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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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HORIZONTAL
1-A aquara of wood
4-Bollcit
7-Part of a joint 9-Tu be scanty 11-A countryman 12-Custem 14-A. small orifice in
the skin
16-Bustle 17-Arrange
19-Gain
20-A denit
21-Artful
23-Pald (abbr.}
.24-To Invade suddenly
26-Completed
28-To strip off the skin;
from
29The heart of an
apple
30-Whip
32-Permits
34-A call to excite
attention
25-One who betrays &
trunt
88-Preposition
40-A lofty mountain
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HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 42-A poniar of
N. America 43-Amplify unduly 44-A river in Nev
Mexico
45-Know
47-To reckon timo 48-A fertile apat in
desert
60.Sign
62-Nerth Polar
Distance (abbr.) 63-Fear
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VERTICAL (Cont.) 11-The goddess of the (Nora Myth.) 13-A craft 16-Conclude
17-Gout in the foot
18-A fantom
21-A heimaman
22-An Instrument for
removing acros
from Fruit
25-American Fedors.
tion of Labor (abbr.)
27-An open fabrio
30-A page of a book 31-Matured
33-Nation
1-A meuntain in Moab 34-A witch
2-A unit
a-Depart
4-Preposition
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37-A shelter of canvas 39- lyric poem 41-Design
43-To measure by
striday
English royal line 45-A serpont e-Annut
|47-A bird'
49-N. W. State of U. 8.
(abbr). 151-Egyptian sun god
9-An order. 10-Part of the stomach
of nn tix
(The solution of the oboys cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morronfa issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
LISTENING-IN
Invention Which Detects Larvae Eating
Washington-David Fairchild, Government aefentist, has invented a stethoscope with which it is possible to hear the larvae of the Mediterranean fruit fly feeding in side grapefruit, oranges and other frutta. It was designed In the hope that it might make it unnecessary to destroy fruit, to determine wha-
ther it was infested.
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
The Archild, believés bé can that the larvas can be detec make the Instrument: soʻsensitive when very stilly
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TO-DAY'S RADIO
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ON 350 METRES
The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on 350 metres.
I had occasion to make one re- this time controlled the O. R. & N. ference to the Northern Pacife company as well as the Northern while I was carrying to a conclu Pacific, which greatly facilitated slon the extension of the Union Northern Pacific construction from Pacific to tide water in the North- Paseo (or rather from Old west. Nevertheless, there is much | Ainsworth at the very mouth of the reason to regard the Northern Snake) eastward and gave gront Pacific as the ploneer railroad in profit to the O. R. & N. in hauling the Northwest. In the first place the steel and other freight to this it was frat dreamed about as the point. When the roads (O.-W. R. 5,00-8.00 p.m. Programme of connecting link between Orient and & N. and N. P.) were joined at English Records. Supplied through Occident. It was the first mention- Wallula and through trains over the courtesy of Messrs. Moutrie & Co. ed. It was the first to be consider the N. P. were running (2888), all "Lohengrin's Narrative-in Distant ed by Congress-that is to say a passengers and freight traffic from
Lands," line to the mouth of the Columbla the East to Tacoma and the Sound
"Meistersinger (Prize Song)," or Puget Sound was approval by crossed the Snake river near Pasco. "Through All the Days to be
Richard Crooks, Tenor. many states and approved by the ran down the O.-W. R. & N. to Port "Just a Cottage Small," sensate of the United States asland and on down the Columbia to
John McCormack, Tenor. early as 1846, when as yet Call- Globe opposite Kalama, crossed on "Prelude in C Minor," fornia was a foreign land. It was a huge ferry and thence up the "Largo Handel," the first to propose a land-grant | Cowlitz river to Tacoma. subsidy, Asa Whitney proposed in some time before there was 1844 to build it for a subsidy of a connection with Seattle. It was not 60-mile strip of land across the until 1887 that the N. P. was com "The Utah Trail,"
Associated Glee Clubs, It was one of the five pleted up the Yakima valley and Wednesday Night Waltz," original Pacific surveys.
over the Stampede Pass to the
Bu and Jce Billinga sound.
