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The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-07-10
shoots PLANK rhrouah Tree.

Each day brings to light some new
freak OF the tornado which caused
death and destruction in this paAt
OF the State few days ago.
AS an evidence OF the freaklsh
force OF the wind big pine tree and
large plank on the property of the
Hon. s. M. Roberts, about twelve
miles from here. are now joined as II
done by an expert carpenter
Although the tree was large one,
the plank was picked up and driven
through the centre as neatly as II
shot from a gun. Not only was the
plank shot through the, tree, but II
went through without tearing tho
tree.
The plank was picked up in the
yard OF Mr.. Roberts's sawmill, and
other planks in the pile were not mo-
Tested by the wind. SO singular does
Mr.. Roberts consider this action OF
the tornado that he has posted a no
tice telling how the plank was driven
through the big pine, and ordering
that II shall not be cut down.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-07-10

4 steward at $1,000 q Year VIII ps
Mrs. Tait's Marketing.


Mrs. Taft has the reputation OF DO
ipg an excellent housekeepcr, but ~
Gle Of this kind OF work will fall
30 her lot as mistress OF the White
House. A steward Is provided At
$500 a year to look after such mat
ters
II is his duty TO hire all the ser.
wants, to give orders to the house.
keeper and to do all the marketing
Tie is provided with a Government
Dayton wagon In which to do hIs
shopping.
He is a sworn Government official.
who under the terms of bond OF
$4,000 given before he enters upon
his duties is personally responsible
for all Government property used In
the White House This includes table
linen, plate, glass, furniture, carpets
and ornaments.
Whenever the first lady OF the
land wishes any repairs or changes
made she has simply to call upon tho
engineer officer OF the army who is
detailed in the dual capacity OF SUI
perintendent OF public buildings and
grounds and master OF ceremonies AT
the White House He is allowed s3j.-
900 a year for the care and return.
ishing OF the mansion and an equal
amount for repairs, $4,000 fer fuel,
$4,000 for greenhouses and $4,000 for
care Of the White House grounds.
All food bills, including those for
the four state dinners given each
year or for the entertainment OF dis
tlnguIshed foreigners In Washington,
must be paid out OF the Presidents
own private funds. The four state
banquets usually cost about 81 900
each, says the Technicsl World. The
floral decorations for the White
House, however, come from the Gov.
eminent greenhouses. The music,
too, is free, being furnished by the
famous Marine Band at Washington.
In the basement of the White
House the new mistress will find two
modern kitchens. a large laundry
room and wonderful pantry con-
tanning an electric dish heater with
a capacity OF 5000 dishes and plates.
At the state dinners. over which she
presides. the viands. prepared in her
two kitchens by one OF the best ca
terers in the country, will be served
on a $4,000 service OF Wedgwooj
china, besides the new glassware
bought under the Roosevelt regime
and the historic silver plate collected
by White House matrons since
Adams's time.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-07-10

Switzerland protects one Of its
greatest natural resources by a law
forbidding the transmission into for
eign countries of electricity general
ed by water power, except upon per-
NIT granted by the federal council, re-
vocable, II necessary for the public
good.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-07-10

Says the st. Louis Pioneer Press:
The theatre is capable OF being and.
for the most part. is not only an op-
portunity for innocent amusement
and recreation. but an instrument OF
moral education. Why pollute II.
render II odlous to the decent ma
jorIty. and perpetuate the ancient
prejudice against II by making II an
instrument OF immortality?
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-07-10
MISS KATE L. LUCAS,
PALATKA, FLORIDA,
MILLINERY FANCY GOODS.

