AE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. SATURDAY, AUGUST 27. 1040. A BUSHEL OF FUN. , 'fy Ryan Walker. THE SPORT REVIEW. | Notes on Baseball and Other Field Events. Peterhoro will have a team in the junior O.R.F.U. "Walter Hope Hooves, a Belleville hoe Jhey player, has 'died from injuries re jeeived "ju a match with "Treaton last January. "Jack" Johnson will be in Toronle ithe week of September 5th, An at j tempt will be made to show the fight {pictures at the Island Stadium. i A beautiful cup as special prize for the motor boat races has been pre | cented by the Duke of Westminster to the Thousand Islands Yacht Club. So many applications have been re ceived for Blue Bonnets fall meeting, iat Montreal, that the stabling limut {has been exceeded, and the committee will meet to consider what can be done. Hamilton Tigers are looking forward i to a championship football year. Many changes will be witnessed this fall, a During the past few months I have refrained from advis- ing clients to purchase Cobalt stocks on account of liquida- SH rr? NT 8 Battle between Dreadnought and Airship AUG. EVERY DAY sep. {summit of EE i Prices reduced on WANTED HIS MONEY Mr. Tightwad-----Professor, when you give my daughter music lessons don't make love to hor. Come around that. Protessor-- Why, sir? THE JERSEY BRAND. Hodge Were, the mosquitoes big out there? : Dodge--Big? Why, when one entered the house, it set off the burg- lar alarms. WICKEDEST CITY BURNING OF TAFT A FITTING END TO ¥T§ HISTORY. Three Stores, 350 Saloons--Yice Reigned Unchecked in the Years, When the Dead Men Were Une counted, When Taft, Mont., went up in smoke Sunday in the biggest forest fire the west has known, the town, which for two years bore the reputation of be ing the toughest place on the map of the Lnited States passed into history. Built as it was of pine siding and : iE pager. dts frail build when thé bl torn by high winds from the timbered the Bitter Root range fell upon it. Dawce halls and saloons, honky-tonks, oribs and gambling joints, warchouses and bunk houses burst into flames and in hall an hour | what had been a busy, though senrce- ly. thriving; community, was nothing 8 | bit smoking ruitis and blackened tim- ber Talt come into being early in 1807, wher workmen on the Chicago, Mil- waukee and Puget Sound railroad, the t of the transcontinental lines, ' at- the sammit of the Bitter Root |rang®. Through it ran the Coeur d'Alene branch of the Northern Pa- cific railroad and it became at once the headquarters for the contractors who bol the Hwaukee trains run from Montana into Idaho. + Work opened on the big tunnel in Paul tunnel through which to-day the A PATRON OF POESY. Pe Rhymer--Have you ever con- THE ABSENT FRIEND. Jim---Now, don't roast Smithers: tributed anything to the cause of He's a man as good as Wis word. some other night in the week for literature? the fourth poet that's stayed here al Mr. Tightwad---1 pay you §2 an summer an' ain't been able ter pay Board. A WAR VETERAN. Miss Swift<-Did you have no fear Brooklyn man hugged his wolfe so fight, and Johnson of death when you were in battle? The Sergeant--No; 1 was an im- mune; 1 had been a baseball um- pire. : he was in league with them, The fall election of 1908 brought in a new sheriff and a new set of county officials and Taft's day was done. The railroad work was nearing completion, the pay rells which came into the tow were decreasing monthly and the |, popular each year. incentive to riot and debauchery was {stockmen always report good results ' fast disappearing. A year later what had once boasted itsell as the wicked: est town in America was but a string of demoralized and rotting shacks along a filthy, half-deserted gulch. The population had shrunk from over 1,000 to a tenth that number and the lum- bermen and prospectors whose country the Coeur d'Alene really is, had come into their own again. They rioted and drank and gambled, for they are heal thy men in a healthy country, but the worst excesses were no more, The Taft pugned | hich: the forest fire wiped out an Sunday-was a shrunken but, much more wholesome Taft than the one which for two years had been the Mec- en for the bad men of the west and which deserved the evil reputation which it' bore. TAFT ATTACKED. Charges Interference in State Fights." Madison, Wis., Aug. 27.