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Bills Allowed

Canon city. Colorado. June Is. 1916.
The folloSing is list OF bills paid by
RADIO. IT its meeting. May Is. and June
9Th. 1915
meni League $4,000. Canon City Cham
Der OF Comm, re. sse-sa
salary FUND.- \. Cooper $500.
sis-ae. Lafe Combs $500. j. n. Ander-
G Huntoon $500. n j.. Craig 1890.
John Hamilton $500. J. Seaman $1,000.
Augustus Prase sse-oe. g NJ. Benton
.Pafk Fund--Harve Blsbee s5e,oo.
Bancroft Hdw. Co. sl.oe. Brookside
Coal Go tis.ss. Harding Hdw. Co $3.50.
Strett. AIey ana Bridge Fuud-Tom
Parker $500. W. : Merris $4,000. 4
W. q Campbell $500. W b. Reiter
ssi.os. Park Allison ssS,ee. Henry Al
Lambert $500. J. G Strickland si.oo.
J. ". McDaniels seo.oe, NJ. simpson
$500. \. Hcmmerie $500. Fred Humid
Hdw. Go. $3.50, : C. Taylor q. 4 II. Co.
$3.50. Colo. State Pen $500.
Fire Fund-i. y. Barber $1,000. l. y.
Barber fI0.so. r. W. Johnson $500.
Peter Pringle $500. Canon Auto Co.
se..e. J. Il. Govern $500, W. h. HOLLAND
ord $500. Electrical Supply Co. s5s.se.
Morgan Paint Co. I5c-
Police Fund r. skinner $4,000,
i.1 Jerry Moran sISso; Joe ciaySaugh $500
Cemetery FUND.- :. MuRroe s6o.Oe.
4. r. Ralston $500
Lighting Fund-Ark V. Ry. l. & p.
Co. <ts7.0a.
Public Librsry--Mrs. Julia Mack.
Treas sie5.0o.
Health Fund-R. f. Holmes $500.
Miscellaneous Fund. NJ. Anderson
$3.50. city Clerk $3.50. e +. Hoeckei
ss.oh. Daily Record sst.se. out West
Il. 4 5. Co. sis.ss. :. A. Two s4.o0.
Mountain 5. 7. 4 7. Co. ss.Is. Bancroft
1dw. Go. s1.o5, {. r. Tanner s7.ss. G. t.
T Wood 4 Son s4.55. Canon Grocery Co.
si..oe, Sanitary Sewer Dist. No. :. Gen
cral Fund S5s.l9. Sanitary Sewer Dist.
No. ?. city Treasurer Sio0S.17. Sidewalk
& Grading Dist. No. .. city Treasurer
Water Fund--Iohn cheteiat sli5.oo,
Lee wynkoop SS5OO Cleo Combs
$1,000. Y. Porteous $1,000. J. Seaman
$4,000. Theo shoemaker ss.oo. Joe Clu-
cas- s5.s5. G. \. ott $500, Geo. Schultz
erson ss.25. Fred Hundley $2.oo. Fred
OF $500 Faro Patrone sa0e, J. w.
Wagers Se.oe. Frank McEniry ssoa.
Tom Lambert $500. L. Ritzman $3.50.
Ark V. Ry. l. & r. Co. soc. Bancroft
Hdw. co. soc. Harding Hdw c.. $3.50.
Emil Gauike ss.s5. :. g. Taylor n. * II.
Co. si.Ss, Mountain : T, T. Co. $3.50.
Rambler Print shop s9,se. Galley Shoe
Bolthoff NJ 4 :. Co. si.s4. T. $. I'm
derwood sss.oo. sinking t'und Water
JONATHAN SEAMAN.
City Clerk.
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GONE TO CHICAGO FOR MONTHS
VISIT.

Miss Mabel Fitzgerald returned to
her home at Poncha Springs last Fri
day from Canon City where she has
been student at Mount St Scholas-
tica's academy during the past year.
