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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-05-28
RALPH CHETWOOD
SHOT BY ACCIDENT

Ralph Chitwood, young man who
lives at Chitwood station, on the C. .&
p. railroad, was accidently shot to-
day while hunting a COW. The boy
had a 22-ri1e, which, it is thought,
went off accidentally, the shot enter
ing under his chin and coming out
the top of his head When fonnd the
boy had the rife in his hand.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-05-28
MINI EAPOLIS HAS
A COSTLY BLAZE
UNITED PRESS LEASED w1RH.1

Minneapolis, Mimi, May 2S.-
Damage estimated today at $1,000
600 was done by a fire which broke
out late last night in the manufac-
turing district and destroyed a num-
ber of warehouses and houses. One
man was severely injured and sew
eral firemen had narrow escapes
from falling walls. The fire threat
ened to get beyond the control oe
the firemen but at daylight had been
controlled.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-05-28
DECLARES ITS
FIRST DIVIDEND
WILLAMETTE MANUFACTURING
COMPANY HOLDS ITS ANNUAL
MEETING AND FINDS ITS CON-
DITION PROSPEROUS - DIVT-
DEND WAS FINE.

The stockholders or the VILLAIN
cite Manufacturing company held
their annual meeting at their place
of business on North Commercial
street yesterday. The old officers
and board of directors were re-elect-
ed, they are j. e. Scott, G. L. Nc.
Nary ]. w. Wilson, ]. D. Nairn
and w. H. Prunk,
A report on the business condi-
tion of the company was read which
showed the business to be in a hour
ishing condition. Twelve people
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-05-28

are employed at present and orders
are coming in faster then they can
be filled. The first dividend of the
company was declared yesterday, it
consisted of Strawberries, cream and
cake, furnished by the president, j..
e. Scott, his wife and daughter. The
stockholders were all present but
Mr.. McNary to participate in the
dividend and it was heartily en-
joyed.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-05-28
ARIZONA MINING
TOWN is BURNED
[rN1rrn rnnss 1rAsrn w1nn. /

UNITED FNE65 LEAaED WIRE.I
Globe, Ariz., May 28.-Twenty houses
were burned and 10 Opersons made
homeless by the fire that swept the
mining town of Miami last evening,
according to reports that reached
here today The damage done was
estimated at 100000.
Miami's entire water supply is
brought to the camp by one-inch
pipe, and was utterly useless in fight
ing the fire. Men from the Miami
mine dynamited several buildings to
stop the spread of the flames.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-05-28
STRUCK ON
THE HEAD
BY Meteor
JOHN BERG, A SECTION HAND OF
SPRAGUE, WASH, GETS RAP
FROM CELESTIAL WANDERER
ON STREETS OF SPOKANE.
UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE. !

Spokane, May 2S.--John Berg, a
section hand, from Sprague, Wash.
while standing on the corner OF
Maine avenue and Stevens street, this
forenoon, was struck on the head by
aa meteorite. The celestial missile in
flicted deep cash in his head, and
felled him to the ground. The man
was taken to the emergency hospital,
where several stitches were taken in
his scalp.
1t is supposed the meteorite was
a fragment from tn etail of Haley
comet
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-05-28
Shall Women Vote?

If they did, millions woulo vote
DR.. Kings New Life Pills the true
remedy for omen. For banishing
dull, tagged feelings, hackache and
headache, constipation, dispelling
colds, imparting appetite and toning
up the system, they're unequalled.
Easy. safe. sure. 95c at }. C. Perry.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-05-28
Boys VIII Be Boys

and are always getting scratches,
cuts, sprains, bruises, bumps, burns
or scalds. Don't ne ect sucl things
they may result seriously if you do
Apply Ballard. show Liniment ac-
cording to directions right away and
it will relieve The pain a d heal the
trouble. Price 25c, soc and $1.O0.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-05-28
HIS AUTO WRECKS
AND THEN BURNS

Dennis Merrill, while driving his
new Model 6 Buick, a few miles out
of Albany last night, went into the
ditch with a party of friends. After
extricating themselves Merrill got a
light to look at the machine, and in
so doing set fire to the gasoline The
machine burned up, the loss being
$2175.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-05-28
A New WorId,s RECORD.


