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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-08-03

R. D. McManus, with the dairy de-
partment, state board of agriculture,
is here today from Oklahoma City. He
came down to his home town at Ber-
wyn to vote in the election tomorrow,
and came down here to see some old
friends and talk politics for half
day.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-08-03

lreiand'e Fisheries In Bad Way.
Statistics show that Ireland's fish
cries continue to decline in amount OF
fish landed and the number of men
and boats engaged. Capitalists are
displacing individual fishermen.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-08-03

FOR. SALE-A handsome fern, bar
gain, if taken at once. Phone red
737. --. 80
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-08-03

Now the race is on in earnest for
the first bale of cotton. The time is
rapidly approaching when it will be
seen on the streets Last year the
first bale was marketed here on Aug
ust % by DR.. e. Payne, who lives a
few miles east of the city. Several
are reported to be in the running this
year and with continued dry weather
the first bale will soon appear.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-08-03

in the vicinity of Springer. and did
very little good.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-08-03

The Want Ads-they pay.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-08-03

Watch the Want Ads daily.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-11-12
WIFE FO|LS BELT OF
TACKS AS ARMOR
Massachusetts, Mans Spouse
Sidewipes the Points and
Kicks Him Out of Bed.

Salem, Mass.,-When Herbert Bye,
who, by the bye, is an Englshman
and 35 years old, first rested his eye
on the present Mrs. Bye he sighed.
And when he was arraigned in the
Municipal Court and agreed to pay
two clinking dollars week to keep
the wolf from the bungalow entrance
he admitted he had sighed and that
the present Mrs. Bye at that time was
something to sigh about.
But, according to Mr.. Bye, when
Mrs. Bye closed her eyes and rocked
in the shadow of Morpheus in the
silly night she was impossible. She
forgot her troubles, the world and the
exact location of her husband. No
thing but a suit Of armor, he said,
could be expected to Withstand her
restless slumber. Every kick she had
was registered at that time. and 80
runs the story of Herbert the human
football, he had been punched, drop
kicked and given the onside toes from
the boundaries of the mattress night
after night.
Il loved my wife by day" wept Her
bert, but this idea of volplaning on
to the carpet every night was more
than l could bear. She speaks of
cruelty and l admit that to protect my
gaunt frame from further boot!ng 1
placed a belt of tacks around me.
But it did not work. Marie sidewiped
the tacks and knocked them off the
belt after which | rolled on them and
cursed the day we were wed"
We'll, what provision will you make
for your wife's support, them" asked
the court, evidently impressed.
Il will pay 81 week to keep roof
over her" answered Herbert, but |
am confident that some night she will
kick the roof Off"
1t was so ordered
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-11-12
NATURAL sARoMETERs.
psndellon, Glover, TrefoiI and Sham
rock Are All Barometer,

Tho dandelion is n dandy barome-
ter and one of the commonest and
most reliable. 1t is when the blooms
have seeded and are in the fluffy.
feathery condition that the weather
prophet faculties comes to the fore.
the FULL but when rain approaches 1t
shuts like an umbrella. II the weather
is inclined to be showery, 1t keeps
shut all the time, only opening when
the danger from the wet is past.
The ordinary clover and all Of its
varieties, including the trefoil and
the shamrock, are also barometers.
When rain is coming the leaves shut
together like the shells of an oyster
and do not open again until the wea-
ther is assured. For day or two
before rain comes their stems swell
to an appreciable extent and stiffen
so that the leaves are borne more
uprightly than usual. This stem
swelling when rain is expected is
feature Of many towering grasses.
The fingers of which the leaves OF
the horse chestnut are made up keep
Mt and fanlike so long as fine weather
is likely to continue With the com
ing of rain. however. they drop as il
to offer less resistance to the weather
The scarlet pimpernal Ia ntcklamed
the poor mans weather glass" o'
wind cope, and opens It's nowers only
in fine weather. AS soon as rain is
in the air it shuts up and remains
closed until the shower or storm is
over.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-11-12

