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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1911-11-15
FIRE DOES 100000
DAMAGE IN DETROIT
Firemen Fight Blaze for Three
Hours

DETROIT. Nov. 14.-Ffre broke out
early tonight on the fourth floor of a
wholesale millinery company's five
story building, spread into the business
buildings adjoining and caused loss to
property and contents roughly esti-
mated at s26o,ooo. The hremen fought
the blaze in a heavy snowstorm, and
after three hours work succeeded in
getting 1t under control.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1911-11-15
Old Order for Nanking

command of the imperialists has issued
a proclamation establishing the "old
order" in Nanking. Modern institutions
have been abolished. Consequently the
military school, the wireless station
and other establishments have been
dismantled.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1911-11-15
Changes in Tariff

This will do away with the necessity
Of proving the circumstances of the
origin of great corporations. Specific
offenses, leading to unjust restraint
of trade, VIII be nailed at once under
the specific terms of the law.
President Taft made it clear to Wis
itors yesterday that he expects to have
sufficient material from the tariff board
both on the wool and cotton schedules
to make his recommendations with re-
Confined -, pare y rnInnnn K
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-29

| is still under way and potash in linn
lifted amounts undoubtedly will be de-
| rived from seme of these sources. UP
| to the present none of them give
promise of satisfying the country's
needs. But in the giant kelps of the
Pacific coast a satisfactory source of
potash has been found. The kelp
groves along less than one-fourth of
the coast line have been mapped and
Yet these should yield from two to
three times as much potash as the
present importations. These sea
weeds are able to extract, by selective
absorption, the potash salts from the
sea water and on drying these salts
are very largely exuded on the sur
face. The dried plants contain from
25 to So per cent. of their weight of
potassium chloride and the latter can
very readily be extracted. The KEEPS
also contain iodine and many other by
products can be obtained from them.
II is possible that these by-products
will more than pay the manufacturing
expenses, leaving the potassium
chloride free from cost. The Japanese
have already shown considerable in
genuity in working up these by
products. Not only do they use some
of the waste material for cattle food
but the Japanese themselves use it as
o. staple article of diet. Glue, shellac,
paper and other useful products can
also be. made.
SomS of the Pacific groves are five
miles long and two miles wide and the
growth in these groves is exceedingly
dense. The two principal species
that would be available are Nereocys
tbs luet keana in the north and Maero-
cystis pyrifera in the south. Both
these plants reach length of one hum
bred feet or more and grow in strong
tideways or where they are exposed to
the full force of the open sea, All of
the proves are within the three mile
limit and should be easily harvested.
The heaviest groves are south of
Point Sur, but large ones extend as
far north as Seattle. If properly
harvested and protected these groves
will yield an annual harvest Indefinite
ly; it is even possible that in the case
of Macrocystis two such harvests may
be obtained. On a conservative basis
upwards of a million tons of potassium
chloride worth nearly $4,000, 600
should be obtained each year. No es-
innate can be given at the present
time of the value of the by-products.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-29
Tariff Legislation Unlikely.