Boulder Coloa May 2S.-Lee
Scott, star athlete of Stanford Unit
versity, today holds new worlds
pole vaulting record, having broken
the former record held in the duel
track meet with the University of
Colorado late yesterday. Scott
cleared the bar at 12 feet, 10M,
breaking his own record of 12 feet
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-05-28

failed in these examinations, but In
this last examination there were no
failures in this subject.
The students. parents and teach
ers this afternoon are attending the
Athletic meeting which is being held
under the auspices OF the Marion
county Athletic association at VIII
lamette field.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-05-28

Interesting contests for governor
and for United States senator are ex-
pected to keep the leaders of the re-
publican party in Connecticut busy
this summer.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10

used in the last fifty years. This work
has had the formal approval of the house.
1t is not generally known that the dem
ocratic and republican leaders Of the house
and senate agreed that Mr.. Kinds was en-
titled to rich reward for his work in pre-
pairing the "Precedents." He received $40, 900
for the work, which was the result of night
and day effort to perfect himself in the
duties Of clerk at the speakers table"
Mr.. Kinds never seeks the limelight. He
Is quiet and gentle, soft spoken and mod
est. One could talk to him for a week and
never learn from Kinds himself that he
stood at the very top of his chosen profess
sion and possessed a wonderfully COM
prehensive and absolutely unique fund of
information concerning the lntrlcacies Of
parliamentary law.
The suggestion that MI. Kinds would be
a good man to put in the chair
in the event Of that office being made a.
purely parliamentary one has brought Mr..
Kinds into the public eye Of late and he
has not relished it. While it is conceded
that the day is not far distant when the
speakership Will be diversified Of all par
tisanship and made purely parliamentary.
members of the house seem to agree pretty
generally that il that time ever comes no
better presiding officer can be found than
Mr.. Kinds.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10
TERRORS OF COCAINE HABIT
One of the Most Destructive Of known
Evils Growing in his
Ountry

Ordinary good citizens have little notion
OF the progress which the cocaine habit is
making in this country. 1t is one Of the
most destructive drugs known to the world.
1t has its uses as a local anesthetlc and in
some prescriptions, but it is as dangerous
as it is serviceable. Not many years ago
a determined effort was made to wipe out
the opium evil In this city, and It seemed
to have a good deal of effect. Apparently,
the opium dens were closed. and some good
people congratulated themselves upon the
success OF their crusade. 1t is much to be
regretted, but It seems 10 be a fact thai a
worse evil has taken its place.
All sorts OF stimulants have their uses at
times, but the abuse OF them has made
thousands mourn. We know In these days
that the brain Il the seat OF all intelligence.
and that II is not IN anonymous organ. but
Is divided up into many compartments. one
or some OF which may be injured without
detriment Ia others. But cocaine Is one OF
those stimulants which seems 20 destroy
almost every function Of the brain, save
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10
PHOTOS TAKEN BY FIRELlGHT
Des MOines Man Perfects system
for Portraits in Red
TintH.

"Firelight pictures are the most recent
novelty in photography, and A. A, Bran
son, a Des Molnes photographer, is inven-
tor of the process which produces them.
After more than a years labor on the
idea, Mr.. ramso has perfected the fin
ish, and a day or two ago he received a
copyright OF the idea and announced his
discovery.
The photograph is taken in the usual
way, the subject being posed before a
fireplace reading a book. for instance. The
finish brings out crimson tins which re-
semble almost perfectly the light thrown
out from a real fireplace.
The inventor say his idea Is a simple
one, and the cost Of producing the picture
is the same as for any picture, The finish
can be used on any photograph with sur
Drising and pleasing effect. Mr.. Bramson
has on display a number OF studies which
have been deemed by critics to be beauti-
full.
Mr.. ramso says that he obtained his
idea for the freight pictures while wit
Messing a performance about a year ago
at one OF the local vaudeville houses. one
act contained a fireplace scene, in which
a man sat and looked into the fire and
meditated with no light but that from the
fireplace playing upon his features.-Des
Moines Capital.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10