Division Of Sexes In india.
Males outnumber females in India
in the proportion of 900 to 9S6.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-11-12

guide books the names Of hotels ana
boarding house proprietors wore oh
tanned, and batch OF mail went on
to them. Chiefs OF police, managers
OF hospitals and institutions and Of
ficials of mines were reached. Tho
search touched every county seat and
mining camp. 1t followed stage
routes and mountain trails. It reached
north from Sacramento to Thrall on
the border, swung east at the rail-
road junction at Sisson and up
through the Mount Shasta country
to Dorrin. 1t even crossed the line
into Oregon and stretched away TO
Alaska-for men who had lost heart
prospecting around Shasta were turn.
ing at this time to the new golo
fields far to the north.
Using the directories as guides'
every man of the name of kopp In
California or Oregon was communl-
Gated with A John Kopp was founo
in Astoria, Ore, another through the
Salvation Army and third through
a newspaper report Of an accident
All we're eliminated, as letters hxed
their identities.
And so the campaign to find the
missing man worked out, stopping
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-11-12

only at census-taklng of all the
gold diggers In the hills. But no
trace of Kopp was discovered be-
yond the fact that he had driven out
of Oroville one day and had not been
seen thereafter.
Albert Kopp, of New York City
qualified as administrator of the
mothers estate, and the s2s,OOO
which she had saved for the absent
son, with his share of the estate,
was turned over to the city cham
berlain.
"If John had only taken something
for his gold fever" said Albert Kopp
while the proceedings were before
the court, "and had stayed at home
he might have succeeded to his
fathers business. But the gold fever
is a mighty hard thing to get out of
ones system, l suppose.
II don't believe any man was ever
searched for with greater persistence
than John. We practically went over
California from Frisco to Yreka with
fine tooth comb. How, when or
where he dropped out is secret
which we have not been able to
fathom. You see, he was forever
shifting about.
+ "Once when I visited him had to
ride seventy miles by stage after I
left the railroad and before I got to
the starting point for his mountain
camp. His nearest postotfice address
at that time was Red Bluff at the
head of navigation on the Sacra-
mento river. He lived in a shack,
slept in bunk. ate his meals on a
box, but he was buoyant and happy
withal
He had some mining claims, but
just where they were located or what
they were worth, if anything. we do
not know.
"I don't suppose he is alive, al
though there is nothing except his
long unexplained absence to offer to
the contrary. We have waited all
these years in the hope that word
would come from him or, better still
that he would come back and claim
the money that Is rightfully his, but
1t seems out of the question now"
Half a dozen letters have been re-
ceived at the city chamberlain's since
the petition was made to the surro-
gate to have John Kopp adjudged
dead These letters speak vaguely
of men of the name of Fredonia,
Kan, Charleroi, Pa, and Sacramento.
Interest Is always taken In un-
claimed fortunes.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-11-12
sMAsHEs RoeeER WITH CLOCK
Watehman Bangs It on Intruder's
Head Quite Effectively


Ogontz, Pat was $50 a. m. when
the night watchman who patrols the
estate of John B. Stetson, Jr., and
that of San Idro." the suburban home
of the Count and Countess Santa Eu-
lalia, heard the crash of breaking
glass. He traced the sound to the
Stetson house and intercepted an in
truder on the porch after he had bro
ken window for purposes of bur-
glary. In the ensuing battle the
watchman did not use his club or re-
volver, but felled the burglar with a
blow from a watchman's metal clock.
A motor car was then taken from
the Stetson garages and the injured
man was hurried to the Jewish Hos.
pital. At the hospital a search re.
vealed pension papers issued in New
York to Michael Dempsey, now
known as Thomas Eagan," the Gov.
ernment provision having been made
because Dempsey. or Eagan. had seen
service in the marines. The prisoner
gave his age as 6S years, but he Is
remarkably healthy and well pre-.
served.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-11-12

