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The Washington times., 1903-09-23
FEDERAL OFFICERS
SUSPECTED OF FRAUD
Probing Substitution of Chinese
Immigrants at Frisco:

Secret Service officers are probing deep
ly into the Chinese substitution plot In
San francisco and dispatches from there
say Federal officials higher UP than the
men directly charged with the offense
of Chinese substitution silently ac-
quiesced in the traffic.
There is likelihood Of an upheaval IN
at least two important Federal Offices in
San Francisco as the result OF the in
vestigation. Three more deputy sheriffs
employed at the county jail as jailors
and two deputy United states marshals
are strongly suspected OF having been
implicated. Already three white men and
three Chinese are under arrest and Will
liam p. Gamble, a deputy sherif, has
committed suicide.
The Washington times., 1903-09-23
MILLIONAIRE WEARS
2O-CENI SOCKS ONLY
New York Statesman Believes This
Price Enough.

SYRACUSE. n. Y. Sept 23-"Twenty
cents is the most I ever paid for socks,
and that Is enough. They say that Judge
Fred w Thompson is a silk stocking
but don't believe II. don't think he
ever paid more than 20 cents for his
stockings. either
This statement was made by John
Dunfee, the millionaire Democratic State
committeeman. He says no statesman
should pay more than 20 cents for socks
Mr.. Dunfee. although a millionaire
nov, saw the time, not many years ago.
when be could not wear any kind Of
stockings. and he has never lost bis
sympathy with the common people.
Judge Thompson is seeking the Demo
cratic nomination for mayor this fall
ana il has been urged against him that
he Is a silk stocking This Mr.. Dunfee
denies
The Washington times., 1903-09-23
DIES IN THE CHAIR
AS DENTIST WORKS
Woman Expires While Under In
fluence of Chloroform.

CHICAGO, Sept. 23.-Mrs. LYDIA Seipp,
the twenty-three- year-old wife of w. s.
seipp, postal clerk. died in the operat-
ing chair in the ofice of DR.. H. Brophy.
a dentist. at Gas West North Avenue.
All the teeth in her upper Jaw had
been extracted. and six of her lower
teeth had been removed.
She died while under the influence OF
chloroform, which had been admins
tered by DR.. c. S. Roam. OF $40 West
North Avenue.
1t was while the last tooth which was
10 be extracted was being drawn that
she died.
Her husband was standing by her side.
Mrs. Seipp and her husband went to
DR.. Brophy's office Just before noon yes
terday.
Dr. Roam tested Mrs. seipp's heart and
pronounced 1t strong enough to admit OF
the administration of chloroform.
The chloroform was administered, and
all OF the teeth except the last one were
extracted.
Mrs. Seipp showed that she was suf-
fering. DR.. Brophy stopped his work
and for helf an hour he and DR.. Roar
tried to resuscitate the woman.
Mrs. Seipp died. and the police from
the West North Avenue station tool
her body to undertaking rooms in the
next block.
The coroner's jury decided that Mrs
seipp had died while under the influence
of ehIoroform. The jury exonerated both
the doctors.
Mrs. SeipD died because blood from
! the last tooth got into her windpipe,
said DR. Roam.
'She died" said DR.. Brophy. "becRus,
she had a weak heart"
The Washington times., 1903-09-23
LEASE OF INDIAN LAND
DECLARED INVALID
Important Decision of u. s. Dis
trict Court in Indian Territory.

