CAPITAL (ITT (ILAT
TERMINAL TAXATION TRIUMPHS
IN THE SENATE.
MEMBERSHIP IS NEARLY UNANIMOUS
House Members Refused to Re-Com
mit Primary Bill for Amendment,
and Stand Firmly for An
Open Primary.
Making Headway.
The Nebraska legislature made an
other step forward with the aid of
Governor Sheldon. The two-eent fare
bill is a l-.tw, following the pledge to
reduce passenger rates. The em
ployers' liability bill has been signed
by Governor Sheldon. The senate
recommended lor passage the termin
al taxation bill. The house passed a
bill clothing railway commission with
power, an elective commission created
by a constitutional amendment adopt
ed by the legislature two years ago.
years ago.
An anti-pass bill has been passed
by each house and an agreement is
confidently expected. The house has
agreed upon a direct primary bill, de
manded by all parties and it will pass
that body and be refrained by the sen
ate. The two houses continue to keep
on the trail of the corporations. The
house agreed upon a reciprocal de
murrage bill, a measure opposed by
the railroad lobby. The senate rail
road committee decided to report out
the Saekett reciprocal demurrage bill
and the same committee will report
out the Aldrich maximum rate bill, a
measure that makes the rates in force
January 1, 1907, maximum rates, and
gives the tailroad commission power
either to lower or increase these rates.
The senate committee on railroads
also decided to report out the Ashton
bill to require railroads to weigh coal
in transit. The senate has already
passed the Saekett bill to require rail
roads to pay a heavy penalty for the
confiscation of coal in transit. In com
mittee of the whole the senate recom
mended for passage an anti-brewers'
bill, a blli that was pushed forward
without the aid of the prohibition ele
ment that has lobbied much during
the present session. The only "side
step" taken by the legislature Tues
day was the action of tile senate in
retracing its steps and recommitting
the pure food bill at the request of
manufacturers of drugs and patent
medicines and retail druggists of the
state, a bill that had been ordered to
a third reading.
Terminal Taxation.
The senate, in committee of the
whole, wilh \\ ilsej' of Frontier in the
chair, recommended for passage S. F,
2fi5. by Thomas of Douglas, the ter
minal taxation bill. The measure was
taken up despite Ashtons effort to
have action deferred until the house
had acted.
The bill was the second bill on the
general file as reported by the senate
sifting committee. Sibley of Lincoln
opposed the measure in its present
form and sought to amend by striking
out that part giving assessors power
to assess franchise values when list
ing tangible property in cities and vil
lages. His motion was defeated.
King ot Polk opposed the bill on the
ground that it was unconstitutional,
and that it would repeal that part of
the present revenue law relating to
the distribution of railroad property.
Sibie.v succeeded in getting the bill
amended by .including Pullman and
private car companies. This was op
posed by Thomas of Omaha because
of the smallness of the tax th-at would
be collected from such companies.
Constitutional Convention.
The action of the house in recom
mending to pass a resolution calling
a jofnt constitutional convention is one
of the important acts of that body at
this session. When the bill, intro
duced by E. W. Brown of Lancaster
was considered, without discussion
the representatives decided to submit
the matter to the people and if the
senate is agreeable, this will be done.
At the general election in 1908, the
people will decide whether to have the
convention and then at the following
session of the legislature provision
would be made for the meeting, the
new constitution being then submit
ted to the people in two years from
that date. Many members think that
this proposition will prevail.
Gilman Returns.
Representative L. S. Gilman of
Lancaster made the record for recov
ery front appendicitis. He was in the
hospital six days and appeared at his
desk in the house slightly pale but
able to take the floor and defend a bill
the members had been holding for his
return. When he rose to speak the
members greeted him with applause.
Anti-Railroad Bill.
The passage of S. F. 256. by Sack
ett of Gagfe, was not accomplished
without a struggle. The bill provides
that railroads must pay the value of
goods confiscated in transit and in ad
dition 50 per cent of the value of the
goods. The bill was placed on its
passage with the emergency clause.
A total of twenty-two votes is requit
ed to pass a bill with an emergency
clause. The bill received twenty and
ten were recorded in the negative.
