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The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-01-26

John r. Goldson, sawmill owner,
while hunting in the mountains west
Of Eugene, was accidently killed re-
Gently by a shot from his own rife in
contest with badly wounded and i'm
furiated panther. The rifle stock bore
marks of the panther's theet. Goldsoa
thought he had emptied the chamhars
and struck the beas then it exploded
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-01-26
American Writer |Is Dead.

Robert Nelson Stephens, the dram
atist, died in Bournemouth, England,
aged 40 years, recently. He wrote
many short stories for magazines and
became a theatrical agent and dram
atist in New York in 1893.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-01-26
Strike on Cuban Railroad.

A strike on the Cuban Central rail-
way has practically paralyzed traf-
fic between Sague La Grande and
Cienfuegos and also has hampered
the line between Esperanza and Santa
Clara, which is the heart of the Ha-
vana-Santiago through system.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-01-26
Loss Of Million In Mail Car.

Brussels.-The Patriot says that
the mail car on the Ostend-Herbes-
thale train was burned in an accident.
The car contained the Indian mail
and 100000 worth of valuables,
which were destroyed. The valuables
were insured.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-01-26

Ethel-You better be careful how
you kiss me, Jack. Father just said
he was going upstairs to read bit.
Jack-Oh, he is good for six hours.
He is going to read the presidents
message.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-01-26
Irxlno,s Estate Is SIS, 1e5.

The will of the late Sir Henry IT.
,ang has been probated. His estate
ia valued at $73,165. The bulk OF
the residue goes in equal parts to the
two sons of the testator.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-01-26
Quaker City Fire.

Philadelphia, Jan. IA Ave story
brick building, portion of the plant
of the Pencoyd iron works, was de-
stroyed by fire Sunday night Loss
$500 900.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-01-26
Beyond the Limit.

The Customer-Isn't Smiths credit
good with you any more?
The Grocer-I should say not. He
can't even borrow trouble in this es-
tablishment.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-01-26

The cattle of Somaliland, says a
recent official report, are fattened on
date stones, and milch animals fed on
such a diet are said to produce better
and more copious milk than others.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-01-26
"Lid" Put on in Victoria.

Victoria, B. c., Jan. 22.-ProbatioD-
airy orders are out for the suppression
OF all gambling as soon as the newly
elected mayor, A. ]. Morley. was
sworn in. All gambling is closed.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-01-26

DR.. Ingatz Jastrow, professor of po-
iltioal economy in the university Of
Berlin, has been elected president Of
the Commercial university, which the
Senior Mechanics corporation win
open in the fall of 1906.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-01-26

Eben-Look at the bridegroom
there. From his nervous. detected
look he must feel like thirty cents.
F1o-Impossible, when it cost him
81 to rent that frock coat he is wear.
ling,
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-01-26
Captain LUZ Fatally Wounded.

greensboro, Ky.-Captain Charles
A. Luzz, who recently retired from the
United States army, while packing his
grip in hotel here, accidentally shot
himself in the abdomen, infiicting
probably fatal wound. He is about 30
years Of age and lives in st. Louis.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-01-26

The German emperor, the king a
Spain, the queen..of Holland. the king
of Bavaria and the king Of Saxcny
have never taken the trouble to b
crowned.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-01-26
LADY PARKER IS ROBBED.
Loses $4,000 In Jewels In London
Hotel.

New York, Jan. 23.-The Herald
says that the robbery of Lady Parker,
wife of DR.. Gilbert Parker, of $4,000
several weeks ago in the Carlton no.
tel, London, has been revealed in this
city since the departure Of a repre-
sentative of Scotland yard for Palm
Beach, Fla. For more than week
the London police worked In this
city, independently of the central Of
fee, visiting pawnshops and follow
ing other trails.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-01-26
PROMINENT MEN APPOINTED.

