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Mower County transcript., 1904-11-30

TO CURE IA COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo- Quinine Tablets, All
druggists refund the money if it fails to cure.
=. w. Groves signature ison each box. 25c.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-17
Bucks, the Train Dispatcher,
Story of Wild Night On a Railroad, When
the Wind Blew Cars from Their Sidings
and Created Panic, Told in Effective and
Dramatic Style by Frank II. Spearman

they couldn't have held II twenty-four
hours the wind was too high All the week.
all the day, all the night it had blown-a
December wind. dry as an August noon.
bitter as powdered ice. 1t was in the early
days of our Western railroading. when we
had only one fast train on the schedule
the ST. Louis-California express, and only
one fast engine on the division-the 101 and
only one man on the whole West End
Bucks.
Bucks was assistant superintendent and
master mechanic and chief dispatcher and
storekeeper-and bully good fellow. There
were some boys in the service, among
them, Callahan. Callahan was seventeen,
with hair like a sunset, and mind as
quick as an airbrake. 1t was his first
year at the key, and he had night trick
under Bucks
Callahan claims II blew so hard that
night that il blew most of the color out of
his hair. Sod houses had sprung up like
dog-towns in the Buffalo grass during the
fall. But that day homesteaders crept into
dugouts and smothered over Buffalo chip
fires. Horses and cattle huddled into friend
ly pockets a little out of the worst of it,
or froze mutey in pitiless fence corners
on the divides. Sand drove gritting down
from the Cheyenne hills like a storm of
snow. Streets of the prairie towns
stared deserted at the sky. Even cowboys
kept their ranches, and through the gloom
of noon the sun cast coward shadow.
1t was a wretched day. and the sun went
down with the wind turning into gale, and
all the boys in bad humor-except Bucks.
Not that Bucks couldn't get mad; but it
took more than a cyclone to start him.
No 3d. the California Express, was late
that night. All the way up the valley the
wind caught her quartering. Really the
marvel is that out there on the plains
such storms didn't blow our toy engines
clear off the rails; for that matter. they
might as we'll have taken the rails. too, for
none of them went over sixty pounds. No.
50 was due at II o'clock; 1t was 1890 when
she pulled in, and OH Callahan's trick. But
Bucks hung around the office until she
staggered up under the streaked moon
light, as frowsy a looking train as ever
choked on alkali.
There was always a crowd down at the
station to meet SO; she was the big arrival
of the day at McCloud, even if she didn't
get in until IL o'clock at night. She brought
the mail and the express and the land
seekers and the travelling men and the
strangers generally; so the McCloud livery
men and hotel runners and prominent citi-
zens and prominent loafers and the city
marshal usually came down TO meet her.
But it was not so that night The plat
form was bare. Not even the hardy chief
of police. who was town watch and city
marshal all combined, ventured out.
The engineer swung out of his cab with
the silence of an abused man. His eyes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-17

ssF SEE a good deal OF stuff in
print about the engineer" said
Callahan. dejectedly What
IlITSYI the matter with the dispatcher?
- What's the matter with the
man who tells the engineer what 10 do-and
lust what to do? How to do it-and ex-
actly how 10 do it? With the man who sits
shut within brick walls and hung in Chinese
puzzles, his ear glued to a receiver, and
his finger fast to key, and his eye riveted
on a train chart? The man who orders and
annuls and stops and starts everything
within five hundred miles of him. and holds
under his thumb more lives every minute
than a brigader does in lifetime? For
instance" asked Callahan, in his tired way,
whats the matter with Bucks"
/.
Now. I myself never knew Bucks. He
left the West End before / went on. Bucks
is second vice president-which means the
boss-of a transcontinental line now, and a
very great swell. But no man from the
West End who calls on Bucks has to wait
for an audience. though bigger men do.
They talk of him out there yet. Not of
General Superintendent Bucks, which he
came TO be. nor of General Manager Bucks.
On the West End he is just plain Bucks;
but Bucks on the West End means a whole
lot
"He saved the company $4,000 that
night the Ogalalla train ran away" unused
Callahan. Callahan himself is assistant
superintendent now.
Three hundred thousand dollars is a good
deal of money. Callahan" 1 objected.
Figure it out yourself. To begin with,
fifty passengers lives-that's 5000 apiece.
isn't it?" Callahan had a cold-blooded way
of figuring a passengers life from the COM
pany standpoint. 1T would have killed
over fifty passengers If the runaway had
ever struck So There wouldn't have been
enough left of 80 to make decent funeral.
Then the equipment at least $4,000 But
there was a whole lot more than 100000 in
II for Bucks"
How SOP
"He told me once that II he hadn't saved
50 that night he would never have signed
another order anywhere on any road
''Why?"
''Why? Because, after it was all over,
he found out that his own mother was
aboard 50. Didn't you ever hear that?
Well. sir, it was Christmas eve, and the
year was 1884,"
Christmas eve everywhere; but on the
West End 1t was just plain Dec. "a.
High winds will prevail for ensuing
twenty-four hours. Station agents will use
extra care to secure cars on sidings; brake
men must use care to avoid being blown
from moving trains.
That is about all Bucks said in his bull
letins that evening; not a word about
Christmas or Merry Christmas. In fact If
Christmas had come to McCloud that night
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-17

