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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-01
Yesterdays Results.


Marshalltown ], Waterloo s.
Keokuk 0, Oskaloosa ..
Fort Dodge IL, Clinton l.
Burlington 6, Ottumwa 3.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-01
BROWNIES EASY
PREY FOR VISITORS
Waterloo Pounded Slapnicka
and Outplayed Locals In a
One Sided Game
REILEY BAFFLED BROWNIES
REILEY RAFFLED BROWNIES

Visitors Finger Was Too Mueh for
Browns Men--The Final Count Was
to 1--SIapnicka's Poor Support and
His Passes Helped in PiIins UP the
Scores.
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1T was night before we got to Dederick
and the 1875 miles o us ten hours to cover.
1t was figured that We had lone enough
work to have covered ten times that num-
Der Of miles. The three machines were
in fairly good condition. Strangely enough
there was not a single puncture despite the
rough handling. We ate our dinner out
doors that night and turned in and slept
and slept.
Going back to Temosachio we found a
better road and covered the distance in
less than half the time it took us to go out.
THAT was our introduction to motoring
among the cacti. 1t certainly was not
overpleasant. But our subsequent trips were
better. We began to discover better roads
and starting from the private car always
We went out into the country on all sides.
Motoring on a sandy desert is not novel nor
Is 1t pleasant and we avoided that as much
as possible. We generally made some small
town as an objective point and when we
knew 1t had a n inn we took NJ food along.
We were glad to get back to the car the same
night, however, for the Mexican style Of
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could do was TO leave the car. However,
there still we're the other three cars and a
mule team, which now was keeping along
with us nicely.
7 save time We struck out across
try, as it was getting late. Every once in
a while we could come to where a ditch,
as big as forty bunkers, yawned before us,
or else we had to go across a stream that
was fully up to he floor Of The car. Dashing
up the opposite bank Of the stream or of he
ditch was exciting sport. AS "a rule we
emptied the car Of all save the driver. He
went back q few yards and got a good
start and then fairly leaped through the
water and up the other side. A steam car
In the water would have been done Cor.
This kind Of work began to be wearing
on the nerves. There was nothing but a
succession of mishaps, all unavoidable,
1t Is true. The cars got stuck in the mud
time and again and the mule team had
to do its little trick just as often. We hit
stony places that were almost impossible
and had to get over them somehow, We
were constantly making detours and one
time in order to advance six miles had to
go from side to side until the odom eter
registered ten miles. The grades worried
more or less rapidly and every onoe in q
while We had to get out and readjust the
mixture Of air and gasolene. The difference
In density Of the air at different points made
a lot Of trouble for US. In fact I never
seen the question Of the mixture give
90 much trouble.
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I found no one who had met him there
while, on the contrary, another employees
recalled that he had seen him enter the House
library, which opens ON the third floor.
1t was generally thought at that time
that there was no possible connection
between the House wing and the Senate
wing by the third floor Of the Capitol; but
I learned too that one could work his way
from the House library through the de-
serted rooms once occupied by the Congress
siopal Library and come out in the Senate
document room on the third floor of the
Senate wing.
Suppose old Whapples had done this 80
etealthily as to shun observation2 Might
he not also have managed to avoid the in
different watch Of the Senate doorkeepers,
secure IN the isolation Of the gallery floor,
and slip into the Senate gallery
I waited my chance and then, one even
ing when my Senator was enjoying the
cool Of his cigar-I can think Of no other
phrase that will express his detached
placldity-I threw out 4 chance remark
| that led to revelation.
sOh, by the way, Buffum,' he said lazily,
Il never told you. did ], about that little
difference between your deceased friend,
Whapples, and my amiabie colleague,
Billings2 II was dlverting In O way.
you see, we We're in executive session,
considering a lot Of minor appointments,
and most Of US taking far more interest
In our cigars and chat than in the matter
before US. One after another nomination
would be taken up and approved after a
word Of explanation to which no one lis
toned.
