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Arizona republican., 1909-06-19
FROM BUNDLE BOY TO SENATOR

Anecdotes without end about Sena- tor Lorimer have followed his election by the Illinois legislature, among the best being those of Gus Swanson, now jailer at detective headquarters. He hired a lively lad, Billy Lorimer," to be bundle boy in his laundry years ago. "One day Billy saw me delivering packages" he relates. and he asked me to hire him to do the work He spoke about his mother two sisters and a brother. whom he was trying to support. and he pleaded so for the job that l put him to work. I kept adding 50 cents or s1 a week to his wages until he was getting about 325 a month. He worked hard for it. too. He was up early in the morning help ing in the laundry and worked until late at night. When Billy was about 15 or Is years old I went to Maine with my wife on d months vacation. We left Billy in charge of the laundry. On leaving I gave him $500 as d bank roll to run the business and told him to do his best. That was a whole lot of money to leave with a kid. When we came back to Chicago he had an itemized statement of all the money taken in and paid out for help, rent, and other expenses. It was correct to a cent" There are many street car employees who remember Lorimer when he was a conductor during the horse car days on Halsted street. His driver of those days related: He had his fights with hoodlums who used to try to run his car, and l must say for him that he could always hold his own in a scrap. Halsted street was a pretty tough line in those days and many a conductor got his trimmings from the rowdies who patroniZed the cars. It was almost a nightly occur
 renee for some conductor to have his head beaten off by the gang back of the yards I remember NTell when he told me he vas going to break into the political game. It was just before he ran for constable in the old Seventh ward, 1 think, and he was elected. He chucked up the street car job and has been in politics ever since
Arizona republican., 1909-06-19
LATER IMPROVEMENTS
 AT CASTLE HOT SPRINGS
ADDITIONAL POWER TO MEET
 GROWING NEEDS.
Crowding Work in the Reed Building
 at Wickenburg.

V'ickcnbUrg. June 17.-(Special cor | respOndence of The Republican )--Mrs. | Winters and daughter of Bouse passed | through here en route to Los Angeles | to spend the summer. They visited | friends and took in the sights during their brief stay here.
 G. K. Bretherton of the Fairbanks Morse company of Los Angeles Is a visitor here today. MT. Bretherton is as well known throughout the country as the firm he represents. He reports a large sale just made with the Castle Hot Springs company. The present plant of the Castle Hot Springs com pany has entirely outgrown itself. It was necessary to order an 80-horse power Fairbanks Morse vertical multi cylinder engine and a 50-horse power R. W. generator to furnish lights. both for the hotel and grounds. Motors were also ordered to run a laundry and an ice machine. Other improvements will be made on the property. all with a view to give it's guests the best up to- date accommodations to be had in the country.
 Charles Allen of Fl Paso, Tex, in company with Nick McCarver. left for the Monarch mine. of which c. w. Platt is manager. MT. Allen. who is an expert mechanical engineer. came up to make a thorough investigation of the conditions of said property and also to make estimates and recommen- dations prior to the installation of the increased milling plant.
 Evelyn, the daughter of Mir. and Mrs. F.. Y. Jones. who has been seriously i'll at Prescott, suffering from appendi- citis. is very much improved.
 Mrs. L. V. Crabb has returned from Phoenix in company with her sister, who will spend the summer here.
 MT. and Mrs. Allen Love. MT. Stew ems, J. W. Smith and Ernest Love en- ioyed dinner Thursday at the residence
Arizona republican., 1909-06-19
PHOENIX ATHLETES
 GO ID LOS ANGELES
Will Enter the Athletic Meet During

Five Phoenix tn 'etes are to enter the field meet during the Elks' con Vention at Los Angeles. under the management of the Southern Califor- mia Athletic club. Three of them are dusky braves. Though several Phoe- nix atletic Tive wires" are interested in the proposition, the California club allowed the boys to overwork them selves, Harry Mclean ran the mile last night in minutes and 14 seconds, and later the i0 miles in 55 minutes. ending his jaunt in a condition to run 10 more miles at the same rate. This is remarkable work when it is taken into consideration that he had nothing to pace him or to keep up his enthusi- asm. The other boys of the dusky hue are doing things accordingly.
 Harry Groves and Ken Goodwin, who will enter the 22O and 100 yards. the is really taking the team to the meet It is purely an amateur meet and all of the athletes will go under the red and black of the Phoenix high school John E. Lewis. employed in the Fash ion barber shop, who has had a past reputation as a trainer, and is known by the California club. has the boys in hand and, judging from the work -out that his men have been delivering the last few nights. Phoenix will come among the head-liners at the meet. In fact. the boys have turned out some training records the past few nights that have been seldom equaled in pre-
 Vious training circles in the southwest
 The three Indian braVeS-HarrV Mc- Lean, Manuel Parsisk and Chaff Pom sol-Will enter the 26-mile Marathon, the mile and the two-mile. They are perfect specimens of the long distance, if the criticisms of a recent C. C. rep resentative are to be taken into ac- count. Though Trainer Lewis has not
Arizona republican., 1909-06-19
WICKENBURG DEPARTMENT


