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START OF AN INVENTOR.
1
WhM Tell* of Hb Early Stru-
A
Hl» First Sweets.
James Creelman, In Pearson'* Maga
ilne.
Turning from the sweep and glitter
of American prosperity to the men wtab
have made It possible, one thinks or
Thomas Alva Edison. His Is "the
honest life, the useful life, the friend
ly life," that deserves earnest atten
tion In this astonishing year of moral
incendiarism.
"We are groping on the verge of an
other great epoch in the world's his
tory," he said to me not long ago. "It
would not surprise me any morning
.to wake up and learn that someone,
or some group, of the 300,000 scienti
fic men who are Investigating all over
the earth has seised the secret of elec
tricity by direct process, and begun
another practical revolution of humani
affairs. It can be done. It will be
done. I expect to see It before I die.
I expect to see airships flying before
my death. Such a discovery will make
it possible to drive ships across «h6
*ea by electricity at a rate of 40 or
•60 miles an hour—three days across
the Atlantic! from shore to shore.
"I worked as a Western Union op
erator in Detroit, Memphis, Louisville
and Boston," said Mr. Edison, "and
all the time I studied and experimented
with electricity. The first serious
thing I Invented was an electrical ma
chine to count votes in congress. I
had been handling press reports as an
operator, and I noticed it took a long
time to count the votes after each roll
call. My machine would show the
total vote a few seconds after the roll
call. I thought the device was a good
one, and I think so now. But when
I went to Washington and showed it
to the chairman of the committee he
said: 'Young man. that works ail
right, but it's the last thing on earth
we want here. Filibustering and a de
lay in the count of the vote are often
the only meanB we have for defeating
bad legislation.' I was sorry but I
ought to have thought of that before.
"My next practical invention was the
quadruplex telegraph. I started In to
work it on the Atlantic and Pacific
telegraph line between Rochester and
New York. But there was a chump at
the other end of the wire and the
demonstration ended in a fiiszle. It
was years before the quadruplex was
adopted. Then I joined hands with a
man named Callahan, and we got up
several Improved types of stock-tick
ers. These Improvements were a suc
cess. When the day of settlement for
my Inventions approached I began to
wonder how much money I would get.
I was pretty raw and knew nothing
about business, but I hoped that I
ml^t get $5,000. I dreamed of what
I could do with big money like that,
of the tools and other things I could
buy to work out new inventions. But
I knew Wall street to be a pretty bad
place, and had a general suspicion that
a man was apt to get beat out of his
money there. So I tried to keep my
hopes down but the thought of $5,000
kept rising in my mind.
Well, one day I was sent for by the
president of the Gold & Stock Tele
graph company to talk about a settle
ment for my improvements. He was
General Marshall Lefferts, Colonel of
the Seventh Regiment. I tell you, I
was trembling all over with embarass
ment, and when I go in his presence
my vision of $5,000 began to vanish.
When he asked me how much I want­
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that If I mentioned $5,000 I might get
nothing at all. That was one of,the
most painful and exciting moments of
my life. My, how I beat my brains
to know what to say! Finally I'said,
'suppose you make me an offer!'
"By what time I was scared. I was
more than scared. I was paralyzed.
'How would $40,000 do?' asked
General LeffertB.
"It was all I could ]o to keep my
face straight and my knees from giv
ing way. I was afraid he would hear
my heart beat. With a great effort I
said as calmly as I could, 'I guess
that'll be ail right.'
"With that money I opened a new
shop and worked out apparatus for
the Western Union Telegraph com
pany. My automatic telegraph, which
handled 1,000 words a minute between
New York and Washington, was
bought out by Jay Gould and the Wes
tern Union company. It is in litiga
tion yet.
"Then the quadruplex was Installed.
I sold that to Jay Gould and the West
ern Union company for $30,000. The
next Invention was the mimeograph, a
copying machine.
"When Bell got out his telephone
the transmitter and receiver were one.
