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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOUENAL SATURDAY EVENIKCJ, SEPTEMBER 7, 1907.
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NOTED CHARACTER
Theodore Dunmire, a Soldier of
Fortune, at Learenworth.
The Man Who Married DiTorced
U ife of C. J. Guitean,
SLAYEK OF GAKFIELD.
llasf Led an AdTentnrous Life in
Many Climes.
Among Other Curios Has Rare
and Ancient Books.
Leavenworth. Sept. 7. The Times
says: Theodore DuitTnlrw. who mar
rfed Anna Gulteau. the divorced wife
of Charles Julius Guiteau. and who.
with his wife, was summoned as a
witness at the trial of Guiteau for the
assassination of President James A.
Garfield, Is a resident of Leavenworth,
end lives at Ko. 514 South Fifth street.
He has been a veritable "Soldier of
Fortune," and has traveled all over
the TTnlted States and engaged in many
ventures in the pursuit of wealth and
fame, but has finally settled down to
spend the remainder of his days in
peace and quiet.
He was born at HoIIIdayberg, Pa., In
1842. He came west with his parents
in 1845 and settled in Platte county.
Mo., about twelve miles east of Leav
enworth. At the outbreak of the Civil
War Dunmire enlisted in the Fifteenth
Missouri infantry and fonght all
through the war. being mustered out
of the First United States Volunteers
engineer corps, in 188 5.
In 1873 the gold fever struck the
soldier-farmer, and he followed the
trail of other fortune hunters and
landed in Colorado, where he engaged1
In mining speculati-n with very good
success.
While In Boulder in 1379. Dunmire
met and married Anna Guiteau. who
had been married and had secured a
divorce from Guiteau four years pre
vious to her marriage to Dunmire. and
two years before the crime was com
mitted. In 18 82 Dunmire and his wife were
subpoenaed to appear as witnesses in
the famous trial which occurred in
Vashingron. D. C.
They took their little child with
tiiem. snd Mrs. Dunmire was placed
upon the stand and testified against
her former husband: that is. she tes
tified that her husband was at all times
perfectly sane, but of a cruel and abu
sive nature. Dunmire was not called
upon to testify, though he drew wit
ness fes for four days.
After the trial he and his wife and
their little boy visited the condemned
slayer of the president in his celi. Af
ter this Dunmire took his family back
to Leadville, where they lived till 1S8S,
ar.d being unlucky in some specula
tions lost nearly all he had saved in
h's years in Colorado. He went to
Chicago, where his wife secured a di
vorce from him, and soon after mar
ried a man named Allen, from whom
she also secured a divorce. She went
to Omaha. Neb., where she now resides
with her daughter, and also Dunmire's
daughter.
In 193 the Cripple Creek craze
struck Dunmire, and he went to Crip
ple Creek, and was there when that
city was visited by the disastrous Are
which dsstroved almost every building
thre. and Dunmire seemed to have
gotten to the end of his good luck
and his health being broken he re
turned to Kansas, where he entered
the Soldiers' home. He draws a pen
aim or Injuries received while erect
irg breastworks before the battle of
Stone river.
He was with General Thomas at
Chtcamauga, followed Sherman on his,
A WEAK STOMACH
NEEDS THE BITTERS AT ONCE
F. Q. WILLHOITE. Chattanooga
Tenn., says: 1 find your Bitters excellent
for curing- my stomach complaints. I suf
fered for years without obtaining any re
lief. I will always endorse your Bitters."
MIS
fit STOMACH
1 5S3L.
illlifi
tin J i ej?bi!
TUG AGED AND INFIRM WILL
,S!Katmr-h to the ani was In
the battle of Franklin, the Last hard
bnttle fought by General Hood in the
Civil war.
Dunmire, among many other curios,
has two very old and Interesting books.
Pje tjlem a book of discourses
by Theodore London. D.D.. and was
published in 1754 at London. England.
The dedication follows- sk"u.
To the Worshful. ihe Masters of
the Bench, of the Two Honorable So
cieties of tne Temple, these discourses
are inscribed by their most obedient
sarvant, Theo. London.
