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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-02-24
swallowed roothbrush Fatal.

Howard Bolton, on whom an inquest
was held at the London, England. hos
pital, died from the effects OF swal-
lowing a toothbrush while endeavor-
ing to dislodge piece of meat that
had stuck in his theoat.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-02-24
Record prlson Sentence.

A German workman named Gauschy
has just been released from the jail
at Muelhausen after serving 45 years
Imprisonment for murder. This con.
stitutes a record as regards contin-
uous term of incarceration In mod
ern times
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-02-24
Which Proves Il.

"A girl Of twenty ia ever 30 much
older than a boy Of the same age"
"Sure, l know q girl Of twenty whose
family Bible shows she was born in
$780,"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-02-24
Wanted nc n,rea man.

Are you the owner of this placer"
asked the book agent Il am" re-
piled Farmer Corntossel. Anything
can do for you?" mo. The chances
are that you are too hard-worked to
have time to read anything, and that
you haven't any spare change. any
how. Let mo .r''' ~ 'ha Ma man"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-02-24

For over fifty years Rheumatism, Neu-
ralgia. and other painful ailments have
been cured by Hamlins Wizar Oil. 1t is
good honest remedy and you will not
"egret having a bottle ready for use.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-02-24

Mothers win find Mrs. Winslows Soothing
eyrur the best remedy TO use foT their children
auring the teething period.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-02-24

PILES CURED IN TO "a DAYS.
Your druggist will refund money If PAZO ONT
MENT fails to cure any case of Itching, Blind,
Bleeding or Protruding Piles in to IA days Soc
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-02-24
PUBLIC LANDS.

Advice given on all matters pertainins to Home.
steads Desert Land, Timber Claims Mining. Irriga.
ton. etc Appeals prepared state, your case write
for information. Grover Langmade. atty. Washing
ton d. O. Formerly Law Examiner, Land Office
Washington ID. O.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-02-24
Only One "BRoMo ouINlNtn

That is LAXATIVE BkOMo oUiNINE. Look
for the signature of E. w. GROVE. Used the
World over to Cure Cold in One Day. Csc.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-07
Mrs. Lake Dies 'st
 Suddenly Following
 Attack of Asthma

Mrs. Charles H. Lake, wife of the foreman of City Ice and Coal O., died very suddenly early this morn sing at her home, 336 Stratford ave- nue. Mrs. Lake was apparently in the enjoyment of excellent health yes- terday. She attended the ball game at steeplechase Island in the after neon and in the evening walked about the vicinity of her home.
 Retiring just before midnight she complained of feeling i'll, and her con- cftIon rapidly became So serious that attempts were Inade to reach physi- clans. There was some delay before a doctor could be summoned and when a pt ysician finally arrived before day. break, life was extinct.
 Mrs Lake was 31 years Of age. Her maiden name -- was Louise Brunner. Gifted with many charms of face and <gure she had many friends. She was married about five years ago, and sirce then had made her home at Stratford avenue and East Main St. Mrs Lake had the appearance of be- ing in perfect health. She suffered, however from occasional asthmatic att tacks Ona~ of these preceded her death.
 She is survived by her mother, Mrs. Katherine LaTour, and one brother, Rudolph employed with the American & British Mfg. Go. Both live at 62 Sixth street.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-07
CIRCUS MEN PUNISHED
Judge Purdy Metes Out Justice to a Batch of Prisoners Overcome By
 IiUuOr
Special to The Farmer.)

