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The Elbert County tribune., 1917-10-05

My Registered Percheron Stallion
Modoc, license No. 1887, will be at
home ranch Monday forenoon, all
OF Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and
Saturday forenoons.
H. A. omsted, Kiowa, Colo.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-10-05

FOR SALE-29 head good, young
Short Horn cattle, IS to 90 months
old. r. M. Gibson on Hoank ranch
8 miles southeast of Ebert.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-10-05

FOR SALE-Agood team of mules,
weight 1000 pounds a piece. About
8 and 8 years old. Also one 12in.
gang plow good as new. Joe Baginski.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-10-05

For Sale Seed Wheat-100 bushels
Turkey Red at $3.50 per hundred.
Bring sacks. N. E. Curtis, Gotham. Colo
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-10-05

We wish to caution our correspond
ents and all others who have good news
items for publication that all such mat
ter must be in this office by Wednes-
days not later than 2 p. m, otherwise
it will not appear in print until the fol
owing week.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-10-05

Adolph Kunze has purchased brand
new 5 passenger Ford from the Rice
Motor and Tractor Co.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-10-05

SECOND LIBERTY LOAN TERMS
ANNOUNCED BY MR.. McADOO;
OFFERED TO PUBLIC OCTOBER
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woman and especially noted for piety.
works of charity, good will toward the
poor and for her wealth. The eSecu-
tors of the will were Ri. Rev. Bishop
Carroll. Col. John Edgar Howard. Bel
vide, Baltimore; Daniel Carroll of Dud
dington and James d. Barry. In the
beginning the will recites that II desire
that my remains be deposited In the
vault under the altar Of st. Marys
Church, Washington city, America,
where my beloved husband, James Bar
ry, and two adored daughters, Ann and
Mary Barry, are laid; that my debts be
fully discharged-the property be-
queathed me by my dear Mr.. Barry as
that 1 am or that 1 may be entitled
to in right of him or my loved child,
Ann, OF any other person-be disposed
of for the following purposes.
Her requests were numerous. To her
-four dear sisters she left cash. To one
of them, Ellen Donovan. she left $1,000,
and to the other three. Hannah, Mary
and Christian Gould, she left $4,000
each. To James d. Barry Of Washing
now in London" she left $1,000 each;
ALSO to James D. Barry. his uncle's. my
own and two dear children's likenesses
done by Steward, and to the David Barry
above mentioned his uncle's gold watch,
chain. seal and key; to Robert, son Of
Carrot Barry and nephew to my dear
husband, $1,000; to Catherine, haf-sts-
ter of Robert. and Carrot Barry, her
own brother, $500 each: to Joanna,
daughter Of Robert Barry Of Balti-
more $1,000, q topaz and gold cross
with gold chain to each and also the
three following rings: Topaz. emerald
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erected near the school q house TO con-
tain twenty-four poor widows or single
women. advanced in life and distressed.
none with family to be taken in" There
was q condition in the requests for the
school, home for women and for enlarg-
ing st. Mary's Church The money should
come from the large sums due her hus-
band from the Spanish government. and
at this date 1t is not clear. In fact, il
seems unlikely. that anything was real
lied from those debts. She did leave in
cash 1000 to be laid out on enlargins
and improving the church built by my
dear husband. James Barry. called st
Mary's, in the city of Washington"
There is also the following: That
twelve old reduced men and twelve of
the same description women in the
parish of Carrollsburg, Washington
city. shall get as soon after my death
as possfb1e-the men warm outside
winter coats, the women a ditto large
cloak-also one cord Of wood to each.
delivered free Of expense at their re-
spective homes" Mrs. Barry left $1,000
to st. Mary's Church that "the rr'v
sacrifice of the mass for the rep q
the soul of James Barry, Joanna his
wife. and Ann and Mary, his two
daughters" should be said -four times
a week for ever"
Showing the connection between these
Barrys and the tract of st. Elizabeth
on the Eastern branch 10 the follow
ing provision in the VIII: ITO Mary
Shaw, wife of Richard Emo. be-
queath 5000, also Richard Eno's notes
to my dear Mr.. Barry for $500, also a
good feather bed and a set Of drawers.
and I also desire that she and her hus-
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Aussrala's War Contribution to the British Empire

