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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-10-31
Investigation Into Affairs is Becoming
Sensational.
SHORTAGE IN CASH DISCOVERED
Suit May be Entered Against Promi-
FaiIure-Loans Were Made With
out Proper Security-Confession Al
legged to Have Been Made by Cashier
Clark.

Pittsburg, October 2S.-There were
several sensational developments to-
day in the investigation of the affairs
Of the Enterprise National Bank, of
Allegheny City, and more startling
disclosures are expected to follow.
National Bank Examiner John B.
Cunningham, who is receiver of the
Enterprise Bank, entered suit this af-
ternoon against w Ell. Andrews, ter
ritoial delegate from New Mexico for
over $4,000, charging him with fraud
ulently conspiring with L. K. Nichols,
his private secretary and L. Lee Clark.
the dead cashier OF til Enterprise Ma
tiOnal Bank, to unlawfully procure
funds by the proceeds Of negotiable pa
per. The information caused quite
sensation and it is intimated that other
suits, involving prominent persons are
to be entered in connection with the
failure Of the Enterprise Bank.
It was reported late this afternoon
that a shortage of $500 go in cash has
been discovered in the accounts of
Cashier Clark by Special Government
Examiner E. ?. MoXey and Receiver
John 3. Cunningham. This amount Of
money is supposed to have been loan
cd out with out security Or any record
being made of the transactions.
1t was further discovered, it is said.
! that loans were made without proper
security to other prominent parties in
this section, and that the evidence
| gathered by the examiners is SO COM
plete that it is almost sufficient ground
! for the prosecution OF the persons in
yolved. Reports were in circulation
| following the discoveries to the effect
! that immediate prosecutions had been
decided upon but this was denied by
United States District Attorney Dun
kle.
| Special Examiner Edward 2. Moxey,
who is Investigating the affairs of the
insolvent Enterprise National Bank, is
positive that T. Lee Clark the suicide
cashier, was guilty of criminal action
| III connection with the banks affairs,
and declared himself to that effect to-
! day.
! When he asked to be more explicit,
| he said
Undoubtedly Clark was guilty of
1>criminal conduct or he would not have
| shot himself His suicide alone is suf-
| ficient evidence of his guilt in my es-
| TINA ton. | have found that 80 out Of
| 100 bank cashiers who commit suicide
| have made criminal use Of the funds
of their banks.
Referring to the alleged confession
of Cashier Clark today, one Of Clark s
relatives, who would not permit his
name mentioned, said
| I'VE have very direct information
that the statement is in the possession
| of Mr.. Cunningham. I believe that
when it is made public it will cast an
| entirely new light on the affairs OF the
| bank, and it will show that Mr.. Clark
| was not so much to blame, although
he certainly must have made some
mistakes
| Legal action is being talked OF
among the relatives Of Clark to COM
pei Receiver Cunningham to make pub
| lie the confession.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-10-31
1.1OO MILES By WIRELESS
Message Received in Washington From
the West Virginia. While i'm the
Gulf of Mexico.

Washington, October 2S.-The wire
less telegraph station at the Washing
ton navy yard vas in communication
with the armOred cruiser West Virgin
la on which President Roosevelt is 4
passenger, from 2:07 until Sis O'Clock
this morning. The message, as picked
up IN transmission was passing from
the West Virginia to the armored crui-
ser Colorado, which, with the Pennsyl-
vania, is to accompany the first named
vessel up the coast and stated that the
West Virginia would probably join the
Colorado and Pennsylvania Off Key
West about noon today
The feat of communication from
Washington to a vessel in the Gulf OF
Mexico, about 100 miles distant, and
mostly overland. is regarded as re-
markable.
The latest news from the West viz
ginia comes in the following telegram
just received et the navy department
from rhe commandant of the naval
station at Key West:
Admiral BrCwnson acknowledges
receipt of your telegram about coal
from colliers and Arethusa at Lynn
Haven Bay. Weather smooth
This morning the navy department
telegraphed Admiral Brownson that
arrangements would be made to coal
the West Virginia from colliers in
Lynn Haven Bay as soon as she ar
rives there Monday in order that he
| may go at once TO Annapolis to partic-
ipate in the welcome to the Prince
Louis squadron.
The Washington navy yard tonight
was in touch with the West Virginia
by wireless telegraph. Operator p. s.
Geagan, first class electrician, who is in
charge of the plant here, received the
| following message:
West Virginia in good commu1ica-
| ton with Jupiter Inlet, Savannah ana
| st. Augustine have heard messages, but
| West Virginia requests Savannah to
listen closely for them as they may
have message any time. West Virginia
| also requests weather report from Sa-
| vannah.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-10-31

