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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-31
FELT He WAS PASSED OVER
Somewhat Peculiar Idea That Gave
Youngster Great Sense of
Personal Injury.

Mrs. Flint. who always has an eye
and ear for childish troubles. stopped
one day on her way to luncheon 0!
her college class because she saw 8
stout little boy who was standing neal
the curb and crying loudly. She un
dertook to comfort the distressed
youngster.
She bent down, patted the tow-col
ored head, gazed into the tear-stalned
face, and made as if to wipe away the
traces of grief
Why, what is the matter, my dear
child" asked she solicitously.
"Mmy b-brothers got a vacation
and-and l haven't" he roared.
What a shame,' said the woman
"Then you don't go to the same
SCHOOL,
NO. ma'am." came from the little
boy, in fresh burst Of sorrow, 4
I d-don't go to school an-any- where
yet.'-Exchange
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-31
Single Tax Progress.

The Single-TaX means every
thing and anything from the full
demands urged by Henry George
in "Prngress and Poverty"
down to the shortest practicable
step in the direction Of those de
mands. George agltated the
Specialization, not of land as is
sometimes said, but the annual
values of land. In order to Sc
cure that result, he proposed
that all taxes on personal prop.
erty and real estate improve
ments be abolished and that puo-
lie revenue be derived exclusive
| ly by tax measured by land
values. In order to carry out
that program, he proposed to be
gin by abolishing all taxes except
on land values. In practice ire
quent proposals have been made
to TO start at points still farther
away from the goal proposed by
George than The immediate aboli-
ton of all taxes on land values.
This is the reason that any move
meut for the abolition in any de
gree of taxes on mprOvenents
| is called the Single Tax. 1t is
the reason, for instance. that
movements like those in New
York fo- reducing t; xes on i'm
provements without reducing
those on land values are called
Single Tax movements. Of this
kind was the proposal adopted
last month in Pueblo, Colo. The
referendum proposed to exempt
improvements beginning wit 1914
to the extent of so per cent OF
their valuation, and in.19l5 to the
extent Of 80 per cent of; whereas
land is to continue to be valued
for taxation at 100 per cent OF
it's true value. This is equiva
lent substantially to abo'ishing,
for local purposes, all taxes ex.
cept on land values. .-Harper's
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-31
Growth Of Aeroplones.

Big aeroplanes are the striking
development Of this year IN aero
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. eight
passenger and even ten passen
ger machines having made sue
cessful flights. Many theorists
have recently declared that there
are physical limits to the size Of
successful aeroplanes, and that
these limits have nearly been
reached; but on the practical side
the development continues.
One Russian aviator has made
long fights with a machine hav-
ing a wing span of more than 100
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-31
W,ots4ta D.cr i.-s;;c R..c z....

AHHJuLrt:..t!.- Ms !...te.;' ,.l :',...
10Th, b.. the ..A ,>ut4,>- l,.u.>I.,3 -.
Modern hoo>.4-.tn CT America. t.i4i
the council t.."ught its administrative
ol:lceTs As.j : ,andonei its tight :ur
INCREASED ins trance rate. and ,uat ,.c
question wol..:, Il II L., pr.g,, -; 3. .i.o
nAtipHli hea.- camp },.,st.:- :. 1y
helu i.l } ei!.s. ,.. iu.,..s, p., ,st,,>:- i;
originated IN the membership.
lli> Ids i bitter ii ght that i.as / ,.:l
Wageu 49, nil tie society since tie IL
crease. -. e ordered at the head al !,
meetil IL Chicago two years a..
Sever months ago the society v
enjoinoci by the courts from enfp.t-
ing the new rate and it has since Lten
operating under the old plan.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-31

There are queer golngs on in
the Michigan mining region
where there have been labor
troubles for some months past.
At Calumet, on Christmas eve.
a hall was packed with the fam
lilies of striking miners. holding
little celebration of the event
in their own way and peaceably.
when some unknown man stuck
his head IN the door and yelled,
fire A panic followed and -
people, mostly children, lost
their lives in the rush to escape
from the building. The alarm
was a false one. 4 day or two
later. also at Calumet. ChaS. II.
Moyer, head of the Western
Federation Of Miners. was attack
ed in his room in a hotel. beaten
over the head with a revolver,
shot in the shoulder and severe
~ wounded and then dragged to
the railroad depot. put on a train
with the warning never to come
back, on pain of being hanged,
anl the men who did this thing
were said to he deputy sheriffs.
Moyer had committed no otfense
against the law The mau whe
made the threat OF hanging and
under whose direction the depu-
ty sheritTS seemed to be acting
Is the general manager Of big
copper mine. And this is the
land Of the free and home of the
brave!
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-31
Pea Woffinqton's Farewell.

