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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-07-24

N0 Moa0 nA"AA 0s uesn "At ~
held until fall.
Corn is king now--in price. II
not in production.
w. o. steen has been sick for
the past several days.
IS. v. Clark has sued A. NJ. o.
ROurke in the district court for
t4s7.
Marriage license: M. A. Dom
brOski. sleepyeye, MINI. and Miss
Martha Schlesener, Harrington.
Alvin A. Haggard and Miss
Maude Redeem. both OF Herington. I
were married by Judge Happen to-
day. n
&C. L. Brown has commenced to
remodel his recently purchased resi-
dence. the t. H. Malott place, on
North Buckeye. =
On March first there were 10,- W
bushels of corn in Dickinson county.
This year $1,000 acres were sown al
to corn, 5000 to sorghum and 1000 e,
to kaffir corn.
tr
@. Meyer. physician and surgeon:
office over Merrifield's grocery. =,
phone 319; residence phone 557.
Calls answered day or night. q,
1dtfSwtf -
That is a mighty pretty cot
tage that C. e. shadinger has built Pa
on North Cedar It is artistic out rel
side and inside and one of the most
attractive homes in the city.
tel
Farmers are busy gathering their
rough feed and preparing to fill their lef
silos. Hodge Bros. sent out two w,
large smalley ensilage cutters to- i
day. sol
Union Pacific firemen claim -
hat the engines travelling through -
he heat-stricken belt Of Kansas con- u.e
Iume very little coal for the manu- 'oO
actire OF steam, the heat OF the sun =
,eing almost sufficient.
ing
For sale, one model r Buick in
Eood shape, cheap; price 5000. See dau
D, e, Coulson. tf10wtf en-
The Salina Union in western 80 ]
Kansas dispatch, records the death hon
( an old settler, whose chief claim A
0 distinction was that he remem- bar
cred clearly the last rain in Kan inc
as n
Union Pacific train No. 1O4, due retu
ere at 11:13, was three hours late afte
ecause of washout at Lowmar, n
Passengers said the rain Grle
ii not extend into western Kan VAR
a. Yorl
Every trimmed hat in this store da !
riced from $3.50 to $3.50 marked Mrs.
own to $3.50 and $500. Eighty in {
ats to select from. NJ & B. Pea M
'ck. w1t25d1t is vi
-, has
,...a ..s,- 49,, ley
,.~s4s ia
- 80, has
Used to see the streets illuminat-
os.o. al tha.a Iong vaore ~ visit
rkness.
The farmers are not worrying Motto
out the dry weather. To be sure He /
is hard on stock and the silos are to A.
iting for material. But when It has
ms fodder crops Will be planted Mi
d there will be sufficiency of VIM
d after all. ter,
ladies
Abilene autoes, loaded schoo
Ii pleasure hunters, made the, after
, over to Lyons creek and down (EuroT
It remarkable road to Junction Re,
v yesterday. They inspected the urday
spring on the Haas Iarm anu He ss
ny lesser ones. but
tsas CT
Shas' Hueonon' Son leave
seinoh, VINO iNeS sou'" fine 7
n, fell eight feet from the win
I of a barn yesterday morning,
I'd first, and struck a cement GREE
.forn fracturinp his skull and
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-07-24

Clean cid DaDsrs Sc . bundls a
ne Reflector sffIeo.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-07-24

"A woman in abbreviated skirts.
the partner of a street performer
who can free himself no matter how
we'll he is tied, attracted considera-
BILE attention on the streets this
morning. incidentally, she collect
ed about ten dollars from the rub
berneck crew after they put on. their
little show.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-07-24

Dor sale. one surry almost as good
- new. e. e. coulson. 2idtfwtf
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-07-24

w. o. steen has been sick for
the past several days.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-07-24

IS. v. Clark has sued A. NJ. o.
Rourke in the district court for
tls7.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-07-24

Corn Is king now--in price. II
not in production.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-07-24

Marriage license: M. A. DOM
'broski. Sleepyeye, MINI. and Miss
Martha SchIesener. Herington.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-03-21

