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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-06

streit failed to go skyward when things looked squally. Killen also de- clined to become rattled in tight places It was a pretty battle between the two southpaws.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-06

The imperturbabfe MT. Cox was oblivi- ous to the cries of the fans that it was too dark to play.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-06

Colonel Alb swears vengeance on the Black Sox and impatiently awaits the series in Atlanta.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-06
Poor Uncle Abnerl

Hits were pretty lively in the seventh inning, eh, MT. Killen?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-06

Cincinnati at St. Louis postponed. rain
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WASHINGTON LETTER
What The Diplomats, Politicians and Society
People Talk About a The National Capital.

her time. Imbued by nature with
keen appreciation of life and interested
in the progress of the times, she is yet
compelled by the unchanging laws of
her country to spend her days in a
monotonous routine of wearing duties
her only diversion an annual journey
from the winter to the summer palace.
She said to Mrs. Miles:
''Oh, if / could only see the world"
She takes keen interest in America
and American customs. She had a long
private talk with Mrs. Miles and invit-
I'd, her to luncheon. Afterwards she
presented Mrs. Miles with two large
squares of gold embroidered crimson
silk. her own handiwork.
Another personal gift of the empress
which Mrs. Miles values highly is a
brass incense vessel of ancient days,
long used in one of the most famous
temples destroyed during the siege.
1t is globe-shaped and is perforated
with holes for, escape of the fumes
generated in a small lamp attached to
the bottom. The workmanship is elab-
crate and the design artistic.
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O'Neil recently explained the methods
that are pursued by his force in UNI
raveling these mysteries. 'Who was
the murdered person." ''Why was he
killed." "Who were his compan-
ions?" GLOW was he killed. What
were his habits?" These are but some
of the questions the police attempt to
find answers for in every murder case,
and the answering Of them is not al
ways easy.
Never a year passes but what some
unknown is murdered. Then must be-
gin a long effort to prove his identity.
There may be no direct clew about
the body to aid. Clothing may be un-
marked; letters and papers all gone,
but it is seldom that there is not some
thing, though it may only be the con-
dition of the hands or other portions
of the body that will not offer clew,
and this must be followed to its sew
eral ends. With the first question
answered, the rest Of them are easier,
and it is not often that the guilty
are allowed to escape.
AS a rule, it is easier to solve muir
der mystery than some other forms
of crime and the murderer who es-
capes must be a postmaster at his
nefarious business.
WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
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As chairman of the Philippine commit
tee, he has given great deal of at
tention to the betterment of the peo-
pie of our newly acquired islands. He
is an eXpansionist, and fayOrs keeping
all we have acquired.
Another plan of his is to reconstruct
and reform our consular and diplo-
matte service. 1t needs recOnstructing
and reforming, badly. Senator Lodge
thinks native-born Americans alone
should represent US abroad, men of
education and character whose pa
triotism and loyalty are above re-
proach The salaries are small in
most cases, it is true-but the Lodge
bill will remedy this il it ever passes
both houses in the shape approved by
it's author.
We are represented in many places
in the east, for example, by Arabs,
Turks, Greeks, Englishmen, Germans
and Frenchmen An American travel
err happened to be in Luxor one Christ
mas day and wanted some reminder
of home. She hunted up the consular
agent and asked to see the stars and
stripes. That official barely under
stood English, but when he got at her
meaning he told her he had never seen
the United States fagi During a re-
cent trip down the Nile, | met num-
Der of Arabs and other foreigners
who misrepresent us.
CHARLES EDWARD LLOYD.
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Rev. David Il. Cheney has resigned
the pastorate of the First Baptist
church i'm Racine to accept the unani-
NOUS call of the First Baptist church
of Terre Haute, Ind.
The new price list adopted by the
Wisconsin Hard Wood Lumbermen's
association is general advance. The
average increase on all grades is four
dollars per thousand.
Richard +. Wilson, a pioneer lumber
man of Eau Claire, died at Los Angeles,
Cal. aged rs. He leaves a widow, two
sons and two daughters.
Grim Henry, the oldest Of the mason
ic brethren of the southern part of
Wisconsin, and probably the oldest
mason in the state, died at his home
near jefferson, aged s. years.
A stone thrown by an unknown per
son into the caboose of a Milwaukee
train standing on the siding at AS
keaton struck Conductor Kelley, de-
stroying one Of his eyes.
Navigation to Green Bay points via
the Sturgeon Bay canal is now open,
the steamer !. Watson Stephenson hav-
ing made the passage from Marinette
without encountering any ice
A south bound train on the Winona
Western railroad was wrecked half
mile north of Barnum station and
seven cars loaded with live stock went
into the ditch.
Miss Kate A. Gordon. Of Oshkosh,
graduate of the University Of Chicago,
has been notified she is winner Of the
Association Of Collegiate Alumnae
competitive contest prize, years free
tuition in any European school the
winner may select.
Newton King, charged with a Sc
rious offense, was taken from Leona
to Appleton and sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary.
The planning mill of the Wilson
Weber Lumber company was de-
stroyed by fire at Menomonie. The
building contained much valuable ma
chinery and lumber. The loss was
about $4,000.
