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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-02-01

Mrs. "Stonewall' Jackson's widow
has refused to accept the pension of
500 per month voted her by the state
of North Carolina. She proves that
she was a suitable helpmate for her
hero husband.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-02-01
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT.

The undersigned has been duly appointed
Administrator OF the state OF Noah Ora.
ber, late of stark County, Ohio, deceased.
Dated this 10th day OF January, 1917
DANIEL GhABER.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-02-01
LATE ALLIANCE NEWS

Alliance, O., Jan. 90.-Capt. P. d.
Oswalt, of the Alliance police, went
to Ravenna wednesday evening to get
a young man named e. w. Stead
man, who is to answer serious charge
preferred by Miss Louisa Siegfried, Of
Ravenna.
1t is alleged that the couple came
to Alliance January 19. with Ra
VIENNA crowd to attend the skating
home on the night train, the young
man took the girl to some room that
he had secured and kept her there
until the next morning when they
davit signed by the girl asserts that
she was forcibly assaulted. The girl
is only sixteen years of age.
Two township officials from Els
worth were in Alliance Wednesday ev-
ening in charge of man named Oh
iver Gilger, who had been found driv-
ing about the country and in de-
mented condition. Telephone COM
munication with surrounding towns
brought the information that Gilger
lived near Ravenna. He had left
home with his team and had driven
about twenty-five miles. Gilger i'm
agines that he is out buying stock.
He is not violent but continually walks
about talking to himself
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-07
HEARD AROUND
THE CORRIDORS
BY THE EAVESDRCPPER
MOTORCYCLE ELoPEs WITH
DIGNIFlED BELL BOY

A very small boy and a very big
motorcycle had a misunderstanding on
Spring street yesterday and Spring
street had almost reached an end be-
fore they came to final agreement.
The young cyclist is Arthur Knox.
errand boy for the Alexandria hotel. He
it is who secures tickets for the guests
whenever they want to take trip to
one of the local theaters, to the east,
to San Francisco or anywhere else. His
errands seldom carry him more than
three blocks from the hotel and his
time is chiefly passed in going from
the hotel on Fifth street to the South
ern Pacific building on Sixth street, one
block away.
Arthur-he is very dignified young
boy and no one would think of shorten
ing 1t to Art-decided that he must
have a motorcycle, and to this end he
deposited his earnings with local
motor car company in exchange for
"a perfect beaut." With the bike"
he received a lesson in the ways Of
bikes, but he evidently did not learn
quite all there was to know.
After mastering as he thought every
detail he mounted the noisy machine
and prepared to cut striking figure
covering the block between the hotel
and the ticket office. BY the time he
had reached Mercantile place the thing
was properly started and then 1t was
time to try to stop it, The start went
beautifully, but the stop failed to ma
terialize. Young Knox lost control or
the machine and he went whizzing
down the street for what seemed to be
miles. until something happened and
the machine stopped of it's own ac-
cord somewhere outside the city limits.
Arthur trudged back to town and
now he is trying to learn to start ana
stop In the same block
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-07

time and the sports that interest most
boys have no charm for him.
He cannot remember when he first
began to read upon deep subjects and
scientific works of many kinds have
been his joy almost since he was able
to read at ALL
Following are few verses charged
against him:
THE VIEWPOINT OF ETERNITY
The ashes of dead worlds swirl in the
vast of eternity;
New worlds and new suns find place.
But always the light dies and the husks
are driven as dead leaves on the
breath
That stirs the dust to life and scatters
it again.
But the clay that is quickened, moved
for an instant, of all the aeons
In which the world-soul breathes
through it's infinitude of worlds
Reaches up to the golden unbared gates
of eternity
And tastes of all eternity in life and
love and death.
A MOOD
Once at the days dim ending,
Down by deep lone stream,
A lily was swaying and bending
And dreamed stately dream.
The murmuring spirits of flowers
That slumbered in far away worlds
Came eddying down through the star
And drifting in shadowy swirls.
In the depths of the silent stream
Came silvering up with the spirlts
In the sweet low light of the dream
But the lily in queenly raiment
Held sway to a slow gray dawn
When the winds were wearied with
And Stf the s'"f Stars and the flowers were
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-07
ROMANTIC LIFE
COMES TO AN END
CLOSE PERSONAL FRIEND OF
LINCOLN is DEAD
Mrs. Eliza Wilson, Whose Husband
Was Associated with the Martyr
President, Dies In Illinois.
Children Live Here

