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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-07-21
SHORTAGE SAID
TO Be A MILLION
Statement Regarding Affairs
Of James Petit.
DEAD MAN LOST HEAVILY

Manager Of the Peavey Grain Com
pany Of Chicago Alleged to Have
Specialized on Large Scale, Con-
trary to instructions and Without
the knowledge Of His Employers.
Bankers involved Hold Conferences
at Minneapolis.
Minneapolis, July Thames Petit,
president and general manager of the
Peavey Grain company of Chicago,
whose death occurred by drowning at
Chicago on July 8, vas short approx.
mately $1,oOO,00o, according to a
statement issued from the Offices of f.
H. Peavey & Co., the parent Of a
dozen subsidiaries, which is the own
er of the stock of the Peavey Grain
company.
The following statement was issued
from the Minneapolis office after q
conference with representatives Of
Minneapolis and Chicago banks and
commercial paper houses of Chicago
holding notes fioated by Mr.. Petit in
the name of Peavey Grain company:
"On Saturday afternoon, July g., fol-
lowing the death of James Petit, a
representative of F. H. Peavey 6 Co.,
who had been sent to Chicago to as
sist in the Office Of the Peavey Grain
company during Mr.. Pettit's illness,
discovered that certain unauthorized
and concealed speculations had been
going on in the business, which, SUBJ
sequent investigation proved, will re-
suit in a shortage of approximately
81, 100000
Mr. Petit, general manager of the
business, has apparently in no way
profited by these speculations, and
they were carried on absolutely con.
trary to the instructions and without
knowledge of F. H.. Peavey & Co., and
in direct violation of the well known
policy of the Peavey company.
Bankers Called in Conference.
Immediately after the notification
of Mr.. Pettit's death, Mr.. Heffelfinger
and Mr.. Wells, president and vice
president of +. H. Peavey & Co., went
to Chicago, and upon arrival were in
formed of Irregularities then discov-
cred.
"They called in the officers Of those
banks with which the Peavey Grain
company did business and laid before
them the existing conditions.
Sunday the Minneapolis bankers of
F. II. Peavey & Co. were called to-
gether and advised of the develop
ments in the Chicago Office, and this
morning these bankers, together with
the representatives of several Chica-
go banks, net in Minneapolis to adj
wise as to the situation"
Just what condition the Peavey
Grain company is in the officials al
Minneapolis will not say. Another
statement will be issued later. Wheth.
er F. H. Peavey & Co. will stand the
losses entailed by the speculation OF
Mr.. Petit is also uncertain. Mr..
Wells explained that this may follow,
but he is not able to say.
I'VE wish it understood" said Mr..
Wells, that neither F. H. Peavey e.
Co. @ any of it's subsidiaries is di-
rectly affected in this matter. f. H.
Peavey & Co. is a holding corporation,
founded to hold together the Peavey
estate interests. The company never |
deals in grain and in fact the only |
brokerage business we ever did was |
through the Chicago house of which
Mr.. Petit was in CHARGE"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-07-21
Of Capacity OF Man, Horse,
Steam and Electricity.

