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Evening journal., 1920-01-09
v NJ G. A NEWS NOTES.

William C. Price, OF the Babcock and
Wilcox Company OF Philadelphia gave
lecture at the Y. NJ. C. A. last night
on steam, Its Production and Uses"
A meeting will take place in the edu-
cational rooms OF the ~" on Monday
night to develop interest in a course
Of salesmanship.
The first session OF the Glee Club OF
the "Y'' was held last night. The sing
was led by Irving easier. The sings Will
be held each Thursday night.
Evening journal., 1920-01-09
PAGE. MISS MARSHALL, PLEASE.

Mayor Taylor this morning received
a letter from T. NJ. Willis, Of McBraun
Ca. r. F. d. No. ?, asking for the ad-
dress OF Miss Louise Marshall, OF Au-
gllsta. Ca. who is supposed to have
moved 10 this city eight years ago. The
writer says he has some valuable in
formation for the woman.
Evening journal., 1920-01-09
SCHOOL ron BLIND BURNS.

BALTIMORE, Jan. 9.-Fire today de-
stroyed the four-story brick building Of
the Maryland School for the Blind,
Fayette and Paca streets, located but
200 yards from the point In The church
yard Of the Westminster Church. where
The poet, Edgar Allen Poe, IS buried.
There were no casualties reported.
Evening journal., 1920-01-09
TRANSFER 500 CITY
LOTS FOR 100000

Gustsve s. Ripka has transferred 500
lots located in the Thirtieth street de
velopment tract on Heald, Chymont
Thirtieth and other streets TO the firm
OF Fielder and Ripka, consideration
10000.
Evening journal., 1920-01-09

evern attempt to serve any papers on
Morehead"
The prosecution contends that II was
Millsiead's impersOnatlOi. OF an officer
which caused Morehead 10 choose death
rather than possible Imprisonment and
disgrace
10 took two weeks 20 bring TO Hight
the fact that a set Of logging tools. left
at Morehoads home by three men, were
at the bottom OF the trouble.
Morehead. 10 appears now, had been
told by some one that he would be ar
rested for the theft Of the tools and that
the men who left them would swear
% Morcheads guilt
Mllsslead, lt Is believed conveyed to
Morehead The threat direct A great
deal OF Interest centers on the Identity
OF the original owner Of the tools.
Evening journal., 1920-01-09
AN ECONOMICAL MOTHER.

"If you don't behave better I'll send
YOU 20 bed without any supper"
You're always trying 10 save on
the grocery bills, ma.'-Boston Tran
script.
Evening journal., 1920-01-09
TrcIoN no ELECT OFFICERS.

Election OF officers for the ensuing
year will be held by Delaware Post, No.
&c, American Legion, at their meeting IN
the italian Neighborhood House, NO.
7i0 Lincoln street. tonight.
Evening journal., 1920-01-09

the Ecloe Polytechnlrue. Captain Dill
lard has been selected by the French
government TO come to this country
20 study American industrial and min
ing methods, principally In the Pitts
burgh and Chicago districts.
Evening journal., 1920-01-09
nm cprFN1yoOn upnoVFD

The condition OF Or. Mitchell Green
wood, who Is IN with pneumonia, was
reported slightly improved this after
noon.
Evening journal., 1920-01-09
UANSON-HOFFMAN.

Special 90 the Evening OJurnal.
CAMDEN. Jan. 9-Miss Katherine Han
son and Paul Hoffman were married In
Lebanon VI. f. Church on January )
Evening journal., 1920-01-09

Watch the Want Ads for good busi-
ness partnerships and investments.
Evening journal., 1920-01-09

Touring cars may ne sold by the
Want Ads and runabouts and electric
cars win be advertised through the
Wants ADS.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-05-08

ispeaking OF the deed. "God directed
that bullet"
/ Nothing is known OF Corbetts re-
lauves. lie never mentioned them
during his residence in Cloud county.
FEe told OF emigrating to the United
States from England shortly before
the Civil war broke out. He said he
came of Cromwell blood and fancied
himself, later in life, destined TO do
tRreat things in the name of religion.
He enlisted in a Massachusetts, regi-
ment and started his experiences with
! capture by Mosbys guerrillas. He
spent almost a year in Andersonville
prison and closed his career as SOL
dier by being courtmartialed for kill
ing Booth. The commander of the de-
taohment had ordered that the assas-
sin be captured alive.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-05-08
BIG HORN BASIN IRRIGATED
FARMS

