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The Washington times., 1904-06-22
CAN'T FIGURE LOSSES At
POKER WITHIN $4,000
Lawyer Says Whatever w. H. Laidlcy
Dropped at Gaming Table
Are Assets.

CHICAGO. June 22-"Can you tell
within $50. 600 how much money you lost
playing poker during last Year,"
To this question. asked in examination
Of the affairs OF the alleged bankrupt
grain and stock brokerage firm Of w.
II. Laidley & Co. before referee W.
II. Laidley. the president. replied. mo. -
as this an effort TO discover assets?''
broke in one Of the attorneys present
Yes. and every cent the witness lost
a gambling is an asset and can be re-
covered by the creditors" replied Jacob
Ring. the attorney who was conduct
ing the examination.
We don't have TO sue" he added sig
Esicantly, In reply TO a remark that
he could recover II he could set a judg-
meut.
The Washington times., 1904-06-22
SOLVED WORD PUZZLE;
SUES SENATOR DEPEW|
Man Wants 5000 Prize He Didn't Get Offered by News
paper-Payne as Witness

CHICAGO. June % Summonses for
the appearance of Senator Chauncey NJ
Depew as defendant i'm a suit for $500.
and Postmaster General Henry c. Payne
rs witness. have been issued by Justice
Caverly. The complainant against SEN
ator Depew is Stephen G.. BrabroOk. Of
this CITY.
Postmaster General Payne has been
summoned TO tell why he has neglected
to pay any attention to letters sent
70 him by Brabrook, declaring that a
paper edited by a publishing company
In New York, and supposed TO be back
ed by Senator Depew. was using the
mails TO defraud.
Failed to Get Prize.
According to Brabrook. four years
ago he solved a word puzzle IN the
paper. and expected to receive the re-
ward OF s2G0 He received a calendar
worth cents.
The Washington times., 1904-06-22
KENT LOOMS PROBABLY
LEFT AT PLYMOUTH

Assistant Secretary Loomis. OF the
State Department. IS not alarmed b.
the European dispatches announcing
tn8- his brother. Kent J. LOOMS. who
sailed for Cherbourg on the Kaiser VII
helm H. was missing when that steam
81 reached its destination. Mr. LOOMS
has had several dispatches from pas
scugers on the Kaiser Wilhelm II, as
STRING him that his brother went ashore
wien the vessel touched at Plymouth.
and "a Is believed ne was left there.
Kent J. LOOmis formerly lived al
Petersburg. W Va. but now lives IN
Nov York. and was one OF part
which g. on it's way 70 Abyssinia 20
obtain commercial concessions from
KING Mcueick
The Washington times., 1904-06-22
RULE ON SURE THINGS.

Billy-The rule among sporting men
is that "A man must have a chance 10
win II he has a chance to lose" Your
question does not indicate clearly
whether or not there was a dead-sure
thing involved. II the winner had read
the paper bot n short time before and
knew absolutely "a contained the entry.
then IL was hardly a fair bet. but II
both had read the paper and it was
merely a matter OF memory, then 10
could hardly be called a sure thing. IL
is ridiculous 20 say a man who backs a
sure thing loses his money as a forfeit
for so doing.
The Washington times., 1904-06-22
INV0KES LAW TO PREVENT
OBSTRUCTION OF ALLEY

Lewis L. Watson has fled petition
in the District Supreme Court asking
that Howard NJ. Carver be enjoined from
obstructing any part Of the alley in the
rear Of lots %. 80, and "a. in square $50.
The lots referred to are at the corner OF
L and Canal Streets southwest. Joseph
H. Stewart Is named as counsel for the
complainant.
The Washington times., 1904-06-22
EVANSVILLE NOTES.

EVANSVILLE. Md. June 22.-Deputy
Sheriff Charles w. Barr and Constable
Wallace c. Reybold arrested William
Abigail. Willis Coleman, Joseph Ford,
Boyd Hollis. William Jones. George
s. Mathers. Norris Payne, Wesley Pow
ell. w. r. Padgett a. II. Richards. w.
S. Spicer. Harry Whitlock, and William
Zepp. workmen at the gravel works In
East Hyattsville. which has a contract
for the gravel and sand for the filtration
plant I'm Washington. The charge was
working on Sunday. and they were
brought before Justice Of the Peace w.
Brooke Hunter q. L. Baker, OF the
firm Of Douglas 81 Douglas. Washing
ton. appeared for the accused. and Ma
rion Duckett. of Bladensburg. for the
State Ford. the foreman. plesded gull
". the charges against Mathers, Pad
gett, Whitlock. and Zepp were dismis-
sed. and the others. including Ford were
each fined s.. and costs. which amounts
10 S4.U7. in each case.
The attorney for the defense gave no.
tice Of an appeal, and deposited the
amount for bond. This was Mr. Hunt
er's first case, he having recently quail
ifieo as Justice Of the peace.
The Washington times., 1904-06-22

