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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-12

I'd r1n back to Fort Myers in couple of days an pick him up. The captain was mighty plNased, but when landed him at Fort Myers he sort of suspish- toned somethin an said:
 "Yon think you can manage it alone all right, Steve?''
 .'Ill land this old patriarch in Char lotte Harbor before night or I'll drown him in the gulf tryin' it." l answered promptly.
 didn't know that was makin' a pretty sure guess of what I'd be doin before sundown. 1 jest hove off from the dock an turned the Marthy Ann's nose toward the gulf ain't much of a deep water sailor. but I knew the coast up to Charlotte Harbor torrably we'll an didn't have no misgivin's.
 That Hon was mighty quiet-like at first. but when we got away from the land an he began to sniff the salt air of the gulf he sort of got oneasy. He was gettin' out of his element. an he felt sort of homesick. Mebbe it was seasickness. dunno which. Anyhow. he roared sn' vh,ned an scratched to beat the band. He jest kept me con- pany with his noise, an didn't have no time to get lonesome. OEct or twice he got so scratchy that l took a look at bis cage to see if twas all right. Barton's reef is jest ten miles sou west of Charlotte Harbor-a nasty It. tie. treach'rous shoal that sticks out of water at low tide an keeps out of sight at flood. Faint charted. an sometimes ship trips up on 1t an jest nachurally rips herself to pieces tryin' 10 get of ag'in.
 I don't know what made me forget BartOn's reef. for I'd been round it a dozen times. an. come to think of it now. I'd been nigh wrecked on it onct or twice. ala't got no excuse to make except that Hon must have made me fOrgetful by his eyerlastin' ro:rin'. ; First thing knOwed a puff of wind keeled the Marthy Ann over. an before could ketch her up ag'in we struck soInethin'. IL was only sand an mud, but the keel stuck there. an the next wind slambanged the old lubberin' craft clean over on het side. wasn'; IOOkin' for the shock an pitched head | foremost through the air an landed bout twenty feet away.
 When went down into the water ! expected to find bottom s0rnewhers ltss than a mile or two. but the sudden
 say in which I stopped showed me that I was ol Barton's reef. was standin' on my head in bout foot Q, water. There was some mud. an that made sticky standin'. but when I final ly got my head out of 1t an inc water cleaned out Of nose an mouth the Marthy Ann had srifted away in deeT water.
 ran after her. brt she was hoid.s' her own 8 tantaIizin'-like that couldn't gain sn inch svam roun' for soule minutes. an then to save my life I turned back to the reef I could see the bare back of It jest shinin' above the gulf not KO-e'n ten yards away. I aint much Of q swimmer. but I made double quick time to that ref
 I hadn't thgusat uuch 'boIt that HOa aII tiiS time sO excited was over the loss of the Marthy Ann. but nov jest gzsped for hrsafh an hove a sigh Of rslef. If I'd Exs the MarthI Anl. I'd
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-12

saved the Hon There he was crawlln' out of the water upon the reef as limp an frightened as water rat with a dog on his trail. His big cage was floatin' away with the tide, runnin' q close race for shore with the capsized boat.
 I saw how things had happened. The Marthy Ann had dumped the cage an lion on the reef, an the blow had bust open the slats, an there you are! The lion was free to go an come. When swan to the reef he had full possession, but he was so wet an frightened that he jest sat there an shivered an roared.
 You great big onery coward" l says, shakin' my fist at him. You ain't' got away yet, an I'll keep you here until the captain comes for us."
 The reef warn't more than fifty feet long and twenty wide. but there was
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-12
On Barton's
 Reef
By GEORGE tTHEIBtRT WALSH
Copyright, 1906, by George E. Walsh

