Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-04

 obtain uniform state legislation. The supports of the traffic. the system of debt-virtual peonage the procuring from the same and other states and the cadets men who live off the of girls they have placed in disorderly houses.
 Predictions of earthquakes for the middle west periodically made, some with embellishments of dire disasters that forget to turn up. gained some standing in consequence of the tre- mors which rattled Chicago's dishes and now some of the prognosticators point with pride" to theig g'icsses. Some brand new predictions also have been inspired S c. Braganz1 De La Coralla writing from Port Byron HIS. said os the earthquakes: l had pre- dicted its occurrence for tomnrrOw. but 1t anticipated its date by one day. 1 have predicted another earthquake of more intense force for June next" But the seismic medal was won by one A. T Koopman who predicted or June 6. 1901, that an earthquake would visit Chicago in 1909 He may have recovered from biliousness now but his 6rognostication wore weeds and it's gloom reminded one of tine dirges played on Memorial Jays. But as predicting remains an inexact science one can listen with no alarn,. He said: ~I will predict that from now till 1909 and 1910 We shall have ai- most a continuous chain O. earth quakes and crop failures, which will devaste not only great part of this country but of our globe. San Fran cisco in the time laid down by me will suffer again. Also one-half of Chica- go, lying south of Madison street, ali of New York City. ali of Washington. D. C. The Panama canal will be rem dered useless not by actual quake. but by the shifting of the earth 5 crust, which will not shake down buildings, but will destroy the canal excavations. Crop failures will be complete and we shall have to depeni on Canada for sustenance. Some Of the cities in the United States that will be free from any seismic disturbance are Boston. Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Seattle" Quota the raven, "Nes- ermore."
 "Elevation of railroad tracks in Chi cago, which has prevented 1880 grade crossing fatalities during the last ii years according to the report just made by the citys superintendent O. track elevation, has cost not s12.ooo,' O0o. but less than s1,0o0,0o0,' declares bulletin issued by the League cf Public safety which has headquarters in Chicago The investment now amounts to s72.000.o00." the bulletin explains. but the interest on s30,000,. coo for ten years will cover the aver age capital inyested-about s2o.00o,- 900. From that much he deduced the decrease in the claims upon railways for deaths and injuries. amounting tu millions. the decrease of fire losses as result af unobstructed streets for the fire department, to the financial ben efits of faster running time in the cit! limits and the gain to the public, es timated at sl.500. .00e of time annually by freeing the streets of railway crossings at grade. So that track ele yation has proved already almost q { financial gain to the railways and ais | served the cause of humanity The | decrease in accidents reported by the | city takes into account more oi i the accidents that would oc | eur between streets. There is little | temptation for boys to hitch anr | for other trespassers to climb upoi | the tracks. The incidental benefits I in money from the public protection in this one city also includes accord l ing to city officials. the opening up {, | new districts for settlement and con seuuent reduction of local congestion in population the faciliration of cleo trification when the railroads begi, the work and the removal of unsignti'
 viaducts.
 The title of first settler of ChicaS'
 is !n dispute. The crown which ha
 so long rested on the brow of Fei
 nando Jones. ninety years old, ha
 been disturbed by claimant who Wa
 resident six years before JoEe' . came to look up the site of old For
 Dearborn William o. Clark has ore
 sented his claim for pioneer honor
 and has met the man whose claim d
 the first settler of Chicago has no
 been disputed since the organization
 of the Chicago pioneers. By mutud agreement between the nonogenarian MT. JOutS IS tD 1tSeiih hto hfet' tAS 'sf N settler. while Mir. Clark will be know
 as the pioneer. Mir. Clark was Dor 1 in Madison. Ind. June 25, lSfi, an came to Chicago in 1929. Fernand Jones arrived in 1885 with carioa of stoves which his eastern friend l had told him he never could sell 1 ' Chicago but which were snapped u 5 in a few days. It was a stragglin r town scattered over the prairie frol r the present Chicago Avenue
 Twelfth street and from Ha'ste
 street to the l-ake-21a square mile { of mud frame structures and fro l l, ponds. Now the city extends l6' ! miles south 91k miles north and miles west from the court house. The figures of sSS0 100000 was tt amount of gross business done by tf l Chicago packing companies reports to the Massachusetts commissioner { corporations with Swift & company the lead with a total of S250 900 .0' of business done in a year. No oi cial figures are obtainabIe for u
 mysterious National Packing compai J which recently was reported to Gre Britiau as a combine" but for tn
 company and for Scharzschild & Sul berger the figure of sloo.o0e. 900 h'
 been taken as practically correct III
 comparison of the business done. wi
 those two totals unofficial, is given ] follows:
 Swift 6 Co- ....-.------.s2s s2so.ooo.e
 Morris & Co.. 10000. O
 Armour & Co. .. 240,0o0, O
 Schwarzschild & SulZber-
 | herger 0.000, o ] cudahv Packing Co. .. s0.0Co Q
 National Packing Co. 100000 l Teta, .. sssa. rao. 0