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The newspaper., 1906-04-06
GOOD GOVERNMENT TRUMPHS.
Once More it is Settled Decisevely that
Paonia People Do Not Want to
Grant Franchise to Anyone.

ISM lnc wrong uOeIS. II nds llC-
quently been charged that the
drug stores would sell the whiskey
in case there was no saloons.
That may do in Delta and other
towns, but it must not go in Pao-
MIA. This town is filled with law
abiding people and il intoxicants
can not be sold legally they must
not be sold illegally. We make
these remarks because some peo-
pie might fall into the error of
assuming that because we favor
license we will not assist in en-
forcing no license We desire to
get squarely on record as being
in favor of enforcing the law at
all times, and at the same time fix
it so that law violators have only
themselves to blame if this paper
calls the turn at a time when it
may be very inconvenient. We
do not mean by this that we will
give a moments attention to
liquor using so that it is within the
law, but bootlegging, drug store
sales and private snap clubs are
going to have hard shedding here
tor the next twelve months il they
try to do a whiskey business.
The result of the election for
town officers is cause for general
congratulation. 1t marks the fact
that the people approve of
the good business administration
that is just closing and gives full
and ample vindication of their
official acts. 1t should settle for
some little time the franchise
matter. Apparently the educa-
tional work inaugurated by this
paper has been productive of ex-
cellent results. However. Paonia
has always been cooperative
community and from the cooper
ative idea to Municipal Owner
ship is only step.
BY decisive majority the peo-
pie have told their council elect
to build them an electric light
plant or purchase the existing
one. That the order will be
obeyed is, we think certain. AT
present considerable bluffing is
being done anent law suits to pre-
vent the town from building a
plant. This talk is all nonsense,
and none know it better than those
who make the threats. They have
steadily quoted us legal lore to
show that the council cannot
grant an exclusive FRANCHISE, have
asked us time and again if the
town could not build plant in
competition with the existing one
if they wanted to and we fully
agree with them. The town can
The newspaper., 1906-04-06

Election Day oaWneu Colu anu
rather cloudy but soon turned out
as beautiful a day as one could
wish. The voting started promptly
and continued with the greatest
enthusiasm until the polls closed.
A tremendous vote was cast,
being practically the entire regis
tration. &C nsidering the intense
interest there was extreme good
nature shown by all the people.
Early in the morning some inc
ton arose over the matters OF law
but the judges soon settled every
thing TO everybody's satisfaction.
Early in the day it became evi-
dent that the bonds, the real is
sue Of the campaign, we're going
to carry, but it did not occur to
anyone that they would receive
so nearly a unanimous endorse
ment. By the superb majority OF
so to AZ the bonds were carried.
Thus did the taxpayers again set
the seal of their disapproval on
franchise granting. Thus was the
Booster and Gazette again marked
as most inaccurate in their ante
election promises and prophecies.
Every man on the Good Govern
ment ticket was elected by COM
Portable majorities as will more
fully be set out in the table OF
votes hereto attached.
The temperance people sur
prised themselves by carrying the
town dry. This to our mind is a
serious blundcr. We have so
often set out our views on this
subject that it did not occur to us
at all necessary to repeat the ar
gument. Evidently the people
are in earnest and desire to try a
dry town. They have passed up
on it by decisive majority and
THE NEWSPAPER wants to be
understood as being favorable to
a rigorous enforcement OF the law.
Opponents of the Good Gov
ernment ticket used the argument
to some extent that if Zaun and
lis associates were elected and
the town went dry they would
not enforce the law. This seems
to us to have been an unnecessary
falsehood. We do not believe
that there is man or woman IN
town who believes such a story.
If there is they will soon be un-
deceived. Paonia is dry and it is
going to be good and dry. The
NEWSPAPER gives it out cold that
if it ever locates an infraction OF
the law it is going to make the
violators trouble if it knows how
and it has faith that the city gov
ernment will do all it can to pun
The newspaper., 1906-04-06
and it has now decided that it

and it has now decided that it
will.
Another thing that forces the
hand Of the council is that the
town having gone dry it is up to
them to raise the two thousand
dollars of needed revenue from
some other source than the sa-
loon license. 1t would appear
that the owning and operating of
the electric light plant would be
one good way of increasing the
revenue. If it could be arranged
of course it would be just to assess
the deficit against the dry voters,
but as this cannot be done we
must all bear our share of the re-
suit of the idiocy that turns over
the entire income from the liquor
business to Hotchkiss.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-26

