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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-29
THREE PIECES
OF GOOD news
Manager A. D. Ayres is Home From
Trip East and Has Pur-
chased the jamestown
Engine.
AND IT IS A FINE ONE
He Also Reports That TAFT viii be
Elected Next Tuesday and
That PoweIson Is All
Right.

Manager A. D. Ayres of the Keokuk
Electric Railway and Power company
is back home from a trip east and
brings back three good pieces of
news:
A new engine is bought.
Powelson is all right.
Mr.. Ayres went from Keokuk to St.
Louis in search of an engine to take the
place Of the one wrecked at the light
ing plant on the evening of October
10. From there he went to Norfolk
Va, and secured the engine mentioned
in this paper several days ago. He
completed the deal and came home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-20

fortune sometimes arrives, are likely to forget
this and to account for the immediate fact by an
inclusive luck genius" But, whatever the
philosophy of these sudden successes, there is IN
them undoubted stimulation. They br1stle with
dramatic suggestion.
For instance, there is the of the man who
made Kansas famous. In 1907, when popullsrn
was rank weed in Kansas and covered a good bit
of the State there was living at Emporia young
man known as Bill White He had been educated
in the public schools and at the State university,
was owner of The EmpOrla Gazette, and was
deeply interested in politics. But the people about
him did not take him seriously. When he started
him. Then something rose up in Bill White and he
sat down and wrote editorial, which he headed
What's the Matter with kansas?" 1t was straight
talk, the truth from the shoulder, without frlls,
without compromises. 1t satire, too
Perhaps an old hand at the business under similar
circumstances, would have called it " an injudclous
utterance' But it did the trick for Kansas; it
brought home to the people the facts IN the case as
thew never before had been able to them. More
over, it travelled far beyond Kansas boundaries,
and Mark Hanna, who chairman of the Repub-
lican National Committee turned it into potent
campaign document Incidentally, the editorial
made White; for it transformed him from country
editor into a national figure. and bestowed on HIM
the dignity of his full name, William Allen White.
To-day besides being editor of The Emporla
Gazette he is editor and of the owners of
popular magazine in the East, has been offered
political preernent, has been honored by the per
sonal attentions of two Presidents and is generally
regarded of the most able and discerning OF
haps White did not know that opportunity was
within his reach when he wrote that editorial on
Kansas the less the opportunity did not 60
by him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-20
Senator Vests Opportunity

ITO United States Senator twenty-odd years ago,
in different fashion, also came opportunity call
ing on him to right wrong. 1t happened at hotel
in the little town of Fargo, North Dakota. At a
table in one sat understood man with deep
set eyes and gray mustache. He was thinking of
something good many miles from Fargo, and was
paving no attention to what going about
him. when upon his ears fell the words Yellowstone
Park Immediately he looked around. Near him
were knot of men who had been having good
time and still talking loudly. The gst of their
conversation that by secret arrangement with
somebody at Washington they had about secured
for ridculously small sum extensible lease of
what is known as Yellowstone Park. Over the ire
mendous prospective profits they were re oicng.
The undersized man listened to their Boosting for
awhile, then left the room
When Congress reassembed he in his seat in
the Senate and from that seat he, Senator George
Graham Vest, to uncover the fraud that had
almost lost the great western reservation to the
people. The speech lifted Vest, who had been in
public life since 1880, into immediate prominence.
When in 1908 by his own decision he put period
to his public services, he left behind him. whatever
else besides record for accomplishment in the
fight against corporate and individual corruption
that certainly spells success.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-20
From Cigar Making to Opera House

