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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-12-14
TWO STYLES CREATE CONFUSION
Committee Appointed to Straigiiten
Out the Tangie Resulting From
Double Standard of Spelling.

Washington, December 12.-The
great confusion resulting from the
government double standard of spell
ing has made it necessary for the joint
committee on printing to take immedi-
ate action and Senator Platt and Rep
resentative Landis of the commi tee
are at work on a resolution designed
to straighten the tangle at once. Even
if the house and senate both pass the
legislative bill with clause declaring
for Old fashioned spelling the measure
will not become effective until the
beginning Of the new year, and mean
time there would be no we'll defined
policy as to spelling Reports from the
executive departments are now printed
in reformed spelling. When congress
desires to include portions of them IN
its proceedings it is necessary TO make
new plates and much additional ex-
pense is entailed.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-12-14
FOR VIOLATING LABOR LAW.
Complaints Filed Against Cotton Mill
Men.

Charlotte, \ c., Dec. 12.-District
Attorney A 1, IIOltoE, today entered
complaints il the federal district court
here against Thomas II. Costello, Ed
ward A. Smith, Sumner A. Sargent, and
E. C. Dwelle, charging violation Of the
contract labor law.
The defendants are cotton mill own
ers. There are twenty counts in one
case and sixty-three in another and as
the maximum fine is $1,000 for each
violation, the aggregate amount in
yolved is So, 900 The defendants are
given until the end Of the present term
Of court to answer to the complaint.
The cotton mill men, it is said, will
attack the legality Of the immigration
law. The prosecution came about
through the Importation Of a number
Of English girls by an authorized i'm
migration agent o fthe state and their
employment in cotton mills. 4 govern
ment inspector has been here taking
te e.timCny and the girls are detained at
The expense Of the British government.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-12-14
ARTHUR BROWN DEAD.
Mrs. Bradley VIII be Arrang d Today
ON Charge of Murder.

Washington, December 12-Former
United States Senator Arthur Brown.
Of Utah. who was shot in his apart
ments at the hotel Raleigh Saturday
afternoon, by Mrs. Anna M. Bradley.
of Salt Lake City, died at midnight
tonight Mrs. Bradley will be arraign-
ed in the police court tomorrow on the
charge of murder. Her attorneys will
set up the defense that she was justi-
fed under the unwritten law, in shoot
ing Mr.. Brown He died at the Emer-
gency hospital
Mr.. Browns life was prolonged By
the injection of saline solution and by
administering oxygen Death was due
to complications arising from kidney
troubles, aggravated by the shock OF
the wound An assistant district attor-
ney made an effort tonight to secure
an ante-mortem statement but Senator
Brown refused to talk
Dr. w. L. Sheep. Max Brown and
Miss Alice Brown, the former senotors
son and daughter respectively were at
the bedside at the end.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-12-14
POLICY HOLDERS MEET.
{. +. Herring Appointed Director Of
Coiored Insane Asylum.
fCDncial III The AezSenpe-

Raleigh, n. c., December 12.-The
governor has appointed c. F. Herring.
OF Wayne, director Of the hospital for
colored insane at Goldsboro vice W. r.
Hollowell, resigned. The latter was
elected county commissioner.
This afternoon the proxy COMMITTEES
of the New York Life and Mutual Life
policy holders association met in the
office OF the governor. Insurance Com
missioner Young, Jas. II. Pou, Rev.
DR.. w. c. Tyre, and F. II. Busbee
being present to cast votes for directors
in accordance with instructions given
at meeting Of policy holders on October
18th Vote was cast for directors Of
both the New York Life and Mutual
Life, Of the latter p being in sympathy
with what Is known as the Information
al ticket.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-12-14

