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Hard Work, Indeed.

A young woman who pounds the
typewriter all day figures that her
hands travel about five miles during
her working hours. IF a girl writes
the word them" she says, figure
how much ground she covers. TAX
ing the four letters in order, her
hands travel altogether a distance of
no less than Az inches. Suppose
that the word comes at the end of
q line. She raises her hand to shift
her paper up a notch and she has COW
cred 5 inches raising her hand and
as much coming back to the space
bar. There are 14k inches of mo-
tion Just over the circumstance of
writing a word of four letters at the
end of a line. Studying the amount
of travel done by the hands in the
course of an extended article written
by the typewriter, it run up into
large fractions of miles in the course
of the day. The forearms are kept
always at right angles to the upper
arm, and hat throws a certain strain
on the biceps muscles. They and the
muscles of the forearms ought to be
strengthened greatly by a curse OF
typewriting, but this is the sort of ex-
ercise that is too near home, like
Homework, sweeping and the like, to
be attractive"
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-11-12
CELL KEY DID THE TRICK
Escaping Prisoner at st. Louis
Police Station Thought IL
Was a Gun.

st. Louis, Mo.-Using a tin spoon
and a shoestring to open the door of
his cell in police headquarters, ]. ].
Hartwell, bandit suspect wanted liz
Butte, Mont, was subdued by a guard
using a brass key as a pistol and put
back into his cell.
Hartwell had picked the st. Louis
lock and opened the door and was
about to make for a rear window
when he was captured by Parker
Thompson.
AS Hartwell left the cell Thompson
bounced upon him, pointing his big
brass key at the prisoner and order
a1g him tt hold up his hands. The
prisoner thought he was covered"
with a revolver and raised his hands.
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When we got alongside her and asked
for a doctor he found that the wounded
man was dead. The commander of the
Majestic, with the true old navy touch.
instead of congratulating US all on the
success of the expedition and his peo-
pie on their lives being saved, only
asked them if they had saved any of
the boats gear!
Having put the party OF board, and
the dead man, we showed off and tried
to find the Triumph, which was about
three miles away. At night time in
war, when all lights are out and dead
lights down, it is hard to see ever a
big ship. However. we found the Tri-
umph and arrived alongside at $40
a. m., having had an exciting time and
an extremely interesting adventure.
After hosting my boat, in l went and
reported myself to the captain on the
bridge, who was very nice about 1t all
and also said he had no expected to
see us again.
Lieutenant Commander Robinson
was in charge of the operations and in
my boat, and I carried on under him,
To him the greatest credit is due, and
l am glad to say he has been promoted
to commander for his gallantry dis
played on this and several previous oc
casions."
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| A Stray
| Chance
Bg-
JESSIE E.. r


Copyright. 1915, by w. G.. Chapman.)
ITO plunge into the wilderness and
forget, OF to ransack the mountains
and gain great wealth, the only thing,
it seems, that will buy me my hap
%piness!"
Thus unused Arden Vale, and he
looked grim, desperate, determined all
at once. His case was a prototype of
the common variety of the poor, strug-
Cling man of genius, loving and be-
loved in turn by the daughter of a
Croesus.
He was too honorable and sensible
to ask pretty Bettina Royce to en-
gage herself to him until he had made
some kind of a hopeful financial start
In life. Then, too, her father, while
neither tyrannical nor snobbish, vas a
stickler for prudence and what was
due his daughter socially.
There was only a mutual, tacit un
derstanding between Bettina and Ar
den at their parting interview. He
spoke of going forth to win the world
Her mute lips, framed to an expires
sion of real mental pain, assured hin
that his love was her world, and she
spoke of his return in a gladstone
hopeful way that sent him on his jour
ney happy.
"Mr. Royce made his fortune at min
ing in a day." ruminated Arden. Il
I lay the mere formation for one il
a year l will be thankful"
The district had seer some grea
finds" of late-gold, always gold
Arden started for the Bonanza dis
trict on foot. 1t was three hundred
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SNAKE It Big, and Lots of Color In It."