are already signs OF a reaction, and IL
may be that time will come when
the labor party will be ousted ana the
old political organization get into
labor party will cease to be radical
enough and will be denounced as re
dictionary by ambitious politicians VINO
find that that is their only means or
upsetting the machine which domi-
mates the commonwealth ana tneih-
selves getting into power.
These are minor probabilities. What
stands out clearly is that a GOOD many
Australians of progressive tendencies
view with much favor the war meas
ures taken not only to mobilize but to
market the national resources. They
are arguing that IL the government
could Ak a satisfactory price during
war for the great staple crops 1t might
be able to do the same in peace
There IS. however. fundamentai
question which must be taken into con-
sideration. The price Is satisfactory TO
the producers and also to the consumer,
because the consumer is a powerful
government which is at war. and which
is not disposed to haggle. whether
millions of individual consumers would
be satisfied. and the producers also
satisfied, in peace times, is another
question.
So far as the wool crop goes. the
consumer, perhaps, would have to be
satisfied. since the Australian merino is
wanted by wooden mills everywhere,
and moreover, the worlds supply OF
wool is limited.
But the same condition does not OBJ
tain as to Australian wheat. or even
as to beef and hides. while any excess
Of iron and steel products could only
be marketed in competition with iron
and steel industries of other countries.
While this difficulty is recognized, it
does not discourage the progressive
Australian. 1t only causes them to
turn again to the thought of i'm
peria1izing the country's resources. The
empire. they assume. under the vague
economic schemes which have been pro-
jected, might be able to absorb these
products regardless Of the rest of the
world. The United Kingdom. however.
would want very substantial conces-
sions in the Australian market for
manufactured products and there comes
the rub.
Australia. like Canada. has q pro-
tectfve tariff. and gives England a
preferential as against the United
States and other non-British countries.
but never has made this preferential
liberal enough to interfere with her
own industries. Whether the further
Matchmaking OF these industries would
make it feasible to be more liberal to
the industries of the United Kingdom
is one of the questions that the Aus
tralians viii be discussing as soon as
peace appears on the horizon.
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The Sense of Smell.

IMAGINE the marvelously delicate ma
u ohinery that is set in motion when
one smells the fragrance of a rose!
Simple as that pleasurable sensation
seems to us. it involves the activity of
some remarkable agencies and forces.
1t has been shown that the minute
cells at the ends of the olfactory nerves
in the nose bear the most delicate little
hairs. and 1t is believed that these
hairs are the active agents in producing
the sense Of smell.
Yet when one comes to inquire into
the manner of operation of these cells
and hairs. he finds that it Is more won
derful than the delicacy of the mechan-
ism itself.
It has been suggested that at least
one special cell and the nerve fiber
connecting it with the brain may be
affected by each different scent-pro-
ducing substance. But. as one author
ity has observed, it would be a some
what serious stretch OF imagination to
suppose that for each new scent of a
substance yet to emerge from the re-
tort Of the chemist there is in waiting
a special nerve terminal in the nose.
1t is more reasonable to suppose that
all the hairs of the olfactory cells are
affected by every sense-producing sub
stance, and that the different qualities
of scent result from difference in the
frequency and form of the vibrations
transmitted through those cells to the
brain.
According to this view. there is some
thing in musk, something in the rose.
something In he.violet and the lilac.
something in every substance which
produces smell either agreeable or
offensive-that ID. able SO to affect the
hairs and cells of the olfactory ma
chinery of the nose as to set their con-
Meeting nerves in vibration: and the
rate of this vibration varies for every
different substance.
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Writes of Barry Home in South Washington

