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Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-04-25
A $40, 1000 TREASURY ROBBERY.
Clever Work of Detective Revealed
the Thief.

The robbery of the sub-treasury in
Chicago recalls the fact that the
treasury department in Washington
was the victim of $4,000 theft about
80 years ago. At first, although no
reasonable explanation of how the
thing could have been done by an out
slider could be given, it was assumed
that it was the work of some one I'M
connected with the Office in which the
robbery occurred. 1t was not long.
however, before a clever detective
became acquainted with the fact that
one of the clerks who might have had
access to the bundle of bills was &C.
quainted with a professional gambler
OF shady antecedents. That discovery
solved the problem A little patient
watching resulted in catching the
gambler with the stolen notes, and
the rest was easy. The clerk was ar.
rested, and, while in confinement, was
given to understand that he was be-
trayed, whereupon he confessed the
robbery, which was accomplished by
showing the package of notes. all OF
large denominations, into a position
where they could be "snaked up'
with cane provided with a hook.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-04-25
$50 California & Ret. Salt Lake Route
In a Manner of SPEAKING.

A Scotch witness was being ex-
amined as to the sobriety of the de-
PENDANT, and, In his anxiety not to ex.
press An unfavorable opinion, had
made so many evasive answers that
both judge and counsel became exas.
perated.
Now, sir" cried the Judge. answer
the question. Was he or was he not
intoxicated"
"Aweel," said Sandy, Il wullna DENY
that he was intoxicated in a manner
O. speakin."
And pray, sir, what do you mean
by that?" roared the justice.
Il mean" Sandy replied, very calm.
ly, that he could walk straight. but
he could ma talk straight "-HArper's
Weekly.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-04-25
Her Probable Reason.

Day before yesterday, right out in
front of the hotel, here said the land
lord OF the tavern at Polkville. Ark
"a nice-looking grass widow met a fell
Ter that had been going with her some
and fired three shots at him. one Of
which tore off considerable of his
south ear as he was rapidly going
east. L was settin' on the porch at
the time, and saw it all, and
Great Scott" calculated the wash,
lng-machine agent, pricking up his
ears eagerly, unless it is a matter
that you don't care to discuss, l wish
you would tell me what, in your opin
ION, was the lady's reason for such an
act?"
Wen. | reckon" was the ingenious
reply, that she was mad at him
VI course, she mightn't have been
you can't tell much about women. YOU
lknow-but that's the way it looked to
me- Tom P. Morgan in Smart Set.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-04-25
A Cruel RELIGION.

1T Is all very WE'LL" said the lec-
turer, to say that other religions are
as good as ours. Take Mohammedap.
asm' for instance, that cruel creed.
Take the Lords prayer of Moham-
mechanism, the prayer that is repeated
daily In every Mohammedan house.
hold and mosque. This is it:
seek refuge with Allah from
Satan, the accursed. In the name OF
Allah, the Compassionate, the Mercf.
full. Oh, Lord of all Creatures oh
Allah, destroy the infidels and polvtbe.
lists, thine enemies, the enemies Of
the religionl Oh, Allah, make their
children orphans and defile their
abodes, households, and their women
and their children, and their posses.
sions, and their race, and their wealth
and their lands, as booty to the Mos.
lens. oh, Lord of all Creatures!'"
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-04-25

AS train from Washington recent
ly slowed up before the station at a
small town in Virginia the mail bag
was thrown to darby lad of perhaps
IL years, who at once started off at
brisk trot to the post Office He had
not gone more than ten yards before
a large negro boy ran into him, al
most knocking the youthful messenger
on his feet Look heah, niggah!"
exclaimed the messenger, with a
glance of Indignation, "Youse tryin' to
git in jail, amt you? Youse inter
FERN wild de United States mail. mig
gah. When yo jars me yo jars de
government Of de United States!"-
Harpers Weekly
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-04-25

run down from $50 to 125 pounds. /
was having terrible pain in the kid
neys, and the secretions passed almost
involuntarily. My left leg swelled I'M
til it was "a inches around, and the
doctor tapped it night and morning
until / could no longer stand it, and
then he advised amputation. 1 re-
fused, and began using Doan's Kidney
Pills. The swelling subsidized gradu.
ally, the urine became natural, and all
my pains and aches Disappeared /
have been we'll now for nine years
since using Doan's Kidney Pills.
For sale by all dealers. SO cents a
box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-04-25
CARAVANS OF THE DEsERr.
Gold Hunters and Consumptives Found
Travelling Side by Side.

