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The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1904-06-09
wat TIE MBSSsl Life lnsurupe, ~
paHy % New York Is DOInr /.
Plorida,

easy o. New YOrk Is Doing
Plorida,
The following claims were u.is !.
the beneGciaries Of persona VA,
sere only very recently insured.
s. B. Hubbard, Jacksonville, a.,
900. Mr.. Hubbard lived to paw N.
" 5 premiums for most OF tbis,
w. r. Rhodus, Burch, sss.oOO
Mr.. Rhodus lived to pay ouIS-s
premiums for this.
NJ. l.. Wannamsker, Dunnello,
81 600. Mr.. Wannamaker paid u'
only 5 premiums for this.
w. G. O'Neil, Pensacola, SEQ. Don
died before policies were receives
yet the Co, paid CLAIM.
Charles H. Owen, Tampa, Si,ooO
Mr.. Oven paid only 5 premiums 70,
this
Jacob wstitzky. Punta Gords,
$500. Mr.. Wati,zky paid only
premiums Cor iris.
q. d, Knapp, Greenwood, $4,000.
Mr.. Knapp paid only s premiums
for this.
J, r. Finch. Jacksonville, 1000
He paid only 8 pre- 1iuIus for thIu,
Archibal Singer, JnoksOnvi willie.
$4,000. Mr., Singer pad only 8
premiums tor this.
John A S'montn, Micanopy,
$4,000. MIR. Singer paid only s
preDiu M for this.
Green b. Sap, Raitord, g.. 500,
Me-. SSpp ,,air MY 2 premiums for
thts
Total, $40 900. .,
This list AT 8 up S76 900 and rep.
r seEtS this much ODpy recently
lnid ip cash Nv He Mutual Life In
sursnce Company New York to
the wives q d chl m Florida Of
persons who on'y ~ d 'oog enough
b. pay some Nv" or ,hree premiums
to the company.
What better investment or surer
provision could these persons have
made for the wife and children! This
It does SOt include half Of what the
. 'mpany has paid in Florida within
'he past few months. II is simply
oaI tisl list OF those NEW insurers
Who have died just after or soon az
er taking p'licis. These persons
we're perfe,tly we'll and moving
around amongst us q short time ago.
Now they art gone to the great be-
'ond. But they made excellent
provision fOI thore they left behind.
lave you dome as much2 Think
'oout the MAYER. Remember the
Id Mutual Life OF New York is the
argest and strongest Company in the
rid aud the oldest In America. II
eut the city II Jacksonville 81, 900
promptly BY wire to be distributed
mong the deserving poor when that
ity was laid lou hy fire. It has
oaned thousands az dollars TO the
florida psilicy.holders In recent
ears. Two Of the large s.tice build.
ngs now sdorning the city OF Jack
OnVille we'e built with the money
'aned BY the Company at q low in.
'rest rate. Il 10 the only insurance
Impany doing business in Florida
ccupying lie own buildiug. II
rites mote insurance In Florida
ran any other company, and 10 the
ompany that 10 doing the most
GOD to-day everywhere.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-05-07

