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Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1916-08-22
SPORT CALENDAR


TUESDAY.
Champion Zip tournament Of Ne
uCnal Archery Association opens at
lc-ssy city.
Saskatchewan prov!pcial cham
p.onsap golf tournament opens at
ji'e1l'p. il'
Lake Eric Circuit lrottine mccting
opens at Fa.rmuui. - az
Bay state Circuit trottiug meet
ing opens NJ Marsuo'd. Mass
Nora @nn,i Association trlt.
tinr meeting upcuU az Omaha
Wednesday.
close OF Windsor Psrk Jockey rluh
meeting, Windsor. ont.
Opening q. annual bench show But
Der Kennel club Butler. Pa
opening OF Iowa state Fair llurs'
SHOW. DOE Nomcg. Iowa
international us and bait casting
tournament opens at NDWiil. S. j
THURSDAY
Opening of annual Newport Horse
SHOW, al Newport V !.
Saturday.
Close OF the meeting Of the Sara
toru Racing Association. Saratoga. y
~
Ncw England a. \. \ / track and
fiald championships at Cambridge.
Mass
Metropolitan A a. a. o. senior
.r-ck and field ohamlt onships at
Brooklyn
Annual regatta Of Long Island
Rowing Association. NJ Brooklyn
Annual bench show OF Asbury Park
! K'uncl club. Long Branch. y. J
one hundred mile automobile track
race. KALAMAZOO. Mich
Midsummer regatta of New Roch
cll' Yacht club Long Island Sound
Opening Of fan meeting OF Con
nourht Park Jockey club. Ottawn
ont
Iu'rrw1uuaiu championship ton
mis- tournament opCaa AZ SAT- Lake
CIV
Kentucky doto rbHWp.lnship ton
oir 'ou-rawor' opens ~ Louisville
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1916-08-22
DENVER MAKES RATE
To PANHANDLE FAIR

r...' rates. 90 'ho panhandf.
s.u Tar from points between
r.Hr.H r.I T,zliue on the Den
..- rU-H.' Tor the special das
... .... fu fb" Fort Worth and
u.... territory wore announced
..I. .Hu.u. This as an additional
-..H.'Hr .ru tbo rate 81 Ger.
rr. . n..I .u'.b j.. good between
rt..H.. ~ lud ~. ON tirF.te
5000 U.ta.sr THl'uc and WichIa
van. PRIOR 20 september n. Tie
HHnd trr rate for the special day
.n|. approximate 60 per cent OF the
.r.r.ar Iue a.s ticket $50 ANNOUNCE
u..t ...0in. special train haa
|U... malr
#.s.f. from Ibe north will bc
GOOD .r train $50 s. September De-.
|rrI Iuu ,ue south ON train 40 O..
September o. Ail tickets viii OK
r.r. september o. Ratrs announe
|.l Nu o., 600 fU. follow .nr scale
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1916-08-22
School Children's
Eyesight

Certified rat. without drops
and without chrrrr nr Wploott
Specialist. ruwa ulle. Phone COS.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-07-20
AS TO PROBATE JUDGES

No office in the court house Is
vested with so much authority and
influence as the probate judge, yet
under the state laws he is selected
without the least requirement as to
his fitness, except his ability to get
votes. He may be a farmer, clerk
or laborer-there is no special fit
ness asked. He may be a very good
man. yet have no real qualification
for the place. He spends about half
his time waiting for five o'clock
and yet is charged with duties that
call for legal procedure and judi
cial powers.
The probate judge should be
trained in the law; he should be
paid enough to obtain man as well
fitted for the place as is a district
judge for his position. He should
have Jurisdiction over most petty
cases that now go to the district
court, should conduct a poor debt
ors court and a court of arbitra-
ton, settling about one-third of the
cases without expensive legal pro-
ceedings and promptly. He should
have parole powers in small Grim
inal cases. He should have an as
sistant who would be parole officer
and public defender and generally
make the probate court the recourse
Of a vast amount Of petty procedure
that now combuers the higher
courts and adds to the expense Of
the county. One term of district
court would be all needed in a year
as we should have constantly in
session a court where quick action
could be obtained and clients could
adjust difficulties promptly.
It is time for the state to adjust
its machinery to the needs Of its
people.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-07-20
YOUNG AUTO THIEF HAD
READ TRACY, THE OUTLAW"

