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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-18

ReneWed.
 Especial from United Press.)
 Hartford, Feb. IS A drastic policy regarding the issuance and renewal of trolley road franchises was to-day an- n')unced by the Railroads committee of the General Assembly who held an executive session. The statement reads as follows:
 Fiji st-That in granting their exten- sion of trolley franchises. the rights of tre issuance of capital stock and bonds to he heltl to strict continuity with the general law of Connecticut. This is to put an end to the g, anting of fran chises by special legislation whereby lines are built from the proceeds of bonds and the capital stock held as a promoters profit. The committee be- lieves that this is simply another de- vice for watering stock and that the public is asked to pay interest on such capitalization in the form of higher fares or decreased securities.
 Second-That no existing trolley franchises will be renewed to a date later than the first day of November preceding the sitting of the next Gen. eral Assembly unless 25 per cent. of such lines shall have been actually constructed. This is to prevent dog n-the-manger" franchises which are held and renewed from session to ses- sion to the exclusion of independent capital.
 Third-That no more blank extension of franchises will be granted. If any company as a result of prior merger or other reason shall desire independ- ent franchises renewed they shall be acted upon separately or a detailed statement of their location and con- diction shall be made to them. This is to prevent company from group ing under a single clause the renewal of scattering franchises of long stand ing and wide distribution. The com mittee believes that the General As and the people of the state have a right to know just what is be- ing renewed.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-18
NO REHEARING
 IN HARBOR
 LINE MATTER
At Least None Unless Con- sent of New Haven Rail
 road Go. is Secured.

C1ty's Petition Turned
 Down by War Department
 in a Letter from Assist
 ant Secretary of War. Attitude of Department of
 Small Consequence Since
 Equal Powers Over liar
 Dor Lines Are Lodged in
 City and State-City At
 torney Cullinan Makes
 Divers Communication
 Public.
 has received from Robert Shaw Oliver, assistant Secretary of War, a letter in which the petition of the City of Bridgeport for a rehearing4 upon the location of a harbor line is refused, ex- cept upon terms impossible to comply with
 The city will be little embarrassed by this development, however, because under the opinion of Former City At torney James A. Marr, the state has power to lay harbor lines as ample as that possessed by the United States government, has power to delegate the same right to Bridgeport, and actual ly has delegated it.
 If the matter were not entirely in the hands of the city and the state, the communication from the war de- partment would be cold comfort for the city
 MT. Oliver substantially says that no rehearing will be granted unless likely to be infringed.'' which in this instance means by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Com pany.
 The letter follows:
 Sir-This department duly received your letter of August 5th, last, sub- hitting a resolution adopted by the Common Council of the city of Bridge port, urging a reopening of the pro- ceeddngs under which the harbor lines on the westerly side of Pequonnock River, Bridgeport harhor, approved by the Secretary of War, November 21, 1905, were established, on the grounds that the citizens of Bridgeport were not granted a reasonable opportunity to be heard in relation thereto; also urging that such rehearing, if author ized, be held before some officer or other than Major Harry Tay- Tor.
 Replying thereto I beg to inform you that the War Department is not au- thorized to reopen cases of this kind except upon convincing presentation of facts that such action is essential to the preservation and protection of the harbor, and that even then it feels constrained to decline such action un- less releases are presented of all in- terests likely to be infringed, or other assurance given that the step will not give rise to any claim against the United States.
 Very respectfully,
 ROBERT SHAW OLIVER,
 Assistant Secretary of War. : Fa1l 6 1909
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-18
CONTRACTORS WILL DINE.

CONTRACTORS WILL DINEs
 Ts.-right, at the, Stratfield, the Con- 1le.ticut Association of Contractors WdIl hold their annual dinner. one hundred contractors from all parts Of fhe state will he present. "Thad.'' B. BsecLer, agent for the Interstate con Tractors, Builders, and Dealers Asso- ciation. will be toast master.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-18
HOWLAND'S
Cutting cost makes low prices possible for Rowland sewing-machines.

At every point, the cos t of m a k i n g and selling owl and machines is as low as pos ible. They are made for
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-18
GLEDHILL & co.

