WIG RAILROAD SCHEME Aims at 8000 Mile Pan American Route
A Washington correspondent reports A St Louis man Hinton Ki Helper has a bill to appoint a commissioner to study Central and South American commerce for a railroad plan. Belford Colorado introduced the bill. The project envisions a line from Guatemala Gulf of Mexico southeast through Central and South America to the Argentine Republic linking with Mexican roads and US rails to create a St Paul to Panama corridor about 8000 miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
A. St. Louis
Hinton Ki
Helper
Congress
Central and
South America
Belford
Colorado
Guitamala
Gulf of Mexico
Central America
Columbia, Ecquador
Bolivia
Peru
Argentine Republic
United States
St. Paul
Pangonia
Fielper
Isthmus
Teller rules on domestic timber use for mines and towns
Justice Lecy Teller reinterprets the 1878 act allowing citizens of Colorado Nevada and territories to fell timber for domestic use. He disputes limiting the act to personal consumption and says it enables timber for mines mills and pioneer towns. The decision could shift timber depreciation cases in federal agencies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
See’y Teller
Colorado
Nevada
Territories
Lec'y Teller
Hoe
The
Interior
Department of Justice
Military Court Orders and Expedition Plans of 1882
The report records a board of officers to test Utah flour at Cheyenne Depot Wyoming on June 1 1882 and consider blending unfit flour. It lists detachments and escorts for Gen Sheridan and Lincoln party, court martial details at Fort Robinson and Fort D A Russell, and officers assigned to detail. A Fort Omaha communication notes critique of uniforms and company tailors with satire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard 8. Vickery
U.8. A
Joseph Ixevffe
4Th Infantry
John Scott, Jr
Q. M
John J. O’brien
Cheyenne Depot
Wyo
Utah
Fort Omaha
Neb
James Kennedy
5Th Cavalry
Fort Sidney
John Gebhardt
9Th Infantry
Francis B. Tolson
Fort McKinney
Arthur Doyhle
Fort Niobrara
James Board
Fort Douglas
Joseph A. Smith
Charles If’. Mathews
Fort
D. A. Russell
Quartermaster’s Department
I. H. Sheridan
Secretary of War
Wyoming
Green River
Fort Washakie
Jas. Wheelan
2Nd Cavalry
Fort Ellis
Big Wind River
Gros. Ventro River
Tetoris
Yellowstone Park
Camp Equipage
W. H. Forwood
U.S. A
Sheridan
Mr. Lincoln
Edward G. Bush
6Th Infantry
Adjutant General's Office
Fort Douglass
Thomas Heaney
John Romheld
Washington, D. C
Heaney
Adjutant General of the Army
William P. Carlin
Fort D. A. Russell
Fort Robinson
Nebraska
Herman Schauman
Edwin V. Sumner
John M. Hamilton
John B. Babcock
Alfred Morton
William B. Brewster
Edwin P. Andrus
6Th Cavalry
Christopher C. Miner
Charles N. Watts
Cavalry
John M. Duncan
Carvar Howland
Ireond
James A. Leyden
Butler D. Price
White River
Colorew
Coal production and mining figures across regions
The report notes varied coal activity including Britain producing 1540000000 tons, Wyoming fields larger than Pennsylvania, thick seven foot veins in Ross County Ohio, southern output doubling in ten years, China importing all coal but new Pekin mines opening, Cumberland miners facing a fifteen cent per ton cut, Texas lands with 80000 square miles and veins twenty feet thick, coal rich in oil, US miners totaling 1870300 with 256502373 dollars invested, and last year’s output surpassing the prior year by over 10 million tons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Wyoming Territory
Pennsylvania
Ross County
Ohio
China
Pekin
Cumberland
Texas
United States
New York
Curious Martian Canals Puzzle Astronomers Again
Signor Schiaparelli, Milan's royal observatory director, reobserved and mapped over twenty canal like dark streaks on Mars. He calls them canalas long seaways cutting the Martian continents, reviving the debate on whether planets are inhabited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Signor Schiaparelli
Royal Observatory
Milan
Mars
Earth
Canalas
M. de Lesseps
London Telegraph
Braiding Joke At Wedding Sparks Laughs In Story
A man relates a tale of young men getting drunk at a wedding. He explains a braiding as a crude upstairs act described with three strands, two legs and one bannister. The piece ends with an ad for Part VII of the World's Dispensary Dime Series from Buffalo, New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo, N. Y
Fire at Ferguson Street Laundry Recounts Water Shortfall
A early morning blaze tore through the Ferguson Street laundry run by Yeng Waugh in a frame building next to Huffschmits. Firefighters battled flames for twenty minutes before water arrived, preventing greater loss to nearby structures. The piece blames the city over water supply failures and contract non fulfillment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ferguson Street
Huffschmits Restaurant
T. Dyer
Yeng Waugh
Soluble glass used in cement tiles and soaps
Soluble glass forms a compact marble like stone when mixed with lime or bone ashes zinc white and magnesia. Ransome s artificial stone uses soluble glass and sand pressed into moulds then treated with calcium chloride to form silicate of lime cement. It also helps make tiles slates decorative stones and is used in soap production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ransome
Curious Yosemite Formation Explained By Sinking Bottom
Professor Whitney argues the Yo Semite rocks vanished not by weathering or glacial action but by the valley sinking below, leaving a deep lake in the past. He contends the missing rocks are swallowed beneath, and the valley was once a large water-filled basin demanding a peculiar explanation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitney
State Survey
High Sierras
Now Well and Strong Shipman Illinois
Dr R V Prencn of Buffalo N Y reports his 18 year old daughter diagnosed as curable but failing with consumption improved immediately after using Golden Medical Discovery and now is well and strong. Enameline for the teeth prevents decay and hardens the gums sold by Dare Collins successors to Addams Glover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shipmman
Illinois
R. V. Prencn
Buffalo
N. Y
Rey
Isaac N. Augustin
Dare & Collins
Addams & Glover
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Shokla Weaker
Daisy
Wsuiny
Leza
Han Afly Wente
Bourgeois
Monte
J.B. Morrow
G Government Timber
Inter-Ocean
Iansas
Silkgrowers’ Association
Philadelphia
Italy
France
Edward ,Pollock
Infan
Charles J. von Herrmann
Thomas F. Quinn
Joseph Keeffe
Edward L. Bailey
Edgar B. Robertson
Ro, Baird
LAW
Warren
Cheyenne
Marit
Leader
Ideals Rice &C
Wool Commission Merchanta
Boston, Maas
N. B
Fpolzar
Abby
Seventh St
West
Denver
Colo
Rocky Mountain
Gom Stephenson
Sixtenth ST
Burt
Leather & Findings
Teller City
Myers’ & Moore’s
C. A. Roberts & Coo
Larimer Street
Wan Aeay
Wells, Richardson & Co
Prop’s
Burlington, VT
Little
U.S
Morris Little & Son
U. S
W. Lawford
Baltimore
Henry Schmidt
Weel Gomenission Merchant
North Front Street
America
Montgomery Ward & CO
Wabash Avenue
Chicago
Grace
BULL
Jimi
Parsons, & Smith
U. P. R. R. House
G. M. Jones
Georne W. Worr
Wye
Ando
Despa
Lingter Bernh
Josh
Maggi
Heral Vermont
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