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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-06-15

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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-06-15
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-08
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bridge has not effected a revival of gam bling on the scale which was common enough when Whites club was the scene or so many games of cards on which for tunes hung. But occasionally even now adays very large sums of money are lost and won In the cardrooms of I,ondon's s great clubs and mansions. and it was but a little while ago that a certain young gentleman lost s20.OO0 in an evening nt bridge, playing with ladies' while if is reported that young guardsman sent in DIS papers some weeks ago at the sug- gestlon Of the war office because it had become known to his commanding offi- cer that he had lost s55 GOO in two even- ings' play al q well-known club where high play is not the rule.
 On the whole, howewver, it seems gen. erallv agreed in society that reckless gambling shall not be tolerated. and at the majority of clubs it is firmly disal- lowed. But not so very long ago society regarded the man who could cooly throw away fortune at a game of cards as something like a hero '.brolle in our wars. The famous Colonel Melish was type of a gambler who lived in the palmy days of this state of society. He was not a notoriously unluclSv player. but he lost very large fortune at cards. At single game he once lost approxf- mately $5O0,00O. and on other occasions he 'dropped' sums ranging from s50.000 to $200.O00 without rising from the tables. while he was known to lose s50.000 by a single throw of dice and to cut cards at 5000 time
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-08
PEACE ON RIO GRANDE.
Bad Men Practically Extinct and Mon-
 day Inquests Discontinued.

From the Kansas City Journal.
 Peace. sweet peace, has settled down upon the lower Rio Grande border again. In that section, which in former days was the hotbed of Mexican revelutionists and American smugglers and the rendez- vous of desperate Mexican and American cut-throats, the industrial invasion has swept the six-shooter aside, and acts of lawlessness now rarely take place. No one is better able to appreciate these changed conditions than John Closner, for the last sixteen years sheriff of Hi- dalgo county, and for four years before his election as sheriff a deputy sheriff.
 For twenty years Sheriff Closner has been in close touch with the criminal element of the lower border. The build ing of a railroad into this section two years ago caused an exodus of the bad men, and since that time there have been but two terms of court held in this county There has not been criminal cause on the court docket for more than a year. Alfalfa fields and Irrigated farms now cover the region which was for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-08
Hints to Nervous Women.

Dr. Graeme Hammond in Harper's Ba-
 gar
 There are many things a neurasthenic woman can do which will mitigate the severity of her symptoms, and perhaps if the disease is slight, she may recover without the intervention of her physician In the first place. the original trouble worry, or anxiety which was responsible for her nervous breakdown must be done away with, or. If this Is impossible, she must school herself not to care, or else remove herself to new scenes and sur roundings where her mind will not be harassed. Peace of mind will do more to restore shattered nerves than almost anything else. The next thing Is to make the bodily health as good as 1t can be made under the existing circumstances and surroundings Sleep and rest are absolutely essential to recovery. and the sufferer should do all she can to secure both. Narcotics to produce sleep, are not to be thought of. They do not cure any thing, and their continual use can only be productive of harm. Tranquillize the mind, banish by force of will unpleasant thoughts, and sleep alone rather than with some one else whose restlessness or deep breathing. to say nothing of snor- ing, might well banish sleep from the eyes of even Morpheus himself Some times warm foot-bath before bed, or eating a slice of bread and butter, or drinking a glass of milk will bring sleep to the tired eyes. If, however. these means are inadequate 1t Is better to con- suit physician. Normal sleep, and plenty of 1t, must be secured before re- covery becomes possible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-08

accumulation of wealth, resultant from her enormous cotton crops, will be shared in some important measure by the whole world. For sentimental as well as for economic reasons, as we have pointed out Washington's natural position for sharing the rapidly growing prosperity of the south is second to that of no other city not essentially a southern city This is to say, that if large wholesale houses repre- sentng leading lines of merchandise would locate here southern merchants would preferentially make their purchases of us. The idea Is not simply mover or in- genious that Washington might easily be- come an important wholesale and jobbing emporium-it Is pre-eminently reasonable resting upon the basic fact of a logical conclusion.
 When rightly viewed the opportunity of Washington improving her advantages In this respect might well inspire confi- dence, arousng our leading citizens to their best endeavor. In this important matter there should be organization, unity of sentiment, and aggressiveness of ac- tion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-08
Held Up By Highwaymen.