and when it explodes the conclusion causes
the dynamite to go off. There are very
few men. however. who use this method
for the reason that it requires them to car
nv drills. while with the nitroglycerin they
do not have any"
SAFEBLOWERS' METHODS.
The soup has terrible power. and there
is nothing can wreck a safe so completely
often the case happens where the damage
to the safe amounts to considerable more
than the plumber that was taken from 1t.
Some of the methods that these safeblowers
use to get the nitroglycerin into the doors
of safes are very ingenious. In some in
stances the doors fit so closely that it
would seem almost impossible to inject the
stuff. but this is got around all right, and a
local detective says that he has known Of
cases where the nitroglycerin was injected
between the cracks of a safe door with a
hypodermic syringe. and it proved a sue
cess so far as opening the safe was con-
cerned.
1t is the nitroglycerin and dynamite that
have taken the place of the cracksman's
tools These can be carried much more
conveniently, and when the criminal gets
into a close place with the police he can
easily do away with them, when he will
have nothing about him that will incrim-
mate him in the least. And with such i'm
plements as these the work can be done
much faster. The safeblower takes great
chances of being caught on account of the
noise that is occasioned by the explosion
and the falling of the heavy door. This,
however is deadened by placing a blanket
about where the door will fall, and as the
report of nitroglycerin is dull. rather than
sharp and penetrating 1t seldom wakes peo-
pie up disturbs them, and when it does
they seldom think OF safe being blown.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-17

The detective went on TO say
1.-The safeblowers and the general prowl-
ers of the old school were much neater
workmen than they are to-day. The fell
lows who do a job of this kind now may
be a little faster and dispense with tools.
but they are more crude about their work
than they formerly were. The men in the
old days could turn as neat job as one
would want to see. During that time, how
ever. detective could tell what gang a man
was a member of as soon as he saw the
safe that had been blown, and it was in
this way that we often caught them. We
knew, of course, who was out of the peni-
tertiary, and when we were called in TO
see a job that had been done could tell
who the workmen were by the way in
which the safe had been blown. and often
to get them in was an easy matter; but
things have changed since then. for now
they branch out in different lines of the
business, so that il is impossible TO tell
Just who did the work. 1t used to be If a
man was a safeblower he followed this
calling exclusively. and if he was a prowler
he would not blow a safe, but now they
mix things all up and it is hard to get at
who did the job.
Every once in awhile 1 see articles to
the effect that the tribe OF burglars is de-
creasing on account of our thorough police
systems. My experience has been that
while the police systems are thorough
enough, the burglar is equal 10 the emer-
gency. and as long as there are houses TO
break into there will be stealing Many of
the men who used to do regular house
breaking have gone into other lines
and devote their time to swindling. This
is much more genteel, larger profits are
derived from IT, and a man does not run
quite SO much risk of being shot,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-17
ole Burglar Still With Us
But His Jimmy" Is Lost Tool

In
Getting Hold Of Peoples
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-17

SEE a good deal of stuff in
print about the engineer" said
Callahan, dejectedly. What's
the matter with the dispatcher?
What's the matter with the
The river press., 1904-09-28
ROOSEVELT IS RIGHT.
Presidents Philippine Policy Upheld
by W. Il. Hearst.
IChica=o American, Dem. !

