PIUS IS CROWDED
TREMENDOUS CROWD FLOCKS
, TO ST. PETER'S.
RUSHINC, CRUSHING POPULACE
Humanity Make* a Great Struggle to
Get Through the Cathedral Door*—
Ringing of Many Bell* Announce*
Their Opening.
ROM K—Pope Pius X was crowned
Monday in the basilica of St. Peter's
in the presence of the princes and high
dignitaries of the church, the diplo
mats and Roman nobles and with all
the solemnity and splendor associated
with this, the most magnificent rite in
the Roman Catholic church.
As Cardinal Mar ch!, the dean of the
cardinal deacons, placed the triple
crown on the head of the. venerable
pontiff, the throng of 70,000 pprsons
gathered within the cathedral burst
into unrestrained acclamations, the
choir intoned a hymn of triumph and
(he bells of Rome rang out a Joyful
peal.
It is fifty-seven years since the Ro
mans and Europe assisted at such a
function as that held at St. Peter’s
Sunday. The great basilica, popular
ly supposed never to have been quite
full, was overflowing with humanity.
The papal throne, a bewildering mix
ture of gold, red atul silver, was erect
ed iu front of the high altar. As,
contrary to custom at these ceremo
nials, there was no galleries, the ba
silica bore more of the normal aspect.
On the altar, which was dressed In
white, stood the famous gilt candle
sticks and a magnificent cruciOx. All
the available standing space within
the cathedral was divided into sec
tions by wooden barriers, which to a
certain extent kept, the vast crowd In
order.
During the early hours after sun
rise a heavy fog hung over Rome, and
one hank of the Tiber could not be
seen from the other, while from the
St Angelo bridge one seemed to look
into a fathomless abyss. The effect
was .especially magnificent on enter
ing the piazza of St. Peter's. At
times Michael Angelo's great dome
disappeared completely from view,
while at others It appeared through a
flowing golden mist.
At 6 a. m. the ringing of hells an
nounced the imminent opening of the
doors aud a commotion at once began
among the crowd. But ten minutes
elapsed before the doors were open
ed aud each minute seemed a century
to the waiting crowd, which for hours
had already beeen standing before
the closed portals. The police and
Italian soldiers had a difficult task
to maintain order as the crush and
fatigue began to tell on the patience
of the people.
When the doors were at length
opened the rush was terrific, many
who started from the bottom of the
steps outside being lifted from their
foot and carried into the cathedral.
It was a great human torrent let
loose, thousands of people rushing,
crushing and squeezing amid protests,
gesticulations and cries for help.
Strong as Plus X is physically, he
Supported the ordeal with perhaps less
fortitude than did Leo XIII when he
was crowned, although I,eo was
merely a shadow of a man, but pos
sessed a will nothing could break.
I At night all the churches and re
ligious institutions and many private
houses were Illuminated in honor of
the. occasion. The pontiff was so fa
tigued hy the ceremony that the meet
ing of the consistory, which was to
be held Monday, was postponed.
OVATION TO GENERAL MILES.
Marylanders Meet Him at the Train
to Do Honor.
CUMBERLAND, Md.—General Nel
son A. Miles, en route from Washing
ton to San Francisco, was given an
ovation here Sunday upon his arrival.
The Union Veteran legion and mem
bers of the Grand Army of the Re
public were at the station in large
numbers and cheered the veteran to
. the echo while the South Cumberland
bttinCplayed national airs. There was
cheering and waving of handkerchiefs
by many thousands of persons. Includ
ing many ladies.
General Thomas R. Scott of Balti
more made a short speech, referring
to General Miles as “the greatest liv
ing soldier," and Invited the assembled
multitude to form a line aud shake the
hand of the retiring general of the
United States army. General Miles
was perceptibly moved hy the spon
taneous ovation.
William E. Dodge Dies.
BAR HARBOR. Me.—William E.
