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The Red Cloud chief., 1904-09-09
BEAT THE RECORD
Dan Patch PAGES a Mile in Fast
Time Of 2:O5 Ia.
FAST FOR HALF MILE TRACK
lnrse Aud,eoce witnesses Merry PAGER
Attempt 10 Excel hest Half
Mile Record.

Dan Patch paced a mile on the Ne
braska state fair grounds track In
2:O5h. lie went the quarter In ;32;
the half in 1:04, and the three-quar-
tiers in 1885. This breaks the track
record for a mile. Crcsceus trottlng 1t
last year I'm 2:0Sh.
The crowd that witnessed the event
was. not as large as the one present
the day before when the exhibition
could not be pulled of because OF the
bad track. As 1t was, however. the
ampitheater was jammed and the
quarter stretch showed the presence
of n great number of the animals ad-
mirrors. The day was excellent. though
the sun did not come out until late
and the track could not be called fast.
Dan Patch's worlds record for a mile
on a half mile track is 2:O3h, made
at Birmingham. Ala, last year. This
was made after he had been a whole
season on the road.
While the time made excelled that
OF Cresceus n year before. the temper
OF the crowd was not the same. Cres-
ceus was mot with cheers whenever he
put in an appearance. The beautiful
PAGER was not cheered when he was led
out and his performance was not greet
ed as enthusiastically as was merited.
The crowd hardly seemed to realize
that they had witnessed the fastest
mile ever travelled in the state by any
harness horse.
To the spectators the exhibition was
not quite as spectacular as the mile
made such tremendous strides, reach
ing to the front at every step In a way
that showed clearly how he was eat
ing up the distance. Dan Patch. or
the other hand, seemed to have his
finely strung organism in perfect work.
ing order. and settled down to his
work with a precision that was aston
ishing. The secret OF his speed prob
ably lies I'm the fact that there is no
lost motion. II did not seem n great
effort for him. As he crawled along
after the rune every spectator in
wardly wished Cobweb would get up a
little speed or crawl off to the other
side Of the track and let the PAGER go
by. The runncr was driven by IN eX-
pert, and while to the spectators 1t
seemed as II he was actually retard-
ing the animal, he had this gagged so
finely that he was all the time assist
ing. Without the rune or some
other horse speeding at his side. Dan
Patch always slows up. So easily did
he glide. along that It was difficult
to appreciate what he was accomplish
ing. II vas probably true that II the
driver had cared to urge him to the
limit, the time could have been low
cred.
As II was. the showing made was
remarkable for the track. II was not
as hard underneath as it should have
been for the PAGER to do his best. At
the turns the big horse dug in and
these had to be made by driving out
considerably further than would have
been necessary with the track in per-
feet condition.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-09-09

pany lacks so much of being a mo.
nopoly that the competition has been
of the keenest sort for years. And
vet in the Mckinley law and in the
Wilson.G orman law and in the Ding.
ley law the duty on window glass has
been very high. Notwithstanding
this 1t has been impossible to form a
trust or a combination Of any sort
that would prevent the liveliest of
competition. Here are two cold facts
OF more than ordinary Importance in
the business world that ought to be
known to everybody-two facts that,
standing alone, are sufficient to take
the pith out of the theory that the
tariff Is the mother of trusts. And
these are but two of numerous facts,
all giving the direct lie to this tariff
theory. But what has the tariff re.
former to do with facts ?-Greenfeld
(Ind.) Tribune.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-09-09
To XIII a Snake,

Senator Lodge is perfectly correct
in saying that the Massachusetts reci-
procity movement is a covert scheme
to divide and weaken the Republican
party. The scheme is being engineered
with that purpose distinctly in view.
And it will succeed unless Republic
ans take it promptly by the neck and
shut off its wind. That is what the
Iowa Republicans did, with the result
that reciprocity squeaks are few and
far between In that fine Republican
commonwealth. 1t will be found in
Massachusetts. as elsewhere, that you
cannot kill a snake by coddling it.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-09-09
TWENTY ~SEPTEMBERS