She will leave on Tuesday for Chicago.
being met at Canon City by Sister
malda Of the academy. who will ac-
company her on the trip east. Miss
fitzgerald will visit relatives in Chi
caso for month or six weeks.-salida
Mall
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sonooL ORDERS CALLED.

Notice is hereby gwen that the fol-
lowing registered School Warrants and
Hardscra bible Irrigation District War
rasts issued by the several districts OF
Fremont County. drawn upon the seve-
raj funds Will be paid upon presenta-
tloH TO the County Treasurer at his
office in Canon city. Colorado, any
time. during business hours. b-twf N
the date OF this notice and the 18th
day Of July, \. u. 1916. and furth-
er notice is hereby given that school
Warrants or Hardserabble Irrigation
District Warrants called 10y this no.
tice not so presented. shall cease to
draw interest on ard after midnight OF
July 18th. \. n 1915.
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/, CHAUTAuQUA NOTES
CANON CITY, JULY arm TO 10TH

self upon the marriage feast Lor the
stlll. He is the great American clam
and is held in escrow pending condi-
tions which it is hoped will never oc-
cur to make him shuck himself and
come out in the open.-J. Adam Bede.
Every time J. Adam opens his mouth
he says something that makes you
laugh. And then after a time you
laugh some more. There is no one
in the world like him. no one quite
ril Int to fill the place he occupies in
this seasons Chautauqua. the most
pretentious yet brought here.
DR.. GEO. C. AYDEloTT
Il does not matter so much where
man original e1-in the tree toIs OF
Central Asia or any other remote
plaoe-as the distance he has travel
ed during the centuries according to
George Aydeiott who is one of the
Chautanqua features this year. His
lecture describes the sort of man that
is needed right today TO do a share of
the work OF the world. man OF
ideas. You will remember them.
MIscHA LHEvINNE.'
These Russians are always so odd
in showing their sentimental side.
Note In the Chautauqua advertising
this season Lhevinne is advertised as
"Mlseha" Ihevinne instead Of Mo
ritz" as he is known over the United
States. Now. this is the reason the
advertising matter was changed: (:
Recently Lhevinne received news OF
the death OF his mother. To honor
her memory he wishes to go tack to
the name she always called him.
-Mischs." Both names aer orally the
same. being the good old Bible name
of Moses. The French call II Maurice.
the Germans Nortz. the Russians
Mischa. So Lhevinnes Russian moth
er who speaks no ENGLISH. loved
"Mischa Tie Redpath eople chang
ed the printing.
eELLiNo.
For years and years one of the
popular comedians on the American
stage has been one. Joe Cawthorn.
Cawthorn plays an accordion. He
plays Il delisLtfuliy in all his perform
ances for several bars But Just as
the audience begins to get into the
mood for the lovely music the mean
Joseph goes OF on some funny stunt
and leaves the audience agasp for the
completion of a phrase. We will have
with us at our chautauqua an accor-
dionist as captivating as cawthorn
and not so tantalizinE. ReiIino Is a
real artist on the accordion His
music sounds like 4 complete orches-
tar with an orgnn thrown in for good
measure. And he always finishes his
piece" In fact he finishes it with
the touch OF genius and art u at only
the devotion of a lifetime OF love and
labor can produce. Bellino is one OF
the truly great" whom you will en-
Joy at the Chautauqua.
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wEATHERFoRp, TEXAS LIKES
THIS YEARS cHAuTAuouA


~ The Herald OF " eathesford, Texas.
has this to say of one days program
of the Chautauqua which h finished
there and will be-in in Canon City
July 18th:
Monday wss the third day Of the
Chautauqua and the program was
both varied and entertaining. The
musical part of the program was fur
nished by Bellino. the great accordion
player, and he proved himself master
OF the instrument. This accor-
dion is a wonderful instrument. has
16l keys. and the artist made 1t imi-
tate every instrument used in orches-
tral music.