With the passing away of Mrs. Eliza
Wilson in Sterling, ILL.,, at the age of
"a, another link that bound the present
with the past is severad.
Mrs. Wilson was the mother of Mrs.
Emma w. Edwards and Dr. Anna
Nixon of Los Angeles, and during the
century of her life she passed through
scenes Of romance far beyond the lot
of the average woman.
Mrs. Wilson was born in the blue
grass region of old Kentucky, near
Paris, in 1918. The distant booming
of the British canon as they strove to
wreck the infants native land lulled
her to sleep, and the discordant note of
fife and drum sounded sweet to the
baby ears.
In 1882 the inevitable happened From
across the river, from the state of Ohio.
came a chivalrous youth, fresh from
Athens college. The stalwart northern
lad fell before the shy glances Of the
blue grass maiden, and she, beholding
the manly form of Col. Robert L. Will
son, saw in him the hero of her
dreams. The couple were married, and,
bidding farewell to the grassy fields of
Kentucky, they pushed toward the
growing west,
Associated with Lincoln
In 1886 the newly married couple
went to Springfield, Ill. The young
husband, lawyer by profession, was
admitted to the bar and became the
associate OF Abraham Lincoln and oths
er national celebrities of his time He
also Joined the state militia and took
prominent part in the warfare the
new state was compelled to wage with
Black Hawk, the Indian chief. When
the power OF the chief was finally
broken in 1912 at Stillman's Landing
the young Col. Wilson occupied a con-
spicuous place in the front ranks.
-Four years after their arrival In the
new land, the young barrister was sem
to Whiteside county to organize q
court. He did so, and for twenty-onC
years served as clerk of the cireuil
in that county, resigning at last to ac.
cept a position I'm the Union ranks.
During these years Mr.. Wilson was
elected to the state legislature and be
came an intimate friend of the legisla
tor who was afterward to be immortal
lied as the first martyred president
The young couple built a palatia
! home at Sterling and for slxty-tw,
years II has been the home Of the fam
| lily. In II the glittering salons ans
balls of Illinois society were held. IT
walls sheltered Lincoln. the eclat Of SO
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-07
GOOD FOR GILLETT

Following it's rule to accord "honor
to whom honor is due" in official
affairs, The Herald takes pleasure in
cor, plimenting Governor Gillett on one
of his first executive acts of special
public interest. That act is the veto
of the bill passed by the legislature
fixing So per day as the minimum wage
for labor on all public works in Cali
fornia.
Readers of The Herald are acquainted
with the character of the measure in
question, as it's unreasonable features
were pointed out in these columns
when it was under consideration in the
| legislature. It's effect as a law would
have been practical discrimination
against the better class of labor and
its enforced payment of high wages to
incompetents and loafers would have
been prohibitive in many public i'm
provements.
1t is the crucial test of Governor Gill
lett's backbone, however that calls for
particular notice now. The SO labor bill
formulated by the political leaders Of
the San Francisco trade unions. 1t
was pushed through the legislature
with all the backing at command of
the San Francisco delegation, overcom-
ing opposition appeals from Los An
geles and other cities interested largely
in pubic improvements.
! In showing the requisite sand" for
writing his veto of that bill, thereby
mourning the wrath of San Francisco's s
political managers, Governor Gillett has
performed an act worthy of commen-
dation. 1t indicates that he has suf-
fcient self-will to stand for the right
in face OF the prospect of incurring
potent enmity.
Whether this act of the governor
powers at San Francisco is a matter
that viii be determined later. 1t was
the. San Francisco influence. 1t will be
remembered, that defeated the nominal
ton of Pardee in the Santa Cruz con-
vention and gave the plum to Gillett.
Abe Ruef is the recognized boss in San
Francisco politics and the unions are
the chief features of his political stock
In trade.
The Herald's commendation Of the
governor. therefore, is confined to the
specific act OF the So labor BILL which
might properly have been called on
act for the encouragement Of loafng
II the governor continues to give evil
dence of the grit manifested In thai
veto The Herald win gladly give hin
the fullest need OF praise.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-07
LUMBER INTERESTS
FAVOR FOREST RESERVES
By Associated press.


