The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 12, 1905, Page 10

A EMRE GREAT INLAND SINK. | $ut6,°°S cectfutoe nats now pee peas ee STOP LAND-GRABBING. FIERCE RAMPAGE OF COLORADO|l\y traced by the old beaches which Statement. RIVER DESPOILS THOUSANDS | te found there. Dr. William Osler, late. professor in OF FERTILE ACRES, Huge Engineering Difficulties Must} [Under an almost tropical sun the stood when he said the creative faculty be Overcome; or Otherwise Eight} sea evaporated Thousand Families WillBe Render-| jevel plain over large portions of which | Years. He did not mean to convey the cd Homeless and Destitute was laid-a deep deposit of rich river| impression that man’s usefulness C. J, BLANCHARD at Los Angeles, The great Colorado river of the| lowest depression in the valley, wh:re| 28 it was in earlier years, when men southwest the Nile of America, is on}evaporation has not yet carried off | are green and raw in judgment and put Like old travellers | all the water, the salts were deposited | forth many things that they wish who forsake the beaten highways, the/ thickly and large works bave long} have suppressed later on. Hig little Colorado, grown tired of its channel,/been " established there marketing| jest about chloroforming those who is seeking a new route. Its desire| thousands of tons of this mineral, for change naturally is the cause of its bad behavior. | threatened to be cavered with water eee Weal . to attain more worldly success, The} have undergone a natural sweat. more men who deserve the penalties of six years, : from overflow of Colorado “River, debe oat, Be td man who has no consideration for his Geicemmineertiiiancniiieminas the law which have lately been inficted 0 Th a rendering homeless 8,000 famili ‘ : laboring fellows is likely to find no con- upon Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, ver one ousan fie Bo hes ac) mR == sideration extended to him when the How to Tell Counterfeits. The duty of Congress in this connec-| Claidmeallowed through us dure Dr. Osler never lepreciapes age,| printing the much sought-after green-| tention of opening it to development; CPC ase obtained i knowing that man's best work is done| backs, comes away impressed with the’ should be repealed or amended to pre-| in the shi possible time, after age has mellowed his under-| intricacies of the manufacturing of @| vent any further looting of the public; Widowe? claims standing and strengthened his judg-| Paper note. Fow, indeed, understand | lands, Usually granted hin oD ment. There are numerous examples| the rule of four adopted by the Govern- Cane ee y f nm much consternation on the part of the| building up its delta, higher emda! of what virility in age can do all along| ment as an aid in thwarting the plans The Modern Rush, daye if placed with us immedi- railroad which happens to be located | higher until today the bed of the river | the track of history. It was seen in|of counterfeiters. Acquaintance with |r... the Chicago Times-Herald ately on soldier's death, Fees hear by, and of some little disquietude| is above the valley on either side.) Benjamin Franklin, William BE. Glad-| the rule of four, might help many peo- He didn’t have time to chew fixed by law and pa able out of among several thousand settlers} Once let it cut its banks and the | stone, is seen in Edward Everett Hale,|ple of the outside world in detecting The food the t he had to eat? pont 4 uecesaful Whose farms are apparently threat-| stream spreads out all over the coun-| Lord Kelvin, Charles H. Haswell, en-| counterfeit money. Every note printed} 14 1. was) 4 ‘ * . hie ta a pension. s ened unless the erratic stream can be About four years ago a large | gineer and author, still at the age of|by the Government—national currency} But he washed it into his thro experience of 25 yeara and benefit induced to return to its old pathway | corportion, imbued with the laudable to the sea. A glance at the map will| purpose of making homes for settlers unusual, conditions| in the Salton Desert, completed a big which at present prevail in the Col-| canal heading in the river below Yu- make clear the orada Delta, Below the town of Yuma, Arizona, the stream bas cut {ts banks at three places and pasaing through old, dry} great amount of water through channels, is now pouring westward | Mexico into California on to the area and northward into Salton Sink, Aug- 4 mented by the volume of this great} canal