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GALVESTOK TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY,
1909.
SEPTEMBER 1.
station Repairs
The Majestic
TO COST $18,000
STATE BANK CHARTERS.
Today’s Program
A Big Biograph Feature
I 2
Other Good Pictures
THAW ASYLUM LIBRARIAN.
ed.
But to-
MARITIME MATTERS
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Norway-Mexican-Gulf
*
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TEWELE MEMOIRS.
the
OPEN PORT.
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9-1(1
PREDICTS EARTHQUAKE.
DOUBTS STORY.
NO HOPE FOR ACTRESS.
Thinks
She
was
38
into
36
the
DAILY
4
5,843
4,361
48,855
Totals
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GALVESTON MARKETS
BONDS APPROVED.
\ Today.
a
move-
mem-
same
bers.
a selection,
if
then.
65% @64%;
“SUCCESS,” SAYS COOK.
Brooklyn
Friend
Receives
Message
school
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Total
7,717
*
30,837
32,626
Total stock
QUICK HOROSCOPE.
DENIES RUMORS.
DOUBT FILIBUSTERING RUMOR.
Notice to Subscribers
rumors
Fa-
it
things.
Galveston Tribune
an
UNCI.ZB EPH will save you money.
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I
pendulum
ment.
mean
understand
34
10
35
39
that the
by
Contract for Galveston Quaran-
tine Improvements Let to
R. C. Gracey.
TOBACCO MAN’S
WIFE IN COURT
GEOLOGY MADE
GIGANTIC STRIDES
Scientists Abandoned Heated
Discussions are Investigat-
ing Natural Phenomena.
1,537
400
10,945
1,654
18,090
6.64
6.60
6.59 %
6.60
6.60
6.60%
6.60%
6.60
6.60
January .
March ...
May ......
September
November . ..
December ...
If you do not receive
your copy of The
Tribune by $30 p.
m., please phone No
1396 by 6:30 p. m.
and a copy will be
sent by special mes-
senger.
.•80
.79%
.79%
• 79%
448
296
20
3,597
4,962
6,824
10,632
26,437
10.20
11.70
12.70
13.14
13.80
14.15
79%'
79%
Yes’day.
6.16
6.41
6.67
6.85
7.03
7.39
6.59%'
6.59%
an-
of
IT
The Seventh Day
Showing realistically what the social whirl does
for some women.
APPROVES APPLICATION.
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earthquakes
perhaps the
corded, and
Southeastern
Muir glacier,
fresh in
Once Worth Millions She Sings
Grand Opera in Prison
Cell.
Destined for Galveston.
El Dorado............New York
El Monte..............New York
El Paso...............New York
El Sud.................New York
El Valle...............New York
Inkula........ .v.. ...Port Talbot
Malin Head.........Rio Janeiro
Rock Light.............at Taya!
Skip ton Castle..........Antwerp
Waverly ...............Glasgow
8-28
8-24
8-27
8-31
8-27
8-25
8-23
8-25
8-23
8-11
By Associated Press.
Chicago, Sept. 1.—In the unkempt,
illusion-haunted woman whose fever-
ish lips answered to the name of Alice
W*ebb Duke in Judge Gimmell’s court
here today there was little to remind
the spectators of the former wife of
Brodie Duke, the millionaire tobacco
Carbolic Add,
on Own Throat.
Low ordinary....... 7%
Ordinary ........... 8 %
Good ordinary......10%
Low middling.......11%
Middling ...........1-2%
Good middling......12%
Middling fair........13%
There were no sales.
January .
March ...
May .....
September
October .
November
December
Augusta ..
Memphis .
St. Louis .
Houston ..
12.44-45
12.48-49
12.50-51
12.31-33
12.38-39
12.40-44
12.48
By G., C. and S. F.
By I. and G. N....
By G., H. and S. A
By G., H. and H. .
By M„ K. and T. .
By T. and B. V. ..
By barges........
Yesterday.
7%
8%
10%
11%
12%
12%
13%
NEW ORLEANS FUTURES.
Futures were steady at the close.
Today. Yesterday.
... .12.43-44
....12,58-59
.....12.65-67
...'.12.28
....12.31-32
....12.34-36
. ...12.39-40
line, from Galveston, arrived at New
Y ark.
