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DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD.
Htatc Historical Society
Motto: All The News When It Is Newt.
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DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1913.
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U. S, MINT LOOTED
AN FRANCISCO OFFICIALS BE-
LIEVE THEFTS HAVE BEEN
OOINQ ON FOR YEARS.
FORMER THEFT IS RECALLED
Deln is-Taken From Vault In Saok and
Similar One Full of Waahera Sub
atitutcd Loaa Will Probably
Reach $30,000.
Ban Francisco, Sept. 29. A report
published late here on Friday of the
discovery of extensive thefts In the
United States mint brought neither
confirmation nor denial from tne mint
.fflclals.
Federal secret"" service men called
from Washington are working on what
Is believed to be the most extensive
robbery of a government depository
since the same mint was looted of a
fortune In gold bars a decade ago.
One sack, alone containing $30,000,
has been found to be missing, and the
government agents fear from the
traces loft by the thieves that the
luiat has been looted systematically
of many thousands mora.
Superintendent of the Mint T. W. S.
fihanahan refused to deny the report
that tho loss Is a heavy one. He has
referred all Inquiries to the treasury
department In Washington, from
which, he declares, all Information
some.
The sock, which had contained $30,
00, had been replaced by a similar
eae containing iron washers, almost
auallilng the gold in weight. The
sack bore the ordinary government
tamp. The secret service men have
11 employes of the mint under sur
Teillance. Thirty government agents and ac
countants are working to determine
eke extent of the loss.
"I cannot discuss tho matter under
the circumstances," was the only an
swer elicited from Superintendent
hanahan. "It Is official business and
something for the authorities at
Washington to deal with."
About ten years ago one man, alone
and unaided, tunneled under the mint
aad after several nights of work suc
ceeded in carrying gold bars worth
nearly $890,000 down to the seashore,
where he cashed it When he feared
that he had been traced by secret serv
ice men be visited the hiding place of,
the bullion at Bight and threw it into
the bay. He -was later arrested, and
after his confession the greater
amount of the treasure was recovered.
COMPLETE THE TARIFF BILL
Conferees Deolde to Disagree' on Tax
Proposed for Dealings In
Cotton Mart.
Washington, Sept 29. The tariff
bill was a completed document on
.Friday, except for the provision tax
ing trades In cotton futures.
After more than two weeks of con
stant work behind closed doors the
eight Democrats representing senate
and house as mombers of the confer
ence committee settled all other dif
ferences, but decided they could not
agree on the cotton future tax.
The six Republican members of the
conference committee were sum
moned to'a full committee meeting to
consider the measure.
The report will be presented to the
house by Representative Underwood.
In the day'a final session a futile at
tempt was made to settle the fight
over the cotton futures tax. The sen
ate conferees changed front and
agreed to give up the Clarke amend
ment altogether, but the house mem
bers refused to permit this. The sen
ators In turn refused to accept the
proposed Smith-Lever compromise.
POSSE AFTER TRAIN BANDITS
Youthful Outlaws Believed to Be
Couriered Near Tuscaloosa Dep
uty Sheriff Slain by Officer.
New Orleans, La., Sept. 29. The
three youthful bandits who held up
Quecs & Crescent train No. 7, New
York & Now Orleans express on Fri
day, aro believed to be cornered near
Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Cbttondale, Ala,, Sept. 29. Two
mora, boys were the bandits who
rifled the mall car and dynamited
the express safe on Alabama Great
Southern train No. 7 near this place
and escaped with booty variously "es.
tlmated at from a few hundred to
fifty thousands dollars.
In the sf arch for the bandits Dep
uty Sheriff James Bonner of Binning
ham was shot and killed by a mem
ber of another posse from Montgom
ery, who mistook Bonner for one of
the robbers.
Joseph W. Folk Takes Office.
Washington, Sept 29. a chautau
qua lecturer was added to the pay roll
of the state department when Joseph
W. Folk took the oath of solicitor of
the department Mr. Folk is reputed
to be sacrificing an Income of $85,000.
