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Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20
Small Boys and Bio Guns.

Coroner Arthur c. Bill of Windham
county believes it is high time not
only to suppress the carrying of con-
cealed weapons, but the use of guns
and other dangerous firearms by young
boys. In his finding concerning the
boy of Killingly by another boy who
carried a rifle and had been duly
warned concerning its use, Coroner
Bill says in part:
Il believe it to be my duty in this
connection to warn parents against
the altogether too frequent use of
rifles, guns and other dangerous weap-
ons by boys. Within the last few
years three bright and promising boys
have been killed in this county by the
careless use of rifles in the hands of
boys under IS years of age. We now
have a statute providing severe PEN
allies for the carrying Of concealed
weapons. 1t seems to me that legisla-
ton is needed in regard to the hand
That the firing of rifles, some of which
now carry DEATH dealing bullets from
a quarter to half a mile, by boys who
seem TO have no regard as to where
their bullets are to land, is altogether
too frequent and constantly endanger-
ing human life"
There is no question but gross care
sible for a great many sad accidents
in the course of a year such as might
be avoided; and in cases where the
boys know no different and the parents
feel no responsibility it might be well
to have some other authority keep a
grip on the gun. the boys or the am
n1unition. Young lives, and some of
the older ones, are too precious to be
jeopardized in any such needless man
ner-AnEOnia Sentinel
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20
"Readiustins" Singers Salaries.

Pity the poor opera singer. When
every body eIse's wages are going up,
his going to be sut. Here is the
merciless Andreas DIPPED back from
vacation abroad calmly announcing
that there will be a decrease in sing
ers' salaries from now on. OF course,
this impresario is careful not to use
the word cut He merely says: I'VE
shall readjuSt salaries" But when
a man who has just driven his so.e
competitor out of business, and there
by established a complete monopoly,
talks about adjusting salaries, we all
know what it means. Singers must
look out for trouble. First class ten
ors who now get over $1,000 a night
Will be cut to $999.99 on a basis of 20
per cent. decrease in appearances How
are our prima donnaS TO dress if they
are to get a chance to make only some
$4,000 or $4,000 a week? The thing is
preposterous. Obviously, there is Moth
ing left for them to DO but to organ
ize a union. For behind DIPPED stand
the European impreSariOs, long angry
because Americans have eXemplifed
on the opera stage their political be-
lief that cheap clothes make a cheap
man or woman. Let every singer, high
and low, join their organization and
have a fixed wage scale for Europe
and America Why should they be
Disseminated against when every con-
ductor and brakeman is having his
wages raised New York Evening
Post.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20
SPEAKER CANNON IN sELF-DE-
TENSE.

Speaker Cannon must be counted
arong the strenuous men Of the times.
for did he not defend himself at Win
field. Kansas. for one hour and three
fourths in a temperature OF les de-
<rees and then quickly rallied and re-
srueo his schedule # three speeches
a Day. For = man over y that is
something wonderful
II these addresses he has taken the
ground that the Payne tariff as the
main count in the general arraign-
rnent on the charge OF Cannonism. and
proceeds 20 demonstrate that under
eleven months operation of this law
the revenue amounted TO S335. GEO 600,
the largest revenue ever collected I'M
der any tariff law ever enacted, SO
that the new tariff is q success as a
rerenzs producer" Then he directs
attention to the fact that since the
enactment OF the law zoe 600 idle
freight cars. with the locomotives that
hauled them have resumed operations:
that = large amount OF idle labor has
again found employment, and that
wages in the aggregate have been in
creased to the extent OF $500, 00o, GOO.
II this was the way the people in
terpreted II. the feeling would soon
fade away Il IS generally thought
that Speaker Cannon has been guilty
q an abuse Of power, and there is no
doubt that as a successor Of himself he
IS an fmpossi5ility so far as the speak
ershiP is concerned. Cannonism is not
local Issue.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20
AN ENGLISH IMPRESSION OF
ROOSEVELT.

