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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-05-23

"Weft, I am not surprised. Some Of
these menus are abominably written.
|-fonkers Statesman.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-11-15

ond shanty in the street. It was from an uncurtained south opening in the first.
 "You see thatT' asked Lounsbury. "Well, I'm going over there to look in. How do we know he hasn't given us the slip some way9"
 Let's be careful" said the lieuten- attn. "A proper amount of caution isn't cowardice. If you're seen the whole pack'll set on you"
 T will be careful, but Pm not going to-
 That's all very nice, only you must consider the stripe of man you're deal ing with
 q can roll gun, Fraser"
 "But, Jupiter! This chap isn't going to fight you in the open. He'll use h. dian tactics--fact is, he was raised among 'em."
 "What's thatT' asked Lounsbury.
 Raised among 'em, I said-with the Sioux"
 Speaks tue tongue. then?" For some reason the storckeeper seemed strange ly agitated.
 "Why, yes" x
 At that Lounsbury was off, making straight for the entrance of the build ing they had been watching.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-11-15

!Tobs ContinusdI.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-11-15
CHAPTER xI.

1RASER'S shot drew many eyes
 to the river--for in the win. s ter time any occurrence, SI hoxvayor trif7;no co,,ld eot in.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-11-15

''I know that's so."
 "Of course I shan't see dcfcnseless women suffer-
 Lounsbury was piqued. Not alto gether defenseless. colonel. But can't stay at the shsck"-
 "True, true. Why not ask Mrs. Mar tin. Major Appleton's sister. to go over? Then you might guard from the barn. If they have one"
 That's a splendid suggestion, sir. It would solve the difficulty"
 "rd be glad to speak to Mrs. Martin about 1t" He thought a moment. pass ing hand over his clean shaven face. You'd have to he relieved even then. John. 1 should think"
 Not at all"
 But you might. Tn that case He drew Lounsbury close and spoke with his lips in the storekeeper's ear. But you understand" he said aloud as he concluded, that krow nothing about 1t. If I hear of it I shall be very dis pleased-very."
 Lounsbury was wringing his hand and ready to bolt
 ~AII the same. John. wish the civil authorities could get at the man"
 q wish so too" He leaned over Jamieson-
 Good Iuckr' said Colonel Cummings, going back to his maps
 Thank you"
 And just at that moment as Louns- bury swung round on his heel there rang out from the river a single pistol shot It echoed sharply against the barracks and went dying away upon the bluffs
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-07
PIANO WAR is NOW ON
At the Great Retiring Sale of the Per
field Piano Co.'S. Stock of High
Grade Pianos
War on Prices, War on Terms, War on
Commissions, Out of the Retail and
Into the Wholesale Business
1911 Farnam ST., Omaha

We are declaring war on prices and all
other abuses In the piano trade that the
buying public has to pay. Did you ever
consider If your friends get a commission
when you buy a plano that you are the
one who pays It? Well, you are. In the
place OF giving you" things that you are
paying for, we are going to cut in two the
price of the piano for you. Don't this
look better than giving 1t to your sup
posed friends? You, not your neighbor,
will be the one benefited.
Let us say for your benefit, Mr. Piano
Purchaser that we are giving the people
of Omaha the greatest chance to buy a
high grade piano ever offered them, and
our reason is that we are going out Of the
retail business and must offer these
pianos at prices TO sell them quickly, We
are doing II, too, Notwithstanding the un-
kind onslaught made by our brothers on
them shudder at what we will do next
Look at these prices on such well
known makes, both new and used, as
Smith & Nixon, Ebersole, Haines Bros,
ArmStrSo5ng' Knabs, Kitm6ali IL BrewSSster,
tS9S for new uprights and from $40 up on
squares and used uprights. II you are
Bkeptical call on any other dealer get
his lowest prices, then come to us, and If
same grade for 500 less money, we don't
want TO sell you for we can do II, and Mr..
Dealer knows II. That is why he is Of
fering all kinds of bats to keep you from
coming here to see what you can buy a
first-class plano for We are having a
most successful sale and selling many
pianos daily, and 1t Is up TO you TO call
and let as show you what we can do. Re
this sale viii not last much longer; SO
call day or evening, at 1911 Farnam St.,
Omaha.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-07
Lace Curtains

