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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1889-11-30

connection with the terrible gambling
curse now running Chicago is the fact
that certain men are earning money as
vice manufacturers.
Haukins has adopted a system of
drumming up recruits that for down
right deviltry out-deyils anything here
tofore heard of.
He has one or two men employed in
every factory in the city to distribute
his cards and drum up trade for him.
In the downtown oyster houses some
of the walters are thus employed.
1t is in this nefarious manner that
the crowd of poor boys and working
men who crowd the Trusts greatest
den every night are brought in to the
slaughter.
-Four hundred and fifty workingmen
lose weeks wages and more every
night in Hankins' den.
The arch-demon who owns the place,
uses part of his bad earnings to keep
his ball a-roIHng and in working up
trade.
Just think of this, fellow citizens!
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1889-11-30
WILL BE KNOWN.
The List of All the Players Visiting Trust
Houses to BE Made Public.

The List of All the Players Visiting Trust
Houses to BE Made Public.
In the interest of good government
and for the protection Of society, the
names of the habitues of the Chicago
trust gambling houses are to be pub
lished
Every clerk, book keeper, cashier,
credit manager, side-partner, special
partner, full partner or business man
who visits a gambling house commits a
crime
These criminals should be known.
THE EAGLE will make them known,
and has engaged corps of skilled de-
tectives to get the names
Some instantaneous photographs
have already been taken and are in the
engrayers' hands.
AS the fight for reform progresses
they will be published,
So will the names.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1889-11-30
WILL HE BE CHIEF?

Having Met the Administration "Meteor
Henry Hamilton Is Getting Famous.
From the fact that George Gilman
frequently meets Henry z. Hamilton,
it is supposed that Mr. Hamilton is
is going to be Chief of Police?
Supposed" because the fact OF
meeting" Mr.. George Gilman is very
significant nowadays.
Does Mr.. G. "Vice" Hankins ever
meet Mr.. Gilman?
If he does, next thing we know the
"coppers" will be taking off their hats
to him.
Perhaps Mr. Gilman's influence is
overrated.
One thing is certain, however, and
that is that since Mr.. Gilmans famous
trip to Europe, he has been recognized
as an important factor at the City
Hall.
The interest taken by certain city
officials in the price Of cut-rate tickets
is also attracting some attention lately.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1889-11-30

Large rs this sum is it is but part of
the expense which HauIins willingly
stands for the privilege of running,
Large sums are daily given back to his
distressed yictims-not through SYM
pathy, but to step proceedings in po-
hce courts. His police court spies are
engaged to FIX" the wives or relatives
of some victimized players who seek
the aid of the law to have their money
returned. \ man who, under Harrison $
administration, was close to Hankins,
estimates that the expenses of the es-
tabhshment are not less than 81, cooper
week, or $500, 600 per year The gross
earnings of the house are estimated Mt
s650,000 per year, leaving net profit
of $780, 600 per year. This enormous
sum comes from the pockets of the poor
clerks and poorer lahorers. BOYS are
admitted to the house without question,
and their me0ger salaries 0and doubt
less some of their employers money!
fall into the already well-hlIed Golfers
.cf Hankins and his partners. The
"suckers" are betting against a game
That enriehes the proprietors at the
rate Of over $1,000 per day.
The EAGLE has publisbed the fiouras
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1889-11-30
SAD SIGHTS.

Women with Babies ia Their Arms Call
ing ior Their Husbands Lost Earnings
at IIanlins' Den.
One Of the saddest sights to be seen
in Chicago is to be witnessed daily at
1884 Clark street.
Every hour Of the day poor women.
with one child at the breast and other
children following them, call at Han
kins place, and piteously beg for the
wages of poor husbands and fathers,
stolen outright from them the might
before
They are mgi ~ the mobat prllkIf
greasy detectives and ,asrant- vhu
intestine place tad are mn oH tawH.
FsuIeht riRess ahua is hfIla "bHsb
Haa WJ srm Ie. t ta.nuf
Haak
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1889-11-30
THE SEPTEMBER GRAND JURY.


