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Imperial Valley press., 1914-03-19

please-there are more overpaid ball
players than under paid ones.
"The ratio of discomfort among ball
players is less than that of any other
trade or profession where some men
work for others. Take the newspaper
business, the business of whitewash-
ing, bookkeeping, telegraphy, brick.
laying, clerking, floor walking and
any other kind of business. Canvass
the men who work in trades and profess
sions. Ask every one you meet if they
are satisfed-and 80 per cent of them
will thunder at you-'No.' And there
you are.
Baseball is funny business. When
a man is mere ball player he con-
tinually heckles his employer-he
wants more money and still more. He
never is satisfied.
".All the time he thinks the manager
and the magnates are tyrants-that
they don't appreciate worth and won't
pay for faithful services.
"Yet, when that very player be-
comes a manager he is on the other
side of the fence. He then thinks the
manager and the magnate are abused.
He fights just as hard to preserve the
bank balance of the club as he did to
get the larger portion of it when he
was player. And once again-there
you are.
"Those Federal fellows-well, l
wish l could say right now what
think of them. But | can't-there be
Imperial Valley press., 1914-03-19

Frank Menke's
Sporting Letter

New York, March 19.-Ladies and
gentlemen: We have with us today as
the principal orator, Mister Samuel
Lichtenhein of Montreal. the tiniest
baseball magnate under the big tent.
and a man who hates the Federal
leaguers with terrible and undying
hatred. Stage whisper: Sammy
owned about seven first class baseball
nlayers with a total valuation Of
about $4,000. The Feds came along,
grabbed off the seven and didn't slip
Sammy even cigar. Hence, the
hatred.
However, these are not Sammy's
only claims to fame. He has at least
one more. Sammy bears the proud
the world began who has out waist
coated G. Waistcoat Murphy, the late
but lamented owner of the Chicago
Cubs. On several separate and dis
tinct occasions Sammy has accom-
pished the seemingly impossible-he
has appeared in public garbed in a
vest of a cut and hue that made
even C. Waistcoat gasp-and then
become green with envy, purple with
rage and white with anger.
Mister Lichtenhein is prepared to
address a few words to you today to
show you that-well, We shall permit
Mister Lichtenhein to do his own
speaking. Were we to tell you what
he had to say to you it might give
him otfense, because he might look
upon such action as stealing his dy-
Mantle, or gunpowder, or whatever it
is he has concealed on his person.
Ladies and gentlemen; we have the
pleasure business of beckoning to
Mister Lichtenhein) of introducing to
you Mister Samuel Lichtenhein, own
er of the Montreal club in the Inter
national league, and also owner of the
aforementioned distinctions.
business Of Mister Lichtenhein
stepping forward, smiling, bowling and
tuning of his throat. His lips open
and how words rush FORTH.
at is indeed an honor for me to
address you ladies and gentlemen. The
Federal league is joke-it's like a
phantom ship. They are promise
busters. They are more than that
but ladies being present l shall re-
frain from telling you publicly the
| full truth concerning them. But ali
the gentlemen here who want an ear
full about those fellows can meet me
outside afterwards. I'll tell 'em some
things, believe me.
"The intpression seems to exist
among the public that the ball play
ers are an underpaid, discontented lot.
That's wrong. I know it's wrong.
There are about 100000 men who are
making their living today by playing
baseball. How many of those fellows
are discontented? Mighty few. Of
course, there always is some sort Of
howl being made by ball players who
think they ought to get more money.
But let me tell you right here and
now-and don't forget it in future.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-03-19
| Will See WHSLE.

$500 per acre from asparagus. Ed
gar Bros. Realty Co.-Adv. 272
Imperial Valley press., 1914-03-19
See Wilsie.