The wisdom and effectiveness of the
policy of Secretary Hitchcock. OF the
Interior. in refusing to give his sanction
to leases of allotments of Indian lands
in the indian Territory. was demon
strated yesterday when Judge c. w.
RAJ mond. of the United States District
Court, at Muscogee, declared one OF
these leases invalid.
Henry NJ. Tate, one of the United
States commissioners for the Territory,
applied for an injunction to restrain j.
Blair Shoenfelt, United States Indian
agent, from placing Phoebe and Ben
Sparks, citizens of the Creek Nation, in
possession of tbirty-fve acres OF land
which Tate had leased from them for
five years. To obtain the lease Tate
paid the Indians $500. but Agent
Shoenfelt insisted upon placing the IN
dams in possession. despite the lease.
The contention of Tate was that even
though the lease were invalid, he had
paid a valuable consideration for the
same, and If the Indians could not re-
turn the money. he should have posses
sion OF the land until the income from
II amounted to the sum paid.
Judge Raymond held that TO allow this
contention would void every intention
Of Congress, when It passed laws for
bidding the Indians to lease without
the consent OF the Secretary OF the In
terror. The working out of the lease II
the manner sought by Mr.. Tate would
have the same effect as IL the Indian die
not repudiate the transaction. but al
lowed the lessee 70 hold the land IL
consideration of the rent specified.
Several hundreds of these leases have
been made. and dealing in them is one
CT the scandals In which number o.
prominent officials are involved, and
which have attracted such widespread
attention that Charles J. Bonapart'
was selected especially to investigate
! them.
The Washington times., 1903-09-23
HUSBAND ATTACKED
At THEATER ENTRANCE
Wife Discovered Spouse in Com
pany With Another.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. Sept. zs.--At the
entrance OF the Park Theater. az the au-
dieuce was crowdlng out OF the lobby
at the close of the show, a frensied wo-
man attacked her husband because he
had taken another woman to the thea
ter.
Mrs Julia Beyers, living at 937 Oliver
Avenue. had believed for some time that
her husband had been associating with
another woman. unknown to herself
Last night she learned that he had taken
the woman in question to the Park Thea
ter. and she stationed herself at the en-
trance Of the house and waited for thu
couple TO come out.
In the crowds fling out upon the
street she espied Beyers and the woman.
With shrek she leaped at the couple
and a furious fight ensued in which The
three struggled desperately Instinct
lively the crowd pressed back forming q
circle around them, from which the two
could not escape the attacks OF the des-
psrate woman. Several men attempted
to seize her, but they were poweriess,
as she fought like a maniac and badly
worsted her husband.
After tearing his clothes and scratch
ing his face until il was mass Of
blood, she sprang upon the woman. pull
ing out her hair by the handful and
beating her brutally. Over five hundred
people were spectators Of the fight and
were greatly excited by the scene. Hav-
ing spent her frenzy, Mrs. Beyers seized
her husband by the hand and led him
away. a great deal the worse from the
struggle. The other woman slipped
away IN the crowd
The Washington times., 1903-09-23
COLOR LINE DRAWN
ON A FILIPINO BOY
An Indiana School Board Bars the
Lad.

EVANSVILLE, Ind. Sept. 23.-The
school board at Princeton. this State.
decided not to admit Filipino boy into
the public schools OF that place p T.
Gilbert who Il the Instructor in Eng
lish OF the Princeton schools. took a
fondness to Filipino boy while in the
Philippines and decided to take him 10
Princeton. The lad Is twelve years old
and intelligent.
When Prot Gilbert expressed his in
tention of placing the lad In the public
schools Of Princeton the color line
was raised. and the prejudice against
the lad became so great that the aem-
bers OF the school board we're forced e
cali meeting. ana decided against he
boz
Prof Gilbert vas much disappointed
over the decision OF the boerd, and has
sent the boy to Cincinnati.
The Washington times., 1903-09-23
Georgetown improvements.

Georgetown Improvements.
Judging from expressions OF opinion
on the part OF the higher officers OF the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. that COM
pany is willing to build into George
towr If Il should get the proper encour-
agement from the citizens. 1t is said
on good authority, however. that the
company does not approve plan which
entails the expenditure OF s25o.ooo, with
hardly enough business in sight 20 pay
the interest on the money The ground
needed for terminals is costly. and
rights of way have to be obtained
should the association of citizens and
business organizations get together
however. and aid in obtaining these
rights of way, there is scarcely any
doubt that the lines Of the company viii
be running into Georgetown before z
year has passed. 1t can be said that the
matter now rests in the hands of the
citizens.
The Washington times., 1903-09-23
Great Electric Locomotives.

The most powerful locomotive in the
world has just been built BY the Gen
eral Electric Company at Schenectady,
for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. for
use in It's tunnel underneath the city CT
Baltimore. This locomotive marks a very
distinct advance in electric locomotive
designs. II will handle all tho freight
traffic OF the Baltimore and Ohio. which
passes through Baltimore. and viii oper-
ate over the same section as tho present
eleetf5csI locomotives, which have been
The Washington times., 1903-09-23

Colonel Conklyn, OF the seaboard Air
Line. is busy preparing for the extra
winter trains for Florida. Announce
ments are to be made in few days.
I'VE expect the traffic is going TO be
the heaviest in years." he said yester-
day. Last year there were more than
10000 visitors TO Florida, and they left
so we'll pleased with the beauties OF the
Flowery State that we think the number
is going 10 be nearly double this sea-
SON"
The Washington times., 1903-09-23
Troops for West Point.

Troops are being sent from all parts
OF the country to the msneuvers az West
Point. KY. where 1000 are to take part
in the sham battles. The Baltimore and
Ohio took sixty men of the Signal Corps
from Washington TO West Point. and to-
day twenty-five more with their officers
went West over the Chesapeake and
Ohio to the scene. Railroads in the
West and in territory adjacent to Ken
lucky have made special rates to the
maneuvers. but no rates have been au-
thorized from the East.
The Washington times., 1903-09-23
CROWD PRAYs FOR VICTIM.

