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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-07-09
LIFE THREE MILLION YEARS
AGO
Told In New Fossil Discoveries

After months Of hardships and
danger in the desert DR.. M. G.
Mehl and assistant, G. M. Schwartz,
have brought to the biological
Of the University Of Wis
consin a wonderful collection Of
prehistoric fossils gathered in
New Mexico and Arizona. More
than a ton of the specimens
brought in by the party are en-
tirely new to science, and some
tell the story of life and the world
over three million years ago.
DR.. Mehl and Mr.. Schwartz left
Madison for Fort Wingate early in
the year. From Fort Wingate they
went to Flagstaff, Arizona, where
they secured a wagon outfit and
a Mexican guide. Then they made
a IS mile drive across the desert
with no water except what they
carried with them. They camped
on the Little Colorado river and
suffered much from sand storms.
At times water was very scarce
and their lives were in danger.
They were also threatened by In
dams, and hardly a day passed
but they were forced to Illustrate
treacherous attempts at d~esertion
by the superstitious Mexican guide
who accompanied them. The geo
logists worked among the rocks in
the hills that skirt the desert.
From these hills many petrified
logs were sticking up and buried
among the rocks were fossils that
would delight the soul Of any sci
enlist.
ayes, we can picture the life Of
that time" said DR.. Mehl, pointing
a hand blackened by the desert
u to a monstrous fossil. '"Take
this phytosour. That fellow had
a skull four and a half feet long
and belong to a carnivorous tribe
of crocodiles. Most crocodiles have
noses on the ends of their shouts,
but this chap had one on the top
of his head. l suppose he must
have been about 20 feet long. They
don't grow like that these days.
This same specimen if placed on
sale would bring a sum that would
cover the entire expenses of our
EXPEDITION. He became preserved
to science like most of them of
that period. Imagine a great la
coon or a series of lagoons with
enormous trees along the shore.
Imagine great storms that broke
down the trees and pinned some
of the monsters under them. Then
came the sitting in of the gravel
and the mud and the shifting of
the rocks. After long periods the
waters went away and nothing
was left but the rocks and the
hills and the sand dunes. Yet the
life of this period was preserved
for today's scientists to recon
struct."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-07-09
MANY VOTING MACHINES USED
IN WISCONSIN

Nearly 800 voting machines are
being used in Wisconsin according
to a report of the municipal refer
ence bureau of the University Ex-
tension division. With the excep-
ton of five or six cities, five or
more machines are used in all of
the first, second and third class
cities in the state. Milwaukee
owns 1853 machines, three of which
it keeps in for cases of
emergency, although it has not
yet been called upon to use them.
Other cities and the number of
machines used in each are Osh-
kosh II, Superior Is, Racine 81,
Sheboygan 10, Fond du Lac 16, APP
pleton 6, GAINESVILLE 5, and Kenosha
9. Several other cities have one,
two, or three machines in use. Al
together 287 machines are in use
in the cities, towns, and villages
of the state.
The use of voting machines be-
gan in Rochester, N. Y, in 1898,
when that city installed 70 mach
ines. Since then their use has been
extended to over 500 cities and
towns in the United States. Min
neapolis, Buffalo, Indianapolis, Des
Moines, Omaha, Oakland, Califor-
MIA; Salt Lake City, Utah; and
many other large cities have used
them for several years in all cleo
tions. Their use began in Wiscon-
sin in 1902, when Milwaukee pur-
chased Is machines. The. next year
it purchased 100 additional ma
chimes and has added to that num-
Der since until it now has a total
of 153 machines.
Machines are now equipped SO
they a be used in primary cleo
tions, partisan of non-partisan
elections, for measures as we'll as
men, and for preferential voting.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-07-09
W0MAN'S SUFFRAGE LEADS
ALL QUESTIONS

Woman's suffrage proved the
most popular of 1867 subjects treat
ed in the package libraries sent
out by the department of debating
and public discussion of the uni
versity of Wisconsin from last
July to April of this year. RestrIc-
ton of immigration, the minimum
wage, and commission government
ranked next in popularity.
In the nine months 2741 packages
were sent to 365 localities. Seven
hundred and five inquiries We're
answered by letter and SGT pack
ages were sent to "a Libraries.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-07-09
BIG MEET OF LOCAL GUN CLUB

