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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-13
ARMY AND NAVY

The United States has devised a
system of military targets by means
of wiring which has resulted in SUCH
accurate hits as to have scored a per
centage of one hundred.
The military by which these NOV
ing targets have been tried believe
that no foreign system is superior to
the one this country has adopted.
The guns can be trained on these
targets at sea or by land at dis
lance of four hundred miles. Firing
can be operated by a system of wis
ing the guns.
Target practice worked on this
principle, which was at first in the
nature of an experimental trial, has
proved satisfactory beyond great eX-
pectations.
When the coast artillery are prac-
ticing with their large guns a. tug Is
used to arrange the targets far out
at sea.
The strong searchlights now used
by Uncle Sans service are practi-
cally all twenty-four-inch mirror and
gears. The smaller diameter lights
have been put aside for the larger
ones that are now used with great
success. For it has been demonstrat-
ed that the size is fully adequate to
cover any object to be picked up ut
sea, or that is wanted to be covered
by the strong rays brought into the
for investigation, as it were.
Rays from these searchlight towers
probably reach a distance of nine
miles. But it has been found to be
of no immediate benefit to the gunner
to see a ship or an object at such a
distance more than just to distinguish
its nature. For should the figure
thus brought within the stream of
light prove to be a ship, on account
of the geographical formation of the
earth the mizzen's top only could be
brought within shooting range at
great distance.
Nearer the ship to the station Of
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The ALEXANDER HUNTING PABTY

Miss Annie NJ. Alexander, niece Of
Professor w. d. Alexander, who has
probably shot more big game than
any other American woman and who
was with her father at the falls OF
Victoria Nyanza, when he received
fatal injuries from a falling rock is
the woman referred to in the follow
ing account of a Berkeley University
wilderness expedition:
BERKELEY, July 2.-Results of a
scientific expedition sent by the Uni
versity of California to northern
Humboldt county, Nevada, and collec-
lions made in the Pine Forest noun
tains, in Virginia valley, were made
public here yesterday by Walter %.
Taylor, curator of mammals i'm the
California Museum of Vertebrate
Zoology, when announcement was
made of the discovery of three en-
tirely new species of animals Of
which scientists had no previous
knowledge.
In reporting on the findings of the
expedition Taylor stated that a pecul-
lar factor in the trip followed the
failure to discover many species Of
the big game supposed to exist in the
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-13
SOME RESULTS Of INTERNATIONAL
PLAGUE CONFERENCE; RATS NOT
INFECTED CURING THE EPIDEMIC
Correspondence Chicago NewsD

Correspondence Chicago News.)
PEKIN, China, May 2O.-The inter
national plague conference concluded.
the delegates went on to Pekin to pass
four days in a round of sightseeing
and entertainment as the guests of
the Chinese government.
The interim report presented to the
Chinese government, consisting of a
summary of the evidence prepared by
the editorial committee and a series
OF resolutions upon various subjects
drafted by subcommittee and submit
ted to the conference in plenary ses-
sions for approval, is not to be made
public until the complete record of
the conference is published. In the
meantime, however, it may not be in
opportune to summarize briefly the
evidence laid before the conference.
There are strong grounds for believ-
ing that the popular theory according
to which the inception of the epidemic
was due to infected tarabagans is cor
rect. The American delegates have
shown not only that this animal is ex-
tremely susceptible to plague. but
that it suffers from form of subacute
or chronic plague, which may give a
clew to the cause of the disease being
epidemic in North Manchuria and
Mongolia
Rats Free From Plague.
Only one case has been reported in
which a rat was found to be plague
infected during the Manchurian cpl
demic, though upward of 10000 ro-
dents were examined by the Chinese
and Japanese authorities. One dog is
reported to have died of plague in
Dairen, and there are circumstantial
accounts of infection among mules,
which are believed, in some instances,
to have carried plague into previously
uninfected. villages. Though climate
and other natural influences may have
contributed directly or indirectly to
the decline of the epidemic, the chief
factor in its eradication appears to
have been the drastic preventive
measures taken by the Russian, Jap
anese and Chinese authorities.
1t has been conclusively demonstrate
ed that there was no decrease in the
virulence of the bacillus during the
latter stages of the epidemic, and evil
tence has been adduced to show that
even in small villages and hamlets the
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mountains, despite the wildness of
the country and the sparse popula-
ton. The only big game species dis
covered were the mule deer, the
prong-horned antelope, the coyote
and the wildcat.
The exploring party was composed
of Miss Annie NJ. Alexander, furnish
ing the expedition: Taylor, Miss
Louise Kellogg and Charles II. Rich
ardson.
Three new species of animals were
found and collections made of thirty
four known types of small animals.
The new species discovered by the
scientists are known as the Nevada
golden-mantled ground squirrel, the
Nevada wood rat and the intermedi-
ate short-tailed meadow mouse.
The new variety of squirrel, accord
ing to Taylor are found making their
homes in inches in granite powders
and are very shy. The Nevada wood
rat ranges in the Great basin region
of Nevada, making its home in tho
sage brush. The new variety or
mouse was discovered at the head of
Big creek at an elevation of 5000
feet.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-13
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EASTERN AND
LOCAL TREATMENT OF KEIOS

