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Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-12-06
COAL Mine FRAUDS
GOVERNMENT AGENT WAS
MURDERED In COLORADO.
Secret Service Men Say Charge Can
Be Proved--Say They Have the
Names of Ten Bad Men-Affair at
Hesperus Mine, According to Denver
News, May Develop Into Sensation.

The Denver News publishes a story
that Chief Willxie of the United States
secret service is in possession of
mass of evidence, some of which will
be verified by witnesses and much
more of a circumstantial nature, that
10 men are involved in the alleged con-
spiracy to murder United States Sc
cret Service Agent Joseph Walker
who was killed at the Hesperus mine,
near Durango, Col, recently by
miner named Vanderweide, while in
search of evidence to be used in the
prosecution of men indicted on the
charge of defrauding the government
out of valuable coal lands. Chief
Wilkie is preparing a detailed report,
which will be submitted to President
Roosevelt ON his request at an early
date.
Since the death of Walker, 80 men
from the government secret service
have been in the neighborhood gather
ing evidence and when Chief Wilkie
visited that section a few days ago
full report was made to him. The claim
that Walker was shooting at Wander
| WtiUC anu superintendent hdSOn vi
the Hesperus mine, who was with Van
derweide at the time the latter killed
Walker has always been secuted by
the government agents, on the theory
that ii would have been impossible to
L have shot Walker in the manner he
was shot had he been facing the men
8 and shooting at them.
Z Following this view, they made eff
q forts to ascertain If there was others
present at the time of the shooting and
81 have learned that four other men, all
IL armed with rifles, were near by and
were present, they claim, for the pur
d pose of carrying out the alleged plan
"a to murder Walker 1t is further as
" serted on good authority that the
le names of these four men are in the
e. possession of the government repre-
sentatives, and they will be appre
IS hended in due time. The local brancl
of the department of justice has served
lie 10 subpenas upon persons requiring
them to appear before the fedora
d. grand jury, which will meet in Denve
of- December IL, and has about a dozel
more to serve.
OF the persons already served, it /
said that several are under suspicio
of being connected with the allege
e., conspiracy to kill Walker. An effort
in verify the above through Mr. Wheele
re- and United States District Attorne
TT Earl Cranston was unavailing, bot
men refusing to confr NOR deny ii
mt story. Another development in tn
& investigation of the Walker killing
re- the fact that an effort will be made
nv. prosecute Vanderweide and Maso
I'VE who are now charged with murder,
of the federal court. Should the feder
nd court take cognizance OF THIS connie
/. ton, the Colorado law providing cal
err tai punishment would be made to a
led nlY
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-12-06

During the fiscal year 1907 the ex-
ports of farm products exceeded the
imports by S444, 100000, balance that
has been exceeded only four tines
in 1898, 1899, 1901 and 1902.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-12-06

The difference between many
mans inner and outer life is precisely
like an immaculate shirt that covers
filthy hide.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-12-06

When some men make a palpable
mistake, how quickly they invent e
ridiculous excused
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-12-06
Steamer and Crew
Reported Lost
Coeur d'Alene

Occur d'AleDe City Idaho, Dec. g.
At 2 O'Clock this morning no word had
come from the missing steamer Defeu-
der. The steamer Colfax is within a
few miles of here, sounding her whistle.
The steamer Boneta is supposed to be
lost somewhere on the lake in the fog.
1t is reported that the steamer Defend
er was wrecked on r. reef mile and q
half from Mica bay about z O'Clock
Monday night and that 10 passenger
and the crew welre lost. The lake il
covered with thick fog, and none o.
the boats here or in Mica bay will ven
ture out
Later Report.
A later report says the Defender di'
strike q rock, but was not much dam
aged and had gone into bay and re
NAMED there all night and that NJ
lives were lost.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-12-06

A determined thief usually gets what
he is after.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-12-06
Wheat Valuation.

The wheat crop of 1907 is 625,576,O0o
bushels, 5 per cent less than the aver
age quantity for the five preceding
years. But the value is about $500, OOO,-
600, OF 51h per cent more than the
average. although the crops of 1900
1902 and 1905 had each slightly high
er value than that of this year.
The farm value of sugar beets, SUI
gar cane, sorghum cane and molasses
and syrup made on the farm is $64,
100000.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-12-06
Exports and Imports.

