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Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-10-29
TEMPERAruRE REPORT.

Highest temperature yesterday 65
degrees; a year ago, A.
Lowest temperature last night, 4S
degrees; a year ago, "a.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-10-29
WILL PUMP FOOD
INTO |. w. W. PRISONERS

STOCKTON, Oct. 29.-Four Indus
uial Workers of the World have been
u jail four days without food. Coun-
y Physician Peterson said today he
would forcibly feed them.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-10-29

Have you silent" musical In
strument in your home? Unless it's
anchored there by sentiment, let a
for sale" ad in the Bonanza find
buyer for It.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-10-29

A store that advertises must be a
store of yalues.-of bargains - or
the advertising. would not pay,
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-14

huts unfit for pigs. II is here that
the work of the board has been most
beneficial. Wherever the members
have been able to acquire untenanted
land alongside an estate of that kind
they have been able to lift the people
out of their wretchedness and poverty.
The farms are rearranged and new
houses built and the farmers and their
families are given instruction on the
management OF the new farms
In some districts. particularly those
situated inland. where grazing land
was available in large tracts for pur-
chase and addition to the tenants
holdings. the whole face OF the coun-
try has been changed by the opera
lions OF the board. Well kept and
well cultivated farms are to be seen
instead of the wretched holdings of
the past. and neat, clean houses re-
place the mud novels In which the
people used to live. The congested
districts board also assists in develop
ing cottage Industries and sea fish
cries. but It's chief work is land set
Element. In which 1t has been very
successful
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-14
LAKE OF FIRE IS DENIED
Rev. David Hugh Jones Tells Evans
ton Congregation Punishment Of
Sin Is Within.

Evanston.-"Therei is no lake of fire.
no bottomless pit and no eternal dam
nation" declared Rev. David Hugh
Jones. pastor Of the Third Presbyter-
ian church of Evanston, in a sermon.
He asserted that the punishment OF
sin is within and not without. being
the result Of natural laws.
God is too merciful ever to infiict
punishment in cold blood" the clergy.
man said. I'VE are here to work out
our own salvation. The Creator has
given US five senses. and II we misuse
and impair those. all good things are
forfeited. The fool has said in his
heart there is no God, and to him there
is no God; the liar says there is no
truth. and for him there is none; the
libertine says there is no virtue. and
for him there is none Sin Is self.
injury and man is his own hangman.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-14
Cost Of Maintaining Training Ship for
Merchant Marine Proves Too Elk
pensive for Results Obtained.

New York.-The navy of New York
the year. unless something unexpect-
ed comes up to rescinc the order
which has Just been issued, and the
flag of New York will be seen no more
on the high seas or In the ports Of
the Mediterranean and the north At
lantic.
Ever since 1874 New York has main
tanned a naval school for the training
of officers for the American merchant
marine. The fact that there was no
American merchant marine to speak
Of did not at all prevent a great many
boys from attending the school and
cruising six and eight months at a
time. partly at the expense of the
state, partly of the city and partly OF
the nation.
In accordance with q long-estab-
lished policy, the United States navy
has furnished a vessel and a com
manding officer for each of the naval
schools Of the coast states. During the
winter the ship lay at a pier in the
East river. comfortably housed over
and furnishing a convenient and coy
schoolhouse for the boys, numbering
from 100 to $50, who were students.
The board Of education of New York
city has had charge Of the school
since the organization of Greater New
York, and 1t has grumbled occasional.
ly because Of the cost of maintaining
the schoolship. A few years ago the
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-14
FRIEND OF CONV|CTs.
New York Sales Agent Long Ac-
tive. in Prison Reform.
Frederick II. Mills Transferred Men
From JaIIs to Responsible Jobs In
Banks and Spent Much Time
AldiEsg Unfortunates-