Leland Lambert may not go to
the penitentiary for stealing Dr..
Walter Weddings Ford to take him
to the harvest fields, but the boys
father, who lives in Linn county,
Missouri, Sheriff Head of that coun-
ty, and Judge George H. Whitcomb
of the second division of the Shaw
nee county district court, think
that it may do the boy good to
spend a little time in Jail, accord
ing to the Capital.
When young Lambert was cor
nered in a road between Chapman
and Abilene the deputy sheriff OF
Dickinson county appearing in front
of him and a garage man in a rae
ing car from Chapman closing up
the rear, the lad was found to have
a revolver in his possession. In the
Shawnee county jail he admitted TO
his father, Sheriff Head and w. E.
Atchison, county attorney, that he
had been reading, THE Life OF
Tracy the Outlaw" In these days
when the yellow thrillers' have
been forgotten and the movies are
blamed for almost everything, young
Lambert's admission convinced
Atchison more than ever that the
prisoner is back woods boy.
His father expressed the belief
that the boy had been influenced
by the recounted exploits of Tracy.
Lambert is the most homesick
boy ever placed in the county jail.
Three Topeka men raised to money
to square things" for the Kentucky
boy who had a sweetheart he had
to see right away. Young Lambert
had a date to take his sweetheart
to church last Sunday night. The
elder Lambert said that his son got
huffy' and left home because he re-
fused to let him use his Ford as
much as he wished to take the girl
riding.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-07-20
Geo. thurman Getting Busy

Solomon Tribune: Geo. Huffman,
one of the Republican candidates
for sheriff, was here Tuesday buy
ing mules and incidentally shaking
hands with the voters. Mr.. Huffman
thinks his chances of landing the
nomination are very good. And his
friends agree with him. And these
friends are numerous in Dickinson
county. For many years Mr.. Huff
man has been buying horses and
mules in this county and all who
have had dealings with him know
him to be a reliable and honest man.
These friends are doing all in
their power to further his candi
dacy. And Mr.. Huffman is depend
ing largely upon them to assist him
in getting the nomination. His bust
ness takes much of his time and he
cannot devote as much time as he
would like to his campaign. He
landed the nomination a few years
ago and came very nearly being
elected. If he succeeds in getting
the nomination and wins out in No
vember the people of the county can
rest assured that the office is in
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-07-20
ARMS AND MEXICO

By way of excuse for the horrible
mess into which our Mexican rela-
tions have fallen, the Democrats
are again producing that hoary-
headed old plea that the Mexican
business is IAN inheritance from
Taft" The chronology of the bloody
deeds which have marred Mexican
history in the past few years is
sufficient refutation of the declara-
tion-but, even if it were correct,
it is pertinent to point out that one
item in the inheritance" as 1t
came to Wilson from Taft was a
rigid embargo on arms and ammu-
milton. Had that bequest been pre-
served by the beneficiary Wilson,
practically all our intervening trou-
bles would have been obviated. BY
raising that embargo Wilson made
it possible first for Huerta's foes
to carry on their revolutionary pro-
iects and second for the ambitious
bandits to carry on their wars
against each other and third for
Carranza now to find himself vel
supplied with war materials to use
against us.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-07-20
FIX CITY TAX LEVY
TWO ITEMS RAISED ONE-TENTH
MILL EACH
Board of City Commissioners Place
Total Levy for Running NUM- -
cipality at Eight and Six
Tenths Mills

The board of city commissioners
in its weekly session this morning
at the city hall fixed the annual tax
levy for the coming fiscal year. On
only two items were the levies
raised, that of the park fund was
raised one-tenth of mill, from one
tenth of a mill to two tenths, and
the library maintenance was raised
one-tenth and is now four tenths of
a mill. The total levy is eight and
six tenths mills, five tenths being
added for street lighting formerly
paid out OF the street fund.
The apportionments follow; Gen
eral purposes, 2 mills; street and
alley fund, 1 mill; street lighting.
5 tenths of mill; library mainten-
ance, tenths mill; park fund, 2
tenths mill; interest fund, ~
tenths mills; sinking fund, 2 mills.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-07-20
j. A. FLACK APPLIES TO
CAPPER FOR HIS PAROLE