The River Falls Gun Club had
the largest turnout of it's history
on the afternoon of the Fourth,
and many good scores were made.
On August 2 the River Falls Gun
Club will be hosts for an amateur
tournament, at which there will
be present members Of the Hazel
Park Gun Club of st. Paul, the
Red Wing and Hastings clubs and
also marksmen from neighboring
cities. In these meets prizes are
offered for the highest scores in
each squad event.
The scores made in the meet1ast
Saturday afternoon were as fol-
lows:
Gendron, 1923
G.. Stewart, 1898
Judd, 5O-36
Rosenberg, 1898
Deickman, 50-38
Williams, 1898
Carisch, 25-x22
Knobel, 25-15
E. Currier, 25-13
DR.. Dawson, 25-10
c.. Sherburn, 25-10
Fortune, 25-21
Grimm, 25-12
Doubles
Williams, 24-9
Judd, 24-19
Dawson, 24-12
Currier, 24-8
That some of our readers are
not quite familiar with the gun
club sport is evident from queries
which we have received after pub
fishing the reports of the local
clubs meets.
In the first place, the pigeons,
or birds, are merely disks of clay,
saucer shaped and marked with
a circle around the top. They are
thrown out from under a low shed
by means of a lever. The marks
men, generally five in a squad
line up at a certain distance from
from the shed, and when all are
in place the first in line calls
"pull," the boy releases the lever
and the meet is on. The "birds"
are put in place by a boy in the
shed and the lever is operated a
short distance back of the marks
men. The referee announces the
C or failure of each shot by
calling "dead" or "lost," "dead'
meaning that the marksman hit,
and "lost" meaning that he missed
and the scorer makes the record
accordingly.
In "singles" only one bird is
thrown out; in "doubles" two birds
are thrown out at once, n going
to the right and the other to the
left. To get both means quick and
accurate shooting.
The s~trictest observance is made
to enforce the rule in regard to
loading guns at the meets. Only
the squad firing are allowed to
load their guns, and they must
only put in one shell at a time
no shells to be in the magazine
or extra barrel-unless, of course,
in the case of shooting doubles,
and then only two shells can be
in place.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-07-09

A determined contest against the
bill is promised, but how far the
opponents will succeed in their eff
forts to investigate and overturn
remains to be seen. They may not
accomplish it fully this time, but
they will make progress aud are
creating a sentiment that in the end
seems certain to result in much i'm
provement.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-07-09
ATTACK ON
PORK BARREL
CNew York Evening Sun, June 81, ls14)

New York Evening Sun, June 81. 1914)
While it may appear u%ngraceful
in New York to ~criticise the River
and Harbor bill, the largest in the
history Of the United States, and in
the opinion of many members of
Congress the worst, inasmuch as
this city is indebted to the present
Congress for an initial appropria-
ton to begin work upon her own
$13 600, 900 b a r b improvement,
nevertheless there are items in this
$43, 900, 900 bill obligating future
payments besidas, that bring up
the total to $93, 600, 900, which looks
TO be indefensiole upon any other
grounds than the pork barrel ext
gencies of politics.
SO far as New York is concerned
she feels perfectly entitled to the
outlay which the government plans
10 make here, since her indiSputable
rank in the worlds commerce does
not throw her allowance out of ratio
to her Importance nor to the neces-
sites Of the case. Moreover 1t is
clear that the requirements here are
for the city and for the country as a
whole, and not for any particular
set of interests or projects. New
Jersey, on the other hand, besides
luscious slices of pork from the
1914 barrel" to use the words of
Representative Frear of Wisconsin ,
us also demanding $40, 900 900 from
the government for a canal from its
mosquito district to a stream once
crossed in a rowboat by the Father
of our Country" At all events this
is a project of much less i'm mediate
Importance than that of New York
An item which Mr.. Frear describes
as particularly vicious" is the ap-
preparation Of 1888, 900 for the Okla
waha river, Florida, upon the de-
mands of orange growers
for a crooked creek that does not
boast of a regular boat service
He calls attention to a number of
other appropriations, all highly spe-
cial in their benefits.
The trouble arises, and always
has arisen, from the majority of
Congressman TO realize they are ma
tional, not local, Legislators. Voters
are quite reasonable in expecting
their representatives to secure need
ed appropriations from the govern,
ment, provided they deserve such
appropriations in the general bal
ance of considerations, but they
should not measure their Congress
men by his ability to browbeat his
colleagues into exhorbitant favors
az the expense of other claims fully
as fair.
AS Mr.. Frear puts it, Greedy
constituents, hungry dredging com
panies, interested transportation
companies and umerou h e r
powerful influences will always be
at work as long as the present sys-
tenn prevails" BY this Mr.. Frear
means until the barrel" a be
abolished and the impersonal recon-
mendations of army engineers can
have their proper weight. The Sen
from the district politics of the low
er house, and it is TO be hoped that
it's members will thwart i~nexcusable
extravagances in the present bill.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-07-09

