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The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1908-12-31
Local News.

Old papers, &c per bundle, at
this office.
Paul Frow spent Christmas in
Butler.
Go to Prices Bakery and con-
fectionery for Christmas can
dies.
Dan Davis, Of Topeka, spent
Christmas with Editor G, r.
Walters and family.
Oscar King, of Nevada. spent
Christmas with home folks.
Jay Wilson, of Kansas City,
spent Xmas with his parents in
this city.
W. L. Whitney served a fine
Christmas dinner at the Talmage
house.
A large number of happy
Christmas dinners are reported
in this city,
Claude Etter, foreman on the
Butler Daily Democrat. was a
Christmas visitor in this city.
Carl Schwamb, foreman on
the Columbia, No, Daily Tri-
buDe spent Christmas at home,
returning to Columbia Sunday.
, Claude Brown, a student in
{ Journalism at the University of
5 Missouri, is spending Christ
mas at home.
Henry and Nicholas Erdmans.
dorf, of Kansas City, spent
Christmas with their parents NJ.
V. Erdmansdorf and wife.
c. L. Phifer, Of the Appeal &c
Reason, Gerard, Kansas spent
christmas in Rich Hill.
e Miss Essie Goa, of Kansas
a City spent Christmas in this
!. city, the guest of, Mss Pansy
q Wilson.
e Very Swell Fancy Suspender:
q i'm Individual Boxes. Like yOJ
never saw before--He will Ike
\ them-See Beasleys.
~ City clerk J.. Ed Jones anC
e children spent Christmas witt
u Butler relatives.
Chas. Monegar, Of Denver
Col, a printer who is on his wa.
to work in the Government print
IS ing office, was in Rich Hi
5 Christmas day.
A. J. Westhsh, the laundry
. man spent Christmas at his oil
home in Hannibal, Mo.
d Curtis McKibben, Of Califor
> MIA, who is a travelling salesman
spent Christmas in this city wit
his father J. NJ. McHibben AM
n family,
.e Nh. and Mrs. w, w. JamisoI
t. spent Christmas with Mrs. Jam
isou's parents. County ClerI
Weeks and wife ia Butler.
5. Raymond Watson, Of Ne,
7 Home, was in town Sunday.
Supt, Frank Robinson AM
family spent Sunday in Butler
D, The Christmas travel on Oh
railroads was very heavy thi
D. year.
Will Brewn was IN Rich Hi
Sunday on his way TO Kansa
al City.
'r Arch Falor was a Kansas Git.
visitor Sunday.
j. j.. Jackson, who is travelinI
in Kansas for Armour's, spen
christmas with relatives, here
We received a card last weeI
ii from Leo Loeb, VIM IS a govern
IS ment Engineer at Washington
M Ii n Lao hna q mod nnsilinl
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BAPTIST CHURCH SERVICES

Preaching let aud sFd Ssaazya
HOO a. m. and Ts0 3. "a
Sunday school, 0.45 a. M.
n \. r. a.. essop 3. a.
Prayer meeuag Wednesday;
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Side class; Tuesday; TO p. "a
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PAsroR
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1908-12-31

Sweets 10 the sweet-b0y bon
bOns 81 Prices Bakery.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1908-12-31
W. M. Welch,
A~uetioneer. at your
Service.

Am selling tor ihe beet laFmers 4
be eouatry. Rlch lam No Roef
NoS pates made "a Tribune 0ms.
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The World of Snort.

Evelyn Howell, thirteen, swan five
miles over a measured triangular
course in Flushing Bay, N. Y.
BY a Encouragement of racing dates
there will be no conflict between Sara
toga and Empire City, and there Will
be no October racing at the latter
course.
1t has been agreed by the racing
associations interested that the En-
pire City meeting, including many
stakes, will be run off at Brighton
Beach in August, following the Sara
toga meeting.
C. J. Mccarthy, of New York City,
won the dry fly casting contest at the
third annual meeting OF the Anglers
Club, of New York, at Harlem Mere,
in Central Park.
Charles S. Clark, son Of Senator
Clark, of Montana, has registered COL
ors and has engaged a trainer and
an agent, who will 500 gather a
stable of useful horses to be raced on
the Jockey Club tracks.
Willie Anderson, Of Chicago, won
the Western open golf championship
at st. Louis, with Campbell, of Bos-
ton, and Nichols, of Milwaukee, tied
Just behind Mcleod, of Chicago, who
was second.
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RAILROADS DOING WELL.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Lane Looks For Improvement.

