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The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13
EDITORS IN BAD TROUBLE.

Because They Send Out Papers on
Credit in Violation of Postal Rules.
Postal Inspectors Drop Into News
paper Offices and Look Over Sub
s~criptiOn Books. Papers Must Cut
OF All Subscribers i'm Arrears or
They Run a Big Risk.
The following is from the Pub
fishers Auxiliary, a newspaper pub
lished for the newspaper people:
Special agents of the postofice de-
partment are travelling around the
country dropping into newspaper of
fees when least expected to examine
subscription lists, to ascertain if the
regulations requiring payment in ad-
vance is being observed. Several
newspapers have been in trouble, and
here is a story told by the Des Moines
Capitol.
editor Fay, of Lyons, Iowa, has
been called to Washington city be-
! cause his subscription list is not as
well paid up as the law requires. He
will have to tell the government Of
f1cials why he has not compelled his
! subscribers to pay up according to
the postal rules. It seems a little
tough that country editors have to
, be hauled up before the government
under the charge of violating the
Federal law just because they do not
eternally keep dunning their sub
scribers for the small sum they owe
on subscriptions, but it is like the
! endsof the world; no one knows when
it cometh and an editor knoweth not
what day the inspector may pop in
and ask to see his list, and if too
! poon- cIhcarihor6 ~ hnhind on tho
! paper. it means trouble with the gov
eminent. 1t puts the editor in such
q shape that he is compelled to force
his subscription unless he has an
unusual prompt paying list of sub
scribers."
The Bee, a newspaper published at
Jefferson, has been jerked up. This
is what the editor said about it:
"The Bee this morning received its
official summons from the post Of
fee department to conform the rul-
ing which requires the pay in ad-
vance. We can no longer send the
paper to delinquents, no matter how
willing we may be to accommodate
them. We sometimes question the
right of Uncle Sam to interfere in
the conduct of legitimate business and
say we shall not extend credit if we
want to, but whether right or wrong
we must conform to the regulation.
1t certainly will distress us great
ly to cut of good and long time pa
irons, who we know intend to pay,
but are. careless about the matter,
and if such want the Bee, we know
they will come to our assistance and
relieve us of the embarrassment.
cit is a very dangerous business
for a newspaper man to send papers
to subscribers who are in rrears.
ITO be deprived of second class
privileges, which is the penalty of
Noncompliance with the ruling, puts
a newspaper out of business for the
expense of putting a one cen stamp
on every paper mailed amounts to
more than the profits to say nothing
IT the increased amount of labor
which is required in afixing the
stamps"
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13
Searching For Pot of Gold.

Oxford, July 6.-Quite a good deal
of interested talk and speculation has
been aroused in Oxford and the sur
rounding country recently by the or
ganization of several rather UNIQUE
parties and the extent of their opera
lions has added something more than
local interest to their efforts. One of
these companies was organized to
search for $1,100 gold pots. The
members of this party, while some
what scattered, are all working in
concert and have bound themselves
under a most solemn agreement to
divide the pots equally regardless of
what the individual members dis
cover. The understanding is that if
there should happen to be a number
of these pots left over after making
the division among the members of
the party pro rata, instead of taking
the trouble to divide each vessel the
gold in them should be set aside to
advertise Elizabeth City and Hender-
sonville. =
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13
MR.. r. s. HARRIS PASSES.
One of COncOrd's Oldest and Most
Prominent Citizens Goes to His
Long ReWard-SerVed the COnfed-
oracV in tho Civil War.

