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Used Her Scissors on the Landlord

San Francisco, Nov. Inlay Wilton
dressmaker at III Taylor street, was
arrested this afternoon on a warrant
charging her with assault to murder.
The complaining witness is Alexander
Sanderson, proprietor of the lodging
house at that address.
According to Sanderson's statement,
he had told his wife Friday night not
to enter Miss Wilton's rooms, and yes
terday morning when the dressmaker
saw him she flew at him with a pair
of scissors and stabbed him in the arm
and hand.
Miss Wilton, who is forty years of
age, says Sanderson has been con-
stantiy abusing his wife becacse she
would not give him money to gamble
with, and Friday night he beat her Sc
verely. Miss Wilton says she inter
fered to protect the woman and San
derson turned and struck her Mrs.
Sanderson came to Miss Wilton's
room and she advised her to keep
away from her husband, as he might
kill her. Mrs. Sanderson did So and
when Sanderson met his wife yester-
day morning he at once commenced to
beat her.
81 heard her scream" said Miss Viii
ton, "and when 1 opened my door the
poor woman fell in front of it. I de-
nounced him for his brutality and he
struck me. I had the scissors in my
hand and struck at him."
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They We're a Giant Race.

Vancouver, B. c., Nov Thames
L. Parkinson, an American miner of
Atlin, arrived here today with news of
the finding of a number of skeletons
in an ancient cemetery in the North
which is of startling scientific interest.
Parkinson is one of the owners of
the Yellow Jacket, rich claim which
is supposed to be at the fountain head
of Pine, the principal creek in Atlin
district. Two weeks ago the first eX-
cavations were made for a new tunnel
on the property, and what appears to
have been an old Indian burying
ground was opened up.
Five skeletons, nearly complete, were
exhumed, and each is the set of bones
that belonged to a giant of prehistor-
ic times. One of the skeletons meas
ures over seven feet in length, so that
the man must have been considerable
over that height. Then there are two
others that are within an inch of sew
en- feet. and the remaining two were
more than six feet in length, and the
men were of gigantic frame.
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NOTHING LEFT FOR AN INQUEST
1t is Estimated 700 People Witnessed the
Execution

Limon, Colo, Nov 17.-N'o inquest,
it is said, will be held over the re-
mains of Preston Porter, Jr., common
ly known as Iohn Porter. who was
burned at a stake near Lake Station
last evening by a mob to avenge the
murder of Louise Frost, which the ne
gro confessed he had committed. In
fact, the coroner can find no remains
on which to hold an inquest.
A few men remained last night at
the spot out on the prairie where the
murder was committed and renewed
the fire again and again until every
vestige of the negro was gone. The
iron rail to which the victim was
bound was left standing as warning
to all inclined to deeds similar to
that for which young Porter was
burned
A mound of earth has been piled up
around the iron rail, covering the
ashes, and it will remain as a mon
ument in sight of all passing trains.
1t is estimated that 700 people wit
messed the execution. No women re-
manned during the cremation, but
many of them went to the scene be-
fore the fire was lighted, and the ne
gro was led from carriage to car
riage for inspection. The women's
vote was a unit for burning.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FAVORED
Denver, Colo, Nov. 1.-THE move
ment to reinstate capital punishment
on the statutes of Colorado has re-
ceived a great impetus from the muir
der of Louise Frost at Limon and the
awful lynching that followed the con-
fession of her murderer. A bill with
this object is now being drawn and
its advocates will make an aggres-
sive fight for its enactment at the
coming session of the legislature. By
this bill hanging will be made the
penalty for murder and possibly also
for assaults such as that committed
upon Louise Frost previous to her
murder.
No steps have been taken yet to
prosecute any members of the mob
which burned young Porter at Limon
last night and it is unlikely that any
will be taken. Governor Thomas re-
fuses to express any opinion whatever
in regard to the affair.
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HushandrY Is Very Old.

