FOREST FIRES LEAVE
DEATH INTHEIR WAKE
^Fighting Bravely for Lives and
Possessions, Many People
Have Probably Perished.
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it VICTIMS ARE FOUND. 4
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4 Detroit, Oct. 20.—A Journal dis- 4
t patch from Rogers City says four 4
members of the family John 4
4 Sezerski were burned to death in 4
4 forest fires near that place. 4
4- A Choboygan special states the 4
4 bodies of six children named Dust 4
4 were found near Metz. 4
4 Alpena reports Miss Slebert 4
4 burned to death In a lumber camp 4
4 at Wolf Creek. 4
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Alpena. Mich., Oct. 20.—With 27 peo
ple known to have perished yesterday
In Presque Isle county, and with forest
fires still raging, uncontrolled, through
the counties of Sheboygan, Presque
Isle, Alpena and Alcona, as well as In
-other scattered districts through north
ern Michigan, diligent search was be
gun today to determine the full extent
of the holocaust.
It may take many days to reveal the
tragedies that are likely to have oc
curred on isolated farms, with fam
ilies fighting bravely to the last to
save their lives and their mdodest
homesteads. The death list may not
be fully known for a week. But it
meeds no elaborate details to determine
that the property loss will run into
millions.
some incidents.
Whole villages have been blotted oft
the map. Logging camps by the dozen
have been destroyed with their entire
.season’s output. Near Turner, in Are
nac county, a flock of nearly 100 sheep
was burned alive. In the immediate vi
cinity of Millersburg, in Presque Isle
county alone, losses are estimated at
half a million.
Other districts where bad forest fires
are reported are in the neighborhood of
Elmira, Gaylord and Johannesburg, in
Otsego county, Cadillac, in Wexford
county, and Grayling, in Crawford
county, where 4,000,000 trees planted by
the state forestry commission, were de
stroyed; Crawn, in Grand Traverse
county, and Caseville and Bad Ax, in
Huron county.
In the upper peninsula, threatening
forest fires are reported around Sault
Ste. Marie, Menominee, Escanaba, Cal
umet and Houghton. At Ross, near
Menominee, 18 homes are reported de
stroyed, with as many more threat
ened. Navigation has been practically
suspended at Soo, owing to the dense
smoke. . „
Alpena, Long Rapids and Rogers
■City were last night reported In grave
■danger. Measures for immediate relief
of needy victims are on foot at Al
pena and other points.
First reports coming in today from
the fire swept district did not material
ly increase the sum total of damage
despite the fact that high winds swept
ever the burning section all night. The
villages of Posen and La Roque are
today regarded out of danger. Rogers
City is in the most danger today of any
settlements in Presque Isle county. A
large force of men is working to save
the town, with expectations of success.
Reports are constantly coming in of
the destruction of small logging camps,
farm buildings and isolated groups of
houses.
PUT PREMIUMS ON
VISIT OF STORK
Fireside Protective League
Offered $500 for Each In
fant, $1,000 for Triplets.
Chicago, Oct. 20.—“Quadruplets, $2,
600.” Benefits payable tor other less
startling achievements also are includ
ed in the scheme of the Home and Fire
side Protective league.
This was shown by evidence heard
today when Miss A. C. Jacobson, M. D.,
was arraigned on the charge of having
aided in swindling Mrs. Marie Stolze
Tiau, 1865 Arlington place, through the
league. The item concerning quad
ruplets seemed to especially fascinate
several matronly women in Municipal
Judge Gemmills' court room.
Another of the items was $500 to be
paid as reward, or recompense, to any
member of the league enduring the
matrimonial yoke one year. The sched
ule also included these items:
;• "One baby, after a membership :
; of one year in league, $500. :
; "Two babies, must be twins, at :
any time after membership in the :
: league, $750. :
- “Triplets, $1,000.” :
Also there was an anniversary bene
fit of $10,000. payable to each member
every 10th year, regardless of babies,
and $500 death benefit.
