davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-16

helpless, and as he struggled for breath
In the scant air of the mountain top.
Raymond Kelly felt the first pangs OF
suffering he had ever known.
1t was then that Jim Thompson saw,
that his friend was passing, and Bit
terly realized that he could give no
help. But Thompson is no weakling.
He is not man to give up. Lighter
than Kelly. the deadly altitude had not
touched his heart. His strength was
all he could give the dying man. BUT
he could not carry the heavy athlete
down the dangerous trail. and he had
no stimulants. There was just one
thing to do-go for help to get Kelly
to a lower level
Thompson took his own clothing on
and covered Kelly with It In his un-
derclotlles he started for the camp.
Down the trail he plunged. breasting
his way through the SHOWS by main
strength. He must get to camp. Down.
down. until the very feet grew miles.
until at last he fell into one OF the
cabins and gasped his message of
death. He had had thrilling escapes
from falling over precipices whose per-
ilous edges were overhung with snow.
He was worn out with the run. But he
made camp.
Gathering whisky. men took up the
trail. Thompson had told them that
Kelly lay at the very summit. Mrs.
'Schooley went with the rest. Thomp-
son. after lying a. one dead for. an
hour. ran back to the summit. Blink
ing lanterns hurrying here and there
told him that Kelly had not been
found. Tho men were following his
tracks in the snow.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-16
How RAYMOND Kelly tie Athlete,
Lost Ills Life Over q Cliff, and how
Mrs. Edward SchOOIGY Saved the
DOdy Tor Months Utfll the Eatflep
Could Come 6y Tt,anlplng Miles
Eacf Day to Cover II With SnoV

upturned face IL tho grave OF snow.
In the night he saw the boy = prey to
unknown assailants. But while he
dreaded storm following storm, he also
dreaded the sunshine. Weeks wore into
months and only the thought that no
must keep all OF his strength for the
effort that soon must come kept Harry
Kelly from grievlng his life away.
There has seldom been such grief as
his. Grief, as well as love. makes
heroes. and Harry Kelly is hero cf
grief
But on the mountain there came re-
spite from the storms. In the canyons
below the mining camps the snow lay
drifted across the trails. making the
foot OF old White mountain a trackless
wilderness But on the sunny side at
the summit the white sheet melted and
the Schooleys knew that Raymond Kel-
Iys body must be watched.
Then 1t was that all that was wom-
anIy IN Mrs. Schooley fose to the
heights of heroisrn. Hers became the
task of watching. hers the lonely vigil
on the great. silent mountain OF the
dead
Day by day schooley worked at his
mining claim. From his cabin he clam
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-16

He nad struggled on Tor half q mile.
Raymond Kelly was no weakling.
At the bottom of the canyon Kelly
was found. His broken body lay mo-
tionless. schooley raised his head. Ray
mond Kelly opened his eyes, saw his
friends, and knew them.
Then he smiled and closed his eyes
again. He was dead.
At midnight they buried him in the
snow.
Next day Thompson broke his way
through the snow to send the news Of
death to Harry Kelly.
Snow fell upon old White mountain
Deeper and deeper 1t grew. DO nos
try to come now Schooley wrote TO
Harry Kelly, 1.-The trails are innpass-
able" Yet Schooley got his letter out
in some way. II will come when you
send for me-" wrote back Harry Kelly,
and the keeping of his word came near
costing the father his own life.
Twice during the winter Harry Kelly
hired undertakers to attempt the trip
into the mountains. They sent their
bills, but never went beyond Independ-
ence. The white defenses OF the noun
tain were not to be scaled.
Impotent to help. Harry Kelly, at his
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-16
lz9eeyHEz1YAz, zME SA0WGR4M 0-.MY 50