Washington, D. C.-"Returns from
the railroads generally show that
those roads not dependent upon coal,
steel and lumber industries have been
doing very well recently" said Com
missioner Lane, Of the Interstate
Commerce Commission. "Of course,
they have not done so we'll as last
year. Generally they have decided
not to make any reductions either IN
wages or in rates of freight affecting
the next three months, which is an in
dication that they believe business
will keep up.
with the opening of the steel
mills at Pittsburg and of the car
shops, more men will be employed
and there will be a larger demand
for material as well as labor than has
prevailed for some time. The opln-
ion of railroad men Is thstt we have
passed through the worst of the rail-
road difficulties, and from now on we
will gradually recover from the ef-
fects Of the panic.
1.-The prospect for large crops in
the West is extremely good. Rail-
road men do not expect normal con-
ulIlOuS W NC lSSOfClSo ouuoShtJ, 1NS
look for steady improvement. In my
opinion this improvement will be
much more rapid than some OF the lu-
g%ubrious prophets have been telling
us, because fundamentally there IS
nothing in the United States to create
or continue a panic.
"The railroads must spend money
in maintaining the roadbed and
equipment of their lines in order to
meet the demands Of commerce, be-
cause they are most seriously embar-
raised when they are not able to han
die business offered. to them, and
there is no doubt that there is an
abundance of money in the United
States which can be secured for leslt-
innate railroad investment. This was
shown by the floating of the PENN
%Sylyania bond issue"
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Newsy Paragraphs.

St. Petersburg.-A Russian torpedo
boat was wrecked in the Gulf OF flp-
land by running on the rocks on
Reval. The crew was saved by YES
sells that happened to be in the vlcin-
ity. The vessel was toWed to Hell
singfors.
Berlin.-Duchess Johann Albrecht
of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., wife OF the
Regent, died at Schwerin. She had
been ill for some time.
Paris.-Owing to their failure to
obtain clews the police practically
have abandoned further investigation
into the murder Of Adolphe Steinhell,
the artist, who, together with his
mother-in-law, Madame Japy, was
strangled to death on May 81 last.
Cherbourg, France.-TheNew York
nautical schoolship Newport has left
here for Gibraltar. The officers and
boys on board were widely enter
tanned during their stay here.
Wilmington, Del.-The Harlan &
Hollingsworth Corporation has re-
ceived a contract to build four large
steam lighters for the Central Rail-
road Company Of New Jersey. This
means a revival Of work at the large
shipyards.
London.-The issue of S25,000,O00
of new stock under the Irish Land
act of 1903 has been oversubscribed
more than %thirty-fye times, the ap-
~plications totalling more than $780,
600 900.
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GERMAN AUTO VICTORY.
Two Killed at Dieppe-Cissac Crushed
Under Machine.

Dieppe. France.-Germany won a
stupendous victory in the Grand Prlx
des Automobiles over the seventy
sevan-kllometer course here, When 1t
CAPTURED the blue ribbon event OF the
motor world. The first three cars IN
tho race to finish were German, and
of the first seven cars to finish six
were German.
Lautenschlager, driving a new car,
was the winner, covering the course
in 6 hours SIS minutes and AZ 40
seconds, at a rate Of over 69.O5 miles
an hour for the entire distance Oh
4S7.3 miles.
The race was attended by a dou-
BILE tragedy, in the death or Clssac:
the driver of a French car, and
Schaub, his mechanician. The fatal
accident occurred on the last round
of the race, when a tire was ripped
off the machine by an abrupt turn.
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Oyster Eay.-President Roosevelt
has written to Mrs. Grover Cleveland,
informing her Of a proclamation he
has signed changing the name of the
San Jacinto National Forest to n
Cleveland National Forest. in honor
of the late former President. The
letter is:
"Oyster Bay, 1908.
"My Dear Mrs. Cleyeland-It has
recently been my privilege to sign a
proclamation changing the name OF
the San Jacinto National Forest" to
the Cleveland National Forest. May
I express to you the very great pleas,
ure it gave me to take that action-a
pleasure mingled with a keen sense
Of the loss to our country and to our
citizens in the death of President
Cleveland. On February %, 1897,
President Cleveland signed the proc
lamation creating the San Jacinto
Forest Reserve in Southern Califor-
mia. The date-February 22-Was
no mere accident, since the signature
of the proclamation was timed to
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DIFFERENT NOW.
Athlete Finds Better Training Food

