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The Nevada County picayune., 1909-03-04

By natural enough transition, his thoughts swerved to his own brief and not altogether happy married life. He thought of the graves in Arizona where he had left his wife and his two children, and his heart felt heavy To escape musings which grew drearier every second, he cast his eyes about the motley crowd snuff fling over the tiled floors or resting in the massive dark oaken seats. And it was then that he saw Cary Mercer. At first he did not recognize the face. He only gazed indifferently at two well-dressed men who sat some paces away from him in the shadow of a great tiled column similar to his own. There was this difference, it happened
 the mission lantern with its electric bulbs above the two men was flashing brightly, and by some accident that above the colonel was dark He could see the men. himself in the shadow.
 The men were rather striking in ap- pearance; they were evidently gentle men; the taller one was young, well set-up, clean-shaven and quietly but most correctly dressed. His light brown hair showed a slight curl in it's closely clipped locks; his gray-blue eyes had long lashes of brown darker than his hair; his teeth were very white, and there was dimple in his cheek, plain when he smiled Had his nose been straight he would have been as handsome as a Greek god, but the nose was only an ordinary American nose, rather too broad at the base ; moreover, his jaw was a little too square for classic lines. Nevertheless, he was good to look upon, as we'll as strong and clean and wholesome, and when his gray-blue eyes strayed about tho room the dimple dented his cheek and his white teeth gleamed in kind of merry good-nature pleasant to see. But it was the other man who held the colonels eye. This man was double the young mans age. or near that; he was shorter, although still of fair stature. and slim of build His face was oval in contour and deli Cdtc Ok icdtuIc. AitHOuSu hS "oiC ho glasses, his brow had the far pucker of a near-sighted man. There was a mole on his cheek bone and another just below his ear. Both were small. rather than large, and in no sense disfiguring; but the colonel noted them absently, being in the habit of photographing a man in a glance. The face had beauty. distinction even, yet about it hung some association, sinis- ter as poison label.
 Now, where" said the colonel to himself, where have I seen that man." Almost instantly the clew came to him. By love, it's the broth err" he exclaimed. Three years ago, and he had almost forgotten; but here was Cary Mercer-the name came to him after little groping-hcre he was again; but who was the pleasant youngster with him? And what were they discussing with so little apparent and so much real earnestness?
 One of the colonel's physical gifts was an extraordinary acuteness of hearing. It passed the mark of fac
The Nevada County picayune., 1909-03-04

ana ne naQ aQ0eQ the QeeQ TOT llttle house in the suburbs of Chicago.
 If Haley wouldn't re-enlist-there never was better soldier since he had downed foolish young hankering for wild times and whisky-if he wouldn't go back to the army. where he belonged let him settle down, take up the honest carpenters trade that he had abandoned, be good citizen and marry little Nora to some class mate in the high school, who might colonial mansion, should the colonial still obtain in the twentieth century
 The colonel had spread a grand prospect before Haley. who listened unresponsively, a dumb pain in his wide blue Irish eyes. The colonel hated it; but, somehow, he hated worse the limp look of Haley's back as he watched it dwindle down Mich igan avenue.
 However Mrs. Haley had been more satisfactory, if none the less bewil- dering. She seemed very grateful over the house and the $500 for its furnishing. A birthday present, he had termed it, with flicker of hu- nor because the day was his own birthday His fiftieth birthday it hap pened to be. and it occurred to him that a man ought to do something a little notable on such en anniversary. This rounding of the l:alf-century had attributes apart; it was no mere an- nual birthday; it marked the last van ishing flutter of the gilded draperies lands; the fading tinkle of the light music of hope. It should mark mans solid achievements. Once, not so long ago, Winter had believed that h.7 fiftieth birthday would see wide and beneficent and far-reaching results in dream was shattered. He was gen crous of nature, and he could have been content to behold another reap the fields which he had sowed and tilled it was the harvest. whether his or another's, for which he worked; but his had been the bitter office to have to stand aside, with no right to pro- test, and see his work go to waste be. cause his successor had feeble brain and pusillanimous caution in place of his own dogged will. For all these reasons, as we'll as others, the colonel found no zest in his fiftieth birthday; and his reverie drifted dismally from one somber reflection to another until it brought up at the latest wound to his heart-his favorite brothers death.
 There had been three Winter broth ers-Rupert, Melville and Thomas. During the past year both Thomas Winter and his wife had died leaving one child, boy of 14. named Archi- bald after his fathers uncle. Rupert Winter and the boys great-aunt, the widow of the great uncle, were ap- pointed joint guardians of the young Archie. Tonight. in his jaded mood. he was assailed by reproaches be- cause he had not seen more of his ward. Why. he hadn't so much as looked the little chap up when he passed through Fairport-merely had sent him a letter and some truck from
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-25
LEPROcY CASE
IN PIERCE
COUNTY

