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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-27
ed to report the bill fayorabiy

voted to report the bill favorabiy.
I to 2.
The House committee merely heard
the discussions, so that they can act on
the bill when it comes over to the
House, provided it passed the Senate
as 1t is sure now to do
Representative .Lockhart will make
hard fight against the bill in the
House, and says it will not pass the
body even if the House committee re-
ports it favorably.
Virginia Cities Ahead.
The blu to prevent unjust discrimi-
nations in freight rates and fix the
maximum charges for freight was the
special order tonight in the House.
The bill is a substitute for about. eight
bills that have gone to the Committee
on Public Service Corporations, and is
prepared by the committee.
Chairman Manning, in explaining tho
bill, stated that it had been shown,
that North Carolina towns could not
compete with Virginia cities. For in
stance, it was impossible for Newberl
to trade with Ashevile in competition
with Richmond, Va. 1t had been found
that joint haul rate was generally
the sum of the local rates, less 10 per
cent. The committee had decided tC
increase this deduction from 10 to "a
per cent, and that partially made ur
FOR the discrimination in some cases
CT joint haul where the roads mad no;
been deducting the 10 per cent. hi
these cases the committee had deter
mined that the deduction should be Ii
Per cent. The greatest difficulty had
been to get the bin framed so as not
to work hardships. on small roads. liz
did not claim the bill was perfect, bu!
great Improvement over present con-
ditons, and the committee believed
1t would tend TO establish prosperous
Wholesale houses in many North Caro-
Una towns
Prevent Unfair Advantage.
Mr.. Manning explained that 1t had
been thought wise to ameliorate thg
harshness of the penalty section by re-
ducng penalties to prevent dishonest
shippers from taking unfair advantage
of the road,
Section three imposes penalty of
50 per day on roads for failure TO fur
nisil cars within four days after appli-
cation is mEde
An amendment by Pickett. 10 Empower
the corporation commission to excuse
small roads from penalties under reason
able circumstances was adopted. Beckett
declared that the committee desc we'd
he thanks Of the people o. the
who believed In the Eighth Commandment
Thou shalt not steal" IT will put out
OF business, said he, some Of the fellows
who have little s'oses but are really
in the penalty business, An amcndmen,
by pouglaa, that no shippers shall re-.
cover more than three times the value
y the article lost IN shipment, pnssec
by vote Of 81 tos3d. Tic bill az amend.
% PasseH hScohh -fraai,s lnfs4.4,.. ar
Manning objected to third reading anc
the bin went over
, 1907-09-19
Hold up a Cashier.

Goldfeld, Nev.-Herbert E. Riggs.
bookkeeper and cashier for E. II. New
land. a broker, vas found unconscious
on the door of the office. The door
of the safe was open and cast amount
ing to 1890 had been taken. Two big
Jumps on Riggs forehead showed that
he had been struck with some blunt
instrument.
Riggs says he was working over his
books when a stranger appeared at the
cashiers window and asked for money.
There was a stack of gold on he desk
in front of the bookeeper at the time.
Riggs says he knew nothing more un-
til he recovered consciousness. When
he was found by Harry Greve. a
nephew Of Newland. a heavy hammer
was picked up from the floor near
where he lay. 1t is thought that the
robber used the hammer on his victim.
The case has some peculiar features,
and the sheriff is making an investiga-
ton.
, 1907-09-19
Union Pacific Cutoff a Certainty.

Denyer.-The long rumored cutoff
to be constructed by the Union Pasifc
between Denver and Cheyenne at a
cost Of about 81 600, 900 has at last been
decided upon and camps are now being
established with the expectation of
having the new line completed before
the first of the year. The cutoff will
be seventeen miles long, starting near
Carr and running northeast to Borie,
Wyo., three miles south of Corlett, con-
Meeting with the Wyoming. division
four and one-half miles west Of Chey-
enne. 1t will eliminate the principal
curves and heavy grades between Den
yer and Cheyenne.
The work in some sections will be
unusually heavy. There will be 220,-
600 cubic yards of roadbed excavation
necessary inc there will be 80, 900 Gu
bic yards of solid rock to be removed.
In addition to this there will be 900, 900
cubic yards of embankment. The larg-
est fill will be 2,700 feet long. and As
feet high. When completed three new
stationa will be established on the new
line. The cutoff will enable the COM
pany to operate between Denver and
the west at a considerable saving over
former cost on account of the heavy
grade over Athol hill.
, 1907-09-19
Is "Fighting Bob" a Pirate?

