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Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-10-26
The Interstate Com
merceCommission
Hears Evidence.
WOULD CONTROL STATE
Shipments and Market Says
Prominent Dealer---Rail-
road Man Testifies.

Des Moines, Oct. 2G.-C G. Mes
serOle, at the afternoon session of the
Interstate Commerce Commission d
rectly charged that the Iowa Grain
Dealers Association had formed a
pool to control the grain business in
Iowa, and had boycotted him when he
refused to join. He is secretary of the
Cooperative Farmers Association.
Vice President Of Milwaukee Line On
Stand.
j. r. Hiland, the third vice president
of the Chicago Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway, spent the forenoon on the
witness stand today before Commits
soners Lane and Clarke of the Inter
state Commerce Commission, and was
questioned about the relations of the
Milwaukee. road to the Simonds
Shields Grain Company, of Kansas
City. The testimony brought out that
Shields is employed as superintend-
ent and manager of the Kansas City
elevator at Kansas City. and that as
agent of the company he is taken in
to consultation in the matters of
rates.
Mr.. Hiland sought to show that
Shields was not favored above othei
shippers, but admitted that it was the
policy of the road to consult and noti-
fy by wire the large shippers, of any
changes in rates, though he thought
the smaller shippers got the informa-
tion about as quick through news.
papers.
Law Department Advised New Ele-
vator System.
Mr.. Hiland testified that the change
from the leasing of the Kansas City
elevator to the Simonds Shields Grain
Company, when they allowed the com
pany one and one fourth cents per
hundred for handling the grain to EN-
ploying Mr.. Shields as manager. was
made at the instigation of the law de-
partment of the road, which thought
they would be more nearly conform
ing with Tie law and that now the
Simonds Shield Company ships from
Is to 80 per cent of all the grain go
ing through that elevator
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-10-26
PRESIDENT DISCUSSED
ILLEGAL SEALING
With Special Commissioners Who Wis
tied Far North-killing Of Jap.
anese investigated.

Washington, d, c., Oct. 26.-E W.
Sims, United States attorney for the
northern district of Illinois, and
George M. Bowers, United States fish
commissioner, were in conference
with President Roosevelt today.
Messrs. Sims and Bowers as special
legal agents of the President, went to
Alaska to investigate alleged illegal
sealing and arrived at the seal islands
TWO days after the killing of the Jap.
anese which has been made the sub
ject of diplomatic negotiations be.
tween the United States and Japan. It
is believed that this conference touch.
ed upon this matter.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-10-26
TROUBLE OVER
CAPITOL FURNITURE
Magnificent New Building Of Pennsyl.
vania Cost Too Much Says
Treasurer.

Harrisburg, Pa, Oct. 2G.--State
Treasurer Berry said today that he
would recommend to Attorney Gener
al Carson that the criminal proceed
ings to be instituted against the men,
bers of the Board of Public Grounds
and Buildings, who contracted for the
refurnishing and equipping of the new
state Capitol, which cost $13,000000
Berry claims that the board exceeded
its legal authority in contracting for
nearly $9,000,000 of work on the build
ing.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-10-26

II you cannot AFFORD to pay for
daily paper, subscribe for the Weekly
New Mexican Review and get the
cream Of the weeks doinss. 1t is q
good paper to send to your friends,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-24
Synopsis of Preceding Chapters.

In the bank at Bar Harbor, Me-, Lieutenant
Alan Drummcnd, H. NJ. S. CONSERVATION, gives
precedence to a beautiful young woman who
presents a check to test the reality Of an in
heritance of $4,000 900 left by uncle. Her
departure without the money that had been
counted out for her is followed by an incident
that results in her being introduced to Drum
mond. She is Dorothy Anhurst, seamstress
in the family Of Captain Kempt, U. S. N, re.
tired. in Bar Harbor.
Drummond has been the cause of unpleasant
ness between England and Russia. While III
command OF cruiser in the Baltic he had
boyishly tested gun by firing at a small
rock few miles distant. To everybody's sur
prise the rock had returned the fire. In the
diplomatic wrangle that resulted, it was re-
yealed that the rock a fortified Russian
post. England apologized but refused to sur
render Drumuiond prisoner. -,
Dorothy's chum, Katherine kempt, procures
for the new heiress an invitation to a ball
aboard the CONSERVATION. There she meets
Prince Ivan Iermontof, serving Jack La
mont who admires Katherine. Drummond pro-
posts TO go with Lamont to st. Petersburg and,
without asking his governments consent, to
explain that the incident in the Baltic was an
accident. Dorothy warns him of his DANGER
reminding him Of the ease with which the Rus
sian government could dispatch unofficial
visitor to Siberia. Later Drummond receives
orders to report to the admiralty in London i'm
media tely. Meanwhile he introduces Miss kempt
and Prince Ivan at the ball on the Consterna-
ton and an interesting interview with Miss
Amhurst is in progress.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-24
CHAPTER ".
"After the Opera Is over.''

