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SNEW SERIES VOL. XVIII. ST. JOSEPH, LA., FRIDAY, JUNIE 30, 1911. NUMBER
of Winnipeg Owns Its Utilities
I BELIEVE
PUBLIC
uTILITIES
- IT SAVES
PEG, Man.-Before the close
 Le present year this city will
j..]s upon as the greatest ex
of public ownership on the
continent. Its investment
utilities is now more than
a t asarly a quarter of a century
the city council laid the founds
of asmicipal ownership by buy
tg the Winnipeg Water Works
sad establishing a municipal
gO successful did the venture
Iast when the city decided to
.a..a pavements some years
it was decided to install a mu
bspalt plant and the many
4o pavement in this city have
Yid by it.
with the Winalpeg Electric
which controls the street
tajxchise, gas, electric light
power franchise, resulted in the
- g- g $3,000,000 for a municipal
plant. Out on the Winnipeg
as miles from the city, a plant
in Wives for Titled Noblemen
YORK.-American heiresses
gysmay be pining for alliances
Agrha's titled youth need pine
. The way is open to them.
method of acquiring a prince
#eat of either the Bohemian or
variety is so simple that it
reach of all. There is no
about it. Miss Yrma Bleyer
his arrived here to arrange
k Vienna know," says the. pret
"that in the United
IW. are many daughters of
who have 'had every poe
-Iy showered upon them since
but who long for what has
to them unattainable,
u of family and social po
I ma give them both.
ea my list two princes,
4em twenty-three and the
ye years. Both are o0
Ap Austrian army, and their
b stationed at Visana. Their
of andcient lineage and they
eastls in Bohemia Each
eta e of $3.000,000. A condl
ih 1aust be met in the cases
my prulaes, should I fnd wives
1s that the American girls
them fortunes equal to
Takes Place of Curfew Bell
CITY. Kan.-Curfew must
IS Eansas. and its sounding
beefed. The W. C. T. U. has
that too little attention is
the  urfew law, particularly
City, Kan., and asked the
ere to see that it is
In this city, where the
at a steam whistle on the
S*at takes the place of the
ball. It is alleged that it is
"the curfew whistle," but is
spoken of as "the nine
S1istlg." from the fact that it
M that hour in the evening.
1eP ago the W. C. T. U. took'
ratter of the boys' remaining
at night and determined to
Stit to it. They secured the
by most of the city counncil
I-rmlower state of ordinances
S the New England curfew
h. this city, which was far too
U4W bell to be heard in every
Is to Have Egg-Laying Contest
AIN GROVE, Mo.-An egg
eontest to begin Septem
hd last one year is being ar
S the Missouri Agricultural
ad will be held at the state
-~ erilment station here. It
the Irat contest of its kind
Ameriea and will no doubt at
attention among breeders
and New Zealand have
S*htsta and plans for some
hM sort are under way both
a and in San Francisco.
in the field with a deft
ent is Missouri.
Pll be limited to fifty, and
* breeders to make entries
the hens. Each owner is
six hens, with the priv
ibstltating a hen for one
sick or injured. Fifty
be built, exactly alike, and
. hens will have the same
ei the eastest have made
-. at ech pen with its en
is now nearitr , comnhltion. The near
complrtlon of tih1 I!r ",lt nod the pros
lectatthat the city would build its
own street railway system, led the
inlnipeg Electric compalny to sell out
to the city. The pur"hase trice is
$18.OU.,00).
Winnipeg's telephone system is also
conducted under public ownership, for
it is a portion of the system extend
ing all over the pros nce and owned
by the Manitoba govermueut. in this
city there are over 17.4100 telephones.
the rates being $24 a year for resi
dences and $48 for office phones.
Winnipeg owns its stone quarries
in the vicinity of the city, and there,
under a staff of civic employes, mines
the products for paving the macadam
streets and the crushed stone for
many purposes.
A force of city employes also col
lects the garbage and refuse and takes
it to the chic incinerators for destruc
tion, and when a tlunipeger dies he
can be buried, if he so wills, in the
municipal cemetery, for the city owns
a large plot of land on the western
outskirts of the city. in which its dead
have been buried for many years.
Thirty years ago Winnipeg was a
fur post. Now it is one of the most
rapidly growing cities on the conti
nent and is the largest wh.at market
in the world.
DADIF
"There is one of my clients of whom
I can speak freely because he has re
turned to Austria after a visit to thli
country, during which he madle jour
neys to several American cities, in
eluding St. Louis, Chicago and Cleve
land I refer to Count Hugo Chris
talnigg. His family estate is aW
Ysterein, Austria. and he has a fm
castle there.
