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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-09-25
.ACUN(IlNG
VISITOR
BY JAMES c. BRADY

I'VE all get our share of adventure"
said an ex-railroad man, land we rail-
readers get ours. What surprises me
is that we don't get more than we do.
'We're so liable to be attacked for H.
legal purposes. But when we consider
the number of express messengers who
are killed by train robbers and station
agents forced to give enticing telegraph
signals to enable road agents to hold
up passengers, there's good deal do
ing In this line fer us, after all.
1--WE had a personal experience
that's trif1e different from these, and
tell you when it was on there was
enough in it to make my hair curl. l
was employed in one of the signal
block towers on the G., P. and D. rail-
way. Some distance west of my tower
was a switch that led into a gravel
pit. The company hadn't worked the pit
for some time, and the track leading
into it was in dilapidated condition.
If ever a gravel train had attempted
to go over it there would have been a
spill.
Life in block tower is rather dull
music. slept there and had my room
comfortably fitted up. I've always
been fond Of reading, and books took
up the principal part Of my time. The
road was neither of the greatest nor
least Importance, but there were three
tracks and an average number of
trains to look out for. Still, sometimes
there would be quite an interval be-
tween the passing Of the trains.
Zone afternoon was sitting with a
book when l heard step on the stairs
leading up into the tower. Then there
was a knock at the door. l opened it
and quite a respectable looking man
stood outside.
81 beg pardon he said. but would
you mind showing me the modus oper-
andi Of this system? I've passed the
towers on railroads many times and
always wondered what you gentlemen
are doing perched up here, pulling at
these levers
"Now, if l had dared l would have
told him that no one was admitted to
the towers; that they were places on
which so much depended that the rule
was never to be broken, but notwith-
standing the mans respectable appear
ance, l felt that refusal meant death
to me. l concentrated all my effort to
avoid showing the slightest suspicion
and said that l would be most happy
to show him the apparatus and explain
its working. Advancing to the levers,
I first explained the fundamental point
that it was intended to admit but one
train at time on a block: Then !
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-09-25
R0LLA WELLS IS
EARLY on The JOB
Democratic National Treasurer
Is After Small Contributor.
The PEOPLE TO HELP.
Used In Electing Wilson and Mar
shall.

There Is to Be No "Tainted Money"
Used In Electins Wilson and Mar
shall.
New York.-A small, smooth shaved,
middle aged MAI with a coat of tan
that gave evidence of much outdoor
life recently came into the Waldorf
carrying a suit case early in the after
noon and registered as "Rolla Wells,
st. Louis, Mo-
The smooth shaved little man, who
is to be the watchdog of the Wilson
campaign money from now on. was
asked for vital statistics, whereupon
it was learned at first hand that he is
banker and ex-mayor Of st. Louis,
is fifty-six years old, was graduated at
Princeton in 1876 or three years be-
fore Governor Wilson was graduated;
that he has two sons who are Prince
ton men and a grandson who some
day will be Princeton man; that he
had no notion of seeing New York
this summer until the Wilson organi-
Zdt1Ou SClOClCu DIS 1IS
and that just at present the one thing
that sticks out in the appointment in
his mind is that the new job cut in Sc
riously upon a most beautiful vacation
which he and Mrs. Wells had been en-
joying in a camp at Little Traverse
bay, Michigan.
Mr.. Wells believes in getting at his
desk at o'clock In the morning.
1--WE are going to raise our campaign
fund through the small contributions"
said Mr.. Wells.
II am sure that a large part of the
money will be raised by popular sub
scription.
1.-THE people have confidence in
Woodrow Wilson, and they will give
what they can Of their means to elect
such man president.
81 am great believer in publishing
the various contributions made.
"There are men who can we'll afford
to give the committee $4,000. but
want to assure the public that we are
not going to have any tainted money.
1--WE are appealing to the people, and
we are relying on them to help elect
Wilson and Marshall.
II have two boys who have been
graduated from Princeton, one five
years ago and one seven. But it Is not
because ours Is Princeton family that
I like Governor Wilson. He is great
big man and the type that we should
have In public life.'
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-09-25

