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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-09-22
Ends His Life on Norfolk Ave,

While driving up Norfolk avenue, in
the residence portion of the city,
Ernest Fenske, a we'll known farmer
living three miles west and one mile
south of town, about AS years old,
committed suicide by shooting him
self with a revolver in the right tenn
pie at 1910 o'clock Monday after.
noon.
He leaves a wife and four children,
the oldest 13 and the youngest years
old. Family trouble and resultant
dependency are said by his brother,
Robert Fenske, to be the cause.
Two People See Shooting.
j. S. McClary and 11-year-old Frank
Odiorne, son of Mr.. and Mrs. 7. E.
Odiorne, were eye witnesses to the
tragedy, but not until Fenske was
taken from the buggy in which he
ended his life did these two witnesses
know he had killed himself.
Fenske purchased a new 32-calibre
revolver in a local hardware store
during the morning and also a box of
cartridges. Later he met his brother
Robert Fenske, and told him of his
trouble at home. He did a little bus.
mess at a bank and then entered his
buggy at about 1870 for the home.
ward trip. When he reached Twelfth
street and Norfolk avenue he cooked
the trigger of the new revolver and,
placing the muzZle against his temple,
fired the gun. His head fell on his
breast.
Thought 1t Joke.
The two witnesses saw this but
when his body suddenly fell from the
seat of the buggy against the front
shield they thought he was repairing
something on the harness and that he
had fired the gun as a joke. Young
Odiorne, who was driving home from
the city, suddenly brought his horse
close to the Fenske rig and saw blood
on the mans head. He gave the
alarm and soon many residents OF
, West Norfolk avenue were in the
street.
Alec Snyder stopped the Fenske
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-09-22

Division Supt. c. II. Reynolds OF Nor.
folk. The Northwestern has receiy.
ed more inquiries regarding the com.
ing rush than il did ON Trip county
three years ago.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-09-22

A special train carrying President
w. A. Gardner and other high Off
Gals of the Northwestern railroad sys.
TEN, passed through Norfolk Monday
morning enroute to Winner, S. D., to
look over the preparations that are
being made to take care OF the land
rush. The train was met at Missouri
Valley by Gen. Supt. s. N. Braden and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

brusque way from Ie Gaulois. You want an impression of Paris? Well, take the claquer He is a Paris type.
 .The claquer, you know, sits in the
 top gallery, in the front row, and ranged on either side of him are a dozen underlings The underings clap when he does-and he keeps them busy, I as sure you. It is the worst annoyance of a Paris theater, that eternal clapping of the claque.
 But it is the claquer's enormous hands l wished to speak of You know how a walters feet enlarge-like Bas- tien's there? Well, so 1t is with the hands of the claquer. From continually beating together in applause they swell and lengthen and widen beyond belief. claquer must have his gloves made to order. and when he buys a suit of clothes at old En gland or Uncle Sam g House. the pockets must be enlarged to admit his atrophied paws" MT. Thompson took carefully from the divan at his side telescope hat or dove gray.
 "The claquer,'' he continued, gets certain diseases of the hands from his continual clapping, and three hour lecture at the Sorbonne last week was devoted to the trea eatment of claque maladies,
 An impression of Paris? It is the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07
For Lack of Space

Robert |. Johnson, the famous poet anu editor, was talking in New York about magazine contributors.
 Most of them he said, realize the eX- agencies of magazine publications; buy there are some who deem every slightest editorial change or amendment unreason- able and absurd. The people. in fact, re- gard the most reasonable editorial suS- gestion as though it were on a par with the paragraph in journal that raii--
 'Eph White, our valued correspondent, writes to complain that in his fish story, nubljshed in last weeks issue the fish was 90 pounds in weight not 10 pounds, as printed We are sorry for this, Eph, but the mistake was unavoidable. We were much pressed for space last week., and everything had to be cut down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07
Battle With POrcupine
Laporte (F

