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The Washington times., 1906-10-17
FIGHT TO CONTROL
ILLINOIS CENTRAL
Hartman Pitted Against
Vanderbilt-AStor-Fish
Combination.
WIZARD FEELS CONFIDENT
Defeated Before in Attempt TO Gust
Fish From Presi-
dency.

CHICAGO. H.. Oct. I7.-At noon to-
day IN the office Of the directors Of the
Illinois Central Railway In Chicago, a
fight 10 the finish for the control Of
that system will be started.
=. II. Hartman. wizard Of railroad
finance. defeated one year ago in his
effort 20 Dust Stuyvesant Fish from the
presidency O. the corporation. is again
On mis- way from the East 10 give rne
Vanderbilt Astor-FIsh combination bat
tie, and Hartman this time feels sure
Of victory
Also coming West. TO be present at the
annual meeting OF the shareholders.
but not IN company with 8Ir. Hartman.
are John Jacob Astor, and Cornelius
Vanderbilt They will stand shoulder
10 shoulder with Mr. Fish in the night.
and both sides are confident OF victory.
Another Battle on Hand.
Incidental TO the fight for the rail-
road when the big men" of finance are
battling for millions, every principal
IN the party. including Vanderbilt. rep
resenung the Vanderbilt family Of New
York, and John Jacob Astor. owner uf
millions, viii be arrested If they set
foot In Chicago.
II service can be made on them the
millionaire party viii have 10 suspend
The battle for the road, and appear he
fore Justice Martin 10 show cause why
they should Overcharge. as alleged, half
a dozen down State merchants In their
freight bills.
Awaiting to Serve Papers.
Constables armed with the proper
papers awaited the arrival Of the special
train bearing the party all night. and
others VIII wait uH after II o'clock
this morning TO serve the papers.
Hartman. Fish. Vanderbilt. and Ast7r
are wanted 10 go on the witness stand
in u suit brought against the Illinois
Central Railway by the Illinois State
Audit Company.
The complainarts. who represent A.
NJ. and a. L. Terwilliger. of Cham
paign; H G. Beatty & Co, Clinton;
J. y. Balor, Clinton; Stowe Brothers,
Pulaski Kent Brothers & Hopkins.
Paxton ard J. c. Boyd & Co, Lincoln,
all in the State of Illinois. have brought
suit claiming that they have been over
charged in their freight bills,
The Washington times., 1906-10-17

Miss Ida Gertrude Smallwood. daugh-
ter Of Mr. and Mrs. John +. Smallwood
12ll street. southeast. and Guy Mil
lard Yost VIII De married tonight at
the Wilson Memorial Church al ;
o'clock by the Rev. Z. Holmes Lamar.
The bride. who is 10 be given TN mar
riage by her father, will have as her
maid or honor Miss Emma Viola Tur-
ner. and the best man will be an uncle
OF the bride. Riley A Hunt.
There viii be no wedding reception
tonight, as the young couple Will leave
The city almost Immediately after the
ceremony, but upon their return TO
Washington. next Thursd -y. they viii
hold q large reception an their future
home, l004 Pennsylvania avenue south
east
The Washington times., 1906-10-17

The home of MT. and Mrs. William
Mattern BObb was the scene at S o o'clock
last night of the wedding of their daugh-
ter. Miss Jennie Elizabeth BObb, and
William Leonard Thurber. The Rev. +.
Holmes Lamar was the officiating cier-
Eyman-
Palms and cosmos formed the dec0ra-
tious throughout the house, and Mrs
Morris X. Peck played the Lohengrin
Bridal Chorus" as the party entered
the drawinE-room and proceeded 20 the
bay-WindOW. where the ceremony was
performed in a bower Of palms. During
the ceremony Mrs. Peck rendered apprO-
pirate selections.
Miss Bobb, who was unattended. wore
The Washington times., 1906-10-17
PRESIDENTS WHO
HAVE TRAVELLED
General Washington Knew
But Little About Out
side World.