New York.-in 1881 Chicago mer-
chant took a young man to the First
National bank in that city and intro
duced him to the president, Lyman
J. Gage. afterward secretary OF the
treasury, as Frederick Mills, chief
clerk of the state reformatory at
Filmira. N. Y.
Il want to get a position In your
bank for a friend of mine, Mp. Gage,
said young Mills. He is a man OF
experience and ability and has the
best Of references from the Bank of
North America in Montreal, where he
was employed for several years.
Where is he now?" Mr.. Gage in
CURED
He is - the Elmira reformatory.
replied the young man. He has just
finished his term there and is waiting
to get job in order to be allowed to
leave"
The bank president stared hard at
his visitor for a moment and. discover
ing from his manner that he was seri-
Gus, resisted an inclination to become
angry. but laughed long and loud In
stead
Did you come out here with the
impression that the Chicago banks Sc
lect their clerks from the reforma-
tories?" he asked.
Thirty years ago. before the new
penology was born of science and
philanthropy. the idea Of giving an ex-
convict employment seemed prepos-
ferrous to the average man Of business.
Young Mills. however, was not to be
rebuffed. He related to Mr.. Gage the
story of the coming of the Montreal
bank clerk to New York to better his
fortunes and of his yielding to temp
tation in the metropolis; he told of the
opportunities he had for studying the
others character in the reformatory
office and he asserted his opinion { 1t
here was a chance for the bank presi-
dent to save human life from wreck.
Mr.. Gage argued the matter with
Mr.. Mills for half an hour and dis
cussed it with him for an equal period
and at the end of an hour promised
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-14
URGES BLUE DRESS SUITS
italian NobIeman Says Conventions
Black 10 Sign Of Artistic De-
cadence Here.

Boston.-Duke Pompeia Litta OF MI
Ian. Italy. who is in this city as guest
Of the Twentieth Century club. be-
lieves that the conventional black eve
ming clothes worn by American men
Is a sign of artistic decadence.
THE art of being magnificent is en-
tirely lost In America" he declared in
an interview. The only thing Of color
In American life is the color Of the
hats of ladies. They are wonderful.
Where do they come from? Even in
Paris have never seen such hats.
But the men. Pity them. Always
.somberly. clothed. they seem to go
through life so sadly. l can under
stand why. perhaps, they wear black
and grays and browns to business. But
even for evening wear they choose
black.
Il do not believe In this. Why can
not the American gentlemen, on pleas
ure bent, relax? l should suggest a
dress suit of perhaps pale blue or
gray or with fine stripe. in the fu-
ture."
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-14

that the Elmira graduate should have
a place in the bank. The man rose
to the position of head bookkeeper In
the First National bank of Chicago
and was trusted empioye until his
health gave out a few years ago.
President Gage then sent m to a
health resort In California and took
care of him until his death.
This incident is only one of many Of
the same nature that explain why It is
that Frederick Hamlin Mills. who Of
fered his resignation as sales c-ent of
the prison department of the state
recently in order to promote harmony
between Superintendent Of Prisons
Scott an Governor Sulzer, is a man of
many friends. These friends range
I. m the renologists and students Of
criminology Of America and the rest
OF the world. the prison officials { the
United States and a wide church and
social circles. to scores OF exconvicts
who are today earning an honest
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-14

to acquire the lands compulsorily and
the first steps in the courts have been
taken already.
The marquis Of Clanricarde is now
seeking an Injunction to restrain the
estates commissioners and the board
from taking the lands compulsorily.
and even II he is defeated in these
proceedings he can cause further de-
lay by taking the case to the court
of appeal. 1t was his unwillingness
to listen to any proposals for the re-
storation of the evicted tenants on his
estates that induced parliament to
grant compulsory powers to the con-
gested districts board. It will be a
queer anomaly, therefore, II he sue
ceeds in preventing this old sore OF
the land war from being healed. The
board states that 1t is quite impossi-
BILE to conjecture when a final de-
cision may be obtained in the case.
The holdings along the western sea-
shore are very small and Of very poor
land and the conditions under which
the occupiers and their families live
are appalling. The dwelling houses
are in many cases mere insanitary
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-14
DINNER BY PARCEL POST
Each Guest Malls m Item on the
Menu 10 the Very Latest 60
eIai Novelty.

Peekskin, N. VA parcel post
dinner was introduced as social nov
city by Mr.. and Mrs. A J. Giles Of
Peekskill, who gave one in their home
with a menu Of foodstuffs prepared in
distant localities and shipped to them
by parcel post The out-of-town
guests mailed their contributions to
the dinner before starting for Peekskill
to enjoy the feast There was q large
roasted chicken from Bound Brook.
N. J., corn bread and cheese from vir-
ginia, meat products from Chicago.
fruit from Washington. D. c.. and pas
try from New York No food was pre-
pared by the host or hostesA
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-14
"You Beauty" Man Cries az He
Shoots; Fires on Self as Neigh
bors Come.

