Putnam patriot., 1912-01-19
Editorial Scraps

A newspaper GbffSr Pyb1|bk 1k AA"' Yana, who had daily converse with the Spanish military officers in club room and barracks, and who likewise met and knew personally the emissafies from the insurrecto camps, mailed 8 very brief dispatch to Key West the day after the explosion, where 1t wns placed on the cable to New York. It read: "Maine blown up by sunken nine.p He anticipated the report Of tbe first naval board by several weeks, and felaled precisely what the second naval board has reported after lapse Of l3 years.
 Goal exports from the United States have tfebeled in value in the last dozen years The Value Of coal passing out Of continental United states h the year 1911 Is, in round terms. 89 million dollafs, compared with 65 million in The immediately preceding year.
 The gold mining industry was gen. efaliy aetive n lDli, but early figures indicate total production for the United States and Alaska slightly be low the output Of 1910.
 News dispatches told recently Of the doleful predieament of Fred Terfon, stockman, who does not know in which of four states he lives. His position Is most puzzling, not to say embarrassing, above all when he visits foreign parts and wants to put his place Of habitation on the hotel register with his name. He k literally a man without state. He gets up each morning in Utah, eats breakfast in Colorado, which his wife prepared in Arizona and smokes his pipe after sup per in New Mexico. He carries on all these mullifold activities under his own roof tree, since his ranch extends into the four states mentioned and his house occupies the exact point where the boundary lines join.
 Gov. McGovern of Wisconsin re- ports that the new workman's com pensation law of his state is working we'll, land costs employers less than they used to pay for insurance against damage suits.
 Year before last Australia produced 192, 4s0, ,000 pounds Of butter and l6, ,5l9, 600 pounds of cheese. IL was,a record breaking year.
 In Hungary all mineral oil, naturai gas, etc, that may be discovered un- der the soil of the kingdom have been declared by law government property.
 Connecticut waterway improvement projects are being considered by the House river and hafbor committee. Representative Hill has asked the committee to smake provision for wa. terways Tn his distiict. Representa- tive Higgins asked a survey of New London harbor, with view to estab. fishing forty-foot channel, and also with view to co, operation along gen eral lines by the federal government with the state in connection with the Sl ,e00 0o0 project for improving that harbor,
 Whatever may happen in China be- tween now and 1915, the country is to have fine exhibit al the Panama ex. position in San Francisco, for the local Chinese colony, numerous and veal thy, is to see to that, and is already planning the largest Chinese display ever made in this country.
 Postmaster General Hitchcock Is to make hts contribution to the volume of matters that are under public dis. cussion on the eve of presidential campaign by advising Congress 10 buy the telegraph lines of the country.
 That the Increase in the cost of live ing Is almost as serious in free trade England as in the highly protected United States appears from the figures lately published la England by the eos operative wholesale society.
 The une tremendous fact in the Ger. man Reichstag elections k the unpaf- alleied socialist vote, now estimated at about 4,t00, ,o0a, or nearly 32 per cent o( the total. Five years ago the socialist vote was 3,25o,N0. The gain since laa7 has been enormous, and before 1907 the socialists did nothing but gain, The limit of the socialist popular vote in Germany cannot be fixed by anyone with the slightest confidence, in view of last Fridays polling.
 A bill abolishlng capital punish ment and requiring convicted murder CTS 10 work for the families of theil victims will oe presented 10 the Hi nois legislature by Mrs. Mary Ide, | reformer.
 Be prepared. In case of sudden illness or accident the quickest way tc relief Is by telephone.
 An additional telephone in your res idence, placed at your bedside, in your den or eoxy corner, connected with your main instrument, costs trifie over one cent a day. Place your order now.