Sir Johnston Forbes s-Robertson' tri-
umphant leave-taking OF the theater
forms a strange contrast to the tragic
farewell of that popular stage favor
tie, Peg" Wellington, relates the Lon
don Chronicle Peg was playing Rosa
lind at Covent Garden on the night Of
May II, l757, for the benefit of two
minor actors and a French dancer,
when she was overcome with sudden
faintness She struggled bravely on
until the end. when she staggered OF
the stage. Recovering after few mo-
ments, she came forward to speak the
epilogue, but had proceeded no fur
ther than If we're among you |
would kiss as nauy OF you as had
boards that pleased me, compilations
that liked NE. and breaths that /"
when, exclaiming in agony, 20 God.
0 Cod" she collapsed in heap upos
the floor. She never returned to tn,
stage.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-31

In an editorial headed, Low
Cunning, the St Louis Times.
a sort of diluted independent
Republican paper. holding an
express admiration for PreSi-
dent Wilson, denounces the cry
of hard times as vicious at
tempt of certain Republican in
terests to disturb public comb
'dcnce for partisan strategy,
This is childish and puerile. 1t
is equivalent to saying, ali,
there is no fire. while We see
The house burning down. Every
body knows the times are hard
and getting narder, that buSi-
ness is depressed and thousands
of people who Il year ago were at
work and fairly contented with
their lot are now out OF employ
mcnt and miserable. How viii
it help this situation to stand by
and idiotitally shout. There
amt no hard timeS.' Public
confidence must indeed be silly
if it can be maintained by fool
ing it thuSly. When We see the
house burning down, the thing
to do is to try to put it out, and,
failing in that, to buc up and
build another one not quite sc
iniIamn,ablc. We know that
mething has already disturbe d
pub lic confidence when a yeal
AGO if was serene aud the cOun
trv pros osperous. We also know
that about a year ago the Demo
cratic party with Woodrow vii
son at its head and William J
Bryan at its stern came back IN
to power. and began to dig al
the foundation of American in
dustrial prosperity. which was
never greater than at that mo
ment-the protective tariff Now
then, much as we may wish t
delude ourselves with the ides
that something else caused it
deep down in the hearts of all O.
US we know that it was the TAX
ing out of the foundations b.
Democratic party that brough
our prosperity tumbling dow1
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-31

Whatever opinions We have ex-
pressed and will continue to ex
press as to the inadequacy of
Democratic tariff legislation to
work any real benefits for the
country. we do not hesitate in
saving that in the new currency
act the present congress has
passed soma real constructive
legislation. This measure, how
ever, cannot be called wholly a
partisan one, for IN the House it
received many Republican votes
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-31

about our ears. We propose to
tell who did it. We are going
holler about hard times because
We know they are hard, let the
cunning of it be "low.' When
public confidence gets a little
stiffning in its backbone again,
it will bring back its serenity by
throwing the Democrats out of
power and restoring the GO ?.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-31

The question Of holding local OPP
ton election in Pennington is clear
ing its way through the courts. The
latest development is that the supreme
court has issued temporary wit
against Circuit Judge HuciS restrain
ing him from interfering in the call
ing Of a local option election.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-31
WHAT THE NEW TARIFF
DOING FOR BARYTES
Immense lmportations Killing the
Home Mining Of Tiff.

