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' Demonstrations of Joy in CourtOne
Girl Kisses Him. c
HOME AGAIN WITH HIS BOYS,
j}g * They
Thought He Had Been Away on C
a Trip?The Jnry Out an Hour S(
and a Quarter ? Two Jurors p
Wept?History of Case. s'
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Toms River. N. J ?The trial of
Dr. Frank L. Brouwer on the chargs u
of murdering his wife. Carrie Brou- 3
r wer, ended with his acquittal.
When the foreman of the jury an- d<
' nounced the verdict the crowd of peo jj.0
pie which packed the court room gn
broke into a wild demonstration of j to
I, delight. The jury had been out an v
hour and a quarter, just long enough ^
to sharpen the anxiety of prisoner. ! tj(
counsel on both sides and the village ; pa
folk who had been following the case j in
with keenest interest from the start ; be
of the trial, nearly two weeks ago.
Judge Hendrickson's charge to the at
1 - jury lasted an hour. It was consid- j br
ered fair and strictly impartial by , or
the defense. He sent the jury to its | Cc
'* l rooms to deliberate on a verdict and j he
held court in session, awaiting a word of
irom lis ioremau.
After a short recess the court con- wl
vened and announced the verdict. Di
The court was in an uproar as Judge an
Hendrickson declared the prisoner m
discharged. The men cheered and ci1
the women applauded. Dr. Brouwer if
was so overcome that he seemed to in
have difficulty in speaking as he
;; turned to the court. When order tri
was restored the discharged man of
asked the court's permission to ad- th
dress the jury. He first thanked the th
Judge for the impartiality he had pr
shown, and then, turning to the jury, or
he said: El
"I am thankful, very thankful for er
ft the way you have treated me, and I
hope that none of you will ever be ro
placed in a position such as I have c0
been in." ba
He then shook hands with each fir
juror and started to leave the court de
room. The crowd was so anxious to ha
congratulate him on his acquittal,
however, that he was compelled to P?
stand and shake hands with the men hy
and.women as they filed by. A fourteen-year-old
girl wanted to kiss him, St
and he leaned over and received the mi
h kiss.
The last day of Dr. Brouwer's trial S'1
?,v consisted entirely of argument.
Prank McDermott, for the State, re- an
viewed the evidence presented by the ill
prosecution, and declared that it es- tic
tablished a circumstantial case which
proved the prisoner guilty of poison- ro
I Ing his wife. fe
Mr. Wilson, for the defense, point- in!
ed out that had Dr. Brouwer intended
to divorce his wife he would not have w>
transferred property to her or made sa
out insurance for her. In reply to wthe
charge that the accused man fe:
loved another woman Mr. Wilson wl
asked why this woman had not been th
produced.
During the plea for acquittal two au
of the jurors were so affected that th
they, had to wipe the tears from their tic
eyes. Dr. Brouwer, at the mention th
of his dead wife and of his mother P*"
and children, also wept.
Dr. and Mrs. Brouwer had been tei
A married nine years when Mrs. Brou- su
wer died. Before her marriage she h'<
was a school teacher. Before going an
to Toms River they lived at Lakehurst.
The doctor established a good tei
practice and became one of the best of
known physicians in Ocean County. re
When Mrs. Brouwer was taken ill
her husband employed two nurses, fei
both of whom appeared as witnesses of
against him in the trial. They left
the Brouwer house, as they declared,
because they became suspicious of
the treatment the patient was receiving
from her husband. Another Ef
aurse was engaged. After seven days
of illness Mrs. Brouwer died, and rumors
were started that there was
dumeiuiug Luyaitjnuu? iu uer usaiu. .
Trevonia Hyer, brother of the dead
woman, began an investigation, as an
did the Metropolitan Life Insurance yf.
Company, which had issued a $1000 a '
policy on her life. The body was ei- ?
humed and an autopsy was held. An
unwsighable quantity of arsenic was on
found in the organs of the body, and m:
a very small quantity of glass.
BOYS SAVE FAST TRAIN. "
Find Broken Rail and Flag Engineer
With a Necktie. st<
Franklin, Pa.?Edward Thompson ji1
and Clinton Coefield. two fourteenyear-old
boys, discovered a broken tri
vaV on the Frankliu branch of the
Erie road near here. As the passenger
train from Oil City, which connects
with the New York and Chicago 1
trains at Meadville, approached, ne
' Thompson threw off his red necktie
and waved it frantically. The engineer
saw the signal and stopped his sa
:rain. He said his train would doubt- a.r
less have been wrecked had it struck (c
the curve at full speed. "
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Religious Promoter Arrested.
Alleged victims of the Rev. A. M. ^
Kelley, promoter of the Beulah Religious
Land Settlement in Dickson
.. County, Tenn., have had him arrested
for illegal use of the mails.
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Secretary Taft Home. tl
Secretary Taft's party returned to J<
. Washington from Havana. 01
Railway Earnings Increase.
