davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Mohave County miner., 1906-11-17
Warning to Purchasers.

To the Public:
 The public Is hereby warned against pur chasing any interest in the Copper Giant min. ing claim situated in Cottonwood mining dis. trlct, MOhave County, Arizona, as I claim and own onehalf interest in said claim.
 T. A. BARRETT. Kingman. Oct. 3, 1906.
Mohave County miner., 1906-11-17
My commission expires May 3l, 19O9.

Filed and recorded at request of Thomas E. Ew!ng November 9th \. D. 19O6, at o'clock A. M., in Book }, D; ges 35-36-37-3S, of IncOrpor ation Records of Monave County, Arizona Ter ritory.
Mohave County miner., 1906-11-17

STATE OF COLORADO,

COUNTY OF DENVER.-SS. |. On this lst day of November, 1906, before me, a Notary Public, in and tor the State aforesa d. residing therein. duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeare Thomas Ewing known to me to be the person described in and whose name is subscribed to the foregoing ir- suument. and he acknowledged to me that he executed the same for the purpose and cons, . eratiOns therein expressed.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF. I have hereuntO set my hand and affixed my official seal at my office in the said St te and County, the day and year last above written.
 (Notaral SeaD THOS. F. KENNEDY
 D,,t>1
Mohave County miner., 1906-11-17
A. L. WHITE, Seal THOMAS E. EWING, Seal l. HI, RICHARDS. Seal

STATE OF IDAHO.
 COUNTY OF ADA.-SS.
 On this 27th day of October, 19O6, before me- a Notary Public, in and for the State aforesaid residing therein, duly commissioned anu sworn. personally appeard J. H. Richards. known to me to be the person described in. and whose name is subscribed to the foregoing ir- strument, and he acknowledged to me that he executed the same Tor the purpose and consid- eratiOnS thereln expressed.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF. I have hereuntO set my hand and affixed my official seal at my office in the said State and County, the day and year last above written (Notarial SeaD OLIVER O. HAGA
 Notary Public,
Mohave County miner., 1906-11-17

STATE OF OHIO,

COUNTY OF ALLEN.-SS.
 On this 3rd day of November. l9O6 before me- a Notary Public. in and for the State aforesaid. residing therein. duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared A. l.. White, known to me to be the person de-crbed in. and whose name is subscribed to the foregoing in- strument. and he acknowledged to me that he executed the same for the purpose and consid- erations therein expressed.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF. I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my off cial seal at my office in the said State and County, the day and year last above written.
 (Notaral SeaD H. C. HAMMACK
 Notary Public.
Mohave County miner., 1906-11-17

First insertion 10 Nov-8 dec.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-12
THE KANsAs 80 ~

| A brief item in the newspapers illus
trates in a striking way the benefit OF
I the modern method of granting fran
chises to use the streets to public SER
vice corporations. The item related to
the semiannual report of the gas COM
pany in Kansas City, Mo. This company
deals in manufactured gas and not the
natural product, yet its gross receipts
for the six months just ended were
+ $3.50. 27007. It made this report to the
city and accompanying the report was
a check for $11, 605.40. or two per cent
of the gross receipts.
Kansas City has adopted the modern
method Of having public service cor
porations pay something to the city in
return for their franchises, instead of
making the corporations a present CT
the franchises. which are worth many
thousands OF dollars. The gas company,
the Metropolitan Street Railway com
pany, and possibly other public service
corporations IN Kansas City help sup
port the city government in this way.
Thus the gas company is paying about
$4,000 a year to the city for its fran
chise.
Sometimes a percentage of the receipts
from a franchise cannot be arrived at,
and then the franchise may be sold out
right. In Houston, Texas, not long ago
the Southern Pacific wished a franchise
to lay a track along a certain street.
and it paid the city approximately $780,
600 for it.
Up-to-date cities are no longer Civ
ing away valuable franchises. They Sc
cure some return from them. and when
ever possible it is SO arranged that as
the city grows and the franchise be-
comes more valuable, the city's returns
from 1t will also increase.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-12