The book Is bound in kid and though
the pages are quite yellow, the book
is In a fine state of preservation. In
the book the old fashioned ' i
and nearly all the nouns begin with
cajltal letters. The book was given
to the present owner many years ago
by a man named McLain. who had
charge of the first land office for tha
Platte purchase, which office was at
Plattsburg, Mo. The book came to
McLatn through his wife, who was a
coualn of Theodore London.
The other book, which Dunmire
treasures so highly. Is an English dic
tionary which is bound In hog skin
and though not quite as old as the
book of discourses, is not quite so well
preserved, some of the leaves being
missing. It was published in London
In 1757, and contains 480 pages.
In several places on the covers of the
book Is written in Ink. which Is dim
but still legible, "John Bunn, his book.
1759."
SOLD THE WRONG UVD.
Elmer Wiggins Claims He Didn't Get
What He Bargained Fop.
Elmer Wiggins of Litchfield. Ill
was In. Goodiand last week. Over a
year ago he bought land eight miles
west of Goodiand through J. O. Lowe,
a real estate dealer of Phillipsburg.
He claims that Lowe took him out and
showed him the farm belonging to S.
T. Caldwell, quite well improved, as
the land represented that it was
leased and he proposed in the bargain
to transfer the lease to Wiggins.
After purchasing- the land he found
that the parcel actually transferred
was one mile west on another section
and not improved. Mr. Caldwell lives
on section 32 and the land sold was In
section 31-7-40. Depositions were be
ing taken in Goodiand last Thursday,
and the cae is pending in the district
court at Phillipsburg.
Mr. Wiggins Is a nephew of Willard
Johnson, living one and a half mile
south of Goodiand. ixoodland Re
public. PIONEER KANSAN WEDS.
Dr. W. C. Hall of Coffeyville Goes to
Illinois for a Bride.
Coffeyville, Kan., Sept. 7. Word
has reached here of the marriage it
Quincy. 111. ,cf Dr. Wiiliam C. Hall,
aged 60 years, of this city, to Miss Nel
lie E. McCord of Golden, III.
Dr. Wlliam C. Hall, one of Mont
gomery county's foremost medicnl men
men and financiers, is one of the pio
neer physicians in this sections. He
came here with his bride from Ohio
more than thiry years ago a poor mar..
He has amassed a fortune as large as
any in this wealthy community, and
is president of the Coffeyville Com
mercial club, director in Condon's Na
tional bank, member of the board of
education, director and official in a
dozen large glass factories, brick fac
tories and industrial institutions and
owns the finest residence in Coffeyville.
He had been a widower for ten years.
Friend's in Coffeyville win give Dr.
Hall and wife a reception upon their
return.
F-rm L.-.nd Soils Well.
A new schedule of values was estab
lished on Jackson county land when
H. B. Bair sold his 160 acre farm, five
miles west of Hoiton. to H. Zeibell for
$75 per acre or $12,000. Land around
town has been selling' for that figure
and even more but it has never
reached out so far before. John Hin
nen. Jr.. made the sale. Mr. and Mrs.
Bair expect to move the Hoiton to re
side. Mr. Bair boug-ht this farm in
1879 for $2,250. Hoiton Recorder.
R. AMUNDSON, Beliingham, W-,h,
says : 1 have been troubled for some time
past with a weak stomach and a'so liver
complaint and your Bitters helped me won
derfully. I willingvy recommend it."
When the stomach is allowed to become weak, dissase easily
finds a foothold. Therefore, build up and strengthen the stom
ach and digestive organs, keep the bowels open and the blood
pure by the use of the celebrated
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You will then be in splendid shape to battle against any sick
ness. Take a dese before meals and at bedtime ar?J see how
quickly such ailments as Poor Appetite, Heartburn, Belch
ing, Nausea, Headache, Costiveness, Cramps, Diar
rhoea, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Female Ills, Sleepless
ness or Malaria, Fever and Ague will disappear. Thousands
hnve used it with beneficial results. Try it today. For sale
by all Druggists.
W GUARANTEE THE GENUINE TO BE ABSOLUTELY PURE.
APPRECIATE AN OCCASIONAL DOSE OF THE BITTERS
ALFALFA YIELD.
The Seed Crop Being Threshed
by the Farmers Xott.
Returns in the Yicinity of Sa
Iina Are Good Indeed.
FREE OF OTHER SEED.
Ten Acres of James Ridings'
Pays S83 Per Acre.