His next escapade was when he was held up by a band of border highwaymen, headed by the notorious Sol Waring and Bill Lane, and robbed of load of mug gets The robbers were masked. but Hayes recognized the voices of the lead CTS. A few days later Hayes one night looked in a door of a faro bank in oper- alton in one of the settlements and saw the two men "bucking the tiger" He strode into the room with a revolver Tn each hand. and when the smoke cleared away the two highwaymen lay dead.
 For this double killing Hayes did not even have to stand trial, but it gave him his first notoriety as a bad man, and such was his reputation when he appeared in San Francisco as the pro- prietor of the Eldorado hotel-a long tent with curtained sections for rooms, q crude bar and a large lnclosure for gambling. Here Jack Hayes made tho fortune which enabled him in later years to return to New York City. take up his own name once again and try and forget his tragic life of the past
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-08
WASHINGTON AND THE SOUTH.
Chance for Capital City to Become
 Commercially Great.
From the Financial Review.

From the Financial Review.
 There is longer a disposition from any source to look upon the commer- cal importance of the group of south ern states askance, or to question their supremacy in raising cotton The south has advanced to a commanding position in the production of cotton and tobacco, having in the former a monopoly. or practically so. The south has at length come to her own, though not by rapid or spectacular strides. Best of all it has come to be recog nized that her prosperity rests upon as secure a basis as that of any other part of the country.
 The states where "cotton Is king" maintain and will continue to maintain their distinctive features of social and political life, being essentially as much political entity as they are in - dustrial entity. Climatically and in the products of their soil. as well as in their social and economic views. they differ widely from the north. The course of a stream could not be more marked or natural than this analogy. To doubt it would be to doubt the opinion of lead ing southern men who have recently spoken upon the subject Before recent convention of cotton growers in the south these views were expressed:
 Tn the field of textile industry the south need not fear competition. We need no legal enactment national or state, to protect us. When God created the earth, marked the bounds of soil and climate. He threw about the south a tariff law as eternal as His everlast- ing law. And through bittsrness and a fearful experience we have learned the value of this divine gift. Yet, in righteousness and temperance, without malice of retributive justice, will we clothe the world, feed the world. shoe the world. while we maintain our own financial. social, and commercial SUI premacy."
 This was brave utterance, and nc one who knows the temper and tenn perament of the southern people will doubt their purpose and ability to live up to a pronouncement frankly and forcibly made.
 This view of southern sentiment and purpose Is not without interest In Wash ington, which city can claim the unique distinction of being located on the divld- ing line between the north and south and of possessiong absolutely as much friendlness for one section as for the other. Our commercial hopes and pros poets lie in the main to the southward Our geographical position as the gateway to the south gives us clearly an advan- tage in seeking southern trade not pos sessed by any other important city of the Union.
 All this Is highly suggestive of what Washington might become commercially if her business men would act promptly and energetically In the formation of a league for the promotion of those inter- ests. The banking power and manufac- turing enterprises of the south, already large, and growing apace and the opu- lence of that section Is going to enrich other cities besides her own. The vast
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-08
HIGHEST GAMBLING
On Record Attributed to Russians Who Have Won and Lost Fortunes.

From the New York Telegraph.
 It was recently reported in q Russian
 newspaper that the Czar had cashiered a young officer of the Imperial Guards for having played cards for such high stakes
 that he won S0O00 rubles (s50,O00) in rath-
 CT less than an hour his adversaries being
 two famous gamblers. Doubtless his inn perial majesty considered that such a reckless young man could not be a reli- able guardian of his person. and very
 probably, also, he thought it a fitting op- portunty to put a veto on what consti-
 tutes one of the worst vices of the Rus
 sian aristocracy. But If his majesty inn
 agined that this express rate of gambling
 constituted record he was very much
 mistaken for it fell far below many feats
 which gamblers have accomplished. M. Justh, a Hungarian nobleman of great wealth holds the worlds record for winning fortunes at cards, and he has on three or four occasions exceeded the rate of &0,000 an hour. few years back, for instance. M. Justh. whose name is almost a synonym for luck among his aequaintances, won a trifle less than $500,- ! coo during an hour and half's play at the National Casino at Budapest, and this was
 at a rate exceeding $5O0O a minute. Of this immense fortune Count Michael Ka-
 roly lost more than half, the other DOT
 tion being won by M Justh from two
 other players.
 On another occasion the same lucky gambler, whose honorable play is by the
 way absolutely beyond suspicion, sat , down to the card table and lost nearly $40,000 without winning a cent; but at | that point the game turned in his favor so completely that he rose from the table some $7000O richer than when he had ] started play Thus in an evening he lost l S40.000 and won S110000.
 ! Russians are perhaps the greatest gam l blers of this generation It was another | Russian nobleman, Count Potocki, who | startled Europe few years ago by losing
 $SC0,000 in single evening al cards-the l largest amount, it is believed ever lost
 at the card table by a single individual; 1 and the whole of this great fortune was
 won from the Count by two gentlemen ] in a little less than four hours
 The game played was baccarat. and the l scene of this remarkable contest was the 1 Jockey club at Vienna, which has wit
 messed the ruin of some of the richest
 and most reckless gamblers of modern i times, for Austrians rank only second to Russians in the love of gambling. To 1 this club go the most daring card play l CTS of the wealthy aristocracy of Europe, l attracted by the high play which is the i rule there. It is said that on the partic- ! ular occasion when Count Potocld lost 1 SSo0,000 he was only concluding a series of f games which had already cost him s150- | COG before he sat down on the eventful 1 evening. Of the $SOO,000 he lost H. Won 1 Szemere. a Hungarian deputy, won $5oO,- 1 O00 Prince Braganza winning the remain i der of $300,000.
 1 Extremely high play has gone out of l fashion in London, and even the oppor-
 tunity afforded by the popularity of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-08
Why Men Grow Bald.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 When you see bald man you see one nine times in ten who has no imagination. There are twenty bald Germans to one bald lrishman. The study of Shelley or of Keats never made a young man lose hair, but an insane desire to master the profound Greek authors makes many a student prematurely bald. The business man without imagination who Is above thirty is usually specialist in something. He digs Into that, makes money, grows bald and wastes his vitality. Three phy- sicians in five have little hair when they are forty. Nine newspaper men in ten have thick hair when they are sixty. The tenth, perhaps, does not lack imagination. but may have studied too hard in school days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-08
merly cactus covered desert and the

