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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01

Every one here. In town knows This
automobile. But, do you think if he
wanted you tonight he would stop
a block away and send his machine
back? No, sir He would go straight
to your door. loot, toot, and ring
the bell"
Never Wore a Disguise.
Burns himself has this to say about
his work as detectives: .,
sPeople seem to think that there is
something uncanny about detective
work. They imagine we so around
held out promise of ultimate immu
nifty every man jack of them was will
ing to squeal.
1t looked easy. All things are easy
to those who know how. Burns has
not been doing detective work for
nothing these 20 years.
Counterfeiters Caught.
An illustration of careful detective
work is Burns method in running
down two counterfeiters from Gen.
trail America. They were Gen. Freder-
leo Mora and Ricardo de Requisens.
These two men had been making
counterfeits in the United States of
the 100 peso notes of Costa Rico. Our
government was asked to apprehend
the counterfeiters, and Burns was en-
trusted with the job. Others had
worked at it before, but all Burns had
to start with was sofa wrapped up
in burlap in which 100000 of the
counterfeit notes had been stuffed for
shipment to Costa RIGA. On the bur.
lap was the mark, Xxx 1884"
Starting from this, Burns found that
in packing a shipment of overalls from
factory in Newburg. 1t was the
shipping number. In Newburg Burns
| went over the books of the factory
and found that those particular over
alls had been shipped to a dry goods
store in Long Island City. There they
told him that they had recently sold
! piece of burlap to an old lady by
the name of Mrs. Chevins. 1t did not
look promising.
But, when Burns learned that Mrs
Chevins had a son-in-law, one Ricar
do de Requisens, who hailed from Cos
ia RIGA, he thought the trail was get
ting warm.
De ReQuisens was living with 9
young widow from Pittsburg at the
house of his mother, Mrs. Chevins
Burns placed De Requisens and the
widow under arrest. Then he sent
one of his men to the Jail with an al
legged message to the effect that if he
would produce the plates of the coun
| terfeit notes the government would
abandon his prosecution.
After the messenger left, De Requis
ems was visited by his mother-in-law
| When she left him Burns followed hel
to her home in Long Island City
! Through a window he watched her en-
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SMI[l5[1[5D> STILL
THE DIFFERENCE,

Yes, I have heard of him. Owes
everybody, gets drunk and goes
whooping around the streets. Keeps
a worthless cur and has fondness
for telling stories beginning Say,
nave you heard this one? If you have,
call me off,. Once there was a young
married couple > A worthless
loa1er, dead beat, and"
oh, no! You are thinking Of John
+. This is his cousin, John G. Drives
MS creditors into bankruptcy, runs
over people with his imported CO.
morse power automobile owns $4,000
hghtlng dog, talks so loudly in his
box at the opera that he infuriates
those who think music was made to
be listened to, reads novels in French,
and
An, l see!-strange I should make
SUCH a mistake-a well-known man
about'town."-Puck
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01

ana at the bath in the Dig drinking
fountain, but Mr.. Mott restrained her.
At the deacon's demand, made as
much in sorrow as in anger, Police
man O'Neil arrested Miss Dolly and
Mr.. Mott and locked them in the po-
lice station. Dolly's hair turned color
in a single night-but not gray. Short
black hair bristled on her head.
O'Neil found a luxuriant blonde wig
in her cell next morning.
Il haven't the least idea how got
here, your honor, and even less idea
why l came" Miss Dolly told Recorder
Cadmus in the police court. 'Mr.
Mott took me to dinner i. New York,
of course-and We had very good
dinner Then. that dreadful cell"
In the cold, gray dawn" young Mr..
Mott seemed much dejectt:t. He re-
manned silent. The recas>1er fined
each five dollars. Mr.. Mot: searched
all his pockets and finding el1ly small
silver. took a hand=ome diarlDnd ring
from his finger and left it with the
court DIS security lCl pd! uel. U; tHe
fines Mott whispered to O'Neil
Can you hold the young lazy until
get out of town? If my people get
to know
You brought her here, yo:: take
her away said O'Neil.
"Good-by, Judge exclaimed Miss
Dolly airily, blowing kiss to tie re-
corder as she left the courtroom Lit
tie old New York for NINE" 'lAey
took a train for New York together
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01
Surprising a Bribe-Taker.

