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The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-10-31

those attending court sessions or other
county meetings; churches, lodges and
theater; two long distance telephone
and two telegraph systems; water works
and electric service; two railroads and
two express companies; all contribut-
ing to the economy, comfort and enter
tainment of those who attend at the
county seat on business.
From all parts of the county come
assurances of support for Newport from
men who have investigated the subject
under discussion, and are firmly con-
vinced that Newport possesses now all
the required facilities for county seat
and is the most logical location. The
voters of the county will not be led
astray by an eleventh hour argument
or offer of bonus that has nothing tan
gible back of it.
Transportation facilities make COM
mercial centers, and Newport is the
only town in the county that has the
two railroads that serve all parts of the
county. Fully one-sixth of the popula-
tion of the county is located west of
Newport, and tributary to the main
line of the Great Northern. If the
county seat were located at any other
point in the county, these people would
be under extra expense for reaching the
county seat, and the whole county
would have to bear the extra cost when
they go to the county seat on public busi-
ness, or when county officers are compell-
ed to transact business in that section.
Newport is on the ''way-out" for all
the Pend Oreille valley country. 1t is
convenience for all residents of the
county to be able to stop off at New
port to transact county seat business
and then resume their journeys to Spo-
kane or other points east and west.
County seat business can be transacted
at Newport and combined with trips out
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-10-31
INSTRUCTIONS FOR VOTERS
How to Cast Your Ballot Next
Tuesday, November 5th.
Directions for Voting Mixed dTicket.

If you wish to vote for all the candi-
dates of any political party Commonly
called straight ticket, place cross
x at the head of your ballot in the cir
Gle under the name of such political
party. Without placing any other mark
on your ballot you will have voted once
for each of the candidates who appear
as belonging to that party.
If you wish to vote for any particular
candidate, who is not designated as be-
longing to the political party for which
you wish to vote Commonly called
split or mixed ticket place cross x
at the head of your ballot in the circle
under the name of the political party
yon wish to vote for, then place a cross
X in the square to the right of the name
of the Individual nominated by an oppo-
site party for whom you wish to vote.
The safest plan in voting split or
mixed ticket is to place cross K in the
square to the right of the name of each
candidate for whom you wish to vote,
taking care that you do not vote for
more candidates for any one Office than
is specified by your ballot.
Where constitutional amendments or
other propositions are printed on your
ballot place cross x in the square
after the words 'For Proposed Amend
ment," etc., or against Proposed
Amendment, etc., according as you
wish to vote.
Before leaving the booth or apart
ment, fold your ballot so that the num-
ber on the back shall appear on the
outside without displaying any of the
marks on the face thereof, take it to
inspector, who will deposit it in the ballot
box.
If you cannot read, or if from blind
ness or other physical disability you are
unable to mark your ballot, you will re-
ceive assistance upon application to the
judges of election, otherwise but one
person is permitted to occupy booth.
If by accident or mistake you should
spoil your ballot, do not destroy the
same, but return it to the inspector or
one of the judges, and receive new
one in place of it.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-10-31
NEWPORT IS BEST LOCATION
Voters Realize 1t Is Most Convenient and Economical
Place for County Seat.
Expense of Removal Runs Up to Thousands of Dollars

The election of next Tuesday is i'm
portant to both the state and nation,
but the voters of Pend Oreille county
have a question of their own to solve,
which is one Of great importance-th that
of the permanent location of their county
seat.
During the past two months there
have been put before the voters the
claims of the four towns that are in the
contest for county seat honors: New
port, Usk, Cusick and lone. Newport
has conducted clean, honorable cam
paign, based upon we'll founded argu-
ments which have proven convincing to
the large body of voters of the county.
Our argument is the most convenient
location and the most economical loca-
ton, from the standpoint of both county
government and private business.
Newport is the most convenient and
economical location for the following
reasons:
l. Newport is sosituated thata greater
number of residents of the county can
be reached from it at less expense and
in less time than from any other town
in the county.
2. More residents of the county can
reach Newport in less time and at less
expense than any other town in the
county.
8. Newport is the natural distributing
point and clearing house for more than
twice as many residents of the county
as any other town in the county,
4. Newport is the only town so situ-
ated that residents of all parts of the
county can reach it and be reached
easily and at small expense. All this
means economy to the people and to the
county.
5. Newport is the only place in the
county which has at all times of the
year hotel accommodations to house all
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-10-31