Railway earnings available for October
surpass similar figures for last pi
year. ei
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Robbed by Auto Gang. fc
Burcrlara. thousht to be the auto ej
gang, robbed J. E. Ward's bome at
Convent, N. J., of $5000 in jewels.
Killed Her Husband.
While her daughter watched, Mrs. . l
Sarah Alcopa killed her husband in cj
Chicago, to save her own life. b
Fish's Directors Elected.
Stuyvesant Fish succeeded in electing
his candidate for the board of dl- g
rectors of the Illinois Central after a u
bitter light with Harriman at Chicago.
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Japan Interferes in India.
Japan is encouraging the anti-Brit- c,
ish movement in India and raising v
the cry of "Asia for the Asiatics." n
A Sub-Treasury Deficit Discovered. ^
Deficit of ?61,500 was discovered j a
in the United States Sub-Treasury at j <
St. Louis. 11]
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Iff 3F Sii BESUjl
aw York Central 2nd ftiansgct y
May Be Fined S24Q.G0D.
ounsel For Defendants Asci'iDes
Verdict to Public Hostility
to Corporations.
New York City.?The New York
entral Railroad Company and its
meral traffic manager, Frederick L. p,
omeroy. were each found guilty on ^
x counts of giving unlawful rebates ur
i 1904 to the American Sugar Re- m
ling Company, by a jury in the pi]
nited States Circuit Court. Criminal
ranch. ,
The conviction makes each of the ra
jfendants liable to a fine of $20,000 fe
r each separate offense, or a fine of ot
120,000 for the railroad and the be
.mo amount for its employe, or a
tal of ?240,000. The indictment, W(
hile indicating that about 52G.C00 ^
as secured by the Sugar Trust in q]
llawful drawbacks on the trans.ic- c<
ans set up. specifically alleges the
ivment of not more than 510,000 aD
the ofTenses i'or which the fines can te
s imposed. to
Judge Hole did not fir: the penalty p,
once. Immediately after the jury ^
i ! * ifrt A npftn n TTnv ?-%
I'U^UL III 1 LZ> n.ur,i,iii V* . a w.v
i bebalf 01 the defendants asked the
>urt to fix a date on which he could jj
:ar argument on a motion for nrrsst ta
judgment. After it is disposed of
idge Holt will fix iho penalties, ,-n
lilch, it is expected by United States rj
istrlct Attorney Henry L. Stimson Wi
td his assistants, wil! be near the
aximum. Th?s? operate only as ^e'
yil judgments, and the defendants gl
they refuse to pay them cannot be
mrisoned for their action.
The conviction, which cams after a
ial lasting only three days, but two 0I
which were consumed in putting q(
e evidence before the jury, marks 0f
e successful completion of the first sj
osecution of either a corporation
an individual for infraction of the
kins lav; ever initiated in the Fed- j-j
al courts of this district. jj{
The indictments on which the rail- 0j
ad company and its servant were w
nvicted charged the giving of re- jn
,tes to the wholesale sugar jobbing t!
m of Edgar & Earle, of Detroit, on m
mand of the Sugar l'rust. The re- fr
,tes were five cents off the tarifi' n,
te of twenty-three cents a hundred b,
unds paid by the railroad company
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United States District Attorney '
imeon summed, up for the Governsnt.
No member of the jury could :
iJ to see, he said, that the system of
iring the rebates must have been G
io\vn to the president of the road,
d the Elkins law plainly made the
egal act of an agent of the corpora?n
the act of the corporation itself. IF
"It is no excuse at all for the rail- B
ad to say that it had to give secret vj
bates to the American Sugar Refing
Company, although not to Ar- .
ckie Bros., on the plea that other- 1D
se the freight would go by water,"
id Mr. Stimson. "The real reason 01
ly the railroad has not put in a de- m
Qse is that it has none. Its clerk
10 paid the rebates did not send K
em ir ihe form of checks, but y<
ugh( lifts. When the railroad's w
dit accounts were destroyed every a.
ree months no trace of the transac- 01
>ns was left. They forgot, however, ai
at we could subpoena the banks to
oduce the telltale drafts."
The jury was out about three-quar- :*
rs of an hour, coming back once for : a
pplementary instructions taken r
am a list handed up by Mr. Fox,
d a copy of the Elkins law. "
At the conclusion or the trial Ausa
G. Fox, who appeared on behalf w
the railroad, made the following w
mark:
"It is impossible to successfully de- ,
nd rebate cases in the present state r!
public opinion."
NO HOPE FOR THE LUTIN.
Torts to Rescue Men in Sunken $
Submarine Fruitless.
Biserta. Tunis.?The French subarine
Lutin still lie3 at the bottom q
the sea three miles from this port, a(
d the officers engaged in the sal- a]
ge work express the certainty that jc
I the fourteen members of the crew j!