band should have six months notice
Whenever they are to quit their present
residence at 81. Elisabeth"
Garrett Barry's will was probatsd
March IS. 1871. He refcre to his father.
Patrick Barry OF the county of Cork.
and mentions ss his brothers Patrick.
Thomas, James and Nicholas. his sis-
tiers Margaret and Mary and his Aunt
Maryanni Picket, by marriage Young"
The Witnesses to the Will were Rich
ard Barry, Charles Jones aud Nicholas
Seager. Tho will Of Richard Barry WA
hlsd April II. 1913. He mentions his
Orlando Cook. To his brother-in-law
Peter Cook he left his saddle and bride
and ivory-handled rnzors. His only
child was Richard Nicholas Barry.
.
James Barry was a member OF the
first common council OF Washington Is,
1902. Robert Brent was the Mayo
without salary, and Thomas Herty IN.
register. The first chamber" as H.
was then called. included James Barry
president: George Blegden. Nicholas
King. William Brent. A. 3. Woodward.
Samuel H. Smith and Thomas Peter
The second chamber had the follow b
ing membership: Daniel Carroll OF
Duddington. president: Benismii
Moore. William Prout. James Hoban.
John Hewitt and James Hewitt. James
common council in 1919, with the fol
lowing confreres: George Sween,.
president; Saterlee Clark. Thomas Car
berry, William ONeal. Enoch Reynolds.
Chalmers. Edward w, Clarke. Adam
Lindsay. Gustavus Higdon. with Thorn .
as L. Noyes as secretary.
Richard Barry appears as secretar,
of the common council in 1927. witt
Joseph Gales. jr., as mayor; William
Hewitt, register. and the following
aldermen and councilmen: W. w. Sea o
ton. Richard 8. Brisooe, Peter Lenox
Christopher Andrews. Peter Force.
flames young sas. ae Sdwa,a sW
Andrew Forrest. Edward w. Clarke. r.
J. Middleton. A. Mcintyre. James II.
Handy, William Duncan. James Larnsd.
Henry Smith. William Hunt, Andrew
B. o. Tyler. william J. Mccormick.
Peter G. Washington. James Carbery.
Nathaniel Brady, James Friend. Charles
venable and Adam Lindsay,
Richard Barry was secretary of th'
common council from 1925 to 1854. when
he was succeeded by Charles F. Low
cry Richard Barry's address I'm a d
rectory of 1884 is given as the west sid
Of e street near the navy yard. In 1885,
three Richard Barrys appear in the d.
rectory and each a clerk in the nav
yard. One lived on the north side of :
street south between I'd and Sd east
one on the north side of L street sou.l
between It'll and Sth streets east ana
the third. Richard Barry, marked ''nart
yard roll caller lived on New Jerses
avenue between K and L streets south
nearer X. That Is where stand the Old
houses whose acquaintance the Ram
bier made. He was living there in 1870
There was only one Richard Barry in the
directory of 1850. and he was marked
roll caller. navy yard" His residenct
was east side New Jersey avenue he
tween X and south" In 1860 there
were living ut 5S4 New Jersey avenue
which the Rambler believes was the
old number of house 1904. Juliana
Barry, widow of James D.; Capt. Ed
mund Barry and James c. Barry, mark
cd farmer" and Daniel P. Barry, also
marked farmer
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diture not much larger than the amount
left from the 335.000.000 fund after thu
Fairbanks road Is completed. The ex-
tension of the KuskOkwim branch TO
and thence on to Nome would cost many
millions more.
There 10 one feature of the Kusko
kwim region that will have to be taken
This seems trifing until one knows
just what 1t means. I refer to the mos
Quitoes.
A great part Of the Kuskokwim val
ley is covered with swamps. and these
insects breed by the millions They
begin to come in May, with the first
spring vegetation. and last until the
frost Of September. These mosquitoes
are the most bloodthtrsty and numer
Gus Of any in Alaska, and Alaska has
They have been known to kill horses
and to drive white mon crazy. The
prospectors who go through the region
wear headnets and long gloves. whion
they tie tightly about the wrists. The
man who exposes his bare eyes or face
soon loses his natural appearance. His
eyelids swell up and close. and his
face becomes q mass of Jumps and fiery
pimp1es. This information comes from
Ivan Petroff. one of the census com
missioners. who IL considered an author
ity on all things ALASKAN. lie says that
the mosquitoes sometimes torture the
Indian dogs to death. and that the Es-
kimos wear mittens in midsummer and
anoint their bodies with rancid oil to
keep them of.
Few people have any idea of the en-
pire that would be opened up by the
buildin~ of this railroad. The gold
fields west Of Fort McGrath are rich.
and should the line be built to the Sew
ard peninsula. II would have access to
hundreds of millions of dollars in the
gold of the gravels Of that region. II
would open up also the Kuskokwim
valley Until within the last year or
SO the Kuskokwim region has been
practically inaccessible. but the coast
and geodetic survey has recently ex-
piored the channels at the mouth OF
the river and found route up which
and beyond FRANK C. CARPENTER.
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is a house of the same character.
though in better state of upkeep.
Evidently these houses were built at
the same time. Each house has base
ment, two full stories, two dormer win
dows and a heavy chimney that rises
rather high above the steeply peaked
roof. The doorway of the south house
is arched. but the companion house. in
undergoing repairs at some time, has
lost this feature. The brick of the
north house was long ago painted red,
and the south house has been painted
a drab or dun. which is neither gray
nor yellow. The north house is ten
antless, but in the south house people
dwell. The number on the transom of
the north house is 1902, and on the
transom of the south house 1904.
These houses are associated with the
Barry family of early Washington. The
square, near the northwest corner of
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British wooden industry, for q time was
