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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-06-30
WHITE WAS
A BANKRUPT
Harry K Thaw Answers For
Himself, mot Guilty
WIFE TELLS HER STORY
Victim Of Madison Square ROOI
Garden Shooting ARRAY Owed
100000 TO Friends.

NEW YORK. June 30 Harry X.
rhaw answered mot guilty" when ar
ralgned in general sessions for the
murder of Stanford White He was
remanded 10 the Tombs, and date for
his trial viii be fixed next Tuesday.
When called on to plead every eye in
the crowded courtroom was turned on
lhaw, but he appeared to be the most
mconcerned person there.
You have been indicted for murder
in the first degree" said Judge Cowing
How do you plead guilty or not
nllU|
In the usual routine OF such court
proceedings the prisoner waits for
counsel to answer, but Thaw, through
ignorance or Intentionally, did not wait
for Judge Olcott to answer for him. In
4 voice clear and strong that could be
leard in the most remote corner of the
courtroom he answered.
Not guilty"
Judge Olcott had opened his lips to
make similar answer, ~and he gave a
look at Thaw that was a combination
)f annoyance, surprise and amazement
Turning TO Judge Cowlng. Mr. Olcott
said:
Your honor we wish to enter plea
Of not guilty, and we also desire to re-
serve the privilege of changing our plea
md Of making any other motion we
may see lit between this time and
Tuesday next"
Stanford White who went through
life spending money like king, owed
to one young member of very prom
lnent family 100000 and to others of
his associates almost as much more.
If the reports received by the district
attorney are correct.
The great architect was spending the
money he had borrowed from others,
and he had drawn In advance from the
treasury of his firm
Friends of the dead man who are
eonversant with the circumstances de-
clare that his widow will have for her
self only the 100000 for which her
husbands life was insured.
In confirmation of the stories that
have been told of Whites excuses
Thaw's lawyers II is said, have receiv-
ed more than 1000 letters, each bear
ing on some phase of the dead mans
character.
The plea of emotional insanity"
which will be put forward is merely
the legal peg on which TO hang the de
Tense of the "uuwrltten law"
Mrs. Thaw was closeted with Judge
Olc0tt for many hours and, II is said,
told the story Of her life in an effort to
free her husband from the murler
charges.
White is reported Il bankrupt, owing
100000 and having so greatly over
drawn his personal account with the
trm Of which he was member that he
was notified that he could draw no
more and must he content with Ger
tain fixed weekly allowance. Scores
Of detectives are now delving In the
bohemian underworld life of New
York on behalf of the prosecution and
defense, and fresh discoveries bearing
more or less directly on the tragedy are
Of almost hourly occurrence.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-06-30
MRS. TANNER KILLED.
wife of Grand Army Commander
Thrown From Auto at Helena.

NlIe OF GfiuU army AOnuHnUtF
Thrown From Auto at Helena.
HELENA, Mont, June 30. r Mrs.
James Tanner, wife of the commander
of the Grand Army of the Republic,
was killed here in an automobile acct
dent Corporal Tanner and his wife
came here yesterday. the former being
on n visit of inspection to the Montana
department of the Grand Army.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tanner, Mrs. ]. X
Toole, wife of Governor Toole, and
General Lester Wilson made up par
ty to visit points near Helena. On the
way to Fort Harrison, while going at Il
fairly swift pace along narrow road,
the chauffeur turned out to make room
for a freight wagon. The road was so
narrow that the automobile ran Off the
edge of the embankment, turned over
and threw the occupants out
Mrs. Tanner struck the ground first,
and Mrs Toole and General Wilson
fell on top of her. Mrs. Tanner. uncon-
sclous, was taken Immediately to
hospital. dying just as she reached
there. The other members of the party
were not seriously hurt.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-06-30
OLDEST VERMONT VETERAN
Joseph St Peters Who Was Admitted to the
Soldiers Home This Week.

