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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-02-22
q. w. YENSER BUYS INTEREST
IN BLUE FRONT SHOE STORE.

Instead of N. E. Gish proprietor,
Gish & Yenser will go on the Dill
and letter heads and in the adver-
tieements of the Blue Front shoe
store hereafter. g. w. Ycnser has
purchased an interest in the store.
The new firm has ordered large
line Of spring and summer shoes
and will maintain only an up to dase
place of business.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-02-22
ARROW WENT WILD AND
PIERCED HIS EYE.

They were playing just like two
healthy youngsters will play. They
we're probably representing Indians
or the early archers. His younger
brother had q home made bow ana
and arrow. Karl Rugh. son Of Mr..
AMI Mrs. c. Z. Raeh. used pillow
as barraesdes The arrow was ae-
cidentaily DISCHARGED and vent wild
piercing the ban 6f one Of KarIs
eyes. Il was at fIf1t FEARED that -
would lose tas algnt of the eye
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-02-22

The Golden Belt Road between
Kansas City and Denver. which pass
es through Abilene, will soon be
marked by signs. Associations along
the road have ordered $50 signs
which are expected to be delivered
next month. The city commissioners
this morning appropriated $50 for.
two large signs by 10 feet in size
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-02-22
Good Points
on Two Big Signs

to be erected at entrance of the road
In the northeast part of Abilene and
one at the entrance of the road In
the southwest part of town. These
signs will bear live advertising
boosting Abilene and the cpaed limit
through Abilene. Such signs prob
ably will be placed at the entrance
of every town along the road
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-02-22
wooDMENDIsCUssED NEW RATE
Deputy Walker Told Men Of the
Needed Changes.

District Deputy J. A. Walker Of
Emporia addressed the Modern Wood
men last night and told them of the
new rates. He explained the need
OF raise in rates to meet obligations
in death losses and showed how the
new plans are not so severe as many
supposed. 1880.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-02-22
Trouble started at Abilene.

Mrs. Rickels was married first, 16
years ago to o. f. stickney. Three
children of the couple are living.
One of these was the victim OF
thursdays tragedy. another is A.
hert ]. Stickney, wso is living a.
home, and the third ls o. w. stickney
of SCOTS Bluffs. Neb.
While the youngest child, Clara
Belle, was still a baby Stickney left
his home near Abilene and went to
Texas. Prior to that time he is said
to have been providing in poor
way for his family, and upon leav-
ing he neglected them entirely.
Shortly afterward Mrs. Stickney se-
cured a divorce on the grounds OF
neglect. Stickney has married again
and lives somewhere in Ok'atoma.
Eight years ago she was married
to John J. Rickels at Abilene and
has lived with him since. Until a
couple years ago the family is said
to have lived happily and contented-
ly. Then trouble began. Rickels
bought an SO-acre farm near Abi-
Iene and built a big barn on Il. The
barn had not been built long before
It was struck by lightning and was
destroyed, together with q NOV full
of hay. Riekels, disheartened. re-
builded the barn. and second time
It was destroyed by lightning. The
farm was heavily mortgaged and un-
sble to meet any payments the mort
esge was turned over ic the former
owner. Giving up hope then be at
tempted to viii himself. taking 2 big
dose or eh1OrOform Bnt the prompt
attention q ths paysici7al saved his
nIe.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-02-22
THEY HAD A FLACK SCARE.
Junction city Searched a Train Look
ing for Him.

OuHCthOM NhAS tpOpASA'- - - $1,000 --r
ing for Him.
Junction City Union: Another
John Flack scare went through this
part of Kansas this afternoon. John
Carroll Of Chapman while walking
at the depot in Topeka this morning
claimed he met Flack face to face
and Carroll at once reported the mat
ter to the Topeka authorities. Carroll
claimed that Flack got off the train
1O3 to get lunch and that he again
boarded the train for the west. The
news was flashed along the line that
the ex-Abilene banker was en- route
home to give himself up and at every
station old. residenters Of Abilene
who knew Flack went through the
train but no Flack was found.
Some months ago IT was reported
that the attorneys for Fiack had
reached an agreement and that the
ex-banker would return and take his
punishment. II was then said that
he would return to Abilene about
the first Of the year.
Nok a Fnfernrfse.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-02-22
Former Abileneite Kills
Girl and Himself

