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The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-01-25
SCHOOL COMPOSITION.


We publish the following at the re.
quest OF J Il. Mitchell, principal OF
the Ebnwood schools.
To the pupils of the public schools,
and the people of Beaver county: We
would be glad IL you will read this
carefully. II is an Interpretation OF
one Of the finest quotations from the
literary peer Of the world II you
wish to read good literature--litera-
ture that covers every phase OF earthly
life, we would without hesitation rec
ommend the works OF "The bard of
Avon," William Shakspere.
PRINCIPAL.
A Coon NAME.
The words of Shakspere "Good
name in man or woman, dear my Lord
is the immediate jewel Of their SOULS"
Is indeed truo
There IL nothing that man owns that
Is equal to it in value or that required
such struggle to obtain and keep.
Nothing will carry man SO far among
his fellowmen as good name.
1t will admit him to the best society
and to the highest places OF honor in
the land and yet how few realize its
worth, and how few take the pains to
defend it.
The Bible says, "A good name is
rather to be chosen than great riches" /"
Shakespeare must have realized this
when he said "Who steals my purse
steals trash, but he who filches from
me my good name, robs me OF that
which not enriches him but makes me
poor indeed"
Poor indeed is the man OF. woman
who has lost their good name.
The saying "All is lost when honor is
lost" is true, and q person who has
lost his honor, or, in other words his
good name, Is to be pitied. But there
10 yet some hopes for such an unfor-
tunate, for no matter how low we may
sink in crime, sin and obscurity, we
may by honest effort and upright liv-
ing before our fcllowmen and our God,
regain to some extent, II not wholly,
our good name. f r. WRrGHr.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-01-25
Saturday Sales.

There will be sale of horses, cattle,
hogs, farm implements, and in fact
anything that you have to sell, at
Beaver on Saturday of this week.
Anybody who has such stuff for sale
will please bring the same to Shelton's 3
Livery Barn. Sale will begin at /
O'Clock sharp. Auctioneers--Wm
Woolery, Beaver and Hultz, Liberal
Kansas.
The Washington times., 1906-03-11

the opportunity to get in a fatal
shot, while a fourth, to make sure
of really killing him, deliberately
turned the body over and fired
again. One of his employers,
Robert Heaton, hearlGS the firing,
rushed to his aid. Tie murderers
ran, while LANCER dying told
Heaton not to mind him, but to
give it to them"
It was not Heaton but McParlan
who eventually carried out that
injunction. The murderers went
straight to his house and told him
all about it, anc he, although
Gowen had employed him on the
express condition that he should
never be called as a witness or
made to show his hand, decided
when the arrests were made and
he found that the Mollies sus-
pected him, that he had better come
out openly for the prosecution. He
did it, demolishing the sham alibi
which the murderers sought to es-
tablish, and giving evidence which
led TO the extirpation Of the entire
gang-eVidence which made Schuyl-
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troubles the motive was not so
much to injure employers or de
stroy property as to scare. 'scab"
help from the mines. Breakers
were burned now and again, be-
cause obviously that would pre-
vent the men who We're working in
them from continuing to work in
them But murder was not the
order of the day-or, rather. more
frequently of the night-until the
Molly Maguires-a secret society
originally composed of the most
lawless element of the striking
miners, but eventually taking in
public officials and men high in
authority in the State and county
was organized and became pow
erful in its apparent Immunity
from punishment
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of a Mollie being arrested it was
almost impossible to convict, for
while perjureTs were plenty to
swear to an alibi, it was rare that
a witness could be drummed up for
the State; and even if convicted,
they had become such a power in
the land that they were practically
sure of pardon. Members of the
order were chiefs of police, coun-
ty commissioners, sheTiffs, etc,
while one of them just missed cleo
ton to the Schuylkill county bench.
1t was a sort of Irish Malta, ter
rorizing Pennsylvania, and appar-
emily impregnable until Franklin
B. Gowen, lawyer, and president
of the Pennsylvania and Reading
Coal and Iron Company, realizing
the uselessness of trying TO get re-
suits through the local police, Sc
cured from the Chicago Office of
the Pinkertons one James McPar-
Ian, a tactful, gritty young Irish
man, to go among the MolHes as a
detective.
1t was dangerous work, and only
a bold man would have undertaken
1t, and a clever one put it through.
McParian called himself McKenna
and began operation in the fall
of 1873. He was admitted to the
order" on the understanding that
he had killed a man in Buffalo,
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Not an Idle Threat.