The steamer El Sud of the Morgan
line sailed from New York for Galves-
ton.
The Norway-Mexican-Gulf steamer
Noruega, from Galveston, arrived at
Havre. ; i
The Harrison line steamer Senator,
from Galveston for Liverpool, passed
Fastnet.
Yes’day.
85
83
79%'
Vessels in Port.
Beechley (Ripley), Havre.......... 37
Brazos (Denison), New York....... 24
Cayo Manzanillo (Langbehn Bros.). 15
Cerea (Sage), Genoa...............15
Concho (Denison), New York...... 24
Constantia (F. & MeV.), Hamburg.. 36
Crispin (Ripley), Havre............ <i<
Dictator (Parr), Liverpool.......... 10
Disa (C;, N. & H.), Frontera........ 21
Elaine (Ripley), Havre............. 37
El Siglo (McKenzie), New York.... 41
Hornsby Castle (F. & MeV.), Ant-
werp .......................
Ikbal (Jackson), Bremen......
Indore (Jackson), Liverpool..*,
terdam ....................
Lugano ........................Roads
Lord Downshire (F. & MeV.), Rot-
Montauk (Sgitcovich), Havre.....
Ocmulgee (Moore), Brunswick....
.........................Texas City
St. Oswald (F. & MeV.), Hamburg.. 14
Thurland Castle (F. & Me V.), Ant-
werp
From Explorer.
By Associated Press.
New York, Sept. 1.—Dr. R. T. Dav-
idson of Brooklyn, a personal friend of
Dr. Cook, has received a cablegram
from Cook today saying he is well and
that his expedition has been a success.
The message, which is dated Lerwick,
Shetland Islands, did not say whether
the explorer reached the Pole.
: 5 per
school
Lomesa
^strict 5 per cent bonds;
Special to The Tribune.
Austin, Tex., Sept. 1.—State Health
Officer Brumby returned today from
various points. He announced that the
contract for repairing the damages
done to the Galveston quarantine sta-
tion by the recent storm was awarded
to R. C. Gracey, the contract price be-
ing $18,000, which is $5000 less than
the original bid.
Secretary of State Withdraws His Re-
quest for Opinion.
Special to The Tribune.
Austin, Tex., Sept. 1.—Secretary of
State Townsend yesterday afternoon
withdrew his request from the attor-
ney general for an opinion upon the
right of a state bank and trust com-
pany to amend its charter so as to
change its corporate name. It seems •
the Question had arisen as to whether
the general Incorporation laws per-
mitted state banks to amend their
charters, although it had been the cus-
tom in the department to permit them
to do so. The bank in question was a
Dallas concern.
GALVESTON STOCK.
This day
On shipboard— Today, last year.
For Great Britain....... 1,070
For France ............. 1,800
For other foreign.......10,663
For coastwise .......... 267
’Compresses and depots.. 17,037
Marine Notes.
The British steamer Thurland Castle
cleared for Antwerp yesterday.
The steamer Constantia of the Ham-
burg-American line has cleared for
Hamburg. s
The steamer El Mar of the Morgan
Notice to Mariners.
Chesapeake Bay Entrance—Virginia
>—Gas-buoy Estaolished.—Referring to
Notice to Mariners No. 27 (1401) of
1909, further notice is given that on
July 8, 1909, a conical red gas-buoy,
marked C B 2, surmounted by a prya-
tnidal latticework superstructure, sup-
porting a lens lantern showing an in-
termittent white light every 20 sec-
onds. thus, light 10 seconds, eclipsed
10 seconds, was established in 52 feet
of water off the 'entrance to Chesapeake
Bay. Virginia.
. 9
11
11%
12 7-16
12%
13 7-16
; f. o. b..
November-December^... 6.57%
December-January 6.57 %
THE HAVRE MARKBIT.
Havre, Sept. 1.—The market for spot
cotton closed quiet but steady.
Today.
Fully good middling. ... 85
Fully middling .........83
Low middling ..........79%
Futures closed steady.
January ................79%
February ............-...79%
March ..................79
August ..
September
October .
November
December
LIVERPOOL UPOTS.
Liverpool, Sept. 1.—-Spots
CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET.
