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New-York tribune., 1909-03-01

Though the possibility OF steering a subma-
rine torpedo by means of Hertz waves needs no
further demonstration. there IS still a question
concerning such performances which needs an
answer. Can the course OF one OF these pro-
jectiles be followed accurately enough by any
one to make such attempts worth while?
New-York tribune., 1909-03-01

Th5s rescspGpe- is oacHe6 ana published by
TIE Tribune Association, a Neio York corpora
fiom; Office and priacipaI place OF business
Tribune Building, No. 154 Nassau street. Nei0
IorE; Ogden Malls, president; James II. Bar
reft, secretdTy and treasurer. The address of
fhe ofioers IS the Office Of this neicspGper.
New-York tribune., 1909-03-01

Speaker Wadsworth's judgment OF the Gov
ernors primary plan is that it would permit the
bosses to make the nominations and shift the re-
sponsibility for them upon the party voters at
large. II that should prove to be its effect. the
party at large would not accept that responsI-
biIity long, but would so change the system as
20 have both the power and the responsibility.
New-York tribune., 1909-03-01

after beginning Journey. they must often wait
an hour or so for the chance Make 1t possible
TO avoid such delay and 10 effect a similar saw
ing of time in securing reply and they will
gladly seize the opportunity.
New-York tribune., 1909-03-01

The decision to put buffers the side
door subway cars shows that after all the rough
usage they have gone through subway pas
sengers still retain capacity TO be hurt
New-York tribune., 1909-03-01

A great opportunity to establish precedent
and show what a mace Is for was lost through
the Hon. John Wesley Gainess quailing at the
last moment.
New-York tribune., 1909-03-01
:Iep7lprk Daily Crii,a1te.

MONDAY, MARCH i, 1902.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1909-02-11

private detective agency with the
how he and his agreeable partner had
tried to buy out the disagreeable other
fellow and, having failed, had engaged
a man to shadow him to Europe. Even
more infinitely he went over the mat
ter concerning the hiring of the pretty
cousin. Then he came to his point
He wanted two detectives assigned
to shadow the couple, first to the the
alter and then to their ultimate destina-
ton. Within a minute after the ar
rival of the third partner and his COM
panion one of the detectives should
knock on the door, which the beautiful
cousin would thereupon open. The
other partners would at once appear,
feign surprise, indignation and anger,
and the next morning the third part
ner would be told he must sell out at
their figure or suffer exposure.
Shown Error of Their Ways.
The detective chief listened in 81
lence until the story was told.
do you realize" said he, you have
asked me to help you do something
for which we would both be sent to
state PRISON."
The gentleman expressed great
amazement
You have asked me to aid you in
springing a trap by means of which
you plan to force your partner to sell
at a price fixed by yourself property
that he does not want to sell. Now
what would be the result if I were to
do it?
The partner of whom you are try
ing to rid yourself would go home and
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1909-02-11

er it was the intention of the gentle
man to force a certain stock to still
higher figure--it was then high-or
let it sag back. She bided her time
until she believed the right moment
had come and then edged around to
the subject A transaction that need
not be entered into here had left her
several thousand dollars which she de-
sired to reinvest Would the gentle
man advise her to buy stock in his big
concern at its present high price?
Fell Into the Trap.
He ought to have known better, but
he didn't He fell" for the Widows
query without premonition of danger
And he told her not only what he hon
estly believed, but what he knew to be
true. The price of the stock was to be
slaughtered in few weeks.
She thanked him and did not invest.
Neither did her employers More than
that, they sold what they did have
And what they saved by getting out
while the price was high made the
cost of paying the widows" expenses
for six months look like a rain-check
beside thousand-dollar bill.
Another business man sent a mes
senger to request the chief of private
detective agency to call on him.
q want you to find out" said he
what SoandSo is going to do with
such-and-such a property. He is the
hardest man in the world to get any
information from. He doesn't even
talk to his wife. But he's got a daugh
ter who can talk like a photograph
Furthermore, / think that girl of his
knows what he's up 70 all the time
As nearly as I con anl out. she's the
only one he cCnEdes in-she winds
him around her finger il she wants to
Now, what l want you to do is this:
There are a lot of young men without
much means in this town whose socia,
position is just as good as Soand-So'S
and his daughters. | want you to fine
one Of them who viii consent to go or
this case. III put up all the money he
needs to make good with the girl
And I want you to have him go after
her as if she were the only girl he haC
ever loved. If he has to, let him ever
propose to her-but he needn't marry
her if he doesn't want to-but if she
has the information l want he mus
get it."
The chief politely declined, and the
case went elsewhere, if it went any
where.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1909-02-11

