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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-11-15

mo, insane" Was the verdict Of
Judge Tallman's insanity commits
sion this morning after the esami
nation Of Joseph Purcell. an Aus
trlan railroader. who was recently
arrested and taken to the county
jaii. because. IL was said. he at
tempted 20 stop trolley cars with
HIS bare hands and was laboring
under the delusion that he was
going 10 be robbed.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-11-15

rss Stuck riseF farmers wcai into
500. sai sought 20 euioin this
vera After litigation extendihS
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-11-15

The above gives YOU choice OF New Fall and
Winter lines. All styles, all sizes and big assort-
ment Of materials
Pressed and fitted without extra charge.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-11-15

TOMORROW tFRIDAYO THE LAST DAY OF
THE
, 1906-06-14

making life a burden to the other in
mates of the household, looking so sour
when poor hubby tremblingly shows up
for dinner that he Is compelled to eat
a crust of bread in the woodshed.
These poor fellows who write this stun
are to be piticd, for undoubtedly their
experience causes them to think house
cleaning time is a fearful ordeal and
they don't understand that there are
women whose culinary department is
uninterrupted by the process of he
spring cleaning and hubby scarcely
knows hat housekeeping is on, only
by the sweet. pure air that peryades
his home, and the freshness and sweet
mess of his bed room when he retires to
rest after his days labors are over
Cora V. Graves in Lander Republican.
, 1906-06-14

At the national encampment of the
GAR. at Minneapolis this year a prop
osition to set aside the last Sunday
in May as Memorial day will be con
sidered. II is claimed by many that
the change is demanded in view of
the manner in which the rea purpose
of Memorial day has been obscured,
When the holiday falls upon a week
day it is almost exclusively given over
to sports and pleasure and scarcely a
thought is given to the heroes of the
civil war, living or dead. To establish
a Sunday for the annual observance
woul tend to do away with the present
n of celebration. The day would
it is claimed, be given over more par
ticularly to the old soldiers and t
those who are sincerely moved to taxi
the time to honor the men who fought
to preserve their country. Many of
the games and outdoor pastimes which
are now INDUCED in would necessarily
have to be abandoned.
, 1906-06-14
Oriental Ethics.

1t is told of Liang Shin-hwai, at
present director of schools of Hupeh,
that prior to 1900 he handed in to his
imperial mistress a severe censure OF
her private conduct and character.
Knowing that death awaited him, ne
has bought his coffin and made funeral
preparations, entrusting his wife to
the care of a friend, Wen Tin-shi. But
his courage failed him and he ignomi-
nously skunk out of sight. At this his
wife, an educated and noble woman,
to show her disgust at such conduct,
became Mr.. Wen's wife; and recently
she exacted from her former husband
a substantial payment as an acknowl-
edgement of her present position. Her
conduct is in every way applauded.-
North China Herald.
, 1906-06-14

Senator Clarence ID. Clark delivered
the commencement address at the Iowa
state university this week, that institu-
ton being the gentleman's alma mater,
The institution is justly proud of him.
he being the only alumnus of the uni
versity who has ever been honored by
election to the senate of the United
States. Senator Clark returned at once
to Washington, but his wife and daugh-
ter proceeded westward to their home
in Evanston,
, 1906-06-14

One of the evening sessions of the
biennial federation of Woman's clubs
at st. Paul was of more than passing
interest. Its program was headed,
East or West-Home's Best and
four talented speakers represented diff
ferent sections, Minnesota appearing
for the north, Texas for the south,
Massachusetts for the east and Cali
fornia for the west. A splendid quar-
tet rendered the songs, THE Land of
the Moccasin Flower THE Pilgrim
Fathers "Swanee River" and Our
Beautiful West" the selections being
chosen rs typical of the different sec
lions. In concluding, the vast audience
sang Home, Sweet Home that sym
pathetic melody which knows no state,
no country and no cline.
, 1906-06-14
MISSOURI JUDGE SCORES LEWIS