CHICAGO. Sept. 2S.-"KneeI and pray
for the soul of dying man" Al this
command from the lips of Father Mad
den. OF st. Gabriels Roman Catholic
Church. go persons OF many creeds and
many races fell on their knees in the
network OF tracks beside the mangled
form Of Thomas Shaughnessy. who had
just been run over by freight train.
The Washington times., 1903-09-23

Col. Al Reed, of the Atlantic Coast
Line, has received additional reports
concerning the rumors that some OF the
orange crop had been destroyed by cold
weather. THE report" says this letter.
is one Of the widest roorbacks ever
invented. We've more oranges than
we've had in ten years. as all who come
South will learn"
The Washington times., 1903-09-23
Back at Work.

President Cassatt. of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, has returned from his yaca-
ton and resumed his duties. He has
begun a study OF the plans for the many
improvements contemplated by the sys-
tenn. including those Of Washington, and
an announcement concerning them may
be expected in a few days. The post
poned meeting OF the directors is 10
take place in few days.
The Washington times., 1903-09-23
MAY BE IRISH EXODUS.

LONDON. Sept. 2S.-Interest has been
evoked here by letter from Secretary
o'Callahan, OF the United Irish League
OF America, TO Mr.. Condor. VI. p. say
ing that many evicted tenants now re-
siding in the United States are making
inquiries regarding the possibility 81 re-
acquiring their former holdings Hr.
Callahan expressed the belief that mis-
may solve the question of emigration
and turn the tide back TO Ireland
The Washington times., 1903-09-23
FOUR TOURISTS KILLED
CLIMBING ENGLISH HILL

LONDON. Sept. 2s.-Four tourists who
were climbing the Scafell Mountain. in
Cumberland. yesterday fell down a prcc-
ipice and were killed scafell. pro-
nounced and sometimes written scawfeii.
Is a mountain near the borders Of Vest.
moreland. ten miles northeast Of Raven
glass.
The Washington times., 1903-09-23
LEANc no PROBE FRAUD.

SAN FRANCISCO, sept. 2s.-Leane
Hsun. Chinese consul general to the
Philippine Islands. has arrived here He
has been detailed TO investigate the sui
eide OF Secretary Tom Kim Young, OF
the local consulate.
The Washington times., 1903-09-23
ANOTHER SUIT AGAINST
HAYS MINING COMPANY

Frank S. Hambleton and others have
filed a petition In the Supreme Court Of
the District against the Hays CONSOLE
dated Mining. Milling. and Lumber Com
pany, and others, asking for the sale Of
certain stock of the defendant company
and the appointment Of a receiver. Nor
gan H. Beach and A. A. Hoehling, tr.,
are named as counsel for the complain
ants.
The Washington times., 1903-09-23
RANIsHEp FROM HAITI.

PoRT-AU-PRINCE. Haiti, Sept. "a
Pierre Seneque. who was candidate for
the President of Haiti. in opposition
to President Nord. and who has been
bauished from this country. has left here
for New York on the German steamer
prins Maurits.
The Washington times., 1903-09-23
INSURGENT ROUNDED UP.

SANTIAGO. Cuba. Sept. 23.-Rural
Guards surrounded and captured Juan
Lopez, the leader OF The recent insu-rec-
ton. and the writer of the letter asking
for cessation OF the pursuit. and an
other man
The Washington times., 1903-09-23
SENATOR SCOTT SITS UP.

COLORADO SPRINGS. Sept. 23.-Sen-
ator Nathan b. Scott OF West Virginia,
sat up an hour yesterday morning for
the frs. time since he was taken i'll.
The physicians believe be will be able
TO be out within a week.
The Washington times., 1903-09-23
MYSTERIOUS DEATH
OF TRAINED NURSE
Body Found on Lake Shore
Railroad Tracks.
FOOTPRINTS OF MANS SHOES
Marks on Woman's Throat Indicate
That She Was Choked to
Death.

