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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-08-23

Arrangements are complete for the
reception Of the governor and his
stan this evening. They will arrive
at Gao p. m. on a special car and at
Eleventh and Broadway, where the
car will be run, will be met by Col.
Hlndman and several officers and in
diyiduals with automobiles.
when the party arrives at the
camp the First regiment will be lined
up to receive him. A double Line VIII
be formed for the party to pass
through. extending from the street
car track to headquarters. unfortu-
nately the ammunition for the Hotch-
kiss guns has not arrived and again
the governors salute cannot be fired.
Col Hindman and the general Off
GERS regret this very much as the sa-
lutte could not be fired during the stay
OF the Second regiment for the SANG
reason.
Preceding the ball tonight for Gov
ernor Beckham and his stan there
will be a very pretty ceremony in the
dancing pavilion similar TO the one
held by the Second regiment
Governors Reception Tomorrow.
Tomorrow morning Governor Beck
ham will hold public reception at
general headquarters. All the peo-
pie are invited to meet him. sew
cral excursions will be run into the
city by rail and water. bringing sew
cral hundred people TO witness the
governors review of the troops at
$3.50 tomorrow afternoon at the base
bail park This review will be very
impressive aud interesting. as the
First regiment drills admirably.
Governor Beckham will remain IN
IN the 2Sth, on which day he will re
view the Third regiment A ball Will
also be given for the Third regiment
officers during their stay. which Will
probably be on next Monday night.
DriIl by Hospital Corps.
Another feature for the governor
will be drill by the hospital corps
tomorrow morning preceding guard
mount in front of general headquar-
ters. About twelve men. supposed
to be wounded. will be given medical
attention on the field and transport
ed to the hospital. giving the com
mander-in-chlef an idea how the hos
pital corps works during actual
warfare. The exact hour OF this drill
will be $40.
4, a. tho intautgon Of Not Hind
man this afternoon to have review
instead of dress parade 20 prepare
for the governors review tomorrow
afternoon The dress paraie yester
day afternoon was probably the best
that has been held durinG the en-
campment. also the guard mount this
morning.
The Field Events.
A portion of the field events were
pulled of al the baseball park yes
between the regimental team and the
company @ team was won by the lat.
ter, the score being to /. Only five
innings were played.
Nat Cartnell company G.. won the
l00-yard foot race in fatigue uni
form. lie holds the worlds record
for 220 yards and is tied with the
worlds record for 100 yards. but
these races we're not run in fatigue
uniform. His record for 100 yards
Is 3 As seconds. Private Cartnell
Is a student at the University of Penn
sylvania.
Corporal Green, company G, won
the drill down. He is student at
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-08-23
LIGHT THE STREETS.
Aud Cities Can Diminish or Stop
Crime.

Toledo, o.. Aug, 23.-"Light your
streets and you will stop the spread
of crime" was the advice of Chief
Engineer Wood, of st. Louis, today,
before the first meeting of delegates
to the convention of the League of
Municipalities. He also devoted some
time to the subject of graft in the
cities
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-08-23
COSONO FIRST.
Arrived at Halifax in a Dense Fog
Today.

Halifax, Aug. 23.-The yacht Co
sono was the first of the five schoon-
er-rigged yachts which participated
in the race from Marble Head, Mass.
to Halifax, to reach here. She ar
rived this morning in dense fog out
side, and the Cosona was hardly able
to navigate il.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-08-23
NO INDEMNITY. SAYS RUSSIA.

st. Petersburg, Aug. 23.-The for
eign Office denies that the Difference
which apparently deadlocked the
peace ENJOYS at Portsmouth will he
submitted so arbitration. The gov
crnment's attitude remains firm and
unchanged on the question of indem-
nifty.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-08-23

PRAIRIE FIRES
Cause Great Damage to Ranches in
Texas.

Fort Worth, Tex, Aug. pa
destructive prairie fire is sweeping
over West Texas and ten thousand
acres of grazing lands have burned
off and more than hundred head
of cattle persisted. It is believed the
loss to ranchmen will reach hun
dred thousand dollars.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-08-23
WHOLE FAMILY
On Shauty Boat Struck and Be-
licved to BE. Drowned.