Notions, ladies', misses and chill.
drens summer underwear.
Ladies' silk gloves.
Laces. embroidery. collars. belts and
the latest styles In spring hats and
bonnels.
Experienced trimmer and designer
employed. Prices right. Satisfaction
guaranteed.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-07-10

The annual whaling catch at pres.
ent Is about 100.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-07-10

II some Of the dreams OF most men
were 10 come true. what lot OF
nightmares We would ride,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29

Lake drummel' told him last week, while
the whole smoker laughed until the Kan
sas City commission man asked IL they
had heard the one about the Jew who
wanted his life insured The English
miss a lot of fun by stocking for their
social rights. And you would think that
men who set such store by being social
somebodies would wear clothes to fit the
part. But the Englishmen are the worst
dressed male animals ON earth. Far be
it from this %deponent. who never shrinks
at wearing anything Sam Rosenfeld puts
on him; for be 1t from him 10 set himself
up as a glass OF fashion. And yet he
would not wear the clothes these English
wear IL he lost the advertising Of the Star
Clothing house in the Gazette for a year.
And what's more. Sam Resented hasn't
a suit in his stock as badly set" as these
English clothes. We went out one day
to a clothes show-the Eton-HarrOw
cricket match. All the swells of England
were there-and as 1t was an invitation
affair, no one else was there but lords
and earis and dukes and honorables. and
the face cards Of the deck. And such
othersl They wore for coats ~three-button,
old-fashioned "~cut-aways" that hlked up
in the neck, wadded under the arms,
wrinkled across the back and bulged out
In front like the breast-bone Of a chicken.
Underneath these coats they wore fancy
vests that creased across the front, ana
shirts that didn't fit any place. The I'M
dersigned is no dude. He gives little
thought to raiment, but he would die Of
modification with an English tailor's
clothes on, and pull them off and walk
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29

killed in cold blood two months before
by the thugs was elected judge. A big
tripod was erected by the judges stand,
Then the work was divided regular. One
gang Of about fifteen was named the es-
corting party to take those fellows out Of
town who were not bad enough to
hang. Another was the hangin' outfit
which would have won the cakewalk In
the French revolution. Gangs Of fifty were
told off to bring the toughs before the
udg He was a stern old fellow, but l
don't think he made many mistakes.
"Other camps have hanged more men,
but not all at onct and so suddenlike. The
news soon circulated and every few min
utes that day more men would come
ridin' like blazes to laramie They was
fresh to the work and as the fellers that
did the work the night before played out
the new fellers got busy.
There wasn't any jokin' that day;
everybody was black and squally and acted
~strangelike and offish. Sometimes a mar
was found in the crowd around the tripod
who'd better been hid. and he was taken
up before the jedge.
Nearly all were towards. Some tainted
and had to be held while the rope was put
around their necks; others begged and
~prayed-fellers that always cussed religion.
Bein' only a spectator and takin' no &C
tive part in the proceedings 1 couldn't
stand it all day, an went off to the other
part of town.
Besides Big Steve, there was only one
other man who died game-Johnson, 1
believe his name was, a college chap from
Washington, d. c., and a superior kind
of an individual. He vas billed In poison,
and there wasn't nothing he hadn't done,
The night the doin's started he was crossin'
the street. Somebody fired at him and he
dropped. The vigilantes ran up and was
goin' TO hang him then, but seem other
game decided TO wait. They took a 1000
bill from him which he always carried in
the hnin' of his coat, and left,
He manage 10 crawl to his room and
stayed there all night. The next mornin'
he creeps TO a saloon. Give me a drink
and damn quick he says to the bartender,
lookin' over his shoulder and through the
door at the vlgilantes, who seen him and is
headed his way. The dogs will be soon
here to get In at the death
After that day Laramie was reformed
The vigilantes killed between forty and
sixty men and a couple Of women. No
body ever FOUND out how many was killed
In them two days. for lots was never &C
counted for"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29
WHERE THE TALL HAT REIGNS
Kansas Pilgrim Takes n Peep at Lon
dOners in stOvepiDes and
Some Clothes.