The county commissioners have
a problem on their hands in the
case of one Chun, Korean, who
is.at Puyallup and who has been
discovered to be afflicted with a
case of leprosy in its first stages.
An effort was made to ship him
back home, but the boat would not
take him. A special guard has
been detailed to keep him in quar-
antine. Arrangements will be
made to ship him home as soon
as possible.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-25
HIGH TIDES ARE
UNPRECEDENTED

(By United Press Leased Wire. }
SKAMOKAWA, Jan. 25.-The
high tides of the past week on the
lower Columbia river have been
unprecedented.
Normally they should have
ranged from feet 6 inches to 8
feet 8 inches, but owing to a sue
cession of gales ranging from the
southeast to southwest, which has
had the effect of holding the
water back in the river, they have
ranged from IL feet to 10 feet IN
height.
AS a 9-foot tide on the lower
Columbia is a very high one, the
loss and Inconvenience to people
living In the tidelands have been
considerable. Not since the great
June freshet of 1894 has there
been as high water on the lower
Columbia and the oldest settlers
and Indians say the tides this
week are the largest mid-winter
tides they ever saw.
Steamboat traffic between Port
land and the north bank is par
alyzed. The o. r. & N. company
has not sent boat to Astoria for
two weeks or more and the Van
couver Transportation company's
boat did not attempt to run. The
Lurline at present occupies two
days in making the round trip
from Portland to Astoria.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-25
THE TACOMA. TINES
IN PITTSBURC
CRAFT CASES
(By United Press Leased Wire. }

~ = >e'' @~Ns~N1S0 " AASsl
PITTSBURG, Pa, Jan. U.s.
This city is at high tension over
the incidents in the graft investi-
cation Of Saturday. Following the
attack on Detective Decker of the
Voters league by henchmen of
Councilman Klein, in which Off
Ger Boyle looked on and refused
to rescue the detective, later los
ing his job for his inactivity, an
other sensation was sprung by the
of a posse of consta-
bles who battered down the door
Of the swell Fort Pitt hotel and
arrested Robert Wilson and c. R.
Robinson, Voters league detec-
tives, who were charged with con-
spiracy to deprive Joseph Williams
of his liberty by force of arms.
Williams was arrested Saturday
by Wilson and Robinson, they
he was following them.
Wilson is the head of the graft in
vestigation.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-25
81. PAUL SENDS
ONE NEW TRAIN
WEST EVERY DAY
Each Is Accompanied BY
Complete Crew and
Their Families.
Work Of Building Cars for
Railway Will Take
Many Months.
(By United Press Leased Wire.)

(BY Un1te0 Press Leased WIre.)
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Jan. rs
The prospects for business in the
region touched by the Pacific
coast extension of the st. Paul
railway are so bright and bust
ness IL actually developing &c
rapidly that the road has been un-
able to turn out the cars needed
ut it's shops in this city, and has
turned over to the Westinghouse
company, at Pittsburg, an order
for $4,000.
The company is running its To-
cal car building works with a
night and day force of 5000 men
and is sending West every day a
complete train of one engine and
30 freight cars.
Each train is accompanied by a
complete crew of men and their
families and furniture, and each
train as It leaves Milwaukee takes
q new crew of men to new homes
In the Far West.
This work will take several
months, and according to reports
received here, the shops are ex-
pected to be running full force
for several years ahead, as new
branches to the main line are
opened up and new business de-
veloped.
Through passenger trains have
been running for some time from
Milwaukee to Butter.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-25
DON'T GET A DIVORCE.