heading, owing to the character even in the longest life there is no|These numbers and letters have a re- 2 ‘ Warder Bid'g, W: 60 miles in one direction and 80 milea} trouble and annoyance. The river |¢XPausion must cease as if by a flat,|termined. The last two numbers on throng. in another, and growing daly. The Giant Force of Nature. Passengers on the train now ex- claim with wonder as they look out upon the broad sea western horizon, where but a short SIXTY FIVE MILES OF LAKE, time ago the desert reigned supreme| awaiting its arrival. If these means | departed Celestial brothers of the|°cfore, as in the recent case of Ad- in its awful desolation. prove ineffective there is danger that | colonists are awaiting the convenlent— Glance at the map again and note) 8,000 families now residing in the Im-} or js it the auspiclous?—season for gs for the the faint line near the international | peria] Valley, may be rendered home- - - boundary, and encircling the large|less, Competent engineers are in-| most stolid of sentimentalists insist on| °%, the American nation and navy; the area marked Imperial Valley. All the} clined to believe that the task ‘s be-| believing to be the only one where the other was the central figure in a bit of ON B DGE land included within this line is below | yond the strength of the preseat com- | gead can rest comfortably. These an- sea level, the lowest portion situated} pany to perfom and that measures this country by English settlers,, Po- in Salton Sink where {t is 287 feet be-|now being undertaken will not prop- Shtsamen tae feebies fixe the nese at cahontas, it is true, was a native Amer- The Pictures With Greatest Economy be bo ee who yea bred Decl erly vd Ugh ih fee, the | ys, even if he does choose different] !cam, which John Paul Jones was not, use ‘the able region iS apparan’ at in ancl-| prope 0} e people in the valley. y ent geological times the Gulf of Call-)” ‘This is a question for the engineers | Tayt pe Ht Bane Bogen ngh 3 12% . psc wry size ||Western Elevating Grader Tespectfully curloys and some openly ore Pimeed leg aiiy Sioa ere, e. ke and Ditcher. : Steamboat Crew’ P reparing to Pood mM. | Map showing Imperial. Valley Basin, known as Imperial Valley. The shore} Misinterpretation of Dr, Osier’s Government Selects Supply for Officers and Men. xe2h William Osle teas . =~ — naval officer and the AMEND FAULTY AND ANTI- ohn Hopkins University, more, | Jacky smoke and chew. This is a fact XN S. met with a great deal of undeserved} of which the Government takes official eee notoriety because he was misunder-| cognizance and recognizes in a hern that makes such habits tagipunatte Preenent ® gory fet. whet ns incidents to Yfe on beard ship. Re mous Disposals of Government cently the Navy Department had un- Land Without Settlement Into der Farge p> the award of a con- Homes. tract for i! pounds of cut tobacco, and in Noyember next 4 Seem. the Eyeateiphs Delete, will be called for another supply of} ‘There will be people {ll-natured like amount. The contract under| enough to charge that President Hill, ‘Which the-supply ‘s now being fur-/0f the Great Northern Railway, did nished was secured on a basis of a| Dot come into court with entirely clean bid of 40 cents a pound, Twenty-| hands in the vigorous denunciation of nine bids are now under consideration, | the land-grabbers contained in his re- ¢ the prices ranging from 30% cents a| Cet speech before the National Irriga- failed to move with the advanced| pound to 48 cents. The contract will| tion Congress at Portland. This, how- thought and had a yy humorous] not necessarily be let to the lowest | Cver, does not necessarily detract from reference to himself, but the miscom-| bidder, but to the one supplying at the| the truth of his charges. | Perhaps fow prehension and exaggeration of the| lowest price the grade best sulted for} @e® in the country eat tter 4 press has magnified his utterance and | the purpose. b dig ea arg ich ‘bas woe given it a sweep he never intended. Practical Chewing Tests. d Me Must Seek New Fields. dit & cabehs tun ee on 2 we wtolghors Fach bidd i exc When the acquisition of knowledge ne or te ‘Tegeired .t suneats Pip sive Bow owledge | a sample of the tobacco to be fur- heel settles who would have devel- u yas a means through | nished, and these, after the factory Ja- || which to earn bread, that is the end] pels are tne and secret ldentif. President Hill is a railroad manager, | of & man’s career, whether he be thirty] cation marks substituted, are divided | %4 tallroads depend for profit upon || or forty or a thousand years old. Men] into small lots, part being sent to a trailic afforded by a populous and well- who seek no new fields of exploration] chemist for analysis, and a y cultivated country. A railroad c=tend- nor carry forward to. fulfillment any ing through territory without farms or Y upply gol various work they attempt in early days are “se e Leoee oe von ‘die ‘and farmers, towns or on neg inet communi- mere drones in the hives of life. men for practical test, the ier Serlove, Cisgdvantages,. 