oUa ~ OSiOS- oNSIs
OF his present work Burns himself
says: This San Francisco case is one
of the most interesting I have ever
had. OF course municipal graft cases
are all somewhat alike. You know
who the men are who have got official
favors. The first thing to do is to
single out the official who you think
will accept bride, and then get
at him by inducing him to accept what
he thinks is a bride. Of course your
money is marked Then you surprise
him in the act After that you have
him cold. Through him you get at the
bribe-givers.
When I started in on this work
in San Francisco l expected to get
after each of the, supervisors singly,
but one of the newspapers got wind
of it and published the story how we
were working on one man. That spoil
ed things for us, and 1 had to resort
to other methods"
What Burns had done was to induce
the proprietor of skating rink who
had fallen out with Mayor Schmitz to
have an ordinance in his favor intro.
duced in the board of supervisors.
Then he arranged to buy the vote of
one of them-Lonergan by name-for
$500. Burns was concealed in the
room when the marked money was
passed. He pounced forth at the psy-
Geological moment when Lonergan
was taking the bribe.
Take the money" said the trap
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01
ORIGIN OF THE KISS.
It's Earliest Form-The caress Of the
Ancient indians.

At recent session of the American
Oriental society Prof. Hopkins, of
Yale, read a paper on "The Sniff Kiss
in Ancient India" Reduced to it's
foundation, the paper was history
of the kiss as we know it. The learned
orientalist traced it from it's birth
and proved that the earliest peoples
and earliest times knew it not That
there might be no mistake he labeled
the kiss of to-day "the genuine kiss
and "the perfect kiss
Oddly enough, he finds that the
genuine kiss was invented by a womI
an. The description is given in the epic
of ancient India which treats of the
science of love.
"She laid her mouth to my mouth"
recites the poet, '.and made a noise
which gave me pleasure" =. :
The early peoples" declared Prof.
hopkins, knew nothing Of the kiss in
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01
CAVE-IN BLOCKS ENTRANCE AND
MAN Is ABANDONED TO
HIS FATE.
LIVED ON FISH AND WATER
Accidentally Freed Short Time Ago
by Prospectors - Finds Parents
Dead But Is Welcomed
by His Family.

st. Louis.-Antone linton has re-
turned to his home in Westhall after
an absence of II years, nearly all of
which interval he spent alone under
ground in an abandoned mine in West
phalia. He went over to the old coun-
try on visit in 1889, and while there
visited one of the numerous mines in
that portion of the country, and while
deep down under the ground an acct
dent occurred which blocked up the
entrance to the mine and killed many
OF the miners. linton became sepa-
rated from his friend, and was rem
dered unconscious by fall in a dis
tant part of the mine, so that when
the rescuers had penetrated far
enough into the debris to take out
the bodies of the dead and rescue
three or four that were living, linton
was not found, and before any further
steps were taken to look for him the
mine caved in again and all entrance
was cut Off
The work of opening it again was
wv cat " ne uOlle lOi Lnc SOlS DuI-
pose of getting out the body of a
stranger in that part of the country,
and, as the product had been declin-
ing for some time, the mine was then
abandoned and lay unused for 16
years.
The mine was situated in very
mountainous district, and was in three
distinct levels, the upper two being
above river which flows through the
country there, but the lower level was
on lower plane than the river and
was flooded with water from the
stream as result Of the accident. The
water must have found underground
openings through which it flowed. for
linton, on roaming about the mine,
came to a place where the water of
the river, rising through the shafts
uniting the bottom and second levels
ran with considerable current in a
stream three feet deep, over a large
part of the second level, and, wading
about carefully in the underground
stream in search of a possible opening
to the world above, linton several
times felt fish, some of them large
ones, run against his feet and legs.
When he became hungry some hours
later he remembered this and, wad
ing into the water again, succeeded in
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01

