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Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

OF Hiogo. IL Is the biggest spinning estab-
lishment Of the empire. and it belongs to
a company which has a capital Of 100000
gold dollars and paid last year a dividend
Of % per cent. The company has alto
gether nineteen mills in operation and in
course of construction. 1t has already
more than 100000 spindles at work; and
the four new mills, now building, will add
to this $1,000 more. 1t is putting up mills
for weaving as well as for spinning; and
when all are completed it will still have
$4,000 worth of working capital to go on.
The company began its work twenty
years ago by erecting a spinning mill at
Toxic. 1t has now two there and is build
ing a third. 1t has silk mills at Kyoto,
which are rapidly approaching completion,
and II will soon have 1900 spindles in
operation there.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11
steam Engines, Homemade.


II asked whence the machinery came and
was told that some was from the United
States, but that more came from England.
Japan has not yet begun to manufacture
cotton machinery, although It is expert
menting with work Of all kinds. For in
stance, the engines which run these big
works were constructed at Toxic. One of
them is OF 1900 horsepower. and it is as
fine as any engine of the kind any where.
Connected with the establishment is an
experimental weaving mill, which will soon
be increased TO 400 looms. AS It is now,
the cotton comes into the mill In bales,
being imported from China, India and the
United States. and 1t goes put in smaller
bales OF cotton yarn, ready for weaving.
In the near future much of it will go out
in the shape OF cotton cloth for the mar
kets OF Japan, Corea, Manchuria and
him
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

lle air ana sped away. He m to
cross the bridge, but Cy Smith, fearing that
in his frenzy he would leap into the watery
depth below, blocked the way. Unable to
cross the river, the colored man sprinted
to the railroad yards, and when last seen
was passing the coal mine and still going
south.
ROOsevelt's Macaulaynn Memory.
Somewhere in the White House files is a
letter from Senator Lodge, relates Golfers.
The senator had been dining at the White
House, and the letter refers to the talk
of the night before. 1t begins:
you are so deplorably exact about dates
that when you said Hero was a century
after Alexander l simply climbed down
and wondered how l came 10 make such a
blunder as to put him before Alexander.
Looking the matter up,T find my excuse.
There were two Hieros. Hero l reigned
47S-467. 1t was his date / had in my head.
Hero IL was born before 3O6, not very far
away, but he had a long reign, and lived 10
an enormous age
Someone introduced Edward Clarke to the
president.
oh said Roosevelt when he heard the
name, "you wrote a monograph on the
protbonotary warbler You studied him
in the Kankakee River country"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11
Japsn's Biggest Cotton Mil.

S~Puh bAEkeSt SOttOu Mill.
or all the establishments of this big
corporation th2 one here at Hiogo is the
largest. 1t covers many acres and en-
ploys 1900 hands. It's works run day and
night, and they turn out cotton yarn by
the thousands of bales annually. Much Of
the product is consumed here in Japan,
but a great deal goes to the rapidly de-
v%eloping market of China, where it com
petes with that from our country.
H1ogo is the native city for which Kobe
is tho port. 1t has, all told, more than
10000 people; and in going to the cotton
mill, our jlnrikishas take us through sew
eral miles of japanese stores, over the
bridge which crosses the river and almost
into the country. We can see the great
smokestack. 1t rises high above the low
warehouses and spinning mills, and its
dense volume IF black smoke poisons the
air, The smokestack is made of iron, in
stead of brick, as in the United States.
This is that 1t may the better withstand
the earthquakes which occur here every
few days and which at times are so great
That they might send a tall brick stack to
1he ground. For the same reason the large
mills are almost all one story. They are
built OF brick and are so walled with glass
that they are splendidly lighted.
LIDO not know the acreage, but I went
through a wilderness of moving pulleys.
.whiriing spindles. cotton opening machines
and other works of various kinds. which
TOOK more time than a Sabbath days Jour
ney. Single buildings seemed to reach on
and on till one could hardly see the end.
and In all was the busy hum Of machinery
and the Japanese men, women and chill
dren working away.
have seen many of our great mills in
the United states, but none in which the
cotton is more rapidly and efficiently han
died than here. l doubt If we have any in
which the work is done with less labor.
The finest of up-to-date machinery is en-
ployed. and when 1t wears out 1t goes to
me scrap heap. In some rooms, covering
an acre. no more than two score men were
at work. and one little girl was tending to
every machine. In the spinning and reeling
rooms there were more, and in some l saw
hundreds of girls and women at work.
Douglas Island news., 1909-06-16
The NOrthIand The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North. Condensed.
Information for Everybody,
Atlin lake is clear of ice.

