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The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-09-06
STEAMER DESTROYED BY
FIRE; ALL ABOARD ESCAPE.

Philadelphia, Sept. 6.-The steam
ship Penn was today destroyed by fire.
only the captain and 81 crew were
aboard. All escaped. The loss is
500. 900.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-09-06

the first 1t will he locked and then the
inner gate will be opened The fences
are fourteen feet high with sliding
gates.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-09-06
SAN DOMINGO AT IT AGAIN.

washington. Sept. 6.--tresh reports
of a new revolution In San Domingo
sent the gunboat Des Moines from
the Venezuelan coast to Puerta Pa
Ia.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-09-06
JAPANESE STATESMAN is
THE VICTIM OF ASSASSINS

Toxic. Sept. 6.-Mortiaro Abo, di-
rector of the political bureau of the
japanese foreign office, died today, the
victim of unknown assassins, one Of
whom yesterday plunged a sword in
believed to have been students. Tic
student element is increasingly active
in politics. Excitement is intense
here following the reports of the mas
sacre Of Japanese and an insult to the
Japanese flag at Marking. There IS
much irresponsible olamor against
China. similar to the recent clamor
against America.
Mistaken For Or. Sun?
Another theory is that Director Abo
was mistaken for Dr. sun Vat Sen, the
Chinese revolutionary leader, whom
he greatly resembled. II was reported
a month ago that band of one hum
dred lssassins had been sent to Japan
To kill Dr. sun and other Chinese rev.
olutionary fugitives.
The assassination of Abo is gen
orally regarded as political crime
II is believed he was the indirect vic
tim of the sensational Japanese press
which recently called Abo and other
foreign officials national traitors.
According To a Japanese news agen-
cy the conspirators intended also to
Kill Premier Yamamoto and Minister
of Foreign Affairs Baron Maxine
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-09-06
American Lawyers Scored.
To Prevent Second Escape.

Beacon. n. ". Sept, 6.--Authori,ieS
Of Matteawan asylum have begun the
erection of a second fence with large
gate at the point where Thaw escaped.
dashing out when the gate was opened
for the milkman. AS the team enter
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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-02
Wanted Senator to Look Up Prospective Wife

~ HE other day Senator Knute Mel
i son was startled by the receipt
of a letter which contained the fol-
having clipping from publication
called Cupids Column. His surprise
sreW as he read the clipping, which
was as follows:
"2783 Washington, D. CT am a
3oung widow, twenty-five years of age.
No children; SIS, $50 pounds, blonde
hair, gray eyes, very good form, good
disposition, French Methodist; have a
small income; like both city and
country life. Would like to CORE
spond with some young man matri-
monially inclined. See my pnoto."
To the right of this touching mis-
sive was a picture. also clipped from
a newspaper, of a remarkably pretty
girl, wearing a low collar and an
elaborate picture hat.
The senator, who is over seventy
years of age and married, at once be-
gan to suspect that some widow had
her eyes on him. But taking another
look into the envelope he found the
following letter and a photograph OF
a young man. The letter read:
81 am mailing your picture and
your description" said the note, ITO
the city of Washington, d. G. hope
you will get it and write to me at
once, for l am a young bachelor. and
my father owns farm in Minnesota
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-02
They Tell McAdoo How to Run U. S. Treasury

Mr.. Wickersham, and my Savings De-
partment says it is Wilson & Mr.. Nc
Adloo. Respectfully Yours, - -"
Another letter which Secretary Nc
Adoo received is even funnier than the
foregoing.
"U. S. Govt" writes from Fresno,
Cal The letter is dated June and is
as follows:
Mr.. McAdee: In regard to all gov
eminent money Loan none out unless
you can get per cent. Have all
Departments Deposit every week IN
National Treasury money collect that
week. Keep everything in first-class
shape equipped Treasury Department
with Burglar alarm system if neces-
sary and have for protection four Arm
Guards at night. Swear them in to
be loyal to the Government, which is
48 States and Island Possessions.
Yours truly,
Signed in full: u. s. GOVT"
Under the signature appears the
following: Approved at $3.50 P. NJ"
The left-hand margin has been
utilized for the following postscript:
Loan it on the same terms as bank.
ers do. Good Bye"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-02

