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[political cartoon showing Siberia and Manchuria with a
lobster between; a racially caricatured man holding
binoculars addresses the reader]
"Why, I always thought it was a bear!"
--Philadelphia North American
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Mike Kelly Shows How He Can Shoot
At Forty Paces Puts Five
Bullets in Radius of
Two Inches
Mike Kelly, deputy sharriff, pioneer
and one of the best known men in
the southern end of King county, yester-
day demonstrated to a crowd of his ad-
mirers at South Park how it was possible
for him to wing murderer Willie Seaton
whom Kelly captured near that place sev-
eral years ago after he had committed
a triple crime and was attempting to
make his escape. The then deputy sherriff
was at the time armed only with a 22-cali-
ber revolver, but he nevertheless managed
to shoot the fleeting murderer in the neck
at a distance of more than fifty yards.
Kelly leveled the revolver across his left
arm and pulled down on the fleeing man,
who promptly tumbled into an irrigation
ditch and was captured. He was later
hanged for his crime.
The accompanying target shows what
Kelly did on Sunday with a new model
25-20 revolver at a distance of forty paces.
He fired five shots at the target, all of
which lodged within a radius of less than
two inches. Three of the bullets can be
covered by a 5-cent piece.
Kelly has long posessed the reputation
of being the only man in the south end
of the county who is able to shoot the
[photograph showing a portrait with six bullet
holes around the face and the caption "WHAT
MIKE KELLY DID TO HIS OWN PHOTOGRAPH AT FORTY
PACES]
top of a grouse's head off with a pistol
three times out of five. He has also
killed many deer with a revolver, and it
is said that there is not a cattle or game
trail between South Park and Kent which
he cannot traverse as easily as the city-
bred man finds his way about a plainly
indicated thoroughfare.
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MAY 13, 1906
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The Tiniest Horse Known
What is believed to be the tiniest horse
or pony in the world is the property of
an Italian nobleman who makes a spe-
cialty of breeding dwarf horses on his
estate in Lombardy. The diminutive
creature barely measures nineteen inches
at the withers, scarcely the size of a
large dog. The owner possesses many
such equine dwarfs.--Boston Post
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OCTOBER 16, 1906
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SUCCESSFUL CONCERT
Proceeds of Prof. Wickens' Entertain-
ment For Protestant Orphans'
Home--A Statement
The concert given by the pupils of
Prof. E.G. Wickens on Tuesday even-
ing at Institute hall was a marked
success. As announced the proceeds
will be devoted to the Protestant Or-
phans' Home. The following gratify-
ing financial statement has been sub-
mitted:
Receipts
Gross receipts from all sources...$139.75
Expenses
Professional assistance for two
nights............................$24.00
Rent of hall for two nights....... 20.00
Printing and advertising.......... 29.45
Truck hire and tuning pianos...... 17.00
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$90.45
A number of complimentary tickets
were issued to those who took part or
otherwise assisted.
Prof. Wickens wishes to take this
opportunity to thank his vocalists,
Mrs. J. T. Legg, J. H. Griffiths, P.
Gordon, and A. Bremner; The Times
and Colonists for free advance notices;
D. W. Waitt & [and] Co., for loan of chairs;
Fletcher Bros. for piano; J.H. Gor-
don, cellist, for free services, and es-
pecially Miss Nancy Harrison and
others who worked so hard to make
this fourteenth annual gathering a
success.
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JANUARY 29, 1903 [sideways in margin]
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BLUE RIBBON OF ATLANTIC OCEAN
NEW TWENTY-FIVE KNOT CUNARD LINERS
They Will be the Largest and Swiftest
Steamers on the
Seas.
The new 25-knot Cunarders are to be
built, one by Messrs. Vickers, Sons & [and]
Maxim, and the other by Messrs. Swan
& [and] Hunter.
To develop the speed of 25 knots no
less than 50,000 horse-power will be re-
quired, and the new vessels will be the
largest, the most powerfully-engined, and
the swiftest liners on the seas. Their
dimensions are as follows: Length,
750 feet; beam, 76 feet; I.H.P, 50,000;
displacement, 30,000 tons; coal consump-
tion, 1,000 tons a day.
The cost of the two new vessels is
placed at £28,000 a year.
At the present moment, Germany pos-
esses the three fastest liners in the
world. These are the Kaiser Wilhelm
der Grosse and the Kronprinz Wilmelm
(of the North German Lloyd) and the
Deithschlands (of the Hamburg-Ameri-
can line).
Following are some particulars of the
newest liners.
Lucania, 1893--Length over all, 625
ft; breadth, 65 ft, 3 in; moulded depth,
41 ft, 6 inc; draught, 20 ft; displace-
ment, 10,000 tons; horse power, 30,0000;
speed 22.01 knots.
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, 1898--
Length over all, 648 ft. 6 in; breadth
66 ft; moulded depth, 43 ft.; draught
29 ft.; displacement, 21,880 tons; horse
power, 30,000; speed, 23 knots.
Oceanic, 1899--Length over all 704 ft;
breadth 68 ft, 4 in.; moulded depth, 49
ft; draught, 32 ft, 6 in; displacement,
28,500 tons; horse power, 27,000; speed,
20.7 knots.
