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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16
TO SEARCH FOR
KIDD TREASURE
NEW YORK BOND DEALER WILL
DREDGE FAMOUS PIT IN
NOVA SCOTIA.
HOPES TO FIND $4,000, 600.
Tradition Tells of Pirates Hiding Place
for Loot, More Than 100 Feet
Below Earth's Surface
MODERN DEVICES TO DRAIN HOLE

NEW YORK, March 18Th. l.. Bow
doin has signed contracts to dig to the
bottom of hole in Nova Scotia and de-
termine for all time if $10,O0O,O00 in
pirate gold lies buried there. He is bond
broker most of the time and described
himself as the latest and most cheerful
recruit to the ranks of treasure hunt
erS.
There is a hole i'll Oak island, Nova
Scotia. at least 100 feet deep and 13
feet in diameter. 1t was dug more than
a century ago. Why was it dug? His
tory records that Oak island was a rem
that Capt. Kidd had his headquarters
there. Several expeditions have tried
TO find Oak island treasure" and have
failed.
To Use Modern Devices.
1.-THE reason that failures to solve the
mystery of the hole have resulted here
tofore is that the investigators did not
enjoy the advantage of modern engineer
ing appliances" Bowdoin says. Il do
not permit myself to believe that vast
fortune is concealed, but I'm going to
throw light on a mystery unsolYed tor
more than a century
lie has diplomas as a hydraulic and
mechanical engineer and is the inventor
of the appliances used in the spectacu-
lar water scenes at the Hippodrome.
He says he will not organize company
to defray the expenses of his quest, pre-
ferring to play the game with lone
hand and take a chance at raking in the
| whole pot Osgoods Maritime Prov
| inces, published in 1884, contains the
following account:
Oak island is celebrated as one OF
the places where it is alleged that Capt.
| kidd's treasure is hidden. In 1895 three
a buried mystery, coinciding with ira
dition to that effect. Digging down, they
| passed regular layers of flag stones and
| cut logs, and their successors penetrated
the earth over 100 feet, finding layers
of charcoal putty, West Indian grass,
! sawed planks and other curious sub
stances, together with a quantity caryen
| stone.
First Quest Given Up.
| THE >pit became flooded with water
and was pumped cut steadily. Halifax
and Truro merchants invested in the
| enterprise and great stone drains We're
| discovered leading from the sea into the
| pit. After much money and labor was
spent in the excavation it was given
up ten years ago, and the object of the
| great drains and concealed pit remains a
| profound mystery"
THE quantity carven stone" is on ex-
hibition at present in Creighton's book
store in Halifax, but the inscriptions
were erased long ago after the stone
| had endured the blows from a bookbipd-
| er's mallet. But at the time of the dis
covery of the stone the inscriptions were
| translated to read:
Ten feet below, two million pounds
| lie buried"
| Bowdoin entered into his contract with
| Henry Sellers and Frederick l.. Blair of
Amherst, N. H, who have kept alive
the lease secured from the British gov
| eminent for treasure hunting rights on
| Oak island.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16
To Yeli with Hale-Whatl

Deacon Briggs is firm friend of ath-
letics, and that alone, in college whose
head has been for years the country
hrmest foe to football. is enough to en-
dear him to the hearts of undergradu-
ates.
Busy man though he is, he is a famiI-
lar figure at the big games, and knows
football as we'll as he knows Browning.
Moreover he knows the names of all the
PLAYERS from year TO year. and even
STEALS an occasional hour or so during
the. season TO go down to Soldiers field
and watch the practice. where his big
brown overcoat Tapping about his legs.
and usually a green bag full of books
clutched firmly III one hand. he walks
along the sidefnes with as keen and in
telligent an interest as any undergradu-
ate there. 1t was on the occasion of the
biggest athletic event of the year. when
the unofficial motto of Harvard. TO
Hell with Yale" was very much III me
air indeed. that a friend once met tie
dean hurrying toward the stadium in
company with DIR. Edward Everett Hale
Where are you going?' he demanded.
oh. responded the dean. as he passed
ON. I'm going down to Yell with Hafe.
From Some Harvard Professors" in
The Bohemian Magazine
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16
APRIL FOOL LAND.


