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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-03-01

place and white child is captured
hy the |gd skins The mother rushes
INTO Tho Indian camp. is captured,
hut the bonds of maternity between
her and the Indian woman whose pa
pose has died, persuadcs the sQuaw 10
released he white woman. who with
her baby ls guided back 90 her settle
W'nt The last scene IA ~ the chiefs
wife standing beneath the dead body
OF her child laid al rest high in the
air. stretching out her hands toward
the little one. iu the lowering twilight,
as exquisite a piece of photography
as has ever been on screen one
scene In the picture shows a real buf-
iaIo hunt N which plainsman man
ages tu bring down one Of the bison.
over 400 persons are used in the pie
tur" and two hundred horses and
buffalo. Re % Indians. cowboys. Mex
leans. actors and actresses make up
this troupe the largest in the world
Tho picture IS amazing II over.
"nclms thr spectators with IFS gram
leur and mass.Nrness Backgrounds
.i wonderful beauty are shown.
The yaude Me act at the Coy is
'ne of unusual interest.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-03-01

wishing n of remedy tuio. h,,i. .
regular Of druggist dollar ,c I ~ w. w.
simple chonncr c,ary,
addressing Dr. W Caldwell ios St. Mon,o !, ry ~
and address a do " ''"'
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-03-01
PRIM tRl ELECTION SYSTEM Il
ATTACKED.
. 'nator Hepburn Declared the Election
system Opened the Way for
Graft.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 29.-The pri-
mary election system. adopted by
many states. was attacked in the SEN
ate today during consideration of the
election ot senator Stephenson. of
Wis ousiu senator Hepburn declared
the primary opened the way for
graft" while it was condemned as
ursa,isfactor 10y Senators McCumher
and oNerman. Senators R"rah and
Irisfow defended the law.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-03-01
Women Maintain Health
and Beauty with
DR.. CALDWELL'S
SYRUP PEPSIN.

an enemy OF obesity prevents headaches and similar
disorders Women should
above and with it VII good heath There is one ,xy
particular that her
Ideally suited to her
fEPsiN 1t is especially adapted the OF children vonn i
people and all others
waters because they shock the delicate
effectively but mildly only small dose wbic
mild that an infant take with safety effective in the strong
est constitution II has the the
patton Its occasional will bloom
e e uo~eh ana ore petty illnesses that
plain or Buy bottle at the results ''"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-03-01
Erie Will Double Track.

NEW YORK, Feb, 29.--The drcc-
tors of the Erie railroad today author
lied the Issuance of $1O,oOO,OOO per
cent three-y ear notes TO complete the
double tracking Of the line to Chicago.
The issuance Of the notes is lbjert t.
the approval of the public service
commission.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-03-01

u heaith lies IN digestion and elimina-
ton and the latter Is the more i'm.
po'uni of the two. Keep the bowels
clear ana clean and appetite and d..
sestion will follow II is especially
important that women should have
good digestion and regular elimina.
ZION 1t assists in the easy uding over
OF the mensca. II rnmnAn. uuL....- -
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-03-01

nr Caldwell.
received your sample oi syrup Pepsin
ana have used u and also E,t soc hat
tle from my druggist have used /, and
mghl! recommend Il for stomach ,r,n
ne, IL has helped me wonderful,
$3.50 wrote my mother about II. sh, r,,
bottle and said it helped her.
Mrs. A. A. liuggins.
Mounds OKLA
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-03-01

BY popular custom cosmetics have thr boudol
INT no cosmetic ever invented give
heth Is not there The basis Of a heath lies
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-03-01
TODAY AT THE THEATRES

with haud-puntod plate Mr..
j. Gihhy VIII have the muuugcmcnt
of tho Empire hereafter Prices r
and 10 cents, the amr as always
win prevail even though musical
comedy has been added
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-03-01

Ir- IlIuNFU.
After having used the sample bottle
Of syrup Pepsin sent me bought bot
tie At the drug store and | am well
pleased with the results In my opinion
1t is one Of the best remedies for stomach
trouble known. 50 | highly endorse II ~
tonic Nothing better.
g. W. Warren.
keo. Ark
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-03-01

American Bankers Association t.Iay
that he favored legislation to es b.
lish federal educational work In con-
nection with the state colleges.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-03-01

