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The Ely miner., 1909-03-19

years ago. He they beautiful specimens pure
old Colonial architecture, the style that is really
american We may agree that they are pleasing. We
don't, perhaps know why but think 1t is just be-
cause they are old 1t has occurred to that
they were not far inferior our modern turreted
otherwise highly embeshed residences with the
all sliced off and bay windows bulging from every
tage point. Perhaps liked to look at the old house
best as shone white and stately through the trees but
we supposed it was just little remnant of sentiment
and as such of course, not to be encouraged.
But the fact remains that 1t taken the American
people nearly hundred years grow up to the point
where they could ineligeny appreciate the architec
tural worth of their inheritance The awakening is
not yet complete but we learning very fast, in
Decd
An interesting example we are returning to the
standard foreathers are doing what We
to the fine traditions that theirs is the
Annapolis postoce Annapolis where the United States
naval academy is is old Colonial town. Almost every
building is In that style. Two or three years con-
gress made an appropriation for new postofce there
The matter referred the Office of the supervising
architect of the treasury, which designs and builds all
Uncle Sans mail depots.
Now the supervising architect Mr. John Knox Taylor
happens to be of discernment culture and good
TASTE He soon saw that the only kind of postoce that
would be harmonious pleasing and creditable among all
those Colonial houses would be of the Colonial
style. At first Annapolis inclined to be disappointed
1--WE tired of Colonial" they said why can't you
give us something uptodate in Queen Amer?
So Mr.. Taylor explained and discussed and went on
witE his Colonial plans and built the charming post
Office, photograph of which is shown this page.
Quite recently government official who was interest
ed in the work of the supervising architects office and
heard that there a postofice in Annapolis,
turned to Washington from visit there He at once
hunted Mr.. Taylor and in a grreved tone remarked
"Say, Taylor, / thought you had just put up a new
postoffce in Annapolis. 1 couldn't find it."
1--WE have" said Mr.. Taylor and it is s-" (naming the
locality.
"Nonsense!" answered the official 'I searched that
neighborhood thoroughly for whole hour and I'll
take my oath there is building less than IS
years old"
did you notice tha?' said the architect pointing
photograph the wall of his office.
Certainly, that was of them," the answer.
Mr. Taylor laughed.
"That is the highest compliment have received in
the ten years have been in this office" he said.
And now Annapolis, which, by the way, has become
than reconced to its Colonial postoffce since it
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may not have been altogether as
sumed. While the late Prof. Curie
was lecturing on the wonderful ele-
ment one day in Paris he dropped the
glass tube containing a few grains
Of radium with which he was demon
strating, and, the glass breaking, the
precious powder was scattered all over
the floor. At once the room was
cleared, every speck of dust collected
with the greatest care, taken to the
professors laboratory, dissolved, re-
crystallized and the radium extracted
from the refuse again with the loss
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syllables in the latter. Two other
words, Observation-Disclosures and in
circumscriptibleness,' may be com.
mended to police inspectors in search
Of fresh tests of sobriety. These words
are, of course, easily surpassed even in
England by isometricmonitronam
benzonphtylamides' and other gems of
scientific phraseology; while If we
cross the German ocean we find innu.
merable instances Of 15-syllabled
words, such as 'suelpaardelooszon
derspoorwegpetroolyting,' tbs Dutch
for motor car"
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Tremendous Cost of Prairie Dogs

of his b,Irrow at the zoo, would ever
become the subject of the govern
ment Intervention endanger the sue
cess of stockraising? Yet such is the
fact. Out on the national forests
which Uncle Sam is guarding for the
use of the public, expert hunters have
gone after the prairie dogs with zeal,
ingenuity and poison, and literally ex-
terminated them in great numbers,
because some of the choicest bottom
lands have had the grazing ruined for
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In the state of. Texas alone, prairie
dogs eat annually enough grass to
support 1862, 500 cows Utterly use
less, the little. animal is a pest SO
dreaded that the forestry service has
undertaken his determination. Poison
IS killing Kim, wherever he now -four
ishes.. and another resource OF the
farrnc. IS safeguarded.
who would think that the prairie
dog, the shy and amusing little rodent
that we We like. to watch before the door
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Value of Radium.