Chicago, Ill., Sept. 1.—The range of
prices of September wheat and corn os
the Chicago Board of Trade was as fol-
lows:
Wheat.—Opening, 98% @98%; high,
99%; low, 97%; close, 97%@97%; yes-
terday, 98% @98%.
Corn.—Opening, 65% @64%; high,
66: low, 64%; close, 65%; yesterday,
64%.
Prize Winners for Baby Show Closing Yesterday
FIRST PRIZE, No. 24—Miss Valoric Smith—Diamond Locket.
SECOND PRIZE, No. 19—Miss Dora Elam—Ten Dollars.
Owing to the closeness of the contest, we were unable to announce the
winners in The Tribune yesterday.
No. 24. Miss Valorie Smith, led for first place by over 1000 votes. Nos.
19, 5 and 7 were so close in the race for second honors that, while No. 19,
Miss Dora Elam, had a few votes over her competitors, the management de-
cided to give Nos. 5 and 7 a season pass, good for two, for their close race.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT.
Net receipts of cotton at all United
States i>orts thus far this week, 51,764;
thus far last week, 17,282; thus far
this week last year, 52,739; thus far
this season, 14,203; thus far last sea-
son, 28,052. Difference, decrease, 13,849.
GALVESTON GRAIN RECEIPTS.
By G., C. and S. F., 5 cars wheat; by
I. and G. N., 1 car wheat; by G., H. and
S. A., 6 cars wheat; by T. and B. V., 30
cars wheat. Total, 42 cars wheat.
79%
7.9%
79%
79%
79%
TRIES TO FOLLOW SON.
Lloyd’s Register Received.
The annual edition of Lloyd’s Regis-
ter, the world’s authority on shipping,
has been received here and distributed
among the Galveston subscribers by
Surveyor T. J. Anderson. The edition
just off the press at London is brought
up to the latest moment with numerous
corrections and several additions of
the greatest value to all maritime in-
terests. Among the new features in the
directory are lists of vessels having
refrigerator machinery, those having
submarine bells for signaling in foggy
weather, vessels equipped for carrying
oil in bulk, etc. The usual supple-
ments that go with the register were
also delivered.
Arrived.
Ss Hornsby Castle (Br.), Port Inglis.
> Ss Disa (Swed), Frontera.
Cleared.
Ss El Rio (Am.), New York.
Ss Constantia (Ger.), Hamburg.
Ss Thurland Castle (Br.), Antwerp.
Sailed.
Ss El Rio (Am.), New York.
Grand Cess, on Liberian Coast, Admits
Foreign Steamers,
By Associated Press.
London, Sept. 1.—The Times
nounces that the Liberian port
Grand Cess has been declared opened
to foreign trade.
When Boy Takes
ther Uses Rasor
By Associated Prfess.
Shreveport, La., Sept. 1.—After the
son of Marshal Nelson committed sui-
cide by drinking carbolic acid, J. M.
Nelson, the father, attempted to end
his life by cutting his throat with a
razor at Stonewall, a small town near
here, late yesterday.
12.48-49
12.63-64
12.68-70
12.36n
12.39-40
12.39n
12.43-44
AT INTERIOR
GALVESTON SPOT MARKET.
The Galveston market for spot cot-
ton closed steady, prices unchanged
from the closing quotations of yester-
day.
GALVESTON COTTON RECEIPTS.
Bales.
1,524
364
3,757
772
171
44
1,085
MOVEMENT
TOWNS.
Receipts.Shipments. Stock.
1,098
7
20
4,718
X/
NET RECEIPTS AT U. S. PORTS.
Galveston, 7717; New Orleans, 2; Mo-
bile, 106; Savannah, 5548; Charleston,
463; Wilmington, 21; Norfolk, 316; Bos-
ton, 30. Total, 14,203. Same day last
week, 3648; same day last year, 10,077.
opened
with a good business and closed easier
and 5 points down. Total sales, 10,000
bales, of which 9,000 were American,
and 300 went to exporters and specu-
lators. Total imports, 2,000 bales, none
of which were American.
Today.
Ordinary ..............6.11
Good ordinary ........ 6.36
Low middling .........6.62
Middling ..............6.80
Good middling ........6.98
Middling fair ..........7.34
Sales today, 10,000 bales; yesterday,
8,000 bales.