merly a cactus covered desert and the hiding place for bandits.
 q remember one summer, a few years ago.. said Mir Closner. when there was an inquest every Monday morning for eleven consecutive weeks. The inquests were not the results of accidents, all though the verdicts the jurors brought in when they met in the justice of the peaee's office may have been to that effect. There hasn't been a. killing for four or five years. and not an atroclous murder for many years
 Closner does not look like person one would expect in a man who had been a sheriff on the border for sixteen years. Being sheriff of Hidalgo county these days is only incidental with managing a large sugar plantation and looking after the care of 275 acres of alfalfa. The cow boy hat and caps have been abandoned in Hidalgo county. The sheriff of Hi- dalgo would be mistaken for a bank cashier or a man of business.
 No, ] never had to kill a man in my life said Closner. There was once, in 1892, l think it was. when 1t came nearly to the place where 1 had to kill or get killed. It was when Pancho Garcia and his band of Mexican outlaws were steal ing and terrorizing along the American border. Several men had been killed by the reckless bandit. We learned where he made visits at a Mexican woman's house, and on certain night. when he was expected, I had two men stationed Tn the house where the woman lived That same night Garcia and one compan- ion held up and robbed a party of seven persons and tied them to mesquite trees The travellers were relieved of their valu- ables and the horses were stripped of the saddles and brides
 l" We don't want to hurt you Garcia said to them. All we want it what you've got. but there is one thing we are goinJ; to do. We are going to Hidalgo and kill the sheriff and his deputy and the woman who has given us away
 Leaving the man tied Garcia and his companion went to the house where he had visited the woman When he knocked at the door he was covered with a gun from a window and commanded to surrender Replying that he never surrendered, he started to run. Closner's deputies filled him with buckshot. killing him instantly.
 "Poncha Garcia is the same bandit who made an appointment with the chief of police of Reynosa, just across the border, one day to meet him in lane not far out from town. With dozen picked men he went to the appointed spot. Gar cia soon appeared. walked toward them, fired several times, wounded the chief of police and two of his men. and got away before the officers ever got a shot at him.
 'It may have been the same bandit who killed tenderfoot It seemed that a i peddler in travelling through that part of the country had made the acquain- tance of the band, had learned of its methods and indignantly said he intend ed presenting what evidence he had be- fore a grand jury. The peddler was taken out and literally cut to pieces and burned"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-08
SIMMONS CALLED 4 BAD FORTY-N|NER Left a Trail of Blood in the
 Golden West
  DIED A PEACEFUL DEATH After Figuring In Number of Des- perate Affairs He Returned to
 New York a Rich
 Man.
DIED A PEACEFUL DEATH

Lexington (xy.) Cor. Philadelphia Record.
 The wild, daredevil and deadly career of John William Hayes Simmons is re- called by the wide publicity given the final announcement of the marriage of the noted turfman. Peter Duryea, to Miss Viola Allen, the actress, q wedding which was the culmlnatlon of a romance and was kept a secret for months.
 Thirty-flve years ago Peter Duryea, who was so long associated with w. E. D. Stokes in the management of the exten- sive Patchen Wilkes stock farm here, was strong in the limelight of Broadway New York, owing to a fight to the death in the metropolis between his uncle Nicho- las Duryea, and John William Hayes Sim mons, In which the former lost his life, being the eleventh man to die with his boots on at the hands of Simmons.
 John Williams Hayes Simmons was the product of border life of the far west in the days of 49. What Ben Thompson was in Texas Wyatt Eary in Montana and ''Wild Bill" in the Black hills, Simmons was in California During the beginning of the gold fever Simmons beardless boy, drltted 10 odlloriid' Y o"i'iS
 his people in the polished east might De mortified if his name in any way became notorious he dropped the second and final sections of his name and introduced him self as Jack Hayes" There are men, old and gray, spending the sundown or life in California who shudder even to- day at the mention of that name and are only now alive because Jack Hayes was magnanimous and they apologized
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-08
Opened Brokerage Office.


