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The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-21
French Cigars Are Costly

luggage. but actually scare. led my
pockets.
However. at Calais | declared my
forty cigars and handed them to the
douanier,' at the same time remind.
ing him that ten cigars we're exempt.
He Immediately demanded to see
the cigars and carried them OF in
triumph to the head official. Then
he came back and probed my valises.
We'll. they soaked me $2.37 duty
on the thirty cigars, which was &C.
tualiy more than they had cost me.
When reached Paris and the officers
asked me If there was anything duti-
able In my trunk i said, No. and 1t
was not opened.
The next day l was passing the
cigar shop opposite the Gra[d hotel
and was surprised by the cheapness
of cigars that were exposed in the
show windows. | went In, filled with
remorse that | had even condemned
the French method of selling cigars,
and found that the cigars In the win,
dows were In sense a hoax. The
retail price was quoted, but you could
not buy at that price unless you took
a box"
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-21
Demand for Good Teachers
Greater Than Ever Before.
Reopening Of Schools Shows That De-
sire for knowledge Has Kept Bet
ter Than Abreast Of Growth
In Population.

New York.-"The schools of the
country are opening this month and
with an increased attendance which
shows that the American thirst for
education has kept ahead of the
growth in population" This was said
by manager of the largest teachers
agency in the country, who from the
nature of his work is in touch with the
educational situation all over the
country. Incidentally, he added that
good times were ahead for the mem
bers of the teaching profession.
The last school census showed that
20,00o,900 were enrolled in the various
institutions of the country. While nc
figures for the present year are OBJ
tainable, It is estimated that common
schools alone have at least $4,000 900
pupils.
Most of the public schools in the
north and east open soon after Labor
day. The exceptions are some schools
In northern New England, where, ow-
ing to the hard winters and the diff
culties of transportation, sessions are
held only In the spring and autumn
In the far south the heat delays
school openings, and in some districts
pupils do not return until November.
The latest institutions to begin the
years work are some of the southern
mission schools, which depend mainly
upon teachers from the north. SEES
sions there are postponed until late in
the fall, SO that the northern teachers
may not be subjected to the unaccus-
toned climate.
Most Of the colleges and universities
will have begun work by the first of
October. AS rule the state universe
ties and normal schools start earlier
than the universities privately en-
dowed and have longer terms.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-21
ANSWERS SUMMONS
JOHN HENRY SMITH, SECOND
COUNSELOR TO PRESIDENT
SMITH, is DEAD.
Was President of Constitutional Con.
vention When Utah Was Made
state-Prominent in Matters That
Concerned Development of West

Salt Lake City.-John Henry Smith,
second counselor to President Joseph
F. Smith, and one of the most emin-
ent men of the west, died at his home
in this city Friday morning, at 1915
as result of hemorrhage of Ae
lungs.
President Smith had been i'll since
last April, when he suffered hem
orrhage which was considered very
serious at the time, but the effects OF
which he slowly overcame. A month
ago he returned from a trip through
the Yellowstone park and was feeling
well in every respect until about three
weeks ago.
John Henry Smith was born at Car
bunca, Ia, September IS, lS4S He
was the son of the late President
Smith and Sarah Ann (Libbay) Smith.
His parents had been driven from
Illinois and Missouri with the rest OF
the members of the church and 1t
was while they were at Carbunca
now Council Bluffs, that their son
was born. His father the late Pres.
ldent George A. Smith. had accompan-
led President Brigham Young and the
first company of pioneers to tn. Great
Salt Lake valley the year before. ana
with some of them had also returned
to the Missouri river. Upon his ar
rival there he proceeded to Lake
preparations for the removal of his
family to the new headquarters OF
the church, but it was not until the
summer of 1S49 that the ,amily be
gan their journey westward from the
Missouri river; and John Henry was
just past one year OF age when the
family arrived in Salt Lake City.
At the age of 1S, John Henry Smitt
was married to Miss Sarah Farr
daughter of the Honorable Loren Far
of Ogden. Soon after hts marriage
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-21
Traveller Is Unable to Take Along
Supply Because Duty is High
Customs Officers Alert.