ATLANTA.-For ways that are
dark and tricks that are vain two
handsome young Atlanta lads, broth
ers and members of the Athletic club,
have got all of Bret Harte's China
men backed off the boards.
These two boys, who had best be
nameless, had a good deal of diffl-
Guilty in persuading their mother to
let them join the club. She wanted
them to participate in the social and
athletic pleasures, but she dreaded
the influence of the cafe. At length
she consented, however, with the
precaution stipulated that every
night they went to the club her boys
should come by her room and kiss
her good night.
But as they stayed out sometimes
pretty late the mother occasionally
dozed of to sleep, and the boys
sneaked noiselessly to their room
without awaking her. The first time
this happened the mother tapped
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-03-21
LAWS HANp ON ARSON RING
Warrants Out for ThiIty-One Per-
sons in Chicago Who Profited
by Using the Torch. y

CHICAGO.-One hundred and
fourteen warrants for thirty-one all
legged members of the arson ring
were issued today at the instance of
Assistant States Attorney Johnston
Twenty-eight of those named in
the warrants are business men, some
of them wealthy Their names were
not made public, pending arrests.
When arrests are made on today's
warrants the total number of per-
sons taken into custody will aggre-
gate forty-four, alleged to have been
implicated in forty fires from which
total Of 100000 was collected in
insurance.
A special grand jury probably will
be required to hear the evidence
gathered by Johnston and his assist
ants. Johnston declared that large
number of warrants growing out of
smaller fires probably would be is
sued at later date. The present
writs were based on alleged guilt in
connection with important fires.
In some cases three warrants
charging separate offenses were TAX
en- out against one person. They
charge arson, burning to defraud and
conspiracy to defraud.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-03-21
DAWSON GETS $4,000 FROM CARNEGIE FUND FOR LIBRARY BUILDING
MANS DECEIT CAUSES WOMAN'S SHAME

told involving police officers and pol
iticians.
The rest of it brought under sus-
picion men not hitherto suspected,
and must in turn be corroborated in
Mr.. Whitmans efforts to bring the
guilty under indictment.
One visible result of confessions
made yesterday and today was the
demotion of another police inspector
and of a dozen or more high police
officials, whom witnesses have accus-
ed of taking graft. Commissioner
Waldo, after reducing Inspector
John ]. Murtha to the rank of cap
tain. transferred him and suspended
him without pay. Murtha formerly
was in charge of the precincts in
Harlem, the district that figured most
prominently in graft disclosures
made thus far
Woman "A Tells of Graft.
One of the most remarkable wit
nesses examined by Mr.. Whitman
was Mary Stacom, who confessed to-
day, at the age of "A years, that 80
years of her life has been spent as a
! keeper of disorderly resorts. known
throughout the underworld as
Mother Stacom," this woman pieced
together the experiences of her lie
with facts that are expected to serve
Mr.. Whitman invaluably.
Another startling story has reach
ed the prosecutor in the form OF a
written report by one of the investl-
gators. 1t told how a woman, An
Hie Gray, was reputed to have &C
cumulated a fortune of more than
100000 as a dfsorderly resort keep
err Backed by a former sheriff and
one-time police commissioner, &C
cording to information available to
the prosecution, Annie Gray conduct
ed several of the most noted resorts
of their type in the city. She will go
before the grand jury with an ac-
count of her underworld experiences,
according to Mr.. Whitman's eXpecta-
tions.
Samuel Levy, hotel man, went be-
fore the grand jury today to repeat
a graft story he related to Mr.. Whit
man. In this story he told of paying
49, .-.~+I1,, 60, tho privilege of sell
ing liquor without license. once ne
| refused to pay, he declared, and there
was a fake raid on his hotel and he
was brought to court, but when he
slipped SIS into a policeman's hand
the case against him fell through
for .slack of evidence" He was told
that this would "be a lesson to him,
he said.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-03-21
WHO HAS GOT THAT DIPPER?
Governor Browns Old Fashioned
Drinking Gourd Has Been Swiped
From the Executive Office.

ATLANTA Sadness reigns in the
governor office today at the capitol.
Little Joe is himself disconsolate, and
Secretary Perry's flaming hair has
taken on the melancholy hues of the
sunset. No, it is not because they
are soon going out OF office; both
will be pleased enough to get away
from their arduous duties at the cap
itol Their sadness comes from a
much more serious cause.
Yesterday some wicked thief walk
ed into the office and stole the gov
ernor's water gourd. 1t is the old
yellow, long-handled, hand-whittled
gourd that Georgia's politicians and
law makers have been accustomed to
see hanging on the office wall ever
since Little Joe first became a fixt-
ure at the capitol. The farmer legis-
lators took particular delight in see
ing it there, and occasionally it would
be filled with water handed around
in place of the glass tumbler, just
for the sake of old times. Secretary
Perry says the governor would much
rather the thief had picked up a roll
er top desk or something else of more
intrinsic value but less sentimental
worth.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-03-21
PROBLEM FOR CONGRESSMAN
Cutting Patronage Pie for the Office
Seekers Who Swarm Every Street
and Alley in Washington.

