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The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-05-03
LA MODE
and Retail Millinery
Nine Reasons Why You Should Buy
Your Millinery From Us

" Because SAVE YOU MONEY
Because we have the Latest Styles
Because you the jobbers' profits
Because buy all goods direct from the manufacturers
Because Lower than the Big Stores
Because this is New Store with NEW GOODS
Because this the Little Store 18th Little Expense.
Because sell Wholesale to other Retailers,
Because you get the Most and Best Goods your dollars
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-05-03
SUNNI SUITS.

u has been a late spring. This
will not be disputed by the people
who keep tabs on the weather by the
coal bins. The time for summer suits
is here in spite Of the weather. n
may not be quite time 10 don them,
but n Is surely time to order them.
5. Elias, 212 Union street, Providence.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-07-25
MuR6ERER ON rHe srANp.
Slayer Of Brother and sister.in-Law
Tells His story.

I.incoln--A selfconfessed murderer
on the stand explaining his own emo.
.ional insanity and reviewing his own
feelings when tempted 20 murder was
the strange situation in the district
court of Lancaster county. Frank
Barker, who killed his brother and
his brothers wife two years ago In
Webster county, was called to the
witness stand and made to tell the
story of his crime. He did this calm
ly and without any hesitation or dis
play of feeling.
The first questions addressed TO
Barker were intended to show that
tendency toward insanity is hered-
tary in his family. He told of the
sick, dizzy headaches with which his
mother used to suffer and of her
early death. The fact that his brother
murdered his sweetheart, her mother
and daughter and then killed himself
was brought out.
On the night of the murder Barker
said that he attended church. after
which he took his sweetheart home.
on the way meeting his brother Dan
and resisting desire 70 kill him.
Later he drove to his brother Dams
farm, put his team away in the barn,
entered the house and shot his broth
err Barker declares that he remem.
bers only the shooting of his brother
and related his surprise when, on
awakng in his bed next morning
with his clothes on, he went down
stairs and found his sisterin-law also
lying dead on the floor. He left the
bodies there all day, he said. and
occupied himself with the usual chores
about the place, but that night he dug
a hole in the cattle shed carried the
two bodies out, threw them in and
covered them up. When asked why he
denied all knowledge of the murder
until the bodies were found, Barker
said that he did not know. During
the cross examination Attorney Black
ledge tried to show thai there was
sufficient motive for sane man to
commit the crime, but Judge Hamer,
Barker's attorney, met nearly every
question with objections, declaring
that they did not care to try the old
case over again. Many of the objec
tions were sustained When asked to
tell of any peculiar experience, Barker
| told of ais inability to find his way
home once when he was herding
| sheep a quarter of mile from the
! house. Another time he was unable
to make lister work wIen planting
corn, but when he returned to it after
few hours absence, he could man
age 1t perfectly.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-07-25

ment which GESTURES the distinctive
feature of the invention of the young
Baltimore man. and marks its greatest
difference from the other "mono-rail"
inventions The overhead truck ar
rangement, with the four wheels, hori-
zontally set and working on the inside
of the overhead tracks. steadies the
car and gives it its equilibrium. Pow
er is also transmitted from these over
head wires for the operation OF the
cars.
One of the claims made for the
Tunis "mono-rail' is that trains run
ming on 1t will be practically noiseless.
One reason given for this is that the
guide wheels on top, which run in the
overhead rails, are of cast iron, oak
and leather and are so constructed as
to make but little noise. They also
have ball-bearings and this makes tre-
mendous speed possible The guide
wheels are only eight inches in
diameter and less than two inches
thick. Another feature of the car
which contributes to it's noiselessness
is tho use of the direct current motor.
Engineer Tunis claims that the only
proper system of railroad construc.
ton is the single track, because the
double tracks are in opposition to the
laws of gravity, and make necessary
tremendously heavy cars.
In his cars, Tunis explains, the bot.
tom will be but 20 inches above the
rail, and thus the center Of gravity
will be very low. The cars will have
an almost perfect equilibrium, even
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-07-25