Pittsburg, December 12.-Judge Rob
ert S. Fraser handed down his decision
in the famous Hartje divorce case this
afternoon. The petition OF Augustus
Hartje. the muld-milgonaire pape,
manufacturer for divorce from his
wife. Mrs. Mary Scott Hartje, who he
charged with intimacy with Thomas
Nadine, Il former coachman is inclu-
sive, the decision says and in substarti-
alton OF this inclusiveness, Judge
Fraser cites the following points:
The servants stories OF Mrs. Hartle's
wrong doing are quite different than
those based in Mr.. Hartje's petition
The story Of Susie Wagner, a maid,
was grossly exaggerated and built up ::
Mrs. Hartje, perhaps, visited the stable
too often. but her fondneSS for horses
sufficiently explains what might be con-
sidered an indiscretion. The letters
introduced are open to suspicion and
are conclusive OF nothing. Experts
testimony is Of little value. The steal
ing OF the said letters from Nadine S
rooms as testified to. shows those who
produced them to be lawbreakers The
prepOnderance OF testimony shows the
letters were not in Mrs. Hartje's hand
writing. and at the trial Hartje aban-
doned ali his charges except the one
relating to Nadine. The decision does
not refer to the question of alimony
but Mrs. Hartje has a motion pending
in court for the granting OF alimony
The two children, Mary Louise Hartje
and John Scott Hartje, will remain
with their mother. The entire cost of
the proceedings are placed on Mr.
Hartje, and the suit for divorce fled
by his wife will be tried when it is
reported in the regular ORDER
Mr.. Hartje announced that he would
take an appeal.
The divorce case was the most sen
sational ever tried in this city. The
wealth and prominence of the princi-
pals; the ugly charges alleged, and
later. after the trial had begun, nd
ditional charges against Mrs. Hartje,
in connection with a second coachman
Clifford Hooe, a negro, tended to make
the case sensational in the extreme.
Following the Introduction Of the Hooe
incident Mr.. Hartje and a business
friend, John S. Welsohns, togethe-
with Clifford Hooe, the negro, were all
arrested on a charge of conspiracy
Hooe was also charged with perjury,
was convicted. and is now awaiting q
new trial.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-12-14
TO CENTRALIzE IT'S SYSTEM.
Pennsylvania Railroad Buys Control
ling Interest in the Cumberland VAL
lev Road.

Philadelphia, Dec 12.-Reports that
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company is
buying stock of the Cumberland Va ley
railroad were confirmed today by Of
ficials of the former corporation. 1t is
understood that in the purchase Of the
Cumberland Valley stock the Penlsyl
vania is endeavoring to further central
ize it's system by merging with it's own
lines railroads that it controls. The
purchase of additional Cum berland Va
ley stock is being brought about by
the exchange of three shares Of Penn
sylvania stock for one Of Cumberland
Valley While operated indepdently
the Cumberland Valley is an important
part Of the Pennsylvania railroad sys
tenn
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-12-14
COMPLAINTS MADE.
The Murphy Branch Of the Southern
Railway Represented 10 be in Bad
Condition.
Especial 10 The Mescsnger.)


Raleigh, n. c., Dec 12-Specifs com
plants against the Murphy branch Of
the Southern railway having been made
by the Asheville Lumber Exchange, c..
II. Hobbs, of Ashe7ille, and DR.. Louis
Wilson. of Chape! Hill, the corporation
committee, made an inspection Of the
line. This was made by Commissioners
Rogers a year ago, at which time they
promised improvements. bat practically
none have been made. The physical
condition is bad and the lives Of pas
sengers are endangered by steep grades,
sharp curves, short banks, light rails
and many defective ties. In fourteen
days there were twenty deraHments.
There is only one track man to each
two miles of road. The train service
Inadequate, only half the necessary
cars being supplied.
There are seven hundred passengers
daily. Trains arrived late II out OF 81
time There is a deliberate and un-
reasonable daily assignment Of Grip
pied. wornout and powerle5s engines, no
regard for schedules, the service intol-
erable. The commission orders the
Southern to show cause why it is not
liable for penalties for failure to fur
nish cars. The power Of the commits
sion TO enforce schedules, have safe
road bed and require conveniences in
general, is limited, and it will consider
these subjects in its recommendations
to the legislature.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-12-14
DIFFERENCE OF OPINION.
Judge and District Attorney Vary in
Their Construction of the Rate Law

Chicago, Dec. 12.-Distrtct Attorney
Sims resumed today before Judge K. NJ
Lands, his arguments in answer to the
demurrer of the Standard Oil Company
Of Indiana to the indictments charging
the company with accepting conces-
sions from railway companies in viola
ton of federal laws. The argum ent
brought out difference of opinion be-
tween the district attorney and Judge
Landis regarding the ground covered
by the rate law and like difference Of
opinion regarding the moment at which
an act of congress becomes a law
In speaking OF the rate law, Judge
Landis said that he had never seen the
rate law, but from Impressions gather
ed from articles published in news
papers at the time the law was passed
he had the idea that the rate law took
the place of all previous interstate reg
ulations.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-12-14
Southern Finds it Difficult to
Maintain Schedule,
TO TAKE EFFECT IN JANUARY
Croadcd Condition of Single Track
Lines and Doublc Track Work the
Causc-President Finley Believes the
Public VIII be Satisfied With the
Changc-Operating Divisions TO be
Shortened

