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CHAPTER V. - ( Continued. )
A few . days : aftor Evelyn Porter came
t tome , Wheaton followed .liaridan to his
" room cne evening after dinner. Raridar
'bad set The Bachelors' an example of
I white flannels for the warm weather , and
Wheaton also had abolished his evening
clothes. Raridan's ro'oms had not yd ;
s lost their novelty for him. The pictures
the statuettes , the books the broad couch
with its heap of vari-colored pillows , the
i table with its candelabra , by winch Rari
. ' dan always read certain of the l'oets-
these still had their mystery for Whea
< ton.
- "Going out to-night ? " he- asked with
a show of indifference. '
"Hadn't thought of it , " answered Rari-
I dan , who was cutting the pages of a
. magazine. '
"Don't let me interrupt if you're read-
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ing , " said "rhea ton.hHut I thought
, some of dropping in at Mr. : Porter's.
. Miss : : Porter's home now , I believe. "
I . . . "That's a good idea " said Raridan ,
. who saw what was wanted. He threw
his magazine at the cat and got up and
yawned. "Suppose we do go ? "
The call had been successfully ] man-
. Miss : Porter'was ' pretty
aged. as very pretty , and
: not so young as Wheaton expected to
I find her. -Raridan left him talking tc
I her and went across to the library , where
I Mr. Porter was reading his evening pa-
per. Raridan had a way of wandering
! about in other people's houses , which
oj I Wheaton envied him. Miss Porter seemed
I , 1 to take his call as a matter of course ,
n . ' i ! f i ' and when her father came out presently
i and greeted him casually as if he wero a
IR j : i , familiar . of the house he left relieved and
, II gratified.
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0 ' . Raridan was at the station to meet
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, Borne guests of Evelyn's , as he had prom-
H . ised. He had established a claim upon
their notice on the occasion of one of
his visits ' to Evelyn at college , and he
greeted them with an air of possession
I which would have been intolerable in an
i , . other man. He pressed Miss Warren foi
; . news of the Connecticut nutmeg crop ,
, , I and hoped that Miss Marshall had not
\ lost her accent jn crossing the Missouri.
Annie Warren was as reserved and
i quiet as. Evelyn could be in her soberest
j moments ; Belle Marshall was as frank
and friendly as Evelyn became in her
' " lightest moods. Evelyn had been the
i boaury of her class ; her two friends were ,
what is called , by people that wish to' '
; _ 11' be kind , nice looking. Annie Warren
had been the best scholar in her class ;
. Belle Marshall ; had been amongst the
i poorest ; and Evelyn had maintained a
) : happy medium between the two. And so
( it fortunately happened that the trio
. . mitigated one another's : : imperfections.
Evelyn : had d ussed with her father
J ways and means of entertaining her
! guests. He preferred large functions.
i He wished Evelyn to give a lawn party I
I before the blight of fall came upon his I
: i : flowers and shrubbery ; but she persuad- I
, f ed him to wait until after a pending
; - carnival. The ball of the carnival was
, j . near at liaud and she proposed that they
give a small dinner in the interval.
I "I'll ask Warry anl Mr. Saxton. Peo-
pIe were already coupling Saxton's name
with Raridan's.
" 'Ob . yes , that's all right.
* 'l don't want very many ; I'd like to
osk the Whipples ; " she. went on , with
. the anxious , far-away look that comes
"into the eyes of a woman who is weigh
. ing dinner guests or matching fabrics.
; "Can't you ask Wheaton ? " ventured
Mr. Porter cautiously , from behind his
paper.
, . "If jou say so , " Evelyn assented. "He
Isn't exciting , but Belle ' Marshall can
: get on with anybody. I'm out of practice ;
. . vand won't try too many.rs. . Whipple
-will help ] over the hard places. "
. Finally , however , her party numbered
. ten , but it seemed to Wheaton a large
' assemblage. He had never taken a lady
in to dinner before , but he had studied a
' book of etiquette , and the chapter oil
"Dining Out" had given mm a hint of
what was expected. It had not , however ,
supplied him with a fund of talk , but
j I he was glad to find , when he reached the
1 table , that the company was so small
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that talk could be general , and he was
thankful for the shelter made for him by
the light banter which followed the set-
tling of chairs. Saxton went in with
, . Evelyn , who ' wished to make amends foi
his clumsy reception on the occasion of
I his first appearance . in the house.
