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The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1917-10-05

Articles OF news value are given prefer
ence. Essays will be published as space per-
mits, in the orderin which they are received
The second Assembly of the year
was held Wednesday morning The
following numbers were given:
Sony, Star Spangled Banner.
Piano solo Shirley Kruger
Review ''Mr. BrItling sees It through"
H. G. Wells-Edith Qulrk
Violin solo Ferne Carrck
Reading Florence Lathrop
Song School
Miss Constance clyde and Miss
Charlotte Lewis will spend the week
end 10 Moscow visiting friends at the
Gamma Phi Beta house.
The Freshmen are all agog over a
party TO be given Friday evening In
the High school gymnasium, 10 return
for the generous hospitality extended
by the Sophomores several weeks ago.
There is an air OF subdued mystery
about the members OF the class,
while numerous consultations are
held in class meetings and out.
Wednesday the following Invitation
addressed to students and faculty,
appeared ON the board:
'Leive all your woes and
Forget all your foes and
Come to the Freshman party.
Thru your brain you must hunt
And think Of some stunt.
And come with an appetite hearty"
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1917-10-05

SOME one has remarked
that people who want to fight
should go to Europe, and
those who want to talk should
talk business. Which re-
minds us that whole nations
are making war business.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1917-10-05

APOSTOLIC HOLINESS CHURCH
At Russell hall.
Services will be held In the Russell
hall next Sunday evening at 1880
Sunday school, 10 a. M.
At Garwood- 10 Rimrock school at
p. m. every Sunday.
Everybody cordially invited.
Milton Schweitzer, Pastor.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1917-10-05
The Evans Supply Co.

CONDITIONS among the manufacturers and
wholesalers of all kinds of merchandise are becoming
more serious daily.
THE GOVERNMENTS is stepping in and
taking what they want for the of their hundreds
of thousands of men, and the meager supply that is
left there will be a scramble for For your
good, wherever you buy make your purchase Of
your winter goods soon.
GIVE your home merchant the preference; he
will do his best take of you, and while his
prices may be triAe higher than those of the mail
order houses you take into consideration
quality the satisfaction of examining the goods
before buying. and the fact that the home merchant
is the fellow who is helping keep up the schools
and churches of your City and that he is the man
who comes in mighty convenient for accommoda-
tons during the year,-then govern yourself accord
ingly.
THE EVANS SUPPLY CO.,
Rathdrum, Idaho.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1917-10-05
State OF Ohio. City of Toledo.
TMCao Na1snfv h -.

Frank Cheney makes oath that he e
senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney
q Co. dong business in the City of To.
ledo County and State aforesaid. and
thai SAID firm will pay the sum OF ONE
HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and ev-
cry case OF Catarrh that cannot be cured
by tie use OF HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK ]. CHENEY.
Sworn to before mo and subscribed In
my presence. this 9Th day Of December.
A. ID. 1886.
(SeaD A. w. GLEASON.
Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally
and acts directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces OF the system. Send for
testimonials, free
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Hairs Family Pills for constipation.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1917-10-05
STEADY WORK.

STEADY WORK. 35 cents per
hour and up, according to the job.
Can use a few gangs Of contract
sawye's. Board $l00 per day. Apply
Blackwell Lumber Company, Fern
wood, Idaho. Fernwood is located on
the Elk River branch Of the @. M. s.
St. p. railroad. lift
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1917-10-05
LUTHERAN CHURCH.

Divine services in the German Ian
Ruage at II A. NJ. Sunday in Rsth-
drum prairie school house No. 10,
Sunday school at 10 a. M.
e. Schneppe, Pastor.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1917-10-05
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

SUNDAY School at 10 a. III. Glasses
for all ages.
Services every Sunday morning at
IL o'clock.
Y. p. S. c. E. at GAS p. m.
w. S. LOWRY, Pastor.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1917-10-05
For Sale or Trade

for Rathdrun property. 20 acres
miles west of Rathdrum. Improved
with good house aud barn, IL acres 10
cultivation, balance timber. Inquire
n! Clinton Jones, Rathdrum, Idaho
1912
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1917-10-05
GERMAN M. f. CHURCH

