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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-04-06
CORTELYOU AND BLISS
Nav B. Halsd to Court to Answer
Charge oil Receiving "Stolen Goods
LING Has MarranIS.

te(GlQG ILdS w a. dAhS'
At New York Tuesday morning
District attorney Jerome appeared
before Magistrate Moss in the Tomos
notice court and applied for warrants
to be used in testing the legality Oh
the contribution of insurance compa'
uies funds to political campaign COM
mittees.
The name of no person was men
toned at the time. After listening 10
Mr.. Jerome. Magistrate Moss SAID
that before he would issue any war
rant in the matter evidence Would
have to be presented that a CRIME
had been committed.
To establish this evidence, MI. Je
rome asked for the issuance OF
number of subpoenas in blank to be
used in John Doe" proceedings be-
fore the magistrate. Later in the
day these subpoenas were issued. 1t
was said at the district attorneys
office that every effort will be made
10 get the proceedings under way at
once.
When news that the warrants had
been asked for became public, it was
recalled that the names of Postmas-
ter General Cortelyou, chairman Of
the republican national committee
Cornelius N. Bliss, treasurer Of that
organization, and George w. Perkins,
formerly vice president Of the New
York Life Insurance company, had
been mentioned by Mr. Jerome before
Judge O'SuIlivan in connection with
the warrants.
In taking this action Tuesday, Mr..
Jerome is carrying out the policy he
announced before Justice O'Sullivan
in the court of special sessions last
week. when he defended the opinion
he had previously rendered, that there
had been no crime committed in con-
nection with the campaign contribu-
tions. Justice O'Sullivan ruled, how.
ever, that if it could be shown there
was an intent to defraud the rightful
owners of the property, it was for the
grand jury to say whether or not the
case was one of larceny, He so in
structed the grand jury, and urged
the grand jurors to fearlessly investi-
gate the matter and not to seek shell
ter in the face of an unpleasant
duty.
Mr.. Jerome asked Justice O'Sulli-
van if he would not, sitting as mag
istrate, Issue a warrant for the arrest
Of George w. Perkins, former vice
president of the New York Life Insur-
ance company, in order that a writ
of habeas corpus might be obtained
and the matter taken at once to the
highest court.
Mr.. Jerome also suggested that #
the contributing to campaign commit
tees by the officers of the insurance
companies constituted larceny, the
natter involved Chairman Cortelyou
and Treasurer Bliss CT the republican
campaign committee, in the matter
Of receiving stolen goods.
Justice O'Sullivan declined to act
in the case, saying there were plenty
of magisterial courts before which
the matter could be placed and the
warrants secured
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-04-06

was made. The case was given the
jury Saturday afternoon, and after de-
Operating an hour a verdict OF not
guilty was reached.
Mrs. Cobb was accused of killing
her husband one night, while lie was
in the yard CT the home, supposedly
watching for an intruder, as, it was
alleged he suspicioned his wife of in
fidelity.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-04-06
FORMER MAYOR VAN WICK WEOiS

Takes for Better or Worse the Divorced
Spouse of Jnhn {. HertIe.
Robert A. Van Wick. former d mayor
of New York, and Kate E. Hertlf, the
former wife of John c. Hertle, COM
missioner of accounts, were married
last Monday night in the new B road
way Tabernacle by Rev. Charles A.
Jefferson. Only intimate friends were
present. The former mayor with ms
bride took passage Tuesday for Eu'
rope. Asked for details of his mar
riage, Mr.. Van Wyck smiled and said:
There are none. We were just mar
ried-that's ALL"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-04-06
PERKINSSERVED
WITH WARRANT
technically Arrested in Connection
With Insurance Scandals.
ACTION WAS. ANTICIPATED
Habcas Corpus Writ Was Ready for His
Release Charge Against Him is
Grand Larceny.