Ever journeying across the desert
sands and climbing the arid peaks and
foothills of the far southwest are two
caravans--one seemingly rugged and
healthy, though afflicted with a dis
Ease called goldomania, the other ema-
clafed by the great white plague.
One is scarcely more optimistic
than the other; one procession seeks
gl1ttering yellow dust that means
riches, the other a more precious thing
health. Though the trail may be
long and the water holes infrequent;
though the desert sun may be blister
ing and the tongue swollen with thirst;
though the mountains may be steep
and the path strewn with cacti, there
is the glittering substance in the sand
little farther or for the argonaut; a
lease OF life at the horizon, when the
red desert sun announces the dawn of
another day, for the white plaques
victim.
TO many seeking their wonted vigor
the nope that ever carries them on
ward is sometimes as futile as the
race after the will-o' -the-wisp that lures
the argonaut.
But the procession moves on and
on; the pilgrims can not leave the
sands until the mountain air and SUN
SHINE have healed the scars made by
deaths chief ally.
The main trail of the weak-lunxed
leads from Pecos to Yuma For more
than 1000 miles prospector and plague
ridden traverse it's tortuous course.
In the caravan seeking gold nearly all
are poor. In the caravan exiled and
nghtlng for health there are rich and
poor, high and low, democratic and
iraternal in their ills and expectancy.
TO some this hope is as uncertain of
realization as the prospector's pot of
gold at the end of the rainbow. But
many who have early joined the Dill
grlms, after years of travel by day un-
DER the scorching sun and sleep by
night In the pure air of the mountain
TOP, end their allotted exile and return
10 the old home 1000 or more miles
distant
But the ranks are soon recruited
And some there are who must travel
along the great highway until the end
Ortentlmes the bones of prospeotor
ana plague-ridden are found BLEACHING |
IN the canyon. The skeleton hand OF |
one is outstretched up the hillside |
where others reach the goal--and |
gold; the bony fingers of the other |
point home.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-04-25
Fishing for Sheen.

When sheep were Introduced into
cornwall, England, flock of them
ran into the sea and were fioated by
tnelr wool. Some fishermen saw
them, and, thinking them to be a new
species of fish, made haste to try Il.
catch them with hooks and nets. Next
morning they brought home a catch
whose value was greater than anv
load their boats Lad ever CARRIED
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-04-25

says: Il had been
showing symptoms of
kidney trouble from
the time | was mus
tered out of the army,
but in all my life ]
never suffered as in
1897. Headaches, dig
illness and sleepless-
ness, first, and then
dropsy. | was weak
and helpless, having
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-04-25

The troopship of to-day revels in
luxuries compared with it's compeer
Of other days, and if the soldier now
adays grumbles to himself at his
cramped accommodation and his ships
fare, he can take comfort in the
thought that he enjoys advantages
that his brother-in-ar of the sailing
ship period never even dreamed Of
The Captain.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-04-25
SPLENDID APRIL TONIC.
Easily Prepared at Home and Harm.
less to Use.

This is known as "BIood-Cleanins
Time" especially among the older
folks, who always take something DIR
Ing this month to clean the blood of
impurities and build it up
The following is the recipe as given
by a well-known authority, and any,
one can prepare it at home:
Fluid Extract Dandelion one-balf
ounce, Compound Kargon one ounce
compound Syrup Sarsaparilla three
ounces.
Get these simple ingredients from
any good pharmacy and mix by shak-
ing well IN bottle. The dose is one
teaspoonful after meals and at bed
time
Everybody should take something 70
neip the blood, which becomes impoy-
erlsned and almost sour after the win
'er season, especially those who are
SUBJECT to Rheumatism, Catarrh. Kid.
ney and Bladder trouble.
1t is said that one weeks use of tbis
mixture will clear the skin of sores
pimples or boils.
Ih1s is sound, healthy advice, which
VIII be appreciated by many readers
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-04-25
Giving the Mail a Sendoff.