tTY OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Wilson's
w new commissioners for the Dis
trict of Columbia are planning to pro-
vide the national capital with public
golf links, and golfers already are
wagering that when the new links are
available the chief executive will be
found playing on them.
At present he gives the two So
called fashionable golf clubs the go
by and motors over the hills Of Vir-
ginia, where the common folks main
tain the Washington Golf club.
The membership of the club is
made up mainly of government clerks
and other persons who have to look
sharp to make both ends meet finan-
cially. The democracy of the play
ground seemed to appeal to the pres
ident.
All golfers agree that golf is played
for either one or two purposes-exer-
else or pleasure. If you play good
game, you play for pleasure. If your
game is bad, you play for exercise
and you get plenty of 1t.
Now, the President is not SO bad
as they make them, by quite long
way, but he still is In the exercise
:lass.
He plays golf for the good it does
him and because he never expects to
make his living teaching golf to be-
ginners.
He goes out to the club with two
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-02
This Job Hunter Certainly Was Good Guesser

4 STORY which is going around the
- Hobbies and cloakrooms at the
capitol in these days of scant patron
age had it's origin at the national
capita, with Secretary Redheld OF the
department of commerce.
at happened at time when there
was keen rivalry for government po-
gitions," said Secretary Redfield.
that a young man named Allen de-
sired 8 place III the Dostoffice deparC-
ment and applied to his congressman.
He was told he could get no place
until a vacancy arose. He waited
for several weeks and one day, when
his money was nearly exhausted, he
went down to beach nearby. There
were many people bathing there and
among them was a man whom Allen
recognized as a clerk in the division
which he sought for a place.
"This clerk vcnturedt beyond his
depth and was drowned. When the
body was brought ashore Allen hur-
ried up to his congressman and ex-
claimed:
81 can have that job now! There
Is vacancy!'
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-02
"ENOCH ARDEN" IN REAL LIFE
Three Years, Who Failed to Claim
Remarked Wife.

Tarrytown, n Y.-As the last chap
ter in dramatic story which closely
parallels Tennyson S "Enoch Arden"
Capt Lewis B. Hunt of Tarrytown,
n. Y, now eighty-four years old and
quite feeble, has started for Oregon
with his daughter, who has just seen
him for the first time in fiftythree
years. He left his wife to another
man she had married in the belief
that he was dead.
When Captain Hunt came home to
Buffalo, ~ Y, in 1865, after being dis
charged from his regiment at the
close of the war, amazed friends met
him at the station and told him they
had believed for several years that he
had died in battle.
They told him that his wife had be-
lieved the reports of his death and
had married again. Like Enoch Ar
den, he turned his back on Buffalo
and went adrift into the world, leav-
ing his wife in ignorance and to the
new happiness she had found.
When he went to the war his daugh-
ter was two years old When he re-
turned to Buffalo he wanted TO see the
child, but he dared not, because the
knowledge that he was alive would
ruin his wife's happiness. Therefore
he dropped out of sight of all who
had known him.
This daughter grew to womanhood,
was married to a man named Miller
French and moved to Clatskanie, Ore
gon. Mr.. Hunts wife and her new
husband moved to Wisconsin AS the
daughter of Civil war veteran Mrs.
French recently wrote TO the pension
bureau to see if she could not obtain
q pension The bureau informed her
that her father was alive and living at
Tarrytown, where he was receiving a
pension
Mrs. French hurried here and then
for the first time in fifty-three years
met her father.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-02
QUESTION NAME. OF WRITER
Serious Controversy RACES as to
Proper cognomen of the Author
of "The Raven"

A bitter controversy has arisen be-
tween the architect who designed a
new school building on Rittner street,
IL this city, and members of the
school board over the spelling Of the
full name Poe
Over the entrance of the building
in large letters is engraved Edgar
Allen Poe"
Simon Gratz, member of the board
OF education, insists that the correct
spelling Of Poe's middle name is AL
Ian" and he has demanded that the
architect make a new engraving. The
architect maintains that ALLEN" is
correct, and refuses to change il.
The argument may be thrGshed out
in councils. Gratz asserts that Poe's
middle name was obtained from John
Allan, a Richmond man, who adopted
Pee when two years old, in 1911. The
new school is a short distance from
the little brick house where Poe wrote
his famous Gold Bug"
Reference books give Poe's middle
name as Allan-Philadelph Dispatch
to New York World.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-02

