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The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-06-21

Mrs. Addie Dawson OF Bristol
was a Lamar visitor yesterday. Mrs.
DAWSON left this morning for Ia
coma. Washington. and will spend
the summer there.
Mrs. l.. +. Adams entertained the
Round Table Club "Wednesday After
noon OF last week in honor of Mrs.
Merle Z. Ward. who has been the
president of the Round Table Club
FOR the past year. Mrs. Ward left
today with her sister. Miss VIII
iiams. to spend the summer at Os-
sawatomie and will then join her
husband at Spearville. Kansas. to
make their future home. =
meeting of the Arkansas valley
fraternity men In Rocky Ford on
Thursday night. Lamar had quite
a number of college national fra
ternity men and all of them wul
belong to the Arkansas Valley Pan
Hellenic. Some of our citizens who
are fraternity men are Attorney l..
N. Taylor. l.. NJ. Markham. DIR.
Taylor. Attorney J. b. Traxler. DIR.
Gullick. w. a. thinner and Rev. II.
NJ. Pingree.
The Carlton school board yes
rzt - han nd
some new school building. one that
will be credit and convenience
to the district. The contract price
was $4,000. 1t Will be so arrang-
ed as to be convenient for public
Meetings also. This district has
been carefully managed by the
board for some years and is I'm
line shape to replace the building
recently burned.
Rev. II. NJ. Pmgree married Mr..
David H Wagner and Miss Nettie
Deweese at the Methodist church
parsonage this evening. The groom
has been one OF Lamar's citizens
for several years and has host
of friends. Miss Deweese has only
lived in Lamar for Mttle over
a year but in that time has made
many friends. The happy couple
will make their home at 204 south
Second street. The Register Joins
with their many friends In wishing
them happy and prosperous life.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-06-21

Diaz. though 81 years of age.
refuses to promise that he won't
come back. and he can come as
near doing 1t as Mr.. Jeffries did.
TOO.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-06-21

President Taft did his country
tremendous service in having his
silver wedding the same week as
the English coronation. As u re-
suit hundreds remained at home
who had intended to visit London
and q good many millions were
saved to the country. Taft seems
to understand how to do the proper
thing at the proper time.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-06-21

Earned runs-Lamar 4.
Two base hit-Skinner.
Three base hits-Skinner. Shsrkey.
Bases on balls-On Garrett 2. off Bee
struck out-By Garrett I. by Bee ].
Stolen hases-Beavers. Miller. Ander-
son
Left on bases-Lamar ). Fort Lyon J.
Double plays-Dyer to Anderson to
Donald: beavers to skinner.
First base on errors-i.amsr ?. Fort
lyon I.
timpire-"Silk" RYAN.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-06-21

La Toilette announces that he
will oppose anything which Presi-
dent Taft supports. His only plat
form Is feminist the government.
Just like other anarchists.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-06-21

A Durango man hired out TO com
NIT a murder and took his pay In
goats. He is the goat himself
now.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-06-21

Sam Blitz. the little Dutch tailor.
tion in Pueblo last week Evident
ly the Little Pittsburg' had a
bad effect on Sans taste for fancy
hose. judging from the bright green
hosiery sam is now displaying to
every one who comes into the shop.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-06-21
THERE ARE SEVEN MUSI-

1 cal companies and more than
dozen en- ertainers, Lecturers and ora
tors on the Chautauqua prosrom that
we are to have in this city thi. summer
That's whole lot when you consider
the quality Of each number. The band
came all the way from Europe---Fer-
rante's Royal Italian Guards, It's the
best Chautauqua band west Of the
Missouri River.
And the band That's only an In
cidcnt There are six other great
musical organizations lone every day
OF Chautauqua week.
You never saw more variety on any
Chnutauqua program. More variety
couldn't be given. 1t would be i'm
possible.
Say---you plan for this Chautauqua.
Get sea on ticket and go every day
---or get a season ticket and go when
ever you can. Ii will be worth while
to haoe q season ticket if yeu go only
once in a while.
It's the best thing that comes to this
town all summer. and il you miss it
you're missing something great.
With a season ticket, it costs about
| Sc a number.
Easy1 OH how easy!l
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-02-02
Lunbernen