Maysville, Ky. Aug. ga man
named Gates, his wife and five chill
dren left here on shanty boat Mon
day bound for the south. Monday
night the boat was struck by a tow
boat. and neither boat nor family
has been seen since. 1t is thought
all were drowned
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-08-23

Bosworth. Mo. Aug. 2S.--Fou
men were killed by an explosion of
the engine on a dredge boat near
Norborne. Mo. The dead are:
James Lynch of Bosworth; Isaac
Wade of Norborne and two unknown
laborers The bodies were mutlated
beyond recognition.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-08-23
BENNETT CLARK
Nominated For the Legislature From
Livingston and Crittenden.

Smithland, KY, Aug. 23.-In the
republican district convention at Sa-
lem, Bennett Clark, of near Hamp-
ton, was nominated to make the race
for representative in Crittenden and
Livingston counties, against Tom
Cochran, of Marion.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-08-23
NOT YELLOW FEVER.
Was That Suspicious Case at Louis
vile.

Louisville, Ky, Aug. 23.-Coroner
Kelly. after a post norton examina-
ton of Robt. Buhlman, from New Or
leans. who died in the city hospital,
decided that death was due to per-
nicious malaria and not yellow fever,
as suspected
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-08-23
FAMILY FEUD.
Causes Man tn Fatally Shoot His
Brother and Wife.

Constance, Ky. Aug 2S.-Louis
Wrightman shot and probably fatal
ly wounded his brother Jacob, ana
the latters wife near here today An
old family feud is said to be the
cause.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-08-23
THREE FIREMEN KILLED.
Aud Si5O,OOO Worth OF Property Is
Destroyed.

Drouiile, Cal, Aug. 2S.-Three
hrcmen were fatally hurt and an en-
tire block of buildings burned early
this morning A number of persons
are reported missing. The loss is a
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-08-23
American Minister Calls ON Gar

st. Petersburg, Aug. 2S.-Ameri-
can Ambassador Meyer went to Pc
tersoff this afternoon, where he was
received in audience with the en-
pror The audience concerns the
conclusion of pace.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-08-23
Diamonds Go Up.

New York, Aug. 2S.-lmporters
here are notified that all grades OF
diamonds have been advanced by a
London syndicate five per cent. The
reason assigned is a scarcity of stones
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-08-23
Two Killed i'm "a Wreck.

Topeka, Kan. Aug. 23.-Three
trainmen were killed early this
morning in a headon collision be-
tween two Union Pacific trains is
miles west of here. Both locomotives
were demolished
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-08-23
A Bottle Trust.

Columbus. o.. Aug. 2S.-The
American Bottle company of Ne
wark. o., was incorporated today
CAPITAL $4,000, 900.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-08-23
THE WEATHER.

Partly cloudy tonight and
Thursday. with possibly local
thunder storms.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-08-23
Investigating Again.

CONTINUED on Page FiveD
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-04-04
WILL CHANGES PLANS, BLOWS
dill f0R TIL 5AN[ 0FF[h5[

Because of this Engineer Weile
writes the council that the COM
mission has revised and added to the
commission plans two pumps, high
and an intermediate zone reservoir.
This gives practically just what the
Gill plans do, additional pumping ca
pacity, and two reservoirs.
But ignoring the change made re-
peatedly by the water commission,
Engineer Weile seeks to cast dis
credit on the city engineer with the
remarkable statement that the plans
submitted by Mr.. Gill at 3 o'clock
April 1, 1905, are not the same plans
submitted to the water commission
for consideration and declares the
water commission had not had the
opportunity of passing on these plans
which is probably a good thing for
the plans.
This barefaced attempt to dis
credit the city engineer and save the
water commission from criticism
when the Gill plans are really shown
to be superior-after changing it's
own plans-has served to place the
water commission in a bad light.
If the water commission can super
sede the city engineers plans by con-
stantly changing their own to con-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-04-04