CLEVELAND. Ohio. Sept. 2S,-cir
cumstanees make mysterious the death
OF Miss Olive Rayl. a trained nurse,
whose body was found on the Lake Shore
Railroad track yesterday morning near
Gordon Park. The Cleveland police are
divided on the question whether she was
murdered and her body thrown before a
train to hide the crime or whether she
committed suicide while respondent.
The body was found at a place where
there is a sidetrack paralleling the main
track Upon this sidetraGk were sew
eral fat cars loaded with stone. Beyond
these cars runs the Lake Shore Boule-
ward. In the boulevard, opposite where
the body was found. we're the trucks Of
a horse and buggy. the vehicle having
been turned at that point.
Different Sizes.
There were also numerous footprints.
Some Of them correspond in size to the
shoes worn by Miss Rayl. Others were
the footprints of another woman and a
man. Footprints of man and a woman
lee from the place where the buggy was
turned to the fat cars. Near the cars
was found a mans handkerchief with the
iritials 20. J. D." The handkerchief was
bloodstained.
In one of the fat cars was found a
visiting card bearing the name Blanche
Dillon. who Is the dead woman's cousin
and who lives at Wellsville. Ohio. One
OF the dead woman's shoes was smearet
- No.
been dragged over a car with the toe
downward.
The body was so mangled by traiT
that it was impossible to find marks o
human violence, unless a blue spot OF
the throat may have been caused b,
choking The police are looking for th'
man who drove the horse into Gordon
Park last night, but have not yet founi
him. The coroner and the physician
who performed the autopsy on Mis-
Rayl's body are inclined to accept tn
suicide theory.
A Young Woman.
Miss RayI was twenty-four years old
She came here month ago from Wells
vile. her home, and obtained a positio
at Lakeside Hospital through he
brother, Dr.. W. l.. Rayl, of this cit,
She gave up her place week ago, bu
tried to regain it yesterday
Finding that it had been filled, she az
piled to St. vincents Hospital for
position, but without success she wa
at the latter institution at Ii ocloc
yesterday morning. and was not see
alive afterward by anybody who coul
be found. She had no men acuuaint
ances in Cleveland, her brother says
nor had she correspondent with snybod,
so far as he knows. At the hospital he
conduct was commended as having bee
exemplary.
DR.. Rsyl believes that MS sister we
murdered. II is said that Miss RAJ
left her home in wensviIie because
being disappointed in love affair. Til
disappointment is given as the basis
the suicide theory
The Washington times., 1903-09-23
studvina Our RAILWAY.

Neville Priestley. a director OF the
railroads of India, is making a study OF
American railroads. He was In Phila-
delphia yesterday and he IS expected IN
Washington in a day or two
The Washington times., 1903-09-23
MORE IN CHINESE FRAUD

SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 23--Three
more deputy sheriffs employed at the
county Jail. and two deputy United
States marshals will be investigated in
connection with the unlawful substitu-
tion of Chinese
The Washington times., 1903-09-23

Percy S. Baldwin. Of the Baltimore and
Ohio. who has been chaperoning party
of tourists through parts OF the South.
has returned 10 the city.
The Washington times., 1903-09-23
Increased Earnings.

The advance sheets OF the report for
August of the Chesapeake and Ohio show
that the net Increase in business for the
month Of August was more than 100000.
The Washington times., 1903-09-23
Personals.

George Coombs. of the Chesapeake
and Ohio goes away on his vacation oc-
toher 5. He is TO visit the Richmond
Horse Show and later take trip up
into the mountains.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-12-30
Pe.ru.na Protects the Entire
Household Against Catarrhal
Diseases.

AS soon as the value Of Peruna
Is fully appreciated by every
household, both as a preventive
and cure Of catarrhal affections,
: tens of thousands Of lives will be
saved, and hundreds of thousands
Of chronic, lingering cases Of dis
ease prevented. Peruna is q
household safeguard.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-12-30

anew. why may not the moral nature
of a man be renewed if the memories
of the past year and the physical
the need of striving after what is
higher and better?
That the practice has been abused
is no argument against it's USE That
some men have made good resolutions
only to break them is not evidence
that reform is impossible. Striving
after what is right is Godlike One
may raise his standard so high as not
to be able to attain it, but there is
virtue in every attempt to make better
ones life. Indeed one may find at the
closing of long life that he has tried
but to fail, and yet his very efforts to
do right will be counted to him for
righteousness.
The objection is, if it can be called
an objection, that men are too much
! influenced by special occasions for
special efforts. There is no more VII
tue in New Years Day than there is in
All Fools Day. 1t would seem fool
ishness to wait for any such time or
season for starting period in right
living. The present is the time for
action, and one day is as good as an
other in the sight of God, as we'll as
of men,
But the man who has put off the day
of resolves to be good until the dawn
of the new year will strengthen him
self and work righteousness by start
ing out clean with the year. He will
only hurt himself by devoting toe
much time to resolving What he
most needs is to avoid the pitfalls and
snares which formerly overcame him.
He has need to change resolves into
action. 1t is his duty to retrospect
N order to know himself. Each con-
quest of self is added strength for fu-
! ture victories.
Happy indeed is that New Years fol-
the man who, having resolved in its
dawn to do right, finds at it's cleaning
that he has been true to his promises
WILLIAM ROssER COBBE.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-12-30
New Years Resolves
Better TO Make and Break Them
Than Not to Make Them at All