Brass Extension Rods with solid inner tube extends
from 20 to AZ inches with brackets complete, Mon
day special. each. 80
Rattan Carpet Bsatsrs, worth 15c, Monday special
each 10
Ooploto Line Of 6hirtWaist in all sizes; gem
uine red cedar hard pine covered with burlap,
mating figured cretonnes in all colOrs each at
$40 1915. 3i75, ss.bO, $500 and. .&2So
beautiful New LINE Nottingham Lace Curtains In
day, each ...--...'''.' 1So
Colored and white irish Point, Arabian ana Pine
Nottingham Curtains, worth up TO 81 pair, Nom
day, each .p4sSo
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-01-26

Growers Association at their meeting
held in Boise last week, and, coming
from so large body of men interested
in the material progress of the state, it
is to be inferred that the people of the
southern part of the state are suffering
quite as much from the domineering of
government bureau attaches as are the
people in the mining districts in the
north. 1t has long been the opinion of
the people in this part of Idaho that
their brothers in the south dwelt in the
sunshine of peace and harmony upon
their ranches and never were harassed
and had their disposition ruff1ed by the
bureau attache whose duty it appears
to be to report to the head Office of
Uncle Sans national park board for
every blade of grass and every drop of
water that is taken from natures store
house by the individual in this part of
the national domain.
Aside from It's news value, the resolu-
ton adopted by the wool growers asso-
citation will strike sympathetic chord
in the north, but, like many other ere
solves" that have been made on the
subject here in Idaho and elsewhere, it
will not have the desired effect in the
quarters which alone can give relief.
The principle of forestry reserve is a
good one, but the government of them
has always been through rulings of the
department rather than by adherence to
fixed law. 1t is the domineering of the
officials and the looting of the public
domain by corporations in the past, and
the probability of graft in the future,
that has caused most of the contempt
for the forestry reserve policy.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-01-26

evil doer did not measure up to the pen
atty prescribed by the law.
One way to keep the name of state
free FROM the odium that attaches to
mob violence is for the state to set no
higher penalty for crime than it will
enforce. In other words, enforce the
law as it is written, then people who
want the law respected cannot be dis
appointed.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-01-26
WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT 1T.


When you come to think about ton
this old terrestrial ball,
Rimmed with roses inthe springtime,
heaped with fruitagein the fall;
Though we all were born a-growlin =
though we're axle-deep in doubt,
There is really very little for the world
to growl about.
When you come to think about it
did your growlin' ever pay?
Did it ever bend rainbow chase a
thunder cloud away?
Don't it deafen all the angels when
they try to sing an shout?
Don't they know that there's but little
in the world to growl about?
Atlanta Constitution,
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-01-26
CAUSES OF MOB VIOLENCE.

