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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-04-09
THE SENEGAMBIAN
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extra load of water on the brain-this
headswelling hydrOcephalous condition,
and Gideon should refuse to act.
And there are others, just as respon.
sible morally as the mayor, city attOr.
ney, Rigdon or Stolz. The only differ.
ence is that they are only blind follow
ers of blind leaders-ciphers that count
as tail enders, but are useless in tho
lead of anything, as in front they only
serve to move the real numbers that
muc further away from the decimal
point, that S why they are most useful
in the way of followers giving volume
to what precedes them, but saying
nothing about it. Who the ID started
it, anyway, and what the other ID is
all the hurry about2
True, it IS a pretty nasty dose anG
these kind.hearted people, who do the
thinking for this community, probably
realize that the best way for the com.
munity to swallow the concoction is to
shut its eyes and bolt it.
They can do the gagging afterwards.
The Senegambian in the wOodpile, is
the proposition that every property
owner in Salem, and every man whose
property may hereafter be taken into
the city limits, and which is not now
reached by the water mains, would in
case this plant was purchased, be more
than doubly taxed,
His property would have to bear its
share of the tax for paying for the
plant, and then he would have to lay
the extensions to the mains to reach his
property at his own expense.
He would help pay for other people s
water mains, but they would not help
him pay Tor his.
Could anything more unjust be imag
ined7
How many Salem people would vote
for the purchase under such conditions,
and become party to such an iniquit
GUS proceedingi
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-04-09

sea, running down streets and alleys
like a mill stream, so swift that the
big lifeboats from Culver manned with
eight men couldn't live in it. Water
at 4th was five feet deep, and was
deeper as you got west. 1t was on a
level of seven feet and something in
Charley Taber's yard. You ought to
have seen his first floor when the wa
ter went down, a Shiny, sticky mud
from six inches to feet over everything
which can hardly be scraped or washed
off, All the furniture ruined, separa-
rated, warped into the next township,
broken. You can't imagine the devas'
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-04-09

Why then, go on with the farce of es-
timating the value of the company's
plant, when it is a dead certainty the
move to purchase it will be showed un-
der by an overwhelming votes
Why not kindly thank Engineer
Dieck for his courtesy, apologize for
getting him mixed up in it, pay him
for his services to date and turn the
whole business over to the Hon. Gideon
Stolz, councilman by brevet, and let him
put it in pickle7
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-04-09

/ tation, and he had some fine old pieces
too. Logs, ties, timbers, everything
swirled down the streets, smashing the
big plate glass windows like egg.shells
Seybold Dry Good Co. Is loss is $4,000
on stock, Rothschilds, clothing, $25,0O0
and so on down the line, and no insur-
ance. The water was seven inches over
the counter in the State Bank.
So far only two people are known
to have drowned. Isn't that wonder,
ful' These cussed press reporters lie
to beat the band-beggin' yer parding
but they do; no sense and lots of
harm in it.
"The property loss is something ter
rifle. The railroad bridges were an
chored with carloads Of coal and rock,
so were saved. Eel river, while high,
was nothing like the Wabash. Cicott
street bridge, both wagon bridges on Sd
street across the Wabash, and one in
terurban bridge are gone. Approaches
to 18th street were all washed out,
which 1 think saved the frame there.
New creosOte block floor mostly gone
there. Stewart s house at Indian
Springs washed down against the coun-
try club bridge and took it with it..
You ought to see the cottages that are
still left along Pottawattomie Point
and Miami Bend, washed hither and
yonder, turned around, caved in. Lots
of buildings went down the river.
have tried to get flood views several
times, but the kind I wanted were sold
out each time called
"It is wonderful the supplies of ev-
cry kind that have been pouring in
from every town around and from Chi
cago, the U, s. government and In
dianapolis-finest kinds of bedding
and staple groceries by carloads The
high school building looks and smells
like commission house on South Wa
ter street. I have been making house
to house canvass, finding needs, max
ing acquisitions, and then delivering
on big wagons the supplies
"You can't imagine the distress and
desolation. I worked along Wabash
avenue. Up in Jericho and on the
south side, don It see how people lived
under the original conditions, and the
scene now is absolutely sickening. Hun
dreds of families lost everything ex.
cepting the clothes they had on, 1t will
be long time before things get nor.
NAL here again.
CAN utilities here were put out of
commission, some totally, others par.
TALLY. Today is the first that the
city heat was turned on in the office.
Peru had four blocks out Of water.
They lost only dead up to the time [
was there. 1t being generally flat,
water spread out and was not near so
deep as here. The merchants loss
there was trifling.
"I will try again to get you some
views, but if anyone had told me two
weeks ago this kind of flood could
happen here, 1 would have thought him
bugbouse. Ever yours,
"JESSE TABER." "
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-04-09
TELLS EXPERIENCE
CONTINUED from page 1.)