OXFORD TO HONOR
THEO. ROOSEVELT
London. Oct. 20.—The Times Is In
formed that President Roosevelt will
visit England after his African trip
early In 1910. He will deliver the Ro
manes lecture at Oxford and will re
ceive the honorary degree of D. C. L.,
which Oxford already has bestowed
upon Emperor William.
Washington, D. C„ Oct. 20.—The re
port from London as to President
Roosevelt’s movements following upon
his trip to Africa after leaving the
White House is substantially true. This
•elaboration of t^ie president's plans was
admitted at the White House to be in
process of arrangement, but had not
Teached a stage of completion desira
ble for publicity until Wednesday, on
which day Lord Northcliffe, present
owner of the London Times, was the
president’s guest at luncheon.
TOWN CRIPPLED BY FIRE.
Barron, Wis., Oct. 20.—Fire early to
day In the business section of the city
caused a loss estimated at $70,000.
Bloomer and Rice Lake responded to
■appeals for aid.
SHARP CAMPAIGN
CAUSES SUICIDE
Newark, N. J., Oct. 20.—Judge How
ell, of the criminal court, shot himself
in the head In the city park today
while the court was waiting for him
to appear. He probably will not re
cover.
The Judge was criticised In the poli
tical campaign. Last night he chal
lenged his accusers to reply to ques
tions which he asked them,
A SORRY SHOW.!
Practical Workings of Oklahoma
Bank Deposit Guaranteo Law
Explained.
Reckless Banking and Speculative
methods ■ Follow Passage oi
Law.
The practical workings of the Okla
homa law guaranteeing bank deposits
were described by Mr. J. \V. McNeal,
one of the most substantial bankers of
that state, and president of the Na
tional Bank of Commerce, Guthrie, in
i short public address at Denver, Oct.
1, IOCS.
Mr. McNeal said:
“To my mind It is the most vicious
and pernicious law ever forced on a
body of honorable men. It contains a
provision for an unlimited mutual lia
bility for all the defalcations, lack of
judgment, dishonest and incompetent
bankers, without any recognition of
the time-tried, strong banker, who may
have spent a lifetime in building up his
reputation. Under the provisions of
this law, the State Banking Board is
required to levy an assessment equal to
ane per cent, of the average deposits
In each bank, and, in the future, to levy
as often as may be required, a sum
sufficient to maintain this fund, at rule
per cent of the average deposits of the
state.
W11U i a* uuiittn.
“What has been some of the results
of the actual operation of this law in
Oklahoma? There have been seventy-'
tt'ven new state bank charters Issued
since the adoption of this law, forty
two of these with a capital stock of
only $10,000 each. There has been a
regular hegira for starting new state
oanks without regard to the necessities
of the community or the character of
the men starting the banks.
“We have one Instance of where a
aian failed in Kansas, under his own
name, then started up in business
under his wife's name and failed, beat
ing his creditors out of $70,000, not
baying them a cent. Under the old ter
ritorial law, lie attempted, under the
guise of relatives to start a bank, but
In two years his business was so trifling
that it forced him out of the business.
He now has already started three
banks in Oklahoma and boasts that he
will start twelve more. Within sixty
days from starting one of his banks. I
am informed, and his statement shows,
that he had a deposit account of over
$109,000. His cashier is under indict
ment for embezzlement. I hope and
trust that he will be able to explain
the matter without wrong to him. I
only mention these facts to show that
it is immaterial what character of men
are at the head of banks, they get the
business by claiming that the state is
guaranteeing them and it makes no
difference whatever as to the character
or personality of the officers. A man
may bet all his money on the races,
may gamble on the Board of Trade,
may fight joint whisky, may lead a
licentious life, and go out and solicit
deposits, saying ‘What do you care
what kind of a life f lead, the state is
! behind me?’
Bank* Without Capital.
“Two men recently started a bank of
$25,000 capital, in Oklahoma City, a
town of forty or fifty thousand inhab
itants. When asked how they expected
to succeed with a bank of $25,000 cap
ital in a city of that size, one of them
replied: “What do we care about cap
ital, the state is in partnership with
us?” The president of the First Na
tional Bank of Perry was also a mer
chant and failed in business and was
compelled to go through bankruptcy.