On a charge that his connection
with the contribution of $4S,7025n
from the funds of the New York Life
Insurance company to Cornelius
Bliss, treasurer of the republican na-
tional campaign committee in the
campaign of 1904, constituted grand
larceny in the first degree, George w.
PeIkins a member of the firm Of 7
2. Morgan & Co., and until recently
first vice president of the New York
Life Insurance company, was arrest
ed in New York wednesday on war.
rant issued by City Magistrate Moss.
When a detective went to serve the
warrant upon Mr.. Perkins he found
that a writ of habeas corpus had al
ready been obtained from Justice
Greenbaum of the supreme court
and the matter was Immediately taken
out of the magistrates hands.
Nh. Perkins appeared before JUS
tice Greenbaum, and at the request
of his counsel, the hearing in the case
was adjourned until Friday Mr.. Per
kins was paroled in the custody of
his personal attorney, Lewis A. Della
field.
The warrant for Mr.. Perkins arrest
was applied for Tuesday by District
Attorney Jerome. Magistrate Moss
would not act, however, until aff1da-
Wits were filed in the case. These
were presented to him Tuesday. They
were signed by Darwin P. Kingsley,
vice president of the New York Life;
Edmund D. Randolph, treasurer Of
the company, and by Thomas A. Buck
ner, also a vice president.
Mr. Perkins counsel admitted to
Justice Greenbaum that Mr.. Perkins
had advanced the sum named to Mr.
Bliss upon the request of the late
John A. Mccall, president of the New
York Life.
He was afterwards reimbursed
through the action of the company's,
finance committee. 1t was contended
that Mr. Mccall had executive author
ity to order the payment, and that it
any crime was committed it was par
ticipated in by every member of the.
finance committee present when the
matter was acted upon.
Despite the action of Mr.. Jerome in,
applying for warrant for Mr. Per-
kins and thus taking the matter to.
the higher courts of the state, Judge
| O'Sullivan, in the court of special
sessions, again addressed the grand
jury which is considering life insur-
ance matters and instructed them that
1t was their duty to continue the in
vestigation to the end. He told the
grand jurors it was their right to de-
sland that the district attorney sub
poena witnesses to be examined be-
fore them in any matter they may
have under consideration.
Robert A. Granniss and W. R. Gil
lette, as vice presidents and trustees,
and Eldridge T. Gerry, as trustee OF
the Mutual Life Insurance company,
rendered their resignation at a meet
ing of the board of trustees of that
company at a meeting held during the
day. They. were accepted. A report
of the Truesdale investigating com
mittee was received and ordered
printed but no other action was taken
upon it.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-04-06
Many Banks Being Chartered.

Twenty banks have been organized
up to date in the state of Georgia
during the year 1906 in 1905 which
was the banner year for the organiza-
ton Of banks in Georgia, the total
amounted to Sc. The number char
tered on the first quarter of the pres
emit year shows that the record Of
1906 viii in all likelihood reach that
Of the greatest year on record up to
date, so far as mere numbers are con-
cerned.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-04-06
GEORGIA BRIEFS 1
Bible institute for gainesville.

The Bible Institute Of the North
Georgia Conference will meet in
Gainesville on April is, and will re-
main in session several days. Some
of the ablest and most prominent
Methodist ministers in the state will
attend, and the meetings will be both
Interesting and profitable.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-04-06
erave DANCER in overpIantlna.

President M. L. Johnson of the GeOr-
gia Division Southern Cotton Asso-
citation, has just issued one of the
strongest and most forceful state
ments thar has yet appeared, showing
the grave dangers Of excessive plant
ing Of cotton this season. He says
in part:
Let me call your attention and
your earnest thought to the following
extract from the New York CONNER
cial of March s.
The bears dwell constantly on the
claim that the south will plant more
cotton this spfing by millions Of
acres than was ever planted before.
The cotton bear always operates upon
the idea that there is little common
sense south of the Mason and Dixon
line
do you realize what this means?
II it is true, then you, the planter
are the worst bear of all, for You
are bearing the market by planting
more cotton than the world needs.
The quickest and most effective way
to bear the market is to create a
supply which exceeds the worlds de-
mands. The bears of Wall street are
simply betting that you will bear your
own crop by overplanting; that You
and | will sell our cotton for less
than Is cents because this very over
planting will force down the price.
If you plant too much he will win, if
you hold down your acreage he will
lose"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-04-06
oreek ocItIzengD 10 &c court.

