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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-11-01
China COMEDIES EVERY DEMAND
MADE BY The REBELS, BUT TOO LATE
CAN YOU BEAT THIS FOR
GENUINE HARD LUCK STORY?
[uN1rEp PREss IEAsEp w1RE. ]

UNITED PRESS LEASED wIRE.l
= Everett, Wash, Nov. John +
+ Deadman of this place believes +
+ that he is the unluckiest man =
+ on earth. His parents and his =
+ wife died in quick succession, =
+ his brother also died, his little +
+ girl then drank carbolic acid :
+ and died, another child rubbed =
= corrosive in her eyes and al :
+ most lost her sight, and three +
+ weeks aAo she was killed by :
+ street car; then while hunting, :
+ Deadman was taken for deer :
+ and lost an eye, and on another Z
+ trip was again mistaken for !
+ bear and so wounded that leg :
1, had to be amputated at the =
+ thigh. I
+ Now, to cap his troubles, the !
+ new wife he married recently :
+ has begun suit for separation :
4 and alimony. :
800 ++++ + + + + + = + =
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-11-01

40, 900 of them. Up 10 date two
thirds of the women who have reg
istered have announced themselves
as socialists, and the others have
been about evenly divided between
the two old parties,
1t is on the woman vote that Har-
rlman depends for his election. His
supporters declare they expect him
to get not less than 80 per cent OF
1t, and that 1t will swing him tri-
umphantly into the mayors chair.
The socialists also have a chance
to capture the city council, as all
OF their candidates won places on
the official ballot.
Hartman Has Big Lead.
Los Angeles, Nov. with the
count Of the vote of yesterdays pri-
mary election practically complete,
the figures at 10 a. m, showed that
Job Hartman, socialist candidate for
mayor, has a lead of 1915 votes over
Mayor George Alexander, the good
government candidate.
At that hour the count stood.
Hartman. 1888.
Alexander, 1928.
Mushet, S0O9.
Gregory, 31S.
The total vote cast is estimated
J at $4,000.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-11-01
Wireless Catehes Them.
LuNITED PREss LEAsED W

Mare Island, Cal, Nov 1.-The
wireless station here has succeeded
in establishing communication with
Colon, Panama and Key West, Flor
ida. picking messages up without
pre-arrangements.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-11-01
TWENTY-FOUR DROWN
WHEN STEAMER SINKS

Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Nov.
1.-Twenty-four passengers were
drowned off here today when the
French steamer Dlollbah sank as the
result Of q collision.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-11-01
Rebels Capture HankOw.

Peking, Nov. 1.-Confrmation of
the report that Hankow has again
fallen, and is once more in complete
control of the rebels, practically end
ing the fighting there, was received
in news dispatches today from the
district north of the fallen city The
Imperialists are declared to be plum
dering country homes and butchering
hundreds of people along the line OF
their retreat.
All communication with Hankow
has been again severed, the wires be-
ing leveled and the railroad Grip
pied.
In Pekin the situation is much
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-11-01
UNITED PRESS LEASED wrRE.1

Peking, Nov. Yuan Shi Kai has
been placed at the head of the Chi
nese cabinet. Immediately after his
appointment he issued a brief state
ment of the policy he intends to
pursue, His first act, he said, will
be to cease hostilities against the
rebels. Then he will open negotia-
tions with General Yaun Hung, the
revolutionary commander, who re-
Gently proclaimed himself president
of China, with the view of re-estab-
fishing permanent peace.
Yuan Shi Kai practically contem-
plates a union of the government
and the rebels, but whether the reb-
els will accept his overtures is an
open question.
If he succeeds in terminating the
rebellion Yuan will virtually be the
ruler of China, because the emperor
practically surrendered all power by
his edict Monday, and Yuan's eleva-
ton to the premiership places him
in the most important cabinet posi-
tion in the empire.
The other cabinet appointments
await his decision.s
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-11-01
Au surrender on Demand.