Professor Orton of the Western Union
company asked me to do something to
make the telephone a commercial suc
cess. I tackled it and got. up the pres
ent transmitter. The Western Union
company eventually made millions of
dollars out of it. I got $100,000 for it.
"Looking over the whole country,"
said Mr. Edison, "I have come to the
conclusion that the greatest factor in
our progress has been the newspaper
press. Russia is much bigger than
this country in every way. She has a
tremendous population and immense
natural resources. Yet she Is 50 times
slower. Why? Because she lacks the
power of a free press. She cannot
unite or harmonize her forces. But
when we want to do anything in
America the newspapers take it up.
Everybody reads the newspapers,
everybody knows the situation, and
we all act together."
"THIS IS MY 68rd BIRTHDAY," S
Joseph McKenna.
Justice Joseph McKenna of the
United States supreme court is a
Philadelphian who removed to Cali
fornia in his twelfth year and after
ward became an emient lawyer. He
was born )n the Quaker City, Aug. 10,
1843, and attended St. Joseph's college
there In his early youth. In 1855 he
removed with his parents to Senicia,
California, where he completed his
education In the public schools and at
a collegiate institute, where he studied
law. He was admitted to the bar in
1865 and in his early professional
career was twice elected district at
torney of his county. He was a mem
ber of the California legislature In
1875-6.
4p8tice McKenna was a member of
the forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first and
fifty-secpnd congresses, having re
signed in 1893 to accept the position
of United States circuit judge. In
March, 1897, President McKinley made
him attorney-general in his cabinet,
and the following January he yas ap
pointed to the Bupreme court bench to
succeed Justice Field.
Justice McKenna occupies a hand
some home in Washington, where his
wife and daughters are prominent in
official society.
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CUSTER MASSACRE STORY.
How First News of Little Big
Hon Was Published.
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Helena, Mont., Aug. 8.—Deputy
Postmaster A. J. Fisk, of Helena, for
yearB a veteran newspaper man, hav
ing with his brothers published Mon
tana's first daily newspaper "The
.Helena Herald"—was In a reminiscent
mood the other evening, and related
the story of how the first news of the
Custer massacre was given the world
through the medium of a press asso
ciation. He said
A little more than thirty years ago
Custer and hlB brave troopers laid
down their lives on the hills sur
,rounding the Little Big Horn, in east
ern Montana. I have noticed that
every year erroneous reports gain cir
culation as to how the news of the
massacre, so called, was first given
to the world. Being pretty well known
in the state as a newspaper man of
the earlier period, my word will doubt
Jess be taken, but if anyone questions
my assertion I have proof in the files
of "The Herald."
As was the custom in the early days,
"The Herald" did not publish a paper
on the Fourth of July, and editors and
printers were supposed to put in the
.whole day in celebrating. At that time
in 1876, I was the Associated Press
•agent of Helena, a position which I
filled for a period of thirty years, or
lip to two years ago. About noon on
the Fourth of July, 1876, 1 came down
town to see If there was any news of
importance to wire to the association.
I was sitting in the business office,
.when in the door walked Horace Coun
tryman, dusty, dirty, with haggard
eyes and looks, and having the ap
pearance of one who was about "all
in." 1 sprang to the counter, grasped
,him by the hand, exclaiming "Coun
tryman, what in God's name is the
matter?"
"Jack," he replied, "Custer and all
.with him are dead—were massacred
on the Little Big Horn by the Sioux.
Jtfugglns Taylor, the scout, brought the
•news to Stillwater. He being exhaust
ed, I volunteered to bring the news to
Bozeman. Arriving at Bozeman, I
found the government wire down, so
I got'a fresh horse and came on to
.Helena."
The news seemed incredible and I
inquired if be could give me the par
ticulars. He said he could. 1 told
him to come in and sit down and wait
for a moment until I could send out
and try to locate some printers in
order that we might get out an extra.
