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Show 1 I I WHIPPING BRINGS J HIM HALF MILLION. OHIO FARMER GIVES UP IDEA OF and a pair of crossei matches to warp The whole device of incendiaiism. GETTING REVENGE TO CLAIM was nailed to a maple tree in front o WEALTHY ESTATE. a new farmhouse which Florence was building. Im going to have those women in WIFES HARD LOT THE CAUSE dieted by the giand jury,' declared Ward publicly. This wouldn't have been hard, for in the posse of U0 tint either, and Irate Horsewhipping Tarring by the man so summarily, were treated Neighbors Following Funeral of of the best known women of the many Spouse Attracts Attention in Their identity, in fact, is country. England. an open secret now. was the Then hell be lynched, Canton, 0. Money has come to threat that ran around Resaca, and the many persons in many ways, but few husbands of the women who whipped In this big world have literally been Ward were the ones who said it. whipped into wealth. There is such a Then a strange thing happened, and ne George Ward, of Resaca, Mad- changed everything The whipping ison county, Ohio who, thanks to a which Ward got from the Resaca wombiding at the hands of women, has en attracted so much attention that it some into $300,000. was published in many newspapers in George Ward, citizen of Reseca, is Europe. rot held in high esteem by his neighOne man who read the account wa3 bors. They have treated him to a John II. Trace, of Portsmouth, Eng- whipping twice already. The first brought him nothing; the second the half million. Ward is 50 years old, a farmer, with money in the bank, who, withal, Is a woman hater. A woman thought she loved him, and Ward married her several years ago He took it out of his mother-in-lafirst; he was horsewhipped by the men of the village, as well as tarred and featheied. Hut when it comes to mother-in-lamost men are inclined to be lenient, molested further. ipo Ward was not Jut it was another story when word reached the neighbors about the man's treatment of his dying wife. Mrs. Ward contracted tuberculosis. During her sickness her husband was anything but gentleness, so the neighbors say. Gossip grew louder and louder, but nobody lifted a finger while the woman was still alive. Finally she yreathed her last. The husband fob If wed the body to the grave. When the last words were said v Ward started back to his empty home. As he was passing through the village 0 women suddenly sprang out of ambility. is ush. They were masked and they wore armed with buggy whips and land. It was mentioned that Watl slqiut hickory switches and pieces of was an Englishman. There were cerlatfi. tain other points that made Trace Tihe women piled upon the carriage read the thing over again, and whew and unceremoniously dragged the kick- he finished he had at last found the ing, struggling man out upon the road. man for whom he had been looking A doyen hands quickly slipped a noose so long missing heir to a $300,003 around Wards neck and he was held estate. helpless, while the others of the party Ward has received a letter from whipped the man almost to Insensibil- Trace, which incloses several clippings ity. from English newspapers describThe whipping over, they brought ing the whipping In detail. The letter red paint and liquid tar, which they goes Into the facts of the case and asrneared all over his hair and whisk- serts that Ward Is undoubtedly the ers. t man. He has been asked Then they let him go. The women to send on documents which will prove Save no clew to their identity at the his birth and identity as soon as posTime. sible. Rlack and blue from his bruises and So instead of looking for revenge, black and red from his tar and paint, Ward is about to sail for England to Ward went home. When he recovered look for money. He doesnt want to ie consulted a lawyer. He proposed waste the time it will take just now suing for damages, as well as bringing in running down the women who criminal prosecutions. Among others whipped him when he can get half a he consulted, too, was John M. Flor- million dollars merely by proving his ence, one of the richest land holders identity. in the county, owner of Wards farm. Im confident Im the missing Ward Two other farmers, Jonah Ward and that theyre looking for all right," said John M. Bradley, also sympathized he. Im making arrangements now to with him. go to England to claim my share si Florence lives near Plain City. One the estate. After I settle up my afday he drove out to his Resaca farm fairs there I intend to come back to and there he found a regulation white-ca- Resaca. Ill show my assailants that notice. It read: I'm not afraid to live right here in th'.i Beware! Also Jonah and John M., community. If they try any funny if you have money for Ward we have business again, they'll find me ready fire for you. for them, too. This notice was crudely , printed Hut suppose he was unmercifully with a piece of charcoal. There were whipped? Wasnt the $300,000 worth the regulation skull and crossbones, the whipping? long-sough- p The other night was the time agreed on, and ""alter hustled home from work vitl a gladness which FORGOT HIS LICENSE would not down In spite of the feeling that he had forgotten something. THEN STEVENS HAD TO MAKE Tills feeling wore off before lie reached Miss Graves house, but it came back NIGHT RIDE OF 34 MILES WHILE with a rush when his bride-to-bInBRIDE WAITED UP. Did you bring the license? quired: Worcester. Mass. V, 'alter N. StevIll go right back after It, said ens, of North Dana, is a lumberman, Walter; and his horse traveled back and this is his busy season. So when to Royalston faster than It had ever he and Elsie L. Graves, of Royalston, done before. Then Walter aroused tlie town clerk and got tho license and started back for the third time to cover the trip. It was 12:30 a. m. when he reached the Graves home again. His bride greeted him as cheerfully as possible under tho circumstances and then began to get herself ready. This took two hours more. Then, with the Giaves family waving good by and good luck, they were off for the ministers. Rev. Charles Hurt Williams Is a man of Ills word, and lie was still awake. At four o'clock, as the early rising roosters were crowing and the birds twittering, he joined the hands of Walter and Elsie and made them one. I hope, young man, you will be willing to do as much for your wife five years from was his parting message to the couple. Walter had just about time to get back to Royalston to woik In tho morning. SO ABSENT-MINDE- D HE . GIANT GEYSER IN YELLOWSTONE PARK decided to wed, the agreed to set the wiVllng mild finPv. whoever time Walter work and dilve the i7 milt s between A minisNot th Dana and Royalston. ter feur miles beyond Royalston apt cod to be toady when they wy-ju- NOTES Hinry Miller, living near Wyo., was knocued Wheat-land- down Ubiquitous Japanese. Japanese naval , bv lightning and burned in a serious manner, but will recover. Three masked men held np a saloon in Silverton, Colo., and got away with about $3,000. curred at 2:30 In The robbery oc- the morning. The first wreck on the Corbins new line, occurred on the 13th, hear McLeod, B. C. Two The eastbouud men were killed. train was derailed. Machinists of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern roads are threatening to strike unless their grievances are adjusted. Should they walk of the system will bo out the tie-uD. C. p general. The Laramie, Hahns Peak & Pa- cific railroad is now operating trains between Laramie and Centennial. Trains are operated by telephone, tho company not having yet adopted a telegraph system. Miss Mamie Edwards, of Rosebud, Nevada, has been awarded possession of a cat now held by Miss Carrie Russell, provided she pays $200 costs of the law suit. The case has made much fun In the camp. J. W. Bolter, a former San Francisco undertaker, blew out his brains In the presence of his wife in Portland. He lost his property In the San Francisco fire and since then had been pursued by misfortune. John Quinn, millionaire gambler of Reno, Nevada, has made a will leaving his entire estate to James May, t a boy of eight. Quinn is and the fortune is to become the childs when he reaches mans estate. Some of the best fish caught in Wyoming this year have been taken from the lakes high up on the snowy ' range of mountains in western Albany county, at an elevation of from 10,000 to 13,000 feet above sea level. These lakes are full of trout Because the master plumbers of Goldfield refused to grant the union plumbers a raise from $8 to $9 per a day the plumbers have declared strike and plumbing work on many large buildings in course of construction in the city has been stopped. Laborers in Seattle are living on the fat of the land. Owing to contractors of railroad lines building Into the northwest bidding against one another to obtain the services of workingmen, common labor is quoted at $3 per day with a promise of steady employment. J. M. Mahoney, a farm hand employed on a ranch near Laramie, Wyo., and who was a member of Quantrells band of guerillas during the Civil war, declares that he believes Quantrell is still alive. He expresses the belief that the body buried In Kentucky as Quantrells was some other man. Rhyolite, Nevada, is now a