both. That much we concede.
"Of course if it is the will of the
people that the matter be submitted to
a vote all that is necessary is to get
al petition signed by one-fourh of the
voters and the question will be settled.
quickly"
The Other Side
The liberal element gave out the un-
official statement in response to ques-
tions;
We believe that Long Beach wants
amusements and that being a beach
city its prosperity depends upon it.
THE dances and the band have
proven a magnet to bring people and
necessarily business here and as long
as they are run decoroUsly it helps
boom the town to conduct them III
good surroundings where the best peo-
pie will come.
Nothing is too good for the visitors;
we say why not have the dances at
the auditorium, stamped with the city's
approval and see to it that they are
conducted on an elevating scale.
THAT is all we ask and we believe
the majority is with us"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-26
DANCING ISSUE
FACES BEACHERS
LONG BEACH is DIVIDED INTO
TWO CAMPS
Shall the Auditorium Continue as a
Public Dance Hall? Is
Question Before the
Voters

Long Beach is wrestling with the
dance problem.
1t may become local issue at the
coming election in April, if, as is threat
ened, petitions are generally circulated
by the dance element to make it a
ballot box item
The question is, briefly, whether there
shall be public dances in the audit
orium on the beach on weekday nights
or whether terpsichorean pleasures shall
be confined to the sun pavilion at the
from the more stately auditorium.
Both factions in local politics have
recognized the situation to the extent
of inserting clauses on their tickets
that each agree to abide by the will of
the people in submitting the dance prob
lem to a vote at any time they elect
to do so by petition.
Saturday Night Dances
At present Saturday night dances are
held in the auditorium, while on other
nights at intervals they are held in the
sun pavilion.
Long Beach has apparently divided
Itself into camps-the liberals, who fa-
Vor dancing and other forms of wide
open legislation, and those who believe
in restricting the hops in measure 10
the sun pavilion.
The conservatives are called Tights
and "Goo-goos" in some quarters, while
the so-called progressive element is
dubbed THE Independents" The three
local dailies have been drawn into the
controversy and are calling each other
names and shifting the candidates.
The town of Long Beach built the
pier for amusement and the auditorium
for amusement purposes by issuing
bonds. The object was to draw tourists
and others thither. Conventions, eX-
cursions and other gatherings bring
capital to the town, advertise it and
aid in it's prosperity. That is the the
ory on which the pier and auditorium
were erected.
No Restrictions
Arguing on those lines the independ-
ents want no restrictions-all deeds to
Long Beach property carry prohibition
clauses - and are willing to see the
auditorium or any other large hall used
for concerts and public dances every
night in the week except Sunday if
necessary.
The conservatives, on the other hand
believe that two or three nights in the
week is sufficient concession to the
pleasure loving element and that the
dancing should be restricted to the sun
pavilion, reserving the auditorium FOR
more dignified uses.
One of the leading exponents of the
conservative idea said:
Conservatives View
I'VE find the issue seems to be mainly
whether the auditorium shall be con-
tinued to be used for Saturday night
dances as is now done. and whether
the Royal band musicians shall be the
dictators in local politics.
I'VE have had too much of this band
business anyway. The thing is over
done. Too much public dancing will
in time bring disrepute and the town
will suffer.
by eXacting a small fee for support
of the band and to keep the hoodum
element away and insisting that dances
be held only in the sun pavilion we
can keep up the tone and the popularity
of these affairs which are a source of
amusement to dancers and spectators
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-26
Catholics Gaining

By Associated Press.
WILMA, Russia, March 25.-The Ro-
man Catholic bishop has sent a report
to the synod, showing that since the
ukase of religious liberation over 10000
members of the orthodox church have
become Catholics.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-26
BOB WHITES SING
AT HOLLYWOOD
EASTERN QUAIL SURPRISE ALL
WHO HEAR THEM
Presence of Birds Explained by A. G.
Bartlett, Who Recently Received
Shipment of Two
Dozen

