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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-11-05

She was not satisfied II he missed an
essential bit of detail She would
make him go back and read that over
Then she spent hours explaining vari-
Gus things about the sea 10 him. things
that Just were touched upon in that
sea story.
That school teacher fed that boy on
books until there was nothing In all
the neighborhood about that she want
ed him to read that she had not Dor.
rowed for him
Became Expert Printer
When he was fourteen he got job
in a printing shop In Black Earth,
Wis. He took naturally 70 types and
presses. When ne had been In the
shop a year and a half or two years
he knew as much about the establish.
ment as the people who owned 1t.
When he was sixteen he went to Chi
cago, commissioned to buy complete
printing outfit for the firm. When he
was seventeen he was foreman. He
stayed in the printing business until
he was nineteen. Then he bought a
half interest in a little machine shop.
He always had been interested in me-
chanics. He loved to tinker about
boilers and hywheels and engines, and
he could take anything apart. whether
1t was a watch or a stationary engine,
repair it and put It together again.
That machine shop was just to his
liking and he and his partner had
fair amount of business and excellent
prospects. He had been in business
for himself for about a year when one
day. in 1878, friend who had gone to
Leadyille at the time OF the first ex-
element in that great camp. wrote
him one OF those letters that make the
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-11-05
ARMY-NAvY JOURNAL ASSERTS
OFFICERS ARE ORDERED
TO VERA CRUZ.
GEN. FUNSTON NOT WORRIED
Says Administration viii Go Limit
to Avoid Clash in Mexico, But
II Is Feared outrages May
Arouse Country.

New York.-That the officers
of the army and navy. now on
leave in th3 United States, are being
quietly ordered to Vera Cruz or the
Mexican border is asserted by the Ar
my and Navy Journal Mexican con
ditions. the journal states, have
reached such an acute stage that in
PREVENTION OF some sort by. the United
States may be forced.
Reliable advices," says the
journal, indicate that virtual an.
archy prevails in Mexico City. There
is such disturbance in the Mexican
capital that well-informed authorities
on Mexican affairs would not be sur
prised to hear that wholesale out.
RACES had already been committed in
the city.
THE state department has full
realization Of the dangers threaten.
ing.
1T is learned that, as a pracaution.
airy measure, officers of the army and
navy, on leave in the United States.
are being hurried back to Vera Cruz
and the Mexican border. This is be-
ing done as quietly as possible. so as
not to alarm the country or create
an impression in Mexico that this
government has any intention OF in
tervening.
The administration will go the
limit in its efforts to avoid a clash
in Mexico, but it is feared that some
'outrage may be committed in Mex
leo City which will arouse the coun-
try.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-11-05

a partner to finance the deal, but after
1891 he was not only editor, but part
owner.
He worked like Trojan. Locomo-
tive Engineering had steam up all the
time. 1t made such speed financially
that three years after he bought it he
and his partner we're able to buy the
American Machinist. Next year he and
his partner separated. his partner TAX
ing Locomotive Engineering and he
taking the American Machinist. Since
then he has gone 1t alone. In 1902 he
bought Power, a monthly publication
that was comparatively old, having
been established in 1880 and having a
very fine reputation. He paid s4OO,-
900 for 1t. That was the highest price
ever paid up to that time for a trade
journal.
Then he bought the Engineers Re-
view of Cleveland and the Engineer of
Chicago, merged them with Power and
made Power a weekly.
By this time he had become a big
Figure in the mechanical and engineer
| ing world. But he was only getting
into his stride. In November, 1905, he
paid more than 100000 for the En-.
cheering and Mining Journal, which
was older than Power having been es-
tablished in 1866. In 1911 he started
Coal Age. taking the coal department
| out OF Power. The same year he
bought Engineering News, paying the
highest price on record up to that time
for that publication-$l, 100000.
Growth Of His Enterprises.
With buying and merging great
properties his field of expansion was
not sufficient. In 1911 he started an
English concern for the printing of an
English edition OF the American Ma.
chiniet. In 1910 he started Maschinen-
bau in Berlin. Maschinenbau is the
German edition OF the American Ma.
chinist, In 1909 the McGraw-Hill
Book company was formed. This was
a consolidation OF the book depart.
ment OF the McGraw Publishing com
pany and the Hill Publishing com
pany. 1t publishes textbooks for col
leges and universities and scientific
books without number
The locomotive engineer who was a
failure-or pretty close to being a
failure-as a newspaper editor In
Pueblo is the most successful editor
and publisher in the engineering and
manufacturing field in the world
There has been no check to his prog
ress from the day he went to New
York
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-11-05
The Pioneer Mother.

