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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-19
LOCAL "a. BILL NEWS.
President johnson stin Comforting
With Local People Over Sale Of Club.

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The situation astregards the Washington
base bali club remains unchanged. Presi-
dent Joknson of the american League had
Icing conferences last night and this morn
ing with Attorney Wilton =. Lambert and
several PROMINENT Washington people. but
everybody interested said that there was
nothing to give OUT There is little doubt
expressed that r.s,Johnson and several
moneyed men are comforting about the sale
of the club, but the deal appears as far
from contamination as ever. Ex-Manager
James H. Manning is still in town, and as
he fully expected to return home last Sat
urday there is still the chance that this
popular man may be. hooked up to the
Senators next season.
Catcher William Clarke of Baltimore ar
rived In Washington this morning and
made no secret among those he met that
he would like to be the Senators manager
next year and was over here for a talk
with Mr.. johnson on the subject. Third
Baseman William Coughlin had Clarke in
tow. and was doing some tall electioneer-
ing for the Baltimore boy. Clarke stands
well with the players. and he believes they
would work to win under his guidance.
Still another wouid-be manager is Mike
Thompson, who recently had charge of
athletics at the Georgetown University. Mr..
Thompson has shown that he knows all the
details of management and he would like
the opportunity OF demonstrating that he
Is just as good in the professional as the
amateur ranks He is studying law at
Georgetown University law school. and his
many friends in the city have presented his
name to President Johnson for the po-
sitiOn of the Senators manager.
Shortstop Charley Moran of the Wash
ington club has grown tired of waiting for
something to turn up as to his location next
summer and has decided to act as coach
for the Georgetown University ball club.
He will take hold at once for indoor work,
and with the first sign Of spring will rush
the blue and gray boys to the open field
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-19
EFFECT OF WAR RUMoRs.
Soldiers Of Fortune Ready to Enlist
Under Japan's Banner.

The war cloud In the far east has caused
quite stir among the thousands OF ad-
venturers and soldiers of fortune In this
country, who are ever ready to do battle
under the colors of any creed, color or ma
tionality. SO long as they can have the ex-
element and emolumentS OF warfare rms
stir is illustrated by the many commun-
cations which have been recently received
at the Japanese legation in this city from
men who profess an anxiety to serve in the
army of the mikado. Nearly all Of those
patriots claim to be military experts and
seek to be officers in the armies OF Japan
One of the latest communications OF the
kind mentioned was sent to the legation by
two artillerymen, present members OF the
4th Field Battery. stationed at Fort Myer.
Va. The young men stated that they were
well drilled in military gunnery, and ten
dered their services to the Japanese gov
eminent as artillery instructors, provided
they could get their discharges from the
army of the United States. A sergeant OF
the 4th Battery stated yesterday that the
applicants for active service under the Jap
anese colOrs received polite reply from
the minister from that country. declining
their services, as the acceptance of the
offer might be construed as an unfriendiy
act by this government. The minister took
occasion to say that he appreciated the SEN
timent in favor of Japan expressed by the
artillerymen in common with many other
patriotic Americans who had made similar
offers.
In connection with these applications
something of stir was caused In the
Washington navy yard several days ago
by q story which was in circulation to the
effect that placards had been posted about
the yard by agents of the japanese gov
ernment offering employment at princeiy
salaries to machinists and helpers who
would go to Japan and enter the naval
service of that country. 1t was also stated
that the placafds had been torn down by
official order soon after they had been
posted.
Employees of the navy yard yesterday de-
MED this story and declared 1t was a
fake" 1t originated from the visit to the
navy yard of local Japanese who exhib-
tied a newspaper clipping which stated that
the government of Japan was employing
engineers and machinists in England at high
salaries for service in Its navy. He casu-
ally remarked that there might be an OPEN
ing in his country for men of those trades
From this grew the placard story.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-19
Turf and Track Notes.