Dodge, the New York millionaire aud
philanthropist, died Sunday at Stan
wood, his summer home here. Mr.
Dodge had been in poor health for sev
eral months. He was a member of
the New York metal house of Phelps.
Dodge & Co., and was 71 years of age.
He was one of the founders of the
Union League club and well known as
foremost in chari i able work for many
years.
MILES BIDS ARMY FAREWELL.
Retiring Lieutenant General Issues
Valedictory to Military Forces.
WASHINGTON—Lieutenant Gener
al Nelson A. Miles, commanding the
army, will retire from active service
at noon Saturday, having reached the
age limit of 64 years. The following
order was issued:
"WASHINGTON. Aug. 8, 1903.—
The retirement from active service by
the president on August 8, 1903, of
Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles,
U. S. A., by operation of law, under
the provisions of the act. of congress
approved June 30. 1882 Is announced.
Lieutenant General Miles will proceed
to his home. The rravel enjoined is
necessary for the public service. By
order of the secretary of war.
“H. C. CORBIN,
“Adjutant General Major General.
U. S. A."
Several other orders resulting from
the retirement of General Miles have
been Issued, one assigning Lieutenant
General Young to the command of the
army until August 15, when he will
assume the duties of chief of staff;
another assigning Major General Cor
bin as president of the Soldiers' Home
board; another assigning Brigadier
General Gilesple as president of the
Board of Ordnance and Frtlficatlons,
and still another assigning General
Young as a member of the Sherman
statue committee.
NEW SLUMP IN EXCHANGE.
U. P., Wabash, Mo. P. and Maple Leaf
Make Low Records.
NEW YORK.—Two more Slock Ex
change failures, making a total of six
in the last eleven business days, were
recorded Wednesday, when Sharp &
Bryan and Hurlbutt, Hatch & Co., an
nounced their Inability to meet their
obligations. Neither failure occasion
ed the slightest surprise; in fact both
had been discounted for a week or
more.
The failure of Sharp & Bryan came
during the morning session shortly
shortly after the market had recovered
from its demoralized opening. That
of Hurlbutt, Hatch & Co. was an
nounced In the afternoon just as prices
throughout the line were tumbling
lower than at any time before.
The day’s business can best be sum
marized by the statement that almost
four score of stocks, fully two-thirds
of the active list, touched the lowest
record reached during the present
movement, which had its Inception last
September.
Government is Sustained.
WASHINGTON—United States Con
sul General Gudger at Panama has
made the following report by cable,
under Wednesday’s date, of the termi
nation of the disturbance on the
Isthmus, caused by the erratic action
of General Cohos: “General Castro
arrived this afternoon and took com
mand of the troops, fully sustaining
.the government. Commander In chief
is to leave the department.”
British Take Optimistic View.
LONDON—Confidential official re
ports received at the foreign office re
garding Macedonia have caused the
British government to adopt the view
that the situation Is not very seri
ous for the moment, although suffi
ciently so to warrant taking of pre
cautions. British officials do not be
lieve that Turkey, contemplates an at
tack on Bulgaria in view of the known
attitude of the powers, especially Rus
sia and Austria.
Fatal Altercation.
OKLAHOMA CITY, O. T.—As a re
sult of an altercation over the ques
tion of moving the town of Mountain
Park to Snyder, Hon. George S. Bai
ley shot and killed W. Brown. The
quarrel started between Bailey, who Is
a prominent politician, and R. K. Kel
ley, president of the El Paso, Moun
tain Park & Oklahoma Central rail
road, who was opposed to moving
the town. Brown was a Kelley par
tisan.
Senator Millard to Go to Europe.
OYSTER BAY, N. Y.—Senator Mil
lard of Nebraska, who visited Presi
dent Roosevelt Friday, expects to
salt next Tuesday for Europe. He will
be accompanied by hts daughter and
will be absent only a few weeks.
Buy American Machinery.