of Mir and Mrs. l.. V. Wilkinson Mir. Wilkinson left for Ash Fork.
 Byron Smith, the mining man, came in from camp today.
 J. T. Lindsley of St. Louis is a busi ness visitor here today.
 Will Evans. the plumber Of Phoe- nix. came through today on his way to the A. & C. country.
 Martin M Marquez. who has done all the work on the Reed building, is now engaged in repairing the boiler at the power plant, which was blown up some time ago.
 The power plant is having a pole line put in to connect with the Reed building. where everything is being rushed. as Nagle & Bozarth are anx ious to have their ice cream parlors ready for business at the earliest pos sible moment.
 Ernest Walker came down from the Octave mine to visit with his family.
Arizona republican., 1909-06-19
HOW IT WORKS.
Some Details of tte Wright Brothers
 Wonderful Air Machine

Wondcrful AIT Machine.
 (From C. II. Claudy's Two American
 Conquerors of the Air" in July St.
 Nicholas)
 Almost every boy knows the names of the Americans, Wilbur and Orville Wright. and their aeroplane which has astonished the world.
 It consists of two surfaces Of cloth. stretched on wooden frames and held apart by struts, a horizontal rudder in front. a vertical one behind and an engine driving two propellers; there is nothing particularly Startling about this. The meat of the invention lies in the shape of the surfaces and the fact that this shape can be altered in the air.
 Both ends of both planes-that is. the frames on which the cloth is stretched. are movable, not upon hinges, but by bending under pressure. just as a rattan cane bends. A simple system of chains and wires and a lever controls this bending of 'warping" of the planes. so that the two right hand planes will move as one, and so that the two left-hand ones will move as one. When the right hand ends are bent or warped toward the earth, the left hand ends of the planes are bent or warped away from the earth. Both ends of both planes. of course. warp in either direction at will but the ends warp always together. By a second lever the rear. or vertical, rudder- planes are turned very much as a rud- der is turned in the water. Still third lever operates the front or horizontal rudder planes which steer the airship toward or away from the ground.
Arizona republican., 1909-06-19
Int s~.Ss - 7 s>s~s

Some iics s< tt< rvir~ns< ~ns- -, cial value os . strsis selk uAst hAp pens to Inf. t1s p.pu-sI -si may ne conveyed by narrsttos p Seq ~st7cf- = ed a few days ago b-tr-~o aBrry Askin, who is soon to pT.s1u>s ( new musical comedy called To- snG Chas. K. Harris. the music publisher. who made an independent fortune from the sales of his own composition. After the Ball" The music for "Lo'' is be- ing composed by A. Baldwin Sloane. whose melodies have frequently caught the publics fancy in the last fifteen years While in Chicago on May %, as a participant in the Lambs club performance. Mir. Sloane took the op- portunity to play over for MT. Askin three or four numbers of his new score. Mir. Harris was among those present. The second number played by Mir. Sloane was a duet called Inter national Love" and directly upon hearing it Mir. Harris made Mir Aslkin an offer to take over the publishing rights of the entire score. and paid a cash bonus in advance of s12,500 to bind the agreement. Although there will be twenty-one numbers in "Lo." Mir. Harris expressed himself as per- fectly satisfied with his bargain if only the one song prove a popular success.
Arizona republican., 1909-06-19
BISHOP 0F THE DIOCESE
 DRIVEN OUT 0F TOWN
Loyalty of the People at Ulysses. Nsb., to Father Murphy.

