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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-06-21
CFrOm the New York SUM-

(FrOm the New YORK SUM-
"Did you ever know a poker play.
or to lay down four acesf"
The Cripple Creek man threw an un
conscious leg over the arm Of his chair,
and his eye grew reminiscent.
ayes, several Of them," he unused,
"'and all good short card men, too. No
body but a blood cousin to the king
fool balks at laying down any hand,
no matter how good II looks TO him,
II his poker sense tells him it's beat.
"Right there is the dividing line
between the easy mark and the man
who knows how-the gulf between the
mule and the master mind knowing
when TO quit. God hates a gutter,
they say. lie may hate him, but I'll
risk fifty he don't look on him with
the same sour contempt a fellow feels
for himself the morning after he's
spent the highland his July salary
calling hands because he wasn't going
to let any stiff in that game get away
with a bluf, b'goshl
Curiosity is all right in scientific
research, but in poker it's about as
useful as a vermifOrm appendix, and
make IL a sore one, at that; just good
for trouble-and the sooner you cut 1t
out, the better for you.
"But, coming back to our fours,
I've known that bunch Of aces land
down several times, / say but /
reckon / saw the only play that ever
cam up whore a man laid down a fist.
full like that without making even a
bet or a call after the draw, and he
was as smooth a fellow as ever fondled
a stack Of blues.
II don't reckon any Of you eve
heard Of Jake Saunders, but between
the Big Muddy and the Golden Gate
Jake is as well liked as he is well
Known, which is saying a whole lot,
for he's prominent in everything-pol.
tiles, public enterprise, and play-that
m up. And 10 years ago the least
Of his talents wasn't poker.
"He could sit in a game for two
hours, without a hand better than a
pair Of mines and stay good natured
that impentrable good nature that
marks the old masters Of the art.
When a man begins to throw cuss
words around, you can count his stack
over in your winnings, but you
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-06-21
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TO THE
BIG FAIR
Journal Will Give a Free Tirr
and Visit TO the Lewis
and Clark Fair to Ac-
tive Young Person

The journal has q contest on In
which II wishes to enlist the services Of
a score Of active young men and women.
In this work these young people can
have paying employment all the time,
and tho winner in the contest, the one
who gets the best results, will receive
a free trip and admission to the Lewis
and Clark fair. High school pupils
business college graduates and othei
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-06-21
Furious Fighting.

"For seven years" writes Geo. W
Hoffman, Of Harper, Wash, "I had q
bitter battle, with chronic stomach and
liver trouble, but at last 1 won, and
cured my diseases by tho use of EleC.
trio Bitters. I unhesitatingly recon.
mend them to all, and don't intend in
the future to be without them in the
house. They are certainly a wonderful
medicine, TO have cured such n bad case
as mine" Sold, under guarantee to dc
the same for you, By J. G. Perry, drug.
gist, Vt soc a bottle. Try them to.
day,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-06-21
SUMMER SCHOOL

The hrst term begins pm the hrse
Monday in May, and continues fcT
eight weeks. A thorough review win be-
given In all branches thI ugh the tenth
grade. Address J. j.. KRAPR
A2OD
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-06-21

The Southern Pacific Company
viii sell tickets, Salem to Boswell
Springs and return up to and including
September 80, 1905, 1905, limited to 30
days, rate of 1855. 6o-tf
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-01-13
Had Been Lying in Yale Medical
Cold Storage Room for
Two Months.

