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Harry K. ThaW the Only One
of Coy Crou0d That Has
Essayed the Nouel Sensa-
ton of Murder, But All
Haze Sought in Startling
Manner to Dissipate Their
Easily Earned Millions.

of Miss Gilman, and at present Mrs.
Corey is in the west, where she is re-
siding with view to securing a di-
vorce.
During the course of business in
Pittsburg Andrew Carnegie trans
formed Gibson D. Packer from a poor
man into a millionaire. Mr.. Packer
did not miss his chance to get before
the public. Mrs. Mary l. Vetter, armed,
it is said, with 140 love letters, pre-
pared to sue Mr.. Packer for 500, 600 for
breach of promise. There were many
pledges of affection in the shape of
jewelry.
Contemporaneously with the Thaw
murder Mrs. Scott Hartje, the wife of
Augustus Hartje, Pittsburg millionaire
paper manufacturer, has begun suit
against her husband for divorce. Mrs.
Hartie says that her husband wore
paper collars for years; that he would
buy a $1,000 horse over the telephone
and the next minute refuse Mrs.
Hartje's request for three dollars for a
pair of shoes. Some of the charges of
both Mr.. and Mrs. Hartje cannot be
printed here.
Cooked His Own Meals.
Charles Clarke, son of Mrs. Eliza
Clarke, cousin of James King Clarke,
married Miss Elizabeth Stocking, of
Atlanta, Ga. "Chic," as he was known,
was a jolly good fellow. Before his
marriage he tried newspaper work in
Pittsburg. He essayed a publication
similar to Town Topics, but the United
States could only stand one such at a
time, and the Pittsburg production died
and the owner was in debt. Times
went hard with him about the time
he married, and he apparently lost all
his money, it being tied up in legal
broils. Either he tired of his wife or
she tired of him.
At any rate, he sued for divorce and
told that he had endeavored to main
tain the two by doing the family cook
ing in a chafing-dish in their little
room over in Allegheny. He got his
divorce, and the next day the wife be-
came the wife of Sport" Donnelly, son
of Pittsburg millionaire.
While George Lauder Carnegie has
figured somewhat among the Pittsburg
prodigals, his brother Coleman, or
Cooley" also a high-roller, has de-
cided to ''straighten up" Hitherto he
has been piking along on $125,000 a
year without saving much of it. 1t is
said that if Coleman will continue to
straighten up his uncle Andrew will
take him to Scotland and make real
laird of him.
Frank Galley, nephew of John H.
Galley, partner of Col. James McGuffey,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-07-20
Bandits.

Minneapolis-Boy desperadoes COM
mitted two robberies in Minneapolis,
but although their work was done with
much bravado and sensational detail
they secured only about 81 in money
and cheap watch.
Spares Katlos, proprietor of small
fruit store at the corner of Seventh
street and Second avenue south, was
the first victim He had fallen asleep
in a chair in the rear part of the store
and about 2 o'clock in the morning
suddenly awakened to find himself con-
fronted by three boys, one of whom
carried a heavy club. In the gruffest
tones that they could command the
youths demanded that Katlos produce
all of his cash and be quick about it.
Katlos was somewhat dazed by sleep,
but as soon as he could collect his
senses, he ran behind the counter for
a revolver. This move disconnected
the youthful robbers and they seized
a box of small change that lay in plain
sight and fed. The box contained
about 81.
Very soon after the robbery at Kat
los store A. Shapiro was held up on
the street in front of his home, 507
Eleventh avenue south.
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hope for reform in goodly per cent.
of men under their care, the reforma-
tive aspect of prison life should loom
large. Formerly the idea of punish
ment dominated. To-day the pris-
oner is deprived of opportunities for
self-indulgence, but is given what he
needs for self-development. He is not
punished for what he has been; he
is to prove by labor, study and good
behavior what he may be-"
1t was in lit the Englishman, John
Howard, made his famous report on
prisons, calling attention to the fact
that young and old, innocent and
guilty, were shut up together and in
idleness. Very soon England set to
work at reforms in prison conditions,
and has since continued at the task.
Experience in the world at large has
shown that stringent laws and severe
punishments do not lessen crime. At
one time there was score Of crimes
in England which meant death if the
person were caught; to-day the only
capital offenses are murder and trea-
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MIILIONAIRES GO PACE THAT KILLS