The origin of agriculture is lost in the
mists of antiquity. We know that in
Neolithic times in Europe eight kinds
of cereals were cultivated, besides flax,
peas, peoples, apples, pears, bullace,
plums, ETC., at the same time various
animals were domesticated. Among
these were horses, short-horned oxen,
horned sheep, goats, two breeds of pigs
and dogs. Prof. w. Boyd Dawkins says
that evidence goes to show that these
animals were not domesticated in Eul-
rope, but probably in the central pla-
teau Of Asia. He also thinks that agri-
culture arose in the south and east of
Europe, and spread gradually to the
center, north and west. A hunting pop
ulation is often very averse to even the
slight amount of work that agriculture
requires in a tropical country. The
same holds good, as rule, for pastoral
communities. In all cases a powerful
constraint is necessary to force these
peoples into uncongenial employment.
Fate is stronger than will, and at vari-
Gus periods in different climes hunters
and herders have been forced to till the
soil
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We are obliged now to chronicle the
fact that a club has been formed in a
nearby city by divorced men who call
themselves 1.-The Concatenated Order
Of Has-Beens." This organization, it
is said, will build club house and en-
deavor to attract attention in various
ways, probably having baseball
matches between fat and lean mines Sc
lected from it's membership and getting
up benefits at theaters and other places
for itself. 1t is difficult to be patient
with such people. Possibly some of the
divorced husbands in the town were
wronged. They may have been justi-
fed in seeking freedom. But there can
be no justification for a desire upon
the part of any one who is a divorced
man to parade himself as such. Cad
cooks! What if the divorced husbands
of every city were to form clubs
Where could building sites for business
houses be found? And if the divorced
men are going to form clubs the di-
vorced women will be wanting to do
something of the kind next. That
would be too muchl This club bust
ness is being carried too far anyway. 1t
has come to pass that a person who
doesn't belong to one or more clubs is
almost a curiosity, and as for society,
it is nothing but a conglomeration of
clubs. There are mems clubs, there are
women's clubs, there are country clubs,
there are driving clubs, wheel clubs,
auto clubs, golf clubs, tennis clubs and
card clubs of many kinds. In fact, ii
seems to have become customary when
ever or wherever two or three are gath
cred together, by chance or otherwise,
to form a club of some kind. All this
must, in the natural order of things,
come to a stop sooner or later. The line
must be drawn somewhere, and we
guess the proper place to draw it is at
the divorced peoples club. The mem
bers of the divorced mems club should
be ashamed of themselves.
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There is now great deal of talk to
the effect that man who works for a
salary is more dependent than a man
who has his own business. If there is
one fact that is clearly established in
this world, that fact is the beneficent
complete tnterdependence of all men.
Timidity or some other similar defect
Of character may make any man, what
ever his source of income, feel like a
dependent in the unpleasant sense of
that word. Idleness or incapacity or
some such defect may make a man ac-
tually a dependent, a recipient of
bounty which he has good cause to fear
may be withdrawn. But the man of
courage, the man of energy, capacity
and application, is everywhere his OWL
master. Whether he keeps a shop OF
works for shopkeeper, whether he di
reefs or is directed by a corporation
he is necessarily a free man. He gives
valuable service in exchange for its
worth.
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Russians Encounter a Rebber Republic

st. Petersburg, Nov. 1.-THE Rus
sian troops are encountering a robber
republic lying south of Kirin, Manchu-
ria, in the mountainous basin of the
upper Sungari. The president of this
banditti is a certain Shaindengue. Ac-
cording to general staff dispatches,
Lieut.. Col.Duroff, with two companies
of infantry, and sotnia and a half
of Cossacks, while accommodating re-
Gently collided with Shaindengue and
two batallions of Chinese regular
troops, who were operating with him.
Lieut.. Col. Duroff captured two guns
in the engagement.
A reconnaissance developed the fact
that Mogeasshan is enclosed with a
stone wall eighteen feet high and that
the inner city is also walled
Holbrook argus., 1900-11-24

