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Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-12-27
BUslSEsS. NOT SENTIMENT.

The question license topic for
present shoshone council organized last
spring argued BE- unfair the saloons and not tax 9th
businesses the basis Stripped Of all unusual conditions
assuming a mercantile businesses bear the relation to
community argument looked plausible It honestly be-
y many excellent citizens when the city council levied
$500 city license there much public criticism.
February shoshone lie printer and 4
good Not getting job he vent the saloons and under the IN
merchandise crime r which he served 80
days JAIL On completing bis sentence be employed the Jour
The best printers the office He
ee and loyawheu longest time he
eer worked prees lasted from four weeks All
through September October and November the Journal printers
working overtime and earning from 81 $3.50 day each This
could the same work undonc holding his lob
open him Boz be sober than few days time
during months The Journal paid out for him s35 than his
came To- I enness plbe wreck he was taken to the
county hospital where be cared for for almost months Last
the county paid his fare Of to where he claimed to have
friends.
During his stay and spent about $500 His total
county trial board jail and hospital and ticket out
Of town was AZ least 1900 This
dead What he earned be spent II the various industries that
ed bis be taxed all propoonatey to what they got OF
HE moneyior his bills must be pad by axaionthe clothing
shoemaker and the would small tax Is
fair adjust business in the ratio of its responsibility
70 the community for what it gets and what does2
All this is looking purely IRON mercenay standpoint
pocket book side The physical and moral degeneacy the hro
drink been considered Several parties here have tried to be-
having been better
man. and there was hope his old might
But drink had made him moral degenerate He used his
friendships and the TACT that there good job held for him at the
Journal basis for credit for drink and longer
lie old when shohone lie
months and vent away ten years older far as physical ability is
concerned.
What has happened to this happens daily 10 others To
all considerations figure only the financial side
general public protection the heavy expense Of
breaks window whether sport
by accident pay the railroad pays for losing goods by
accident eenes theft In both the other party has
least ooauey had the benefit Of goods and should pay 1t
fanacsm but the ordinary sense ask that
whoever gets benefits responsible for these community losses
should pavheher it be the gardener the the candy
man. or the weinerwnrst seller or the saloon Id
The Journal will gladly publish commun alton that will show
up the other side Of ia qu. stson al
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-12-27
WHY SUSPICIOUS OF FOREST RESERVES?

Magazine OF the forest
SYSTEM Edward White perhaps the
thing published either side 1t valid and
national aid preserving forests for else will
But after ALL it is purely academic defend it. The is
stay burn every would affect the
Being here whether Old Man the Sea welcome
friend the only thing and make the best of it. 1t mortal
pity that good idea dcredted by allowing land
worthless lands 1t
abomnaby foolish trade actual forests the
mountains above the line and call the barren eeess
worthless mountain forest Why have converted those
magnificent reserves if the timber famine pressing?
fool would give already worth $4,000
section for mountain above the ne where couldn't
worth of township century, and cali
Why those grants and fake home
stead the mountains and the real timber? Why they
couldn't those barren rocks and harmful erosion
the soil they couldn't those mountain and spoil the
she'd they couldn't stop the from falling there to supply
the Such watersheds would remain teees unchanged who
would look Then the people the object
of their territory held up against development for the
forests which they squanered If
they find cities profitable it
able let them the price, both and hereafter and not
their overwhelming force obnoxious system the helpless
altogether product 1t
Ohioan wantony burned countless mil
clearing their farms the result of their oand vote
half Idaho grow cheap lumber for him and his
children conceded that the objection this conception
idea founded ausnbut has human
justice that not without point
The managed by departmental rules not by laws These
variable unsatisfactory But the whole idea and had
built mp nothing Time and experience should bring bet
regulations better administration Just the idea was founded
wise craftsmanship or the utur the formed ome
thn) by the Of official favor to land holding
yndaes through lieu land selections; and the whole forced
by mproden who quanded their priceless
atrmony may be good thingbut it sure
astes bad.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-12-27
FINANCIAL CONARDICE vs.. IUsTICE.