lions, lasting only few hours, that
business" shows its greatest acute
ness of vision or its most uufagging
persistence 1t is when the big hnan-
ciers want to force somebody's hand
or to ootain inside information regard
ing anothers plans that the eye of u
hawk becomes, in comparison, like
that of a grocery store Goldfish. In
such emergencies beautiful women
have sometimes been hired to follow
men for months-to Europe and back
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1909-02-11

spend sleeples night. About eight
o'clock in the morning he would say
to himself: I can stand this no
longer. ] must go to my attorney and
seek his advice
He'd go. His attorney would listen
to his story, take out his watch, note
the time-nine o'clock-and say: I
want you to go with me at once to the
district attorneys Office and swear out
a warrant for that young woman for
conspiring to extort money from you
The third partner would swear to
the warrant and the young woman
would be arrested Within an hour
after her arrest the whole story
would be wrung from her and war
rants would be sworn out for you and
your other partner.
Abandon this scheme. Go to your
office tomorrow morning and tell your
partner you came within hailing dis
lance of the penitentiary tonight, but
luckily escaped it. If ever you have
any honest detective work to do | shall
be at your service, but this case I
would not take for a million dollars -
Again the Feminine Element.
On another occasion firm of bis
operators wanted to get inside infOr-
nation concerning a multi-millionaire' S
ultimate plans for the development of
a great property. There was no use
of sending men to brush up against
him. He never talked to men. But he
had evidently promised his aged grand
mother he would never be unkind to
woman, so they determined to cap
italize this trait of his character
From no one knows where they en-
listed the services of as pretty wom-
an as ever rode down Fifth avenue.
In a few days she appeared at the
hotel in which the great capitalist
made his home. She was beautiful
CROUCH to be conspicuous in any com
pany-difident enough to make her
attractiveness compelling. She neither
sought nor declined introductions to
others, passing her time as any well
bred woman in afiluent circumstances
might wish to do AS good an automo
bile as is made in France took her
from and to the hotel And the car
bore her monogram.
Wise Gentleman Easy Victim.
Her life in this hotel was destined
to be marked by two great days, and
it was six months before the first one
came On that day she was intro
duced to the man on account of whom
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1909-02-11

some one had bought all her fashion
able gowns and finery, her motor car
and paid her hotel bills. She chatted
with him for ten minutes and then
babe him good evening, just as his in
terest in her was ascending by leaps
and bounds. The next day he asked
her to ride with him through the park,
and she politely declined.
For three months this handsome
young feminine person played with
this wise gentleman in much the, same
manner that cat would toy with a
mouse it intended ultimately to eat.
Little by little she let it be known
she was a widow. Reared by an in
dulgent father, all she had known
about money was that it was made in
the mint and her papa got it. Nor did
her husband force upon her more def
mite knowledge of the manner in
which dollar bills are nursed into tens
and tens into hundreds.
Then death came upon their happy
home, and in a twinkling the RESPONSE
bilities of large fortune were thrust
upon her She disliked these burdens
So She was never trained to bear
them, she had neither aptitude nor
liking for such tasks, and she was in
constant fear of tumbing into pitfalls.
The gentleman was duly sympathet-
ic. To the best of his limited ability
he would at any time instruct her.
Was she at that time contemplating
any investment about which he might
enlighten her? She was not.
This woman knew what to door,
rather, she had been told what to do.
Her employers wished to know wheth-
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1909-02-11
HIS EVERY MOVE IS CHRONICLED
Even Few Hours Absence from His Usual
Haunts Causes Furry Among Brother Oper-
ators---How Business Secrets Are Some
times Wormed from Shrewd Men
of Business.