,ve perished. Men on board the aJ
g Ishkul, which convoyed the Lutin fC
: her last voyage, say that the sub- _
arine plunged twice successfully, C(
id that after she had gone down for
e third time her bow showed twice $
iove the surface of the water before j;
e Anally disappeared. This leads g.
the belief that the catastrophe re- ^
lted from a sudden leak at the Q]
?rn. The water probably rushed 9
and overturned the accumulators, <r
lis would have caused deadly fumes w
Dm the acids. 5
Admiral Bellue is uncertain wheth- c,
the salvagers have really located n
e Lutin or not. Divershave reached 0
e bottom, but owing to the rough- C1
ids of the sea they were unable to
main below long enough to make a
orough investigation. Fourteen
.lvage vessels now form a cordon
ound the spot where the Lutin went s
>wn. The divers descend in relays, 1;
id are displaying untiring energy.
II their endeavors, however, to loite
the Lutin, so as to permit the Q
>e of the powerful lifting apparatus, tl
ive been in vain. * S
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Militia at Hanging. h
Governor Heyward, of South Caro- ci
na, sent militia to Conway to see c
iat the execution of Commander v
)hnson, a white man, proceeded a3 v
*dered. e
Annam's King Kills His Wife. 11
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King Than-Thai of Annara, who is n
onounced insane, not only put sev- t
al of his numerous wives to torture
id death, but had one cooked and
>rced his attendants to help him
it her. ^
Cleaner Money Advocated. f
Before the convention of the Aineran
Bankers' Association in St.
ouis Representative Fowler advoited
the issuance of cleaner money
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y tne uovernmenc.
Prominent People.
Sir William Henry Perkin was the j
uest of New York chemists at a diner.
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James J. Hill says there will be t
00,000,000 people in this country in
950. t
President Amador of Panama, ac- b
Dmpanied by his wife, will make a
isit to the United States next sum- *
;
Vice-President Fairbanks, speaklg
at tbe Pike centennial in Color- ^
do Springs, said that the legend, j
Pike's Peak or bust," was typical of j
ie American SDirit.
R5, JEFFERSONOAVIS DEflO
ved to Be Eighty, Surviving Her
Husband Seventeen Years
id Been Failing in Henltli For the
Last Three Years?She Was Varina
Howell, of Mississippi.
tfew York City.?Mrs. Jefferson
ivis. widow of the Confederate
esidert, died in her apartments at
e Hotel Majestic. She had been
iconscious for twenty-four hours,
rs. Davis caught a severe cold and
leumonia developed.
Her last hours of consciousness
3re spent in recalling old war time
miniscences. Her mind was perctly
clear and she recognized withit
difficulty all who approached her
dside.
With her at the time of her death
are her pastor, the Rev. Dr. Nathan
Seagle. of St. Stephen's Episcopal
lurch; Mrs. J. Addison Hayes, of
jlorado Springs, Mrs. Davis* only
ring daughter; Dr. Gerald D. Webb
id Mrs. Webb, wbo is a granddaugh
r; Jefferson Hayes-Davis, of Prlncen,
N. J., a grandson; Mrs. Joseph
ilitzer, who was Miss Kate Davis;
iss C. 33. Patson, a niece, and Dr.
Dbert H. Wylie.
Funeral services were held at the
otel Majestic and the body was
ken to Richmond. Va., for burial.
Mrs. Davis was born In Mississippi,
old Adams County, in 1826. Vana
Howell, as her maiden name
as, became the wife of Jefferson
ivis before 3he completed her eighenth
year. Her father was distinilshed
for service in New Orleans in
e War of 1812,and the Howell famf
was among the most prominent of
at section. She was Mr. Davis' secid
wife, his first wife, a daughter of
eneral Taylor, afterward President
! the United States, having died a
tort time after their marriage.
Mrs. Davis was known for her clear
idgment and she decided the first
me that she saw her future husind,
who was then thirty-six years
d, that he was the right man. She
as then seventeen years old and wa~
ivited at that time to come over to
lie Hurricane, the Davis place, to
eet Jefferson, who had been away
om home for a long time. She had
jver seen him before, but he had
? o-raaf ofinti for
*CU IXlCtZVIllft Cfc 51 A -w.
imself at that time and his fame
id spread throughout the State.
BERTHA KRUPP MARRIED.
old and Silver Gifts in Honor of
Heiress' Marriage.
Essen, Prussia. ? The civil cereony
of the marriage of Fraulein
ertha Krupp to Lieutenant Gustav
>n Bohlen und Halbach took place
: the registry office of the village of
redeney, near here. The proceedgs
were strictly formal.
The directorate of the Krupp works
1 the occasion of the religious cereony
next day presented to all of the j
nployes who have been in the 1
rupps' service for longer than five I
sars a $2.50 gold piece, and to those
ho have served less than five years
$1.25 silver piece, making a total
! about $150,000 to be distributed
nong the workmen.
In the presence of Emperor Willm
and 140 guests Fraulein Bertha j
rupp and Lieutenant Gustav von j
ohlen und Halbach were married '
iligiously in a little improvised cha}1
adjoining the brfde's birthplace,
ic Villa Huegel, by the pastor of
le neighboring village church,
here the Krupp family has long
orshiped.