LdDOrte tGenn.) Cor. Pn1ladelDhia
 Record.
 To have the roof over ones head rip- pee up by lightning is bad enough. but to make the discovery at the same time that you are surrounded with animal enemies that threaten your life is a little too much of the good thing to happen all at time. And yet the experienoe of Henry Gundrun and John SchooleX, in the Bella Sylva district, had all that com bined. The two men had gone into that wild and isolated section to gather gn- seng and prepare for the blackberry and hrckleberry season They are profess sional berry pickers, and several years ago they rigged up a small shanty in which 10 sleep, and the slab roof of which serves as drying shed for their ginseng. The shanty is built against giant hem lccl tree as a mainstay, and it was this tree that came near being their undoing
 The men had been in the woods for several weeks, during which time they haG as their main edible a pancake made from a ready mixed flour, which is easily prepared and quickly baked This flour, the men learned to their sorrow, was particularly enticing to the woods mice and ground squirrels, both of which
 made sad inroads upon the meal during the absence of the men in the woods and during the night time while they slept. Bu' they laid none of the thieving to any animal beyond these very mediocre types O wood pests. The other night ter rife thunder storm overlook them-or rather overwhelmed them. for the battle O. the heavens was such that both men | were awakened. An instant or two later | the little shanty was filled with blind | ing light and there was a splinterinE of wood and a smell of birthstone The old | homloclS tree against which their shanty was built had been shvered by light
 ming stroke. and both men were stunned
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07
We Will Bond You

claquer. His hands, vast and sore, are thrust far forward over the rail of the top gallery He ciaps with the noise of a machine gun. And all the while the poor fellows face is distorted with look of atrocious suffering. There is an impression of Paris for you.
 And MT. Thompson, putting on his delicate hat college style,' hurried from the Grand Cafe with short, quick steps to interview Alfred Vanderbilt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

for a little time. Fortunately, it was what everybody knows as "cold'' stroke and no fire followed the ripping of the roof.
 After the shock was over the mems ears were assailed by an awful squealing and squabbling, as though whole colony of rats were playing hide and seek over the floor of their shanty. Finally one cf the animals, whatever they were, ran over the face of Goldrun, and he sat up in terror. The men got up and struck a match. when they beheld scene that all most made them shiver, for they saw that their shanty had been invaded by a drove of porcupines. old and young, and that the lightning stroke had evidently made the animals wild with fright, until they were capering about and fighting among themselves. The men knew the dangerous traits of the 'porkies" when aroused, and realized that they were in very disagreeable predicament, as the bite of a porupine is really to be dreaded while his ability to scratch is little short of an enraged tomcat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07
An Impression of Paris

From an E&cnange.
 Vance Thompson. the Paris journalist, sat in the Grand Cafe He wore pale gray suit and yellow spats, and, though he was eating an omelette aux fines herbes with gusto, his monocle balanced itself firmly in his left eye.
 An impression of Paris?' said MT. Thompson, looking up in his quick,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

The Rev. Peter O'Calahan, rector of the Paulist Church, Chicago, and president of the Catholic Total Abstinence League of America, has been appointed by President Taft as a delegate to the International Congress on Alcoholism to be held at The Hague on September II.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

TOR sALE-Automobiie 1910 5-passenger Buick. s450; in good condition; s100 cash and 70 cents per day. Call 6503 Peoples phone S-6-3t FOR SALE-$25O cash. balance easy, buys new Groom furnace heated cottage. bungalow style one of the best corner lots in Woodlawn. One block from car line. Inspection invited. Bell phone Woodlawn IT. S-6-2t FOR SALE or exchange 12 well located negro lots at North Birmingham; price $125 each. Will consider improved prop erty or good secondhand automobile. W. c. Tyler, 3l0 N. Fist st.
 S-6-3t-su-mo-t FOR SALE-I have , good milch cows al Neill's stock yard on Norris ave- 24th st. w. NJ Cousins.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

There probably is no woman in the country who receives as many begging letters as does Mrs. E H. Hartman, widow of E. H. Hartman During the last year Mrs. Hartman has received five thousand requests for money, and the grand total asked for amounts to 100000. Some of the letters are written by professional beggars." These, of course, are ignored. The others are turned over to a society on social prob lens in New York to which Mrs. Harri- man is a liberal contributor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

\ E rent houses. Bethea Real Estate and Insurance company, 2T27 Sd ave.
 7-lS-30t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07
MACHINERY
ROOMs-WANTED-BOARD

SINGLE young man wants room and board in privs te family or small first
 class boarding house. Address R-3s, care Age-Herald. S5-2l
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