sprang up between Mr.. Phipps and his
wife, The breach gradually widened,
and Mr.. Phipps brought suit for d.
vorce, naming Hart Mckee as CO.
respondent. Pittsburg society was
disrupted by the news, and the Nc
Kee and Phipps factions waxed bitter
in their denunciations.
Kidnapped His Children.
Following the return of Mrs. Phipps
to this country, her two little children
were forcibly taken from the Waldorf
Astoria by Mr.. Phipps and hurried
away to Denver, where he had resided
for some time. 1t was openly stated
that when the divorce proceedings
were over Mrs. Phipps would marry
Hart Mckee, but in the meantime that
eccentric young man had become en-
thralled with Mrs. Hugh Tevis, who
few years previous had been wed
and widowed within six weeks.
Mrs. Tevis and Mr.. Mckee sailed
away to Europe on the same steamer,
and shortly afterward were married.
Things were rather dull in the Pitts
burg colony for awhile until Mrs.
Phipps went out to Denver, where the
divorce case was brewing.
Mrs. Phipps began contest for the
possession of the children, but event
ually terms were reached under which
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refractory convicts. The prisoner.
were confined in underground cav
ems, shafts and chambers of an aban-
doned copper mine. You may to-day
travel down tortuous path to these
one-time prison cells, where, 70 feet
below the surface, manacled prisoners
were crowded at night; their feet
fastened with heavy iron bars, chains
about their necks attached to beams
above. The caves reeked with filth;
contagious fevers were incessant. The
keeper was allowed to punish by fog
ging, putting on shackles and letters,
the treadmill, solitary confinement
and putting in the stocks, double and
treble sets of irons, hanging by the
heels, and other methods that seem
far removed from criminalist views
of the present.
But let us turn from the horrors
and inhumanities of the past to the
work for betterment. In the work Of
prison reform in the United States
four great organizations have done
much to hasten progress: The Phil
OOClCly lOl AllCNldIluS luc
Miseries of Public Prisons, formed in
TIT; the Boston Prison Discipline So
ciety, organized in 1924; the Prison
Association Of New York; the Ma
tional Prison Association of America
And, as DR.. Wines says, yeoman serv-
ice has been rendered by individuals
Barrows, in summing up the most
important indications of progress in
penology in the past century, gives
the following points: ID The higher
standard of prison construction and
administration; (2) the improved
personnel in prison management; CD
the recognition of labor as a dis
ciplinary and reformatory agent; (4)
substitution of productive for unpro-
ductive labor, and to small degree
for unrequited labor; 80 an improve
ment in prison dietaries; CO. newer
and better systems of classification;
ca the substitution of reformatory
for a retributory system; Cs) proba-
ton or conditional release for first
offenders, with friendly surveillance;
co. the parole SYSTEM (10) the Der.
tillon system for Identification Of
prisoners; CID the new attention
given to the study of the criminal,
his environment and history; (12)
separation of accidental from habitual
criminals; (13) the abandonment of
transportation; (14) the humane
treatment of the criminal insane:
(15) the new emphasis laid upon pre-
ventive instead of punitive, or mere
ly corrective, measures.
CHRISTOPHER WEBSTER.
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Big Dairy Display.

Hamline-The exhibits of dairy pro-
ducts and dairy apparatus at the Min
nesota state fair have become famous
as showing the very best of the dairy
produce of a state which has for years
held first place as the butter producer.
The prospects for the fair of 1906 are
for an exhibit of butter which will
grade higher than ever before. Supt.
A. w. Trow, in charge of the division
of butter and cheese, is laying his
plans early in the season and feels con-
fident that there not only will be a
very large exhibit but that the scores
will be extraordinarily high.
The state agricultural society is
very liberal in it's offers Of premiums.
The great sweepstakes of $1,000 is di-
vided among creamery butter makers,
while other premiums make the total
of $1,445 to be paid out to butter and
cheese men.
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Banks.
develop

Washington-Surpris develop
ment, not only in the number Of
banks in the agricultural section
of the Northwest, but also in the
growth of their resources and the VOL
ume of each deposited by individual
depositors, is furnished by the abstract
of reports made to the controller Of
the currency by the banks of the in
terror of Minnesota and of the state
of North Dakota, given out at the
treasury.
In Minnesota, outside of the reserve
cities, there are 225 national banks,
against 218 in the midsummer of 1905.
These national banks now have loans
and discounts to the amount of $780,
0S9O00, against s44,294,0O0 last year,
while they have increased their sur
plus funds about 100000, and their
undivided profits, less expenses and
taxes, have increased about a like
amount
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News Notes,