Boston. Mass. October 2s.-A rear
end collision between subway trains.
in which a number Of passengers were
cut and bruised. and two cars were
partly wrecked. occurred about 800
yards south of the Park street station
today It is said that the motorman
of an Atlantic avenue loop-train. back
ing to overcome the intertia of dead
car" pushed the end of his train be-
yond the signal of a block on which a
Dudley street train was approaching.
The trains came together with q shock
that shattered the forward end Of the
Dudley street train. and the rear end
of the Atlantic avenue train. Passen-
gers were thrown about and the cleo
trio system being interrupted all lights
went out and there was great confu-
sion.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-10-31

that of Randolph-Macon college %
TO g.
Georgetown, O.; Washington and JEFF
freS0n -.
Swartmoore, e: Navy, 5.
Western University of Pennsy1ya-
MIA, "A: Dickinson, o.
Cornell. %: Harverford, O.
Michigan. As: Drake. o.
Case. @: Ohio State University, o.
Lafayette, 20; Lebanon Valley col
lege, o. r
State college. %: Villa Nova. o.
George Washington. O: University Of
Maryland, O.
Williams, 30: Rennesier Polytech-
Nic, g.
Holy Cross. B.: Springfield Training
School, q.
Minnesota. 46. Lawrence, @.
Chicago, 81: Northwestern, 0.
Purdue, IL: Indiana. II.
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YALE 20: WEST POINT @.

West Point, October 2S.-Yale's foot
ball team defeated West Point today
by the score of 20 to q, making three
touchdowns and one safety Yale's
large score was made during sudden
spurts in which the heavy eleven
threw West Points defense aside with
apparent ease and crossed the gridiron
for touchdowns in few mass plays.
Toward the close Of the game Yale's
attack strengthened and runs We're
continually made. The game was
practically ended before the time limits
by hundreds of enthusiastic spectators
running out upon the field after Yale's
first touchdown had been made On a
45-yard run by Quarterback Jones.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-10-31
HARVARD 10; BROWN O.

Cambridge, Mass, October 2S.-By
straight plunging football with but few
variations and a sturdy defence, Har-
ward scored touchdown in each half
against Brown today, but the first try
at the goal was missed while in the
second the kick was spoiled by Dennle
of Brown, running out and catching the
ball. Two runs by Schwartz, the
Brown quarterback for twenty yards
each We're the longest of the game.
The final score was Harvard 10:
Brown, @.
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Strike Fever Spreading in Odessa.

Odessa. October 2S.-2 o m. This
city is practically isolated so far as
railroad travel is concerned Core
spondence by telegraphfs alone posi-
sible The price of foodstuffs has iii
creased enormously. The employees
of all the banking houses and newspa-
pers and the entire staff of the city
schools are on strike. The offices are
guarded by troops. The citizens have
decided to organize a municipal mill
tia for self protection. The city is
quiet.
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Situation in St. Petersburg
is Critical.
BUSINESS IS SUSPENDED
ReVolutonists Seem Determined to
Force an Armed Conflic,

From All Over the Empire tive Story
Is the Same-Work stopped. Schools
Closed and No Newspapers Printed
The Cry of the People Is for Pollti-
cal Liberty-Much Alarm Felt for
the Safety OF Foreign Subiects-At
Moscow All the Political Parties
Have Joined I'm a Resolution to Set
Up a Provincial Government-Im-
periaI Hopes Rest ON Witte.
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VANDERBILT 33: TEXAS O.

Nashville, Tenn, October 2S.-Spec-
tacular end runs, helped by good line
bucking gave Vanderbilt five touch
downs in today's game. The final
score of the game was 33 to 0. This
victory practically settles the S. |. A.
\. championship as Texas is supposed
to be the strongest of the others con-
testing for the hOnOrS.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-10-31
HOPES ON TWO MEN
Russid's Salvation Depends on
Witte and TTepOff
100000 MEN ARE IDLE
The Chiefs Of State are at a Loss to
Know How to Act

The Revoiutionists are Growing Bold
or and More Insistent i'm Their De-
nands-If Witte and IrepOn Fail
Nothing Can Save the Present Gov
erIImcnt From Ruin-Lfe in st.
Petersburg is That of a City Under
Siege-WOrkmens Meetings Unam-
mOusiy Decide to Continue the
Stlikes-SituatiOn at Moscow is
Growing Worse.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-10-31
MESSAGE FROM MRS. ROOSE
WELT To THE PRESIDENT.