The Friend: There were several of
us who wanted to have the young
men, fresh from their tour on the
mainland, treated as students of an
American college would be treated
aye, even a little better. for interna-
tional friendship sake. We figured
that they would have received many
courtesies at the hands Of American
students, and we did not want an an
ti-climax here. The interest in Keio
and its baseball team began way back.
In Tokyo their representatives came
to the hotel to see the writer, to en-
quire about their prospects in Homo
lulu. He warned them that there was
more money in the professional Sun
day kind of ball they were playing at
the Athletic Park (Which back East
we used to call "mucker" BALD, but
said that if the schools and colleges
in Hawaii took the matter up, there
would be good ball, not so much
money Though all the net returns
would be theirs), but that they would
be treated like gentlemen. No de-
NAL could be made to his statement,
that no respectable team from any
college east of the Rockies would play
them on Sunday AS a result of this
talk, they were reported in the next
issue of the Japan Times as deter
mined to play no Sunday ball on their
American tour. OF course, this had
nothing to do with religious consid.
erations.
When a letter came to Mr.. Richards
from Mr.. Jones, the manager in ia
pan, asking what could be done in
the interests of Keio which would put
them on the social plane where they
belonged, some gentlemen represent
ing Oahu College and Kamehameha
and the Mid-Pacifc Institute were
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the searchlight more advantageous
would be shot designed or sent on
a message Of destruction and death,
maybe. Hence except for warning as
to approaching dangers, a searchlight
that is a close neighbor to a gun need
not be strong enough to locate OBJ
jects at more than three or four miles
distance.
This fine target record, however,
as worked out by this military sys-
TEN, is practically perfect. The
searchlights serve as beacons by
night.
Less Army Posts.
WASHINGTON, June 26.-The War
Department is preparing to reduce the
number of army posts in the United
States by one-half, according to Mai.
Leonard Wood, chief of staff of the
army, who was a witness today before
the House comittee on expenditures in
the War Department. This is in line
with the policy of concentration of
the armed land forces of the United
States, which has been worked out
by the Army War College and eventu-
ally, Gen. Wood said, will result in
economy. But, owing to what he call
ed the "ill-advised" location OF army
posts in past years and the CONTINUING
expenditure OF money on them, II APP
peared to the committee as if, initially,
the government will have to abandon
of dollars worth of property
if the general staff plan is carried
out.
Commenting on the recent activity
of United States troops along the
Mexican frontier, Gen. Wood said that
the proposition, as a mobilization of a
skeleton force, was a success, but as
a mobilization of a war-strength divi-
sion was a failure. There had been,
he said, no adequate preparation for
reserve war supplies.
Continued or page ten.)
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WASHINGTON, June 25.-AS Re
publican policy the protective tariff
faces a most dangerous trial in the
present revision of schedule by SEIZED
HIe
The situation has been forced upon
the dominant party by the House Dem
ocrats.
This, with the demand of the pro-
gressive Republicans that the tariff be
reduced to meet the difference in cost
of labor and material at home and
abroad, has brought the question be-
fore the people as an issue in the
coming campaign more forcibly than
in many years.
1t is the opinion Of Democratic lead.
ers that high tariff laws have been
passed simply because the whole sub
ject was considered at one time and
that one section dealt with another in
protecting local interests. The prec-
edent which has existed in all pre-
yious tariff discussions has been to
take up the industry of the entire
country. This was broken by the
Democrats, who conceived the idea
that there should be no combinations
made which would keep together the
tariff law.
For the first time since tariff laws
have been enacted the Democrats, in
the opinion of their leaders, have
struck at the weak point of the tariff
law-making system, schedule revision.
The result, they say, is that each
schedule is considered scientifically
and economically, with regard to the
revenues, and without log-rolling with
respective sections of the country to
protect a local industry.
With the Democrats continued in
power in the House next session, this
plan will be carried out. Their leaders
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say tariff bill will be evolved which
will not deal with the country rela-
lively, but on the basis of what prod
ucts and industry will produce sut-
ficient revenue. Such revision, the
Republicans say, will effect reduc.
ton of the Payne-Aldrich bill in some
cases from 80 to 100 per cent and
wipe out the actual principle of pro.
lection.
1t cannot be prevented except by
the union of insurgents and Repub-
lican stalwarts in the Senate. Presi-
dent Taft and the Democratic regular
leaders are now offering concessions
to the insurgents which may effect
harmony.
The Democrats devised the sched-
ule revision as the only honest way to
consider tariff" said Representative
A. Mitchell Palmer of Pennsylvania, a
member Of the ways and means COM
mittee. ut is the only right way to
take up the tariff. For instance, the
Pennsylvania members have always
helped protect lumber and wool, in
order to get a high tariff continued
on iron and steel and manufactured
articles. In the consideration of the
tariff schedules by the ways and
means committee this session we have
found out just how much revenue
certain article would bring into the
country and then reduced the tariff to
an extent to furnish necessary reve-
nue..
1--WE will continue in the next ses-
sion as we have started.
Il think by proceeding on this line
the Democrats viii devise the best
tariff law ever reported and one which
the Republicans, because of the de-
mands of the country will be forced
to pass in the Senate"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-13
INCIDENTS OF THE MAIDEN
VOYAGE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC
OF LARGEST STEAMER AFLOA7