for residents of all parts of the valley.
Boosters of the other towns in the
race have complained of lack OF IN
terest in the contest. It is fact that
except in the immediate vicinity of the
towns in the race there is no general
demand for removal and this can be
construed in no other way than that
the people of the county are generally
satisfied with the present location.
Why should the taxpayers of the
county, in addition to the increased cost
of conducting the county business which
would result from the removal OF the
county seat to any other place from
Newport, be compelled to assume the
expense which must follow a removal!
The election will take place on Nov.
5th, at the beginning of winter, and
if any other town than Newport re-
ceives a majority the county offices
must be moved within 80 days from
that date. 1t is certain that no perma-
nent building could be erected in that
length of time and at that season OF
the year, so that temporary quarters,
including a vault and Jail, would have
to be provided into which the offices
could be moved, until after the perma-
nent quarters could be provided, and
it is doubtful if a freproof vault suit
able for the protection of the public
records and documents could be pro-
vided in such temporary quarters,
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-04-02

Oh5 OdSht ~ ISPoy S<NoAAAiAHOAOA
under the microscope.
Name you own sentence, said
Police Judge Fricke, Cincinnati,
to Joe Brown, accused of abusing
wife and children. Zone day in
jail without hard labor said Jo-
seph, promtly.
Samuel Rudy, SO, eccentric
bachelor farmer of Canton, O.,
willed 81 900 to each of IA court
house stenographers.
Henry Benjamin, Youngstown,
o., blew into Sharon. Pa, yes
terday. Bought meal and shave
with stock certificates good for
10 shares in heaven. Tried to
buy suit same way. go days.
Mrs. Pearl Phillips, Denver,
Col, has sued Abher J. Davis,
Iowa farmer, for $4,000 breach
of promise. Pearl says she, pro-
posed to Abner, that he accepted
her, and then got balky.
\ April Fool joker flooded N. Y.
with magazine looking like THE
OUTLOOK. One cover read:
THE LOOK OUT, published
inipulsively Hippodrome stunt by
Toreador Rushabout, contribut-
ing orator"
Harry Edmonson, of adjutant
generals department, Ohio, will
recover sight by operation III
which brain was exposed and tu-
NOR removed from optic nerve.
Such an operation is successful
only once in 100 times.
"On entering my duties as
mayor, pathways of roses did not
: - - - A.. ILL WILL.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-04-02

jected to her putting the Indian
sign on graft that awaited Mrs.
Wilson.
]. Seidly, on trial at Hillsboro,
Mo-, on charge of murder of M.
Hunning, testified that sheriff
gave him whisky, made him
drunk, and then induced him to
sign confession while he did not
know what he was doing. Pre-
siding judge ruled that this did
not constitute intimidation"
Ring lost 8 years ago, by Mrs.
Nettie Arnold, Springfield, ILL.,,
was found today in tutrmy of her,
pet COW, which went the way of
all grass fed COWS a few days
ago. (
Stenographers and pedestrians
tainted today, when one of those
funny persons who cannot re-
press their high spirits, flung
dummy of man from oath story
of Liberty Tower Building N. Y.
Supreme Court again has re-
versed Taft's commerce court,
and declared that power to reguz
late all carrying business, even if
within boundaries of one state,
rests with Interstate Commerce
Commission.
-O-O
Shopman: Here is a very nice
thing in revolving bookcases,
madam.
Mrs. Newrich: ooh, are those
revolving bookcases? l thought
thew called them circulating Ii
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-04-02

"Kitty," said her mother re-
bukingly, you must sit still when
you are at the table"
n can't, mamma" protested
the little girl; I'm fidgetarian."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13
The Reformed Book Agent
Relates Some Experiences

