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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-28

stages With iron and put four armed
guards inside, with portfolios for them
to shoot through These ironclad stages
checked the robberies for time. but
before long the road agents outwitted
US They captured one of our relay
stations. lit up the building as IL every
thing was all right. and when the night
stage came along killed three out Of
four guards as they walked through the
door of the shanty. They took $50 90
that night, and afterward repeated the
trick in broad daylight
Finally. We had TO ask the govern
ment for a detachment of soldiers 10
protect the mails. Eight men from the
regular army were detailed for each
stage. But they were no better than
our own guards. Hidden behind the
rocks the road agents got the drop on
them. and 1 guess they're running yet
The most effective protection we
could find on that route was 10 raise
the wages Of the men $50 a month ev-
cry time they brought in a dead road
agent Some Of them were drawing fan
cy salaries after a month or two. but
the bullion went through from Dead
wood TO Cheyenne with more certainty
than before.
Utah was generally considered dan
gerous country in those days. ! found
it the safest and most satisfactory ter
ritory in which We operated. however.
and I want 20 say the Mormons were the
best people ever did business with. We
never lost anything in their country. -
a remember on one occasion IN Utah
Wells Fargo & CO. wanted Us % take
out the gold from rich minging camp
at Peosh 20 Salt Lake City. They made
Us an Offer OF so much 20 carry II at
their risk and very much larger offer
10 take the risk ourselves. because they
considered IL extremely dangerous coun-
try. 7 assumed the risk without hesita-
, ton. and earned the bonus without lcs-
Ing a dollar. When the WeIls-Fsrgo peo-
PIE asked how we managed il told them
al Z Rad 70 do was 70 get word u
Brigham Young II a stage was robbed
OF q horse was stolen. and e. twenty
four hours there we're thousand men
looking for the robbers We were he'd
up once or twice. but TIE read agents
could never escape when TIE head q the
church got after then
There was something singular about
this robbing business Before TIRE ws-
you could carry 81 50 IL wooden box
on q stage coach aEy-Ehere cot ~est and
never lose Il After the war you coaif
not r1n a stage around your hack yard
Esth = ;wo-b4t piece 81 board Sisholst
being ia danger Il robbery. I suppose
2 great many q Ire rosS agents we're
the E1srrfIlas ard jzyhawkers q re
var ttnes. nen who bad lost fhelr hAAif
% working and acquires = taste f1r az
kind q reckless. daredevil rsieing
Who were some = ths bcs- stage
drivers q ;hoss days. NJ Szisst'zET
vas ssked
= never saw mere thsz eve OF 81 Ter.
that could call god drivers. Eas tSe
answer -Whea I say gooe drivers -
cor irusd. = z.ezn rsa ~ho could KEEP
tn stage -1gat SIDE ~ OF IN roads.
bring q II q tine ard stEzyE have
Their ho-ses Il good cone4t.on- So--s
erfT.rs could &c; slons without zccsceass
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,egan roasting him for fair.

began roasting him for fair.
- What's the matter with you? I
asked. You act as if you were doped.
Use your head and don't be a monkey.
Who told you TO mix with that fellow.
anyway?
It's all right, says he, with a silly
grin: it's all right. He amt hurting me.
I amt felt a punch yet. All I've got to
do is to have faith. and Christian Sci
ence II pull me through
Il tell you it was enough to make a
mule blush watching the fool way that
boy fought. Well it didn't last the round
out The coon nailed his man with right
and left before two minutes passed, and
the next thing l knew l was toting Mr..
Charley TO his corner.
I called him every hard name 1 could
think of when we reached the dressing
room. but he never spoke until he got
his clothes on and started for the street
Where are you going now?' l asked,
He smiled in sickly fashion throughh
the sticking plaster that covered his
face.
I'm looking for a friend. Georgs.
said he; friend with long hair and
whiskers-one that gave me a tip how
to win a fight through Christian Sci
ence.
with that he went out and spent the
best part of the night looking for the
crank. but he never set eyes on him
again
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-28
STAGE COACH
OF EARLY DAYS
Monroe Salisbury Tells of His
Past Experiences
ROBBERS PLAYED TRICK
And Even IronCIad Stages
Proved Worthless
ROBBERS PLAYED TRICK