The bill was then placed on its pas
sag without the emergency clause and
was passed
A delegation of Omaha people came
to Lincoln and had a hearing before
the senate committee on municipal
affairs in regard ...to provisions of
Omaha charter. “It appears that the
amendments to the charter have been
drawn so as to permit Andrew Rose
water to run the city of Omaha, but
this is not pleasing to many,” said an
Omaha man. “Some prefer to have
Victor Rosewater run the city. It is
thought that after the committees and
people from Omaha get through, the
Omaha delegation will have something
to say about what shall go into the
charter.”
Terminal Taxation Bill Passed.
A big job is now behind the senate.
That body passed the terminal taxa
tion bill and recommended for pas
sage the joint committee bill cloth
ing with power the railway commis
sion, and both these measures will bd
reported to the house for action, the
terminal taxation bill for endorsement
and concurrence in the senate amend
ments to the railway commission bill.
Lively times are expected in the house
and if that body endorses these twc
measures, there will b little of im
portance left in the way of an agree
ment between the two houses except
a concurrence in changes In the anti
pass bill and the anti-iobby bill and
appropriation bill. The anti-pass bill
has been passed by the house and »
similar measure has been passed by
the senate, and now an agreement Is
In order. It is thought that an
amendment in th'e house defining
bona fide railway employes to be those
who give most of their time to the
service of a railway will end that point
of dispute.
In the matter of an anti-lobby bill,
the senate has decided to take up the
house bill, H. R. No. 18, but the
changes proposed have not been de
cided upon by the judiciary commit
tee. The committee will probably re
tain that feature of the bill making it
apply to the paid agents and strike
out that part preventing state officers
and''their deputies and clerks from
trying to influence the members of the
legislature. There is a disposition to
trust the state officers in the matter
of lobbying. It is thought they have
as much right to be heard as the mem
bers of the legislature tlier.iselves,
both being elected by the votes of the
peoul.
The house has agreed on the salary
bill and it will get out the other ap
propriation bills as fast as possible
during the week in mild doses, if
all this work is accomplished during
the next week, it is not believed there
will be any necessity for the legisla
tors remaining in session longer than
March 150 or one week later, April C.
No Change in Form of Ballot.
H. R. No. 132, permitting the official
ballot at elections to be printed in
two or more columns, instead of In a
single column, was indefinitely post
( poned after a thorough debate. It was
urged that the bill would give coun
try printers a chance to print the bal
i lot instead of giving the metropolitan
[Hinting offices a monopoly on the
, "shoe-string" type of ballot. Aldrich,
one who opposed the hill, said the con
I venience of the printer was not the
I sole question. He said the people had
become used to the present form of
' ballot and a change should not he
made unless iis advocates were able
to show that an improvement would
be the result. Sackett, who moved to
indefinitely postpone the bill believed
| that many voters would stop after
voting the first column of the propos
ed ballot and would neglect to vote
the second column.
H. R. No. 254 Signed.
Governor Sheldon L-as signed H. R.
No. 251, the Hill by Representative
Knowies of Dodge, which amends the
charters of small cities of the state
having between 5,000 and 25,000 popu
lation. The measure was hastily
rushed through both house and senate
| during the last few days in order to
make it effective in time to take effect
before the spring elections, this being
the purpose of the framers of the bill
•and the representatives of the cities
: affected. ft will make the electric
| light commissioner in Fremont ap
pointive; will permit the election o£
a woman treasurer in the city of Hast
ings. and will affect paving and street
regulations in other cities.
Postpone Amendment.
The house committee on constitu
tional amendments recommended for
indefinite postponement the joint resa
lution for a constitutional amendment
prohibiting traffic in liquor. The
; committee gave a hearing to the lad
i ies who me interested in submitting
the proposition, but decided that since
an amendment for a constitutional
convention is extremely likely to bo
submitted there is no need to push
through a variety of other amend
ments at this time.
—
Reconsider Anti-Lobby Bill.
The state senate retraced its trail
j at the request of the governor by re
I considering the vote whereby the anti
lobby bill, H. R. No. 18, was indefi
nitely postponed. The bill was re
turned from the house, before the re
consideration was taken and after
some discussion it was committed to
the judiciary committee for amend
ment.
New Building Provided For.