New York.-"The cigars you buy in
France are notorious" said a smoker
recently who has lately come back
from Europe. "and 1t is really impos.
sible to get decent cigar at retail
at anything like fair price. know
OF three places In Paris where you
can get good cigars by the box, one,
which for many years was under the
Grand hotel and is now across the
boulevard from It; another in the
Rue Ste. Honore, near the bottom OF
the Avenue de pOpera, and the other
In the Champs Elysees. little below
the Elysee Palace hotel
When | started for Paris from Lon
don had forty cigars in a box which
had cost me just SO. had bought
them in London, thinking that as In
the past | would be allowed to take
forty cigars in at Boulogne. free of
duty. An American who lives in
London told me on the channel boat
that new law prohibited the admis.
sion of more than ten free of duty
But he added, the duty is SO small
that you need not be alarmed
Nov, long experience has laugh,
me that the moment you declare any
thing to French customs officer you
lay yourself open to trouble. If you
tell him you have anything dutiable
he Is very apt to make thorough
search. | remember that once
bought box Of twenty-five cigars al
Baden Baden and declared them when
l reached French Agincourt. with the
result that not only did the customs
man go minutely through all my hand
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-21
81 HOURS ON A PRISON ROOF
English "covIe," Trying to Escape,
Amuses Pedestrians With Songs
and Other Antics.

London.-After 81 hours Of liberty"
on the jail roof, prisoner who eluded
the vigilance of his warders while at
exercise and clambered up fall-pipe
recently surrendered, hungry, tired,
and much subdued in spirit The only
food he had had during his long out
ing consisted Of few apples which
people in the crowd whom he enter
tanned threw to him.
Armley jail, Leeds, was the scene OF
the strange escapade. The man, said
to have had some naval training,
climbed up the water pipe to the roof
with the agility Of monkey.
Thence he stationed himself on the
top of turreted air shaft standing 16
feet above the roof Warders who
sssayed his recapture he kept at bay
with states he had stripped from the
roof
BY the time the officials had decided
on starving him out considerable
crowd had collected in the street. The
man at intervals amused his audience
with songs. hornpipes, spiritedly
danced on the narrow ledge of the tur
ret. limitations of cutlass drill. soma
phore signaling. swimming, etc. DC
casionally he addressed the crowd. de
claring he was ION strike"
1t was not until late in the after
noon that he broke his fast Then hs
managed to catch two or three apples
thrown to him.
He held out for few hours longer
but would not face another hungry
night on the air-shaft ledge.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-21
HEWLETT'S
LUNETA

The richest, fragrant and
most economical tea for the
home.
LUNETA TEA is packed
in air-tight tins, half pound
full net weight, and is not
crushed or broken like tea
packed in cartons.
All grOcers sell this fine
tea at soc per can. This
same grade of tea is gener-
ally sold at soc.
Also rOasters and packers
of the famous Luneta steel
cut, fresh roasted coffee.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-21

he moved to Provo, where he was
employed as telegrapher, and later
assisted in the completion of the
Central Pacific railway.
At the session of the territorial
legislature of 1872, John Henry Smith
was appointed assistant clerk Of the
house of representatives, and from
this time dated the beginning of his
career in civil matters. In the same
year he was chosen assistant CLERK
of the constitutional convention.
In addition to his duties in the
work of developing the church, Apos-
tie Smith took an active part in the
political affairs of the state. In Feb
ruary, 1876, he was member Of the
Salt Lake City council and served for
six years as a councilman. In Aug.
ust, 1881, he was elected a member
of the territorial legislature.
Upon the division of the Peoples
party and the Liberals upon national
political lines, he was one OF the first
W ohNO1btC IhC IA AhNiPiCo vi thV lNC-
publican party and was always an ac-
tive worker in that party. He was
president of the convention that
formed the constitution under which
Utah was admitted into the Union as
state.
Since his call to the apostleship FL
der Smith devoted practically all OF
mis- time to public duties. Except
when absent from the country on mis-
sions, he travelled almost constantly
among the stakes of the church, at
tending conferences, instructing ana
encouraging the members, organizing
and setting in order the stakes and
wards. He visited every stake in the
church in Utah. many OF them several
times, including those in Old Mexi-
co and different states and territories
of the United States and Canada. He
also made a tour of the southern
states mission in 1899, doing consid-
cradle preaching both there and on
his way
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-21
CRIN0L!NE is BIG FAILURE
Idea Is Scorned by London Leaders OF
Fashion-Narrow Skirts Form
Keynote for Season.