so. Gene thompson said that he would
also go. and one morning the two set
out on their long tramp through deep
snow.
On the very morning Kelly left he
was cautioned against making the trip
too quickly. But caution is not IN the
makeup OF man who is e4 years old
and weighs 1875 pounds and glories in
his strength
At Independence the boys bought
their grub" They spent two days
there and; just as they left early one
morning. Ray Kelly lifted a $50 pound
weight straight up over his head and
let it down again. 1t was a compact
weight He laughed at the wonder OF
men who saw him do it. Then he took
the trail.
The snow was five feet deep along
parts of that trail The ascent was not
as easy as the descent had been. But
just at sunset the two men stood. with
their packs. at the very summit of old
White mountain, three miles from
camp. and happy.
Outlined against sky shaded from
the deepest gold to the palest hues Of
emerald and blue. the two men stood
looking at the white topped peaks that
giittered for miles and miles In the
sun. Deep, shadowed valleys were at
their feet. They stood $4,000 feet above
the world below. with whole counties
spread out like map.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-16
The @cRooLEYG GARLN
TRS ScRO0ZEYAT TIE AEvT

Kslly iay. The SHOWS had melted from
the body. and from the recsssss Of the
rocks each day she carried cool snow rOs
place upon the man who died for ths
common good.
For six weeks the woman toilsd upon
her journey day by day. Then. with
the warm sun shining upon the east
erly side of the great mountain. snow
was hard to get. for 1t had to be car
ried- a long way to the lonely grave.
and SO one morning Schooley and this
brave little heroine set out. determined
to carry the body to the north side Of
the mountain, whsrs there was whits
expanse Of snow.
Few women would have faced this
ordeal Harry Kelly tells OF that days
work with tears in his eyes. Schooley
and his wife carried ths heavy body
out of the canyon over the summit and
buried 1t in safer place under many
feet OF SNOW.
Snow fell for days. Blizzard followed
blizzard There were 90 feet OF snow
over Raymond Kelly, and the fun force
os winter was upon the mountain.
Then Mrs. Schooley's trips ceased.
But at his home far away In Santa
Barbara, Harry Kelly scanned the
papers, and with each day came news
where he knew his boy lay cold and
stiff. The months would have made
another man old before his time. But
Kelly was boarding his strength. TAX
ing gslong walks every day, he hardened
his athletic muscles He was training
for the day when the word should
come, 1T is time.
At last the SHOWS melted and Kelly
laid his plans He had tried under
taker after undertaken. for he must
take one to the summit TO care for
his dead. Finally he found young
man, fortunately a man used to the
mountains, in McDermott. Santa Bar
bara undertaken. and giving McDer-
mott the shortest route. Kelly went to
Lone Pine. in Inyo county. where he
his hour OF need.
Money could not have bought the
service that Kelly had from these men
who were strans gers to hina but who
will always remember his brave Tight
for the boy he loved Horace Alder.
said to be the best packer In Inyo
county, tramped with Kelly and the
rest-to the very summit. He took with
him "Jim," the strongest pack mule
and the most wary in all the mountain
range. The little party climbed the
mountain, where they met Schoofey
and J. b Ccntero. superintendent Of y
White mountain mine. McDermott and
his party arrived two days later. Just
Kelly reached the grave the SHOWS
had melted from around it. For two
Gays he and Schooley and Conterc and
Alder carried hundreds OF pounds of
snow In sacks to cover IL. Old Jim and
many pack horses were tethered near
by.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-16
Man and Mule

Never before did an undertaken work
IN such = place He found that ia his
fall Ray had broken the bones OF his
great chest Otherwise the boy was as
he had stood when he raised the heavy
weights at Independence on the fatal
day OF his last climb.
Old Jim stood patiently while Alder
put upon him the only pack OF it's kind
he had ever carried 1t was q heavy
burden. Well he knew what was be-
fore him. for old Jim had crept past
the edge OF many q precipice before.
and knew the dangers OF mountain
trail and a heavy pack.
Never once did the pack shift or the
old mule falter- The men had to cut
the trail before them IN places. Twenty
miles they worked. down TO the foot
OF the trail, to Whitney station on n
railway Then poor old Jim dropped
In his. tracks, his great strength gone
For two days be rested. moving never
q muscle. He had a right TO rest. Old
Jim's trip was one OF the greatest
things an animal ever aid IN the
mountains OF California
For two weeks neither Kelly nor Nc
Dermott removed a single garment
Toll, hardship. grief and danger were
all they knew. But they did their du-
ties like the men they are-str0ns men,
not afraid. undaunted. tireless. brave.
And thus II was that Raymond Kelly
came by decent grave. Through 4
woman's heroism. fathers readiness
to suffer. the bravery OF a dozen hardy
miners OF the county OF Old White
mountain. and the strength OF old Jim
the strongest and safest pack mu1o In
all California
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-16
His Only Effort

