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Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-05-27
ATTENTION o. Il. s.
NOTICE OF MEETING.

A special meeting of Turquoise
Chapter No. 10, o. e. S., will be
held Thursday evening. May 30th.
at o'clock sharp, in Masonic Hall
(Butler building) Worthy Grand
Matron Ella Kyle andWorthy Grand
Patron w. s. Parks will be present.
Members are requested to attend
and visiting members cordially in
vited. Work will be exemplified.
By order of
MARIE BURDICK. U. NJ.
BERTHA A. PECK, Sec.
5-27-4t
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MINERS UNION PRESIDENT
WILL DELIVER ADDRESS

Chas. F. Meyer. president Of the
Western Federation of Miners, will
arrive from Denver tomorrow and
deliver an address before the local
organization tomorrw evening.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-05-27
SOAP BOX ORATOR
DISREGARDS THE LAW

SAN DIEGO. May Motor
Cycle Policeman Hathaway caused
a small riot here today when he
kicked A. y. Carson, soap box
orator, for half a block. He re-
fused to arrest Carson who was dis
regarding the street speaking law.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-05-27
NEW AUTOMATIC SHOT,
GUN GIVEN AWAY

The Nevada Club is giving away
one OF the latest automatic shot
guns. Absolutely giving 1t away
Call and see the gun and find out
how they do II. 5-1-tf
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rREsH PRODUCE DAILY.

A. Shelly is now receiving daily
from Bishop fresh vegetables. eggs
and butter for the Tonopah market.
He is located near the depot. In
few days he will open a market op-
posite Elks' home. Call and in
spect his green goods. 5-21-tf
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EQUAL FRANCHISE Society meet
ing Tuesday at 2:15 p. m.
Knights Of Pythias hall. 5-27-2t.
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DR.. J. NJ Thomas of Los An
geles, was a passenger on the Ton
opah Manhattan Auto company's
car this afternoon for Manhattan.
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WANTED--Girl for general house
work Apply Mrs. w II. Black
burn. 5-27-3t.
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FOUND-Fur boa ON road between
Tonopah and Millers. Owner can
have same by proving property
and paying for this ad 5-22-tf
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ED WHEECE keeps all kinds OF
lumber and Rock Springs coal. I'm
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WANTED Girl for general house
work. Call phone 594 ml7-u
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LOST-on Main st. or Brougher ave
small diamond pin. Reward.
5-27-2t.
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WANTED Situation by woman as
cook In hotel or general hotel
work Address Mrs Metger'
Main Line junction, New 5-27-St.
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CLASSIFIED ADS.

Advertisements in tins column are
10 cents per line, each insertion.
Five words TO the line:
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AFTERNOON GAMES.

Batteries castleton and Brown;
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-01-18

u ANSAS CITY, Kan.-There Is in
IA this city woman, still young,
whose ambition was born when she
was an unsophisticated country girl
Of 10, who did not know what failure
meant, and who came to the city and
made q fortune in open competition
with shrewd flnanciers and daring
spectators.
Annie j. Scott, a penniless orphan,
was sent to a farm in Lafayette coun-
ty, Mo-, when she was s years old. as
nursemaid and ''help." The success
of a neighbor's child melted her to
study and save money. so that she
might attend the Warrensburg Nor
NAL school. She MIXED cows, sold
butter and saved $50. Then she went
to Warrensburg and worked her way
in three years through the normal
school. graduating in 1894.
Her first ambition was to become a
missionary, but she became Ill and
was cared for at the German Hospital
in Kansas City. There she deter
mined to be a doctor, and in 1897 en-
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-01-18
Racers Eye a Historic Old Mansion