II was formerly the belief that TO
become strong, athletes must eat
plenty Of meat. :.
This is all out of date now, and
many trainers feed athletes on the
well-known food, Grape-Nuts, made
of wheat and barley, and cut the meat
down to a small portion. once a day:
aaThrec years ago." writes a Mich.
man. >"having become interested IN
athletics. | found | would have to: stop
eating pastry and some other kinds
Of food.
AZ got some Grape-Nuts and was
soon eating the food at every meal
for I found that when I went on the
track, I felt more lively and active.
Later, l began also to drink
Postum in place of coffee and tne.Way
r gained muscle and strength on this
diet was certainly sreat. On the DAY
NJ q field meet in June I weighed ia
mounds. On the opening OF the foot
ball season in Sept, weighed l4o:
T attributed my fine condition n
GOOD work to the discrimination OF
improper food and coffee, and the
using of Grape-Nuts and Postum, my
principal diet during training season
being Grape-Nuts.
aBefore 1 used Grape-Nuts never
felt right in the morning-always
hind of out of sorts with my stom-
ach. But now when I rise | feel good.
and after a breakfast largely OF
Grape-Nuts and cream, and a cup OF
postum, l feel like a new man."
There's a Reason"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read THE Road TO
Wellville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter: A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine. true, and full Of human
interest.
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JOLT FOR A HAND.
Three Men Get q Sample of Real Jcr-
Sey Justice.

New Brunswick, N. J.-Three men.
convicted of having sent a Black
Hand letter demanding $4,000 to the
Rev. Augustine Bassori, OF Franklin
Park, were sentenced by Judge
Booraem to twelve years each at hard
labor in State Prison. They are John
Cory, Michael Filesetor and John
Denati.
In pronouncing sentence Judge
Booraem said that the crime Of which
the men had been convicted was the
first of it's kind in this county, and he
hoped it would be the last. It would
be, he added, if severity Of punish
ment could effect that end. "The or
ganization that is guilty of such das-
tardly and cowardly crimes is capital
lied on murder and blackmail. 1t is
a foe to every member Of society, and
should be cut out, root and branch"
was his concluding comment.
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A "Hustling" Premier.

South Australians may we'll be
proud of their "hustling" premier.
From the first hour Mr.. Price landed
in this country he has been busy with
the affairs Of his State. He has been
to every city In the United Kingdom
where there is a chance to push
South Australian produce, and he
has spoken to everybody who is in a
position to do business with his State.
Altogether, Mr.. Prices visit, which
Is supposed to be a holiday tour, has
been marked by strenuous work
Australian World. y
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Queer Rules Of Royal Etiquette.
SOLD HHAnNe DRUGGISTS 5otp~eoTTI

A number of years ago 1t was per
fectiy permissible, and, in fact. a mat
ter of strict etiquette, for q visitor
who should obtain an audience with
the Sultan Of Turkey to bow and
kiss the hand of that Oriental poten-,
tate. Anarchists, however, took ad-
vantage of,the privilege, and on one
memorable occasion a treacherous
emissary drove a dagger into the
heart of his sovereign, and from thai
time forth the privilege has been dis
allowed.
When the Emperor or Empress OF
China appears in public, no other
person is allowed to occupy a higher
place than they do. Therefore, on
such occasions the shutters OF all
buildings are drawn, and the upper
parts of the houses past which the
royal procession is expected to move
are deserted, the inhabitants swarm
Ing to the ground floors in order to
show due Difference to their rulers.
When the youthful King of Spain
was twelve years Of age he one day
had the misfortune to slip and fall
down a flight Of the palace steps. Tne
fall would very probably have been
attended with fatal results had sit
not been for a servant who extended
a kindly hand and saved his young
master, by breaking the fall. But, oy
a stringent rule Of Spanish etiquette,
no servant may dare touch the sacred
person of the King, and for this very
'grave" offence the servant was at
once dismissed from his position.
BY a remarkable law OF royal Ell
ouette, which has existed for a num-
Der of years past at the Court OF Siam,
no person is permitted to sleep IN an
anartment situated above that occu-
MED by the King. A deliberate
breach of this rule has on more tnan
one occasion been punished by death.
Recently, when the King OF Siam
Maid a visit to Paris, a number OF
bedrooms we're reserved, directly
above that in which the King was 70
have slept, for the dusky followers
OF the royal visitor. The bfunder
caused great CONSERVATION among
the fearful courtiers, until the mat
FOR was explained to the management
and duly rectihed.
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Chicago. - Woe for the college
youth, the negro gambler n the
f1ashy bartender. The tailoTs' con-
yention, figuratively speaking. ore
freak clothes to tatters. What was
left Of the drop-front, the four-lncn
trousers cuff. the frilly pocket flaps
and other innovations Of the season
wasn't enough to interest a ragplck-
or. Indignation of the tailors e
bizarre garments rose to a nigh pitch
and they vowed even college boys
would have to submit to conservative
clothes in the fall, even if the toot-
ball gatherings came to look like a
campmeeting.
In the campaign against the cher
ished fads John E. SpanE d
.'keynote" in his speech:
Your salvation lies in stemmlng
the torrent of freakish garments. ne
SAID to the assembled cutters. The
tailors originated the sorcalied GIN
gerbread styles for their college pat
ronage, but they have got beyond us.
They were seized upon greedily by
the manufacturers. They were just
what the makers were waiting lot
but the curves and frills conceal de-
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TOLSTOY DRAWS 4
DREADFUL PICTURE
Russian Philosopher Issues Ter.
ribIe Arrangement of Car.
SLAUGHTER ON THE SCAFFOLDS
Most Severe Indictment Ever Penned
by Famous Author-Government
and Revolutionists Pursuing
Same Criminal Course.