Judge Speer has ordered the clerk
Of the United States court at Savan-
nah to have the jury boxes in court
so that he may draw a new jury.
This means that the cases arising
out Of the alleged fraudulent naturali-
cation Of Greek citizens will be tried
at this term of the court The time
when they will be tried is dependent
on the time when the Greene-Gaynor
caee rs concluded.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-04-06
THREE AMERICANS DOOMED TO Ole.
Mexican High Court Afiirms Sentences Of
Richardson, Mason and HarIe.

The supreme court of Mexico has
affirmed the sentence of death against
Richardson, Mason and Harle, con-
victed of having murdered Mitchell
and Devers, at chihuahua, four years
ago, in order to collect insurance on
their lives They will be shot unless
Governor Creel pardons them.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-04-06
STATE PRIMARY IN ARKANSAS.
Governor Davis Defeats Berry for Senate
and Title Wins Out for Governor.

Congressman John S. Little carried
the Arkansas state democratic pri-
mary Wednesday in the contest for
the nomination for governor over At
torney General Robert L. Rogers and
S. O. Sewer.
Governor Jefferson Davis has an ap-
parently insurmountable lead over
Senator James P. Berry for the nom
nation for United States senator, re.
turns to the Arkansas Gazette indicat-
ing that. Davis majority in the entire
state may exceed 10000.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-04-06
Sac MINE In zinc CONDITION.

Ceorgia's military forces the in
spection of which will be completed
on April 20. are in better condition
just now, and are making a inner
showing than has been the case in
years.
The results Of the inspections made
both by state and United States Of
icers have shown this, for up to the
present time after the inspection Of
hfty-two out 81 about seventy com
mands now In the state service, not
one of those Inspected has been rec
commended for disbandment or even
put on probation. In other words,
these hfty-two companies have made
a showing satisfactory to the inspect
ing officers.
These inspections are now being
made by Major Frank B. Mccoy Of
the seventeenth United States. infan-
try, representing the war department,
and by colonel w G. Obear, inspector
general of state troops on the part
of the state, and they have been
thorough III every respect
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-04-06
ATLANTAt IMPOSITION BOOSTtD.
Street Railway and Gas Light Companies
Donate Handsome Sum 10 Enterprise

WOWdVe UdWUNNWe gum 10 TWIUTpIINO'
The subscription of the Georgia
Railway and Electric company and OF
the Atlanta Gas Light company TO-
the fund for the 1910 exposition was
announced in Atlanta Wednesday,
The two corporations will give $500
600 to the fund. conditioned upPn the
securing of solvent subscriptions 10
the extent of 100000
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-04-06
Mra. cohb Acauitted.

The case of the state VS.. Mrs.
Amanda Cobb was called in court at
Lavonia, Friday Counsel for the de-
PENDANT moved Tor a continuance upon
the ground "a the absence of Mrs Ma
mic Human. Of Atlanta, who was a
witness for the defendant The mo-
ton was overruled, and the defend
ant went to trial. She was charged
with the killing Of her husband, Pro
fessor w II. Cobb. and went to trial
charged with murder.
There was an enormous crowd OF
people in attendance upon the trial,
and fight for every inch of ground
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24
Curious to Know Why.

Editor JOURNAL: Your San Jose
correspondent writes entertaining
letters, to the reading of which !
listen with much interest. The one
published last week concerning the
earthquake situation in that strick-
en-, city has excited my curiosity,
and doubtless that of other readers,
in connection with one feature of
the reconstruction policy to be OBJ
served hereafter. 1t is stated in eff
feet that the people of that locality
entertain nc apprehension of fur
Their earthquakes of serious ma
ture. She writes that In the re-
building, brick chimneys will be
discarded, galvanized iron and ter
ra Gotta taking the place, and we
think it were wiser to do away with
spires of churches and sky-scraping
buildings. Bungalows
will be more favorably looked upon
than heretofore for residences"
Assuming that there are to be no
more earthquakes of a calamitous
character in that vicinity, many
people are curious to know why it
is lust now deemed advisable to
substitute galvanized iron and terra
Gotta for brick as structural materi-
al for chimneys, to do away with
church steeples and high buildings
and to give bungalows the prefer
ence in architectural designs for
dwellings,. And, too, when it comes
TO choice of nerve distracters, |
would much prefer a Wisconsin
thunder-sto to a Pacific-coast
earthquake. M. B. KIMBALL.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24
Y. P. S. c. E.