Ehtetfo
I6O1-120 Acres-l2 miles from
Greybull, Wyo., a live oil town with
population of about 200. Excel
lent water right for the entire tract
and all can be irrigated. At the pres
ent time there are 80 acres under
water, excellent sandy soil with fair
Iimproveme Has 20 acres alfalfa
Only $40 per acre, $500 cash.
II8Os-13O Acres-12 miles from
Greybull Wyo. 120 acres under
irrigration, 30 acres alfalfa, excellent
sandy loan soil, splendid room
house with screened in porches. Cor
rails for 500 head cattle. other out
buildings with stable for horses. IA
head horses and all farming tools go
with it for $4,000; one-half cash.
I8O3-11o Acres--12 miles from
Greybull. Wyo., all tillable and
water right for all, rs acres under
water now. 40 acres alfalfa, good i'm
provements and good soil, can get
permit for rs cattle. this is a good
one. $40 per acre.
L6O4-120 Acres-10 miles from
! Greybull, Wyo., all under irrigation,
60 acres alfalfa, 80 acres ready for
spring crop, high class improvements,
shop with $1,000 worth of tools in
cluding gas engine and feed grinder,
| 100 mixed fruit trees. Fenced with
42-inch woven wire, with extra wires
on top. There is over $500 worth OF
up-to-date farming tools and machin-
cry. 16 head of horses, 10 head of
cows 800 lbs. alfalfa and clover seed
6 calves, lS0 full blood chickens. IL
turkeys, 2 pigs, one Ford car, 40
bushels seed oats 20 bushels seed
wheat and 10 tons alfalfa hay. This
! is high class proposition all the way
Through. 1t is splendid beet and po-
tato land; in fact will raise anything.
Price for entire outfit as outlined
above is only $l7,50O; half cash.
L605-90 Acres-3 miles from Grey
bull, Wyo., water right for so acres
and so acres can be irrigated, SIS acres
under water now, so acres alfalfa, 2
houses with other outbuildings, l acre
garden fenced chicken tight. 100 apple
trees. This soil is excellent will raise
Anything. You couldn't beat il for
Ispuds. $3.50 per acre; half cash.
L6O6-1sO Acres-7 miles from Grey
| bull, Wyo.; 120 acres can be irri-
gated, so acres under irrigation, 35
acres alfalfa; good improvements, in
cluding house, garage, cistern. Sandy
loan soil. 500 per acre; $4,000 will
handle ii.
L6O7-2O0 Acres-About IS miles
from Greybull, Wyo., in Greybull
river valley; 1SO acres can be irri-
gated, and water right for $50 acres
125 acres under water now, 60 acres
alfalfa, 5-room house with other inn
provements such as stables ice house
etc. This is a good ranch and can be
purchased for $40 per acre; one-hali
cash,
L607-i60 Acres miles from the
new town of Burlington, Wye, and
20 miles west of Greybull, on the
/ Bench; water right for all and all un-
der irrigation; 80 acres alfalfa; all
fenced and excellent soil. This is a
good place at 500 per acre; one-hali
cash.
L6OS-120 Acres-12 miles from
Greybull. Wyo.; 10 acres can be
Irrigated, and has water right for l1O
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-05-08

CONCORDTA, Kansas, May G. -
lone cottonwood tree on a knoll four
miles northwest of Aurora. near here
is the only monument of John (Bos-
ton) Corbett, reputed slayer of John
wilkes Booth, assassin Of Abraham
Lincoln.
In the late '70's Boston" Corbett
homesteaded the $50" and establish
ed a domain marked with eccentri-
cities and religious fanaticism. He
planted the cottonwood shoot and ask
ed that he be buried under its shade
along with rifle and pony. ...
Fate took hand in Corbett's plans
because Corbctt sleeps in an unknown
grave. his pony starved to death and
his gun was last heard of in a Topeka
hockshop.
The hut has disappeared from the
$50" The Course" Of Corbett has been
forgotten although it was so strong
after he left that neighbors did not in
tcrfere with its dirty kitchen. A few
took the implements Corbett had US
ed desultorily in trying to reap for
tune from the land. but at a report
that he was returning, they were re-
turned and were never touched again.
His Arrival is Noted
"Boston" was the outstanding char
acter OF Northern Kansas when he ar
rived in Concordia that day ia 1887.
Astride a calico pony, sitting his
horse well and made formidable
with a rifle and two six shooters, he
went up the street, leaving train of
wonderment. Accustomed as Con-
cordia was to the picturesque here was
one. according to the old timers, who
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-05-08
Frank MeGinnis or Frank Freytag, Jr.
o. Box6 Joseph Mo, for further particulars ~