We can save you good big
money on all kinds of first class
numbering tools, also on tested
steel and B. B. chain.
LUND HOW. co.
The officers have been kept busy the
past week in lining up and locking up
breakers of the peace. Several drunken
and obstreperous lumber camp employees
have given the officers considerable
trouble, two paying fines for resisting
an officer. Fines amounting to SOS oo
were assessed by Judge Mcdonald and
paid in. Two of the offenders were
given short notice to leave town. IL Is
the intention to adopt measures whereby
those unable to pay their fines shall be
put to work with ball and chain, ana IN
case of refusal to do the work assigned
will be kept on bread and water until
released.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-02-02
JUST AMONG OURSELVES

DR.. Wallace and VIM. Schmidt were
business visitors in Spokane Monday.
Prices cut IN half at the Paris store.
Get in line for bargains.
Chas. E. Schmidt, of Spirit Lake, &C
conpanied by his mother, visited friends
here Sunday.
The Citizens Electric Co. have moved
into the Sutherland building next to
Phone Office. Phone Z.
Mems $3.50 wool underwear for $3.50
and mems heavy fleece-lined cotton un-
derwear for 75c, at Kelly's.
One Fairbanks Morse special electric,
3-horse power gasoline engine for sale.
al condition. Newport Telephone Co.
Jarboe & Kahler, the green house ex-
perts, expect to have lettuce and radishes
in the market in couple of weeks.
Having thoroughly learned the millin-
cry trade am prepared to make hats at
reasonable prices. Jennie Nelson. 1914
Have your wood sawed by Frank SUIT
toms gasoline rig. Orders can be phoned
to or left at Bell & Turnbull's. 35-tf
Wilcox & Paulson. of the City Market.
received a carload of cattle from Galata.
Mont, Monday.
Geo. T. Heslin has made deal where
by he acquires the B. F. Seeley dwelling
on Warren avenue. In the exchange he
transfers Spokane dwelling.
FOR SALE-At a bargain, enough
cooking utensils and dishes for a crew of
Is men, Northern idaho & Montana
Power Co.
The c., NJ. & P. 8. has issued tariff
in which they announce joint rates from
Seattle, Tacoma and Everett to points
on the I. & w. N.
The Sunshine Circle gave an anagram
party Saturday evening at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Kleckner to about twenty
OF their young friends.
The citizens of Metaline Falls are
planning to petition the county commits.
sioners for a special election for the in
corporation of the town.
Traffic east on the G. N. was tied up
for about 80 hours Monday and Tuesday
on account of the drifts between Cut
Bank and Whitefsh, Mont.
W. s. Mariner. special agent for the
Norwich Union Fire Insurance Co.
transacted business with the Rogers &
Talmadge agency here Wednesday.
Catholic services at st. Anthony.
church every first and third Sunday al
10 q. m. Sunday school every Sunday a.
10:40 q. m. Seats are free and cordia
invitation is extended to all to attene
the services.
Barney Zillinger, the quick shoe re
pair artist, is located in the Jacobson
building, one door north of the Mine
Office. He carries complete line o
mems and children's shoes.
The LaMott Comedy Co. PLAYED tw,
nights engagement here Monday an.
Tuesday evening to only fair-size,
houses. For small one the compan,
was good and deserved better patron.g
than that which was accorded them.
An attack of the grip is often followe,
BY persistent cough. which to man
proves a great annoyance. Chamber
iain's Cough Remedy has been exten
sively used and with good success 70
the relief and cure of this cough. Man
cases have been cured after all othe
remedies hsd failed. Sold by ell drua
alass.
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gions in which thousands of trees are now heinz planted
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other sufferers, when one day there came
 to Galveston tall, lanky east Texas law yer, who asked the way to Moody's bank, and upon meeting the colonel remarked casually that he had a bit of news that
 would be a delight to the bankers. Then he proceeded to tell the colonel that
 Runkle years before had purchased for a song vast tract of land in west Texas, Tn skirmshing to raise money prior to the failure he had endeayored to dispose or this land, but could not find a purchaser, When the crash came and Runkle disap-
 peared this land still remained n Runkle's
 possession. Now if Moody acted quickly
 he could seize this land before Runkle.
 wherever he was. could transfer 1t to q
 dummy or sell it.
 | Colonel Moody summoned one of his
 men, gave brief outline of the situation
 to him. and that night the messenger was bound for Presido county, out in that re-
 zion where the insurrectos were rather
 busy recently. The messenger found the county records exactly ss the lawyer from