A western Judge granted a divorced
breath. DIR. Kings New Life pills
would have prevented 1t. They cure
Constipation, causing bad breath and
Liver Trouble the ill-temper, dispeI
colds, Danish headaches, conquer
chjlls. 25c at all drug stores. q
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-25
HARD FIGHT TO
Be MADE FOR
COUNTY

The county assessors will meet
at Olympia this week and Harry
Railsback of Pierce county, will be
there leading a fight for the res
toration of the old plan of taxation
for railway and telephone and tel
egraph corporations.
He says this county has lost
taxes on $S,000,O00 of property
of the Northern Pacific by the plan
of having the railway commission
fix the taxes and apportion what
is commercial and what operating
property.
Railsback will make a fight for
a law leaving it to the assessors
in each county to segregate the
property and decide which is oper-
ating and which commercial prop
|erty.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-25
IMPORTANT MEETING :.
Of 0vEMEHT
2. CLUB TONIGHT

The Twelfth Street Improve
ment club will meet tonight at
Strang's hall, South Twelfth and
Junett. The streets and alleys
committee of the city council and
the city engineer will be present
to receive suggestions relative to
contemplated improvements. The
opening of a street from South Ia
coma to connect with South
Twelfth street, and the opening of
South Fifteenth street will be con-
sidered.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-25
REPUBLIC
GOES TO The
BOTTOM
(By United Press Leased Wire.)

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 25.-While
being towed to port, the big pas
senger steamship Republic, which
was rammed Saturday off the
coast by the liner
Florida, sank at $3.50 O'Clock last
night off No-Man's Land.
Six of her passengers and crew
lost their lives, Mrs. F. Lynch of
Boston, w. j. Mooney of Lang
don, N. D., and four seamen. Mr..
Lynch and M. J. Murphy were bad
ly injured.
The passengers from the Repub-
lie were taken on the Baltic after
they had been rescued from the
Republic by the Florida. The
Baltic was making for port last
night.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-25
LAND SUIT
INVOLVES
MILLIONS

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
PORTLAND, Jan. 25.-B. D.
Townsend, special counsel for the
attorney general, has started 25
suits in court here to recover for
the government 35S,288 acres of
land worth $15,00O,000, which the
Oregon & California railway is al
legged to have disposed of to tim
Der companies and individuals
contrary to the terms of its land
grant from the government. The
Southern Pacific and about 100 in
dividuals are defendants in the
suit.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-25

Books slightly damaged by
water for 10c to soc each. Gen.
trial News Co. Sc
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-25
HOPKINS SURE
Of VICTORY
(By United Press Leased wire. ,

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
CHICAGO, JAM 25.-When the
balloting in the Illinois legislature
at Springfield is resumed tomor-
row to elect United States SEN
ator, Albert j. Hopkins, who is
candidate for reelection to that
office, says he will receive on the
thirteenth ballot the necessary
number of ballots to elect him.
During the recess of the gen.
eral assembly Hopkins and his fof-
lowers say they have made sew
eral votes. The senator predicts
victory for nimself In spite of the
fact that Congressman. George
Foes has just announced his cam
didacy.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-25
IS
TOTAL LOSS
(By United Press Leased Wire.)

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
VICTORIA, B. c., Jan. 25.-
The American schooner Sequel,
which went on the rocks Satur-
day, will be a total loss. Captain
Remington and the crew were
all rescued yesterday in an ex-
hausted and injured condition, but
the bodies of the captains wife
and little girl, who were killed by
a falling spar, could not be recov-
cred.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-25

Spring line of embroideries
Just arrived at w. s. Hartzell &
Co.. 939 Tacoma av. go
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-25
DICUSS PLAN
TO CARE FOR
CHILDREN
sy United Press Leased Wire.)

,By United Press Leased Wire.)
WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 25.
In the East room of the White
House today nearly two hundred
delegates appointed by charitable
institutions throughout the United
States met at the invitation Of
President Roosevelt to discuss
ways and means to take care or
the country's dependent children.
A public session and banquet will
be held tomorrow.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-25
MIL WAUkEE TO SPEND
BIG SUM AT BALLARD

