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Williams news., 1915-03-11
ASH FORK NEWS

The mud is drying up and soon will be nice walking. Looks as if we would have more snow or rain.
 J. D. Brown is up and around after a spell of illness. MT. Brown is setting out fruit trees on his ranch near Town and ex- poets to have small orchard in a few years.
 Edward Rodgers of Albuquer- que registered at the Escalante.
 Mir. and Mrs. Fred Platten re- turned from Prescott where MT. Platten went to attend Federal Court.
 Mrs. Blankenship paid a visit to Prescott last week.
 Mrs. J. H. Hickler of St. Marie, Michigan was a visitor here last week.
 F. E. Clark and Chas. B. Shea of Valentine Ariz. registered at the Escalante last week.
 Mrs. William Clark has been i'll for three days threatened with pneumonia but we are glad to know she is on the road to recov- cry now.
 Colin Campbell was a visitor here and left for Flagstaff and Williams.
 Ranger Christensen of Ceda1 Glade passed thru on his way to Williams to attend the cattle meeting to be held there on Mon- day, March 9th.
 Mir. Shipp who is in charge of the Stewart Cattle has been gathering cattle that are poor and feeding them hay during the storm.
 Leslie Platten and Cal Shipp were riding the range north of here and find water and mud plentiful.
 J. D. Brown and wife returned from Chino Valley and report the road fairly good.
 Rumor has it. that one of the popular men of the city will lead to the alter one of our attractive and popular young ladies. Judge Fagerburg will have plenty of lexperience.
Williams news., 1915-03-11
FOR SALE

The town of Williams will sell their team of mules, wagon and harness, and will receive bids on them until April sixth. The town reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Address all com munication to the town clerk, Will jams Arizona.
 w. c. Rittenhouse.
 Town Clerk.
Williams news., 1915-03-11
Chess Club Meets

The chess club held very inter- esting meeting last Friday night. They met at the residence of Dr. Melick. Much of the time was taken up in teaching beginners the game, but all enjoyed the evening very much, par ticularly the fine feed given by Mrs. Melick.
Williams news., 1915-03-11

ton within their sphere for the guidance of the standing commit tees, and reports of the special committees should be made in the form of a letter once a month.
Williams news., 1915-03-11
MENS SMOKER
 FRIDAY NIGHT

A mems smoker will be held at the Parish House tomorrow night. There will be the usual cards, chess, discussions, refresh ments and other forms of enter ainment. A general invitation is extended to the men of Willi- ans and a general good time is assured.
Williams news., 1915-03-11
For School Trustee

I hereby announce mysel as a candidate for the office of School Trustee subject to the will of the voters at the school election to be held Saturday, March 27, 1915.
 w. M. HUGHES
 Only $7OO for a four. room house, easy terms; interest 6percent on deferred payments, dimension of lots 7S feet X 40. Silvernail For Rent or Sale-Six room house. Enquire of w. E. Rawlins, freight office.
Williams news., 1915-03-11

Florida Grape Fruit at Johnson| & McConkey.
Williams news., 1915-03-11

Florida Grape Fruit at Johnson & McConkey.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-07-21

in drainage canal at Lemont. Murder
victim? ,...
Fire in store of Abe Canofi $50
Townsend St, drove half dozen fami-
lies from homes.
Mrs. Clara ellison brought dead
baby from Hammond, Ind, home to
Chicago. Can give no reason.
WelI-dressed unknown woman had
skull fractured by auto driven by DR..
Roy J. Harding, 1902 W. Chicago av.
May die.
Policeman John o'Connor, w.
North av. station, found bomb be-
tween buildings. Contained $4,000.
Gambling squad of Asst Chief
ScheUttler abolished by Healey.
Alexander Forbes, ITO Clarence
aV., Oak Park, killed when auto was
hit by Metropolitan o. funeral train.
Armand PeIIetier, cashier post
Office, arrested for alleged thefts of
money. Held in $4,000 bonds.
Frank PaUlson, chauffeur, 1910
Dayton St, fined $50 for OVercharg-
ing passengers.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-07-21
ONE KILLED, MANY HURT, IN
D. ~ STANDARD OIL RIOT +

