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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-16

EYOW visiting in Washington is a
M sugar planter from Hawaii who
4 prefers that his name remain un-
known in the following connection. There
are some good men finical that they
dislike To have their names mentioned in
connection with poker stories.
Did YOU ever happen TO sit into a game
Of poker where one king beat four
queens" was the singular question that
he submitted to a party of gentlemen the
other night.
None of the group. II appeared, had
ever heard of its being done that way,
and they all said So
Well observed the sugar planter
from Hawaii with great confidence. l
not only saw il done that way, but l was
the victim Of the play.
Kind o walm around heah this even
in suns don't YOU all think? put IN the
southern merchant. moppinS his brow
;hoyGhtfully. .
But tn. king. | ought I" eiucidaie.
went on the man from Hawaii. was not
a card That is to say. he was card
right enough. but not paper one. he
vas A sure-enough king. and his name
was Dava kalakaua. Dave was the king
Of the Hawaiian Islands, as ali OF you
gentlemen know.
Now don't form the idea that
am endeavoring TO overwhelm anybody
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with us. and upon comparing notes. we
found that We had beer living within
three squares of each other in Chelsea for
a matter of fifteen years. He was a
lawyer. and on a trip around the world
for his health. He was a member Of the
Chelsea Democratic Club and member
of the Chelsea Republican Club. We knew
all about each other. suburban folk
usually do. but we had never happened
to meet socially or otherwise.
That's an odd name of yours he said.
after we had exchanged cards. The only
person l ever knew of that name was a
shaver with whom l used to play shin
ny and duck on the rock up in Bangor.
Me-. way back yonder In the sixties. His
name was Jim. but we called him Smud2e.
because he was always smoking corn silk
and dried leaves wrapped up in yellow
manila paper. and
We'll. there was the second extraOr-
binary feature of that meeting. for |
was the 'Smudge' of Bangor. Me.
grieve to say 1t. but I fear that We were
rather sad dogs together. that Chelsea
man and boyhood playmate Of mine. dur
ing the remainder of our foregathering in
Honolulu.
During the knights Templar conclave
out in San Francisco" said Buffalo
business man. ''one evening while riding
in a crowded car out toward the Sutro
baths. a sharp-faced fellow, a typical
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-16

n. some stable sand hillocks. got be-
hind one o these hillocks on my hands
and knees and peered over the top of ii.
They was both sound a-snoozin.
~ reckoned I might just as we'll lie
there till they begun to slit around. and
then. seem that both of EN- had their
gun belts off I figgered that l could do
some a. thar slick-uD work myself, and
corral 'em before they could make their
shootin tools.
But III game didn't break 'cOrdin' L
nv tiggerin' VILE l was stretched out
behind the sand hill one o. 'em sudden
~ sat M. had a sure bead on him. bu;
u.,ted + see what he-all was goin'
:, do and I wa ant in no hurry. Well.
Ia c,,-. saved me from lot o this bad
coincidence business for I'm a-tellin' you
,irht 7 never killed nobody, and l don't
want to- ,,. o,a ,ooLoa
some puzzled about where ne was
minute or 40 and then he rolled his head
arnnn. and begun t take notice sure
enough. He didn't make a particle o
noise and with the daylight comm on. l
could see a sneaky look In MS eyes q. ne
stretched himsel: out on one sioe SO
reach f'r his gun belt that was yin on
IN sand a little piece away from MN.
He got the gun belt ali right. and he
tool. bo,b a. the guns out q 1t without
n,,,t;r. II on | was onto his lay then.
He was a-gon' t put II on MS podner
SOS he could have the hun stlch-up ouh-
die hisself
That looked some mean I me- ana l
SIRE meant T. git him first But luck was
trudcin' alongside o me. Before l mao
t poke him. he made janein noise IN
lettin' his gun belt sip back 10 the sand,
a fter he'd got his weapons out o II, ana
III. o,ber homhrey started up at the
sound ;o,.
The other hombrey was dulck
thinker for when he sat up and seen ms
podner hombrey sittin' there a-fumonn
,nann,a;n n.t over = where his own gun
belt Law alongside O him. grabbed one
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-16