New Haven, Conn.--Mrs. George Klea,
Of New York, took her husbands body
back to that city, after rescuing it from
the cold storage room of the Yale med
ical school. Mrs. Klea made a sorrowful
tour OF the undertaking shops of the
town, looking for the body OF her hus-
band, whose death two months ago she
had only learned of. On learning that
the body had been sent to the medical
school, she hurried thence, to find the
body embalmed ready for dissection.
She secured a permit to remove it to New
York.
Klea was a shoemaker here, and. be-
ing ill last June, was taken to the Spring.
side home, where he stayed until his
death early in October. The officials
there for the first time learned of his
wife. whose address was found in his
pocket. Efforts were made. to locate
her by letter and telegram, but, receiv-
ing no reply, the officials finally turned
the body over to the medical school &C
cording tc the law of this state.
In speaking of the matter Prof. Fer
ris, of the anatomical department of tt<
medical school said:
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cumstances who is reaping the reward
of life generally and generously known
as fast"
Whether she is guilty or innocent of
the murder of Young will probably never
be positively known to any but her and
her Maker. She has been brought be-
fore the earthly bar Of Justice, where
crafty and skillful lawyers have tried
to fasten the crime on her while others
have tried to free her, and the IL men
have been unable to egree
Adopts Life Of Stage.
Nan Randolph Patterson was quite
we'll known along Broadway among the
atrical people for several years before
she so suddenly took the center OF the
stage. Among the profession though it
was simply Nan Randolph
Sic was born in Washington, D. c..
the daughter of a minister, ana was
raistd amid the religious surroundings
of a Christian home.
Always of wild and wilf0l disposi-
ton. the simple life did not appeal to her.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-01-13
NAN PATTERSON.