n DEAD animal ain't giner'lly
 A wurth more'n what his pelt
 will bring in the open mar A = ket, minus the fees an con- missions of them rascally agents who come down here to swap trade with us an get the lions share. an the jack ass, too-me an the rest of the hunt CTS down here bein' mostly the jack asses-but live animal is an onsartain commodity that has what Captain Ken nelly calls possibilities" I'm meanin' by that that an old diamond back rat tiers skin an teeth an rattles ain't wur;h mech more'n S down here, but . live rattle- shipped up north in a cage may bring s25. an. ag'in, 1t may be knocked down for an even hundred.
 So Captain Kenneliy ain't never been in the kiliin' bisness. An was brurg up by Captain Kennedy. Hive an let live" that's been our motto. m we've waxed fat-the captain weighs 200. an ! ain't far behlnd-an' wealthy. not millIonaires exactly, but middlin' well to do.
 We ain't never regretted bein' kind an consid'rate to the animals an birds never except onct, an then the cap tain said twas my fault I ain't dis putin him in that. but there Is room for a difrence of opinion.
 Wed been up the Caloosahatchie one winter tryin' to bag snakes. birds an other creepln'. crawlin' an fiyin' crit ters when We got wind of a mighty big. sassy mountain lion rendoovooin' up near wadin' Landln' The captain de cided at onct that we'd bag the critter. Mountain lions was bringing pretty handsome prices tllen-the FlOridy va riety bein' little underpriced. for they ain't no bigger'n a good size dog.
 The captain an sailed up the Ca soosahatchie an went campin' on that big fellows trail. an before a fort night we had him clip an clean aboard the Marthy Ann. tied toe an nail an a-roarin' in a box on deck as though he'd like to eat us alive We WAS mighty tickled at our prize. an we fig gered on a couple of hundred apiece when we landed him north.
 The Marthy Ann warn-t much of a ssilboat. but she was q lubberin' oid craft that did dOOty for US for well nigh a dozen years When we st sail down the Caloosahatchie the captain says:
 Steve. can't you take the Marthy Ann to Charlotte Harbor alOne7 You can hand the critter over to the rail road people there an get A receipt for him want to set of at Fort Myers an run up 6 spell to see Cousin Obadiah He's real sick they say
 Iwarn't eOin' to stand in the vsy of = captains seein' his sick cousin 90 | aWwwed vith s9eruashu1 an said
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-12
NOTESOF THE RAILWAYS
Coral For Ballast Used by Road
 Through Florida Keys.

There is a section of the United States where coral is exceedingly pop ular as ballast for railroads. says the New York Tribune. American railroad builders have used nearly every con- ceivable material for roadbed. from solid granite to the shifting sands of the great southwestern desert, held together by growing vines. But 1t re1 mained for the Florida East Coast railway to construct roadbed out oc material which. according to fashion note. Is growing in popularity as jew, elry.
 The portion of the Florida road upon which 1t has been found feasible to use coral as ballast is in the extensionl from Miami to Key West, along the Florida keys. The reason for such use is patent to the student of geology. The keys through which the road runs are composed of 1t. Coral rock is the only thing obtainable except by long transportation. Many of the isiets arc o iOuB W2y lEOh SaC AnuAAa8o0- 0US - beautiful and exceedingly substantial roadbed Is being constructed out of the coral rock. It is glistening white. Ike a great band of satin ribbon, on which the little islands. with their luxuriant tropical growth. are strung Ike . neck lace of emerald beads. It is moro truly . gem studded bond. uniting Ken West to the Florida shore.
 The road. which was conceived in the mind of Henry NJ. Fiagler as . part of his plan to join Cuba with the Unit, ed States by an all rail route. is re- markable in more than one particular.
 Much of the roadbsd is being construct, ed in water thirty or moro feet dssps Forests of trees are being used for pIling. and tons upon tons of couereta are being dumped on top to form q substantial highway through the ocean.
 When this unique railway is done the traveller will. in places, be speed- ing along entirely out of sight of land. He will practically so to sea in rail- way train Nothing will greet his eye at times but the wide expanse of blue waters where the Atlantic and tho gulf meet The new line will cost from
 S15.OoO.Ooo to $20.o00ooo to build. It is expected to be completed in thres years.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-12