Pretty fine. eh? And know where
to find 1t, all right. You wait; I'll
set the town guessing some day
when l come riding home in my own
private car You may think I'm fool
ish; just wait"
Mrs. Christine Kopp, mother of the
rover and of two other sons and two
daughters, died in 1901. leaving a
considerable estate, including twelve
dwellings on the east side of the
city, number of mortgages, a block
of stock in the German Exchange
Bank and thirteen open accounts in
savings and other institutions. With
strong mother love for her absent
son, she had also placed money to
his credit in seven banks, which at
the time of her death amounted to
$2S,000. To settle the estate it be-
came necessary TO have the concur
renee of all the heirs. All save John
were in the city. Following the pub
lication Of the citations. the search
for the missing son began.
For year or more no letter came
from him, but that was not unusual.
He was in the habit of delaying his
letters beyond reasonable time in the
hope that another week or two might
give him the big news to write about.
The legal notice OF his mothers
death was forwarded To Kopp's last
known address in Oroville. a mining
town on the Feather river. 1t came
back unopened Old addresses we're
looked up and letters sent to them.
These brought no reply.
The efforts to reach him began to
take on a new aspect after this. Let.
ters were sent to the postmasters OF
the several towns where at one time
or another Kopp had stopped when
he was casting about for signs of the
fortune that was to be laid bare by
the upturning of his pick. These
brought only vague returns.
A family council was called at this
time and each practical suggestion
for carrying forward the search was
set down as a plan to be adopted
A fund was provided to defray ex-
penses.
One brother engaged to cover the
entire territory reaching up through
Siskiyou and Butte counties with a
chain OF letters. The other brothers
part was to make personal visit
and follow up such clues as looked
hopeful. Others arranged series OF
rewards for publication first in one
and then in another list of papers
until the press of the section had
been covered. The amounts of re
ward were graded from ten dollars
up to one hundred dollars.
Thus systematized for the largest
effectiveness, the broader search was
started. From railroad folders and
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-11-12

dropped off, outfitted at a miners
store, got the lay OF the land and
started for the hills.
From time to time the folks back
home heard from him and always his
letters wound up with a prediction
OF the strike that would make him
rich.
Twice he came back, bringing with
him samples of quartz, through which
could be traced the hair-like veins of
gold, and some pea-size bits of free
gold, which he would toss on the
table and admire.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-11-12

Five hours ride up from Sacramento stands sign
which proclaims to the world the wealth derived
from the Siskiyou Valley.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-11-12
He rumbled away into the mountains.

He rumbled away into the mountains.
John Kopp even when a boy was
restless. He went later to art school,
thinking to become an architect and
design buildings for his father, who
was a prosperous contractor. Here
too, he was discontented. Finally he
studied law and was ready for the
bar examinations when the forces
within him which had long been
working to throw him off the track
got beyond his control and he struck
out for the California gold diggings
With his goodby he said to his
brothers.: "If fellows lucky there's
no use plodding in the city. I feel
1t in my bones that I'll turn up a
fortune. You'll hear from me later,
and when you do III have a surprise
for you"
II was tho confidence and boastful-
ness OF youth.
Five hours ride up from Sacra-
mento, on the Southern Pacific Rail-
road, stands a sign which proclaims
that "Siskiyou has given the world
s1s9, 200, 900 OF its gold" This sign
had not been set up when John
Kopp reached the far West, but the
spirit was there. 1t was land OF
chance. 1t fitted with his dream. He
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-11-12
LONG SEARCH
FOR A
LOST FORTUNE
HUNTER