When a workman received A
Molly Mcguire notice, in which
rude drawings of a pistol and a
coffin generally figured prominently
and gruesOmely, to quit work, or
to leave the place, he generally
did as requested" Those who
failed 10 obey the order usually
found the threat conveyed was
not an idle one. If he was not
quite ready for his coffin when his
friends found him. he was pretty
near II. Evidently the intention
was not lacking, though some
times the aim was bad.
One Of these murders that par
ticularly aroused public feeling was
all mistake, anyhow The wrong
man was the victim. A policeman
named McCarron. in Tamaqua, had
been warned to leave. He. had
aroused the enmity OF Powder
Keg" Carrigen. Two men were
detailed to kill him. On the night
selected for the job they hid them
selves near HIS beat. But It hap
pened that McCarron WAS not on
his beat; he had changed with an
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4 2OStiu Murder.

One of these, and the one that
eventually proved the undoing Of
the Mollies, vas the murder of
Thomas Sanger. a young English
man, and boss in one of the mines
He had started out to his work
and was scarcely out of sight OF
his own house when a man turned
on him and fired, hitting him In
the arm. He turned and ran
around a house only to run into
a second member os the gang,
awaiting him pistol in hand. Turn
ing and trying TO dodge, he STUN
bled and fell. This gave third
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other policeman - an old soldier
named Yost. whom even the Mollies
found no fault with. Climbing a
lamp-post ladder early in the morn
ing TO put out the gas. Yost was
a fine mark for the hidden as
sassins, who, taking him for Nc
Carron, shot him fatally. Event
uaIly, in 1877, when, through Nc
PaTland's work, Pennsylvania had
recovered somewhat from the par
alysis which she had suffered, six
men were executed for this murder
One of the earliest and most
brutal of the Molly Mcguire muir
deTs was that OF Alexander Rea, a
mine superintendent, who was
pounded and shot to death when
driving along a lonely road be-
tween CentraIia and Mt Carmel It
was believed that he had about
$4,000 in his buggy, with which he
was going to pay off his men. He
was set upon by a gang OF Mollies
who had drunk themselves up to
the proper degree o2 courage and
hidden in a piece Of woods through
which ne must pass. They rushed
at him, pistols in hand, upon his
approach, and, in spite e his
piteous pleading, fired several bull
let's into him, and to make sure
they had done the work thoroughly
finally used clubs and pistol butts
to batter his helpless corpse. II
turned out taat he had paid off
his men a day earlier than usual
and had only $50 with him at the.
time. The men concerned In this
murder, too, were all finally con-
victed and hanged. save one, who
turned states evidence, and thereby
got of.
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Remarkable Record Of
the PinkertOn Man
Whose Work in Con-
neCtioR With the Min
ing TrOlIbIes in Colo
rddOHaS Once More
Brought Him Into the
Limelight

," HEN, said Mr.. Gowen, who
acted as counsel for the
prosecution, we knew
that we were free men
Then we could go 10
Patsy Collins. the commissioner
Of this county, and say . hlnh'
Build we'll the walls OF the ne"
addition to the prison; dig 'he
foundations deep and make thenl
strong: put in good masonry anu
iron bars: for, as the LORD hNeIh'
the time will come when SIDE os
side with William Love, the muir
derer of Squire Gwither, you VIII
enter the walls that you are no"
building for Others Then we could
saw TO lack KehOe, the high con-
stable of a great borough IN TINS
county: We have no fear OF you
Then we could say to Ned Mon
Afghan, chief of police and murderer
and assassin: Behind you the scaf-
fold is prepared for your reception
Then we could say TO Pat Conry,
commissioner of this county; The
time has ceased when a governor OF
this State dares to pardon a Molhe
Maguire; you have had your last
Dardon.' Then we could say TO john
Slattary. who was almost elected
Judge of this court: We know that
of YOU that il were better you had
not been born than that it should
be known Then all of US looked
up. Then, at last, we were free,
and came to this county and walk
ed through it as safely as in the
most crowded thoroughfares Of
Philadelphia
That. according to E. Benjamin
Andrews, in The United States in
Our Times" is what James McPar-
Ian did for Pennsylvania, particu-
Iarly for Schuylkill county. when
he. practically single-handed, col
Iected the evidence which sent the
leaders of the Mollie Maguires to
the scaffold and tC the penitentiary.
That, nearly thirty years after, is
what that same James McParlan
seems in a fair way to do to Colo
rado in the chaos into which her
mining troubles have now plunged
her.
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MoPhQridH Called IN.

