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JAMES BUTLER
SEXATOB LA FOL
LETTE AS THE
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F T E II mak
ing millions
in the gro
cery trade having
established in ore
than a hundred re
tall stores In New
York city James
Butler has struck
another gold mine
In the Empire
racing track at the
outskirts of that
city This track
was built by the
late William II
Clark the site hav
ing been discovered by Mr Butler in
1817 At that time Mr Butler was
president of the Driving Club of New
York Always an enthusiastic horse
man he conceived the idea of a track
for driving and trotting meets
Mr Clark had more ready money
than Mr Butler at the time and he
built the track The plant cost about
750000 After Mr Clarks death it
was sold under foreclosure proceediugs
and Aas bought In by Mr Butler and
au associate for about half what It
cost The remarkable success of the
August meet this year is said to have
doubled the value of the property
Much of this success was due to the
closing of the pool rooms In the metrop
olis by District Attorney Jerome
Those who wanted to bet on the races
were compelled to go to the track
which swelled the attendance far be
yond expectation
Mr Butler is said to be one of those
men whose touch seems to transmute
everything Into gold
Booth Tarklngton of Indiana has
been abroad for some time and has re
turned with a new play and the manu
scripts of two new novels
The play he calls The Man From
Home and it was written in
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BOOTH TARKTNGTON
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oration with Harry L Wilson author
of The Spenders
The play is a comedy satire on the
American abroad and it will receive
its initial performance in Indiana
Mr Tarkington will return to
Franco after his play has been staged
The author gives the following hint of
his latest dramatic work
The play deals with the adventures
of an Indiana lawyer who goes to
Europe in reference to the contem
plated marriage of his ward to an
Englishman of title He is just the
average well to do untraveled citizen
you inight meet on an accommodation
train between Logansport and Koko
mo
Booth Tarkington and James Whit
comb Riley are old friends and the
former tells how he used in his young
er days to delight to trail about at the
heels of the Hoosier poet at all hours
of the day and night listening to his
moonings The strolls usually end
ed in the small hours of the morning
by a lunch of pie watermelon strong
coffee Welsh rabbit This was prob
ably where Tarkington learned to take
his breakfast at noon and do his writ
Ing by an oil lamp Mr Tarkington is
exceedingly companionable and is en
tirely without self consciousness and
legotism He is a ready and entertain
ing talker tells a story as well as he
writes it and has a keen sense for the
humorous
Senator Robert M La Follette of
Wisconsin who Is now recognized as
one of the candidates for the Repub
lican presidential nomination in 190S
is swinging around the Chautauqua
circuit on which he is quite popular
The senators great speech on the rail-
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road rate bill had the distinction of
being the longest speech of the con
gress during which it was delivered
But unfortunately for him it did not
get before the country under auspi
cious circumstances The speech con
tained 95000 words and about three
days were consumed In Its delivery
3ut as the San Francisco earthquake
happened about that time the papers
were full of this catastrophe to the ex-
elusion of almost all other news Sen
ator La Follettes experience was
somewhat similar to that of his for
mer colleague Senator Spooner on
our occasion Four years ago Senator
Srooner was scheduled to make the
great speech of his life defending the
Philippine policy of the administra
tion He made the speech and it was
a great one but there never was a
line of it printed in the newspapers or
anywhere else outside the Record On
the day he made the speech the tele
graph wires leading out of Washing
ton all went down because of a sleet
storm and not a word was tele
graphed from the city Spooner might
just mi well hot have spoken so far
as the effect of his speech on the coun
try was concerned
Pearl Wight whom President Roose
velt has appointed United States com
missioner of Internal revenue to take
oilice next December is by business
a ship chandler In New Orleans
He was appointed
by Chairman Cor
telyou to fill the
Louisiana vacancy
on the Republican
national committee
Mr Wight be
longs to the ship
chandlery firm of
Woodward Wight
Co It is under
stood that Mr
Wight is now prac
tically the firm
Mr W o o d w a r d
having been made
WILLIAM S TAYLOR
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PEARL WIGHT
postmaster of New Orleans In
line of business which touches
his
the
lumber trade intimately Mr Wight
has figured in various contracts for
supplying lumber materials for the
Panama canal for lighthouses and
