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Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1907-04-09
FOUR rReNcHMgN ARRIVE.
They Come to Attend the Dedication
Of Carnegie Institute.

Of Carnegie institute.
New York. April s.-Four distin.
guished Freedmen. who came to al.
tend the dedication OF the Carnegie In.
stitute at Pittsburg this week. arrived
here on the steamer La Touraine. The
visitors are Baron D'Estournelles de
Constant. d. L. c. Enlart. director OF
the French Trocadero museum: J.
Rails. secretary 10 the chamber Of dep
uties. and Paul Doumer. ex.president OF
the French senate.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1907-04-09
RloldIy Enforced.

Austin. April s. Closing Law was
rigidiy enforced Sunday.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-02

acres, dividing it up into allotments
of 10 acres each and letting 1t at a
nominal rent, calculated according to
the estimated value of the land. which
has, as it were, four classifications.
the highest quit rent being placed at
$500 and the lowest at 40 cents an
allotment, free of local rates and taxes
for ten years
Zone of the chief difficulties to be
overcome before making the allot-
ments was to deal with the proprie-
tary right of beekeepers, who CEN
turtles ago had certain privileges con-
ferred upon them whereby they did a
thriving trade in honey and wax. This
trade has in later times diminished,
owing to the destruction of the floral
produce of the land, chiefly by firing
when portions thereof were cleared
for wheat and other cereals. Matters
have been amicably settled for the
beekeepers and the embryo agrlcul-
turists. The success of the scheme as
far as it has gone has stirred the am
bition of the residents in large part
of the north of Portugal, where a
project on similar lines is being set
on foot to bring back into cultivation
something like half a million acres
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any form. Had they known of it thev
would have told something of it in the
mass of records that has come down
to us, for surely an act which CONVEYS
such pleasure could not have been for
gotten.
1.-THE earliest form of the kiss is
that which we know as the sniff kiss.
This is a smelling, usually of the
head. The father of a newborn son
shifted his head that his days might
be long and that honors might come
to him. Returning from a journey, he
shifted the heads of his children in
the same manner.
Gradually with this sniff kiss there
came also a caress, touching usual
~ of the head Gradually, also. the
endearment came to be applied 10
others than children. The rubbing of
noses, which has persisted in some
tribes, was probably an intermediate
process in the evolution.
with the development of the genu-
inc kiss the sniff kiss disappeared.
never to reappear. 1t had served it's
purpose and soon was forgotten"
Thus the sniff kiss proves the moth
er and father of all kisses. Blessed
be the sniff kiss.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-02

MadiSon.-After spirited dis
cussion lasting % hours the assem-
bly, killed the Thomas automobile bill
and then to make death doubly GER
tain refused to reconsider it's action.
The only roll call during the fight was
on the adoption Of the committee sub
stitute, which was rejected by vote
of SO to 80. The original bill was
killed by an overwhelming viva voce
vote. The Thomas bill reduced the
maximum speed limit from II to ten
miles an hour and from 25 to 20 miles
an hour in the country and to ten miles
an hour for both city and country dur
Ing the night time. 1t also increased
the penalty for violations of the speed
provisions and the provisions requir-
ing the operator of a driver to stop
on signal of person driving horse,
the punishment for a second convic-
ton of the latter requirement being
changed from a fine to Imprisonment
in the county Jail from so days to six
months. The Milwaukee Automobile
club, through its secretary, Attorney
u dIuSS L. dulOuuOUlIG OWuSlS
in other parts of the state and even
some of the leading horse owners Wig
orously opposed the bill. The Mil
Waukee autoiStS have had several ma
chimes here during part of the SEES
sion to demonstrate to the lawmakers
that any changes in the present law
were undesirable and unnecessary.
The fight for the Thomas bill was
led by Assemblyman E. II. Sprague,
of Elkhorn. He declared that the land
owners twho created The highways
had a prior right to them and that
automobiles were allowed on them
simply by courtesy. The people of
the southern part of the state had be-
come convinced, he said, that the pres
ent law governing the operation of au-
tomobiles was not restrictive or strin-
gent enough. Messrs. w. r. Turner,
of Columbus; John O. Thomas, of Ra-
cine, and Thomas Reynolds, of Jack
sonport, all spoke for the bill. Messrs.
Wesley Irvine, of Manawa; o. L. Glen,
of Clintonville; A. S. Baker, of Evans
Vile; Roderick Ainsworth, of Wau-
kesha, and Pliny Norcross, of James
vile, opposed the bill, declaring the
present law was sufficiently restric-
tive to protect the public against an
noyance or injury from autos.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-02
Wants Inebriate Asylum.


