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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-07-15
BANKER MURDERED HIS WIFE
TO MARRY A STENOGRAPHER,
ACCUSATION OF THE POLICE
Cashier Magill of Clinton Illinois, Charged With Awful
Crime Two Months After Coroner Had Given
Verdict of Suicide.

CLINTON. Ill. July 15.-Following the
arrest Of Fred H. Magin, cashier Of the
Warner National Bank. with his beaut-
ful nineteen-year-old wife in San Diego,
Cal, on the charge Of numbering the
first Mrs. Magill here about two months
ago. one Of the strangest crimes IN re-
cent years is alleged 10 have been com
mitted.
Preparations are already being made
TO exhume the body OF the woman, and
the district attorney, who started for
California to get the prisoners. makes
the positive statement that murder has
been committed by Magill. who IS a
member OF one OF the best families in
toe State
The most astonishing features about
the case are that the first Mrs. Magill
was assumed TO be a suicide. because
OF note alleged 10 have been written
by her. and pinned to the clothes Of her
deathbed- A coroner's jury declared II a
case OF suicide. and not until MaSill.
without mourning for her death, left
here with Miss Fay Graham. his young
bank stenographeT. and secretly married
her in Denver. did the real facts come
out The county officials determined 70
arrest him and his young wife.
Dispatches received from San Diego
are to the effect that both Magin and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-07-15
OPPORTUNITY.

They do me wrong who say come no
more
When once I knock and fail to find
For every day stand outside your
And bad you wake, and rise to fight
and win.
Weep not for precious chances passed
Weep not for golden ages on the wane;
Each night 1 burn the records Of the
At sunrise every soul is born again!
Laugh Ike boy at splendOrs that have
sped,
To vanished joys be blind and deaf
Ny judgments seal the dead past with
it's dead.
But never bind a moment yet 10 come!
Though deep in mire, wiring not your
lend my arm to All who say I cam
No shamefaced euteast ever sank 50
But Yet might rise and be again a
mani
Dost thou behold thy lost youth all
Dost reel from righteous retribudon
Then turn from blotted archives of the
past,
And find the futures pages white as
snow.
Art thou a mourner? Rouse thee from
thy spell;
Art thou a sinner? Sins may be for
given;
/ Each morning gives thee wings to flee
/ from hell.
Each night a star to guide thy feet tc
heaven.
Walter Malone, in Poems of East
and West
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-07-15
DEGREES Without Weight.

A good deal of worrying has been
done lately anent the alleged diff
ficulty of applying the law to E. II.
Hartman in a way that viii effec-
lively improve conditions in the ter
ritory dominated by his railroad
system. 1t is set forth that there is
grave uncertainty whether any
court viii hold the Union and South
ern Pacific lines to be parallel and
competing, and whether, even if they
should be so held, any decree. against
them could be enforced effectively.
The uncertainty on these points
is quite warrantabIe. But a little
attention to the Hill railroad sys-
tenn ought to develop method by
which at least the law could prove
its title to some respect. The de-
cree has been secured in the case of
the Hill roads. They are under per-
petuaI injunction to restrain them
from suppression of competition,
All that is needed is to start a
proper contempt proceeding in the
circuit court of the eighth circuit,
which issued the decree against the
Northern Securities Company, the
Northern Pacific, and Great North.
ern roads, James ]. Hill, ct al.
There is no doubt in anybody's
mind that this decree has been vio-
lated every day since it was issued
Back of it is all the dignity of the
judicial system and all the power OF
the nation. In no one case has
more of discredit been brought upon
the laws and the courts than in this
by reason of the blatant contempt
with which the highest mandate has
been treated.
Hartman Will without doubt be
proceeded against under the Sher
man law; but a decree will hardly
be more effective in his case thar
in that of the Hill system
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-07-15
HAVE THE TIMES MAILED TO YOU.
MONDAY. JULY Is. 1907.
The Conduit Road Again.