Long ReWaf0-S6rV60 the COnIeu'
eracy in the Civil War.
Concord, July 6.-Mr. Richard Sad
Ter Harris, one of Concord's Oldest
and most prominent citizens, passed
away this morning at 9:3 O'Clock, at
ter an illness of long duration, at the
age of 76 years.
Mr.. Harris was born at the home
of his grandfather, Richard Sadler,
near Rock Hill, S. c., January 4, 1885.
He same to Concord when a mere lad
and grew up wit hthe town. When
war was declared between the States
he went to the front as second lieu
tenant of the "Cabarrus Black Boys"
one of the most famous commands in
the Confederate army, and and he
served the South CALAMITY through
out the for years struggle. When
peace Was declared Lieutenant Harris
returned % Concord and shortly af-
toward was selected sheriff of the
county, serving for eight years during
the seventies in that important ca
pacity.
The deceased is survived by a wild
ow, Mrs. Mary Harris, and seven chill
dren: Mr.. Wade H. Harris, editor
of The Charlotte Chronicle; Mrs. T. J.
Wilson of W~instOn-SaIem, Mrs. j. F.
Shinn of Norwood and Misses Rose,
Mary, Louise, Clar and Sarah Harris.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13
FIRST PULLMAN CONDUCTOR.
How First Sleeping Cars Were Made
and Operated,


Kansas City Journal.
It isn't generally known, but it is
a fact, nevertheless, that Col. J. L.
Barnes, for nearly a third of a CEN
fury superintendent of the Southern
Kansas division of the Santa Fe, was
the First Pullman conductor in the
world. While in a reminiscent mood
recently the colonel told of his
perience as the first Pullman con-
ductor.,
ranged with the Chicago and Alton
Railway for two of their day coaches
which he fitted up as sleeping cars.
Mr.. Pullman that time had an
Office on Madison street in Chicago.
l passed his Office going to and from
my boarding house, and on account
of a notice in the papers that Mr..
Pullman was going to put sleeping
cars on the Chicago and Alton, /
made application to him for a posi-
ton as conductor.
In September, 1853, he took me
% Bloomington to bring out the first
IT that he had ready for use. This
TAR, as I remember, was a low-deck
one and had been used for a long
lime as q passenger coach. 1t had
rods running up and down at the
end of each berth. The upper berth
was pulled up on the real side by a
rope and pulley and the front of the
berth slid up On these rods and was
fastened with an iron catch. The
lower berth was made out OF the two
seats turned together.
"As I nov remember, / was paid
81 a mist I'D made up my report
in Mr.. FallT ms office at the end OF
each re I'd rip, de- citing 81 from
my cole tics TOR my pay, I under
stood, OF OF trip int the man who
ran OPP ito. ne was short SO cents
of enough rooney to pay his own
wages.
I reTze~ well looking at one
or the cars : was then used on the
Woodruff IT. but raj very un-
popular on punt of the two upper
shelves, % y were actually only
shelves for pie to sleep on, Mr..
Pullman, using the two old
coaches = or more, commenced
the build~F a new car, which was
a very f"o re. The construction of
this al was : charge of a Mr.. Field.
At that timc ~. Pullman was in the
mining business near Black Hawk,
Col, and had not seer the car until
he was at Alton, coming home from
Colorado. I showed him the good
points about the car and I remember
well what he said: cit ought to be
good-it cost enough"
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13

News reached the Courier Office
Yesterday morningthat Mr.. S. H
Queen, of Addie, N. c., an old and
highly respected citizen of that
neighborhood, had been killed by an
Infatuated bull.
Mr.. and Mrs. Queen live alone,
their children all being married off,
and it is supposed that Mr.. Queen
had gone to the COW lot to tie the
animal, or in some way to arrange
for the safety of his wife who was to
do the milking. He was found in the
corner of the lot with his brains
knocked out.
y A small child narrowly escaped
death in like manner just a few
days prior to the untimely death of
MI. Queen.-WaynesviIle Courier.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13
Champ CIark's BOOmIet Launched b.
Bob Taylor.

SDartanburg, S. c.. July 5.-Senator
Robert L. Taylor of Tennessee spent
several hours here today on his way
to Washington. He came to the city
in an automobile from a gold mining
property in Polk county, North Caro-
lima. He and a party of friends had
been there since Saturday, as Senator
Taylor said, "eating chickens, onions.
beans and potatoes and resting up" !
Perhaps the most interesting thing
he said while speaking in a serious
vein was that he regarded as the
most available man for the Demo
cratic presidential nomination 'that
great mar of the people, Champ
Clark"
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13
Shot Wife and Self as Oficers Came

Farley, Ala, July while officers
were approaching to arrest him on a
trivial charge, Roy Morris, a farmer,
aged 25, shot his wife seven times,
killing her. He then turned the pistol
On himself putting two bullets into
his body dying instantly.
The couple had been separated for
some time and Morris had called on
his wife at her fathers home in an
effort to effect a recocilIiation.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-04-20
Game Laws Will Be Enforced
Way of the Wfu Transgressor to be Made Hard if the
Vigilant Officers Catch Him at 1t.

