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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1913-08-23
RED SHIRT SAM
UPSETS RAILROAD
Every Train Stops Before Engineer
VIII Pass Hin---Fired as the
Climax

'nhoo.choo-choo!o puffed and boot
ed train headed for Baltimore on
the Baltimore and Ohio tracks the
other day. Then chuck, 1t had stop
ped. Farther ahead on the tracks
cleaned a brilliant red signal
We're tagged said the engineer.
Something happenedl0 out Of his
box he climbed and ran toward the
red spot As he approached it moved
and stiTened mp and, behold! 1t
wasn't flag at all.
Say what do you mean by wearin
a shirt like that?" yelled the proyok-
ed engineer Here yeve held up my
train!"
Still muttering he clambered back
into his engine room and away whiz-
zed the train.
Samuel Lewiston. Baltimore. whose
head appeared above the red shirt.
looked aghas. He gazed worriediv at
his shirt, the symbol Of his aesthetic
tastes. Just the night before he had
bought the shirt in company with
two blue ones. II had been the cele-
bration Of his first pay day after many
weeks without work
After dreary period of no work
according to Simon, his brother. who
was at the Juvenile Court had landed
this job on the tracks of the railroad
at a pay of SO day On his first pay
day he laid in stock Of three shirts
this red one being the prize OF the
collection.
Evidently the tastes of the engineer
and himself did not agree. But sam
uel had no time for more bordering.
He must be about his work on the
tracks.
But he hadn't been working an
hour before another rain came to an
abrupt halt. Another engineer came
climbing from his train and another
storm of angry words were hurled at
the red-shirted Samuel.
Then Samuel began to get really
troubled about his shirt He couldn't
take it off because it was the only
one he had on.
He looked about for something to
wrap himself up in and so hide the
hated shirt But not even news
paper could be found
The dreary day. filed with stopping
trains and abusive engineers, finally
came to an end, Lewiston made his
way to make out his daily report
But there disaster awaited him. He
was discharged
Gone was his beautiful paying job.
Gone was the hope of future shirts.
Back went the luckless Samuel still
wearing his red shirt to another job.
less period.
Lewiston is Just Is years old, but
he couldn't understand why his moth
er laughed
Simon is on informal probation and
he told this story yesterday as an in
stance of the hard luck that has come
to the family lately.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1913-08-23
NEW YORK MAisnEIS.

NEW YORK, Aug. 21.-The copper
group was the weakest at the open
ing of the stock market Trading
was light, but at the end of the first
half hour the tone was better The
prices of railroad and industrial
stocks were irregular. The curb was
steady and American stocks in Lon
don lower
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1913-08-23
MUCH EXCITEMENT
At Peoples Trust Company Building
When Board Falls

While arranging a swinging scaffold
this morning on the Peoples Trust
Company building, which Contractor
Fline is painting. board fell from
the top of the building to East Burke
street, breaking an electric wire but
doing no further damage There was
considerable excitement for a few
minutes about the building as it was
feared That SOMEBODY had been iniur-
ed.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1913-08-23
BUFF FALO BILL"
LEAVES SHOW FOR
PRIVATE LIFE
Win Shoot No More Ashes From
the Cigars
OLD INDIAN FIGHTER
MAKES LAST APPEARANCE

BY Order of the Court His Wild West
and Far East Shows are Disposed
Of to Satisfactory Creditors and
CoIonel cody's Career as a Show.
man Comes to an End--Has Long
Been in the Public Eye.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1913-08-23
Opening Quotations

Cotton-Oct. 1856; Dec. 11.4S;
Jan. 1850.
Wheat-Sept 81 IA.
Corn-Sept. rs IL.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1913-08-23

Mr.. S. f. Noonin, representing e.
P. LOOMS & Company, of New York,
large apple dealers. is in the city
making purchases.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1913-08-23
2 O'Clock Quotations

Cotton-Oct. 115S; Dec. 1854;
Jan. 11.46.
Wheat-Sept. 81 "a.
Corn-Sept. rs IA.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1913-08-23

Mr. r. F. Railes, who has been i'll
at his home at Blairton threatened
with typhoid fever, is able to be out
again.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1913-08-23

MT c. p. Wiley, cf Charles Town,
is a business visitor today in the
city. "a 4la2
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1913-08-23