uneasy, but 1t was given representation
on the commission, and the manufac-
turers seem to be entirely satisfied. II
is said that under the method adopted
they are more sure Of getting their
quota than they would be by purchases
in the open market.
The quantity of Australian meat
products. which are also taken by the
British government. is not inconsider-
able. but most of the mutton comes
from New Zealand, with which a
separate arrangement was made.
II will surprise many people in the
United States to know that Australia
was also able to supply the imperial
government with steel products There
is an Australian iron and steel indus
try and IL was able to place ct the
disposal of the empire $4,000 IONS of
iron and steel products during the first
six months of the present year The
total production of the last half year
was approximately 10000 tons, and
the domestic industry was able to get
along with 10000 tons.
The bulk of these shipments are made
from Sydney, which has the finest har-
Dor in the world. with the possible ex-
ception of Rio de Janeiro. Since the
Pacific waters are cleared of German
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that Australia does not need for her
own purposes undoubtedly is to pro-
vide for the army. After that comes
the civilian population of the United
Kingdom. Neutral countries are left
without any chance of getting wool or
wheat. Textile mills in the United
States for a year or more have been
In this position, and have ceased to
depend at all on the Australian wool.
The details of the method by which
the price to be paid the Australian pro-
ducers was fixed have not been made
public, but it is quite evident that
they were satisfactory. The common
wealth government has seen to that.
The distribution of the wool in Eng
land is under the direction of spe-
cial commission. This commission first
sees to the supply for the manufacture
of the clothing for the troops. After
that come the wooden mills which may
not have government contracts.
Bradford, which is the center Of the
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little south of Cape Prince of Wales.
That port would be the great supply
point for railway materials. 1t is about
the best harbor on Boring sea- 1t has
an immense inner basin. walled with
steep slate preciptces, and vessels of
good draft can lie there at anchor.
This was the port from which the en-
gineers of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company expected to stretch
their cable across Boring strait to
Asia. The scheme originated in 1868,
when expeditions were sent to both
Alaska and Asia to lay out the route.
George KEENAN, was connected with the
work in Siberia, and Robert Kennicott
was the leader Of the party which did
the work in Alaska. Kennicott and his
men assembled the Yukon and crossed
the Seward peninsula. Some of their
old stakes are still visible at Uualakiik,
on the eastern shore Of Norton sound.
and near that place are the ruins of
one Of the stations with a few poles and
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East Cape. Siberia. are both bold and
rocky headlands connected with the
mainland by low neck Of rolling
tundra. Cape Prince of Wales has on
one side walls about a thousand feet
high. and these rise into uplands a
half mile above the level of the sea.
When the weather is clear you can
see this cape almost anywhere inside
steep shores which rise to fiat-top sum-
mits that occupy nearly their entire
areas; and Fairway rock looks like a
mighty haycock rising out OF the
water.
Boring strait was not discovered until
more than two and one-ha1f centuries
after Columbus first crossed the Allan
tic. and there was no positive knowl-
edge that the North American conti-
nent came so near Asia until almost
100 years later The first record Of
any men going through this strait was
that of Simeon Deshnef. Russian. who
rounded East cape, Siberia, and win
tered at the Anadir river about thir-
The strait is usually foggy and Desh-
nef did not see North America. About
sixty years later another Russian
visited the East cape and brought back
rumors of q continent to the eastward.
This was Popof, a Cossack, who was
sent out to make the Eskimos of east
ern Siberia pay their tribute to tho
czar Popof described the Diomede Is
ioa, as Cape Prince Of Wales Is plainly
visible from them When the news
came back to Peter the Great, who
was, then car, he wanted to know
more about the new continent. and
ordered vitus Bering. a Danish cap
tain of the Russian navy. to go there
and explore. Later on Catherine of
Russia carried out this plan. Bering
crossed Siberia and built two small
vessels on the Bay of Okhotsk. He
sailed through the strait. but came
back without having sighted the Amer,
ATTY years later. when Capt. Cook
passed through, that tho strait was
explored and named Boring strait.
The railroad from Nome to Siberia
touohinr at Port Clarence. which 70 .
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with ice. 1t connects Boring sea with
the Arctic ocean, and there Is q strong
current which flows through 1t to the
north. This keeps 1t open in winter.
but there are Ice foes on each side Of
1t, and the waters carry such masses
of ice that it is navigable only in sum-
mer.
Today about the only ships that go
through the strait are a small steamer
or 30 and the whalers which ply the
Arctic ocean to catch the right whale,
a single one of which will often net as
much as $4,000. Some of our revenue
cutters also go through. and there are
regular steamers from Seattle each
summer which carry supplies to Kotze-
bue sound and the northern ports Of
the Seward peninsula.
Moreover, it Is questionable whether
bridges could be built from shore to
shore on account of the difficulty of
connecting the mainland and the
islands. Cape Prince of Wales and
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The PLAN to Cover Alaska With System of Railroads

