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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-23
BowsER's AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
IL starts Out Wen. But as Usual Falls
Down

From the front steps where she was
waiting Mrs. Bowser could see MI.
Bowser as he dropped of the car de
came walking down the street very
stinly. He held his head high as ne
entered the gate He glanced at her
haughtily as he assembled the steps, and
ssIightIy inclined his head in recogn1-
ton. Mrs. Bowser asked for no ex-
plantations She recognized the fact
that Mr.. Bowser had one Of his fits
on. At the dinner table she spoke OF
the weather. a church social to be held
that evening and other things. but he
would not unbend- He replied yes"
and no but that was about the ex-
tent Of it After dinner. and after he
had paced the sitting room for five
minutes he said:
Mrs. Bowser, you may be wondering
II anything has happened today There
has. I received a publisher at the office
this afternoon. His object was to Sc
cure my autobiography. He has been
reading of me in the papers for the
last five years.
rs he to come over here this even
ing2" she asked
What for2"
Why. he'll want my autobiography,
too. won't he2 I have been in the pa
pers just as much as you have"
Your name. madam was not mem
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toned in the slightest. The publisher
didn't seem to remember that there was
&lch a person living"
&Oh, he didn't? Thanks to him. Well.
what OF you?'
I am to write my autobiography for
him There will be 100, 900 words, and
the pay will be 10000
You don't say. Why, that's a for
tune
Exactly. He said it was the high
est price he had ever paid for anything
OF the kind, but that he shouldn't be-
grudge the outlay"
But what is there about your auto
biography to be worth that sum-" she
recklessly queried.
Mr.. Bowser drew himself up.
He folded hfs arms.
He looked down upon her in cold dis
dain--
II didn't mean it in Just that
way" she explained
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ern railroads.

ern railroads.
The forty-nfner, when he reached
the edge of this desoIate stretch of
dr5ugnt-ridder territory, fguratively
drew a long breath and plunged across
it with something of the same feeling
of desperat ton with which a man
facing a prairie fire would dash
through the flames to the safety that
lies beyond. When the new road is
completed the porter will walk
through his Pullman and call the at
tention of travellers to the sea of
alkaIi and salt. but the traveller will
suffer no Inconvenience from making
the trip which was marked in former
days by a trail of whitening bones
and rotting wagons
over near the west line of the deseI
lie the salt beds, and here the dusty
wilderness of the landscape changes to
the sparkle of Christmas postcard.
DESPITE its rock-Iike hardness, the salt
derosit, evidently contains a-Iarge pro-
portion of moisture. for II has been OBJ
served that all ties, telegraph poles ana
other wooden objects which come In
contact with IT become moist to point
four or FIVE inches above the surface.
This is another fact in support of thu
theory that the deposit is being under
mined by a body of water, there being
scarcely enough water in the air in that
climate to keep the huge deposit moist
at all times. go
All over the deposit, since the advent
of the Western Pacific tracks, are to be
found placer claims staked out. with
the owners little notice of location fas-
tened to one OF the stakes.
Though situated higher than Great
Salt Lake, the salt deposit has no grade
in either direction. evidence tnat-it was
at one time in solution in some body of
water which evaporated that. in fact.
being the only way in which such de-
poSits USUALLY occur. Traek-lay1ng over
lob ra7
no ballasting and ne blasting except
for the telegraph poles. was a simple
and rapid operation. and the work &C
cupied a remarkably short time. It is
hoped that the Western Pacific will be
com pleted by the end of next year and
after that the tourist and the scientist
will have no difficulty in visiting and
observing this renal kable product of
natures aboratory.-Denxer Republi-
can.
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mechanics?"
'I can't say just at this moment. u
Were you asking why a wheelbar-
row had only one wheel. while a wa
I gon had four?"
Madam. do you know who you are
talking tor he asked. as he rose up.
please read the rest. didn't
mean to say anything to offend. 1t
was so singular for you to be inquir-
/ ing into the laws of mechanics at that
age that I was curious to know just
what you wanted to be informed
about"
Mr. Bowser choked over the matter
for a moment and then read on.
When he had reached the point Of be-
ing sent away to college Mrs. Bowser
interrupted again to ask:
did your father ever pay that
mortgage. or did he lose his farm 20
by the living lingo. woman, but do
you mean to insult me2
why. no; of course not I just
Il know you asked me, and I'll
have no more Of 1t. From now on you
won't hear another line of this autobi-
ogra phy-not a line I was an ass for
reading you what I have. I might
have known that you would get Off
something mean"
At that moment the doorbell rang
and Mr. Bowser, being on his feet,
answered it. He opened the door to
MS
Il was up this way and ran in to
tell you that if you can make two
hundred thousand words OF the
sketch I will pay you double" said
the man.
well. I will try to. I have just
started on the Introduction"
Good. Good! I knew you were a
hustler. And how do you like 1t as
far as you have gomez"
''I think it's splendid -
Ern
to lend my sister over on the next
street twenty dollars. Let me have it
tonight and I'll send it over to your
office in the morning"
Mr.. Bowser flushed snow-white and
then brick red
Yes: send it over in the morning
Tt couldn't do it
mo d? Then. no twenty on auto btog-
Then you get out Of here, you dead
beat youl''
When the door closed behind the
man Mr. Bowser strobe down to the
sitting room. Mrs. Bowser had laugh
ed until she had tears in her eyes
"Hai'' he exclaimed as he grabbed
up the manuscript.
"Ha.'' he shouted as he held 1t aloft
and tore il into shreds-
"Ha-hai" he almost roared as he
kicked at the cat and strobe down the
hall to clap on his hat and HE him
out into the night.-(Copyright
1907 by Homer Sprague-)
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PLAYS AND THEIR PEOPLE.