comparison Of Capacity OF Man, Horse,
Steam and Electricity.
Ny scientific friend and I we're
egarding with admiration. one Of
he great engines and generators in
he metropolitan power station.
GLOW many horsepower" l
asked, voicing the question chat
comes naturally to every II at
sight Of an engine.
II should say 5,ooo," he replied,
"but we can get a better idea Of it
from the capacity of the generator.
Just glance at that brass plate near
you on the frame of the dynamo"
Eighteen hundred amperes; two
thousand VOLTS" I read, wondering
what that had to do with horse
power.
"The capacity Of a dynamo" con
sinued my friend, almost reading
my thoughts, ''is given by the prod
act Of the ampercs and the volts
and is measured in terms of a unit
called a watt, or more generally i'll
terms Of . unit a thousand times
larger, or the kilowatt. The capac-
ity of the machine is 100000
watts, then, or 5000 kilowatts. Or,
as the kilowatt is one and one-third
times as large as the horsepower,
this would make some 1880 horse
power. Since the engine that drives
it is generally a little larger than
absolutely necessary, it's horsepower
in this case will probably run be-
tween 5000 and 6,O0O."
@SWhat is a horsepower, anyway?:"
I asked. 81 have used the term
often enough, but have never
known just what it meant"
"This unit of power" he oblig-
ingly went on to explain, els, as its
name indicates, about the power
that can be steadily furnished by a
good sized horse. More exactly, it is
defined as a rate of doing work
equal to $4,000 foot pounds a min
ute o. $50 a second. A foot pound
is the work done in lifting a pound
one foot high, so.a horsepower en-
CINE could, for example, lift one
pound $50 feet high in one second,
or ffty-fye pounds ten feet high"
"What would be the power of a
man, them" 1 asked.
cit is difficult to say. For steady
work it might not average much
more than a tenth of a horsepower,
but, strange as it may seem, for
short spurts a man can do more
than a horsepower. Thus, a $50
pound man can run upstairs for a
few seconds at a rate of four feet
vertically a second, or even more,
and this would mean 600 foot
pounds a second, or well over q |,
horsepower. If he was able, at the
same time to make use of his arms
he could probably increase this by
half.
"But this must not be interpret
he went on to say, "as mean.
ing that a man is as strong as e
for, just as a man can ex-
coed his normal power for short
spurts, SO a horse could generate
several horsepower. for a few min
utes at a time. So it is probable
that an excited runaway team is
if not quite the equal in pow.
er to a fair sized automobile with
it's twenty odd rated horsepower"
Il. /. Rose in Chicago Record
Herald.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-07-21
lEAD ENGINEER
HELD TO BLAME
Responsible for Wreck or
New Haven Road.
SIXTEEN PEOPLE KILLED

First Six Cars on Train Plunge Down
Twenty.foot E~mbankment and Near
Iy Every One Of the Hundred oc-
cupants Meets Death or injury-Fire
Breaks Out in Wreckage, but Flames
Are subdued Before They Become
Serious.
bridgeport, Conn, July 1.-THE
Federal Express, one of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroads
fastest trains, carrying passengers
without change from Washington to
Boston, plunged down a twenty-foot
,mbankment here while running sixty
miles an hour.
OF 100 passengers that went down
with the first six cars scarcely one
escaped death or injury. Sixteen
bodies have been taken u OF the
twisted wreckage, including those of
the engineer and firemen, which were
80 mutllated that it is evident they
must have met instant death. This
probably completes the death list.
Forty-four injured are in the hos.
pi,als and nearly a score more re-
ceived injuries not severe enough to
prevent them from continuing their
journey.
Among the dead are four unidenti-
n1 .--. H.. .1--4:Gl ,-r.. 49,
one unidentified child.
Running Fast to Make Up Time.
A new 'croSsovel" installed on the
Burr road viaduct and ~embankment
on The western outskirts of the city
was indirectly responsible for the ac-
ciient. The train WIS late and the
engineer was driving to make up lost
time. When the heavy vestibuled
train of nine cars struck the switch at
full speed the engine leaped, rocked
and swayed over the ties for nearly
100 yards and finally fell to the street
below. dragging six cars down the
bank. The coupling broke between
the sixth and seventh cars. leaving
kIjSt SiCCIcIS uDI lSlI VII LlC SlIlOdth
ment, two OF them still on the rails.
That the wreck was due to the en-
gjneer taking a %crossover at a speed
estimated at sixty miles an hour,
when the time card limited the speed
to fifteen miles a hour, was the gist
Of a statement concerning the wreck
issued by officials of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad
here.
Ball Players Prove Heroes.
Many a victim of the wreck pinned
beneath the debris owes his life to
the promptness of the members of
the st. Louis National league baseball
team. The ball players were riding in
the last two cars which remained on
the track. When the crash came they
piled out in their pajamas and several
Of them were bleeding from cuts about
tire face, caused by racing over the
sharp wreckage.
Fire broke out in the %wreckage but
the Bridgeport fire department quick
jg put this out and the men lent as
sistance to rescue the injured. Am
balances and doctors, hastily sum-
moned, did their best to save those
who we're under the debris.
With fremen, policemen and doc
tors working as fast as possible, the
dead and injured were laid out upon
Abe lawn OF Mrs. B. A. Koran In Fair
fjeld avenue. AS fast as the ambu-
lances came the injured were sent to
the hospitals.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-07-21
purina The Service.

During the Servlce.
Jones--I wonder why they always
have nm eagle holding up the reading
desk?
Smith-Give it up.
Jones-Why don't they do the thing
up brown while they're about Il and
have a screecll owl on the pulpit. .
reedbird on the organ, warbler and
humming bird on the choir stalls. =
dOdo bird on the aims basin and :
stork on the baptismal fontf-Life.
Tsaehsrsc Commits Suicide.
Madison. Wis. Norman
Curtis aged thirty.hye, an instructor
in railway engineering at the Uni.
yersity 81 Wisconsin, committed slt.
eiaa on tn university grounds.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-07-21
Women Injured in Fire.

