Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1917 — Page 8

WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ’•' i ’ ARRANGED. FOR BUSY PEOPLE Notes Covering Most Important Happenings of the World Compiled in Briefest and Most Succinct Form for Quick Consumption. European War News German troops iri the Riga- region have 'succeeded by repeated attacks in strong force in pressing back the Russian lines about a miie ami a half, between the Tirul swamp and the River Aa, and east of Kalnzem, the Petrograd war office announced. » * * One British destroyer was sunk and another was observed* to be in a sinking condition in the North sea naval engagement, the admiralty announced at Berlin. One German torpedo boat put in at Ynmiden in a damaged condition. The others returned with slight damage. • • • A Bulgarian detachment crossing a branch of the Danube opposite Tultcha was surprised by Russian troops and destroyed, the Petrograd war office announced. Prisoners to the number of 337 jjnd four machine guns were taken. • • » A. Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequer and member of the British war council, .declared in a speech at Bristol, England, that President Wilson’s peace aims were shared by the entente allies, but that under the circumstances other means must be taken to obtain peace and that it was impossible to consent to a peace that leaves Germany’s military machine unbroken. .... . * * , .... ■ - <The sinking of the Norwegian steamship Rinunga by a German submarine is reported by Lloyd’s at London. The crew was landed. Other sinkings reported are: Danish steamship Klampenborg, 1,785 tons gross; Swedish steamship Kamma, 1,516 tons gross. • • • "" An official report from London says that in an engagement with the British light forces “not far from the Dutch coast” one German destroyer was sunk and the remainder scattered. In another fight, which occurred off Zee4find, a British destroyer was struck by a German torpedo, killing three officers and forty-four men of the crew. The damaged cjjtft was^la ter sunk by 'ships of her own flotll I »- • • • announces at London thal 'the Kisagata Maru IH, 2,608 tons, has been sunk. The British steamer Bar® SempilL 1,607 tons, is also believed to have been destroyed. „***■■■ “In the Black sea one of our submarines sank an enemy steamer and nine schooners near the Bosporus,” an official Petrograd statement says.

* ♦ ♦ Six large submarines, four British and two Italian, together with the 14,-100-ton British armored cruiser Leviathan, have recently been added to the British naval base at Bermuda, According to American passengers on the steamship Bermudian, who arrived at New York. The British war office at London announces that all youths from eighteen years of age up tiave been called to train for home defense until they reach the age of nineteen yars. Hitherto youths have not heen called until they reached the age of eighteen years and seven months. * * ♦ Domestic Fifty freight cars were destroyed by fire which broke out in the State Line yards of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern railroad near Burnham, 111. ♦ ♦ ♦ Three bandits, driving a high-pow-ered automobile, held up the real estate office of I. G. Ettelson at Chicago, stole $1,400 and escaped. • ♦ * Removal of Charles Starck from office as chief national bank examiner for the Second federal reserve district with headquarters at New York, and the appointment in,his place of William P. Malborn, assistant secretary of the treasury, w’as announced at Washington by Comptroller Williams. The will of the late Col. William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) will be filed in probate court at Cody, Wyo., in a few days, it was announced at Denver, Colo. According to Judge William A. Walls, counsel for Mrs. Cody, the bulk of the estate, valued at about $65,000, Is to go to the widow. • • * Franz Bopp, former German consul general at San Francisco, must serve two years’ Imprisonment and pay $lO,000 fine for violation of American neutrality. This sentence was pronounced on him by United States District Judge Hunt. Miss Evelyn Shaw and John T. McCutcheon, the well-known cartoonist, were married at Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. McCutcheon are to sail from New York for Treasure island, in the Caribbean, where the honeymoon is to be mased.