The school children of California
are saving up their pennies to pay
for the monument to the pioneer
mother which is to be executed by
Charles Grady for the, Panama-Pa-
cific exposition. The womans board
of the exposition suggested that such
statue be erected and the children
were the first to respond, sending in
an avalanche of pennies. The cen
trail figure is that of the pioneer
mother dressed in homespun gown
and at her knees are two sturdy little
children.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-11-05

Then. as he was to get out this pa.
per twice a week, II was a double
header on that account. The engineer
editor got out FIVE or six issues of the
Double Header and then he turned II
into daily under the name Of the
Pueblo Daily Press.
II would be very pleasant to say
that the Pueblo-Daily Press was sue
cess from the start. But 1t was not.
Hill worked on that paper the best he
knew how. He never was shy on any.
thing in a news sense and he had a
high reputation as an advertising So
licitor. Yet the Pueblo Daily Press
was rather sickly. Hill ran 1t for nine
or ten months, then he sold out and
went back on the Denver & Rio
Grande as an engineer. For nearly
two years he pulled the throttle over
the mountains. At the end of the
division he usually sat down and did
a bit of writing. He wrote mighty
well and the things he wrote about he
knew thoroughly.
Bought American Maehlnist.
One day he got letter from the
owners OF the American Machinist,
which was published in New York.
Many OF the articles he had written
had been sent to this publication and
the owners had been impressed so
that they wanted to see him. They had
decided to start railroad magazine
called Locomotive Engineering. After
a conference with Hill, they asked him
TO be its first editor. He accepted
and assumed his duties on January 1.
1888. He made the publication go. He
was its editor for three years. Then
he made a proposition to it's owners
for it's purchase. He had to take in
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-11-05

blood Of adventure run riot in the
veins of youth. The man in Leadville
pictured what Hill could make in the
mining camp as a machinist. 1t was
fabulous. Nothing like it in the way
Of pay had been dreamed of by the or
binary machinist.
Hill read the letter over Just once.
Within an hour he had sold out his
half interest in that machine shop.
That night at nine o'clock he was on
his way to Leadville.
Success and Failure.
His friend had not overdrawn the
picture very much. Hill went TO work
putting up machinery in the mines. He
worked all sorts Of hours installing
pumps, boilers, etc. He did the work
OF two men and the gold rolled in on
him. II was glorious while 1t lasted.
But after a year in Leadville he had
the mining craze as bad as anyone. He
went on on an expedition across the
mountains into western Colorado pros
pecting. He hunted for gold and he
hunted for silver. He did not get
either but he spent all the money he
had earned in all those days Of hard
toll in Leadville.
In the fall when the snow was in the
mountain passes and things we're look
ing very bleak for him, he drifted into
Pueblo and got job firing an engine
on the Denver & Rio Grande railroad.
He was fireman for year and then
he was promoted to be engineer. From
the latter part Of 1880 until 1885 he
handled an engine on the Rio Grande
There hardly is turn In the Grand
Canyon of the Arkansas that is not as
familiar to him as the fingers on his
hand.
The Double Header.
II is all very well to run locomo
tive in a scenic paradise, but It will
not do for an ambitious man. The
things Hill had read in the books
Mrs. Mann furnished to him had awak
ened his soul and he wanted TO give
expression to some OF the thoughts
he had IN his mind. Most of these had
to do with the affairs that we're imme
diately before him-the railroad, the
locomotive, the men. He left the Den
yer & Rio Grande and started a little
paper in Pueblo which he called the
Double Header The title was 6
happy one. 1t took two engines &c
take train of few cars up the ter
, rife grade OF the Grand Canyon, and
It took two engines. also. to hold the
train from running away when com
. ing down the hill
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-11-05
Villa On to Mexico City.