PEKING.—An American firm has
contracted to furnish Russian flour
mills with $300,000 worth of machin
ery. The output of the mills will be
increased within a year to 1,500 bar
rels a day, superceding the supply of
flour from America.
Entertained on a Warship.
LISBON—Admiral Cotton gave an
entertainment on the Brooklyn Tues
day night in honor of the women of
Lslbon. All officialdom was present,
and members of the diplomatic corps.
Admiral Cotton, United States Minis
| ter Bryan and the American officers
proved themselves lavish hosts. One
oi the features was a “oake walk,”
wnich was performed by two negro
sailors at the request of Admiral Cot
ton.
CIRCUSMENSLAIN
—
WRECK ON THE RAIL KILLS
TWENTY-THREE.
THE INJURED NUMBER THIRTY
Two Section* of Wallace Bros.’ Cir
cus Train Come Together With
Fearful Result*—Three Iowa Men
Among the Killed.
DURAND, Mich.—An air brake on
the second section of Wallace Bros.'
circus train refused to work in the
Grand Trunk railway yards here Fri
day. causing a collision between the
two sections, in which twenty-three
people were killed and thirty injured.
The circus travels in two trains of
about thirty-five cars each. After
Thursday night’s exhibition at Char
lotte the two trains left for La Pere,
over the Grand Trunk road, the sec
ond secttlon leaving a half hour after
the first. It was 3:45 when the first
section pulled into the west end of the
Grand Trunk yards here. A red light
was hung on the rear ear to stop the
second section.
Engineer Probst of Battle Creek,
who was running the engine of the
rear train, says he saw this light and
applied the air brakes. To his horror
they refused to work. He reversed
his engine, but the momentum of the
train behind him was too great and
with a crash that aroused the town
the two trains met.
Three cars of the stationary first
section were telescoped and the en
gine and five cars of the moving train
were demolished. The rear car of the
first section was a caboose in which
the trainmen were sleeping and the
next two cars were filled with sleep
ing circus employes.
The greatest loss of life was in the
caboose. One of the wrecked cars of
the second section was occupied by
five elephants and several camels. One
of the elephant and two of the camelB
were killed outright, while the other
elephants and their trainers escaped.
With the exception of this car none
of the menagerie was wrecked, the
other wrecked cars containing the
wagons.
As soon as they recovered from the
first shock the trainers rushed among
the cages quieting the beasts that
were excited. The elephants in the
wrecked car behaved with surprising
calmness and were led out of the
wreck without trouble.
The escaping steam and screams
and cries of those pinned in the wreck
was a horrible spectacle in the gray
of the early morning, when the train
men in the yards and the aroused
townspeople first reached the scene.
Many feared at first that some of the
animals had escaped, as they could be
heard crying. The lire whistle was
immediately sounded and the whole
town aroused. The rescuers could see
the unfortunates through the tangled
wreckage.
When the wrecking train crews
han finished pulling to pieces the
tangled and broken cars, seventeen
dead men were lying on the grass
awaiting removal to the morgue. A
majority of them were, killed while
asleep. The circus performers were
on the rear of the moving train and !
escaped injury. Wallace brothers say
that their loss will be very heavy,
but can give no estimate yet. This
is the second wreck that the Wallace
shows have suffered within a month.
Engineer Propsl, Fireman Colter
and Head Brakeman Benedict, who
was on the engine of the second sec
tion, all agree that if the brakes had
worked as they should when the en
gineer tried to use them there would
have beeen no collision.
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UNION PACIFIC IS PROSPEROUS.
Net Proceed* the Past Year Show
increaie of $386,919.
NEW YORK—The report of the
Union Pacific Railroad company for
the year ending June 30 shows: Gross
earnings, $61,076,188; increase, $3,
674.909. Operating expenses and
taxes, $28,747,215; increase, $3,187,
989. Net earnings, $22,327,972; in
crease $386,919.
