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Arizona republican., 1911-07-04
There is Nowhere Promise
Of Early Relief
WIDE SPREAD DEATH
At Many Points Records
for the Season and in
Other Places for all Time
Were Broken Between
Rockies and Atlantic.

Washington. July 3-A Fourth OF
July more oppressive and sweltering
than any for a decade is the prophesy
made by the weather bureau officials
tonight after a careful study of the
weather maps. With reports of lO4
degrees Of temperature in four wide
ly separated cities together with a
score of other cities broiling in a
temperature OF 100 or higher no hope
for relief could be discovered. No
Indications Of rain are anywhere
To be seen.
The heat is taking a heavy toll of
death, according to reports and the
suffering Is increased by a drought
that practically has been unbroken
except in the south Atlantic and
east gulf states where the tempera-
lures are moderate At the weather
bureau here the mercury reached
SO at ? o'clock, while two hours
later the bureau thermometer on
the street level showed a thermometer
of 107. There We're two fatalities.
Nineteen persons were overcome and
received treatment in hospitals.
Louisville, KY, st. Joseph, Mo,
Davenport, Ia, Yuma, Arizona We're
the four cities in which the I04 mark
was reached. Boston attained a re-
cord of 102, the highest ever reached.
like temperature being also recorded
in Albany. N Y, Kansas City, Colum-
bus, Ohio. Parkersburg, w. Va, Con-
cordia, Has-. Dubuque, Ia, Des
NJ 'incs and Fresno.
Fer the inst time in it's history.
Hartford. Cr;.n.. scored 100. that Sc
cord being equalled at TT Wayne.
ind, Cincinnati. Ohio. Springfield, Ill,
Harrisburg, Pa, Chicago, StLouis, In
iii -napOlis. I"tedo, O., Oklahoma City.
Omaha ard | nrt Smith, Ark Rock
life, Ontario which yesterday aeld
She record witE los, dropped to sc,
along with New York. Philadelphia,
Mortified, VT, Pts Jurg, Pa, Lsnch-
burg, Va, Wichita, Kas. and Grand
Eap:hs. A.I;n Even NJ ntreai aud
Quebec theImc meters registered 81
and Father Point, at the mouth of
the St Lawrence river registered 81
Arizona republican., 1911-07-04

day. Tonight the local weather fore
caster is unable to promise any i'm
mediate refief. In many cities in this
territory today the mercury hovered
for hours above the hundred mark.
At Hiawatha, Junction City and
lola, Kansas, the maximum tenn
perature was 10. Other high marks
in Kansas were: Independence, 105;
Emporia and Topeka, 1O4 Ellens-
worth, 101l3; Abilene and Wichita
80.
Joplin, Mo, experienced it's hottest
day of the year, the maximum tenn
perature being 107. At Sedalia II
was 103. This was also Kansas
City's hottest day this year. the mark
being 1922. Four persons were pros
trated here.
Arizona republican., 1911-07-04
ACTING PRESIDENT.
Mr.. Hitchcock Only Member of Ad-
r1inistration on the Job.

Washington. July 3.-Postmaster
General Hitchcock will hold down
the governments tomorrow. Presi-
dent Taft being away on his Indiana
trip and the other members of the
cabinet spending the fourth out OF
the capitol.
Arizona republican., 1911-07-04
PANAMA BOND PROCEEDS.
One Third Already Paid Into the
Treasury.

Washington, July 3.-Proceeds from
the sale of the new Panama per
cent bonds are beginning to come
into the federal treasury. about S1S,-
000.0 to be realized having been
paid in today. Bond dealers and
financial houses which took large
blocks of the issue are splitting them
up and delivering them to small in
VeStorc
Arizona republican., 1911-07-04
cLEvELANO's MAXIMUM.

Cleveland, O., July 3-Ihls dIItTHUUI
near O'Clock the maximum weather
bureau temperature was "a. While IN
the kiosk on the public square tenn
perature of 104 was registered AT :
n m the kiosk temperature was 1O2,
several prostrations being reported.
Arizona republican., 1911-07-04
Will PRAY EOR RAIN.