Margaret DAILY Vokes is seriously Ill at a
| sanitarium- at Birmingham, N H, where
she has been for the last six months She
is suffering from pulmonary trouble.
Adelaide Thurston. who has appear
ed in number of plays written BY
women, has prepared little list OF the
women who rehearse plays and some
of their characteristics:
Rachel Crowthers-Hard to suit. but
full of ideas
Genevieve Haines-A darling.
} Halle Erminie Rives-A terror.
L Grace Livingston Furniss-Just like
Ben Teal. only more So
Marguerite Merington = The best
+ Madeleine Lucette Ryley-Breezy.
brainy and bully.
Evelyn GreenIeaf Sutherland-As
good as William Seymour.
Rida johnson Young-A bored stage
manager
Rose Stahl. urged to accept social
invitations to functions in Chicago, re-
piled to her would-be hostess quite in
formally in this Patricia patois:
You are very good to me, but j
can't 60 1 lust can't It's me to the
straw every night Be dear and try
to understand that 1 need the rest. I
pour all there is of myself into Pa
tricia O'Brien every performance
Honest. do. If scatter my energies,
can't do good work By so much as
L l.
Patricia and rob my audiences I new
er go to, restaurants. and L believe. my
dear, good friend. the public likes me
a little better for that fact. 1t wouldn't
like me a bit better if it got used to
seeing me fade away over a lobster
No one has ever seen me. nor, please
God and my. sanity. will they ever,
gather myself and my wraps togeth er
after a midnight supper, and look like
a procession that was tired and didn't
want move
Miss Julia Marlowe will devote but
fifteen weeks of the present season to
the stage. She does not plan to resuTus
professional activity until January.
Miss Marlowe will appear in her Shake
spearean repertory ard will also revive
Jean dare and When Knighthood
Was in Flower" Frederick Lewis, who
was identified with the Sothern-M Mar
lowe forces last season, will play the
roles assumed by Mr.. Sothern.
Both play brokers as we'll as individ-
ual actors are making a great rush for
the plays in which Richard Mansfield
was successful. 1t is expected that
Beau Brummel,' THE Partisan Ro-
nance and others of the successful
stock companies will bring very large
sums, and the contest between the vari-
Gus aspirants will probably be a warm
one.
At one time Julia Arthur. who is now
the wife of 3. P. Cheney ore of the di-
rectors of the Atchison, Topeka & San
ia F>e Railway company and has retired
from the stage, was playing the part of
Eliza in Uncle Toms Cabin" with
Louis James as Uncle Tom Miss Ar
thur used at first a rubber doll for
Eliza's baby, but the manager wishing
to be more realistic, decided to get a
real negro child The child was brought
70 Arr6 hC-
fore she was going on the stage. Louis
James seized the chance to interpolate
the question: That your baby. EHza?"
which, upon Miss Arthur being forced
to respond. Yes, Uncle Tom,' he took
the child. who was of large proportions
and. tossing her up, said: My God,
Eliza, how that child has growed since
last night" --...-..14sf a4..-
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That's twice IN two weetrs the preacher
took the text All liars shall have their
portion in the lake that burneth with fire.
ard birthstone"
The old deacon looked solemn Then he
reached hard over ard said:
'tPiII cd boy let's you an me quit the
fishin' busfnessr-Atlanta Constitution
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" EICE Oh THE CITY CLERK
Topeka. Kan. Semi n 1a.Y-

