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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-08-28

Edward Larson. Of t2i7-Dcnovsn
street. was thrown from his horse
while riding near Salmon creek
yesterday and was seriously IN
fured. Larson was riding the ami.
NAL bareback.
Guests at the Seattle hotel we're
given a scare yesterday when
smoke was seen pouring up from
an abandoned elevator shaft. Upon
investigation II was found a rub
bish pile at the bottom OF the shaft
had caugh. fire.
Fer the Purpose Of attending the
county teachers instituted which
opens today. Snpt. OF Instruction II.
b. Dewey arrived here last night
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-08-28

Fully 5000 persons enjoyed the
picnic given by the park board at
Aiki Point yesterday.
The psrishioners Of the st. James
cathedral will give an all-day pic
mic at Leschi park next Wednes-
day.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-08-28

Afr being Idle for several weeks
ehingie mills In Western Washing
ton will again resume operation be-
ginning this morning.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-08-28
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when ~the great American
desert where the cactus fIourishes
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-08-28
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1.|RI'|E|iI

August rs. 1882. Gen. Stonewali
Jackson showed the military world
that ha eou "A
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-08-28

! tina smith. 30 years old. was
I held from the home OF her SON
4 W. II. Smith, at co.'s tsth 81.
4 s. W. yesterday.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-08-28

Mrs. elizabeth Nichols, TO-. for
twenty-three years resident OF
Seattle. died at the residence Of
her daughter yesterday.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-08-28

= Ten thousand union men !
! will be in the big labor-day !
\ parade on Sept TO- A big pic I
4 mic At Fortuna park follows
4 the parade.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-08-28

SAN FRANCiSco.-A. p. Jensen
of Santa Rosa resembled Five Fin
ger Smith," he was told by two
bunko detectives as they searched
him for a gun. lie carried $i75
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-08-28

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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-08-28

Company q. the eldest military
ORGANIZATION in Washington. viii
hold It's annual reunion and a
smoker AT the armory hall Tuesday
! =
The steamship Minnesota broke
all previous records when she sent
a message to the wireless station
nj Astoria while 1880 miles away.
The message was forwarded 20
Seattle.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-08-28

Alfred n. LundIn, resigned his
position az deputy In the prose
cutting attorneys office after acting
as a deputy for three years. Lun.
din's resignation goes into effect
Sept. 1, when he will engage in a
private practice.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-08-28
'ttAsssssA&&At

which today Is the property OF the
sleuthR.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-08-28

manded by Capt. 5. Peterson. re
ports seeing a vessel beached II
Inimal pass. while twelve days
from Nushagak. Bristol bay. The
crew OF the stranded vessel re-
fused the Hoiyoke's offer OF aid
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-08-28
Frederick & Nelson Basement Salesroom
Excellent Values in
New Dress Materials

FOR CHI DIRE ms school,
DRESSES, especially-good values are offer
ed in a new line OF bright plaid materials
50 inches wide and priced at SOC yard.
HALF-WOOL SHEPHERDS CHECK
SUITINGS in brown and white, black and
white and blue and white checks OF various
sizes; 81, SO and 81 inches wide, priced re.
spectivcly at 35f, 60c and $1.1O yard.
HEAVY ALL WOOL CHEvIoT|
SERGE, 81 inches wide. in navy-blue and
black strong value at $1.25 yard.
Some new numbers just added TO or
showing OF novelty Fall and Winter Suisin2s
afford special values at SSc and $1.Oo)
yard. -sss.m.n. ssi..rssm
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-08-28

4 irrigation business Today Is bis
s3rd birthday.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-08-28

SAN FRANcisCo.--RIchard Ric-
Ito, a barber on the San Bruno
road, today Is awaiting the claim.
ant Of peg leg which he found in
the dust after party OF joyriders
passed.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-08-28
WEDDING IN AN AsRopLANg PLANNED nv AsHrAsULA COUPLE

AstrABuLA o. AUG 2sweddngs have been held most every
Ashbula planning the
first aeroplane nuptials
the enthusiasm aviation
has Ia the
married acropane Home Week. next
on
aeropane four-the the minister and the
there will be
a biplane sufficient size the aviation meet
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-08-28
SAN FRANCISCO.