FL Paso. Tex.-To enforce the re-
tirement of Gen, Carranza from the
executive power in Mexica, Gen. Villa
has ordered his troops to prepare at
once for a movement TO the City Of
Mexico with the major part of his
army. according to advices received
by Villa officials in Juarez. who are
instructed to send south all available
transport material to Zacatecas.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-11-05
U. S. Appeals TO carranza.

Washington.-The Brazilian minis
ter at the City of Mexico and Ameri-
can Consul Sllliman have interceded
in behalf Of Paul May. Belgian minis
ter to Mexico. The Carranza admin
istration had given the Belgian envoy
"a hours to leave Mexico. but the
time has been extended.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-11-05
Kansas CITY Heads poratiors

'Washington.-The banner city Of
the United States thus far in raising
Red Cross European war relief funds
is Kansas City, Mo. The American
Red Cross Chapter there, headed by
Mrs. l. r. Kirkwood, has raised over
$4,000
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-11-05
Avalanche Kills Four Soldier.

Berne, Switzerland.--A huge ava
ianche overwhelmed detachment OF
Swiss soldiers in the mountains near
st. Maurice. Four of the men were
instantly killed and tive gravely in
jured. Eleven others were dug out
alive.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-11-05
Rainy Days.

Are you saving up something for
a rainy day."
NO" replied Farmer Corntossel.
what we're troubled with out this
way is an annual drought. II we had
more rainy days, everybody would
have money."-Washingt Star,
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-11-05
Gen. Funston Not Worried.

7 Washington, Nov. 2.-Reports that
the forces under Gen. Aguilar out
side Vera Cruz might attempt to ex.
pei the American troops from the
city are giving Gen. Funston no un-
easiness. he informed the war de-
partment Gen. Funston's command
has been reduced to about 5000 men
by expiration of enlistments.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-11-05
Boy, Hurt in Football, Dies.

McAllen. Tex.-Injuries received in
a football game here resulted in the
death Of DUDLEY Gothrup, is year old
Gothrup was kicked in the left temple
while tackling.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-11-05
ousted sherifrs Appeal Denied

Helena. Mont.-The state supreme
court handed down a decision refus.
ing an appeal in the custer case in
which Sheriff Timothy Driscoll OF
Silver Bow county was removed from
office as a result of the disturbances
last June. when dynamiters destroyed
Miners Union Hall in Butte.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-11-05
Guinea Hen Hold. Good n.cord

Atchison. Kan. - Mrs. Thomas
Mount, who lives a few miles south
OF here. has only one guinea hen, but
since May 8 the hen has laid an egg
every day AS she doesn't object to
Sunday work, the record is 1T eggs.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-11-05
Candidate Sues Poster for SANDER

Evansville, Ind.-Alexander Rhein-
lander. Republican nominee for trus-
tee of Perry township. Vanderbure
county sued Rev, Francis II. Wood,
Baptist minister. for $1,000 dam
ages for alleged SANDER.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-11-05

Some people are as quick as powder
and others are as slow as cold mo-
lasses.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-11-05

An ounce OF prevention is worth 6
pound of cure, but it is just as we'll tC
be provided with little of both.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-11-05
Or His Heirs,

Alive-What is your favorite airy
Betty - The millionaire. - Bostor
Transcript.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-11-05

Arm yourself with a dark Lantern
when looking for honor among thieves
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-11-05

Dyspepsia and pessimism have lot
in common.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-11-05
The RlQht Way.

