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REASONS FOR FAILURE. Some of the Municipal Lighting Ex periments That Have Failed The Causes and -he Losses. Modesto, Gal., purchased Its elec tric plnnt in 1899, hut tins since shut down Its generating plant and leased the distributing plant. A well Inform ed citizen says: "The city was able to buy power cheaper than it could generate it Moreover, new boilers were needed, the city had provided no renewal fund and the people disliked the Idea of bonding. The waterworks also were leased to private parties." The mayor of Pitlsfield, III., assigns the following reason for the sale of the electric plant formerly owned by that city: "Cheaper to pay the l'lttstleld Elec tric company than to do it ourselves. We ran it ourselves for several years and have had It run by contract at least live years, saving moue'y by con tracting it to outsiders." The people of East Chicago, ind., thought that they could save money by running the electric plant them selves. They bought It in 1900. but by 1903 It was in the hands of a receiver, and as the city was unable to redeem the plant it was sold in 1907. together with a twenty-tive year franchise. The town of Lowell, Ind.. purchased In 1901 for $0,500 the electric light plant which had been installed two years before. In 1907 the plant was sold for .$2.7."0. the difference between this and the purchase price represent ing a depreciation of 10 per cent a year. The purchaser Installed a now plant, as the old one was worth only about $1,1300 as Junk. The reasons as signed for the sale are that the plant was being run at a loss and was in very bad coudltion, while the town was so heavily bonded that It could not Install a new plant. A twenty-five year franchise went with the plant. According to the mayor, the electric plant at Men tone, Ind., was purchased In 1899 from a private company for $'2,000 and was sold In 1903 for $(500 because It was a "losing proposition." Another correspondent assigns "poor service and lack of management" as the reason for the return to private ownership. The electric plant of Lyons. la.. In stalled in 1SS0 at n cost of $13,000. was sold for $r,000 In 1902 when Lyons was annexed to Clinton because better service could bo obtained from a com pany. The municipal electric plant of Som erset. Ivy., Installed In 1903 at n cost of $18,000. was sold or leased to a private company after being in operation about two years. In 1903 the city of Langdon, N. I).. purchased the electric plant from Its owners and spent $10,000 ju Improving It. As It could not be made to pay It was sold In 1900 for $9,000, entailing a loss of $8,500 in three years, not In cluding the loss in operating, which DR. HENDERSO 811 to 815 WALNUT ST., KAHSAS CITY, MO. The Old IlrllMblo Doctor Oldest In ir unci longest located. A regular r(lu(n tit Ali'iltriue. Oyer a.i rum' pt Inl pnujllce Over 30 j-r In Kansas City. ESTABLISHED 1807. 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Hook und lUt of quoatlous free sent sealed. j amouiitcd to about $2,000 a year. i The borough of Emails, Pa., Installed an electric plant In 1890 and sold It five years later at about one-third of Its I cost The borough clerk states that tnc reason ror auanuomng tno piani was chiefly Its heavy expense, the lights costing considerably more than the borough could get them from a j private company. I Some years ago the city of Dayton, t Tenn., purchased or leased an electric ! plant, but was compelled to retire from tlie business because the expense of ruuulng It was about three times the I cost of contracting for lights from a company. Kent, Wash., purchased Its electric nlnnr from n nrlvnto eomnanv In 1892 I and sold It ten years later for about , half what it paid for It. The mayor assigns as the reason for selling, "Could iot make It pay." INDIVIDUAL INITIATIVE. How It Provided a Great Need In a Big Public Department. Congressman Bennett, who learned ut a meeting of the welfare depart ment of the National Civic federation of the emergency hospitals installed In many