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The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-04-04
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Philade lphia Man Invents Gun
with Crooked Barrel for
Use in Trenches.
PHILADELPHIA. Abr. 3. ....

PHILADELPHIA. pr. B. 3. - "A new
Kind OF rife. which il bys8an ingenious
use Of the periscope. SwiH enable a
soldier to sit in the bottom OF a
trench and shoot the$foe as it charges
without exposing himself, has been
devised by Jones Mister or No. S19,
Walnut street. \
Mr.. Fister.Who is prominent SOS
.cially in this city.5is anFardent sports
man and conrersan th guns of all
kinds Since the European war be-
gan Mr. Wister has been busy try
ting to figure out a device whereby
the men in the trenches could shoot
at an advancing Opponent without
exposing themselves To return fire.
A few DAYS ago an: idea came to
him which he believes has solved the
problem. This was to solder firmly
to the end of a rifle barrel portion
of another barrel, curved ait forty
fastened to the barrel, the top mir
ror on line with the curvinE muz-
zle, he found that he could sit in a.
chair on one side Of fence and,
without exposing more than the top
Of his contTiyance, could aim ac-s
curately at any object within seeing
distance on the opposite side Of the
fence.
For his trench gum as he calls,
it, Mr.. Wister has used the SIM
plest form of periscope. This makes
aiming easy. All you have to do is
to get the object aimed at directly
in the center Of the lower mirror
and press the trigger. You are bound
to send the bullet to the mark, pro-
:Nided the distance is not too great.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-04-04
LIFE ABOARD "A MINE
SWEEPER IS FIR 1AIJGffT
WITH MANY DANGERS

ourselves. and at the same speed.
The dawn came up and showed her
TO- be kin to us, and the signals at
once made clear that in her we be
held our sweeping partner. There
arises curious respect for her. She
must know quite well that at any mo
ment her plunging bows may meet
a mine and then there would be a
vacancy at her end Of the drag tackle
and vacancies in little Cottages IN the
Isle. ss3..
Every body Quiet.
Our partner was an old friend
and knew the work: Arrived at the
appointed area, the little vessels ran
close in and the gear was linked up.
1t was hard work, even for trawlers.
That marked the beginning OF the
day. The little vessels separated.
found their distance to al nicely IN
the teeth Of the wind. and started
of. The whole operation was. car
ried through with scarcely a word
uttered, and the Ion G days work was
under way. Hour after hour, through
a succession Of rain. hail and an oM:,
careful drag was kept. IL there were
sfrozensfeet in the trenches that day,
there were also frozen hands on the
seas. .S ~. sl
fifteen hours Of drenching and
huffeting were our portion that day
The vessel. with the pull Of the tackle
and the drive OF her ngines keeping
her down ! like half-tide rock, was
never clear of the sweeping seas.
sThud slap. crash. swis hey came
over her bows Ind swirled along the
deck. never ceasing their constant1as
sau1t s55
When thu snow passed. there
was a GLIMPSE OF sun. Then the
wind backed against the sun. and
came down on US IN Wild gusts. leg
cold As the aftern con wore on the
cold increased and .justbef ght-
fall 5cane strange lul1 which, let in a.
biting frost.
The hardy fellows on board5werei
stiff and numb before the day was
done, and when the gear was Slip
ped and sIipped mob odv.swasNso rry.
Won Recog milton.
The disnosa1 Of TIL mines SrecoE-
cred deDends upon til cir character
and the circumstanceso Of their re-
4covery. Irrenua nt1y onrFRunners5ex
sp1ode them by firm into them from.
the deck. 4 Al
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Plans to Spend the Rest Of His
Days on His. Farm in
:is,. Oklahoma. :