It had reached Yakima in "Tosca (Strange Harmony)", 1884 and Ellensburg in 1886. "Maiden So Fair",
The glorification over the com-"Carmen (Near the Walls of Seville)," Beniamino Gigli, Tenor. pletion of the Northern Paciile was "Carmen (Love is Like a Wood Bird)," turned into mourning in some quar-
country.
Peoples' Pacific
A project was before Congress in 1864 still in the period of the
l
It was
Archer Gibson, Organ.
"On the Road to Mandalay,"
"Morning." rail
Civil War-proposed by one Josiah Perham, to build a line to the coast to be known as Ferhams' Peoples |Pacific. A charter was granted in
1864 to Perham and others for the presidency. The Palouse "When the Harvest Moon is Shining" building the Northern Pacific Rail branch was constructed as far as
Bud and Joe Billings. road, capitalized at 150 million Moscow and Genesee in 1888. 6.00-7.00 p.m.-Chinese Programme. dollars. it was to be completed in | The O.-W. R. & N, diá not reach 2.18 p.m.-Weather Report. 1870. It was, to receive as a land | Spokane until 1890.
ters, for Villard failed very soon "You're as Welcome as the Flowers
Marguerite D'Alvarez after its completion and resigned in May,"
was
9.00 p.m.-General Programme open. ing with a lecture by Dr. Alexander
grant alternate sections each side In 18903 again the Northern the line for 20 miles in states and Pacific went into the hands of re- Cannon, M.D., on-"Dreams and their for 40 miles in territories. The ceivers and continued so until 1897. Interpretation." Followed by a pro- theory
that the remaining | A reorganization was then effected gramme of English recorda supplied government sections would bo in which J. P. Morgan and James J. through the courtesy of Messrs. doubled in price and so the govern Hill bought control of the Northern "The Emerald Isle." Selection,
Moutrie & Co. ment would lese nothing by the gift. Pacific and reorganized it under
$117,000,000
the
Sullivan German.
.The Melody Three,
The Revellers.
Renee Chemet, Violin Solo, I'm Blase," "Prophecies"
the corporate name, The Northern "Bye and Bye, "Sweetheart," Pacific Two years passed with little ac
Railway Company. Its "Raquel" complished and the time of comple earlier name had been the Northern tina was extended, A second ex
Pacific Railroad Company. Since The Prophet Bird," tension was granted to begin in
that date the great line has con- "By the Brookside,"
Paderewski, Piano Solo, 1870 and to be completed in 1877.tinued to develop and prosper,
These two great systems, the "Popular Jocular Dr. Brown,"
"The Laughing Jazz Band," The estimated cost at that time was
Union 160 million dollars. When Isaac I
Pacific and the North-
Charles Ponrose. ern Stevens in 1853 had made the
Pacific, for the paat 30 "La Boheme-Fantasin," original survey, his estimate of the years have served the developing
Victor Symphony Orchestra. cost in Puget Sound was 117 mit Pacific Northwest faithfully and "One Little Dreamt of Love," lion. His survey ran up the have been among the great builders "Ross in the Bud, Missouri river, while the surveya of the Inland Empire and the North- jadopted later by the North-west coast region. They have
Pacific crossed ern
prospered as it has prospered. river where
Norman Long Humorous Bismark
The story of transportation for. is and
гал the Northwest, is
with Piano, west to and
wholly in- "War March of the Priests," up
Yellow- the Stevens had proposed to of the building of
complete. stone.