 east Texas had said. Henry Mittendorfer
 Runkle was the owner of tens of thou
 sands of acres. Of course, the land was not worth much, for it was in one of the
 widest and most rugged sections of the
 state, but it was something as an offset to that 5,5oO and interest, so Colonel
 Moody was pleased when .le got the re- port. He was not so pleased little later, when he discovered that Runkle, honestly or dishonesty, had disposed of the prop erty and that there was to be big fight for possession.
 The fight came soon enough. It went
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1 who investigated his affairs were astound- ed by what they discovered. The Dallas property had been disposed of at a sac rifce without anyone noting the sale. The gins and the interests in various com presses, the stores the farms, the cattle the crops, the machinery-everything Run ke owned had been sold or made over to a dummy for an expressed considera- ton. Money had been borrowed right and left from banks, cotton factors and others Most of the men who lent the money had little to show for 1t.
 Colonel Moody, sitting up in his arm chair in Galveston, got the news of Runkles failure and frowned. Run1Sle had borrowed $50,000 from Moody, but by some mischance Runkle had repaid $25C00, so only s25,000 and the interest remained due. Colonel Moody drowned again when he got the report from the man he sent to northeast Texas to see Just what Runkle had left
 Not enough to wad gun" said the man. "'Twas the slickest piece of work I've ever seen in my life, You may think you got stung, Colonel, but there are some foreign spinners who are in 1 for the shock of their lives. Runkle sold good middling cotton to them and drew on them for it. When they open the bales on which they have paid | the draft they may find more East Texas sand and soil than cotton. Obi there's going to be sore lot of Dago, Russian, French and English spinners when RunlSle's baled real estate gets to the mills"
 The Colonel did not say anything, but asked a clerk a few weeks later to file the Runkle note away In the safe along with judgment the house of ". L.. Moody & Go. had obtained. It seemed waste of money to get judgment, for Runkle had not enough to pay one mill on the dollar, and that would be absorbed by the lawyers.
 There are some persons who say Moody never has failed to collect debt due to him. That probably Is untrue It is true, however that perhaps no other man has made more out of his bad debts.
 The Runkle sensation had been forgot ten except by the sorrowful foreigners and by Colonel Moody and dozen or more
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, through the lower court and was ap@ pealed to higher. Then it went from court to court until at last the highest court in the state confirmed the title of Colonel Moody to the property. It was a principality in extent, but 1t was 0 mountain waste. Rains rarely fell. and there were not as many white men in the whole vast county as there are in some of the apartment houses in Now York. The legal expenses had add ed to the cost until now the Runkle loan represented fair bit of money. But Moody, slow, patient and meth hod- ical, filed away the court decree with | the deed and the note was satisfied. Then he went 4rside and resumed his seat in the armchair and when the newsboy came along with Moody's copy of the evening newspaper the Colonel took the sheet, adjusted his spectacles and glanced over the headlines. One of them seemed to interest him a good deal and he arose and went in and looked at the description of the Runkle property as given in the sheriff's deed. That night an agent of Colonel Moody was on his way to west Texas, and within a month the world knew that the greatest of quicksilver de- posits had been discovered in Presidio county.
 Somewhere MT. Runkle learned tho news that the despised stretch of west Texas land he had been unable to dis pose of and which Moody had seized on the information furnished by an angry lawyer was worth millions, and the millions belonged tc the Galveston mill lionaire because of that $25,000 bad debt.
 Copyright, 1911, by Richard SpilIane.)
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1 all who have any acquaintance with the apple regions of the United States. They are founded on present conditions and are the cause of the enormous extent to whicr new orchards are being planted all owe, the country. Many of the government clerks at Washington are investing in orchard schemes. Some of the fruit ex- perts of the agricultural department have their Independent orchards, and not a few of Uncle Sam's employees have gone into the business and are making good.
 At the same time apple lands are being