Emperor "William sat with the famy
while the simple Lutheran marage
service was performed and then j
epped rorwara ana congrauuaieu i
te bride and bridegroom.
POSTAL DEFICIT LESS.
10,516,305 For 1000, Against $14,572,534
For the Previous Y^ar.
Washington, D. C. ? Postmastereneral
Cortelyou has given out an
ivance statement of the receipts
id expenditures of the Postal Serve
for the fiscal year ended June 30,
J 06. It shows a reduction of the
tinual deficit from $14,572,534.13
>r 1905 to $10,516,995.94 for 1906
-over $4,000,000?or 27.83 per
int.
The total receipts for 1906 were
167,932,762.95, an increase over
905 of $15,106,197.85, which is the
reatest increase for any year in the
Istory of the service. The per cent.
i increase in receipts ior i?uo is
,83, as compared with G.42 for 1905.
he total expenditures during 1906
ere $178,449,778.89, an increase of
11,050,609.66 over 1905. The per
jnt. of increase is less than for a
umber of years, and is smaller by
ne-third than the per cent, of inrease
during 1905.
BURTON MUST GO TO JAIL.
upreme Court Refuses a Rehearing
to the ex-Senator.
Washington, D. C. ? In conseuence
of a 'decision handed down in
ae United States Supreme Court exenator
Joseph R. Burton, of Kanas.
must go to jail to serve a six
lonths' sentence. The court denied
is petition ior a renearing in me
ase in which he was convicted of acepting
an attorney's fee while he
ras serving as a Senator in a case in
rhio.h the Government was intersted.
There was no formal announcelent
of the action in the Burton
ase in open court, the Chief Justice
lerely handing a brief memorandum
o the clerk just before convening.
Vice-President's Son Elopes.
F. C. Fairbanks, son of the Vice'resident,
and Miss Nellie Scott, of
'ittsburg, eloped and were married
a Steubenville, Ohio.
Toy Exposition in Paris.
Paris is enjoying its sixth annual
xhibition of toys.
Sporting Brevities.
"Unusual activity marks the bowing
season.
Siliko won the $14,000 Trotting
futurity at the Lexington (Ky.)
rack.
Athletes from the battleship Kenucky
won the games held by the
quadron at Bar Harbor, Me.
Robert LcRoy, of Columbia, won
he intercollegiate lawn tennis chamjiouship
for the second time.
Clarence H. Mackay's four-in-hand
andem teams were winners at the
?iping Rock Horse Show, Locust Valey.
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SIOPS FIGHTJi NUJOB
Mrs. Wister Quails Before Bit of
Paper weigntman lbtl
Klieet, on Which Wealthy Chemist
Wrote Opinion of Daughter-in<
Law, Brought From Hiding.
Philadelphia.?Confronted with a
scrap of yellow paper, upon which
her father-in-law, the late William
Weightman. had written his last
wishes and thoughts concerning her,
Mrs. Jones Wisler abandoned her
suit again3t Mrs. Anne M. Weight
man Walker, her sister-in-law. to
whom Weightman left all of his $50,000.000.
Rather than have the contents of '
the memoradum read in court M*-s.
Wister acknowledged defeat and
gave up her fight, permitting her attorneys
to be? Mrs. Walker to make
' ro opposition to an indefinite cona
j ? c ~ ha +V10+ fho h/acf
uuiiiiiiue til u:tj cttot:, au iiiui. vnv.
possible face would be put upon Mrs.
Wister's backdown.
The admission of defeat came at a
moment when interest in the testimony
was at its height, and when it
seemed that Mrs. Wister's remarkable
charges about the conduct and
intellectual capacity of the aged
chemist were about to be substantiated.
Tn holding back until tho very last
moment the weapon in her possession.
and choosing the mo3t potent
time and place, Mrs.- Walker takes
full revenue for the social slights put
( upon her by Mrs. Wister when thn
1 richest woman in America was trying
lo enter the exclusive circle of Philadelphia
society, in which Mrs. Wister
has been a power.
J Upon the paper there appeared, ac!
cording to the belief of Mrs. Wister's
attorneys, the codicil in which
Weightman might have made provision
for his granddaughters (Mrs. :
i Wister's children), on behalf of
whom Mrs. Wister contested the will.
Neither codicil nor will did the
paper prove to be. With the keenness
of a man who has made his $50,000.000
and is determined to protect
wiiat ne naa garnereu ana aevise n .
, as he saw fit, Weightraan had care[
fully transcribed upon this bit of
paper what purported to be his prei
else relations with Mrs. Wister, with
I whom he is said to have been in love.
Moreover, he had declared coriclu|
sively in that document that he had
. no intention of having Mrs. Wister
! or his grandchildren share his
j wealth. He completely washed his
hands of the Jones Wisters and
jotted down some statement concern;
ing which Richard Wain Meir3, a sonj
in-law of Mrs. Wister and nephew of
Mrs. Walker, made this statement:
"For the sake of Mrs. Wister, T
I would rather cut out my tongue than j
| divulge the contents 6f it. Until the j
I paper was produced at to-day's hear- j
ing only four persons in the world
| had seen it. I hope with all the ear- '
1 nestness of which I am capable that \
110 one else will ever see it.