Chicago. July Zone hundred and
fifty families were driven into tie
street by a fire which destroyed the
Norwood, a large apartment building.
Two women we're ssNereiy injured
while being removed from the bnru-
Ing building.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-07-21
GATES VERY NEAR DEATH
Paris Physicians Admit Condition Of
F~inancier Is Critical.

Paris, July 12.-The condition Of
John W. Gates, the American finan-
cier, is worse and. his physicians say
that their patient is in a critical state.
Charles G. Gates, who fastened to
his fathers bedside from New York,
has arrived here.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-07-21
a Warm Weather Job.

A negro boy from Louisiana got into
Boone. Ia. during a cold spell las:
winter. He was thiuly cfad. and the
first job he got was cleaning saow on
the sidewalks.
As lie was Mt work lie stopped q
passerhy and asked: 'Mistuh. cain
you tell me wharf kin ind some other
Job than thisyyl I amt nevah goin' to
shovel snow ag'in whar it's cold.'-
Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-07-21
FOR RENT

For Rent-The Joe Katz farm.
Terms from five to twenty years to
right party at a reasonable figure.
Can take possession at. once.
Good hay, pasture and garden,
twenty acres under irrigation.
For further information consult
Theo. Haugeberg o Joe Katz,
Washburn. 4.6
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-07-21

ESTRAYFD
rfsF.-.a

3Sraysd-on April Goth, bay msres
weight 100 I years Old, starsin
sforehead and one white hindsleg..
IIf Taken up please notify, 4. p.
Kjorness, Basto y. p.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-04-21
SENATE PASSES THE
FAIRCHILD MEASURE
(From Thursday,s Adyertiser.l

After hot debate on the floor of the
senate yesterday morning, the Fairchild
land resolution, asking congress to
again amend the homesteading clauses
of the Organic Act, was passed to the
house on a vote of nine to fve-Judd,
Hewitt, Kalama, Kaleiopu and Pail
voting against it.
Judd was the speaker for the opposi-
ton, and bestowed 'epithets on the reso-
luton not complimentary, saying in
part:
81 am unalterably opposed to the
idea of this resolution. 1t is sugar
coated pill in order to porpetuate the
present plantation system. Several
large plantations are operating almost
entirely on government land, and this
seems to be the reason for the intro
duction Of this resolution. 1t is to pro.
test these vested interests. They are
to get the cream and the homesteaders
the skim milk. The trouble with home
stealing has been an economic one.
The hope of Hawaii is the creation of
middle class. This resolution is to
perpetuate the plantation system, that
is hostile and antagonistic to the crea-
ton of a middle class. The reason of
this resolution is dollars, and it is writ.
ten in large letters all over it. It
should be killed in the senate for the
benefit of ourselves and Of our chill
dren."
The various district delegations split
on the bill, Judd and Kaleiopu breaking
with the Oahu delegation, Hewitt from
Hawaii and Kalama and Pail casting
two'tbirds Of Maui's vote against
Kauai's proposition Brown of Oahu
was staneh supporter of the measure,
and his and Fairchild's stand for it
carried IL through.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-04-21
Veto
APPARENTLY SAFE
(From Thursdays Advertiser

(trom Thursdays Advertiser)
The senate yesterday failed to emu.
late the unanimous action of the house
in overriding the Governors veto to
house bill number 3, providing $500, 900
for belt roads, the Maui delegation,
with the exception of Robinson voting
to sustain the veto, assisted by Baker
and Makekau of Hawaii, neither of
whom were bound by party pledges on
the matter.
The two-thirds majority vote neces-
sary to pass the bill was consequently
not obtained, the folr who voted against
it, if they maintain their attitude, be,
ing sufficient to kill it every time, al.
though it is again on the calendar on
motion to reconsider.
The motion to reconsider originated
with Chillingworth, who asked leave to
change his vote for the purpose, max
ing a false vote of five against the
balance of the house. KalamR rose on
a point of order against the motion TO
reconsider but was overruled. The
two Hawaii members will vote consist
emily on the anti side today when the
matter comes up and Kalama may also
be epexeted 10 maintain his stand as
he remarked afterwards that he wished
be wag wrong but he was afraid he
wasn't Pail is expected 10 stand by
his colleague and a deadlock seems 70
be tho result,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-04-21
APPROPRIATION BILL
VERY MUCH AMENDED