empty shotgun shell was found near
the scene OF the double murder.
Rickel's cap was found thirty feet
from his body, the top Of 1t torn 70
shreds, with the lining hardly dis
turbed. Rickels, II he shot himself,
used his left hand to pull the trig-
ger and fell with his right hand
grasping the gun stock. Members
of the family. while asserting the girl
hated Rickels. admit she cracked
Jokes" with him, the last time We'd
nesday night. The shot that killed
the girl was fired upward, the shot
ranging up, although the girl must
have been standing at the bottom OF
the ravine.
Mother Jealous of Girl.
That Mrs. John ]. Rickels, wife of
the man and mother of the girl who
we're found murdered near their home
was Jealous of the attentions paid
to the girl by her husband, was the
statement made to the officers by
members of the family in the inves-
tigation conducted yesterday at To-
peka. Also that the girl had joked
her step-father about going to thea
tres in Topeka with young men and
boys, and that he always became
angry when she thus would joke with
him, was asserted.
Rickels, according to Albert j,
Stickney, step-son of the dead man
and brother of the girl, was "crazy
about Clara" and continued his at
tentions to her in sDite of protests
of his wife and warnings of the step
son. These attentions, the mother
asserts, were made despite the pro-
testations Of the daughter. 'Neverthe-
less members OF the family assert
that she frequently cracked jokes"
with her step-father, giving as q
1-,eason that she aid It for her moth
er's sake, to keep peace in the family
Was CIaudestine Meeting?
Friday afternoon the officers be
gan to believe that the, meeting be-
tween Rickels and the girl was pre-
concerted. According to Herbert
Rickels, the 7-year-oid boy, Rickels
! went into the girls bedroom before
she was out Of bed Thursday morn
ing and held a WHISPERED CONVERSE
ton with her. The little fellow de-
MED that he heard anything that
was said, declaring that Rieke's did
not remain in the room long. and
that immediately after, he left it
Clara arose and dressed. A theory
that Immediately srose was that
there had been an understanding
ftsat the couple would die tnEether.
/ was. .precluded ON account z. the act,
ions OF the gil :,eTore she m 't ner
/ death. At the hclse she Is said to
have been joval as usual, and in
Ter meeting wiz, Miss Grace Wallace
= teacher in another districT, wh9
vas on her way 10 school, she was
in a jovial frame of mind.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-02-22
Shotgun Was RickeI's.

The posse last night found the
shotgun with which the man kiised
, the girl, lying between the two bod
les. the man having fallen over the
dead girls body. AN examination OF
Of the wound in the back Of the
girls head showed what sort OF Wea-
non Nod been used to kill her. 1t
also showed that the charge was
fired at close range. The entire
hack of the girls skull was broken
by the big. shot. 4 few OF the snot
had entered her neck, Death is
thought to have been instantaneous.
There was nothing to indicate that
the man had taken his own life and
the wound which caused his death
was such, as particularly to preclude
suicide. He was struck on the top
Of the head. The blow was . heavy
one. evidently dealt with a heavy
weapon Of some kind. It was i'm
possibIe. from the nature OF the
wound. to Judge what sort OF wea-
non was used by Rickers murderer.
The man was found lying on MS
face. his head in a pool Of blood.
His death, too, had evidently been
instantaneous. No weapon OF any
kind, however. was found to indicate
with what he had been killed.
It developed last night that Rick
els had taken the shotgun out with
him little before eight in the morn
saying he was going to hunt rab-
bits. Herbert, on his way to school,
accompanied his step-father part
way through the alfalfa field, It Is
believed Rickels then returned to
lay in wait for his stepdaughter in
the slough.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-02-22
Not q EnBeFpFise.

Enterprise, Feb. 1s.-John Flaek
dfd not appear here Saturday and
people here consider that some one
else wns miitaksn for the dstauItins
hankar.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-02-22

T5h1 !. Biekels and steps deughter
clara stickney. who were soand dead
g.snola THnFaaaE. were both
saot in he head, Bus cfiy enc nsv
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-02-22
Attempted sulcide HeFe.