"Unless the other side should perI
mit it to escape them, I feel sure that tj
the scrap of paper which turned the .j
I current of to-day's events will never *
be made public. It is buried deeper
than the foundations of my office
building. It is neither a will nor a
| codicil, but what it contains caused
I the abrupt ending of the case." ,
1 Mrs. Wister said her father-in-law
i wished her so well that when her first
1 husband, his son, died he was eager
to marry her. Weightman's mental
I state was questioned by medical men
who were friends of the contestant.
Among the peculiarities for which he
| was known were refusals ever to
! give a cent in charity and hatred of
i music and children.
! MANY KILLED IN MINE.
I Terrible Result of Firedamp E.vplo- <
sion in English Colliery.
Durham, England.?As a result of
.in explosion in the Wlngate colliery,
near here, thirty-five miners have
been killed and 200 were temporarily
entombed. It was fortunate that few
of the 1000 men employed were in
n.- ?' - - -.1 -n. - tnnV
t le lllllie WUCU I.IIC CA1IIW1UU
place. The cause is supposed to have j
been firedamp. The explosion was
'heavy, and in Wingate town many
windows were broken.
Soon after the news of the accident
became known crowds of half clad
people were rushing toward the mine,
and there were heartrending scenes
at the mouth of the pit.
Family Ate Toadstools; Three Dead.
At Anderson, Ind., Mrs. Robert
Arrol is dead, making the third death
in one family from eating toadstools
by mistake for mushrooms.
SAM JONES, REVIVALIST, DEAD. ]
Famous Fighting Preachcr Who Was J
? Feared by Liquor Rings.
Little Rock, Ark.?When a porter
went to a berth occupied by the Rev. J
Sam Jones, the revivalist, in the
sleeper of a train running to Memphis i
on the Oklahoma, Choctaw and Gulf
Line, to awaken him. he found the
famous preacher dead. A physician
said the revivalist probably died
about 4 o'clock in the morning. If
so. the first day of Jones' sixtieth
year was his last. He was fifty-nine
years old. The evangelist's health
long had been so poor that almost
any severe attack of heart or stomach
trouble would be likely to carry him
off suddenly. Friends in this city
took charge of the body temporarily,
pending instructions from the preacher's
home In Cartersville, Ga.
New Equestrian Statue in St. Louis.
As a part of the general holiday
in St. Louis, an equestrian statue inbronze
of St. Louis was unveiled in'
Forest Park, St. Louis.
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yuccii u viaviv uiiuL.
The Queen of Italy is a dead shot
and practices with both gun and revolver
on tt\,e Island of Monte Cristo.
Cuba Must Pay Costs.
Cuba will have to pay the United
States at least a million dollars, it is
estimated, for pacification.
The National Game.
Chicago has now won seven National
League pennants to Boston's
eight.
Cincinnati will probably sign Unglaub
to play first base next year.
ueat won't cio.
Speaking about great left-handed
pitchers, don't forget "Doc" White,
of the White Sox.
The Pittsburg Olub has secured
catcher Hughes, late of the Waterbury
(Conn.) Club.
Cincinnati's new pitcher, Del Mason,
ia built on the Vic Willis order
an$.lo$ks like a good oue.
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COLOSSAL _IMI STEALS"
Government Defrauded Out oi
I!II!amii r\( A ?mo hii D^ilrn^Wc
lYIIIilUlld U I HOI Cd UJ IVQIII UUUJ.
liig Sensation Promised in Commissioner
Prouty's Report on
Union Pacific Deals.
[ Washington, D. C.?Something distinctly
out of the ordinary is expected
when Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Prouty produces his report
! on the great land frauds along the
1 Union Pacific road, which he has recently
investigated. It is strongly
nntimated that he will prepare a re-':
;',port which will have to be written on:
asbestos, and that he will give a.complete
outline of the whole scheme of
.land frauds that has been for many
years Inextricably tangled with the
processes of mining and transporting
coal in Wyoming, Colorado and Utah.
Sensational as they have been, the
revelations about affairs in Union Paciflc
territory are said to have only
scratched the surface. Other big
railroad and Industrial companies are
said to present opportunities for just
as remarkable developments, involving
the looting of the most valuable
parts of the public domain. The
Denver arfd Rio Grande in particular,
noonrriinsr to renort. is likely to come
in for some searching inquiry t.hat
will prove disappointing if it fails to
uncover a situation as bad, or worse,
than that in the Union Pacific's
sphere of influence. The Santa Fe
and the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
are also named as concerns
whose relations to Uncle Sam's lands
will-'not bear thorough investigation.