Joseph st Peters, who was admit
ted to the Soldiers home from Rut.
land this week and who is " years of
age, was born in Paris and lived
in that city until he was IA years of
age When with his parents he came to
Montreal Ia addition to being the
Oldest veteran of the civil war ever ad.
mitted to the home. he Is the Oldest
survivor OF the civil war residing in
Vermont il not in New England. When
The rebellion broke out st Peters came
to Rutland and enlisted in Company
ID, It'll regiment, Vermont volunteers.
From the time OF his enlistment, June
20, 1862 until his discharge, he did
not lose a days duty and army life
agreed with him so far that on the day
OF his discharge, February 20, 1864,
he re-enlisted in the same company.
In the last two years OF his service,
he continued his record and when I'm
Gle Sam mustered him out IN 1866, he
had not lost a day and enjoyed the
best of health. Mr. ST Peters participa-
ted in a number of engagements, 10
GLIDING Baton Rouge, Vicksburg,
Conzella's station and the siege OF
Mobile. His company was stationed
For some time at Fort Pike, Miss and
saw hard service at that place.
The mental activities OF the veteran
are hardly impaired by his advanced
age and the hard service he saw dur
ing the war and hard work since then,
and he thinks he has yet many years
to live.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-06-30
Trolley Hits Auto, one Killed.

NEW YORK, June 30.-Herman
Schnibbe died from injuries received
in collision between an automobile
owned by him and a trolley car of the
Sumner avenue line, of which Henry
u. Hanck was motorman. Schnibbe's
skull was fractured, and he died with
out regaining consciousness. Three of
Schnibbe's companions who were re-
turning from Coney Island with him
in the automobile were severely in
jured The motorman was arrested.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-06-30

INDEPENDENT PLATFORM.
Adopted at Burlington Thursday BY the
Clement Party.

Adopted at Burlington Thursday By the
Clement Party.
The following is the platform adopt
ed by the Cl ment independent party
at Burlington:
Preamble
We, the independent voters OF the
State OF Vermont, assembled today in
open convention, hereby affirm and
declare;
That we base our declaration of
party principles entirely on State is
sues, without regard to national plat
forms or party creeds;
That we assert our firm belief in
State government "of the people, by
the people and for the people," and
condemn the practice of party leaders
in Vermont who have prostituted the
machinery of government to the ends
Of private gain;
That we accuse the republican ma
chine OF this State, in whose hand the
responsibility of government has rest
ed for % years, OF gross mismanage-
nent and extravaganza in the conduct
of our public affairs, of criminal me-
glect in the control of our State prison
and House OF Correction, of permitting
the employment of prison labor, the
buying and selling OF goods and the
transaction OF large business in the
STATES behalf, abolutely Without prop
er oversight and audit, OF failure TO
enact wise and helpful laws or to en-
force those already in existence aud
an utter unwllingness to undertake
progressive Legislation of any kind
except under the lash OF public opinion;
That we condemn the system Of per-
verse concealment which compelled a
private citizen Of the State to invoke
the costly aid OF the courts before be-
ing permitted to examine public docu-
ments and records; aud we submit that
the various investigations set on foot
by that act have fully demonstrated
the need OF rigid and systematic ex.
animation OF our State institutions
and finances by competent, unpre-
JUDGED tribunal, whose transactions
shall be fully published and whose
recommendation shall be promptly
carried out;
That we deplore the needless multi
plication of State boards and commits
sions and summon the creators thereof
to show cause why the public moneys
should be Withdrawn from the treasury,
save and except for the direct and
permanent benefit of the people at
large;
That we cite with honorable indigna-
ton the increase In State expenses
from S2i2, 1866 10 1881 to s7O3, 325.lS in
ioOSt anu NtmdDu ltutnculhIc IctTtuCu-
msnt, especially in the department of
justice, which has increased from
Sl3S, 952 % in 1924 to 1898, 25l.87 10
1924.
That we denounce the servile and
temporizing policy of the republican
machine and express our utter disbe
lief in its promises of amendment as
set forth in its recent platform aud we
point to its inglorious record of IN
action and failure for the past 25 years
as a just criterion OF its future
That we believe the time has come to
rebuke in no uncertain manner the sys-
tom that allows these conditions TO ex-
list, and call upon the free and indie
pendent yoters OF every party TO join
us 10 united effort 10 defeat the ma
chine and the leaders which 1t placed
in nomination at the republican State
convention OF 1906.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-06-30
THE MAHER STOCK co.
Closing Engagement at Library Hall This
Evening.