Another SeTen Acre Field Goes
About 60 Per Acre.
Sallna, Sept. 7. The product of al
falfa seed in the vicinity of Salina has
been very good fhU season. It is also
said to be free from deleterious seed
of various kinds, which is a matter of
much importance to alfalfa raisers.
Several farmers have made a report
regarding the cut and yield of alfalfa
seed which Is now being threshed.
There are still some seed crops to cut
and thresh. The third cut is the one
saved for the seed crop usually.
P. A. Weisgerber, Living one and
one-half miles southwest of the city,
has threshed one field of seven acres
of alfalfa and has two others, consist
ing or nrteen acres, still to cut and
thresh. The seven-acre field vielded
30 bushels of good seed. He sold the
seed to local dealers for S3.50 per
bushel or a total of 1255. Resides the
setd. Mr. Weisgerber has three tons
of hay per acre off his alfalfa land.
This he considers worth $11 per acre.
This makes the product of his field
57 per acre.
James Ridings has cut and threshed
ten acres of his alfalfa on his farm
two miles southwest of the city. From
the ten acres he threshed 72 bushels
of seed. This is a very large yield,
the largest that has been reported to
this office. Mr. Ridings sold his seed
to a Sr.lina dealer and received for the
same $8.75 per bushel, or a total value
of $630. The seed returned him $63
per acre and he has hay to the value
of about $20 more.
APPLES AT $1.25 A BUSHEL.
Leavenworth Connty Man Raises a
Few Tills Year.
Leavenworth. Sept. 7. J. Geyer.
who lives near the Jewish cemetery on
rural route .No. 4, brought about ten
bushels of apples to town yesterday,
which he sold to local grocers for
$1.25 per bushel.
The apples were Jonathan and New
York imperial varieties, and were
mcstly windfalls.
Geyer has not picked any apples
from the trees as yet. but fie thinks
he will have a crop of nearly twenty
five bushels. He attributes the num
ber of bushels he has to the fact that
the trees budded later this year than
th'.-y usually do, and so escaped some
of the heavy frosts.
Beet Growers to Organize.
Garden City. Kan.. Sept. 7. This af
ternoon the beet growers of Finney
county will meet in Garden City for
the purpose of organizing a Beet
Growers' association. As soon as per
manent officers are chosen, arrange
ments will be made to hold meetings
at stated periods for the purpose of
discussing the Questions that are of
particular interest to the beet growers.
Thirty Miles of Cigars.
The Poehler Mercantile company
received a shipment of cigars this
week which wis probably the largest
shipment ever received by any one
Kansas house. The consignment con
sisted of a solid car of cigars. There
were forty crates in the car, and 10.
000 cirrars in each case, or 400,000 ci-
gars in alL Strung end to end, the
cigars would stretch half way from
here to Topeka, or a distance of al
most thirty miles. Emporia Gazette.
vtxt stuxixgs abroad.
Says Europeans Think Japan Will
Whip Americans.
Leavenworth, Sept. 7. William, I.
Biddle has received an interesting let
ter from Srate Senator Vint Stillings,
who Is now sojourning in Europe. Fol
lowing are a few excerpts:
"We have been on the go ever since
I left. We have been to Bremen,
Hanover, Berlin, Dresden, Lelpsic,
Weissenfells, Eisenach, Nuremberg,
i Munich, all in Germany, and all in the
order named, and now we are doing
Switzerland, and when we leave here
will go to Baden-Baden, Germany
thence down the Rhine to Cologne,
and thence to Paris, France.
"As I said, we have been sight-seeing
every day, and. at night, going to
the theaters, music halls, and twice to
grand opera, where everyone was in
full dress; at Dresden and in Munich.
The grand opera was magnificent, es
pecially in Munich, where it began
promptly at 4 o'clock in the afternoon,
ran until 6 o'clock, when the entire
great audience adjourned to an Im
mense dining room in the opera house,
dined, strolled in an adjoining garden
for an hour, then returned to the opera
house, and the opera continued. There
were two more intermissions of three
quarters of an hour each. The opera
was Wagner's "Gotterdamerung," and
I never saw as magnificent a spectacle
nor heard such music.