lNlhtaSp .NlllclISilIi, >AJtINJ
Theodore Roosevelt tells the men of
the Grand Army of the Republic. assem-
hlc, in Boston. that the United States is
going to hold on to the Philippine ISL
ands. and that the work done there will
not bc l,!amed.''
Mr.. Roosevelt is right. The people of
the United States. when the took the
Philippines. assumed the responsibility,
not only for I present but for the
future, for y gt".I many millions of hu-
man beings ana large slice Of the
eartl!'s surface.
l.awS which are good here must be
good in the Philippines, and they will be
applied there. That which is progress
here must he progress in the Philippines,
4nd it will be developed there.
The United States will not back ont
and invite the Philippines to fight it out
among themselves, leaving the savages
to fall to slashiny each other and the
half-breeds to plotting and selling each
other out. 1t would be the simplest way
out of it, and the most cowardIy. That
will not be the American way.
The American people do not want any
imperialism. but they do want expansion,
and they have always had it. They are
not going to back out of an undertaking,
either OF fooIiShly sentimental or con-
vcnicutly cowartily grounds. They will
q" the work they have undertaken in the
Philippines. educating the people there
and. incidentally, educating themselves
IN the process.
The river press., 1904-09-28
Param Ouut and Tnnta m ouut.

In 1896; free silver was the PARA
MOUNT issue according to the Demo-
Gratis.
In 1900 Imperialism had become the
PARAMOUNT and burning issue"
nevertheless free silver was still ''TAN-
TAMOl'NT" to what it was in 1900.
In 1904 the Democratic convention
wired to Mr.. Parker I'VE do not con-
slider the money standard to be an issue
Of this rampaign."
Thus free silver. which fell from para
mountry in 1896 to tantamountcy in
1900. has now struck the ground with
such Il hard thnd that it is simply too
delicate to be mentioned.
The river press., 1904-09-28
WIND AND WEIGHT.

Democratic Chairman Taggart is send.
ature.)
Fifteen million tons Of wind collected in
one lot
Thirty billion pounds Of words assembled
IN one spot
In reams and quires;
Hc who desires
May utilize this rhetoric to light his win
ter fires.
Fifteen million tons Of: "Sirs, I point
with legal pride!'
Thirty billion pounds Of: "Ha! Your
statements, are dehed"'
view With ALARM"
Aud 'Strons right arm,"
And Horny handed sons of toll in vii
lase and on farm"
Fifteen million tons Of wind will through
the land be shot;
Thirty billion pounds Of nir--the kind
that's known as "hot:"
Yet that will wane
In this campaign
And leave million faults that mono will
venture to explain.
Fifteen million tons Of talk that no one
wants to hear;
Thirty billion pounds Of superheated at
mosphere;
The sham what am
But Uncle Sam .
Would like an explanation Of that Par
kcr telegram.
Fifteen million tons of wind-and who
will pay the freight?
Thirty billion pounds OF words-bat
Davis purse is great.
But in the fray
Election day
The ballots of Republicans will leave no
word to say.
The river press., 1904-09-28
His Coat nf Arma.

The Democratic presidential candidate
has a coat Of arms. That fact has al
ready been somewhat exploited and may.
for the moment, pass. The main fact.
which seems to he that. considering his
relations with Tammany, his relations
with Bryan and the old silver party. his
extremely distant relations with Cleve.
land and his group, and lot OF other
things. ex-Judge Parker seems. instead
OF icing in possession Of old-fashione,l
hcraldic coat OF arms. to be the owner
Gi coat OF many coiors. Really. the
Judge, who seems to he possessed OF
quite sense OF courtesy. ought to apollo
E;ze TO Joseph Of Bible history.
The river press., 1904-09-28
PARTY POLITICS.
Striking Contrasts Revealed by st nd J
of Official RcnOrts.

Official reports show that protective
tariffs have been in operation in the
United States during practically one-half
OF the one hundred and fifteen years
since the adoption OF the Constitution.
Official statistics show that during fifty
nine years Of low tariff there were hut
ten years in which the exports Of the
country were as great as the imports,
and that during the entire fifty-nine
years oe low tariffs the total excess Of
imports over exports was $4,000 900.
a study OF the commerce of the protcc-
tive wears shows that exports exceeded
imports in twenty-scven Of the ffty-tw
protective years. and that the net excess
of exports over imports during that time
was $500 00O,OOO
10 state it in different form. low tariffs
in hny-nine years of operation show Il
net excess OF imports over exports Of
$5 5l5,WLOO0, while protective tariffs, in
fIny-twO years Of operation, show Il net
excess or exports over imports OF ST.
!NV, 100000. The protective tariffs Of
iifty-two years have paid the commercial
debts Of the tifty-ninc years OF low tar
ifs. amounting to $515.OOO.O0O. and, in
addition, placed $500, 100000 to the
credit Of our export trade.
Another striking example of the
growth Of our export trade under pro-
tective tariff is found in the fact that
the excess Of exports over imports in
the first three years Of President Nc
kinley's term was nearly four times as
much as the entire excess of exports over
Imports from 1850 to the beginning Of
the Mckinley administration. From
1880 to March l, 1897. the excess Of
EXPORTS over imports was $5Si, OPS. .407 ::
from March !, 1897. to March l. 1900
the excess OF exports over imports was
81 .4S:} 137 ,U43.
A comparison OF these figures shows
HE relative effects Of Republican pro-
lection and Democratic free trade or, low
tariffs on the revenues OF the government
aud the prosperity Of the country.
The river press., 1904-09-28
FAVOR SOUND MONEY.
WHY FiNANClERS WILL SUPPORT
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.
New Workers. Fear the Democratic
Party and the Past Record of Its Cam
didate. Who Voted for W. J. Bryan
and Free Silver.
New York World, Radical Dem. !