William Kruger, of GAINESVILLE, candi-
date for the position Of supreme court
Judge, has declared his intention OF
withdrawing from the race, and has so
notified the secretary Of state.
William Pease, aged 6S years, died at
his home in the town of Corliss Of blood
poisoning. He had charge of the sing
ing societies in Racine and Kenosha
counties for 40 years.
Capt. James i. Trowell. aged 70
wears. died in Milwaukee Of general de-
bilitv, after an illness extending over
three years. Capt. Trowell sailed the
great lakes for many years, and was
harbor master in Milwaukee for sever
al terms.
Smallpox has broken out at ST. Johns
military academy, at Delafield, and
close quarantine is maintained.
b. Z. Reed, right eminent grand
commander of the masonic order of
wisconsin, died at Chippewa Falls of
Bright's disease. At times he held
many other state offices. He was so
years old.
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proposed irrigation systems. This en-
pineerino work is under the super
vision of Arthur Powell Davis, Esq,
principal engineer, who has long been
a photographer of the geological sur
vey. He was chief photographer for
the isthmian canal commission.
Since the passage of the reclamation
act, June II, 1902, field work has been
vigorously pushed, and it is expected
that Investigations will be made the
coming summer in all the states and
territories of the arid region, $450,O0O
being set aside for that purpose. Over
a hundred engineers and engineering
assistants are already employed.
The reclamation act provides that all
the receipts from the sale of public
lands in the 10 states and three terri
tories of the arid region, after July 1,
1900, shall be set aside for the survey
and construction of irrigation works
in that section, and provides that the
cost is to be returned to the fund by
the lands benefited.
There are at present about $1O,OOO,-
900 in the fund. which is constantly
growing, and construction will begin
at an early date in several localities.
Steps have already been taken in some.
cases to acquire necessary right of
way, settle conflicting water rights and
other private claims.
The projects which are farthest ad-
vanced follow: Arizona, Salt river
reservoir; Colorado, Gunnison tunnel;
Montana, Milk river project; Nevada,
TrucRee river project; Wyoming,
Sweetwater reservoir.
Several other projects in other states
are in an advanced state of investiga-
ton, and it is expected that some of
them will soon be ready for construc-
ton.
Mr.. Davis and his uncle, the late Maj.
Powell, are among the pioneers in the
plan to irrigate and thus reclaim the
vast arid territory in the United States.
He is son of eX-Congressman Davis,
of Kansas
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very strong, but not swift; his ply
kique is like Harry Beecher's, but
there's more of it. Beecher is not
taller than his illustrious grandfather,
perhaps five feet five or six; Reming-
ton is five feet eight or so, and easily
qualified as a heavyweight boxer even
in his youth.
When he left Yale Remington had
$50 900 Naturally he drifted west and
went into the ranching business. In
a year or two he had disencumbered
himself of the $4,000, but had accumu-
lated many sketches of cowboys and
Indians. He hadnever dreamed of art:
it was too quiet for him, but he liked
making scratchy little pictures. Now
it was suggested to him that he might
sell them. There was no difficulty;
Harper's Weekly took the first draw
ing he ever printed. A little after he
took the late Julian Ralph upon
cruise of the Northwest to write up
to" his drawings of frontier life In
those days Remington had not thought
of writing. He soon learned to do
that. and he does it welI-with the
nature. He went to the Spanish war,
sketching everywhere. In modern war
scenes he is second TO the French bat
tie painters, many of whom served in
the war with Germany. But frontier
combat, plainsmen beleagured BY
circling Indians. attacks on wagon
trains-in incidents of early plains
warfare he is unsurpassed. The humor
Of the man shows in the title chosen
for his group of st. Louis cowboys
shooting up" town. Coming
Through the Rye" he calls it.
Remington has been famous for
90 years. He has been alive. and very
much alive, for 45. Fame came to him
early and easily. He is among the best
liked American draughtsmen on the
other side. His work is American. not
copy of Paris. He lives in New Ro-
chelle, suburb favored by artists end
writers, where Francis Wilson, the ac-
tor, is his chum and neighbor.
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greatest reputation. Both are humor-
lists of a clever order, though Read has
turned his talents more to the drama
than to comedy.
AIDES Sultan of Sulu" has played to
packed houses in practically every
large city in the country; it has been
given high praise by the newspapers
from New York and Boston to the Pa
cific coast. His Peggy from Paris, >
though of an entirely different nature,
is equally as good.
Read has two plays on the road. His
''Starbucks" but recently opened for
the first time in New York, where it
has been enthusiastically received by
the press and the public.
A theatrical manager said to me a
few days ago that Chicago was rapidly
coming to the front as producer of
popular plays. ''Chicago's approval is
all that is needed to make the success
of any attraction in any western city,
and as far east as Buffalo" said he.
''The manager who can advertise 100
night run in Chicago is in a better posi-
ton to draw crowded houses in the
towns from Ohio to the Pacific coast
than the one who advertis,es a 100-nighV
run in New York Even New York is
willing to take Chicago's approval of
new play. The city has future as a
producing center of popular stage at
fractions"
That Chicago is unwilling to take
New York's verdict on play is evil
denced from the fact that many stage
pieces that have proven popular there
have been signal failures in this city
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-04-09
THE CHICAGO LETTER
Something About lis Successful PIaywri8hfs and
Other People OF Note.