DR. Caldwell.
~, our Tree sample was all / could ask
3' ~ Il had the desired effect Am el,I
nk,' ~ TRIAL, as | had used SO many
Mrs y a. Newcomer.
rine Greek. Texas.
br. Caldwell,
a.. 1,' syrup Pepsin suited me all right
81, hm n.hc Just what you said 20
snI 'q 40 We have given II fuil trial
nn, hnii' me so wcll tina, We wonid
.n ' without 70 in the horse W. have
r. '"'Ne nov and We win aiway.
A. NJ. Ford.
Mena. Ark
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-09-05
Local News
''Princess flour is the best"

ITinCeSS IlOur - the pest.
Joe Kaufman visited Lewiston Mon
day.
TO RENT-Six room house-Enquire
OF Samson Snyder.
Hugh Wilfong was an arrival home
Monday.
House to Rent-Enquire Of Wellman
& McRoberts.
John Rettig was passenger ior Lew.
iston Monday.
Private money to loan on improved
real estate. See Chandler.
John Peckham was down from Fra
ser Wednesday.
Princess flour Is a hard wheat flour
absolutely guaranteed.
VIM. Mapes of Teakean was an Orc
fino visitor Monday.
CASH REGISTER FOR SALE-See
Samson Snyder.
Sam Porter Of Peck was a county
seat visitor Monday.
III you are nor using Princess flour you
are not using the best"
George Lieurance was a passenger
for Greer Tuesday.
Chester Groves opened school in the
Mooers district Monday.
James Greer, of Greer, Idaho, was an
Orofino visitor Wednesday.
w. S. Holmes of Greer was business
visitor in OrOfino Monday.
Ray Hill of. Elk River is visiting
friends in OrOfino this week.
TEAM and WORK HARNESS for
sale at the Orofino Feed Store.
Princess flour Is nard wheat flour,
absolutely guaranteed.
Tim Garrett Of Greer, Idaho, was a
visitor in Orofino Monday.
William j. White of Lewiston was a
business visitor here this week.
Katherine Foresman visited relatives
in Charleston Saturday and Sunday.
Will Walters, a former resident OF
Orofino, spent a few days here this
week.
Mrs. Edmonson, mother of Frank
EdmOnson, left for her home in Lapwai
Saturday.
James DeCourcey returned Monday
from business trip to the Lewiston
country.
Gus. Edinger has smile on his face
this week. Mrs. Edinger is expected
home Saturday.
Blair Hoar returned Sunday from a
two weeks trip into the country north
of the North Fork.
T. j. Humbird, the Spokane capital
list visited Orofino Tuesday and We'd
nesday Of this week.
w. r. Colt, of Madison, Wisconsin
was an arrival here Friday to take
charge of the Orofino public schools.
John Lewis was down from his ranch
on the North Fork this week. He re-
ports things flourishing in that section.
Harold Kline and sister, Helen, were
arrivals Monday from Spokane, where
they spent the past week visiting
friends.
William Harris, the Spokane Mining
man who is opening some placer ground
near Pierce, left for his home Saturday
morning. ..s.
Hulda Anderson left Saturday for
Winchester where she will fill a posi-
ton as teacher in the public schools of
that thriving little burg.
Labor day was celebrated in Orofino
by the closing Of banks and the post
office. Nothing of unusual interest
happened during the day.
Marus and Harry Loft left Wednes-
day morning for the Gull Lake country
IN Canada, where they will probably
locate If conditions are suitable.
Every School District should install
the waterbury System Of heating and
ventlianng. For prices and particulars
write W. M. Chandler, Orofino, Idaho.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-09-05
Order to Show Cause Why Order of Sale
Of Real Estate Should Not Be Made.