John A. Boyle of Newton took part
in the civil war, and liked to tell about
his experiences. At a meeting one
evening he told about the experience
he had at the battle of Bull Run, as
follows:
Il saw the men drop their guns and
run so I dropped mine and ran. too,
but, I was chased by one of the enemy.
who had his gun in his hand. 1 ran
the fellow good race for two miles,
and then I stumbled and fell, and was
expecting him to come up and shoot
me. He didn't come, so I looked
around to see where he was, and to
my surprise saw him sprawled out on
the ground about two yards from me.
I got up and looked at him. and saw
that he had died from apoplexy.'
Boyle's hearers asked what he did
next, and he replied: II wept for the
man that I had run to death."-Bos-
ton Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-12

the book. how do we know you are tbs
real author?
Approaching footsteps turned atten1
ton toward the door, through which
marched a lively gentleman, who sa-
luted and addressed the company.
am reJoiced. delighted. enchanted
to see you ALL he bawled. '.the crea-
lures OF my imagination-th charac-
ters of my book. 1.-The famous-the
elever-the inimitable-the greatest Of
authors, greet you"
knew it, Sam exclaimed. "Then
you really wrote Aunt Mary Monat.'
and he is an impostor ?" pointing to
John.
'.To Perdition with him in FIVE min
utes! Certainly I did wrote all the
books in all the libraries made the
world, and the people are my child
rem"
TITS genius" said the maiden.
ITS rum said the widow.
Its mania" said Brandon. entering,
followed by man who stepping be-
hind the eIated gentleman. took him
by the elbows and walked him out Of
the house
THAT is a paretic patient Of mine,
VINO overheard me speak Of this party
to his daughter today, and stole away
from his attendant to come"
Il don't believe he Is bit crazier
than you are, with your composite
clowns, your three-ringed Topsies and
your pirate patients" said Sam.
There is no time to explain have
terrible news" said Brandon zone
of the servants has developed malig-
nant smallpox, and you must all leave
the house as soon as possible to avoid
injection. There is a train to New York
in half an hour"
Sam made bolt for the door, fol-
lowed by all but the widow, who re-
fused to leave John.
your needn't watt viii attend to
him" said Ethel, confronting her sud
denly.
.'Who are you?" demanded the as
tonished widow
Il am the girl who Is to marry Mr.,
Hastings"
Are you sure you are the original
girl, or only one of several p asked
the widow, sarcastically. But per-
haps you are a composite
without saying goodbye. she
marched majestically out of the room
Heaven forgive that lie about the
smallpox" said Brandon. hopping his
brow. Nothing less would have saved
the roof over our heads"
Copyright, 1905, by Homer
Sprague.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-12
SAUCE FOR THE GANDER.

OF course Governor Hoch is pretty
busy these chautauqua days when
there is a big demand on his time to
make addresses at the various summer
gatherings in this and adjoining states,
but it IS hoped that when he gets a lit
tie more time he Will take up the cases
Of Wichita, Leavenworth, Junction
City, and various other towns where
the laws Of Kansas are openly and
VIGOROUSLY violated with the permits
sion and connivance of the city au-
thorities, the same as they have been
in Kansas City, Kansas.
Governor Hoch is to be congratu-
lated and commended for his persist
ence and success in driving the joints
out of Kansas City, Kansas. It was
done not only in the face of adverse
public sentiment. but in the largest
city in the state, the geographical posi-
ton of which makes the enforcement
of prohibition more difficult than any
where else in Kansas. Not only has an
assistant attorney general succeeded in
driving out the more than two hundred
joints that have hourished for years at
the mouth of the Kaw, but a derelict
mayor and county attorney have been
forced to resign by supreme court
proceedings.
After what has been done in Kansas
City, it ought to be a comparatively
easy task to deal with other Kansas
towns that are violating the law by the
license method, and the law-loving
people of the state are expecting Gov
ernor Koch to do It. If he has no time
to look after the matter now, they will
certainly look for action on his part as
soon as the chautauqua season is over.
The governor assuredly knows of
the notorious violation of law in several
Of the larger Kansas towns. No secret
is made Of 1t. He knows it just the
same as Mayor Rose knew of the vio-
lation of the law in Kansas City, Kan,
and he took just as binding an oath to
enforce the laws of the state as did
Mayor Rose. Yet the supreme court
ousted Rose from office for failing to
enforcing the law.
It is to be hoped that it will not be
necessary TO bring quo warranto pro
ceedings against Governor Hoch for
failing to enforce the law. OF course
no one would do such a thing. And
yet it IS an old proverb that what is
sauce for the goose is sauce for the
gander. Doesn't the decision in the
Rose case apply with equal force to the
governor of the state, when he knows
Of the open violation Of the law and
fails to use the means placed In his
hands to punish such violations?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-12
QUAKER REFLECTToNs.

