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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-12-06
REBELS TRY
To k|DNAP
WOMEN
OF MEXICAN
TOWN, ALARMED, FLED TO
HILLS TO ESCAPE

Mexico city. Dec. t-The town Of
Vale Del Bravet State Of Mexico
was practically destroyed today by
the apata rebels under the command
~ Gen De Lao. because. The nhaoii-
ants refused TO deliver over 10 the"'
nineteen young women residents The
i,h,hitapts. ANTICIPATING an attack
fled TO the hills. leaving the town de-
serted They are said 70 be suffer
,,o severely from both cold ana hun
ger.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-12-06
STRICKEN WITH APOPLEXY

3 G Mead aged 80. prosserous
farmer residing northwest OF town
was stricken with apopieNy last night
His condition is critical
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-12-06
SNAPS FINGERS AT COVER.
NORS, CRYING ITO HE'LL
WITH YOU"
SOUTH CAROLINA EXECUTIVE
SAYS HIS LIFE IS THREATENED
Conference al Richmond in UpP0dr
Over Fiery Attitude Of Governor
Who Believes in LyOChiOg
tAssociatec Press
Richmond VA. rec Ito hell
with the cOnstitutt~~

Richmond. va. Zee '.-- 10 hti'
with the constutt-~
80 IT, with YOU ar
You can't blur me
Pass your resolutions and be
damned stand for the virtue OF
our southern women ! say lynch
the black brutes BON waste time
legally hanging them stand by my
sentiments You resomuonpassers
believe as do. bur you ire COW
ards
cole Blease governor Of South
Carolua threw the Conference of
governors IN session here IN an up
roar today by his hot oXpletitiyes
The conference adopted sweep
ing resolution introduced oy Gove-
nor Mann. OF Virginia Republican.
denoun,ng Governor Bl~ho in his
support OF tho lynch law
Governor Blease snapped his fin
gers in Inc faces OF The otho. COY.
crn0r.. declaring thar he -areG not
one whit for what the conference diH
o. left undone
"Four times @is morning my life
has been threatened for my nttcranc
es.7 he said Il was quoted yester
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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-12-06
STRONGLY AGAINST INDE-
PENOENCE FOR PHILIPPINES
And Endorses Present Scheme Of
Currency RGfOPn--War Footing
for Foreign Regiments


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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-12-06
BRIDE OF FIFTEEN
BACK TO SCHOOL
CBy Associated Pressl

Wichita. Dec According to.J -r--
mpIal a2reemeur Alrs r % llroh
esou .be f.lleeu.ytaroid bride o. l1-s
e.g, wl enter th, eighth grade %
the public schools here. after tho Io
Iat-. - finish her education. ia
8-aaud. aged tl.ruf,vc. has frovd
I'D her Hitl tho necessary 'eyt Ao'i s.
She is s,udE.ue to make up far l.
imo size .osf while ou h,r horefm'oa
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-12-06

Arthur r. Welon father OF the
missing man was seen al his black
smith shop. at PIG North Division
street today He SAYS he received a
letter from his son. written al Wich-
ita last Tuesday stating that ne had
lust arrived in Wichita in company
with Mr.. and Mrs Frank Roekelei-
Ter. The Bocketellers had been visit
ing on their big ranch and he accom-
panied them to Wichita ON their re-
urn 10 New York He stated IN the
letter that he would visit in Wichita
4 few DAYS and would start for Ruth-
rie Wednesday night Nothing has
been heard from him since The po-
lice of both Wichita, Arkansas city.
Wellington and Guthrie are ~ork'n1
on the case Il is now felt that the
loung man has surely met with ioul
ulaN
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-12-06

Shop Early. Garry Your Own
Parcels and Don't Trade After
Dark.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-15

ENRY WILSON. who became vice
n president of the United States in
IL 1873 on the ticket with Gen.
Grant, was born in poverty in Farm
ingtOn, n. H, February 16, 1912. Ad-
dressing the people Of Great Falls, y.
H, he said: Il was born here in your
county. Want sat by my cradle.
know what it is to ask a mother for
bread when she has none to give.
left my home at 10 years of age, and
served an apprenticeship of II years,
receiving a months schooling each
year, and, at the end Of II years hard
work, a yoke Of oxen and six sheep,
which brought me $50. A dollar would
cover every penny 1 spent from the
time L was born until / was p years
Of age. 1 know what it is to travel
weary miles and ask my fellow men to
give me leave TO toll remember that
In September, 1888 I walked into your
village from my native town, and went
through your mills seeking employ
ment. If anybody had offered me
So or 50 month, I should have ac-
cepted II gladly. I went to Salmon
Falls, went to Dover, I went to New
market. and tried to get WOFk. without
success and / returned home weary,
but not discouraged, and put my pack
on my back, and walked to the town
where 1 now live and learned a me-
chanic's trade. The first month I
worked after I was p years of age. 1
went into the woods, drove teams, cut
mill logs, and chopped wood and
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-15
HUsIoR OF THE DAY.