: ....E
In mid-afternoon Of the day following
the entertainment on board the Con
sternation our two girls were seated
opposite one another under the rafters
Of the sewing room, in the listless, de-
sultory manner of those who have not
gone home till morning, till daylight
did appear. !. The dominant note of
summer cottage is the rocking chair,
and there were two in the sewing room,
think. My life has suddenly become
all topsy- turvey, and I need to get my
bearings, as does ship that has been
thru a storm and has lost her reckon
ing: -.
:: g She dunno where she are, as the
song SAYS "
:lExaetly: that is the state of
II think it's too bad, Dorothy, that
you did not allow us to make public
announcement Of your good fortune.
Just imagine what an ovation you
would have had on board the cruiser
last night if it had been known that
the richest woman in that assemblage
was pretty, shy little creature sitting
all by herself, and never INDUCING in
even one dance.J,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-24

!. tfI shouldn It in the least care for,
that sort Of ovation, Kate, and if every
one present were as well pleased with
the festivities as l, they must all have
enjoyed themselves immensely. be-.
lieve my friend Kate did my share Of
the dancing as well as her own"
- * sShe danced, and she danced; and
she danced them a din think those
are the words of the Scottish song that
the prince quoted: He seems up in
/. Scottish poetry, and does not even
resent being called a Scotchman. This
energetic person Of the song seems to
have danced them all to standstil,
as I understood him for ne Ne informs forms
DONE but I told him ID rather learn
Russian than Scotch; it was so much
easier, and his Brightness was good
enough to laugh at that. Didn It the
lieutenant ask you to dance at al9'
Oh, yes, he did, ~. ..=>.-.
IT refused. .rs...-.''.. - ...-.
ttI didn' It think he had sense enough
to ask girl to dance"
@ ttYou are ungrateful, Katherine. Re
member he introduced you to the
Il prince.' -
d. t.tYes, that 8 SO. had forgotten. I
/ shall never say anything against him
You like the prince, then9"
ssOf all the. crowned heads, emper-
ors, kings, sultans, monarchs Of every
description, dukes, counts, earis, mar
quises, whom I have met, and who
have pestered my life asking me to
share their royal perquisites, think
L may say quite truthfully that [ like
this Jack Lamont better than any one
Of them.''
ttSurely Prince Jack has not offered
you his principally alreadyq"
"No, not yet; but with an eye to
the future I have persuaded him 10
give up Tolstoy and read Mark Twain,
Who is not only equally humorous, but
much more sensible than the Russian
writer. Jack must not be allowed to
give away his. estates to the peasants,
as his silly sister has done. may
need them later Of"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-24

"By Jove!" he cried. @..-..a s, ~ :.
~s'What is it9'' she could not prevent
herself from saying, leaning: forward:
''I am ordered home. The admiralty
commands me to take the first steamer
for England.'' e.. ~
"Is that serious?'
He laughed with well-feig1ed hilarity.
'Oh, no, not serious; it's just their
way Of doing things. They might easily
have allowed me to come. home in my
own ship. Ny only fear is I shall have
to take the train for New York early
tomorrow morning. Butt" he said,
holding out his hands, 9 it is not serious
if you allow me to write to you, and II
you will permit me to hope that I may
receive an answer
She placed her hand in his, this time
without hesitation.
800 You may write,'' she said, land
I will reply. I trust it is. not serious. i"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-24

