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1piaf,-i v. j i,ij-S( ypT&t.. Jf.TWrfSSafc Pgi Jj . DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD. jpw ir MOTTO-All The News Wfaea It If Hewn. Wfcji State Historical Society It! VOL. 20. DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1912. NO. 49. f y 4 ,' hi a. t l.aBx- itu C-. VALUES ARE HIGHER TOTAL ton NEBRASKA FIXED BY THE BTATH BOARD. AN INCREASE OF 550,000,000 Box Butte County Reports, Thus Closing Up the Work for Entire Commonwealth. After a long wait Box Butte county Lrb made its report to tho secretary of the State Assessment board and finishes the assessment of tho entire Btate. Box Butte shows a total valua tion of (2,138,203, an Increase of (221, 664 over 1911, which makes an In crease In tho state of (80,237,129. Tho total assessed valuation of tho state Is, therefore, (405.907,204, Its ono-flfth value. Following Is a valuation of tho eta to by counties: llatlo of assessed to Tot. census Counties 1912 value. Adams ? 7.635.394 62 Antelope 5,222,475 60 Banner 406,972 39 Blaine ., 547.388 Boone 5,340,535 Box Butte .. 2,138,203 Boyd 2,698,268 Brown 1,751,581 Buffalo 7.566.032 Burt 7,047.779 100 Butler 7,676.781 67 Cass 8,403,723 72 Cedar 9,436,885 100 Chase 1,014,019 41 Cherry 3,399,087 Cheyenno 2,694,428 Clay 8,392,672 Colfax 5,803,023 Cuming 7,669,043 Custer ... 7,295,434 Dakota 3,158,434 Dawes 2,122,823 Dawson 6,628,076 Deuel 1,179,238 Dixon 4,610,843 Dodge 9,538,824 Douglas 45,049,757 Dundy 1,394,304 Fillmore 7.403,816 Franklin 3,863,188 Frontier 2,650,397 Furnas 3,954,468 60 45 80 70 73 48 77 34 60 31 65 80 69 33 70 73 G4 61 65 49 65 60 76 80 69 70 45 39 40 47 50 66 77 70 54 31 Gage 11,050,277 Garden 956,098 Garfield 703,860 Gosper , 1,960.971 Grant 717,439 Grooloy 3,406,006 Hall 7,747,792 Hamilton .....r.TT... 7,865,838 Harlan 3,042,558 Hayes 690,555 Hitchcock 1,733,597 Holt 4,712,856 Hooker 482,811 Howard 4,465,195 Jefferson 6,943,754 Johnson .' 4,420,665 Kearney 4,280,619 Keith ...-., 2,055,466 Keya Pa,ha 956,299 Kimball t 1,529,500 Knox 5,342,759 Lancaster 13,504,189 Lincoln 5,131,830 Logan 340,294 Loup 396,616 Madison 8,826,370 McPherson 489,368 Merrick 5,092,034 Morrill 1,441,660 Nance 4,179.771 Nemaha 6,162,206 Nuckolls 6,040,617 Otoe 0,316,630 Pawnee 5,420,959 Perkins 1,319,874 Phelps 4,383,029 Pierce 4,613,082 Platte r 8.636,448 Polk 5,866,038 Red Willow 5,069,500 Itlchardson 7.034,074 Hock 1,105,885 Saline ..... 5,335,831 Sarpy 4,104.753 Saunders p.588,198 Scott's Bluff 2,153,700 Seward , 9,119,274 Sheridan 3,292,115 Sherman 3,292,115 RIm.x 1,273,911 Stanton 4,412,329 Thayer 6,092,632 Thomas - 513,877 45 85 57 78 41 49 55 76 GO 75 48 77 84 60 84 82 47 69 67 69 81 55 70 56 76 75 63 66 87 68 68 40 75 67 57 Thurston 3,657,928 110 Valley 3,583,07 67 Washington 6,409,682 90 Wayne 5.570,397 75 Webster 5,304,362 73 Wheeler GCi5J5 I? York 9,37 1, 61o 81 Total (463,769,001 Requisition Fron Illinois. Springfield (111.) filspttch: Governor Deneen Issued a requlnttlon on the Governor of Nebraska for the return to Chicago of Nick Gavas, alias Da- vlson, who Is under arrest In Omaha and who Is wanted on the charge of larceny. New Well at Penitentiary. The penitentiary Is now being sup plied with water from tho big well recently dug by convict labor. Al though tho work of walling tho woll bas not been finished, tho water is being pumped Into tho Institution. The now well furnishes moro than tho five Binall well did before they prac tically gave out. Prisoner JumpB From Train. Thomas Cramer, sentenced to the penitentiary from Box Butte county, was landed In the prison after taking desperate chances lb making his es cape from the Bherlff while being brought to Lincoln. Cramer, while the officer was momentarily frcm his Bide, crawled through a car window to the top of the coach, and when the train