To Represent United States at The
Hague Conference.
Secretary Root announces that the
American representatives to the ap-
preaching conference to be held at The
Hague will be Joseph H. Choate, for
mer ambassador to England; Horace
Porter, former ambassador to France:
and Judge Rose of Little Rock, Ark,
ex-president of the American Bar as
sociatiOn.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-01-26

Great Britain imports $500, 200, 900 of
farm products in a year.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12

WHEN THE FAT MAN CLIMBED
Toiled Up Seventeen Flights of Stairs. but Next
Time He Will Charter an Airslip.

my jobs gone, sure" he moaned.
.The customer never will take this
trade"
Il was Just jokin'. . said Jim, relent-
ing. United is sixty-seyen and a
half bid"
Rough as the accident was on those
who had to stay in the elevator, it also
imposed its hardships on those who
had TO climb from ten to twenty flights
of stairs. These weary pedestrians
were speedily brought to the conclu-
sion that New York owes its magnif-
cent skyline to the elevator.
A fat man who probably would have
tipped the scales at more than $50
pounds seemed to be the sufferer in
chief He had some important hus.-
ness up on the eighteenth floor. If it
had not been business of the mos. ur-
gent character he would have 1een
justified in waiting until the power
plant got in working order or else
chartered an airship. He gave an
obese sigh, however. and plunged
b-ayely at the stairs.
At the second story his overcoat
came off. Two fights further up he
dropped into an office and asked per
mission to leave the garment until he
could call for it via the elevator.
When he reached the sixth story he
was putting like a fire engine and per-
spiration was fairly squirting out of
every pore on his purple face. At
every flight of stairs he shed clothing,
and every halt seemed to nave been
made for the purpose of deciding what
portion of his attire should come OFF
next.
When he stopped on the seventeenth
floor he was carrying his hat. coat.
vest, necktie and a wilted rag of
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12
A Place to Go.

At a recent banquet in Baltimore
Congressman Gardner's anecdote
about the would be clergyman and the
dying parishoner evoked much merri-
ment. The minister was called to the
bedside of the expiring man, whose
name was Hopkins.
"'Opkins," said the dominee,
you're sick man."
"I am" replied Hopkins.
You're going to die, 'Opkins," con-
tinued the other.
81 am" groaned Hopkins.
you've been bad man. 'Opkins." :"
81 have"
you can't expect to go to heaven" I"
"I know IT, said Hopkins.
"Then, 'Ophins. you'll have to go to
the other place" rat
81 will" said Hopkins, signing
deeply.
''Well," concluded the consoling pas
tor, you ought to be thankful that
you've got somewhere to go."-Balti-
more Herald.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12
Hero Worship and Maps.

Hero worship has had hand in the
making of maps. We have postoffices
bearing the names of every President
down to and including Mr.. Roosevelt.
Only two of his predecessors are lack
ing in the list of counties. Naturally
the favorite in the naming of towns
and counties is Washington and he
is the only President for whom a
state has been named. But others than
Presidents enjoy these honors.
Successful soldiers, sailors states
men, editors, authors, inventors, the
heroes of ancient history and my
thology and even popular actors and
athletes share like distinction. Our
list of postoffices is long one and
contains names from almost every
language, living and dead, and chosen
on almost every conceivable principle
or impulse.
Two counties in Kansas present a
curious association of ideas: Greeley
county has for its capital town
called Tribune and Ulysses is the
county seat of Grant. New stations
were to be named along a western
railway some years ago and they were
named after the members of a profess
sional baseball team that happened
just then to win the championship.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12

Elevators are a good deal like good
digestions: you don't miss them until
they get out OF order. The tenants
and those having business in the
Broad Exchange building. at Broad
street and Exchange place. were
brought to a realization of this few
days ago. This structure is the larg-
est office building in the world. AL
though 1t is not so tall as the Park
Row building or half a dozen other
towering skyscrapers in New York. it
covers such a large area that it more
than makes up in floor space what It
lacks in height. During the busy
hours of the day in the financial dis
persons in the building at time.
1t was only little after IL o'clock
when something happened to the pow
er plant, and every one OF the eighteen
elevators in the building came to a
dead stop. L was a calamity as seri-
ous-although on a smaller scale-as
the suspension of trolley service on
Broadway or a two-hour block in the
Subway. AS misfortune would have
1t. thirteen out of the eighteen ele-
vators came to a stop between floors.
and the passengers were trapped like
so many animals in cages. Many of
them were messengers for Stock Ex-
change firms. banks and brokers on
the curb, and delay was serious mat
ter to them.
The howls of the Zoo animals at
feeding time were midnight quiet COM
pared to their outcries. They begged
and implored the elevator conductors
to open the doors and let them drop
down to the next floor through the
scanty apertures. But the minions
in charge were firm. and the appeals
were unheeded. To make the situa-
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12
scHlFFER DECISION.
Wealthy New York Brother Not Held
Liable.