Davenport, Ia. July S.-Bishop Jas.
Davis of the Catholic diocese of Daven-
port has decided to send on order to
all priests of the diocese that prayers
for rain be recited daily in all Roman
Catholic churches until the drought is
broken. The mercury here today reach
ed 103, the highest in ten years.
Arizona republican., 1911-07-04
WAPPENSTEIN CONVICTED.
Former Grating Chief of Police of
Seattle

Seattle, Wash, July 3-Formcr Chief
of Police Charles w. Wappenstein was
found guilty tonight of having accepted
a bribe of $1,000 last August for per-
mitting Gideon Tupper and Clarence ].
Gerald to operate disorderly houses in
the old King stareet vice district. The
jury was out seven and n half hours.
Arizona republican., 1911-07-04
MORE POSTAL BANKS.
Opposition of Banking Institutions
Disappearinu

Washington. July 3.-TOday there
was an addition of fifty more postal
saving repositories in thirty-two
states. Postmaster General Hitch
cock has noted with satisfaction that
the opposition of the banking insti-
tutions has almost disappeared
Application for authority to receive
postal funds are being received from
banks at the rate of about forty a
day.
Arizona republican., 1911-07-04
GERMANY FOR ARBITRATION.
Following Closely Upon Heels of Grea,
Britain.

Washington, ID. c., July 3.-That
Germany will not be far behind Great
Britain in her acceptatiOn of the
principle of the unrestricted arbitra-
ton of all issues, including those of
national honor is regarded here as
practically certain in view of recent
developments.
When Count Won Bernstorff, the
German ambassador departs for Ber-
lin il is expected he will be charged
with new preesntment of the ques-
tion that will assure favorable con-
ssderatiOn.
Arizona republican., 1911-07-04
A BRITISH MILL.

London. July 3-At Wonderland in
White Chapel tonight. Blink. Nc
Closkey won on a foul in the third
round of a scheduled 20-round contest,
from Dixie Kid" the colored welter-
weight.
Arizona republican., 1911-07-04
ST. LOUIS RECORD.

St Louis, July 3.-FOr nine hours
today the mercury climbed steadily
from 90 degrees until at p. m. the
official government reading was 100.
The governments street kiosk regis
tered 1O5 at the same hour. Eight
prostrations were reported.
Arizona republican., 1911-07-04
AT HIc DESTINATION

Indianapolis. Ind. July president
Taft arrived here at 1902 o'clock this
morning and was taken in a motor car
to the home of former vice president,
Charles w. Fairbanks, where he is to
be a guest during his stay in Indianap-
oils
Arizona republican., 1911-07-04
A THOUSAND OVERCOME.

New York. July 3.-At mIuHIsHV'
with the mercury still above so. the
list of prostrations reported in New
York and its environments swelled To
more than 200. Statisticians in some
of the newspaper offices figured that
a thousand had been overcome. me
deaths were reported as numbering
four
Arizona republican., 1911-07-04
NO JUDGE OF CANDY.

Chicago. Ills. July 3.-Mistaking an
ornate Fourth Of July torpedo for a
piece Of candy. Simon Fisher. 46 years
old. began chewing it. The ensuing
explosion blew away his jaw. inflict-
ing n probably fatal wound
Arizona republican., 1911-07-04
THE DEAD OF PITTseURe.

Pittsburg. Pa, July 3-up TO lo
clock twelve deaths had been reported
for the day. One woman was found
wandering through the streets in de-
mented condition.
Arizona republican., 1911-07-04
FIGHT DEATHS AT NEWARK, N. J.

Newark. y. J., July 3-The oiilclal
thermometer stood at l03 this after
noon while those on the street register
ed III degrees. Eight deaths and
scores of prostrations We're reported.
Arizona republican., 1911-07-04
AT CEDAR RAPIDS. IA.

Cedar Rapids. To-. July 3-The ther-
mometer reached 106 at o'clock.
Farmers say there is no hope for the
small grain. The potato crop Is also
said to be ruined.
Arizona republican., 1911-07-04
DEATH AT OKLAHOMA CITY.

Oklahoma City, July 3.-One death
was reported as the result of the
heat today The maximum tempera-
t1re recorded was 80 degrees.
Arizona republican., 1911-07-04
THERMOMETERS BROKEN.

Troy, y. Y. July 3-The thermometer
TODAY resigtered 1O3 degrees in the
shade and 12O i'm the sun. Several ther-
mometers exposed To the sun were
broken by the mercury.
nIDnINIa CIOvvING
Arizona republican., 1911-07-04
THE MISSOURI VALLEY.
Great Humidity Added to the Terfrors
of Heat.