To the net earnings were added
dividends on Northern Securities
company stock of $3,8S8,053, and oth
er incomes to make the total income
$27,392,182, an increase of $870,627.
The total fixed charges were $12,071,
068, an increase of $80,935.
After payment of dividends there
remained a surplus of $6,964,169, an
increase of $648,198.
Prelate for Privy Council.
LONDON—According to the Chron
icle it is not impossible that the king's
, Irish visit will result in the appoint
ment of Archbishop William J. Walsh
of Dublin to the Irish privy council.
Hitherto no Catholic prelate has
ever been on the council, but it is
said to have been a long cher
ished dream of Lord Beaconsfleld to
appoint a prelate possessing the
confidence of the Irish people and the
pope.
PIUS IS RUNG IN.
Fiva Hundred Church Bella Are In
Activity.
ROME—The attention of Rome ia
centered in the ceremony of Satur
day, and for which great prepara
tions are being made. The throne of
St. Peter, which Pius X will occcupy,
will be surrounded by a canopy forty
feet high. The pope has informed
the Vatican officials that he wishes
to be received on the threshold of
the basilica by Cardinal Rampolla,
who, as archpriest of the' church, will
address the formal greetings to him.
At the conclusion of the ceremony
the pope will confer his blessing upon
the people, but it has not yet been
decided whether he will do so Inside
the cathedral or from the balcony
looking out upon- the piazza, where
many hoped he would bestow his ben
ediction on the day of his election.
It is said that Pius X is in favor of
the latter plan, but the influence of
the Vatican officials is against it, on
the ground that it might be interpret
ed as a recognition of the present
state of affairs in Italy. The holding
of the coronation ceremonies in St.
Peter’s itself represents a concession,
as In the case of Leo it occurred in
the Sistine chapel. Although it is es
timated that (>0,000 tickets will be Is
sued for the event, the demand for
them is very great.
At the consistories to be held Mon
day and Thursday next, the pope will
confer the red hat on Cardinals Ajuti,
Tailanl, Katschtaler and Herrero y
Espinosa, who were raised from the
purple June 25, but who have not re
ceived these symbols of rank because
of the illness and death of Leo. It
is believed that the Spanish Cardinal
Herrero will not be able to be pres
ent at the coronation ceremonies.
During one full hour Thursday
morning therp seemed to be nothing
but vibrating sounds, so penetrating
were the Btrokes of the bells of about
500 churches, which, all ringing to
gether, absorbed all other noises. The
ringing was in honor of the election
of Pius X—a welcome unique of its
kind, and ordered by Cardinal Res
phigl, vicar of Rome, who issued spe
cial instructions therefor. All the
churches contemporaneously celebrat
ed masses for the event, the intoning
of the Oremus combining with the
harmony.
The bells involuntarily served an
other purpose, that of ringing in the
great ceremony of the reception of
the diplomatic body accredited to the
holy see. Rome has lately been sur
feited with Vatican functions, but
that of Thursday morning was so
striking that it held its own with the
others.
I
SCHWAB QUITS TRUST.
Resigns Position of President o^the
Steel Corporation.
NEW YORK—The resignation of
Charles M. Schwab as president of
the United States Steel corporation
was tendered and accepted at a meet
ing of the directors Tuesday. Wll
Ham E. Corey was elected as his sue
cessor.
Mr. Schwab's resignation caused nc
surprise in financial circles, where it
had for some time been foreshadowed
The new president was for years one
of Andrew Carnegie's ablest lieuten
ants and is now president of the Car
negie Steel company, one of the sub
sidiary concerns of the United States
Steel corporation. It is scarcely more
than a month ago that Mr. Corey was
made assistant to the president be
cause of Mr. Schwab’s continued ill
health.
PONTIFF RECEIVES GIBBONS.
Regrets That the American Cannot
Remain Longer in Rome.
ROME.—Cardinal Gibbons was re
ceived by the pope Friday in private
audience. In a lengthy conference
Pius X. renewed his expressions of
interest in America, already made
manifest by his reception Wednesday
to the pilgrims from the United
States.
