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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-23
Yesterdays Heavy Losses In
/ creased in First Hour.
THE OPENING IRREGULAR
Heavy Liquidation of c. P. by Foreign
Holders.
ERIE AGAIN VICTIM OF SHORTS
A Faint Rally Was Followed by q
Sag for Still Greater Losses-m
News From Bourses.
THE OPENING IRREGULAR
ERIE AGAIN VICTIM OF SHORTS


Special Dispatch to The Star.
/ NEW YORK. March 23.-The news of dis
ordered financial markets in Europe that so
upset the local exchange in the later hours
of yesterdays trading. again had its eff
feet in the short session today. The mar
ket opened irregular and with heavy losses
From yesterday, which were increased be-
fore IL o'clock to a marked degree The
Hill stocks were especially weak, suffering
klosses of three points in both Great North
FERN preferred and Northern Pacific. Cana
dian Pacific was sold so largely by foreign
holders yesterday and today that it de-
clined rapidly to 155 and the pool which
Is known to have its care in this market
Is said to have been forced to part with
over 10000 shares of the stock.
| Bear operations against this security have
been particularly aggressive because of It's
weak position in comparison with other
securities that in the decline of a week ago
approached more nearly their intrinsic
value. On sales from abroad and from
Canada, 1t has shown the weakness of its
position in its present company and the
rapidity of its decline was almost expected.
Erie was again sufferer at the hands OF
the short interests, though some appar-
emily good selling in this security was noted,
particularly in the common, which struck
a new low price shortly after the opening.
The industrials shared very generally in
the decline to a greater extetN than In the
breaks heretofore.
a An Attempted Rally.
! Londons sales of the Hartman issues
and Steel common in this market were
varOusly computed at from 10000 to 100000
shares. After the first decline the list at
tempted a rally that carried many stocks
for an average of point over their lowest
prices
But there was no indication of support,
and stocks sagged of again for still great
losses
( The publication of a good bank statement
showing an increase of over $1,JO0,0OO in
reserves and a decrease in loans of over
S3.5O0n0. only temporarily arrested the
downward movement. o..
| Press dispatches from Berlin brought
: news that caused fresh outbreak of SELL
Ing Panicky conditions were reported from
that center. In the mornings trading
there. Canadian Pacific fell eleven points.
Baltimore and Ohio five points, Pennsyl-
vana five points and mining shares ten
points
; This news was followed by a report from
London that the stock exchange was
gloomy over the prospects Of the settle
ment beginning next Monday. Several i'm
portant houses were said to be heavily in
volyed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-23
Government Securities.
Bank Statement.
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

ROME. March 23.-The pope today re-
ceived In private audience Mrs Robert q.
Mccormick. wife of the ex-Amer!can am
Dassador to France
NEW YORK. March 23-Mme. Emma
CAVE the opera singer. arrived here today
on the steamer La Provence.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-06-27

Z
Those who were not cowed By fear
gave him applause.
Burns was born in Columbus, O.. for
ty-six years ago. His father was a
tailor. The young man learned to cut
suits. He was twenty-six years old
when he made the discovery that he
was cut out for something else. He
ran down forgery in local election
case with such success that he went
into the sleuth line for life. Not long
afterward Burns went to st. Louis.
where his first big triumph in his new
profession was Won. A gang had. been
renting houses, furnishing them, insur-
ing the furniture and burning the
houses to get the insurance. MANY
thousands of dollars had been secured
in this way. Burns went on the lob
and landed the miscreants.
The young man was called to the
government secret service. He became
the Nemesis of counterfeiters. Burns
broke up some of the most successful
counterfeiting gangs ever known in
this country. There was, for instance,
the Taylor-Briddell crowd of Pennsyl-
vania. These men spent 100000 in
producing a paper like that used in
printing United States money. They
had made 100000 in counterfeiting
cigar revenue stamps. Then they man
ufactured a hundred dollar bill which
was accepted by bank tellers and even
by subtreasury men.
r, Burns was assigned to the case, He
intercepted letter from Kendig &
Jacobs, cigarmakers Of Lancaster, Pa,
to Taylor and Briddell, engravers, in
Philadelphia. Burns opened the letter,
found therein three of the bills, mark
ed them, resealed the envelope and
sent it along in the mails. In relating
the story of this case he says:
Later when Chief Wilkie and went
to search Taylor and Briddelps place
and arrest them pried open a drawer
in their desk. found two of the three
bills had marked. said to Wilkie.
loud enough for the men under arrest
to hear:
"That's funny. Jacobs told us there
were three of these bills
'Briddell bit. Burns he said, how
many men have you got under arrest
in this case? named every man who
was connected with the case, none of
whom was under arrest at the time.
That's enough for me- said Briddell.
We don't make any more trouble for
YOU He confessed everything on the
spot. 1t was the opening of the letter
that did the trick.'
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-06-27

