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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-08-27

save few scratches and a cut on the
back of my head. After TAFT, who
had been an interested and petriied
spectator of the affair, congratulated
me on my escape. we began a short
discussion. as to future actions, for,
mind you, Dick was now on the other
side of the river
Ny first impulse was to swim the
river and get to Dick Immediately,
but there were too many disadyantag-
es connected with this scheme, so
eaving my coat by the road in charge
OF TAFT. went up and crossed the
bridge dragging q native with bush
axe into service. We were soon be-
side Dick, who was drying himself in
the sun and still trembling from his
. fright. After | had treasured him
and emptied the saddle bags OF sur
plus water, we set out again. FORUM
ately not far from a path which led
down TO the river from a small coffee
chacra. After cutting our way
through some bushes, we reached
this and the road proper After
reaching Mr.. TAFT, found that he
had been so busy letting a train of
mules and burros pass his horse that
he had forgotten my coat, which they
had picked up and carried Off
So, leaving the two horses with
TAFT | started for the coat which con.
tanned an automatic pistol and some
other articles ! did not wish to lose
Besides | knew that / would suffer
from cold before reaching La Fundic
ion. again pulled my native into
service and wet set off on a run back
up and over the bridge once more
Here they turned in an opposite dir
ection evidently bound for Puerto
Jessup or some other point in the in
terror. Having lived at an altitud,
Of $4,000 feet, i have well developed
lungs and soon outstripped my com
panion who was rapidly developing ;
SERIOUS species of asthmatic difficulty
Having learned that the possessorl
of my coat were Pichi Indians, | wal
in a Quandary as to whether | shoul,
go faster alone or wait for my com
lpanion necessitating slower speed
Although | felt, Just then, capable o
handling n dozen long haired. hal
nude Indians in a fair tussle, | decid
ed that my wheeling companion
might be useful should these fellow
show fight So, urged him on a
the risk of having to stop and bur
him. Indeed, | would not have bee
surprised after my many exciting at
ventures II he had dropped dead Blu
he had already been paid for helpin
me get my horse and was now carry
J ing more money perhaps, than he ha
ever had at any one time before. Thi
fact, doubtless acted as n powerful
stlmulant. At any rate, after chas
: OF three miles over road sometime
rough and stony and again knee dee
| In mud, we caught the mules. Will
my friend was talking with some fe
lows in the rear who claimed n
, knowledge OF the coat, pushed alon
to some more men near the head {
, the train. Here / saw the coat tie
on mules back and promptly CLAIM
p ed and took e, being somewhat r.
4 lieved to find the pistol, undisturbe
4 In the picket. Perhaps they realize
! this as they allowed us to walk o
!. with the coat, making no remol
q STRANGE.
/, We retraced our steps over th
S long three miles and, after reioinin
p TAFT we proceeded, by wading dow
/, a small stream, to the river be
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-08-27
Political Advertising
HENRY D. FILLMORE
Candidate for Probate Judge
in the South Shire.

Mr. Fillmore was born in Benning-
ton, and has always lived here For
thiIty years he has been head book
keeper and confidential clerk of DIN
scott of the Bennington Machine
Works. He is a member of the firm
Of Fillmore & Slade. paper manufac-
tnlels of bennington Falls. He has
scrted as auditor of the town, the
village and tie school district for
many years Was major, command
ing the first battalion of the first
Vermont Volunteers during the Span
ish-American war No citizen Of
Bennington is better or more favor
ably known as an able business man
of the highest character.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-08-27
Political Advertising
Democratic Candidates for County Offices
II. B. KENDALL
Candidate Tor Senator in the
North Shire

Mr.. Kendall is a prominent busl-
ness man aud much respected citizen
OF Dorset. He has held nearly all
the various offices OF trust and res
possibility in his township Was
selectman from 1895 to 1905, repres-
ented his town in the legislature in
The session Of 1900 in which he made
most commendable record. In all
ways he is splendidly equipped to re-
present our county in the senate
We much regret that his photo
graph reached us too late to be re-
produced IN this issue.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-08-27
CHARLES A. MAURER
Candidate for States Attorney.