-To7,eI-, r-.l. ?. ~ NLEfth.
Sealed proposals will be received At this
onlee until . O'Clock D. m, Monday. Sep
tetioer SDth, 1907, for furnishing ali ma
I ferlal ana the cons truction of drain on
locust street from 4th street to 6th ave-
T aye as per plans and specifications on
LIE IN the Office of the city engineer.
All work to be done under the instrue-
tons OF the city engineer
,rI1oposaIs should be addressed to the city
SIerk ENDORSED proposals for building
draln- A certified check for $50 PAYABLE
70 Inc city of Topeka. must accompanv
edch Dld as guarantee that he will en ter
INTO the contract if awarded to him with
IN i've days after the award shall he
made. A NS
The mayor and council reserve the
right to reject any or all bids
ISeaL1 G. B. BURGE. CITY Clerk
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Bacon-My wife is going to take up the
study Of two new languages
Egbert-Why, she speaks four different
languages now. doesn't she?
Boacon-Yes but she has Overworked
rhose-Yonkers Statesman.
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The annual meeting of the stockholders
OF the St Louis, Kansas City and Colo
Iado Esailroad company, will be held at
dAe oHlce OF the company in the city OF
l1opeka, county Of Shawnee, and state Of
Kansas, on Thursday. October 3rd 1907
az ~ CLOCK a M, for the election OF df-
rectors OF said company IN conformity
Win Iss bylaws and for the transaction
come before said meeting.
Gro = l. MINCIIELL- President
GEO H CROSBY, Secretary.
Ii Hst published IN The Topeka State
Journal Sept. p. 1901
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LEGAL
sToCKHoLDERs' MEETING.

First published in The Topeka State
Journal Sept. p, 1901
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FOR sAEE--REAL= ESTATE

FOR SALE-New room cottage, lots,
2401 Fillmore, blocks from car line.
WILSON, AIS Kansas Ave
Ind. phone f594.
FOR SALES room modern house, 80 #
front. 3 bioClzse from estate house, good
repair. Owner 1fG Kansas ave.
MOFFITT, SHILLINGLAW & co.
REAL ESTATE. LOANS. RENTAL
AGENTS.
206 WEST SIXTH ST.
BOTH PHONES 1855 TOPEKA, KAN.
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s4IsE&GaSE
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

" CONSULTATIONS
w ANTED-Position by young lady book
references given. Ind phone 515
WANT ED-Employnent by Washburn
student all day Saturday and from
three to six on all days but Wednesday,.
Norton Mohler. Il21 N. Quincy.
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Margaret DAILY vokes is seriously Ill at a
sanitariunl- al Birmingham, N H, where
she has been for the last six months. She
is suffering from pulmonary trouble.
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WALNUT PARK SUBDIVISION.
EAST OF SHOPS

Until October Ist we offer few choice
lots in This beautiful addition on the pay
IntEt plan, 500 down, S2.e0 per month
NO interest. no taxes immediate posses
sion given.
COLE & ANDEDRSOE.
md phone 37T1. -
RENTAL bargain, roer7l house, close in,
rents so want offer. Sheldon Realty
Co., So Kansas ave.
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FOR RENT OR SALE-Homes in Oak
land P. c. Moore, corner of Wabash
and Indiana ave, Oakland.
FOR SALE OR TRADE-For small place
in country 127 Holman St, n. Topeka
FOR SALE-Refinquishm to good 100
near Lakin, Kearney Co., would trade
for lots OF part good rental property.
Address L. w. care Journal
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WANTED-2 good health and accident So
Iicitors II c ty. See our plan. Pays for
all kinds CT disease. rheumatism, paraIy-
sis, scia tea, etc. Big contract to produce
ers. n. d rpbell. 665s Kansas ave-
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-11-11
PLANK SPROUT
IN ELY CITY
Public Invited to Watch Trees Grow
TOday.--LOts of Features For
Pleasure of Visitors.