Naturally he had to resign his connec
tion with the First National Bank. lie
new has taken out a charter and is
president of a state bank in Oklahoma.
One man, when prohibition closed his
saloon, quit the saloon business and
started up a bank and has thirty or
forty thousand on deposit.
“There can be but one deduction
from this enormous rush for starting
new state banks. They are being start
ed by irresponsible, inexperienced
men, and, instead of indicating a solid
growth for the state of Oklahoma, they
indicate an era of irresponsible and
wild cat work.
“One of the dangerous evils of this
Guaranty Law is that it guarantees
credit deposits as well as cash depos
its. Now, you ail know that not more
than one-tenth of a bank's daily depos
its are in actual cash. Nine-tenths are
credit deposits, are either checks and
drafts or proceeds of loans. When
these credit deposits, that are made as
the proceeds of a loan, are guaranteed,
tlie guaranty certainly reaches to the
guaranteeing of the loan itself, for the
reason that the deposit is merely the
result of the loan.
Fictitious Deposits.
“I have heard it discussed, and I
I think it feasible for a dishonest man
or set of men to organize a $10,000
bank, then create a lot of fictitious de
posits as the proceeds of a lot of dum
my notes, then let the bank close its
doors and call on the guaraniy fund to
pay these deposits. Naturally, the de
posits will be credited to men in no
way identified with the note itself.
“We had one bank failure in my town
for something like $1,000,000. This
would have taken more than five per
cent assessment on the deposits of the
state banks of Oklahoma. Supposing a
bank had $100,000 deposits on a capital
stock of $10,000. Fifty per cent, or one
half of its capital stock, would be con
fiscated to make up the one loss. It is
more dangerous to the honest, small
banker than to the large one, because
the large one can prepare himself to
weather the storm.
“Under guise of this law an attempt
is being made to put all banks on an
exact equality. The man who has spent
a lifetime in building up an honorable
reputation is sacrificed for the sake of
making some poor, incompetent, dis
honest banker exactly equal to him. It
is a mistake to suppose that sacrificing
the assets of the solvent bank is going
to prevent the rascal from falling.
There is more money in it for him to
fail, under this law, than there will be
to run.’’
REMEDY WOULD RILL.
Hard, Painstaking Work Necessary
to Reforms—Not the Instantane
ous Panaceas of Bryan.
(Governor Hughes at Sioux City, la.,
Oct. 6.)
If you look conditions squarely In
the fact, you see that what labor wants
first of alt is work, and that is depend
ent upon the country’s prosperity. 11 is
hard to protect the prosperity of the
country and cut out abuses; hard to
provide schemes that won’t hurt busi
ness^ and will cure evils. It is hard to
do things right, but we have got to take
the time and labor to do them right.
In answer to a question I put to him
the other day Bryan said that an ounce
of remedy was worth a pound of cure.
That is a fallicy; an ounce of his rem
edy would kill the patient. What we
need is the expression of the sound
thought and good judgment of the peo
ple upon which we can depend. I have
had a time for two years in New York
lighting the fight and I know it is hard
work. You can’t have a Hash of genius
and change it all in a twinkling. What
you have to have is work—hard, con
scientious work, intelligent and thought
ful, as well as determined, to make
remedies square with the exigencies of
our life.
When we consider everything, what
we want is to perfect the upbuilding of
our country and promote a steady, for
ward movement in the middle of the
road, as is the aim of the Republican
party and our great future President,
Taft.
The Republican party is not only
rich in men, but rich in practical ami
beneflciont principles—it is rich, too.
in its record, in promises performed
and pledges fulfilled, and so we are for
party and party principles first, and
will acquiesce in the choice of the ma
jority, rallying around the standard
bearer who will carry 11s again to vic
tory.—Hon. James S. Sherman.