The opinion of the supreme court en-
or the Peoples United States bank OF
st, Luois county, has been filed. 1t
was written by Judge Lamm, and is a
merciless ~arraignment of the business
methods of L. G. Lewis, the president.
Some six weeks ago the court issued
an order reversing the st. Louis county
Circuit court in the receiyership matter,
and remanding the cause. This order
was forwarded at the time but the
Iopinion in the case was not filed until
today.
The court finds hat Secretary of
State Swanger was justified in his ear
ly action against the bank. The fraud
order subsequently issued against
the bank by the government, not being
a judicial finding, could not Of itself be
deemed sufficient evidence to throw the
bank into the hands OF a receiver. The
opinion is long, and goes into Lewis al
legged methods of soliciting business at
considerable length, M evidently
with no special desire to spare his feel
ings. In reference to his advertise
ments and promises, Judge Lamm,
speaking for the court, says:
What is all this but the flourish of
ltrumpets Of advertising rhetoric Of the
type used in exploiting of bitters and
liver pills-the transparent use of bold
hyperbole, of which rhetorical figure 1t
is said, 1t lies without deceiving.' All
~lubrlcations of that ilk fall to reach
either the form or substance of en-
lforceful promises. Nevertheless, when
the mass is put in a reducing crucible
of common sense and the dross of mere
verbiage is burned out and refined
away, it stands for the promises that
were made by him, and that, too, of a
substantial sort.
For instance, he promised, in effect,
the bank should not be a one-man
bank; hat it should have a directorate
of trained, Independent wealthy finan-
ciers who might bring to the loaning OF
its funds the shrewdness and thrift of
experienced wisdom; that the directors
should not borrow its funds; that they
should be deposited in large banks and
were to- be kept in cash or invested in
government bonds or such absolutely
safe securities, and that Lewis could
not lend a dollar to himself.
Now, how did the result compare
with the sound-phases of the nantes
to? How were these sensible and prac-
teal promises kept mi performed by
the corporation? Indifferent, well, it
must be admitted. Fol- example, the
bank was organized with a directorate
composed of Lewis and nominal stock
holders-Lewis underlings, men subor-
dinate to him in his other two ven
tures-mere vest-pocket corporations
of his, with not a banker in the lot.
| And within a few months after its or
gGnization, nearly 81, 1000, 900 of its capt.
tai are found loaned to the publishing
company and the development com
pany, thus doing in a circuit (as the
fox runs) exactly what he had prom
Used should not be done in a straight
line (as the bee fies), to-wit: Loaned
the banks funds to himself or its di-
rectors.'
, 1906-06-14
pcstpones Asouan Dam Scheme.

The Egyptian government has deci-
led on postponing-and this may mean
ltaudoning-the scheme for raising
the Assuan dam, and thereby increas-
ing the supply of water for the irri,
cation of the country in the summer,
and has taken this decision mainly
because two mathematicians in Lon.
don have developed a new theory re-
garding the stresses oil marsonry
dams.
, 1906-06-14
How to Break UP a Cold.

1t may be a surprise to many to learn
that a severe cold can be completely
broken up in one or two days time.
The first symptoms of a cold are a dry,
loud cough, a profuse watery discharge
from the nose, and a thin, white coat
ing on the tongue. when Chamber
lain's cough remedy is taken every
hour on the first appearance of these
symptoms, it counteracts the effect OF
the cold and restores the system to a
healthy condition within a day or two
For sale by the Eggleston Drug Co.
Daily Republican. so cents a month
, 1906-06-14
he Best Remedy for Bowel Trouble

Mr.. w. F. B~orroughs, an old and
well-known resident of Bluffton, Ind,
easy: 81 regard Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as the
very best remedy for bowel trouble. l
make this statement after having used
the remedy in my family for several
years. | am never without it." This
remedy is almost sure to be needed be-
fore the summer is over. Why not buy
it now and be prepared for such an
emergency? For sale by the Eggleston
Drug Co.
, 1906-06-14

Senator Warren has gone on record
again as ably and effectively defending
the interests Of Wyoming. His presen-
tation of the rights of the shippers in
regard both to passes and the packing
house agitation IA terse and true.
The full text of the senator's address,
which was delivered in a debate on the
conference report of the railroad rate
bill, appeared in The Republican Of
Yesterday.
, 1906-06-14
Breach of Promise.

