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The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1904-11-25
THE JURY CASE.
Was Politics a Factor in The
Affair?

The discharge Of the jury last week
on charges of illegality has left the
business NJ the district court Of koot-
enai county in badly coDgested con.
dition, as there are a large number of
important cases awaiting trial which
must be delayed. Many hundreds
OF dollars expense to the county has
also been occasioncd from who no
benefit has been derived. each OF the
forty jurymen being paid three dol
lars per diemfor four days besides mil
age which in many instances greatly
Exceeded the per diem.
The evidence introduced appears to
have been of twofold nature; first,
the charge that the jury list had not
been made UP from the poll books as
required by law, and sccUnd, the
charge that G. L. Hoffman influenced
the selection of the Jury. The first
charge was sustained and the jury
dismissed upon it. The second
charge was not sustained as Is show r
: by the judges decision.
Much interest has been aroused ant
, comment made throughout the coun-
ity regarding the affair and the ques
tion has been asked many times tina
if the Jury discharged last week wa
: illegal, was not the jury OF last sprinl
also illegal since 1t was drawn from
the same jury list whose selection ha
been charge,! and judged to have bee
illegally made? Why was not tn
Investigation made at the spring tern
/ it is asked: the same evidence existe
o then that was used last week to quas
is the jury.
= Although the charges implicatin
J. him were not sustained and the 0nst
< opon him therefore failure, Nj
IIeitman keenly resents the attac
of upon his character and integrity. II
! friends ascrlbe the attack upon hi
to the political enmity of his accuse
and even 70 so far as to assert III;
VI had 1t not been for the factional flgi
u in the republican party the legali
Oh OF the jury would never have bee
TO questioned. That those who appea
I'd ed for plaintiff on the witness star
81 were more or less prominent again
lst Hoffman in the celebrated rrinia
at light last su.amcr, is pointed to
=, lending credence to the above alleg
ton, for il such ", re the case, it
claimed that revenge for baflled p
= itical aspirations Is the motive act
III ating his accusers. However, this
u only matter for conjecture. M
" Hoffman, himself, blan,es the coun
y, attorney for being the instigator
n the attack upon his character al
an claims as the cause, political reyeng
lie While everyone regrets the leg
;e- error that caused the discharge Of +
- jury no one regrets that the meth
!. of selecting jurymcn has been rec
fed. AS to the charges implicatil
~ Mr.. LEHMAN, II such wele made
his enemies he has scored veto
IL over them inasmuch as they were u
C. able to substantiate their charg
m against him.
No
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1904-11-25

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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-04-05

CHICAGO, March 1S.-Since their
conviction, two of the three car-barn
bandits have confessed to various
crimes. The most startling is that
of Peter Niedermeyer, who. if his story
is true, has killed a man for every year
of his life.
Il have killed twenty-three men and
wounded seventeen" he declared. IN
nocent men are serving time for my
crimes in more than one penitentiary,
and rewards amounting to $1O,5 are
outstanding for me in different states.
I will confess these crimes if the police
will give me a written promise to give
a part of the reward to my mother"
Gustav Marx, one of the three car
barn bandits now under sentence of
death, made a confession to-day that
he was one of the three men who helu
up the Chicago and Northwestern eX-
press train near De Kalb four years ago
The crime, which has passed into his
tory as one of the most desperate ever
committed in or about Chicago, has
never been fastened upon any one.
Marx says both his confederates in the
robbery are dead, but he refuses to give
their names one Of them, he declares,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-04-05

died with his boots on"
The railway authorities admitted a
loss of 100000 by the robbery. Marx
says the robbers secured only $4,000, the
rest Of the money having been destroy
ed by the explosion of dynamite used to
crack the safe. In a sort Of footnote to
this startling confession Marx admits
the killing of five men in his career
Besides John B. Johnson, killed at
she car barn, Detective Quinn, killed
at the time of my arrest, and Otto
Bauder, whom Roesk is generally sup
posed to have killed, l have killed two
other men. Eight years ago Neider-
meier and I went to Janesville, Wis, to
rob a train, and hid our dynamite
alongside the track. A track-walker, or
railway detective, came upon us and
asked us what we were doing there.
shot him and we threw his body into
Rock river. The other man whom 1
killed 1 had done criminal work with In
Michigan. l met him at Camp Gold
field, Col, when Neidermeier and 1
were there last fall. He knew too much
about me and I killed him and left his
body lying in the suburbs of the camp.
Both these crimes can be verified by
the police"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-04-05
DUTY OF THE BAR
ASSOCIATION
Continued from Page 2O