What I am anxious to emphasize is
that there is a wide economic and bus
iness field in which the interests of the
wealthiest capitalist and the humblest
laborer are exactly the same.—IIou.
Win. H. Taft, at Cooper Union, New
York City.
When Mr. Taft defends liis own rec
ord as a judge or his attitude toward
labor or his policy in the Philippines
or ids administrative work in the War
Department, he makes strong and vig
orous speeches.—New York World
(Deni.).
“The so-called colonial policy of the
United States has added to our trade,
already, something over one hundred
million dollars a year."—Mr. Taft, at
Cleveland. O.
Political Snapshots.
“The present business system of the
country rests on the protective tariff
and any attempt to change it to a free
trade basis will certainly lend to dis
aster”—Mr. Taft, at Columbus, O.
Itryau is developing into a real hu
morist. lie has advanced so far along
the line that he can now announce him
self as “the advance agent of prosper
ity” without cracking a smile.—Sioux
City Journal.
LETS CAT OUT OF BAG.
German Manufacturers to Flood
America With Goods if Bryan
Should be Elected.
The following cablegram to" the New
York Sun under date of Oct. 3 shows
what German manufacturers expect to
do should Bryan be elected:
“Berlin, Oct. 3.—The gladiatorial
fight between President Roosevelt and
Mr. Bryan has suddenly aroused Ger
man interest in the American Presi
dential campaign and columns are now
devoted to extracts from the mammoth
campaign documents of the combatants.
German hopes of Democratic victory
have been revived and many merchants
and manufacturers have suddenly
grown optimistic about a revision of the
tariff which will enable them to flood
America with their goods."
The German manufacturers evidently
are shrewd observers. If Mr. Bryan
should be elected and his “downward
revision” doctrine with ultimate free
trade be carried into effect we would
soon be flooded with German-made
goods of every description, and our fac
tories could go out of business.
Protective Tariff Theory.
On the other hand, should Mr. Taft
be elected our friends the German man
ufacturers would not be able to break
through the wall of protection which
would be maintained for the benefit of
American labor.
The protective-tariff theory as de
fined in the Republican platform, and
as adhered to by Mr. Taft, Is that in
order to maintain high wages in this
country there must be “the imposition
of such duties as will equal the differ
ence between the cost of production at
home and abroad, together with a rea
sonable profit to American industries.”
Mr. Taft points out that the cost of pro
duction Is determined chiefly by these
three elements: “The cost of material,
the cost of labor and the Interest on
capital, or what is known as the manu
facturer’s profit.”
“The normal operation of protection,
where competition has free scope,” Mr.
Toft asserts, “is to lower the cost of
producing and so to reduce prices to
the public. As a consequence, after ten
years’ operation of a particular sched
ule, it ought to result that the cost of
production in this country Is made less,
and therefore that the difference be
tween the cost of production in tills
country and abroad is less, and there
fore that the duty ought to be reduced.”
Duties at Next Administration.
The function of the next administra
tion is not to be spectacular in the en
actment of great statutes laying down
new codes of morals or asserting a new
standard of business integrity, but its
work lies In the details of furnishing
men and machinery to aid the hand of
the executive in making the supervision
of the transactions (of corporations) so
close, so careful, so constant, that the
business men engaged in it may know
promptly when they are transgressing
the line of lawful business limitations,
and may be brought up standing when
ever this occurs, and may be prosecuted
when the violations of law are flagrant
and defiant, and rromptly restrained
and penalized.—-judge Taft, at St.
Charles. Mo.
It is greatly in the interest of the
workingman, therefore, that corporate
capital should be fairly treated. Any
injustice done to it acts directly upon
the wage earners, who must look to cor
porate wealth for their employment.—
lion. Wm. H. Taft, at Cooper Union.
New York City.
The tariff affects trusts only as It
affects all other interests. It makes
all tiles*'- Interests, large or small, profit
able ; and its benefits can be taken
from the large only under penalty of
taking them from the small also.—
President Roosevelt, at Minneapolis,
Minn., April 7, 1903.