4 List of the Men who Ignored the In
>tructions of Judge Horton.
To crafty general desire of the
public, the following list Of the Sep.
tember grand jury is published
The jury was composed of e&-City
Clerk u. W. Nickerson, foreman
Dennis Considme, !. w. Kimball.
Daniel A. Arnold, William Lauglotz.
John krasa, James Southwell, William
Schultz, G, T. Kenyon, John Costello.
David Wood, J. G. Bodenschatz. Al.
mond Houston John j. Brady, viii
lam B. Burke, j. W Mccarthy, John
Opay. III. McDoud, Thomas VIII
Jams y. Alphcrs, T. W. Eldadge.
George l.. McGraw. Henry Yauderrol
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1889-11-30
Lists of Players to Be Made
and Published for the Pro-
lection of Society.
The Earnings of the Trust and the Bx-
penses of Hankins- General Notes
of Ohicago's Growing
Trouble

The Gamblers Trust has been making
its boasts that it owns tle Judges, the
police, the grand junes and the city
authorities
The trust does not own Judge Hor-
ton because he asked a Grand Jury to
indict the gamblers
But that Grand Jury disobeyed him.
The Trust does not own Judge An
thony. now ON the bench of the Crimi-
nal Court.
There are many other Judges whom
the Trust cannot approach.
The EAGLE is glad that Judge An
thouy is back from Europe
ltwas little inpatient while he
was away because he is the kind Of
man tbat Is needed at homo.
Judge Anthony is learles-ly honest
He Is aggressive
upright
NJ Gamblers Trust cam guygut him
from doing bls duty and citizens arv
booking rs Judge Anthony b uke tba
mitg lts bma aaJ Stop lhu 5,almt
w#e.
ttHit h 3 Huaf ht mt Cl8ss
uaW lHl NHIam Hh aH. ta.
aWH.H
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1889-11-30

There are a number of men in the
community who can give it points.
For instance, John NJ Bowling. now
retired from the gambling business,
and as upright a man as ever stood on
the turf, can furnish some facts.
He was the John Morrissey of the
West, and never turned a crooked card
in his life.
He knows some things about the
Trust
Then George Gilman might make a
good witness, if reports are true
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1889-11-30
ECHOES OF THE PAST.
From "Sister Harry" Romaync 10 Dinner
Pail George, They Have All Been in
Trouhla

In times gone by there was an honest
administration of justice, and the men
who are now milking Chicago dry were
not allowed to trap the unwory
Some of the men who are now run
ming skin gambling games tried it, and
they We're punished for their pains.
The best proof of this is the following
from the records of the Criminal Court
of this county:
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1889-11-30
The Trust Claims to Own
Judges, Police and City
Authorities.
Having Met Mr.. Gilman, Mr.. Hamilton
Is Thought to Be in Training
for Chief of Police.
Women with Babes in Their Arms
Besieging Hankins to Give Up
His 1l-gotten Gains,

But That Gentleman Is Too Busy MAN.
ufacturing Vice to Bother His
Head with Them.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-01-16
Japan's Crown Prince.

The heir to The throne of japan Is
Prince Haru, boy of 9years, says a
San Francisco Chronicle correspondent.
The next heir is Prince Aki, half-bro-
Their of Prince Harm, and now little
over year old. In the education OF
Haru oil the traditions concerning
Japanese. imperial princes are ignored.
He has his foreign tutors and pursues his
studies in English, and is bright and
ambitious boy.
The princeling is not kept in any
seclnsion, and goes everywhere with his
suite of mobiles. He wears a military uni
form, with miniature cap and sword, is
a bright black-eyed little fellow, with
the fine, yellow, exquisitely smooth skin
of Japanese childhood. He is already
hardened wording, and fast reaching
the blase stage, and as critical judge
of horse racing fencing, wrestling and
sports as ever sat the supreme and cent
raj figure in the imperial box of grand
stand. Later it is intended to send
Prince Haru around the world and let
him see all the countries aud courts,
and il is prophesied that when this en-
ergetic, emancipated aud untrammeled
young tutl CDtueS W lHt tuiOuC tuSiC
will be great change in the already
changed order Of things. The old con-
servative mobiles shake their heads and
even wiring their hands Mt the way in
which the future emperor is kept in
public and initiated into all the adj
vanced and foreign ideas of the day, but
the young prince already exercises
authority aud has much OF his own way,
aud gives the full-grown and middle
aged mobiles of his suite plenty of
movement and variety.
Prince Haru seems TO have nothing
OF the old idea OF the sacredness of the
person, and plays and wrestles
with plehian boys, and gets handled by
them in return,
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-01-16
Wealth Of Presidents.