Bayonne, N. j., July 21.-One man
was shot to death, several others hit
by stray bullets and many were Sc
riously hurt by flying cobblestones in
a riot in the street today between
1900 striking employees of the Stan
dard Oil company and 100 policemen.
Windows were shattered for blocks
around by flying missiles. The riot
occurred in front of the Tidewater
Company's plant.
Every policeman in Bayonne was
rushed to the industrial section and
the chief of police Immediately swore
in extra deputies.
One poIceman's horse was shot
from under him in the melee. The
police were instructed not to fire on
the strikers.
Approximately 5000 men are on
strike here today. A crowd gathered
early before the Tidewater plant and
attempted to rush the special police
guarding the company's gates.
The police first fired over the heads
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-07-21

Practically all OF the strikers were
foreigners, mostly HungaTians. In
the crowd that surged about the plant
this morning were scores of women.
The women proved harder to handle
and pacify than the men.
A short time before the crowd at
tempted. to rush the plant mob at
tackled fire house number four, but
was driven off.
Police Lieut.. Daniel Cady was
struck with a broken bottle and
severely wounded in the ankle. When
an ambulance shot through the mob
and it became known that Cady was
in it, the crowd attacked it and dam
aged it considerably,
Every roof on the street was
crowded with men during the street
fighting. They bOmbaTded police
with missiles as they strOVe to get
through to the plants.
The men have demanded a Is per
cent increase in wages, which the
company refuses to grant.
1890
''WHY PROSPERITY AMT HERE"
George M. Reynolds, mouthpiece Of
Rockefeller financial interests in the
middle west and president Continent
tai & Commercial banks, tells the
Tribune financial editor why prosper
fly amt here. Reynolds says:
Impetus to business has been
given by the large volume Of war or
ders. It must be said, however, that
the large interests of New York are
waiting a change in national policies
before predicting a general revival in
business"
The Trib's financial editor adds
that business revival will depend on
a different policy on the part of the
government toward large enter
prises."
The RockefeIler-Morgan bunch
want something from Woodrow Viii
son. When thew get it. thew tell US.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-01
The Escape.

seNN7 HEN the late O'Donovan Rosa
Wv first came to America" said an
ish-American of New York, the Fem
ians were in pretty bad repute among u.s.
''In a hotel lobby one day a man at
tackled the Fenians and home rulers Bit
terly. and he wound up by shouting:
"'Show me an Irishman, and I'll show
you a coward
while the crowd was applauding this
sentiment O'Donovan Rosa got up slowly
from his rocking chair and walked up to
the speaker.
What did you say, friend?' he asked.
THE orator started. he bit his lip, then
he repeated in low tremulous tones:
L said show me an Irishman and I'll
show you coward.
I'm an Irishman.' shouted O'Dono-
van Rosa fiercely.
"'And I'm coward said the other
man, and he turned and dashed out Of
the door and the Broadway crowd swal-
lowed him up
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No Objections.

~ GORGE GORDON MOORE. the De-
w troit financier. was. talking about
Gen. Sir John French, who is frequent
visitor at Mr.. Moores beautiful London
house in Lancaster Gate, with it's outlook
over Hyde Park
''Sir John French he said. has been
terribly handicapped this first year of the
war by lack of ammunition. When think
of the men who are responsible for this
lack l try to be fair and unbiased. but
it's hard
81 feel, in fact. like the man on the
murder jury.
Mr. Smith, they said to this man.
before We take you on the jury we must
ask you whether you have formed any
opinion of the prisoners guilt or inno-
cence
NO said Smith grimly. No, / amt
formed no opinion
And, Mr.. Smith, have you, or have
you not, any conscientious objections to
capital punishment"
Mot. said Smith more grimly still.
not in this case
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The Wooden German.