Charity must necessarily begin at
home when il wants to cover a multi
tude Of sins.-Puck.
ct see by the paper that the servant
problem has been solved Nonsense
If il had been solved all the papers
would have out extras '-LoulsvilIe
Courier-JOurnaL
Teacher Cto little boy)-Whats su-
burbanite? Little BOy-A suburban1te
is a man who lives in the city ana
sleeBs in the country--Life.
Perk-Say, Marie, you didn't tell any
body that secret I told you last night,
did you2 Maria-W by, no! You see /
didn't know IL was a secret--Judge-
~Wombat says his wife is his right
hand" Weir Sometimes he dOesn t
let his right hand know what his left
hand IS doing. Washington Herald
Sunday school Teacher-And when
the prOdigal son came home, what hap
pened, Tommy Tommy-His father
ran to meet him and hurt himself.
Sunday School Teacher-Why, where
did you get that2 Tommy-It said his
father ran and fell on his neck I bet
It would hurt you to fail on your
neck--Judge.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-15

son and Alger had also gained and 1t
was still anybOdy's race
Harrison Wins.
Early on the morning Of the sixth
DAY Blaine's cablegram relieved the
tension. On the seventh ballot Harm
son went ahead of Sherman and on che
next trial he won, RECEIVING 94+ votes
to lis for Sherman, 100 for AlSeri %
for Gresham, for Blaine and Tor
It was the longest and most holly
contested convention fight on record
and the end was reached by dlckerlnS
and dealing sherman felt that he
had been robbed, Gresham that ne nad
been cheated Indeed Gresham was so
indignant that he refused to support
the nomination of Harrison
In the election Harrison and Morton
defeated Cleveland and Thurman, al
though the Democratic ticket won the
popular majority. The vote or New
York turned the scale against the
Democrats, and II was the one feature
Of the election that although New
York was carried Tor Harrison, the
Democratic candidate for governor
David b. Hill, was successful
-Four Years Later.
Four years later the two parties re-
nominated Cleveland and Harrison the
first time a twin denomination ever
had been made But neither was 10
have the honor without strong OppOsi-
tiOn. Governor Hill called an early
convention in New York, a snap con-
ventiOn the Cleveland men called 1T,
and had got for himself the inStruc-
tons for New YOrSs vote for presi-
dent. Tammany hall had always hated
Cleveland and now II supported Hill
The regular politicians all over the
country were Of the same mind, and
they had the powerful support of edi-
tors like WatterSOn and Grady II
Grady had lived, say the Oldtimers,
Cleveland never would have won the
third nomination
But Cleveland was the popular hero
among the Democrats and his tariff
fight had been justified by the over
Whelming defeat of the Republicans in
the congressional campaign of 1890
following the passage of the Mckinley
tariff bill Hill excited no popular en-
thusiasm- Horace Boies, OF Iowa. was
strong in the west, but his financial
views were distatsteful to the east Ar
thur p German was the man upon
whom the hope Of the anti-Cleveland-
ties were conferred, but when German
got TO Chicago he was so alarmed BY
the Cleveland furOre that he refused
TO fight Cleveland was nominated.
on the first ballot, easily winning
more than the necessary twO-thirds.
Men went away from the convention
swearing to knife the ticket but
Cleveland and Stevenson were destined
Andrew Jackson the honor of having
received in three consecutive elections
the popular majority in the vote for
president
BIaine's Final Defeat.
Harrison had displeased Quay. who
patronage He did not please many OF
the old guard anywhere The dis
aster of the congressional elections OF
1890 had disheartened the party. But
the opposition could not unite on any
body. Blaine resigned from HarrisOn's
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-15
ii Tears Ago To-
From Tie Herald o. l.
Tais Date 1898 ud4