LEBANON. Pa. June 22.-NO sooner
was Catherine Miller laid in her grave
than the village of Fredericksburg,
where she lived and died. was startled
to hear that the kindly old spinster had
confessed on ner deathbed to the com
mission of four murders.
Three times the old woman told her
strange. almost incredible, story Of
crime committed in the name of mercy.
Il killed my mother, Mrs. Jacob Mil
Ter. sr., my brother. Jacob Miller. and
my sister Mrs. George Albert, because
they were so sick that death was Il
blessing. l gave them white powders.
The Washington times., 1904-06-22
JESSE BROWN DIES
IN | STREET HOME
Clubman SuccumbS After
Brief Illness.
WAS NATIVE OF WASHINGTON
Affiliated With Social Organizations in
This and Other Cities-Eot En-
gagged in Business.
WAS NATIVE OF WASHINGTON

Jesse Brown. prominent clubman Of
the city. died last right II his residence.
lsN Street northwest. He had been ~
two weeks with fever ard heart trouble,
but his condition did nos become alarm
ing urtiI yesterday.
Three weeks ago Mr. Brown returned
from trip 10 New York. and was
stricken a week later DR.. T. V. Ham
mOnd, the family physician. was called
in and pronounced his condit on serious
At o'clock last night the patient
laDscd into unconsclousness and il was
seen the end was not far on Dr. Il. T.
Cuthbert and DR. w r. Compton were
called into consultation. but all efforts
10 prolong Efe wer- unavaillng. ami 1Ir.
Brown passed away at Il O'Clock.
Native of Washington.
Jesse Brown was member Of one OF
WashinStons oldest families. and To-
many years had been prominent IN the
social life OF the city He was born in
Washington ffty-seven years ago. AMI
received his preliminary education here
by means of private instruction. For
some time he was a student a. the old
Gregory School in Georgetown. and SUBJ
seQ,1ently attended schools in Sew Eng
land in preparation for Harvard He
entered the latter institution IN 1ScS, and
graduated with the class OF 1871.
After leaving college he returned 10
Washington, and had since resided here
He never engaged in any business. bu1
spent considerable time in caring for
his inherited interests. which We're large
Several years $50 he was elected to the
directorate OF the Washington Bank
In Club Circles.
In club circles Mr.. Brown was widely
known. not only in Washington. but IN
other large cities. He was a member OF
the Metropolitan Club. the Chevy Ch j.
Club, the Abb Club, and the Country
Club he was also a member OF the
Maryland Club. OF Baltimore; the Unic
and Knickerbocker Clubs. OF New York.
and of clubs in other cities.
Mr.. Brown was a horseman OF note,
and an enthusiastic patron OF racing.
having been steward OF the Washington
Jockey Club.
HIS acquaintance throughout this Sec
ton OF the country was extensive. and
the news or his death has brought forth
expressions OF keen grief from his
friends. Few persons knew OF his
Illness. owing 10 his having been con-
fined 10 the house only two weeks
Surviving Relatives.
He IS survived BY his sister. Mrs. Rosa
WaIlach: three nieces. Mrs. Edward y
Mitchell and the Misses Emily and Rose
Douglass Wallach; and three ncphews,
Marshall Wallach. of san Francisco;
Richard Walach. Of Virginia. and Lieut.
Robert Wallach, Of the army. now sta
toned in Montana He never married.
and had lived for twenty years with his
nieces. Emily and Rose Douglass Wat
ZACH at 1871 / Street.
No arrangements for the funeral hive
been made.
The Washington times., 1904-06-22
AN AMERICAN PRODUCT
Scores Another Great Victory in
Germany.

