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Gunnison news-champion., 1908-12-04
CueIery

We have n line OF the
best quality of pocket,
bread and butcher knives
RazOrs, scissors, razor
strSps and buckles
Gunnison news-champion., 1908-12-04
Crasite and Taware

We are closing out ON
our stock of these and
also some other lines and
we can save YOU money.
Call and see " hat we have
and buy at right prices
Gunnison news-champion., 1908-12-04
I've Special '1ssy Bee'
rakiag mscAioes
O1ly 81 EscA

Six l0-inch records with
each. Here are two good
bargains and each will
make n nice Christmas
present. A talking ma
chine makes the long win
ter hours shorterand the
children happy.
Gunnison news-champion., 1908-12-04
Slslisaery

A complete line OF pen
and pencil tablets. box
paper. pens. pencils etc.
Gunnison news-champion., 1908-12-04

We will give careful at
tention to mail orders and
We will he glad to have
any that possibly can
send large orders a week
or so ahead. so We NAV
fill them in full and select
the beet.
Gunnison news-champion., 1908-12-04
A00Uoatioa

We are going to tliscon-
time to handle shells and
cartridges. If there il any
size we have that YOU use
we can save YOU money
without a doubt. Call
and see u..
Gunnison news-champion., 1908-12-04
4 eipe Cris1nas preseol
A Crsaa eofgaia

The Famous Victor
Talking Machine. - We
have decided to make
somespecial holiday offers
and here is one of them.
One large Victor Talk
ing Machine with large
concert horn, price. $50.
One special softening tone
attachment. 81.
One dozen Finch rec
or,is. ST..
One dozen l0-inch rec
or,ls - 20.
Total cost price. 81 10
$40 cash buys this en-
tire outfit which il one Of
the best in the county.
Who will be the luck Y one
10 get this fine Christmas
present
Gunnison news-champion., 1908-12-04

Supt. ". II. Corum went to Pit
kin "Wednesday, taxing up eastern
brook egg TO the hatchery there
This was the last take for this sea-
son and the spawning stations have
been closed
Gunnison news-champion., 1908-12-04
Ssaveeir Psstals
Osisanas, New Year
Scepes

All orders will receive
prompt and careful atten-
tion and carly trading
will be n great benefit
and pleasure both to you
and to Us.
Gunnison news-champion., 1908-12-04

Sssre vi k go ii
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CHRISTMAS WEEK
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ANpsaiaS Is1 =
Dss~y hsssil 49,.

Frank Mekay returned Thsrs
dsy lssi from . trip t. Marble.
Ms. ALMA Exoserly FetUrned 10
her school at Pos derhorn ssturday
j. j. Carpenter sent oSt thVss
load. of cattle from >apsDero last
Saturday
Mm. =. Irving OF BLACK Mos
transacted business IN GSan'soa
last week
Nrs. Hilderbssnd. A. .H.lderbsaad .
mother lett for home at LittIeton ON
last Saturday.
Mrs. j. j Refill left Aoadsy fos
Denver. She viii remain for time
with Mrs. Mary Kaitz.
Reinhard Holloway went Monday
to Denver. he will spend the win
ter there and farther east
A freieb, wreck at Cedar creek
Monday morning Aitched the engine
but the damage was soon repaired
r w. Iseuten was In our city from
has East river ranch this week asd
vent on to Montrose Thursday
Reports from some sections o'
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-26
Wilson only laughed.

