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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-05-01

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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-05-01

James s5@yer a New York banker, Was
f.snca~tesl IN San Francisco on THURSDAY
right
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-10

murder This man"-indicating the de-
fendant-"said: Where" l said: In
Deer Lodge county l asked il they
wanted the warrants read, and they
said they did not"
On the conclusion of the direct eN-
animation a recess was taken at $40
p. m. for 10 minutes.
On resumiag, the cross-examination
Of Mr.. Robinson was begun. The
redirect testimony was gone over care
fully. the defense questioning partic-
ularly in regard to whether or not any
blood stains had been found in the
vicinity or along the track of the drag
ging. The witness said he had found
no blood stains.
At this point enc of the auditors en-
livened the duliness of the proceedings
by having fit. He was removed.
The witness again described at great
er detail the arrest of the four first
suspects. 1t came out that on the
night of the ltth. on which Glover was
arrested. Robinson hnndcuffed himself
to Glover and slept with him in the
back part of q store. The next day
the men were taken to Avon, from
whence they we're sent by rail to Ana
conda. So
On redirect examination Mr.. Duffy
exhibited two pairs Of shoes to the
witness. One pair about or in size,
were broad OF sole These, Prosa2ut-
ing Attorney Duffy said, he would
prove later were Dotsons. The other
pair were pointed toed and or in
size. These, Mr. Duffy said, he would
show were Benson's. The witness said
these shoes would make tracks like
those he found near the body.
On recross- examination the witness
replied in the affirmative when asked
whether or not there were lots of rifles
- 1o1 1..rrs
of shoes of the size named. He said
the second watch spoken of in his di-
rect testimony had been found in one
of the grip sacks in the outfit.
Sheriff William ]. Fransham 81 Gal
latin county took the stand as the
states sixth witness. He told Of
leaving BCzeman at noon. Aug. Is, with
his deputy, Chapman. in response to
a telegram. At Belgrade they met
Deputy Sheriff Robinson of Deer Lodge
county and his teamster. Moore. The
four continued on in company, going
west. until they came upon p0tson
and Benson at their temporary camp
and arrested them. Persinger was at
the store at Central park, a mile away
and was arrested later by Chapman.
This he saic, was on a read that Nould
take the fugitiVes. had they continued
to travel on into Wyoming.
The witness described in detail his
search of the mattress and the finding
of the watch. At Bozeman, during the
night the prisoners were kept there,
he said, they occupied separate cells.
Il had a talk with Dotson.' said the
witness. lin which he told me he had
met Persinger only in the fore part of
the week (the preceding week. at Hell
ena.'
This concluded the direct examina-
ton. The case was adjourned then
until $50 o'clock this morning.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-10
.4 EeSr~s Stoves sold by
YOUNG s. DEZELL, anaconda, Mont.

explained to the court that the two men
had been drunk and yesterday afternoon
were driving about the streets of the city
in 4 reckless manner.
THESE men were drunk and they
shouldn't be allowed to drive 50 fast.
They are no better than anybody else
said Chief White.
"Chief White, the three officers who
testified could not prove that these men
had been negligent. and the prisoners are
| discharged. When the officers arrest
anybody they should get enough evidence
| to convict. and when this Is done | will
sentence the guilty parties"
McHale and De Hay were arrested at
| A o'clock yesterday afternoon by Officers
| Stebbins and Gardner. The two We're out
| for a good time and on West Park ave-
nue. the horse accidentally ran away
| from them. The animal came down Park
| avenue at lively gait. In front of the
| Beaudry house the wagon caught in
| telegraph pole and broke away from the
! horse. The horse was stopped at the cor
| ner of Park avenue and Chestnut street
| by ]. V. Collins.
| Before discha-ging the two men Magis-
| trate Kennedy said:
III there was sufficient evidence here to
show that You had been criminally negli-
| gent in driving this horse l would not hes
| itate an instant, but would sentence you
| strongly. There is too much OF this kind
| OF negligence in the city and it is sur
prising that several persons are not killed
every month. That Is what will happen if
| a stop is not put to such a state of af-
| fairs.
! II will say right here that I am going
| to be severe with people who are so care
| less. | don't care if it is rich man or
the most prominent citizen in the town.
He will be fined. and will have to pay
| his fine or 60 to jail
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-10
OFFICERS AT OUTS.
Chief White and Judge Kennedy Say
Things to Each Other

