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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-29
O1iphant Merely Makes History Repeat
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Plunging Army Back Is a Holy Terror
By \. N. WALKER.

just arrived that afternoon and did not
get the gloom stuff.
OIiDhant Scared Them.
"lf you r going TO beat Purdue to-
morrow on Jordan field why this fu-
neral atmosphere / asked the yell
leader who was leading the chorus on
the mourners's bench.
"Oliphant," he answered me. as he
rolled his eyes around Xix a dying
bull calf.
Who in h is Oliphant and what
has he TO do with this funeral party
1 asked. seeking light
Lived Up to Advance Notice.
Then the yel leader took me out
behind the gym. where the team would
not hear and he explained to me just
what, who and where this Oliphant
person was. The next days Eamc
proved that he was all that my infOr-
mant q predicted. multiplied by 100.
The only time that Indiana ever fig
ured was when the parade was held
preceding the game. our parade was
JUS a Ions as theirs and our univer-
sity band played as far out Of tune
as the Purdue and Aside from that
old chool failed to appear as among
those present"
On the kick off I saw a husky grab
the oval and 90 through the Indiana
line like water through a sieve ana
make the first touchdown The root
ers on the opposite bleachers n
NoAuGeu. 9Hyy sLLoAet ma ILS"0'
Bully for Old Purdue" The Indiana
crowd arose n did a silent prayer 10
the music Of the college hymn II
continued thus until the end OF the
first half when the score was So TO 0
and Oliphant still going strong.
Couldn't Even Break n Leg
q suggested TO the team captain that
someone might break ELEPHANTS leg
and stop the slaughter but he said he
had been trying that all afternoon with
little or no success. After Oliphant
had sent all the first team to the hos
pital and had run himself almost 10
death they ordered the Purdue and in
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-29

w THEN Elmer Oliphant plunged
w through the Navy line satur-
day in the annual Army-Navy
football game, made both touchdowns
and kicked both goals for the soldiers,
football history was only repeating it.
self, as far as his blond giant was
concerned.
For three years he lad been running
through lines. making touchdowns from
kickoffs and kicking field goals for
Purdue university in Indiana to the
sorrow OF the Big Nine football teams
and the fiendish delight Of the Purdue
rOOters-
When Oliphant played his last inter-
collegiate game in a Purdue uniform
against the university Of Indiana at
Bloomington the college paper issued
an extra and announced the final score
as follows ELEPHANT 47-Indiana o."
This was not so far from the true thing,
al that for Oliphant was the whole
circus, sideshow menagerie and street
parade in that game as he was in every
other game in which he played
Mere Exchange of Compliments.
It was my misfortune to be back at
school for a visit that fall when the
Purdue-Indiana game was played The
annual game between the two schools
is a friendly little bout in which only
razor n axes are barred. For years
the two state schools had fought be-
fore, after and during the nnual game
for the state championship and 1 had
contributed the kin of several
knuckles. a perfectly good Indiana pen
nant and a cap OF the university band
to the cause of the university Of In
diana in this interncine warfare
That year il was different. The stu
dents always hold a big bonfire cele-
bration the night before a game That
year the bonfire was more like a fu-
neral pyre and the speeches had a dis
tfnct QUO of the Mark Anthony over
the body Of Caesar touch to them. 1 had
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-29

against the Indiana scrubs and with
Oliphant carrying the ball. marched
down the field for the final
The wisdom Of having the bonfire the
night before the came struck me as an
inspiration. for the only celebrating
done the night OF the game was OF
Purdue complexion.
OIIphnnt Was Coal Miner.
Ny interest In this Oliph2nt had been
aroused and 7 made IL a point TO meet
him hat night before the Purdue spe-
ciaI left He IS q modest young slant
who looks like he miEht be q direct
descendant Of the Norseman who came
20 this country before Chris Columbus
arrived His home is in Due@er, IND.
they mine coal and drink corn
whisky. He had doue the former but
not the latter re a worked 50 long
under ground that his ewes sfil nlinEed
I'm the light. He decided % go to school
~ his education had stopped when he
went UNDERGROUND 10 mine coal and he
worked double shifts for three months
20 20 TO Purdue university n take
a mechanical course. When he did en-
ter he was so weak from his over ex-.
ertiOn that he could not go out for
the football team for two weeks after
he entered.
But when he did he dug up the Chi
cago. Wisconsin. Illinois and Indiana
Ike he had done with the coal
banks in the Digger field working
to make enough 10 go back
to the university in the fan. ohphanr
his own way through the uni
versity and succeeded in winning his
letter in every branch of sport At the
time he stood high in scholarship
graduated with honors
Army Team Built Around Him.
After his graduation, beth the army
and navy coaches made a ruch for him
and there was a Lively little scrap
OIiphaut settled it by deciding to go
to West Point and become a soldier
All OF the West Point game was built
around him and he made good sat
urday in the first game I'm which he
had played. The score vas II to o
in favor OF the army but the papers
have copied the style on that
little Indiana student and printed Il
ELEPHANT 1f-Navy O."
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-29
TURN IN Good
CARDS IN COX
First Tournament of Fad
Season at the Country
Club is Success