"Now, I wonder what have forgot
ten to do t.
Drummond heaved sigh proportion:
ate to himself. = = - --..-. !
. "Under the present condition of
things bit Of neglect that would go
> unnoticed with another man is sign
: of unrepentant vi1lainy in me- Any
other lieutenant may steal horse
while I may not look over a hedge. You
see how necessary it is for me to 90 to
Russia and get this thing smoothed
over.' H. -:
81 think, perhaps, you are too sensi-
tive, and notice Sights where nothing
of the kind is meant,,' said the girl.
Gresham returned and handed Drum
mond a letter. -. J. ~..-s.-
a.. "Will you excuse me moment?', he
said, and as she looked at him he fiat
tered himself that he noticed trace Of
anxiety in her eyes. He tore. open the
miSSiye ---: =.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-24

where Katherine and Dorothy swayed
gently back and forth as they talked.
They sat close to the low, broad window
which presented so beautiful pic
ping. The huge CONSERVATION lay
moored with her broadside toward the
town, all sign of festivity already re-
moved from hull and rigging, and, to
the scarcely slumber-satisfed eyes of
the girls, something Of the sadness of
around the great ship. The girls were
not discussing the past, but rather anti
~cipating the future; forecasting it, with
long silent pauses Intervening. .
ESQ you will not stay with us? You
are determined to turn your wealthy
back on the poor. Kempt, family?'
Katherine was saying ~
r, "But I shall return to the~Kempt
family now and then, if they will let
} me-. I must get away for time and
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-24
CHAPTER IV.-Continued.

ssI SUPPOSE she said slowly, with
the flicker of smile curving those en-
ticing lips, ''that since you were so
very friendly with Captain Kempt to-
gar. with him, and it will possibly hap
pen that Katherine and I, who are very
fond of the captain, may chance to
come in while you are there
katherine? All, Katherine is the
name of the young lady who was with
you here-Miss Kempt?''
"Yes'
"You are stopping with the Kempts,
then2"
II wonder if they'd think I was tax
ing liberty if l brought Jack Lamont
1.-THE prince9'' laughed Dorothy.
els he real prince?''
".Oh, yes, there s no doubt y, ab f;p
erty of introducing him to you as
Prince Lermontoff if he were not, as we
say in Scotland, a real Mackay-the
genuine article. Well, then, the prince
and I will pay our respects to Captain
Kempt tomorrow afternoon.
did you say the prince is going
with you to Russia?'
"Oh, yes. As told you, I intend to
live very quietly in St. Petersburg, and
the prince has his shop and a pair Of
rooms above it in a working quarter Of
the city. I shall occupy one of the
rooms and he the other. The prince
is an excellent cook, so we shan t
elias the prince given his estates
J.. "He hasn't given them away; ex-
actly, but he is very indulgent land
lord, and he spends so much money
on his experiments and travel that, al
l. 1oI7 IL hn 10
D EG5y y dtef Ike hHm 9'''e SNORT Oh money
dyes. Of course, I saw him for a
moment only. wonder why they
haven t returned. There's been several
dances since they left.'
"Perhaps," said the lieutenant, with
a slight return Of his stammeringg,
ing as Jack ISL
Russia9' 49,
-: VQuite. There is absolutely no dan.
ger. may not accomplish anything
- but I'll have try at it. The prince
has good deal Of + influence i1 ice in st.
on my behalf, so that I may see the
: important people. I shall be glad when
the captain ceases frowningg-
e, J: Drummond was interrupted by a fel
: low officer, who raised his cap and
begged word with him. 80
.:7Sa."I think, Drummond, the captain
wanted to see you.O z
IS 1T. H!sOh, did he say that's" a.
,sfNo, but / know he has. left a not,
for you in your cabin. Shall l go ant
fetch Ik2zx @#& St. II
IA. II wish you would, Gresham, if 20,
don't mind, and it isn't too mucl
truuble.,,
q No trouble at all. Delighted, I m
{ sure, !" said Gresham, again raising BIZ
tt.scap and going Oft
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-24
A ROCK IN THE BALTIC

= BIZ ROBERT BXRR =
Copyright 1906 by Robert Barr All Rights Reserved
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-11-13
Rx RoRERrus LOVE

~ OSTON is in the premonitory
throes of an earthquake. The
~ famous frogs in the pond Of
Boston Common croak appre-
hensively The surface of State street
already shows cOrrugations. The Back
Bay district has its back up. And all
this because ex-AIayor Lawson of
Grand Rivers, Ky, is going to become
a novelist and short story writer.
The full name of this ex-mayor of
Grand Rivers is Thomas William Law
son. He likes best TO be called Law
son of Boston," Mr.. Lawson solemnly
announces that he viii turn from
frenzied finance to fr2nzied fiction.
There are some State street financiers
and some Back Bay fashionables who
do not admire him. These persons fear
that he may write them and their do
inGs into his stories. This fear occa-
sions the quaking.
Mr. Lawson himself makes no threat
as to writing up fashionable foibles,
but he outlines his first three short
stories in this manner, which shows
that he viii handle fiction as cudgel
with which TO castigate the system"
still further:
No. Ia disclosure that promise
you will make n real sensation in the
changes. blow out seven-eighths of all
their windows and make it impossible
for the system and the stock gamblers
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-11-13