Mr. NJ G Bunn, Of Charles Town,
is spending the day in the city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-02

Sunday, and wasn't to show till the next day
there wasn't much to do except loaf and smoke and eat
till long about shutdown, when started to finish the
job of putin up the big top and gettn everything set
for mornin We glad to have somethin to do SO
could keep minds off this miserable imitation of
town. In the menagerie tent | gettin' the
cages the elephants and the tethered animals arranged
and ben' hungry feelin' too good, when
heard somebody begin my pardon and turned to find
the aforementioned kid
"He was sixteen or seventeen years old, awkward,
than six feet HIGH and about six inches around.
S'ep me Mike, don't believe he weighed much over
a hundred! Looked like unsteady beanpole. He'd
grown SO far out of his coat and pants that he
mostly wrists neck, and ankles. And serious wish
you could have that pasty face with big brown
eyes like collie dog fy-specked hat that must have
been given him by his Aunt Emmy when he weaned
perched on his head like strawberry basket Now do
you remember him. Bill?'
Herning allowed that although Grogans descriptive
powers bad he could discern some likeness be-
tween the picture and youth who had joined out with
the Windy Van Horn Show somewhere in Iowa during
the celebrated Rainy Season
3I thought you would" Grogan continued; @and to
make of it before go any further with this
let add that the Pale Face Kids monaker turned
out to be Bill Hening Now will you lsteno
GAS sayin',' said Grogan after waiting for an
from the boss canvasnan and getting none "as
l sayin turned around and found this boob kid
standin first foot an then the other-take it
from me they was some feet!-and wantin' to talk.
WELL, young man, says l, what can do for you?'
eff you please, Mister says he, I'd like to join
the circus Just like that He wanted to be Snowman.
'Lsten!' says l. Do you live in this hanlet?
Yessir says he apologize like, and hung his head.
'Yessir, live here
"'Ever been anywhere ese?' says l.
"Ony to Webster City, says the Kid. He also
spilled the information that his dad had taken him
there to see the Sig Sawtee Show.
$50 your pa and ma live in this burg too? says and
got couple OF tiger cages backed in right 1 suppose
your pa the furniture store?
Il wrong. He had the Blue Front Fancy and
Staple Grocery Emporium. Amt that right, Bill? l
thought Never forgot nothin' in my life The Kid
an told me the town too little for him,
that he had the pictures of the Wabby Eyed Wat
Hog the Iconoclastic Ibex and the Blood Sweatn Be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-02
wWDiS UAN :

AT eleven o'clock, when the parade should have
n started, we had nothing up the cook tent,
the dressing tent, the sideshow tent, and the
workhorse tent That was four out of eight had been
raining all night the still falling torrents
the lot frog pond thousand men couldn't have
raised the waersoaked big top, and if they could
there wasn't enough sawdus tanbarl and shavings in
the entire State of Iowa to make dry floor beneath it.
Not only would there be parade but there would
be afternoon show And if the deluge continued, the
evening performance of the Mighty Harkins Circus
couldn't be given unless advertised water carnival
and threw in bathing suit with every ticket
Reminds of the Year of the Big RAIN" said Gro
gan, the Head Animal Man.
He seated a costume trunk in the dressing
tent. The only dry thing about him the lighted
end of his nickel cigar. Begg the elephant trainer
Hering the boss canvasrnan, Harkins the owner of
the show and myself danged legs from adjoining
heights the heaps of baggage listening to the steady
downpour and viewing the dreary outlook dsgustedy.
Il remember growled the elephant Some
drizze, wasn't it? Forty lone days of solid juice, if my
memory amt lost its cunnin'. We was with the Windy
Van Horn Show, wasn't we, Bl?"
I'VE was grunted the boss canvasman, "and that's
fact Made Noah's wet spell look like drought. 1t
broke Windy
\ trickle of water through crack in the tent hit
Grogan's smoke.
"Yes' said he and lit another at sure did break the
Old Man. And, speakin of the Year of the Big Rain,
did it to you feers that this mud hole where
we're squatted is the very spot where the Pale
Face Kid joined out? Remember him?"
Begg the elephant allowed that he recalled
the youngster dimy. Hernng the boss canvasrnan
shifted almost dry properly trunk and told Gro
gan to chop the unnecessaries. He asked him to get
down to So far he knew, there never was
Pale Face Kid. Grogan said he'd been following the
white tops for thirty years but hadn't heard of
who knew anything anyhow. He said he didn't
expect hear of Sam Harlins told everybody
shut up and listen the story After had all Dor
rowed cigars from Harns, Grogan cleared his throat
and started.
VESSIR,' said he, "this here's the same fiat town
where picked up that kid. 1t the first
Monday in August in the Year OF the Big RAIN and for
a change the sun was out and shinin warm-like and
lovely
"The Windy Van Horn train got into this burg on a
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-01-11