Rooms For RENTAL modern con
veniences, including electric lights,
steam heat and bath. For men only
inquire at the fremont Building.
adv.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-07-09

FOR RENr-rhree-room sum
mer cottages at Ilwaco Springs, by
the week, month or season. Ad-
dress Miss Julia A. Morse, River
Falls, Wis,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-07-09

The contention is, and it is ad-
mitted by many who favor the bill,
that much if not most of the money
is misspent. 1t is argued that the
purpose is primarily political-to
get government money for the home
districts-and that the pur pose III
improving the waterways of the
country to promote water transpor-
tation and lower freight rates is
wholly secondary. But aside fro m
this, even though it is granted that
the purpose is right, it. is claimed
that most of the money is spent on
projects that result in practically
no benefit to the people.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-07-09
FREAR, STANDARD BEARER
F0R REPUBLICAN REFORMERS
%. 1914)

CThe Christian Science M nitor. (Boston) June
20. 1914.)
Representative James A. Frear of
Wisconsin, Republican, is the stan.
dard bearer for the reformers, and
he has rallied to his cause in the
Senate several who promise to do
their utmost not only to prevent the
passage of the bill. but also to put
an end, by publicity, to the methods
that have grown into custom and
have made its continuance year aft
er year possible. Senators Lane,
La Toilette, Kenyon and Cummins,
who are arrayed on his side, will
seek to have the Senate order an in
vestigation of these methods.
The crusade is not against i'm
provement of rivers and harbors by
the government; it is against waste
IN this Improvement by spending
millions upon millions every year
in improvements that have no COM
mercial value; it is against the prac-
tice of log rolling" by which one
member agrees to support one item
in the bill in return for promised
support for e appropriating
money to be spent in his home dis
trict. 1t has come to be egarde ed
as a Congressman's right to have a
certain amount of this money spent
in his district, SO that he may tell
his constituents what he has been
able to do for them with the govern
menr's money.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-29
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.
Features of the Days Dealing in Al
the Leading Stocks.

New York May 2s.-The stock market
drifted along in idle and futile fashion
again today. Various factors such as
the Mexican situation, the outcome of
Missouri Pacific's ntaSesasments. crops,
railroad earnings and foreign conditions
were under review but failed to exercise
more than passing influence.
In the latter part of the session Presi-
dent Wilson's address to the Illinois
manufacturers wherein he avowed his in
tention to carry out his antitrust pro-
gram caused some slight reaction, but
net changes of more important issues,
United States Steel excepted, were hardly
noteworthy. In the special group the
movement was irregular, General Motors
losing much of its recent gain, While
some less active issues of the same class
made fair advances, Wells Fargo gain
ing five points.
Although the various foreign markets
reported improved conditions, London
was a seller of our securities at home
and in this market Trustworthy ad-
vices from Paris pointed to clarifica-
tion of financial conditions at that CEN
ter, coincident, however, with the fail
ure of a bank having important mining
and Industrial connection. Despite the
further ease of change, another small
engagement of gold for Europe was un-
derway with limitations that the recent
movement is to be revised
Time money for the longer maturitles
stiffened appreciably on better demand,
but the shorter dates and call loans were
unchanged.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-29
SUIT OF LIEUT..
SLINGSBY IS TO
BEGIN IN JUNE