Dealers in second hand iron and wood working machinery, engines, boilers, motors, dynamos, lathes. plan CTS. drills, anvils, band saws, vises, elevators. office fixtures, safes. desks, sstc.. etc Telephone call 773-2.
 COR. WATER & UNION SITS.
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-18

 COMMITTEE
 TAKES STAND
Announces a Drastic Policy Relating to Trolley Road
 Franchises.

Right to Issue Stock and Bonds to be Held in Strict Conformity with General Law of State-When Ex- isting Franchises May be Renewed.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1909-12-17
Did He Eat II?

Prof William James, the famous
Harvard psychologist, was giving to an
attentive class remarkable instances Of
absent-mindedness, says the Washington
Post.
"And let us not omit from our cata-
logue, he said smiling, ''the we'll
known case Of John Burden Sanderson.
"Iohn Burden Sandcrson sat at his
desk in University College, lost in
thought. 1t was noon. Beside the great
but abscnt-minded student lay his frugal
lunch, a sandwich. Next to the sand
witch lay a frog, not dead but motion
less-it had been the subject of a
curious experiment in the lecture hall
an hour before.
AT noon the assistant left the pro-
fessor meditating before the sandwich
and the frog, and at /, when the assist
ant returned, the professor was meditat
ing still. The sandwich was untasted,
but the frog frog has disappeared. ="
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1909-12-17

of smoking rubbish as the result Of his
experiments.
Rats and mice aresregular fremakefs.
1t was the late Edward Atkinson who
demonstrated that these little animals
are troublesome drebugs.
AS far back as 1878 Atkinson made
some investigations and experiments
that proved this. The New England
mills had had a number of fires which
started in the roofs. On examining
one fire that was put out Immediately it
was found that rats had built their nests
up in the rafters and close to the chin
neys to get the warmth.
They used the best material to start
fire, such as cotton waste, excelsior and
other fine stuff frequently soaked with
oil. In time the heat from the chimney
and the close quarters of the nest com
bined to cause spontaneous combustios
and there was an unexplained fire in the
roof
Atkinson also made an experiment to
find out if rats would gnaw matches.
For two weeks rat was kept under
watch and matches placed with its food.
1t was not long before it was chewing
the matches, and once it got a taste of
the phosphorus it began to like the
matches, and in chewing them set
them of.
Mice also like phosphorus, because it
is sweet, and they will steal matches to
use them in building their nests. In
one case in which a floor was opened up
a collection of heads of matches was
found laid aside in a corner for food
while the sticks had been used in build
ing the nest Birds shave also been
responsible for fires, but not actually
causing them, like the rats and mice.
The birds are firemakers through build
ing their nests in places where sparks
from chimney, for instance, fall in
the straw and dry stuff used in building
| the nest.
The cow is not regularly classed as g
fiebug but one COW made at least fire
history. Ii was Mrs O'Leary's famous
animal who one afternoon kicked over q
kerosene oil lamp and started fire thai
wiped ont the City of Chicago in 1871.
New York Sun.
Miller's Best Flour-anv Grocer any
where no
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1909-12-17
From Our Exchanges.

The little three old son of Fred Baker,
and wife living near the old Davis
ranch at Esmerada met with a singular
death Thursday of this week The little
fellow who had been playing about the
house was missed by his mother and on
search being made the parents we're
Mortified to find the boy dead, entangled
in a harbed wire fence. 1t appears that
the boy had attempted to crawl through
the wires when the upper wire caught
in the hood he was wearing and in his
efforts to escape the string with which
it was tied strangled him to death.
Coroner Prince was summoned and held
an inquest Friday. Prospect
The live Stock Association at is meet
ing Monday, offered standing reward
for 500 for the arrest and conviction OF
vandals who are in the habit of visiting
camps in the mountains during the
temporary absence of the owners and
making free with the contents. 1t has
long been a rule of the mountains, that
the latch string of any camp is always
ont. and the wayfarer in need OF tenn
porary shelter has been free to come
and 90 whether the owner were at home
or not, but this hospitable privilege has
been most shamefuly abused. Stock
men returning to camp after few days
absence have found the doors broken
open, provisions taken away or des-
troyed and the camp generally having
the appearance of having received a
visit from a band of brigands and
it lis to stop this custom which has
become a nuisance, as well as burden
10 those having summer camps in the
mountains, that the reward is offered.
A man who would loot all isolated camp
destroying and carrying away provisions
and forage for stock, is as much thief
and criminal as though the crime were
committed in a crowded city, and the
cattle men propose to put stop to it
if possible Prospect.
According to the Sierra Times the
Grand Jury of Tuolumne county at its
recent session did rather a peculiar
thing in acting upon an anonymous
communication and then indicting
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1909-12-17
Animals As
Fire Settlers.