IN the other hand, there is to-day
in New York a man who in his
own way has made a tremendous sue
cess, largely he thinks. because he
has asked nobody's else advice and
relied wholly on his own resources.
This man is best known by his thea
tiers, and he made his start forty
years ago He was fifteen years old
then, and had just been landed from
a steamer after running away from
his German home On Greenwlch-St.
he picked up a newspaper printed in
German In it was an advertisement
for boys to learn the cigar trade. The
boy was without money, his passage
over having been paid with the thirty
dollars for which he had sold his be-
loved violin in Germany, and his sim
gle possession was the blanket in
which he had wrapped himself on the
voyage Moreover, he knew nothing
about cigar making. But that didn't
daunt him
He applied for job in the factory,
got it at two dollars a week, and
from almost the start made a good
cigar But making cigars by hand
seemed to him a poor way of doing
the thing So he began experiment.
ing on his own account, and four
years later he had ready a machine
which worked But also this machine
sent SO much dust flying that it could
not be comfortably operated. Neither
could the inventor obviate the trouble
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-20

e career OF every man has its turn
ing point With some it might be
represented geometrically by
long curve; with others, by what
appears to be almost an acute
angle But back of that turning
point in either case, as should be
obvious, are years of preparation,
unconscious perhaps, yet for that
reason not less potential. In the
abruptness with which fame or
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-20

negie was something all of us Eurekal'
| exclaimed. We have found it!'' And so he
he forgot According to his statement, it
his refusal to be dissuaded from paying fifteen
hundred dollars year to college professor to act
chemist for his early steel plant that largely
responsible for the large profits which that plant
began to yield; for it the chemist who showed
him and his partners that of the cheapest
on the market were really the most valuable for
their special purpose.
Mr. Carnegie has said it is reported. that on his
tombstone he wishes this epitaph Here lies man
who knew how to get around him men much Cleverer
than himself I" On the tombstone of each of
of those men to whom this refers might be
written with equal force: 9 Here lies who
brought him to Carnegies notice" Charles M.
Schwab is of these William Corey who got
his opportunity by trundlng barrow better than
the next man. is another; d. Clemson, who shod
horses skfuy and expeditiously that Carnegie
decided his industry and experiences could be put to
better in other things is another: A. r. Peacock
is again another
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-20
Jay Gould and Cornelius Vanderbilt

WITH most men, however. it is avowedly the
w pectation of making worldly success, whether
wholly in the form of riches, fame with the
material comforts which follow that sharpens their
vision and spurs them to make the most of what cir
cumstance throws In their way. 1t was young Jay
GOuld's unhesitating if somewhat unsCrupuOus selz
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-20

After being turned down by
many people. he went to Com
modore Vanderbilt, who, it is
said, after he had had the APP
paratus carefully explained to
him, asked, do you mean to
tell me you can stop a train OF
cars by wind?" and, when in
formed that in effect this was
what was contemplated, re-
marked that he had no time
for fools. Sometime afterward
when, through the support of
young Andrew Carnegie and sew
eral others, a successful test of
the brake had been made, West
inghouse had the satisfaction,
according to the story, of reply
ing to Vanderbilt's request for IA
conference, Il have no
time to waste on fools
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-20
By F. Churchill Williams
CAREERS

ure OF the chance to buy profitable piece of land
which another trying to raise the money
to purchase that gave him his first experience in
making money out of real estate: and this was when
he was only fifteen years old.
The great Vanderbilt fortune might be traced to
that day when, looking across upper New York Bay.
Cornelius founder of the fortune decided to satisfy
his ongings for life for the time being at least.
in ferryng people about those waters: and, to
the money to buy the necessary boat, plOwed, har
rowed and sowed with corn an eight-acre field with
the aid of his boy friends From that first boat of his
sprang the little merchant fleet which did service in
the War of 1872 and made the nucleus for later
millions
Skeptica1 of the Air Brake
TT was to one of those Vanderbits, the Com
l modore, that another young man. George West
inghouse first brought the idea accident had
suggested to him One day nearly forty years ago.
he watched two freight trains bearing down on each
other, the crews struggling with the hand brakes.
There was snash-up, and Westinghouse saw plainly
the cause of it. He reasoned that, if an effective
brake was devised which could be applied by the
engineer the man who in position to see first
any danger that lay ahead, the number of railroad
collisions would be much lessened. So he began to
experiment. He had spent good deal OF time IN
his fathers machine shop, and was already some
thing of an inventor. But to carry out the
plan of this new brake he tried various expedl-
ents vainly until he hit upon contrlvance of
air pump and cylinder for operating the brake
beams. That seemed to be all right in principle:
but his only chance to put the thing to practical
trial was to enlist the support of railroad official
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-20