CIR EDGAR SPEYER. the English
~ financier and philanthropist. said
in New York:
The Germans will be unwelcome
everywhere after this awful war. How,
though. keep them out? Will France
and Russia. England and Italy each
have to employ wooden German
Sir Edgar smiled.
IT'S a story he said. ITS a story
about two Zurichers-Zurich is overrun
with Germans-who once visited a
German museum. They saw in this
museum a wooden mouse, and they
asked an attendant what the mouse's
purpose was
The wooden mouse the attendant
explained, is to scare away the real
ones. When a place is overrun with
mice, you only need to put a wooden
mouse there, and all the others will
disappear
The two Zurichers looked at each
other. smiled and nodded.
Yes they said, almost in the same
breath, yes. certainly, we'll have to get
a wooden German for Zurich"
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interested only in golf and tennis and
pinochle and plain sewing Will not ne
annoyed by foul tips, which nave oeem
rolling into the sewers along b street.
The groundkeepers got busy with the
wire and steel screens behind each
home plate. and very soon the innocent
bystander had been robbed or MS con-
stitutional right to- be hit in the head
with foul tips.
Now that we've finished all this"
said Col Harris. looking around the
premises, What else can We do to pre-
serve the status of the national game
in it's relation to yonder tall shaft Of
white?"
please. SIR" spoke up a ground
keeper, very soon the feature writer's
on the newspapers will be here asking
how many diamonds we have laid out.
it will save the policeman from use
less questions if we number each dia
mond from one to four. respectively
The idea is good" said the colonel,
land l will issue an order numbering
each backstop. so they can be identi
fed if they escape"
And it was done The other day the
writer wandered down across the Mall
to write up these new diamonds of
Col. Harris. and stopped to watch a
game on diamond 3. We noticed an
other game was going on down on dia-
mond ], so we picked the low number.
and came up just in time to witness
the crime which is here chronicled for
the benefit of those who might have
been doing something else at the time.
You see. it was only natural, after
the entrance of the policeman into this
little affair, that one should go over
and ask the policeman for match,
just to get into conversation with
him.
You were about to interfere-that
is. participate-in the little interchange
of billingsgate out there on that play
ing field. were you not?" was asked
the policeman.
"Ya-as." he answered, YEARLY. I'VE
gotta butt in once in a while when
them fellows gets uptious. 1t amt
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outspoken in his opinion He SAID the
decision was-well, that doesn't really
matter what he said.
You can say what you please, that
fellow Pat was mad. Anybody could
see he was mad by the look of his
jugular vein. He was very mad. and he
wasn't trying to hide it. He climbed out
of the dust, did Pat, with bad look
on his face. He didn't make any noise.
He just looked mad He walked right
up to that umpire party without saying
word that you could hear. He was
having trouble with his wind. though,
and you could see his lips moving.
He moved up in front of that umpire
and looked him right in the eye. Back
at the home plate a policeman-no, just
against the backstop and reached in his
hip pocket. 1t looked like he was get
ting ready for war Then he dragged
out big plug of tobacco and took a
chew without taking his eyes off Pat,
who was still standing there in front of
that umpire.
First off. Pat inquired about the UNI
pire's eyesight. That's perfectly good
have bad eyes. It's just an ordinary
question. Then Pat began to inquire
about the umpire's folks for two or three
generations back. Wasn't there some
InlHS like dStiSIldtiSIl TuIlIllIiS III tisS
family. and wasn't the umpire's dad the
old blind man that used to sell pencils
at 7th and G. Pat asked. There were
some other things he said but they
were spoken too low for the rest of us
to catch.
Isn't it funny what strange persons
those umpires are? You wouldn't think
a purely ordinary line of questioning like
that would make anybody peeved, would
you? Well. this umpire didn't get peeved
that is, not exactly. He TUNED around
a little way and saw the policeman
Then he pointed his finger at Pat and
called:
Officer"
The policeman put his stick under his
arm again and walked out toward Pat
and the umpire.
Officer said the umpire again. "Re-
move this. Do your duty.
And the policeman was going to do it,
too. Anybody could tell that. OF course
there wasn't anything to it at all. You
can't fight the whole police force even
if you can lick four policemen, and be-
sides. what chance have you got with
an umpire like that. any way Pat just
shrugged his shoulders and smiled
wickedly and walked off the field
Officer called the umpire for the
third time, taking cigar out of his
pocket and borrowing a match from the
policeman; well have to put him on
probation. You get me. don't your