During the fiscal year ended June
80, 1907, the domestic exports of farm
products were valued at 81 ,055, 200. 600,
or $79.000,O00 above the high record
for 1906. Plant products made up four
tfths of this total, cotton alone
amounting to s482,OOO,000.
Cotton is the greatest of all our ex
ports, having, in 1907, 291a per cent
of the total value.
Agricultural products valued al
1927, 100000 were imported during the
past fiscal year-$403,O 100000 worth Of
plant products and 1924 900, 900 worth
OF animal products. The principa
items smong these imports were;
Sugar and molasses, 1914 100000; cot
fee, $7S,O00,0OO; fibers, $4,000 600
packing house products (mostly hides
and skins), S96,000,000; silk, S71, 900,
600; and wool, $42,O0O,OOO.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-27
WEDDING AT BLUEFIELD.

The beautifully decorated Church OF
the Sacred Heart was at 5 o'clock yes
lerday afternoon the scene Of one OF the
greatest social events that bss taken
place 10 this city for some time when
Mr.. Martin J. Welcb, of Niagara Falls,
led to the matrimonial altar Miss Annie
NJ, the attractive and accomplished
daughter of Col and Mrs. O. O'Leary.
The church was crowded soon after
the doors we're opened with their many
friends from this locality and distant
cities. The ceremony was solemnized by
Father E. Oliver, Of the BRIDES church,
assisted By Father Grace, pastor of the
groom's church.
Tie bridal party entered promptly
at 8 o'clock to the strains OF Mendels-
sohn's glorious wedding march from the
accomplished hands OF Miss Gertrude
Watts. Messrs. w. w. Bentley and w.
n. Pack, the ushers, coming first, follow
cd by the groom and best man,
Mr. Geo. 0Leary, aud the bride
and maid of honor, Miss Jen-
ME Welch. The service opened with
the beautiful solo, ooh, Pfomise Me-"
sung in master:ul manner by Professor
@. w. Patterson who, the general opin-
ion was, sang better than eyer he
has been heard 10 before. After the
ceremony the bridal party drove to the
residence of Col. O'Leary, on Princeton
avenue, where e sumptuous supper was
served, after which a reception was
rendered their many friends. The happy
couple left on No. Is for an extended
tour of eastern cities, after which they
will 90 TO Niagara Falls, where Mr..
Welch is in the stationery business,
there to make their future nome. MIR.
and Mrs Welch received msny hand
some and expensive presents, consisting
of cut glass, furniture, silserwsre, table
linens and j-welrY, also substantial
check from The colonel. = Blueheld,
West Virginia. Ledger.
The bride is the daughter OF. Mr.. Cor
nelius O'Leary, formerly OF this city,
and who has a large acquaintance In
Alexandria.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-27
The Striking Lastefs.

Boston, Sept. BY conspicuous
advertisement in all the Boston papers
today, the W. L. Douglass shoe Com
pany declares its intention of standing
firm against the striking lasters, aud
asks for ten to take the latter's places
The shoe trade regards the trouble as 8
crisis in the affairs of the National Shoe
Workers Union. The Douglass Com
pany is under agreement with the union
to employ members only in good stand
ing, and advertises that only such will
be accepted to take the places of those
who left yesterday. The strikers belong
to The local Brockton union, which re-
Gently seeded from the body. The strike
followed the compaDy's refusal to recog.
nize the seceders' walking delegates, and
if the latter can force the company to
recognize them they will have won an
important step in their effort to establish
a national organization rivaling the pres
ent national body.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-27
Passenger Train Wrecked.

Harrisburg, Pa, Sept. IA hurry
call for physicians and q wIeckiDg train
has reached the Offices of the Pepnsylva-
MIA Railroad from Duncanon, 10 miles
west Of here, where, il is reported, q
passenger train has been wrecked and
half dozen persons killed and several
injured. The wrecking crew and re-
lief train have been dispatched to the
scene.
All wires to the scene of the wreck
are down aud the local officials declare
they have no positive information.
The train wrecked was the local which
left here west bound at 1910. 1t is de-
clared to have ran into q stalled freight
train one mile west of Duncanon.
Baltimore, Sept. 27.-At the Office OF
the Superintendent of Pennsylvania Rail-
road at Union Station, it was said the
death list would reach about fifteen per-
sons
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-27
OIL Tank Explodes.