LIVERPOOL FUTURES.
Futures closed steady
January-February .....6.53
February-March .......6.58
March-April ...........6.58
April-May .............6.57%
May-June .............6.57%
June-July .............6.57
July-August ...........6.56
September .............6.61%
September-October ..,.6:58%
October-November .....6.57%
HOPELESSLY DIVIDED.
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West Texas Normal Has Not Arrived
at Decision and May Never.
Special to The Tribune.
Austin. Tex., Sept. 1.—No decision
has as yet been reached by the board
to select a place and site for the es-
tablishment of the West Texas normal.
The board is hopelessly divided on the
proposition and one does not want to
give in to the other. It seems that
each memBer has a place in view and
will not surrender to the other
It may be late this evening be-
fore the board makes
NEW YORK B’UTURES.
Futures were steady at the close.
Today. Yesterday.
12.40-41
12.46-47
.12.50-51
.12.34-35
12.36-37
12.38-40
12.44-45
NEW ORLEANS SPOTS.
New Orleans, La., Sept. 1.—The spot
cotton market closed quiet and re-
vised.
Ordinary.....................
Good ordinary ................
Low middling................:
Middling .............
Good middling................:
Middling fair.................
Sales today, spots, 275 bales;
none.
FINANCIAL,
Exchange at Galveston: Sterling. 60
days, buying, ----; New York sight,
buying, % clis.; selling, % prem.; New
Orleans sight, buying, % dis., selling,
% prem.
London: Bank rate, 2% per cent;
street rae, 1% per cen; rae of silver,
23%; consols for money, 83 15-16 (ex-
div.); consols for account, 84 (ex-div.).
New York: Sterling exchange, de-
mand, $4.8635; commercial 60s, $4.84%;
commercial 90s, $4.84%; reichmarks,
commercial 60s, 94%; commercial 90s,
94 9-16; francs, sight, 5.17% less 1-32;
commercial 60s, 5.18%; commercial 90s,
5.19%.
New Orleans: Sterling exchange,
commercial 90s, $4.84%; francs, com-
mercial 60s. $5.19% less 1-16; New York
sight, bankers’, $1.00 premium; com-
mercial, 25c to 50c discount.
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UNCLE EPH for Diamond Bargains.
See It
President McIntyre Says Sap Will Not
Be Sold.
By Associated Press.
San Antonio, Tex., Sept. 1.—Presi-
dent McIntyre of the San Antonio and
Aransas Pass railway, on his return
here yesterday/from New York, where
he attended a meeting of the directors
and stockholders, denied the
that the road would be sold to either
the Yoakum or the Hill interests.
a Danish
man.
Mrs. Duke was arrested last night,
charged with having failed to pay a
$40 automobile bill. In her cell last
night she sang snatches from grand
operas for hours.
Today, Judge Glmm’el, on the state-
ment of the physician of the defendant
that she was insane, held her for ex-
amination in the county court as to
her mental state.
Slayer Creates Place at Matteawan.
Asks for and Gets It.
Matteawan, N. Y., Sept. 1.—Harry K.
Thaw has a new job. He applied fori
it and the request was quickly grant-
In fact. Thaw is the creator of
the job, that of librarian at the Mat-
teawan state hospital.
On Saturday Thaw pointed out to
Dr. Amos T. Baker, the assistant su-
perintendent, the need of having a
skilled man to look after the 600 vol-
umes in the hospital library, to which
the insane patients have access. Dr.
Baker laid the matter before Dr. Lamb
and they decided it would be a good
idea. The job was given to Thaw and
Saturday afternoon he began his new
duties. It is the first work he has been
assignd to since coming to Matteawan.
About a third of the insane patients
are rational enough to take an inter-
est in books. Thaw has planned a sys-
tem whereby he can keep close track
of each book, to whom it is loaned, the
time the reader has to return it and
the condition of the book.
AteT Clams and Ice Cream—Pto-
maine Poisoning.
By Associated Press.