Mr. Maurer is one of the best
known lawyers in the county. He
has practiced law in Bennington for
fifteen years, and enjoys an enyiable
reputation as a thoroughly reliable,
skillful and generally successful at
torney. In public capacities he has
served his town as corporation coun-
sci, and in other ways His record
as an able, conscientious lawyer en-
sures the county a thoroughly COM
petent attorney in case Of his cleo
ton.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-08-27
E. G. BACON
Candidate for High Sheriff.

Mr.. Bacon is a resident of Sunder-
land. He is surveyor by profess
sion, prominent farmer, lumber
dealer and one of the largest land
owners in the county. He is a men,
Der of the Board of Selectmen and
has held many Offices of responsible
ity in his township. He is in all
ways qualified to creditabIy discharge
the. duties Of any office he may be
called upon to fill
No photo of Mr. Bacon is at hand,
to present in this issue.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-08-27

without unnecessary expense. pro-
bate judge should be a trained bust
ness man of wide experience and I'M
doubted probity. Such a man is
HENRY ID. FILLMORE.
FOR BUSINESS CHOOSE THE
BUSINESS MAN.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1910-08-05
POLITICAL.

Clifford Pinchot, former chief for
ester under Theodore Roosevelt. has
taken place upon the list of possible
candidates for the Republican nomina-
ton for governor OF New York. and
Theodore Roosevelt was asked to sup
port his candidacy.
The Ohio Republican convention
nominated for governor, Warren G.
Harding of Marion; lieutenant gov
ernor, Francis w. Treadway OF Cleve-
land; secretary of state. Granville w.
Mooney OF Austinburg; attorney gen
eral, U. Grant Denman of Toledo
treasurer, Rudy A. Archer of Belmont
county; justices Supreme Court, Will
liam B. Crew Aof McConnellsville AMI
Augustus N. Summers of Springfield.
Minnesota Democrats have nomi-
mated the following state ticket
Governor. John Lind: lieutenant gov
ernor. H. c. Tiff. Long Prairie; sec
rotary of state, Fred w. Johnson;
clerk of the Supreme Court. Fred E.
Wheaton, Minneapolis; attorney gen
eral, ]. NJ. Freeman, Olivia; treasurer.
Charles F. Lander, st. Cloud; rail-
road and warehouse commissioner.
James C. Tracy. Rochester; auditor.
7. ]. Meaghan, Albert Lea; justices
of Supreme Court, 7. J. O'Brien, St.
Paul; A. W. Snow of Winona; Philip
T. Brown of Luvrne; Calvin l.. Brown
of Morris.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1910-08-05
SCRATCHED so SHE COULD
NOT SLEEP

"I write to tell you how thankful
am for the wonderful Cuticura Rem.
edies. My little niece had eczema for
fve years and when her mother died
I took care OF the child. 1t was all
over her face and body. also on her
head. She scratched SO that she could
not sleep nights. I used Cuticura
Soap to wash her with and then ap-
piled Cuticura Ointment. did not
use quite half the Cuucura Soap and
Ointment, together with Cuticura Re-
solvent. when you could see change
and they cured her nicely. Now she
IL eleven years old and has never been
bothered with eczema since. My
friends think it is Just great the way
tho baby was cured by Cuticura.
send you a picture taken when she was
about IS months old.
"She was taken with the eczema
when two years old. She was covered
with big sores and her mother had all
the best doctors and tried all kinds Of
salves and medicines without effect
until we used Cuticura Remedies. Mrs.
H. Herman. 663 Quincy St. Brooklyn.
N. Y, Sept. 81, 1909"
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1910-08-05
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DOING ACHIEVE
MENTs, suFFERiNGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WEsTERil.

La Junta. Colo. had 100000 fire
Friday morning.
Hereafter Washers and rowdies in
Minneapolis parks will be spanked by
the nearest policeman instead of ar
rested.
To be ready for immediate call for
assistance at mine disasters two por-
table stations fitted up on specially
constructed railroad cars. have been
ordered by the federal Bureau of
Mines for use in the West.
An opium Still and distributing
house was found by revenue officers
in Chinese tea store in Kansas City.
The officers found $27.79O worth Of
opium and $4,000 in gold, silver and
paper money packed away in trunks,
boxes and sacks and hidden under mat
tresses.
A proclamation of the President
went into effect July list changing the
name of the Medicine Bow National
Forest. Colorado. to the Colorado Ma
tional Forest, and giving the name of
Medicine Bow to the Cheyenne Ma
tional Forest, Wyoming, at the same
time eliminating 39,S55 acres from the
latter forest. No Examinations were
made from the old Medicine Bow.
The Oklahoma state Supreme Court
has handed down decision in the
capital removal case to the effect
that the capital shall remain at Guth-
rie until the legality of the election
recently held Is determined and the
courts have settled the constitutional
question in the provision of the en-
abling act that Guthrie shall remain
the capital until 1913. and that an
election shall be held after that time
to establish permanent capital.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1910-08-05
WARRINGTON.

