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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-17

her condition and had repeatedly begged
Gillette to come to her at her home 1t
Is said that, although he came to Deruyter,
which is but a few miles from South
Otselic, he never went to- the girls home
According to the witnesses which 1t is said
the prosecution has summoned, he met her
near her home and they started on their
trip.
When Grace Brown left the Gillette skirt
factory to go to her fathers home in South
Otselic she went supposedly on her vaca-
ton. The girls in the factory are in turn
allowed a vacation each summer. Grace
Brown asked for her vacation shortly be-
fore she went to South Otseic, and 1t was
rumored around the factory that she did
not intend to return
One Of the other employees in the factory
asked her whether this rumor was true or
not, and she is said to have replied:
Il don't know. l may be gone week, 1
may be gone two weeks, and may not
come back at ALL"
About three weeks afterward her body
was found in Big Moose lake.
When search was madelof Gillette,s room
after his arrest these letters. which the
prosecution now hold. are said to have been
found there. The fact that he left them
where they could be secured seems to mill
tate to some extent against the theory that
he had carefully made his plans before he
left Cortland. If murder had been premedi-
tated at that time 1t is not probable that he
would have left the letters undestroyed.
A Startling Announcement.
The twelfth juror was chosen an hour
and a half after court opened this corn
ing. He was Evah s. Potter, a farmer OF
Herkimer.
District Attorney Ward then opened for
the prosecution. Mr.. Ward created a SEN
sation in the court room when, in the
course of his address he said:
Gillette thought that there was no one
watching him. In the summer resorts
where there are many people no eyes
watched him, but in the woods where there
are few people. eyes watched him as he
rowed to the little bay. He thought 1t
would be easy, but 1t was a harder task
than he had expected to throw the girl over
board. And he could not do it without q
struggle. But there was another person
on the lake as they struggled and when
Grace Browns death cry sounded over the
water of Big Moose lake this witness heard
It. And she will be here"
This announcement came to the crowded,
GREATNESS court room as If the roof had
fallen. The spectators who had been lean
ing forward motionless gave a sudden
start, and Gillette, who had been watching
the prosecutor speak without the slightest
expression on his face. nor the slightest
movement, suddenly Strengthened up in his
chair and threw his head back. It was a
shock to him apparently, a startling dis
closure, which he had not expected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-17
WAR OF THE FELLOWS"
CHILLY" HEARST AND "JOE"
PULITZER EXCHANGE BLOWS.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, November 17.-Joseph
Pulitzer. jr., son of Joseph Pulitzer, owner
| Of the New York World and the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch. struck William Randolph
Hearst, defeated candidate for governor Of
New York. in the pit of the stomach at the
Office of the Post-Dispatch at s O'Clock
fighting attitudes, and Mr.. Pulitzer was ad-
| vancing, when Mrs. Hearst, who had been
seated in the office, sprang from her chair
and caught her husband by the arm. That
stopped hostilities. There were several wit
nesses to the incident.
Mr.. Pulitzer was indignant at the remarks
made about his father by Mr.. Hearst in a
campaign speech. After the two had con-
versed in subdued tones the tall New York
er was asked If he meant the remarks
When he said II usually mean what say"
Pulitzer struck him. Hearst retired five
steps and rid himself of his overcoat Re-
turning, he threw up his clenched hands
Pulitzer also raised his fists, and the situa-
ton was ripe for fisticuffs when the peace
makers stepped between them.
Mr.. Hearst last night said that there had
been words; that Mr.. Pulitzer asked uues-
tons that were none of his d. business,
and that he (Hearst showed the young man
aside. He said there had been no blows
struck.
Said he Was Misquoted.
He went to the Post-Dispatch Office in
quest Of an Associated Press correspondent,
for he wanted the latter not to use an in
terview purporting to have been given by
Mr.. Hearst to the Democrat. Mr..
Hearst said the interview grossly misquoted
him.
Mr.. Pulitzer after some experience on
his fathers paper In New York, came to
st. Louis to learn more of the newspaper
business. He expects to remain here all
winter. Mr. Hearst was here over the day
on his way to Mexico. He left on his
private car. the Constitution. at o'clock
last night. Mr.. Pulitzer last night de-
clined to go into details. but dictated this
statement:
Mr.. Hearst in speech in the recent
campaign. made some extremely offensive
and insulting statements about my father.
The question was a personal one. Neither
Pulitzer nor journalism has anything to do
with it."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-17