New York, Sept. 1.—Maggie Cline,
the actress, is critically ill at a hotel
at Rockaway Park, Long Island, with
ptomaine poisoning. Miss Cline, who
recently re-entered the vaudeville
stage, violated her doctor’s orders, it is
said, by eating clams on Monday and
that night she attended a party, where
she ate ice cream. With her is her
niece, Mrs. Samuel Collins, who said
that little hope is felt for Miss Cline’s
recovery.
NEW YORK SPOTS,
New York, Sept. 1.—The market for
spot cotton closed quiet, prices 10
points down from the closing quota-
tions of yesterday.
Good ordinary.................
Low middling.................
Middling .....................
Good middling.................
Middling fair.................
Fair ..........................
Sales today, spots, 100 bales.
Give History of Fifty Years on
Stage.
Franz Tewele, who recently celebrat-
ed the fiftieth anniversary of his en-
trance on the stage, has published his
memors, in which he says that he ap-
peared 8718 times in the thousand parts
of which he has kept a record. In that
time, in his capacity as an actor, he
was “thrown from the stage’’ 742
times, married 2519 times, was Kaiser
Joseph 89 times, was King once, Prince
46 times, Duke 259 times, Baron 483
times and banker 717 times. “I had
more wives on the stage than all the
sulfans in the world combined, and as
to children legions. I died on the
stage only thirty-nine times, and these October
catastrophies occurred in my young
days, when I committed the misdeeds
allotted to me in ‘Don Carlos’ and ‘Ka-
bale und Liebe.’" Of his one exper-
ience os “King," Tewele says: “It was
at Pressburg in one of Birch-Pfeifer’s
tragedies. In one of the scenes my
Queen's veil became entangled in a
piece of furniture, and I advanced to
assist her in loosening it, when from
the wings I heard the beer bassa voice
of the stage manager: ‘Here, you! Don’t
you know you’re blind?’ I dropped the
lace, but from that moment on the
play ceased to be a tragedy.”
by a succession of appaling disturb-
ances of the earth’s crust; the reawak-
ening of the New Zealand volcano Tar-
awera, and the resultant destruction of
the famous pink and white terraces of
Rotomahana; the earthquake at
Charleston, S. C.; the long series of
in Japan, one of them
most formidable yet re-
the earth movements of
Alaska, disrupting the
The events of 1902 are
still fresh in mind; the destruction
by earthquake of considerable parts of
Chilanclnzo in Mexico and Quetzahe-
nango in Guatemala; the eruptions in
the West Indies, with the annihilation
of Saint Pierre and the foundering of
the island of Tori Shima in Japanese
waters. And then, more recently, the
vast disturbances in Formosa, the new
chapter in the history of Vesuvius, and
the earthquakes of San Francisco, Mes-
sina, Valparaiso and Jamaica.
Here are tremendous catastrpphies
which a century and a half ago would
have been widely regarded as unmis-
takable evidence of the direct interpo-
sition of Providence to punish a guilty
world. Men would have instantly re-
called Isaiah’s threat against Jerusa-
lem, “Thou shalt be visited of the Lord
of Hosts with thunder and with earth-
quake and great noise, * * * and
the flame of devouring fire.”
day we see in these disasters nothing
but the steady and inevitable settling
of the earth’s crust and the display of
those Titanic forces which, without
haste and without rest, regardless of
puny man, his follies, his sins and his
card houses, work from everlasting to
everlasting. ,
Leader of Sect Says Lord Will Also
Send War and Famine.
Rockland, Me., Sept. 1.—Denying
having made any prophecy about the
world coming to an end, and announ-
cing his purpose to establish a chain
of missions from Panama to the Arctic
for the evangelization of the American
continent, Rev. Frank W. Sanford,
leader of the famous sect known as
the “Holy Ghost and -Us,” today grant-
ed his first extended interview since
departing on his world cruise of 30,000
miles three years ago.
He said, in part:
“Earthquakes will be sent by the
Lord to bring men to their senses;
tidal waves, with fearful violence, will
sweep along the coasts of the earth
till men in their fright will die of
heart failure; stars will fall from
heaven like falling figs in a tempest;
war and pestilence and fhmine and
many other similar agencies will be
brought to conquer this globe, to con-
quer hearts, to bring the lofty looks
of man down and to make emphatic
the fact that Christ is Lord indeed.”
Federal Officiate Do Not Think Zelaya
Plans Expedition.