Our foreman, the late William Mc
Catchey, was located, but it was per
haps an hour before we had a force
distributing type and getting ready for
the extra. Then countryman gave me
he particulars of the dreadful afTair,
as conveyed to him by Muggins Taylor.
He spoke rapidly, fluently, and it was
a difficult matter to keep within firing
distance, as in those days the type
writer and stenographer were unknown
in this section. To this day I remem
ber one of his sentences:
"Curley, the Indian scout and the
only person who escaped to bring the
news, said the firing was very rapid
it sounded like the snapping of the
threads in the tearing of a blanket."
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon "The
Herald" extra was on the streets of
Helena. It was the first news of the
awful event to be given to the public.
The excitement was so great and our
force so limited that I did not find time
to send the news out of the city until
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after the extra was out. Then I
grabbed a copy of the extra and made
fast time to the Western Union tele
graph office. There was only one wire
but Manager-operator Fredericks laid
all else aside and gave the massacre
jstory preference, with the result that
on the morning of July 5 all the news
papers of the country contained news
Of the massacre.
There was little rest for me the
.night of July 4. Every fifteen minutes
or so there would be a ring at my door
bell, announcing a telegram from some
paper demanding further details of the
.awful affair. I remember one New
York paper having authorized me to
send scouts to secure additional newB.
,1 Informed the papers that our com
plete story had been given the Asso
ciated Press and that further details
would come from Bismarck, when the
•scouts reached that city, whieh they
.did on the following day, and it was
.through these couriers that on July
,6 the government at Washington re
ceived its official dispatches.
These detailed facts, I believe, have
.never before been published. I dis
claim any desire for notoriety in the
premises, but In History Helena and
Montana scouts and frontiersmen
should have the credit for furnishing
to the world the first news of Custer's
fate, and not the couriers who reached
Bismarck on July 5. In my long ex
perience as a reporter and newspaper
man, this was my greatest "scoop."
"THIS DATE IN HISTORY,"
AUGUST 10.
1388—Douglas slain at battle of
Chevy Chase, England.
1669—Henrietta Marie, Queen of
Charles I., born.
1675—Greenwich Observatory estab
lished.
1759—Ferdinand VI. of Spain, died.
Succeeded by Cbarles III.
1782—Sir Charles James Napier,
born.
1792—The Swiss Kuard killed in an
attack on the Tuilerles in Paris.
1821—Missouri admitted as. a state.
1846—Smithsonian Institution at
Washington founded.
1861—Battle of Wilson's Creek, Mo.
1874—Marshal Bazaine escaped from
the Isle of Ste. Marguerite.
1878—International monetary con
ference opened at Paris.
1184—Severe earthquake felt among
Atlantic Coast.
1885—James W. Marshall, discoverer
of gold in California, died.
1187—One hundred excursionists
killed In railroad wreck at Forest, 111.
1888—Maxwell, the murderer of
Charles A. Preller, hanged in St.
Louis.
1891—United States vessels ordered
to China because of disturbance.
1893—Geary act enforced. First
Chinaman deported from San Fran
cisco.
1894—Earthquake shocks felt in
Memphis, Tenn.
1904—Waldeck-Rousseau. French
statesman, died. Born Dec. 2, 1S46.
1905—President Roosevelt addressed
large meeting of miners at Wilkes
Barre, Pa.
CHAUTAUQUA ASSEMBLY.
Associated Fran to The Gnalag Tlinea.
Columbia, Mo., Aug. 10.—The annual
assembly of the Columbia Chautauqua
opened today under conditions that in
dicate a most successful session. Sec
retary of the Treasury Shaw is
scheduled for an address tomorrow.
Other prominent speakers and lec
turers to be heard during the ten day's
of the assembly are Senator Benjamin
R. Tillman, Rev. Sam Jones and Father
Nugent.
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CROP REPORTS.