vania station made me believe every.
thing then,
"0n Thursday a. m, train came
through to Bates street. 1 had on big
boots and got to the basket factory,
and phoned my sister. Most of the
phones were out of commission, but
wasn't it lucky our phone was work.
ing, The water had gone down foot
then. 1t extended east almost to Pearl
street; from there on west raging
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-28
FORAKER HOME IN CAPITAL
BOUGHT BY MRS. BLODGfTT
WOMAN WELL KNOWN IN DAYTo.
MA PURCHASES BEAUTIFUL
RESIDENCE IN WASHINGTON
RECENTLY.

The following from the Washing
ton Times is of much interest to the
people of this city and vicinity, as
Mrs. Blodgett owns a beautiful win
ter home in Datoyrfa:
THE largest transaction in resi-
dence property in many months is
the sale of former Senator Foraker's
residence at 1900 Sixteenth street,
northwest, to Mrs. Delos A. Blodgett,
of Grand Rapids, Mich. which was
contaminated during the week.
Few residences in the city were
designed on such lavish plans. espec-
tally on the Interior. as the Foraker
residence. Paul j. Pelz, the archi
tect of the building, who is also the
designer of the Library of Congress,
the Healy building of the George
town university. and other notable
structures, considers the Foraker
house the finest residence for which
he has ever drawn plans.
There are four stories, a base
ment and an attic. The ground floor
was designed to meet the special
needs of Senator Foraker's politi-
cal duties. There are six large re-
ception rooms on the Sixteenth street
side, and on the P street side are
the private offices of the senator and
his secretary. The kitchen is also
on this floor.
"a magnificent stairway leads to
the second floor of the building The
entire front of fifty feet on this floor
is occupied by a ball room, and ad
| joining this are the reception room
and library. A large state dining
room and private dining room oc
cupy the remaining space on this
floor.
1.-The third and fourth floors are
devoted to family living rooms
bed rooms and baths. A large attic
with as much floor space as any o
the other floors is one of the features
A special feature of the exterior arcl
i.itecture of the building is colonnad
Ion the P street side, forming bal
cony from the main floor. The WOO,
work was all specially provided b.
Potter and Stymus, of New York NJ
Pelz gave personal supervision t
the construction, which was done b
Thomas G. Henderson"
The above article in the time
is accompanied by double colum
picture of the superb home wher
Mrs. Blodgett will dispense characte
istic hospitality not outdone by an
!, in the great national capital.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-28

"a stock company has been form
ed that will commence work in yer
short time and make Worthington
Springs, in Bradford county, one of
the prettiest summer resorts in the
SOUTH" says the Starke Telegraph
The paper goes on to tell that the
company will be capitalized at about
100000 and that it is proposed TO
spend about 100000 in improvements
which will include the erection of a
large hotel and completion Of work
enclosing the spring, building spring
house and laying out the property.
which consists of $50 acres, into lots
and parks. Worthington Springs is
a beautiful place near Starke and vi ]
easily be made popular by the cree
ton of hotel and the bringing IN
Of a summer colony.
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Uncomprorisine.

John Bright's voice was unequivocai-
" for peace. Says the London Nation:
He was walking once past the Cri-
mean monument in London with one of
his sons, then lad. Every one knows
that the word "Crimea" is engraved
on the monument The boy pointed TO
the monument and to the word upon 1t
and asked:
Father. what is thatY
That" said John Bright, pointing
also to the word. us a crime"
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-28

Officer w. H. Waits located busy
skin game Saturday afternoon about
8 o'clock, on Gas street, near the
Seaboard depot, and assisted by W.
G. Richardson, rounded up eight gam
blers and one alleged bling tiger OF
orator. Hardy White is the party who
will be asked to plead to a charge
of selling intoxicating beverages. The
parties are colored-Gainesvil Sun
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-28