Westport, Aug. 7-Justice S. A. Purdy was kept busy trying cases on Saturday. This may have been the result of the coming of the circus. The victims were all under the infIu- ence of liquor. Jerome Smith of Wes- ton, who came down to see the show, was taxed 5 and costs, the whole amounting to $15.O5. Two employees or the circus appeared at the center rom the show grounds and created {, disturbance. They entered the tailor shop in Main street and ordered the proprietor to give them the clothes they had left there. The tailor had no clothes belonging to the men and told them so. The circus men broke mirror in the place and did other damage. assaulting the proprietor. They then left for the show grounds, but the tent foreman in whose gang the men worked appeared and brought them back to the center and turned them over to Sheriff Mead. They gave fictitious names. Justice Purdy fined each $19 and costs and they will pass the next 30 days in jail.
 Henry whitlock of Weston was in town yesterday with a load of ginseng roots, which he shipped to New York. MT. Whitlock gets good income from small patch which he has devoted to raising this strange plant. He where the wild variety grows and gathers it for shipment. The roots are shipped to China where there is a constant demand for it. The Chin ese believe that the roots contain val uable curative elements.
 The circus has come and gone, and the general opinion is that Sig Sau- telle will always be given a cordial welcome when he comes to this town. The show gave general satisfaction and the conduct of the whole outfit was everything that could be desired with the exception of the two men who were sent up by Justice Purdy. The management of the show will not stand for any rowdyism on the part of its men. The show goes to South Norwalk next. and a delegation from this town will attend the performances there.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-07
DRIFTS OUT TO SEA
Unable to Manage Skiff in the Swift Tide Katie ,Devine is Rescued By
 Billy Bartram.
Special to The Farmer,

r J
 Southport, Aug. Miss Kate De- vine who has never learned to manage a boat but who thought she could row. 'ft looked so easy" got into a skiff at White Rocks Friday night and attempted to row out into the stream. The boat became unmanage- able and drifted rapidly out into the Sound with the strong ebb tide. The girl was badly frightened and barely escaped falling into the water after several times when the boat cOllided with others at anchor. The girl screamed for help and Billy Bartram stripped to his underclothing and swam out after her. It was long chase and the boat with the young lady aboard was we'll outside the har- bor when the swimmer reached it and clambering in rowed the frightened girl to the shore.
 Thursday night Joseph Lee discov- cred smoke coming from the summer kitchen of the residence of Benj. A. Bulkeley. He investigated and found a quantity of clothing on fire and the wood work of the building ready to burst into flames. A few pails of water put out the fire. The discovery was fortunate for in a few minutes the whole room would have been on fire.
 Mrs Herbert Smith of New Canaan and her son passed Sunday with Mrs. Ralph Cole of Main street.
 Miss Edna and Bernice Wheeler have been passing a week with their grandfather, Charles A. Wheeler at Fairfield beach.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-07
EASTON

Mir. Lyman Thorpe and sister, Miss Frances Thorpe have recently enter tained relatives from Bridgeport.
 The Sunday school picnic of Lees chapel will be held next week Wednes- day Aug. 9th at Beardsley Park.
 Mr and Mrs. John Z. Mellen and son recently visited Mrs. John H. Summers of Hattertown.
 MT. Leroy Wheeler is working in Bridgeport.
 Miss Marion Fanton is working in Stepney.
 Miss Anna Logan is visiting friends in Hattertown.
 Mrs Mildred Ferris and daughter, Miss Mary S. Ferris spent Friday in Bridgeport.
 Miss Mary Wheeler is entertaining Mrs. Andrew Sharott of Bridgeport.
 Mrs. William Horwitz and daughter, Ruth, are visiting friends in New York.
 Miss Nettie Ward is entertaining Mrs. Louise Ward of Hartford.
 Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Plumb and daughter Beatrice Plumb of Nichols visited their friends at Fairfield beach Sea Shell" cottage on Thursday
 MT. Stanley Bibbins recently visited Westport.
 MT. Peter Feavreau is moving the Union cemetery.
 John Sherwood is painting his build ings.
 Mrs. George s. Gillette recently wis., ited her sister, Mrs. Mildred Ferris.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-07
KILLING BLACKBIRDS
 BROUGHT ON A
 PEST OF LOCUSTS-