 exploited. as orange lands were some years ago, and syndicates are formed to
 manage orchards at a fixed price per acre or tree. The planting is very exten- slye and this is especially so in the Pa clfic northwest and in Virginia, West Vir-
 ginia and Maryland. It is also true of
 the other apple regions, although to a minor extent.
 Last year, l am told. the shipments of apples from the Washington, Oregon and Idaho regions amounted to 10000 carloads and moreover when the trees that are now being planted come into bearing. say 10 years from now, there will be from that region more than one hundred thousand carloads. The most of these shipments go in boxes. but I venture a carload of barrels would contain about the same number of apples. At 200 barrels to the car, which Is an average shipment In the east-I have myself shipped BOG barrels in one car-this one hundred thou sand carloads would equal 2O,O0O,00O bar rels of apples. This is the potential prod uct 10 years from now of the Pacific northwest and that part of the country produces a comparatively small portion or our total crop.
 Now, within the past 10 years the apple crop of the United States has ranged from 220000O0 to 60,O00O00 barrels We had 22,000.000 barrels in 1909 and during the past five years the average has been about 2S,000000 barrels. The big yields were all during the earlier part of the decennial period, the statistics of which the departmen of agriculture considers unreliable.
 At the estimate I have given for the Pacific northwest the crop of that re- zion in 1921 would be almost equal to the total crop of the United States for 1909, and if proportionate increase goes on in the other known apple regions there
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be true of this slow, lackadaisical man
 having been one of the most dashing ot
 soldiers. In the height of the pahic of 1907, when getting money out of a | bank was as easy as getting blood
 out of a stone. Moody startled Texas. | Business was paralyzed, financial insti- | tutions that were believed to be sound | to the core fell under suspicion. Men | who had considered themselves rich
 suddenly found themselXes poor. The
 marketing of the crops stopped because | money, real money, could not be paid And just when the outlook was darkest
 Moody announced he would advance 50 G6, 75 per cent in gold on all the cot ton shipped to Galveston. There was no limit to his offer. It was good for 100 bales or 1,000,000. Galveston was
 flooded with cotton and Texas was fioded with real money. The caustic- wttted, slow going old man saved many a planter and merchant from disaster in those trying days. Incidentally, he made a pretty penny for himself, for like that other salvage man, J. Pier pont Morgan, he knew how to charge. some persons wonder to this day where Coloned Moody dug up all the money he paid out on the tens of thousands of bales of cotton that came to him, but few persons know the depth of the bloody purse.
 One sorrowful gentleman who con tributed lib orally to the wealth of the Galveston man was Henry Mittendorfer Eunkle, Everybody who is anybody in northeast Texas, southern Oklah oma and western Louisiana remembers Run kle. From a country storekeeper he had branched out until he was the leading cotton buyer of the Red River valley
 He owned gins and had stock in com presses. He had stores in a dozen trade centers, and through them managed to control the marketing of considerable cotton. He was shrewd, active and suc- ce ssful; so successful, in fact, that it turned his head There was time when
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1 he was considered one of the wealth. fest men in that part of the country. Ills credit was excellent, his business | growing year by year and his prospects were of the best. But he was not con tent
 Cotton buying affords fair amount of speculative activity, but it did not furnish enough for Runkle. In the dull period in cotton he took a whirl at stocks, and cleared neat bit of money. He took another crack at it, and caught the market exactly right at one of it's widest swings Within a month he cleared up a small fortune. Like clever man, Runkle gathered in his profits and salted them away by pur- chasing real estate in Dallas. Wall street was not going to get back any of it from him. Not in a million years.
 The following cotton season was not a good one Runkle made some profit, but not in keeping with the business he transacted. A man resents the go- ing awry of his plans and some of Runkle's plans in regard to cotton had gone so far astray that he tried to make up the monetary difference in the stock market. Once more he was right. He was a bold, quick trader had a good knowledge of securities and whatever he took hold of he gave his undivided attention to that subject until he got through with it. He made almost as much profit in this deal as in the first one and once more he put the money out of temptation by purchasing real estate in Dallas.
