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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-08-06

The brass collars that operate the
near railroad connecting Freeport and
Dodgeville, seem to have just discovered
that said near road is in an unsafe con-
dition, something everyone elsewhere
has known for many moons. But things
are looking up bit. A large gang of
laborers is at work between here and
Dodgeville, fixing things. - Holandale
Review.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-08-06
GOING NORTH
GOING SOUTH

No, COB arrives at Linden at s;O5 a. m. and
COZ departs from Linden at $50 a, M, making
connections with both east and west bound
G.. a n. w. trains
No. Cos leaves Whitson Junction at i:90 p m
for Linden taking passengers from both O.
4 n. W. trains to Linden.
W. A. JONES. General Manager
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-08-06
The Wisconsin Cow.

Madison Journal: A japanese dairy
man is paying H. C. Taylor of Oxford
vile $500 apiece for cows for his dairy
at Toxic. What further need be said
of the reputation of the Wisconsin COW
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-08-06
Rock for Sale.

We have about one hundred loads of
rock for sale, suitable for building and
cistern work at the Daylight Shoe
Store.
We are also selling shoes at rock
bottom prices. Come and examine
goods and be convinced of the merits
of our shoes. 4w j. H. DAY a. Son.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-08-06

The richest rice. hand in the United
States is on the. Grand Prairie in
Arkansas. For information write J
f. Bale. Stuttgart, Ark. S2w4
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-08-06

Six rooms in Library building. Er
quire of c. GILMAN. lStf
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-08-06

viding it comes before Jan. |, otherwise
your last birthday. Multiply the result
by 1000, deduct 697, 423; substitute for
the figures corresponding letters of the
alphabet, A for l, B for 2, c for 3. etc.
The result will give the name by which
you are properly known.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10
CHAPTER V.

Then Abbie Rice consented. To-
gether they went to a pawnshop and
purchased pistol. They had planned
first to do the deed in the Office of the
doctor, but he was afraid that she
would not be able to get away, so they
went to the apartment where he had
installed her. He loaded the pistol,
cooked it, but in his eagerness drew
the hammer so far back that he broke
the spring. There was no other way
of dying at hand. The killing had to
be postponed.
For a week after that first attempt
at suicide DIR. Rustin and Abbie Rice
lived a life of widest dissipation.
They had gone to Council Bluffs and
there had the pistol fixed, but the
woman hoped that he had abandoned
his plan of death. But at the end of
the week he was back at his old plan.
She had given her consent, SO there
was no drawing back. Together, late
at night, they went to his Office He
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10

on Rustin's life, and the Travellers
Insurance Company of Hartford, and
the Employers Liability of London.
Each of the latter companies have
$4,000 on Rustins life
In each policy is a clause declaring
void the insurance in case the insured
died of intoxicants or while under the
influence of intoxicants.
Here is the story told in detail:
CHAPTER I.
A mansion on the fashionable street
in Omaha was ablaze with lights. The
street in front was crowded with car
riages. Others were dashing up and
leaving. Handsomely dressed women
were being assisted up the steps. The
sound of the music and the gay con-
versation fioated out to the street.
Big doings," said one cabby to an
other.
Bet your life," agreed his friend.
but I'm glad to see it. doc Rustin' S
a fine fellow. He'll make a good hus-
band for any girl. That fellow is a
conner, all right. He is a good fellow,
you bet"
And so he was. Almost anybody in
Omaha asked casually that night
, would have told the questioner that
DR.. Frederick T. Rustin, ex-Yale ath-
lete, good fellow and one of the rising
young surgeons in the west, was a
man of whom Omaha was proud. And
they were glad to see him marry a
leading society girl. 1t insured him a
fine practice, and if he would only
stick to business in a few years he
would be rich.
A few years after that night DR.
Rustin, established with his wife in a
little home of their own, had started
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10
PRESCRIBED cUTIcURA
After Other Treatment FaiIed-RaW
Eczema on Baby's Face Had
Lasted Three Months-At Last
Doctor Found Cure.