Il was Just about to curl on a sofa for a
enooze, when ! Happened to glance up into
the gallery, the cleared, closed gallery,
and what do you suppose l saw?'
"The head Of Mr.. Whapples peeripg over
the rail- l answered.
"Good," cried my Senator with a show
Of interest. you must have been exer-
cising your reasoning faculties and have
arrived at that conclusion by the process
Of logical elimination.
That's exactly what It was; the head OF
old Whapples peering cautiously over the
rail. In some unexplained way he had man.
aged to worm into the gallery, down the
narrow steps, and secrete himself behind
the rail.
THAT'S what we get for having an In
sufficient supply of employees. Remind
me, tomorrow, Buffum, to ask the Com
mittee on Audit to appoint on my nomina-
tion W additional doorkeepers."
What did you DO, sir, on discovering
his presence | asked.
why, l decided to defer my nap. Be-
sides, just then they brought up the mat
ter Of Whapples's appointment, and Of
course / had to say a good word for him.
ut Ia stranRe-you might almost cav
providential, i" continued the Senator, his
contemplative tones contrasting oddly with
a certain perverse CLEAN in his eyes which !
had learned to note as a danger signal; yes,
you might even say proVdential. since
Providence is inscrutabe, how great a FIRE
may come from a little spark. Some chance
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one got out and pushed u car and at
length we got out. There was a mule team
hat was sent after US bearing provisions,
and this team often and often had to help
to drag us out Of sticky mud. After we
got well away from the town limits and
into the timber line we began to get into
difficulties every few moments. The going
was filed with stones OF all sizes and 1t did
not seem possible that any car could with
stand the trials we gave them.
About 2 o'clock, after having travelled
some eighteen miles in five hours, we decided
to pitch camp and lunch. While we were
seated in the timber the team that was sent
after us came in, thus giving some idea OF
the amount Of progress we had made. The
roads were worse from this point. The
grades were sharp and we never could tell
whether we were going to take a little hill
that would lead down into a plateau or
whether 1t was the beginning Of a steep
descent that would hurl us all out on the
road at the bottom. Going up hills was no
Jest either and about two miles further
along we had to try one that graded 20 per
cent. How we ever got up / DO not know.
l did not believe that motor cars had such
power In climbing.
One thing that we feared most Of all was
striking the machinery Of the cars against
or stones. One Of the American
cars met this sort Of mishap and as a result
had to leave it to its fate in the Mexican
The flywheel struck a stone and
the crankshaft was badly bent. Repairing
this was out Of the question and all we
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Alps, travelling the perfect roads and pass
ing through the matchless scenery Of the
Swiss mountains.
But Mexico is not Switzerland, although
Doth have scenery and mountains. In the
party besides Col. Greene were Gov. U. A.
Woodbury. OF Vermont, Judge Warren w.
Foster OF New York, J. B. Showalter and
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Romer Of Brooklyn.
We travelled by private car to Ell Paso and
then for the first time I stood on the soil
of old Mexico when we crossed over to
Naco, a border town.
Mexico seems a land Of surprises. In
the interior for miles around there are
plains Of soorched sand studded with cacti.
Apparently nothing grows All Of q sudden
from a car window there flashes on the view
a little stream from which an irrigating ditch
leads to a nearby field. The contrast is
marvellous. Here is an emerald isle Of
growing grain, an oasis in the desert. 1t
holds your eye as long as you can see.
From Naco to Cananea, in the State Of
Sonora. It 10 a tedious ride over the plains.
1t was something Of a surprise to be met
at the station by a Panhard motor car.
The streets In the town are level and we
were deceived In our estimate OF the diff
culties OF motoring In Mexico. We thought
that In that section all the roads would be
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cooking does not appeal strongly to Ameri-
cams. There is a little too much grease In
it to be good.