van Boolhoven) frequently deceived pco-
rlo into believing hat he was Of noble
birth. This van arose really from the fact
that mis- family was Dutch. At one time In
Contesting a case I'm court the question OF
the nobility Of his family was examined
on the issue. He pointed to his hc5d and
heart, saying, Ny nouiuty is hero and
mere
The Beethoven relics came from the
private collections OF Jabez Fox OF Cam
bridge. Mass. Henry h. krehbiel. Gustave
Schirmer and othera. the anecdotal data,
verifications Of manuscripts. etc. from re-
search in the libraries here In New York,
In Boston and In several individual cullec-
lions In different cities.
Among the interesting and valuable Of
these relics Is a white linen blouse worn
by Beethoven shortly before his death.
The linen, slightly ycllowed by time, is
finely woven, and there is not a stitch
broken In the entire garment. The laundry
tag still attached speaks Of the furgetful-
ness Of the composers mind, emphasized
by several anecdotes. one Of these is
Illustrated in the reproduction OF a painting
made by the Countess Giuletta Guiceierdi,
outside Of whose window Beethoven used
often to stand, absorbed IN Watching for
the shadow of the 'chere annie on the
glass. or In the throes Of composition.
absolutely oblivious to time, passersby or
broken engagements.
1t is TO this tickle couuette that Bee
thoven dedicated the Moonlight Sonata.
IL was one OF the many tragedies Of the
composers life that the Countess Giuletta
after having enjoyed his friendship should
prefer the society OF a writer OF ballet
music, who incidentally borrowed money
OF him.
Another absentmined anecdote illus
trated by a bit Of paper covered with char
coal marks is used by one Of his contem-
pories, viz, Or. zeitteles, who says;
We went one afternoon to the Alser-
vorstadt and mounted to the second story
or the Schmarzpanlerhaus. We rang; no
one answered. We lifted the latch. The
door was open, the anteroom empty. We
Knocked at the door Of Beethoven's room;
no reply. We entered, but what a scene
presented itself. The wall was hung with
huge sheets Of paper covered with charcoal
marks and Beethoven was standing before
II with his back turned toward us, forget
full of the engagement he had made, forget
ful OF all-everything in the world in fact.
Oppressed by the excessive heat he had
Invested himself Of all but his shirt and
was busily employed writing notes on the
wall with a lead pencil, beating time and
striking chords on his stringless piano.
We looked at each other in amazed per-
pleNity. l said to Atterbom: Would you
as a poet like to take away the con-
OF having perhaps arrested the
loftiest flight of genius? You can at least
say l have seen Beethoven create Let
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10

Imagination, which it distorts to an un-
wholesome degree. The cocaine habit is
worse than the opium habit, and its effects
are quicker. 1t cannot be acquired without
destruction of mental faculties to a large
degree. 1t is insidious and deadly unless
speedily checked.
The police authorities are to be assisted
in every way in closing this terrible avenue
toward self-destructlon.
The druggist who sells cocaine to de-
generates is an enemy of society, for no
one knows what the victims of this drug
may do to innocent persons. The police
seem to be doing the best they can and are
bringing offenders to Justice. Here is an in
stance where every good citizen should be
on the guard and report violations Of the
law. Indeed, 1t looks as II the state would
have to take over the entire sale Of such
drugs, 1t isn't pleasant to contemplate, but
II we can stimulate making antitoxin for
diphtheria, we may do something toward
stopping the abuse of cocaine, whose
laudable use is only occaslonal-PhiIadel-
phia Inquirer.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10