A number of years ago blackbirds were exceedingly abundant through eastern Nebraska. They were so pIen- tfful that the farmers believed they were damaging crops, so they began poisoning the birds. A single grain of corn soaked in strychnine was enough to kill a blackbird In the years tha< followed great numbers of these and other birds were destroyed during the spring and fall. At the time thous- ands of quail, prairie chickens, and other game birds were killed in every country to supply the market. AS the birds began to disappear, swarms of locusts took their place. These in- sects matched out in countless num- bers and began devastating crops. Few fields of grain escaped damage Many were entirely destroyed. Where blackbirds, quail prairie chickens. blowers, and other birds remained they took to living entirely on locusts. In such localities fair crops were secuIed solely through the assistance of ths birds.
 The members of the United States Entonnological Commission who wit- messed the work accomplished by the birds in this region, said the results were SO complete that it was impos- sibIe to entertain any doubt as to the value of birds as locust destroyers-- (WiIlian L.. Finley in Success Nigga zine."o
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-07

c. NJ Day. a New Yorker, and a technical expert has reached a. con- clusion as to the cause of the wreck of the Federal Express, based upon a study of the physical conditions at the scene. He concludes that the prox- innate cause, the supervening neglI- gence. so to speak, was defect in the siding, which ran down from the tracks, at a point beyond the cross- over.
 This conclusion agrees with certain physical evidences pointing which were noted by a gentleman early upon the scene of the wreck, whose views were given to The Farmer, on June 12, and printed in the issue of that day.
 MT. Days theory of the causation of the wreck is accompanied by dia- gram drawn by him.
 His theory is as follows:
 If the following facts are carefully considered, it must be evident that the generally accepted idea of the cause of the Fairfield Avenue Viaduct wreck was not the real cause.
 The rlSHL udHu fdii Ol the HldlH liue was banked outward at the siding switch, and the lowest point was at the frog of the siding switch
 The frog was mechanical arrange ment with a movable rail held in po- sition by a spring, not intended to resist extraordinary pressure.
 The tongue of the frog of this sid- ing switch was broken off about Q1a) one and one-half inches. The spring rail of the frog Chat permitted the wheels of a train, entering the siding to cross the right hand rail of the main line) was forced outward, and the spring apparatus wrecked beyond repair.
 T,bo op0ina law at an ,noJo of hS
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-07

horde of weak-w1lling subordinates, is at least difficult of belief.
 It is little more than a year since a sensational magazine story of part nership between the sugar trust and the Mormon church was denounced der the cold analysis of congressional Investigation 1t is admitted to be true. No less a person than Joseph F. Smith, president of the church, has told the Hardwick Investigating com mittee of the partnership between Mormonism and the trust.
 The Mormons had established beet sugar factories, in the effort to de- velop their country and enrich their people. They needed capital. Have meyer had it. Havemeyer saw a fu- ture in beet sugar, or said he did. The evidence is rather that he saw the need of controlling it in order to make it fight his battles for high protection. Anyhow, Havemeyer of fered to provide the Mormons with the capital they needed if they would join forces with him. They did. There after the church named the directors and provided the front to the beet sugar corporations in which they were Jointly interested, while the sugar trust made the policy.
 It was a great combination. The trust made it's pleas for protection through the beet-sugar people, who insisted that promising infant in- dustry was in need of suStenance. On the pretext of serving beet sugar, the tariff schedule was adjusted to the needs of the refining trust and to its designs of gathering in immense profits The Mormon end of the part nership was handsomely cared for by being assigned a great territory in rryh{c dfSfrihfffa ifS nrndI1nfS F'nom Success Magazine.")
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-07
STAMFORD FAIRFIELD SOUTHPORT
Daily Chroncngs of the Dongs of Our Country Cousins by The
 Farmers Special Correspondent
Another Suit Again SchOfie|d
Eichler Boy Who Was Injured By Automobile Will Also Claim
 Damages.
Special to The Farmer.)