Mr.. RickeIs formerly lived on q
farm six miles northwest Of Abilene
and later moved to Abilene and
worked as mechanic in 3. 3. coul-
son,s and T. v. Prendergast's gar
sres. Then he vent to Kanaaa City
to work in an automobile shop, but
soon returned. He became desDOnd-
ent and attempted suicide about
year ago BY takink enrbOlie acid;
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-02-22

John ]. Rickels, q farmer forty
elk years old near Topeka and for
nerly of Abilene, and Clara Belle
stickney, his step-daughter, fourteen
years old, were found dead in an al
falfa field on the Rickels farm eight
miles north of Topeka late Thursday
afternoon. A shotgun wound in the
back OF the girls head revealed the
cause OF her death. Rickels had
been struck on the top of the head
with a heavy weapon and the entire
top OF his skull crushed in.
The bodies were found in slough
in the alfalfa field after a short
search by party composed OF mem
bers of the Rickels family and w.
T. Woolford, L. B. Scock, d. H. Wal-
lace and Roy Peck, all residents OF
that part OF the country. The mans
body lay over that Of the girl. Fear
that something had happened to. the
little girl was aroused in the Rick
els household when little Herbert
Rioke1s, the girls half brother, re-
turned home from school yesterday
afternoon and told his mother the
girl had not been at school during
the entire day. The mother Aad
not seen her husband IN as long
time and Immediately began the or
gahization of the searching party
The condition of the bodies when
found indicated that both had been
dead for several hours.
ea Mrs. Rickers Theory.
one theory is being advanced by
the mother of the girl and wife OF
the dead man. She declares she is
firm in the belief that Rickels way
laid his step-daughter as she was
walking through the alfalfa field to
school, dragged her to a slough in
the field and there murdered the
child BY firing d load Of buck shot
into the back OF her head. The wo-
man believes some other person,
who saw the crime committed then
turned upon Rickels, struck him q
blow or blows in the top OF the nead
and killed him.
4"There had been trouble between
INV husband and my daughter for
4,r,o,, Mrs Riclcels said Il
feel sure my husband planned to
murder my daughter"
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1912-10-19
ORDINANCE NO. 25

Be it ordained by the Mayor
and Board of Aldermen in reeu-
lar session convened:
See. 1. That it shall be I'M
lawful for any person or persons
to obstruct travel or cause to be
DISTRACTED travel on any sidewalk
or street in the town Of Melville.
La, by placing any abstraction
on sidewalks or + streets in said
town by placing chairs, goods,
merchandise. or otherwise on
said sidewalks or streets.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordain
ed, ETC., That any person or per
sons found guilty of obstructing
any sidewalk or streets shall Be
fined not less than five dollars nor
more than fifty dollars and inn
prisonment at the discretion of
the Mayor.
Sec. 8. Be it further ordain.
ed, etc, That said ordinance
shall go into effect Immediately
after its passage.
Sec, 4. Be it further ordain-
ed, etc, That all ordinances or
part of ordinances in conflict
herewith be and the same are
hereby repealed.
Thus done and passed ii regu-
lar session convened on this sew
enth day Of August, 1912, a. o.
On call Of the roll the follow
vote was taken: Yeas: Stone,
Joseph, Richard and Jones.
Nays: None.
J. WILLIAMS, M. D.,
]. ]. LEBLANC 4a cisfk.
oct 5-3t
Moved by Jones and seconded
by Richard and carried, That the
Board of Aldermen now adjourn.
j. WILLIAMS, M. ID,
Mayor.
Attest: E. j. LEBLANC, CLERK.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1912-10-19
The Care OF Grave Yards.

The surroundings of a church
seldom fail to be an index Of the
character Of the people who wor-
ship in it. How often WI see a
church with its ground all litter
ed over with leaves and trash,
and the weeds and bushes grow
ing up almost to the very door.
Some good sister with a basket
full of chicken sandWiches and
pies couldlure a gang Of boys to
such grounds almost any Satur-
day evening, and the way bush
hooks and brooms would fly
would be a caution. And what
fun the boys would have, and
how eagerly they would watch
for the grounds to need another
afternoons attention.
The writer once visited q
church which enjoyed the benefit
OF a considerable legacy left by
a deceased brother. | went into
the cemetery to see the philan-
grave and found it
grown over with weeds and his
tombstone broken down, and
pitched up on top Of The grave!
The condition Of many Gene
in the country is a dis
grace to our people. Men and
women go to church and weep
at illusions to the sainted dead,
the cattle are tramping on
the graves of the loved ones, and
hogs are rubbing off their mire
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1912-10-19
IN JUSTICE TO
The RED Man

