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New-York tribune., 1907-12-01
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New-York tribune., 1907-12-01
No Chance for Fake Charley Rosses

a Nd WY may Ipt tne time come Wlc-
every mother viii have The finger prints
q her son -sl.el when ht l,..ves home l. &, Cut
INTO the world 70 make ms own WY, J.
Ch-I=tlau Ross - Germantown. Pennsylvania.
father 81 he Tow famous " Lost Charley
Roe-. who W. kidnapped II 1870, had had tie
finger prints q ms so1 taken when the boy Nc
a lev wears old. re would have saved thousand
: dollars, and perhaps even Il tins late c4tc
The -lgtlt Charley Ross could be found. I'm
1,-stc-- would have been detected Immediately
The 1de1.-lr-stlon would have been absolute
bv The finger prints. 10 matter how MANY
wears liter : might ue when the boy Va
located
Thousands q bavs are reported missing
eve-y ve--- thousands - mothers "-Io ou rI't
hear = ~ their So:l~ scan newspapers each oaE
and. 1.snH-l reading o' some unknown hoN ntlug
luIei n--Jc - -he place Tor q description 81
III. Gt.aG- There are -Ia-lv mothers anu iatacr~
who have lam awake nights feeling that tncir
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positive knowledge ct =. / tHev had Tie
-l-Cer prints - their son. the could SEND 81, 3
20 where me unknown had met hls death
The coroner G.: each county would take TIE
1jr.r-s q. the dead and compare them w--1
ihoee sent - a.-I- Many parents would rals
be sawed sleep .e~s nights.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-01
Would He-1 OF Raised Checks

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New-York tribune., 1907-12-01

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New-York tribune., 1907-12-01
TELL T A LE FIN @ ERS

-cE.-Eae1 rom rcFe s
, 1907-08-08
Prosperity Here to Stay.

Chicago-There never was so much
prosperity throughout the United
States as now exists, and the outlook
for the future is for a continuance of
good times. There is nothing feverish
about the country, 1t is mostly the nat
ural, healthy rise in the country's
growth. This is the general view taken
by Chicago experts in various CONNER
cial fields. who commented upon the
New York interviews from editors OF
trade papers, who declare that prosper
ity is here to stay. Chicago is becom-
ing a financial center in a way it has
never zen before. Railroads are TAX
ing a hopeful view of business condi-
tons. Their change OF attitude is
caused largely by recent crop reports,
which are prepared by the railroad
every year, with a view of getting
some idea of the number of cars and
the motive power which will be needed
to move the crops to market.
The railroad traffic men say that
what is lost in wheat will be made up
in corn and in other crops, and that
there will be as much business for
them as there was last year. But even
the optimism has not been unchanged
hard enough to induce the manag
ment to adopt n more liberal policy. 1t
is stated that if the reports continue
good the railroads will soon adopt i
more liberal financial policy. This
means hat much work which has been
stopped will be resume and ere long
thousands of men will be put to work
upon unfinished plans. 1t may have
an even wider significance, for If the
crop reports which the railroads Sc
cured are true it will mean an easier
money market. Railroad men every
were do not believe that hard times
are going to come soon. mt this is a
radical change of front during the past
two or three months.
, 1907-08-08
STATIONS Get Brown Palace.

Denver.-Two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars will be expended on
the Brown Palace hotel in improve
ments. Regarding the future manage
tent of the hotel. N. Maxcy Tabor
said:
The Brown has finally passed
from the possession of the Brown
heirs and exclusively into the posses
sion Of the Stratton estate. : fu
while the Stratton estate fore
closed its m%ortgaged some two weeks
ago. James H. Brown still held an OPP
ton on its purchase. He endeavored
to form a syndicate which would still
retain the hotel in the possession OF
the Brown heirs and also give him per-
sonal charge of the hotel management
This option expired yesterday without
Mr.. Brown fulfilling its terms. The
property was Immediately placed in
The hands of the ,Stratton executors.
and | AVE been continued in its man
agement for the time being. pending
The closing of a longtime lease.
Il own, personally. all of the furnish
lngs and equipment of the hotel, the
Stratton estate owning but the bare
building. Under the conditions 1, OF
course, lave great hope of securing the
lease.
1T will be necessary to expend about
$250,00O in remodeling and refitting the
hotel. l am prepared to spend $50. 900
on the furnishings alone. Then. OF
course, there will be the expense OF
palm gardens, more luxurious public
rooms. and those improvements which
will make the Brown the finest fitted
hotel in the West. Large amounts OF
money must also be spent by the STRAIT
ton estate in the building improve
ments."
, 1907-08-08
GERMAN VETS TO CONVENE.
Followers Of Bismarck viii Have Big
Time in Denver,