her fathers name. with her own as
deputy.
Mrs. Marshall, having blotted the
ink, said, "Now we can CO."
"Not yet" laughed Governor Mar
shall.
"Why, we are all fxed," explained
Mrs. Marshall, pointing to the license.
Eyes, but l have to pay for it," re-
piled the governor. "1t's all right for
you to make it out, but it's up to me
to pay the fee." And he did.
Mrs. Marshall is keen student, and.
having established the practice of 60
ing with her husband on all his trips.
be they short or long, they make it
point to carry along some book.
Mrs. Marshall is as much of hu-
manitarian as the governor. A glance
at some of the bills that have been
passed by the 1911 Indiana legislature
gives an insight into the governor:
To curtail child labor.
To regulate sale of cold storage prod
ucts.
To require hygienic schoolhouses
and medical examination of children.
To prevent blindness at birth.
To regulate sale Of cocaine and
other drugs.
To provide free treatment for n.y.
drophobia.
To establish public Fairgrounds.
To improve pure food laws.
To protect against loan sharks.
To provide police court matrons.
To prevent traffic in white slaves.
To permit night schools.
To require medical supplies as part
Of a train equipment
Governor Marshall has also played
an active part in providing for protec-
ton Of labor, as is exampled by the
following acts:
To create bureau of inspection
for workshops. factories. mines and
boilers.
To establish free employment agen-
cies.
To require full train crews.
To require safety devices on switch
engines.
To require efficient headlights on
engines.
To require standard cabooses.
To provide weekly wage, etc.
And Governor Marshall has con-
suited with his partner" on all these
bills. He is quoted as saying a man
can't go far wrong in taking the advice
of wife-if she is his partner as well
as his wife,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-09-25

told him how BY pulling this or that
lever changed the direction Of trains
He listened to me attentively till had
got through then asked number Of
questions calculated to convince me
that he was really trying to under
stand what l was telling him. he
seemed especially anxious to know how
I worked switches that were not in
sight. told him that their being in
sight made no difference to me, be-
cause I knew that certain position of
the lever produced a given result.
~ passed gravel pit up above
here,' he said, into which a track was
laid. Now, how would you proceed to
switch train on to that track?
II pushed certain lever, telling him
that the switch now stood to turn a
train from the main track into the pit
I noticed that he concentrated his
vision on the lever and noted especial
fed threw the lever back into it's for
mer place.
my talk being finished. the man
thanked me and said that he was wait
ing for the 7:50 up train and it was
so much pleasanter waiting in the
he would be obliged if l would permit
him to wait there. l assented, pre-
tending to do so gladly and steeled
myself for whatever was about to hap
pen, for l was sure the man had some
sinister design.
AT 7:2O l told him that he would
hardly have time to reach bis train.
whereupon he said he thought he
would take the next one since he
couldn't walk fast on account Of a
weak heart When the 7:5O passed
/ what 1 had expected happened. The
man jumped for the lever l had told
him would turn the train into the
gravel pit and threw it to accomplish
that result.
Il stood looking at him as though as
tonished, not daring to let it appear
that had suspected him. He looked
after the train for awhile, taking out
his watch to note the time. evidently
intending to give the few minutes re-
quired for the train to reach the gravel
pit, for he would not give me an op-
portunity to avert the disaster he in
tended. When ample time had passed
for the train to be wrecked he left the
tower and ran after it as fast as pos
sible.
"But he and the gang that were work
ing with him were disappointed l
had demonstrated on a switch below
instead of above.
II didn't know but that when he
found that had tricked him he would
come back and murder me. was in
lonely spot, and there would be q
good chance for him to revenge him.
self If he felt so disposed.
II kept revolver in a drawer and
would have used it on the man while
he was with me had he given me an
opportunity to possess it. l took out
the weapon and. making sure 1t was
ready for use. waited for the mans
return. But he didn't come"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-09-25
Cautious.

Cautious.
An old north country farmer visiting
London put up at one of the big hotels
he had barely turned In on the first
night when the buttons" rushed into
the room and switched on the electric
light, exclaiming:
make haste, sir! Get up! The ho-
tel Is on firer' T. -
The old man slowly raised himself on
one elbow and, fixing the boy with q
determined look. remarked:
Mind We. II do ! Wilma pay for the
bed. =" London Answers. .z.ss.. 81.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-09-25
Money Maxine In Wall Street.