Senator II. P. Bird has introduced
a bill appropriating 100000 for a
site and buildings for state sanitari-
UNI for dipsomaniacs and inebriates.
Senator Bird has give much consid-
Grafton to the subject, and has framed
a bill which, if enacted, will place
Wisconsin in the forefront in this di-
rection, Massachusetts alone of the
states having a similar sanitarium.
The bill provides for the care of
chronic inebriates who are now left
a menace to their communities. The
state board of control will have charge
of the institution. The bill will pro-
vide an annual appropriation of $780,
900 for expenses. 1t is provided that
100 acres of land be bought, in addi-
ton to the site, the inmates being CIV
en- work either on the farm or in a
factory. Inmates who can afford to
pay shall be made to pay the cost Of
their care. Chronic inebriates may be
sent to such a sanitarium on commit
ments by county judges, the same as
the insane are now sent to insane
asylums.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-02
NEWS or WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST IN
THE VARIOUS TOWNS.
END OF RAIL PROBLEM
John Barnes, President of Wisconsin
Railway Commission, Thinks Gov
ernmental Ownership Will Be-
come Inevitable.

Milwaukee.-That the final analysis
OF the railway rate problem will be
governmental ownership is the belief
of John Barnes, president of the Wis
consin railway commission. Mr..
Barnes in an address before the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers associa-
ton said he did not favor government
al ownership as under this condition
the roads would not be operated either
as we'll or as economically as under
private hands. but he feared that it
might come to that in the end
There were, he said, two other
methods; first, to permit the roads
to run their business as they please,
and, second, to have the rates con-
trolled by the government. The sec
ond he believed to be the best for the
country, and it ought to be given a
fair trial before the proposition of
governmental ownership was consid-
cred seriously
Railroads, he said, were wholly mo-
nopolistic in their tendencies and
were Strengthening themselves con-
stantly, and it was time for the gov
eminent to step in and fix rates. IL
this should not succeed in restoring
fairness in rates, then there would be
nothing left but governmental owner
ship, even if it had serious disadvan-
tageS.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-02
State Industry Benefited.

Their is considerable satisfaction
felt at Oshkosh at the fact that the
Paine Lumber company has succeeded
in obtaining the Indian logs" as they
are called, meaning the timber cut
by the Indians who are still govern
ment wards, at the head of the Wolf
and Oconto rivers. The timber is sold
to the highest bidder. The bids were
opened at Washington last week and
the bid of the Paine Lumber COM
pany of Oshkosh was found to be the
highest. The lot contains 100000
feet of logs and the bid of the Paine
Lumber company was $4,000. All
the logs will be brought to Ashland
and sawed at the huge mill of the
Paine Lumber company. This mill,
always large one, has been expanded
during the winter and now is one of
the most complete, modern and effec-
tive sawmulls in the United States.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-02

