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The Washington times., 1903-12-21
WILL NOT ERECT
MODEL BUILDING
IN MOUND CITY
Commissioners Decline
invitation of Fair
Promoters.
PUBLIC OPINION DIVIDED
Inquiry Shows Necessary
Money Could Not Be
Raised.
PUBLIC OPINION DIVIDED

Washington is not to have a building
at the St. Louis Worlds Fair. according
TO a motion made by Commissioner Mac
farland this morning. and approved by
both Commissioner West and Colonel
Biddle. Mr. Macfarlands motion fol-
lows:
II move that the Invitation of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition. that the
Commissioners exhibit in the model city
at the worlds fair a reproduction on
smaller scale Of a typical municipal
building of the city Of Washington. be
/declirled with grateful acknowledgements.
II is estimated that the cost of the
construction of u structure suitable to
represent the National Capital in the
model city and of its maintenance
throughout the period of the world 5
fair would be not less than SIS. .000 which
Is about the average amount appro-
priated by those cities which are to ne
represented in this manner at st. Louis.
Citizens Oppose Plan.
Careful inquiry among citizens of the
District shows. first. that It would be
impracticable TO raise this or any large
amount of money for this purpose by
popular subscription: second. that there
is a wide difference of opinion as 20 the
advisability of asking Congress TO make
an appropriation for this purpose, even
on the half and half basis. and prac-
tically unanimous opinion that the ap-
preparation should not be made wholly
out OF District revenues.
1T is apparent that public opinion
is so divided on the subject that II
seems inadvisable TO ask Congress for
an appropriation.
Already to Be Represented.
Besides the general representation
OF tie National Capital az The ST Louis
Worlds Fair In the United States Gov
ernment building (and Congress has APP
propriated over million dollars for the
United States Government exhibit). the
District Of Columbia will be well repIe-
sented by its public school exhibit for
which the Commissioners are making
arrangements
The Washington times., 1903-12-21
MASSACRE IS FEARED
AT KISHENEF FRIDAY
Warming of Impending
Christmas Day Tragedy.
OFFICIALS ADMIT WEAKNESS
Governor Says Protection of Army
Cannot Be Assured Jewish Resi-
dents There.

BERLIN. Dec. 21.-The ''TagobIatt'
reports that a new massacre Of Jews is
being planned at Kishenef. and that
an anti-semitic mob intends to com
plete the determination OF the Israel
ties on Christmas Day. The paper
adds:
The new governor OF Bessarabia.
Prince Urosoff. who was formerly
friendly to the Jews. has adopted a
olaerent attitude. He has Informed
Dr. Mutschnik, a most prominent mem
Der OF the Jewish community. that
the conduct of the Jews at the Kish-
enef trial had embittered the officers.
and that he CUroson) was unable to
answer for the troops in case of a
massacre occurring"
Jews Plan to Fight.
Mutschnik declared the Jews were
determined TO defend their lives.
Prince UrosoT replied: You cannot
count on the support of the army"
The newspaper Die Welt Am Mon
tag confirms the ''Tageblatt" dispatch
and states that Prince Urosoff has re-
ceived instructions from St Peters
burg 10 adopt hostile attitude toward
the Jews.
The Washington times., 1903-12-21
War and State Depart
ments Not Waiting for
Statement of Reyes.
NEW YORK SAILS SOUTH
Supposed the Troops on Car
tagena Will Establish a
Base of Supplies.

Preparations for possibgs war with CO.
lombia continue at the War and State
departments. Conferences were held to-
day, and the unusual activity of hign
officials was not lessened by the an
nouncement of Gen Rafael Reyes, the
Colombian peace commissioner, that the
statement Of Colombias side of the
isthmian controversy will rot be made
until after the holidays, and that no
warlike move will be made by Colom-
bia until the United States makes a
reply.
The armored cruiser New York left
Sremerton, Wash, yesterday for San
Francisco. and will sail for Panama in
a few days, TO strengthen the feet on
the Pacific side of the isthmus The
New York viii be Admiral Glass flag
ship
Seek Base of Supplies.
Dispatches received by the Navy De-
partment from the isthmus today did
not indicate any hostile movement on
the part of the COlombians. No further
information has been received concern
ing the 500 Colombian srocHs which are
sailing north on the Columbian gun
boat Cartagena. Dispatches say the
troops are supposed TO 5e headed for
Old Providence Island, which is 800
miles OF the coast from Colon 1t is
supposed the purpose os this expedi-
tion is to establish a base OF supplies.
General Elliott, commanding the ma
rine corps, Is preparing to go to Colon
on the gunbSat Dixie. which is now on
its way from Colon to Philadelphia.
Senor Corea Expected.
Senor Don Luis F. Corea. the Mica
raguan minister. who has been absent
since November II. is expected in Wash
'inston ou Wednesday. v-he1 be Will re-
sumo charge OF the legation. SeDor
Corea has been i'm Nicaragua on private
business. During his absence Senor We
loz has been charge d'affaires. Sicara-
qua has recently sent a minister to Pan
anna. which was regarded as practical
recognition of til
The Washington times., 1903-12-21
Work of Rescuers.