ST. Paul-St. Joseph's and ST. Pat
rick's parishers win the contest in
connection with the cathedral fund
picnic.
st. PAUL.. D. O'Brien, insurance
commissioners, today issued a notice
practically suspending the Minnesota
license of the Trans Atlantic Fire In
surance company of Hamburg. Ger
many.
Thief River FaIls-The Red Lake
county teachers training school is in
session in Thief River Falls and will
continue until Aug. 2.
st. Peter-A proposition to bond this
city for $4,000 will be submitted to
the voters at the annual school cleo
ton, to be held July 81. The money
is needed to erect new high school
building, and all that is necessary is
the Endorsement of the taxpayers.
Thief River Falls-While engaged in
cleaning a rifle Christ Lee of Carmel
was shot and killed by the accidental
discharge Of the weapon. Lee did not
know the gun was loaded.
Alexandria-Mrs. Toilet Jacobson,
wife Of President Jacobson of the VII
lage council, died at Rochester
Owatonna-A shooting affray occur
red here this morning, and as re-
suit Edward Shepard is in the county
Jail awaiting the action of the grand
jury. Shepard's wife is confined to her
bed with a serious gunshot wound.
Stillwater-As Arthur Wilson was
released from a nine months sentence
at the penitentiary, he was met at the
prison door by Sheriff Noes of Yer
million county, Illinois. and re-arrested
for breaking parole from the Joliet
prison prior to his arrest in Mime
sofa,
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ness. He was known as a cigarette
fiend, heavy absinthe drinker, an ad-
mirer of chorus girls and a reckless
spendthrift. He gave dinners costing
tens of thousands of dollars, and like
the general run of Pittsburg million
aires he always had one or more "af
fairs" on hand with women of the foot
lights
1t is a strange fact that chorus girls
and actresses seem to appeal to the
Pittsburg millionaire past all power of
resistance. Four of them who have
made New York their home during the
past few years, and whose wealth
amounts to $5O,00O,0OO in the aggre-
gate, have become infatuated with stage
beauties more or less widely known
throughout the country, according to
the World of that city.
Three of them have married &C
tresses, and the infatuation of the
fourth for beauty of the footlight is
being used against him in divorce pro-
ceedings. Although Harry Thaw was
probably the widest among the Pitts
burg high rollers who have sowed in
the wild winds of the Tenderloin,
young Hart Mckee was almost as we'll
known, but in a different way.
Forgot Marital Obligations.
His father, E. Sellers Mckee, null
ti-millionaire glass manufacturer of
Pittsburg, supplied him with practical
ly limitIess funds, with which the
young man proceeded to cut a wide
swath. He was handsome, dapper and
fastidious, with the red and white COM
plexion of healthy girl. Soon after
leaving college he married a Miss SUIT
ton, from whom he separated a year
or two afterward, giving her 100000
outright in lieu of alimony
In Mrs. McKee's allegations against
her husband she testified that he was
not with her much during the two
years of their married life, and that he
became more neglectful as time pro-
ceeded. Finally Mrs. Mckee left him,
lowing to his entire neglect" She
made affidavit that he cut off her per-
sonal allowance and household allow
ance and put at the head 81 the house.
hold a butler, who was Objectionable
and very insolent, and over whom she
had no control. He was given the
money to pay the servants, and was
empowered to hire and discharge them.
Mrs. Mckee protested, but was told
that she had no power to discharge
him.
Mckee became acquainted with Mrs
Genevieve Phipps, the wife of Law
renee Phipps, another Pittsburg mill
lionaire, then living in Beaver Nc
Kee and Mrs. Phipps wero frequently
seen together, and an estrangement
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orally provided. The walters wore
colonial costumes with powdered wigs,
and the souvenirs were silver card
cases. Previous to this, however, Mr.
Corey had emulated other Pittsburg
rich men by figuring in a swimming
party OF which Miss Maybelle Gilman,
an actress, was member. The party
took place at the Pittsburg natatorium.
There vera hot birds and cold bottles
and some very pretty exhibitions of
plain and fancy swimming.
At this party an infatuation for Miss
Gilman is said to have sprung up on
the part of the millionaire. An es-
arrangement took place between Mr.
and Mrs Corey supposedly on account
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folding a roll of bills as large as an
elephants trunk. The run broke all
records. Fifteen engines were used.
There were eight passengers, and to
transport them in lower berths instead
Of upper cost $1.13 a. minute for So
hours, or nearly two dollars mile.
But Mr.. Peacock was from Pittsburg
and did not care.
When some Englishmen sent over
$3.50, to back Shamrock ii. Mr.. Pea
cock headed a syndicate who covered
it with $250,000. He played in a poker
game on the steamship Deutschland in
which 100000 changed hands. Pea
cock won, although there were nine
other Pittsburg millionaires at times
in the game There was 100000 jack
pot
They tell how when Mrs. Carnegie
was buying her wedding trousseau in
this city years ago she was waited
upon by handsome young saleswom-
an to whom she told her secret
"I'm to be married, too" confessed
the young woman "That is my in
tended over there-Mr. Peacock"
That's a Scotch name" said the
future Mrs. Carnegie. Where does he
come from?"