The new telegraph poles in the 7. P.
yards viii be painted white
On next Sunday every one in FL Paso
viii have chance TO go Up on the new
railroad TO AlamOgOrdO-
Two hundred and fifty cars Of dirt
viii be required to fill in for the fOun-
dalton Of the extension to the new
T. P coal shutes-
The BRUCE and building crew OF the
T. p road has arrived and work on the
proposed improvements TO the coal
shutes has already begun
VIII L Watson will leave this morn
ing for the Yaqui gold fields. not in
quest Of gold, however. but to try his
craftsmanship on some poor stray
bear
The militia trains which passed
through here last week are headed east
empty A train Of u coaches arrived
here yesterday, and two more trains
are overdue
The G. H flag di5 not noat just
right yesterday morning and some OF
the workmen were Superstitious about
It They thought II was a fOrebOding
OF some disaster
Alderman Jas. Clifford returned over
the G. H yesterday from a flying trip
to Valentine on business Mr.. Clifford
reports that they have had good rains
in that part OF the country and the
grass is fine
AAS-G-A- G--s7-A-cS COMING from LOE4S-
burg TO FL PasO will consume 1900
pounds OF coal. while engines coming
from Valentine TO FL PasO will con-
sumo 10000 pounds LOrdsburg is 14S
miles from ere and Valentine Isl
Gen Arson L Mills leaves today over
the Texas & Pacific for Washington.
D. c. As there is plenty Of work here
to keep the boundary commission busy
until some time in January. the general
may so over to Cuba, and look the
island over with the troops OF Uncle
Sam.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-15

though I rose in the morning before
daylight, and worked hard until after
dark at night. 1 received for it the
magnificent sum of 81. And when L
got the money those dollars looked to
me as large as the moon looks tonight"
His First Present.
When Wilson was eight years old,
the wife of the village lawyer gave
him a New Testament, which he read
through in a week and upon which he
stood an examination by the donor
This he declared was the beginning OF
his intellectual life.
At 10 years of age he was appren-
ticed TO a neighbOring farmer, who
gave him % days schooling a year
The village lawyers library was open
to the boy and he read zoo books be-
fore he was 21 He walked Il miles to
borrow MarshalFs Life of Washing
ton" and IA miles TO return it. He read
the book so faithfully that he could
give the location of every battle of the
Revolutionary war and the war OF 1872
with the date, the number OF men en-
gagged. and of killed, wounded and
prisoners.
His FirsS Earnings.
The first cent that Henry Wilson
ever earned and had for his own. he
received for working on holiday all
day. digging up a stump Cor a. farmer.
At p years Of age he started for
Natick. Mass. 100 miles away NSrom
his birthplace, having heard that thsre
was work 1T shoemakiaS. His trip
cost him $3.50. II e worked 16 hours a
day and often all night until drowsi-
ness overpowered him. He boarded
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-15

cabinet to make his fifth and last trial
for the presidency but il was too late
The convention was held at Mime
apOlis. William Mckinley was the per
manent chairman. and II he had said
the word he might have taken the
nomination away from Harrison But
he resisted every effort to draft him
into a losing battle. Harrison was
nominated on the first ballot, receiving
535 votes Blaine and Mckinley eaff.
received 1S2, Thomas 3. Reed 4 and
Robert 7. Lincoln l.
The result Of the campaign was an
overwhelming Democratic victory
Both parties had 'straddled" the cur
rency question. The Democrats had
committed themselves to tariff reform
The Republicans stood for protection.
But events that none could fOresee We're
about TO change the whole political sit
uatiOn and bring the Republicans into
power for a longer lease than even the
civil war had given them
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-15