Germany.
Prof. DR. Lintner. director OF the Sci
entiGc Station for the Brewing Industry
Of Bavaria al Munich upon Analysing
ssPjIsner L-Tuuell" the peers OF the
undergraduates Brauhaus" Of Pilsen. 30
hemia and "Auheuser- Buschs Bud
Welser." under date Of may IL. 1907.
makes the following statement. sworn
10 before DR. Pundter, royal notary, and
verified by Hon. James II. Woman,
L. s Consul General az Munich, Ia
Nuria-
Upon subtecting the several beers 20
a careful analysis ! find that the Bud
weiser Beer submitted by the Anheuser-
Busch Brewing Assn. ST. Louis, L. ,.
a. IL very similar. IN all It's character
istics. 10 the finest and best Pilsener
beers. IL Is effervescenU. clear. ana
sparkling. has a beautiful creamy foam,
ard Is possessed OF a pure. wholesome
taste and an exquisite mop flavor. It's
keeping qualities by far exceed those or
the Pilsener beers. resulting from the
use OF the very best materials In brew
ing, and the thorough maturity OF the
product. The analysis further shows
that no acids or other preservatives have
been used in its production, and as a
'Budweiser a well matured bottled beer
OF the highest quality"
This acknowledgements coming as IL
does from the recognized headquarters
Of the brewing industry OF the Old
World, must be a great source OF graft
fication and IN a measure a cOmpensa-
ton 10 the Anheuser- Busch people for
their unceasing efforts 20 produce the
finest beer that can be made.
The Washington times., 1904-06-22
Aged Woman COnfeSSeS
Murder of Relatives
Declares She Poisoned Mother, Brother, and
Sister to End Their Sufferings---PunCtured
the Brain of Baby.

Il killed the baby born TO my niece
while she was visiting me, because the
child was a disgrace. thrust pin
into its soft little head, and il died in a
minute.
Miss Miller. who was eighty three years
Old. made this confession separately TO
she made her home. She repeated IL in
the presence of q son of the Zeiglcrs.
Then. declaring tina: her mind was ~
rest for the first time in years. she fell
asleep and died.
That was last Friday. Today. after
the funeral, the old womau's story was
made public. Miss Miller was an aunt
Of Mrs Zeicler
The Washington times., 1904-06-22
APPOINTED STUDENT
INTERPRETER IN china

George F. Smithers. Of Delaware. has
been appointed a student interpreter in
China. He was born in Turkey while
his father was serving as United States
consul at Smyrna From 1891 to 1895
Mr.. Smithers was United States vice
consul at Kobe. Japan. He was consul
ut Chung King. China, from 1896 until
1870
The Washington times., 1904-06-22
JOHN G. CHALLICE, LAWYER,
REVIEWS ACQUAlNTANCES

John G. Challice. formerly an attorney
Of this city. and who for the past eight
cen months has been Iocatcd in Nash
vile, Tenn, was a caller at the City
Hall yesterday afternoon, renewing old
acQuaintaDces.
The Washington times., 1904-06-22

Mrs Jules f. Jaquet. of East Hyatts
vile. has returned from a weeks visit
TO her brother. II. g. Hooker. and IN,
family Of President +. ID. Underwood
OF the Erie Railway. In New York
The Washington times., 1904-06-22
WI Co-operate With City.

He quotes the letter written TO Assist
ant Secretary Murray. ordering the first
investigation. and concludes:
The tender Of the services Of certain
Officials OF various departments is ap-
rreciated. and will be awaited OF in such
manner as may seem best. after a full
conference between representatives, Of
your city and of this department The
invest ga ton is 10 be so conducted as to
disclose all the facts. and in pursuance
Of This object 1 feel that We may conf
IDENTIFY rely upon the cooperation Of
S.f New York.
The disaster was Practically the sole
topic at Jhe meeting of the Cabinet yes
terday.
The Washington times., 1904-06-22

Anderson G. Quisenberry. Of the War
Department was called by a telegram
yesterday afternoon to the sick bed CT
his mother. Mrs. r. &. &. Quisenberry,
Winchester. Ky. He was accompanied
by mis- daughter. Florence.
Mrs. Robert Wilson. Spencer Street.
has just spent a week with her sister,
Mrs. l.. IL. Odell. or Philadelphia, who
Is Receiving from a sick attack.
Miss Bessie Ray IS home after a year
AZ the Episcopal Academy. Winchester
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-17
THAT PIPE SCANDAL.

The Democrats have a grievance
Ifbscause the city water pipes are ns-
gihg laid, promptly laid, they. having
arrived about month ago. They are
afraid some of the workmen may vote
the Republican ticket.
The Democrats are right.
Carter ought to be rounded up ano
branded on general principles. but this
pernicious activity in pushing public
work and finishing it up promptly, de-
mands an immediate investigation by
the grand jury.
In the name of an outraged Demo-
cracy we demand, either that the water
pipes be returned, or that they be all
lowed to rust for year before they
are laid.
But alasi 1t is ever thus. The Re
publicans are ever doing things" and
the Democracy is ever grieved thereby.
But there is compensation in every
thing. Carter is only piping the Water.
He is not watering the whisky
This life is a dreary vale of tears;
but while the Primo brewery stands
and Republican activity continues,
the unterrffied Democracy win find life
worth living.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-17
a JUST SENTENCE.