I . General Whipple persuaded Miss Mar :
i ; t ; ; shall to tell a uogro story , which she did
, : delightfully ' , while the table listened.
" Southerners are , after all , the most nat-
. , ural talkers we have and the oniy ones
t who can talk freely of themselves with-
; - " i. . out offense. Her speech was _ musical
. , : ' ; and she , told her story with a nice sense
of its dramatic quality.
P , They had their coffee on the veranda ,
t , y' where the lights from within made a
. , i pleasant dusk about them. Porters
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, . heart ' warm with the joy of ' '
: lrt was \ ) Evelyn's
home-coming. She had been away from
I I him so much that he was realizing for
the first ; time the common experience of
. i fathers , who find that their daughters
, have escaped suddenly and inexplicably
, . . . from girlhood into womanhood ; and yet
; : the girl heart in her had not lost its. ! : .
y ; . . . freshness nor its thirst for pleasure. She
had carried off her little company charm
ingly ; Porter had e3jo ' ; d it himself , and . .
-t ( he ' felt . young again in the presence of
. youth. ;
General Whipple had attached himself
* . ( J to one of the' couples of young people
- that were strolling- here and there . in the
" i- : grounds. Porter ! and Mrs. . Whipple held .
" the rcranda . alone : both were uncon-
. : sciorisly watcliius ' .Bweljn , and Saxton as
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the house , talking gaily ; and Porter
smiled at the eagerness and quickness oi
her movements saxton's : deliberateness
contrasted oddly with the girl's light step.
Such a girl must marry a man worthy
of her ; there could beno question of
that ; and for the 'first lime the thought
of losing her rose in his heart and numb-
ed it. '
it.Evelyn
Evelyn and Saxton had 'met the oth-
ers , who were coming up from the walks ,
and there was a redistribution at the
house ; it was too beautiful to go in , they
said , and the strolling abroad continued.
A great flood of moonlight poured over
the grounds. A breeze stole up from
the valley and made a soothing rustle in
the trees. .
Evelyn and 'Yheaton' heard the sound
of the piano through the open windows ,
and a girl's voice : broke gaily into song.
"It's Belle. She does sing those coon
songs wonderfully. Let us wait here un-
til she finishes this one. " The sun-porch
opened from the dining . rCO = l1. They
could see beyond /it , into th- . drawing-
room ; the singer was in plain view sit-
ting at the piano ; Raridan stood facing
her , keeping time with an imaginary
baton.
A man came unobserved to the glass
door of the porch and stood unsteadily
peering in. He was very dirty and bal-
anced himself in that abandon with which
intoxicated men belie Newton's d sco\-
ery. He had gained the top step with
difficulty ; the light from the window
blinded him and for a moment he stoofl
within the inclosure blinking. An ugly
grin spread over' his face as he made out
the two figures by the window , and he
began a laborious journey . toward them.
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He tried to tiptoe , and this added fur-
ther to his embarrassments ; but the fig-
ures by the window were intent on the
song and did not hear him. He drew
slowly nearer ; one more step and he
would have concluded his journey. He
poised on his toes before taking it , but
the law of gravitation now asserted it-
pelf. He lunged forward heavily ] , casting
himself upon Wheaton , and nearly knock-
ing him from his feet. ,
"Jimmy. " he blurted , in a drunken
voice. " , J "
\ "Jim-uy !
Evelyn turned quickly and shrank back
with a cry. Wheaton was slowly rallying
from the shock of his surprise. lIe grab
bed the man by the arms and began push-
ing him toward the door.
"Don't be alarmed , " he said over his
shoulder to Evelyn , who had shrunk back
against the wall. "I'll manage him. "
This however was not so easily done.
The tramp , as Evelyn supposed him to bo.
had been sobered by Wheaton's attack.
He clasped his fingers about Wheaton's-
throat and planted his feet firmly. He
clearly intended to stand his ground , and
he dug his fingers into Wheaton's neck
with the intention tof , hurting.
"Father ! " cried Evelyn once but the
song was growing noisier toward its end
and the circle about the piano did not
hear. She was about to call again when
a heavy step sounded outside on the walk
and Bishop : Delafieid came swiftly into
the porch. He "had entered the ground.- :
from the rear and was walking arouu-l
the house to the front door.