Mayor Garrett and the authorities
of Glen Echo have a somewhat lop-
sided situation on their hands. The
United States is no mean antagonist,
and it's Attorney General is apt to
be rather a good lawyer. The odds
are decidedly agaist the people of
the Maryland village, and in defying
the Federal authorities it is well for
them to have everything possible in
their favor. They doubtless know
IN a general way that they have the
country town authorities of pretty
much every community with them;
but the proposition of who controls
the Conduit road is purely one of
law, and the problem of Glen Echo
is thus not typical of the usual
questions of speed regulation.
The Glen Echo people we suggest
have not strengthened their case by
passing the new six-mile-an-houI
speed limit ordinance. They have
need TO keep reason, moderation
and good sense on their side, and
they are not doing it when they un
dertake to enforce such a limit as
this. The six-mile ordinance is
rather bold defiance, possibly cal
culated to bring the issue as sooI
as possible; but it is not a tactfu
move in a general program of seri
Gus effort to sustain local authority
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-07-15
FRISCO GRAFTERS
FACE NEW WOES
Native Sons Of Golden West
May Expel Schmitz
and Others.

SAN FRANCISCO. July 15.-The most
serious business in the history OF the
order of Native Sons of the Golden
West comes Up to-day, when seven of
its prouinent members come up for
trial in connection with the local graft
scandals. If they are found guilty they
will be expelled from the order. Here
is the list:
Eugene e. schmitz. former mayor OF
San Francisco.
James L. Gallagher, supervisor; a
past grand president Of the Native Sons.
Charles Boxton. present mayor OF San
Francisco.
Jeremiah F. Oman, chief OF police.
Daniel Coleman, a San Francisco su-
pervisor.
TREY L. Ford. chief for the United
Railways
William M.Ahbott, attorney for the
United Railways.
Abe Ruers name would be on the list
except from the fact that he resigned
from the order. TO forestall expulsion
! last April.
The accused men will be given the OPP
portunity of appearing and Offering tes-
/ timony or argument. In the case of
/ Mayor Schmitz. however. the superior
court conviction will probably lead the
committee to recommend the expulsion
. OF Schmitz without any further investi-
I cation of his cases
/ District Attorney Langdon today viii
name the new mayor of San Francisco
/ He says the new mayor viii be given 8
| free hand to name the board OF super
/ visors. and to clean out the various mu.
| nicipal committees, which are now filled
by politicians appointed by Schmitz and
! Ruef. The district attorney said today
I n q Hxrv
was the only solution OF the municipa
problem, since the merchants and tn,
| labor leaders refused TO select delegate,
| and hold a convention James p
Helan is the most prominent man wa,
has been named for mayor, but his an
! tagonism to labor unions is so stron,
that Langdon may fear 10 select him a
present.
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HE young wife are IN cells and that the
first Mrs Magill's daughter, Marguerite.
who is almost as old as her stepmOther,
and who went with the prisoners, Is
being cared for at a hotel
Only the members OF Magtlls own
family are standing by him, and one OF
his aunts, who IS said 10 be worth
$500. 600. has declared that every penny
possessed By the family VIII be at his
command for his defense.
Same time ago. when Miss Graham
went 20 work in the bank. Masin's
friends noticed that he was paying n
great deal Of attention to her. and when
she went 70 live in the MagiN home,
the affair almost became a public scan
daL Up 10 the time OF his meeting with
Miss Graham. Magiu was believed 70
be IN love with his first wife. who was
abo-It thirty years old But a few
months prior TO her death they were said
TO be very unhappy. and frequent quar-
rels resulted ever the Graham girl
Mrs Magiu No j. died suddenly on
May q. When her body was found
lying in bed the note 10 the effect that
she had enGed her own life was found
by BIagils and shown to all who were
interested
In the warrant accusing Magiu and
the second wife OF the murder, IL is
charged that they gave her a glass Of
beer containing strychnine- MagtH has
admitted arising during the night and
giving his wife some beer. he insists
| she chlOrofOrmed herself. exhibiting the
chlOrOfOrm bottle he says he found on
the bed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-07-15
Platt Without a Home.
Lonely and Neglected.
On His 74th Birthday
Aged Senator Is at Oriental Hotel, and Says
Mind Is Fuddled When Asked for Greet
ing for Friends.