Speaking of the personel Of
that meeting Of the Society of
American Indians at Columbus,
Ohio, the New York Times says:
They are the noble red men,
without the blood thirstiness of
their sires and their capacity for
rum and mischief"
A Christian white man and ed
itor is the last man on earth JUS
titled in throwing stones at the
American Indian.
The white man found the Am
erican Indian happy according to
their needs, a creature with high
ideals of honor and Worshiping
God, according to his lights, with
with a sincerely that would com-
pare favorably with much Of the
sincerity of worship Of the pres
ent day. Moreover, the red man
loyalty practiced his religion.
Physically, he was equal if not
the superior of the white man.
Our growing divorce evil, our
white slavery, our advertise
ments of private doctors are aW-
full obstacles to our constantly
domning him for his social i'm
moralities. Maybe he was a saw
age, but he never perpetrated
anything worse than old, cuItur-
ed, civilized Boston and dozens
of other communities permit iii
their slums.
Truth confesses that very
largely by fraud and force we
took the red mans vast realm.
We made him bloodthirsty BY it.
He thirstied for blood. We
thirstied for gold.
Yea verify! That handful of
red-faced representatives at the
Columbus meeting are the no.
BILE red men," They are the
remnants that have survived our
gold thirstiness, our rum and our
diseases. Shall we pause in adj
miration of their nobility-and
editorially stone their ancestors?
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1912-10-19

on the tombstones bearing the
inscription, Gone but not for
gotten The only flowers, *.
cept on a few favored plots, are
the fennel and jimpson weed.
And yet all the departed ones
were buried with tears. and
there were fresh flowers on their
graves every week for the first
two months. Rev. Chas. 4.
.reaves in The Progressive
Farmer.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1912-10-19
Stolen.

tolen from 1segg Station OF the IS. Il. H.
from Elvis vs. ffIiam one dark bay mare, i've
years old, about II hands high, one hin
and one front feet white above the hoof.
on the 9th OF aug. 1872, taking out OF
the lot, branded thus
Any one that can give Information lead
10 her recover | VIII give q reward 90
said party ten dollars.
ELVIs WILLIAM. BeRg, La.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1912-10-19
Notice: Creamery site
Wanted.

Bid will be received until Mondasi morn
ing, Oct. 18th, 1917, for suitable Creamery
site, size: Not less than rs K 100 feet. 40.
dress all bids m Ilr. g r. Boagni, GhaH-
man; orL III. MornhiuVeg, Secretary.
oct l1.lI
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-20
PureSt Water in America.

ISOLATION. Association means inevitably restric-
lions. You can do this, according to the rules,
and you can't do that. You are required to use
water at a certain time No matter whether
you are ready for it or not, water is turned to
you at certain time, and YOU must use it then
or wait until your. turn comes around again. Ia
other words, you must make your convenience
to the order Of somebody else's convenience. On
the other hand, no matter how much you may
need water for the irrigation of your dropping
crops, you must, perforce, wait until your time
for water comes. With pumping plant at your
command, however, you can count upon the
water as a certain factor, any time you want it.
Only men who have had actual experience in
irrigation can properly appreciate the tremend-
Gus Importance of having water just when you
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-20
Purest Water in America. -

want it. How many farmers under gravity sys-
TEN would be willing to pay a standing extra
charge for the privilege Of getting water just at
the time it is needed.
The pumping-plant is the better, second,
because the careful and industrious farmer
reaps the full reward of his caution and his in
dustry. If he allows his fields to become pois-
oned with noxious weeds, he has but himself to
blame; if he keeps his fields clean, they are not
poisoned up with weeds from the fields of his
less careful and less industrious neighbors. John
Jones, for example, owns farm watered by
community ditch. He takes every precaution
to avoid this pest of weeds. But Bill Smith, who
lives above him on the ditch allows weeds to
multiply upon his farm The water which he
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-20
''Puest Water in america. .