New York World Radical Dem.
One Of the chief reasons given by Re-
publicans of this city for their support
OF Roosevelt is his position on the money
question. That is made clear by the
answers which the World is receiving to
the note which it has addressed to the
| business men who took part in the
Sound Money Parade" here in 1896,
asking them to state their present presi-
Dental preferences.
\ large proportion of the Republicans
| who have given their reasons--more than
two-thirds so far--have named sound
money as one of the concerns uppermost
in their minds. Over onc-half Of the Re
publicans put the money question above
everything else. Here are some quota
tions from answers from Republicans:
George A. Nail---Sound money and
Theodore Roosevelt.
TX. ii. Koycc-.rllc present administra-
! ton is sound on money, Panama and
the Philippines.
T. G. Ayers and L. ]. Pennock-
| Roosevelt is the only candidate who
stands for sound money, progress and
true .AmcricaniSm
Thomas j. .Atkins-I am still sound
| money man, and to be sure that will
| make no mistake shall vote for Roose-
yelts
| George L. Eoggs---I am still for sound
| money and the policy OF the present adj
ministration as carried out by our presi-
dent.
George u. rerkins-Always sound
money. always Republican. Y :,
William Rishop--I am still for sound
| money aud Roosevelt"
| John J. Tower--For sound money still.
! l shall vote for Roosevelt.
| Happen x Personals we believe that
sound money requires Il more substan-
tlal assurance than a telegram from the
| candidate OF great party to the effect
that the gold basis is already stablished.
| We are earnest supporters OF Roosevelt
and Fairbanks.
Henry Clews-With the Republican
party in power we are sure of sound
money.
Frank A. Ferris-Now. as then. and
all the time for sound money, reason
able protection, with efficient control of
trusts.
X. c. McKinncy--While Judge Parker
has accepted the fact that the gold
standard is irrevocably fixed, his party
has not.
! Thomas II. Raskerville-I shall vote
for Roosevelt and Fairbanks for tho
reason that they believe in sound money
OH principle, while their opponents have
simply taken up sound money for polit-
| zeal expcdieney.
| W. NJ. Seymour-Sound money is an
issue II not. why did it take SO long at
st. Louis to find it out?
| Walter l.. Pierce--I shall vote for
Roosevelt. I have no use for man
who voted twice for Bryan and free sill
| yer. ...,
| j. Il. Fairlamb--For sound money nj.
ways.
+. +. De GreSs-1 do not feel that
Judge Parker's telegram pledges the sup
port of the Democratic party to the gold
standard, and III view of this | shall vote
| for Roosevelt
Percy -. Adams-I am supporting the
party Of sound money and constitutional
| principles. or course, am for Roose-
velt
! .john II. Waydcll--I am advocating n
good so'lnd-moncy President, and Roosc-
welt has been tried and not found want
| inv
The river press., 1904-09-28
Platform Doe. Not Show II.

The last authoritative expressioa eG
the National Democratic party oa d
money issue was in 1900, when it cauG
frmed its demand of 1896 for ''the akne
and unlimited coinage Of silver At ske
ratio of IL to 1, without waiting cor e3s
aid or consent of any other nation-~ TX
the Democratic party has changed In
mind on the money issue since 1909. ttaa
platform Of 1904 does not show il. r.
plank stating that the present staaiara
Of value was mo longer open to questEs1~
was proposed by Mr.. Williams in epaE-
nsittee. but it was VOTED DOWN AK
THE DECISIVE VOTE OF IS to Is.
The river press., 1904-09-28
PRrkcr's Support of Bryan,

