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MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1914.
BURDENS OF PRESIDENT.
“The president of the United States,
with a burden upon him great enough
to crush any one but a giant, is forced j
to bear this added one of settling
(juarrels over petty patronage," says
the Baltimore Sun. It makes use of
a half-hour interview between the
president and Senator Smith, of Mary
land, as a peg upon which to bang
its moral. F've or ten minutes, it
points out, is all that the president
can Usually afford to a visitor; a halt
hour is about the limit of what he
can “give any one United States sen
ator to discuss the weightiest affairs."
And now that Senator Smith has been
heard on the one side, it is stated that
Senator Lee is to be heard on the
other, probably at the same length;
and this may not end it. Our Balti
more contemporary draws no distinc
tion between the two sides, nor does
it impute any special blame to eith
eer: but it wants the people of Mary
land to see “how serious and prepos
terous a thing Jt is” that the presi
dent, with the weightiest national is
sues resting upon him, should have to
“spend his time and energy and great
intellectual powers on the personal af
fairs of our two senators.” This is
nothing but plain common sense; and
it is One of the most curious of po
litical facts that the American people,
with all their practical sense and
shrewdness, should, alone among the
great nations of the world, put up
with a system that flies in the face
of it.—Ex. . i
Senator O’Gorman, as the sworn
liege of the Baltimore platform, was
rather neatly scored on in the Senate,
last Friday, by Senator Janies, of
Kentucky, The New York senator had
once more pointed out liow dreadful
a thing it would be for the Demo
cratic party to repeal the tolls exemp
tion clause of the Panama act, since
this would be in violation of its ‘'dec
laration of principles” at Baltimore.
He solemnly reminded his fellow
Democrats that their "pledges” had
been made “not only for the purpose
of securing office, but of enforeemeni
after election.” Thereupon, Mr. James
asked him if there was not another
“pledge” in the platform that all rec
ommendations of judges should be
made public, and if Senator O'Gor
man’s own committee had not only
failed to live up to this but had ac
tually killed the proposal, when made
iB a House bill creating new judges.
Senator O’Gorman fenced with the
question for a moment or two, but
finally, when Senator James pressed
the point home, had nothing to say
except that it seemed to him “a poor
defence of disloyalty to a party ob
ligation to call attention to the fact
that there have been other departures
from the pledges made by the party.”
In other words, the New York sena
tor compounds for planks he is in
clined to by damning those he has no
mind to.—Ex.
a messenger boy of Uncle Sam.
Burleson seems determined to make
"Are the good forgotten?" asks
a fervent uplift worker; nope, they’ll
be expected to be on hand when the
hat is passed.
Brazil owes her wealth in coffee to
a monk who planted two seeds in a
monastery garden in Rio de Jeneiro
in 1754, whence the plants spread
throughout the country.
One of the German trans-Atlantic
liners carries diving suits equipped
with speaking tubes, for the use of
members of its crew in fighting fires
below decks.
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Although he ldst his left arm and
leg and his right hand several years;
ago, a California automobilist drives
his car daily with an ingenious at
tachment for his right wrist and right
foot. * '
Tbe assessors of Cleveland need
wider adding machines to compute;
the Rockefeller tax. < By making one
cent stand for a billion .dollars they
might toe able to'work out tbe an
swer.
mU IMINER IS
His Faithful Dog Stays With Body and
Bec'oming Ravenously Hungry Eats
Part of His Master.
The following story of death on the
Atlin trail is taken from . the Skag
way Alaskan of April 7th: •
Chief of Police Webster, of Atlin,
received a telephone message from
McPhee creek that Walter Mazanero,
colored, had arrived there, apparent
ly half crazed, with a story to the
effect that Indians had shot John El
wood Simons, colored, and that they
also had chased him through the bush
for miles occasionally shooting at him.
Mazanero’s feet were frozen and he
was brought to Atlin hospital, where
after getting medical attention he
told a different story, saying that he
had gone to Simons’ cabin on Wilson
creek, a mile and a half distant from
his own, and discovered Simons ab
sent, and no evidence of having been
there for some time. After following
the trail which he knew Simons
would travel, he discovered Simon’s
body in the snow^with only the head
and part of one snow shoe showing.