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
SEATTLE, Jan. 25.-The Chi
cago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound
railway has made arrangements to
spend 100000 at once in the
18th ward-Ballard - installing
spur tracks, ferry slips, barges,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-25

etc. Ordinances will be introduce
ed Monday night by Councilman
Armstrong of the 18th ward,
granting a franchise for, Is years
TO the Milwaukee for the use, of
the ends of 18th and 30th ave-
nues northwest, running out into
the tide lands.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-03-05
PAYS TAX OF S4O5.258
NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL FILES
STATEMENT AT MADISON
Total Taxable Income Is SIS 1888 ana
All Fees in 1908 Amount to
$s6O,76O

MADISON. Wis, Feb. 27.-[Specal. ]
The Northwestern Mutual Life Insur-
ance company today filed it's annual
statement with the insurance department
and paid it's taxes to the state. The
taxes paid as appears from the state
ment filed are:
real estate, $40 1872, OS377, at $780, 762. 81.
On Wisconsin premium income, $2,549,,
-Q2.66 at per cent, $40 4!6.17; aco 80
Total taxable income, $l3, All $50. 43.
Total tax, $4O3, 23S. g.
The statement shows that during the
year the total income of the company
was:
From interest and rents, $11, 1856, S33 95
From premiums, 5,295, O46.T.
From other sources. $235, 2S32 %.
IUta! income. SAG, 1861 164.OO.
The gross assets were $249, 975, 1888.
The total taxes paid by the company
for the year 1908 were:
Taxes on real estate, sol ,145.17.
State taxes on premiums, $3.50 ,66S.32, OF
which $16416.17 was to Wisconsin.
insurance department licenses and fees
S23,31O35, of which $9313.64 was to Wiscon
sin.
State tax on income, $3.50, 3O3. 81, of which,
S326.16 81 was to Wisconsin.
Stare tax on reserves, $20,S99.OS
Publishing statements, $1,3OSlS.
County and municipal taxes, $S125.66.
TotaI taxes, licenses and fees paid, $780,
1CO.37.
An average tax on all income Of 1-94-1G
per cent.
An average tax on admitted assets OF
3j-1O0 per cent.
The statement shows that the total in
5urance in force increased during the
year as follows:
AT beginning of year, number of policies
261.0S4 and amount 1881. 563, $50.
At end of the year number Of policies
amount
Increase for year, number Of policies 81
254, and amount $63, 013,0 26.
Average policy in force, $2470.
The increase of insurance in force for
Wisconsin alone is as follows:
At beginning of year number of policies,
31,S14, and amount $67, G95o1O.
At end of year number of policies, 49,
0S7. and amount 1850, 407.
Increase for year. number Of policies,
1878, and amount So, 800, 392.
Average policy in force, $2l4S.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-03-05
ALICE HUGE SWINDLE,
Postofdce Inspectors Find Names of Wis
consin Men in Diary Of Iowa
Organization.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia, Feb. 81
Postoffice Inspector Swenson, who has
returned from Little Rock, Ark; has in
formation collected while there of the
monumental swindle perpetrated by an
organization. the head OF which be be-
lieves is under arrest in that city in the
person of J. G. Maybray.
The postoffice department believes the
operations of the organization brought
them considerably more than a half mil
lion dollars. More than a hundred per-
sons in various parts of the country
were fleeced out of amounts ranging
from 5000 to $4,000.
Among the documents secured by In
spector Swenso0 in his search Of May
bray's effects was diary containing
much information concerning the opera
tons of the organization. A complete
record was kept with each man dealt
with More than 100 records were found
and these showed that foot races, wres-
Ting matches and horse races were the
principal methods used for the fleeing
of victims. Among these records were
the names of Thomas Cole, Fond du
Lac. Wis, wrestler, and F. X. Roethe,
Neenah.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-03-05