San Francisco, Nov. Gable ad-
vices from Hong Kong to Young
China, a newspaper here, state that
the imperial troops in the province
of Sin Si have mutinied and the SOL
diers are in complete control.
Revolutionists in the province of
Yuana are declared to have captured
the treaty port of Tung Yit, and the
city of Hong Chow, in Hunana, is
also said to have fallen to the rev
olutionists.
A cable from Shanghai says the
rebels have established themselves at
She Kow, thirty miles up the river
from Hankow, in order to defeat any
attempt imperial troops may make
to again attempt to take Hankow.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-11-01
YUAN SHI KAI Will TRY TO
NEGOTIATE WITH REBELS
AND WILL STOP HOSTILITlES

The Indications are, However, That the Time Has Gone by
in Which Any Settlement Other Than the Establishing of
Republic is POSSbe-ImperaISt Troops Are in Revolt,
and City After City SuenderS to Rebels as Soon as They
Appear-Throne is Protected by Only Handful Of Soldiers.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-11-01
MAY CAPTURE The COUNCIL
AT ELECTION IN DECEMBER
AS WOMEN Will Then Vote

It is Estimated That There viii Be 10000 Women Vote, and
Of Those so far Registering TwO-thrdS Have Announced
Themselves as Socialists, and the Balance Are Equally
Divided Between the Two Old ParteS-SoCiaIiSt Council
men Win Place on Ticket in Each Ward.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-07-25

Robert S. Sharp, and, Singularly
enough. he is the son of A. CT. Sharp,
who held this same office when Mr..
Gresham was POstmaste General, and
who at hat time put down the Louis
lana lottery and wiped out all sorts
Of chance games through the mails.
Mr.. Sharp recently acted as one of
the internal reVenue commissioners
and it was his work among the moon
sinners of the Tennessee
that caused Postmaster General Hitch
cock to ask him to aid in putting down
the mail %swindlers. He took charge
only about a year ago, but since that
time he has already convicted and
punished men who have ~defrauded the
people of perhaps S20O, 100000. He
has today a score of such m~illlOnaires
under the harrow. and a half dozen
or more have already been put behind
the bars.
] should like to introduce you to
The chief postoffi<e INSPECTOR, but that
is impossible. He Will not allow his
face to be published, does not like
20 nave his name mentioned and l
doubt whether the apartment house
where he lives here in Washington
knows that he is anything more than
| a mere government clerk. He does
not like to talk. and it was only
through a suggestion from the Post
master General that it might be we'll
to let the people know what Cncie
Sam is doing to protect his children
from the Wiles of the sWindlers that
he gave me an interview.
Uncle's Sans Work.
1T is my business to keep in the
Background. This work is done Tor
the government and the people, and
I would like to have you say that 1t
is Uncle Sam and the Postoffce De-
| partment who are convicting the ras-
calls. This government is larger than
any one man, and we want to make
these know that It is the
government and not individuals who
are after them. We want them to
know that the government is bigger
than any individual. and that no mat
ter how rich or influential the rascal
NAV be, he is on a level with the
poorest of his kind in the eyes of this
institution.
'"These We're the Instructions which
the Postmaster General gave me when
| toak charge. He urged us to be sure
that we were right, and to then go
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-07-25
Eddze Fay
stole $4,000 IN stamps

ahead without fear or favor. That
is what we are doing. When we ar
rest a man we follow the same proce-
dure, it makes no difference whether
he is a millionaire or a pauper, wheth-
er he is at the head Of the politics Of
a city Of an individual voter. ] have
instructed my men to make no change
in the arrest Of a millionaire over
that of a negro stealing a ham. The
patrol wagon is backed up to the door
of the palace, and we take the rich
.sMindler handcuffed to Jail. He has
all of his right at the trial, but if he
does not make good he goes behind the
bars just as surely as does the negro
who purloins a ham. IT is this pub
Iicity that the millionaire SWindler
objects to, and also the fact that his
influence and none count nothing.
This is the only nay to treat these
fellows continued the chief inspec-
tor. The department has tried again
and again to put down ~SWindling
through the mails, but in the past
every time a man of prominence and
good banking connections was arrest
ed he could command his politicians
to have the department ease up on
him, and the pressure was such that
the work could not go on"
professional Mail Swindlers.
But are there many men who make
q = - 2" thS optI
through the mails >
There have been thousands of
them said the chief inspector, land
there are hundreds who are working
in that way today. We are now en-
gagged in prosecuting some Of the rich
est and most powerful. with the idea
that if We suppress those at the top
We are bound to get the smaller ras-
Gals by and by. As a result the small
men are frightened. We have located
many of them. and we get reports
every day or SO from the pOstmen that
their Offices are closed. and that there
is no one to receive their mail
You ask about this class of swim
ding as a profession. We have life
records of the chief swindlers. and we
can trace them from one fraudulent
scheme to another. Now it is a fax
rubber scheme. now a fake mining
scheme and next. perhaps. n fake
~land-jobbing scheme. Take Huston.
who was once treasurer of the United
States. and whom We recently con
victed. In going back over his records
we found tracks Of his sWindlings long
before he came into the government
service. and they We're a proof of
the general rule: Once a rascal, a ras-
cal again.
I'VE have a rOeues' gallery and a
set Of records of the principal swim
dlers. We have cross reference index
cards, and we can trace them from
place to place at a moments notice
Our sources of information are such
that 1T is almost Impossible Tor the
guilty man to escape.
Take, for instance, the case OF a
millionaire lawyer. now in the peni-
Tertiary. He thought he could not b"
touched. but we wound the cons
around him until he finally gave him
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-07-25