Ulysses. Neb.. June 1S.-Rt. Rev. Bishop Bonacum of the Catholic dio- cese of London, Father O'Brien of Sew ard and Father Kline of Brainerd were driven from this village tonight by an angry mob of between 200 and 25O people.
 The bishop and priests had come to Ulysses to take formal possession of the church here over which Father Murphy has had charge. The sympa- thizers of Father Murphy. both Catho- lies and non Catholics. joined the mob and would have done violence to the bishop and his party had it not been for the strenuous efforts of Father Murphy. who requested that the visit ors be left alone.
Arizona republican., 1909-06-19

the hilltop of prosperity, the only place Phoenix people propose to go hereafter to look at anything.
Arizona republican., 1909-06-19
WATER AND CANAlS-Th

at Roosevelt lost another tenth of a foot yesterday the elevation of the water now being 110.3. At Richins' station the Salt and Verde had shrunk 1900 inches in their combined flow. The water was turned into the Salt River Valley canal yesterday morning for sixteen hour runs. the canal run to last four days. The run in the Appro- priators canal was finished up yester- day and this morning the water goes into the Arizona for twelve hour runs. The Maricopa is dry.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-05-06
Corning Down Easy.

Inquiries after the welfare of Pat
rick Conroy We're answered by his
devoted friend, Terence Dolan, who
was at the Conrov's in the double ca
pacity OF nurse and cook No, he's
not dangerously hurt at all" was Mr..
Dolan's reply to solemnly whis-
pered question at the door
We heard he had a bad fall and
was all broke to pieces" whispered
the neighbour.
Ills a big story you've heard"
said Mr. Dolan in his cheerful roar.
"Thrue. he fell off'n the roof O the
Brady stables, where he was Singing
and he broke his lift leg, knocked out
a couple of teeth and broke his collar.
bone.
Mind ye if he'd have fell clear to
the ground it might have hurried him
bad, but sure there was big pile of
shtones and old lumber that broke his
fall Youths Companion.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-05-06
Be Amiabe and Retain Youth

AS charming woman once said:
ITO remain always young one must
be always amiable." A melancholy
face, sullen, an evil look, is like com
ing in contact with winter; whereas
serene face, a gracious air, kind and
good expression is like spring day.
and smile on the lips like its sun
shine Sulky people, you may have
remarked, always appear to be ten
years oldsr than they are The face
grows wrinkled from contracting the
brows; the mouth projects disagree
ably when sulking. Behold beside the
portrait OF the sullen woman the pic-
ture of the sweet and gracious woman:
all her features are in repose. her Inns
form an adorable Cupids bow, kind
ness softens her glance and goodness
Eliminates her brow Perhaps she is
the elder, but she will always appear
young and charming
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-05-06
EDISON HERRIcK

He came from Beloit, Wis. i'm 1854.
returned to Wisconsin the following
year, but came back here in July 1856.
His wife was Mrs. Mary A. West, nee
BigeloW. He entered the north west
quarter of Section l6 Extra township
but settled on an adjoining tract in
the northeast corner OF Section 16
where William Carpenter and others
afterwards lived. He next built the
Poage house further west in the same
section, the next house east of the
Green SchoolhouSe, and lived there
until about 1864, and then brought the
farm in Sections $ and o, where he at
forwards lived and owned until his
death. He also owned other lands and
property in the county at different
times. Edison Herrick'S name NAV
justly go down to prosperity as a mo-
del citizen. Neither should his par
ticular by-word, SPY jocks" be for
gotten. ! think he was entitled to a
patent on it. His homestead is now
owned and occupied by the family of
his son-in-law, Walter B Temple Esq
He died at the home of his son,
Julius Boy Herrick) a medium sized
man with dark complexion, hair and
eyes.
Children:
Ella Mary m. Walter B. Temple.
Ida f., m. Henry b. Houston.
Lilly Ann, m. Elihu Myers.
Emma p, m. J.Mack Love.
Julius Earl, m. Jessie Wilcutt.
Cora, m. Grant Brown 4 Lloyd Hinkle
Laura B., died unmarried.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-05-06
Men as Church Goers.

Denying that this is an irreligious
age, the archbishop of Canterbury has
been suggesting that religion mani
tests itself in different wa2s now from
those in which it used to be expressed.
Agreeing with him, the Pail Mall Ca
zette admits the falling off IN attend
ance at church. particularly on the
part of one SEX But this male defec-
ton is not altogether new thing.
When Sydney Smith preached in Edin-
burgh he took his text from the
Psalms, ooh, that men would therefore
praise the Lord "-and, looking round
upon the almost exclusive feminine
congregation, he put a deliberate
stress upon the third word of the sen
tence London Chronicle.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-05-06
PECULIAR IDEAS OF AUTHORS.
Varying Conditions Under Which the
Worlds Great Writers Did Their
Best Work.