Washington, Dec 12.-It is learned
from President Finley Of the Southern
Railway Company, that owing to the
crowded condition of some Of its single
track lines, and the double track work.
including the revision Of grades and
alignment, now under way for the pur-
pose Of relieving the crowded condition
OF the present single track, the South
ern Railway Company finds it difficult
to maintain the schedule Of some of it's
passenger trains, as now scheduled and
viii III consequence, in the early part Of
January ensuing revise these schedules
putting them on the basis of slower
speed, with the expectotion of being
able to maintain them, and believing
that under the circumstances this ar
rangement will be more satisfactory to
the public In this connection Presi-
dent Finley says: The double track
work is being vigorously pushed, and
On other sections of the road where
double track work is not now under
way, but where traffic is heavy, passing
tracks are being put in, and those al
ready in extended, in order to facili-
tate the movement Of trains, all such
passing track work being done with
the ultimate object of utilizing it as
double track when double track work
may be undertaken in these localities.
"The Improvement in passenger train
movement will naturally improve tie
movement Of freight trains.
''The Southern Railway Company is
arranging TO shorten its operating
divisions, increasing the number from
4 to 81, each one Of these divisions to
be in charge Of a superintendent Men
now in the districts will be promoted
TO the additional positions thus created.
This arrangement, it Is believed will
result IL increased efficiency, and will,
it is further believed, promote the mu-
jtalal interest Of the public and the COM
pany.
TN the arrangements referred to, the
company is developing and making eff
fective policies initiated by it's late
president"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-12-14
The CasselLne's Troubles.

Paris, Dec. 12.-The arguments o.
counsel for the Castellane creditors
were finished today before the tribunal
of first instance OF the Seine. A de-
cision will be rendered shortly
Maitre Bonnet, for the creditors. cen
tended to the end that Madame Gould
was under obligations 10 settle Z E
bills for extrayagances which both b
her ex-husband from ruin and dis
honor
Maitre Cruppi, for Madame Gould, in
sisted that the legitimate bills would
be paid, but that it would be unjust
I'd saddle On her the responsibility TO-
the counts follies.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-12-14
,OUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
! i-c:.:S'::tiTe, Executive and Judicial Ap-
preparation Bills Under Considerp-

Washington, Dec. 12.-Tne house to-
day began the consideration OF the leg
Islative and, executive and judicial ap-
preparation bill by paragraphs and
completed 81 pages Of the bill before
adjournment Several hours were con-
sumed in debating an amendment re-
ferring to simplified spelling with the
result that the original provision On
that subject was eliminated and an
other amendment adopted. The new
provision instructs the public printer
TO use the orthography generally reog-
nized by the standard dictionaries
When the item in the bill Carrying
an appropriation for clerks 10 members
was reached in the house Mr.. Under
wood (Alabama) offred an amendment
making the pay OF clerks $1,000 ~ Il
has been. The present bill fixss lie
salaries at 1880.
On rising vote the amount repo led
by the committee was retained. oniy IL
voting with Mr. Underwood TO- fcduc-
ton.
Representative Smith, of Texas. in
troduoed bill today requiring railways
to furnish cars promptly to shippers
Of live stock. a resolution Was also in
sroduceh b. Representative Stephens.
Of Texas. calling for report TO con-
gress by the interstate commerce on
complaints By live stoc shippers con-
cerning the shortage OF cars
The house adopted the concurrent
resolution 20 adjourn fer the Christmas
holidays on December %. TO reconvene
January 3.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-12-14
IT'S DOORS CLOSED.
OF WaYnesbIrg, Pa. Goes into the
Hands of Receiver.

