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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-03
HER DOUBLE" WAS FOUND.
A Remarkable Case of Mistaken lden-
tity Is Reported from New York.

New York. One of the most
remarkable cases of mistaken
identity ever brought before the
courts in this city reached its climax
Thursday when the victim, Mrs. Alex
ander Trautman, wife of prominent
physician, was honorably discharged
after hearing in police court on q
charge of larceny After Mrs Traut-
man had been given her liberty her
accuser, Peter J. Hogan, clerk, was
arrested on a charge of assault pre-
ferred by Mrs. Trautman.
In support of her charge that Hogan
treated her roughly when he caused
her arrest she showed the magistrate
black and blue marks on her arm
where Hogan had seized her. The evil
dence against Mrs. Trautman was of
so flimsy a nature that Magistrate
Finn dismissed the complaint without
even bringing the most important wit
ness into the court room. This wit
ness, who was an unwilling one is
known as Kitty Wilson, and she is al
most a perfect double" of the woman
who was arrested
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-03
SOLDIER ASSAULTS A WOMAN.
A Member of the Twenty-fifth infantry
Adds Another to the List of Crimes
Committed by Men of that Regiment

Eel Reno, Okla.-A negro soldier
assaulted Mrs. T. S. Clifford,
wife of prominent physician Of this
place, Thursday afternoon near the
Rock Island station.
Mrs. Clifford and her sister, Mrs s.
M. Clark, were attempting to pass a
negro soldier of the Twenty fifth in
fantry when he viciously grabbed Mrs.
Clifford around the waist and threw
her into the street, eXclaiming that
the sidewalk belonged to him. Mrs.
Clark screamed and the assailant fled.
News of the attack spread rapidly.
The entire police department, rein
forced by several hundred men and
boys. searched the town and surround.
ing country, but last evening the chase
was given up.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-03
A CHARGE OF FORGERY.
1t Is Preferred Against Cashier Rine.
hart, of the Wrecked Bank at
Waynesburg, Pa.

Pittsburg, Pa.-An additional charge
OF forgery was on Wednesday
preferred against ]. B. F. Rinehart
former cashier of the Farmers and
Drovers' National Bank of Waynes-
burg, Pa. In the information he is
charged with forging the name of a
prominent Waynesburg man to a note
for $4,000. Rinehart waived hearing
and gave bail for his appearance at
the February term of criminal court.
The information was made by Pres
ident Reed, of the First National Bank
of Reedville, Pa. He charges Rinehart
with forging the name of County Re-
corder j. F. Tilton, of Waynesburg, on
October 81 last to a note of $4,000. A
warrant for the arrest of Rinehart was
issued and placed in the hands of
constable. Before the warrant could
be served, however Rinehart appear
ed before the justice, waived hear
ing and gave bail of $4,000. Almost
Immediately following this j. f. Miller,
John A. Goodwin and John Strosnider,
local contractors, stated that they
would Immediately prefer charges
against the former bank cashier alleg-
ing that he had raised a note given by
them from $500 TO $1,000.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-03
THE CAR SHORTAGE.
Letters from Residents of Northwest
ern States Tell of Almost Un-
believabIe Conditions.

Washington, ID. c. - Interstate
Commerce Commissioner Lane, who
has had direct charge of ameliorating
conditions in the northwest, where
both coal and car famines have pre-
vailed, is in daily receipt of hundreds
of letters from dealers and residents
in North Dakota Minnesota, Wyoming
and Idaho that tell an interesting
story of existing conditions.
Some of the writer's go to the extent
of saying that in many instances
freight trains have not passed railroad
stations for month or six weeks, and
that hundreds of thousands of dollars
have been lost to the farmers and ele-
vator men, particularly in North Da-
kota, by reason of their failure to OBJ
tain cars to move their wheat and fax.
Commissioner Lane received a let
ter, which is a sample of many, from
Cheyenne, n. D.. in which it was
stated that on November 26 a car was
billed from that point and that on the
18th inst. the car was still on the side
track and a freight train had not
passed up or down for weeks.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-03
EULL FLOODED MASHPEE WINS
FREE SCHOLARSHIP.
Vindicates Her Race in Education and
Will Prepare Herself to Teach
A Descendant of Mighty
Warriors.