Cubans Claim American Soil.
SANTIAGO. Cul^—Some engineers
who were surveying a site for a ter
minal of the Cuban Eastern railway
on the United States naval reserva
tion at Guantanamo were warned off
by American officers, but refused to
go. Admiral Coghlan thereupon no
tified the Cuban government and
President Palma sent a revenue cut
ter, which forcibly elected the tres
passers. The railway, having acquir
ed the lands, claims heavy damages
Guilty of Violating Injunction.
DENVER, Colo.—Joseph Scott, a
member of the smeltermen’s union,
was found guilty by Judge Dixon of
violating the injunction that prohibits
interference with the employe* of the
Globe plant. The court sentenced
Scott to two months in the county
jail, but as the case will be taken
to the supreme court on a writ of
error for supersedeas, he was released
on $1,000 bonds, returnable Aug
ust 15.
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:: THE LIVE STOCK MARKET. ;;
| Litftt Quotations Prom South |
Omaha and Kansas City.
H-HHI144 Mill IMWWtlt
SOUTH OMAHA. f * m
CATTLE—anere Waa *. light supply
of cattle in sight. The market at this
point, however, was In rather bad
shape and as a result trading was ex
tremely dull, and it was late before a
clearance was made. Beef steer buy
ers hit the market a bad blow, claim
ing that prices here have been much
higher than at other points. The short
fed cattle suffered the most and in sev
eral Instances had to sell 10@15c low
er, or 25@35c lower than at the first
of the week. Trading was slow from
start to finish and, although there
were only a few’ cattle in si^ht, it took
some time to dispose of them. There
were not enough grass beeves here to
test the market on that class of stuff.
The cow market did not show much
change. If anything, the medium class
sold a little easier than at the best
time the day before, but about steady
with the average. Cows, in fact, have
not fluctuated much during the entire
week, so they are not far from steady.
There were not enough stockers and
feeders on sale to tell anything about
the market. It is safe to say, how
ever, that not many were wanted ow
ing to the end of the week being at
hand.
HOGS—There was a small supply of
hogs on sale, but in sympathy with a
decline in prices at other points the
market eased off a little here. The
general market could be quoted about
2%c lower or weak to a nickel lower.
The bulk of the sales went from $5.00
to $5.05. Choice light weights sold
largely from $5.07% up to $5.20. The
top price, however, was paid for a
very fancy load, and in fact such hogs
are more often seen in the show ring
than on the general market. They
weighed 203 pounds. There was not
much change in the market from start
to finish.
SHEEP—Quotations for grass stock:
Good to choice lambs, $5.00@5.25; fair
to good lambs, $4.75 @ 5.00; good to
choice yearlings, $3.50@3.75; fair to
good yearlings, $3.25@3.50; good to
j choice wethers, $3.25@3.40; fair to good
wethers, $3.00@3.25; good to choice
ewes, $2.90@3.10; fair to good ewes,
$2.50@2.75; feeder lambs, $3.50@4.25;
feeder yearlings, $3.25@3.50; feeder
wethers, $3.00@3.25; feeder ewes, $1.50
@2.50.
KANSAS CITY. ]
CATTLE—Beeves dull and lower; ,
quarantine lower; native and western j
cows, lower; stockers and feeders, dull;
choice export and dressed beef steers,
$4.60®5.20; fair to good, $4.00@4.60;
stockers and feeders, $2.40®4.10; west
ern fed steers, $3.00©4.85; Texas and
Indian steers, $3.25©4.00; Texas cows,
$2.05©3.00; native cows, $1.50®4.00;
native heifers. $2.25®4.50; canners,
$1.00®2.30; bulls, $2.15®3.00; calves,
$2.75® 5.50.