Frontenac, who won at New Orleans yes
terday, backed from 20 down to to 1. was
In James r. Keene's stable In 1902. and is
one of the lot leased to $. w. Street. The
granddam of Frontepac. st. Editha. Is the
dam of the Derby dead heater" st. Ga
ten.
At meeting of the stewards of the jockey
cluh August Belmont was reelected chair
man: James r. Keene, vice chairman. and
K sturgis. secretary and treasurer for
kentucky turfmen win entertain a COM
mittee of the state legislature for the pur-
pose of preventing legislation against bet
ting interests.
John Mackey. right-han man for ]. B.
Haggfn. has purchased from an agent of II.
Eugene Leigh the stallion King William II.
by Spendthrift.
II. Mason. who trains for J. G. Follansbee
has gone to Kentucky in search of colored
stable boys. for which there Is a great de-
mand In stables in the vicinity OF New
York
John L. McGinnis will leave New York on
Thursday for Florida, where he will spend
the next six weeks. He has eighteen racers
In training at present under the care OF
John Neumeyer. Furman, q jockey OF some
ability. will do much Of the stable riding.
One of the most promising of McGfnnis'
colts Is by the Messrs. Sanfords Gonsalvo,
for whom McGinnis paid $275 last year..
The colt would have brought much more
money but for having been knocked about
en- route from the Sanford stud farm. Now
half a dozen horesmen are eager to buy
him at smart advance
George La Branch, who is private secre-
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tary to James r. Keene. has been presented
by that gentleman with q brood mare by
Horoscope which Is In foal to Voter. and
has been entered in the Futurity of 1905.
which closed recently.
The entries to the great spring handicaps
IN England have just closed and compare
fayorably with those of previous seasons.
although the absence of entries from Messrs.
the entries are the American horses Surbf-
ton. Hands Down. Vendale and Ypsilanti
William Allison. the noted English horse
expert. claims that the Gotham stud, when
carried on as a stock company paid 10 per
cent every year of its existence.
Stewards of the grand circuit will hold
their annual meeting at Cleveland tomorrow
to arrange dates for the harness racing sea-
son of 1904. Detroit, Cleveland. Columbus,
Cincinnati. Buffalo Syracuse, New York.
Brighton Beach. Hartford, Providence and
Boston will be represented at the conference
OF track managers. Syracuse was not In
the circuit last year, the managers of the
track there having refused to accept the
dates assigned to them by the stewards:
they held an independent meeting which
clashed with the grand circuit races at
Hartford
A. J. WEIGH. who owns the trotting track
at Cincinnati, where the grand circuit races
there are held. says negotiations are pend
ing for the sale of the property to a fair
association. but that IL sold the track will
still be available for the October trotting
meeting as usual
r. L. Davis. a well-known Long Island
trainer. has shipped two carloads OF trot-
tiers and PAGERS to Charlotte, N. c.. to win
ter and fit for the campaign OF 1904. In his
string are horses owned by w. c. Floyd
Jones. A. c. Fisk. Charles Weiland and
other New York owners
L. V. Hardness of New York city recently
paid $1,000 for ten trotting bred brood
mares to add to his Walnut Hall stud In
Kentucky Among them were the dams of
Lady Constantine. 2:12h. and Gloria, 2:13N.
They were purchased of F. NJ Buck of
F'airbault. Mimi Mr.. Hardness now owns
about two hundred broodmares
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-19
Tebeau Bought Denver Club.

George Tebeau has bought the Denver
franchise in the Western Base Ball League
and the improvements at the Denver ball
park from D. c. Packard and r. r. Burke
The immediate effect of this change In the
ownership of the Denver team will be the
withdrawal of the Western League from
Kansas City. giving the American Associa-
ton clear field there, which Tebeau has
been fighting for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-19
DOWN THE ALLEYS.
Scorers Tie Up Game in District
League.

The series of games last night in the
District Bowling League resulted in dis
agreement Of the scorers as to the total in
the first contest, and, not counting this,
each team won a game. The scorer at the
blackboard gave Hough of the Business
Men i59 points, while the scorer on the
book marked up 172. This difference gave
the game to the Business Men. but the
Acmes protested It after the scorers could
not agree. and the league will straighten
out the tangle. Several excellent strings
were rolled on each side. but George T.
Cox, president of the league, had the honor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-19
Champion Parker Meeting ALI Corners

Harvey Parker, the champion welter
weight wrestler of the world. Is at Ker-
mans Lyceum Theater this week meeting
all corners. He is In splendid shape, and
the local mat artists will have to work
above the ordinary to make any showing
at all against him. Mr.. Parker was one
of the first wrestlers to travel over the
country meeting all Corners. and as he has
always insisted in making all his bouts
square and on the level, he Is the sole sur
vivor. His reputation makes 1t hard to
get wrestlers to go against him. but 1T Is
more than likely that Rob Roy Mackey,
Joe Grant and "Boxwelr' may take
chance before the week Is out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-19
Seven killed by Boiler Explosion.