-bob-white! bob-white!
This call of the eastern bob white
quail was heard clearly and distinctly,
emanating from the hills north of HoI-
lywood during the early hours.
What did it mean? Surely there
are no bob white quail in this section of
the state.
Some imitator of the calls of wild
birds must be in the hills practicing his
art was the explanation offered by a
citizen of Hollywood to a group of peo-
pie who had gathered on Franklin bou-
levard, between Vine and Cover
streets were trying to solve the mys-
terry of the sounds so we'll known to
most every person from way back
east
The calls were again heard this even
ing. 1t seemed incredible that the
beautiful notes were genuine, but gen
uine they were, and to the eastern peo-
pie who heard them yesterday it was
indeed rare treat
Mystery Cleared Up
Probably this is the first bob white
call that has ever been heard in this
part of the state, and in view of this
fact several people who heard the
IlOIeS OIL lnS eastern Qudl
were in a quandary to find a solution
to the mystery.
1t was cleared up last evening, how
ever when it was ascertained that A.
G. Bartlett of Vista del Mar, who has
just completed an aviary on his beauti-
full estate, where he will endeavor to
propagate the different species of
quail, received shipment of two dozen
bob white quail a few days ago from
the east.
In transferring the little brown beau
ties from the shipping crate to the
aviary about a dozen escaped and flew
to the hills back of his estate, where
it is hoped they will multiply and stock
the hills in this vicinity.
1t is also hoped that any chance
hunter who may come upon these little
beauties from the east while roaming
the hills in Hollywood will not mistake
them for the California valley quail
and shoot them during the open quail
season. Should he do so he would be
liable to a heavy fine, for bob whites
are so scarce in this state that it is
against the law to destroy them at any
season of he year.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-26

Owing to the rush of business the
Talk-o Prone department of the South
ern California Music company will be
open Wednesday and Saturday evenings
for the accommodation of Herald sub
scribers
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-26

american EdSle ReStduldIl dOp NJ N1alll SL,
Hotel Alexandria, 9TH and Spring SITS.
Angeus Grill 4th and Spring Sts
Tacoma Bar, 5th and Central Ave.
Bohemian Bar, 419 S. Main St.
Broadway Cafe, 429 S. Broadway.
Brennan Cafe. 529 s. Main st.
Is. T, Blinn, 625 S. Spring st.
Frank Bevoine, LIST and Indiana Sts
Crescent Wine Co., 430 w. 7th st.
California Club, 5th and Hill SITS.
f. Castellano, 519 N. Main st.
Good Fellows Grotto, 341 S. Main st.
Del Monte Tavern, 223 W. Sd st.
Willifred Donate, 21S E. 5th st.
Europa Restaurant, 312 w. 9TH ST.
Theo. Grumbach, S07 Central Ave.
Golden State Wine Co.. 271 S. Main st.
EdW. Germain Wine Co., 635 S. Main St
German American Wine Co.. 314 w. 5th ST.
Germania Hail. 142 N. Main st,
The Tropico, 619 S. Spring st.
C. Hahn & Sons, 1857 E. Main st.
The Hollenbeck, I'd. and Spring SITS.
Haas, Baruch & Co, cor. Los Angeles & Also Sts
Imperial Cafe, 243 S, Spring st.
Northern Vintage Co., SIS w. 7th st.
Jim's Chowder House. 112 w. I'd st.
H. Jevne Co., 2OS S. Spring st.
Standard Liquor Co., 720 e. 5th st.
Kiefer & Co., 222 S. Main ST.
Kerkow Cafe, 211 S. Broadway.
J. c. Kipper S55 S. Spring st.
Los Angeles Soda Works, $40 Commercial.
NJ. Lustic cor 1st and Broadway.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23
JANA WKER .J0Ty

That Osborne county woman who
took carbolic acid by mistake for her
neuralgia, was cured of the neuralgia
all right.
A club at Emporia called the Octo
Vagaepbes has disbanded. If that IS
the best it could do for a name the
action is not to be wondered at.
Another evidence that Frank farrell
is getting rich is that he has owned
the Holton Signal less than six months
and already he is buying a new press
for it.
That story about a four-foot vein of
coal only twenty feet under ground in
Chase county is close enough to the
Cottonwood, where fish stories are
Matched, to be taken with grain of
salt-pOssibly two grains.
A Jewell county farmer talked with
a real estate agent about selling his
farm but when the agent went ahead
and made the sale it made the farmer
so mad he tried to whip the agent.
He had concluded that the farm was
worth more than he at first supposed.
A Sabetha woman has found a new
cure for drunkards. 1t is to give them
castor oil in whisky when they are
children. After that the smell of the
liquor makes them sick. The trouble
with this remedy is that it is not effec-
tive unless it is begun soon enough,
and few people begin it soon enough.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23
oUAkER REFLECTIoNs.
LFrom the Philadelphia Record. ]