All these, it is said, are about as
deep in the muck as Union Pacific is
i in the mire.
| These phases of the situation are
understood to be slated for attention
later in connection with the Interstate
Commerce Commission's series
J of investigations under the Tillman- ,
1 Gillespie resolution. Largely as a
! result of these revelations the Presii
dent has issued an order withdrawi
ing coal lands of the public domain
[ from entry. But it is pointed out
, that much more drastic measures
than this are necessary. To set aside
I the patents, fraudulently obtained,
I for millions of acres of mineral tim(
ber lands is one of the duties requirj
ing attention.
f -Every alternate section for twenty
[ miles on either side of the Union Pal
ciflc belongs to that system's land
grant. This is as if the black square
on a checkerboard belonged to the. ,
road and the red to the Government,
subject to entry. There are almost
no country roads through this region,
and the railroad company, being extremely
unfriendly to private development
of mineral resources, easily
finds ways to prevent anybody else
getting access to the lands it does not
own. To get to them it is necessary
to trespass on the railroad lands, and
that sort of thing is promptly visited
with the heavy displeasure of the corporation.
A deal of criticism has been aimed
in this connection against the Department
of the Interior for its failure
to protect the public domain.
The department has various agents
through the public land country, but
they accomplish little, and the success
of Commissioner Prouty on his
recent investigation was a revelation
to some of them. They are largely
amenable to local political influences
for their appointment, and these political
influences are declared to trace
fairly up to the management of the
railroad. D. 0. Clark, president of
the Union Pacifirf Coal Company, is a
brother of Senator C. D. Clark, Senator
from Wyoming sinfe 1895, and
elected to serve until 1911. Commissioner
Richards, of the General Land
Office, Is a former Governor of Wyoming.
Cyrus Beard, a Judge of the Supreme
Court of Wyoming, on the
stand testified to using $3000 of
money provided for him by the rail,
road company in entering lands
' which he afterward relinquished to
the railroad interests, getting $200
for his trouble. Others didn't get so
much; bartenders and gamblers got
as low as $3 and $5 for the use of
their names in entering property
which they afterward turned over to
.these coal companies. By these
methods the law's provision that a
company or association may not secure
more than four quarter-sections
has been nullified.
ORPHANS STARVED TO DEATH.
Accusations Brought Against Colorado's
"Brotherhood of Light."
Denver, Col.?That a dozen children
entrusted to the "Brotherhood
of Light" by the Denver authorities
have starved to death is the direct
charge of the State Humane Society.
} The Brotherhood of Light colony
i3 located on a ranch 400 miles
I southwest of Denver, and is in charge
of C. C, Rose and others, who send
solicitors over the State to gather
funds to support the orphans, which
it makes a specialty of boarding. Of
I twenty children in the custody of the
brotherhood only seven are alive.
The older of the survivors are in the
fields with the adults.
It is charged by Secretary E. K.
Whitehead, of the State Bureau of
Child and Animal Protection; H. B.
Kerr, agent of the bureau, and Dr.
M. H. Sears, of the State Bureau of
Health, that all the children who
have died at the colony have starved
to death as a result of the peculiar
diet, on the vegetarian order, that
the religion of the brotherhood prescribes
for all who would be "holy."
Hanged For Double Murder.
Daniel Francis, a negro, was
hanged in the jail at Chicago for the
mnrrter nf his wife and Mrs. Mary
Scroggs in a curtain cleaning shop
conducted by two women. Francis 1
accused Mrs. Scroggs of causing
trouble between himself and wife.
Crime Rampant in San Francisco.
The reign of petty crime in San
Francisco caused the summoning of
a mass meeting to organize a comI
raittee of safety.
Newsy Gleanings.
The Treasury Department is buying
silver.
On the monument to Victor Emmanuel
IL in Rome ?4,000,000 has
already been spent and $1,000,000
more will be required.
T tTJ i. t, ? ft A Of! A rnomhoi*c!
Willi UVCI uiwtuu&tu,
Baptists of the new State of Oklahoma
are in the lead.
The next world's Y M. C. A. conference
will be held at Barmen-EIbcrfield,
Germany, in 1909.
A London paper printed a rumor
of a plot to blow up Lord Rothschild
and other prominent Jews.
e
Immigration Authorities Studying
the System.
Newfoundland and Canada (hp Y)ares
From Which Chinamen Ave Sent
Across the Border?Big Traffic.
Washington, D. 0.?Newfoundland
as a base of operations Tor smug-.
gling Chinese into the United State?,.
in violation of the immigration hws,
is to have the special attention of th^
immigration authorities, in view of
the capture of the Chinamen brought
into Providenco on the sehooner
Frolic the'other day.
For several months past the immi-'
gration officials have h&d reason to
believe that smugglers of Otfinese
were unusually busy at that point,
and that the Asiatics were being
brought there on the theory that
thev could thus be sneaked into the
United States with greater ease than
elsewhere, since the American officials
along the Canadian land border
have proved themselves so vigilant
and sines Canada has made the head
tax or. every Chinaman brought into
that country $500.