At the Library hal theatre last night
the Maher Stock company presented
the comedy, "My Daughters Hus-
band" to a good sized aud apprecia-
tive audience. The play is one that
SCENE to have been built for laughing
purposes only and was handled in such
a way by the entire company that II
kept the audience laughing continu-
ally. The specialties were good and
there were plenty of them.
A big doll matinee is to be gIven this
afternoon, and tonight the big Eng
lish melodrama, "a Woman's Sin, "
that caused such a sensation in New
York City two years ago will be pr
scented complete and just as II was
when 1t mad its big run there.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-06-30

While at SALISBURY Mr. Walker got
a reputation for not always telling the
truth aud he also got into debt faster
than he paid up. BE VAS helped when
he left this county by business men to
pay up some OF his debts.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-06-30
FIREMEN'S FIELD DAY
Parade at Burlington Feature Of Annual State
Event

Burlington, June 29.-The annual
field day OF the Vermont Firemen's as
ISOLATION was held in this city today.
A series of races were held this after
noon. The prizes for the 300 yard run
and coupling were as follows: First,
winooski Steamer, 800; second, Yer
gsnnes Volunteers, s75; thirl, Battell
II use, Middlebury, s 0; fou IN, Volun'
teers OF Middlebury, 81.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-06-30
100000 FOR VERMONT
Public Building Bill Gives Burlington 100000
and Barre 100000

Washington, June 20 The items of
$4,000 or more agreed to by the con.
on The public building bill include
sl00.00 for Vermont iyided as fol-
lows Burlington, $4,000; Barre, $780,
600.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-06-30
Weather
shower

Showers warmer tonight. Saturday
showers.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-06-30
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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-06-30

CONTINUED ON LAST PAGE
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-06-30

The following is the platform adopt
ed by the Cl ment independent party
at Burlington:
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1906-02-22
The SaItOn Loop is Completed.

After an expenditure of over half
million dollars in ruined equipment.
the Southern Pacific has finally COM
pleted the loop around the Salton sea
and in a few days will be operating
its trains over the new tracks, which
lengthens the main line d distance of
about twenty miles and precludes
any further danger from the ravages
of the inland sink.
The new track is thirty-nine miles
long and extends from Mecca to Vol
cano, in Southern California, forming a
loop shaped like the letter ''U," to
the north of the Salton basin.
All trains, both freight and passen-
ger, will run over the new track, and
the shoo-hy, which was temporarily
built along the edge of the basin and
has been used as the main track for
several months, will be abandoned.
During the past few weeks the wa
ters of the sink have been gradually
rising until they had softened the
track bed and were threatening to
wipe out the shoo-fy track. Trains,
therefore, had orders to run slow
over this portion of track and many
DELAYS were OCcasioned.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1906-02-22
Handed a Gold Brick.

The president, says the Buffalo
Times, has been buncoed by the men
whom he regarded as his friends.
He looked to them for support of his
recommendation of law for a just
regulation of railway rates. They
have given him gold brick in the
Hepburn bill.
The president recommended legis-
lation which would give the inter-
state commerce commission power to
displace an unreasonable rate with a
reasonable rate, ''to go into effect at
once and stay in effect unless and un-
til reversed by a court of review
The Hepburn bill provides for the
suspension" of rates fixed by the
commission and makes it possible to
hold them up almost eternally in the
courts. 1t does now touch the iniqui-
tous rebate.
The railroads are not opposing the
Hepburn bill. "If the bill required
the railroads to live up to the law"
said Representative Sulzer, of New
York, in his speech in the debate,
'the corridors would be filed with
railroad lobbyists and lawyers, but L
haven't seen lobbyist yet"
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1906-02-22
Electric Car From Bisbee to Naco.

The Budget is able to announce
piece of news that means more to
the future of Naco than anything
else that has come down this way
lately. This is nothing more nor less
than the Inauguration of work on
the Bisbee-Naco electric line con-
cerning which several intimations
have been given in these columns
lately.
The survey for the line was COM
pleted last week from Bisbee, through
the pass by way of -Bakerville, on to
the new townsite of the Warren De-
yelopment company, back of which
are Hoval A. Smith and his associ-
ates. From this new townsite the
route will take bee line for Naco.
The projectors of the enterprise
have been very quiet in their move
ments-so much so that the Bisbee
papers have not had hint of the
work being in progress-so much so
that all preliminary work, such as
securing rights of way, had been COM
pleted and the survey more than
half finished.
The construction of this line means
little less to Bisbee, since it will af-
ford the people of the copper camp
an opportunity to take up their resi-
dence in the valley and yet be with
in easy access of their business.
One result of the Inauguration of
street car service between here and
Bisbee will be that numbers of the
Bisbee people will make their homes
in the border town.-Naco Budget.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1906-02-22
MINING WARFARE OF
BUTTE IS AT END.
Last Act in Transfers of Famous Prop.
ties Completed.

