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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-01-03
VIM. S. DEvER NAMED.
Succeeds Late Thomas J. Navin On
State Central Committee.

LANSING, Mich, Jan. 2.-Wm. s..
Dever has been appointed TO succeed
Thomas j. Navin as Wayne county
member on the state central commit
tee.
He has long been prominent in
politics. once ran for sheriff and is
now chief deputy In City Clerk
Nichols Office in Detroit.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-01-03
H. L. SWIFT CONVICTED.
Boy Made Charge Against Head OF
Beulah Home at Boyne City.


BOYNE CITY, Mich, Jan. 2.--The
jury brought in a verdict OF guilty
against Herman l.. Swift manager OF
the Beulah land farm He was charged
with mistreating a boy inmate.
The case upon which Swift was con-
victed was that OF Merrill Griffin. a
Grand Rapids boy. formerly an inmate
Of the home The defendant will try
TO get an appeal.
Much interest is manifested In the
case because Swift holds the title of
the Beulah Land Commonwealth
property and also all the moneys
which have been donated 10 further
the work OF reforming the waits who
are sent TAere The property is a
valuable one and Swift claims sole
ownership TO It, He will be sentenced
Tuesday
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ADVICE TO INVESTORS
BY FINANCE"


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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-01-03
IRON BLOSSOM
RISKY PROPOSITION


your be
wills up holdings chances
especially the
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Is htte
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-01-03

In my opinion. Iron Blossom is
rather risky. There has been no sde
qL ate showing or ore in sight, and il
is general opinion that there is moi
very much ahead That is the reason
why the price is so low In comparison
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-01-03

am not favorably impressed with
the prospects OF the Standard Cement
& Lime Co. and unless you are offered
exceptionally goou terms. | must ad-
wise against any investment in the
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-01-03

Bob Printing Done Right. Times
Printing Co., No. Is John X. st Call
Main 1875 or City 33ss.
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Busin ess-iike Printing. No fuss and
no feathers The plain, neat kind that
looks right. Times Printing CO., Is
John Il st. Main i9s or city 1888.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-01-03

E. w. Doty, of the Manufacturers
Appraisal Co., of Cleveland. will b.
the speaker at the next monthly din
ner OF the Real Estate board. He
will talk on Valuation of real estate
for taxation purposes" The meet
ing will be held in the Cadillac hotel
Thursday, Jan. 5.
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PERSONAL

peedinr advice, friendship or help.
write or call on s. c. MARGARET
DUFFY. ssS Forrest west. Salvatioo
Army.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-12-21
How Sir william Hankford 500 Years
Ago Evaded Law Against Com
hitting Suicide.

Suicides often adopt ingenious
methods, but the art of the felo de Sc
seems not TO have advanced material.
ly during the centuries. The modern
case of heavily insured broker who
on a feigned hunting trip stood bare
legged in a quagmire for hours and
wilfully contracted fatal pneumonia
is matched In cleverness by one 500
years old.
The following facts are we'll -ouched
for, and indeed were never ques
toned, says the Green Bag. Sir VIII
liam Hankford. Judge of the kings
bench In the reigns Of Edward Ill,
Henry Nv, Henry v and Henry vi,
and at the time Of his death chief
justice Of England. was a man OF
melancholy temperament
He seems to have contemplated
suicide the greater part of his long
life and during his later years the
idea became a fixed purpose. The
act was of peculiarly serious conse
quences In those days for the reason
that the law treated 1t as capital
crime. The offender was buried al
the cross roads. with stake driven
through his body. and all his goods
and property were forfeited to the
crown. ia the utter ruin of his family
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-12-21