Commissioner-General Sargent regards
the capture of the Chinamen
as an important piece of work, and
is prepared to direct a mo3t rigid investigation
of the circumstances in
connection with their smuggling in.
Thpugh the bureau has had long exnpripnrR
with the "wavs that are
dark" of the Chinese in their attempts
to get into the United States
without proper 'authorization, and
has intercepted many of them both
on the Northern and Southern borders
in all sorts of disguises, the recent
attempt of bringing them iu on
a yacht to New England ports is regarded
as one of the most daring efforts
to circumvent the law ever
made.
The department is anxious to determine
whether the expedition of the
Frolic is part of a well organized "system
by which Newfoundland is used
as a centre of activities for shipping
Chinamen into the United States in
large numbers, and if so to prevent
any future efforts of the kind. Most
of the attempts to smuggle in Chinese
have been made on tl'S Pacific
coast of Canada, where the officials
had grpat trouble in breaking up the
trade, but succeeded in doing so by
alertness .on the part of the agents
and an arrangement with the
steamship companies which requires
that Chinese brought to Vancouver
destined for the United States must
be brought under bond and delivered
to immigration officers at the
ports of entry. There is reason to
believe that the Chinamen on the
Frolic were brought from Liverpool
across the Atlantic instead of by the
Pacific route, and in this case it is
believed an arrangement may be disclosed
whereby regular shipments
are being made to Newfoundlnnd
with smugglers operating.from that
point as a source of supply.
CHIDE CHIEF IN A TRAGEDY.
Shoots Dying Husband and Kills Herself
"to End It All."
Liberty, Mo. ? Wedded only five
days, Jesse Webb, son of a wealthy
farmer near here, lies dying with a
bullet wound through his breast, and
his bride is dead with a shot through
her heart. The tragedy was wi'f'ighi
by a. pistol in the hands of the young
woman herself.
The couple resolved to die together
after a physician told Webb he was
hopelessly stricken with tuberculosis.
In an ante-mortem statement the
young man said: "Nellie cried and
told me she could not live without
me, and I told her I thought it
would be better to end it all." For
a minute the bride seemed dazed by
.? L 9 J ,1 ~ ? 1 ? U .NM
tne suggestion. dui buuucuijf iin
face cleared," ran the bridegroom's
statement, "and she said, 'It is the
better way, Jesse. I cannot bear to
see you die slowly, and we'll both
die together.' "
Webb wanted to talis the pistol. (
but his wife insisted 011 firing the*
shots. They were together in the
parlor of the new farmstead which
was a wedding present from the
young man's father. Mrs. Webb held
the revolver clo3e to her husband's
left breast, but the bullet was deflected
by a bone from the heart.
The moment the man struck the
floor Mrs. Webb killed herself. In
falling her body upset a table, which
was spread with wedding gifts of silver
and cut glass. The shot3 were
heard by men passing the house in a
buggy, and rushing in they found
the bride dead and the bridegroom j
dying.. The doctors say Webb cannot
recover.
FIGHT ENDS IN DEATH PLUNGE.
Quarreling Youths Fall Four Stories
From Open Window.
Cleveland, Ohio.?While engaged
in a scuffle two young men fell irom
the fourth story of the Lake Shore
Railroad office building, and, clutched
in each other's arms, were hurled to
their death on the pavement.
The dead men were J. V. Eunts,
aged thirty, and I-Iarry Wilfred, aged
seventeen years. Eoth were clerks
in the employ of the Lake Shore Railroad.
They renewed an old quarrel
over a girl and while fighting tumbled
through the open window. During
their fall, in which their bodies ere
hurled over and over again, neiiher
of the men relaxed the death-like
grasp he had maintained from the
beginning of the scuffle.
1 ?
OClitfl'UI silliiivaij m vuu*?*
Charles E. Magoon, late Governor
of the Panama canal zone, who will
succeed Mr. Taft an Provisional Governor
of Cuba, Mrs. Taft and Mrs.
Bacon have arrived at Havana. Governor
Taft made public a proclamation
of amnesty to all Cuban rebels
and those eonuected with the movement
against the Government. Marines
have been withdrawn from
Cienfuegos owing to the appearance
Df yellow fever there.
Five Thousand Autos Coming Home.
It is estimated that 5000 American
owned motor cars are crowding the
garages of London preparatory to
shipment across me mianm- nuum
the next few weeks.
Salvation Army in the .South.
The cornerstone o? the first J;Ivation
Army citadcl in '.he South was
'aid -tf Greenville, S. C.
Witte Pessimistic About Russia.
Count Witte, in an interview in
Paris, said he was pessimistic at present
oa t-Ke outlook in Russia.
The
Field,
to n
New restaur^^NHB^^^^^^B^H
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came to
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mutton-chop-fi3h-^^9^H^HH^^^^H9
more
Field looked
emnly, and at last replied:
"Oh, friend, I want none of ther a
things. All I want is an orange and
a few kind words."?Ladies' Home
Journal.
