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The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-09-06
LIGHTNING KILLS DUGGY TEAM
Commissioner Edgar Ssdler Has Horses
Instantly Killed While Driving
Through Diamond Valley

County Commissioner Edgar Sad
Ter had both horses of his buggy
team instantly killed by a bolt of
lightning last Sunday afternoon in
Diamond Valley, about six miles be-
low Eureka, while en- route here
from his ranch in Diamond Valley.
He was coming to Eureka to attend
the regular monthly meeting of the
Board and was accompanied by John
Eccles, his brother-in-law.
Some parts of this section have
been visited almost every afternoon
for several weeks by thunder and
lightning and heavy downpours of
rain, and the clouds had been gather
ing over Diamond Valley beforenoo
on Sunday. This storm down the
valley broke in all its fury about 2
o'clock. Mr.. Sadler said he had
been driving along for some time in
a heavy rain when a vivid bolt of
lightning broke suddenly off toward
the Devils Gate, but it seemed to
strike near enough to cause him to
pull up the team to a walk, and he
remarked to Eccles that he believed
they had better go a little slow. He
says he had hardly gotten the words
out of his mouth when another
streak of lightning seemed to strike
in the road just in front of his team.
The off horse dropped in his tracks
as though shot. The near horse fell
to his knees, gradually keeling over.
Mr.. Sadler says he was badly
frightened and jumped from the
buggy as the near horse fell to his
knees. He and Mr.. Eccles after a
few moments examined the team and
found both horses stone dead, but
there was not a mark of any kind on
either of the animals to show what
had caused their death. They then
moved the buggy to one side of the
road, stripped the harness from the
horses, and started to walk to town,
a distance of six miles. The rain
continued to fall for some time and
both men reached here about 6 p.
m. thoroughly drenched.
AS soon as he reached town Mr..
Sadler arranged with Bud Porch to
take his team and go down after the
buggy and harness, and also had him
remove the dead animals from the
road out into the sagebrush flat.
Mr.. Porch says he also examined the
dead animals thoroughly, but failed
to find any marks or bruises, and it
is now thought the horses succumbed
to shock from the lightning bolt, be-
ing close enough to it to receive
enough electricity to kill them.
Mr.. Sadler said that although the
horses killed were one of the best
teams on the ranch and he hated to
lose them, he was thankful to escape
with his life and that no further
damage had been done.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-09-06
Pending Naturalization Hearing

Frederick N. Littleton, United
States Naturalization Examiner, ar
rived in Eureka by Fridays train.
Mr.. Littleton will hold an examina-
ton session in the District Courtroom
in Eureka commencing at 10 O'Clock
a. m. on Monday. September 8, when
all pending applications for citizen
ship will be given a hearing.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-09-06

Judge A. L. Fitzgerald, Grand
Representative of the Scottish Rite
degree of Masonry from Nevada,
left for Washington, d. c., by this
mornings train to attend a meeting
of the Grand Lodge of that Order
soon to be held at Washington. After
attending to his lodge duties he will
visit relatives and friends in the
East before returning to Nevada.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-09-06
Up From Duckwater

Earl Cobb and wife, and his
niece, Miss Pearl Cobb, drove in
from Duckwater Friday. Mr.. Cobb
brought up a load of peaches,
plums and apples and is disposing
of the fruit around town to-day.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-09-06

AT an adjourned meeting of the
Board of County Commissioner held
Thursday, Sept. 4, a notice from the
Nevada Industrial Commission was
received, asking the Board on behalf
of Eureka County to report to said
Commission all appointed employees,
according to the form furnished.
The Board ordered hat the Clerk,
in behalf of the Board of County
Commissioners, furnish forthwith
the information required and trans
nit the same to said Commission.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-26
AXHAWKER JOTy

