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Abstracts.
Architects.
Butcher Shops.

T. C. MEAT MARKET.-Fresh meats
staple and fancy groceries.
o.. s. MEAT MARKET.-Keeps moth
ing but the best. Quality our
motto.
THE SACRAMENTO MARKET
LOT N. Main. Phone AIS. It's the
place to buy your meat
STAR MEAT MARKET.-The place
for good corn fed beed and all 9th.
er meats. 123 N. Main st. Phone
Sc.
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Blacksmith Shops.
Book Store.

INGERSOLLS BOOK SFORE.-$I.5O
Popular Copyrights. Csc all the time.
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Grain, Fuel & Hide Dealers.

ROSWELL WOOL & HIDE Cole,
us furnish you with your Grain, Coal
and wood, we buy hides, phone 90
ROSWELL TRADING CO. Coal
Hay, and Grain. Always the best
East Second St., Phone 126.
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Printing

PRINTING Cards, Posters, Com.
mercial stationery, booklets, cata-
logues.-TAe Daily Record.
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Surety Companies i.

R. H. McCune, agent U. S. Fidelity
& Guaranty Co. Bonds on short notice
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Racket

THE RACKET STORE.-Dealer in
Notions, China, graniteware and
cooking utensils.
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WOMAN'S CORPSE RIDES
ON TRAIN As PASSENGER
DIES SUDDENLY IN 5EAT BY KIN
WHO KEEP SECRET UNTIL
END OF JOURNEY. y

Prairie Du Sac Wis.-Mrs. Harry
Sawyer, former resident of this city,
was brought here for burial after a
most unusual trip. Mrs. Sawyer had
for the last ten years been living in a
little village above Anaconda, Mont,
and recently started with her son and
his wife to visit married daughter
at Kansas City. She had been trou-
bled for years with heart failure and
while on the train suffered sudden
attack, dying almost instantly. AS
there were not many passengers on
the train at the time, her death pass
ed unnoticed except to her son and
daugther-in-law. They had barely
enough money to carry them to Kan
sas City, and there being no suitable
stopping place for half days ride,
the son and his wife quickly decided
to keep the secret of the death, and
for two days travelled keeping the
knowledge of the death from the train
men. Whenever the train men were
at hand the couple would carry on
an energetic conversation as though
their mother was party to the talk.
Not for an instant did. either of the
couple leave the side of the corpse
during the long, tedious journey. At
Kansas City money was secured for
an undertaken and the body was
brought here for interment.
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REFUSED 70 BE DISCHARGED.
A Railway Brakeman Who Kept Him
SO self at Work. =. =.

In Kansas the railroads have good
deal of difficulty in providing compe-
tent men to fill vacancies in the train
crews. and other positions which do
not offer attractions that are espec: a.
lily inviting. s.. s.. Z. e Z.
d At each division terminal there Is
usually maintained a ..crew board
upon which is written in chalk twice
a day list Of conductors and brake
men available for the following IL
hours. This list Is posted by the cali
err OF some other employe familiar
with the situation, and from it men
are chosen to fill the various runs.
One day an accident happened
which caused some dismay at head
quarters for, aside from breaking up
some cars and tearing up some track,
1T shattered the plans 81 the superin-
tendent, who was about to start upon
q vacation trip.
Investigation developed that .
brakeman had forgotten to close .
switch properly and the following
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-04-03