close to the bank Of the stream, are
some old Indian graves, and near by
are some carved stones or 'piedras pin.
tadas
From the weathering of these and
from the pottery and other objects,
remnants of an ancient Indian culture.
buried in them It is known that they
are at least 1000 years old and proba.
bly, considerably more. Since these
graves were made the Caldera river
has not cut its channel more than ten
feet deeper over about one-tenth of
the total width of its valley bottom
This is equivalent TO deepening of
the whole width of the valley one foot.
From these data it is seen that the
minimum rate of excavation of the
Caldera valley, under, approximately,
present conditions, would be one foot
per thousand years. At this rate the
present valley; which is $50 feet deep,
would require $4,000 years for ex-
cavation However, during the first
few centuries excavation of it went on
much more rapidly than now. This
is due to the fact that in falling
through the atmosphere the cOarser
rocks of the volcanic debris dropped
faster and are more concentrated in
the lower part while the upper parts
CT this formation are chiefly of fine
ash"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-02

with q ditch running through it, and
am sure that we will be happy
here. am feet incnes----" and
much more to that effect. On the
back of this was written:
Dear Senator: This young woman
lives in your city. Please look her
up for me, as want to marry her.
/ put her photograph outside the en-
velope, but the postofFice authorities
returned it to me. If you will look
her up and tell her to write me | will
be much obliged to you and will re-
member your kind favor"
All the senator said when he
dropped the envelope and it's contents
into the wastebasket was:
"He wants me to open matri-
monial agency for his special benefit.
Now, I'll do any number OF things
for the people, but I'll be blamed If |
will do that"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-02
Doctored a Toy Dog.

Dr.. r. S. Stearns of Sellwood, Ore.
has performed remarkable surgical
operation The patient was a shaggy
toy dog which was brought in by Rich
ard, the two-and-a-half-year--old son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. c. T. Brock of Sellwood
In some way the tail became detached
from the body, and the child heard
that the doctor could repair the dam
age.
A little later Richard was MISSING
from home and search was made fol
him. Later the search party entered
the Office of DR.. Stearns, where they
found the physician engaged in per
forming the operation, while little
Richard looked on with fearful inter
est. After the operation Richard
emerged from the doctors Office with
a satisfied smile on his face.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-02
PUT BLAME ON THE DEVIL
Sudan Natives Have Comforting Be
lief That AbsoIves Them From
Personal Blame.

Everything that goes wrong is at
tributed by the Berberines, tribe OF
the Sudan, to the devil. Ethel S. Ste
vens, in my Sudan Year quotes a
story told her by Bishop Gwynne OF
his boys coming to him one day
and announcing The devil is in the
house"
oh said the bishop, that is very
interesting! When did he arrive?'
HE came in with the cook, from the
SIOUX market yesterday evening"
Really" commented the bishop
puzzled.
Eyes. and in the night he came out
of the cook and passed into me-
"Oh, and what did he do?''
HE went to the cupboard and broke
a plate and the top of the jam jar"
A light broke in on the bishop.
"Oh, he was after the jam | sup
pose he ate some?"
Yes said the boy, The did"
The idea of devil possession is not
merely an elaborate form of excuse;
the native servant really believes it
Youths Companion.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-02
Plan Public Golf Links at the National Capital

automobiles. He is in the front one
with DR.. Cary Grayson, while the sec
ond carries a secret service man or
two
The president usually reaches the
club about $3.50.
He plays the first nine holes very
leisurely, without the least sign Of
having to hurry back to the White
House. Then he usually cuts off to
the seventeenth, playing that hole
and the eighteenth. Then, without
going into the club house, he gets into
the automobile and rides back to the
White House.
The president is pretty regular
about his golf. The reason is that
DR.. Cary Grayson, his medical adviser,
is insistent that the president shall
take good care Of himself. The pres
ident has been known to complain
somewhat quizzically Of Grayson's tyr
amy. The doctor not only insists
that the president takes his exercise,
but he usually goes along and makes
sure that his instructions are carried
out
With the president, goling serves
as no silk-stocking amusement. He
never plays golf with the nabobs of
the town. His almost exclusive golf
ing companion is DR.. Grayson.
Indeed, President Wilson has not
devoted himself in the least to max
ing friends in the wealthy and artistic
cratic classes of Washington. He
knows few of the prominent persons
who rejoiced in the friendship and IA
vor of former presidents.
Indeed, if the president were in pur-
suit of society, he would not play
golf ut the Washington Golf club. So
ciety is not found there-not the kind
that is spelled with capitals. SOCI-
ETY. abides at the Chevy Chase club.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-02
Scenes in Windes, Where lon
Work in Arn0r.
Precautions Taken by Bleaching Pow.
der Packers Telling in Deadly
Chemical Factories - Coed
Wages for Big Risks.