FOR SALE-Norwood lots at s1250 to s20O0; these lots have paved streets, cement sidewalks and sewerage; all paid for; will sell on easy @e1ms and will assist you in building home; just few at these bargain prices
 Minge, 2113 1st avenue. 7-3e-eod- If
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07
FOR RENT

TOR RENT-Nice 2-story dwelling, rooms. all conveniences: shady side.
 os24 18th avenue, north, s90. Ap-
 ply at 1900 24th street. Peoples phone 1Ae 7-9-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

RATES-One cent a word day; no ad. taken for less than 25c for first inser- ton. Cash must accompany order.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07
WANTED

WANTED-To sharpen your safety razor blades; 25 cents dozen; out of town orders we pay return postags.
 Robert Prowell Stove Co.,, Birming-
 ham, Ala. 4-9-u
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07
ONE CENT 4 WORD

RATES-One cent word day; no ad.
 taken for less than 2bc for first inser- fiOn Cash must accompany order.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

MONEY TO LEND-On improved bus
 mess and residence property; purchase
 money notes bought. Jemison Real Es- tate & Ins. Go. 7-21-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

FOR RENT-One three-room modern
 apartment in downtown district; steam heat and janitor service Messer Real Estate and Insurance Go. 7-29-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

FOR RENT-Store, 1916 Morris avenue,
 Potter Bldg. F. L. Demere, 19171s 1st avenue. S-4-14t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07
WANTED-MALE HELP

pay and allowances. Service on board ship and ashore in all parts of the world. Apply at United States Marine Corps Recruiting Office, 13 Simon Block, cor Ter Sd ave. and 18th st., Birmingham.
 Ala. S-1-31t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

FOR SALE-Ensley; I have few ex- tra good bargains that must be sold this week; $500 for a broom house on a good street, with bath, etc.; electric lights, hot and cold water, etc.; $2400 for a Groom, modern house on the pike absolutely mod ern; 5000 for a 45-foot lot on 17th street and Avenue I; $500 for a lot on the South Ensley car line, facing the car line on the high side; T. room house and two lots, new and up to date, for $4000; all on terms. ". R. Stewart, Realty Broker, Ensley. Get busy. Do it now! 8-5-3t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

FOR SALE-Lot in block ', Birming- ham -Ensley; this lot is worth $500 cash, but owner must have some money at once; to see it is to buy. Address sos 18th street. Ensley.
 S-5-4t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

FOR RENT-Large boarding house on 7th ave. north, close in; possession now. Tyler & Ramsay, BIO North Fist st.
 S-6-3t-su-mo-tu
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

WADDELL HOUSE-Large, comfortable rooms; convenient to business section.
 1S161A 1st avenue. Bell phone 6122. 6-24-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07
TALK WITH ALAN HENSON.
 Ground floor. Steiner Bldg. 8-6-n

FOR SALE-East Lake, by owner. I own lots E and II, in block 37, East Gate ad- dition. They are on the beautiful hill side above grade and fine. Will take S200 each for them. They are worth they tell me, $4oO or $500 each. I don't care. l want to see the color of the money. Will furnish abstract and give warantee deed. Will take $50 cash and s15 month on each lot. Address ". R. Stewart, 1Sl1 Avenue E, Ensley.
 S-6-3t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

FOR SALE-S95O worth, first mortgage notes, payable monthly, new house, owner lives in house, big discount; must have cash Also one lot on hill from Ann street station, this is a beauty; one block from Brick school: just make an offer. Lot and ', block Fairview.
 Call Bell phone 79, Ensley S-5-3t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

HOTEL MASON-All outside rooms, clean
 and cool; home comforts with hotel
 service; baths free 2016 5th ave. 6-24-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

contracts apply sol Empire Bldg. or call Bell phone 697 Good work at moderate prices 5-6-tf FINE DENTISTRY-A. J. Massey over Jefferson County bank, Fist street and 2d avenue. Bell phone 1s44.
 1-31-tIl-su-mo-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

FOR SALE-35-acre tract, close In, 20 acres cleared, plenty of running wa ter, 4-room new house, soil is very fertile. The nearness of this place makes it very desirable for trucking. Truck brings high price in Birming- ham, and is very profitable. Minge, No. 2113 1st avenue. Bell phone No 1346, Peoples phone No sos
 7-30- -eod # f
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