right. At another time I thought q
disguised In false whiskers and wear
ing blue goggles. l never use a dis
guise, except change of clothes. But
l can take one of my men and let
you talk with him; then bring him in
tomorrow and let you see him and
you would not believe him the same
man. Here in San Francisco every
one knows meat least all the graft
ers do-so it would be useless to
try disguise"
Burns methods all through the
Ruef case have been surprisingly open.
When he started out to capture Ruef
after his friends, the sheriff and the
coroner, had been pretending to
search for him in vain for a week,
Burns assembled his posse in half a
dozen automobiles in front of Heney's
office; with Ruef's lawyers offices but
half block away. He had ten men
with him, but the open way with
which he went about the job made
the attorneys for the CRATER think it
must be all ruse, and no effort was
made to follow the party. They went
straight to the resort at the Troca.
dero in the outskirts of San Francis
co, where Burns knew that Ruef was
in hiding. Burns had the house sur
rounded; then he walked in and sur
prised Ruef at dinner He had his
man back at Heney's Office within
three hours.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01
Trapping a Boodler.

while Burns was whirling by in his
automobile.
Look at him." he exclaimed HE
is rs placid and dignifed as a lord
in his carriage"
MethodicaI in Everything.
What interests me most about
Burns is that he never misses a
NEAL said Cobb, Heney's partner.
Il never saw him in too much of a
hurry to take his hour for dinner at
the regular time. He is methodical
in everything. 1t is all in days
work with Burns, and when he turns
in at night he sleeps like top"
Yet he never procrastinates, put
in District Attorney Langdon. Il
asked him the other night if he
thought he could get man we want
ed and bring him to the Office in the
morning"
What's the matter with getting
him now?' said Burns. Taking down
the receiver from the phone he call
ed up saloon. His man was there.
Burns told him it would be better for
his health to surrender himself at
our office without delay. The man
, came at once
= What interests me about Burns"
put in J. Dryer. another of the at
torneys Of the graft prosecution, lis
his personality. He gets the men he
is after to like him. Ruef likes him
now better than any of his own men.
Those two swap stories to each other
until you can't believe Burns is work
ing all the time to land Ruef in San
Quentin prison.
He can mimic Frenchman, an
Englishman, Dutchman to perfec-
ton, and the stories he tells sound
like good fiction. l believe it is his
magnetism as much as his persist
ence that wins for him.
His First important Case.
This is the story of Burns first
important case, as told by himself:
1T was in 1890, in St. Louis. A num-
Der of tirebugs had been burning
down houses for insurance money.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01

ter the front room. take off her hat
and place it with chatetlaine bag on
the table. Burns Slid into the house,
looked into the bag, and found a letter
there. In it's place he put a dummy
This was easy, as there was NO ad-
dress on the outside of the envelope.
But this left Burns in the dark as to
whom it was meant for.
Later in the afternoon Mrs. Chew.
ms came out and Burns followed her.
She crossed the ferry to New York
and went to Courtlandt street. As she
was turning into doorway Burns
sent one of his men to say to her:
BE careful! You are being watched. :"
She turned and left the entryway.
Burns Immediately entered, and sure
enough there was an engraver's Office.
Of course Burns got the plates and
Gen. FREDERICK Mora and Ricardo de
Requisens are serving their terms in
prison.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01
Facts as to 6irthrate.

Sir William Dubar, English register
general, in report recently submit
ted, inclines to the belief that the in
creasing low birthrate in England
does not indicate decay. His Stats
tics Indicate that infant mortality de-
creases inverseiy with low rates O.;
birth. When children come rapidly
they are less likely to be strong, and
if other parents are poor difficulty Of
securing proper environment and nur-
ture is enhanced. His tables on high
birth rates show that it is attended
by sickness and weakness in infancy,
in a majority of cases. The large
proportion of the offspring of small
families survives, while the opposite
too frequently is true of large fam
lilies. 1t would be interesting to learn
if similar conditions obtain in the
United States.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01