wilson only laughed
Another evidence of the immoral
ity Of the actor" 1 thought
Well. I'll >teH you. my boy" said
Wilson. perhaps you had better refer
that matter to Mrs. Wilson herself.
II her affections have been aIienated
from me it has been accomplished by
only one person in this wide. wide
world. That is our daughter.
But. to put you out of your misery
and spoil your story. I must explain
that there is a person by the name of
Francis Sedgwick Wilson. whose
stage name is Francis Sedgwick.
When he gets into trouble-that~cir-
cumstance being far from rare-he
calls himself Francis Wilson. which
is. with the insertion of a name for
eign to my title. Sedgwick- Once he
went through insolvency. and got
letters of regret from scores of friends
and offers of all kinds of financial as
sistance. Another time he was held
up in Chicago for a board bill, and
then when I came to town some
months later I was served with his
papers: still another time he became
involved in another difficulty which
willing reporters attributed to me,
my name also being Francis Wilson,
then. finally, to cap all our troubles.
shared in a measure mutually. he
brought this suit against Isman. AS
Isman is friend OF mine, and I am a
friend of my wife's and am still de-
voted TO her, as she is TO me, no great
damage has been done. But look up
those stories and you will ind that
the woman's name is June Van Bus
kirk.
II wrote a letter to the Francis
Sedgwick Wilson once. saying that
inaSmuch as 1 had TO share this name
OF Wilson with him. would he not try
with me and keep it little cleaner
told him was doing my best in that
particular-was paying my bills and
trying to behave myself as a Wilson
should do, and wouldn't he kindly try
and do the. same? He wrote me q very
courteous letter. in which he said he
financial. domestic and other kinds.
but that he would. for my sake, try
and be decent Wasn't that sweet OF
him. Then he went TO work and
brought this suit and 1 got some
more free and most unwelcome noto-
riety.
But. believe me. I am sorry to have
spoiled your interview. if you We're
looking for scandal. However.
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-26
Sunday, April 26, 1908. Pages As to So

the making of an actor in him. A
school gives him chance to do with
out dying of modification in the at
tempt. The dismay of my own first
efforts. for instance, is still a present
reanty to me. like the memory of a
nightmare which in your thought still
makes you shudder.
And speaking about Nightmares,
isn't this vista of ruins a nightmare?
l do not know San Francisco any more,
though the people do not seem to have
changed except for the adding of a
few gray hairs here and there. You
know / was in San Francisco several
times. Before the days OF The Lion
Tanner and The Merry Monarch at the
old Baldwin I was here with McCalIs
opera company. We played at the Cali
fornia theater and made a big hit in
The Queens Lace Handkerchief Be-
fore that, maybe it was twenty years
ago, I was here in Our Goblins' at the
Bush street theater; so I'm no stranger
to the people, but / can't get locations
straight. / forget were Bush street
was"
Then Francis Wilson looked out of
the window at the ruins of the Flood
mansion and over the stretch of brick
which marks the homes of the rich, who
from boxes applauded him in the old
days. and got ready to PROFOUND my
questions. But Wilson resumed:
You know they say of this play,
When knights were bold that 1t Is
trivial and light and frothy. 1t is all
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-26

of that, but do you know that 1t
teaches good lesson, and one which
comes to me with much force this
minute as / gaze over what was once
the pride of San Francisco-the Cali
fornia street mansion covered hills. Ny
play is a protest against assuming that
because day is past and gone it was
on that account good day. Year in
and year out there are about the same
number of sunshiny days as cloudy.
Fifteen--twenty years ago we used to
have about the same proportion as
now. The worship of things because
they. are dead is a futile. foolish rite.
The present is a pretty good moment
San Francisco proves it. No one here
seems to mind much. You even say
that the rumors of the earthquake were
like the reports of Mark Twain's death
there was fire and you brag about
your ruins. That's the spirit. 1t is
exploited in When knights Were Bold.
and it teaches a salutary lesson, I be-
Iieve, of the worth of now"
would you mind" I asked, hesi-
.tatingly. because the sun was sinking
over toward the dark Sutro forest and
the moment had come to ask the en-
barrassing question; would you mind,
I repeated, telling me something about
the suit against Isman by Francis Will
son, plaintiff, who asked for 100000
damages for the alienation of his
was penalized in the sum of $4,000 by
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-26

The disposition to express yourself
born and will come out like a birth
mark. It's an evidence in the world Of
thought of the physical truth that self
preservation is the first law of nature.
things in one of the art forms must
express itself or die. That's all there
is to it. So Nat will be back"
While Wilson was talking on my
had to be unearthed in the interests
of truth, and it made me uncomfortable
and unhappy to be harboring evil
suspicious unfounded thus far in defin-
ite admissions Wilson talked of
Corot. the painter. and how. when
his first customer came to buy pic
ture, Corot. the impressionist of other
days and the classicist of the present.
hated to sell his work because it would
break his set. Wilson gave out some
fine thoughts on art in general and on
all sorts of subjects unrelated to the
topic I had in mind, and finally got
down to a consideration of dramatic
schools as he knows them in New York.
VALUE OF SCHOOLS
'fOne thing that they accomplish" he
said, is this: They give a man a
chance to develop without the humilia-
tion of public appearances. To be
paraded green before the public is the
worst fate that can overtake serious
minded youngster who believes he has
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-26
AUTHOR OF SIX