There's joyful land, l understand.
For the folks who know the way;
It's hard to learn the place to turn,
And 1t can't be reached in a day.
oh, a tricksy road
And a mixey road,
That leads to the Joyful Town,
where every rule is April Fool
And streets run upside down.
Policemen bold are clowns, I'm told,
And all the money is jokes.
And as for the King, in the land sing,
He's the fellow that's best at hoax.
oh, the royal crown
In the Joyful Town
Is the juggling testers cap,
For every rule is April Fool
And every door a trap.
With willy care must you beware
OF the sign posts in that town;
They always sound the other way round,
And they're mostly upside down.
The pie crusts hide
White mice inside,
And the frightened guests all scream
For every rule is April Fool
And schools an idle dream.
Small children play their tricks all day.
And never are spanked at all;
And harlequins with pointed chins
Are gleefully playing ball.
The rain and sun
Join in the fun
To trick the Weather Man
For every rule is April Fool
And cooks play Patty-Pan.
Now. once a year the folk come here,
And a joyful time have they!
They turn the town quite upside down
On April Fool-his day.
If could find
The roads that wind
Across TO Joyful Town,
I'd backward run and have some fun
With Harlequin and Clown,
Where every rule is April Fool
And streets lead upside down!
George Phillips in st. Nicholas
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16
What to Plant in April.

In this month, when the soil is in
condition to work, a great many things
may be planted in the vegetable garden.
The time of planting of course varies
with the latitude; but in the latitude of
New York, and in the middle western
states the following vegetable seed may
be planted: Asparagus roots heets. car
rots, cress, kohlrabi, lettuce, mustard,
onion seed, onion sets, parsley, parsnip.
early wrinkled peas. potatoes. radish.
rhubarb roots, Swiss chard squash, tur-
nip, lettuce which was started indoors in
March may be set out.
In the hot-hed or indoor box asparagus
seed. beets Brussels sprouts, late cab
bage and late caulitlOwer may be planted
this month, to be set ont in June
For the flower garden sweet peas and
nasturtiums may be planted outside this
month, but most of the seed should he
sown in the hot-bed or the indoor box.
Alyssum, coleus, dahlias, ornamental
gourdS. marigold. mignonette, nicotiapa.
phlox Drummondi. Iceland poppy. vinca
rosea. Zinnia, Scabiosa. and delphinium
Chinense are some of the plants that
may be started now and will be ready To
transplant to their permanent situations
outside by May 10, or two or three
weeks earlier or later. according TO the
latitude; the important point being not Ia
set them out until all danger of frost is
past.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16
JAPAN'S WAR LOSSES.
Estimated to Have Exceeded the Size of
Entire Peace Force.

According to the information in the
hands of our general staff" writes Gen.
kuropatllin in McClure's, the entire
peace force of the Japanese army con-
sisted of 10000 men, of which as many
as 1900 were on perpetual leave. The
reserve of the territorial army mum
bered $4,000 men
Thus their entire force of soldiers,
according to our calculations. consisted
of only 4lS0OO men. But according TO
calculations made ON the basis of data
published by the Japanese sanitary au-
thorities, it is evident that during the
war over 100000 men Were summoned
to their colors, which created an extra
ordinary drain ON the forces of the popu-
latiun.
'rhe losses in killed and wounded
were very great In the cemetery of hon
or at Toxic alone 10000 were buried who
had been slain in battle, aud to these
must he added $4,000 who died of their
wounds, Thus the Japanese suffered
battle losses of 10000 men-that is TO
say, number almost equal to the entire
army ON peace footing.
Our losses, compared with our army
OF lNO,oOO, Were several times smaller
than those of the japanese. During the
war 054, 900 men We're treated in the
Japanese hospitals, 10000 of them be-
ing wounded, Counting i'm with the killed
and wounded those who died from dis.
ease, the Japanese lost 10000 men,"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16

