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oceans-the northern continental divide.
Deep in the canyons roaring streams, COM
ing from the melting ice and snow and flowing
into placid mountain lakes below Between the
canyons the long ingerlike ridges rise to consd-
cradle heights, the Undiscovered slopes ascend
Ing steeply until region of brush-grown broken
rock Is reached, which In turn leads to the base
OF precipitous cliffs. The canyons at the head
usually terminate In great amphitheaters rising
clif over cliff In a stairway of tremendous pro-
portions Many Of the steps of these giants
stairways retain ice masses which slowly flow
across them, each fed from a large ice mass
above until a region of huge snow banks is
reached.
The main Rocky mountain mass is actually
made up of two principal parallel ridges, the
Lewis and the Livingston ranges which run ap-
proximately through the center of the proposed
park. These ranges are the remnants of what
was once much wider plateau-like region of
rock. which, however, has been nightly carved
and shattered by the forces Of erosion princ
pally those of the great ancient glaciers. Resting
upon this great mass are the higher peaks, huge
pyramids and blocks, with cliffs and precipces
Of hundreds and sometimes thousands of feet
plunging away down to the roaring streams Of
the canyons ending in the great crevasse at
the head of some glacier
To the westward the mountains break pre-
cipitously, and from the foot of the steep, long,
Undiscovered ridges reach out toward the valley
Of the Flathead river. Between these ridges and
extending up the canyons of the higher range
are many miles Of lakes Joined by rushing
streams similar to those on the eastern side.
The whole park is inhabited by wild animals
and birds and the streams abound in many kinds
of fish. In the higher barren rock areas the white
goat is found in great numbers, while on the
slightly lower ridges. where some protection is
afforded by stunted timber growth and brush
and jagged slopes, the Rocky mountain sheep, or
"bighorn," has his haunts. In the valleys and on
the lower spurs are many Whitehall and back-tail
deer and moose; in places few elk found.
and over the whole area, from high glacier and
snow-fed to huckleberry bush region of valley
and fiat. roams the giant grizzly bear.
All the game animals the higher noun
tain districts for summer range only, the area
is too high and the snowfall too heavy to permit
of winter USE AS in the case of the other nation
al parks these game animals. protected by law
from interference, will increase to such an extent
as to furnish in the overflow from the park q
tempting supply to sportsmen for all time; on the
other hand, without such protection of a breeding
ground. many OF the animals. especially the big
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-07-02
KEEP YOUR FEET STRAIGHT.

How many men know how to walk? Most men
turn their toes in or out writer in the New York
Press says The toes should not be turned either
way. They ought to point straight ahead, so that
the foot the end Of each step can give the body
that upward, forward impetus that results in what
is called springy walk. This does not mean that
q man should walk exclusively on his toes. The
whole foot must be used in proper walking. The
goose step of the German army is as absurd as the
boys prank Of walking on his heels.
When a man walks in the right way-speakine
literally-the back of the heel strikes the sround
first Then the rest of the heel comes down. after
which the outer edge of the foot takes the bulk NJ
the burden until the forward movement shifts the
weight to the ball Of the foot and finally to the
toes. The ideal step is slightly rocking motion
At no time should the entire foot be pressed
against the ground Heel to toe Is the movement
Try 1t and how much further and more easily
you can walk It's the Indians way, and what
Poor 10 doesn't know about footwork can 60 int
the discard
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-07-02

Packed in regular packages and In hero e
metica!ly sealed tins for hot climates "
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-07-02

rock wall OF great
steepness extending
northwest by southeast
for unbroken miles ex-
cept where cut by deep
U-shaped anyons S.
These have been large
ly formed by the great
glaciers which once
slowly flowed from the
mighty snow-covered
peaks and ridges form
ing the divide between
the drainage of the At
lantic and the Pacific
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-07-02

If a man would be himself he must
cease to think of himself.
Your light goes down as the tenn
perature rises in your neck.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-07-02

Rather Personal.
Tallman-Only a fool makes ire
same sort of mistake the second time.
Shortman-Do you mean to insinu-
ate that l am fool?
Tallman-Certainly not.
Shortman-Well, 1 didn't know. I've
been married twice.
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A Child's View.