London.-The attempt by Bond
street modiste to introduce a modified
form of crinoline skirt among the
fashions for the fall has been fail
ure The idea has been even more
laughed at than was the model who
ventured out on the West end streets
to test public opinion on such a skirt.
Designers OF women's modes now ad-
nit that crinoline or any form of un-
naturally expanded skirt is dead
AS a matter of fact, narrow skirts
will form the keynote of fashions
here for the fall and winter. The de-
signers say they are only just begin
ming to recognize the possibilities OF
displaying the beauties of the female
figure by tight dresses. and they now
will depend on the beauty or form
rather than as hitherto on the charm
of artistic drapery.
London is also learning at last
something from New York. and much
brighter colors will be worn No one
color will hold predominant sway the
coming season. Royal purple is dis.
appearing, and its place is the marked
feature of women's dress will be
taken by vivid colors.
The leading materials to be used
will be rich velvet, with costly EN-.
broidery embellishments and fur trim
mings. Fashionable dresses will be In
every way the most expensive evei
yet devised.
Complete Punishment has been de
clared against the vogue of black, but
black and white will hold its own, es
pecially later in the season. Somt
modistes are producing exquisite mod
els of this style.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-21
A Student of Humanity.

Mrs. Carter and her cook, says tue
Brooklyn Citizen, were discussing the
murder which narrowed the duskv
citizens Of the countryside.
"Will dey hang him fer kiln Of
his wife, Miss Cyarther?"
I'VE can't tell yet, Aunt jimmy.
The court will decide. OF course, If
they prove he did it on purpose
Done it purpose! Law, Miss
Cyarther, in course he kilt his wife a
purpose! Honey, amt l done been
married? Don't l know men!'
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-21
Remarkable Nest of Wasps.

Liverpool.-A remarkable nest of
wasps has been discovered on the
Bedfordshire estate of Lord Ampthill,
where a man, using three wire wasp
traps has caught over 1000 wasps.
The nest consisted of six tiers,
which stood six and a half inches
high. and measured eight and a half
inches across.
The cells contained grubs and
young wasps in different stages OF
growth. An elm tree near by was
covered with wasps in clusters vary
ing in size from that Of walnut to that
of tennis ball.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-21
Gags Laid for 1000 Miles.

Middletown. Conn, Mr.. and Mrs. c.
W. Kirkham. Jr.. and their four chill
dren have just arrived here by wagon,
completing trip Of 1900 miles from
Staples, Mimi, which they left on June
2S. Seventeen Minnesota chickens.
carried In a small coop under the
wagon, were hale and hearty, having
laid their usual average of eggs all
the way.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-21
Woman Builds House unassIsted.

Wakefield, Mass. - Although she
never drove nail until three months
ago. Miss Henrietta Boyes has Just
completed the building of a bungalow
unassisted. The building has five
rooms and bath, hardwood floors
throughout and all modern improve
ments. While engaged in the heavy
carpenter work Miss Boyes donned
overalls and jumper.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-21
Kidnspers Draw Life Sentences.

hicago-Guiseppo Nicolosi and
his brother, Camelio Nicolosi were
sentenced to life Imprisonment on
Thursday after they had been found
guilty of kidnapping five-year-old An
cello Marine August 5.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-21
Mule Seams Bov.

Louisville, KY. Eleven-year-old
Charles Polk, playing in the garden
of his fathers home at Jefferson, got
too close to the steel-shod family mule.
Today his scalp was sewed on. Fiji.
teen stitches were necessary to hold
the warlock in place.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-21
His Excuse.

Earle why didn't you cut the
grass, as l told you to-"
Il was going to, father, but the
truant officers are around looking
for boys who are under IA who are
working, and l was afraid I'd get into
touble."
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-21
Precaution.

Boggs-I'm going to st. Petersburg
tomorrow.
Groggs-Aren't you afraid of being
blown up there?
Boggs-Oh, no. Pm leaving my wife
at home.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-21
Authors Wife Gets Divorce.

New York-Mrs. George Randolph
Chester has been granted a divorce
from her husband, short story
writer. Mrs. Chester named in her
suit young woman whom she said
her husband introduced as his wife.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-21

tions. IF you Gus-
pect your kidneys,
begin using Doan's
Kidney Pills at
once.
e. r. Wilson.
Emmettsburg, 10
wa, says. 81 was
completely laid up
with kidney COM
plant and inflam-
matory rheuma-
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-21
Johnny's Question.