A RIZONA was made by Nature in a
~ frivolous and contradictory mood
4 \ a few million years ago, Just to
show man. when he arrived what she
could do when she felt like it. And
man has admitted that in the case Of
Arizona she has done aplenty. she
has made rivers which are dusty on top
and has put most Of the drinking
water in the state a mile underground.
She has made red. yellow and blue des-
erts and mountains which rise 10000
feet high without any foothills or pre-
liminarieS. She made beautiful valleys
and forgot to sweep the 1000 ton
boulders out of them when she had fin
ished She made the mesas. which
started out to become mountains, but
became tired at the first story, and
which have vast flat tops leveled of
BY a celestial lacSplane- She made
the ella monster. whose looks are al
most fatal She made the Grand Can
Won, in which she opened the earth's
side for $50 miles and laid bare It's
granite ribs. And lastly she covered the
whole exhibition with a climate in which
bugs and microbes cannot live, and IN
which man has to have about 80
years practice IN order to die without
assistance.
Arizona Is the grandfather OF the
continent geolOglcally and the baby OF
the states politically. 1t Is only a year
old as a state, and is still mad because
President Taft took away its recall rat
tie. 1t was first settled several thou
sand years before the Pilgrim fathers
came over ard many of the houses built
bv the original inhabitants are in a
better state Of preservation than some
of the railroad dep0ts i'm the state to-
day. Arizona has the finest collection
of prehistoric ruins in the country. not
excepting the United States Senate. but
it is only in the last few years that
men have learned how to live in it sue
cessfully and to refrain from the six
shooter. Tombstone Is one of the old
est towns in the state and its name
explains the slow growth of Arizona as
a territory. Tn Southern Arizona the
thermometers are fitted with safety
valves. and for many years the inhabi-
tants ventilated each other with reyol-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-15

yer bullets in an unsuccessful effort to
keep comfortable.
Arizona Is now growing rapidly and
contains 100000 people-twO for one
square mile The state IS thus not vet
eonSested with citizens, and in some of
the northern precincts across from the
Grand Canyon, election returns have to
be sent IN to the county seat by aero
plane.
Arizonians are of two classes-thoss
VINO can't 90 away because they can't
live anywhere else, and those who don't
20 away because they won't live anv-
where else. The soil of the state i =
pulverlzed sandstone and viii grow can
yons, mlrages and sage brush success
fully When irrigated, it produces enOr-
nous crops, however, and some vast re-
clamatiOn projects are being completes
including the Roosevelt dam. which i
the largest Of Its Kind west of Wall 81
Arizona Is afflicted with a five-ca1l-
annie railroad fare, which interiors;
considerably with the cause of the noO-
young candidate, and makes autOmobiIos
an economy instead of a luxury. Tf :
weird to look at but healthy to broofb
and Is filled with people who are nro,15
OF lt-nOw that the bad men and yrorse
indians have proved fatal to each otber
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-15
One-Sentence Philosophy
GLOBE SIGHTS.

(AtchiSOn GlObe.)
Leave your enemies alone and they
are pretty apt to get over it.
Neither does a cold dinner amount to
much without a picnic appetite.
Sometimes a man talks a good deal,
and calls it personal magnetism.
No one we ever knew kept any
papers about the house which the vii
lain would care to steal
Cheap jewelry might be counted the
cheapest thing If it were not for the
people who wear a good deal Of it.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-15
QUAKER MED1TATIONs.

philadelphia RecOrd)
Lots of men tire themselves to
death looking for an easy place.
Even the book with an attractive
cover IS not always boTnd to succeed.
Tommy-POp, what is horse sense?
Tommy's POp-The ability to say nay,
my son.
The photographers have never
seemed to make quite clear the differ
ence between the words arbitration and
arbitrary.
She-N nat is your principal objec-
ton to the suffragets? He-Weu,
they look as though they would make
better fathers than mothers.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-15
Breaking the Records

TN valley beginning complain of too
in to
advantage settlers records have broken
off till
August The Estana News
explains plant growth
that the spell the
plants particularly now" At
pastug to hold back and they
TO have growth
whea isl heading out rather short
Possibly Campbell could valuable
hints to how best
strengthen growth drOuths later in the
blessing Of the and it be lett
how the most
out Of irregular
state election this fall Now shall see if an they
Huntswa i
If the
platform
aAu aboard wills everyday cry
FL PasO Arizona metropolis
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-15

HEN have reached three and ten hope viii not be like sun
broken down and that will lift voice and seOd when children
muhd that
III
would
be
Though must hObbe uh to help
to
to
1
like gay oar
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-15