A Child's View.
Scarlet fever was in the house next
door and little girl of eight had lis
tened to the recital of what was hap
pening. A caller came and the child
attempted to entertain the stranger
until her mother came into the draw
ing room.
She told about the trouble next
door, but in the telling broke in" and
broke out" got tangled in her child
brain.
"Johnny's got scarlet fever, because
his face is all red and his chest is
broken in" she announced.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-07-02

DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets first put up 20 year
ago. They regulate and invigorate stomach, Live
and bowels. Sugar-coated tiny granules-
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-07-02

Too many sermons deal out sugal
when the world needs moral sand.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-07-02

Mrs. Wfnslow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teething softens tho gums reduces IN
uamma ton allays Dain wind collie. sc bottle
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-07-02

Who has favorite sin has hard
master.
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mountains and
the High Sierra.
which have little,
any. economic
Importance. and
hus preserve al.
ways their natu-
raj. wholesome
beauties. Trans
portation meth
DDS will quickly
follow and thus
q Q W play
grounds" become
accessible.
A national
Fairgrounds as
s o C 1 alton for
grown-ups, organ
lied on som 9
such basis as
that of the ST.
ezra club of CALI
fornia, but with
the United States
for its field Of
activities, would
ind important
Tork to be done
and W oul d en-
list many ardent
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MAKES of Jack a dull boy. When
Secretary Seward was endeavoring
to enlist the support Of the people
for his project to purchase Alaska
enc Of the somewhat esthetic argu-
ments by which he sought to gain
advocates was that this great north
western territory should be &C.
quired II for nothing else than that
1t would afford q magnificent sum-
mer playground for the American
nation. Alaska's purchase is doubt
less justified on this score alone,
and, while It's varied topography af-
fords in truth a wonderful field to
the tourist. there are much more
readily accessible playground"
within the United States. Indeed.
some lie at our very doors, although
for lack Of good transportation facil-
tiles they may be more difficult of
access than far distant points.
The nation owes It to itself, to
the people Of the present day, and
even more to those Of future con-
gested population to create into ma
tional parks the magnificent regions
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AELa
and tribulations Of the manager who,
perhaps, crouches unseen and forgot
ten (by the crowd1 In the corner Of
the bssnah The public does lot realize
that he is dealing with % ultra-inde-
pendent athletes, vulgarly healthy.
frankly outspoken and unawe1 by any
authority or pomp. Only persons who
have one child, which possesses four
grandparents, and 20 or 80 aunts all
trying to spoil it, can understand in
full the difficulties of the managers
job.
The trials of a manager with 20 men,
the majority of them grown children.
under his charge, who is forced to
soothe their injured feelings, condole
with them in their troubles, cheer
them in their blues and check them in
their exuberance, may better be
imagined than told.
One evening after Frank Chance had
won two worlds championships, he
sat gloomily silent for a long time. The
big, hearty, joyous boy who had come
from California a dozen years before
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-08-05
GREAT BATTLE
IS PROMISED
Rate Hearing Opens at CHI
cago on Aug. r.
BOTH SIDES DETERMINED

Railroads Will Try to Convince the
Interstate Commerce Commission
That They Are in Need of a
Marked Advance in Tariffs, While
Shippers Will Contend That the Car.
riers Are Already Looting the Public.
Washington, Aug. 3.-The opening
of the interstate commerce rate hear.
ing in Chicago Aug. % will be the be-
ginning Of one of the greatest com
mercial battles in history, according
to indications here.
Under the terms of the recently
amended Hepburn act the railroads
are going to try to convince the com
mission that they are in need of a
general and marked advance in freight
rates.
Opposing them will be an army of
shippers and shippers organizations,
%contending that the railroads are
bursting with i'll gotten gains and that
the increase demanded is only another
scheme for looting the public.
One specific charge made by a Chi
cago corporation is that the North
western railroad is making so much
money that it conceals from the pub.
lie the true volume of it's profits.
President Taft has been deluged
with letters from large and small cor
porations in all parts Of the country
imploring him to thwart the latest
received voluminous petitions from
railroad employees and resolutions
from railroad mems organizations, let.
tiers from railway supply dealers and
from numerous corporations endors'
ing a freight rate advance.
Arguments for an Increase.
The letters to the president advocat.
ing a rate increase submit these argu.
ments:
Increase in the cost of living; in.
creased wages and cost of equipment
warrant increased rates.
The agitation over railroad de.
mands is hurting business and should
be ended by giving roads what they
want.
The arguments enunciated by the
protesting corporations are:
The railroads have been wallowing
in profits for two decades and their
increase in earnings more than offsets
any increase in expenses.
A rate advance is needed by the
roads in order to support dividends on
an ocean of watered stock and any
general increase allowed will be likely
to precipitate another stock watering
panic of the 1907 brand.
The railroads should be compelled
to open their books and prove that
they need the money.
The alleged increase in expenses is
largely due to grating concessions to
officials within the management of
the railroad corporations.
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UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.