In reading the current notices of the
birthday celebrations of our centena-
rians one is struck by the fact that
these healthy livers are almost invari-
ably people in modest circumstances.
Even the very poor are permitted to
live out their hundred years, while
such a thing as a wealthy centenarian
Is almost unknown. This relation be-
tween longevity and moderate condi-
tons of life is illustrated by the care
fully kept statistics of the incumbents
of church livings in England. The 1O3
clergymen who have occupied the same
living for fifty years and upward have
done SO on an average income of ESQ,
or $1,25O. In sixteen cases the income
after fifty years of continuous service
was between $3.50 and $40 a year.
The moral of this would seem to be
that the best assurance of reaching a
cool old age would be found in the pos
session of an income that makes plain
living compulsory, but we doubt wheth-
er this reflection will have any fnf1u'
ence in checking the desire for wealth.
1t Is even possible that great many
people would prefer a shorter life and
a larger income to the prospect of lon
gevity and limited means.
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The Sultan of Turkey.

The Sultan of Turkey rises at six
o'clock every morning, and devotes his
days, in the seclusion of the Yildiz Pal
ace and gardens, tc personal attention
to affairs of state. He is of slight fig
ure. A pale brown overcoat conceals
any decorations he might be wearing,
so that the attention of those who see
him on the one day in seven when he
presents himself to the view of the peo-
pie is not diverted from his pale, wan,
and careworn face, half-covered by a
thin, brown beard, tinged with gray,
and surmounted by plain red fez. The
Sultan has been the means of establish
ing fifty thousand schools throughout
his empire. not only for boys, but for
girls also-a striking departure from the
traditional usage of his race.
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Agriculture and Horticulture

New York, Nov. 16.-All citrus fruits
except Sicily lemons are strong.
though the new crop of California or
anges has not begun to cut much fig
ure in the markets. The few cars
which have arrived. like all of the
first fruit coming to market, has been
rather green.
Jamaica oranges sold at auction at
$6@3.621a, being firm and active.
Jamaica grape fruit sold from $3.75
barrel and 1926 a box down to %
cents box, the latter being in poor
condition.
California lemons are holding their
eQl 'uonone re sgu!sssN ql!M uMo
former selling at $2.3S@1.S7 and the
latter at $2.75@1.65.
Florida brought from 1925 to $475.
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London a Good Field for Bakers

What to do with our boys? Make
them bakers. According to the official
organ of the trade, the way to honor
able competency, not to say wealth, lies
through a sack of flour. There is no
calling, it says, which offers such good
opportunities to the operative as the
bakers. A persevering, steady, saving
lad can in a very few years make q
position for himself. 1t does not re-
quire a large capital to start in bust.
ness, and it is safe to say that 90 pei
cent of the London master bakers have
worked their way up to a comfortable
position, if not one of affluence, from
the ranks of the journeymen.-Lond
Telegraph.
Holbrook argus., 1900-11-24

There may be much scientific and litN
erary sympathy between nations which
are politically uncongenial. There is
q current medical proverb in Europe
that when a thing is verified on the
banks Of the Spree, as well as on the
banks Of the Seine, that is, when Ber-
lin and Paris agree, there must be
something in it. So much has been
added to our knowledge Of the physical
history Of the race by study and expert
ments in France and Germany, that the
proverb is worthy to be remembered
when the political relations of the two
countries are in question. Moreover, is
1t not best for the world to emphasize
the fraternizings rather than the es-
arrangements of the nations?
Holbrook argus., 1900-11-24

What would Commodore Vanderbilt
have thought of all this chatter about
his great-grandson going to work? The
old man put his son "Bilr' to work at
an early age; not in an office at $4,000
a year, either, but hauling manure on
the Staten Island farm ION shares and
thought he was treating him handsome,
ly at that. The access of snobbery
since those days is by no means con,
fined to the Vanderbilt family; it ex-
tends throughout the large and growing
class of Americans who sneeze every
time young millionaire takes snuff.
Holbrook argus., 1900-11-24
Enormous Collections

Washington, Nov. 1.-THE annual
report of the commissioner of inter
nal revenue for the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1900, shows a collection ex-
ceeded but once in the history of the
bureau. The receipts were $293,316,-
107, being $10,316, 107 in excess of the
estimated amount and $21 1881, 534 more
than during the previous year. The
percentage of cost of collection was
1.5S as against 1.6S for last year, be-
ing the smallest in the history of the
internal revenue service. Commission
er Wilson estimates that the receipts
from all sources of internal revenue
for the current fiscal year will ap-
proXimate 1926, 100000.
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Fooled the Bank Robbers