stopped near Mason City ho Jumped off and escaped to tho timber near the track. Tho shorlff and oth ers pupmed and after firing several shots effetted his capture. BOTH 8IDE8 HEARV. Wants Enough for Operation of Its Troubles. Argument looking to the adjudica tion of the water power rights of the Kearney Water and Electric Powers company was heard by the state board of irritation, says tho Lincoln Journal. Attorneys for and against the Buffalo county corporation's pe tition were hoard in the case, the number Including John N. Dryden of Kearney and C. C. Flansburg of this city. Tho company, whioh has a power cakal sixteen miles In length, thirty feet wldo and varying from four and a , half to twonty feet In depth, desires' to take enough water from tho Platte rlvor to operate Its power machinery to tho best possible advantage. It contends that due to the scarcity of water at certain times of the year it Is impossible to do this unless appropriate farther up the river are cut off from using the water for Irrigation purposes. This action is asked for In a petition which the Kearney company filed some time ago in the district court of Dawson county. The legal action which came out of that litigation was entitled the Koar ney Water and Electric Powers com pany against tho Gothenburg Power and Light company, tho Gothenburg Irrigation company, tho Cozad Canal company and tho 'Fanners' and Mer chants' Irrigation company. In the neighborhood of fifty other Irrigation projects are also associated with the defendants of this action In the pres ent hearing beforo the state Irrigation board. The original company financing the Kearney project was called the Kear ney Canal and Water Supply com pany, and was organized in 1882. Tho contention is mado against this com pany and its successor that tho water rights granted to It were not to bo permannt only to the amount of a certain flow. In the district court no tion, which terminated during tho lat ter part of 1911, a titlo to 125 cubic feet per second was declared to reBt in the Kearney company and certain other companies wero also set out as having the right to varying amounts of the Platte river water. In a brief filed in behalf of tho plaintiff the contention Is mado that tho present laws of the state provide for the adjudication of no claims which are not upon record in tho of five of the state board of Irrigation and that no provision Is made by which prior approprlators may apply to tho state board of irrigation for adjudication of their claims. The further contention is made that there is no limit to tho tlmo In which the adjudications of water rights can be mado by the state board of irrigation. The petition of tho Kearney company, after requesting that it fco given authority to take sufficient water from from the Platto to operate Its plant, deals extensively with the su periority of rights of tho litigants in tho case, and says: "The case at bar does not present" a situation whero the damages to pe titioner's property in caBO It Is de prived of the uso of water is merely Incidental. In caso of such depriva tion tho wheels of tho machinery stop and the enterprise is practically dead." Tho question of tho powers of tho state board of irrigation Is also threshed over at some length, the opinion of tho petitioner's attorneys being that the board is administrative In Its authority and in no sense has delegated to It Judicial powers. Informal hearings on the petition of the Kearney company havo been held beforo tho state board of irriga tion In tho past three or four months and several briefs and affidavits rel ative to tho litigation havo been filed with Secretary Price of that board. Irrigation companies to the number of sixty nppeared at an April hearing to dispute the right of tho company to close their gates In order to pro vide