Washington, October 28.-As soon
as the West Virginia got in touch
with the wireless station at Key West
today the first message to be trans
mitted from the shora&to the big cruis-
er was personal one from Mrs Roos.
evelt to the President congratulating
him on the anniversary OF his 47th
birthday. This message was sent last
night from the navy department To
Key West, with instructions to deliver
to the President at the first opportuni-
ty.
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SEWANEE II. TENNESSEE 8.

Sewanee, Tenn, October 2S.-Uni-
versity of the South found the Univer-
sity Of Tennessee hard proposition
today but won IL to 8, by means Of
rapid fire tactics. In the last half,
John Caldwell for Tennessee ran the
entire length fthe field, less 5 yards,
for a touchdown to which a goal was
added
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PRINCETON u; COLUMBIA O.

' New York, October 2S.-After play
ing superior football to Princeton in
the first half, and missing a touchdown
only by fatal fumbling, Columbia sue
cumbed to Princeton's persistent attack
III the second half of the game at
American League Park today and lost
by the score Of II to 0. Nearly 10000
persons witnessed the game.
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PENNSYLVANIA 6; CARLISLE G

FENNS NV ANIA o, tahI1IsoI1L U
Philadelphia, October 2S-The Penn
sylvania football eleven today defeated
the Carlisle Indians by the score of q
to @. The single touchdown and goal
We're made in the opening half.
In the second half there was little to
choose between the playing Of the two
elevens. Both gained spasmodically.
but neither was able to advance the
ball with any degree of regularity.
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WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON
q. GE0RGETONN O.

Pittsburg. October 2S.-The Wash
ington and jefferson and Georgetown
football elevens met at Friendship
Park today and Georgetown was beat
nby a score of y TO o.
In the second half Of play Daugher-
ty, Of Washington and Jefferson made
a sensational run Of 80 yards and was
followed by Mclaughlin of Georgetown
who made a great run of 45 yards.
Both plays We're sensational and
caused much enthusiasm.
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Key West, Fla, October 28.-rhe
cruiser West Virginia, with President
Roosevelt aboard, arrived off Key West
at o'clock today and was immedia. ely
Joined by the cruisers Colorado and
Pennsylvania The squadron at once
sailed for Hampton Roads.
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OTHER FOOTBALL GAMES.

Lexington, Va, October 2S.-Vir-
ginia Military Institute 23; William
and Mary College, 0.
Annapolis. October 2S.-The foot
ball team OF. St Johns college defeated
that of Richmond college here today
by q score of 10 to O.
Baltimore, October oS.-The Johns
Hopkins football eleven today defeated
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fcontinned on Fourth Page.l
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-12-30
PERHAPS YOU WON'T BE TOO
BUSY TO STORE NEXT WINTERS
COAL NEXT SUMMER IN VIEW OF
THE PRESENT SHORTAGE, 1T
MAY PAY.
THE UTAH FUEL COMPANY.
The Continuous Performance Farmer.

The Continuous Performance Farmer.
AS soon as Alpheus got his raise
Hannah furnished the parlor on the
installment Plan, and the next week
invited her old father from the coun-
try town down to visit her.
The old man was one Of those farm
ers that you see in the continuous per-
formances.
He had roll of gray whiskers un.
der his chin. He carried bag made
Of red body Brussels. He wore con-
gress CATERS so wide at the top that
the bottoms Of his tro Asers were al
ways caught in them. He whitfield a
stick, said "by gum" and drank cider.
A typical continuous performance
farmer.
When Alpheus and Hannah led the
old man into the splendid new parlor
they expected him to be overawed.
But he only snorted, and waving his
long hand toward the tides pinned on
each chair back, he said:
"Wall, by gum, you city folks hev a
funny way O. dryin' yer washin'."
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-12-30
Bad Spell.