acres; az acres under water now, 40
acres alfalfa, good 5-room house,
plastered, and other good improve
ments. Can get permit for 10 head
Of cattle. s11O per acre for 100 acres
that is irrigable, the 10 acre pasture
thrown in; half cash.
I809-160 Acres-4h miles from
Wheatland, Wyo.; new Groom
house. two story. and new barn 20 by
80. will hold 20 head of stock: shed
IL by 32, well 81 feet deep cased with
6-inch casing from top to bottom; all
good fenced corrals, all fenced with
and 4 wires; l12 acres under irri-
cation ditch and AS acres pasture
land; water rights all paid; 100 acres
under cultivation. $4,000 cash.
Terms can be arranged.
L8i0-16O Acres-7 miles from Ar
cher, Wyo.; good house ID by "a,
well built shingle roof; all fenced and
100 acres are under cultivation. Price
S35 per acre. Terms can be arranged.
One to two years at per cent.
II6ff-16O Acres-16 miles from Lar
of $4,000; good Broom house IA by
IA, large barn and other outbuildings;
good cellar; all fenced and irrigated
100 acres under irrigation. Price $35
per acre. Terms can be arranged.
L812-6, $40 Acres-Deeded land in
Platte county, Is miles from town
ranch Will handle one thousand head
of cattle the year around. Three res
ervoirs for irrigation; miles of run
ming water; several water rights pat
ented. -Four hundred acres under cul-
tivation, but one-half of the land is
level and could be farmed; cuts one
thousand tons of hay; improvements
consist OF the main buildings, being
of log construction. Price s27.50 per
acre; $4,000 cash and balance on
easy terms,
L6iS-17 800 Acres-In Albany Coun-
ty, about 3 miles from Laramie,
Wyo., miles from loading point;
! 1909 acres under irrigation; cuts
about 1900 tons OF hay per year;
! 5000 acres can be irrigated; the ranch
joins a reserve and is only is miles TO
another reserve; good improvements
consisting OF good large well built
house, good barn, sheds, bunk houses.
corrals and other outbuildings; plenty
OF good water. SIS per acre. Terms
can be almost arranged to suit the
| purchaser.
L614-13 5000 Acres-About 16 miles
| northwest of Laramie, Wyo.; 1000
acres irrigated; cuts on an average OF
ApV' Noilo nay PtI year. ABUNDANT
water supply; good improvements.
good large house, good barns, sheds.
corrals, bunk houses, blacksmith shop,
garage; all fenced. This place is in
the heart Of the oil district. as they
are drilling on one part of this place
at the present time; lie OF oil rights
! reserved with purchase; an of place
can be leased any time 10 reliable oil
operators. The Midwest company has
made an offer for one section alone
| or $4,000 cash bonus and one
eighth royalty; the land is an invest
ment that the public has an oppor-
tunity to investigate II will paw YOU
to investigate this place before pass
ing 1t up. SIS per acre; bout SIS 900
cash, balance to 5 years.
L816-24, 900 Acres-In Albany Coun-
ty; lays along the main line of u.
p. railroad; Lincoln Highway runs
through ii; about 1000 acres irrigat-
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-05-08
SAILORS AS BALL TOSSERS

their immediate vicinity. they whip
ped a number of semi-professional
teams.
OF all the Navy sports, baseball end
boxing take the lead. The editor of
this page will endeavor to secure
more good pictures of athletics in the
Navy from time to time.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-05-08

A pack of seven gray wolves at
tackled Orville Jarvis Sunday after
noon when he was fishing in Grand
River west of town and forced him to
Climb a tree for safety Jarvis with
james w. Estell and Wesley Brown,
all of Clinton, were fishing in Fields
Creek and Grand River south of the
Weinecke place west of town and
Jarvis had left the others to fish in
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-05-08
WHERE SLAYER OF
ssOOTH ONCE LIVED
On Claim Near the Present Site
of Concordis, Kansas
HE HELD A TRACT OF
GOVERNMENT SOIL