The value Of speck of radium is
incredibly great, and when the Hon.
Sydney Holland, at Sir Frederick
Treves' lecture at the London hospi-
tai recently, picked up the tube con-
tanning the famous surgeons micro
scopic $500 worth of radium bromide
The Ely miner., 1909-03-19
Longest Word in English Language.

What is the longest word in the Ian
guage? Says the London Chronicle:
"The honors in English appear to rest
between 'antidisestablishme
and orificabilitudinity,' the former
word scoring % letters and ten syl-
tables, as against %. letters and IL
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of only an infinitesimal fraction. The
cost Of radium bromide is about G7
milligramme, which would mean
over 100000 for an ounce avoirdu-
pois.
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headacheS, nervous
prostration, and
hemorrhages.
"Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable
Compoundmademe
we'll and strong, so
that 1 can do all my
housework, and at
tend to the store
and post-office, and
Ifeel muchyounger
than I really am.
,ydia r. Pink.
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stock by the Industrious burrowing
of the dogs. From "To Extermi-
nate the Prairie Dog" in Technical
World Magazine.
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JUST DOUBLE
800 ACRES INSTEAD
OF 16O ACRES

R3El13a5 KSHl As futhsr isiuceneus
@ !" :: . :: : :: !; ! !
sYxE0N to settlement Of the
f4IIN$kDH wheat-sasing lands ot
ISESDA0S1 Western Canada. the
M1lMeS Canadian Coxesnmens
"E83S has increased the ares
that may be taken by .
houesteader to 800 acres-t60 free and 100 to
be purchased at $500 per acre. These land.
are IN the srain-raisng area, where mixed farming
is also carried on with unqualified success A
railwsywif shortly be built 10 Hudson Bay. bring.
ing the worlds markets thousand miles nearet
these wheat-6elds. where schools and churches
arc convenient. climate excellent, railways close to
ell settlements, and local markets good
II vrcr1id take time to sssimilate the rrxela-
tions that a visit to the great empire lying to
the North of US unfolded at every turn
Correspondence of . National Editor, 1uho bisiked
Western Canada In August, TS0s.
Lands may also be purchased from railway and
land companies at low prices and on easy terns.
For pamphlets, maps and information as to
low railway rates, apply to Superintendent
of immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or the
authorized Canadian Government Agent:
cHAS. PlLLING. Clifford Bit.. Grand Forks. n Daks
]. N. MAC LACHLAN. Box 626, Watertown, S. Dakotas
Z. 7. HOLMES. BIS Jackssa Street. ST. Paul. Mimi.
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THE
BEST
REMEDY
For Womed-I .ydia E. Pink
hams sVegetable I Compound

Noah, Ky. was passing through
the Change of Life and suffered from
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"A C---
to O.
it, a
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about
will
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nent visitors, is to have an
example of the other thing.
Recently congress appro-
priated $14, 100000 for q new
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-09
"SERPENT'S TONGUE" TO PE
OMITTED IN THE FUTURE
Publisher Will Leave Out Watson's
Much Talked OF Poem
Hereafter

LONDON. Dec. 8.-Poet William
Watson was disappointed because he
could get neither title nor position, ac-
cordng to Miss Violet Asquith, daugh-
ter of the British premier. To TINS
she attributed his astounding state
ments in America that she and her
step-mother figured in his poem as
The Woman with the Serpent 5
Tongue"
She declared he had made her faith
er's life miserable with his persistent
demands and had failed.
The poet, according to Miss Asqulth.
asked for a large literary position and
expected that the announcement of his
knighthood would be made on the
kings birthday a year ago.
When it did not come. out he became
peevish and blamed hEf mother and
herself for not appreciating his great
ness, she said.
The correspondent requested that
Miss Asquth make a full statement
of her side of the controversy. but she
firmly declined.
John Tame, who published the vol
ume of William Watson's poems which
has had a big sale recently, announced
last night that in all subsequent edi-
tions "The Woman with the Serpent S
Tongue" will be omitted. On account
of the notoriety of the poem, Watson's S
latest book was in strong demand. So
long as the identity of The Woman"
remained a matter of guess work the
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-09
YONkIN OBJECTS TO
PAVING SOUTH PARK
Says That Failure to Vote Franchise
to Railway Will Call for Too
Much Expense for Prop
erty Owners