of trusted men who did the concrete
detective work, while the master mind
guided their movements and was the
boss of the battle at all points.
An army commanders business is to
discover anG attack the weak point in
the enemy's line. Burns watched for
the weak spot and found it, Two men,
Wyman and Steffens, had been sent to
the penitentiary two years before for
election frauds. Another, Frank Mae
stretti, had barely escaped conviction.
Maestretti was one Of the chief lieu
tenants Of Abe Ruef, the boss boodler,
the go-between in all the bribery trans
actions. Wyman and Steffens were in
the pententiary, miffed at Maestretti
because he had escaped their fate.
Burns agents visited them and found
that they would tell all they knew
about Maestretti if they were par
doned out The governor pardoned
them. They told.
Many Indictments Secured.
Maestretti had a grievance against
Ruef, feeling that he had been sighted
in political preferment. With the reve-
lations of the pardoned convicts Burns
brought Maestretti to bay. The lat
ter told Burns that one G.. NJ. Roy,
closely In confidence with Mayor
Schmitz, was in reality Morris Golden,
a fugitive from justice in Oklahoma,
a forger and embezzler. With his past
record flashed before him by Burns
this man was glad to assist the sleuth.
ae it was who obligingly bribed Su-
pervisors Lonergan and Boxton, hand
ing them marked money in exchange
for the promise Of their votes on a GER
tain ordinance. Burns emerged from
behind the screen, and Lonergan wilt
ed, confessed everything he knew and
made the way clear. Fourteen other
supervisors fell over each other in their
eagerness to confess, hoping for i'm
munity, and Heney had evidence
enough for scores Of indictments.
Detective Burns had used his brains.
San Francisco ceased to laugh at him.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-06-27

anywhere about his anatomy that he
carries the Sherlock Holmes dope syr-
inge in his pocket. Burns is just an
other name for brains. This detective
resorts to no psychological dope
dreams. He simply uses human intelli-
gence to the best advantage. He has
studied the detective business as an
other man studies law or medicine or
Journalism, and he knows how.
Burns began his San Francisco work
about six months ago. The world
knows what has happened since. For
MALT a dozen years everybody of INTEL
hgence who was familiar with the con-
ditlons in San Francisco knew very
we'll that deep dyed graft was going on
all the time, that the city was in the
hands of highly organized gang Of
bribers and plunderers and that things
municipal were going headlong to the
dogs. But how are you going to prove
it? That was the question. How are
you going to fasten the crimes upon
the criminals? That was Burns task.
Many San Franciscans laughed at him
when he set about the job.
Burns knew his business For eight
cen years he had been an agent of the
United States secret service. Prior to
that he had done notable detective
work. He had served a long appren-
ticeship. Such a man was needed to
run down the San Francisco grafters.
The district attorney, William H. Lang
don, appointed Francis J. Heney to do
the prosecuting, but before this dis
t1nguished prosecutor could proceed
there must be somebody to prosecute.
indictments must be found. There
must be evidence upon which to base
indictments. Heney stipulated that If
ne took the job Of prosecuting the
grafters he must have Burns to do the
detective work, to get the evidence and
to run the grafters to the end Of their
rope.
Heney knew Burns. Two years ago
Burns had worked with him in Oregon
and Washington as a secret service
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-06-27
By ROBERTUS LOVE.