Death of 140 No Lesson; Fined.
New York, 8ept 29. Max Blanck.
proprietor of the Trianglo Waist com
pany, whoso building wan swept by
fire, with the loss of 140 lives, was
found guilty of having the factory
doors fastened. He was fined $20.
Kills Two Soldiers and Self.
Parchlm, Germany, Sept. SB, Two
Boldlers wore killed and one was fatal
ly wounded by an officer's servant
They were attempting to capture him
after he had been detected In a rob
bery He cqmmltted suicide.
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The Columbus caravels, the Pinta, Santa Maria and Nina, are now traversing the Great Lakes on tho first
stage of their Journey to San Francisco, whore they ore to be one of the attractions of the Panama exposition in
1916. The boats are reproductions of the vessels in which Columbus made his voyago of discovery In 1492 and
were constructed as one of the exhibits at the World's Columbian opposition In Chicago in 1893. Slnco the expo-
sltlon they have been In one of tho Chicago parks.
FUND WILL AID FARMER
PACKERS VOTE $500,000 TO SHOW
PROFIT8 IN BEEF.
Chicago Convention Says U. S. Keeps
High Meat Prices by Demanding
Label Change Too Often.
Chicago, Sept 24. Five, hundred
thousand dollars was voted on Monday
by the American Meat Packers' asso
ciation, In session here, to stimulate
cattle raising. This step was .taken
as the result of the situation which
tho packers declare confronts the
oountry a meat famine by 1923 and
to lower tho high cost of living.
This was decided by the meat pack
ers on Monday at their annual conven
tion, on the motion of Gustav Blschoff,
Sr., of the Independent Packing com
pany, St Louis president of tho or
ganisation. "What the farmers of the country
need is education along the lines of
how to operate their farms,", said Mr.
Blschoff, "They, imagine, that the.only
Way they can make 'both enus meet' Is
to raise an abundance of grains, and
feed no beef cattle.
"As a matter of fact, there Is not a
farmer in the land who could not
raise a few beef cattle to good advan
tage. What the farmers need Is edu
cation. With this in mind, I move
that a fund of $100,000 a year be voted
for a period of five years, to be ex
pended among the farmers in a cam
paign of education. Until the farmers
raise cattle for beef, the price of moat
cannot be lowered. As long as the
supply Is scant the price must of no
sesslty he high."
Tho motion to create the $600,000
educational fund was carried by unani
mous vote, and President Blschoff will
appoint a committee to dovlso ways
and means for carrying on this work.
I IMPORTANT NEWS
ITEMS
Shreveport, La., Sept. 26. Following
the assassination, of C. A. Carlisle, a
wealthy farmer near Benton, La., Car
lisle's pretty young wife was arrested
as accomplice of Robert Chappell, the
alleged murderer. Both confessed.
Washington, Sopt 25. David La
mar, tho "wolf of Wall street," was
held for action of the New York
grand Jury, by Judge Anson S. Tay
lor, United States commissioner, on
a charge of Impersonating congress
men to financiers In Wall street. He
was released on $3,000 bond.
Washington, Sept. 26. A. Thornton
has been selected by President Wil
son for postmaster at Philadelphia,
Pa.
Washington, Sept 25. Ira Nelson
Morris of Chicago was appointed spe
cial representative of the Panama
Pacific exposition commission in Italy
to endeavor to arouse Interest In that
country In the Cnllfornla exposition.
JEROME HITS THAW'S HOPES
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Attorney Announces Indictment Has
Been Returned Charging Fugi
tive With Conspiracy.
Concord-, N. H., Sept. 25. Harry K.
Thaw and attorneys were dlsagreo
ably surprised on Tuesday when Wil
liam Travers Jerome, deputy attorney
general for Now York state, appeared
at tho extradition hearing beforo Gov
ernor Felker am. announced that tho
Dutchess county grand Jury and re
turned a secret Indictment against
Thaw, charging him with conspiracy
in connection with his uscapo from
Matteawan asylum.
Opium Kills Paris Beauty.
