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Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1908-12-24

to the Front zoI s.ck in a d.. His
answer to Mr.. Crocker flashed back on
lis brain: mo mans comfort should
count against railroad business" That
decided him. To stay meant one day
lates in San Francisco. one day less
to study a situation where any hour
might be the hour of fate for the Cen
trail Pacific railroad.
The fussy little engine was now
facing west, waiting it's message from
the lever. The signal sounded and the
train was starting when a barefooted
boy came blowing round the rear car
carrying small package and in
formed the conductor breathlessly that
it was for that dandy teller that went
of this morning with the boss"
"Here!" cried Alfred, reaching down
as the boy ran alongside. Alfred
caught the parcel and threw a coin to
the bearer.
The train labored slowly up the
grade and around the hill while AL
fred united his package. 1t was a
neat luncheon; and wrapped in the
folded napkin was a spray of wild for
get-me-not. From Stella! Impulsively
he lifted the blossom to his face, and
in the action caught the f1utter of a
woman's gown high on a hill that over
topped the track. There stood Stella,
granite boulder for her lookout, be-
hind her a shining laurel. Her hat
hung by its ribbons. her cheeks were
glowing from her hurried climb, and
the wind fluttered her full skirts and
tossed her shining hair. She waved
her handkerchief as the train passed.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1908-12-24
The Ananias Club.

The membership of the Ananias
club has been increased by the addi-
ton of two names-William NJ. Laffan,
publisher of the New York Sun, and
Delavan Smith, editor of the Indianap-
oils News.
The two gentlemen are perfectly
capable OF defending themselves if
they consider it advisable or neces-
sary to enter defense against the in
clusion of their own in a list that al
ready bears so many distinguished
names.
But we are privileged to recall that
in the case of three of the distin-
guished members-namely, Herbert
w. Bowen, +. II. Hartman and Mrs.
Bellamy StOrer-there was produced
documentary evidence to substantiate,
support and prove their statements
and contentious. and, in the case of
the two last named. the documentary
evidence was in the form of letters
from the president and bore his sig
nature.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1908-12-24
The Arrogant East.

The west, pulsating with boundless
industrial life, demands the removal
of certain oppressive tariff schedules.
The west contributes far more than
the east to the sum total of national
prosperity. The east says to the
west: You have the soil tillers, the
wealth creators, the mines and the
railroads, but certain proportion of
your profits belongs to us. We sit in
the gates of prosperity and take toll
our right
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1908-12-24
SYNOPSIS.

The story opens during a tip OF the
overland Mall through the Rocky
mountains. while efforts are being made
to build up the country. Uncle Billy"
Dodge. stage driver. Alfred Vincent, a
young man, and Phneas Cadwaliader, in
PRODUCED. They come across the re
mains of a massacre. Later at Anthony's
station, they find the redskins have car
ried their destructive work there also.
Stella Anthony. daughter of Anthony,
keeper of station, is introduced. The trav-
elers find that Anthony has been killed.
Vincent with letter of introduction to
Gov. Stanford is assigned his work in
unearth1ng plans of enemies of railroad,
being built
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1908-12-24