Then Kelly staggered. Grasping his
partners arm he stood for moment
and then fell His great muscles were
limp and useless. For the frst time in
his life he knew what 1t meant to he
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-16
A Mountain Giant

During last summer everybody
worked hard. Then earlier than usual
came heavy snow Last winter was
one OF the worst. ever known in the
showed tu. Then came q time when
some one must take the trail to Inde.
pendence for food. This meant taking
the up trail to the summit OF White
mountain and long down trail into
Independence. AS q matter OF course
Raymond Kelly said he would go. Was
not his strength equal to any task
that a man could DO? Kelly thought
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-03-01

by the Greater Louisville Exposition
justifies the rate to the last degree.
Not alone do the railroads offer
these excellent inducements, but all
steamboat lines making Louisville
have offered similar inducements. The
Louisville & Evansville Packet Com
pany and the Lee Line offer rate of
one and Onethird fare for the round
trip, including meals and bertn, while
the Louisville &c Cincinnati Packet
Company offer one fare for the round
trip, exclusive of meals and berth.
Thus all Kentuckians may travel
cheaply and comfortably to Louisville
during the exposition period, with sui
ficient stopover privilege to allow
them to enjoy the exposition in every
detail and transact such business as
they may have in Kentucky's metrop-
oils before expiration of their tickets.
Such zeal is being shown by the ex-
hibitOrs in the matter Of getting in
stalled before the evening of March
16 that the Board of Directors of the
Greater Louisville Exposition have an
nounced that they are Low in position
to accurately gauge tile appearance of
the great hall when President Roose-
Welt touches the button and the wheels
of the exposition are finally set in mo-
ton. Decorated with rainbow tints.
natural and artificial foliage and flow.
ers, the exposition hall is, in truth. a
dream OF beauty. Even teeming with
busy activities aud resounding with
the blows of many hammers and the
grating of saws as it is at present. it
is said by all who know that the ex-
position far supasses any previous
efforts made by Louisville to take her
important place among the great cities
Of the nation.
Kentucky and all Kent1ckians may
veil be proud Of Louisville. for She
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-03-01
The Unprotected Farmer.

Those farmers who raise winter
wheat are reported to be rushing the
balance of their crop TO market, to
benefit by the small increased price,
fearing the price will drop again. AS
wheat is protected by the tariff by a
duty of 25 cents bushel, it should ac-
cording to the Republican theory of
protection be worth 25 cents a busnel
mere than in free trade country, but
the cost in Liverpool is only just the
cost of freight. higher, which shows
that protection Goes not protect the
farmer. How long will it take the Re-
publican farmers OF the great wheat
growing states to discover this fact
and the further fact that the high
price they are raging for all they buy,
is chiefly caused by the tariff protect
ing the trusts.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-03-01
Ratified Republicans.