Washington as clerk for Mr.. Reed. In
reality he was an assistant to the speaker
private secretary, Amos /. Allen, now
representing the First district of Maine,
successor in the house to Thomas b.. Reed,
and whom Mr.. Kinds, with the consent of
Allen, wants to succeed. He didn't drop
his newspaper work, but did a lot Of cor
respondence from Washington for Maine
newspapers, and in the summer resumed
his Portland connection.
When the republican party vent out of
power at the expiration Of the fifty-first
congress on March 4, 1891, and Mr.. Reed
ceased to be speaker, Mr.. Kinds resumed
his newspaper work exclusively. But in
1894, after the great republican victory of
that year, Mr.. Reed offered him the job
Of clerk at the speakers table,
This place was entirely different from the
one he had previously held. 1t demanded
an intimate knowledge Of parliamentary
law and Of the rules and the presidents of
the house, Mr.. Reed made it a condition
Of the appointment that Kinds should in
form himself on the subject as thoroughly
as possible before the next meeting Of con-
gress in December.
How well he would do this even Mr.. Reed
did not guess. Immediately Mr.. Kinds be-
gan to collect the precedents Of the house.
writing them out, largely with his own
hand, in order that the reasoning might be
accurately but concisely expressed in form
to be bound in scrap books. This neces-
sarily involved an exhaustive search OF
hundreds and hundreds of volumes Of de-
bates, journals ana reports.
He carried on the work I'm the days and
evenings when the house was not in ses-
sion, Even during the sessions when the
nature Of the pending business would per-
init, and during recesses OF congress at
his home In Woodford, or his summer home
on Cheboague island, he was busy. AS
soon as completed a precedent was classi-
fled In his scrap book so as to be available
in the daily business OF the house.
The field Of procedure in the house Is
wide and SO varied that the task OF col
Letting the presidents was not completed
until 1908, making a period OF thirteen
years for the work. When the blinds
Precedents' were published they comprised
eight volumes OF about loo pages each.
The footnotes 10 the text alone number
many thousands. The work Is used by the
national house and senate and by state
legislatures. and has been cited in the
courts, notably in some recent cases in
New York and Pennsylvania
A new manual for the house has also
been perfected by MI, Kinds In the last
year. Il is based on the law as established
by the preoedents and constitutes a text
book entirely different from the manual
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10

made after al Incident which took place
at Toplitz in 1872. This is referred to in a
letter contained among the relies written
by one Of his friends to his %biographer.
This in turn refers to another epistle which
Beethoven himself wrote to Bettina Won
Arnim, in which he says:
Yesterday on our way home we met the
whole imperial family; we saw them
crossing some way Off, when Goethe with
drew his arm from mine in order to stand
aside, and say what l would l could not
prevail on him to make another step in
advance. l pressed down my hat more
firmly on my head, buttoned up my great
coat, and crossing my hands behind me /
made my way through the thlckest portion
Of the crowd. Princes and courtiers formed
a lane for me; Archduke Rudolph took off
his hat and the empress bowed to me first.
These great ones OF earth know me. 70
my infinite amusement l saw the process
sion defile past Goethe. who stood aside
with his hat off, bowling profoundly. l
afterward took him sharply to task for
this; l gave him no quarter e..
Many anecdotes of a like nature"
continues Mr.. Ames, have been found
and studied apparently by Mr.. Fauchois
and he naturally assumes on the part of
the public a like knowledge, some of
which is to be desired by those who are
to like the Beethoven biography. Other
wise the eccentricities might seem exag-
5crated for stage purposes.
This Beethoven play and exhibit of
Beethoyenians really commemorate the
eighty-seVenth anniversary of his death on
the 26th Of March, 1897, when his friend
Huttenbrunner kept watch beside him
Toward the late afternoon an unusual
storm took place. There was a sudden
squall of snow ard in the midst OF this
furry occurred lightning and a rrightful
peal of thunder. At the sound Of this the
apparently unconscious composer reused
himself, sat up in his bed and, raising his
clenched fist as il in defiance, shook il at
the point Of the compass from which the
shock came. For almost half a minute he
maintained this position, then all at once
fell back on his pillow GREATNESS, lifeless.
The ~fayorite portrait of Beethoven.
which was by Kruell and IS constantly re-
produced in photographs. seems always To
continues TIE director of the New
ito express 80 well tho undcrly-
ing nobility of heart ard soul which were
Beethovcn's possession and which no tenn
mood of irritation, no disappoint.
ment in life or work, can eradicate to the
seeing eye. Beethoven's family was a poor
one, but the van in tie name Q.udwig
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10

work to which the author gladly sacrificed
his means. Although written in English,
II Was first publisher I'm German.
A very well known orchestra leader at
'ached to one OF the opera houses Is ex-
tremely interested in these musical scores
aud tells some interesting facts Of the
composers methods of leading.
IN conducting repeats he. Beethoven
ruled and commanded his players as a
droyer does his herd, and as deafness and
quickness Of temper overlook him he grew
more overbearlng, exacting and extrava-
giant. His whole body was used to indicate
the effects he desired. The performers
under him were Obliged to avoid being led
astray by the impetuoslty OF the master.
who thought only of Lis own composition
and constantly labored to depict the exact
expression required by the most violent
gesticuletiong. Thus, when the passage
vas loud he often beat time downward
when his hand should nave been I'D. A
dimuendo he was in the habit Of marking
by contracting his person, making himself
smaller aid smaller until when a pianis-
simc was reached he seemed to sink be-
Tcath tho conductors desk. AS the sounds
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10