According 10 a passenger who escaped.
nine dead were 1aken out before the re-
lief train arrived. two hours aftes The
wreck. One man lay pinioRed on a stove
for an hour and a half Rescuers tried
to release him, prying boards under hirs
to keep him OF the stove. The fireman
lay between the trucks OF the smoker.
but was rescued by digging a tunnel
The Washington times., 1903-12-21
NEW YORK RIPPER"
CAPTURED BY POLICE
Positively Identified by Ho-
tel Mans Wife.
LIKE WHITEcHAPEL CRIMES
Name of Accused Is Totterman-Made
Headquarters at Sailors
Hotel.

NEW YORK, Dec. 21.-Emn Totter-
man. alias Carl Nelson, thirty-five years
old, was arrested this afternoon by De-
tective Sergeants Cronin and Hennessy.
charged with the murder Of Sarah Mar
tin. in Keliys Hotel. in Water Street.
When confronted by Mrs. Kelly, wife OF
the poprietor Of the hotel, ne was posi-
lively identified by her as the man who
accompanied the Martin woman satur-
day night
Iotterman was arrested IN the sailors
boarding house Known as the Sailors
Union, at 81 South Street. Detective Nc
Cafferty. of the central office, obtained
the Information upon which the arrest
was made. A box marked Schooner
Bellano' was the clue he worked or.
He found that the schooner was at
Bridgeport. and went there last even
Ing and questioned the crew.
The Washington times., 1903-12-21
Easily Found Man.

From one of the Bellano sailors he
learned that Totterman made his head
quarters at the Sailors Union He tele-
phoned his information to the police
here. and detectives who were sent
easily found their man. Totterman will
be arraigned this afternoon
The brutal murder of the Martin wo-
man. whose body was fond yesterday
horribly mutilated IN a resort at 9
James Slip, resembles in every detail
the hendishness Of the Jack the Rip
per murders in Whitechapel. London
The woman went to the place Satur-
day night. accompanied by a man who
appeared 10 be Swede. ard who regis
tered as Carl Nelson. The man left the
hotel in the afternoon, and an hour
later the body OF his companion waA
found The womans throat had been
cut and the body was otherwise fright
fully mutilatod.
She had evidently been killed while
asleep. as the condition of the room
gave no indication that struggle had
taken place.
The Washington times., 1903-12-21
cheap HOLIDAY TicEsta south

seaDoard Air Line. i42l Pa. ave.-Ady.
The Washington times., 1903-12-21
NINE PERSONS PERISH
IN WRECK OF METEOR"
st. LOuis and Frisco Train
Ditched in Kansas.
FREIGHT WEAKENED TRACK
Relief Has Been Sent From Fort Scott
to Scene of the Catas-
trophe.

FORT SCOTT. Kan. Dec. 1.-THE St.
Louis and San Francisco Meteor" a
solid vestibuled train from Fort Worth
and Dallas for St Louis and Kansas
City. was ditched at Godfrey. Kan. at
$50 this morning. The entire train
turned over.
Nine Reported Dead.
The dead are numbered at nine and
scarcely a passenger aboard escaped in
jury.
The train consisted of seven coaches
two of them sleepers. The accident IS
supposed to have been due to the fact
that heavy freight train. which pre-
ceded the Meteor. weakened the track
causing the rails to spread.
A relief train has gone from here to
the scene.
1t was learned later that the accident
occurred at switch. and may have
been due to its being misplaced. The
engine was completely smashed. the
baggage car lay ten feet from the track.
the mail car was completely demol-
ished. the smoker was telescoped by
the engine, and the chair car. with
every seat fun, slid 200 feet after ieav-
ing the trucks. The engineer and con-
ductor were Killed instantly.
The Washington times., 1903-12-21

TEMPERATCRE.
The sun., 1903-11-15
GOOD WORD FOR THE EsQUIMAU
An Industrious Chap Who Deserves Help
Ing Hand.