ence and stimulated her ambition. They
paid for her expensive musical educa-
ton in Paris. Miss Garden il seems.
became offended because they disap-
proved of an episode in her Partisan ca
reer. Considering what she owed TO
their friendly generosity she should have
been perpetually grateful. and the story
Of how she treated Mrs. Mayer at the
Manhattan Opera House last winter re-
yeals incredible offrontery if not hard
ness of Heart.
1t was Miss Gardens night off. so the
narrative runs, and with a party of
friends she entered box adjoining that
occupied by Mrs. Mayer. The latter
Bowed and smiled but received no re-
Spouse. Thinking Miss Garden had not
seen her, she arose and went to the parti-
ton between the boxes. Here she sue
ceeded in attracting the attention of her
former protege, who stared her full in
the face and then deliberately turned her
back.
The Mayors had paid Miss Gardens
expenses for years, their outlay amount
ing to something like $4,000. They
were certainly justified in sending her a
statement of the account. and in explain
ing to their friends that the fund would
be used to help other struggling artists.
Of course Miss Gardens repayment of
the money without interest does not dis
charge her obligation to her benefactors,
nor could the payment of any sum of
money. however large, requite a debt of
the kind which she incurred when she
accepted their sympathy. their hospital
ity and their friendship as we'll as their
gold.
Mrs Mayer is to be commended for
the use to which she intends to put the
restored twenty thousand dollars. She
is also to be congratulated upon having
taught lesson to the ingrates of the
world.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16

The New York Legislature IS consid-
ering a bill providing for the establish
ment of state farm colony 10 be com
posed of tramps, who viii be taken from
the road and sentenced to periods OF
service which may possibly inculcate
habits of usefulness. The tramp null
sance is very irritating in many states,
but there is problem of choice between
the tramp who is rover by nature ana
the wandered who is migrating IN the
hope of securing employment. During
times when employment is insufficient
for all corners, the rescue missions are
oyercrowded with men who. stop over
during drifts from one point to another
in search of work To punish men OF
this character with the chronic tramp
would be to do injustice.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16
When a Maine Town Is Showed In.

Snow drifts Is feet high are not often
seen on the main street of a Maine vii
lage. but that is the condition that ex-
listed in Phillips Friday. There is 5
feet of snow on the level, where the
hurricane of Thursday did not blow ii
away into the solid drifts that have
made travelling by any method well nigh
impossible.
The only way to get around with any
degree of ease or comfort is on snow
shoes. aud as many people in Phillips
own these articles so necessary on day
like this, they are in pretty general use
bv those who are obliged to be out
Rnngor Commercial.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16

Senator Flint of California has intro
duced a bin providing for the establish
ment on the Pacific end of the Panama
canal workings, of government steam
ship line to San Francisco and other
California ports similar to the line which
the government operates on the Atlantic
ocean in connection with work on the
canal and the isthmian railway. This
would be government ownership beyond
what was intended when the Atlantic
steamers were purchased to do hauiage
for the government in connection with
canal operations and to carry as much
of the transisthmian railroad freight as
they could accommodate. If private en-"
terprise cannot afford to operate the
steamship line asked for by Senator
Flint the government would be steady
loser from the start
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16

If ever there was a man whose mem
DRY would gain little from the erection
in his name of n monument of stone or
brass, that man was William Shakes
peare, Such monuments are paltry in
comparison with his works. Yet at this
late day movement is on foot in Eng
land to erect national theater as a
memorial of Shakespeare. AT recent
meeting at the Mansion House it was
decided that the sum of $2,500,000 would
be required. The Lord Mayor announced
the promise of an anonymous contribu-
ton Of 1915. 900
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16

The new landslide at the site of the
Gatum dam will give the advocates of
a sea-level canal another opportunity to
howl about the dangers of the foundation
of the proposed structure to impound
the waters and create an inland lake.
BUT there will be slides all along the
canal until the work has so far advanced
that the slopes viii be at angles SO low
that the seepage cannot dislodge the soil
President Taft says the foundation of
the Gatum dam is solid. and he has Civ
en- the matter his direct personal atten-
ton.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16