The treatment of non.C Catholic de-
nominations in Spain Is being watched
closely by the diplomatic representa-.
tives of the United States at Madrid.
Attorney General Wickersham has
decided that the 100000 appropria-
ton made by the last Congress to
raise the battleship Maine is avail
able for any work that may be nee
essary in that connection, thus re-
moving all obstacles.
In order to protect the interests Of
the government as we'll as those of
settlers and other claimants of lands
within the national forests, the de-
partments of the interior and agricul-
ture have entered into a cooperative
programme that will govern the prose-
cution of contested cases. Under its
terms both the general land office
and the forest service will be ade-
quately represented at hearings be-
fore the registers and receivers Of
land offices of all cases involving for
est lands. The department of agricul-
ture is given the same right as pri-
vate contestant to appeal to the Sec
rotary of the interior from any deci-
sion rendered by the commissioner Of
the general land office.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1910-08-05
ANNUAL LOSS is ENORMOUS
Two Hundred Million Dollars a Year
Might Be Added to Wealth
Of Country.

Computing that there are in the
United States at least 100000 INDECENT
consumptives who should be cared for
In charitable or semi-charitable sana-
toria and hospitals. the National AS
ISOLATION for the Study and Proven
ton of tuberculosis estimates that
the annual cost to the country for the
treatment of these persons would be
35O.O00.000 at the rate of $1,000 per
day per patient. At the lowest pos
sible estimate the country loses 5000.
100000 a year from the incapacity of
these INDECENT victims of tuberculo-
sis. This would mean a net saving of
$150,0OO.O0O year to the United
States II all victims of consumption
who are too poor to afford proper
treatment in expensive sanatoria were
cared for at the expense of the munic-
ipality, county or state. And this an
nual gain does not include the enor.
nous saving that would accrue from
the lessened infection due to the seq
regation of the dangerous consump-
tives in institutions.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1910-08-05
FOREIGN.

Gen. Miniet, who ten days ago
started an uprising near FL Caney
Cuba, was surprised in camp and
captured.
The German Social Democratic par
ty makes the astonishing announce
ment that its war chest for the com
ing reichstag elections is being replen
ished by voluntary contributions at
the rate of $4,000 month.
The damage caused to French crops
by continued cold and wet weather is
unofficially estimated at $400,000,000.
The wheat crop Is estimated at 312.-
100000 bushels against 369,200,00
bushels in 1909.
That the revolution which was de-
tected in an incipient stage on the
north coast of Spanish Honduras has
been crushed and that peace now
reigns throughout the country, says a
cablegram which President Miguelda
Villa sent to the Honduras consul at
New Orleans.
An anarchist plot to murder tn.
Dowager Queen Margherita of italy
was discovered Friday. The man who
the revolutionary group gave himself
up to the police, and. after confessing
his part in the plot. committed sui,
eide in prison.
At the conclusion of a conference
at San Sebastian between King Al
fonso and Premier Canalejas. 1t was
announced that Marquis Emilio de
Ojeda, Spanish ambassador to the
Vatican, has been recalled.
In view of the recent discoveries
of petroleum in Trinidad, which
might be useful to the navy. and the
Importance which the island will &C
quire upon the completion of the Pan
ANA canal, the British government is
considering the ACCESSIBILITY of forth
flying the entrances to the Gulf of
Para.
The list of bank failures in Ger.
many through excessive speculative
operations has received striking
addition In the insolvency of the
Niederdeutsche bank. The liabilities
OF the bank are placed at $12,5O0, 900,
while its capital is 100000.
Reports from Douglas. Arz., are
that massacre of Chinese and their
families had taken place at Yaqui, n
town on the YaQui river in Mexico
Several were killed by mob who are
mercial activity of the Chinese.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1910-08-05
SPORT.
WESTERN LEAGUE.