The hrst Of the fau golf touhaments At
the Fl Paso Country club on sunday brought
out a good entry. over 30 payers making
the trip over the course. Some very good
scores were turned in and the new pro-
fessiOnal. Peter JAMS. is well pleased with
direction
Arrangements are under way for a blind
DOGGY contest on Sunday. December 3. Eff
forts are being directed at an awakening Of
golf interest among the members Of the club
and Mr. JAMS hopes TO have an even larger
field than was out last Sunday.
The first tournament was a handicap afs
fair. the full scores being as fomnws.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-29
"Beck's" Amen Corner
BY aBECK.s

'sRUCK" WEAVER, one time a
member Of the Cubs and well
known in western baseball, lies at
the point Of death in a Denver hos
pisal, as the result Of burns received
in a fire at Denver last week.
Failing health caused Weaver to re-
tire from the big leagues and seek
work in the Western circuit, where
a higher altitude benefited him. Two
years ago, he retired from baseball
and became manager of a big oil CON-
pany. He is a great friend Of John
McCloskey md is well known to
many other FL PasO fans.
JACK BLISS, who was backstop
J for M~cCloskey's team in the Rio
Grande association, and now in the
Imperial Valley winter league,
announces that unless he can catch
on with a Coast league club next
spring he viii retire from baseball.
=
DOB EDGREN, sporting editor Of
l. the New York Evening World,
didn't hand Harvard many bouquets
for the victory over Yale, though he
admits that Harvard played a brand
Of football that would have beaten
Yale without any roughing. Edgren
says: apparently a deliberate
effort was made to lay out Yale's
best men and it was entirely sue
cessfuL. Plain, old-fashiOned slug
ging was frequently INDUCED in by
the Harvard players and the off
Gals were amazingly shOrtsighted-"
Please remember that Mr.. EdoTen
was referring to a football game
between teams representing two Of
the best known institutions Of learn
ing IN the United States. If what
the New York scribe says IS true,
craftsmanship is not on the curricu-
lum.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-29
More Amateu Sport
Reports Are Wanted
For Herald's Pages

The FL Paso Herald wants more
reports Of the various amateur
sports Of different kinds taking
place In the southwest Though this
is rather a slack season ia the sport
world. there are trapshOots. football
games. an occasional baseball game
and other events being pulled of
almost every week Those in charge
OF the different sports are requested
70 send reports OF their contests TO
The FL Paso Herald sporting editor.
Accounts Of professional sports
alone do not make up a real sport
ing page. The Herald wants to get
in touch with every amateur, as well
as professional. sport event in b
entire sOuthw est
VIII you help by sending IN re-
ports of the contests in which YOU
are interested
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-29
I6 FOOTBALL PLAyEPS ARE
KTVEn TUE

Chicago. H. Nov. ca local statis-
ucian has figured that &c football play
ers during the season just ended as
comDared with l. killed I'm the season
OF 1915 lie also found that most Of the
fatalities occurred among high school.
seml-profCssioual and professional
players where little attention was Civ
en- TO training.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-29
The Blood
Danish Rheumatism