! SAN FRANCISCO. - Miss 4
/ Mary Lafrence's pose as a 4
! cowgirl before a friends cam. \
/ era should have been before 4
/ a moving picture machine. 4
/ Today she Is recovering from \
1 a bullet wound inflicted by 4
/ a pistol In the hands of her 4
4 little brother. 4
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-08-28

4 Four hundred persons gath 4
" cred at the grave Of Chief Sc 4
4 attic OF the Port Madison 4
4 reservation. Both white and 4
4 Indian speakers paid tribute 4
Y to the dead chief. 4
4 4
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-08-28

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and the ev''
sodsy IN the
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-08-28
Popular Notions

Linen Mesh Shopping
Bags, with woven and leather
handles, SOC, 75c, $l.00 and
$l25.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-08-28

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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-08-17

bodies, whose delicate sensibilities are
more potent to prevent reason and
progress in legislation than all other
causes combined. There are many
evils in the world: such as that work
ingmen are injured at their tasks, or
killed, and that they or their depend
ents suffer poverty thereby Taxation
is unjust. Trolley lines want the
whole highway But out with these
minor things. Nothing is rotten but
Sunday baseball. Let us devote our
energies to that. Three cheers for
Representa- tive Peck. He is hero
in the fight. He will wage war upon
iniquity to the last ditch and then
some. What is iniquity? 1t is legal
lied Sunday baseball So reads the
lexicon of Stratfords leading judge,
statesman, economist and moral phil
osopher. Presently we shall have the
devil abolished and hell will have no
more terrors.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-08-17
A DISPUTED RIVER.

The proposal to take Ten Mile Riv-
er for an addition to the water sup
ply of New York city has excited the
animosity of some gentlemen in Con-
necticut who own unused water pow
er franchises on the river, which,
rising in New York state, empties in
to Housatonic at Bowls bridge. Since
Ten Mile River is not navigable it
would appear that the Federal gov
eminent has no control over it and
that the state of New York may cut
the stream off at any point within
that state. Sovereign powers have
gone to war for less. but, fortunately
the power to levy war is not one that
remains in the states, SO New York
and Connecticut will have to struggle
along in amity, even if Ten Mile Riv-
er is diverted. Connecticut has the
satisfaction of knowing that the wa
ter of the stream is to be put to the
highest use, since it will be consumed
as drink in New York, but would only
drive a water wheel in Connecticut.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-08-17

eminent, the constitution of the
United States. would have to be
changed from time to time. They
provided for change. But they didn't
forsee forty or fifty sovereign states,
and SO it turns out that their method
is a little cumbersome. There were
lots of things the fathers didn't know,
even Thomas Jefferson, who was
that slavery couldn't exist in this
country, but none of the rest of them
did.
The fathers didn't know about
telephones, automobiles, talking
machines, or flying machines. They
didn't know about trusts. nor that a
time would come when more people
would live in cities than lived on
farms. They didn't know about SAN
itation, nor hygiene. They died in
herds of all sorts of diseases that
have no terrors now. There We're
SO many Things the IdIner OlOn
know it would take months to tell it
ALL The last word in argument has
not been said when some fine old fos-
sill arises to remark that "the faith
ers didn't do that"
The fathers managed their own af-
fairs andRmade good job of it. They
constructed the kind of government
they wanted. And that is what their
sons and their grandsons and their
great grandsons ought to do and will
do and are doing. 1t is for this gen.
Grafton to make the kind of govern
ment that is suited to it and its needs
retaining as much of what the faith
ers liked as suits, rejecting as much
as does not suit.
This is a world of living men. It
must be run by living men for the
living. 1t will utterly refuse to be
run by dead men for the benefit of the
living who are dead and don't know
it.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-08-17
GROWTH OF CITIES.

