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Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-02-20
EK0NK.
SIeet and Ice Storm Of Unusual Sc
Verity-speciaI Sermons-chanee of
Mail Carriers.

The sleet and ice storm ragged here
for two days and nights and did great
damage. The TALL handsome elms and
the massive naples on the lawn be-
tween the Line meeting house and the
parsonage are wrecks, so many limbs
are broken, and the ground beneath is
covered with twigs and branches. The
same is true of the beautiful shade
trees at the residences of Alfred CAL
lup, Avery Stanton. Mrs. Ann Corey
and everywhere else in general. The
oldest inhabitant doesn't remember so
terrific an ice storm and 50 great con-
sequent devastation.
Lincoln Service.
Last Sunday was observed as Lin
cold day in the Line meeting house
with a sermon on Lincoln, Emanci-
as Washington day with a sermon on
Washington
Charles Hopkins has moved his saw
mill from the Flat Rock district to
Cedar swamp, TO saw timber trees pur-
chased of Herbert Gallup.
Miss Mabel Brown has returned from
several weeks visit to her sister, Mrs.
Sweet, in Danielson.
Many of the sideroads we're rendered
impossible by fallen and bent trees on
account of the ice.
Mail Carrier Used Axe.
One morning the mail carrier Of the
r. r. D. had hard work to get through,
having to chop away many fallen trees.
Henry Wilson began on the 10th as
mail carrier, succeeding Harry Grover.
Ali will miss Mr.. Grover, who had be-
come popular along the route.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-02-20

Representative Lowden OF Illinois.
who married daughter OF Pullman Of
Pullman palace car fame, is the richest
Of the ADMINISTRATORS OF theA1nuse.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-02-20

Miss Jane Wright has resigned from
the Cincinnati art museum and gone
to Princeton, \. J., to take charge Of
TIA unayeEaaap art abrarG
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-02-20
CHESTNUT HILL.
Local leemen Secure crop-5urnina %
Lsathsrboard Plant Heavy Blow to
Town.

Icemen are busy gathering their an
nuel crop. Ii has been a somewhat
uncertain season, but the work In this
locality is now nearly completed.
This place felt the effects Of the
storm IN much the Same manner as IA
towns around. The telephone service
was slightly curtailed. Agent Condor
at the station was unable to get COM
munication with the outside world,
owing to broken wires, and trees ana
shrubs we're stripped Of branches
There was a small attendance at the
grange meeting on "wednesday even
ing, but an interesting programme was
carried out.
Successful Concert.
The old folks concert at the hall on
Thursday evening was largely attend
ed and much enjoyed.
Disastrous Fire.
This town suffered a severe Joss be-
cause of the fire which early Thursday
morning destroyed the mill at Hop
River. Most Of the inhabitants of the
village were employed at the mill and
they win probably be obliged TO go
elsewhere to seek employment. The
school In that district was attended
mostly by the children in these fami-
lies and IL these are taken from the
school tho average for the town viii be
greatly reduced and thu amount %
money received from the state will be
reduced accordingly. This. together
with the loss to the town in taxes on
the mill property, will be severely felt.
Viewed from any Hight, the loss Is very
severe TO the town, as we'll as 10 Mr..
Case, VINO operated the plant Mr..
Case is receiving many expressions oe
regret on his loss. il is said there was
no Insurance.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-02-20

Speaker Joe Cannon's favorfte atti-
tude in the chair is to sit with his left
zoat aazEAaS Endar him
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-02-20
COLUMBIA.

Worst Storm In Ysars-Trees and Tsi-
spone Wires Down, Roads Blocked
New NAH Sohedula--A etFOae Pros
test Against Resulting iaeonvsn-
fence.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-02-20
Appraisers Appointed.

Attorney P. J. Danahey of Whitman
tic, F. W. Landon and DR.. c. M. Knight
Of Chaplin have been appointed ap-
praisers on the estate of the late VIII
liam Ross. 1t is the largest estate in
town.
Miss Alice Copeland of Storrs was
home over Sunday.
Miss Minnie Twiss and John Green
of South Coventry were recent visitors
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Twiss.
Ice storm of Monday and Tuesday
was very severe. Telephone wires and
trees were broken by the weIght Of Ice
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-02-20
CHAPLIN.
Funeral Of Harvey copeland-Ap
praisers on Ross Estate.

