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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-11


 The New Haven road owns 1Os,s4s Eshares of the Boston and Maine rail- road. President Futile stated there were only 185,6S5 shares which could be voted on at the annual meeting held Wednesday.
 Besides the above, Boston and Maine holds in it's treasury 11.2S3 shares which cannot be voted, leaving 295,66S shares
 As it requires a majority of total outstanding shares to elect directors, there was no election of new board, and the old board will be carried over except Henry M. Whitney, who has resigned and in whose place no successor has been appointed. There are now twelve directors.
 As the general law governing rail- road corporations provides that a ma jority interest of all entitled shares may transact business, this permitted the stockholders to authorize the di- rectors to issue the $6,000,000 bonds as called for in the notice for the meeting.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-11
NEW HAVEN MERGER.
Federal Investigation = New Haven
 Has Balance of Power.

Boston, Oct. 1O.-Preparations for the coming investigation of the pro- posed merging of the New York, New Haven and Hartford and the Boston and Maine railroads are being made here to-day by Assistant United States Attorney General Milton D. Purdy, who arrived this morning from Wash ington and immediately went into conference with United States District Attorney Asa P. French, who, by the direction of the department of justice, has been gathering evidence regard ing the consolidation. Upon MT. Pur- dy's report to Attorney General Bona parte will depend the future action of the department.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-11
TELEGRAHERs' OFFICERS
Hold Conference With Railroad Men
 During Brief Stop Here.

T. M. Pierson of St. Louis, second vice. president of the Order of Railroad Photographers, stopped in this city yes- terday on his way to Boston and other points on the Boston & Albany rail- road and it is said that he has plans afloat for the organization of the teleg- raphers on that system. The B. & A. mon have very few members in the telegraphers' order at the present time and it is the intention of MT. Pierson to strengthen the position of the oper- ators on this system by securing new members.
 While in this city MT. Pierson was in consultation with some members of the executive committee of his order on the New Haven railroad, but all is at present harmonious between the lo- cal company and it's employees in this branch of the service.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-11
MARRIAGE PROOF NEEDED.
Without It New Haven Woman k
 Likely to Lose Fortune.

Without It New Haven Woman is
 Likely to Lose Fortune.
 Because Rev. Herman Luther, form- erly a Brooklyn pastor, failed to record the marriage of her father and mother, in this city in 1870, Mrs Minnie shep- ard is likely to lose large fortune
 Her uncle, John Adolph Stubous, died in Australia, last year, leaving his property to his brother, Augustus, or his legal heirs Both Augustus and his wife are dead, and their daughter, Mrs, Shepard, who is the wife of 8 farmer just outside this city, is his only heir.
 On learning of her uncle's death and will she claimed the estate, and was informed by the probate officials of Victoria, Australia, to file certificates attesting her identity. The family Bi- ble records that her father and moth CT were married in the German Luth- eran church in Brooklyn, on May Il. 1870, by Rev MT. Luther, but no rec ord of the marriage can be found in the Brooklyn city records.
 The lawyers who represent Mrs. Shepard have been acquiring testi- mony of neighbors to her identity, but 1t is mainly hearsay evidence, and is unsatisfactory.
 A neighbor who was present at the baptism of either Mrs. Shepard or her sister has been found but he is not certain of the name of the child. The search to discover Rev. MT. Luther will be kept up.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-11
conductor,s Wife Brings Suit.

Alleging intolerable cruelty Mrs. Lillian Elizabeth Collins of this city has brought suit for divorce against Charles F. Collins. The couple were married october 12, 1S97 and have two children, T. E., aged 8, and Edna M. Collins, aged seven, the custody of which is asked for by the mother. The defendant was formerly conductor on the local trolley road. Attorney Carl E. Mears represents Mrs. Collins in the suit which is returnable to the su- perior court on the first Tuesday in November.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-11
Fined for Breach of the Peace.

