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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-07-26
Goes over THE Falls
AND IS Good As new
SECOND TIME IN HISTORY is PER-
FORMED BY LEACH IN A
STEEL BARREL.

By Associated Press.
Niagara Falls, July 25,-Bobbie
Leach, 40, OF Niagara Falls, ont, this
afternoon went over the Horse Shoe
Falls in a barrel and still lives. AL
though he was battered and bruised
in the drop of 15S feet, he sustained
only superficial injuries and tonight
he is able to be about.
This is the second time in the his
tory of the river that the cataract Mad
been successfully navigated. Mrs.
Anna Edison Taylor Of this city made
the trip in a barrel in 1901 and came
out alive
Lynch was forced to make his start
from La Sale, two miles and q han
above the cataract on the United
States side because Of the Canadian
police. Two river men took him in
a launch to Navy Island, where he was
placed In the steel barrel. He was
hung i'm canvas hammock. The bar
rel was cast adrift at the mouth OF
Chlppawa Creek, hardly a mile above
the brink Of the Horseshoe at 2;52
" tluNhs W Hth oVV Nhl h0 hH'NN N''N
brink, the barrel was caught In the
current and raced in the stream. When
two hundred feet from the chasm, the
barrel struck rock, At 2;l4 the bar
rel went over the brink. Hardly thir-
ty seconds elapsed before It was seen
carreening In the stream.
Frank Bender Of Chippawa swan
out with rope and caught the barrel
by one of It's handles, From that point
the barrel was towed ashore. Leacha
was bleeding and appeared to be o
bad way. but once out Of the barrel
he waved to the crowd He was ex'
j. hausted and It was necessary to sup
ply oxygen to revive him. No bones
were broken but leg was somewhat
sprained.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-07-26
PANANA-PACIFIC SITE
SELECTED At FRISCO

By Associated Pr,
san Francis.u. July 2j.-The site
Of the Panama Pacific international
EXPOSITION TO be held here in 1915
was selected today, The industrial
buildings and other temporary struc-
lures win be placed at liarbor View
on the coast. a permanent yachting
and boating course will be construct
ed. All permanent buildings will be
placed in Golden Gate Park except
an enormous Convention Hall TO be
located at the civic center Of the city
at Van Ness Avenue and Mark Street.
Other improvements Will be made
along the water front from the
Cliff House on tho west, or ocean
shore.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-07-26
Joe Jcanctte'lm Up.

by Associated Press,
New York, July 25.--Joo Jeanette
the Boston pugilist, knocked out al
Kublak Of Grand Rapids, Micho iu
the third round OF their scheduled
ten round fight tonight Three LETT
hooks to tho Jaw TUNED the trick,
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-07-26
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
STEEL SOME MORE.
BY Assoclated Press.

BY Associated Press
New York, July 25.-The
directors Of tho United States
Steel Corporation today de-
clared the regular quarterly
dividend Of ga per cent
preferred and IA per cent on
common stock
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-07-26

young woman who is worth moro
than $GOOOOOO IN hor own right. II
will follow romantic courtship,
which began IN China, whore the
young people met several years ago
when Miss Whitney was making a
tour Of the world. Young Straight
Is said to have once been refused the
hand OF tho daughter Of II. II Har-
rlmun, the railroad wizard who died
a year ago,
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-07-26
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\ NEAR DuTcm ACCIDENT.
by Associated Press.

10y N00VVTNVVW TT""|
Paris, July 25.- Madame
Latelm, the noted Partisan ac-
tress, was accidentally drown
ed in the Rhine near the uol-
land line today,
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-07-26

Washington, D. G.. July 25.--okla-
homa Forecast Fair and warmer
Wednesday. Thursday increasing
cloudlneEs.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-07-26
Boutcll ponies Hlncs' Story,

New York, Jul 25.--Whe told
by cable today that Edward Hines
had testified before the Lormer In
vestgatlng committee that he (Bou.
telD had Informed him that Presl.
dent Taft was anxious for tho cleo
tion Of LorImer, II. g. Boutcll, for
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-07-26
Runs of the Prairie.