In the sense of having sojourned
abroad even Washington was a trav-
elcd man, though be went outside the
United States but once. That was
when. in his youth, he accompanied
Lawrence Washington in tour Of the
West Indies. which the latter made in
the vain hope of restoring his health
But of Washington's associates.
both of his prime and his later life,
many were distinguished foreigners.
and his quick perception Of the trend
of European affairs was undoubtedly
stimulated by his cosmopolitan dcqualn-
tanceshiP. In the course of the EeV9lu-
ton Washington could draw FOR liEoT-
nation on the stores OF The EXPERIENCES
Of Lafayette: Rochambeau, Count ,I
sen. koSciuskO and Steucen, two Drill
liant Frenchmen, gifted Swede, Ishl-
Gus Pole and a most ObSerNant Ger
man. Washington was visited aItef tiie
Revolution by most foreigners traNelnS
in this country. He did not need TO go
10 Europe. Europe came 10 him.
Saw the World.
Oar second and third presidents.
Adams and jefferson, had seen much Of
the great world" abroad They knew
it at first hand Roth had heeH diplo-
mats, and jefferson at least a close stu
dent Of the social conditions Of Europe
on the eve Of the French Revolution.
Madison appears TO have heen ID nome
staying mar, but James Monroe. who
succeeded Madison, was twice in France
once as minister and once as special
envoy. His name viii ever be associ-
ated with The Louisiana purchase. He
also carried on important neEolldtlohs
in Great Britain and Spain. whicn made
him familiar with the society Of Lon
don and Madrid.
John Quincy Adams may be described
as travel bred from bCyhOd lie was at
school in Paris when but eleven years
old, and in his subse quent diplomatic ca
reeT he acquired a knowledge Of Europe
which few Americans OF his time could
The Washington times., 1906-10-17

rival london. Berlin. st. Petersburg
were fam liar cities tc him. He watched
at close range the great game on the
European chess-bOard, and when he Ee-
came Secretary Of state simply moved
from one department Of diplomacy 10
Martin Van Buren, was the next Of
our Presidents 10 gain a foreign expert
enCe. He was our minister To Great
Britain just long enough to feel the
whole bitterness of a forced recall when
the Senate refused 10 confirm hts nom
inat0n. His martyrdOm helped toward
making him President, however, great
Is to the Chagrtn of those -io thought
they had put an ineffaCeaH.e NumllIa-
ton upon him william HeEIv Harri-
son was occupying diplomatic post in
south America when Jackson was In
augurated, and "Tippecanoe" did not
save him from removal.
Many Travelled.
Not until sixteen years after Van Blu
ren went out Of the White House did
we have a President who had known
the Old World BY travel and residence
Buchanan had been at one time our
minister TO St Petersburg. and later
had represented us at the court OF St
James. Although the facilities for EG-
rOpean travel were greatly improved af-
ter 1850. OF all our Presidents since Bu-
chauan, Roosevelt is the only one who
appears 10 have acquired familiarity
with Europe by travel previous TO be
coming a Presidential candidate Fu-
rope, indeed. seems to have been consid-
cred the resort of eX-Presidents. Fill
more, Pierce. and Grant Travelled exten-
stvelv In the Old World and BENJAMIN
Harrison went abroad as chief counsel
for Venezuela before the arbitration tri-
bunal Pierce Taylor. and Grant are
to be included among Presidents who
had been beyond our borders before
their candidates.. for military service
carried them to Mexico
The emphasis which A1r Brvan's
friends are placing upon his extensive
foreign travels as a qualification for the
Presidency suggests that ne occuuants
or that Office have been thus favored
more than would he generally supposed.
especially the Presidents of the earlier
half Of the century. VIXEN travel was
much less general than nov. No Presi-
dent had ever beHn around the world
before his election 20 office, 90 be sure.
and there are no immediate signs that
a precedent VIII be establishd.
The Washington times., 1906-10-17