In the appropriations bill a $50,000
appropriation for a men's hospital at
the Lincoln asylum was made to ac
commodate the growing number of pa
tients of this class. Under the dipso
maniac law there would soon be a
limit to the capacity of the institution
in its present size.
Car Shortage.
The railway commission, having re
j ceived notice from the senate that
i that body desired to have an investi
1 gation as to the alleged shortage of
| cars, has commenced an inquiry. The
house passed a similar resolution.
: The senate resolution empowers the
| commission to send for persons and
papers and examine witnesses, but
the commission has not been clothed
with power by an act of the legisla
ture and it does not Xee> that it has
power ot examine witnesses. Instead
it will do all that is possible to ob
tain information.
State Treasurer Brain received $24,
i »M)0 of bonds issued by the state ol
i Tennessee on a purchase for the state
| through W. E. Barkley of Lincoln
I The bonds were first required to be
| registered in the state of Tennessee
i In the name of the state of Nebraska
i They were issued March 4 of the pres
; ent year and bear 3 per cent interest
I -and become due in six year3. They
! will net the state of Nebraska 3.75
| and 1-10 per cent interest. The price
! paid by state treasurer for the bonds
was $23,191. The purchase was au
thorized by the state board of educa
tional lands and funds
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| NEW HEAD OF CANAL COMMISSION
Maj. Goethals. the new chairman of the isthmian canal commission and
chief engineer of the canal, has had a long and varied experience in engineer
ing in river and harbor and dam and lock work all over the United States.
He will receive $15,000 a year, including his army salary.
THE WORLD’S GREAT MEN.
Vote by Japanese School Children—
Washington and Lincoln Lead.
Dr. Yamakawa. formerly president
of Tokio University, recently offered
to present a picture of a famous man
or woman to the Iriye primary school
at Hiogo and asked that a vote of the
children should be taken to choose the
subject of the portrait. The 343 boys
and girls attending the school were
consequently requested a day or two
ago to write down the name of their
favorite great man or woman. Wash
ington and Lincoln came out at the
head of the list with 09 and 53 votes,
respectively, while Admiral Togo was
a bad third with no more than 2S.
Fourth on the list was Ninomiya San
toku, a famous philanthropist of olden
days, who endeavored to construct a
canal at Kioto at his own cost for the
benefit of the people. The fifth was
another American, Benjamin Franklin,
with 21 votes, and after him came
Kusunoki Masashige (Nanko), 14;
Miss Florence Nightingale, 13; Wage
no Kiyomaro la famous Japanese loy
alist), 12; Marquis Oyama, 11; Xel
sop, 11; Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 7; Gen.
Kodama, 7; Saigo Takamori, 7; N'ak
TEACHES DOGS A LESSON.
Animals on One Letter Carrier’s
Route Never Attack. Him Twice.
“No one comes in contact with all
sorts of dogs more than the letter car
rier,” said the man in gray as the
interviewer trudged along beside him.
“Take it outside the business districts
and every other family ha3 a dog.
Many of them 1 pay no attention to,
but about one out of five aches to get
his teeth into my legs at first sight.
It is a part of my duty to teach such
curs a lifelong lesson.”
“Do you kick them?” was asked.
“That would be foolish. I carry
here in my side pocket about a quar
ter of a pound of dry fine cut tobacco
You see it is almost as fine as snuff.
The dog that means to bite you won't
come charging down with a roar. He
sneaks up behind and gives a jump in
I am ready for it. Without seeming
to be watching, I kn#w where he is,
and at the right moment he gets the
tobacco dust in his eyes. Then there
is a circus. That dog goes through
such a performance as you never wit
nessed, and his owner, man or woman
indulges in all sorts of threats. I de
liver the mail and say nothing and gc
CONGRESSMAN UNDER A CLOUD
Secretary Hitchcock has sent an agent to investigate a claim tiled by Con
gressman Mondell on 160 acres near Newcastle, Wyo., on which there are no
evidences of residence and under which coal has been found.
aye Toju, 6: Admiral Uriu, 6; Muras
aki Shikibu, 5; Bismarck, 5; Suga
wara Michizane, 4; Commander Hi
rose, 4; Napoleon. 4. A few votes each
were cast for President Roosevelt,
Niijima Jo, Galileo, Columbus, Socra
tes, Count Katsura, Premier Saionji,
Marquis Yamagata, Gen. Nogi, Peter
the Great and Admiral Makharoff.