~In a lead- ing editorial in hie magazine Senator Robert M. La Follette brands as Senator fuse a supposedly inspired dispatch a few days ago from Beverly, Mass', in which it was said that President Taft was taking no part in the fac- tional fights mile and a half long St. pacty. within the republican He asserts that in the case of 'Wis: consin the president has taken a per: 'sonal interest in the campaign to 'the extent of directing the fight on Lg Follette and the insurgent the * marine {both in the personnel of senior and of the executive in charge of the club al- | fairs, with i Hans Wagner walloping the ~True, but his word is good hal A lop, it won' k De Farmer--You Bet I hev. You're rok 800d ball at a .400 gallop, it won't be long RATHER STRENUOUS. "Awn will: yes listen to this. A tightly on th' golden wedding that he broke two av her ribs. "Ah! awn isn't it grand to see such affection after all thim years?" THE WESTERN FAIR. Good Live Stock, Exhibition, 'Sept. Oth te 17th. The Western fair, London, Ont., as a live stock exhibition, is becoming Breeders and from exhibiting their animals at Lon- don. The classification for the differ ent breeds of hive stock is well ar- ranged in the prize list and the prizes offered are extra good this year. The cash prizes for the cattle, sheep and swine are all increased this vear and a large 'ntry is expected. The dog and cat show will again be a feature this year. Monday, September 12H, will athletic day. - All information will begiven on application' to the secretary, London, Ont ; ------------ oo. Mr. Brodeur in Demand. Montreal Witness. BY a We hope the geaeral desire of the business men as expressed by Mr. Thom the other hor be drealized, and that ha will' 3 able to return to the active management of department. Mr, Bro- deur is the first guinister for a long time who has "managed this depart- ment in the interests of commerce and the country, "All. others have been obstructionigts or 'political exploiters. Since Mr, Bir campé to power a { before the Pirate swatter will be push- ling Snodgrass, Ty Cobb, Magee and i Lajoie for the leading position for the major league batting honors. 1t is being insinuated that Cy Young, 'the veteran pitcher of the Cleveland | Americans, intends to make this his {last year in baseball. Cy, however, {denies having made any such an- nounicament, nor does he care to state what his plans are for the future. R. P. Williams, formerly physical di- {rector of schools in New London, 'Conn., now at Berkeley school, New | York pity, in an exhibition at Niantic, covered 100 yards in nine seconds flat, according to timers. For standing hack jump with weights he made 13 ft. Zin. Before a gathering of 'police officials, theatrical mén and newspaper report 'ers, moving pictures of Jelfries-John- {eon fight were shown in the Theatre Francis, Montreal, after the regular { performance. Excellent pictures, but a poor fight from a sporting man's viewpoint, was the impression convey- ed by the exhibition. Jefiries couldn't didn't have to, There in a sentence is the story of "the battle of the century.' The Harvester, son of Walnut Hall, is the fastest race horse on a track | to-day. The new record, made by The Harvester, at Buffalo, is 2.02, a quar- ter of a second less than the record held by Cresceus for nine years. Thurs day he won in straight heats at New York, his times being 2.08} and 2.03. Driven by Geers, The Harvester now holds the world's record for five-year- {old trotters, a world's third heat re- 'cord for stallions, mares or geldings, and a world's race record for stal- lions. The track, horsemen said, was two seconds slow. Although Uhlan made better time at Cleveland, it was purely an individual trot against time, and not made in a race where conditions ave different. Bought Sweetheart With Beer, Niagara Falls, N.Y., Aug. 27.--"Why, no, he let me have her for a quart of beer," Isadore Heinrich, German (brewery worker, told Judge Piper, when aiked if he' had not "Joseph Seibold's sweethearl, Lena ,Webbér. Isadore wanted to swear out "a warrant, charging Siebold with as- sault, but the judge placated him. Church Life is a weekly newspaper | issued, for 81 a year, at the Whig of {fice in the interests of the Canadian ' Anglican church. It is thoroughly up-to- | date. A sample copy can be obtained by writing for it. The Ontario Church- | man, at 40c. a year, is a sixteen page monthly with a large circulation. A sample copy of if, too, is available on very rotten "dey mt has been 1 cation, cleaned. and works for the benefit of navigation have shown réal.and splen- did results. We'dade never «known the time when the river did not. need to be dp does mbt require more pr ordinary foresight: to see that theshirty-five Toot chifinel now asked for will be needod' bdlore it can be made. Mf it is to Be made Mr. Robert Kirkpatrick, Tamworth, re- cently purchased Irvine Glass' farm from Mr. Brown, and William Mec- {Keown, Croyden, purchased Cyrus Miller's farm on Little Creek. Just arrived, a large shipment of rubber goods, containing hot water bags, combinations, syringes, atomiz- lers, and comforts. You take mo KINGSTON MONDAY HOWE'S = Great A Collossal Agregation of Sensational Features, COL. HOWE'S HERD OF MUSICAL ELEPHANTS. stolen' Including Duchess, the