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Building Web and Mobile ArcGIS Server Applications with JavaScript
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Build exciting custom web and mobile GIS applications with the ArcGIS Server API
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About the Authors
Eric Pimpler is the founder and owner of GeoSpatial Training Services (geospatialtrai
ning.com) and has over 20 years of experience in implementing and teaching GIS
solutions using Esri, Google Earth/Maps, and open source technology. Currently, he
focuses on ArcGIS scripting with Python and the development of custom ArcGIS
Server web and mobile applications using JavaScript. He is the author of
Programming ArcGIS 10.1 with Python Cookbook. Eric has a bachelor's degree in
geography from Texas A&M University and a master's degree in applied geography
with a specification in GIS from Texas State University.

Mark Lewin has been developing, teaching, and writing about software for over 16
years. His main interest is GIS and web mapping. Working for ESRI, the world's
largest GIS company, he has been a consultant, trainer and course author, and a
frequent speaker at industry events. He has subsequently expanded his knowledge to
include a wide variety of open source mapping technologies and a handful of
relevant JavaScript frameworks, including Node.js, Dojo, and JQuery. Mark now
works within Oracle's MySQL curriculum team, focusing on creating great learning
experiences for DBAs and database developers, but remains crazy about web
mapping.
About the Reviewers
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experienced many facets of GIS technology, from field data collection to mapping
and data analysis to creating and deploying web mapping applications and solutions.

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also reviewed several books for Packt Publishing, including Building Web and
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ArcGIS by Eric Pimpler, ArcGIS for Desktop Cookbook by Daniela Christiana
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Table of Contents
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Downloading the example code
Downloading the color images of this book
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Introduction to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Basic HTML page concepts
DOCTYPE
Primary tags
Validating HTML code
JavaScript fundamentals
Commenting code
Variables
JavaScript is case sensitive
Variable data types
Decision support statements
Looping statements
Functions
Objects
Basic CSS principles
CSS syntax
Inline styling
Internal style sheet
External style sheet
Separating HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Summary
2. Creating Maps and Adding Layers
The ArcGIS API for JavaScript Sandbox
Basic steps for creating an application with the ArcGIS API for JavaScript
Creating HTML code for the page
Referencing the ArcGIS API for JavaScript
Loading API modules
 Making sure the DOM is available
Creating the map
Creating the page content
Styling the page
The entire code
More about the map
Working with map service layers
Using the layer classes
Tiled map service layers
Dynamic map service layers
Adding layers to the map
Setting the visible layers from a map service
Setting a definition expression
Map navigation
Map navigation widgets and toolbars
Map Navigation with the mouse and keyboard
Getting and setting the map extent
Map events
Summary
3. Adding Graphics to the Map
The four parts of a Graphic
Specifying graphic geometry
Symbolizing graphics
Assigning attributes to graphics
Changing graphic attributes in an InfoTemplate
Creating the graphic
Adding graphics to the GraphicsLayer
Multiple GraphicsLayers
Practice time
Summary
4. The Feature Layer
Creating the FeatureLayer
Optional constructor parameters
Defining the display mode
The snapshot mode
The on-demand mode
The selection only mode
The auto mode
Setting a definition expression
Feature selection
 Rendering FeatureLayer
Practice time
Summary
5. Using Widgets and Toolbars
Adding toolbars to an application
Steps for creating a toolbar
Defining CSS styles
Creating the buttons
Creating an instance of the Navigation toolbar
User interface widgets
The BasemapGallery widget
Basemap toggle widget
Bookmarks widget
The Print widget
Layer List widget
Time to practice
Search widget
Gauge widget
Measurement widget
The Popup widget
Legend widget
OverviewMap widget
Scalebar widget
Directions
HistogramTimeSlider
HomeButton
LocateButton
TimeSlider
LayerSwipe
The Analysis widgets
Feature editing
FeatureService
The Editing widgets
The Editor widget
TemplatePicker widget
AttributeInspector widget
The AttachmentEditor widget
The Edit toolbar
Summary
6. Performing Spatial and Attribute Queries
 Introducing tasks in ArcGIS Server
Overview of attribute and spatial queries
The Query object
Setting query properties
Attribute queries
Spatial queries
Limiting the fields returned
Executing the query with QueryTask
Getting the results of the query
Practice time with spatial queries
Summary
7. Identifying and Finding Features
Using IdentifyTask to access feature attributes
Introducing IdentifyTask
IdentifyParameters
IdentifyTask
IdentifyResult
Practice time - implementing identify functionality
Using FindTask to access feature attributes
FindParameters
FindTask
FindResults
Summary
8. Turning Addresses into Points and Points into Addresses
Introduction to geocoding
Geocoding with a locator service in the ArcGIS API for JavaScript
Input parameter object
Input JSON address object
Input point object
Locator object
The AddressCandidate object
The geocoding process
The reverse geocoding process
Practice time with the locator service
The Search widget
Summary
9. Directions and Routing
Routing task
Practice time with routing
The Directions widget
ClosestFacility Task
 ServiceArea task
Summary
10. Geoprocessing Tasks
Models in ArcGIS Server
Using the Geoprocessor task - what you need to know
Understanding the services page for a geoprocessing task
Input parameters
The Geoprocessor task
Executing the task
Synchronous tasks
Asynchronous tasks
Practice time with geoprocessing tasks
Summary
11. Geometry Operations
The Geometry Service
Geometry Service operations
Using the Geometry Service
The Geometry Engine
Practice time with the Geometry Engine
Summary
12. Integration with ArcGIS Online
Adding ArcGIS Online maps to your applications by using a webmap ID
Adding ArcGIS Online maps to your applications with JSON
Practice time with ArcGIS Online
Summary
13. Creating Mobile Applications
Compact build of the API
Setting the viewport scale
Practice time with the compact build
Integrating the geolocation API
Practice time with the geolocation API
Summary
14. Looking Ahead - Version 4 of the ArcGIS API for JavaScript
Steps for creating 2D maps
Accessing layers
New and changed layers
GraphicsLayer
FeatureLayer
MapImageLayer
VectorTileLayer
GroupLayers
 SceneLayers
3D mapping and symbology
Scenes
Creating the map
Setting elevation data
Setting the camera
Specifying the environment
Local scenes
3D symbology and rendering
Summary
Preface
ArcGIS Server is the predominant platform for developing GIS applications for the
web. In the past, you could choose from a number of programming languages to
develop web mapping applications with ArcGIS Server, including JavaScript, Flex,
and Silverlight. However, the Flex and Silverlight APIs have now retired, leaving
JavaScript as the preferred language for developing applications on this platform. Its
advantages over other languages include the fact that you can use it to build both
web and mobile applications and that it does not require the installation of a plugin:
everything runs natively in the browser.