At Charles City, Iowa, a mob broke
into the Jail and, taking out man who
had murdered his wife and son, hanged
him to railway bridge. The reason
given for the outbreak of mob violence
is that there had been miscarriage of
justice in the case of another wife muir
derer in that vicinity. The murder in
that case was most brutal in the ex-
IRENE, but, after the murderer had
been sentenced to hang, he was granted
reprieve. Later another reprieve was
given, and then his sentence was COM
muted to life Imprisonment. The facts
were familiar to the people of Charles
City, and when this latter murder was
committed, they determined that justice
should be meted out without ceremony.
If the unlawful procedure had taken
place in some parts of the United States
it would have attracted no more than
passing notice, but since the crime oc-
Cured in Iowa, a state practically free
from the contagion of lynch law, some
good reason must have been back of the
deed. In searching for cause for lynch
ings in the northern states it is becom-
ing more and more apparent to those
who are interested to know that the
outrage is due to the disappointment
that comes to the people in the failure
of those in power to make the penalty
fit the crime This must have been the
case in the Iowa affair. The state has
law that calls for capital punishment
to those who are found guilty of murder
in the first degree. Both the murders
in the vicinity of Charles City had been
of the most cruel kind. 1t appeared to
the public mind that the first murderer
deserved nothing less than the extreme
penalty of the law. They had in mind
the long delay incident to the trial of
such cases, and the disappointment over
the defeat of justice in former case
with which they were so thoroughly
familiar was given expression by their
taking the case into their own hands.
To many people, no doubt, the Iowa
lynching will be accepted as proof that
the masses have more respect for the
law than do those who are given the
power to enforce it. In other criminal
cases it is often pointed out that the
law is violated more and held in less
regard by those in authority than it is
by the humble citizen in the lower
walks of life. That question is entitled
to no consideration in ascertaining the
cause and prescribing cure for mob
violence. Each individual case is to be
considered by itself, and in so doing it is
almost always found that mob violence
is traceable to similar instance of the
past where the justice melted out to the
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-01-26
DEVELOPING A STATE.

House Bill No. q" is a bill intro
duced in the house in the present legis-
lature at Boise, by Hon. James Sur
ridge of this county, in which an ap-
preparation of $40, 900 is asked of the
state, to be used in improving the pres
ent wagon road between Sites and Elk
City, The bill provides that the sum
appropriated by the state shall be used
with an equal sum to be appropriated
by Idaho county The bill names May
1, of this year, as the date on which
work on the road is to be started.
When this bill comes up for discussion
in the house Idaho county's delegation
in that body will be on the side of a
cause that ought to enlist the hearty
support of every member who wishes to
take part in any and all acts of legis
lation that will make for the develop
ment of the natural resources of Idaho
and the material advancement of the
interests of the state. The subject is
one that will require no verbose langu-
age and no oratory. A simple, business
statement of the facts and conditions
will suffice, if the members of the state
legislature will exercise the faculty for
far-sightedness that they are supposed
to possess. This district has as good
considered by many people better)
prospects as any mineral district in the
west of becoming, in the near future, a
heavy producer of the precious metals,
and, therefore, one of the most valu-
able contributors to the wealth of the
state. Already the investments in the
district aggregate several millions of
dollars. Apparently the only quicken
ing influence needed is better transport
tation facilities. This can be furnished,
in part, at least, by an improvement of
the wagon road we have now.
1t is fact that does not admit sue
cessful contradiction, that practically
all of the wealth that has been pro-
duced in northern Idaho in the past has
come from the mines. 1t is equally
certain that great majority of the
wealth and prosperity that is to be en-
joyed by its people in the future will
come from the mines Where, then,
(the question can be asked with a great
deal'of pride) can the state of Idaho in
making appropriations for public high
ways expend the money where there is
stronger indication of return than on a
highway that is to be used by one of
the richest of its mining districts.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-01-26
AGAINST FORESTRY RESERVE

"Resolved, That it is the sense of
this association that we indorse and up
hold the hands of Senator Hepburn in
the course he has pursued against the
creation of forest reserves in Idaho and
the policies thereof, and that we extend
to him a vote of confidence for the stand
he has taken in behalf of the people of
Idaho on this question.
Resolved, That we condemn the
forest reserve policy of the govern
ment.
The above is part of the resolutions
adopted by the Southern Idaho Wool
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-03
ANIMALS 0F WORLD.
TO DE BROUGHT TOGETHER IN HUGE CALIFORNIA PREsERvE.
Creatures from the Four Corners of the World Are to Form . Unique Menagerie of the
 Universe.