D. H. Coggshall of West Gro
ton, n. Y, who owns valuable prop
erty at Stuart and is a winter resi-
dent at that place. dropped dead in
the railway station at Sayre, Pa, on
Wednesday, January 18th, while on
his way to Stuart, to spend the bal
ance of the winter. Mr.. Coggshall
has been identified with the growth
and development Of the Stuart sec
ton. and has host of friends in
that section who learned with re
greet of his sudden death
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-28

The ice factory Of the DeSoto Man
ufacturing company has been sold to
the New York Ice company. which
has already bought other factories in
south Florida, and viii probably buy
others. The deal for the local factory
while not fully consummated, has
reached that point where the sale is
about ready to be confirmed 1t is
given out that no change is contem-
plated in the management or in the
operating force, but the capacity of
the plant will be doubled by the in
stallation of additional machinery and
one-thousand-ton storage plant will
be put in, all to be done by the first
of June of this year.-Punta Cord
\ Herald.
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Editnr,s Mean Reuenne.

An editor who was counting a wom-
an of uncertain age, but positive bank
account, was cut out BY gentleman
from neighboring town, who married
her and took her home. Whereupon the
editor sought a mean revenge by head
ing account of her wedding: Another
Old Resident Gone
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-28

c. w. Ryall, a prominent resident
of Sebastian, died last Saturday from
the effects of rattlesnake bite
Mr.. Ryall was hunting in the woods
several miles from home when the
deadly reptile sank its poisoned fangs
tion kept him alive about II hours
Mr.. Ryan leaves family at Sebas-
ton.
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unoaIlant Man.

It is rather an ungallant man who
advocates women's suffrage on the
theory that it will not make any real
ifference.-Wasbin Star.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-28

The Florida State Medical associ-
alton will meet in Miami this year
beginning the second Tuesday in
May. The convention will hold for
three days.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-28

Within the next few days Lawtey
will be shipping large quantities of
Strawberries to the northern markets.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-28

1t Is well there S no one without
fault, for he would not have a friend
In the world.-Hazlitt.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-28

Two white men who, it is alleged,
broke into the United Supply com
pany's store at Hawthorne last Thurs
day, We're taken to tRe@Alaehua coun-
ty jail Saturday by Chief Deputy w.
t. Bruton. The men were arrested
at Starke on Friday, after giving Of
fieers a lively chase for two days.
They admit being in Hawthorne, but
deny breaking into the store.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-28
Nouel Method of pustInn.

In Europe they dust the paintings
in art galleries by means of air sy-
Tinges.
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x STATE AZ
HAPPE NINGS
New. from Fair Florida Briefly Told

It is stated that the acreage in wa
termelons in Orange county will be
the largest in years.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-28

An old time fiddler's convention will
be held at Zephyrhills on the 9Th of
next month. Three prizes have been
offered to the fiddlers who furnish tn
best old time music. .o.s4
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-28

Major r. NJ Hankins of Tampa.
has been appointed assistant quarter
master general of the Florida brig
ade, U. c. v, by Major General Par
fridge. brigadier commander.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-28
Coast Line Florida Mail No. so.

Carrying Through Coaches and Elec-
tric-Lighted Drawing Room Sleeping
Cars. Jacksonville to New York.
stops at Meal stations.
Local Sleeper Jack sonylIIe TO Savannah.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-28
Fla. and lest Indian Limite ID No. 81.

Carrying Through FREE Reclining
Coach Chair Cars, Electric Lighted
Pullman Drawing Room Sleeping Cars,
Dining Cars. Jacksonville to New York
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-28
New York and Florida Special.

Description of this popular train de Luxe.
This train consists of Pullman Drawing
Room, State Room. Sleeping, Dining and
LII hrary-O Observation cars, heated by steam.
equipped with the new high-speed- brakes,
and ts brilliantly lighted throughout by
electricity, special lights being provided
for each berth. affording perfect comfort
in writing or for reading at night.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-28
"souTH ATLANTIC LIMITED. ;

Leave I5pmJ cksonviT an arr
and RAPIDS An in Dining
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MONTGOMERY ROUTE.

Leave SID pm. Jacksonv1IIe LOO am arrive
Carrying Pullman Drawing between
connecting Montgomery the
N
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-28
Dixie FLYER.