WASHINGTON March 6-President
Roosevelt was today assured that the
lumber interests of the west were in
perfect accord with his policy respect
ing forest reserves and the handling of
the public domain.
This assurance was given by Victor
Beckman, secretary to the Pacific Coast
Lumber Manufacturers association; ].
T. Baugh, editor of the American Lum-
herman Of Chicago, and r. B. Hub
bard, prominent lumber manufac-
turer of Centralia, Wash.
They called on the president with
Senators Ankeny and Piles and Com
missioner Ballinger of the general land
office.
President Roosevelt assured the dele
cation that his sole interest was that
the people of the Rocky Mountain and
Pacific coast states should be looked
after In the handling of the public
domain.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-07
YOUTH OF FIFTEEN WRITES
ON PROFOUND SUBJECTS

A 1b-year-old boy who writes verses
on the viewpoint of Eternity" ana
other such profound subjects usually
foreign to the mind OF the healthy
Young American animal endowed with
that number of years, is the proaisy
vino is inst now claiming the attention
OF the guests at the Angelus hotel,
William John Short is the prosaiee
name under which the boy lives ana
he Is the son of John w. Short, Tor
many years professor Of literature IN an
eastern college. In appearance ne Is
much like other boys, except that ms
face wears a mature expression ana
many lines not usually in the race OF
a boy OF 15 are visible.
He is not prone to talk about his
work and IN fact, has very few words
on any subject. He reads most OF the
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-07
PERSONALS

A. Mcguire. master mechanic of the
Salt Lake road, arrived at the Hollen-
beck yesterday from Rhyolite. New
A. b. Carpenter. a prominent mining
man from Mexico City, is at the AM
gelus, accompanied by Mrs. Carpenter.
Edwin ]. Curry, a prominent banker
and real estate man OF Baltimore, Md,
is at the Angelus, accompanied by his
Wife and child.
G. C. Loomis OF the Angelus hotel has
gone east accompanied by 70. w. Cason
Of Cason & Arnold, hotel brokers' The
trip is for business and pleasure COM
bined, and Chicago is the chief destina-
tion.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry l.. Hughes OF
Boise City, Idaho, who have been at the
Hollenbeck for pleasure visit, left
for their home last night Mr.. Hughes
is member OF the firm of Hughes &
Colman
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-07
THE SC0LDING PASTOR
BY Ella EIdridge


1 heard a preacher who prattled
OF isms and cults and things.
A man puffed up with mission
To check evil wherever 1t springs.
So this preacher issued programs
With flaming lines to proclaim,
That all through the Lenten season
He'd damn isms in Christ's name.
He also announced that music
And song a feature would be.
In truth. guarantee it was
For pleasant variety.
The preacher mounted his pulpit,
The DEVILS tricks to expose;
The ism of Mary C. Eddy
Was satan's favorite pose.
Then came the wicked socialist.
Here "divvy' got whack.
Then spookism, that poor old sinner,
Was ordered to sit way back.
Then to the thunder of his call,
Baba, the Hindoo, was led.
II that picturesque sage had heard,
Back to his land he'd have fled.
And all through these condemnations.
In vain i waited to hear
The lessons these subjects inspired
To make Christ's teachings more
clear.
In hunger of spirit listened
For some thought this preacher Nigh
give
To awaken the Christ within man.
Or make the dead words to live.
And the words of the Master came o'el
me.
His gentle Judge not" unto men.
Lest the measure you mete 70 others
Shall be measured to you again.
And thought o preacher that prattles
Whatever may be your reason,
Why mar with your petty seedlings
Our blessed Lenten season?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-07