Newport.-Has Fighting Bob" Ev.
ans turned pirate?
Newporters are asking each other
this ~q.estion. as a result of the dis
appearance on Wednesday night of
the wreck of the big two-masted
schooner Henry NJ. Whitney. which
has lain buried in the mud in the
south part of the harbor for more than
four years. Coal laden, the Whitney
was driven ashore one night after hav-
ing sprung a leak. She was emptied
and then abandoned.
Fo o years she lay there, a pic
turesque relic of her former greatness.
and, suddenly, in the dark of Wednes-
day night, a vessel whose cleaning
Wilderness non out in the gloom,
stole into the harbor, made fast to the
wreck and dragged it out to sea. A
hole in the mud was all that greeted
the fishing folk when they viewed the
harbor next morning.
Those who saw the white ship come
in declare that she reSembled in ev-
cry particular a m~an-of-war. Now, Ad.
miral Evans warships are not far
away from Newport. engaging in tar,
get practice, and no better target
could be found for the boys behind the
guns than the wreck of the Henry NJ.
Whitney.
Has Fighting Bob" turned pirate?
, 1907-09-19
Japs Try to Steal Indian Wives.

San Observation-Disclosures of the
Alaska Packers Association who re.
turned here upon the ship Star of
Chile bring the report that a number
of Japanese cannery hands al Egegk
made a raid upon an Indian village
near that camp last June and attempt
ed to carry off several Of the native
women.
The Japanese evidently believed the
men Of the settlement were out fish
ing. but in this they were mistaken.
for after the raiders had caught and
gagged two or three of the women they
were discovered by a number of bucks,
who set up a loud howl and at once
proceeded to repel the Japanese.
In attempting to get away with the
captives the Japanese are said to have
run between two hills where the snow
was deep and rapid travel was impos-
sible.
This proved their undoing, for the
Indians descended upon them with
guns and clubs and would have killed
the six or eight raiders If the latter
had not deserted their victims and
hurried off. The Indians later, it is
said. made complaint to the men in
charge Of the cannery camp.
, 1907-09-19
Mother Of Nine Works In Field.

Cheyenne. Wyo.-Mrs. Sarah Jane
Shepherd, in a divorce suit which she
fled against Joseph Shepherd, asserts
that she and the defendant were mar
ried at Seward, Nebraska, September
"a, 1887, and that nine children, from
three to nineteen years Of age, have re-
suited from the union. Mrs. Shepherd
charges that for a period of more than
three years Shepherd has failed to pro-
vide for her support; hat he COM
PEELED her to clothe herself and
children, and to do the work of a farm
hand In the fields, cutting corn and
stacking hay. grain INT cane; that in
March, 1908, when she was Ill and
about to become a mother. he refused
to employ a physician. although a COM
petent physician was less than a mile
away, as a result of which neglect her
child was still-born that she. by hard
labor, accumulated twenty-five head OF
cattle and seven head OF horses, which
the defendant took from her and d.
verted to his W use, and that the de-
PENDANT sold their joint homestead In
Nebraska for $500 and retained all OF
the money.
, 1907-09-19
Demented Man Killed.

Evanston, Wyo.-William Fern, a
young business man of Almy, who has
been wandering about the country for
the past week in a demented condition,
was killed by a fast freight on the
Union Pacific near here.
On September Sd Fern. with a com
panion. was on his way to Almy in a
buggy, which was upset in a runaway,
the young man out upon his
head. Since that time he has wan.
dered about the country, being occa.
sionally seen by ranch people. all
though the authorities tried in vain &c
md him. The remains were brought
TO Evanston and will be buried in
Almy. where his wife and child reside,
, 1907-09-19
Survives Explosion, but Mind is De.
stroyed.

