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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-06-20

The large ware room for the
planning mill has been completed
and Is now being used for the pur-
pose tor which 1t was erected.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-06-20
SpoiIed His Romance.

George-I see nothing for US but to
elope. Do you think your father would
forgive US?
Ethel-I'm sure he would.
George-How can you be sure?
Ethel felt little nervous on that
score and-I asked him.-Pick Me Up.
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6 WsEe
have had her fourfeen-vear-old sister
go with her for aonS,anye
; sMhy didn't shS tS2e ans s.i tne children
WIN her at the same time instead of &C
ing back to s the neighbors fer mere len
= II man was tpattack anybody in the
daughter, Maude?
Why should tliS mother have said, as
she was said to saaEN said: "What have
you done with my bgby?"
These were questiatls for answer sure
y. put lew W peoNe attempted it. Press
that scores of me9 aad women iaad put a
finger on his shoulder and whispered:
right
Maude Answers Questions.
But it was Malaae Jordine herself who
answered all Questions-Who met all chal-
lenging .snspicion-who broke The every
hope of the prosecution-who pade a
thousand friends in. an hour. And she
did it without word sitting first in the
packed, suffocatirg court of Justice Hen
dryx. where the justice himself was Cne
of the first to indicate a change of senti-
ment, when he turned to her ard told
her that she might turn her face away
from the curious crowd. She did ell this
with that unmistakable openness OF fea
ture. clearneSs of eye, and simplicity OF
manner that would have disaTmed Bloom
ington days before could 1t have looked
toned certainty that only Press Butler,
jostled and Kissed down the stairs when
it was all over, could still say:
My belief is unchanged; it is not over
with yet
Story In Maude's Face.
One who has ever tried to read face.
told that Maude Jordine was enly sixteen
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years old, would find study in it. In an
odd, almost indeseribable way it is more
than commonly pretty. She has a clear,
smooth complexion, with a brown eye that
is her mothers. Her face is round, with
broad forehead and a sharp little chin
that drops from an almost square jaw
jaw that finds relief in plump cheek.
She speaks in low, even tone, and
that she is of the nervous temperament
is shown more from the short decisiveness
and jerkiness of her speech than from any
other characteristic
One finds himself looking into the face
to find where lies this suggestion of the
woman in the face Of the child. Two
features mark it. Occasionally when the
eyebrows are raised slightly, as is hab-
itual with her. four lines cross the wide
forehead. They are peculiar lines in that
each of them drops at almost an angle
over the brows after having traversed the
forehead nearly it's full length. In a gem
eral way these lines seem to parallel the
lines of the mouth, which droop slightly
at the corners, and the forehead and the
mouth are the woman features.
Did they come of nursing babies?
"Maude's Come Back"
Twilight came down upon Pone Hollow
and upon the home of the Jordines last
Friday night, long after the sunset had
burned out behind the trees down the
hollow, and long after its orange and gold
hdd disappeared under the rim OF the
world For hours vehicles ranging from
the automobile runabout to a ray wagon
with a party ofs sexcursienists aboard, had
been turning the corner out of the Miller
road into Wood street or out Of Wood
street into the Miller road.
Occasionally afbuggy stopped and some
body called for Maude. Neighbors came
up in the growing dusk, and chairs were
brought out from the supper table in the
basement that some of the friendly ones
might sit down. Still the family ate
grandmother and Uncle Henry and the
mother and theI father and the boys.
When grandmother and Uncle Henry
and the motheB and the father and the
other children had eaten a call went up:
oh Maude; ;Iconae and get your sup
per- 81
Mrs. Johnson fhad just come up to the
door of the cellar to borrow a drinking
cup full of kerosene and little Ida. in