The prospects for tariff legislation
at the present session of Congress are
exceedingly poor, as measured from a
candid survey of both houses. 1t
must be admitted, if tariff bill of
any sort is passed by the House, this
winter. it will be a Democratic meas
ure, and hence not likely to pass the
Senate. On the other hand. if any
bill is passed by the Senate it will be
Republican measure and thus as
sured of rejection by the House. The
work of the tariff commission will, no
doubt, be seized upon by both parties
as the basis for their calculations but
with such widely divergent ideas of
application of the information fur
nished as to promise nothing like COM
mon ground. On the wool schedule
nothing more than an alignment of
party forces can be expected. Yet
the crudity of the present measure is
such that much may be done in hew-
ing it into shape without passing the
line of protection of either grower or
manufacturer.
As an indication of where the profit
goes, a consideration of the following
from the report of the tariff board is
enlightening:
The cost of a suit of clothes from
the back of a sheep to the back of a
man is computed In the report, and
the profits which accrue in the process
are traced to their sources. For pur-
poses of computation the board takes
a suit of clothes retailing at $23 and
whoiesaling at $3.50. This is said to
represent fairly the suit of clothes
worn by the average American.
The farmer receives for the wool in
such suit 1898 and his profit is 6S
cents: the manufacturer of cloth re-
ceives for his product s47S, and his
profit is % cents; the wholesale cloth
ing dealer receives for his product
$3.50 and his profit is s2.1S; the re-
tail clothing dealer receives $23 and
his profit is $3.50. The figures are ag-
gregate.
1t is interesting to note in the above
that the farmer, who raises the wool.
receives slightly less than one
eleventh of the profit which comes to
the man who finally disposes of the
product. Considering the retailers
expense for rent. light, heat. etc, and
his loss on unsold goods, we may fig
ure as an offset on the farmers part
the chances of drought. poor crops.
nigh cost Of feed, disease in his flock,
etc. This state of affairs may con-
tinue indefinitely but we are con-
WINGED that events are so shaping as TO
bring about different era.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-29

degree of, anaesthesia could be regu-
lated absolutely by the pressure of his
finger on the lever of the stopcock. In
termittent narcosis. which he believes
to be wrong in principle, was thus
avoided.
''All the vapor being warmed is more
respirab bic" says DIR. Gwathmey, re
ducing the after effects and increasing
its safety as regards life. With this
attenuated yapor an infant three DAYS
old can safely be anaesthetized and an
alcoholic can easily be kept. under af
ter reaching the surgical stage. All
patients can be narcotized within five
minutes, and with this warmed vapor
the kidneys, heart and lungs are never
seriously affected"
Should this new method justify all
that is claimed for it, half the terrors
of the operating table will have been
dispersed Why not advances in this
line of science? 1t seems as common
dable as any in view, especially with
the daily progress in surgery.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-29
Now Potash from keIp.

The little tilt with Germany on the
potash question, last year, was prob
ably the means of saving millions of
dollars annually to the people of this
country. When the American Agri-
cultural Department set about in
yestieating the fertilizer resources of
this country it discovered. almost i'm
nediately. that we were independent
of foreign sources of potash supply.
II is now common knowledge that the
United States possesses the largest
phosphate fields in the world but.
heretofore, the potash required for our
fertilizers has been imported from
Germany at a yearly expense Of about
$4,000, 900.
The report of our Agricultural De-
partment just issued shows that this
country should not only be able 70
supply it's own needs of potash salts
but even possibly export to foreign
markets. A few difficulties of an en-
gineering character are still to bt
overcome but they are not of serious
nature. A new industry will be es.
tablished and il the by-products arr
wisely used many millions should b
added to the wealth of the nation.
The Department experts have coy
cred a wide range in their investiga
ton. Some of the desert basins wer
examined; brines and the mothe
liquors from salt wells were teste
and experiments have been carried o
with the object of extracting potas
from silicate rocks. and minerals, sue
es aluuite, which contain It. The vor
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-29
Taking the Measure of Haywood.

lt1IiItIl0tidNN 1liipil-.ftSiA+t
The Denver Trades and Labor AS
semhiy denounced William d. Hay
wood, former secretary Of
the Western Federation of Miners as
one of the worst enemies of organ
lied labor and classes him with En-
ma Goldman and other anarchists"
The Socialists of Denver are also in
dignant over the attitude Haywood
has assumed in the Mcnamara case
and talk OF expelling him.
At Cooper Union in New York Hay
wood declared.
When the capitalistic class is writ
ing the criminal record of the Struc-
turaI Iron Workers, it is not part of
the Socialists duty to assist the cap
italists in the work. Our duty is TO
compile the list of crimes committed
by the capitalist class.
My heart is with the Mcnamara
boys, so long as they are working in
the interest of the working class.
II do not think any Socialist can
be law-abidng citizen
When Haywood was on trial for the
murder of former Governor Steunen-
burg of Idaho President Roosevelt al
luded to him as an undesirable citi-
zen Time has INDICATED the judg-
uent of the former President 1t has
also justified the views held at that
time hy the great majority of peo-
pie of the country.
There should be no room in the
ranks of organized labor, Socialism or
any other element of society for such
enemies of civilized society as Hay
wood has shown himself TO be.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-29
The Toll of War.
Fundamentals News.)