Germany is booming: factories of
every description building up on every
hand. All the Germans, French, and
English we met are saying that Ja
ian will make war upon us and that
she will surely whip us. This is very
galling to American tourists and much
heated argument ensues.
"Tel! Dan he ouzht to Introduce a
bill in congress levy ing a heavy tax on
all Americans touring abroad. The
amount of money spent by Americans,
e i pecially the very wealthy ones from
the East. Is a fright. This money Is
nic stly made from the farmers of the
west bv trusts and the other combina
tions, and is spent in Europe, whence
it never comes back.
"I wish some of the prohibition
cranks could travel Through Germany
and see the splendid Industrial de
velopment of the country, the wonder
ful health of the people men. wo
men and children, the enormous
amount of beer drunk, and never a
drunken man.
"Tell the crowd at Barlow's In strict
est confidence, for I want it kept a
secret, that I will be home in October."
A PINE PHYSICAL INSTRUCTOR.
The Lawrence Turners Engage Otto
Rost From Milwaukee Normal.
Lawrence, Kan-, Sept. 7. The Law
rence Turnverein Is preparing to havr
the most active year in its history, and
has beun by engaging a skilled instruc
tor at a good salary to devote his entire
time to the physical work of the orga
nization. Phe instructor is Otto Rost. and his
home is in New Jersey. He has just
graduated from the Physical Training
association's Normal school at Milwau
kee, where he took highest honors In a
class of sixteen youns men and women.
He is to receive J'JOO a year for nine
months' work, and his engagement is
expected to be permanent, Half a dozen
other cities around here -in which the
Turners are strong bid for him and tried
to induce him to take charge of the
work of their respective Vereins.
The Turners hre consist of about 250
members, practically all Germans. Tnese
are divided into four classes, of whicn
the largest is that of the Actives, or
adult men. The young men and boys'
class is next. Each of these is to drill
-jr.d'T Mr. Rest's direction for a couple
of hours each of two evenings every
week. The other classes, which will
meet but once each week, are the wo
men's and girls' class and the "bears,"
cr old men's class-
The active class hopes to be able to
win a number of prizes in the tristate
Turnfest. to be held next June. The
three states engaging in these contests
are Kansas. Missouri and Nebraska. On
account of the large German population
here, Lawrence has one of the stronges
I and oldest Turnvereins in the Missouri
valley.
GOING BACK TO DIXIE.
Native Tennesseeans in Fifth District
to Flock to Nashville.
1 Lebanan, Sep. 7. The Tennes
seeans' home coming week who will
meet in Nashville, Sept. 23 to 2 8, will
be attended by a large number of
former Tennesseeans scattered in dif
ferent part?: of the Sixth district. Dr.
H. A. Dykes was appointed delegate
from the district, who as chairman
has selected assistants, as follows: J.
L. Smiley, Dr. Thos. Justice and Dr.
S. B. Dykes, of Esbon. Dr. A. B.
Peters, of Mankato. and John Solo
mon of Smith Center. Dr. Henry A.
Dykes was appointed delegate by
Governor Hoch. He considers it a
handsome compliment, and he and his
associates will do all in their power to
see and communicate with all former
Tennessee settlers residing in the
Sixth district. He was born in Haw
kins county, that state. He came to
Kansas in 188S, locating in Lebanon.
From 1893 to 1895 he was secretary
of the state board of health. He
thinks about 50 former Tennesseeans
will attend the home coming week
from tha district, and all of them will
wear a sunflower.
WEST TlIROrGH A BRIDGE.
Tim Pyne nd His Threshing Engine
Take a Serious- Tumble.
Lawrence. Kan., Sept. 7. Tim
Payne's threshing engine went
through a small bridge over a deep
gulley in Sarcoxie township. Jefferson
county, late yesterday afternoon, and
turned bottom upward, in which posi
tion it lies at the bottom of the fifteen
foot gulley.
The bridge was a sma'l iron one.
erected by the countv. The gulley it
crossed ran into Mud creek a short
distance below, and wa3 very deep,
with steep banks, at this point. The
separator broke loose from the en
gine and remained on the bank.
Will Payne, who was on the engine,
went down with it and was badly
bruised by the fall. He is not seri
ously injured, however, and came to
town last night to have a physician
dress his injuries. It will require a
strong derrick to raise the engine,
which is badly damaged.