NE of the largest sums of
N money ever held in trust by
hHfmU4 a city for a missing person
Hf&W awaits final disposition at
the hands of the chamberlain of New
York City 1t is fund now grown
to more than 100000 through in
vestment in gilt-edge revenue bonds,
and at twenty-four hours notice it
may be turned into cash for pay
ment.
BY a twist which Fate sometimes
gives to things this money stands to
the credit of fortune hunter, one
John Kopp. with legal residence in
that city, but of remote and in
definite elsewhere considering him as
a rover, which he was.
Seeing only weary humdrum in
gradually harvesting the fruits OF in
dustry, Kopp early in life became
dominated bv passion to tap riches
at their very source by sortie on
some Bnmapped Golconda, and so he
turned his face to the West
The last heard of him was from a
little mining town far up among the
Sierra Nevadas 1t was at set of sun
on a midsummers day. In butternut
shirt and knee-top boots, with slouch
hat tilted back from his tanned face
and sun-faded hair, he snapped lash
over the ears of a four-mule outfit,
waved a farewell generally to the set
tlement and rumbled away into the
gathering shadows along the trail
leading to the land of hope and de-
SPAR Black night settled on the
mountains; from its darkness it is
not OF record that he ever emerged.
II may be that he is alive and in
the enjoyment of riches at some
distant point, and 1t may be that he
is still grubbing. hoping against hope,
and seeking self-effacement in his
adversely.
The more likely thing is that his
bones are whitening on some untrav-
eled waste. a pick and shovel lying
near. to be discovered and identified
some time or never. For such has
been the end of others.
IHC udJ VI Ills olodppCai diiSC'
now fifteen years ago, every agency
known to investigation has been EN-
ploved to discover Kopps wherea
bouts For twelve years it has been
most remarkable search. The last
OF thousand calls has gone out for
him. and no word has come back
Now, in the orderly procedure of the
Court of Probate. from such evidence
as is at hand. notation will he
made against his name. Absence fol
seven years without word carries the
presumption of death. If the court
decides that Kopp is legally non.
existent an administrator will be
named for his estate and the for
tune which has been waiting for him
while he, believing in the luck star
travelled far to seek another, will be
divided among his kin, as the stat
utes proyide
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-11-12

NE of the largest sums of
money ever held in trust by
a city for a missing person
awaits final disposition at
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-11-12
The derry WidoMer.

Talk about youth! A handsome
young bridegroom can walk in and
out of crowded church and no one
will look at him, but an old widower
cannot turn around without attracting
the greatest attention.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-11-12

On the hills of Abbeville, s. c..
was picked up a piece of quartz
about the size of a thimble. 1t con-
tains a small bead that shifts about
and appears to be a drop OF water.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-11-12

m Relatives Of John Kopp
N Have Raked the Coun-
try to Find an Adventurer
Who is Heir to $4,000
Gold Digger's Unclaimed
Wealth May Soon Be Dis
tributed.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-05-01
LIFE ON HOLLANDS CANALS.
Where Spring Cleaning Is the Rule All
the Year Round.

| think one may see bargeS and ca
nal boats I'm greater variety at ROtter-
dam than anywhere else. One curious
thing to be noticed as they lie ut rest
In the canals is the absence OF men.
A woman is always there, her husband
only rarely. The only visible captain
Is the fussy, shrewish little dog which
suspicious of the whole world, patrols
the boat from stem to stern and warns
you that IL Is against the law even to
look at his property. / hope his bite Is
not equal to his bark.
Every barge has its name. English
suburban villas have not greater va
riety Of fantG site names than the canal
craft Of Holland, nor with all our mo-
nopoly of the word home does the
English suburban villa suggest more
compact coziness than one catches
CLEANS of through their cabin win
dows or down their companions.
Spring cleaning goes on here, rs In
the Dutch houses all the year round,
and the domiciliary part of the vessels
is spotless. Every bulwark has a
washing tray that can be fixed or de-
tached I'm moment. "Its fine day,
let us kill something" says the Eng
lishman; Here's an odd moment, let
us wash something" says the Dutch
vrouw.
In some of the Rotterdam canals the
barges are so packed that they lie
touching each other, with their bur
gees flying all in the same direction, as
the vanes Of st. Sepulchre's In Hol-
born cannot do. How they ever get
disentangled again and proceed on
their free way to their distant homes
Is n mystery. But In the shipping
world incredible things can happen Mt
nlght.-From "A Wanderer In Hol-
land" by Il. V. Lucas.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-05-01
The Chrysanthemum.

1t is believed that the first specimen
Of the chrysanthemum known to have
been grown in England-perhaps in
Europe.-was reared at the Botanic
gardens, Chelsea, in 17G4, and the
flowers rise into popular favor in the
nineteenth century was chiefly due to
the good work done by the Stoke New
ington Chrysanthemum society. This
society held its first exhibition of bios
SONS I'm 1916, and served not only as Il
model for all similar associations, but
also as school Of chrysanthemum
culture for the whole world.-London
Graphic.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-05-01
PARAGRAPHS.

