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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-05
MOB TRYING TO LYNCH
WHOLE FAMILY IN MISSOURI
fBy Associated Press

KANSAS 4 CITY, MO, October 1.-THE
county jail front here is surrounded to-
night by men who insist that Mrs. Belle
Rigg ms, her daughter, Clarissa, aged
fourteen years. and her husband, George
Higgins. held by the coroners jury for
the death of Rigglns's six-year-old son
by a. former Wife, should be lynched. Tho
sheriff, expecting an assault on the jail,
has, 1t Is reported fed with the prison.
ers The iail Is strongly guarded.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-05
.VA|NLY STRUGGLED I.
TO SAVE HUSBAND An. !
Wife and Son Endeavored e
Prevent Painting Man Fall
ing From Window,
(Ey Associated Press.)

NEW YORK, October 4.-Notwlhstand-
Ing a desperate struggle of his wife and
son to hold him by the feet after he had
tainted and toppled over the sill of an
open window, George It. Knapp, cashier
OF the Cooper Exchange Bank. fell to
the street from the fourth floor of his
home, at No. 200 West Ninety-seventh
Street, to-day and was killed.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-05
EXCITEMENT rs ALLAYED.
Arrest of Watson Has This Eff
fect-Another Warrant Issued.

& Especial to The Times Dlspatch) @
AMHERST, VA, October 4.-Dxcltemcnt
has somewhat alayed here since The ar
rest OF the barber, Jim Watson, in Lynch
burg this morning.
A warrant has been Issued against an
other negro named James Tompkins, Of
near New Glasgow, this county, It Is
said that Fompkins told at negro
church that he heard Mr.. Brown calling
his wife when he went to look for her,
This is the only piece of evldence yet
. Continued on Second PagecI Nsll
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-05
PROPERTY WORTH 100000
LOST; 400 PEOPLE HOMELESS

(By Associated Prcss.)
RIIlNELANDER, WIS, October A.
Fire in the Lumber district OF this town
this evening destroyed property valued
at 100000, and rendered 400 people
homeless.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-05

Continued on Second Page.)
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-29
MRS. BOBLETER'S JOURNEY ENDS
Pioneer New UIm Woman Was Fu-
qitive IL Days From Indians.

NEW ULM, Mimi, March 29.-Mrs.
Maria Bobleter, step-mother of Cen
eral Joseph Bobleter, died at st. AL
exander hospital in her SSth year. She
will be buried from the Catholic
church.
The death of Mrs. Bobleter removes
bne of the most interesting characters
of the early days. In 1859 she and her
husband, Flodian Hartmann, located
near New Ulm, where they lived until
Mr.. Hartmann was killed by the In
dams. For II days she was a fugitive
in the fields and woods, while the
siege was being pushed by the Indians,
and her account of the sufferings she
endured is almost beyond belief.
She told of the attack of the Indians
and the finding of the body Of her
wounded husband; how with his dy-
ing breath he begged of her to save
herself as he could not live, how she
returned and found him cold, and re-
moved a lock of his hair. Nearly fam
ished she returned to her home on the
sixth day determined to get something
to eat even if she was shot. she
found only part of a loaf of bread,
which she carried with her into the
woods.
In her account, she said: con the
evening Of the eighth day my dog
came and was overjoyed to see me. I
shared the remainder Of my bread with
him, but at the same moment the
thought struck me that he might be-
tray my hiding place, and so I took
my apron and strangled him. He
fought so fiercely that it was only with
the greatest exertions that I succeed
ed in my effort
On the SEVENTEEN day she returned
to die beside the body of her husband,
as she thought there was no hope of
rescue. OF this, she used to say Il
heard some shooting and the barking
of dogs. 1 almost faited on seeing
eight men pointing guns at me, and I
| thought my time had come, when one
of them said, oh, sister,! and I knew
that my brother was there. He thought
1 was a squaw."
A year after she was married to
john Bobleter. father of General JOS
eph Bobleter, and for three years they
lived together, when he died. She has
since made her home with General
Bobleter.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-29
ST. PIERRE COVERED WITH SAND
Rest of the Inland Resplendent in Ver-
dure of the Tropics.