Kansas City, July 3.-High tenn
peratures and great humidity were
general throughout the southeast to-
Arizona republican., 1911-07-04
a VIRGINIA SHOWING.

Norfolk. Va. July THE maximum
temperature was 102 here today.
Arizona republican., 1911-07-04

Second St, close in; corner lot;
$3.50. E. E. Pascoe, 110 North Center
street
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-12-29
Dogfsh.

A fisherman from Montauk Point
was telling his friends of catching a
huge dogfsh that had most abnor-
NAL skull The angler operated on his
ugly and worthless catch, and found
in the skull all that was left of a
once strong rubber band. Evidently
when that big dogfish was little some
angler who had rugged up for cod or
other bottom fish had caught the dog
around its gills and turned it loose,
expecting the tortured thing to die
That recalled the story of how some
fishermen not so gentle and humane
rs the ruling angler treat the poor
but pestiferous dogf1shes when they
are caught. Generally there is an
empty beer bottle handy. and this is
tightly eorked and tied to the tail of
the fish, which is thrown back into
the sea. 1t goes to the bottom, of
course, but the steady pull of that air
filed bottle finally proves too much
for its strength, and it comes wig
Cling UP, tail first, only to go down
again and repeat the performance I'M
til the wretched thing dies. Ere
quently, when there is no beer bottle
to be had, piece of wood will do just
as well, or just as i'll.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-12-29
Characters Commercial Value.

Character has commercial value
and sometimes men are honest ac-
cording to law solely because it is
polite, or polite, according to social
requirements because it pays. Bnt the
honesty and courtesy of such men
are not virtues. They are handmade
ems of covetousness. They contribute
nothing to self-respect They have
no moral content, and serve only to
aid in bolstering up vicious char
acteristic. However, it is a tribute
to the kingliness of character that,
either for its market value or be-
cause OF its inherent worth, men
clothe themselves in its appearance
when they 90 not seek the substance.
From "The Sixth Sense bs
Charles Fl. Brent.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-12-29
EIckNAMEs ON The OCEAN
Tradition Governs Them Among
American and English Sailors
and They Never Alter.


In the American and English navies
as well as in the merchant marines,
are found nicknames that have been
in use since before men dreamed that
there was land on the other side OF
the western ocean Tradition, most
infiexible of all rules, governs them,
and they never alter. whether the strip
clears from the Golden Gate or from
London Docks. Some OF the nick.
names are Of obvious origin; others
seem to gain force by their apparent
lack Of reason.
For instance. why should ali men
named Wright be called Sinner
Clark is invariably "Nobby"; Green is
Jimmy; and a White is a Knock
err" "Spud" Murphy explains itself,
as does Dusty" Miller. Lofty and
"Shorty" do not need to present cards
to their mates when they sign on,
and 1t is not worth while for the
brunette sailor to resent it when a
friendly chap halls him as "Nigger''---
he can't whip the entire crew, one
after the other.
The rigid forms OF the quarterdeck
do not hold during the watch below,
and the captain is the Skipper and
the first lieutenant is Familiarity
Jimmy the One" On fighting ships
the gunnery lieutenant is "Gunnery
Jack" or more briefly Guns; the
torpedo lieutenant, Torpedo Jack" or
Sparks and the navigating officer,
The Navy"
Even landlubber would know that
Tommy Pipes" was the boatswain
"Chips" the carpenter, Jimmy Bungs'
the cooper, and sails" the sailmak
er.-The Sunday Magazine.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-12-29
SMOKING BY THE SMALL BOY
How the Question Was Smoothly and
Easily Settled by One Wise
Father.