 Few persons make money in Wall street without the fact becoming known. Runkle was credited with far more profit than he had garnered, so he told those who congratulated him the truth as to his winnings and then he in- formed them he was going to keep every cent, for he was not foolish enough to believe he could continue beating the stock market Enough Texans had been cleaned out by Wall
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A T Twenty-second street and the
 "A Strand. in the city of Galveston, 4 \ is the bank of W. L. Moody & Co Any hot day-and most days are hot in Galveston-Colonel Moody may be found seated in an arm chair out on the sidewalk in front of the bank. He is slow of speech sharp of eye and has a caustic wit. He has two hobbies, duck shooting and making money. One of his cronies is William Jennings Bryan, at various times candidate for the presidency of the United States. At Lake Surprise, across the broad waters of Galveston Bay from the island city, Colonel Moody has one of the finest duck preserves in the world. Once or twice a year Colonel Bryan voyages to Texas and he and Colo nel Moody sail across the bay to Lake Surprise, and for ten days or two weeks the world Wags on without them. When they return the deck of the Moody yacht is covered with game. Then Colonel Bry- an proceeds north and Colonel Moody re- turns to the armchair on the sidewalk.
 Many persons travel to Galveston in the course of the year to hold converse with Colonel Moody. Most of them are after money, for the colonel has oodles of it. Cotton is the security he favors. The planter or country merchant who gets money from the colonel has to ship his crop to ". L. Moody & Co.,, and as Moody owns a compress or two and there are a multitude of charges against cotton, there Is a fine profit to the banker-cotton factor in nearly every transaction.
 There are bankers in New York, Bos- ton, Chicago, St. Louis and elsewhere of high pressure, up-to-date business ioeas who would frown at dawdling and chatting with countrymen by the hour, but the old Confederate colonel could teach a lot of them various things about the one great essential of their business. Occasionally the old man does, something spectacular. It Is not often but 1t is of a character that makes a person think the stories may
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street pirates. he said, and he was go-
 ing to be the one whc fooled the sharpers by holding on to what he had
 Then he explained how he had put into real estate all he had won In Wall street. Nothing could be safer The city was growing, the property he had 1t brought in good revenue and was enhancing in value rapidly.
 Runkle got the reputation of being the best balanced and most successful man
 in the Red River country and was proud of it. He had a lot of energy and no end of ambition. Gradually his sphere of operations widened until he overshadowed every other cotton man in northeastern Texas. In the flush of harvesting times he would keep a dozen clerks busy. At night he would send out scores of tele- grams and cablegrams to eastern and European spinners offering cotton. From the opening of the cotton market until It's close he was in constant touch with New Orleans or New York. He would have a hundred calls to the telephone some days. Merchants, planters. buyers throughout eight or nine counties found more satisfaction in dealing with him than with 90 per cent of the others. He did not haggle. Quick to decide, he was prompt with an offer or a refusal. When he needed cotton to fill contracts he amazed some persons by the rapidity with which he got 1t. Sometimes he suffered loss by this rapid fire style of his. but more often he profited. There was noth- ing phlegmatic about Runkle despite his German blood. He was chain lightning
 in business and he was thorough in every thing. In nothing was he more thorough than in his failure. No one expected it except Runkle. Men who knew him best hardly could credit the news when the failure was announced.
 It was nearly a week before the ex- planation came Runlxle had been making money year after year in business and losing most of it in Wall street. His an- nouncement of his adieu to the stock market had been made in good faith, but he had drifted back to the game, gambler fashion, for another try at 1t. Once he had begun to lose he would not stop. Finally it came to point where he had exhausted all his surplus money. Then he began to plunge in earnest. Those