Deutchland, 1900--Length over all,
684 ft; breadth, 67 ft; mounlded depth,
44 ft; draught, 29 ft; displacement,
23,620 tons; horse power, 38,000; speed,
23.5 knots.
Kronprinz Wilhelm, 1901--Length
over all, 663 ft; breadth, 75 ft; moulded
depth, 43 ft.; draught, 29 ft.; displace-
ment, 21,300 tons; horse pwer, 36,000;
speed, 23.5 knots.
Cedric, 1902--Length over all, 700 ft;
breadth, 75 ft; moulded depth, 49 ft,
4 in; draught, 36 ft, 6 in; displacement,
37,870 tons; horse power, 16,000; speed,
16 knots.
Kaiser Wilhelm, II, 1901--Length
over all, 706 ft; breadth, 72 ft; moulded
depth, 44 ft, 2 in; draught 29 ft; dis-
placement, 26,000 tons; horse power,
40,000; speed 23.5 knots. Horse pwer
and speed are likely to be exceeded in
service.
When the new great North German Lloyd
Atlantic liner Kaiser Wilhelm der Zweite
leaves Bremen on her maiden trip to New
York on the 14th of April next, the Ger-
man nation will be the proud possessor of
the four swiftest ocean liners in the world.
In 1897 the North German Lloyd Kaiser
Wilhelm der Grosse lowered the record of
the Conarder, Lucanan and the Germans
have kept the Blue Ribbon of the Atlantic
ever since.
The Hamburg-American liner Deutsch-
land and the North German Lloyd Kron-
prinz Wilhelm have both lowered the record
of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. Each
has an average speed of 23 1/2 knots and it
is difficult to decide which is the faster of
the two, as records are apt to be rather
misleading and figures as it well known
can be made to prove anything.
The Kaiser Wilhelm der Zweite will be
the most powerfully engined vessel in the
world, for she has an indicated horse power
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of 38,000. Her speed is expected to be 24
knots but her speed supremacy will be
threatened by the two new Cunaarders of
24-25 knots now building.
The answer to the question, Do fast
liners pay? is found in an examination of
the balance sheets of the North German
Lloyd and Hamburg American companies.
The policy of both lines is to aim for the
better class of passenger, and it has been
perfectly justified by the earning of the
swiftest vessels in the fleets of both lines.
It has been stated, and we believe the
statement is perfectly true, that these two
great German companies and that during
the busy season of each year, extending
from July to October, every berth in their
fast ships is in demand, and that the num-
ber of disappointed applicants for accom-
modation equals as a rule, quite 33 per
cent of the total capacity of the ship.
In the off season, no difficulty is found in
insuring that 75 per cent of the accommo-
dation available is utilized, even at the
higher rates charged, a result due to the
seaworthiness, speed, and comfort provid-
ed. There is, in line, no doubt that the
high speed liners of the two German com-
panies have on every trip more than paid
their way.
Up to the present the annual subvention
given by the British government to the
various shipping companies for the use of
their liners in time of war has been
£77,813. For this sum the companies un-
dertake to have the subsidized vessels
built to Admiralty requirements. These
requirements include the keeping low of
the tops of the cylinders so that they may
not extend above the water line of the ship,
and so that their chance of being struck
by the enemy's projectiles may be minimiz-
ed: the provision of coal bunkers which
shall protect the ship's vitals from shot
and shell, the extreme subdivision of the
hull by numerous bulkheads, the provision
of steering gear which shall be situated
below the water line, the duplication of
the machinery, and the strengthening of
the decks so that they may carry guns of
the calibre required by the Admiralty.
The shipowner agrees not to alienate the
ship to a foreigner without Admiralty
sanction and promises to give the Admir-
alty the refusal of her when a national
crisis shall arise.
It is impossible to discover the exact
terms upon which the German government
reserves the right to employ certain of the
fastest German liners in time of war for
the German Admiralty refuses to make
public the figures. It is also impossible to
state the exact sumbs by which France
and the United States induce their sips to
qualify for the armed cruiser work for
navigation bounties, construction bounties
and postal bounties are so mixed up that it
would take much research to arrive at the
true facts of the case.
The conditions laid down by the Imperial
German navy for liners which could be
used as auxillary cruisers in time of war
are, we believe, neither very onerous nor
difficult of fulfilment. The liners must be
adapted for mounting a large number of
guns, though exactly how many weapons
or what kind of guns it is difficult to dis-
cover. Another condition is that the rud-
der and steering gear must be arranged to
lie under water.--London Exchange
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A Cure for Intoxication.--Cabbage is
an old cure for drunkenness. The
Egyptians ate it boiled before their
other foods if they intended to drink
wine after dinner, and some of the
remedies sold as preventive of in-
toxication on the continent are said to
contain cabbage seed.
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The Colonist
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1903
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LOST--A silver purse with the name Lu-
cille Pearce engraved on it, on Fort St.
between Vancouver and Government.
Finder kindly return same to 11 Belcher
street and receive reward. f19
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[two illustrations of womens underclothes]
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