The intercollegiate football rules com
mittee has prepared the way for next
falls playing while yet the basket ball
players are nursing their bruises and just
as the baseball men are donning their
field togs and preparing for another sea-
son of penant chasing. The only change
of Importance TO the bleachers is a reduc-
ton 10 three, from four, Of the number
of points to be made by a successful
goal kick from the field. This will re-
vent mediocre team from winning
laurels through the possession of Il MIN
BILE half-back with an expert foot. and
by reducing the value of special player
remove temptation 10 offer inducements
TO such students contrary TO the rules.
The nearer football and other games can
be brought TO the capabilities of the
average student athlete the better it
will be for university athletics,
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16

The Congressional reversal If the
Roosevelt order RELOCATING the marines
from ship service to shore duty in con-
nection with the navy having been con-
firmed by President T2ft's re-eSmbish-
ment of the marine on shipboard, the
soldier who walks the deck wlyh The
sailor will exist until the difference
between the two can no longer be dis
tingushed. They are so much the same
now that the soldier and sailor too" can
doubtless perform ship work quite as
smartly as the sailors who could splice
the main braces times inpumerable while
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16
A Dreadful Analogy.

The hypothetical question had inst
been asked. and the prisoner fell forward
in faint. All was confusion in the
courtroom.
What is the matter with the prison
erT demanded the judge, hammering
his desk madly.
Nothing, your honor" groaned the I'M
happy man, as he came to. II was only
thinking how long l should have to serve
if my sentence was as long as that
Harper's Weekly.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16

Although leprosy has recently been
pronounced an non-contagious disease.
the fear of it is still permitting the pow
ers that be to increase the mental suf-
ferings of victims. A Boston dispatch
states that a 16-year-old Upton school
boy was on Tuesday taken from the
Massachusetts General hospital and sent
to the leper colony on Penikese island
This immolation of a bright youth who
had excelled in his studies is a sacrifice
that ought to make medical scientists
take a stand in favor of more enlight-
ened methods.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16

A Denver man has invented phono-
graphic safe lock that must be talked
open. The word which locks the safe
is recorded. and the one who uttered
it must repeat the performance or the
mechanism will not bulge This lock
might be too secure; for in the event
of accident, to the voice for which the
safe lock viii move there would be
costly work for the locksmith
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16
NOTES OF NOTABLEs.

PROF. JAMES LAURENCE
LAUGHLIN. one of the highest authorj-
ties on finance in the United States.
was born at Deerfeld. o., April 2. 1880
and received his education at Harvard
University. He became assistant pro
fessor of political economy at Harvard
in 1888, remaining there four years,
when he resigned to become president
of an insurance company in Philadel-
phia. From 1890 to 1892 he was pro-
fessor of political economy in Cornell
university. and since 1892 he has occu-
pied a similar position at the University
of Chicago. Prof. Laughlin was a lead
ing promoter of the monetary conference
held at indianapolis in 1897 and was
a member of the monetary commission
created by that conference. In 1894 he
prepared for the government of San Do
mingo a scheme of monetary reform.
which was afterward adopted. He is
a member of the international institute
Of statistics and has written extensively
on the subject of finance and monetary
reform
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16

The announcement from Spokane that
Indians of the Nez Perces tribe will be
the owners of four-hfths of the stock of
the new bank which is being organized
at La l'wai, Idaho, is printed simulta-
neously with accounts of the uprising of
Snake Indians in Oklahoma 1t still
seems like a w short time since Gen
Miles was driving after the Nez Perces
with force of determined troopers
which finally brought them to bay and
forced them to accept the inevitable
The Nez Perces are now in position to
give the Snakes of Oklahoma some good
advice.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16

Great Britain is discovering that the
new wire-wound 13-inch guns designed
to throw shells eighteen miles cannot
withstand the strain of discharge.
Cracks develop in the tubes and the guns
become dangerous. Is the gunner reach
ing the limit of his ability to drive heavy
missiles over long distances or through
armor plating?
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16

Royalty is taking to the Wright broth
ers, probably because they have demon
strated that they are kings of the 'lim-
itless realms of the air.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16
Maine a Great Timber State.