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Apr. g.
John N Canadian, the telegraph
operator who sent out from Bismarck,
NJ D., one OF the biggest stories ever
read the story Of the Gust massacre
on the Little Big Horn In July, --
has just retired ION a pension and is
planning; to spend the rest Of his days
IN Oklahoma on his Kay county farm,
where he will raise chickens. pigs
and other domastics:
For seventeen years Carnahan was
atthe frontier station Of Bismarck
and when he left there it was for
AIissoula, Mont, where. he lived for
ntFfopr years. Previous to being
stationed at Bismarck he was at La
Crosse, Wis, and SO after fifty years
as an operator, Carnahan will draw
y pension and Oklahoma will have
within its boundaries another 5veter-
an who helped make the history Of
the early days Of the Indian west.
Last Message to Grant.
The Bismarck garrison, including
many friends Of Canadian, was in the
Custer expedition. The operator and
the post surgeon rode out from the
post with the expedition when 1t
started In June. 1876, to punish the
Sioux Indians They ven t twelve miles!
SHEfLn tue seventh cavalry aqU then re
turned with the last d dispatch General
Custer ever Sent. It..Yas addressed
toy EPresident Grant and told OF the
plans for the expedition: Gil Il III
On the night of July 5ssthe steamer
Far West came down the river and
tied UP at Bismarck wh en- most people;
were in bed. The Far West brought
tho wounded from Reno's command
and the official DISPATCHES which told.
of the compile etc annihiIa tion OF Gus.
ter's outfit. 5 ~ n J. .
shed Ford Of Massacre. sss
Carnah was called from hts bed
and found on his desk In the telegraph
once a#carpet1 bag full 4 or ofhcial5 re-
paEtA e the slit Fesult I1e;
sized up the jrb. and Ills d rst wire &C.
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SMOKING |: ! | { | !.
BY the Girl Students at Cam.
bridge Put to Refer
endum Vote.

correspondence of Associated Presso
ssC;.AlMBRIDiE. Eng \, "A pr. g. Should
college girls smoke = is the question
that Is aEitating members or the up
per classes in the wnmen's colleges
attached tosC en1bridg &c university. A
toned to- smoke at home asked some
time ago for faculty ruling as to.
sFpoking An their, dormttory rooms.
The faculty was hard put for, an
tansMer and decided upon raferen-s
dun, not OF pupils, but OF parents ana;
the principal has Just dispatched Al
letter to each home asking for al reply
for or against smoking, before the;
END ca 4 80 the y 81 Easter don
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PHILADELPHIA. Apr. 3.-Rather
than return 10 a life of crime, Fred
.Cassman committed suicide ait al ho-
tel here. In a letter found In his
room Cassman said that Up to twent-
ty years ago his career had been one
of petty crimes and. that he had re-
formed as the result Of twenty lashes
given him at the whipping post In
New Castle, Del. in 1885,. OF this
crime, he said. he was innocent.
From that time until a few months
ago, the letter went on, he had Eeen
in business in the west After the
death of his wife and son he returned
to Philad elphia. where he met some
fearing 1heir inf!u fence he had decided
to end lit al .SS TIA E 4s ts7
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State of Michigan to Erect a
Monument in the City
of Nicksburq

V j.
FIEkSBERG, Miss, Apr The
state OF Michigan wi llr erect a granite
memorial here in commernora1ion OF
the part taken BY her soldiers In
that famous siege. The memorial Wi II
Weigh 81 tons. ~
COFlFES CHRISTI, TIE The Unit
ed Daughters of the Confed eracy are
erecting drinking fountain here in
memory Of the Confederate dead The
monument shows allegorical figures,
the city being represented by q beau
Ftiful young woman with the keys of
success in her hand, and receiving
the combined blessing OF Mother
Earth on one side and Father Nep-
tune on the other #
NtASTHINGTON.- The statue Of Rob
ert Emmett, the Irish patlio. who was
executed in Dublin, a martyr to his
cause, will be placed this spring in.
the National Gallery Of Art, under
the authority of the Smithsonian In
stitution. The statue is the work OF
Jerome Conner. 1t is being cast in.
bronze and viii be erected on base
OF Irish marble.
.f Sf1lhs|t1S1'A, 51ll.-a lie size marble
group entitled Silver Music, has
been accepted for the adorn1nent of.
the new band stand in Lincoln park.
The memorial is the work OF a COM
iparatively unknown Chicago sculptor
Gtorgio Renault. The work is being
done in marble AID will be; completed
in June. A
1vlLIA1AR, MINI a 1aonume nt u
old settlers Of this section OF Min ne
sofa SGT viii be erected by the schools.
. WILMINGTON, S. C.ProYision for
the erection Of a monument to the
Confederate soldier is made IN the.
y ora Wilmington man, Gabriel u.
aBonney.
Jl.1'RaS'EIs:Y1VIILLEt III ii erservi1le cit
liens and Others are. raising a fund
to erect monument to the memory
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1OperQtor Who Sent
Qen2s of the Custer
Massacre Quits Key