Denver.-Elaborate plans for the ma.
tional convention OF Deutschen Krie-
ger Verein. or German Soldiers Soci-
ETY.. to be held in Denver August 18th,
18th, 18th and and goth, are being
made by the local branch of that or
der. A general committee IF arrange
ments, with Gottfried Schirmer as hon.
orary president and John Hecker as
chairman, together with many sub
committees. has been appointed and
is now hard at wor arranging the pri-
mary plans of quarters and entertain
ment of the four or five thousand dele
gates who will be present from all
over the country.
No less than $4,000 German people,
among them some of the most promi-
aent German-Americans in the coun-
Try. are expected to be present in Den
yer during the four days of the conven-
NCn.
Chief among the attractions of the
convention will be the parade of the
'isiting delegates and the sixty vari-
BUS German-American societies which
ire located in Denver. The parade is
70 be held on August 18th and it is
promised that Denver will be treated
10 the grandest military pageant ever
witnessed in this section of the coun-
try. Fully 1 5000 men in uniform arc
expected to be in line, together with
many bands, both local and those
which will accompany some of the
larger delegations from other places.
The German Soldiers Association is
an order which has branches all over
the United States. 1t is composed Of
men. both ~privates and officers. who
were formerly soldiers in the Water
land, as all good Germans have been at
some time in their lives. The order
has been in existence some thirty
years in this country. being organized
Just after the Franco Prussian war by
ex-German soldiers who came to this
country Immediately after their term
OF enlistment had expired.
The order is to the former German
soldier now living in this country just
what the Grand Army of the Republic
Is to the veteran Of the Civil War. 1t
is a social organization with the pur-
pose Of creating and maintaining a
bond of friendship and protection be-
tween all former German soldiers who
have cast their lot in the home of the
a INT the land of the free"
, 1907-08-08
ENORMOUS FINE
STANDARD OIL COMPANY GETS
THE LIMIT IN COURT.
MUST PAY S2s,240,O 900 FINE
Heaviest Ever Assessed Against Any
Individual or Corporation in the
History of America.

Chicago.-Judge Kenesaw NJ. Ian
dis in the United States District Court
fined the Standard Oil Company of H.
diana $29, 240,O 900 for violations Of the
law against accepting rebates from
railroads.
The fine is the largest ever assessed
against any individual or corporation
In the history of American jurisprud.
ence, and is slightly more than 131
times as great as the amount received
by the company through its Relating
operations. The case will be carried
to the higher courts by the defendant
company.
The penalty imposed upon the COM
pany is the maximum permitted under
the law, and was announced at the end
OF a long opinion, in which the meth
DDS and practices of the Standard
Oil Company were mercilessly scored.
The judge. in fact, declared that the
officials of the Standard Oil Company
who were responsible for the prac-
tices of which the corporation was
found guilty were no better than
counterfeiters and thieves, his Exact
language being:
I'VE may as well look at his situa-
ton squarely. The men who thus de-
hberately violate this law wound so
ciety more deeply than does he who
counterfeits the cola or steals letters
from the mail. The nominal defend
ant is the Standard Oil Company of
Indiana, a 100000 corporation.
1.-THE Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey, whose capital is 800, O00. 900,
is the real defendant. This is for the
reason that If a body of men organ
lie a large corporation under the laws
of one state for the purpose of carry
ing on business throughout the United
States, and for the accomplishment of
h a purpose absorb the stock of other
corporations, such corporations so
absorbed nave thenceforward but a
nominal existence.
They cannot initiate or execute any
inherent business policy, their elimi-
nation in this respect being a prime
consideration for their absorption. So
when, after this process has taken
place, a crime is committed in the
name of such smaller corporation, the
law will not consider that the larger
corporation is the real offender.
And where the only possible mo-
tive Of the crime is the enhancement
of dividends. and the only punishment
authorized is a fine, great caution
must be exercised by the court lest
the fixing of a small amount encourage
the defendant to further violations by
esteeming the penalty to be in the ma
ture of a license"
, 1907-08-08
Mystery Surrounds ehastIy Find.