view of the company present. took the
precaution to bring out the Jordines'
family lamp and fib 1t from the gallon can
before she riskeh the loan of the tin cup
ful of OIL s. iis,sz.
well Maud s back said grim, dark
man who chewed tobacco slowly with a
fixity of purpose worthy of a better cause.
..NIaude? o. knoWed she'd come back
aall right" said Mrs. Johnson. IN git
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and he was unable TO go there, she
brought a pail of water to the station.
Then they would sit there and talk,
and he would tell her what the tele-
graph key was saying as it clicked off
it's messages.
Lovers Promise to Wait.
But when they told her father of
their plans he frowned on them He
wars farmer, as his father had been
before him, and he wanted son-in-
law who could take his place. The
wages the operator was receiving then
made marriage without her fathers
consent impossible at that time, but
they promised to wait until fortunes
tide turned in their favor.
Then Lathrop was transferred to an
other station. Advancement was slow,
but he went ahead, little by little. until
he was put in charge of the Clybourn
Junction station.
Then marriage became a possibility.
Farmer Middlekauff's consent was OBJ
tanned, and it was arranged that the
wedding should take place at Forreston
on July Z.
On the morning of July two masked
men entered the station. When Lathrop
saw them he was covered with their
revolvers. But he did not hesitate. He
sprang to the safe and shut it.
At that instant the robbers fired and
Lathrop fell, bullet through his chest
and another in his hip. The hold-up
men, unable to open the safe, fled and
escaped.
Lathrop was taken to the hospital.
When the surgeons saw his condition
they questioned him. He said there
was only one person he wanted to see
and that was his promised wife. A
message was sent her and it was that
message Miss MiddIekauff heard.
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girl
Ma and pa and grandma and Uncle
Henry and Mr.. Scott were sitting under
tree twenty feet from the foot of the
steps talking. Maude came out Of the
cellar kitchen as they talked and her
white shirtwaist marked her coming to
the group.
!, Say. Maude, you'd better hustle UP
them dishes down there; pile 'em up and
Il have, pa,' She said, simply.
Wei, gert1a,s asleep here on the ne
aI'Il take her up" in thin, childish
treble, and a moment later Ida Jordine.
slip, staggered Up the steps with four
year-old Bertha stretched across both
arms sound asleep She was laid in the
same bed at the same window where Ma
bel had been left to sleep only a few days
before.
Maude Jordine was home again She
will go back to work in the Bloomington
caramel factory tomorrow morning.
~ They want me to come back, she
said simply.
Must Seek New Clew.
But in front of the Jordine home the
line of the picket fence of Stautz'S pas
ture is bent and twisted out Of shape as
it falls to decay. Almost opposite the
house is the gap caused by the wrenching
prints of bloody fingers the size of a
mans, and through which gap it is sup
posed that the murderer and torturer OF
Baby Mabel carried her to the spot where
the little body was found.
Fifteen years ago Press Butler won his
spurs in capturing and convicting the only
murderer who had been hanged in Nc
Lean county in a generation. and he did
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of motherhood as she may not nave
been in the long days when Maude Jor-.
dine nursed and tended the little ones.
In the full Biblical spirit, she did Wnat
she could
Pone Hollow is a settlement in its
way, and in Pone Hollow lives Aunt
Sophia Higgins, fortune teller by the
mysteries of the cards. In her dis
tress the mother sought out the seer
in the dark of night, and in the cabin
of the woman the fateS were ques-
toned.
when the child was taken she was
alive and laughing" was the finding OF
the fortune teller. She was taken
away in buggy and will be found
alive and well within three hours, or
three days"
1t was not satisfactory to the moth
er and another casting of the cards
was exacted, with the finding that the
child would be found ''alive or dead
within three days or three weeks" ;"
Further down the Hollow the mother