Application for a parole has been
made to Gov. Arthur Capper by
John A. Flack. Flack was the CASH
Ter of the Abilene State bank which
was the first bank to fail after the
state bank guarantee law became
effective. 1t was due to his embez-
elements that the bank failed. Flack
eluded the officers for several years
but finally was found, penniless, in
a cheap lodging house in New York.
He was convicted on five counts
charging him with ENLIGHTENMENT
and sentenced to serve three years
on each count. He began his SEN
tence in 1912. He has been model
prisoner and is now chief clerk in
the prison store. The hearing of his
will be next month when
the board of corrections meets at
the state prison at Leavenworth-
Topeka Capital.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-07-20
OVER $4,000 PAID HERE
FOR FEDERAL "WAR TAX"

Reports gathered from the four
banks of the city and from the
telephone, freight, express offices
and other institutions that have to
gather money from the people to
pay the Democratic war tax" in
time of peace show that the total
paid in this city in the past IS
months has been over $4,000 in
real money The largest individual
sums are on notes and legal papers
which in instances have run as
high as $40. The revenue thus re-
ceived has supplied that formerly
collected on duties. 1t is to be dis
continued after a while and double
taxes on corporations, incomes and
inheritances made to supply money
for the government. Naturally this
increases the imports which come in
at very low tariff and the imports
from other countries are now the
largest in the nations history and
growing each month under the near
free trade policy.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-07-20
AUTO OWNERS BEWARE
Get Your Tag Before the State In
spector Gets You

Mr.. Motor Vehicle Owner, have
you applied for your new license and
tag? If not, you should do so at
once. Applications for new tags
should have been made two weeks
ago-to be exact, on July 1. Many
motor vehicle owners have already
secured their licenses and tags. Sec
retary of State J. T. Botkin is very
courteous and patient official, but
he insists on treating everybody
alike. Therefore, if you have not
taken out new tag for the coming
year you should lose no time in APP
plying to your county treasurer, eth
er direct or through your local
bank. Most of the banks have blanks
for that purpose. Don't send appli-
cation and check to the secretary of
state. 1t must go to the county
treasurer. The automobile depart
ment is right up with the work. The
tag is sent to the owner the day
after the application is received.
State inspectors will soon begin
picking up delinquents. Get your tag
now, before the inspector gets you.
1t will be an accommodation to the
secretary of state and may save you
trouble. dw1t*
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-07-20
capable hands. Because Geo. Huff
man is a man. dw
THREE DAYS AT CENTURY MARK
Farmers Say Corn VIII BE Injured
With Continued Dry Weather

With a maximum temperature or
102 degrees Saturday, one of 100
yesterday, the weather even warner
today and only a A inch rain in
three weeks the farmers are begin
ming to fear for the safety of the
corn. The weather the last three
days, including today, has been the
warmest Abilene has had in two
years. Today the government Their
mometer registered 80 in the shade
at 2:30 and another thermometer
stood 1O5 degrees at the same time.
Heavy thunder clouds have been
coming in from the south all day
and there are indications of rain,
and even stronger hopes for some
N DISTURB. A storm bank formed in
the north early this afternoon but
so far Abilene has not been bene-
fitted.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-07-20
MANY DIRE THINGS IN
AUTO ACCIDENT RUMORS

Two girls killed when an auto
mobile went over the indian Hill
embankment, a boy run over by a
motor car and woman run down
BY an automobile was the substance
Of rumors of Sunday automobile
accidents that were circulating here
today. After much sleuthing and
detective work none of these re-
ports materialized with the evcep-
tion of a minor accident experienced
by N. Cole. county treasurer on
the road home from Woodbine last
evening. Mr.. Coles car ran into a
telephone post and bent an axle,
after going into a rut.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-07-20
NATIONAL MEET AT HERINGToN
Old Trails Assn. to be in Dickinson
County in August

The next meeting of the National
Old Trails association will be held
in Herington, says the Times.
Judge j. M. Lowe of Kansas City,
president of the association, prom
ised w. w. Ray, who was in Kansas
City the latter part of last week that
the meeting would be held here and
Mr.. Ray Immediately wired the off
GERS of the local association.
The exact date of the meeting
has not been fixed but it will be
after August 18th. The Old Trail
passes through thirteen states and
each state, it is expected will have
from one to three delegates here.
In addition to the delegates, Kansas
CITY. Missouri, and many towns in
Kansas will in all probability send
large crowds. 1t is assumed that
from 200 to 300 Old Trail boosters
will be in the city.
The rivalry for this meeting was
very keen. Marshall and Columbus,
Missouri, were both eager to secure
it. 1t is not often that a town as
small as Herington secures a ma
tional meeting and the citizens of
the community have a right to be
proud of the fact that the National
old Trail association will hold its
annual meeting here.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-07-20
NO DOCTORS AT CHURCH
CALL WENT UNANSWERED