The state hos finished presenting testimony in the Pettibone trial
and the defense starting in The proving shorter than
that 81 Haywood for the charge that OF numbering
steunenbere may be finished by January H.
There sensational eatuesaye Orchards
story and hai longer Flom tho first pbone hos been
charged with much m h detail work planning and paying for the
murders Orchard claims have done Tho majority OF people believe
Orchard sory Haywood th story prove
Haywood completely enough hao him As much the tesii
n0ny Wl be given both or and Petbone may be conceded
that De las a chance.
70 some may have looked uess prosecute Pettbone after
Haywood si been acquitted the charge II
The dd that against
Haywood three h jurors believed him guilty hang
IL IS safe guess that others believed the
guilty charged bot not clearly enough proven
mhnncr e justify hangngand hang free. With such
quiyoa ndaon Haywood yindcaten that proves only
humanity sud us Of the cour would have been unutteraby
foolish aad weak pbone the Haywood
No sincerely honest argue that the should
testimony made Haywood embie may find Pcitoone guilty The
has money and desire perseeuton
dence d good in this the could afford lay
though the trial cost million liars against
stat and the states honor pledged find his slayer
and turn loose when there good evidence against them
temptbe cowarace that elfepecting would
Petitions ay free though he be still believed guilty
Idaho viii prove thngthat going buy an gnobe
big enough TO suspects fair trial without stampeding way
through fear fury and that her money people
her officers who enforce the law The conviction Haywood
Petitions merely incidentally the attitude prosecuting
reasonable evidence in the face Of fear expense vital
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-12-27
An IDAHO VICE ppfsIDrSr.-MAYBE.

There stranger things politics Idaho one of the
smallest states numerically 10 the Union might have place the
national ticket Of great political party in the campaign
Under the circumstances may may nattering to the
state that 20 bot might be that Dubois occupy the
second place the democratic ticket
Denver g the Democratic convention This bid western
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-08
IN POLICE COURT.
Negroes Who Had Fight in Sta
ton Are Fined.

Edward Johnson (colored) smote Hem
ry Rufln, also colored, at tho Main
Street station on Saturday because the
latter made some offensive remarks
about people who colored their mus
taches. The bout was OF five minutes
duration. The sequel came yesterday
morning In the Police Court. when JUS
tice Crutchfeld fined both the combat
ants So.
William Ball, who got hungry at the
Southern Depot on Saturday and helped
himself to some cheese. was put under
500 security for fifteen days as a sus-
picious, character. Ball claimed that the
cheese belonged to the railroad; that he
was employed by the railroad, and that
no did not take 1t away. Sentence
against him was made lighter for that
fact,
Walter Ray (colored) was found satur-
day with a lot of jewelry In hia possess
sion. He was arrested on suspicion by
Detectives Bailey and Wiltshire, and will
be held until the ownership of the trink-
cts can be proved.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-08
CIGAR co.
1912 E. CARY STREET

has changed hands. having been pur-
chased by an officer of the bank at $3.50
a share, the high record price. The bank
Will soon move into its handsome new
building at Sycamore and East Tabb
Streets. which is now being furnished.
The second story of the new building Will
be occupied by the law department of the
Atlantic Coast Limo Railroad Company.
The stockholders Of the new Petersburg
Business and Credit Association and In
vestment Corporation will meet to-mor-
row night at A. P. Hill Camp Hall for
election Of officers and other work OF or
ganization. TIL fifty thousand dollars
worth Of stock necessary to organization
has all been subscribed, and five addi-
tional workers have been appointed to the
organizing committee.
At a monthly meeting to-day the spe-
cial board of directors OF the Central
State Hospital awarded contracts for sup
plies for the ensuing quarter. The board
found the institution in frst-class con-
dition.
Mr.. Thomas Jefferson Spinner died yes
terday at the residence Of his son-in-law,
Mr.. German D.. Eanes. on Canal Street.
Mr.. Spinner was highly esteemed by q
great number Of friends and acqualnt-
ances. He was about sixty-five years Old,
and Is survived by n daughter. Mrs. G..
D. Eanes. He was a member Of A. P. Fill
Camp of Confederate Veterans.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-08
Search for Explosives.