Atliu lake is clear of ice.
 Seward will celebrate the Fourth. Nearly 100 men are now employed at Sulzer.
 Skagway pays 81 year rent for a ball park
 It cost Whitehorse s543 to celebrate Victoria Day.
 Report has it that there are 800 idle men iu Dawson.
 Ellamar expects to hum this summer with 70 or 80 men employed.
 Excursions to Lake Lebarge form the chief amusement at Whitehorse.
 Whitehorse boasts of lady bowler who has rolled up theremarkable score of 22l.
 Judge Lyons has appointed R. M. Odell United States commissioner at Haines.
 Skagtown is having some trouble getting it's restricted district properly located. Skookum Jim, the millionaire Indian from Caribou will attend the A.-Y.-P. exposition.
 Frank Kennon, fireman employed on a pile driver near Cordova, was scalded to death.
 Judge Thomas Lyons and StenOg rapher L. R. Gillette have started for Fairbanks to hold court.
 The Dawson Board of Trade has wired the Taft party an invitation to visit Dawson this summer.
 The White Pass Railroad Go. has re- sumed it's summer schedule, trains leaving both terminals at 9:30 a. m.
 Chas. J. Nilsson, of Seattle, has been sentenced to serve term in the peni- tentiary for defrauding an Alaska miner.
 Three mine inspectors for Alaska, at a salary of s3,OOO each, is the substance of bill introduced by Delegate Wick ersham.
 As the result of 10 days cleanup, the Porcupine Gold Mining company made a shipment of dust and nuggets valued at s1O,OOO.
 Much to the disgust of tbe citizens of that town, a Chinaman has bought eleven lots in Prince Rupert and will build store.
 A special U. s. mail agent, in charge of about 6O,OOO pounds of registered mail for the interior, went over the hill to Whitehorse last week.
 A resolution asking for an appropria- tion of S25,OOO for federal building at Juneau has been presented to congress by Delegate Wickersbanrs
Douglas Island news., 1909-06-16

A Seattle law firm has been commis- stoned to find Hilda Main, believed to have been in Alaska for the last five years. It is claimed she has an interest in a large estate and New York rela- tives are trying to locate her.
 Valdez is offered railroad proposi- tion which calls for S50,000 from the town to be added to S1O0,O00 subscribed on that condition by Marshal Stevens, of New York, father of Blamey Stevens, and S10O,OO0 to be subscribed by Penn sylvania capitalists. Business men of the town are coming to the front rap idly with subscriptions.
 Talk about the strange freaks of pow der. The Fairbanks Times has the fol- lowing story: "Hermau Magnussen, of No. ' below, had a stock of dynamite in gunnySack which he seemed to have no satisfactory place for until he should use it, so he laid it upon the roof of his cabin. When it got nice and dry, spark from the stove pipe set the sack afire and it started blazing mer- riIy People about the claim soon no ticed the blaze, and those who knew the contents of the burning shack set up wholesome shout, with the result that every body took to the woods. Strange to say, the sack and contents calmly burned itself down and out be- fore the eager eyes peering from behind trees and sheltered places, without any sort of explosion or excitement, beyond what the people made for themselves.
 c. D. Dunann, of San Francisco, gen. eral passenger agent for the Pacific Coast Steamship company, is passen- ger on the Spokane, making his annual tour of inspection of the company's agencies. At Seattle Mir. Dunann said: "The Alaska travel this year will be iUl- mense, and it will only be matter of taking care of them all. The Pacific Coast Steamship company built the ex- cursion steamer Spokane in 1902. The first season we carried from 60 to 80 people each trip. This year we have in. creased the number of berths to 230, and now the steamer is sold out for the five trips of the season, except for few berths for the August l trip. The steamer Queen has been placed in the excursion business to accommodate the overflow, leaving here July 15 and 30. She will carry 242 first class. For the first trip everything is sold and only a few are left for the trip of July 30. This means that business will be forced to the regular liners carrying at the popular rate of S66. We expect the excursion money of the season to amount to S2OO000, by far the best summer on record. We have done lot of hard work advertising Alaska, and with low rates, and the exposition as vehicle to bring people to the coast, there will be immense travel to Alaska, many overland and foreign travellers planning to extend their itin- erary to the North. Through our East ern agencies we have advertised exten- sively, and even from foreign lands we will draw tourists, Cook & Son being our foreign agents. We already have two booked for Alaska from South America, some from Australia, while each year we draw from Europe, main- ly from Germany and England. Alaska is becoming known over the entire world"
Douglas Island news., 1909-06-16

