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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22
ARE YOU LUCKY?
Visit Big Electrical Show at EXPOSE
tion and Leave Your Name.

Have you visited the big electrical
show at the Mid-Winter Exposition
If not, see it and get bigger iden of
what electricity is doing. Youth
learn why it is called the servant
universal" 1t is doing almost every
thing about the home now except
making up the beds. The show is
well worth your time.
And be sure to leave your name
and address at the Edison Com
pany's booth. You may get one of
those valuable electrical appliances
the Company is giving away.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-04-12

is nothing to plan for. The material
is a young gentleman who is a sales
man in the same store, who watches
me from across the room constantly.
| have made bold to send him neck
ties and sleeve links, also a watch
fob. He sends a message of hanks
for these by a girl whom he is we'll
acquainted with and works at the same
counter with me-but that is all. He
seems to max no advances to speak
to me. How can l win him? They speak
of advancing him to a better position.
Should l have bought costlier things?
E. A. r.
O are a very foolish little girl
to spend the money you work so hard
to carr on a young man whom you
have o even an acquaintance with.
He wishes to show you by his actions
thai he is not interested in yo'l; also
desires to discourage your hopes in re-
gard to himself. BY this line Of action
he shows excellent judgment. Love is
not purchasable by gifts. either cheap
or costly. Be digniied. but pleasant,
and let the young man alone. II he
desired to be introduced to you he
knows how to arrange It. A forward
girl disgusts q q
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-04-12

you will be better able to carry the
barrel If you put q rope to both your
wrists" continued the boy So Hudo
let Oris tie the ends Of a ope to each
wrist.
II am going up the ladder to get you
a pretty necktie,' said Oris, taking tho
rope by the middle and running up the
side OF the shed into the loft. But
he umped down behind him, taking
the rope thus over Hudo's head. With
a jerk he pulled the ogre's hands
quickly behind his neck. This made
Hudo helpless.
"Now l have got you good and fast
said the boy, coming around in front
of the ogre, land I mean to keep you
prisoner till your father promises never
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-04-12

duced rich crops; but farming is not one
of the great Industries of Sonora.
Half wild cattle roam the chihuahua
plains; the great h%aciendas count their
acres by the hundreds of thousands.
1t is easy to understand why cavalry
must form a large part of the expeditions
AIRY force against Villa. This is a country
of horsemen: Villas followers nave lived
on horseback. Vaaueros, they are, many
of them. Mexican cowboys; and when they
became fighters, it was notural that they
should become troopers rather than in
fantrymen.
Much OF the arid country is admirably
adapted for horseback going; 1t is lard
packed, sandy soil.
Tho Cities Are Few.
Cities of size are few: the most import
ant of these is Chihuahua, capital of the
state of the same name. There is Juarez.
OF course, the sordid. nondescript and
squalid town across from Ell Paso, where
gambling. bull fighting and all forms of
iniquity are accustomed to run without
much curb. Then the desert, and 2O miles
to the south. Chihuahua. chihuahua has
a population of close to 10000. 1t Is an
ancient city, dating from Spanish days.
and it is not without it's beauty. Set in
the midst of a wide circle of treelesS hills.
the town and the twin towers of the tawny
old cathedral of San Francisco d'Assist
may he seen from a great distance. Much
ore comes into chihuahua, or did in days
of peace. for the barren hills are rich in
silver. 1t was silver that brought most
of the Americans to Chihuahua; they were
mining men who were murdered a few
weeks ago at Gust, outside chihuahua.
Chihuahua, which as short a time ago
as 1871, was referred to In Terry's guide
book to Mexico AS 1.-The largest and rich
est OF Mexican states" has been terribly
impoverished by five years of chronic rev.
olution and banditry. The guerilla fight
ers-and they are all that in point of fact
have lived off the country. They have
gotten comparatively little out of the
mines, though at intervals they ave ex-
tracted n tribute on ore mined, but they
have driven off great herds of cattle, loot
ed stores, wrecked industry.
Among the peons-and the poems are
four-ffths of the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES has
long been the fear that the "Americanos
of the north would some day come, seek
ing to take the country. 1t Is a fear fos-
tered and played upon by "Pancho" Villa.
And doubtless 1t will be a mighty aid to
the nature OF the country itself in pro-
tecting Villa and making more difficult
the big task the American army has I'M
dertaken.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-04-12

