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tce without resort to inquisitorial methods: if the third degree" has be- come indispensable to protect the com munity from murder then let us frankly and honestly admit the condition. and by statue establish the system of moral duress against suspects as a part of our system of justice. duly defining limits to which it can be carried. If we are not willing to do this we should see to it that the method was not illegally applied at the sweet will of a coroner or po- lice captain.
 In the present case the secret examina- tion of witnesses. including suspected per- sons who were deprived of the advice of counsel, was carried on wholly without warrant of law or custom. and with an excess of zeal which can only be describ- ed pernieious. There Is only one saw Ing grace to the proceeding-the fact that 1t was futile. If any one had been trapped or browbeaten into damaging ad- missions in the course of such a proceed ing a serious miscarriage of justice or else a revolutionary change respecting the lights of individuals before the law must have resulted, depending upon whether the trial court decided to accept or ex- clude evidence of guilt secured in that way.
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tose shell after the style of the large ball heads, together with tiny baskets of jew elled flowers and butterflies, also gem set swords. daggers and arrows are among the novelties in hat pins.
 An odd little powder box Is ornamented with an opal set in diamonds, the tiny golden case being suspended from a tur- quoise pin framed in diamonds
 Diamond topped combs possess a mag netic attraction for fastidious femininity. set of three combs with a barrette to match has a narrow diamond bow in serted in an opening cut across the ann Der top.-
 Among pleasing outing designs is a thin gold watch, especially appropriate for a lover of golf The establishment con ssts of a unique device employing the different golf sticks, the upper part of the handles being finished in diamonds.
 In tiaras emeralds, pearls and also the turquoise are incorporated with diamonds in the body of some designs as well as al . ternating with diamonds to point the top. In a new design of exquisite workman ship a fancy scroll pattern in diamonds is enriched with large round pearls an1 large diamonds and pearls are spaced along the points. A pair of diamond birds are on either side of central ornament set with a handsome emerald in a dia- mond tiara.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-08
INDIAN LIFE PRISONER.
Fourteen Year-Old Girl Is a Prisoner
 for Life. i.

Leavenworth (Kan) Cor. St. Louis Re-
 public
 Probably one of the youngest girls to occupy a felon's cell in any peniten- tiary in the west is little Lizzie Cardish. q 14-year-od Indian girl, who Is serving life's term in the Kansas state prison for arson committed upon an Indian reser . vation. It would not have gone so hard with Lizzie had it not been for the fact that she is an Indian and the law under which she was sentenced Is an old one, which is to the effect that any Indian found guilty Of arson on government land shall serve a life's sentence.
 The little girls crime was committed in a fit of childish anger. because the Indian agent at the Menominee' (Wis. J Indian school refused to transfer her 70 the Carlisle Indian school, where she has a friend she desired to be near. On the night of January +, 1906, Lizzie and girl friend left the dormtory in which they slept and set fire to one of the school buildings.
 It was after the other pupils were asleep and it was with difficulty that tho teachers succeeded in getting the other children out alive. The fire caused a damage of s50,000 to the structures.
 Lizzie was taken to Oshkosh, Wis, ana there tried for arson There was no
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-08
Beautiful Laces at l9c