Monroe Salisbury, who is at the EN-
pire track with a string of California
trotters and PAGERS in training for the
Grand Circuit, is one of the last Of the
famous far western staging men who
operated on an extensive scale in the
territory between the Missouri river and
the Pacific Coast in the old days when
road agents and red 'Injuns embel-
many stirring incidents.
Ben" Halliday. who ran the Overland
Mail from ST. Louis TO san Francisco
back in the hfties. has long since booked
for Further out and nearly all 81 his
notable contemporaries, excepting Mr.
Salisbury. are dead and gone This
gray-haired. blue-eyed man Of hercuiean
stature and strength was really the king
Of the mall. for while Halliday long
distance route from the Mississippi west
wart 10 the coast gained greater promi-
hence in the pubIiYeye. he never work
ed so many horses or covered 50 many
miles OF road as did Glmer. Salisbury
Co.
Our mail routes aggregated about
eight thousand miles At one period. and
We had something Ike FIVE thousand
horses on the road. said At Salisbury
the other day n answer to the question
OF a writer for the New York Herald
To appreciate the magnitude q these
ngures Il is vel 70 remember that n
the palny days Of public coaching in
England ali the government mails n the
kingdom ran only ABOUT twelve thou
sand miles dsiiy- G.lrler. Salisbury *
Co. operated principally IN California
Utah and Montana. bur Al one time Or
another their stages Mr.. Salisbury rare
" uses the word cosch-ran Il nearly
every state and territory west q the
Missouri rfvsr.
The worst country ! ever krsE- -
marked the veteran ho7senzn. vas be
tween Cheyenne ard DezdEood. sssoz
after the discovery q gold 81 the Back
HIS We carried buliion out q fhs
hills nearly every day and the rad
agents gave rs no end OF trouble After
thn first biz rohh>rx We sheesed tss
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-28
WAS CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE PUG
George Brant Tells OfDOwnfalI
of Kenny
B0XED AT CRIPPLE CREEK
His Imagination Failed to Save
Him Pain
BOXED AT CRIPPLE CREEK

George Grant, manager Of kid" Nc
Coy, is making desperate efforts 20 force
Jack Root into a return match with the
clever Hoosier Mccoy is ready to try
his fortune a second time with the Chi
cagoan. but stu insists that he was
given an unfair deal by the referee in
the first encounter.
I'm perfectly satisfied that Norman
can whip Root said Grant the other
night as he stood discussing events pug
uistic with a pair of friends.
He cant lose if he is given a square
deal
Well. confidence is half the battle. .
remarked one Of the bystanders.
Yes. but only half. returned Grant
There's such thing as having too much
confidence. I've seen more than one man
lose a hight that way. But the oldest
instance OF the kind I ever saw hap
Uened out west. And all the trouble was
caused by lad being TOO confident that
his opponent couldn't hurt him. Chris
tan science was the reason OF his down
ian.
Now, Of course. I admit that every
fellow has a right TO his own opinion.
But 1 do know that Christian science
doesn't work well in the ring. when
The sluggers are mixing and the gloves
cutting the air The way l found il out
was this: / was managing a fellow nam
e. Charley Kenny. a smart little 49,
FOUNDER. quick with his hands and feet.
and able TO hit good punch as well as
10 stand quite bit OF punishment with
out sQuealing. He had a future before
him Il he had only just attended to bust
ness and had not gone incoming around
getting interested in things that didn't
concern him and that had nothing TO do
at all with the lighting game.
But that was the trouble with him.
He was fond OF arguing and always
ready Ii swallow any information that
stranger wanted TO inoculate the theory
Sidnt matter how absurd the theory
was. he was never satisfied until ne
gave 1t a trial and saw for himself how
& banned out. Stli. that was his own
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-28