WASHINGTON.-W the demo-
cratic administration in office just
half month today and impatient Of
fee seekers Fostering senators and
representatives for jobs democrats in
both the house and senate admitted
that the most serious problem con-
fronting them is the patronage ques-
ton.
Every democratic congressman S
office is visited daily by dozen job
seekers, and the strain on the law
makers is getting heavy.
Great pressure is being brought on
Postmaster General Burleson to turn
out Of office 10000 fourth class post
masters If this be done it is said
the democratic patronage situation
will be relieved greatly Democratic
congressman from the West and
South are mourning enmity daily,
they declare, from office seekers in
their districts, which, they fear, will
kill their chances of denomination.
For this reason they are using every
influence to have the administration
hurry appointments and save them
from defeat.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-03-21
ON BRIDELESS HONEYMOON
Worz Broke His Ankle, Was POis-
Oned at Wedding Supper and His
Wife Missed the Ship.

ed Julius Worz, a Dutch tobacco
merchant, ever since he courted Hen
rfetta Erhardt. Even marriage did
not kill the hoodoo, and yesterday
julius arrived here on the steamship
Rotterdam on his honeymoon trip
without a bride.
what is it you say that l am in
Dutch?' Well, guess it must be so.
When | first called on Miss Erhardt
in Harlem a black cat crossed my
path and everything has gone wrong
since
THE day I proposed I slipped and
sprained my ankle. l was carried
into the house and asked Miss Err
hardt to be my wife She accepted,
and then was i'll for month. We
were married on February %, and l
got ptomaine poisoning at the we'd
ding supper.
Just before sailing from Rotter-
dam my wife missed something from
her handbag. She went back to get
it. and then missed her ship.
He will await her arrival on an
other vessel.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-03-21
TILLMAN SUSPECTED PLOTS
SOUTH CAROLINA SENATOR HAS
suspicious OF SENATE DEAL
Gives Up Plan to Delives VitrioIiC
Speech Because He Wants to
Promote Party HARMONY.

Observation-Disclosures b. r.
Tillman's unusual speech in the dem
ocratic caucus last Friday, when he
failed of acceptance as chairman for
the appropriations committee. be-
came public today when it was print
ed in full under authority of the SEN
ate.
References to Senator Martins ac-
tivities leading up to his selection
for the appropriations Craftsmanship
have aroused general discussion in
congressional circles.
Senator Tillman declared he was
unable to understand why Mr. Martin
should have withdrawn from the
contest for party leader and should
then been given the most important
craftsmanship in the senate.
Il would hate to believe there has
been any understanding or any prom
ises or pledges made" he said, AS
I have no proof l must perforce leave
any accusations unsaid. But | can
not help the suspicion that there
must have been a deal of some kind
or Senator Martin would not have
retired without a showdown.
Mr.. Tillman said he had given up
his plan to deliver a vitriolic speech
because he wanted to promote party
harmony.
Democratic harmony and concert
of action are more necessary at this
time than anything l know of, " he
said. Democratic discipline is also
needed very much, for, as compared
with the republicans, we are an un-
trained mob"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-03-21
PRESIDENT WILSON DECIDES ON
A SQUARE DEAL TO ALL
DEMOCRATS.
He WANTS NO DISSENTION

Postmaster General Informs Repre-
sentative Howard That Congress
men Will Name the POstmasters
in Their Districts.
WASHINGTON. - President Will
son isn't going to play ward politics
in dispensing federal offices within
his gift. This is being made clearer
every day by his own attitude and the
comments of the cabinet officers.
Mr.. Wilson's desire that his admin
istration should not be characterized
by the spoils system is giving the
organization men deep concern
When there is a vacancy the senator
or representative who exercises the
right which custom has given him
of awarding patronage to his friends
and supporters is not going to find
the president inquiring whether they
were his political supporters, but on
ly whether they are efficient and have
not been extensively partisan in their
opposition to him.
Representative w. S. Howard and
other Georgia congressman who have
talked with Postmaster General Bur
Lesson hear that efficiency will be the
principal test, if not the only test, to
be applied to candidates for postmas-
ters' places.
The talk that Oscar Underworld
supporters in Georgia will not be
given consideration at the hands of
President Wilson is absolutely ridi-
cuied by Mr. Howard
w. S. Howard on Patronage.
Il called on Mr.. Burleson with
Mr. Bell of Georgia and asked him
frankly what would be the attitude
of the administration in the filing
of postoffice places" said Mr.. How
ard. He said to US that he would
follow the wishes of representatives
in every case in filling offices in their
respective districts, except in the
home towns of senators. Under long
established custom senators have
been allowed to fill these offices.
MIR. Wilson will certainly deceive
thousands of loyal democrats all
through the country if he adheres TO
the partisan principle that some of
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-03-21
ASKS PRAYERONLAST DOLLAR
"Al Good Christians Please Pray
That My Desire for Rum Will
Vanish" Writes c. Q. Cartier.

