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Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-05-11
TWO KILLED AND MANY HURT
IN STEEL WORKS STRIKE BATTLE

Pittgburg. men are known 10
have been killed, four probably fatally
wounded and score OF others serious
ly hurt when mob, said by the au-
thoriticB 10 have been composed main.
ly Of foreigners, attacked the Edgar
Thomson works OF the Carnegie Steel
company In Braddock.
A pitched battle lasting an hour fol
lowed, during which 400 shots were
fired, but the rioters were finally
forced to retreat In the face OF dead
ly fife from the riot guns and reyol.
yers OF deputy sherlffs and plant
guards. The situation is now quiet,
but 1000 citizens OF the borough have
been sworn In as deputies and are
patrolling the streets. District Attor.
ney Jackson announced that he would
take steps at once for the deportation
OF all foreigners connected with the
trouble.
The riot was the climax OF a day of
disorder In the boroughs OF Braddock
and Rankin, during which mobs
stormed the plants of four big steel
companies, drove the workmen out
and then partly wrecked the interior
of the plants.
Many OF those injured in the fight
Ing at the Edgar Thompson works
were spirited away by the rioters and
for hours after quiet was restored the
injured continued to be brought to hos
pitals for treatment
Snipers hidden In doorways and win
dows near the Thirteenth-street en-.
trance tried to pick off deputies who
were fighting to hold back the mob,
and two deputies were said TO have
been hit. Women also Joined In the
mad fight to gain entry to the works
and two OF these were wounded. The
two men killed were foreigners.
Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-05-11
25, 5,ooO-Mile Flight Plan.

Atlantic City, N. J.-Porter Atwell
Adams, a Boston millionaire, is going
to circumnavigate the globe in a spe-
cially built aeroplane, with a crew Of
six men to help him. The young man
expects to fly from San Francisco west
ward to San Francisco. MIR. Adams,
who is descendant of John Quincy
Adams, is staying at the Hotel Tray
more here, making out his itinerary.
His preliminary plans call for Is stops
in his 25, 000-mile air journey.
Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-05-11

Mrs. John Jacob Astor, last widow
of the multi-millionaire land owner,
who went down on the Titanic, insists
it costs $27, 593 year to support her
four-year-old son, John Jacob Astor,
Jr. There was allowed from the es-
tate of his father $50, 900 year for
his support. That is not enough says
Mrs. Astor, in her last report to the
surrogate of New York county. She
spent over $1,000 additional. The AS
tor estate was worth between $50,
900, 900 and $100, 900, 900 at the death
of John Jacob. The major portion
went to his eldest son Vincent Astor.
Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-05-11
Rryanite Threatens Bolt.

Boston - Formation of a political
party to uphold peace principles was
advocated by George Fred Williams,
ex-minister to Greece, in an address at
a mass meeting in the interests of
peace here Monday night. 81 am
ready to return to politics to fight the
fight for peace and leave my party if
necessary to do it, said Mr.. Williams,
who for many years was prominent in
the Democratic party and an ardent
supporter of William ]. Bryan.
Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-05-11
London Rejects All Peace Talk;
Allies Willing to Wait Better Time

London-The London morning news
papers Monday laid great emphasis on
Germany's alleged desire for peace.
eff President Wilson accepts the
German note as basis for further dis
cussion," says the Daily Chronicle,
"his motive must be sought, not in the
terms which Germany offers, but in
the wider suggestion which was ex-
Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-05-11
conaress Not to Recess.

washington, d. C.-COngress prob
ably will not recess for the national
conventions. Majority Leader Kitchin
of the house said that some measure
not requiring the presence Of all the
members probably will be considered
during the convention weeks, SO that
those who desire to get away may do
80. Senate and house may recess for
three days at time.
Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-05-11
Drugstore Is pesnoiled.

Seattle-The police Saturday raided
the drugstore of James ]. Kelley who
formerly conducted a saloon in the
same place. They demolished the fix
lures and large quantity of liquor.
Kelley estimates the value of the ar
ticles destroyed at $40, 900. One mir
ror shattered cost $1,000. The drug
store has been repeatedly in trouble
with the police for alleged violations
of the state liquor law.
Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-05-11
Bio WarshIp Goes On Duty.