miles away, out of the reach of even
good roads. He had little but his out
fit and a few cherished belongings.
There was his cornet, for he was
something of a musician; his artists
case, a few favorite books.
It was at Cross Cut Gully that he
found himself clear out of funds.
Good fortune, however, stepped in and
saved the day. A rugged, half-tipsy
miner discovered him Willing away a
lonely hour near the edge of a stream.
discoursing some old familiar tunes on
his cornet.
"The very thing, boss!" he hailed
Arden heartily. See here" and he
drew out a buckskin bag. It was
filled with nuggets.
How much to give us some patri-
otto and dance music up at the
Gulch?" was his next ready challenge.
"IIl do it for a good meal" replied
Arden accommodatingly.
But you WON'T" dissented his new
acquaintance. Here, and here, and
there!'' and Arden's Eyes sparkled as
nearly three ounces of dust was
! poured into his palm.
They meant new life for the penni-
less wanderer; they helped him on
his way, as far as Quartzville. Here
a frontier circus was in progress.
Mixing with the crowd, Arden was
robbed of what was left of his
stake"
His funds ran so low that he re-
painted a tavern sign for five dollars.
One of the habitues of the place came
across him thus engaged. He was a
rough card-playing r~ustler, and
was promptly seized with an idea.
Can you paint picters, too?" he in
quired.
"You mean portraits?" asked AT
den.
That's it. 1 want one done. When
you're through with that sign, come
inside and ask for Broncho jim"
This Arden did. He found his pros
pective client in a duly hilarious state
with a wealth of poker chips at his
elbow. Broncho Jim passed him ovel
a mint slab, validated for half a hun
dred.
Double that when you get he,
DONE" was the announcement.
"Her-whom?" asked Arden won
deringly.
"Ziatina, down at the circus. She
no use for me, but I've hit the fame
that I'd like her picter. Make it bie
and lots of color in it. Take me-"
Il think ! do" assented Arden, an
set out on his queer mission.
Ziatina was a popular lame at tn
little settlement Just then. She wa
a half-breed, graceful as a gazell'
with great black eyes and a willow
5orm. She was the star of the SHOW
and her appearance in a sketch brinl
ing in scouts COWBOYS and the usui
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Back Broken Thrice. Lives.

BY means of a delicate operation in
the Cooper hospital Dominick Perallo
may live, although his spine was brok-
en- IN three places when he was buried
under a slide of coal.
Perallo vas partially paralyzed by
the bones touching on the vital cord,
and their removal restored the sense
of touch in the limbs. The hospital
doctors say that the patient is almost
sure to recover.-Philadelphia North
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Hen In 500 Mile Hatch.

completed her hatch 500 miles away.
When Bert Nokes prepared to move
to Spokane he decided to ship his hen
and eggs by express. Chicken fan
ciers smiled, but when biddy arrived
in Spokane she had in n way changed
her mind about raising a family.
Nokes that twelve of the
fourteen eggs Matched.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-04-16
GRATING

from this city to Occur d'Alene,
where electric trains will be on
hand to carry the party to Spo-
kane.
The Shriners, who will be on
their way to visit the exposition
al San Francisco, will arrive in
this city on the morning Of July
nth in six special trains. Af-
ter being served with breakfast
ON the train they will take the
Red Collar Line boats for the trip
down the river and across the
lake. The steamers Georgia
Oakes and Flyer and a barge will
be provided for the party who
will leave this city at about eight
O'Clock in the morning and are
due to arrive in Spokane at 1870.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-04-16
Purchased Herd
Of Mich Cows