Alton. Wl.-Fifteen thousand pounds
of powder exploded at the Equitable
Powder works at East Alton, two miles
from here. Charles McGinnis was
killed and Charles McGilson shocked
SO that mis- mind is gone.
McGinnis N his helper were work
ing in the glazing mill and McGinuis
was letting the powder run from "a
drum into kegs. McGilson was wheel
ing a truck 100 yards away. Suddenly
there was a flash and McGilson, 300
feet away. was blown into the ait
and carried more than 100 feet before
he alighted. When he was picked up
McGilson was unconscious and later ii
was found his mind was a blank.
, 1907-09-19

Shot Conductor; Was Killed.

sacramento, Cal.-Because Conduc.
tor JEFF Gage of Southern Pacific train
NO. ~. e~astbound local to Sacramento,
put him off the train on his refusal 20
pay his fare, an unknown man seri-
ously wounded the conductor and was
.imself killed in a pistol duel just after
the train left Tracy City.
Conductor Gage said:
Il rad stopped the train Just outside
OF Tracy to put the fellow off for re-
fusing to pay his fare. and had stepped
down from the platform to give the en-
glneer the signal to go ahead when
some of the passengers who were
watching the man running alongside of
the fence, cried out: Look out! he's
going to shoot But before could
jump back | was shot here Indicating
his right groin).
II stumbled from the effects of the
shot. and finally succeeded in getting
out my pistol and took a shot at the
man, who had run ahead about fifty
yards by this time. | don't know
whether | hit him or not.
Some of the passengers had rushed
QUIT by his time. and taken several
shots at him. He fell. and | ran 10
where he lay. covering him with my
gun all the time. as l feared he might
be playing 'possum. With the assist
ance of the passengers | took his gun
but he died a few minutes later, one If
the shots having pierced his left lung
The bullet fred at Gage lodged just
beneath the vest. The fact that the
bullet had to penetrate three thick.
nesses of clothing is probably all that
saved Gage from being killed.
The passengers who witnessed the
shooting all say that Gage was per-
fectly justified.
, 1907-09-19
Denounnces Tyranny Of Federal Courts

Lincoln, Neb.-Because of the re-
straining order granted by Judge Mum
ger of the Federal Court to prevent the
railway commission from promulgating
a new grain-rate schedule. Governor
George l.. Sheldon declared himself In
favor OF a constitutional amendment
taking from the federal courts the
right to enjoin state officials from en-
forcing state laws.
At believe the federal courts have
abused the privilege of injunction
enough to Justify such action" he said.
"Too many state laws have been tied
I'D by the interference of the federal
courts. do not believe the makers OF
the constitution ever contemplated
such use of the injunction In the hands
Of tho federal courts"
, 1907-09-19
kIondike Fever Breaks Out.

Washington.-The gold fever of
the Klondike has broken out anew at
Sitba, Alaska, according to Brigadier
General George F. Elliott, command
ant of the United States marine corps,
who has just returned from a trip o.
inspection in the Northwest.
General Elliott states that a 4. %.
vein of quartz has recently been I'M
covered on an island forty-five miles
from Sitka, which yields a heavy per-
centage of leaf gold. and active prepa-
rations are being made for its develop
ment. AS a result of this discovery
the forty-ive marines whom General
Elliott had intended to order to some
other point will remain to preserve or
der in what Is rapidly becoming n of
the boom" towns of Alaska.
The story of the discovery as told to
General Elliott is that two Indians,
while fishing, noticed particles of gold.
They told the news to a Presbyterian
clergyman at Sitka. A company opened
the vein of quartz n succeeded in
mining and transporting to Sitka in
m ninety tons OF ore. This one
shipment yielded. after payment of
freight, more than $4,000. The
knowledge of the find at the island
Don became known in Sitka. and the
island now is practically all staked out
by goldseekers.
, 1907-09-19
WALTER WELLMAN AND HIS AIR
SHIP CAUGHT IN GRIP Of
FIERCE SNOW STORM.
SHIP WEIGHS 9 TONS
GRAPHIC STORY TOLD BY DARING
EXPLORER WHO STARTED TO
FIND THE NORTH POLE.