Net runs and deliveries from July /,
1911 70 July a. 1911. both datos in
clusiye
Total Bbls. Daily Av
Runs ......1,763,50347 S3,01G,36
Deliveries .,.1,S9S052.i5 oO,3s3A5
The Colorado statesman., 1911-03-18
Courtroom Inadequate.

Everybody about the United States
capitol has expanded excepting the
Supreme court of the United States.
1t still has the same little old tuck
hole quarters that 1t has occupied for
the past 40 years or more. and which
was the old senate chamber The
room is IN itself hardly big enough for
a good-sized dress closet in the aver
age millionaire's palace of today, but
is a dear, clean little bandbox of a
room, just half circular in form, and
now is so intimately associated with
the Supreme court that no one would
like to see that body leave 1t. and yet
it looks as If this is what must hap
pen.
The Supreme court justices, in
reaching the court room, have to cross
the main corridor of the capitol, and
they have no private room to them
selves at all. excepting the one small
robing room.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-03-18
SENATOR'S TALENTED WIFE
Mrs. Gilbert M. Hitchcock a Gifted
Musician and Very Popular
In Washington.

One of the prominent and popular
members of congressional social cir
cles in Washington is Mrs. Gilbert M.
Hitchcock, whose husband after hav-
ing served two terms in the house of
representatives from the Second Ne
braska district has been elevated to
the senate to succeed Senator Burkett.
Mrs. Hitchcock is gifted musician
and has been a student OF the art d.
vine from her earliest years. So
great is her love for music that nearly
every summer she spends part of her
time near Munich, where she is a
daily attendant at the Wagner operas
and the Mozart music festivals. Her
proficiency as a musician, together
The Colorado statesman., 1911-03-18
RIVALRY BETWEENE EMBASSIES
France and Germany Would Surpass
Each Other in the Building Of
Ambassadors Homes.

For a long time-in fact, presumably
forever-there has been rivalry be-
tween France and Germany In every
way. This has cropped out in Wash
ington, where ambassadors homes are
being erected by both of those ma
tions. Ground has been purchased by
both the German and the French am
bassadors in a swell part of the city.
on which to erect the buildings, and
Berlin and Paris have been secured
for architects to submit the plans and
specifications. The two governments
are needing these ambassadorial
homes mighty bad, but the thing has
been dribbling along for the last four
or five years. France wants to build
a very ornate mansion, but is afraid
to go ahead with it lest Germany
shall build a handsomer one, which
Germany is determined to do, and so
the German and French ambassadors
are forced to live very meanly, con
sidering, and 1t does not look just now
as though there would be any i'm
provement in this condition 1t is
merely a matter of skill between
France and Germany in their efforts
to surpass each other.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-03-18

trees on IT. is the worst negro
slum in Washington. Like most
Washington slums it is conceal
ed from view in the middle of
a large square which is built up solid
ly all around it. Washington's squares
were laid out on such grand scale
that in many parts Of the city the out
er fringes of them only have been
built upon, leaving great vacant spaces
in the center. These spaces-to which
ingress can be had only by alleys
have been the breeding places of slums
the worse because they are hidden
from view by semi-respectable cur
tain of shops and tenements facing the
surrounding streets.
These narrow and filthy alleys are
lined with brick and wooden shacks,
one and two stories high, in which
negro families live in a state of inde-
scribable squalor. A room six by eight
feet, in which five persons live, is not
uncommon. The inhabitants are the
lowest of the negro criminal class
those who prowl by night and sleep by
day. The alley is the center OF the
cocaine trade Of Washington. and the
headquarters, refuge and hanging
out" place of thieves and pickpockets.
Police raids are of almost nightly oc-
currence, and even by day the echoes
of the alleys fights and brawls can
frequently be heard in the neighboring
streets.
Willow Tree Alley is unlighted, and
If ever 1t was paved the paving was
long since buried under mud, ashes
and tin cans, for the alley has no back
yard and throws everything out the
front window. Rents are not high in
the alley nor are landlords exacting.
Fifty cents a week conveys the title
to a room big enough, according to
the alleys calculations, for a family
of four, and would appear to carry
with it also the right ITO chop up the
doors and partitions for firewood.
The passages through which the AL
leyites penetrate to their novels are
so narrow that a missle-a chair leg
or a stove lid-can easily be thrown
from the steps of one house through
the windows of the house opposite.
Cold weather means real suffering
for the Alleyites. Their crazy houses
are open to every blast of winter and
when cold snap is on their idea Of
comfort is to close every door and
window, build fires of rubbish in their
broken stoves and huddle in bed.
What the population of Willow Tree
Alley is, even the police do not know.
Willow Tree Alley is not the only
slum of its kind in Washington-it
merely is the worst. The report of
the homes commission, appointed by
President Roosevelt four years ago to
investigate housing conditions in
Washington, it was shown that 2S6
alleys sheltered a population of near
ly twenty thousand persons.
In spite of laws, commissions and
reports these alley shacks still stand,
sheltering wretchedness, vice and dis
ease From the dome of the capitol
one can look down upon novels that
cannot be matched in the lowest quar-
ters of London, New York or Paris.
Because they cannot be seen from the
street Washingtonians do not know
or pretend not to know-they are
there. Visitors see nothing except the
marble government buildings, the
great avenues, circles, statues and
gardens of the capital. And Washing
ton remains a city of frightful slums.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-03-18
French Minister Declares Confidence