doubt as to her guilt; she practically ad- mitted 1t, and the judge was 10th to send her to prison desiring to give her few months in a county Jail, but the old ln- dian law stated specifically that life s Imprisonment should be the punishment for arson, so the girl was sent to the United States prison on the F't. Leaven- worth reservation.
 In this prison, which is now in it's half finished condition, capable of taking care of about 200 men. no provisions are made for women prisoners, so the little girl was transferred to the Kansas State prison, there to be kept at the gov ernment's expense.
 When the Deputy United States mar shal with his prisoner entered the office of Warden McClaughry at the United States prison the warden thought she was a relative of the deputys and asked them to be seated. She dropped into a big chair and immediately began to gaze at all of the photos on the walls, being unconscious of the fact that she was to spend a life's time behind the walls.
 The warden asked the deputy where his prlsoner was and when Lizzie was point ed out the heart of this big man, who has for nearly a lifetime handled the most desperate of criminals, went out to her. Men who had in their time been bullies, desperadoes and cutthroats had quailed before this official. but the little Indian girl looked up at him with her innocent eyes of brown.
 Lizzie was taken to the dining room or the prison after the other conyicts had eaten and given an excellent meal; then to the Bertlllon room, where for the flrst time the instruments were run over girl. She was then photographed and her finger prints taken.
 Kansas takes care of all of the govern- ments female prisoners sent to the Unl- ted States penitentiary. SO Warden Has keu of the Lansing prison was communi- cated with. Captain Zerbst with his charge drove to Lansing, seven miles away and there turned the girl over 10 the tender tnercies of another ig-hearteu prison or ncial She was again measured and pho tographed. and then assigned cell In the woman's ward. What will be done with one SO young is the question. If Is said the court officials at Oshkosh are already endeavoring to obtain par don for the little girl. and Ii is thought President Roosevelt will without doubt grant their request, but it is probable she will have to serve sentence of at least one year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-08
FIRST TELEPHONE
Put on Exhibition at Exposition
 Thirty Years Ago.
From the Baltimore News.

From the Baltimore News.
 On June 25, 1876, at the Centennial Ex hbition in Philadelphia the telephone was for the first time exhibited to the public. A few months before Alexander Graham Bell had perfected his invention, but 1t was not until a month after the opening of the Centennial that it occur red to him to exhibit the Wonder-Work- Ing device at the great fair
 The managers at Philadelphia, regarding It as rather interesting than useful. gave the telephone an inconspicuous place. As a matter of fact. but for the interest taken in 1t by Dom Pedro, the Emperor of Brazil, the wide-awake monarch who made 1t his business to copy the best features of American institutions, the telephone might not have attracted much popular attention during the Centennial. But the scene in which the Brazilian Emperor was the chief figure had q far reaching effect Afterward. indeed un- til the exhibition closed. the telephone shared with the then celebrated corllss engine the distinction of being the cen ter of attraction. For Dom Pedro's benefit Dr. Bell recited oyer the tele- phone Hamlets of-quoted soliloquy. and this Is said to have been the first pub lie demonstration of the practical value of the telephone.
 The telephone as seen by those who vis- tied the Centennial Exposition did not at all resemble In appearance the instrument with which people of today are familiar. Lord Kelvin, who was the first scientist to hail tfe telephone as scientific triumph. described the instrument eNhi- blted at Philadelphia as "homespln and rudimentary" but lt embodied the es- sential principle without which the cleo trIcal transmission of the sound of the voice would be impossible.
 In the thirty years since the centen- nlal the telephone instrument itself has been perfected and, at the same time means have been devised to bring II into practical use. The first telephone. switch board was constructed al Bridgeport Conn. in 1877. A little later at Ansonia Conn, process was devised by which the outer surface of copper wire could be so hardened that the wire could be strung from pole to pole. This process provided better conductor than the iron wire previously used. and thus made if practicable to telephone over greater distances than were at first considered possible.
 Early in 1892 New York was put in telephonic communication with Chicago, and a line from Boston to the western metropolis was opened soon after. Now the long distance wires extend from Can- ada on the north to the Gulf of Mexico on the south. and from the Atlantic ocean
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-08
DOWNTOWN DOCTORS.
Many With Profitable Practices in tho
 Big Office Buildings