Roy Jones Of Gooding, state dep
uty game warden, was Richffeld
visitor the first of the week He is
placing the game licenses for the
ensuing year, and has designated H
2. Jones of the Recorder office to
handle the licenses for this section
of Lincoln county, The licenser are
now Eon sales 0Ofor the resident
fish and game license, for citizens
of Idaho only, emitting one to hunt
OF fish for all kinds of legal game;
the alien fishing license, $500, good
only for fishing; the alien or nom
resident bird-hunting license, $500,
good only for hunting birds; and the
nonresident or alien big-game IL
cense, $2500 good for hunting all
kinds of big game. None of the non
resident licenses cover other than
what is expressly named therein; a
big game license does not include a
premit to hunt birds or to fish. For
a nonresident who wants to go out
into the hills prepared to get any
thing that may be found in the way
Of fur, fin or feather, the state asks
the sum of $32. That is part of
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-04-20
Our Our [ Proud Position [
Idaho Near the Top In Number Of
Miles of New Railroad Construct
ed During 1910

ject and so little said about this rail
way project that this piece of in
formation comes with startling sig
nificance of the tremedous power of
the railway interests, when It's con-
sidered that one company alone has
expended more money than the fed
eraI government in its poasted under
taking which has challengde the ad-
miration of the world. In less than
four years this great transcontinen-
tai railway was constructed at
cash outlay of 100000. 900.
Other interesting statistics rela-
tive to Idaho railways is the fact
shown that in population per mile OF
railway Idaho exceeds Arizona. Col
orado, Montana, Nevada. New Mexi-
Utah and Wyoming. and Is a close
second to Kansas, which has a pop
ulation of 189 to the mile of rail-
road to Idahos 1874. Idaho is ac-
credited by the census with having
1862 miles of railroad lines. The
averag populaetion per mile OF rail-
way in the United Staets for 1910
was 383. Rhode Island has a popu-
lation of 1850 for each mile of rail-
road within that state and Massa
has 1602.---Capital News.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-04-20

Nichols, the fireman, was blown to
a great distance by = the explosion,
whereche lay stunned and unable to
tell just what had happened The
beneath the huge machine, and his
body was not released for several
hours after the wreck occurred.
rakeman H. A. Mcdaniels was so
badly scalded that he is reported to
be In a critical condition. He and
the injured fireman were taken by
special train to the hospital at Salt
called out from Pocatello and Glenns
Ferry, and it took almost whole
day to clear the track for traffic.
The engine was of the heaviest
type in use on the Short Line, and
weighed $50 tons.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-04-20

Idaho occupied rather a proud po
sition in a railway sense last year
according to statistics just avail
able Among all the states of the
union Idaho stood ourth during
1910 in thief mileage of new con-
struction, there having been built in
the state 276.71 miles of railway
track, as against 1866 in Texas,
1856 in Washington and 300.96 in
North Dakota. Other states COM
ing next in order were Minnesota
with 244.53 miles, Oregon with 244
miles, South Dakota with 205.58
miles and other states having from
191 miles in California down to moth
ing reported from Indiana, Mary
land, Nebraska, Ohio, Utah and YER
mont
Undoubtedly a large proportion of
this new construction was done b.
the Chicago, Milwaukee G. Puget
Sound railway, which by the way
has spent in the construction of it's
new line $40, 100000 more than the
government had expended in build
ing the Panama canal up to March
/, a year ago. So much has been
made Of the governments breat pro-
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-04-20

would be too many to count. But
outside of these conventional ideas.
he is real genius for finding new
things to say and do; and Boise
is a cleaner. better. healthier place
to live in since he started in on his
official labors The state has drawn
a real prize In securing his services.
for he is capable and fearless; and
he and James H.. Wallis. chief OF
to do some spectacular things to
the food adulterators and water-con-
taminators and short-weight sharps
and to the whole tribe of those who
deceive their fellow man. Long life
and more power to them.
Dr. M. w Smith of Wendell, rep
resentative from Lincoln county in
the recent legislature. ois TO De iiic
other state deputy. He: Is dent
ist,, but graduate of medical col
lege also, and has been close stu
dent of sanitation and foods. He is
a hustler from way back, a live one
all the time, and his medical exper-
ience will make him an invaluabl
member of the board. There ought
to be an instant raise in the average
quality of food products sold in
the state, when the new board and
the new law gets into action.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-04-20