Little Marion was invited with her
mother to dine at the house Of very
proper friend, and, wishing her to APP
pear at her best, her mother told her
beforehand that she must not make un.
favorable remaks about anything on
the table.
Marion remembered her instructions
well until she tasted her dessert, and
then, leaning across the table towards
her mother, IN very audible whisper
she spelled, after the manner that she
had heard grown people rnell when she
was not intended to under stand, Mama
-b-f-i-sour pie,"-Lippincott's Maya
zine.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-12-30
Remember.

The Utah Savings & Trust company
pays per cent per annum interest on
savings accounts, both large and
small, and that it also transacts gen.
eral trust business, acting as admin
istrator or guardian or trustee, guar
anteeing titles, making abstracts, fur
nishing surety bonds, ETC., etc. 1t has
been sixteen years in the business.
w. S. Mccormick, president; John J.
DAILY, vice president; Heber M. Wells,
manager. No. 100 Main street.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-12-30
Father Arranged II.

A father and mother, with six chill
dren, paid visit to the seaside. Wish
ing to spend few days there they set
about looking for cheap lodgings.
At length they came to a notice of
a furnished room to let" and made
inquiries.
"Oh, yes" said the landlady in an.
swer to the fathers question; tits
here the room is to let, but there's
only one bed in It,"
ooh, that's all right" replied the
father; we're used to roughing it.
The wife and bairns'll sleep on the
floor"
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-12-30

The dean of Canterbury says he has
heard, and he believes there is great
truth in it, that the practical wisdom
of the Scottish people is due to the
fact that at the time of the reforma-
ton the Book of Proverbs was ham,
mered into the heads of the children.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-12-30
Shakespeare Modernized.

He who steals my purse steals
trash" but he who gets away with my
share Of the surplus draws a big sal.
airy, owns ye"ht or two, few ninety
horsepower automobiles, city man.
sion and country seat and has money
to burn.-New York Herald.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-12-30
What the Hens Do.

The hens in the United States now
produce one and two-third billion doz-
ems of eggs a year, and at the high
average price of the year the hens
during their busy season lay enough
eggs in a single month to pay the
years interest on the national debt.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-12-30
Hosr'tal Makes Its Ice.

The MIDI sex hospital in London,
has a plant producing three tons of
ice in twenty-four hours, at a cost of
So a ton, against $5.46 ton when pur.
chased.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-12-30
Why Russia Delays.

A st. Petersburg newspaper states
that the only reason the reconstruc.
ton Of the Russian fleet has not been
begun yet Is that the government has
not decided whether to use turbine en-.
gines or not.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-12-30
Light Fingered.

The Monk-The old saying, that the
leopard can't change his spots, is all
nonsense. saw him myself, last
night, change two spot for an ace!-
Browning's Magazine.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-12-30

to your origin" association But the
Christmas spirit made them forget to
be snobs. You'll hear millionaires tell
ing plain people how they used to
play Halloween jokes, how they
scraped up to buy their mothers little
Christmas gifts-what ridiculous
things they used to get and give!
All evening as fast as anybody went
out they'd let somebody else in.
Along about eleven o'clock lot of the
people began to go home. Then new
crowd come in. People who had TAX
en- their children home and put them
to bed would come back for more fun.
Others, who had spent the evening
dining began to dribble in.
All the actor people and singers
came. 1t was good to see them. Some
of them told me what godsend such
a thing was to them, homeless by pro-
fession. A lot of them brought their
wives and babies. One father was
playing Romeo in Newark, his wife
was playing Little Eva in Harlem,
and their daughter was playing Ca
mile on Broadway You should of
seen them rejoicing round the Kansas
tree!
| About midnight the big refreshment
hall was opened and everybody that
could squeeze in set down to long
tables where l had supper served.
had some of the best after-dinner
speakers in town come in, and you
should of heard some of the funny
stories-it would of brought back dear
old childhood memories. Mayor Nc
/ l41Ia oil
then there was Chauncey Depew, OF
course, and Simeon Ford, and Angus
tus Thomas, and Wilton Lackaye, and
Job Hedges, and Lemuel Ely Quigg,
and General Horace Porter, and
passed. of others.
They all made the most surprising
illusions to your poor old husband.
They called me daddy and sang about
me being a jolly good fellow. And
one of them christened me SANITY
Crockett" Why, my ears burned so
hot I near set my collar on fire! 1t
sure was worth all spent, and had
a terrible time to keep from blubber-
ling. I must of swallowed about four
hundred and eleven Adams apples.
Finally they called on me for
speech. | just kind O. gibbered-I
said: merry Christmas, my chill dren!
This old world sure is some comfort
able after all. The only trouble is
that the right people can't seem to
get together at the right time often
enough But this here Christmas sup
per tastes to me terrible much like
More I'm going to try it again. And
I hereby invite you all that amt in
any better place or any better world
to meet me here year from tonight,
And so God bless you all, and-and
God bless everybody"
Then after lot of song-singing ana
handwringing we all went home, tears
in every eye and smiles on every
mouth. The remnants of food and
toys made more than the twelve bask-
cts full of Scripture. l sent them
round to the Hospitals and Orphant
Asylums. I've engaged the Garden
again for next Christmas and paid a
deposit down. 1t amt the extrava-
gance it looks, either, for while the ex-
penses was high-twelve thousand-odd
dollars-they took in at the door near
ly eighteen thousand dollars. / sent
the profit to the Salvation Army and
the Volunteers, and now I'm being
prayed for and hallelooyied for every
where there's a brass drum. But I'd
do it again if it cost me twenty thou
l kx
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II II u T H.