Leaves25 SPIN Jackso oama rive
htr aryin Obser
ughout
Imeals serveG IN dfning senroute
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5---Daily Trains to the VESTS
DIXIE LIMITED"
ONE NIGHT TO CHICAGO

Leaves y.a5 an ]
Solid Pullman Electric Lighted {
Drawing Room and Stateroom Cars Dt
ST Louis
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1913-01-31
While Sheriff's New Deputy, MoucuIn,
Made Peace v Rudc Thief
Touched" Him.

New York -aLouis Mouain, the rec
tanratenr Of 149 Fulton street and 5D4
9Th avenue, boarded q Broadway car
about 7.30 the other night. The heart
Of Louis beat high. the chest Of Louis
expanded With pride. for on said chest
there repoaed q brand new. g%lltterfng
silver badge,
That very day had the aherin Of
New Y0rk, the Justly famous Julius
Hamburger, called Louis into bis Of
nee and with mystic rite and solemn
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1913-01-31
African Tribes Used Drums, ETC.,
to Convey Messages.
Nesms Of Important Events IN Heart
Of Sudan Sent TO Trading Posts
on the Coast-~Had Their Own
Telegraph Code.

Paris.-~The principle Of telegraphy
would appear to have been anticipated
by the savage tribes In the heart OF
Africa. This barbartc system of com
~munlcation, at once practical n ef'
fective, survives to this day. and Its
value has been tested many times,
French explorers seem to have been
the first to bring this system to the
knowledge Of civilized people. by
means of 1t news OF important events
In the interior Of the Sudan reaches
all the trading ports on the coast In
a short time.
The communication 10 made by
means OF various instruments, the
most common ones being horn. tom.
toms and whistles. The horns are
made of solid ivory. followed out OF
elephants tuskR. The m%outhplece 10
at the side. These trumpets are OF
various sizes, but the favorite ones
are very long and give seven distinct
notes, produced by plugging the
mouthpisce with corks OF different
sizes. The ordinary tomtom Ia q
hollow bit OF wood, with a goatsRln
over n end
The following instance illustrates
the manner in which the native tole-
graph is employed. The post com.
mander at Stanley Falls was once In
formed by d native OF a neighboring
village that a provision train had efsn
attacked two days before at q point
1870 miles further down the Kongo. A
week later the party arrived and con.
frmsd the story In part.
They had reached the scene Of the
alleged attack at the time reported,
but the shots that the natives had
taken IA indications Of C. conflict With
robbers had beeu fired at a herd OF
antelope.
At a later period. when an officer of
the French Kongo anne to grief in the
rapids, the accident was reported ths
next morning ut a village 1876 miles
distant.
Among the Bengal tribe q sort OF
xylophone il used with four notes. by
means OF which the natives communt
cate over great distances in a Kind
of telegraphic language,
An American missionary working
among the Basutos discovered that
the villages had means Of conveying
messages from one chief TO another
or OF transmitting the intelligence OF
defeat or victory.
The Basutos hollow out a large
gourd and thoroughly dry It. Then
kidskin as hard and ~ thin az Darch.
ment is stretched across the hollow OF
tie goard. When beaten with @ pad.
ded drumstick this gives forth a sound
that may be ~distinctly heard at a dis
lance OF from Ave TO eight miles.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1913-01-31
LIVES HERN|T'S LIFE.
DegaS, Greatest Living French
Artist, Becomes a RecIuSe.
Well Known Painter Calls Pictures
"Murrsursd Prayers" and Rarely
Opens nls oeers for Visits
Of Strangers.