Washington married rich widow and
left an estate worth $500, 900, but John
Adams was not worth onesixth of that
sum. Jefferson died so poor that il
Congress had not given him S25, 900
for his library he would have been
bankrupt. Madison was economical,
and yet left but small estate. Mon
roe died poor. John Quincy Adams
left $50, 900, the result Of prudence.
jackson left large landed estate. Van
Buren, died worth 100000. 1t is said
that during his entire administration he
never drew any portion Of his salary,
but on leaving took the whole 100000
in lump Polk left Sl50,000. Fill
more was always an economical man,
and added to his wealth by his last m "
riage. Pierce saved $4,000. Buchan-
an left 5000, 900, Lincoln $4,000, and
johnson $4,000 Grant. notwithstand-
ing the losses to which he was subjected,
had handsome support in the fund
provided for him by his friends, and the
sales OF his book enrich the family.
Hayes is said to be in handsome
financial condition, and the Garfields
enjoy liberal pension and income from
q large fund contributed by the public.
Cleveland, will, no doubt. save SO, 200
from his presidential salary.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-01-16
The Forests of Alaska.

The prevailing forest tree Of Als.L.
says Mr.. George Davidson, of the CO.
Survey, is the Sitka spruce, growinO 01 >
great size, covering every part N ~ y
ground, and climbing the steepest rnoa ~
tain sides to the height OF 1000 or so0
feet above the sea. '''V
This tree resembles in form and "a,
age the silver frs of California In II.
Archipelago Alexander, with short l ;us
of more than $500 statute miles H.
land is densely wooded from the vat ~
edge. 1t can never be devastated by r.,
est fires, because the carpet of wet snbsa
mum over the surface Of the conpts.
effectualiy prevents fires from spreading
We measured felled spruce trees tbs,
were $50 feet long and feet thick Al M
butt; while adjacent standing trees mess
ured over 6 feet in diameter. Wa,s
branchless for over so feet, and estims
ted to be $50 feet high.
Hemlock, alders, and willows ara
found; but the most remarkable wood
of the country is the yellow cedar vi.b
fine, even texture, fragrant smell cool
size, and greater strength than In
spruce. 1t is readily worked, takes 4
smooth surface, and is remarkably DIM.
able. 1t is a valuable addition to INA
cabinet woods, and is superior as shiD
timber to any on the coast. 1t can b
obtained of ample size for francs and
knees of ordinary sized vessels. We
measured one Is feet in circumfereucp
and estimated it to be over l25 feet b
height. We collected part Of the keel.
son and frame of Russian vessel built
OF this wood thirty-two years before, and
which had been lying wreck on the
beach for several years. 1t exhibited no
signs of decay nor Of teredo attacks, and
the wood around the copper and irol
bolts is nearly as we'll preserved as On
the day they were driven.
Hemlock is found in abundance, and
has its value for tanning purposes.
When the forests OF Washington Ter.
ritory and Oregon are exhausted, ALASKA
will be the great and our almost mel.
haustible resource in the future.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-01-16
A Narrow Street in Chinese City.

The streets in Chinese cities are from
six to twelve feet wide, and are filed
lromm orning to night with ceaseez
throng. Every man is black haired, the
fore part of his head is shaver, whilsbe.
hind him hangs the long cue imposed
by the Mancnu conquerors. Hereeons
the coolies, in blue jackets and blue
knickerbockers, barefooted, or straw.
sandaled, with a bamboo across the
shoulders, carrying heavy weights and
singing, " Eth no, all no, ay no Ii r like
all the brethren of their craft east Of the
Mediterranean. This man with long
flowing robe, wide sleeves, huge horn.
trimmed spectacles, slow, staggering
gait, languid fiuttering fan, eyldentya
very important person indeed, is, intact
a Confucianist scholar Here totten
along woman on her tiny three-incl
feet, clad in gay embroidered jacket and
delicate silk skirt, perhaps a small ST.
yer mounted tobacco pipe in her hand
her head adorned with strange hirsute
structures like a carving knife,
trencher, flying swallow, or what not
a touch of rouge TO cheeks and lips
while white powder gives mistiness to
ull-feshed facial charms.
Here a small boy, if it be winter, gay.
ly dressed in brilliant colors, a perfect
ball of many wrappings. For vehics
look at yon sedan chair, borne by tvoa
three men. In it sits gentleman, e.
gantly clad in white or lowered alka
in costly furs, according to the seasA
II there be four, or even eight beaFsA
you will have timely warning, for thsh
a mandarin before him runs a note!
crowd of retaincrs, beating gongs, carr!
ing tablets inscribed "Be silent, MAKE
way" Villainous looking fellows WIN
steeple-crowned Guy Fawkes hats
armed with whips, mouthing out IN.
couth cries, are the lictors Of the g'eai
man. Others carry the great sllk UNI
brella, the badge of Office, meant ioF ~
official, should he ever wish to move as
heavy, well-fed body, with its impaSsiH
self-content, from his chair.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-01-16