 Fairfield, Aug. 7-Saturday night brought the largest crowd yet seen at the firemen's fair and carnival The firemen are we'll satisfied with the receipts so far and believe that they will receive enough to supply all their demands and buy the new material and apparatus they need.
 The next meeting of the Greenfield Grange will take place Sept. 5.
 It is expected that Mrs. Henry Burr, who was injured while on a motor tour in New York State, will be able to return to her home here this week
 One of the vacancies in the faculty of the Hargrove school will be filled by Prof Harold Thompson, grad uate of Williams college. The new conner has had much experience in preparing young men for college and gratifying results are expected from his connection with the school.
 The, Christian Endeavor Society of the Greenfield church met at the and an interesting program was car ried out. The society will attend the meeting at the Peoples Presbyterian church in Bridgeport this evening.
 Mail Carrier c. c. Wells and family are passing week at the camp ground at Plainfield. Frank Warren is substituting on the mail route dur
 
 A number of the students at the Hargrove school have already return ed to brush up and get ready for the fall term.
 The town registrars, William DaH- ing and James H. Farrell, will meet next Friday at the town house, to take names.
 The boy Ralph True, who was run over by an automobile owned by George B. Schofield of Bridgeport, is still confined to his bed and in a pre- carious condition at the hofne of his parents in Fairfield avenue near Ash Creek. Dr. w. H. Donaldson is at- tending him. It is evident that he was more seriously injured than the first examinations disclosed. The parents of Fred EIchler. who was in- jured at the same time and place, have brought suit against Mr. Scho- field and the papers will be served this week.
 THOMAS NOON. bottler of fine beers
 and liquors. Free delivery at Fair
 field Beach Mondays and Fridays.
 Ruppert's Knickerbocker Beer $1.25
 per case delivered. Telephone 109-
 IA. D22 If.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-07

the bridge; which indicated that the train had been pulled of sideways. The side beam of the bridge, was a7- parently pushed over sideways into the street, by the cars as they were dragged off sideways. and pushed forward by the cars from behind.
 An engine rocks like a pendulum, and the crossover would increase the swing.
 train travelling 40 miles an hour covers 58 feet in a second.
 It seems more probable that the en- outward. The depressed rail on the frog side would tend to throw the weight of the engine against the spring rail of the frog. The movable rail would naturally open outward, and if the fange of the engine drfv- CT wheel caught the tongue of the frog, the result would be just what happened.
 In my opinion, at the third rock out ward, three seconds from the cross over, the engine sank into the banked track. The 300,000 pounds weight of the engine upon the spring rail of tts frog, with a depression which tend movable rail, held only by a small spring) forced open the rail and the dange of the engine driver wheel caught the frog and ripped the en- zine abruptly into the siding, where there was no rail upon an even level to retard it's progress. It simply shot off into space, and buried it's fore part in the soft earth. The en- zine dragged the cars with it, of to the side, and off the track sideways. The Pullmans. pressing forward as they were drawn off to the side, tele- scoped and crushed the lighter cars.
 The conclusion arrived at Is, that the forward part of the train had cleared the crossover by 300 feet, the engineer apparently opened the throt- tie and the engine was thrown over upon him before he realized what had hanpened.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-07
ROMANCE IN STAMFORD
Popular Cheshire Couple Elude Their Friends and Are Welded by
 Rev. MT. Cornwall.
Special to The Farmer.)


 IF. L. Hanson and Peter Gleason, 4he registrars of voters. will be in uession at the Selectmen's office in the town hall, on Friday, Aug. II, serom 12 o'clock noon till g o'clock p. u1., for the purpose of making an en- 1pllment of the legal voters of the town according to their declared po- aitical preference.
 .Stratford, Aug 7.CharIes Galpin of Bridgeport was arraigned before Jus tice Peck in. the town court here this morning, charged with stealing a harness, valued at s10 from Tomlin- eon's barn. Galpin was caught in Bridgeport. where he lives, trying to pawn the harness. He was bound ov- ler for trial before the upper court and } his bonds were fixed at s250
 The aftermath of the raiding of Angelo <tSavolo's place 5byi' the Estate police is being reaped by James Jan ino, Savolo's bartender, who is in Jail on the charge of assault and carrying fconcealed weapons. It is alleged that bad feeling developed between Janino and his former employer as the result \ of the latter's failure to bail out Jan .1no when the State police arrested him. as .ysi o3 etoo1 weE--<kHFE The two encountered and quarreled over a dog which Savolo accused Jam ino of stealing. Janino. it is alleged, drew a revolver and shot at Savolo. | not hitting him. Janino was arrested Iby Grand Juror Charles c. Holmes and is in jail in default of ball.,
 msnes ssrstfeaa aelen Ghfsalrs F: Flanagan. g, of Cheshire. and Miss Hannah M. Smith, 22. of Waterbury, secured a marriage license and were welded by the Rev. N. Ellsworth Cornwall. Flanagan is a well-to-do farmer in Cheshire, with a host of friends in that town and in Water bury. He and his bride chose to be welded in Stratford to keep. it. quiet, and get the start of their friends.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-07