THE scene when we rolled into a small
Me xican town vas enough to bring one back
to the days when fernando Cortes first dis
charged a firearm in Mexico. The auto
mobile is absolutely unknown in SON parts
of the country where the towns are fairly
large. The natives in many cases refused
to come anywhere near the car W hile the
engine was in motion. An occasional run
by a field resulted in a veritable panic. One
holder than the OF hers might run after US a
way and scream he Mexican equivalent for
"Gittahorse, b" but hat was as far as it went.
The smell of g~asolene usually completed the
terror aroused by our Appearance, But the
Mexican is mild and we were safer there
than in some of the streets Of New York.
All told, the automobile party took q
dozen short trips, Of which the toughest
was the one to Dederick. The experiences
on the OF her trips were not unusual. Mr..
Soarritt said hat he felt the absence Of one
thing deeply. There were no speed laws
and no one to hold them up. The country
is safe iron scorcbers just at present merely
on account OF the roads.
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reference to the Fernandez cotton claim
possibly 1 made it-brought on a discussion
of Miss Fernandez as a member OF MIR.
Whappless household.
MIR. Billings, very gratnitously it seemed
to me, appeared to think he should defend
himself at that DUN woman's expense.
He made a derogatory remark, when,
suddeply-I never saw anything no dramatic
in my l~ifs-Whapples sprang to his full
height In the gallery. levetled a revolver
with deadly aim, and shot him through the
body.
INSTANTLY, my boy, there was a rush TO
cover. You never knew such rapid think.
Ing and lotion The sergeant-at-afms was
called and instructed; Billings was carried
into a cloak room, and then privately con-
veyed to his rooms; it WAS hush, hush,
nothing muso be known; the secrets Of ex-
ecutive session are inviolable.
"Why, the invasion of the Eleusiniau
mysteries by that Roman fellow wasn't
a circumstance TO it," and nv Senator
laughed quite heartily for him, as he thought
of the dismay and agitation of his COL
leagues,
Poor old Whapples!" I said abeently.
Yes, in a way" concurred my Senator.
10 VIII a luAuTIoub bueUCn ne ~Ia1Rnteno
out his elegant form, but yet, he was sim
cerely interested in the Fernandez claim,
il he knows, he must be delighted over ite
present prospects,
you don't think there can be any hope
for so iniquitous a."
Il hear Miss Fernandez Is nursing my
amiabl Billings he continued. He 10 q
susceptible soul. surmise. yes. Buffum,
Il x-ant,rn - .,ol;at 49,. iii
able report on the claim; and away he
sauntered, as cool in his ~detachment from
human interests as a Greek god floating
on m clo1d
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DEPTH OF OCEAN CABLES.
Seine Cases in which the Wise Men hlis.
calculated.
From The Chicago Tribune,


Pesslmistlo prophets sometimes sound
sag and logical. but the unreasonine optlmlst
who sees better things despite argument out
strips them,
In the days OF Stephenson's early expert
ments 1t was predicted that O speed of more
than twelve miles an hour by rau would be
impractlable. II for nc other reason than
that the human system would not Withstand
travelling at a higher rate Of speed.
In the early days Of steamboats, Il was
declared that transatlantic steam naviea-
tion would DO impossible. mainly because
Of the Inability to provide room aboard
ship for the GOAL that would be necessary
for the voyage. The prophet had scarcely
done speaking when the nsws arrived that a
ship had Just finished q trip across the At
lantio under steam.
So with transatlantic cables. Some promul-
gated the belief that they could never be-
LAID because the density OF the water below
q certain depth would be 80 great that the
cable would not sink to the bottom of the
ocean, All the wise folk regardless, however.
the cable promptly descended to the ocean
bed at a depth OF 10, l0t feet, and within the
last year q cable as sunk In the Pacific Ocean
tn the vicinity Of the Lukin islands ct q depth
~ 29,2fQ 1aatT
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that way. We left Cananea soon enough.
and swung around Juarez. Still in the
parlor car we speeded south 225 miles to
Chihuahua.