Vice President c. w. Somers OF the
Cleveland American baseball club has
acquired the interest of President j.
E. Kilfoyl in the club for a consid-
Grafton said to border on the $780,.
900 mark He Is now sole owner of
the club.
A victim of the white plague" Joe
Cans, the former lightweight cham
pion pugilist. will live only about two
weeks more, according to state
ment made by his physician, DR.. H.
Southworth of Prescott, Ariz. Cans
went to Arizona some time ago after
contracting a severe cold which de-
veloped into consumption. DIR. South
worth said that there was no hope
for the former fighter.
Country Jay. the fourteen-year-old
trotter owned by George H. Estabrook
of Denver, did the most remarkable
mile of the year, If not of all harness
history. at Kalamazoo. Mich. Friday.
Driven by Gus Macy. the well known
trainer. Country Jay smashed the
worlds record for the three fastest
trotting heats. by winning two out of
three consecutive heats, which were
performance would have been remark
able in horse of prime age, but for
horse of fourteen years 1t is the
most wonderful time in trotting rec.
ords.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1910-08-05

Denver.-Gov. Shafroth has received
a letter from Mrs. Miriam Sophia Rey-
mer of Brooklyn, N. Y. asking him for
assistance in locating her brother, Jo-
seph Benjamin Taylor. She says
that matters have come up which will
be of great Importance to him. Tay.
lor, according to the Letter. is about rs
years of age. II he is living. Mrs. Rey-
mer's Brooklyn address Is 5S5 Carlton
avenue.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1910-08-05
Marriage Stopped by Killing.

Denver.-Celebratio for wedding
that was to have taken place Satur.
day came to a sudden stop Friday ev-
ening when the bridegroom-to-be.
Thomas Scully. a ranch hand from
near Quinby, Colo, was stabbed and
killed by E. c. Jones. known as
"Humpy" Jones. The killing took
place In little lunch car on Larimer
street, in which Jones was employed.
and was witnessed only by Annie
Thurston, who declares that she and
Scully were to have been married the
next day.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1910-08-05
A Protection Against tn. Heat.

When you begin to think it's per
sonal matter between you and the sun
to see which Is the hotter, buy your
self a glass or bottle Of Coca-Cola.
1t is cooling-relieves fatigue and
Quenches the thirst. Wholesome as
the purest water and lots nicer to
drink. At soda fountains and car
donated in bottles-5c everywhere.
Send &c stamp for booklet THE Truth
About Coca-Cola' and the Coca-Cola
Baseball Record Book for 1910. The
latter contains the famous poem
Casey At The Bat" records, schedules
for both leagues, and other valuable
baseball information compiled by au-
thorities. Address The Coca-Cola Co..
Atlanta, Ga.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1910-08-05

The boys are telling pretty good
story on Pat Cullen. the well-known
Steamboat Springs stockman who was
here with cattle early in the week.
Some time ago Pat and Sagebrush Bill,
cowpuncher of Routt county. had a
disagreement over some matter and
Got into scuffle. For about ten min
utes they kept it up when Sagebrush
Bill. finding that he had about enough,
exclaimed:
That's sufficient. Pat. that's suffi-
cient."
BE jabers." said Pat. that's the
very word have been trying to think
of for the past five minutes. Denver
Record-Stockman.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1910-08-05
Qualified.

A prominent western attorney tells
Of boy who once applied at his Of
fee for work.
This boy was bright looking and I
rather took to him.
"'Now. my son. said I. II you come
to work for me you will occasionally
have to write kilograms and take
down telephone messages. Hence
pretty high degree OF schooling is es.
sential. Are you fairly well educated"
1.-THE boy smiled confidently
"I be- he said."-Independent.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1910-08-05
Distorted Proverbs.


Never put on today what you can
not take off tomorrow.
Those worth doing at all are worth
doing we'll.
There's many kick between the
pup and the nip.
Too many cooks roll the boss.
All the world loathes loafer.
A miss Is as good as her smile.
He laughs best whose laugh lasts.
Alimony Is the root of much evil.
Many rude word is spoken with
zest.
frown.
It's wise child that knows its own
fodder.
Where ignorance is bliss. it's jolly
to be nice.-Success Magazine.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1910-08-05
GEN ERAL.