weather Clerk Loveiand Tells Interest
ing Facts About Present month.
The warmest September in the last
twenty years was that OF the year OF
1897. when the Thermometer registered
an average of 75 degrees, according to
a summary issued by Section Director
Loveland. The coolest September In
that time was that OF the year previ-
ous-1S9G, which had an average en-
perature of G2 degrees.
IL history repeats itself it is doubt
full II any more days as hot as some
of those OF the last month will be ex-
perienced here again this year. The
highest temperature recorded on any
day during the month Of September
in the last twenty years was 10l. on
September II, 1895, and September 5,
1899. The lowest temperature on any
day of the month in the last twenty
years was - degrees on September 20,
1899.
Wll1lH u SHOTl tiult NcDidShd anu
Lincoln people should begin anticipat-
ing killing frosts. The earliest frost
in the last twenty years occurred Sep
TENDER ~, 1902. The average date for
the first killing frost in the last score
of years has been October s.
The average date for the last kill
ing frost in the spring for the last
score has been April 1S, while the
latest frost was that of May Z, 1890.
The average precipitation for Sep
TENDER in the last twenty-five years
has been 2.1O inches. The average
number OF days with OF Of an inch or
more has been six. In 1901 the great
est precipitation for the month was
recorded. being six inches. The least
rain for the month was in 1888, when
only .O3 was recorded. The greatest
amount of precipitation recorded in
any t~wenty-four consecutive hours was
2.67 inches on September 1928, 1902.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-09-09
U LADY IN JAIL
She Helped Friend Saw Ills Way Out
and IL Arrested for II.

She Helped Friend Saw His Way Out
and IL Arrested for II.
Miss Josephine Williams, is years
old, and the daughter of a well-to-do
Hatel Royal, formerly the Walton
rested secretly at Indianapolis, Ind, by
the police of Franklin and taken to
that city, where she was placed in jail.
A short time ago, while visiting at
E%dinburg, Miss Williams met Carl
Oaks and a friendship existed from
the moment OF their first acquaintance.
Soon afterward Oaks was arrested and
placed in the Franklin jail on a charge
OF larceny. Miss Williams paid fire.
aucnt visits to him at the jail. One
night he and three other prisoners
sawed their way out of the jail and
escaped and Oaks te~legraphed Miss
| Williams from Greenwood not to meet
him at Franklin, as he was going
| south.
The Johnson county officials were
notified OF the sending OF the message
and found Miss Williams at the resi-
dence of a relative OF the escaped
prisoner in Crothersville. They charge
that she passed the saws to him
through the gratlngs Of his cell and
that the two were to meet near the
iail after his escape. He got out earlier
than he expected and feared to remain
The telegram revealed her where
abouts. Nothing has been heard IRON
Oaks. hut the young woman now oc'
cupies the cell from which he escaped.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-09-09
IL, q. Davis SON Very m.

Johl T. Davis, only son of the demo-
cratic nominee for vice president.
Henry G, Davis. is a patient in Davis
Memorial hospital, He was taken
'here from New York suffering with
typhoid fever, with which he was al
lacked The hospital physicians saw
ne Is In a critical condition. Senator
DAVIS is much worried. the death of
MS wire and daughter, Mrs. Brown. in
1902, being due to the same malady,
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-09-09
Did Not Get Much Treasure.

Upon the arrival of the Oregon ex-
press on the Oregon Short Line at
kemmerer, Wyo., four men stepped out
from the shadow of a building near
the depot and as soon as the door OF
the express car was opened by the
messenger, two of them held him I'm.
while two others stood of the station
agent. A package containing $500 TO
pay on the employees of the Kemmerer
Coal company was demanded and was
given to the robbers. who disappeared.
Inc robbers are believed to be m
pioyes OF the coal company who knew
or the arrival of the package. as they
made no further search for other
plunder' A package containing S13, 900
Tor the Cumberland Coal company was
not disturbed.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-09-09
FROG LIKED THE SENSATION.
willing to Lineer All Day and Have
Its Back Scratched.