patronage in my own case, but because
l consider that all men in this country
should be equal before the law, and
that what should render me ineligible
bewail the absence of governmental
for judicial or executive appointment
should render others so.
We have heretofore had a fearless,
competent, honorable and Woodworking
Supreme bench, especially conspicuous
for their acumen and freedom from the
influence of local prejudice, and if the
same high standard had been maintain
ed in the appointments to the Circuit
bench we should have had the public
better satisfied with it's judiciary and
the Supreme court not so severely over
worked as it is at present Judge Gear
and Judge De Bolt are both judicial Of
ficers of unquestionable ability and in
tegrity, and, it seems, that Judge Rob-
inson also with them enjoys the respect
of the Bar so far as his honesty of pur-
pose is concerned. At the same time, it
appears, that too frequently, young men
have been appointed to the Circuit
bench, in order to give them an oppor-
tunity to make a name for themselves,
while they at least for the first few
months of the appointment, have gain
ed experience to the confusion Of the
litigants whose claims they decided and
the great embarrassment of the Su-
preme court in rectifying their judg-
ments. Such having been our expert
ence in the past, until no litigant can
feel that he can rely with any conf
dence whatever on a decision until it
has been made final by the Supreme
court, it becomes of the utmost impOr-
lance that we should have tried men,
of unquestionable ability, on the Su-
preme bench, and that we should try no
experiments with men who have not
proved their capacity. Even a counsel
of eminence may make but an indiffer-
ent Judge, on account of his habit of
enthusiastically sympathizing with on
ly one side of the case, and with the ex-
ercise of the utmost care we may fail
to get the men best suited to the posi-
ton on the Supreme bench; and when
we have justices of such eminent capa-
city and so we'll suited for checking
each others work as the members of
the present Supreme bench have prov
ed themselves, it seems a most regret
able fact that we should be obliged to
replace one of them. But If we were to
attempt to supplant Chief Justice Frear
and Justice Perry, it is hard to say
what inextricable slough we might
plunge ourselves into, when the appoint
ment is made at Washington by men
who have no personal knowledge Of the
individual candidates for that bench,
and but little knowledge of local cir
cumstances.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-04-05

the concessions in our favor by this
treaty we ought to have all of Cuba s
market. 1t will grow with the popula-
ton and in time amount to 100000, 900.
Now, as to fears of the trouble which
will come to the beet-sugar interests of
the country and cane-sugar interests of
Hawaii and Louisiana, the testimony
shows that the profits upon beet sugar
at present are such that 20 per cent can
be yielded in the tariff and the beet
sugar interests still receive a very
handsome profit.
The beet-sugar men testified that if
uncertainty is removed and they can
be secure by this legislation for five
years they will feel much safer and
more ready to increase their factories
and areas of planting than they would
if uncertainty and agitation continue.
This testimony also shows that there is
an increase of consumption in the Unit
ed States proportionate to the increase
in population, amounting in the neigh
borhood of six per cent per year. The
beet and cane sugar production so far
have not grown any more rapidly, or
hardly appreciably more rapidly, than
the consumption of sugar in the United
States.
The speech of the Senator of Louisiana
developed what 1 suspected before,
what every man who has studied this
question knows-that there is to be an
internal fight to the death in this coun-
try between the beet and the cane in
.terests and between the beet interests
Vim different sections.
We are in the habit in this country of
predicting trouble. 1t is almost a ma
tional popularity. We are a highly
Imaginative, a sensitive and apprehen-
sive people. Two-thirds die before their
time from worrying about what never
happens. When Hawaii was about to
be annexed, the wall which went up in
both Houses of Congress, which shook
the rafters of the sugar planters houses
in Louisiana, and sent terror through
the beet-sugar States, is only equaled
by the peril which so scares my dis
tinguished friends now.
When Porto Rico received a reduction
to fifteen per cent of the rates of the
Dingley tariff we all remember that you
could cut the blue in this Chamber with
a knife Even those of US who were on
the Committee on Pacific Islands and
Porto Rica, who had examined the
question and knew by the facts that
these dreadful disasters could not hap
pen, had our apprehensions aroused.
Now Porto Rico's products are admit
ted free and the ghost has vanished.
Mr.. President, the point am making
is simply this: 1t is addressed to the
alarming speeches as to what will oc-
cur from the productive power Of the
Island of Cuba. Here is a territory
which has nearly 1900 less square miles
than the State of New York, and yet
the assertion is gravely made by Sem
ators that this territory can impair, If
not ruin, the industries in a majority
Of States, each of which is from one to
six times as large, and possesses soil,
climate and every necessary to compe-
tition. 1t seems to me to be a reduce
ito ad absurdum.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-04-05
LENERS I COOKE. lid.
1T SOUTH KING IT.