appointment that did not lift while he
attended to his scant baggage.
The superintendent came out short
ly, giving hasty orders to Bennett as
the two walked toward the big roam
known as the Boss Lightning
Striker" They passed Uncle Billy;
but Benefits face was a mask till the
roam clattered out Of sight, when he
turned back, another soul looking
from his eyes.
How air yo' pegs TO walkin', you
ole bronco buster?" Bennett questioned
in a hearty voice, slapping his heavy
hand on Uncle Billy's shoulder.
They set off briskly and in single
file up the steep cutoff that made in
one mile the elevation of five miles OF
grading.
What kin do for yo' all, you rotary.
eyed ole coon?" Bennett asked with
another bear cuff as they came
abreast.
Il want a job on Charley Crockeh's
Dutch Flat stage line. Can 1 get it?'
You bet yo' bottom dollah! They
need men like you. Just chuck yo'
right to Spalding; he's boss of the
company's new stage line. But what's
yo' all's crouch agin the old man."
Haven't any in particular. There's
a little gal oveh hyah, Bill Anthony's
daughter"
Shore. We tuck her in fur yo'
sake; KEEP her TO her own. The ole
woman's dead stuck on her; wanted
her to stay right along, but she
wouldn't
That's her, all right. You remem-
Der Bill Anthony"
Reckon l do. He's that gold-plated
ole cuss that built a sort O suburb to
the Golden City over thar in Washoe,
amt he?"
Same. But the Injuns got him. an
the girl has no relations that she
knows of: so l sent her oveh hyah to
you. l want to be neah her, and"
Benefits nudge sent Uncle Billy off
the trail. You ole Mormon! Amt
thinkin' O. marryin' her yo'self, are
ye?"
We'll. by Jimmy! I'm not that kind
of sardine. She's IS, maybe. and I'm
squirting at my fiftieth birthday. II
I'd had a daughter, an she was like
Stella Anthony, the prince O Wales
wouldn't be good enough for her. See
where I'm driying?"
They came suddenly to the pick.
torn engine path where Benefits
gang were spilIing the chairs" over
the tianges of the rails to the Ties.
Instantly banter and familiarity van
ished, and Jake Bennett became the
quiet, lynX-eyed oyerseer. They had
surprised the men working we'll under
the temporary foreman; yet Uncle
Billy saw a sweep of fresh energy
speed down the line, as the under man
took up his hammer and Bennett
swiftly examined the work done in his
absence. He spoke scarcely 3 word,
but his straight" eye saw every poor
joint, each badly set chair ana .is
own hands often assisted In tie read
justing.
When he returned to the end of the
section where Uncle Billy was waiting
he said, The boss has powerful good
news to-day. That dispatch was a
copy OE one the governor got from
Huntington at Washington. The rail-
road bills passed, an the c. P. COM
pany's got auotheh yeah on the fust
so miles an right smart mo- land be
sides"
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1908-12-24

for a moment before he left in the
afternoon, if possible. He had slipped
the note with a coin into the stable
boys hand and was in the saddle when
the superintendent came out of the hot
little box that did duty as a telegraph
office, and the two were quickly out
on the grade.
so this is the railroad Mr. McLane
claims is standing on end and leading
up to heaven instead of across the
Sierras over Judah's route?" Alfred
stopped his horse and looked back
through the deep cut, across the deep
er ravine where the bridge-builders
were at work. THAT spider web looks
wickedly frail," he added.
It's strong enough to hold our fly
till we meet our time limit Plenty of
time for stiffening up and filling in
afterward"
The horses hoofbeats were now
ringing clear on bare granite Where
do you get earth for your fills? The
trees here don't seem to have root
hold against summer zephyr"
That's one Of my small troubles.
Sometimes we have to go half a mile
afield for soil. And carts-they can't
make 'em fast enough. I've got 2,5O0
men and 800 carts; but we'll have to
double that at once if we make our
so miles on time. And where under
the canopy the men are to come from
l can't see. Talk of bricks without
straw; Pharaoh's job was easy COM
pared to mine"
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1908-12-24
CHAPTER v.
The Coming Of Uncle Billy.

Down the rain-soaked street of the
railroad village fastened an alert
youth carrying a yellow paper. Where
all was hurry, one flying figure more
Or less would not have been noticed
but this one carried crutch; one foot
was turned backward and hung high
above the ground. Yet one forgot tC
be sorry for the cripple, so quick was
he, SO shining with good nature. Every
one called him boy though he
was 90.
Hello, AL! What's yo' hurry?'
asked a bystander. You can do mo
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1908-12-24
CTO BE CONTINUED.1
Far Erom IL

Former Resident-How things have
changed here in 90 years, 1 wouldn't
know the town. What has become of
Floogus, who used to shave notes and
lend money at two per cent d month";
Hotel Clerk-He's gone to his re-
ward
Former Resident-What! Is he
dead?
Hotel Clerk-Oead? Not on your
life! He's president of q trust cam
pany in New York
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19

S. A. Barron, Mexican mining man,
is another famous fisherman. He es-
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19

Several parties returning from Bur-
bank, headed by Louis Lamer captured
the limit. The feed in that part of
Southern California must be plentiful,
as the birds are very fat.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19
FISHING