Buys 180 Acres for S12.00O.
W. H. Lasswell and John Hinnen,
Jr.. this week purchased of J. s. Sweet
his li acre farm just Corth of the
college for J75 per acre or S12.0Q0.
This is one of the choice farms of the
county, having a fine spring running
through it, with 25 acres in alfalfa,
woven wire hog pasture, and being- in
a high state of cultivatloa generally
Hoiton. Recorder.
RAILROAD NEWS.
FasterTranscontinentalFreight
Serrice Is Wanted.
National Bureau of Manufac
tures Is Agitating It.
NOW TAKES 60 DAYS.
A Handicap to American Ex
porters in Oriental Mai Lets.
Other
Items of Interest
Railway People.
to
Agitation has beon begun by the Na
tional Bureau of Manufactures for fast
er freight train service between the
Atlantic and Facific ccasts, with a view
to promoting trade between this coun
try and the Orient. It now requires an
average of sixty days to hav freight
transported by rail from Xew Tork to
San Francisco, and even this cannot be
relied upon, as frequently much longer
time Is required. Exporters of goods to
the Orient find themselves greatly han
dicapped in their efforts to extend their
trade by the fact that they are unable
to guarantee delivery by any certain
date. Great losses have on more than
one occasion been sustained because
manufactured articles sold for the sum
mer trade have been so delayed in tran
sit that the summer was over before
ihey reached their destination, and when
tney arrived they were wholly out of
season.
European countries such as England,
Germany, France and Holland have
so regulated the transportation of their
wares as to be able to calculate to a
nicety the exact time required for their
delivery at destination, and in this re
spect they have obtained a great advan
tage over the American shipper. It does
not appear that there should be any
good reason why American shipments
should be any more uncertain In then
arrival in the Orient.
Exports from the United States to the
Orient now amoant to about $100,000,000
annually- It is claimed that there is no
good reason why with proper facilities
this amount could not be increased four
fold, and a strenuous effort Is to be
made to remove the obstacles to the ac
complishment of this result so far as the
transportation question is concerned.
The establishment of a fast freight ser
vice by the railroads, it is claimed, would
soon become profitable to them, and
their interests would be promoted as
greatly as those of the manufacturers.
It Is suggested that lists be prepared
showing the sailing dates of the oriental
steamship lines for a year in advance,
and in connection with these to have a
given time fixed absolutely for the per
formance of the transcontinental service,
so that shippers in Xew Tork or else
where on the Atlantic coast could tell
with certainty what steamship their
goods would catch on arrival at the Pa
cific coast. This done, they could guar
antee with reasonable certainty what
time the goods would arrive at their
destination, as do the European ship
pers. Enough is involved in the accom
plishment of what the manufacturers
have in view to make it worth the rail
roads' while to co-operate with them to
the utmost in the attainment of their
object.
DON'T LIRE XEW LAW.
Railroad Presidents Object to System
of Accounting: Demanded.
New Tork. Sept. 7. The presidents of
several railways met at a hotel yes
terday to discuss the new law under
which the railroads have been forced
to charge to operating expenses certain
Items that heretofore had been charged
to construction account. From their ho
tel one or mere of the presidents is
said to have had a telephone conversa
tion with President Roosevelt, at Oys
ter Bay. It is stated that a number
of railroads are holding back the July
statements of their earnings because of
showing up they are compelled to make
under this law.
AX INTERCHAXGE PLtAX.
Car Inspectors Advocate One to Pre
vent Shortages.
Chicago. Sept. 7. A general inter
change of cars by all railroads In the
United States was advocated by the
members of the Chief Joint Car In
spectors and Car Foreman's Associa
tion cf America in its closing session
yesterday. "If a general exchange is
instituted by the railroads of this
cuuinij uo-t ouv . .u.. .....
of the past." contended H. H. Harvey,
general car inspector ol me Dumusiuu
railroad.
t ...ninHnn w9a s.inntprt nv the as
sociation asking that legislation by
congress De ratten in mat. uneti-iuii.
The following officers were re-elected:
President. H. Boutet. Cincinnati. Ohio;
ONE IN THREE
Every Third Person Poisoned by
Coffee.
It Is difficult to make people believe
that coffee is an absolute poison to at
least one person out of every three, but
people are slowly finding it out, al
though thousands of them suffer terri
bly before they discover the fact.