"Connt Christalnigg. who is aboul
thirty, visited America on a furlougk
of two months and returned to Anu
tria about six weeks ago after meetini
several heiresses. Two of them he
found to oe impossible. One was vera
pretty of face, but so fat that her for
tune of many millions possessed nc
attraction for the count. Another par
took of fried potatoes with her fingers
which may or may not be good form
here, but which is abhorrent to a well
bred Austrian. But he has hopes o1
finding one that will be possible."
section, a grave question arose as to
how the boys were to know when to
"make it home." After some discus
slon the packing houses solved the
problem by agree$ to blow the whis
tle at nine o'cloct
All was well, Qnd when the loud
blast of the big steam siren, which
can be heard forty miles on a clear
day, sounded at nine o'clock the boys
scampered home. If they did not the
policeman took them to the station
and they were warned 'never again to
be out after curfew." The women were
satisfied and all went well.
But the boys grew up and neglected
to impress on their younger brothers
a dread of the curfew. The brothers
did not scamper home at the sound,
and the people began to think llttle
of it.
Meantime the housewives had be
come accustomed to regulate their
clocks by the sound, and at nine
o'clock they went to see if the time
piece lost or gained. The habit spread,
and one by one the men grew accus
tomed to regulate their watches by
the whistle. Now every night the
watch of each man who works in the
city comes out of his pocket almost
by force of habit at te first sound of
the whistle.
SmcW
A PittzE
tries will be designated by number
The owner and the management will
know who owns the hens, but no one
else will have this information. nufes
the owner cares to give it out. This
Is done to protect an owner in case
his hens make an indiffereat showing.
There will be a number of prizes
offered for the best showing at the
end of each month, also special prwse
for the best showing made by repro
sentatives of different breeds. Peo
the result of the year's contest there
will be other valuable prises and owa
ers who capture one of these will And
it worth mtuch to their business, fot
reports of the contest will be pth
lished in newspapers, magazines and
poultry Journals all over the emontry,
NEW SECRETARY OF WAR
43`.
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ENRY L. STIMSON. who has been appointed secretary/of war to suc
ceed Jacob M. Dickinson. resigned, was the Republican candidato for
governor of New York last fall and was defeated by Mr. Dix. Mr. Stimaou
was born in New York city in 1867, was graduated from Philips Academy
and from Yale. took the law course at Harvard and was adr itted to the
bar in 1891. In 1893 he Joined the law firm of which Elihu Root was a
member. He served as United Stat'ý attorney for the sowthern district
of New York under President Roosevelt and fisured ocnspicu~asly jp the
prosecutions of the sugar trust. Charles W. Moore and rai!road rebaters.
MUSHROONS IN MINE
Crops Grown Cheaply ando Suc
cessfully in Coal Regions.
Some Bright Person Who Knew Some
thing About Plant Discovered That
Dark Underground Chambers
Were as Good as Cellars.
New York.-"Do you see these?"
remarked a man who raises mush
rooms, as he pointed to a pile of
mushrooms. "Well, I happen to know
that those mushrooms came out of a
oal mine in Pennsylvania.
"Seems funny, doesn't it, that mush
rooms and coal should come from the
same place, but the fact is that quite
a few mushrooms are taken out of the
mines now. Occasionally they hElp
to glut the market, too.
"Of course, as everybody knows.
mushrooms are raised in cellars, and
two essentials are a proper fertilizer
carefully applied and an even temrn
perature. Some bright person who
knew something about mushrooms
discovered that when it came to grow
ing them artilecally the dark cham
bers of a mtih were as good as the
ordinary cellar, and that you could
raise mushrooms at lees cost in them.
"In the first plaee, the mules fur
nalshed Just the right kind of manure
for nothing, and then the temperature
of a mine is always even, !o that it
cost nothing to supply beat. There
are lots of places in the Penasylvania
coal mines which can be used for
growing mushrooms, sad before lhng
mine mushrooms are certain to be
quite a factor ia the market, I be
leve.
'The largest part of New York's
supply of mushrooms comes from
Pennsylvania anyway and some of the
large growers are located in the coal
regloas, hence it is not strange that
the idea of growing them in mines
should be taken up there.
"Nowadays the profit in raising
mushrooms for the market is not
what it used to be. Formerly the
mushroom grower could easily get $1
a pound for them and was always
sure of getting his crop taken as fast
as it matured. Pear thousands pounis
of mushrooms might ,be called a fair
crop for the man who makes a busi
ness of growing them and as you can
get a crop every six weeks with care
ful planning, you can see how profit
able it was then.
"The number of -mushroom raisers
has increased tresendously in the last
few years, with the result that last
week for example, you could bar the
best mushrooms for 25 cents a pound.
The mushrom tM~rket is ncertaint,
because it isn't regulated at alL There
ae no seasons for mushrooms and no
combination of growers. Heoes at
times the market is glutted with
thea, while at other times the aauamt
breght in i smanl and the prie goes
"A lot of people have moue into
mushroom araning with a view of sup
plying a few select customers, such
as the large restaurants. I know a
French waiter who today is making
$5,000 a year out of what might be
called a small mushroom farm.
"All the work in mushroom farming
comes in Rarting your bed, and that
isn't real hard work. After that all
you've got to do is see that it Is kept
at the proper temperature by means
of the fertllizer. In six weeks you get
your crop.
"The mushroom market to some ex
tent has been hurt by the plan adopt
ed by some farmers of giving away
mushrooms as a bonus to their cus
tomers with the other produce. A lot
of truck farmers are raising mush
rooms in their cellars Just for this pur
pose.