1; Dr. Osler, who is close to the sixty] the officera and “Jackies” tracts, of land Nataee a year line, has gone to England to take . i a. by ae Te gh a professorship of medicine in Oxford} sults are reached by the p “ot likely that lent Hill spoke by: the University, which will without doubt} elimination, until the selection of the; card when he charged that those who Tead to an increase of his professional} chewers dwindles down to two OF! go upon Government land at this time fame, which did not come to him until/ three samples which are bound to be for the purpose of making homes are after he had passed the half century | favorites. These fayorites are theM/ only a handful. post in his journey of life. His part-| taken up with regard to the chemical ing injunction to his medical asso-| test, and the contract {a awarded, so| Rapid Disposals of Public Landa. clates in America, at the Washington] that perhaps the lowest bidder bas no| His figures, showing the rapfd.in- meeting in May, was to follow the/ consideration whatever when tue final! crease in area of public lands which Golden Rule in afi their actions, and to} result is obtained, have passed into private ownershi cultivate that moderation which is said While heretofore the navy supplied! since 1898, possess a significance tha to be the golden thread running| the men with the tobacco (a very in-| is startling. Nearly 90,000,000 acres, a through all the virtues, This advice! ferior article) free of cost, the Gov-! total area equal to three times that of | is not new, but it cannot be repeated|/ernment now insists upon the best|the State of Pennsylvania, have been . too often in an age when many men] grade, which it sells to the saiter at| awarded to private owners in the six - are striving to shove their neighbors! the contract price, plus a very small; years from 1898 to 1903, inclusive, very to the wall in their desire to occupy] percentage to cover the cost of han-| little of which—according to President the middle of the road themselves. | dling. Only such tobaccos are consid-' Hill—has become the property of home- le Ler is ye 4 a ee cate ond ered which are manufactured trem stead ingieg The ae or it bas be- ‘ needs often remin at yure leaf tobacco of the growth of the! come the holdings of the lumber kings, . must do unto others as he would have current or preceding year in which | cattle barons, and speculators pure and| Over one P&AROm Dollars them do unto him, even if he destres} the contract is made, and which shall| simple. It is evident that there are! allowed our clients during the last line of this great sea can be distinct-| THE DUTY OF CONGRESS IS TO Enormous Salt Beds. uncovering a great disappeared usually at the age of forty sediment wanting only irregation to | Ceased at that time, but that the imag- produce abundant harvests. At the|imative faculty was not as active then “lag superfluous on the stage” was For centuries the Colorado has been] meant te apply only to teachers who Se I aeY . i tion is unmistakable. The laws under} , the last six months. Dise hour of misfortune comes. in, Any visitor to the Bureau of Engrav-| which this vast domain has been se- b ing and Printing where Uncle Sam {s| cured by private interests with no in-| & ility, Age and Ine Best Work Late In Life. and not bank notes—contains a number and a letter, no two bills having the same number. These are printed, as the visitor can see, in the blocks of As if time was a thing to beat, At breakfast and lunch and dinner | Of deily calla at Pension Bureau - "Twas a bite and a gulp and go—| are at your service, Highest ref- Oh, the crowd is so terribly eager, erences furnished. Local 97 at his desk in New York, and other names will occur by scores to general readers. It is an inflexible law of nature that ma and almost on the