Boston.-The aboriginal American
the longtime predecessor of the
Norseman, the pilgrim and the puri-
tan, the red-skinned first settler of
these happy hunting grounds-has at
last been vindicated by a modest
twentieth-century maiden.
May Simons is a -blooded In
dian girl, though born and raised in
Massachusetts. She has won a free
scholarship that assures her the great
object of her life, thorough educa-
ton.
She has just started for Hampton,
Va, where she will take the two
years course which will prepare her
for teacher of the higher grades in
the public schools.
In little two-story cottage which
faces Onset Bay Grove lives an Indian
woman, an old Indian woman, who
has of late formed the habit of smil-
ing much to herself.
Isaac Simons and his wife, who was
then a beautiful Indian girl herself,
came to Onset Bay some IL or IA
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-03
BY THE POISON ROUTE.
A Man and Woman Commit Suicide In
the Jail at Elmira, N. Y.

Elmira, N Y.-Although a guard
was standing close beside him
last night, Frank Delaney, a railroad
man, succeeded in a bold attempt to
end his life and the life of a woman
who occupied cell in the woman's
dormitory of the Elmira county Jail.
The woman was Bessie Wells, await
ing sentence, on January 3, for abduct-
ing a young girl and harboring her for
immoral purposes.
Delaney possessed power Of attor-
ney for the woman, and when he
called at the Jail and stated that he
wished to consult her regarding the
signing of important papers, there was
no objection on the part of the war
den, who sent a guard along with him.
The guard stood close by while the
man and woman were comforting to-
gether, when suddenly Delaney drew
from his pocket a bottle of carbolic
acid and passed it through the bars.
The woman seized it and swallowed
the contents. Instantly Delaney
pressed second bottle to his own
lips The guard sprang upon him,
but the man fought him fiercely for
moment and then collapsed. He died
before a physician could be called.
When the door of the cell was I'M
bolted the woman lay dying on the
floor. She, too, died within a short
time.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-03
Keel Openings Are Bailins Device.

States life saving service Possessing
great strength and buoyancy, and be-
ing very difficult to capsize, it's supe-
riority over the ordinary lifeboat for
long trips is at once evident.
In the floor of the boat, which is
so placed as to be on a level with
the water when manned, are several
openings, each connecting by a
metal tube with an opening in the
bottom.
AS water cannot rise above it's
own level, and as each tube is closed
at the floor level by a valve which
opens downward, no water can pass
up into the boat while any dashine
in from above is at once shipped
through the tubes. So quickly is this
accomplished that a full boat can
empty itself in about half a min.
ute.
In order to procure the self-right.
ing quality, each is furnished with
heavy iron keel and we'll provided
with ballast.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-03
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A WATCH eco YEARS OLD.
Made in London and Handed Down
From Father to Sen.

Kansas City-Probably the oldest
watch in this city and one OF the old
est in the United States is owned by
Guy H. Claiborne, a telegraph opera
tor. This watch has kept accurate
time for 29S years. 1t is a large sill
yer hunting case, key winding time
piece, the works of which are set with
numerous small Clipped diamonds
Instead of the Roman figures upon The
lace there appears the name Geo. T..
Claiborne, the letter G. indicating the
twelfth hour, the E the first hour, etc.
It's first owner was William Clai-
borne, who was born in 1887 of Eng
ish parentage. The watch was pre-
sented to him by his father upon the
attainment of his majority, and since
then it has been handed down from
father to the oldest son. 1t was he
who brought it to America and car
ried it throughout his incumbency as
treasurer of the Virginia colony III
1888. He also carried it with him
when, with his fellow Protestant col
onists, he engaged in a minor conflict
with the Catholics Of Maryland, which
resulted in the latter being driven
out of their domain, although later on,
after the Catholics received reinforce
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-03
AN ALABAMA TRAGEDY.
Two Negroes Killed ard Two White
Men Badly Injured.