sufficient power for the opera tion of is machinery. Assessment of Counties. No change will be made In tho as sessed valuation of thirty-live coun les as roturncd to tho state board ol equalization. In some of the other counties an iucreasu of from 5 to 25 per cent. Is proposed and in others u decrcaso 'of from 5 to 15 per cent, is proposed The counties which are to bo increased will bo notified to ap pear and show cause why thoy shall not be increased. Appeal to the Supreme Court. Charles Madden 1ms appealed to tho supreme court from tho judgment of tho district court of Johnson coun ty, In which Oscar Elsontraut was given judgment against him for (1, 500. Tho suit grew out of an alterca. tion between tho two men on Decem ber 3, 1910. Elstraut alleged that Madden, without causo or provocation attacked him with a heavy scoop shovel striking him over tho head and beating him so terribly that ho will never recover. Ho stated that his splno was Injured and his nervous ByEtem wreckod. Gandy Wants Depot. Railway Commissioners Clarke and Winnott returned from Gandy, where they held a hearing regarding side tracks at that place and at tho old town of Logan, Both towns aro cloao to tho Union Pacific lint which runs as far ns Stapleton. Tho now lino is built about a Jr. 11 a and a half fiom Gandy. Tho town has been laid out In such a way that li extends in a narrow form from the town to the dopot and tho people waul a depot erected, although It would bo only threu miles from Stunletou. NEW YORK POLICE THAT ARE (jNDER n ' - jjjsw; i -I aLLLLLflaasaaeaaLLLLLaLLLLLLB laVSs'VapVTlY :B s5at m J bkbT vKbb1 3: jw 3 & (MbbE?bS tSL T"T.yl . )bM4u-si a1MaaW vaaaaV SB vaawavaaf uartb tf ". isi . -J Ikpfrk yVj Mf aTx? Vtit AiaJfcSaB flaBdaklaaaaaaaaaaaaLaaVRaaaaaaaaaaaaaalBaaaJMaV'ttk'&'.lPtt j9T flt flan " " " Li T.:s Is a p'hotograph of the New Ueut. Charles Becker and others lieutenant Becker. AN EDUCATED THIEF COLLEGE GRADUATE 8TEAL3 $150,000 IN TREASURES FROM WEALTHY CHICAGOANS. HAS JEKYLL-HYDE CAREER Social Bandit Beats Efforts of Great est Fiction Writers "Only Robbed the Rich," Is His Excuse for a Score of Remarkable Robberies. Chicago, Aug. 0. When an exciting chase In tho loop resulted-hi the cap ture of Jacob F. Guthrlo of 1613 j Prairie avenue Saturday, treasure worth (160,000 wa3 recovered and a career that has surpassed that pic tured for any of tho "society bandits" of Action checked. Cultured, a college graduate and a . former high Bchool Instructor, Guth rie Is charged with having surpassed Baffles, Arseno Lupin and the other creations of authors. Robberies In a score of homes of Chicago's wealthy residents are chargod to him. Art treasures, silverware, rare books, Jew elry, objects of historical value and ones appreciated only by a conuolseur were his pelf. "I only robbed tho rich," was his bxcuso, given halfboastingly In a way that recalled tho vauntlngB of Robin Hood. Several days ago Guthrie had given the bank four checks which looked lusplclous to the bank officials, and upon his arrival to collect tho (900 lhat the paper represented Ofilcer McCaffrey seized him. MRS. DAISY GRACE IS FREED Woman Accused of Shooting Husband Found Not Guilty by the Jury. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 5. "God bless you, gentlemen," cried Mrs. Daisy Ul rich Ople Giaca her Fiiday when the ury found hor not guilty of tho sharge of shooting her husband. "I feel liko kissing and hugging you ill," sho said to tho jurors. "I trust ed you all tho tlmo. I know you would not bcllovn what thoy said about me." Followed by n cheering throng, Mrs. Uraco soon left the courtroom and went to the offlctj of her attorneys. The verdict wad generally xiwi-tf-d, It Is conceded that tho state failed to tustain tho charge that Mrs. Graco had drugged and bhot her husbund nd locked him In to die In