Wv they must nave them, the deal
things even if hubby has tC
pay the piper.
That's what some people out in the
west end are thinking at the expense Of
two of the beautiful, popular anC
charming matrons of that section.
An impudent little Boston terrier
pardon-qute the dearest little Bostor
terrier in the world, has stirred UP the
trouble and is accused. in its longing
! for high living of sending the souls of
some of the most pampered and highly
bred chickens in Southern California
to the great beyond of chickendom.
Also resultant is a lawsuit In which
the husband of a dog fancier and the
husband of a chicken fancier will play
the star parts.
1t all began as long ago as six
months.
Mrs. J. T. Fitzgerald, society and
club woman and wife of one of Los
Angeles prominent business men, was
just longing for a dear little Boston
terrier with bowed legs and nice sharp
little ears. Mr.. Fitzgerald secured the
city to find one that he thought would
just fit his wife's desire, and at last
his efforts were rewarded, and one day
he got into his buggy and started to
drive home with the coveted prize tied
supposedly securely in the back of the
buggy.
Mr.. Fitzgerald was happy in the
thought of the surprise he was going
to pop, and on the way home he
thought of many things pertaining to
the pup. but forgot to glance behind
frequently enough to keep touch with
the movements of the canine.
Temptation Overwhelming
1t was very aristocratic pup and
apparently had a penchant for high
bred fowl. In the course of his drive
Mr.. Fitzgerald passed the residence of
o. II. Burbridge on West Adams street,
where Mrs. Burbridge keeps some of the
finest fancy poultry in the country.
If the happy man had driven past
an ordinary everyday chicken ranch
where common birds live it is probable
that the trouble would never have oc-
CURED and a breach which the courts
must widen would never have been
made.
Alas for the fowls! They were arls-
tocrats, and how are the mighty fallen!
The wind was in the wrong direction,
and upon the breezes blowing from the
chicken pens came the odor of chicken,
high blood aristocratic chicken waited
straight into the nostrils of the Bos-
ton terrier. Bein a connoisseur in fowl
1t took the pup not more than second
to make up it's mind to break the rope,
and his accusers say that he stole
stealthily into the home of the unsus-
pecting ones. When Mr.. Fitzgerald
finally turned to see the pup it was not
there.
A search was instituted and many
were called into consultation to aid in
discovering the whereabouts of the
valued pup.
When at last the animal was dis
covered in Mrs. Burbridges chicken
yard it was very irate little woman
who turned it over to the new mistress.
She was almost in tears, but she prob
ably recollected that tears were not be-
coming to her big brown eyes, held
them back and burned defiance at the
owner of the dog.
Trouble Breaks Loose
Ten of her fancy chickens had been
slaughtered almost beneath her eyes.
Ten of them and every one a treasure,
and she declares the dog did it.
Mr.. Fitzgerald was grieved, greatly
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-07
PERSONALS

Nelson Post. mining man of To-
nopah, New. is at the Westminster.
George Busser, superintendent of the
Santa Fe reading rooms, is at the An
gelus.
David Keith, capitalist and mine
owner of Salt Lake City, has Joined
his wife and family at the Angelus
hotel.
E. c. Howe, one of the leading factors
in the American Beet Sugar company,
is at the Van Nuys. Mr.. Howe registers
from Denver
General E. b. Williams of Chicago
arrived on one of the belated trains
from the east last night and is regis
tered at the Angelus.
Colonel II. l.. Pickett, prominent at
torney of Tombstone, Arlz., and w.
Holmes and Fl. L. Fitch, mining men
from the same place, are at the Hol-
lenbeck.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-07
OUR DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT

From the Democratic point Of view
It is amusing to note the Republican
talk about compelling" President
Roosevelt to be candidate for another
term. It is amusing because the chief
features Of the presidents policy which
elicit so much admiration, were feat
ures Of the last two national Democrat
ic platforms.
It Is because Theodore Roosevelt
has dropped certain lines of Republican
policy. substituting conspicuous DEM
ocratio lines, that his popularity has at
tained its present growth. Just in pro-
portion as he cast off the lines Of his
own party and accepted instead certain
policies embodied in the Democratic
platforms of 1900 and 1904 popular ad-
miration for him has increased.
Having reached the point where his
energies are concentrated chiefly on is
sues that were leading planks in DEM
ocratic platforms the acme of that ad-
miration has been reached. Because he
has espoused Democratic principles and
become in fact a Democrat in salient
features OF public policy, the word is
passed along the line of the Republican
press that he must be "compelled' to
accept another nomination.
Two main features Of the presidents
policy account largely for the admira-
ton with which he is popularity regard
ed. One is his stupendous fight against
the trusts and the other is his desire for
a more equitable tariff. He is regarded
as a champion of the people in the
trust arena and there is assurance that
he will favor a modification of the tariff
on lines more helpful to consumers and
less beneficial to the manufacturing
trusts.
In view of these facts the question
arises why it should be so important
that Theodore Roosevelt continue to
occupy the presidential chair for an
other term. What ground is there for
the inference that a Democrat would
be less successful than a nominal Re-
publican in carrying out Democratic
policies? That is the question to
which all the discussion on this point
SINNERS down.
If the Republicans are so desirous of
seeing the chief policies of President
they can safely entrust the work to the
party which stands pledged by its
platforms to carry out those policies.
However acceptably the president may
be doing the work which he has under
taken it must be remembered that the
work was cut out by Democratic con-
ventions. At best the president is an
adopter, not an originator, of the poll
cies on which his popularity chiefly is
based.
The plain fact is that the president
has reached his present perch of popu-
larity by taking up some of the same
lines of policy that William J. Bryan
formulated years ago. And it needs only
a reference to the political history of
the last decade to see that those poll
cies were repudiated by the Republican
party throughout the Mckinley admin
istration. 1t was only when President
Roosevelt fully recognized the force and
the righteousness of Bryan's ideas that
he steered out of the Republican course
and into the Democratic line wherein
he now is sailing.
Why worry over the chance of induc-
ing a nominal Republican to remain in
the presidency simply in order to con-
tinue the carrying out of Democratic
policies?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-07
COMES SOUTH WITH BRIDE