BORN.
LYCURGUS-In Honolulu, April 4, 1904,
to the wife Of George A. Lycurgus. a
daughter.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-04-05
NEAR BBTHER

Justices Frear and Perry exposed
themselves to grave personal chargesi
when they undertook to override legal
precedent and rearrest the murderers
and other felons, whom Judge Estee
and Judge Gear had, quite as con-
scientiously and certainly more strict
ly according to established law, releas-
ed on hearing writs of habeas corpus;
and the Hawaiian Reports show the
work of the distinguished justices on
the Supreme bench compares favorably
with the reported decisions of the best
jurists in the nation. 1t consequent
ly seems strange when our Supreme
Court is at least one institution in this
new country that stands above re-
proach, that we should consider the
ACCESSIBILITY of making radical changes
in it, when there are many other things
neglected, which require the most care
full remodelling. If we could get the
same high stanadrd of legal experience
and capacity en- all our Circuit benches,
that exists in the Supreme Court, we
should not have cases lasting until they
are outlawed by being sent up to the
Supreme Court by Circuit judges who
could not grasp the law, and sent back
again by the Supreme Court with in
struchons to the Circuit court to en-
able that institution to take one step
farther before it would again return
them to the Supreme Court for further
instructions on points on which the
courts of all states absolutely agree,
and which any lawyer of capacity
should be able to satisfy himself about
in, at the outside, an evenings reading.
On the other hand, if we tamper with, !,
the Supreme Court and get a personnel
on it that becomes befogged over abb
struse points so that it's decisions will
be a gamble without being influenced
by law, we may expect still further dis
astrous effects on commercial credit,
until the banks will refuse to cash their
customers checks unless to the custo-
mers in person, Unsteady of merely re-
fusing government warrants. 1t is
the undoubted duty of the Bar Asso-
citation to see that no incapable candi-
date for Justice Galbraith's place, no
matter how amiable or honest he may
be, shall receive their recognition as
competent for that position, even
though his incapacity may be the re-
suit OF YOUTH OF lack OF tnOrOuBu le-
gal training, or some mental foible
which makes him unable to unravel alb
struse questions of law though they
are absolutely settled ones.
1t may be a very good thing for the
lawyers of this community that there
are five or six hundred cases on the
civil calendar at each term Of the Cir
cult Court, with a prospect of many
of those cases lasting indefinitely with
the standard of capacity existing a
mong some of the Circuit Judges; but
even the lawyers and certainly the lay
men would be much better off If mat
tiers were so arranged that litlgants[
could get a speedy hearing which would y
so accurately determine the law of the
case that a reversal on appeal would 3
be extremely unusual.
Yours respectfully,
AN OUTSIDER.
veenlalsaaOj tiscinatoi(?ao
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-04-05
ParquGtry

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hardwood floors. 1t comes in the most
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are shown at our store.
Any good carpenter can easily lay
the most intricate patterns by follow
ing the simple instructions we furnish
and previous experience is unneces-
sary.
We also supply the world famed
Johnson's floor preT .radons extensive
ly advertised in leading magazines in
Guiding; Prepared wax, Powdered wax,
(for dancing,) Restorer, Remover, Sol
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etc.
Free for the asking; illustrated book
let "The Prooer Treatment for Hard
wood Floors" at
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-04-05
WAS ANNEXED.

