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The Greeley tribune., 1906-01-11


ers. Jlm's children were to have the
clean start" that he intended. and
they would have to get 1t here. There
was no money for an exodus and be-
ginning elsewhere.
Aida still crouched beside the long.
even tarpaulin roll that Judith had pre-
pared with hands that knew not what
they did. But now Judith gently rous.
ed her and put in her hand a spade.
Already she herself had begun. But
Aida stared at 1t duly. as II she did
not understand. Then Judith pointed
to something black that had begun to
wheel In the sky. wheel and with each
circular swoop come closer to the roll
of tarpaulin. Then Aida knew. and.
taking the spade, she and Judith began
to dig the grave.
The Greeley tribune., 1906-01-11

she felt cold in the hot, still room.
Then Judith called out, Make papa
send them away"
Your papa amt here, Judith" But
the fight had all gone out of Alida's
voice. 1t was the groan of an animal
in trap.
"Where's papa gone tor"
"Sh-sh, Judith. Topeka, keep your
sister quiet"
1t was absolutely still within and
without for full minute. Then Aida
Heard the showing of shoulders against
the door: Once, twice, thrice the lock
resisted them. The brown bureau
spun across the room like child's toy
The lynchers. bursting in, saw Aida
with her arms around Jim. When the
last hope had gone it was instinct with
her to protect him with her own body.
go In to the kids, old girl; this is no
place for you" And there was that in
his voice that made her obey.
Something Of the glory of old Chief
Flying Hawk riding to battle was N
the face Of his grandson.
Remember. the children amt -
know" he said to his wife. And to the
lynchers. Gentlemen, I'm ready"
The Greeley tribune., 1906-01-11
woman strength. "oh. Jim. you've
h<san n cos1 D,oD IN mp,n

woman strength. "Oh. Jim. you'vs
been a good man to me-"
'Steady-steady" He strained her
close to him. They'd be. by the sound
Of them. on the straight bit Of road
now before the turn. Soon We'll hear
their hoofs ring hollow as they cross
the plank bridge"
His plainsman's faculty was as keen
as ever. His calculation Of the horse
mems distance was made as though he
were the least concerned. All Alida's
courage had gone with the dread thing
at hand.
They're sober, all right enough"
"How do you know?"
They'd be cursing and believing II
they were drunk
The hoofs rang hollow on the little
plank bridge that crossed the ditch
about a stones throw from the door.
Not a word was said either within or
without. The lynchers seemed to have
drilled for their part. There was no
whispering, no deferring to leader,
On they came. SO close that Jim and
Aida could hear the creaking of their
saddles There was the clank of spurs
and the straining Of leather as they
dismounted. Then some one knocked
at the door till the warped boards rat
tied.
Jim could feel the thudding Of Ali
das heart as she clung to him. but
when the knock was repeated new
courage came to her. and she left Jim
and went on her knees close to the
outer wall
Jim, is that you:" she called. And
now every sense was trained to bat
tie. Her voice had even a sleepy ca
dence, as if she had been suddenly
reused.
That won't do at all. Miz Rodney.
We know you got Jim in there just as
certain as we're out here. and We want
him to come out, and Well do the thing
square; otherwise he can take the con-
sequences"
Jim opened his mouth to speak, but
she, still on her knees beside the wall
gained his silence by one supplicating
gesture. There was sleepy, fretful cry
from the room beyond. The noise had
rOuSeu one OF tle clllureQ.
.'Sh-sh, dear" she called. Its only
bad dream. Go to sleep again. Moth
er is here''
Through the warped door came
sounds of the whispering voices with
out, drowned by the shrieking below
of the cattle. There was not breath
of air in the suffocating room. Jim
bent toward Aida:
I'm goin' out to 'em. They'll do it
square over on the cottonwoods. This
rumpus IL only wake the kids"
But she shook her head imploringly
putting her finger to her lips as sign
that he was not to speak. and he had
not the heart to refuse. though know
ing that she made a desperate situa-
ton worse.
"Gentlemen"-she spoke in a low,
distinct voice-"Jim amt here. He's
been away from home five days.
There's no one here but me and the
children. You've woke them up and
frightened them by pounding on the
door. ask you to go away"
''If he amt in there, will you let US
search the house?" 1t was Henderson
that spoke-Henderson, foreman of the
NIX outfit
Il can't have them frightened. Please
take my word and go away"
"Whas er matter, muvvyT called
Judith sleepily. Young Jim was by
this time crying Justify. Only Topeka
said nothing. With the precocity of "A
frontier child she half realized the
truth. She tried to comfort little Jim,
though her teeth chattered in fear AMI
The Greeley tribune., 1906-01-11