New York.-"From the Glare Of the
Footlights to the Gloom Of Cell in the
Tombs, would be fitting title to story
OF the life of Nan Patterson, the former
show girl, charged with the murder of
Caesar Young, the well-known horse
man and bookmaker
Only short step and few brief mo-
ments fromthe stage with the plaudits of
hundreds still ringing in her ears as she
gaily danced In the famous "Floradora"
sextettein the glare of the calcium. to the
dismal depths of the prison, to be brand
ed as murderer by thousands and to
hear the bitter and cutting words of the
stern prosecutor as he laid bare the Sc
crets of her past life.
Such, in brief. has been the experience
OF Nan Patterson, and it has turned her
from beautiful and care-free girl to
a prematurely aged woman.
There are those who declare her inno-
cent of the crime charged to her; say
she is only an unfortunate victim of cir
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an English training, who Represented
the French republic as ambassador in
England and in Russia, and who final
ly becaTe premier under President
Grevy.
Nine. Waddington has lived all her
mature life among cultured persons.
such as in all Europe lead society, and
she returns to her native city to find it
frankly worshiping wealth as it did
not before the war. ~
My friends point out to me-" she
says, there Is q steel king, there is q
railway king, yonder shipbuilding
king, farther away cattle or a mining
king. Is this really Americas reptlb-
lie? Are there no persons worth point
ing out except financial magnates, mil
lionaires? Has America no artists,
scholars, poets, thinkers-men who
work and think otherwise than in
terms Of dollars and cents? The mill
lionaire seems to be, in America, the
whole show, the Alpha and the One
ga" -
.Discouraging indeed is the actual
situation, but not so discouraging as
to a stranger it seeems-most of all, as it
seems to q returned American jealous
of her country's repute. Poets there
are not-I do not know why; but
scholars, thinkers, artists, yes-though
not all in America, and here the bright
est might not have much to eat.
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Rejane and her excellent company
in two French-and Frenchy-com-
edies. So large portion of So
ciety is now of the second gen
Grafton that French plays are prob
ably fairly Understood by one-third of
a society audience. 1t goes without
saying that the audience will be repre-
sentative Of the city's wealth, if not
its culture. Hyde is fabulously rich
and "catch." He is the only rival
OF James Henry Smith among the un-
married men of New York; and he is
several years less experienced and shy.
Either of these two young FORTUNATE
would be welcomed in any one of
dozen great families that arrogate the
title of leaders in that little portion of
society which calls itself society.
The ball thus set rolling on the eve
of the new year will be kept in motion
oy the dance of Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish
on the night Of January g. The great
January balls come about the middle of
the month, and we'll before Lent the
brief season may pronounce it's own be-
Wildered epitaph: "Since so soon
am to be done for wonder what was
begun for
The great balls of Mrs. Astor and
other prominent New York matrons
set the pace for the winter, but the
gayety seen at them is of a moderate
and subdued pattern. New York men
do not care for dancing. 1t is tame
sport after watching the ticker and an
occasional night over the whirling
wheels of fortune. Younger matrons
are hard put to it at times to attract
representative gatherings. No such de-
vices are needed by the social leaders
but the younger matrons find it neces-
sary to enlist committees of the young
er men who round up the recalcitrant
and get them into dancing humor if
possible, by means recalling those en-
ployed by parliamentary whips in
London-a mixture of authority, fiat.
terry and cajolement.
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until Europe has spoken. 1t was
so with Sargent, with Abbey.
with Whistler. George 1nness paint
ed landscapes with the best and New
York did not suspect until the French
man. Benjamin Constant, came over
and said in surprise: "Why have we
not heard of Inness? What were you
millionaires thinking of to buy inferior
pictures from France and let this man
remain unknown" Then Inness be-
came the fashion. Homer Martin
strove all his life unknown except to
the few who were able to judge for
themselves. He went blind at last,
and with the failing remnant of his
sight barely finished a swan song, a
masterpiece. After his death New
York discovered him. Stephen Crane,
Harold Frederick, Henry James were
discovered" as writer's in England;
Robert Chambers and few younger
toilers in France. Chambers, by the
way, like the poet Stedman, makes q
living as a stock broker, SO that he
may write as he chooses and rot make
hack Of his art
AS for scholars, when an American
college professor of whom his own
country has but hazy. notion goes to
a, famous chair in Oxford, Europe at
least pays attention to. America study.
Once in Narragansett Pier, upon a
newspaper errand not now important,
walked about with guide familiar
with the locality and it's people. Names
ard particulars were poured into my
ear concerning persons who had come
from all parts of the country with the
repute Of wealth. I caught sight of a
distant, but familiar figure. who is
that yonder?" l asked. "Some one I
know, but l cannot at this distance"
"Oh, that" said my mentor, some
what contemptuously. THAT'S man
named Matthew's. Some kind OF pro-
fessor, I think
Such was the Piers "sizing up" OF
Brander Matthews, university profess
sor, critic, phililigist. famed in literary
circles throughout the country or
course Nine. Waddington exaggerates
and yet-does she?
At any rate, Washington society
does recognize intellect.
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alities so different as Sam Ward" the
king of lobbyists" the Julia Ward
Howe, poet, writer and reformer.
Hall loved his cousin. Eliza Ann
Partridge. but her parents OBJ
jected to match. When he died-of
disappointment, they say, but there
was a good deal of typhoid and such
things in those days-his true love in
herited by his will the house which
had been his home. That was in 184O
Henry Clay and Daniel Webster were
young men. Greeley was just making
his early struggle. Miss Partridge
moved into the house and made it her
duty to keep Wards rooms just as he
left them. Half a century she lived
here the recluse life-untM the region
became impossible because Of trades
distractions. Even when she moved
to quieter region, Wards rooms were
kept in the condition dear to him by
bachelors fussy habits.
Miss Partridge was 81 when she died
A love kept green is preserver of
youth. That was in 1899. She had
been 20 when her heart was broken. 27
when her rcousin-loyer died. What cold.
unsympathetic eyes were turned upon
the rooms which she preserved in their
old condition, when the real estate men
come to view the house before the sale!
, Il ~ :, ,>-..- OWEN LANGDON.
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alton was too strong or his will power
too weak, for he never succeeded, and
she was his friend and companion to the
day OF his death.
Young began his career on the Pacific
coast as foot racer, and was said to
have been one Of the fastest runners that
the world has ever known. From the
cinder path he drifted to the race track,
and his luck from the beginning was
phenomenal.
Her Fatal Beauty.
Nan Patterson's beauty has been the
cause of other troubles in which lives
have been forfeited. An actor in another
who had proposed to her became insane
over her refusal and committed suicide
in her presence. Another admirer Of
hers killed himself on the coast.
Nan Patterson remained in the west
with Young until last spring. They Wis
tied the tracks at Los Angeles, Oakland
and other prominent racing centers on
tho coast, and returned east in March
for the first time since their meeting.
Young returned to the coast the fol-
lowing month, and it was but few days
before she was speeding westward in re-
Spouse to telegram from him.
All this was brought out in the test1-
mony at the celebrated trial. Seldom
were they separated by very great dis
tanee, and then only when it was un-
avoidable.
During all this time he tried to hide
his relations with the Patterson girl
from his wife. His friends and relatives
pleaded with him to give up the show
girl, and finally induced him to agree to
take trip to Europe, where they hoped
she could or would not follow, and where
he might forget her.
The Fatal Shooting.
It was on the morning that he was
about to leave, on Saturday, June 4,
that the tragedy occurred. He had seen
her the evening previous, told her of his
proposed trip and, according to her
story, had asked her to follow and meet
him in London. She had given him an
indefinite answer, but had agreed to meet
him the next morning and see him off.
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Suffers Excess Of Mother-in-Iav