The Arkansas house of representatives passed the semi prohibition bill making the state pbone dry.” Gov. C. H. Brough announced at Rock he will sign the act this week. < * * -< To give stock exchange brokers time to produce records of the dealings .of their custoiiiers during the time the in-_ ternational peace situation was a factor in the (Stock market the rules committee of the house; suspended its “leak” inquiry at New Ywk and re-’ turned to Washington. Miss Camille Mcßeath of Meridian,' Miss., daughter of J. M. Mcßeath, national committeeman, snntshed a- bottle ove.r the graceful bow of the great battleship Mississippi at Newport News, Va. When completed; the .Mississippi will have cost about SI'S,OOO,(XH). The bill for the hull-alone Was $7,115,000. ' • , * *. ' • ■ The Asiatic crew of the Japanese steamdr Ilarima Maru mutinied and held possession of the ship fwr several hours before they were overcome by a squad of police nt Baltimore*, M<l. 'Die Japanese chief engineer led the revolt. The trouble was over food. A boxing bill permitting and regulating sparring matches, now prohibited within the state, was introduced in the lowa hotlse of representatives at Des Moines by Representative Lake of Woodbury, coAnty, The measure is modeled after the Wisconsin boxing * law*. - • • * Thinfy veiled threats of congressional action to regulate the New York stock exchange and possibly prosecute members alleged to have engaged in pools to depress the value of securities were among the many surprises at the first session of the peace note leak inquiry held at New York. • * ♦ Mrs. Ethel Byrne, sister aijd co-work-er of Mrs. Margaret Sanger, birth-con-trol advocate, was sentenced to Blackwell’s island for 30 days by the Brooklyn court of special sessions. She threatened to go on a hunger strike. • • * With her arms affectionately around her adopted seven-year-old son and the gas jets in the house open, Mrs. C. C. Calkins, wife of an insurance agent, was found dead at Waterloo, la. The boy also was dead. ._,/'■/ •♦ * •

Harry Walsh and William Beckman, two of a party of five automobile bandits, were killed when a stolen automobile in which three of them were riding crashed through ’the rail of a bridge near St. Louis. » * • Lower sections of Pittsburgh, Ph., were Inundated by the Ohio river and Its tributfft-les following heavy rains and melting snows over the watersheds of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers. Many persons, were removed from their homes in boats and taken to points of safety. _ x .v.'s!3ES Mexican War News Withdrawal of the outposts of General Pershing’s .force in Mexico has been ordered by the war department at Washington with the approval of President Wilson. The movement of the main body of troops toward the bord- r will be begun sjpon. • * » Ai. -man troops of the punitive expediri iii marched from Valle to Colonia Dublan, according to a message received at Juarez, Mex„ from Casas Grandes. These troops are proceeding toward the border. a Washington It was announced at Washington that President Wilson has taken under consideration a suggestion that after congress adjourns he make a number of speeches in different parts of the Country in a campaign of education in connection with the ideas expressed by him in his address on peace before the senate. Senator Cummins of lowa submitted a resolution to the senate at Washington which would devote the senate to a full and free discussion of the president’s world-peace policy- expressed in his message. Chairman 'Stone of the foreign relations committee objected to immediate consideration and action wgis deferred. *♦* . ■ Democrats of the house ways andmeans committee at approved a subcommittee’s draft of the administrative revenue bill. The new revenue bill puts $352,000,000 into a “preparedness fund.” * * » The overwhelming figures of the commerce of the United States in 1916 fairly bristling with new records were made public by the department of commerce at Washington. The total foreign business of the country for the year was $7,873,000,000, the largest In history. The exports were $5,481,000,000. The import trade was $2,392,000,000, another new record. ♦ * •

Foreign The most bitter of war dramas and the most emotional one-:act thriller ever presented paled to the commonplace before the Spartan story of a simple French country girl charged in Ghevilliers court with infanticide. “I killed my child because I would not be the mother of a baby w’hose father was a German," Josephine Barthelmy, aged twenty, said. The jury acquitted her. . ; ..r ■' < •

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MORE ABOUT THE RYAN DITCH

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Of the marsh it does not require an engineer to make this startling discovery, but anyone "with common horse-sense and sound judgment can see that it is more practical to take the water from No? 77 out of th^marsh almost as soon as it enters it with a grade of two feet to the mile than to try and carry it acrosS this level ground a distance, of about five miles before there is any fall whatever in the ground. In the same way the water from Stump slough on the north could tje taken across one corner of the <> marsh and dow„n the same ditch with a fall of two feet per mile instead of across this long level stretch of ground with no fall. In this way the water from the marsh area, lateral No, 77 and that coming down Stump, slough from the north can all be taken down the Gifford ditch, the route it has been following for more than twenty years, as stated by Mr. Alter, then a ditch could be constructed on the south side- through the rock of sufficient ’ size to take care of'this territory and all dope at a much lower cost than was reported for the construction of the Ryan ditch, as I will now show. The figures for cost of construction will be based only on the main line ditches as the. cost of laterals would t?e practically the same in either case. From the old report of the commissioners this cost of constructing the main line of~ the Ryan ditch was as follows: 705,920 cubic yards of dirt excavation .at 8 cents per cubic yard equals ss6\473.60; 145,138 cubic yards of rock excavation at $1 per cubic ’yard equals $145,138, making a total cost of $201,611.60. The rock yardage was apput one-fifth of the dirt yardage, but cost more than two And one-half times as much as the dirt. u v , The proposed Ryan ditch had a twelve and fifteen-foot bottom through the marsh and was only