All the way from 'Fairyland' To
"Helltown' range the nicknames
which have been given to the town of
Windes, in England by eminent WISH
tors to this strange, busy little world
where chemistry is king.
The very atmosphere has q vivid,
artificial quality that makes 1t differ
ent from other atmospheres. The fac
tories send out great volumes OF vari-
coIored smoke, which help to make
the brilliant chemical sunsets fer
which the town is noted. The work
men, many of them, go to their toll
attired in strange looking costumes to
protect them from the fumes of the
gases which they must inhale during
their work. They look like beings
from another sphere or like weird war
riors armed for conflict with demons
of the underworld.
''Windes and the chemical trades
stand for each other" says the Lon
don Sphere. "All sorts of chemica!
compounds which are used to perfect
the products of other factories are
sent out from the town. More alkali
is sent out from Windes than from
anywhere else in the world. Great
quantities of soda compounds are
manufactured to be used in paper
works. The cotton mills send to
Windes for their bleaching materials
the potters get their glazing materials
from the town. Mining engineers de
pend on Windes for Ahe cyonide pro
cess which extracts the gold from its
ore. Hundreds of other substances,
such as wall distempers, nitroglycerine
and baking powder, are made in
Windes, wholly or in part.
The name "Helltown" was conferred
upon the place by journalist who
once visited it and was horribly i'm
pressed by the chemical factories. A
scientist of equal eminence with the
journalist took the opposite point Of
view and was SO delighted with all the
extraordinary processes which were
to be seen in the shops that he called
the place "Fairyland." The town Is
a f1ourishing one. The workmen make
SOOu WAGES dnu ALI foOAlS VI l4lC WOADN
trades have short hours, but even SO
their lives are shortened by the I'M
natural atmosphere which they inhale.
Among those who have the most
hardships to endure in connection with
their work are the bleaching powder
packers, who breathe through "a
thicknesses of flannel, wear goggles
and calico clothing around which
brown paper is tightly wrapped. This
is necessary because these men must
enter the chambers in which chlorine
gas is turned on lime. It used TO be
tradition that nothing green could
grow within three miles of Windes,
but the inhabitants, who are very loyal
to their unique dwc Hing place, point
proudly to their large and fiourishing
public park, whose verdant foliage
disproves this tradition. There are
10000 persons in the town, The men
work either in the chemical factories
or in iron or copper works.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-02
" eWhere?' said The congressman.

'Where?' said the congressman.
"Why, clerk in that division was
drowned this afternoon.
1.-THE congressman looked at him
sadly. 4 regret to inform you, he
said, that you are too late; the place
has been filed
GLOW can that be?' shouted Allen.
The man has just been drowned
eyes, know answered the con-
gresham, "but the place was obtained
by a Massachusetts man who saw
the clerk go in swimming. He made
a correct guess that the clerk could
not swim and made his application by
telephone ten minutes before the
clerks body was brought to shore.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-02

" HE people who know how to run
1 the United States government
better than the men who made it are
numerous, and they always have their
information on tap. The other day a
woman, who is tired Of government
interference, wrote to Secretary Nc
Adoo as follows:
Hon. Secty McAdloo.
Sir: Why do it for you to perse-
cute the little stocks of Steel and New
Haven and Telefun. Only little l
have and now all gone so that l
cant make any will to give to my oun.
My lawyer says 1t is alright becus
Wilson will do it, but he gets my
money, and my husband is a striker.
My bank says it is was Mr.. Taft &
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-02
When She Wakes Up.