Berlin.-Wclter Wellman. head OF
the Wellman airship expedition, has
sent the following telegram to thel local
pape~S from Toronto:
After the steamer Express cast of
the cable the balloon America did ex-
cel1ently, but an increasing vino soon
gave us a hard struggle. aao the storm
drove us toward some high, Jagged
mountains near the coast, where the
airship would have been destroyed IL
she struck. Then elsued hard fight
ing between the storm and the motor
The latter triumphed. Our confidence
in the America a so increased in
the meanwhile that I gave the order
to start for he north pole.
The wind, however, increased to-
twelve miles an hour, and the snow fell
so thickly that we could not sec 4
quarter of a mile. Just then the com
pass failed to work, owing to defective
construction.
Lost in a Storm.
I'VE were lost in the snowstorm
above the polar sea, and threatened
with destruction. After a brief deliber-
alton we decided to try to get back TO
the Express and rectify our mpas
and start again. 1t was impossible,
however, to keep in n direction, ana
we were again tdllitu ihNo uhi-tio"'
proximity of the mountains. Vaniman,
tile engineer, hen put the motor to
top speed, and the America moved
against the wind, which probably was
blowing fifteen miles an hour. She
circled three times in the teeth OF the
wind. We saw the Express for a mo-
met. but Immediately lost her again.
I'VE could have returned to h Ex-
press If we could have seen where to
steer, but under the circumstances the
only thing possible was to try to n
With this idea we stopped the motor
and let the America drift over the gla-
cier. At the end of Doul bay we used
a trailer filed with provisions and II
brake rope. Both acted well and
dragged over the ice wall 100 feet high
without damage.
Landed Liz a Bird.
After crossing the glacier we
opened the valve and landed on the up
per glacier half a mile in shore. The
landing was effected so successfully
that material weighing nine ton de-
seconded 800 feet and touched the ice
with no shock or damage whatever ex-
cepting several bent tubs and broken
wires, Numerous d licate instruments
were not injured. The self-registerins
biographs, photographs and
tiers continued running after the land
ing. The mantle of the balloon can
easily be repaired.
The America was in the air three
hours and covered about fifteen miles
with her own power. She made three
loops against the wind. proving her
p, wer and capability of being steered.
The ascent was successful in every re-
spect.
w are all convinced that We can
make our a to the pole In normal
summer weather."
, 1907-09-19
TERRIBLE DEEDS OF pRunKARps
~sheepherders in Wyoming Hold Up
Boys, Indians and Ranchers.

C~okeville, Wyo.-Inlamed by bad
whisky, Joe and Sam Bates, sheep
herders, who had been sent here for
supplies by their employer, determined
to become bad men.
Mounting their horses and each car
rying a revolver, they departed for
the north and a mile from town held
up a seventeen-year-old boy, whom
they shot through the stomach and
robbed of $3.50.
When they realized the dangerous
character of the boys wound they re-
turned his money and started away.
An Indian and his squaw who had
seen the shooting helped the boy to
mount a horse and started him for
town.
This act enraged the Bates brothers,
who returned and held up the Indian,
robbing him of his horse. AS they
rode away they fired several shots at
the squaw, but did not hit her.
A few miles further on they met and
held up a wagon load of land a"ekers,
including C. E. Cotton, Union Pacific
agent at Cheyenne, but decided moi to
rob them.
Thirty miles north of town they Wis
tied the ranch of ]. s. Branson, held
up Branson, who is an old man and
an ex-Missouri marshal, and com
PEELED him to give hem new horses.
AS they were transferring their sad.
dies, Branson grabbed Sam Bates six
shooter. Joe Bates drew his revolver,
~whereupon Branson shot him through
the heart.
Branson then held Sam Bates at
bay until assistance arrived from the
ranch house, when the young outlaw
was overpowered and bound.
Bates is now in Jail here, and may
be lynched if the boy who was shot
dies. The dead brother was a deserter
from the navy.
, 1907-09-19
TWENTY-FIVE PASSENGERS ARE
KILLED AND TWENTY-SIx
ARE INJURED.
DEADGHASTL
FATAL MISTAKE OF TRAIN OPER.
AToR SENDS UNSUSPECTING
MoRTALs INTO ETERNITY.