Paris, Sept. 27. The death of a Par
isian beauty, Plerrete Fleury, led tho
police to investigate the cause, and
they found that it was duo to opium,
of which the girl took enormous quan
tities. Legislator's 8on Ends Life.
Williamson, W. Va., Sept 27. Jo
seph Rhodes, nineteen years old, son
of Representative S. U. O. Rhodes,
who Is In Jail serving a sentence for
bribery, shot hlmsolf to death In his
roon
CARAVELS START ON
SERIES START OCT. 7
COMMISSION AWARD8 GIANTS
RIGHT TO PLAY FIRST GAME
WITH PHILLIES AT HOME.
FOUR UMPIRES ARE NAMED
Mall Orders for Tickets Will Not Be
Accepted No Spectators Permit
ted on Field and Extra Stands Are
Barred From Grounds.
Philadelphia, Pa., Sopt. 27. The
members of the National Baseball
commission on Thureday decided that
the first game between that club and
the Philadelphia American league team
for tho world's championship shall be
played in New York on October 7. In
making these arrangements the com
mission assumes that the Giants will
win In the National league.
The umpires agreed upon for the
series are T. H. Connolly, John J.
Egan, William Klax-'ahoTCnarlea..
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The second game will be played Irf
Philadelphia on October 8, after which
the clubs will alternate between the
two cities. In case a game Is post
poned because of rain or for some
other cause, or a legal game, Is not
played, the teams will remain in the
city where the postponement occurred
until a legal ' game shall have been
played.
In the event of a legal game result
ing In a tie, the two clubs will not
play it off In the city where it oc
curred, but will moye on to. the next
city, the same eb though the contest
resulted In one of the teams wmning.
In New York the following prices
will prevail: Boxes, accommodating
four persons, $26; upper grand stand,
reserved, $3; admission and entire
lower grand stand, unreserved, $2;
bleacher seats, $1.
In Philadelphia the prices will be:
Box seats, $5 each; reserved seats
In main grandstand, $3; reserved
seats, right and left pavilion,
bleacher seats, $1.
The sale of tickets both In New
York and Philadelphia will be under
regulations made by the clubs them
selves. Tho commission announced
on behalf of the two clubs that mall
orders will positively not be received.
Official scorers will be Francis C.
Rtchter, Philadelphia, and J. G. Taylor
Spink, St. Louis.
A preliminary meeting of the com
mission will bo held In New York
October 6.
Harry N. Hempsted, president
and John B. Foster, secretary, repre
sented tho Now York club, and the
Interests of the Philadelphia Ameri
cans were looked after by Benjamin
F. Shebe, president of the club.
The date and place of tho opening
game was decided by a flip of a coin.
Directors Hit for Wrecks.
Washington, Sept. 2C "Muii fail
ure" all along the lino, from officials
and directors of tho New Haven rail
road down to its trainmen, is held by
the Interstate commerce commission
to havo been the cause of the Wal
Hngford wrock, September 9, In which
21 wero killed and 36 Injured. In Its
report on Wednosday the commission
blameB tho crews of the wrecked
trains for lapses and scores officers
and directors for "Inefficiency of man
agement" ,
Adds 66 Postal Banks.
Washington, Sept. 2C aixty-aix
poatofllces, which aro to bo advanced
to presidential grade October 1, havo
been doslgnatcd by Postmastor Gen
eral Burleson to bo postal savings do
posltorlor nftor November 1. '
Manuel's Bride to Hospital.
Munich, Bavaria, Sept. 27. Princess
Augustine Victoria, wlfo of former
King Manuol of Portugal, was ordered
by her physicians to return to tho hos
pital and remain for some time. She
1b suffering from grip.
Sails In Air Minus Rudder.
Paris, France, Sept. 27. Moreau,
tho French aviator, won the Bonnet
prlre with his self-rghtlng aeroplane.
Ho flow for hult an hour without
touching the levers, Lleutonant La
fonK nrcomnaaled him.
LONG VOYAGE
WITNESSES HIT SULZER
SWEAR GOVERNOR ASKED THEM
TO CONCEAL GIFTS.