Col. William Esopus Handy, cowbc,-
and train dispatcher, ~financier al
volunteer fireman, went to McLe1
AXE last Sunday to see George tHi-
ring, the angler, take a few bass.
Herring had several lines set out on
the bank, and hard by squatted a big
bullfrog. Bet you u dollar I can
scratch that frogs back" he said.
60 you." agreed the colonel. Creep.
liz up very cautiously, the fisherman
caught the frog by one of its long hind
legs just as 1t was in the act of leap
ing into the water. After consider
able kicking and vibration the am
phibian composed himself, while Her.
ring gently tickled its back with a
straw. In huge enjoyment the frog
gave soft grunts, closing its eye
sleepily. II reminded Handy Of a cat
purring.
Having won the bet. Herring cast
the frog into the lake and went to
look at one of his lines. AS he
stopped to pick up the rod there sat
Mr.. Frog, waiting for another back
scratching. His desire was manifest
ed as plainly as If he had said, Here,
old man, tickle me again. Which the
angler did, and again cast him into
the water. Thereafter the frog fol-
lowed him from line to line, begging
for a scratching and refusing to be
frightened away.-New York Press.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-09-09

banks deposits on n silver basis. wheA
he gave his ballot in 1896 and 1906
to Mr.. William j. Bryan.
The savings banks depositors OF TIL,
country (there are more than 1000, OOt
%accounts) are no more likely to "tak'
stock In the Belmont Parker argu
mcnt that having more savings in the
hank they are worse off than when
they had less, than they are to vote
for the candidate, Judge Parker. who
twice assisted in the attempt to pui
the savings banks deposits on a silver
basis, though he now says, for polit
ical effect on the Eastern Democrats
that he regards the gold standard as
firmly established!-New York Press
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-09-09
Two Facts.

The tarif reformers at variou,
times have been agitated by why
they call the copper trust. FINAL,
they discovered that copper ore is o ,
the free list and most of them cease !
To- use this particular illustration
though they still proclaim that III
tariff is the mother of trusts, thu!
conveniently forgetting. of course
that IL this is true. then in this case
of the copper trust we have a crea
ture that comes into the world with,
out q mother. At the same time they
might explain the window glass bus,
Less. 1t is true that there is a con.
pany that the newspapers speak Of a,
the window glass trust, but this com
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-09-09
EVIDENCE OF WEIGHT.
REASONS WHY PROTECTION
SHOULD BE UPHELD.
Government Report Shows that While
the Cost OF Living Has Increased,
the Income from Wages Has In.
creased in Much Greater Proportion.

The report OF the Department OF
Commerce and Labor shows hat il
the cost of provisions has increased
during American prosperity the aver
age income has increased still fur.
Their, so that the general public Is that
much better off on those two compari.
sons, not to speak of its further bene.
hts In shorter hours of employment
FOR more money and the fact that
into the cost of living have not In.
creased.
But the American people have not
needed any tables Of expert calcula.
lions to prove to them how much bet.
ter circumstanced they are nov than
they over were before. They have a
monthly and weekly and daily remind.
the very simplest yet the most i'm
pressive proof-their surplus of earn
ings above their expenses. their saw.
ings from their incomes after they
have met all their expenses and put
away a fund for a "rainy day"
Take the savings banks depositors
Of the United States for example.
What need have they of government
reports to advise them how their bank
accounts compare with those which
they had when the cost Of living was
cheaper in the Wilson law days?
What heed will they give TO the Dem.
ocratic calamity cries when they look
owe their bank books and find their
deposits have been climbing steadily?
From 1897, when the Republican party
was restored to power, the total say.
ings banks deposits went from ST..
939,376,035 to 2,O65, G31 .29S in 1898;
to 81, 1908 1854 in 1899; to s2.449,.
547.SS5 in 1900; to 1857, O94, $50 in
1901; to 80. 750.177 ,290 in 1902; to 81.
935, 204. S45 in 1903.
In the era Of Democratic slow cost
Of living" the total savings banks de.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-09-09
Trust Busters to the Fore.