over in the little town of Wildcat
negro postmaster each day carries
the mail from the post office to the
train. Slowly he places the mail
pouch on a crane. AS the fast train
Is approaching and the arm on the
mall car extends to sweep the bag
from m1dair, the old man shouts:
hear We! Hear We. Hear ye! The
honorable mail of these United States
is about to co.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-04-25
Keep Mum.

Women, as women, are pretty much
alike. They have the same hair, diff
fering slightly only as to color and
length; same features, same thoughts.
When we love one of them, therefore,
we are in reality loving them ALL But
1T is as well not to mention this
Life.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-04-25
A New Reformation.

Are we in for new reformation
Vinet, himself an evangelical theo~
Logan, said long ago that one was
necessary and inevitable. and there
are features about the present up
heaval which remind us curiously OF
that old one of nigh four centuries
ago.-Christian World.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-04-25
WAIT FOR THIS.

Only $50 round trip to California.
via Salt Lake Route. Write for full
information to J. H. BURNER, Salt
Lake City.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-04-25
WAIT FOR THIS.

Only $50 round trip to California,
via Salt Lake Route. Write for full
information to j. II. BURNER, Salt
Lake City
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-04-25
$3O-CALIFORNIA-S3O

Round trip via Salt Lake Route.
Sale begins April Goth. Write today.
j. H. BURNER, Salt Lake City.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-04-25
Busy Hotel Elevators.

At the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in
New York it is estimated that the
trips of the elevators cover about 120
miles daily.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-04-25
$3O-CALTFORNIA-$3O

Round trip via Salt Lake Route
Sale begins April Goth. Write today
j. Fl. BURNER, Salt Lake City.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-04-25
Once in a While.

once in while some man moves
out INTO some suburb without expect
ing TO be able to raise all the yeee
eapies the family will be able to eat
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-04-25
Russian Farmers Organize.

In Russia there are agricultural or
CARNATIONS of zemstvos, through
which large quantities of farming sup
plies and machinery are produced.
$50 California & Ret Salt Lake hou'''
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-04-25
Ever Have to Listen to EN-

The Conversation Gas it Sounds
AND L says to him, | says-O, he says
well, If you think, ! says-says-
then he says he-he-I-just wait,
says-Sadie says she never-mayDe
you didn't, l says, butt know
says-1 don't care what anybody says
If he say SO he says l said-he-no
-I-I-says-s ays-says-*
Puck.
$50 California e. Ret. Salt Lake Route
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-04-25
A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
How a Veteran Was Saved the Ampu-
tation of Limb.

B. Frank Doremus, veteran, of
oosevelt avenue, Indianapolis, Ind,
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-04-25

he only is advancing in life whose
neart is getting softer, whose blood
warmer, whose brain quicker whose
spirit is entering into living peace
Ruskin.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-04-25

$50 California e Ret. Salt Lake Route
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-04-25

$50 California & Ret. Salt Lake Route.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-04-25

$50 California & Ret Salt Lake Route.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-12-26
Seldom Meet Failure.

AS cunningly and carefully as the
regular police detective follows the
dark and winding alleys of the city
in the search of clew that will lead
him to the culprit, just so carefully
does the chemical detective follow the
channels of the body in his search for
a clew to the poison or other cause
that led to the death of the victim. No
subterfuge, however cunning, can
throw these unerring sleuths of the
body off the trail. according to a
writer in the New York World. The
resources of latter-day chemistry, with
patience and perseverance, can eXtort
from the body of man long dead and
buried the secret which his destroy
ers vainly imagine went 10 the grave
with him.
No more subtle crime exists than
that OF poisoning. It's detection is pos
sibe only to the acute analytical mind
Of the scientific man who has devoted
the greater part of his life TO the study
of chemistry. It's victim is attacked
without being given a chance to es-
cape. The user OF poison is coward,
but his cowardice is accompanied by
a cunning that often proves more than
a match for the keenest old-style de-
tectives in the world.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-12-26