Anglers who were fortunate enough
to be at Playa del Rey yesterday about
IL o'clock, when the pompano came in
and began to take the lures cast off the
west side of the big pier, had a few
hours of capital sport. The pomps ran
large, and many times when the lines
came in three of the beautiful silver
sides were brought to the basket.
Two big yellowtail cruised by after
the sport had lasted nearly an hour,
and things quieted down a bit. The
school of the toothsome ones returned,
however. At the height of the excite
ment a big barracuda ran UP to the
surface, following a pompano that had
fingered in too fond dalliance with a
bit of shark meat attached to a sharp
hook. The angler quickly ran off his
reel, but the barracuda had taken
alarm. over a dozen fine sea trout
were taken during the day.
A few surf fish were taken, as were
a few yellowfin, but the popular COR
bina has not yet begun to come into
the lagoon entrance in goodly numbers.
Fishing at Playa del Rey has been the
best along the coast this week.
Among those who will head for the
west fork of the San Gabriel river to-
day are James Henley, Frank Green
and Albert G. A. Caster. In another
lam Holmes and George Clark.
Never before in the history of fish
ing at Catalina have there been so
many famous fishermen on the job.
Sportsmen who have been breaking
records In all parts of California have
congregated to cast their bait in the
waters about White point. The hotel
register at Catalina shows that several
prominent anglers are spending their
vacation on the island.
A. w. Hooper of Boston, vice presi-
dent of the Arkansas Pass Tarpon club,
who landed five gamy Jewish the other
day on light tackle, is spending Sum
day at White Rock, trying to break
another Southern California record in
the fishing, line.
S. A. Barron, a Mexican mining man,
is another famous fisherman. He es-
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19
[. A. A. c. GOSSIP

About 1870 o'clock yesterday after
noon loud noise was heard in the
reading room, and at first 1t sounded
like a riot. Cues were dropped and
those who were eating luncheon left
the tables. All rushed into the reading
room to find out what the noise was,
and discovered that it was only George
Adair's new stockings. Have you seen
them?
Among the members who enjoyed the
free Turkish bath yesterday IN the gall
lery of the handball court were George
Adair, Billy Henderson and Jack Nest.
An awful trio. 81 told you So" said
Jack. Jaw, Holbrook wasn't in train
ing" said diplomatic Georgia and his
cowbell. Billie seemed we'll pleased.
Dick Welcome and Gordo Whalen
beat Lou Guernsey and Mercer m an
exciting game of handball yesterday
afternoon. The score was Fl to is.
Official score of handball game be-
tween Parker and Holbrook: Parker
81. Holbrook IS.
Cowbells no good. Parker had cotton
in his ears.
Tough on MacDowell, wasn't it?
Who said Holbrook?
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19
HUNTING

Have you gone dove shooting?" is
the popular question nowadays among
the sports who gather at the various
sporting headquarters. Several parties,
who have just returned with their
limits of twenty-five doves, say that
the hills and ravines are just covered
with hunters, all. sizes, ages and color.
Los Angeles was well represented in
such notables as James ]. Jeffries,
George Cline, Ed Tufts and others who
enjoy this sport.
Several parties returning from Bur-
bank, headed by Louis Lamer, captured
the limit. The feed in that part of
Southern California must be plentiful,
as the birds are very fat.
Sidney Bristol of Pasadena brought
down nineteen birds, Percy Gibbins got
twelve and Louis Herman bagged four
| teen. Another party that left a few
days ago for the San Bernardino noun
tains, returning yesterday, were Will
lam Dlllett, Ralph and Ora Lowe and
others. who captured the limit in the
dove line.
One of the first accidents to be re-
ported comes from Anaheim and San
I Bernardino. Walter Thinker of Olive
yesterday accidentally shot himself in
the left arm, which may have to be
amputated. Thinker, with another COM
panion, was out rabbit hunting and at
tempted to crawl through the railing
of the bridge over the Santa Ana river,
to descend to the bed of the river. The
gun was discharged. Thinker was re-
moved to his home and later brought
I to the California hospital in this city.
George Hunicutt of Whittier is lying
at the Marlborough hospital at San
Bernardino, suffering with a wound in
the shoulder caused by the accidental
discharge of a shotgun while he was
hunting near Rosena yesterday morn
ing.
Jack Anderson of Los Angeles shot
200-pound deer early Wednesday
while hunting in the San Fernando
canyon.
Fred Gay, a 17-year-old boy, while
hunting on the Encino ranch, shot a
six-point buck weighing 1928 pounds
! dressed.
At Mountain View the deer season
was opened with rush and yesterday
Hayes Porter headed party in search
of deer. Several parties registered al
the Mountain View hotel, as follows:
Roy V. Bailey, Long Beach; George
McLewis, Hynes, CAL; Clarence Good
son, Glendora Ebert Bender, Glen
dora; ]. N. Baker, Glendora; Charles
Schmid, ]. M. johnson, Los Angeles
A. ]. Sherry, Sawtelle; Miss Mabelle
Hoffman, Pasadena; B. E. Hart, F. e
Bertslinger w. A. Holmes and George
Fennimore, Los Angeles; f. G.. Pas
sano, Miss Fay Keator, Columbus
Miss; John e. Hirsch, Mrs. ]. e
Hirsch, Fred B. Manley, Bertha A.
Nicklin, Laura Lee Moore, Katherine
Moore, Los Angeles; Miss Madge
Brock, Barbara camp; L. j. Small
Page, Palo Alto, Cal; A. e. Elliott
Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19