Census reports show that there is
further increase in the number of
people who live in cities, over the
number who live in rural communi-
ties. There has been growth in both
populations, but the ratio is three to
one in favor Of urban population. It
is not back to the farm, but in to the
city. This is as. expected and as it
should be. The movement toward
centers of population indicates a high
civilization, complex products and q
high standard of living A new peo-
pie upon new soil will be largely or
munity will be self sustaining. Each
farm is the source of most of what
is used upon it. A little later manu-
features develop. industry begins to
specialize, the articles of use multiply
and groups are told off into many
fields of employment Primarily the
function of these groups is to serve
the farmers, but ultimately they be-
come 80 numerous that the larger
part of their work is on products
consumed by Industrial or other
workers who are not farmers. A lit
tie thought will show that the condi-
ton cannot be otherwise The desire
of men for food is strictly limited
Their desire for articles of use, other
than food, is unlimited.
Now if one man engaged in agri-
culture could support only himself,
then we should all be in agriculture
and having a very hard time of it.
But one man on the farm can pro-
vide food for many. off the farm, who
in turn will provide him with ma
chinery to increase his labor power,
with pianos, automobiles and thou
sands of other things.
The ability of the farmer to raise
the basic articles of food supply has
been constantly increasing. The Ia
Dor power of the farmer has been
lifted ten fold by modern invention.
The productive power of the land has
been increased by scientific fertiliza-
ton and selection of seeds and spec
les and the like.
Therefore fewer farmers propor-
tionally are needed to feed the world
than used to be. More men can be told
off to work at other tasks. Readers who
wish the detail of this drift of popu-
lation are recommended to the CEN
sus figures printed today in this
newspaper.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-08-17
VERY POWERFUL GUNS
Range is Miles = Each PROTECTIVE
Weighs 1,40O Pounds and
Costs $3.50

Washington, Aug. 1S-Apaprently
there is no limit to the range Of the
big guns on Uncle Sans ships and
coast defenses A few years ago a
gun which could shoot accurately
distance of ten miles was considered
remarkable, but the latest acquisition
to Uncle Sans armament will demol-
ish any battleship or fertilization now
in existence at a distance of f1fteen
miles.
When it is considered that during
the civil war, only fifty years ago,
two miles was the greatest range pos
sible with the guns in use at that
time, the range of the new 14-lnch
death dealers seems phenomenal.
These new guns will be mounted on
the largest of the new battleships, the
Texas and the New York, both OF
which are of the Delaware type ana
it is claimed that the perfection of these
guns will make these two ships the
most powerful and most to be dread
ed in the world. The new gun is %
feet, 6 IL inches long and weighs,
stripped, 63.6 tons. The diamenter at
the breech is AZ inches and at the
muzzle "A inches. Each one will cost
the gun 10 mounted will add $4,000
At the muzzle the gun has veloc-
ity of 1900 feet second and the pow
er behind the projectile will drive the
latter at the rate of eight miles in
% seconds. The penetrating power OF
the 14-inch monster is II inches of the
best face-hardened steel at miles;
112 at 10 miles; 1917 at II miles and
9 inches at Is miles The projectile
weighs 1,4OO pounds, is 1-2 feet in
length and costs $3.50 1t is loaded
with a bursting charge of As pounds
of "dunnite'', the most powerful ex-
plosive known. The powder charge
used behind the projectile to give it
velocity consists of bags of 80 pounds
each of smokeless nitrocelulose.
The cost of these guns at rfrst sight
appears immense, but when it is con-
sjdered that, far over the horizon, one
shot from one of these monsters would
batter and possibly destroy any bat
tleship now afloat and that a single
round from ten of them at a distance
of fifteen miles would be sufficient to
lay New York in ruins. the primary
cost does not appear so great.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-08-17
THE FATHERS.