E. S. Boyd's sentence of ten years
Imprisonment at hard labor is severe
but just.
He has deliberately and systemat-
icalIy plundered the treasury for
years. trusting to lax courts and SYM
pathetic juries when found out, to go
scott free In fact, stealing from the
government was becoming established
rs an incident of office.
It needed "a sharp reminder like this
to Offset the failure of justice in other
recent eases, and let the public once
more know that honesty is a primary
qualification for office.
2 What makes Boyd's sentence doubly
just, however, is the lying statement
that he: swore to before the Judge and
Jury. With both hands in the treasury,
with receipts for private bills paid with
government cash and 1. o. Us for Of
fee funds appropriated, In his own
handwriting. and a startling array of
rent receipts for money paid to him
by government tenants, which money
never saw the treasury, he had the
brazen effrontery to swear categorical
" that ha had never appropriated
cent OF government money. and that
whatever money was gone had been
taken by Mahaulu; and this in the
face of deficiency of sso.0O0i
Mahau1u may or may not have been
following the example of his superior
officer. but one thing is sure, and that
is that E. s. Boyd is not only a thief.
but "a dirty one, and ten years On the
rock pile is no more than he de-
serves
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-17

ought to be repealed, but while It re-
mains on the statute book it should be
respected Before the permissible
clause for non-citizen labor is ayailed
of by contractors, they should make it
clear that reasonable wages have been
offered to citizens and by them been
refused or ignored. With regard to
Wilson & Duggan's contract the Az.
vertiser a few days ago admitted a
doubt on the merits of the dispute,
but proposed a test whereby it might
be settled which, SO far as learned,
has not been adopted. This was for
the contractors to make an application,
stating the wages they would pay. to
the Trades and Labor Council for the
number of citizen laborers required.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-17
THE HOMESTEAD Law.

If the present homestead law shall
be aboIished-as the Hawaii Herald
seems to wish in the interest of home
steaders who have not fulfilled the con-
ditions they accepted with their lands
nothing less effective for preventing the
public lands from becoming the spoil of.
spectators should be substituted Not
that all the holders of homesteads who
are aggrieyed at threat of eviction for
breach of conditions are here presumed
to be Spectators. The merits of their
individual cases are unknown to u.s.
What is well known throughout the
Territory is that public lands have been
obtained as homesteads in many cases
by people who never intended to settle
upon them, to be used at the earliest
opportunity as an ordinary commodity
the future of the pretended homestead
er. There are bona fide homesteaders
in the first instance, also. who try to
utilize the law for the purpose of add
ing land to land. The ambition of such
is to acquire large estates under provi-
sions wisely Intended only to provide
homes for small farmers. If there is
provision against this species of land
grabbing in the existing law it should
be retained. A homestead law, as its
name implies, is not intended to de-
velop class of few landed ''squires,
but rather to foster numerous class
of small farmers as the backbone of
an intelligent and independent body
polite.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-17
COULD DISTINGUISH TREAD OF A
FLEA

The quiekness which some persons
possess in distinguishing the smaller
sounds is very remarkable. A friend
of the writer has declared he could
readily perceive the motion of a flea,
when On his nightcap, by the sound
omitted by the machinery of his leap
ing powers.
However extraordinary this may ap-
pear, we find a similar statement is
given in the ingenious work upon in
sects by Kirby and Spence, who say:
Il know of no other insect the tread
of which is accompanied by sound, ea-
cept indeed the flea, whose steps a
woman assured me she always hears
when it passes over her nightcap, and
that it cIacks as if it were walking in
pattens!" If we can suppose the ear
to be alive to such delicate vibrations,
certainly there is nothing in the way Of
sound too difficult for it to achieve.
Cats and dogs can hear the move
ments of their prey at Incredible dis
tances, and that even in the midst of
noise which we would have thought
would have overpowered such effects.
Rabbits, when alarmed, forcibly strike
the earth with their feet, By the. vibra-
tions of which they communicate their
apprehensions to burrows very remote
Mature.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-17
SOUTH AFRICAN DEPRESSION.