Montreal Star: There is no better
upon a constant reading of the daily
newspapers than the almost complete
lack of interest today in the appalling
disaster that overwhelmed the city of
st. Pierre only a short time ago. A
disaster almost unprecedented in the
history of the human race-a city of
more than 100000 inhabitants buried
beneath the fiery flood of Mount Pelee
the impression made upon the minds
of the people has in it's turn been bur-
led beneath the daily flood of what
passes for news-the details of as
saults, divorces, scandals, fires and
f1oods-so that today the mention of
the disaster of two years ago causes a
moments perplexity as the listener
tries to remember when he heard of it
before. Those upon whom the impress
not yet been effaced may be interested
in the following brief description of
the present aspect of the city, given by
Colin Mckay, who has lately returned
from a visit paid to the scene of the
volcanic horror at Martinique:
Where the city of st. Pierre once
f1ourished," he said, there is a thick
bed of sand, which is already assuming
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-29
SPRING GRAIN GIVES PROMISE
OF EXCEEDINGLY GOOD YIELD
THIS YEAR
The Late Rains Have Been of Great
Benefit Throughout the Entire
Wheat Belt.

Milton Evans, Walla Walla county
correspondent of the department Of ag-
riculture, mas just completed his re-
port of the condition of the grain in
this section of the country and for
warded the same to H. w. Desgranges,
the government agent at Spokane. In
part he says:
During the fall season the land was
too dry for the farmers to sow the
usual amount. However, the spring
sowing opened up fine. The soil was
in first class condition for seeding and
with clear weather, large acreage
was sown. The late rains nave been
of much benefit, starting the planting
in a good healthy condition. While the
late sown grain may be a trife later,
the conditions generally are very IA
vorable for a good yield, and if later
rains prevail an extra yield may be
gathered
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-29
STRIKE HARD ROCK AGAIN
WORK COMMENCES ON THIRD
TEST AT THE HARBERT
RANCH
Operations on Second Well Suspended
Yesterday-Many Obstacles Are
Encountered.

Almost insurmountable obstacles In
the shape of a strata Of exceedingly
hard rock is being encountered by Wa
ter Superintendent Knight in the work
of sinking a test we'll on the Harbert
place deep enough to ascertain the sub
terraenean flow. Work on a second
well was commenced Sunday, but after
a depth of Is feet had been reached,
the same character of rock that was
encountered in the first we'll was
struck, necessitating a suspension of
operations.
Superintendent Knight is determin-
ed to sink a well sufficiently deep to
ascertain the underground flow, and
has commenced operations on a third
well southwest of the other two sites
The rock, which the excavators struck
in both of the other wells, is so hard
that little Roadway can be made. In
the first we'll it was necessary to use
a liberal amount of giant powder to
make any Roadway at all. If the same
strata of rock is encountered in the
we'll now being sunk it is quite prob
able that operations will be started on
some other part of the Harbert farm
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-29

the appearance Of vast gray granite
rock. About nine years ago I passed
close by st. Pierre in the evening and
saw it's white roofs, it's towers and SUI
pulos cleaning between the frouded
crests and 1.-the gray trunks of the roy
al palms, and heard the crash of bands
in it's squares and the tinkling of man
dolins upon the French ships lying in
the roadsted. But, now, the SCARED
mass of lava covers completely the
gay Paris of the Antilles, and all it's
life and color and music, as though it
were buried under a massive mauso-
leum of granite. There are no ruins
nothing at all to indicate that a city
Of $4,000 people had once f1ourished
there.
Before you rises the gaunt and colos
sal cone of Mount Pelee, with it's aw-
full head yelled in heavy and pestifer-
Gus vapors, it's scarlet lava streaked
slopes rent with gigantic assures and
wild gorges, and it's it's base, piled ur
in primeval confusion, masses of the
blown out crest and sides. The i'm
preston which the sight of Mount Pc.
lee, brooding in it's uncleanly clouds
of smoke above it's hideous and awful
works, makes upon you is difficult to
define
You are awed, but hardly horri-
fed. In the presence of such evidences
of natures forces you are so impressed
with the grandeur and majesty of her
efforts that you do not think of the
plotting out of such an insignificant
thing as a city of men and their works.
"To the southwark, where the sub
urbs of the city stretched over a Level
plain, the earth washed down from the
mountain sides has formed a soil in
which grass and trees are beginning to
grow in patches. In few years, no
doubt, the tomb of the city will be
covered with the vegetation of the
tropics, and the now quaint and SCARED
sides of Mount Pelee covered with
green.
"All the rest of the island has emery
ed from it's covering of ashes in new
beauty and greater luxuriance."
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-29
GIRL ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
Eva Thibaut Grows Despondent Over
Separation of Her Parents