Money Making In Wall Street.
The real money makers Of Wall
street deal in investment securities or
speculative stocks that have passed the
scrutiny Of the Stock Exchange COM
mittee and secured place among the
listed stocks on the exchange. The
successful Spectator would not listen
for moment to the gold brick man
with a recipe for getting rich quickly.
It Is just as easy to buy stocks from a
responsible broker on Wall street as it
Is to buy them from pedd1er. One
should be just as careful to see that he
deals with an honest broker in buying
securities as he is to see that he IL
dealing with an honest butcher, grocer
or baker-one who gives him honest
weight and count.-Leslie's.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-09-25
MRS. TOMS PART
IN the ELECTION
Governor Marshan's wife Has
the Memory For Names.
ROMANCE OF THEIR LIVES.
The Notification Of the Indiana Ex-
ecutive For Democratic Vice Presi-
dency Honors Record Breaker.
BY J. c. HAMMOND,
OF Democratic National Publicity Bu-

OF Democratic National Publicity Bu-
reau.
Indianapolis. - Just about the time
that thousands of friends of Gov
ernor Thomas Riley Marshall were
anxiously wanting to shake his hand in
congratulation over his acceptance as
candidate of vice president on the
Democratic ticket smiling woman
stepped before him, and if one could
have heard what she whispered in his
ear it would have been something like
Nov. hurry in, Tom, and change your
clothes"
And Tom Marshall forgot to shake
hands with the enthusiastic friends
until be had carried out the orders Of
Mrs. Tom.
Indiana has honored four of her sons
as vice presidential candidates on the
Democratic ticket. but the crowds that
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-09-25
following an attack Of nervous pros.
tration. in her apartment In Chicago.

tratlOn, IN her apartment IN chicago.
Caught by q sharp gust Of wind
when about 200 feet from tho ground.
Aviator Paul Peck and his Columbia
biplane were hurled to the ground at
Cicero flying field in Chicago, and the
brilliant young birdman was so terri
bly, crushed that he died at st. An
thony de Padua hospital In few
hours.
Vilhajalmar Stefanson, the explor-
or, has reached Seattle after four
years in the arctic regions. He dis
covered the probable descendants Of
the Scandinavian colonists of Green
land, who were last seen III 1412.
William Chambers, an aviator from
Mineola, N. Y, is dead at Greene, N.
Y, of injuries received in a fall with
his aeroplane at the Shenango county
fair.
The notoriety gained by automobile
No. ABB, the gray touring car used
by the murderers of Herman Rosen-
thai in New York, has been capital
lied and the automobile is being used
Is sightseeing machine.
Dr. y. F. Dumas, former mayor Of
Cass Lake, Mimi, and prominent
politician and surgeon of northern
Minnesota, was given an indetermin-
ate sentence in the state penitentiary
at saltwater. Doctor Dumas was
convicted one year ago of arson In an
alleged attempt to burn the post office
and store at Paposky. MINI.
The American oyster crop this sea-
son promises to be one of the best in
many years. Reports received at New
Haven, Conn, indicate that the oys-
ters are fatter and more plentiful than
IN long time.
The Kansas agricultural college pro-
poses to prevent Kansas fruit going to
waste this year. A clearing house,
has been established to bring the fruit
grower and buyer together.
Fire, starting from a kettle of lard
being rendered in a butcher shop, de-
btroyed a large part of the business
section of Turon, Kan. The loss was
100000.
The Oregon and California express
! Of the Southern Pacific railroad ran
over a plant" of twenty-seven sticks
Of dynamite near Gervais, Ore, forty
miles south of Portland, but failed to
explode any of the Illuminating caps
attached to the fuses.
James B. Mcnamara, serving q life
sentence in San Quentin prison for
dynamtting the Los Angeles Times,
was operated on at the prison hospital
tor appendicitis. This became known
with the announcement that McNa
mara was out Of danger and would re-
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-09-25
Foreign

Funeral ceremonies for Emperor
Mutsuhito were held in Tokyo amid
surroundings in which century-old
rites and costumes were mingled with
modern military display. Official rep
resentatives of all countries were
present to participate in the solemn.
ties. The list included Philander c..
Knox, secretary of state Of the United
States.
The White Star line makes Official
announcement that it is building Z
new ship larger than the Titanic, to
be called the Britannia, and which will
have IAN increased number of water.
tight bulkheads so as to render the
ship as nearly unsuitable as possible"
King Alfonso and Queen Victoria
opened the antituberculosis congress
at San Sebastian, Spain. It was at
tended by delegates from many coun.
tries. The foreign minister, Carols
Prieto, extended a welcome In tn
name of the government
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-09-25
Domestic