Harvey Copeland, aged 81 wears
died at the home Of his son, Willis l.,
Friday, Feb. -, of aneurism of the
heart. He is survived by four sons
Willis ]. of Chaplin, Charles H. OF
Storrs. Harvey E. Of WarrenyiHe and
Edward B. Of Hartford, a daughter
Mrs. Hiram Frink. of Chaplin, and
sister, Mrs. Melvin Booth, of Brim-
field, Mass. The funeral was held at
his home Monday, the Rev. G. c. King
Of Ashford officiating.
Miss Barbara Neumann is visiting in
New York.
A. Stuart is I'll.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-22
BuIldOEinE the Chinese.

l hear considerable criticism of the Japa-
nese methods employed in Manchuria. The
natives claim that the Japanese are ex-
at every turn. one Instance of this was as
to the electric lighting Of Mukden. The
railway station is four miles from the city
and the city itself has its electric light
plant erected by the capital OF the Man
churiau Chinese. The Japanese Railway
company has an electric plant at the depot
and, according to its agreement, 1t cannot
extend it's wires beyond its own concession
nor supply the current to the general pub
lie. Nevertheless the Japanese recently be-
gan to erect poles all the way to Mukden
town when the Chinese objected. After a
great deal OF discussion the work was
stopped, but the japanese insisted that the
Chinese pay them something like 100000 for
what they had done or for erecting less
than three miles Of poles. The Chinese
had to submit.
During the military occupation Of MulS-
den O large number OF japanese swarmed
into the city and took possession Of any
houses they found vacant, and in some
cases they drove out the Chinese tenants.
of the occupation of the city refused to do
so and would not get out. Many forced the
owners to pay them to move, and, among
others, the German consul had to pay $500
to get the occupants of a Lama temple to
vacate in order that the building might be
used for the consulate. Some such proper
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-22

the TANKS OF their scrawny mounts. From
this trouserless condition the photographic
expert of the expedition deduced that the
native quartermaster's department was in
a sad state Of graft. When the cool winds
from the snowy SUBMITS Of the Himalayas
agitate the Mother Hubbards Of the Tibetan
army the glory of militarism fades and the
shivering soldiers paraphrase General Sher-
mans remark about war being hell.
TIL expedition took 5000 photographs, in
Guiding military scenes; made 200 surveys,
collected twenty-one v~ocabularies and made
many impressions OF ancient rock inscrip-
lions. The Hoang-Ho, or yellow river, was
put on the map IN it's right place, ninety
kilometres east OF its old position. Maybe
the old map was correct, for IL is a well
known habit of Chinese rivers to play
hide-and-seek with photographers. II the
Hudson was like the Hoang-Ho, a New
Yorker starting for Albany on the boat
might find himself arriving at Chicago.
The prodigious rock sculptures OF Buddha
encountered In many places astonished the
explorers. One OF the most gigantic statues
doomed up on the hillside at Kang-Keou,
in the ~provinc, OF Sze-Chuen. II Tivalled
the creations OF ancient Egypt, and must
have been carved many centuries ago, Judg-
ing by the erosion OF the elements, All
around this statue are holes In the rock
leading 20 subterranean temples or chapsls,
which are decorated with religious cary
ings. At YOng-Klng a sort Of Buddhistic
Pantheon chiselled in rock was found. The
inscriptions date from the dynasty Of the
Emperors " Fl. in the fifth century Of the
present era--New York Tribune
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-22