IFrom the Philadelphia. Record
Mistakes are only funny when they
don't hurt.
The clock-maker doesn't necessarily
talk in dialect.
A fellow generally gets what Is com
ing to him from the letter carrier.
No. Maude. dear: a cursory glance
is not the deaf mute's form Of pro-
family.
The chronic borrower isn't like the
base ball player. Three strikes won't
put him out.
"Hennpeckke says his wife
refused him the first time he asked
her" Wagg-"And yet some people in
sist that second thoughts are best.
'Bjones Is egotistical even
in minding his own business Bug
gins-''Y es; he says it is much better
to allow people tc mismanage their
own Affairs
ct dare say a man has to give up q
great deal when he marries," observed
the bachelor. Its nothing to what
he has TO give up afterward," replied
the married man as he gazed sadly at
the stubs In his check-book-
NV fair Louise is Ger the seas
I'm half seas over, too.
If she could be a mermaid, she
Would be my water Lou.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-12

without being excited. His nerves are
overwrought. Very likely he may be
suffering from emotional insanity at
the time he pulls the trigger, but 1t is
something he could guard against. He
is not SO insane that he knows not
what he IS doing when he secures the
weapon with which to kill his victim.
As long as mems hearts are wicked
there will be wrongs committed. and
sometimes the victims of these wrongs
in their wrath revenge themselves up
on the perpetrators. Often there are
extenuating circumstances surrounding
murder. as there may have been in
the Thaw case. and in the Mitchell
case But let these extenuating cir
cumstances be considered by the jury.
and let not the slayer hide behind the
defense Of insanity.
Occasionally a jury justifies a pre-
meditated killing. It is a terrible thing
to do and it is doubtful If it is ever
right. The divine command, Thou
shalt not KILL means what it says, and
it is difficult to see how any man is
justified in taking the law into his
own hands and avenging a wrong
by Staying another. But in the weak
ness of human nature there are ex-
tenuating circumstances sometimes to
be considered In such cases, yet the
man who kills another in a spirit of
revenge certainly does a great wrong,
and the plea of insanity, emotional or
otherwise, should not be allowed to
shield him. That sort of insanity is
becoming altogether too common.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-12
HUMOR OF THE Day

stella-Isnt that Mr.. Bachelor kind
and gentle?
without neutrality-suspicious. Life
Newitt-rhev say that boy of yours
Uncle MoseNoi All dunno; all doan'
reckon he so tur' bic bad.
NeWitt-Think not, Ell? Think they
don't give him his due, eh7
Uncle Mose-No. subj ali doan' spose
he's ez white ez he's Observation-Disclosures
Say. what's the matter with this cof-
iss Same 1sf thing that's the matter with
you. 1 suppose answered the landlady;
ITS little slow about settling. '-Chica-
go News
Miss PyephasASir. I heard you telling
Miss Brown that looked IKE a enFom no.
one could see at once that you weren't
painted--Cleveland Leader.
Physician (sympathetically)-I regret to
inform you that your little son s mental
weakness is incurable.
Mother-How fortunate 1t is that we are
so rich. No one will ever notice IT.
American Spectator.
Senior Partner-so. that new salesman's
gone, Ell? Why, I thought he was a most
Junior Partner-I7ve found him most
painsgiving. He gave me so many just
fired him.-Phiiadelphia Press
"A man. in politics should have lots of
friends, shouldn't he2'
1T depends answered Senator sor-
ghum, ION whether they are friends who
want to do something for you or who
want you to do something for them
Washington Star.
The western maid was showing her
Boston cousin through the wild ranges
And over on that bowlder." said the
former you will see a specimen Of Pres
ident Roosevelt's favorite game, a gen
uine bobcat."
"A bobcat2'.' repeated the Boston maid
in horror. How unrehned? Why do you
not say a Robert cat?'-Columbus Dis
patch
Dismukes = All. my boy. one kiss is
worth q dozen love letters
Pigmus-Well, not to the lady in a
breach of promise case.-American Specta-
tor.
Afarkely-Well that's the limit.
Ascum-Whats that7
kely-Kidder was telling me about
a friend of his named Hawke. who al
ways takes a cab whenever he goes to
look for work
Ascun1-Yes. Hawke is employed at night
by cab company to pick up fares.-Phil-
adelohia Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-12