Louis Kruger, moving con-
tractor, 1928 Emerald av.. arrest
led, accused of passing $4,000 in
worthless checks.
Retail dry goods dealers and
general merchants from nine
states will hold convention at
Hotel Sherman, beginning Feb. 3,
under auspices of Retailers Com
mercial Union.
Ole Tablet entered saloon, 613
w. Madison st. Ordered drink.
Found de a d / later standing
against wall in rear room.
T. A. Collier, brakeman, Fort
Wayne, Ind, killed by Penn. Ry.
train at 57th st.
There is one living object that
parcel post authorities object to.
That is health officers sending
diphtheria cultures to state lab
oratory by mail instead of ex-
press. Law does not permit send
ing of contagious disease germs
by parcel post.
Petition for writ of habeas cor
pus filed with Judge Windes in
Criminal Court. If granted it will
bring about liberation of about
1000 prisoners at House of Cor
.rection on state charges.
Clarence Herbert, 19, 1922
Washington blvd, and father, L.
S. Herbert, arrested after Clar-
tence had fired three shots at his
father, who attempted to gain en-
trance to the house. Herbert is
prohibited from entering prem
ises of his wife bV court injunc-
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-01-11

yCAAAA . NAAL44 I'll
County Judge Owens chose 10
prominent Bohemians to serve on
two juries at insane court.
Unidentihedman found dead in
excavation for new building, %
n. Clinton st.
G. H. Currier, pres. G. H. Cur
rier Co., publishers, objects to
paying his divorced wife alimony
of $4,000 a year now that he has
remarked. Going to fight it out.
1000 cases of oranges will be
sold by U. S. Marshal Hoy at 40
E. Michigan st. on Tuesday.
Fruit confscated for misbrand-
ing. Will go to highest bidder.
Father ]. Cavanaugh, pres.
Univ. of Notre Dame, will speak
at Hamilton Club banquet to-
night, Hotel La Sale.
willie" w. WINFIELD, sub
poenaed to appear before U. S.
Senate investigating committee
to tell inside story" of theft of
famous "Archbold letters" and
their delivery to Hearst, is here
broke" looking for. some one to
lend him money to get to Wash
ington.
Thos. Mason, 1341 State st.,
stole stove. Fined S..
L. Brochowski, 1915 N. Win
chester av., seriously injured
when he fell or was pushed from
North av. car. May die.
Prof. ]. A. Lomax of Univ. of
Texas, will lecture on Cowboys"
at Annie May Swift Hail. Jan. IA.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-10


every studio party. Ambi-
ticn seized him. He sought
cut Dunois. the famous ami
NAL imitator. and enlarged
his repertoire. Durois taught
Mr.. Jimmy to roar like a
lion, to bark like dog, to
squeak like a monkey, and
TO croak like a frog.
Just at the height Of his
fame. young Mr.. Jimmy was
summoned home. In his
trunks were a complete dog
outfit, with strings 10 pull
the tail and move the ears; a
gigantic cat skin with the
same equipment, and a really
wonderful frog suit. the me
he had worn at the Quatz
Arts. 1t was shiny and mot
tied and green. ard locked
like the King of Frogs.
When young Mr.. Jimmy
got off at Fountain Springs,
the first thing that caught
his eye was a girk She was
slender and 1.-THE. with a
wonderful mass of hair that
shone like Furnished copper.
and big, wondering blue eyes.
She wore her hair down over
her ears. and 1t fell over
her forehead in the cutest
of the bangs the fashion
papers said was the latest
from Paris. She was in fact
altogether adorable. Young
Mr.. Jimmy, jaded bit with
the French ideals of beauty.
gasped.
Miss Susie welcomed him.
Soon the two we're at the
don't you remember" stage.
That night he called on ner.
Thereafter his horse or his
auto stood at the Warmers
gate every day. Young Mr..
Meredith was really in love.
Not SO Miss Warner, how
ever.
What did you actually
learn abroad, Jimmy?" she
asked him one night for the
twentieth time. Jimmy at
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-10
a charming little place, tucked away
on enc OF the prettiest streams that