Trinidad, Colo.-With the pockets
of his clothing turned inside out, in
dicating murder and robbery, the body
of an unknown man was found in an
r between this city and Bowen.
The body was half covered with water
in a sink near the end of a long cul-
vert beneath the railroad track and
was in an advanced state of decompo-
sition.
Coroner Sipe made an investigation.
but all efforts to identify the body
failed. The authorities believe the
man was killed undoubtedly by hold
ups while drunk, robbed of his money,
and the body thrown into the arroyo.
The remains are those Of a man
probably forty-five years old, weigh
ing 21O pounds and an American. No
marks of violence were found on the
body.
, 1907-08-08
Guarding Asains. Coal Famine.

Cheyenne, Wyo.-Following out the
recent announcement of General Su-
pe~rintendent w. l.. Park that a coal
famine will be experienced this fall,
and that the company is planning to
be prepared for such a contingency, tho
Union Pacific is rapidly creating veri-
table mountains of coal in the railroad
yards at this PORT and at other dis
trict terminals along the line.
In Cheyenne the big tract of land
south of the shops is being literally
covered with coal heaps which resem-
BILE small hills, IN the work of stor-
ing more fuel is going on night and day
with a force of seventy coal-heavers en-
gagged in conjunction with the great
clamshell steam shovel. Is
Already no less than o ,0OO, 000
pounds of coal are in storage here and
trains are steadily arriving from ILL
nois mines and the company's collier
les at Hanna and Rock Springs. II is
announced that 10000 tons more will
be stored here before the work ceases
while a total Of owe 500. 900 tons will
be in storage along the main line OF
the Union Pacific in Wyoming and Ne
braska by fall. II necessary this sup
ply will run the railroad for a long
period. so that in the event of a tam
Inc the company will be in a position
to relieve any possible suffering along
its lines and at the same time keep
traffic moving.
, 1907-08-08
Secretary Taft viii Speak.

Secretary Of Wal William H. Taft
has accepted the invitation Of Chair
man John F. Vivian of the State Re-
publican committee, and A. NJ. Steven
son of the national Republican COM
mittee. acting on the suggestion of Re-
publican leaders of Denver, to speak in
Denver August goth.
Mr.. Taft, 1t is announced, will cave
Washington for the Philippines a
week before this date. and will take ad-
vantage of the trip across the CONT
men to stamp his personality on the
minds of voters of a large number Of
cities between Washington and the
coast, so that II Mr.. Roosevelt persists
in refusing the nomination for another
term. Mr.. Taft's chance will be
brighter.
United States Senator Knute Nelson
of Minnesota, who recently spent q
few days in Denver, said that Taft is
the Republican favorite in his state
next to Roosevelt.
There is some talk of Fairbanks"
said Mr.. Nelson, but he is o so
strong as Taft. because Taft bears the
official Roosevelt stamp. However.
the sentiment in my state. as well as
in some other states the conditions in
which I am familiar, is that the con
ditions Of the country are such as to
demand another four ear OF Roose-
welt. The sentiment is that Mr.. Roose-
welt should be nominated by accla-
nation, thereby making it practically
impossible for him to decline the NOM
nation"
Speaking of Minnesota ak of push
ing Governor Johnson of Minnesota for
the Democratic nomination, Mr.. Mel
son who is a Republican, said:
THE newspapers of the state have
spoken of pushing him for his honor n
number of times, but they do not seem
sincere"
, 1907-08-08
OFF EARS
PECULIAR FORM OF MURDER IN
OKLAHOMA.
FOUND MuIlLA1ED
Ne Cause Ascribed for the Dark Deeds
That Have Set City Wild
With Excitement.