Morganthau Says Executive Asked U
Be Shielded Croker, Jr., Aided
the Campaign.
Albany, N. Y., Sept 2U. Governoi
Suiter tried to persuade contributors
to his campaign fund not to testify
against him, according to evidence
adduced at his impeachment trial Fri
day. '
He asked Duncan W. Peck, state su
perintendent of public works, who gave
$600 to the fund, to violate his oath
on the witness stand In event he
should be called to testify before the
Frawley Investigating committee, Peek
swore. The governor, Peck asserted,
had told him that he, too, would deny
having received contributions. This
conversation, he said, was held In the
governor's office at the, capltol.
The governor Asked Henry W. Mor-
gfth(Mi, ambasfcdbrito Turkey, wh
conuiQuxea ii.uoo u do 'easy on nimr
and to "treat the affair between us as
personal" In the event that he should
be called to testify.' This Mr. Mor
genthau swore to when recalled to tha
stand. He said the request was madt
by the governor over tho long distance
telephone on Soptomber 2 last
It was further brought out that Rich
ard Croker, Jr., son of the former lead
er of Tammany, had contributed a $2,
000 check, payable, at the request oi
Sulzer, to tho order of "Cash," and
that the check was cashed by Fred
erick L. Colwell. ,
The high court of impeachment
swept away William Suiter's last do
fense on technicalities by a voto of 41
to 7 and sent the governor to trial
on actual facts. Questions of law will
bo settled after the taking of testi
mony. Here are the striking points
brought out In tho evidence on
Wednesday:
1. BY JACOB SCHIFF That Bui
xer asked him for a campaign con
tribution and on receiving $2,000
asked for more, which Mr. Scblff re
fused. '
2. BY HENRY MORGHNTHAU
That he handed Sulzer personally a
checl; for $1,000 out of a foolish
Impulse of goneroslty.
GEORGIA CONGRESSMAN DEAD
Representative Roddenbery", Who
Served In Congress Three Sessions,
Dies After One Week's Illness.
Thomasvllle, Ga., Sopt. 27. United
StatOB Representative Seaborn A.
Roddenbery, who had been ill at his
homo here slnco Sunday, died on
Thursday. A nervous breakdown had
prompted him to leave Washington at
the direction of physicians. It had been
bolloved a short rest would restore
him to health, and not until 8unday
did his condition becomo serious.
Seaborn Anderson Roddonbery was
born on a farm in Decatur county,
Georgia, January 12, 1870. He waa
graduated from Mercer university at
Macon, Ga., In 1891, and In 1894 was
admitted to tho bar.
Congressman Roddonbery was elect
ed to represent the Second Goorgla
district in tho Sixty-first congress In
February, 1910, and was re-elected to
tho Sixty-second and Sixty-third con-
gresses. Mrs, Roddenbery and flvo-
cnuaren survive.
Nebraska 8nowfall One Inch.
Omaha, Neb., Sopt, 2G. The rain
storm which soaked practically tho
entire stato of Nebraska turned to
snow in the woatern part of tho stato.
An inch of snow Is reported at Scotts
Bluff and other towns In that vicinity.
Daughters Won't Contest Will, v
Now York, Sept. 27. Assistant Cor
poration Counsel W.R. C. Mayer, a
brother of Mrs. William J. Gaynor, de
nied reports that Mayor Oaynor'a two
daughters, who wore cut off with
$1,000 each, would contest tho will.
France Wins Aeroplane Raoe.
London, Sept. 27. France won tho
International qulckitartlng aeroplane
raco at the Ilendon aerodrome, with
United States second uud England
third ThaFruichaylutor started and
flew 239 foot In 31 second.
NEWS FROM STATE HOUSE
Members of the state board of
health have announced the appoint
ment of Dr. William Wild of Chicago
as director of the state bacteriological
and pathological laboratory.