Walter K. Gordon was charged in the city court yesterday with striking Albert Huntington, a street car con- ductor, and also with drunkenness. The prisoner admitted that he was very drunk in getting on the car bound from Pinehurst to this city Wednesday,. and didn't remember what happened afterwards. Conduc- tor Huntington testified that the man was very abusive and that Jordan struck him in the fact.
 Judge Mathewson had some doubt as to whether the assault was com mitted in Hamden or this city, but for general breach of the peace he fined the accused $10 and costs and suspended judgment on the charge of drunkenness.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-11
sAvIN ROCK
Planning to Have More Amusements
 Next Year.

It Is given out that there Is to be a new amusement firm in the field at savin Rock next season. The firm is composed of Frank Fisher and sam uel Simmons, who is part owner of the Bridgeport polo team,
 While nothing very definite is given out, 1t is understood that Simmons & Fisher have leased from the Connec- ticut company three acres of ground, south of the White City plat, and sit- uated on the original Savin Rock and it Is proposed to, have the usual booths and other amusements.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-11
MATTRESS CAUGHT FIRE.

One more small fire was added to the cant list for the month of October yesterday afternoon when Company 1 went out to AS Hallock street to ex- tingulsh a fire in a mattress in the eel lar at that address, The building Is a six family house and the fire caused some excitement, but there was noth- ing serious and the tiremen squelched the flames before they had time to do any damage. The building is owned by c. A. Meoller.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-11

Nasal catarrh, an Inflammation of the delicate membrane lining the air passages is not cured by any mixtures taken into the stomach. Don't waste time on them. Take Ely's Cream Balm through the nostrils, so that the few cred, swollen tissues are reached all once. Never mind how long you haye suffered nor how often you have beenI disappointed, we know Ely's CreamI Balm will cure you as it has curedI others by the thousand. All druggists soc. Mailed by Ely Bros, 56 Warrenl street, New York.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-11
Student Held for Theft of Book.

Thomas Rufus Tracy of Whitney Point, N. Y, the Yale academic so- phomore, arrested by Detective Ser geant Dennehy ill a Chapel street store as a book thief, gained contin- uance until Saturday in the police court yesterday. Attorney James M. Sullivan was retained as counsel.
 He is now charged with the theft of half dozen books and of point and bulb from wood burning outfit Ac- cording to the detectives. a number of other books were found in his room, which were taken from another store.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-11
BOOKNIAKERS BARRED.
Kentucky Racing Commission Uphold
 Ruling of Judge Hopper.

Lexington, Ky, Oct 1O.--The state racing commission in session here to- day upheld the ruling of Judge Hop per at Latonia in refusing to allow Whiskbroom to be raced, taking the position that Bookmaker Fred Cook has not leased the horse in good faith, but that he had only been transferred for the purpose of allowing Cook to get around the rule applying to book makers. The ruling places a bar on bookmakers actively engaged ill the betting ring from racing horses in Kentucky
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-11

Judge Mathewson before making his decision remarked that he had no objection to the students having their "fun," but when they became a nui- sance they should be punished. He stated in the case of Waldo Frank: q like the honesty of that young man on the witness stand because he said he did not shout and I will take this fact into consideration in\ impos-. ing fines"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-11
Woman is Plaintiff.

Judge Bennett in the common pleas court, civil side, yesterday heard the case of Miss Inger Madsen against Paul Dahlgaard It is suit to have the defendant support the child of the plaintiff.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-11
HAVE HARVEST SUPPER

The ladies of the North Haven c congregational church served a har- vest supper in the parish house last night, Many people from New Haven attended.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-11
No Court Held.

There was no session of the civil side of the superior court yesterday, owing to Judge Gager having an en- gagement elsewhere.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-05-24
VII.
blackjack GOES INTO TRAIN
ING