town, having been incorporated under the laws of Nevada as the second in Nye county. C. L. Splain has been made chief of police and Harry OBrien chief of the fire department. Round Mountain and Manhattan are other communities in Nye county that soon will become towns. Fifty-thre- e striking steel layers on the Las Vegas & Tonopah railroad at were arrested by four deputies miles north Bonnie Clare, forty-fiv- e of Rhyolite, and lodged in the jail at Rhyolite. The strikers are Austrians, and it Is believed to he the largest body of men ever included in an arrest made in Nevada. After thirty years spent in searching for his two children, who had been taken from his home by their mother thirty-threyears ago, M. L. Fauver ot Nebraska, has located county, Boyd them In Whitman county, Wash., and is now visiting his son, Arthur Fauver, a well known farmer two and a half miles south of Palouse. It is announced that as a result of the voting in the Butte Miners union the union has adopted all the amendments to the constitution of the Western Federation of Miners, but voted down the resolution for a convention in Chicago, October 1, to reunite the warring divisions of the Industrial Workers of the World. A Greek section laborer fell from a handcar at Howell, Wyo., sustaining a concussion of the brain. When his companion brought him to Larame to be treated it was found that lie was totally blind from the accident and unable to distinguish light from darkness. The case is unusual, as the accident seemingly was not of much was importance until the blindness noted. Roy Musser, an employee at tho rolling mills at Laramie, rested his machine left hand on a while he drank a cupful of water handed him by a companion, and the ends of two of his fingers were nipped off by the squaring dies of the machine. Senator T. L. Oddie of Tonopah and Goldfield is perfecting plans for the bringing to Goldfield of a supply of pure water from Fine creek, ninety miles north of the city. Senator Od-diowns tho flow of Fine creek, which Is never lets than 4,000,000 gal Ions a day. Mayor Speer of Denver, who was at Centennial and Saratoga, Wyoming, on a fishing trip, had a caught In his chin and suffered considerable pain in its removal. It was necessary to remove the hook with a pair of pincers and tlie barb took tho flesh with it. Mrs. James H. Bruce and daughter, Annie, have been arrested at Cheyenne. James Bruce died suddenly last April ami the post mortem disclosed the fact lhat strycinlne was tlie cause of death. Ib' had eaten a piece of cherry pie made by Mrs. Bruce. fifty-eigh- park. STREAM PUMPED DRY. 'AMES DUKE EMPTIES JERSEY RIVER FOR BRIDE. B. Woolen Mills Employing 1,000 Hands Cannot Run When Water Supply Fails Work Resumed When Pair Leave. New York. In an effort to make his 2,000-acrpark look like a fairyland for his bride during their honeymoon, James B. Duke pumped the Raritan river dry at Somerville, N. J., and stopped tne operation of the Raritan woolen mills, the largest industry there, which depend on the stream for water supply. Duke has on his estate artificial lakes covering several hundred acres, besides Innumerable fountains and waterfalls. All of these are supplied with water from the Raritan river by means of a great pumping plant with a capacity of many millions of gallons a day, which recently was Installed on the river hank above the woolen mills. In lionor of the bride In order that the fountains be made to shoot their sprays high, the lakes were filled to overflowing and cascades dashed with unusual volume over the rocks and the pumps were kept pumping night and day to kyp up the display, but all the while the Raritan river, which Is the second greatest watershed in New Jersey, kept dwindling until only a tiny stream found Its way through Its greit bed. The Intake of the Raritan woolen mills was left dry, and there scarcely was enough water in the wells to supply the big boilers of the mill. The Raritan woolen mills are owned by the Einstein estate and employ more than 1,000 operatives. While the managers of the mills were Inclined to do all they could to honor Duke's bride, they suddenly were confronted by a business proposition which led them to summon Manager Smith, of e the Duke estate, to look over the situ ation. Mr. and Mrs. Duke had just left the estate for a three weeks auto tour, and the manager decided there was no need to prolong the display and agreed to stop the drain from the river anu give the mills a fair share of the water, so the Duke pumping plant was closed down and the river will be allowed its normal flow for several days. BOYS TO PAY DEBTS. FATHERS Sons of Ohio Forger Will