"Quick ! that man there-I'll call the
others ! " cried Evelyn ] still shrinking
against the wall. 11 ' Keaton . had been :
forced to his knees and his assailant was
choking him. But there was no need of
other help. The bishop had already seized
the tramp about the body with his great
hands , tearing him from Wheaton's neck.
He strode , with the squirming figure in
his grasp , toward au open window at the
back of the glass inclosure , and pushed
the man out. : There was a great .snort
ing and threshing below. , ' The hill dipped
abruptly away from the side of the uou.se
and the man had fallen several feet , into
a flower bed.
"Get away ; from here , " the ( bishop
said , in his deep voice , "and be quick
about it. " The man rose and ran swiftly
down the slope toward the street' :
The bishop walked back to the window.
The others had now hurried out in re
sponse to Evelyn's peremptory calls. and
she . was telling of the tramp's visit , while
"Wheaton received their condolences , and
readjusted his tie. His collar and short- : :
front showed signs of contact with dirt.
"It was a tramp. " slid'elyn. , as the
others plied her . with questions , "and he
attacked Mr. : Wheaton. "
"Where's he gone ? " . demanded Porter.
excitedly. '
"There he goes ; " said the bi hop. point
ing toward the window. "I dropped him
gently out of the window. The shock
seems to have inspired his logs. "
"I'll have the po ice- " began Por-
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"Oh he's gone now , Mr. Porter , " said : 1
Wheaton , coolly , as : : he restored his ; 'tie.
"Bishop Delafield disposed of him : . o vig-
orousily that he'll hardly come back. "
"Yes , let him go. " said the bishop , wip
ing his hands on his handkerchief. "I'm
'only afraid. Porter , that I've spoiled you i
best canua bed. " '
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The following Sunday- : , morning aftei I
church , as Wheaton l'e } ch d.his"rpom he
fouifd " "an envelope lying * on- ' . his ! . table.
much soiled , and addresseH , in"an tnble'l
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dirty scrap of paper bearing th ° se words :
"Jim : I'll be at the Occiden al Hotel
to-night at 8 o'clock. Don't fail to come.
. "BILLY. "
Wheaton tore up the' note with irrita
tion and threw it into the waste paper
basket. He called the Chinese servant ,
who explained that a boy had left it : in
the course of the morning acd had said
nothing about an answer.
The' Bachelors' did not usually muster
a full table at Sunday dinner. All Clark-
son dined at noon on Sunday , and "most
of the bachelors were fortunate enough
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to be asked out. Wheaton was not fre-
quently a diner out by reason of his more
slender acquaintance ; and to-day all
pere present including Raridan , the most
fickle of all in his attendance. It had
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pleased Wheaton to find that the others
had been sotting him apart more find
rtore with Raridan for the daily disci-
pline they dealt one another. They liked
to poke fun at Raridan on the score of
'what they called his mad social whirl ;
there was no resentment about it ; they
were themselves of sterner stuff and had
no patience with Randan's frivolities ;
and they were within the fact when they
assumed that , if they wished , they could
go anywhere that he did. ' It touched
Wheaton's ; vanity to find himself a joint
target with Raridan for the arrows which
the other bachelors ] fired at folly.
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Wheaton aftor dinner went to his room
and mado himself comfortable. He re-
road the Sunday paors : through all their
supplements , dwelling again on the events
of the carnival. lie had saved : all the
othor papers that contained society news ,
and now brought : them out and cut "from
them all references to himself. He re-
solved to opon a kind of social scrap
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hook in which to preserve a record ol
, his ! social I doings. : He remembered a com-
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plaint often heard in Clarkson that there
wore no eligible men there ; he was not
sure just what constituted ligibility , but
as he reviewed ; the men tha't went about
11 ( ' could not see that they possessed any
advantages : over himself. It occurred to
him for the first time that he was the
only unmarried bank cashier in town ;
and this in itself conferred ' -distinction. .
