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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-01-24
Company Chartered

Martin Brothers Company, Of
HAYWOOD, this county. has been
chartered 70 deal ID real estate. The
capital stock i S25.0o0. Ineorpof-
ators Charles I. Martin, III. g.
Martin. Lampaszs, Texas; Albert
" Martin, LEROY II. Martin and
j =. Martin, Of HAYWOOD.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-01-24
issAsS|NATDNS
ARE PLOTTED
AN Assncinted Prcss !

Paterson. n. j., Jan. 24-Thc
police Of this city today conducted a
ffuitless search for accomplices in
plots 10 assassinate Governor PEN
lsxpacker, Of Pennsylvania. Cover
nor Pattison, of Ohio, and other
leading men which were unearthed
.neIr Monongahela, Pa, Yesterday.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-01-24
CUBA WILL GET
ISLE OF PINES
(By Associated Press.

wv -aes1NAdbSA AAtes.
Washington, d. G., Jan. 24-Thc
Senate committee on foreign rela-
tions today voted to report treaty
with Cuba ceding the Isle of Pines
to that Republic. The treaty was
BOT amended.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-25

to Specterland, when the charming syndicate's
daughter spoke.
Sir Godfrey wasn't an idler, Charlie she said
firmly. " He brave man, and he did a man S
work in his days. You're going to do mans work
in your days. So he needn't be ashamed of you;
and you needn't be ashamed of him or his name
We're going into trade Sir Godfrey, and I'm not
afraid to tell you'll" She curtsied to the portrait
and went out, hanging on her husbands arm
The ewes of Sir Godfrey followed her. " Odsbod1-
kins!" he said There's the spirit of a man in the
wench III ask my solicitors if can't regard her as
a gentleman and appear to her
He communicated with his solicitors by spectO-
gram; but they advised him that he had no right
to alter the terms of his in the manner pro-
posed He had distinctly undertaken to appear
only the explicit invitation of gentleman con-
nected with the family.
Sir Godfrey law-abiding ghost and he
accepted the decision without a murmur; but he
hoped against hope that his unworthy descendant
might drop some expression which he could con-
strue invitation. So he followed him all the
morning as he the old place, in arm
with his wife and with their two little boys Cnging
to her skirts
She told the story of the siege to her boys when
she put them to bed That is the story of a brave
gentleman" she concluded. You must be brave
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-25
By Lance PiePSOm

and though he had grown beard l knew him
instantly
Coming up to where stood and raising his hat
to my wife, he accOsted me with the remark; q" L
believe we travelled together once before, on the
Tiger"
| answered: Yes, believe So
Then he left us, walked a couple of times around
the deck and returned, to make the remark: You
know very we'll it the Sphynx which We
travelled together. Why did YOU say it the
Tiger?'
| assured him that had said nothing of the Sort
that he had named the Tiger and, not wishing
any argument controversy with him, | had
assented.
Do you remember that unpleasant incident of
the smoking rOOm?" he asked me.
Perfectly we'll
Are you going to mention it on board this boat
and queer me-"
No." | told him, upon two conditions that
You do not enter any card game, and that you do
not speak to me during the trip"
He gave me his solemn promise that he would do
neither, and | never saw him except at meals
| tlattered myself that he was keeping his word.
As nearing our English port and some of
the passengers were already on the tender, he
approached me, valise in hand all ready to dis
embark and said: The trip is over. May have
one word with YOU nOw?'
Yes if you have something interesting to saw"
/ want to thank you for great favor. You
suckers of the saloon aren't in it for easy marks
like those fellows in the second cabin. | have had
three sessions of poker every dav with them and |
about fifteen hundred dollars to the good
GOod-by, and blank you'll"
l have never seen him since.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-25

] HAVE crossed the often, and for shame
i full cheating | think the smoking cabins of
some steamers are the limit.
Many years ago, perhaps twenty, | recall two
passengers who constant patrons of the
smoking room and members of the council which
sat around the green-COvered table. One a
tall and thin man known Paterson; the other
a mite OF a ScOtchman named Peck. Neither
of them missed single session, and they were
invariably among the first to take their seats at
the table, always managing to have corner seats
next to each other Not game passed that these
two did not Wrange over it, and more than once
first Paterson and then Peck to me, saying:
Il am going to quit the game unless Paterson (or
Peck is put out of it." They never spoke to each
other outside of the game and were apparently
deadly enemies.
| left the steamer at Queenstown So did Peck
and Paterson and on the tender taking ashore
| was amazed to find they had become chummy.
| came upon them suddenly, comparing memoranda
in their note books, and then it flashed upon me
that they cOnfederates and had been working
some collusive game in the smoking room AL the
way
Did it pan out well?' l asked them, and Peck
replied
Yes very we'll while Paterson srnilingy re-
marked: Its good game and a one"
Imagine my surprise months later, when
Peel, called upon me in New-YOrk and suggested
that | get up a game on the same quarrel system"
and that We divide the results.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-25