SEATTLE, March 29.-Worry, be-
father and mother led Eva Thibaut of
Ravensdale, Is years old, to shoot ner-
self, inf1icting a wound, which the at
tending surgeon, Dr. c. E. Hoye, be-
lieves will prove fatal. Before her at
tempt at suicide the girl wrote note
to her father asking that her lovers
photograph be buried with her. She
sent her love to the young man and to
several of her young friends. She add
ed that she was tired of living.
1t was understood that the girl was
to marry Frank Granted, bartender
in her fathers saloon. Both men dis
played such grief over the girls act
that they are watched to prevent SIM
liar attempts.
In the morning the girl went to her
fathers saloon and asked Granteli if
there were any soiled towels that
needed washing. He replied that there
were some in the office at the end of
the bar. The girl went into the Office
and found a revolver lying on the safe.
She took the weapon and wrapped it
up in the dirty towels and left the sa-
loon.
Granteli discovered a short time af-
ter the girl left that the revolver was
gone He notified Deputy Sheriff Mat
Starwich, who at once commenced a
search for the girl and the revolver.
He found her lying in bed of ferns
short distance from her nome. DR..
Hoye was summoned, and after he had
administered stimulants the girl was
carried to her home. 1t was learned
that after she left the saloon she took
the towels home and hiding the revol-
yer under her coat, went into the tim
Der and shot herself.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-29
SUITS GROW OUT OF FIRE
Action Taken at Sioux City to Hold
PeIIeties Company Responsible

SIOUX CITY, March 29.-Damage
suits were instituted today which, if
sustained, will afford the property
owners who lost in the $2,OOO,OO0 fire
of December % last, an opportunity to
hold the Massachusetts Real Estate
company and the Uelleties Dry Goods
company responsible for their losses.
Dickson & Page, representing ten
ants in the Massachusetts block, which
was occupied by the Pelletier company,
and also representing adjoining prop
erty owners, brought six suits, asking
a total of $4,000 damages.
1t is claimed that the Pelletier Dry
Goods company was negligent in dec
Grating the store with inf1ammable ma
terial and placing a gas engine, which
started the blaze, in charge of incom-
petent minors. Among the plaintiffs
is the administrator of the estate OF
G. B. Rockway, who lost his life in the
fire, being compelled to jump from a
window, it being claimed fire escapes
were not provided.
The suits of adjoining property own
ers will secure a ruling which, if IA
vorable, will declare a liability which
will cost the Pelletier company an i'm
mense sum.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-29
VETERANS OF THE SPANISH WAR
WANT TO GET INTO HAIR
NESS ONCE MORE
Movement Is on Foot Looking to the
Organization Of Infantry Company
In WaIIa WalIa.

If the plans that are now under con-
sideration are carried out Walla Wal
la may have a militia company in the
near future. Several of the young
men who served in Company I of the
First Washington regiment during the
Spanish American war are taking an
active part in the movement and have
succeeded in getting quite number of
persons interest in the proposed COM
pany.
At present there is no vacancy in
the National Guard of Washington,
and under the law no other companies
can be admitted at present, but those
who are DESTROYS of having a COM
pany here believe that it would be a
good plan to organize and hold regu-
lar drills and should a vacancy occur
Walla Walla would possibly have the
best chance to get a company in the
guard.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-29
Pennsylvania's Big Pension Roll