An idle rumor, innocently started and
elaborated out Of all proportion as 1t cir
culated was responsible for the beginning
of run on the Washington Loan and
Trust Company late yesterday, which con-
tinued through all the banking hours today.
CO. ---s.'-od in hundreds of depostQrs
drawing their money out of the institution.
Never was the Washington Loan and Trust
Company in a better financial condition, so
the controller of the treasury and his as
sistants and the officers and the board of
directors OF the trust company united in
declaring. but, like a flock OF lambs follow
ing the bell wether. the depositing public
could see nothing but canards in the reas-
suring statements, and each one insisted
upon receiving every penny he, or she, had
In this institution.
The rumor started in the pension office
yesterday when a woman clerk related
some difficulty she had experienced in Sc
curing her money from another institution.
That institution happened to have the word
WAS hington" in it's title, and as she re-
lated the incident it appeared that the
washington Loan Company" or the
Washington Trust Company had refused
to honor her check From this small be-
ginning the story grew, and with each
repetition more details were added until
II was openly declared that the Washing
ton Loan and Trust Company was on the
verge of insolvency. The rush of frightened
depositors to that institution thus had it's
beginning yesterday, and today the trust
company at the corner of 9th and + streets
northwest was beseged by panic-stricken
mob and run of no mean proportions fol-
lowed.
Addressed the Throng.
At intervals during the morning the de-
positors who crowded the rooms of the
company and those who united in the
crush outside impatiently awaiting their
turn at the windows of the paying tellers
were addressed by Mr.. Owen T. Reeves, an
assistant to VIM. b. Ridgely. controller OF
the treasury; by Rev. Father d. ]. Stat
ford and by B. H. Warner and John Joy
Edison and other officials of the bank. all
stating that the institution was perfectly
solvent: that II was stronger than at any
previous time In Its history, and that every
penny of money on deposit within the
vaults was safe. But the verbal assurances
had no power equal to the satisfaction
each would feel in holding his or her little
all In actual greenbacks, and the run con-
tinued up to the very moment that the
doors were closed at the end of the banking
day. at IL O'Clock noon.
Beside the statements concerning the
solvency OF the Washington Loan and Trust
Company which were made by the con-
troller by his assistant, Owen T. Reeves,
who made a personal examination of the
company's affairs only few days ago. and
by Father Stafford, who declared that all
his church money was on deposit with the
trust company that it would stay there, a
ccfc
In their power were received by President
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-17

six months did nothing but ride in auto
mobiles. read and look after my health. 1
tabooed everything in the business line
and kept away from all excitement or
gayety. l am rounding out fine now and
have not felt SO well in years"
viii you go to Washington this winter?''
was asked.
Yes" said the senator, II will be in my
seat when the Senate convenes and shall
discharge the duties of my Office to the best
OF my ability. Talk of my resgning or
being unable to serve on account of my
health is without warrant"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-17
ABOUT $1,000 EMPLOYED.
Scarcity Of Labor flinders Program on
the Canal.

Scarcity of labor has hindered the prog
ress of the work on the Panama canal, ac-
cordng to report received from Chief En-
gineer Stevens. The report says, There
has been a marked falling off in the num-
Der of laborers this month, and 1t has
oeen greater In the department of
tracks and dumps, where we have
a greater need for men. Toward the last
part OF the month the first consignment of
Gallegoes from Spain reached here We
neighborhood of 1900 more men between
points on this division and our dumping
grounds. Our daily average for September.
including every department on the entire
system, was 2,627 men,"
The entire force Of laborers In September
numbered 17,04S.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-17
HAYASHI WAS REASSURING.
Talked to Deputatich on America,
Sentiment