William Allen White of the Emporia
(Kan.) Gazette concludes his observations
of the British capita with this pen picture
OF the Londoners and their clothes:
To an American, green from the great
plains, where there is no insignia of rank,
the oldest thing about London is the plug
hat. In no other country of Europe, and
in no place in the United States is the
high black hat so ommon. Some way the
plug hat, which with us Is the banner of
a cheap politician, is supposed in Eng
land TO be the sign and index OF a gentle
man. So all persons who consider them
selves gentlemen, wear black tiles. More
over, they are like hot cross buns" in
that you give them TO your sons" Little
boys from ten or a dozen years old, who
go to fashionable schools, wear plug hats
and wide-starehed collars and long trou-
sers. But, strange to say, the rise Of The
mar who has the price of a high hat has
made the stovepipe so common that the
gentleman is no longer distinguished from
those whom he is pleased to consider the
dust on his feet. And any morning the
bus tops are filled with men going to hon
est toll, adorned with black chimneys.
with us, II is bad form to wear a plug
hat in the morning, and it is worse Tor
US to wear II with a sack coat, But here
the plug hat is worn all day. and with
any kind OF a coat the wearer can afford.
And so keen Is the desire for social dtstinc-
ton that bank messengers, who are COM
PEELED to wear brass buttons and dark
blue or dark green or dark wine-colored
coats, don high black stovepipes and
fancy that these hide their liveries. The
desire TO be considered somebody" So
cially is the master passion OF hundreds
OF thousands of people; and TO that pas
sion its possessors sacrifice comfort, good
sense and happiness. SO on buses and in
little compartments on the train, and In
the street, it is rare that you find a group
OF Englishmen talking II they are strang-
ers. The lower classes fear 70 intrude
upon the higher and the higher fear that
they will contaminate themselves by
speaking 20 the lower, and as ali wear
plug hats and badly fitting clothes, no one
knows anyone else's station, and no one
seems sure OF his own. Therefore they SIT
In solemn silence, where with US, the law
yer from Denver would be telling the Chi
cage broker the new one" that the salt
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29
CLEANING UP LARAMIE CITY
An 0ld-Timer's Story of the Vigi-
lante Days.
VESTS BIGGEST HANGING PARTY
Town Surrounded and Gamblers and
Crooks Killed in Cold Blood
Two of Them Died
Game.

HELENA, Mon, Aug 2.-'Tt amt like
1t used to be out west. In the old days we
didn't have them kind Of scum to fool
with" said the old-time peace officer re-
miniscently as he tipped his chair back
In the police station and jerked his head
at two strong arm men who were being
led back to the cells.
Times has quieted down." he continued.
'Now you take Miles. 1 served there
seven years during the early sos when the
Texas trail herds was comm through.
Them southern punohers painted the town
red after being on the road for months
and It kept up pretty lively. There are
some other bad places. but the worst town
1 ever seen was Laramie City, Wye. as
they called It then.
1T was IN the spring OF '6s / hit Chey-
enne with some pretty good letter in my
pocket and l caught on Wit the sheriff
there. ia only been around a few days
when a prlzefighter was killed at Laramie
and the sheriff sent me up to Investigate.
i buried the corpse and investigated. Then
I got orders TO remain. The railroad was
building through Laramie and Il was the
worst hell / ever seen. Criminals came
there from all over the world. The
vigilantes In Montana drove sOme bad
ones out who flooked to Laramie All the
gunner and sure thins gamblers. hoss
thieves and such came like buzEards to 9
water hole in the spring time.
Il soon found / couldn't run things alone
They was too many Ter me. When l was
hayin' a dispute at one end OF town they
was raisin' hell at the other.
Il had a standin' offer of SITS a month
and chuck for an assistant Finally a
Teller named Rody Power blew in and said
he'd take Il. a Rody Power was q
dandy. At the end Of three weeks Rody
had planted twenty-ons men, KILN some
desperate with every sunset, but his
twenty-first man nearly cost him his life
'Rody had arrested a hangeron who wa
tryin' TO XIII his woman. and Rody nearly
beat the life out OF him The jail in then
days MAS a no count affair aud this felieI
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29