order to ;et (25,000 insurance on his life. Graco was not in court. Ho was ta ken back to his homo In Newnan nnd there heard of tho verdict. "I don't care what tho Jury said," Joclared the paralyzed husband. "She's is guilty Us hell and she knows It," Graco says he will buo for divorco. Cudahy Family Is Reunited. Kansas City, Aug. 6. The reunion )t the family of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Cudnhy was completed when the 'our children arrived from Pasadena, 7al.. Sunday, whero they had been In .he custody of their graudmothor. French Warships Shell Agadlr. Glbrnltar, Aug. 3, News has been eceived from Mogador on tho routh. western roaflt of Morocco that the French warships Cosmo and Frlant ihelled Agadlr Thursday and thnt they jad destroyed a fort and n sanctuary. 10.0C0 Gallon Tank Kills Two. Philadelphia, Aug 3. Two men io killed and a ten-year-old boy wai lurlously Injured when a 10,000 gallon vator tank crashed through the dye. joiteo of the Stead &. Miller company, vpholEtery manufacturers, Thursday. York police in a recent parade on Fifth avenue, among tho marchers being now accused of complicity In tho murder of Herman Rosenthal. Tho Insert U MAJORITY REPORT IN PROMINENT MEN HIT IN STAN LEY STEEL REPORT. Corporation Called Enemy of Labor and Is Accused of Lowering Con dition of Its Employes. Washington, Aug. 5. Directed more than a year ago to investigate the United States Steel corporation, the leport of tho majority of thjo commit tee of the house of representatives was submitted to the houBoJFrlday by Representative Stanley of Kentucky, tho chairman. J. P. Morgan nnd his associates aro hold up as being bene ficiaries of enormous profits realized fiom tho overcapitalization of tho subsidiary companies of tho steel cor poration and later of the corporation lteelf. Former President Roosevelt Is In dicted for limiting tho control of tho steel trust nbsoluto and is charged with being responsible for tho gigan tic stnturo tho trust has attained. Tho steel corporation Is called an enemy of organized labor and is ac cused of loworing tho condition of Its employes and of contributing to Amer ican industry workmen nnd work methods un-American and foreign to the best interests of labor. In speaking of watered stock, the majority comment is: "In some Instances stocks woro not 'watered' In tho ordinary acceptance of that term; they were dolugod." li ra l SPARKS FROM U THE WIRE t&twww5CMCKuSteWiftA55 Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug. 7. A great ooneourpo of Dnnlfh-Amerlcnns from tho United States were present Monday at tho opening of tho Danish American National park In Jutland, and which was formally presented to tho Danish government by the Danes of the United State3. Boston, Aug. 7. Senator W. Murray Crnno has been ordored by his doc tors lo take a test. His health is such that his friends ar greatly worried, Now York, Aug. 7. Charles R. Crane of Chicago has been offored tho trensurership of the Democratic na tional commlttco. Governor Wilson and Chairman McCombs of tho nation al committee ngreed upon Crnne at a conference hero. Columbus, Ind., Aug 6. Mrs. Susan Victoria Wiley Buxton, seventy-fivo years old, sister of Dr Harvey W. Wiley, former United Statos chemist of Washington, D. C, and Mrs. Eliza beth Corbott of New York, dlod here. Leavenworth, Kan., Aug. 0. Noah P. Marker, former cashier of tho First Nntlonal bank of Tipton, Ind., con victed of embezzling largo sums from that Institution, was released from tho federal prison here. Land Bluejackets In Nicaragua. Washington, Aug. 7. Ono hundred bluejackets from tho United States gunboat Annapolis are quartered in Managua, tho NIcaraguan capital. Thoy were landed Monday at the suggestion of the NIcaraguan government, which found Itself unable to protoct the American intorosts. Ten