Washington. = Rejecting what he
termed the alarming exaggeration OF
pessimists,' in their Interpretation OF
the attitude of the United States to-
ward Mexico in the political disorders
of the latter country, Baron d'Estour-
nelles de Constant, one of the leading
diplomats of France, in an address re-
Gently at the Pan-American union,
urged faith in the "conciliatory policy"
of the United States.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-03-18
GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS ARE
BADLY DAMAGED BY IN
sURREcTos.
TWO ARE SHOT DOWN
NUMBER OF. MEXICAN CAVALRY
SAID TO HAVE BEEN CAUGHT
IN THE EXPLOSION.

El Paso, Texan attempt has been
made to blow up the barracks at
Juarez, Mexico. Two heavy charges
of nitroglycerine were placed under
the buildings and exploded, tearing
out parts of the structures occupied
by the Mexican troops. Two of
small band of insurrectos who secret
ly had entered the town were shot
and captured.
A number of Mexican cavalrymen
are reported to have been injured by
the explosion, which created a wild
panic in Jaurez.
The shock of the explosion was felt
throughout Juarez and Immediately a
cry was raised that the insurrectos
had surrounded the place in great
numbers and were attacking
Merchants left their stores and
crowds prepared to make a general
exodus across the bridges to the
American side. Extra guards were
placed about the quarters of Col. Tam
borel, the commander, and of Gen.
Navarro.
The barracks are occupied by the
Fourteenth Mexican cavalry and are
located in the heart of town. There
has been a general feeling that the in
surrectos were surrounding the city
and a small band of insurrectos is
supposed to have crept into town
along the railroad tracks shortly after
O'Clock. After placing the bombs
they attempted to get away.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-03-18
No Use Holding Election.

Augusta, Ga.-President Taft and
Representative Martin w. Littleton OF
New York played an interesting game
of golf In way it was heralded as
a contest between the Republican
and Democratic parties, and the Presi-
dent, as the representative of the
former, Unexpectedly won.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-03-18
Many Cattle Poisoned.

Grand Junction, Colo.-Reports in
dicate that cattle are dying in large
numbers in the Bridgeport and Domin'
gues sections, presumably from pols-
on. Whether the deaths are due to
poisonous weeds or to human agen-
cies has not been determined. and the
state veterinarian will be asked to in
Yestigate.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-03-18
Col. Roosevelt Informs and Promises

Col. ROOSEVELT TntoFms dHu FToTHTses'
albuquerque, N. Mn his speecnes
here Colonel Roosevelt tackled the
Mexican question, Senator Lorimer,
Governor Haskell and statehood for
New Mexico.
He said all the United States de-
manded of Mexico was order, JUS
tice and independence.
He asserted that Senator Lorimer
of Illinois and former governor Has
kell of Oklahoma were unfit to hold
office.
He told the people of New Mex
leo that they had not been given
a square deal on statehood, but that
they would get it.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-03-18

ton to approve the
plan of the district
commissioners to
wipe out Willow
Tree Alley and
build a playground
with a gymnasium
and baths on its
site.
Willow Tree AL
ley (Which has no
willow or other
The Colorado statesman., 1911-03-18

with her womanly graces and her at
tractive personality has opened the
door of welcome to the best society
in Washington and now that her hus-
band has reached higher post In the
nations public life she will be more
courted than ever before.
Before her marriage Mrs Hitch
cock was Miss Jessie Crounse of FIT.
Calhoun. Neb. She became. Mrs.
Hitchcock In 1888.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-03-18
Gould Still President.