Vanderlip is another of Chicago's sue
cessful financiers to whom New York
has extended a welcome and given POI
sition of great trust.
Along industrial lines may be men,
toned such men as Judge Mcconnell,
president of one of New York largest
construction companies. Another is
Col. Robert c. Clowry, president of the
Western Union Telegraph company.
Still another is Henry ID. Estabrook.
solicitor of the Western Union. In the
publishing line is Herbert S. Houston,
head of the business department of
Doubleday, Page & Co.
One of the more recent additions to
the long list of Chicagoans in New York
is William c. Brown, third vice presi-
dent of the New York Central. His en-
tire railroad training was acquired in
the west. and he had thoroughly proven
his worth before he was taken up by
the Vanderbilts, having risen from a
railroad day laborer to general man
ager of the Burlington system.
In every line of active business in
Gotham may these strong men of the
great western city be found. They are
banded together in the Chicago society
of New York, and remain champions of
their home city To give the member
ship list of this society would be but to
name that number of successful BUSH
ness men of New York
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" dressed She lived in luxury but not
ostcntation on a side street. She
inherited from her father, Jeremiah
Millbank, groccr-banker, some $4,000
OOO She did not need it all. She and
her brother Joseph have already given
10 Barnard and to the Teachers col
lege about 81 100000; the chief build
ing Of Barnard is called MillbanIi hall
in honor Of their father. Mrs. Ander-
son has given public library to
Greenwich, Conn, and a hospital and
other large undertakings have been en-
dOwed by her. She has given 100000
for founding public baths. Altogether
a notable record for one woman not
among the II ost wealthy in the city.
Mr.. Anderson is an artist, good
one, best known in this country by
the fight at the Chicago exhibition
over the rejection Of his big religious
picture, THE Woman Taken in ABDUL
terry" The canvas was frank; boards
were finally nailed over it. 1t is now in
Anderson's studio in this city, probably
the finest artists workshop in the
world.
ANDERSON was the IcducF VI tHc
American art colony in Paris when he
met Miss Mllbank. They have one
daughter With wealth in his own
name and wealthy wife he has been
at liberty to paint just as he pleases.
lie owns the great studio building at
Sixth avenue and FOrtieth street, and
has fitted up the top two floors for his
own rooms, whereof the principal is
the studio with ceiling 80 feet high,
with walls covered with priceless ta-
pestries, with every convenience and
every property" that he can need
The Andersons own the big estate at
Greenwich which was formerly the
country home of Boss Tweed. In
laying out the five miles of road upon
the place Mrs. Anderson insisted that
only resident workmen be employed
at wages far higher than the pa
drones" exact for foreigners.
The wife busy with her philanthropic
schemes, the husband at his easel
every day, where are two happier peo-
pie?
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NEW YORK LETTER
! Professional People and Other People Who Are
Talked OF in Gotham.