and good like that, and then perhaps some day his
ghost will come and show you where he put all his
golden pennies.
The ghost of Sir Geoffrey waited in the picture
gallery till the morning, however, to take his
invisible leave of the syndiCates daughter and
give her an old ghosts blessing He she
would come to look at him in the faded portrait
on the wall
She came, hanging upon the arm of square
faced, white-haired Sir Godfrey hoped at
first that he might be gentleman of the family,
but he found that he only the huckster whom
people called a syndicate. He blunt-spoken
old man. and he made the ghosts of Sir Godfrey
hairs stand their ghostly ends by the way he
spoke of him.
SO this is your precious spoOk Ma1sle, he
said. - truculent old rascal, by the look OF
him. Looks as if he had grit. though To my
mind, these old knights set OF pirates
and thieves. If they lived nowadays We would
clap them into PRISON."
Rascal" Thief" Prison" The ghost of
Sir Godfrey laid his hand upon his ghostly sword
and uttered inaudible expressions not found
in modern glossaries of ancient speech.
oh, popperl" Lady Mallinson protested. They
were Charles ancestors, you know"
He'd be better if he hadn't any, the old
Continued page 70
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-25

was clever enough to understand you, Maise, he
remarked 4 give it up Tell me what I've
done
Nothing" she said wipng her eyes and draw
ing herself up only married me-"
Sir Charles shook his head and tugged his mus
tache again Don't it yet, he protested.
" If that's all I've done, upon my word, | believe
I'd do it again." He put his great hand on her fair
hair; but she pushed it off.
If had money, you meant?" she said.
Sir Charles stared at her for moment. Then
he suddenly flushed and said bad word-several
bad words. Then he laughed and picked her up IN
his arms No. he said, Il didn't. You little
what shall call your"
Idiot" she said, and chung to him and laughed
and cried. "Of course you didn't What did you
n an you-you great bear"
Sir Charles tugged his mustache again. Well,
he said, Il suppose meant that I've been rather
a useless sort of chap, don't you know; drone
like my idle ancestors | tell you what it IS, Maise,
ancestors a milestone round a fellows neck.
I'm going to cut the string and take another name
and go into trade and get on
Sir Godfrey fairly danced with rage. 1t was
obviously impossible to appear to a man who
called him an d1er and a milestone and who
prepared to drop the family and become
huckster, and get oni He going straight back
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-25

a PROPOS of gambling for big stakes. l recall
"A an episode that took place IN the smoking
of al old steamer not now in service. In
the fall OF 1888, VI. b. Curtis the actor known as
"Sam1 O POsen, was in the height of his popu-
larIty. Large stakes had been PLAYED for at poker
and in the pools the of the ship. About the
pool was made up of twenty numbers amounting
TO two hundred dollars and then these numbers
sold at auction, and the separate numbers sold
at from three TO ten pounds each until No. 5S4 was
reached, when exciting scene took place.
Curtis tried to buy this number, which brought
thirty-sIX pounds but did not succeed. He then
announced that the game was fraud and defed
the Captain TO put up that number as the run the
following day. The excitement grew hot that the
Captain called into the smoking room. and
Curtis informed him that if he dared TO post No.
5S4 as the ships he would expose him when the
ship got TO New-YOrk.
The Captain thereupOn informed Curtis that if
the ships three hundred and eightv-fOur
miles he could depend upon it that would be the
number put up, and that if that number was put
up and he dared to make any objection he would
put him in irons and hold him in close confinement
until the ship arrived in port.
Sure enough, the following day No SSt was
posted, and Curtis did not open his mouth II
was the consensus OF opinion, among the cabin pas
ScngerS however, that Curtis had had an inkling
OF about what the would be as he purchased the
three numbers each side of SS4 but did not sue
coed in getting that particular number The total If
the pool was somewhere in the neighbOrhOod of
fifteen hundred dollars.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-25
d" The Major "