Blondes and Brunettes.
It Is said, though whether it is
worth remembering or not is a mat
ter of choice, that more fair people
than dark ones remain unmarried,
and people residing in the country
have lighter hair that those who live
in towns, owing to the fact that they
are more in the sun and fresh air.
Black hair was most esteemed by the
ancient Jews, while the Greeks and
Romans gave the preference to the
golden shades. Those with dark hair
work most, those with fair hair think
the most. Red hair is a sign of pas
sion. jealousy and ardor; auburn
shades indicate delicacy and refine
ment of taste; dark brown hair com
bines strength and susceptibility;
while black hair denotes hasty tem
per, self-will and revenge? says Wom
an's Life. As to complaints, some
one has said black-haired' people are
most liable to consumption, brown
haired to rheumatism and heart dis
ease, red-haired to pleurisy, pneu
monia, ague and neuralgia and fair
haired persons to skin diseases.
Unfortunate Pantomimiat.
Many stories are told of misadven
tures in pantomimes, which, however
amusing to the onlookers, are no
laughing matter for the unfortunate
actors. On one occasion Mr. Poluskl
was taking thfe part of- clown in a
Liverpool theater. In jumping front
the roof of a house the stage gavt>
way and he fell a distance of 40 feet
—luckily into a heap of sawdusk.
What hurt him more than the fall was
the fact that, instead of receiving
sympathy, he was actually fined for
the damage done to the stage.
on. The dog’s eyes are sore for a
fortnight, and if he afterward meets
me on the street he will drop his tail
and make a bolt for home. It’s a les
son he never forgets, and I believe it
increases his owner’s respect for Un
cle Sam's uniform.”
Hogs’ Strange Behavior.
Hogs over near the good church of
Providence are acting queerly here re
cently. One of my grave, dignified
stewards was telling me about it th<
other day.
“Brother W—,’’ said he, “a strange
thing is happening over in our com
munlty.” “What in the world is it?'
said 1. "Well,” replied my steward
“it's the hogs. They are acting as 1
never saw them before. They are ac
tually rubbing their tails off.” “Yot
don't tell me—rubbing their tails off?’
Steward—“Yes, sir, it's a fact. I
seems it is some sort of a disease tha1
peculiarly affects that part of tht
hog’s anatomy, and he goes to a pin«
tree and rubs until the tail is excom
municated. We have more bobtai
hogs in my section than you cat
shake a stick at.’’—Southern Christian
Advocate.
Thinking of a Noiseless Time.
Mother—Tommy, little boys should
be seen and not heard when taking
their soup.
Tommy—How long will it be before
I can take my soup like papa?
Professor's Brain Gives Way.
According to the Berlin correspond
ent of a Paris newspaper. Dr. Behring
of whose “cure” for tuberculosis so
much was heard recently, is under
confinement Personal acquaintances
of the doctor declare that the news is
not at all Improbable, as for. some
time the professor has been in a high
ly neurotic condition.
Doctor (looking at clinical thermom
eter)—Hello! This won’t do—hundred
and three!
Golfing Patient—What’s bogey?
USES FOR NOODLES
ECONOMICAL AND APPETIZING
ARTICLES OF DIET.
Can Be Easily Made at Home If Pre
ferred—Good Substitute for Po
tatoes—To Serve with Scram
. bled Eggs.
The noodie is to the German wife
what spaghetti and macaroni repre
sent to the Italian, backbone of daily
diet. The American housewife, usual
ly quick to seize upon all good points
of foreign cookery, is just waking up
to the economic possibilities of
noodles, which now come ready pre
pared like macaroni and spaghetti, in
packages and in three different sizes
of golden stripes, line, medium and
broad.
Noodle factories bear investigation,
and their manufacture is so rapid a
process that they are clapped into
boxes before dust germs have time
to settle upon them. For the busy
housewife the ready-to-use noodle is
a boon, but if you have time to pre
pare them yourself here is a reliable
recipe:
One pound sifted flour, five raw
eggs, two saltspoons salt, two table
spoons cold milk. Heap the sifted
flour on your bread board and make
a well in the center of the flour. Into
this turn the raw eggs, then add
milk and salt and with your hand
work the whole into a fine paste.