A New York hotel man says: "Each
time after drinkink coffee I became
rectle. nervous and excited, so that I
was unable to sit five minutes in one
place, was also inclined to vomit ana
suffered from less of sleep, which got
worse and worse.
"A lady said that perhaps coffee was
the cause of my tioubie. and suggested
that I try Fostum Food Coffee. I
laughed at the thought that coffee hurt
me. but she insisted so hard that I final
ly had some Postum made. I have been
using it in place of coffee ever since,
for I noticed that all my former nerv
ousness and irritation disappeared. I
began to sleep perfectly, and the Fos
tum tasted as good or better than the
old coffee, so what was the use of
sticking to a beverage that was ruin
ing me?
"One day on an excursion up the
country I remarked to a young lady
friend on her greatly improved appear
ance. She explained that some time be
fore she had quit using coffee and ta
ken Postum. She had gained a number
of pounds and her former palpitation
of the heart, humming in the ears
trembling of the hand3 and legs an!
other disagreeable feelings had disap
peared. She recommended me to quit
coffee and take Postum and was very
much surprised to find that I had al
ready made the change.
"She said her brother had also re
ceived great benefit from leaving off
coffee and taking on Fostum Food Cof
fee." "There's a Reason." Read "The
Road to WellvtUe," In pkgs.
vice president. W. H- Cressey. South
Omahn - aen-ftarv-treaaurer. D. T.
Taylor. St. Louis. Executive board
Charles Waughop, St. Louis; E. btiart,
Chicago, and Stephen Skidmore, Cin
cinnati. EXPERTS VIEW V. S. LIXES.
Parties of German and Japanese En
gineers Are Here.
New Tork. Sept. 7. Two parties of
prominent railroad men and civil en
gineers, one from Japan and the other
from Germany, are here studying
American railroad systems. They will
have visited most of the large cities of
the country before returning to their
respective countries. The Japanese
party consists of K. Naparisaki, man
ager of railroads and counsel for rail
roads for the Japanese government;
K. Morakaki. an attache of the depart
ment of the imperial government; h.
Ishrimam. a prominent civil engineer.
B. Shimade, marine engineer; R- Lat
suno. civil engineer: T. Takata, coun
sellor for the imperial railroads, and fc
Furukana. civil engineer. They have
been sent over by their government as
a preliminary step to the reorganiza
tion of the entire Japanese railroad
system, which Is eventually to be talten
over by the government.
They will also visit Germany, r i "-"
and England. Thev have already cars
fullv observed the working of tho
western railroads. The German dele
gation consists of H. Gardes. F. Jordan
and M- Wittefelt. all civil engineers.
Their purpose Is to acquaint them
selves with American railroads ana
their methods, to see what improve
ments, if any. can be incorporated into
the German railway system.
BALLASTED WITH. SALT.
Western Pacific Win Have This XotcI
Feature for 120 Miles.
A railroad line ballasted for many
miles of its length with salt Is soon to
be one of the remarkable features of
American transportation. At a point
about 120 miles west of Salt Lake City
on the line of the Western Pacific road,
now under construction, is a great area
of salt beds, eight miles wide and 40
miles long. Immediately west of Salt
Lake City the road skirts the great
Salt Lake and crosses Its southern end
at one point for a distance or. six rnuia
Eighty miles farther it enters the
American Desert, and for a distance or
40 miles runs over alkali beds.
Near the western end of the desert
the road runs into the salt beds, and
the crystals are so thickly packed to
gether that they form a solid roadbed
for the tracks. Over these beds the
road required no ballasting other than
the salt Itself. These salt deposits are
said to be 95 per cent pure, and their
development should be a matter of
great importance to the road.
The theory is that these salt beds
drain into Salt Lake. They are 27 feet
higher than the lake, and the trend Is
in that direction. The salt deposit con
tains moisture, as Is shown by the ties
and telegraph poles embeddded In It.
Placer claims are beginning to be
staked out on these salt bed3 and the
opening of the road for operation is
likely to witness the beginning of their
development.
MILE TIES IT RAILROAD.
Takes a
Xap on Kansas City Xorth-
westrrn'a Track.