Sunday School 10 a. M.
There will be no preaching this
Sunday. Oct. 7. However, there will
be preaching service again Sunday,
Oct. IA.
Thursday evening, Oct. II, at 8
O'Clock the s. School board will meet
at the parsonage. All members of
the board are requested to be present.
III. G. SCHMID, Pastor.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1917-10-05
Church Announcements.
N. r. CHURCH

NJ. f. CHURCH
Sunday School 1000 a. N.
MorninR Worship 1900 F."
Evening Service 500
Epworth League meeting 1870 p m.
Devotional meeting Thurs. eve. 7:45
J. G. CARRIcK, Pastor
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1917-10-05

ASSURANCES are given that
Senator Borah is expressing
his own views, not those of
any particular organization.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1917-10-05

REMEMBER your town, to
keep the conveniences and
privileges it affords flourish
ing.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1917-10-05

THE real truth about those
packing plant profits may be
far to seek.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1917-10-05
THE SCHOOL COLUMN.
FROM THE SCHOOL

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ence. Essays will be published as space per-
mits, in the orderin which they are received
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-05-04
MANAGER WAS SYMPATHETIC
Theatrical Troupe, Stranded in West
ern Town, Found Good Samari-
tan Unexpectedly.

The troupe had been playing in hard
luck. Fifty dollars, $50. now and then
500. were the nightly receipts, hardly
enough to pay the railroad Jumps >
let alone pay salaries. There was
Just enough money in the treasury to
Get 20 Walville on Christmas night.
II was one of those East Lynne"
don" pieces, and when the company
struggled into the town at midday the
local theater manager was DIT the sta
ton to be sure they had the eight ac-
tors.
The players wandered about the
town during the day. The curtain
went up on $24.75 most of it in the
gallery. Some of the $24.75 went out
at the end of the second act and didn't
come back. When the final curtain
came down a weary crowd scattered
to the chill dressing rooms, wonder
ing if the hotel proprietor would stop
them at the station the next morning
This speculation was at its height
when the theater manager Of the town
appeared. his arms filled with bundles,
and dumped them into the arms of the
youngest member of the troupe.
Say he clustered, apparently a
little ashamed of what he was going
TO say, you people are having rotten
luck. amt you. I'm alone up at my
house. Come up and have supper with
me, will you? And say. I've had bit
of luck this year, and I'll stake you
to the nights receipts. And those
things l gave the kid, they--well. they
once belonged to kid of mine"
And he went out.
One of the women started to cry
That's where the story ends.--N
York Evening Post
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-05-04

Finally the gang was rounded up and
the leaders were captured and placed
in Jail
IL was in the town OF Chelsea that
the rufIians nearly got Johnson. He
had entered the Joint of a man
named Edmondson with Deputy Lowe,
but! as the crowd was very threaten
ing in its demeanor, he left Lowe out
side to hold the door, and went into
the barroom alone, in his customary
manner. He smashed the liquor and
the fixtures, and was about to leave
when the mob brushed Lowe aside
and surged into the place, surround
ing Johnson, led by a bad man
named Dyce, of enormous build and
muscularity. Dyce thrust ais fist
into Johnson's face. discoloring his
eye. Johnson knocked Dyce down
twice, and Dyce concluded that ne
had had enough. Beer glasses and bill
lard cues began to fly around John
sons bald head, and revOlyers were
drawn. In another moment Johnson
would have been put out of exist
ence. But snatching up one of the
billiard cues, he laid about him with
force. cracking half dozen heads
and clearing little space about him
AT this juncture Lowe managed to
effect an entrance and knocked up q
revolver which was thrust into John
sons face, in the nick of time. A min
ute later Johnson, with his billiard
cue, was driving the flock of rowG;es
like sheep before him. Within an
hour of this occurrence news of John
sons death was being spread in every
Oklahoma city.
IN always telephone in when I'm
killed" Johnson explained to an in
quiring newspaper reporter.
In connection with the killing and
wounding of Johnson's deputies may
be mentioned the attack on Omer L.
Lewis, though his death occurred, like
that of Charley Escalante, one Of John
sons brave Indian deputies, at later
period. At Arioe, Mont, Lewis met
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spIrators resolved to get the pair to-
gether. 1t was now the inyaria b.
practise OF Johnson's deputies never
to go abroad except in twos and
threes. but in spite of his chiefs
warning, Bowman, who was man OF
exceptional courage. courted death
alone on several occasions. Four boot
leggers constantly logged him. hoping
to catch him and the elusive Pussy.
foot together and do them up"
Bowman was shot at on three occa-
sions. but he seemed to bear a
charmed life. and escaped without a
scratch.
On the fourth occasion the eonspir-
ators laid their plans more success
fully. At dusk one evening Bowman
was riding toward his home near
Caney, Kan, after successful raid.
A report had been spread that the
bootleggers who were logging him
had left the district, and Bowman was
of his guard in consequence. Sudden
ly couple of shots rang out. Bow
man was unframed, but his horse fell
dead beneath him. Being an old from
tiersman, he took refuge behind the
body of the animal and replied with
his rife, hoping to scare the cowardly
rufians away. Apparently they were
resolved to get him, however, and
two of the party, moving round among
the shelter OF some trees, pumped a
hail of lead into the spot where Bow
man was lying.
"We ultimately found poor Bow
man." says Johnson, with about
dozen bullets in him. The conspira-
tors made no mistake that time"
Another deputy, E. j. Sapper, was
shot through the side of the head,
like Sanders, and, like him, recovered
About the same time w. E. Strick-
land. while watching a train for John
son at midnight on the border, near
Tulsa, was shot in the neck, and he
still carries the bullet.
Then there was Randolph W. Car
they, city marshal at Paurs Valley,
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-05-04
FOREIGN NAMES IN ENGLISH
Effort to Convert Virgil Into VeroiI
Raises Doubt as to Where Pur-
lists Would Stop.