Mr.: PEACoCK'S beginning capitally illustrates
A'A Carnege's quick summing up of a mans ability.
Fifteen years ago. when Carnegie improving his
former Fifth-ave. mansion, Peacock salesman
was sent to him with some samples of wall paper by
a New York decorating establishment. Peacock
knew his business and knew how to behave.
When the choice of paper had been made, Carnegie
remarked, Young man, you will be rich of
these days"
The salesman laughed. III thought so,'' he an
swered, Il should give the man who helped me to it
good discount" Carnegie eyed him ntently for
minute
You would? Well, I'll give you the chance
Send in your resignation to your employers and
to me"
Peacock did SO, went with Carnegie, worked out
his discount in faithful and efficient service and
years ago said to be worth ten million
dollars.
On the other hand the meeting of P T. Woodruff
with Carnegie which likewise resulted in the making
of fortune, was due not much to acuteness
either side in the sizing up of men, as to a sudden
decision the part of the tall spare inventor who
stepped off train one day and the voting super
intendent of the division standing short distance
away. Woodruff strobe over to the superintendent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-20
Andrew Carnegie's
Start

RUT George Westing- a :
/. ! !: !. / |.
- house is only one of ssy
many whose meeting ,.g
with Mr. Carnegie NJ &
marked the beginning lkss
of success for them. .T5 y =
Carnegie himself may ,;3Y 4
hardly be called the ais q
child of luck; yet that ~ u
incident which first w ~
brought him money 80
from something else y
than actual toll GER
tainly possessed many
of the elements of
chance. At the time
Carnegie was a telegraph operate
in the employ of the Pennsylvani;
Railroad at twenty-five dollars
month. One day Mr.. Scott, super
intendent of the western division
asked him if he could find five hun
dred dollars to put into a good in
vestment. Carnegie said he though
he could. He took the proposition
to his mother. She mortgage,
their house to raise the money, an'
with it Carnegie, through Scott
bought ten shares of Adams Ex
press Company stock at sixty dol
lars a share. 1t paid one per cent
monthly. Here. says Mr. Car
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-20

PLAIN 1T INTO contact With an
other man who was quick to
apprehend the useful posi-
bilities of new ideas and in
this particular instance was
in a position. through his ac-
quaintance with railroad Of
ficials. to give the invention
the money backing and prac-
teal trial needed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-20

who was Carnegie, and showed him
what he carried in the baize bag under
his arm. 1t was a model of sleep
ing car upon which Woodruff had
spent many hours of hard work, and
it probably would have remained
simply an ingenious toy model if
Fate had not brought the man who
made it and understood how to ex-
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-09-17
What's the Use2

Sr5nEht we not to do something more
fer zhe preservation of our forests?'
-os, WHATS the use:" answered Sen
ST. Sorghum impatienty. Trees
cart rOte. e."-WashiEgton star.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-09-17
StoCk Inspectors Sale.

Netice is hereby given that the un-
dersig gned, stock inspector for Morrow
county, State of Oregon, has taken up
and dipped one stray animal, described
as follows:
Bay mare, branded with figure on
right shoulder, and square box with
bar in center on left hip.
Notice is eeby given that If the
owner or owners of said above described
animal do not present their claims, in
the proper time and manner. that | will
at the hour of 10 o'clock a. M. ON Mon
day, September 81, 1908, at the farm Of
T. J. Matlcck, miles east of Heppner,
cell said above described mare in the
manner and for the purposes provided
by law. A. j. COOK,
Stock Inspector for Morrow county,
Slate of Oregon.
Dated September 10, 1908.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-09-17

.rszependent and relI.bls-The Oregon
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-09-17
Office.

Notice is hereby given that | have
taken up and impounded in the City
Pound in the City of Heppner, Morrow
Co lnty, Oregon, the following described d
aDlmal, to wit:
One gray mare. age about 16 years,
weight about 1000 pounds, branded G
on right shoulder. Unless the owner
of said animal appear and claim same
and pay expenses thereon before sei'l
time, will, on Saturday, Septem ber
26, 1908, at the City Pound in Heppner,
Oregon, cell said anim"l at public sale
to the highest bidder for cash in hand
as provd d in ordinance No, 20 o. the
City OF Heppner.
6. G.. AIKEN
Acting City Marshal.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-09-17
SECKlESS AARON BURR.
H,e Dramatic Story Of HIS Marriage
la Old Age.