Did I ever write play? Dear, dear!
You see before you the author of six
dramas. Six-and 1 wrote them all
myself.
Have I ever had them accepted? I
should say I have. 1 have even been
paid a retainer to write some of them
Why have they never been staged
Well. I suspect, if the truth were
known. that the managers, to whose
mercies they have been consigned,
did not think they were good
enough. You know a man no more can
tell what his own book or play is like
than he can be relied upon for an un-
prejudiced report on his baby boy. Ac-
cording to me, they are six good plays;
I've even read them to my wife. and
she says so, too. without a blush. But
the. managers. whose money would be
placed in jeopardy the moment the
plays were staged. do not take the
same view: and that, no doubt. is why
I am an unheard of author of six as
fine plays as were never played.
When man is bitten by the dra-
matte cobra he never gets the virus
out of his blood. He will write plays
and he will play. He can't help it.
Take Nat Goodwin. He thinks he's left
the stage. It's a joke He'll be back
as soon as he gets play worthy of
his high talents, for Nat Goodwin is a
great comedian. He'll be a comedian
If he has to go to Rawhide to do it.
I think that is one of the funniest
things he ever did do-going to Raw
hide. He'll be back. You know Nat
has had a streak of awful luck. Six
plays. one after the other, and all of
them failures. He lost heart as any
man would. No individual genius can
successfully boost a poor play on the
stage and keep it there. Nat will get
a good play some time and then back
to Broadway for
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-26
ONLY LAUGHED

I very carefully unwrapped the long
query again. Francis Wilson had. /
had read, brought suit against Felix
er. for having. it was claimed. won
the affections of Mrs. wilson Justice
MacLean. when Wilson failed to press
the scandalous charges. awarded the
defendant $4,000 damages for the peril
in which he had been placed. it hav-
Ing been shown clearly that Isman
was not guilty of the orense with
which he had been charged.
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-26
By Waiter Anthony

venues who to him Is little less than
god
"Paulton in writing the book cer-
tainly made use of the French play
Robert Macaire, in which the great
lie Maitre found a piece with which TO
measure the breadth Of his genius Then
Robert and Bertrand an old German
play, is still another variation of the
same theme, which, like Faust, has had
many dramatic and literary exploita-
tions. In the Spanish we have still
another illustration of the value of the
theme in Cervantes' Don Quixote,
where Sancho Panza is to the Sorrow
ful Figure what Caddy' is to Ra-
venues
PAULINE HALL THE ORIGINAL
Pauline Hall, as you know, was the
original Erminie- Sadie Martinez was
the original Javotte. Later Agnes Fol-
som. a niece of one OF New York's gov
ernors, took the role. She had been
Sadies unuerstudy. Still later Marie
Jansen assumed the role and made the
hit of her life. She was The Javotte
Still later we had a graduate from the
chorus who made a hit in the part
That was Victoria Morosini Such
lot of newspaper talk that little woman
created, I wonder where she is now.
Some say she is in a convent in Mon
treal, and I guess that is true. She
was the daughter of a multimillionaire
with everything you would think
woman could want. But she coveted
the coachnlan, apparently. and married
him. His name was Shelly and he
worked on the box for her father.
After she had divorced him. or he her,
or he had died-however it might have
happened-she married a street car
conductor and made her father madder
than ever Then she left him and
dropped out of sight. There were ru-
mors that she had become reconciIed
to her father and had taken the veil.
At any rate Broadway nor the foot
lights ever saw her again.
Max Freeman was a member of
that original cast, too, and the marquis
was Marion Manola's husband. now
wealthy stock broker in Pittsburg,
whose only attention to the theater is
from the front rows. 1T would not do
to forget Marion Manola herself. who
was the original Cerise. She after
ward married John Mason, you re-
member.
"Aaronson tried his best to keep me
from finding out the fact that as Err
mimic progressed in popularity my own
advancement was step by step with it.
L had had four years of dramatic
training at the old Chestnut street the
ater in Philadelphia. I had played a
little of everything from rnelodrama
to Shakespeare and that sort of train
ing is good for a growing youngster
who has some confidence in himself
and some ambition and disposition to
learn.
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-26

the Judge for failure to prosecute the
suit he had begun?"
WHAT"
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-02-20
10 THE VOTERS OF THE
CITY OF BAXTER
SPRINGS.