ton was to flash the word east that
the massacre had occurred Then he
settled down to the transmission Of
the official story to the department Of
war at Washington. For twenty-one
hours he did not leave the key. Coffee
and sandwiches we're hand ed him now
and then during the long shift, and a.
wet towel was kept on his forehead
With the reports finished he fell into
bed and for three hours slept the sleep
OF exhaustion; then he got up and re-
turned to the key. -s91. q tss
For two days the eastern papers
had been clamoring for detailed news
OF the massacre, but Carnahan could
not leave his official work, and until
now there was no one to send it He
started in. however, and sent all he
could find out to New York, Chicago
and st. Paul papers. He sent as much
story as he had siren 9Th to get and
prepare. and that was the way the
details OF the disaster were sent out
Carnahan had sent 81; 900 words in
the two shifts. and the receipts Of his
office In those. two DAYS were SO. 600.
AS fast as they could arrive special
correspondents hurried to Bismarck
to get the intimate a etai Is Of the big
story. O,ke lly. a New ~ ork man, was
the first big one on the ground. and
8Carnahnu for twelve hours moro on
his stuff. There were $4,000 words.
and tn tolls Ton the special dispatch
We're 1890 O'Kally gave Cainahan
$5of for his extra work and the vet
eran operator still has taht $50 bill.
A Story Never Told.
Carnaha IS the man who handled
tne9 official CORES between
Presidsnt Grant and General custer
which. preceded the Little Big Horn
sexpedi tinns and which has always been
supposed to have cRused the resent
mont which drove Custer to reckless
ness on the fatal ride. But that Is a
story Garnahan has never told.
During the a three years at the
telegraph key Hany illinG stories
hare passed throu Oh his hands. espec-
tally during the early days lofS his ca
reer. when he vas on the border be-
tween the sorthT and South during
the Civil war. &.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-04-04
Fish among the Best
OF Food Materials,
Mrs. Scott Declares

meat Is supplemented by such
~ foods as bread, butter, potatoes,
green vegetable And fruit That
lis, b. adding materials in cook
ing and hJs serving other dishes
with the cooked product the pro-
tein Of the fish is supplemented
by the necessary fat aud carbo-
hydrates. r.
How TO Guard s1fIioIesOmeness.
5 One of the chief objections urged
by many against the larger Use Of
fish as FREQUENT food Is the difficulty
OF getting it in good condition OF
course, it not carefully handled. fish
does spoil Very easily. especially III
warm weather. But proper handling
is a DEFENSE against this danger, and
the housewife can protect herself by
following a few very simple rules"
In general it may be said that
fish should be considered unfit fol.
food when the yes have lost their
sheen, the cornea is somewhat
II cloudy, the gils pale red, when
the scales are dry or easily loos-
ened, or when the meat is SO soft
that if pressed with the finger
the indentation remains Laying
fish in water has been recommend
ed as a means Of Judging their
condition. Those which sink may
be considered uzldec composed and
wholesome while those which are
decomposinG will float.
Canned fish should never be al
lowed to remain long in the can
KS after opening, but should be used
# at once. There is some possibi-
ity OF danger from tho combined
action of the can contents and OK
EEen OF the ali. upon the lead Of 4
the solder or the can itself Fur
# thermore. canned fish seems pc
culiarlr suited to the growth of
nlicro-orga when exposed to
the air
Finally, fish offered for sale
should be handled in a Clearly
manner, and stored and exposed
for sale under llygientc condi-
conditions.
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REFUSES ANSWER
TO POKER QUESTION {:
Pennsylvania Attorney General
Says He Cannot Dos
with Propriet ....

w HARRISBURG, Pa, "a pr. Can a
man be convicted OF gambling IL
caught in a poker game where there
is no rake off This question was put
up to the attorney generals depart
iment and it has not been answered,
The following query was among, the
recent letters Of Attorney General
Brown:
Would be pleased to shaveSypu an
sEer the sfol lowing IA says that q,
man cannot be convicted Of gambling
liz caught in a poker game where Il
cannot be proved that a rake off is
being taken Tin the state of ennsyl=
ranial y. 5.s 3
.ssB says that he can. regard less OF
VIII ether there is a rake OF or not
"A regular form letter was sent To
the writer. with tile information that
the question one that the attorney
generals department cannot, with
propriety. answer. NJ VI!
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of Professor Joshua PIKE. tho was
superintendent Of schools in this
town. III u