The Skagway Alaskan prints a text from the bible each day, but since the baseball season opened they are mostly taken from the book of Job.
 The first thing that Walter E. Clark did after he was appointed governor of Alaska was to wire the news tC his mother back in Connecticut.
 Fifty mowers and as many hay rakes have been shipped from Prince Rupert this spring for parties in the upper Skeena river and Bulkley valleys.
 The steamers Senator and Victoria, which left Seattle on June for Norton sound, carried about TOO passengers, the first heavy travel of the season.
 P. Campbell, Robert Lowe and w. L.. Phelps have announced themselves as candidates for election to the Yukon council from the Whitehorse district.
 R. M. Odell, chairman of the water committee, has ordered 2,22O feet of 4 inch pipe to connect the town of Haines with the water supply of Fort Seward.
 The young ladies of Ketchikan take no interest in baseball which may ac- count for the indifferent manner in which the game is played by the town nine.
 The Ketchikan Miner has taken up the cause of the salmon, and says that one of the principal things necessary is to provide a way for the fish to get up the streams.
 Goodletaw, chief of the Copper river Indians, recently killed bear in Woods canyon that weighed HOO pounds. He sold the carcass to the railroad camps.
 William Bigelow, serving sentence at McNeiPs island for robbery committed in Alaska, has been pardoned by Presi- dent Taft. He had served seven of a 15 year sentence.
 Navigation is open. Last Saturday morning at 10 o'clock the steamer Vic torian from Dawson reached the head of Upper Lebarge, getting through without difficulty.
 The White Pass company will opeaate the following boats on the river and lakes this summer: Whitehorse, Daw' son, SeIkirk, Casca, Bonanza King, Cleaner and Scotia.
 ). w. McNamara, who shot and killed T. R. Carpenter at Cordova, has been held to the grand jury on the charge of murder in the first degree and has been transferred to Valdez.
 o. G. Laberee, receiver of the Alaska Central, says work will be pushed this summer to the extent of S250,00O, but nothing further can be done until the railroad is sold under foreclosure.
 The Wickersham territorial bill pro- vides for the appointment of a treas urer at a salary of S4,O00 year, and also limits the amount of the tax that can be levied by the legislature at one per cent.
 Forty-six blue fox skins, which he sold for s1, 200 were the result of this seasons harvest reaped by Middleton Island Smith, who derives his name from Middleton island, of which he is the sole occupant, and where he raises potatoes and blue foxes,
Douglas Island news., 1909-06-16