Washington, D. C., Sept. 1.—The re-
port from Guatemala City of a persist-
ent rumor there that Gen. Zalaya,
president of Nicaragua, is engaged in
filling out afilibusterlng expedition at
New Orleans against Guatemala and
Salvador, is discredited at the state
department.
Acting Secretary of State Adee stated
that officers of the United States gov-
ernment in New Orleans or other
southern ports were under orders at
all times to watch with vigilance for
possible filibustering expeditions
against any of the governments south
of the United States. Nothing has been
heard from official or other sources
Big Batch Approved Yesterday After-
noon by Attorney General.
Special to The Tribune.
• Austin, Tex., Sept. 1.—A big batch
of bonds were approved yesterday aft-
ernoon by the attorney general’s de-
partment, through Assistant Attorney
General Sluder. The bonds approved
are: City of Cameron public school
bonds, $10,000, bearing 5 per cent;
$15,000 Macona school district
cent bonds; $25,000 Hereford
district 5 per cent bonds;
the product of
This bold at-
tack on the first chapters of Genesis,
as commonly accepted, aroused an in-
tellectual storm which only those
whose memories run back thirty or
forty years can really - understand.
Lyell and his fellow scientists had been
the sappers and miners,v slowly but
surely destroying the notion that the
Maker of the Universe had been inces-
santly interfering in the operation of
it. Darwin drawing many of his ar-
guments from that branch of geology
which is now a distinct science, pale-
ontology, had brought the truth home
to men’s hearts. Before the “Origin
of Species,” uniformitarianism had
been in the minds of the generality
an abstrast idea that excited as lit-
tle emotion as the binomial theorem.
Darwin, by applying it to human kind,
shook-men’s dearest convictions, their
most passionate faith. It is no mar-
vel that he and his followers drew
"upon themselves the thunder from a
thousand pulpits, and that even in
Oxford a learned divine asserted that
the fossils in the ■ rocks, of which the
new heretics made so much, were
placed there by the devil on purpose
to mislead human inquirers.
POPULAR ATTENTION NOW.
But all this bitterness and heat have
now passed into the limbo of “old, un-
happy. far-off things, and battles long
ago.” Popular attention now seems
turning toward the more terrific mani-
festations of natural law in earth-
quakes arid volcanoes.
For such study the last twenty-five
years have provided an unusual
amount of material. The cataclysm of
August, 1883, which rent asunder the
1 island of Krakatoa, has been followed
Enterprising Dutch Astrologer Makes
Predictions for Princess.
An enterprising Dutch astrologer, it
is reported, cast the horoscope of the
little Princess twnety minutes after
her birth. This is what he says:
Princess Juliana will be trustworthy,
honorable and prudent in word and
deed. She wi|ll possess great power of
will, which, however, will not be use-
lesslj' employed. She will be sympa-
thetic and philanthropic, and her royal
highness will work disinterestedly and
quietly for others, without desire for
reward, but seeking perfection in all
The princess will also follow
art and science, and will hvae a special
talent for music and poetry. Compan-
ionable and eloquent of speech, she
will possess the knack of getting on
well with all sorts of people.”
of the alleged activities, and the whole
story is regarded as altogether im-
probable.
$75.00
Galveston to Newx
York and Return
—VIA—
MALLORY LINE
One way by rail if desired, wttb
liberal stopovers. Ask your ticket
agent or write
J. B. DENISON, GEN, AGT->
Galveston, Tex.
Passed Sand Key.
Sand Key, Fla., Aug. 31.—Passed:
30th, 8 p. m., Evelyn, bound west; 9
p. m., Standard Oil company steamer,
bound west; 31st, 9 a. m„ Californian,
' bounci east; 10 a. m., Fert, bound east;
4 p. m., Ramsay, bound west.
$4000
Eustace school district 5 per cent
bonds; Dayton school district 5 per
cent bonds, issue for $10,000; $8000
Marble Falls 5 per cent school district
bonds; $8500 Mingus 5 per cent school
district bonds; $12,150 Aspermont 5 per
cent school district bonds; $10,000 Pe-
trolia 5 per cent school district bonds;
$22,500 City of Santa Anna waterworks
5 per cent bonds; $5000 Hamlin 5 per
cent school district bonds.