cy to very rocky piece or Iand az
Scituate. near Boston. Mrs. Lawson
though it would make a fine farm.
Lawson bought the tract.
Tom said one of his friends, ''if
you want farm, why didn't you buy
land that you can cultivate? Why, the
rocks are 50 close together on that
place that you can't use it for Il sheep
pasture unless you sharpen the Sleeps
NOES so they caa get down to the
grass"
Made Farm to Order.
But Lawson set a force OF men to
work. blasted out the rocks. hauled soil
and spread it on the bare spots, trans
formed the tract into Il beautiful and
fertile farm and showed that a man
with plenty of money could make Il
farm to order At last reports he had
spent about 100000 on the place.
He calls it Dreamwold His tenants oc-
cupy pretty cottages bordering n street,
as in Il village, and his farmhouse is a
mansion. There is a huge chicken
house, in which every hen has Il sepa-
rate apartment, steam heated, and each
rooster occupies his own fat.
Lawson loves luxury. His steam
yacht, named Dreamer, cost $250000
1t is a floating art gallery. Six years
ago Lawson built another yacht, the
independence. which he desired to en-
ter in the contest for the Americas
cup. The New York Yacht club, which
had the matter in hand, made a ruling
that only members of the club We're
entitled to compete in the trial races to
choose a yacht to go against the chal-
lenger. Lawsou's yacht had cost him
100000. He had it destroyed, made
souvenir bronze cups for his friends out
of the copper sheathing plates and then
set to work and wrote Il big book, The
Lawson History of the Americas Cup"
appropriately bound in sail canvas and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-11-13
THE TELEGRAPH.
Opposition and Rebufs with Which
Morse Had to Contend.

Morse Had to Contend.
The Morse telegraph invention lin
gered for years in the hands of its
starving inventor because capitalists
were Indifferent or incapable of ap-
preciating its merits.
1t was several years before congress
voted an appropriation to allow its in
ventor to make a practical test of it,
and burlesque bills We're offered to pro-
vide means for communicating with
the man in the moon.
Hes very good. but shiftless
painter. if he would only stick TO his
job some one said of Morse. THE
idea of telling by little streak of
lightning what body is saying at the
other end of wirer'
His instrument, it was said. was all
very well as mantel ornament or for
a mistress to call her maid. but the
wires couldn't cross rivers, oceans and
deserts.
Even after the line was up between
Washington and Baltimore and Silas
Wright sent a dispatch TO the Demo
cratic convention at Baltimore declin.
ing its nomination of him to the vice
presidency, it was not accepted as true
until Il committee went to Washington
and returned with the confirmation of
the report.
There was similar though less objec-
ton offered to the overland telegraph.
Senator Benton declared that it world
be impossible to operate it. because
the Digger Indians would cut the wires
to make hooks for digging up the roots
and beetles on which they lived.-Sun-
day Magazine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-11-13
Sample of his Good Nature.

There Is nothing naughty or super
cilious about Lawson. He is good ma
tured. Once while in New York he
entered cafe and ordered for break
fast that delectable fish called sleeps
head. There was none on hand, and
the proprietor sent Jerry, green hand
from inland regions, to the market for
sheepshead. After quite an interval
Jerry returned with the head of a
sheep artistically skinned and its
mouth open as If to say "Baa!" Law
son gave Jerry generous tip and or
dered something else.
With all his worldly wisdom Lawson
is superstitious. He carries lucky
fifty cent piece. Sometimes he losses
gold coin and determines by the
heads or tails method whether he viii
buy or sell. The figure 8 and its nu-
merals. he thinks, have a lucky sig
niicance for him. His Office is at No.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-11-13