. Observation-Disclosures the re.
i cent death Of Miss Jane r. Haines.
after a lifetime spent within its ram.
bling, tradition-haunted halls, Wyck,
the ancestral Haines mansion, at Ger
mantown avenue and Walnut lane, is
threatened with possible destruction.
should the historic ground on which
It stands be sold.
Under its weather-beaten caves re-
pose perhaps. more sturdy mementos
of Philadelphia's history than in any
other private manse Of the many for
which the city is famous. Flooring
upon which the blood of British and
American soldiers mingled during the
battle of Germantown. is stored for
keepsake in its cobwebbed old attic.
The chair in which Lafayette sat
when he visited Germantown in 1924,
and when he was given a reception at
Wyck, is still to be found in the midst
Of the silent quaintness Of the now
untenanted old homestead.
The nucleus for the old structure
was first built in 1898, by one Dirck
Jansen, whose daughter married one
Caspar Wistar; through the marriage
Of Wistar's daughter to Reuben
Haines in 1850, and by subsequent In
heritance through direct kinship.
Miss Haines came into possession Of
the long. white, notwithstanding
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-01-18

A genuine sealskin coat b hand
some, no matter how shapeless 1t is
but the seal plush coat must be fault
less and elegant IN line to possess
distinction. This coat is exceedingly
smart and graceful, though the ma
terial is the comparatively inexpen-
sfve brown seal plush and the collar
and cuffs are Of Oppossum-alsO an IN
expensive fur. Like all these coats
this model closes far over toward the
left hip and is quite straight from hip
TO ankle.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-01-18
Aged Newsie Leaves Hoard to Church

CT. LOUIS.-Lawrence Ring. for
~ years a familiar character in the
vicinity Of Third and Chestnut streets
where he sold papers. died at the City
Hospital Of apoplexy. Recently his
will was filed for probate, and after
that tales of fortunes deposited in va
rious banks were heard.
Larry" lived the life Of q recluse.
His home was a single room in the
antiquated structure at North Third
street. There he came Of an evening
cooked his modest supper. smoked his
pipe and pored for hours over the
news Of the world. He was believed
to be about IS years old.
He was q veteran Of the civil war
and a pensioner. He was on the YES
sci which was blown up at Fort Fish
or. OF this It was his greatest pride
to tell. Often he declared that Ad-
mlral George Dewey, the hero Of Ma
Mia, had been his captain. But he
never told anyone be had a bank &C
count.
In his win be leaves to the pastor
Of the old cathedral on Walnut street
$50 for masses for the repose Of his
soul and the rest 10 the church fund
He named the Misiissippi VALLEY
Tgust Company szscutpr. Just what
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-01-18
Find Petrified Daddy of All HOLSTERS

water. receding In the course of ages
left the lobster stranded and he got
petrified. Similar but much more
modern phenomena are not un.
known here. Harvard and "Tech"
students are sometimes left stranded
after buying many Holsters Of a night,
but they do not get petrifed. Of
course.
Millions Of years after this particu-
lar lobster passed away the sporty
young men Of the stone age cracked
its descendants with their flint hatch
cts and treated the stony show girls
Of that period. Indeed, some geolog-
lists claim that the term lobster" as
applied to sporty young men who do
that sort Of thing has descended from
the stone age; they have been doing
so ever since.
The petrifled oyster Is much more
ancient than any ever found In a
church stew. It also lived and breath
ed and had it's troubles and joys 50.-
100000 years ago. Prof. Sinner found
it atop the Jura mountains in north
Switzerland. How 1t got there only
biologists can tell you; perhaps oys-
ters carried alpenstocks in those
days.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-01-18

old structure, which took its name
from an old English residence belong
ing to the family.
The Germantown road. when the
original house was built, was nothing
but winding woodland path, and an
Indian trail diverging from 1t passed
where now stands the conservatory
on the Walnut lane side Of the house.
So much did the early settlers respect
this Indian right Of way that It was
temporarily arched over in the en-
largement Of the building, and SO re-
manned until long after Germantown
avenue was opened.
Apart from its historic significance,
this fine old haphazard bit Of progress
sive building, between the dates OF
whose earlier and later portions runs
the span Of more than two centuries,
is a favorite object for the artists
brush to capture for portrayal on
canvas.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-01-18