returned TO the city
a reception was held at the residence
of Mrs Addie Mcfarland, $40 X street
southeast on Monday October 10. to
celebrate the marriage of her youngest
daughter, Miss LCttle Gertrude MCFar-
land. OF this city, 10 Thomas Brown,
formerly of London, now of the United
States Navy The wedding took place
al y o'clock Saturday evening, October
l&. at Rockville, Nd. The bridesmaid
was Miss GOldie Avey, Of Washington.
and the grOomSman, g. oliver, of Rock
vile. The bride was attired in travel
ing costume. The marriage being pri-
vate. only the intimate friends and rel
atives of the family were present at
the reception.
Mrs J. F. Stephenson. formerly Miss
Dollie FlaJJ of New Philadelphia, and
Miss ROsaHe Sperry. of Shelburue Falls
Mass. are visiting their relatives Mr.
and Mrs. \. f. SDerry, 1i5- Q street.
Mrs. r. J. Hoddes announces the en-
gagement OF her daughter. Miss Rose
Hoddes, to Samuel Aiken.
Mrs. F. s. Benson accompanied by
her guest, Mrs LiSchen NJ. Miller. of
Oregon, is spending the week in New
York.
Dr.. and Mrs. Edgar p. Copeland viii
apartment in the Rockingham. I,'urs-
day evening, from 10 10 o'clock.
Captain and Mrs. s. /. Allen and
family, after spending a pleasant sum
mer at their country home and the Nir-
ginid Springs have returned to their
residence on Church street
Mrs NJ A. Allen Holmes has also
returned To Washington. after sum
mer at her fathers country place in
Virginia. Mrs Holmes is a gifted musi-
clan, and has studied extensively in
this country and abroad.
Major John r. Williams returned
Monday TO his apartment at the Con-
liamS and her daughters. Major WI
Iams, who has been in the Philippines
Tor some time. spent last winter with
his family TT the Connecticut and II is
hoped they VIII be in Washington
again this season.
Senator Dupont, of Delaware, has
leased an apartment at the COnnecti-
cut. and VIII make his home there dur
ing the Congressional season
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. p. Day. prominent
New York society people, are in Wash
mgtOn cor a few weeks, and are making
their home at the Connecticut for the
time.
The Washington section Of the Council
OF Jewish Women held its first meeting
of the season, presided over by the
president. Mrs Charles Goldsmith. yes
terday afternoon in the vestry rooms Of
The Washington times., 1906-10-17

liant, has recently been appointed by
his government 70 the post OF minister
TO Mexico. Mr.. dc Wollant and Nine.
de Wollant. who WAS before her mar
riage Miss Helen Tisdel. OF Washing
ton, are now az their Russian home,
bat VIII leave there within the next few
weeks Tor the formers post at the Mex
lean capital.
The Washington times., 1906-10-17

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel wellington
Briggs announce the marriage Of their
daughter, Eda May, TO Paul Delsvcn
Frost The ceremony took place on
Monday October 15 in this city. The
bride Onc bridegroom will be at some
after November /. at 928 Westminster
street
The Washington times., 1906-10-17

Mr. and Mrs. George \. Ramby have
issued inyitstio 20 the marriage Of
their daughter. Mary Elizabeth. TO
Clement FuI Brooke The ceremony
viii take place October q at RosemOnt.
near Silver Spring. Md. the country
home Of the brides parents.
The Washington times., 1906-10-17

Walter Wellmau, who has postponed
his hying trip 10 the North Pole until
next year is expected to return 10 his
home in this city The second week in
next month. Ee is now he Paris.
The Washington times., 1906-10-17

Miss Helen Bache. Of this city, sailed
for Germany today with her brother.
Wilbur Bache. They Will remain in
Berlin for an indefinite period. Miss
Bache studying art and Mr. Bache
STUDYING music The latter has been
the baritone sOlolst ia the choir or St.
Johns Episcopal Church.
The Washington times., 1906-10-17

Miss Anne Paulding will return 70
Washington about the 1st OF December.
The Washington times., 1906-10-17

Madame DO AmaraI. wife Of the first
secretary OF the Brazilian embassy, ana
her sister. Miss GOdinhO. returned yes
terday 70 the Portland, where they will
make their home this winter. Mrs. do
Amaral and Miss GOdinhO have spent
the summer az Narragansett and other
Northern resorts.
The Washington times., 1906-10-17

II the cold feet of the men ahead Of
the game in all Of the poker Seances
in Chicago on an average night We're
TO be collected IL would give a frigidity
equal 10 that OF 81 400 pounds of ar
tlhcial ice manufactured annually IN
The Washington times., 1906-10-17

Senator Dupont, Of Delaware, has
leased an apartment at the Connect
cut and viii make his home there dur
ing the Congressional season.
The Washington times., 1906-10-17

Dr. and Mrs. Jesse B. Schafhirt have
returned 10 the city.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-20
Victim of Assassin

Frank Steunenberg. former Govern
or of Idaho, was killed Dec. 80, by
bomb at his nome, in Caldwell. A
dynamite bomb had been placed at
his front gate with contrivance that
exploded the bomb as he entered. He
lived twenty minutes
There is no known reason for the
outrage, but it is charged to some
members of the famous inner circle
of the Occur d'Alene rioters, whom
he prosecuted relentlessly in 1899.
while he was governor
Mr.. Steunenberg was governor of
Idaho from 1897 to 1901, having been
twice elected. He was born in Iowa
forty-four years ago, and had been
in Idaho since 1887. He leaves a
widow and three children
Gov. Steunenberg was a picturesque
character, standing seven feet in his
stockings. He never wore a necktie,
and his appearance created something
of a sensation on Broadway during
his first visit to the East, made in
1899.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-20
Cures Cancer, Blood Poison and
Srrofsrrz

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eruptions, pfmples, ulcers, swollen
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take Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. b..
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worst humors suppurating swell
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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-20
Expert Women Mathematieians.