Your profession. For there are many I'M
reliable ones, are there not?"
I pleaded guilty. being plumb crushed.
so in order to get this item of news
Just right" continued Mr.. Thomas.
have had It written from my dictation
You assure me that ii Will not De
changed"
"Oh. yes" l whispered in deep dejec-
ton.
You may add to this If you wish con-
tinued the light of the North Carolina
delegation. some OF my leading achieve
ments both here and at home. Take this
and pray see that ii is published today
When got up in the gallery again un-
folded the slip of paper which Mr.. Thomas
had handed to me- And this was the
item of news 1t contained:
Mrs. Thomas. wife of Hon. Charles
Randolph Thomas. representative in Con-
gress from the third district Of North
Carolina. and who has been in the House
since the Fffty-sixth Congress. has re-
turned to Washington from a visit to her
folks
This is not the fashion department. but
it may he pardonable just the same 10
mention that the Panama hat Is going 10
be popular this year. This is made timely
by the fact that a slick congressional
dresser at the Capitol who is not partlc-
ularly long on money. paid 500 for a
scrumptious Panama lid about five years
ago and one day last week had the pleas
ure of seeing duplicate of his bonnet on
the head of a colleague.
Holy smoke" said he. taking his col
leagues hat In one hand and his own IN
the other and comparing the weight. on
couldn't tell the difference between these
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-16

yard. One of his greatest convenience
to this end is monster blackboard
eighteen fee: long by about five wide. "a
this a huge diagram OF the yard spreads
itself out. each switch numbered. ,ne
signal bridges in colors and the tracks
themselves In transparent white Every
few inches behind the white Of the tracks
is small electric light. All through the
yard. every two hundred feet of track
are insulated from adjoining tracks and
electric connections are made direct be-
tween each section and the blackboard.
AS a train proceeds through the yard
the succeeding lights show its progress
as we'll as it's exact position. No more
need is there for peering out the tower
window on a foggy night to make out
the approach Of train. 1t is all record
ed minutely on the blackboard.
Labor-Saving Devices.
All of these electrical contrivances do
away with a great deal of hand work.
They save the old-time confusion of the
yards resulting from the swinging of
many lanterns in signaling. They save
the army of telegraphers. not all of
course. for they are as necessary now to
dispatch trains as they ever were. but
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-16
CLINT TAZWELL, WHO WAANT NO HERO

got a little stack o. whites here Do you
cash in on en-
Cash in with WHAT inquired JIM in
a roar. his face still greener. Can't you
see those two plugs vamped with the roll:
What have ] got TO pay off With and he
yanked out the drawer and showed II all
bare and empty. and then pulled out every
one of his pockets. showing no pay dirt
there. either.
"'Whch sure let's your'n truly in for a
log after them two. them announced
clint. getting up from his chair and
stretching his arms. Them white beans
of white chips. represents eatin doin's
for me. and | sure gotta eat. And |
reckon I'll eat on them two boys out
yonder' motioning in the general direc-
ton of the south trail. IL that's the ony
way | can make the trough is there
anythin in it. JIM?
".Anything in it, repeated jim Well.
there's half what you assay out In It. But
you've got no chance alone. You're not
going alone, are your
well I sure like to mediate. and
not talk none. when I'm a-rdin', replied
Clint. And I've got nothin' to lose.
neither and I'm for the six thousand TOO.
if it's to be had. S'long. hombreys. and
Clint, stretching his arms again. like
man on his way to the clubhouse after
a long sitting. calmly strolled out into the
night.
1T was just twenty hours later. at
O'Clock the next night. when thing
that the novelists call a cavalcade passed
into Nogales by way OF the south trail
II was still daylight. and as the outfit
made it's way to the caiaboose the town
gathered around 10 see. | saw II. and
sure never will forget it,
Clint on his rayGse. rode in front.
and he led two tagged horses by their
birdie reins The dead body of man
Was dashed across the back of each Of
the two horses that Clint was leading
Both Of the dead men had been shot
squarely in the forehead. They were
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and unaided. of pair of sure-enough
bad stick-up men came to- The way Clint
told it to me. year or so afterward. 1t
sounded like the simplest thing in the
wcrld-if there was any believing his
way of rendering 1t.
81 didn't have an.thin' particular in
mind about the way | was goin' to get
EN- when started out after en- Clint
told me- 'ceptin that 1 sure did hate the
way they'd trimmed me FIR my last
chanel at the Chink's frijole table. and l
was some sore over the way they'd done.
80 course. | reckoned we'd have "A
lot of a Shootin' time when ! come up
with EN-. but. as I've been tryin' to tell
these fool Draisin' brush birds around
here. they want none o. that whatever
on my part because it didn't come out
tllat-a-way in the slip out O. the box
81 come up with 'em. camped at ;
o'clock in the mornin'. They must ha'
been hittin' their canteen booze power
full hard. and besides all o. that. they
must ha' had cheap opinion O. the way
Nogales people took things. or they never
ha gone L camp hathaway on'y seven
or eight hours distance from a stick-up
Job: and I reckon them two hombreys
was amachoorS. anyway. l got wind
o their staked cayuses hoofs on the
sand about half "A mile this side a EN-
l reckon. and when | did that
jumped off my cayuse. led him to a lit tie
cottonwood by the bank o the crick. and
then started / sort o crawl in the direc-
ton where Id heard the movin' around
o hobbled horses. / had L do some
crawlin. f'r II was beginning t git some
light In the east.
II got near EN- about twenty minutes
after that kind q crawlin'. not reckonin'
even then. on wha' l meant t do. sure
hate this KILN business. / allus did
And I Na'ant a-goin L hand it L them
two boys whilst they slep. FIR one thing
anyhow. That's all I knew as l crept up
on EN-.
They was wrapped in their ponchos
in little clumpy hollow between a pair
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-16