NEW YORK, July I5.-DOwn at the
Oriental Hotel an old man, a very old
man. is celebrating his seventy-tourlh
birthday alone Not so long ago II was
his summer capital, the Mecca Tor He
publican politicians Of high and low
degree, who bowed low before the senior
United States Senator from New YORK
and 20 whom his nod was command
Today he is only Thomas c. Platt'
man without q home. bereft Of the last
vestige OF his old-time power: all but
forgotten
Only a Httle less important than a
State convention and election day itself,
1.-THE Senator's birthday was for so
many years a function OF such ircpoT-
tence that Il was written large in the
calendar OF every politician. Il any
body has planned 70 pay his respects 70
the Senator today he had not taken
him into his confidence last night
With His Attendants.
When a reporter called he was sittins
between his two attendants. M and
Mrs. Abel. in whose apartment in New
York he has been living since be left
the Hotel Gotham. His head was bent
and his hands trembled as they gripped
the head Of his cane,
They tell me I'll be ssventy-four To-
morrow" he Sid II supposed will Dc
If l 1--we. You are the first person
though, who has offered me congratula-
Mrs. Abel had been opening and shut
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ting a gold pencil. and was vainly try
ing 10 decipher an inscription upon -
in the dimming light.
"See II you can read the name on IT,"
she asked 1T was one OF the Sena-
tors birthday gifts a year ago" The
inscription bore witness that II was pre-
No Presents This Year.
mo presents for me this year.
though the Senator put In They're
not making me many presents these
days.
What children they are up IN Al
bany," he went on when the CONVERSE
ton was turned 70 recent political hap
penings. They don't know what they
want. they don't know what the COVER
nor wants, and sometimes / think
maybe he doesn't know himself what
he wants. There they are QUarreling
like a lot OF schooIboys. Raines and
wadsworth and Tully and the rest Of
them. and after all they are not going
TO accomplish anything. There dOesn'
seem 70 be much chance Of their reach
ing an agrG -inent now, anyway"
What sgt Of a birthday message
are you going 10 send 10 your old
friends2' he was asked
Nothing tonight" he replied. indi-
eating that he was tired and mOtiOning
70 his attendant 20 prepare 10 assist
him 10 rise. II may think q something
tomorrow, but tonight my brain is
sort OF fuddled. I'm very tired. Good
night"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-07-15
Jaundice Across the Water.

Our London contemporary, the
Academy distant cousin-has
the jaundice. Everything looks yell
low to it's eyes. 1t even finds the
literary mart as depressed as stocks.
Read this:
1t is agreed on all hands that finance
Is as dull as il can be; while as for 1T
erature. ditch water sparkles by con-
trast. Even ''foreignersf in books are
low. To the British mind the
only use to which the Almighty could
put Frenchmen and the other Cont
nentals was the writing of novels not
permitted by the British code of morals.
we do that ourselves now, and even
that kind is dull.
a lack of distinguished writer's it
is which staggers the usually brave
Academy" A gauge of our poverty
is offered by the question:
If asked 10 send to some inter
national congress of great authors
the three most eminent men, whom
should we (England) send?
Here is part of its own answer:
Mr.. swiuburne probably would not &c
and, being a poet, might not be eligible
Mr.. Shaw would probably go whether
asked or not Mr. Hall Caine would
doubtless offer TO go. Ii is a strange
thing, but for the third there is no.
body left but Mr.. Andrew Lang.
Where are Stephen Philips Mrs.
Humphrey Ward, the ne plus ultra
Marie Corelli? Where is Mr.. Kip
ling? Where is Mr.. Barrie? Has
the Academy" lost its memory as
well as its optimism? We fear so.
As a mater of fact no period OF
English letters, not even the Victor.
ian era, presented higher standard
of literature than today. If we lack
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-07-15
SavageS Underneath.