Taft's deeds against Bryan's word.
That Contrast, invited by Mr. Roose
velt cannot fail to make votes for Mr.
Tn ft.
TO MIDDLE WEST ARD ROCKY MO URIAH STATES' REPUBLICANS.
...
You want Mr. Taft and Mr. Sherman elected, and they cannot he
elected unless the Republican National Committee has sufficient money
to |>ay the legitimate expenses of the campaign. It costs money to
maintain an organisation. It requires money to pay for printing, post
age, salaries of stenographers and clerks at headquarters, traveling ex
penses of speakers and numerous other details that go to make the
campaign end successfully. Congress, as you know, has passed a law
making It unlawful for us to solicit money from corporations. We
must depend upon the contributions of Individual voters. If every Re
publican In this Western Division would contribute one dollar to the
campaign fund, we will be able to do nil the things that the voters
want done; we will lie able to elect. Taft and Sherman. Will you help?
If so. please send one dollar to the chairman of your State Finance
Committee, whose name appears in the list following, or send it direct
to me and you will receive the official receipt of the Republican Na
tional Committee. Respectfully,
FRED W. UrilAM,
Assistant Treasurer.
Contributions may be sent by cheek or money order to any of the
following named chairmen of the various State finance committees:
Colorado, lion. Whitney Newton. Denver.
Idaho, Hon. Frank F. Johnson, Wallace.
Illinois. Col. Frederick II. Smith, Peoria.
Iowa. Hon. Lafayette Young, Des Moines.
Kansas, Hon. Frank E. Grimes, Topeka.
Michigan, Hon. John N. Bugley, Detroit.
Missouri, lion. O. L. Whitelaw. 40!! North Second street. St. Louis.
Montana, Hon. Thomas A. Marlow, Helena.
Nebraska, Hon. John C. Wharton, Omaha.
New Mexico. Hon. J. W. Reynolds, Santa Fe.
North Dakota, Hon. James A. Buchanan, Buchanan.
Oregon, l)r. II. W. Coe, Portland.
South Dakota, Hon. O. W. Thompson. Vermillion.
Washington, Hon. James D. lloge. Seattle.
Or to Fred W. T'pham, Assistant Treasurer, 234 Michigan avenue,
Chicago, Illinois.
WHAT HIGH PRICES
MEAN TO THE FARMER
In 1895 Two Hundred Bushels of
Kansas Corn Bought 1,000
Feet of Lumber.
Now One Hundred Bushels Buys
2,000 Feet—A Concrete Illustra
tion Showing Why Land Values ,
Have Increased.
Out in Kansas a great deal is being
said just now about the lumber trust,
the high prices of lumber and the ter
rible expenses attached to the building
of houses, cribs and other buildings,
says the Jewell County Republican.
The principal buildings being erected
this fall on the farms are corn cribs
In which to store away the immense
crop which was raised throughout Cen
tral Kansas, and is now matured aud
will be ready for the crib in a very
short time. In a political discussion
here the other day the old story of
the high prices came up and It was as
serted that a large amount of corn
would necessarily be placed on the
ground this year because of the high
price of lumber. One farmer who has
no particular love for the trusts, but
Is inclined to look on the bright side
of everything and who Is well satis
fied with present conditions, declared
that in 1895, when lumber was very
cheap, and likewise corn, It took 200
bushels of corn to buy 1,000 feet of
cribbing lumber. Now, when lumber
is at the highest point it ever reached
in the history of Jewell County, 100
bushels of corn will purchase 2,000 feet
of cribbing lumber. According to J. W.
Berry, of this county, who is a good
authority on the prices of farm prod
ucts and lumber, and makes this asser
tion, using corn as a purchasing power,
lumber is only one-fourth as high as It
was thirteen years ago.’
Slow on Easy street.
Although this county is in the wheat
belt of Kansas, many of the farmers
have raised corn. Both crops were
just like they had been made to order,
and the prices will place the tillers of
the soil on Easy street for some years
to come.