Every one here in town knows his
automobile. But, do you think if he
wanted you tonight he would stop
a block away and send his machine
back? No, sir. He would go straight
to your door. loot, foot, and ring
the bell"
Never Wore Disguise.
Burns himself has this to say about
his work as a detective:
"People seem to think that there is
something uncanny about detective
work. They imagine We go around
held out promise of ultimate immu.
nifty every man jack of them was will
ing to squeal
1t looked easy. All things are easy
to those who know how. Burns has
not been doing detective work for
nothing these 20 years.
counterfeiters Caught.
An illustration of careful detective
work is Burns method in running
down two ~counterfeiters from Cen
trail America. They were Gen. Freder-
leo Mora and Ricardo de Requisens.
These two men had been making
counterfeits in the United States of
the 100 peso notes of Costa Rico. Our
government was asked to apprehend
the counterfeiters, and Burns was en-
trusted with the job. Others had
worked at it before, but all Burns had
to start with was sofa wrapped up
in burlap in which $3,000,000 of the
counterfeit notes had been stuffed Tor
shipment to Costa RIGA. On the bur-
lap was the mark, Xxx 1854.
Starting from this, Burns found that
the burlap had been originally used
in packing a shipment OF overalls from
factory in Newburg. 1t was the
shipping number. In Newburg Burns
went over the books Of the factory
and found that those particular over
alls had been shipped to a dry goods
store in Long Island City. There they
told him that they had recently sold
piece of burlap to an old lady by
the name of Mrs. Chevins. 1t did not
look promising.
But, when Burns learned that Mrs.
Chevins had a son-in-law, one Ricar-
do de Requisens, who hailed from Cos
ia RIGA, he thought the trail was get
ting warm.
De Requisens was living with q
young widow from Pittsburg at the
house of his mother, Mrs Chevins.
Burns placed De Requisens and the
widow under arrest. Then he sent
one of his men to the jail with an al
legged message to the effect that if he
would produce the plates of the coun-
terfeit notes the government would
abandon his prosecution.
After the messenger left, De Requis-
ems was visited by his mother-in-law.
When she left him Burns followed her
to her home in Long Island City.
Through a window he watched her en-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-02
May Be Senatorial Compromise.

There are vague indefinite rumors in
the air to the effect that something in
the way of positive developments in
the senatorial contest are soon to hap
pen. What the prospective develop
ment is, no one is able to say. There
is nothing tangible about it, nothing
that can be traced to a source Of posi-
tive information and nothing that, at
the present time at least, concretely
affects the situation. A compromise
between the candidates, resulting in
the withdrawal of one or more, is
about the only thing that could hap
pen along the lines suggested in the
rumors, and this possibility is denied
in detail by representatives of those
now in the field.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-02
Expo Appropriation Voted.

The senate sent the bill appropriate
ing $4,000 to the Alaska Y ulSon-Paci-
fic exposition to third reading without
a dissenting vote, the project of a
state exhibit being favorably consid-
cred by all committees and by the
members generally. There was con-
siderable of an argument over the
passage of two bills relating to con
tagious and infectious diseases, their
advancement in their present form
being opposed by Senator Marsh.
Further consideration was postponed
until next week. The Ledvina bill
abolishing fees in the university law
school was also laid over.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-02
RECLAIM LAND WORN OUT.
Portuguese Hope to Restore to Guilt
walton 10000 1000 Acres.

Portugal, according to Vice and
Deputy Consul R. H. Kinchant, of Lis
bon, has started in on a system of
land reclamation which, if as success
full as it promises to be, must result
in similar movements in various parts
of Europe. He writes:
In the south of Portugal serious
attempt is being made, with some
chance of success, to bring back into
cultivation a large tract of land. This
country being essentially agricultural,
any steps to reclaim land that has
gone out of cultivation, estimated at
4,314,OOO hectars (about 100000
acres), or A per cent. of the total
area of Portugal, are a move in the
right direction.
Some energetic members OF so
ciety in the district of SerDa, in COM
bination with the municipal authori-
ties, have set to work upon 100000
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-02
Gets Big Ashland Docks.

The new Northwestern Cooperative
Coal e Dock company, destined to be.
come one of the great coal distrib
uting companies on the great lakes,
catering especially and largely to the
cooperative farmer institutions of the
northwest, thus giving it an almost
unlimited field, is now fully organized
with it's docks and head offices to be
located in Ashland. The keystone
dock site was transferred from the
Keystone Lumber company to the
new concern. This splendid dock site,
which has a quarter of mile frontage
on the bay front, located in the heart
of the city, will give the new coal
company probably as fine site for
coal docks as can be found anywhere
on the great lakes, and the site is OF
sufficient size so that the capacity Of
the dock can be increased to handling
million tons yearly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-02