TIED Susie and had known her and
Bob both since they were babies. Bill,
Chiles, old Sis bosom friend, sat UNI
comfortably in straight backed chair.
nervously opening and shutting his.
jackknife and occasionally reiterating
to- 81 SSimpkins q remark about the.
fine weather, to !. which 1 that much
agitated individual replied each time
with fine emphasis.
OF the little party, sister Sue al
peared the least nervous and appre-
.hensiye that is, at first blush. AS q
matter of fact, the dancing light ia
her eyes, the rosy flush upon her.
cheeks and the rise and fall Of her
bosom would have told an uncon-
cerned observer that Susie's heart
was nuttering as It never had huttered.
before :5sz
~ think he 3 stood We 81 up, sue, b 3.
said 81, junior, tantalizing as ever.
You're q derned full, ST. broke ia
his father ghe only way fer yer Is
half conceal It Is to keep your blamed
mouth shet
Now s, s. reno Nh Simp-
KIM. Not to.day Let's not have 40
xrangli
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70 Ill g =
The doorbell rang and Samuel Ho..
lowell, with an agility that belied his
years, beat Sally Williams and Ma
.Simpkins to the door. Bob MEG Cures
face shone. with happiness as he en-
tered the room. With a new-found au-
sdacity that startled Susie herself, he
walked straight up to that blushing
young lady and kissed her on eyes,
cheek and mouth. Then he shook
hands with all assembled. ..5s
The old parson arose s II. everybody
else IS ready 7 guess Bob and Sue
are, he said with smile that was in
itself q benedict ion. =...
The few words were spoken, the
bridegroom had kissed the bride, and
she was III the arms of her mother
while Bob was sha king hands and re.
.ceiving the congra tulat lions off the lit-.
tie group. when siys simpkins laid his
arm about Bob should and said
ONE out - the hall boy want
TO see you s md Bob allowed him
5haltsWonderingl
ow Bob, you've Got her and 81
Wish gu happ iness. But Re good 20
her, lad: b good Is her. spilled
her 8 leetle. me- and az, 81 shes
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used to havin' her own somewhat. B 1T
shell answer to the bit II yen only be-
q bit gentle with her at first an let
her have her head. remember hcW
It was with her ma and me. an il I'd
been 2 derned fool like SO many m,yn
and tried to git rambunc tious when ree
first got spliced, wall thar'd be 4 10
lion - and one divorces ii this county.
instid Of only million.
sZ''I will be good to her, SIR repli4a
Bob, the tears in HIS own eyes a. Ia
noticed the glisten ii the old man.s.
~ 4 always be- good to her.. Z sss.
{ And just then Samuel Hollorell
opened the door and handed tie radi-..
ant Susie over e her husband. ,ay-.
ing
'sl guess I've about earned my board
and keep ~ pulling this thing 81, even.
e some folks around here as think.
I'm IN old sponger and u deadbeat
Bob. you're q lucky man. ES557522
And s. Simpkins, II, hayins re,.ov.1
erred somewhat from his hitherto IN,
knownemotio IONS. put his arms aronnd
both IS them, draRing them Tor ether
aas M said you, ~ 4 chiIdlen.
bless YOU. Louis Republic s.
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Alumni~CIaim Governor.

Gov. Hughes is probably the most
"alumnied"' executive that ever headed
the state government Attending the
Cornell dinner the other night, he was
hailed as a son of the Ithaca institu-
ton and only week or 50 before the
Brown alumni had claimed him for
their own. But the governor if he has
any desire to qualify further may drop
in on the Colgate and even the Column
bia alumni when they dine He started
his college career at Colgate, stayed
there two years and then went to
Brown: He studied law at Columbia
and became Cornell man by occupy
ing a lecture chair there for two years.
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o it, with the result noted