Quite a vigorous discussion is going
on in the English press, as to the
spelling of foreign proper names. II
has all originated over the modern eff
fort to convert Virgil into Vergil. or
course the poets name is NergiluS,
but Virgil is the time-hOnored Angu-
cism for it. The opponents of Nergll
that Vergil is the correct way Of spell'
ing it, for the simple fact that thai
Authorization is not and never was
Latin, but is an Anglicized way OF
spelling the word Nergilius, and thai
in order to incorporate word into
another language you have right 10
make it conform to that language anu
that your determination to make 1t SO
conform is sure sign of the vitality
Of the language.
AS a matter of fact there is very
little doubt that those who take tins
point of view have all the precedehtS
on their side. Macaulay always insist
ed on spelling Louis as Lewis, and de-
clared that you never should use for
eign word where an English one could
he made to take its place. The sup
porters of Virgil nov demand TO kno"
where the purists are going to stop
Are they, they ask, going 70 be content
with Vergil or are they going the iuh
length to Vergilius? Are the going
to be content with Venice, or are they
going to indulge in Veneze, aud IL
Veneze, why not the whole length, anu
say Venezia? When it comes To pre-
cedents. we are afraid the r2formeFS
have not much chance.-ChrisIiau
Science Monitor.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-05-04

who was shot in the back and killed.
The murderer was a fellow named
Stephenson, whose place Carthey had
helped wreck previously. The dead
officers body lay in state in the little
Methodist church for two days before
it was laid away; then the people held
an indignation meeting in the opera
house, and every bootlegger in the
district had to fly for his life
In the month of August occurred a
pitched battle at Sasakwa, Okla, which
resulted in the death of two more of
Johnsons band. Between Sasakwa
and the Oklahoma border is a strip Of
country inhabited chiefly by the off,
spring of Seminoles and negroes,
known as Seminole niggers. After
Johnson had shut off the railroad traf-
tic band of these men formed an
express wagon system, carrying
whisky over the country
Securing the aid of several city mar
shals. Johnson set out upon a regular
campaign. He sent Harvey De Hart
from Thrace with an armed posse to
lie in wait along the route, and three
prisoners were brought in, together
with 25 gallons of whisky and a team
of horses. The liquor was destroyed
and the horses were confiscated and
sold
Soon afterward John Morrison, who
divided his time as Johnson's deputy
and as village marshal for Sasakwa,
received news of gang near the
settlement, which was said to have
robbed a post Office safe He set out
in pursuit of them, and, on the way,
encountered another officer. The two
men decided 10 wait in ambush until
the negroes returned, as it was evil
dent that they were on the way to
Violet, a town just across the Okla
homa line. and would return with
liquor On their return the two OFF,
GERS stepped into the road and or
dered the men to halt. The negroes
whipped up their team. and one of
them, swinging round, sho. Morrison.
killing him instantly.
AS soon as the news became known
a posse was formed and set out in
pursuit A regular battle followed.
resulting in the death q L. P. Dixon
OF Shawnee and Of a bootlegger.
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a bootlegger who had recently come
out of Jail, to which Lewis had con.
signed him. The bootlegger had had
plenty of time to fill himself with his
own medicine, and instantly attacked
Lewis with a formidable dagger. I'm.
fortunately Lewis had not his re
volver with him. Drawing his sheath
knife, he tried to defend himself
against the mans vicious thrusts, but
it was an unequal fight, for Lewis was