Roll into a ball, then flatten with your
hands until it looks like a thick, flat
cake. Allow it to stand thus for
ten minutes. Roll with floured roll
ing pin until it is half an inch thick.
Leave it thus for five minutes, then
roll again until it is no thicker than
a sheet of wrapping paper. After
leaving it thus for five minutes, di
vide the paste into two sections and
roll each until wafer-like thin. Slice
very thin and allow them to stand
15 minutes to dry thoroughly before
using. If packed in a cool, dry place
they will keep several days.
In frying noodles do not use too
much fat and drain thoroughly before
serving. ^
in using prepared noodles boil
alone a few minutes before adding
other ingredients. Drop into boiling
salted water, cook briskly for ten min
utes, then drain in colander.
Noodles with Ham.
Cut raw sliced ham into narrow
strips. Fry in saucepan until crisp;
add an equal quantity of noodles
which have been boiled and fry until
the latter are browned. ’ Serve very
hot on squares of toast.
Substitute for Potatoes.
In an emergency boil noodles ten
minutes, drain, pour into hot dish and
add melted butter. Then sprinkle
with ground niotzoth or crackers pul
verized, and browned in a pan with
a little butter.
Noodles au Gratin.
Boil and drain the noodles and stir
into them a liberal quantity of grated
Parmesan or American cheese. Turn
into a cooking dish, pour over them a
thick cream sauce made with milk,
add a dash of paprika, cover the top
of the dish with grated cheese anil
bits of butter. Bake until a golden
brown.
Noodles Baked in Gravy.
An excellent way to use the bowl
fid of gravy left from yesterday's din
ner. Remove the grease which has
gathered on top of the cold gravy,
turn the boiled noodles into a baking
dish, rubbed lightly with butter, pour
the gravy over the noodles and bake
until top is brown and crisp.
Eggs Scrambled with Noodles.
Boil fine noodles and after draining
cut into short pieces. Have ready an
equal quantity of raw eggs, just
broken, not beaten to a froth. Turn
the noodles into a saucepan with a
bit of butter, toss until golden brown,
and then add the eggs, cooking until
the latter are firm. For those who
like cheese, the addition of a tea
spoonful of Parmesan or grated
American cheese to a cupful of boiled
noodles and three eggs makes an ac
ceptable dish.
Regarding Linoleum.
To keep linoleum in good order and
to preserve it. let it be washed very
seldom. If it gets dirty and needs tc
be washed it should be done with a
flannel dipped in warm soapy water
then thoroughly dri%J, for if any watei
is left on it will percolate through the
linoleum and make it rotten on the
under side. It should be well polished
with flannel dipped in beeswax and
turpentine, or a little plain linseed oil.
then polished with a cloth. Rubbing
with a^cloth dipped in milk keeps the
surface clean and in good condition,
and prevents it wearing.
White Enameled Ware.
White enameled kitchen utensils of
ten become to all appearances hope
lessly ruined when food has burned
them. Place a mixture of strong soap
powder and boiling water in such ket
tles, let them stand two or three days
on the back of the stove without
changing the water, then pour off the
water and rub the inside with a soft
cloth. A11 blackness and stain will
disappear. Be careful not to scratch
or scrape the kettle before soaking in
this way. as the enamel will crack.
To Keep Rugs Flat.
Rugs which curl up at the edges or
at the sides should be lined through
out. Cut out a piece of rough sail
cloth an inch larger than the rug.
Turn in the edges all round and stitch
them down flat With stout linen
thread, making fair-sized stitches on
the under surface, and those as small
as possible on the right side. A little
shot, enclosed in small flat bags and
fastened into the four corners before
sewing down the lining, will also aid
in keeping the rug flat.
Tinware.
. Tinware should be rubbed with a
flannel cloth, well soaped, to remove
ali stains, brightened with a dry flan
nel dipped in whiting, and finished
with the ever useful chamois.
For zinc baths and zinc covered
tables nothing is more effectual than
powdered bathbrick used along with
soap; polish off with dry whiting, and
finish with chamois, as in (he previous
case.