Two Winfield girls started out the
other morning and walked seventeen
miles to spend the day.
That Junction City girl who was
married to Mr.. Jesse Scripture recent
~ has AFFORDED the pushers all sorts
Of opportunities to get busy. For in
stance, there Is a universal demand to
know If she intends to obey the Scrip
ture.
Henry Honey hands downJthis agri-
cultural opinion in the Mankato Ad-
vocate: DRY weather during the lat
ter part of May and the fore part Of
June is the best thing that could hap
pen to the corn. It makes the plant
appear small for the season. but while
the stalk has been growing slowly the
roots have been going down into the
soil after moisture, giving the plant
good strong roofing deep in the soil.
Plenty of surface moisture at that time
causes the corn to send out roots close
to the surface, instead of sending them
downward. Then when a dry spell does
come the corn is not prepared to stand
it,
Brakeman story from the Atchison
Globe: A brakeman retired to farm
and started to lead the simple life
Having a piece of new land to break,
he hitched UP a team Of mules, wrap
ped the lines around his waist in farm
err fashion and started to work. He
had gone but a short distance when
he saw a stump ahead and immediate
" began giving the railroad stop"
signal with both hands The pillow
struck the stump and the brakeman
went head first over the plow. Pick
ing himself up, he ran angrily to the
mules and roared: you f1op-eared
scoundrels, don't you ever look back
for q signal p
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-12
Green Firecraclzer Mystery.

And there was an intellectual prob
lem in connection with f1recrackers.
Why was there one in the pack some
times that was wrapped with green
paper instead of red? I have puzzled
over that no little. and it still remains
the dark mystery it always was. What
was there about it that deserved the
green paper? It wasn't louder than
the others; it wasn't weaker than the
others, for those who said 1t always
was a hzzer generalized from insult
cient data, as boys are wont to do. All
our lives long we are jostled and ell
bowed by riddles we cannot solve and
this is one of them. Old MAZE, who
cannot talk. and we who cannot IN
derstand=we're all alike.-Eugene
Wood. in 1.-The Glorious Fourth" in
Everybody's Magazine for July.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-12
Playing the Royal Game.

There was a golf symposium in one
of the house c1oakrooms a few days
ago, says the New York World.
1.-THE most remarkable golfer ever
knew" said Representative Long.
worth. was a man out in Cincinnati
who had a passion for the game, but
who complicated that fervor with an
appetite for Scotch high balls that was
the wonder of Ohio.
His theory was that there should
be a drink served on every tee and he
worked it by means of an army of
caddies. One afternoon he came in and
announced that he had renowned the
game.
!" whats the matter. Jim?' asked a
friend.
oh he said YEARLY. It's no use.
I give It up Whenever I can see the
ball I can't hit it. and Whenever I can
hit it I can't see it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-12
..INsANEu MURDERERs.

Isn't it about time to call a halt on
these insane" persons who go around
numbering people against whom they
have a grudge? If it were known
that emotional insanity would not
protect one from punishment: if it
were known that people who go "in-
sane" for the purpose of killing their
enemies would be regarded as Other
criminals. there would not be nearly
so many instances Of this form of In
sanity as there are.
These remarks are not directed es-
pecially at Harry Thaw. Seattle has
two cases of this kind. George
Mitchell has just been acquitted there
for the murder of Crefield. the lead
er of the fanatics known as the Holy
Rollers. This sect had some prac-
tees which landed some of it's mem
bers IN jail and Mitehel's sister was
one Of Crefaeld's converts. Mitchell
claims to have killed Crefeld because
Of wrongs suffered by his sister at the
hands OF the leader. MitchelPs at
torneys alleged that he was insane
from blooding over his sisters wrongs.
A few days ago a college student
killed a well known lawyer and jurist
in Seattle. His defense in court will
be that he was insane from infatuation
with the dead mans niece.
Then there IS the Thaw case-and
many others.
OF course men are usually wrought
up when they commit murder. One
cannot go about with hot anger IN his
heart saskinR the life Of his zallaw
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-12
KAKSAS cOMAENT