That Mrs. Jack Johnson, wife OF
the pugilistic champion, who commit
ted suicide in Chicago did so while
temporarily insane. was the verdict OF
I ooroner's jury.
The financial embarrassment Of the
United States Motors company came
to a head when receivers were ap-
pointed for the $42, 100000 corporation
by Judge Hough in the United States
district court at New York. w. E. s.
Strong and Roberts Walker, former
president of the Rock Island railway,
were named as receivers.
Burton Gibson, New York lawyer,
Is in jail at Middletown, N. Y,
charged with the murder of Mrs. Rosa
NJ. Szabo, a pretty Austrian client,
while boating on Greenwood lake.
Floyd Allen and his nephew, Claude,
two leaders of the gang that shot up
the Hillsville (Va.) courthouse, were
sentenced to the electric chair No
vember %, at Wytheville, Va.
The International Association OF
Ticket Agents has closed its seven.
teenth annual convention at Toronto,
Ont, with the election Of H. S. Bare
of Pittsburg, Pa, as president, J. H.
Sterling of Pittsburg secretary and Ell
- I@1
urer.
Charles l.. Johnson, the former Chi
cago banker and implicated in the
wrecking of the American Electric
Fuse company of Muskegon, was found
guilty by jury at Muskegon, Mich.
of obtaining over $25 under false pre-
lenses in connection with the sale OF
q forged note to the Old National bank
of Grand Rapids.
The largest trust company in the
United States, If not in the world.
was formed in New York City when
the directors of the Guaranty Trust
company signed papers merging the
Guaranty with the Standard Trust
company. The new organization will
have assets of $262,S29.419.
A mob of two thousand stormed the
jail at Cumming, Ca, secured a negro
boy arrested as suspect In the muir
der Of planters daughter, and
strung him up in the heart of the
town.
News received in Maiden Lane, New
York, indicates that the last season In
the pearl fisheries has been almost
completely unsuccessful.
For the first time in fifteen years 4
covey of quail appeared within the
city limits of Greater New York a
few days ago, to be followed later by
three additional coveys. The park dc.
partment has taken the birds under
It's protection.
Two trainmen were killed and SIX
other persons injured when a switch
engine running light collided with the
first section Of Pennsylvania railroad
passenger train No. 81, near Derry,
Pa.
Raymond Smith, buyer for Grand
Rapids (Mich.) commission house,
shot and killed his wife, Nora Smith,
and then ended his own life. Mrs
Smith had begun suit for divorce and
refused to be reconciled with her hue
band,
Mrs. Eta Johnson, wife of Jack"
johnson, the worlds champion heavy
weight pugilist, and former belle OF
Hampstead, L. l., where as the wife
OF Clarence E. Duryea, society and
horse man, she held the key to Long
Island society, shot and killed herself,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-09-25
NOVELTY.
The enormous influence Of nov


elty-the way in which it quickens
observation, sharpen. sensation and
exalts sentiment is not half enough
taken note Of by US and is to me a
very sonowful matter. And yet,d
we Try to obtain perpetual change,
change Itself will become monoto-
nous. The two points Of practical
wisdom in the matter are, first, to
be content with as little novelty q.
possible at time and, secondly, to
preserve as much as possible the
sources Of novelty.-Ruskin.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-09-25
Personal

Gen. Daniel E. Sickles' wife pawned
her jewels and used the money to pay
The $4,000 which her husband owed to
the Lincoln Trust company. So the
forced auction of the furniture and
keepsakes and Civil war commits
,ions signed by Abraham Lincoln is
off, Mr.. and Mrs. Sickles have
been estranged for 81 years.
Mrs. Mary Hale Allen, mother Of
Nathan Allen, involved in the $4,000
Helen Dwelle Field Jenkins scandal,
died at Kenosha, Wis.,, at the age of
ninety-three years. She had never
been given any knowledge OF the scan.
dal.
w. K. Kavanaugh, president of the
Lakes to the Gulf Deep Waterway as.
sociation, underwent an operation for
appendicitis at st. Louis. His physi.
clans announce the operation was sue.
cessful Mr.. Kavanaugh was stricken
In Chicago.
Mrs. Mary Hale Allen, aged ninety:
four years, widow of the late Nathan
Allen, and probably the oldest Of the
pioneer women of Kenosha county,
Wis, is dead at her home in Kenosha,
e
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who haa
been at Tarrytown, N. Y, for several
days Investigating the trouble with
italian laborers on his fathers Pecan.
tico Hills estate, hopes to bring about
peace by eliminating all Italians from
the pay roll Of the estate.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-09-25
RECENT NEWS .
GLEANINGS
Politics