Exports from the United States to
British Africa were about 111z million
| dollars in the eight months ending
August 81 1904, as compared with over
20 millions for the corresponding period
in each of the two years preceding. OF
this s11.451. 900 exports to all British
Africa. 1858, 900. or IS per cent, went
to British South Africa; and it is
noteworthy fact that South Africa is
4 our only foreign market in which our
sales do not seem to be increasing.
The Department of Commerce and La
Dor through it's Bureau of Statistics
has recently received some foreign
periodicals which show that the de-
crease is due to a general reduction
in imports of South Africa from all
countries.
An article in the African Review
shows that for the financial year end
ed June last, in Cape Colony, the i'm.
ports decreased, compared with the
previous year, from s1S2, 4ss. $50 to s1S3,-
s2s. $50. "A tremendous shortfall,' the
article says; s-yet against previous
years the deduction is not SO ominous,
for last years total exceeds that OF
1901 by s29, 199, 900 and of 1899 by $751;
1895, 900. The retrogression is therefore
merely a reversion to the lower plane
of ante-bellum trading, and, though
embarrassing for the treasurer general
in estimating the budget, yields no APP
pearance of fundamental decay
In Natal the imports for the first |
half of the current year exhibit de-
crease of s12,1 66, ESQ., compared with the |
corresponding half of last year, and |
the customs revenue is accordingly de- |
creased nearly so per cent. The i'm
ports into the Transvaal (excludings
government and military stores) have /
declined from $50, 113, 900 in 1908 to ST.
164, 600 in 1904, but the exports thence
have increased from $13,071, 900 in 1908
to s1s. SS5,000 in 1904 of which increase
gold provides $3.50, 600. In the Trans
vaal postal savings bank for the Sec
ond quarter of 1904 the deposits
amounted to 1890. 900 and the with
1rawals to s1,564, 0oO against s1,559, 900
and $4,000 respectively in the cor
quarter of 1903.
AS compared with the trade in the
,ther direction, imports into the Unit ,
d States from British Africa are very
mail. but even here there has been
large proportionate decrease. For /
he eight months of the present year
he United States imported s52S.OOv.
much less than in 1903. when the cor :
amount was 100000, or @
han 1902, when the eight months inn il
orts amounted to $4,000
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-17
SHOULD AYLETr Be ENDORSED !?

Kumalae was the king pin Of the
Solid Thirteen and Aylett was his
right hand man.
Kumalae was indicted and convicted
of swindling the government, while
Aylett is a candidate for reelection to
the legislature.
There is an old story of zone that
was taken and the other left" Why
not carry out the parallel to the extent
that Aylett shall be again left on cleo
ton day?
Neither the Republican party nor the
native Hawaiians can afford to have
1t said, and proved. that the perform
apces of the leaders of the Solid Thir-
teen are ignored, simply because they
were not all indicted and convicted.
The members of the thirteen COM
bination were all mixed up together,
like a bucket of cells, so that You
couldn't tell where one began and the
other left off.
II Kumalae belongs in jail. Aylett
does not belong in the legislature.
No party loyalty or race pride or
sympathy 5ustifies ignoring bad
record.
what encouragement is there to a
man to go to the legislature, work hard
and do his duty, and then see such men
as Kumalae's gang being placed high
in the party councils and given high
honors in the party nomination? 1t is
a direct invitation to go and do like
wiseA"only don't get caught" The
party cannot afford it, and the sooner
the voters Of Honolulu teach the party
leaders that it is bad policy, the bet
ter for all concerned.
The Territory has already establish
ed an unenviable reputation at<Wash-
ington, for legislative ineficiency and
lack of character, and what is needed
is to redeem that reputation by elect
ing strong and honorable men to the
legislature, instead of endorsing the
old gang by re-electing their leaders.
Honolulu cannot afford to endorse
v1ett
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-17
GILBERT WALLER.

The Advertiser regrets that Mr..
Waller has decided to run for Senator,
because it cannot support him for that
office.
Mr.. Waller is a good citizen, and if
he will take tie nomination in the
Fourth District, made vacant by the
resignation of Mr.. Hutchins, and run
against Aylett, this paper will take
great pleasure in supporting him; but
there does not seem to be any cool
Iican nominees for the Senate. They
are honest and capable, and should re-
ceive not, only the full party support.
but the votes of conservative De- no
Gratis as well, for In view of the tacEs,
the Democratic senatorial ticket has
no practical chance of election; but
Mr.. Waller may personally draw
enough votes from Mr.. Bishop, for ex-
ample. not to elect himself. but to de-
feat Bishop and elect a Home Ruler.
Mr. Waller certainly does not wish
to be made a catspaw of for this pur-
pose.
We hope that upon further consid-
GRAFTON Mr. Waller may reconsider his
intention TO accept a senatorial nomin-
alton where he has little or no chance
of election: and that the Democratic
party leaders may see their way clear
to nominate him to the House in the
Fourth District, where there is more
than chance to secure his election.