Chicago.-Rudolph Damn killed his
wife because she was a girl Of rare
beauty and only eighteen years old.
Then he killed himself with rife.
pulling the trigger with his toe.
The two had not been married long.
They had q pretty little home In Bell
wood, where neighbors have frequent
ly heard them Quarreling. The hus-
band, it appeared, was madly jealous.
and his work kept him from home q
great deal OF the time.
He came home about i've o'clock.
and the neighbors heard the old quar-
rel reopen. The young wife adopted
new tactics. 1t IL said. He laughter
was heard. And then came the trag-
edy.
In the midst Of the girls laughter
Damn was heard groaning. Finally
he was heard to say:
'You-you beautyI"
And the first shot was fired an In
slant afterward.
Otto Harder of haywood, a cousin
Of the woman, Witnessed her death.
and ran out to summon Marshal Jo-
seph Hagemeister. Neighbors rushed
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-14
ASKS OLD PRIZE MONEY
Milwaukee Woman to Carry on Fiom
Begun by Mother, Now Dead, for
$4,000 Due From England.

ST. Louis.-Mrs. Stanley Green Of
Milwaukee has announced that sns
will continue the legal fight begun py
her mother, Mrs. Theresa Blennernss
set-Adams. who was buried here. to'
$4,000 which has been tied up lo'
more than 100 years in the Admiralty
court In London.
The sum was awarded as priis
money to a brother Of Mrs. Blenner
hassett-Adams' father by the Englisa
government for the capture Oh :
French ship in 1911. but as he diso :
few weeks later. he did not receive H.
and It was only recently the heirs %
gan a fight for possession.
Mrs. Blennerhasset-Adams was o.
scendant Of Harmon Blennerhasse1
who was connected with Aaron BUT
in a plot to set up republic In me
Mississippi valley.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-14
GOTHAM TO GIVE UP NAVY

St Mary was recalled and the gun
boat Newport was substituted. The
Newport. unlike her predecessor, has
engines and she has proved to be a
mighty coal eater at time when coal
Is costly. Also, the board complained,
parents persisted In looking upon the
schoolship as a sort of reformatory.
where they could load bad boys and
get rid Of them for half a year In
hands that were capable Of handling
them without gloves. II 1t was neces-
sary. Accordingly, the board has ap-
piled for a change in the city charter
abolishing the naval school altogether
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-14

discovering the south pole In his un-
dershirt- One would fancy he would
have done 1t in evening clothes.
Our journey was very pleasant u
said the suave Norseman. I'VE un.
derwent no hardships to speak of. We
had a little trouble getting over the
great Ice range of the Queen Maud
mountains at IS degrees south, but AZ
ter that we came out on a high plat
eau, which sloped down in one smooth
and unbroken expanse Of hard. frozen
snow to the pole.
1T was downhill all the way and
We were on skis. So you might say
We tobogganed to the pole. The sled
dogs had hard work to keep up with
'us.
There we're i've of us-Holmer Han
sen, Oscar Visiting. Sverre Hassel
Olaf Bjaaland and myself We had
plenty to eat. banqueting every day
on pemmican, biscuit, chocolate and
powdered milk The weather wal
not We dripped with perspiration
even in our light clothes.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-14

livelihood through Mr.. Mills instru-
mentality and to men l.. the prisons
who look to him for assistance on
their release.
1t was his success with the first two
ex-convicts for whom he obtained en-
ployment that led Mr.. Mills to keep
up the work. AS an illustration of the
possibilities of reform among men
punished for crime, Mr.. Mills relates
an experience in Chicago a few years
ago. On this occasion he was asked
to dine with FIVE one time convicts he
had befriended. three Of them from
the Elmira reformatory. One Of the
FIVE was Jarvis, then head bookkeeper
Of the First National bank; another
was private secretary to the general
manager Of one the most famous rail-
roads In the country; a third was
vice-president Of big coal company,
and the others were the chief cashier
o; manufacturing company and a
theatrical manager.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-14
IRISH LAND REFORMS
Congested Districts Board Has
Been Doing Good Work.
Face Of Country ls Now Changed
Tenants Given Enlarged Holdings
and Better DweIIInos-clanrL
carde Still Stubborn.