First of all there was the mys-
terious assassination of Detective
Lyte Gregory in West Wenver two
years ago; then there was the
murder Of Martin Gleason, super
intendent of the Wild Horse mine
at Cripple Greek, who was thrown
down shaft; next, that Of Arthur
Collins, superintendent of the
Smuggler-Union mine at Telluride,
who was shot from ambush; then
came the killing of fourteen men
in the explosion at the Indepen-
dence depot near Cripple Creek IN
June, 1904; next the murder Of
Martin B. Valley, who was killed
last summer by an explosion In
Denver, and finally on December
80. the murder of Ex-Governor
Frank Steunenberg at Caldwell,
Idaho
All of these were within Nc
Parlan's territory as manager OF
the Western division" but the
Mine Owners Association had their
own detectives and he was not
called in. When Governor Steunen-
berg was killed, however, he was
asked TO investigate-not by ths
mine owners, but by Governor
Gooding as a personal friend of the
murdered man, and Governor Good
ing has personally paid the ex-
penses of the investigation which
McParlan-who is not given to
speaking hastily-says will cost
Meyer, Haywood, and Pettibone
their lives and implicate many Of
f1cers and members Of the Western
Federation OF Miners In the series
of murders and outrages which
eliminated in the death Of Gov
ernor Steunenberg, an investigation
III the course of which he seems
to have unearthed another gang
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and that professionally he was
counterfeiter But even with these
recommendation he was rather an
object of suspicion, and it took
time for him really to get well into
the councils of the Mollies. 1t was
two years before he felt that he had
accomplished anything and during
that time he was necessarily privy
to crimes that he was powerless TO
prevent.
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Created a Reign Of Terror.

In the early seventies, the Mollie
Maguires, taking advantage Of the
fact that public feeling was very
bitter against the coal barons OF
that day because Of the extortion-
ate prices they were charging for
one of the prime necessities of
life, and that said barons would
have neither aid nor sympathy In
repressing the crimes growing out
OF their labor troubles, brought
about veritable reign of terror
in the Pennsylvania mining districts
of which Schuylkill county was the
center. In the beginning of the
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Afraid to 60 UndYmed.

Things reached such a pass that
law-abiding people were afraid to
venture out Of doors, even by day,
unless we'll armed. In the event
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kill county, where the worst crimes
had been perpetrated, arise in its
might and stamp out the entire
organization. Nine of the Mollies
were sentenced 10 death, and most
of the other leaders sent to the
penitentiaTy for long terms.
That is what McParlan did in
Pennsylvania thirty years ago, and
something like that is what Nc
PaTlan, still a Pinkerton man, but
now one Of their chiefs, older but
not whit less enterprising and
courageous, seems about to do for
Colorado now. His work in con
nection with the mining troubles
out there bids fair 10 be quite as
effective, and has brought him once
more prominently before the public
eye after more than a quarter OF
a century of retirement. and steady,
faithful work for the great detective
agency which employs him.
McParlan is now general man
ager of the Western division of the
PinkertOn agency. For nearly two
years the miners in Colorado and
Idaho have been warning on the
mine owners. and the war has
been marked with crimes and vio-
lence very similar 10 the Molly
Mcguire 0utrages Of thirty years
ago. In all there have been nearly
a score of lives sacTi1ced-as Nc
Parlan now claims-tO the violence
of the Western Federation Of Min
erS
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Continued on Page Four.)
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- $500"
That ministers are underpaid would
Q evident from the fact that. during
The last ten years l03 clerRymen have
been admitted to almshouses in Eng.
land as paupers. OF these. one was a
doctor Of divinity, while the Others held
the degree of master of art. OF all the
Episcopal clergymen in England. 6,ooO
earn less than ego a week, and the great
est majority much less.-The Sunday
Magazine.
E.B. Clark. the abscond,nR editor Of
the Fairview Miner. has been ar n. sted
at New Orleans for forging % check for
600 on Joe Jarvis, Of the firm OF Jarvis
d Douglas OF Fairview. The arrest was
made at the instisation IT he American
Bankers Association. C.,r!i cit ii wide
swath in Churchill comfy last summer
and wa quite popular. lie started
three papers and SCENE ~ he prosper
ing, but like a great many o'her men he
lived beyond his income. One. morning
he came up missing and his, trusting
friends were left with worthless checks
on banks in which he had no money.
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by heat, cold frost or moisture. ID il
practically tire-proot and endures for all