children crowding in line for a special
matinee Of Ten Nights in Barroom.'
THE first move a knowing book agent
makes. therefore. is to get the indorse-
ment of the superintendent of public
schools or the president of the college IL
around, and the leading high-brow min
lister. But it is a sort of unwritten law
that the superintendent of schools must
be made to come over first Of all
THE publishing house 1 was working
for sent me to one Of those little county
seat towns where nothing Of Importance
ever happens except the next number on
the Star lecture course. Somebody point.
ed out the head of the public school sys-
tenn to me, and ! chuckled to myself, for
he looked so easy that had a notion just
to sell him the book by telephone, with
out even bothering to go to his Office.
and have him send his Endorsement to me
at my hotel by a messenger boy. 1 knew
that there was no possible way that he
could turn me down. He looked SO gen.
tie and am,able that you would have
sworn he was the local representative of
the society for the prevention of cruelty
to something.
II went over to see him the next morn
ing At first / thought of telling him
right off that / was a book agent, and
what l wanted him to do. In the light
of later developments that's what I
should have done. But l followed the
usual rule made and provided for book
agents in such cases, and talked to him
as If / We're interested I'm education some
way or other. and had just dropped I'm to
visit with him for a spell and get his
views. He was such a benevolent old
party that 1 had chatted along for half
an hour on general topics before I
thought of mentioning my book. BY that
time We We're as friendly as hired help.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13
Their "Pet TiCkIers."

A MAN who has nothing else to do any,
where has taken unto himself the
task of gathering from the comic papers
of six nations the leading topics which
appear 10 be the favorite themes of hui
NOR in each country. Here is a brief
summary of the result:
The Germans pet ticklers are: pro-
fessor who fOrgets his umbrella; a col
lege student who drinks beer and
touches" friend for a loan; the misses
who worship army officers; a husband
without the front door key: the cook s
lover. usually a soldier, hidden in the
kitchen: mOther-in-law.
Englishmen prefer: Kisses lin all de-
scriptions); boys who are afraid of get
ting mixed up with miss and be sued
for breach of promise: an unlucky bet
tor: an unskilled golf player; ditto, foot
ball; ditto, cricket; ditto. rugby; Ameri-
cans who talk through the nose; mother
iil-law.
French people giggle at jokes on sol
diers and nurses: German tourists in
Paris; government-made matches; the
mode before the last; the last mode: the
latest mode: the very latest mode; Sarah
Bernhardts age: mOther-in-law.
Americans laugh at almost anything.
but their favOrite topics are: The common
people squashed by a trust; StOlid Eng
lishman; an Italian who eats spaghetti
silk hat occasionally nose). smashed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13
MISS R0THsCH1LD TO WED
New York Girls Engagement to Ar
gentine Diplomat Announced.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
PARIS. October 12.-October o5. in the
Temple Of the Rue de Ia Victoire. the
marriage of Miss Gertrude G. Rothschild.
daughter Of Mrs V. Henry Rothschild
and of the late v. Henry Rothschild of
New York. and Senior Enrique Paats de
Frers. Argentine consul general to Bel
GUM, will take place. The ceremony will
be performed by Grand Rabbi Alfred
Levy. The bride-elect is sister Of Mrs.
Ira Nelson Morris of Chicago and Mrs
8. r. Guggenheim of New York.
Mrs. Morris. who lives for the greater
part of the year in her villa on Lake
Como. has come, to Paris to help select
the trousseau and otherwise prepare for
the wedding. The bride and her sisters
are excellent linguists. having received
their education here and in Berlin. Miss
ROthschild's fiance is a native Of Argen-
tina, where his father was manager of
the National Bank of that country.
The engagement was celebrated by a
luncheon at CirOs. given, by Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Herts of New York: Among the
guests We're Mrs. s. r. Guggenheim of
New York, Clarence Rothschild and Mrs.
ROthschild of New York and Senior Sal
vador A. Pratt0 Of Buenos Aires.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13

and knew that could sell him ANYTHING
from book to a second hand gas engine
Il was just going to pull out my pros
pectus when young man came into the
reception room just outside the office and
started to walk in where We were. but
stopped when he saw me. ! told the old
man that L would let my business wait
If the man in the next room wanted to
see him for minute but he waved me
back into my chair.
Stay right where YOU are he saws
/, smiling amiably. and added in a whisper:
1 think know who that is. It's a young
man who's been coming around to bother
me about Il book Ii won't do him any
good for l never buy books from agents
but l suppose he'll succeed in taking an
lot OF my time before / get rid OF
him.
Wow. Put me in fine. didn't il? I
about abandoned any idea right then of
owning up that I was a book agent my
self. but. to make matters worse the
young chap walked in right then. and my
intended victim turned around and rec
Ognized him his own son.
Well, WELL he chuckled. to think
that j would take my own son for book
agent! That's pretty good. | guess
And he laughed heartily. We all laughed
Mine must have sounded like the cold,
calculating laugh of the man who wears
a gray derby hat in a show, for there
was no mirth In IL.
We'll, sir. do you know / was so put
out over that deal that / went on to the
next town without trying to sell single
book in that burg, though I'd expected to
spend three or four weeks there. In the
first place, / had enough superstition in
me TO take II as a hoodoo. And then 1
was afraid that old man would meet me
on the street some day and learn what
my business was. So 1 ducked.
But added the reformed book
agent, 1.-The thing I've wondered about
some thousands of times since then was
this-did the benevolent, humane society,"
looking old party get off that book agent
talk a purpose? Do you suppose he did,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13
THE reformed book agent was recit-
ing a few of his adventures to the
bunch in the hotel lobby.