There was Il lively passed armes be-
tween Magistrate Kennedy and Chief Of
Police White in the police court last
evening at the trial of Eugene McHale
and Arthur De Hay, who We're charged
with drunkenness and fast driving in
the streets.
In the course of the trial Chief White
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-10

Mat Papich. residing at PA Chestnut
street. was arrested by Chief Waite yes
terday afternoon for leaving his horse
united on East Commercial avenue Last
evening he pleaded guilty in the police
court and was fined $, which he paid.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-10

Claret wine, 60 cents per gallon. Ed
Devine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-25

In another part Of his report Mr.. Moss
says:
Our belief that the success of this inves-
tigation was imperative for the proper pre-
sentation OF great charter defects at the
time when they could be proven ana when
II was most likely that they could he ren,a-
died. held us TO this most trying task nm
der the most adverse conditions of dff1cuItv
and criticisms Such labor should never
be undertaken again without such ON
amendment Of the laws as would give TO
an iuveS ugating committee the power to
uphold the dignity of the legislature which
r. represents The law should be so amend :
ed as to empower legislative committees
10 perform their work between sessions
and they should be given all powers of a
court of record to enforce attendance and
to punish contempt committed in their
presence or against their authority We
believe that they should also be empowered
to proceed like a court of record against
those who refuse TO answer proper and
pertinent questions"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-25
THE RETIRED BURGLAR.
His Enforced Long Stay in n Closet In
Which He Had Hidden.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
Maybe you remember my telling you,"
said the retired burgIer about the easy
time 1 had once in a house in a thunder
storm, where the folks all hid In closet
and left the house to me? But had ex-
perience in a house once, with a closet
mixed up in it, that wasn't SO pleasant.
This time I was in the closet and some
body else was outside.
Il found bed room in this house, with a
fiat-top desk in it. and other things indi-
eating that il was q mans room, but there
was nobody sleeping in it and evidently 1t
had not been occupied that night And 1t
was now about o'clock, so it seemed a
pretty reasonable supposition that 1t
wouldn't be; man away somewhere, prob
ably. for the night. or maybe travelling; and
it seemed as If the gathering up of what
ever there might be there worth taking
would involve simply the trouble of sorting
it out; but hadn't taken three steps inside
the room before / heard the front door
downstairs slam-somebody'd come in. hap
pened TO hit the keyhole just exactly right
with the key so IL had slid in without max
ing any noise. and the first heard of him
was his shutting the door.
''Of course / knew that was the man that
belonged to that room; and the man that
slammed the door like that was likely to
come upstairs two steps at a time: his room
was only up one flight and he'd be in 1t in
a minute. / couldn't step out into the hall
without meeting him; and the natural thing
for me TO do was to step into the closet,
which did. The door of this closet stood
open just little: with a crack of about
half an inch between the edge of the door
and the door jamb. I tried to shut it when
l first went in, but 1t brought up against
something and so I left it. / couldn't tell
whether the man had fixed the door that
way to give the closet ventilation, or
whether something had dropped down
across the sill and he hadn't taken the
trouble to pick it up; but anyhow thought
I'd better leave it so, as he'd left 1t, and
l did.
out of the crack could see the fat-top
desk-that is. when he'd struck a light
which he did soon as he came In, which
was at practically the same instant that L
finished pulling the closet door to. I
couldn't have gone anywhere else. I could
see him when he came in. and then he
passed out of my sight somewhere and
pretty soon / heard his Shoes one after
the other. dropping on the floor, and then,
of course, / knew he must be getting ready
for bed, and thought man going to bed
at that hour would be apt to go to sleep
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-25
The Sirdar.