The members of the General
Assembly, who last week voted
against the publishing of the State
Laws in the newspapers of the state
evidently 20 not care to have their
constitute ITS know what they do in
the marble halls on Smith Hill. AS
the people pay the bills, it would
seem that they ought to be interest
ed in state legislation.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-05-01
PHYSICAL COURAGE.
At 2 o'clock In the Morning Is tte
Time to Test IL.

iU1c TO loot its
1t is at . o'clock I'm the morning that
mans vitality Is at its lowest ebb; all
the physical forces are then at their
lowest ebb, and every military man OF
experience knows that the ''2 O'Clock
courage" counts. He knows that II a
soldier Is really brave at that hour he
need never fear Of his becoming a
coward, as he Is really remarkable
man.
A well fed man will fight better than
q half starved man, whether he be
civilian or soldier. And this Is the
same principle as the so called "2
o'clock bravery" for the half starved
man lacks vitality, just as the average
man lacks vitality at 2 o'clock In the
morning.
If you are anxious to know just how
brave you are make the test some
morning at 2, when you hear burglars
In your house If you crawl under the
bedcothes you are probably quite a
normal man, but If you rise boldly
from your bed, grasp the nearest
weapon and sally forth to meet the
robbers you are indeed brave man
and should be proud Of yourself.
Any veteran Of some great war Will
tell you that the most difficult test OF
courage Is TO be aroused from his sleep
by the shrlll blast Of bugle and long
roll Of drums and ordered to charge an
enemy unseen or only dimly seen at 2
o'clock In the morning. Marching into
battle under the bright sunlight Is not
so difficult, and the seasoned veteran
enjoys the thrill, but even the most
hardened veteran feels 'creepy" and
uneasy turning out at 2 o'clock in the
morning to meet the enemy amid the
shadows Of night, and this Is solely
because Of natural physical weak
hess at that hour and has nothing
whatever to do with that mental weak
ness called "cowardice. New York
American.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-05-01
tanned THE PIANO.
An Unmusical Variation In One Of
Gottschalk's Concerts.

GottscnalkS concerts.
Gottschalk the pianist, was noted for
his enormous physical strength almost
as much as for his brilliance as plan
list. On one occasion he gave n prac.
teal Illustration OF his strength which,
while il did not display his disposition
In the most amiable light, undoubtedly
afforded him much satisfaction.
He was i'm concert playing on piano
that was built on n new model, one OF
the pecullaritles of which was that the
lip Of the keyboard cover projected
farther over the keys than I'm most
pianos when the instrument was opeu
for playing. Gottschalk, who was ac-
customed to throw up his hands to n
considerable height during the per
formance of brilliant passages and was
unused to this new form OF keyboard
constantly hit his knuckles against the
projecting lip.
This repeated rapping of his knuck.
les at last began to have an irritating
effect on him, as the audience could
plainly see. Suddenly after partlcu
larly hard rap he stopped short in tho
middle of his selection, wrenched the
offending cover out Of the instrument
by main force and hurled It across Tic
platform with great violence. Then
with a smile of the greatest satisfac
ton, he reseated himself at the plane
and continued his playing. - CbIra1y
Record -HGuA
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-05-01
LEGAL NOTICES
rowN OF JOHNSTON
Administrations Notice.

Johnston, Il. L., May l. 1914.
The undcrsigued eXccutrix OF the last
VIII and Testament OF Esther Mathewson,
late of the Town of Johnston, deceased,
which will has been admitted to probate by
the Probate Court Of the Town of Johnston,
hereby gives notice that she has accepted
said trust and has given bond according to
law.
Al persons having claims against said es-
tate are hereby notified 20 file the same I'm
the office OF the clerk of SAID court within
six months from the date of the first adver-
tispmrnt thereof.
myl-3t EMdA Il. CEiADBOURNE.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-05-01

If President Wilson's Mexican
policy succeeds, very little praise
will be accorded him, but if it fails,
whole army of wiseacres will rise
up in their seats and shout 81 told
you so -
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-05-01
Advantage Of Credit.

"My big sister has beau"
"So's mine. but don't like h'm."
"Know what my sister ID do IL !
didn't like her beauT'
"No. Whatd she dor
"She'd send him back and get him
changed. cause we've got charge nc
count Mt the store he comes FROM
Newar'- star.