Some of our Republican politicians
are getting evidently ratified about
where they stand on the tariff issue.
Senator Lodge, ardent prOtectionist
that he is, has felt compelled to en-
dorse the petition to Congress of the
governor and legislature of Massachu-
sets for tariff revision. Senator
Spooner, who helped Lodge and Aldrich
to kill off the Mckinley reciprocity
treaties, has openly declared in the
Senate that he now favors tariff re-
vision. Speaker Cannon is reported to
have said that he wished ne knew the
psychological moment to revise the
tariff, evidently meaning from party
standpoint. The trouble with these
Republican politicians on the tariff is
sue is exactly the same as it was with
railroad legislation. They were friend
ly with the railroads and did not want
anti-railroad legislation to be eucated,
but public opinion was too powerful a
current to stem and they were content
to amend the bill to be the least harm
full to the corporations without appear
ing to antagonize their constituents.
These same Senators and plenty of
other Republican politicians, hate to
lose friendship they enjoy with the pro-
tected trusts, but bad as it would be to
have no trust magnate to draw on for
campaign funds, it is worse to lose,
what money will not buy, the support
of honest voters. That is why these
oppOrtunist politicians jump at the
maximum and minimum proposition of
Secretary Root The organ of the Pro-
tective Tariff League, which is support
ed by the trust magnates contributions,
favOrs the Root plan-if the minimum
rates are high enough. Thus tariff
revision bill could be passed that would
not interferewith the trust plundering,
yet at the same time he made to appear
as somewhat such revision as the over
taxed people are calling for.
The League ana its trust friends
having, thanks to President Roosevelt
for deciding not to recommend tariff
revision. won another standpat major
ity of Congress, are on easy street for
the next two years and can use their
untold millions in trying to elect an
other srandpat President and Congress.
But all this makes good many Re-
publican politicians turn some very
sharp corners and makes it decidedly
embarrassing when their constituents
demand Just how they stand apd worse
still, just how they will vote when a
tariff bill is before them that will
abolish protection TO the trusts.
Trusting Republican politicians to
really reform the tariff is leaning on
broken reed, for they are sure to give
way to the wiles OF the trusts when
the pinch comes.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-03-01
Might Try This.

The Boston Herald quotes a fruit
dealer as saying that the popular slang
expression. handed him lemon is
hurting the lemon trade. People who
formerly had no hesitancy in asking
for a lemon, says the Herald, NOW
pass on ard buy some other variety. !"
In view of this the Herald asks for
somthing new-something that will re-
lieve the lemon trade and incidentally
provide something new in the way of
slang. Because of our sympathy for
the lemon dealers, and also because of
our desire to be of service to the es-
teemed Boston Herald, we suggest the
phase, handed him some Republican
tariff revision, It conveys him the
same idea as handed him lemon. .
and at the same time is very expires
sive Of a true state of affairs.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-03-01
The Currency Bill.

The fact that Senator Aldrich is
pushing amendments to the Currency
bill through the Senate and that the
frenzied financiers, the trust mgnates
and the reilroad baronS approve it leads
to great suspicion that it will be any
thing but favorable legislation fer the
balance of us. Of course, the bankers
and the general gang Of plunderers.
whom Senator Aldrich and other Re-
publican Senators are SO friendly with.
are not getting all they want in this
bill, but they declare it is on right lines
and trust it will be strengthenedby fu-
ture Legislation. There is one feature
OF the bill that should insure its defeat.
which allows the increase from So, OOO.-
600 to 100000 of the aggregate of
national bank notes that may be with
drawn from circulation in any one
month. That will allow the Wall street
interests, when they desire to make
tight money, to- retire the national
bank notes to that extent. 1t will he
remembered the same interests have
been urging credit currency, so that the
currency could be inflated with the
power to decrease and initiate the coun-
try would come pretty near to having
the speculative markets and business
generally at their mercy and would be
able to keep up the interest rate on
money at their pleasure. The original
currency bill was passed by the House
year ago and merely provi led for ten
dollar gold certificates and the reissue
OF the silver certificates of that de.
nomination in the form of one and two
dollar bills, which was Objectionable.
But another Aldrich amendment gives
the Secretary. of the Treasury power
to deposit all of the receipts of the
government in the National banks.
without interest, which only adds to
the present scandal, whereby over
SlAO. 600. 600 of the public money is now
deposited in favored banks and has
gradually increased to that vast amount
on the claim that money would be tight
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-03-01
Railroad Accidents.