HONOLULU, May THE leper island
of Molokai is a thing never to be for
gotten The miseries of the island
prison must linger, strangely associ-
ated with its haunting beauty, a life
long memory in the mind of anyone
who has the temerity to visit the glo-
rious tropic isle where over thousand
men, women and children, stricken
beyond hope of cure, await the newt
able end.
Bathed in the tropical sunshine and
washed by the lazy waves of a sap
phire sea, Molokai lies in the middle
of the Pacific ocean, one of the most
beautiful islands in the world, and yet
perhaps no spot on earth can equal
the hopeless horror and the concen-
trated misery of the little white viii
lage settlement whose inhabitants suf-
fer such Indebtedness as can only end
with life itself.
The leper colony at Molokai is
UNDER THE CONTROL
of the Hawaiian territorial govern
ment, which furnishes rations for the
prisoners and attends to their wants
q COlO1ly anu
the territorial board of health An
endeavor has recently been made,
however, to have the institution turn
ed over to the federal government and
make it the national place of exile for
those unfOrtunates who are afflicted
with Ieprosy-the most revolving of
all fatal maladies, and for which med
ical science has not yet found RENE
e,,J
The valley of Molokai is a natural
prison. Not a single stroke of human
handiwork was necessary to make it
a place of exile when it was set aside
for the confinement of the Hawaiian
lepers in 1887 The valley, which is
triangular in shape, is situated at one
end of the large island of Molokai, cut
off from a
GREAT BARREN STRETCH
of arid land by a precipitOus chain Of
mountains, which tower abruptly up
ward to a height of from 1000 to 5000
feet. The impossible walls of this
mountain chain shuts in the valley on
one side and the other two sides are
surrounded by the sea- the spray OF
which dashes against the jutting coral
shoals and leaps twenty feet into the
air along the coast, making 1t i'm
possible for vessels or small boats to
safely come within mile and half
of the island No boat manned by
escaping lepers could possibly live to
reach a vessel at anchor outside the
reefs. So completely impossible of es-
cape is the prison valley that it is
most difficult for even the official in
vestigating parties to effect a land
ing. To do this the board of health
semi-annually anchors its little steam
err off about two miles from the most
favorable point of the coast, and EN-
banks in rowboats, handled by shillful
natives, and cautiously draw in by a
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selected sea road to the shelter of a
break-water which has been built out
from Kalaupapa point
1t was thus that, as a newspaper
correspondent, l landed with the ter
ritorial board of health on one of its
last official visits. AS we stepped from
the boats to the landing there was a
burst of music from a neighboring
knoll. Underneath a palm tree was
stationed the leper brass band,
PLAYING ALOHA OE,"
the native song of greeting. The mu-
sic was pathetic in it's imperfection.
Manned fingers endeavored to fill the
stops of the flutes and distorted lips
struggled to produce the correct tones
from the comets. The instruments
had been presented to the band a year
before. The Hawaiians are natural
musicians and in addition to the brass
band the lepers have several stringed
orchestras, which sweeten the beau
tiful tropical evenings with the plain
tive strains of Hawaiian music.
All along the shore were crowded
the lepers, dressed in their holiday
clothes and wearing wreaths of fow-
ers and leaves about their neclls, ac-
cording to the Hawaiian custom. They
gazed into our faces hungrily. Ours
were the first from the outer world
they had seen in six months. And
with Mortified fascination their gaze
was returned. They were gathered
inside a fence on the bank above us
and en- masse they presented night
mare vision. From the cheeks and
ears Of some hung great globules and
blisters, the work of tubercular lep-
rosy. The eyes Of others seemed perm
anently starting from their sockets
while the lids were painfully drawn
These were the victims of ocular lep-
rosy. And, most revolving of all, were
those with hanging jaws and decay
ing features, those unfOrt1nates upon
whom were visited the two most hor
rible forms of the dread disease. They
stood waving their hands in greeting
and endeavOring to make us welcome
We passed up plank walk and
through the first gateway, then sud-
denly there came to our ears the
sound of the 'leper's wall" a long
peculiarly wierd sound of mourning
and sorrow, which is never heard else
where than at the meetings and part
ings of the lepers and their friends
1t came from a little round knoll a
short distance away. This knoll was
surrounded by a circular double fence,
the two fences being about six feet
apart, and leading up to the corral, or
stockade, was a patch, likewise doub-
ly fenced. Along this path and into
the corral had been driven the 38 Ha-
waiians,
RELATIVES OF THE LEPERS,
who had been allowed the privilege of
coming with the board Of health to
visit their dying nearest of kin. Each
year limited number of relatives are
allowed to go, and the visitors are Sc
lected with view to permitting the
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oldest and longest separated relatives
the melancholy pleasure of once again
looking upon the face of a doomed
father, mother, sister or brother. They
had been confined in the steerage and
we had seen little of them, and they
had been landed previously in other
boats
Now they had been driven along the
enclosed pathway and were herded to-
gether on the top of the knoll in the.
middle Of the corral, reaching out
their arms over the fences towards
their doomed relatives, who crowded
close to the outside fence, six feet
away and reached vainly through the
bars with the stumps of decaying
arms. The Hawaiians are a very af-
fectionate people, and the double
fenced stockade was instituted for the
purpose OF preventing their reckless
demonstrations of affection and the
consequent danger of infection. Be-
fore the stockade plan was adopted
the visitors and the lepers used to
rush into each others arms with affec-
Tomato abandon and thus expose them
selves to the disease, of which they
seem to have no fear or horror what
thing to see the lepers and their Wis
itors divided by the double fence, ex-
pressing their sorrow and their pleas
ure in the eloquent gestures of the
Hawaiian race, and to hear them speak
the soft musical kanaka words of
greeting or join in the wierd lepers'
wall, while tossing wreaths of flowers
over the fences to each other.
But this was only the first of many
strange things that were to follow, for
the leper colony at Molokai is rich in
things of pathos and of unspeakable
horror Over the beautiful little val
ley beamed the morning sun, which
had just lifted itself out of the sea.
The slant rays shone on the church
steeples and the little white cottages
of the village of Kalaupapa as we
climbed the hill. Away in the distance
stretched the green swells, and along
the shores
FRINGE OF PALM TREES,
with a background of leaping white
spray, led away towards the north,
where the spires of the village of Ka-
lauwao could be seen nesting under
the shelter of the towering blue cliffs
of the greatest natural blue wall in
the world Down it's face leaped the
pure mountain strea mwhich supplies
the valley of the doomed with water.
The glory of the tropic morning, the
beautiful tints of the scenery, and the
twitter of the birds in the trees seem
ed strangely out of keeping with the
horror and the misery of the one thou
sand souls imprisoned there, but the
Y1rianOare Wnrp in nyi1a yl,fofor
tune, not a crime, and since they must
suffer exile, it seemed fitting that the
lepers should be given the most beau
tiful prison on earth.
NAN BYXBEE.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-05-07