IN little town a man couldn't live
double life if he were a fiagman at
a crossing in the daytime. and the
Waterman in dry goods store at
night Tor there is no part of town
where he is not known. and every one
KNOWS where he should be at every
hour and why, If he isn't there. KAN
sas City has entered into Chicago S
class. A man died Their eSunday, who
nad lived dual life for six years, and
ms deceit perhaps never would have
been known to the public, had not
DeoIh tide his white horse in front of
the wrong house. Frank Luther lived
with his wife at 313 West Thirteenth
street He was secretary treasurer OF
the Acme Bedding company, and his
business affairs formed many a pre-
text for taking him 'out of town.
For six years he was known in the
neigh borhood of 1901 Montgal avenue
as Frank Huffman, and a travelling
salesman who was necessarily "out of
town a great deal of the time. As
partner in the Acme Bedding company,
Mr. Luther-Hullman had an income
that permitted him to maintain the
two ablishments. Mrs Huffman
knew of Mrs. Luther, but Mrs. Luther,
OF course, had never heard of Mrs.
Huffman. On Saturday last Mr.. Hull
man" was taken sick at 1901 Mont
gall avenue with a nervous trouble.
and the doctor gave an overdose of
morphine which caused Mr.. Luther's'
death. Had this happened at the Luz
Their home, no one would have known
that for six years a model husband was
really leading such a life that if he
had appeared at an entertainment
alone, and some woman had said,
Where is your wife" his natural re-
Spouse would have been (Which one p
Death looks thin, and white and clam
my and cold, and hasn't any OF the
marks of a humorist about him. but
how he does love a little jokei-Atchi-
son Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-12
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.

IFrom the Atchison Globe.1
An apology, like medicine. rarely
has any effect.
Missourians say swearing can't be
learned; that it is a gift
If people should vote on the big
gest bore in town, we would all get
votes.
hate you. There are no exceptions
to this rule.
There would be lots Of money in
Atchison If the assessor didn't COM
pc. people to bury it every year.
When a man speaks to a woman
without being introduced. that set
ties 1t with the woman: he is no
gentleman
All we have to say about the evil
must make the ribbon bill for the
family enormous.
Every time a man goes to church
with his wife he wonders how it is
that the preacher Is privileged to sco1d
her. and he isn't.
People always enjoy 1t when they
hear OF a man with an over-abun-
dance of mouth, getting licked for
shooting 1t off too freely.
In order to make home as pleasant
as possible. parents should be care
full to always treat Daughter as they
would treat a visiting girl
These are the times when If a girl
of five misses her gay hair ribbon,
like as not she will find 1t run through
her grandmother's corset cover
It is not necessary to be brilliant"
to get a good job. Be Industrious.
honest. and pay strict attention to
business, and you will pass brilliant
men on the road to the top
Women do not understand the
male nature as they find It in their
husbands. but they seem to have
very sympathetic understanding Of it
as they find 1t in their sons.
Some women think It all right to
be disagreeable to men; that men
can't resent It. Men cant talk
back. Il Is true, but they have q way
OF resen1illg q woman's impudence,
and never 1ail to take advantage Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-12


II isn't as If the English system Of
photography had been let down out of
the heavens on tables of stone, so that
to tamper with it were sacrilege. At
best it's a makeshift. Every age has
tinkered it, for better, for worse
mostly for worse; and nobody who has
given it serious consideration has had
a good word for it. Shakespeare made
mock of 1t, altho in his day It had at
least the merit of elasticity, so that the
Bard of Avon found thirty distinct
ways to spell his name. In his day
spelling-reform was already afoot.
Indeed, if you have a passion for ex-
actness, you must go back to the Thir-
teenth century to find the roots Of
spelling reform. The monk who wrote
the Ormulum@an Independent old fell
low@began it by revolving against af-
fected Frenchified spellings and writ
ing as he spoke. He doesn't seem to
have made much impression, for four
hundred years later, John Hart, of
Chester. was complaining of the I'm
reasonable writing of our inglish
toung.' few years later the cud-
gels were taken up by an author with
strangely modern views. His "OrthO-
graphic instructed men showe to
paint thimage of names voice most
like to life or nature; to use as many
letters in our writing as we do voices
or breathes in our speaking; and never
to abuse one for another, and to write
as we speak" There was the whole
thing in a nutshell. Phonetic spell
ing, a letter for every sound in our
speech, or in other words, an enlarged
alphabet and to write as we speak.
The whole difficulty might have been
cleared up before ever the Pilgrims
left Delfthaven.@Mary Bronson HART
in the WOman's Home Companion for
July.