wet an was for retreatin' toward me, an didn't fancy closer quarters with him an jest stayed as near my edge of the reef as dared.
 Now, as I have remarked, the Floridy mountain lion ain't no kind of a fighter, but when he's cornered I've some respect for him. l saw right away that trouble was a-brewin'. When the reef got too small to hold both of us one or t'other had to git, an I didn't fancy bein' the one to go a-fioatln' adrift on the gulf in that latitude.
 Now. you great big yellow cuss," said, addressin' his lionship, partly to keep up my courage. T ain't huntin' for trouble, but if you seek 1t I'll do my best to make things mighty on- pleasant for you on this little sand speck."
 Right then a change come over the critter. He seemed to accept the chal- lenge an began to growl and crouch. I jest faced him an got ready for his spring. But the tide comin' up from behind Tapped a wave over his tail an made him turn roun' like shot. He crept an inch closer an watched Tor things to develop.
 We hadn't more'n five feet between us. an I was trenholm most as much as that big brute when somethin' bobbed up near the reef. We both looked at 1t, an' when I saw jt was the lions old wooden cage doatin' back ag'in jest made up my mind to jump for it. It was a pretty hefty box an big enough to carry me.
 I edged away toward 1t. an when 1t was as nigh as I thought it would come I waded out in the water an made a grab for it. By lyin' slantwise on 1t. with my feet in the water an my head bout three feet above it. I was tol'rably comfortable. an I addressed myself to the marooned critter agin:
 Now you kin have the reef an all that goes with it. I'm off for the Floridy coast or a trip to sea. Any things better'n bein' drowned on that reef or bein' chewed up by cowardly lion"
 I guess my words sort of startled him. for he srowled an whined an seemed anxious to accompany me. He was sort of sorry at my desertin' him ' At any rate he crouched down on the reef. his tail in the water an his head mighty close to the other edge of the reef. an then I saw him spring an shoot through the air just like sky. ! rocket.
 There was a crash an disturbin' un- dulashion of the gulf. I saw stars an sharks an numerous other onpleasan' things. When got grip on the float in box ag'in I was half drowned. an that obi lion was hangin' for dear life on the other side of 1t He was bout as frightened as was. His paws wal within two feet of my hands. an ! couti feel his breath fsnnin' my cheeks but he warn't for hghtin' any more. We hadn't improved our position, much. for that vabbly old craft warn'' built for two Both of us couldn't keep our balance st onct- When th< Iioa vas up I vss down an when bobbed up above fhe gulf his best went unaer. We vent seesawin' lik< this for sone fine, neithef one ab,s c ! easeh his bresfh
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-12

leaped from the box to the deck of the Marthy Ann an was ragin' an roarin' up an down 1t when crawled aboard.
 ''Steve. this Is bad work" said the captain. T thought I could trust you better'n that. If I hadn't felt suspish. ous bout you an come down jest in time to find the Martby Ann hoatin' away on her sides we'd lost our prize an the boat too"
 didn't have breath for any reply then. but I felt mighty Ike explodin' an sayin' somethin' that would hurt the captains feelin's. But I didn't. an later I forgot all bout it In the excite ment of capturin' an' cagin' that old lion ag'ln-the cause of all the trouble. He seemed to think he owned the Marfhy Ann. an we had long tussle to convince him of his error.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-12

for I thought I mast be a-dreamin', an there was Captain Remedy in the Marthy Ann, sailin' straight down up on us.
 Good Lord, captain!" I says. "I'm nearly tuckered out"
 Then I dropped the box an swan for the boat
 But, if you'll believe 1t, that old vel low critter was ahead of me. He just
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-12