This book will teach you how to build web-based GIS applications using the ArcGIS
API for JavaScript. Using a practical hands-on style of learning, you will learn how
to build fully functional applications with ArcGIS Server and, in doing so, develop a
skillset that is in high demand.

You will learn how to create maps and add geographic layers from a variety of
sources, including tiled and dynamic map services. In addition, you'll learn how to
add vector graphics to the map and stream geographic features to the browser using a
feature layer. Most applications also include specific functionality implemented by
ArcGIS Server as tasks. You'll learn how to use the various tasks provided by
ArcGIS Server to perform common GIS operations, including queries, identification
of features, finding features by attribute, geoprocessing tasks, and more. Finally,
you'll learn just how easy it is to develop mobile applications with the ArcGIS API
for JavaScript.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Introduction to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, covers the fundamental
HTML, CSS, and JavaScript concepts before getting started with developing GIS
applications with the ArcGIS API for JavaScript.

Chapter 2, Creating Maps and Adding Layers, shows how to create a map and add
layers to the map. You will learn how to create an instance of the Map class, add
layers of data to the map, and display this information on a web page. Map is the
most fundamental class in the API as it provides the canvas for your data layers and
any subsequent activities that occur in your application. However, your map is
useless until you add layers of data. There are several types of data layers that can be
added to a map, including tiled, dynamic, feature, and others. You will learn more
about each of these layer types in this chapter as well.

Chapter 3, Adding Graphics to the Map, demonstrates how to display temporary

points, lines, and polygons in GraphicsLayer on the map. The GraphicsLayer is a
separate layer that always resides on top of any other layers and stores all graphics
associated with the map.

Chapter 4, The Feature Layer, describes FeatureLayer. This inherits from the
GraphicsLayer, but offers additional capabilities such as the ability to perform queries
and selections. Feature layers are also used for online editing of features. Feature
layers differ from tiled and dynamic map service layers because feature layers bring
geometry information to the client computer to be drawn and stored by the web
browser. Feature layers potentially cut down on round trips to the server. A client
can request the features it needs and perform selections and queries on those features
without having to request more information from the server.

Chapter 5, Using Widgets and Toolbars, covers out-of-the-box widgets that you can
drop into your application for enhanced productivity. These include the basemap
gallery. Bookmark, print, and overview map user interface components. In addition,
the ArcGIS API for JavaScript also includes helper classes for creating toolbars
within your applications, such as navigation and drawing toolbars.

Chapter 6, Performing Spatial and Attribute Queries, covers the ArcGIS Server Query
Task that allows you to perform attribute and spatial queries against data layers in a
map service that have been exposed. You can also combine these query types to
perform a combination attribute and spatial query.

Chapter 7, Identifying and Finding Features, covers two common operations found in
any GIS application: clicking a feature on the map to identify it, or performing a
query to locate features with specific attribute values. In either case, information
about particular features is returned. In this chapter the reader will learn how to use
the IdentifyTask and FindTask objects to obtain information about features.

Chapter 8, Turning Addresses into Points and Points into Addresses, covers the use of
the Locator task to perform geocoding and reverse geocoding. Geocoding is the
process of assigning a coordinate to an address while reverse geocoding assigns an
address to a coordinate.

Chapter 9, Directions and Routing, describes how to access ArcGIS Server network
analysis services to perform analyses on street networks, such as finding the best
route from one address to another, finding the closest school, identifying a service
area around a location, or responding to a set of orders with a fleet of service
vehicles.

Chapter 10, Geoprocessing Tasks, allows you to execute custom geoprocessing

workflows that you define in ArcGIS Pro desktop software using Model Builder or
code as Python scripts. Once published to ArcGIS Server as geoprocessing services,
these can be accessed from within your web mapping applications. This is a very
powerful feature, and we'll get into one in this chapter.

Chapter 11, Geometry Operations, describes how to use the ArcGIS Server Geometry
Service, and its client-side counterpart, the Geometry Engine, to execute common
geometric operations such as buffering a feature and reprojecting from one
coordinate system to another.

Chapter 12, Integration with ArcGIS Online, details how you can use the ArcGIS API
for JavaScript to access data and maps created with ArcGIS.com, which is a web site
for working with maps and other types of geographic information. On this site, you
will find applications for building and sharing maps. You will also find useful
basemaps, data, applications, and tools that you can view and use along with
communities you can join. For application developers the really exciting news is that
you can integrate ArcGIS.com content into your custom developed applications using
the ArcGIS API for JavaScript. This chapter shows you how.

Chapter 13, Creating Mobile Applications, describes how to build mobile GIS
applications using the ArcGIS API for JavaScript. ArcGIS Server support is
currently provided for iOS and Android devices. In this chapter, you'll learn about
the compact build of the API that makes web mapping applications possible through
the use of Dojo Mobile.