dispatch from Newbern. N. c., yester-
day says: Seven people. all colored. were
killed instantly today by the explosion of
boiler In sawmiil owned by s. E. Sullivan
at James City. near here. The mill was
demolished and all the machinery practical,
ly destroyed.
The dead are:
William Sparrow.
Sandy Smthwick.
Sidney Pritchard of James City.
George Blount
Samuel Neal.
James Small.
Mary E. Small of Newborn.
All the dead except Mary Small were en-
ployes of the mill. She entered the mill
moment before the explosion with breakfast
for her father, James Small. Six bodies
have been recovered. all of them badly
mangled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-19
Alabamaians Charged with peonage

A dispatch from Montgomery. Ala. yes
terday says: The grand jury in the federal
court here today returned ten indictments
neighboring counties for peonage. Among
those indicted were F. N. Prestwood and
his son Noah of Coffee county. charged
with holding in state OF peonage Bob
English, an old crippled white man, and
his son, Wiley English. Prestwood Is said
to be wealthy and owns large tracts OF
land In Coffee county.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-19
oNE-sIDED BASKET BALL.
Athletics Easily Defeated the National
Rifles.

The National Rifle Cadets were defeated
last night In a one-sided game of basket
ball in the National Guard gymnasium by
the Athletic Association team. the score be-
ing 81 to 51s. The score at the end of the
first half was 6 to 3 in the association
favor. The cadets weakened in the second
half and allowed the association boys to
score at will. The goal throwing and pass
ing of the Athletics in the second half was
excellent. The lineup and summary:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-19
walcott Knocked Out Haghsy.

The Joe Waicott-Haghey fight at New
Bedford. Mass, last night lasted less than
three rounds. The Lowell man was no
match for Walcott who knocked him down
In the second round. Haghey took the
count and came up stronger. The blow
that knocked Haghey down was a left
hand uppercut.
In the third round each man got in some
telling blows but Walcott forced Haghey
handed swing. landing, Haghey against the
post. The Lowell man bounded out into
the ring. face downward and laid there.
Many Of the spectators thought 1t a fake.
but those in a position to know said that
he was knocked out completely.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-19
Long to Manage Toledos.

President Strobel of the Toledo American
Association team has announced that he
has closed contract with Herman Long.
who played with Detroit last season. to
become manager and captain of the Toledo
team the coming season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-19
New Rifle Record.

d. w. King. jr.. president of the Colo
RADIO State Rifle Association, has made a
worlds record. scoring GIT points In 100 con-
secutive shots with the rife at the grounds
of the Denver Rife Club. The previous
record, 00S points, was made by Col H.
Pope.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-19
of reaching the highest mark. an. The
Bureaus Defeated the Printers.

The Government Printing ONCE team
was successful in the first game against
the Bureau quint last night In the Depart
mental League games. but after that the
league leaders had little trouble annexins
the others to their string of victories. The
feature of the set was the fine bowling or
Land of the Bureaus. who did his best
work of the winter, having scores OF ZZo.
I'll and 211. The scores:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-19
BUREAU:
Railway Relief Bowlers.

The Railway Relief Association bowlers
rolled three games last night on their al
leys, and the Track and Roadway team
was successful in the set. Staub had high
score, 200. The scores:
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no Cure : Gold n One Day

Take Laxative Bromo ouinine Tablets. An drug-
e1gts refund the money II II fails TO cure. r. w.
Groves signature u on each box z5c. tuff
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-19

town at Princeton: June 4. williams Mt
Princeton; 4. Yale at New Haven: 8. Buck
University of Vet Virginia at Princeton;
is. Yale at New rif Gin case of tie).
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-07-05
Do You Want a Teachers

gives confidential Information about teach.
ers for any department of school or college
work. Hundreds OF name on roll. No
MlEstsbiished 1911
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-07-05