village character" says the
Quenemo News, usually has very lit
tie real genuine character.
If you are looking for trouble, the
Madison Spirit man urges you to start
an investigation of your own charac-
ter.
1t may have been suggested before,
says the Burr Oak Herald, no doubt
the reason the recollection of by
gone days is pleasant is because they
are by-gone.
Nor is smiling key of the Dresden
Sunf1ower waiting alone. He writes:
Talking of one extreme following an
other, we are anxiously waiting for
that rich extreme to start.
One little girl, relates the Eureka Her
aid, who had seen sunshine for so
many days that her memory ran not
to the contrary, said Monday morning,
oh, mamma, is the sun turned off
for today"
Speaking about high finance" re-
marks the Elk City Sun, a fellow
bought a horse Saturday, Trades Day.
for $500 and in less than fifteen min
utes sold him for $3.50. If that fell
lew could sell enough horses he would
be acknowledgements.
Another romance of old time school
DAYS has been supplanted by mod
ern invention, mournS the Kanopolis
journal. Do you remember the number
or times a day you used to break the
point of your pencil on purpose so YOU
could borrow knife and incidentally
have the opportunity to pass a note or
tell the owner of the knife some inn
portant message that had lust come
to your mind? They have done away
with that now. There has recently
been installed at the school house sew
eraI machines that sharpen pencils by
merely turning a crank. What are
the schools coming to, anyway?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-26
SETTLE SAND CASE.
Answer of State Officers Now Places
Squabble Before Supreme Court.

An easy, simple manner of bringing
the merits of the famous Kaw river
sand case before the supreme court of
the state was carried out today when
State Auditor Davis and State Treas
urer Akers filed an answer to the Daw-
son mandamus and begged the court
for advice in their action of disposing
of the sand receipts.
The money paid the state recently by
the sand companies has been sent in
under protest. The treasurer and audi
tor acting under the advice of the eX-
ecutive council, created special fund
known as the river fund.- and placed
all receipts under this heading rather
than allow it to go to the general rev.
enue fund where it would bring about
more suits and trouble from the pro-
testing companies.
Then John Dawson, attorney general,
brought a mandamus suit against
Akers and Davis in an effort to COM
pei them to place the money in the
right channel. The answer of the audi
tor and treasurer filed today admits all
the claims of the attorney general, ex-
plains the creating of the special fund
and asks the supreme court for advice
The next action will combine the
suits and it is anticipated will thresh
out the trouble between the state and
the sand companies doing business on
streams inside the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-26

tell you that there is a cooperative
bank in the neighboring city to which
they belong, with which their contract
is deposited, and which advances them
from month to month the necessary
funds for equipment. supplies, and
wages.
Based on assets which had previous
1y been of negligible value to the Ia
borer in the securing of credit-name-
ly. character, thrift, the ambition of
every man to get on, his normal i'm
pulse to produce the greatest within
him, mere numbers which, Joined to-
gether with their small mites OF
money, are no more to be despised
than a Rothschild singly-there have
arisen in Italy host of Banks of the
Peop1e-Banche Popolari-a veritable
army of cooperative savings and loan
societies which have given to indi-
vidual members a credit service pre-
viously inaccessible if not impossible,
and which now are extending their
operations to reliable cooperative
groups of workmen. Owned and oper-
ated by the people themselves on the
most democratic lines, the power is
diffused by the single vote which each
member yields. irrespective of the
numbers of shares he holds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-26
GOLF TOURNEY.
Course Filled With Players for
Invitation Tournament.
Kinnear, State Champion, Won
in First Cup Match.