PHILADELPHIA, March 29.-Tne
Pennsylvania railroads pension de-
partment shows that during the five
years of it's operation there has been
authorized to be paid in pension allow
ances to the retired employees of the
company the sum of $1,614,OS769. This
expenditure does not include the eX-
pense of operation of the department,
which is borne by the company. Dur
ing the five years application of the
pension plan, 2,41S employees have been
retired as pensioners from the active
service of the company, of which num-
Der 700 have died. Of the total num-
Der retired 56S were between the age
of IS and 60 years. of whom 439 were
retired n their own request, with the
approval of the employing officer
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-29
JAP IDEAS IN CHINA.
Mikado's Men RemodeIing Civilization
of MongoIians.


BERLIN, March "a letter from
Peking, published by the National
Zeitung this morning, gives results of
an inquiry into japanese political ac-
tivity in China. The writer says that
Japanese agents in various lines of
business are penetrating into China
and settling in every important place
in the empire, devoting themselves to
their callings in life, whether priests,
editors, teachers or traders, and to
winning peacefully the good will of
the Chinese for the Japanese.
The method most often used is the
founding of newspapers printed in the
Chinese language and friendly to Jap
anese aims. These try to influence the
provincial governors and the Picking
government to employ Japanese teach
ers in the schools and especially to
place Japanese military instructors in
charge of Chinese troops.
In addition japanese Buddhist monks
have begun to arrive in China on semi
political and semi-religious errands.
They seek closer relations with the
Chinese Buddhist organizations, and
have acquired control of several mon
asteries over which the Japanese flag
is ffoated. The monks also establish
Buddhist chapels and organize congre-
cations. Their declared aim is to unite
the various Buddhist sects in China
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-29
HoW's This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re-
ward for any case of Catarrh that can
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known F.
j. Cheney for the last Is years and be-
lieve him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
by his firm.
-. WALDING, KHAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter-
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Testimonials sent free. Price rs cents
per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipation.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-29
Trephining Cures Spotted Fever

NEW YORK, March 29.-To save the
life of a 9-year- old boy who was TAX
en- to Flower hospital a week ago in
the last stages of cerebo spinal men
nights, DR.. William Tod Helmuth. ire
pinned the skull of the lad, and he is
now apparently almost we'll.
When DR.. Helmuth performed the
operation the boy was almost dead,
but his recovery has been rapid. When
the boy was taken to the hospital DR..
Helmuth decided to try trephining.
uhtll then an untried procedure. the
case being so extreme. His exner;-
ment is being watched with absorbing
interest by his colleagues.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-29
The Vital Question
Most Names by Which Diseases Are
Known Are Merely Technical Terms
to Distinguish Slight Differences.

Chronic maladies are due to two
conditions: First, to poor blood and
disordered circulation; second, to
lack of nervous force and unequal dis
tribution of it. In other words, we
may look to the blood and nerves for
most of the lingering ills that weaken,
plague or wreck human kind. This
explains why DR.. Chase's Blood and
Nerve Food cures so many diseases
that bear distinctive names. It puts
the blood and nerves right, and
! through them the whole system
comes right. This concentrated Food
is blood builder, which so improves
the vital fluid that it thoroughly nour-
Isles every part of the body. 1t is
also a powerful vitalizer, that gives
an abundant store of energy to the
nerve centers, which is distributed to
every part, according to its needs.
Price SO cents, five boxes, enough to
give it fair trial, $500. Weigh your.
self before taking it. Book free.
Sold and Guaranteed by the
Pioneer Drug Store
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-29