had a gun slipped into him and said he
was goin' to kill Rody. The man that give
the prisoner the gun told Rody. He
marches up to the Jail. throws open the
door and begins shooti'n. The man dropped
dead with his gun in his hands.
Enemies said we were assassinating
people and the vigilantes got after Rody.
I heard Of 1t, gave Rody the best horse I
nae and he hiked. That left me shy. The
v~igtlantes wouldn't help and I had to re-
sort to extreme measures. About a month
later a COMMITTEES waits on me and a
while they appreciate my work, II I don't
leave they'll burn the town down. They
calls me a destructive element who was
hurtin' the camp.
Very we'll gentlemen I says. I'll 60,
but when you call on me I won't return.
IT went up the road bout eighteen miles
and gets a contract pressin' hay. A week
later a begin letter comes for me to come
back. At the end of three weeks 1 got
two more. which I tore up. A few days
later and q Teller on hossback comes to
my cabin with a message from the chief Of
the vigilantes.
Friend Bill he writes, II you want
recompense for all your sufferin's come
to Laramie tomorrow at 8 o'clock. A train
load OF vigilantes is comm to make this a
moral town.
81 went down to see the doin's. Tn
under oath, Bill.' the chief OF the v~igilantes
tells me when l ask him the next day
about the plan. but there's 600 men comm
on the train
H wants to give me a gun, sayin'
ones not enough, but I tells him they
drove me out of camp once an WON'T
take no part IN festivities.
AT $50 O'Clock that evenin' while Tn
at the depot q train comes slippin' alona
with ''a~'a' and lights al
out Out from lno town a little ways mer
begin to drop off in twos and threes, al
armed. More get off where am. IT
about five minute a chain picket Is
thrown around laramie. and the shootin
begins.
"In big punches the ~vigilantes went from
gamblin he'll TO dance hall. Local member
pints out the bad uns. Poker tables ar,
left with dead men holdin' cards and far,
dealers Is killed with their pockets bulgin
with money which they stuffed IN wheI
they heard the racket Pretty soon tn
pickets begin firm, drivin' back pore devil
who tried to get out OF town.
Some OF those Vigilantes were as ba,
as the men they killed. In the dance hail
they shot some OF the women who wsrI
Oh the stage. Killed 'em out OF purI
deviltry. Say. did you ever hear Of then
rabbit drives in Washington; they hsd
man drive in Laramie that night
Il wa with a gang that went into on
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29

joint where they found the leader of the
toughs. Warner-he was driven out of
Helena by the Vigilantes and came to
Laramie. He was standin' on a poker table
lookin' white and sick when we came in.
He spots me and sings out: Save me,
Bill save me Bill, and I'll go back
to st. Joe and look after my wife and
kids Just then the guns begin to spit
and he keels over with a gurgling sound.
"'Whose Bill? asks the Vigilantes,
gettin' ready to shoot. I keeps still. 1
wouldn't a saved Warner no way. You
see this?' and the old man took off mis-
hat and disclosed a long scar where the
hair and part OF the scalp had been chls-
elled away. H gave me this when / ar
rested him one time
The speaker paused for awhile. big
Steve, we called him." he resumed in a
softer tone, glancing about him. HE was
a big hearted fellow. Always smilin' and
jokin' and lendin' his money to poor people.
There was a kid, 1 remember, who was
slowly dyin'. He'd watch the trains goin'
east every day. Steve was at the station
ono day when he caught the boy brushin'
away his tears.
That kid was pinin' for home. Steve
finds out where his home is, buys him a
ticket and gives him fifty dollars. Then
he hurries away.
II told him II he didn't break away
from the crowd he was trailin' with the
~vigilantes would get him some day. He
just laughs.
That's all right, Steve 1 says. You
think cause you're on the square they
won't tech you. They'll hang you, too.
Wen. you'll die with your boots on any
way 1 concludes.
Bet you l don't die with my boots on,
he replies.
When the slaughter begins that night
Steve must have r~emembered what 1 toll
him. The gang isees him streakin' into a
shanty. When 1 got there they was JUS
takin' him out.
One minute, gentlemen he pipes on,
when he sees me at the door. He squatted
on the floor and yanked off his boots,
Let us proceed with this little drama
now he says as clipper as you please.
Steve died like a gentleman.
When the affair first began the vigil
lantes shot their men first and then
hanged them afterward. This soon got
tiresome and they let the men lie where
they fell. When mornin' came there was
hardly a pane OF glass left in the town
Along about 10 o'clock a train came n
with about 500 tie cutters and graders, who
had some old scores to settle. They wai
put OF the picket and the roundup con.
tinued. An old man whose son had beer
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29