Something that had once been u man
inert hands. Il dreamed it all and
came. If l could have dreamed it
sooner.'
Aida did not seem to hear, neither
could she speak. She only pointed
again to the thing beside her
Judith understood. The women had
task to share, and in silence they be-
gan it. The lynchers had done their
work all too well. Again and again
/ the women strove with all their
strength to take down the dangling
parody of man, which in its dead
weight resistance seemed in league
with the forces against them. At last
the thing was done. Down to pale
world that in the haggard gray of
morning seemed to bear in its coun-
tenance something of the pinch of
| death Judith lowered the thing that
had so lately been man. She cut the
rope away from the neck, she straight
ened the wry neck that seemed to wag
in pantomimic representation of the
last word to the lynchers. They'd
have to reckon with him on dark
nights and when the wind walled like
famished wolf and when things not
to be explained lurked in the shadows
of the desert.
The morning stiffness came f!oodinc
into the cup shaped valley like soft,
resistless wave. Something had come
TO the gray old earth--another day,
with all its human gift of JOY and woe
and the earth welcomed it, though it
mad known so many. The sun burst
through the gold tipped aureole of
cloud, scattering far and wide lavish
promises of Il perfect day. The earth
seemed to respond with thrill. No
longer was the pinch of death in her
countenance. The valley, the noun
tains, the Invisible wind, even the dead
cottonwoods, seemed endowed with
throDbing life that contrasted fear-
somely with the terrible nullity of this
thing that once had been Jim Rodney.
Aida had ceased to take any part I'm
the hideous drama She sat ON tho
ground, crouched thing, with glitter
ing eyes. 1t was past conprehension
liiat the sun would shine and the
world go on with her man dead before
her. Judith had become the forcc tl,at
Planned and did to save the family
pride. While her hands were busv
Win preparations for the dead she rn-
iiearsed what she would say to this
aho that one to account for Jin's ab
sehce. The silence of the men who had
done this thing would be us steodfos.
as their own.
And there were the children. Throuoh
all her frantic search for ,birgs IL, ~
louse JUDITH remembered that she
must step softly and not waken tbe
children. With each turn of the screw
rs her numbed consciousness rallied
ana responded afresh to the bidaor,
realization of this thing. there c,,no No
reiease from the tyrannous hold of moi.
y uetail. She remembered that sbe
must be back at noon to hold nos,
once, and there would be the end,ess
comedy to be played once moro viii,
ner cavaliers. They must never sus.
peer from word or look of hers And
there was the dance tonight at tho
nehton ranch. She hid her face In her
nands. All. no, she could nor do tb,s
tnlng. And yet they must not snsnoc,
ene must contrive to give the ,,nnros
s,on unat dim had cheated the rome
les. shs must go and dance and n
need DO dance with his yerv mur,,..
The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1906-12-14

age and divorce should be relegated
to the authority of the national
congress. At present The wide diff
ferences in the laws of the different
states on this subject result in
scandals and abuses; and surely
there is nothing so vitality essential
to the welfare of the nation, moth
ing around which the nation should
bend itself to throw every safeguard
as the home life Of the average citi-
zen. The change would be good
from every standpoint.
When home ties are loosened;
when men and women cease to
regard worthy family life, with
all its duties fully performed, and
all its responsibilities lived up to,
as the life best worth living; then
evil days for the commonwealth
are at hand. There are regions in
our land, and classes of our popu-
lation, where the birth rate has
sunk below the death rate. Surely
it should need no demonstration to
show that willful sterility is, from
the standpoint of the human race,
from he standpoint Of the nation,
the one Sin for which the penalty is
national death, race death; sin
for which there is no atonement; a
sin which is the more dreadful ex-
actly in proportion as the men and
women guilty thereof are i'll other
respects, in character. and bodily
and mental powers, those whom for
the sake of the state it would be
well to see the fathers and mothers
Of many healthy children, we'll
brought up in homes made happy
by their presence. No man, no
woman, can shirk the primary du-
ties Of life, whether for love Of ease
and pleasure, or for any othercause
and retain his or her self-respect.
The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1906-12-14
CHARACTERISTIC
UTTERANCES.
CUlied From the Presidents
Mesa sc.