do this. the farmer whose turn it is finds his
head of water considerably diminished Per
haps his sense of justice is offended, and he
takes a reprisal in the form of water out of
turn. And so it goes. Soon it degenerates into
a shameless scramble for water. Under the
pumping system, however there is no chance for
the development of any Of these nasty traits of
character from which even the best are said to
be not entirely free.
There are numerous other advantages of
the pumping system. For instance, ditch-water
in flood times carries great deal of silt. Turn
this silly water onto your alfalfa, and it will
encrust the bottom part of the stalk and deaden
it and render that portion unmarketable. With
pure weH-water, alfalfa may be cut right down
to the ground. Again, silly water may not be
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-20
&C Purest Water in America. .

turned at all onto young and tender plants. 1t
smothers them to death
The Mimbres Valley is a pumping district,
where the water conditions are ideal. The aver
age cost of an independent water-right in the
Mimbres Valley is about one-half the average
cost of a waterright under the various govern
ment irrigation projects.
Mimbres Valley is young, land can be purchased
for about one-tenth of its value based upon its
actual earning power. This condition of course,
will not last. Land viii rise, and development
proceeds The time to investigate this region is
now. A request to the Chamber of Commerce,
Deming, n. NJ, will bring you complete infor-
nation.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-20
"PUREST WATER IN AMERICA"

is known as the gravity system, and the other
as the pumping system. In the former, the sup
ply of water is above the land to be irrigated,
in the latter the supply of water is below the
level of the land to be irrigated. The gravity
system is as old as civilization, the pumping
system is development of that wonder-work
ing era Of material progress, the nineteenth CEN
tury. The former is good, the latter is better
The pumping system is the better, first, be-
cause it is the independent system. When you
buy land under an ordinary gravity system, you
buy into a membership with water users as
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-20
Dening and the Mimbres Valley
~PUREST WATER IN AMERICA"

amount of water required theoretically; that
IS. tbe amount required if the water we're used
most efficiently and economically. One season
comes along during which rainfall supplements
the water in the ditch, and things go prosper
ouslv. But the next year, perhaps, the season
is quite different The rains do not come. Every
farmer needs just a little more water, and the
sum of these many wants makes a shortage.
Then the trouble begins. Farmer A is not too
conscientious His crop is suffering. He raises
his headgates just little, though it is not his
turn. and swipes enough water for a land or two.
Bv the time a number of the less conscientious
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-20
*PUREST WATER IN AMERICA"

The pumping plant is the better, third, be-
cause there are no periods of water-shOrtage.
Such periods are inevitable under the COM
munity ditch. The acreage under community
ditch is in nearly every case determined by the
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-20
"PUREST WATER IN AMERICA"

sends on down to John Jones is laden with the
seeds thereof, and Jones has to pay in extra
labor and diminished returns for Smiths delin-
quencies. The entire community thus rests IN
der the blight of divided responsibility.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-09-09
The paStine.

Vitagraph special feature in three
reels included in Tuesdays change of
program. Four full reels of pictures,
THE French Spy" Vitagraph
special in three reels, 5000 feet. GEN
eral Deriment, with his wife and
daughter Mathilde. on their way to
Algiers, are captured by pirates. The
pirate captain claims Mrs. Deriment
as his personal property. She resists
and antagonizes him. Her hands
bound she is forced to walk the
plank" and is drowned, Her daugh-
ter is struck dumb at the sight The
general and Mathilde are sold as
slaves to the Moors, allies of the Ar
abs. Mathilde escapes. Riding
across the country she appeals to
the French Consul for protection, and
accomplishes the rescue of her ia
ther. Colonel Birnell, a French Of
marries her. Colonel Birnell starts
to the front at the head of his regi-
ment, after bidding his wife good-gy.
In order to be near him. she dis
guses herself as a French Lancer,
and joins his regiment unknown to
him She saves her husbands life by
piercing the arm of an Arab with her
sabre as he attempts to shoot the
colonel. Later when a spy is needed
to enter the Arabian lines Mathilde
volunteers. After wild ride across
the desert, she reaches the enemy's
fortress, disguised as an Arab boy,
semi-deranged. She penetrates the
stronghold of the belligerent tribes
of Arabs, Moors and Turks, accom-
plishing their overthrow and leading
the French fores to victory.
Suing SUSAN" Vitagaphr 1000 TT
John Bunny and Miss Flora Finch
play the leads in this comedy Horrid
man, that is what they all say. She
threatens to sue the man next door
He does a little suing himself. BY
pressing his suit he wins, now she
thinks he is a dear. A bright, buz-
zing comedy, lots of pleasure with
out the sting