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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-21

land. Connecticut, New York, New Jer-
sey, and to less degree to Delaware,
Maryland and Virginia. Instead of
growing naturally in the ma 5orty of
these states, the artificial propagation,
cultivation and planting of oysters on a
large scale now produces more than 1900
bushels of mature oysters, against one
bushel of mature oysters growing wild.
oyster farming is now a productive in
dustry, as completely as is grain farming
on the enormous grain fields of the
West, where tens of thousands of acres
are sown and harvested under one man
agement Oyster farming is we'll com
pared to grain farming, except that the
growing of oysters is a far more com
plicated, expensive and hazardous enter
prise than is the growing of grain
A large oyster farm comprises many
thousands of acres of land under from
Is to IS feet of water in the great bodies
of salt water, such as Narragansett.
Peconic, GARDENERS, Great South. Della
ware and Chesapeake bays. Often these
farms are situated several miles from
the shore, SO that a strong field glass is
required in order to identify thee hureh
spires lighthouses, hilltops and other
objects on the distant land. which are
used for ranges in locating the boundar-
les of the oyster farms.
The small boats used in the catching
of wild oysters would be useless i'm the
propagation, planting or catching of the
crops on these great oyster farms. The
grounds are in some instances several
miles in extent, and steamers and gaso-
line boats are employed in their cutiva-
ton; some of the large steamers are
more than $50 feet in length. 50 feet wide
and catching 5000 bushels of oysters a
day, in water 30 to 60 feet deep-in other
words, as deep as a six-story building
is high
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-21
Large Crowds Greet
EttOr at Auburn,

Auburn, Me-. Oct. ga large crowd
Saturday noon, to greet Joseph J. Eft
ter and his party upon their arrival.
AS Ettor alighted from the train he
was given round of cheers. Ettof,
who was accompanied by John +. Bow
en-. an agent of the Shoe Workers Pro-
tective Union of Haverhill, was met
! by a delegation from the Turn Work
crs' Union in automobiles and after a
short tour of the industrial section OF
Auburn, the party proceeded 10 the
Central Labor temple in Lewiston
where a meeting was Immediately heid-
After n short session adjournment was
made for dinner In the afternoon, q
| business meeting was held, when the
grievances of the striking lasters al
| the factory of the Lunn & Sweet Shoe
60. were discussed by Ettor ana the
+, strike leaders and plan OF campaign
| ortlincd.
| Thcre is an undercurrent OF dissat
| iesaction among the merchants and
4 business men of this city and Lewis
| ton OYER Ettor's coming mere anu -
| NJ Police TAYLOR had every available
| man Of the Auburn police department
on hand. Saturday, to prevent any
demonstration or disorder. Ettor EN-
trv was not marked by any unusual
| conditions except the large croWu' III.
! majority of whom were thousht " 'e
| curiosity seekers. Ettor came "s
( the leader of the l. w. w. ana ms po,
sifion in the Labor world called on. 'i
!, who are connected with the ofgahi%a
!, ton 70 greet him.
| Saturday evening, Ettor spoke 10
,arca crowd in the Central Lapol
Union hall. His talk was along genera
Ilabor lines. 1t is understood ina. II,
| advised the men to stick to their liel,'
10 the bitter end. Plans are being ii'aus
sor one or more meetings to be heiu
| Sunday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-21
ThaW Demands That
Requisition Be Re-
fuSed-=FileS Brief.

Concord, y. H., Oct. pa supple
mentary brief on behalf of Harry X
Thaw was filed by his counsel with
Gov. Samuel D. Felker, Saturday aft
er:1Oon.
1T mas now been nearly six weeks,
says the brief, that Thaw has beer
detained under arrest on a patiently
defective reauisitien, petition. illisit-
imately supported by the allegation
of IN indictment which never existed
and during all that time no indict-
ment has been obtained.
''Wc therefore respectfully submit
that it is the duty of the Governor of
New Hampshire to now refuse the
rcquisition of New York for the ex-
tradition of Harry X. Thaw."
Drew, Shurtleff. Morris & Cakes and
Martin & Howe of counsel for ThaW
are the signers of the document.
In opening, the brief says; Since
the beginning of these proceedings a
vital question has been whether the
reouisition for Thaw's extradition is
made in good faith. The practical form
which the question takes is whether
the state of New York demands the
return Of Thaw for the purpose OF try
ing him for conspiracy or for the pur-
nose of reincarcerating him in Mattea-
wan state hospital for the Insane. IL
the latter purpose Is that Whlch aeia-
ates New York. it is illigitimate. and
far the Governor of New Hampshire To
honor the requisition would be Illegal
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-21
Artificial Meat.