corn In the direction Of drouth re-
sistance, and Professor Roberts has
been busy for the past two years
working these raw materials into
practical shape, in which work he
has received the invaluable cooper
alton and assistance Of Messrs. o. F.
Cook and C. N. Collins, of the office
Of Economic Investigations, and OF
Mr.. Walter T. Swingle, Of the office
OF Plant Life History Investigations
of the Bureau OF Plant Industry.
Over in China. near Shanghai, a
missionary found variety Of corn
grown by the natives, that makes q
crop In dry years when the introduced
American varieties Of corn all fail.
Now this Chinese corn is one Of the
most peculiar varieties that has ever
been discovered. Its leaves, especial
" the upper ones, are so twisted that
they appear to grow on one side OF
the stalk. The leaves all, as a rule
point upward at a sharp angle, giving
a field of this corn the appearance
OF a field Of kaffir corn.
The stalk is short and stocky, and
the leaves closely set together.-like-
wise like kafEir corn. Observe the
field at the time when the pollen Is
shedding and you win not see q sign
Of the tassel. The upper leaves bend
up over the tasseL completely cover
ing Il. so that all that is visible Is q
fan-lIke shield Of leaves overlapping
the plant
Now this Is all q firse-rate arrange
lment for catching and holding the
pollen and preventing rs blowing
away in the hot. dry winds. The
Oue-sIded arrangement Of the leaves
referred to. results in making a reg
MAR corlusereW chute down which the
pollen slides to the silks on the ears.
As II this were not enough, the ears
themselves present q cunning adapta-
ton for snatching q crop out Of the
teeth OF q hot wind. The silks pro
trude from the leaf angles before
ever a sign OF the ear or the shoot
HseR g 20 be seen There & little
q no swelling Of the leaf 70 beiray
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-01-18
corners.
Lnru. Rug Muff. Eclipse ownsrs.

Some Of the stoles and NUNS that
are being carried on cold days are so
huge that they fairly eclipse . slip Of
q girl entirely. With the skirt and
coat made as slim as the physical pro
portion Of . slender girl can stand
and then the addition Of huge neck
piece and muff, II say nothing Of an
all.eclipslng hat, 4 girl is completely
lost. Twenty years ago she could
never have carried the big nuns and
neckpieces made Of long-hAired furs
that are fashionable now without
bending under their weight But the
furrier has looked out for that, and
the biggest mum weighs scarcely a.
much now as the little ola-timer did.
One thing IL practical about these
giant nuns. No ones arms are going
to suffer with cold while they have
such a shelter. The best q these
nuns completely envelop the arms to
the elbows, and the nun itself covers
the lap like q robe.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-01-18
BR! EDING CORN THAT WILL RESIST THE
DRY WEATHER OF WESTERN KANSAS
O H. F. Roberts Of the State Agricultural College at Work Upon this
interesting NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Under Way to
Cross Chinese Variety With the
American Kind.

the hiding away Of an ear, when 10
and behold! a tuft Of silks suddenly
appears, down the chute comes the
pollen, and the silks are fertIlized.
Close pollination? Yes. But 1t Is
not true that self.pollination is neces'
sarily bad for corn. Some varieties
may become adapted 10 It. And this
Chinese corn saves its pollen, short
circuits on itself and gets Its ears
pollinated, in the very face OF hot
winds that blast the tassels, waste
the pollen and dry the silks OF our
ordinary corn. So much for one way
of coming a corn crop out OF drouth
season. We are said to have hot
winds in Kansas,-sometimes, and
when they come and spend a week
at the corn pollination period, It Is
goodbye to the corn crop. But the
hot winds are not all OF q drouth.
What II the rain doesn't arrive for
two or three weeks. or a month and
a half in July and August, the corn
leaves roll, the ears shrivel and fail
TO fiji, aud the kernels wither and
cease to grow. How is the corn crop
going to get through. not merely a
three days hot wind, but long,
steady, vicious, professional drouth,-
one of the first.class successful KIND
such as we enjoyed last summer?
Here again we need new blood Tor
our corn.-drouth resistant blood OF q
different kind from what the Chinese
corn offers. And 1t seems to be
promised in the new Mexican hairy
corn,-just introduced by the Depart
ment of Agriculture from the high
plateau of Mexico, and that is said
10 grow and to make crop without
a drop of rain during the growing
season. This hairy Mexican Is GER
tainly as queer a corn as the China
man. 1t is a tall, ungainly plant,
with long stretching joints, leaves set
far apart, and looping at all angles;
and instead of standing up straight
in the rows, the Mexican corn kneels
over the ground for the first three or
four of its joints. You couldn't cult
vate a field Of this Mexican corn with
OIL earth but a crooked
stick.
Its tassel hangs out with scarcely
any branches. like a long forehnger.
1t hasn't any ideas about saving
pollen. 1t looks as though 1t didn't
know anything that corn ought to
know. But the purple sheaths OF its
leaves are covered with
dense forest of hairs. which extend
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-01-18
L,nma.Mads praan Bog.