Now All That Remains to Disclose
Where He Campcd Out in the Sum
flower state Is Faint Memory IN
the Minds Of thc Oldest Inhabitants
And an Immense Cottonwood Tree
Which Stands on "A Knoll Near thc
site of the Dug-out I'm Which Bos-
ton Corbctt Who Killed IincoIn's
Slayer Once Resided. -. ... go.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-05-08

ed. and some leased land with IL.
This ranch is all fenced and well inn
proved; first house is within 2 to
miles from a town OF about 1900 and
within Is to is miles of a town with
10000. Place will support several
thousand head of cattle and sheep.
1t is in the Rock River oil field. Price
$3.50 per acre.
L617-S40 Acres-With one mile and
half OF creek which runs the year
around; rolling land which contains
dome after dome of prospective oil
land, partly broken; all fenced and
cross fenced; contains the finest corn
and alfalfa land in this locality Price
$50 per acre; $4,000 cash, balance 6
years at per cent.
Isis, $50 Acres miles north of
Pine Bluffs, Wyo.; all fenced.
Terms, S2,500 cash, balance 10 years
at 6 per cent. Price s27.5O per acre.
L019-1. $50 Acres miles north of
Hillsdale, Wyo.; completely modern
/ lO-room house, electric lights, and
water in house; good barn, corrals,
granary, garage, cement COW shed,
one small house and other outbuild-
ings, miles running water, shade
trees, good well and windmill a gas
engine; fenced and cross fenced; will
assign 500 acres lease to purchaser.
This place has about so acres of thu
best alfalfa land in the country; also
has several acres of native hay land.
/ Price $40 per acre; $4,000 cash. bal
ance years at 6 per cent.
L62i-640 Acres-l2 miles southwest
OF Laramie. Wyo.; unimproved ex-
/ cept 3 wire fence all around section
This is dandy piece Of land and all
can be irrigated. 1t is on main grad
ed highway and in district that the
0 Great Western 70 a.
out sugar beets this year II you want
to make some quick money on srna.
investment this is your opportunity.
Price $50 per acre.
L622-S00 Acres-18 miles southwest
| of Laramie, Wyo.; good house, barn.
sheds and other outbuildings which
are necessary; about $50 acres irri-
gated This is a good place for a
stock man. Price SS5 per acre.
A Colorado Special
I62O-11 400 Acres-25 miles south
| east OF stock yards, Denver Colo;
about 1000 acres under cultivation
500 now in fail wheat about 200
acres alfalfa, 2 sets Of improvements
with good corrals, sheds, a 200 ton
sllo capacity; plenty running water
in every pasture: wheat went IA
bushels to the acre last year; very
dry the year before but wheat averag-
cd Is bushels to the acre, 80 acres OF
volunteer. Price $3.50 per acre;
terms, 25 per cent cash, and all stock
ana implements can be bought with
ranch.
A NEBRASKA BARGATN
L615-15,0 700 Acres-In Western Ne
braska, Ia miles from good town
and loading point; place is well inn
proved in every way; house, barn and
corrals costing more than 10000
There are more than 1000 acros sub
irrigated land on place; all crops can
be raised on place, making il
IA combination cattle and farm
/ ing ranch. There are 2OO
acres OF alfalfa now on the placs that
will produce three cuttings a year.
This is good place for man 40
make some quick money at the small
] price OF S25 per acre.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-05-08

the river alone. He was astoni3hed
tc see a pack of seven wolves, two
males and five females, coming at
him. He struck one of them with
his fishing poles, knocking it into the
river, and was forced TO climb tree
for safety, abandoning his fishing
tackle. His companions did not hear
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-05-08

Local baseball fans will be interest
ed in the above picture Of one of the
Navy's crack teams. These boys are
from the different states of the Un-
ion, but are now attached TO the
Training Station, Mare Island, CALI.
Besides trimming" everything around
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-05-08
Laramie County, Wyoming

hollow hand INDEPENDENCE
financial beyond their
o n
o Wyoming will
o h grea producers the
ec sale
CATTLE, RANCH OR
n sze
OVER THIS LIST, THEN SEE, WRITE OR CALL ON
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-05-08

was dressed for the part. l4
All Corbett cared about was to be
left alone. His fame followed him in
a few Weeks and the curious Kansaus
sought to question him as to the sem
sation Of staying the assissin of Presi-
dent LINCOLN. They seldom got nearer
than suntshot to his humble domicile
"Boston"t*tpt his shooting iron well
oiled and hats Of visitors were nicked
He mover shot anyone but he unlinn-
bered so much artillery that the Gu
rious did no remain long.
Made No Resistance
His kingship finally became too in
convenient for neighbors and "A war
rant for his arrest was issued. Much
to the surprise of Dan Wilson, deputy
sheriff, Boston" did not reproduce
the battle of shiloh, but went as meek
ly to the old court house over the site
of the present Cloud county bank as
If trial attendance was his chief cx-
element.
When Boston was brought in half
of the sown tried to get into the
courtroom. He had so thorough a
reputation as a bad man that the pub
lie desired to see him, with his teeth
pulled.
Park Pulsifer. one Of the best known
lawyers in northern Kansas, had just
arrived in Kansas to carry out Horace
Greeley's advice, and was looking for
excitement which would drive away
the homesiekness for Vermont.
Here I was looking for some of
the wild west" said Mr. Pulsifer, "and
the day I got in Corbett was to be
tried. AS young lawyer 1 thought
it was the chance OF a life time, and
went in with the rest of the attorneys
The trial went along as If there
would be no excitement Boston was
subjected to plenty of questions and
appeared as docile as lamb. All
went along lovely until a neighbor
swore to a statement as to the wild
ness OF Boston. Boston with more
judicial deliberateness than the jus
tice of the peace pulled out that well
known precedent of the early day
a x-shooter--and ordered the court
to adjourn.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-05-08
Hurried Adiournmcnt