work. The polsoner is cunning. He
rarely uses poisuns without informing
himself of their action, and the subse-
quent traces OF them that may be
found in the body. He often learns of
other poisons that will counteract the
effect OF the first poison.
One of the first signs of morphine
poisoning is Il contraction of the pupils
of the eye. Yet one murderer was
shrewd enough To use belladonna In
the eyes of his victims to Offset the
contraction caused by the first poison
he administered.
II is tricks of that character that the
chemical detective must constantly
guard against When he begins his
analysis he matches his brains against
those of cunning, desperate man
who has taken every precaution he
can think of to hide traces of his
crime. That the chemist is successful
as often as he Is, is tribute to
science and positive proof of the
value and need of chemical depart
ment to work in constant cooperation
with the detective bureau In solving
crimes which, too often. are allowed
to so on record as msolved mysteries,
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-12-26
uarxina pstective Work.

1t is with a convenient Disguise
perhaps false mustache or beard
and a revolver in his hip pocket that
the detective starts out on his search
FOR a criminal. 1t is with a test tube
and Bunsen lamp that the chemical
detectives begins his search. perhaps
forthe same identical lawbreaker. Each
is taking desperate chances. Death
turks behind every dark corner and in
every cellarway for the first and in
deadly gases and poisons for the lat
ter. Yet by their widely divergent
paths they often arrive at the same
end.
The man who is following his clew
through the alleys and tine Railways
of the tenements is at great adyan-
tage, however, over his brother detec-
tive, the chemist. The former has
rarely TO start his investigation with
out clew of some character; the lat
Ter must begin in complete darkness,
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-12-26
Tvpicaj Poison Expert.

There is no keener tracer of poison
in this city than Prof. Charles A.
Doremus. More than six feet in
height, as straight as a gun barrel,
with gray eyes that peer out keenly
from beneath heavy brows, he is a
typical chemical detective. His pow
erful, vigorous frame bespeaks the
physical endurance necessary to pur-
sue to the very end trying and diff
cult test.
In his connection with famous pois-
oning cases in New York Prof. Dore-
mus has demonstrated great keenness
an liability. He detected anthony
and arsenic in the body of Gustav H.
Baum. DR.. Henry Meyer was convict
ed of having administered the poison.
Without the assistance of the chemical
detective it is possible that this mys-
terry would never have been solvent.
A man and woman applied one
morning at the Office of a large insur-
ance company to collect the insurance
of man, said to be the husband of
the woman. In answering the ques-
tons of the insurance officials the
couple became somewhat evasive and
embarrassed. Their confusion led to a
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-12-26

New York.--Here is a typical case
for the chemical detective-the man
who reads blood" Substituting test
tube and powerful microscope for
the ordinary detectives revolver and
handouts, this scientific expert of the
police department sets out to track
down the murderer and the poisoner.
With drop of blood, an empty
poison bottle. bloody finger mark or
a hastily scrawled note as his only
clew to work on, he exerts the whole
force of his scientific knowledge as
probe to get to the bottom of the mys-
terry or at least to find some slight
clew which may eventually lead to
solution and to the arrest of the GRIM
inal The chemical detective. owing to
his success in solving many recent
murder mysteries, is now regarded as
very important and necessary adj
jlnct of the detective bureau in New
York and other important cities. He
is the man who reads that which to
the average unscientific would be I'M
ineligible.
He subjects the bloodstained hand
kerchiefs and other garments submit
ted to him by the police and detec-
tives to certain miscroscopical and
chemical tests, considers his findings
in conjunction with every other scrap
of information his expert chemical
knowledge is able to develop about the
case, and then he reports, advising
the detectives to look for consump-
overlooking man about % years old,
dark complexion, three gold teeth, the
center one suspended from bridge.
Then follows general description of
the man, which in view of the facts
the expert chemical detective has been
able to deduce, may be considered
fairly accurate.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-12-26
stronger clews and from there to com
plete solutions of some of the most
crimes on record.
Perils That Beset the Path of the
Chemical Detective.
BY Prof. Charles A. Doremus.