From the New York Sun.
 In fully a score of the large downtown office buildings in New York are physi- clans who devote their entire practice to the ailments of business men. The fnan- clal results are excellent and in some cases lucrative. The theory Is that the New York business man has no time or inclination to consult q physician for or dinary ailments and he often. through neglect, allows his disorders to become chronic The physicians have learned that 1t pays to go where the business man is
 These offices are equipped just as such offices are in a residential district. Some of the doctors have trained nurses to as- sst them. All have the usual instru- ments and medical books. and 1t is a ire quent sight. especially about the luncheon hour. 10 find the reception rooms crowded.
 Perhaps the business man has not beer feeling well for several days. He has hestated to call in his family physician for fear that he may be ordered to bed Suddenly he finds the strain is getting too severe He talks with some man at luncheon. His friend has noticed a doc tors sign on the door of building and he decides to go to the physician for ad- vice. He finds that if treatment is re- qulred he can put in half an hour a day at II and attend to his business at th, same time. which would be impossible if he had to make regular visits to his physician uptown in the later's office hours
 II is a time saver 10 have these phy- siclans in the office buildings and for that reason their practice is growing rapidly The medical men engaged in 1t say that they become known quite quickly as if they hung ont their ghlagles in some res idence or in an apartment house up- town It soon becomes nolsed about Il building that there is an excellent physt- elan established in it. Where there arc 1000 or more occupants of the building there Is field at once.
 IT is adyantag geous to have physicians fin the business district also i'm case ee sudden Illness and accident. There is scarcely one of these down town physi- clans who has not been called out in ae-l cdent cases near by and has given aid be-l fore the ambulance surgeon has arrived There are scores of men taken i'll at theirj desks, and if doctors were not in prac-! tlce near by t would take from half ani hour to an hour to get physician fromi further uptown.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-08
GEM STUDDED coLLARETTEs.
Fobs With Diamond Buckles, Novel-
 ties in Hat Pins.

From the Jewellers Circular-Weekly.
 Very open close and medium styles fight a gentle rivalry for first approval III collars and collarettes. Individual taste has a wide choice in the many charming designs shown In a collar manipulated in diamonds design of chic and telling character is obtained in the open style bv obliqua lines crossing each other The trian .,lar' spaces thus formed at the top and i..sstom are well filled with convep- tional design. while the diamond shapes running through the middle are entirely open A design that pleads irresistibly for descriptive place is close criss-cross pattern displaying large diamonds with an effect of great richness and beauty.
 A very unique idea for ring is ex pressed in an open design based on the outlines of a daisy enclosed in circle. the whole being carried out in lines of diamonds with the yellow topaz or pearl in the center.
 Of very simple elegance are the some what narrow silk ribbon fobs with small oval or rectangular diamond buckles as the only ornamental feature.
 A good sized cylinder and blocks of tor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-08
HIeH-HANDED JUSTICE.
Common Law Ignored to Make Wo-
 man Convict Herself.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 The extraordinary proceeding by which on Saturday two coroners, member of the district attorneys staff and sundry police officials labored to extort from the aged Mrs Stenton a confession that she had murdered her daughter, Mrs Alice C. D. Kinnan. in the Bronx on June &, seems to involve complete abandonment of the theories and forms of the common law. The course laid out by the inquisi- tors appears to be modelled exactly upon the French system. The coroner in charge of the case acted as judge d'instruction, and he permitted and used all the methods of finesse and terrozia- tion by which French prosecuting officials endeavor to make persons suspected of crime convict themselves.
 There was the reiterated question in- volving indirect accusation; there were the questions assuming the guilt of the person under suspicion and uring an ex- planation as to how and why the crime was committed: there were the exhorta- tions to speak the truth: there was the exhibition of relics of the deceased; there was the demonstration of the crime by a detective swinging the weapon with which 1t Is supposed to have been committed, and by surgeon, who fitted the pointed end of the weapon into the dents in the battered skull It would seem as if the final act of the French system of men tai torture, the reconstruction of the crime. was contemplated when the inquis- itors drove the old woman to her former home. the scene of the murder; but at that point her obstinacy was too much for them. She would not leave the car riage, and the plan. if it was entertained, fell through.
 This entire proceeding is opposed to the latter and repugnant to the spirit of the law of the state of New York. The foun- dation of our criminal Jurisprudence lies in two maxims-that every one is sup posed to be innocent until he Is proved guilty, and that no man shall be com pelled to incriminate himself. The first duty of a police officer in making an ar rest in such a case as this Is to warn the prisoner that anything he says may be used against him. It is true that Mrs. Stenton Is not under arrest. but of what use is the police requirement if, by not arresting her, officials can subject her to seven hours of mortal torture for the purpose of making her to do the thing that the law says she shall not be made to do?
 If even old women have become so cum ming in crime that the utmost astuteness of the police and the prosecuting attor- neys cannot bring guilty persons to jus
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Signs.