From the viewpoint OF education
and entertainment. the speaker for
the afternoon was perhaps the best
that has appeared this season Julius
Caesar Maybe is a son OF Greek
noblemen, and has only been IN this
country comparatively few years He is
a minister OF the gospel. but is giving
work. telling the story OF what Amer
lea means to the world. In his lee
ture he dwelt largely with habits. Gus
toms and costumes OF the Orient. ex-
hibiting many gor. eous costumes used
by the nobility of his country. The
speaker used several young ladies of
the city in exemplifying the greetings
and matrimonial ceremonies of
Greece.
After a short program by Bellino
on the accordion. which was so well
received that he had to respond to
encores several times. the entertain
er for the evening was presented by
Mr.. Belts.
Noah Beilharz is real entertain
err impersonator and thrilling story
teller. For more than an hour he kept
the little folks and the big ones. too.
In an exhIierating spirit. laughing at
his characterization OF the many reo-
pie he impersonated In the "Hoosier
Schooimaster- and other stories.-
J. ADAM eEDE.
The vice-pres,dent Is the only ofh-
elai nonentity In our system of gov
eminent. He is elected for four years
to loaf around the throne and wonder
what is going to happen. incidentally
he presides over the senate when In
session. II he feels like II. bit is not
a member OF that body and has no
speaking Acquaintance with any sub
ject before t. The Senate makes its
own rules and construes them. and
the ice-president is presumed to com
init this fact to memory. He hiss no
patronage. no voice In public affairs.
no seat at the council chamber-no
push nor pull anywhere in the scheme
OF governmen,-but Is like a second
hand husband agreed on In advance
and held under suspicion. who as a
matter OF taste must not obtrude him.
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Canon city. Colorado. June Is. 1916
The foiio~ing is list Of bills paid by
The City Council OF Canon city. Colo
RADIO. ut its meeting. May Is. and June
9Th 1916
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this Eth day of June. \. D. 1915.
tSEAL1 BLAKE ROGERS,
County Treasurer.
BY r. l. HINMAN. Deputy.
First publication. June -. 1916
Last publication. July IL. 1915.
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LIFT ron oGArrLg, TO-DAY.
Il. c. Hiatt left this morning Tor
Denver on HE way 70 Seattle. WASH
inston, whsrs ho viii spend some time
On . pleasure a. ssessstioa eatiag.
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souarely on the French guns, but invari-
ably the gunners would bravely reply.
Two or three German captive balloons
and several aeroplanes flying back Of the
German lines would observe where the
shells fell and direct the firing.
In order to battle the German range
finders the French hit upon a happy
scheme. For several hundred yards
in front of their guns they built a
shield. 1t was made Of ordinary burlap
stretched upon poles, and was about flf-
teen feet high. Thereafter, when the
Germans bombarded the battery they
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PFDDT ING POEMS FROM THE DEATH HOUSE

mind worked" said the seller of poems.
'They were getting old and had for
tune. l was young, but getting older,
and there was danger | should be too
old to enjoy the money to the full when
it came into my hands. A few years of
life. more or less, would mean nothing
to them, yet those few years might be
made into the happiest of my life. So
| did what did"
could not understand why a man,
calmly proceeding to commit murders
thus philosophically conceived, should
not have laid better plans to cover his
tracks.
"Oh," said Waite. That's always
been my trouble. | haven't any reason
ing power-never have had. When it
occurs to me to do a thing | just go
ahead and do it. The rest all comes
afterward."
That reminded us of Kane and Potter,
the embalmer and the undertaken.
Waite chuckled--as he had chuckled
when the pair were sweating on the wit
ness stand over their wabblng story of
simple hearts and fairy gold.
81 guess everybody in the courtroom
knew Kane was lying" laughed the den
tist. Il guess he knew they knew. That
was the funniest part Of it.