1t has been said that women are
not mathematician. That assertion
is disprcven by the fact that three
women are engaged in the work of
making computations for the nautical
almanac bureau, under the direct con-
troll Of the navy department. These
women are Mrs. Elizabeth Brown Da-
Wis, who is responsible for many of
the important tables giving the dec
linations of the sun, ETC., by which
mariners steer their courses, and
Me-, Janet McWilliams and Mrs
HM. H. Hedrick, who have done
- important work for the alma
nae. ~
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-20
Long Time in Literary Harness.

John Bigelow, IL. D., who was our
civil war consul and minister in Paris,
passed his eighty-eighth birthday re-
Gently. He wrote a great Franklin
biography, a life of Samuel ]. Tilden
and a life of William Cullen Bryant.
He was Tilden's executor and trustee
and president of the library founda-
ton and he helped to found the Cen
fury club. He tried hand at journal
ism for twelve years on the Evening
Post. He has written books about
Hayti in English and about the
United States in French and he has
just published a pamphlet on Glad
stones attitude during the civil war.
1t is a sort of challenge to Morley.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-20
Electricity From Coal,

In the opinion of Thomas A. Edison,
wonders are yet to be unfolded in the
world of electricity.
I'VE are cropping on the verge of
another great epoch in the worlds
history" he said in an interview at
his laboratory in West Orange. 1T
would not surprise me any morning
to wake up and learn that some one,
some group of the 100000 scientific
men who are investigating all over the
earth, has seized upon the secret of
electricity by direct process, and be-
gun another practical evolution in
human affairs.
1T can be done. 1t will be done
I expect TO see it before die.
THE first great change in the pro-
duction of electricity will abolish
carrying coal for that purpose" he
said. Instead of digging gross ma
terial out of the earth. loading it on
cars, and carrying it. say, 500 miles,
there to put it under a boiler and burn,
and SO get power. we shall set up
plants at the mouth of mines, gener-
ate power there, and transmit it
wherever it is needed by copper
WIRE
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-20
Justin Mccarthy Hard Worker.

The most remarkable thing about
the career of Justin Mccarthy. who
has been brought prominently to the
front again, both in literature and in
politics, is the tremendous amount of
work he has been able to accomplish.
Novelist. journalist, historian, politi-
clan and party leader, he has found
time to travel widely and to cultivate
delightful social relations with most
of the leading literary, artistic and po-
litical people of his time. And in
spite of the energy and thought de-
voted to political causes he has been
continually pushing on some special
and important literary undertaking of
engrossing interest, involving an
enormous amount of labor. How he
has accomplished it all it is said that
no one except perhaps his wife has
ever found out.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-20
Has Evolved New INDUSTRY.

Near the small town of Liegnitz. in
Sllesia, lies the village Knitz, which is
the possessor of a small lake, having
a rush and reed covered island nest
ling in its center. This island has been
selected by a native dealer as breed
ing ground for seagulls and thousands
may now be seen there The eggs of
these birds are held in much esteem
as dainties. The demand is so large
and the quantity of eggs secured is
so considerable that the owner is max
ing money quickly. The birds do not
seem to object to the removal of their
eggs. but lay all the faster to make
up for the loss.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-20

Russian Peasants Are Beginning to
- Think of Conditions.


In describing Russian village in
his article on Russian Peasant
Riots" in Everybody's Magazine, Ern-
est Poole says: For an hour We
wandered through the hummocky,
slpshy, ksteaming streets; watching
crowds of peasant men and women
who had come into town to market.
The faces of these peasants were
broad and dull and coarse. They
were clothed in rags; the handker-
chiefs on the women's heads were old
and spattered with mud; the sheep
skin coats were torn and foul. We
saw hunger-always hunger-in the
weak, shutting steps of men, in the
weary faces of women, in hollow, ane-
mic cheeks of little children. They
stood about by hundreds and by thou
sands in the mud. Scowls and
gloomy silence. Only here and there
groups would suddenly collect. In an
instant hands would wave and voices
rise in wild anger. Then the soldiers
with their bayonets, or the Cossacks
with their whips, would rush in shout
ing abuse, and the peasants would
scatter, scowling, shivering- thinking.
Such thinking is the Russian revolu-
tion.''
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-20
New York Has Oldest PuoiIist.