| if neceSSary-tO get one word of bust
ness between two words of idle chat
! ter, as women have also been EN-
! ployed to seek the confidence of wives
for the same purpose.
AS an Illustration of what business
men sometimes do in the way of shad
owing, the following incident sur
passes any other:
Went Almost Too Far.
In the financial district is a firm
capitalized for many millions, that is
rated in Bradstreet's at AAA1. There
| ners did not like the other one. He
was intractable, disagreeable, hard to
get along with. They decided to get
| rid of him and offered to buy him out.
He wouldn't sell. Then they offered
to sell He wouldn't buy.
Finally the two hit upon a plan.
Their partner had announced his in
tention of taking a trip to Europe.
They would send a detective with him.
Perhaps he would do or say something
that would be to their advantage Per-
haps, upon his return, he would be
willing to sell rather than to have the
detectives report sent where it would
be read with the greatest interest.
So the partner and the detective de-
parted. The partners visit dragged on
from week to week, and finally into
months, and upon each returning ship
no Of he W. ho n
been sent to watch him But the re-
ports were of no interest even to the
men who read them Their partner
seemed to be conducting himself ad-
mirably, so far as his own interests
were concerned though quite unfor-
tunately for those who wanted to buy
him out. But they knew him-or
thought they did-and waited for more
reports.
But the rest of the reports were like
the first, and the man himself came
home without his partners having OBJ
tanned the kind of information they
wanted.
1t was then they shufled the deck to
play what they believed was their
trump card.
Pretty Woman as Decoy.
One of the partners had very
pretty cousin, a young woman. She
was summoned to the home of her
relative and told that important bust
ness considerations made it desirable
that she perform for them very deli
cate task She should appear at the
office and go to work, apparently as an
ordinary employe. Her purpose in do
ing so should be to cultivate the &C
quaintance of the third partner. But
she should bide her time. There should
be nothing in her conduct toward him
to suggest to so shrewd man the pos
sibility of plot. Yet when the time
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1909-02-11

came she should recognize the moment
and play the game.
The time finally came. The partner
asked her to go to dinner with him
the next evening She had been to
dinner with him before and had gained
enough of his confidence to know this
dinner was not to be like the others.
But she lost no time in accepting the
invitation, and still more promptly
told her cousin.
AM hour later the cousin was in a
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1909-02-11

E\ many interests can nc
- 4 more get away from the
- penetrating rays of pub
- licity than a cat can get
away from its tail" said
the old-time detective. TN the first
place, the nation at large is keeping
its eye on him. But that's only one
eye. There are thousand little blaz-
ing orbs that follow him wherever he
goes during business hours. Let him
be absent from his office at time
believe he should be there, and
straightway goes a notice over the
ticker to every one of them"
-. P. Morgan is said to be detained
at his home by Illness" runs the mes
sage, il it be about him, or '<E H. Har-
riman, who la not at his Office to-day,
is reported to be about to make a trip
to the Pacific coast"
= Whoever it may be who has tenn
porarily dropped out of sight rush
is at once made for his office
Perhaps the firm gives out a state
seems all right, that settles It. If it
contains a word or clause that looks
suspicious the chase is redoubIed
Messages fly fast over the telegraph
and the ng-distance telephone
wires. And il positive. reassuring in
formation be not forthcoming within
an hour the widest rumors begin to
appear.
Mr.. Hartman a while ago dropped
out of sight for four hours, relates Al
len l.. Benson in the New York Herald
The usual inquiry was begun. In the
course of 80 minutes it was definitely
determined that Mr.. Hartman was not
at his home. In the next IS il was
learned he had been in Boston and
was not feeling we'll A full hour from
the start news came that he had left
Boston. The facts stopped coming.
No one knew where he was going. No
one knew what was the matter with
him.
Rumors Fly ThickIy.
During the next three hours almost
every conceivable rurnor about Mr..
Hartman was started-he was seri-
Ously ill; he was about to go to a hos
pital for an operation; he had been
operated on; he was better; he was
worse.
(. And then definite information came
that nothing of importance was or had
been the matter with him
During the panic last year Mr. Nor
gan could not have been watched much
more carefully if he had been a spe-
g cial train running a mile minute Tn-
der the constant observation Of the
best dispatcher on the road.
Yet 1t is not In such daylight opera
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1909-02-11