According to the Paris daily journals
Belgian scientist, NJ. Effront, has
succeeded in producing artificial meat,
and this is another advance made by
modern chemistry, after the synthesis
of vegetable extracts or perfumes and
even the albumens which are the base
of living substance. Nj. Effront now
uses a remarkable process for indus
trial prepare ton of heterogeneous foods
at a very low price. and these are said
to resemble ordinary meat in a strik-
ing degree. He uses different resi-
dues of manufactures which are al
most worthless, such as brewery or
distilery refuse products, and from
these he extracts a food albumen.
The refuse material is first washed.
then pressed and treated by sulphuric
acid AMI afterward by lime, being then
put through other operations when
are too long to enun.erate, ending by
filtering and evaporating in vacuo.
The result is a pasty extract which
has a very pronounced taste of meat
and has three times the food value OF
the latter, owing to it's concentrated
state. At Brussels several doctors
have already made experiments upon
nutrition of the human body, and the
results are quite conclusive. The
same chemist produces a like food by
the use of fodder, such as hay or
clover as the raw material, and this
product has similar nutritive value
as has been proved by various tests.
Such researches are as yet far from
the absolute synthesis which Berthelot
predicted, but economists already fore
see that the practical use of these
heterogeneous products may go, far to
counteract the continual rise in prices
of food at the present time. Perhaps
the day is not distant when science
will be able to produce from the min
eral world not only foods of animal
origin, but those which come from the
vegetable kingdom. We expect to give
a more detailed account of the process.
which appears to be remarkable one.
Scientific American.
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THE siSON'S LAST STAND.
Struggle for Life and Preparation of
Species.

The buffalo is to make last stand at
the new Wichita range In Oklahoma. 1t
will be struggle for life and the perpe-
tuation of species. Out of herd of
these magnificent animals that once
numbered from 100000 to 100000 there
are at present but 200 left. and the gov
eminent is making every effort to pre-
vent their extinction.
A great range. Il miles square, which
has been set aside at Wichita, provides
fine grazing grounds plenty of water to
maintain the herd. and a place where
they can ream in absolute freedom and
rear their young. 1t is thought that the
Michta herd, together with one or two
others under government control. viii es-
tablish the American bison species on
national ranges with such degree of
permanency that il will endure for the
centuries of the future.
AT the New York Geological park, a
herd of 25 animals, gift of the Ameri
eminent was recently Grated and then
transported to the Wichita range. The
Grating of the animals was a most ami
mated scene. long fence chute was
constructed in order to drive the animals
ne crate was pidCcu AT the tihi
of the chute and the sliding door at the
outward end of the box was lifted high
and carefully poised for a quick drop.
An animal was then enticed into the
chute and driven on into a crate. After
that the crate was hoved on a track
ready for the depot.
The almost complete and very sudden
disappearance of the bison in North
America 80 years ago does not seem to
have been due simply to the slaughter
of tens of thousands of them by men
who made a business of procuring So
called buffalo rugs" The sudden ex-
tinction of the bison has resulted partly
from this slaughter and partly from the
breaking up of the herds and the inter-
ference with their free migration by the
fences that line transcontinentai rail-
ways. A few hundred individuals of the
European bison are all that remain at
this day and they are carefully preserved
by the emperor of Russia, some In a
tract of suitable country. in Lithuania.
and others in the Caucasus
The United States and Canada have
followed up their measures for the
preservation of forests with the creation
of animal preserves in several of these
forests. In addition to setting aside
other special preserves for the bison and
the prong-horn antelope. Great Britain
has been equally active in Africa, and il
Is interesting to observe that Germany
and Austria are now taking up the ami
NAL conservation movement and form
ing their own special societies. Only the
Latin counties such as France and Italy,
seem to be behind in a recognition OF the
necessity for the preservation of wild
animal life.-Technieal Worlds Maya
zine
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-21
Favorite Medicine.