NEW YORK, June 21.-The White
Star steamship Olympic, with her
SS21a feet of fresh painted black
sides, slid into port today and gave
New York its first glimpse of the
largest ship afloat.
She left Quarantine at 8 o'clock
and was tied up at pier SO on the
minute of 10. Eighteen tugboats
were used in warping the ship into
her berth and this operation was
6one with remarkable quickness, con-
sidering the size of the vessel.
The Olympic completed her maiden
voyage over the long course, a dis
lance of 1884 miles, in days IS
hours and AZ minutes. Her average
speed was 211a knots an hour and
her longest days run, 54S nautical
miles.
All the way up from Quarantine
there was a continuous series of sa-
lutes for the new floating hotel, and
no matter how small or how smoky
the craft was which saluted her,
the three whistles were returned by
the Olympic. Soon after the ship
passed the Cunard piers, the Lusi-
tania, sailing a little after o'clock,
pushed out into the river. She was
just astern of the Olympic and there
was a good chance to compare the
size of the two ships. Those on the
boat deck of the Olympic could look
down on the swarming deck of the
Lusitania and the greater size of the
Olympic was very apparent.
It was a millpond passage and
there was hardly a move ont of the
ship to suggest seasickness to the
passengers. Light winds and seas
were the rule, and the 4S9 first cabin
passengers, 263 second and 564 third
class on board spent most of the
time on deck. The second-class pas.
sengers, in fact, were compelled for
amusement to ride up and down on
their elevator and to institute boxing
matches, in which even the women
passengers tried a hand.
The great liner, in command of
Captain e. ]. Smith, R. N. R., sailed
from Southampton on last Wednes-
day at noon and from Queenstown
the next day at 4 o'clock in the aft
ernoon, after touching at Cherbourg.
Soon after leaving Southampton she
passed through a great fleet of Brit
ish warships anchored off Spithead,
awaiting the coronation review. The
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called together. They cordially as
scented to the plan of making the
Keios the guests of those institutions,
arranging games for them and giving
them all the net receipts. Manager
Ballentyne kindly offered the use of
the old baseball grounds, and all that
remained was to get teams. Then we
discovered that we could not get
enough teams of an amateur kind
that would warrant first-rate games
to insure good attendance and conse-
quently good returns to the Keios.
The reasons for this state of affairs
are somewhat complicated, and per-
haps do not belong in an article writ
ten only to show what we would have
liked to do for the Keio boys. This
much may fairly be said: Many of the
so-called student teams here are dan
gerously near professionalism. AS to
how much Sunday ball has had to do
with this, we have our own opinion
The players individually may claim
that the money that is paid their team
does not come to them, but they APP
pear to be bound by signed agree
ment with their managers, which
links them to Sunday and Athletic
Park.
1t should be said, however, that
President Chillingworth of the League
was most courteous in his willingness
to have this question resubmitted, but
it was found that local Japanese gem
tlemen had cabled authority for 60
ing ahead on the basis of former
agreement. So any change of plans
was given up.
1t is a queer and regrettable thing
that no student teams can be found
here to play Keio on student terms,
and that their rules made for Ameri-
ca should have to be reversed for Ha-
wall.
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British sailors in the fleet lined the
rails, and gave the big liner a lustY
sendoff. There were about seventy
five men of war in the anchored
squadron. The Olympic encountered
no fog until Monday night, when off
the Banks, when she was slowed