San Francisco-William ]. Burns,
the United States secret service agent
who trapped every member of San
Francisco's corrupt board of supervis-
ors into a full confession of their
guilt, is called the king of detec-
tives.'
Although Burns has this interna-
tional reputation as a detective, it is
hard for his intimates to remember
always that Burns is detective.
Thus Francis J. Heney, the prosecu-
ter with whom Burns has worked
through the land fraud cases in Ore
gon and in the San Francisco Doodle
cases, finds his associate a source of
continual surprise.
Burns amuses me-, said Heney
one day recently. as he looked out the
window Of his Office in the unburnt
western Addition" of San Francisco,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01

the fire Sometimes, in low water he
was in danger of starving, and again
when there was a food in the world
outside, he had to fee to the upper
level for safety, but he provided him.
self with dried fish kept above the
possible reach of food and with water
stored up in depressions of the upper
level, and thus preserved his life dur
ing the long time Of trial
A few months ago he heard rum
bling noises in the earth, and not very
long afterward workers in an ad-
joining mine penetrated through the
rock into his prison and freed him.
His father and mother have died in
the time that he has been lost, but a
large and affectiona,e family of
brothers and sisters were living in
Westwall and vicini1, and greeted
him with open arms.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01
BURIED ALIVE I'm
MINE II YEARS

easily catching some fish. which, for
want of fire to cook them, he ate raw
when his hunger had grown sharp
enough.
A little after this, however, he
found several miners lanters and a
number of boxes of matches, and as
he could tell by the feeling of it on
his face, there was continual though
slight current of air passing through
the mine from somewhere, he made a
very small fire of coal at the foot Of
one of the shafts leading from the
second to the upper level, and here,
by this fire, which he kept continual
ly burning, he lived for nearly 16
years alone, obtaining his food from
the river and cooking it over
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01
The Real Embarrassment.

Does it never embarrass you," we
asked of the Pittsburg millionaire,
when you happen to be in a position
where you have to introduce your wife
to one of your ex-wives?"
Not very much,' he replied. THE
really embarrassing moments are
when I find myself so placed that l
have to introduce my present wife to
my next One."-Judge.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01
Died Like Absaiom.

Scranton, Pa.-Entwining around
his neck while he was on the seat Of
his wagon driving toward his home
near Blakely, the branches of a
swamp birch bush choked Alexander
Morrison a farmer, to death.
The team wandered into the gut
ter at the roadside. while Morrison
dozed, and the birch branches caught
the man as he rode. The long slen-
der wands were found entwined about
the neck as Morrison's body hung
over the wagon seat.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01
6eqinnninQ a Career.

Aspiring Youth understand there
is vacancy on you local staff.
City Editor-Yes, there is; in fact,
we are very short-handed, and l can
give you a job at once. I want some
one to go around and interview Slugg
Bulldozer, the eminent politician.
This paper charges that he beats his
wife and starves his children, and we
want to know what he thinks about
it,
"Unl-cr-havent you regular in.
terviewer for that kind of work?"
oh, yes, several of them, but they
are all in the hospital" Y
Weekly.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01
Happier Poor.

"Old Uncle Dewberry thought he
was going to fall heir to a fortune
and move in high society. He spent
six months learning to cultivate the
taste for Olives
And was he disappointed when the
fortune didn't Gomez"
Not at ALL He's glad he is poor
He says it doesn't take six months to
learn how to cultivate the taste for
corned beef and cabbag e.'-Chicago
Daily News.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01
Dou Has Mania for Onions.

Wooster, O.-The grocers of this
city have united in Offering a reward
of $40 for the capture of a thief.
The thief is dog that has an ap-
petite for Bermuda onions and steals
them whenever he gets chance. The
dog seems to know, too, that he is
stealing, for he appears suddenly, digs
out the largest onion that he sees in
the basket and then dashes off with it.
Those who have watched the dog
say that the canine eats the onions
as greedily as the ordinary dog would
eat hunk of meat.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01
A Safe Pronosition.

Caller-fd think that your fathers
duties as building inspector would be
awfully dangerous, going round I'M
safe buildings.
Small Son of the House-Oh, no;
he doesn't go near 'em till after they
fall down.-Life.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01

Il am guilty of stealing the fowl
admitted the prisoner. 1T was eating
the corn out of my horses nosegay.
and said to it, If you don't go away
III make YOU and struck it with the
whip. When l saw it was dead put
it in the wagon: | didn't know who
owned it,"
Il judge it was the chickens fault"
remarked the prosecutor, land I'll not
press the charge against the man."
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01
MAN WHO TRAPPED
FRISCO BOODLERS
HAS FINE RECORD
CALLED KING OF DETECTIVES

William j. Burns, Most Clever of the Secret Service
Agents Employed by Uncle Sam, Has Earned Proud
Title by His Many Successes in Running Down O4en-
ders Against the Law-his Methods Are Shreud, d.
and Straight For,0ard, and He Has Yet to Record
Failure in Any Case in Which He Has Been Employed
Land Graders, Boodlers Counterfeiters All One
to Him.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01
TOO MUCH.