He was not so secure in his place as he
should like to be : . if Thompson died there
would undoubtedly be a reorganization
of the bank and the few shares that Por-
ter had sold to him would not hold the
cashiorship for him. It might be that
Porter's plan was to keep him in the
place until Grant grew up. Again , he. .
reflected the man who married Evelyn
Porter would become an element to reck-
on with ; and yet if he were to be that
man -
manHe slept and dreamed that he was
king of a gream realm and that Evelyn
Porter reigned with him as queen } ; then
he awoke ) : with a start to find that it was
late. He sat up on the couch and gath-
ered together : the newspaper cuttings
which had fallen about him. He remem-
bered } the imperative summons which had
been left for him during the morning ; it
was already G o'clock. Before going out
he changed his qlothes \ to a rough busi
ness suit and took a car that bore him i
rapidly through the business district and
beyond into the older part of Clarkson.
The locality was very shabby , and when
he left the car presently it was to con
tinue his journey in an ill-lighted street
over board walks which yielded a pre
carious footing. The Occidental Hotel :
was in the old part of town , and had
long ago ceased to be what it had once
been , the first hostelry of Clarkson. It I
had descended to the level of a cheap
hoarding house , little patronized except
by the rougher element of cattlemen and
by railroad crews that found it conveni -
ent to the yards. ; Over the door a dim
light blinked , and this , it was understood
in tlu ' neighborhood , meant not merely an
invitation to bed and board , but also tc
the Occidental bar , which was accessible
at all hours of the day and night , and
was open through all the spasms of vir-
tue with which the city administration
was seized from time to time. The door
stood open and Wheaton stepped up to
the counter on which a boy sat playing
with a cat.
"Is William Snyder stopping here ? " he
asked.
The boy looked : up lazily from his play.
"Are you the gent he's expecting ? : "
"Very likcl ' . Is he in ? "
"Yes , he's : : number eighteen. . " ' He drop
ped-the cat and led Wheaton down a darli
hall which was stale with the odors oi
cooked vegetables up a steep flight ( oi
stairs to a landing from which he point-
ed to an oblong of light above a door.
"There you are , " said the boy. He
kicked the door and retreated down the
stairs , leaving Wheaton to obey the sum
mons to enter which was bawled from
within. William Snyder unfolded his
long 'Ggure and rose to greet his visitor1
( To be continued. )
IIo-vv It Soumletl. .
Since this \ is a confession it may as
well } ] be a frank : and truthful one. 1
am not jealous of my husband's first
wife-at least I hope I am not. But
when ho looks depressed , or when I
sec thnt he is not as happy as I would
like him to be , I am conscious of an
uncomfortable doubt. I have tried to
bring my sense of humor to bear upon
this pain , too , and sometimes have suc-
ceeded fairly well - sometimes I have
failed dismally. } ] ; A trying trick that
my dear husband ? has : is that of sink
ing into an absent-minded reverie or
abstraction ; and he sometimes so far
forirets himself to call me "Mary" in
stead of "Sarah. " ' Once when he had
been particularly forgetful I . and ' dreamy
he did this three tiuics in one eveni ' g .
At last my resentment and apprecia
tion of the ridiculous : sprang to arms.
With the fourth "Mary" I answered
sweetly :
"In heaven , dear ! Won't I do ? "
I had heard of another wife wht
ht < l done this. and it had sounded
fnniiy ; to me when I heard the story ;
but wbon I utfored the unseemly and
unrefined spooch I was overcome with
shame my anger fled and , bursting
into tears. I begged my husband's par
don ! and I told him so.
"I am hurt " hc&said ; "I had no idea
that the memory ; of my poor girl , OT :
that : my thought of her. distressed : \ ' u.
Since Jt does , I shall be more careful
in : the future. my clear wife , and try I
not : ti > talk of her. " - - Success ! Magazine
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I TAHOPENS BIG fAIR
. WITH ALASKA GOLD KEY
President Sends Sparks Across
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t' Continent Starting Pacific ,
Exposition.
TAMES J.yHILI WAENS NATION ,
Magnate Sees Danger and Pleads for :
Law Enforcement Instead of
Law Making.
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President Taft , in the White House ,
at 3:15 o'clock Tuesday afternoon ,
pressed a telegraphy key of Alaska
gold and sent a spark : across the con
tinent that put in motion the wheels
of tlie Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposi
tion in Seattle , loosed the waters of
its fountains , unfurled its banners ,
started its bands playing , released
showers of daylight fireworks , called
upon the saluting guns of the Ameri-
can and Japanese fleets , set all the
steamers in the harbor and all the lo
comotives in the railroad yards whis-
tling and brought forth universal re
joicing from all Seattle.