Thousands have been made well People in the poorest health, suffering
from Rheumatism, with whom pain was constant. Who believed that their
vitality was Slapped beyond repair. 1t was proven TO them that the cause of
their trouble was the blood; that Uric Acid. the most faithful ally Of Rheuma-
tsm, had gipped them The poison in the blood had Slapped its strength The
weakened blood had allowed poison and impurities to accumulate and all energy
was gone They felt poorly" were Istles, pain was ever present with POOR
digestion and dyspepsia. They tried S S s. natures blood tonic They gave
up drugs This compound Of natures remedies of roots and herbs did what drugs
failed to do 1t literally washed the blood free from poison and with the flow
Of pure blood can back health. strength. vgor and Happiness Get S s
from ycW druggist. Insist upon S S S If yours Is q long standing ce write
cor special advice to S S {. Co, Atlanta, Ca, but begin taking S S S at once
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-29

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Continued from previous page.)
equally as well or better than most Of
the guards Of the southwest. His great
weight places him in a good standing
for the position.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-29

NW THEN Elmer Oliphant plunged
NJ through the Navy line Satur-
day in the annual Army-Navy
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-29

Quesenberry. Aggie. has been chosen
as tackle on the ali-southwestern for
the past two years. and his work this
veal places him far in advance Of the
other conteuders for the position.
Though he received but two votes. the
other placed hin in a guard position,
making three votes in all for a posi-
ton on the team
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-29

FEW YORK, Nov. 29.-When a dis
patch emanated from New Or
leans a short time ago ann me
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-06
M0LLE STEWART OUT
Woman Convicted of Murder Paroled
by Governor Capper.

Governor Capper has granted pa
role to Mo1lie Stewart of Fra ranklin
county, convicted eight years ago as
an accomplice in the murder of Mrs.
Frank Schneck and two children. Mrs
Stewart left the prison today
For several years Mrs. Stewart has
been the chief inmate of the woman S
ward at the state prison. Through the
sale of fancy work, the woman sent
money to her children in Lawrence.
Neighborhood gossips in Franklin
county linked the names of Mollie
Stewart and Frank Schneck for some
months before Mrs Schneck and her
two children were found dead in their
home near Centropois. 1t was the
theory of the state that Schneck and
Mrs Stewart desired to dispose of
Mrs. Schneck and that Mrs. Stewart
would then secure a divorce from her
husband.
Schneck has several times request
ed a parole, but no action was ever
taken in his case. Governor Hodges
was asked to parole Mollie Stewart
but refused to act. Recently, how
ever, a delegation of w. c. T. q. work
ers called on Governor Capper and
urged a parole for the woman. Mrs.
Stewards two daughters also came
from Lawrence to urge clemenCy for
their mother The two daughters
were given the parole and the mother
was today dressed OUT and taken to
Lawrence, where she Will live.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-06
SANTA FE ANNUAL
Stockholders of the Railway to
Meet October 2S.


The twentieth annual meeting of
the stockholders of the Atchison, To-
peka and Santa Fe railway company
will be held in the Santa Fe general
offices in Topeka at noon, october %.
The election of four directors to hol1
office for four years and the cleo
ton of Independent auditors to audit
the books and accounts of the COM
pany at the close of the fiscal year
will be the principal order of business.
The call for stockholders meeting
has just been issued. The meeting
will approve, ratify and confirm the
following:
THE acquisition of the capital stock
and Indebtedness of the Oklahoma
Central railroad company.
THE lease of the property of the
Oklahoma Central effective August /,
1914.
THE lease of the property of the
Rocky Mountain and Santa Fe rail-
way, effective July /, 1915.
1.-The acquisition OF the capital stock
and indebtedness of the Oilfields and
Santa Fe railroad company by agree
ment dated May Z, 1915.
t-Ail action of the directors and ex-
ecUtive committee taken since the last
annual meeting of the stockholders
The stock transfer books will be
closed at the close of business on Sep
tember 23 and will be reopened at the
close of the meeting.
The following directors will prob
ably be reelected: Edward ]. Ber-
wind, New York; Henry c. Frick.
Pittsburg; Andrew c. Jobes, Kansas
City, Kan, and John G. Mccullough.
of MOntDelier. Vt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-06