A heroic size statue of President
Lincoln costing $4,000 Is to be placed
in the rotunda of the new capitol at
Frankfort. KY.
The total population of Oklahoma.
lacking three enumeration districts.
has been announced by the Census
Bureau as 1,G51.951.
Turning complete somersault in
the air in 25-mile breeze on the
aviation grounds east of Garden City.
". Y. George Russell. flying in Cur
tiss biplane, landed on the ground
without so much as scratch to show
after his remarkable escape.
August Ropke. assistant secretary
and bookkeeper of the Fidelity Trust
company of Louisville. Ky. is believed
to have made away with $1.140,000,
the entire surplus of the concern, &C.
cording to statement made by John
w. Barr, president Of the company.
Ropke is in Jail, unable to furnish $685.
900 bond.
Efforts to have the carpenters, cleo
trical workers. bricklayers, plasterers,
hoisting engineers and laborers Join
in the Chicago building trades strike
were without success and contractors
declare that the attempted general
strike has sizzled. 1t is said that less
than 1000 men have responded to the
strike call.
Representatives of twenty-seven ma
tional banks met in New York and
organized the National Currency As
ISOLATION of the City of New York for
elastic issue of currency and to lessen
the danger of future financial panics
by providing means whereby the
stronger banks may come to the aid
of the weaker.
Cooperation between the federal
roads movement was advocated by
the speakers at the opening session
of the third annual convention OF the
National Good Roads Congress at
Niagara Falls, n. Y. B. F. Yoakum
of the st. Louis & San Francisco
Railroad and Congressman William
Sulzer of New York favored the idea
Oh the leueTdl government lOauiHs
money to the states for good road
building.
The fight against the showing of
the Jeffries-Johnson fight pictures has
already led to the prohibition of their
exhibition before 25 100000 people.
The quarterly statement of the
United States Steel corporation for the
three months ending June goth last,
Just issued shows total earnings OF
$40, $50, an amount far in excess
of unofficial estimates and greater
earnings of the first quarter by $3,-
554,OS4. Net earnings for the quarter
were s33,SsO,755. or $2.377.561 greater
than the first quarters returns.
The Western Pacific Railroad Com
pany has made deal with the Togo
Kisen Kaisha, one of the leading Jap
anese steamship companies. whereby
the Western, in company with the Den
yer & Rio Grande and other Gould rail-
roads, will receive the freight of the
steamship line at San Francisco for
trans shipment across the continent.
Erwin Wider, the missing cashier OF
the Russo-Chinese Bank of New York,
was arrested Friday. His lawyer says
Wider will plead guilty. The alleged
robbery of the banks vaults involved
securities valued at 100000.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1910-08-05
No Grade Crossings.

Greeley.-In order that there shall
be no grade crossings on the new
Greeley-Hudson- Denver branch OF the
Burlington. an immense viaduct will
be built over the Union Pacific one
and one-half miles east of LaSalle, SO
that the speed of Burlington trains
between Greeley and Denver will not
be affected by grade crossing. The
Burlington will enter Greeley by a
tunnel under the Union Pacific tracks.
This indicates that the Burlington will
run all limited passenger train through
Greeley. Right of way agents are pay
ing good prices for farm land through
which the road will run.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1910-08-05

They were talking about argument
not in the abstract but as applying
to domestic happiness. What do you
think Is the most unanswerable ar.
gument you ever heard?" one bach
elor asked married man.
That's very easy" he replied.
when your wife says. II they can
afford 1t we cam there is no flaw in
that-and never will be."-Youth' s
Companion.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1910-08-05
oreeIey.Poudre Bonds Legal.

Greeley.-In the Greeley-Poudre IT.
rigation district suit, which has occu-
pied the attention of the District
Court for fifteen days, Judge Carl
CUES found in favor of the irrigation
district in every way and confirmed
the bond issue of $5.1O0,000.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1910-08-05
Picking a Career.

An amusing answer is told Of an an
swer given by London waif to Sal
walton Army captain. The Jealous Of
ficer had asked the boy what work he
did to provide him with food. etc, and
the reply was. II pick strawberries in
the summer. pick hops in the
autumn. pick pockets in the winter.
and oakum for the rest of the year.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1910-08-05
Don't Mention II.

The politest man in Boston collided
violently with another man on the
street. The second man was angry
my dear sir" said the polite one
with a bow. 81 don't know which of us
is to blame in this encounter. II ran
into you beg your pardon; II you ran
into me. don't mention it.'-Success
Magazine.