Special Cablegram to The Star.
TOXIC, November T-Deputations of
constitutionalists. progressives and inde-
pendents waited upon Viscount Hayashi,
the foreign minister, this morning with
regard to the action of San Francisco In
segregating the Japanese pupils in the
public schools. Viscount Hayashi assured
his visitors that the opinions of the govern
ment of Japan and the United States were
in entire accord In the matter, which he ex-
pected will be promptly settled.
He was of the opinion that the general
sentiment of the United States was in
sympathy with the American government.
The present affair, he said, promised to re-
suit in an important advance in the solu-
ton Of the great constitutional problem
that was involved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-17
Is CASTRO DEADp
Report That His Demise Is Being Con
cealed to Prevent. Revolution.

cealed to Prevent. Revolution.
LONDON, November 17.-In a dispatch
from Mexico CITY, the correspondent of the
Associated Press says a prominent Ven
ezuelan refugee there has received advices
which declare authentically that President
Castro Of Venezuela is dead and that the
Venezuelan government is concealing the
fact in order to prevent a revolution The
Tribune prints this dispatch with all re-
serve
The foregoing story evidently is a repeti-
ton of the report Of President Castro
death which was received in New York two
days ago via Fort de France, Island
Of Martinique. The Dutch cruiser Caramel
arrived at Fort de France a few days ago
from Willemstad and reported that at the
time of her departure from willemstad 1t
was reported there persistently and gen.
orally believed. that President Castro was
dead, but that his death was being con-
cealed by the Venezuelan government In
order to maintain itself in power A dis
patch from Washington dated November IA
said the Venezuelan legation there believed
tho rumors of President Castro's serious
illness to be without foundation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-17
ST. LOUIS SHORTAGE.
Indictment is Returned Against d. p.
Over Jr

ST. LOUIS, November 1.-THE federal
grand jury returned an indictment against
Receiving Teller d. P. Dyer, jr., son of
United States Attorney D. p. Dyer. this
morning in connection with the shortage of
SCI 200 in the local subtreasury. The charge
against Dyer is embezzement.
Mr.. Dyer was not taken into custody i'm
mediately. as it was stated that capas
would be issued and he would then be taken
into custody by the United States marshal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-17
Race Problem in Canada.

race problem now confronts the Cana
dian government. according to advices re-
Gently received at the Department Of State.
1t appears that 1.460 East Indians arrived
In British Columbia between January and
October last and that 1900 more are on
their way to that country. Mr.. Macpher-
son, M. p, who went to Ottawa to protest
against this immigration said on his return
to Vancouver that he was authorized to an
nounce that the Dominion government
would introduce legislation next session ia
restrict the immigration Of Indians.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-17
Almost Frantic with Grief.
FREE
Souvenir Post Cards
Greater Washington Views

4 coupon In tomorrow's star will
entItie you to two OF series Of
sixteen Souvenir Post Cards that
have besn prepared by The star.
% not fall to get q copy Of tomor-
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-17
DEPEW. FEELING WELL.
He Says He will Be in His Seat in
the Senate.

NEW YORK, November 1.-THE friends
of Senator Depew who have seen him
within the last two weeks since he resumed
active business are astonished at the won
derful change for the better in him. The
senator was in bad shape a few months
ago, but today he looks and acts as well
as ever. When seen at the Grand Central
station his face was just as jovial and his
laugh as hearty as of old
1.-THE fact is" said the senator, st broke
down just as a great many other men have
broken down. 1t started in with inability
to sleep. After fighting against it for a
while ! took the doctors advice and for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-17
Beginning of Run on Washington
Loan and Trust Company.
MANY DEPOSITORS WITHDRAW MONEY
Acting Controller Says Alarm is Unnecessary
and SenseleSS


Statement by T. Kane Acting Controller of the Currency
The uneasiness the Washington Loan and Trust Com
unnecessary and seneess Our made
nation of the institution about month and reported that
condition The of the
bank few days shows the thing In fact the statement
considered the best made by the Washington Loan and
Trust Company By Monday the people will be ashamed that they
company consider this company Of
solid financial institutions in the United States.
Father Stafford:
"An my church money deposit with the Washington
Loan and Trust Company, and it will stay there"
By he Directors of the Washington Loan and Trust Company
The sound safe condition
We all concerned that their and
property intrusted perfectly safe"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-17
CARUSO- VOWS It
WAS A MONKEY
Animal May Have Punched Mrs.
Graham, He Thinks. 6 |
WOMAN WAS NOT IN COURT
Neither Did the Great Tenor Put in
an Appearance.
TREATS ARREST AS A JOKE
Detective Kane Declares That He Had
Been Watching Singer and Saw i
Him Insult Girls. .,gr
Neither Did the Great Tenor Put in
an Appearance.
TREATS ARREST AS A JOKE