X ! !
COLUMBUS. Ga The Columbus
"a monument On the site where the
last battle of the Civil war was
fought On the banks Of the Chattahoo-
chez river Congressman Adamson
has introduced bill into Congress
asking for an appropriation to erect
this memorial.
DENVER, Cole The Colorado leg
islature is asked TO appropriate q
fund for q statue Of the late Henry
NJ. Teller Of Colorado. to be placed
in the national statuary hall at the
Ca pitol in Washington.
MOSONGAHElLA. PA memorial
to the Tenth Pennsylvania regiment,
which Served in the Philippines dur
ing the Spanish-AmeTican var, is to
be erected soon by the county COM
missioners. The bronze figure OF a
war veteran Will be the monument
piece. A bronze memorial tablet of
the Spanish war veterans cast from
metal secured from the United States
battleship Maine will be placed In
front OF the pedestal on which tho
monument VIII set
- ( ( lts4g B$i
OSHKOSH, Wiss,A monument and
several brass cannon will be placed
this spring on the> spot where volun-
1teer soldiers of the 21st and 3end
Wisconsin regiments were modified
for the Civil war. s'6
SALT LAKE CITY, Cover
ror William Spry, on behalf of the
Daughters or the Mormon Battalion.
mas asked the legislature to name a
site on the capitol grounds where a
monument to the battalion may be
erected by the daughters. 81
q RICHMOND. The common
council Of Richmond recently settled
the controversy over the site for the
tStonewall' jackson memorial by ap-
.propriating $4,000 toward this fund
on condition that the monument be
placed at. the site approved by the
;SstoneWal Jackson Monument Corpor-
alton 81 3,55 iEil
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InzNutritionzis a Close Rival Of
.SirIoin Steak, Culinary
Expert Says.

5ss PHILADELPHIA, Apr. !; - Fish is
- q standard Friday food in thousands
or Homes, and some idea of the amount
of fish consumed by the American
people may be gained from the gov
ernment.s figures that more than q
3tOGG50 0,0g0 pounds annually are caught.
a16ng the coasts and In the rivers Of
Y the United States and Alaska, most
or which Isl eaten here at home says
Mrs. Anna B. Scott. cookery cxpert
81 the North american.
With Improved methods OF trans
poTtation end canning, this excellent
food now is.N Thin reach of these who
I've Tar Inland, as well as those who
are n !s the sea coast it or large rivers.
i And everywhere are streams which
furnish large quantities Of fresh wat
er dsh-delic ious and high in food
One Of the Best Foods.
Indeed, fish IS one Of the best
faods We haYts: and those who do not
make large au=e OF il on their tables
are overlooking nutritious food
l9nich. besides being fine ill flavor, Is
Ileat; economical.
1ak1ng Into consideration the diff
terence in price, most of the kinds OF
fresh fish sold In. the larger markets
\ furnish as large a protein content and
as much heat energy as slrlOin steak.
And when we come to salt fish
mackerel, for instance, We find u food
value. price consluered, more than
twice as great as that OF the best sir
lotn.
$50, whether viewed as a good.
& 4ourishing food or as an: economical
table dish, fish is one OF the best food
materials we have. AS to its diges-
tdhtlity, a point sometimes raised
4 only 10 quote frGl., bulletin recently
issued by the United States Depart
& ment of allure. which says:
The numerous artificial disges
ton apartments which have been
made with fish indicate that it is
less quickly digested than beef.
:a. being about equal to- lamb in this
X respect. However, as compared
with ether foods, the. difference
81 sstn the digestibility OF fish and
meat. as shown by these experi
1nents, Is not very great. In some
carefully conducted experiments.
which We're reported only few
years ago by a German investiga-
tor, It was noted that oysters,
Rhitefsh, and shellti sff taken In
moderate amounts, left the stom-
ach in two TO three hours, in this
respect resemb ling eggs, milk,
white bread and some other
@ foods.
U & esavta95 LETT the stomach in
three to four Hours, as did also
chicken. lean beef. boiled ham.
heefsteak, coarse bread, etc. Salt
heErlng left the stomach in four
to Eve hours, other foods IN the
The Dickinson press., 1915-01-23