The latest trick in burning up a
building for ptoit, touching IT OF, y
the nremen call it, comes from Liver
pool England. Fires in the Gotten
warehouses came so irreguarly that the
authorities became convinced that the
fires we're purposely set. A strict
watch was rewarded by the tiremen
catching fire in its incipiency and
extingushing it where it started.
A search was then made for evidence
and the first thing discovered was a
small hole in the wall A few bricks
has been taken out, but the opening
was not large enough to admit per-
son. The next thing that turned up
was cat This solved the mystery of
the hole in the wall, as we'll as the
manner of setting fires.
Puss still had attached to her tail
some half-burned rags. The incendiary
simply put the cat through the opening,
lit the stuff tied to her tail, and the cat
naturally ran wild through the ware
house, carrying trail of fire behind
her. A fire in cotton warehouse set
in this manner usually meant a total
loss and poor puss was burned, destroy
ing the evidence.
The East Side firemaker has been
known to use a dog as a frebug. The
plan was to tie the dog TO the leg OF a
table. On the table was placed kero-
sene oil lamp.
After locking the door the fremakei
called to the dog In his efforts to re-
spond the animal naturally tugged at the
cord attached to the table, and if he
pulled hard enough he upset the table
and threw the lamp on the floor and the
blaze was started
The rat has been used to start fires
but often with disastrous consequences
IL the man who used the rat. A stall il
keeper who was troubled with rats got {
grudge against the animals and though
it would be a fine thing to pour kerosene
oil on a rat and light it. The sra
promptly ran back to its nest in the
stable, the most natural thing for it tt
do, and set fire to the stable, and short
ly the stable keeper was gazing on pile
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1909-12-17
Nice. Plump Teachers
Should Marry

When a teacher marries she fills a
higher and nobler Office than il she
went on teaching all her life. Like
eating and drinking, marriage is a more
fundamental necessity to the race than
any Of the acquired traits.
This is the opinion of Edward Hyatt,
State Superintendent of Public In
struction, according to the Sacramento
Bee. Mr. Hyatt is wholly out of SYM
pathy with the cult that carps at teachers
who marry as soon as the opportunity
offers after the state has educated them.
81 could never subscribe to such
sentiments, writes the state superin-
tendent in a paper, commenting on the
critics. "When a nice, plump teacher
marries some nice, steady fellow out in
the country at the close of her first
term, YOU never catch me standing
around disgruntcd and growing. No,
Stree! throw up my hat with glee,
and execute several jig steps and chorte
in my Joy"
A story that reached the state super
intendent's ears today from Monterey
county almost made him commit the
Highland fling. Down OH the coast in
an almost inaccessible spot, where
steamers only touch once a year with
/ supplies and getting in by horseback is
o-day job, lives a family named
Praskett, ranchers. +. There are eight
sons in the family and in due time 4
school organized for them. The eldest
began by marrying the first teacher, the
second the next supply, and so on down
the line until the whole gamut of sons
had been run. Mr. Hyatt thinks that
sounds like the Swiss FAMILY Robinson.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1909-12-17
DON'T EXPERIMENT
You Will Make No Mistake If Yon
Follow This Jackson Citizens
Advice
Navel Neplect Nonr kidneYs.