 When Hayes returned to New York, re- assuming his real name, he opened q brokerage office and in short time be- came as much talked about in Wall street as is even John w Gates today. His appearance now was that of q polished gentleman, and there was no indication that back of his courteous bow and genial smile lurked nature so deadly as to send nearly a dozen men to their doom. It was as a broker that Nicholas Duryea first met Simmons. Duryea was an old-tlme trotting horse man. best known as the driver of Miller's Damsel one of the noted trotting mares preced- ing the civil war Simmons and Duryea became great friends, but they finally disagreed and when the splt-up came Simmons took Duryeas note to square up the business Out of the profession of that note arose serious difficulty Duryea sent Simmons word that he would shoot him on sight. The trottng-horse man was not aware that the polished man of Wall street had left California with trail of blood following him to the great desert Simmons was unarmed, but he stepped into a cutlery store, located in the basement of the old Astor house building, where he purchased a pruning knife of the springback variety, as the proprietor had no revolvers. He had hardly got to ms OUlce rom the culleTS store when Duryea walked into the place and said; Let's step out and talk this over"
 As Duryea slipped his hand behind him Simmons grabbed him and, pulling his deadly knife severed his jugular vein. After the killing, in Duryea's hind pocket was found a half-drawn pistol. During the desperate encounter the two men had locked their ankles together in trip hold, and so desperate had been their wrestling bout to death that both of their ankles were broken. This was the one killing that Simmons had to answer to the law for, but while his bloody record was against him the threatening message was strong proof of self-defense and though he was long time an inmate of the Tombs he finally walked out free man and lived several years after the tragedy dying peacefully.
 At that time Viola Aliens now husband, Peter Duryea, was living with Nicholas Duryea at Williamsburg. Long Island. and it was while associated with the old trotting- horse driver that he became fas- cinated with the business. in which in later years he became so prominent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-08
Discouraged.
From the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune
 Sherlock Holmes had announced his in- tenton of abandoning detective work.
 My dear Holmes," said Dr. Watson, you don't mean iti'
 Quite so, my dear doctor,' he said Those Philadelphia detectives have made me look like bungling amateur"
 Shooting another charge of dope into his arm, he assumed William Gillette pose and stared moodily into the fire
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-08

A big crop of bargains for thrifty men. $8.50 and $10.00 all wool suits for $500, they are great values.
 Varley 6 Bauman, 1924 1st avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-08
Went to Seek Fortune.

Simmions, alias Jack Hayes, went toCaa- fornia to seek his fortune and with no lh- tentlon of making record as bad man. but he was successful in both He became rich and when he said adieu to the golden land he had the reputation of being the most dangerous man to project with In all California
 When he reached the gold fields he al once staked a claim and began work. lhls claim was later disputed by Jim Ridley an old miner, and a man looked upon as one of the bullies of the camp. Hayes appealed to the other miners to decide the case, but knowing the reputation ol Ridley, they declined to interfere. This gave the bully a chance to insult the young man, and walking. up to him, he slapped Hayes In the face, at the same time putting his hand on his revolver. Hardly moving a muscle. Hayes turned the belt which held his Colts revolver So the weapon was on level with Ridley, and, without drawing the pistol, shot the bully through ,.4e heart.
 That was the shot that made it neces- sary for Jack Hayes to kill eleven meit before he found a peaceful residing place In Greenwood cemetery, at the end of as stormy and tempestuous career as ever marked the life of man other than Il bandit or an outlaw.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1906-01-31
SONOMA GELS IN LATE
AND DEPARTS EARLY

The S. S. Sonoma left shortly be.
fore o'clock this morning for San
Francisco after gang of men and
officials worked all night long TO take
out the Honolulu freight from the Col.
onies and load on a fair-sized cargo OF
various shipments. In addition she
took on 800 tons of coal. A good many
passengers went from here, going
aboard the vessel last night. When
she arrived II was said that she would
sail at a. IN.
The Sonoma got In last night at
1875, several hours late, and after an
exceedingly rough voyage. On Monday
n northwest gale was encountered bur
II did no damage. Heavy seas and ban
weather were the only features of the
trip.
One Of the through passengers was
Hon. Daniel OConnor, a famous Irish
orator of Australia, who Is going to the
Statse for the first time on a lecturing
tour Mr.. OConnor has been a Min
lister Of the Crown three different
times, and has held office in New South
Wales 30 years altogether.