Leavenworth, Kan., Sept. 7. Maad,
a gray mule, tied up traffic on the
Kansas City Northwestern railway for
almost an hour about 5:30 yesterday
afternoon. A man purchased Che mule
about two weeks ago for $12. It ap
peared to be a docile creature.
"Maud" was hitched to an ice wagon
and since then has been a continual
torment to her drivers. Yesterday af
ternoon she broke out of the barn and
spying an attractive spot in the cen
ter of the JNortnwestern ranrustu
tracks, lay down between the rails.
The Leavenworth passenger train
came into view. The engineer brought
the train to a stop a few feet from
where "Vfaud lav.
The passengers on
the train and several Dystanaers mea
. f. a crr tT-aofc hut were
awed into inactivity by the way
in
which she kicked.
HA It RIM AN WORK IN MEXICO.
Fast Progress Is Being Made on Ills
New Lines There.
Construction work on the Harriman
lines in western Mexico is reported to
be going on swimmingly. It is being
pushed just as fast as it is possible to
get the necessary material on the
ground. The track has been laid for
eight or ten kilometers across the bor
der of Sonora into Sinaloa, and Is be
ing put down In the interior of the lat
ter state as fast as possible. On the
northern extension, along the Taqul
river, the grading Is done to within a
short distance of Cumurlpo, and work
Is progressing rapidly on that part of
the line. The line is being laid with
sixty-flve-pound steel rails. When
completed. It Is claimed. this will
equal any branch In the United States.
SINGING FOR GANS-BRITT GO.
Male Quartet Will Take Place of
ITsual Boxing Preliminaries.
San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 7. Jack
Gleason. manager of the Britt-Gans
fig-r.t. plans an innovation which does
net meet with much favor in sporting
circles here. He has arranged for a
ir.nle quartet to sing instead of the
usual preliminary boxing contest. Al
though the betting puts him on the
short end at 10 to 7 and there is not
much Britt money in sight. Jimmy
Britt professes the utmost confidence
in the outcome of his battle with Gans.
Ee is practicing new body punches in
rH-cret which he thinks will transfer
he title of the championship. Britt
has done less work In training than
Gan and Is still some pounds over
v.eijrht. He weighed 136 yesterday.
Ke still continues his boxing. He said
today:
"I know I am stronger than ever
btfore and that I have a harder
puueh. Why? Gans couldn't jar Xel
son at Goldfield as I did in San Fran
cisco recently. Pome one is going to
lick Gans. and I think the chance Is
corning to me."
Gans is tapering off at Alameda. He
Is in perfect shape and declares he was
rvpr in better condition for a fight.
H is about at the weight with noth
ing to worry him. and is simply doing
enough to keep on edge.
HE WHIPPED YOCNG CORBETT.
Drunken Affair In New Tork Likely to
Have Funny Ending.
Xew Tork. Sept. 7. William Roth
well, who Is bitter known to the pu
gilistic world as "Tnung Corbett." had
a run-in a few nights ago with a man
nfmed Paul Jenner. The afTair Is
liable to have a funny ending. Jenner
is a big Enfllshman. who is a valet for
a wealthy New Torker now In Europe.
Te run-in occurred in a restaurant on
W--t Forty-first street, where the
sports hang out. ' Toung Corbett was
in his cups. Seeing Jenner, he took
him for a policeman and had some
thing nasty to say- of all policemen.
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Jenner protested and Young Corbett
applied vile epithets to the valet, whea
Jenner promptly knocked the fighter
down. Jenner would have gone fur
ther had not the proprietor and his
waiters interfered. At the time Jen
ner did not know who it was ha had!
quarreled with. When he learned that
he was Toung Corbett he almost
fainted. But the "gang" soon had,
Jenner going, and by the next even
ing the valet believed that he could
get a good purse by meeting the fight
er In the ring of one of the local ath
letic clubs and knocking him out, alt
of which they aanured Jenner he would
have no trouble in doing. Toung Cor
bett. who was looking for the man
who had given him his quietus for the
purpose of evening up the scale, was
told of the proposition, and of Jenner's
ready acquiescence. Young Corbett at
once saw, as he views it. an easy way
of making some coin and at the some
time settling up with Jerrner. So he
a?reed at once. Arrangements for the
arTair are belnjr made with the man
age ment of a club near Times square.
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