Il gotcha.'' said the policeman. and
then the game started again, with Pat
playing on probation. You see, there's
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Monument grounds and the alleged
base ball diamonds thereof. He knew
that the powers over his head, or, ra-
Their, behind his head. were very anx-
within the confines of the District of
Columbia be allowed to play ball on
those grounds, so Col. Harris had an
idea.
He walked over and looked at the
grounds, with the home plate in a
promising mud puddle and the inf1eld
sembling a relief map of South Amer
lea The colonel looked at it long and
hard and then he said to himself
that is, probably he said to himself
Well, to make a long story still long
er, the colonel decided 1t was quite a
weeping shame that the boys of the
District of Columbia should be forced
to disgrace the national pastime with
such grounds, so Col. Harris began call
ing for his head groundkeeper and his
assistant head groundkeeper and all the
plain groundkeepers, and the keepers
of the rakes and hoes and shovels and
Wheelbarrows and the like, and says
Col. Harris to these folks:
Lets get together here and build up
these diamonds, and put an end to this
wild and weary chasing of the elusive
ground ball and the fly that leads the
kids feet astray
AYE, aye, SIR" shouted all the ground
keepers, and with that they fell to work.
They rescued the home plate from the
miniature Atlantic and they filled it up
with clean sand. Then they went to
work and turned all the infield and out
field mountains into valleys and filed
up the valleys level with the rest of
the District of Columbia.
They sodded out the bald spots all
over the place and laid out base paths
that made the kids itch to play ball.
They stopped the practice of ground
ers changing their minds en- route to
the fielders' hands and they generally
remade the entire Monument lot.
Now" said Col. Harris, when that
much was finished, we'll build nice
steel and wire backstops behind each
home plate, so that the folks who are
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other arrivals would reach the scene Of
the action. They would be swiftly ap-
praised and either invited or rejected.
according to the amount OF base ball
paraphernalia they carried with them
or according to their walk or general
conformation IL they looked like ball
players you invited them in with the
mere offhand phrase: "Wanta get in the
game?" And usually they did.
Somehow. all that's missing now. The
folks who are playing ball there now
have usually summed up nine players
on each side from somewhere and OBJ
tanned pass from the bureaucracy
housed in the office of public buildings
and grounds. 1t takes all the Joy out
of the game to have to get that pass.
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be dropped on the unfortunate indi-
vidual below.
The great tower contains the living
apartments of the Laird" while within
the outer wall are the chapel, armory,
dungeon and servants quarters. OF
course, the castle has such arrange
ments as for pouring molten lead on
undesirable wouldbe visitors. There
is portcullis, while the bay takes the
place of moat.
The clan Macneil is SO old that it is
said they had "a boat of their ain at
the food" Traditionally, they are de-
scended from Mai of the Nine
Hostages" king of Ireland. born in the
year 379. but it is during the thirteenth
century that the first authentic records
of them appear. and even then the
chief was known as the twenty-fifth.
When the great English historian.
Martin, visited the distant Hebrides in
the beginning of the eighteenth CEN
fury and called at Kisimul Castle, he
said the chief could produce evidence
of being the thirty eighth in lineal
descent-Robert Macneil of Barra is
the forty-fifth. In 1927, sixty-nine
years before the discovery of America
by Columbus. the Macneils were given
In the olden days the chiefs of the
clans were absolute in their govern
ment, having the right of life and
death over their clansmen, and in Barra
the chief also had many other curious
powers, such as selecting wives for his
l6ve-lorn followers; but they seem to
have been just rulers, for one of the
chiefs at an early date established old
age pensions throughout the barony.
Many amusing stories are told of the
chiefs of Barra. One is said to have
had a herald mount the ramparts of
Now that the great Macneil of Barra
earth may partake of their meals.
Neil, thirty-sixth, fought under king
Charles II at the battle of Worcester:
September 3, 1861, and held the rank Of
COLONEL of horsse.'' The clan were
stanch followers of the old pretender,
James Stuart, in the rising of 111o.
The residence of the present chief in
the United States is nothing new for
a Macneil of .Barra. Roderick of Barra.
lieutenant in Fraser's Highlanders.
lost his life in scaling the heights OF
Abraham, at Quebec, in 1853, while his
son, Roderick, the fortieth chief, fought
in the war of the American revolution.
But even more interesting is the part
the clan played in the early emigration
to America. a large lumber of the clan
settled in North and South Carolina,