lightly joyous, while at the same time
1t had lacked its old-time robustness,
Not that she had been grave or sub
dued. On the contrary, she had been
SO patiently content, so filled with
peace She had fooled him, fool that
he was. He had even thought that
night that her feeling for him had
passed. and he had taken delight in
the thought. and caught visions OF the
satisfying future friendship that would
be theirs with this perturbing love
out OF the way
And then, when he stood at the
door, cap in hand, and said good night
1t had struck him at the time as a
funny and embarrassing thing, her
bending over his hand and kissing it.
He had felt like fool, but he shivered
now when he looked back on it and
felt again the touch OF her lips on his
hand She was saying good-by. an
eternal good-by. and he had never
guessed. At that very moment. and
for all the moments of the evening
coolly and deliberately, as he well
knew her way, she had been resolved
to die. II he had only known It! I'm
touched by the contagious maiady
himself. nevertheless he would have
married her II he had had the slight
est mixing OF what she contemplated
And yet he knew. furthermore. tina,
hers was a certain stiff-kneed pride
that would not have permitted her tc
accept marriage as an act of philan
thropy. There had really been no saw
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-12-21

And, gazing down on the smoky In
ferno OF crude effort. Daylight outlined
the new game he would play, game
In which the Guggenhammers and the
rest would have to reckon with him.
But along with the delight in the new
conception came a WEAKNESS. He was
tired of the long Arctic years, and he
was curious about the Outside-the
great world OF which he had heard
as ignorant as a child There were
games out there to play, 1t was a
larger table and there was no reason
why he with his millions should not
sit In and take hand. So 1t was.
that afternoon on Skookum Hill, that
he resolved to play this last best Kion.
dixie hand and pull for the Outside. 1t
took time, however. He put trusted
agents to work on the heels OF great
experts, and on the creeks where they
began to buy he likewise bought
Wherever they tried to corner a
worked-out creek. they found him
standing in the way, owning blocks OF
claims or artfully scattered claims
that put all their plans to naught
Followed wars, truces. compromises,
victories, and defeats BY 1898. sixty
thousand men were on the Klondike.
and all their fortunes and affairs
rocked back and forth and were af-
fected by the battles Daylight fought.
And more and more the taste for the
larger game urged in Daylight's mouth.
Here he was already locked in crap
pies with the great Guggenhammers,
and winning. fiercely winning. Pos.
sibly the severest struggle was waged
on Ophir. the veriest OF moose-pas.
lures, whose low-grade dirt was valu'
ale only because OF its vastness. The
ownership of block OF seven claims
In the heart of 1t gave Daylight his
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-12-21
Flushing Ewes.

The practice of flushing" ewes Is
good one, according to Prof. w. j.
Kennedy of the Iowa agricultural ex-
pertinent station. BY flushing is
meant the practice Of putting ewes on
highly nutritious and very paiatable
ration for about three weeks previous
to the time Of mating In order that
they may be gaining rapidly in fosh
at the time Of breeding.
Flushed ewes not only produce
more twin lambs" says. Professor
Kennedy. but are more likely to
breed. Some say twins are not desir-
able. Experiments show that ewes
sucking twins do not lose any more
flesh than those with one lamb, and
that twins make as rapid gains as
singles. This IL an easy way to dou-
BILE profits Of the breeding flock.
"In winter a variety Of feed should
be furnished ewes for flushing For
roughage. clover, alfalfa, or COW pea
hay. along with sone we'll cured fod-
der or corn stover and small allow
ance of either roots or corn silage
will give good results. OF silage,
from two to three pounds per head
per day Is enough. For concentrates
variety OF feeds may be used Corn
should never form more than one
third Of the grain ration. Oats. wheat.
bran. peas and oilmeal are all useful
feeds Breeding ewes should be kept
in good condition and given an abun-
dance of exercise.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-12-21
CHAPTER v.-contlnued.