train ran into it, with the result noted
above - -
The brakeman was dismissed forth
with. Six weeks later the superin-
tendent boarded freight train at a
way station on, the division and.
mounting the "dog-house'' steps in the
caboose, was much surprised to find
that same brakeman on guard.
What are you doing here? inquired
the surprised Official. 49,, So =
"Workin'," replied the culprit, with
a dismal grin.
Upon whose authority?" persisted
the superintendent. -
Aw! | amt lost no time a-tall.''
answered the brakeman.
Further questioning brought out the.
fact that the Industrious ore had
been marking UP his own name upon
the crew board and in that way was
being called regularly to 60 out ON
the run.
Asked why he had taken such
course to keep at work ahe replied:
Well, boss, my credit for grub IS
good as long as I keep busy. but phen
me pas stops me chuck stops.1'
He is worE.nx yet Kansas City
Star So
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Death valley-a country we'll known
to me from years of residence and
travel in that portion of the state. l
was to meet two men with horses and
a wagon at Mojave. They were to ac-
company me on the trip and to assist
me in every possible way to explore
and investigate the mines.
1T was mighty hot down there in
that desert country. l had started to
go down the mine in a negligee shirt
and stout overalls, but on second
thought I put on heavy brown duck
coat lined with blanket wool. The
overalls were made of the same mate
rial. then put on a pair of heavy
buckskin gloves, took my pick, got
into the rawhide tub and told the men
to lower away.
''They lowered with a vengeance
Instead of letting me down slowly.
controlling the windlass by the spokes
at each end of the rickety old affair,
they employed brake which they had
rugged up for the purpose. 1t consist
ed of a rope wound about the roller.
This, however, was not strong enough
or else it was too stiff to bend or
tighten. At any rate, it failed to give
down, down I went into the apparently
bottomless pit.
Il shouted again and again for the
men to hoist me, for I was being over
whelmed and choked by vast swarm
of bats. But instead down and down
I went. The men evidently could not
hear my cries. l held tightly to the
rope with one hand and tried to light
the candle, but the bats flew against
! my face and hands, striking their
sharp claws into my flesh. I saw I
was completely covered by the evil
. smelling and nauseating creatures.
Il was shot down until l was en-
tirely through the bat line or belt
and was still descending. Kneeling
down in the cowskin tub or bucket. I
relighted the candle. Instantly dozens
or more rattlesnakes set up their fear
full and unmistakable sound of warn
ing. say dozen, but there must
have been hundreds of the deadly rep
, tiles in that old shaft.
""As went down among the rafting,
CHASTITY mass big fellow struck from
his position OH the timber and fas-
tened his fang in my coat sleeve. I
caught him quickly by the back of
the head, tore him off and dropped
Z him down the pit. heard him strike
bottom and I, knew l was not far
above it by the promptness with which
the sound came back. Two or three
other rattlers had struck in similar
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those Ii Ills service. who from time to
time would carry there his choicest
art treasures One at least, q we'll
known fire insurance man, must have
known it---for the house and It's con-
tents were insured for thousands OF
dollars. % :S szEsf t:s.
Others who entered there were club.
men, like himself, Apostles of the I'M
usual, ever seeking new sensation;
young women ofspieasure fattered sby
the noticefof one in the front ranks of
wealth and fashion; little country
MICE" like 16-year-old Evelyn Nesbit,
whose fresh beauty gratified him in
the splendid setting provided and
whose senses were Immediately dazed
by the unwpnted, oriental luxury. Most
of the visits there were made at night.
Many Of the guests would have been
unable fafterward to find their g., way
there. Enough, it was Stanford
Whiteg domain, held beneath the spell
of his genius. How he first conceived
it, bought it, built it, threw his thick
mantle of secrecy over it, nobody
knew. 49, $3.50
Just why the house came to be dis
mantled, and when, remains a mys-
terry. Dinners were given there up to
within very few weeks before the
night of June 25., Perhaps some rumor
reached the owner;--who knows? Sc
crecy is ever on it's guard; to be Gin:
vestigated" most trying to the artistic
nature. Whatever the motives, dis
mantled it now is. The great mirrors
rudely torn from their fixtures, the
priceless Bokhara rugs bundled up in
a hurry and smuggled away. The &C.
cupants of the adjoining houses con-
tinue to go and come on their daily
rounds, with little thought of the grew
some house in their rear. What is
likely to become of it is hard to pre-
dict. Stanford White is dead; and the
veil of secrecy he drew over this, his
pet haunt, has been rent from end to
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Those Foolish Questions.

No sooner did, immortal George ap-
pear with his little Ratchet than the
man who asks foolish questions" ar
rived on the scene. .~.~~..,,s,-.~ ..~r.>
Going to do some ;cuttings?' asked
the latter y, $1,000 TX -: = z sEE.t7
Yes" replied George, losing his pa
tfence, what did you suppose was
going to- do with the Ratchet, milk a
cow ?"szss F..&:e >.-:;5,, '%.-2si if&S,$fe.
But the provoker blandly ignored
the thrust. 2 49, -
Going toscut down cherry trea?"
he chuckled. S% -
Il Yes, exploded George, but I wish
it wasn't a cherry tree ..
What kind of q tree would yos like
it to ?',> !. .z;s :. 80.
"A lemon tree, SOL could hand you
one" zz~:@7 %:: II sz4
And then the man who asks fool
ishe questions took to the tall timbers.
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floors IRE reached 81 an arrangement
OF separate Sstaircases, each of which
gives access only to one particular
floor or set Of rooms. Thus White's
friends passed up a staircase which
gave them no hint that there were any
rooms on the basement floor at all,
and, by closing a door here and open
ing another there all the doors being
operated bysa system Of secret springs,
which could he worked from key
boards on each floor known practically
to White alone visitor could be
led-straight tosany part Of the house
White wished without being taken
through any other part. But for gen
eral purposes It was the first floor
the one above the basement-that was
used as the main reception room and
for the big supper parties, like that in
which. the Pie Girl" figured. !.
Here luxury unrestrained.
Here the artist was in his own king.
dom; here was luxury lunrestrained.
There were glowing antiques in bronze
duU 4udl VIC, IoPCSCA4SS III WONDERFUL,
subdued tones; softened by centuries:
one White had pillaged himself from
an Italian shrine by paying an enor.
nous bride to the .gray-haired priest
who burned candles before it. Jeweled
chandeliers hung from the painted
ceiling-a wild riot of color blended
with consummate art-and electrical
devices that startled and enchanted
and charmed the eye. The electrician
who furnished the house tells how he
worked with the architect for solid
week on the fairy-tale scheme. 1T
cannot be DONE" was his own appalled,
objection when the plan first was un-
folded. 1--WE will do it" said Stanford
White; and no conception proved too
novel, no price too high, for his fancy
and genius to overcome. 1t was in
this room that the great white bear
skin was spread on which Evelyn Mes
bit posed for some of her best known
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LOWERED AMONG
DEADL = RATHERS