Pueblo, Colo.-According to de-
cision handed down Thursday by Judge
Riner in the United States Court, Her
man Schiller was not member of the
firm Of H. Schiller & Bro, owning the
defunct Bank of Alamosa at the time
the institution closed its doors.
Judge Riner in effect held that the
connection of Herman Schiller with
the firm of H. Schiller & Brother, had
not been proven. The court held that
the burden of proof of an existing part
nership must rest with the petitioners
and that SO far as the evidence was
concerned, this had been of a negative
character. The fact that the firm name
of H. Schiller & Brother had been con-
tinued after Herman Schiller had dis
posed Of his interests to Abraham and
Isaac Schiller, could not be regarded
as evidence of partnership from the
fact that authorities had held that the
firm name Of concern wes a portion
of its assets and that through the pur-
chase OF the business and good will of
the firm of Fl. Schiller & Brother, the
/ purchasers had succeeded to the firm
name also.
Herman Schiller was consequently
released and discharged from all re-
sponsibility in the matter, while Abra.
ham and Isaac w. Schiller were ad-
adjudged bankrupt according to the
prayer of the petition of the creditors
This decision releases Herman Schif.
fer from liability of about 100000
which as a director of the Alamosa
bank he had been sued for by deposi.
| tors.
The proceedings grew out of the
failure of the Bank of Alamosa which
was owned by the Schiffers, Isaac and
Abraham. The case in court was to
determine whether Herman Schiller OF
New York, who is said to be wealthy
manufacturer. was actually a member
of the banking firm. The failure was
most sensational and created much bit
terness against the Schiffers. Abra.
ham, the active head of the bank
was brought to Pueblo from Alamosa
in order to insure protection and to
await hearing in the federal court
The failure occurred in October
1905. Out of deposits of more than
100000 in the bank, at the time, less
than $4,000 was found by the receiver.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12
How Governor Folk sized Them up

How Governor Folk Sized Them Up.
Not long ago Gov. Folk of Missouri,
upon reaching his office. at the Capt.
tol. in company with a friend, found
number of men waiting in the ante
room. He paused as he passed through
and made joke that was a decided
chestnut. When the Governor and his
friend were in the private office the
friend remarked:
Say. that was fearfully old one
you got off just now"
Il know it, was the complacent re-
ply.
Then why did you do it." the puz-
zled friend asked.
Did you notice which of those fell
lows laughed? Well, they are the
ones who have favors to ask" was the
explanation.-Harper's Weekly.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12
A Matter of Doubt, Anyway.

A young man from the South who,
a few years ago, was so fortunate as
to be enabled to enter the law ofdces
of a wellknown New York firm was
first intrusted with very simple
case. He was asked by the late James
c. Carter, then a member of the firm,
to give an opinion in writing. When
this was submitted it was observed
by Mr.. Carter that, with the touch
ing confidence of a neophyte, the
young Southerner had begun with the
expression, 81 am clearly of the opin-
ion"
When this caught his eye he smiled
and said:
My dear young friend, never state
that your are clearly of opinion. on a
law point. The most you can hope to
discover is the preponderance of the
doubt. Success.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12

collar. and his suspenders hung like
wet strings around his hips. He look
ed as If he had just emerged from the
baptismal font. He gave a despairing
look at the last fight and unbuttoned
his steaming shirt collar.
Hell, amt it?" he wheezed to a
group of fellow travellers. And amt
l lovely object to go and talk busi-
ness to man I never saw before? :?
If l get turned down ought to have a
good suit for damages against the
owners Of the building."-New York
Press.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12
Youthful Gallant.