NEVER neglect your KluNGNS.
If YOU have pain in the back. urinary
disorders, dizziness and nervousness,
it's time to act and no time to expert
ment. These are all symptoms Of kid
ncy trouble, and you should seek a
remedy which is known to cure the kid
neys.
Doans Kidney Pills is the remedy to
use. No need to experiment. 1t has
cured many stubborn cases in Jackson.
Follow the advice of a Jackson citizen
and be cured yourself.
Benz. Gilbert. miner. of Jackson.
Cal, SAYS: 81 used Doan's Kidney
Pills and they proved of great benefit to
me. suffered from bacNache for a
long time and the trouble gradually grew
worse in spite Of the different remedies
tried got so bad | could not do my
work and at night was so tired and
played out that | was unable to sleep. A
friend finally advised me to give Doan S
Kidney Pills trial and procured box
at the City Pharmacy. felt their good
effect Immediately and | continued tax
ing them until | was cured. Whenever
feel any symptom of kidney complaint
returning | use Doans Kidney Pills
and they give satisfactory results. y
For sale by all dealers. Price sc
cents. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo
New York, sole, agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan' Sane
take no other
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1909-12-17
Rich Mems Gifts Are Poor.

beside this II want to 60 on record as
saying that | regard Electric Bitters as
one of the greatest gifts that Cod has
made to woman, writes Mrs O. Rhine
vault, of Vestal Center, N.Y., 81 can
never forget what it has done Tor me. y
This glorious medicine gives a woman
buoyant spirits, vigor of body and
iubilant health. 1t quickly cures ner-
vousness, sleeplessuess, melancholy,
headache, backache, fainting and dizzy
SPELLS soon builds up the weak, ailing
and sickly. Try them. zoe. at Spag
rolls Drug Store.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1909-12-17

one of the county supervisors for a
felony. 1t appears that Paul Morris,
one of the supervisors, is also a store
keeper, and when one Of the road over
seers went TO the store for a bill of
goods for road work, the supervisor
turned the goods over to his clerk who
sold them to the road overseer The
claim was assigned to the bank, and
when the check was received by the
clerk, he turned it over to the super
visors, in payment for the goods.
AT the Catholic church in Stockton
Wednesday, December 8, 1909, Arthur
Clifton of lone, and Miss Mary Agnes
Walch, of Stockton. The groom is son
of Joe Clifton, and was reared here,
where he is we'll known and popular,
while the bride is equally popular among
her hosts of friends in Stockton. The
happy pair are enjoying their honey
moon in Los Angeles. Everybody who
knows them wishes them the best that
life affords. Echo.
H. A. Dunn, formerly an owner of
the Goldheld Chronicle, was in Reno,
Nevada, last Saturday with George S.
Fraser of San Francisco. With Con.
gresham Bartlett of Reno and Attorney
Bert Gibbons he has formed the Demo
cratic Press Company The articles Of
incorporation have been filed and pro-
vide for the conducting of genera
newspaper business in Nevada. The
company is incorporated for $500, Goo
Mr. Dunn, Henry Bartlett, brother o.
Congressman Bartlett Senator A. Can't
netti and George Fraser are also con
nected with the new San Francisco daily
which will begin its publication abou
the first of the year.
1t is the intention of the company tC
begin the publication of paper in Ne
vada, probably in Reno. --Solano Re
publican.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1909-12-17

You should always remember that
most cough and cold cures are consti-
pating. Yet the most important thing to
do when YOU have a cold is to move
the bowels. You cannot promptly cure
a cold until YOU do this Kennedy S
Laxative Cough Syrup stops the cough
by allaying Inflammation of the throat
and lungs, and it drives the cold from
the system by gently moving the bowels.
Children like it for it tastes nearly as
good as maple sugar. Sold by City
Pharmacy, F. w. Ruhser,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-06

mended that the bill pass second read
ing. The report was adopted.
Several Statues.
The Committee on Military and Pub
lie Expenditures reported on House Bill
No. 166, providing $4,000 for the
erection of a statue of Keauikeaouli
(Kamehameha lid. The committee
failed TO see why Kamehameha III
should be the only man to whose mem
DRY a statue should be erected and
submitted, by way of amendment. the
names of Liholiho (Kamehameha IV),
Kapuaiwa (Kamehameha v, and Lu-
nalilo. The report was laid on the
table to be taken up with the bill.
The committee recommended the pas
sage of Senate Bill No. 81, intended
to give county employees the right of
appeal to the Supreme Court from de-
cisions of the Boards of SUPERVISORS
sitting as court of impeachment.
The Military and Public Expend;-
lures Committee presented favorable
report on Senate Bill No. 50, to pro-
hibit the wearing of the uniform of
the Army, Navy or National Guard
by civilians. The bin was introduced
at the suggestion of the War Depart
ment and is in line with statutes in
other States and Territories The com
mittee recommended an. amendment to
include in the privileged class of uni
form wearers those authorized by rea.
son of former military service.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-06