Back In Dawson. though he remained
true to his word and never touched
hand to pick and shovel he worked as
hard as ever in his life He had
thousand irons In the fire, and they
kept him busy Heavy as were his
expenses, he won more heavily. He
took lays, bought half shares, shared
with the men he grub-staked, and made
personal locations. Day and night his
dogs were ready, and he owned the
fastest teams; so that when a STAN
pede to a new discovery was on. 1t was
Burning Daylight to the fore through
the longest. coolest nights till he
blazed his stakes next to Discovery.
In one way or another Ito say nothing
of the many worthless creeks) he
came into possession of properties on
the good creeks, such as Sulphur. Do
minion. Excelsis. Siwash, Cristo. Al
hambra. and Doolittle. The thousands
he poured out flowed back In tens Of
thousands.
Dawson grew rapidly that winter Of
1896. Money poured in on Daylight
from the sale of town lots. He prompt
ly invested 1t where 1t would gather
more. In fact, he played the danger
Gus game of pyramiding, and no more
perilous pyramiding than In placer
camp could be imagined. But he
played with his eyes wide open.
Corner lots In desirable locations
sold that winter for from ten to thirty
thousand dollars. Daylight sent word
out over the trails and passes for the
newcomers to bring down log-rafts,
and. as result, the summer of 1897
saw his saw mills working day and
night, on three shifts, and still he had
logs left over with which to build
cabins. These cabins, land included,
sold at from one to several thousand
dollars. Two-story log buildings, in
the business part of town, brought him
from forty to fifty thousand dollars
apiece. These fresh accretions of cap
ital were Immediately invested In 9th
er ventures. He turned gold over and
over. until everything that he touched
seemed to turn to gold.
With the summer rush from the Out
side came special correspondents for
the big newspapers and magazines,
and one and all. using unlimited space,
they wrote Daylight up: so that. SO far
as the world was concerned, Daylight
doomed the largest figure in Alaska. OF
course, after several months, the
world became interested in the Span
ish War, and forgot all about him; but
in the Klondike itself Daylight still re-
NAMED the most prominent figure.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-12-21

In this four months, the pasture and
other feeding put pork on the ribs of
the shoats to the amount of 1895
pounds, worth six cents pound, or a
total of $91.56. The pasture also pro-
duced one cutting Of one and one-half
tons of hay, worth $14 ton or total
of $21 The total return from the
9 acre patch was $112.56. The net re-
turn, after deducting the cost of corn
and meat meal fed to the shoats, was
$3.50.
There is no question about the
value of alfalfa to the hog grower"
said Mr.. Evvard recently. 1--WE know it
pays from this and other experiences,
and the Iowa hog grower ought to
know that. We tried sweet clover this
year also In a similar experiment. 1t
brought practically $40 per acre. We
have demonstrated that for the first
years growth sweet clover makes
about as profitable pasturage as the
last crop Of medium red clover"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-12-21

grip. and they could not come to terms.
The Guggenhammer experts conclud-
ed that It was too big for him to
handle. and when they gave him an
ultimatum to that effect he accepted
and bought them out. The plan was
his own, but he sent down to the
States for competent engineers to car
ry 1t out In the Rinkabilly water
shed. eighty miles away. he built his
reservoir. and for eighty miles the
huge wooden conduit carried the wa
ter across country to Ophir. Esti-
mated at three millions, the reservoir
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-12-21

Alfalfa pasture for hogs pays.
1t pays sometimes at the rate Of
nearly $50 per acre.
Alfalfa pasturage paid that well in
an experiment in hog feeding conduct
ed by the Iowa agricultural expert
ment station at the state college dur
ing the past season of drought John
Evvard, the station experimentalist in
animal husbandry, put Is shoats upon
o Of an acre of alfalfa last May 10. He
took them off September 16. In that
time that piece of pasturage produced
enough hay and pork to give net re-
turn of $3.50, which is at the rate Of
1878 per acre.
While they were on this alfalfa pas
ture. the Is shoats were fed total of
1870 pounds Of corn, costing practi-
cally $50. and 220 pounds of meat
meal, costing $3.50. For additional
feed, therefore, the cost in this four
months was $34.50.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-12-21
CHAPTER VI.