l'tC - oAlS Cuu OcIlSuUS dill.
American citizenship should be
conferred on the citizens Of Porto
Rico.
The wholequestion ofmarriage
and divorce should be relegated
to the national congress.
Within ten years there has been
an increase in circulation per
capita from $21.41 to $33.OS.
Combinations OF capital, like
combinations of labor, is a neces-
sary element OF our present in
dustrial system.
Let justice be both sure and
swift; but let it be justice under
the law, and not the wild and
crooked savagery of a mob.
The horrors incident to the
employment OF young children in
factories or at work anywhere
are a blot on our civilization.
most earnestly hope that the
bill to provide a lower tariff for,
or else absolute free trade in
Philippine products, will become
Il law.
There is but one safe rule in
dealing with black men as with
white men-reward orpunish the
individual on his merits as an in
dividual.
The free public school, the
the chance for each boy orgirl to
get agood elementary education,
lies at the foundation Of our
whole political situation.
The best Americanism is that
which aims for stability and per-
manency of prosperous citizen
ship, rather than immediate re-
turns on large masses of capital.
1t is neither wise nor right for
a nation to disregard it's own
needs, and it is foolish-and NAV
be wicked-to think that other
nations will disregard theirs.
More and more our people are
growing to recognize the fact
that the questions which are not
merely of industrial but of social
Importance outweigh all others.
In this age of great corporate
and labor combinations, neither
employers nor employees should
be left completely at the mercy
OF the stronger party to a dis
pute.
The only other persons whose
welfare is as vital to the welfare
Of the whole country as is the
welfare Of the wage-earners, are
the tillers Of the soil, the farmers.
Wilful sterility is, from the
standpoint of the nation, from
the standpoint of the human
race, the one sin for which the
penalty is national death, race
death.
recommend to the congress
that an act be passed specifically
providing for the naturalization
of Japanese who come here in
tending to become American citi-
zens.
The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1906-12-14

SilOHiu We ldVOfeu.
We hold that the government
should not conduct the business
OF the nation, but that it should
exercise such supervision as will
insure it's being conducted in the
interests Of the nation.
One Of the most efficient meth
DDS OF averting the consequences.
OF a dangerous agitation, which
is 80 per cent wrong, is to RENE
dy the 20 per cent OF evil as to
which the agitation is well
founded.
1t is not wise that the nation
should ALLEVIATE it's remaining
coal lands. Itshould be our aim
steadily to reduce the number Of
hours OF labor with asagoal the
general introduction OF an eight
hour day.
The law should place the entire
risk of a trade" upon the en-
ployer. 1t is a great social in
justice to compel the employee, or
rather the family of the killed or
disabled victim, to bear the en-
tire burden.
1t must be veritahle calamity
to fail to put a premium upon i'm
dividual initiative, individual ca
pacity and effort, upon the energy,
character and foresight which it is
50 important to encourage in the
individual.
Alaska since it was bought has
yielded to the government $11 ,OOO,-
600 OF revenue, and has produced
nearly $30a,OOO,O0O in gold, furs
and fish. When properly develop
ed it will become in large degree
land of homes.
II must not be supposed that
with the passage of the railway
rate laws it will be possible to stop
progress along the line of increas-
ing the power Of the national gov
eminent over the use of capital in
interstate commerce.
As nation we still continue to
enjoy a literally unprecedented
prosperity; and it is probable that
only reckless speculation and dis
regard Of legitimate methods on the
part of the business world can ma
terially mar this prosperity.
1t must ever be kept in mind
that war is not merely justiiable,
but imperative, upon honorable
men, upon an honorable nation,
where peace can only be obtained
by the sacrifice OF conscientious
conviction or of national welfare.
In dealing with both labor and
capital, with the questions affecting
both corporations and trades unions,
there is one matter more import
ant than aught else, and that is the
infinite harm done by preachers of
mere discomfort.
In particular it would be good
because it would confer on the con-
gress the power at once to deal rad
ically and efficiently with polyga-
my; and this should be done
whether or not marriage and divorce
are dealt with, 1t is neither safe
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-23
Health Board May
Quit Administration