Lives to Work. Devote Kenton, O. The two sons of former Mayor Black, who declares part of the $28,000 proceeds of his confessed forgeries went to defray the expenses of the boys in college, will dedicate their lives to the repayment of the entire defalcation to the victims, Miss Harriet Stanley and Dr. Sepp. I will see that every cent of the money Is paid back, announced John This shall be Black, 22 years old. the first aim of my life. It shall be my duty likewise, deWe clared his brother, William. will work together to remove the debt. I shall not rest until It Is all discharged. John Black has ended his junior year at Wabash college, Crawfords-vtlle- , Ind. He had planned to enter the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania tills fall. Instead he will sell molasses and calico over a Bucyrus counter. The younger brother had planned to return to Miami university. He had completed his first year there. "We were not extravagant at college, said John, but it Is torture to learn now that every cent we had He was stolen by our own father. loved us dearly. From our childhood days he had always told us how he was determined we should have the best of educations. e The First Game Preserve. The hluegiass legion of Kentucky ami Tennessee was the first national park and game and finest preserve In nieiieu. It was so set apart t for .ho white man had come with profut g foot and completing firearms tr C went Iroquois tribes of Indian, thto C'x Nations. They forbade na settle jieiit or agiieulune In all that great legion, ami It In came known uf tlie "bunting giounds " NORTHWEST FINDS HIS LOST TEETH IN PLUG to a well dressed man, had disapWaiters Aid Hotel Guest In Search For mysteriously. The whole house peared Molars. Missing was searched. "Have you seen two teeth? became Chicago. A guest took a chew of the question of the hour. tobacco in the Victoria hotel the other Finally the guest pulled a plug of trouble reached started that and night tobacco from his pocket and started to to the furthermost limits of the hostake a bite. There, in the side of tho telry. nestled the two missing teeth. It all came to a focus in the cafe plug, where we dodge a law suit, Heres when the guests and waiters regarded said McHenry. with curiosity a guest who suddi aly struck a match h Id it under the table Uses Fireflies as a Lamp. and began a careful search for some Riverside, N. J. Caleb Hatch was lost article. out late the other night with his bicyAll the other guests stopped to see cle with no lamp, and not caring to where the torchlight procession was risk riding through the town without heading. Tlie waiters (locked to aid a light ou his wheel he picked up a the guest in the hope that they might half pint whisky flask by the wayside roomer a tip provoking diamond. and put a dozen fireflies in It. This Dime diapped er dl'inttn, cap'n? he flung on the front of Ills machine and the flashing lightning bugs queried the head waiter. No. confound It, I've lost two saved him from arrest, as tho local teeth. policemen were satisfied when Hatch The waiter showed a double row of rode by with his wheel all lit up. them, not ns un alibi, but because the Fish That Kill Mosqjitoes. grin required It. The grin did tlie trh k. Naples A catgo of live fish from arrived Mad a a hornet the guest ran out Australia has tho here, blue eyes " to Clcik Mcllcmy, who Is as note I a species called Prof. pent cimikcr as ever staled away fiom Count Morner, tie Swedish consul at The Hague. Sidney, discovered that the i lives "I'll make you pay for thorn! he wholly on mosquito larvae, and the Italian government ordeted its represhouted. sentative in Australia to send iiim What?" asked Mr. McHenry. home a cnieo of tlie fish. They will My teeth. said the guest. lie distributed among all the regions the la bouse time this evetjbody By knew that two bildgo teeth, belonging infested with insects and malaria. fi.-d- e bolt-headin- fish-hoo- k g office! s tue ubiqui- tous, said an old traveler the other day. I was in London a fevv months ago when I saw A dapper LtMe man in the unifot m of a navy lieutenant on the Strand. There was something in his manner which caught my attention, and I wondered where it wa3 that I had seen him before. It took nearly an hours hard thinking to call it to mind, but I finally succeeded. When I last beheld him he was a wardroom steward on an American battleship. I never see a Japanese waiter or valet on board a or in an officers tlub on a military reservation but I wonder who he is and whence he came. man-of-w- Superstitious Customs. Many of our customs date back to the dark ages and are based on