Ui ; ; Fair la ! Complete.
The exercises at the world's fair
grounds preceding the President's sig - I
nal were carried out with military pre-
cision : The exposition gates were
opened at 8 : 30 o'clock. At 9:30 troops
. from . : the United States army and navy ,
from the Japanese cruisers Aso and
Soya and the State militia paraded
through the grounds , under the com-
mand of Colonel T. C. Woodbury , U.
S. A. , and the column was reviewed
from a stand at the head of the court
of honor by exposition officials , visit
ing governors and Admirals H. Ijichi
and Uriel Sebree.
The ceremonial exercises were held
in a vast natural amphitheater sloping
to Lake Washington. The program
consisted of music , invocation by Cath-
olic Bishop Onward J. O'Day , brief ad-
dress by Director General I. A. Na-
deau and President J. F. Chilberg , the
long address by James J. Hill , chair-
man of the Great Northern board , and
it benediction by Episcopal Bishop
Frederick W. Keator.
. Mr. Hill said : "There are four great
rvords that should be written upon the
four cornet stones of every publiC
building in this land , with the sacred-
ness of a religious rite. These watch
words of the republic are equality , sim-
plicity , economy and justice. They are
interwoven with every fiber of the na-
tional . fabric. To forget or deny them
will lead to every misfortune and ev
ery possibility of destruction that rises
now threateningly in the path of our
country's greatness.
"Frequent use of the phrase , 'our
complex civilization , ' creates a vague
impression that simplicity has been
banished necessarily from the modern
world by a kind- of natural evolution.
Whereas it remains now , as always ,
the normal rule of a wholesome nation-
al life. '
"We have complicated our lawmak-
ing until , despite the high standards ,
the unimpaired traditions and the con-
tinual labors of the courts , the admin-
istration of justice is difficult and
sometimes uncertain. The greatest
service to the nation , to. every State
and city to-day , would be the substitu
tion for a term of years of law en
forcement for law-making.
'Taft Semis Me.ssngre.
The ceremony of pressing' the gold
key in the east room of the White
House Washington by which Presi
dent Taft to-day formally opened the
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
was
simple. There was : a delay of fifteen
minutes at Seattle in completing ]
arrangements , and it was 3:15 p. m.
Washington ( time ) when President
Taft 'touched the golden telegraph in-
strument. Practically the entire diplo-
matic corps was present The message ,
which followed quickly after the cur-
rent that put everything in motion
was as follows :
"The White House , Washington ,
June 1 , 1909. - Mr. : J. E. Chilberg ,
President Alaska-Yukon-Pacific ] . Exposi
tion , Seattle , Wash.
"I congratulate you and your asso-
ciates on this auspicious opening of
the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition ,
and I congratulate the people of the
great Northwest on the courage and
enterprise they have shown in bring-
ing it forth. The exposition , designed
as it is to exploit the natural resources
and marvelous wealth of ' Alaska and
the development of trade and com-
merce on the Pacific slope , should ap
peal not only to the people of the
West but to the people of the country
at large. I trust it'will fully ] } meet the
expectations ? of those to whose untir
ing energies it owes its birth and that
It will prove a source of instruction
and education to its thousands of visi
tors. WILLIAM H. TAFT. "
President Taft and Senator Piles
then made brief addresses.
Finds "Fortune" "Worthless ; Insane.
When he learned that $22,000 in pa-
per money , which he dug up two weeks
ago in a field while plowing , was
worthless , William Murphy , a farmer
living three miles east of Snyder ,
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Okla , . lost his mind. Murphy guarded
his find carefully for a week before
he learned- that the bills were issuad
by the Confederate States of Am- 'ica
during the Civil\War \ . .