"Why did T decide to let go of $4,000
so easily? WE'LL what would you have
done? was up against it and had to
move fast. | sort of suspected at the
time that | wasn't going to do myself
any good. But, at that, what did the
$4,000 amount to against the big
stake?
Those chaps certainly are slick. Do
you know, | can't remember single
time now when either came right out
into the open with any proposition. But
they made it painfully plain that the
District Attorney was after sample of
that embalming fluid and that the next
move was mine"
Waite suddenly realized he was talk
ing to q reporter-giving something
away. Back he came to the main chance,
with jerk.
eve were talking about that poetry
of mine," he recalled. Now, want to
be perfectly fair and above-board with
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(you can bank on thatD and explain:
well, | want to leave it to my father
and brothers and couple Of other peo-
pie and institutions that have made
themselves dear to me. There's nothing
more | want for myself, understand.
I've gambled for that, and since I've lost
I'm through"
Gambling" is Waite's word for the
murder of John E. Peck, the Grand Rap
ids millionaire, and Mrs. Peck; his life
staked against their lives and their
fortune covers it, he believes. Having
lost, with the Pecks, to the kitty of Fate,
he looks casually ahead to his trip to the
chair as no more than the settlement Of
little debt of honor.
THE DOCTOR INVITES BIDS
That day the jury walked into JUS
tice Shearn's courtroom with their ver
dict of guilty as charged Waite sent
note to a group of reporters. He was
not going to be interviewed right then,
he said, but later he might write some
impressions" 1t was one way of serv-
ing notice that the days of free copy
provided by Arthur Warren Waite were
over-an invitation for bids.
A couple of days afterward I dropped
in at the Tombs. Object to inspect
some poetry from the Waite pen and
learn how much he valued it at.
For weeks Waite had been one Of the
most ungetatable prisoners the Tombs
ever held Hundreds of notes had been
sent to his cell by reporters. Every one
had drawn the same reply: Nothing to
say"
But we hadn't known the combination
then. There had been hints in the other
notes that Waite's position before the
public might be bettered if he talked to
US. This last note of mine suggested
BADLY that the prison poet probably
would be richer when we parted, once
we ever met. 1t worked like charm.
"Come up and we'll talk" was the
message Waite sent back.
Up went, toward what promised to
be an awkward few minutes. Buying
manuscript, particularly from murder
ers, is little out of my line.
But the atmosphere of gloom was dis
PEELED at the start The keeper behind
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By ROBERT II. ROHDE

like to blow my own horn, but it's up to
me, | guess. If my brother Frank were
here-he's up in the library, you know,
and has a fine literary taste-he'd do
the talking.
81 can only tell you what Frank says.
He's assured me that my verse is really
good enough to be marketable, even
though it didn't have the advantage Of
IA well known name.
NO ORDINARY POETRY THIS
'Tt's not like ordinary poetry. write
Just as | feel, as things come to me. |
suppose you'd call some of it mystical.
You'll find my whole philosophy in it
how can be here in body and roaming
in the fields at the same time; why
don't worry any more about the electric
chair than | did before | had any
thought of sitting in it. Doesn't that
sound interestingly
asked to see some Of the poetry.
Again that faraway look.
"Now I'm dreadfully sorry, but /
haven't scrap of it here"
DR.. Waite, poet, was taking no chance
on having any of his works printed, or
extracts therefrom, before money had
changed hands.
"But where-%
MY brother has every last bit of it
Frank. We sort of decided that it would
be better for him to make the arrange
ments. I'm afraid that if handled the
business end there'd be more talk about
me being money mad.
I'm not, and it isn't fair to infer it.
Money doesn't mean thing to me, now.
Those days have passed. Once wanted
ell the dollars | could get my hands on.
gambled for them and lost. Now I'm
just waiting to pay the score. But
don't see any reason-do you?-why |
shouldn't be earning something as
wait" siaafl.