Philadelphia.-The Oklahoma, the
latest oil-burning superintendent
added to the United States navy, built
at an approximate cost of $1,000. 900,
was placed in commission at the Phil.
adelphia navy yard Wednesday. The
ship Is commanded by Captain Roger
Wills, and her complement consists of
so officers and 500 men. The huge
warship steamed to the navy yard
from the New York Shipbuilding com
pany's plant.
Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-05-11
Nuts for OH, Not Food.

Seattle, Wash.-Owners of 1900 bags
of spoiled peanuts, valued at $4,000,
which the state seized on the ground
that they were unfit for human food,
represented in the superior court that
the nuts were not intended for human
consumption, but for manufacture into
oils for soap. The owners therefore
seek to have the nuts released and not
destroyed.
Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-05-11
Norway Sells to Britain.

London.-The British government
has bought the entire output of Nor
wegian animal and fish oils, according
to a reliable report in circulation here.
1t will be recalled that during the first
year of the war Germany was reported
to have outbid American and English
buyers of the Norwegian output.
Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-05-11
Big Timber Deal is Made.

Baker.-One of the biggest timber
deals closed within recent years in
eastern Oregon was made known We'd
nesday by Frank Gardiner, of the
Baker White Pine Lumber company,
when he announced the purchase by
that corporation of approximately TO-
900 acres of timber land in Baker and
Grant counties, principally In the VI
cinity of Whitney. A large portion of
the timber is along Trout and China
creeks.
Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-05-11
Yakima Hons are Sold.

George Kerr, of North Yakima, sold
100 bales of 1915 hops at IL cents.
This was the only transaction reported
in the spot market on the coast. 1t is
said there is a fair demand for con-
tracts at the prices lately paid.
Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-05-11
TIIn COURIER

IL devoted 10 the bcst Interrais
Of SPRAY and WHEELER
COUNTY. Tho liberal patron
ago Of the citizens OF this Soc
ton ID respectfully solicited.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-05

birmingham, Massachusetts, will be
made the SpOtless Town of the United
States. if the 100000 that the Ma
tional Association for the Study and
Prevention of tuberculosis is to spend
there in community health demon
stration during the next three years
can make it so. Out of several hun
'dred towns, it has just been selected
by special committee for commun-
ity health demonstration that will seek
to show that tuberculosis can be con-
trolled as well as other infections
diseases if the right methods are en-
ployed- The fund for conducting the
demonstration has been donated to the
National Association by the Metro
poltan Life Insurance company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-05
81 DE T AL X S
The Locked Mind.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

81 have locked my heart and thrown
away the key" If you have eyer
heard the inimitable one sing "She's
the Lass for Me-" you doubtless re-
member that line.
1 thought of it, or rather of slight
ly different version. the other day,
when, at the end of discussion in
which the Wants-To-Be-Cynic had I'M
questionably had the better of the ar
gument, the Authorman's Wife turned
mouth which said more plainly than
words, You can't convince me be-
cause I won't be convinced
The slightly different version of
which I thought was, 81 have locked
my mind, and thrown away the key"
Don't you know good many peo-
pie who could, with truth, say that ,
I do. And I don't know anything
in the world more exasperating.
There are two kinds of arguments
arguments about matters of opinion
and arguments about matters of fact.
Take the first. 1t is possible that
one might honestly fail to be con-
WINGED about some question which was
a matter of opinion, even if an op-
ponent had some very telling argu-
ments to bring up. Nevertheless, what
good many people think are their
opinions are nothing but their preju-
dices. Prejudices are opinions that
have been put into cold storage. An
honest opinion is a good thing to have.
A prejudice is a rotten thing to have.
But both (like the cold storage and
the fresh egg look exactly the same
on the outside and you can't tell which
your opponent has.
But in the other kind of argument,
that about matters of fact to remain
unconvinced, when fact is presented
to you on perfectly good authority. is
to show proof that you have indeed
locked your mind and thrown away
the key
We were arguing the other day, as
to whether if divorced man marries
again his new wife is the stepmother
of the children by the first marriage.
Finally we agreed to look in the die
tionary. We found this: 1.-The wife of
ones father by a subsequent mar
rfage." Doesn't that settle the ques-
ton since it was the meaning of the
word that was in question?
Yet the woman who had been up
holding the opposite view simply said,
IT don't believe it,
Plainly she was not looking for
truth. She preferred her opinion, and
lest truth get in and change it, she had
locked her mind and thrown away
the key"
An open mind and an open heart
| the mind open for truth and the heart
open for sympathy-are two signs of
the personality that is educated in the
| highest sense of the word.-(Copy-
right by George Mathew Adams-)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-05