London May 2S.-The suit brought
by Lieut.. Charles Reynaud Slingsby
of San Francisco. claiming for his
child the succession to part of the
Yorkshire estate of his father, is to
begin early in June.
Lieutenant Slingsby's father, the
Rev. Charles Slingsby, died in 1912
as the result of an accident in the
hunting field He left property said
to produce an income of $4,000 a
year and the bulk of this has fallen
to Lieutenant Slingsby. The remain
der was to go to Lieutenant Sings
by's son, whose legitimacy is contested
by Lieutenant Slingsby's younger
brother.
At the opening of court today, Hen
ry E. Duke lawyer member of par
lament. who represents Lieutenant
Slingsby, applied to Sir Samuel Evans,
president of the probate court for an
early hearing of the suit. He gave as
the reason for his application the bad
condition of health of Mrs. Slingsby,
who had been in England sometime.
He explained that the trial, which is
to be non jury trial, would occupy
a long time, as there was a great bulk
of testimony to submit, chiefly that of
the mother.
The Judge said he would take Mrs.
Slingsby's evidence early next month
and would then fix the date for fur
Their hearing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-29
WAITS 81 YEARS
FOR SWEETHEART
WHO never RETURNS

New York, May 28.-After 67 years
of waiting for the return of her sail
or sweetheart, who sailed as the third
officer of an American merchant man
on a voyage to China with her prom
Use to marry him on his return "Ap-
pie Mary Walsh, 81 years old, has de-
cided to desert her station at the Bat
terry for more comfortable quarters on
BlackWell's Island.
The heat yesterday led Apple Mary
to reach her decision. She asked a
policeman to arrest her that she
might spend the summer in the work
house. She was taken before a po-
lice magistrate, who after hearing her
story, committed her as requested.
Apple Mary explained that she re-
ceived a letter from her sailor boy
a year after he sailed. After that no
trace of his ship was ever recorded,
but she always expected to meet him
some day at the Battery, where they
parted in 1S47.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-29

gave their time voluntarily to the pro-
duction of the spectacle.
The stage on which the pageant and
maSque were given was built over the
boating lagoon at the foot of the hill
in Forest park on which the City Art
Museum stands. This hill was the site
of the Cascades during the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition, and is a natural
ampnitheatre. 1t rises steeply from
the lagoon, and from any point on this
kill commanding view of the stage
could be obtained. Forty-two thousand
seats were placed on this hill. and
back of these was room for thousands
more who preferred to bring camp
stools or to stand. 1t was stated that
more than $4,000 persons could view
the pageant at one time from the hill.
The stage was $40 feet wide at the
rear, and it had a semi-circular front
of $50 feet The stage was 200 feet
deep, the background being a great
screen so feet high and 300 feet long.
On the stage were two towers 40 feet
high and within these was the me-
chanicai apparatus used to control the
lights. Within one of these towers was
telephone station of the stage man
ager So stupendous a scale was the
production that the calls to actors
were sent by telephone.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-29
Magnificent Pageant and Masque
Given in Concentration of the
Founding of City of St. Louis

st. Louis, Mo, May 2S.-The Pageant
and Masque of ST. Louis, which was
given here tonight in commemoration
of the founding Of this city $50 years
ago, required for it's production prob
ably the largest stage in the world
and a cast Of 1850 persons.
The production was in two distinct
parts-the pageant, by Thomas Wood
Stevens, head of the school of drama
of the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg.
Pa, and the masque by Percy Mac
Kaye.
The Pageant began shortly before
sunset, and continued until dark. Aft
er short intermission, the masque
wos given under electric light. The
pageant was a series of 80 living pic
lures. portraying important events in
the. history of st. Louis. Fifty-six hun
dred men and women took part in
this presentation.
An elaborate musical setting had
been arranged for the masque by
Frederick S. Converse, and there was
much incidental music in the Pageant.
"A hidden chorus of 500 and a band of
100 took part in the production.
Throughout the pageant, the actors
and actresses were gowned in cos
tunes historically accurate. All the
actors were citizens of ST. Louis who
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-29
The RED HAT IS
CONFERRED UPON
CARDINALS NOW
IN ROME, ITALY