4 NY man with corpuscle of the
~ real crimson in his blood likes
1 u good detective story. The
sleuth is the favorite hero of
fiction. Once given scent of the ex-
element we must follow the trail IN
til we track the redhanded villain to
his lair and hear the click of the hand
cuffs. But 1t is not the villain we care
for nor the beautiful blond heroine.
It is the sleuth. The thin man with the
steely blue eyes is the picture that we
hang on memory's wall. Sometimes
the detective story that really hap
pens is worthy Of being labeled 'just
as good" though the actual detective
is quite different from his fctional
brother.
One of these sleuth tales in real life
has just reached the handcuff climax
in San Francisco. William J. Burns is
the sleuth and therefore the hero of
the story. He is the man who has
brought the municipal grafters to bay.
He has run Abe Ruef to his ultimate
lair and rounded up along with him
CAe AliyOA, uedA1y d1 Iue ueuUeiS OIL
the board Of supervisors and a select
assortment Of millionaires who have
been profting in worldly sense by
bribing the city officials.
Far From a Conventional SIeuth.
Mr.. Burns is not the conventional
sleuth Of fiction. Far from it. He is a
rotund person, with a fine color in his
face and curly mustache, with a
twinkle in his eye and no indication
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-06-27

agent in getting evidence against the
land thieves. The remarkable success
of hi11work there is matter of recent
record. But the United States gov
eminent could not assign one of it's
agents to do detective work in a case
wherein the government was not Off
c1ally concerned. Accordingly Mr..
Burns found it necessary to resign
from the secret service in order to take
up the work in San Francisco. It is
understood that President Roosevelt
was glad to concur in Burns resigna-
ton because he felt that the man would
do valuable public work in California.
The government could afford to lend
one OF its best sleuths to a suffering
city for a year or so. That is how
Burns got into the game at the Golden
Gate
Boss Of the Battle at All Points.
There are no false whiskers in the
makeup room of William j. Burns. He
is not that sort Of sleuth. Such popu-
lar DISCUSSES would not serve in the
San Francisco case anyhow. Burns
was aware that the banded brigands
of the city would employ their own de-
tect1ves to shadow him. He therefore
planned his campaign as commander
in chief rather than as a fighter in the
ranks. Wearing his customary clothes,
which are somewhat more fashionable
than those Of the average professional
man, he went about the city in his au-
tomobile, openly and freely, just like
any we'll groomed man Of affairs. IN
der his direction he had a small army
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-06-27
Prevented a Revolution.

One Of Burns best counterfeiting
catches was that Of two Costa Ricans
who had been making in New York
city spurious notes of the 100 peso de-
nomination. The United States gov
eminent was requested by the govern
ment of Costa RIGA to aid in capturing
the counterfeiters. When Burns went
to work on the case, after others had
failed, he had only a sofa containing
100000 in the Costa Rican counter
felt wrapped in burlap and ready for
shipment to the country where the
money could be used. The burlap was
marked Xxx 1884, That was all.
but that lettering gave Burns the clew
which led him through an overall fac
tory at Newburg, N. Y, to the home
Of a widow in Long Island City who
had a son-in-law with a Central Amer
lean name. This young man, Ricardo
de Requisens, and his confederate,
General FREDERICK Mora, are now serv-
ing a term for counterfeiting, their
plates having been confscated. By
these arrests Burns prevented a revo-
luton in Costa Rico, the spurious mon
ey being intended to defray the ex-
penses of revolt.
Burns also caused the capture of
Bill Brockway, who, with James Court
ney and DR.. Bradford, had manufac-
tured 100000 in spurious gold GER
tifcates
Burns is businesslike and method
zeal. The sleuth of fiction is different.
One of the attorneys associated with
the prosecution in San Francisco said
the other day:
Burns never misses a meal. 1 never
saw him in too much of a hurry to
take bis hour for dinner at the regular
time. 1t is all in a days work with
Burns, and when he turns in at night
he sleeps like top'''
Never Delays.
District Attorney Langdon then
spoke up: "And he never procrasti-
mates. I asked him the other night if
he thought he could get man we
wanted and bring him to the Office in
the morning.
"*What's the matter with getting
him now? said Burns. He took down
the telephone receiver and called up
saloon. His man was there. Burns no.
tilted him that it would be better for
his health if he came around at once.
He came"
Mr.. Langdon then proceeded to re-
mark that Detective Burns never
wastes any time in blufing. every
one here in town." said the district at
torney, 'knows his automobile. But do
you think if he wanted you tonight he
would stop block away and send his
machine back? No, sir; he would go
straight to your door-toot, toot!-and
ring the bell.''
Chief Wilkie of the secret service
credits Burns with having a sixth
sense, so that he can tell by instinct
when man is lying or when he has
told all he knows about a certain sub
ject. In the Oregon land cases Mr..
Heney once thought witness was
holding something back
'He has told all he knows" said
Burns. It turned out that Burns was
right. Heney thought another witness
had made a complete confession and
was about TO let him go.
keep at him." urged Burns.
The witness told the most incriminat-
ing part Of his story afterward.
Detective Burns is said to be very
popular with the men he has run to
ground in San Francisco. He has a
faculty of getting his victims to like
him. Abe Ruef, it is stated, Is quite
fond Of Burns-in a way.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1907-01-25
WILD GALE SWEEPS ERIE.
Worst Storm In Decade over Buffalo
and District.