Suffers Excess Of Mother-in-Law
Detrott-Too much mother-in-law"
Is Alfred J. Ashton's claim in answering
the second bill for divorce fled by Julia
b. Ashton. He denies his wife's as
sertion that September he deserted her.
but explains he left the house for a few
days to prevent Julia Pfannenschmfdt
his mother-in-1aw, from "inflicting great
bodily injury" on him, "as she did on
and before that day." On another occa-
sion when his mother-in-law twas ahus-
Ing him. with a broomstick, Ashton
says his wife upheld her mother and
declared she would get divorce"
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forward, his head in the girls lap. He
was dead, and bullet had fulfilled its
mission.
For some days an absolute silence pre-
vailed. Then flood of alleged eyewit-
nesses turned up. Their stories, how
ever, could not stand investigation, and
one after another they were cast aside
as sensation seekers.
But there was one exception; an old
man, Martin Hazleton, of Oneonta, N.
Y. He saw the man and woman, their
hands clasped and held face high, then
fash, puff of smoke and the report
of q revolver broke the stiffness of the
morning.
Hazleton was the most important wit
ness placed on the stand by the defense,
and the efforts Of the prosecutor to shake
his brief but vital testimony ended in
failure.
Then the defendant herself went to
the witness chair and told the whole
story of her relations with Young. It
was trying ordeal-before the curious
crowd in the courtroom-as she repeat
ed the history of her life from the day
she met the man who was to turn her
life in tragedy'spath to the fatal moment
in the cab.
Finally the trial was completed, and
the jury, after celebrating for "a hours,
declared they were unable to agree as
to her guilt or innocence.
Story with a Moral.
This. in brief, is the story of the life
of Nan Patterson, or that part of it that
had an ultimate bearing on the death
Of Caesar Young, and the trial that has
been three times nine-days' talk in
New York and probably throughout the
country.
Little did she suspect when she en-
barked upon her theatrical career and
her life Of pleasure and gaiety of the trag-
ic ending and the accompanying sorrow
and pain in store for her, or she would
have undoubtedly reconsidered the mat
ter.
Although one young and wayward girl
has dearly paid the price of her folly, the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-01-13