The romantic story"Coronation March," cross the Bitter Roote above Wal-Northern, of the purchase of the the Great
Symphony Orchestra of lace. Idaho, and run down to Lake C. B. and Q. by the Great Northern "I Want to be Bad,"
New York. Coeur d'Alene. The surveys in the and the Northern Pacific, or rather "Button up your Overcoat," '60's, after crossing the. Rockies by Morgan and Hill; the story of near Butte, followed the Hell Gate the bullding of the Corbin roads,
"Reminiscences of Scotland." river down to where Missoula now the first to become a part of the stands; it then followed the Mis- Great Northern; the Great Hill- soula river to its junction with Harriman struggle, the Northern Clarkes Fork, the Clarkes Fork Securities Company, the S. P. & S., river to Pend Oreille Lake, thence jointly owned by the N. P. and along the lake crossing the Pend G. N., the compromise of the use Oreille river a little below Sand of Point and on over into the Spokane Seattle, the invasion of the state trackage from Portland to Valley, thence southward to Pasco.or Oregon by the Hill lines, the late Two lines were surveyed, one down coming of the Chicago, Milwaukee the right bank of the Columbia to and St. Paul, all are parts of the the Cowlitz river and thence to the complete story of railway trana- sound, the other up the Yakima
river and over the Cascade Mour-portation in the Pacific Northwest. tains at Stampede Pass to the sound."
Construction was begun at both the west and east ends of the Northern Pacific in 1870. In the west, the Northern Pacife was be- gun at Kalama on the Columbia,
near the mouth of the Cowlitz river. An old trail and road ran from here on to where Chehalis now standa and on over the gravelly prairies to the mouth of the Nisqually river. Twenty-five miles of this road from Kalama toward the sound were [completed in 1870.
Steel Rails
Jay
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N. Brandel, M. Band, Mr. and Messrs. C. Bos, Leon Bergheim, Mrs, and Miss F. A. Black.
Calkins, Mrs. E. Cartia
Mr. C. A. Calkins," Miss R.
Madamo G. Duchateau?!
Messrs. J. S. Drum, Demarge,
11. W. Fleck.
Mr. R. E. Francis, Dr. and Mrs.
Messrs. Ralph Goldsmith, C. C. Graham, Wm. J. Garham.
H. Rossman, T. Carr Ramsay, A. Rodrigues.
Messrs.
Messrs. S. S. Wong, JA, Y.
Mr. and Mrs. and Miss Haggas. At the east end of the N. P., a Mr. J. E. Joseph., beginning was made in 1870 at the Mr. W. K. Lo, Miss H. Lille. west end of Lake Superior. By Mr. J. Mareschal. 1871, steel rails had reached Fargo Mr. Y. H. North. on the Red river of the north, Two Mrs. J. D. Paritt, Mrs. T. A. years later, the ralls reached Bis- Parfitt. mark where the line crosses the Messrs. Missouri river. Meanwhile, finda- cial misfortune had come to the.
G. L. Sheeka, Paul new line. All things seemed pro- Schwab, G. C. Shepherd, M. mising in 1870. Money was plent Simoes, G. A. Stephenson, Dr. ful optimism at its peak.
Arthur Shoemaker, Mr. and Mrs. Cooke and Company of Philadelphia P. Servanin. and New York, a concern that had most successfully floated the gov- Wilks. ernment bonds in the latter part of the war, undertook to market 100 million 7.3 per cent. bonds for which they were to receive enor- mous commissions in money and stock. Events which I cannot here relate were heading for a great financial panic. These culminated In the great panic of 1873 in which Jay Cook and Company were the first to crash. The Northern Paci- fia went into the hands of a receiver In 1875. It got to its feet again in 1878. Billings was elected pre- sident and began construction in 1879. The next year work started again in the west and all along the line. It was at this juncture that Henry Villard came upon the scenő, representing the German bond-
holders. He gained control, and Why waste time consulting when Billings declined to continue, volumes of medical authorities b Villard was elected・ president. quest of a proper treatment for With great energy, he pushed the your billousness, sick headaches, |line from both the west and ́ésat or intestinál irregulärity, when a to a conclusion faining of the two, little dose of Pinkettes will quick- ends at a point about 20 miles west fy net you right. inkeites are of Missonia: in 1888. The occasion laxative perfection, equally help outrivalled the celebration in 1869 ful to the aged and to delicata of the completion and the Central, women, as to the robust man, for Pacific and Union Paclie in Utah: their action, whilst gentle, is en- The Northerntirely efficient. Of chemists every- It will be recalled that Villard at where at 60 cents per vial.
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