From, the Nome Eers.
The natives Of Alaska are q fast d winding
race. Their sun is setting. Probably their
midday sun never rose higher than tho
mid winter sun rises In this latitude.
Most Of the EsQuimaux in Alaska are gath
cred at the missions. but the traveller will
find few in villages OF two or three or half
a dozen ieloos in places convenient for fish,
ing, as fish is the staple diet Of these people.
Starvation and disease have left but q remn ant
Of on co populous tribes.
Contact with the white race has had .
great deal to do with their deterioration
They like whiskey. and like all other native
races are not naturally industrious. Before
the coming Of the white man stern necessity
made them provide for the immediate future.
food. and there were wild berries and various
kinds Of game on the land TO vary their fsh
diet. BY instinct inherited from long line
but by contact with the Caucasian they arc
makers OF curios and traders. In their new
avocations they have become dependent
But the. higher race is not responsible for
ali their ills The unsanitary state In which
they live is n rot &c conducive to Longevity The
Of personal cleanliness and much OF the food
the native eats would shorten the days Of
the hardest people.
ter to be admired. He has often shared his
last bit of food with starving prospectors
or Simple minded as efd ARf With
Of t he morrow. He is bad only when under
WI The s Government should make some pro-
vision for the Esauimap. He can be made
sa ~ fhe pSsssdyb %esdy by S in to
line Of, work for which nature has fitted him:
Provide him with modern applian ces and
means for fishing and nd wh,altnS and with
ducer OF wealth.
The sun., 1903-11-15
LAZY MANS PARADISE.
Tho Women Are the Workers in the west
Indies.
From the Kansas CITY Star

On market day In the West Indies thou
sands of peasant women and girls can be
seen walking along the roads TO the town
from their palm matched huts In the noun
tains and woods. They carry on their heads
immense loads OF bananas. oranges. yams
pantains. brown sugar or tobacco, stepping
along Mt the rate OF four miles an hour with
the gait Of q princess.
Constant carrying OF heavy loads gives
them a splendid carriage. They will walk
forty miles to market to sell 80 cents worth
OF produce. Often they could sell the same
stun for a better price at their homes, but
they enjoy the merry company on the road
and the fun and gossip Of the market place
too much to give up their weekly Jaunt
Most people think such tramp hard work.
but they regard 1t as picnic. Tramping
along eyer rough mSunt;ain a.; l. @ tracks, ford, 4,
the way that that they should % Ro: these % women p men
q Jig without dropping them.
even taken the trouble 20 SOW or harvest
the crops, much less carry them to market
are sleeping In the palm thatched hut or
lying down In the yam patch outside and
smoking the strong native tobacco,
an American friend. Il employ about eOo
people IN the busy seasons. besides 200 or
400 children. The women outnurnber the
men by more than two to one, and do far better
work. though they are only paid Is cents a
day. as compared with the mems "a ccnts.
The difference in wages is most unfair. but
II Is regulated w IN Iron bound CUSTOM
The sun., 1903-11-15
A BLIND BUSINESS MAN.
r. u. Kaufman LOnE successful Catue
Buyer After Losing His Sight.


READING. Pa, Nov. l4.-Francis b.
Kaufman, aged A., one of the most ex-
pert blind business men in eastern Pennsyl-
vania, died at his homo at Leesport this
week.
He lost his sight twenty years ago IN a
stone quarry explosion. Then he went
into the lime burning and cattle business.
As a cattle buyer he had no superior.
In buying oxen he ran his hands over the
animals and with remarkable dexterity
and good judgment could select twenty
Ave head from big drove and secure some
Of the very best in the lot.
When out on a collecting tour he fre.
quently brought in very large sums OF
money, Each batch OF money he col
lected he kept separate. To his partner
at home he handed the receipts, batch by
batch, and asked how much was in that
package.
When told the amount he would promptly
say, .Mr. paid that" or THAT Is
from Mr.. - He was always correct.
He could make change in silver coins.
but necessarily for the paper money de-
nominations he had to rely on the state
ments made by his customers
He knew lime by the feel Of It. and was
as successful at that branch OF his business
as at cattle buying.
The sun., 1903-11-15
POKER IN THE SMOKING ROOM.
Bad Losers at Sea Make 1t . Nuisance for
tho Ships OmcerS.