other government works
The new appointee is said also to
be the head of the Lily White organi
zation in Louisiana a political body
which opposes the too active participa
tion of negroes in public affairs
D IT Morris ex president of the Au
tomobile Club of America was de
scribing in New York the success of a
certain wily automobile cop
The mans cleverness is wonderful
Mr Morris ended In some ways it
reminds me of the cleverness of old
John Jates
I thought you said you were going
to bring a friend home to dinner with
you this evening snapped Mrs Jates
as they seated themselves at the beau
tifully appointed table
He couldnt come John answered
calmly
And then with no little enjoyment
the clever fellow fell to upon the first
decent meal he had sat down to for
some weeks
William S Taylor former governor
of Kentucky who has been living in
Indianapolis since his indictment for
alleged complicity in the murder of
Governor Goebal more than seven years
ago has been offered by Governor
Beckham of Kentucky immunity from
arrest if he will return to the state and
testify in the forthcoming fifth trial of
Caleb Powers who is indicted on a
charge practically identical with that
which drove ex Governor Taylor from
his native state
Mr Taylor is practicing law in In
dianapolis During the past seven
years the governor
of Kentucky has
conspiracy in Kentucky to murder him
He has been out of Indiana but once
since his flight That was when he at
tended the Republican national conven
tion at Philadelphia in 1900 A plan to
kidnap him and carry him to Kentucky
was foiled by his friends The wife of
the ex governor has died during the
familys exile
Mrs Mary Logan Tucker whose hus
band has instituted suit for divorce on
the ground of desertion is a daughter
of the late General John A Logan She
was educated at a convent in George
town D C Shortly after leaving this
institution she married William E
Tucker who is now a paymaster in the
United States army with the rank of
lieutenant colonel
Some time ago Mrs Tucker and her
mother Mrs John A Logan filed
charges against Colonel Tucker with
the war depart
ment Colonel
Tucker was ac
cused of conduct
unbecoming an of
ficer and a gentle
man It was al
leged that he
not conducted u ji
self properly in the
Philippines the
name of a soldiers
widow being cou
pled with his Mrs
Tucker and her
mother sought to
have Colonel Tuck
linS MARY LOGAN
TUCKER
er reduced or removed from the army
but after investigation the complaint
was dismissed The husband then be
gan divorce action in Chicago
It is understood that Secretary Taft
of the war department who Is bound
for the Philippines will make some
further Investigation of the stories re
lating to the army officer Brigadier
General Garlington of the inspector
generals department has already spent
considerable time on the Tucker case
and will soon report
PANBESAS LETTER
An Account of an F ptian City Thirtj
Ccntuui i ro
Probably the o est letter in the
world Is the letter of Ianbesa written
fifteen centuries l l re Christ to his
friend Amcucmnpl a scribe
The manusi iipt I- of perishable
papyrus and it - amiiug that il
should have sun he 1 lor more than
thirty centuries and still be legible
It is preserved in the collection oi
the British nun cum it has been sev
eral times translated It presents an
interesting picture of life In Egypt in
the time of Rainescs II It is more in
the nature of a literary production a
poem composed in celebration of the
visit of Pharaoh to the city of Pa
Barneses than an ordinary letter of to
day
Panbesa greets his lord the scribe
Amenemapt to who i be life health
and strength and then goes on to de
scribe the verdant fields the thrashing
lloors the vineyards the groves of
olives the orchards of figs the great
daily markets with their fish and wa
terfov 1 and swarms of purchasers
The citizens had their sweet wine of
Kliemi pomegranate wine and wine
from the vineyards and to these they
added beer of Kati
There was music in plenty furnished
by the singers of the school of Memphis
On the whole Pa Rameses seems to
have been a pleasant place to live in
The lesser folk are there equal with
the great folk and Panbesa writes
that its maidens were in holiday at
tire every day with locks redolent of
perfumed oil
THE CITY GF CANALS
Venice and the Many Islands
Upon
Which It Is Duilt
Venice is one of the most singular
and famous citii in Europe and is
built upon a cluster of islands iu the
lagoon This lagoon is banked off from
the Adriatic by a iong narrow sand
bank which is divided into a number
of islands six in number Inside of
this sand bank and between it and
the mainland is the lagoon a sheet of
shallow water In parts of this
marshy sea covered plain islets have
become consolidated into ground firm
enough to be cultivated
And in the midst of a crowded
cluster of such islands amounting to
between seventy and eighty in num
ber the city of Venice is built The
chief of these islands Is called Isolda
de Rialto or Island of the Deep