went to the house of Mrs. Taylor, who
reads the stars, and Mrs. Taylor de-
cided that the child had been murdered
creted in a barn.
Finding of the Body.
Bloodhounds were talked of the next
morning for the tracking of a sup
posed kidnaper of the baby, but so
many people in the night search had
gone over the pasture, and the lanes
and the vacant lots that 1t was decided
to be useless.
Press Butler had lost interest in the
search the night before. He had strong
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suspicious and went home early. The
search of Friday morning was taken
UP with vigor, however, and in Stautz's
pasture, $50 yards almost due south
of the Jordine home, Jordine himself
came upon the body of his little daugh-
ter, strangled, bruised and torn, the
victim of horror that the beasts of
the jungles could not simulate.
This was o'clock in the afternoon
of Friday. On the morning of Satur-
day. July II, Press Butler. in a buggy
drove out to the Jordine home and
him to the office of Justice Hendryx,
there to answer certain questions.
The girl went and she answered the
questions. Then Butler read his war
rant of arrest. which he had sworn
out hours before, and the girl was
hurried away to the county jail. Her
cell mates were two negro women who
were already prisoners. The three
of them slept on blankets on the floor.
Breakfasts were composed of mush
and molasses for the most part. Sher-
iff Edwards allowed no one to see the
girl save her attorney. After five days
of Imprisonment. when the grand
mother of the girl had come from
DanYers. ILL.,. and her uncle, who had
not seen her for twelve years, had
arrived from Spring Valley, they. with
the parents. went to the jail, but were
shut out. Calling from the street to.
one of the barred windows. they
brought Maude to the gratings, but
when she was told that the stranger
was her Uncle Henry she covered her
face with her hands and backed away
out of sight.
Why was she kept in Jail for six
days? Former Detective Press Butler
was explaining that he had been
obliged to make the arrest before he
was quite ready with the evidence.
Bloomington Asks Questions.
There were some sharp. insistent
questions in the streets of Blooming
ton in those six days.
What was the meaning of that calm
clear-eyed composure of the girl who
had not one word of complaint or pro-
test against the treatment that she
was receiving at the hands of the law :?
WITS 1t natural that of girl of six
teen years would go alone into her
dark home in a lonely neighborhood
to put the baby to bed when she might
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to the other It said:
George Lathrop, agent at Clybourn
Junction, shot by masked man and dy-
ing at Alexian Brothers hospital. No
tify Miss Emma Middlekauff, Adeline,
Ill., and have her come at once"
Down the track the train whistled.
The woman rose from the bench and
took the message. But she had no need
to read it; she had caught it from the
key.
"Send this to my father" she said to
the operator softly as she struggled
to keep back the tears, "and tell him
1 have gone to-to see him."
At Dying Mans Bedside.
1t was late in the afternoon when the
woman reached the hospital. The man
whom she was to have married within
a few days was unconscious.
cit is useless-you might as well let
her see him." she heard one of the, ply
sicians say.
In the dim light she could scarcely
see, but something led her to him. He
stirred as she put her hand on his hot
forehead, and seemed about to awaken,
but the nurse led her away. Outside.
as a sister questioned her softly, she
told the story.
Eight years ago Lathrop sat in the
little station at Forreston selling tick
cts, acting as baggage agent, and send
ing and receiving train dispatches. Just
over the knoll on the other side of the
tracks was spring, and three or four
times a day the young fellow went
there to get water. The spring was on
Farmer Middlekauff's land, and one
day the operator met the farmers
daughter, Emma. 4le si+'af'
After that he found it necessary to
journey to the spring frequently, and
some days, when trains were delayed,
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How Maude JOrdine Was
Cleared From Awful Charge