John Reddecopp, rancher re-
siding near Treffery, who proved
up on his homestead last SUM
mer, has decided to go into the
dairy business on quite an en-
tensive scale. He recently pur-
chased a drove of twenty-five
milch cows besides a number Of
calves and yearlings which he
placed on his ranch. In addition
to his own homestead he has
rented that Of one of his neigh
bors for a period Of three years
and is building a wire fence to
inclose the whole tract which will
afford him plenty of pasture for
his stock.
He is planning on patrOnizing
the local creamery and brought
in his first cream Thursday
morning. The land i'm that sec
ton, it is said, is fine grass land
we'll watered and affords excel
lent facilities for dairying.
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ct TO come forward and get one.
As il was almost impossible to
crowd through no one attempted
To avail themselves of this priv
ilege.
Four hundred and forty-two
votes were cast and of this. num-
her O. E. HALEY received two
hundred and ninety and T. B. Hay
one hundred and fifty-two, and
Mr.. HALEY was declared the nom
inee for mayor. The remainder
of the ticket, C. R. Schultz for
clerk, C. S. Flint for treasurer and
Paul Russell for engineer, was
nominated by acclamation. The
ticket was named the Citizens
Ticket and the chairman and sec
rotary were instructed to certify
il to the city clerk as such.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-04-16
0. E. HALEY Is
Nominated
HEADS CITIZENS TICKET FOR MAYOR
Largest Caucus Ever Held Here -.-BdIante oil
Ticket Nominated By AcCIamatiOn

The city caucus held Tuesday
evening for the purpose of nom
mating a candidate for mayor and
candidates for the other city Of
fees was by a large majority the
largest caucus ever held in this
city. The Grand theatre was
crowded until there was not
standing room and forty or fly
people were in the entry and on
the porch unable to gain admit
tance. The ladies were out in
force and constituted nearly one
half of those present.
The meeting was called TO or
der by Mayor Mulcahy who stat
ed the purpose and asked for
nominations for chairman. J.
G.. Fralick and H. j. Hull were
put in nomination and Mr.. Hull
was elected by a large majority.
Charles Brebner was unanimous
ly chosen as secretary. Nom
nations for mayor were called
for and Attorney William d.
Keeton presented the name of r..
B. Hay in an eloquent address.
Probate Judge Holman then took
the floor and in a neat speech
nominated o. E. HALEY.
There being no other names
mentioned the nominations we're
declared closed and Chairman
Hull named five tellers to distri-
butte and collect ballots. Owing
to the crowded condition of the
room this was a difficult task and
the supply Of official ballots prov
ed insufficient to go around. The
chairman stated that only quail
fled electors would be allowed to
vote and instructed the tellers to
receive votes only from those en-
titled to vote and several votes
were rejected by the tellers ON
these grounds.
People were crowding their
way into the hall during the en-
tire time that the ballots were be-
ing distributed and a number in
the rear of the hall who came in
after the tellers had passed COM
iplained that they had no ballots.
The chairman stated that no more
tickets would be distributed in
the rear Of the hall and directed
any one who did not have a tick
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-04-16
LabOTeF Thought
TO Be Insane

The sheriT's Office received
word Tuesday evening from the
foreman of the Milwaukee Lum-
Der company's camp on Alder
creek that a man in camp by the
name of Harold Pearson was
crazy and asking that he be tax
en- care Of. Deputy Sheriff Too
ny went out to the camp and al
though he could see nothing
wrong with Pearson, brought
him to the city and took him to
The st. Maries hospital where he
remained that night under the
charge of the doctors.
He talked and appeared per-
fectly rational and after observ-
ing him until the next day they
decided he was sane and permit
ted him to go. The foreman and
Others at the camp told the depu-
iy sheriff that Pearson had been
acting queer for several days.
They said that sometimes in the
night the crew would be awaken
ed by him yelling and would find
him tramping back and forth
muttering to himself and that at
other times he would talk about
something being after him.
Pearson himself explains his
actions by saying that before he
went to camp he had been drink
i'm heavily and on arriving at the
camp he had stopped completely
and it had left him very nervous,
Z he doctors expressed the opin-
ion that Pearson's heavy drinking
and stopping so suddenly had
nearly brought on an attack OF
delerium tremens but that he had
recovered now.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-04-16
Are Delayed in
Getting Machinery
FORCED TO TURN DOWN ORDER
Modern Box Manufacturing Company Waiting For
Machine Promised For February 18th