This brings me to the ugliest story
my enemies have concocted against
me. No one appreciates more thor
oughly than that, to rise high, man
must have his own efforts seconded
by the flood of vituperation that his
enemies send to overwhelm him and
which washes him far higher than he
could hope to lift himself So do not
here refer to any attack on me in the
public prints; | think of them only
with amusement and gratitude. The
story that rankles is the one these
foes of mine set creeping, like snake
under the fallen leaves, everywhere.
anywhere, unseen, without trail. IL
has been whispered into every ear
and 1t is, no doubt, widely believed
that | deliberately put old Bromwell
Ellersly "in q hole" and there tor
tured him until he consented to try to
compel his daughter to marry me.
1t is possible that, if | had thought
of such devilish device, might have
tried it's not an fair in love? But
there was no need for my cudgeling
my brains to carry that particular for
LITIGATION on my way to what | had
fixed my will upon. Bromwell Eller
sly came to me Of his own accord.
| suppose the Ellerslys must have
talked me over in the family circle
However this may be, my acquaint
ance with her father began with
Sans asking me to lunch with him
THE governor has heard me talk OF
you so much" said he, that he IL
anxious to meet you"
offered to help him, and did help
him. Is there any one, knowing any
thing of the facts of life, who will cen
sure me when | admit that with
liberation-simply tided him over
did not make for him and present to
him a fortune? What chance should
| have had, if had been so absurdly
generous to a man who deserved moth
ing but punishment for his selfish and
bigoted mode of life2 L took away
his worst burdens; but | left him
more than he could carry without my
help. And it was not until he had
appealed in vain to all his social
friends to relieve him of the necessity
of my aid, not until he realized that l
was his only hope of escaping a sharp
from luxury to very modest
comfort in fat somewhere-not until
then did his wife send me an invita-
ton to dinner And had not so much
as limited that I wanted it,
(To be Continued.)
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-05-24
KEEP OUT OF THE MAR RAGE MATT HE ADVISED.

pect you've come to get something.
"On the contrary" said l. Il want
to give something. | want to give
you my coal mines"
Il thought you'd see that our offer
was fair" said he. And I'm glad you
have changed your mind about quar-
reling with your best friends. We can
be useful to you, you to us. A break
would be silly"
That's the way it looks to me"
I assented. And l decided that my
sharp talk to Roebuck had set them
to estimating my value to them.
Sam Ellersly," Langdon presently
remarked, tells me he's campaigning
hard for you at the Travellers. hope
you'll make it. We're rather a slow
crowd; a few men like you might stir
things up
give others credit for good sense and
good motives. 1t was not vanity, but
this disposition to credit others with
sincerity and sense, that led me to
believe him, both as to the coal mat
ter and as to the Travellers club
Thanks. Langdon," said; and that
he might look no further for my mo
tive. | added: Il want to get into
that club much as the winner of
race wants the medal that belongs to
him. I've built myself up into a rich
man, into one of the powers in
finance. and 1 feel I'm entitled to
recognition"
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-05-24

you please" said he. AS you please
was his favorite expression; stereo-
typed irony. for in dealing with him,
things were never as you pleased, but
always as he pleased
Next time you want to dig mine
under anybody" | went on, don't hire
SAKE. Really | feel sorry for you--to
have such a clever scheme messed by
such an ass"
IF you don't mind, I'd like to know
what you're talking about" said ne,
with his patient, bored look.
las you and Roebuck own the gov
ernor, ! know your little law ends my
little canal"
Still | don't know what you're talk
ing about" drawled he. You are al
ways suspecting everybody of double
dealing. | gather that this is another
instance of your infirmity. Really,
Blackjack, the world isn't wholly
made up of scoundrels."
Il know that" said l. And | will
even admit that its scoundrels are sell
dom made up wholly of scoundrelism.
Even Roebuck would rather do the
decent thing, If he can do it without
endangering his personal interests. As
for you'll regard you as one of the
decentest men | ever knew-outside of
business. And even there, | believe
you'd keep your word, as long as the
other fellow kept his"
Thank you," said he, bowling IRON
ically. This fiattery makes me gus
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-05-24