Johnson county, which has a debt
of $12,4G6 standing against It for un
paid assessments for the Insane fund,
has remitted $1,800, The sum was all
that could be spared" at this time, ac
cording to tho commissioners
, Chnncollqr Avery 'nan announced
that registration reports at hand show
a total In tho neighborhood of 1,160
students, or Just eight students ahead
of last year's figures at tho cIobo of
office hours on Monday.
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The printing of 250,000 manlla en
velopes to be mailed to voters to In
form them of tho different referendum
measures pending next year will cost
the stato $380.00. A contract has been
awarded by tho state printing bureau.
Copies of tho senate Journal of tho
last sosalon have made their appear
ance In the stato house. The books
contain 1,306 pages, being greater in
sizo than tho records of any other
upper house that has sought to take
part in the activities of a session.
Members of the state board of agrl
culture have not received the resigna
tion " of State Publicity Manager
Georgo Kline, who Is said to have
been offered tho ..position of editor of
the Nebraska Farm Journal at Omaha.
Mr. Kline Is at present in Wisconsin
on a vacation.
The board of educational landB and
funds opened bids Wednesday on a
two-story building with basement to
bo constructed on tho state fair
grounds as a storage house for tho
Nebraska national guard. The base
ment of tho Bt&te house Is now used
as a storehouse.
The state hoard of control has. de
cided Io bore a third well at the pent
ontlary for the purpose of saving fuel
in the matter of pumping. A test ol
two -two wolls showed plenty of water.
The Kearney normal fall term regis
tration opened Tuesday morning and a
slight falling oft In the enrollment was
perceptible. This Is attributed to the
general failure of crops In that portion
of the state.. '
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Recommendation that the slate es
tablish a forestry department and that
this lino be given special attention at
tho next legislative session, is made
In the report of the forestratlon com
mission, filed with Governor Morehead
by Chairman Carl Rondo of that body.
Tho commission approves the trading
of state school lands for forest reserve
lands and sets out Us Interest in hav
ing Senator Hitchcock present this
matter to the federal land authorities
at Washington.
Chief Deputy Fire Commissioner
Rldgell wants all Nebraskans to be
Bure that their chimneys and flues are
in a good condition bofore they start
their fire this fall, and he has issued
a warning urging that inspections be
made in time to provent loss by
flames. Mb department will Insist on
metal boards being placed under
stoves. Last winter 160 fires, he says,
were caused In tho state by the lack
of Incombustible material under the
stoves.
Stato Superintendent Delzell has re
turned from Chadron, where he and
A. H. Vlele of Norfolk, member of 'the
state normal board, selected a site for
a $25,000 dormitory. The Bite chosen
is 180 feet east of the main normal
school building, and the front of the
dormitory will be ona line with the
rear lino of the main building. Tho
dormitory will face north, the same as
tho other buildings. The campus on
which the dormitory Is to be built
contains eighty acres.
Tho material for a passenger elo
vator In tho state house has arrived
and workmen have started construc
tion. The old car, which was used
more than twenty years ago, will be
equipped with electric lights and elec
tric power and new cables and run
ways will bo put In the shaft. There
are two old shafts In tho stato house,
but only ono will be refitted for ubo.
The eighteen rooms being fitted up In
tho fourth floor of tho attic will be
ready for use within ono week.
Not returns from the Nebraska state
fair this -year will be about $2,000, ac
cording to Secretary W. R. Mollor of
the stato board of agriculture. The
entire receipts are In tho neighbor
hood of $82,000.
Governor Morehead has offered a
reward of $200 for tho arrest of tho
person who murdered John J. Johnson
at Ashland. Tho murdered man Is'
supposed. t0 j,aVB ilud $160 In his
pocket wpon ho was killed. Ho was
known ob "Dutch John" and workod
at tho Swift Ico house at Ashland.
Demand for cars over Nebraska,
particularly In Bouthonsfurn. Nebraska,
where stringencies oxistod lato last
month, Is now less than tho supply
and all railroads report to the stato
railway commission they aro able to
take enro of tho situation.