There are so many schools of cor
re~spondence' these days" remarked
the girl who reads the advertisements
in the back of the magazines. did
you ever learn anything by CORE
sr~ondence?"
81 learned a lesson" sighed the
young man, raking up some bitter
dregs from the cup of memory.
Indeed! What form of correspond
ance cid you experiment with?"
Love letters"
, 1906-06-14


The big reunion of the sons and
daughters of the Blue Grass state is
now in progress and hundreds Of the
natives of "Old Kentucky" have treked
back from Maine to Texas and from
Florida to Washington for the ken
lucky homecoming week." Today a
most touching event took place-the
unwilling of the statue of Stephens Col
Inns Foster, who wrote MY Old Ken
lucky Home" in the armory at Louis,
vile. The statue is a tribute from the
school children of Kentucky. Torhor,
row a statue of Daniel Boone will be
unveiled at Cherokee park in the same
city. On Saturday the cornerstone of
the new capitol at Frankfort will be
laid and addresses will be made by all
the e~x-governors of Kentucky.
, 1906-06-14
STATE PRESS
SHOWS and Thaws Block Business

Shows and Thaws Block Business
The late SHOWS and thaws are re-
tarding operations, but they cannot
last much longer and the miner and
prospector will make up for their long
rest. Preparations are made on some
properties and are in progress on 9th.
ers for continued development as soon
as the ground and the roads will per-
NIT. 1t will be some time before heavy
machinery can be hauled in but it will
not rest idle long after it comes.-Dil-
lon Doublejack.
, 1906-06-14
Desert Land, Final Proof-Notice fol-
Publication

Desert Land, Final Proof-Notice for
Publication.
United States Land Office, Cheyenne,
Wyo., May 20, 1906.
Notice is hereby given that
ANNETTE CHRISTIANSON,
of Grant, Laramie County, Wyo., has
filed notice of intention to make proof
on her desert-land CLAIM No. 443S, for
the E u NE 4 Sec. s, NV Y NV u
Sec. 9, TIP. 81 N, R. 70 w, before
Francis J. Banner, U. s.. commissioner
District of Wyoming, at owen, Wyo,
on Monday, the End day of July, 1906.
She names the following witnesses to
prove the complete irrigation n re-
clamation of said land:
Rudolph Henke and Chris Christian
son, of Grant, Wyo., George Stewart
and owen Carroll, Of Wheatland, Wyo.
m31je30 W. E. CHAPLIN. Register.
Old books rebound at The Republi-
can bindery.
, 1906-06-14

An exchange declares that the first
thing Bryan Will have to do upon his
return to America will be TO define his
position in regard TO the great ques-
ton of sausage reform.
, 1906-06-14
American Stays in ENGLAND.

James Boyle, recently United States
consul at Liverpool, has taken up his
permanent residence in England. He
is general manager of an American
company which is doing an immense
business at Liverpool in coaling ships
by machinery.
, 1906-06-14
lnterp.aatary Communication.

One of the odd awards offered by
the French Academy of Science is
that of $4,000, established by Pierre
Guzmann, for the discoveries of a
means of communication with another
planet.
, 1906-06-14

After the muck rake has eradicated
all other evils, let 1t apply itself to the
determination Of the d%andelions.
, 1906-06-14

Flag day and "Old Glory" received
appropriate recognition at the hands
of patriotic Laramie.
, 1906-06-14
View-Point of Woman Editor

The poor overworked housewife is
catching it these days from the press
because housecleaning time is on.
Some of Jul brethren describe her as
, 1906-06-14

the county Jail not exceeding thirty days,
or by both such fine and Imprisonment"
C. Z. NJ.
, 1906-06-14
COUNT UP HE cosr.

It doesn't cost but little more to buy
the best farm machinery, and in the
long run the best is always the cheap
est. Aside from this fact think of the
pleasure of working with a machine or
tool that can always be relied on. We
carry the best line of farm implements
and tools on the market. 1t will pay
you to investigate our claims.
Let US fill your order for Rock
Springs and Hanna coal.
, 1906-06-14
All Same Like Angel George

w. c. Deming, editor of the wyo-
ming Tribune, has adopted George T.
Angeles plan of signing his editorials.
-Meeteetse Standard.
, 1906-06-14
UNION PACIFIC Ting TABLE.