The question of smoking came up
early in our family. Lawrence has al.
ways been greatly attracted by what
he considers manly accomplishments.
II he had been brought up in Puri-
tan atmosphere, he would have sown
an abundant crop of wild oats-so
great to him is the glamour of the
forbidden thing. If it savors of fash.
ion or luxury, it becomes almost il.
resistible.
He was only fourteen when we no.
ticed a suggestion of cigarette smoke
about him.
Have you been smoking, my
boy?' his father asked in a tone I'M
suggestive of rebHke. Lawrence adj
mitted that he had. I should be sorry
if it stopped your growth or injured
your heart, so that you could not go
in for athletics at college, his father
went on in casual tone. I would
rather you did not, If you do care
very much about it. ] will give each
OF you boys 500 If you will not smoke
until you are twenty-one Think it
over for few days. If you decide
that you prefer to smoke, and If, after
you have had talk with the doctor,
you are not afraid of what it may do
to you, your mother will find a place
for you to smoke.
"A few words from our doctor treat
ing the matter from a scientific point
of view, helped Lawrence to decide
that he would take the $780, The
other boys decided as he did; this
ended it."--Woman's Home Com
panion.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-12-29

tomary speed, Daylight paid them
their wages in advance and arranged
the purchase Of the supplies. though he
emptied his sack In doing SO. He was
leaving the Sourdough. when he sud
denly turned back to the bar from the
door,
Got another hunch?" was the
query.
81 sure have" he answered.
"Flour's sure going to be worth what
"a man will pay for 1t this winter up
on the Klondike. Who'll lend me
some money!
On the instant score of the men
who had declined to accompany him
on the wiId-goose chase were crowd
ing about him with proffered gold
sacks.
How much -four do you want?"
asked the Alaska Commercial Com
pany's storekeeper.
About two ton"
The proffered gold-sacks were not
withdrawn, though their owners were
guilty Of an outrageous burst of merri-
ment
What are you going to do with two
tons2" the storekeeper demanded.
I'm tell you-all In. simple A, b, G
and one. two. three" Daylight held
up one finger and began checking off.
"Hunch number one: big strike com
ihg in Upper Country. Hunch number
two: Carmack's made it. Hunch num-
Der three: amt no bunch at all. It's
cfnch. If one and two is right, then
-four just has to go sky-high. If I'm
riding lunches one and two, just got
to ride this cinch. which is number
three If I'm right. -four II balance
gold on the scales this winter"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-12-29

Forty Mile and Circle City. The few
that possessed sufficient faith to re-
main were busy building log cabins
against the coming of winter. Car
mack and his Indian relatives we're oc-
cdpied in building sluice box and
getting head of water. The work
was slow. for they had to saw their
lumber by hand from the standing for
est But farther down Bonanza were
four men who had drifted in from up
river, Dan McGilyary. Dave Mckay.
Dave Edwards, and Harry Waugh.
They were a quiet party. neither ask.
Ing nor giving condolences. aud they
herded by themselves. But Daylight.
who had panned the spotted rim OF
Carmack's claim and shaken coarse
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-12-29

moment and thought long thoughts.
Then he finished the washing, and
weighed the result in his scales. At
the rate of sixteen dollars to the ounce
the pan had contained seven hundred
and odd dollars. 1t was beyond any.
thing that even he had dreamed His
fondest anticipations had gone no
farther than twenty or thirty thousand
dollars to claim; but here were
claims worth half million each at the
least, even if they were spotted.
He did not go back to work in the
shaft that day nor the next, nor the
next. Instead, capped and mittened, a
light stampeding outfit, including his
rabbit skin robe. strapped on his back,
he was out and away on many-days'
tramp over creeks and divides, In
specting the whole neighboring terri
tory. On each creek he was entitled
to locate one claim, but he was
chary in thus surrendering up his
chances. On bunker Greek only
did he stake a claim. Bonanza
Creek he found staked from mouth to
source. while every little draw and
pup and gulch that drained into it was
likewise staked. Little faith was had
In these side-streams. They had been
staked by the hundreds of men who
had failed to get in on Bonanza The
most popular of these creeks was
Adams. The one least fancied was
Eldorado. which flowed into Bonanza.
.1ct Oh no IL lot,
Even Daylight disliked the looks OF Ell
dorado; but. still riding his bunch, he
bought half share In one claim on it
for half sack of -four A month
later he paid eight hundred dollars for
the adjoining claim. Three months
later. charging this block of property,
he paid forty thousand for third
claim, and though 1t was concealed
in the future. he was destined, not
long after, to pay one hundred and
fifty thousand for a fourth claim on
the creek that had been the least liked
OF all the creeks.
In the meantime, and from the day
he washed seven hundred dollars from
a single pan, and squatted over it and
thought a long thought, he never again
touched hand to pick and shovel. AS
he said to Joe Ladue the night of that
wonderful washing:
Joe, amt never going to work
hard again. Here's where | begin to
use my brains. I'm going to farm gold.
Gold win grow gold If you-all have
the savvee and can get hold of some
for seed. When seen them seven
hundred dollars in the bottom of the
pan, knew ! had seed at last.
The hero of the Yukon in the
younger days before the Carmack
strike. Burning Daylight now became
the hero of the strike. The story Of
his bunch and how he rode It was
told up and down the land. Certainly
be had ridden Il far and away beyond
the boldest, for no Ave of the luckiest
held the value in claims that he held.
And. furthermore. he was still riding
the hunct. and with no elimination OF
daring.
eTO BE coNTINIJE<,
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-12-29