The National Review, Of London, has
an estimate Of Roosevelt which ought
to interest Americans because of the
humor that is in it II the Britons
have no fame for wit, The Review viii
have IL the editor keeps at-his pen and
his ink-pot- Read this:
He is e phenomenon. not on ac-
count OF his extraordinary Intellectual
gifts. but owing to his abundant and
irresistible personality his magnif-
cent courage and candor. his capacity
fer enjoyment, his incredible energy,
his keen sense OF humor. his sincerity,
simplicity. boundless public spirit and
social zeal qualities rarely found in
combination. especially among the
great. wise and eminent who are
not infrequentiy pompous. self-suf1-
casnt wiRdbags-
ITO the Taper and Tadpole he is
simply 4 terror because he is a man
and not 4 mandarin
The United States is confronted by
graver problems than americans, who
are even more seIf-complacent and
1stuouEly optimistic than Englishmen,
care to admit, and It seems inconceiv-
able that the one man capable of cop
Ing with these problems should be
perman ently discarded A Roosevelt
cannot rust
Mr. Roosevelt proceeded to sign the
roll OF honorary freemen Of the city
OF London, and we have no hesitation
IN saying that among his many emf
nent predecessors few have rendered
more conspicuous service to civiIiza-
tion than the ex-presfdent of the
United States"
Roosevelt's capture OF the National
Review must be regarded as one Of
his wonderful achievements.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20
THE CHARLTON CASE.
Our Position Lacking in Dignity and
Morality.

Nobody we think. in whose mind the
sense of justice has attained even a
rudimentary development, can read the
evidently almost despairing appeal
which Captain Scott. brother of Mrs.
Charlton, has made to his government
by addressing the public without feel
ing that his arguments are convincing,
his demands reasonable, and his indig-
nation warranted.
The position of the United States in
this matter, at least so far as it is
known and understood, must be char
acterized as lacking in both dignity
and morality. 1t has been stated with
out denial that our government says
to Italy: we will turn over to you for
trial an American citizen charged with
a murder committed on Italian terri
tory if you will promise to do the same
thing when Italians accused here of
like crimes have similarly escaped to
their own country The offer, in ef-
feet. admits that Charlton ought to be
cases has no bearing for US on the
right or wrong of eXtraditiOn, and there
is no excuse for trying to strike a bar
gain.
As it happens. while Italy does not
extradita her citizens for trial abroad.
she tries them at home for crimes
committed elsewhere, and this fact
lends to her refusal a propriety which
is entirely wanting from ours The as
sumption, on most dubious grounds,
that Charlton is insane has as little
relevancy to the question, even if true.
Italy has psychiartrists as competent as
our own to determine his mental con-
dition. and they, if not quite as likely
to hold him responsible are quite like
ly enough to do so.
The alarming feature of the situa-
ton we have created is its incidental
announcement to anybody meditating
murder that if only he viii kill his Sc
lected victim abroad, and do the job
skilfully enough to get aboard a steam
er bound for the United States before
the crime is discovered, he need fear
no punishment. For though it is not
quite sure that Charlton will be set at
liberty if our attempted bargaining
fails. such confinement as he may suf-
fer will be the result of his insanity.
not of his murder and if the wretched
trade is not made. of which there
seems to be no chance his relatives
will doubtless regret that they did not
agree with everybody else recently in
communication with him in holding
him sane leaving the problem of his
wisdom unsolved.-New York Times.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20
HOMES FOR FIFTY THOUSAND.
Tract as Large as Rhode Island to Be
Opened in Sun River Valley.

The interest of land seekers has
been recently aroused in the Sun river
irrigation project in Montana, and the
remaining farms on the Fort Shaw
unit are being rapidly occupied, ac-
cording to reports received by the rec
lamation service. The favorable con-
dition of affairs is ascribed to the as
surance of transportation facilities for
the project through the prospective
immediate construction of a branch of
the Great Northern railway up Sun
river valley. The Sun river project
occupies an area equal to that of
Rhode Island and when fully develop
ed, it is said, will furnish homes for
$4,000 people Its canals will have a
total length of three thousand miles,
and the irrigation system will be one
of the largest in the United States.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20
AN INTERFERING FORCE.