Johnny Williams had been bad"
again.
"Ah me, JOHNNY" sighed his Sun
day school teacher Il am afraid
we shall not meet in heaven"
What have you been doin'?"
asked Johnny with grin-Harper's
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-21

dsm. My limbs and feet were terri
bly, swollen and SO inflamed l could
not walk for days. After doctors had
failed to help me, began using Doan's
Kidney Pills. Three boxes cured me
so completely that l have not had the
slightest trouble since"
when Your Back Is Lame, Re-
member the Name-DOAN'S." soc a
box at all stores. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-21
Resourcefui.

One idea of resourceful woman Is
one who can stand ner family skele-
ton in a corner of the parlor and
make folks believe 1t Is bric-a-brac.-
Galveston News.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-21
ARE YOUR KIDNEYS wEAkr
PACE THREE

There are two ways to tell If you
have weak kidneys. The first is
through pains in the back The Sec
ond by examining the kidney secre-
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-21

In 1910 the United States produced
two-thirds of the worlds output of pc
troleum.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-21

Including all kinds of horses over
four years old that can carry harness
or saddle, Great Britain has 100000
head.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-21

A woman thinks a man is sensible
if he tells her that she is handsome.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-21

DIR. Pierce's Pellets, small, sugar-coated.
easy to take as candy, regulate and invigor-
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-21
w alker Bros. Bank ers

Two million dollars worth of sugar
Is made into sweets every week in
England
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-21

A man can't kick II his monument
fs put up job.
Las Vegas optic., 1911-02-08
ARE PROPERLY GUARANTEED
BOARD OF HEALTH OF UNION
COUNTY SEAT HAS TAKEN
STEPS TO CURB DISEASE
OUTBREAK is UNDER CONTROL
DIR. {. S. EDMUNDSON WIRES
THAT REPORT OF 500 VIC
TINS is UNTRUE

Clayton, N. M, Feb. S.-The small
pox scare in Clayton is false alarm
according to a statement issued to
day by DR.. E. S. Edmundson, chair
man of the board of health. But foul
cases Of the disease exist in the town.
while five patients suffering from the
disease are confined in the pest
house, two miles east Of town. With.
in twenty miles of the city seventeen
cases of the disease exist, but strict
measures are being taken TO keep
them quarantined. There are also a
few cases of smallpox is isolated
parts of Union county from forty to
fifty miles from Clayton. There is no
danger of the spread of the disease
in the city as the health department
has the situation well under control
Dr. Edmundson vehemently denies
the reports that there are five hun.
dred or more cases in Clayton and
its vicinity
Las Vegas optic., 1911-02-08
Continued on Page Eight
new CLAIMANT TO
MRS. EDDY'S ESTATE
SON OF HER DECEASED BROTHER
WOULD INTERVENE IN SUIT
NOW PENDING

Concord, N H., Feb. S.-Another
complication in the contest over the
disposal of the $2,OOO,O0O residue of
the estate of the late Mrs. Mary Baker
Glover Eddy, founder of the Christian
Sicence denomination, is threatened,
George w. Baker of this city, son
of the deceased brother of Mrs. Eddy,
has decided to take steps to determine
what he considers his rights in the
matter. On February IL his lawyers
will file petition asking permission
to intervene in the suit now pending
which was brought by George w.
Glover, of Lead, S. D., Mrs. Eddy's
son, and DR.. E. ]. Foster-Eddy of
Waterbury, vt.
In this suit the claim is made that
the portion of Mrs. Eddy's will leav-
ing the residue of her estate to the
Christian Science church of Boston,
is invalid.
Las Vegas optic., 1911-02-08
TRAIL MARKERS TO
Be SET UP SOON
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TAKE
ACTION LOOKING TO THEIR
PROPER PLACING