business and as long as he kept straight
no right to interfere.
We were doing the western circuit
and had pretty good luck Charley won
two decisions in Chicago. one in Denver,
I and then 1 signed him to box a colored
I lad at Cripple Creek. Soon after our
train got started he says to me:
" George, what do you know about
this Christian Science?"
Sc Nothing said l kind of short. for
I wanted TO go to sleep.
" Well he says, its funny, anyway.
I've been reading a lot about it lately.
Seems that you don't need to suffer or
feel any pain if you just make up your
mind that it isn't there And you've
only got to have the Will power l tried
it last night Had a toothache and
just said 10 myself that it was all mag
nation It hurt me little while, but
right after l went 10 bed it got better.
and this morning there wasn't sign Of
it
I only grunted and when he saw ne
couldn't get me started talking he let me
alone
When I awoke, Charley was sitting
alongside stranger. a fellow with long
hair and bushy whiskers. and the two
were chattering away like a pair of old
women.
Presently we reached Cripple Creek;
Charley shakes hands with the long
haired guy and then parted. as if they
/ were brothers. We started for our hotel,
and l says to Charley:
.. Whose your crank friend. boy?'
" Crank nothing. says he. II you
and I were half as wise as that chap.
we'd have reason TO be thankful an
what's more. he's given me a tip on
my fight that's worth the big end Of the
purse TO me. We cant lose. George.
There was a big house ready to greet
US when I took Charley into the ring.
The darkey wes already in his corner.
He looked like easy money to me. and as
Charley was as fit as a fiddle l figured
that things would just about come our
way 1 saw the Iong-haired crank sit
ting close to the ropes. They whispered
together and the crank turned 70 me.
Your mans safe. says he That
coon can't hurt him: science Il win this
contest
Sure thing says l. Nothing like
science. my friend. Only you've got 10
have the punch as we'll
All. you don't understand he said.
I mean the true. the only science
Christian Science
The coon shaped up awkardly. and
l could see that ass far as cleverness
went he wasn't in it. But he was strong
enough and expected that Charley
would feint him out 2 bit and keep away
till he had him measured. So you may
imagine how surprised / was when in
he went mixing up things with the col
dred bad and exchanging punch for
punch.
I yelled at him TO go easy and not
lose his head but ne paid no attention.
Presently the other fellow lands al ele-
CANT swing on the Jaw and down goes
Charley The bell rang while he was
on the floor or else I believe he'd have
been counted out l carried him to his
corner, gave him q dash OF water and
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crowded sometimes We took on eighteen
persons including tie driver and he
guards. That made big load 20 han
die on rough roads
Il suppose the best English coach %
the model you zee here Ga Central Park.
would become disloCatc1 before it IA
run half mile in such country uudes
such weight. ye; THE Concords sore-
times lasted ten years uiih a httie crlids
repairing uow and then For rough us-
age these coaches acre never e4sauaa.
, could teil a genuine Concord go fhs
dark just - the so4nd q made when
running
The largest ~ them had three seats
inside and another on TIE roof. in sddl-
ton O. the drivers seat and two boots.
Built without spring. ard Wifh the bod
iss swung on leather thorouahfarea they
were very loose and flexible in thelr
movement. too much 80 o. Be- vcrx
comfortahls Tor the passenger
The average rate ~ speed Cor oar
stages was about riN miles 60 h18r.
but We ran day ard night ar1 often
covered ere hundred ard anY mHen q
twenty four hours. Horrea we're chaaEef
every fen O. twelve mrea an1 fhrfs
we're home stations forty or any mics
apart where 80 changed creaa an1
f@d our rnen and parse1resr.
The fare waa from iea % twenty
reuts a ullle. - you Hra fha receipts
from TIE passenger trsf1c were quite
ar item when ths stage Nas beaded al
ran dzy ard uizhf On come ~ or
route ne raruegzsr fares zf traes
amounted % u.aoo a day in afditioa -
rrau ard Freight contracts.
For staEs wefk - ms sart 3 tseuEht
harses rauafrg CD wrixbi ffaFn ifa -
- pounds and n heirhf fFam iss 70
III HANDS Z Ike god n~rrg hefas.
~lfh plenfy - bens asf rutrta1ee. sH1
have aIrays f9snd thsf ths uifa
tie hlrerut harrsi sm araaly 81 tsa
INST vork Ehaffes sf EtaEl1g ar rse.aE-
DID ! eTsr ar 70 a stage SEA nf
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= aaed - 80 $50 siaaF thr ros4 taet
sheraTsr ssuahgrF wss sfarf ths
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q arasrs real rsasr 81 ths sfaflsn
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-28
RooT-GARpNER FIGHT.