Sig Sonnenburg, European represen-
tative of large glove mandatory
and brother of the genial Henry Som
nenburg, treasurer of the Orpheum, has
arrived at the Alexandria with his
bride.
geles and the San Francisco girl who
has become Mrs. Sonnenburg might
have envious eyes cast upon her If she
were not so charming as to Immediately
capture his friends to count them as
her own.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-07

Many ineonveniences surround the
engagement Of the San Carlo opera
company here, but none of them should
be permitted to keep any sincere lover
OF good music from the rink this week
or next. That companys season would
be well worth while II sung IN tent
no such opera has ever been heard in
Los Angeles hitherto.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-07

If San Francisco wants to throw rot
ten eggs at anyone it now has a fine
mark in its fiddler mayor, who certain
ly played as poor a part on the stage
of Washington politics as ever did the
worst hamfat.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-07
SOME POPULATION FIGURES

! In the guise Of a showing Of a IRE.
markable condition as regards popu.
lation," the ,san Francisco boomers at.
tempt to boost their own city and
dwarf Los Angeles.
The statement is made that within
a radius Of fifty miles from San Fran
cisco is a population Of s75,6s7 and
within the same radius of Los An
gelus Is a population Of 341, ,377."
This exhibit Is made with the
ostensible object of showing that more
than half of the states population is
located In or near the two greater
cities. The estimated population OF
the state, as given at San Francisco,
is 2,217s97 and the aggregate for the
two cities and their envlrons is 1,217,-
-e64.
The showing thus made of population
in San Francisco and its neighborhood
is about as much too high as the
showing for Los Angeles is too low.
The last federal census, 1900, made the
population of San Francisco S42, 7s2. At
the time of the catastrophe, last April,
the most reliable estimate placed the
population at 100000. Thousands of
San Francisco residents at that time
are now citizens of Los Angeles. There
is no present means of knowing ac-
curately to what extent the calamity
decreased the population permanently,
but it surely would be a moderate
guess to call the loss $4,000.
The present population Of Los An
geles, based upon the most reliable
data, is not less than 275,00O and prob
ably 1t is nearer the 100000 mark. Six
months ago the quarter million mark
was passed, and the ratio of growth
for the year preceding would bring the
present figure to at least 275,000. AS
the total population of Los Angeles
and all it's neighborhood within fifty
miles is 341,S77, according to the San
Francisco claim, there can be only 66,977
inhabitants in the whole section out
side the city limits but within a radius
of fifty miles thereof. There are more
than double tLat number in that Sec
'iOi Ni0Hih tNeity-HNe HllleS Oh the
city.
1t undoubtedly is true that fully half
the population of California is located
in or quite near the two great cities.
In order to make the San Francisco
estimate fairly acurate, however, about
100000 should be taken from the figure
for the northern district and added to
the district of the southland metropolis.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-07

Every once in while even a cor
poration attorney overreaches himself
and suffers, while the people get JUS
tice. This is called to mind by the
falldown OF Attorney w. Z. Dunn in the
telephone hearing yesterday.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-07

Abe Ruef, as a fugitive from justice.
doesn't make very much of a heroic
figure, such as he proclaimed himself
in the last San Francisco municipal
campaign and during the gubernatorial
canvass last fall.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-07

What Los Angeles needs is a law re-
quiring the public listing of the names
of everyone hurt in a trolley or rail-
road accident. Then the trolley COM
panies would not be so arrogant.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-07

Pity Abe Ruef couldn't come out of
hiding long enough to greet his pup
pet, the fiddler mayor, on the latters
return from his great defeat in Wash
ington.