelty for most readers
Utica, IN. ~ Observer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-09
LIVE BOOKS FOR LIVE BOYS
All Among the
Loggers
A new book Of wholesome ana vlvid
interest for boys.-New York Post.

The story is entertaining and I'M
usual.-New York Sun.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-09

A capital story for boy readers.
Brooklyn, IN. ~ Times.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-09

A good book, and thoroughly inter-
esting.-Hartford, (Conn.) Times.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-09

Mr.. Burleigh has succeeded well In
Incorporating into his story some OF
the atmosphere of these great wood
lands, in the depths of which hundreds
ton Transcript.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-09
The Camp on
Letter K

The tone is manly throughout, the
fun of the best kind, and the book is
distinctly readable for any age
Lutheran Observer.
A capital story of two active boys In
camp in the Northeastern corner Of
Haine--Brooklyn, N. Y, Times.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-09

Besides being a first class story
this book contains more genuine infor-
nation about the growth and cutting
of timber and the picturesque life Of
the loggers than has ever before been
put in readable form.-Detroit News
Tribune.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-09
Raymond Benson
/, AT Krampton

An exceeding good story of school
life is worked out for US by the author.
This typical country academy furnishes
us with good and wholesome reading
Episcopal Recorder, Philadelphia, Pa.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-09

1t is interesting from start to finish,
and while rousing and full of enthu-
siasm, is wholesome in spirit and
teaches lessons of purity and justice
and manliness in real life.-Herald and
Presbyter, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-18
JOHNSON PLAYED
WITH KAUFMAN
White Man 0utCIaSsed by COL
0red Champion.

San Francisco, Sept. 10.-In a cor
test unique in local prize fight annals
Jack Johnson was accredited with a
newspaper decision over AL Kauf.
man at the end of ten rounds at COT
froth's arena.
According to agreement, II both mer
were on their feet when ten rounds
had been fought no decision was to be
given, Referee Eddie Smith, howeyer.
stated Johnson was entitled to the yer
dict.
Johnson employed tantalizing lefts
and ~forceful right u~ppercuts with such
frequency that Kaufman was fairly be.
wildered. Early in the contest his face
began to show signs Of Johnson's
singing punches. and in the thir
round a well directed blow started the
blood flowing from Kaufman's face.
Johnson appeared to be holding hiT J.
self In reserve, and 1t took constant
jibing by the spectators and an occa
sional punch from the blacksmith ta
start him going. When he did let so
he played with Kaufman as If the lat
ter were a child.
In the ninth round Kaufman found
Johnson's stomach with a vicious
right swing. 1t was Kaufman's best
blow, and it made the negro more
careful.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-18
MURDERER'S PLOT TO
KILL GUARDS FAILS
Planned with ex-PriSOner and
Girl to Break Jail.

Allentown, Pa, Sept. 10.-George l..
Schaeffer, who was sentenced by
Judge Trexler last Tuesday to be
hanged for the murder of the Phiia-
delphia jewelry salesman on his
(Schaeffer's) farm last November, was
foiled by Warden H. J. Wieand in an
elaborate plan to murder the Jail Off
Gals and escape. Intercepting letters
that Schaeffer wac trying to smuggle
out Of iail, the warden learned of his
plans and saved his life.
Schaeffer cencocted the plan with
Clayton o. Fenstermacher, a former
cellmate, and Ruth Gardner, who was
a servant In the warden's apartments,
and who had access to Schaeffer's
cell. These two, with a third person,
whose name Is as yet unknown, were to
come to the Jail late on the night of
Aug. 2S with an automobile. The war
den was to be called to the door, sand
bagged and robbed of his keys, where
with they were to unlock Schaeffer's
cell door and let him escape in the au
tomobile. The girl was to pass a vial
Of drugs in a hole to Schaeffer's cell
window for use by him in chloroform-
ing his guard.
Warden Wieand and six other prison
officials lay in wait all night for the
party, but they failed to show up, due.
it has since been learned, by the fail
ure of the unknown man to keep his
appointment. Since then Sehaeffer has
been especially well guarded.
Ruth Gardner and Clayton o. Fen
stermacher were arrested and com
mitted to Jail.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-18
JUMPS FROM ENGINE
TO RESCUE Child
Engineer Climbed Over Cylinder
TO Lift Tot From Track