Politics
Governor Simeon Il. Baldwin was re-
nominated without opposition at the
adjourned session Of the Democratic
state convention at Hartford, Conn.
Other state officers and seven presi-
Dental electors also were named.
J. P. studley was nominated on the
third ballot for governor by the Re-
publican state convention at Hartford.
Conn. There were four candidates.
Warm Endorsement of tho Taft admin
lstration was feature of the platform
adopted by the convention.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-09-25

. @..ss. Belgian Solons.
Members of parliament in Belgium
are paid $85 per month while parlia-
ment II sitting. .z> 55.s.. + .s.=
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-09-25
PaternaI Confidence.

The Young Man with some embar-
rassment)-There is one question you
haven't asked me yet, Mr.. Hurpop.
You haven't wanted to know whether
or not think l can make living for
your daughter. The Other Man That
isn't necessary, Henry. She'll see that
you make the living. all right. If she's
at all like her mother, and think she
;s.-Chicago Tribune.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-09-25
Washington

With the probability of battle be-
tween the Mexican federal troops and
the rebels at Aqua Prieta, which Is
bust across the boundary from Doug
las, Ariz., President Taft, through the
war department., sent both the federal
and rebel commanders peremptory no
lice that there must be no firing
across the line.
President Taft. who posed a long
time for moving picture men, learned
In the evening that overcast skies and
the light fall of rain had spoiled the
films, and he will give the movies
another chance.
Permission was given by the state
department to move 1900 Mexican
troops through United States territory
to attack the Mexican rebels In tho
state Of Sonora.
Washington telegraph., 1912-04-05
SALESMAN HAS GOOD THING
Though the Nature of His Wares Was
Not at First Understood, He
Is Doing Well.

An enterprising typewriter sales
man who is drummer" for a ma
chine that can be easily carried
about-his friends call it "a coffee
grinder" its's so compact-recently
hit upon a scheme for introducing
it into private houses, where sales
are hard to make. He shipped one
hundred of the little typewriters to
as many houses along Fifth avenue
and the high-class residence streets
adjoining. His first "come back
was a letter from a Fifth avenue
woman, who advised him to ''be more
careful" as he had given the house
hold "a terrible shock" because ev-
erybody, from the mistress to the
kitchen maid, feared "the queer look
ing box contained a bomb," and they
were about to immerse the whole
thing in laundry tub when a gro
GERS boy told them what it was.
However, she inclosed a check for
"the queer looking box" and the
salesman is now plainly marking all
his samples.-New York Tribune.
Washington telegraph., 1912-04-05
NOTHING RLLOWED TO WASTE
Starving Garrison of Mafe<ing Glad
to Avail Themselves OF Their
Horses as Food.

Horse a la Mafelsing was the chief
nourisher Of the garrison beleaguered
in that town for 217 days during the
Boer war, according to Gen. Sir Rob-
ert Baden-Powell, who told the story
of horse as a breakfast food-and a
luncheon and supper food at that
at the recent dinner Of the Boy
Scouts of America. Only the hair
they did not eat-every other shred
of the animal they made use of,
somehow. Here are some of the de-
tails, expurgated from most of the
accounts Of the speech: As the horses
were starved to death, there was not
much meat left on them. What
there was the soldiers chopped up
into sausages. The skin they boiled
for 26 hours, then cut into strips, and
sold for Is pence a pound. The slips
Of gristle and meat that clung to the
bones they soused and made into
soup-Chevreuil, they called this
delicaey. The bones themselves they
ground into powder to adulterate the
-four. They pulled off the shoes 10
make into shells. They sent the
name and tail to the hospital for use
in stufing mattresses.-New York
Evening Post.
Washington telegraph., 1912-04-05
MADE FORTUNE IN MUskRATS.

Having paid for a fine farm near
Milton by the trapping of muskrats,
Mrs. James Jones has so fallen in
love with the work that she finds it
impossible to give it up. Thus far
this season she has broken all her
previous records for the number of
musl1rats trapped.
Mrs. Jones is not only a trapper
of muskrats but is an expert rifle
shot and occasionally kills an otter.
a mink, an opossum or a raecoon. In
five years the efforts of the woman
have resulted in the purchase of a
nearby farm which she and her fam
lily now occupy.-Milton Letter to
the Philadelphia Press.