She was an uncommonly beautiful child,
and the praise called forth by her good
looks, as she grew older, turned her
thoughts in directions wholly opposed
to that intended for her by her parents,
and before she was many years in her
teens she went to New York and OBJ
tanned place in the chorus.
Stage life caused her to forget the re-
ligious training she had received. The
glitter of the spangles and the gay life
of the actor folk appealed to her, and she
decided to become great actress.
Surely there was nothing harmful
behind the footlights, she thought.
Fine clothes and a good time" were
to her liking.
She was handsome in face and form
and it was not long before young scions
OF wealthy families and elderly men of
means who haunt the bald head" row
began to haunt the stage door and make
her acquaintance.
The flowers and champagne suppers
they furnished were also not amiss.
Jewels and gems were showered on her
and more than one, smitten with her
beauty, laid their hearts at her feet
and begged her hand in marriage.
But she refused them all, and finally
married young man in the profession
named Martin.
Her. Meeting with Young.
The combining bonds of matrimony
were evidently not to her liking, and
when "Floradora,' musical comedy
which had gained great popularity in
London mainly through the famous
sextette, was imported, she applied for
and obtained a position in the front row.
The company was organized to tour
the country, and was to extend to the
Pacific coast. This gave her an oppor-
tunity to visit California, something she
had always longed for.
1t was on this trip that she met Young,
whose tragic death has caused har so
much misery and sorrow.
Young was prominent and success
ful horseman and bookmaker. He had
horses running on nearly all Of the prom
lnent tracks Of the country, and was re-
puted to be worth half q million dollars.
Although married man, he immedi-
ately fell victim to the charms of the
beautiful and vivacious show girl. On
their arrival in San Francisco he in
stalled her in handsome fat in Oak
land, across the bay. and for some
months led dual existence. ANYTHING
she wished for was at her command
During the trial it was shown that dnr-
ing their acquaintance he had given her
thousands Of dollars.
Leaves Stage for Young.
While on the coast she sued for a d.
vorce from her husband at his sueRes-
ton. and also deserted the stage.
With all his faults, Young maintained
an outward show Of respectable, liy-
Ing In pretentious home in an exclu-
s1ve section of San Francisco. He had
certain respect for his wife, and when
she discovered the double existence no
had been leading, he was driven almost
crazy by the exposure. With the recl1-
lessness OF man insane, he entered un-
on long debauch, and lost fortune IN
the block before he recovered himself
According TO his racing partner he 70.
peatedly tried to sever his unholy rela-
tlons with the chorus girl. but his infatu.
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his youth, when as his diary
reads: Il saw drunken men reel
ing into the front doors Of refined
families, their object being to devour
the dainties provided lavishly on such
occasions" Of such New Years Gel
ebration-and it must be remembered
that even pretty decent men got drunk
under the repeated plying of we'll
meant "hospitality''-no is left
but the free drinks poured in saloons
for patrons who have spent much
money over their bars during the year.
Let it go at that-though the custom
might have better served real socia-
bility.
) Social activity of a sort the new year
does bring. Country house parties are
well over by three days after Christ
mas, and the beginning in town of
the new years activities is almost i'm
mediate, though social superstition
still saves holiday week itself. The
wedding of Miss Daisy Letter to the
Earl of Suffolk begins this year the in
ternational season with sufficient bril-
lance, but as it is Washington func-
ton New York is less interested than
might be otherwise the case. In fact,
the Letters seem to illustrate the the
DRY that Washington may presently be
the social center of America. The Lei
tiers have never taken the trouble to
live in New York; yet no American
family has contracted such a brilliant
series of matrimonial alliances as
theirs, with brainy Lord Curzon, with
Maj. Colin Campbell and with the Earl
of Suffolk. The Garner girls, one Of
whom wed a French noble, one an Ital-
ian of title and one Sir William Cor
don-Cumming, Of England, are close
second.
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They had sent a night of carousal and
drinking, and Young was considerably
under the influence Of the liquor when he
finally left her at her sisters home and
returned to his.
1t was early next morning when they
met again. After Young had several
more drinks they entered a cab and
started for the pier, where Young's wife
was awaiting him. It was at an hour
when the streets were not very crowded
There was pistol shot, and Young fell
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case has served to point moral to 9TH
ers that the snares and pitfalls Of the
innocent maiden behind the footlights
are many, and more than one, unable
to stand the temptations offered, has
partaken of the fatal apple.
To the uninitiated, the Primrose Path
means a life of pleasure, of ease and
gaiety, strewn with roses red, but to
Nan Patterson the glamour has been
removed, and it is streaked with the
life blood of Caesar Young.
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The Bachelor Entertains.

AMES HaZen Hyde,
son of the late
president of a
great life insur-
a d { = company,
shows the city
how to begin the
year. His idea of
a New Years eve
celebration is to
get society togeth-
er in the ball room
at Sherry'S to hear
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new YORK GOSSIP j
PHE OLD-TIME NEW YEARS DAY
IS FORGOTTEN.
BALLS AND PARTIES POPULAR
Changes Which the Almighty Dollar
Have Wrought The Apprecia-
ton Of Art and Artists -
Romances of Old Houses.

EW YORK ID
time. New Years
is in New York ut
terly forgotten, in
Philadelphia near
" forgotten. It's
just as well. M.
D. Conway, in his
a u t o bi o graphy,
tells about the
open house kept In
Washington by Of
fetal families in