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Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-08-31
Bonynge on banking

fbhA uN' WI ifAHhih-
| BY Associated Press
Former Congressman Robert W.
Bonynge. OF Colorado, In discussing
THE Reform OF Our Banking and
Currency Laws" before the Trans
Mississippi Commercial Congress, de-
clared that the American people soon
would insist upon removing the stig-
ma OF being "a financial nuisance"
among the world powers and would
demand a comprehensive banking
system.
Mr. Bonynge urged the plan OF the
National Reserve Association as a
remedy for the present ills OF the
American banking system.
We could not, II we would. he
said. ignore the fact that we nov
have 25,o00 Independent bank
which are furnishing banking facil
tiles TO the communities In which
they are located.
The Reserve Association would
not In any way compete with exist
ing banks II would be organized TO
perform duties which the local banks
cannot perform The plan Is not
revolutionary 1t is altogether evo-
mtionary.
II would In fact be an extension
OF the Clearing House principle with
which We are all familiar
The union OF the communities in-
10 states, and OF states into the Fed
eral government, seemed 10 us TO
furnish an excellent model upon
which We could build a general af.
filiation OF the units OF our banking
system that would be- In strict har-
mony with our political and social
conditions
We decided that such an affilia
tion Of the banks OF the country
properly organized, so as TO make
absolutely impossible It's control for
selfish purposes by any section OF
the country, or any group OF indiyid
uals, however, powerful they might
be financially or politically anC
with only such powers given to IL "a
would enable 10 20 discharge certain
national duties in finance that can
not be performed by local banks
would accomplish for the finances o.
the country what the national gov
ernment has for its political an.
governmental interests
In a general way, The plan pro
yides for a combination of the iude
pendent units of our banking system
into what is known as local associa
tions These local associations 10
turn 20 be formed into district as
sociations and those district associa
tions combined 20 make Up tra Ma
tional Reserve Association ot th.
United States.
The district associations Noul,
be Is In number The entire coun
try would be divided into Il dis
TO 'NFf NlNNNN I' NA NNr 'NNAi AAi' Ah "a
centers. and IN each district ther.
would be a branch OF the Nationa
' Reserve Association There woul0
be one district and one branch h
the New England states; two in tn
Eastern; four In the Middle West
b orn four IN the Southern. and fou
. in the far Western and Pacifi
States The only stockholders in the
association would be the banks o
the country.
The stock would be absolutel!
non-transferable. so that Il could no
be acquired by any ambitious flnan
cial interests.
AS the entire plan Is built upor
maintaining the independence and
integrity OF the individual banks o
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-08-31

SENATOR'S FALL AND
SMITH INVESTIGATING
MEXICAN SITUATION

By Associated Press
I'll Paso. Texas, Aug. 80
An Investigation by the sub
committee OF the senatorial
committee OF foreign relations.
will not only look into the re-
lations OF American capital
with the present Mexican revo-
luton but will attempt to as
certain the effect. Senator
Fall made the announcement
that he. with Senator Smith
OF Michigan. chairman of te
committee, will look into con-
ditions in Mexico.
Senator Smith Joins Senator
Fall at Los Angeles and re-
turning they will visit points
along the border in Arizona.
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CAMPA DELAYS ATTACK
ON FL TIGRE MINI


tN Associated lfchh.
Douglas. Arlz., Aug 0.-Surprls-
ed by the determined attitude OF the
American defenders o. r Tigre mine
the rebel leader. Genr-a Campo, has
not yet made good his threat 70 a.
tack the properly OF TIE, Ilca ~t.-
mining company.
lie moved his forces further nort'
today.
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!rans-Mississippi Delegates
Elect Officers and Name
Convention City
BIC WORK MAPPED OUT
INCLUDE CAMPAIGN FOR BET
TER FARMING METHODS AND
AMENDMENT OF INTER-
STATE COMMERCE.