ANS - JOO oPPSd1So-
After going through German,
French, Spanish, Russian, Belgian.
Persian and various other foreign
exhibits, there is something very
honey in getting into this Govern
ment Building. No place else do
people look to be more really salts
fed with themselves as in and about
this building. It's our building, and
it is with a feeling akin to proprie-
torship that almost everybody sees
the Government Building. Our old
Uncle Samuel is doing everything up
all right, is the verdict of the people
as they watch the working of the
mint, roam over the b~attleship, view
the military costumes or the great
lights of the lighthouse, or watch the
making of the deadly missiles of war
only they are not really and truly
deadly here you know. It's just kin
dergarten, as they fill the metal re-
ceptacles with flax seed instead of
powder. In fact, everything con-
nected with our Uncle Samuel's
housekeeping is spread out and ex-
planned to his visiting and well-satis-
fed children, for almost everybody
looks as if they were mentally say
ing: you're all right, Samuel, de-
spite the politicians. You may have
sowed a few wild oats in your young
er days, and you may possibly have
made some mistakes in the long
years you've been running things for
us, but you've come out ahead; keep
a-going, old fellow; we think you are
great and we don't hang our heads
on your account for nobody"
Of course people don't use these
exact words, but they come mighty
near it sometimes.
The universal sympathy for Japan
is expressed almost unintentionally
sometimes, but it is seen everywhere.
Two men, prosperous business men
one would judge, from the Middle
West, stopped in front of the Jap
anese exhibit in the Liberal Arts
Building. One squared himself with
hands in pockets, gazed admiringly
from ceiling to floor, and said:
"Japan's just got up in great shape.
hasn't She" "Fine," said the other
man, with equal admiration, taking a
bird's-eye view, and then moved OF
to another part of the building with
out further Investigation. The tone
of voice expressed sympathy as we'll
as admiration. I think if Japan had
had nothing but paper fans in the
glass cases the remark would have
been the same.
However, Japan has a very extern
sive exhibit and they are winning
esteem from everybody who sees
them. They are so uniformly cour-
teous and the little Jap ladies are so
cute, and yet so ladylike, everybody
admires and likes them.
But rain, rain rain! That is what
we started out to talk about. People
who are in the buildings when these
cloud-bursts come are losing no time
from their sightseeing, but people
outside do-losing time and some
times temper. The only thing for
them to look at is each other, and
huddled together in half protected
places waiting for a little let-up in
the torrents that come, the sight of
one another is not reassuring. It's
a vivid reminder that your clothes
are being ruined and you are get
ting soaked and must get your feet
wet and muddy no matter which way
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-07-05
MRS. RANSIER'S T
Something More About the st. Louis
Fair, and a Little Sunshine Philosophy
In Conclusion.

Rain, rain, rainl How it does
rainl And the mud! Was there ever
such sticky mud any place else? We
doubt it. Or such muddy mud, or
such torrents as when it rains in
ST. Louisl Truly it is a great
place and a great fair.
If you are caught in one of these
cloud-bursts while at the fair, the
best thing to do (and I might say,
the only thing to do), is to get into
n of the big exhibit buildings and
stay there till it clears. Start in sys
tematically. Go down one long aisle
and explore it to its extreme end.
then turn and come back the next
one, and so on till you have traversed
the building from east to west. This
will not only keep your attention off
of the weather, almost all day, but
you will have also walked so many
miles that you will be very very tired,
tired enough by evening to go home
and wait for next day and clear
weather.
You will also have the satisfaction
of knowing you have seen one build
ing Notwithstanding few who
attend the fair do. Most people
rush from one building to another,
from one end of the grounds to the
other, glancing right and left in a
way that reminds one of the express
train grabbing the rural mail bag
suspending from its hook, and speed
ing ava without even a Stacking of
speed. Such people think they have
seen the fair, while there are aisles
and aisles sof display that they
haven't even peeped at. A press man
from the Northeast said to me: "The
people of my State are arranging to
come to the fair; / think a week will
be enough for them to see everything
in, don't you2"
This statement rather staggered
the Sunshine Woman, for she had
been here two months and was just
getting really into the spirit of the
fair. Its magnitude grows on one
the more you see it. If Mr.. Press
Man had said, Cali they care to see,"
it would have been altogether differ
ent, for it depends altogether on the
personality of the seers as to how
long they can proftably look, or how
much they get out of the Fair. It's
vastness is not realized at first.
Speaking of those mail bags, re-
minds me of the exhibit in the Gov
eminent Building. There is a Sc
ries of moving pictures showing the
methods of transportation of our
mail from the time it goes into the
mail-box till it reaches it's destina-
ton. They are very interesting and
instructive, as are also the little
Mexican donkey with its saddle bags
and the Indian pony with it's frontier
mail carrier taat are mounted near
by, showing the methods of trans
porting the mail in regions where
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-06-14
FELL FROM A SCAFFOLD
Painters Fall From Near Top Of a
Two-Story Building to the
Pavement

