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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-13

InlS was the beginning OF MI. Gates
career as steel man.
He smokes constantly long, black
cigars, is irregular in his habits, and pre-
fers sitting up until o'clock in the morn
ing to going to bed at reasonable hour.
There is a crowd at one of the largest
hotels in New York which meets every
night and plays poker. Mr.. Gates fire.
qunetly joins these men and the game
at once begins to get interesting as the
limit is raised, and there is a spirit Of
You can go as far as you please"
aroused.
one evening they were playing stud,
with the eight of hearts counting any
card in the pack. The hand was dealt,
bets were made until it narrowed down TO
Gates and a son of one of the great
financiers in this country. They raised
each other. neither one willin gto give in.
Finally the young man called and Mr..
Gates laid down his hand, three aces, the
deuce of spades and the eight of hearts.
"Three aces" said Mr.. Gates.
Full said the young man, laying
down pair and three queens.
As he was reaching for the pot some
one called Mr.. Gates attention to the
fact that he had the eight of hearts,
which he could call any card in the pack,
so that he really had four aces. Mr..
Gates smiled and said that he ought to
pay for a lapse of memory as well as
any one else. That ended the matter.
Mr.. Gates is very fond of his son, Char
lie. When Charlie had finished school his
father said to him:
Charlie, of course. | have made some
plans FOR you, but L don't want to in
terfere with your inclinations. l won
tell you what | want you to do. Do as
you please. but take time to consider.
Father" Charlie replied, Il don't need
any time TO consider, I've already de-
cided. | want to do just as you have
done"
An amusing headline concerning Mi.
Gates appeared i'm a New York paper
several years ago. 1t read: j. w. Gates
Eats Pie; Pays Record Price" Mr.. Gates
had eaten pie and he had paid good
price. 1t came about this way:
In the Gates brokerage office was Il
telegraph operator named J. II, Kane.
Every day Mr. Kane had pie for luncheon.
One day Mr.. Gates sampled it and the
next day Kane brought several pies.
! Finally Mr.. Gates invited Il number of
friends to a pie luncheon and Mrs. Kane,
the operators wife, did the baking. To-
ward the end of the luncheon it was
suggested that the diners should do some
thing handsome for Mrs. Kane. They
greed to buy for her in the name of "A.
G. Pymaker'' 100 shares of Northern pa
cifc. The stock was afterwards sold at
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-25

edge of conditions through lnforma-
ton on the characteristics and compo-
sition of the population. Mr.. Grosser
will ask that a census be taken next
June. which he asserts could be taken
next June. which he asserts could be
done in one day at an expense APP
proximating 100000.
He will suggest that the department
be enlarged to include a bureau OF
registration, bureau of industrial sta
tistics and bureau of legislative ref
erences in connection with the admin
istrative statistical work now carried
on. He believes the department should
be controlled by commission with
secretary as the active head or chief.
The bureau of registration would ope-
rate so as to compel landlords to re-
port all removals and thus a thorough
check on the so-called floating popu-
latiOn could be had.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-25
BUTTE is THREATENED.
Complete Shut Down Menaces The
Montana City.

BUTTE, Feb. 25-The far-reaching
strike in Butte was spread this morn
ing by a notice served on all employers
for a raise in the scale by the Butte
Workingmen's union. This organiza-
ton, the largest in the city outside
the mining trades. embraces laborers
of every description except miners,
street sweepers, ditch diggers, shovel
ers, etc, and its members have been
getting $500 per day in Butte. Their
new scale. as announced today, viii
take effect March 1 and call for $3.50
per day.
The city of Butte is most heavily
affected, but number of other in
dustries will suffer. Many employers
will refuse the demands.
The crisis in the situation draws
near The miners union will vote next
Monday on the proposition to demand
an increase in the scale from $3.50 to
$500. If their demands are refused
and the men strige Butte will witness
widespread suffering as the miners and
smeltermen outnumber all other unions
combined A shutdown of the Butte
mines would close the smelters, here
in Anaconda and Great Falls, throwing
out of work, in addition, several thous-
and men engaged in timbering, coal
mining. etc. A shutdown would cut
20. 900 men off the payrolls.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-25
RELIGION HOPE OF NEGRO.
Justice Brewer Declares It Will Blaze
the Way for Struggling Race.

NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-Justice David
). Brewer of the United States supreme
court told the congregation in the
Broadway tabernacle yesterday that in
his opinion religion was the principal
factor by which the negroes of the
south could be converted into a valua-
bic asset of the nation.
I'VE know that there is ignorance.
criminality and immortality among the
negroes he said, land it remains with
us to change present conditions so that
the negroes will become a helpful fac
tor in our civilization and progress.
L believe that there is a divine prov
ldence which will shape our history
so that the negro will be a helpful fac
tor Industrial development. cleanli-
ness, education and other benevolent
and useful things are good for the ne
gro. but l believe nothing will so help
as the influence of Christianity"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-25

writings, as his fishing and hunting
ESSAYS. or heard his occasional adj
dresses, as that in tribute to the doc
tor, know what a vein of genuine, fine
original humor runs through them all.
and they know, too, the genuine hu-
man sympathy. that runs in even rich
err and deeper vein. The country was
surprised at the emotion he showed
in his tribute to President Mckinley,
but it was only an intimation of that
great, generous sympathy which goes
out constantly to those who have suf-
fered unjustly, a sympathy which at
the time of his own great loss caught
and understood the thousands of mes
sages that came to him and answered
them with an expression of apprecia-
ton and gratitude as beautiful. as
noble and as tender as ever was writ
ten by a father. And worthy to be
put with this, and to be kept in Eng
fish letters. is his tribute to Joseph
Jefferson the tribute of a friend that
no less proves the nobility of the man
who gave it than it testifies to the
worth of him in whose memory 1t
was spoken.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-25

Millinery Buyers Crowd Gotham


In point of numbers the woman
buyers predominant over the men prob
ably two to one. Those coming from
| a distance usally plan to be here about
the same time. Few remain for
shorter period than a week-most of
| them two weeks-and they always put
up" at the same hotels. There are not
many changes in the personnel of this
army of periodical visitors, and they
| have all come to know each other
| The social feature of these reunions
| is one of the bright sides of a trip, for
| the days spent in New York are in
many respects the hardest the buyers
encounter in the course of the year.
From Leonard street to Aston Place on
Broadway and on side streets running
both east and west there are hundreds
of wholesale establishments where
| flowers and feathers and ribbons and
other things which go toward MAX
| ing UP woman's bonnet or hat are
sold. All of these places have to be
visited, and there are few idle moments
| between o'clock in the morning and
5 in the afternoon.
| The purchases that have been made
during the week were fully in accord
| with the prediction made earlier OF
| the revival of an old-fashiOned flower
season. Most everything in the floral
kingdom is finding it's way into mill1n-
cry trimmings. The demand for quilts
and wings and whole birds, while just
lively this year, is intended only for
street hats, giving way as the season
advances to flowers as a more appro-
pirate summer trimming. Chip Milan
union Milan and hair, with its various
limitations. are the braids for which
there is the greatest demand. The fiat
hood and cone are still classed as
leaders, but buyers are giving their
attention to shapes. There is quite "A
revival of interest in hand made hats.
Easter coming two weeks in ad-
vance Of last year, the past week prac-
| tically saw the completion of spring
buying, although there will be a few
hundred late corners in town this week
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-25
TRANCE TRANSFORMS sWEDE.
From Unlettered Savage He Changes
To Erudite Savant.

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. Feb. 25
Residents of the little village oi
Duncan are agitated by the queer &C
tons of John Norman, a Swede 20
years old, who has been going into
frances every night for two weeks and
talking in strange manner.
Norman has never been educated
owing to an impeachment in his speech
which made it difficult for him to talk,
and he is unable to read and write.
But while in these frances he talks
for two or three hours at time, quot.
ing from the Bible in both Swedish and
English and exhibiting a wonderful
knowledge not found outside of books
The strangest part of the affair is that
when he is in normal condition he
does not know of the things he dis
course about while under the strange
spells.
Norman was first overcome by a
trance while working in a northern
Michigan logging camp and the men
became frightened He talked stead
lily for several hours without a break
and was taken home the next day.
Now the villagers come nightly to his
home to listen to his words.
While under these spells he predicts
that the world Will come to an end
the present month, and he seems to be
preparing for death. The case puz-
zles the local physicians.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-25
ATHENA WANTS RACE TRACK
Fay lie Grow and Other Horsemen OF
Little Oregon Village Have Prom
ising Young Colts.