DubIin.-The process OF redeeming
the agricultural slums" Of the west
and south of Ireland goes on apace.
When the land act of 1903 was passing
throaEh the house of commons the
chief secretary, Mr.. Wyndham, plead
I'd for free hand to redeem these
rotten and rigid communities" as he
called them. He got all the powers he
asked for. but they proved OF little
avail. AS soon as the act was passed
Ehe well-to-do farmers rushed In with
purchase agreements and the tenants
IN the congested estates were forgot
ten.
II was not till the amending land
ect was passed In 1909 that any big
effort could be made to deal with this
problem. The amending act increased
the funds and the powers Of the con-
gested districts board and the board
has been going ahead with schemes
at q great rate since. In its report
for the year 1912 the board states
that Il has purchased some OF the
poorest estates on the western sea-
board in the counties OF Donegal.
Mayo. Galway: Clare, Kerry and West
Cork and are going on with schemes
for the Improvement or enlargement
or the holdings and dwellings.
The officers have been so busy in
specting lands for the purpose OF pur-
chase and resale to the tenants as
L. hAl he hn q
transfer to the tenants is not being
effected as rapidly as could be de-
sired At present some 10000 ten
ants are paying rent to- the board,
pending the improvement and resale
u the holdings. the annual rental be
ing between 100000 and 100000
There are still about 100000 acres OF
nnsold land in the congested districts
the purchase price of which is esti'
mated at sS0,000.000.
The board is trying to get posses
sion OF all this land as fast as II can
As a rule II has not found It neces-
sary to put its powers Of compulsion
into force. but in the case Of the es
fates OF the marquis of Clanricarde II
Is being fought every inch OF the way
Some OF the flercest struggles Of the
land war took place on these estates
In County Galway and the representa-
tives of the dispossessed tenants are
now waiting to have the lands taken
from the landlord and restored tc
them. The landlord would not listen
20 offers OF purchase by the board
The board has set the law in motion
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-14
BOY IS WIRELESS CHAMPION
New York Amateur Picks Up mss
sage From Steamship lmperater
at Cuxhaven, Germany.

New York.-The amateur chan
pionship of the world at long distance
wireless telegraph is claimed BY W.
]. Howell, a nineteen-year-old OPEN
tor, who from a station Of his own
design at his home In the Bronx a.
serts that he picked up a messags
from Germany.
Young Howell says he heard the
new 1,000-foot steamship Imperntor'
which is nearing completion at Cur
haven, Germany. while the steamship
was testing its wireless equipment
my aerial is only As feet long" ns
said, (which makes 1t very remark
able that l could hear the steamer 81
such a distance. II was communism
ing with high-powered stations here
I interrupted to ask the local station
who 1t was overheard, and
learned 1t was the Imperator, which
I verified by other inquiries"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-14
Amundsen Declares He Found Il
Under a Hot Sun.
Explorer and Party Reached Southern
Axis Of Earth in Shirt Sleeves, He
Asserts In Story to CHI
eaooans.

Chicago.-Roald Amundsen discov-
cred the south pole In his undershirt
The Norwegian explorer. who on De-
cember 1e. 1911, planted his coun-
try's flag at the earth's southern axis.
ID himself authority for this state
ment 1t need not startle any one.
The sun was shining in cloudless sky
and the thermometer registered only
Is degrees below zero. This seemed
real warm and summary to man who
had become Injured to temperatures
so and rs degrees below during the
antarctic winter.
Captain Amundsen was visiting Chi
cago. AS he sat IN the University
club, immaculate and smartly groomed
"a any dandy Of the boulevards. he
did not appear as II he could be capa-
hle Of anything so unconventional as
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-14
BETS ON LENGTH OF PRAYER
Wesleyan University Student Expelled
For Gambling While In
Chapel.