London.-The Daily Chronicle
prints three close columns Of the
most passionate and severe indict-
ment ever penned by Count Leo Toll
stoy, the Russian author, in which he
p. shows all his old vivid literary skill,
of the present system Of government
Try executions" in Russia, the article
closing with a noble appeal to the
better nature Of his countrymen. In
the course Of the article Tolstoy
writes: \
"I can no longer endure 1t. I write
this =. either that these in
human deeds may be stopped or that
my connection with them may be
snapped and I be put in prison, where
I may be clearly conscious that these
horrors are not committed on my own
behalf, or, still better $50 good that
I dare not even dream Of such happt-
ness) that they may put on me, as on
those twenty or twelve peasants, a
shroud and a cap, and may push me
also off q bench 10 that by my own
W6lSuC l mdy IlSuICh IhC USii SSoPSe
DOS round my old throat"
After describing wholesale execu-
lions in grewsome detail, Count Toll
stoy says:
"All this is, carefully arranged and
planned by the learned and enHght-
ened people of the upper class. They
arrange tosdo these things secretly at
daybreak, and they so subdivide the
responsibility for these ~iniquities
among those who commit them that
each may disclaim responsibility; and
not these dreadful things alone are
done, but all sorts of other tortures
and violence are perpetrated in the
prisons, f%ortresses and convict estab-
lishments; not impulsively under the
sway of feelings s%ilencing reason, az
happens in fights or In a but, on
the contrary, at the demand OF reason
and calculation silencing feeling.
What is most dreadful in the
whole matter of this inhuman vio-
lence and killing, besides the direct
evil to the victims, Is that it brings
yet more enormous evil on the whole
people by spreading depravity among
every class Of Russians"
TolsSoy refers to the shocking
spread Of greed among rufians to OBJ
tain money by executing condemned
prisoners, and says:
Awful as are the deeds them
selves, the moral and spiritual unseen
evil they produce is incomparably
more terrible"
With regard to the Governments
contention that there is no other way
to suppress the revolutionists, Count
Tolstoy, while admitting that the rev.
olutionists' crimes are stupid and rep
rehensible in the highest degree, ac-
cuses the Government of doing the
same thing for the same motive, and
add: Call the re~Volutionists' bomb
ings and murders do not come any
where near the criminality and
stupidity of the deeds the Govern
ment commits"
Tolstoy argues at length that both
the revolutionists and the Russian
Government are pursuing the same
objects by the same criminal means,
and that if there is any difference it Is
In favor OF. the revolutionists.
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BROTHERS TRAPPED, KILLED THEMSELVES.
posee storned Home of Man Who Had Slaughtered a Inoffensive
Meat PedIer.