| gold from the grass-roots, and who
had PANIED the rim at hundred 9TH
| er places up and down the length OF
| the creek and found nothing. was cu-
rious to know what lay on bedrock.
He had noted the four quiet men sink.
! Ing a shaft close by the stream, and
he had heard their whip-saw going as
| they made lumber for the sluice boxes.
| He did not wait for an invitation, but
| he was present the first day they
sluiced. And at the end of FIVE hours
| shoveling for one man, he saw them
take out thirteen ounces and half Of
gold. 1t was coarse gold, running from
pinheads to a twelve-dollar nugget,
and 1t had come from off bedrock.
The first fall snow was flying that day,
and the Arctic winter was closing
down; but Daylight had no eyes for
the bleak-gray sadness of the dying.
| short-lived summer. He saw his Wis
| ion coming true, and on the big fat
was upreared anew his golden city Of
the SHOWS Gold had been found on
bedrock. That was the big thing.
Carmack's strike was assured Day
| light staked a claim In his own name
adjoining three he had purchased with
plug tobacco. This gave him block
two thousand feet long and extending
In width from rim-rock to rim-rock.
Returning that night to his camp at
the mouth of Klondike. he found in 1t
Kama. the Indian chief he had left at
| Dyea Kama was travelling by ca
noe, bringing In the last mail of the
year. In his possession was some two
hundred dollars in gold-dust, which
Daylight Immediately borrowed In
return, he arranged to stake a claim
for him, which he was to record when
/ he passed through Forty Mile. When
Kama departed next morning. he car
| ried number of letters for Daylight.
/ addressed TO all the old-timers down
| river, in which they were urged to
come up Immediately and stake. Also
Kama carried letters of similar import.
given him by the other men on 30.
nanza
TT will sure be the gosh-dangdest
stampede that ever was, Daylight
chIckled, as he tried to vision the ex-
cited populations of Forty Mile and
Circle City tumbling into poling-boats
and racing the hundreds of miles up
the Yukon: for he knew that his word
would be unquestioningly accepted.
One day In December Daylight filed
pan from bedrock on his own claim
and carried it into his cabin. Here a
fire burned and enabled him to keep
water unfrozen in a canvas tank. He
squatted over the tank and began to
wash. Earth and gravel seemed to an
the pan. AS he impaired to 1t a cir
cnlar movement. the lighter, coarser
PARTICLES washed out over the edge.
At times he combed the surface with
his fingers, raking out handfuls OF
gravel The contents of the pan di.
minished At is drew near to the
bottom. for the purpose of fieeting and
tentative examination, he gave the
pan a sudden sloshing movement,
emptyins 1t of water. And the waole
bottom showed as If covered with but.
ter Thus the yellow gold flashed
up as the muddy water was filtered
away. It was gold-gold-dust, coarse
gold. nuggets, large nuggets. He was
all alone. lie set the pan down for a
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-12-29

A month passed by. and bonanza
Creek remained quiet. A sprinkling
of men had staked; but most of them.
after stalking. had gone on down to
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-12-29
SYNOPSIS.

Elan Harnlsh, known all through Alas
ka as Burning Daylight" celebrates his
30til birthday with a crowd of miners at
10 heavy gambling In which over 100000
is staked Harnish loses his money and
his mine but wins the mall contract. He
starts on his mail trip with dogs and
sicdge, telling his friends that he will be
In the big Yukon gold strike at the start
burning Daylight makes a sensationaliy
rapid run across country with the mail,
appears at the Tivoli and Is now ready
10 Join his friends In a dash to the new
gold fields.