A Bostonian was talking about the
late Henry Harland.
Harland was graceful gallant
soul" he said. Even in his boyhood
he turned the prettiest compliments.
In his boyhood he studied Latin
under a charming young lady.
This young lady. calling him up in
class one morning, said:
Henry, name some of the cLief
beauties of education
The boy, smiling into his teachers
pretty eyes, answered:
choolmistresses.'
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12

climbing the stairs would stop and
jeer at them.
Hey, Jim cried one of the pris-
oners curb brokers' messenger, as
he saw a friend outside the bars.
won't you report this purchase of
United Copper at the Officer"
What price did you get it at?" ask
ed Jim.
"Sixty-seven and quarter"
Its down to sixty-two. offered.
now" said jun comfortingly.
A wall came from the messenger.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12

One woman sues for divorce be.
cause her spouse ''reneged" at cards
and then slapped her. She might
overlook the slapping, but never his
failure to follow her lead.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12

A man bought a pair of rs cent
suspenders in Springfield. Ohio.
store. and in making change for him
the cashier gave him instead of his
purchase package of $1,000 bills.
which she had prepared for the bank.
The cashier is obviously not subject
to heart failure. as she is still alive.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12

1t has been brought out in court
trial that baseball player never
knows where the ball is going when
he swats it. Another cherished illu-
sion gone!
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12

While we are all glad and willing
to aid Douglas Hyde in his efforts to
restore the Gaelic language, still we
can't help wishing that somebody
would do something to restore the
English language.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12

The top of the Singer building in
New York City is to be 593 feet high.
National pride should move congress
to add about fifty feet to the height
of the Washington monument.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12

King Leopold may be benign and
virtuous man. but some strong proof
VIII be required to make the world
believe IL.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12

Those archaeologists who have just
eloped from Philadelphia might have
known what was going to happen
when they dug up Cupid in Crete.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12

Princess Ena will get $4,000 an
nually as King Alfonso's bride. 1t
would have looked more attractive
to her perhaps, she being a modern
woman, IL It had been marked down
20 $4,000.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12

A California lawyer will not argue a
case before jury that has whiskers.
These masks enable Jurors to conceal
their feelings when lawyers take up
their time with argument over prece-
dents
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12

A man has been found who died
worth a million dollars, yet he never
worked at a larger salary than 1922 a
week. The million was left to him by
a rich relative.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12

People who are troubled about the
proper way to write siege" might
spell 1t "seiege." Then the man who
gets the letter can scratch either "e"
he likes.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12
Ebert County Tribune
}. e Pope, Editor and PabIIsher.
ELFERT. COLORADO.

Possibly rose spelled "roz~ would
smell as sweet but 1t wouldn't look
20 pretty.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12

A husband in defending divorce
suit said his wife cried when he asked
her age. Why didn't he look at her
teeth?
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12

According TO Mrs. Russell Sage, nc
sweet and refined American women
ever smoke the nasty little things,
Who said they did?
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12

The first baseball guide for 1906 is
out. ara there is nothing in it to show
that the umpire viii not be guyed just
the same as usual this season.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12

The Los Angeles Herald refers to
"a Redding. CAL. man attired in the
western evening dress of Prince AL
bert and white vest" Isn't that kind
OF evening dress rather unfair to peo.
pie who are troubled with cold feet?
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12

The newest ocean liner is to have
among its attractions a fine picture
gallery. Now for an ocean liner with
an eighteen-hole golf course.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12

The thirteen superstition received
another verificatIon when a man who
stabbed himself thirteen times died
on the thirteenth effort.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12

It's about time now for the old hen
TO stop going "Cutter-caw-caw-cawl
and "Cut-cut-cut-ca-dah-cu and TO
begin going "Cluck, cluck, cluck,"
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12

Andrew Carnegie is not entirely or
Iginal In his discovery that wealth
doesn't bring happiness. Solomon
beat him to It.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12

The man who calls it ~Algy Cyrus
shows right away that he has never
studied Spanish.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12

VIII "the richest baby in the world
be able TO buy immunity from collie,
Group and measles?
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12

The man who was fined for kissing
a Cincinnati girl should have been
given a Carnegie hero medal instead
of being compelled to contribute to
the city treasury.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12