tlnulanapOlS NeWS.t
We have again, in the annual bal
anee sheet of the japanese nation,
striking revelation that one of the
most disastrous things and by far the
most permanent blight that can be-
fall a nation is war. even though 1t
be successfully fought Before the
war with Russia, Japan WAS hap
Ply little land whose burdens were
few and whose life WAS very near TO
the idealization of Lafeadio Hearn
and those who pictured it as beau
tiful blend of wistaria, cherry bios
som, peliteness song and light-heart-
edness. Its debt was only S206, 626,-
500. The balance for 1911 shows that
the people who We're so free are now
burdened with Sl,l0S,S SCI. 800 of indebt-
edness. In short, successful war
and the new role of a world power
that has followed, have increased the
per capita Indebtedness from $5.la
to $25.75.
These are the cold. hard figures
which only serve as a comparative
gauge of the cost of war. They do
not tell the story of the change that
has come to Japan. But it is carried
in the announcement that there are
seventy thousand people in prison
and that there were ten thousand
suicides this year and that they were
almost all due to the burden of life
having become too great.
Those who knew the old Japan and
those who know the new one. know
that lost light-heartedness has been
the greatest cost of the war.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-29
A WARNING FOR CHILDREN.
Systematic Advice for Reckless
Rompers on Trolley Tracks.

To save the life and limb among the
army of almost two million school
children who are just beginning to ride
or play regularly over their tracks the
trolley men of New York state are
psrfecting plans to educate the young
sfers to the danger of the accidents
that they are now rislSing each hour.
With the cooperation of teachers and
parents. personal talks. pamphlets of
warning information and danger signs
calculated to impress the active boys
and girls in every community are to
be presented in schoolroom, hone and
playground. Though the official figures
show that educational and physical
precautions have in the last few years
somewhat reduced the risk of accident
to the children of the Empire state, 1t
has been determined TO make fresh ef-
forts to help each one of them realize
the serious effects that may come of
their reckless rompings.
BEGINNING with the mothers and ia
theirs who send off the students each
morning. technical data showing the
margin of safety about all kinds OF
cars and tracks is to be distributed.
In classrooms all over the state teach-
ers are volunteering to supplement- the
warnings of anxious parents by clrcu-
Iating this information or arranging
lectures by experts on accident risk. On
blotters and other attractive souvenirs
prepared for the youngsters oy the
street railway men, there nave peeli
printed such maxims as Don't mtch
"a car. touch loose wires, play on
tracks. jump off till the car stops,
cross tracks till you look, or send your
little brother or sister across alone.
Special schools to train motormen
and conductors to make every human
effort to avoid street accidents are TO
no conducted throughout this state,
while signal systems and equipment
to the highest standards OF safety.
since they must practically give free
are constantly tested to keep them up
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-29
Editorial Comment
For Vice-President.
ellsworth American. J

ellsworth Americana
Political gossip from Washington
links the name of ex-Gov. John f.
Hill with the Republican nomination
for vice president.
From every point of view this
seems to be an excellent suggestion.
His record as governor is admirable;
his membership of the national Re-
publican committee has given him a
country-w wide acquaintance, and his
ability is recognized
His nomination would doubtless
have a large influence on the result in
Maine next September, and it goes
without saying that whatever can be
done must be done to redeem the
State from the Democracy thing
desirable in itself, as well as for its
effect upon the national election in
November.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-29
Coming Events