Although the CARBOHYDRATES match is
by long odds the most important of any
TO be fought in the next two months.
the proximity Of the Root-Gardner af-
fair. set for July az Fort Erie. is over
shadowing the first mentioned event.
The Fort Erie bout must be considered
the affair Of most moment ST this time.
Root and Gleason are 10 meet for what
Is announced as the 'light-heavy-weigh t
title" While this class has not been
officially recognized prior 20 the last
year or SO. the scrappers in that divi-
sion certainly have a right TO organize
themselves into a separate bunch and
fisht for the title Of that class If they
are so disposed; and there y no reason
10 suppose that the light heavy weights
viii not BE- a fully recognized class in the
prize ring hereafter
II has always seemed as IL the scarcity
Of material in the heavy weight division
was caused by ,he absence OF another
class, separating the good light men
from the good heavy men Under the
old rules "a pounds was the middle
weight limit This was raised 70 rs
by Bob Fitzsinmons- Any good nan Il
los or theresbouts was forced % battle
heavier men al catch weights
An old adsge of the ring 10 the effect
that a man weighing ls6 pounds was big
enough to take care OF himself in any
company. might have been vastly salts
factory 10 followers OF the London prize
ring. But in modern dimes. when the
game is much more scientific than 4
ever vas before. patrons are inclined
70 favor splitting up the big fellows by
another class
About lS.ep Rmericans live n Ger
many. The number Of English residents
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-28
wos-r seeElvg vIslToas.
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tars fsrtzse Th@lr fuxhaess-s e. satss :
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About 1S.ece Rnericans live IN Ger
many. The number Of English residents
is 1900. or ..aee fewer tE2a there are
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-28

Mems Fast Black Alpaca Coats worth S1.25
Mems Atwood Unlned Blue Serge Coats cheap ST. So
Fine Alpaca and Luster Coats elegant quality,
Mems Office Coats, fast color light and dark shades
Blue Serge Unlned Coats and Vests, fast color fine twill
All Silk and Silk Luster Coats and Coats and Vests, the
comfortable, please you Observation-Disclosures.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26

900, at which figure it has since re-
manned.
Into Canada and Mexico.
Last year the company decided to
extend it's operations to Canada and
Mexico, and the outlook 50 far seems
to justify the undertaking. In the
spring of that year they decided to
place the company under the condi-
tons Of the Safety Fund Law by de-
posting a million and a half Of Sc
curities with the superintendent Of in
surance, to be held as a safeguard to
the company in case Of a great dis
aster.
The company Is now transactine
business in all the states and in all
the territories except New Mexico
and in Canada and Mexico, issuing its
policies thru some 5000 agents, and
covering more than one thousand mil
lions Of property.
The Company and the West.
President Washburn, and, in fact
all the officers Of the Home are firm
believers in the permanency and pros.
perity Of the great west. They have
watched it's upbuilding with the live
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26
Americas Greatest and Most Popular Fire Insurance Company
Remarkable Record Of Achievement in Fifty Years.
Conditions Then and Now.

capital of a half-million. which was
double that of any New York COM
pany then doing business. The found
ers of the Home were above all petty
superstitions, for on April 13 in that
year they completed its organization
and announced that it was ready to
issue policies.
The officers of the company at its
organization were, Simeon L. LOOMS,
president, and Charles ]. Martin, sec
rotary. Mr.. LOOMS had for many
years been secretary Of the Aetna
Insurance company, while Mr.. Mar
tin was at the time Of his appoint
ment secretary of the Commercial
Fire Insurance company Of New York
The board Of directors was composed
Of forty-five merchants Of the city.
The Home commenced business in
the directors-room Of the Continental
bank, removing in May to No. 10 Wall
street, and a year later to the base
ment of the st. Nicholas bank, al
New and Wall streets, where it re-
manned until it's new building at No
Wall street was completed in De
cember, 1854. In May, 1858, the com
pany moved to Nos. 112 and ia
Broadway. In 1868 it leased the build
ing on the northwest corner. Of Broad
way and Cedar street, and it was re-
fitted and adapted for it's uses. There
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26