"The Lcng Island farmers haven't
taken up mushroom farming as a com
mercial venture to any extent and
most of the mushrooms brought here
from Long Island are natural ones.
They are in a class by themselves and
don't bring anything like as much as
the artificial mushrooms. Most people
are afraid of the natural mushroom
the old fear of confounding it with a
toadstool, I suppose. Anyway, you
can't sell them like the others."
FLIPPED COIN FOR MILLIONS
Men Buy Land Where Little Silver
Piece Falls and Are Rewarded
by Fortuna In Oil.
San Francisco.-Four thousand bar
rels of oil a day are guaning from an
old oil field in the Bakersdeld coun
try that was discovered through the
flipping of a silve tolt, The owners
of the gusher are Clarence Berry.
John D. Sprecklese Jr.; William Ma
guire and CharMs Holbrook, said to
be worth millions. Recently offered
an optioa on oil lands they were
dubious about the prospect
"Which bit of land to buy we don't
know," said Spreckles. "so let us toss
a coin and see where it falls. We'll
buy there."
The other agreed. A coin was spun
high in the air. TLe place where it
fell was marked out. The property
was acqgircd. Engineers were put to
work. The first boring made was at
the spot wh: e the coin fe::. In ess
than a week oil began to Wsprt. Now
the chief concern of the investors is
the land is to smrily enough barrels
to take care of the gushing oil.
Dog Has Gold Tooth.
New York.-Dr. Fred Seibert, da
tsL 135 Sherman avenue, Is looklng
for his first patient, now misasing from
home.
The habits of this patient were nt
always of the best. He drank beer
and smoked cigarettes.
The patient consented to allow the
doctor to pat in a frost gold tooth
while the doctor was a studentt It as
a long gold crown and s1ade the -
tent the most aritocratic dog in its
isehborhood.
PiN THROUSGH BOTI
Removed From Calt of Man Af
ter Nine Years' Wuidersuk
Californian Whoe vtIklewed TilrI
Piece of Seel Theaoht te W.e
Suffering Pron Liver Trouble,
Rheumatism aend Tuberculosel.
Los Angeles, CaL--The wanderlag"s
of Ulysses seem as alag wma e om .
pared 'ith those o.i tihalei eods
steel pin whieh ta~lne yeous.liuiq
erraticatly throdi the body aet *gs
cis McfMaU, soinitllv keepitag 4.l
life i jeogerdy. pad whice was .,
moved fthat the · pf of his !t le0 St
the ounty bitpiW -
MeMann, *b is tLt% ' -t
old, a native of Philadldpla. fait'
time thought he was I r che il
vagaries of the pfte
Nearly nine years o, while in tie
Quakeo city, be wa sked to pI the
back of a dress for t four-eape
niece. He was haned several bladk
headed pha for th purpose. As be F.
was not an espert the task Ms
Mann put the pins Ia his moath it
safekeeping and in his eagernes tr
do well swallowed one of them.
More than a year after swalstinsg
the pin he was troubled with sahes
pains in his back and, as poultices sd g$
plaster 'ave as relift, hk nei ted a
ph7altan, 1Ebh toM hi be had'Utet
troble. As titneM clapse thej~lla be
eame mere erratic ld MeMana deeM
ed that he had 'hesamatm. W'Pp
years ago he boesa troubled wet b
sharp cough which caused his healt
to decline rapidly.
He left Phladelphia and ne ti
Los Angdles, where be worked fe thr
Maler Brewing company for a fIto
months. The Califoeia air iM aod
seem to benet~hs coagh ead he ap
plied for adlmission to the county hbo
pitaL He was diagnosed as tuberve
far and admitted to the- institution.
Three years agO an X-ray was applied
to tist" the condition of his biegs. The
examination disclosed that the pin.
which McMann readily remembered to
have swallowed, was lodged as his left
lung and w causing serious trabk
with that organ.
It was found that an operation would
be impossible and treatments were a
plied to alter the eeorse of tie ia, the
patient being kept contiaally to a re
dining position upon his let slde.
About a year ago Iray esamiaa
tiens showed that te potnted lIttle sT
trader had altered Its on mnu d was
heapoted ae
time it was" -1týt-'wlrlid
of the heart's left vntricle and the
life of MelMana was desredp at
The pin, however. changed ts
"schedule" and started in a downward
direction. Its progress was anxitously
watched and the phystestan decided
that when the traveler got below the
diaphragm an operation could be per
formed successfully.
Three months ago It penetrated the
diaphragm and lbdged in the muscles
of McMana's blck, where the nction a
the muscles forced it rapidly down.
ward. It was observed that each day
the pin was beooming farther rem d
trom the vital organs and the alU-lt
portant operation was delayed uttil
conditions were most tavorabhi
As examination recently disclosed
the wanderer close to the surface in
the muscles of the calf of the pa
tient's left leg, whence it ha traveled,
closely following the bares of the
limb. A simple operation was per.
formed and the pea, looknlg ittle the
worse for wear, removed.
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