superstition. We sit up with our dead because long ago our ancestors kept watch by night lest evil spirits com and bear the body away. We shake hands with the right hand because that is the dagger hand and means that we disarm ourselves in the presence of a friend. We bow the head in passing others because our ancestors were wont before the real yoke of the opMen bare their heads bepressor. cause they had to unmask in the days of chivalry before the queen of beauty. Destroyed His Statue, Within the last month there was displayed in the fine arts hall of the Tokio industrial exhibition a marble statue of a young girl bending over a flower which she held in her hand. Its sculptor, Shikai Kitamura, becoming incensed at the jurors who were to make the awards, determined to punish them by destroying his statue. So he got a chisel and mallet, went to (he hall and knocked off the head and arms of the statue before he could be stopped. NOTICE. United States Land Office, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 4th, 1907. To Whom it May Concern: Notice is hereby given that of Utah has filed in this office a list of lands, selected by the said State, as Indemnity School lands, under section 6 of the Act of Congress, approved July 16, 1894. The following tracts, embraced in said list, are found to be within six miles of a mining location, claim or entry, viz: S. V2 SE. 14 Sec. 26, and NW. 4 NE. Sec. 35. T. 10 S., R. 3 W., tbe-Stat- e No. 96, U. I. R.) A copy of said list, so far as it relates to said tracts, by descriptive sub- (State divisions, has been conspicuously postby ed in this office for inspection any person interested, and by the public generally. Within tae next sixty days following the date of the first publication In-of this notice, under departmental structions of January 10, 1906, protons or contests against the claim of the State to any of the tracts or subdividescribed, on the sions ground that the same is more valuable for mineral than for agricultural purposes, will be received and noted for rerort to the General Land Office at Washington, D. C. Failure so to protest or contest, within the time specified, will be considered sufficient evicharacter of dence of the the tracts, and the selections thereof, being otherwise free from objection, will be recommended for approval. E. D. R. THOMPSON, Register. non-p.iiier- o APPLICATION FOR PATENT. M. A. No. 4197. United States Land Office, Salt Lake Cit, Utah,is April 17, 1907. that D. A. Notice hereby given Depue, whose postofflee address is Robinson, Juab county, Utah, for and on behalf of himself and Geo. Jones, whoso postoffice address is Robinson, Juab county, Utan, has made application for a United States patent for the Lamar lode mining claim, situate in Tintic mining district, Juab county, Utah, consisting of the 1045.6 linear feet of said lode and surface ground as showa upon the plat of survey, being Survey No. 5379 an described in the field notes and of the official survey on file In tins variation at 16 office, with magn-tl- c degrees 50 minutes east, as follows: Commencing at corner No. 1, a corner of the claim whence the corner to Sections 29, 30, 31 and 32, Town-hi10 south, Range 2 west hears south 66 degrees 20 minutes cast 13X3.7 feet and running thence north 49 degrees 38 minutes east 1013.6 feet to corner No. 2; thence 1101th 79 degrees 03 minutes west 731.7 feet to corner No. 3; thence south 39 degrees 30 minutes 30 seconds wort 529.3 feet to corner No. 4; thence south 79 degrees 03 minutes east 522 4 feet to beginning, containing a total area of 11.751 acres, from which tlie sreas in conflict with Iron Blossom Lot No. 113, Santaqtiin No. 2. Lot No. 212. East Star, am'dd Lot No. 232, North Star Ixit No. 62, Castorla lait No. 213; and Boss Tweed am'dd Lot No. 237 lode claims are expressly excepted and excluded, leaving a net area of 4.674 acres hereby claimed and applied for. The presumed course and length of the vein or lode line is as shown upon the plat of survey. Said Lamar lode forms a portion of the southeast quarter of Section 39, Township 10 south, Range 2 west, S. L. M Utah, said lode location mining claim lining of record in the office of ho Countv Recoider at Ntphi, in Juab county, Utah. Tlie nearest known locations being tho aforesaid conflicting claims, and Little Chief Survey No. 6171, Miners' Delight Survey No. 3321, and Diamond, Lot No. 42 lode claims. I direct (hat Hits notice lie published in the Mammoth Record, at Robinson, Utah, tho newspaper published nearest tlie maid mining claim for the period of nine week K. n. R. THOMPSON. 1 1 p 1 Flret publicaUt Roghter. u, April 10, 1967. ' |