"Our baby boy broke out with &C.
zema on his face when one month old.
One place on the side of his face the
size of a nickel was raw like beefsteak
for three months, and he would cry
out when 1 bathed the parts that were
sore and broken out. I gave him
three months treatment from a good
doctor, but at the end of that time the
child was no better. Then my doctor
recommended Cuticura. After using
a cake of Cuticura Soap, third of a
box of Cuticura Ointment, and half a
bottle of Cuticura Resolvent he was
well and his face was as smooth as any
baby's. He is now two years and a
half old and no eczema has reappeared.
Mrs. M. L. Harris, Alton, Kan, May
Il and June IL, 1907"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10


tetanus germs forced itself into his
mind. But his two attempts had
failed-and still there was the clause
in his insurance policy forbidding sui
eide. He must die by the hand of
some one else. Into the half-crazed
mind of the physician there slipped as
shrewd and diabolical an idea as any
one had ever known.
do you love me?" he asked Abbie
Rice.
You know 1 do" she responded.
Then if you love me, kill me"
calmly suggested the physician.
The woman Shrank back in horror.
Il will live for you, but 1 will not
kill you,'' she told him.
IF you love me as you say, kill
yourself afterward. 1 will arrange
that, but you must not kill yourself
so as to make any scandal. I want
to spare my wife as much of that as
possible
The woman pleaded with him, but
he was obdurate. He was drinking
heavily and taking drugs, too, so he
was not responsible for what he did.
I'm going to kill myself he de-
clared bluntly, but L have to have
some one to do it. Now it is you or
some one else
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10
He Could Not Read IL.

While visiting in a small town In
Connecticut, seven miles from the rail-
road station, / eceived occasionally
a postal card from my fiance, written
in a kind of shorthand of our own.
One day when a cousin was going to
~the post office 1 asked her to inquire
If there was anything for me. She re
turned, saying there was nothing. The
next day she made the same inquiry
when the postmaster showed her a
postal card addressed to me and said:
EN-, can you read this?" She said
No" The-eupon he said: Neither
can l, and l have been trying ever
since yesterday" This illustrates the
fact that curiosity is not confined to
the fair sex.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10


case had told her tragic story-the
story of the triple death pact He
looked gaunt and pale, and there were
hollows under his eyes
A policeman's hand fell upon his
shoulder.
you are arrested for murder in the
first degree" were the words that met
his ears
DIR. ]. P. Lord had named him be
fore all the world as the man who was
seen staggering away from the Ruskin
home. half an hour after the fatal shot
was fired
Make the bail as high as you wish.
We will meet it," said he-
He was admitted to bail and left the
court with staggering footsteps.
What win be the outcome of the
strange triple murder pact? No man
can tell.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10

work and get back his practice, but
the effort seemed to do little good He
made money, but the good-fellow in
stinct was too strongly developed. All
that he had went. and more, too. in the
gay life about town and with evil COM
partnerships.
And just at this stage there came
into his life the other woman.
The wife to whom he owed allegi-
ance was forgotten. The new woman
held him in a WISE And then the
money went faster than ever and the
debts piled higher
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10

will kill me if l will give him drugs
with which he can kill himself. Come
down to the office to meet him"
Abbie Rice accompanied the doctor
to his Office. A shaky, nervous wreck
of man was there waiting them. 1t
was evident that he was on the verge
of lunacy from shattered nerves. He
could scarcely speak coherently. And
there between these three the
strangest suicide pact in the history
of American crime was arranged.
Davis was to do the killing, and for
this service the doctor was to give
him a bottle of chloride of gold and a
bottle of morphine tablets. After
shooting the doctor he was to take the
morphine, and then next day when she
heard the others attempt had been
successful Abbie Rice was to kill her.
self
Ten minutes after the time that Dr.
Rustin had left Abbie Rice at the cor
ner Mrs. Rustin in her own room was
awakened by a shot. She hurried
downstairs to find her husband lying
on the porch. He had been shot
through the stomach.
"A man shot me-" he said, and that
was all the information they got.
In half an hour he was dead
The next morning when it was
learned that DR.. Rustin had been
killed there was tremendous excite
ment in Omaha.
And following the first excitement
came the news that one of DR.. Rus
tins patients, Charles Edward Davis,
brother of one of the leading bankers
in the city, had attempted suicide.
The police arrested the woman with
whom it was known Rustin had been
friendly, Abbie Rice. She had no
chance to carry out her part of the
agreement, for they caught her early
in the morning following the shooting.
For three days the police were in
the air. Then somebody remarked SO
Abbie Rice could hear:
1.-The doctors wife gets her insur-
ance, anyhow.
And then the full story came out.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10
The Volunteer.