VOTSt StOTH IN OeCdQc over Buffalo
and District.
Buffalo, N. Y. Jan. 21.-During the
last "a hours this city has been swept
by the most destructive windstorm of
decade. Tho gale blew 80 miles an
hour.
The Niagara Falls lie in the midst
of scene Of wreckage in the wake Of
the storm. Two lives are reported
lost so far, and property damage that
will aggregate 100000 when the &C
counting is made, is the toll of the
storm. Lake Erie, with it's level high
err than has been known for 20 years,
has gorged the Niagara river to over
| flowing. and thousands of dollars
worth of property has been carried
down the stream. Miles of docks at
The great lumber market at North To-
newapda have been destroyed aid mil
lions OF feet of lumber have been car
ried out into the river.
The damage to shipping alone in
Buffalo harbor is $1,500O00.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1907-01-25
WIT OF the YOUNGSTERS.

Little GIRL thought you said you
wasn't coming to school to-day. Little
Boy--Oh, that was before had an In
terview with papa.
Teacher - Willie, you may spell
felt" Willie-F-e-l-t. Teacher-That's
right Now, Johnnie, what Is felt2
rohnnie-Mamma's slipper.
"Oh, mamma !" exclaimed little Fred,
as he caught sight of a zebra at a
menagerie, come here quick and see
the poor little convict pony"
Harry" said a mother to her incor.
s'gible son and heir, ibid you bring that
mud into the houseT" mo, ma'am,"
replied Harry. ut just stuck to my
shoes and came In ITSELF"
my papa is a lawyer" said little
bel. He knows everything your papa
papa Is minister" rejolned little Ma
bel. HE knows everything your papa
does and q whole lot about the here
after"
Little Elsie-What's the meaning of
the word ''accllmated," Tommy Small
Tommy-Oh, 1t means to get used to
anything. Like when man and woman
has been married 50 long they don't
mind it any more!
I'm s1ad I'm not a FISH," remarked
little George as he watched the gold.
fish swimming around In the globe
"Why" queried his mother. "'Cause
1t must be awful to have to be bathing
all the time" was the reply.
One day little Elmer's mamma caught
him In the pantry helping himself tt
some cake and jam. "Why, Elmer" sht
exclaimed, don't you know it Is wrens
to take things without asking fol
themy' ut isn't wrong. mamma" re
piled Elmer. Our Sunday scheo
teacher says the Lord helps those VIII
help themselves"
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1907-01-25
KINGSTON
TERRIBLE HAVOC OF Earth.
QUAKE and fire.
Population Lives in the Open-Food
Supplies Scarce - Death List Is
About 7O0-About 500 SersiousIy In.
jured-American Quick to the Res
cue-U. S. Marines on Guard.

News from the city of Kingston on
is still filtering in slowly, but the
worst is now apparently known. The
town itself is wreck, very few of the
houses standing remaining habitable,
and the population is living in the
open.
Food and medical supplies continue
scarce, but relief ships are hurrying
to the stricken city from many quart
erts, so that there will soon be an
alienation in this respect.
The death list is probably about 700.
and the seriously injured nearly 500.
Progress is being made in clearing
away the debris. Dynamite is resorted
to in clearing away menacing ruins.
Good order prevails in the city.
Admiral Davis, who is in the har-
Dor with the battleships Missouri and
Indiana, was called on for help in the
work of policing the city, and he
promptly responded by landing ma
rines. These sea soldiers are now
pIcketing the streets and assisting the
authorities to maintain order.
All mariners are warned that the
two lighthouses at the harbor entrance
have been destroyed and that the ap.
Eroach to the harbor at night is peril.
Gus.
No Americans were killed as a re-
suit of the disaster, despite the fact
that there were many American tour
lists in the place when the visitation
came. A large number of these tour
lists have taken refuge on the warships
in the harbor American aid has beer
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1907-01-25
"Home, sweet Home.n