The Steeles lived In two furnished rooms
at No. 1913 Grace Street, having been
there about two months, and there was
considerable concern among persons late
yesterday evening and last night. when
they heard that he was the man who blew
the Philadelphia bank up. for fear that
the rooms We're flied with explosives and
Internal machines.
There Were two suspicious looking boxes
or chests. which We're carried into their
rooms when they were first occupied by
the family. and a number of persons felt
confident that they should be inspected
by the police authorities. As soon as
Mrs. Steele heard of these rurnors from
a newspaper man, she made q careful
search of the quarters and the only thing
that could be found was q box of dyna-
mite fuses. which Steele had used when
ut work o n the railroad jobs. She at
once came down town and reported the
matter. and in turning the police were
notified. Sergeant Seay returned to the
home with Mrs. Steele and he satisfied
himself that there was nothing to be
feared in the place. AT the request Of
Mrs. Steele the officer carried the fuses
away from the house.
The two chests referred to were found
to have dishes packed in one, and tho
other contained nothing but books.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-08
DENY Petition IN
BAY SHORE CASE

NORFOLK. VA, January IA tele-
gram received here tonight from Wash
ington announced that the United States
Supreme Court has denied the petition
OF Frank D. Zell, of Philadelphia, for q
writ of certiorari, in the famous matter
Of the receivership sale of the Bay Shore
Terminal Company to z. B.. Smith & Co.,
also OF Philadelphia, for 3765 900.
The status of the case is now as 1t was
when the United States Circuit Court
affirmed tho decision Of the District Court.
which confirmed the sale. and lawyers
here for Smith g. Co. think that the road.
which has occasioned an immense amount
OF litigation. will 500 be out OF the hands
of the receivers and under tha control
of Smith & Co.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-08
MILITARY SASH Of
GALLANT ANCESTOR
Former State Senator Wallace
Has Much-Prized Relic of
Revolutionary War

FREDERICKSBURG, VA, January -
EX-State Senator G., NJ. Wallace, of staff
ford county, has just come into possess
sion3of a Revolutionary War relic, which
ne prizes highly, 1t is a military sash,
which was Worn by one of his ancestors,
Colonel Gustavus B. Wallace, who was
observation-disclosures of the Third Virginia
Regiment in the regular troops, known as
the Continental Line. The treasured relic
was sent to DR.. Wallace by the widow
OF q. %. Wallace, of King George
county. The sash Is silk. color garnet.
with figures and long fringe at the ends.
1t has retained Its color, but shows the
marks of time In many ways. 1t will be
preserved by DR., Wallace as a family
heirloom,
At the Baptist Church yesterday. Rev.
4. Aubrey Williams, the pastor, preached
a sermon appropriate to the third ami
versaTy of his pastorate, In which 1t was
shown that the church is stronger than
at any time within Its history, the mem
bershlp numbering ITO, and the church Is
entirely free from debt.
Inc storehouse at Quantlco, belonging
70 Ra!ph Flick, which was also the post
once OF the place, was burned a few days
20 Inc stock Of goods, all of the mail
ana post office supplies We're also de-
s'rpSed. Origin of the fire is unknown.
ReV. DR.. is Dunaway, the weIl-known
baptlst minister, VINO has been III with
pafaiSsts @ot The throat at his home here,
~ no" improving gradually, being able to
SIT up and his power Of speech is return
ing.
me week OF. prayer services commenced
po-n,sHt IN the baptist Church here, the
s ne pelng rev j. H.. Light: subject.
The Church OF the LAYING God = 'Ths
attendance was large. These sery,cas ,,,I
continue each night this week. aJ+a,n,.nn
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-08
IN PETERSBURG
FOR SAFE-KEEP|NG
Two, Prisoners Brought From
Lower Counties to Cockade
City's Strong Jail.
LAD DIES OF Lock1Aw
Was Accidentally Shot by Com
panion-Block National Bank
Stock Sold.
tspecial to I'VE rimes.pispatcb,l