New York.-No president of the Mis-
souri, Pacific to succeed George Gould
has yet been chosen, and If no selec-
ton has been made for the place by
March 21st, when the meeting of di-
rectors is expected to be held in
New York. it is probable that Gould
will continue in office.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-03-18
contractor Sues for $4,000.

Cheyenne, Wyo.-Charles E. McGar-
vey, a contractor, who built the
Round Top reservoir for the city, has
instituted suit against the municipality
for $27,190.S3, which he asserts he
sh hould have been paid for the work in
addition to the amount allowed him by
the city engineer.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-03-18
Easier to Move the Hall.

Montreal.-Te policemen were requi-
sitioned to carry Adelard Aquin, a
clerk, who was stricken by paralysis,
from the city hall. Aquin weigh 4G2
pounds and could not be taken down
in the elevator or usual ambulance
stretcher He is the biggest man in
Quebec.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-03-18
Hundreds Die in Labrador.

North Sydney, C. B.-The rigorous
winter has caused extreme suffering
and hundreds of deaths among the
people in barren Labrador peninsula
The Colorado statesman., 1911-03-18
Almost Billion Invested.

washington-A total of $S75, ,7Os.925
gold has been invested in twenty-one
years by foreign interests in Mexico
outside of the mining industry.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-03-18
Balance of Trade With United States.

With the enormous total of almost
$500, 100000, the value of foreign
trade of the United States during the
year 1910 was greater than ever be-
fore and the balance in favor of this
country was $300.OOO.O0O. also the
greatest balance on record.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-03-18
D OIL N C s
Carpenter Irrigation Bill.

The House disposed of the resolu-
ton calling for an adjournment sine
die on March 81, voting it down sec
ond time.
Senator Carpenter introduced bill
revising or amending the fee system
in the state engineers office. At pres
ent the filing fee for map or plat
of ditch, flume, canal or reservoir
is but So. The work of checking these
maps and plats is technical in charac-
ter, sometimes entailing survey by
a corps of engineers; and this re-
ouires expense, for which there is no
return. The Carpenter bill provides
system of grading the extent of irri-
cation and power site appropriations
according to their value and of fixing
the fees for the filing of maps and sur
veys accordingly.
Gov. Shafroth, assisted by State
Treasurer Roady Kenehan and State
Engineer C. w. Comstock. held a ses-
sion with the Senate committees on
finance and agriculture and irrigation
and the House committee on appro-
priations in his office for the purpose
of including those committees to in
crease the appropriations for Com
stocks office matter of S2S,OOO for
the biennial period and of passing GER
tain bills which might, in the end, en-
able the engineers office to collect
sufficient fees with which to support
the office.
Another Carpenter bill fixes the sal
ary of state engineer at $4,000 per year
and gives him one deputy at $1,000 per
year and two. assistants at $1,000
wear. Thees men must be both civil
and hydraulic engineers.
A bill providing for inspection to
prevent the importation of tubercular
cattle in to the state and bill giving
each county the right to make its own
her laws are before the Legislature.
House bill No. 5, by Representative
Allen, providing for the establishment
of municipal slaughter houses, was
killed.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-03-18
WASHINGTON'S SLUMS
NO OTHER CITY HARBoRS SUCH
WRETcHED PLACES.
Worst Of These Is to Be Abolished
and a Playground Built Where
Now ls Indescrlbable
Squalor.