Appendix, Looking Ahead at Version 4 of the ArcGIS API for JavaScript, gives you a
broad overview of what to expect in version 4 of the API. This is a complete
reworking of the API that is being developed in parallel with version 3.x.
What you need for this book
To complete the activities in this book, you will need access to a web browser--
preferably Google Chrome or Firefox. Each chapter contains practices designed to
supplement the material presented. You will complete these practices using the
ArcGIS API for JavaScript Sandbox to write and test your code. The sandbox can be
found at https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/3/sandbox/sandbox.html. All the practices
will access publicly available instances of ArcGIS Server, so you will not need to
install ArcGIS Server yourself.
Who this book is for
This book is written for application developers who want to develop web and mobile
GIS applications using ArcGIS Server and the API for JavaScript. It is primarily
oriented toward beginning and intermediate-level GIS developers or to more
traditional application developers who may not have developed GIS applications in
the past but who are now tasked with implementing solutions on this platform. No
prior experience with ArcGIS Server, JavaScript, HTML, or CSS is expected, but it
is certainly helpful.
Conventions
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different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an
explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions,
pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows:
"We can include other contexts through the use of the include directive."

A block of code is set as follows:

function computeServiceArea(evt) {
map.graphics.clear();
var pointSymbol = new SimpleMarkerSymbol();
pointSymbol.setOutline = new
SimpleLineSymbol(SimpleLineSymbol.STYLE_SOLID, new Color([255, 0,
0]), 1);
pointSymbol.setSize(14);
pointSymbol.setColor(new Color([0, 255, 0, 0.25]));
}

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the
relevant lines or items are set in bold:
function computeServiceArea(evt) {
map.graphics.clear();
var pointSymbol = new SimpleMarkerSymbol();
pointSymbol.setOutline = new
SimpleLineSymbol(SimpleLineSymbol.STYLE_SOLID, new Color([255, 0,
0]), 1);
pointSymbol.setSize(14);
pointSymbol.setColor(new Color([0, 255, 0, 0.25]));
}

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screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "clicking
the Next button moves you to the next screen".

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Tips and tricks appear like this.

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couple of thousand dollars that I don’t need just now. If you think your
carrier friend could use it, he’s very welcome to it.”
Dallas looked at him in great astonishment. This generous offer quite
took her breath away. Her tone was a little less hostile as she said:
“Why, that’s very kind of you, Mr. Hines; but I don’t think Owen—Mr.
Sheridan is in need of money.”
“I reckon he is,” replied Jake, with a grin. “I know very well that he ain’t
got a dollar to his name. I don’t like the feller—he’s a crook, and I ain’t got
any use for crooks—but at the same time, as I say, I feel sorry for him. And,
besides, he’s a friend of yours, and any friend of yours, little one, can
command Jake Hines’ bank roll. So you tell him the next time you see him
that if he can use a couple of thousand he’s welcome to it.”
With these words he hurried out of the office, satisfied that he had
succeeded in his mission.
“It’s sure to work,” he said to himself as he walked back to the club.
“From the look on that guy’s face, I’m sure that it’s only the lack of funds
which prevents him from beatin’ it. As soon as he learns that there’s a
chance for him to get hold of enough dough to make a safe get-away he’ll
grab at it quick.”
When Dallas saw Owen a little later she repeated to him what Hines had
said, and the young man, greatly mystified, went to report the incident to his
friend and counselor, Judge Lawrence.
“What on earth does it mean, judge?” he inquired. “What is their game in
offering me money?”
The lawyer laughed. “It is very clear what their game is, my boy. They
are in hopes that you are in such terror of the coming trial that you can be
tempted to seek safety in flight. The two thousand dollars is intended to pay
your expenses.”
Owen frowned; then his face suddenly lighted up. “Say, judge, I’ve got
another idea. Couldn’t we make great capital out of this offer? What’s the
matter with my accepting this money from Hines, in the presence of
concealed witnesses, then exposing the whole game? The very fact that they
are trying to induce me to jump my bail ought to be enough to prove that
they are behind this conspiracy.”
Judge Lawrence smiled. “I was thinking of that, but it wouldn’t work.
Those rascals are too smart to lay themselves open to a trap of that sort. That
is why Hines went to Miss Worthington instead of making that offer direct to
you.
“You see,” he went on, “while we can readily guess their motive, they
haven’t said anything that would incriminate them. Hines simply offered to
lend you some money, which might be taken as a philanthropic and
disinterested act on his part. He did not suggest that the money be used to
defray the expenses of your flight. He would claim that he thought you
might be able to use it to defray the expense of your defense.
“And, besides, you can rest assured that if you agreed to accept the
money, Hines wouldn’t be so careless as to make out the check to you. He
would make it out to Miss Worthington. There’s nothing criminal in a man
lending or giving a couple of thousand dollars to a young lady whose
friendship he ardently seeks. That’s the answer which they would make to an
attempt on our part to make capital out of the incident.”
Sheridan realized the logic of this, and Hines’ offer was turned down flat.
Boss Coggswell was greatly disappointed when his lieutenant reported to
him that the letter carrier had refused to avail himself of this opportunity to
seek safety in flight.
“It is too bad,” he sighed. “I would have preferred to let this unfortunate
young man down easy. He has chosen unwisely. A sojourn abroad is much
more pleasant than several years behind bars. But since he refuses to accept
my aid,” he went on, those expressive ears of his wagging rapidly, “I’m
afraid he’ll have to go to jail. Yes, Jake, as much as it pains me to have to
say it, I am quite certain now that he’ll have to go to jail.”
 CHAPTER XII.

ON THE STAND.