Hurt In Train Collision. Baltlraoro, Md., Aug. 5. Six passen gers and four tralnmon were injured In n collision Friday between a west bound Blue Mountain express and an east-bound freight on the Wostcrn Maryland railroad at Chewsvllle, Md. Underwood Cotton Bill Is Passed, Washington, Aug. 5. The Demo crats of tho house, by a vote of 166 to 72, Friday passod the Underwood cot ton bill, making an averago reduction of 60 per cunt, below tho duties pro vided In tho Payno-Aldrich bill. INVESTIGATION AT BAY: KILLS SELF 1 MANIAC WHO WOUNDED FIVE PERSONS AT SOUTH PLATTE, COLO., SUICIDE ARTER CHASE. HIT TWICE IN HOT PURSUIT Wounded Madman Was on Way to Home of His Girl Wife, Whose Life He Had Threatened, Because She Had Deserted Him. La Junta, Colo., Aug. 7. Goorgs Ballow, who, on Friday night, shot flv persona nnd burned down a holoLat South l'lntte, committed nuioide lures miles from hero. He had been pur sued from Rocky Ford by a sheriff and his posse and took his Ufa with his last bullot, only after ho had boon wouiided twice and brought to bay behind a hay stack. Ballew, on foot, Btnrtod from Colo rado Springs, where ho had spent the night, toward La Junta. Several miles out he stolo a horso and buggy from Goorgo Governoau, n farmor. The latter soon discovered his loss and telephoned to La Junta. Thinking thnt Ballow was meroly a horso thief, Deputy Sheriff Jack Devino left hero to Intercept him. Ho had passed tho Village of Ormcga when ho saw a man ahead of him try to flag a passing freight train. But tho train did not stop and tho man dropped in the tall grass behind tho track. Further down tho track was the horso nnd buggy that Ballow had stolen. In tho mennwhilo Bnllew mot Wes ley Wilson, a negro, driving a buggy, and forced him to turn tho vehicle over to him. Lashing tho horso, lie started driving at breakneck spoed toward La Junta. As ho drovo away Wilson drow n revolver from his pocket and emptied It at tho fugutivo, ono bullet striking him In tho thigh. Then one shot was hoard. When the posso closed In they found him doad with n bullet through IiIb head. Two revolvers lay beside him. None of tho pursuors was injured. It is thought that Ballow tried to flag tho train In ordor to go to Lns Crucos, N. Mex., whero his girl wife, who recently deserted him, lives. Ho bad threatened hor life, It 13 said. UPHOLDS MONROE DOCTRINE Senate Adopts Resolution Warning Powora From the Western Hem isphere by a Vote of 51 to 4. Washington, Aug. 5. Aftor n throe hour debate behind closed doors the senate Friday by n voto of 51 to 4 adopted tho Lodgo resolution defining tho attitude of tho United States in disapproval of tho acquisition by for eign Interests of any territory on tho western hemisphere which might bo used as military or naval base or monace "tho approaches" of this country. Tho resolution declared tho Unltod States rould not see, "without gravo concern," tho tltlo to nny advantage ouii position on tho American con tinent pass into tho control of a for eign corporation that might bo dom inated by a foreign government. Negro Becomes Jewish Convert. New York, Aug, 6. Rufus L. Borry, a colored lawyer of Brooklyn, em braced the Jewish faith hero Sunday In tho homo of Rabbi Schelner. Rov. Melsols, a cantor, assisted in tho cero mony. Wilson Will Remain Governor. Seagirt, N. J., Aug. B, Formal an nounconient was made hero Friday by Governor Wilson that he will not re sign the governorship of Now Jorsey during his campaign for tho nr-, doncy, UNCLE SAM IS DEFIED Governor of santo dominqo threaten9 commander. Should "Bluejackets" From American Gunboat Be Landed on Dominican Soil Trouble May Result. Washington, Aug. 7. Commandor Casey B. Morgan, U. S. N command ing tho Amorican gunboat Nashvillo, sent to Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo, because of revolutionary