Professor Richardson his boen
choson by tho state normal board aa
head of tho department of education
of the Kearney state normal school in
placo of Professor Fleshman, who re
signed to accept a higher salary at
West Chester, Pa.
DOOM OF STEAM LOCOMOTION
Cost of Electrical Operation Practi
cally About Five-Eighths of That
of Former Power.
Tho pioneers In the substitution of
electric motive powor for steam upon
tho railroads merely noped that tho
costs of operation would be smaller
than they woro under tho old systom.
But thoy did not know that thoy would
be. They hnd no oxperlenco to draw
upon. Thoy wero compelled by tho
circumstances to mako tho venture.
It Is only within recent months that
they could say that tho vonturo had
paid.
Now, under tests of varied charac
ter, it has b'oen demonstrated that tho
cost of electric operation 1b practically
about flve-elghtlte that of doing the
Bamo work with steam locomotives,
says the Toledo Blade. The electric
locomotive has proved to havo de
cided advantages In being able to use
Its entlro woight for tractive, effort
In making a greater mlleago per year
than tho steam locomotive and in
needing fewor repairs,
The saving is sufficient to warrant
overy railroad In tho country undertak
ing the labor of electrification. It Is
sufficient to warrant the public looking
forward to a day very near at hand
when the smoko and grime making
locomotive will be a part of the past
SAFETY LOCK FOR TELEPHONE
Device Prevents Persona Using Instru
ment Who Are Not In Posses
sion of Proper Key.
A locking device, designed to pro
vent the use of the telephone by per
sons not having a key, Is here shown.
One of tho hinged members fitted to
Telephone Lock.
the supporting column terminates in
a hook which engages with tho receiv
er hook and, when locked in placo,
prevents all use of the. telephone.
USING ELECTRIC PYROMETER
Measurement of Temperature So Far
Perfected That Almost Any De
gree Can Be Obtained.
Blectrlc pyrometry, aa tho measure
ment of temperature by electric means
Is called, haa now been so far perfect
ed that It is applicable from near tho
absojuto zero some 490 degrees Fahr
enheit below the ordinary zero to
the temperaturo of melting platinum,
more than 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit
above zero. Prof, J. A. Fleming, in a
recent lecture on the subject, de
scribed the two methods of measur
ing temperature by oloctricpl means,
one depending on tho lncroaee of elec
tric resistance of a pure metal with
increase of temporature, and the other
on the production of an electromotive
force In a circuit of two metals when
ono Junction Is kept at a constant
temperature and tho other Is heated
to tho temperature which it is desired
to measure. Many electric pyrometers
give a continuous record of tho tem
peraturo on a revolving drum.
IMPROVEMENT ON KEY KNOB
Physical Strain on Operator Is Taken
Away by Use of Clip, Invented
by North Dakota Man.
An Improvomont In tho telegraph
key knob l horn presented. A finger
clip Is rigidly attached to a small,
Key With Improved Knob.
round plato screwed Into the top of
tho knob. By loosening a screw in
tho plato, tho linger clip can be set
at any angle to suit the operator and
then hold by tightening tho screw.
Tho main body of tho knob Is of rub
ber. Tho claim of the Inventor and pat
ontoo, H. C. Dauphlnas, Fargo, N. D
1b that the ubo of tho clip takes away
tho physical . etraln duo to Bonding
with u koy having a flat knob.
Electricity for Heating.
Somo railways uso olectrlc powor
for heating trains. Part of them uso
tho current directly In tho heaters, as
they do in trolley cars In some cltloe,
Others use nn electric boiler.
Small Electric Motor.
Tho Bnmllest cotnmorclal motor
weighs loss than two pounds. Is
used whoro" a llttlo power Is required.
Btinh as for dental drills, etc.
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TO MODERNIZE OLD, FIXTURES
Antiquated, but Costly AHcrattM, T
Beautiful to Thrown Away, '
Can Be fUntwed.