Secretary Looafe Gets Seme Good
Ones From the State. $
Fargo Forum: Sargent county which
in, years past has been regarded as a
poor region for raising wheat is cer
tain to have an extraordinary bumper
crop of grain as well as barley, oats
and flax this year, according to a
reliable report received from George
E. McWilliams, president of the Cogs
welt state bank. In response to an
inquiry from the Northwestern Sav
ings & Loan association of this city,
Mr. McWilliams has written a letter
to Herbert L. Loomls, secretary of the
association, stating that there was ev
ery prospect of a wheat yield of the
phenomenal proportions of fifty bush
els to the acre in some parts of the
county and that the average crop all
over the county would be at least
twenty-live bushels.
Not only /is an Immense amount
of wheat been raised there but Mr.
McWilliams states that there will be
extraordinary crops of flax, oats, bar
ley, speltz and practically everything
else that js grown in the vicinity and
there seems to have been no damage
from rust or other causes. McWil
liams' report is a glowing one through
out. He says in part:
"I have seen many fields of wheat
that will thresh out forty to fifty
bushels to the acre and I do not be
lieve that the average yield of the
county will fall below twenty-five
bushels. Speltz and barley will yield
forty to fifty bushels, oats forty to 100
bushels.
"Corn and flax are making a good
showing in fact they have never been
in better condition here.
"The county has an increased acre
age this year and should nothing lap
pen between now and harvest we will
have as good a crop as we have ever
had. There is little or no damage from
rust. The barley harvest is well under
way and I saw wheat yesterday that
was ready to cut."
While McWilliams' report is the
most optimistic one of a reliable char
acter that has yet been received here
this season and is particularly sur
prising as coming from thesouth
eastern part of the state almost all
the news which is coming from the
north and west is of a very encourag
ing character.
A banker writing from Westhope
in Bottineau county states that while
hail has done a little damage there is
certain to be a big crop in that vi
cinity this year and the average yield
will probably be twenty-flve bushels
to the acre.
From Rolla In Rolette county comes
a report that contains some rather
interesting and remarkable statements.
These are to the effect that while
fife wheat has suffered some damage
from red rust the disease seems to
have absolutely no effect on durum
wheat which Is making a fine showing.
Another unique feature of the crop
outlook in that county is that the har
vest is five days earlier in the west
ern part of the county than in the
eastern. The crop there will be more
than the avetage, according to the re
port, and the only danger lies in the
fact that it will be about two weeks
later than usual, harvesting to begin
in the western portion of the county
on Aug. 20 and in the eastern part
Aug. 25.
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that the crop outlook is excellent and
harvesting has already begun. The
condition of late sown grain, much of
which was put in by the homeseekers
who have taken up land there by the
thousands this year was a little doubt
ful a short time ago but the recent
heavy rains have done away with all
danger and a splendid yield is now
assured. From this statement it seems
evident that many of the homestead
ers that went up there this spring and
have broken up a large quantity of
land should be able to derive almost
enough from their first crop to pay
for their claims when they come to
commute.
BUTTER FROM SIBERIA.
Important Export Trade Owes Ori
gin to an English Woman.
Nothing is more remarkable in the
commercial history of the last gen
eration, says the London Estate Maga
zine, than the growth of the butter
making industry of Western Siberia.
It is one of the first results of the
construction of the railway, and from
the point of view of the general well
being of the peasant population, the
most promising outcrop of the condi
tions now prevailing. It is at present
the main resource of the inhabitants
of the entire region. During the suc
cession. of bad harvests previous to
last year, which crippled the earnings
of the peasants and entailed a general
stagnation of business in a country so
exclusively dependent on the crops as
Western Siberia, the income derived
from the sale of their milk and butter
saved the peasants from much of the
suffering and destitution that must
otherwise Inevitably have befallen
them. Previous to 1893 no butter was
produced in Siberia for export abroad.
The first to make butter under modern
methods in Siberia was an English
woman married to a Russian, whose
dairy farm at Chernaia Retichka, in
the district of Tiumen, was in 1886 the
only one in Siberia, and is still a well
known model of Its kind.