Selma, Ala. - Two white men
were badly injured, two negroes
killed and third negro wounded in a
shooting scrape near Nicholasville
Marengo county. Alexander Jones, a
young negro, shot and wounded an
other negro during crap game
Jones fed and barricaded himself in
his house. Leo Pope and Zeke Pope
white men, attempted to arrest Jones'
when the negro opened fire, wounding
both. A crowd of white men gathered
and efforts were made to drive the ne
gro from the house Bob Jones, faith.
er of Alexander, tried to carry ammu-
milton to his son, but was shot dead
Several negroes Joined the besieg-
ing party and one negro, for a reward
of So, crept up to the house and set
fire to it. Alexander Jones never left
the house and was burned to death in
the flames. There was not the slight
est rupture between the races, whites
and blacks joining in the attempt to
capture the negro.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-03
Old Claiborne Watch.

ments, they recaptured their lost trad
ing post. This engagement is re-
corded in history as Claiborne's rebel
lion, although the name is spelled
Clayborne.
At the death of William Claiborne it
was presented to his son, Lieutenant
Colonel William Claiborne, and who in
turn presented it to his son, William
Claiborne, Jr, of Romancoke, who
died in 1905. 1t then passed into the
hands of the eldest son, also named
William Claiborne, who carried it un-
til 1746, at whose death it passed into
the hands of Phillip Whitehead Clai-
borne, the husband OF Elizabeth Dand-
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-03
Express Manager Shoots Himself.

New York = Benjamin Brown,
financial manager of the Amer
lean and United States Express
companies, shot and probably fatally
wounded himself while in an office of
the two companies in Brooklyn, We'd
neSday.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-03
Trolley Road Raises Wages.

Columbus, O.-The wages of the
conductors and motormen on
the interurban line from Columbus to
GAINESVILLE will be increased January
1, from one to two cents per hour, ac-
cordng to length of service.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-03
Yaaui Indians Butchered Mexicans

Nogales, Mexico.-Details are ar
riving here of the butchery of q
party of Mexicans by Yaqu Indians
near Valencia. Eight MeXicans and
one American were killed. There
were over 100 Indians in the attacking
party.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-03
Furnace Workers Wasea to be Raised.

Pittsburg, Pa.-The employees in
the blast furnaces in the Mahoning
and Shenango valleys have been noti-
fled that they will receive an increase
of 10 per cent. with the beginning of
the new year.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-03
SELF-RiGHTlNG LIFE BOAT
Craft Which Cannot Be swamped by
Filling with Water.

New York.-The self-righting, self
bailing boat herewith illustrated is
one of number used in the United
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-03

ridge, a great granddaughter of Thorn
as II.
In I'LL it became the property OF
William Dardridga Claiborne, who in
1871 was married to Miss Euphamie
Taylor of Taylorville, Va, the daugh-
ter of an old and aristocratic Virginia
family. From his hands it passed into
those of DR.. George Claiborne, at that
time practicing physician of Rich
mond, Va. 1t was he who had the
original face removed. replacing it
with the one that bears his name.
With this exception the timepiece has
never been in the hands of a jeweler
to receive other than a cleaning and
readjustment.
It's next owner was Thomas Nelson
Claiborne, who was born at Liberty
hall. the old Claiborne manor, near
Richmond. son of the Richmond
physician and father of its present
owner.
The watch was worn by William
Claiborne in his duel with Andrew
Jackson, which resulted in Claiborne
being slightly wounded by the famous
TenneSSeean.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-03
sryan Admits He Will be a Candidate.