Boss Coggswell was not present in the courtroom when Owen Sheridan’s
came up for trial. Not that he was not interested, nor was it a feeling of
delicacy which kept him away; but he realized that his presence might excite
comment and lend color to the accused man’s assertion that he was the
victim of a conspiracy.
“You’ll be there, of course, Jake,” he said to his subordinate, “and I’ll rely
on you to bring me the news just as soon as a verdict is reached.”
Hines grinned. “Yes, you can bet your boots, boss, that I won’t lose any
time gettin’ here with the glad tidings. I guess you’re right in decidin’ not to
be present. It’d look pretty raw for you to go to court. No use takin’ any
unnecessary chances.”
“It isn’t that, Jake,” replied Coggswell deprecatingly. “It isn’t that, my
boy. I have no reason to be afraid. When one’s conscience is clear, one
doesn’t have to worry about what people might think. But the fact is, Jake, I
have a tender heart—you ought to know that by this time—and I could not
bear to be present to witness that poor man’s sufferings.”
Hines grinned again, and looked at his chief admiringly. “All right, boss,”
he said. “You wait here, and I’ll bring you the news as soon as the jury
brings in a verdict.”
Hines had not the slightest doubt as to what that verdict was going to be.
He felt confident that the evidence against Sheridan was so crushingly
conclusive that the jury wouldn’t hesitate more than three minutes before
deciding that he was guilty.
If he had any apprehensions on the subject they would have been
dispelled by what he had seen that morning. He had encountered Owen on
the street, walking arm in arm with Judge Lawrence, and if ever two men
looked worried, the accused carrier and his counsel did.
“Poor gink!” said Mr. Hines to himself. “I guess he’s sorry by this time
that he didn’t take that money and beat it while he had the chance. Wonder
how he’ll look in a suit of stripes and with his hair close cropped.”
 There was a broad grin upon his face as he entered the courtroom and
seated himself on one of the rear benches. Catching the presiding judge’s eye
leveled sternly upon him, and suddenly realizing that his levity was hardly
decorous, he hurriedly assumed a serious mien.
He found it difficult to refrain from chuckling as the case progressed,
however, for as witness after witness took the stand to testify against
Sheridan, and the strong chain of circumstantial evidence was presented link
by link to the jury, the prisoner’s counsel, eminent lawyer though he was,
seemed to become more and more baffled and depressed.
Ex-Judge Lawrence was famed for his skill as a cross-examiner. This was
the only point on which Coggswell and Hines had been apprehensive. They
feared that there was a possibility of some of the witnesses going to pieces
under the vigorous, searching questioning of counsel for the defense.
But, to Hines’ great relief, the ex-judge, in this case, gave no evidence of
being an expert at the art of cross-examination. He did not succeed in
“rattling” a single witness; in fact, he handled them all so mildly and
apparently with so little spirit that Hines muttered to himself
contemptuously:
“Huh! Him a great lawyer! Guess he’s been very much overrated. Why, I
know a whole lot of ordinary police-court counselors that could give him
cards and spades.”
William Warren, wholesale liquor dealer, was the first witness to take the
stand. He testified that he had sent his good friend Michael Harrington, a
saloon keeper, a gold watch by registered mail. He had placed the watch in
the package in the presence of two witnesses, who had also been with him
when he handed in the package at the registry window of a downtown post
office.
Judge Lawrence asked this witness but four questions in cross-
examination:
“Are you acquainted with Samuel J. Coggswell, Mr. Warren?”
“I never had the pleasure of meeting the gentleman.”
“Are you acquainted with a young man named Jake Hines—a prominent
member of the Samuel J. Coggswell Association? Before answering this
question, Mr. Warren, let me remind you that you are under oath.”
“It ain’t necessary to remind me of no such thing,” retorted the witness
indignantly. “Yes, I know Mr. Hines. I am proud to say that he is a good
friend of mine.” He glanced across at the spectators’ benches, and Jake
smiled at him an acknowledgment of this compliment.
They had expected this question, knowing that it was the accused
carrier’s hope to be able to make the jury believe that he was the victim of a
conspiracy. They had decided that Warren should tell the truth, and admit
that he knew Hines. To have denied the fact would have been dangerous.
There was no telling that the defense did not have witnesses at hand ready to
take the stand and swear that they knew of the friendship.
“Yes, I know Jake Hines,” the witness repeated, almost belligerently; “but
that don’t——”
“Did you meet him, or in any way have communication with him, on the
day you sent the registered package?” interrupted counsel for the defense.
“Yes,” replied the witness unhesitatingly. “Mr. Hines came to my office
that day. He was in the neighborhood, and he dropped in to make a social
call.”
This question, too, had been expected. Warren had made up his mind to
answer it truthfully, for it was quite possible that Hines had been seen
entering his office.
“And at that meeting between Hines and yourself, Mr. Warren,” counsel
for the defense went on, “did either of you say anything about this watch
which you were going to send to Harrington?”
“Not a word,” emphatically replied the witness, who was prepared for
this question also. “Not a single word, sir. We never spoke about the watch at
all. Hines didn’t know that I was going to send it.”
As the conversation which had taken place that day between Hines and
himself had been behind a closed door, with no chance of anybody having
overheard them, Warren felt that he was quite safe in making this denial.
“That’s all,” said the cross-examiner, with an audible sigh, and the
witness, as he stepped down, exchanged a triumphant glance with Jake
Hines.
The next witnesses were the men who had been in Warren’s office when
he placed the watch in the package, and who had accompanied him to the
post office and seen the package handed in at the registry window. Both of
them were reputable business men, and Owen’s lawyer made no attempt to
impeach their testimony. In cross-examination he let each of them off with
but a single question, which was the same in each case:
 “On the way to the post office, where did Mr. Warren carry the package
in which you had seen him place the watch?”
“In the left-hand pocket of his coat,” the two witnesses both answered.
Michael Harrington, the saloon keeper, testified that the package
contained no watch when he opened it; which statement was corroborated by
several witnesses who had been present in the saloon when the accused
postman brought in the registered package.
Harrington made a good impression on the stand. He denied that he knew
Jake Hines, except by reputation, and volunteered the information that he
had “no use for Sam Coggswell, or any of his bunch,” being himself of the
opposite political party. Hines could not help grinning at Judge Lawrence’s
evident discomfiture.
The pawnbroker’s clerk, an exceedingly nervous young man, who took
the stand and swore that Owen had pledged the watch for forty dollars, was
cross-examined at greater length than any of the previous witnesses.
Counsel for the defense, however, could not shake his testimony. He
admitted that he was acquainted with Jake Hines, but denied that the latter
had been in the pawnshop that day, or had held any conversation with him
regarding the watch. Another audible sigh came from Judge Lawrence as
this witness left the stand.
The two post-office inspectors testified to having found the pawn ticket in
Owen’s trunk, and a half dozen of the employees of the Branch X Y took the
stand and reluctantly stated that Carrier Sheridan had tried to borrow thirty
dollars from them that day.
Owen’s counsel did not attempt to cross-examine any of these witnesses.
As the last of them left the stand and the prosecutor announced that this
closed the government’s case, Jake Hines leaned back in his seat and smiled
expansively.
“Let ’em beat that if they can,” he muttered confidently. “I can see from
the looks of the jury that they’ve made up their minds already.”