No franchise; no asphaltum pave
ment on South Park avenue" was the
way Councilman Yonkin, who, under
the ward system, represented the South
Park avenue district sized up the sit
uation when the city engineer asked in
structions of the council yesterday.
The property owners have asked that
an sphaltic-concrete surface be laid
on South Park avenue, but City En-
gineer Hamlin did not agree to this
proposal. He considers asphaltiC- con-
crete inferior to the regulation asphalt
surface, and because Of a royalty of %
cents a square yard demanded by the
ratentees of the former mixture, he
declared asphalt would be nearly as
cheap. He so notified the board of pub
lie works, and the board referred his
communication TO the council ycster-
day.
But Yonkin believes that as the city
at large by ballot Tuesday refused to
grant the Los Angeles railway a fran
Chise on South Park avenue, the prop
erty owners will not be willing to go
ahead with the Improvement. If the
railway had franchise on this street
it would he compelled to pave between
its tracks and for two feet on each
side, which would be about half the
cost. Without the help Of the railway
the entire burden of the expense will
fall On the property owners, and Yon-
kin does not believe they will stand
this Also, Yonkin is convinced that
the railway, which has been operating
on a lease from the city, anticipating
the granting of a franchise, will tear
up its tracks ON South Park avenue,
and property owners affected may con-
slider their property has deprecated in
value to some extent.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-09

that a contract be let for the col
lection and disposal of garbage and
incombustible waste from residences at
San Pedro, the contract to be similar
to the contract recently awarded Chas.
Alexander, excepting that the material
may be deposited at a point immedi-
ately beyond the corporate limits
Seventh respectfully recomm md
that a contract be let for the COlleC-
tion and disposal of garbage and in
combustible waste from residences on
Terminal island, the contract to be
similar in its provisions as the one re-
Gently awarded to Charles Alexander,
excepting that the material may be
deposited at some remote point within
the old corporate limits of Terminal
island. and that the contract he made
for period Of one year.
Terminal Island Cared For
THE board of public works has in
dorsed the recommendations made in
the foregoing report, except the fol-
lowing amendments. towit a mini
mum charge of 90 cents instead of -
cents to be made for material delivered
to the incinerator as suggested under
the portion of the inspector of public
works report relating to the lease o.
the incinerator for material mentioned
in paragraph 3, and that there b.
added to the recommendation made by
the inspector of public works in SOC
ton : of his report, clause providing
for the depositing of the material men
toned therein at some point within the
old corporate limits of Terminal island
To be designated by the inspector Of
public works.
I'VE respectfully recommend that
with these amendments the said report
be approved by your honorable body
and that we be authorized to draw
specifications for the various services
referred to therein upon that basis.
"Eleventh-You have referred to us
the proposed draft of an amendment to
section 19 of ordinance No. 1875 new
series), entitled An ordinance regu-
lating the making and reflling of eX-
cavations in streets, alleys. sidewalks
and other public places which draft
proposes to amend the said ordinance
by changing the prescribed depth in
public alleys at which oil tanks may
be installed from twenty feet below the !
surface to a depth of only four and a /
half feet below the surface of the |
ground. The original ordinance WIS |
passed for the express purpose Of keep |
ing the alleys clear of tanks and other |
instructions, in order that sewers and |
conduits may be given a clear right |
Of way. If this amendment is passed |
1t will defeat the purpose Of the or e. |
inal ordinance completely We have |
taken the matter up with the chief in-1
spector of buildings and with the city |
engineer, and as a result of our CON |
ference we recommend that the said |
draft of an ordinance be not |
approved"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-09
SAN PEDRO MAY PAY FOR
ITS OWN STORM DRAINS
Council Partially Abandons Its Former
Attitude and Refers Petition
to City Engineer

The city council yesterday partially
abandoned the policy it has adopted OF
building 70 storm drains at the cost OF
an assessment district, when it re-
ferred the petition Of san Pedro busi-
ness men to the city engineer with m
structions to begin proceedings to place
a storm drain through the business sec
ton of that place.
When the San Pedro citizens pet-
toned for the storm sewer they eX-
pected the property owners would have
to bear the burden of the cost, but
thev are very anxious for some means
of caring for the excess of storm water
in the rainy seasons, and have eN-
pressed a Willingness to pay for it..
The petition was first sent to the
board of public works, but the board
refused to take action in view OF the
policy adopted by the council to con-
struct all future storm drains from the
general tax fund or by bonds. The
hoard asked the council for recon-
mendation, and the reference to the
city engineer to begin proceedings was
the result.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-09
INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS
PLAN MEETS OPPOSITION
w. M. Bowen Informs Council That It
Will Result in a Lumber Yard
Near Agricultural Park