q PARTY of travelled folk men and
~ women. were seated about a
= luncheon table at Washington
hotel the other afternoon. conversing on
an old but always engaging topic-the
smaIlness of the world
while visiting the Pan-American expo
sition few years ago." contributed
New Orleans lady. II lost In restaurant
one evening chatelainc bag containing
most of my own jewelry and diamond
ornament. highly priced because it was
her husbands wedding gift. belonging to
my daughter. Naturally. l was in a great
state of panic and depression.
But. on returning to our hotel. l had
barely reached my room before bellman
brought me the card of lady of whom
/ had never heard. With my loss upper
most in my mind. however. l hurried
down to the reception room to meet her
l found her very charming woman. but
she was a thousand times more charm
ing in my view, of course. because she
had my missing bag in her hands
You had missed this?' was her first
question. and then she saw how terribly
worried l had been over the loss. ana
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-16

VvYHEN the new electro-pneumatic
M signal and switch system was put
w in operation at the new Union sta
ton this week a new in travel was
inaugurated. The old familiar system of
throwing switches and signaling is no
more. and now better and more speedy
results are obtained with the expenditure
Of the minimum of physical eXertion.
Where formerly il was necessary to use
considerable strength in operating heavy
and cumbersome levers. the new system
is so easily operated that child can per-
form the manual labor. OF course. the
responsibility remains the same-the ne
Cessity for an active brain and quick
eye is not ahated-whle the number of
trains that pass over the local tracks
makes the expenditure of nerve force so
enormous that the man in the tower is
the most important factor In the han
ding of human freight.
One Mans Life Job.
When the traveller enters the yards of
large city. he heaves a sigh of relief and
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the pair of strangers who had stuck up
Jim Coffey's faro bank.
Clint led the outfit up To the Gala
boose. made his report to the alcalde and.
dismounting, unlashed the two dead men
from their horses and helped to carry
them into the .dObe caiaboose. where
they were laid out for decent burial on
the following day.
And Clint had on him all of the money
that the two dead stickup men had trim
med the faro bank for. First he settled
with the two players who had been stood
up for what they had on them and then
he tossed Jim's S13.NU across the table in
two heavy canvas bags. Jim promptly
counted Clint out his half of the shake
down. according to the verbal agree
ment.
well, how did you do it. Clint?' Jim
Coffey asked Tazwell then. and that was
had been tossed at Clint since his ar
rival back on the south trail. and he'd
never answered 1t once.
-
"I didn't do it, Clint replied then to
Jim Coffey. They done 1t to each other.
I vas bv. back of a clump Of mesquite.
when they done 1t. But l didn't do H.
Get thato ! sure didn't Not any. None
whatever Them two hombreys got each
other
"Nobodv believed Clint. of course. and
the exploit went humming around the
country. and a couple of days later, in
response to the general demand. the
Noeales marshal gave up his job in order
tina; the reluctant Tim might be appoint
ed in his place Clint didn't want any
mart of the lob but they boosted the pay
Of the billet for his especial benefit. ana
all hands got around him and boosted
him along. and so he naturally had TO
take -
And ye Clint persisted that he hadn
done anything to get that kind of a mite
from, the folks and at length he became
actually peevish when folks would per
sist i'm attrbuting to him so fine and
reckless deed as this fetching in, alone
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81