First College Graduate-I hear YOU
have a job. What doing?
Second College Graduate-Oh, run
ming errands and cleaning inkwells
and so FORTH
Like it?'
First rate; that is, until my en-
ployer had the nerve to ask me out to
his house 10 dinner. It's pretty
tough to have to associate with your
social Interiors out of business hours
Life
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01
Cause and Effect.

The Doctor-Ive just come back
from San Reno; been away week.
The JOkist-Yes, saw it mentioned
In the paper.
The Doctor eagerly Indeed!
What did it say?
The Jokist-It drew attention to the
remarkable decrease in the death-rate.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01
Told by the Face,

Mrs. Church, met that little boy
who lives next to you, yesterday. /
could tell he was good little boy, BY
his face.
Mrs. Flatbush--Oh, I suppose yes.
terday was one OF the days he'd
washed his face!-Yonkers States.
man. =# .z s,..*: S.. s..z es zsz
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01
Her Answer.

A bashful swain was he, and so
His fervid declaration wrote,
And finished up his letter thus:
MY love, on you I simply dote"
But by return of post he got
An answer to his frenzied note.
1t just contained this crisp advice:
You'd better find an antidote."
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01
A Martyr to Principle.

yes; poor Hawkins was a victim
to his anti-expansionist sentiments
I'm what way?'
"He made up his mind that he was
getting too fat, and he doctored and
starved himself to death. ''-Chicago
Tribune
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01
DOLLY HAS HAS GAY Time:
LANDS IN DARK CELL
SCARES JERSEY TOWN HALF
TO DEATH.

Bloomfield Center, N. IA venera-
a trolley car late the other night. Miss
Dolly Gray, who seemed to be in joy
GUS spirits, danced up to the deacon,
took a fancy step or two, and kicked
off his high hat.
Percy Mott. as he called himself,
Miss Dolly's escort. applauded her
noisily. Mr. Mott, we'll dressed and
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01
Chicken Obstinacv.

A police court story which is said
to illustrate the Indifference of the
average chicken to good advice" was
told recently at Kingston. England,
when carter was charged with stsa;-
ing fowl. -,...,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01
Not Even Still

A man convinced against his will
Is Of the same opinion still;
A maid convinced against her will
Is not convinced, nor even still
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01

Host "a doctor, who has received
call some distance off)-Im awfully
sorry, old chap, I must leave you to
be entertained by my wife until I re-
turn.
Guest-Oh! what ccnfounded
nuisance.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01
Kiss Anyway.

TO kiss a miss may lead to bliss,
To kiss aniss may lead to this:
Your kiss may miss miss, which I wis
Would seem to miss to be remiss,
But chance like this you'd not dismiss
TO even kiss miss amiss!
Life
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01

self-confident, looks like many young
men one sees in Broadway.
Miss Dolly's Moulin Rouge trick at
the deacon's expense was but the eli
max of her gay performances at
Bloomfield Center. A dazzling blonde,
she had kicked off the hats of several
dear old men," as she called them.
She tried to give an imitation of Di-
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01

Il hope this proposal of mine
hasn't taken you completely by sur
prise, dearest?"
We'll, yes, it has. I long ago
abandoned all idea of it!"-Chicago
Journal.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01

There is woman in New York who
earns her living by conducting blind
people about.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01
The Brain Storm.

When Mamie slams the kitchen door
And burns the breakfast cakes.
And stamps her feet upon the floor
Until the table shakes,
We do not hint she's in pet
Or mad or angry-no!
We simply say when she's upset:
1.-The brain storm soon will go!"
Chicago Daily News.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01
During the Honeymoon.

The Friend-And you and George
have excellent appetites for every
meal. What kind of appetizers do
you use?
The Bride-kisses, dear: And we
have the grandest dessert.
The Friend-Gracious! And what
does It consist of?
The Bride-The same, of course
kisses! Chicago Daily News