A state or even a local organization
can, if it chooses a shrewd plan, put
candidates or prospective candidates
in an unjustly awkward position The
State Business Mems association is
demanding that everybody mentioned
for a political position declare himself
on the question of the passage of a
public utilities bill. It's case of hes
damned if he doesn't 1t may also in
the end prove a case of hes damned
if he does New Haven Register.
We have read the responses to the
inquiries of this association, and have
noticed that several of them were
mastery in their evasiveness. oh, the
ifs that We're in them! But they
were satisfying-they must have been,
for they seemed to commit the writer
when they did not 1t is rather bad
plan for man in public life to have
to be made responsible to a business
association, or any other association,
instead of to his conscience or his
God. Such a movement is not based
upon confidence, but upon suspicion,
and it IS never pleasing to any man
to have to lift himself out of the sus-
pected class. There is nothing polite
about it, or complimentary to the can
didates- The average voter may not
fancy the candidate who yields to
what seems to be a system of intimi-
dalton.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20
overdomesticated SQUIRRELS.

About 100 squirrels raided a bread
wagon belonging to Harold Dominier
of Paterson on Pompton turnpike. Ce-
dar Grove, N. J., yesterday and before
they were driven off number of them
We're killed and all the bread and pies
ere spoiled The driver had been de-
livering bread when the squirrels
swarmed into the wagon. He jumped
in to drive them out. The squirrels
jumped on him and bit and scratched
his head face and hands Robert
Downy came along and the squirrels
were finally driven away after a num-
Der of them had been killed There
was scarcely a loaf of bread or pie in
the wagon that had not been bitten
into by the squirrels.-New York
World.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20
Determines to Have Some Fun.

Norwich Charley is surely funny.
He says no one on the democratic
state committee paid any attention to
his first letter While the editors have
come to the conclusion that the coming
senatorial circus is to be a three-ring
show. and he proposes to attend even
ii he has to crawl in under the tent He
is going to camp this week to see all
the pig bugs and ascertain where Nor
san @, Buckley gets his pull. He
PIECES him on the delivery wa gon and
iT:timates that he left the goods al
the wrong house. That is bothering
him. Charley is very inquisitive, but
he is determined to have some fun al
Camp.-New Britain Herald.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20
ORDER FOR PosTAGs STAMPS
is INCREASED
Estimate is is to 20 Per Cent. More
Than Used Last Year.

In order that the treasury depart
ment may have information upon
which to base IT'S contracts for paper,
ink etc, for the printing of postage
stamps for the present fiscal year.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has sub
mitted an estimate of the needs of
the postal service which shows an ex-
pectation of the usual annual increase
in quantity from Is to 20 per cent.
greater than were actually used during
the fiscal year ended June 80, 1910. OF
one cent? stamps 4.024, 100000 are esti-
mated for, the number of two cent
use in slot machines provision is made
for the printing of 29,900,00O one cent
and 59,200,000 two cent stamps. OF the
total number of stamps 69,S00,000 of
the one cent denomination and $780,
500 900 of the two cent denomination
Will be put in book form.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20
GETTING READY FOR POSTAL
SAVINGS.

Since the postal savings bank has
become an assured fact. the banks are
taking an active interest in the mat
ter II is apparent enough that large
sums Of money are not safe in post
Offices. hence that safe repositories
must be had in which 10 put the money
for safe keeping Recognizing this
over geo OF the largest national banks
IN the country have asked the postal
bank trustees TO designate them as
repositories for postal savings funds
Evidently bankers are not impressed
by the prophecy that the public in
general Will take no interest in postal
banks 1t is a matter of record that
with organization still in nebuIous
state, the postofiee department is del
uEed with inquiries as to how post
Offices can be designated as postal
banks
After the authorities have designed
the system and become ready to start
II. they viii be able to give out the
Information now so generally asked
for
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20
No Fight Pictures in Maine.