There is to be a fight to the death,
said Senator Depew of New York in a
/ recent Senate discussion on the Cuban
reciprocity bill, between the cane and
sugar interests of the United States and
between different beet sugar sections.
The senator had a lot to say about the
sugar business and drew a comparison
between the annexation of Hawaii and
Cuban reciprocity, as far as effects on
American business are concerned. His
address was in part as follows:
Mr.. President as 1 was saying, in
round numbers we consume in this
country 100000 tons of sugar. OF this
we raise about 100000 tons. OF this
100000 tons Louisiana produces
about 100000 tons, the Hawaiian Islands
$4,000 tons, the beet-sugar industry Of
the country 100000 tons, and Porto Rico
$4,000 tons, making about 100000 tons
from our continent and our island pos
sessions. OF the 100000 tons which
we buy, last year 100000 tons came
from Cuba and the rest from the Brit
ish Islands, from Germany and other
countries.
Mr.. Cullom. About one-half of our
purchases from other countries was
from Cuba.
Mr.. Depew. More than one-half. Two
thirds of our purchases were from Gu
ba. Cuba raises about one million tons
a year. and the 100000 tons extra is ac-
counted for by having come over from
the year before, when, on account of
loss by tariff conditions in our market,
it could not be sold.
The average duty upon all products
coming into the United States is about
so per cent, taking high and low, with
the exception of sugar and tobacco. The
duty upon sugar is 70 per cent, or, in
! it's selling price, about 100 per cent. The
duty upon tobacco is 1903 per cent. If
we take 20 per cent off of sugar the
duty will be still So or 70 per cent, or 80
per cent higher than the average duty
upon other products, and higher than
the duty imposed upon anything except
/ tobacco.
The testimony shows that at present
the tariff of 1.68 cents on Cuban sugar
it can not be sold in New York except
at a loss, sufficient to ruin the ordinary
sugar planter of Cuba, though a few
very large planters who have capital,
exceptional machinery and particular
locations may barely survive. With the
concession of 20 per cent there is a mod
crate profit to the Cuban planter.
Anyone who will read the testimony
of the planters will see that the whole
of this difference goes to them. The
Senator from Louisiana says yes, but
only to a few planters and none to la
Dor The production of sugar employs
three-fourths of the workingmen of
Cuba. It's prosperity is theirs also.
Their wages and living are dependent
as much upon its remunerative sale as
are those of the artisans in any indus
try anywhere upon its prosperity or
decay.
Cuba imports $6O,OOO,OOO worth Of
goods annually, of which we sell $780,
100000. They are all articles we either
produce or manufacture and we have
ferry to the island as against the At
lantic ocean to our competitors. With
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-04-05
INWARD.

q p DENNISON +. c. SMITH,
supt. G. p, A. T. A
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-04-05
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The Forrest City times., 1904-04-22

Pink Williams Hanged.

Pink Williams. negro, was hanged
at Helena on the 18th inst. The crime
for which Williams paid the penalty
was committed on October %. last
year. Circuit court was in session at
the time. He was arrested. tried and
convicted and sentenced to be hung
within four days after committing the
deed. An appeal was taken because of
an elleged irregularity in the jury Sc.
lected, but the decision of the lower
court was affirmed and on March II
Gov. Davis set the date for carrying
out the sentence. Williams killed his
wife because she did not have supper
prepared when he returned from town.
where he had spent the day drinking,
the crime being committed on the Polk
plantation, nine miles from Helena.
The woman was expecting TO give
birth to child at almost any mo.
ment when she was shot down by the
drunken husband. thus making the
crime all the more revolving.
The Forrest City times., 1904-04-22
Mystic Shriners to Hold a Session
at Ft. Smith, May II and 22.
EVENTS OF LweEK BRIEFLY CHRoNICLED
Arkansas State Press Association to
Meet in ST. Louis Instead of Little
Rock - Fourth-Class Postmasters
Appointed.
Church Statlctics.