I Yesterday afternoon about 1880
O'Clock the fastchinss of the seanold
On which TWO painters, Claude Youne
AMI VIM b, JenNns were 1T work
painting the side of the Feuchjer
Bros. building at Sixth and Ohio
Leyee street, gave way and the mon
We're precipitated 70 the brick pave.
ment below
Both men were badly injured. Jcn.
kins had two ribs broken, a Gu, under
The chin and severe injury to his
back while Young left 100, is BROS.
en- and his back Is badly injured also
They were taken 10 st. Mary's in.
Urinary and nj late hour this morn.
Ing were resting we'll There is dan
ger, however, OF serious injury TO the
Kidneys ana other complications may
develop
The men, in swinging their sc1Gold
which, as usual was q ladder with
rope attached to each end tied tha
roof line around a chimney near The
rear of the building The strain on
the chimney was too great ana ir
gave way The painters were work.
ing near the top Of the building ON
the sixth street side and the distance
to the sidewalk below is about thirty
five feet ana that they escaped I'M
,.t- I'd isl
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-06-14
THE JUDGES BUSY DAY
Seventeen Cases Were Tried in Police
Court Yesterday Before Judge
Robinson.

Judge Robinson had seventeen
asses before him yesterday morning
ihere were six DRINKS, five disorder.
y conduct two carrying concealed
Weapons, tuo frequenting houses Of
II fame, one fighting, and one shoot
ng in the city limits The offender
we're fined all the way from 81 I'd
800 they are as follows Fife Por-
err Albert O'DeH Hampton Vale
IT. F Graham, Ed Charles. Dallas
Green Rosie Goodman. Ernest &c.
ard, Martin Murray, Gertrude JET
erson. Charles NcDcrmott. Wanda
.ampart. A. r. snier Louis Rey.
loIds. Mabel Mcfarland. Halle Tur.
der, Bass TrigS.
The officers re- ponsiblc for the ar
rest OF the above list are Chief Price
illinois Central Officer Mcnamara
Night Sergeant McTigue. Officers
Wilson Tiapcc, Allen Wade. Matti-
son, Nichols C0wel. Atcher. Wright
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-06-14
BIRTHDAY PARTY.

Miss Julia Strong celebrated the
sixth anniversary of her birth yester-
dag afternoon at the home OF her par
ents DR. and Mrs J. Il. Strong 100
Washington avenue, by having a
number Of Young friends spend the
afternoon with her
Games OF various kinds were play
ed after which refreshments were
served in the dining room. which wa
decorated with pink and white ca~na
lions
Each of the young guests We're pre-
scented with a small flag in honor 41
Flag Day. which viii be observed to
day. and The little folks formed a pro
seecion and marched through Tie
house singing America to piano
accompaniment by Mra Strong
A number Of handsome presents
were received by the young hostess.
Those In attendance were. Misses
TRINA Schuh, Ruth Patt.s. Louise Hal
'iday Narg.e Watkins. Herm.na
Conn Iona Bond1raut Marg3rc, Win.
fer. Helen Crchan Katherine Carey
Helen Batter Katherine Branbam
Lillian Halliday Jeanette Preetoriua.
Miriam Clandeucn, Geneva Adamsou.
Fern Ecaf0n, Louise Greble, Ralh
MarE Olga Wundorlich, Laura SUIT
ION Edith Elias, Ida and Grave Sc.
Vile Katherine Stephens Helen Call
gan. Frances Green; Masters Charles
Sehuh Emile ProfIc6 Miller Bcno
John Wood Frank Reed. Edward
Moore, Frank Miller, Warner HalH.
day Eugene Ellis, James Berry. Stan.
ley Marx, Cecil Candee. Johnson Hill
Alfred Holmes.