Armory Hall can now be rented for
any and every occasion. The hail has
been newly renovated and is suitable
for public meetings, dances, receptions
and entertainments. For terms, apply
to A. Schwartz, manager, Tel. Main
22e.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-22

pice of utter insanity. The ledger and the pass
book could not have been swallowed up by the
smooth lawn He tried to force himself to believe
he had left them in the library. He knew it was
not So and had it been otherwise, he could not face
that ROOM with it's stricken tenant, second time.
&c. they must be where he had fallen. match
might help. Whatever the risk of showing light,
there other way. He fumbed with his
Matchbox and then he nearly paralyzed with
fright iron grip on his restrained him and
a hoarse voice whispered
i've got EN-, Mister Warren, an I've got you,
an 1 mean to keep both! But come away from
here, quick, or the game is up!"
Now, Warren bully. He had a certain
rude physical courage which might have sustained
him in battle But he yielded, we have seen,
to unreasoning panic, and his tongue Glove to the
roof of his mouth.
A firm hand on his guided him unerringly
across the lawn into thicket of 1aures. Utterly
cowed, he accompanied his guide INCREASINGLY.
Mortal terror had mastered him that he
ready to meet any fate, good or bad, that might
befa him, and he walked with the mechanical calm
of a convict his way to the scaffold. Yet the
voice had sounded familiar in his ears, and pres
entity, when reason reasserted ITSELF he began to
see a glimmer of hope.
His captor led him along at breathless speed, but
always with the caution that in itself warning
for silence and light step. At length they plunged
into a dark spinney, and Warren still guided by
the compelling hand, crouched down in the under
brush for moments breathing space. In the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-22

of any measured conversation. Don't you know
me, Master Harry" answered the other banteringly
Surely you must remember getting me six months
But there, therel" he chuckled, "a gentleman like
you might easily forget trife of that sort"
Warren shvered Bob Leigh" he muttered
despairingy He was delivered, fettered for life
into the hands of notorious poacher the man who
first sent Lester to whip the trout-stream which
flowed through Arnciffe Park
Eyes, Sir, Bob Leigh repeated the in the
jeering tones. " But bless you'll don't think
that l bear any malice. Why, 1 daresay if the
truth was known, it did a power of good. 1t
sharpened my hearin', for thing, so, when |
heard you and your ma talllin awhile ago, thought
it best to follow you. Now, Mr. Warren, just you
listen to and do as tell yer. Go to my cottage,
wash your hands, an call in at Jolly Jims' for
a drink Be he sees you. Don't hurry Let
a servant from the Hall find you, by accident
like"
Yes I'll do that" broke in Warren. ''T11 pay
you we'll Leigh, for your help. lift you saw
everything, you will know l didn't mean But
must have those books!"
You'll get nowt but what l gle theel' came the
poacher's menacing whisper CHOW, be off I'll
take good care O t books Mr. Warren an what's
more, I'll see you in t morning, when We'll have
bit crack aboot things, an particular ABBOTT my
allowance. Not that way, you rabbit hearted fool!
You'll meet keeper or some one comm to t Hall.
Make for t Beck, and then go up to my cottage by
way of the meadows. The doors on the latch And
hurry l tell yer Hurry. or
you'll spoil everything!"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-22

alcohol rose again to his brain. He became almost
frantic with fear.
He crept softly up to the window, and from the
shadow of a clump of bushes peered in, though his
eyes were blurred and his forehead clammy. Angler,
with spectacles nose, studying the ledger,
while at his elbow lay the pass-book. This how
ever as Warren noted with the quick appreciation
of nerves at full tension, yet unopened.
But how long would it remain unopened?
And then there came upon him an insane desire
to scream QUITO do anything that might end it
all and relieve the suspense that was making an
inferno of his lfebut he pulled himself together with
an effort and walked round quietly to the French
windows that led into the library from the garden.
He turned the latch softly. Even now he had
not decided upon any of action, though he
had some vague hope of engaging the lawyers atten
tion perhaps till dinner-time, when the books
might be left unguarded. So he walked slowly
across the thick carpet trying to frame greeting
with his dry lips
The old mans back toward him. Absorbed
in his work. Angler did not look up, BECAUSE as it
Glanced he thought the newcomer was servant.
Warren stood for instant with an Excuse
me" trembling his tongue Suddenly muir
derous impulse 1eaped up to his eyes like sheet
of flame, and he struck savagely at the bald head
with his heavy hunting-crop. Angler sat for
moment as though nothing had happened, and
Warren waited, staring stupidity. Then the old
head dropped to the desk.
Warren almost shouted for help. 1t seemed i'm
possible that he could have done this awful thing.