largest elephant in the world, + Marion Lions, tion in outside markets and the disposition of the public to throw over everything Co: balt, regardless of intrinsic merit. | believe the time has now amved to reconsider the Cobalt list: | 1. M. WALLACE Mining Stock Broker, 42 King Street West, TORONTO. SEPT. 5th London Shows Sheridan and Her Pert THE MARVELOUS EDDY FAMILY, The Acrobatic and Aerial Sensation. The Marvelous Exponents of Athletic Art. Sugimatos Imperial Yeddo Japanese Troupe of Athletes, WALLET, England's Champion Bare Back Rider, January, 1907, and within six months Brodeur chances buying these goods at Gib- Taft, two miles away, was.made. The meq. it Iti should Fol pre 'son's Red Cross Drug Store. They are rock work on the new railroad which ------- nh . i foo: | 8i1 guaranteed. : wound round the mountainside 300 feet A Thiel's Excuse. bollgel, 'a4, make a viliteat a i 7.8. Galbraith, Camder East, Toft a pe on Monday for a trip through the above the town was very heavy, and | gorqcuse Post-Standard. : before the year was out 3,000 men} "It is only what you might expect he 'Fallure of Education, western rioviaces, going as far west from the tunnel and the camps whieh 'of a man getting $25 a week and | Bra et rd EXpOSILOR 'as British Columbia and Vancouver. lined the new work were spending their handling millions, It's the bank's | J. Hawkes. gobairman of the! Next time you need a shaving brush | The Most earnings with' enthusiasm in Taft © be- taal." board bt 'education 'of Moticton," N.B., try Gibson's Red Cross. We carry a | Complete, By the way have you Shue aa the uly Mince to go. tos. | So says the wretched little "em- {recently appeared before the Dominion j18tge assortment. Extensive, Costly in Captivity 'every tried toast made [f| Six thovesnd single men. Swedes, baler who got away with $600,000 | Technical . Education Commission and | Me. J. Hunkine and Miss THREE BANDS OF MUSIC. 20 EUROPEAN NOVELTIES, on an Mlectric Toaste Mont enerring. Tian amd Baltarians, of other people's property, spent it in ldeclared his belief that the modern Cilfillan, Lyndhurst, are Baby Camels, Elephants, Lions, Monkeys, ; an GLFIC +1 0: ry {Ontenegrina, lation and Bulgarians, gambling, and is now én rowte to lavilem of education. in its velation to friends at Hermon, N.Y. See at 10 o'clock in the morningthe big Spectacular Free Street Par- i {the needs of the industrial and ~com-| Best value in Kingston, $1.50 corsets ade. ! 3 { them of the toughest and if not you have never [||mo © ) x] vion. eaten that v nos re Bre rs pe of Naskiliod vied Paying Wider 325 a week to handle [mercial life of the countries has vir- [for $1. Dution's, 209 Princess street. PERFORMANCES DAILY thn . a ' ne > sea at -y ot money was, to be sure, foolish. He [tually collapsed. This. is not peculiar |! Afternoon at 2. Night at nh : bw recren thon . Bonn the ought to have been given a. posiffin |to New Brunswick, Canada, the United a . nuchery. And Sali gave them here he couldn'y, steal, ad a sal- |States, or the motherland, but is re- a 4 jary to match. The men who ean't |cognised by thinking observers th There were never 'more than three 'o ipo the sight' of other people's {civilized world oer: The witness aid general stores in the town and there ooo without ' itehing to sei it: }he should. think that the a - * ' as Bw vik [mont of shit voral common ores ¥ s We Don't Sell All the Good Candies were over fifty saloons, Never more t to be trusted than a dozen reside and as many apse Hy admission that the government of the 6 also recogmized that fact. Bl { What We Sell Are Good. honky<tonks, as weit calls thea- Ne et Sas, SAKELL' ICE CREAM tres. in which coarseness is at a pre- minm. And every. battoom contained Adexandria Bay, N.Y. hen the steamer Rochester reached PARLOR, Phone 640. Next Door to Opera House. its roulette wheel, its crap and faro wid poker game, Tr 0c i notified the cap. 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 A -------------- a re a a : i vis port the that the chef Highest i unless he dischar, the fires. Grades GASOLINE, passed = without a holdup i inside § it | ain whose "lighting Snmeiiratn. ; t hey not longer fo congress: ECTRIC IRONS i TOASTERS Su Wild Animals Amy visiting streets, only n x wo anger ined Jha 4 De and sr at, of oor qual wed ant" 1 meek ee, we PUBLIC NOTICE News for Ladies ' '4 "Do you want to have use of your . - garments if so, you really understand i nice clothes are made Custom Talior. huge will iike it, and You 1 can Supply very will like it still better. Ev attention given to the latest styles. ¥ Wall Paster, Lime and give orders so you can see my Ready YOON RPRGOOIOIROTYS data nnnneney & Ee P £ i 1H I It i of £ i ik L. WINSTIN. (Over Carnovsky's). REASONABLE. H Do your duty snd leave the rest to hie other fellow, ; nd