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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11
Easx no Give Away Money.

Chicago Especially TT is hard to
give away money" declared James A.
Patten, retired Board of Trade opera
tor, at a Y. M. c. A. meeting held in.
Evanston. "a person must acquire
the habit" he added. After that it
comes easy" Then he gave the
Evanston association $4,000 with
the condition that 1t raise an addi-
tionaI $4,000 within the next ten
days. The meeting opened cam
paign for raising an Improvement
fund Of 100000.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11
KILLS HIMSELF IN HOSPITAL.
Cancer Patient Fires Bullet Into
Brain In Brooklyn.

New York (Special) Helped by
some friend. it is relieved. in secur-
ing means to carry out his desire to
die, Charles Sembrecht, a cancer pa
.tient, committed suicide by shooting
in the Seney Hospital in Brooklyn.
An engineer stumbled over his body
in the basement of the hospital. In
his right hand was clutched q re-
volver. and there was deep hole In
his right temple. No one in the hos
pital had ever seen the revolver be-
fore, and it is believed that some
friend of the sufferer had Struggled
the weapon into him.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11
Nay Have Been Caused BY Vol
canic Action.
THE ISLANDS OFF THE COAST CHANGE
Peculiar COnvulsion OF Nature On
the Coast OF Alaska- Volcanoes
Recently spouting Fire and Lava,
Rushing Water Carries Vessels
Over the Sandpits and Do Much
Damage - Buildings On Nome
Waterfront Flooded.

Nome, Alaska (Special) A ter
rife surf, unaccompanied by wind OF
disturbance Of the air, swept the
beach and across the Nome sandpit
destroying two houses and Is cabins
and doing great damage to shipping
Several schooners were wrecked. Nc
lives were lost, but many persons
had narrow escapes. The water
swept far up the streets, those near
the shore being completely mum
dated.
~ Late at night the surf began to
subside. No one here is able to &C
count for the phenomenon, which
some attribute to submarine volcanic
action and others to the recent
eclipse. The water rose to the high
est point ever seen here, reaching far
above the marks made when Boring
Sea and Norton Sound were dashed
into q fury by the Arctic storms.
The schooner Mary Sachs was pick
ed up from her mooring by the
mighty rush of waters and deposited
In a spit-dweller's yard. All the
other boats laid up for the winter
were swept far up on the beach by
the wave.
Cellars in the stores on Front
street were filled with water and the
stocks soaked. It was only by piling
sand bags about the warehouse OF
the Pacific Cold Storage Company
that the men were able to prevent
the building from being carried
away. The homeless are being cared
for by their friends.
For several months Mount Bogo-
SLOW and Mount Shishaldin, near Una
max Pass, has been spounting fire
and lava at short intervals. and the
Bogoslov Islands have been under
going peculiar contortions.
Reports are anxiously awaited
from other points along the coast.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11

A Brooklyn woman lately wrote to
the marriage license bureau of that
city to know If she could be supplied
with q good, honest. sober husband.
The clerk in charge explained that.
while he had a few model men oD
hand. they were all married and the
supply was entirely too limited for
the demand. The fact that the matri-
monial market is understocked with
honest. sober husbands may be one
reason why the divorce courts are
overcrowded.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11
Suicide Ends Chase.

charlottesville. Mo. Especially =
While he was being trailed by blood
hounds for the murder of 16-year-
old Anna Austin, Martin Rollins COM
mitted suicide by shooting. Rollins
shot the girl to death on Monday
last. sent the shells from which the
fatal charges we're fired to her
mother, fred Sheriff Franklin's barn
and then ned. Posses had since
been trailing him and had he been
caught there was danger Of : lynch
Ing.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11
Anto and Car Crash.

Grand Rapids, Mich. Especial -
Charles H. westover. conductor, was
killed, and Mrs. Westover. Henry J.
Horrigan. a prominent attorney and
member of the Republican State Com
mittee, and Mrs. Horrigan were seri-
ously injured in collision between
an electric street car and an auto
mobile occupied by the Horrigans.
The auto rapidly turned sharp corr
ner in front of the car.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11

Panama Especially. - A special
meeting of the municipal council has
been called to dismiss from office Al
derman Antonio Garlic and to repu-
date the speech he made last night
denouncing America and Americans.
The occasion was Independence Day.
and Garlic had been selected as the
ofiicial orator.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11
Impersonator or uncle Sam.