The timber output of Maine last winter
was @oo,ooo,oO feet and the indications
are that these figures will be about
equaled this year. The scarcity of labor
prevented operations to a large degree.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16
Mary Gardens 1ngratitude.

When Mr. and Mrs. David Mayer of
Chicago became the musical god-parentS
of Mary Garden they opened to Ter a
door 10 fame and fortune which might
have been forever closed but for their
golden key. They gave her social OPP
portunities that increased her expert
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16

they are adjusting one stand of hawser
splicing, and who are far more handy
with the toothpick than with the marlin
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16
Not True to Nature.

Cierk-Mrs Van Aster complains
that her photographs don't look like her.
Photographer-C0 Complains. She ought
TO be grateful-New York Herald.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16

The Month German Lloyd line has
startled New Workers by landing her
passengers at her regular dock immedi-
ately on arrival at 1920 p. m. Here
tofore steamers arriving at that hour
remained in the lower bay until day
light next day. Steamboat interests
imagined that something better could be
done, but they were long time in awak-
ening. Imagine delay of that kind in
passenger traffic at a lake portp'
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16

\ dispatch from Mombasa states that
during the past four months 10 lions
have been killed by hunters, while 8
native and 4 white men have been
mauled by lions. 1t does not mention
single instance of sportsman receiv-
ing charge from a fellow sports
mans rifle. Hunting lions in Africa
may be less deadly, after all, than hunt
ing deer in Northern Wisconsin.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16

An item of news that will strengthen
the hands of the food packers who are
striving to secure the adoption generally
of higher grade of tin for food pack
ages, has been conveyed to the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor by Consul
Maxwell Blake in a newspaper clipping
from Dunfermline, Scotland. A Scotch
doctor conducted series of experiments
relative to the effects of tin taken into
the system with food. and found justif-
cation for the declaration that foods
which contain two grains or more of the
metal are potentially deleterious. Meat
extracts and essences absorb tin more
rapidly than other meat products, and
as the absorption of the metal is con-
tinnous. the exercise of caution is en-
Joined when foods are consumed that
have been canned for more than a year.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16

A statement in Parliament by McKin-
NORWOOD that foodstuffs consigned from
a neutral nation to any merchant in
Great Britain would not be c0ntraband
under the new rules of maritime warfare
recently agreed upon is of vital interest
TO the people of Great Britain, who are
probably more dependent upon daily ar
rivals of food products by sea routes
than any other people in the world, Un-
der the old order of things it would be
possible during certain conditions to
starye Great Britain into submission by
Selling all food products bound to her
port, and treating them as contraband
of war Food products consigned to
army contractors will, of course. have
the status of government property, and
fall to the possession of enemies who
capture them, but under other circum-
stances the British consumers will be in
srred of breakfasts and dinners and sup
pers SO long as the merchants do bust
ness only with those who stay at home
while the fighters are living out of the
governments commissary department.
The new rule is long step in advance
that will reduce the horrors of war I'M
der certain conditions
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16

Advertise in this paper, and make your
rants known to your home people.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16

The dove Of peace seems to have rea-
son for cooling at the present time, de-
spite the activity of Germany and Great
Britain in constructing dreadnaughts. In
Europe Servia has accepted the formula
agreed upon by the powers, wherefore
the cloud of war that doomed above the
Balkans is dispelled. In the United
States the last menace of trouble in the
anthracite region appears to have melted
away with the announcement that there
will be no lockout at the mines-that
Notwithstanding the expiration of the
three years agreement operations will
continue until further notice. Crazy
Snakes little misunderstanding with the
powers that be in Oklahoma is a mere
neighborhood disturbance that even big
headlines in the newspapers cannot mag
Nifty to the dimensions of war.