we'll beaten, salt, cinnamon. one tea
spoon baking powder in enough flour
to roll: fry in no. lard; mix in the
order given.
Chilli Con Carne-Drain liquor from
one small can tomatoes. chop toma-
toes fine, put in large stew pan, add
one can kidney beans, two medium
sized onions cut small. one pound
round steak ground (Which has been
fried nice and brown); add half the
tomato canful of water, salt and pep.
per to taste. Let simmer three hours
stirring often. When done. thicken
just a little paste made of flour and
water, add two teaspoons chill pow
der. This serves six persons or more
generously.
Boiled Cider or Apple Jell Pie
One-half cup boiled cider or two Ia
blespoons apple jel1 to one-half cup
sugar Add two tablespoons flour.
Mix flour and sugar together. add one
and one-half cups water: boil This
makes two pies. Make crusts, put fill
ing in and bake.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-05
GLOBE SIGHTS


Some men have so much system it
interferes with their work
A boy with a new sled isn't alarmed
at the prospect of a hard winter
While a good many people gather,
the crowd is seldom as large as ex-
pected.
People are so easily entertained
that many of them enjoy a lodge mi
tiation.
Men do comparatively little tattfng,
but they know lot of other ways OF
wasting time.
1t is sometimes difficult for a man
to explain why he is afraid of his wife
but he is.
A mean man is one VINO keeps a
brand of cigars to smoke and another
to give away.
Being proud of your native state is
so much easier than making that
state proud of you.
You must expect to encounter dis
appointments but don't make such
expectations your life work.
The one-cent stamp carries much
stuff long way, in view of the fact
that its destination is the waste bas-
ket.
Because a preacher is human, and
as such makes some mistakes. a lot
of people refuse to believe that he be-
lieves what he says he believes. A
preacher is always at a great disad-
vantage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-05
THE ENDLESS CHAIN

The action of the Steel Trust in adj
vancing the wages of it's $50. 600 en-
-pioyes affects something like .OOO. 900
persons when the families of the
workers are taken into account. Stimuli
taneously withthe Steel corporations
announcement came that of the
american Wooden Company. with
$4,000 workers, and of several large
rotton-min concerns. Since that time
wage-increases in the most varied in
unstries-textiles, clothing manufac-
lure. gas production. the Standard
DIS activities. etc.-have been an
bounced. In most cases. the increase
has been of a substantial amount, and
has followed previous advances made
within the year.
1T seems safe to say that at least a
,htrge proportion, if not all. of these
classes of workers bid fair. during the
coming year, to be decidedly better off
than they were before the high-price
neriod set in. the rise of wages alone
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-05

must please them first. Money comes
first in the world, you know; senti
ment after all is a secondary thing.
and I know you will understand. 1
know you had a pleasant visit and I
hope to hear all about it before long.
Affectionately. Tom"
Isabel crushed the letter into a ball
and threw it onto the table. well, I
like that!" she cried furiously, and
rushed to her room crying.
At the end of two days Aunt Katie
remarked seriously: ''Say, Isabel
why don't you send Tom his ring
while he's away? 1t wouldn't be like
ly to hurt him so much, for he's hav-
ling a good time and his mind will be
on other things. His aunt told me
at the club that he's staying with
some very rich friends of the Merricks
and they are up to their ears in So
ciety.''
Give decided to keep the ring
said Isabel family. And the next
morning it was back in it's place on
her left hand.
Miss Katie's eyes sparkled. Thank
heaven, it worked" she breathed.
And after about a hundred years
the week passed and Tom came home
to find a very humble, a very loving
and very thoughtful Isabel. 81 was
afraid you'd forget me while you were
away, Tom, dear 1t was almost a
question
'.See if L did!'' Out of his pocket
came a flat box and out of the box u
string of pearls I've been taken
into the firm, dear, and this is to cele-
brate."
And while Isabel was ecstatically
admiring them in the glass Tom found
time to whisper to happy Miss Katie.
You're an old dearl 1t worked like
charm. ''-(Copyrig 1916. by the
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-05
JAYHAWlKER JOTS