When Mr.. Taggart of Indiana was
elected chairman Of the Democratic
national committee 1t was supposed
that he would be in charge of the
v Now it is reported that Mr..
Sheehan Of New York, chairman of
the executive committee is to be in
active control. Apparently Judge
Parker desired some man with an in.
innate knowledge of corporations, &C.
CURED by service on numerous boards
OF directors. to manage the great fight
against corporate aggression.-Kansas
City Star.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-09-09
BOY Shot In tho Lung

Henry Bryant. the seventeen-year-
old son of Barney Bryant, liveryman
at Fairfield, Neb., while fishing on the
Blue, five miles south Of town, near
Deweese, was accidentally shot by Jay
Hubbell, who was Of Bryant's
presence In the neighborhood. The
ball. which was a 22-calibre, entered
the front of the right chest, penetrated
the middle lobe OF the lung. The ball
did not make an exit. but Is supposed
to be imbedded In the posterior chest
wall. The boy Is being cared for at
the home of the Hubbells. who are
proprietos Of the Deweese mill.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-09-09

The Court: The testimony sho
VS. that these defendants have com
mitted the crime of receiving the be
neits of protection in connection with
their respective avocations. The la
W says Protection is robbery Dem.
platform, 1904, hence it follows tina
/ these defendants stand convicted of
robbery. The sentence of this court
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-09-09
,IrNlGg DEMOCRACY

is that these defendants shall forth,
with enter upon a gradual revision {
Dem platform, 1904 of their nefari.
JUS conduct, and shall persist in sue
II gradual revision until they shall
have wholly ceased TO enjoy any pro
fit or advantage Whatsoever by,
through or from the aforesaid robbie
ry, otherwise known as protection.
You may 60"
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-09-09
OPEN HEADQUARTERS
ropuiIsts and Democrats Establish Their
Working Force att he Royal Hotel.

Working Force att he Royal Hotel.
Populist and democratic state central
committee headquarters will be at the
Hotel Royal, formerly the Walton
hotel, on East o street. Lincoln. Chair
man T. S. Allen, of the democratic
committee, has announced the decision
to locate at the Royal and rooms on
the fourth floor are TO be occupied by
both committees. The headquarters
will be in adjoining rooms. Chairman
Allen and Chairman Weber will at
once Engage their force of clerks and
appoint the heads Of the speakers
bureau and the press committee so
that active campaigning may be start.
ed within the next few days. ,m.
One of the features Of the fusion
campaign will be a series of barbecues.
in charge of j. II. Edmisten, to be
held in various sections Of the state.
Speakers of national prominence and
the candidates on the state and con-
gresslonal tickets will speak at the
meetings and there will be band music.
Thomas Watson, candidate for presi-
dent on the populist ticket, has been
secured by the ~populist committee for
four speeches. to be delivered during
the last weeks of the campaign. Mr..
Watson's first appearance will be at
Cambridge, where a two days barbe'
cue will be held.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-09-09
Deported for Selling whisksy.

One of the keepers of the four joints.
or Illicit saloons that we're raided at
Cuba. Kan, by a number OF local
women, has been driven out OF town
by the crusaders after he had attempt
ed to reopen his place of business.
Several kegs of beer found buried In
the cellar OF the place were destroyed
by the women and formal notice served
on the proprietor to leave within three
hours and never to return. He depart
ed by the first train. A delegation OF
the women called upon the mayor and
police judge and warned them that
the women would stand no more
trihing'" and that the policy Of allow
Ing joints to run would not again be
tolerated.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-09-09

posits of the country were reduced
from 81 ,7S5,l50,957 in 1893 to $l,747,.
g61 ,2SO in 1894! Take n look at the
savings banks deposits in the great
Democratic year of 1894 and the pres
ent, after two Republican administra.
tons:
1894 l,747,9 Gl $50
1903 2,935, 204, S45
In those figures there are q billion
and a quarter reasons, each one q dol
lar OF gold standard value. why the
savings banks depositors Of the
United States know their incomes OF
the present give them not only a bet
ter living, but a larger surplus of
money left over. II their cost OF liv-
ing had outstripped their increased
savings they would not be adding to
their savings, as their deposits prove
they are. They would be drawing up
on them, cutting them down. Just as
In 1894. when their incomes were
falling more heavily than the cost OF
living; they knew, without any aver
ages or percentages or expert Stats
tics. that they had to call on their saw
lngs banks accounts to help out their
Incomes.
No one need have any apprehensio"
that the American people will get
fooled by the Democratic talk Of the
cost of living eating up their increased
earnings as long as the American peo.
ple's bank books show them increased
balances. just as they were not fooled
in 1894 by the Democratic talk Of
heir cheap cost of living. for they
we're pulling out their savings every
week to pay bills that their earnings
could not pay. Furthermore, as we
have remarked before, the savings
banks depositors OF the United States
may be relied upon not to get fooled
on another phase Of this Democratic
appeal for their votes. They know
that the Democratic platform adopted
At st. Louis makes no mention of
maintaining those savings banks de-
posits on a gold standard basis. They
know Judge Parker himself, the Dem.
bcratic party's candidate for Presi.
dent. twice voted to put those savings
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-09-09
First School House.