If today is companion piece for
the last few that have been had and
the sunshine shines as brightly, there
ought to be Il general stampede to
Ely City. its board walks, forests.
parks and pleasure lakes. Every
body should turn out on Sundays. in
fact. and enjoy the avenues and the
delights of the climate of Ely City.
advertised today by Landlord Kline
of the Steptoe as the greatest health
resort of the age.
From the broad cement walks of
Ely City the folks from its less ad-
vantageously situated suburbs can
look down upon their homes in the
gulches and valleys and smile happy
contempt upon the smoke lowering
over their dwellings, draw in deep
breaths of the pure air of Ely City
and feel glad of existence in an at
mosphere that has crystal distanced
for clearance and which is the real
blown in the bottle brand elixir of
life.
Beside the splendid view that is af-
forded from Ely City. certain of the
residents being known to watch from
their verandas the work of employees
at mining properties on this side of
the mountains at the lower end of
the valley. from 90 TO 10 miles dis
tant. detecting unerringly every mis-
stroke of pick. there is a great deal
in the city now that appeals for adj
miration and gives at the same time
occasion for wonder.
The trees recently put ont are the
most interesting in these respects. \
reliable gentleman who has had an
eye and a tape line on these trees
every day since they were put out. the
first entering the ground on Tuesday
last, is authority for the undoubtedly
correct information that on the first
two days they We're in the ground
growth of one foot q day occurred.
The last two DAYS this growth has eX-
banded TO three feet day and it IS
expected that as a result of irrigation
Yesterday they will make growth to-
day of not less than three or four
feet each. At noon, when the sun is
most agreeable. these trees can he
seen reaching up into its glad warmth,
leaps of as high as a foot at a time
being not uncommon in the einting
sunlight Which reminds once more
that today is Sunday and that a stroll
over to Ely City will give both recre-
alton in keeping with the spirit of the
day and pleasure of interesting and
instructive kind. Come and see the
trees grow and the board walks
sprouting from the roots. Over a
mile and a half of planks came up
on one day last week. and half mile
more were beginning to show at
grass roots last evening. BE sure
and go and take all the family. The
air will do 'em good. and if You are
troubled with an appetite yam wont
have to get out an injunction against
it. The Steptoe is there.
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Assessment work is progressing
briskly in all parts of the district.
Less than eight weeks of the year
remain and the festive claim Jump
er has an eye open for any choice
ground on which the work remains
undone on January /. Below is a
partial list of property owners who
do not propose to be caught mapping:
A. A. Marshall has finished the work
on his Pine Nut group. Morris Rob
erts is putting in the week on the
ground south of the Ely Consoli-
dated. Sam Roberts and Jack Berry
have developed some good gold leads
while doing assessment work on their
Senator Morgan group. Jack Akin
is winding up the work on his gold
copper claims just north of town A.
n. Stevens and Bill Rowley are start
ing the assessments on the Snowy
Defenders south of Ely. ]. A. Har-
ris is doing the work on two claims
of Dan Mcdonald The London, Co
pher, Concentrator and Contact
groups have been worked by Rad
ford and Cronin. o. e. Mann and
Doc. Lemon have finished the work
on their Lost Key mine, close to the
Keystone. Will Roberts is finishing
the work on the Saltwater group,
during the progress of which he has
encountered some good sulphides
Work on the Grape mine in lower
Robinson canyon will be started in
the near future by o. e. Mann. The
Kansas City people who control the
Nest Egg Gold & Copper company
are having the assessment work done
on their property south of the /
Giroux. North of the Giroux Harry
DeBorcey is putting down a shaft to I
develop the property of the Sulphide |
Copper company. DR.. Kinsman has
finished the assessment work on his
claims just south of the Revenue
Copper company's holdings Mining
Record
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shipment that averaged $3.50 to the
sack. From the first shipment of
the original discovery returns of So
996 were received from nineteen
sacks, or at the rate of 1925 a sack.
There is nothing in the way of lots
or locations for sale in the district,
as the people have adopted the idea
of leasing instead of selling. The
promoters want to see the camp de-
veloped, as they own the townsite
and everything within radius of
two miles. The location is good, but
the price of fire wood is $50 a cord,
as it has to be hauled twenty-five
miles. Water sells for $3.50 bar
rel after it has been hauled twelve
miles. Aside from these considera-
tions, living is cheap, meals costing
only so cents, and a good clean cot
81 a night.
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BANKERS ARE WELL PLEASED
Continued from page one.)