In the foregoing paragraph IS 'n0
conclusion of the government eApel''
as to the value of the peanut IN coin
parison with the other standard aIu'
cles of diet commonly supposed 10 10
the most nutritious, showing the pee
nat to be the most economical oil al
foods. But it does not follow that QUO
should live on peanuts excluslYeiy'
1 receive many requests for au'.9u
as TO how to live on peanuts wy
experiments have been conducted VIZ"
a view to determining the reia'i,1
values of foods, under varying conu,
tons of work, and in ABNORMAL conul
tions of health and growth In one y,
the experiments with peanuts VIZ.
accidentally became public, the esoea
tial fact demonstrated was that 20
nuts should not be roasted ana 'A
the principle here involved mas -
highly important bearing upon inc
fects of cooking In general. WHICH
have already considered.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1909-02-11
Wise Gentleman Easy Victim.

Her life in this hotel was destined
to be marked by two great days, and
it was six months before the first one
came. On that day she was intro
duced to the man on account of whom
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1909-02-11

EW YORK.-"The man of
many interests can no
more get away from the
penetrating rays of pub
licity than a cat can get
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-04
Order of Publication,

In the Circuit Court of Iron county
Missouri, in vacation-February g.,
1909.
The State of Missouri at the relation
and to the use of j N. Lewis,
Collector of the Revenue OF Iron
4 county, Missouri,
against
NJ. E. j Huff, widow of Jos c. Huff,
deceased, Laurie A Gray; Leona A..
Mccoy, Annie Grimes, Meloda Mid
kiff, George w. Huff, Joseph E Huff,
Eunice Moore, William d. Huff
Daniel B. Huff, sole heirs of Jos. c..
Huff, deceased.
Action to Enforce Lien for Taxes I
Now at this day comes the plaintiff,
j. N. Lewis, Collector Of The
Revenue of Iron county, Missouri, and
files his petition and affidavit, setting
forth, among other things, that the
defendants are M Il. j Huff. widow
OF Jos G, Huff, deceased, Laurie A
Gray, Leona A Mccoy, Annie Grimes,
Meloda Midkiff, George w Huff, Jo-
seph E Huff, Eunice Moore, William
D. Huff, Daniel B Huff, sole heirs Of
Jos q. Huff, deceased, and that the
said Joseph + Huff, Eunice Moore.
William D Huff and M E, j. Huff are
non-residents OF the State OF Missouri,
and cannot be summoned in this action
by the ordinary process Of law
in this stale; IT IS, therefore, or
dered by the Clerk Of the Circuit
Court Of Iron county, Missouri, in va
cation, that publication be made, uoti-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-04