particle of strength, and only after sew
eral attempts did manage to reach my
feet. Then leaning on my gun for sup
port. for was still very weak, walked
unsteadily to my faithful little pony.
whose whinny of welcome as he saw me
was sweet music to my ears.
Painfully mounting l threw the rem
across his neck. He seemed almost to
understand my condition, for he picked
his'way very carefully, but notwthstand-
ing his caution the exertion proved too
much for me, and when, after what
seemed an endless ride, We reached
home, only his low neigh of hunger
brought assistance to the door, for L was
too weak to call or even think OF at
tempting to enter the house unaided.
Tenderly lifting me from the saddle
they carried me within. An examine
ton rendered unnecessary the explana-
ton could not then make. A physl-
elan WAS at once summoned, whose treat
ment completed the cure l had COM
menced, and in few weeks time there
was left of my experience only a scar
and an undying recollection of the agon-
les, mental and physical, suffered that
afternoon in the south.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-01-16
Murders in Poland for Paltry Sums.

Crime appears now to be very preva-
lent in Poland. A young girl IL years
old, made up her mind to go to Amer
lea, and started across the frontier with
two friends, peasants and neighbors,
who agreed to help her get ont of Rus
STA. On the road they robbed her of
all her clothes, with the assistance of
some other friendly peasants took from
her her little fortune of SIS, which she
had saved for her Journey across the
ocean. and hanged her in sad plight to
tree after cutting some veins in her
feet in order to make death more GER
tain. They then ran away. Luckily
the rope broke the girl lived, and her
peasant friends are in Jail awaiting to
be sentenced. Numerous murders
have occurred simply for purposes of
robbery, in which the most wanton
cruelty has been displayed. An old
man butchered in little village proved
to have but IS cents, and the disguised
murderer left upon his victim a card on
which was written:
II regret to say that this undertaking
has not realized my expectations. -
Netc York san.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-01-16

THE strange hallucination that has
taken possession of the mind of Joseph
Freese, of San Francisco, a miller by
occupation, has led to his arrest for in
sanity. Two years ago he began to
write letters to the widow of the mil
lionaire banker, J. ID. Tallant He de-
clared in his epistles that he had had n
vision of heaven, and that upon a fiery
cloud that hoated above the golden
dome of a snow-white mansion he had
seen a woman with gray hair, whose
face had haunted him ever since. After
a long search for the woman he saw her
sitting at her window and readily re-
cognized her. He could not refrain
from writing to her; he felt that it was
fated that she should be his wife. At
first the letters were anonymous, but
recently they have been signed Joseph
Freese."
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-01-16

A FOLDED sheet-iron newspaper Gmi-
tation), designed for those prowling and
dishonest persons who steal papers that
do not belong to them, is an innovation
that will be hailed with delight by all
honest newsdealers. The paper con-
tains rat-trap attachment and buzz
saw, which is worked by concealed ma
chinery, duly and properly wound up in
the morning. A tramp or dishonest
person bouncing on the newspaper sets
the machinery in motion; the iron jaws
of the rat trap close over the hand of
the the thief and the saw gets in its fine
work with the most discouraging effect
on the kleptomaniac.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-01-16

In California turkeys are raised in
focks numbering several thousand.
They are placed in charge of herder,
who drives them as he would flock of
sheep. They range over miles of terri
tory in a day, and live almost entirely
by foraging. When the grain is cut
and harvested the turkeys are turned
into the immense wheat and barley
fields, and the birds do the cleaning,
and become fat and ready for the mar
ket at very little cost.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-01-16

BILL NYE, the humorist, is described
by a correspondent as "a tall, lantern
iawed, looking individual,
bald as billiard ball and thin as
whipping-post, and he has more the air
OF German savant or Of some leaden-
eyed professor of abstract mythology
than of mere spinner of verbal humor.
He has weary, mechanical smile, but
he seldom uses it, his most piquant wit
ticisms being delivered with face grave
as mustard pot. Yet it is always easy
to tell when he is going to say some
thing funny, for he invariably begins by
scratching his chin with his forefnger
and thumb and wagging his head. He
lives ON Staten Island in house con-
structed mainly of stained glass and
Virginia creepers, and like many other
intelligent persons he has large nose"
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-01-16
Lady-Bugs.