Stream The islands in many places
mere shoals afford no adequate foun
dation for buildings and the city for
the most part is built upon an artifi
cial foundation of piles and stones
The Grand canal divides Venice Into
two equal parts and is the main thor
oughfare for traffic and pleasure The
city is subdivided by some one hun
dred and forty six small canals or
water streets and the gondola is used
for the carriage Access can also be
had to various parts of the city by
land there being over three hundred
bridges across canals The Rialto the
most famous bridge spans the Grand
canal There are also narrow lanes
in among the houses
The Overruling of a Judge
A judge once awoke in the night to
find his room in the possession of two
armed burglars Covered by the pistol
of one of the marauders the judge
i ael1 the Proceedings with his
requested of the
successive govern
ors of Indiana the
requisition of Tay
lor but the Indiana
governors have re
fused to honor the
request
The fugitive de
clares that he is
innocent and that
there is a political
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tors found a watch Dont take that
the judge said it has little value and
is a keepsake The motion is over
ruled replied the burglar I appeal
rejoined the judge The two bur
glars consulted and the spokesman
then replied The appeal is allowed
The case coming on before a full tri
bunal of the supreme court that body
is of the unanimous opinion that the
decree of the lower court should be
sustained and it is accordingly so or
dered Pocketing the watch court ad
journed
Logic and Metaphysics
Joaquin Miller was once conversing
with a learned professor who was vis
iting California To the poets query
What do you do the professor an
swered that lie held the chair of meta
physics and logic at a Xew England u
versity Whereupon the venerable Mil
ler with an encouraging smile reas
suringly patted the professor on te
shoulder Logic and metaphysics
Woll I suppose we must have people
to look after those things even if they
dont exist
Torture
The Carthaginian mercenaries he
said incased their prisoners in a ce
ment that as it hardened contracted
You cant imagine how uncomfortable
this was
Oh yes I can she answered I
once had on a tight bathing suit when
it began to shrink Los Angeles
Times
Plenty of Old Ones
Mr Chipps looking up from the pa
per The doctors have discovered an
other new disease Mrs Chipps Well
I wish theyd stop looking for new
diseases long enough to find a cure for
my old rheumatism London Tele
graph
Both Disappointed
He I suppose then we may as well
break the engagement and say we have
both been disappointed in love She
There seems to be no other conclusion
You thought I had money and I cer
tainly thought you had Judge
He Told Her
She I wish I knew how I could
make you extremely happy dear Karl
He Well write to your father and
ask him to double your dowry Meg
gendorfer Blatter
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LEGAL NOTICE
To Charles V Lchn Jlary Lohn Cliarles
White Mrs Charles White wife of Charles
White first name unknown Charles T Hokcs
C T Bouks Mary E Hokks defendants will
take notice that Jessie h I rd plaintiff has
filed a petition in the district court of lied Wil
low county Nebraska against the above named
defendants the object and nrajerof which are
that said defendants and all of them be requir
ed to set forth the claim they or any of them
have in and to the north half of the northeast
quarter of section twenty nine i29 township
one 1 ranKO thirty 30 west in Hed Willow
county Nebraska and that all claims ader e
to plaintiffs title may bo determined by decreo
of said court and that plaintiffs title to said
land be quieted against said defendants and
oach of them
You are required to answer said petition on
or before the 4th day of November 1J07
Dated September 25 1007
Jessie B Byrd
By J E Kclley her attorney
No 8823
NOTICE OF AUTHORIZATION
Treasury Department
Office of Comptroller of tho Currency
Washington D C August 5th 10O7
Whereas By satisfactory evidence presented
to the undersigned it has been made to appear
that THE Mi COOK NATIONAL BANK in
the City of McCook in tho County of Bed Wil
low and State of Nebraska has complied with
all the provisions of tho Statutes of the United
States required to be complied with before an
association shall bof authorized to commence
the business of Banking
Now Therefore I Thomas I Kane Deputy
and Acting Comptroller of the Currency do
hereby certify that THE Mc COOK NATIONAL
BANK in the City of McCook in the County
of Bed Willow and State of Nebraska is auth
orized to commence tho business of Banking as
provided in Section Fiftj one hundred and sixty
nine of tho Revised Statutes of the United
States
In Testimony WiiEREOr witness my hand
and seal of this office this Fifth day of August
1007 T P KANE
I orFiciAii I Deputy and Acting Comp-
seal f troller of the Currency
First August 9 1007 Last October 11 1007
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