dustry is tais locality was ex-
periencing d boom which was
the greatest prOba b. V in the his
tory Of the business. Prices
We're way Up and the tiff miner
was sure i.r had struck lOE Q
Strea / ~ nSrerltE. He was
gettii.c five and six dollars a ton
for hiS tiff. Then tie present
dmlniStl:,r un took it's seat and
President Wilson called con
greSs in extra session to revise
the tariff. About the same time
the market for crude barytes
went dead and the bottom drop
ped ont of the miners prosper
ty. Baryta manufacturers were
content 10 work up their stools
on hand. They knew what to
look forward to.
Since the new tariff went into
effect there has been no revival
of tiff mining here, and what lit
tie tiff finds a market is at the
lowest price ever known. What
is the cause: We have before
US reliable figures giving the i'm
pOrtatlons Of crude and manu-
featured barytes since the new
tariff law went into effect, which
may throw some light on the sit
uation. The figures are from
the principal ports Of entry, and
are as follows:
Week ending Oct 31-New
York, 1.7o7,720 lbs: Boston, 100
tons; Philadelphia, 80 casks.
Week ending Nov. New
York, 655, ,195 lbs.
Week ending Nov. 14-New
York. 1872, III lbs; Baltimore, 100
bags.
Week ending Nov. 2t-New
Iorl-535, SS1 lbs; Baltimore,
10000 lbs; Philadelphia, a lot of
several hundred thousand lbs,
and 36 casks.
Week ending Dec. New
York. 357,3O7 lbs; Boston, APO
bags: Philadelphia, 235, 900 lbs.
Week ending Dec. 12-New
York. 2,146,672 lbs.
Week ending Dec. 19-New
York, $4,000 lbs: Philadelphia,
several hundred Thousand lbs.
crude.
The above figures are as for
midable to the American tiff
producer as they look. Take
| importations for the single week
ending Dec. II alone, with an
importation Of barytes Of over
two million pounds. and it does
not require a wide stretch of
imagination to see the home in
dustry in this product ruined.
The market for baryteS is not
unlimited. the trade demand can
take only so much, and it seeks
its supply in the cheapest mar
ket. The home tiff industry
must meet the prices of the
foreign producer, who is now
| flooding the market here, or
shut down. This is putting the
Democratic theory of free trade
into practice. The people of our
community have now before the
object lesson of seeing how such
| Legislation can kill an industry
so vital to the prosperity of the
community.
We are informed that during
the last four months the tiff mill
at Mineral Point has been shut
down half the time. while at this
time last year it could not keel
up with the demand running full
time
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-31

Whenever the Democratic par
ty gets back into power the
country becomes convinced that
the founders OF our government
made a mistake in making the
length of the presid ential term
four years. Just nov one
year terms seems too long.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-31

"4 arc beginning to hear OF
the dojIar-a-day man again. Per
maps Tie Ironton Register can
tell US why he has come back:
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-31
PLAYING HE PIANO

Is pleasant pastime, bat if you
n,>Nen't :. piano subscribe for the
Jo-i::..i d:G tie f:ert:su: e.: - to.
unlE> N;!l g:.> Atu just Is lu;:t.i
pleas ti4e. tA.t $50 ii Year.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-31

Lo the poor Indian isn't so
poor after all. Oklahoma In
dians have over $50, 100000 in
banks
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-31
S1.OO Per Annum.
Christmas has been largely
commercialized and Santa Claus
capitalized.

We are getting the confidence
that four years of it is about all
the country will stand.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-02-17
UNSCATHED BY BAPIlSMOF FIRE
LURLINE WILL SAIL ON SCHEDULE

Despite a baptism of smoke and
fame that swept the fire room Of the
Matson Navigation liner Lurline at a
Late hour Saturday night, that vessel
Will be made ready for sea, and will
be dispat he'd. for San Francisco at
six O'Clock Tuesday evening, so an
nounces Castle & Cooke, the agents
for the steamer
Practically all traces of the rayages
OF fire We're eliminated with the gen
eral cleaning up of that portion OF the
steamer, which occupied the attention
OF the freroom and engine room
crews yesterday.
The repeated and shrll call from
the Lurline siren shortly after nine
O'Clock Saturday night startled Homo
lulu. Thousands OF people who at that
hour were visiting in the down town
district were startled by the unusual
noise and bedlam. Three seperate
signals were sounded which succeed
ed in attracting vast crowd to the
vicinity Of the railway wharf, at
which berth the Lurline was moored.
Dripping oil from settling tanks to
hot embers below Is believed respon-
sible for the fire, that for an hour at
least threatened the total destruction
of the steamer.
Representatives as we'll as officers
Of the Lurline are loud in their praise
for the valued service rendered by
Fire Chief Thurston and his men.
A squad of twenty men from the
United States revenue cutter Thetis
did yeoman service in extirgushing
Of a fire that seemed destined to prove
a dangerous and destructive one.
Several men from TIE Thetis were
overcome through fumes and were
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-02-17
CAPT. Petersen
AFTER 4
SHORT ILLNESS