New York, Sept. 27.-Two men are
known to have been killed and third is
missing and probably dead as result
Of the explosion of a 10000 gallon oil
tank of the Bronx Gas and Electric
Company's property in the northern
part of the city. The tank has been
used as a storage place for crude oil,
used in sprinkling the tracks where auto
mobile races are frequently held IN the
neighborhocd. James Cooper, Richard
Smith and James Reilly, three men en-
ployed in sprirkling these tracks, visited
the tank last night and we're filling their
carts when the explosion occurred. A
pillar Of fame shot up from the tank,
the lid of which was blown high in the
air, landing beside the Catholic Pro-
tectory Association building, some dis
lance away, and causing panic among
the 1900 inmates. Volunteer fremen
found Cooper lying some distance fIom
the tank with his clothing in flames.
He died on bis way to the nearest hos
pital. Another body was found close
by, but so badly charred that 1t was
impossible to discern whether it was
that of Smith or Reilly. 1t was i'm
possible to extinguished the fire in the
tank, and the flames we're permitted to
burn themselves out. The fire was started
by lantern carried by one of the sprink-
ling cart men.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-27
INCREASED ASSESSMENT OF
RAILROAD PROPERTY.

The State of Virginia is undertaking,
through Attorney General Anderson, to
have the assessments of railroad rights OF
way, roSdbed and track increased for
purposes of taxation. Tue case was heard
by the corporation commission 10 Rich
mOud yesterday. The railroads are try
ing to show that such q thing would
work hardship and that it is contrary
to the constitution of the State.
Major Anderson is taking the ground
that the corporation commission has the
right to fix the valuation of the roadbed,
the right of way and the tracks each and
every year that the constitution 80
directs, and that it is wholly within the
province Of the commission to increase
the values of the property at any time.
While members of the commission have
said nothing on The subject, the very
best of reasons exist for the belief that
several of The roads will find their prop
er.y to be worth more this year than it
ever has heen before; and that the basis
for this increase is to be found 10 the
actual operations of the companies az
reported to the commission, and which
shows that the earnings especially are
reached by allowing 6 per cent. on the
value of the property and the securities
outstanding.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-27
MRS. SWANSON.

The little town of Edgewater, N. j.,
has completely lost its heart to Mrs.
Claude A. Swanson, wife of the Cover
nor of Virginia, who has been visiting
there al the home Of her sister, Mrs.
Henri BONNER. Gov. Swanson was one
of the speakers at the meeting Of the
Bankers Association 10 Atlantic City,
aud when he came north he brought his
handsome young wife with him. She is
known as "the Mrs. Cleveland of Rich
mond," because If her beauty, charm of
manner and her great simplicity. With
her two sisiers, Mrs. BONNER and Mrs.
Cunningham Hall, of Richmond, she
reigns supreme in Virginia society, the
sisters being called "lhe Three Graces
OF Virginia" Their father was Peter
Lyons, a prominent Richmond physi-
elan, and on their mothers aide they are
descended from Francis Deane, another
noted medical man. Mrs. SEsnson's
girlhoCd was spent in The historic village
of Ashland, Henry Clsy's birthplace.
IA the "first lady" of her State, and
the hostess EXT fficio of The jamestown
Exposition, she has entertained many
world celebrities. - Philadelphia North
American.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-27
Missing Financier.

New York, Sept. 27.-Neither The
police nor private detectives engaged in
the search have found the least clue TO
the whereabouts Of Andrew Mcintyre,
one of the best known financiers of Birm-
ingham, Ala. Mclntyre's wife, the last
person who saw him, says he left their
rooms at the Marlborough Hotel at O..
N. Wednesday. There is not even a
theory on which to work, and the miss
ing mans striking appearance makes
the case all the more battling. McIutyre,
who for ten years has spent some time in
New York every summer, left his hotel
saying he was going down town to keep
a business appointment and would be
back in two hours. Inquiry Of the firm
he was to have visited disclosed the fact
that he never kept his appointment.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-27

The LATE DR.. Livingstone was once
asked If lions 10 Africa caused him sp-
prehension while be was exploring the
dark continent. The doctor replied by
saving there was more danger of q man
being killed by London omnibuses than
of being injured by lions. The danger
of being killed or crippled by cars or
vehicles 10 a large city is but little rea-
lized by the thousands who are COM
PEELED 10 move through the conges!ed
streets. 1t is said that life is lost
every fifteen hours in New York under
the wheels OF a passenger car, surface,
elevated, or steam. 10 twenty-aix days
I45 persons we're hurt in car collisions,
and 465 in collisions between cars and
vehicles. Once in each hour and twenty
nine minutes of the period some person
was struck by a car, making total Of
4O5. Sixty-tour persons were Injured
in boarding cars, and 1868 were Injured
in alighIing from them. Employees to
the number of GAL were hurt; SS persons
were hurt in derailments; rs prospective
passengers fell down s,airwsys, and
1881 persons we're hurt in unclassitied
ways. A total of $500 were either
killed or injured in the twenty-six days.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-27
Death from Hydrophobia.