by heat. cold frost or moisture. II il
practically ire-proot and endures for all
time.
Twenty-Five per sent reduction has
been made by tie government in the
charges for ~patentinR mining elaine,
the order being uow in effect. This
schedule OF prices will remain ID effect
until fnr,lr' as ere; placer clnim. ESQ;
lode claim. 90 %nillsite included in snr-
vey with 'oie sl5; lode claim within and
included in plncer claim survey ais;
several lole locations included in one
survey. first 10 ntions included, each
$50; several placer locations included in
one survey. first location named $40; NIL
other locations included, each 600; Ger.
tihcata "f $500 improvements after APP
prevail OF survey 3d.
George Spencer escaped from the
pentintiary about 6 o'clock Wednesday
evening. Spencer was seen in Carson
by Deputy Sheriff Knoblock who teie.
phoned AN inquiry to the prison officials.
'o 7" hAS' NhC OiuCltl6 hueW ID
lie escape. Spencer was a nurse Mt the
prison hospital and assisted in intend
ing To other rnnvicis confined with i'll.
ness. lie was supposed te be behind
three lrckr,l 'lonrs. I'm: through care.
~lessness OF otherwise these doors were
left fnio:krd 10y SHE guard aud Sper or
walked ont iuid tlainbered over tho
prison walls. He made HE wa, Ia Car
son and N. ton Japanese store and
demanded n suit Of clothes. The cloth.
ing was refused and the Jap notified the
police. Posses we're started ont at once
to search for the missing convict, but he
was still at large at latest count.
Spencer Inns served one term at San
Quentin and was sent to the Carson
prison last April for one year and six
onths for stealing a watch from a
woman ut Winnenucca.
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use a little occasionally, . he said. .How
muchS Enough to temper a hiRhballt'
.What do you mean by a high ballr' roaI.
ed the attorney. San amateur MUIR
mured the juror. can not presume 10
enlighten an expert This man is a
competent juror chimed the court, aud
the trial proceeded.
Herman Stanley, Who owns a garden
patch at Tonka, met with quite a severe
accident yesterday afternoon. He was
passing through the door Of his cabin
with a loaded rifle in his right hand,
when the door accidentally struck the
gun and it went of, sending the bullet
through the tlesby part Of his left arm
below the elbow. He came to town last
night aud DR.. Hood dressed the wound.
He is doing as well AZ can be expected
today.
Two masked men held mp seventeen
men in the .Hrrnom Of the Merchants
Hotel at Cnlumbia, Near Goldticld. Sun
day right and ~ I minutes later
with over SS D mliu!tnp Ia the crap
game and rouI,Itr Wheel. ljetois leav.
ing one u the robbers threw several dol
lars on tile bar and told thu barkeeper to
treat the boys They then backed out
Of the door and we're soon lost in the
darkness. One Of the robbers seemed
to be I'm old hand Mt the business and
the other appeared to be very nervous.
e. =
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InrrEgrd umMrr u rrnIn.

a diapatch II nat an unknown
man attenI pied to ride the brake beams
Monday night from Tonopah to Gold
field; he lost his hold, either through u
sudden jerk of the rar under which he
was riuing, or because his stiffened mus
cles finally refused to cling longer to the
rodu. and was dragged, with HE body
hanging III mn oblique position held up
half on the rods and half touching the
ground for over fifteen miles.
For over sir miles pieces OF bono,
muscle, skin, hair and clothing wero
picked up along tht trank Of the Tono-
pah IL Goldheld railroad.
No clue to the identity Of the dead
man can be fond. All night and
through the early hours OF Christmas
morning, the torn body lay on the track
before the section foreman who went
out To repair the track a quarter o. q
mile outside of Goldfeld found it, lying
exactly midway between the rails.
One half oi the butly was scraped en-.
tirrly away by being dragged for over
fifteen miles along the track utter the
nan was killed and still hung suspended
10y one arm which was crooked through
the overhanging rods, a4
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n..o.,o -I....,IA,l...

The officers OF Elko Lodge, No. 10. F.
4 A. n. for the ensuing year we're In
stalled at Masonic Hall ThursdAy night.
Past Master j. A. Mcbride oficisted a.
instsllinR officer and the following Of
Hicers we're installed:
Master, i'll Keyser; senior warden,
Geo. b. Russell; junior warden, Edgar
Rsiunnrt; treasurer, John Henderson;
secretary, "A. ~. Hess,n; senior deacon.
T. 5. Gedne, tyler, John Ackland.
After tile in installation, the Masons and
their faniliee went to Leonard Hall
where several hours were spent in play
ny uatnea, dancing, etc. The festivities
closed with ii banquet, after which
those present retired to their homes we'll
satisfied with themselves and the rest Of
the world.
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From MONDAYS DAILY
Salmagundi,
derry Christ maa o all.