Athena, the home of the annual
Umatilla County Colt Show, may pos
sess a speedway on which rOadsters
and racers can be worked and devel-
oped, ii all goes well.
Hustling spirits, every one OF them
lovers of a good horse have the mat
ter in charge and if proper location
for regulation half-mile track can be
secured. the word has been passed
down the line that the enterprise is a
sure go.
Among the leaders in the enterprise
are some OF the leading hOrsemen of
this part of the county, including
Charles Baddeley, owner OF McElropa;
D. H. Preston, owner of Joe FOntaine;
Chas Norris, owner of Carl and Maud;
2. S. lie Grow, owner of several prom
Using colts. Others who own good
light harness stock and who are in
terested in the matter. or who Will
be, are w. r. Taylor, H. A. Barrett,
Charles Brotherton, Sam Banister, M.
l.. Watts. A. B. McEWen, Sanford
Stone, A. L. Swaggart, and others.
There is no better class OF light har-
ness stock anywhere in the lntermoun-
tain country than right here around
Athena. These colts are sired by
standard bred stations, and many OF
them have good blood lines on the
dam side. The gets Of Caution, Del
Norte, McElropa, Bonner N. b., ana
Westfield are in the list and all that
is needed to make then "go'ongl,
is a suitable track on which to break,
properly handle them and develop
speed.-Athena Press.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-25
NEGROES DANCE IN SOCIETY.
Deception Only Discovered When Un-
Masking of Dancers Comes.

HYANNIS, Neb., Feb. 25.-Local So
ciety gave masquerade ball last night
which was attended by the daughters
of leading families here. None of the
maskers was as popular as two male
dancers who impersOnated George
Washington and Uncle Sam. The bellies
of the town felt fiattered when George
or Sam extended an arm for dance.
Their programs would have served
as social roster of Hyannis.
George and Sam disappeared when
it came time for unmasking. They re-
paired to a neighboring saloon and
there witnesses saw the grinning faces
of two negro cooks employed at one
of the hotels. The news flashed about
the town. Hyannis fathers were much
aroused-even to the lynching point,
and sought to capture the negroes.
The latter defended themselves with
razors. Citizens are endeavoring TO
have George and Sam arrested on
charge OF disturbing the peace.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-25
FALLS ASLEEP AND SHE BURNS
Sick Girl RecInes in Chair Near Hot
Stove and Awakes Only
To Die.

p PUYALLUP. Feb. 25.-Estella Law
anyway, aged II years, only daughter
of Rev. and Mrs. c. H. Lavanway,
is dead as the result of being severely
burned.
Miss Lavanway fell asleep while sit
ting close to the stove. She awoke to
find her clothing in a blaze and in a
few minutes she was terribly burned.
Although suffering intensely. she re-
manned conscious until short time be-
fore she died.
Miss I,avanway was recovering from
a severe attack of the grip, and was
reclining in a large chair close to the
stove. She was alone in the house
when the accident happened, having
persuaded her mother, half an hour be-
FORE to visit an aunt few blocks
away who was also ILL., She soon be-
came drOwsy and went to sleep. She
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-25
CAT SETS HOUSE ATTIRE.
Chasing Mouse, SpIashes Grease on
Stove and Blaze Results.

SOUTH NORWALK. Conn.,, FEB. 20
The family cat of Charles d. Taylor
a boarding house keeper, While IN pur-
suit of a mouse. knocked a flat iron
from a shelf. The iron fell IN pot Vi
boiling grease. which spattered owe;
the face and chest of William Taylor
the 14-year- old son, burning him SER
iously.
The remainder of the grease landed
on the stove and caught hre, startlis d
confagration which almost destroyed
the home. The mouse, the cat, the Nat
iron the grease and the fire altogether
nearly burned the house that Taylor
built, and Taylor too.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-25

NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-Eyery woman
in the United States whose husband
has the price and generous DISPOSE
ton will get a new hat for Easter.
Each one of them has already made IN
her mind what style she would like,
but on the basis that there are 100000
600 women to be catered to it is a
cinch that 39,500,O00 will accept with
out question the style approved by
the remaining 100000 That is be-
cause the half million are milliners.
What they say goes.
The past six days have been known
as 'Milliners' Week." in New York.
Thousands of men and women, repre-
senting every state in the union, sa
well as Mexico and the Dominion of
Canada, have been here for the purpose
of laying in an Easter, or spring stock
For millinary more than for any one
other line of goods New York is the
headquarters, said a wholesale mer-
chant yesterday. There is only one
other city in the world that can COM
pare with it in this respect, and that
is Paris.
I'VE handle great deal of imported
| material" continued the wholesaler,
but the most of it is thoroughly Amer
lean. There isn't city or village or
hamlet in America that is not reached
by milliner's supplies from New York.
OF course nearly all the small places
within radius OF 100 miles of Chicago,
or st. Louis. or Denver, get their sup
plies from theose cities, but Chicago,
st. Louis and Denver have to come to
| New York for them
The buyers for large millinery houses
| in other sections of the country make
| two trips to New York every year-One
| in February, to select the spring ana
summer stock, and the other in Au-
| gust, when the demands of the fall
and winter are prepared for Of course,
! the representatives of many Of the big
concerns in the larger cities come Oft
ener. some of them making four or five
| trips a year.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-25
cHIcAeo's POPULATION 2,s5o,ooo
Statistician Grosser Thinks Influx In
Six Years Was Heavy.

CHICAGO, Feb. 25.-Chicago's pOpu-
lation was estimated today by City
Statistician Hugo Grosser at 2,350O0O
In making his annual tabulations Mr..
Groisser estimates that $4,000 immi-
grants have settled in Chicago since
the federal census was taken in 1900
He figures an increase in births over
deaths of $4,000 and estimates there
has been an influx of 100000 from other
cities and towns. The United States
census figures for Chicago in 1900 are
1,69S,57S. The city directory estimate
of population for 1906 is 2.3O0.5OO.
The city statistician is preparing a
request to be made to the council
finance committee when the annual
budget is taken up next week to re-
organize his department and establish
new bureaus so a complete record of
every person in the city will be kept
He declares the health. police and other
departments are handicapped in their
work by not having any definite know!-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-25
RUNS UNSEEING PORkER.
Mr.. Lavender is Under Arrest for Con.
Quoting a Blind Pig

Quoting Blind Pig"
SEATTYE. Feb. 25.-John Lavender,
postmaster at Kangley, small town on
the Northern Pacific, was arrested
by Deputy Sheriff Mat Starwich on the
charge of running blind pig. Law
ender is locked up in the county jail
and so far no attempt to get bail
has been made He claims that he
did not sell liquor, but that if his Gus
toners expressed a desire for some
thing stronger than water he charged
them for soda water and then gave
them beer as a sort of chaser.
Suspicion was directed against the
postmaster some time ago but is was
not until yesterday that Starwich was
able to obtain direct evidence against
MN. The deputy made several at
tempts to purchase liquor on his own
account but the postmaster evidently
knew the deputy sheriff for the at
tempts always failed. Yesterday, how
ever. Starwich enlisted the assistance
OF man living in the locality and
was soon possesses of a bottle of beer
purchased from Lavender. The arrest
followed Immediately.
\ search of the store and postoffice
resulted in the discovery of barrel
ol bottled beer, which was seized in
me name of the law. and nailed up by
me deputy sheriff.
Prosecuting Attorney Macintosh
'AlS morning issued an information
charging Lavender with selling liquor
""hodj license and also a search
warrant. The latter being accompanied
ny instructions to Starwich that he de-
StToy the beer.
As soon as the fact that the beer
was To be destroyed was learned at the
S"e'i't Office, Sheriff Smith was de-
'-eeI with appeals from his deputies
=" 'e sent out to assist Starwich. The
usp"ueS claim that the residents OF
N"nSley are liable to offer resistance
Gnu II Is possible that a posse will
Iea'e Tor Kangley Sunday to destroy
the beer.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-25
MOTHER ORDERS KILLING.
Commands 16-Year-OId Boy to Shoo'
His Father and He Obeys.