Topeka, Kan.-ln an interview
Thursday William ]. Bryan vir
tually admitted that he would be a
candidate for the presidential nomina.
tion before the next national demo
cratic convention.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-03

years ago and with them came the
merest bundle Of baby, tiny crea.
ture with silent lips and big dark
eeyeS.
Isaac Simons and his wife loved the
life that the white man lives and so
they called the child by the name Of
The white peoples child-Eya May
5imons-and as soon as she was old
enough they sent her 10 school.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-03
Bright Indian Maiden.

The Mashpee Indians are the orig
inal owners of Massachusetts,. Before
the white man had stepped foot on the
rock-strewn shores the Mashpee In
dians were monarchs of all they SUI.
veyed
Though the name of the Onset Bay
family is Simons and for a couple of
generations back has been Simons,
it was not always So Time was when
the grandsires Of Eva May Simons
stood proudly erect because they were
mighty warriors of fame and the aris-
tocratic blood of chiefs ran in their
veins and because to hunt and fish
and kill was the consummation of
mans desire.
When they took the white mans
name Isaac Simons and his father,
who bore this name before him, did
not lose their pride of race. They
would have told you proudly that they
were pure-blooded Mashpee Indians
and even now in the third generation
of the Simons name they look you
just as proudly in the face as they
claim the ancient blood of warrior
chiefs for their own.
One gets just glimpses of that
earlier life after Isaac Simons and his
wife came from Mashpee, from the
old woman who smiles by the fire. 1t
is of the present she talks most-the
present and the future of the girl May.
"A pure-blooded Indian woman is
more of an American woman than the
white woman" she says. 81 am
pure-blooded Mashpee Indian" and
her head is thrown back as she looks
at you-a handsome woman still, with
her skin of copper and big dark eyes
and hair with the blue black tinge.
MY girl May is an educated girl
and now she is to be a teacher That
is as she wished, for many years she
talked of it. She is gone now. Three
days ago she rode away over the hill.
1t may be two years before she comes
back. Maybe one year. | don't know"
1T was Mr.. Lcvering who got the
chance for my girl May" she explains.
"He is a an-Congressman
William c. Lowering" She rolled the
syllables out as though she loved the
sound of them. Congressman William
c. Lovering-he knows how anxious
my girl May was to learn and study.
"She was graduated at the Wrent-
ham high school She graduated
high Then she thought she could go
no further. She came out and helped
me gather oysters and pick the cram
berries, and then the word came that
she could go further, that she could
learn to be a teacher down in Vir-
ginia, Hampton, Va, and we were
glad"
Among her schoolmates Eva May
Simons was always popular-no dis
tinction between her and others was
ever made and it was her brilliancy
at school which caused Congressman
Lowering to hear of her and her de-
sire to be a teacher.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-25
WRECK OF A FORGOTTEN SHIP.
Has Lain for Years In Harbor of Port
Phillip, Australia.

A mystery of Port Phillip. Australia,
has just been solved. For many years
shipmasters and port authorities were
perplexed by the fact that while the
anchorage in Port Philip bay had
good bottom, a ship could not cast
anchor In a certain place without the
anchor becoming fouled with some.
thing so tenacious that no amount of
winch power could again bring 1t to
the surface.
Recently an experienced diver was
sent down to investigate the matter,
and on his return he stated that he
found the remains OF clipper ship
200 feet long. He was unable to climb
into her and examine the inside OF the
hull because 1t had been turned into
a sort of vast forcing frame, from
which seaweed had grown to height
of so feet, like gigantic submarine
cornfeld.
There are no records OF any wreck
In the vicinity, but 1t is supposed that
the vessel was one arriving in Port
Phillip during the earlier days OF gold
discovery The hull is TO oe torn
away with dynamite, and when the
growth of seaweed is removed the
interior is to be examined.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-25

A blind street musician, reports
Chinese paper stood on the shore of
river, puzzled how to cross the
stream. He implored an oil dealer,
who happened to come along, TO as
sist him. The oil dealer had pity on
the helpless man, took him on his
shoulders, gave him his money bag to
hold and carried him across. When
he deposited his burden on the other
shore the blind man refused to return
him his money bag. raised noise and
declared that the money was his
property. The matter came before the
Judge, and each man said on oath that
the money belonged to him, The judge
finally ordered the bag of money emp
tied into water tank, and then sud-
denly announced that the oil dealer
was the owner. When asked for the
reason for his decision, he declared
that the money of the oil dealer must
certainly show traces of his business,
and, indeed on the surface Of the
water traces OF oil were found.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-25
Sold For Half Price.