In thousands of horaee there are-inf
..
use old, antiquated electrlo fixtures
much too costly and beautiful to dis
card. Tho only objectionable feature,
of most of these old fixtures la that
the lamps aro held at an angle. Ex
perience has shown that tho. distribu
tion of light Is greatly Improved if
lamps are Installed in a -vertical po
sition. Thereforo all modern flxtilrea
aro provided with vertical outlets,
says tho Popular Electricity. By the
use of what Is called tho angle cap
socket tho old angle fixtures may be
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Old Fixtures Modernized
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uiauo io uuiu in a lamp iu Yoroom- , t-
posltlon with a marked Increase laNif rtl. '
lighting efficiency. 'J
DANGERS OF THE WIRELESS
German Authority Report That Oper
ators Who Send Signals Suffer.,,
From Impoverished Blood. u '
The latest in the list of occupational
maladies is "wireless operator's dis
ease." A German authority ' reports ,
that the men who send the C. Q. D.
signals suffer often from impover
ished blood, headaches and other un
toward symptoms. That these art) di
rectly due to the powerful electrlo ' ?-'
waves sent out by their machines
not been directly proved, but Incidents ,
are cited tat make this appear ,at
least probablo, a writfrJn the Literary
Digest asserts. Other conditions only
Indirectly connected with wireless te-
loaranhy maV. of course, add to the' v
effect We quote from Cosmos the
following translation In abstraet'from'
Klektrotechntsche Zeltschrlft: ' ,
"Wireless telegraphers' are subject
to anemia. In which1 the number of red
blood globules, as, welt as their, eon- .';';-,,
cent oi nemoatoDin. ia . aixusMuteo. . ., i -
baiiflw) ' hupajok-ywvvf U W.lfr-i-fi.
sanitary conditions of the staUoas,; ;
pecially on board ship, 'it Is. equally ' jv
probable that the strong oaonlzatlonol
tho air. due to" the use of alternaUaa
currents of high frequency to sead th ,
messages, plays an Important part
Similar troubles, ucb.ir.as- paleness.
headaches, loss of appetite and bat
digestion, have , often been notel
among the electrical workers ens
ployed in high tension plants, such a
those at Niagara.
"Tho future will show whether eleo
trio waves have any physiologic ef? ,i
f ecta. A Viennese physician, Dr. Beec.u. . '
has noted the production of subjective
glows when a powerful eloetric ma- ,.
net is Drought near the head. - .J4-J
"An American electrical enginee ;
named Collins has made experiments n i-':
on a sleeping cat and asserts that-un- v;
der the influence of electrjo waves, -the -anlmal
leaped Into the air a ,lfjaat V !
alternating current had ."ibeeal seat w,
through It Collins concludes 'that ir'
powenui electric waves may cause . -
characteristic accidents, possibly fatal "'
ones. Nevertheless, no absolutely cob- h L
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elusive prouia u.vu ye. bwd UDimnea. ;
California has a trackless trolley.
Fourteen submarine cables now con
nect America with European points.
One American telephone compan)
has 14,610,000 miles of wire in use;
Fifty species of fish possess organi
capable of imparting electrlo shocks
The island of Java is equ!pped,.wlth
a comploto automatic "telephone ""ays"
torn.
Zamboanga will bo tho first munici
pality to own an electrlo light plant
in the Philippines,
Electrlo heaters have been specially
designed In England for Btateroomi
and saloons on shipboard.
Tho annual electric dry battery
production of the United States has
paasod tho $10,000,000 mark. '
A storage battery fod electric amp
forms a part of a new plummet' for
uso at night or In dark places. , '
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Ono of tho newer fly traps contains '$ (
an electric Ian to a raw wumn it nies
nttrnctad noar It bv suitable bait
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A wireless telephone record of 475
miles, lasting halt an hour, recently '
was established in Germany and Aus- -
trla. . ft'
A trolley car ambulance has fasea ' -built
In Philadelphia, for use in a
Brazilian city for carrying patient -to
and from outlying hospitals1 " ,
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Tho contents of u can explode jvawt't '.
n tueo becomes, overheated, and givtt
an audible, fire alarm' In a' recently
I patented devloa. along ..that, line. ',
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