down from until II o'clock.
There was dance on deck that
night, but it did not begin until the
fog blew away, as the orchestra could
not compete successfully with the
fog horn. Today the liner passed
Fire Island shortly after midnight,
and at 1925 o'clock this morning she
was off the lightship. The pilot had
been taken aboard east of the light
ship, and as the night was a beauti-
full, clear one it was decided to come
up to Quarantine. Gingerly the great
ship crept up the Ambrose Chanual
with Pilot julius Adler in charge, and
anchored in Quarantine at 4:3O
o'clock.
With a fortymile gale blowing as
the sun climbed over the trees down
opposite Bay Ridge, the ponderous
new ship swung to her anchors with
fleet of other liners in the neigh
borhood, but all looking very small
in comparison. There were an Aus
trian liner, an Italian, two Hamburg
American ships from the West In
dies and a Royal Mail liner, the
Magdalena, which had the honor of
being in Quarantine at the same time
as the Olympic. With the westerly
wind whistling and the Narrows a
river of blue, it was a fine marine
spectacle.
The mail boats and the health Off
GERS boat seemed like flies against
her side. The men from the govern
ment cutters went on board through
a port in the port side, forward. In
going UP to the ship, it appeared that
she was no higher than the Rotterdam
and that her bow was sharper than
is generally the rule with White Star
boats. Also noticeable was the alb
sence of the big ventilator hoods
usually seen on the superstructure of
a liner.
Two men appeared walking around
inside the rim of the last of the four
tunnels. and that called attention to
the fact that a new ventilating sys-
tenn is used in the ship and that part !
CONTINUED on Page ten.)
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devastation wrought by pneumonia
plague frightened the inhabitants into
taking Grade but nevertheless effectuaI
precautions.
Spread Of Infection.
The only definite evidence produced
III regard to the spread of infection
supported the theory that the disease
was introduced in every center by the
arrival of persons actually suffering
from plague or incubating the disease.
There has been no reliable evidence
to show that pneumonia plague can
be carried by clothing or merchandise
or by vermin. A series of interesting
experiments performed by the japan.
csc and American delegates NAV be
taken to prove conclusively that the
breath of the sufferer is not infective
apart from particles of sputum ex-
PEELED by coughing, or possibly by for
chile speaking The sputum is infec-
tive so long as it remains moist or
frozen, and it has been suggested that
dust can only carry infection by act
ing as the medium for small particles
of moist or frozen sputum. Houses
need not be regarded as infective
apart from the presence of infected
sputum.
The incubative period of pneumonia
plague appears to vary from about two
days to seven days, but is usually
three to five days, No types of plague
have been encountered but primary
pneumonia, or pneumonia and septi.
caemic combined. By some experts
the pulse is regarded as the earliest
diagnostic sign, by others, including
Professor Zabolotny. the temperature
is relied upon. The absence of
marked physical Signs in the chest
during the early stages renders dag
nosis difficult.
Nearly All Die.
Prognosis is unfavorable, less than
five recoveries having been recorded.
In regard to the value of prophylactic
NEGOTIATIONS with vaccines there has
been considerable difference of opin.
ion, but it seems to be generally con-
coded that the value of plague vac
cines and sera during a pneumonia
epidemic is doubtful.
The foremost delegates at the con-
ference have been DR.. Strong of Amer
lea, Prof. Zabolotny of Russia and
Profs. Shibayama and Fujinami of
Japan.
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THE TARIFF TO Be THE ISSUE
AGAIN IN NATIONAL CAMPAIGN