| for assistance, lay huddled as the
murders and burglars left him for
more than half an hour.
At 4:45 o'clock Speciol officer De-
Wolf, who watches the buildings and
| offices along the railroad tracks, was
passing over the docks, when he
heard a groan.
The Waterman stopped and began
to investigate. Another groan located
the wounded man.
who are you?" asked the watch
man.
By this time Stotko was able to
speak little and he gave his name
and gasped that he was wounded and
needed help.
DeWolf sent in a call for the
| wagon and Stotko was at once taken
to the Sacred Heart hospital, where
DIR. Gray was called.
The surgeon found the bullet had
entered the neck below the left ear
had passed through the small mus
cles and nerves between the esopha-
gus and the base of the spinal column
anu, tdkllS d uOWIWtTu COuTSc, came
out through the top Of the right
shoulder.
The wound is serious and the be-
lief of the surgeon is that Stotko has
slight chances of recovering. His
death is expected at any time owing
to the paralysis of his body and the
severing of the muscles and arteries
of the neck.
1t developed upon investigation
that the murderous burglars were en-
gagged in blowing the safe of Shinn &
! Co., when Office Stotko arrived at
the building.
One man was outside In the shadow
on the lookout while the other three
or four men were in the office
The burglars knocked off the COM
bination knob and poured nitroglycer-
inc in the hole, stopping it up with
soap.
Two bales of hay were damned
against the safe door to muffle the
explosion and prevent the pieces
flying when the charge exploded.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-04-04

But, with few exceptions, every
body finally saw the joke and had
a hearty laugh-all except those peo-
pie who wouldn't know a joke, even
If hit with the butt end of 100
pound laugh.
One ancient gentleman appeared at
the office of the Press yesterday
morning early and demanded another
copy of the paper. He declared he
was greatly interested in that rum
away train and that the story broke
off abruptly, he couldn't tell whether
the freight train was hit by the pas
senger train, and he wanted to know
how the conductor could stop the
train in the winds over the tender
and he wanted to know also what
become Of little Anias-who prob
ably, by this time, is safe in the
arms of her Uncle Annanias.
Up in the Cakes Cafe, there are
eight staid business men who always
sit at the same table. The head wait
ress carefully showed copy of The
Press under the elbow of one man
who read the story, saw the joke,
and, seeing no one watching him,
quietly showed the paper over to his
neighbor. The neighbor got next"
on reading 1t through to the last
lines and without a word passed the
paper on. Each man swallowed the
bait and waited for the next. until
all eight had read It.
Then they looked into each others
eyes. sroaned. laughed and with q
howl started to break all the dishes
on the table.
Corporation Counsel Fred Dudley
boosted all day Saturday that no.
body caught him on the blamed foo
Jokes"
When he read the story OF little
Anias he offered to lick Commissioner
ONO with one hand tied behind him
because the commissioner laughed
when the corporation counsel swore
Under Sheriff Doust read the tale
and then foolishly took the paper
home to his wife. After Mrs. Doust
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-04-04

The efforts to secure better water
service for Spokane has degenerated
into a personal fight of the water
meter gang and the water commits
sion from whose plans the water
meters were acknowledgements City
Engineer Gill. All efforts of the
water meter gang, the Spokesman
Review and the water commission
are now concentrated on the task of
inducing Engineer flaming to pass
up the Gill plans.
This is demonstrated by a COM
munication filed by Otto Weile this
morning with the city clerk in which
the engineer seeks to discredit the
Gill plans.
The communication, which is adj
dressed to the city council, opens by
quoting Councilman Pratt's motion
that the city needs more pumping
capacity.
notwithstanding that the water
commission plans have been changed
or abrogated repeatedly, Engineer
Weile comes in with a statement that
the water commission didn't know
that the council wanted pumps when
the plans were made. Water meters
were the thing then.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-04-04