cept near the small towns. Great
spa ces are covered with brush ira
versed only by trails, and such trails
that only experienced guides can fol-
low them. Nearly everything in this
brush bears thorns, some of which
pierce leather. Most of the guides
who know these trails are Mexicans
and, with few exceptions, neither
army officers nor state and county Of
ficials know whether these Mexicans
are loyal American citizens or friends
of the bandits and revolutionists.
How to distinguish between loyal
and disIoyaI Mexican citizens is an
unsolved problem and a lack of this
knowledge is a menace to the inter
national relations. Because they
have been unabl to know what Mex
leans are their friends, Americans of
this section are prepared to take ac-
ton on the widest rumors. Some of
them have come to believe even that
other nations are trying to involve
Mexico with the United States. A few
credit reports that Americans who
wish Intervention are behind most
of the bandit outbreaks.
1t is pointed out as significant that
of all the railroad bridge burnings or
attempts at burning, bandits have al
TContinued on Page Two.l
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fluctuated, first one side and then the
other claiming success. The main Of
fensive, however, still lies with the
Austrians and Germans. On the north
flank Field Marshal Won Hindenburg
now holds the Dvina bridgehead at
Friedrichstdt, but has lost that at Len
nevada, further down the river to-
wards Riga. The battle in that region
continues without decisive results.
Russia has corrected earlier reports
concerning the attempt of the Ger
mans to make a landing at Pernau
confirming Berlin's statement that in
stead of losing vessels as the result of
attacks by the Russians, the Germans
Intentionally sank several small
steamers to block the entrance to the
gulf of Riga. The deduction is made
that the Germans feared the Russians
would land there sufficiently strong
forces to threaten Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg's left flank.
Saturday and Sunday along the
western front brought a continuation
of the vigorous bonn hardment by
French artillery a Arras, in the Cham
payne, the Argonne along the Lor-
raine frontier, and in the Vosges This
heavy artillery firing has continued
for almost a fortnight. The motive
is no more obvious now than at the
beginning.
No news has been received of a re-
sumption of the battle at the Darda-
nelles, except the French report that
the Austrians had repulsed a Turkish
attack.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-06
LABOR PAYS IT
ID SAYS CAPPER
The Cost of Public Extrava-
gance and Mismanagement
Comes Out of the Working
mans Pocket, He Declares.
HE SPEAKS At COLUMBUS
Orator of the Day at the Labor
Celebration.
Says State Executive Is Handi-
capped by the System.
HE SPEAKS At COLUMBUS

Columbus. Kan. Sept. 6.-'The
prosperity and the perpetuity of re-
public depend upon the well being of
the masses-the laborers and farmers
who produce the nations wealth. The
nation cannot long survive unless the
so-called common people are treated
justly and fairly, and are able to at
tain their ideals" This was the state
ment of Gov. Arthur Capper, who was
the principal speaker at Labor Day
celebration here today.
You must concern yourself as a
good citizen and a good union man,
with every problem that confronts
the people of Kansas and the Ameri-
can people as a whole" continued the
governor. You are vitality interested
in every phase of your state govern
ment, because the enormous waste,
the reckless eXtrava gance, the wicked
graft which so often characterize the
administration of government are all
direct taxes upon you and upon your
pocketbook. You pay the cost of
graft and inefficiency and eXtrava-
gance. You may not always be able
to put your finger on the time or the
manner of the payment, but none the
less it is the producers who are COM
PEELED to foot the BILL
Continuing, Governor Capper said:
Il am not a croaker. l have never
been a, muckraker. Neither am l
TCOntinued on Page TwOl
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PACIFICOS IN ROW
Fight on Floor Over Stand on
War Embargo.
Bryan Agrees to Address
"Friends of Peace" Today.

Chicago, Sept. 6.-The report of the
resolution committee and an address
by William j. Bryan were the chief
events scheduled for today's session
of the Friends of Peace.
Although it was understood the re-
port of the resolution committee would
ignore the subject of an embargo on
war munitions for the use of European
.belligerents, J. J. Tobias, Chicago
peace delegate, had announced his in
tention to bring before the convention
a resolution declaring for an embargo
Numbers of delegates said any at
tempt to have the convention declare
for an embargo would fail. They said
a majority of delegates would vote
against such action.
Mr.. Bryan's agreement to address
the convention was not absolutely
given until after a conference with the
executive committee last night. The
meeting was secret, but later Henry
Weissman, one of the leaders of the
convention, said Mr.. Bryan would
speak with the understanding that
anything he might say would not be
binding on the convention and any
thing the convention might do would
not be binding on him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-06
Liner HESPERIAN
GOES TO BOTTOM:
HAD NO WARNING
Early Reports Throw No Light
on Cause of Disaster.
Passengers and Crew Say Ship
Was TOrpedOed.
MANY PASSENGERS MISSING
Allan Line Officials Think Only
One or Two Lost.
Captain and Volunteers OF
Just Before Plunge.
MANY PASSENGERS MISSING
Allan Line Officials Think Only
One or Two Lost.
Captain and Volunteers OF
Just Before Plunge.