In the Probate Court of the County
OF Clearwater, State of Idaho.
In the matter Of the Estate of Henry
Elmore Frey, deceased.
Albert l.. Harper, the administrator
of the estate of Henry Elmore Frey, de-
ceased, having filed in this court his
petition duly verified, praying for an
order.of sale of all of the real estate of
said Henry Elmore Frey, Deceased,
for the purpose therein set forth
1t is therefore ordered that all per-
sons interested in the estate of said
Henry Elmore Frey appear before the
said Probate court on Thursday the 10Th
day Of September, 1912, at the hour of
10 o'clock, A. NJ of said day, at the
court room of said court in the Village
OF Orofino, in the County of Clearwater
and State OF Idaho, then and there to
show cause why an order should not be
granted to the said administrator to sell
all Of the real estate of the said Henry
Elmore Frey, deceased, and that copy
OF this order be published at least four
consecutive weeks in the Clearwater
Republican, newspaper printed and
published in said county.
The real estate hereinbefore referred
to is particularly described as follows
to-wit:
The Northwest quarter of the
Southwest quarter and the
South half of the Southwest
quarter of Section (Fourteen,
and the Northeast quarter OF
the Northwest quarter of Sec
ton Twenty-three (23) all in
Township Thirty-six (36) North
of Range Two (2l East, Boise
Meridian, containing 100 acres
more or less, according to the
Government survey thereof.
Dated this l4th day of August 1912.
WILLIAM b. KINNE,
Probate Judge.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-09-05

Rev. Jas. H. Hart will be back for
another year and will hold preaching
services in the Methodist Episcopal
Church next Sunday evening at the
usual time.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-31

taking command OF the ship. This gave
no comfort to the enforced passengers
slowed away where little fresh air could
could the holds be opened. There never was
room on deck for all the prisoners to ex-
ercise at one time, even If II had been
advisable 10 permit them 10 do so. Cholera
or jail fever would break out and the dan
gers from the human cargo were increased,
not only to the officers and crew, but to
the prisoners themselves. Occasionally mu-
TIMES, as one might expect. would arise.
Among those ordered transported In 1870
was a clever gentleman pickpocket by the
name of George Darlington He possessed
some literary ability and was an adept at
also highly expert in supplying his inan-
cial needs from the pockets OF others who
attended the same pleasure places that lie
did Passing for a gentleman OF wealth On
a certain birthday Of the Queen, he was
admitted to court The honor did not blind
number of expensive snuff boxes and
purses, and actually cut off the collar of
an Order Of the Garter worn by one OF the
guests AT that time a Dutch Jew was In
the habit OF crossing from Holland each
year to buy stolen jewels. He disposed Of
his gains 10 this fence" and, emboldened
by his success, audaciously turned 10 high
er game He attempted TO steal Prince Or
lofts snuff box al the Coyent Garden The
New-York tribune., 1912-03-31

York and 800 guineas at Bath. He was the
chat Of the coffee houses. the scandal OF
the wells. His person was well known.
He was the hero of hundred stories. He
achieved "A reputation for gallantry. Fine
ladies were in love with him, or professed
TO be He was reported TO have robbed the
Kings coach. and to have intrigued with
royal duchess. He was captured once or
twice. but always escaped. lie had plenty
Of money, and jumped from one disguise
TO another with the nimbeness OF a harle-
quin Now he was here, now there. one
day he would be a quack doctor at Bath,
the next a respectable bagman at Glouces-
ter. He kept a table at the races on Mon
day and on Tuesday borrowed tD as
Methodist missionary desirous OF turning
heather souls to God. Even when arrested
his wit and manners saved him from the
ready rope Being seized at Newcastle
he was sent In irons 10 Newgate. but
pleaded so successfully with his friends
that they raised 100 guineas for him and.
spending it In feeling an astute counsel. he
escaped through some legal quibbe"
At last, however. luck failed him.
Caught almost in the act OF picking the
pocket OF the owner OF a horse at the
races, he was convicted and ordered de-
ported
He has left behind him the story OF a
meeting on the ship which took him out
TO New South Wales, In connection with
which he performed q service that stood
New-York tribune., 1912-03-31

the British government in 1858 ana
anchored in Sydney Harbor as convict
prison. The feeling against her became so
strong that she was scuttled in sydney
Harbor. When she was raised more re-
Gently she was found 10 be in a state OF
complete preservation. with all her dun
geons. irons and other instrumentalities FOR
punishment in good condition. She was
scheduled 10 sail this week from Lancaster,
England, where she has been overhauled
and equipped with wireless telegraphy. for
New York
The transportation system OF England
was devised long before Australia was dis
covered. The American Revolution had
something TO do with the shipping OF GRIM
inals off to the other side OF the world.
Those interested in eugenics in the United
States are industTiously seeking out the
effects upon heredity and crime, the visit
ing Of the iniquity Of the fathers upon the
children unto the third and fourth gener-
alton" Of them who were sent TO the col
onies before the colonies became units Of
an independent republic. The prisons OF
England were not large enough 10 hold
those who had committed the crimes of 4
convict. such as combining TO raise wages
from shillings 10 shillings, or stealing
shillings worth of goods from a shop, for
which hanging was the penalty when fury
could be found TO enforce II. and Of which
children ten years old were sometimes
esaV. 50 the surplus criminal population
New-York tribune., 1912-03-31