ROME, Changing a dollar
bill for a stranger on q street car yes
terday a Mr. Willis was surprised to
find on examination OF the bill the
following inscription written legibly
with ink:
This is the last dollar that l have
left of mis-spent fortune. Now
am going to spend it for strong
drink, the way my entire fortune was
squandered. All good christians that
read this please pray that my desire
for rum will vanish. c. C. Cartier,
Baltimore Md, Nov. 1, 1912"
The bill is being exhibited as an
object of curiosity, and it is not at
all improbable that the local Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union
officers will write to the address
given.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-03-21
REGULATE WOMEN'S FASHION
OHIO LEGISLATURE is ASKED To
ENTER VIRGIN FIELD.
Evening Dress Is Barred and Silk
Stockings and the Peek-a-BoO
Waists Are Taboo.

COLUMBUS, O.-Declaring that
the immodesty of the attire worn
by women on the streets and in pub
lie places is the cause of a great
wave of immortality now sweeping
over the country" Representative
Chappelle of Cincinnati this evening
introduced a bill in the lower house
of the legislature providing for the
appointment by the governor of a
committee to prescribe the fashions
to be worn by the women in the state
of Ohio"
Introduction of the measure re-
suited from a charge filed with Gov
ernor Cox today by woman who did
not sign her name that immortality
is practiced by married men in the
offices of the state house and else
where in the state of Ohio"
Under the provisions of the bill
the proposed commission would be
compelled to fix limits on decOllette
dresses so that mot more than two
inches of the neck below the chin
shall be uncovered" Another clause
of the measure provides that trans
parent stockings shall not be display
ed or worn in public places"
Those Fish Net Things.
Another provision of the bill states
that "it shall be unlawful to display
or wear any outer garment trimmed
or combined with Iaces, insertion or
any kind of embroidery, mesh or net
through which the color or texture of
the skin may be distinguished with
out having the lace or other trans
parent material backed with Opaque
material
Members of the proposed commits
sion, according to the bill, would
have to be between 80 and so years
Of age. Two of them would have to
be married men and of good moral
character. One would be a minister,
one a parent of not less than three
children and the third social settle
ment worker
The commission would be author
| lied "to prescribe rules and regula-
lions for the designing and manu-
facture of women's clothing and to
prohibit such styles and patterns OF
| Carp,on+c &C tho commission after
/ hearing shall deem to be detrimental
to virtue and chastity"
The bill goes so far as to prohibit
department stores from displaying
undraped artificial figures. The bill
makes a violation of the act punisha-
! BILE by a fine of not less than $25.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-03-21
HIS CAREER IS REMARKABLE
A FARM BOY is NOW HEAD OF A
BIG AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY.
Bound Out When Child, Afterwards
Became a Carpenter, and Now
Employs Five Thousand Men.