Il wtsh,' said the purser of ono Of tho
big transatlantic stearners. that there was
some way OF stopping the game Of poker
on board ship. The trouble which the
eame 10 making for the officers cannot be
appreciated by landsmen.
so much has been printed and said about
sharpers on the Uosan liners that in almost
every smoking room there Is q sixn up for
passengers to beware OF these swindlers.
Now, as q matter Of fact, there Is very little
out and out swindhng done.
Real card sharpers are few and far be-
tween, and they are 80 well known to US
that they rarely get q chance to organize
game, or to break into one that has already
been started. Tho big card cheats long
ago stopped frequenting the liners.
But the evil effect OF so much talk about
card sharps on the steamers is seen on AL
most every trip. II. the very smallest
sistenuy, he begins to make remarks about
how this man, or that man. is winning.
If one man wins right along some Of
the pikers begin to look suspicaousIy at him.
Il has got to q point where the very small
est games. unless all the participants are
known to one another, breed trouble and
Ill feeling.
About a dozen times on q trip I am
invited up into the card room by some man
who has lost q few dollars, and wants me
to look over the man who won it, to see
If can recognize him as card cheat.
remember less than q month ago, to give
you an illustration, q Boston man went into
the smoking room and tried to get up
poker game almost before we had cleared
Sandy Hook.
1T was q little too soon for most Of the
men, but he finally succeeded in getting
UP quarter limit game. There was q
young New York man on board. who re-
iuctartly went into the game. and in less
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and by the next year he had lost every
inch OF his mining properties

and by the next year he had lost every
inch Of his mining properties.
He ran crap game In Dawson saloon
for q while, and last summer he was back
at his old job as deckhand for one Of the
steam transportation companies up there.
oh, III make that fortune all back
some day. said he cheerily to me. You
| can't keep man like me down very long
@Then there was Lewis johnson, the
millionaire miner Of Anvil Creek at Nome.
He was a sailor on an Arctic whaler. and
landed at st. Michael broke and discouraged
in 1899. He went to Nome and stumbled
on the richest placer claim in the whole
| region.
-When first saw johnson In the summer
Of 1900, he was the big man Of Nome. The
whole population there quoted his opinion
az to property values, and wherever he
went he was quickly surrounded by a
throng Of admirers. 1t was Lewis johnson
thinks this or Mr.. johnson believes so
and So
.He was then taking out gold at his Anvil
Creek claims at the rate Of $l2, 900 month.
and three-quarters OF It was profit. He
was interested In fifteen or twenty busi-
nesses In Nome.
'He backed big gambling house, and
was about to open private bank. 1t was
considered a guarantee Of success at Nome
to be associated with Lewis johnson, for
everything he touched turned into gold.
But a change in fortune came. His
wife sued him for divorce, and won. In
settling the alimony with her he borrowed
on his property.
'The stampede to Nome began to languish
at that time. Valuations OF all kinds
diminished. johnson borrowed SITS 900 on
his property and put 1t into steamship
company from Victoria to Nome. That
failed.
'The mortgages took Johpson's valuable
Anvil Creek mines, and when half dozen Of
Johnson's commercial enterprises had failed
at Nome he was penniess again He was
tending bar at Nome last summer. In the
building that he borrowed $4,000 upon
only two years ago.
Several years ago tho stories Of the
abundance Of gold on Smoot and Glacier
creeks in the Nome region filled people
with wonder. There were Ave Swedi sh
miners there who had each risen In one year
from poverty to the possession Of 100000
and over. I knew them all we'll.
They were bachelors, and previously
had never possessed 5000 at any one time.
The way fortune came their way turned
their heads. They had no idea how to
utilize their thousands OF dollars.
We'll. to make a long story short they
gambled. went on expensive sprees, neg
lected their business, while their employees
got rich. and made foolish investments.
The result Is that their properties have
passed into other and more competent
hands.
-One OF them committed suicide. An
other Is whaling again. and two others are
sailors.
Tho president OF the Peoples Bank at
Dawson told me recently that so many
pioneer miners n that region who praoti-
cally rolled In gold during the two years Of
tho Klondike excitement and stampede
haSc come down to beans and bacon again
that ths early Klondikers and Ill luck have
become proverbial. The Berrys. Jim Camp
bell, Joe Ladue, George Halstead and
Murray Thorne. who used to be the big
men in Dawson, have all become hard up,
rowing prospeotors again.
The sun., 1903-11-15