In the present number of the Jour
nal of the American Medical Associa
ton DIR. Oliver II. Osborne, professor
of therapeutics at Yale. delivers a
siashing attack upon favorite drugs to
the number of seventeen and urges
that for various reasons they be
dropped from the next edition of
Pharmacopoeia.
he cites the composition of the
tincture of lavender; oil of lavender
flowers. oil of rosemary, cinnamon,
cloves, nutmegs, red saunders, alcohof,
water. The product he describes as
this very elegant tincture of cocktail
(about two thirds Of it's bulk being
alcohoD for the esthetic treatment of
historical condition and nervous indi-
6estions." He says further, small
doses of any good cocktail could be
given these patients and the result
would be the same
OF the authorized strip of sarsa-
parilla he declares that there is abso-
lutely no excuse for the next Phar-
macapoea perpetuating the sarsa-
parlla fraud. The sarsaparilla nos
trums on the market are enough to
a medicine, and the value of sarsa-
parilla as a drug is nil. The brown
mixture he describes as long and
much used preparation, believed in by
every one, many times used as the last
ingredient or menstruum of multiple
cough remedy and acknowledges that
lit can be criticised only in spirit of
brayado and temerity. 1t is like at
| tacling house hold god. From be-
| ginning to end it is fool mixture
In blue mass composed of mercury,
| glycyrrhiza. althea, elycern and honey
| of rose) he Smashes another idol. ITO
| attack this old blue mass is like
another attack on a household god,
and one is in danger from the shades
OF his ancestors, to say nothing of at
| taeks by his professional brethren,
when he states that this preparation
is not needed and should not be per-
| petuated: the righteousness of the
honey of rose in a cathartic mass is
| self-evident; in fact, the modern
| physician has but to read the in
gradients to agree that the mass OF
| mercury should be an ancient joke"
Concerning the compound cathartic
pill he observes: ITO attack this time
honored and much used cathartic
again requires Spartan temperament,
but i will wager that not one physi-
clan in twenty-five remembers the in
gradients when he orders the pill
These ingredients are extract of
coloeynth, purified aloes, cardamom,
resin and scammony. soap, alcohol,
mild mercurous chloride, resin of jaiap
and gamboge. New York Sun. =
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-21
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Mrs. Randolph Fitzhugh, a member
of an old and prominent Virginia
FAMILY. was set free by Justice Gave
gan in the superior court at New
York, on suspended sentence, Men
day, after having pleaded guilty few
days ago to the theft of a gold mesh
bag and 2 gold bracelet 1t was said
that relatives would take her to
Washington, d. G. She has been in
prison nearly seven months and is
broken in health.
During the absence of Peter Mullen
and his family at church, Sunday
morning, their house on the Hollis
road, near Mine Falls, two miles from
Nashua, N. H.. was robbed and these
articles stolen: An Elgin watch and
chain, gold ring and Hopkins &
Allen revolver. Inspector James Null
vanity drove out in an automobile and
round that young man in blue suit
hao been loitering in the neighbor-
hood and was last seen on the road
to Pepperel
The body of Spencer Abel. one of
the three victims of the Beverly pow er
boat Ahbie f., which was run down
and sunk. Sept. 2S, in Gloucester har-
Dor by the fishing schooner Rhodora.
was found floating near the scene of
the disaster Sunday morning. AS the
NeWbufyport fishing boat Unknown.
capt. Russell, was coming into the
outer harbor near the gas buoy, the
crew saw the body floating. Attaching
rope to the corpse it was towed to
Hays landing, where Medical Examin-
er Quimby viewed the body 1t was
much decomposed. the face being un-
recognizable. A letter in the pocket,
however, served to identify him. Abels
relatives in Beverly were notified and
| the body will be taken to that city.
Three stores in the Sanborn block,
| corner of Washington and Vernon
streets, the business center of Nor
wood, Mass. were visited by burglars,
Sunday morning. All We're entered
| from a court in the rear. but the in
| truders secured little of value. Parker
| Brothers hardware store was invad-
| ed through a cellar window. The burg
| lars then went up the stairs, smashed
| the panel of the inside door and turn
ed the key through the hole made.
They took about SIS worth of articles.
but found no money.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-21
Shipping News.