Hermitage. of course. Get prices. City
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-08
Mill End Sale!

There are reasons for holding these Twice Yearly grand and far reaching Mill End Sales. The reason, however, Is of small interest to the average shopper-the fact is your interest cen ters more in the great values you ob- tain here-howeyer, we never do things by haphazard and the reasons are obvious. It is all planned out months ahead in a systematic and methodical manner. Our reasons for these sales-particularly this present Mill End Sale-is primarily to stimu- to the pupllc ol "A, To anu III nidhy cases F on their purchases from this great and marvellous aggregation of merchandise-a sale brought about by our unrivaled connection as member of the Greatest Buying Syndicate in existence, taking surplus productions
 and Mill Ends from many European and American factories, and at prices given exclusively to this Syndicate.
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Embroideries l9c

 Readings Appque Values and matched anything like
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Women's Ready-to- Wear

Ladies Chambray and Butchers Linen Shirt Waist Suits with circular and knife pleated
 Skirts, elegantly tailored, well worth $50, Ladies' fine lingerie and handkerchief Linen
 Shirt Waist Suits, beautifully and correctly
 trimmed with lace and embroidery, worth $750; Mill End price .................3.9 3.90 Misses colored Chambray, Peter Thompson
 and Sailor Shirt Waist Suits, the $398 kind; Mill End Price .............. ........l 90 Ladies' and Misses Embroidered white and
 colored Linen Eton Suits, splendid materials, worth $850 Mill end price .......... ,9D
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Dress Goods

59c fine Mohar Scilians, yard 36c Fine plain and fancy mixed Dress Fabrics,
 worth up to 75c,, very special ......... 5Oc Fine Panamas, Prunellas, Sicialans, etc., worth
 up to SIPS, extra special ..............8 89c Big lot Dress Fabrics, specially for skirts;
 worth up to 39c, special. .............2 25c Yard-wide black Taffeta Silk real $100 quality,
 first week of sale only, per yard ..... 69c Yard-wide white Wash Silk, per yard d. 39c Odd lot of Fancy Silks, limited quantity worth
 up to 59c, to close at per yard. ......... 25c
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on the east to what was once known as the Great American desert on the urnef
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-08
Mill End Sale ;!

THIS STORE is the acknowledged pioneer and promoter of special sales in Birmingham, and the name "Dren- nen" attached to a special sale is magnet that draws hundreds from far and near-from states outside the bounds of our own. All know the es- tablished policy of this house is to ac- cord the most liberal treatment to all, and by making preparations far in advance-taking the products of many mills, at a time when they most need cash-we are able to practically quote our own terms to them. Having these advantages we reserve the larg- CT part of these immense purchases for the Great Mill End Sales.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-12-18
OF IAUKEA
TO Be DETERMINED
WILL BE HOME FROM HIS KONA
TRIP SATURDAY AND THEN
WILL CONSIDER CHANGES.

Sherff-elect Curtis p. Iaukea is eX-
pected home by the steamer Kinau on
Saturday. He has been passing brief
vacation in Kona since the recent
opinion of the Supreme Court giving
him the seat as sheriff of Oahu couty.
The coming of Iaukea is being await
ed with a great deal of interest. The
members of his own party are es-
pecially interested, as it is known that
he will shortly after his arrival, deter
mine upon the policy that he will pur-
sue in the administration of the office
of sheriff Iaukea intends to have a
conference with various Demo-
cratic party leaders and other interests
to receive Suggestions and advice re-
garding his future policy
There are those in the Democratic
party who think that Iaukea ought to
make a clean sweep at the police sta
ton and put on the force the loyal
members of his party. There are
| others who hold an entirely divergent
view They think that there ought to
be some changes but they are opposed
| to a clean sweep in the department
There certainly will be no wholesale
| changes in the department Immediately
following Iaukea's assumption of Of
fee He has stated that he proposes
not to cripple the efficiency Of the de-
partment by Immediately making many
changes before he is acquainted witt
the details of the office. Whatever
changes that are to be made will prob
ably come gradually,
Mrs Iaukea returned this morning
|
| by the steamer Mauna LOa.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-12-18