In 1893 Mr. Wolkoff, a Russian,
opened near Kourgan, the first dairy
producing butter for export beyond
the Urals 14,000 pounds were ex
ported in 1894. Ten years later but
ter making had become the staple in
dustry of the country as regards in
ternational trade, and the chief re
source of its peasant population. Over
2,000 dairies are now scattered over
Western Siberia, their export in 1903
being 2,185,000 pounds, or 78,904,720
pounds. Butter thanks solely to the
Siberian supply, now occupies sixth
place in value In the Russian export
trade, and promises to exceed all other
items except grain. The British mar
ket is Siberia's largest customer. Den
mark acting a$ forwarding agent. In
1899 the import from Russia was so
inconsiderable as to be merely in
cluded in the board of trade returns
under "other countries." In 1900 it
forced its way to an individual head
ing, the exports from Russian amount
ing to 378,452 hundred-weight. Last
year the butter exports from Russia,
about 30,000,000 rubles.
DEPUTY EXAMINER.
0. 1. Olson of Fargo Receives a New
State Appointment.
Bismarck. N. D., Aug. 10.—O. J. Ol
son of Fargo has resigned from the
land commissioner's office and has
been appointed one of the deputy pub
lic examiners, and will commence on
his duties as soon as his wife's con
dition will allow him, it being report
ed here that she is critically ill.
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feature in its columns of county and
state news. It Is desirous of securing
a reliable correspondent in every town
in the state, and items are wanted by
wire (when very Important), 'phone,
or letter. The daily is issued every
evening and Important news will ba
received up till 3 o'clock, though cor
respondents should make an effort to
get their copy in earlier.
To anyone to whom such manner of
work appeals, the dally will be sent
free of charge, prepaid, as long as they
may serve and other bsulness arrange
ments may be made with the managing-'
editor.
Every village and town in the state
—particulary In the northern part
should be represented in these col
umns. It tg a good advertlsment for
the town. Those desiring to serve In'
the capacity of representative, should
address this office and stamped en-'
velops will be forwarded, together
with stationary.
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The following area number of ex
cellent suggestions as to the
news
that
ciaBS
of
is desired. Alleged jokes
and. digs" should be earnestly avoid
ed.
Accidents to persons or prooertv.
Amusements, entertainments.
ti^nn
Cr8a
Persons or socle-
Annual meetings.
Assaults, attempted murder.
Associations or companies formed.
Balls, dances.
Baptisms, continuations.
Building improvements, changes.
Burglaries, larcencies.
Card parties.
Changes in business.
Church matters.
Clergymen exchanging.
Concerts, musicaies.
condition of business.
Contested wills.
Crops, usual prices, quantities, and
yields.
Deaths.
^Dedications, installations, ordlna
Discoveries, antiquities, relics, curi
osities.
Dissolution of firms.
Divorces.
Early fruits and vegetables.
Elections of officers.
Epidemics.
Fairs, festivals, festivities.
Fires.
Forest fires—acres burned over.
Former residents' movements, visits.
Funerals.
Improvements, public or private.
Important lawsuits.
Important action of public authori
ties.
Investments, patents.
Lectures—subject.
Local sentiment as to school, tax.
liuour laws.
Marriages.
Murders.
Musical matters, societies.
New buildings, factories, additions.
New firms or partners.
Obituaries of prominent persons.
Parties, birthday or social.
Parties leaving town to locate else
where.
Personal items.
Political rallies, caucuses, conven
tions.
Presentations.
Reunions, receptions.
Public bequests.
Public demonstrations, meetings.
Runaways, collisions—if damages,
the results.
Schools, terms, teachers, vacations.
Social affairs.
Societies' doings, fraternal or secret.
Strikes, labor troubles.
Sudden deaths, their cause.
Suggestions for local Improvements.
Suicides—full particulars.
Town meetings .town officers' re
ports.
Violations of law.
Wedding anniversaries.
A Staple Role.
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so far as possible, all of the above si£
questions.