Oklahoma City, Okla.-Charies Gun
reth of Chicago. about twenty-five
years old, apparently a laborer in goo
circumstances, is the latest victim OF
what sayors of m organized band OK
criminals in Oklahoma City. who have
a penchant for cutting of the ears OF
their victims. A severed human ear,
in almost perfect preservation, was
found in the street car tracks or a
principal business street. Detectives
policemen, sheriffs and deputy mar
shals Immediately began to search In
the hope of finding the body. Two farm
ers driving to town discovered the
dead body, exposed on the public road.
lying face downward. Both ears had
been severed clearly from the head as
if with a razor. The right ear has moi
yet been found.
Gunreth's dead body is the second
that has been found in Central Okla
homa within a week.
The body of a man who has not yet
been identified. was found in a box car
of a Frisco freight at Chickasha, nifty
miles south of here. Fresh blood
spots in the a told thai
the man had been recently
murdered when found. The ears
had been III from the head and
were found in the car. His garb was
that of a working man. One shot had
severed the right juglar vein. and four
others had been fired through the
heart, after death. Authorities believe
That the man was murdered in Okla
homa City and his body secreted in a
car.
Empty revolver shells found in the
car correspond with empty shells found
in the neighborhood of Gunreth's
body.
, 1907-08-08
BELIEVES GIRL WAS MURDERED.
Chicago Man Claims to have Proof
That Girl Did Not Suicide.

Chicago.-Charles A. Coey. wealthy
automobile dealer, has made the sen
sation declaration hat he had the writ.
eth statement of a woman who saw
Miss Laura Mathews. whose mysteri-
u death At Colorado Springs brought
much notoriety to Coey. Oh the day OF
her death. The woman asserted posi-
lively that Miss Mathews did not com
init suicide.
This woman says she knows Miss
Mathewes did not take her own life
said Coey today on his return from
Kansas City with Miss Tillie Green,
Miss Mathews nurse.
They attended the funeral of the
beautiful woman, whose death. 10.
gether with the suicide of Amos r.
Rumbaugh, was the sensation of the
country.
So certain was Coey that Miss Math-
ews did not commit suicide that, after
reading the statement, he made a pos.
Tive announcement that he would go
to Colorado Immediately after return
ing from a business trip east. He also
announced hat he would call on the
states attorney in the Colorado resort
of any possible mistake. AL
though Coey today was willing to give
extracts from the mysterious letter, he
was unwilling to reveal the identity or
the writer.
She is too well known in Chicago"
said he. she was at the resort for
her health, and under nc condition
would l tell who she IS"
, 1907-08-08
Say Orchard viii Be Convicted.

Butte, Mont -"Orchard will be con-
victed of muraer in the first degree.
The community will not stand for any
hing else. But he will not hang, ac-
cording to present plans. The scheme
IS to have him sentenced to be hanged.
Then Governor Gooding will commute
his sentence to life Imprisonment. Or
chard, who is to be provided with
money from unknown sources, will
Their make his escape from prison. The
details include a ticket TO England. No
mention is to be made of his escape for
six weeks so thai the fugitive will
be safe from pursuit"
This is the statement of Attorney
Peter Breen of Haywood counsel, made
on his return from Boise.
Breen does not reveal the source OF
his information, other than 10 say that
Orchard leaked" in the ~penitentiary
to convicts who were not in sympathy
with him.
Attorney Breen says hat rumor has
It that Attorney E. F. Richardson will
defend Harry Thaw.
, 1907-08-08
Aged Brothers See the Parade.

Denver.-Two aged brothers stood,
n t%ypifying the virile West, the
other the East. on the steps Of the
Brown Palace hotel, viewing the pa
rade of the Son Of Colorado on Colo
RADIO Day. They were c. w. Kyle OF
Boston. friend OF Abraham Lincoln,
and eighty-seven years old; the other
was Timothy Kyle, Colorado pioneer
mining man in the Leadville district.
and seventy years old. There they
stood, the Boston brother, agape at the
uniqueness Of the spectacle. some
thing new and unimaginable to him.
because he had neve been west before
and had no conception of the story
that was told by the parade.
Charles w. Kyle is out here to visit
his brother at Leadville. They met
at the Brown. This hardy old 9
Highlander. although nearly four-score
and ten In years. is as spry of body
and mind as one Of half he age Hs
knew Lincoln and was with him I'm
Washington a few days before the bat
tie of Gettysburg. He says Lincoln
was the greatest and states
man this country has ever produced.
, 1907-08-08
Millions Lost by Prohibition.

