Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-02-26
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The last figures obtainable show that
the per capita wealth of this country is
$l,31011.
The building trade has the greatest
number OF strikes. The coal and coke
industry comes next.
New York City hotels are now enter
tanning IS per cent more customers than
they were one year ago.
The streams Of the Himalaya noun
tains will soon be engaged in the pro-
sale work of turning wheels.
New York has the greatest number
of wage-earners Of any State in the
Union. Pennsylvania is second.
The public lands vacant and subject
to settlement in the United States on
the 1st of last July amounted to 774,-
3S5,069 acres.
Women as stenographers have been
greatly increased in number in New
York City during the last year and
there are now about 1900 of them.
ferry boat in use in the harbor of
Glasgow is supplied with deck which
can be raised and lowered seventeen
feet. In fact, it is a floating elevator.
This feature is necessary because of the
difference of the levels of the two land
ing stages made use of by the craft.
All the women prisoners at the Clerk
enwell sessions recently appeared in the
dock wearing their hats. The rule of
mo hatpins" was strictly enforced, but
their absence In no wav troubled the
women. Indeed, one balanced a hat
more than six feet in circumference
without the slightest trace of anxiety.
How she did it only a woman could
tell.-London Chronicle
Auction sales of Thoroughbred cattle
and swine are not uncommon in the
West, but an auction sale of thorough
bred" corn, wheat and oats will be a
novelty to many of the visitors at the
national corn exposition at Omaha. At
ter the show is over prize corn and
other grain and grass seeds will be of
fcred for sale to the highest bidder.
The prices for corn, it is expected, will
range from 81 an ear up to $3.50 to
$500 for ten-ear samples.
Recently electrically welded chain
has been made commercially by auto
matically cutting the blanks from a
bar so as to form a socket in one end
and corresponding taper on the other
end Of the link blank. This is then
bent and Joined on one side and these
joints welded. This obviates the usual
amount of upset In such cases. The
laps, or area of contact, are much larg-
er than in the squarely cut ends, and
Incorporating and good weld is made.
The authorized capital of Japanese
electric undertakings in 1903, $14, 1884,
600, rose to SOS, S,724OOO in 1907. The
electrical works undertaken chiefly rep
resented lighting and railways. The
number of lights supplied in 1908, $780,
600, increased in 1907 to S59,143 Toxic
and Osaka require each 100000 lights.
Electric, railways show equal develop
ment In 1908 the mileage was thirty
eight, which rose to 119 in 1907, and
will be largely added to by construction
during the present year.
According to table published in the
current number of the Federation Re
view, 6,225 immigrant Jews entered the
port of New York in September 1903.
OF these 2,433 were women, 20O1 men
and 1,791 children. Russia contrib
uted 4,607; Austria-IIungary. 1924;
Roumania, 273; England, 5G Germany.
%; Turkey, 10: Sweden and Spain, .
each, and Holland 3. The record also
shows that 1866 of the immigrants
went to homes outside Of the metropo-
lis. In the corresponding month last
year the number of Jewish immigrants
was 3,033 greater
The revolutionary party in Persia is
circulating on postcards and in larger
form a picture descriptive of Persian
justice" which shows three bandits
htthSihS ny thCii lCSI lIOll Tile City Rdlt
of Tauris. The men, almost naked, are
shown suspended from an opening in
the wall, the ropes binding their feet
being fastened to a pillar, next to
which a military guard stands at sat
tention." "For hours" runs the legend
under the picture, "these wretches, the
robber Ago and his companions, hung,
in their badly wounded condition, be-
fore death relieved their agony. Thou
sands of people of all ages and classes
looked mournfully upon these victims
of Persian Justice"
Two veteran journalists of Chicago
dined together last Thanksgiving, as
they have done for number Of
Thanksgivings, and recalled their edi-