Bangor, Me-, Oct 2o.-Arrived;
Steamer F. ]. Lisman. Norfolk
Schooner A. F. Kindberg. Boston.
Boston, Oct 20.-Arrived: Steamers
Canopic (Br). Naples. via Ponta Del
Gada, Azores; Cassel Ger, Bremen.
Schooners Malcolm Baxter, Jr., Phila-
delphia: Gov. Brooks, Norfolk, Fuller
Palmer, do Eleanor A. Percy, do
Horatie G. Foss, Mayaguez, P. r.,
Ruth Z. Merrill. Baltimore; c. w
Dexter, Calais, Me-; Storm Petrol
Bangor; A. w. Perry, Halifax, N. s..
Jessie Ashley, Maitland, N. S.
New York, Oct. 20.--Arrived: Steam
ers Chicago, Havre; Minnetonka, Lon
don; Finland, Antwerp.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-21
JEALOUSlY CAUSE.
But Was Mistaken, Says Ellis, Who
Killed Wife in Chicago.

Chicago. oct. 20.-Willam c. Ellis,
the Cincinnati leather merchant, who
confessed, Friday, TO killing his Wife
and attempting suicide in hotel here,
told interviewers. Saturday, that II
was causeless jealousy which led him
TO Kill her and that he would offer
no defense. The cause Of his mistak-
en- jealousy, he said, was his secret.
Il am guilty. / want no lawyer. !
will go to my punishment with my
secret in my own keeping he said.
Ellis explained that he assured him
self too late that he had no reason to
suspect his wife. He refused to re-
veal how his suspicious We're removed.
Ellis will recover rapidly from his
self INFLICTED hurts, according to the
jail physician.
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HuERTA AUCTIONS.
: CONTINUED from Page one.)

Senator Fall, representing the Phelps
Dodge interests. is backing the Consti-
tntionalists in their move to establish
a Northern Mexico Republic.
1t is stated here that this move is
being blocked at Francisco Villa, bet
ter known as Bencho Sangriente, or
bloody Pencho, who now holds Tor
reon and refuses to recognize either
Carranza or Mavetereno. He is under
the influence of Galore and Starr Hunt,
formerly an American. but now a
Mexican citizen. and ii is said they
hold the key to the situation in the
North.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-21

Me, addressed to Mrs. Johnson. Supt.
Horace Lambert, although he knew
that the woman to whom the letter
had been addressed was dead, sent
one of his carriers to the house, as a
matter Of form. The carrier return
ed with the official information that
none of the family of that name was
in the house to receive it.
The letter bore the postmark of LIE
Grange, Me-, and was dated, Oct. II.
The letter was in all probability
posted from that place some time,
Wednesday. In the upper corner of
the letter was the following: IF. J
Johnson, r. f. D., Route 1, Box SIS, LIE
Grange, Me-" The letter is now in
the possession of Supt. Lambert, who
will forward it on the return mail to
Mr.. Johnson.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-21
Su1zer Nominated
For the Assembly.

New York. Oct. 20!-AWillam Sulzer,
mpeached as Governor of the state,
was nominated for the Assembly. to-
nigh, by the Progressives Of the 9th
Assembly district. Mr.. Sulzer, in 1889.
besan his public career as a member
of this branch of the state Legislature.
Mr.. Sulzer has agreed to accept the
nomination, it was announced at the
meeting Who're he was chosen as the
candidate.
MAX Slender, Progressive leader in
the 9Th Assembly district, who placed
the former Governors name in nomi-
nation, said Mr.. Sulze, reached him by
telephone from Albany, inauiring If
he had peen designated. Mr.. Steindler
replied in the affirmative.
He said he asked Mr. SulZer if he
would accept and Mr.. Sulzer replied
he would gladly do SO.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-21
NATIONAL HOME.
Present Membership 764,
With $50 Men Absent.
changes al the Hospital
Pension Increases Granted.
Officer Of Day, Capt. Page..0thsr
Items About the Home.

The tri-monthly report shows the
membership of the Branch to be 1864,
with $50 absent.
Patrick w. Powers was granted fur
Tough, Monday, to visit relatives III Bos-
ton.
Two increases in pensions were reeeiv-
ed, Monday, for George Dolly, $50: and
Jonathan A. Littletield, $24
Three members reported, Monday, from
furloughs: Alonzo Stillings and John
Gordon from Boston; Orrin a. Haskell
from Wiseasset
officer of the day, Capt Page.
John Jeffera, late Co. j. 35th Mass.
Inf, has been granted discharge and
left for Court McSherry, County Cork.
Ireland, where he will make his future
home.
One vaudeville show each week with
moving pictures will be given, com
mencing with Wednesday evening, Oct
%. The plan promises to be of better
variety than last season, the acts be-
ing higher salaried.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-21
18-YssI-0IId! Surrey Lad
Sentenced fol Murder.
Confessed 10 killing and Rob-
bling Capt. Young, Last Oct.


