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Bridgeton pioneer., 1911-11-16
By TOMMY CLARK.

THREE KICKRRS OF ABILITY.
fDalton of Navy. Butler OF Cornell and
Dean OF Army.]
by kicking almost Immediately when
ever it was fortunate enough to Sc
cure the ball.
Tho Value Of q Kicker.
In approximately forty minutes Of
play the team in question tried only
three times 10 advance the bali rush
ing. The net gain WAS less than a
yard. The opposition on the other
hand found II comparatively easy to
make first downs, On the attack 1t
cut and tore through the weaker team 8
line or around It's fanks almost as
readily as 1t STAYED off the others puny
attempts at offensive play.
Under the old rules the score would
probably have run up into the sixties
or seventies. yet the game was not an
unintereSting one to the spectators,
simply because there was one depart
ment in which the two cOntesting
teams were of almost. if not quite
equal strength. The losers punts av-
eraged almost as long as the winners
and his ends. though not star pair by
any manner of means, were yet fast
enough and knew enough about tack
ling to prevent long runbacks.
Brilliant Plays to Come.
The really good teams, with the bur
den of having to play for champion
ship this month upon them, have not
shown their best form yet. There are
flashes. brilliant enough at times, OF
real form, but 1t will be in the big
games that the real stuff will be shown
Then. unless everything. including the
grandoldope, goes astray. there will
be the prettiest duels between kick
ers and ends. on one side and backs on
the other. that it has ever been the
good fortune of the football rooter to
witness.
The very rules make for such en-
counters Perhaps the kicking side
has an advantage but il is of n sort
that is bound to make the play all the
more spectacular There may be few
VI " idt SFDSdlIbildi ibi ~ anu ut
yard runs through broken fields. but
the change will OF itself create = fast
er. shiftier class Of backs. which in
turn will necessitatc an increasingly
open game
t;arder to Sloek Kicker
Given two opposing lines Of prac-
ticalIy equal strength. 1t will be al
most impossible to block kicks Since
the three inside men are now permit
ted to lock legs. one set of forwards
must be immensely superior TO the
other to get through in time to gun
Up" kicking play. Add two good
tackles and the chances of interfering
with a punt are not one-tenth as good
rs they were in the old days.
Even after The ball is kicked the ad
vantage is with the kicker, Unless tho
Bridgeton pioneer., 1911-11-16
RAILROADS KILL 1896.

f5n15e Persons Hurt IN Year, Com
nnercs Commission Says.
One out of ass railroad men was
killed and one of thirteen injured in
this country according to the inter-
state commerce commissions report OF
accidents in the twelve months ended
June 80 last.
In that time 1896 persons were kill
ed and 150159 were injured on the
railroadsof the United States. OF the
number killed only 1856 were passen.
gers, and more than one-half the total
number killed were trespassing upon
railroad tracks or stealing rides on
trains.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1911-11-16
SOME NOTED TOE ARTISTS.


Howe of Yale. Sprackling Of Brown and
Mol of Wisconsin,
the west on this account, although his
work in oth"F departments of the game
was no bete; than ordinary
In kecEfr NoH Wisconsin has a
noted kicker During practice his work
Is accurate and his punts very long.
Chicago has not q man of ability, and
Coach Stag% has been working night
and day trying to find a player who
will be able 20 cope with the stars of
his four great western adversaries.
Michigan has three reliable men In
Captain Conklin, Harrington and
Thompson Coach Hurry Up" Yost
thinks he has one Of the finds OF the
season in Harrington.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1911-11-16
BUTTON ON GROWING APPLE.
How 1t Came to Be Placed on the Fruit
Is Mystery.

Is Mystery.
On the highest limb on the tallest
apple tree in his large orchard Thorn
as P. Dowdy, mile northeast of Mos
COW, Ida. found stuck in an apple a
celluloid button advertising a piano
house. How the button was placed
there is a mystery.
Mr.. Dowdy says 1t would have been
impossible TO place it there without
the use of ladder. as the limb was
not large enough at that height to have
been climbed.
The pin mad been stuck into the ap-
pie while tie apple was small. as the
button shaded the apple in the shape
of the button, preventing its coloring
properly. The scar was healed where
the pin had been inserted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-26

IOtIIIH Suits NAIEhlstFy IEelIIIIIIss
La Porte Ind, Dec. 26.-Eddfe Young,
former lightweight boxing champion of
the Pacific coast. has returned to his
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-26

company addressed letters to the hold
ers of its $11O,0OO,O0O 81 per cent
collateral trust bonds, which were
given in exchange for stock of the
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern and
Michigan Central roads, asking their
consent to merge either or both roads
with the parent company.
1t is proposed to consolidate only
the Lake Shore at this time Accord
ing to an officer of the company, the
immediate object of the absorption of
the Lake Shore is to obtain a through
line to Chicago under one manage
menT, to the end that its operation
may be placed on a less cumbersome
basis with more liberal managem ent.
The bondholders are asked to relfn-
quish their lien upon the Lake Shore
& Michigan Central stock pledged as
security for the bonds and to accept
in return what will be practically sec
ond mortgage bonds on the CONSOLE
dated system.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-26
CAUSES FAMILY FEUD
Kreiter Murder Not Forgotten on
East Side.

In the homes of A, H. Klinge and
c. J. Cracey, Fourth and Leland streets,
there was no interchange of Christmas
presents and even the casual we'll
wishes were eliminated. Not since the
day that Eva Kreiter killed her hus-
band have the Klinge and Gracey fami-
lies been on friendly terms and there
will always be an issue in the two
homes concerning the judgment melted
out to the Topeka girl.
Mrs. Klinge is a sister of Phillip
Kreiter, who was killed by his young
wife. Before Eva Gracey married the
man, the Klinge and Gracey families
We're friendly and Kreiter first met the
girl while she was visiting his sister.
That the girl married Kreiter and kill
ed him for his money, is the belief of
Mrs. G. Klinge and her husband. They
believe that the dead mans side was
never fairly told in the press dispatch
es; while the Gracey family is just
as certain that the East side bride re-
ceived the worst of the news stories.
The fact is that neither side was ia
vored and an effort was made 10 print
the facts
since the trial of the sensational case
in Aberdeen. S. D, the Klinge and
Gracey families have not visited. Their
homes are On adjoining corners at
Fourth and Leland streets, but the
feelings aroused in the trial of the case
have never been erased. The parents Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-26
TRAFFIC ON PANAMA CANAL.
Conditions and Tolls Fixed by Federal
Committee


Chicago, Dec. 26.-The question OF tolls
to be collected by the United States gov
eminent on traffic movement through the
Panama canal is being taken up by the
executive committee of the National IN
dustrial Traffic league. The committee,
which considered this question at the last
meeting, has prepared list of questions
now being mailed to members of the
league thrOug hout the country. H. c.
Barlow, traffic director of tee Chicago
Association of Commerce, who is CHAIR
man of the executive committee of the
league is communicating with members
I. What should be the basis of the tolls
la the net tonnage of the vessels pass
ing through the canal OF OBJ the cargo
carried by the vessels?
?. Ought the United State government
to relieve the American shipping coast
wise and foreign, from Panama canal
tolls, it being understood that the Hay
Pauncefote treaty would probably require
the government to collect the same tolls
but that the tolls on American shipment
could be paid back in the way of re-
funds2
3. Ought the government to discriminate
against steamship lines owned or con-
trolled by the railroads or affiliated with
railroad companies In other words,
should 1t be the policy of the government
to discourage the use of the canal by
steamship ines under railroad influence?
would it be a wise policy to permit
and encourage the use of the canal by
of and under control of the railroads.
and to subject the coast-tO-coast business
of the canal to effective federal regula-
tion2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-26
BAN ON FAKE PHOTOS
Only Authorized Pictures of Taft VIII
Be Permitted to Go Out.

Washington, Dec. 26.-Week-end tourists
who want to go back to the folks with
photographs with a real Washington, d.
c., label on them showing President Taft
in the act of shaking them by the hand
or in earnest conversation with them got
an unexpected Christmas present from
Mr.. Taft. for the president has put the
official ban on these fake photographs"
Several days ago Pennsylvania avenue
photographer whose window exhibition
contains many pictures Of Mr.. Taft in the
act of shaking hands with various citi-
zens whom he probably never met was
ordered by United States Attorney Wilson
to leave Mr.. Taft out of such pictures in
the future.
The photographer appealed to the White
House but the president upheld Mr. VIII
son. In a recent decision the supreme
court held that photograph was a per-
sons own property and ii is not likely
that the present case Will go to the
courts President Roosevelt once ap-
peared in a fake picture apparently talk
ing statecraft with a negro coal driver
He registered an objection Immediately
and the practice was stopped
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birthplace at Columbus, Ind. and an
nounced that he would leave the prize
ring to study in a Chicago theological
school. Young said he expected to occupy
q pulpit within few years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-26

the young woman are certain that their
daughter did not receive a fair trial,
that her four year sentence was too
severe and that she was justified in
her actions.
But rAlnge himself sat through the
long trial and he has an entirely diff
ferent story He is sure the young
woman had planned the killing of her
husband. He says that Margaret Mack,
a telephone operator, testified concern
ing u conversation with Eva Gracey
the night of the wedding in which the
bride told her she would get even
with Kreiter.
IT don't believe in trying a dead
man. said Klinge, but I think his side
should have fair treatment. Evidence
showed that his wife hated him and
planned to get his money. The charges
that Kreiter was drunk, are not true.
He was not drunk. He had nearly ST.,
600 in money at the time of the kill
ing. That money has never been found
and we don know where it went
Then inge intimated that the girl
had used this money in her defense. He
also charged that after Kreiter's mar
rage to the girl that Gracey and his
wife drove their daughter from their
home, because she stayed out late at
night
'sThey came to our house KHnge
said, land stayed with US until they
South Dakota I could see
that the girls love for Phillip was not
what it should be and I was not great
ly surprised when I heard of the muir
der
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-26
RAILROAD NEWS
President Taft Thanks an En-
gineer of Santa Fe.
Man Who Pulled Throttle of
Executives Special.
GIVES BEST WISHES
President Thanked Rail Man for
a Safe Trip.
Other Items of General Interest
YES BEST WISHES
Other Items of General Interest
in Traffic World.

Hutchinson, Kan. Dec. est is not
often that plain, locomotive engineer
is recognized by the chief executive OF
she United States. However. this honor
has fallen to the lot of John TreadWay,
of Newton, who pulled the special train
4he western grand division of the Santa
Sc when that distinguished parsonage
twas guest Of the fair association last
Septemb Der
Mr.. Treadway thought little of his
work at the time. He had directed the
tinguished men and was not aware
OF the fact that he had performed any
extraordinary services, when he guild
ed the course of the presidents train.
Sdll he was just a little bit surprised
yesterday, when he received the fol-
lowing communication:
The ---~- louise, Washington
Deem Der Is, 1911.
Ny Dear Mr.. Treadway:-I take the
first opportunity since my return to
Washington to express to you as one
of the engineers, whose painStaking care
and skill made my long trip possible
without accident, my sincere thanks
and appreciation. With merry Christ
mas to you and yours. I am sincerely
yours.
WILLIAM H. TAFT.
Mr. John Treadway, Newton, Kan
Mr.. Treadway is the regular engi-
popularity known as the plug" 1t is
preferred run and the oldest engine
and train men usually take such runs.
MIR Treadway not only has a record
as a conductor of presidential specials,
but has Some reputation as an engi-
neer on faster trains.
Tt has fallen to his lot to pull the
new De Luxe train on the trips it has
made through here so far On the
last journey east Mr.. Treadway took
his fine train from Dodge City to New
ton. a distance of 153 miles, in 151
minutes. This did not include six
minutes stop for water, stop at
Hutchinson ana four "slowdowns" at
difficult curves. In all, more than 80
minutes were lost in delays. The
speedometer on the engine indicated an
average of 81 miles per hour during
the trip from Dodge 70 Newton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-26

The Prudential Bank.
Checking and saving accounts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-26
GARDEN CITY CONNECTIONS.
First Link of so Miles to Meet Santa
Fe Dodge CITY Line

Garden City, Kan. Dec. ga. NJ.
Misher, who is to be one of the bid
ders on the southwest extension Of the
Santa Fe from Dodge City, feels GER
tain there will be a connecting link
from Garden City to the new cutoff.
Mr.. Misher, who was here to get all
possible information concerning the
off the railroad counties southw est of
here, calling on the Garden City Land
& immigration company and others.
says bids must be in Chicago by De-
cember IS.
The first link of the road will be SO
miles, he says, completed by August 1,
1912
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-26

lines at La Junta, Col.
The rumor which is so prevalent has
not been confirmed. but it is to the eff
feet that a change-about will occur in
higher up Santa Fe official circles with
the new year.
The rumor in Santa Fe circles is that
Mr.. Kouns general manager at Topeka,
is to become one of the vice presidents;
Mr.. Fox, general manager at Amarillo,
will succeed Mr. Kouns at Topeka; Mr..
Parker, general superintendent at To-
peka will become general manager at
Amarillo;' Mr.. Kurn, general superinten-
dent at La Junta, will succeed Mr.. Park
er at Topeka: and Geo. z. Aver, division
superintendent at. ChilHcothe, Ill, viii
go to La Junta as general superintend-
ent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-26
OLD OPERATOR GETS PRESENT.
E. r. Haines Has Worked for Union
Pacific Forty Years.

Glasco, Dec. 26.-E. r. Haines who has
been holding down the Union Pacific sta
ton here for 80 years has been retired
He has reached the age limit, and is now
drawing a pension from the company.
Mr.. Haines came to Glasco in 1879. Be-
fore coming here he was for eight years
in the service of the Union Pacific at
other points. He is now 20 years old. He
is succeeded here by f. W. Williams,
who served as agent for the road for five
years in DOrrance.
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KoUNs AS A VICE PRESIDENT.
Reappearance of Santa Fe Dream at
Hutchinson

Every few months the southwestern
Kansas newspapers take charge of the
Santa Fe system and inaugurate whole
sale changes in official circles. Here is
a chapter from the Hutchinson News:
Gossip in Santa Fe circles has it that
George E. Aver, for many years division
superintendent at Dodge City and also at
Newton and now division superintendent
at Chillicothe Ill. is to be made general
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-26
Ends Winters Troubles.

10 many, winter Is "a season OF trouble.
The frost-bitten toes and fingers, chap
ped hands and lips, chllblains, cold-5ores,
red and rough skins, prove this. But such
troubles fly before Bucklen's Arnlca
Salve. A trial convinces. Greatest healer
OF Burns, Boils, Piles. Cuts, Sores. Brui-
ses, Eczema and SDrains. Only &c at
Campbell Drug Co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-26
: \. CENTRAL MERGER PLAN.
Ike. shore First Road to Be Con
sOIdated With Parent.

New York, Dec. 26.=What was re-
garded in Wall street as the first step
In the long rumored plan to consoli-
date the subsidiaries of the New York
Central system with the parent COM
pany was taken when the New York
Central & Hudson River Railroad
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-07-11
SANE PATRIOTISM.

At last sanity seems to have tri-
umphed oyer foolish display Of
alleged patriotism.
Civilization has reached point
where it no longer considers the ma
ton deserving of human sacrifice.
For great many years the good
people of this country offered up
their best as a human sacrifice to
the god of patriotism.
All of this time we shuddered to
hear of the good Indian women of
the East who stray down to the river
Gauges once year and toss in their
bonniest baby to appease the god of
the turbid stream.
We were doing the, same thing in
a much less reverential manner,
Now we are awake to the enor.
nous folly of such sacrifice.
Though here and there you see
crackers and toy pistols in the hands
of babes, still we feel that the
moment of enfranchisement is at
hand.
Not an accident in Redwood Falls,
not one in Minneapolis, only one or
two in St. Paul. From all over the
country comes the same report.
May it go forward until explosive
patriotism. with its hand gripping
the heart of childhood and exacting
human sacrifice, shall be no more in
our fair land. Don't worry, patri-
otism will be as rampant as eyer,
but it will be sane.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-07-11
Gossip of the Press.

Some jealous newspaper men think
that S. Y. Gordon ought to come out
and say that he wants to be Mime
sofas next governor. If Mr.. Cor
don is to get the nomination for gov
ernor it will be through the assist
ance of his newspaper friends. S. Y.
is not itching for political honor any
more than some of the other boys
and he is rather modest about an
nounclng his future plans. The fact
that he has served the state efficient
ly as lieutenant governor should be
proof enough of his ability and no
one is more worthy of recognition
than Mr.. Gordon. Foley Independ-
ent.
The decision Of Judge Sanborn,
which practically takes away the
power of State to regulate rail-
road rates. is resulting in demand
of the people that the government
go step further and own and ope-
rate railroads. Winnebago Press
News.
slThe biggest need of the times is
honest citizens. You can't have
honest trusts or honest officials until
you have honest citizens. Sanborn
Sentinel.
Is Gov. Eberhart for or against
Senator LaFollette. The progress
sive Republicans of Minnesota have
a right to demand an answer.-Fair-
mont Sentinel.
Attorney F. F. Ellsworth of Man
kato has announced that he will be
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-07-11
This is the reverse of the game he

This is the reverse of the game he
played two years ago. At that time
it was generally understood that he
and Clarence Dinehart, state trea-
surer, were to be candidates but
neither made public announcement
of the fact.
Dinehart secretly filed so that
Ellsworth could not by any hook or
crook beat him to it.
After the death of Dinehart, A.
L. Ward of Fairmont, rich and am
bilious, got into the game and gave
the St. James man the chase of his
life for the nomination. Ellsworth
won by narrow margin. Then w.
S. Hammond, Democrat, gracefully
and satisfactorily. licked the shoes
off Ellsworth, until it was supposed
he was as empty of ambition as a
wet hen. Up he hobs and says gaily,
"I'll be candidate again.
The Second hardly will take kind
ly to this suggestion. 1t has several
"good and honorable" men anyone
of whom might be induced to go out
and trim Ellsworth.
The best congressional timber in
the Republican party in the Second
is S. B. Wilson of Mankato. Elo-
quent, brainy, resourceful, popular.
big man. He doesn't banker after
the job having his eye turned toward
a judgeship which is sure to come to
him in time. But the people know
Sam and they may demand that he
represent them in congress. He's
about the only man in the Second
big enough to defeat Hammond.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-07-11
BRYAN'S LECTURE.

Tina Great Commoner has come
and gone, and Redwood found him
commoner than it expected.
He was extremely common in his
conversation and not at all uncom-
mon in his speech, which may ac-
count for his name, Commoner.
Or it may have been meant to
suggest that he would be commoner
than the other lecturers on the
course, which he was.
Gifted with a remarkable voice,
strong personality and daring i'm
agery, Mr.. Bryan laid them all aside
except the voice. when here, and
apparently took little interest in the
1900 people who had gathered to
hear him.
Had he come out boldly and talked
politics doubtless his speech would
have been more acceptable. He
talked politics under thin veil of
economics and MOI atty, And when
he wasn't talking politics he talked
Bryan,
No man in the country is capable
of making a greater speech, of yoic-
ing profounder thoughts more elo-
quently than Mr.. Bryan, In spite
of this, his Redwood speech was a
distinct disappointment to a large
percentage of his hearers.
So far as The Gazette goes, if the
opening speech of the Chautauqua
is to be considered typical, it pre-
fers Wickersham to Bryan.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-07-11
BEHIND THE POLITICAL SCENTS


D. R. McCorquodale took hold of
a rumor and tore it to shreds Thurs
day just to prove that the thing
never did have any life in it.
D. R. is chairman of the board Of
county commissioners and man of
no small Importance politically in
this county of ceaseless political
strife. So it was not surprising
when it began to be whispered about
that he would ask the Republican
forces of Redwood to send him to the
house in 1912.
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Perseverance.

n facile natures fancies quickly grow,
But such quick fancies have but little root,
Soon the narcissus flowers and dies. but slow
The tree whose blossoms shall mature to fruit.
Grace is moments happy feeling, Power
A life's slow growth: and we for many an hour
Must strain and toll, and wait and weep, if we
The perfect fruit of all we are would see.
From the Italian of Leonardo Da Vinci.
Translation of w. W. Story.