FOR RENT-Nice cool room with con-
 meeting bath; no flies. 2120 9th avenue.
 north; phone 36S4 6-11-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07
FOR RENT--ROOMS

TOT HEN 1--hOONIS THE AVALON, all outside, bright rooms; clean and cool: modern conveniences; summer rates 503 Fist street. 6-2-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

FOR RENT-Nicely furnished front room to one gentleman only; private family;
 South Highlands home; bath, electricity;
 references required. Call Bell phone 2867. 7-6-tf
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-12-07
". P. CUTTING
DOWN EXPENSES

The system of retrenchment
and economy inagurated by the
Western Pacific has Affected, the
Winncmucca terminal. The
telegrapher at the station has been
LAID off and Agent Cooper is now
actining dual capacity, perform
ing the duties of operator from 7 a.
m. until ] p. H., from which hour
until a p. m. he attends to the
duties of agent.
l.. Leary, formerly chief clerk
for Train master Hamilton, has
been given an indefinite lay-off and
has gone to San Francisco.
So far as known there has been
no other changes in Nevada, with
the exception that the office at
Trego has been cl Silver
State.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-12-07
SHE KNEW VIRGlNIA'S LAWS
Ho" Maiden Lady of the Old Domln-
lon Saved Her Lawn From tho
Road Builders.

III women ever come to sit on the
bench In old Virginia. there's a mai
den lady living on her ancestral acres
Just across the Potomac from Wash.
lngton who can qualify for the job
Recently II realty company bought
a tract OF land the other side Of her
property and plated II into suburban
lots. Desiring ready access to the
capital. they instituted proceedings to
run public road through the old
lady's land; worse. as she learned,
the projected road would cut right
through the prettiest part Of her trim
lawn. dear with it's memories of her
childhood.
She consulted her lawyer. only to
be told there was 10 help for II,
since private property may. under the
law. be condemned for Subtle use. no
matter how unwilling an indignant
owner may he.
Far from resignIng herself to the
ruthless inroad on her cherished lawn.
the old lady buried herself in the
musty law library handed down from
an ancient ancestor. once prominent
Judge In the Old Dominion.
When some days later a party OF
surveyors appeared with stakes and
chains to lay out the line Of road. they
found the owner, spade in hand. just
setting out the last of phalanx OF
young apple trees squarely In front
OF the lawn and right In the line Of
the proposed highway.
III you set foot inside this orchard"
she said deRantly to the astonished
surveyors. "1'll have you all thrown
out and then arrested for trespass."
with that she called up half n dozen
trusty young countrymen waiting be.
hind the barn for the summons.
What does all this mean?" asked
the LEADER OF the surveying party. In
whose contract there had been no
mention Of lighting we are survey.
Ing for a public road and can go any
where"
Anywhere-exccpt through an or
chard!". exclaimed the old lady, pull
Ing musty volume from under her
apron. ITS been the law In Virginia
since the days OF Patrick Henry that
you can't run even public road
through an orchard. so you stay Quit"
The old lady had dug UP an ancient
law unknown to modern attorneys
confounded her opponents and saved
her lawn
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-12-07
BIGGEST CITIES OF WORLD
London Still Far In Lead, but New
York Is Growing Faster Than
Any Other.

London. the largest city In the
world, has population. as now Off.
cially announced. OF 7,252,963. as
against 6.581.402 In I9Ol-an increase
In ten years OF GIL 1861, or only 1912
per cent. The population OF New York
Is 4,766.S83. and with a gain in the
ten years Of 1877 per cent, Is growing
faster than any other great city in
the world. AT the rate at which the
two largest cities are growing II will
take long time for New York to
catch up with London; but It would be
great misfortune IL 1t ever did catch
up-there is too much congestion In
New York already. The third city In
size Is Paris. whose population is prob
ably 100000. The fourth city Is per.
maps Berlin, which had a little over
100000 five years ago. Tokyo and
Chicago fall little under the $780,
OO0 mark. and ST. Petersburg. Vienna
Canton. Picking. Moscow and Philadel.
phia are below 1000. OOO.-Rochester
Post-Express
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-12-07
THE SEARCH FOR POTASH