Secretary Love of the State Baptist
convention, has issued the following
statement: During the last Southern
Baptist convention year, which began
May !, 1902, and ended May /, 1903
southern Baptists raised the following
amounts: Home missions, in cash.
not including boxes to missionaries.
etc., S118,262.6S; foreign missions in
cash, S21S,51262 During the last
state convention year, which began
November IA, 1902, and ended Noyem-
Der IL, 1908, the following amounts
were raised for missions by churches
and individuals cooperating with the
Arkansas convention: State missions,
S6,904.92; foreign missions, $4,031. 30;
home missions, not including boxes to
missionaries, etc, s2,399.73; total
state. home and foreign missions.
s13,335.97. This was a gain over the
year before of $4,545.54 Total benev-
olences reported to the last conven-
tion, S2S,000.05 Number missionaries
and missionary pastors, 81. All paid
their salaries and several hundred
dollars left in the treasury. Total ad-
ditons 10 Baptist churches in Arkan-
sas from missionary labor. not includ-
ing volunteer mission work, 1857.
The work for the Southern Baptist
convention is laid out on the follow
ing basis for the present year: For
eign missions, $780, 900. home mis-
sions. 100000. The mission work for
hA
laid out on the following basis: State
missions, $4,000; foreign missions,
$1,000; home missions, $4,000.
The Forrest City times., 1904-04-22
ALEX|EFF ASKS
TO Be RECALLED
Expected That His Request Will
Be Immediately Granted.
NO OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Reported Appointment of Vice-Ad-
miral slsrNdoIoff. an Enemy
of AleXien's. said to
He the Cause.

st. Petersburg. April 20-Viceroy
Alexieff has applied by telegram to the
emperor to be relieved of his position of
viceroy in the far east. 1t is expected
that the request will be Immediately
granted
While no official announcement has yet
been made, there is reason TO believe
that the above statement is correct
The immediate cause of the viceroy's
application is reported to be the ap-
pointment of Vice Admiral Skrydoloff
one of Viceroy Alexieff's strongest enc
mics and sharpest critics, as successor
to the late Vice-Admiral Makaroff, in
command of the Russian navy in the
far east.
Vice-Admiral Skrydoloff had an in
terview with the emperor Tuesday, and
discussed with his majesty the ques-
ton of his (Skrydolon's relations
with Alexieff.
The Forrest City times., 1904-04-22
Postnasters Appointed,'

The following f0urth-claSs poStmas
ters were appointed last week:
Naylor, Faulkner county, w. c.
Graham, vice Sola T. Brady, resigned
Price, Garland county. Richard NJ
Price, vice Tennessee Price, resigned
Flippin. Marion county, John H
Burch, vice James w Pierce, remov.
ed
Neill. Lonoke county. William B
Harvill, vice Winfrey Flynn, resigned
Adine. Calhoun county. A. c. Ables
vice Isaac V. Ables, resigned
Bayspur. Cross county. William A
Carter, vice i. L. Stedman, resigned
Egypt, Craighead county. GOWN w
Lambert, vice Edward A. Cole, resign
ed.
Hamil Randolph county, J. r. Ii
ner, vice Alexander Stout, resigned.
Latham, Van Buren, county, James
II. McEntire, vice Adam w Hatley, re-
signed
Pitkin Washington county, s. NJ.
Smith, vice Andrew B. Smith, resign
ed.
Remmel, Jackson county, Andrew
n Balch, vice Charles c. Dean, resign
ed.
Schaal, Howard county, Martin F.
Baker, vice Henry Schaal, resigned
Weber, Arkansas county, Mary E.
ROLAND, vice B. A. Smith. removed.
The Forrest City times., 1904-04-22
THE STATE CLOSES ITS CASE
Fate of &. w. Graves, Charged with
Wife Murder, Now in Hands
of the Jury.

Des Moines, Ia, April 20.-The state
closed its case Tuesday in the trial of
c. w. Graves, charged with the mur-
der of his wife.
The sensational part of the trial
Tuesday afternoon was the testimony
of Mrs. Winnifred Halbach, a New
York actress, the daughter of Mrs.
Graves, whom Graves is accused of
numbering. She told how her stepfa-
ther once held her mother by the
throat and had thrown her to the floor,
because her mother had tapped on a
paper which he was reading She tes-
titled that she had often heard her
stepfather threaten to kill his wife.
John Mulvaney. a lawyer. testified to
the domestic relations of the pair. pre-
vious to the time that Mrs. Graves was
found apparently burned TO death. The
testimony of the physicians who exam
ined her and who testified that death
was due to strangling has not been
shaken.