dark overcoat but evidently the brass
buttons on his vest glittered.
AS he stopped a man standing upon
the dock, in the shadow, levelled a
revolver at him and, without a word
of warning, fired.
The heavy bullet struch the police
man in the neck, knocking him down
and paralyzing his muscles through
out his body. 1t was this paralysis
which, undoubtedly, saved the police
man from being shot again.
Although paralyzed and unable to
mwove, Stotko retained conscious
ness and was able to grasp what fol-
lowed the cowardly shooting.
Three or four other men ran out
Of the offices Of Shinn & Co. and, with
the aid Of the man who fired the shot
they dragged the wounded policeman
back along the tracks and threw
him down in the darkest spot between
the docks and a freight car
One of the men bent over him while
anothr stood ready with a revolver
to finish the deed
Hes dead" said one Of the men,
deceived by the limp, paralyzed form.
One of the burglars stopped over
the inanimate form Of the officer and
searched his pockets, taking there
from a watch, revolver and few
cents in change.
Then with a damnable attempt at
Joke, another burglar reached down
took the policeman's star off his
breast and laughingly pinned it to
Stotko's trousers.
At this the burglars left the oofficer
and cody returned to the commission
companys offices where they appar-
emily resumed their efforts to open
the big safe, as the policeman could
hear them pounding with hammer
from where he lay.
For some reason the burglars,
probably frightened at their crime,
abandoned the attempt to open the
safe and fled, leaving their tools be-
hind
officer Stotko, believing himself to
be dying and unable to speak or call
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-04-04

read the thrilling story and had Won
Mr.. Doust went to a neighbours to
get his dinner.
Another woman, the wife of a news
paper man, too, read the story and
joyed in the happiness of little Anias
doing papas work for him" When
death she cried, and cried, and cried
Then she got mad at her husband
because he laughed at her.
When she finished the thrilling
tale, she broke an engagement with
the family physician and went out
in search Of the man who wrote it.
And there were things said when
she found him!
When Chief of Police Waller read
the story of how the little girl pulled
the throttle open and the big brutes
stamped the baby, he rushed down
If any report of the awful thing had
been made to the police.
When the chief was persuaded to
read the last lines of the thrill he
stumbled back upstairs and placed
himself under a paper weight in an
open window to cool off.
But none of these folk dreamed OF
calling up the Great Northern ticket
office to ask If the tale was true: or
thought of telephoning the Chronicle
to tell that piece of English wood
eness that 1t was Just joke on
April Fools day"
p. S. AS we go to press 1t is
learned that Harry Brandt has suf-
fel~ another hemorrhage, super
induced by the awful shock of learn
ing that ~. c. End" is not employed
on the Great Northern. Uuless his
superiors learn what bloody Brit
ish ass" Harry has made of him
self over the joke, there are good
chances of his recovering in time for
the April story of 1906.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-04-04
WILL 50N[ 0N[ Slid LIGHT
IN TH[5[ AWFUL DARK PLACES

| solutely no excuse for the circulation
OF the story. and it was simply a
desperate april Fool" effort to be
funny on April l."
up In the Spokesman-Review Office
there were things doing when the city
editor there saw the great story. Be-
rore going through the gentle tips
of what the erd might be the city
editor hustled up Reporter Arthur
Williams and bade him put the trolley
on, run down the Great Northern
officials and get big story out of
the awful happening" But the re-
porter happened to be OF the kind
who always looks before he slides
OFF six story building and he
read the story through-then smiled.
About that time City Ticket Agent
Harry Brandt was down at the
Press office threatening all sorts of
dynamite happenings despite the
laughter his appearance created.
Then Harry wildly rushed to the
Spokesman Review office to beg them
NV " Nuii out thelT usual course
OF following Press scoop. Finally
he induced the Chronicle to print the
funny ''official denial"
All over the city there were tears
and laughter over the great April
Fool story and the people enjoyed
1t nightly.
They enjoyed It so much that the
edition was sold out before night
time and a two hundred edition
printed the next day is also exhaust
| ed.
Occasionally. readers would become
so horrined over the tale of little
] Anias and the crushed babe that they
wouldn't be able to comprehend the
, windup OF the grewsome tale which
closed as follows:
with q glad cry he sprang for
ward, leaped madly over the brake
wheel ana stood erect on the edge
Of the tender-where the wild, sput.
tering winds OF April 1, 1905, per
colated through his hirsute append.
age"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-04-04

form with his, it will be declared a
victory for the commission and the
water meter gang.
AS submitted the change in the
water commission plans creates an
additional cost of 500, 1862, making
the total cost of the changed and
revised plans Of the water commis-
sion s437,30337.
Yet Engineer Weile protests be-
cause he believes the city engineer
changed his plans to submit to Mr..
Tanning.
Engineer Tanning spent today In
looking over the different sites for
the new reservoir and following the
proposed routes of the new force
mains. The pumping station was
also visited.
Mr.. Tanning has gone over the
plans of City Engineer Gill and the
water commission, but expects to
spend this week in the city.
SO far the expert has proved a
regular sphinx for those who are
anxious to commit him to the water
commission plans and to the water
meters. The engineer has carefully
avoided any expression which would
tend to indicate his opinion as to
meters or his favoring either Of the
two plans.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-04-04