Chief Webster organized a party
and left Atlin for the scene on Sat
urday morning. He found the body
on Wilson creek. summit with the
dead man’s dog beside it. Upon mak
ing examination the horrible fact was
discovered that dog had started to
eat the body, the left arm, left breast,
and left lung being missing. The re
mains were brought to Atlin where
Dr. S. H. Harrison is conducting a
post mortem. Simons left Atlin on
his return to his camp on Wilson
creek on the second of February, the
weather at the time being very cold.
Evidently his death came suddenly
while he was repairing his snow shoes
with willow twigs and his suspenders
and fell dead in the snow.
Simons was ten miles from camp
and breaking trail so he must have
been exhausted when he stopped to
repair his snow shoes. The dog stay
ed faithfully by him without food un
til starvation drove him to eat of his
master’s body, and he was standing
guard when the search party arrived
on Saturday.
Simons was about ntty years 010
ant) he had relatives in Chicago. He
had lived in this district for a num
ber of years, and was well liked by
all who knew him.
Simons was a magnificent specimen
of physical manhood, being over six
feet in height ad perfectly formed.
He was a man of excellent habits and
a strong favorite in the camp with
all classes. For the past few- years
he had been chief cook at T. M.
Daulton’s mining camp on Ruby creek
and spent his winters prospecting and
had good property on Wilson creek.
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ST. LOUIS, April' 1}.—The Mound
City is naughty. The1 Woman's Pro
tective League today said sor ahd’ajl
because a des'gn for a fountain at the
Central Publ'c Library includes two
nude figures of girls. According to the
W. P. L. "children and young people
will congregate around the"fountain
and remarks made in their hearing by
men will not be for the best interests
of our civilization.” This is the sec
ond time the question whether nude
figures should be permitted on stat
ues in public parks has shaken St.
Louis. Last spring a controversy
arose over*the nude figure on a mon
ument of the German-American
journalists, Pretorious, Schurz and
Daenzer, entitled the “Naked Truth.”
(But the design was finally accepted
after many weeks of heated discus
sion. Miss Nancy Coonsman, whose
design for the fountain was accept
ed, insists that some people do not
appreciate art.
Tonight' at the Orpheum.
Gaumont Weekly, interesting world
events. ' * - • 1
.-Heart of a Child, beautiful Than
hauser with the (kid in. the lead.
1 Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life,
some Keystone comedy
Change Of program tomorrow even
ing,,
FOR RENT—Four rooms partly
furnished; price reasonable.' Apply
at Valdez, Drug Co. tf.
i For party, prizes the fad outside Is
Japanese baskets Valdez Drug Co. tf
COYOTE BITES SLEEPER.
Animal Has Rabies—Victim Hat to
Seek Treatment.
Boise. Ida.—.Ni'-holns Doyle, a sheep
herder in tjbe employ of Sam Boss,
hail to cdm^ to Boise to get treatirient
for rabies. At 2 in tile morning. Vfltile
asleep in his teuf, lie was awakened
by a fierce- pain in his forehead and
tlie weight of! a body on his bunk. He
struck out With Ids hands and knocked
a t'oyote across the tent.
Following it lo the door through
which it had disappeared, lie was in
time io see a full grown coyote, the
foam Hying from its bloody chops,
leave the body of a wounded sheep
dog and run for the hills.
The coyote hail entered the tent of
Doyle and bitten him while he was
asleep. The teeth of the animal had
entered above and below the eye.
Without waiting for daylight, Do.vlo
caught a horse and started from his
camp on Jenkins' creek for this city.
BURNS RELICS FOUND.
$50,000 Glen Riddle Manuscripts Are
Saved For Scotland.
Philadelphia.—Robert Barns' famous
Glen Riddle manuscripts, for whieh
the patriots of Scotland, have been
searching in this continent and in Eu
rope, have been discovered. They are
in the possession of John Gribbel, who
announced that he would return them
to the people of Scotland under a deed
of trust, which will insure their per
I, inanent safe keeping.
These manuscripts were recently sold
by the Liverpool ntheneum for $50,000.
“Two weeks ago,” said Mr. Gribbel,
"1 was astonished to have a dealer
j come Into my office and offer me tile
I Glen Riddle manuscripts. 1 made an
investigation and found them to be
genuine.”
Mr. Gribbel later declined tit say
what he paid for them.
“FINDERS KEEPERS.”
| Road Must Return Unclaimed Money to
Paetenger Who Found It.
Mercer, Pa. - The old question of
ownership of property found by pas
sengers on railway trains promises to
be a question no more, following con
clusion of tl»e suit instituted against
the Pennsylvania rnllroad by C E.