PETERSBURG, VA, January 7.-The
Board Of Aldermen this evening con-
Cured in all important proceedings Of
the recent meeting Of the Council ex-
cept the passage OF the ordinance au-
thorizing the City Engineer to employ
jail prisoners from tho Mayors Court as
laborers on the streets and other public
work, which matter was laid over until
the next meeting in order to bring both
proposed ordinances on that subject be-
fore the Board at the same time. Tho
Police Commissioners are considering an
ordinance referred to them by the Coun-
Gil providing for the employment of
street mendicants. habitual 'drunkarEs
and other worthless characters as public
laborers. The Board concurred In the
raising Of salaries OF the Chief and mem
bers of the Fire Department and of the
Clerk Of the Markets and appointed
Alderman Brockwell to confer with two
other committeeman from the Council
as to the amount of an appropriation
for the Improvement Of the lake at West
End Park. Tho designations of Alder
men John A. Gill and NJ. r. Saal having
been accepted, w. E. Poole and Harris
Donnan were elected to succeed them.
Rev. DIR. Foster, pastor of Tabb Street
Presbyterian Church, read an excellent
address on the subject of THE Preacher
and His Books at the monthly meeting
of tho Petersburg Ministerial Association
at the First Baptist Church this morn
Ing. The paper was discussed with great
interest by the many olergymen present.
Rev. On. 3. F. Lipscomb, OF the Metho-
dist Church, was appointed to read a
paper at the associations next meeting
in February. Ministers representing near
ly all religious denominations IN the city
compose this association, which Is meet
ing with great success In its work.
Bring Negro Here.
William Burse. a negro. charged with
murder, has been brought back from
Surry Courthouse for safekeeping in the
Petersburg jail until his case up
at the next term Of the Surry Circuit
Court, to which his trial was continued.
s. ". Baugh, a white man, charged with
aiding and abetting q jail delivery in
Surry, has also been placed In the Jail
here to await trial at the next term of
the court.
Boy Dies of Lockjaw.
Willie. Colgin, the ltwelve-year-old son
Of Mr., and Mrs. John Colgin. died on
Saturday at the home of his parents, near
Disputanta, Prince George county, from
lockjaw, resulting from a fearful gum
shot wound in the knee. AS was res
ported to The Times Dispatch. the child
was accidentally shot by a companions,
a boy about even years old. the entire
load from a shotgun entering the knee
and blowing away a portion OF the knee
cap. The accident occurred about ten
days ago.
IT is understood that a large block of
stock Of the National Bank OF Petersburg
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-08
ARRESTED AFTER
THIRTY YEARS
Charles w. Wells, Alias Yankee
Allen, Who Killed Man in
Nebraska, Captured.
SHOT HIM IN sELF-DEFENsE
Ran Fifty Miles in One Night.
Soon After Came to
Virginia.
SHOT HIM IN sELF-DEFENsE
Especial TO The Tiu,s-pispa,ch.,

l0ptSlsl W ne 1lpU0-DlSpdtCIi.J
SUFFOLK. VA, January Accused OF
doing murder in Nebraska thirty-one
years ago, Charles W.. Wells. alias Yankee
Allen. was arrested to-day in Nansemond
county, and was lodged in jail here, pend
ing word from the Nebraska authorities.
Mr.. Wells was interviewed in jail this
afternoon. He made a full confession OF
the killing. which he says was in self
defense. The victim was Thomas schu-
ter. and the killing happened near STAN
ton, then a frontier hamlet In Northern
Nebraskn.
Wells and Schuter had Il difficulty about
a COW, which Wells had sold the latter.
Wells says 6chuter drew his gun first,
but It missed fire. Then he shot Schuter
dead. Wells loft Stanton on the advice
Of lawyers, and walked and ran seventy
five miles to Sioux City, Iowa, In one
night. He went from there to Manitoba.
and thence to Oswego. N. Y, where he
remained two years. He has been living
In Nansemond county twenty-seven years,
under the name OF Allen.
Wells is seventy-two years OF age. Ills
wife this afternoon was In Jail with him.
She is sixty-four, and a native Of Swift
zerland, An effort Is being made to bail
the prisoners. and probably will be sue
%cessful. Wells is in comfortable circum-
stances.
No answer has come to a telegram sent
to Nebraska. Wells says his victim was
a foreigner, many OF whom lived In tina
locality, n some of whom threatened him
with mob violence. chuter and his wife
lived in a gopher hole. E
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-08
Society Changes Officers.

Especial to The Titnes-D Dispatch
FREDERICKSBURG, VA, January T.
At the nnu meeting OF the Baptist
Sunday School Society, held in the Bap-
fist Church here last night, the follow
ing officers were elected: Rev. r. A. Will
liams. president; Colonel E. d. Cole, vice
president; B. P. Willis, superintendent Of
schools; w. S. Chesley, assistant super
intendent: S. E. Eastburn, treasurer; s.
B. Quirn, secretary; w. A. Bell. libra
rian; Executive Committee. Rev. r.. a.
Williams. b. p. Willis. H. w. Willen-
boucher, J. r. Rawlings and NJ. G. Willis.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-08
THREE DROWNED.
Upturned Skiff Found and Occu-
pants Missing.