Probably no one would have been
more surprised than Sir Henry Bishop
himself could he have foreseen that .
single melody In one Of his numerous
operas would achieve such celebrity
that at the present day 1t Is still sung
by leading prima donnas at fashionable
concerts, tangled on street organs and
loved by vast public that knows moth
ing Of music. properly SO called. as the
purest representation Of the English
spirit-"Home. Sweet Home" Clari.
the Maid Of Milan" the opera in which
this favorite song occurred, has long
been consigned to the limbo Of forgot
ten musical works, but Home, Sweet
Hene," survives with undiminished
popularity and is likely to survive
when many more pretentieus compost
tons have followed "The Maid Of
Milan" into oblivion.-Cornell Maya.
zine.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1907-01-25
Always to Be Depended Upon.

When person gets up in the morn
ing with dull headache and a tired,
stretchy feeling, it is an almost certain
indication that the liver, or bowels, or
both, are decidedly out Of order.
At such times Nature, the wisest
and best of all doctors, takes this
means to give warning that she needs
the help and gentle assistance which
can best be obtained from that old
family remedy, Brandreth's Pills,
which has been in use for over CEN
tury.
They are the same fine laxative tonic
pill your grandparents used, when doc.
tors were few and far between and
when people had to have remedy
that could absolutely be depended
upon.
Brandreth's Pills can be depended
upon and are sold in every drug and
medicine store, either plain or sugar
coated.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1907-01-25
Thousands Made Homeless.

1t is estimated that at least $4,000
people are homeless owing to the
.,ooding of the lower sections of Gin
cinnati, Ohio, and the cities on the
Kentucky side. Nearly 5000 have been
driven from their homes in Cincinnati,
5000 people of Newport have been
compelled to vacate and all the other
cities within 10 miles of this city re-
rort thousands suffering. a special
meeting of the city council today
voted bonds to the amount of $4,000
for the relief of the food sufferers, and
the mayor was authorized to draw $13,.
900 additional for relief.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1907-01-25
MIXED THEIR MODELS UP.

Men Posed for Pictures of Women,
Women for Those Of Men.
1t Is an Interesting fact that artists
have used women as models from which
to paint men and men as models from
which to represent women, says the
Strand Magazine
One Of the most striking instances is
the well-known picture, Napoleon on
Board the Bellerophon." A woman
friend of the painter was the model
for the Little Corporal"
Landseer's famous picture. 1.-THE
Naughty Boy" waS really painted from
a little girl, little Lady Rachel Rus
sell. As matter Of fact, the child's
mother had taken her to have her por.
trait painted. When, however, she ar
rived at the studio she refused to pose
In the way the artist suggested, and be-
came so sulky and naughty that It was
impossible to do anything with her.
At length her mother put her In the
corner as a punishment. There she
turned with such a sturdy. defiant look
that she impressed Landseer, who
sketched the recalcitrant little one as
she stood.
A sense Of chivalry toward the child
caused him to change the sex of the
subject, so he added the broken slate,
the rumpled hair and the undone boots
while keeping the disheveled dress, and
gave q title to the canvas which has re.
moved 1t from any suggestion Of por
traiture.
Wilkes Blind Fiddler" which ere
ated fur6r when it was exhibited al
the Royal Academy, furnishes anoth
er instance, for the artist actually sal
to himself for the figure Of the ole
woman.
Wilkie used to say that one day Ban
mister, the actor, called and was shown
in while he was sitting on a low seat
dressed as a woman, with a looking
glass before him, performing the par
Of a model for himself. Wilkie wal
not a man to be in the least discom
posed at being found in such plight
Bannister gazed on him for a momen
or SO, and said:
Il need no Introduction"
"Truly, no." said Wilkie. II know
you very well. but you see, I cam
meve lest I spoil the folds Of my pet
ticoat. l am for the present an oil,
woman"
On one occasion Guido painted tn
head Of a Madonna, using his porter a
4 model
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1907-01-25
Ali Crowned Shah.

Teheran, Jan. 21.-Ali Mohammed
has been crowned Shah of Persia in
the palace. The ceremony took place
in the apartment known as the "mu-
scum" the ministers, diplomats, prin-
ces and mobiles all attending in full
uniforms, which, combined with the
rich hangings and decorations of the
wall, formed a notable picture. There
was general Examinations in the eve
ming. The American and other foreign
legations arranged special displays.