The first school house in Chicago
was really Col. Richard J.. Hamilton's
old log barn, which stood on wolf
Point" between the lake and the
forks of the river" The building
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-09-09
Guilty Secret Exposed.

Owing to the stamp on a postcard
coming off in his pocketbook a Wen
nese merchant discovered that his
friend was carrying on a c~landestine
correspondence with his wife. Mes
sages we're written in a minute hS$ad
under the postage stamp on illustrated
nstcards.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-14

American cart-horse, but he goes like
the wind He will walk or he will gal
lop, but he does not condescend to do
anything between. His harness is
wierd and wonderful and very Rus
sian, consisting primarily of huge
wooden half-hoop over the head-the
keystone of the whole structure, which
is attached to the shafts by winding
long thin straps backwards and for
wards. 1t takes hours to put this on,
is always liable to come undone, and
if undone is very dangerous. An Eng
lish lady once related to me with hor-
ror how she was taken for a drive in
Vladivostok, and the horse AMI car
riage just went over everything
walls, banks, or whatever came in the
way. 1t is quite true, Russian horse
does and if you have once driven be-
hind one you are never nervous again
you are either killed or cured.
In Vladivostok you take your daily
skate as here your constitutional, and
the most exciting thing to do is to
sledge along the coast-dangerous be-
cause shore ice is never quite trust
worthy-to, say, the original Askold,
which does not lie sunk in Port Arthur,
but is an island on the northeast coast
of Siberia.
A. HERBAGE EDWARDS
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-14

| neer preachers whom they furnished
These preachers were of the stamp OF
old Peter CartWright-men who suffer
ed and overcame every hardship in
common with their flock, and who, in
addition, tanned the wild and fierce
spirits of their fellow pioneers"
From these preachers came such ora
tors and statesmen as Bishops Francis
Asbury, William McKendree, Matthew
Simpson, the intimate friend and adj
wiser of Abraham Lincoln; Randolph
S. Foster, one of Americas greatest
orators, and Stephen M. Merrill, whose
judicial mind is compared to that of
John Marshall.
Being of the common people, the
Methodist church has been led to do
| for them what their spiritual, intel
lectual and moral welfare demanded.
| Official action was taken by the Meth
odist preachers in America to establish
Sunday schools nine years before Rob-
ert Raikes put his Sunday school idea
| into practice in England, an idea
which was suggested to him by the
wife of Samuel Bradburn, one of Wes-
| ley's preachers. Almost Immediately
after the organization of the church
steps were taken for the establishment
of school, and in 1887 Cokesbury COL
| lege was founded. The Methodist Epis-
copal church alone now has So colleges
and universities; So seminaries and
academies; nine institutions exclusive
ly for women; and % theological insti-
tutions. 1t has built the largest de-
nominational publishing house in the
world. This was begun in 1889, with a
borrowed capital of over SO, SOC, 900, and
does a business amounting to about
three million dollars annually.
The M. E. church was one of the first
to undertake foreign missions. It's
first bishop, Thomas Coke, died in 1874,
while on his way to India, and was
buried at sea. In 1888 foreign missions
were established in Africa and later
in all foreign countries. 1t now has
in the various fields $50 foreign mis-
sionaries, LIT native preachers and
about one hundred and thirty thou
sand members.
The quadrennial sessions of the gen.
eral conference are always interesting
and important. That to be held in Los
Angeles will be one of the most inn
portant. Among the subjects to De
considered will be the proposed con-
solidation of the benevolent societies,
the unihcation of the publishing houses
and the election of bishops. Two bish-
ops have died during the quadrennium
Bishops w. x. Ninde and ]. F. Hurst
and one-Bishop S. M. Merrill, of
Chicago-tfas announced his intention
to ask the general conference to give
him a superannuated relation. Three
new bishops, at least, will therefore DE
elected, probably more.