In Jewell County there is a farm
which has been on the mnrket for sale
for the past year, and was held at $20
an acre. The farm consists of 120
acres. Fifty acres are planted to corn.
The other day the entire crop was sold
for $10 an acre, the purchaser to gath
er the corn, leaving the fodder on the
ground. A part of the field will bo
light and will not average morp than
twenty bushels to the acre, while the
remainder of the field will give up from
forty-five to sixty bushels. Fifty acres
of the land was planted to wheat and
the value of the crop was equally as
great as the crop of corn, while the
five-acre patch of alfalfa produced even
more money in proportion than either
of the other two crops.
Values Increased Five Times.
There are no improvements whatever
on the farm, but the price has been
raised 100 per cent and the owner is
not very anxious to sell at that. How
ever, he says If he had the slightest
idea that Bryan would be elected on the
third of November he would sell his
land at $30 an acre, arid in two years
he could buy it back and make more
money than by farming it.
In this county there is another farm
which was sold In 1894. There ore SO
acres in the farm, and the purchase
price was $500, or 5,000 bushels of
corn at the prevailing price at that
time. In the meantime, the 80 has.
been considerably Improved. A part
of the land has been put to tame grass,
a fine orchard is now one of the assets,
good buildings have been erected and
the land has grown more valuable be
cause of the development of the coun
try. This month the land was sold
again, the purchase price being $2,500,
or the price of 5,000 bushels of corn at
the present price.
Reanonn That Ar® Still Good.
“I am sending Taft to the Philip
pines," said President McKinley, “be
cause he is the broadest and the most
unselfishly brave man I know, and be
cause ho will carry the spirit of the con
stitution of the United States in hit
very blood.” These seem to bo excellent
reasons also for sending Taft to the
White House. The American people
will undoubtedly show on November 3
that they have come to that conclusion
—Canton, O., Repository.
The effect of the organization of la
bor, on the whole, has been highly
beneficent principles—it is rich, too
employment for the whole laboring
community* I have not the slightest
doubt, and no one who knows anything
about the subject can doubt, that tin
existence of labor unions steadies
wages.—lion. Wm. 11. Taft, at Coopei
Union, New York City.
“In his own personal experience Mr.
Bryan furnished proof that the peoplt
do rule. His. candidacy now is a pro.
test against the popular verdict twic*
officially recorded. He is arraying bli
soaring ambition against the repeated
decisions of the millions of electors.'
—Hon. James S. Sherman, Republican
Vice Presidential candidate.
A gift for appointing the wrong mat
would not be a desirable Quality In i
president.
FISH IS OUT OF
THE I. C. RAILROAD
Practically Last Vistage of Op
position to Harriman Wiped
Out by Change.
Chicago, Oct. 19.—In connection wlth|
the election of John G. Shedd. of Mar-,
shall Field & Co, on the board. It can,
be stated positively that both S. Fish
and J. D. Cutting have parted with
nearly all of their Illinois Central stock
and have ceased to be factors in tha
affairs »f the road.
During the past 12 months Mr. Fish,
has disposed of nearly $1,240,000 worth'
of stock, par value, and over $1,700,000
market value and Mr. Cutting has soldi
approximately $60,000 worth, par value.
Mr. Fish’s original holding, or his hold
ing at the time he. tried to regain his,
position as president of the road, was
12,432 shares of stock, while Director!
Cutting held approximately 1,000
shares. Today there stand on tne books!
of the Illinois Central road and In thej
name of Stuyvesant Fish not to exceedi
150 or 200 shares and In the name of!
Mr. Cutting there are not to exceed)
500 shares.
How the large holdings were dis
posed of Is a secret, but it Is thought)
that Mr. Fish sold his shares from tlmei
to time through New York brokers.
That Edward H. Harriman, his enemy,1
secured a large portion Is probable, and
Home may have gone to Mr. Shedd.
The elimination of Director Cutting*
practically removes the last vestige ofi
Fish influence on the Illinois Central!
board.