praised and seemed to be his favorite
character in fiction.
In this way he trained my mind,
and when he suggested to me that L
kill him, the idea was not as horrible
as it would have been had my mind
not been prepared by the training
through which 1 had passed. In fact
the suggestion seemed to come as
matter of course and was not near SO
horrible as it undoubtedly seems to an
outsider, that is, to one who hears it
for the first time.
THE doctor had determined to die
He had told me that so often that L
had begun to look upon his death as
matter of course and the fact that he
could not commit suicide without his
family losing his life insurance was
also impressed upon me.
~ guess I'll have to get some one
to kill me- said Dr. Rustin one night
after we had been talking about his
death.
That was all he said then Some
time later he made the same state
ment-I guess I'll have to get some
one to kill me-
If you die, I'll die, too said.
THAT seemed to please him, and
still again he said to me, I guess TT
have to get some one to kill me-
But at the last minute 1 found that
l could not do it The training had
not been complete, and l failed him.
Insurance Men in Case.
The insurance companies have
taken a hand in the murder mystery,
and three different companies fled pc
titions in the district court asking
that the testimony of both Charles
Davis and Mrs. Rice be perpetuated-
A list of questions which was attached
to the petition is proposed to Davis
and Mrs. Rice, the questions covering
practically the same ground as that
covered at the inquest The purpose
is to have the testimony of these two
witnesses in proper legal form to pre-
sent as evidence in case either should
leave the jurisdiction of the Omaha
courts.
The insurance companies signing
the petition are the Aetna Life Of
Hartford. which had a $4,000 policy
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10

my wiz and children You have
agreed to kill me. Now you must do
it.
81 cannot" she sobbed 81 would
only lose my nerve again"
The doctor thought. "All right" he
said. Il will go out to the barn You
come around the back way. 1 will
stand up and you will shoot me, and
they will think that was killed by q
burglar
Still protesting and half crying, he
put her out of the house and started
back himself for the barn. The woman
started around toward the back, but
when she reached the alleyway man
ran out of it, and again she lost her
nerve Jumping on a car, she started
downtown
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10
The extraordinary popularity of fine

The extraordinary popularity of fine
white goods this summer makes the
choice of Starch a matter of great i'm
portance. Defiance Starch, being free
from all injurious chemicals, is the
only one which is safe to use on fine
fabrics Its great strength as a stiffen-
er makes half the usual quantity OF
Starch necessary, with the result OF
perfect finish, equal to that when the
goods were new.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10

in to justify the expectations of his
friends Two children were born, and
by that time the young surgeon had
become known as one of the best men
in his profession throughout the entire
west. Only "a years old, happily mar
ried and rapidly becoming wealthy,
the young doctor apparently had every
thing to live for
And then, suddenly, his friends be-
gan to notice slight change.
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showed her where he wanted her to
fire the bullet into him.
when 1 have fallen,s he said, you
must slip away from the house Get
on a car, go to the end of the line.
take out the empty cartridge from the
pistol and throw it away Then put in
a fresh cartridge and shoot yourself"
Il cannot" she sobbed- Il cannot
1 love you and / cannot kill you"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10
CHAPTER IN.