Tucson, Ariz. Especially William
Smith. a native of New York, famed as
an impersonator of the character of
Uncle Sam from his remarkable like
ness toscartoons, died in a hospital at
the age of 81 years. He died in pow
erty and friends started subscrip-
ton list to prevent his body being
inferred in Potter's field. Post card
pictures of Smith are sold every
where in the Southwest.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11
Buys Conn; Burns To Death.

Enterprise. Ala. Especially After
having purchased comm, which she
kept in her home, and having had an
elaborate tombstone placed ON her
lot in q nearby cemetery, Miss Katie
Marsh, an eccentric character who
lived alone in the country near here.
was found dead on her porch. Her
clothing was partly burned on and
her death is believed to have been
accidental.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11
OIL ON FIRE; -FOUR DEAD.
Mother and Three Children Burn
i From Kerosene Explosion.

Mother and Three Children Burn
From Kerosene Explosion.
Pekin. Ill. Especially AN attempt
to start the kitchen ire with kero-
sene cost the lives Of Mrs. Mary No
voesel and her three children, twins
aged i've years. and a five-months-
old baby.
Mrs. Novoesel was trying to pour
kerosene from lamp. which ignited.
and an explosion followed. With
her clothing ablaze she ran into the
bedroom where her husband and
three children were asleep. Her
husband had been making frantic eff
forts to smother the flames. but fail
ed to do so and the bed clothing
catching fire the children as well as
the mother were burned to death.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11

The pessimist can always find food
for gloomy thought. The facts that the
census shows . big increase in popu-
Aation while the death rate lie de-
ereasing win prove to that individual.
who. like the proverbial Scotchman. Is
never happy unless he is miserable,
that the nation Is going to be over
crowded until somebody has to be
showed on the earth to make room for
ehe rest
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11
LAUGHS SELF 10 DEATH.
Joke About Hobble Skirts Is Fatal
TO Tailor OF 40.

T
Eagle. Wis Especially A newspa-
per story quoting DR.. Ross, of the
state university, as declaring the
hobble skirt would be followed by
ribbons tied around women's noses
and slit dheeks, caused Edward Bos-
singham, aged 70. tailor. to laugh
himself to death. Although physicians
declared that death was due to. heart
failure, the heart failure resulted
from hearty laughing.
Tired from his days work, Mr..
Bossingham sat next to his wife be-
fore the huge coal stove and laugh
ed while his wife read him the news
Of the day, column after column.
from Milwaukee newspaper. The
hobble skirt story brought on the
fatal laugh.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11

Washington, d. G. Especially .-Up-
holding the sweeping advance IN
rates on Southeastern traffic on
many classes and commodities a
justified by the condition of the rail.
roads and the needed improved facil-
tiles, the Interstate Commerce Com.
mission in divided decision dismiss,
ed the cases Instituted by the rail.
road commissions of Alabama and
Georgia and the A. p. Morgan Grain
Company and others. The decision
may have an important bearing on
other pending cases.
The Southwest shippers case.
which was heard by the commission
and taken under advisement and the
wholesale increases in rates by the
railroads generally, now suspended
by the commission pending investi-
cation, are important cases pending.
The decision involved the Atlantic
Coast Line, the Louisville and Nash
Vile and other roads as defendants.
The advances involved were made ON
August 1, 1908, and the majority
opinion written by Commissioner
Cockrell, held that they were not
found to be unjust, unreasonable ov
unduly discriminatory The decision
covered the advances generally to
Georgia, Alabama, Florida and the
Carolinas from Ohio and Mississippf
River crossings.
The majority opinion holds that
both the adjustment of rates between
Birmingham and Atlanta and the adj
vances made August I, 1908, were
based on increases in taxation and In
the prices of material and labor. The
condition of most Of the railroads in
this section Of the country the major
ity opinion says SIS not yet up to the
highest standard and that in order
that their facilities may be improved
and extended to the ultimate lasting
advantage Of the people OF the South.
1t is necessary that the carriers be
permitted by charge rates that ara
fully compensatory for the services
they perform so long as such rates
have not been shown to be unjust.
unreasonable or excessive. with re-
spect to the public.
I'VE are unable to hold that an adj
vance is unreasonable because some
part of the benefit therefrom will ac-
crue to carrier that during the
period Of the last ten years has
regularly paid interest on It's total
bonded debt and in addition thereto
has recently paid dividends upon itS
stock. Congress has not seen at to
give the commission supervision Of
the stock and bond issue of the vari-
GUS carrier corporations engaging In
interstate commerce, nor has any
physical valuation of railroad prop
erty been authorized by Federal ad-
thority.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11