FAMED AS L A WYER '.
SPOONER FOR YEARS HAS BEEN
A POWER IN THE SENATE.
Position Due to His Legal Acumen
Brief Sketch of Wisconsin states
man Who Is Aboul to
Give Up Toga.
Washington. — Senator John Coit
Spooner has written a letter to Gov.
Davidson of Wisconsin tendering his
•esignation as a senator of the Unit
ed States tc take effect May 1 next.
He is retiring from public life at tho
*ge of 64 for the express purpose of i
earning enough money in the next :
five or ten years on which to support
himself and his family when his pro
fessional career is at an end.
Senator Spooner has occupied a
prominent and powerful position iri
the upper house of the United States
congress. A brilliant and incisive
speaker, he has taken part in many
momentous legislative fights. That he
has not gone into the cabinet has been
his own fault, because he was offered
a position as secretary of the? interior
in 1898 by President McKinley, but he
declined it. Again in 1901 President
McKinley offered him the attorney
generalship but despite the fact that
he is known as one of the best law
yers in the country he declined it
preferring to stay in the thickest of
the fray in the senate.
Senator Spooner is descended from !
ancestors on both sides of revolution- I
ary fame. One of his ancestors, Lysan
der Spooner, is the author of cheap I
and universal postage in the United
States.
The government was charging 12 L>
cents per letter from Boston to New |
York, 25 cents to Washington, and
larger rates in proportion to remoter
points when Lysander Spooner es- j
tablished routes for carrying letters
to ali parts of the country at the [
uniform rate of five cents and made
money at it. The United States mar
shals jailed him and his men every- j
where and repeatedly, but he resolute
ly continued to renew his agents and
carry forward his enterprise until pub
lic sentiment rose to such a pitch
that congress was compelled to re
duce its postal charges and make the
rate uniform for all distances—a serv
ice of inestimable value to civiliza
tion.
He was born in Lawrenceburg, Ind.,
January 6. 1842, removed with his fa
ther to Madison. Wis., in 1859 and
entered Wisconsin university in I860
at the age of 17. In that institution
his career was brilliant. In history,
civil government, international law. ]
debate and oratory he was the ac- |
knowledged leader.
In April, 1864, he recruited a com- I
pany of student soldiers for the war
from his own class, himself enlisting
with the others as a private in com
pany D, Fortieth regiment.
At the close of his service he en
listed as captain of company A Fif
tieth regiment, and was soon brev
etted major for gallant conduct. He
was mustered out at the end of a
trying and dangerous campaign among
the Sioux in June, 3866, and imme
diatetly appointed private and mili
tary secretary to Gov. Fairchild, with
the rank of colonel: next quartermas
ter general with the rank of briga
dier general, and in 1869-70 assistant
attorney general—a remarkable career
remarkably sustained for a boy of 27.
Senator Spooner was admitted to
the bar in 1867. He was soon there
JOHN C. SPOONER.
(He Has Tendered His Resignation
as Senator from Wisconsin.)
after appointed assistant attorney
general of Wisconsin, removing in
IS70 to the city of Hudson, where he
practiced law until 1884, in the in
terim serving as a member of the
state assembly from St. Croix county
and as member of the board of regents
of the Wisconsin university.
Senator Spooner’s lirst entrance to
the United States senate was on
March 4, 1885. and he was succeeded
as United States senator in 1891 by
William F. Vilas, Democrat, receiving,
however, the full vote of the Repub
lican members of the state legislature
for reelection.
He was again elected senator in
1897, and, notwithstanding his an
nounced unalterable purpose not ti
be a candidate for reelection, the leg
islature of his state insisted on con
ferring upon him the honor of an
other term of six years, beginning
March 4. 1903. The senator received
every Republican vote in both houses
of the legislature.
NEW SUBMARINE A WONDER.
The Octopus Largest of Its Kind in .
the World.
Quincy, Mass.—The United States I
submarine boat the Octopus which
was recently launched at this port, ,
The Octopus.
has proved herself to be a success. J
She is shap&i very much like the mon
ster that swallowed Jonah, and in ac
tion resembles a green whale more j
than anything in the shape of war- :
ships that ever has plowed the wa
ters of Massachusetts bay. After
daily tests of six weeks in Boston har
bor the Octopus has delighted not
only her designers but the govern
menc officers who have' been aboard
her.