Hartford, Conn, Sept. 27.-After a
series of commissions lasting IA hours,
Alfred Tivey is dead of hydrophobia at
the Hartford Hospital. Six weeks ago
Tivey WIS bitten in the face by strange
dog. He bad the wound cauterizsd, but
Wednesday complained of feeling III and
was waiting in drug store for dose
of morphine when taken with conyul-
sions. Tiyey swallowed the solution
with much difficulty and fell to the
floor rigid. At the hospital serum was
sent for from New York. Tivey was
kept in a straight jacket. There were
intervels between convulsion at first, but
these soon ceased and the attacks that
ended with his death were continuous.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-27
Attended Abduction.

Rochester, N. Y, Sept. 27.-One of
the bOldest kidnappings in Rochester po-
lice annals was perpetrsted at a. m.
today when four Italians seized pretty
l5-year-old Filomena Di Ponizio, daugh-
ter of Michael Di Ponizio, asshe was
going to work, and throwing her into a
closed carriage drove rapidly away. The
kidnapping WAS in sight of the girls
home and neighbors witnessed it. With
10 two hours the kidnappers and the
victim were overhauled at Scottsville.
Police followed the kidnappers on motor
cycles aud in automobiles The quartette
gave The names OF Ruggioro Tnrbans,
Orlando, Antonio Berlondi, and Charles
Mcdonald. Tie kidnappers are locked
up at police headquarters. TuEbano
was formerly b)srder at the Di Ponizlo
home until his attentions TO the girl
cau5ed her parents to ask Turbano to
leave. Twice Turbano is said to have
threatened the girl unless he was per
mitted to marry her.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-27
Harry Tbaw.

New York, Sept. 27,-In a cOyp-
righted article by Charles Somerville
appearing in the New York Evening
Journal today Harry K. Thaw, is quoted
in the first direct interview he hiss given
since the night of the Madison Square
Garden tragedy. Thaw states his choice
of lawyers for the next trial and ex-
presses absolute certainty of his acquittsl
within the next six months. He pays a
high tribute to the loyalty of his young
wife, for love of whom he put himself in
bis present plight. Mr. Littleton will
be chief COUNSEL at the next trial, and
Messrs. Hsrtridge and Gleason will be
out of the case.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-27
FRIDAY EVENING. SEPT. 81, 1907.
THE Protestant Episcopal Church Of

THE Protestant Episcopal Church OF
Baltimore is making a movement toward
reaching the masses ofthe people bv
not waiting for people to come to the
churches, but by going after them'
Tn ,se engaged in the propaganda will
conduct street preaching, or will go any
where in order to secure hearers. The
plan will be put into operation on Sun
day October 6, when meeting will be
held at the entrance of Fort McHenry.
The plan Of street preaching was decided
upon by Bishop Paret. In a recent
article in the Maryland Churchman he
discussed tie subject throughly. He is
convinced that it will be successful.
It WAS by his work in the SOCIAL
cd East f ID OF London that Bishop ln-
gram first made his mark as a clergyman.
He b gan by house-to-house work among
the poor and in the slums, and before
long was preaching to great throngs in
the parks and anywhere else that he
could get an audience together. No
conventional restraints, of the sort which
many of his brethren seemed to feel,
served to hold back the young priest
when he considered that he could reach
the people of his neighborhOod. Open
air debates with sgnostics were features
of his work 10 the East End.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-27
News Of the Day.