ideas of sport were not quite the same as ours and they were weak in their conception of a corporate life, which is one of the most valuable of ideas to be learned at an English university.
 I take it that this last item is at the root of the whole matter. If it is true that the Americans fail to un- derstand that at Oxford their busi- ness is to help their university and their colleagues and not only them selves, then they are missing one of the most valuable lessons that Oxford has to teach them and certainly one of the things that they ought to set their minds on if they are to fulfil the object with which they have been sent here. I should not like to say that it is true without hearing more from the undergraduates themselves, as I propose to do. But in the mean time there is undoubtedly some ad- verse feeling about the American Rhodes scholars, and if it is allowed to grow 1t will be a good-by to all that MT. Rhodes hoped would come of increased national comity from his great beQuest.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-07

would indicate that the cars were drawn off sideways.
 If the engine had jumped the track at the cross-over, and followed the line of the marks upon the ties, the wreckage would have been piled up in Fairfield avenue, and not spread over the 250 feet beyond the avenue A 300,000 pound engine could not travel over 300 feet over the soft earth without leaving some marks, and if it did what would account for the torn | up tracks between the bridge and the siding switch.
 The marks must have been made up- On the ties by the Pullmans. When the engine jumped at the siding switch. the coaches and baggage car extend ed back to within 30 feet of the cross over The heavy Pullmans pushed forward and crushed the coaches as the coaches buckled outward, being
 pulled over to the right by the en-
 zine. The Pullman next to the coach
 pushed into the coach and the next
 Pullman being drawn off the track sideways struck the north abutment
 of the viaduct and knocked the inn
 mense stones over upon the wreck of
 the coaches.
 The engine could not have hit the
 wall CD because the last body taken
 from the wreck of the cars was of woman and it lay under these im-
 mense stones This indicates that
 the wreck was, before the wall was
 struck. @ the part of this Pullman.
 that hit the wall, was badly broken
 and thrown over on it's side, away
 from the wall at an angle of about
 70 degrees. (3) If the engine had struck
 the wall, the fore part of the engine would have been wrecked, whereas
 the front of the engine was not wreck ed. 4- The engine could not have travelled 250 feet over the soft dirt;
 because there were no marks except where the engine struck and lay.
 The inner rail of the east bound track on the bridge, was still stand ;x,~ cn %I. fnr ord <,f
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-07

be the case with Englishmen in an American university and instanced men whom he had known who had gone from English schools to Ameri- can universities and had had a very bad time simply because of their Eng 1ish ways. The only trace I have been able to find of a grievance here is the refusal of the committee which grants "blues'' to give a half-blue to the university lacrosse team. Cam bridge has given one and 1t is stated that Oxford refuses because the la crosse team is made up largely of Rhodes scholars. Whether this is true or not I do not know, but it is stated and it is the only grievance that I have heard stated.
 And yet in spite of all this there does seem to be growing up in Ox- ford a feeling not against Americans but against the American Rhodes scholars. It is very slight as yet and it is, of course, stemmed by the men such as I have mentioned, who make their way in Oxford life and lend some lustre to their less successful compatriots. But it exists, and the blame for it is put down to the Ann orleans themselves.
 I talked to a man who, after gain ing an athletic blue as an undergrad uate, stayed on in Oxford to coach and do various other things, such as produce ap undergraduates journal. He first of all told me of the success full Rhodes scholars and praised them, and it was not until after some time that he rather reluctantly admitted that as a body the Americans were not as successful as they might be. They did. he said, largely consort with each other instead of joining in with the men of their respective col leges They did not seem to want to know their English fellow under graduates. They treated Oxford like an orange to suck, and the majority of them gave little in return. Their