The Modern Box Manufacture
ing company has their new box
factory completed and large
part of the machinery installed
and had been expecting to start
the plant April first but they
have been delayed on account Of
the failure of one of the machines
To arrive.
This is the combination edger
and planer, a very important
machine in The factory. II was or
dcred December sixteenth and
the factory agreed to ship it on
or about February fifteenth, near
ly two months ago, but it has not
been sent yet. The company
here has written the factory Il
number of letters in regard to the
shipping of the machine and has
received numerous promises from
them as to the time it would be
sent but as yet they have not ma
terialized.
Meanwhile the failure to re-
ceive the machine as promised
is holding back the starting Of
the factory. The company has
all of the other work completed
and is being held up and pre-
vented from getting the factory
running solely by the non-arrival
of this machine. This delay is
not only causing a vast amount
Of trouble but it ss putting the
company TO considerable pecun-
iary loss. They have been fore
ed to lay off the men and they
have left to search for other en-
ployment.
The delay has also forced the
company TO turn down one or
der of twenty-five cars of boxes
from an Omaha eTm and has lost
them all chance for the berry-box
trade for this season as they
could not accept orders for de-
livery within the required time on
account of the uncertainty Of the
arrival Of the machinery. The
officers of the company can not
state when they will be able to
start the factory but hope to have
il running by May first.
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for any of the candidates for city
Offices on the Citizens ticket.
A large number of the friends
or Mr.. Hay were not willing to ac-
ccpt the action of the caucus
Tuesday evening as a final ver-
dict and urged him to continue
III the race. Mr.. Hay, himself.
however, was weli satisfied to
have the responsibility of con-
ducting the affairs of the city rest
upon Mr.. Hailey's shoulders
rather than upon his own. Be
sides the campaign before the
caucus had evidently opened up
the old fight between the West
End and the East End" and in
his opinion nothing could be
worse for the development of the
city than this and he would do
nothing that would tend to open
the old sores.
He believed that Mr.. HALEY will
make a fair and impartial mayor
and should have the undivided
people back of him in the ardu-
Gus task that he will have before
him this coming year.
The same general desire for
harmony seems to prevail in re-
gard to the election of aldermen.
SO far as we have been able to
learn the only contest will be in
the third ward. 1t is stated that
IA number of the citizens are not
satisfied with the result of the
caucus and have prevailed upon
j. C. Mashburn to allow the use
|of his name as an Independent
candidate for councilman.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-04-16
Officers Occupy
New Quarters

The commissioners have about
completed the interior arrange
ments Of the court house, with
the exception of the vault, and
nearly all of the officers have
moved into their new quarters.
The sheriff occupies a small Of
flee in front. The assessors
and treasurer's Offices are to-
gether and occupy the west half
of the lower floor and the audit
or and superintendent of public
instruction occupy the east half.
The commissioner have The
front room on the second floor
and the surveyor also has an Of
flee on this floor, the remainder
of it being divided into a court
room, the judges chambers and
a jury room. OF course, all of
the rooms are rather small and
the officers will be somewhat
crowded but on the whole they
will be comfortable and can
easily put up with it for a long
time to come.
The building certainly has been
arranged to the best possible ad-
vantage and makes far better
quarters than it was thought pos
sible. The commissioners have
had it painted throughout on the
inside and have arranged to have
the exterior painted and when
this is finished it will make
very presentable appearance.
The vault is not entirely CON-
.pleted, it being necessary to let
the concrete thoroughly set be-
fore the finish floor and the door
was put in. This will be done
next week. The vault is large
and roomy and will afford ample
space for all records without be-
ing crowded and in this, the most
essential particular, the county
is we'll provided for.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-04-16
FCFnWOOd Great
Logging Center

Peter Mungovan, a prominent
business man of Fernwood, was
in the city Wednesday and
Thursday looking after some
business matters. He says that
business is good in his town this
year and he looks for the best
season that they have had there
for several years. The Black
weyy Lumber cOmpany's sawmill
at that place started up earlier
this year than common and it is
expected to run to its full capaci-
ly the entire season.
He states that the Blackwell
people are planning on logging
very extensively this summer and
will have twice as many camps
and cut double the amount Of
logs this year that they did last
season. The Milwaukee Land
company of st. Joe has a camp
al GEM Siding, a short distance
above Fernwood, and will put in
several million feet this season
and other companies are logging
I'm that vicinity. From the pres
ent indications more logs will be
cut in that section this season
than have been cut there in any
year for a long time.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-04-16
Fire Escapes For
School Buildings