Middletown, Conn.-Betting on pray.
ers as a sportive diversion during
chapel, has resulted in the expulsion
of a prominent member Of the senior
class from Wesleyan university, &C
cording to the assertions of students
here. The member In question was
overheard laying Odds" It is declared.
on the length of a prayer being made
by one Of the most venerable members
Of the faculty. Charges Of irreverence
we're brought against the offending
senior and his dismissal promptly fol-
lowed.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-14
TELLS OF POLE TRIP

Our first observation. on December
is. showed SO degrees, 80 minutes.
We were FIVE miles from the pole We
hurried forward Skiing along under
blazing sun-that's the word, blaz-
ing-made US hot We took on our
sweaters and silk coats and threw
them on the sleds. Still 1t was warm
work. even in our undershirts. When
we thought we had covered FIVE miles
we took another observation. We
were at SO degrees SO minutes. That
left the pole a mile away. We trav-
ersed that mile and erected tent and
placed Norwegian flag on top of IL
above what we believed was the pole
itself.
I'VE remained at the pole three
days and set up flags in all directions
Then we went forty-f1ve miles beyond
the pole. The land or the ice and
snow, that covered it to an unknown
depth, still sloped downward. II
seemed as II we were still going
south But we were not. We were
going north. In taking two steps at
the pole we went both south and
north. and ] may say that at that
point where all meridians converge
one stride would take US from the
longitude Of New York to that of
San Francisco
There was no excitement when we
found ourselves at the pole." Captain
Amundsen added. mo one danced or
hurrahed. knew we would get there.
We all knew it. We had never doubt
ed 1t. 1t seemed a perfectly natural
thing to be there. We felt at home. II
we hadn't got there. there might have
been occasion for some excitement"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-14

try homes to the town, with their
bags and baskets on their backs or
In sledges they draw along with them.
Skating is as easy and natural to them
as walking, and they skim over the
Ice with such speed that the eye has
some difficulty in following them. In
former years wagers were often laid
among the most swift Dutch skaters
as to who could keep up with stated
train, skating upon the canals that
run parallel to the railway. and In
most cases not only did the skaters
keep up with the engine but they
would at times shoot forward and
keep ahead of 1t for a few minutes
People skate from The Hague to An
sterdam and back again the same day;
the Utrecht university students leave
that town in the morning, dine at Am
sterdam and are at home before night;
the wager Of going to Amsterdam to
Leyden in little more than an hour has
several times been laid and won. And
it is not only the wonderful speed out
the unerring surefootedness with
which such long journeys are accom-
plished that is worthy Of admiration.
There are peasants who skate By
night from one town to another.
Young men go from Rotterdam 70
Gouda: at Gouda they buy a long pipe
OF chalk and skate back to Rotterdam,
carrying 1t safe and sound In Their
hand. Sometimes as one is walking
by a canal a human figure will be seer
to shoot past like an arrow.
Here, indeed, is the place to enjoy
winter. The dry. feathery snow DE-
sends, but no one heeds 1t. We turn
up our coat collars and drive on.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-14

tauer of New York, intimate friend Of
Mr.. Sherman. has been here for some
days and has initiated the movement
He has nearly half the required sum
already subscribed.
Mr.. Littauer has no doubt he viii be
able to raise the remainder of the
amount. He is wealthy and his friends
say he will give all the remainder OF
the sum himself rather than see the
project fail.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-14
JEALOUS, STAYS GIRL WIFE

for the door Of the Damn home, but
he quickly locked the door and pre-
pared for what he had decided to do.
He took OF his shoes first Then he
placed the rife, barrel upward, be-
tween his feet, bowed his head over
the muzzle. reached up with his foot
to the trigger and sent a bullet into
his head.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-14

which a moment BEFORE he had flashed
the danger signal. and. standing above
the body. his dog. which had been
following the train through the yards.
Only after the dog had been dragged
away by force were the members of
the train crew able to extricate the
body.
According to the engineer. the train
was backing on the trestle in the
yards when Woodsmall. who was on
top Of the second car from the end.
flashed a danger signal and a moment
later disappeared. The engineer ap-
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-14

liffe Of st. Francisville, La. who will
seek the post for herself
Mrs. Wickliffe is the widow Of Rep
resentative Robert w. Wickline OF
Louisiana. She lie credited with orr.
ginating the idea Of giving the Dolly
Madison breakfast last spring.
Mrs. Wickliffe before her marriage
was Miss Lydia w. Cooke of Louis
vile. Ky.
Miss Lathrop is the first woman to
be chief OF a United States govern
ment bureau. She was appointed last
summer by President Taft to be the
head OF the new bureau created by
congress. at a salary OF $4,000 a year