The Baldwin Ledger defines a "sad
spectacle" as blue goggles
1t occurs to the Anthony Bulletin
thatin our public problems there is
too much probing and too little oper-
ating.
AS Judge Ruppenthal suggests in
the Luray Herald: 1t is not too late
for legislators to plan to repeal both
obsolete and redundant laws.
One of the Kansas editors figures it
out this way: If there is $40 to spend
for clothes, SIS is spent on daughter, SO
on son. So on mother and pa gets his
hat brushed.
Beauty may be only skin deep, OBJ
serves Gasaway, the Gas Gulch CORE
spondent of the Wilson County Citizen,
but the girl so qualified has all the
other girls skinned to death
A Chapman girl attempted suicide
because her mother scolded her notes
the Oakley Graphic, and it adds: 1t
is getting so children have a hard
time bringing up their parents.
There a~e all kinds of Investigations
being maze by the government, saws
the Norton Courier, but there appears
to be no good coming from them ex-
cept in the fat jobs being held by
investigators.
Blue Rapids is probably the luckiest
town just now, says the Downs News.
The two butchers have fallen out and
are cutting the price of choice steaks,
much to the delight of the proletariat
There should be more feuds among
butchers, suggests the News.
This is the season of the year when
possums are ripe in the southland
says the Ellis County News, and it goes
on: A possum, you know, is an ami
NAL that looks like a cross between a
badger and a singed cat, and tastes
like dishrag soaked in olive oil and
tallow.
Related by the Osborne County
Farmer: Johnny JONES'" said the
teacher severely, sis that chewing
gum you have in your mouth ?" Yes,
ma am" admitted Johnny Bring ii
to me this instant" ''If you'll wait till
tomorrow, I'll bring you a piece that
amt chawed.'
Time was, says the lola Register.
when young man anticipating matri-
mony prepared a nice little home and
saved up a few dollars and figured
on making more money afterward.
That was preparedness of peace. To-
day the young man anticipating matri-
mony blows his dough on picture
shows. cut flowers. swell buds, and
doesn't have money enough to paw
the preacher, gets his furniture on
the installment plan-and then we
wonder why there are divorces.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-05
j. J. HIPS First Dress Suit

For the trappings of society James
J. Hill had little use. He abominatcd
the stiffness and formality of social
functions. An old friend. recalling
Mr.. Hills dislike for formal society.
told of how upon one occasion wher
the Hill family gave an evening receL-
ton at st. Paul Mr.. Hill was persuad
ed, only with the utmost difficulty. 10
don a dress suit.
For the occasion az old colored
man from the Great Northern offices
was to act at the door of the Hill res
idence. He stood at his post. awaiting
the guests. when Mr.. Hill attired in
his evening clothes, came down stairs.
The attendant, who had been with Mr.
Hill for years, when he saw his boss
in the unaccustomed attire, chuckled
aloud. Mr.. Hill caught the sound.
and looked up. The retainer turned
in dismay. Mr.. Hill strobe up to him.
caught him by the shoulder. and said:
What are you laughing at2''
Deed. I wasn't laughing" gasped
the servant.
Eyes. you were" admonished Mr..
Hill. "You were laughing at me. and
don't blame you a darn bit"-Wall
Street Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-05
EARLY DISCOVERY OF CANCER