The board of education held a
meeting Wednesday for the pur-
pose of considering the question
of fire escapes for the two school
buildings in the city. Under the
law fire escapes are required on
all school buildings similar to
the ones in this city. Hereto
fore none have been placed on
either of the buildings here and
it is said that the state authori-
ties have taken the matter up and
called the attention of the board
TO the law.
The board has had the matter
under consideration before and
had decided to put two fire es-
capes on each of the buildings.
They had asked for estimates on
the cost Of different kinds of es-
capes and had received replies
and met for the purpose of fix
ing upon the kind wanted and to
order them. 1t was found, how
ever, that under the law it would
be necessary to advertise for bids
and this the clerk was directed
to do.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-04-16
0ne Candidate
For Mayer

The coming city election PROM
ises to be a very quiet one. There
seems to be a general inclination
on the part of the people to ac-
cept the results of the different
caucuses for aldermen and city
officers as the will of the people
and not to put any ticket in op-
position to the one already Sc
leeted. From the present indi-
cations there will be no opposi-
ton to Mr.. HALEY for mayor or
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-04-16
ShFinerS to See
St. Joe River

The beauties of the st. Joe river
and Lake Occur d'Alene will be
shown to a party of nine hundred
Shriners and their wives in July.
The party will make the trip as
the guests Of the Milwaukee rail
road and William P. Warner, as
sistant general freight and pas
senger agent Of the company, has
made arrangements with the Red
Collar Line to transport them
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-04-16
Newspaper
Under Fire
is CHARGED WITH GRATING
COeur d'AIene Journal Accused Of OveTCharging
to the Amount Of $500

Some time ago the people of
Occur d'Alene organized a tax
payers league which is a real,
live body and which is going in
to the question of the reason why
the taxes are so high in a prac-
tical manner. A committee from
this body has been investigating
county affairs and succeeded in
unearthing what appears to be
good sized printing steal.
This committee found that the
Journal Publishing company
which has had the contract TO do
the county printing for the past
year, has during that entire per-
iod, been Systematically over
charging The county. This COM
mittee filed an ilemized statement
with the county commissioners
showing over-charges collected
by the Journal Publishing COM
pany amounting to about fifteen
hundred dollars, or about one
hundred per cent more than the
contract price.
In other words that company
as shown by the report made by
the taxpayers committee to the
commissioners, has, during the
past year, charged and collected
from the county about three thou
sand dollars for work which un-
der their contract they should
only have been paid fifteen hun
dred dollars for. Attorney w.
b. Mcfarland jr., acting for The
taxpayers league, presented the
matter to the commissioners and
asked that steps be taken to re-
cover the money and that a Grim
inal investigation be made.
When the contract was let a
year ago there was a keen compe-
tition among the printers of the
county to secure it. In addi-
ton to that put in by the Journal,
bids were submitted by the Press
of Occur d'Alene, the Herald Of
Spirit Lake, the Advance of Post
Falls and the Record, Gazette and
the Flejschauer Printing Co. of
this city. Several of the bids
were very close. On an estimat-
ed amount of printing submitted,
amounting to a little over $1,000
there was less than twelve dollars
difference between the three bids
of the Journal, the Herald and
the Record and only two dollars
difference between the Record
and the Journal. With this con-
tract, amounting to about twelve
hundred dollars ,as the work was
estimated, as a basis, the Jour
nal charged and collected from
the county about three thousand
dollars as shown by the report of
the committee.
Although the county has been
divided the people Of Benewah
county are still interested in this
matter. They were a part of
Kootenai county when these al
legged Over-charges were made
and helped to pay the bills. If
an action is brought against the
Journal Publishing company and
this fifteen hundred dollars is re-
covered il will be an asset of
Kootenai county to which Bene-
wah county is entitled to its pro
rata share and therefore the peo-
pie of this county are interested
in seeing the matter probed to
the bottom.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-04-16

Paul Webb, a prominent real
estate man Of Coeur d'Alene was
in the city yesterday. He came
up to meet his mother who was
ON her way to Coeur d'Alene from
the east and stopped off here to
take The boat.