to come into our and again-then he
must bring us 10 bags of gold from
his big mine in the mountain"
The gre moaned and groaned and
rolled around in the dirt till his tarry
coat was full OF sticks. But Oris
would not let him go. So Hudo wrote
his father a note and Oris took it up
and dropped it at the ogre's door at
dawn. BY noon there came a wagon
full of bags of gold. and the father
himself sitting IN top.
Young man." aid the father ogre.
you have conquered US fairly. You
are the first one to get any one of us
with our hands behind u backs. Here
is your gold and non of us will ever
trouble you again for we all are going
over to live in the land from which
this bride comes, which is 400 miles
from here"
So Oris let the young ogre go free
and called his father to come and see
the bags Of gold, the children and the
father n mother and Oris dragged
and tugged and had the ~jolliest time
of their lives pulling the bags into the
shed.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-04-12

From The Kan sas City Star.

A country of t~reeless hills, of dried up,
thirsty water courses; a country of eter-
nal sunlight, of great stretches made des-
olate by sand and the white crust of al
kali; a land of prairie dogs, Looping jack
rabbits, lonely hawks circling in a cloud
less sky. This is northern Mexico. where
an American army will pursue Villa.
The state of Chihuahua and It's western
neighbor. Sonora. have been Villas
stamping ground. They are the two larg-
EST states in Mexico, although Sonora had
only 221 $50 inhabitants five years ago,
and Chihuahua 327. 800. tive the states.
and tapping over into both, lie the Sierra
Madre mountains on whose wooded slopes,
dark with pines, bears. black and grizzly,
mountain lions and leopards abound.
1t is a high-lying country. Four-ffths
of Chihuahua is table land 1900 to 5000
feet above the sea. Snow falls in winter
time in the mountains, and rivers that
are valleys full of dry stones most of the
year become rushing torrents after a
storm.
But the rivers are few and the stretches
of arid country very great. Always in
northern Mexico you have the impression
of vastness, and the sharp-toothed hills
against the blue sky, the naked hills,
washed in the sunlight of 1000 years. add
to the highness and the loneliness and
the desolation of it all. There is little life
apparent. Here and there cattle Craze,
for cattle and mining are the life of this
country. Sometimes You pass where a
ragged Mexican in sombrero and serape
herds a flock of goats. Little dusty, sun
baked settlements of low adobe houses
huddle beside the railroad track at far
Intervals in the desert.
Tho Land of Mirage.
The dust is choking often; white alkali
dust that gets into your throat and eyes.
burns, blinds and chokes. The illusion
Of lakes is not in the simmer
lng heat; they seem to lie, broad and
shallow in the sun. and with tall, feathery
trees around their rims. Neither lakes
nor trees are there. This is northern
Chihuahua. along the line Of the Mexican
Central railroad.
Sonora. a wilder country, has only one
real line of railway. a division of the
Southern Pacific which runs down to
Guaymas.
chihuahua is a ountry Of mines and
great cattle ranches. Sonora Is ever rich
err In minerals and has been since Spanish
days. 1t furnished the gold of Montezu-
ma, and afterward many a Jealous padre
built churches with the gold of the Son.
ora hills. Hidden In the hills lie many
fertile valleys: but irrigation has pro-
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-04-12
oRIs AND THE OGRE.