\ vigorous protest by w. NJ
Bowen induced the council to delay
action on its plan to pass an ordinance
creating industrial districts in differ
ent parts of the city yesterday. After
working on the question for several
weeks special committee of the coun-
ell reported in favor of drawing IT.
regular lines along the Los Angeles
river bed and the railroads and setting
the territory within these boundaries
aside for industrial purposes, where
factories of every sort would be free
to locate without further molestation.
But one part of the district stretches
across the north end Of Agricultural
park, and MI. Bowen declared a lumber
yard would be directly opposite the
new $2500OO building the state will
erect in the park He said that he eX-
pected to have to ask the state for
another $25O,OOO before all the plans for
the Identification Of the park are COM
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-09
FIGHT FOR GOOD
STREETS STILL ON
REALTY MEN AND HUMPHREYS
STILL AT WAR
BUSINESS MEN MAKE PROTEST
AGAINST CHANGE
So Strong Was the Opposition That
Action by City Council Was
Delayed for One
Week

1t was a formidable array of pro-
tests that the council had to face yes
terday when the matter of changing
the street specifications to suit some
real estate operators was presented to
the city council. So stormy was The
opposition that action was delayed
one week.
Apparently no one but the petition
erg themselves had a good word to say
for the amendment, while the strongest
civic organizations in the city and
some of the most prominent business
men protested against any letting
down of the bars that would tend to-
ward retrogression in the matter of
street Improvements. The position that
w. NJ. Humphreys, chief inspector Of
public worksS has assumed all through
the controversy with the real estate
men was most substantially sustained.
The first protest presented was for
NAL resolution from the Municipal
league, in which it was declared that
the plans of some real estate men 10
put tracts on the market with only the
surface of the streets roaded up and
oiled was not to the best interests Of
the city. The next was from the Los
Angeles realty board, in whicn the same
sentiments were expressed. The next
was from the chamber Of commerce,
and then Percy II. Clark presented a
protest signed by the heads of all the
leading banks in Los Angeles and
number of the trust companies, the in
stitutions which lend money for the
development of real estate and have a
financial interest in the matter.
1t was evident these protests had a
marked effect on the council. Several
nc
in favor of amending the ordinance in
spite of the opposition of Mr.. Hum
phreys and the board of public works.
Yesterday there were seven members
of the conucil present and three of
them-Wren, Clampitt and Pease-
were openly opposed to the change
suggested. Wallace and Lyon were
absent.
W. H. Workman and I. B. Burck
presented reasons why the ordinance
should be adopted They called atten-
tion to the fact that the lowest speciti-
cations for street work would serve
equally well on a thoroughfare as on
a side street and declared that some
distinction should be made between
the two in favor of the side streets.
Both gave the impression that they
would be willing TO compromise on the
specifications that would not make
roadway as costly as the required six
inches of gravel or three inches of
crushed rock, which are the lowest
specifications for street work now.
As it was evident that the ordi-
nance could not possibly carry yester-
day, it was laid over until next week,
and in the meantime the real estate
men and Mr.. Humphreys may reach
some agreement that will be accept
able to all, although Mr.. Humphreys
will not recede an inch if he can
help it.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-09
CANOPIES A MENACE, SAYS
INSPECTOR OF BUILDINGS

The council yesterday sustained the
board of public works in its position
that no amendment be made to the
building ordinance that viii permit the
stretching of canvas canopies from the
entrances to cafes, apartment houses
and other places of business TO the edge
OF the sidewalk.
This action of the council means that
number of business men who have
constructed these CanOpies in the last
three months will have to take them
down. The building inspector declares
they are a fire menace, and the munich
pal art commission says they are un-
slightly. Under such an arraignment
the canvas canopy will have to so.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-09
DROMGOLD WANTS ACTION
OUT OF VOTING MACHINES
Council Decides That They Should
Be Used When Number of Candl-
dates and Questions Permit