n the summer of 1900 on board the Sphynx
i | was player in daily game in which one of
my companions taultlessy dressed excel
lentlv grOomed Englishman known at the table
as the Major The second day out it dawned upon
all that the Major was not playing straight game.
None of us nor any of those who volunteered to
watch the play could detect anything wrong, but
there existed the feeling, | may say the absolute
knowledge, that the Major had something up his
sleeve, so to speak. Two of us, Mr.. Harris and
myself, appointed a committee request
HIM not to take a at the table again We told
him it was his personality that not liked and
that 1t would be much easier if he stayed out of
the game himself than for all of get up if he
seated himself 1t would also attract less unpleas-
ant attention to himself, He funed and swore
a bit, but said he would do suggested, and
he did
Three years later on another journey just as we
We're leaving the dock, my wife called my attention
10 q man who was staring at me. 1t the Major,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-25

but was asked not to expose him. as he had been
in the company's service for thirty years and was
a brave and efficient officer with distinguished
record.
know the officer of a steamer who has frequently
marked the a pane of glass in of the port
holes in the mems retiring room, and invariably has
been followed by a certain passenger, who Just as
invariably made few small hurried pre-pOsting
bets, which he has always won. Recently l heard a
man say, jokingly of course: "Oh! l am awfuly
lucky in winning hat pools 1 always travel on this
line, generally with Captain Courageous, and l
always win several pools"
did not go into a single pool on that trip; but
| watched the fellow. Every day between eleven
thirty and noon he went to the bridge to take
cocktail with the Captain, and he won four out of
eight of the pools.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-25
The Day S Run

T>HERE is not an atom of doubt in nv mind
i that there is crOokedness and collision in
connection with the auction and hat pools on
the day run OF some steamers. | have seen unfair
play in both, 1t is matter of fact that not many
years ago the tirst-cabin men passengers on GER
tam steamer presented a round robin to the New
ork office protesting, and giving proof. that the
Captain OF the steamer in league with certain
gambler and had cooked" the miles run so
that his confederate might win. The Captain was
called before his directors, broke down and pleaded
guilty, but said that for months he had been hvpno-
tied by the gambler, and begged for mercy Every
one OF the slgners of the round robn was notified
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1906-06-28
ADDITIONAL. LOCALS.

Senator a. S. Clay is to be the orator
at Fourth of July celebration at Oak
Hill, near Cogington Ga.
Our bacon and dried beef machine is
wonder. Gatlin & Co.
The store front of j. w. Hardeman
& Son has just been repainted, also the
interior of the store.
Miss Mary Norton Towers, Of Rome,
was guest of the Misses Towers Sat
urday and Sunday.
We are the leading meat men. Gatlin
q Co.
Mr.. W. NJ. Gober, Jr,, student at the
State University, has returned home
here
Mr.. Walter Ballard. the well-kncwn
opticisn of Atlanta, spent Sunday here,
the guest of Mr.. E. NJ. Cook.
& The Baptists OF this city have recent
ly purchased the vacant lot near their
4 church. and will erect thereon hand
some 81 900 parsonage.
MI. B. q Coggins has sold his cottage
on Kennesaw avenue to gentleman
from Smyrna, who will shortly make
this city his home.
We want your business. Gatlin &
Co.
We learn that Mrs. James q. Hughes,
who is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Bes-
sic Green, at Blocton, Ala, is suffering
a great deal of erysipelas on the face.
Her many friends hope to hear Of her
improved condition and permanent re-
lief.
DIED.-The six months old infant Of
Mr.. and Mrs. William Hyde died in
this city last Sunday, and was buried in
the city cemetery last Monday after
noon. Rev. J. J. Crow conducted fu-
neral services.
II you appreciate a clean market. you
will trade at Gatlin's.
The Baptist, Presbyterian and Meth
Odist pastors have agreed to hold I'M
ion services during the summer
months, alternating each Sunday night.
The first union service will be held
next Sunday night at the Presbyteria
CHURCH. DR.. Lovejoy will preach.
Master Frank McNeel, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Morgan McNeel, one night recent
ly swoke from his slumbers scream
ing and blood running from his ear. A
large bug had craWled into it, DR..
Reynolds poured sweet oil into his ear,
which killed the bug and allayed the
excrcuciating pain until next day.
Frank was carried to DR.. Calhoun, in
Atlanta, who succeeded in extracting
the bug (Which proved TO be beadle)
by suction pump. The little fellow is
all right now.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-27
SOPHS. ARE BEATEN
BY THE SENIORS
&. {. ~ ATT RUGBY. f.. ...-s. e.