There is a group of citizens. poll
ticians, corporation lawyers. near
statesmen, and psuedo leaders who
are constantly imploring their fellow
citizens to stick to the fathers in all
matters of politics and legislation.
No sooner do men with little imagi-
nation and some wisdom devise a
remedy for political, or economic
wrong, than these people appear on
the =. landscape with megaphones
srouunE. TDpnr 90 ~ The
fathers didn't" Now the fathers
were very fine men, though not as
fine as we have nowadays They
knew a great deal about government
and they did as well as they knew
how. Nobody knew better than
they that their instrument of gov
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-08-17
HOURS OF NIGHT wATCHhEN

Washington, Aug 16--Representative
Reilly, of Meriedn, Conn.,, has intro
duced in the House bill making eight
hours the maximum limit of time
which any Waterman in a government
building shall work continuously.
At present the watchmen, of whom
there are hundreds in shington
alone go to work early in the evening
and stay on duty until opening of the
offices the next morning. From twelve
to fourteen hours is the average time
of many, Rep. Reilly declares.
Rep. Reilly holds that the govern
ment has applied the eight hour work
ing day principle to all work done for
the government, and that it is incon-
sistent with this policy TO require
night watchmen in government build
ings to work more than this time.
His bill will not receive consideration
at this session.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-08-17
LIVER SPOTS OR FRECKLEse

Washington, Aug. 17-Expert wit
nesses do not stand very high with
Rep. Alexander Dem. Mo- who voiced
his opinion recently when reviewing
the testimony of physicians some Of
whom maintained there was no cure
for cancer while others asserted there
might be.
why talk about expert witnesses, ;"
said Rep. Alexander, "you can prove
anything by them. I was trying a
personal injury case out in Missouri
and had eight physicians testify that
brown spots on a mans back were
liver spots. And the other side had
eight doctors swear that those same
spots were freckles''
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-08-17
QUITE A NEAT GAME
Fraud Order Issued by the Post Office
Department

Washington, Aug. 16-The Postoffice
Department has just discovered what
it claims is one of the neatest schemes
for obtaining other peoples hard earn:
ed cash, formulated in years. The De-
partment has been watching the de-
velopment of the plan for some time
and the krecent numerous complaints
from alleged victims of the originator
of the scheme has had the effect OF
forcing the issuance of fraud order
against the companies concerned and
the Indictment of the proprietor of the
two offending organizations.
According to the statements of the
Postoffice detectives in charge of the
investigation, the ingenious originator
of the scheme had the following adj
vetisement inserted in daily papers
throughout the country:
YOUNG MEN WANTED to copy
letters at home; SIS weekly made
by easy, congenial work. Send
10 cents as evidence of good faith
TO
Those who were DESTROYS of increas-
ing their weekly stipend by the addi-
ton of SIS or more-for the amounts
specified varied in the different adver-
tisements@sent the required amounts.
In return they received a letter say
ing that the company was anxious
10 get letters, TO De used as teStlmOn-
1alS, written on a special typewriter
which he was placing on the market.
On the receipt of SO, the proprietor of
the flina liam game would send lit
tie novelty" typewriter which the
Postoffice detectives claim cam be
bought at retail for 80 cents and up
on which it is impossible to write 100
letters, much less the 1000 for which
the company" was willing to pay
$40.
The originator of the plan is alleged
to have admitted that he bought the
machines for less than a dollar and
that he sold over a hundred of them
in three months through this adver-
tiSement.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-08-17
OUT DAMNED EVIL!

Once more does Representative
Charles H. Peck of Stratford rise TO
that baseball and other games shall
be legally played on Sunday His
gorge rises when he thinks of the
thousands who attend Sunday base
ball games in spite of certain dead
statutes. How splendid it is to have
such tender souls in our legislative
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-08-17
TILSON
NAMES HIS SECRETARY

New Haven, Aug. 17-Attorney Ar
thur w. Chambers, a young lawyer in
the office of Wartrous and Day, has
been named by Congressman John. Q.
Tilson as his secretary, and he will
enter upon his duties at once. The
new secretary was educated in the
grammar and high schools of this
city and in the Yale Law school. He
is "A years old and is member Of
the Grays and the Young Mems Re
D1Jhlican club
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-08-17
IMPROVED LIGHTING SYSTEM
FOR CONSOLIDATED ROAD