manner and had fallen short OF their
mark and gone down. IS
BY this time the sound 0; the rat
Ting had increased a hundredfOld, the
failing snakes having aroused count
less numbers of their fellows at the
bottom of the shaft. The bucket now
stopped abruptly. I was suspended
there 300 feet below the surface and
about Is feet only from the snake-int
habited bottom of the mine. Such a
rafting no one ever heard before, and
the stencil was sitting I was sick
and faint and the prospect of being
lowered helpiessly into the very midst
of this den of snakes was something
awful.
Il shook the rope in desperation. l
shouted and kept shouting and shak-
ing more and more frantica:ly. l felt
as if I were frozen, so cold had my
whole body become. 1t seemed as IL
nothing could save me from shooting
down that last paltry Is feet to a
death from which it would be abso-
lutely impossible to escape.
AT last the bucket began to ascend
slowly, slowly. 1t was maddenlng!
felt as if it would reverse and go
down at any moment lower than ever.
l crouched in the bucket and strug-
gled with all my power of will to en-
! deavor to make the men hoist faster.
The slowness with which the thing
went up almost drove me crazy. The
| ordeal had already undergone was
now repeated. | was continually be-
ing struck at by the snakes left on
the timbers l was hit time after time
so much so indeed that my duck
coat was wet ia many places with the
poison of the reptiles.
One monster about four feet long
finally got into the bucket with me.
He must have reached out too lar
when striking and fallen in. l stamp
ed my foot upon it and ground it down
and held it there; I put my weight
upon it and got him just behind the
head where he could not move to
strike His body writhed about my
ankles: his skin slipped on his body
! beneath my weight. 1t was a sicken-
| ing sensation to feel that awful, slip
perry thing under my heel.
| Il arrived in the belt of bats again
and such a mess l don't think any
man ever got into before. The cratic
winged creatures beat about met
seemed with great fury. They struck
me repeatedly on the face and once
more put out the candle. Their mouse
| like sQueaks and the rattle of the
snake beneath my feet nearly scared
me to death. l could not fight such
cloud of foes; it was all l could do to
protect myself from their Tapping
wings and blind hurting against my.
face.
AT last l could see daylight and
could make myself heard. ! shouted
to the men to hoist quickly. The two
miners did their best and soon had
me at the top or within few feet OF
it. They now discovered and l also
saw four large rattlesnakes hanging
! to the edge of the leather tub. They
had struck at me and had got their
fangs caught in the rawhide in such q
manner that they could not get away.
with the butt end Of my pick
smashed the head of the fellow l had
under my foot and then I was hoisted
to the level of the top, where crawl.
ed out of the rawhide bucket and fell
exhausted on the ground. The sun
was blistering hot, but I shivered from
head to foot and was so nauseated
that I vomited for an hour"
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pictures, and here were gorgeous rose
Du Barry portieres, curiously carved
pieces of teakwood and Japanese
furniture, rare lace curtains, screens
inlaid with ivory, and huge old cedar
chests carved deep with elephants
heads, with ivory tusks set in. Price
less rugs were on the floor, from
Khorassan and Serrebend, from Box
hara and Tabriz, and on the walls
were paintings by Rubens and Gerome
and Millais and Bourgiono.
Whites Most Private Studio.
On the floor above was a smaller
studio, fitted up with the same royal
magniflcence. This was the room with
the red velvet swing and the big Japa-
nese umbrella in the ceiling through
which the feet of the swinger crashed
when strong arms pushed her high.
Here White had his ordinary living
rooms, bedrooms and dressing-rooms.
On the floor above, reached by tiny
back stairway, Of which few indeed
knew the secret, was a studio almost
a boudoir-smaller and daintier still.
Back of this, separated by curtains of
heavy gold-crusted tapestries, was the
exquisitely furnished little bedroom
where, they tell, champagne was
poured. for those whom the king of this
palace of art most delighted to honor
with ruin =. =
Few Knew Of the Place. = .~.-:.g~..
Very few, persons ever dreamed of
the existence Of this Twepty-fourt
street Studio" Some Of these were
sWorkmen, who constructed it under
the architects own direction; others,
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WESTERN MINING EXPERT HAS
TERRIsLE EXPERIENCE IN
~ 90 CALIFORNIA. =
GOES TO EXAMINE PROPERTY
Oescends Into Forsaken Shaft Where
He Is Attacked by Bats and Rep
tiIes-serpents Hang by Fanes
to His Clothing.