with a most thorough training, for after
graduating from the engineering school of
Washingt ton and Lee university, with the
class Of 1873, when he was only % years
old, his scholarly standing was so high
that he was at once given the position Of
assistant to Colonel William Allen, the
principal OF the MaCDonough school near
Baltimore. Mr.. Kruttschnitt taught there
for five years, when he accepted the posi-
tion of resident engineer in charge Of the
construction work OF the Louisiana & Texas
railroad. Thus he went into rGilroadirg lat
the top and he has stayed there ever since
with the distinction that the scope Of affairs
under his direction has broadeEed with the
years. After the Louisiana & Texas was
built he became -roadmaster, and, later,
chief engineer, which was the position he
held when he left that company in 1885 to
become assistant general manager of all
the Southern Pacific company's lines east
of El Paso, Tex. Within four years he
was raised to the position of general man
ager of all the Southern Pacific lines from
coast to coast. His career with the Har-
riman system has ever been one of
constantly increasing responsibility. He
was chosen fourth vice president of the
Southern Pacific in 1903, a position which
he still holds, besides being director Of
maintenance and operation for the Union
Pacific, the oregon Short Line, the Oregon
Railroad and Navigation company and the
Southern Pacific.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-22

1t is wonderful how the japanese have
crowded the Russians out of southern
Manchuria. The only remains left by
the czar and Port Arthur and the rail-
road upon which Russia spent something
like $500, 600, 600. Even these are being rap
idly changed. The line to Mukden has been
double-tracked and better stations erected.
The buildings of Dalney have been i'm
proved and a new town is going up on the
edge Of the harbor. The names of the
streets have been changed and We now
have such avenues as Oyama and Nogi.
The Russians signs over the stores have
disappeared, and Japanese signs have
taken their places. Indeed, about the only
remains of the Russians are a lot Of
broken-down d]roschkies and antlquated
dirt carts; these have fallen into the
hands of the Chinese and are now to be
seen among the jinrlkishas on every high
way.
The Japanese have established schools
in Dalny and Port Arthur and they ave
also schools in Mukden. They are chiefly
for Japanese children, and, so far as l
can see, Japan is not attempting to push
the western civilization into this country
as into Korea. The Japanese who have
come here are much the same as those
who are flooding Korea. They come from
the scum of the japanese cities, and are
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-22
Mnnchurisn wheat Lnnas.

In the meantime the japanese viii soon
have a new mill at Tlehling, and they viii
bulld other mills along their railroad, The
grain possibilities are enormous; and, as
the country develops, Manchuria Is bound
70 raise an the flour she can use, aud a
great d al for export to china AS 1t is
now, the valley Of the Lao river exports
N0OdO 600 worth OF food products per year.
The country drained by that river IS about
as big as the state Of Missouri, aud al
most every acre can be cultivated. Along
the railroad between Mukden and Dalny
there are farms all the way. Today the
principal crops are beans and muiet, but
the soil viii raise wheat.
The Sungarr river, the Mississippi Of
northern Manchuris, drains a district
twice as large as the Lao watershed,
and the whole Of It is adapted TO wheat
Three varieties are already grown In a
small way, and the production in the best
Districts Is about thirty bushels per acre,
The grain Is soVn in April and harvested
IN September and October. It Is It'd up In
bundles aud stacked near the villages. The
grain Is thrashcd upon a thrashing floor
With stone rollers, which are pulled by
donkeys lcd by children. II Is winuowed In
the wind aud then ground into flour UPON
uuue native mills, OF late considerable
-four has been taken TO HaroIn, and a.
tie usw mills are built the area Of produc-
tion will rapidly increase. Twelve steam
the frontier In siberia, and other mills
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-22

a much roueher element than the soldiers
OF the Japanese army.
So far as l can learn, the attempted
japanese colonization of ManChuria has
been a failure. Mr.. Okabe, the japanese
consul at Mukden, tells me his people are
fast going back home and that they do not
find Manchuria suited to them, Said he:
There are now only about 10000 Jap
anese in the country mean outside OF
our military forces. The most Of them are
at Dalny and Port Arthur, although there
are small settlements In the towns along
the railroad, and we have about 5000 here
I'm Mukden. Manchuria belongs to the
Chinese, and in its southern part the good
lands are all owned and are under Cultiva-
ton. Besides, the Chinese methods of farm
ing are different from ours and the eli
mate is colder. The most of our people who
came here hoping to make their fortunes
out Of nothing have gone back, and the re-
mainder is largely made up of ]shopkeepers
with small capital, who belong to the lower
classes OF our country. These people find
that the Chinese are good business men and
that the Chinese stores are supplying the
demands of the market. AS u result they
get but little of the native trade. rhe
army and themselves are about their only
customers, and as a result their business
is SMALL
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-22