activity there, has met with on unusual reception, which threatens serious complications botwoon tho Dominican government and tho United States. Ho has been Informed by tho gov ernor of Puerto Plata that "ovory pa triotic Dominican" will offer armed opposition to nny landing of American marines or bluejackets on Dominican soil, whether to protoct American lives nnd proporty or for whatover other purpose thoy wo put nshoro. Reports of the governor's threat, to gether with a sharp protest from Com mander Morgnn nnd his efforts to havo tho authorities nt Santo Domingo curb tho wrath of tho authorities at Puerto Plata, havo been cabled to tho navy department and hurriedly communica ted to the stato department for ac tion. Tho elate department declines to dl vulgo Its course In case the matter Is not speedily straightened out by tho Dominican government Itself. PROGRESSIVES NAME TICKET Indiana's Third Party Nominates Bev- erldno for Governor and Landls for Second Place. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 3. The Pro gressive state convention hero Thurs day nominated tho following ticket: Governor Albert J. Bevorldgo of Indlnnapolls. Lieutenant governor Frederick Lnndis of Lognnsport, Secretary of stato L. H. Mace, Scottsburg. Auditor of state Harvey C. Cush man, Washington. Attorney gonernl Clifford F. Jack man, Huntington. Superintendent of public Instruction Charles E. Spauldlng, Wliinmae. Stato statistician Thnddeus M. Mooro, Madison county. Reporter of supremo court Frank R. Miller, Clinton. Judge of supremo court, First dis trict J, B, Wilson of Bloomlngton. Judge of supremo court, Fourth dls trlotWilllam A. -Bond, Riqhmqnd. Judge of nppellato court, Wtft dis trictMiner F. Pnto, Bloomfiold. Tho platform declares for ovory thing that has been preached as "pro gressive" for yoars. ARCHBALD CASE DECEMBER 3 Immediate Trial Desired by House Is Refused by Senate After an Executive 8esalon. Washington, Aug. 6. Tho trial of Judge Robert W. Archbald of tho Unl tod States commorco court on lm penchmont proceedings brought by tho houso of representatives was sot by tho sennto Saturday to open Tucb. day, December 3. tho second day of tho next regular sosslon of congress. Tho houso mnnngers, who brought chnrgos of misconduct against Judge Archbald. demanded that tho trial open Wednesday, August 7. Judgo Archbald through his attorney, A. S. Worthlngton, presented to tho Benato a formal request that It bo deferred until October 15 on tho ground that his caso could not be propnred boforo that tlmo. After two hours in cxecu live session, tho sonato, by n vote of 44 to 19, determined upon tho post ponement. MEXICANS FIRE ON EL PASO United States Soldiers and Unseen Foe Exchange About Fifty Shots. El Paso, Tex., Aug. 7. About fifty shots wore exchanged on Saturday between United States soldiers and unidentified mon from tho Moxicnn sido of tho border In East El Paso. No ono was hit. Thoro wero no ar. rests. Thieo shots were first filed from tho Moxlcan sido, sti Iking n houso belonging to C. H. Cole. After tho first throo or four shots weio heard, the soldiers on guard on tho American side opened fire toward Mexico. Tho bullets then enmo fnstor from tho Moxicnn side, ono of thorn strlk. Ing A. D, Martinez' house. Three houses near tho rlvor woro struck by bullets, as was tho roof of ono of tho El Paso foundry gulldlngs. No trace of tho mon who fired from tho Mexican sido could be found. Senate Passes Wool Bill. Washington, Aug. 7. Tho senato by n voto of 35 to 28 finally disposed ol tho wool bill Monday when it adopted tho compromise measuro known as tho I.a Follotto bill reported by tho conforeos. Alaska Politician Suicides. Seattle, Wash., Aug. 7. A. J. Daly, Democratic nntionnl committeeman for Alaska and for years tho party leador in tho northern torrltory, com