Internativval! the being who does not progress must|four as they leave the plate printer's And a man has to hurry so! trates ecuniarily boundary, The canal was a large P 2 bite and a gulp and away . one, 00 feet on the bottom, and carried |TetToerade. ‘There 1s no place on this|table. For instance, a number will be An the books tnd the tleker! A bite| BEenefited by sending ue fearful ascent of life where, spiritually found on a note, 58,383 with the letter and intellectually, we are not fo! C in the upper left hand and lower to go forward lest we alip back. But|right hand corners; another bill bears it {s a happy provision in nature that] the number 79,088 D; another 42,566 B. And a drink and a smoke and a eons el At a card table half of the night; ae A pressure, a click and a pallor, ‘ TABER é& WHITMAN Cco., A cloth-covered box and a song; now called Imperial Valley. The where there. are no more heights be-|the note determine, when divided by fore the soul to climb, no more views | four, the letter to be found in the two to be obtained, no broadening and ex- eager pias the a two ee panding of the yision possible. l- visible by four, with a remainder * : ways and forever a new bud may be| of one, the letter appearing should be Agents Wanted formed on- the topmost bough of the if two remain, B; if three remain, old tree, even though the trunk be and if the last two numbers are partly hollow, and the nourishing sap| exactly divisible by four, with no re- mount slowly through the bark. — the letter appearing should a a . CHINESE GRAVEYARD CUSTOMS. — lowing down an old stream channel To Canvass for the 8 . : hited otates: 4 ! . | Pecullar Custom of Placing Cooked Rest the Bones of Pocahontas. pees aanar ase eedl sae ho es } Ra Toe high Food on the Graves of the The proposition to bring back to the Departed. ancient city of Jamestown the body of . banks of the Imperial canal prevented 4 baceer steak OF Ieee aaa Assorted foods, literally by the oa ition att face Oe Senet ane enator um er being inundated and millions of dol-} wagon load, are annually taken out to L Sophia —————— Eee both in England ass: lars in crops from being destroyed. Cypress Hills Chinese Cemetery by mceravte indignation, : nt America, b; le who believe Great difficultles are presented to| members of New York's Obinese col-| Aud n America, by poopie who hettirs NOW PUBLISHED, the engineers who are trying to induce | ony, says the New York Times, and the stream to go back to Its old cham | these offerings, which. are to us such | "ore Intended as a wilcshow Matte] | ap tre contains portrait of the nel. A dew heading is projected. | strange evidences of affection 884 Te-| there have been instances of a disturb- : Thousands of feet of lumber have) membrance, are placed with plc-| anco of a grave made hundreds of years NINETY MEMBERS been ordered and steamboats are | turesque rites, on the graves where the two from each State in the Union, This pelection was made from recent exclusive resented it as an obstruction in ite course and deposited great loads of silt in front of it and then proceeded to cut a channel around it. Dredges were used constantly to keep the canal heading open. The last great. flood In the stream simply wiped away the head gates and opened a way for a large part of the stream to. flow into the valley. Just ‘delow this point the stream spilled over the banks again and fol- Gleanings in Bee Culture teaches bout to handle for honey ahd 5 prot. Beet ter ree copy, bi Then you'll want to sv! 6 month's trial Don't delay but do it to-day, A.1. Root 0o., Medina, Chie, SMeison’. Benulin STANDARD OF THE WORLD Foster’s Ideal Cribs Accident Proof EXCAVATION WORK. | reaching to the miral John Paul Jones, still the cases cannot be compared, One is a man who transshipment to the land which these ‘had much to do with the preservation fiction surrounding the settlement of fi hi Junie collection of pelcaieds ot tn’ ae bos The London Standard, in comment- span ayes-ofores 60 the Acerca an. people, on the movement to bring her body number will be of unrivalled value to enables us to get a bit nearer the mys- ok od, ele page from book by viduals, schools and librasios an American tending we that the life of Pocahontas was a tra- Price 60 Cents Deliv poetical version and add- : “If the origina] myth is really f Jamestown, Por terms and other particulars address A Bright Retort. The ancient story of the who, when asked at what hour