Washington, Dec. 12-The Farmers
and Drovers National Bank of Waynes-
burg, Pa, was closed today by direc-
ton Of the comptroller of the currency,
and National Bank Examiner John r.
Cunningham has been appointed re-
ceiver.
A statement issued by the comptroll-
er of the currency says that the hank
has been in an unsatisfactory cOndi-
ton for some time, and that it's lawful
money reserve has been continuously
deficient notwithstanding repeated al
monitions and an official notice to make
it good.
The statement says:
"Its liabilities for re-diseounts Lave
largely exceeded the amount Of its
capital stock in violation Of law and IN
disregard Of the comptrollers repeated
instructions to reduce such liabilities
to lawful limits. The examiner has dis
covered that those re-discountS are 3ev-
eral hundred thousand dollars greater
than the amount shown by its books
and reports to the comptroller. The
books and sworn reports OF condition
have been found by the examiner to be
so falsified as to be wholly unreliable
It's checks and drafts have been recent
IL dishonored and the general c0ndi-
ton of the bank is such aS to warrant
an assumption Of insolvency and t.
Justify the comptroller in closing i
DOORS
The bank had capital Of s2O0 6al
and the last statement of the reaOUrtre
and liabilities made TO the comptroller
showed totals Of $685., ,474 respet t.veiy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-12-14
Adopt Preamble to Constitution

Guthrie, Okla, Dec 12.-The consti-
tutional convention which has been de-
batting what name to give deity IN the
new constitution or whether a supreme
being should be named at all, today
unanimously adopted the following
preamble:
Invoking the guidance Of Almighty
God in order to secure and perpetuate
the blessing of liberty, to secure Just
and rightful government. to promote
mutual welfare and happiness, we the
people of Oklahoma do ordain and es-
tablish this constitution"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-12-14
ReDOrts Erroneous.

San Francisco, Dec. 12.-In reporting
a fire in the lumber district CT December
Z. it WIS enormously stated that the
Union Lumber Company Of this city
suffered a severe loss. While the yards
Of the lumber company were threatened
the fire did nou reach them and the
company suffered no loss whatever.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-12-14
CIVIC FEDERATION
Began Its Fifth Annual Ses-
sion Yesterday.
PROMINENT MEN PRESENT
Many important Subjects Will be:
Considered.

AildrcS> Made. BY pr >tteut
august Bclmont-Crsed appoint
mcnt oi Committee 10 Inv sticate
Pohicms Growing out of AccumuIa-
ttioR Of Great Fortunc.-Incomc and
inherent Tan TO be Considered
Other Matters of Public Interest vii,
be Discussed
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-12-14

Judge Decides In Favor Of thu. Wife.
Children viii Remain With Their
Mothcr-Eartire COST OF Proceed
inss Placed on Ifartie-The Case the
Most Sensational One Ever Tried 1,
Pittsburg.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-17

''Look a-here," said Uncle Reuben to
me one day as he Strengthened up on
his hoe in the cornfeld and looked at
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-17
Sioux Descended from JAMS.

DIR. Charles A. Eastman, our civil
lied abOrgine- American fellow citizen
from Amherst, Mass, told a Detroit
audience that the Sioux tribe undoubt-
edly were descended from the Japan
ese. The names Of many of the Jap
anese battleships are, he said, prac-
tically Sioux names so little changed
as readily to be recognized. In CON
nection with the theory it is interest
ing to recall that a member of anOtlr
er tribe of North American Indians
is said to have found in the Philip
pine colony at the st. Louis exposition
representatives of one Of the savage
races of the archipelago whose Ian
guage he understood with little diff.
ficulty.-Detroit Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-17
II VERITABLE
DEATH VALLEY
1t Is In the leland Of JoUa. and
None GE1bo Enters 1t
Returns.