with the man who kept the town IL
brary at his home. After working az
his trade for two years, becoming an
bilious for public career. he organized
a debating society in which he dis
covered himself as a public speaker.
visiting Washington, where re saw
slave mart, he became AT aboiitionlSt
and from that hour he was the sworn
foe Of slavery. He studied the rights
Of the working me1 and the DEBATING
society turned things up side down in
that little town
Lends Ills Savings.
After several years OF harl iaECr he
had saved 500. which money he loaned
out, and af.er goirs &c scnooi ter a
while in the sumner, taught n tie
winter. The man to whom he loaned
the money having failed, wilson re-
turned to Natick with So and began
to make shoes When his work was
done he spent his time debating public
questions and when he was % years
Of age he was elected to the Massachu-
sets house of representatives, Two
years later he held seat IN the state
senate. He was reelected again and
again and was its president for two
years.
He was a remarkable organizer OF
men. The coalition between parties
made Boutwell,, a Democrat, governor
and Charles Sumner. Wing, United
States senator. In 1888 he was elected
to the United States senate and re-
elected in 1861 becoming chairman OF
the committee Of military affairs. in
which capacity, at the beginning OF the
Civil war, he influenced congress to
pass an act permitting the recruiting
OF 100000 men. He was a third time
returned to the senate, and there re-
NAMED till elected vice president.
Known rs s|Natick Cobbler.7
He was popularity known as the
"Cobbler of Natick." Henry Wilson
was born jeremiah Jones Goliath, but
on attaining his majority he had his
name changed by the legislature to that
by which he is known in history
In the United States SeLatc Mr.. Will
son declared on one occasion: Honest
labor is honorable. While the names
of Benjamin Franklin, Roger sherman.
Nathaniel Greene and Paul Revere live
in the brightest pages OF our history.
the mechanics Of cur country will new
er want illusrrious men to inCite them
to noble aspirations and noble deeds"
Henry Wilson died in Washington,
D. c.. November %, 1875. Seven shoe
makers sat in congress during the first
100 years of our government: Roger
sherman. Gideon Lee. William Graham
John HALEY. II. p. Baldwin, Daniel
Sheffey and Henry Wilson.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-15
A Modem Miracle

work from time to time Beginning very
pictures gradual spread of activity of the
working employed the erection of
machines of mighty of
cutting blasting digging crushing lifting carrying measuring s
filling building they Destroy always creating
though at first they seem be d CREATION 1 5 a 3o o9
@ squares the ves bnd thick as San
adntO would include dozen Mills buildings and have
room ~ United States caPitO
OF say q square three miles high
moving picture intervals the whole
period of constructions After have
ooo non work. ssrs completion experts will take the series
films and carefully piece together interesting parts
joining significant activity all to make one long him OF seHes
Then If will become possible to place picture
made from it. in moving picture Teed off
before ones eyes flashing dazzling the whole
to of the beginning growth development completion
projects by far the largest and most costly
the world On unWateTed desert sands the men VIII
gather city; swiftly and cut deep into the
and halted and viii greatly
they viii be assaed by Hoods and VIII ng them OH anu
conquer them
block powers the
aerial and they viii burrOW IN the sands and ssl great e
rocks; with material than the
there in the beginning they viii pile block on block
mass On mass HILL mountain,
the behind the the lake
extends and grows wider and longer moment by moment m the sandy %
tiu Sink ben,t the iiBg surface and vast expanses of
rolling country knls
1853 the % e. and miles and miles into lost distances the water spreads
away conquest meaning greater below
power accur1ung released the
the fumes turbines power
pounds by on its canals;
blessed fruits of useful
effort to those that respect natures way and follow it
theate viii be Nothing like
before No construction project anything
preserve picture finish absolute completeness
able do in five what
would have taken centuries not SO very long ago. ana Win modern ART ana
record that viii tell IN IS
complete Of gnng
thing ourselves that valley
of the CvTest inventors imaginative
pare from bed
[ pinnacle 4 the clock
without creating
the visitors
the Of
New
legislature
The Fourth has gone; Long Second
No longer are the fearful floods feared danger
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-15
TO
THE HERALD

Gan communications mu=S bear the
signature Of the wriSer- but the mans
viii not be published where such a IL
quest IS mada.)
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-15

Theirs lots o difference between havin'
money enough t buy a tourn' car an
bein' able t own one. Tn less demand
Their is fer rhubarb tn more arrogant an
self reliant it seems Z be.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-15
No WATER on HIS Farm.

BerlnO. n NJ, June Is. 1912.
Editor FL PasO Herald:
I notice in tOday's Herald an item
from your BerinO correspondent with
reference to the overflow of the Rio
Grande. in which he mentions Snymau
and Gibson fields being under water.
As far as I know. Snyman and Glib
son have not as vet had any trouble
with floods from the Rio Grande
Yours G. A Z. Snyman-