State of Kansas, county OF
Cherokee, city of Baxter Springs,
IS.
All voters of the city of Baxter
Springs, county of Cherokee,
state of Kansas, are hereby re-
quired to register at the office OF
the city clerk of said city not la
ter than ten days before election
day, which will be the first Tues
day in April, 1908. The city
clerk of said city has opened a
new set of registration books and
all persons are required to regis
ter in said books within said pre-
scribed time to be entitled to vote
at said election.
Witness my hand this 18th day
of February, 1908.
C. NJ. JONES, Mayor.
Attest: GEO. c. Common,
[sEAL.1 City Clerk.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-02-20

we're wide with startled horror She.
too. had seen. Just above Red Sander.
sons temple and extending from the
forehead up into the hair was an ugly
scar--not like that left by cut. but
as II the flesh might have been deep
" bruised by some blunt weapon.
MARY! How pale you are!" cried
Louise, In alarm.
I'm haunted by that man." she
continued, biting her lip to keep from
crying out against the terrors OF this
country. Hes always showing up In
unexpected places. l shall die II
ever meet him alone"
you need not be afraid" said Cor
don, speaking quietly from his place
at her side. Louise flashed him q
swift, bewildering smile OF gratitude
Under this cover the young ranch
man comforted Mary. whom the
others had temporarily forgotten, with
u long, carressing look from his hand
some eyes that was pledge OF tire
less vigilance and an unforgettine
watchfulness Of future protection.
ITO be Continued
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-02-20


and harness; perpetual water
right; hay runs two to three tons
per acre, and brings sl4 per ton
at railroad; road to railroad is as
good as can be found In the
world. This place is only six
miles from free fuel, and ten
miles of saw mills, lumber being
delivered at the place for $40 per
thousand. Present owner has
lived on the place forty years and
has made a big fortune from the
hay and livestock. He is willing
to quit work and offers the place,
including everything mentioned
above, for S17.50 per acre, on
easy terms.
Many other nice farm and
ranch properties in New Mexico
| for sale. For fuller information
call on Chas. L. Smith at the
News Office.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-02-20
LIBRARY Talk.

In the month Of January there
were drawn from the library 1211
books Of different classes, and to
the reading table have been adj
ded papers and magazines as fol-
lows:
'Everybodys," monthly.
Cosmopolitan" monthly.
st. Nicholas" monthly.
Youths Companion" weekly.
Appeal to Reason, weekly.
Mrs. J. w. Durham has con-
tributed about thirty magazines
of different titles, to the table.
Mrs. d. d. Gill has given
Great Men and Famous Women,
and Mrs. NJ. J. Ray the Pros
pector" (Author Conner) to the
library.
To the high school essayists it
seems proper to notice that the
publication of their names was
against the desire of the librar..
an, for he saw no particular adj
vantage in advertising the names
of the disappointed authors-and
there must be four of them. Your
critics are two school teachers, a
doctor, a lawyer and an editor
In so far as their decision is con-
c.rned they are strangers, as
they should have been, to your
names. The prizes will be hand
ed to the winners on the evening
iof the school entertainment, by
/, Mr.. +. J. Clinkinbeard, the pres
ident of the board of library di
rectors. And here it seems a MT
ting time for the librarian to sug
gest that these contests between
pupils of our high school, now IN
augurated, may be repeated eaci
year; provided some public spir
lifted citizen or citizens would sub
scribe-say fifteen to twenty dol
liars, the same to be divided int
three prizes and awarded unde
direction of the library board o
directors.
| No. w is the winner OF Is
prize and No III the End.
THE LIBRARIAN.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-02-20
New Mexico Bargains