ing a few of his adventures to the
bunch in the hotel lobby.
you know" observed the r. B. A. in
the course of the dissertation. there
always comes a time sooner or later
when the rule you've been going by
won't work 1t had got to be rule
with me that school teachers were COM
paratively easy marks for a man who
desired to enter negotiations Tor the sale
of a book the size of child's Bible,
bound in either plain cloth or half mo-
rocco with title in gilt letters. / was
selling a book that was practically the
same thing as twenty-nve-cent aiIna-
nae. containing all sorts of useful infor-
nation. and if you didn't care for the
hest binding you could get it for as
little as $275 1t was a work that APP
nealed strongly to teachers. principals.
mothers and all who had the education
of the youth of any given community
at heart.
Now, one feature of the book agent s
game that's as old as the statutes and
city ordinances of the Modes and Per-
SLAMS is to get the leading educator of
the town you're in to buy the book, or
AT least make him think he's bought it
give il to him for nothing If need be
and then having bought it. to write you
out a brief recommendation for the work.
With that recommendation every woman
teacher in town and everybody else VINO
goes in for culchuh and aht and all that
YOU know the type-becomeS your prey.
Most of them will fall for your great
educational work just like lot OF school
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13
First Lunch Counter Car.
From the Railway Age Gazette.

From the Railway Age Gazette.
The Southern Pacific has installed a.
lunch counter car on a train running
from San Francisco to Los Angeles
The counter extends the length Of the
car along one side. with the regulation
lunch counter stools in front of the
counter. Meals will be served at all
hours.
Those newspapers which report this
as the first lunch counter car ever run
in America should look UP their his
tory. The Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore ran two such cars pc
tween Baltimore and Philadelphia for
about three years. 1S63-1S66. as report
ed in the Railroad Gazette of December
10. 1884. The eating bar" was about
twenty-five feet long, the car fifty feet
long. being divided by transverse
partition in the middle, and half Of it.
being used as q smoking car.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13
POET TRAMPS MILES
FOR CONSEQUENCES SAKE
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

Cpecldi VI Inc star.
PARIS. France, October ., 1912.
A S everybody knows. the left bank of
the Seine, in Paris, is the home of
| the bohemians of that gay capital. The
Latin quarter is on the left bank, or rive
gauche." as they call 1t, and no words
are strong enough to express the disdain
of its artistic denizens for the rive
droit,' or opposite bank, where the bust
ness and social worlds of Paris have their
abiding places.
Few of the jewellers on Montparnasse,
| however, carry their prejudice as far as
does versifier who was pointed out to
the writer recently at the "Closerie des
Lilacs," the literary cafe where Paul
| Fort, the newly elected Prince of Poets,
thrones it nightly. The writer in ques-
| ton, whose name is Paul Roinard, and
| who is fairly renowned. boasts that for
ten years on end he never has set foot on
the despised right bank of the Seine.
That bank, he says, stands to him for
everything that is material, plutOcratic,
commercial, philistine and for the sake of
avoiding 1t M. Roinard has gone in for
lot of unnecessary exercise.
He has walked. in all probability, thou
sands of miles in order to give it a wide
berth. He lives in the suburb of Cour-
bevoie, and every Tuesday he walks to
the 'Closerie des Lilacs'' in order to take
part in the weekly artistic gathering
there Now the Seine. just at Courbevoie,
takes wide bend, and NJ. Ronard. by
making straight to his destination, would
have constitutional of only four miles
But this would mean that he must cross
the Seine and for quite half of his Jour-
ney tread the accursed right bank. and
the poet will not SO compromise with his
conscience. Accordingly he follows the
left bank Of the river where it makes it's
loop, and SO at least trebles the length of
his weekly pilgrimage. They say in
Montparnasse that he starts at in the
morning in order that he may occupy his
favorite seat at the "Closerie DIES Liiacs"
at half-past 8 at night. And vet this is
supposed to be materialistic age!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13
I'hohH Nam Y" Tor flrIhnr narilculnrs.
THE BRADFORD AND
BRADFORD COMPANY
1905 Eve Street NV.
Cost of Cruelty.
FroE pu- pumh Animals.