From Dunfermline, ma'am," replied
the salesgirl. Andrew Carnegie
learned about the incident, and in due
time the ironmaster brought Peacock
to Pittsburg and made the fioorwalker
a millionaire.
At the Waldorf one morning Mr..
Peacock was discovered scribbling on a
sheet of paper in the writing-room. A
friend asked him what he was doing
ooh, my wife at breakfast ust now
insisted that l was worth $10,000,000.
think it is only 100000. She is
usually right, but can't find the other
100000 this morning."
Married Mothers Maid.
John Aston Moorhead is one of the
latest. He was heavy man on the
Yale football team and also pulled in
the crew. He never did anything else
to deserve particular distinction. Only
few weeks ago he eloped with his
mothers French maid. They have
not been entirely forgiven yet, but it
is understood that John Aston is be-
ing treated in a New York sanitarium,
his father paying the bills, and it is
said the little French maid is crying
her way back to sunny France, well
paid, if cash can make it good, but
with her foolish little heart broken.
More recently the limelight of noto-
riety has been turned upon w. E.
Corey, one of the best known of the
Carnegie group of Pittsburg million
aires. He dawned upon New York sew
eral years ago on special train con-
sisting of one dining car, four sleeping
cars and two baggage cars, which car
ried the entire Office forces of the Ma
tional Steel company ana the National
Hoop company. In the baggage cars
were SO trunks filed with ledgers and
account books and II typewriter girls
who took down dictation as the train
rolled along.
Corey's Lurid Exploits.
Some time afterward Mr.. Corey gave
Mr.. Schwab a Lucullian feast. The
costliest wines, the daintiest dollhouse
fruits and the rarest flowers were lib
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the millionaire oil producer, of Pitts
burg, distinguished himself by COM
hitting burglary.
The suicide of young 7. orc. Jones,
the only son of the millionaire steel
man of Pittsburg, few weeks ago, fit
tingly rounds out the record of the
young Smoky City high rollers. He
had lost his mind because of his love
for his first cousin, charming Pitts
burg girl He killed himself when she
married another.
This almost exhausts the crop of
Pittsburg's gilded youths, but there is
a new crowd growing up. They ars al
yet in knickerbockers
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divorce was granted on the ground
of desertion. Then almost before their
friends had ceased talking about their
case Mr.. and Mrs. Phipps made up,
and it is said that they will be re-
married. This seems to have finished
the calendar of sensations as far as the
Phipps and Mckee millionaires are
concerned.
Another Pittsburg millionaire who
had varied and noteworthy career
was James King Clarke, known to his
friends as Jamie"
Young Clarke inherited a part of
the millions of his father, Charles J.
Clarke, of Pittsburg. He was in the
habit of spending a part of his time
in Washington, and it was there that
he met Miss Esther Bartlett. They
were married on April 26, 1899, in
Washington, and with the best man,
Macintosh Kellogg, journeyed to New
York, where they took rooms at one
of the big hotels.
AS related by Clarke in the suit for
divorce, which began a month later,
upon their arrival in this city he left
his bride in his room with Mr.. Kellogg
while he went downstairs to look after
some baggage. He was detained for
some time. On his return he found the
door locked, and when it was finally
opened Mr.. Kellogg's shirt front was
stained with the violets which Mrs.
Clarke wore as a corsage bouquet
That settled it. Mr.. Clarke waxed
wroth and left his bride.
Mrs. Clarke afterward sued for and
obtained divorce, after which she be-
came the wife of L. T. Whitehead. of
Erie, Pa. Mr.. Clark then married a
Miss Katherine Willoughby, of St.
Augustine, Fla, thus closing another
chapter of Pittsburg millionaire sensa-
tionalism.
Career Of A. r. Peacock.
Mr.. Alexander Rowland Peacock is
another Smoky City candidate for
fame Mr.. Peacock is worth many mill
lions Of dollars. When he came to
New York he evidently made up his
mind to live up to the traditions and
habits of the lively Pittsburgers who
had preceded him. To perpetuate his
name he had a $4,000 peacock made
of genuine diamonds, sapphires and
emeralds and gave it to his wife. He
also had peacock put on the livery of
his servants.
Once Mr.. Peacock was in Los An
geles. There were only upper berths
left in the train to Chicago. "Give me
special train, them" he ordered.
It'll cost $4,000" said the passenger
agent.
"l.ll take it" replied Peacock. I'M
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A recent reform inaugurated at the
Illinois state penitentiary at Joliet
does away with the 'lockstep." The
prisoners now are to march in mill
tary fashion. Which item of news
sets us bordering on the change in
treatment of prisoners that marks the
last century and half. Not yet are
conditions ideal, not yet is the prison
admittedly successful as reform
school; but unquestionably progress
has been made.
An authority asserts that to-day
there is no department of science,
whether physical or social, in which
progress is more evident than in the
realm of penology-the study Of TIE
management of prisons. The same
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Pittsburg Men of Wealth
Unequaled in Furnishing
Sensations for the Lovers
of Scandal-Alurements
of Painted Stage Beauties
Fatal to Domestic Peace
and Harmony.