See Whsle.
$7O0 per acre from olives. Edgar
Bros. Realty Co.-Adv. 272
The day book., 1914-07-14
ANSWER TO A LETTER FROM A
DRUG FIEND

Editor Day Book.-'I was very
much interested in the piece by Jane
Whitaker about the drug habit, as
am also drug fiend,' but am not
anything like a person would picture
in his mind from reading her article.
I have had the morphine habit for
almost year and God knows would
like to stop for several reasons. One
is that it is running my health and
also turning my friends against me.
Another is that the druggists who sell
it know it is getting harder to get it
and they are taking a greater chance
now by selling it, SO they have raised
the price and cut down the amount
so that 1 am paying almost double
what l was two months ago. l have
inquired the cost to take a cure at
any sanitarium for that purpose and
find it will take from $3.50 to $500.
As / cannot raise that amount and
The day book., 1914-07-14

know it is almost impossible to cure
myself, 1 suppose shall go on taking
it until 1 die or l cannot get it any
more, and then what will happen to
me?
81 am still young man and with
some prospects before me if l could
get rid of the habit. Don't you think
it would be a blessing if some place
were to be opened to such as to be
cared for? And God knows I'm will
ing enough, as l have not gone too
far to see my folly
This letter was referred to DR..
Charles E. Sceleth of the House of
Correction Hospital, the only hospital
in Chicago where the drug habit is
treated free. This is DR.. Sceleth's re-
ply:
81 have treated as many drug cases
as any one in the country, and man
who seriously wants to be cured we
can positively cure. The best thing
for the writer of this letter to do if he
wishes to take treatment here would
be to go to some police station and
have an arrest slip issued against him
under an assumed name and come
out here and within week or ten
days 1 will discharge him. We can
positively take anybody off the habit
even if he is taking 100 grains a day
within a week, though in some cases
a second week may be necessary for
tonic treatment.
81 can remove any necessity for the
drug, but after he leaves here it is
a matter of his own will power, and
it then depends upon how he acquir-
ed the habit as to whether he remains
cured.
eff he acquired it through vicious
environment and is going back to the
same the chances are not equal to
cases where he acquired the habit
through seeking relief from pain.
0COnoo fiondC acnIIirp thn habit
The day book., 1914-07-14

but sleep anyway in Wilmette, so it
was pie for Doc Evans.
1t was all a blind, starting the war
in Ravinia and Glengko. Ravinia
never had any mosquitoes. All the
mosquitoes Ravinia ever had belong
ed to Wilmette. They just went to
RaVinia to see what the noise was.
RaVinia hadn't even a noise until the
Wilmette mosquitoes went there to
investigate. They found that the only
noise of any account on all the north
shore was Bertie Taylor of Glengko.
Now, we are massed in regiments,
waiting for Doc Evans next move.
The question is: Is the Tribune afraid
to attack our village and thus lay it
self open to the charge of helping The
Day Book advertise Wilmette?
If Doc Evans really invades VIII
mette he will have to fight or dicker
with The Day Book Club, and the
Tribune will be forced to mention The
Day Book. We live in hope. For we
know The Trib would s,Soner bite it's
own head off than say DAY Book"
once in it's 705 columns of pure read
ing matter.-AIfred Gordon, Viii
mette, Ill.
Arizona republican., 1914-05-08
COMES HERE ID
 CURE HIS COLD
General Superintendent of the c. B. < Q. Railroad Finds Phoenix Sunshine Better Than St. Louis Doctors Medicines

Attacked by severe cold from reason of the changeable weather in his home city, F. H. Ustick, general superintendent of the Chicago, Bur lington X Quincy Railroad, with headouarters in St. Louis, has come to Phoenix in his private car to spend week or two "thawing out" Accompanied by Mrs Ustick, the well known railroad man. to whom any other part of the United States would have been quite as accessible as the Salt River Valley, has already become converted to the gospel of the perpetual sunshine of this sec tion of the southwest and has about decided to introduce a bill in con- gress providing for the removal of St. Louis to Phoenix.
 When the physicians in St. Louis declared he was in grave danger of an attack of pneumonia and advised him to seek a warmer climate he hurried aboard his car, told his chef to stock up the larder and be ready for an indefinite absence. The party first stopped for few days in Texas, then went back into New Mexico of Ash Fork
 Arriving here the St. Louis railroad man consulted Dr. E. Payne Palmer and was told that bright sunshine open air and absolute rest was all that would be required to make a ! in a few days, after he had become acclimated, it would be well to make 1 d few trips about the valley in an automobile for besides furnishing q very pleasant recreation it would also
 work wonders in opening up con gested organs.
 | And that is just what Superinten
 ent Ustick is doing He says he , hasn't been here but a few hours but 1 that he is already improving. He stated yesterday that it is his first visit to Phoenix but that he has al-
 to say it won't be his last. He ex- pressed himself as greatly surprised
 at the evidence of development about
 the city and at what he has received second hand Of the growth of the
 outlying districts
 T have seen but one absence o1 , development that seems strange tc
 me and that is that d city the size
 of Phoenix and evidently possessed
 of truly progressive spirit of de-
 velopment, should have such made quate terminal facilities. such pool depots, said Mr Ustick
 | When told that this might be at
 tributed to the probability of unusua railroad development in the near f,I-
 ture which would result in Phoeni,
 being placed upon the main line O
 one or more railroads, he said it wa.
 probably for that reason no nor,
 modern station buildings had beer , erected
 Mir Ustick looks the picture O
 health and he admits that he isn't {
 sick man, in the sense of serou. maEtdy. He said this might be con
 side'ed sort of prophylactic visit, preventative measure, as it were. H. will remain in Phoenix another weeI ar dave
Arizona republican., 1914-05-08
The Governors Reply