The course of the local Country club
was filled with players in the first an
nua invitation golf tournament today.
Many local players qualified Thursday
afternoon and about thirty par played
the qualifying round this morning.
This included out of town players
Among the notables in this list are
Lowry Kinnear. present amateur cham.
pion of the state; Grant Chamberlain
of Hutchinson, who formerly held the
title. The weather condition and the
course are in ideal condition.
The qualifying round was not COM
pleted until nearly l O'Clock and then
the first round of match play started.
Kinnear, the state champion. and
Barteldes won the Daily Capital cup in
the team match play, with a total score
of 169. A. Fassler and Judge =. S.
Ferry were second, with a. score of 172.
Allen McNeal and Hobart followed
with a score of 173. Six othe- Topeka
teams followed the leaders in this con-
test.
The following are the scores:
Kinnear- Barteldes, Lawrence, 1859.
Fassler- Ferry, Topeka, 172.
McNeal-Hobart, Topeka, 173.
Morgan-Cole, Topeka, TIA.
Armstrong-Frost, Topeka, It's.
Snyder-Koontz, Topeka, 1873.
West-Catlin, Topeka, 1856.
Sternberg- Kimberlin, Kansas City.
19O
Observation-Disclosures, Salina, $780,
Bear-Ross, Kansas City 1872.
Earris-Pyle, Emporia, 1856.
GanO-Combs, Hutchinson, 1875.
Stewart olladay, Hutchinson, 1893.
Rhomas-Rowland, Emporia, 200.
McMain- LingenfeIt, Oklahoma City,
217.
The following is the play this after
noon:
First flight for Auerbach cup:
Kinnear, Lawrence, and Cham ber-
lain.
Hobart, Topeka, and Cole, Topeka.
Wilson, Topeka, and Levitt, Pre-
sidio club, San Francisco.
Frost and Ferry, Topeka.
Second flight for Catlin cup:
Fassler and Pierce, Topeka.
Eberhardt, Salina, and Felix, To-
peka.
Parteldes, Lawrence, and Wood
ward, Topeka.
Morgan, Topeka, and Mcneil, To-
peka.
Third flight for Fassler cup:
Koontz, Topeka, and Ross, Kansas
City.
Humphries, Topeka, and Guild, To-
West, Topeka, and Snyder, Topeka.
Armstrong, Topeka, and Catlin, To-
pel.a.
Fourth flight for Merriam cup-Love-
land, Topeka; Sternberg, Kansas City.
L.,
Hutchinson. Gano, Hutchinson, and
Lyle, Emporia. Kimberlin, Kansas
City, and Council, Topeka.
Fifth flight for National hotel cup
Auerbach, Topeka, and Bear, Kansas
City. Abrahams, Topeka, and Top
ping, Ottawa. Southwick, Topeka, and
Petro, Hutchinson. Rowland, Emporia,
and Haskell, Leavenworth. $
Sixth flight for Wolf cup-Hau. To-
peka, and Anderson, Salina. Harris.
Emporia, and Waters. Topeka. Frost,
Topeka, and Dudley, Topeka. Bartell,
Topeka, and Snyder, Topeka.
Anderson and Shiros of Ottawa were
tied for the sixth flight with a score of
1O2 They played one hole to decide the
drawing and Anderson won.
Three professionals are in Topeka for
the events and four more are expected to
arrive for Sunday morning play.
The most interesting play of the tourna-
ment was staged this afternoon between
Lowry Kinnear, the state champion, and
Grant Chamber lain of Hutchinson, VINO
held the title.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-26
GLOEE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

An aviator is so apt to show more cour-
age than sense and die young.
Don't torture your friends unless YOU
are dentist and get paid for It.
Those who are never tempted are least
charitable toward those who fall.
Probably a politician wouldn't love the
people SO well if he had no opposition.
sometimes a man has to buy a motor
car before he learns he can't afford it,
Book agents are smart it is a wonder
SO many of them are working their way
through school.
People forget so readily that the GRIM
lnal who gets a life sentence has strong
hope of OUTLYING it.
A small town is apt to overestimate the
WlckedneSS in cities. and the value of a
railway division point.
Being mildly opposed to equal suffrage
we are in favor of women election clerks
when the time arrives
Speaking of a bolt from the blue sky
1T is a scientific fact that lightning doesn' t
come from a clear sky.
Regardless of the impression you may
draw from the conversation, grammar is
taught in most of our schools.
We also experience some difficulty in
compre hen ding the young Lothario who
kills his sweetheart because he loves her
so.
This is a cruel world in which one pays
to attend a banquet. and is under obliga-
ton to stay and listen to the silver
tOngued orators.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-26
FAVORS LOCAL OPTION
Former Kansan, Now Colorado State
Senator, Prefers 1t to Prohibition

Arthur Cornforth, state senator of
Colorado, in Topeka today says that
the plan of local option in Colorado
is preferable to the absolute prohibi-
tlon practice in Kansas. Furthermore,
senator Cornforth states that he has
!lved in both Kansas and Colorado and
KNOWS what he is talking about
prohibition was defeated in Colo
rado last year." the senator explained
The people voted it down by $4,000
votes 1t has been found that local
option is much more satisfactory.
Cities and localities not desiring sa-
looms have the right to vote them
doWn-and they do it.
The saloon is quickly becoming
unpopular in Colorado. 1t is proposed
now in Denver to raise the license fee
and cut down the number of bars
Drinking is done more in hotels and
clubs-the street saloon is on the
wane."
Senator Cornforth is of the opinion
that the Republicans will be back in
power again in Colorado next year He
does not anticipate the Progressive
strength shown last year and hopes
for the complete Republican party
victory.
The senator is here visiting at the
nome of J. P. Coleman, assistant at
torney general He lived in Kansas
nearly thirty years ago and has visited
the state many times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-26
STATE CHAMPIONSHIP.
The Motorcycle Races at Fair Grounds
Saturday.