Sunday evening May q at $50
O'Clock. Topic, John Williams and
missions to the South Seas. Ps.
SLIP Leader; Bessie Gunnison.
If you want to have your picture
taken in jolly crowd and by good
photographer meet at Congregation
al church next Friday evening at
$50; all C. E. members and church
friends invited. When we have
finished we will be taken by means
of large wagons to the home of Mr..
Martin where social evening will
be spent in playing, sheep in the
pen" hide and go seek and many
other Amusing games. Come one,
come all, and then we will feel like
going to the endeavor next Sunday
evening and helping the leader IN
and interesting meeting.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24

The Ladies Aid of the Cong.
church will meet with Mrs. c. F.
Winter next Thursday, May 81. All
members are requested to be pres
ent.
A. C. Sanford, candidate for mem
Der of the Assembly, was visitor
in the city yesterday and this fore
noon. He made this Office brief
call.
Mrs. Jas. McDaniels of Seattle,
WASH, is visitor at the Purves
home. She is on her way to visit
relatives at St. Louis and in New
York.
At the Baptist church next Sun
day there will be no morning service,
Sunday school at 1900; B. Y. P. U,
at 700 p. m; Preaching at s p. m. by
John Wright.
There will be a meeting of citi.
zens at Odd Fellows Hall Monday
evening, May %, for the purpose OF
organizing a good roads associa-
ton, to which everybody is urged
to be present.
The great La Grange Minstrel
Show has selected, after carefully
considering all the hits of 1906, the
beautiful Two-Step Intermezzo
"Azaleas," by ]. c. Hawthorne,
as the piece de resistance of their
production. The number is pub
lished by Lyon & Healy, Chicago
and is the prettiest thing composed.
Every piano will be decorated with
copy soon.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24
New Professors in the State
University.

At meeting of the regents of the
University of Wisconsin held al
Madison the 18th instant a number
of appointments were made and pro-
vision for additional professorships.
Professor w. D. Fence, now head
of the department of civil engineer
ing at Purdue University, was elect
ed to the chair of civil engineering
to fill the vacancy caused by the re-
signation of Prof. w. d. Taylor,
who has become chief engineer of
the Chicago and Alton railway. DIR.
Edward B. Van Week, now pro-
lessor of mathematics at Wesleyan
University, was appointed to the
professorship of mathematics left
vacant by the resignation of G. A.
Van Velzer,
Upon recommendation of the re-
gent committee on the college ofag-
riculture, George n. Knapp, assist
ant professor of farm engineering,
was removed. The resignation of
Leslie H. Adams, farm superintend-
ent, was received and accepted, to
take effect une IS.
The recent action of the faculty
of the university in limiting inter-
collegiate football, adopting the reg
ulations of the Chicago conference,
and recommending general partici-
patton in athletics by all the students
was approved by the regents. Pro-
vision was made for a director of
athletics, but as President Van Hise
had not selected anyone for the po-
sition, no appointment was made at
this time. E. D. Angel, instructor
in physical training, was appointed
to fill the office of graduate manager
temporarily, in place of G. L. Dow
ner, resigned. The new director of
Athletics, it was decided, is to take
entire charge of all the athletic in
terests of the university, including
all indoor and outdoor sports, the
training and management of all ath-
letic teams, and the organization of
athletics, so that all students of the
university can take active part in
them.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24