May 27th. 1913.
 Dear Mr Cook am in receipt of your letter of the 18th inst. making inquiry relative to Roy J. Meyers. an inventor who is said to have per fected a device for absorbing cleo tricity from the atmosphere.
 I gather from your letter that you have not been informed that Roy J. Meyers, formerly served d term in the state prison of Arizona and was released prior to the expiration of his sentence to give him opportunity to work more advantageousIy in his mechanical device. As to whether MT. Meyers was or was not guilty of the offense for which he was con victed l am not prepared to make any statement. While he was con- fined at the prison, however, and shortly after I assumed my duties as governor of this state in the spring of 1912. I discovered that Meyers was securing the spark necessary to the operation of the gasoline pump engine at the state prison by means of device which took the electricity from the atmosphere. His efforts to perfect his invention, and the import ance of his work should it prove tC perform all that he claimed for it led the prison officials to give him special' opportunities for applying himself to experiments.
 Mir Meyers has been at liberty now for more than year and has maintained a very creditable record devoting nearly all his time to tht perfection of his invention, to whicf l am informed he has obtained pat ents
 describe minutely his machine, nol can I give assurance as to whether or not it will solve the problem O securing electricity without special, constructed generative devices I be lieve. however, that MT Meyers ha. exception ability in his line of work and am hoping that much good vii be derived from his endeavors
 am enclosing herewith for you information typewriter articl written by a man named w. E Chenot. who is more or less associat ed with MT. Meyers in d bushes way, and who sent the copy to thi office.
 While I do not vonch for all tn
Arizona republican., 1914-05-08
FUNERAL OF ROBERT E. LIN.

VIlLE.-The remains of Robert E. Linville, who GieG at Medford. Oregon, q few days ago. arrived in Phoenix late last niSat and were <. once tatcn to 'ne undertaking rt- o. More and Mcclellan. The funeral will be held from the parlors on Saturday morn ing at 10 o'clock, intement to take place ia ;;r' enwo,.1 steDicter.'. Mr Lin' ;lle WdS fci years a hign' respected ci.i- zen and business mi;. cf I'h le..iix.
Arizona republican., 1914-05-08

facts contained in this article, l be- lieve it will serve to give you d general idea of the man regarding whom you have made inquiry.
 Very truly yours,
 GEO w p HUNT
 Governor of Arizona MT J. w. Cook,
 IS Exchange St.
 Manchester, England
 Last night. when approached upon the subject, MT. Cook refused to make any statement for publication
 The story of Roy J. Meyers keeps coming into the lmelight for the req san that the story of his Arizona con- nections are peculiar He was arrested and tried in Prescott during the early part of 1911 for forgery and sentenced to three and one-half years in the state penitentiary. Prior to going there he had had some mechanical experience and had invented device or two, so his capabilities in the mechanical line wereused and he was the prison cleo trician for six months.
 When statehood came on and Kate Barnard of Oklahoma came to Arizona and for q time settled at Florence Meyers sprang into the limelight be- cause of his device. a model of which he made which he claimed would eX- tract electricity from the air At the 1 instance of Miss Barnard. who made a speech to the legislature telling the story of Meyers, Meyers was afterward granted thirty day parole to go tC Washington and make application fol | his patent before the patent office i Soon after his return. he was pa roled and went to work in the mines l at Miami as an electrician. This was during October and November, 1912 i He was allowed to leave the state be fore his sentence expired, and during the time between December II, 1912 and June 1. 1913. On July 1913. Gov ernor Hnnt issued a communication O sentence of Meyers reducing his three and a half years to two years ant | two months. Nothing was heard o him from then on until the Associated Press carried the story from New Or leans of his additional arrest.
Arizona republican., 1914-05-08
HUNT DENIES HEv0UCHEDF0R
 ROY ]. MEYERS
Makes Public Correspond
 ence Between Himself and w. J. Cook of Man chester Relative to Claims of Invention of eX-Convict