The recent disclosures of corruption
in the Schmitz administration may re-
suit in the resignation of the medical
men composing the Health Board 1t
is said that DR.. Sidney Worth, who was
appointed on the board by grace of
Dr. James Ward, the president thereof.
has expressed his intention to resign
and in all likelihood the designations
of his colleagues will follow should he
start the ball rolling.
Now that Ruef and Schmitz are in
disgrace it is probable that DR. Ward
will sever his connection with the mu-
nicipal Government as president of the
Health Board. which position he has
held ever since Schmitz assumed fun
control of the board.
Forrest s. Ward. at present commits
sary of the City and County Hospital
is a brother of DIR. Ward. Some time
ago the Board of Supervisors created a
commissary department to which
Thomas Gallagher. brother of Super
visor and Acting Mayor Gallagher, was
appointed at a salary of 5000 month
The object of the creation of the de-
partment was to take from the various
departments the power to purchase
necessary supplies. AS Gallagher's de-
partment purchases all the supplies
used by the city institutions, the ne
cessty of Ward acting as commissary
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-23
Lonergan Divulges
Corporation Graft

According to well defined rumor Su-
pervisor Lonergan is the latest member
of that troubled body to seek the limit
.terday the report was current that
Lonergan had told Heney the true
story of the grating of special favors
to the United Railroads, Home Tele-
phone Company and other corporations,
whose petitions were reinforced with
coin of the realm.
The Lonergan leak was hastened by
his babblings to the admiring populace
at Sissons coming TO the ears of Heney.
1t Is claimed that while in his cups ne
boasted to friends at Sissons that he
was pulling down some easy money;
that while Ruef and Schmitz had the
town pretty well sewed up. they did
not have it all.
AS the story from Sissons is told
Lonergan informed his auditors that he
proposed to clean up about $4,000 or
$4,000 during his term of Office and
then shake the dust of San Francisco
from his feet. San Diego, conveniently
close to the State line, was the haven
designated by Lonergan to be gladdened
by his permanent residence after the
San Francisco clean up.
bonergan was around town with his
law yesterday and was fire.
quent visitor to the saloons near Now
ry Hall, where the Supervisors hold
their regular meetings. After aceumu-
iating a state of mind known in the
vernacular as a package, the Super
visor. given to unwise boasting disap-
peared. 1t is believed Ruefs men,
fearing further disclosures, have again
spirited away the Supervisor to retain
him until the firewater lubricant works
out of his tongue.
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-23
Graft Expose Stirs
Police to Action

AS a result of the expose of graft
in connection with the operation of
houses of ill-repute, the police last
night closed the resort at Turk and
Steiner streets The house. owing to
its peculiar location, had entrances N
two police districts.
The sudden awakening of the two
captains to the fact that the place
should be closed resulted in a humor-
Gus circumstance. The entrance to the
building on Steiner street lies in Cap
tain Gleasons district while that on
Turk street comes under the jurisdic-
ton of Captain Mooney. Gleason told
the woman proprietor that she must
close the place or be arrested, and she
Immediately closed the door opening
on his beat. While he stood guard
outside Captain Mooney raided the
place from the -Turk-street entrance.
The women were locked up in the
Bush street station.
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-23
[ ak Collector Countenanced
Fraud in His Office

Lenafan, civil service appointees, re-
FUSED TO do so. Code was suspended on
november for thirty days, but he is
making fight and reports for duty
every day with an attorney.
Despite Nichols loyalty at that criti-
cal time, he was set aside for slaug,-
ter He had a qusrrel with George
benham, his chief deputy. who is near
ana dear to Ruef and Schmitz. The
Grand Jury investigated Nichols office.
ana now. with master stroke of hy-
pocrisy. Ruef has ordered Gallagher to
suspend the Tax Collector.
Another charge to be laid on Nichols
IS that, In violation of the law. he put
all the city checks in the Western Ma
tional Bank, allowing thai institution
to clear them and thus profit on the
money while the clearing house process
was pending. Under the law the
money should have been directly turned
into the city treasury The laxness of
this procedure was made apparent a.
the time Of the Smith scandal.
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-23
TelephoneMoney
Reaches CITY
by Auto
Boast of Student
Gives CleW to
Detectives