~ Anantlaitl iltth
Salt Lake City, Utah, Aug. 80
Work mapped out for the Trans
Mississippi congres at its twenty
third annual session which closed
here today includes, a West side
campaign the betterment OF farming,
amendments to the interstate com
merce law. agitation for reduction Of
fire losses, See America first" prop
aganda. improvement OF Gulf ports
and flood prevention on the Miss 8
ippi river.
James H. Grady. of Pocatello, Ida
no. was chosen president, John l..
Powell. of Wichita, vice president.
Edwin Becker, continues as sec
retary.
The 1913 meeting will be at Wich-
tia.
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Washington Forecast

Washington. d. c.. Aug. i20.-
West Texas-Fair in the east. prob
ably showers IN the West Sunday
fair.
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Local Forecast

Generally fair Saturday.
Nnstnrhnr,s femnnrafnrc.
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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-11

behind Fifty-six wasn't paying much at
tcntion to any Zen rlles per hour within
the city limits ordinances that day
AT noon Holcomb came into the des-
patcher's fice at Damascus Junction and
sal down by the North End train wire to
watch the running
(" Ne. 50 y1a:23," reported Silver Creek.
" No. So by 1891" clicked Valley View,
and Holcomb smiled little. Ten miles in
eight minutes This was running indeed.
Then N Hely came in to listen to the
little stations 20. S. ing the new train,
and he laughed like boy when he timed
her between some Of them. She was due in
Damascus Junction a three-ten, but at the
rate she was running she would strike the
upper wards little before three o'clock.
Bob Amhorn was the dispatcher on that
trick, and he was handling the trains like
veteran. l can see him now, quiet, hand
some young fellow, sitting there with the
whole one hundred and eigbty-two miles OF
the North division in his head just as clearly
as though he were seeing the entire length OF
it with his eyes. Everything was going
beautifully, and ii looked as though it were
going to be the easiest thing in the world to
put that mail into New Orleans on time.
Then the door of the South End des-
patchcr's Office flew open and scared
operator plunged through it and handed
McKelly a message He didn't say any
thing, Just handed it to him and hurried
back to has wire; but the superintendent
said enough for both Of them. They used
to say that when McKely really started
in to swear, the Recording Angel sent in
hurry call for stenographer. When
the sulphur smoke had sort Of cleared
away we began to take in the cause Of the
trouble. II seemed that Jim Bolins-
"HardlrcI Bolins, they called him-had
broken dIiving-rod on his engine. No one
had been hurt, but before he had been able
to stop his train the broken rod had fayed
all the left-hand side of the cab off and
wound up by derailing the engine, tender,
and several freight cars. There we were
lith the main line blocked south until late
in the night, and the mail coming in on us
sixty and seventy miles an hour. Things
looked blue Mckelly was in the next room
getting the details and they were not en-
couragng. Bolins's train was in the ditch
in a cut where it would be impossible to get
a temporary track built around it in time
to do any good. In the meantime Bancroft
had sent in the call for the wreckor and be-
gan clearing the road for it. The North
End stations kept reporting Fifty-six by,
and it was sickening to think OF that splen-
did run ending in nothing through another
piece of old man Bolins's miserable luck.
McKclly said that the only thing to do was
to get the wreckage out Of the way quickly
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smoke pouring out of her stack as though
she were just beginning her run instead OF
ending it. Back Of her trailed the five new
mail cars, their sides gray with dust.
The instant the train stopped a swarm of
men fell upon it, tapping the wheels, testing
the air, and pouring oil into the journal
boxes They worked like mad, and the 1904
hadn't more than been uncoupled before old
George was backing down to take her place.
He was in such hurry about it that he
scraped several inches of paint off the other
engines tender as he came in from the sid
ing. Before the couples had touched men
reached for the air hose, and a second later
Holcomb himself swung onto mail car and
gave the signal to 60 ahead. In an instant
they were moving. Faster and faster they
went, as George gradually pulled the throt-
tie over, and when they passed the depot
they were pretty nearly flying. The last we
saw of them was a cloud OF black smoke
whipping around the curve at WI" tower,
below Eighteenth Street; but from the re-
ports that came in over the wire and the
tale that the conductor told when he recov-
cred his breath next day, we got a very good
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and mtcrward make up as much time as
possible. 1t was a poor enough outlook,
and while We were getting the line ready for
the wrecker good deal of breath went into
curses en- Jim Bolinss bald head.
Then Holcomb, who had been standing
by tie window saying nothing, wheeled
around and walked ever to Bancroft.
harry" be said, get the Mineral divi-
sion clear. l'ig eoing to send the mail into
CEnch River over that"
Good Lord, man, you can never do i'll"
broke in AickcIly. Think Of those curves
and that roadbcd! There are slow orders
out fer that new Little River bridge, too.
It's out of the question" "
Never mind that" Holcomb said.
"Thc mal's got to 60 cnd it's the only
way left US. Come on to the round
house
That was Holcomb. No running the road
from a desk with brass railing around it
for him
AS they piled down the steps we heard
the wildcat whistle break out with the
call FOR the wrecking crew, and over on
Railroad Avenue we could see doors come
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b.idgc, but wien Fifty-siX was at the head
Ct t. CoTcc t-c1c we're cighty-s.x miles IN
front Ct lcr End c;g' ~ minutes left 10 do
t,cm in. G&fec d.u{bcd down from his
sect 70 tie g sngway and tod jim that he
was going 10 tskc tic bridge at full speed,
a5 tl,cy woLl ! negcr make tLGch River In
time otbcrwisc, Both lhew that the cEa~ccs
wcrcnot rluc better tn cVcl5 that bri, &c,
train and Il H.ouid 81 iato the river i they
tiled sue. iDr; Lat LIN WIS gene all
through Wren George tCld I'm taat lie
could run k2r and firc TO, il Necessary, and
that jim could jump wl,ilc thcy we're run
ming slowly On the upgrade i he wanted to,
jim told I'm to 81 to ~
Ai,w n,irut S Later they pitched over the
crest Of tie Iii and tore down toward the
river like mad. Amhorn said afterward
that he c7ult,nt hear thing for the echo Of
the exhaust tl.at was coming back from the
hills all around. The drivers under him
were a bur. The engine rocked and
pitched, and tie headlight danced until it
didn't show the track ahead mere than half
the time. Jim quit shoycling and just hung
on.
To this day the old pump-tcndcr at the
bridge is unatle to remember whether he
saw Fifty-six pass Or not. lie only recalls
an impression OF something like a great
black thunde1bolt that shot by him at a
speed lie never saw bclcrc nor since; a short
hollow roar as it hurtled across tie bridge,
and then the crash as whole span tumblcd
into the river But the mail was across and
boring into the night as swiftly IS ever. As
the water closed over the wrecked span
there came back the four dcep-toaed blasts
Of the 1868 calling for the block at Radlord
Junction, half mile away.
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open and women standing in them listening
and calling TO one another. After oil, ii is
on the women thar tie curse of the railroad
life ials heaviest. They send their men out
each day, and sometimes they come back
and sometimes they don't. Day or night
they start up III horror al the sound of the
wreCking whistle, and wonder if the time