IL Contained five short paragraphs.
The Joker" was In the third. which
gave the state canal commission the
right ito institute condemnation pro-
ceedings, and to condemn, and to
abolish, any canal not exceeding 30
miles in length and not a part OF the
connected canal system of the state. .
When | hung up the receiver | was
so absorbed that had forgotten SAKE
was waiting. He made some slight
sound. | wheeled on him. | needed
a vent. If he hadn't been there |
should have smashed a chair. But
there was he-and | kicked him out
of my private office and would have
kicked him out through the anteroom
into the outer hall, had he not gath
cred himself together and run like a
jack-rabbit.
Since that day have done my own
calendar watching.
My lawyers had sold me out; l, fool
that was, had not guarded the only
weak plate in my armor against my
plate over my back,
to shed assassin thrusts. Roebuck
and Langdon between them owned the
governor; he owned the canal COM
mission; my canal, which gave me ac-
cess to tide-water for the product of
my Manasquale mines, was as good
as closed. | no longer had the whip
hand in National Coal. The others
could sell me out and take two-thirds
of my fortune. whenever they liked
for of what use were my mines with
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-05-24

"Ain't I got as proper country
place as there is a-going? Amt my
apartment in the Willoughby a peach?
Don't ! give as elegant dinners as you
ever sat down to- Don't | dress right
up to the Piccadilly latest? Don't
act all right-know enough to keep
my feet eff the table and my knife out
of my MOUTH" All true enough; and
/ so crude then that ! hadn't sus-
picion what flat contradiction of my
pretensions and beliefs about myself
the very words and phrases were.
You're right in 1t, Matt" said am.
"But-well-you haven't travelled with
our crowd, and they're shy of strang-
ers, especially as-as energetic sort
of stranger as you are. You're too
sudden, Matt-too dazzling-too--
Too shiny and new" said /. begin
ming to catch his drift. "That'll be
looked after
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-05-24

no outlet now to any market, except
the outlets the coal crowd owned?
AS soon as | had thought the situa-
ton out in all its bearings, realized
that there was no escape for me now,
that whatever chance to escape |
might have had was closed by my
uncovering to SAKE and kicking him.
But did not regret; it was worth the
money it would cost me. Besides l
thought | saw how I could later on
turn it to good account. A sensible
man never makes fatal errors What
ever he does is at least experience,
and can also be used to advantage.
If Napoleon hadn't been half dead at
Waterloo, don't doubt he would have
used it's disaster as a means 10 a
great victory.
When | walked into Mowbray Lang
don's office, was like thoroughbred
exercising on a clear frosty morning;
and my smile was as fresh as the
flower in my buttonhole. | thrust out
nv hand at him. Il congratulate
you," said |.
He took the proffered hand with
questioning look. :
"On what?" said he. It is hard to
tell from his face what is going on in
his head. but | think | guessed right
when decided that SAKE hadn't yet
warned him.
81 have just found out from SAKE.
pursued, "about the canal BILL
What canal bill?" he asked.
THAT puzzled look was mistake,
Langdon," said |. laughing at him.
When you don't know anything about
a matter, you look merely blank. You
overdid it; you've given yourself
away"
He shrugged his shoulders. -As
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-05-24
MATERIAL FOR MUSIC STRINGS.
Source of SuppIy-Great Amount Re-
CURED to Meet Demand.

zone of the most generally accepted.
but mistaken, ideas that is entertained
by the people of this country" said S.
R. Huyett, American travelling repre-
sentative of a foreign mandatory Of
gut strings, lis that strings used on
musical instruments are manufactured
from catgut. If that were true, the
cats in this world would have been ex-
terminated many yea IS ago in supply
ing the market with material for mu-
steal instrument strings.
The fact is that they are manufac-
tured from the intes-in of sheep, and
in obtaining enough raw material even
from these animals the manufacturers
at times find difficulty.
THE only string made from the in
testines of the feline is that used for
surgical purposes-for sewing up
wounds. One would be-amazed to know
that there are millions of musical in
strument strings used in North Ameri-
ca alone. and just think where the
tabbies would be if they had to supply
the consumption
Another amazing thing is that
there are over 700 different grades OF
musical instrument strings. The de-
mand for strings in North America is
increasing every year. especially in
the south and in Mexico. There are
more guitar strings sold in Mexico
than any other kind, but through the
south the banjo string still holds its
own, despite the fact that every year
has marked slight, but gradual falling
off in the demand. The harp is be
more popular, and there Is a
good demand for strings for this in
City Journal.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-05-24
Lot of Roumanian Laborer
Poor Homes and Long Hours of Work
in the Fields.