The Iosse drove to the Gross farm
in two automobiles from Benton Har-
Dor. Shortly before their arrival the
Gross brothers had rushed from the
house and taken position with their
runs near the front fence. After
about fifteen shots had been fired at
the officers, who replied with rifles
and shotguns, August left his cover
and ran for the house. Fred was
wounded through the leg, and when
he found that he was unable to fol-
low, fired a bullet through his own
head, dying instantly. Expecting Au-
gust to open fire ~momentarily, the
posse closed in on the house, entered
it and found the crazed man dead on
his own bed. A single shot from a
shotgun had pierced his heart.
August Gross was a well educated
man. Worry owe his failure to get
financial returns from a sight which
he had invented for military rifles is
said to have unsettled his mind. al
though it is declared that insanity Is
hereditary in the family.
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scorched badly before they could be
warped out into the stream. Four
piers. three warehouses n a gram
elevator holding 10000 bushels Oh
grain were ablaze before the hremen
could control the flames.
All of this property belongs to the
Boston and Albany Railroad Company
and the Leyland line.
At the time the fire was discovered
there were 100 laborers at work on
the pier. and with all Of them it vas
z race for life.
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Benton Harbor, Mich.-Both Au-
gust Gross, who without known aus
shot and fatally wounded an in
offensive meat pedler named James
Kirk, and his younger brother, Fred
Gross, lost their lives in a pitched
fight with Sheriff Tenant and a posse
of seven men who went to the Gross
home to arrest August Gross. One
Of the officers was injured. The
Gross brothers are both supposed to
have been insane.
After shooting Kirk, Gross barri-
caded himself in his farmhouse,
twelve miles from here, in Pine
stone township, and through 4
night exchanged occasional shots with
the crowd of farmers and officers VINO
we're guarding the premises to pre-
vent his escape. His younger brother,
Fred, Joined him in the defense OF the
house, and the aged mother OF the
two men was also in the building.
The officers found her almost pros
trated with terror when they finally
broke into the house.
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WHIRLWIND TOUR FOR DEBS.
VIII Talk Socialism From q Special
Train From Coast to Coast.

Milwaukee, Wis. - Victor Berger,
of the National Executive Committee
of the Socialist party, announced that
the committee has decided to send
out Debs in a special train for a
whirlwind tour of the country.
Starting from Chicago the Debs
train will strike for Seattle and Ia
coma, south to Los Angeles, return
via Denver and st. Louis to Chicago,
traverse the Northwestern States,
running down the Atlantic coast to
Baltimore, then back to Chicago by
way Of Louisville.
The South will be the only section
not touched by the train. The train
will be on tour for sixty days.
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coincide with the birthday Of u first
President.
president Cleveland was n OF
the first to recognize the need of for
est preservation, and the creation OF
the San Jacinto and other forest re-
serves, with a total area of 1885,
800 acres, was one of the results OF
his foresight in this direction.
Throughout his life he took great in
terest in conserving the natural re-
sources Of the Nation; and / particu-
larly regretted his inability to attend
the meeting of the Governors in May,
because that meeting was in part the
fruit Of seed he had sown years be-
fore. The name of Grover Cleveland
will always be prominently identified
with the movement to protect the
forests. Of the United States, and it
seemed to me eminently fitting THAT
one of the forests which he created
should bear his name throughout all
time.
~"Sincerely yours,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
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fects of fit. Long coats cover up the
misft of the barrel trousers. Con-
servative styles with a draping effect
that require careful tailoring Will
prevail in the fall"
The cutters were urged to pad the
shoulders only when absolutely nee
essary to give the figure proper shape
and to balance the garment sufficient
ly to give the wearer distinction and
individuality" Unusual fabrics were
also selected by the tailors for the
discard. Conservatism in shades Will
replace the zebra" styles and other
summer novelties.
Colors will be toned down to con-
form to the greater conservatism OF
design. Brown, it was said, would
be the prevailing hue for fall suits,
with a strong representation OF green
ish tints.
'Overcoat styles" said n speak
er, will be 'boXy,' t~hree-qusrter.
lengths, with a tendency to shortness.
For morning e bl~ack-braided, sin
g~le-breasted frocks of vicuna or cheV-
lot will be in great demand, to be
worn with a fancy waistcoat and
strined trousers"
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Notes Of the Diamond.

Pitchers Chech, of Cleveland, and
Willett, of Detroit, are using McGin-
nity's famous underhand raise ball.
Lajoie is coming into his own
again. He is back in the 800 class
and the only man on the Cleveland
team in that select society.
Two points in which Hugh Jen-
uings is achieving success this season
are criticising rival teams and get
ting suspended by Ban Johnson.
Scout Tom O'Brien has been sent
by the Cleveland Club to California
to look up a much-touted shortstop
named Moriarty