AS amended, the appropriation bill
passed second reading in the house yes
terday and will be acted upon by the
committee of the whole today. An eff
fort win be made to pass the bill at
third reading this afternoon, but this
is problematical.
While the bill is greatly amended as
to many items, in an effort to save the
Territory from any expense not abso-
lutely necessary, one large addition of
$242, 900 had to be inserted for the pay
ment of interest on the proposed bond
issue. This little item had been over
looked by the senate, and wipes out
much of the economical efforts of the
finance committee, which has been
working on the bill both day and night
since it came from the senate.
A special force of clerks was put to
work last night to prepare copies of
the bill by hand in time for the repre-
sentatyes today.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-04-21
All Hawaiian and Rus
sian Shacks Fated for
the Burning Pile.
tFrom Thursday,s Advertiser.l

(From Thursdays Advertiser.)
A clean slate in the cholera situation
yesterday gave the board of health an
opportunity to commence the cleaning
up the filthier districts of the city, COM
mencing with the "gold mine" at Iwi-
lei, which as a cholera center, demand
ed first attention.
This district, which the private re-
ports of the baeteriologists now seem
to indicate was the starting point for
the entire epidemic before the first case
was announced, has been, or rather will
be, wiped out entirely, and the only
reason that. the site where the shacks
stand is not now barren sand, is be-
cause the task requires more than one
days time.
All the Hawaiians, thirty-one in num-
Der, who had remained in quarantine
in their homes all Tuesday night were
yesterday removed to the Quarantine
Hospital and the work of destruction
commenced on the Hawaiian section of
the camps. The first house to be pllled
down was the house where John Publ
died of cholera Tuesday morning and
the timbers and furnishings were al
ready blazing merrily when the board
of health cleaning gang started work
Riding the ground of the other shacks.
The owners of the more substantial
shacks which make some piteOus claim
to being homes, win be permitted to
move them to other sites but there are
not more than two or three of these.
The others have met unmodifed con-
demnation and will be consigned to the
burning heap as fast as possible.
AS soon as the Hawaiian camp is
destroyed, taking precedence by reason
of its infection, work viii start on the
Russian camp which Immediately ad-
joins it and which is considered apart
The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-04-21
FOR EMERGENCY
APPROPRIATIONS
BILL TO RAISE EXTRA REVENUE
BY PROPERTY TAX is
INTRODUCED.


With the special purpose Of provid-
ing for emergency at time when the
legislature is not in session a bill was
introduced in the house yesterday by
Chairman c. A. Rice, of the finance
committee, by which funds may be
raised by means of a special property
tax without action by a special session
of the legislature.
The bill, which passed first reading
and is on the calendar for second read
ing today, is primarily an emergency
bill and designed to help out in case
of epidemics or for unforeseen or extra
ordinary expenses,
The text of the bill is as follows;
Section /. In the month of Janu-
airy of each year in which a regular
session of the legislature is not held,
the treasurer of the Territory shall
prepare, with the approval of the Gov
ernor, an estimate of the amount of
money, if any, required, in addition to
all other moneys estimated to be avail
able for the purpose, to meet the esti-
mated probable expenditures under ter
ritorial appropriations of general reve
nues until the fifteenth day of May OF
the following year, and also an esti
mate of the rate per cent, which, how
ever, shall not exceed one-fourth Of one
per cent, at which the property subject
to the general property tax under Sec
ton 1912 of the Revised Laws as
amended should be taxed in order to
yield during the year in which such
estimate is made the amount so esti
mated to be required; in estimating
which rate the aggregate value of prop
erty as assessed for the purposes OF
such general property tax for the pre-
ceding year shall be taken as a basis
The property subject to such genera
property tax for the year in which sucl
estimate is made, shall thereupon bC
subject to an additional tax of the rate
so estimated upon the full cash value
thereof for that year for the benefit
of the Territory, and all provisions OF
law relating to the assessment and col
lection of such general property tal
shall be applicable so far as may be t.
such additional tax hereby authorized
The treasurer shall notify the severa
assessors of such rate, in said month o.
January.
"Seetion O. This act shall take eff
feet ON its approval"
The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-04-21
PORTION OF GREAT
CATHEDRAL DEDICATED