A cold is much more easily cured
 when the bowels are open. Ken nedy's Laxative Honey and Tar opens the bowels and drives the cold out of the system in young or old. Sold by II. w. Lake Drug Co. Joseph A. Smith, S26 Bank street, Brooklyn.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-12

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learning the facts Mrs. Powers bought the
horse for 10 cents and, after a complete
examination. shot it. Then she went
after the owner She tried TO secure the
assistance of the local police In causing his
arrest, but they refused to interfere.
She consulted the states attorney and
he was SO much opposed to interfering
when there was only one horse that had
been abused that she was compelled to
secure more evidence. Another trip to
the mans stable showed that several
horses were standing on three legs, while
others suffered from other ailments Day
after day she followed her man, and all
though she had been refused help by the
officials and had found that men were put
ting up money to fight her, she did sue
coed in having the defendant taken to
court and fined 500. This cost Mrs. Pow
ers SS.75 out of her own pocket, besides
a box of cigars which she sent to the
witnesses.
The woman Is equally determined in
the care of ehildren-in fact more so.
She has brought scores of parents into
court, placed children in good homes and
won the respect and admiration of all
people.
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FOR THE STARS NEXT SEASON..
Many New plays and Some Old Ones
Among the Offerings.

From an Exchange.
John Drew in Pinero's His House in
Order"
James x. Hackett in THE Walls of
Jericho" by Alfred Sutro
Miss Lena Ashwell in 1.-The shulamite."
Miss Blanche Bates in David Belasco's
1.-THE Girl of the Golden West"
Henry E. Dixey in Richard the
Brazen."
Mrs. LeMoyne in Browning's "Pippa
Passes"
Arnold DAILY in 1.-The Monkeys Paw"
w. H. Crane in THE Price of Money"
by Alfred Sutro.
Miss Fay Davis in Barries "All-of-a-
Sudden-Peggy.'
Otis Skinner in 1.-THE Duel
Mrs. Fiske In Langdon Mitchells 1.-THE
New York Idea"
Miss Mary Mannering in Lady Betty"
by Mrs. Rida Johnson Young.
Tyrone Power in Marie Corellrs Bar
abas."
William Norris in "The Strenuous
Life"
Miss Virginia Harmed in THE Girl in
Waiting"
Miss Viola Allen In ''Cymbeline."
Forbes Robertson and Miss Gertrude
Elliott in Bernard Shaw's Caesar and
Cleopatra"
Miss Carlotta Nilsson in Rachel Croth-
er's THE Three of U.s."
Thomas w. Ross in George NJ. Cohan's
Popularity"
Miss IIilda spong in Lady JIM" by
Harold Heaton.
Miss Maxine Elliott in Her Own
Way"
Miss Lillian Russell in "Barbaras Mil
lions" a play by Paul NJ. Potter.
Miss Eleanor Robson in new plays by
Jerome X. Jerome, Israel Zangwill and
Edmund Rostand.
Miss Fay Templeton in AS Minutes
From Broadway"
Frank Moulan in Pixley and Luder's
THE Grand Mogul"
Montgomery and Stone in 1.-THE Red
Mill"
Charles J. Ross in The Jolly Host"
Herbert Kelcey and Miss Effe Shannon
in Charles Klein's new play THE Daugh-
ters of Men"
Robert Edeson in "strongheart."
Francis Wilson in 1.-The Mountain
Climber"
Robert Drouet In The Measure of a
Man." by Cora Maynard.
David Warfield in The Music Master
Miss Ethel Barrymore in play to be
selected.
Richard Mansfield in repertoire and a
new play to be selected.
Chauncey Olcott in Eileen Ashore"
Tim Murphy In "Old Innocence"
Ezra Kendall In Swell, Elegant Jones'"
Clay Clement in Sam Houston"
Miss Maude Fealy in THE Illusion of
Beatrice"
Sam Bernard in 1.-The Rich Mr.. Hog
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Miss Hattie Williams in The Little
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Miss Olga Nethersole in Gertrude Ath-
erton's "A Daughter of the Vine" NJ
Herviep's 1.-The Awakening and other
plays.
Miss Blanche Ring in Miss Dolly Dol
lars"
Miss Lulu Chaser in a new song play by
Mr.. Cohan.
Miss FRITZ Scheff in Mile. Modesto"
Frank Daniels in Sergeant Brue and
Omar"
Jefferson De Angels in "A Spring
Chicken
James T. Powers in THE Blue Moon
Mrs Leslie Carter in a new play by
David Belasco.
Robert Lorraine in Man and Superman,"
Kyrle Bollew in play founded on the
life of Moliere.
Wilton Lackaye in 1.-The Law and the
Man" f''Ies Miserables') and other plays.
e. II. Sothern and Miss Julia Marlowe
in a repertoire not exclusively snake
spearean. >,
Miss Anna Held in "A Paris Model"
Richard Garlic in THE Mayor of Tokoi'
and 1.-The Hurry -gurdy Girl.
John e Henshaw in Captain Careless.
Miss Marie Cahill in a musical play ten
tatfvely named -Four Men and Maid.
Miss May Irwin in musical play by
George V Hobart.
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Wise Suggestion.