II was held by the thousands OF
hero worshipping chechaquos that Day.
light was a man absolutely without
fear. But BEETLES and Dan Macdonald
and other sourdoughs shook their
heads and laughed as they mentioned
women And they we're right. He had
always been afraid of them from the
time. himself q Lad Of seventeen. when
Queen Anne. Of Juneau. made open
and ridiculous love to him. For that
matter. he never had known women.
Born in q mining-camp where they
were rare and mysterious. having no
sisters. his mother dying while he was
an infant, he had never been In con-
tact with them.
But It was left to the Virgin to give
him his final fright She was found
one morning dead in her cabin. A
shot through the head had done 1t,
and she had left no message, no ex-
PLANTATION. Then came the talk. Some
wit. voicing public opinion. called It a
case Of too much Daylight. She had
killed herself because Of him. Every
body knew this, and said SO. The cor.
respondents wrote 1t up. and once
more Burning Daylight, King of the
Klondike. was sensationally featured
in the Sunday supplements of the
United States. The Virgin had
Strengthened up, so the feature-stories
ran. and correctly so. Never had she
entered Dawson City dance-hall.
When she first arrived from Circle
City, she had earned her living by
washing clothes. Next. she had bought
a sewing.mach and made mems
drill parkas. fur caps, and moosehide
mittens. Then she had gone as a clerk
into the First Yukon Bank. All this,
and more, was known and told, though
one and all were agreed that Day.
light, while the cause, had been the
innocent cause Of her untimely end
And the worst OF 1t was that Day
light knew 1t was true. Always would
he remember that last night he had
seen her. He had thought nothing OF
II at the time; but, looking back, he
was haunted by every little thing that
had happened. In the light OF the
tragic event, he could understand
everything-her quietness, that calm
gertrude as If all vexing questions o.
living had been smoothed out anc
were gone. and that certain etherea
sweetness about all that she had sale
and done that had been almost mater
nal. He remembered the way she haC
looked at him, how she had Laughed
when he narrated Mickey Dolan's mis-
take in stalking the fraction on Shook
UNI Gulch. Her laughter had besl
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-12-21

ing her. after all The love-diseasa
had fastened upon her. and she had
been doomed from the first to perish
of 1t.
Six thousand spent the winter OF
1897 in Dawson, work on the creeks
went on apace. while beyond the pass.
es II was reported that one hundred
thousand more were waiting for the
spring. Late one brief afternoon. Day
light, on the benches between French
Hill and Shookum Hill, caught a wild
er vision of things. Beneath him lay
the richest part of Eldorado Creek.
while up and down Bonanza he could
see for miles. II was scene OF a
vast devastation. The hills. to their
tops, had been shorn of trees, and
their naked sides showed signs Of gor-
ing and perforating that even the
mantle Of snow could not hide. Be-
meath him, In every direction. were
the cabins OF men. But not many
men were visible. A blanket of smoke
filled the valleys and turned the gray
day to melancholy twilight Smoke
arose from a thousand holes In the
snow, where. deep down on bedrock,
in the frozen muck and gravel, men
crept and scratched and dug, and ever
built more fires to break the grip OF
the frost.
Organization was what was needed.
he decided; and his quick imagination
sketched Eldorado Creek. from mouth
to source. and from mountain top to
mountain top, in the hands OF one ca
pable management. Even steam-thaw-
ing, as yet untried. but bound to come.
he saw would be a makeshift. What
should be done was to hydraulic the
valley sides and benches, and then, on
the creek bottom, to use gold-dredges,
| There was the very chance for another
| big killing. He had wondered just
what was precisely the reason for the
| Guggenhammers and the big English
concerns sending in their high-salariec
| experts. That was their scheme. Thai
was why they had approached him fol
| the sale OF worked-out claims and tall
ings. They were content to let the
small mine-owners gopher out wha
they could. for there would be mil
lions in the leavings.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-12-21