Reading, Pa. Sept, IL. Engineer
Samuel King, who runs a passenger
train on the Schuylkill and Lehigh
branch of the Reading railway, per
formed a brave act hat ranks him a
hero and may entitle him to a Car
negie medal
Upon approaching Emerald, a small
flag station, he saw a three-year-old
child on the track. The train was run
ming thirty-fve miles an hour.
King threw the brakes into the
emergency, and. starting out over the
footboard of the engine, climbed over
the cylinder chest to the pilot, where
he jumped off and grabbed the chile
and lifted it from the track with the
pilot of the locomotive within a few
fet of him.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-18
COOK SAILS FOR NEW YORK
is Willing to Fave His Records Com
pared With Peary's.

Copenhagen. Sept. 11,-Dr. Freder-
lex A. Cook sailed at noon today from
Christiansand on the steamer Oscar
ii. for New York. He will arrive on
Tuesday. the 21st inst. Formal fare
wells We're exchanged between DR..
Cook and committees of the geograph'
ical society and the University of
Copenhagen
Speaking to a correspondent before
sailing. DR.. Cook said: 81 am perfect
ly willing to put my records before the
American coast and geodetic survey
TO be compared with those OF Commo-
dore Peary, but | do not see why
should ask for such a comparison
first"
Asked if he had any message foi
h public, DR.. Cook said: Don't yot
think that would be rather presumpt
nous? All I want is to get home to my
wife and children and to finish m'
work"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-18
Democratic League" OutgrOWth
Of Saratoga Conference
The MOVEMENT OUTLINED
The League Is Expected to Bring Back
into the Democratic Party Those
Who Left It's Ranks and to Attract
independent Voters.


Saratoga, N. Y, Sept. 10.-Out of the
Democratic conference under the
guiding hands Of men who hold a
prominent place in the party's history
there promises to grow a permanent
organization to be known as the Demo
cratic League.
At the close of a day of Democrat
oratory. during which speeches wer1
made by Alton B. Parker, Thomas NJ
| Osborne and Edward NJ. Shepard, out
lining the purposes and hopes of the
conference, John ". Carlisle. of Wa
tertown, offered the following resoiu
ton:
THAT for the purpose of aiding an
Strengthening the Democratic party.
bringing back to it's ranks those who
have been separated from it, and at
tracing to it the independent and the
young voters of the state; offering q
| place of refuge for those Republican,
who feel that their trust in their party
has been betrayed and its solemn
pledges and promises TO them broken.
who d~epreciate it's wa~stefulness an
extravagance in administering the al
fairs of government, and look with az.
prehension upon the steady strides j.
Is making towards the GENERALIZATION
of government at the expense of the
legitimate powers of the states and OF
the rights reserved to the people; and
for the purposes of disseminating the
- e A. n.-,za-attA xt, xf "
the efforts of this conference should
be continued, and for that purpose its
organization be made permanent
Therefore, be II
"Resolved, That the members Of this
| conference, and those who may here
after become such, be and they here
by are constituted a permanent organ
ization. under the name of The Demo
cratic League and that the present
executive committee be continued in
office until otherwise ordered by the
general committee hereinafter pro
vided for"
1t is also provided hat the executive
committee shall call a meeting of the
general committee on or before Feb. l,
1910.
The resolution was referred to the
committee on plan and scope" CON.
posed of a representative from each OF
the senatorial districts of the state.
This committee is also charged with
the formulation of a declaration Of
party principles to be presented for
consideration.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-18
GEMS WORTH $4,000
STOLEN IN PITTSBURC
Robbery Took Place in Fash
iOnabIe East End District.