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The sun., 1903-11-15

Farmers boy.
Clerk In country store.
Rural school teacher.
Register Of wills OF Howard county.
Lawyer.
Business manager OF old Baltimore Day.
State Senator.
Surveyor OF the Port Of Baltimore.
Ghief owner OF the DailY Lav Record Of Baltimore.
and Deposit Company OF Maryland
President OF the Sons OF the American Revolution.
President Of the American Historical Society.
He was a bread winner when a farmers g
boy. While teaching school he read law
He completed his studies when acting as
register OF Wills
When he was a country editor he slept
In an alcove In his Office and exchanged
Advertisements for shoes, clothing and ink.
He remained bachelor until he was SS.
II circle be drawn with a radius Of twenty
miles and with Oakdale, Mr.. Warfield' 5
home, as its centre, it will include the birth.
places Of more Governors Of Maryland
than any similar area Of the State. The
circle would extend into Frederick county,
which has given the State Thomas johnson,
the first Governor under the Constitution;
Thomas Sim Lee Q779 and 1922, Francis
Thomas QS4D and Enoch Louis Lowe,
(ls5O). In the circle, and south Of Oakdale
were born George Howard GSS2), Thomas
Watkins Ngon, John Lee Carroll and Frank
Brown.
In the same region other distinguished
men were born, including Charles Carroll
Of Carrollton, Francis Scott Key. Chief
Justice Taney, Senator German and former
Senator Henry @. Davis Of West Virginia.
The sun., 1903-11-15
He Had Three.

Mr. Hare--How are you, old man? You
haven't changed much since saw you last
except your hairs a little thinner. isn't 1t?
Mr.. Bavld-Good heavensl Which onsf
The sun., 1903-11-15
MARYLANDS NEW GOVERNOR.
Variety Of Occupations Followed BY Edwin
Warfleld.

BALTIMORE, Nov. 14.-Edwin Warfield,
who was elected Governor Of Maryland
on Nov. 8, has worked at greater variety
Of professions and occupations than any
Of his predecessors. Here is how he has
been occupied at differ ent times during his
busy career:
The sun., 1903-11-15

y Dleo6lnR WIN cOuftCldtt>A NdeSA
was necessary for him to keep solemn
and solitary fast for seven days In prepara-
ton for the ceremony. Strangely enough
she believed Thebaw and approved OF hS
religious intentions.
But while she thought of him as a devout
palace enjoying his honeymoon and holding
hiph revelry. BY threatening the Queens
attendants with immediate death II they
told her anything about his new marriage.
to reveal them himself at the birth OF their
second child. The Queen said nothing
but bided her time.
At FIRST she was most agreeable TO ths
new Queen while already plotting her death.
She waited for her hour OF triumph. with
the patience, the watchfulneas and tho
cruelty OF beast of prey. She Polsoheu
the mind OF the King against all who were
favorable to the new Queen and hrougn.
about their deaths. She tantalized nus
Majesty until the story went through hn
kingdom that he was going mad.
He became mere puppet In the queen ss
hands, and she found herself again 10
powerful that Thebaw was never allowsu
TO sec MI Hkingyi except in public. M q,
poor girls spirit was then broken by u, u;
honor and Of Supayalat herself. :
Finally, the dominant thought in Thebaws
weak mind was to restore peace in ms
family one way or another, and so he orderr,.
she poor g1ri ont 10! execution eui" t ,n
from Supayalat being on the ground 10
make certain that the girl WIS killed
No wonder that Upper Burnah was ready
TO revolt against the debauched and mur;
derous court at Mandalay when they heaTn
chat the British forces were moving mp II"
Irrawaddy. In bitterness Of spirit, Supayamta, IA
watched from the loftest tower OF the
palace the arrival Of the enemy, the shor'
fight and the entry Of the strangers throuGl
the gates Of Mandalay. The throne haa
fallen and most of the people Of upp~r
Rur1nah, only half civilized though they
were. were glad Of it, and Supayalat tro'
the path feIile with her ruined husbAn6