We drifted off the subject for mo-
ment; talked about the trial and GER
tain tennis-playing, literary friend of
Waite's-a mutual friend-who had
spent a day in the courtroom, unseen;
got into philosophy.
Eyes, think that's about the way my
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the grill of the first tier, instead of talk
ing in an appropriately sepulchral whis-
per and tiptoeing away, lifted happy
voice.
ooh, docw he caroled. doc Waite;
oh, Doc Waite. Front and centre, doc
Here's company
And, front and centre, marched the
poetical poisoner.
Haggard?
Well, if there was healthier or hap
pier looking man in that big building
south of the Bridge of Signs, miss my
guess. Waite looked as if he had stepped
from under a shower five minutes be-
fore. He was clean-shaved and immacu-
late of linen; his shoes were shined and
his trousers pressed to the detail of the
right sort of tie pin he was ready for the
Avenue.
Il manage to keep fairly fresh,
thanks" said Waite, catching the sur
prise in my eyes. That's because, half
the time, I'm wandering in fields and
woods. They can keep my body here in
prison, but my spirit slips through the
bars at will. When Pm writing my po-
etry I'm no more among these criminals
here than
He paused, coughed and smiled, show
ing two rows of even, white, well-cared-
for teeth. Thus quickly we had come
to cases. Almost in the first dozen
words the subject of poetry had been in
troduced, and /, the man who was not
locked in, had been put at ease.
About the poetry?" .--f
"Oh, yes"
Waite's smile broadened to a grin.
ooh, yes" he repeated. 'T'm awfully
glad you're interested in it. That's what
want to do--leave something behind so
that people won't remember me just by
the bad things I've done. | don't think
of any better way to spend what's left
of my life than in writing little poems.
Besides smile fading into a
faraway lcok-"don't you think should
be able to earn quite considerable money
that way"
THAT would depend, of course, on
Eyes; ! know-on how good the po-
etry is, you were going to say. don't
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wv re LITERARY persons who
w haven't great deal more to go
ahead on than industry. pa

w a
w ahead on than industry, pa
tience, faith and trick of closing the
first instalment just ahead Of the edl-
tors yawn-we who haven't, as a GER
tain new competitor so naively suggests,
KILLED a couple of folks"-would best
prepare for hard times.
THEY'RE on the way, and coming just
as fast as the pen of that illustrious
poet and poisoner, Arthur Warren
Waite, can be made to travel. That same
Waite-that same debonair dentist who
fed germs and arsenic to his wealthy
father-in-law and mother-in-law, and
who is now in the death house at Sing
Sing. smiling back on trail of blood
and broken hearts-is the one we have
to look out for.
In his cell up the river, just one this
mortal side of little door that is called
the Green One, though its color long
since has been changed to brown, DR..
Waite is writing out his heart. He
isn't writing entirely "on spec" either,
for he has a comfortable feeling of as
surance that the market for his product
will be quick and inclined to the bullish.
But bullish or not, it's safe to say that
the price the market yields for Mus
ings of Murderer" "Prison Songs of
Poisoner," "The Waite Trial from the
Inside" "The Chair" and such other
manuscript as he may have in prepara-
tion will be DR.. Waite's price.
While the literary merit of his work
is yet problematical, the rhyming dent
ist to date has proved himself sharp
man to trade with. With only few
weeks to live, or, at the outside, few
months, Waite is just as keen in con-
serving his own financial interests as if
he were free to fly to the end of the
world with his studio love, Mrs. Horton.
Death hangs over hinl-a death that
neither doctors nor dollars can avert
but the Waite sense of values is un-
changed.
'I'm not money mad" he'll tell you if
you go to him with the card of a pub
Usher, "but do demand fair price for
my work. | won't be here long, you
know, and while | stay want to earn
lust as much as / can"
Ask him what on earth-knowing
well how little on earth there is he can
buy-he wants money for. He'll smile
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front the German trenches run across a
railroad line which leads from French
village about half-mile away The Ger
mans could see plainly down the tracks,
and were in the habit of taking pot shots
with their rifles at the French soldiers
who crossed the tracks.