r BERKELEY. Sept. 2s-The sopho-
more team of the university was beaten
by the seniors this, afternoon at Rugby
football in an iffterclass game played
in the pYesencesef 1900 spectators. The
score was to 0. The sophomores beat
the freshmen last week. Whitman
quarterback in last years varsity team
kicked a. goal from the field for the
seniors i'm the last half. The seniors
kept the ball in the sophomore terri
tory most of the time and showed their
superiority Throughout The lineup
Seniors: Forwards-A. B. MeKiIlicAn.
P. H. Chuhb. &C. L Dimmler.. La Evan
c. II. Haffey, c. V. Craig and d. T.
Dickson; wing forward o. A Fried
lander; five eighths, F. Lassater and
r. Campbell; three-fourths, NJ B. Mitz-
main, c. B. Howe and o. p. Lowell;
halfback, ]. G. Whitman; fullback, c.
Cameron.
Sophomores: Forwards-G. ". Bell,
Paul Bailey, l. r. Broughton. w. l.
Garms, NJ T. Emmert, Jack Moskowitz
and Parker Talbot; wing forward, Carl
Rathbone; halfback. C. B. E. Douglas;
five-eighths, J. G. Schaeffer and j. R
Glascock; three-fourths. F. Q. Stan
ton. c, s.. Cert and w. R. Johns; full
back, Malcolm Stone.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-27
HOLDS CHAUFFEUR WAS TO
BLAME FOR DEATH OF MAN
Coroner's Jury Says Killing of III
Therkhorn Was Result of Careless
Driving ON Main Street.

coroner's jury yesterday returned
verdict in the case of Heinrich
Therkhorf. who was run down and
killed by an automobile at Market and
Front streets on September 8. The
jury found that the driver OF the
automobile, Ben Mendoza. was blam-
able to a great extent for Therkhorn's
death in. not running more carefully
on the main street The testimony dis
closed that Mendoza had run down a
man named Gilrey near the ferry and,
without waiting TO see what had be-
come of HIS victim. speeded away and
finally ran Therkhorn down. Gilroy Is
still in the hospital.
The jury returned a verdict of acci-
dental death in the case Of George
Anderson. who fell into an excavation
al Twenty-second and Mission streets.
and found that the owner Of the prop
erty where the excavation was being
made was careless In that he had NOT
placed fence in front OF the opening
The jury found that the death OF
William Quinn. who was drowned IN
the bay off Beale-street wharf. was
accidental
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-27
BIRD SHOT STOPS
THEFT Of WIRE.

Claiming that he had been mistaken
for a deer or some other kind of game,
Ralph Wilson. a youth of 20 years, ap-
peared at the City and County Hospital
last Sunday to have a quantity of bird
shot extracted from his face and other
portions of his body. He said hunters
had shot at him in the Ingleside cours-
ing park.
Detective T. Ryan reported to Chief
of Police Dinan yesterday that Wilson
had been shot by William Kennedy.
foreman of the United Railroads at the
repair shops at the corner of Market
and Valencia streets. while engaged in
carrying 125 pounds Of copper wire
from the storeroom. Kennedy was
taken to the City and County Hospital
by Detective Ryan, wherein identified
Wilson.
Detectives Graham and Harrison
were first detailed on the case immedf-
ately after the shooting. They reported
that Wilson had been the victim of
some misguided but enthusiastic hunt
er. Subsequent development proved,
however, that the first surmise was
wrong and that Wilson was not mis-
taken for wild animal, but had been
shot while stealing Wilson had a COM
panion. the police state, by the name of
Samuels. He has not yet been arrested.
AS soon as Wilson RECEIVERS from the
effects of the bird shot he will be
charged with grand larceny by the off,
cials of the United Railroads.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-27
HORSE is AUCTIONED
IN SUPERIOR COURT
Joint Owners Of Race Ami
NAL Bid Against Each
Other for Its Possession

-Four hundred dollars, your Honor!
bid s4eO."
-Four twentyhver
"Tll make it s4S5. your Honor. 1
want that horse"
"Going-going- sold to the
defendant for s4s5." And Judge MUIR
asky raped on his desk and called the
next case.
1t was funny scene for courtroom.
At the suggestion that il was foolish
to fight out case for the possession
of a race horse known as Dick Wilson,
William Abbott and A Goldenson
agreed TO bid for each others half in
terest in the animal and proceeded to
carry out the auction sale in the court
room. with Judge Nurasky officiating
as the auctioneer.
Abbott recently brought suit against
Goldenson to secure the custody of the
trotting horse Dick Wilson on the
claim that Goldenson was allowing the
animal to deteriorate in value and
that there was danger of it being at
tached by the Sheriff if allowed to re-
main in Goldenson's hands. Abbott
and Goldenson's brother originally
owned the horse, but the latter trans
ferred his half interest to A Golden
son and Abbott claimed that ii had
been greed that he was TO retain the
custody Of the horse, but that Golden
son refused TO allow him TO do so.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-27
SWEAR FALSELY TO
OBTAIN PAPERS.