flying said defendants that an action
has been commenced against them in
the Circuit Court of said county the
object and general nature of which is
to enforce the lien of the State of Mis-
souri, on the following real estate
situate in Iron county, Missouri, be-
longing to the said defendants for
back taxes for the years 1905 and 1906
to wit:
All the southwest quarter of the
southeast quarter Of section eight,
township thirty. two, north, of range
three east, containing 80 26 acres, and
the northwest quarter Of the southeast
quarter of section eight, township thir-
two, north, of range three east, con-
tanning 80. 26 acres.
IAN itemized statement in the nature
of u tax bill, showing the amount OF
taxes now due on said real estate for
the years aforesaid, amounting in the
aggregate to the sum of Sc 81 is
filed with said petition, as provided by
law,)
And unless they be and appear at
the next term of said court, to be
holden for the County of Iron, and
State of Missouri, at the court house
in said county, on the fourth Monday
in April next, sQ909). and on the
first day Of said term of court, plead,
answer or demur to said plaintiffs pc
titiOn, the same will be taken as con-
fessed, judgment rendered in accord
ance with the prayer of said petition,
and said real estate, or so much there
of as may be necessary to satisfy said
Judgment, interest and costs, be sold
under special fieri facias to be issued
thereon.
1t is further ordered that COPY
hereof be published according to law
in the Iron COUNTY REGISTER, q
weekly newspaper published in said
County of Iron, and State of Missouri.
JESSE M. HAWKINS, Clerk.
A true copy:
Attest, with seal, this 9th day of
SEAL February. 1909.
JESSE M. HAWKINS, Clerk
Iron County Circuit Court.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-04
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
STATE OF MISSOURI, S..
COUNTY OF IRON. S''
In the Circuit Court of Iron County, Mis-
souri-to April term, 1909.
1. A. Buxton, plaintiff,
VS..
William Buxton, Jr !, alias William Gross,
Mary Rachel Heard, Luther Buxton, alias
Luther Gross, Nancy Agnew, Pearl Bux-
ton, Mary Belle Robinson, Elite Miller,
Cornelia Buxton, Ollie Barton, G. A, Bux-
ton, and John Buxton, Jr., Clarence Bux-
ton and Jewell Buxton, minors, defend
ants.
Now at this day comes the plaintiff herein,
by his attorney, Charles P. Damron, and files
his petition and affidavit, alleging, among
other things, that defendants, William Bux-
ton, Jr., alias William Gross, and Luther
Buxton, alias Luther Gross, are not resi-
dents of the State of Missouri:
Whereupon, it is ordered by the Clerk of
the Circuit Court in vacation, that said de-
PENDANTS be notified by publication that plain
tiff has commenced suit against them in
this court the object and general nature of
which is to obtain a decree of partition in
accordance with the plaintiffs petition, which
is in words and figures as follows, to wit:
STATE OF MISSOURI, :,
COUNTY OF IRON. 81
In the Circuit Court Of Iron County, Mis-
souri-to April term, 1900.
/. A. Buxton, plaintiff,
VS..
William Buxton, H., alias William Gross,
Mary Rachel Heard, Luther Buxton, alias
Luther Gross, Nancy Agnew, Pearl Bux-
ton, Mary Belle Robinson, Ette Miller,
Cornelia Buxton, Ollie Barton, G. A. Bux-
ton, and John Buxton, Jr., Clarence Bux-
ton and Jewell Buxton, minors, defend
ants.
Plaintiff for his cause Of action states that
on the ----- day Of, ---, Nathaniel
w. Buxton died intestate, ,seizedo Of the whole
OF the following described tracts or parcels
of land, situate in the county Of Iron, and
the state Of Missouri, to wit the southeast
quarter Of the southwest quarter, forty acres,
the southwest quarter Of the southeast quar-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-04

if not then on or before the last
day of the term-answer or plead to the PEI
tition in said cause, the same will be taken
as confessed, and judgment will be rendered
accordingly.
And it is further ordered, that copy
hereof be published according to law in the
IRON COUNTY REGISTER, a weekly news
paper published in said County of Iron, for
four weeks successfully, published at least
once a week, the last insertion to be at
least 80 days before the first day of said
next April Term Of this Court.
J. M. HAWKINS, Circuit Clerk.
A true copy from the record:
Witness my hand and seal of the
Circuit Court of Iron County, this
tSEAL) 18th day of February, 1909.
J. M. HAWKINS, Circuit Clerk.
Charles 2. Damron, attorney for plaintiff.