Though the fabulous stories of the so
called deadly upas tree of the island Of
Java long since have been disprOved,
yet there exists in the far interior of
which is known as the Guervo upas or
valley of poison, or of death, equally
fatal to man, beast or bird, says the
Louisville Herald.
Alexander Loudon, a well known eX-
plorer, has succeeded in visiting this
place of terror He had heard that
about three miles from Batur was a
valley which no person could approach
without FORGETTING his life and that the
skeletons of human beings and all sorts
of birds and beasts covered the bottom
of the valley.
Accordingly, Loudon started Off, ac-
companied by a friend and some ma.
tives, taking with them two dogs and
some fowls.
con arriving at the foot of the noun
tain," he writes, 1--WE left our horses
and scrambled up the side of hill full
a quarter of a mile holding on by the
extended roots and branches of trees,
and we were a good deal fatigued be-
fore we got up, the path being very
steep and slippery from the heavy
rains during the night.
"When within few yards of the val
ley we experienced strong, nauseOus,
Sickening and suffocating smell, but on
coming close to the edge the smell
ceased. We were now lost in astonish-
ment at the awful scene below us. The
valley was about a half mile in cir
conference, oval, the depth from thir-
ty to thirty-five feet, the bottom quite
fiat, no vegetation, a few large river
stones, and the whole covered with
the skeletons of human beings, tigers
pigs, deer, cocks and a great variety
of birds and beasts. We could not per-
ceive any vapOr or opening in the
ground, which appeared to be of hard
sandy substance. The sides of the val
ley, from the top to the bottom, were
covered with vegetation, trees, shrubs
etc. 1t was now proposed by one of the
party to enter the valley, but at the
spot where we were this was difficult
at least for me, as false step would
have been fatal and no assistance could
be given.
1--WE lighted our cigars, and, with the
assistance of a bamboo, we descended
to within eighteen feet of the bottom
Here we dial not experience any diff
Guilty in breathing, but felt sickening
nauseous smell. A dog was now
fastened to the end of bamboo eight
cen feet long and sent in. We had oul
watches in our hands, and in fourteen
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-17

seconds he fell on his back. He did
not move his limbs Or look around, but
continued to breathe eighteen minutes
I'VE then sent in another, or, rather,
he got loose from the bamboo and walk
ed in to where the other dog was lying.
He then stood quite still and never
moved his limbs afterward, though he
continued to breathe for seven minutes.
We then tried a fowl, which died in a
minute and a half. We threw in an
other, which died before touching the
ground.
"On the opposite side of the valley is
a large stone, near which is the skele-
ton of a human being who must have
persisted on his back, With his right
arm under his head. From being ex-
posed to the weather the bones were
bleached as white as ivory. l was anx-
lOus to get this skeleton, but l soon
found that any attempt to get at ii
would be madness.
The human skeletons are supposed
30 have been rebels, who had been pur.
sued from the main road and had tax
en- refuge in the difficult valleys. a
wanderer cannot know his danger til
he is in the valley, and, once there, he
has not the power or presence of mind
TO return
The valley being in the center of q
volcanic region there can be little doubt
that the cause of death is attributable
to carbonic acid gas, which, escaping
from assures in the ground, collects in
the bottom Of the valley.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-17

The most reliable preparation for
kidney troubles on the market is
Foley's Kidney Cure. J. T. Bennett.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-17
Wearing Hats to Church.

The question of women wearing hats
In church recalls the fact that men
also formerly wore theirs at worship.
Pepys shows that in the seventeenth
century both men and women wore
their hats to worship. "To church, %
he writes, "and heard a simple fellow
open the praise Of church musique,
and exclaiming against men wearing
their hats on in the church." Later
he notes that he saw a minister
preach with his hat off, which ]
never saw before" The hat was then
an integral part of both male and fe-
male costume, and Pepys catches "a
strange cold in the head by fiinging
off my hat at dinner. New York
Tribune.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-17

Have you been betrayed by promises
of quacks, swallowed pills and bottled
medicine without results except a
damaged stomach. To those we offer
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea. 80
cents. j. Il. Bennett.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-17
The Supreme Test.

The French Baron Rothchild once
had in his service a valet named
Alphonse- first class, but an acknowl-
edged red" This valet obtained per.
mission once a week to attend meet
ings of his socialist lodge.
Suddenly the baron noticed tina.
Alphonse no longer desired this off
night, inQuiring' into the cause, was
Informed that the Wallets late socialist
colleagues had worked out a calcula-
ton that, if all the wealth Of France
were divided equally per capita, each
individual would be the possessor OF
1900 francs.
Monsieur" said Alphonse With
dignity, Il resigned. l have 5000
francs. Judge.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-17
A Chinese Rite.

Who has seen a Chinaman's queue
-"pigtail," you probably call it? Most
of you, l expect. But how many
know that when a little Chinese boy
starts to grow his queue it is just as
great an event in his life as it is when
an American boy dons his first pair
of trousers.
Very proud of his queue is the
young Chinaman, and he puts it to
many queer uses. Surely one of the
queerest is when he employs it to
strike an arc or draw a circle in his
geometry class. Don't you think the
Chinese schoOlboy is lucky? If Young
America loses his compass and has
no string handy. there is nothing for
him to do but ''flunk" in his geometry.
Philadelphia North American.