Ralph Cooper, Topeka motor
cyclist is said by the pop-pop authori-
ties in Topeka to have good chance
to wrest the state championship hon
ors from 'tSpeck'' Warner of Ellsworth
on Saturday afternoon. In trials made
on the race track on the fair grounds
Cooper has attained sufficient speed
to make all corners go at top speed.
Cooper has covered mile in one min
ute and nine seconds, and this is q.
better record than any yet made by
Warner, who holds the state title.
There is now another fast rider who
believes that he has fighting chance
of making the best showing on the
track Saturday afternoon at the races
which will be held under the auspices
of the Topeka Motorcycle club, and
that is Ray Weishaar of Wichita, who
has agreed to ride a special factory
built Excelsior machine that is now
on display in the window of the
Tromp smoke house. In trials on the
track late Thursday Weishaar made
excellent time. 1t is considered by the
local motorcyclists that Warner,
Cooper and Weishaar will be the con-
testants that will be the rivals for
speed honors, although several others
will be in the events and may show
up we'll
The races will begin promptly at
2:3O- o'clock Saturday afternoon. The
management has adopted a novel
method of preventing persons from
seeing the races without having paid
the admission fee. A red tag will be
given each individual who buys
ticket, and all persons who do not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-26
CAPrTALIzING CHARACTER.

Wherever one travels through the
north of Italy he sees large or small
groups of worllingmen. skilled or I'M
skilled, with no padrone to drive
them making roads, carting the
gravel from beds of torrents. con-
structing steam railways for the gov
eminent erecting big apartment
houses for working people to live in,
extending their operations to every
sort of trade by organizing themselves
into co-ope rative societies to under
take big contracts, writes John L.
Matthews. in Harper's Magazine for
October. Binding themselves together
tc work for themselves and for one
another, paying their own wages, car
rying the responsibility of properly full
filling their contract, and depositing a
fund to guarantee it's completion, they
eliminate the intervening contractors
entirely, saving the middleman's profit
to divide among themselves in proper
ton to the amount of work which
each man has contributed and to the
existing wage scale for his trade.
Having now become their own en-
ployers, they have in their own work
eliminated the strike.
The labor cooperative society is the
latest and farthest advance of collec-
tivism today, and some forms of it in
Italy are unique. Ask these laborers
about their work, how they are hold
ing together, how they secured the
contract and the necessary guarantee
to obtain it, how they have been able
to purchase all the machinery re-
quired to carry it out, and they will
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-26
THE SEED WHEAT FUND
Received $4,000 and That Much
= More Pledged.

Wake I'D Topeka, Other towns have
responded to the call for money witR
which to purchase seed wheat for
farmers of western Kansas-as yet no
coin has been forthcoming locally.
However, a special Topeka fund to be
turned over to the Kansas Farmer Seed
Wheat club, will be started Immediate
". All persons who are willing to help
the cause by loaning money are re-
quested to turn over their subscriptions
to Scott Hopkins of the Prudential
Trust company, who is member OF
the Topeka Commercial club seed
wheat committee.
At a meeting of this Commercial
club committee today decision was
made to start the Topeka fund. Dona-
tions are not asked-simply loans.
Charles M. Sawyer, state bank COM
missioner, who is acting as treasurer
of the Kansas Farmer Seed Wheat
club, stated that by tonight he will
have actually received $4,000 for the
purchase of seed wheat. He got word
this morning from the Kansas City
Clearing house that $500 would be
sent by that institution today.
State Bank Commissioner Sawyer
was aroused from bed Thursday night
when long distance phone call was
received from Ex-Governor w. ]. Bailey
stating that Atchison has raised $4,000
for the fund Governor Bailey is one
of the trustees of the Kansas Farmer
Seed Wheat club. He expected to leave
town today, and for that reason he
put in night call for Bank Commits
Sioner Sawyer.
The 10000 bushels of wheat that has
been purchased for distribution among
the farmers is being rushed to western
Kansas as rapidly as possible.
Members of the Commercial club
committee are Joseph yLongshore.s w.
H. Davis, Scott Hopkins, David Bowie,
and E. H. Crosby.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-26
SHORTER WAY FOUND.
Antitrust Suits Can Be Started in
District Courts.