Yesterday the county commission
ers before adjourning their regular
monthly meeting, decided upon hav-
ing the stone markers for the Santa
Fe trail set in the designated places
as soon as the weather conditions
will permit. The markers, which
were presented to the county by the
Daughters of the American Revoiu-
ton, arrived here some time ago.
They are of granite and are hand
some and permanent monuments
that will assist materially in preserv.
ing the outlines of the old trail. The
locations for the markers, which were
decided upon some time ago, are as
follows: The hill between Las We
gas and Watrous; the Plaza, Old
Town; Bernal; San Jose, Kosloski
The latter place is historic old
post near Rowe. The Gallinas bridge
is, perhaps, the handsomest monu-
ment on the trail, which is being
marked by the Daughters of the Rev
olution throughout Kansas, Colorado
and New Mexico.
Las Vegas optic., 1911-02-08
APPEAL FOR RELIEF
OF FAMINE VICTIMS
AMERICAN RED CROSS SOCIETY
TO SEND FOOD AND CLOTH
ING TO CHINA

Washington, Feb. 8.-To carry out
the intent of congress and furnish a
cargo for an army transport which
has been authorized to carry sup
plies from this country to China for
the relief of the sufferers in the ter.
rible famine now prevailing there,
the American Red Cross Society has
issued a stirring appeal to the pub
lie for contributions Flour, rice
wheat, dried fish and meat are the
most suitable foods to forward. CheaJ
cotton cloth and cotton for quilted
garments will also be acceptable. The
supplies should be forwarded to the
Seattle Commercial club and money
contributions to the Red Cross in
this city.
Las Vegas optic., 1911-02-08
ARIZONA HOLDS ITS
ELECTION TOMORROW
GENERALLY BELIEVED SISTER
TERRITORY Will RATIFY FREAK
CONSTITUTION

Phoenix, Ariz., Feb. S.-Today
closes the campaign for and against
the ratification of Arizena's constitu
tion. The election will be held to,
morrow and it is generally believed
that the constitution will be ratified.
Opposition to it's ratification, which
has been chiefly carried on by repub-
lican newspapers, is based upon those
clauses embodying the initiative, ref
erendum and recall. The provision
for the recall of all judicial officers
has been vigorously attacked.
Las Vegas optic., 1911-02-08
owes HIS DEFEAT TO WOMEN
TWENTY THOUSAND BALLOTS
CAST BY MEMBERS OF FAIR
SEX AGAINST HIM
1T MEANS AN end OF VICE
GEORGE w. DlLLING, NEW EXEC
UTivE, KNOWN AS PUBLIC
WELFARE CANDIDATE

Seattle, Wash, Feb. S.-Complett
returns from yesterdays recall elec
tion show that Mayor Hiram c. Gill
who was charged with being connect
ed with an organized vice syndicate
which levied toll on gambling and the
tenderloin, show he was ousted from
Office by a majority of about 5000. OF
71,OOO ballots cast, 10000 were by
women, and large majority of these
voted for the recall of Mayor Gill
Mayor-elect George w. Dilling will
take office on Saturday.
Gill was elected mayor last March.
Plans to recall him were begun last
October. The petition for that DUR
pose, which was circulated declared.
in brief, that Mayor Gill had shown
himself incompetent and unfit; that
he had abused the appointive power
by selecting, for personal and polit-
ical reasons, men personally unfit for
office; that he had wholly neglected
to enforce the criminal laws; that
he had permitted Seattle to become
a home and refuge for the criminal
classes; that his continuance in Of
flee was menace to the business
enterprise and morality of the city.
When Gill was nominated for may
or he was president of the council.
His business outside the council was
that of lawyer. Much of his prac-
tice was among the disorderly ele-
ments of the city. 1t was common
practice for him to leave a meeting
of the council to go to the aid of
one Of his clients who had been
Las Vegas optic., 1911-02-08
GAME KEEPER ExoNERArEp

San Francisco, Feb. S-Simultane-
ously the two hearings growing out of
the shooting of Gustav Postler in the
Saratoga clubs gambling place on
January 27, when, driven desperate by
his losses he attempted to regain some
of the money at the point of revol-
yer, ended last night in deciding that
no one was to blame. The coroner's
jury after an Unprecedented long
wrangle of four hours, voted seven for
the suicide theory and six for justifi-
able homicide on the plea Of Edward
Kripp. keeper OF the place, that he
shot in self defense. Before the police
commission Chief Seymour charged
the down town squad with neglect Of
duty in not reporting that gambling
was going on contrary to law, but the
commission. bz = tie vote. dismissed
the eharse