Probably no industry has furnish
ed more striking examples of the So
called "self-made' man than the au-
tomobile business.
Enormous sums of money have
been involved in the development of
the industry, heart-breaking failures
have heen recorded and great sue
Cesses accomplished, in all of which
che human element has been para
mount
C. w. Nash, president of one of
the largest motor car manufacturing
groups in the country, is one of the
men who can attribute his rise to
fortune and influence to the automo-
bile In twenty years he has risen
from a laborer at dollar a day to
the presidency of a powerful corpor-
alton.
Mr.. Nash was born in DeKalb, ILL.,,
January 26, 1864. When he was Z
years old his parents moved to Mich
igan and he was bound out to Robert
Lapworth, a farmer, at Flushing. BY
the terms of the agreement Charlie
was to get suit of clothes every
year, go to school three months in
every twelve and at Fl was to get
two suits and 5000 in cash.
Become a Carpenter.
The lad stood it for four years and
then ran away. He didn't like the
farm. He went to Mount Morris
township and stopped long enough
to learn to be a carpenter at 81 a
month About the time he had learn
ed to drive a nail without pounding
his thumb a farmer offered him a dol
lar more a month to worh for him
on the farm and he made the change.
He was there until he was IS years
old. and then went to work for
hay presser.
After three years with his employ
er Nash went back to the farm for
seven years, and later was married
and moved to Flint, Mich, where he
got a position as clerk in a grocery
store. A prominent man in the town
hired him to pick plums, and the
work was so we'll done that he hired
Nash to work in the trimming de-
partment Of the Flint Road Cart
Company
Before long Nash was made super
intendent and now he is general man
ager of motor company employing
5000 men, He is also president OF
syndicate of producers which ex-
pect to turn out s. 900 cars in 1913,
valued at 3O,0OO,00O.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-03-21
RECEIVERS REASON
AFTER 1o YEARS
Mrs. Jordan Awakes to Find Mental
Faculties Restored Through Oper-
alton. Her JOY UnbOunded.

ATLANTA.-Nineteen years ago
Mrs Carrie Belk Jordan of % Oil
yer street lost her reason just two
weeks after her baby daughter was
born. Monday, after an operation
she suddenly recovered her reason,
and found her baby daughter grown,
married and the mother of two chill
dreu.
Mrs. Jordan can hardly believe that
her LADY girl is the mother Of chill
dren and that she herself is a grand
mother.
Mrs. Jordan's recovery is consider
ed a remarkable feat of surgery. For
nineteen years she had been without
reason. The latter part of February
she was operated on, but the opera
ton was without immediate effect.
On Monday she recovered her rea-
son without warning, and her cries
of JOY notified the attendants of the
Red Cross hospital of her sudden re
coyery
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-03-21
THEY BLEW THEIR BREATH
THROUGH THE KEYHOLE

gently on the door of their bed
room.
We are undressed and ready for
bed, mother" they called out cheer
fully.
well, just blow your breath
through the keyhole, and will go to
sleep satisfied; 1 love you boys, but
4 don't trust you"
Silence and CONSERVATION reigned
on the other side of the door. Both
boys had been slipping little wine.
Hurry, I'm waiting" called the
mother, good-naturedly.
Then, in the midst of his terror,
the older brother had an Inspiration.
Stealthily selling a small hand bel
lows that stood in the fireplace he
put the nose of it against the keyhole
and worked the handles.
Both of YOU" called the mother,
and the bellows worked again. She
was satisfied, and now those wicked
boys are working that bellows trick
consciousness awakened by the COM
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-03-21
MARK TWAIN ON SUFFRAGE
Files of Old Newspaper Reveal Atti-
tude of the Great HumOrist
On the MOoted Subject.

MEXICO, Mo.-A copy of a news
paper published in this city on April
5th, 1867, and taken from an old
trunk yesterday, contains a letter
written by Mark Twain on woman
suffragists. 1t read in part:
Il knew before the canvass was
three days old it would be an estab-
lished proposition that every woman
in the state was no better than she
ought to be-
Think of the torch light process
sion; think of curious legends on
the transparencies; vote for Judge
McKinnes, the incorruptible, for state
milliner. Nine children
Also in that day the man who
hath beautiful whiskers shall beat
the homely man of wisdom for gov
ernor, and the youth who waltzes
with exquisite grace shall be chief of
police in preference to the man with
energy"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-03-21
WILL Be NO WARD POLITICS FOR WILSON


his so-calleI Spokesman are claiming
he will in making appointments, ="
continued Mr.. Howard.
The president of this republic, as
have sized him up, is a great-mind-
ed, broad-gauged man. He is above
the skyline of playing a small game
of politics. He will not do so unless
those upon whom he relies to make
nominations deceive him. He is also
wise enough to have the future of his
patty, enunciating the principles Tor
which he stands, at heart.
"Mr. Wilson is not unmindful of
the fact that he was a minority can
didate at the Baltimore convention.
He does not for one moment discredit
the democracy of the democrats who
supported Clark, Underwood and
Harmon.
Wilson Wants No DissensiOn.
M Wilson also realizes sully the
importance of winning over, within
the next four years, million voters
from the republican and progressive
PARTIES. AS the successful but mi
rority victor in the November cleo
ton he could not afford an excuse
for dissension in our own ranks"