People had begun to say What a
pity it is about young Rustin.' His
actions were common gossip and his
reputation as surgeon was black
ened- People did not want man who
might come to them with shaking
hands and unsteady nerves. And
again the idea which had led him to
inoculate himself with typhoid and
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10

By following the directions, which
are plainly printed on each package of
Defiance Starch, Mems Collars and
Cuffs can be made just as stiff as De
sired. with either gloss or domestic
finish Try it, 16 OF. for 10c, sold by
all good grocers.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10
london,a BRIDGES.

Few perhaps are aware of the ex-
tent to which the city of London is
bridged over In all, it seems. there
are no fewer than rs bridges. OF
these 10 are railway bridges, three
are bridges over roads (such as Hol-
born viaduct) and So bridges which
connect private premises.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10
CHAPTER vi.

A wave of rage swept over Rustin.
He stepped forward, caught the wo-
man and shook her
You have got to do it You said
you would, and you have got to do it,"
he cried fiercely-
She tried to plead, to argue, but it
was no use.
II have got to die for the sake Of
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10

Nine years Of this ran me down to a
state of continual weakness and
thought 1 never would be better until
I began using Doan's Kidney Pills.
The improvement was rapid, and since
using four boxes I am cured and have
never had any return of the trouble
Sold by all dealers. SO cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co, Buffalo, N. Y.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10
CHAPTER M.

Mrs. Rustin was heart-broken, but
she knew what to do. The idea that
the cause of her husbands troubles
might be himself never entered her
head. Day and night she nursed him,
and even when his brother physicians
gave up hope the wife held on
He shall not die" she told the doc
tors Il will save him.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10

ney disease attacked
me. The pain in my
back was SO agoniz-
ing I finally had to
give up work. Then
came terrible attacks
of gravel with acute
pain and passages of
blood. In all / passed
% stones, some as
large as a bean.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10
DEVELOPMENT.

Remember said the earnest IN
ventor, sit amt so very many years
since the telephone caused laughter"
That's true" answered the man
who has trouble with central. AT first
1t caused laughter; now it causes pro
fanity"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10
CHAPTER VII.

Three days later when Abbie Rice
saw DR.. Rustin he greeted her gaily.
4 have found the man to do it," he
said. His name is Charles Edward
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10

The hand can never execute any
thing higher than the character can
Rspire-EmerSon.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10

Smokers appreciate the quality value o
Lewis Single Binder cigar. Your deale
or Lewis Factory, Peoria, Ill.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10
TRAGIC STORY
OF DIR. RUSTIN
Happening in Modern Life That
PaLes the Widest Fiction Ever
EUolued from Brain of
Novelist


and
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10

If you have anything to do. do it
don't loaf on the job.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10

Many a man is buried in oblivion
long before he Is dead.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10

Talk not of good life, but let thy
good Nfe talk-Schiller
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10
REASON FOR EXERCISING.

"Are you trainin' for a race, Jim
mie?"
NAV, we're goin' to have meat for
dinner to-day an I'm gettin' up an ap-
petite
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10

MIS- Wfnsiow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teethfng. softens the gums reduces
nammation. aiays pain, cures wind collie sc botti
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10

The Oldest Inhabitant-"Whewi
Isn't this weather the worst you ever
saw?"
mo, sir. No weather is the worst
I ever saw" Press.
Breaking 1t GENTLY understand
sir, that you are the possessor of
swollen fortune"
WELL gruff1y answered the beauti-
full girls father, what is that to
your"
81 merely thought that 1 would give
you due notice of my intention to
help take the swelling out of it. Myr-
tie and 1 are going to be married. -
Chicago Record-Herald
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10

FARMS FOR RENT or sale on crop pay
ments. j. MuLHALL, Sioux City, la
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10
AWFUL GRAVEL ATTACKS.
Cured by Doan's Kidney Pills After
Years of Suffering.