piled by such acts. The. last occasion on
which the mace was similarly used was In
tn Fifty-fourth Congress. After many
years of discussion of the subject, hitherto
ed approving plans reducing the size of the
House chamber. The rivers and harhorS
appropriation bill was sent to conference,
whereupon the House at G:53 p. m. re
cessed until II a. m. Monday.
Transacting its business amid scenes OF
great confusion the House on the 1st gave
every evidence that the present Congress Is
drawing TO a close. In his endeavor to
maintain semblance of order the speak.
er was constantly pounding his gavel and
admoniShing members to cease conversation.
After two hours of stormy debate the so
called Appalachian and White mountain
its provision to all states, was passed by 3
narrow majority of ten. BY the terms of
the bill national forest reservation COM
mission is created for the purpose Of &C.
lands needed to promote or to protect the
navigability of streams on whose watershed
they lie. The House bill is a substitute for
that Of the Senate and the measure Will
now go to conference The final conference
reports on the army. naval and forthca-
lions appropriation bills were agreed to and
the measures will now go to the Presldent
for signature In addition to this vast
amount of miscellaneous business was dis
posed Of resolution. designed as a cor
cession to the so-called insurgents, amend"
week for call of committees. gave rise to
immediate discussion and was adopted by
the narrow margin of six, the vote standing
l6S to 1872. After a short discussion the
disagreement with the Senate on the amend.
ment to the legislative, executive and Ju"
dicial appropriation bill raising the salary
Of the President. vice president, the speak,
pr and United States judges, and the bsll
for the third time went back to conference.
The House at 800 D. n. recessed.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-03-05
MAYORALTY FIGHT ON
Republicans at GAINESVILLE in Three-Cor
nered' Fight for Nomination-One
Democrat in Field.

GAINESVILLE, Wis, March 2.-[Spe
ciaI. Local politicians are much a
sea over the problem of electing a mayo
this spring. The Democrats have bu
one candidate for the primaries, John c
Nichols. while three Republicans vii
split the vote of thar party. 1t is feared
by some of the Republican leaders tina
the Democrats will throw their surplus
strength to the weakest of the tire,
Republicans in hopes of nominating hin
and then defeat him at the polls.
Victor 2. Richardson, a former La Fol
lette leader; Wilbur F. Carrie, presen
member of the council from the FRS
ward. a Stalwart, and William Henry
Harrison Macloon, u La Toilette
supporter, are the three Republican:
seeking the office.
For city clerk the fight lies in the Re
publican ranks alone, no Democratic
aspirant for the office having appeared
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-03-05
WOMEN LEAVE PRISON
Suffragettes Given Breakfast of Wei
come After Discharge from Lon
don Jail.

LONDON, Feb. 27-The woman su1
fragists are losing no opportunity to az
vertise the cause. They gathered II
force this morning outside Of HOLLOWAY
jail to welcome three of their memoeIi
who had Just completed one months inn
prisonment for trying to interview Prg
mier Asquith. In spite Of the fact thal
snow YVES falling they formed in a pr9
cession and marched to Holborn Whef'
a breakfast of welcome was given 10y
the martyrs. Miss ChristabeI ParN
hurst in addressing the gathering, COM
planned that while Mrs. Lawrence a.nl
the other leaders of their organiz;a9! l
had been sentenced to two months Inl
prisonment for their raid on the HouS'
of Commons, Mrs. Despard, the leader o,
rival society, had got OFT with 9lI'
month. The speaker promised an9lnell
raid on the House of Commons, MaFcl
30 when the London women VIII O'
Joined by delegates from Lancashire
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-03-05
TRAIN USES WIRELESS.
Successful Experiment Between Buffalo
and Chicago May Revolutionize
Railroading.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, March 1.-Wireless
messages flashed from a train running
at a mile a minute were received by an
operator on the roof of the La Sale
street depot, demonstrating, according to
railroad officials, that this means of
communication is as adaptable to trans
mission from moving trains on land as
it is from ocean liners. The experiment
may work a revolution in railroad meth
DDS. The messages were sent by an OPP
orator on a special Lake Shore train
bringing Frederic Thompson and his
Via Wireless theatrical company to
Chicago from Buffalo, and which had
been equipped with instruments under
the direction of Frederick Sammis,
chief engineer of the Marconi Wireless
company.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-03-05
TO TEST RECALL LAW.
Twenty Thousand Los Angeles Voters
Sign Petition to Dust Democratic
Mayor.

LOS ANGELES, Cal, March Los
Angeles on March 26 will hold the first
recall election ever held for mayor in
me history of the recall movement in the
west if not in the entire country.
Twenty thousand voters have signed the
recall petition, demanding that Mayor
Arthur G. Harper be removed from
office, and perforce the city council has
passed an ordinance calling the election
and Mayor Harper, also perforce, has
signed the ordinance. Harper is a Dem
ocrat and slipped into office at the last
election because of a split in the Repub-
lican forces. Los Angeles IS normally a
strong Republican city. but the reform
element broke away from the regular
Republicans and organized a separate
healed