tablished a world record the other day
when he captured a yellowtail weigh
ing thirty-four and three-fourths
pounds on three-six tackle-the heav-
lest fish ever caught on such light
tackle.
w. w. Simpson, the English angler,
set the sporting world talking the other
day with his record catch of a sixty
acknowledgement yellowtail on a
light tackle.
Senator Frank Flint caught a yell
lowtail Weighing f1fty-two and one-half
pounds at Catalina, and qualified for
two silver buttons.
Chief Forester Pinchot, who is the
leader of the distinguished party of
government officials who have been
passing a vacation period at Avalon,
has just returned from Clemente island.
He qualified for a gold button with
twenty yellowtail, ranging in weight
from thirty to thirty-nine pounds. He
also captured forty-four-and
fourth-pound yellowtail.
Assistant Attorney General Wood
ruff last night sent over silver but
ton fish weighing more than thirty five
pounds.
DIR. H. l.. Houghton of Boston, who
is of the same party, sent in a yellow
tail that lacked just one ounce of
weighing the required thirty pounds to
get a silver button.
Rev. Arson p Atterbury returned
from Clemente last night with his
brother, B. C. Atterbury, and his son,
B. B. Atterbury, and his nephew, and
brought back silver-button yellowtail
weighing thirty-three and one-fourth
and thirty and one-half pounds.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19

still is active as a member of the Cali
fornia club and the Los Angeles Coun-
try club, and has been seen many
times enjoying the popular game of
handball at the Los Angeles Athletic
club. He is we'll liked by all the mem
bers for his jovial manner.
He always is ready with. joke and
the members believe that were he liv-
ing in the time of the guillotine in
France and had fate chosen him as one
of the unlucky ones he would have re-
marked as did another, This is a
grave affair"
In addition to formally receiving the
foregoing upon the board, the directors
a -thorized the placing of bonds of the
club, to the amount of $500, 900, toward
the necessary fund for the erection of
the new building.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19

especially on the south coast and its
influence upon the sport has been
material aid in it's prosperity and up
building. 1t is a strong organization,
and its plans include participation in
future interclub events up the coast,
which will increase interest of the gen.
eral public in the sport of yachting.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19
pIAv ZOE COLE TITLE.

DAVENPORT, Ia, July 1S.-Nathan
Phelps of Midlothian finished two up
on Harry w. Allen of st. Louis in the
first eighteen holes of the finals for the
western amateur golf championship to-
day. Phelps scored 70, Allen 81.
The oasis., 1908-07-11

of the country tbo wise administer. ing of coal tar preparations has aided Co great extent, and drcnch. ing with calcium chloride has shown thet the dust can be kept at a minimum. Those methods how. ever, are not perfect solutions of the vast problem of road mainten- ance and dust suppression. They are merely palliatives, and while they are being advocated in such sections of the country as will be immediately benefited, the bigger problem of discovering an absolute antidote for the action of the auto- mobile Is occupying the attention of scientists on both sides of the Atlantic. The solution of that problem may be given at the big Congress at Paris in the fall, or it may be discovered before; possibly on this side of the western ocean; possibly in the lands where good roads were known when America was in it's swaddling clothes.
The oasis., 1908-07-11