Ellsworth, Me, Oct 2o-Edwin Good
win, the ls-year-old Surrey boy, was
sentenced in the supreme court. today,
to life Imprisonment fer the murder OF
Cant. Harry C. Young. Goodwin plead
ed guilty. AS he left the court room'
he smiled and nodded pleasantly TO
acuuaintances. He confessed To the
crime last October, and has ever since
maintained a cheerful attitude. AT the
April term of court Goodwin was COM
mitted to the Insane asylum but alien
lists told the court they found 10 signs
of insanity.
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Changes at the HOSPITAL.

Samuel H. Greene, former member.
is quartered T. A. =. in the hospital,
awaiting re-admission
Michael J. Foley, who has been re-
ceiving treatment, has recovered and
been detained on extra duty there
Willard Gilbert has recovered his usual
health and reported to Co. l..
Patrick Rooney, on extra duty in the
hospital has returned to Co. b.
Traverse r. Darling of Co. r has been
detailed on extra duty in the hospital.
Thomas II. Coughlin of Co. Il, Henry
Holland of Co. G. Michael Carney of
Co. H. and Allen II. RackTff, and John
Gordon of Co. have been taken to the
hospital for treatment.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-21

| hour of the time the admiral began
vomiting on Thursday evening.
| Saleratus, if not dissolved, would
conceal from a patient the presence Of
arsenic in his system, Professor
Balch testified. 1t has been previous
ly testified that saleratus, on prescrp-
ton, was administered to the admiral
during his Illness.
Would a probably fatal desc of ar
senic, suspended in tea, be likely of
detection by patient2" asked the
district attorney.
"It would not replied Professor
Belch.
with saleratus and water, with milk and
with certain other beverages, without
detection, the witness said.
The last dose of poison was received
by Admiral Eaton, within several hours
of death. probably six or eight hours. -
Professor Balch gave as his opinion. At
torney Morse objected to. and Judge
Aiken ruled out a question by the dis
trict attorney as to whether a patient
receiving arsenic in tea or other liq-
uids, would be likely to notice it, If he
was expecting to receive medicine.
On examination the witness said
he had calculated the time of receiving
the last dose from the number of times
Admiral Eaton vomitted
when an extraordinary dose of ar
senic is taken into the system. is it not
a presumption that the poison has been
self-administered? DIR. Balch was
asked
Not entirely" he replied
Under cross examination Dr. Balch
said that the condition of the admirars
stomach and the amount of poison it
contained was not inconsistent with the
reception of a large initial dose He
thought that at least two doses were
administered
The witness testified on redirect ex-
animation. that the poison would be less
liable to be detected If taken with tea
in which there was sugar.
Mrs. Annie Driscoll of Ruckland a
friend of the cations, testified to hav-
ing stayed at the Eaton home for three
months, in 1912, at Mrs. Eaton's sugges-
ton, TO keep this feeble old man away
from woman who wants to get his
money" She said Mrs. Eaton expressed
the opinion that the admiral was in
sane and that he was always flirting
with girls and women. Mrs. Driseon said
that while she was al the Eaton home.
the admirals habits We're regular ana
orderly.
Il thought the admiral was perfect
gentleman Mrs. Driseol testified.
Early this year, Mrs. Eaton asked the
witness to go to the Eaton home again
Oh.
away for few days at a time Con
ditions at the house are getting worse
and something will have to be done
soon Mrs. Eaton said, according to the
witness.
Mrs. Eaton showed no signs of grief
the witness said, during a visit by Mrs
Driscoll to the Eaton home following
the admiraPs death.
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No More Wild Oysters.

The popular idea Of the source OF oys-
ters is that they grow wild IN. creeks
estuaries, etc., and that men go out III
little boats and catch them, bushel OF
two at time. somewhat as clans are
caught. The general impression is thai
they grow naturally without cultivation
like blackberres or blueberries: but ike
many other popular impressions. this is
erroneous, except to a very limited ex-
tent.
Not one bushel in 1000 of mature oysters
ready for market is found growing nat
urally. This applies to the product "
the waters of Massachusetts, Rhode Is