Maine is placid amidst all this con-
trOVersy about the moving pictures of
the Reno fight. 1t took time by the
foreIock when it put in its statute
book the following:
Whoever publicly exhibits any pho
tographic or other reproduction of a
prize fight shall be punished by a fine
not exceeding $500
The statutes intended to discoura &c
prize fighting are many and found in
places, at times, where they would be
least expected. England is popularity
supposed to be devoted to the manly
art" yet an English law prohibits
railroad companies from transporting
persons to prize fights, under heavy
penaltias-Boston Transcript.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20
Proprietary Medicines Prescribed b,
Doctors.

Examination of the formu1ary de-
partments of leading drug stores
throughout. the country has proved
that a very large percentage of the
prescriptions filed for doctors are for
proprietary medicines.
This is because the averag e doctor
Of today IS unable to devise prescrip-
lions equally as efficacious.
Such standard remedies as Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound are
prescribed over and over again by
fair minded physicians throughout the
country. %
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20
7 hey Are Jokes.

Despite its flppancy the first letter
of Mayor Thayer made people pause to
think for a moment. 1t called atten-
ton to an unhealthy state of affairs
existent in the matter of Connecticuts
seats in the United States senate. The
Importance of the letters object was
50 apparent that the verbiage was
disregarded The second letter en-
pl1ast.zv- the Writers tendency toward
a-e<LrdIty IL speech without strength
ening his cause. 1t viii hardly serve
any purpose of rousing the public con
science add to the esteem i'll which
its writer is held. Taken at it's face
value il would be indicat ton that both
the United States seratorship and
Mayor TThayer are jokes and conse-
ouently not worthy of serious conEid-
eration.-Waterbury American.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20
Not So Funny.

Mayor Thayer's second letter on the
United States senatorship appears to-
day. 1t is IN part in the same face
tious, breezy style as his first procla-
nation. though there is a viciousuess
in il that did rot appear in his first
epistie. 1t is all right to be breezy and
fdcetlous but practically charging cor
rupt practices in the election Of United
States senators in Connecticut is
rather out Of that class of fun.-Meri-
den Journal.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20

This is the Kansas City slogan:
More work for the workingman. more
business for the business man. and a
better Kansas City for everybody" 1t
Is good enough to Mt Norwich
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20

Kansas ought TO be ashamed Of itself
-zhoutiug for 40. coo harvesters to help
ana then showing the baby crop for
1910 is 2.130 short Kansas doesn't
realize what its best crop is.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20

For pluck, patience, good humor and
mutual help go to a London slum or
to Australian gold fields.-Dean of
Perth, w. A, in The CornhiII Maya
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20

If Roosevelt does name the next can
didate for governor of New York, it
is conceded that he will name the win
ner.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20

Happy thought for today: Respec-
liability Is al right il 1t does not get
50 Intense that it takes enjoyment out
Of life instead Of putting it into it.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20

The prophecy of St. Swithin's day
was no good this year. 1t did not rain
in Norwich on that day and it rained
within the week
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20

The Boston Transcript says: Such
a little while ago the Grand Trunk was
whimpering at the door and now ev-
erybody tries to pull it in by the hair
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20

Attention is called to the fact that
the life work of Richard Watson Gill
der Melted him S37 900. while an hours
work recently gave two prize fighters
over 100000 apiece.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20

Memory is a great prize taIer ut
schools: it IS really the humblest fac
ulty of the mind.-Sir George Reid, at
Cambridge.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20

There We're enough democrats found
in Vermont to make a complete tick
ct. and Vermont is being congratulate
ed
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20

An Indiana inebriate has been SEN
fenced to live in a dry county. That
ought not TO be such a severe trial.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20

Brookins does not consider a mile
high his best achievement. He is bent
upon going higher.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20

There are men who are always
roasting something who could not get
themselves a square meal
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20

Pittsburg tells the country that Eng
lish sparrow pie is good Not for US.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20

They say at the south that the new
aeroplane hat is worn only by light
headed women.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20

Secretary Baninger is plainly told
that it is more respectable to resign
under fire than to stay and get fired
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20

In these days few offices go a-beg-
ging. The office hunters were never
more numerous
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20

A New Jersey man lived 81 years
without talking, and it saved him from
a lot of trouble.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20