Olive Roberts, we'll known all over
the Pacific slope as mining expert
was in New York recently. To friends
he met at the Herald Square hotel he
told of recent experience that is the
most thrilling of his 80 years of min
ing.
"One day last January" Mr.. Roberts
said, II received commission from a
couple of English capitalists to go to
lingo county, California, to examine
two mines and report as to their value,
condition and feasibility as properties
upon which to expend capital.
Without delay packed up camp
ing and mining outfit and was off by
way of Mojave and through the Mo-
jave desert
The mines are situated on the east
side of the Panimint range of noun
tains, facing the famous and terrible
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-04-03

The vivid spots Of color leaped to
her cheeks.
! After the letter you sent me?" she
questioned
LETTER."
Cynthia fumbled in her blouse and
drew forth crump1ed tearstained
sheet. She handed it to Paulding and
he opened it wonderingly, reading the
words through a blood-red mist:
Farewell forever. I have learned
to love another better than yourself.
and cannot, conscientiously, let you
bind yourself to me. Believe me-,
this is far best for us both. Some
day you will learn to be happier than
l could hope to make YOU
There was no address, no signature.
But the handwriting was unmistak-
ably his own For a moment he
stood, bewildered, looking first at the
girl and then back to the letter. Then,
in fash it came to him. This was
the note he had composed for Billy,
the footman. Billy could not write a
line and he, fool-like, had volunteered
to help him out of his affair de occur
with the house girl next door! But
how in the world had the note gotten
to Cynthia?
An embarrassing silence lay be-
tween them. aPaulding was divided
between an intolerable sense of rage
and modification and an inexpressible
feeling of JOY and relief
"Cynthia," he said after awhile,
chow came you by .this?"
THE postman brought it"
1T was directed to your"
"Certainly"
I'm my handwriting?'
Naturally"
Paulding pondered a second. Then:
Good Lord" he calculated, Good
Lord"
The girl looked at him with Grim
soning cheeks. Her blouse, cut low
in the neck, revealed her throat white
and palpitant.
did you ever get the letter I wrote
asking you to go with me to Parsi
fall"
She shook her head slowly back anG
| forth.
NO." she said, Il did not"
All at once, and without warning
Paulding caught her in his arms ant
kissed her vehemently on her eyes
cheeks and lips.
Il guess I must have mixed VI
those letters he explained as Gym
thia struggled away from his EN-
brace, breathing fast, her eyes starr!
through sudden mist.
Suddenly she broke into a musica
ripple of laughter and sat down weak
ly on the edge of stump.
And the house maid-did you taxi
her to Parsifal?"
BILLY became ;chicken-hearted a
the eleventh hour, I believe, ant
never sent his letter. at ALL"
Cynthia had removed the whit
duck hat from her curls and sat re
garding the narrow band of red abou
it with musing eyes. Her cheek
throbbed crimson. All at once, PaulC
| AA5 oIOoPSu anu SOI pOS0OoSloA VI uC
hands; they were trembling
Seems queer you should com
down here" he said, down here
where"
Il came" she interrupted him wit
little something between a sob an
laugh, ''just as you did-to end it a.
out there"
But you didn't" cried Pauldin
exultantly, flushing scarlet.
Nor you,'' she echoed, eluding hi
dripping arms.
II did my best" he laughed, wit
cynical face
Dear mel" exclaimed Cynthia, wv
came all round dying together to ZEN
it ALL didn't WEI"
/ There's a better way than that,
said Paulding, looking into her shi1
ing eyes, I'VE can live together il
stead. Shall we?'
She gave him her hands.
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Martin Van Buren's Letters,

DR.. Stuyvesant Fish Morris of New
York during the last year gave to the
library of congress, Washington, 100
letters addressed to or written by
Martin Van Buren,, thereby contribut-
ing all that remained in his posses
sion of the Van Buren, collection with
the exception of a few Of the more
intimate family letters which DR.. Nor.
ris wished to retain in his family.