a small man, while the bootleggeI
was of huge physique, as may be seen
in the accompanying photograph
which shows the ruffian and Lewis
side by side just after the arrest had
been made. Several OF Lewis friends
came up, but they were afraid OF
shooting for fear of hitting Lewis
While they hesitated the bootleggeT
felled Lewis to the ground and thrust
his dagger through his throat. Before
he could infiict further injury the man
was caught and pinioned. The dagger
had pierced the larynx, but subse-
quently Lewis made a recovery,
though he lost the use CT his voice
permanently
That johnson won the admiration
and affection of his men is shown
from the fact that his L 9uties found
time, in the thick of fighting, to sur
prise him with the gift of a magnifi-
cent gold watch.
The chase OF a chipmunk,' said
Johnson to them, may be sport in a
small way. The pursuit of.a bear or
tiger is still higher game, but the
hunting down of armed and willy C IN
inals. who prey upon the laws Of -ur
country--the men who make their liv-
ing in crime and in ppeying upon the
appetites and passions of their fellow
men. is sport of the highest possible
order"
Thus far, then, in spite of numerous
murders, the outlaws had failed to
murder Johnson. Now they set about
their en9eavor in a more systematic
manner. A price OF $4,000 was placed
on Johnson's head.
That was the time he says, when
I did not expect to get through 1t
lasted for six months. OF course I
was shot at some, but 1 u-ed always
to sit on the last seat in the rail-
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chase, and finally landed him in ian
at Muskogee. '
Then he made descent upon P..
Titsworth's drinking and gamhI,e
haunt at Warner. in a wild sectiae
Of the country near Muskogee ~
went alone this time. into the mos,
lawless part of the Territory, and
single-handed raided Ellsworth placa
smashed the fixtures. arrested hin
and took him prisoner to Pn-t
Smith.
While in jail there Ben Titswor,h
who was involved in tie conspiracv
made the acquaintance OF ma,
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A Merry Little Deputy and His Pris-
oner, a Type of the Outlaws Whom
johnson Fought.
named Patman, and suggested that
they should try to earn the $4,000 for
killing Pussyfoot
On his release from prison Ben
Ellsworth went back to Forum, his
home town, and made murderous as
sault upon young man whom he
charged with having given information
to Johnson that resulted in his ar
rest. Johnson went after Ellsworth
again, alone, and in a furious rough
and-tumble fight, took away his revol-
yer, handcuffed him. and then brought
him a prisoner to Muskogee, 40 miles
away.
Patman was waiting near by to as
sassinate Johnson, but his nerve failed
him
Ben Ellsworth broke Jail and re-
turned again to his old haunts near
Forum, where on the occasion Of
Fourth of July picnic he again de-
fled the law by setting up a bar
where he dispensed spiked cider"
Hearing of this Sapper and Sam Rob
erts went down to raid the place. In
the ensuing scuffie Patman shot Rob
erts. killing him instantly and shot
Sapper through the head, not NOR.
tally. however.
Patman subsequently turned states
evidence against the Titsworths, after
the gang had been hunted down and
arrested. However, Eugene Ellsworth
was found not guilty, and the jury
was hung in the case of Ben. The
breaking up of this gang disheartened
the bootleggers, and no more attempt
was made to murder Johnson.
Copyright, by W. G. Chapman
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-05-04
DESPERATE OUTLAWS PUT A PRICE
ON HEAD OF HPUSSYFOOT" JOHNSON
Their Activities in the indian Territory Being Seriously Hampered
by the Work of the Special Officer of the Indian Depart
ment They Resort to Assassination Conspr
aCy Finally Ended.
LEWIS REVENGE RESULTS IN TWO DEATHS