The mayor of Leon, Ia. tells how
the clty's electric light plant was sold
for half price as follows:
Original cost $4,000; sold for S.,
000-sold because the city was get
ting In debt worse every year on ac
count of plant. At one time the city
had to issue bonds in the sum of So.
600 to pay outstanding warrants. This
was four years ago. Two years ago,
when the city sold the plant, there
were about $1,000 outstanding war.
rants. Cost of light about the same
now as when the plant was owned by
the city. but service much better"
Another authority states that $4,000
had been spent on construction and
equipment before the plant was sold.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-25
New Burbank MarYels.

It is stated that Luther Burbank
has named one of his most delicious
fruit creations after his old home
town, the scene OF his great successes
in the creation of new fruits and
flowers. 1t is the Santa Rosa plum
considered by experts in the nursery
line as being one OF the finest fruits
of the plum kind that has come to
their notice. This plum will leave
Burbank's hands this winter for the
first time for introduction in the fruit
growing world,
A we'll known Fresno nurseryman
has secured the privilege of being the
sole introducer OF this plum. The
California Fruit Grower says that the
same man will this winter introduce
for the first time Burbank's great tim
Der producing walnut trees,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-25
OBSTINATE" VERSUS BID.
Curious and Instructive Experience Of
Ashland, Wis.

Last January Ashland. Wis. voted In
favor Of installing a municipal cleo
trio light plant. Votes were secured
on the basis of an estimate" that the
complete plant would cost $4,000. this
estimate" being made ny Professor
w. c. Kirchoffer Of the University Of
Wisconsin. who the lighting committee
stated had been employed by over for
ty cities of Wisconsin as a consulting
engineer. This committee thus con-
tlnued its report:
After thoroughly going over the es-
Inmates the committee can state that
the outside cost of this entire PROPOSE
ton, including everything. will be $780,
600. divided as follows: Concrete and
earth dam. spillway and power house.
$l9.Sj0: turbines and electrical ma
chinery at power house, $l5.430: cleo
trio transmission line. $4.330; substa-
ton building and equipment. S5,400;
arc lighting system. SS,075: incandes-
cent lighting system. Sl5,6S0: land
necessary for dam and Gowage rights,
$500; engineering plans. superintend-
ence. incidentals. S3,735; total. $4,000.
''ln every case these figures repre-
sent the highest possible cost for the
work. as it has been the intention of
this committee TO let the people Of
Ashland understand whatever estimate
is made that. In fact, the actual cost
will be under rather than above"
Before the election the mayor pub
lished letter from "one of the con.
Germs the committee has been in touch
with" name withheld) agreeing to
erect complete plant for $4,000. TO
be in operation on or before the LIST Of
July. This has not been mentioned by
the mayor recently. for when the city
advertised for bids the only bid re-
ceived was for $4,000. and this did
not include transformers. meters or
anything pertaining to commercial
lighting except a power circuit.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-25
No Provision For Continnenoies,

The condition of the haywood water.
works seems to be the same as in
many other villages. The plant was
installed, paid for in ten yearly in,
stallments by the people. and every
thing went lovely until the machinery
began to wear out or increased capac.
ity was needed. when it was discover,
cred that no provision had been made
for such necessary expenditures-the
water had been furnished to the PEG.
pie at cost and nothing laid by for re,
habilltation.-Maywood Qlll Herald
Recorder.