IONA prospectors killed by
the Yaaui Indians in Old Mexico last
month" said a southwesterner now resi-
dent III Washington, and there'll he lot
Of people down my way who'll he sorry TO
hear that Clint TaZwell was reduced to
making that kind Of a cash-in. Clint was
marshal Of Nogales for three years back
IN the early eighties.
Now NoGales never was particularly A
place that needed a terror or killer for
marshal, and Clint didn't have anything
especial by way of gun work 10 do while
ne held the job. II was the way he hap
pened Ia get the job. not the things he did
while he held it, that makes a bit of a
story l am thinking.
IT will never be known by anybody
whether Clint's version of the story that
gave him his big reputation in our coun-
try for nerve was true or not. He was so
phenomenally modest a man. retiring and
diftideut To the point of absolute bashful-
res; that am a bit inclined to think that
clint was giving himself the worst of il
VIXEN he gave his account of the business
-
..rhe thing that got Clint his marshal
badge was what happened when he went,
out after "A couple of stickup men. Al
that. he never wanted the badge. and re
signed before the end OF his four-year
term.
Clint was a long -haul freishter on his
own account-that WAS before there was
much doing in railroads down our way
and he had made some money before the
little piffling railroads swept along and
sruhed him out. He was spender. how
ever and he pokng around Nogales.
pretty nigh broke. and doing the hest he
could al the faro banks for mere tamale
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How Switches Are Operated.

A long case stands in the signal tower
with hundreds of little levers. Each lever
controls an electric switch which when
closed sends an impulse through an cleo
tro-magnet and this in turn opens an air
valve and sends a force Of air. stronger
than several men. to open or close the
right switch. In order to make sure of
the operation the electricity used in the
towers Is not taken direct from the power
house. but is manufactured in the tower
and collected in storage batteries so as to
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the GOODNESS of a great general.
Every one is familiar with the old
method Of throwing switches and chang
ing the position Of the semaphore. BY it
all the switches and semaphores were
operated through wires running to the
signal tower and moved by lever there.
II took very strong man to move one
of these levers and even then there was
danger that the switch would not be prop
erly and completely thrown or that the
wires might break and cause the derailing
Of train. Under the new system all
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change when the little thing broke out
that sent him along.
"Clint was coddling little stack of
white chips in Jim Coffeys bank one
night when couple Of strangers around
the plant sat the crowd straight up in
their chairs at the points of their guns
and frsked all hands. including the bank
Resides themselves. there were only
three others playing at the time they
made the stickup. Clint TaZwell was one
of them.
while one OF the strangers kept the
others covered the other went around
and neatly tolled out everything
from the bank dealers drawer. and that
made nearly s12.WO. Then he passed
around behind the three men playing the
game and removed what they had from
their clothes-S3O0 from one and $500 from
the other. Clint. he didn't have anything
to he frisked of
THE pair Of strangers backed out of
Jim's place after they'd tapped II for
everything there was in sight. Their
horses were outside. and they made an
easy getaway over the south trail from
Nogales.
Naturally. the stuck-up crowd sitting
around the table looked pretty foolish
when the two strangers had made their
profitable slinkout. Jim Cnffey. the bank
man. and big loser. was 50 boiling with
rage that his face was green.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-16

And / can't get anybody to go out
after EN- he suddenly chopped out 1t
serves me ID well and right for deal
ing bank in a yellow livercd camp like
hombreys around here can play beanba <
for the tin tags ii that's .heis limit hut
I'm not dishing EN- out any more in a
dump where the best the bunch does is to
sit and gaze after bunch of punkerino
stickups.
Hey. hack up u little there. Jim.
Clint Tazw.l chimed in AT this stop.
You're nudgin' ahead of the box. Who
said nobody was soin after EN-? I've
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LINT TaZwell of Nogales. who
spent twenty years protest
ing that he wa ant no hero.
was one of the party Of Ari-
IONA prOSpeCtOrS Killed BY
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That is what happens before the pas
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-02
GO UP IN SMOKE.
Over Three Hundred Buildings
Burned in Tampa, Fla.