A correspondent of the New York Times
tells this story Of the head Of the indian
girl on the cent: I'm Philadelphia lived a
child, 6 or s years Of age, by the name
of Sarah Longacre, whose fathe was a
fine engraver, and held official relations I'M
the government, and was employed at the
mint. A delegation of indian came from
the far northwest TO pay a visit TO WASH
ington and call upon the president. Thence
they proceeded to Philadelphia and were
of the chiefs was attracted to little Sarah,
and In sport took OF his headdress and
placed II on her head, and she stood before
the company in this peculiar garb. SomeI
one OF the company sketched her on thel
spot, and handed the product Of his ar
tistic skill to her father. The engraved
sketch went into competition for the honor
of a place on the cent, just being coined,
and Uncle Sam accepted the face OF the
American girl with the Indian bonnet.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29

chance to meet those sons-of-guns who
cigar bands, barbed-wire fences,
and wooden pillow-sham ho~lders"-Puck.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29
A Chance 40 Ger EVEN.

There's one consoling feature about all
this" chuckled the broad-shouldered indl-
vidual who had just been turned away
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29
Do the ParIor.

They praise the man in this house for
being so handy" said the Door, but he has
me all unhinged."
He gives me a pane" calculated the
Window.
He simply unstrung me- said the Blind.
Hes got me all out OF shape" COM
planned the Curtain.
He took altogether the wrong tack with
me" sneered the Carpet.
why don't you do as / do, and just
take a stand2' asked the Table.
1T Is well for you TO talk, but my
wrongs are deep-seated ones" sobbed the
Chair.
Il nave an idea" burst out the Clock.
Lets go on a strike. baltimore Ameri-
can.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29
Indian Girl ON Cent.

easily and n~onchalantly around in his un.
derMear.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29

Quick Action for Your Money-You get
that by using The Bee advertising columns
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-12-23
AndaluSia

The sleighing now is the finest we
have had for eight or nine years and
the people of the neighborhood are
surely enjoying it and it sounds good
to hear the jingle of the bells.
Mr.. Edgar, who has been in Dakota
and Canada for the past year and a
half, returned home Monday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Parmenter and
children, Gladys aud Willard of Grin
nell. Iowa. came last Friday to visit
till after the holidays with relatives.
Ernest Sorell and family moved into
the village last week, occupying the
house in the west part Of town.
The play and fair at the town hall
last Friday evening was quite we'll at
tended despite the cold weather. The
ladies took in between $40 and $50 and
their expenses were very small.
The river is closed on this side at
this place.
A party of young people went to
Taylor Ridge Saturday evening to at
tend the meetings that are being held
at the NJ E. church at that place.
A Christmas entertainment will be
held at the town hall Christmas eve
instead of at the church.
Miss Katherine Boney came home
the last of the week from Rock Island
to stay till after the holidays.
Mrs. Mertie Elyter and daughter Ze-
lima visited Saturday and Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. Bentley.
Mrs. Anna Hinterneister is quite i'll.
There was a party at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs Peter Johnson Saturday
evening in honor Of Miss Jenny's birth
day.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-12-23
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alive powers that they offer one hun
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to cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo,
Ohio.
Sold by all druggists. rs cents.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-12-23
Yuma

Ambrose Scarf returned from Kan
sas City Friday, where he purchased
three carloads of cattle.
Henry Weidman made a business
trip to the tri-cities fast Thursday.
Yuma Sunday school will observe
Christmas Friday evening. The
school will render a program assisted
by the choir.
Mrs Walter Manninfi, who has been
quite sick the past week, is somewhat
improved.
A number from here attended the
Fred Stewart sale last Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Hilbert, Sr.,
Mr. and Mrs. William Hilbert, Jr.. and
family were in the tri-cities shopping
a few days last week.
Sheldon Walker returned Friday
from Chicago. where he purchased a
carload of cattle.
Simon Burcher, who has been con
fined at the Moline city hospital for
the past six weeks. was removed TO
his home last Saturday. He is some
what improved.
Mr.. and Mrs Clyde Wake, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Hilbert. Sr., Mr.. and Mrs.
William Filbert, Jr., spent Sunday at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Cook.