Captain Charles Petersen. veteran
mariner of Hawaiian waters and one
of the best-known shippers in the In.
ter-Island employ. died at the Queens
Hospital this morning of bronchial
pneumonia together with a coinbiha-
ton of internal disorders He had
been i'll but short time and the news
was shock TO his many friends
throughout the city.
= Capt Petersen was forty-nine years
old, and came here from Norway many
years ago. He has been with the In
ter-Island for twenty-five years Just
about the time when the present trou-
bic between the Inter-Isiand and its
shippers broke out, Capt. Petersen
was taken i'll and In spite OF the eff
forts of physicians, sank gradually. He
had been captain of the Mauna Loa
fer some years and was to have been
transferred to the Claudine, had he
liyeo.
He was married to Marian A. Jones'
of this city in 1896 and has one child.
a. son. John H. Jones of the McIn-
erny shoe store and Arthur K. Jones.
manager of the Ulupalakua ranch, are
brothers-in-law. Capt. Petersen was a
very popular skipper and had a happy
home life. The news Of his death
was received with sadness by his COM
rades Of the Inter-Island service.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-02-17
TEAL COMPANY TO
CLOSE ENGAGEMENT

The Teal Company and ducklings,
VINO have been delighting Popular
theatre audiences for the last three
weeks, will close their engagement to-
night as the transportation arranged
for them viii have to be used on the
Persia or will be invalidated. Such
was the information received by Mr..
Teal this morning and as a conse-
quence the company scheduled for
another four weeks engagement, will
have 20 pack their trunks and beat it,
to use the yernacular. The company
had stop-over transportation, but
through some misunderstanding they
will have to be used not later than
the Persia, sailing tomorrow.
Mr. and Mrs. Teal viii remain over.
as they have a lease on the theatre
and will most likely keep the popular
open and run pictures and 90 a
sketch. Harry Marceile. the scenic
artist of the company, viii remain
over. as he is busy in painting scenes
for the Tourist and other productions
during Carnival week.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-02-17
ROBINSON HEIRS
DONATE LAND TO
LILIU0KALAhI PARK

BY deed executed on September is
last and just now put on record, the
heirs OF the Robinson estate convey
to the Hawaiian Trust Co., Ltd, as
trustee for the Civic Federation of Ho-
nolulu, for the consideration of one
dollar paid to them by ]. NJ. McChes-
hey, chairman of the park committee
of the Federation, piece of land at
Waikahaiulu, in Nuuanu valley, con-
tanning 1 .02 acres
This conveyance is made" the in
strument recites, upon the express
condition that said premises and every
part thereof shall be held and used
solely for public park purposes, and
shall. at all times, together with any
buildings. improvements and appurte-
nances of every kind, be kept in a
strictly clean and sanitary condition,
and otherwise suitably cared for. to
prevent waste, orergrowth or other
unsightly appearance.
1t Is further provided that il at any
time these conditions are broken the
grantors, their heirs or assigns may
re-enter upon the premises without
notice or legal process, thereby can
ceiling all rights of the grantee. The
trustee accepts the conveyance and
trusts without responsibility on its
part for the observance of the condi-
tions, the Civic Federation alone being
bound in that respect At the request
of the Federation the trustee may con-
vey the premises to any other corpor-
alton, but only under the conditions
prescribed in this deed.
This land is an addition to the Lili-
uokalani park, founded by a grant of
land by Queen Li1iuokalani, in which
the Civic Federation has been inter-
esting itself for some time past.
The grantors are Mark P. Robin
son, Caroline j. Robinson, Mary E.
Foster, Victoria Ward, Bathsheba M.
Allen, Annie Jaeger, Lucy McWayne,
Charlotte Won Hasslocher, Rebecca
Houghtailing (all of Honolulu), and
Martha A. Foster, of San Francisco.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-02-17
LOCAL AND GENERAL