straight north one sees the gable end
of the Johnson house. and beyond it,
about. thirty feet. the whole kitchen
side of the Brewers house.
Little Maude's Busy Life.
Years and years ago little Maude
Jordine began to keep her brothers
and sisters from falling down steps
and from stubbing toes, and from eat
ing the creeping things of the earth
which find lodgment and home in door
yards and lanes and open fields. Ida,
fourteen years old today. was not one
of these; neither was a dead sister be-
tween the. two, nor a dead brother who
lived little while, between twelve
year-old Bert and nine-year-old Will
lie. But Willie, who is now nine. and
Bertha, who is four, and Mabel. who
was only two years old last April
these were the alternating charges.
and burdens. and amusements. and
loving pleasures of the girl.
One Of the most serious of all the
charges made against Maude Jordine
was a repetition of the story that
some one had heard of Maude Jor-
dimes saying to some one else on one
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BRAVE YOUNG WOMAN
VEDS MAN IN THE
SHADOW Of DEATH
Miss Emma Middlekauf of For
reston, ILL.,, Became Wife OF
Road Agent Shot by Bandits
at Claybourne junction.

FORRESTON. H., July 21.-"Click,
click, clickety click"
In the little railway station at For
reston, ILL.,, the operator was receiving
message. Out side the open window
two women stood, waiting for a train.
Inside the noisy key clicked on.
Suddenly the younger woman started.
She put out her hand for support as
she stood there, pale, tense, listening
to the message which the wire was
flashing.
"Oh, it can't be true; 1t can't be
George!" she cried.
Her companion did not understand.
The operator came out, a yellow slip
in his hand. He glanced at the woman,
who had sunk upon the bench and was
sobbing; then he handed the message
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the work on circumstantial evidence for
the most part.
But if he is. still to search for the mur-
derer of Andrew Jordine's baby Bloom
ingron Enthusiastically has decided that he
shall pursue another clew than the fol-
lowing up of his suspicious of the victims
eldest sister.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-15
MILWAUKEE'S COAL ROAD
Company Is Still Reaching Out for
Coal Lands.

The Milwaukee's coal road, the
Rochelle & Southern, will be opened
this week. This will insure the road
against possible coal famine. D. J.
Whittemore, chief engineer, says:
The roadbed and bridges were completed
about a month ago and the laying of the
rails was finished 4 few days ago. While
I cannot speak of the operating depart
ment, ] believe that trains will be rum
ming within few days. 1t will not be
merely a coal road, but, as it runs thru
a rich farming country, 1t will be oper-
ated as any other short division. One Of
the first things to be done will be the for
NAL sale of the new road to the Milwau-
kee company. A popularity Of Illinois
laws is that no company incorporated in
another state can build there. In con-
sequence, we have called this new road
the Rochelle & Southern.
From Davis Junction, point on our
Council Bluffs division. we have obtained
a track lease from the Burlington to Stew
dota. forty miles, to Ladd. We have es-
tablished new stations along the way.
Technically, the company that Is putting
the shafts down and mining the coal is
called the st. Paul Coal company It Is
organized under the railroad and its pur-
pose Is to supply coal to the railroad alone.
We will not sell the coal. 1t Is too val
liable to the road. The company is still
buying more land there, and it now has
thousands of acres. Heretofore the Mil
waukee has had to pay high transportat ton
charges to other roads. The Indiana, ILL.,
nois & Iowa and the North Western rail-
ways also tap those fields and. own their
own mines.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-15
CONSUL WAS ASSAULTED
MINISTER IIEISHMAN'S REPORT
CONFIRMS ORIGINAL ACCOUNT
OF TURKS CONDUCT AT ALEX
ANDRETTA.

Washington, Dec. 15.--United States
Minister Leishman's report Of his in
vestigation in Constantinople confirms
the original report Of the insult to
which Consul Davis was subjected by
the Turkish authorities at Alexan-
dretta.
Mr.. Leishman says that Attarian,
the naturalized American citizen,
whose attempt to leave Alexandretta
without undergoing certain formali-
ties. caused the trouble, had gone
aboard g steamer for Egypt, but was
enticed ashore by a subterfuge and an
attempt made to arrest him.
Consul Davis, under whose protec-
ton Attarian had placed himself, and
who had accompanied him to the
steamer. was assaulted by the police
Mr.. Leishman asserts, and sought to
defend himself.
The account sent by Mr.. Leishman is
entirely at variance with the official
explanation made to the state depart
ment by Chekib Bey, the Turkish min
lister.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-15

tracks, but consider the question of the
Union Pacific's extension live and very
important question. The matter is in
such shape that it might be settled at any
time. 1t has been discussed and the mu-
tuaI advantages Of such a change are gem
orally understood Co.,,
I do not believe the succession of Mr.
Elliott to Mr.. Mellen as president Of the
Northern Pacific Awill mean any change.
The relations ttsJ existed between Mr..
Mellen and our ss$sa8ern were very pleasant
and our understanding with the. Northern
Pacific directoratA is friendly. Arrange
ments for the Union Paci6c's entry into
Seattle will be made Just as soon as con-
ditions make it possible to do SO. 1t is
only a question of time before the road
will be operating its trains in and out Of
Sea tile ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-15
What Major De BATE Says.