Judge Thomas Lyons opened court at Skagway on June 8, and promptly adjourned until July P, when, with Judge E: E. Cushman on the bench, the regular spring term will be gone through with.
 While making some improvement to the government road from Haines to Porcupine, the crew of the Alaska road commission uncovered vein of copper ore. The mem bers of the crew prompt ly formed a company and staked a claim to the ledge.
 The Katalla Herald is authority for the statement that ub-contractors and station men on the line of the Copper River & Northwestern railroad, in the region beyond Abercromb bic canyon, are short of provisions, and are giving their employees but one meal day.
 Judge Thomas Lyons: "I am the first Alaskan to be elected 10 the bench here and 1 want 10 make record among my friends and people. know the country, l know conditions and people and 1 think 1 know the law. All 1 ask is 10 be judged by my record" p,loI,b p vn,, E,ttr,op on Ans trian coal operator and one of the wealthiest men in Vienna, has chartered the steamer Transit, vessel of 2,4OO tons belonging to Mckenzie Brothers, for the purpose of taking a party of friends on a hunting expedition to Alaska aud Siberia. The vessel, under the command of Capt. Danielson, will sail about July lst.
 On the I1th inst, President Taft sent the name of Peter D. Over6eld, of Nome, to the senate as judge of the Third judicial division of Alaska. It is not expected that any opposition will develop to his confirmation. Peter Overfield has been in Nome several years practicing as au attorney. He formerly came from Pennsylvania, where he had considerable political in- fluence.
 The Union Gold company's giant ditch, costing millions and under con- struction for three full summers, on June 5th turned it's first water against the KIondike gravels. The total ca pacity of the ditch is 5000 miners inches and it is now running half full. An extension is being made this sum- mer of ten miles more to Gold Hill. The entire line will be ready next spring, and will be seventy miles long. Two giants are now supplied and also much water is running to waste.
 Of Judge Cushman, one of the newly appointed federal judges for Alaska, a Sound paper says: Since his retire ment as special assistant United States attorney, Judge Cushman, who is brother of Congressman Cushman, has been practicing law in Tacoma. Through lucky real estate ventures he has grown wealthy during the past few years. The surveys of the Milwaukee railroad in entering Tacoma crossed a great deal of property owned by him, and he is one of the many Tacomans that have profited materially by being run over by incoming railroads. Judge Cushman has lived in Tacoma many years. He has a large acquaintance. He will remove his family to Juneau and make Alaska bis permanent home.
Douglas Island news., 1909-06-16

Judge Thomas Lyons opened court at Skagway on June 8, and promptly adjourned until July P, when, with Judge E: E. Cushman on the bench, the regular spring term will be gone through with.
Douglas Island news., 1909-06-16

A Seattle law firm has been commis- stoned to find Hilda Main, believed to have been in Alaska for the last five years. It is claimed she has an interest in a large estate and New York rela- tiyes are trying to locate her.
The Washington bee., 1909-02-27
The swaying skYscraper.

Through the chance OF perfect ad-
3ustment In the way of balance, Of
row OF large Photographs that
AAng on q wall o. an office building
down town the clerks in the place
kAVe 3 good deal o: quiet amusement
with persons who visit the place for
the first time. Owing to this bal
ance the pictures are easily sway
cd by the wind that blows through
the open windows and since the Of
ace force goes In for fresh air the
year round he pictures are never
still. The joke lies in catching the
Aorrided expression on the faces sf
the callers when they get 3 sight Of
the swinging frames. Then it is al
ways explained with due solemnity, If
She boss is not around that the sway
Ing OF the frames is due to the oscil-
lAtion OF the strucsdrs. 1t usually
takes some time for the object of the
joke to see the point Meanwhile -
AAs suffered considerable shock
y. Y. World.
The Washington bee., 1909-02-27
A Clever Rear

A noted ethnologist observed in
vienna q bear deliberately making
With his paw, q current in some wa
Ter which was close to the bars Of his
cage SO as to draw a piece OF float-
ing bread within his reach. These
actions OF the bear could hardly be
attributed TO instinct or inherited
habit, a. they would be of little use
20 an animal In q state of nature.
The Washington bee., 1909-02-27
Odd South American AHimals.

Many curtsas animals haunt the
marshy parts olSSc atA AHerica nc-rn
Of the pAmpas. Frogs big and fero-
0ious, given to making vicious
springs when closely approached; the
eApybsra, q cavy "contentei with
Lhe bulk of sheep; the huge coypu
rat and the swarthy piglike tapir are
frequently seen. Along the forest
margins troops Of peccaries are often
met with, occasionally the jaEuar
sometimes the puma. likewise that
Soothlsgs curiosity, the great ant
Bear. long In claw, long nosed and
remarkably long tonEued. 4 famil-
lar object Is the great jabiru, q stOrk
with = preference for the desolats
lagoons, where 1t may often be OBJ
served statuesqus on one leg and
wrapped In OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
The Washington bee., 1909-02-27
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The Washington bee., 1909-02-27
The Gingko Tree.