there win be no lack of timber for tics
and piling.
Mr.. Mcpherson says that the route
offers no great engineering difficulties.
Houston pass is only about half mile
above the sea, and the slopes are suct
that it is easy of approach. 1t is til
lowest and best of the three passes
across the mountains.
There will have to be bridges across
the Susitna and other rivers. and Ii
there is an extension beyond the Kus-
kokwim, that river viii need to he
crossed at Fort McGrath. where il is
from 1000 to 800 feet wide. The Kus-
kokwim is now navigable for steam
ers to Fort McGrath and the road could
be built from both ends. The supplies
for the eastern end could come from
Seward. or Anchorage, up the main line.
and those for the western end to the
mouth of the Kuskokwim and up that
river to Fort McGrath. The building of
the main line would entail All expen-
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which these old houses stand, is bound
ed by New Jersey avenue and I'd street
east, and by K and l. streets south.
Under the general assessment of 1902
Thomas Law owned nearly all the
square. John Swank owned half of
lot and John Story also owned half
lot.
The lots on which the old brick
houses stand were in the name of
Thomas Law. In the square to the
south, that which Is bounded by L and
NJ streets, New Jersey avenue and I'd
street, the lot owners were Richard
Barry, Michael Scott and Richard
Charles, and Scott sold his lot to James
D. Barry. The largest holder of land
in this square also was Thomas Law.
In 1920 the land in the square around
the old brick houses was all in the
name of Thomas Law, while in the
square to the south the lot holders. in
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war craft and since the German sub
marines can operate only within linn
tied zone, the problem of trapsporta-
ton from Sydney to London and Liver
pool is merely to get into the Atlantic
lane, where the British convoy is pro-
yided. So far as known, very few ships
from Australia have been sunk.
The taking over of the wheat and
wool crop and the other purchases for
account of the imperial government
by the government of the common
wealth has some very suggestive fea-
lures aside from it's bearing on the
war. In the view of some of the i'm
perialists 1T shows how the transition
may be made from the Matchmaking of
resources to imperializing them. Some
such process Is necessary If the eco
nomic pacts of the allies and their
scheme to deprive the central powers
of raw material are to be made effec-
tive.
The Australian transaction was made