President Taft urged congress in its
capacity of city council of Washing
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-05-08

Columbia which will be rendered ac-
cessible to the settler by that rail-
roads construction.
A New Worlds Granary.
When, however, this territory final
Iy came under the examination of the
surveyor and land-seeker, the results
were surprising, 1t was found that
an immense area, lying between the
Coast Range on the Pacific seaboard
to the west, and the Rocky Mountains
to the east, and extending for hun
dreds of miles north and south Of the
routes of the Grand Trunk Pacific
Railway, was composed of a country
eminently fitted in every respect of
climate, soil and natural resources,
to be the home of a numerous and
prosperous population. Moreover, 1t
was country for which the con-
struction of trunk road meant far
more than the building of the Cana
dian Pacific Railway had meant for
the southern part of the Province;
for the openoing up of this huge
stretch of virgin agricultural land
will do away forever with the re-
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-05-08

proach which has often been cast at
British Columbia: namely, that she
possesses no large areas Of agricul-
tural land capable of supporting
great farming population, such as
are possessed by the wheat-growing
provinces of the middle west. The
northern interior of British Colum-
bia, through which the new line of
the G. T. P. Railway is being built,
is pre-eminently, though not entirely,
an agricultural country, whose clim-
ate and soil are not only suited in
the highest degree for the raising OF
wheat and other grains but also ad-
mirably adapted to the cultivation Of
all other agricultural products in
digenous to the temperate zones.
And this agricultural country is not,
as in the southern part Of British
Columbia, divided up into small val
leys, rich indeed, but circumscribed
in area and bounded by mountainous
country whose typographical features
render the transportation of produce
to the bigger markets always mat
ter of difficulty and expense, and
sometimes impossible On the con-
trary, Central British Columbia Of
fers to the agricultural settler a land
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-05-08
BRITISH COLUMBIA A new GEM IN
The PRICELESS DIADEM OF THE WEST

Why British Columbia Is the Richest
Province In the Dominion of Can
ada.
So much attention at this time is
being paid to the Province Of British
Columbia, and the Dominion in gen.
eral, and for the knowledge of those
who are thinking of going into that
country, we are giving few inter-
esting details.
British Columbia has millions of
acres of undeveloped farm land tim
ber, and mines, which awaits the
hand of the man who will go into the
country and make it, what the East
ern states are today, a we'll devel-
Oped country.
The meaning of all this interest
which is being taken in this country.
is because the railways have at last
seen the value of running their lines
through the heart of the country,
thus tapping the richest part of the
province, and bring what was known
before as the unknown North into the
reach of the people. Two years ago
it was thought that if one was going
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-05-08

the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway,
construction of which is being pushed
with all possible expedition.
Little more than a quarter Of CEN
tury ago, Sir Richard Cartwright,
speaking in the Government House
at Ottawa, referred contemptuously
and comprehensively to British Col
umbia as "a Sea of Mountains" and
so metaphorically speaking, waived
Canada's most westerly province
aside as a possession of no value.
The construction of the Canadian Pa
ciic Railway through the southern
part of the province, however, and
the rapid and enormous development
of mineral, agricultural and forest
wealth which followed on both sides
Of the railway route, have long since
proved to the world the mistaken ma
ture of the view so hastily expressed
by the Canadian statesman-at least
in so far as the southern part of
British Columbia is concerned. But
something very much like his opinion
was for a long time entertained with
regard to the northern part of the
Province, an idea that it consisted of
cold and snow-covered wastes, inter-
spersed with barren and inaccessible
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-05-08

Ashcroft on the Canadian Pacific
Railway, can proceed from that point
by the Cariboo road to Soda Creek
on the Fraser River, from there TAX
ing the steamer to Fort George.
Here, as central point, he can make
a choice of routes, electing to follow
the course Of the Fraser River east
as far as Tete Juane Cache, or up
the Nechaco River to Fraser Lake,
distance of 180 miles, or up the Stew
art River to Stewart Lake, going by
steamer all the way. In either case,
the natural Waterways which he
thus traverses are bordered on either
side by the splendid agricultural
land which Is the principal feature
of the interior, and he can make his
selection Of a spot for settlement, Sc
cure in the fact that, both by rail
and water, the products Of his land
will always have easy access to the
great markets.
Immense Water Power.
While emphasis has been laid on
the magnificent agricultural possi-
bilities of Central British Columbia,
the fact must not be overlooked that
these possibilities, great as they are,
do not constitute all her resources,