The railroads must find it cheaper to
Kill the public and their employees than
to adopt safety devices and other ex-
pensive precautions against accidents.
The report Of railroad accidents just
issued by the Interstate Commerce
Commission for the three months end
ing September 80. 1906 shows 267 killed
and 1891 injured. Accidents of other
kinds bring the total number of casual
ties up to 1850, or 1882 killed and
1876 injured. These reports deal only
with passengers and employees on duty.
The price of human life must be raised
and the railroads will soon be more
careful.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-03-01
Too Much OF A Republican.

What are we to do.with President
Roosevelt is becoming a live political
issue. Some of the trusts and corpora
lions and most of the Republican poll
tlcIans want to send him to Halifax or
Panama or any old place, but the editor
OF Virginia Democratic paper wants
the Democratic party to nominate him
on the Democratic ticket. But as long
as Teddy stands for ship-subsidy and
continuing to protect the trusts by re-
fusing to recommend tarifflreform, he
is tonuch of Republican for theDem-
ocratic party to swallow.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-03-01
"CLARIOnET
Short Notes Marking Progress and
interest of the Exposition.

Short Notes Marking Progress and
interest of the Exposition.
Louisville, it is said, is greatly tick
led over the showing made in the art
exhibit of the Greater Louisville Elk
position. There are many artists OF
merit in Louisville, both amateur and
professional, yet both classes are more
or less inclined to hide their light I'M
der q bushel, and it is only by great
persuasion; it is said, that many OF.
them are made willing to exhibit their
works in the exposition. The Veter-
ans Room in the Exposition Building
is an ideal place for an art exhibit
Sig. Giuseppe Creatore has an
nounced that in the making of his pro
grammes for the Greater Louisville
Exposition he has arranged for more
encores than at any city during lac
past season. Sig Creatore knows that
his great affectionsfor Kentucky AID
hentuckians is warmly reciprocated.
Many oldest Inhabitants have re-
called former expositions given in
Louisville, and the Greater Louisville
Exposition does not suffer any by com.
parisOn with them.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-03-01
GIUSEPPE CREATORE,

The Greatest Living Bandmaster.
Exposition Company a great sum of
money, but the result is said to more
than justify the expenditure.
The rates to Louisville, which go
into effect on Monday, March IS, on
all railroads, will be one fare for the
round trip. With Monday, March IS,
as the first selling date, the rates OBJ
tain on Thursday, 21: Saturday, %;
Monday, %; Thursday, 2S, and Satur-
day, 80, all good returning April l..
These rates have not been beaten by
any rate ever announced for any ex-
position in the history of the country,
and it is said that the interest offered
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-03-01
The Rockefeller Gift.

That $50, 600, 600 Rockefeller donation
looks like large sum until we discover
it was all stocks, a good many of which
have doubtless been watered to the
limit. Perhaps Mr.. Rockefeller has
been casting an anchor to windward
so that the public may have an interest
in his trust stocks and thus not be so
anxious to disintergate the trusts and
corporations that Mr.. Rockefeller owns
or controls.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-03-01

The business men OF Louisville stand
with outstretched hands, awaiting the
visitor from Kentucky and the visitor
from elsewhere, and the Exposition
Building will be the meeting place for
many an old friend to meet other old
friends and for kindred spirits to come
together for the first time. In fact,
there is 10 limit to the JOY and profit
which will be derived by few days
visit to Louisville during the period
OF the Greater Louisville Exposition,
March Is to so.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-03-01
The LOWEST RATES
offered For Greater Louisville
Exposition Period.
Big SHOW WILL OPEN March is
Creatore's Band With Low Rates and
National League Baseball Teams
VIII Make Louisville Kentucky's
Mecca FOR Two Weeks, Beginning
March 10 and Ending March 80.

Many persons are now counting the
days which must elapse before the
opening of the Greater Louisville Elk
position, March Is. The manufacture
ers and other business men of Louis
vile have been steadily engaged on
the big. enterprise since November 81,
last, and they now see the 'fruition of
their hopes in the exhibits which are
being daily installed in the big EXPO
sition Building.
The work of construction, which on
paper made most excellent impress
sion, is in its final completion, it is
said, far more beautiful than anything
the designers had expected. The con-
struction Of the exhibit booths cost the