FARGO. n. D., Feb 25.-F'red Cram
er, a painter of Page this county, was
shot and killed by his 16-year-old son
Arthur, who says he acted under in
structions from his mother, who ad
mits that she told the boy to shoot.
Mrs. Cramer and the boy are in the
local Jail awaiting trial, which will
probably occur February 26.
The Cramers came to Page two
years ago from Walker, Mimi, Cramer
when not employed in town, did odd
jobs in the country for farmers. 1t was
on his return from one of these con
tracts that he was shot.
The family relations of Mr.. and Mrs
Cramer had been strained for long
time and recently Mrs. Cramer and
the boy resided on the second floor
and Cramer on the first floor OF theil
home. Occasionally meals were pre-
pared for Cramer by his wife. Recent
ly Mrs Cramer had applied to the Of
ncials of Page to have Cramer arrest
ed, charging that he assaulted her.
The night of the tragedy, she and
her son insist, Cramer came home an
cry and threatened to invade the sec
ond floor and attack Mrs Cramer, and
he was coming upstairs to their apart
ments when he was shot. Mrs. Cram
er says she would have shot him, but
was too nervous to hold the revolver
and ordered her son to fire on the
father. The boy obeyed only too well
and the one shot was fatal.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-25
SUICIDE LEAVES NOTE
Don't Worry" Says He in Posthumou.
Missive.

NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-In the pri.
vacy OF his Office in the Dollard Block
Babylon, L. l., Thomas Clifton Petit
a well-to-do coal merchant who was
said to have had business troubles
left a note to his wife which read:
Dear Mamie: Don't worry. Good
by. POOR CLIFF"
Petit had laid down on the floor
resting his head on footstool, and
nred three shots into his head. His
wife was in the building at the time
and ran to the office.
Petit was "a years old and was in
business with his father, Capt. Leon.
ard c. Petit.
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did not realize anything more until
she awOke to find the flames leaping
about her body. She rushed into the
yard screaming for help. but before
neiSlbOrS arrived the clothing had
been entirely burned from her body.
The flesh was horribly burned and
blistered and the physicians had no
hope of her recovery from the first.
After suffering intensely for about II
hours death came to her relief.
Mr. and Mrs Lavanway, with their
daughter and three sons, came here
from Dakota last October. They had
just begun to build home in the east
part of the city.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-25
cLEvELAND's MORAL COURAGE
His Name as Near a Synonym tor
That Quality as Washinston's

From John H. Finleys "Ihe Elk
president" in the March century.
All have long known OF his .Cle'e-
lands moral courage. His name Is as
near a synonym for that Quahty d.
washington's was for kindred quai''s
.nd Iincoln's for another man-vlrtue'
IA oil learned long ago the rugged
traits which companioned his courage
and made him feared and admired or
hated: but it is these 10 years Tia
have showed what a kindness anu
bumor and sympathy and TENDERNESS
even, dwell in that giant Iraine
Those who have read his less SERIOUS
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-25
KEEP DROWNING SECRET.
VINO Saw Companions Perish Do
Not Give Alarm.

'-\ON' ILL.,. Feb. 25.-John Hilbert,
,',''Ph Schertner and Laurence Nye.
SS broke through the ice and were
""ed IN the Rock river.
"eS' with two other lads, the eld-
NJ ~ years, We're playing on the ice
49,, -NEe broke through. Hilbert, in a
- attempt to rescue Nye. fell into
~! water. Sohertner followed in
NJ. "tlempt. A fourth boy like
sa,.o zen INTO the water, but he was
~. 'y the remaining boy, who lay on
N.Y. 'Oe and extended his feet into the
ser as support.
Two survivors went home. but
ao.. u say nothing about the acct
,n;.I ~ "nen the three drowned boys
5no me survivors told of the drown
anu the bodies We're recovered.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-25
WON'T APPOINT NEGRO.
| Because of Protests President Gives
Up His Ohio Project.

Up His Ohio Project.
WASHINGTON. D. c., Feb. 25.-
President Roosevelt has given up the
idea of appointing a negro to an i'm
portant federal Office in Ohio. For
some weeks the president has been
looking for a negro who possesses the
ability to fill the Office Of collector
of internal revenue or some other Of
fee of this character, but has not yet
found one.
So many vigorous protests against
the appointment of a negro have been
received by the president from the
white and negro people Of Ohio that
Mr.. Roosevelt has decided that notn-
ing more shall be done in the matter