was consigned to the "hulks." These float
ing prisons must needs overflow also, and,
reminded of the discoveries of Captain Cook
in the Antipodes in 1870, 1873 and 1914,
England took advantage of the preoccupa-
ton of the rest of the European world in
other directions at that time to lay claim
to his discoveries. This was in 1886.
The next year, early in May, that de-
lightsome month in Merry Old England,
when the children dance around the flower
bedecked pole and the streams wind down
through "fowery dales" past gold-starred
lawns, a fleet Of eleven ships, two of them
vessels of war, were slowly breasting their
way athwart the choppy seas of the Eng
lish Channel outward bound. Their passen-
ger list was made up of 49, convicts. part
of whom were women For eight long
months they ploughed their way across the
Seven Seas toward the Antipodes and final
ly came TO a bay on the east side of Austria
liza which Commodore Philip, the command
er named Botany Bay. Perhaps this name
was given in sarcasm, for its environment
reminded one more of a desert than a dis
play of natures trea sures of vegetation. y
few Of the sick. for the voyage had not
DeeH one lOnS pltdSult Jduil ioi 'iV WI
victs, were left at Botany Bay, the indenta-
ton in the cost of the southland which
became so famous in the English criminal
world Then the clank of the capstans
echoed across the waters and the fleet sailed
on few miles to Port Jackson, where Syd-
ney was afterward 10 he. Eleven Of the
Colonists. accompanied by their wives ana
guard of two soldiers, sailed further east
ward 70 Norfolk Island a veritable Eden,
eight hundred miles beyond Australia. which
was in course of time to become hades on
earth when Convicts were conveyed thither
to serve their time. Thus began the trans
portation Of Convicts To Australia and the
neighboring islands, a system which was
supposed to serve a double perpose. to ne
a deterrent of crime and a means of de-
velopment of the colony at the same time.
A half century proved that it did neither
and that it was so hrutalizing it benefited
no one.
The officers and crew of convict ship
might a well have teen sailing on a yes
sci laden with nitroglyCerine so far as
comfort was concerned, for il was human
explosive of a very dangerous mixture
which they carried below decks. The most
humane of them resorted to the most strin-
gent measures TO keep their cargo from
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among them wounding several. they re-
treated, and | was Immediately joined by
the captain and the rest of the officers, who
in a few minutes drove them all into the
hold. An attempt Of this kind required the
most exemplary punishment: accordingly
two Of the ringleaders were instantly hung
at the yardarm, and several others severely
iogged at the gangway. The conspirators
were 're-ironed.
Within couple of years after his arrival
In New South Wales harrington was made
superintendent OF convicts. This was one
Of the rewards for the service which he
had rendered.
Women were not sent to the convict coll
onies in numbers proportionate TO the men,
This fact resulted in most immoral condi-
tions They were shipped in many cases
with the idea of improving the moral condi-
tions in the colonies. but II frequently hap
pened that these women. under the condi-
tions which prevailed. only added to the de-
gree OF immortality. With the best inten-
tions in the world. such phllanthroplsts as
Mrs Fry sent women whom II was desired
TO reform permanently TO Australia under
the impression that this separation from
their old environment would accomplish the
desired end. 1t usually worked the other
way, and, II is said, that some ships be-
came nests of immortality long before they
reached their destination.
II only required a few years Of the con-
Wet system In Australia. with its assign
ment OF convict labor TO the colonists, to
demonstrate the necessity for separating the
well disposed from the Ill disposed con-
victs, and In 1903 Van Deman's Land was
set apart for the worst classes Isolated
from the world. this section of the British
Empire became the scene OF such tyrannies
and the centre of such viciousness that
wben A. WAS desired 10 settle the island