West Bound.
In effect at the Laramie station al
the present time:
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-03-23

The Canadian Government gives absolutely
free to every settler 100 acres of such land.
Lands adjoining can be purchased at from s.
to $40 per acre from railroad and other corpora
lions,
Already $4,000 farmers from the United States
have made their homes in Canada. !.
For pamphlet Twentieth Century CANADA
OF I~MMIeRArIoN, Ottawa, Canada. or to the
following authorized Canadian Government
Agents
is. CRAWFORD. 1876 West 9TH st., Kansas City. Mo.
CD. 40 Quincy Bldg. Chicago. III.
Mention this paper.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-03-23

golden windfall from heaven, houses
and lands and three million dollars in
cash. A poor silk weaver, toiling all
day long, and barely keeping the wolf
from the door these many years past.
Robert Hughes is to-day one OF the
landed proprietors of Belfast. For ten
years he has lived with his little fam
lily in a plain little wooden house In
the mill village of Lodi, near Pater-
son, N. j. 81 future he NAV If he
wishes live in n of the finest man
stons in the most a"ristocratic quarter
of the Irish capital.
Until n few weeks ago Robert
Hughes never dreamed that he would
be other than a hard working silk weay-
er. The widest dream he INDUCED in
was that of an era which would know
no strikes and lockouts among the silk
mills in which he has been earning his
livelihood ever since he arrived. which
was just three weeks after Michael
OConnor, of Leitrim, had stepped off
the gaDg-plank. For Robert Hughes
has suffered bitterly from the privations
incident to the frequent labor troubles
among the factories of Paterson.
Inherits Fortune from Relatives.
Hughes fortune he inherits from a
distant relative, John Hughes, Esq.
merchant of Belfast, recently dead, leav-
ing a fortune of $4,000, 900 in cash and
much valuable real estate in Belfast and
the surrounding country.
= no
older than Michael O'Connor. He
learned to weave silk in the factories of
Belfast long before he left Ireland. He
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-03-23

New York.-Dame Fortune, that
tickle being, has smiled on two men
who came to America 13 years ago
fresh from the land of Shamrocks. AL
though both of these sons of Ireland,
Michael O'Connor and Robert Hughes,
are now rich, they obtained their
wealth in ways that are greatly differ
ent. The stories of their careers and
of the triumphs which recently crown
ed them, are the making of w as
pretty and interesting romances as
ever were conceived.
Before relating the story of Michael
Connor ii will be necessary 10 ina
CINE ones self transported across the
sea to the ancient village of Leitrim,
where the O'Connors have lived since
time immemorial, Leltrim is on the
River Shannon, beloved of tom
Moore and immortalized in his songs.
There, close upon its banks, stand the
ruins of the great old feudal castle
which was once the seat of Michael
OConnor's illustrious ancestor, Rhod-
erick O'Connor, the last king of Con-
naught, Prince of Branffny. About the
crumbling walls the little town nestles
closely. There is the white house of
the village squire, the apothecary
shop, the cobbler's shop, the wagon
makers and the village forge. In the
little white houses between dwell the
villagers, descendants every one of
them of Irish kings.
The ground floor of one of these
dwellings contains a general store. The
people of Leitrim may buy anything
Tn this small store from a pound of tea
to a yard of Bingham or a peck of po-
tatoes. The proprietor of the store is
Michael O'Connor's father, to-day the
most prosperous citizen in Leitrim
and the happiest and %proudest man
In all the green lane of Ireland.
O'Connor Comes to America.
For his son. his first born, the boy
who Is years ago set sail for the alien
land of America, has made a fortune
beyond the dreams Of Leitrin avarice
and like a fairy prince has bought
back not only the castle OF his long
deposed ancestors, but the entire
town of Leitrim, his native place.
Michael, the fair haired, blue eyed,
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-03-23