Girls caught shoplifting in Philadel-
phia explained that 'they wanted to
Ds stylish" In order to satisfy that
desire they should have confined their
hnisdeeds to smuggling.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11

Trust science to rise to every emer-
gency. It says we are all going in,
sane from living in fats, and now q
wtench surgeon is going to saw open
cnr heads and scrape away the foolish
e1ncies.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11

That marriage is the worst kind Of
: failure il the opinion Of a Gotham
broker who ia paying his first wife
$40 2 month alimony and whose sec.
ond wife wants alimony to the tune Of
$500 more.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11
Steal Body OF Ex-Governor.

Bisbee, Arizona Especially Re
ports from Cananea, Sonora, Mexico
say that the body of former Cover
onr Rafael Yzabel, of Sonora. has
been stolen. Governor Yzabel died
recently while returning from Eu-
rope. and the body was buried last
week at Hermosillo.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11
IN AIR -FOUR HOURS.
Two Aeronauts Fly From Pittsield.
Mass. to Monterey.

Pittsfield. Mass. Especially The
two French aeronauts. Jacques Faure
and Walter de Mum, who made a
balloon fight from here in the bal
loon Pittsfield, landed in Monterey.
twenty miles south of here, accord
ing to message received here. The
balloonists were in the air more than
four hours. Both of the men took
a train for New York shortly after
landing.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11
Mine Watcbman KILLED.

Myersdale, Pa. Especially Will
liam Tressler, while on duty as
Waterman at one of the mines near
here. was shot and killed. seven bull
let's entering his body. He is
thought to have been killed by some
person found near the mine who was
trespassing on the company's prop
erty.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11
90 DAYS ON WATER DIET.
Professor Who Lived On Peanuts
Two Months VIII Bar Solids.

TWO MOnCns VIII baF SOtl0s.
Aurora, ILL., Especial Professor
Thomas J. Allen, former president of
Aurora College, who three years ago
lived on raw peanuts for so days to
prove their worth as food, announced
that he will go on 60-day diet of
water without any solid food. barring
even peanuts.
DR.. Allen read three years ago
that boy in the southern part of
the state died from eating too many
peanuts. He said the boy could not
have died from that cause. and to
prove it undertook the 60-day peanut
diet. eating them raw. Each day
he allowed himself to be examined
by a physician. He finished the so
days and then toasted on bananas.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11

Football this year win have to COM
pete with aviation. but as there seems
20 be NO good way to use college yen
- connection with an airship the grid
kcn sport win have some advantages.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11

4 japanese scientist claims that he
an educate oysters to produce per-
nsct pearls This may be glad news.
nov that the season ID open to tho
Datrons q the restaurant pearl fish-
sEies.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11

a Tokyo cable announces the Japar
hese win make dash for the south
pole 70 try and beat the American and
British expeditions. The more the
mnerrier. And may the best man win
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11

We gather that the Brooklyn wom-
An who named sixty-three co-respon-
dents in her divorce suit. really de-
serves to win It.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11

Those who have been wondering as
@ whether America would produce
new race have their answer. The
Aobble skirt race has been inaugura-
zeed on Long Island. 1t was won In
seven falls.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11

New York bulldog turns on the gas
and commits suicide. Even a dog
cant stand the dogs life New York
ar leads.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11
Died At Age OF 102.