The United States Secret Service peo-
pie see symptoms Of wholesale. political
colonizing and election frauds in the
fact that since the. fire. applications to
the number Of about 500 a week have
been fled with the county Clerk for
duplicate certificates Of naturalization.
the applicants certifying that the
original certificates were lost during
the fire or in other ways. Some or
these applications are honest. but dis
coveries have been made recently to
warrant the suspieioa that much fraud
is being perpetrated oy applicants who
never had been admitted to citizenship.
Many OF these applicants do not re-
member the names. OF the witnesses
who swore that they had known them
in this country for FIVE years before
they were naturalized, End as the court
records OF naturalizatlons were de-
destroyed in the great ere there Is
nothing TO discredit their oaths.
Among recent applicants for dupIi-
cate certihtaoes waso JShI1 rAnchor.- a
native OF Finland, whaasWore that he
had lost his original papers, he did not
know how. The Secret Service people
have learned that Anchors papers were
annulled by Judge Sloss... Anchor hav-
ing made a written confession to
United States Secret Service Agent
Taylor that he hads eEocurAd- them by
fraud and perjury and that he had not
desided in this -co1lRtrys-the-- required
length of time. Another applicant was
James Barkay.-a native OF Greece, who
swore that he was naturalized on April
IA. 1904, and that he did dot remember
the names OF two witnesses who swore
that they had known him TO have been
resident of this country for the Ave
years Immediately preceding the appli-
cation. 80 ef. zaiu~ss
Another suspicious fact connected
with the matter is that although the
Federal. authorities have requested tnsf
city officials to furnish them with list
OF names of applicants the request has
not been complied with and there -
no knowing how many duplicates have
been furnished to persons whose orig
inal papers have been forfeited for
fraud. -a.a- 'aetr
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-27
PORTS Seals Lose to Portland Baltoers dora Park
READY
FOR RUN OVER
TO DIPSEA.

From the preparations that are being
made by the committees that have
been appointed to take charge OF the
second annual cross country race OF
the Dipsea Indians over the Marin
County hills from Mill Valley to Willow
Camp on Sunday. October :. IL looks
as IL this event will equal the Initial
contest.
Those who will take part In the
event will have to be registered In the
Pacific Athletic Association. as was re-
committee OF the association Will hold
a special session tomorrow night at
the Olympic Club to register all those
who do not hold amateur cards at the
present time. The entries will close at
the Olympic Club on the evening OF
October ..
There is a string OF fast athletes al
ready entered In the contest.
The following are some OF those VINO
have put in their entry:
Louis Ferrari. D. W. Mccarthy. W. W Gareis.
Otto Boeddiker r. s. Weaver. Gregory PadiDa "A
I'd Norman and Andrew Glarner OF the Oiympl
George Hammer. wallace Mitchell A. Ra-
phael and Floyd Clark Of the Lowell hisn
Arnold Brown Ashleish simpson. John Little.
Lester Thompson. A. Thompson OF the Calif0rnA
School Of Mechanical Arts.
J. r. Kelley OF st. rgnatlus Gymnasium.
Sigmund Cowen OF Hitchcock Military Acad-
envy.
9. ]. scodeietti Of Pacific Heights Grammar
School.
F. R.. Murray of the Lyceum school.
Agezeiow Of the Mil Valley Athletic Club
Martin n. Hartman OF the Dipsea indian
Juniors
G. Connolly and W. J. waters Of the sarsneId
Athletic Club.
A. Meazher OF the webster Athletic Club,
Hugo Berg. R. Wilson and J. welison OF VII
merding School Of Mechanical Arts
J. A. Cook W. P. Wagner, r. P. Muhimer.
=. o. Greenwell,- D. r. Evans George Evans,
T. B. Cathcart r. G. ochs. Fl. Groves, l. J.
Brown. W. Sea Jr.. J. J. Valentine. r. l. Diet
terle OF the Viii Kai Kais
G. W. Gebnardt. van Acker. George Seelig, r.
Frederickson. $. Frederickson. unattached