has worked hard all his life, always ut
silk weaving. BY virtue of intelligence
and industry he was promoted some
thing like five years ago to the position
of foreman. His pay is, or was, S18 a
week. He has a wife and two children
to support, and by strict economy he
was able to lay by enough to buy a little
house. Two tiny rooms downstairs and
two upstairs, with a small porch in
front-that is the sort of house Robert
Hughes has been living in in Lodi. The
Belfast mansion he has fallen heir to
contains SO spacious chambers, any one
of which would almost be larger than
the little house in Lodi. In Lodi Robert
Hughes had one fire, that which glowed
in the kitchen stove. In Belfast there
are 90 great open hearths whereon the
logs are wont to blaze all day long.
Pleased at Good News.
Don't think I am excited" said Rob-
eli Hughes, when interviewed by a re-
porter. ''or pulled up with p:ide, for /
am not. I am only happy to hear the
good news. Do you blame me?
- HIN vi Z jill thO OInbT udI 1
was a poor man. To-day, we'll, to-day I
am wealthy. How wealthy l do not
know. l seem to be walking in a dream
ever yet. | get up in the morning and
l eat my breakfast just like a mar only
half awake. l have to pinch myself
when hear the factory whistles calling
me to work, and they too sound like they
might be bloFn in a dream.
"Oh, yes. fstill go to work every day.
The habit of work is very strong, espe-
cially when n has worked all his life
as | have done. Indeed, l do not know
whether / shall ever be able to stop
working, now that | have an opportunity
to quit.
"Will l go back to Ireland to live?
Not on your life. I would not take the
whole city of Belfast, much as l love
every stick and stone of the dear old
place. would not take it all as a
precious gift and be obliged to live there
the rest of my life and give up my Amer
lean citizenship. l have toiled and suf-
fered here, ! married my wife here and
my children were born here. | have
helped to elect three presidents of the
United States. l tell you / am mighty
proud of being an American and I
would rathcc forfeit all the money Of
John Hughes. of Belfast, than lose my
right to that name.
God has been good to me, and Uncle
Sam has been good to me in spite ofaIl
my hard luck. America has stuck by
me when | was down, and 10 that | am
up | mean to stick to her. America was
good enough for me TO earn a living In,
and l guess It's going to be good enough
for me to spend my money in.
Will Buy Coveted Home.
"Will l move to New York city? MOL
won't. I don't like New York. have
been up there twice, and | don't like the
place. l don't feel at home there. I'd
rather stay right here In Lodi. even II II
is barren and ugly, than to go UP to that
great. crnel. u%nfriendly city. No, |
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-03-23

The difference between junk and brio
a.brac depends largely on the point of
view.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-03-23
Michael O'Connor and Robert
Hughes. Sons of Erin, Now
Roll i'm Wealth.
MONEY ACQUIRED BY Different METHODS
Former Prospers Through Speculation in
Real Estate Buys His Native Town
Latter. Inherits a Million Dollars and
Ancestral Castle in Ireland.

adopted by heroes of romance. Heroes
from time immemorial have won their
millions by Wrestling it from the bow
els of the earth, by clever manipula-
tions of the stock market, by war and
conquest, But who ever heard of a
hero of romance who made his money
in plain, prosaic real estate dealing?
That is what Michael O'Connor did,
and it paid him vastly more in re-
turns than more romantic money
making might have. Penniless when
he came here, he managed to secure a
clerical position almost Immediately
upon his arrival. He was Industrious
and frugal, and after several years be
had managed to save up several hun
dred dollars, which he invested in a
few lots in the Bronx. 1t was the luck
lest thing he could have >done. He
sold them for more than double sew
eral years later and r%einvested his
money in more real estate. Soon
Michael O'Connor, from Leitrim town,
was worth a hundred thousand dol
lars; then the road to wealth was
easy.
When prosperity had claimed him
for its own MI. O'Connor's thoughts
began to turn to Ireland, and one sum-
mer, some six or seven years ago, he
journeyed back to Leitrim and mar
ried the girl of his boyhood love and
brought her to America. :
1T was then that | first thought of
buying my native town." said Mr..
O'Connor in an Interview with a re-
porter. Il suppose all men banker for
their native towns, and Irishmen
most of all. Anyway, I did. l used to
think when | was a little barefoot
boy, playing about the ruins of the old
castle there, how much l would like,
when | became a man, to be able to
buy it and restore 1t to it's once ia
nous grandeur. You see, every boy in
Leitrim knows the story of the castle
and of the kings and princes who once
Toasted in it's great halls. Then there
were songs, sweet old Irish songs, TO
keep our memory green. l suppose
there was not a boy in the village who
did not share in the same emotion.
well, fortune has been very good
to me, and 1t turns III that l have
been able to go back and buy not only
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-03-23

merry nlouthed boy who sailed away
Ii years ago, is master of the town
and its castle to-day. He it IL who
owns the long village street, the forge,
the apothecary shop, the coDDler shop.
He 1t is, little Mike O,Connor, who
Owls the squirrels white house, and the
bro wn rectory, and aht even the pet
ty little church and the chapel stands
on Michael O'Connor's freehold
gre und.
Formal announcement of the pur-
chs 80 of the village was made recently
in the Leitrim Observer, published at
Cairick-on-the-S Shannon. and the same
fssi Q contained . detailed story of
Michael O'Connor's adventures in the
Ian | of his adoption.
Fortune Made Through Real Estate.
s rangely enough, he did not make
hta fortune after the name usually