Alexander Pope, who was the liter
airy pontiff of his time, thought best
when in bed Whenever a thought
came to him he would jot it down on a
scrap of paper. His servant often
found bedclothes and floor covered
with white bits containing aphorisms
which have now become hackneved
quotations.
Victor Hugo wrote Les Miserables''
standing up, an attitude which Haw-
thorne also assumed when he wrote
many of his romances.
One leg thrown over the arm of a
chair or sitting on the arm of his sec
retaly's chair We're Napoleon's favor
lite positions while debating to Bour.
rlenne, position which he varied now
and then by patting that scribe on the
head or pulling his ears.
Sir Walter Scott could while reclin-
Ing on a lounge dictate to two amanu-
enses, who frequently had to stop writ
ing, so funny the dictated passages
seemed to them
William Morris made one of his ia
nous TRANSACTIONS from the Greek
while riding on the steam cars. Walt
Whitman and Horace Traubel. original
in all things, We're most original in the
position they took while thinking.
They We're wont, so Mr.. Traubel says.
to climb upon pile of lumber and lie
down upon their backs. In that way
each found out what the others best
thoughts We're.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-05-06
TO LEARN ENGLISH
YOUNG MEXICAN DETERMINED
HE WILL ACQUIRE LANGUAGE.
Clever Use Made of "PulIer I'M on
Whom He Practiced for Some
Days = His Experience
in Church.

There is one young Mexican in town
who is serious, very, very serious, in
his English study, says the Philadel-
phia North American. He simply is
voracious for English, and if he could
had some way to dream English he
would consider the sleeping hours bet
ter spent.
He is persistent all day Anything
that can speak English is his game.
While he is ignorant of the purpose
OF that American institution, The quill
er in, he was clever enough to see Ms
chance when one of the genus tooig
MIN by the arm in front of a Sixth
! avenue clothing shop and begged him
to come in
That man wouldn't try to escape
from his practice, he perceived. SO
for five days he wandered by and was
each TINS eagerly pulled in. On the
fifth day of practice he promised to
buy 90 overcoats, ten neckties and four
suits OF clothes for his friends" the
next Gay, and now that puller in recog-
nlZes the sting of the bee and doesn't
rush out and find himself giving Eng
l1sh lessons to an eager young man.
1t was from this professor of Sixth
avenue commercial English that the
young man acquired all the accent thst
goes with "a push in the eye"
He and friend wandered into a
church at Sunday night service Both
are highly polite and when everybody
was urged TO take hymn book and
stand up and unite in that part of
the service the two students of Eng
fish Joined in the hymn
They thought they found the page
or whatever the number was. but
neither could read fast enough to sing
things strange to them. Neither ha'
cultivated English poetry, but both
like music. Both were strong on prao
tice and both did practice so that the
two nice old ladies just before them
turned around with wonder in their
eyes more than once.
Both had but ten cents with them.
1t was the day before remittance day.
they had carefully read out the sign
Free before entering the church. But
before the hymn was sung the minis
ter had told about a cinematograph
exhibition in the church the next week
and said something about ten cents.
So when the contribution basket APP
peared In their vicinity and was thrust
toward them both thought they would
not be let out unless they paid that
cinematogfaph ten cents and gave up
q Ct tn
the street dead broke. Now the Next
can is wary of how he rushes into I'M
known places for practice
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-05-06
URBANE RICK

settled on the place where w. b. lem
pie now lives, which he sold to a Doc
tor Hager of Illinois. ostenSibly for a
brother-in-law of the latter. They sold
it about 1864 to Edison Herricll. His
first wife was Charlotte Squirting and
second wife keziah Smith In 1860,
he and his wife Charlotte were living
in Extra, in what is now the Marietta
place. Soon he improved and moved
TO the farm now owned by Willie Jen-
sen in Sect. sc, Hamlin township. He
next moved to Lot - in Section and
owned the land embraced in Extra
Heights and the schoolhouse site. He
built and lived in the present house of
Martin Jensen in the north east cor
ner of said Lot IL.
He died here many years ago and
his widow is now Mrs Frank Persing.
He was small man, with dark com
pleXion, hair and eyes.
Children, by lst Wife:
Urbane Scott. m. Clara NJ. Blackmer.
Ora d., m. Samuel Beers.
Lorinda D., m. Hiram Young
Rosa NJ, IN. Clark Gray.
BY 2nd wife:
Robbie k, m. John Peterman and
Michael Flynn.
Mary b., Hans p Hansen.
Maggie e., m. Grant Smith and J. O..
Howard
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-05-06
JUDsoN DeFoREsT HERR1cK