NEW YORK, April l9.-The eero-
mony Of the conservation Of the choir
Of the great cathedral Of 81. John the
Divine, st. savionr's Chapel and 81.
COLUMBIA : Chapel, being the completed
portions OF the cathedral, planned 10
be one Of the great ecclesiastical strue-
lures Of the world, Was conducted this
morning,
A large eoneourse VI people attended
the dedication ceremonies, including the
following bishops
William LaWrrDee, Of llOnionj Alfred
Harding, of Washlngioni Charles u,
Anderson " LhieaRpi Frederick Bur
Ress, N hfo0klypi Ghauneey -. Brew
tieT ~ i9pneeiieQii Edwin D hnesi
~ hesRfk juhn Scarborough, Of heH
Jersey ffrdpuek kinsnen, of pela
nHfoI Charles " NfHfi0n Rnd Reginald
n NeIlpU bolh oi fond ag Lar, Nla
fputiAl AlphHHdpl hAekey smith, ~
lhilalflIiilai guIllanli Whitehead, 81
ibliaHHiHi IiAaihnf lallni NJ Nrilla
hHHl Penney lfanlHl lnsfph = ifanelsi
~ lnd|anHI NI.llaW W HalAef III
Hfal4f hfW lQlHl 1908 flNfeaii ~
faHihIH uhl4I iIaHi p AillHfaisa.
~ haafaa HH4 lIfaHnff DHmiNe4,
fffiFf af Hl iaNW 0NsIfh ft'f liF
The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-04-21
REPORT WILL FAVOR
KAU DITCH SCHEME

The public lands committee Of the
house held meeting 20 consider what
- known as the Kau ditch bin, grant
ing John Y, MeCrosson the right Of
eminent domain 10 build an irrIgating
ditch 10 the Island Of Hawaii.
NJ MecTosson WAS present and
showed disposition 70 be eonsiderate
OF che dghis of ~ those gho feared
that by the Tighis grated be might
uburp some Water rgbis nov used BY
lilio enc fhe ncaThy Plantations
The COMMITTEES s.ll probably mahs 40
lfpAn inmvIfaH, and il p andfglioal
lAht la epilfelY felagahle ~ lhe -
iflrdse
The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-04-21
TWO VERY IMPORTANT
HEALTH BILLS PASS
(FrOm Thursday's Advertiser

Two special health bills passed the
house on third reading yesterday after
passing the senate. Senate bill No.
l2e, giving the board Of health author.
ity TO abate nnisaBees dangerous to pub
lie health, which passed by vote Of
twenty'eight to two, and 3. .. No. 1872,
for the prevention Of tuberculosis and
No spread.
There wa q hard Gght On this latter
lill, aome u the representatives. belisy,
ing apparently, that u would enable
ihe board 70 quaTanilpe tuheTeulosls pa
tents, Tho bill supply gigei the 40
ihoFiiy under which ihs appropriation
of fep0o8 d % % spent
Ihf ffie aaaipsl % Has ~ folloaa
hoeteii, liale. Hasaaioa. Malice, No
anaall, NalaAHip N passed bg \ vote
of fafnlf lhiee q ~
The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-04-21
KILLED ONCE, BILL
PASSES after ALL

One u ihe really progressive bills d
ihis session 0f tho Legislature Wa
pnrsea ni Third reading ID the house
Yesterday u wogiaes foT sac appoinl
mtni ~ 4 mafhpl sppeHnifHieai Who
alll aei undef iie iuIisaiellon n ihe
board ~ uamigsllpu, bpf lndepenq
eailY
Ihe hli p ldenll1any ihe famo y
aHs |Hlroaafa NJ en- Haale tY hepe
saHlalff InHsf lHi iailea u ha'
fNen .HiW1HffH ~ az tnHair ID sfa
ai0f ff|gal'H ~ Amll ~ 6ai ~
faHfa N aiWai ifasla fWf
The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-04-21

kfep UAsmhnflalnis palH Nsim af
BEAD. hefQme esqaalnlai hIih m Hany
psas and lNlFlnaf merits Hnl u sill
fafa mufl saHfanF - Nell M ilmf hna
HHasl ] rfoNlaif ffliaffa ihf palu
insal'ifH fifH fais NHalsfs fmslat 81
'HfAii.I ifam Gag fHaa aHa ilf nHlni
p htsl0a ~ q. sWf ilaa ~ aHf allfl
llfsiNfai w H'H ID aN nfaiInI
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