When the explosion came only the
outer casing of one of the double
outside doors was blown Off The
cement filling fell out, but the inner
lining remained intact and it was
evidently this which the burglars
were hammering when the officer was
shot.
The attempts to open the safe fail
ed as the robbers did not even get
to the inner doors. One piece of
cement filing or steel flew wild at
the blast and went through the north
window, leaving hole about an inch
and half in diameter.
There was not much money left in
the safe, according to the statements
of the office men, the chief articles
of value being books and papers.
Policeman Henry Stotko has been
regarded as a most efficient officer
brave and fitted physically to cope
with the most dangerous prisoners
He is a giant in stature and a hard
worker on cases.
Stotko was appointed a policeman
September 20, 1899, and has been on
the force a little over five years. He
is AZ years of age. He has a wife
but no children.
All of today officers have been
securing the city, rounding up sus-
picious characters and tracing men
who left on the early trains, but no
definite clews were secured up to
noon.
Mayor L. Frank Boyd is out of
the city and J. Fl. Boyd, president of
the city council is acting mayor.
Immediately upon hearing of the
shooting the acting mayor took the
responsibility of offering a reward
of $500 for the arrest of the burglars
and 1t is expected the city council
will ratify the offer at the first meet
ing.
Late this afternoon was reported
from the hospital that Office Stotko
was resting easy and that there
was no noticeable change in his con-
dition since morning.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-04-04
Try TO KEEP
MRS. CHADWICK
OUT OF The pen

CINCINNATI, April 4.-Ex- Fed
eral Judge Francis j. Wing of Cleve-
land, attorney for Mrs Chadwick, APP
peared in the United States court OF
appeals today to ask a stay of ex-
ecution of sentence imposed by the
federal court in Cleveland. District
Attorney Sullivan of Cleveland was
on hand to oppose the motion for the
stay and asked for an order that Mrs
Chadwick may be kept in Cleveland
TO testify in the bankruptcy pro-
ceedings.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-04-04
OLD KENTUCKY HONORS
NATIONS FIRST CITIZEN

LOUISVILLE, April 4.--President
Roosevelt arrived on scheduled time,
or Beckham, Acting Mayor Bareth
and Chairman Murray of the receipt
ion committee. The parade started
from Third and A streets at 9:05.
The president is enjoying every mo-
ment of his trip. All the way through
Ohio, early as 1870 this morning,
people were up in crowds to see the
presidents train. At every station
where a stop was made the president
alighted and shook hands. On enter
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-04-04

ing Louisville the presidents salute
was fired by the local militia COM
pany. The crowds were immense.
The president was cheered at in
tervals by the continuous line of
people. At Third and Broadway the
Confederate veterans and members of
the c. A. r. were assembled. The
president stood in his carriage as
they passed. There are the boys
for me-" he shouted, and as the
Spanish War veterans came next,
"These are my comrades" said the
president. At Fourth and Broadway
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-04-04
they MADE UP

An order of dismissal was entered
by Judge KEENAN, in the divorce case
of Anna Nelson against Lars Nelson
it being announced that the husband
and wife had agreed to agree again
in marital matters.
The divorce suit was filed a few
days ago and the complaint alleged
cruel treatment, abuse which had
driven several of the children from
home and the calling of bad names
The house and lot at 1915 First
avenue, valued at $3.50, was involved
in the suit.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-04-04
SMITH AND wife
AXE FUGITNfS
FROM JUSTICE
(Scripps News Association.)

CINCINNATI, April Al. Morgan
Smith and wife were taken from the
county Jail today and plead guilty
to the charge of being fugitives from
justice. Attorney Shay for the de-
PENDANTS secured a continuance until
Friday. The couple were returned
to the jail. The missing extradition
in the hands of the express man.