That an orchard of 240o acres is
to be set out in one body, on the
Twin Falls tract, is not at all dis
quieting news for this section.
Not so very many years ago, 1t
was the rule for the few who own
ed orchards down in the Hagerman
valley to look on the fruit tree sell
er as a public calamity, if not an ac-
tual criminal Seeing one of these
persuasive personages driving away
from treeless neighbor' S place
with smile on his face, the orch
ardist would lament about like this,
There goes the fruit market, all
shot to pieces, and the poor house
right over the hill for me-" Some
Of toose early orchardIsts raised as
much as a couple hundred bushels
Of fruit every year, and they fer
vently believed that a dozen more
trees would ruin the market AS a
matter of feet. they will find it an
easier. and a far more profitable,
task to sell the product OF ten thous'
and acres OF orchard, than to ped
die the Indifferent yield from the
ordinary unkempt ten acre orchard.
Values go u only as there is enough
of any product and q reliable
enough supply. to establish and sup-'
ply the market. In face of the fact
that the country is today producing
only q little more than one-third as
many anplee as ten years 9 go tho.
the population is SO much larger,
and the general scale of living is so
much better, there is little reason
to fear that the orchards will pro-
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-04-20

the price people pay for not living
in idaho.
Warden. Jones says that a greater
effort Will be made this year to en-
force the gam claws than ever be-
fore. The sale of fish and game rs
to be made as hazardous as looking
down the muzzle of an "unloaded"
gun that always goes off and takes
a leg or a hand or a head with it.
The state is paying lot of money
to make and to preserve good fish
ing and hunting, on. the belief that
1t is a great state asset; and it is
duty to protect. the law-abiding
citizens in their legitimate pursuit
of the outdoor life and sport for
which they pay. 1t is made the du-
ty of all peace officers to enforce
the provisions of the fish and game
law as much as of any law, and it
is as criminal for an officer to con-
ceal or abet a violation of this law
as it is If he were partner in buI
glary, the. burning of house, or
deadly assault 1t is believed that
this theory of the law will work
real revolution in the enforcement
of game regulations.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-04-20
FINANCIER SAVED HIS LIFE.
Almost Invested 500 in Idaho, But
Restrained Himself In Time.

Henry Mapes this week received a
etter from vexed person in North
Dakota, who tells how he was saw
ed 500 by the report of hypo-
-chondriacal person who came back
to him and persuaded him on his
life to not invest in Idaho land.
This long-faced individual, who had
scars all over his lower lip where
he stppeed on it while dragging his
chin in detection, claimed to have
400 acres of land IN Idaho that he
couldn't sell for 10 cents n acres,
and he appealed to the worthy man
who was so blindly going to invest
al whole hundred dollars lin Idaho,
to stop, look, listen before 1t was
everlastingly too late He claimed
to be the original Dives, who had
squandered his whole life In acquir-
irg wealth at the rate Of 10 cents
an acre for Idaho land; and now
that he was in. torment, he had. been
permitted to go back to his brother
capitalistsi to warn 'em not to go th'
desperate road he had followed and
invest their hundred dollars in Ida
ho. The letter-writer feels that he
had narrow escape. but he seems
to be still yexed that some one did
not bring him back a chrome from
the hot place. that he might have
regular shiver every night over the
horror he had escaped.
The agitated person who feels tha
he has just escaped the scalping
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-04-20
TWO EXCELLENT PROGRAMS.
Shoshone H. s. Pupils and Richfield
Sunday School Greet Public.