A young man rushed frantically
up to DR.. Blayney in the midst Of
his sermon at the theatre last night
and put in an emergency call for
two Abilene physicians, reporting
an automobile accident south of the
city. The two wanted were not in
the audience and further question:
ing disclosed that there was not a
local NJ. D. in the congregations
Casting no reflections on the pro-
fession it is supposed that they were
otherwise engaged with their prac-
tees.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-07-20
FINAL REGISTRATION ROUND
UP OF DISQUALIFIED VOTERS

Until Friday night of this week
at 10 O'Clock the registration books
will be open and any person who
has moved into another ward or
changed his residence since the last
election or done anything else that
legally disqualifies him from suff-
rage rights before reregistering.
should make it a point to visit the
city hall. The candidates are busy
rounding up those ineligible and
perhaps you may be reminded Of
your standing by one Of them.
The books have been open until
10 each night since July II.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-07-20
CHILD MAY
RECOVER FROM PARALYSIS

Mcpherson, July Truth, the
little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ed. Rariden, suffering from infan-
tile paralysis, may recover.
Dr.. w. E. Easton. the attending
physician, reported that the child is
showing signs Of improvement. 1t
manifests a tendency to move the
lower limbs and seems to be more
cheerful.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-07-20
Former Resident Here for Burial

The funeral services for D. F.
Heckard, who died at Dodge City
and whose body was brought here
for burial, were held this afternoon
at 2 O'Clock at the EichOltz under
taking parlors, with DR.. F.S. Blay-
ney officiating. Six members of the
Abilene post G. A. R. acted as pail
bearers. Interment was in the Abb
lene cemetery.
Mr.. Heckard was formerly EN-
ployed at the Kruger carpenter shop
in this city but several years ego
went to Hutchinson and later to
Dodge City.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-07-20

For sale, 16 h. Garrscott engine,
S2x54 separator, y Dbl. water
tank, all in running order. Price
$500. Earl Knisely, Buckeye phone
r.. R. i. Abilene. 13w9t'
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-07-20

Scotch Collie pups from regis
tered stock. Telephone Acme. s. H.
I.ephert Abilene. 13wtfI
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-07-20

Dead horses and cattle removed
free. Phone charges refunded. Call
234, 731, 1850. Dederick Rendering
Works. WI
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-07-20
w. H. MYERS
of Wakefield, Kansas

of Wakefield, Kansas
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR
STATE SENATOR
22nd District
Look For His Name ON the Primary
Ballot and make an \ in the square
Your Support VIII Be Appreciated
advertisement
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-12-03
THE SOWER OF SMALL SEEDS.

ON7E hang upon the tender melody of "Slver Threads
II Among the Cold but many have heard OF Eben
\VN| Rexford. He died short time ago. He once
" popular song writer Some of his lyrics have lived to
become household favorites. fewke "Sver Threads
have been mmortazed The composer forgotten long be-
fore he died His song will live indefinitely in the hearts and
minds of and DID, continued reminder of domestic feay
OF the fact that true affection is diminished by time
About the time that Rexord passed away Benjamin Kidd
died He the author of of the greatest works that
line produced in the past half Evolution Its
appearance followed by worldwide acclaim that star
would indefinitely shine the armament of scientific literature
But after fleeing period during which his originality and
of thought accorded universal slipped
back into the twilight of public forgetfuness.
There thousands of coming in the tides OF
larty the rs SO apparently
figures who in short time have found themselves in positions
OF more or less obscurity.
At earlier date the nations history they might have lived
much longer the public mind but honors have been
ousy divided competition for popular favor empestuous
active demands perssten eXactnga situation that be-
coming each the becomes crowd
ed before audience that be discriminating and cir
as is and tickle
The hundreds OF thousands who strive in vain reach the
stage what OF them?
Discouraged true but is there hope? Anyway,
there always opportunity perform service in the
circle Even there good work be done perhaps last
ing in its influence, although unosentaously performed
The song OF Rexord will live the philosophy Of Kidd will
form the basis for advanced houghough both
composer and author have long been forgotten but who
in the severely circumscrbed spheres
pies that may take root for beneficial frlitage.
There fertile ground for the small seeds of poiteness,
OF sefcontro OF unselhhness of modesty Of moderation
What matter if the sower be instantly forgotten?
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-12-03
TALKS ON THRIFT
Savings Bank Centennial Series.