Dec. 30-Knox and Lincoln Pomonas
with White Oak Grange. North Warren.
Ian "a Iot2-W estern Name Poultry
Association, So. Paris.
Jan 5-Hancock Pomona with Sedg-
wick Grange, North Sedgwick.
Jan. 10-New Century Pomona with
Union Grange, Il. sumner.
Jan. 10-Green Mountain Pomona with
Bay View Grange, Salisbury Cove.
Jan. 1S-Meeting of the Governor and
Council.
Feb. 6-l2-Food Fair, Bangor.
March 27-Maine Methodist Conference
at Lewiston.
March 27-East Maine Methodist Con-
ference. Rockland.
June 1s-National Republican Conven-
ton, Chicago.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-29
MOONSHlNE IN MINING.
Illicit Gold Gathering in oldtime Cali.
fornia.

Mining in California isn't much
more spectacular than distilling now.
but each has its feature of fugitive ro-
finance" said James Gillett, former
governor of California. In the South
they have moonshine distilling, In
California we have moonshine mining,
though in much less degree now than
when I was governor.
This illicit gold gathering sprang
up in California after the legislature
passed the law prohibiting hydraulic
mining. The reason was that the
hydraulic miners were filling up the
streams with the debris they dislodged
in their work. The bed of the Sacra
mento river was raised nearly eight
feet. seriously hampering traffic. and
tremendous damage was done 10 the
river resources by this mining
THE miners thought it was class
legislation to make them stop their
hydraulic work. They regarded it
prerogative. the same as the noun
taineer does making his own whiskey
And they were most ingenious in con-
cealing their operations.
1T was reported several times that
this moonshine mining was going on in
the mountains of Nevada county, near
the famous Grass Valley mines. We
sent detectives to stop them. a few
arrests made the operators all the
more wary. They would work at
night. concealing their rams and pip
ing in the daytime. When the spring
freshets or heavy rains came they
worked ceaselessly, using the muddy
dirt in that country is red clay. and it
was easy TO tell whenever the miners
We're at work by the eoloring of the
stream.
THE profits We're big. Often they
would work on land that did not be-
long to them. stealing water from
some irrigation ditch, and dropping 1t
several hundred feet, thus giving tre-
mendous pressure. In a night they
would clean up 500 or more.
When the detectives became active
the moonshiners would operate with
lookouts. They would also labor un-
der the full moon. The lookout would
stand with a pan of mercury, which
would mirror the entire panorama.
With il he could see persons approach
ing at his rear, casually give the
signal to confederates and start across
the mountains as though hunting or
prospecting. Lone nioonshiners would
work during the day with the pan of
mercury as the alarm signal. fleeing
whenever they saw any one approach.
To this day the illegal miners oper-
ate on small scale, but their neigh
bors seem to be in sympathy with
them and protect them as much as
possible. AS their operations aren't
extensive enough to hurt the streams
the state lets them go. The moon
shine miner is a romantic character
that has been overlooked as fiction
material, but l have always enjoyed
hearing about him. When governor 1
pardoned two that were sentenced to
prison for Illicit mining."-Chicago
Daily News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-29
The Victory of the Alien.
(Boston Traveler.)

The state superintendent of pubic
instruction of Pennsylvania says that
children of foreignborn parents are
outstripping native American boys
and girls in the public schools. The
truth of this statement will probably
be admitted by any one who has care
fully observed the public schools,
whether in Pennsylvania or Massa-
chusetts And there is in it warn
ing to the American parent and the
American child who are prone 10
pride themselves on fancied superior
ity. If the boys and girls are not
alert, they are likely 10 find them
selves surpassed not only in their
studies but in their life work by
these same keen and persistent little
Foreigners"
1t is not that the children of immi-
grants are more intellectual than the
offspring of generations of Americans
Their minds, indeed, are possibly not
so fine. But they have the stimulus
Of the new life of their adopted coun-
try they feel their inferiority, ana
want to rise to equality with the
native-b born. These incentives, togeth-
er with the strong desire of most
foreign-born parents to give their
children better chance than they
had themselves, operate powerfully to
make the little aliens do good work
in whatever position they md them
selves And their spirit, in fact IS
merely the real spirit of American
ism" which has given this country it's
prevailing character of unrest, ana
its ambition ITO get ahead The
children who pronounce our words
with strange accents and yet make the
best Rotations are perhaps the most
american of all of us.
1t is good for us to have this con-
stantly fresh infusion of energy, just
as it Is good to have vigorous and
untrammeled American youth contin-
ually coming from the country to the
big cities. 1t prevents society, bust
ness and art from fossiliZing. And it
keeps the "old stock very busy hold
ing its own in the endless contest
where poverty, energy and ambition
are matched against those who have
grown indolent with success.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-29
Maine Gossip
A Winter Sunset.