The Cornwell- -Kaiue election contest
for the office of supervisor of one OF
the Maui districts was begun before
the Supreme Court this morning. AS
the result of the preliminary canvass
of the ballots rejected by the inspect
ors in two of the precincts, the respon-
dent secured a net gain of two votes
over Cornwel. In fact the result of
the contest this morning was decidedly
unfayorable to Cornwell, and unless he
is able to make a better showing than
he did in the Waihee and Wailuku pre-
cincts, Kaiue, the Republican super
visor-eect, viii be in no danger OF
losing his seat.
w. H. Cornwell, who instituted the
contest against S. r. Kaiue, arrived
this morning by the steamer Mauna
Loa fdom Maui. There arrived on the
same boat various inspectors of cleo
tion who had been subpoenaed as wit
nesses. Among the Maui people to
come was w. F. Kaae the County
Clerk of Maui, who brought with him
the bags containing the ballots of vari-
Gus precincts which were supposed to
be considered during the course of the
contest. Cornwell was represented by
f. M. Watson, and Kaiue, who also ar
rived from Maui, was represented by
A. Lewis, Jr., and L. T. Warren.
The procedure followed was Identical
with that in the recent Brown-Iaukea
contest Lewis maintained that Corn
well should be made to show from his
testimony that his allegations in the
petition were based upon sufiicien
knowledge and information to warran
the petition having been brought
Cornwell took the stand and TESTIFIED
that of his own knowledge he had seer
Z to ballots for himself rejected il
the Wailuku precinct, because there
had been more names than offices t.
fill voted for. From information anC
personal knowledge there had beer
two of his ballots rejected for thi
cause in the Waihee precinct and thert
had been from others voted for hin
rejected for other causes. Regarding
the Puunene precinct. the difference o
votes rejected for himself and Kaiu
would have made a gain of only one.
The court then had County Clerk IA
ae identify several of the precinct bag
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-12-18
CHRISTMAS EREIGHT

The S. S. Mauna Loa arrived at $40
o'clock this morning from Hawaii and
Maui ports with her largest freight
since last Christmas, as follows: 6,53l
bags sugar, 1907 bags coffee, 14S bags
beans 175 bags taro, bags ava, bags
ginger, II bags empty bottles, 81 bunch
es bananas, 1S barrels oranges, 20 boxes
oranges, 26 barrels dry fish, kegs
butter, 20 crates turkeys, 81 crates
chickens. 6S crates pigs, 80 bundles
hides, 80 calves, cow, horses, II
hogs, S51 packages of sundries.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-12-18

Another injunction to prevent the
Territory of Hawaii from parting with
the title to public lands, is promised.
This time 1t is the Waianae lands
which are advertised to be sold on De-
cember 81 at an upset price of $50 656.75,
which 1t is intended to prevent the
Land Commissioner from selling.
These lands are described as 1886
acres, a little more or less, of remnants
of agricultural lands, together with
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-12-18
NOT
YET CERTAIN

Sheriff Arthur M. Brown says that
the matter of his being Assistant County
Attorney by invitation of County At
torney elect John w. Cathcart has not
as yet been arranged. There is moth
ing to say about the report that 1 was
offered the position just now" said
Sheriff Brown this morning.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-12-18
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ANOTHER WITHIN CASE UP.

The jurors in the damages cases of
Thomas A. Kay and Henry Gumpher
VS.. F. b. Within the millionaire, have
been notified to be in Judge Robinson's
court on Thursday at 10 a. m. Unless
a motion for a continuance is granted,
the jurors will be expected to attend
the opening of court on that day. The
damage suits are the outgTcwth of a
collision between Whitin's automobile
and hack in which the two plaintiffs
were riding
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-12-18
TWO o1rr IN BALLAST

The Norwegian bark Margit sailed
at II o'clock this morning in ballast for
Port Townsend. She will load lumber
for Valparaiso. At 1:2O o'clock this
afternoon the bark r. P. Rithet sailed
in ballast for San Francisco, not car
ing to wait for sugar until the s. s..
ArizOnan has loaded.