HOGS—Market steady to 10c lower;
top. $5.40; bulk of sales, $5.07’k @ 5.25;
heavy, $4.35®5.20; mixed packers, $5.10
©5.271k; light, $5.25©5.40; yorkers,
$5.35® 5.40.
SHEEP-—Market steady; lambs, 10c
higher; native lambs, $3.00@5.75; west
tern lambs, $2.90©5.40; fed ewes, $2.80
©4.75; Texas clipped yearlings. $2.90®
4.70; Texas clipped sheep. $2.65®4.00;
stockers and feeders, $2.50®3.25.
NOT A BUMPER CORN CROP.
But Will Be Fair in Nebraska and All
Other Crops Are Good.
OMAHA—Secretary Utt of the Com
mercial club returned Thursday night
from a two days’ trip to Denver, on
which he inspected the crops of the
state by daylight.
While there will not be a “bumper”
corn crop this year, Secretary Utt
states that Nebraska as a whole will
have a fair crop and that the higher
prices which will rule, due to the
short crops in eastern Iowa, Illinois -
and other corn producing states, will '
more than make up for the lack of
quantity. A number of "bad places”
were noticed and the second planting ;
of corn, in places where the first one >
was washed out by the early rains, J
will be good only for fodder. But this j
is all the farmers and ranchmen ex- i
pected of it, the corn not being regu- 1
larly planted, but sown, and it will '
be cut with a reaper. Aside from <
these places, however, corn makes an ]
excellent showing for this time of the ■
year.
Of other crops Secretary Utt’s re- ,
port is that they are all good as a rule ]
and that taken as a whole the farm1 1
'ers of the state never were in better j
condition than at present. I
Cape Withdraws from Fair.
CAPETOWN—The assembly, by 46
to 28, adopted a motion which ex
punges from the estimates the provi
sion of $50,000 towards the represents
tion of Cape Colony at the St. Louis
exposition.
Mrs. Conger Visits Dowager Empress.
PEKIN—Mrs. Conger visited the
dowager empress at the summer pal
ace to introduce Miss Kate Augusta
Carl, an American artist from Paris,
who is to paint the empress' portrait.
Gambling Declared Felony.
OLYMPIA, Wash.—The supreme
court upheld the constitutionality of
the law passed by the last legislature
making the conducting of a gambling
resort or game a felony. For the pur
pose of testing the law, Fritz Diet
rich, a Spokane gambler, pleaded
guilty to a charge of cor ducting a
gambling game and was sentenced to
one year’s imprisonment in the peni
tentiary. The supreme court Friday
confirmed the sentence.
Prefers Mormonism to Divorce. X
Hev. R. F. Coyle of the Central Pres
byterian church of Denver declared in
a seromn recently that Mormonism
was much to be preferred to divorce.
"As between a system.” he said,
which allows a man to have his plu
or four ex-wives or a woman three
or four ex-husbands and a system
which alolws a man to have his plu
ral wives all at once, there is little
to choose. I am not sure but the odds
are on the side of the Mormon.”
Happiness is a ray of sunshine be
tween two clouds.
English Pronunciation of "Schedule.”
It will be a surprise to most persons
to learn that the English do not pro
nounce "schedule” as Americans do.
The late Dr. Tanner once moved the
house of commons to uproarious
laughter by his uncertainty with re
gard to the word. First he made the
“ch” hard, in the American manner, ,
and when that was received with a
laugh he paused and floundered over
it like a startled schoolboy. As he
plunged from one pronunciation to an
other the house shouted with merri
ment. As a matter of fact, the best
English dictionaries give a choice be
tween "sedule,” “skedule”’ and “shed
ule."
Rib Fractured by Sneeze.
Hugh B. Stultz, a Louisville carpen
ter, is Buffering from a fractured rib,
as a result of a peculiar accident Sun
day afternoon. He was sitting on his
porch, and sneezed violently. He felt
a strange pain in his left side, and
the rib seemed to yield to the touch,
so he became alarmed. Upon exam
ination it was found that the rib was
fractured.