State Banking Board Fixes Method by
Which It Will Work.
Special to The Tribune.
Austin, Tex., Sept.~"T.—The state
banking board met today and passed
qpon its first application for approval
of a bank charter. The board ap-
proved the charter of the First State
bank of Honey Grove, subject to veri-
fication by one of the state bank ex-
aminers. Cotpmissioner Love said this
would be the step followed in the case
of every application for the organiza-'
tion of state banks.
Admiral Melville
Skipper is Responsible for Report.
By Associated Press.
Philadelphia, Sept. 1.—Admiral Mel-
ville, U. S. N„ retired, who has con-
ducted several expeditions into the
Arctic regions, is inclined to discredit
the report from Copenhagen
North Pole has been discovered
Cook. '
“I did not know Cook had an outfit
available for that purpose,” he said,
“and I do not think the report can be
true. Dr. Cook has been wandering in
those parts for some time. It is prob-
ably just a story eminatlng from some
Danish skipper who has returned from
the north.”
When asked what would be the value
of the discovery if the authenticity of
the report is confirmed, Admiral Mel-
ville said;
“For one thing it would put an end
to the Arctic fad. The only use to
which the discovery could be put would
be of a scientific nature. If the exact
place of the pole has been located it
will be possible to send a party of
scientists there and by erecting
and measuring its
and later removing the
pendulum to the equator for the same
measurement there, the exact weight
of the earth could be computed. The
attraction of the earth to ths heavenly
bodies and vice versa can also be
thereby determined.”
Time Ball.
Galveston, Tex., Sept. 1.—The United
States branch hydrographic office time
ball, on staff of the City national bank
building, dropped today at exactly 11
a. m. 90th meridian, i. e., noon 75th
meridian, 'or 5 p. m. Greenwich
time. Navigators should
that the meridian signa? is the instani
time ball commences to fall.
The Geological Society of London
not long since celebrated its centen-
nial, and the speakers of the occasion
dwelt on the vast strides which the
science has made in the hundreds years
and the profound influence which it
has had on our conception of man and
the universe. The beginnings of ge-
ology were the first crude speculations
as to the history and structure of the
world, a subject that could not fail to
excite the curiosity and stimulate the
imagination of primitive man. But the
ancient cosmogonies and creation
myths were framed with what now
seems to us sublime indifference to
easily observed facts. As sir Archi-
bald Gelkte, the president of the socie-
ty for the year, pointed out in his ad-
dress the science, according to any
modern view, remained in its infancy
till toward the end of the Eighteenth
century,
Before that time geologists believed
that valleys and mountains were pro-
duced by great and sudden upheavals,
and that each plant and animal’in the
long series preserved in the rocks was
a special creation. This is the notion
imbedded in Blake’s “Tiger,” with its
“Did he * who made the lamb make
thee?” Pallssy, Guettard, and perhaps
others had propounded theories which
have since found acceptance; but it
was left for James Hutton,^ in his
“Theory of the Earth,” 1785, to put
forward the new ideas with a lucidity
and force that compelled attention.
A long controversy raged between his
disciples and those of the old school,*
headed by the Saxon mineralogist,
Werner; but Hutton was sustained by
Playfair, James Hall and later Charles
Lyell. So recently as a generation
ago Lyell, born in 1797, was still
looked upon as the great champion of
uniformitarianism—the doctrine that
existing causes, acting in the same
manner and with the same intensity as
at the present time, are sufficient to
account for all geological changes. His
“Principles of Geology” was a stand-
ard texlbook; it ran through many edi-
tions in England and America, and
from 1830, the year of flrs^ publica-
tion, till his death in 1875, this book
prepared the educated classes to be-
lieve that nature’s processes are uni-
form.
DARWIN ADDED INTEREST.
Popular interest in the subject was
immensely strengthened by the writ-
ings of a man who, though not a geol-
ogist, had been profoundly influenced
by Lyell; that is, Charles Darwin. In
his “Origin of Species,” 1859, he ap-
plied to the development of plants and
animals the same theory of uniformi-
tarianism that Lyell and his adherents
had applied to the structure 01 the
earth. There were no special crea-
tions, but all living things, including
man himself, were
steadily working forces.
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