The council yesterday passed res
olution introduced 8 by Councilman
Dromgold resembling its action in ask
ing proposals for the sale. of the fifty
two voting machines owned by the
city, and declaring it the sense of the
council that the machines should be
used at every election when the num-
ber of candidates and questions on
the ticket will permit.
This is the opening gun in a warm
campaign Dromgold expects to wage to
get the worth of the money out of the
machines and save the election eX-
penses, which are growing to be a Sc
rious factor, as Los Angeles has re-
Gently held an election nearly every
month, and several more elections on
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-09
FREE LABOR BUREAU DOES
NOT RECEIVE SUPPORT

Councilman Blanchard made a futile
effort yesterday to "touch" the already
exhausted general expense fund for
S11UJ for the free labor bureau. He
declared this amount would run the
bureau for the rest of the fiscal year
But his attempt proved futile, for
Wren, Dromgold and Pease voted
against 1t and only four councilmen
voted in it's favor 1t requires six
votes TO pass a money measure.
Wallace and other members of the
council have declared the free labor
bureau to be not worth anything at all.
They have asserted it is only a place
for the unemployed who do not wish
employment and would not accept it if
It was given them, to congregate and
,oaf. Efforts have been made to abol-
ish this bureau, but Blanchard has al
ways saved it in time.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-09

Slasher" who has made five attacks
on women in that city in the last
month. In addition to the women who
have armed themselves, fifty business
men are on the lookout for the slasher.
They threaten to shoot him down on
sight.
They travel the streets at a distance
of about a block behind women pedes-
trians or hide themselves in the shad-
ow of buildings and shrubbery near
where an attack might occur.
Chief of Police Michaels said last
night that he had a line on the identity
of the man and that his arrest might
occur at any moment.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-09
HOLLYWOOD ANNEXATION
PETITION Is PRESENTED

A petition asking the city council to
call an election for the consolidation of
Hollywood with Los Angeles was filed
yesterday by George a. Dunlop, mayor
of Hollywood, and Philo J. Beveridge.
The petition contains about 10000 sig
natures. The law only requires that
petition.
The clerk win proceed at once to
check up the names, and the council IS
expected to call the election at the ear
hest date possible
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-09
AURORA WOMEN PREPARE
FOR "JACK THE SLASHER"
Small RevolVers Are Tucked Away
in Muffs as Protection Against
Mysterious Character

CHICAGO, Dec. S.-AurOra women
who find it necessary to be on the
streets after nightfall without escorts
are carrying small revolvers tucked in
their muffs az "a means of protection
against the mysterious Jack the
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-09

eSS ana at no woman except should submit them
Dr. Perces treatment will in of
your own home His Favorte Prescription hasc cure
hundreds of thousands of cases..
is the only medicine of its kind that is the regularly graduated
The only
ingredient outside
No alcohol in
with health Write Worlds DR.
PIERCE President Buffalo, N.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-09

nleted and he did not believe he could
iIo IL with grace if the council put an
industrial tract Just back Of the build
ing. ..,,4il ,,o>,t
week and in the meantime Mr.. Bowen
has promised to present petitioll
that will show the real sentiment oct
the property owners and citizens IN
that district on the matter of est9p-
fishing an industrial tract at thls
pOint
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-09

publisher used the mystery for all it
was worth in advertising the book,
but now that Watson has indicated
who was meant, Tame says he does not
care to assume the responsibility.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-09
Charge for Waste Suggested
WELCOME WORDS TO WOMEN

Women who suffer with disorders peculiar to their
sex should write TO DR.. Pierce and receive free the
advice OF physician of over 40 years experience
"a skilled and successful specialist in the diseases
of women. Every letter of this sort has the most
careful consideration and is regarded as sacredly
confidential. Many senstively modest women write
fully to DR.. Pierce what they would shrink from
telling to their local physician. The local physician
is pretty sure to say that he cannot do ANYTHING
without 'an examination. Dr. Pierce holds that
these distasteful examinations are generally need
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-09
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sent request
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Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-09
Negro Gets Life Imprisonment

STOCKTON, Cal, Dec. S.-Edward
Pennington, a negro, convicted OF the
murder of Jacob Sleeper in a cell of
the county jail several weeks ago, this
afternoon was sentenced to life i'm
prisonment.