Nothing will stir up interest in bet
ter horse breeding than a colt show
Where these exhibitions have been
conducted, notably at Madrid. Iowa,
the results in high class drafters has
been marked. That town, where a
colt show has been held for six years,
is the center of a territory that is said
to contain more and better grade draft
horses than any other similar terri
tory in the United States. The AMI
mails that are grown there are sought
after by buyers and they bring from
$25 to $50 per head more than horses
bought elsewhere. The whole coun-
try around Is alive to the fun and
profit In raising good live stock in
poor farmer who isn't in the game.
Iowa State College helped to promote
the Madrid show and others like 1t
and. 10 willing to help in the promo
ton of still others. Its animal hus-
bandry department will help outline
plans for organization and also fur
nish Judges.
The work of organising IL simple
The first step to BE taken 10 to bring
together the stallion owners and
pledge them TO the project. They
should agree among themselves to put
up enough money to pay for the cash
prizes. ribbons and Judging expense.
which need not be more than $50 for
the first show Then the business
men of the town should be enlisted to
put up merchandise prizes and to help
pay for the printing and advertising.
The stallion owners should get behind
the movement with their money. be-
cause II will stimulate interest In
their horses; the business men should
help, because a good colt show draws
hundreds of people to the town and
gives the farmers new interest In It's
business.
When the classes Of colts to be ex-
hibited have been agreed upon and
the premiums fixed. the advertising
should begin There ought to be no
tees in the weekly newspapers and
perhaps posters announcing the show,
but more important is the personal
advertising The country around the
town ought to be divided into districts
and a man sent into every district to
tell every farmer personally about the
show and solicit him to enter his best
colts The stallion owners might take
care of this work without charge.
No entrance fee should be charged.
The exhibition ought to be free In ev-
cry particular. The exhibit should be
in the open air. where all may see It
without price. Such course OF lib
crafty win make everybody feel good.
Care must be taken to select good
Judge for the show. A Judge may do
much to make q show or to mar It.
II he is competent and fair. the exhi.
bitors will go away satisfied espe-
cially II he explains briefly his reasons
for his placings after each class Is
placed. II he Is incompetent and un-
fair. the show is likely to get a black
| eye. Care must be taken also to run
the show through promptly. without
delays. Have 1t start on time. Let
tartful and competent men, who are
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-12-21
As IT SOMETIMES HAPPENS.

The man at the corner Of the down
town alley was selling some kind OF
cement
It was worth rs cents a bottle. as
he explained to his hearers. but In or.
der to introduce 1t he was making q
special price Of one dime. good for this
particular occasion only. and be guar.
anteed satisfaction or money re-
funded.
"Will It mend broken china?" in
quired a lean. understood man in the
crowd.
1T will mend anything but broken
promise or a ruined character. Say.
my friend. here's a couple of sticks OF
wood. fastened together at the ends.
II you break them apart I'll make you
a present of a bottle"
Carelessly the understood man took
the Joined sticks in his hands.
Then he gave them sudden. VIC
lent wrench.
Blu they didn't break apart
II is saddening to have to spoil q
story In his manner. but sometimes,
in the interests OF historical accuracy.
It has to be done
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-12-21
He Planned His Own Death

Hankford made good use Of his
wits and succeeded in accomplishing
his purpose without mourning either
unpleasant penalty He gave open
instructions to his gamekeeper. who
had been troubled with poachers In
the deer preserve. to challenge all
trespassers in the future and to shoot
to kill II they would not stand and
give an account
One dark night he purposely
crossed the keepers path, and upon
challenge made motions Of resistance
and escape The faithful servant,
failing to recognize his master fol
lowed instruction to the letter. as
was expected of him. and Sir William
fell dead in his tracks The whole
truth OF the affair was common
knowledge. but It was impossible to
establish a case OF suicide by legal
proof. The servant was protected by
his instructions. Hankford hau non
orable burial and his estate passed
to those whose interests as heirs ne
had SO wisely considered.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-12-21
Trade Secrets,

There are two trade secrets at least
that the world at large may never
learn, but which IL is well worth the
while of inventors to study. One is
the Chinese method OF making the
bright and beautiful color known as
vermilion, or Chinese red; and the
other is Turkish secret-the inlay.
ing OF the hardest steel with gold and
silver.
Among the Chinese and the Turks
these two secrets are guarded well,
Apprentices, before they are taken
for either trade. must swear sacred
oath to reveal nothing OF what passes
in the workshop. TNese apprentices,
furthermore, must belong to families
OF standing, nut pay large sum by
way Of guarantee, and must furnish
certificates of good character and
honesty. These secrets have been
handed down faithfully from one gen
Grafton to another for hundreds Of
years.