OOME facetious individual has de-
fined New Years day as "a time
when men make good resolutions
N the confidence of breaking them as
;Ocn as possible" But he has much
o learn to his own profit who sneers
1t good resolutions because some men
break them. TO resolve to do right
Toes not mean necessarily that one
will keep the promise, but such pur-
pose, whether outwardly expressed or
nwardIy understood, is proof that the
Individual is conscious of abiding sin
If some sort.
1t is the self-righteous individual
Who is in danger. Good resolutions
ire born of repentance; and repent
lnce when genuine is cardinal vir-
.uG-- The self-righteous fellow does
lot resolve to do better because his
1anity tells him there is nothing
wrong in his makeup. He may go
Ilong committing blunders every day
md doing no end of mischief. Such a
:. elbow is beyond redemption. Like
Nphraim of old, he is Joined to his
dolls and should be left alone.
Doubtless there are many thought
ess and some insincere good resolves
made on New Years day. Neverthe-
ess it is a good thing that many
men do begin the new year with re-
Iolves to strive after what is higher
md better 1t is a marked and glOri-
led Improvement upon the custom
,nce so general but now, thank God,
obsolete, o men going from house to
house paying calls and guZzling wine
,r stronger drink until before the
.ound was completed they were hope
essly drunken.
1t is a great deal better for a man
% resolve a hundred times and fail
n each resolve than to go along con-
ented with his lot Of sin and shame.
There is hope for a man just as long
Is there abides in him desire for what
better. 1t is we'll to enter into argu-
nent with ones self only after due
elaboration, but a broken pledge 20 do
light is far better than no pledge
1t all.
There is nothing strange in associa-
ion of good resolves with the dawn OF
1 new year. On the contrary, the Oc.
:asion is one that suggests just such {
general practice. The old year has
ended. It's memories suggest sin!
committed while conscience slept,
practices that degraded the moral man
tollieS that brought shame and vice!
that weakened body and brain. Blu
memory is not all. Body and mind tel
he sensible man that such practices
md in physical wreck and moral de
.ay.
The year is new and clean. The sun
lust risen, looks upon it for the frs
lime. Men of business close up thei
pages for the year ended and begil
lew and fresh ones for the new yea
hat has dawned. They figure out &C
Mrately their losses and their gains il
he old year, subtracting one from tn
Ither.
AS the merchant begins his yea
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-12-30
Be Sure to Have Pe.ru-na on Hand
During the lnclemcnt Months OF
Fall and Winter.

Group, capillary bronchitis and ar
t.cular rheumatism are the special banes
Of childhood. These all alike result
from catching cold.
One child catches cold and scares its
mother into Mysteries by having Group
in the dead Of night.
Another child catches cold, develops a
stubborn cough that will not yield to
ordinary remedies. The parents are
filled with fore bodings.
Still another child catches cold and de-
velops that most fatal malady of child
hood, capillary bronchitis. The doctor
is called, pronounces the case pneumo-
MIA and, if the child is lucky enough to
live, it has developed weak lungs from
which it may never recover.
And vet another child catches cold
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-12-30

Mr.. Albert Lietzman, 1896 Milwaukee
Ave, Chicago, ILL.,, writes:
Il am only too glad to inform you that
I am feeling splendid and have never
felt better in my life. Through the adj
vice of a friend I tried Peruna, and am
glad to say it cured me to perfection. I
began to tell friend about Peruna the
other day, and l had no sooner COM
menced than he told me his folks have
kept Peruna in the house for the last
I've years. am sure I wouldn't be
without it. Mother also uses it to keep
herself in good health"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-12-30

Mrs. Schafer, 1876 Bope Ave. st. Louis, Mo-, writes:
In the early of last wrote to for advice
for daughter Alice four of She has been
puny, sicky, aing child since her birth She had CON.
WILSON'S and catarrhal feVerS always docfori1g
until commenced Peruna. She grew Strong and
we'll Peruna is wonderful tonic; the best medicine
have used.
"Iw a very wretched condition when commenced
to take Peruna Iad cafarrh all through whole body
but thank God, medicine all right would
not have any other medicine.
s'Peruna cured baby boy of bad spell of cold
and fever He is big healthy boy fifteen months DID,
have given him Peruna off and since he born
think that is why he WE'LL Icanrof praise Peruna
enough. We have doctor since began
Peruna-aH praise to n.-MrS Schafer.