There are shirt waist boxes galore
innumerablO dress chests and many
improvised reeeptacles for - In the
woman's room, but the latest novelty
IL the result Of an ingenious brain.
which conceived the possibilities Of
having q dress box, full length. 70
match the hardwood floor IN her
room.
A cheap frame vas constructed Of
pine, lined throughout with white OH
cloth, the edge glued On the outside.
This was covered with llnoleum, 3
clever imitation Of oak. m two shades.
Il was glued to the outside and the
raw edges were covered with tan
leather strips, held in placs with
brass studs. The hinges and lock were
Of brass. Two stout straps were
tackled to the inside Of The "a. NAH
ing = good receptacle for holdlng
paFaaols. BaIl-bearing casieu
pletsd the dress box, and tne
paid much less fof this fElnr1. I
{ lnncy onS VOID c,sl Is enc
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-01-18

the rest" viii amount to no one
knows. However. his deposit at the
trust company was but 500. He also
had q safety deposit box IN his name
at that institution, which has not
been opened a. the key could not b
found.
Father Eugene Coyle. pastor Of the
old cathedral, said Ring had been .
regular attendant at early mass Sun
days as long a. he could remember.
An Italian grocer at Third and Chest
nut streets said Ring was well to do
and said the old man had told Of q
saving Of $4,000.
His room was modestly furnished
and orderly, but there was nothing Of
value 10 Be seen. Ring had been sick
q week. and was taken 70 the City
Hospital a few nights aGO. friends hsv-
Ing tsisph0nsd The dllDoaSarx that ~
Wnl unconscious.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-01-18
IN THE JAPANESE STYLE
Excellent Suggestion for Linen Show
er That VIII Be Out Of the ordl.
nary-For Place Cards.

A charming idea for linen shower
is to carry 1t out in Japanese fashion
with the colors Of the cherry blossom
as the decorative scheme.
II the luncheon Is designed, darken
the room and hang numbers Of Chi
nese lanterns about. These may be
suspended from red and green cords
festooned around the walls, and can
dies for the table may be in green,
with the rosy color for the shades.
Carnations, or better still the cherry
blossoms themselves, so beautifully
made now in paper, can be the flower,
and placing some of the branches in
crystal bowls and vases, just few in
each, gives a pretty effect. Tall
screens covered with the blossoms
may be placed about wherever most
effective, forming alcoves and coy
corners.
Have the parcels Of linen wrapped
in rose paper and tied with green rib
bons. A girl friend wearing kimono
In the two colors may bring in the
packages, handing them to the bride
to-be, or placing them on large tray
ready for the purpose, where the
laughing recipient may open and dis
play the contents to those present
Place cards may be tiny fans with
japanese heads pasted on them.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-01-18

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-The progenitor
- OF all the Holsters and the orig.
inal oyster that existed cons before
the first man who was brave enough
to swallow one, have been added to
the geological collection Of the Mass
achusetts Institute Of Technology, and
they are only two Of 2000 specimens
of petrified remains Of prehistoric
creatures gathered by Prof. Hervey
Sinner and Mrs. Sinner during a six
months tour OF Bohemia, France, Eng
land, Ireland, Wales and other coun-
tries.
The lobster, fine specimen, existed
about 50,000,OOO years ago, the geolog.
lists calculate. 1t was found in the
mountains near Bohemia and many
miles from the sea.
This is not to say that Holsters grew
on trees in those remote days; the
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-01-18
Farm Wait Wins Fortune in the City