The Chinese say that the Japanese are
monopolizing their telegraph business. Dur
ing the war they constructed military lines
in every direction. They connected all the
important cities and villages, and when
peace was declared they had inclosed
southern Manchuria in a network of wires
which was controlled by the Japanese gov.
m The Chinese claim that as the
war is now over all lines except those
necessary for the railroads should be done
away with. To this Japan has at last
agreed, but 1t insists that China pay SIS, 900
for the lines, and at the same time a Jap
anese telegraph messenger shall be in each
Of the city offices in order to be able to
telegraph in Japanese. This makes the
Chinese pay for the lines, and at the same
time practically keeps them in the hands
of the japanese.
Another story OF Japanese encroachment
is told in connection with the railroad
proposed from the South M"anchurian line
to Kirin. The latter is a city of about
1OO.O OO situate on the Sungari river about
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-22

huhHAhhb FAooulhB SlOerlus
The rapid settlement Of Siberia is one
of the striking features Of the eastern
situation. That country has tens Of mil
lions OF acres Of wheat lands, and it will
eventually feed a great part or the wbrld.
Travellers say that the lands along the
RAILROAD are being rapidly settled, and that
there will soon be a popuIous country
above Manchuria.
The Chinese agent of our Equitable Life
Insurance company, who has just returned
from a trip over the Trans-siberian system,
says that the Russian government is put
ting 10000 emlgrants a day into those
regions, He says that he saw long trains
coming day after day, filled with immi-
grants. Some of the engines hauled twenty
cars, and each car had double decks
above the main floor, so that three tiers
Of passengers were carried.
The people are being exported by viii
lagos, and the old and young are crowded
together, the children and grown-ups
being packed in like sardines. This man
counted the trains and their passengers,
and it is his estimate that the number
now coming in cannot be less thar 1000
per day. From other authorities l have
like information, and a statement was
recently published that as many as 500, 900
souls were settled in Siberia last year.
This migration is not a new one. It
began at the close of the Japanese war.
1t amounted to $1,000 In 1905 and averaged
that for several years preceding. In 1906
1t was 10000 and in 1907 400, 900, while last
year it was half as large as our immigra-
ton from all the world during that year.
This movement OF the Russian people
means a new industrial empire in Siberia,
1t means the development of a wheat
belt greater than that of Canada, and
also the creation of a Russian peril which
may some day cast the yellow peril into
the shade. The Russians are moving as
villages, and not as individuals. They
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-22

American flour is popular here, but II
will be long before a great market can
be created. There are about sixteen mil
lion people in Manchurla. but the major
ity OF them are too poor to eat wheat or
rice. They live upon orghum seed and
other varieties of millet, and wheat is
not one vi the regular grains sold in the
market. Prof. l.. o.. Parker, one of our
agricultural experts, who has just been
travelling over northern Manchuria, tells
me that the farmers raise wheat here
and there, but only enough for their own
consumption. II they have a surplus they
VIII load a half ton upon a Chinese cart
and carry it to the phil. 1t usually AXE
them several days to get to the nearest
one, and the wheat barely pays the
freight.
At present some wheat is raised about
Hardin, but the business Of the mills
there is falling off, and it cannot go on
profitably with their present capitaliza-
ton, Prof. Parker says that the flour
business Of Hardin is in a bad way. 1t
had a mushroom growth through the
war, when the mills were running day
and night 20 supply the Russian army,
and got big prices for all they could
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ment and were operated at enormous
cost. There were twelve OF them, all
equipped with the finest Of modern
machinery, much Of which came from
America. They then ground something
like sixteen thousand barrels per day ana
had no trouble in disposing of their pro-
duct. As a result the stock went sky
high and tho Siberian Jews who owned
TIA Watlg gA1a on nj a hlu nRnfiV kinnn
then the demand for flour has declined,
seven Of the mills have stopped working,
and the five now In operation are pro-
ducing altogether less than one thousand
barrels per day. The mills, which are
heavily mortgaged, have now gone into
the hands OF the Russo-Chinese bank,
which Is not able to manage them at a
profit under the present conditions. A
thorough reorganization will have TO be
made before they can compete with our
flour.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-22
Japanese IN Mukden.