She is larger than the Cuttlefish
the Viper and the Tarantula, which
have been building at the same yard,
and is as large as anything in the :
submarine line lhat exists to-day in
Europe, though, of course, not. as
large as the submarine cruisers that
France has authorized.
The Octopus is an electric craft, j
making a speed that would have sur- '
prised the first designers of subma
rines, and has attributes that only i
the secret agents of the United States j
government know. That she is ex- ;
pected to create a sensation in the |
world of navy men is shown by the
solicitation of the Japanese navy of- :
ficials, who are having work done at '
the same yard, and who have spent j
as much time studying the Octopus j
as their own boats.
When the Octopus was launched the .
Japanese agents put out after her in 1
their private electric launch and fed- :
lowed her everywhere she went. So i
interested did these agents of a for
eign government seem in the big steel
whale that the government agents of
the United States became nervous and
ran their boat alongside the Orientals
and politely asked them to desist
from following them.
The pojite Japanese of course said
they would, and immediately reported
their experience to Washington,
where, after an interview with the
Japanese minister, the proper Amer
ican authority wired the government
agents at Fore River that the friend
ly Japanese were to have every facil
ity for studying the Octopus.
The boat is found to be more than
equal to her contract requirements.
Just what her actual achievements
are is being kept secret by the build^
ers, as she will shortly be called upon
to compete with the Lake submarine
of Connecticut, recently built at New
Ixmdon. She is said to have made
over 11 knots at the surface and ten
knots under water, or enough to over
take any first-class battleship in a
harbor or confined space. Once over
taken there is no doubt about what
she could do to the finest and most
expensive ship built. Ease of con
trol is one of her essential require
ments to which she lives up.
WILL COMMAND NAVY YARD.
Rear Admiral Goodrich to Succeed
Joseph B. Coghlan.
New York.—Rear Admiral Casper
F. Goodrich will, it is announced, suc
ceed Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan
as commander of the New York navy
yard in May or June. Admiral Cogh
lau was placed on the retired list
some time ago and shortly after was
put on the list of retired officers on
active duty. Although the admiral
closes a loud period of service on his
retirement, he has made no arrange
ments for the future. It is possible,
however, that he will take up a resi
dence at Washington. It is declared
that, the admiral will give some of
his time to lecturing. He has ob
served much during his many years
of duty and may lecture on his ex
periences.
RELIC OF CLIFF DWELLERS.
Remarkable Slab of Rock Found in
New Mexican Canon.
It is a curious fact and one much
commented upon by archeologists
that the pictographs so oommon in the
cliff and cave dwelling regions of New
Mexico are almost wholly absent from
the ruins of the Mesa Verde, in south
western Colorado.
In one room of the cliff palace are
found some straight line markings but
there is nothing imitative of animals,
birds or reptiles in this, the balcony
or spruce tree house.
Recently, however, there was found
in the Montezuma valley, about a mile
and three-quarters sontheast of Cor
tez, on the slope of a bench which
rises from the McEhno canon bottom,
a slab of rock about six feet long by
four and one-balf feet high, on which
thera are deep carvings similar to the
markings on the Puye and San Cristo
bal ruins of New Mexico.
‘ This detached slab was lying on an
incline and had apparently split off
from a larger rock some distance
above it. There are no similar rocks
near where this was found, but in one
place about 200 yards away there are
a few characters cut in a rock. It re
quired four horses to remove this
stone record from its abiding place to
the yard in the rear of the Montezu
ma county courthouBe, where it now
reposes.
Among the Athletes.
A young man, one of the coterie in
a cobbler's shop, turned to an okt
man and asked If he ever played foot
ball.
The veteran thoughtfully blew a
cloud of tobacco smoke from his lips.
"Nay, lad. I've never played at nooan
o' them athletic games ’cept domi
noes!” he replied.
In Suspense.
Applicant (at western newspaper of
fice)—I’m looking for a Job. I can
set typa and write.
Editor—Good! Just take a seat.
"Have you an asisstant?"
“I can’t tell yet. I sent him out to
see a man and expect a gun to go off
every moment."—Life.