Edmund, Helen and Viola Casper,
children of Michael Casper, ranging
in age from one and a half to five
years, were burned to death at Lena,
Wis. The children were playing in a
buggy when a neighbours child is said
to have piled some straw underneath
the vehicle and set fire to it in fun.
dren's clothing and the burns resulted
in their deaths.
While racing with a w%estbound Den
yer and Rio Grande passenger train
in an automobile near Grand Junction,
Colo, Walter Hodgins of Grand juno
ton, Miss Leona Adams of San Fran
cisco and Miss Gladys Carlyle of Chi
cago were instantly killed.
Misses Blanche Atwood, Sadie Tur-
ner and Eta Aldrich, three girl home
steaders near Marcus, S. D., were
drowned while fording the Cheyenne
river, a cloudburst causing a wall OF
water to sweep down upon them.
Three privates from the Fourth
United States military prison guard
stations at Alcatraz island, CAL, lost
their lives when a yawl in which they
had been sailing on the bay capsized.
Severe earthquake shocks occurred
at Rock Springs, Wyo. Houses were
rocked and the walls of a coal mine
moved so badly that work at the mine
has been abandoned.
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POLITICAL NEWS.

Despite his repeated declarations
that he would not accept IL nominated
the Democrats of Minnesota unant.
mously named former Governor John
Lind for head of the state ticket. The
platform fayors the initiative and ref
erendum and recall; federal income
tax law; election OF senators by direct
vote of the people; conservation OF
natural resources; workingmen's orn
pensation act and various other meas
ures. 1t condemns the Republican
party for its deception in %enacting
the Payne-Aldrich tariff law" A
county option resolution was defeated.
The platform convention Of the Re-
publican party Of Nebraska adopted
a platform strongly endorsing the ad-
ministration of President Taft, ex-
pressing u%nalterable opposition to
the system known as Cannonism,"
and hearty sympathy with the pro
g~ressive" movement in and out of con-
gress. The platform includes a declar-
alton for county option as the method
Of regulating the liquor traffic and for
an amendment to the state constitu-
ton providing for direct legislation.
The Republican candidate for gov
rno of Ohio is Warren G.. Harding
Of Marion, once lieutenant governor.
Despite the efforts of Senator Burton'S
Cuyahoga county delegation to STAN
pede the convention for Nicholas
Longworth. and George B. Cox's every
effort in behalf of Judge O.. B.. Brown.
the national administration men
broke up the fight on the third ballot.
Nebraska Democrats wrested the
leadership of their state organization
from William j. Bryan on the issue OF
county option. By decisive votes they
registered their unbelief in his pres
ent policies after listening to an i'm
passioned appeal from Mr.. Bryan, who
declared the liquor interests were in
an organized attempt to SECURE polit-
ical control of the state.
The Ohio Republican platform,
which is expected to be a model for
use by future Republican state cor
ventions, as the expression of the
party in the presidents own state,
opens with a warm endorsement of
the chief executive. Senator Dick,
who seeks reelection, was not singled
out for specific endorsement.
The Iowa Democratic state conven-
ton at Ottumwa closed amid one Of
! the most brilliant forensic battles the
party leaders have witnessed in recent
years. The high license local option
plank, having the municipality as the
unit of determination, caused the bat
tie, but finally was adopted.
Clifford Pinchot, former chief for
ester under Theodore Roosevelt, has
been placed upon the list of possible
candidates for the Republican nomina-
ton for governor Of New York and
Colonel Roosevelt has been asked to
support his candidacy.
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CRIMINAL NEWS.