mitted sulcldo on an Alaskan steam boat Monday.' Two Killed, Seventeen Hurt. Wheollng, W. Va., Aug. 7. Two per sons wero klllod and 17 sorlously In jured Mondny nonr Claysvlllo, Pa., 20 miles from here, when a Baltlmoro & Ohio passenger train crashed head-on into a freight. JOHNSON IS GREAT PITCHER Has Added to His Terrlflo Speed Ex cedent Control, Slow Ball and Quick Breaking Curve. "Walter Johnson Is today a per feet pitcher," said one of tho veteran umpires of tho Amorican league re cently In discussing tho Washington marvel. "If you could havo a hurler mado to order you couldn't design ono who would bo a bit moro effective than tho big Swedo, whoso name Is a terror to tho best batsmen in tho country. "Johnson Isn't using his terrlflo speed much nowadays. In fact, he sol dom cuts ono loose with all his might unless ho happens to bo In a tight plnco nnd opposed to a hitter who 10 weak on "the faBt ono3. Ho throws a lot of fast balls with a break on them still, but they are not of the old armor-piercing typo that mado him fa mous. "At ono time ho had to depend al most entirely on tho velocity of hla ball and his controLo mako him for mldable, but now ho has acquired a good curve nnd a nice change of pneo. For somo tlmo ho has been experi menting with a slow ball, and now ho. has got command of it. Think of tho doadly efficiency of a slow ono coming aftor a ball that has been turned through a mile a minute. "Walter's curve la not tho widest In tho world, but It Is a quick ono, and tho break plenty largo enough to no Walter Johnson. compllsh tho desired purpose. His con trol, which always hns beon good, Boonifl to bo Improving. "On top of this bo has a splendid disposition for a pitcher. Nothing seems to rnttlo him. Some pltchora get up in tho air If they think an um pire has missed a strike in a pinch, but Walter Just smiles, knowing that ho can lay tho next ono over If he has to. Ho la by nil odds tho greatest pitcher In the game today nnd to my mind thoro never lived ono who was nny bettor. As near ns nny human be ing can hope to nchiovo in nny lino of endeavor Johnson has achieved It as a pitcher." MODERN BASEBALL IS FASTER Nothing to Be Accomplished by Wordy Controversy on Merits of Old and Young Players. Thoro may bo some good accom plished from a wordy controversy whether or not baseball lo faster than It used to bo, but Just exactly how this is to effect tho cost of living Is not so porfectly apparent, says tho Mllwnukeo Sentinel. Tho old fellows who havo had their day and who are continually looking backward, seem to think that thoy played faster and bettor in tho olden tlmo, but the young men who aro now engaged In making baseball history nro dead euro tho old timers wer truck horses in comparison with them. Thero Is no reason why tho old timers could not hit a hall just exact ly as hard; run Just as fasl and field Just as accurately. It may bo that owing to tho development of pitching Thoy would not have an opportunity to hit and run ns often, and Inside bnseball may bo developed nnro than It was in tho olden times, hut grant all this and what's the answer? It plonses us who remembor some of tho old-timers to think they wero Just as good as tho best, but it may b that we aro mistaken. At that, it Is pretty bard to see what is going to ba accomplished by the disillusion ment. If tho mon of today are much better than they usod to be, let It go at that. Nothing can bo accomplish ed by arguing this question any more thnn can be by Indulging in a con troversy over politics or religion. Boston Lands Western Player. Tho sale of Pitcher Wynn Noyes of the Spokane club to the Boston club 'of tho National league has been an nounced. Noyes, who ia the star rlght handler of tho Spokane club, will not bo delivered until the cloao of the. Northwestern league- season. ' ij "l )i JSt