The Finance Committee reported on
a number of bills as soon as the Honse
convened after the no0m recess The
Dill to settle the old bills against the
county of Maui, made illegal Though
the veto by the Supreme Court of the
original County Act, was recommended
FOR passage, the rights of the taxpayers
under the bill being guarded by the ac-
ZION or the Supervisors of the county.
House Bill IS, Makekau. to amend
section 1868 of the Revised laws. was
'5apied, the committee failing to find
any good reason why it SHOULD pass.
Sneldon S bill, relating to the com
pehsatlon of tax assessors and their
deputies, House Bill 81, also got the
axe.
cohen bill providing a graduated
property tax was likewise frowneJ
upon by the committee and went To
rest on the table, the same course he
ing recommended and adopted for
Cohen s House Bill 10. another tax hin
W nile the committee was clearino mn
It ran across kealawaa' s bill in regar3
to fishing boats. putting the license fee
on gasoline sampans at $50 wear Tba
bill was Killed.
kamanoulu s weird bill Ia mt . 20.
Oh twenty-five cents ton on sugar tn
provide special education fund for
The school on the plantations was kin.
Ell by the Education Committee. uum.
her OF reasons. any one of them sniff
clent, selnp advanced for the killing
mere beng nothing more to do nm.
~ the Senate got busy, the House ad.
1ourned before three clock, after one
OF the shortest days work of the SEES
sion. ing ses-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-06

ssNotiee of registration should be
given publicly in some form, = he said.
ssPeople are apt to forget about these
things. Governor Dole himself once al
lowed the matter of registering to slip
his mind Everyone is apt to do it.
The present law provides for public an
nouneement and the bill under eonsid-
Grafton should certainly do so. 1t saves
expense in the long run.
Referring to the registration section
of the bill, Senator Baker asked it the
system proposed would be less costly
than the plan now in operation. He
was informed by Senator Mccarthy
that there would be decided saving
under the provisions of the new bill.
Senator Kalama was trifie doubtful
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-06
Nippon Banzai.

Coney then presented his resolution
of welcome to Rear Admiral Ijichi, his
officers and men, which passed unani-
mously. The inspiration for this reso-
luton c;fne from an editorial in the
Advertiser of Sunday.
The resolution in full was:
Resolved, That we, the members
of the House of Representative of the
Legislature of Hawaii, voicing the SEN
timents of the populaee at large, here
by extend to Admiral Ijichi. to his of
feers and to his men, our hearty aloha
and welcome to these Islands, the out
post of the United States of America;
- Resolved That we esteem it an
honor and privilege to entertain the
man who stood at the right hand of
the illustrious Togo in the greatest
naval battle of all times, in command
of the flagship of the victorious feet;
and that we feel especially gratitied
in recalling the fact that the hero of
said memorable day was himself Wis
itor in Honolulu years ago;
Resolved, That we regard the pres
ence in this port of His Imperial Jap
anese Majesty's training squadron.
composed, as it is, of two magnificent
prizes, as bearing eloquent testimony
20 the prowess and enterprise of a
great and progressive nation. and as
an suspicious event which will tend
to still further cement the bonds of
friendly relations which have ever
linked this country to the Empire of
Japan;
. Resolved, That we confidently an
ticipate a continued brilliant career
for our distinguished visitor. Admiral
Iiichi, and sincerely hope that health
and happiness may ever attend him
as well as his gallant officers and men.
+" Resolved, That a SUITABLY en-
crossed and Illuminated copy of these
resolutions be prepared and presented
to Admiral Iiichi through the medium
of his Imperial Japanese Majesty
Consul-General for the Territory OF
Hawaii. =
Kawewehi, by resolution. asked for
$3.50 to build one-eighth of mile of
new road from Honaunau school. South
Kona, 30 the junction of the main
road running down to Napoopoo
kealawaa also had request, this
time that the government lands at Kaa-
walii. North Hilo, lie set aside and
opened for homestead purposes.
New Garnishee Law.
Alfonso took his political life in his
hands by Introducing a bill making it
possible for garnishee judgment to