Tha story vt Aaron Burr's marriage
/, his old age to the widow Of stephen
Iome4- who was we'll known in the
early history of New York city, is a
dcanSAtlc one.
Conceive, if you will. the picture of
BUR-. gifted adventIrer that he was.
hro&rn ia health. branded in the popu-
lar r5ind as the murderer of Alexander
Hamilton and returning from Ions
exile 10 find himself an outcast In the
ely where he had once been the polit-
icssI monarch of all he surveyed and
distinguished figure in society and at
tha bar. Conceive, If you can. this
amentable old man, smirklng through
bis wrinkles, bowling and prancinS
rather s1iftly because Of his rheumatic
Joints and with his mouth full of pret
II platltndes, paying court to the wild
sw OF Stephen Jumel. herself in the
prime of years and health. Remove
from the picture its surface incongrui-
ties. and you have bit of pure pathoS
unaluAled in the annals of foolish great
mon
BGt scmethinE of his old time pow
or IN charm the gentler sex must have
stood by him in his years of mental
and physical misery, for in his suit for
the widow Jumels hand and fortune
be von gloriously, dramatically. Re-
bIffesl repeatedly, Burr finally de-
elared in passionate rage that on
slrs1 day he would arrive at the Jumel
mansion accompanied by clergyman,
who should marry them on the spot.
lie vTould give his prospective bride no
Crzvfer, 70 chance OF escape from the
iner liable.
she was amused at the threat and
dismissed the Old man with more than
her usual coldness of demea1oc Burr
stuck ID his avowal and one July day
rollEd mp in q carriage, and with him
uaS ! minister, the same who fifty years
befors performed the marriage cere-
no1y for Burr and the mother Of his
daughter, the beautiful TheOdosia.
There was something of scene in the
OF house ON this Gay. There We're
tcac5 of anger on the part Of Burr.
Relatives demonstrated; Burr remained
i70movable. All feared a scandal. The
minister, book in hand. stood unob-
truslreiy in the background. There
were more tears, more declarations of
unEyin- love, and tie widow Jumel
became 3Irs. Aaron Burr.
They were married in the great
drawing room Of the Jumal mansion.
RLTr squ&nde2ed with reckless hand
the wealth acquired by Stephen Jumel
and left for the enjoyment of his
narjLal partner. There We're many BIT
tez qnarreIs between the IL mated pair,
am they We're soon divorced. Eurr
del IN 1886, but madam lived until
1ss5--l dying a recluse and a miser, the
r1nney received from the Jumel estate
hoar6ed - az unused chamber.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-09-17
Submarine Navigation.

TIE idea Of the submarine is certain
II as much as 200 years old, but most
Of tbr earlier plans were fiat failures.
IL liza an inventor named Day lost his
life Lnring an experimental descent in
Plymouth sound. Bushnell Of Con-
ra1ticnI in I77J contriyed a subma-
rinr vessel propelled by some kind
Of :srrew Robert Fulton also in 1876
Invented q box which when filed with
rcrnbnstiDles might be propelled un-
Grr Uafer and made to explode under
the boa1om Of a ship. 1t is hard to say
WIN was the originator Of the idea of
I5e submarine boat unless it was Day.
s-Nezv York American.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-09-17
THE PLANET JUPITER.
What the Man of Science Has to Say
About Its Wonders.