has come when their man lies out there
under a snarl Of twisted steel and splintered
wood. But that day the men would all
come home, and Holcomb stopped long
enough to send a man over to tell them
so. His main line was tied up, but he still
had time for that bit of kindness.
Word began to get around that Fiftysix
was going to be sent over the Mineral,
which parallelcd the main line some thirty
miles to the west, and it created almost as
much excitement as the wreck. Not only
was it nearly fifty miles longer than by the
main line, but everybody thought that the
mail train would 60 into the ditch if she
tried to make any time over that wretched
track through the coal country.
But Holcomb wasn't asking for any opin-
ions. In the roundhouse he found one of
chine-but the trouble was to get an engi-
neer. The main line men didn't know the
coal road, and the Mineral engineers were
all out on the line. Already it was $50, and
Fifty-six liable to be in at any moment.
McKcly was Just starting call-boy on the
double-qulck for an engineer, when his eyes
fell on a set OF whiskers and cloud of
tobacco smoke. He knew right off that
back of them was cid George Amhorn,
father of young Bob, the dispatcher. The
old man was sixty and about as reckless as
a boy Of sixteen. At that time he was TAX
ing a thirty-day rest for bringing a coal
train down the Mineral side of Blue Noun
tain, thirty-two miles, in twenty-six min
utes. There hadn't been any damage done
except to scare the train crew out OF year
growth, and the premature death of a pig
that had wandered out onto the track but
McKelly had given him months lay-off
and pamphlet on the uses of air-brakes.
The instant they recognized him Holcomb
and McKelly hailed old George and told
him that if he wanted his punishment sus-
pended indefinitely he could take Fifty-six
into Chnch River that evening. George
said that he was rather enjoying his little
vacation, but he couldn't bear to miss the
chance OF a run like that; SO in minute he
was in 1o63's big cab and pulling her over
to back into the upper yard, where he would
couple onto Fifty-six. Jim Angus was firing
for him, husky youngster who knew all the
tricks in the business for keeping up steam
in an engine.
They hadn't more than gotten the ten
wheeler into siding up there before they
heard the whistle-chime of the 1904, deep
and full like pipe-organ, and next thing
she was coming down the yard at racing
speed with the exhaust roaring and the
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The next thing that went into the hre-poA
was the shovel 1t was only in the way.
Then .agus jumped for the waste. Soaked
in oil, it went into the fire. Ever so little
the Indicator on the steam gauge crept
around, then once more it began to recede.
There were six miles ahead and already they
were due in Clinch River. Jim picked up
an ok and went to work on the tool-boxs IN
the tender Piece by piece it went into the
furnace. Again the gauge advanced ana
then rccedcd more than ever. Things began
to resolve themselves into fight between
the two men and the gauge. 1t said that
after all their work and brilliant running
their engine should die almost within sight
Of tie division terminus; while they swore
tA.t they would bring in the mail in spite OF
a leqion of gauges Then the tools went
irto the flames. AZ least their handles
would burn.
With the end Of the struggle so near but
With the result still in doubt, both men be-
can to realize how utterly weary they were.
l;.a staggered - he chopped at the canvas
carta.a in the cab. 1t, too, found its way
i TO the firc-box. Then came the cab
crehicns and Clinch River three miles
cWay. Cab and tender were stripped bare,
ard still tic steam fell and the speed slack
oncd. It locked as though the gauge were
going to win, but just then they rounded
the last curve, and two miles ahead were the
lights of Clinch River. The sight put new
lfc into Jim OFF came his shirt and into
IL. - ~
su5pcndcrs followed They helped little
enough, but he wasn't going to give up as
lcng as there was anything left on the engine
that would burn. Old George saw what the
bcy was up to, and down came his cap,
Jumper, ovcralls, both shirts, and his shoes.
Thcy, too all soaked with oil, went into the
fire.
One nile left, and already they were
clicking over the first sWitch-frogs. Mo-
mcntum and old Georges undershirt and
oycralls were taking them down the yard,
while Jim Icy asleep from sheer exhaustion
in the coal dust on the floor Of the tender,
and half-nakcd engineer with scorched
gray whiskcrs leaned YEARLY out of the cab
window The wires had carried word of the
run they had made and it was royal well
come that they got from the whistles of the
switch engines. The shops and mills along
the tracks took 1t up and Fifty-six rolled
along through a regular New Years night
celebration Her last pound Of steam went
into the 1o63s acknowledgment of their
salutcs and then the voice of her big whistle
cptifully, and just at the Center tower
she died.
A yard engine coupled onto the mail cars
and away they went. Then the superinten-
dent and the master mechanic climbed up
and lifted George down. Everybody
crowded around him shaking hands and
slapping him on the back, while he stood
first on one foot and then on the other on
the frosty ground yelling at them to shut
up and lend him coat and pair of shoes.
Did they think man without any shirt on
an October night cared anything about con-
gratulations-besides that, he hadn't done
anything except bring a train in over the
Mineral the same as he did cry day. Just
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At Rugby, twenty miles from Clinch
River, the real fight began. The coal was
so nearly gone that Jim was forced to go
far back in the tender for every shovelful.
George helped all he could, but still the
steam fell and the speed lessened. Seven
miles out of Clinch River the last of the coal
went into the furnace, but the two men in
the cab were not the kind that quit just
because the fuel happened to be gone. If
they had blown out a cylinder-head, George
would have figured out awayto get in on one
cylinder; and if they had lost drivewheel
Jimwould uldhaveriggedup arunnerinitsplace.
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idea Of how the mai! went into CGnch River
that nigh; only twelve minutes late.
The next we heard of them was at Irvine,
ten miles out of Eighteenth Street. Then
the woman operator at Roscdaie reported
that train had gone through 50 fast lhat
she could not get tie engine number. Val
Icy Falls told cf a runaway tfain witha mad
engineer who had his whistle tied down and
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hammered and shoveled and fought to keep
the steam pressure up to the limit. Yet,
strive as they might, they were losing time
on tic steep hil-tme tlat had to be made
up somewhere.
Just at the foot Of this bill on the other
side was the unfinished bridge sw,ng high
over Little River. OrccIs reed TO reduce
speed to three miles an Lcur ,erc15 this
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then Holcomb came shouldering his way
through the crowd toward the engineer, but
George got in the first word.
Say, Mr.. Holcomb," he called. "I've
changed my mind; want the rest of that
thirty days" 4
Take it, said Holcomb, "and your pay
goes on Just the same. But when you come
back I'm going to deduct the cost of that
Little River bridge from your first months
earnings I
Now old George pulls the mail trains on
the main line, but rumor has it that so far
he has not paid for that bridge.
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Ut on the main line they used
to poke fun at the Mineral
division; but one day they
I stopped laughing at it. Ihat
was the dav it saved the roads
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-03-12
This Homemade Cough
syrup UiH Surprise You
Stops Even WhOOping Cough
Quickly. A Family Supply
at Small Cost.