The value of the expert analytical
chemist, now known as the chemical
detective, through his cooperation with
the New York police department and
detective bureaus, is greater than is
Indicated merely by his work in fer
reting out poison mysteries. His field
Of usefulness is by no means limited
to that one class of crime. Many
cases are on record where the chem
ical detective alone has been able to
unmask the most ingenious forgeries
of Wills, deeds and other papers. His
expert knowledge of the composition,
the ingredients and the nature of eX-
polsives is. relied upon to solve eX-
plosion mysteries, particularly bomb
explosions, and to furnish clews, based
on his Investigations, without which
il would often be next to impossible to
make an arrest or secure conviction.
Tremendous risks must be taken by
the chemist employed to fathom an
explosion mystery. The loss of a
limb an eye, Disagreement for life,
or even death, may follow the slight
est mshap while he is making his
tests. Yet it is risk which must
often be taken in order to throw every
possible light on the case and to de-
velop every clew, no matter how
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-12-26
SHE PAID HER FARE.
Moral: Never Go on the Car with Your
Money Hidden.

The pretty woman got in, walked
the length of the car and took IA seat
by the plain woman The car started,
and the conductor his lips puckered
in an inaudible whistle, started slowly
down the middle of the car in the trail
of the pretty woman
MY goodness" whispered the pref
ty woman to the woman who was an
utter stranger to her then, every cent
of money I've got with me is in my
stocking.."
A whisper carries a long way some.
times
Two young men right across the car
perked up their ears. So also did an
old man whose head would have been
bald if he had taken his hat off, be-
cause there was little white rim all
round just under his hat. A man who
was sitting with woman who APP
peared to be his wife tried not to
listen, while a few half-grown boys
about frying size giggled outright.
What in the world am | going to
do?' whispered the pretty woman in
a tone that would have been audible
on the corner if the car had stopped
Now the plain woman might have
said to her. why, here is my purse.
Help yourself to nickel" but she
didn't. Instead she said:
Don't you suppose you can get it,"
AT that the two young men right
across from them opened their eyes
wide and the small boys giggled some
more.
How can !, right here in front of
everybody" asked the pretty woman
You cant--er, very WELL" said the
plain woman.
Then with firm, TRANSMITTING and
hypnotic eye on the young men directly
in front of them and eventually taking
in the small giggling ones, the plain
woman said: "Ill stand up in front OF
you and surround you the best way
can while YOU take it out"
And that was what the plain woman
did.
The pretty woman was a long time
getting the money, so long that the
two young men got fldgety, the bald
headed mans bald head blushed and
the man with his wife had to look
sadly the other way out of another
window because his wife made him.
At last, however the wad was drawn
forth, and the pretty woman, very rec
in the face, paid her fare. Then al
the men sighed.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-12-26
Lonn and Careful Search.

The heart lungs, liver, kidneys,
brain and, in fact, nearly every inter
nal organ of the dead man were taken
from the body, Theoretically sealed in
jars and taken to the laboratory of
Prof. Doremus. Then began per
sistent search for poison.
There was no clew. There was moth
ing to aid the chemical detective in
his search. The entire case was q
negative one. The only course open
to him was by a process of elimina-
ton to seek the poison, If Il poison it
was, that caused the death of the man.
First he searched for the volatile
poisons, such as chloroform, ether and
prussic acid Patiently he sat for
hours at a time watching one test
after another, waiting for precipitate
that would show him trace of the
poison he was seeking. None came.
Then he tested for vegetable pois-
ons, such as morphine, strychnine,
atropne and the alkaloid poisons. The
same tedious process through which
he had gone once had to be gone
through again. And still there was no
trace of poison,
There still remained the mineral
poisons, such as lead, copper, arsenic
and anthony, And in the tests for
these was there at last reward for
the persistency of the detective. He
found arsenic in large quantities, and