Those people who are predicting a
crisis within four years should seek
more profta BILE employment.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Boston's new charter reads well, but
it has not proved to be practical.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20

Political life is just one election aft
er another with hot political letters in
between
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-20

What do we believe is more irnpor-
tant than what should we do.-Dr.
Forsyth. at Rawdon college
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-14
DEEP WELL TESTS
END IN ACCIDENT

KERN RIVER, Feb. 1S.-What looks
like a fatal accident happened few
days ago in the Santa Fe's deep we'll
on section 2, and in all probability the
interesting experiment carried on by
the company has come to an end.
There will be no deep test in Kern
River.
BY the breaking of the crown block
string of casing was dropped to the
bottom of the hole, which was about
51O0 feet in depth. At the 46OO-foot
point pipe collapsed, and, although dill
igent efforts have been made to swedge
out the crimp, there is little hope that
this will be successful.
Notwithstanding the great depth at
tanned, no oil showing of any promise
was encountered below the upper
sands. which constitute the regular
Kern River field although a tremen-
dous amount of gas constantly arose
This gas flow came from about 2600
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-14
PERFECTS ELECTRIC PLANT
FOR DRILLING OIL WELLS

MARICOPA, Feb. 13.-John F. Strait
ton, manager of the West Side Electric
company which is to supply juice to
all the fields at Maricopa and Midway,
asserts that he has perfected a method
by which electric power can be used
for drilling, pumping, pulling casing,
and every kind of work for which
steam or gasoline engines are employed,
at a cost said to be % per cent lower
than when the later methods are used.
In order to use electricity it is neces-
sary to overcome the pull of the tools,
which would be sufficient to pull the
ordinary motor from its fastenings in a
few minutes and wreck a rig. Mr..
Stratton says he has found a way to
manage this. 1t is said that operators
who have seen it are convinced it is
practicable. The saving will be found
in the nom consumption of fuel and in
the need of less help. AS the juice
is to be carried all over the west side
districts, the new method, if success
full, should become very popular, es-
pecially on account of the present diff
Guilty of getting water for boilers.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-14
TEDDY BEARS DEFEAT
FAST UPLAND SQUAD

The hard hitting Teddy Bear club
yesterday, on the Upland diamond De
feated the country team to Z. Inc
game was sensational and fast from
start to finish. Upland used the Ne,
b,asl.a indian battery. L. Smith and
r smith. but to no avail, while Seaton,
who reports to the Seattle team TINS
year, was in the box for the Bears
With McKeen on the receiving END. end
The Los Angeles team started out VIII VIII
a vengeance and sent Two runs ~ oora
the plate in the second inning pe1ore
the the country team got into the game,
seaton and Rogerson started the tire
works by sending the Spalding out
for three stations. McKeen, the next ,I
batter up for the winners, sent the s,n,ad IadI
ont for two stations. Seaton twlrie9
in GOOD form and was we'll supported
hy m the members of his team. the La La
,gs.sonda park nine wants a game next
Sunday with the Bears. score:
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-14
SANTA PAULA co.
GETS 15O-BARREL WELL

SANTA PAULA, Feb. 1S.-The DIAL
Oil company has brought in well
that will give the Santa Paula field
north of town a big boost. The hole
is about 1850 feet in depth, the oil is
II gravity and it is doing $50 barrels
per day or better. By actual test Tor
twelve hours the well made that rec
ord. Manager Miller estimates that
the well will be good for 100 barrels
day as a steady producer.
The company will rush the erection
of a 10000 barrel storage tank, and Is
now putting up the rig for we'll No. g.
The Bard company east of the OJal $
territory has brought in a good We'll
in its deep hole, but no actual figures
are given out. The Bard has two
strings Of tools running and will start
a third string Immediately There
are thirty strings running at this time
in Ventura county. The Hill Top, still
east of the Bard on the same light
streak. has struck the oil sand at $40
feet and is going down further, shut
ting off the present flow by running
in a string of eight-inch casing.
The Canadian Queen, between the
Ojai company and the Bard, has a
good showing and is going deeper.
The local machine shops are so crowd
ed with work that a night shift has
been added by Manager Shaffer.