on one OF the prettest streams that
meanders into the Ohio River. Every
body down there is pretty we'll off. Among
the richest families the Warmers and the
Merediths. Miss Susie Elizabeth was born
there, and So couple of years before, was
Mr. James Meredith The two grew up to-
gether After a while Miss Susie Elizabeth
was sent 10 a fashionable girls school down
in Richmond, and young Mr.. Meredith was
seEt to Germany 10 finish his education.
Young Mr. Meredith, 1t appears. thought
that his education could only be really fin
ished in Paris. and so, after he through
with Germany. there he went. One learn
many things in the French capital-espe cia-
~ useless things. He took to the Latin Quar-
ter like thirsty camel to desert spring.
The students there took to Mr.. Jimmy just as
thoroughly. In that favorable atmos phere
Mr. Meredith developed his peculiar talent.
Sitting with gay party in the Cafe des Bons
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-10

Enfants, he imi-
tated a cat fight
so accurately
that all the rats
in the cellar fed
affrighted into
the Boul' Mich.
True genius
does not go
unrecognized in
the Quarter, and
soon Jimmy was
cot Enbt{o- -
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-10

TT Miss Susie Elizabeth Warmers pa could
I only decide whether Mr. James Lane
Meredith was crazy when he took up this
giant frog business, or was just plumb devil
ish he would know what to do. Ii it was the
latter, Papa Warner who served in the Con
federacy. san, would cowhide the young viii
lain within inch Of his life and have him
driven out of aristocratic Fountain Springs
West Virginia. where the giant frog fright
ened the most beautiful girl in the county.
sab. almost out Of her wits-sad belle being
daughter Susie Elizabeth AS 1t is, Papa
Warner has been persuaded 10 await the YER
dict of the courts on what is without doubt
the strangest and most outrageous wooing
a girl ever had.
4 Miss Warner was literally wcoed by ter.
81 ror in the shape Of a monster frog. The
S@ frog was not really t og, let it be
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-05-21
RE-GARRISONING OF
 WHIPPLE PROBABLE,
(From Fridays Daily.)

The Army and Navy Journal, of Washington, D. C., which is re- ga-ded as the official organ of the militar'- in its last issue quotes Sec retary of War Garrison as opposed to the mobilization plan of troops at brigade posts, and recommends the continuation of garrisons that have regimental capacity or less.
 This information is weighed with importance as 10 what is the purpose of the present war administration. and conclusively settles the fate of WhiOple Barracks as a permanent military center for at least a battal- ion of soldiers. It is current report in Prescott that Secretary Garrison will visit the southwestern posts early this summer and that he will also make an official inspection of Whipnle The date of his arrival is dependent upon official duties to be considered at Washington in the meantime.
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-05-21
URGED PASSAGE
 OF MINE TAX MEASURE
News Bureau of the 5ournal-M Miner, Room zo3, National Bank of Arizona Building.