The United States Geological
Survey has just issued a short re-
port, by Hoyt S. Gale. on the pro-
gress of the work Of deep drilling
for potash which is being carried
on in Carson Sink, Nevada. near the
town of Fallon. While no dis
covvry of potash salts is announ-
ced by the survey, Mr.. Gales
report is distinct and valuable
contribution to the discussion of
pc tash. set ting forth clearly the
broad, basic reasons which lead
the geologsts to the belief that
they will find, sooner or later in
some one Of these desert basins
commercial deposits of soluble
potasl such as constitute the great
Stassfurt beds in Germany.
Last winter congress nppropri-
ated $4,000 to enable the Geol-
ogical Survey to prosecute a
search for potash. the moneys be-
coming available July l. An ap-
preparation of $12,500 was also
made to the Bureau of Soils for
a like purpose, and it was mutually
agreed that the two appropriations
should be administered to the
spirit of co operation, with an
avoidance of duplication in work
and territory.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-12-07

There is more Catarrh in this
section of the country than al
other diseases put together. and
until the last few years was supl
posed to be incurable. For a
great many years doctors pro-
nounred it local disease and
prescribed local remedies and by
constantly failing to cure with local
treatment pronol ne ID it incurable.
Science has proven catarrh to be a
constitutional disease and there
fore requires constitutional treat
ment. Halls Catarrh Cure, manu-
featured by F. j. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, Ohio. is the only consti-
tutional cure on the market. It is
taken internally in doses from 10
drops to teaspoonful. 1t acts
indirectly on the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. rhey offer
one hundred dollars for any case
it fails To cure. Send for circulars
and testimonials.
Address: F. j. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists Use.
Take Halls Family Pills for
constipation.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-12-07
A Poor ProposItIon.

Frank A. Munsey. the well-known
publisher. Is noted among lis friends
as n close reHsoner.
A New York reporter submitted re-
Gently to Mir. Munsey a proposal for
a new magazine on novel lincs. Mr..
Munsey proved In a ,close ly-reasoned
argument that this magazine would
fail. Then. in conclusion. lie said:
"Or. II the magazine did pay, II
would pay SO little that It's publishers
would be like an editor in the neigh
borhood Of my native Mercer.
Near Mercer. Me-. lived an editor
who once printed In his weekly paper
this editorial announcement:
"In view OF the fact that 80 are un.
able to pay the road tax of $8 assessed
against us. we have been sentenced
to a period OF confinement by tho au.
thorities. Consequently there will be
no Issue OF this paper for the next
month; but. as the state will have to
board us. we figure that we shall come
out some SIS ahead"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-12-07
PAPER towels.

There Ia now Oh the market paper
towel, and for It many advantages
1re claimed. The paper towel Is made
OF tough, soft, absorbent crepe tbs.
sue paper made up In long strips
which are rolled. For use paper tow.
els are carried on roller fixture The
long. rolled strip Is cross perforated
at regular intervals, giving to each
roll sections about a foot In width
by foot and half long. Anyone
wanting n towel has simply to tear
one of.
A paper towel can. OF course, be
used but once, but 1t is not expensive.
II is designed to provide a sanitary
towel for hotels and clubs. for schools
and various institutions, for railroad
stations, public buildings. stores and
factories. and for domestic use-a
clean towel for every one at every
wash.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-12-07
$500 REWARD $500

!. j. C. Harris. sheriff of the
County of Elko, State of Nevada.
d. hereby offer and guarantee
reward of Eight Hundred $500 .OO)
Dollars for the arrest and con-
victIon of The person "r persons,
who burned or caused to be
burned, the hay stacks and barn
on Ed Carville's ranch in Mound
Valley, Elko County, Nevada,
during the month of August,
1911.
j. G.. Harris
Sheriff of Elko County.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-12-07
Bottles Left by Hesslans.

Two large bottles OF HessIan rum
$50 years old are among the latest
hnds OF historical experts who are ex
:avating In the ruins OF old Forl
Washington on the Hudson river Just
above Riverside drive. New York
The excavations are on the site OF
the Hessian barracks. in what was
for long time known as Death
gulch" from the large number OF Hes
SLAMS who fell in the rout OF Washing
tons army from the heights. The rum
bottles were found IL feet under
ground