What Mr.. Okabe says is undoubtedly
true. The Japanese stores are near the
camps and about the railway stations.
There are but few of them in the Manchu
cities, and those at Mukden are a mile
or so from the centers Of the Chinese
population. They have built their stores
Japanese fashion, and they look cold and
mean in comparison with the substantial
one-story brick buildings of the Chinese.
The business conditions here are far diff
ferent from those Of Korea, where the
people are simple and the japanese are
managing everything.
Every Manchu city seems to be given up
to buying and selling. Mukden is business
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-22
Harriman's Right Hand Man

- N II immense Hartman sys-
1ANY tenn of railroads. of which Mr..
H4 Hartman is the supreme head,
- the commanding general, so 10
sQEE6SnN speak, there are half a dozen
S staff officers, and one OF
the most important of these is MI.
Julius Kruttschnitt of Chicago. His tile
in the Hartman railroad army is director
Of maintenance and operation, which means
that he has full charge as chief executive
in spending on the upkeep of right-of-way
appropriation is set aside by Mr..
for that purpose. An idea of the
vast sums that he is called upon to dis
tribute where each dollar will bring it's full
est value, says the Bookkeeper. may be
gained from the fact that he is responsible
for the maintenance in standard condition
OF 1900 miles of rail lines. Besides that.
his direction of maintenance and operation
extends to the steamship lines on both the
and the Pacific oceans, which
travel routes that cover 10000 miles, AS Mr..
Krut;sChritt said recently in talking OF the
system, a man may travel from New York
to Hongkong, a distance Of 1902 miles, with
out stepping off the Hartman rail or water
lines, and he may return by a different
route for almost the entire journey on the
same system.
Mr.. Kruttschnltt's success is notable, in
a sense, because It is proof that a man may
leave the professors chair and take up the
ingly brilliant results, He came to his work
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-22

have a wonderful cohesive force and their
motto is For God and the czar.' The
present emperor is a %weaklinE, but with
a strong man as his successor may there
not be another struggle between the Japa-
nese and the Russians, with this thickly
populated grain-producing, food-supplying
Siberia as a background? The Japanese
must have more territory before they can
support larger armies than they now have.
Their land is crowded with their fifty
millions. Russia already has as many
people, and IT could put many Japans
into Siberia and ave room to spare.
Verify, the end is not yet.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-22
In the Wilds of Asia

- ISCOVERIES Of colossal statues
n Of Buddha, carved In living
rock, dictionaries Of unknown
~==FT= tongues, ancient inscriptions
R6E%@S and the true course OF the
- Hoang-Ho river for sew
eral hundred miles were some OF the results
Of the French expedition under Commander
d'Onone which returned to civilization
recently after a two-year journey through
northeast Tibet and darkest China The
expedition started at Hanoi, near the
coast, and z~igzagged 70 Peking through a
territory practically unknown, inhabited by
wild Tibetau warriors and benighted
Mongols, who are quite beyond the reach
Of Standard oil and who are lucky to get
the news that China has n new emperor
five or six years after the event.
Limited as they are In their mental out
look through the lack OF newspapers and
a rural free delivery. the Tibetan fighters
showed a degree Of intelligence when they
refrained from matching their bcanpole
spears and iiugals with rhe hirh-power
rifles Of the French invaders. On only one
occasion a mob OF villagers was foolish
enough 10 attack Lieutenant Lepage with
stores. The l~ieutcnants rescuer. NJ. Boyve.
will receive a medal for military valor. II
IS not stated what the mob received but
probably the next census will report a
deficit Of lamas and warriors.
It was a pathetic discovery. made In a
high wind, that many Of the Tibe.an
cayslrymen had no trousers beneath their
Mother Hubbard uniforms, which slapped