Once a woman realizes that it is a
very awkward and wasteful method
to wash dishes with the drainboard on
her right and the dishes piled on her
left, she will have the drainboard
changed to her left and stack her
dishes on the right side where they
will be most quickly get-at-ahle. And if
she will go at her dishwashing job
with the idea of eliminating every
minute Of waste-labor. she viii also
quickly learn the importance Of ad-
justing her dishpan to the right
height.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-02

Sheriff J. M. Williams of Tishomin-
go came here to interview the young
woman to whom Borah was engaged.
She told the sheriff that she had
planned to marry Borah September 10
and showed him her wedding gowns.
She said she recently resigned a posi-
ton in Kansas City to prepare for her
marriage. She will make deposition
in the case.
Sheriff Williams said the fire In
Borah's house was of incendiary orr
gin and that his wife and daughter
were dead before the fire started. The
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-02
HELD ON A MURDER CHARGE
Man Charged With Killing Wife and
Daughter Is Engaged to Young
Woman.

Wichita. Kan.--W. A. Borah, who Is
In jail at Ardmore, Okla, in connec-
ton with the death of his wife and
twelve-year-old daughter at Tishomin-
go, Okla, when his house was burned.
was engaged to marry the daughter of
a wealthy citizen of this city, accord
ing to an announcement here.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-02
Well Described.

Small Sadie was walking along the
street with her mother when a Zero
cious looking, but friendly bulldog ap
preached. With a little scream she
chung to her mother, crying: "Oh,
mamma, look at the dog with the tan
gled facet"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-02
Slit Skirt Mot Immoral.

Kansas City.-"There is nothing i'm.
moral in the slit skirt, the diaphanous
gown, or any other present form OF
women's attire" declared Judge Ralph
Latshaw of the Criminal court here
when asked for his opinion by persons
furthering campaign against extreme
styles in woman's dress.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-02
Need Not BE Ashamed of Name.

The surname Shocks by no means
seems to be an imposing cognomeD;
but, as a matter of fact, it is a name
of great antiquity, and one Of which,
nobody should be ashamed. In real
ity, it is a contraction of "Sevenoaks."
It was first corrupted TO Sennopc,
which in turn was corrupted to
Shocks of today.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-02
WINS BIG ENGLISH TROPHY
Canadian Lands Kings Gold Medal
for Shooting at the Bisley
Meet.

London.-Great interest marked the
final day of the shooting meet at Bis
ley when, after close competition with
Sergeants Ommundson and Fenby,
Private w. Hawkins, a Canadian of
the 48th Highlanders at Toronto. won
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-02
Mas Father of % Children.

Noblesville, Ind.-Riley Shepard.
ninety-four, father of 20 children, died
here. He is survived by 20 children,
1875 grandchildren, 6S great-grandchil-
dren, and great-great-grandch
Shepard had been married three
times.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-02
MRS. AST0R SOCIAL LEADER
Mother of Vincent Astor and Two So
clety Friends at Big Lawn Ten
mis- Match.

Newport.-The elite OF society turn.
ed out en- masse to watch the National
tennis match held at Newport, in
which the winners of the Davis Tennis
cup took part The most prominent
figure present was Mrs. Ava Willing
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-02

Homemade Enamel Cement.
Take equal parts of soft putty, nne-
ly sifted coal ashes and sifted table
salt. Mix and pack well into the hole
OF your kettle. Place pan ON stove
with q little water In Il unt1 the o.
maNt Asydens.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-02

flames were quenched, Williams said,
before they reached the bodies. The
sheriff arrested Borah and took him to
Ardmore to elude a mob. Borah for
merly was mayor of Tishomingo.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-02
Cows Must Wear Earrings.

COWS MUST Wear EdrFIHgS.
Cows in Belgium wear earrings. The
law requires that when COW has at
tanned the age of three months 1t
shall have in its ears ring to which
II attached a numbered metal taG for
tAAAsion purposes.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-02
JUDGMENT.
How about this shooting %

How about this shooting?"
my clients mind is blank, Judge
That ought to be sufficient to get hin,
off,"
81 might consider it if the cartridges
had been blank, too"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-02
Time Absorbing.

The woman who is looking for trou
BILE never has any time left IL whici
to search for pleasure