Amsterdam, Sept. 6.-Germany
will disavOw the attack on the
Hesperian, if English reports of
the circumstances are fully COR
roborated by her submarine COM
mander, according to a dispatch
from Berlin today. Germany's
explanation, the dispatch stated,
will be that if the submarine tor
pedOed the liner without warm
ing, it was because the U-boat
had left its base before the new
instructions were issued by the
admiralty.
steamer Hesperian sank at GAS
o'clock this morning within a few
miles of Queenstown, after Captain
Main and volunteer rescue crew of
twenty-five had made brave fight to
bring the crippled ship into port. Dur
ing the night the Hesperian settled
gradually by the head. Daylight
showed the decks awash and the liner
about to take the final plunge.
The captain and crew were taken
off by rescue boats and landed later
in Queenstown by the steamer Em-
press.
The sinking of the Hesperian in
deep water proba bly, will prevent an in
vestigation to determine whether the
disaster resulted from a submarine.
torpedo or mine. Passengers and
crew assert positively the vessel was
struck by a torpedo, but thus far no
SldlSiIlcIlt ndu Deen ODldfuSu fToIn any
one who saw the submarine or a tor
pedo.
The American embassy has received
reports from Wesley Frost, American
consul at Queenstown, on the question
whether warning was given to the
liner. Persons so far seen by MIR.
Frost state that no warning was
given.
The list of identified survivors still
leaves a considerable number of per-
sons unaccounted for. The Allan line
is confident the final checking up will
show no loss of life, except for the
death of one or two persons after
reaching Queenstown.
Torpedoed Without Warning?
Consul Frost telegraphed fr III
Queenstown today to the American
embassy that the admiralty authori-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-06
WAR NEWS OF ONE
YEAR AGO TODAY

The battle on which the fate of
Paris rests is raging along a front
of $50 miles, the Germans appar-
entity attacking in greatest force
on the French right. In the
Marne valley the French have driv-
en- back the Germans. Nancy Wig
orously attacked by Germans.
German forces are within ten
miles of Ghent. Their attack on
Antwerp has been delayed through
fear of assault by the remnant of
the Belgian army. t is believed.
The Austrian resistance is re-
ported broken and the Russians
are in pursuit between the Vistula
and the Bug. Russians are encom-
passing PrzemySI Its fall expected
to mean much toward makinng an
advance on Berlin possible.
Belgrade still stubbornly resist
ing Austrian attack.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-06
is above NORMAL
Temperature Has Reached
Standard of Midsummer.

A slight thunder storm struck To-
peka this morning but the rainfall net
ted only a trace. The lowest tenn
perature was CT degrees which is
degrees above normal.
The kaw river has gotten down to
near the record point again. The
stage this morning was S.6 feet, the
lowest stage since August 2S. The
river has not been below this stage
since May 10.
Rain varying from a trace to nearly
half an inch was recorded over prac-
t1cally the entire state last night. The
largest precipitation was "A of an inch
at Horton. The forecast calls for
partly cloudy weather tonight and
Tuesday. probably unsettled tonight;
not much change in temperature.
The wind blew from the southeast
today at d velocity of 10 miles. Fol-
lowing are the hourly temperature
II 1v,rr.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-06
ROME PAPER SAYS POPE
SENT NO PEACE MESSAGE
To PRESIDENT WILSON

Rome. Sept. 6.-(Via Parls) y
The GiornaIe d'Italia says:
Having obtained authoritative
information, we are able to state
that the pope sent to President
Wilson no autograph letter, no
message concerning peace, and not
even the original copy of the pom
tifical letter to the heads of the
belligerents."
This newspaper says further that
Washington reports that Cardinal
Gibbons presented to Pesident
Wilson a letter from the pope are
open to doubt, especially in view
of the fact that the OSserVatOre
Romano, the organ of the vatican,
suppressed that portion of WASH
ington dispatches which related to
the message Cardinal Gibbons is
said to have presented to the presi-
dent