Don't take the top sheet" Is the
order issued by large insurance COM
pany to it's employees when taking sta
tionery from the stock room. The rea-
son is, the top sheet is soiled and
dusty and must be thown away, only
to leave another top sheet to become
soiled and wasted.
over the electric button in a large
hotel is the request: I'VE would ap-
preciate the favor II you will turn out
the light when leaving the ROOM"
Some hotels furnish q large cake of
soap for each room daily, whether the
guest changes or not. the bulk of which
is wasted. while other hotels furnish a
small cake just large enough for a
days use. Some hotels have the heavy
and costly counterpanes Numbered
every day, while others have the maids
turn the covers back each night to
avoid soiling.
The reason for these small economies
is not niggardlness, but good manage
ment. OF what use is a large cake of
soap when a small one answers the
same purpose? Why burn the light
when you are out OF a room? Why
soil expensive linen when a little care
would prevent?
II every employe in a large office
wastes but one sheet of paper day
and every guest burns hours of need
less light. the yearly cost is enormous
If a hotel can save but cent a room
day on soap, it means a yearly saw
ing of $500 in a hotel with 500 rooms
If every bundle that goes out of de-
partment store has half cents worth
of needless paper and Irvine, the loss is
a large item in the firms annual prof.
and loss account.
A certain restaurant found that 4
| cost 100000 year to supply bread anC
| butter gratis, and by charging but Il
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-12-03

cents for this service turned a loss of
$4,000 into profit OF $4,000. That is
good management. however much we
may grumble at the 1O-cent tax.
Success in business, success in life, IN
matter of applying thrift principles
to little things. We too often forget
that dimes make dollars. And as waste
counts up fast, so savings grow apace.
If You were allowed to go over the
books of any savings bank you would
find hundreds Of accounts that show
steady, systematic saving. 1t may be
but dollar or two a week, but in the
long run II mounts up. A certain
young lawyer in New York who was
once a pack peddler made II a steady
habit when a boy to save SO cents
weekly, and he was as regular as the
clock. 1t was the beginning of a sue
cessful career. Another young man
about to be married, saved SIS a week
for two years out of q salary of SIS and
never missed week.
The results OF such systematic work
will surprise even yourself. You know
that fifty times two make a hundred,
but If you apply the principle to a bank
account, you are bound to believe It,
Little leaks can sink a ship as we'll as
great hole in the bow, and do 1t with
less confusion. Little savings can
make you rich as well as great strike
The reason so many people are poor is
simply because they cannot stop the
little leaks. They spend little sums
all the time. and in the multitude of
little spendings reach a total that
proves disastrous. Thrift in little
things will make you thrifty In big
ones; but you never can have the big
things unless you give heed to the little
ones. Watch yourself for few days
and see how your money gets away
from you. You will surprise even
| yourself
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-12-03
AN IMPERIsHABLE GEM.

To the Editor: Can you tell the
name of the author of the poem be-
ginning, u have a little puppy dog
with hairs upon it's tall This poem
is so often found in scrapbooks and
has given pleas ire to so many that it
seems it's author should be better
known. r. HEE.
This little gem has often been in
correctly attributed to Mrs. Ella
Wheeler Wilcox, its sweet simplicity
and great piety of thought having
much to suggest the work of that gift
ed poetess. 1t Is, however from the
pen of Mr.. Francis X. Bushman, who
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-12-03
DAILY LESSON IN HISTORY

One Hundred Years Ago Today.
1S16-The Ohio general as
sembly met for the first time
at Columbus.
Seventy-rIve Years AGO Today.
1S41-Rt. Rev. Lemuel n.
Wells, for nearly 20 years Epis-
copal bishop of Spokane, born
at Yonkers, n. Y.
Fifty Years Ago Today.
1S66-The Thirty ninth con-
gress assembled for its final
session.
Twenty-Five Ye;rs Ago Today.
1891 - Nova Scotia, New
Brunswick and Prince Edward
Island discussed a project for
union as one province.
One Year Ago Today in the War.
United States asked recall of
Captain Boy-Ed and Captain
Won Papen, German attaches;
Serbians evacuated Monastir;
Germans concentrated at Rust
chuk to meet reported Russian
invasion of Bulgaria: British
fell back from advanced posi-
ton near Bulgar frontier.