News Bureau of the Journal Miner. Room
 zoS. National Bank of Arizona Building. PHOENIX, May l4-The follow ing is a complete text of Governor Hunts mine tax message to the leg islature:
 "As the final adjournment of the legislature is imminent and as yet no adequate law has been enacted to ~rescribe the method by which as sessment and taxation of mining property may be undertaken by the State Tax Commission, take the liberty of calling attention to the urgent need of such a measure by the operation of which an equitable distribution of the tax burden among mines of all different classes may be determined by the character of their ore bodies, their rate of pro duction and the extent and nature of the improvements.
 "In the first place, I regard 1t as essential that the Commissioners be clothed with such powers as are ne cessary to the effective performance of their duties relative to the taxing of mines, and, secondly, it is, in my opinion, no less essential that in the equalization of taxation, full justice be done to all people of Arizona and the owners of mines as we'll. With these objects in view. and with full realization of the depth and com plexity of the economic problem in volved in the fair assessment and collection of revenue from owners of mining roperties, 1 believe that Senate Bill No offers in all its more prominent features as good and reasonable a solution of the mine taxation question as can be se- cured in the time allowed and with the information available. This measure, in the form in which 1t now awaits approval by the Senate, and providing. as it does, for the assessment and taxing of mines on a basis of four times the net and twelve and one-half per cent of the gross, would serve practically to triple the revenue derived last year from the mines of the State, and while 1t is objected to by some mine owners as being unduly string ent, has not encountered, as l am informed, such strenuous opposition as would be directed against some ot the less equitable methods of assess ment and taxation which have been suggested.
 "This bill does not, moreover. contrary to a system of assessment based solely on physical valuation, impose upon any of the low grade producers of copper any taxation burden disproportionate to that borne by the so-called high grade mines or vice versa. At the same time the measure greatly and justly enhances the revenue of the State. consummation of which the urgent need IS perfectly a~0arent.
 q would point out. furthermore, that the close of the period for the making of assessments on property is only about week distant. and that, consequently, the necessity of mine taxation enactment as an emergency measure is manifest.
 q. therefore. earnestly recommend the passage of Senate Bill No } in its present form"
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-05-21
GIANT ELECTRIC
 POWER PLANT IS PLANNED
(FIom Wednesdays Daily.)

Ralph Cameron has announced he has so far completed the details for the establishment of giant cleo tric power plant that the facts in the matter can be given out. The company, of which Cameron will be a prominent official, will be capital ized at $15,00O,O00. and is designed to furnish cheap electrical power for nearly all Arizona.
 The establishment of the company will completely revolutionize Arizona MT. Cameron is quoted as saying; "It will reduce the cost of electrical power about SO per cent. This will mean that more than a million acres in the state heretofore considered valueless on account of the high cost of pumping water, will be put under production. Great tracts like the San Simon, Sulphur Springs and San Pedro valleys and the mesa lands around Parker and Gila Bend will increase their production so to 100 per cent The water is there. The land will grow anything With cheap power the water will be raised and there will be no limit to the area that can be put under production. At present Arizona imports a large quantity of its food supply, but with cheap power the state will be self sustaining. The cheap power will also mean the opening up of large mining areas that have heretofore laid idle on account of the cost of power"
 Mir. Cameron is not yet ready 10 state where the huge central power plant will be located, but 1t is gen orally believed that it will be in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado of Arizona. There will, of course, be substations and the whole state will be networked with lines. In a recent trip east MT. Cameron interviewed prominent electrical construction and transmission experts and states that electricity can be "piped" 1000 miles for practical use Branch lines will also be run in parts of New Mexico, he said. The proposition, it is said, has reached a stage where it i. as sured. It is financed by large east ern interests.
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-05-21
ANOTHER SCHOOL.
From Friday s Dallyl

County Superintendent of School Miller has returned from Senator, after making an investigation of the number of children who desire to attend a public school. on a petition recently forwarded, and has con cluded to establish such an institu- ton. There are ready for attendance twenty boys and girls. and the new school will be opened before July l. MT. Miller states the district is very lively, and many new fam flies are preparing to locate there
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-05-21
RECORD UPHOLDS
 ALL CONVENTIONS
(From Wednesday,s Dailyl


 The official copy of Secretary of the Interior Lanes decision in the case of the Arizona Land and Irri- gation Company vs. John Duke, was received yesterday from Washington. It sustains the company in reference to its application for rights of way for damsites, reservoirs, pipe lines and canals, and is in part as fol lows:
 "As to the appeal, (meaning Dukes appeaD. it is sufficient to say the evidence in the record aoun- dantly sustains the concurring find ings of the local office in Arizona and the Commissioner of the General Land Office at Washington. The petition ignores every rule establish ed by the courts as necessary to the merits of such an application. It is utterly without merit and is denied"
 Secretarv Lane also includes in his decision the facts established and proven of the good faith of the com pany in their plans of operation, the large land purchases made, the details of the surveys carried out. the plan exhibited for the distribu- ton of the waters upon the lands owned. and the disposition of over SlO0,000 in conjunction with the carryin- out of the undertaking. On the other hand the decision states that Dukes application did not show the remotest use to which these wat CTS could be appropriated, and that Duke had not exoended hut an insip- nihcant sum on his alleged project