James Kelly, 80 years old, a resi-
dent of Old Bridge, N. j., is probably
the oldest living pugilist. Kelly be-
came famoussin 1855, when he defeat
ed Jonathan Smith with bare
kluckles in a fight that took place at
Melbourne, Australia 1t took 104
rounds to decide the question of SUI
premacy, the men standing in the
ring under broiling sun for six hours
and fifteen minutes. Kelly was so
severely sunburned that he spent sew
eral weeks in the hospital before he
was able to move He was born in
Ireland, and in his time travelled with
old gladiators like Heenan, Savers,
Yankee Sullivan, John Morrissey and
Tom Hyers. The old fellow is still
in good health and attributes his
long life to his early athletic train
ing.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-20
AT THE COUNTRY STORE.


got the place he raised bigger crops
than anybody in the township an his
stock took prizeSRg'in an ag'in at the
fairs. Bert got tol'able well fixed an
the girls begun maxim a set at him.
Still, he don't gay no p'tickler atten-
ton to EN- All his spare time he put
in at Pete's shop or he'd come around
an asst me to give him tune on the
OF fiddle. Wunst in a while he'd send
off an buy him horn or suthin'-
but he never made out to DO anythin'
with EN- in way of playin' EN-
''Fin'ly one night he went to the
lyceum at Willow Bend schoolhouse
an there was a gal there from Fair
fax, over in Atchison county, that was
vis;tin' Lew Meakin's folks. She'd
took lessons on the pianner an Meak-
in hauled over his pianner to the
schoolhouse so's't she could play. 1
was there that night an I'll never
fergit how Bert whistled and stomped
when she pounded out .Silvery Waves
on that OF square of Lewis. l saw she
was a gal, but she wasn't no spring
chicken, an she was built a good deal
like a white oak fence raiEabout as
long an with corners most any way
you turned her. Her face wouldn't
have been considered SO blame homely
if there had been any homelier ones
around, but there wasn't.
But Bert didn't care nothin' about
that. He jest nachally tried to stomp
a hole in the floor, until she come agin
an give 'em The Maiden's Prayer
Then he raised the roof an conducted
himself disorderly until he got The
Beautiful Blue Danube
Next mornin' he went over to Lew
Meakin's after seed potatoes. He wore
his best clothes an the gal played
'Silvery Waves for him.
"A night or two after that Bert says
to me: You can talk about your horns
an your fiddles an guitars, but to my
notion the pianner beats 'em ALL
1.-TWO months after that he married
the gal an you could drive past the
house most any time O. day or night
after that an you could hear 'Silvery
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-20

~
one that the uniform of a soldier is
mark of honor which must be respect
ed in the United States.'
1t is also stated that a sentence
more severe than the one given is
warranted.
The theater incident took place last
October. Sergeant Patrick F. Butler
of the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth
company, Coast artillery, which was
Taylor's company, was seated IN front
of his superior officer at the perform
ance. Lieut.. Taylor was not in uni
form. Nearby were a party of friends
whom he knew, but who were not
members of his party. 1t was in or
der to make a vacancy for one Of
them that he told the sergeant to
move. His words to the under Of
icer, according to the printed YER
dict of the court martial, were:
Sergeant, you had better get
your ticket changed and get your
seat somewhere in the rear or words
to that effect"
Lieut.. Taylor pleaded not guilty to
the charge of conduct to the prejudice
of good order and military discipline.
The courts sentence is that the
lieutenant be reduced in rank
twelve files on the lineal lists of first
lieutenants of artillery"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-20
Inventor HolIand,s Propheeies

When John p Holland prophesied
the submarine boat people looked at
him askance and said to one anoth-
er: Isn't it a pity? And he looks
so intelligent. tool" Now Mr.. Hol-
land says that he expects to fly from
his home in Newark to his New York
office within a few months and that
before the year is out any man who
has one of the machines he has in
vented can easily go through the air
at a speed of forty miles an hour with
no more exertion than is required for
walking three miles an hour on land.