Caruso, who is by many critics
counted the greatest living tenor,
sent physicians certificate when
he was asked to appear in Gotham
police court this morning to an-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-17
BROWN GIRLS GRIEF
In the Depth of Dependency
She Wrote Gillette.
BEGGED HIM TO SEE HER
If Proved Communications Will Have
Important Bearing on Case.
THE JURY Is NOW COMPLETED
ss,ss sks-v 5sss4s-ass=s 49,
AIR Many Panels Were Examined
Twelve Men Were Finally Found
Fit for Trial
BEGGED HIM TO SEE HER
THE JURY Is NOW COMPLETED

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HERKIMER, N. T.. November 17.-When
Grace Brown. for whose murder Chester
in South otselic before she went to the
Adirondack with Gillette, she wrote him
a number Of letters. These letters, which
are expected to be the basis Of the prose-
cution's case. have been carefully guarded
ever since they were found in Gillette
room. At present they are locked up tight
in the big safe at the county court house.
Some Of the contents Of the letters leaked
out today. in spite Of the efforts of the
prosecution to conceal them. If they can
be proved without doubt to have come from
Grace Brown they will be one Of the
strongest factors in the prosecutors case
They. however. show depth Of despond-
ency which may aid the defense II they
attempt to prove their case along the lines
of suicide.
The last Of the letters was written shortly
before Gillette is said to have met the girl
in Deruyter. when they started for the
Addrondacks.
An Appeal Of Despair.
It contains the following paragraph:
IF you fall to keep your promise. Ches-
ter. to come to me Saturday. will surely
come to Cortland and you will have to see
me there. cannot possibly wait any
longer. You have fooled me long enough"
Another letter written at almost the same
time is said to contain the following SEN
sational paragraph:
you remember, Chester, that you told
to this section until my dead body was
brought back"
In this letter the girl goes on to say that
she wishes that she were dead now" so
that she would not be in his way.
The letters, which cover a period OF
nearly three weeks show that the girl had
many times begged Gillette to como to her
had promised to do so but had never come.
The last letter Is final plea to him to
come and take her away with him. She
had evidently become almost desperate and
had decided that II her lover would not
come to her and marry her she would 60
to HIM and force him to marry her. or,
failing in that. commit suicide.
The contents of the other letters are pitt
full in the extreme.
Almost Frantic With Grief.
1t was shortly after her last letter, which
threatened that II he did not come to her
she would 60 to Cortland to see him, that
Gillette is said to have gone to Deruyter,
where 1t is alleged that he met Grace
Brown when they started on their trip to
the Adirondack.
The letters show that the girl had been
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-17
THE CUBAN ELECTIONS.
Impossible to Hold Them Much BE
fore June

fore June ].
AS it appears that the present agitation
and unrest in Cuba springs In part from
the publication recently of a statement to
the effect that instead of holding the cleo
tions there next June, as originally pro-
posed, 1t has now been decided to hold
them In December, it may be stated on
authority that nothing is known in Wash
fngton by the officials having to do with
Cuban affairs of any purpose to hold the
elections this year 1t is further stated tina
It is manifestly impossible to fix the date
for the elections much before June l.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-08-30
Wheel of Fortune.