There is still hope for the old bach
elor who can interest himself in a love
story.
Big Fire in 1907.
Lee J. Spangler of York, Pa., who
has been a close student of the Bible
for many years, making deductions
from the prophecies found therein,
has come to the conclusion that “the ,
world will be destroyed by fire in the
year 1907.” He gives his fellow men
fair warning. Mr. Spangler is a suc
cessful merchant, but he has not be
gun to close up Ills business affairs.
Had a Very Facetious Cold.
Dean Farrar has related this story:
"At one small public dinner at which
I met Charles Dicklns I was struck
with his chivalry to an absent friend.
Mr. Sims Reeves had been announced
to sing at the dinner, and, as happened
not infrequently, Mr. Sims Reeves had
something the matter with his throat
and was unable to be present. Dickens
announced this and the statement was
•ecenved with a general laugh of in
credulity. This made Dickens, who
was in the chair, very angry, and he
manfully upheld his friend. ‘‘My
friend. Mr. Sims Reeves,” he said, "re
grets his inability to fulfill his engage
ment. owing.” he added with great se
verity. “to an unfortunately amusing
and highly facetious cold!”
Squelched the “Living Lyre.”
The death of Mrs. Harriet Lane
Johnson, who for many years was
prominent in social life in Washing
ton. recalls the crushing rebuke which «
she administered to an over-forward *
Englishman. When living in London
with her uncle, James Buchanan, then
United States minister to the court of
St. James, she was seated at dinner
one evening when the lordling compli
mented her upon the beauty of her
hands, which were really remarkable.
Miss Lane was rather bored by the
man’s attentions. Finally he quoted
rGay’s line, “Hands that the rod of
empire might have swayed,” and
leaned back in his chair complacently, —
thinking he had said a clever thing.
Miss I^ane promptly repeated the line
immediately following, “Or waked to
ecstacy the living lyre,” much to the
nobleman’s discomfiture, for the fair
American took care that her voice pen
etrated as far as his.
The Wily Little Jap.
We have been spouting these ten
years about the cleverness of the Jap
anese. Our merchants have gone tc
extremes in soliciting Japanese trade
and our great insurance companies
have sent agents broadcast over the
islands of the Land of the Rising Sun
to write policies. In no other country
on the globe is the work of the insur
ance solicitors so easy. In one month
>10,000,000 of life insurance has been
placed by one New York company.
Every measly little dwarf of a Jap
wants to insure. An agent has just
discovered that in medical examina
tions he has been badly duped, one
healthy Jap standing the test for many
hundreds of his fellow countrymen.
As all Japs look alike, the doctors did
not detect the fraud until about >5,
000,000 in policies had been written.
New York insurance men are exercised
about it.
ONE OF THE LARGEST IRRIGATING CANALS
IN THE WORLD. j
A Project of the State of Idaho.
On the west side of the Snake river
In Idaho, between Blackfootand Ameri
can Falls, there is being constructed by
the American Falls Canal & Power com
pany, under a contract with the state of
Idaho, an irrigating canal 85 feet wide
and GO miles long. When finished, this
canal will be ^pe of the largest and
most perfect irrigating systems in the
world. By its means a valley of 100,000
acres of the most fertile and productive
fruit and farm land in America will lie
reclaimed. 'N,
The climate of this valley is ideal.'
Cyclones, hot winds, floods or destruc
tive storms have never been known.
Grain, grass, vegetables and all varie
ties of fruit grow in abundance. A
healthful climate, a sure crop, a heavy
yield, high prices and a ready market,
are features of this country.
Ten thousand acres of this rich land
are now ready for irrigation and settle
ment. Purchase tickets to Blackfoot
via Oregon Short Line Railway Co.
For full information concerning land,
water rights, low prices,and easy terms,
write,
Evans, Curtis & Sweet Co.,
Salt Lake City, Utah. '