 and the very life of these roads de- mands a constant supply of that material. It is the surface binder that keeps the road smooth; cracks filled in; that maintains the even- ness and binds the rubble stones into one impervious mass. Every iron tired wheel does it's own small quota of good by acting as a rock dust maker and miniature road roller. The auto, whirring along at dizzy speed, simply flat tened its tires against the ground as it sped and the tractive force so exerted hurled the precious rock dust into the air and from there 1t was swept to the adjacent farms and lawns in binding clouds. So pronounced was the mere dust nuisance created in many portions of the country that real estate de- creased in valne to an appreciable extent, and farmers complained that the ever-increasing dust on their fields, vines and trees made it impossible for them to sell their harvests at as good prices as for merly.
 When these conditions had been established by scientifically gath cred data the Director of the Office of Public Roads set on foot numerous investigations and ordered many experiments; the results of which it is believed will ultimately prove the automobile to be a great bene- factor, for in the struggle to over- come the conditions created high way engineers must do one of two things; find 6 road surfacing ma- terial which makes no dust and needs no dust to maintain its in- tegrity, or discover a method of controlling the dust on the roads already laid. When that is done one of the greatest problems of the centuries will have been solved, and humanity will have gained one of the greatest blessings i'm aginable. Absolutely dust-proof thoroughfares would add immeas- urably to the comforts of the human race; multiply the beauty of vast stretches of country; add countless millions of wealth to suburban and country property and do much to retard disease, for dirt means disease, and the 2,150,- 900 miles of highways in the United States make not less than 90 per cent of the dust which long-suffering people take into their lungs each year.
 To the time of present writing no dust-proof road surface material cheap enough for use in country districts has been found, and the experiments now proceeding are therefore along the second line; the controlling of the dust by various methods of spraying and by the use of binder materials. In some sections, especially through the great fruit belts of California, splendid success in dust suppress sion has been attained by spraying the dirt roads with oils possessing asphaltic bases. In other portions
The oasis., 1908-07-11
AUTOMOBILES DESTROYING ROADS.
Soft Rubber Tires Strip Hard Surface Highways of Rock Dust Binder. France Sounds Alarm.

The Office of Public Roads of the United States Department of Agri- culture has recently been conduct ing a series of very interesting ex- periments to learn the amount of damage done to the rock surface thoroughfares by automobiles. The results prove that the modern fast moving motor car is the greatest menace to macadam roads that has ever made it's appearance.
 On some stretches of thorough fare, especially in New England, where many broad and smooth roads have been constructed, the retrogression is not less than 40 per cent, and it has been forced upon the Director of the Office of Public Roads and upon many high way engineers that if some plan is not speedily devised for overcom- ing the bad effects of mems latest and most sensational mode of land transportation, the monetary loss will be stupendous and the good work of many years will go for naught.
 It is not only in America that this condition prevails. The men of England, France, Germany, Holland, Belgium and other coun- tries of the old world, where hard surfaced highways are appreciated, have also learned that the big, soft rubber tires of the automobile are doing an almost incredible amount of harm. France has officially taken cognizance of the condition and has called an International Congress to meet at Paris on Octo- Der II to discuss plans for saving the roads, while in no way inter- fering with the development of the automobile, for no scientist will condemn one worthy civilizing in- fuence because 1t temporarily con- fiicts with another. He will mere 
 ly admit that a new condition has arisen, and then set on foot an in vestigation with the idea of master ing it.
 To many it may seem beyond belief that pneumatic rubber tire can work any injury to a road composed of bits of crushed flint rock, but it becomes plain when the theory of such roads is ex- plained. The macadam road, named after John Louden Maca- dam of Ayr, Scotland, who was for years highway surveyor of Bristol, was first laid down by the eminent French road engineer Tresauget of Limoges, who wisely figured that slowly moving iron tired wagons would crush dust particles from the stones of the roads surface that those particles would be con stantly sifted between the inter- stices of the large stones; that every passing wagon would crush them firmer into all ruts and inequali- ties; that rains would aid, and the ultimate result would be a smooth surface, water-sheddipg highway.
 Tresauget planned wisely; Mac adam came two decades later, and made slight change in the laying of the road foundation and gave to such thoroughfares his name. For century and a quarter the wisdom of the road engineers of Limoges and Ayr was justified. Then arose condition they had never figured on; fast moving vehicle running on broad soft tires. The roads be-
The oasis., 1908-07-11
Sonora Railway.

New daily Passenger rral1 service thssegt between Sogaies and Ouaymas.
 Effective May | 1908, f2;0i am