How did he overcome that labor
trouble in his placer"
by his capital management"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-11-05
VARIED CAREER
OF JOHN A. HILL
Live American Who, Through
Many viCissitudes, Won
Great Success.
HE GIVES TEACHER CREDIT

Barefoot Shepherd Lad, Printer, Ma
ehinist, Miner, RaiIroader, Editor
and Now Owner Of a Big
Publishing Concern.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-11

nual convention of the Association of
American Dairy, Food and Drug Off,
Gals Monday of next week. He expects
to remain in the east three weeks and
will stop at Washington to take up
pure food matters with the federal de-
partment. Mr., Wallis is president of
the association, having been honored
with that position last year when the
annual convention was held.
The recent issue of the Forecast" a
drug magazine contains an article
written by Mr.. Wallis on the subject,
What the Coming Food OFFICIALS viii
Discuss" At the convention President
Wallis will believer the address Of the
president and later during the session
viii discuss the subject. What Is Done
With Cases Declared Illegal or Not
Passed? Why Should Not the Annual
Reports State the Facts"
1t is a coincidence that the state in
which the convention Is held has a
governor who bears the same name as
the governor from which Idaho's pure
food commissioner comes, or Hon. Will
liam 7. Haines.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-11
SECOND TRIAL OF
MRS. Wakefield
TO BEGIN MONDAY
Once Convicted of Murder in
First Degree and Sen
fenced to Death for Kill
ing Her Husband.

New Haven, Conn. July 1.-THE
second trial of Mre Bessie Wake
field for the murder Of her husband,
William o. Wakefield, will begin in
the criminal superior court here next
Tuesday. At her previous trial Mrs.
Wakefield was convicted of first de-
gree murder and sentenced to death.
Mrs. Wakefield's first trial followed
that of her accomplice, James Plew,
who was executed for the crime March
at the state prison at Wethersfeld.
Mrs. Wakefield and Plew We're charged
with having killed the woman's hus-
hard a year ago last June. The
Wakefields We're living in Bristol at
the time. Plew worked on a farm
near Waterbury and was a frequent
caller at the Wakefield home.
The evidence indicated that on a
Sunday afternoon when Plew called he
started a dispute with Wakefield, &C
cording to a plan that had been ar
ranged by himself and Mrs. Wakefield
beforehand. The woman and Plew
then, the evidence showed, chloro-
formed Wakefield, and Plew dragged
him from the house and for several
miles into the woods. killing him fin
ally by strangulation
Women's organizations have made a
strong fight to save Mrs. Wakefield
from the gallows, on which she was
sentenced to die on the same day that
Plew was executed. Her appeal acted
as a stay of execution. On April Is the
supreme court granted her a new trial
on the ground that a part Of the evil
dence given by the coroner at the first
trial should have been excluded. Since
Mrs. Wakefield's first conviction thou
sands of protests against her execu-
ton have been received by Governor
Baldwin from all parts Of the country.
No woman has died on the gallows in
Connecticut for more than one hundred
and twenty-five years.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-11
DQI59Nolsi

Alfred Anderson has gone to Jerome
on business trip.
b. o. Johnson of Juntura n a a,,ast
at the Hotel Grand
J. c. Mitchell was up from Caldwell
today transacting business.
H. Wilson was IN the city today from
Nampa on a short business trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Steve Farmer vana
Boise visitors today from Eagle.
ID. j. Soper Of Greenleaf is spendinn
Few daye In the city on business.
John Larsen Is down from Placervsna
spending few days at the Paoino
hotel.
G. R Martin is business visitor IN
the city from Mccall and will remain
for several days.
Elmer Rane is spending a day or two
in the city on business. He came In
last night from Grimes Pass.
Felix g. Carpenter, a we'll known
mining man of Pioneerville. is spending
a few days in the city, a guest at the
Pacific hotel
A ]. Francis of Indian valley was
brought to Boise yesterday by Mrs.
Francis and is receiving treatment
for pneumonia
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-11