Weeping pitifully in a cell in the
Tombs, New York city, and on the
verge of physical collapse Ernest Jo-
ham Wider, the $25 a week cashier
who stole more than 100000 worth
Of securities from his employers, the
Russo-Chinese bank agency, attributed
his downfall to his meager salary.
"Yes, l took the money and securi-
ties" said Wider, but it was only to
be expected of a man on starvation
wages handling millions Of dollars in
cash and securities"
Attorney D. p. Thomas of Sturgis.
S. d., was shot and killed, it is
charged, by Mrs. M. Mcmahon in the
law office Of the firm of Mcmahon &
Thomas. Attorney Mcmahon died
some months ago, Thomas continuing
the business. 1t seems that Mrs. Nc
Mahon, following a dispute owe the
firms accounts, wanted Thomas to va
cate the law office. He refused and
this is thought to have caused the
shooting.
Ward HUI of the Huz-Yates Imple.
ment company, one of the most prom.
inent business men of Billings, Mont,
was shot and instantly killed by Will
lam Denton, a liveryman. Denton, it
is said, had e%ndeavored to collect a
bill for 81 from HUI and a dispute
arose resulting in the killing.
Mayor A. H. Bousman of Ridgeway,
Va, was assassinated by a dynamite
bomb, which was thrown from the
street under a hammock in which he
was lying. He died an hour after the
explosion. No clue to the identity Of
the murderer or the cause of the crime
has been found.
DR.. H. H. Crippen and Ethel Clara
Leneve, his stenographer, who fed
from London after the disappearance
of Belle Elmore, the doctors wife,
we're arrested at Father Point, Que,
aboard the Canadian Pacific liner
Montrose at the command of Inspector
Dew of Scotland Yard. The identif.
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cation of the long sought fugitives on
board the fog shrouded steamer by
the English detective, who had raced
across the Atlantic ahead of the Mont.
rose, marked the elimination of one
of the most sensational flights in re-
cent criminal annals.
The %coroner's jury impanelled to in.
quire into the death of Ira G. Rawn,
late president of the Monon railroad,
found that he died from a shot fired
from his own weapon by his own
hand, but whether by accident or de-
sign the jury was unable to say.
The Chicago Tribune prints a state
ment that an attempt was made pre-
vious to the election of William Lori
mer as United States senator to pur-
chase seventeen Democratic votes at
$4,000 a vote to secure the reelection
of Senator Albert ]. Hopkins.
Special dispatches from Palestine,
Tex, report a serious race riot at
Slocum, a small town fifteen miles
south of Palestine. Latest advices
state that twenty negroes were killed
and three white men were wounded.
Three persons were killed and two
wounded in a fight between Texas
state rangers and Mexicans at San
Benito, Tex. One of the dead was a
deputy sheriff, another was a ranger
and the third was a Mexican.
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SECOND
By Johnny Eyers and Hugh Fullerton
CONTINUED from last weekly
CONTINUED from last weekly
By Johnny Eyers and Hugh. Fullerton