New York.-Now that the crime of
murder has been added to the eccen-
trio doings of the dozen or more Pitts
burg millionaires, it is probable that
the limit of their capacity for sensa-
tionalism has been reached.
Remarkable divorces, remarriages,
breaches of promise, alimony and
chorus girls have hitherto been or
binary features of their lives. They
seem to have become rich so suddenly
that they have lost their heads. Never
before, however, has any one of them
been accused of murder.
Years before Harry Thaw ever heard
of Evelyn Nesbit or Stanford White he
was eccentric to the verge of crazi-
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son. And yet as Barrows, secretary
of the Prison Association of New
York, points out, though population
has multiplied and police vigilance
greatly increased, the number of con-
victions has steadily diminished.
In the old days they used to look
upon criminals as dangerous beasts,
desperate characters, of different clay
from ordinary men and women, crea-
lures of uncanny cunning. In the
ruins of an American "Old Newgate,"
colonial prison that later became
the Connecticut state prison, one may
still see deeply embedded in the walls
the iron staples to which the prison
ers were chained while at their work;
and remains of the treadmill used for
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authority, writing in the Forum on
Progress in Penology," declares that
the civilization of a people can now
be told quite as well by it's prisons
as by its picture galleries, its schools
or it's churches.
No one can accuse prison wardens
of being mere sentimentalists. They
have practical knowledge of hundreds
of convicts, they know the total, they
know the average. And when they
give as their judgment that there is
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-11-30
MADE HAPPY
THANKSGIVING DAY

The Volunteers Of America were
busy Thanksgiving morning min
istering to those who no doubt
would have gone hungry had not
their plight been known to Cap
tain and Mrs. Brooks beforehand.
Many a God bless you" was
heard as baskets were passed out
to those who held tickets cor
responding with a duplicate num-
Der, name and number in family.
When asked about this kind heart.
ed enterprise Captain Brooks said:
Each family was personally In
vestigated by either Mrs. Brooks
or myself so that no needy ones
would be overlooked. We have had
little time to get things in shape
yet we feel that our efforts have
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-11-30
FIREMEN HAVE FINE TIME.

The fifth annual ball of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men was held at Elks temple last
night Over $50 couples attended
the ball, being the most success
full one in the history Of the order
in this city. A z. Hawley, chair
man of the board of trustees, led
the grand march, with Mrs. Haw-
ley. ]. D. Burns, master Of the
Sprague lodge, was presented with
a $3.50 watch and chain by his fel.
low members.