Governor Hunt was interested yes terday to some extent in the story that was current that certain w. J. Cook of Manchester, England, was anxious to shake the executive mana and to hold a post mortem over the general character and abilities of one Roy J. Meyers some time convict Tn the Arizona penitentiary, sometime ln- ventor, and after that an explainer Of certain financial transactions in which Mir. Cook took part to the extent or $S,0O0 Meyers was arrested III New Orleans last winter, after telling a story of an alleged holdup in which q large sum of money was taken rom him. This money was afterward found buried under the house Meyers was then occupying, Meyers was jailed, and further investigations made. The ex- tent of the interest of MT. Cook in the matter as well as the part Governor Hunt took is explained in the follow ing correspondence that took place between them prior to MT COOK ln- vcsting his money in buying the patent rights for England in the device that Meyers claimed would extract cleo tricity from the atmosphere.
 This letter is the only one Governor Hunt received and is the only one he wrote. The governor stated yesterday that at no time did he vouch either for Meyers or his patent.
 MT. Cooks Letter
 IS Exchange Street
 Manchester
 May B. 1915 Dear MT. Hunt.-I take the liberty of writing you in respect to Roy J. Meyers. the inventor of Collecting Electricity from the Atmosphere. read long account of his invention in the San Antonio paper few weeks ago and went over to see q small model of it at Baltimore Maryland, and afterwards he visited me at the Hotel Belmont. New York l entered into an agreement with him for England and other countries, and it appeared to me to be something quite new, novel and original. and found. him quite a sum of money fol the option.
 I found him during the short time I was in his company very agree able man-unass assuming and modest and he gave me your name. Do understand you are working puml with his system-if you are l shal be glad if you will supply me witf as many particulars as you can of it: powar and ca pab bilitipS
 If he has discovered what is claim ed l feel sure he has a wonderful invention, one that will be usefu and profitable He seems very earn est in the nvention-likewise spoke most kindly of your great help anC kindness to him.
 I am not going to inquire here re specting his character or truthful ness. as I take it. for granted you actions towards him is sufficien guarantee of his honor
 However I shall be glad if you vii favor me with as many particular of the success of his patent an( himself as you can. because I shal have large dealings with him in tn future.
 I thank you in the anticipation 0 an early reply. l am, dear sir,
 Yours sincerely.
Arizona republican., 1914-05-08

facts contained in this article, I be- lieve it will serve to give you q general idea of the man regarding whom you have made inquiry.
Arizona republican., 1914-05-08
Mr. J. W. Cook,
 IS Exchange St.

GEO. W. P HUNT
 Governor of Arizona.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1914-06-19

Harry Warren, cashier Of the Ott.
zens State Bank Of Elhnwood, WHO
has recently purchased q new Ovee.
land auto, has changed the. name
Of his machine to the Underland. &C.
cording to an item in last weeks n
Hnwood Leader. Harry had started
from his old home in Pratt TO Ellin-
wood in his machine the first Of thA
week and got stuck in the mud. He
hired a man with four mules to pun
the machine out, but after trying bOe
some time in a vain attempt the nan
gave up the Job and advised Harry
to get a steam shovel to dig dowa
after the machine. Harry came On
hone on the train and says that the
last he saw Of the mules only their
ears were sticking out Of the mud.
He later got his car all right. but h
took considerable digging before Il
could be gotten out Of the mud. .
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1914-06-19

The Dorcas Club Of the Congrega-
tional cnurch enjoyed most pleasant
session last Thursday afternoon and
evening at the home Of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred steurl, of north Of town. The
Club proceeded 10 the SteuT home
In hay racks, but returned home on
the Missouri Pacific at 9 O'Clock. A
most enjoyable social and business
session was held in the afternoon.
after which an elegant supper was
served by Mrs. 6teuri, and a fine
time 's reported by all In attendance.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1914-06-19