has been most gratifying and certain
ly highly complimentary to those in
whose hands the financial interests of
the district rest at least so far as
the banking business is concerned.
1t was said last night that matters
were steadily getting in better shape
on the outside but that as yet it
could not be stated with any degree
of accuracy when the banks would be
able to return to regular business
rules. Meantime everybody is get
ting along very comfortably.
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Y. II. KLINE OWNED LOTS HERE
Goldfield Man Who Went Wrong With
Fatal Result Was Well
Known Here.

Y. r. Kline, who was shot through
the head with fatal result while at
to rob the Goldfield Reduc-
ton Works at Goldfield Thursday
night, is well known in Ely. He
owned considerable real estate in
town, among this being lots on the
west side of hurry street, where the
Hoff & Caldwell building stands, to
the corner of High streets.
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RAWHIDE RUNS $500 a SACK.
Reports of Marvellous Finds Are
Confirmed by Goldfeld Man.

That financial conditions and the
drop in metal prices are having the
effect of eentering interest in gold
camps is shown by the excitement at
Seven Troughs and by the rapid
growth of such new camps as Gold
Circle and Rawhide. A Goldfield
man known as "Ragtime" Kelly, who
has just returned from Rawhide, con-
firms the reports of marvellous dis
coveries which have come from that
district.
Mr.. Kelly says that the Murray
lease is working rich seams that run
all the way from $4,000 to SIS, 900
ton, with the record of making a
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DISTRICT IN
GOOD FORM

Confined From Page One.)
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Kelly says the best way to go in
is via Schurz, where an automobile
line has been established, and the
Indian teamsters are always ready
to haul passengers at from $3.50 to
$3.50 per head. The road from
Schurz, for passenger teams, is only
twenty-three miles, but freighters
have to go around the hill, making
the distance twenty miles longer.
From Luning il is fifteen miles
across.
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Sacred Heart Church.

There will be no services in the
Sacred Heart church today ON ac-
count of the absence of Rev. Father
Sheehan. who is in Salt Lake visiting
Bishop Scanlon.
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RAILROAD COMMISSION COMING

Judge S. d. Crump returned from
the western part of the state Friday
night He reports that the State
Railway commission will be here on
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CHURCH SERVICES.


st. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church.
Services will be held in Good Times
Hall today as follows: Sunday school,
9:45 a. m; morning prayer and SER
mon, / a. M; evening prayer and
sermon, 1880 p. m. All cordially in
vited to attend these services. Miss
Edith Rowe will sing a solo at the
morning service entitled, 80, Eyes
That Are Weary" and in the evening
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-11-11

An extra car has been carried on
the morning train for the last two
days for the purpose, it is stated, of
accommodating the Greeks who are
leaving the district.
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John Rafferty,, Sr., who for a num-
Der of years resided in Reno, died in
San Francisco last Sunday. Rafferty,
owned considerable property in Reno
and moved to San Francisco a short
time previous to the earthquake. De-
ceased was a native of Ireland, aged
about 81 years.
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ing over the mines of this section. left
for Denver yesterday morning. He
expressed himself as highly pleased
with the entire district.
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DIR. K. H. Richardson will com.
mence doing the assessment work or
his placer claims north of town Mex
wick.
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The Women's Guild will meet with
Mrs. G. T. Boreman next Wednesday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
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the 9th to hear the Nevada Northern
case. The commission will hold a
special meeting at this point for the
purpose
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Wonen's Guild.

the quartet will sing, 'Who Is Like
Unto Thee"