A gigantic menagerie of the uni verse is proposed for southern Califor- aia. The plan as now outlined by the promoter, Maj F. R. Burnham, we'll known officer of the Boer war who is now making his home at Pasadena, and who has the Endorsement of Pres ident Roosevelt, 1t is said. calls for the outlay of $5O0.000 for animals alone. These will be bought in Africa and Asia--for it is considered by men who have shot over both of these countries that their big game is the most rapidly disappearing of all the worlds avifauna.
 Thousands of acres of mountain land useless for grazing, ranching or mining, will be bought or leased, ana thereupon these imported animals will be released, to multiply and replenish a land which is very much like that from which they have been taken.
 Around the central portion of all this handsome TOO acres, or there abouts-a strong woven iron fence will be erected, and in this inclosure for the first few months the animals will be kept At the end of this time it is thought they will be sufficiently
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-03
BASKETBALL.
Big Game For Championship On This Evening.
.25 WEST MAIN ST.,

0tCIk1A6s
 New Britain, April S,--An inn portant event in basketball circles is the championship game that will be played at Hanna's armory tonight between the crack Delphis of Bristol land the strong Winsted five. who at present claim the championship of New England. The Delphis. by de- feating the Crescents of New Jersey, at Waterbury, year ago Good Fri day. won professional championship honors and Wednesday nights strug- gle will be fast and furious from the start.
 Winsted has played mostly ama- teur games at home, while the Del phis are ont and ont professionals, as the fans at Bristol claim the anna teur game lulls them to sleep. Only one other place. at Fitchburg, Mass are professional rules enforced. as the players themselves admit that a season Of such hard gruelling work makes them practically physical wrecks.
 In order to decide the much mooted question of supremacy, series oi three games. the first amateur, the second professional. and the decid. ing one, if necessary, with halves oi both amateur and professional wal arranged between the Bristol Del. phis and the Winsteds. Each team shdwed up strong at their special style, the Winsteds running away withl the amateur game and Bristo repeSted the performance, infictins a severe drubbing to the Winsteds under professional style.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-03

acclimated and accustomed to their new quarters that they can be turned loose with perfect safety.
 No carnivorous animal will be inn ported, and the state legislature will be asked to pass very stringent laws regarding the killing of these antelope and deer and other animals as they roam the southern California hills. The fenced park mentioned above Will be bought outright, even though the remainder of the property be leased. and therein will be maintained sort of breeding ground for the more timid of the kindred of the wild.
 Here big barns and many sheltered yet secluded places will be provided for the delicate antelope and other members of the deer tribe for whom even the delicate winters of the Land of Sunshine are too severe. Young of other animals will be brought up here. aud in way accustomed to the sight of man--for there are some O. the creatures to be brought over here which cannot be hunted and are for ornament only. Some of these are the zebra and the rare quagga, as well as the gnus. which are the probable originals of the fabled unicorn.
 For at least a score of years the most stringent care will be taken of these animals Every forest ranger will be their guardian. and the heavy fines imposed for their killing vii! be split with informers so as to forbid the escape of anyone who takes the life of the least of them until the "open season" on their numbers comes.
 When the period for which they are to be protected comes it is planned to have the finest game preserve in the world. where can be done hunting which. in Asia or in Africa, will long since have become but memory. It is even proposed. if the importation of the smaller beasts of the Old World is a thoroughgoing success, to try to bring in at least a pair of elephants.
 
 which are among the most rapidly disappearing of the worlds big game. No rhinoce-oses will be imported. owing to their bad habit of attacking people who are not in the least mo testing them.
 The fact that large herd of camels which were introduced on the south western desert some years ago did re- markably well has had large infiu- ence in determining the selection of a place for the location of this gigantic preserve. At first it was proposed that lands in the Panhandle of Texas or in i Oklahoma be taken, but a considera- ton of the camel question changed the whole aspect of affairs. and Cali. fornia was at once selected
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-03
POL
GAVE THEM
 THE LEMON Bridgeport Handed a Bitter Fruit Last Evening Hartford Beat
 Wallingford.