Although the Grand Jury has not yet
taken up any of the corporation gratis,
1t is not because the evidence is not in
hand. course of procedure has been
mapped out for the jury and each case
will be taken up in it's turn. One of
the first of these larger cases which
will come before the Grand Jury will
be that Of the Home Telephone Com
pany.
The thoughtless boast of a college
boy has furnished the clew upon which
the evidence in this transaction was
gathered. Wilfred Dole, at Stanford
University, told how he had brought
to San Francisco from Los Angeles in
an automobile for the telephone COM
pany just after the earthquake the sum
of S250,000 in coin. OF this amount
$4,000 went to the city on April %
for the telephone franchise and $4,000
went to the relief committee shortly
afterward. What became of the re-
naming s150,oOO has not yet been ex-
plained. 1t has been charged that a
certain sum went to members of the
Board of Supervisors or their repre-
sentative. 1t has also been reported
that the telephone company asked Ruef
to act as it's attorney. Ruef at first
agreed and said that he thought $751;
600 a proper fee" Later there was
nllCH ana Huel QlQ not appear III the
open as the attorney for the company.
From the words of young Dole the
detectives began to build their case,
and they will soon lay before the Grand
Jury the fruits of their labor. Had
the collegian not made his boast the
detectives would have been unable to
trace the coin.
There were many reasons why the
money should have been transported in
an automobile. Transfer through the
banks was impossible. as ali of the
financial institutions in San Francisco
were closed for long time following
the disaster. For the same reason
transfer by telegraph was impossible.
To have brought the money by train
would have been to invite publicity.
The automobile, therefore, offered at
once the safest and most convenient
method.
1t is positively denied by the attor-
neys of the telephone company that
any money was wrongfully paid in the
transaction.
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-23
Graney Questioned
On City Contracts

Eddie Graney's contract to shoe the
horses of the Fire Department, which
he Inherited from his, father and fur
thered adroitly by politics and close
bidding. was discussed by the Grand
Jury yesterday The jurors had the
honest blacksmith" at hand and as he
and his congenital contract have been
in the public eye so long the body of
inquisitors grew inquisitive. Moreover,
Thomas McGee a rival horseshoer, who
had been fighting Graney around the
Board of Supervisors, has been visiting
Special Agent Burns and is ready to
give testimony that Graney secured the
contract through the board setting the
specifications for the work in such
shape that no one but5Graney could get
the job.
Interspersed with questions on the
Belvedere, about which Graney was un-
duly coy in answering, and on the
fight trust, of which Graney professed
to know little, Heney asked him about
the shoes he has fitted to the horses
which draw the Fire Department ve-
hicles.
How long have you had the con-
tracts for shoeing the horses of the
department."
Twenty years" answered Graney.
Did you always get the contract by
competitive bidding?"
No; for the time prior to the en-
forcement of the charter regulations I
got it through my friendship with Chief
Sullivan and George Maxwell, who, for
fourteen years, was secretary of the
Fire Commissioners" replied Graney
What do you know about McGee and
his charges against your" was asked.
MCGEE has challenged me before the
Board of Supervisors, and l have al
ways got the contracts in spite of him."
Graney answered.
Maxwell came to the Grand Jury
room yesterday afternoon under SUBJ
pena. Later he told the newspaper
men that he had not been called to
testify in regard to the horseshoeing
affair. Maxwell has been out of the
Board of Fire Commissioners for five
years and any possible graft which
might have existed prior to that time
could not be touched now under the
statute of limita tioIs
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-23

mate DID the hght trust have to paw
Ruef or the Supervisors FOR its nri~,f
leges and licenses?'
Graney said that so far as he knew
1t did not. He could only answer FOR
himself. he said
Graney is pendulous witness
swinging on and OF the stand az ne
seeming caprice of the Grand Iur,-
and so his time was short yesterday
morning He was told. however. that
there would be a more rigid investfga-
tion made into the matter OF the excI1I-
sive rights secured by the Associated
Athletic Clubs. which is the legal name
of the fight trust. Graney is to have
another spell Of Questioning this morn
ing No other fight promoter was on
the stand yesterday