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A recent executive order was found
to be the first step in the policy of
economy and retrenchment contem
plated by the administration. Its pur-
pose ] is to systematize the purchase of
r.upplies needed in common by two or
more departments , to. procure such sup
plies at lower and mora unifdrm prices
and to create a General Supply ' Com
mittee. This committee is to be made
up of one representative from each de-
partment and independent bureau and
its duty will be to prepare a schaJtJle
of all supplies needed by the various
Departments and bureaus before the
nd of each fiscal year. A uniform
oiethod of ' . ad vertisement , inspection
and testing is prescribed. ,
Desiring to find out independently
of the revisionists in Congress what
th " "ultimate consumer" may expect to
get from a revised tariff law , President
Taft has directed the Treasury De-
partment experts to compile for him
the approximate amount of duties on
articles in common use as fixed under
the existing. Dingley law and as pro-
posed in the Payne and Aldrich bills.
Considering such articles as clothing ,
furniture , tinware , foods , coal , etc. , the
President asked that the duty be com
puted on the average retail price of
the article. For example , how much
duty does a $2 pair of shoes pay in
I each of the systems of tariff referred
to ? I
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The appropriations committee of the
Senate and House have now published
the figures of the money bills passed at
the last session of the Sixtieth Con-
gress , the number of new offices creat
ed and other information. The total of
is . an in
appropriations $1,044-101,857
crease of $36,000,000. The new offices
and employments created were 10,120
in number , involving an expenditure of
$11,170,899.
Government ownership , of an ice
plant in the city of Washington , is
contemplated in a plan which Presi-
dent Taft has under consideration for
centralizing the purchase of all sup
plies for all of the government depart
ments. The purpose is to stop the
practice ) of charging the departments
excessive prices.
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William S. Washburn , until recent
ly chairman ofi : the Philippine Civil
Service Commission and a former em-
ploye of the United States Civil Ser-
vice Commission , has been appointed a
member of the latter body by Presi- -
dent Taft -in : place of James T. Will
iams , Jr. , resigned.
President Taft has named William
Williams , immigration commis ion-
er of the Port of New Work , the man
who was forced out by the Roosevelt
administration. This appointment was
made without regard to the wishes of
the local Republican organization.
The United States army is to have
an aeronautic field near Washington
which will rival the aerodrome at Ber-
lin and that at Issy-Les Moulineaux
near Paris , where many famous avia-
tors have startled the world with their
performances.
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Walter E. Clark , Washington corre
spondent of the Seattle ; Post-Intelli
gencer and also a member of the Nc\v
York Sun Washington bureau , has
been named by the President to be
Governor of Alaska in place of Hog-
gatt , resigned.
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Thomas H. ' Netherland , an expert
penman , formerly" employed at the
White House , but lately in the postof-
fice department , broke down as the re-
'suit of overwork and committed
cide.
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James J. Hill called on the President I
the other day. He declared that if I
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Congress would only get through with
the tariff , business would be good. 1t
TRADE AMD INDUSTRY.
Fruit promises to be a good crop in
Minnesota this year.
Near Fergus Falls , Minn. , prairie
fires have done a lot of damage.
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Agriculture is to be taught in the
public schools of Warren , Minn.
Slot machine accident insurance pol-
icies caniiot be operated . Minnesota. .
This is the opinion of State Insurance 1
Commissioner Hartigan. 1a
About : ; one hundred officers of the
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National Retail Grocers' Association ,
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left St. Louis in a special car en
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route to the Alaskan-Yukon exposi-
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tion.
tion.The' f
The Superior , Wis. , Commercial s
Club has indorsed the lakes to the
gulf canal scheme and pledged the i
support , of the organization and the r
individual influence of the members
of the club . to its agitation. c :
The Alfalfa Food Mill : : at South
Omaha for the preparation of stock-
food , belonging to the M. : C. Peters
Mill Company : , of Omaha , has burned.
The loss is estimated at $125,000.
With the closing of the Rational
Tube Works at McKeesport , Pa. , .last of
Sunday , the United States Steel Cor n
poration took the first step toward 1 :
what is understood to be the discon- ! : : I
tinuance of all Sunday : work > n its p :
mills in the Pittsburg district antj i
later. : : throughout the country. q
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TEXAS Atm OKLAHOMA /
SWEPT BY TORNADOES y 4
Village of Zephyr , Texas , Is Struck .t ,
in Night by 'a Terrific . - , ,
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FLOODS ADD TO THE PfRIL .
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Series of Twisters r in Oklahoma , . t .