a Talk With Chief Inspector Sharp
About Government Metho<is-The
Millionaire and Ham Stealcr Get the
Same Observation-Disclosures Mail
SWindlers and How They Work
The Sucker List-Fake Mining
&-ilemes-Side Lights on h Wire
cSS-MiIlions Made by Fax Prize
Fighting-The Pdanffice and the
BurgIars-Eddie Fay, Who Stole
$50, 900 i'm Stamps.-"Hands Up"
copyright, 1911. by Frank G. Car
penter.)
Washington, d. c., July 22-In one
of the back rooms of the big post
office building here in Washington
thousands of clerks. He lives at the
capital, but he can go the length OF
pennsylvania avenue without raising
MS hat in response to a bow. he
mas but few acQuaintanceS, and almost
no intimate acquaintance, and
no intimates. Nevertheless, he is one
or the most important men in the
united States governments; and to
many who have guilty consciences he
represents the ghost Of The peniten-
tary, which haunts them day and
night.
This man is the chief inspector Of
the Postoffice Department, a man who
heis not only to watch the fOur hun
aired odd millions of dollars which
go in and out of that office in the
course of the year, but to keep track
Oh the crimes of it's 800, 900 employees,
and to see that every bit Of its IA
million pieces of mali is honestly car
ried.
This in itself is a job; but hen to
the crimes or the inside are added all
the crimes and carried on
through the mails, all burglaries of
pestofices, all stealing of stamps and
padolng returns, o will see that the
wires of his influence reach to every
man, woman and child in the country,
ana that upon him the most of us de-
pend for protection.
The Chief Inspector.
lie name of the chief inspector is
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-01

here and Roswell and, with Lake Val
lev is the only "Wet town I'm the Pc
cos valley, except Malaga east or Iarls-
bad. Dexter has good railroad sta
tiOH. shipping sheds, a two story brick
schOOIhOuse several stores, including
a drug store, q livery stable, black
smith shop, hotel accommodation Tor
travellers, and has good country 70
draw from. Artesian wells afford the
principal means OF irrigation around
Dexter and the crops, including the
orchards, are in splendid condition. As
in all other Localities in the valley
many acres have lately been set out In
orchards and the young trees are grow
ing very fast aid are showing a
healthy color All the roads hereabOuts
are lined with cottonwood trees most
Of them having grown up (the natives
viii tell yOu) from green fence posts
that took root I'm the rtch soil and grew
falfa fields surround the place.
Practically Suburbs OF Roswell
South Spring and Orchard Park are
between Dexter and Roswell south
Spring IS the main shipping point for
the Hagerman orchards and, BESIDES
it's other buildings, the Hagerman peO-
pie have a big lOading shed and ware
house there. Greenfield, near Dexter
was the scene Of the Ialmage real es-
tate concerns operations some years
20, and this firm put in several new
families there and established quite a
little town. which is growing fast and
show that the Development is going
forward.
Throughout the country, campers
wagons are thick, the people being
here in search for homes and to work
IN the orchards or on the alfalfa farms.
Lake Arthur Growing Fast.
Lake Arthur is between Hagerman
and Artesia and is a thriving little
town surrounded by a rich country r.
rigated by artesian wells. All homes
have artesian wells or water therefrOm
and good orchards and pretty yards
Many young orchards are in evidence
The town has 2 FIRST NaLlena- Danhs
in substantial brick building good
schools in modern buildings, the main
building being two story brick struc-
urea general store, a lumber yard
and hardware store drug store,
livery stable, good railroad station,
built Of cement blocks hotels and 9TH
er accommodations Many cantaloupeS
are annually shipped from there. As
showing the nearness TO the surface OF
the artesian flow, springs bubble up in
several places near the town and there
are several lakes Of good size, which are
10 be drained and the land redeemed
while the water is used for irrigation
purposes.
The Bell Telephone company now has
a force Of men working through here
stringing a new copper wire between
Artesia and Roswell, to further i'm
prove its local and long distance serv-
ice already very good
Lakewood by the Lake.
lakewood is between Artesia and
Carlsbad and IS situated near the shores
OF Lake Mcmillan, a part Of the Carls-
bad project. 1t is a town of very few
years In age and Is already the home
OF a cannerv that ships its products
over a large area, its canned. tomatoes
grown in the vicinity Of lakewood be-
ing in especially good demand Tt also
has weekly newspaper, a National
bank, good hotel and 500 people. Like
all the other PecOs valley towns. IL has
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-01