One more room to rent in the WAL
ton block. Mrs. Mary Walton.
adv. 1-2-tf
The Dickinson press., 1915-01-23

until last June. and since that time
has not returned. Along in Septem-
Der or October he was see by local
students in the western part Of the
state and at that time he told them
tina h was working for his fair:
Later it is stated that his father,
C. F.. Merry, made a contract with
the Zimmerman Bros. of Minneapolis
for the purchasing of mounts for use
in the allied armies. Happy" was
then hired by his father in the ca
pacity of buyer and raj e in De-
cember at which time he was still en-
gagged in this work.
Since that time he has not been
seen by any of the local students nor
has he been heard. from, although
several stated yesterday that they
were sure that Merry was somewhere
in the western part of Montana con-
tinuing his work of buying horses as
he had stated the last time he was
seen that he would be in that country
until late in the spring.
The same paper on Monday of this
week contained this item:
The whereabouts of "Happy"
Lyle Merry, formerly a student Of the
state University, have been discovered
through the efforts of the Grand
Forks Herald.
A subscriber to The Herald resid-
ing at Lengthy, Mimi, writes that Mr.
Merry is still in the horse buying
business as evidenced by a letter re-
ceived from him on January Z and
written from nea Springville, N. D.
At the time of the writing he was
holding a bunch of horses for his
father at the Messer and Wagner
ranch near the above city and wrote
that he expected to be in that local
ity until the. first of February. He
requested that mail addressed to him
be addressed to Richardton, N. D., in
care of box No. !92.
Lyle Merry has been in Dickinson
more or less the past week and off
and on all winter and the above news
paper clippings are some what
amusing.
No one here knows of C. F. Merry
buying any mounts for Zimmerman
Of South St. Paul. It is reported,
however, that a band of the Merry
horses were moved from their usual
range week before last and scattered
about the country. It had been m
nounced that the young man was 60
ing to return to school but instead he
is supposed to have gone into the
country to run the C. F. Merry horses
off their range. The idea was prob
ably to keep the animals from being
attached, but the trick did not work.
In fact, it is supposed to have cost
the instigator Of the game a pretty
sum in addition to the original claim.
The Dickinson press., 1915-01-23
BROTHERHOOD MEETING

The Brotherhood meeting was held
Monday evening in the parlors of the
Congregational church. w. Il.
Everett, M. A. Scherffius and Elliott
Freeman acted as supper committee
and they made everybody happy with
the good things that were served on
the tables at $50 o'clock.
Mr.. Hart pleased the members
with several piano selections. E. P.
Lee and F. G. Reed followed with an
interesting report on the church COM
munity house at Wibaux. This was
followed by a discussion of the possi-
bilities of getting a Y. M. c. A.: for
Dickinson. A. c. Hacke, Fred W.
Turner, M. A Scherffius, Frank Davis,
Edward L. Carlson, Walter Sterland
and others expressed their views, all
being heartily in favor of any move
that would bring such an organiza-
ton to the city. w. r. Everett and
M. A. Scherffius were appointed a
committee to talk the matter over
with the proper officers and see if
some arrangement could not be made
to get the use Of the armory building
for Y. M. C. A. purposes.
The Dickinson press., 1915-01-23
At BEACH
MOTT ON FEB, 5

Attorneys L. A. Simpson, w. F.
Burnett and 7. F. Murtha were in
Beach for the opening Of district
court the first of the week. Mr..
Simpson appears for the Sentinel
Butte people in their county seat
contest against Beach. In this suit
States Attorney Waldron is assisted
by Attorney Murtha. The case was
up before Judge w. C. Crawford in
chambers in Dickinson on Monday at
which time it was decided that the
plaintiffs should furnish defendants
with a list of alleged illegal voters,
giving defendants an opportunity to
amend their answer. It is possible
that the contest case will not be
reached for trial until after Judge
Crawford finishes at Beach, probably
early another week, in which event
another judge will be called in at an
early date.
Judge Crawford has court in Het-
finger county at Mott on the 9th Of
February and will want to get
through in Golden Valley anyway the
coming week.
The present plan of Judge Crawford
is to wind up his court work and
leave with his family for California
about the middle Of the coming
month. Mrs. Catherine Ray goes also
and it is likely that they will be
accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs. Dugald
Stewart of Bowman.
The Dickinson press., 1915-01-23

Those who want to get the Daily
Bismarck Tribune or Daily Courier
News and The PRESS for a year can
do so by paying 81 for the two. The
offer is good to old or new subscrib-
ers. Those who want either of the
above daily papers for the legisla-
tive session and The PRESS for two
months can get the trial order for
6Oc. This is for new subscribers only.
Old subscribers Of The PRESS who
want either of the above daily papers
for the legislative session can leave
SOC and we will do the rest.-adv.2 Up
The Dickinson press., 1915-01-23
HAY FOR SALE

Delivered at $3.50 per ton. Ad-
dress Glenn Cassidy, Phone 346 B.
adv. 1-9-tf