Probably no workman in the world
to-day is more to be pitied than ne OF
Roumania. the little Danubian prln-
cipality in which agrarian conditions
are so acute that revolution parallel
TO that of France, though on a smaller
scale, may be anticipated at any time.
The Roumanian laborer is a simple
hearted, kindly fellow. He is rather
tall. with the salfow complexion OF the
French and with an unmistakable sad
ness of countenance born of long cen
turtles of misery. The homes of these
laborers are grouped in villages, and
these villages are like those of the Da-
honey people at the worlds fair
mere novels of earth, for the most
mart. consisting of a single room, with
a protruding roof to form portico
in which the laborer spends his few
hours of ease.
Inside these homes show varying de-
grees of culture. Some of them have
their walls covered with white cloth
much fiuted and adorned with rows OF
lace in lieu of wallpaper. Still others,
however, and these are in the major
ity. are forced to content themselves
with a coating of whitewash tinged
with the glue that is so popular in
Roumania. The humblest simply have
the wattlings filled in with earth to
keep out the winter winds. Here the
laborer sleeps and spends the winter.
II ofbar caaconS at sunrise the men
of the family and all the women, ex-
cept the one whose duty it is to at
tend to the home. take the ungainly
Cape buffalo and make their way to
the fields, there to pillow and SOW and
reap in most primitive fashion. To
keep the pillow down firmly in the fur
row the little ones sit upon the frame
while the father guides the team
Southern Workman.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-05-24

country and which daily reached Up
ward of five million people. Sam Ell
lersly came in. His manner was GER
tainly different from what it had ever
been before; difference so subtle
that | couldn't describe it more nearly
than to say it made me feel as if he
had not until then been treating me
as of the same class with himself. l
smiled to myself and made an entry
in my mental ledger to the credit OF
Mowbray Langdon.
That club business is going nicely"
said Sam. 'Langdon is enthusiastic,
and | find you've got good friends on
the committee"
/ knew that well enough. Hadn't
| been carrying them on my books at
good loss for two years.
IF it wasn't for-for some features
of this business of yours" he went
on, I'D say there wouldn't be the
slightest trouble"
"Bucket-shop?" said | with an easy
ginning to get on my nerves.
Exactly" said he. And. you know.
you advertise yourself like-like--"
Like everybody else, only more
successfully than most" said |.
Everybody advertises. each one
adapting his advertising to the needs
of his enterprises, as far as he knows
how"
That's true enough" he confessed.
"But there are enterprises and enter
prises, you know"
you can tell EN-, SAM" said !,
don't believe to be true, and that when
any of my followers lose on one of my
tips, I've lost on it, too. For | play
my own tips-and that's more than
can be said of my 'fnancier' in this
town"
After a while | dragged in the sub
ject. "One thing | am and will do to
get myself in line for that club"
said, like seal on promenade. I'm
sick of the crowd / travel with-the
men and the women. | feel it's about
time | settled dowD I've got for
tune and establishment that needs &
woman to set it off. can make some
woman happy. You don't happen to
know any nice girls-the right sort
mean?'
Not many" said Sam You'd bet
ter go back to the country where you
came from, and get her there. Shed
be eternally grateful, and her head
wouldn't be full of mercenary non
sense"
Excuse mel" exclaimed l. It'd
turn her head. She'd go clean crazy.
She'd plunge in up to her neck-and
not being used to these waters, she'd
make show of herself. and probably
drown, dragging me down with her, If
possible"
Sam laughed. Keep out of mar
rage, Matt" he advised, not so OBJ
fuse to my real point as he wanted me
to believe. II know the kind of girl
you've got in mind. Shed marry you
for your money. and she'd never ap-
preciate you. She'd see in you only
the lack of the things she's been
taught to lay stress on"
For instance?"
Il couldn't tell you any more than l
could enable you to recognize per-
son you'd never seen by describing
him"
Amt a gentleman" l inquired.
He laughed, as if the idea tickled
him. "Of course" he said. "Of
course"
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-05-24
VI.
OF "GENTLEMEN.v

When l got back to my office and
was settling to the proofs of the Let
tiers to Investors" which l published
in sixty newspapers throughout the