Vancouver, B. c., Nov. 16.-At the
town of Nanaimo. B. c., bold at
tempt was made to rob the bank of
British Columbia just before daybreak
this morning, and in defending the
vault, Purvis Smith. clerk of the
bank who sleeps in the premises as a
guard, was shot by the burglar. At
ter he was shot, Smith fired four times
at the burglar, who, however, escaped.
Smiths wound will not prove fatal.
The burglar secured no treasure.
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worth

The important thing to be considered
In all such submarine-boat tests as
those which have been made recently
by American and English navies, as
well as by the navy Of France, is the
proof they afford of the moral effect
which this new factor in warfare may
come to have. Whatever the submarine
boat might be able to do in warfare, let
its presence in an enemy's feet be sus-
pected and it becomes an unknown fac
tor and factor to be dreaded. Its ac-
tual capacity to destroy becomes rela-
lively Of far less Importance than the
power which it will exert by its moral
effect. Whatever be its practical utility,
there is as yet no known means of de-
Tense against its attacks. In a familiar
harbor 1t would menace any blockading
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Threw a Hatchet at Emperor William

Berlin, Nov. 16.-Dispatches received
in Berlin give an account of the at
tempt on the life of the kaiser at
Breslau. While his majesty, accom-
panied by the hereditory prince of
Saxe-Meiningen, was being driven
from the Breslau railway station to
the city, a woman forced her way
through the crowd and threw a hat
Chef at the imperial carriage. The
weapon, however, struck only the hind
wheel. The kaiser did not even no
tice the incident.
Holbrook argus., 1900-11-24

Chicago police records show that the
broom handle is woman's favorite wea-
pom. In table compiled by the Trib-
une of that city the broom handle comes
first with a record of 1876 ARRAYS,
against 102 for table knives, 70 for
stove lid filters and 76 for the tradi-
honal rolling pin. The hatpin has a
score of 30, yet it is a more dangerous
weapon than table knife or rolling
pin. The explanation is that women
DO most of their fighting at home and
seize the weapon nearest at hand.
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STORIES FROM BOERDOM
Picturesque EuIogies of Boer and Harsh
Criticism of British

Among the American scouts and
Irish cavalrymen just arrived - this
country after service in the Boer army
are Private T. A. Bedford of Ireland
and ]. N. King of California, better
known as Dynamite Dick"
1--WE are all members" said Bedford,
"of the Irish brigade, which was COM
manded by an American, Col. john
ny Blake, formerly of the Sixth United
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Americans Fall Before Filipino Bullets

Manila, Nov. 1.-Two hundred bolo-
men with rifles attacked Bugazan. ISL
and of Panay, Oct. 80. The Americans
lost three men killed-Lieut. II. M.
KoOntz, Sergeant Kitchen and Corpor-
al Burns-all of Company F, Forty
fourth Infantry. The enemy lost 100
killed, twenty-five wounded and fifty
prisoners.
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Come back to me-" said the Kansas
City man who found his runaway wife
in Chicago, land you shall have the
privilege of going on an extensive shop
ping tour" There's a man who knows
something of feminine nature and has
the wit to put his knowledge to prac-
teal use. He deals, not in abstract
theories, but N concrete facts. OF
sourse she went.
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Baby's Awful Fate

Woodland, Nov. I'm a blazing
stubblefield, into which she had wan
dered with some playmates, little AL
pha Adele, a three-year old daughter
of Louis Adele, was burned to death
on a farm a short distance west of
Yolo. When her parents alarmed by
the screams of the other children,
found her, she was unconscious. She
died half an hour later.
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Apaches take the War Path

Ell Paso, Tex, Nov. 16.-Official re-
ports received this afternoon from Ca
sas Grandes, Mex, one hundred and
seventy miles southwest of Ell Paso,
say that a band of Apache Indians
the American Mormon col
ony of Pacheco at dusk last evening
and the redskins were repulsed after
a hard fight. Twelve Indians were
killed and several Mormons were kill
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One Hundred Bodies Found