A delightful children's program
was given at the church, Sunday
night, by the members of the Sun
day School, with the assistance OF
the church choir. A number of the
little folks took part, both in the
singing and the speaking, and with
out exception showed care In the
training and natural adaptability
for the parts assigned. Without dis
paraging the other excellent child
rens programs that have been Civ
en- here the past year, this one Is
generally to have been the most
successful of all. The church. was
crowded so that standing room was
alta premium.
A good crowd greeted the Sho-
shone high school glee club and
band, at the Weeter hall, Saturday
night. The band comprises about a
dozen pieces, under the direction of
Miss Logan, teacher of music in the
Shoshone schools, and rendered
good assortment of pieces of good
grade. The glee club is made up of
twelve singers, ten young ladies. and
two young men, and their two num-
bers on the program were enthusi-
astically encored. The male quar-
tett also pleased the audience and
the reading of Miss Book called for
an encore. The young people drove
up to Richfield Saturday afternoon,
25 of them, and drove home after
the program; the weather being de-
lightful for such an excursion. AS
a financial proposition it may be
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-04-20
NEW SANITARY INSPECTORS.
Trio of Good Men Who Will Clean
Up the State.


M. s. Parker, for the past two
years city health officer of Boise,
has accepted the tender of an ap-
pointment as deputy state pure food
inspector. and will at once assume
his duties. During the two years
just past he has been one of the
livest wires that official Idaho has
ever encountered One would be in
clined to believe that he had the
dyspepsia, and had been crossed in
love, and that several other disqui-
citing things had happened to him,
he has been SO pcrenniaiiy active
in finding things that look bad. But
it isn't so---he is constructively try
ing to make things better, and to do
this it is necessary to point out the
things that can be improved. Mr..
Parker is one of the rabidest of all
the rabid democrats; he is a news
paper editor, and the unnumbered
times he has proved that Thomas
Jefferson and Andy Jackson were
greater than Moses, julius Caesar,
and Washington and Joan of Arc,
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-04-20
The Men Higher Up
New Corps of 0. S. L. Engineers Are
Here Going Over Survey---Looks
Like Main Line At Once

A company Of o. s. l.. engineers
came to Richfield, Monday, register
ed at the Richfield Hotel---and they
are still here, waiting for the COM
ing of better weather.
With them came a large consign-
ment of surveyors stakes, apparent
ly for field use There has been no
camp outfit, indicating that they
will not go far afield.
During the little good weather Of
this week, the engineers have had
their instruments out on the line
established through town last sea-
son; going both towards Owinza. on
the southeast, and to the westward
along the route to -Camas Prairie.
Absolutely nothing has been CIV
en- out that can be printed as an
authoritative statement of what the
engineers are going to do now. But
no other guess comes near fitting
the indications like the prediction
that they will first of all locate the
Richfieeld yards, with the wyes and
sidings necessary to handle the traf-
fic; and then will come the build
ers, who will get here by the time
the weather is entirely settled, and
then they will do a spectacular Job
of building the most important side
line the o. 8. L. has built in years.
Hardly a side line. either; for 1t
is to be one OF the grateest OF the
main lines of the system. While
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-04-20

/ 1t has been anticipated that perhaps
the line would not be built beyond
High Prairie this year, and that
nothing would be done between here
and Owinza for two or even
more years, there is good chance
that the whole thing is to be built
at once. With the fine, easy grade
from the east to the summit of the
Boise river slope, and a much bet
ter and shorter route opening up
this way than the one now used, it
is reasonable to suppose that, even
outside of any strategic advantage,
1t would pay to build this line at
once AS a matter of fact, every in
dication Is that the entire line is to
be built at once, as soon as it can
be done.
Since the matter is altogether III
the hands of the officials of the o.
s. L. to build where and when they
choose, 1t Is an evident christian du-
ty of the people here to possess all
their souls An patience, and to hope
for the best About the worst that
GOULD be expected is, that the line
is not to be built by midsummer, or
at the earliest date possible, The
best---and that is none toogood---is
that the whole main line is to be
carried on at once. And in the alb
sence of other indications or infor-
nation. the Recorder presents that
al the possible mission of the new
corps of engineers