Augusta, Ga.-Chaos reigns in the
liquor traffic in his state, since it is
certain that the bill for absolute pro-
hibition after January list. will be
signed soon by Governor Smith.
Augusta will lose 81. 500, 900 in prop.
erty values and license taxes. At
lanta's loss will almost treble that OF
all other whisky-selling places in the
state. Brunswick's loss will run above
the 81 600, 900 mark. Macon will suffer
heavily in the loss of e and a
fine brewery. 1t was stated here today
that the railroads have offered to trans
port breweries and stills to other
states free of charge. The whisky in
terests will move to Florida and Ala
bama.
, 1907-08-08
FIoss Wife Beaten While She Waits.

Hazelton. Pa.-Louis Sambolia. ac-
cused OF wife beating. was publicly
fosged by Alderman d. A. Mckelvey,
before whom he had been brought for
a beating.
After the testimony had been given
Alderman McKelvey seized the man
by the collar, dragged him into the
street, pulled the coat from his back
and then ~handcuffed him to a tie post.
The crowd OWNED his intention and
a man took off his belt ID gave 1t to
Mckelvey. The alderman is young and
strong. and the fiogging was vigorous.
After a few strokes Sambolia fell to
his knees. crying for mercy, but Nc
Kelvey kept it up until he felt that
the prisoner had enough. During the
fogging the wife stood by and seemed
to enjoy 1t.
, 1907-08-08
Plugged Artesian Well.

Canon City, Colo.-The Chamber
lin artesian well in Eight Mile park,
from which one cubic foot of water a
second flowed several months ago,
was plugged up by some person. who
dropped an iron plug to the depth of
700 feet, where 1t lodged. The plug
was removed and the flow of water re-
sumed. A second well was drilled to
the Dakota sandstone. under which the
artesian water is nearly always found.
A series of wells on the ~Chamberlin
ranch will be sunk to supply water for
irrigating a large tract Of arid land in
Eight Mile park.
, 1907-08-08
MURDER AND VIOLENCE RAM
PANT.
100 Rolled in New New York in One
Week and No End In Siqht.

New York.-Chain coats OF mail
promise to become the popular sum-
mer attire here, and armored automo-
biles the only safe means of convey
If a sudden enc is not put to the
city's reign of terror.
Three cold-blooded and dramatic
murders in the center of the city in
as many days have served to accen-
tuate grimly the fact that so far as
the safety of human life is concerned
New York is really on a par with the
widest mining camp Of fiction and as
regards organized murder and terror
ism by Matchmaking societies, closely
akin to conditions prevailing in the
middle ages.
The astonishing pass to which things
have come is instanced by the lack of
notice accorded to any but the most
dramatic crimes. Four days after a
doctor was strangled to death on a
populous street the matter had been
forgotten and the d~epredations of the
Black Hand society to whose hand at
least n murder a week has been laid
for months, only became worthy of no.
tice when eliminating in the blowing
up of a tenement house containing 200
persons.
Battle, murder and sudden reath
seem to be sweeping through the city
like a pestilence. Man hunts for as
saulters of children are of daily occur
ence in the suburbs. no less than Jour
occurring in one day on Staten Island.
The past week shows twenty-five muir
derous assaults. and deaths labeled as
violent, exclusive of accidents, ap-
proach close to the hundred mark
On top of all this m the start
ling revelations of the workings of the
Hunakist, the Armenian secret so
ciety. which, it is alleged. brought
about the murder of a prominent Ar
menian millionaire because he refused
to be blackmailed.
Looting banks has become a joke.
Only this week robbers held up the
teller of a Broadway bank during the
loon hour with masks and guns in
true desperate style and got 81 1000.
Many respectable citizens it is said.
are planning to defend themselves by
meeting violence with violence.