The naked Dyak down in Borneo
swings into the forest with his spear
and blowgun, brings down his human
mark, and carries the head to his
lady as q. trophy. How low he is in
She human scalel and his beloved
who shares lis station-how low she
is, tool We shudder when we think
of theml
Anglo-Saxons wear clothes. Those
clothes represent 10000 years of re-
finement, from generation to gen
Grafton. Yet, now and then, if you
scratch one or another of our
neighbors, the Dyak in them-but,
of course, not in us-comes to the
surface.
a young girl messenger of ''sweet
charity" undertook to save horse
from a beating in Greater New York
the other day. The driver (who APP
pears to have been something of a
Dyak, himself) accidentally struck
her when aiming at the horse.
Charlie, he insulted me-" called
the girl to her escort, her eyes fash
ing. Then. when the young man
hesitated to break into street fight
with husky teamster, she went on:
IF were a man, just a mani"
The savage in Charley answered
to the challenge Of his mate. Out
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-07-15

He is a weI-set-up youth Of some
twenty-four years. black-haired. dark
eyed. and the possessOr Of huge dia-
mond stuG and an equally luminous dia-
mond ring.
This is my first trip to New York, ="
he said. after having pressed the button
for a waiter. TO whom ne afterward
handed another s. bill. And I would
Ike TO add that 1t Is all right. I am
here 70 spend money and have gen
uine good time. have no railroads 20
boom, and my mines do not need boom
Ing The real reason for my leaving
Chicago so suddenly. however. IS that
the young lady whom / propose 20
marry left Chicago two days ago
Calls "Scotty" ''Fcur-Flusher."
Young Mr. West was exercised when
asked II he knew "seotty," the alleged
spender
Yes" he saJd sarcssticaliy. II know
'Scotty.' OF Death Valley; and l consider
him a four-fiusher. have never been
In this city before. but / know that
New Workers won't stand for a 'piker'
who comes here in khaki trousers, a
blue finanel shirt. a red necktie and
a sombrero hat and tries 20 make the
town believe that he is sure enough
specimen Of the Nevada mining camps.
Young West wears no fiannels. He was
tailored in Broadway style. with light
spring suit OF expensive stuff He had
Panama hat and silk necktle and
stockings TO match
Il never could understand how New
Workers. stood for 'Scotty.' continued tht
young millionaire He is the Laughing
stock OF Nevada He might have known
that lots or New Workers make Eucf
spending as he could do. look cheap, and
that he would make himself ridiculous
posing as a waster OF money"
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With Bales Of Money,
New Rival to "Scotty"
Reaches Gotham Town
Angel" From Nevada on Broadway, After Fol-
lowing Fancee East, Calls Death Valley
Miner Four FluSher"

NEW YORK, July 15.-Jack West. a
millionaire from Elf, New, is
the newest spender to reach Broadway.
He has only been in town thirty hours,
but his lavish tips and his expenditures
have already stirred the main street
Judges Of such things declare that the
Nevada boy viii certainly dim whatever
luster the overrated Scotty OF Death
Valley retained after New Workers
taught him how to spend.
The new spendthrlft from the Nevada
mining camp is now installed. with a
private secretary, a friend, and valet,
in a six-room suite at the Hotel Aston.
He arrived yesterday on the Twentieth
Century Limited from Chicago. In ad-
dition TO being here 10 get rid Of money,
he has a little romance in view. Before
he leaves he intends 70 win and wed
Miss Henrietta Pillard. of 236 West
Forty-eighth street. whom he met in
Chicago and followed here.
The beuboys Of the Hotel Aston soor
learned that a new Croesus had arrived
when the dark-haired. stocky young
stranger carelessIy tossed a s. bin tC
the doorman and followed IL up with
another tip Of like amount to the hall
boy who escorted him and his party
20 his suite
Champagne COrks Popped.
After a luncheon in the Pompeiar
room champagne corks popped Mr.
West and his party took an automobile
ride through Central Park. At eacf
stopping place the walters bowed ovei
the, receipt OF tips Of surprising size.
Young Mr.. West was engaged busily
In writing letters 10 friends in Nevadl
when he received an American reporter
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-07-15
EXPERTS CANNOT AGREE
ON PUBLIC OWNERSHIP