Copyright, 1916, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
Once upon a time, a long, long time
ago, there lived upon the shores of the
sea a poor fisherman with his wife and
10 children. There were not many peo-
pie in this part of the world then, but
back from the beach behind the noun
ain was q race of wild men called
ogres. They wore no clothing. but a
rough. reddish hair covered their bod
les. Their faces were a bright green.
from which shone huge yellow eyes k
automobile lamps on q dark night.
But the worst thing about the ogres
was their thieving habits. They would
did this by upsetting a boat when they
saw it coming to shore.
The people all left that part Of the
sea; that is. all except this one fisher
man n his family, and the only rea-
son he did not &c was that 1t was hard
the lot was a lad about 10 named Oris.
Oris thought he would get eve with
the ogres If his father would let him
try, SO he went out early one morning
in the boat and very soon started home,
just as if the boat was full of fish. AS
he reared land, there on the beach
stood a young ogre whose father vas
chief of the tribe. This persons name
was Hudo.
Good morning, Mr.. Hudo," said Oris
politely. us there anything L can do
for you this morning"'
Hudo grumbled that, as he was 60
ing to be married that night, he nae
come to get some fish for the wedding
feast.
"Well. thai is strange exclaimed
Oris, as he glanced in his boat. Every
one of the fish / caught is gone"
II don't believe you are telling me
the TRUTH returned Hudo. I'm nun
CRY and want something to eat. Be
sides my bride is very fond of fish and
l must ave a few barrels by night"
Il will tell you where you can get
plenty" laughed the boy. Father has
a dozen barrels hidden in the old shed.
If you come around about moonrise
1 will let you in. Then maybe l can
get you some extra things for your
wedding feast" Now, if there is any
thing an ogre loves it is bright colors
and ornaments, SO Oris promised
to have some all ready by evening.
At moonrise the young ogre came
running up to the shed. very hungry
and very cross, but Oris softly called
for him to come in gently.
Here are the fish," said the boy,
pointing to a pile Of barrels. But be-
fore you start let me dress you up for
your wedding" Then he tool a pot of
tar and smeared it over the ogre's
rough hair.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-04-12
the LIFE OF couRrsH,P.

OF milder, calmer beam,
But there's nothing half so sweet in
life
AS loves young DREAM"
Almost every one can readily dis
Germ co%urtship's beginning the tender
glance, the lingering %handclasp, the
desire Of the lover to be at his
sweetheart's side, the fortnightly call
that changes to every other evening
of the week, love notes on the eve
nings he cannot be with her. the tell
ing Of the old, sweet story-so very
old yet so wonderfully new and sweet
to two who have just launched court
ships brave bark. That is its beginning.
If the lover has offered his heart
and hand in marriage and has been
accepted there Is much to look for
ward to-a wonderful world opening
out before them. There Is 30 much to
talk over and plan: their hopes and
prospects. the home nest they = to
have. and the thousand and one things
Of keen interest to both.
II the courtship has been entered
into with love words spoken. and
caressss INDUCED in. but no thought
Of marrias4 has heae ,~sxpresseds there
e - u AA HE. ELaA2 A ~ 1919
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-04-12

Women carpenters have made their
appearance In Mayence. where they are.
taking the place of their .huabandssana.
brothers ct the front.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-08-31
NEW FEATURES FOR
SEPTEMBER FOURTH
Carnival Company Engaged to
Help Entertain Crowds at
Fraternal Celebration

Committees in charge of plans for
the joint Labor Day celebration Of
the Modern Woodmen and the Royal
Neighbors expect to nave the last de-
tail attended to and the stage all set
by Saturday night of this week.
The amusement program was fat
tened up not little today when con-
tract was closed with the Wiggley
Carnival company to bring their at
fractions here. The company carries
a merry-go-round and six carnival
concessions which will be placed on the
grounds near the open air dancing
pavilion at Third and Yakima streets.
The complete program follows:
12:3O-Automobile parade with the
school children. Parade forms at the
grade school building, proceeds north
on Washington street to Second, down
Second to Hotel Kennewick, doubles
back on Second to Yakima street,
then south on Yakima to Third street
to formation in front of arch.
2
100 Speaking program at Third
and Yakima. Address of welcome by
Mayor L. E. johnson. Responses, r.
P. Fulkerson, state deputy head con-
sui of M. w. A., and Mrs. Kingley,
state head oracle, R. N. A.
Concert by Kennewick Pasco
band of Is pieces.
Dancing in open air pavilion.
:OOLBaseball game, Prosser and
Kennewick.
4:3O-Exhibition drill by Uniform
Rank of Pasco X. Of P. lodge.
5:3O-Field sports
1OO-yard dash, free for all.
1O0-yard dash, boys under Is.
5O-yard dash, girls Is and over.
5O-yard dash, boys under IL.
5O-yard dash, girls under IL.
75-yard dash, fat men over 200 fbs.
5O-yard three-legged race, free for
all.
5O-yard sack race, free for all.
Potato race, boys under Is.
6:3O-C Combination automobile and
foot race.
440-yard pony race, boys under ID.
44O-yard pony race, girls under Is.
Saddle horse race, free for all.
Big dance in open air pavilion all
evening. Confetti, novelties and
other carnival features.
Special rates on Kennewick-P Pasco
ferry. Round trip $3.50 for one car;
two or more cars, $1.00 each round
trip.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-08-31
RIVER WILL HELP
IF STRIKE COMES
Steamboat Company is Making
Preparation to Handle the
Increased Traffic