Englishwoman who has drifted into
New York for a long time. She is
little and plainly dressed and has not
an ounce of coquetry. In a stage re-
hearsal she is at home.
That can't be played" a first vio-
lin says with deep disdain Of a GER
tain passage.
''Yes, it can," the little lady chirps,
and, grasping the fiddle from his as
tonisbed hand, she plays it-badly. of
course, but plays it. There is no more
trouble. Something goes wrong in
a singing part. Miss Smythe sings the
phrase at the top of her voice; again
badly, but it-shows what it wants.
There is hitch about the scenery.
Some change must be made in stage
directions. 'I'Il manage that" says
Miss Smythe, with great cheerfulness.
Difficulties melt before her persistent
optimism. One understands how she
has succeeded in arousing the interest
Of ex-Empress Eugene in her work;
how she has had it produced at the.
Kaiserly and Kingly opera house in
Berlin. Such a temperament is as
invaluable as rare in an artist.
And perhaps 'Der Valid" her little
musical production, is better than the
critics say. How can people tell by
hearing music whether a man or
woman wrote it-unIess they happen
to have tip beforehand? With the
tip it is easy to dispraise the work.
Because. of course, no woman ever was
a great composer. Hence
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Kindness Rewarded.

Samuel f. Tate, printer in Mil
waukee, has been enriched to the eN-
tent of $4,000 and his wife by $500 as the
result of an act of his grandparents So
years ago. His grandfather, when liv-
ing in the north of Ireland, adopted an
orphan boy from the asylum. This boy
came to this country with his foster
parents in 1885. and became very
wealthy. He always remained a bach
elor. Recently he died, leaving his es-
tate to the surviving children of his
foster brothers and sisters. There are
II heirs 49,
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Buildings. Never was Italian
prince of the Renaissance so magnifi-
Gently housed. Italian marble walls,
vaults as strong as those of the sub
treasury, spacious offices, lofty cell
ings, steel and brass furniture make
exterior and interior equally remark
able
The Speyers are not advertising mil
lionaires The senior member married
two or three years ago a lady of the
highest social station. Philanthropy
was the common ground upon which
they met Together they have built the
Speyer school, fine gift for settle
ment" work; they have given money
freely in many lines of charita BILE work
but without publicity.
The Speyers don't have to advertise
They are of the old Frankfort stock
to which the Rothschilds, the Bleich-
roeders, the Montefores belong. They
don't have to make one dollar do the
work of ten, because they have the ten.
They deal in safe bonds in large quanti-
ties and in arbitrage and exchange.
The fashion of having building all
to ones self or TO ones firm will grow.
When the City bank builds on the
site of the custom house it will have a
memora bic home. Savings banks every
where in this state have buildings to
themselves. because the law compels
them so to do. These banks are there
fore among the finest architectural or
naments of the city. They look so
much more solid, spaciously and digni-
fiedly ensconced in their marble pal
aces. The fashion will grow.
OWEN LANGDON.
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One Of the most extensive skin-graft-
ing operations on record was success
fully performed in Oshkosh by DR.. i.
c. Gudden. Some days ago Helen Bulb
litz, aged five years, was burned about
the face and arms by the explosion of a
lamp. The wounds failed to heal, and
the father submitted to the cutting off
of "a square inches of cuticle from his
leg, the cuticle being then grated on
the wounds of his child. The child's
life will be saved.
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out of the west is going many of the
capable men who rule the business
world of the east.
Lyman j. Gage, late president of the
First National bank of Chicago, is one