First Presbyterian church, @ and South
Tenth streets, Rev A, Fl. Barnhisel, pas
tor; 1880 a. m, what Is Christian
Colleges s p. m, the second in a series
Of sermons on the Book Of Esther.
Esther, the Queen and the Deliverer Of
Israel
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-05-07
FAMILY FEUD
PROVES FATAL

LULING, Tex, May IL. M. Nixon,
a member of the state Democratic execu-
tive and wealthy planter, this morning
shot and killed r. w. Malone and Colonel
Veasy, both prominent citizens. The
shooting was the result of family feud.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-05-07

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 7. - The
PRESENT today reappointed Captain Albert
Mills, commandant of West Point, as brig
adler general in the army. The senate last
session refused to confirm the nomination.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-05-07
SEATTLE BOY
IS KIDNAPPED

SEATTLE, May 7.-Yesterday morning
the two-year-old son of r. D. Baker. dis
appeared in a mysterious manner. The
smother was with the child at Eagle Har-
bcr, a summer resort and as they were
yaesing through a small growth Of trees he
Esappeared.
All day and night a searching party
occurred the island but found no clew. The
Pinkrrton detectives, who are also working
an the case, say it is another case of kid
tapping.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-05-07

Mason NJ. e. church, Thirty.third and
Proctor streets; Rev. G. A. Landen, pas
tor; IL a. m, "Is the Position Of the
Church on the Amusement Question the
Correct One! 7:45 p. m, can Exalted
Privilege.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-05-07

JOLIET. May w. Crolius, Demo
cratic candidate for governor, three police
officers and one citizen were indicted for
conspiracy with policemen for the al
legged intimidation of voters. The case
grows out OF an election in which the &C
clsed are alleged to have interfered.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-05-07

Afro-American Concert company will
give a concert Monday night at $3.50 at the
Germania hall. Don't fail to come and
hear the famed quartette.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-05-07

Swedish Evangelical Lutheran church
South Eighth and 1 streets; Rev. c. f.
Frisk, PASTOR; 1915 a. M, Christ In.
structing His Disciples to Pray; p. m.
English service, False and True Wor-
ship" Special music at evening service.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-05-07

SEOUL, May Prince Adelbert, the
third son of the German emperor, arrived
at Chemulpo, incognito, on the cruiser
Hertha.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-05-07

First NJ. +. church, corner South Eighth
and G streets; Daniel L. RAIDER, pastor;
1890 a. m. and 5 p. m, the Rev. j. NJ,
Beck of the Fast Ohio Conference will
preach
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-05-07

Swedish NJ. E. church. j and Eleventh
streets, Rev. John OVAL, pastor; II a. M,
Blessing of Christianity; p. m. "The
Good Hope.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-05-07

Rev. Carlo A. Sperati, Of Our Savior's
Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran church,
win hold services at Our Savior's Mission
in the Baptist church at South Tacoma
tomorrow at $3.50 p. m.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-05-07

Second NJ. r. church, North Twenty
eighth and Starr streets; Rev. +. #. Allen
viii preach; II a. m, Divine and Human
Cooperation; p, m, "Glorying in the
Cross"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-05-07