Washington, Sept. 26.-Under a new
Interpretation of the law designed to
expedite any trust cases through the
courts the department of justice has.
just discovered that an antitrust suit
may be filed in a district court presid-
ed over by single judge and appeal
ed directly to the United States SUI
preme court. Under Attorney General
Wickersham the law was construed as
making it necessary to file an 'expe-
diting certificate" which placed the
suit directly in the hands of three cir
cult judges sitting as a district court
with the right of direct appeal to the
supreme court.
Attorneys say this resulted at times
in delay because of the difficulty in
getting the circuit judges together Elk
cept in extraordinary cases expediting
certificates will not be filed in future,
but appeals taken directly from the or
binary district courts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-26
MADE THE APPLICATION
Street Railway Company Ask County
For Gage Park Franchise.

The Topeka Street Railway company,
through Its attorney, T. F. Doran, today
made application to the board of county
commissioners of Shawnee county for a
franchise to operate street cars over the
Eighth street road to Gage park.
As the highway, the use of which the
company. seeks, is a township road, there
was doubt in the minds of the commits
sioners whether the county could grant a
franchise over it, and so the matter was
referred to the county attorney with in
structions for him to report Monday.
MI Doran told the commissioners that
II the street car company extended its
line out Eighth street to Gage park. it
would expect the county TO grade the
road and get it ready for the placing of
the tracks. At one place it will be neces-
sary to construct bridge. Mr.. Doran
stated that the company would be willing
to stand half the cost of the bridge
The company has already had survey
of the proposed extension made, with pro-
file of grades and other data. This was
submitted to the county board today.
N. B. Burge, of the Elmhurst company,
was present and spoke in favor of the
Eighth street route.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-26
0UIMET IS BEATEN.
New Golf Champion Falls Before
jerome Travers.

Brookline Sept 26.-Francis Ouimet,
the open golf champion of six days
standing, met defeat today when he
and his partner, F. H. Hoyt, were
beaten by Jerome D. Travers, who won
the amateur championship 20 days ago
and Gilman Tiffany. Travers and Tiff
fanny won by A up and to play in
the foursome between the Massachus-
etts and Metropolitan teams for the
Lesley cup. The match was played at
the Country club here. Ouimet show
ed signs of a slump, being wide from
the tees and through the green's, al
though his putting was almost as ac-
curate as last week. Hoyt, his part
ner, was very weak and the New York
pair led from the start Ouimet was
trapped six times and Hoyt found IA
of the pits.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-26

possess one of these tags Will De
escorted from the grounds. A percent
age of the proceeds will go to the
State Fair association. The attendance
will be large judging from the manner
in which the tickets have been selnns
in advance.
About two hundred dollars has been
offered in prizes by the Topeka Motor
cycle club and the races VIII un-
doubtedly be the best that have ever
been held in Topeka
There will be five events in all. The
biggest money is offered the winners
in the five mile open port and the ten
|, mile open port races.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-26
JOURNAL ENTRIES

He's the wise man who knows when
to say no
II +
Any number of people never know
where they're going until they get
there.
+ + +
Experience often proves to be a
teacher with an exceedingly mean dis
position.
Everybody has a whole lot to do with
the development of his own diSap-
pointmentS.
Not many people worry so much
about the result of an operation for
appendicitis as they do about the eX-
penSe of it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-26
MONEY FROM TREASURY
State Receives $1.11S as Its Share i'm
Forest Reserve Distribution.

The state received today s1,14s from the
United States treasury as the Kansas
share of the receipts from rental of forest
reserve land The money will be held I'M
til the next session of the legislator 2
when it will be apportioned to five cou11-
ties to be used in school work and in the
building of good roads.
The government forest reserves in Kan
sas are located in Hamilton. Finney,
kearney, Grant and Haskell counties.
One-fourth of the money from rental is
given to the state. From this amount Is
per cent is given to the district schools
and IS per cent for the construction OF
good roads through the sand hills
Part of the reserve in Hamilton county
open for settlement.