Utica, N. Y. Especially Mrs.
Hela Hurd Cook. one Of the few real
daughters of the American revolu-
ton. died at Clydeton at the age of
102 years.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11

A western man claims he IL insane
and brings forward as proof the fact
that be was married three times in
three months. Insane" is an made.
lquate word. We opine.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11

New York has formed 9 league to
Danish French from the bill Of fare.
Merely to call chef cook would be
4 great gain.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11

Now the sultan Of Sulu says that
one wife Is plenty. Thus he destroys
Ms usefulness as comic opera prop
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11
RATE ADVANCE
IS SUSTAINED
Interstate Commerce Commission
Gives Permission.
the RAILROADS NEED THE MONEY,

Divided Decision Handed Down Dis.
missing the Cases Instituted By
the Railroad Commissions OF Ala
bama and Georgia--It Is Expected
To Have An Important Bearing On
Wholesale Increase OF Rates By
the Observation-Disclosures Held To
Be Reasonable.
Arizona republican., 1910-02-25
PERSONAL MENTION

Guests at the Hotel Adams are: l.. H. Smith, San Francisco; C. C.. Hillebrand. Los Angeles; w. H. Bras well. Louisville: T. A Mcvicar. New York; c. H. Warney. New York; A. P. Smith, Chicago; l.. R. Adams. San Francisco; R. A. Hener. New York: N. Essik. Los Angeles: Mrs. J. H. Slaughter. w. H. Slaughter and wife. Miss Olive J. Roneche. Douglas; Miss c. Cahill, Miss R. kraling, Sacaton; MT. and Mrs. F. w. Galer. Novata. okla: A. C. Sieboth. Florence; o. l.. Hansen and wife. and daughter, Se- attle: NJ. Greenberg, San Francisco; P. J. Woodson.
 At the Ford are: William Stroyer. Washington, b. C.: A. T. Kenyon, Los Angeles; C. Thorpe, Los Angeles; K. M. Shaw and wife, Mrs. Speed, Pe- oria: B. E. Balgeat. Van Vert, O. At the Commercial are: John M. Wilson. Ray: George C. Buierre. Win kelman; w. H. Peck, Eskalaka, Mont; ; J. E. Anderson. Roosevelt; D. NJ Lee; R. A. Moercure; Vim. Boirs, Los An geles.
Arizona republican., 1910-02-25
DEATH OF PROMINENT
 ARIZONA CLERGYMAN
The Rev. George Selby of Yuma Died
 Suddenly Yesterday Morning.

Word was received in Phoenix yes terday that the Rev. George Selby. the priest in charge of St. Paurs Episcopal church at Yuma, died there of heart disease yesterday morning. Bishop J. Mills Kendrick left last night for Yuma to conduct the funeral services.
 MT. Selby was well known over the two territories, both as a clergyman and as an educator. He was a native of Scotland, and when he came to this country taught school for some time in Illinois. When he first came to the territories it was as a school teacher. He became the superintend- ent of public schools at Deming, N. M., and then principal of the terri torial normal school at Silver City. New Mexico.
 At about 50 years of age he entered the ministry. He was at Las Vegas. x. NJ. for six years, at Globe two years, and at Tucson two years. From Tucson he went to Yuma. where he has been about two years.
 The last time he was in Phoenix was about a year ago, when he was present at the celebration of Bishop Hendricks twentieth anniversary as bishop of this diocese. He leaves a wife, but no children.
Arizona republican., 1910-02-25
BETTER REPORTS OF
 RANGE CONDITIONS
Particularly Gratifying Is the News
 From Some of the Sheep Camps.

From sheep owners recently arriv- ing in town it is pleasing to learn that conditions are not as detrimental to their flocks as some of the earlier reports have indicated. It is true that some of the sheep owners who ventured too far into the valley for their shearing. to find that owing to lack of rain there is an absence of the usual browse and grass at this time of the year. have lost quite heav- fly, and will lose more of their young lambs and their older sheep. Still it is also true that many of the sheep owners, noting these conditions, did not come as far south as usual, and the winter in more northern attitudes has not been as severe on the sheep as was feared while back.
 It is reported that the dry grass in the foothills is even better than usual. owing to the frequent rains last fall. and furnishes very satisfactory fod- der when there is no green grass available. The browse, too, is good in the hills, and many of the middle aged sheep do finely on that. The older sheep, with broken teeth or no teeth at all will doubtless suffer con- siderably. and many will perhaps die. The young ewes also who are forced to live on browse will to some extent neglect or desert their lambs, and the latter will some of them die. But it is said the middle-aged ewes are do- ing we'll and from them it is expected there will be a lamb crop of 75 per cent, which is not at all bad. Alto gether. the conditions, while not as flattering as some years, might be a great deal worse.
Arizona republican., 1910-02-25