TT AGER1IAN, n. NJ, Sept. 30
While much is known of ROs-
"A well, Carlsbad, Artesia and 9th
er towns in the famed Pecos
valley, they are not the only places
that help to make the production OF
this region famous
Hagerman, Dexter. Lakewood, Lake
Arthur. Greenfield Orchard Park, Day
ton and other localities, including Hope,
p miles off the railroad. are important
factors in the production Of valley
fruits and field crops.
Hagerman is situated almost midway
between Roswell and Artesia and is
named for the builder Of the PecOs
valley line Hon. J. j. Hagerman, faith
er Of ex-governor Herbert J. Hagerman.
The town is in the midst Of a very fer
tile valley, which is irrigated by ar
tesian wells and from a mammoth
ditch, and the fruit shipments alone
from this place are Of considerable
importance; 1900 acres are irrigated
alone from the northern canal around
Hagerman. Alfalfa farms, cornfieIds u
feet tall and big orchards surround the
town and stretch away for miles in
each direction. Many young orchards
show that the country around Hager-
man is yet in its infancy and that it is
being fast developed.
The orchards about Hagerman ex-
tend down into the town and almost
every yard has one. The town has an
alfalfa meal mill a big two story
brick schOolhouse. a hotel, a bank-the
First National with a capital Of S25i-
OOO-a hardware store. a drug store.
several general merchandise stores,
several grocery stores. a racket and
furniture store. a meat market, a
blacksmith shop. a plumbing shop
photographer, a lumber yard and many
other Institutions that go to make up
town where the people can get all
necessary accommodations. The New
Mexico Trading company operates a
big Institution here Many new resi-
dences have lately been built and the
town is taking on considerable growth.
That the freight business has largely
increased here OF late is shown by the
fact that the Santa Fee railroad has
just constructed an additional switch
A Collector Of Rare Coins
z L Burlington, one Of the citizens
Of the town, is a coin collector OF con-
siderable renOWn. BE also collects old
p41L DlS anu OLl4EL EuA4us- III MS D46 CD--
lection of rare coins, he has a CalifOr-
MA a25 cent gold piece made in 1859 and
several United States copper pennies
made early in the 18th century, includ-
ing one made in 1872. These pennies
are about three times the size Of the
pennies of the present day. He has 2
Roman coin that Is 1900 years old and
worth a small fortune
Dexter "TFet" Town.
Dexter is another good little town
south Of Roswell 1t IS located between
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-01
Hagerman and Other Fine
Pecos Valley Communities
The Wonderful Artesian Belt 20 Miles Long-Orchards
observation-disclosures of Irrigated Acres