TO BE CONTINUED.
 HE WANTED TO KNOW.
It was customary with the French marshal, Bassompierre, when any one
of his soldiers were brought before him for heinous offenses, to say to him:
“By heavens, brother, you or I will certainly be hanged!” which was a
sufficient indication of their fate.
A spy, being discovered in his camp, was addressed in these terms; and
next day, as the provost was carrying the culprit to the gallows, he pressed
earnestly for leave to speak with the marshal, alleging that he had something
of importance to communicate.
The marshal, being made acquainted with his request, exclaimed, in his
customary rough and hasty manner:
“It is the way of these rascals; when ordered for execution, they pretend
some frivolous story, merely to reprieve themselves for a few moments.
However, bring the dog hither.”
When the culprit made his appearance, the marshal asked him what he
had to say.
“Why, my lord,” replied he, “when I first had the honor of your
conversation, you were obliging enough to say that either you or I should be
hanged; now I come to know whether it is your pleasure to be so; because, if
you won’t I must, that’s all!”
Needless to say that the rascal was pardoned.

HE COULDN’T UNDERSTAND IT ALL.

An Irishman, who was terribly afraid of ghosts, got a berth on board an
American vessel.
As the ship was leaving the port, he asked one of the sailors if there were
any ghosts on board.
One of them, for a joke, said it was as full of ghosts as a churchyard.
This frightened Pat so much that when he turned into his hammock he
drew his blanket so far over his head that his feet were left naked and cold.
He endured the suffering for a few nights, and then he went to the captain
and complained about his blanket.
 “Please, sor,” said Pat, “my blanket is too long at the top and too short at
the bottom, and sure, I even cut a bit off the top and sewed it onto the
bottom, but, faith it’s just the same as iver it was. I can’t undershtand it at all
—at all.”
 THE NEWS OF ALL NATIONS.

A Kangaroo Cat.
Mrs. Pussy Cat, who lives at the home of Thomas Evans, in Newport,
Ky., is greatly worried over one of her offspring. No other member of Mrs.
Cat’s numerous family is like the newcomer. This kitten has only two feet
and walks or hops about like a kangaroo. There are only tufts of fur where
the front legs ought to be. In hopping about, the kitten balances itself with its
tail, which it uses as a sort of rudder.

Gets Fifty-dollar Tip for a Shave.

Jack O’Reilly, barber in West Third Street, Los Angeles, Cal., had the
surprise of his life a few days ago. A prosperous-looking man walked into
the shop. When the job was done, the patron unlimbered a wad of bills,
stripped off a fifty-dollar yellowback, and said: “Things have come my way
handsomely. Here’s a bit of a tip.”
Leaving O’Reilly stupefied with astonishment, the man walked out. He
was a prosperous Los Angeles stock broker, O’Reilly said.

Asks $500 for Loss of Faded Army Uniform.

On the loss of a faded blue army uniform, a relic of the Civil War, Mrs.
Mary Heintzelman, seventy-three years old, of Minneapolis, Minn., bases a
claim for five hundred dollars against Hennepin County, which she has
already filed.
Five years ago Mrs. Heintzelman went to the Hennepin County poor
farm. Her only possessions were packed in an old-fashioned trunk. In the top
tray lay the old uniform and a packet of soldier’s letters, written on the
heavy blue stationery used in war times. They were the only links that bound
the old woman’s life to the highest happiness her life had known.
The uniform, more than half a century ago, had been worn to the war by
George Heintzelman of the Forty-seventh Pennsylvania infantry. They had
been betrothed, she and the young soldier, when he marched away to war.
The memories of those days when he and she were young have been the only
comforts in the old woman’s life.
Three years later Heintzelman came back, badly wounded. He recovered,
but a bullet through his lung had impaired his health. They were married,
and moved West. The husband’s health did not improve. A few years later he
died.
Mrs. Heintzelman stored the old uniform and the letters in the trunk and
set about to make her own way in the world. The years that followed were
lonely and full of hard work and trouble. The treasures in the trunk were the
only solaces in the woman’s life.
Finally, too old to work longer, she went to the home. Every spring, on
the anniversary of the day that her lover had marched away, Mrs.
Heintzelman would take out the old uniform and hang it on the line to air.
Softly she would caress the faded garment and read over the old letters, and
her sadness and loneliness would be lost in the flood of pleasant memories
that floated back from her youth.
A week ago, as the old uniform hung upon the line, a cinder descended
from a smokestack. It smoldered for a moment in the garment, flared up, and
Mrs. Heintzelman’s last treasure was gone forever.