FroF ou- pumh Animals.
Accord ne To "A recent statement by DR.
William r. CallicOtte. the Colorado state
Superintendent of moral and humane
education. the United States loses an
nually through cruelty To dumb beasts
S2.Gpop,GU. He declares that such
cruelty not only causes this immense eco
noneic loss to the country, but Is also one
of the chief causes of crime.
Unless children learn TO feel for the
suff@rings of animals. we may be sure
they will never lead helpful. upright lives
when they become older. They must b,
sen&itized TO suffering. and the best way
to arouse the best in them is 10 appeal Ia
them to aid animals which cannot aid
themselves When every child has learn
ed to be thoughtful of these friends We
will no longer need prisons and fines, fol
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13
THE BRADFORD AND
BRADFORD COMPANY
I4o5 Eve Street NV.

6I1-6I3 Harvard st. NV.
NEW HOMES: STEEL
CONSTRUCTION; contain
ing 8 large rooms and bath;
furnace heat; lot 10 by IS to
alley.
Price. Easy Terms). b. $3.50
4o4-4O6 V st. NV: SALE
TO COLORED OR IN
NESTMENT; 4 rooms and
bath; lots IL by Is feet: wood
shed in rear: RENTED for
$3.50: A GOOD INVEST
MENT AT SI,95o; EASY
TERMS.
4o5-4o7 OAKDALE st. NV.
SALE TO COLORED OR
INVESTMENT: 4 rooms and
lath: lot II by = feet; rent.
$3.50. Price. SI.o5o.
So Kenyon st. NV.
PRICE. $3.50.
$Soo CASH. BALANCE
MONTHLY.
8 rooms and bath: lot 20 bv
$50 to rear alley: hardwood
trim: hot-water heat: double
rear porches.
23So-2356 9Th st. n.w.-THE
INVESTMENT YOU'VF
BEEN LOOKING FOR or
SALE TO COLORED.
New brick houses: four
rooms; renting for $3.50 =
rlenth.
The biggest bargain in the
city at (NOTE THIS PRICE)
$3.50. NOTE THIS PRICE.
54I-543 Kenyon st. n.w.-A
HOME OF EXCEPTIONAL
COMFORT; 3 large rooms;
nice bath: roomy pantry:
southern exposure: hardwood
trimmed throughout. THINK
OF THIS! 5000 cash. balance
SIS month and interest. Posi-
lively the best there is at S3,65o.
LOOK IT OVER.
726-72S-73O TAYLOR St. Pet
worth. HOMES IN THE
FRESH AIR DISTRICT. Six
great big rooms and bath:
wash trays: furnace heat: on
lots 20 feet front: $3.50 ! the
price. and it can't be beat.
i'Iione Main 1870 for further particulars
THE BRADFORD AND
BRADFORD COMPANY
1905 Eye Street NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13

there will be no criminals.
DIR. Callicotte goes on TO say that we
lose annually $2nGO0,0U0 from mistreat-
ment of cattle. the same amount for not
caring for horses. $50, J00.co0 from giving
dairy cows insantary quarters and poor
food and SStN.UF.Coo because of the de-
structi@n of birds. Ii proper treatment
We're accorded these creatures, he claims
the cost of living would be reduced ~
per cent and We would also be able to
prevent - per cent of the diseases which
ravaSe the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13

in a fisticuffs; a bottle of whisky labeled
lemonade; an italian hurdy-gurdy;
mOther-in-law
The Italians favorites are: glutton
country priest; Roman urchins; a Nea-
pOlitan cabby; tailor's bill: a cigar that
does not draw; the colonel's orderly
ladies' hats; mOther-n-law.
Finally. the Spaniards' predilected jokes
are always on cOrridas. tOras espadas
when they change they are on trOs, cor
ridas y espadas. or espadas, corridas V
torres: once in a while mother-in-law gets
a shot, too.