LFrOm the Philadelphia Record
Some people arrive at a conclusion
and never get away from 1t.
Aunt Fanny=''What is your favorite
vegetable, Willie?" Willie-"Ice
cream.
The trouble about going to law is
that you can't always leave when you
want to.
When a fellow takes his girl skating
it is better to have d falling out than
a falling in.
Our troubles are always as hard to
bear as our neighbOrs good luck is
hard to understand.
All men may be born equal, but in
politics one mans price may be higher
than anothers
The man who makes his money in
trade is sneered at by the man who
makes his by marrying it.
A fellow talks more about his first
trip abroad than he does about the
next so trips, if he takes that many.
Even those who don't believe in race
suicide must admit that the stork
sometimes makes a perfect goose Of
himself
Tommy-"Pop. what is automatic
Tommy's Automatic. my son. is
name we give to something that
won't work
Perhaps the reason a prophet is
not honored in his own country is be-
cause we get tired of hearing him say:
81 told you so.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Gloh

IFrom the Atchison Globe
When good nature is noisy it is al
most as disagreeable as i'll nature.
A big hearty voice is like a big
hearty appetite: 1t should be con-
trolled.
Every time a man looks az his last
photograph he thinks how much bet
ter looking he is than he was in the
one taken before.
There isn't as much mystery to some
peoples lives as there is to the little
brown paper package on the top shelf
of the kitchen cupboard.
If a man builds the fires and sweeps
the walks voluntarily, all the credit he
gets for it is the praise his wife re-
ceives for the way she has trained him.
When a man is so mean to his first
wife that she can stand it no longer,
and dies the fact that he can get
second woman to marry him, is no
vindicatio
It is this way all through life: When
you are a child, that which you want
is put beyond your reach. and when
you are big enough you find that you
no longer want it.
The day before a girl marries she
tells the man that she doesn't care if
she never sees any of her family again,
and the day after the wedding she
invites them all over.
Perhaps one reason a woman doesn' t
like to take her husband home to his
mothers regularly for a meal, as
much as she does to her folks is that
his folks say he has to come home
occasionally to get something to eat.
Put hair brush, some combs. hair
pins, handkerehiefs, letters, remnants.
slippers, gloves. face powder, chamois
skin, books, cold cream, etc, together;
get stick and stir them around and
you have a picture of the way the top
bureau drawer always looks.
An Atchison woman couldn't get the
number she wanted over the telephone
this morning and got mad about it.
She scolded the telephone girl threw
a chair at the cat, and slapped the
baby Finally she got the person she
wanted. and this is what she asked
her: DO you think pale green
would look as we'll in that cushion
am making, as a grass green2''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23
LIE coLLEcTING MANIA.

Of souvenir spoons "A collection
She had that was varied and fhres
Perhaps-I speak under correction
Three dozen and something TO spare
All sorts and all shapes and all Sizes
No two are alike In design
She says, when the question arises.
It's just a small hobby of mine
She has them from Paris and Baden,
From Venice and Stockholm and Rome,
From Kalamazoo and Meuhaden,
From Portland and Sitka and Nome
To tell of each one would be weary
There's such a lot OF them, you know,
She says, in response to a query:
Il get one wherever go
Yes, one bears the mark of a liner
It's plated, but looks very well.
One came from a p. & d. diner
But most from some Well-Suown hotel.
To crime she's in no way addicted.
III do her the justice to state;
In fact she quite lately convicted
A burglar who lifted her plate.
Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23