The New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad has ordered from
the United States Light and Heating
Company one hundred cars equipped
with that company's system of axle
electric lighting. This system of il
lumina ton has come into general use
on railroads throughout the country
and is rapidly superseding the older
methods.
This system constitutes each car as
a separate lighting plant and valu-
able feature is that the car will re-
main lighted under all circumstances
1t is understood that the New
Haven Railroad will gradually equip
additional passenger rolling stock
with the axle lighting method.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-08-17
STATE CONVENTION.
Universalists to Meet in Waterbury, or
September 20 and 81.

Waterbury, Aug. 1.-THE state Uni
versalist convention is to be held in
Waterbury, at All Souls church, on
Wednesday and Thursday, September
20 and II. A number of interesting
speakers are expected and the occa-
sion will be a noteworthy one Com
mittees are now being appointed and
other arrangements are being made
for the entertainment of the guests
and other matters connected, with the
convention, full details of which will
be announced later
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-08-17
STREETS ARE UNSAFE.

Last Friday night in responding to
an alarm of fire the auto-chemical
apparatus just missed hitting a tree
which someone had felled across the
road on Arctic street near Pembroke.
There were no lights or warnings of
any kind near the tree. Chief Moon
ey is seeking the arrest of the person
who felled the tree, but SO far no war
rant has been issued.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-08-17
UhP q. m. Rran Unttratt11.
EHtahliHhrn lH57.
The Store Closes Daily Five O'clock
Except Saturdays.
More Attractive Wash Goods in
Remnants

This time, Short Lengths of Colored Satines,
amounts ranging from to ten yards. Former val
ues rs and 80 yard,
w to close out
What you use them for? Well, when you see
them you will Immediately be conjuring for
them, for they pretty. Odd shades that any
man will find most acceptable for Innings under thin
dresses for quilt coverings, sofa pillows, draperes,
and many other articles. The average woman finds
use for pretty material always. And 121a yard
On sale Immediately.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-08-17

A. M. WOOSTER. .Attorney-af-Llaw.
Late Examiner u. S. Patent Office
1884 MAIN ST., BRIDGEPORT, CT.
Send Postal for Booklet on Patents.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-08-17
There are Stationery Bargains

Of course all owe notes and letters, in scores.
Some of bowed under the weight of indebt-
edness But it comfort to sit down to write at
desk we'll supplied with paper, cards and envelopes
match, without having to hunt out something from
odds and ends No excuse for it at present prices.
Simply forgetfulness in providing ourselves.
Correspondence Cards and Envelopes, dainty
Batiste finish, quire rs cts.
Gilt Edge Cards, with envelopes, IS cts.
initiated Cards. long English letters 80 cts.
Reads Linen, letter paper, per h., rs cts.
so envelopes to match, cts
Box of White Commercial Envelopes, 25o for
rs cts.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-08-17

In the Tea Room. A very refreshing drink is iced
tea on hot days It is genuine thirst quencher And
fruit lemonade is always we'll liked made fresh with
carbonated water and plenty of cracked ice Cold
hot bouilon, sandwiches salads and homemade cake.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-12-21
Ell Pasoans Returning

Miss Marbry Henning, who has been
attending Leland Stanford university,
California, has arrived in FL Paso to
spend the holidays with her parents.
Gustave and Leo MOmsen. who are
attending school at Dallas, are expect
ed home to spend the holidays with
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Nom
sen
Miss Claytie Mae Collier a student
Of Baylor university, at Waco, is eX-
pected home for the holidays. Miss
Collier is the daughter OF Ms Mar
garet Collier Of 607 Mesa avenue.
W. 7. Cox has returned from a short
stay at Douglas, Ariz.
Wallace Thew has returned from
trip to New York and Ohio.