From The River War" by Winston Churchill
kitcheners wonderful industry, his un,is-
turbed patience, his noble perseverance, are
qualities too valuable for man to enjoy in
this imperfect world without complement
tary detects. The general. who never SPAR
ed himself. cared little for others. He treat
ed all men like machines-from the private
soldiers. whose salutes he oisdained TO the
superior officers he rigidly controlled, The
comrade who had served with him and un-
der him for many years in peace and peril
was flung aside fncontinently as soon as he
ceased to be of use. The srSiar only looked
to the soldiers who could march and fight.
The wounded Egyptian, and latterly the
wounded British soldier, did not excite his
interest and Of all the departments of his
army the one neglected was that concerned
with the care of the sick and injured.
The stern and Implying spirit of the conn.,
mander was communicated to his troons
and the victories which marked the pro.
gress OF the River war were acconpanied
by acts of bGrbarity, not always justified lyv
the harsh customs of savage conflicts or The
f.erce ana treacherous nature of the derys
ish,
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go on reading. Sometimes he'd sort Of
chuckle and laugh to himself enjoying what
he'd wrote: and pooty soon he put his
right hand up in the air again, not holding
1t still this time, but shaking it sort Of
gently, and begun readin' out loud.
When he'd finished the reading, which
was o'clock, 1t was broad light. And then,
holding the sheets in his two hands, he
dropped them. edge down, on the desk and
Strengthened EN- out. and then he laid the
bunch down on the desk. 1t was done, and
he seemed to be pleased over it; and then
he went to bed.
TT took him but mighty short time to
go to sleep, it seemed as if he was snoring
in a minute; and then I slid.
Some months after that-six or eight
months, l guess-taking little journey by
rail one night, with my travelling bag on
the floor, where l could feel 1t with my
feet, l picked up magazine that man
mad left In the seat opposite, and took a
little fall out of that. picking out the story
that l thought would suit me best. I got
about three-quarters of the way through
II, and all OF sudden it began to get IA
milfar; and in minute knew 1t for sure;
1t was my mans story: and that part that
d seen him with. and heard him read some
OF, was the finish Of 1t, the wind-up And
pooty good story It was, too; though
maybe was sort of prejudiced in its favor,
because, In way, it sort of seemed to me
as I'd helped to make it,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-25

the purpose At first this Initiation was
put down under all sorts of penalties by
university and ecclesiastical authorities
then Gas is usual with bad customs) winked
at, and finally enforced. 1t did not become
extinct till the latter part of the seven
teenth century. In the universities of Italy
and to some extent of southern Europe
generaly-the student was not independent
he was dominant In these universities, of
which Bologna is the type, the university
itself was formed by the students. They.
and they alone. formed the universities
the corporation guild-or rather (since
the students of different faculties had sepa-
rate organizations, while the law students
were divided into ultramontani and citra-
montanD the universitates. The masters
We're not even members of these guilds;
they formed a college Of their own, which
regulated admission to the degrees, but
they had no authority over the student
guilds. The students elected the rectors
and other officials, made the statutes, and
very often) elected the professors or doc
tors. The latter were compelled to take
an oath of obedience to the student rectors
and to the student statutes. and the dis
cipline thus enforced was by no means
nominal one.
The professor who required leave of alb
sence for single lecture was required to
get leave from his own students as well
from the rector. He was heavily fined if
he was a minute late in beginning his lee
ture. or if he continued it after the bell be-
gan, which was the signal for its conclu-
sion. To enforce this latter regulation the
students were required, on pain of being
guilty Of perjury, to run out and leave the
professor to address his remarks to empty
benches. There were similar fines for being
behind time in concluding the portion OF
the task for which fixed period had been
assigned. for skipping difficulty under a
pretext of dealing with it later on, and for
Noncompliance with many other minute
regulations. In some universities COM
mittee of students, known as the denuncia-
torres doctorum was appointed to watch the
conduct of the professors. and to keep the
rectors informed of their delinQuencies
Moreover, the professor was kept to the
mark by being subject to annual or blen-
NAL reelection. How did all this work?
AS far as we can gather, extremely well.
The professors of the southern universities,
everywhere elected either by the students
themselves, or by the city authorities, who
were wont to take counsel with the repre-
sentatives of the students, were the only
professors who did not habitually cut their
work by devolving 1t upon their bachelors
No doubt there were plenty of idle or sham
students in the universities, but the ma
.jority wanted to learn. We have an in
stance Of an action being brought against
a professor for refusing to lecture. But
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-25