If the railway strike comes Ken
newick's location on the Columbia
river and the advantages of waterway
transportation is going to be very for
cibly emphasized. While cities and
towns in the interior will be entirely
isolated with no means Of transporta-
tion, Kennewick will be able to con-
tinue both freight and passenger traf-
fic to Portland, Seattle, San Francisco
and other port cities.
C. D. Crichton, local steamboat
agent, said yesterday that his COM
pany is making preparations to put
three steamers on the run, converting
one into an oil steamer for the trans
portation of gasoline. Should the tie
up on the railroads continue for long
the river and the boat line will with
out doubt prove an important factor
IN supplying the urgent needs not
only of Kennewick but many of the
inland towns which may be able to
reach the connection with steamers by
means of motor trucks.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-08-31
STATE DECIDES TO SPEND
REST OF ROAD MONEY
Remainder of $4,000 Appropriation
Will Surface About Three
Miles of Highway

H. w. Boetzkes, assistant state en-
gineer, who has had charge Of the
construction of the state highway be-
tween Richland and Benton City, was
in the city Wednesday for the pur-
pose of conferring with J. B. Clements
chairman of the board Of county COM
missioners, as to what to do next to
the uncompleted road.
The road, which was to have been
built from the $4,000 appropriation
made by the last legislature, is now in
an impossible condition. There re-
mains of the appropriation about $8,-
900. The state highway department
has been considering the advisability
of sage-brushing the road for tenn
porary accommodation of travel. This
plan, however, has been abandoned and
State Highway Commissioner Allen
has directed that no expenditure be
made upon the roa0 except for i'm
provements of a permanent nature.
He also directs that surfacing begin
at Benton City. Engineer Boetzkes,
however, believes that surfacing
should begin at this end as it is now
possible to get gravel from the river.
The legislative act also provides that
the money shall be expended for the
construction of the state highway
It is estimated that the money avail
from Kennewick westward.
able will surface about three of the
sixteen miles.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-08-31
SENATOR POINDEXTER IS
COMING SEPTEMBER 9TH
Will Speak of Possibilities for Getting
Favorable Action on the High
Line Canal

The Highlands Improvement club
has received word from u. S. Senator
Miles Poindexter that he will be in
Kennewick September z. The club re-
Gently wrote Senator Poindexter to
request that if possible he visit Ken
newick during his campaign and speak
upon the possibilities of getting work
started on the Northern Pacific high
line or an extension of the Sunnyside
canal to water the Highland lands.
Aftho word has been received that
the senator is coming it is impossible
at this time to fix a definite hour at
which he will speak. The place and
the hour of the meeting, however, will
be announced later.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-08-31
REPRESENTATIVE
CANDIDATES TIE
Gordon MOOres and ]. b. Glenn
ents Are Tied with Several
Precincts Yet to Hear From