TAMPA, Fla, March 2.-The entire ex-
IRENE northeastern section of the city
proper was destroyed by fire. which ragged
from am. to 1 pm. yesterday. The
area burned covered ffty-flve acres. and
3OS buildings were destroyed, with a loss
estimated at 100000.
The burned section included four large
and one small cigar factories. and numer-
Gus restaurants. saloons, boarding houses
and over 200 dwellings, occupied by cigar
makers. The factories burned were those
Of M. Stachelberg & Co.. loss, 500 600; M
Perez & Co.. loss, $4,000; Gonzales. Fisher
& Co., loss, $4,000: Esberg, Gunst & Co.,
branch of Stachelberg. loss, $4,000; Fer
nandez & Bro. loss. $4,000. All factories
carried large stocks of tobacco and cigars
Occupants of over 200 dwelling houses,
thrown into a panic. rushed out, attempt
ing to save their belongings,
One fatality is reported, Cuban
woman. who dropped dead from the
shock, her body being rescued from the
burning house with difficulty.
In the Stachelberg factory was de-
cigars were displayed at the worlds fairs
and expositions, valued at $4,000.
At the home Of Miguel Rodriguez, a
cigarmaker, the corpse of a child in
coffin awaiting funeral service was Gre
mated.
Among the buildings other than fac
tories destroyed were the hotels and cafes
Of Perez and Castro and Maxima Caras
six saloons, twelve restaurants and ten
boarding houses. The car barns of the
Tampa Electric Company. containing
twenty cars, were endangered, and owing
to the destruction of trolley wires cars
could not be moved. The fire finally
burned itself out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-02

Attempt to Rob Canadian Bank at
Winnipeg Failed

winnipeg Eo1le0.T
Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINNIPEG, Man., March 2.-Masked
robbers made a desperate attempt to rob
the Canadian Bank of Commerce Satur-
day night Freeman Sussex. the paying
teller. was shot through the arm and two
of the bandits, although still at large.
were wounded. AS Is customary. the bank
was open Saturday evening from until
9. Shortly after the opening Sussex was
disturbed at his work by a gruff COM
mand Of Hands up" Two bandits had
him covered with big revolvers.
'Why?' he. asked to gain time. The
answer was an oath to hurry up with his
hands or die.
Shoot yelled the only other employe
in the bank at the time, and the robbers.
complying. emptied their pistols in all
directions.
The first bullet struck Sussex in the
arm. When the robbers pistols were
empty and before the smoke cleared away
Sussex started shooting from the teller's
cage. Frustrated in their attempts to
frighten away the two clerks in the bank
the robbers ran. Sussex followed and
dropped both men to the street, but they
struggled to their feet and escaped in the
Canadian Pacific railroad yards
The interior Of the bank today showed
the nature Of the fusillade which had
been carried on there. Glass was shattered
and fixtures splintered by the flying bull
lets. of which thirty-five were discharged
in the building.
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AGAINST REFEREE SYSTEM.
Ex-senator Chambers Protest
Against It In the South.

Against It In the South.
Ex-senator William E. Chandler. who
has always taken great interest in south
ern republican politics, is out in a pub
lished protest against the policy Of de-
struction of republican organization in
the south by the referee" system. He
charges that the organization which was
built up by Mr.. Hanna has been discs
tablished by turning over all patronage
to referees selected by the national lead
ers of the party. This has operated, he
claims to discriminate against the colored
republicans and in favor Of a few men.
Mr.. Chandler would place control in
each state in central committee COM
posed of fifty or one hundred republicans
including colored men. He says that the
result of the present system vol be to
send contesting delegates to Chicago
from every southern state. In closing Mr.
Chandler says:
History often repeats itself as to meth
DDS. but frequently fails as to results. If
today instead of Mr.. La Follette's
should be intensely active to change the
method of conducting his canvass at the
south. The bold. proclamation Of a pur-
pose to control the convention by south
ern delegates secured through the detail
of Mr.. Hitchcock to go south and cap
ture them by appeals to the present fed
publicans and white democrats who may
want future Office. while there is ostra
cism of all the ,colored people OF the
south, would. If it were to meet with
success at the national convention, most
likely be followed by defeat at the polls. "