mo court procedure I ever read had
the specifications of the adjournment
which ensued. Prosecuting Attorney
Grams ducked under the table. The
justice was the first one out of the
door. Although / was as nimble as
any one. was the next to the last
one to pick myself up at the bottom
of the stairs. Court adjourned all
right and Boston went home"
Boston continued to nick hats and
generally frighten the neighborhood
and it was a popular pastime of
| sheriffs to try to arrest him. He al
ways wore his rifle at position,
thrust" when they called. Every
means TO trick the inhospitabIe man
was tried-even resorting to the well
known artifice OF slipping on the
shackles while shaking hands. The
officers were not fast enough for
Boston's eye, and he informed them
that he never shook hands on Wed
nesday. the day they made him a
call.
In rather haphazard manner Boston
continued to farm the "eighty" until
1887 when George Knapp. father of
Sid Knapp, Republican warhorse in
Cloud county now, got his appoint
ment as assistant door keeper for the
legislature at Topeka. In all Of Cor
belts quaintness there was always a
religious tone which came to the peak
when he beheld the Salvation army
marching in Topeka. Corbett felt the
call OF religion and Joined the army
Adiourns Legislature
The next morning members of the
house were astonished to see him in
the gallery. brandishing a six shooter
He declared the legislature adjourn
ed as he had done years before in the
Cloud county court. The legislature
adjourned. but it was the undoing OF
Boston.
He was taken before Probate Judge
! Charles Curtis, now United States
| senator. and adjudged insane. He was
placed in hospital for the insane
but escaped a few weeks later, bor-
rowing a horse and later abandoning
II.
The last heard of Corbett was the
return of the horse to Topeka with a
note pinned to the saddle. In his
careful writing Boston told the finder
of the horse to return it to its owner.
He was. never heard of again. al
though Cloud county was frightened
! by the report that he was about to
return to claim his "8O". His house
was unmolested for a while but, wher
neighbors realized that he probably
would never return, they helped
/ themselves TO the shack's meager
/ furnishings and implements. The
only thing left was the tree about
which he used to ride at full speed
firing his revolver and cutting thl
( center Of playing cards
He was a"member OF a detachment
1 OF soldiers sent in pursuit OF Boott
after the murder Of the president. The
fanatical turn to religion which dat
ed to the time Of his conversion II
Boston. when he changed his namt
to 'Boston" TO honor the event, caus
ed him to regard himself as the on,
selected by God to kin Lincoln's siay
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-05-08

his call for help, so he waited till tho
wolves left, which was about half an
hour after they had 'treed him."
While 1t is a well known fact that
there are lots of wolves this year, it
is very unusual for them to become
SO bold as to attack a man.--Henry
County Democrat.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-07-28
NH. LIMBAUGH BETTER.

J. D. Linebalgh of Elwood, Iowa.
who has been taking treatment
from Or. Walsh in Davenport for
bad c.se of r-:eumatism in the
shoulder and arm. reports that he
is all right again and attending TO
business Adv
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-07-28

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III c||! y


County Superintendent Of Schools!
s,slstin washburu left for Chsn.
.S,sn today. accompanied " 9. e.
rjstt. superintendent d Mercer
Z county schools. The two have gone
u attend a two-day conference Of
coanty supefintendents scheduled
Tor July 20 and 80 It the state uni
ysfsity. .
The purpose OF the conference is
"a sc,1uaint the school heads In de-
] tan with the particular. tests to be
I Nod 90 as to facilitate the admin
] istering OF examinations during the
eusuing school year. The method
81 giving the tests will be explain
"a Id detail to the superintend-
.lepts and they in turn win instruct
the teachers under their jarisdic-
ton.
plans are being formulated for
! the holding OF joint teachers in
.sgtitute between Rock Island and
! Mercer counties. This will take
Mace some time next month and
will provide the opportunity for
the superintendent to impart their
knowledge OF the tests as acquired
at Urbana.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-07-28

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