Emmanuel Baptist church, Wright ave.
nue. and East d streets, Rev. S, A. Abbott,
Abbott, pastor; II a. m, Humiliation"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-05-07

Y. NJ. G. A., 747 st. Helens avenue; 8
p. m, Secretary George Botsford win
speak at an informal meeting.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-05-07

WASHINGTON TRUCK CO., j. C. Hew-
ST & Co. General freighting, household
goods, safes and pianos removed. Office
zoe Tenth st. offcs telephone, John 234l
Barn telephone, James 234l.
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Stafford & Slower in the Hunters
Game next week at the Orpheum. "'H
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SUNDAY TOPICS

South Tacoma Baptist church. South
sixtieth and Warner streets, Rev. S. A.
Abbott, pastors 1890 p. m, Hard Times"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-05-07

Central M. Il. church, j and Twenty.arst
streets, Rev. James Clulow, pastor; IL
a. m, Faiths Mouth Can Never be
Closed; p m, "Crowns Trodden Under
Foot; 8 p. m, "Without Money and
Without Price" 9
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-05-07

Central Christian church, South Third
and X streets, Rev. H. X. Pendleton, pas
tori II a. m, "Ths Evaneehzation of
America, the evening service viii be
adjourned In order TO attend the Christian
Endeavor service held in the First Chris
tian church by r. II. Waggener.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-05-07

Badly & Badly, Osteopaths, moved to
Provident Bldg. Offices open on Monday
and Friday evenings. Phone, Main 2ls. -"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-05-07

The Str Greyhound Is now on the ran
from Tacoma TO Olympia. %"
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streets, heV. James Clulow, pastor; ii
a. m, Faiths Mouth Can Never be
Closed; p. m, "Crowns Trodden Under
Foot; s p. M, "Without Money and
Without Price
Emmanuel Presbyterian church. North ]
and Ninth streets, Rev. Arthur l.. Hntchi.
son, pastor; 1880 a. M. SHADOW Max.
ing; s p. M, third sermon Of a series on
Jonah, "A Type Of Jewish Nation"
East Tacoma Congregational church,
East Twenty eighth and e streets, Rev.
John Reid, pastor; II a. m. Problems
That Face the Church Today: viii the
Gospel Solve Them? 1880 p. M, "No
Cross; Or the Philosophy OF Jesus
Christ
st. Luke's Memorial, street and Sixth
avenue, Rev. F. T, Webb pastor; Il a. M,
"Thine Forever"
st. Andrews chapel, North Eighth and
Cakes streets; Rev. +. T. Webb rector;
8 p. m, Confirmed and Being Con-
frmed.'
AhGlIlOQlob bHuitIs t'uuln IdNOl1ds 4 ID.
M. Rev. John OVAL will preach on God
Our Helper" in Swedish language.
First Christian church, L and South
Thirteenth streets, Rev. Morton l.. Rose
pastor; IL a. M, Consolation" p. M,
Mr.. r. II. Waggener of Kansas CITY, Mo-,
national superintendent of the Christian
Endeavor, will give an address of general
interest. All interested in the Y. p, S.
c. <. are specially invited.
Holy Communion church, South / and
Fourteenth streets, Rev Harry Hudson,
rector; IL a. M, ''Unspotted from the
World"
st. Johns church, South Tacoma, Rev
The Orpheum for pleasure and ente n
ment. *
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Pide or the fast ST. ureyAoand when
going to Olympia.
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Marry Hudson, rectorJ 1880 .. m, ''The
Power Of Prayer"
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The Orpheum for pleasure and ente n
nent. %+f
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-14
ASSASSIN GETS
LIFE SENTENCE
Murderer of Won Plehwe
to Pass His Remaining
Years at Hard Labor
END OF NOTED TRIAL
Accomplice of the Bomb
Thrower Is Let Off With
a Twenty Year Term

ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 13.-Sason-
eff, who threw the bomb which killed
Minister of the Interior Won Plehwe,
and SIkorifsky, his accomplice in
crime, were to-day found guilty by the
Court Of Appeals, sitting in the law
court building. The former was SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment with hard
labor and the latter to twenty years
Imprisonment.
The trial had been expected to last
two days. but 1t was rushed to
speedy completion, in view Of the pos
sibility OF revolutionary demonstra-
tions The trial was behind closed doors
and all entrances to the building were
guarded and only persons who could
produce summonses were admitted.
Even members Of the bar were treated
as outsiders Large police reserves
were stationed wHhin the building and
in the court yards Of the ordinance
factory, while mounted gendarmes pa
trolled the sides Of the building
The procedure followed closely that
of the French courts. The prosecutor
opened with presenting the case for
the Government, the indictment was
read and the prisoners were arraigned,
pleading justifiable homicide. after
which the witnesses were examined.
Sasoneffs apologize is declared to be
a remarkable document, showing the
prisoner to be a man of superior in
tellect and learning. 1t fills several
closely written pages, was drawn up
while he lay in the hospital and sets
forth the aims and purposes Of the
Social revolutionary party. and the
fighting organization, the reasons and
motives for the murder Of Minister Won
Plehwe, and also his version Of the
crime himself
Toward night, when the shops and
factories were closed, the size of the
crowds increased and there were soc-
casional shouts of "Acquit themI" but
there was no attempt at an actual
demonstration. Only a few arrests
were made.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-14
HALL WRECKED
BY DEPUTIES
Interior Of the Parliament
House Torn to Pieces by
the Opposition in Hungary
FIGHT WITH GUARDS
Violent Scenes Enacted in
the Endeavor to Prevent
Opening of the Session

BUDAPEST, Dec. 13-Violent as
have been the scenes at past sessions
of the Hungarian Parliament, they
have been entirely overshadowed by
the wreckage effected by members Of
the Opposition party this morning in
their successful efforts to prevent the
opening of Parliament. A quarter Of
an hour before the time appointed for
the commencement of business the OPP
position mustered in full strength. Not
one of the Government supporters
had arrived. and the Opposition had
the house to itself with the exception
of the personal guard Of forty men pro-
Vided for the projection of the presi-
dent of the house. The presence OF
these guards, who occupied the ap-
proaches to the presidential platform,
seemed to inflame the Opposition Dep
uties, who in opprobrious terms shouted
at the "Hungarians who could perform
such shameful service"
The Deputies then approached the
platform and a Scuffie with the guards
ensued The Deputies fought their
way to the platform, tore it to pieces,
scattered the debris over the house,
tore to atoms the codes Of law on the
presidents table, smashed the tables
and chairs and destroyed the platform
RACOC''
among the Deputies, who, thus armed,
attacked the guards and after brief
fight drove them from the house.
The desks were then torn down and
the interior of the house was almost
completely wrecked. None of the Lib
eral members ventured inside the
house, and the Opposition members.
after completing the ruin, established
themselves on the site erstwhile oc-
cupied by the presidential rostrum.
The Liberals have been summoned to
a conference to decide on their course
of action. The sittings in both houses
of Parliament arranged for to-day
were postponed until tomorrow.
Minister Of Justice Plosz had a con-
ference tonight with the Public Pros
ecutor and arranged for the prosecu-
ton of the offending Deputies. 1t Is
rumored that the troops will be held
in readiness provided with ball cart
ridges near the Parliament building
tomorrow and Premier Tizsa is said
to be determined to hold the sitting
under the protection Of bayonets.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-14
HINTS AT NEW SENSATION.
Clergyman Intimates the Carnegie
Signatures Are Genuine.

PITTSBURG, Pa, Dec. 13.-Rev. A.
H. Jolly, who united Mrs. Chadwick in
marriage with his cousin, DR.. Leroy S.
Chadwick, in an interview to-day ad-
mitted that he was in possession of
several important secrets in connection
with the famous case, but could not
talk for publication. He made a plea
for fair play for Mrs. Chadwick and
said she was a grossly wronged wo-
man.
Questioned as to the truth of the
rumOr that Mrs. Chadwick had sue
ceeded in negotiating a loan for $780,
900 in Pittsburg he declined to confirm
or deny the report. Continuing he
said:
1T is claimed the paper held by Mrs.
Chadwick is forged Do you know
that it was forged paper? No one else
does. 1t remains for the court to prove
that"
At this junction Jolly was inter
rEpted.
do you mean to convey the mean
ing that the securities are not worth
less; that the signatures on the notes
are genuine?"
II have not said So" quickly replied
Jolly. Watch developments in this
case. 1t is a peculiar affair. I know
of several interesting points in the case
and I could answer the majority of
your questions, but 1 will not do it. l
am determined to remain silent in con-
nection with all the troubles of the
Chadwick family"