kept constant watch on the giant
young pitcher. He knew better than
Manager Hanlon Of Cincinnati how to
handle the man-and believed he
could win. A deal was made-Chance
giving Wicker for Overall and $4,000,
a deal which proved the joke of the
season.
The team was complete; finished in
every detail and with the pitching
staff working like machinery, it
swept through the season of 1906
breaking all records, winning 116
games and losing only SO. Two o
years it won the National league
championship and twice the worlds
championship, before 1t was beaten
out by Pittsburg In 1909.
The experience of Chicago in ma
king a club is the experience of all
winning teams; the details of the find
ing, developing, buying and trading
show those who complain because
their home team fails to win, why the
management cannot follow their ad-
vice and "buy some good players"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-08-05
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Governor Shallenberger of Nebraska
has sent Attorney General Thompson
a letter directing that official to insti-
tute custer proceedings against Chief
of Police Donahue and Fire and Police
Commissioners Fred Hoye, William ].
Hunter and William F. Wappich Of
Omaha. They are charged with nom
enforcement of the 8 o'clock saloon
closing law.
President Taft approved without
comment an opinion by Attorney Cen
eral Wickersham to the effect that
there is no provision of law by which
the stutue of General Robert E. Lee,
In Confederate uniform, a be re-
moved from Statuary hall in the Cap
itol at Washington.
A spirited attack 0 Secretary
Ballinger's administration of the In
terror departm ant is contained in q
bulletin issued by the National Con-
servation association bearing the sig
nature of President Clifford Pinchot.
The Oklahoma supreme court has
handed down a decision in the capital
removal case to the effect that Okla
homa's capital shall remain in Guthrie
until the legality Of the election re-
Gently held is determined.
A campaign for the annexation Of
every town, village and hamlet within
q radius of 100 miles Of the Chicago
city hall is to be started By the Three
Million club.
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THE DEATH RECORD.

James Richard Cox, law partner of
William H. Seward when the latter
was governor of New York and for
many years the intimate friend and
adviser of Lincoln's secretary Of state,
is dead at Auburn, N. Y, from an at.
tack of heart disease. He was in his
ninetieth year and only recently re-
tired from practice.
Private cable dispatches received at
New York announce the sudden death
in Vienna of Peter Gibson, a we'll
known art connoisseur Of New York
city. Mr.. Gibson, who was fifty years
old, was the owner of the Hotel Glib.
son in Cincinnati and other property
there.
John G. Carlisle, secretary Of the
treasury under President Cleveland,
died at his apartments in New York
city of heart failure, accompanied by
oedema of the lungs. Mr.. Carlisle was
seventy-five years Of age.
Representative Charles @. Tierrel
of the Fourth Massachusetts, district
died suddenly at Natick, Mass. Death
was due to a hemorrhage of the brain.
He was sixty-five years old.
James Lawrence Houghteling. foun.
der of the Brotherhood of st. Andrew
Of the Episcopal church and well
known in the financial world. is dead
at Winnetka, Ill.
Rev. DR.. Bostwick Hawley, one OF
the best known retired Methodist Epis.
copal clergymen in Northern New
York. is dead at Saratoga at the age
of ninety.stx.
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Continued next week
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MAN AND WOMAN FOUND DEAD
Resort Keeper Believed to Have Killed
Physician and Herself.

Pittsburg. Aug. 3.-The police are
fully satisfied that Edna Wallace, a
we'll known resort keeper, shot and
killed DR.. w. Murray Stuart, a prom.
inent physician, and then committed
suicide after fully connecting the plan
after receipt of the report that Stuart
was to marry a Winchester (Va.) girl.
According to news received here
arrangements had been made for the
wedding and Stuart was preparing to
leave here.
According to the police the position
of the bodies as they were found in
Stuart's bachelor apartments indicates
that the womon had killed him and
then shot herself. Both had been dead
eighteen hours when found.
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CANS GOING HOME TO DIE
Former Lightweight Champion Knows
the End Is Near.

Prescott, Ariz., Aug. 3.-Joe Cans,
the former lightweight champion, who
has been in this city for months i'll
with consumption, left here for his
home in Baltimore. His physical on
dition was unchanged. Just before
taking the train Cans said:
IL know that I am going to die and
for the time I am growing weaker
day by day. I want to see mother
and the two children in Baltimore be-
fore / die. l did not realize my con-
dition. My last two fights broke down
my constitution and made me an easy
victim for consumption"
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BY ADMINISTERING POISON
iowa Woman Kills Two Young Daush.
ters and Herself.

Davenport, Ia, Aug: AFTER care
fully arranging the burial robes for
all three Mrs. Nick Nehlson, wife of q
farmer, administered fatal doses Of
strychnine to herself and her two
daughters. aged two and four years.
The elopement of a daughter with a
man many years her senior greatly
preyed upon the mind Of the mother
It is said.