We have seen how William e. John
sons sensational raid of the Monte
Carlo establishment in mo Mans
Land" by Lewis, Killion and Para
disc, resulted in the murder by Kill
lion of Carr, marshal 1T Caney. Kan,
and IN Killions being sentenced to a
life term in the penitentiary. The
next tragedy that was to develop out
of this affair came swiftly After his
release from the short term of inn
prisonnfent which was melted out to
Lewis, the King" of No Mans Land,
he vowed vengeance on Johnson and
Keller, the deputy who had aided in
the raid, and sent word that he would
shoot them at sight In the mean
while he set UP a livery stable at
Bartleyyille.
Lewis had had a worse career than
his confederate KiIlion. Some four
teen years previously he had been
implicated in the last train robbery
that was commi' I'd in the Cherokee
Strip A portion of the booty was
traced to him. and Deputy Marshal
Thomas went after him, got him.
and removed from his person two re-
volvers and knife. He then put him
in jail at Guthrie.
While Lewis was still in jail the
marshal discovered that he closely re-
sembled certain Jerry" Lewis who
was wanted for murder in the Chick
asaw country There was a reward
OF $500 offered for his apprehension,
and Marshal Thomas, fearing that
the Jail at Guthrie was too weak to
hold Lewis. removed him to Okla
homa City for safeguard The jail
there proved really too weak, how
ever and within month or so Lewis
made his escape.
He was next heard of in Arkansas,
from which state he made a hasty
departure on account of charge of
bigamy that was brought against him
He went to Colorado, assumed another
name, and actually became a deputy
United States marshal in which ca
pacity he killed a man. Lewis was
tried but acquitted, Subsequent to
that he robbed the Wells-Fargo ex.
press company at Cripple Creek. and
was sent to the penitentiary for a
term of eight years. After his ar.
rest he confined his operations to
bootIegging In the Indian territory
suffering several short terms of i'm
prisonment, and finally engineered the
Monte Carlo kingdom which has al
ready been described, and which was
ended by Johnson.
AS may be imagined, Lewis livery
stable at Bartleyville was only meant
as a blind for the blind tiger" that
he contemplated establishing With
the easy money that would roll in
from the sale of liquor, man of Lew.
is record would ha dly engage in any
legitimate business. However, so
long as officer Johnson was bouncing
here and there about the territory, ar
resting liquor sellers by the score.
and smashing their stocks, Lewis
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Unexpected Approval.

81 was rather embarrassed" remark
ed Senator Sorghum, ''when / forgot
my speech and had TO make an abrupt
finish"
what happened|
81 made the hit of my life. Ihe'
printed articles about me as one great
statesman who could be depended upon
not to fiIibuster."
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saw that it would be a losing game.
He knew that johnson's employment
by the Indian department would ter
inmate in short time as soon as
the impending statehood was given
TO Oklahoma. and, with the redoubta-
BILE Pussyfoot out of the way. he cal
culated that his scheme would work
out to nicely. His hatred for John
son arose in the main from the
knowledge that he was impotent to
sell liquor so long as Johnson was in
the way. Yet, whether he really
meant to kill him or not, he was at
the same time sending threatening let
ters TO Deputy Marshal Thomas, say.
ing that he intended to have his life
also AS a matter of fact, the man
he killed had no quarrel with him.
When johnson learned that he was
to be killed he was greatly interested.
He had never been killed. and he
wanted to give Lewis a chance of
making good on his threat, for John
son is emphatically a fair man. Nor
JAS Johnson ever taken a life. He
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-05-04
Pleasure in lmaainatlon.

"a great deal of what we call pleas
ure is largely imaginary" said the
readymade philosopher,
Il suppose so" replied thu man who
was working on his automobile.
Now, wouldn't you like to be able
to take long ride without having TO
worry about speed limits or spark
plugs or tires or anything at SUP
Il should say so :"
We'll, here's a street car ticket
Washington Star.