The American Society for the Con-
troll of Cancer is strongly seconding
the efforts of the National Association
for the study and Prevention of Su-
berculosis to have December set
apart as National Medical Examina-
ton Day." Among other observances
planned for the day DIR. Harvey r.
Gaylord, of Buffalo, director of the
New York State Institute for the Study
of Malignant Disease will deliver an
address on cancer at Minneapolis I'M
der the auspices of tie Health and
Happiness Week." arranged by the
Minnesota Public Health association
in cooperation with other social and
civic organizations.
The time is undoubtedly coming
when Americans will appreciate the
great wisdom OF the Chinese policy Of
paying the doctor to keep the patient
well. The rapidly growing movement
in favor of an annual medical exami-
nation for every person. sick or wen,
promises much benefit in the reduc-
ton of the death rate from cancer as
well as that from tuberculosis. In
both these very prevalent diseases the
hope of cure is very much greater If
the ailment be recognized and treated
in the earliest stages Cancer is by
no means a hopeiessly fatal disease
and an ever increasing number of
those afflicted are being saved thru
their intelligent recognition of the
danger signals and their prompt re-
course to competent treatment. I'm
doubtedly many more cases of this
disease would be recognized in time
for treatment in the early stages, when
cure is comparatively simple matter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-05

time he thought he had caught it it
got another move on. Then a woman's
angry voice broke on his ears.
What are you doing there?" she
demanded shrilly.
He explained mildly that he was
only trying to retrieve his hat, where
upon the woman said in wonder:
your hat? Well, I don't know
where it is, but that's our little black
hen you're chasing
1t was his first playa heavy drama
along classical lines-and he was as
nervous as a man sitting in dentist
chair while the dentist is laying out
the instruments he intends to use. At
ter the curtain had rung down on the
second act there was a long silence.
Then came a wild outburst of ap-
plause.
..Hoorayr. cried the playwright
dancing a hilarious jig behind the
scenes.
what are you hooraying about ?"
asked the leading man.
My play. It's success Don't you
hear the app1ause2"
Certainly I hear it, but it isn't for
your play They're applauding be-
cause the manager has just announced
that your piece will be taken off to-
morrow night to make way for a new
musical comedy by the author of The
Girl From Pieburg.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-05

if the people were in the habit of
consulting their physicians once
year or even at shorter intervals, and
having a general physical examina-
ton.
Cancer patients are often persons
who have generally enjoyed good
health. have never been seriously i'll
and who at the time of the onset Of
the disease were apparently in robust
health. This disease Is so insidious
in it's approach and so often without
pain in the first stages that the patient
often fails to pay serious attention to
the signs of danger. Statistics indie
pendently gathered by many surgeons
prove that the average cancer patient
waits a year or. more after observing
some suspicious conditions before
seeking the treatment which is then
often too late. This disastrous delay is
the main if not the sole obstacle to
the successful treatment of cancer at
the present time.
Early cancer" says DIR. Charles P.
Childs, a prominent English surgeon
who has written one of the best popu-
lar books on the control of this dis
ease, produces no feeling of i'll health
whatever. In other words, early can
GER has no symptoms. The reasons
which usually induce people to consult
a doctor are the suffering of pain or
the feeling of ill health. Early can
GER produces neither. People are far
more likely to go to a dentist with an
aching tooth than to a doctor with
commencing cancer; they are far more
likely to consult a doctor with some
trifling arrangement of the liver than
on account of cancer in it's early
stages. Owing to the insidiousness of
its onset, the victims of cancer are
often totally unconscious of the seri-
business of the disease which has at
tackled them. Disaster following on
delay thru sheer ignorance on the part
of the unfortunate sufferers that there
was anything seriously the matter
with them-these are the everyday ex-
periences of cancer" All good physi-
clans. however, are familiar with the
warning signs of the approach of this
dangerous disease and if given a
chance to examine their patients once
year, especially after the age of thir-
ty, they could undoubtedly save many
of them from death before their time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-05
MEMBER:
Associated Press.
Audii Bureau of Circulation.
American Newspaper Publishers
Association.

The country enters on the closing
month of its most prosperous year
with aggregate commercial failures
thus far reported to r. G. Dun & Co.
23 per cent. smaller in number and
over SO per cent. less in amount than
in 1915. Moreover, the record in both
respects shows a substantial reduction
from the mortality of two years ago,
while there were fewer defaults in
November than in the same period of
any year since 1912 and it is necessary
to go back to 1910 to find a lighter in
debtedness.