\ derry Christ maa o all.
ttnber Tu;scr oi Tucker station ia
in town.
Arthur Short NJ Ruby valley IL spends
ing u lev day IN town.
Tho l~SDEPESnEST wishse all 0f liz
friends aud patrons and everybody else
II Merry Christians. In order that the
force inny eni' y the day. tho ~ISDEpEN.
nEHr "ill no' hp isfncd tomorrow,
the altar rclurucd Saturday night
ir hia rip Il" the state farm ~ L,gnp,
L'ncoln county. he had y p'Frtnn, trip
md f0unu tliiug Ut the TARA yer, pni.
isfaciory. cinsr irr ~ tho conditions
tiiNi y ri I" be oVorcuue
Mm- haty ThcWwm is nnkipv The
mn+i NJ her ~noliiay VII ntiUu 10y learning
to aLicH y pc Ia lle l~SuEPENpsNT Office.
There IL rOpu Tor m Other yoDng Ind,
,sm wants To- i,af br m~!s;eElcq oi
y Posettng.
'ttp's''''iNS' "NS 81 w w TIT IlOlllIlR
hospital ihip iuteou,n, anc hns been
under the weather idr several days
md Ia threatened with nh attuck OF ty,
ploid fever. AT la4t d%ccouaia she VIVA
resting comfortably. II
MIR. Smith returned last night iron,
baltimore, where he had been in attend
Rpoe upon liis daughter, Mrs. Charlou
HnndpIaon, who is suffering from ~.
plioid fever. Sllp was getting along
~ we'll 10 could bp expected whnn h.
iett tor homo lie will return to Halti'
more IN q icw lays.
Quite n number Of the young mcr
with tho Wne,orn Pacific auryeyi los
parties came from Wells Sdur lay night
aud will spend Christmas 10 town. They
report a grading Quilt 10, Seen Dectl
and Wells and that considerable grad
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etonewalI Jaekson,a Lovo Lo,,.r,,

Great men have nearly always com.
pretended the importance OF letter
writing as al accomplishment, and
many OF them have made 1t a recrea
ton and n resource II times OF stress
and mental tension. ind Stouewall
Jackson, whose zane stands as a
synonym for the life str nuous. wrote
lctte.o to his second VITO (tho first
ono lived on'v fourteen months after
her marriage to hlm), brlmful OF mr..
dent love. :iy pct, my darling, ms
sunshine, ry little somebody, he
void call hH", this 6rert being whose
life vas sacrificed for his country
Exchange.
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log ha. already been done. bo.heas aud
west Of tie latter point,

WGOe Vi ~ LAsSA PSh"
An interesting event in the ises OF
OF Tho children viii tnke place at the
Episcopal church this evening. A
beautiful Christmas tree has been sc.
cured and londed down with the best
that Santa Claus has been able to pro
vide Tor the little folks. II will make
the older ones happy to see the children
enjoy the surprises in store for them.
The distribution Of presents will begin
at @ o'clock. The little folks should be
on hand.
Sundays Reno Journal is q magni6-
cent paper Of 32 pages. l. coutaips
well written articles III the ,ning aud
other ind u Of the State and does
not overlook the transportation and
other facilities Of Reno, Neyada's
growing metropolis. II is u splendid
advertisement OF Nevadd's
and Reuo's possibilities. The enter.
prisiug residents OF Reno will miss a
golden opportunity II they do not circu.
late thousands Of copies Of Sundays
Journal throughout the country. II viii
repay them many fold.
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Live Thermometer.

The chirp Of crickets on a hot sum
mer's night falls into a rhythmic beat
and this beat Is a very accurate thei
mometer. In the latitude or Boston
according to Outing, the crickets chiri
about &c times n minute when the ten
perature Is at 80 degrees. They ado
four chirps a minute for every degret
above that. 1t is said that in othoi
Localities, while the number Of chirpi
to the minute may not be the SAINT
as the Boston figure, there is a rat1
Of increase which is invariable.
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Rarnum Had Mo, Nat Him.

When p. T. Barnum was at the
head OF his great moral show" It
was his rule TO send complimentary
tickets to clergymen. and the custom
Is continued to this day. Not long af.
tor the Rev. DR.. Walker succeeded to
the passionate Of the Rev. DR.. Hawkes.
in Hartford, Conn, there came to the
parsonage, addressed to DR.. Hawkes.,
tickets for the circus, with the com.
pliments Of tho famous Snowman. DR..
Walker studied the tickets for a mo
mcnt. and then remarked: CDR.
Hawkes. is dead. and MI. Barnum ia
dead; evidently they have pot met"