the brilliant bars that prior to 1860
practiced at Saltwater, Hudson and
Prescott. His first acquaintance
with Mr.. White dated back to a
period prior to 1860, his first meet
ing being at Prescott, where he
with members of the Hudson bar
had gone to attend court, and were
met at the landing by Mr.. White.
With him he had been more init
mate than any other of the lawyers
who have practiced in the St. Croix
Valley, except those who had been
connected with him in his own of
| fee. He had found Mr.. White
cordial, friendly, an able lawyer of
the old school who had wrought out
the problems by hard study and
careful attention to principles rath-
er than case law. In life he was
upright, no oath or improper ex-
preston escaped from his lips.
Perhaps no paper fell upon the
audience with more effect than this
brief one of Mr.. Bakers. He is
now seventy-fve years of age, has
practiced law in the ST. Croix Val
ley for torty-seven years, has grown
gray in the service and has won a
reputation and distinction second
to few. And in the few sentences
he read one could but feel that he
spoke from the heart, giving
tribute to an almost lifelong friend.
Judge Helms now read a few
sentences recalling his own recol-
lections of the men and summing
up with the sentiment, that life
does not end in the grave. The
memory of the man lives beyond
and that these friends have not
lived in vain but leave blessed
memory for our instruction and
good.
Mr.. F. M. White thanked the
members of the bar for their kindly
expressions of love and friendship
in regard to his father.
To all who were present the &C.
casion seemed of unusual solemn
ity and yet eminently appropriate.
BY order of the court the formal
addresses will be spread upon the
minutes of the court a reminder to
future generations, that in the earl
lest days of Pierce county these
lawyers lived and aided in the
building of monument sacred to
the rights of men.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24
The Circus Coming
GoIImar Brothers Greatest
of American Shows.

The billboards are all covered
with many-colored advertisements
announcing the coming to River
Falls Saturday, May 26, of Gollmar
Bros. Greatest of American Shows,
Circus, Museum, Menagerie and
Hippodrome. Judging from motto
es appearing in newspapers pub
lished in towns where the shows
have exhibited already this season,
the establishment is much greater
than ever before. 1t is said that
the free street parade is a msgnifi-
cent spectacle, and that a larger
number of wild animals are shown
in open dens than with any other
circus on the road. Our exchanges
state that it is fact that the Coll
mar Bros. do exhibit a monster
blood sweating hippopotamus in
their menagerie and that their hors-
es are perfect specimens and splen-
didly trained. They have herd OF
monster trained elephants and in
their immense geological collection
are to be seen the rarest wild ami
mails, including the weird and mys-
terious vlack vark, the only speci-
men on exhibition in the world.
The press is unanimous in en-
dorsing the Gollmar Bros. Shows
as clean, free from graft of every
kind and of the highest class in
point Of general merritt. They will
exhibit here May 26, next Saturday,
giving two performances; doors
open at and 7 p. m. Free street
parade at 10 a. m.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24
TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

Mathis and sermon every Sunday
at 1880 a. m. at Holy Trinity Church.
Sunday School at 1900 to 1880.
Confirmation class conducted by the
acting Rector, E. l. Gilmore, at
same hour of Sunday School.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24

PLANK FOR SALES. F. .Petry,
on the old Frank Howe place, IL
miles north of Beldenville, has rock
elm and white oak plank for sale.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24

Moral: Keep a Cash Account.
One of the greatest problems to
man is what became Of the money
he earned six months ago.-Atchiboa
Globe.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24

For RENT house on Spring
street, between Main and End SITS.
Inquire of A. w. Kaler.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24

For SALE-The Dayis property,
corner of Cedar and Second streets.
Enquire at this office.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24

For RENT-The Avery house on
4th street. Inquire of Mrs, A. M.
Schoonover.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24
BORN.

PETERsoN.-In this City May 81,
1906, to Mr.. and Mrs. S. P. Peter
son, 11A lib. boy.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24
AT the Churches.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
Christian Science services in Ire
mont Building, room ia every Sun
day at 10:45 a. m.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24

For SALE-Buggy, nearly new.
Call on John Porteous at Lund's.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24

For SALE Canopy Top Surry
and / Runabout. c. F. WINTER.