The Democrat man made a trip to
Eli1wood last Friday to visit with
his many old friends and found ev-
eryone in that lively little city busily
engaged in preparing for the harvest
time. ALI Of the stores were doing
a big business and each Of the imple-
ment houses had a small army Of
men at work setting up headers and
binders and other farm machinery,
and the orders were coming IN more
rapidly than they could be filled. All
Of the farmers say that the wheat in
that vicinity Is very good and they
are looking for an excellent harvest.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1914-06-19

Cap. Werries, for many years a
resident Of Bllinwood, but who is
now conducting a Smoke Shop at
Newton, was in the city the first
Of the week on business with the
county officials. Mr.. Wernes owns
a farm southeast Of Ellinwood along
the river, and part Of this has been
settled on by man named Tolliver,
who claims that It is an island. Not
very much Of Mr.. Werries' land Is
involved in the claim, but he says
that he has plenty Of proof from the
old settlers there that none Of the
land was ever an island, and he does
not intend to let the other fellow
have it and will fight the case.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1914-06-19

Commissioner P. E. Murphy was
somewhat afflicted with a crouch at
the meeting of the Board Of Commits
sioners Monday afternoon. The rea-
son therefore was that Pat was work.
ing in the corn field during the fore
noon and could not make the dad
blasted" corn sled work Just to his
liking, and he was ready to acknow-
ledge that for once his angelic ten.
per was somewhat ruffled. The rest
of the county officials were Of the
opinion that Mr.. Murphy was sore be-
cause the boys made him do the
work, but Pat says that he liked the
work but the buchng sled did rile
his temper.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1914-06-19

Mayor S. ]. Williams was down
from Pawnee Rock Saturday to atten'
to some business matters and for a
little visit with Great Bend friends.
Steve said he had been on the sick
list for about a week and he still was
not feeling the best in the world, but
we have half an idea that the big
wheat crop harvest is what is ailing
him and that he is looking for an ex-
cuse to get out of the hard work,
However, he denies the allegation.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1914-06-19

A marriage license was issued
by Probate Judge Hall Saturday to
Geo. Humphrey, age %, Of Hoising-
ton, and Miss Maggie Corrigan, age
20, Of Boyd. A license was also b.
sued on the same day to Alon
Springer, age rs, and Christina Be
ran, age IS, both Of Claflin. =
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1914-06-19
Miss Elsie Troilett visited with
friends in Newton Sunday

Mrs. Ruison and children left the
first of the week for Topeka, Kan
sas, for a visit before going to their
home in Eskridge, Kansas. They
have been here for a visit with Mrs.
Ruhson's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A.
L. Powell and family.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1914-06-19

Evidently there will be more bind
ers used in the wheat harvest in Bar.
ton county this summer than for sev-
eral years, asthe dealers say that the
demand for binding twine has been
greater than for many years. The
expected shortage Of harvest hands
is responsible for this demand, while
others, ON account Of having out a
large acreage, will start early with
the binder and will finish up with tht
header when the wheat ripens.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1914-06-19

S. B. Gano was up at his farm in
Pawnee county last week and reports
that the wheat up in that county is
very fine this year, and that if any
thing it is better than the crop down
this way. He has a fine section a
few miles north Of Sanford station
and all of the wheat on the place is
extra good. He is building a granary
with a capacity of ten thousand bu-
shells on the place in which he will
store his crop.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1914-06-19

Joe Barber, alias "Shm," a tran
sient who has been busily engaged
in harvesting" the advance guard Of
the harvest hands in Ellinwood for
the past week, was brought before
Justice of the Peace S. N. Holt IN
that city last Thursday ON a charge
Of drunkenness and general cussed-
ness and was given a sentence of
80 days in the county Jail and is one
Of the latest guests to register in at
the Hotel de Brown.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1914-06-19

Bert Bowman was brought down
from Pawnee Rock Tuesday evening
and was taken to the St. Rose hospi-
tai where an operation was immedi-
ateIy performed for appendicitis. He
was in a most serious condition for
a time but is said to be getting all
right now.