A bomb was exploded in the rear o.
The Morrison building in Chicago lasi
night. The structure was badly dam
aged
American, British and Continental
managers of explosives have combined
to raise the price of their comm Odity q
per cent.
A strike hiss been declared on the
United Railways at Cardenes, Cub,
The strikers are reported to be acting
peacesbly.
Cousuelo, Duchess OF Marlborough,
will sail for this country from England
on October 16 for visit to her mother,
Mrs. Oliver. II. p. Belmont.
A ferrybost crossing the Tombigbee
river at the government works, at Nc
Crews shoals near Jackson, Ala. lac
yesterday, was capsized, drowning one
white boy and thirteen negroes.
Remarks made by the President yes
terdsy to some of his visitors are being
interpreted 10 mean that he will not rec
ommend additional antitrust legislstion
in his message to the Sixtieth Congress
President Roosevelt announced yes
terday afternoon that he would approve
the constitution for the new State OF
Oklahoms, recently adopted by the
people of Oklahoms vnd Indian Terri
tory. This action of the President
guarantees the admission OF the new
State into the Union.
Mrs. Carrie Nation decided that she
had had about enough ofihe workhouse,
so she paid her fine of $22 "a aud walk
ed out of prison 10 Washington yesterday.
Mrs. Nation says the workhou0e is al
right, but it is not a suitable place in
which to make speeches, and che found
her powers of oratory materially curbed
while within its walls.
Wilbnr Glenn V0liva, who tore the
reins of government of Zion City from
the hands of John Alexander Dowle and
expected to reign in his stead after the
death of Elijah III, Wednesday night
announced to 1000 of his followers in
that city that lie had given up the fight.
At the same time he announced that he
had lost the options upon the land in
New Mexico where he had expected to
found new colony, but would buy prop
erty adjacent tc Zion City and found the
colony there.
In spite of the recent announcement
that the new union station in Washing
toE was to be occupied by the Baltimore
and Ohio, The Pennsylvania and other
railroads on October J, which would be
Tuesday of next week, there is now a
strong possibility of another postpone
ment for at least a month. The street
railways facilities at the new union
station are still poor aud must remain
unsatisfactory, until Congress gives
the street railways the right To lay adj
ditional tracks.
We're st. Leger Goold, whose father
was an Irish magistrate, and who lived
II sometime in Montreal, and whose
brother, Sir James Stephen Goold, lives
10 south Australia, where he works as
laborer on railroad, has written to the
Judge at Monte Carlo col Tossing that he
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-27
The Princess Louise.

Dresden, Sept. 27.-Tbe King OF
5sxony presided at meeting of the
Saxon cabinet today at which it was de-
cided to continue the allowance made to
the former Crown Princess Louise, now
Nine. Toselli. The king, however, an
nounced that he intended to take her
youngest child from her, and to that end
two emissaries were dispatched TO Rome
to enlist the services of the Italian gov
eminent 10 his behalf. The king also
caused it to be announced that he will
pay 81, 900 for information of the place
the child has been hidden BY its mother.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-27
Today's Telegraphic News.
InvestIgatIng Standard OIL.

New York, Sept. 27.--Tba. Frank B.
Kellogg intends to drive ais probe deep
into the very heart OF the complicated
and mysterious inner workings OF The
Standard Oil Company Of New York
became more apparent today when 1t was
learned that he had summoned Joseph
Seep, Of Oil City, Pa, and P. s. Trainer
to appear here in the suit Of the govern
ment TO dissolve the parent corporation.
Seep is in charge of the Seep Agency,
which buys all The crude oil purchased
by the Standard OF New jersey from any
source. After Seep has bought it, the
oil passes into the Ownership" whose
name appears as the shipper on all the
books OF the pipe line companies. kel-
logg is anxious TO know all about these
little peculari,ies Of the Standards sys-
TEN, and will seek to force the witnesses
to tell why such measures are taken.
he has become greatly Interested in the
pipe lines since he learned that the IDdi-
ana Pipe Line made 400 per cent. profit
in 1903 on its capital of 81, 900, 900.
George CHESHIRE, controller and stcre-
tary OF the Standard pipe lines, states
that the Buckeye Pipe Line company
''deposited with" the National Transit
Company its surplus funds, maintaining
an average approximately Of $5, 600, 600
The plant cost 50, 095 967 and in 1906
earned 81, O2S, 56S. The deposits ap-
peared on the balance sheets in Kellogg's
hands as "loans," but he insisted they
we're deposits. awe used the National
Tansit Company as our bank" he ex-
planned.
II developed that the National Pipe
Line Company has paid the Standard of
New York over $1,000, 900, in rentals
for the use of the newly discovered pipe
line which extends under the Hudson
river, across Manhattan leland under
Central Park, and under the East river
to Long Island City. No one outside Of
the Standard people knew this line ex-
listed until this investigation began.