The schooner F. j. Wood from
Grays Harbor for Honolulu is thir.
teen days out from the Washington
port.
The postponed annual meeting OF
the Myrtle Boat Club will be held at
the rooms of the Merchants Associa.
ton, Young Hotel, on Wednesday
evening at 1880.
The Outdoor Circle of the Kilohana
Club will place on sale Friday the
21st at the regular book stores a spe-
cial number of The Friend devoted to
the identifying of Honolulu.
1t is reported that former Chief Of
ficer Berg of the Inter-Island has &C
cepted employment on a Hilo launch.
Berg was numbered among the few
who left the Inter-Island at the in
ception of the recent strike.
Much of the sugar to arrive at the
port yesterday will be transferred to
the American-Hawaiian freighter
Alaskan that is now at the port, where
a quantity of cargo brought from the
east coast of the United States by the
way of Salina Cruz will be discharged.
About one thousand tons sugar from
island ports reached Honolulu Sunday
through Inter-Island steamers The
Alaskan was brought to berth at the
railway wharf this morning, where
some of the sugar was transferred to
the bigger vessel.
Mr.. Al. r. Curzen. one of three own
ers of the Evening Capital News, "
Boise, Idaho, a paper recently fined
s17S3, for publishing Col. Roosevelt's
telegram to the chairman of the Pro
gressive party in regard to the recall
of judges, is now at the Young hotel.
The case against the Boise paper
was subject of interest all over
the United States few weeks ago,
and Mr. Curzen states that, upon his
paper being ordered by the courts to
pay the fine, penny subscription list
was started throughout the west to
collect the amount.
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carried on deck to recover only to
return to the blazing fire room some
moments later to take up their work
in lighting the fire.
Captain Rodger Altman now port
superintendent for the Inter-Island
Joseph Sheedy. general superintend.
ent with the coasting company lent
valuable aid and assistance in Qrell.
ing the fire.
Sand was the weapon effectively
used in fighting the fire in the Lur.
line fire room. The Honolulu depart.
ment was upon the scene with three
motor driven engines and chemicals.
A bucket brigade was formed which
extended from the sand pit of the
Oahu Railway company to the dis
tressed steamer.
The Matson Navigation tug Intre-
pid was called to stand by with a
view of removing the vessel from the
wharf should the fire endanger the
structure.
All unite is declaring that the fire
was nasty one to handle. 1t is un-
derstood to have been discovered by
an assistant engineer, Chief Engineer
Morris being on shore at the time.
Morris returned to his vessel before
the flames had been subdued. A gen.
eral telephone call was flashed about
the city for Captain Weeden and the
chief engineer, which officers later
reached the scene of trouble.
A general survey for damage done
the vessel has been made. The Lur-
line will not be prevented in sailing
for San Francisco according to reg
ular schedule. Save a general clean
ing up of sand and water, little trace
of the fire was noted this morning.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-02-17
HOW TO GET into
ROARING CAMP

Roaring Camp in Bishop Park,
opening Friday evening and running
two nights, is the Elks' revival Of the
mining days of 1919. and. in addition
to being big attraction in the carni-
val line is intended to reduce the in
debtsdness on the old Y. M. G, A. pro
perty, corner " Alakea and Hotel
streets, purchased by the Elks for
their new building, building which
will aap immensely to the usefulness
and Appearances Of that portion Of the
city. Every year the Elks get up
some splendid entertainment, what
profits there may be going toward this
building fund.
Tie admission to Roaring Camp
will be fifty cents. Children twenty
five cents.
After passing the gates, the visitor
shonld go directly to one of the
banks" There is to be Roaring
Camp bank" at either end of Bishop
Park. At the banks he gets 800 in
Roaring Camp paper currency" for
every United States dollar he puts up.
Ills paper currency can be used for
the purchase Of anything inside the
walls except for tickets for the au-
tSmobile contest. U. S. coin only Is
taken for auto tickets. The Roaring
camp paper currency admits to the
Heater or other shows, buys refresh-
hents or merchandise Of any kind,
Ind can be 'gambled" with.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-02-17
BROUGHT
HAPPY HARTMAN

The Ferris Hartman Company of
twenty-five players and comedians
practically monopoiized the Pacific
Mail liner Persia on the homeward
voyage.
The Persia crossed the Pacific in
regulation time, the vessel having
met with favorable winds, though
some heavy seas were encountered
shortly after leaving Yokohama.
Filipinos for the several planta-
tons, to the number of IS arrived in
this vessel.
Nine cabin and ia Asiatic steer
age passengers left the vessel at this
port.
The through list includes so cabin
and 152 steerage for San Francisco.
The Persia is filled with Oriental
cargo. The vessel is to be discharged
of three hundred tons while here, and
will be dispatched for the coast at ten
o'clock tomorrow morning.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-02-17
At
J EMPIRE Tonight

Asesha, the only woman hypnotist
in the world, will begin her second
season in Honolulu at the Empire the
alter tonight when an unusually good
comedy program will be presented.
There is nothing funnier than a
show OF this description when prop
erly staged and Ayesha demonstrated
on her former visit that she stands
at the top OF her profession.
Her performances are always clean
and wholesome and devoid Of the OBJ
jectionable features so often wit
messed.
Ayesha has a host of admirers in
Honolulu and a crowded house is an
ticipated to witness her premier APP
pearance.