Battieger, who found a pursb contain
ing $83.00.
The jury returned a verdict for Bat
tieger in the sum of $85.24, principal
and interest. Battieger turned the
find over to the conductor, waited until
the expiration of the legal time- limit
and then claimed it. The company re
fused to give it to him. aithougli no
owner had appeared,
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GIRL, ONLY 13, FOUND
GUILTY OF MURDER
Faints When Gnnvicted of Kill
ing Her Flaymate.
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Prince Albert, Sask.—Standing iu the
prisoners’ dock, with pale fuce and an
evident realization of her predicament.
Kathleen Oka Simmon, thirteen years
old and small for.her age. heard a
jury .return a verdict of murder, in the
first degree against her in the. local
courtroom. As the foreman uttered
the word “Guilty” the little girl, who
was standing alone and nervously
twisting the ends of two braids of bair
thrown over her shoulders, collapsed
and te|l forward, unconscious.
Earlier, lnthe trial site mode a coin
pleto.i confession, pf her ?rtFOe, which
was the killing of Julia Jenex, a play
mate,, nlne;7ears old. untbe afternoon
of,July, %\ last She told of. a. trip Into
the wooftp <ff blcli they bfd.jUjcen to get
berries and roots for medical purposes
and how her little companion hsd
bothered her from the beginning of
their walk. She sold thut dnully. after
she had .warned Julia several times
not to plague her. Julia picked up a
prairie chicken as they crossed a field
and deliberately struck hen Iu the face
with it.
Shu told of throwing her playmate
to the ground and of the struggle which
ensued when Julia in a rage tried to
get to her feet. They fought with
fists and nails until Julia was over
come. the witness said, and then she
was so enraged that she sought for
something to strike her with. She
picked up a shovel and. after knocking
the Jenex girl senseless with It. pound
ed her fuce until it was nnrecogniza
hle and killed her. , , .
29 BABIES; WANT MORL
Father Would Like Enough to Make a
Nica Family* '
Stevens Point. WIs.—Mr. ancl Mrs.
Joseph vKoatruck of Stevens Point
broke the Wisconsin record, for babies
when their, twenty-ninth offspring ar
rived.
Mr. and Mrs. Kostrnck don’t think
twenty-nine babies .too many. In fact,
they said they wouldn't mind if there
were a few more- “1 want just enpngb
to make a htce family-" said "the de
lighted Mr. Kostruck
Lost Hie Laat Fiva Teeth.
Wbiteboufje. N. J.^Returning home
from the ofBce of a dentist, where he
had his Inst flve teeth attended to.
MIHer Kagan. eeventy-one. was thrown
■from hit carriage. His flve teeth .ware
knocked out hit scalp cut,, ag&i hit
(nope broken. It Is.fggrcA h«r* still.dlf
■ of shock.
Your
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Easter Suit
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is here.
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Hart Schaffner & Marx
made it for you.
WHITE SLAVER
GO£S_TO JAIL
BKl'THKN, (iermany, April 13.
Samuel Lubolski. a Russian, known
as ibe ' King of White Slavers,” was
| taken from here today to commence
serving a sentence of nine years in
prison for engaging in the white slave
traffic. He was also convicted of
bribing the bonier police and of hav
ing smuggled hundreds of persons
across the border to enable them to
migrate to America. It is estimated
that Lubolski Iris during his career
shipped over 200 Russian and Polish
girls, ignorant of their intended fate,
to North and South American ports
for immoral purposes, Although the
state’s attorney recommended only
six years imprisonment £pr Lubolski
the court considered his crimes to be
of such a heinous character that the
judge added three years .and $3,Out).
Itn WIORCE
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WASHINGTON, . April 13.—A
change In the class of work at the
government's navy yard here today
forced the discharge of 125 mechan
ics and artisans. All ordinance wprk
at the yard since 1898 has been final
ly brought up to date and hereafter
the olny work to be done by the
Washington shops will be in,regular
repair work and fittings for new ships.
It is expected that many of the men
will later be given temporary work.
FOR RENT or lease, one pool and
one billiard tabl complete. Inquire at
the Big Place. Also a moving picture
machine in first-class condition. tf
' for $4le By
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Clean Your Sidewalks!
! All sidewalks in the town of Val
. dez must be cleared of snow by April
15 or the city will have same clean
ed and the cost thereof will be taxed
! attains! the property.
! WILLARD SCOTT, City Marshal.
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The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
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