Make an octagonal top Use soft
wood. Number each side. A ton of
this kind is called the wheel of for
tune"
When the top is finished hold it light
ly between the thumb and second fin
ger and spin on Il smooth surface.
When it stops spinning the number
uppermost will correspond To one of
the following numbered sentences. The
sentence will be your fate or fortune.
These eight sentences should accom-
rany the wheel if You give it as a gift
to your friend; otherwise it would not
lc wheel of fortune:
You viii receive Il letter contain
ING God news.
Watch Your friend. She may turn
MA.
"-Yon will cross large body of wa
tie:
You may have heavy reyerses, but
all will turn out for the best.
beware Of earthquake shocks.
G-Iour future is full Of sunshine.
"A golden opportunity awaits you.
Seize it.
S-You VIII soon attend Il wedding.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-08-30
The KnuckIc Calendar.

II You double III your fist and hold
it with the back of the hand upward
YOU will SEQ the four knuckleS of the
hand standing up in little promlnences.
with little Expressions between the
bases of the fingers.
Now if YOU will start ticking off the
months on these prominences and de
pressions, one for each prominence and
one for EACH depression in regular or
der. you will find the long months all
come on the high places and the short
months all in the low ones:
First knucllle, high place January
irst depression, low place. February;
next knuckle, March; next depression,
April; next knuckle, May; next low
place, June, and then the fourth and
last knuckle, July Then you come
back to the first knuckle and start over
again. High place, August; first de
preston, September; next knuckle, Oc-
tober; next depression. November, and
the next knuckle, December
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-08-30
Run. BOFk; Runi

Every American boy should learn to
run. In Greece in the days when men
and women took better care of their
bodies than they ever have since every
boy, and girl. too, was taught to run,
just rs the American child is taught to
read And so far as we can Judge by
the statues they have left behind them
there were very few hollow chested.
spindle legged boys among the Greeks.
The Persian boy was taught to speak
the truth, to run, ride and shoot the
bow
The English boy is encouraged to
run-in fact, at some of the great Eng
fish public schools boys of thirteen and
fourteen years of age, like Tom Brown
and East at Rugby. can cover six and
eight miles cross country in the great
hare and hounds runs. Every boy is
turned out twice a week and made to
run and fill himself full Of pure, fresh
air and sunshine
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-08-30
FOR THE CHILDREN
A Good Game.

This is q game that may be played
without any preparation whatever, as
no materials are required, not even
pencil and paper. 1t is. therefore, we'll
worth knowing, for it may be suggest
Ell TO party of friends on the spur of
the moment when some such amuse-
EeIt is desired.
The players choose a leader and then
seat themselves in circle, with the
leader in the center He, of course,
stands. AS the game may be better
understood from an illuStre ton, we
will suppose the leader to begin it by
saying:
Young people, you are all supposed
to be commercial travellers about to
start on journey to any part Of the
world that you may prefer On business.
will ask each of you, II you please,
to tell me where you are going and
what you intend TO do when you get
there"
1t Is required that every answer to
his questions should be alliterative-
that is to say. that all the words of the
answer should begin with the same
letter, and the first answer should be
gin with the letter A. Thus It runs:
Leader-Where are You going. An
swer-To Annapolis.
Leader-What will you do there? An
swer-Attend academy.
b goes to Boston to buy baked
beans. c TO Chicago to collect Column
bian coins, d to Damascus to do der
wish dances, f to England to earn Ed
wards esteem. etc
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-08-30
4 Huge Structure

The greatest structure ever raised
by the hand Of man is the great pyra-
mid Cheops, founded 1900 years ago
and measuring 74G feet square on the
base and 449 feet high. 1t took twenty
years in construction; 100000 men
worked for three months and, being
then relieved, We're succeeded by an
equally large corps. The massive
stones were brought from Arabia, 700
miles away. The cost of the work is
estimated cs S143OOO,OOO
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-08-30
The Telephone.

Il want to talk to Glover Bloom"
Said Buttercup one day.
Il wish there was a telephone;
She lives so far away, hsigh hol
I have so much to say"
Now, Mr.. Spider heard her speak
As he was passing by.
I'm build you a telephone
At least, I'd like TO try he, hei
A builder fine am l."
So then he climbed the ladder stem,
And then he spun a thread
Above the Daisies-how they stared =
Above the Grass head, hi hi!
To Clover's home it led.
A silken wire telephone;
Now Buttercup is gay,
For she can talk to Clover Bloom
The liveiong summer day ha, hal
can't tell what they say.
-Pittshur= Press.