OF the plays, while the relics are on view,
its repertoire limited during this period to
the great composers work.
m, Fauchois," says Mr.. Ames, "has
only emphasized the well known fact that
truth is stranger than fiction In looking
about for the relics for the data explain
ing them and In the usual zigzag tours
that one makes in working up an atmo-
sphere Of this kind, Mr.. Van Ness Har-
wood and others Of the staff who have as
sisted me have found enough interesting
and dramatic material to make several
plays, for Beethoven had all the pecullari-
ties Of the artistic temperament and was
led by it into all sorts and kinds Of emo
tionRl episodes and suffered from the con-
sequences of these with all the intensiay
that such a nature is capable Of. The
gentler Goethe, whose friend lie was, said
Of him, you recollect, that he was an en-
tirely untamed person, this criticism being
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10
MORE THAN in RANCH DAYS
south Dakota HOmesseRGers Have
Increased Number of Horses,
Cattle and sheen,

N"NAAN ShSUDs
Much has been said about the effect of
the agricultural settlement Of the lands
west of the river upon the live stock in
dustry. and the general verdict has been
that outside the big reservation pastures
the homesteader has practically destroyed
the range stock business.
The marketing Of live stock in South
Dakota has from year to year shown
marked growth, but the presumption has
been that the increase from the farms had
been sufficient TO overcome the loss upon
the ranges.
The only method Of ascertaining the real
effect Of the homestead movement Oh live
stock is through the assessment rolls. In
1906 the homestead movement began and
the assessment rolls of that year showed
in the range counties-Butte including the
present Harding and Perkins, Lyman, Pen
nington and Stanley-49,2s horses, 2O4,5s
cattle and 25S,3S1 sheep. Three years OF
homesteading has followed, covering all Of
these counties with settlers until there is
only a modicum Of vacant land remaining.
and the assessment Of 1909 shows for the
same territory 1850 horses. 2ll, 7S5 cattle
and 210,363 sheep. or a marked increase of
each sort Of live stock.
- "a eAAe Ag oA9 u AHo kaNllt returns
show an increase OF young stock and of
milch cows and a decrease Of other cattle.
The figures show conclusively that the
homesteader has not destroyed the live
stock industry, but has Increased 1t. AS a
matter Of fact, he has destroyed the pic
turesque old-time ranching business and
broken up the big bands into little home
herds, for which he supplies stover and
shelter in case OF a hard winter, and he
has placed the business upon a suror basis
than II ever before was.
While the homesteader has given On Inn
pulse to general farming I'm the Transmits
souri, region and a good deal Of general
cropping is done, and will increase with
each ear, stlll the section remains what
It always has been from the remotest
ages, a great natural pasture, buried in
sweet grasses. which afford summer and
winter feed, sncWless in the average year,
and the wise homesteader takes advantage
OF his natural environment, starts a herd
Of cattle, horses or sheep and develops It
as rapidly as possible. Stock growing and
dairyIng are now and always will be the
lines Of least resistonce upon which the
western Dakota farmer will win success
Pierre Letter in New York Herald.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10

BEETHOVEN IN HIS SIXTEENTH YEAR
us leave. Unheard and unseen we de-
parted
The Of the observers on the
Beethoven relics are not without interest
and instruction. A woman whose elaborate
coiffure out-Herods Herod, casts a single
soulful glance at the marble bust, portraits
and prints, all showing B%eethoven's GEN
erous supply OF hair, then at the meagre
lock-the most valuable article, CONNER
tally speaking, in the co~llection-whose
card bears the inscription Hair from
Beethoven's head, received from himself
by Anton Holm, April %, 1926" turns to a
companion and eXclaims; Ain it a shame
such beautiful hair all g0ne!"
Before a reproduction of the celebrated
life mask, which accurately photographed,
shows the divisions where the plaster sec
lions have been put together, another OBJ
server eNclaims at the great 'raps" in the
composers head and argues therefrom the
probability of "frlghtful headaches"
At the yellow leaves of his dairy. filled
with the recurrent comedies of tragedies.
according to the point of view, Of the com
poser's daily life, groups or housewives ex-
change meaning looks and smiles.
One housewife points to the letter writ