A Pennsylvania man has been fined
$40 for hitting his mule with an AK.
Although the dispatches do not ex-
plain the matter, we take 1t for grant
ed that he struck the mule first.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12

The puckerless persimmon is the
latest Science. In time. may evolve
a mild and delightful Indian turnip-
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12

I'VE are living in the arms OF tyran-
ny" exclaims the. Baltimore Herald
Congratulations to ye editor on his
prolonged honeymoon.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12

It is said that malrimony is not
keeping pace with prosperity. That's
strange. Usually it is prosperity that
IS not able to keep pace with matri-
mony.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-10-13

tatfon left hin when lie reached man
hood. and he died at the early age OF
thirty-six.
A singular instance of this curious
development OF the calculating faculty
and differing in several respects from
Bidder and Colburn is the case or Je-
bediah Buxton, who. though he cannot
be called an infant prodigy, was one OF
the most remarkable OF the mental cal
culators whose names ale Il part or the
history of the curious. Buxton was
born in 1901 at Elmerton In D~erbyshire,
where his father was sChoolmaster.
Notwithstanding his fathers profes-
sion, Jebediah's education was neglect
ed. He was not even taught to write.
II was not until he had arrived at
mans estate that he showed any apti-
tude for mental arithmetic. Once IN
terested in the subject, however, his
mind developed with amazing rapidly.
He had a remarkable memory, and
while I'm the midst of n problem he
could desist and resume the operation
again where he had left of, even II II
were n year after. \ remarkable thing
about the man was that he would al
low two persons to propose different
problems at the same time, and he
would answer each without the least
confusion. He could also talk freely
while working out his problems. Bux-
ton died in lTT2.
Many other examples of these freaks
Of nature" are known. and among them
may be mentioned a negro of Mary
land, who. with no education what
ever, possessed a wonderful gift for
solving difficult mathematical prob
lens. With the exception Of Bidder
few Of these geniuses have amounted
to anything, and as time went on they
either lost their marvellous power or
died before they could make it serve
some useful purpose.-World's Events
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-10-13

A sepoy regiment will walk a Euro
pean regiment to death and do 1t on
food which their competitors would
pronounce wholly insufficient to sus-
tain vigorous life. a regular Hindoo.
stance carrier with n weight of eighty
pounds on his shoulders-carried, Of
course, in two divisions hung on his
neck by n yoke-will, If properly paid,
lope along over a hundred miles In
twenty-four hours, a feat which would
exhaust any but the best trained Eng
lish runners
We feel, indeed, some doubt whether
the relation between the power Of
walking ana what is properly called
physical strength" Is at all n close
one. Many classes Of Bengalesc. who
are a feeble folk. seem in walking tire
less, and ii Is within the knowledge Of
us all that m&.Iy comparatively feeble
E~nglishmen car walk all day and sit
down at the end far less fatigued than
men who I'm a struggle would throw
them in five minutes on their backs.
Weight has much to do with It. and
lung condition, and above all n certain
soundness of the sinews which has no
more relation to the strength Of those
sinews than the tenacity of a fiber
silk, for eXample-has II its bulk
London Spectator.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-10-13

Sailors visiting the island of Laysan'
In the Hawaiian group. are greatly
amused by the curious antics OF the
Laysan albatross, or gony. These BIRDS
sometimes perform In pairs u kin OF
dance, or, as the sailors call II, cake
walk" Two albatrosses approach each
other, nodding and making profound
bows. cross their bills, produce snap
ping and grooming sounds, rise on their
toes, puff out their breasts and hnaliy
part with more nodding and bowling
only to come together again and repeat
the performance. Occasionally three
engage at once In this singular amuse-
ment.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-10-13
Nothing Could Tie simpler.

A scientific writer says that IL a drop
Of oil from a foul pipe be placed in the
mouth of a snake the action Is instan-
t~aneous-the reptile becomes rigid and
powerless. This will be a useful item
for a person In the bush, and the
knowledge should render him secure
from snakes. II a man sees n snake,
all he has to do is to squeeze the ami
mails jaws until It opens It's mouth,
place n drop Of oil from n pipe inside,
and while the snake Is rigid walk out
OF danger. Nothing could be simpler.