All the valley vaguely lies
Mist and shadows, milky blues
Flames the splendor of the skies,
Climbing to a wider view.
Like some mighty roses heart,
Orange. scarlet, crimson flame.
All the vivid colors start,
Every westward cloud the same.
Wave on wave of glowing fire,
Tipped with molten gold each crest,
Mounting skyward ever higher
In the palpitatinS west
At their utmost colors fail.
Flag, grow ashen from red gold,
Slowly splendors sink and pale.
All the fiery heart lies cold.
While the shadows ghostly creep,
Shroud the world with vapors gray,
Color visions fading sleep,
Only in the mind TO stay.
Pail Mall Gazette.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-29

life and accident insurance to every
man, woman and child of the millions
that swarm about their cars and
tracks, the trolley men are determined
TO reduce the necessary risks involved
in moving tn people of the whole statee
Recent reports of the Public Service
commissions show that accident DAM
ages have cost the street railways OF
the whole state almost 100000 in one
year.-New York Tribune.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-29

Ninety years ago last Monday
Providence bestowed upon the world
a Christmas gift of inestimable worth,
Clara Barton. This week the Red
Cross Mother rounded out to four
score and ten her service to the world,
and for which we offer tributes of love
and respect
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-29

1t is said that Mrs. J. p. Morgan
returns across the Atlantic, an ard
emit suffragette. Must have seen
the ftltility of the British women's
attempts at straight throwing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-29

Applications for new automobile Ii.
censes are pouring in by the sackful,
but it seems probable that there are
still several residents in Maine who
viii continue to get along without
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-29
Voices Of the State Press.

SThe commercial travellers have re-
ceived some powerful allies in their
war on the tipping nuisance. Walters
in New York and Boston have joined
the movement. Now if the hotel keep
ers and the Pullman Car company will
come in the victory will be as good as
wons-Watervile Sentinel
Hungry former Confederates, watch
ing the course of pension legislation
in congress, are in the position of
the chap who was assured by his
more fortunate companion that
There amt goin' to be no core. -
Biddeford Journal.
People are studying with interest all
kinds of freak Decalogues proposed
by various people with ideas of more
or less importance. We believe, how
ever, that if the average person were
to follow the teachings of the original
Decalogue they would need no new
one.-EXpress & Advertiser.
Roosevelt declines to attend the
but Roosevelt is probably at vari-
ance with the ajority.-Bath Times.
peace dinner in New York next Sat
urday because he doesn't believe In
the treaties to be endorsed which
pledge us to arbitrate all issues that
may arise. 1t is a point on which
sincere peace advocates are divided,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-29
Friday, December 90, 1911.

With ten cents used in remem-
brances to five friends the post card
was the 1912 benefactor of the tight
Nad
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-29
There's a Reason:

DR. Schaeffer's prophecy
That we are just about to be
Outstripped by those of foreign BIRTH
Gives credence to the thought that he
And his name supply the key
To his ayouchment Of their worth.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-29

Lord Beaconsfield, in forming one of
his cabinets. omitted to include distin-
guished Scottish nobleman. The omission
was brought under the notice of the
prime minister, who dismissed the mat
ter in characteristic fashion. "Oh. no.
he said, 1--WE. can not have -- in the
cabinet He swears too much. We will
send him to the assembly" and to the
assembly he went.-London Globe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-29
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