Here is a homemade remedy that
takes hold of cough instantly, and will
usually cure the most stubborn case in
"A hours. This recipe makes a pint
enough for a whole family. You couldn't
Duy as much or as good ready-made
cough syrup for $3.50.
:, Mix one pint of granulated sugar with
p pint OF warm water, and stir 2
minutes. Put 211a ounces of Pinex (fftv
cents, WORTH in pint bottle, and add
the Sugar Syrup. This keeps perfectly
and has pleasant taste-children like
It. Braces up the appetite and is slightly
laxative, which helps end cough.
You probably know the medical value
OF pine in treating asthma, bronchitis
and other throat troubles, sore lungs,
etc. There is nothing better. Pinex is
the most valuable concentrated compound
OF Norway white pine extract, rich in
guaiacol and all the natural healing pine
elements. Other preparations will not
work in this formula.
The prompt results from this inexpen.
slve remedy have made friends for it in
thousands of homes in the United States
and Canada, which explains why the
plan has been initiated often, but never
successfully.
A guaranty of absolute satisfaction, or
money promptly refunded, goes with this
recipe. Your druggist has Pinex, or will
get it for YOU. II not, send to The
Plnex Co, Fl. Wayne, Ind.
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DAYS DOING At
STALL CAPITAL
STATEMENT ISSUED BY WILSON
sUPPoRTERs-oTHER ALLAN
IA NEWS OF INTEREST.