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about six feet deep at a point directly east of Newland. Now let us suppose that we make the bottom of the Gifford ditch thirty feet wide and twelve feet deep at the railroad and grade of two feet per mile, all of which are possible. The carrying capacity of the Gifford ditch would then be about five times the capacity of the Ryan ditch as was proposed. In choosing these figures I am not attempting to state What will be the size of the Gifford ditch under the new proposed clean out by the property owners, but these" figures were chosen as a basis for figuring cost and, to show what could be done. > A very liberal estimate of the yardage for the Gifford ditch beginning at station 0 on - the old Ryan ditch to its outlet in the Iroquois and deducting the yardage of the present ditch will be 937, 500 cubic yards at 8 cents per cubic yard equals $75,000. . Now begin at a point on the Ryan ditch at the outlet of the Baker lateral about halfway between Tailholt and Satillo bridges and construct a ditch ten feet wide on the bottom and average eight feet deep. < This would be . sufficient for the territory on the south side and is just one-half as large as the proposed Ryan ditch at the same place. A very liberal estimate for the construction of this ditch would be 187,000 cubic yards of dirt at 8 cents per cubic yard equals $14,900. 70,000 cubic yards of rock at $1 per cubic yard equals $< 0,000, making a total of $84,900 for this ditch. Now add to this the cost of $75,fr00 for the Gifford ditch and we have a total cost for the two ditches of $159,90Q, saving $41,711:60 or 21 per cent of the cost of the Ryan ditch. The feasability Of the whole proposition hinges on the question of which is the cheaper tp dig dirt at 8 cents a cubic yard or blast rock at $1 a‘cubic yard? • I wish to say further that I heartily endorse the action taken by the property owners and I am convinced that if they succeed in

1 cutting the ditch as proposed in i their scheme that it will afford the i relief desired in the marsh. The whole trouble lies in the filling up ■ of the Gifford ditch where it passes through the cut on John Egei’s farm just west- of the marsh’. I lived for two seasons oh what is locally known as Rattle Snake island on the banks of the Rich Grove lateral ditch and have - watched-the. flow of water in this ditch, which was the proposed route for No. 77 across the a marsh. In time of low water or normal flow the water in this lateral flows west and down the Gifford ditch. In rime of flood o» high water it flows east to the Binkamink, but not one, drop ot water from tSump slough or No. 77 ever reaches the Pinkamink until -these two ditches discharge more I water on the west side of the marsh than the Gifford ditch can carry away. The water piles up at this point and then begins,, to seek its level by flowing east in the Rich Grove lateral and spreading out over the big marsh until it finally enters the Pinkamink and then begins its long and torturous journey to the Iroquois river. This conditibn exists-with every large freshet, overflowing hundreds of acres of valuable land and destroying thousands of dollars worth of crops. The quickest, cheapest and best way to ■ relieve these conditions is to begin, as has been suggested by the Gifford Drainage -and Improvement company, near the center, of the marsh and deepen and widen the Gifford ditch. Then all the water from Stump slough and No. 77 instead of overflowing the marsh will pass quietly and peacefully out of it and no one need be made to suffer. I am not oprposed to the Ryan ditch if properly constructed, but I believe both ditches ghould be cut and I have shown that both ditches can be constructed and give five times better drainage to the land affected and save 21 per cent of the money which it wan proposed to spend on the main line of the Ryan ditch. Now, in conclusion, let me

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ask this question: If it cost $201,611.60 to construct the Ryan ditch and this amount is 21. per cent more than two ditches would cost which would give five times mpite benefit to the land affected, what in the name of the “Great Jehova” would it cost to construct the Ryan ditch large enough to give the same benefit to the land as the two ditches? C. S. HEAD, - Civil Engineer.

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