Office of Translator Foreign Mail Dept,
Washington Z. O., Nov. 2. 1908.
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Washington Patent Attorney Recommends
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-15
Great Northern Changes.

The Great Northern has announced sew
eral changes. some resulting from the
transfer of LID. kitchell, northern pas
senger agent at Duluth. to Pittsburg. Mr..
Kitchell will be succeeded by A. Brostedt,
for several years district passenger agent
in Pennsylvania territory. John w. Pha
Ion, travelling passenger agent at Portland;
will take charge Of Great Northern in
terests in California, with headquarters at
San Francisco. He will succeed Henry
Higgins, resigned to enter business. H.
V. Lucas, travelling passenger agent at
Seattle, goes to Portland. Other changes
will be made next year in eastern agen-
cies 49, ...i .s.--
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-15
c.. G. w. Cafe Car Menu.

General Agent j. G: Rains Of the Great
Western has received a copy Of the menu
to be used on the new cafe cars which the
road has had built for it's service between
Minneapolis and Omaha, Des Moines and
Chicago. 1t is the most elaborate card is
sued for such a service by any road.
Nearly as varied an assortment of orders
is permitted as on a regular dining car.
including all sorts Of soups, steaks and
chops. fish. vegetables. cold dishes. pre-
served fruits, etc. Naturally the prices
charged are according to order.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-15
A Sale in Arkansas.

La Crosse, Wis. Dec 15.-The w. w.
-! Cargill company of this city has sold the
Pine Bluff & Western road running from
Pine Bluff. Ark, to Benton, in the same
state, to the Rock Island road for $1,000
900. The local company retains the right
! of perpetual use of the line for it's lumber
| ing business
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-15

The popular business calendar is,
sued every year by the Omaha road is
now ready for distribution. For copies
Of this calendar call at City Ticket
Office, 500 Nicollet av, or it will be
mailed to any address in the United
States or Canada upon receipt of 10
cents to cover postage and wrapping,
by T. w. Teasdale, General Passenger
Agent, st. Paul, MINI.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-15

made single trip without all the lower
berths in its -Sleepers filled. Several times
we have added extra equipment to meet
the travel. The train is the exact counter
part Of the Pioneer Limited between ST.
Paul and Chicago, and is proving very
popular.
1--WE are finding that the recent change
in time of the Pioneer Limited, under
which it leaves st. Paul earlier than for
merly, has the approval of travellers from
this nOi,it - z1EEl .- ~ ~. &c.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-15
RAILROAD NOTES.

The Burlington is expected to meet the grain
rates between Omaha and Chicago and between
Omaha and Minneapolis which have been an
nounced by the Great Western, the Rock Island
and the Milwaukee.
The Pennsylvania. following the example Of
the Reading, the Lehigh and other companies
after Jan. 1 will have its sales department
for the disposal of the product of its hard coal
mines, instead Of selling thru commission agents
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-15
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal
Duluth, Mimi, Dec. 15.-In its work
of fostering the commerce of two
oceans and the Great Lakes the United
States government is the heaviest con-
tractor in the dredge business. Up to
this time the government has always
let it's work to private firms. and their
prices have often been eXOrhitant. Of
late years it has been supposed by the
war department.. under whose direc-
ton this work is done, that bidders
have frequently been in collision.
Prices have shown an almost unnis-
taxable leaning that way.
This being the case, the department
has for the past few years urged upon
congress the necessity of fleets Of
dredge boats owned and operated by
itself, not only that the work may be