Minnesota, North and South Dakota,
of which William D. Lowry of Min
.neapolis lis state agent, has increased
threefold.
r Mr.. Lowry has been state agent for
ten years and is one of the best known
and most successful insurance men in
the northwest. He knows the field
thoroly, and there is no branch or
phase of the business which he has
not mastered. The public has the
fullest confidence In his integrity and
ability, and much of the success and
wide popularity Of the Home in the
prairie west can be traced to- the
honesty and energy which he has al
ways shown in the conduct Of the
business of his company.
Other contributors to the marvellous
progress of the company in the west
are William H. Mackey and John H.
Hauschild, special agents for Mime
sofa and the Dakotas, with headauar-
tiers in Minneapolis. Both have had
long experience in the business and
have been instrumental in pushing she
interests Of the Home In all sections
Of vast territory. It can truthfully
be said that the Home of New York
| is not only Americas greatest fire in
surance company, but it is also It's
most popular one.
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Hest satisfaction, and have for years
predicted it's greatness and stood its
fast friends on all occasions. Mr..
Washburn himself has on more than
one occasion travelled thru the west
and has voiced his sentiments in this
respect by word Of mouth and thfu
the public press. He likes the west
and western men and western ways.
He has studied it's past, knows its
present, and has full confidence In
the future of the new and strong COM
monwealths west Of the Mississippi.
The policy Of the Home has been
to deal literally with each and every
patron. This has been emphasized so
many times in actual transactions pc
tween this great corporation and the
individual that the Home has become
general favorite among the people
and agents, and it's business in the
west has grown by leaps and bounds.
This policy of liberal dealing, rein
forced by the well-known solidity and
splendid standing Of the Home and its
views as to compacts and rating
bureaus, has given the company
unique position in the insurance bust
ness world, a position which is not
approached by any of its competitors.
The people trust it because it treats
them fairly and literally.
State Agent Lowry and Assistants.
The company and it's western rep
resentatives, who get out and mingle
with the people, are justly popular.
The records of the last ten or twelve
years proves this. In ten years the
business of the Home in the states Of
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no elevators and no trolley cars.
transportation in the city Of New
York was by stages. The telegraph
was in use, but only few short sys-
TENS. Everything was on a different
scale from that Of to-day.
There were siXty-three companies in
the city Of New York that reported
at the time the Home company made
it's first report. These companies had
less assets by over a million dollars
than the Home Insurance company
has to-day. The premium receipts of
these companies, including the Home,
for the year preceding were less than
one-half Of the premium receipts Of
the Home Insurance company for the
was purely local.
Strength of the Home.
From that picture Of beginning turn
to this one of achievement. To-day
the accumulated assets Of the Home
Insurance company are greater than
those Of any other fire insurance COM
pany in the whole country, amounting
to more than $17,O00,0OO; it's premium
receipts last year were $7,365,60
which exceeded those Of any other
company, save one, and its net sur
plus of $6,436,039 was larger than
that Of any other company. OF the
forty-seven New York state companies
now doing business, the Home had at
the beginning Of this year 1876 per
cent of the total capital stock. 1871
per cent Of the assets and ia per
cent of the surplus, or, In other
words, over one-sixth Of the entire
amounts. This position 1t has attained
istence. u ,
From the time the Home begar
business in 1853 to the first of the
present year it received in premiums
the enormous sum of $147,O97,011
and paid in losses SIS, 913,573, OF
58.41 per cent Of It's total premium
receipts. While maintaining a re.
markably steady development from
the start, the company has made won
derfu1 strides in the growth of it:
business during the past decade, ant
especially in the past three or fou
years.
In all this long interim the, com
pany has had only four presidents
After the first two years the frs
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26

The Home Insurance company of
New York is one or the splendid in
situations of this country. Its growth
has been in parallel lines with the
development and growth of the ma
ton during the past fifty years. 1t has
had seasons of stress and trial. but,
like the storm-tested oak, has emerged
from each stronger and sturdier than
before.
Only last spring it celebrated the
halfway milestone of it's first century
march-fifty years of remarkable
achievement. On It's anniversary
President John II. Washburn. in his
banquet address, recounted some of
the stupendous changes since the year
1898. There were then, he said. no
telephones, no sky-scraping buildings,