From the Wiener Witzblatt
There are still remote districts in Aus
tria where the country apothecary acts
as a doctor and uses the old fashioned
remedies. Recently one of these elderly
prac titioners was summoned in haste
to see a position who was down with
fever. The apothecary had had a long
sitting in the village beer house, and left
his boon companions reluctantly.
He prescribed leeches for his patient
and as the latter's wife didn't seem to
understand what to do with them he un-
dertook to put them on the patients legs
himself. But in spite of all his efforts,
the leeches refused to stick, and finally
the doctors patience was exhausted and
he was about to give up the job, when his
wife. who had been watching him with
a gaping mouth, suddenly said: Wouldn't
1t be better, Herr Doctor, If my husbands
leather breeches were taken off first?'
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PARDON ASKED FOR
A NOTED OUTLAW
Request to Free Member of the
Dalton Gang
FIGHT WITH DESPERADOES
"Tom" Jones, Who Is Serving a Fifty
year Sentence in Oklahoma Pen
itentiary, Took Part in
the Row.

From the New York Telegraph.
Governor Frantz, of Oklahoma, will be
asked to pardon Tom Jones. alias
Arkansas Tom" whose right name is
Thomas Dougherty, now serving a SEN
tence of fifty years in the penitentiary.
Jones was a member of the Dalton
Doolin gang of outlaws who engaged in
a battle with Deputy United States
Marshals at the town of Ingalls,, Okla,
in the fall of 1898. in which "Lafe"
Shadley, Dick Speed and Thomas
Houston, deputy marshals, a citizen of
Gushing named Walker and boy were
killed and several other persons injured
Jones' father is a minister and lives in
Texas. Friends of Jones say he has been
an exemplary prisoner and that he has re-
formed.
There will be opposition to the grant
ing of a pardon to Jones. The fight in
which he was engaged was the most
desperate and sanguinary ever fought
with outlaws in Oklahoma. The officers
did not know the whereabouts of Jones,
and it is alleged that he wantonly killed
one or more of the officers without be-
luB III udHSSI uIluer IRE
The Contendine Forces.
ingalls, was a rendezvous of the out
laws who had heard that deputy mar
shals would be there to attack them
They laid their plans and waited. The
outlaws were "Bill'' Dalton, George
Newcomb (alias Bitter Creek"D. Charles
Pierce (alias Slaughter KidD. "Dyna-
mite Dick" tom" Jones and "Bill'
Doolin.
Among the deputies were John Hixon.
"Lafe'' Shadley Dick Speed. Tom
Houston, like" Steel, ''J...- Masterson
brother of bat" Masterson, and Doc
Roberts
The deputies entered town In a covered
wagon, and opened fire on Neil Murray
saloon, where the outlaws were supposed
to be. The desperadoes were in a livery
stable where their horses were kept.
The outlaws promptly returned the fire
and the fighting became general in the
streets and from behind buildings.
Murray, the saloon keeper, was shot in
the arm in his saloon. An old man nam
ed Ransom. who was in the saloon, was
shot in one leg. Walker was killed as
he ran from the saloon into the street.
A boy was killed as he ran from the rear
of another saloon. None of these per-
sons was engaged in the fight
The outlaws finally made sally on
their horses from the livery stable, some
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emerging from the front and Others from
the rear door. Dalton galloped into the
Hre OF the deputies before he fled, His
morse was shot down at long range and
Dalton rolled into the grass and was