NEW YORK, July 1.-THE experts
acting for the National Civic Federation
Municipal Ownership Commission nave
completed their reports, and critical
review of the results of their examina-
lions In the United States was made
public by the commission This review
is by a committee of four appointed by
the commission.
Two of the writers-Walton Clark and
Charles L. Edgar-criticise severely the
municipal plants examined, while two
other writers-Prof. Frank Parsons and
Edward W. Bemis-fnd much to favor
in municipal plants which were investi-
gated.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-07-15
SHOT At,
ASSAILANT IS CAUGHT

PARIS, July 15.-The national fete was
marred by an attempt on the life OF
President FaI--eres by Leon Maille, a
naval reservist, Of -Havre, who, il is be-
heved, lis suffering from the mania OF
persecution. dailIe fred two shots at
the President. but did not hit him He
was at once placed under arrest
The attempt on his life occurred on
Avenue des Champs Elysees while the
President was returning TO the palace
from Longchamps. where he had re-
viewed the garrison Of Paris in the
presence OF go, 600 enthusiastic people.
Wholesale arrests Of anh-militarist
leaders are being made today, as a re-
suit OF the attempt on Fallieres' life
Atheists who have examined Maille
are inclined to confirm the authorities
original surmise that the man IS men,
tally unbalanced, and that no plot ex-
listed among the ant-militarists to as
sassinate-
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CAIRO. Ill. July 15.-The Rev. d. l.
Bass, pastor OF the Calvary Baptist
Church. whose recent sermon on the
evils OF kissing created a stir here has
renewed his attack on the kiss devil"
THE kiss devil is doing more 10 NJ
hades than the whisky devil, the drug
devil and all OF the other devils all
told" said DR.. Bass.
"sweethearts should never kiss until
they are married. In the days OF our
GRANDPARENTS. in the Southern States at
least. any attempt to kiss a girl was
rightly declared as great wrong as
could be committed against her such
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-07-15
COST OF LAKE TRANSPORT.

According to the annual report for
1906. the average cost of moving freight
OF vessels in the trade of the Great
Lakes was 81 of a mill, as compared
with IS IN 1905. The total freight car
cried through the American and Cana
dian canals was 81 81 600 tons, an in
crease Of 7,300, 800 tons ove' 1905. Ninety
FIVE per cent of the passengers were
carried in American vessels. The
highest days canal traffic was 81, 0C5
tons. Registered tonnage aggregated
244,S tons. In fifty-one years, 1850 TO
1905. the enormous total traffic Of $50
26S. 919 tons passed through the 500
canals. Since the inception of these
waterways traffic has annually in
creased at an average of 20 per cert.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-07-15
Touch Not Her Ruby LIPS;
It's Wicked, Says Parsom,
But You MayHoId Hands
Illinois Preacher Declares That Kissing Devil Is
Worse Than Whisky Drug, and All Other
Demons That Populate HadeS

an attempt was a gross insult. and the
man who offered it and the young
woman's father or brother met with
pistols at the next sunrise.
Let sweethearts hold each other 1
hands as a token OF their pure afIec-
ton. And when they part the man may
perhaps bring his sweethearts tender
hand TO his lips for fieeting. gentle, re-
spectful pressure. But that's all
God deliver us from the kissing
devil"
The Rev. Dr. Bass. though a South
erner. has Puritan blood IN his veins
He IS a descendant OF Samuel Bass, who
settled IN Massachusetts IN 1850.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-07-15

1t might be well to go back to the
days when Charles Dickens published
his american Notes" and recall how
the people of this country felt about
his assumptions that we were new and
semi-civilized people. The American
Notes" caused an amount Of ill-will
that required near a generation to out
grow. Perhaps we were representative
at that time; but is 1t not well TO recall
In the present exigency that the Jap
anese have at least as much warrant
for resenting the assumption that they
are an inferior nation. as we had foI
objection 70 like assumption by
Dickens?