of these Though holding position in
the Mckinley cabinet, Mr.. Gage is not
and never was politician, but finan-
cier, and he left the political arena to
take the head of one of New York's
heaviest financial concerns. Frank A.
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Henry Hensler, a carpenter in the
employ of the Johns-Manville Covering
company, attempted to murder his
foreman, Peter Weyer, at Forty-fourth
and State streets, Milwaukee, where
the company is putting up new build
ing. After shooting his forema n Hen
sler reversed the weapon and shot
himself through the head death result
ing almost instantly. Weyer's wound
is said not to be serious.
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Inc HAPPY Hdh
is just u, and has not even entered
college, but is just finishing prepare
ton art a school in Massachusetts,.
Perhaps he won't bother with college
at all.
The lady is IS and has beauty and
manner. Her family was prominent
Dutch elan in the colony while the
Vanderbilts were still day laborers.
A town up the Hudson was named
for them long ago. They are wealthy
in a solid way. An aunt by marriage,
Mrs. Van Rensselaer, Cruger, has won
literary fame as cullen Gordon"
Van Rensselaer, Cruger is treasurer
of the immensely wealthy Trinity
church Miss Violet Cruger's father
was Eugene Cruger, sad dog in his
way. who left his wife to marry Miss
Kane and left her to marry Olga
Hcintz, a Paris girl whose beauty and
devotion did not balance in the eyes
of proud relatives her lowly state
as the sister of a restaurant keeper.
Cruger is dead, the inevitable contest
of his will has ended happily for ev-
erybody, since there was plenty to di-
vide, and Mrs. Cruger is now Mrs.
fans. having obtained a divorce from
her husband long before his death.
The matrimonial tangles of the
young mans family are quite as in
tricate. His mother is now Mrs. Bel
mont, and the young man has been
practically brought up by her with
the divorced fathers consent.
Vain it is to attempt the teaching of
youth by example!
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discuss it to the end of the session.
and Senator Tillman threatened to
prevent the final enactment of an APP
preparation bill if it did not contain a
parag graph of interest to South Caro-
lima. These facts, and others, are
fresh in the minds of the senators.
Senator Frye, although an expert
enced parliamentarian, and the major
ity of the senate could do nothing to
force a vote. However, there are two
sides to the controversy, and the
change might not be wise.
George Washington is said to have
remarked that the senate is the saucer
into which the hot tea of the house
is poured to cool! The simile, wheth-
er it originated with Washington or
not, is an expressive one. Many able
statesmen believe it good thing to
have in our government brake upon
the wheels of hasty legislation. They
say the good that is done by the SEN
ate's slow and conservative methods
is incalculable, while the harm is in
considerable.
LAX OF an extra SeSSIOu HeAC 1dIL
had the effect of hurrying matters
up in the special session of the senate
somewhat. AS presidential nomina-
ton draws near, senators have extra
work to do at home, and it was not
possible, even though the session had
not completed the work for which it
was called, to remain in Washington
r IL,
stayed. Many senator's were unwill-
ing to remain here long and then re-
turn in October or November to attend
to certain business which Mr.. Roose-
welt wants out of the way before the
regular time for meeting in December.
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RObbeP Caught.

Gilbert Warfeld, a member Of the
Sylvia Opera company, was arrested
at Eagle, charged with robbing Treas
trer Nirdlinger at a hotel in NIilwau-
kee of So, 700. Warfield was taken to
Milwaukee. where he confessed to the
theft. He had neary the full amount
of stolen property in his possession
when taken in custody He was SEN
fenced to two years in the house of
correction.