Blasted Romance of Poor Aunt Emily.

When board of health inspectors of Indianapolis, Ind., went to the home
of Emily Smith, a recluse, to remove piles of dust-covered books and papers
which literally filled her little house, they uncovered a hidden fortune and
unearthed a story of a blasted romance.
Fifty years ago the woman was a belle in the English settlement in New
York City and was preparing to be married, when the man who had won her
was stricken with fever and died.
She moved to Indianapolis twenty-five years ago, and, residing in a slum
district, has been an object of charity for many years. About eight thousand
dollars was found secreted in the house, which was cleaned only after the
indignant woman had shrieked in protest.
The following is the supposed pauper’s riches: Currency, $846.97;
certified check, $200; bank deposits, $1,800; mortgages, $5,000, and
insurance papers of undetermined value.
 “There is nothin’ there you’d want to see, and, besides, it would kill Aunt
Emily if you disturbed her papers,” a negress told the officers.
“This is my home; it’s none of your business what I have beneath these
papers!” Miss Smith shouted, as the officers started to move the newspapers
and pamphlets.

Fighting Man’s Square Meal.

Charles Weber, a pugilist from New York, while in a cell in Philadelphia,
Pa., on a charge of forgery, having been brought here from Moyamensing
Prison, told Turnkey Gordon, of the Thompson Street police station, that he
hadn’t eaten for a week; that he was as hungry as a polar bear, and wouldn’t
Gordon please get one dollar from his money in the sergeant’s desk and take
his order for a square meal? Gordon did.
Ten minutes later Gordon faced the house sergeant with a wry face.
“What do you think of that fightin’ guy?” he asked. “ ’E said ez ’ow ’e
wanted a square meal, and sent me out fer a dollar’s worth of cream puffs,
and blow me if ’e didn’t eat every bloomin’ one of ’em.”

Answers the Call of Cupid.

After having answered nearly four million calls, Miss Theresa Cox, chief
telephone operator at the Minnesota State House, has fallen victim of Cupid,
and given up her job. For ten years, ever since the capitol was completed,
Miss Cox has guarded the switchboard day in and day out, the
personification of efficiency and amiability, and long years ago gained the
reputation of being a model telephone girl.
On ordinary days she made between one thousand and twelve hundred
wire connections. When the legislature was in session, or in other times of
stress, the demands on her switchboard were greatly increased, and she
would be called over the lines sixteen hundred times or more.
No one ever applied for her job, and she probably was the only one in the
capitol whose job was not in danger. The uncertainties of political positions
had no fear for her, for no governor ever could have thought of removing
Miss Cox. There would have been a storm of protest akin to a riot.
But what governors could not do, Henry Jopling accomplished. He
invited Miss Cox to marry him, and Dan Cupid advised her to surrender.
 “I’m awfully sorry to leave here,” she said to a gathering of State House
officials and employees who gave her a wedding “shower,” and her voice
shook a little. “You have all been so kind to me.”

Old-time Circus Man’s Will.

William Washington Cole, an old-time circus owner, at one time of Cole
Brothers and later a part owner in the Barnum & Bailey show, left an estate
valued at five million dollars, according to his will filed with Surrogate
Daniel Nobel in Queens County.
Mr. Cole died in Whitestone, L. I., March 10th. He left a widow, but no
children, brothers, or sisters. Distant relatives live in England and in
Scotland.
He left to his widow, Mrs. Margaret Cole, two hundred thousand dollars
and two-eighths of the residue after the bequests are paid. Mrs. Cole is also
to receive certain specific bequests. Sixty-five persons receive bequests and
annuities aggregating about five hundred thousand dollars. The will also
makes bequests to churches and institutions to the extent of one hundred
thousand dollars.

Transcontinental Pedestrians.
In competition with Edward Payson Weston, the veteran walker, and to
win a fifteen-hundred-dollar prize offered by the Panama-Pacific Exposition,
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Jackley are walking across the country, with the
requirement that they “make” the capital of each of the forty-eight States
within three years. They left San Francisco September 12, 1912, and seem
sure of winning, as they are now in the East, and have four months to reach
Augusta, Maine. They are forbidden to ride in any way, and may obtain
money only by selling pictures of themselves.

Gets $7,000,000 from Uncle.

Using the name of Albert Brown nearly cost Albert James Bourne, a
transient farm hand, a fortune of seven million dollars, left him by an uncle
who died several months ago in Melbourne, Australia.
 After a search through seven States, Bourne was located on a farm near
Lincoln, Neb., by private detectives who had been hired to search for him. It
was discovered he had been in a hospital in St. Joseph, Mo.
The property left him consists of 339,000 acres of free land, 25,000
sheep, 400 horses, hundreds of cattle, and 50,000 pounds sterling. Bourne is
Irish, and fifty years old.

Sues Farmers, but Vanishes.

Two years after filing suit against wealthy Howell County farmers of the
South Fork, Mo., neighborhood, whom he accused of slanderous statements
concerning himself, the whereabouts of Wiley C. Goldsby, the plaintiff, are
unknown, and caused the dismissal of the suit, which had been taken to
Ozark County on a change of venue. Goldsby was last seen when he left for
the Kansas wheat fields.
After Goldsby had been in charge of the ranch house of Doctor R. A.
Sparks for some time, stories were circulated in the neighborhood that he
was a woman masquerading in male attire. It was said he often wore a
kimono when preparing breakfast for the ranch hands, and devoted his spare
time to crocheting and other fancywork. It was these statements that Goldsby
made the basis of a suit for heavy damages.

University Student at Ten.