the terrified horse crashed into the
fence just beneath kingdom started TO
leap down, then caught the Rirl's fan
to his breast and covered her ears With
his hands to spare her the sight and
sound of the drunken brute being drag
ged to death.
The horse broke loose and dashed
don whispered; stay here-I'u be
back in a moment and get you down
He slipped down into the alley and out
into the crowd
In about twenty niilutes-ages to
the girl-he again scrambled up be-
side here.
''I did what there was to do-told
knew what struck hints under.
takers work now. This has been mis-
cradle enough for you. Let me help
you down. and to the house. As she
did not speak he looked at her She
laughed and held out her hand.
''Will you speak to MEOW that
ask you to- You are-the incest man
II know. She took his hand and
climbed down. he after her
wait. he commanded, swinging
down before her. II shall lift you
down" She was just in easy reach
of his arms. tAnd-another thing-I
want you to-kiss mel"
His masterfulness took her breath
why should I % she laughed at last.
Its mproper-reason enough for a
western girIi' he teased.
''Impertineut, ana won't stand she
decided Another reason.
well. Eliza beth-do it-because
you want to-"
He held out his arms. and she could
not ind it in her heart to deny him.
Copyright, 1906, by P. c. Eastment.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23
KANSAS c0NAENT
WANTS ROWETr REPORT.

WANTS ROW EFT REPORT.
The tax payer of Kansas who has
paid for reports of conditions in the
state treasury should have the bene-
fit of the full report of the account
ant and not have a summary of such
an important matter palmed off on
him. This examination has been in
progress for almost two years and
while it is true that it has cost the
tax payer nearly $18.0 600, it has been
a good investment as the summary
shows the i've years previous cost the
tax payer an average of S12, 900 per
year If the $18,O000 paid the ac-
countants cause a new system of book
Keeping IN the state auditors office
whereby he viii keep some tab on
the state treasurer, the tax payer viii
have no cause for regret. It seems
strange that In examining nearly one
year OF state Treasurer HedebOWer's
administration the only discrepancy
found was S34-77, while the next five
years with the Kelly Burton crowd
IN charge 1t averages more than S12,-
600 per year The tax payer de-
mands the report in full as he has
paid for it and he viii be more sat
lstled TO read it in full than to rely
on the summary Governor Hoch
owes it to himself. Ex-Governor Bal
ley and the tax payer of Kansas to
give the press the Rowett report
winch has been in his keeping since
ne became governor-Clay Center
Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23

1.-THE late Bishop Thomas Frederick
Davies of Detroit" said a Detroit man.
once told me. an interesting story of
an eiopement. He figured In this
elopement as the officiating clergyman.
1t was in Philadelphia, during his rec
torship of st. Peters.
TT seems that the proprietor of one
of the largest dry goods houses in
Philadelphia had noticed for some
months the melancholy of his head
clerk, young man whom he held in
high regard.
1.-THE clerks paTor and. Increasing
leanness. his frequent signs and alb
sent-mindedness worried the million
aire proprietor. He questioned the
young man daily. And finally the
young man admitted to him that he
was in love.
well said the head marry her.
Your salary is big enough
" All said the clerk sadly you
don't understand. She belongs to one
of the first families of Philadelphia,
and her father is millionaire
g We'll, maybe he wasn't when he
married You have d good position
and a good name. You are a fair
match for any girl said the other.
3" It's no use. sighed the clerk. Her
parents would not listen to me for one
moment.
Then said the head, 'elope with
DO you advise that?' the clerk said
excitedly.
Certainly do. Is she-do know
her?'
Yes. She will be at your dance at
Devon tomorrow night
We'll see here said the head.
III have my coachman out in front of
my gate at half past nine. Rush the
girl off into town and marry her I'll
arrange with clergyman for YOU
BY Jove' said the clerk, I'll do
it.
"And he did. The next night DR..
Davies performed the ceremony, and
an hour or two later the millionaire
found his daughter missing, and was
telegraphing in every direction to the
young couple to come home, and all
would be forgiven. Los Angeles
Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Here is more oppression A rubber
trust has been organized, and now we
suppose we will not be allowed to rub
Der at the Kansas avenue promenade
without paying tribute to the trust.
Our guess is that Judge Carver has
had one eye open during the past few
weeks that he has pretended to be
asleep, and that there viii be a sur
prise party in honor of some jointists
one of these days.
The dispatches say that Senator De-
pew's trouble is that he is unable to
express his thoughts when he gets up
to speak. Lots of other people are
trObled the same way.
With the promotion of A. K. Rodg-
ers to be postmaster comes the dis
covery that his name is "Alpheus, .
which fact has been carefully con-
cealed heretofore.