San Francisco.-Williafn ]. Burns,
the United States secret service agent
who trapped every member of San
Francisco's corrupt board of supervis-
ors into a full confession of their
guilt, is called "the king of detec-
tiYes"
Although Burns has this interna-
tional reputation as detective, it is
hard for his intimates to remember
always that Burns is a detective.
Thus Francis ]. Heney, the prosecu-
TOR with whom Burns has worked
through the land fraud cases in Ore
gon and in the San Francisco Doodle
cases, finds his associate a source of
continual surprise.
Burns amuses me-" said Heney
one day recently, as he looked out the
window Of his office in the unburnt
western Addition" of San Francisco,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-02

right. At another time l thought q
disguised in false whiskers and wear
ing blue goggles. / never use dis
guise, except a change of clothes. But
can take one of my men and let
you talk with him; then bring him in
tomorrow and let you see him and
you would not believe him the same
man. Here in San Francisco every
one knows meat least all the graft
ers do-so it would be useless to
try a Disguise"
Burns methods all through the
Ruef case have been surprisingly open.
When he started out IL capture Ruef
after his friends, the sheriff and the
coroner, had been pretending to
search for him in vain for week,
Burns assembled his posse in half
dozen automobiles in front of Heney's
office; with Ruef's lawyers Offices but
half a block away He had ten men
with him, but the open way with
which he went about the job made
the attorneys for the CRATER think it
must be all ruse, and no effort was
made to follow the party. They went
to the resort at the Troca-
dero in the outskirts of San Francis
co, where Burns knew that Ruef was
in hiding. Burns had the house sur
rounded; then he walked in and sur
prised Ruef at dinner. He had his
man back at Heney's Office within
three hours.
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ter the front room take off her hat
and place it with chatetlaine bag on
the table. Burns slid into the house,
looked into the bag, and found a>letter
there. In its place he put dummy.
This was easy, as there was no adj
dress on the outside Of the envelope.
But this left Burns in the dark as to
whom it was meant for.
Later in the afternoon Mrs. Chew
ms came out and Burns followed her.
She crossed the ferry to New York
and went to Courtlandt street AS she
was turning into a doorway Burns
sent one of his men to say to her:
BE careful! You are being watched"
She turned and left the entryway
Burns Immediately entered, and sure
enough there was an engraver's Office
OF course Burns got the plates and
Gen. FREDERICK Mora and Ricardo de
Requisens are serving their terms in
prison.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-02
Trapping a .BoodIer.

while Burns was whirling by in his
automobile.
Look at him" he exclaimed "He
is as placid and dignified as a lord
in his carriage"
Methodical in Everything.
What interests me most about
Burns is that he never misses a
NEAL" said Cobb, Heney's partner.
II never saw him in too much of a
hurry to take his hour for dinner at
the regular time He is methodical
in everything. 1t is all in a days
work with Burns, and when he turns
in at night he sleeps like top"
Yet he never procrasuinates, put
in District Attorney Langdon. 81
asked him the other night if he
thought he could get man we want
ed and bring him to the Office in the
morning"
Whats the matter with getting
MIN now?' said Burns. Taking down
the receiver from the phone he call
ed up a saloon. His man was there.
Burns told him it would be better for
his health to surrender himself at
our Office without delay. The man
came at once"
What interests me about Burns"
put in j. Dwyer, another of the at
torneys of the graft prosecution, lis
his personality. He gets the men he
is after to like him. Ruef likes him
now better than any of his own men,
Those two swap stories to each other
until you can't believe Burns is work
ing all the time to land Ruef in San
Quentin prison.
He can mimic a Frenchman, an
ERglishman, a Dutchman to perfec-
ton, and the stories he tells sound
like good fiction. l believe it is his
magnetism as much as his persist
ence that wins for him.
His First important Case.
This is the story of Burns first
important case, as told by himself:
1T was in 1890, in st. Louis. A num-
Der Of firebugs had been burning
down houses for insurance money.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-02
ORIGIN OF THE KISS.
Its Earliest Form-The Caress of the
Ancient Indians.