pretty promptly and that / wouldn't have
long 10 wait; but what happened next was
something very different from what 1 had
expected. Instead of hearing the bed creak
under him as he lay down and stretched
himself out, 1 saw the man himself in a
minute, with his slippers and smoking
jacket on. walking back and sitting down
at that desk. There was gas bracket over
the desk, and before he sat down he lit
that. and then. while he was still standing
up, he took off his collar and give that a
sling onto the bed.
And, of course, I knew long before that
that he wasn't just a settin' down to write
letter that he'd put Off as long as he
could, but he was man that wrote things
for business, and he'd got an idea now,
or he'd got a contract, or this was his reg
ular hour for work, or something of that
sort, but very evidently he was settin' down
there to work, and thought he rather en-
Joyed getting at 1t, too.
THE thing he was writing was evidently
something out of his head; he didn't have
any memorandum, or anything, to go by;
he just sat there and wrote. Once in a
clogged up and then he'd look up at the
ceiling, and think; and then all of a sudden
go to scratching again fast as he could.
well, now, you know, at first, this kind
o interested me. AS long as / kept still
was safe, because he wasn't thinking, of
closets or anything else but what was right
there before him; but after while 1t be-
gun to get tolerable tedious. It's easy
you have to stand hour after hour in the
same position. keeping very still, and with
scarcely air enough to breathe, it gets to
be a different matter; you try it, some day,
standing up and keeping still three hours
at stretch-and that's what I did there,
waiting for that man to get through.
"He kept a-diggin' and a-diggin' and
along about half-past 4. as near as I could
judge, he stopped, and put down his pen,
and gathered up what he'd wrote. ! don't
know how many pages; I guess there must
have been thirty or forty, and shook 'em
down so they was even around the edges,
and begun to read 'em. And that seemed
to interest him as much as If somebody else
had wrote 'em; maybe more So And then
got interested in 1t again myself
Sometimes. when he got very much In
terested, he'd hold up his right hand, with
the palm to the front-he'd be holdin' the
paper in his left-as though he was eau
tioning somebody to keep very quiet; Ii
kind O. seemed as though this was a gentle
or difficult part of the story, where any
sort Of an interruption might break tie
thread. And then, sometimes, he'd slam
the paper down on the desk and grab UP
the pen and write something in it, or make
some change, while the idea was hot-be-
fore 1t got away from him-and then he'd
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-25