Helen Bradford, of Ottumwa, Iowa, ten years old, has made arrangements
to enter the University of Iowa in September.
She was graduated from high school, and is heralded as one of the best
mathematicians among grade students of the State. She will be the youngest
girl to attend Iowa in more than ten years.

Cupid Tricks Truant “Cops.”

Cupid has had Minneapolis, Minn., school-attendance officers dodging
around corners in pursuit of children under sixteen who were not attending
school, only to have them flash a marriage license. This has happened
several times during the present school year, and school-attendance officers
are getting vexed at Cupid.
 The law is that children must attend school until they are sixteen, unless
they have completed the elementary-school course. However, attendance
officers have given up the chase after the truants when it has been proved
they have been married.
Teressa Amundson, Alida Sandeen, Ruth Rosendahl, Lillian Jordan,
Agnes Gratz, and Alice Hanson are the girls who have abruptly ended their
education by the marriage route and had attendance officers guessing.

Fight Lake of Burning Oil.

Recently, citizens of Oilton, Okla., and neighboring towns witnessed the
most extensive oil fire that has ever occurred on the river since the field
opened. It was one mile northeast of the town, on the Cimarron River, where
the oil had formed a lake in the bend of the stream. It burned for hours,
sending up a column of smoke and flame that was noticeable from towns
twenty miles away.
William Murdoch, traffic manager of the Oil Belt Terminal Railroad,
headed a squad of men who prevented a spread of flames, which would have
been disastrous to the big railroad bridge.

He Helped to Found Republic of Texas.

J. W. Darlington, ninety-four years old, of Austin, Tex., is the only person
now living who heard the sounds of the guns at the battle of San Jacinto,
seventy-nine years ago.
Mr. Darlington was one of the band of Texans who met and defeated the
Mexicans under Santa Anna, but was prevented from fighting in the battle
itself by being detailed to look after the supply train.
Mr. Darlington came from Virginia to Austin in 1839, the year that Austin
was laid off as a town, and the first capitol was built. He married Miss
Eleanor J. Love in 1843, and has four daughters and one son living. He is an
honorary member of the Daughters of the Republic, and still takes an interest
in affairs of the State. His chief delight seems to be recalling his life in Texas
in the early forties.
In the battle of Plum Creek, in 1840, Mr. Darlington, at the head of about
two hundred citizens, whipped the Comanche Indians so that they gave the
early settlers no more trouble. He was also engaged in a battle at Plum Creek
in 1842.
Mr. Darlington helped to plane the logs for the first capitol during
Lamar’s administration, and also to build the fort around the capitol, to
protect it from the Indians on one side and the Mexicans on the other. The
capitol was then used not only for the sessions of Congress, but as a church,
school, opera house, dance hall—in fact, for all public gatherings.

Rounded “The Horn.”

Vanburen Crompton, of Allen Dale, Ill., is one of the few men living who
went to the California gold fields by way of “the Horn.” Most of the
emigrants went overland by wagon, enduring many hardships. Mr.
Crompton, then a young man, with two companions chose the water route.
Taking a boat at New Orleans, they followed along the Mexican and South
American coast, rounding Cape Horn, and then up the western coast, to San
Francisco. The ships in that day were slow, and it required many weeks to
make the journey. Thousands of men were called westward by the lure of
gold, but only a comparatively small number found riches. Mr. Crompton
was among the unlucky ones, and returned home after six years. He now
lives on the farm on which he was born, and in one of the first frame houses
erected in southern Illinois. In the early days there was a fort near the farm, a
refuge from the Indians.

Still Another “Pick” to Feed.

