The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-01-07
WHAT 1918 BROUGHT TO THE WORLD
Summary Of the More important Happenings Of the
Twelve Month Here and Abroad.

ton there have been but few develop.
ments that could positively be deslg.
mated as disappearing.
The discovery OF the south pole and
the disaster to the Scott expedition
both occurred In 1912. although the
fate OF Captain Scott was not made
known TO the world until 1913. DR..
Friedrich Franz Friedman, discover.
or Of a cure" for tuberculosis, made
HIS appearance In 1919. but the value
OF DIR. Friedmann's cure" and other
cures" for that dread disease an.
nouncod at about the same time. RE
very much open to doubt. Great strides
have undoubtedly been made In the
treatment of cancer. but no positive
cure has yet been discovered. although
much has been learned about the value
OF radium.
Aviation Is progressing rapidly.
Much attention to aeronautics has
been paid by the various European
governments from q military stand.
point, but no means OF making aero
planning anywhere neal safe have yet
been discovered. France has organized
and trained "a military aviation corps
that would unqucstlonably be- NJ great
value In case Of war. and Germany
has devoted much time and money TO
dirigible bnllooning. The United
States has spent some 100000 during
the year In military experiments In
aviation.
Tho number Of deaths resulting from
aviation has not been especially large.
Aviators have died. Just as aviators
died In 1912, and Germany suffered Il
number Of disastrous accidents 10 Yep.
pclin dir!Eibic balloons Many ri the
accidents of aoroplancs resulted from
fancy exhibition flying and military
experiments. The year 1913 saw the
first aerop!ane nlsht over the Panama
canal.
On the Panama Canal.
In Panama great Developments have
taken place. October 10 last saw the
dynamiting Of Gimboa dixie. being the
removal of practically the last serious
obstruction In the biz ditch. The ca.
nal Is now almost completed, so far as
a trans.contincntal waterway Is con.
cernCd. although not yet prepared for
the passage Of steamers from ocean 20
ocean. Work has also been begun on
the buildings and grounds for the great
Panama. Pacific International eXposi.
ton. 10 be held In San Francisco In
1915, as n celebration OF tho formal
opening OF the Panama canal.
New York state furnished the most
sensational bit OF local politics OF the
year In the impeachment and removal
81 Gov. william Sulzcr. followed BY
Suffers no .aination by progressiyes
and election TO the state assembly.
In the world OF sports the United
States still stand supreme. In add.
ton 10 humblinf the British polo cup
challengers, the United States further
shocked Johnny Full when Francis
Ouimet, the youthful golf wonder.
walked away from the English experts
In the national open golf championship
at Brooklinc, Mass, and by the win.
ming OF the international Davis tennis
cup. Americas supremacy In sr,rts
was further recognized during ~" year
when King Gustavc OF Sweden pre-.
scented the American athletes with the
medals and trophies won at the Olym'
pic games In Stockholm In 1912. TIL.
sporting world suffered n shock, how,
ever. when II was learned that jim
Thorpe, the famous Carlisle Indian
athlete really belonged In the classi.
f~ication OF professional" lie volun,
tarlly renounced the trophies he had
won as an amateur In the Olympic
games.
Here are the leading events OF the
year:
Disasters, Flrea. Floods.
Floods In Ohio, many killed, much
suffering and great damage done,
Floods In the Mississippi valley as a
result OF Ohio floods.
Tornado destroys part OF Omaha,
Neb.
Zeppelin Ir2 exploded October Z
Twenty killed.
Gas explosion near Pittsburgh kills
100 miners.
Long Beach, Cal, pier gives way,
killing 80 persons.
part OF October.
Fredamp in Welsh mine cntombs
93i. Five hundred rescued alive.
Two hundred and eighty miners on,
tombcd following mine explosion n,
Dawson, y, NJ. Twenty.three rescued
alive.
steamship Nevada strikes n mine in
Gulf OF Smyrna, One hundred and
twenty drowned.
Steamer Volturno burned Mt sea DC
tober 10. One hundred and t~hirty.siS
drown. 625 rescued.
Fifty girls die In factory FIRE at Bling
hamton, y. Y, July %,
Storm at Nome, Alaska. kills II
destroys 600 house Sl.500,000 loss,
| The Death Roll.
. Enver hey, chief OF stan Turkish
army. assassinated February II.
Henry y. Flagler, n of founders