About Its Wonders.
The jolly Jovians are said to be real
tiles and not myths. Not only are
there said to be inhabitants on Jupiter,
but also on some of his moons, in the
midst of which the vast planet. 1900
times the size of the earth. spins at
such tremendous speed that it causes
around the equator furious wind that
blows perpetually at the rate of $50
miles an hour. Those who believe in
the Jovian say that his height runs
from fifty to fifty-fye feet and that
he exists for about 800 to 1000 Of
earth years. The Jupiter year, how
ever. consists of IA months. The
oceans of Jupiter torn into fury by the
hurricanes, would pay no attention to
one moon such as moves the tides OF
our earth, and it takes no fewer than
five of these satellites to perform this
work for Jupiter They travel at va
rious rates Of speed, some flying close
to Jupiter's surface, others far off.
They have atmOspheres like ours on
earth, and a moonlight on Jupiter is
indeed a glorious sight, for these
moons have a variety of color; two are
blue, one is yellow, and one red. Jupi-
ter needs all her moons at night for
illumination, for without them her five
hours of darkness would be black in
deed. SO distant is the sun that broad
daylight is hardly brighter than twi-
light on earth. and one lone moon
would not reflect enough of the suns
rays to guide the Jovian footsteps.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-09-17
Notice to Taxpayers.

Monday, October 5, is the last
day on which you can pay your
1907 taxes without penalty and in
terest. The new law makes it
dangerous for deIipquents, and
you should let nothing keep y you
from raising money enough to pay
YOUR taxes before October 5.
L. M. SH UTT, Sheriff.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-09-17
A COMETS TAIL.
the Way This Filmy Dust Train ls
Tossed About by tho Sun,

No bridal veil was ever so tilmy as q
comets tail. Hundreds Of cubic miles
! OF that wonderful appendage are out
weighed by jarful of air.
BY means of the spectroscope We
have mag!cally transported this fairy
, plume to cur laboratories and have
discovered that 1t Is akin to the blue
flame of our gas stoves; for the gas
by which we cook and the delicate
tresses of comet both consist Of COM
hinations Of hydrogen ana carbon, ap-
propriately called by chemists hydro
carbons."
When it first appears in the heavens.
far removed from the sun, Il comet Is
tailess blotch Of light
AS comet swims on toward the
sun the hydrocarbons of the tail split
up under the increasing heat into by
arogen gas and Hydrocarbons of a
hlgher boiling point. With still
closer approach to the sun, these more
resistant hydrocarbons eventually yield
to the increasing heat and are decom-
posed in the form Of SCOT.
Interplanetary space is airless; hence
the SCOT cannot burn. 1t must pursue
the comet in the form Of dust train.
The particles constituting that train
are small enough to be toye1 with by
the pressure of sunlight.
No matter where the comet may be
in its orbit, whether it has just entered
the solar system or is speeding away.
that plume is inevitably tossed away
from the sun, just as if q mighty wind
were blowing it from the central lu-
minary.
The appendage of shining dust is the
symbol of the triumph of light over
solar vitation.-Harpers Magazine.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-09-17
Chivalrous Chicago.

IN Chicago more than in any other
,i2fc IS woman regarded in the light
or a thing Of beauty and JOY forever.
'Ihayze1 IS hardly a man il Chicago who
tlGaz not esteem feminine loveliness as
enrDefhing beyond price-something 10
Ire FIR, TO strive for. to suffc" for and
If necessary to die for.-Chicago Inter
fssa an
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-09-17
WHY lie Ercttcd.

sr-a1--- Sportsman after shooting
LIS 14-sI lricldl-Ioo bad. TOO bad. But
i Thought you were a deer. The Vic
Em-Don't fret. Amateur Sportsman
r,22't fret, Why. man. promised my
Vife pair Of horns.-Illustrated Bits.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-09-17

'FHIs wife earns her own money"
-%InGeed! l did not know she was
employed"
OH yes; hard at it all the time"
3 nat does she dog
Works him to give up."-New York
Journal
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-09-17

a Historical Mystery Solved.
The nan In the iron mask explained.
Il Let Dy wife cut my hair" he
pcsssssd.
Herewith all rendered him respectful
EyrgzztAJ New York Sun.
The Nome daily nugget., 1908-04-29

KNIGHTS OF ROBERT EMMETS.
 Wednesdays. P. m A. MeGetti- gan. See.
The Nome daily nugget., 1908-04-29

PIONEERS OF ALASKA,
 IoLoo NO. i.
 Fred H. Anderson, See, lst and 3rd Wednesdays of each month Eagle hall
The Nome daily nugget., 1908-04-29
DISTRICT COURT
 DAILY MINUTES

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