Rome, May 2S.-The public consist
DRY at the Vatican a which the Red
Hat was conferred upon those now in
Rome of the Is cardinals created on
Monday, was held today. 1t was at
tended by several thousand persons,
most of whom were Americans and
other foreigners. A special mission
will be sent to take the berrettas to
the absent cardinals.
In the passage of the pontiff to and
from the consistory he was surround
ed and followed by many ecclesiastic,
military and civil dignitaries. After
the consistory the cardinals, both old
and new, gathered in the Sistine
chapel to return thanks, and then met,
presided over by the Pope, in the Con-
sistorial hall, where Plus X bestowed
the cardinals ring. granted them the
privileges of their position and named
their titular churches.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-29
Churches Can Now
Produce Plays

New York, May 2S.-Churches
throughout the country and societies
affiliated with them are now able to
produce religious plays, written in
proper dramatic form with stage di-
rections and properties, through the
establishment in this city of the eX-
position department of the missionary
education movement.
This new department, which is one
Of the most interesting developments
of modern church work, was organ
lied last January Announcement is
made today that it is now able to of
fer a play, with scenery for its pro-
duction, to churches for use in illus
trating, in dramatic form, its home
and foreign missionary work. The
properties may all be rented for a
nominal sum by the religious organ
izations for which they are intended.
They cannot be had for secular pur-
poses at any price.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-29
FRENCH MILITANT
ARRESTED IN LONDON
FOR WINDOW SMASHING

Suffragette, who was arrested for
smashing three windows at the Nation
al Gallery today created a scene when
she was brought before the magistrate
at Bow street police court She contin-
TALLY shouted in French, "Hurrah for
iherty!" and "Hurrah for Christabel
Pankhurst!" The prisoner refused to
give her name and told the magis-
trate she did not want to hear any
thing. She kept up a voluble declama-
ton in French accompanied by much
gesticulation throughout the proceed
ings. She was remanded in custody for
a further hearing. When arrested the
woman was carrying bag filled with
fiints, some of which sha had used on
the windows of the National Gallery.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-29
Boston Produce Market

Boston, May 2S.'
Quotations on flour, grain, millfeed.
meal, hay and straw are strictly whole
sale for carload lots to jobbers. Al other
qffuotations represent saes to the re-
tailers,)
BEEF-Whole cattle 13ld15s.
BRAN-2e50f627.
BUTTER-Northern 26sd27; western %
Q264.
CHEESE-New York twins 15dl5a.
CORNING. 3 yellow S26S21.
EGGS-Choice 250a6; western 2l423.
FLOUR-Mill shipment spring patents,
4SJ9530
HAY-No grade 2150a 200.
LAMBS-Spring 16.
LARD-Pure 107
MIXED FEED-275003000.
OATS-No. clipped white 4s.
PORS-Medium backs %.
POTATOES-White 160q170 per two-bY.
bag.
sUGAR-Granulated 20 Dbl. lots, ABS.
VEAL-9d17.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-29

that engaged me that I did not be-
lieve in mixing religious beliefs into
the work of educational institutions,
and while 1 would not take any stano
which might be construed as in OPP
position to- the Universalist church.
acknowledgement not insist on my stu
dents attending that church if their
people desired them to go elsewhere.
To. this have adhered faithfully, and
with two exceptions, 1 have personal
iy attended no other church. There
are not half a dozen Universalist stu
dents in Westbrook Seminary today.
We have several Catholic students and
any institution that is to grow and
have d future must in these days re-
frain from drawing the line in reli-
gious affairs unless they can support
the school entirely with students from
their own denomination.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-29
NJ MILAN Well
Says His Letter

Gardner, Mass. May 2S.-Donald B.
Mcmillan and his Crocker Land ex-
ploring party were we'll and comfort
able on an. %, according to a letter
of that date from the explorer, re-
ceived by Levi H. Greenwood yester-
day. The letter was written at Nc
Millans winter quarters at Etah,
North Greenland, and came out by
dog team.
Mcmillan wrote that the first di-
vision planned to start for Croker
Land on Feb. 7, to be followed by
other divisions at intervals. He ex-
pressed confidence in the success of
his trip, the object of which is to OBJ
tain geographical data. He said that
during the winter he had received
many visits from natives of the south
ern Greenland settlements.