1T was decided to travel by motor car from
Temosachic, the las station on the railway
line, to Dederick, thirty-hve miles away in
the timber country. This journey was one
of the most exciting I ever have under
taken. The man who thinks OF thirty
five miles as an hours journey ought to
have gone over that bit to Dederick. 1t was
the hardest bit that we struck anywhere.
waiting for us we're four machipes,
two Of American make and two foreign cars.
There was a load for all four, the party
having increased to twenty-one by this
time. We started out In the morning
for the wood camp and the automobiles
seemed to be going we'll. The first mis-
hap was when one Of the American made
machines after a short jaunt on the road
had to stop because Of an overheated
engine. That was merely a matter Of
waiting. But soon we began to hit the real
difficulties. The car in which I was rolled
of the road on the adobe mud and we
were stuck to the axles. The foreign oars
are not built for that sort Of going, and
once in it is hard to get them out.
"The other machines came up and every
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swallowed her fancles as greedIly as a babe
does pap. And she made them pay well
for It. Oh, yesl
'Why, she travelled like a princess around
the world on the tribute Of ~credulity, and
II she didn't take in a potentate or two on
the way it was only because she disdained
such small fry. II she had only been inn
mortal, Buffum, she would have kept on
doing it like a perpetual motion.
'She grew old, inflrm Of body and
mind. A parasite to the very end, she
fastened on poor old Whapples, constrain-
Ing him to support her, bury her, assume
the care Of her daughter, who, by the way,
would very much prefer to take care Of
herself
Then you think, sir, that this yarn about
hidden records at Puenta Arenas 10 In
spired2s
'Yes, inspired by the more crafty daugh-
ter Of q crafty mother, who Is q little too
alive for tutelage. Let mt see, Puenta
Arenas, that means Sandy Point, doesn't
i2 Yes, a good, safe place in which to
dry up and blow away; do you see the
point2"
And again venting that short laugh the
Senator went on the way which was always
and peculiarly his own.
His motives, complex ever, with astute-
ness often alleged by perversity, led
gently the appointment of Mr.. Whapples.
or course. 80 potent a backing produced
the nomination.; and equally of course that
nomination was referred in the Senate in.
stead Of meeting with the immediate con-
frmation whidh the poor old fellow had
30 confidently anticipated.
This delay doubtless worked on Whap-
bless nerves, for now and again l saw
him lurking about the Capitol, the very type
Of disordered excitement.
One afternoon I hurried up to the Senate
wing on a matter Of moment to my Senator.
AS c entered the Capitol grounds from the
+ street car, l was struck by the serene
beauty Of the day: the blue Of the sky 30
tremendously mingling with the green OF
tree and sward, and setting off the loom OF
the great white dome. AS l looked again
at that p~redominating feature Of all Wash
ington, l noted that a scaffolding had been
swung outside the very apex, and that pyg-
mics Of painters were at work at that height
far more composedly than was l in my gaze
at them.
The elevator stopped at the main floor,
Il can't take you further, Buff, said the
man in charge, who, like many another Of
US, had seen better days. Executive ses-
sion 10 on; and it's 'Procul, proeul, este pro-
FAM; or, You beggars keep away
I lolled for awhile in the Supreme Court,
I loitered In the corridors, waiting until the
bell should announce that open business had
been resumed. A mysterious affair, ex-
session, I reflected, for all the brash
accounts Of what goes on there.
With the gallery floor shut of, with every
door barred and guarded without, 1t Is safe
to say that not one inkling of its proceedings
has ever been secured except from the Cos
sip Of the Senators themselves.
There were swift aiding steps on tho .
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II.

what did that old perfect tense want2'
Senator Savage demanded, when I apprised
him Of the visit.
I explained Mr.. Whapples's consular as
pirations, without mentioning the contingent
inducements he had held out.