At recent session of the American
Oriental society Prof Hopkins, of
Yale, read a paper on "The Sniff Kiss
in Ancient India" Reduced to its
foundation, the paper was history
of the kiss as we know it. The learned
orientalist traced it from its birth
and proved that the earliest peoples
and earliest times knew it not That
there might be no mistake he labeled
the kiss OF to-day the genuine kiss"
and 'sthe perfect kiss"
Oddly enough, he finds that the
genuine kiss was invented by a wom-
an. The description is given in the epic
of ancient India which treats of the
science of love.
"She laid her mouth to my mouth"
recites the poet, land made a noise
which gave me pleasure"
THE early peoples" declared Prof.
Hopkins. knew nothing of the kiss in
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ped boodler, pale as sheet. 81 am
done for"
'Tll take the money, and I'll take
you, too," said Burns. With that he
scared his man into complete con-
fession. Previous to this he had Sc
cured another confession from one of
Lonergan's colleagues who was i'll and
thought he was about to die.
A BoodIer Trapped.
With the inside information of these
two confessions Burns got to work on
all the other supervisors. They were
so scared that the whole Is came
through with a rush. When Heney
witness had made a complete confess
sion. Burns said: keep at him!"
sure enough the most discriminating
part of his story came out afterward."
Zone thing that has surprised me
in Burns" added Langdon, lis this.
He never wastes any time in blufing.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-02
"Mental AnuuishU Bill.

Mr.. Estabrook tried to have the So
called mental anguish" bill, which
came over from the senate, referred
to the judiciary committee, but some
of the members thought that it should
go to the committee on transporta-
ton which had had joint hearing on
it with the transportation committee
of the senate, and finally Mr.. Esta-
brook withdrew his motion and the
measure went to the transportation
committee.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-02
Bills Affecting Milwaukee.

The committee on cities favorably
recommended a bill authorizing
the city of Milwaukee to lay street
car tracks on bridges and viaducts and
lease them to private companies, but
prohibiting it from granting a mo-
nopoly of the use of such tracks to
any one corporation. The bill, auth
orizing Milwaukee to buy street car
tracks and other public utility prop
erty on it's streets, by condemnation
proceedings and TO lease it to the
highest bidder, was reported for in
definite postponement.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-02
Roycroft Bill Goes Over.

There was considerable discussion
over the Roycroft bill to establish
Irvine binding plant at the state pris-
on. Assemblyman John o. Thomas,
of Racine, who introduced substi-
tute for the original bill, cutting the
appropriation down from 100000 to
500, 900, made speech in favor of the
substitute, and Me- Rovcroft also
spoke for it. The committee had rec
commended the original bill for indefi-
mite postponement. After considera-
BILE discussion action on the bill AID
substitute was deferred.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-02

Surprising a Bribe-Taker.
OF his present work Burns himself
says: "This San Francisco case is one
of the most interesting | have ever
had. OF course municipal graft cases
are all somewhat alike. You know
who the men are who have got official
favors. The first thing to do is to
single out the official who you think
will accept a bride, and then get
at him by inducing him to accept what
he thinks is a bride. OF course your
money is marked Then you surprise
him in the act After that you have
him cold. Through him you get at the
bribe-givers.
when / started in on this work
in San Francisco / expected to get
after each of the supervisors singly,
but one of the newspapers got wind
of it and published the story how we
were working on one man. That spoil
ed things for us, and | had to resort
to other methods"
What Burns had done was to induce
the proprietor of skating rink who
had fallen out with Mayor Schmitz to
have an ordinance in his favor intro
duced in the board of supervisors.
Then he arranged to buy the vote of
one of them-Lonergan by name-for
$500. Burns was concealed in the
room when the marked money was
passed. He bounced forth at the psy-
Geological moment when Lonergan
was taking the bride.
Take the money" said the trap
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-02
Estabrook Bill Passed.

Without debate the assembly passed
the Estabrook bill providing that here
after tenement, lodging and boarding
houses will have to be built in accord
ance with certain plans and require
ments prescribed in the act. The act
will particularly affect the city of Mil
waukee. Another important bill pass
ed was the Grassie measure providing
for the establishment of a parental
school in Milwaukee and for suff1-
cient number OF agents to look after
paro1ed children.