factories. Introduced a rcsolu tion of Inquiry In the house of repre sentatives with reference to facilities in government buildings In the city of Washington for administering first aid to employees, 'resident Roosevelt im mediately asked for reports from the various departments, and it was found that such provision was made In only one. An employee of the government, a compositor In the department of pub He prfnHng. whoso sympathy was stir red by the sight of employees lying on the floor wailing the arrival of an nm balance for the purpose of carrying them to a hospital, had fitted up u small room in which to care for such employees. As there was no appropria tion for supplies, he personally paid for drugs, surgical dressings, band ages and other necessities. The public printer reported to Presi dent Roosevelt that the arrangement had been very beneficial to the em ployees, as some of the cases were very urgent and need Immediate at tention, that 1.250 cases have been treated since this emergency room has been Installed and that previously It was necessary to send out for a physi cian, and if he were not at home the employee was left lying on the floor of the workroom or toilet room suffering until one could be located. National Civic Federation Review. Municipal Electricity a Burden. In 1!)0:, tin- village of Hampshire, III., installed dynamos and n distributing system at a cost of $5,000. This has jus,t been sold for ?3,G0O. In the ordl- nance providing for the Hale It is set i fortli that the plant "has become un profitable to and a burden upon said village." iau!pjaBaBwtjifci i llorvous and Special Diseases, All medicine) furnished ready for une no ana connuentiui, personally or uy tetter. Hydrocele and ?uV3"n2 Phimnck fow J'1 without atu r-irilU:la ordauger. Book free. I mvlr rr1 mi Enlarged yelns In the wmi .wwww.w scrotum-cuuMng ner vous debility, weuknes of the sexual sys tcm, etc., permuruently cured without pais. Cirhili That terrible disease, la Oypilllll, nil Its forms and stefM, cured for llfo. Blood poisoning an all private diseases permanently cured. lOri IT ror uot sexes DO pages. ST DWr pjotures.wlihull description of nbnve dlxeases, the effects and cure, sent sealed In plain wrapper free. tarsal tbii I tk fir tat I ftratttwU MatUss Fuss Mussum or Anatomy sou Mem, onicinl Slatonient of tlio Condition of the fC o m ill c? ie? i ci 1 IVpJiSil !Fari' jtlusliogQQ, Indian Topritorn, At the Close of Business, Thursday August 22, 1907. RESOURCES Loans and Discount 1,098,3G8.9G Overdrafts 5.11G.G2 Bonds and Premiums 2G2.000.00 Renl Estate. Furniture and Fixtures 10,975.08 Cash and Exchange LIABILITIES Capital Surplus ami Profits Circulation Deposits Tin ahov Statement, is Correct. O. X. FINK. VicK Pkrsidkkt. ,VIuskocjQe cJewelpij and JVovelay o. WITH R. A. (ilVENS, WATCHMAKER & JEWELER Make the only first class Colored Jewelers in Oklahoma. We carry pwry tiring in Jewels, China, Class ware, Notions and Novelties. We nssure you we can't he undersold, as ool i;oods and under .selling; others is the only key that keeps us husy. WATCIt OUR WINDOWS' Muskogee Jewelry & Novelty Co. 12S S. 2ND ST. R. A. GIYENS, Muu CREEK UNDERTAKERS BILLINGS ANDCULLUM asliols cincl l:unoral lcGgalcii ,Vlvvays on Hand IN OFFICE DAY A. NIGHT. PHONES 986 4, 481 If yon can't jol. ns on nnu phone, try the oilier. 20 S. 2nd. St. Miikogee,l.T. Insurance ' Money to Loan H. F. SHOWALflFER GENERAL INSURANCE. Milwaukee Mcuhtinics Fire Insurance Co 2,?f)9,17fl.00 NoiThwestern National Insurance Co , l(:)(S5(O0.i.OO .Michigan Commercial Insurance Co 84o8oT,00 Columbia Insurance Co , 7o0,028,00 Cosinopositan Fire of New York 7.'5b8.'JO,00 Ohio German Insurance Co H28,!J11,00 Merchants & Planters Insurance Co, Home Co. Lloyds IMatc Glass Insurance Co 1,000,000.00 Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Muryland 0,188,009.00 Northwestern Nutual Life Insurance Co 220,000,000.00 Pacific Mutual Accident Co ,. ... 10,803,290,00 310.71H.7i) $1,G87,199.45 $. 200,000.0(7 ' 52.9iV.5. 200,000.00 1.23.1.232.91 $1,787,199.15 E. D. SWEENEY, Casiiikk itatmmmamaL