while several ships were brought over
by clansmen who located in Prince Ed
ward Island and eastern Nova Scotia
and on the banks of the Bras dor
lakes. near where Alexander Graham
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no use kicking up row when there's
policemen scattered around thick on the
grass. But don't You think it was a
wise plan to give diagram of that story?
Every year the papers print reams of
stuff about the boys who play ball on
organized teams over on the White House
ellipse. It's natural that they should get
their names in the paper. Don't they
wear uniforms, and oughtn't people with
uniforms and dollarand- "a quarter balls
get their names in the paper? It's all
right for the papers to say all they want
about those tony ellipse PLAYERS. but there
isn't an army of people who know what
Col. Harris, the superintendent of public
buildings and grounds. had done to the
ball grounds down on the Monument
lot, across B street and just west OF
18th street northwest.
In the good old days. back around
1904, there were spots where the grass
was worn, which. taken in their en-
tirety, made certain places around the
Monument grounds look like base ball
diamonds. They were the sort that the
boys around a country schoolhouse map
out to play on during recess. 1t was
quite the ordinary thing on rainy days
to move the home plate over six or
seven feet to get 1t out of a miniature
ocean which had turned the platter into
an island.
There were little hills and valleys all
over the place. A hardhit grounder.
started from the bat due south, was
liable to get half way across the dia-
mond, change it's mind and start for the
post office to mail letter. The infield,
of course, was the despair of all comers.
Second sight was needed to field a
ground ball, and fly would lead you
into all sorts of pleasant little valleys,
where a man could trip his feet against
a hillside and fall over in the next
valley.
If you've ever played on the Monu
ment grounds in the good old days
this lucid explanation may help to give
you an idea of what Col. Harris and his
groundkeepers have done for the place.
One afternoon-this is history, too
not so very long ago Col. Harris walked
down along B street and looked at the
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here and there by rugged mountain
peaks
TO. the north the land appears one
continuous strip, while to the south
half a dozen separate islands can be
distinguished. The Minch is one of the
toughest parts of the Atlantic and fin
ally, when every one has come to the
point of not caring whether land is
ever reached. the steamer slips into a
narrow channel between two islands
and enters Castlebay..or in Gaelic Bagh,
chaisteal, which is almost a land
locked body of water. Barra lies to the
north of this bay and Vatersay to the
south, while another narrow and tor
tuous channel opens out into the sea
to the west.
Some fifty years ago the master of
the sailing ship Anne Jane, fleeing be-
fore a storm, attempted passage
through the western channel, and a
monument half buried in the sands now
records the death of more than $50 of
it's passengers.
From Castlebay the Isle of Barra.
which is woefully barren, puts on its
best front. In the center of the bay,
on an islet no larger than itself, stands
the old stronghold of the Macneils,
Kisimul Castle. On the shore is the
village of Castlebay, which nestles in
the Shadow of old Heaval, the noun
tain of the island, but only 1850 feet
high. The rugged bare rocks appear
everywhere, which nature tries to cover
up with the "bonny purple heather
Walking up the one street of the viii
lage past the little shops the church
and the schoolhouse, the one road of
the island sweeps away to the east and
the west making a complete circuit of
the "barony of Barra." And here is left
behind the twentieth century and one
steps into the days Of yore. Wee sma'
cottages which seem to grow out of the
native rock dot the hills and valleys on
either side of the road. Built of rough
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Robert Lister Macnei May p, 1915 Was Declared Chief of
Famous Old Clan-The Fory-Fi Serve in That Capacity
Some Facts About the Can-Fomates of the Ancient Court to
Which Still Cngs the Atmosphere Of Medieval Days Home
of the Clan and the People Who Form Former Powers of the
Chief and the Occupations Of His Subjects The Village of the
Cansen and the Old Castle of the Chief-OdAge Pensions
Throughout the Barony
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Next to Nature.

II MERSON HOUGH, the author sports
Ia man. was praising in Chicago our
numerous national parks. some of which
he helped to found.
Il am glad to see.' he said. that this
summer thousands of our citizens are get
ting next to nature in the Yellowstone and
Glacier and Rainier parks. instead of
wasting time and money in effete Europe.
"Out there they get next to nature truly
Prohibition, too. Out there they are not
like that type of Chicagoan who thinks
he can't get next to nature without TAX
ing along demijohn of whisky and two
boxes of cigars"