He was born at Chatauqua, n. Y.
and came here with his parents when
ten years old. He went to California
with his mother in 1868 but returned
here in ls64-5. He is usually known
as "Follie Herrick He married Mrs.
Louisa Strickland, whose maiden
name was RoeSer. about 1866. She was
born in Lorraine, Germany, then part
of France and came to this country
with her parents, in childhood. He
lived at Bear Grove, upon his fathers
farm there, until 1867. He afterwards
settled on David's Creek on a farm in
Section 81, Greeley township and lived
there many years, where theirchidren
were born. They have lived in Extra
since 1897.
Children
Alvin m. Sarah Winchell
Lenora, m. John Crees.
Curtis, m. Edna White.
Herbert, m. Harriet Jenkins.
ESSle NJ, unmarried.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-05-06
WANTED TIME FOR THOUGHT.
Arduous Duties Before the Head of the
House Required His Entire
Attention.

The baby was i'll, and the doctor or
dered that he be taken to the sea. This
involved the closing of the house until
the little one should be we'll enough
to return. After the wife had secured
hotel accommodations by the long-dis
lance telephone the man of the house
went to his room and slowly and
thoushtfully spread the entire con
tents of his wardrobe upon his bed
that they might be convenient for his
wife 10 pack.
He stood surveying them, deep in
mediation, when his wife came into
the room and began to speak to him
He raised his hand rebukingly
Don't talk to me now, Susie, don't
talk to me! l have a great deal on
my mind. If we are going to lie sea
shore day after tomorrow there are
many things to be done, and l must
plan"
His wife, who had already tele-
phoned the butcher milkman. baker
grocer, expressman and ticket office
and given the maid a months vacation
and arranged With a relative for the
care of the dog, gazed at him in 81
}ence
"A great deal on my mind he re-
peated. Then the tnterrogative nature
OF his wife's silence forced him 10 ex-
plain.
You see" he said q have got to
put nail in the cellar window and
stop the newspaper. 7-Youth's Com
panion.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-05-06
The lll-Natured Man

The ill-natured man, though but of
equal parts with the goodnatured
man, gives himself a larger field 10
expatiate in. He exposes those fail
ings in human nature which the 9TH
er would cast wall over; laughs at
vices which the other either excuses
or conceals; falls inditferently upon
friends or enemies; exposes The per-
son who has obliged him; and, in
short, sticks at nothing that may es-
tablish his character of wit.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-05-06
The Quaker Shopoirl.

81 bought this ribbon, said the
shopper from a girl who sprinkled
her conversation with Quaker 1hee's
ard 'thou's.' | talked with her longer
than was necessary, just TO hear those
Quaker expressions. She was the first
person ever have seen behind the
counter, who thee'd and thou'd her
customers. l have bought goods OF
girls who spoke in every European &C
cent imaginable, not 10 mention our
different American dialects, but the
Quaker phrases We're a novelty ! lei
the girl know that | considered her q
curiosity in a shop
"'Most people do, she said. En-
ployers do not like che Quaker speech
in store, because Ii makes the
speaker so conspicuous For bust
ness purposes | try TO break myself
of the habit, but the quaint old words
will slip out now and then
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-05-06
Pay to Enter House After 10 p. M

"There is a funny old custom in the
City of Mexico which entities the iani-
tor or portero of lodging houses to
collect a few cents from any tenant
who stays out after ten o'clock at
night" said Mr.. p. H. Dugan, min
ing engineer, of that capital
Some of the porteros put out signs
which translated in English, read
about this way: If you want me to
open the door, you will have to pay
me, else | shall keep it closed Many
time I've seen young gallants stand
ing in the vestibule of their apart
ments in the wee, sma' hours, lurching
like ship in gale as they fished in
their pockets for the needful coin that
would cause the heart of the domestic
to relent and let them in baltimore
American.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-05-06
Audubon County
Early History
HON. H. F. ANDREWS

berry; c. ID. West and George Wise.
Possibly some of them came earlier.
Government lands We're entered this
year by the following named actual
settlers: Samuel NJ. Ballard, John w.
Beers, George III. Calder, Reuben Car
penter, John Countryman, Josiah
Co1mtryman, James b. Donnel, Ma
thaniel l1amlin, Alvin Herrick, Mark
Heath, Benjamin +. Jenkins, John S.
Jenkins, Isaac V. D. Lewis, Hiram
Mason. Briant Milliman. John Sifford,
Robert Stansberry and Peoria l,
Whitfield.
A considerable quantity of lands
was entered by nonresident specula-
torS