It really looked like Bridgeport for a time last evening, but the locals were out to win, and, though some of our players, or one at least ap- peared to be out of condition, or in bad condition, we pulled the game out of the fire by small margin. After we had commanding lead however we came pretty close to losing it and only the ending of the playing time saved us, for Bridgeport commenced to go fast, just before the time for ringing the bell. It was not what you would call fast game. although there were few spurts that awOke the fans to applause. Cunningham did the first trick and the only one for either side in the first period, af ter the teams had been battling some thing over eleven minutes. He ac- cOmplished the same thing in the sec ond period in less than two minutes But they are loyal in this city and when Loyson had duplicated the feat of Cunningham in exactly the same time the roofing commenced in earn est. Pierce dashed our hopes to the ground when he made the third goal for the visitors about four minutes later. Then Waterbury awoke to the occasion and before the second ses- sion had ended LoXson whipped the sphere behind Harper three times and we took the lead and were never head ed. McGilvray took a hand in the scoring in the third period and in less than four minutes he had smashed the ball into the cage twice. We look. ed like sure winners, but Bridgeport is never beaten until the bell rings and after hard fight around the rink for something over ten minutes
 Pierce banged in another for his team
 and one minute later Griffith did the
 same. Everybody then watched the timekeeper as his hand slowly moved toward the bell and when it rang
 with our boys leading by one, sigh of relief went up that could be heard down in Bridgeport The lineup and summary:
 | Waterbury. Brldgeport | Loyson ~ .... Cunningham
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-03
BASEBALL NOTES.

The trade for Schincel has been made but the former Holyoker is threatening to jump.
 - Joe Connor is doing good work for Montreal in the games with Rich mond and the Waterbury boy expects shIs will be his best season.
 No matter what Jerry Denny may say about that purchase of the New Haven team. there are those who claim to be on the inside who say the team has been bought for the New York Nationals for farming pur- poses. Time will tell.
 Harry Durant will be a fixture w5th the local team again this year and the fans are accordingly happy. It would be a mistake to let him go to another field for he has made good end uill do better this year than ever
 Red Rorty vill be in good condi- don 10 take up his duties in the Hasfern league ss umpire. His work dn the polo surface has trained him aovn 10 the proper weight. What a riash there vili be In that league ~hen the red one gives some of the k1ckers the bench. which he certain H viIi do-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-03
Amateur League Standing.
POLO WHITES.

No more games this week.
 It wasn't fast game, but it was good.
 Frank Sutton had an off night for the first time this season.
 We guess that Cunningham had nothing in the way of speed that could beat Bob Loxson last evening.
 Our right to second position was defended in proper style and New Britain will have to wait until next season for better standing.
 Great Scott, how do those anna teurs stand the pace?" said one of the professionals last evening. Work ing all day in the factory and then playing like they do at night ought to put some of them in the stale yard. ...
 McGilvray and Fahey were there with the passing and juggling, and at times the Bridgeports were tied up in knots. And Tommy Holder ness, too, had the goods with him, and his defensive work saved Sutton on several occasions.
 A challenge from the Company c polo team of Waterbury, was re- ceived last night. The Company G team won the amateur polo city league series in Waterbury last evening and is anxious to play any team in Bridgeport on Monday evening as preliminary game to the league game between Waterbury and Bridgeport at the armory in this city. The Company c team will give a return game in Waterbury, man. ager of the Company c polo team, will receive answers to the challenge. Bridgeport Telegram.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-03
civino the Mail q sendosY.

Over in the little town of Wildcat a negro postmaster each day carries the mail from the post ofiee to the train. Slowly he places the mail pouch on a crane. As the fast train is approaching and the arm on the mail car extends to sweep the bag from midair. the old man shouts: Hear ye, Hear ye, Hear ye, The honorable mail of these United States is about to go.-