night and program will also be rem
dered.
Henry Whltson, A. D. Mackenzie and
Mr.. and Mrs. J. r. Brown have re-
turned from a trip to the Payette
lakes. They drove up in an automo-
bile making the trip in via Weiser,
Cambridge and Council and returned
via Long valley. They found crops
looking good all along the line and re-
port that there was big crowd at the
lakes on July Fourth
Train service on the Idaho Northern
branch through to the Payette lakes
will be established Sunday July 10. A
through passenger train will run from
Boise to the lakes leaving here at 1870
p. m. and arriving at the lakes at 9 p.
m. Returning the train leaves the lakes
at a, m. and will arrive in Boise at
2:15 p. m. An additional passenger
train will also be operated between
Boise and Horseshoe Bend.
A Fitzgerald, who was before Judge
Dunlap this morning the second time
this week for being drunk was fined $50
for. the offense and ordered committed
IN default Of payment. Ben Westfall
for being drunk drew So fine and was
committed. Frank Leslie for disorder
ly conduct is to have a hearing this
evening Harry Miller for carrying a
passenger on the front of his motor
cycle in the heart of the business dis
tr1ct has been cited to appear in court
Mr.. Davis and Nathan Alexan-
der for driving over the fire hose have
also been cited to appear in court.
Rev. c. L. Trawin. pastor of the
First Baptist church. is home from his
eastern trip and will speak at both
services tomorrow. Plans have been
perfected for very instructive and in
teresting lecture, sermon and musical
programs during the months of Julv
and August. At the morning hour to-
morrow the subject will be ''Dr. Mever
or London and His Devotional Hour at
the Chicago Convention" The fayorita
convention hymn viii be sung by Mrs.
w. D. McReynolds. At the close of
the service tho Lords Supper Will be
observed.
DR.. c. M. Stotts of San Antonio.
Tex. Is in the city visiting his brother.
]. Russell Stotts and other relatives
and will remain for some time. DR.
Stotts came here from Seattle, where
he spent a week or two visiting
friends he having formerly resided in
that city He reports that business Is
good there and that the city is forging
ahead. DR.. Stotts believes that Texas
Is the most prosperous state in the
union and says its diversified crops
always find ready market and the
entire state Is in good shape. At San
Antonio, he says. over million and a
half dollars has been spent there dur
in the past year In municipal improve
ments
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-11
BREVTTIES

The nomination of John Eagleson for
state treasurer was filed today with the
secretary of state by P. E. Cavaney,
Representative L. r. Adams accom-
panied by Mr.. Dampier of Minidoka
county are in the city today on business
matters.
William M. Morgan Of Moscow, was
yesterday placed in nomination for
justice of the supreme court by B. S.
Crow of this city.
e. NJ. Kennedy, a railroad man of
Nampa, was brought to Boise this
morning and taken to st. Luke's hos
pital to receive treatment for pneu-
monia.
Judge D. w. Standrod Of the public
utilities commission left this morning
for Pocatello and expects to be gone a
week. He will take an automobile tour
up into the Lemhi country.
Fire broke out this afternoon in the
ruins of the Mitchell, Lewis & Staver
plant which was destroyed last night
The department was called out and
water was again turned on.
The floral committee OF the Golden
Rod club of the Franklin district, viii
give an ice cream social Tuesday
evening at the home Of Mrs Mccall at
Fourth and Garden avenue on the
bench.
David Burrell, of American Falls,
former chief deputy with the fish and
game department, is in the city for the
purpose of checking up with the new
warden and officially severing his con-
nection with the department.
The public utilities commission heard
argument last night in the case Of
Abrams versus the Pacific & Idaho
Northern Railway in which Abrams
asks that his clerical half fare rate be
reinstated. The commission ordered
that briefs be submitted
J. J. Carroll, the contractor this
morning received a message ANNOUNCE
ing the death Of his mother, which oc-
CURED last night in Chicago. She was
~ years old. The funeral will be held
on Monday which will not enable Mr.
Carroll to reach Chicago in time so
that he will not attempt the trip.
The case Of Attorney General J. H
Peterson versus the Oregon Short Line
in which the public utilities commission
is asked to require that railroad to give
3-cent passenger rate to its branch
lines, was postponed from the date set
for hearing yesterday afternoon to a
date to be selected for the latter part OF
the present month
William Hard, one OF Eagles prom
lnent citizens. Is improving his resi-
dence with a two-story addition and
two screened-in porches, one in front
and one in the rear OF the house.
When these improvements are COM
pleted. Mr.. Hard will once more be-
come a benedict and with his bride
will live in this house.
Boise Council, United Commercial
Travellers, are having their midsummer
outing and picnic this afternoon and
evening at Pierce park. The wives Of
members went to the park this after
noon and prepared a sumptuous repast
and will be Joined by their husbands
later. Dancing will be the feature to-