tered the medical college Of the Uni
versity of Kansas, where on graduation
she finished third in class made up
almost wholly Of men students. It
was the winter of the first smallpox
epidemic in Kansas City. She was
employed by the city and cared for
1000 smallpox patients. When she
left her position with the city in 1902
she had $4,000.
With two partners she invested It
in an 11-acre tract near Forty
third. street and the State line
This tract was plated in city lots and
marketed, and in a year she had her
$4,000 back and $4,000 more. Then
she put the $1,000 in an adjoining
tract Of % acres, with the same part
ners, and they cleared $4,000.
In the succeeding five years she
built and sold 200 houses and cleared
more than 100000. She draws her
own plans, buys her own material and
personally bosses" each job she I'M
dertakes, overseeing every detail OF
the work.
In 1908 this young woman Of 80,
who a few years before had been an
ignorant country girl, without money,
friends or relatives, paid the penalty
Of her success by breaking down IN
health. She was in . nervous col
lapse and had to cease working. She
lost more than half her fortune BE-
fore her health was restored.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-01-18

out to some extent over the blades.
Now the sheath of the leaf wraps
and protects and supports the tender
stalk within. Strip the leaf sheaths
from a stalk of growing corn and 1t
will break down Of It's own weight.
These hairs keep the surface protect
ed from the drying winds, so that It's
leaf sheaths actually lose less water
in a day than the unprotected leaf
sheaths of ordinary corn; and the
ear, however, is further protected by
an unusually thick covering Of husks.
Now the ear OF the Chinese corn
Is only a good respectable popcorn
ear in point of size, and a waxy flint
in texture OF kernel.
But the Hairy Mexican ear Is q
fair ear OF the white dent type.-not
very large, but almost as large as
the ear Of an average ninety-day dent
corn In our country. Moreover, the
root system Of the Mexican Is said
to be q wide-spreading water-gath-
erer. suited to desert places.
Now put all Of these Chinese and
Mexican characteristics together and
combine them with the characters Of
a first-class short season dent corn
that has enjoyed western Kansas
conditions for fifteen or twenty years,
and what are you going to get in the
way Of drouth resistance? This Is
what Professor Roberts is in a fair
way to find out. Last year he crossed
plants Of a dozen Of these western
Kansas varieties: Pride Of Saline.
Sherrod. Wallace. etc. with the Chi
nese and vlce-versa. This crossing
work was done both at Manhattan on
the experiment station grounds, and
at the branch station at Hays, under
his direction, and by a new and vast
~ improved method Of artificial polli-
nation which he has devised. The
crossed or hybrid ears were all plant
ed at Manhattan this season, making
over forty hybrid families Each
hybridlzed ear was planted in a sep
arate plot and full notes and obser.
yatIons Of ITS characters and the
amount Of Inheritance % he CO
aess bl1od Wefs madA
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-01-18
cItovsnns Jumpera.

The persistency with which the LIT
tie basque effects shown in the
peplums and frillS to be used outside
of the skirt have been brought 70 the
front indicates that they have taken
quite q strong hold. Jumpers are now
brought out with this frill finish and
are usually made Of messsline or aofi
finished silk. They are cut on M
plics lines. the model underneath ap
psaring uncovered to the waist nns
both back and mont The edges are
iinishod on with q narrow pumng-
Dry Goods Economist
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-01-18

10 a drouth resistant corn we can
obtain By the ordinary practice If Sc
lection. is a short season corn.-one
that will side-step the long, hot, dry
summers by rounding off its growth
in ninety days or so. But this is not
resisting drouth. 1t is trying TO avoid
drouth. and the evasion is not al.
ways successful. The only real way
to make the corn plant actually resist
a genuine drouth, is to put drouth re-
sistant blood into il.
The United States Department of
Agriculture. with its extraordinary ia
ciiities for obtaining foreign seeds
and plants of promise, has appar-
emily discovered the raw material
for the Improvement Of American
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-01-18
. Am corn be made drouth res!

- AN corn be made drouth resls-
~ tant? This is the problem
that Prof. II. +. Roberts of the
Kansas State Agricultural College is
working upon. We have durum wheat,
brome-grass and drOuth resistant
sorghums and kaflrs. Now for drouth
resistant corn. But how is 1t going
q to come? Not by selecting ordinary
corn. for Nature has intimated that
ordinary corn is not a semi.arid crop.
The experiences of western farmers
in the dry land areas have proved
pretty corclusively that nature is nc:
inclined TO change her mind on the
subject. and that the nearest thing