Not a little interest, political, social
and otherwise is being created by the
voting contest for Uncle Sam and the
Goddess Of Liberty for the Modern
Woodmen and Royal Neighbors cele-
bration September 4. The sale of Of
ficial celebration badges has been un-
der way for several days and by last
evening when the second of the Sc
ries of dances was given, some real
rivalry between the candidates had de-
veloped. The unique idea of having
each political candidate represented
by one young lady contestant is prov
ing happy one and will undoubtedly
be money-getter for the fraternal
orders.
The first count of votes last night
developed another interesting feature
in that Gordon Moores, republican
candidate for representative, is tied
for first place with j. B. Clements, his
democratic opponent. This is giving
rise to the question whether or not
the celebration will go republican OF
democratic. Dances will be given on
Friday and Saturday evenings Of this
week and the final count Of votes will
be made Saturday night.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-08-31
LAND COMMISSIONER IS
VIEWING BENTON LANDS
Is Getting Idea of Valuations Before
Meeting of State Board of
Equalization

State Land Commissioner Clark v.
Savidge, in company with County As
SCISSOR A. H. Wheaton, County Auditor
j. c. Syfford and Sheriff c. E. Duffy
is making tour of the county. They
came down from Prosser by auto
mobile yesterday and will return to
Prosser this evening thru the Horse
Heaven country.
Mr.. Savidge, who is secretary of the
state board Of equalization, is making
the trip at the invitation of Assessor
Wheaton, who hopes to be able to
convince the board that the assessed
valuations in Benton county are more
than so per cent of the actual valua-
tion rather than only "A per cent, the
ratio fixed at the last session of the
board.
This year Mr.. Wheaton has Topped
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-08-31

Mrs. A. w. Graham and daughter
Audrey entertained the B. D. girls at
four-course dinner Saturday eve-
ming, in honor of Miss Helen Hunt
ington, who leaves next week for Ell
lensburg, to attend the normal, and
Miss Bee Watson, who expects to
leave soon for Spokane. The color
note of yellow was very prettily car
ried out in the table decorations OF
cut flowers, and also in the profusion
of flowers in the parfors, where the
merry B. DIS passed the evening
away with music, song and in recalling
many pleasant hours spent together,
and all wish the honor guests as many
more pleasant hours in their new
school work.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-08-31

off a large acreage from the list of i'm
proved lands and believes he has the
most accurate and equitable assess
ment that has ever been made. In
former years the assessment rolls
haye shown a larger improved acre
age in this county than in Yakima
county for the reason that large tracts
of abandoned farm lands in the Horse
Heaven country have been listed as
improved.
This has been largely responsible
for the small ratio determined upon
by the state board. If the assessor
succeeds in his present effort Benton
county's share of the railroad taxes
will be substantially increased.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-08-31

Lyle Johnson, who has been spend
ing the summer in Seattle, arrived to-
day to visit at the home of his parents
before returning to the University
this fall.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-08-31

A reception will be given by the B.
Y. P. society Friday night at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. L. c. Gardner, in
honor of Misses Dorothy Arnold, Shir-
ley Holmes, Vera Purdy, Addie Card
ner and Edwin Osgood, who leave the
last Of the week for their various
school duties.
Arizona republican., 1916-11-12
REINFORCED CONCRETE IN MINING OPERATIONS

! There is np doubt that the ordin- ary mining engineer. while more or less familiar with his own particular subject is considerably behind his colleagues in other fields in regard to general engineering applications and developments. This is undoubtedly due to the isolation of the average mining engineer. principally on az count of location. This condition of affairs results in a general lag in the application of many modern develop ments to mining operations.
 On the other hand. when snch de- velopments are brought to the at teition of the mining world, there is no class of people more eager to adopt any and all improvements Of merit. and none more open to a clear appreciation of the situation
 This applies with particular force to concrete and reinforced concrete in their utilization in mining develop ments. The production of concrete has increased many fold within the i last decade, and not only has the quality become superior, but methods { and ease of installation are also im- pioved and the cost has diminished almost in the same measure. owing
 to these developments, concrete has ! Teen substituted in many cases where
 timber and brick and iron and steel were formerly ueed, and with grat : i fving results both from an operating
 and first cost point of view.