The rounded, bright-colored beets
called lady-bugs are among the NC,
easily-recognized Of the coleoptera' alu
among the best insect friends oil maj
Their special mission seems to DC Y
keep in check the extensive families !
plant-lice, of which they deyour Va
numbers they are also known 70 O.
the eggs and adults of other insecA
In the matter of bark-lice they nave :.
cellent taste, sometimes Kidding enlhs
plants of them by tearing open the s ~
and devouring the occupants. lug,
are sometimes guilty OF taking toa =
the good they do, as they have VS'-
seen eating succulent fruits.
Professor Forbes says Inc w
mon, spotted lady-bug is abundan, h,
corn-fields, when, as dissection usual
demonstrates, it is in search OF the ial,:
pollen of the plant, or of minute lu-i
which speck the withered leaves, ~
the plant lice which infest the ioliass
tassels and husks; but last Angus 4.
saw it eating the exposed kernels /" 4
top of the ear, following out the ~
stance and partly buried in The oa''N''
thus made" .Ya
The Professor further says thar =
perhaps fortunate that they can sus -,
themselves for time on other thaa -; -.
iavorite food, and that the damage uOi
by their eating a few kernels OF e0, III
greatly overbalanced by the good -
do in eating the compliant louse; hn.
The food of some groups OF lsdy-s
is from one-third to one-hah an. .1T
matter, the vegetable portion ge1s -,
being of kind not injurious q - !,
interests. Some of them are hn9s -
eat sparingly of clinch-bugs. Las. 49,, ~
1 found hundreds OF bright-red spe.;s
with black dots, alternating u ~
under the leaves in the edge oil q VIZ
Prairie FidrBler.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-01-16

SEVEN miles from Yankton, D. T., is
a farming community where several
young home missionaries labored off
and on, and finally gave it up as bad
job. Father" Nichols, Congrega-
tional clergyman over seveuty-two years
old, went out there year ago and the
result of his work was that few weeks
ago neat brick chapel, entirely paid
for, was dedicated, and he was installed
pastor over congregation of twenty
five church members, not one of them
of Congregational antecedents.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-01-16

FERRET breeding is new and highly
profitable branch of farming in Austria
liza and New Zealand. One firm that
has commenced the business on large
scale has contracted to furnish 1900
ferrets per annum for three years to the
Government at rs Cd per head, the crea-
lures being delivered when they are
three months old. They have on hand
200 ferrets and thirty rabbits, and the
milk of three cows is required every
day for their food.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-01-16

A WITNESS was brought up before the
United States District Court in Detroit,
day or two ago, who, when he gets
old enough will make fine iuryman.
He is IS now. He lives at Fort Gratiot,
but didn't know what county, State, or
nation he lived in. He didn't know
what river, lake, or ocean was near Fort
Gratiot, nor who was Governor of
Michigan, or President of the United
States. He did know, however, that
his name was Peter McGerry, and that
there were prospects of cold winter,
because the fur on beavers and musk
rats was unusually heavy.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-01-16
Railway Cars Built Of white Pine.

Passenger coaches are built to large
extent of white pine. Its advantages
over other woods for that purpose is sig
nificaDt, because it is free from knots
aud pitch, and paint when once applied
to it will remain without blistering.
This interesting information was gained
from master car builder of one of our
large Eastern roads, who also said that
the pitch in knotty wood will always
work through the best paint that can be
applied, if exposed to heat or to the sun,
in which case the paint blisters and
knocks off, leaving the car worse in ap-
pearance than if it had never been
painted at all.-Nec FORK Sun.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-01-16

TELEPHONE girls in London make
from S2.75 to 81 per week; typewriter
girls average $6-a few make $40; women
telegraphers, civil service examination
and those on Government jobs make
$3.50 as a starter, and in eight years
their wages are 1878, the usual maxi
mum figure. Some on heavy wires get
$50 and $3.50 per week women clerks
in the postoffice work six hours per day,
and receive at the beginning 1926 per
year. An advance of SIS year is al
lowed till they receive S400 annually.
A few in the general postoffice make
81, 800 per year. Sorters get II shillings
per week and are raised to 30 shillings.
Women compositors make as high as
% shillings per week. Some dress
makers make 81 per day The appren-
tice has to pay from $50 to $3.50 tolearn
and serve four years. She lives at the
teachers house and receives no pay.
Board is free.