Altnn i. Parker and Henry G. Davis
both say that the gold standard is ire
vocabIy established by law" But there
l., no law Of the United States whicl,
cannot hc repealed if Congress and the
President agree on its repeal. Parker
in 1896 and 1900 supported Bryan for
the presidency. and thereby aided the ut.
tempt Of the Democratic party to discs.
tah!iSll ltlie gold standard and put the
country on silver basis,
The river press., 1904-09-28
OUR "wAR LORD"

A "War Lord?" Yes! or course -
have; hut by "War Lord is uasaat
The sort of man who rends II path gasA
for n continent;
Who makes highway for its WORK. sua
who, without fear,
Grips situations-cleaves way scrass q
hemisphere!
Our "War Lord" cares FOR TINA ar
space.
Just as the Oceans long,
lie joins them!--And we lend the eGrxs
The race that's to the strong.
Our "War Lord" holds the Oceans tcasE
Clean to the Orient,
That we may feed where millions taca-,
Where lands and men are spent
Our "War LODI dams the mounta;u
streams,
Makes true the thought Of those
Who thought thu desert. in their dresasz.
Might blossom like the rose.
Our "War Lord is a man Of stren:tS,
\ patriot: man,
But where he'll 80 in, to what srssf
length
Well-he's Amercan,
But, rest assured, our "War Loud1t~
wise;
He'll know when to release
The whip upou each enterprise
Our "War Lord's' Que OF Peace.
The river press., 1904-09-28
In American citizenship we can Az

In American citizenship we can sue
ccc! permanently only upon the basis
oi standing shoulder to shoulder, working
i'll association. by organization, each
working for all and yet remembering
TINT we need each other so 70 shape
things that each man can develop to best
advantage all the forces and powers ut
his command.-t'rom Roosevelt's speech
to Locomotive Firemen at Chattanooru.
Tenn, Sept. s, 1902. -
The river press., 1904-09-28

This is a young mems campaign. Joi.
First Voters Club. If one has no
been organized i'll your community. do i,
Yourself Literature and bn:tolS will bt
supplied cllhs--~.,Apply t" the ch.l:rma,
Of Your State Central Committee or tt
the Republican National Committee, An
ditOrium. Chicago.
The river press., 1904-09-28
Nothing to Say.

The Democratic party does cot aav
deny that it blundered grossly il &C.
manding free silver in 1896 and in asSA
Its leaders do not, however. care to aaAa-
~ admit the incanacity the party twses
showed in taking up with this cr4n
Quack financial "get rich quick thess1g-
The middle ground theory Of say uotaEur
is now preferred.
The river press., 1904-09-28

During the first three year. OF the
sfr"ad Cleveland administration our ex-
ports amo'Intt'! to $3.I1S.WNl.ON and
during the first three years OF the Me-
kinney administration they announced to
S:.S2S.NklMk'-:, difference Of $25U, U,O0O,-
wv III our favor III exports,
The river press., 1904-09-28

Stealing the Platfor m OF he pcopIe'A
party in lsoE. stealing t'at of the Re-
p"blicans in l904-iiow can the - e.
mocracy now r-eteni to he party
base upoN convictions: cannot see
in the mana. cement Of the national
party ANYTHING on earth except an eff.
fort t. find which il the best bait to
put on the hook. - hnma~ r.. Watson
The river press., 1904-09-28

\, the end. of the third year ~
aver Clcveland's last administrata
'::"ncy in circulation in the Euiteg
was. in round numbers. 81 ,5thA.
.'tn. At the end tOf President he,
Kiulty,s third year it was $o-OO1 ata4.-
900.
The river press., 1904-09-28

A, the end Of President CleveixuEa
third year the amount OF gold in cssxs-
latiou was $3.50, ,OOOOO at the end os
President Mckinley's third year i, was
$7Ssi.O0oO OtN, an increase of nearly $s4Gr.
100000.
The river press., 1904-09-28

On important questions of nat:0na
policy the Republican party does not ask
the people to depend Oh promises. 1t
points to its record of things done a:
all earnest Of what it will DO.
The river press., 1904-09-28
Democracy and the Money Question.

Alton Il. Parker wired the convention
that 1.-THE gold standard was irrevocably
established by law" after the committee
which was dominated 10y MIR. Parker S
special political manager, David Il. Hill,
had already voted down. 80 to 10. a
plank that said the standard was "no
longer open to question:" Thus tile
Democratic party. as represented by it's
platform in committee, is in Il majority
Of over two to one in thinking that the
standard is open to question: notwth-
standing that its presidential candidate
says it is ''irrcv"ably established hy
law" II over half of tho Democratic
party thinks the standard still "opcn to
question:. what assurance is there that
if this party should control both branches
of Congress the standard would not be
'orcn to question: