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The Dolores star., 1912-05-17

White Seed Oats. PediGreed, Colo
No. 81. These oats make IS bushels d
the acre under ordinary conditions,
I threshsd 485 bushels from 500 lls ol
seed. Absolutely fres from Wild oats.
$500 per hundred. Addrsss A. e.
Corbett, Dolores, Colo. Ranch ons'
half mile north Of Peel's dance hail.
The Dolores star., 1912-05-17
LOCAL NEWS NOTES.

sabser,bs sDr The Star; sa.oo : year.
The Dolores star., 1912-05-17

rir., pub may .. lsl.: las. pub june M
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-06-20
/ He a rt|
/ Hunter
IL By lola Forester
By lola Forester
Copyright, 1872 by Associated Literary
Press)

Copyright, 1912, by Associated Literary
Press)
Russell did not look UP at the
1choolhouse window when he drew
rein. He knew that she could see
aim from her desk, and the outer
door was wide open. 1t was well
after four, and all the children had
vanished down the four roads leading
from the schoolhouse corner. They
we're quite alone. if one excepted the
red squirrel who was tenant for life
IN the elm that was king OF the play
ground.
1t was half a mile to the nearest
farmhouse. All about lay June fields,
dch in lush grass ready almost for
snowing. The air was golden, warm,
hazy, lazy, wooing one to forget duty
and days work. Russell was heav-
lily burdened with both at present.
AS superintendent of schools in La
verne county, it devolved on his
shoulders to let the teacher go at the
little Flaxy Bend district because of
lnattention to duty and general laxity
Of conduct
That was exactly the wording of
che charges in Mrs. Deacon Mabry's
letter that reposed in his coat pocket.
He didn't intend to show it to the
girl.
So simple 1t seemed, so hard it was
to do. He had fought against it for
nearly a week. remembering her up
turned, earnest face, so warm and
tender in it's brunette tnting, the big,
brown eyes, and childish mouth that
dropped wistfully at the corners, the
dark hair bound smoothly around the
small head, with big, black velvet
bow on one side. That bow had been
an offense to the enemy even, at
least on one side.
"She amt stiddy enough to teach, ?
old Mrs. Mabry had insisted Il
taught considerable after Myron and
me were married, but | was stiddy
It's known fact that she's settled
four Of the boys this winter"
Settled them? You mean expelled
them?"
mo, I don't, Mr.. Russell. | mean
just what say She's carried on
girl-fashion with Nate Hoskins and
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-06-20
FIG GATHERING IN ITALY.

The season for gathering the figs in Italy
joins hands in October with the vintage; but
it really begins in august, owing to curious
system of culture.
Early in August the fig CATERERS squirm
through the twisting branches from tree top
to tree top and ''oil the fruit" These fig
people are nomadic; they appear and disap-
pear like the wandering harvesters of France.
Late in July the masserie are rented to them.
a stated sum being paid to the proprietor, a
payment that gives to the fig CATERERS the
right to all the fruit, beginning with the figs
and ending with the last cluster of grapes
Rude huts matched with straw are built by
the proprietor of ali his orchards, and in these
the gypsylike harvesters live with their fam.
lilies. Sometimes they supplement their mar.
row quarters with ragged tent. Three sticks
placed crosswse and kettle in the crotch con.
stitute the kitchen
Shortly after their arrival the work OF
forcing the fruit is begun The methods
employed are curious In one a wad of cot
ton is dipped in olive oil and gently rubbed
on the flower end Of the fig. Fig by fig is
thus treated, and in eight days the fruit is
ready for the market
Another method consists in gathering in the
spring the half formed fruit, which is strung
on ropes These ropes or garlands are
thrown over the branches Of the tree and are
allowed to decay under the burning sun There
the growing fig and induces fapid ma
turity.
The fig when perfectly ripe exuies a drop
of honey sweet juice at the neither end which
never falls but hangs there a staading tempta-
ton to children and to bees. When fresh pick
ed at this stage the fig has a rich flavor en-
tirely lost in the dried fruit
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Benny Everitt and Walter Bennings,
and even with Lonnie Murray, and
they've every one of them lost their
heads over her and proposed. and
she's refused them ALL"
"Well?" Russell tried to speak
mildly, remembering the various at
fractions of the aforesaid four boys.
maybe she didn't intend to have
them take her seriously, Mrs. Mabry.''
"And if she didn't, then she's light
minded, and heart hunter, if do
say it myself, Mr. Russell. That's
what we always used to call them,
heart hunters, and their minds don't
go any further than hunting them,
and letting them go as soon as
they're caught"
Russell remembered the whole con-
versation now as he stepped into the
little shadowy schoolroom. low-ceiled,
cool, with fern boxes at the windows
and punches of June roses on the
desks. Rose was her name, too, he
rememhGred-ROse Phillips She
turned her head now, a quick smile
of welcome and surprise on her face.
did you come to wish me good
by" she asked.
Russell could not help but smile
back. He laid his cap on one of the
first row desks and stood looking at
her as he drew off his gloves. She
could not have been over eighteen.
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She Wanted to Know, and Long-Suf-
fering Listener Had at Last
to Give Up.

"Is she going to shoot him?" inquir-
ed woman in the balcony as the cur
tain went down upon the first act of
1.-The Witness for the Defense" the
other evening.
Il don't know" answered her COM
panion. Wait and see."
So she waited. AS the second act
progressed. the woman again began to
murmur. I'D like to know whether
she killed him or not" she said. "Of
course she did. though"
"Hush!" whispered her companion.
II want to hear the play"
"I've written plays myself" went on
the woman, land | know that one OF
the canons OF play-writing Is not to
keep the audience in doubt about any,
thing. The actors may be mystified.
but II is incorrect to mystify the au-
dience. We should have known posi-.
lively in the first act whether she
killed him or not.
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course, was of the fer-de-lance, and.
not realizing that his slippers had
fallen of, he started to rush from
the room, when he felt what seemed
to be slight blow on the foot, fol-
lowed by burning pain.
He instantly drew himself up in the
chair, in dread OF second bite, and
made frantic efforts to suck the
wound. Failing in that. he held ont
the foot so it would bleed freely, and
tried to put lisature about the ankle.
calling madly for help all the time.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-06-20

The servants, hearing him cry that
the fer-de-lance was loose, were afraid
to come in, bit at last his host ap-
peared with lights and ready to dis
patch the serpent. 1t was found still
In the jar upon the table.
The cause of the alarm was the fall
of jar Of hot pickles which was also
standing on the table, and which had
been overturned in some way AS the
Britisher's foot struck the floor it was
cut by one of the pieces of broken
glass. and the acid or the pickles in
the wound produced the intense pair.
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men of which he had been anxious to
obtain. While waiting to have box
made for his unpleasant pet, he kept
il in the glass jar in which it had been
sent, replacing the glass stopper with
piece of perforated zinc.
One afternoon, having placed the
jar upon the table, he was watching
the serpent and smoking cigar. Sud-
denly he fell asleep. When he awoke
it was pitch da.ck-there being no
twilight in those ATTITUDES. He had
been reused by a tremendous crash
as of glass. His first thought. pr
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-06-20
He Was Stung BY Pickles

ing visit to st. Lucia. in the West
Indies.
This Brftisher had been Hospitality
entertained by the neighboring plant
ers, who, as he was. preparing to re-
turn, had sent him gifts Of guava jel-
ly, pine jam lines. peppers and the
like. Among other gifts he received
live fer-de-lance, one of the dead
lest serpents in the world, speci-
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-06-20
Concerned About the Past

"Oh. hush!" repeated her compan-
ion.
Il should like the play If 1t were
not for the incongruity l mentioned"
the woman remarked little later. TT
CRATES upon me. l feel that / must
account for it. Can it be possible
that the author wishes the audience
to understand that she did kill himt
She may have used one of those
soundless rifles. so the audience
could not hear the report. There is
smokeless powder, SO of course there
must be soundless rifles" she babbled.
more contentedly. Her companion
vouchsafing her no reply, for a time
she remained silent. But soon her
voice again welled forth as she in-
CURED earnestly:
There are souudless rifles. Adolph,
are there not?"
Great heavens!" returned the long
suffering Adolph. II don't know,
never heard one. New York Press.
The wOrcf thar Won cen oct IL that
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-06-20
Britisher Spends Bad Quarter of an
Hour During Visit to West
indies.

The French are fond OF saying that
one spends a bad quarter OF an
hour when It IS his lot to endure
some disagreeable experience. mo one
sould have spent a worse quarter or
IN hous than an Englishman had dur
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-06-20
A STRIKING Illustration.

when your husband started the quarrel
again what did you do?"
Took your advice and gave him a light re-
tort"
That's right. Did 1t affect him?"
1T ought to have done SO. threw the lamp
at him..
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A Distinction.

Manager-You told me you had full house
at the performance last night and now | am
told there were only a few there and every
man was drunk.
Actor-Thats just what l said-that tie
house was full
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entalia is further represented by the
Weber library of Sanskrit literature (3018 vol
umes. LOOP pamphlets). The library has
bought recently large numbers OK the monu-
menta of European history, and is rapidly
growing in the sciences, pure and applied.
The administrative officers of the library
are the librarian, chief assistant librarian,
chief clerk and secretary. The superintendent
Of the building and grounds, with his aids, has
entire charge of the maintenance of the build.
ing and makes all disbursements for the
library
The library force consisting of about 500
persons, is organized into divisions, each with
a chief and assistants. The following consti.
tute the principal divisions: Mail and delivery,
order, printing Office and bindery catalogue,
card distribution, photography. periodicals.
documents, manuscripts, maps and charts
prints, law library and copyright office
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designs in relief,
IMPLYING Tradition,
Writing and the art
Of Printing.
~ ReeY o n d these
doors is the main
vestibule. separat-
ed, from staircase
hall by. piers of Ital-
ian marble, orna-
Daented with pilas-
ters su port in 6
marble arches, over
.sead being. a. pan
eked ceiling finished
in white land gold,
impressively rich
and elegant in de-
sign. The giIded
beams Of the ceiling
are supported /. by
white and gold con-
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streets The building is of the Italian renais-
sance order of architecture, has three stories
covers an area of nearly four acres of ground,
with four large inner courts 100 by IS to 100
feet in size. 1t is lighted by about 1000 windows.
Its gilded dome, 1875 feet high, terminates in a
gilded final representing the everburning torch
of science
In front of the main entrance and between the
great stone stairways leading to the facade is
. the great semicrcu1ar basin representing the
Court of %Neptune-the classic god of the sea-
whose huge bronze figure forms the center OF
group Of tritpns sea nymphs, sea horses, sep
+ penis and other marine animals and amphibioas
creatures This fountain is said to be the most
lavishly ornamented creation of its kind in this
country. f
The exterior of the building is not profusey
decorated, but the very simplicity of it's classic
lines adds to the grandeur of it's imposing appear
Rnce. The entrance pavilion has sixteen rounded
pillars with Corinthian capitals. Four colossal
Btlantes support the pediment in which are
sculptured American eagles with supporting fig
ures Of children. In the windows are nine great
rortrait-bustS. in granite, of Emerson, Irving,
Goethe, Franklin, Macaulay, Hawthorne Scott,
Demosthenes and Dante. The three deep arches
of the pavilion terminate in the three massive
bronze entrance doors, Ia feet high and ia feet
{ wide, weighing 315 tons EACH which are beauti
full works Of art in themselves in their scuptured
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The worst that you can get is that
it's none of your business.
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zyERo7D00H .REz1NU room

Philosophy; Rome, Admins
tration; Islam, Physics;
Middle Ages, Modern Lam
guages; Italy, Fine Arts;
Germany, Art of Printing;
Spain, Discovery; England,
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o ARRIVE at some understanding
of the activities of the LIBRARY
of Congress as an institution,
brief description of the building,
which stands as a lasting monu-
ment to American genius in ar
chitecture, sculpture and art will
be necessary.
The grounds adjoin those of
the national Capitol, the outer
walls having a frontage on four
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-02-27
CERTIFICATE OF SHERIFF
AS INSPECTOR OF HORSES

State of Nevada CO
County of Elko
In accordance with cal act of the leg
islature, of the State % Nevada, pro-
viding for the inspection of horses
about to be driven OF shipped out of
the State, approved March Goth,
1907"
hereby certify thaJ at Halleck, Elko
County, Nevada, on Saturday, the
9th day of Jan 1925. the request of
J,Therien
owner and shipper hereof, 1 inspected
that certain brand of horses, being in
number 23 head, and branded as fol-
lows, to-wit:
3 head branded - left hip
Q head branded X left hip
head branded bar 5 left hip
i head branded Cross o left hip
head branded T left shoulder
head branded bar q left hip
head branded Ill lett shoulder
head branded F left hip
head branded T left hip
mule branded cross o left hip
jack unbranded
l further certify that the above de-
scribed horses were shi pped from Elko,
Elko County, Nevada, on said above
mentioned date by the s. p. Railw ay
Company in cars Nos.
OR 81 N 1924
and the destination of said shipment of
said horses was
San Jose, State of California
and that have full and complete
record Of the brands of the above III en-
toned horses.
In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand this 9th day of January,
1911.
J. C. HARRIS,
Sheriff and Inspector of Horses in
and for Elko County, Nevada.
By r. s. CRITCHLEY,
Deputy.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-02-27
High Art.

I'VE have nothing for fronts
piece this month"
Run blank page with q fly.spet
near the top and label II the lates
aeroplane."
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-02-27
Deputy.
Determined to Oct Nnxt.

"One Of these days you'll sec bust.
ness is going to the logs" said the
cheerless person. II don't believe it."
replied Mr.. Dustin Stnx. But II that
times comes, you'll fad me running
one OF the biggest kecnels on earth"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-02-27
Obvious Explanation.

Britisher-The cabby said that -
fee I offered him was shy about ~
half What did he mean by "shy?"
Hubbite-He meant you had offered
him too modest a sum.--Boston Tran
script
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-06-24

arrest, The subsequent inquiry
developed the fact that she had
collected insurance, not only on
the life of her son, but on the lives
Of four other deceased relatives.
She protested her innocence,
denying Indignantly, that she
ever kept poison in her house,
but the police, on searching her
place, found there rat poison, a
box of mercurial poison and sew
eral other boxes labeled Poison"
But the accused puts her faith
in her magic crystal ball.
Through the Counsel" she gets
from the spirit world through this
ball, she rests assured that she
will be able to prove her inno-
cence. Every day she gazes in Z
to its mysterious depths, and
reads there messages" touching
the future.
Her latest information is that
she will be released before the
month is over.
The police say that the magic
ball is common glass and is
worth intrinsieally, about fifty
cents, but Mrs. Lindloff main
tains that she paid $500 for it,
and that its great value lies in the
queenly tear that lies at its heart.
Chat one tear enables me to
read the future" she AYERS.
when l gaze into the ball I see
the tear at its center expand in
size, and within l see what will
come to pass in future years"
Psychologists explain that the
=
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CRYSTAL GAZING AND P
Equipped with a $500 crystal
ball, containing-so she says-a
tear dropped from the eye Of the
original Cleopatra, Mrs. Louise
G. Lindloff, spiritualist medium
and seeress, hopes to clear her
self of the charge of numbering
two husbands and three of her
own children.
Five members of Mrs. Lind
lofts family have died in more or
less mysterious fashion in the
past seven years. Each carried
a life insurance policy naming
Mrs. Lindlof as sole beneficiary.
The FIVE deaths netted the seer
ess $10,650.
When her son Arthur died the
other day, apparently OF poison
ing, suspicious were awakened
that led to her arrest on charge of
murder.
She took her precious crystal
ball with her to jail, and looked
into it for the spirits of her dead.
She saws that she has communi-
Gated thus with Arthur, and that
he tells her she will be exonerat-
ed, but that she is unable to get
in touch with her late husband,
Vim. Lindhoff. However, she is
assured that Arthur will look him
UP.
The doctor who attended Ar
II II. Il
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CRYSTAL GAZING AND POISON IN MURDER CASE
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-10-03
TAFT AND MARSHALL MEET
President and Candidate Jokes over
Wear and Tear OF Campaigning.

President and Candidate Jokes over
wear and Tear OF Canpai<DinE.
Boston. Mass. October 2.-Gcvernor
Thomas r. Marshall. or Indiana, the
Democratic candidate for Vice-Presi-
dent, shook hands with President tar
o-night just before the banquet OF the
Supreme Council of Scottish Rite Ma
sons. at which both were guests. Inc
meeting occurred at the hotel in which
Governor Wilson. OF New Jersey,
greeted. the President last Tuesday
night. President Taft joked with Cove
ernor Marshall on the wear AID tear
Of campaigning, and then both passed
into the banquet hall. where they stood
side by side in the receiving line and
shook hands with the diners.
The President to-day laid the cor
ner-stone of the new Young Mems
Christian Association building, in the
Back Bay. and attended the Cambridge
Carnival, across the Charles River.
In Cambridge he examined the ex-
hibits and was presented with a broom
made In a manual training school for
the blind.
II hope" said the donor, that this
will make q clean sweep for you."
The President smiled broadly.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-10-03
FoReER SUED BY TWO WIVES
Seek Freedo0 FY01 Prisoner, Who
Married Both In jersey City. /.

New York. October Two actions
one for divorce and the other for an
nulment of marriage. will be heard
by Judge Marean in the Supreme Court
of Kings County to-day against Will
liam Thomas Grant. prisoner IN
Sing Sing The plaintiffs are Margaret
Farley, twenty-one years old. OF 9Sl
Madison Street. Brooklyn. and Eth:
Theresa Seeley, twenty years old, Of
SIS Decatur street, Brooklyn.
The compliments state that when
Grant was in the Raymond Street Jail
in June. 1911. awaiting trial On a fog
cry charge, both women. VINO were
acquainted with each other. suddenly
met before his cell and learned that
each was his wife. Miss Farley had
been married TO Grant In Jersey City
June 1s. 1893. and Miss SeeIey became
Mrs. Grant May 20. 1911. in the same
city.
Both consulted lawyers. and the
present actions were started. Grant
was sentenced to four and q half years
Imprisonment by Judge Dixie in the
County Court in June. 1911.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-10-03
FIRST TO SQUEAL
ISNtXT man HUNG
Sinister Threat Silences Convicts
and Guards at Scene of
Lynching. =
QUICK JUSTICE FOR NEGRO
Lodged in Penitentiary fol-
Safety, He Is Killed by
Prisoners.

Rawlins. wyo., October 1.-The de-
tails of the lynching OF Frank Wig
fall. the negro assailant Of Mrs
Esther Higgins. known as the "prisa
oner's friend by the convicts of the
jail here to-day, while Sheriff Wells at
the county Jail was holding on party
of would.be citizen lynchers, may
never be known. The sinister threat
the first man who squeals Is the next
man hung silenced all the convicts
land prison guards examined by a
coroner's jury to-day. The jury gave
up the task late this afternoon with
out learning anything.
On the way to breakfast this morn
ing Wigfall TESTED aaout his attack
upon Mrs. Higgins Wigfall was
brought here for safekeeping late
yesterday after his capture at Fort
Steele. During the early morning to-
day the citizens had surrounded the
Jail. and at breakfast time were par
leying for his surrender.
The sheriff Of the county jail had
Just saved the prisoners life by slip
ping him out OF the rear door OF jail
and lodging him in the State peni-
Tertiary.
Al breakfast the other prisoners.
many of whom remembered acts OF
kindness by "Grandy'' Higgins. or
Kanized by signals When they were
started back to work and Wigfall re-
turned. under guard to the cell house.
about 100 of the prisoners broke loose
and followed the negro, catching him
before his cell guard could lock him
UP.
The cell guard was showed into the
cell and the key turned on him. One
Of the convicts produced rope and
while the others held the negro he
tossed q half hitch. over the negros
head and made the other end fast
to the balcony rail of the cell house.
The reRro was tossed over the rail
and the convicts marched back to
their work.
Not until the cries Of the imprisoned
guard in wigfall's cell brought other
guards was the lynching known In
the institution except to those who
took part in IT,
wigfall had received two sentences
FOR ASA ult In this State. Sunday night
h. broke into Mrs Higgins's house.
About dawn Monday he left her in
oiti.ul condition Posses searched the
hills All Monday night for the aged
woman's assailant. Late last night he
vas captured in an exhausted condt-
ton by a justice Of the peace at Fort
steele.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-10-03

Lawrence. Mass. October 2.-Thc
question Of another general strike Ia
the textile mills OF Lawrence was ais
cussed tonight by the central commit
tee OF the Industrial Workers OF the
World, bat nothing was made pubic
regarding the decision reached. Inc
meeting considered the report Of a SUD-
committee which had visited the tex
tile mills 20 ascertain what ACTON
the mill agents intended to take CON
corning the alleged discharge of opef-
atives who participated in the protest
strike Of last Monday.
william ID. Haywood. tho Industriai
Workers Of the World organizer. who
returned here tonight from SaieM'
said after a conference with other
leaders of his organization:
THE mill owners In Lawrence are
npw on strike agains, the operatives.
whom they have refused TO take BACK
into the mills. The Industrial work
ers Of the World will have to discuss
means to fight this kind OF strike.