The French called in a well known
painter to help them. Upon an enormous
canvas he painted landscape represent
ing exactly what the Germans saw when
they looked down the tracks. 1t was
splendid piece of work, in full color and
in perfect perspective. One night this
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were no longer able to see where their
shells fell, and were consequently unable
to direct their fire with any degree of
accuracy. Of course, portions of the
shield were blown down at times by the
exploding shells, but it was the work OF
only few minutes to make repairs.
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you. dor't want you going into deal
with your eyes closed and it's only right
/ should warn you there's another paper
after it. But you go up and see Frank
Look over the stuff and give him an
idea of what you think it's worth. |
know he likes your paper and would
rather sell it to you-other things being
equal, of course"
"How about writing some prose%
"No, now-do you know, I'd never
thought Of that. I'd rather write po-
etry. But do you think there'd be good
market for prose? What would write
about?"
"Just as much market for that as for
your verse. And why not write
your courtroom impressions during the
trial?"
Hmm"
Waite rested his elbow on a cross bar
of the grating and laid thoughtful fin
ger along his cheek.
PROSE WOULD BE REAL WORK
81 might, at that" he mused. But
that would be real hard work for me.
Poetry just flows out naturally. Id
have to charge more for what came
harder, wouldn't /?
ut WOuld be pretty readable" he
went on. "Of course you'd want TO run
it in instalments; so much each day for
so many days. What do you suppose it
would be worth?"
ITS your party, doctor We've come
to you to buy something of yours. You
set the price, therefore"
"But give me some idea of how news
papers pay for such things. I've heard
they get pretty high for this sort OF
thing-pay as vaudeville managers pay
for stars. A chap like you, for in
stance"-
I named the salary that covers the
rent of five rooms in Flatbush.
"Yes," agreed Waite; 'but you haven't
killed couple of people. That's prob
ably all you're worth to the man who's
paying you. If you ever get where | am,
then, probably, you'll be able to COM
mand as much as I'll get, or even more.
"Still, don't believe you'd change
places with me now. Would you? Would
you be in my shoes to get the money
that I'll get before die?'
Continued on page sir.)
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Another ingenious device of the
French is the use of painted scenery as
a means of misleading the enemy. Here
is an entirely new phase of warfare, one
that often adds touch of humor to this
grim business.
At a certain point along the battle
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By WILLIAM p. FAY

In company with several other young Americans mr.
Eav went to France last fall to join the American
Ambulance Corps For past eight months ne has been
driving field ambulance various first line stations along
the French battle During this time ne has usually
worked under fire. and fact lived for weeks In
house that within rifle of the German trenches
The photographs he took himself.
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This Keeps Germ an Gunners from
Seeing Where Their Shells Land.

This Keeps Germ an runners from
Seeing Where Their Shells Land.
~ INCE the beginning of the war the
- French have shown themselves to
~ have many sides to their charac-
ter that no one had suspected before.
One of these newly apparent traits is
their remarkable craftiness in inventing
military devices of various sorts. For
example:
On the side of a certain hill close by
the German trenches there is French
battery of several large guns. 1t is IN
a particularly favorable position, COM
manding as it does an important section
of the German trenches. For many
months it has been in the same location
and by frequent bombardments the Ger
mans eventually managed to get an al
most perfect range upon it with their
long distance guns. So accurate, in fact,
was their firing that one could sit in
comparative safety by the window Of
house only a few hundred yards away
and watch the bombardments. 1t was
like having box at theatre. One
could hear the ''depart" as the French
term the initial explosion-of the guns
in the distance, then for fifteen seconds
the tearing of the shells through the
air like the arriving Of an expressJtrain,
and finally the crash as the shells landed.
Often the shells would appear to land