The last act in the transfer of the
mining properties controlled by F,
Augustus Heinze, in Silver Bow coun-
ty, has been completed, and the
mines whose names have become
known the world over through litiga-
tion which has been carried on over
their possession, have been turned
over by representatives of Heinze
companies to the local agent of
Thomas w. Cole, president of the
North Butte company.
Assurance is given that pending
the litigation, which involves prop
critics valued at more than fifty mil
lions of dollars, will be stopped at
once, and that development of these
properties will begin Immediately.
The interests represented by Mr..
Cole are friendly to the Amalga-
mated Copper company, and the
celebrated mining warfare of Butte
is at an end.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1906-02-22
Luckiest Man IN Arkansas.

"I'm the luckiest man in Arkan-
sas," writes Fl. L. Stanley, of Bruno,
'since the restoration of mg wife
health after five years of continuous
coughing and bleeding from the
lungs; and 1 owe my good fortune to
the worlds greatest medicine, DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consump-
tion, which 1 know from experience
will cure consumption if taken in
time. My wife improved with first
bottle and twelve bottles completed
the cure" Cures the worst coughs
and colds or money refunded. At all
druggists. SOC and Sl.00. Trial bot
tie free.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1906-02-22
Common Colds are the Cause of Many
Serious Diseases.

Physicians who have gained a
national reputation as analysis of
the cause of various diseases, claim
that if catching cold could be avoided
a long list of dangerous ailments
would never be heard of. Every one
knows that pnetfthonia and cOnsump-
ton originate from a cold, and
chronic catarrh, bronchitis, and all
throat and lung trouble are aggra-
waited and rendered more serious by
each fresh attack. Do not risk your
life or take chances when you have
cold. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
will cure it before these diseases de-
opium, morphine or other harmful
drug and has thirty years of reputa-
ton back of it, gained by its cures
under every condition, For sale by
all dealers in medicine.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1906-02-22
Arizona and Colorado Railroad Ready to
BEGIN Construction South.

Of much interest to the people o.
Cochise county is statement made
in Denver last week by G. G. Sroufe
who is in charge of the interests il
Colorado of the Arizona & Colorado
Railroad company. Sroufe has re
turned from a trip south. He wa:
asked how his road was progressing
and said:
''I think we will be operating oul
road from Durango south to the
main line within one year. We ex
pect to receive instructions any day
now to begin construction both ways
north and south from Defiance, or
the Santa Fe road.
'It is $50 miles south from there
via Phoenix to our main line, and il
is $50 miles from the main line tc
Durango.
1T has been decided that when the
construction begine we will follow
grading with steel and rolling stock
as fast as the grade is ready, and
this will facilitate rapid construc.
tion both ways.
''We can build to Durango within a
year, and ] think you will find our
trains running out of there within
that time"
He was questioned about the pur-
chase of the Porter coal mine in
Colorado by the Southern Pacific
company, and said:
81 guess that will settle the unrest
among people as to whether we will
build or not. Our folks are feeling
pretty good the recent decision of
the court supreme of New Mexico at
Santa Fe which sustained our right
of way from Pennington to Du-
rango."
This decision was in a case of con-
test of righ of way between the Ari-
zona & Colorado and the Denver &
Rio Grande roads.
The controversy was brought about
by the fact that the road surveys
cross each other seventeen times be-
tween Pennington and Durango, a
distance of forty miles.
G. G. Sroufe referred to in the
above was formerly superintendent
of the Tucson division of the South
ern Pacific, and has been in Colorado
and New Mexico for the past eigh-
teen months in charge of the survey
work for this proposed new line of
railroad, connecting the coal fields of
New Mexico and Colorado with the
mining districts of Arizona aud So
nora. A portion of this road is all
ready in operation in this county ur.-
der the name of the Arizona & Colo
RADIO, between Cochise Station and
Pearce. The line north runs through
Graham county to connection with
the Gila Valley, Globe & Northern,
thence to Globe and through the
Tonto Basin north to the Colorado
line. The road from Pearce is to be
extended south to a connection with
the Guaymas branch of the Southern
Pacific now in operation from Ben
son. Such a. line from Pearce would
give Bisbee and other towns in south
ern Cochise county another eastern
connection and possibility of a re-
duction in freight rates.-Review.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1906-02-22
A Habit to be Encouraged.

The mother who has acquired the
habit or keeping on hand bottle of
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, saves
herself a great amount of uneasi-
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croug, to which childred are suscepti-
BILE are quickly cured by its use. 1t
counteracts any tendency of a cold
to result in pneumonia, and if given
as soon as the first symptoms of Group
appear, it will prevent the attack.
This remedy contains nothing in
furious and mothers give it to little
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