Paris.-Degas. who has. suddenly be-
come famous TO the larger public at
the age Of ~sixty-nine. through the saie
Of n Of his paintings for $S6, 600. is
very much OF a hermit,
Failing eyesisht has prevented him
from painting for some years now, and
his door 10 rarely open to strangers
Art discussions do not interest him
mo. sir" he once said, Il cannot
talk painting; no one does who 10 q
real painter. II Ia discussed In omRi-
buses, In cafes. in drawing rooms. But
not here. Painting is like q mur.
INJURED prayer"
After the sale in which his picture.
Les Danseuses Il In Barre" for which
he originally received only 500, sold
for $50, 900. he went to Neuilly. on the
outskirts Of Paris. From the window
OF u friends house he looked In aston
ishment at the peopled avenues. In.
my time" he said, there was nothing
here"
AS a rule he stays In MOutmartre.
and knows nothing of the newer parts
Of the city. Though he Is the greatest
living French painter, he never has
been decorated, His hobby ia collect,
ing the pictures of lpgres. Every
scrap Of drawing OF the great academic
artist he treasures. which practice Is
an example OF his contradict 4na, for
he is n of the founders OF the o
site school.
Nor Is he kind to contemporaries,
labelling n Tho Little Steam Wat.
teau" and another THE Rag. Pickers
Raphael"
ON residents OF the a]ristoCratEe
Faubourg quarter and other Roynlist
p%artlsans who do not like the republic
are showing their opposition to the
government by issuing stampa-like
the French teministB and the anti.al.
cohoIic ieague-~inscribed with more
or less scurrilous sentiments.
The government, however, doss not
give them much chance to have D
Hticai effect on the citizen: letters 80
decorated will In future not be deliv.
cred. 1t had become a common Gus.
tom for Royalists to adorn their let.
tiers. especially to soldiers In the army.
with seditious labels.
Sometimes the DUO d'orleans figured
on the stamp; sometimes an unflatter.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1913-01-31
BELL STlRS A BALky TEAM
Minnesota Man Gets Out Of . oeaI
Rus by foolIns His fioraes
with Fire Alarm.

MInneapelia. MINI, C1iu m b w.
Heights is a suburb Of Minneapolis,
and for fire protection depends pFir.
cipaIiy upon a volunteer organization,
with Maude and Dick. n team 0wnaa
by Phil Stack. 10 pull the depart.
ment's wagon to the few lres. Hotfi
horses have come to know the tons,
Of the fire bell and what II means foA
them.
Recently stack waH hauling stone
and the wagon dropped Into a deer,
rut Maude and Dick refused to move.
the load Then Stack tried a new
plan and tent a boy 10 ring the flre
bell, n block away The result war
instantaneous. Maude and Dick yanA,
ing It to the next block on the gallon
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1913-01-31
so BRAVE WAS THIS SLEUTH

jectcd 10 the HANS actions. Deputy
Mouqnin. badge wclj 10 the front
restored peace,
"Whew. also corblenl" unused Tho
new deputy az be rnopped bite bros
That shows how an efficient e
ncer Of the Law can suppress dts
order Why. II | hadn't been bert,
somebody might have been touched
for his roll"
Then he put his hand In his wallet
pocket, but the wallet was missing
What. already" said the sheriff
when he was informed that his new,
est deputy had been relieved OF rev
eral hundred dollars. That's TN.
quickest work yet. ! guess before
long they'll be waiting outside the o.
fca To get my deputies No fast ar ,
make EN- -r@
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1913-01-31

shoe to cover It comfortably. The az
essase masculine foot today ls easily
fitted with a No. So shoe. and 10
therefore not above t0T-is inches
Nov, by the old scuiptural rule Of pro
portion. q a 1--WE feet nine inches II.
height should have q foot liz inches
long. or one-sixth hig height II was
OF no great consequence what size san
dal he wore. but be would hare requtr-
ed q modern shoe Of al least b No. f05s
for a minimtsaS ~ or q No. II fos real
comfort.
For women, ~sllcxtnE for the differ
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1913-01-31
HELPS PEDDLER; GETS sa,oot
Pennsylvania Woman We'll Rewarces
by Aged Man for . Deed Of
Kindness

Harrisburg Pal argaretta jan.
Browns kindness four years age ID
helping an old peddler on to a trot
ley a here has won her a reward az
5000 The young woman, who NJ
Gently became Mrs, Ray Mason Knsse..
received In her mail q check for this
amount and a note addressed "Ta ID.
little girl who helped me on O tro,
icy a fur years ago" She lad vi
most forgotten the incident. The ~
ward was from Valentine n. Cortlas
and wac mailed from California.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1913-01-31

suicidal affair, and that his friends
would Witness his selt-destruetion
Believing this another Of his jesta,
his circle Of friends spent q merry
evening. They yer Mortified when,
after dinner. Alder produced n revolv-
81. When he said he had no car.
tridges. the diners laughed. however.
and Of his friends, still thinking
that be was joking, furnished the
ammunition. The young artist loaded
the revolver, clinked glasses with bis
guests, and, putting the weapon 70 bis
forehead, killed himself