White River Junction, VIA fearful
head-on collision between the south
bound Qubec express and a north
bound freight train on the Concord di-
vision of the Boston & Maine railroad,
occurred four miles north of Canaan
station early Sunday morning, Septem-
Der 10Th, due to a mistake in train dis
patchers' orders, and from a demol-
lshed passenger coach there were
taken out twenty-five dead and dying,
and twenty-seven other passengers,
most of them seriously wounded. Near
ly all those who were in the death car
were returning from a fair at Sher-
brooke, Quebec. sixty miles north. The
conductor of the freight train was
given to understand that he had plenty
of time to reach a siding by the night
operator at Canaan station, receivi 'g,
according to the superintendent of the
division, a copy of a telegraph order
from the train dispatcher at Concord,
which confused the train numbers 80
n ~thirty-four. The wreck occurred
Just after the express had rounded into
a straight stretch of track, but owing
to the early morning mist, neither en-
gineer saw the others headlight until
1t was too late.
Operator Makes Mistake.
The south-bound train was made up
at S~herbrooke, where it picked up two
sleepers from Quebec and two more on
the way down. 1t consisted of the
baggage coach, passenger coach and
smoking car in that order, with the
sleepers in the rear. The train left
White River Junction at $50, forty
minutes late, and was followed twenty
minutes later by the Montreal express
over the Central Vermont railroad.
The Quebec train is known as No. so
and the Montreal train as No. 80.
In h meantime, a north-bound train,
known as No. 267, had arrived at Ca.
naan, eighteen miles down the road,
at 4:1O a. m, on time. According TO
the division superintendent, w. r. Ray,
]. r. Crowley. the night train dis
patcher at Concord, ent a dispatch to
John Greedy. the night operator at Ca,
naan, that No. "a was one hour and
ten minutes late. The order which
Conductor Lawrence of the freight
train showed after the accident dis
tinctly states that No. 80, instead OF
No. "a, vas an lou and ten minutes
late. Conductor Lawrence, believing
that he had sufficient time in the hour
and ten minutes to reach the sidetrack
at West Canaan. four miles beyond, be.
fore No. 80 reached it, ordered his train
ahead. The superintendent declared
that the accident was IN to the mis-
take in placing a cipher after the three
in the number of the train, instead of
a four.
The morning was dull and misty in
the western New Hampshire noun
tains and the long freight train, with
a score of heavily loaded cars, lum-
hered up the grade to West Canaan at
the usual speed. On the other side of
the cut the Quebec express was sliding
down the single track with her load
of passengers and the fou ~sleepers in
the rear. The freight train was on a
, 1907-09-19
OF THE WEEK
.,.,. Important Happenings Of the
Past Seven Days.
oresting Items Gathered From all
n,r,s of the World Condensed
into Small Space tor the Ben
eft of Our Readers.
Personal.

robommed Ali Bey has been ap-
I'd Turkish minister to the Uni
noyemerI is under way to form
i, s19 COO. 900 merger of some of the
Arrest coal properties in Illinois.
mr. w, II. Dalrymple, of Baton
Rouge. La, has been elected presi-
,ant If the American Veterinary Med
teal association.
Francis Potter, editor of the Her
,,cton. Kansas, Sun until recently, is
dead in San Diego, Cal, where he had
zone for the benefit of his health.
Col. A. ]. Hanscom, of Omaha, a
former president of the Nebraska en-
atp died recently in New York of
pneumonia. He was &c years old.
Mrs. Kate e. Jones Of New York
has been elected national president of
the Women's Relief Corps.
Edward w. Vanderbilt, an aged, re-
tired merchant of Brooklyn. N. Y, has
been declared incapable of managing
his affairs because of lunacy.
Congressman Longworth and Mrs.
|Iongworth have arrived in San Fran
cisco on their return from a visit to
Hawaii.
Charles G. Burton of Kansas City
was elected commander of the Grand
Army of the Republic at the Saratoga
encampment.
Secretary Taft was given a rousing
send-off when he sailed from Seattle
for the Orient on the steamer Mime
sofa.
Walter S. Dickey of Kansas City
has been elected chairman of the Mis-
souri, republican state committee, to
succeed Thomas X. Niedringhaus, re-
signed.
Chang Mon Wo, president of the
Chinese Six Companies, is dead of the
bubonic plague in San Francisco.
D.. Willis James, senior member of
the firm of Phelps, Dodge & Co., of
New York, is dead. He was dis
tinguished as a philanthropist.
Gen. Booth, the aged head of the
Salvation Army, has left London to
conduct a winters campaign in the
United States and Canada.
Archibald Fry Blount, of Orleton,
England, has bequeathed $4,000 to
Yale University.