Pittsburg, Sept. 11.-Though the po-
lice say little, it was established be
yond a shadow Of a doubt that a s35,
600 diamond robbery was successfully
pulled off in the fashionable East End
district in Pittsburg during the past
week, and local detectives have been
working on several clews.
One of the diamonds reported to
have been stolen weighed 10h karats
and is valued at $4,000.
The first %intimation of the robbery
came to light through Etna, Pa, au-
thorities, who stated through news
paper correspondents that they be
lieved they had the man wanted for
the robbery. Detectives have gone to
Etna to question the suspect.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-18

expeditions, and I am over1oyed at
his success In reaching the Arctic cen.
ter" said Mrs, Robert f. Peary, wife
Of Commander Peary, as she and her
two children stepped off the train
here.
Mrs. Peary said that she thought
her husband now ought to be satisfied
and stay at home and get acquainted
with his family. "He used to say" she
to the Arctic region after he was forty
years Of age, but the discovery OF the
pole was the only thing he had not
succeeded in, and he would not dis
continue his efforts at TIE age kmit
he himself set. On May 5 last Com
mander Peary was ffty-three."
Commander Peary's married life has
been closely identified with his hazard
Gus enterprises, which explains the
emotion which prompted him in the
hour Of triumph of his life's work TO
send the first announcement Have
made good at last" to Mrs. Peary at
their summer home in Maine. Later
the commander wired his wife to come
and met him at Sydney, adding:
Bring the kids The kids are
Marie, aged sixteen, who vas born in
Greenland, and Robert e., Jr., aged
six years. Sunday is Marie's birthday,
and she is hoping that the arrival OF
the Roosevelt with her father ON
board will not be delayed beyond that
date.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-18
Mauretanla Breaks Records.

Quarantine, N. Y, Sept. 10. The
Cunard line steamer Mauritania broke
all transatlantic records by making
the crossing between Queenstown and
this port in 4 days, II hours and 81
minutes. The Mauretania's new marx
betters the performance of her sister
ship, the Lusitania, made on her last
westward voyage by seven minutes.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-18
TURKEY PLANS TO
BORROW MILLIONS
Imperial Loan Of S3O,0OO,OOO
to Be Placed.

Washington, Sept. The Turkirh
government has invited bids for $780,
800, 900 bonds bearing 4 per cent in
terest, with / per cent for an amorti-
zation fund.
The imperial Ottoman embassy in
Washington announced officially that
on the strength of article SO of the
financial law for the current financial
year, the imperial Ottoman ministry
Of finance has decided to contract q
loan of 5000, 900 Turkish pounds zap
proximately s3O,S 100000, the rate OF
interest being 4 per cent and the rata
of amortization ! per cent.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-18
NO PEONAGE SUITS
Violations of Federal Laws at the
Pressed steel Car Plant.

Washington. Sept. 10.-As the re-
suit of a conference at the depart
ment of justice between the officials
of the department, District Attorney
Jordan, of Pittsburg, and Special
Agent Hoagland, it was announced
that there have been no clear cases OF
peonage nor any violations of the
federal labor laws at the Pressed
Steel Car company's plant to warrant
federal prosecution.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-18
Treasurer Denies Shortage.

Meadville. Pa, Sept. 14.-State Rep
resentative William S. Smith in this
city denied that he was responsible
for the alleged shortage of the $4,000
in the funds of the Allegheny College
Centenary. which is said to have dis
appeared while he was treasurer oil
the fund. The Centenary board of the
Erie conference has been industriousi3
probing the alleged shortage for tho
past few days.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-18
wrioht Flies For Royalty.

Berlin, Sept. 10. Grown Prince
Frederick and the crown princess Wis
tied the Templehof parade ground To
see Orville Wright fly. When he dc.
scended the crown prince and his wife
%applauded and congratulated him, MI
Wright then went up again with a pas
senger. Captain Englehardt, his Ger
nan pupil. and remained in the air for
fifteen minutes.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-18
Wnman Held For Girls Death

Harrisburg, Pa, Sept. 11.-Katie
Gerhart, of Steelton, was given a hear
ing and held for a further hearing in
connection with the death of Katha-
rine Koal, at the Harrisburg hospital
whereshe was taken after what is al
legged to have been an illegal opera
ton. The prosecutor is Orso Geor-
goin. who was engaged to marry the
dead girl.