F. A. ftippy, Depot Ave-, Gallatin,
Tenn. SAYS: Fifteen years ago kid
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10

Omaha Neb.-Most coolIy and calm
ly Mrs. Abbie B. Rice, the woman
in the case in the Rustin murder mys-
terry, said that DR.. Rustin had trained
her up to the point of killing him, first
familiarizing her with hospital scenes
and then by working on the hero wor-
ship and sympathy in her nature had
gradually worked toward the point
where she could fire the shot which
would kill him. Books of fiction in
which one man died for another, and
books in which great sacrifices were
made for friendships sake were read
by DR.. Rustin to Mrs. Rice and COM
| mented upon by him until the woman
saw the killing of Rustin by herself in
a kind of a hale.
For weeks and weeks DIR. Rustin
trained me to murder him." said Mrs.
Rice. First, he trained me to the sight
of bloodshed. He used to take me
| around with him when he performed
operations. On these trips ] dressed
| as nurse in clothing he furnished me.
| Gradually 1 got used to seeing the op-
erations, and there was no more nau-
sea on my part. In time an operation
did not affect me in the least.
| "NobIeress and Self Sacrifice"
after 1 became well advanced in
that portion of his plan, DR.. Rustin be-
gan talking to me about the nobleness
| of self sacrifice. Books in which one
friend sacrificed his life for another
| were read to me by the doctor, and
| their beauties pointed out to me. "a
| Tale of Two Cities was one of his
| favorites, and he read that to me a
1 of oh "a of of
| Sydney Carton was eulogized and
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10

There goes a dreamer of dreams"
DOS his wife keep boarders ?''-Bir-
mingham (Ala-) Age-Herald.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10
GLOBE SIGHTS.


More than half the men believe that
the home should be in the woman's
name.
Ask a man how to spell hard
word, and note the look of perplexity
on his face.
When two men are life long friends.
each man thinks it is largely due to
his forbearance.
Tuesdays excuse why man fails to
achieve greatness, is a great deal like
Mondays, but he doesn't know it.
Somehow, a barefooted woman al
ways shocks a man. A man knows a
woman has feet, but he hates to see
them.
If you give boy a red wagon, don't
give to yourself at the same time the
right to criticise him for what he
does with it.
When two members of the same
family meet in the street, they always
seem to have something disagreeable
to talk about.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.
There's nothing most girls can ap
pear SO perfectly natural at as being
artificial.
Successful men don't seem to give
their friends the same valuable ad
vice they give themselves.
The trouble with people who have
common sense is they are deadly dull
for lack of a little foolishness.
A comforting thing about being
married is you haven't any more mis-
takes of that kind to make for the
present.
A man is sometimes modest enough
to admit that the reason he doesn't
know more is it isn't worth knowing.
Mamma-Now, Tommy, how often
do you want me to speak to you about
your misbehavior?
Tommy amt particular, ma. Suit
yourself.-Catholic Standard and
Times.
Brown-Green is going to Europe
for his health.
Whfte-So? How did he lose his
health.
Brown-Earning the price of trip
to Eu.ope-Chicago News.
When a man is out of job and you
ask him what he intends doing, he
always replies: 81 have three or four
SOOu OncIS, anu AdFSA oSCldO0 w lllSA
one to accept"
Towne-Yes, she is acquiring some
reputation as novelist.
Brown-Of the romantic school?
Towne-Oh, yes, Vassar.-Philadel-
phia Press
Some people are like sausages,
remarked the Observer of Events and
Things; two are linked together, but
not forever."-Yonkers Statesman.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10

Roommate is this card in
your hat?
His Roommate-Why, that was
Chico the wine list, but now (hic) it's
my table of commensurate Record.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10

One cannot quarrel if the other WIN
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A few days after that the doctor
complained to his wife that he had
been bitten by a dog while on a night
visit to a patient. He told her that
he had cauterized the wound, but bad
results might follow. The next day, to
make matters worse, he was taken
down with typhoid fever
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-10-10

Some people are like sausages,'
remarked the Observer of Events and
Things; two are linked together, but
not orever.''-Yonkers Statesman.