WASHINGTON, June 25.-As a Re
publican policy the protective tariff
faces a most dangerous trial in the
present revision of schedule by SEIZED
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-16
THE DRUGGIST KNEW
FROM EXPERIENCE

have been selling DIR. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root for the past three years
and those OF my customers who buy
st, speak favorably regarding it. have
used it In my own family with good
results, and l believe the preparation
has great curative value You may use
this as you like. Very respectfully,
C. B. RUPE & SON,
BY G. B. Rupe, Mgr.
Seymour, Texas.
Personally appeared before me this
goth day of July, 1909, C. B. Rupe,
Druggist, who subscribed the above
statement and made oath that the
same is true in substance and in fact.
R. G. JAMES,
j. P and Ex-Officio.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-16

NOTICE AND PROCLAMATION.
To the Qualified Electors of the City
of Keokuk and to whom it may con-
Germ:
You are hereby notified that on the
9th day of April, 1911. application
was made by Joseph o. Proctor, Jr.,
for the grant of franchise to him,
his successors, lessees and assigns,
comforting the right to erect and
maintain poles and wires in the city
of Keokuk for the transmission and
distribution of electric energy for
light, heat, power and other purposes
in accordance with the terms Of a
certain proposed ordinance, a draft
of which is now on file in the office
of the city clerk of the city Of Keo-
kuk, Iowa, as part of said application
and being in words and figures as fol-
lows, to-wit:
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HartzelI & McCrory, Solicitors LOT
Complainants.

HartzelI & McCrory, Solicitors ior
Compliments.
MASTERS SALE OF REAL ESTATE
SALE of valuable improved real es-
tate in the neighborhood OF Warsaw,
Hancock county, Illinois. The ola
Crawford homestead, with about 5oo
acres of land, consisting of NUMBER
of tracts short distance from the
dam. A large farm house and barn on
the premises.
One of the last opportunities to op-
tain valuable real estate near the
great river Improvement. 1t Is near
the end of electric line to Keokuk, la.
Under decree in Alzira F. Stockton
ct al, VS.. John C. Crawford ct al, IN
Circuit Court Of Hancock County, I'LL
nois, I will, at the front door OF the
Hill-Dodge Banking Company, In War
saw, Hancock County, illinois, on
Saturday, the 3oth day of Nav, A. D.
1911,
at the hour of 2 o'clock in the alter
noon of said day. sell the following
described real estate situated In the
county of Hancock and state Of I'LL
nois, towit:
The northeast quarter of section
twenty-four ga; the northwest quar-
ter of section twenty-four (24); the
east half of the northeast quarter OF
section twenty-three (23), and the
northwest quarter of section twenty
three (23), In township four (4) north
of the base line, Range nine (9) vest
of the Fourth Principal Meridian.
Also. the south half Of the north
west quarter of section eighteen (1S)
in Township three co, north OF the
base line, Range eight (S) west OF
the Fourth Principal Meridian. ex
cept seventy-four (74) acres off the
west end and twenty COO acres of
the east end thereof; the same con
tanning ten and thirty-three one-hun
dredths (10.33) acres, more or less.
Said premises will be sold for cash
in hand to the highest and best bid
der.
Total amount of bids must equal
two-t thirds Of the valuation put upon
said premises by commissioners ap
pointed by said court.
Deed or deeds will be made on con.
| firmation Of sale by court.
DAVID r. MACK,
Master in chancery Of said court
Dated April 6. 1911.