to keep warm and sleep some more.
If only you and the chicks had "a
been there! Next time you shall be.
Your loving Austin.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-12-30

sky back of it was full of electric
stars that twinkled something beauti-
full. And there was a moon that looked
like the real thing.
There was four bands in the bal
comics and a chorus of angels with
real wings and electric halo. They
sang Peace on Earth Good Will to
Men, written for the occasion by Mr..
! De Koven.
/ BY and by all the bands bust out
gorgeous and then Sanity Claus APP
peared in a sleight drawed by six
real live stuffed RENDERS. He run
along the sky on unseen grooves and
drove up to the roof of the house, and
slid down the chimbly with a pack of
presents. He filled all the stockings
with candy cornycopies and toys, and
a lot of attendants passed 'em out to
the children. You should of heard
them squeal with joy-poor little tots
living in hotels and apartment places
where Sanity Claus would of had to
come up the steam radiator or the
gas-log pipe to get in. Well, my Sanity
Claus had to make sixteen trips to
satisfy the children.
I The Garden was divided into Sec
tions, one for every state and terri
tory, with its own shield in electric
lights and colors. There was native
of every state in charge, and every
state had it's own big Christmas tree,
and reception-room and refreshments.
Some of the people l noticed seemed
to of been born in several states at
once, the way they passed from one
sbooth to another film up their peck
oh nd CIR rnn1ynn fhny
paid for it the next day in doctors
bills. -
{ But there was nary a sign of rowdy-
,ism.E That dollar admission was
Irregular sieve for straining out the
)toughs. Then there were policemen
everywhere, and every other man
NEARLY was a plain-clothes man or
detective. Besides, after sober consid-
;eration, and on advice from the Gard
;eners, cut out all drinks, except soft
stuff So there were no jags, except
what some people brought with them
from their Christmas dinners and
loaded plum buildings.
And then, of course, that peculiar
something we get into us at Christmas
time filled everybody with a sort of
loving fellowship and a hankering to
hug their neighbors and divvy up their
funds like a Mutual Life-Insurance
company prospectus says it's going to
do some day.
In the center of the hall there was
big sign in electric letters:
EVERYBODY is HEREBY INTRO
DUCED TO EVERYBODY ELSE
FOR TONIGHT ONLY.
s At every state booth you'd see peo-
pie gathering and recognizing old
friends or introducing themselves to
new ones.
At the Texas booth there was big,
immense crowd. A lot of 'em turned
out to be old friends of mine, people
i had worked for, people who had
FOURTEEN TRUTH
worked me-or for me. A lot of them
sent their love and a Merry Christ
mas to you. l remember especially
.(Here we omit list of names, some
what lacking in universal interest.)
l had advertised that people who
wanted to give each other Christmas
presents could have them hung on the
state trees. My attendants gave them
checks for their gifts and there wasn't
many mix-ups. Old Miss Samanthy
Clay got a box of cigars meant for
Judge Randolph, and he got pair OF
silyer-buckle carriers meant for her.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-12-30
WashIngton's Postmaster.

The Hon. John A. Merritt, the pres.
ent postmaster Of the nations capital,
was in early life farmer, and before
studying law worked in grocery
store.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-12-30

TRUTH Is a legal Journal. Send in
your Mining Notices, Assessment No
tices. and Delinquent Notices. TRUTH
OFFICE, 241 South West Temple. Both
Phones 1888.