MISSOURI MAKES A
FORTUNE FOR INVALID
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 19.—Fortune has
been unexpectedly thrust upon Judge
J. H. Broady, of this city, although It
finds him lying upon a bed a helpless
paralytic. Judge Broady has been the
owner of a tract of six or eight acres
of land lying along the Missouri river
In Nemaha county. At one time It
formed part of a fair sized farm, but
the river ate most of the place up one
spring. In recent years, however, It
has changed its course, and has been
adding many acres yearly to the tract,
until now it comprises between BOO and
600 acres.
Last spring the greater portion of
this tract was planted to various crops,
but along In June the capricious river,
while in flood, destroyed practically
everything that had been planted, and
when the waters subsided they left tho
whole farm plastered over with mud
three or four feet deep. But here la
where fortune lurked.
In tho mud and subsoil thus washed
on the land were myriads of seeds from
cottonwood trees farther up the river,
and within a few weeks these sprung to
life In the shape of hundreds of thou
sands of little seedlngs, worth In tho
aggregate three or four times as much
as the crops they displaced. These
seedlings are now being disposed of by
the thousands to Nebraska nurserymen
at a good price. They are easily re
moved, and there Is a big demand for
them. One nurseryman contracted for
750,000 of these seedlings.
MAKE FIVE SHADES
OF CORNSTALK PAPER
Substitute for Wood Pulp, It Is
Believed, Will Greatly
Cheapen Cost.
Washington, Oct. 19.—Many experi
ments have been made to discover some
other material to replace wood pulp In
the manufacture of print paper. Some
5,000 different materials have been test
ed, but vainly.
The chemistry bureau of the depart
ment of agriculture has been one of
tlie most earnest workers in this mat
ter for years, but not until this week
have the results been so positively suc
cessful as to permit any announcement.
The first practicable samples of tho
new paper, made from cornstalks, have
been manufactured by Dr. H. S. Bris
tol and his assistants.
Dr. Bristol has carried his experi
ments to the point of making the paper
in live shades.
The w’hite paper is made from the
hard outside shell of the stalk, and the
yellow grades from the pith. The yel
low grades have much longer fiber and
resemble the paper made from linen
rags or cotton. This kind of paper Is
soft and pliable.
Millions of tons of cornstalks will be
available for this new manufacture. At
present the stalks are cut and used,
only as winter food for the stock on the
farms. ,
The process of manufacturing the
new invention is much easier than that
involved in reducing, wood pulp to pa
per. The chemists have used in their
experiments the "soda cooked" process
which has been found to be the best
for making the finer grades of wood
pulp papers. But the cornstalke re
quire only about two and a half hours
of cooking In this process, against IS
to 14 hours needed to soften the wood
pulp.
It Will Be Cheap,
So far the new paper has been made!
In a laboratory without special ma
chinery or the wholesale production,
necessary to secure cheapness, but tha
| department is going to experiment soon
! on the larger scale, and the officials be
| lieve the price of white paper as well
| us other grades will be reduced to *:
! startling degree.
, The estimates of the department am
I based on the present cost of wood pulp.
paper, which Is $13 a ton. With wood
| costing $S a cord, that is the price of
i the paper. With cornstalks costing
about $15 a ton, adding in the cost of
bringing in the bulky material to tha
j Washington laboratory, the cost has
been about $14 a ton. There is no doubt
in the minds of department chemists
that increased production will cut this
cost In half._
KERN’S SON HAS PARALYSIS.
Indianapolis, Oct. 19.—Tho 8-year-old sop
md namesake of John W. Kern, demo
-ratlc vice presidential candidate, Is seri
ously ill from Infantile paralysis.
| YOUNG JOHN GARFIELD IS
SUSPENDED FOR HAZING
Waterbury, Conn.. Oct. 19.—The fac
ulty of Taft school here yesterday or
dered four suspensions for hazing, and
the boys all left for home today. One
of the boys Is John N. Garfield, son of
the secretary of the interior. Young
Garfield is suspended for three weeks,
and the others for six weeks. Threa.
of them were members of the regular
football team.