240 acres of very fine land SIX
and a half miles southeast OF
Ration, New Mexico. No inn
provements. Land lies we'll.
Price So per acre.
27O acres of land eight miles
south of Ration, New Mexico, on
the Canadian river. IT'S acres
subject to irrigation, balance
good pasture land. 80 acres in
cultivation, including so acres OF
alfalfa. Three small houses on
the land; good fences; land has a
third interest in irrigating ditch,
with plenty of water always. $50
per acre. Ration is a city of eight
thousand people, and is a good
market for everything that can
be produced on farm.
$3.50 acres of extra fine land,
100 in cultivation, mostly in ale
falfa; five-wire fence; nice orch
ard and garden; 22-room house
and two large store rooms; hay
barn, corrals, COW barns, carriage
house, horse barns, etc. Price
$40 per acre. This property lie:
next to the Santa Fe railroad IN
New Mexico, and adjoins a good
town of five hundred people.
$500 acres all fenced and cross
fenced, fifteen miles from rail-
road and town of 100 people; Coz
acres under irrigation, four ranch
houses, three barns, two big cor
rails, three moving machines, tw'
hay rakes, hay press, 80 head o
work horses and mules, 600 heai
of Hereford cattle. Is thorough
bred Hereford bulls; 5 wagon
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-02-20
CHAPTER XIV.
Tho Game Is On.

Contrary TO expectation, the case OF
the State OF South Dakota against
Jesse Black was called soon after the
sitting of the court Monday afternoon.
No testimony was introduced. how
ever, until the following day. Inch
by inch. step by step, Gordon fought
for fair jury through that tense al
ternoon. Merclless in shrewd exami'
nation, keen TO detect hesitancy. pre-
judices sought to be concealed he
cleverly and relentlessly unearthed.
Chair after chair was vacated-only 10
be vacated again. II seemed there was
not man in the county who had not
heard somewhat of this much.heralded
crime-if crime II were. And he VINO
had heard was a prejudiced partisan
How could Il be otherwise where feel
ing ran so high-where honest men
mostly felt resentment against the
man who dared to probe the wound
without extracting the cause OF 1t, and
q hatred and fear curiously intermin
gled with admiration OF the outlaw
whose next move after obtaining his
freedom might be 20 cut out OF the
general herd cows Of their own
brands-where tainted men. officers
or cowmen. awaited developments
with a consuming interest that was
not above manipulating the lines OF
justice for their own selfish ends?
Yet, despite the obstacles in the way,
Gordon was determined to have an I'M
prejudiced jury in so far as 1t lay in
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-02-20

Anew family has moved on
the old Dorsey land.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Degraffin-
reed drove to Galena Monday.
Ellis Conner is sick with the
grip.
Joe Ewers is quite sick. DIR.
Brown of Galena is attending
him.
Gregg .Ewers attended the Elks
fair Thursday evening.
Bert Baker is helping his sister
during her husbands sickness.
Dock Minton has gone to Sag
inaw to prove to his sister lie
isn't the dead man who was found
in a shaft some time ago.
Tony Starina of Tennessee
Prairie had a bad accident the
first of the week. His team ran
awaw with wheat drill and lie
got tangled in the lines. His
collar bone was broken and he
was badly bruised.
There is more than one lonely
woman who stays at home while
her husband attends the all
night Card game on Five Mile
Saturday nights. Some men
think a woman has nothing to do
but go through the same old mo-
notonous routine day in and day
Tout; yet with song and smile she
goes through expecting as her
lonly reward the affection of her
family and even this is sometimes
withheld.
Mrs. Howson and her mother
visited with Mrs. Degraffinreed
Monday.
Ed Degraffinreed is moving
from the hurry place to a farm
Inc ar Crestline.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-02-20
FROM ROUTE ).

Farmers are very busy in this
vicinity.
Charlie Hedges and family OF
Galena visited friends on the
creek Sunday.
Mrs. Minnie Quapaw and her
parents dined Sunday with &C
quaiutances on. Five Mile.
Mrs. Baker and Mrs. Reed and
sons dined Sunday with Mrs.
Joe Ewers.
Charlie Cromer helped George
Peake break his pony to ride.
Bert Esta1rOok hauled lumber
from the Todd cav min last week