A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
How a Veteran Was Saved the Amputation
of a Limb,
B. Frank Doremus, veteran, of , '
Roosevelt Ave., Indi^rjfcpoliB, Ind.,
says: "I had been 'shoeing symp
m toms of kidney trouble
from the time I
JpfffiV - A was mustered out of
the army, but In all
SjbibLj|b> my life I never suffnred
as in 1897.
Headaches, dizzinesa
and sleeplessness
first, and then dropsy.
fSBBL bH I was weak and helpgjgragN^BH
less, having run down
from 180 to 125
pounds. I was having terrible pain
in ine Kianey3 ana me aecretiuna
passed almost involuntarily. My left
leg swelled until it was thirty-four
inches around, and the doctor tapped
it night and morning until I could no
longer stand it, and then he advised
amputation. I refused, and began
using Doan's Kidney Pills. The swelling
subsided gradually, the urine became
natural and all my paln^ and
aches disappeared. I have been well
now for nine years 3lnce using Doan's
Kidney Pills."
For sale by all dealers. 50 ceats
a box. Foster-Mil burn Co., Buffalo,
N. Y.
Asia bought $105,000,000 worth of
American goods in the last fiscal year,
a decrease of $23,000,000 from 1905,
but an increase of $36,500i000 over
1904. ^
FOUR YEARS OF A(JONY.
Whole Foot Nothing Bat Proad FleshHad
to U?e Crutches ? "Cntlcrra
xvemeuies botvu owmii
"In the year 189& ihe side of my right
foot wad cut off from tbe little toe down
to the heel, and the physician who bad
charge of me was trying to sew up the *
side of my foot, but with no succes*. At
last my whole foot and way up above my
calf was nothing but proud tiesh. 1 suffered
untqJd agonies for four years, and
tried different physicians and all kinds of
ointments. 1 could walk only with
crutches. In two weeks afterwards 1 saw
a change in my limb. Then 1 began using ,
Outicura Soap and Ointment often during
the day, and kept it up for seven months,
when my limb was healed up just the
same as if i never bad trouble. Jt is
eight months now since 1. stopped using
Cuticura Remedies, the best on God's
earth. 1 ana working at the present day,
after five years of suffering. The cost of
Caticura Ointment and Soap was only $6,
but the doctors' bills were more like $800.
John M. Lloyd, 718 S. Arch Ave., Alliance,
Ohio, June 27, 1905.''
The Cement Age.
A man has invented a cement shingle.
It is a metal shingle covered
with cement, and is really a tile as
lasting as stone. As cement becomes
more known, and it is learned that
every man can make his own cement,
there will be a boom in cement build
ing. The great cost of building haa
been the increased coat for materiail
and the high price of skilled labor.
With cement there need be only one
skilled man and plenty of common
labor, even In building houses.
The price of cement is quite high
now, but there are vast supplies and
no possible monopoly* Cheap machines
for making the blocks and
plenty of sand and a little knowledge
is the foundation, and the price outside
the cities will be cheaper. We
are beginning the cement age, and
concrete houses will be the houses
of the future. Building lumber of
good quality is almost Impossible and
brick and stone are out of refeuch, so t
cement is the reliance.?Birmingham
Ledger.
Worse.
"Whew! it's getting late, boys,"
said Peckham, at the club, "I'll have
to be going. My wife expects me
home before midnight"
"0! she's a fighter, eh?" sneered
Lushman; "afraid she'd go for you
if you stayed too late?"
"No: I'm afraid s^e'd come for . /
me."?Philadelphia Press. 1
NO DAWDLING^
A Man of 70 After Finding Coffee
Hurt Him, Stopped Short.
When a man has lived to be 70,
years old with a 40-year-old habit
grown to him like a knot on a tree,
1 chances are he'll stick to the habit
j till he dies.
But occasionally the spirit of youthi
and determination remains in some;
men to the last day of their lives.;
When such men do find any habit of,
life has been doing them harm, they!
surprise the Oslerites by a degree of
will.power that is supposed to belong
to men under 40, only.
"I had been a user of coffee until.
I three years ago?a period of 40 years;
?and am now 70," writes a N. Dak.'
man. "I was extremely nervous and-:
debilitated, and saw plainly that I'
must make a change.
"I am thankful to say I had the
' nerve to quit coffee at once and take
oil Postum without any aawanng,
and experienced no ill effects. On the'
contrary, I commenced to gain, losing
my nervousness within two months,
also gaining strength and health'
otherwise. [
"For a man o? my age. I am verywell
and hearty. I sometimes meet:
persona who have not made their
Postum right and don't like it. But
I tell them to boil it long enough,
and call their attention to my looks
now, and before I used it, that seems
LUUV 1 LL\j I li
( "Now, when I have writing to do,
I or long columns of figures to cast up,.
I feel equal to it and can get through
I my work without the fagged out feel-'
I ing of old." Name given by the Pos
turn Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read
the book, "The Road to WellviHe,"
ia pkga. "There's a reason."
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