Leave Two Towns . Heap
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A tornado of great ' fury struck , the
little village of Zephyr : , in the % eastern
portion of Brown County , Texas , : at 1
o'clock Sunday morning and left a
path of death and destruction4 seldom -
paralleled. The death list has reached ; - " -
a total of thirty-two , and the number
of seriously and fatally wounded ' will
reach fifty. \ ! . .
The storm formed half a mile south i
west of Zephyr and swept down upon
the village , cutting a path directly
through the residence and business
district. Nearly fifty houses were de
molished. . Lightning struck a lumber
yard and started a conflagration which
destroyed : one business block. No . , ef -
fort was made to fight the.fire , as the
care of the dead and wounded victims
demanded all attention. ' , ' A section
hand rode a hand car to Brownwcod ;
and spread the alarm. In two hours
the Santa Fe Railroad was speeding
a special train to the scene of the
storm with nine surgeons and a score
of Brownwood citizens. Hundreds of -
persons directly in the storm's path
saved themselves by taking refuge in
storm cellars. More than a dozen 'bod
ies were horribly mutilated. , County
Clerk Thad Cabler and wife and two
children , who had 'gone to Zephyr to
spend the night , were kiljed. The big
stone school building and two .church
es were swept from the face ' ' of the
earth. ,
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Fifteen and perhaps . more persons
were killed Saturday night in a series
of tornadoes that devastated the Okla- "
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homa towns of Key West and Depew. ' "
Forty or more are injured. At least \ . . \ . ,
ten were killed in Key West Five
are dead at Depew. The tornado swept
over a wide stretch of farming coun
try. Following the wind came a del
uge of rain. Floods then added their
terrors to the situation. The wreck
age of Key West soon was overwhelm
ed by the rising waters. Practically
nothing was left of the town of 200'
inhabitants. Rescuers hastened to\ \ the
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place , but could not cross Salt Creek ,
which had become raging torrent.
A few inhabitants of Key West cross
ed the streat before the rise made it
impassable.
Depew was destroyed by a double
twister that was formed from that /
striking Key West and traveled in a :
northeasterly direction and' another
coming from the east. The tornado I
wiped out Depew , then pushed north
east , spending its force presumably a
few miles forther on. Small torna-
does followed in-'rapid succession in
an atmosphere that was very humid.
They rose high into the ' air , circled
about and dipped. As many as five
were observed during the display. The
little tornadoes had spent their force
when the big one came at 5 o'clock.
Preceding and following it were ter-
rific rain and hail storms. The streets
of Stroud and Sapulpa were veritable
rivers.
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Seven Die in Xortlt Dakota. "
Seven persons are known to be dead
many are dying and over a score are
seriously injured as a result of a tor
nado which swept over northwestern
North Dakota.
The storm was -
espe-
cially severe at' Langdon , where the
residence section of the city : was prac
tically : wiped out , four people killed
and twenty injured. . The tornado de-
molished all of the buildings of the
Jamestown Fair Association , ' the loss
being $50,000 , and several other large ,
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MOBBED BY : WOMEN ; IS DYI"VG.
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Sinn Accused of Slandering Tlierii Ia
Driven from ' ToivJa : : 1 > y ' Victims. .
George Englert , an English'coal : : :
niner , died in Washington , Pa. , from
Bounds inflicted by a mob of 250 ' -worn-
m who drove him frQID the town of
Manifold , , three miles north. En'glert ' , '
it is charged , had ! '
slandered women
ind girls , had refused to heed warn- : :
ngs to desist , and' , it is alIeged , % red
he residents to stop him. He- was
aved from death on the spot byHown
fficials who rescued him from the in-
uriated mob / and placed him on a
street car with orders not
to
return.
3nglert's wife , who had
just
been
re-
eased from a local hospital following
recovers- : from an operation , fainted
vhen told of the affair
and
. is still un-
ensclOp.s- 'With little '
hope of rec'over - .
KILLED 33T QUARiEL.f. f. '
v'enHby ; Xcw York Farmer
Slain by
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Morris DonO\'an , a wealthy firmer' \
If ClYde , N. Y. , was killed
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ng occurred at the home of Tremper.
Ie. Donovan and Fred . . , . i
. Hart , an em-
ploye ot Dono _ van ' s , spent the nigh *
n the Tremper
emper barn "
drinking cMer A" '
uarreL was started and the killin- ' fol , '
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