not neglected the young people and
has a good two story brick schOolhouse-
There are several churches In the town.
a general store. a drug store and all
pected in a town Of its size, including
a lumber yard. tt is near the site OF
the pioneer town Of Seven Rivers noted
in New Mexico history IN the Gays o.
Pat Garrett and BILLY the Kid" and
is the trade center Of the Seven Rivers
country at the present time
Dayton, which is between Artesla and
Lakewood, Is also prosperous lttlo
town with a good schOolhouses a lum-
Der yard several stores, hotel accom-
mOdations and other convenience IKE
lakewood, It IS place Of pretty homes,
thriving orchards and plenty Of green
cry Tt draws its commerce from an
irrigated farm area several miles In
extent and Is - the artesian belt
Towns North OF Roswell.
North OF Roswell. there are several
towns, which, while not IL the irrigated
belt. have promise Acme, is miles north
OF Roswell, IS the home Of the Acme
cement plant. which has a capacity Of
10 cars a day and an ineLhaugtl1le
supply Of shale from which TO work.
The plant is mOdern and employs a
large number OF hands. There ls some
dry farming" In the region and also
considerable cattle business.
E1kins, the next town north, %
named for the late senator from West
Virginia, a. former New Mexican, ana
show that the country Is stil produc-
ing much beef material The country
around Is Of prairie character ard ap-
pears to have had good season this
year.
Boaz and Keuna on the north Of FL
kins are also good little towns. Kenna
being the larger Of the two and sup
porting a weekly newspaper among
other things. 1t has several stores in
Guiding q drug store, a hotel, a school
house Of a substantial character and
church. Tt gets its support principally
from Cattlemen, although some dry
farming is being done
Elida, Home OF Cement
Eliza IS the biggest town between
Roswell and POrtales. 1t Is the nome
Of the E1ida cement works and has
many substantial concrete and cement
block houses. 1t has National bank
housed In a two story brick building
and a state bank housed also IN a red
brick Of q decidedly artistic character
stores. a fraternal hail. a lumber yard.
a drug store, general merchandise
store, several churches. handsome
two story concrete schoolnouse- news
paper and many nice homes. One Of the
features OF which the town boasts IS
a plaza about which have been planted
many Windmils throughout the place
and the inhabitants appear TO take
pride IN their yards Shade and fruit
trees grow IN profusion. Many Of the
aus ----H- 49, 80 ----r- OK
several most artistic little bungalows
affording homes for the leading citi-
zens-
Delphos is between EIida and POr-
tales and among other things has one
orchard several acres IN extent and
old enough to be bearing. Irrigation Is
by pump. after the order at POrLales.
tt IS claimed that irrigation can be
carried on as successfully at Elida and
DelphOs as at Portales, as the water IS
not deep
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-01

als0 called Ieli8E, san hh5u1, FIillsI HlII-GTl5
Weeping Skin, eio)

Also called leltaE- salt nlol1, filLltlaI All.LH5ll1l
Weeping Skin, eio.)
ECZEMA CAN BE. CURED TO STAY, and
when say cured. Imean Just what say-C-U -R-E-D
and not merely patched up for awhile, TO return
worse than before. Remember make this broad
statement after putting ten years Of my time on this
one disease and handling IN the Ilenllre quarter
Of a million cases Of this dreadful disease Now
do not care what all you have used, nor how many
doctors have told you that you could not be cured
all I ask Is lust chance TO show you that I know
what I am talking about u you VIII write me To-
DAY, I viii send you a FREE TRIAL of my mild,
soothing guaranteed cure that will convince Won
more in a day than I or anyone else could IN a
months time If you are disguised and discouraged,
dare you to give me a chance 70 prove my claims.
fort than you had ever thought this world holds for
you. Just try If and you viii see am telling you
the truth.
Dr. J. E. Caunaday, 1925 Park Square, SedaIia, Ne.
Refsreness. Third National Bank. sedalia. No.
Gould YOU do better act than send this notice to soe
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-01

The King David is about the pref
test apple he grows. It is a beautiful
red in color and is described as the
ideal Christmas apple both because 1t
keeps well until Christmas and after
and also because 1t makes a splendid
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-01
Artesia, New Mex, Beautiful
Little "City OF Roses"
Rose Lane Mile Long---The World Record Artesian
Wel1---I25.OOO Trees Planted-The Town of Hope

A RTEsIA. n. II, Sept. 8o-Artesla :
"A could adopt the name Of "ths 4
City Of Roses" and have as much 4
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-01

n While much is known Of Ros-
y a well, Carlsbad, Artesia and 9TH
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-01

Could Won do better act than 10 send this notice 70 so
49, er1flerar Of EczeulaI
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-04-13
The Automobile.

In some respects the automobile is
the most marvellous machine the world
has yet seen. 1t can go anywhere at
any time. f1oundering through two feet
of snow, ford any stream that isn't
deep enough to drown out the mag
neto. triumph over mud axle deep,
Jump fences and cavort over plowed
ground at fifteen miles an hour. 1t
has been used with brilliant success in
various kinds of hunting. including
coyote coursing on the prairies of Col
orado. where it can run all around the
broncho. formerly in favor. since it new
q runs any risk Of breaking leg in
q prairie dog hole. Educated automo-
biles have been trained to shell corn,
saw wood. pump water churn. pillow,
and. In short. do anything required Of
them. except figure out where the con-
sumner gets off under the tariff law
Outing.