Atlanta, March 1.-THE Georgia
managers of the campaign committee
for Woodrow Wilson, composed of
Senator w. ]. Harris, Walter P. An
drews and Edward T. Brown, have
addressed this morning a communi-
cation to the voters of the state, in
which they say:
THE democratic party for the first
time since the presidency of Grover
Cleveland; the southern people for the
first time since the presidency OF Jas.
K. Polk; and Georgia, for the first
time since the days of the brilliant
Crawford, have an opportunity to make
democrat, southern man and a
Georgian the next president of the
United States.
This man is Woodrow Wilson; he
is a democrat, southerner, a Geor-
gian.
There is but one way to keep
Woodrow Wilson from being the next
president of the United States, and
that is by defeating him for the
0OAhOSA oS1C uOluludt1Ou. Ills OOmlud-
ton is the one hope of the democrats
and the one fear of the republicans.
II he is nominated he will be elected
to the office.
Now who is inspiring the fight
against Woodrow Wilson? Unques-
tionably Wall street and the trusts
They are against him. The people are
for him. How can they defeat him?
Only by fooling the democrats and
inducing them to nominate some other
democrat who would be an easy
mark" for the republicans.
1T has been conceded all along,
and still is, that Georgia is unques-
tionably for Woodrow Wilson, yet to
the surprise of the people of Geor-
gia bold political scheme has been
Matched to try to defeat him in this
state"
The statement goes on to charge a
combination OF the Harmon, Clark,
Underwood interests similar to the
combination which has been alleged
as existing in other parts of the
country.