My Senator rave o short laugh, as II, per-
haps, not ignorant Of the claim,
Il think I'll recommend him. he re-
heoted. 1T might make a good impression
put in Sequoia. Senator Savage sucoors
a former political rival now In distress,
and all that. Why not, Buffump"
'The man is crazy, isn't hep I OBJ
jected.
sCrazy enough to be looked after; yet
too sane to be overlooked. Besides, that
doesn't disqualify for public Office, does
it2 Yes; ! think III ask the Secretary
Of State to send in his name. My altruism
will form a refreshing contrast to Billings'e
performances, should my amiable colleague
as usual put his foot in it, and give himself
away
Il don't understand, cir, what Senator
Billings has to do"
'He is chairman OF the Committee on War
Claims, isn't he? Well, it has beer whis-
pered tome that that enterprising young
woman Miss Fernandez, animated by the
maternal spirit OF personal initiative, has
beer doing a little log rolling. You know
his susceptible nsture2 Verbum cap, Buff
FUN; translate and apply
But is there really anything to log roll
about, sir"
Anything to log roll abouti God save
your ignorancel The Fernandez claim has
been embalmed against decay in a continue
GUS spray Of petitions, memorials, investi-
cations, reports. ever since the close Of
the war.
'No greater instance Of the capitaliza-
ton Of cunning could be imagined. Who
and what the male Fernandez may have
been, II indeed there ever were one, I'm
sure / don't know; but when his respected
relict marched upon Washington in the
early '7os she brought with her an mex
haustible plausibility, persistence and per-
suasion which Melted her for years a big
income on the amount supposed to be
involved.
Talk about hypnotiSnl When once
she drew up a chair and opened her reticule
her victim threw up his arms and opened
his check book. She fairly scintillated
millions.
Judges, lawyers, Senators, Representa-
tives, members Of the Cabinet, heads of the
rich old famiies here IN Waahington.
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BUFFUM'S "REMINISCENCES
The Fernandez Claim.

why don't you write for them, or, better
yet. run down thsre7'
Whapples struck a knobby finger against
his knobbier nose.
II haven't been definite, have T. he de-
manded, TO you, whom / have decided to
trustr We'll. do you suppose I have put all
my eggB In one basket only to hand them
over to that ~rapscallion for an omeletf
Listen 10 this" and he read an extract from
the recent report Of a special commission in
which the consular agent at Puenta Arenas
was stigmatized as impossible In manners.
methods and morals under IN except our
own free government.
THAT fellow has got to go, and on the
double quiok,' he went on breathlessly.
sThe office 10 credited to Sequoia-Savage
can have It for the asking. Why shouldn't
he name mel The Senate would confirm
me at once, out of courtesy, without q
reference, and then
I smiled, / couldn't keep from smiling.
at the idea Of any Senatorial consideration
remaining for one who had long since ex-
hausted Senatorial patience; but. directly.
I was sorry for 1t.
MI. Whapples turned a dingy gray and
covered his face with his hands.
Il know, I know he whimpered. Il
often wish I were as dead as / seem, as dead
as anybody would have me. Suppose I
did 60 wrong in a way, is that any reason
why / should be eternally crucihed, while
others far worse hold up their heads and
prosper like the green bay tree? It's been
a ight-God, what a ight-against humilia-
ton and disgrace for bare bread and butter;
but now-but now-my chance has come.
There can't be any doubt Of 1t. Look at
thisI and this. What do you say to that2
Doesn't It bear out all I claim2'
As he feverishly asked these questions,
he yet moro feverishly shuffied and sepa-
rated q bethumbed and dirty stack Of letters
and papers, that inevitable ooncomitant
Of a visionary claim-shreds never to be
reunited, gaps through which a yoke Of
oxen might be driven, hearsay and surmise
masquerading as evidence and fact. / paid
scant attention to the poor exhibits Of delu-
aive hope: but when a photograph slipped
through them TO the floor, / looked with
curiosity at the likeness Of a young woman,
exuberant and o~verconscious Of charm.
I looked even more ouriously at Mr..
Whapples as he snatohed the picture from
me. Devotion glimmered in his faded and
fattened eyes and smirked along the
grizzled edge Of his dyed whiskers.
1T is my ward. Miss Dolores Fernandez,
IL you must know" he explained with pitiful
coyness. sshe is my client, the heiress Of