Especial to Tie s-Dispatchl
NORFOLK, VA, January 7.-While at
tempting to cross Deep Creek, Norfolk
county, in a skiff Saturday night, Clar-
ence Williams. aged thirty: Percy Arnold,
aged twenty, and b. Arnold, aged four
teen, all colored, were drowned. The up
turned skiff and the hats of the victims
were found yesterday. floating in the
water. They were employed at Barnes's
Mill, on the Southern Branch, and left
there Saturday afternoon about 5 o'clock
for Norfolk, to max some purchases.
On crossing the creek on their return
home they were drowned. The bodies
have not been recovered.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-08
ENJOYABLE Entertainment.

ESPECIAL to The Times lspatch.l
UPPERVILLE, VA, January 1.-THE
De Koven Quartet and Miss Estelle Van
Horne (reader). of Richmond, gave an
entertainment here Saturday evening at
Columbia Hall, under the auspices of the
Y. NJ. G. a. of this place, which was en-
joyablo in the extreme. This is the last
of a series of entertainments, and the
people deeply regret it. The oyster festi-
val, too, given by the ladies of the several
churches here, was well patronized ana
large amounts for charitable purposes
We're realized.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-08

killed in a railway accident on the Perre
Marquette system. Her first husbands
name was j. d. OstoShouse, a railway
man. who lost his life on duty.
She explained when the trio came to
Lynchburg, being absolutely among stran-
gers, her little son went by the name OF
Steele, and she said she never took the
pains to correct the error, because she
did r7 regard it of sufficient importance.
She stated that her husband was a native
of either Vinton or Waterloo, Iowa, but
admitted that she did not know very much
of him prior to a year before she married
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-08
Wanted Money Badly.

Asked what motive her husband could
have in demanding $4,000 from the Phil
adelphia bank. and then blowing 1t up
because mis- demand was refused, Mrs.
Steele declared that she was perfectly at
sea; she did not have the slightest idea
why he should resort to such a thing.
she Knew that he was in hard straits for
money, but why he should wreck n bank
she could not throw the slightest light on
d probable incentive for such a step.
For a number Of years steele has been
handling high explosives in the cement
construction work on which he has been
engaged, and it is said that he had been
experimenting with dynamite and cleo
trio batteries to ascertain the easiest and
cheapest method to explode blasts. lie
had worked on a number of large rail-
way contracts as a foreman of cement
construction, one of the largest being ut
Danville, Ill. This was in 1893. In Feb
ruary, 1906, he went to work on the Tide
water, working around Roanoke and Sa-
lam. Later he went to Chrfstiansburg,
where he worked for some time. lie re-
NAMED there until the first of August,
when he left and went with Nave Broth
ers. on a Norfolk and Western contract
at Montvale. From there he was trans
ferred to Hurts Station. lie remained
there two or three days, leaving there
and coming to Lynchburg, because there
was no accommodation there for his wife
and step-son.
l3arly in November he went to work
as foreman on the cement construction
of the big building now nearing compile
ton for the Beasley, Couch q Co., on
Commerce Street. He quit this job last
Tuesday morning, saying then that he
intended going to Florida.
Weeps Pitifully.
THE Mrs. Steele who lives in Chicago,
from whom Steele claimed TO nave been
divorced. stoutly maintains that she was
not divorced, and that her husband con-
tributed regularly each month to the
support of herself and his three chill
dren, who vert born prior to his mar
riage with the wafs hire.
When told this this morning, Mrs. Steele,
who now appears to be the wife No. Q,
broke down and wept pitifully. She stated
that she knew her husband had three
children in Chicago, but that he told
her that he had been divorced from her
and that she thought she was his legal
wife.
II will investigate this matter as soon
as l can return home" declared the
woman sorrowfully. "If I ascertain that
he was not divorced when he married
me, l will take legal steps at once to
have the marriage annulled, despite the
fact that he is dead, in order that ! can
resume my former name and give 1t to
my boy
Mrs. Steele stated that she was mar
ried to Steele at G~reenville, Mich. on
June u, 1904. Her maiden name was
Bessie L.. Goodno, but when she married
Steele she was a widow of only a brief
time, her first husband and the father
Of her twelve-year-old son having been