ever again to do business exactly as it
is done today"
No. 2.-''I SHAH follow with another
story that should rip out the founda-
tons and tumble in the walls of the
stock exchanges
No. 81 shall pass on to a story
that will make 26 Broadway look like
hanging birds nest in a northeast
blow
Boston Not Surprised.
So "Lawson's latest''-familiar phrase
in Boston for dozen years or more-is
fiction. Boston is not surprised. No
body anywhere is surprised. What is
Lawson going to do next?' is an in
variable prefix to "Lawson's latest"
for the public has come TO expect Law
son to do something out of the ordinary
every time the moon changes Lawson
of Boston is continuous performance,
but he never repeats his programme.
The next thing he does is something
else
1t was the Lawson pink that first in
troduced Mr.. Lawson to the world at
large in a way that caused the uniyer-
sal gaze to be focused upon him. But
in Boston he has been what you might
call 1.-The town character for many
years. His friends and his enemies
there-and he has plenty of both-have
been wont TO remark, That's just like
Lawson" They said that when he paid
$4,000 for a single blossoming plant, a
pink, that had been cultivated to an
enormous size. Many people thought
him a fool for paying so much, but he
Melted $4,000 on the investment by
selling slips from the pink. Besides. it
gave Lawson a wide publicity which
was worth for his purpose many times
the comparative pittance which the
millionaire got by the sale of the
plants People began to talk of Law
son of Boston. A few years later. when
he began to play the cards that were
up his sleeve, the public knew who the
player was. That helped the game
Just what proportionate part Lawson
played in stirring up the Standard Oil
and life insurance scandals to the point
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-11-13

SO. and his two telephone numbers are
1881 and 3.349. He wears arOund his
neck watch chain of 1913 gold links
passing out through a buttonhole of
his waistcoat. His waiStcoatS. by the
way. are gorgeous works of art They
run to fancy figures. both in price and
pattern.
Lawson likes opposition and thrives
on it.
OF his enemies Lawson says: ''They
are all thOroughbreds. Every one OF
them would rise from sound sleep TO
do me an injury. Long may they live.
They put spice into life.''
OF many maxims made by Lawson
this is his own favorite: only one per
son in this world can help n man, and
that person is himSelf''
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-11-13

where Investigations We're made is a
difficult matter to determine. The main
point is that he was the first man to
handle the muck rake from the inside
of the muck and thus far the only in
slider to do it willingly and cheerfully
Mr.. Lawson claims that he has eX-
posed stock gambling methods for the
public good Some of the individuals
whose methods he has shown up aver
that he has done it for spite. II. II.
Rogers. for instance, said that Lawson
was 50 constituted that he would spend
q million dollars to get revenge ON him.
No doubt every man is entitled to his
own view of I.awson's motives.
Some Things lie Has Done.
Since Lawsons lively pen began to
make 4 stir in magazine pages several
important things have happened. There
is the new deal in life insurance man
agement, for one thing, and the recent
conviction OF Standard Oil in Ohio for
another The fiaying of Rogers by At
torncy General Hadley of Missouri is
TO be counted in the score, and just
here we may insert No. o of Lawson's
list OF nine pointers to Mr. Hadley at
the time of that inquiry as showing the
Eawsonian literary style:
Henry II. Rogers is brave as lion
up to the point where he gets a scare
on that his tricks won't work When
you once cross the line with him as
Hughes did with Mccall he'll go down
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-11-13
shoveling Gold Coins His First Job.


Lawson always had n taste for spec
tacuiar things. His style of doing
things is individual When he was
twelve years old he walked into Boston
from his home at Cambridgeport with
determination TO make a fortune
He saw in the window of bank a
sign, boy Wanted The boy went in
and got the job. His first work was
shoveling gold coins into a bucket But
that didn't turn his head. His mother
sent for him and insisted that he go
back to school. but the boy ran away
again and demanded his job back.
Finally it was arranged that he could
work in the daytime if he would study
at night. While acting as messen-
ger for his firm he learned a good deal
about the methods of specializing on
the stock exchange. Before he was
seventeen years old he cleaned up $780,
600 by clever deal in a railroad stock
and few months later lost all of it
except $50 in Boston Water Power
bonds. Then he did something distinct
~ Lawsonian.
He invited a number of his friends
to an elaborate dinner at Young's hotel,
paid the bill and had $3.50 left. This
he gave to the head waiter and went
home without a cent 1.-THE only use
/ have for money" he remarked many
years later, sis TO spend it, The easiest
thing / can do is to make money"
When he was still an Office boy. several
years before making his first fortune
his employers gave him 800 for Christ
mas. Tom Immediately went out to
buy holiday presents for his relatives.
The first expenditure was for present
for his sister, costing sS7. and the boy
was Disguised because he didn't have
money enough to go around. His ideas
were big from the outset
After Lawson had made millions on
the stock exchange his wife took a fam