Galveston, Tex, Nov. 1.-THE Uni
ted States surveying corps today found
over a hundred dead bodies in a
swamp just west of the city on the
island where they had been deposited
by the storm of September Sth. The
unburied dead were in an out of the
way place near the county road and
had not been discovered by the bury
ing parties sent out after the storm.
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squadron with peril that it would be
impossible to foresee or guard against
1t Is for this reason that the British adj
miralty has found itself obliged to un.
deEtake experiments with submarine
boats. Until defense can be found
against these vessels. the only way tO
meet the moral effect of the submarines
of another power will be the construc'
ton of submarines to offset them.
Holbrook argus., 1900-11-24

Many men who have no regard for
the sacredness of property will doubt
less be greatly interested in report
read before the national prison con-
gress on how to keep out of prison. The
plan is very simple-don't do anything
uvrnnp
Holbrook argus., 1900-11-24

About the neatest thing King Oscar
of Sweden ever said was that greeting
to Americans the other day: Il vel
come you as Americans and therefore
as fellow monarchs."
Holbrook argus., 1900-11-24

The Sultan says that it costs him a
rifie over 100000 a year to satisfy
the dress appetite of his harem. This
Is perhaps thrown out as a sort of ex-
PLANTATION of why he does not pay US
that little bill. He thinks perhaps that
this country is not so cruel as to press
1 man who can hardly clothe his fam
Ux
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Chinaman Confessed to Murder

Vancouver, B. c., Nov. 16.-Yip
Luck, the Chinese murderer of Chief
of Police Main of Stevenson, was
hanged this morning in the yard of
the provincial jail at New Westminster
He confessed his guilt.
Holbrook argus., 1900-11-24

Alfred Vanderbilt knows that no man
need be out Of work. He had no trou'
BILE in securing his pick of jobs in the
offices of the New York Central Rail-
road.
Holbrook argus., 1900-11-24

That barber who has gone into the
pulpit will naturally have more or less
to say to his people about the next
world.
Holbrook argus., 1900-11-24

The anxiety of European powers to
be "chummy" with this country gener-
ally seems strongest when they have a
fight on hand.
Holbrook argus., 1900-11-24

Ragtime music is already under the
ban. 1t is a national characteristic to
run popular things into the ground ana
then break them short off.
Holbrook argus., 1900-11-24

Is there no way that the football
players can be equipped with Tenders
FOR the preservation of the American
youth?
Holbrook argus., 1900-11-24

By being communicated from 1t
Tolstoi has succeeded in letting the
world know that there is such thing
as a Greek church.
Holbrook argus., 1900-11-24

The empty after-dinner speech is an
other thing which cannot be suppress
ed by the voters.
Holbrook argus., 1900-11-24

Ehe Belgian hare is the paramount
issue with some persons.
Holbrook argus., 1900-11-24
Was a Dinerent Face.

A polite Oklahoma City barber, after
shaving a man his best, asked him to
call again. 'Pve been here before, "
said the man. 81 don't remember your
face" said the barber. NO" said the
man, 'it's all healed up now"
Holbrook argus., 1900-11-24

1t is well to study law and physic
but 1t Is better to Deed neither.
Holbrook argus., 1900-11-24

Great Britain and Ireland have ri,
700 miles of railway.
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-08-19
WAS NOT A TREATY. -

In connection with the contention that
Secretary tiav exceeded his constitutional
powers when he agreed to the modus VI
vsndi, 1t must be remembered that he was
not exercising the treaty making power Of
the executive. The advice and consent of
the senate was not asked. The executive
branch of the government simply gave
swav temporarily, at least, the greater
portion OF the Poreupine district. And In
fact, It gave awav forever the gold depos-
Ito 10 that placer field, and the timber of
the forests. and these are all that give
value to the country. @
Unless American courts or congress In
tsrferes. all the gold will be extracted and
silthe timber removed long before there
- further adjustment of the boundary
question. u
u requires as great authority to give
Temporary control of the land and absolute