Studies By Miss NJ c. Slopes of the
fossil nora of Scotland have shown
that the gingkO or maidenhair. tree.
. native Of Japan and China. which
ss cultivated in Europe and this coun-
try on account OF It's remarkable fol-
tage. belongs to an extremely anc-
lent family, Of whicD II is now, ap-
parently, the last surviving repre-
sentative. At one time 1t seems to
have been widely spread. A singu-
lar fact Il that the fossil specimens
sf the gingko, found in the rock beds
ef the Inferior Oolite series. at Bro
-, Scotland, are so similar to the
hVing trees that st first sight no diff
ference Is apparent Only an ex-
summation Of the structure OF the
cells reveals = yariation.-Youth's
Companion.
The Washington bee., 1909-02-27
CoUNTERFEErERs' NEW SCHEME
. How the Smooth Demonstrators Gets
His Victims Coin.

One OF the latest schemes of the
counterfeit money swindlers is te
show guillible people a machine with
which they can print for themselves
large size bills, initiative of Govern
ment currency" said Capt g. F.
Rhodes. formerly OF the secret ser
vice This money producing ma
chine has a smooth demonstrator
Who viii, after getting a prospective
Victim interested, turn the crank and
grind out $40 note, which. II il
needless to say, is genuine. The
vicim shows the bill to a bank cash
Ter, and hears IT pronounced good.
and his mercenary nature being
A%oused, he sees visions of gigantic
wealth, and hands over to Mr.. Sharp
or $500. or at least $3.50. for the
instrument that is going to make him
Rockefeller. II is needless to say
shat the subsequent specimens turn
cd out are such miserable imitatians
that they would hardly fool q blind
man. bat the ignoramus is In q place
where he can't make q roar for his
lost money.
The Washington bee., 1909-02-27
For Pressing Platte. skirts.

Plated Skirts which have been
washed are dificult to press. Time
and expense may Se saved by having
the work done after the following
method, which is TO. wooden skirts
especially: Before the skir has be-
come badly creased or runpled run
= bSBting thread, using short. even
stitches, down The entire ength of
each crease whicr marks the folds
Of the plaits. By this means, after
the skirt has been washed. the pro-
per location of each lest can read
ily b determined, and the pressing
done successfully.
The Washington bee., 1909-02-27
Balzac in Church Pew

The woman who had left q vol
sIne Of Balzac in the church pew on
prayer meeting night felt little bit
ashamed when she asked for the
book. but the sexton assured her she
need not feel that way Many
things are left In the church" he
said. ''and some of them are a whole
lot less respectable than Balzac. Af-
ter each service the pews yield &
strange grist of forgotten or dis
earjsd articles
The Washington bee., 1909-02-27
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Quill TCothD.cks.

The largest quill toothpick fac
hry IN the world IS near Paris, where
there Is an annual product of co.
600 600 quilts. The factory was
started to make quill pens, but when
these went out of general use 1t was
sonysrted into a toothpick mill,
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-08
ADJUSTMENTS.
STUBBORN CINDERELLA

Appearing at Dreamland on next Tuesday comes the much talked of musical comedy, "A stubborn Cinder' ella, '' coming here almost direct from the new Princess theater, Chicago, where it has been running for the past 500 consecutive performances.
 This quality musical play has been creating theatrical sensation in Chi cago for the past year, where it has been playing to capacity business. It is positive hit, and the unanimous verdict of the Chicago critics was that "A Stubborn Cinderella" was the most marvellous music play of decade. It has twenty song hits and beauty chorus of sixty. In the cast is Homer B. Mason, who has made a decided hit in musical comedy. Supporting MT. Mason is Grace Edmund in the prima donna role, whose remarkable voice has won for her high place in musical comedy. Others in the cast are Ethel Lovey, a popular musical comedy fav- orite, Marguerite Keeler, Jack Rafael, a favorite matinee idol, Harry Pauli and Richmond Kent