Their Quaint Sports and Studies. Il
itiatiOns and Lectures

citations and Lectures.
From the London Globe
Inc Rev. Hastings Rashdall. writing in
the Magnet, the organ of University Col
iege' Bristol, says the medieval student
was often considerably younger than the
mooern neutrality-suspicious. indeed a
mere boy Of twelve or fourteen, but even
When that was the case it is quite a mis-
take to compare his position to that of the
modern schoolboy. The medieval student
was to remarkable extent his own mas
ter. Arriving at the university town in a
carriers cart. he would often be met on Lie
way by touting masters, or scholars en-
pioyed to tout on their behalf, who solicited
ms presence at their lectures with all the
accommodating obSeQuiousness of a mod
ern tradesman. He was free to choose the
lectures which he might attend, and the
hail in which he would reside; and when he
mad chosen 1t, he found himself-in the
early middle agesEa member of a self
governing community which elected its
own principal, managed its own affairs and
was subject to no regulations except stat
utes OF their own making. AS in the me-
dieval world generally there was much
minute regulation of private life, though
the government which enforced that reeu-
iation was originally highly democratic
one But 1t Is a commonplace to say that
democracy is often tyrannical. Before the
freshman or bejannus from bes-j jaime, yell
low bill, unfiedged bird could call himself
a student, there was an initiation to be
gone through. He was made to ''pay his
footing by entertaining his new COM
rades-probably all the Inhabitants of his
hall-at a feast, and further there was a
painful ceremony Of some kind. which var
led with the tastes and ingenuity of diff
ferent nauonalties.
In Germany he had to go through the
ceremony of deposition" namely, have
the horns Of the supposed ferocious wild
boars removed with saw. have his nose
ground at milestone, and generally be
drubbed and licked into shape. In France
the ceremony was a "purgatio" the fresh
man was supposed to be not beast to be
tanned. but criminal to be solemnly tried
for the offense Of "bejannia;' this was
done by the infliction of a certain number
of blows with a saucepan or book Qfbro
super anum). Elsewhere we hear of
ducking or washing, or riding through the
streets on a donkey. At Oxford there was
"tucking;" the victim had to sing or make
a speech in the hall under pain of being
tucked" 1. e.. having his lower lip cut
over with thumbnail carefully grown for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-25
Accomplished.

From Puck. 4
He-"Miss Daintee Is q very accomplished
girl.'' . &c
she-"Why. she never was known to do
anything but say yes or mo- when spoken
looking as though she were ramming wad-
ding into an old musket!'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-25
A Wise PrecautiOn.

From Life.
What on earth are you bringing all those
umbrellas in here forr' asked Mrs. Van
Fashion. as Mr.. Van Fashion pulled into
their bed room with an armful Of rain in
terceptors.
Why. thought that reception was due
tonight"
Yes. and you are afraid the guests will
steal them, are your"
Mot at all. am afraid they win recoe.
nize them"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-25

then 1t must be remembered that in those
days athleticiSm was unknown. The cleo
ton of a rector by the students in the
scotch universities, which, strange to saw.
was to some extent an imitation of Bo-
logna. is the last relic in all Europe of the
OLD medieval student democracies
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-25
Comparatively Fortunate.
From PueI

Mrs. Grogan-"Yis; Honora Gallagher is
hnaliy married! She didn't exactly do wei,
but, thin, she might how done worser"
Mrs. Hogan-"Well, If she might hoy
done worse, she must how done well for q
Gallagher
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-25
So, so

for Taffeta Waists worth
IS; In White and fancy
patterns: made up in new
and very select styles; per-
feet fitting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-25

for Silk Waists worth
$3.50: in light shades and
desirable effects; fancily
embroidered. New and at
tractfye.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-25

Count Leo Tolstoi is now pronounced by
his medical advisers fully restored to his
ordinary health
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-08
Three Probably Drowned.

SanduslSy, o., Sept. 4.-rhe tug Red
Cloud, of Loruin, was wrecked Off Cedar
Point Sunday night and it is believed
that three lives were lost. The tug
lost her bearings early in the evening
and struck against the east side OF the
government jetty off Cedar Point. She
stove a hole in her side. She filed rap
idly and the crew we're forced to leave
on rafts. Engineer John O'Donnell and
Fireman James Mcdonald managed TO
reach shore after hard battle with
the waves. Capt. Fred Hale, an eNtla
fireman and a small boy who took ref,
uge on raft were not seen after leav-
ing the tug and are believed to have
been drowned.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-08
Fire in the Woods.

Deadwood, S. L., Sept. A fierce
timber fire is rag ng about ten miles
south of this place and threatening a
wide extent of country. 1t broke out
some time Saturday night and, as every
thing is as dry as tinder and gale is
blowing from the south, the situation
is very serious. People have turned out
from the immediate vicinity to fight the
fire, but thus far their efforts have met
with but little success. Englewood, ON
the Burlington railway, is threatened
with destruction, and the inhabitants
are trying to get their belongings to
places of safety.