court at Eau Claire. Wis, to determ- inc the inheritance tax on the $60.00O estate of the late C. B. Daniels of that city has come to a temporary stop on account of a complex question arising over the determination of the tax on one of the legacies- In this will Mir. Daniels left 5000 for the care of his black mare. Flora, now aged 30, What ever was left from the $4.000 after the horse died was to go to the Presby- terian church. and legacy left church is not taxable. It must be ascertained how much longer the ani- nal will live and what part of the S4,OOO it will take to maintain her.
Arizona republican., 1910-02-25
LULU IN FEMININE FASHIONS.
A Miracle Has Come to Psss-No One Can Find Out What the Fash.
 ions Are.

Never before has such a winter been known. miracle has come to pass and one hesitates to say what it means. IL is-the information is giv- en with lower voice-that no one can find out what the styles are. There is disclosure to thrill the blood. All the men who have railed at womens ex- travagance and sheeplike changeable- ness and all the women who have longed to wear what suited them re- gardless of its bearing on what was decreed by fashion should enjoy this time to its fullest It may never come again and we ought to make the most of it. Let us revel in the fact that everyone is wearing differently cut skirts and coats and doing it with that light which can only come from the knowledge that no one is able to definitely say, This is out of style" or This is in" Everyone is cautious ly wearing last years clothes. because if one has new frOcks, how shall they be made? No one can tell us. No mat ter on what we decide it may at any moment be made wrong. In the mean time we wait, wear what we please. anu tiC bdPPiHcSS dUOuuuS hIlOWS no limit
 Some people are in dreadful bother. They have for years been following a clearly defined stream. which has sud- denly spread itself over many marshy meadows. so that everything is slight ly damp and fresh, but a strong cur rent is nowhere to be found. 1t is most democratic in its effect We are all in the same situation. forced to admit that everyone else may be right and we quite wrong. lenient. uncertain, as smart as anyone else. but not awfully smart at that. It is like being cast on desert island; the thing one swan ashore in is of necessity ones best dress. though on ship it might have been considered informal. Fashion has receded, left us high and dry. and we are having perfectly beautiful time feeling dashing in what under usual circumstances would be unfit for self respecting wear.-New York Evening Sun.
Arizona republican., 1910-02-25

It is true. of course, that Phoenix as a community is minus a goodly sum of money that would have been spent here had there been more shear ing in this vicinity, but Phoenix can't have all the good things all the time.
 The cattle men are suffering con- siderably. principally from the fact that their stock is not as fat as they had reason to hope it would be at this time. However, there is now promise of rain, from layman's standpoint, though there have been no official announcements on the sub ject, and there is quite universal wish that the freshening showers may not be long delayed A good general rain and few more warm days like those of the last week will bring out the vegetation in hurry.
Arizona republican., 1910-02-25

and full of quarry water was easy to work and that it grew harder when the sap had dried out. Hence stone was frequently cut and set in a build- ing before it had seasoned. and thus fell victim to frost. Now the archi- tect and the builder know the danger in certain varieties of green stone and provide against it in their speci- fications. No one expecting a satis- factory and durable job would think of using unseasoned timber, and simi- lar safeguards are called for in the use of stone.
 Much of the defective stone work of the past was caused by neglect of a fundamental principle in stone masonry-the need to set all stone of a markedly stratified or iaminated formation on it's natural bed. As such stone splits most readily along the plane of stratification. the easiest way was to split it up for thin ashlar and set it upright in the wall. But this quality of cleavage naturally caused 1t
Arizona republican., 1910-02-25
The public accountants report said:

"The work of the Department and its development is hs d H 4s t ns mne uy m ;s,s @ U v9 many reforms which might otherwise be instituted are hndered-f not entirely prevented-by appeals to the ago under entirely different conditions Then, again, the conservatism of Government officials is generally admitted fact There is nducement to employees to suggest improvements in the for the that if these improvements result in greater efficiency economy of administration they will receive little credit; and the other hand if methods successful they will be charged with the whole blame"
Arizona republican., 1910-02-25

LEGACY TO HORSE TIES UP TAX.
Arizona republican., 1910-02-25

A hearing in progress in the county