thought to be killed. Masterson drew
down to make sure, when his companion
SAID there was no use wasting ammuni-
ton on a dead man. When ammuni-
lowered his gun, Dalton who was unin-
Jured' rolled over the brow of the hill,
mounted behind one of the outlaws who
was passing and escaped, as did all the
others except Jones. Bitter Creek,
was wounded by spent ball that had
demolished the magazine of his gun.
The fight was badly managed by the
deputies, several of whom, it is said.
were intoxicated.
Tracing a Shot.
When the officers counted noses thew
found that Shadley Houston and Speed
were dead. Shadley's body lay at spot
where he could not have been hit " the
outlaws in the livery stable, and his
companions began tracing the direction
from which the bullet had come. The
bullet had passed between two buildings
and evidently had come from a frame
hotel across the street. While the off,
GERS We're searching a woman told them
from the roof of the hotel The officers
surrounded the building, but were told
by the landlady that none of the outlaws
We're inside The woman who had fold
the officers of the shooting courageouslv
walked upstairs and found Jones and
returned to the officers and told them
that the other woman had lied to them.
the officers prepared to blow I'D the
building, whereupon the landlady offered
to surrender Jones If they would not kill
him. moment later Jones was under
arrest.
Jones was in bed when the firing be-
gan. He seized his rife, but could not
get the range without exposing himself
at a window. He climbed on a table,
punched a hole in the shingles on the
roof with his gun and opened fire. Per-
sons familiar with the fight declare posi-
lively that Jones killed Shadley and. In
all probability, Speed.
Masterson Was Cool.
The fight abounded in thrilling incl
dents. Masterson was in the street firing
from behind a small blackjack tree not
more than eight or ten inches in diane
ter. He ran out Of ammunition and
walked under heavy fire to the covered
wagon, filled his pockets with cartridges
and returned to the tree. Instead of
standing behind it he sat down in front,
saying that he would take things easy"
The tree soon was gashed with bullets
that struck above 'Masterson's head, and
twigs and limbs fell everywhere around
him. Not a bullet hit him
Masterson died later in Guthrie, Okla,
and was buried in Wichita, Kan
street urchin was so intensely inter-
ested in the fight that he stood near the
officers much OF the time. watching the
effects Of their broadsides The day was
intensely hot, and at intervals a woman
living in the town carried water to the
officers, though at every step her life
was in danger.
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WOMAN WHO DARES"
AGENT OF THE S.PC.A'
Mrs. Jennie Powers Makes Her
Own Arrests
CAN SNAP ON HANDOUTS
Began Work BY Jumping Out of Win
dow and Stopping Man Who
Was Beating His
Horse.

Keene, n. Harmed with IS calibre
revolver vested with the power of sheriff
and the authorized agent of the Keene
Humane society, Mrs James B. Powers
of this city, slender but determined
woman. possesses the distinction of being
the only humane society agent of her
sex in the United States. She does her
own shooting when it is necessary to
put an animal out of misery All the
Others are men, but among them there
are few, If any who are more success
full in their work than Mrs. Powers, or
ir.the woman who dares," as she is known
IN this city.
This nervy woman declares that she has