Former President Roosevelt’s fear of race suicide would have received a
rude shock had the colonel been in the front office at the Young Men’s
Christian Association in Nashville, Tenn., when “Bee,” a crippled porter, and
quite a fixture at the building, asked for a day off.
“What in the world do you want with a day off, Bee?” asked one of the
secretaries to whom this request, coming from Bee, was something unusual.
“Well, suh,” said the old negro exultantly, “Ah have a visitor at mah
house dis mawnin’. It’s de nineteenth, suh. Ah shore has a hard time to sport
’em, suh. Eatin’s am high and money am mighty procrastinatin’.”
Bee’s request was granted.
 “Up, You Dead!” Cry Saves the Trench.
A French lieutenant, now lying wounded in a Paris hospital, has given
this account of the thrilling action in which he received his injury:
“We were fortifying a trench which we had taken. Behind a barrier of
sacks which blocked one end of it, two sentinels kept careful watch. We
could work in all security.
“Suddenly an avalanche of bombs tumbled down on our heads. Before
we could recover, ten of our men were stretched on the ground, dead or
wounded, pell-mell.
“I opened my mouth to urge them on again, when a stone from the
parapet, torn out by a projectile, hit me on the head. I fell unconscious. My
stupor lasted a second only. A splinter of shell tore my left hand, and the
pain brought me to.
“As I opened my eyes, weakened, my mind benumbed, I saw the ‘boches’
jump over the barrier of sacks and invade the trench. There were about
twenty. They had no guns, but they carried in front of them a sort of wicker
basket filled with bombs.
“I looked to the left. Our men had gone, the trench was empty. The
boches advanced; a few more steps and they were on me.
“Just then one of my men, lying on the ground, a wound on his forehead,
a wound on his chin, blood streaming from his face, dragged himself to a
sitting position, seized a sack of grenades near him, and cried out: ‘Up, you
dead!’
“He pulled himself to his knees, dived into the sack, and flung the
grenades at the group of assailants.
“In answer to his cry, three more wounded men dragged themselves up.
Two of them, who had broken legs, took guns, and, opening the magazines,
started a rapid fire, each shot of which hit home. The third, whose left arm
was inert, seized a bayonet with his right.
“When I picked myself up, having quite recovered my senses, about half
the hostile group had been felled, the rest having retreated in disorder.
“All that remained was a huge, perspiring subofficer, congested with
rage, who, leaning against the barrier, protected by the iron shield, continued
most courageously, I must say, to fire his revolver in our direction.
 “The man who was first to organize the defense, who had cried, ‘Up, you
dead!’ received a bullet straight in the jaw. He collapsed.
“Suddenly the soldier with the bayonet, who for some minutes had been
crawling from corpse to corpse, stopped about four feet from the barrier,
drew himself up, dodged two bullets fired at him, and plunged his bayonet
into the German’s throat.
“The position was saved. The wounded soldier’s sublime appeal had
resuscitated the ‘dead.’ ”
 Alleged Dead Man Denies the Report.
Once upon a time the city editor of a newspaper printed a story about a
man being dead who wasn’t dead.
Much to his consternation, the man arose the next morning and read a
lurid account of his death. He pinched himself to see if he were dead or
alive, and, coming to the conclusion that he was very much alive, after
looking at a black-and-blue mark where his fingers had closed together
upon his tender flesh, he sought the city editor.
“I read in the morning paper that I was dead,” he remarked to the
newspaper man at the desk.
“Well,” laconically responded the city editor, “what about it?”
“I am here as a living witness to testify that I am not dead,” responded
the man who was printed dead, “and that the reports of my death are very
much exaggerated.”
“I want you to understand here and now that if this newspaper says you
are dead, you are dead,” retorted the city editor.
“But don’t you see that I’m very much alive?” queried the astonished
dead man.
“All right,” replied the city editor, “we’ll put you in the birth column to-
morrow morning.”
Well, there is a parallel case to this in Montana, as is shown in an
opinion by the State supreme court, written by Associate Justice Sanner.
Frank Lemmer, a taxidermist, was the object of an obituary notice in the
Great Falls Tribune, W. M. Bole’s newspaper. The notice had him dead, and
dead to rights, because of an overdose of morphine, administered upon a
prescription by a physician, but evidently the Tribune made the mistake of
not putting Mr. Lemmer in the birth column the next morning, although it
explained later that Lemmer had arisen from the dead, with due apologies to
the supposed dead man.
Now, Lemmer objected to being called a “dead one,” and promptly
instituted suit against the Tribune, claiming that he was not dead, and that
his business as a taxidermist had been injured by the alleged malicious
publication that he was dead.
 Naturally, the defendants demurred both generally and specifically,
which demurrer was sustained by the Cascade District Court. The plaintiff
thereupon declined to plead further, and suffered judgment of dismissal
with costs. Naturally an appeal was taken.
Justice Sanner, Chief Justice Brantly, and Associate Justice Holloway
concurring, calls attention to the inference contained in the publication of
the alleged death of Lemmer.
“The necessary inferences are,” says the opinion, “that Frank Lemmer
died; that he died from an overdose of morphine; that the morphine was
procured on a doctor’s prescription, which prescription was obtained at
Lemmer’s instance by a stranger. None of these circumstances, nor all of
them, suggest anything disgraceful or criminal.”
The opinion then proceeds to say that it is no disgrace to die, and that
one may die without moral turpitude from an overdose of morphine
procured by a doctor’s prescription, even though a stranger acted as
messenger in the transition.
“Speaking generally,” continues the opinion, “there is no doubt that one
may suffer such damages from almost any publication whatever,
particularly a publication to the effect that he is dead; but whenever such
damages are sought, it is not enough to aver generally that in consequence
to the publication the plaintiff has been damaged in his business; the facts
showing such damages must be alleged or no cause of action is stated.”
The opinion then proceeds to show that the demurrer to the complaint
was properly sustained, and the judgment is affirmed.

“Movie” Mysteries Are Here Explained.

Rumbling bass notes from the unbridled, unleashed piano. Thunderous
roars from the big bass drum. Frequent crashes of brassy cymbals. You
instinctively clap your hands to your ears and breathlessly await the
bursting of the awful tornado that is scurrying over your head.
Then comes a pause in the deafening and ominous roar—the house is so
still you can hear the clicking of the projecting machine as the film is reeled
off.
Yes; we are in the midst of a fearsome forest, and the heroine is just
about to merge from the inky blackness with all her troubles—there she is,
now!
What was that? A flash of lightning! The drummer redoubles his
sonorous roll, ending with a wild, spine-stiffening thump. Some storm. The
heroine’s hair is blown so violently you fear it may be torn out by the very
roots.
She falls to the moss-grown forest floor. Livid flash and another
thunderous roll. Then the deluge. The heavens open, and while the fanfare
is loudest and the lightning is lividest, our fair lady is soaked to the skin
with real water and falls to earth, beaten down by the very force of the
torrent from on high.
Great scene, that!
Come with us now and see how the game is played. Ah, the movie
studio!
Here’s a patch of nice green grass on the studio floor, and back of it a
few shrubs and some sizable trees. Up on a scaffold high enough to be out
of the camera’s ken are a dozen men, each armed with a huge watering pot.
The heroine stands on the side lines, waiting for the storm to begin.
Storm in broad noon of a sunny day? Sure thing. Just watch.
An excited-looking individual holding a bunch of manuscript stands
beside the heroine—yes, you’ve guessed it, he’s the movie director.
She gets behind the trees, and the man at the camera crank starts turning.
She pushes her way through the tangled wildwood and stubs her toe,
looking unutterable anguish the while.
“Down stage!” yells the excited director.
She staggers on as directed, the camera man cranking nonchalantly with
one hand while he takes puffs at a cigarette with the other. The poor girl
tries to rise, and wabbles feebly.
“Fall in front of the camera!” bawls the director.
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the downpour, not from the heavens above, but quite as wet.
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