claims. safer, faster and cheaper by
far to build.
Construction Details.
The single track is laid across ties
about three and half feet in length
the same sort of ties used in the
construction of the present day two
rail tracks, except that they are short
err. Sixty.pound rails instead of the
standard 10O-pound rails are used.
Overhead, so inches apart, are sus-
pended two parallel rails, L-shaped
on the inside. These overhead rails
are supported by steel pillars placed
at intervals along the side of the road
and connected by steel beams
stretched across the track.
On top of each car at both ends is
attached an inverted truck. This is
raised from the car by a strong steel
arm, corresponding to trolley pole,
and the four wheels attached to the
inverted truck fit into the ''L"-shaped
inner surface of the overhead tracks.
The trucks are in the form of an X,
with a wheel at each of the four
points of the *" The tx" is flexible.
opening and closing to Accommodate
iSsef to the curves.
II is this overhead truck arrange.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-07-25

of the present equipment-this, in
brief, is the young engineers claim.
That he can do what he says is not
only believed by practical transpor-
tatiOn man of 40 years experience
like John II. Starin but by a big firm
in Wall street which has agreed to un-
derwrite all the bonds required to put
through the Jersey City to Newark
"mono-road," and by scores of others
who have investigated the new plant
and are anxious to become financially
interested in it,
First Practical Test.
Starting on a short half-mile stretch
of track inside the exposition grounds
at jamestown, the first practical test
of the new road was made in public.
although for three years the young in
ventor, Howard Hansel Tunis, has
been experimenting in the suburbs of
Baltimore.
More than dozen noted engineers,
among them Chief Engineer George S.
Rice, of the Rapid Transit commission,
have investigated the new invention
and have pronounced it practical.
Some OF them assert that K will rev.
oiutionize modern railroading because
VI the tremendous speed which it
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-07-25

the building of similar roads all over
the United States. The overhead
truck system used in the Tunis sys-
tenn is patented.
Much interest Aroused.
How active interest in "mono-rail"
railroads is, is shown by the fact that
following the announcement of the
plans to build the New Jersey line,
the promoters of the company have
been besieged with inquiries from per-
sons who want to introduce the sys-
TEN in other places. One inquirer
was capitalist who holds the con-
cession for a 400-mile railroad in
South America, much of the route of
which runs through inaccessible coun-
try. The Tunis "mono-rail" is es-
pecially adapted for use in a rough
country because of the fact that the
lightnesS of the cars makes it possible
to operate the trains up almost any
reasonable grade.
To all these inquirers the promo
ters say they have replied that they
are not in the field for the eXploita-
ton of the new system, or even for
money making. Mr.. Starin, the leader
in the enterprise, has announced that
his object is not to make money so
much as to put into practical use an
invention which he believes to be the
coming railroad system of the future.
No Stock to Be Sold.
His hope to have a railroad which
will carry people from this city to
, Newark III almost an inappreciable
space of time, and to give an example
/ to other railroad companies in the
good treatment Of employees. 1t is an
nounced that no stock of the new COM
pany is to be put on the market. and
that all the money that is wanted to
push the enterprise will be realized by
an issue of bonds at the right time.
A big Wall street firm has already
agreed to underwrite them.
Expert System to Be Popular.
That they ultimately expect their
system to be widely introduced the
| promoters of the new road do not at
tempt to conceal. This, they expect,
will speedily follow a practical demon
! stration of its success.
Howard Hansel Tunis, the young in
ventor of the system, is at James
town, where he is experimenting the
running of trains over the expert
mental half-mile track. Tunis wanted
a much longer track, but it is said
I,A -.
folk were too influential with the ex.
position management and he was re-
stricted,
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-07-25
May ReLegate Steam Locomotives
and Heavy Coaches to the
Scrap Heap.
FINANCIAL GIANTS ARE INTERESTED
Men of Millions Stand Ready to Test Practica-
bility of Scheme of Howard Hansel Tunis-
Speed of $50 Miles an Hour Is Among
Promises Made.

makes possible and because of the
operation.
Negotiations are under way to OBJ
tain the rights needed before building
of the track can be begun and, al
though secrecy is maintained on this
point and the precise route selected is
closely guarded, it is understood that
the hackers of the company are ne
gotiating for franchise rights and ter
minal sites already possessed by an
existing corporation.
Easy to Lay Tracks.
According to an interview printed
in the Newark newspapers, the linking
of the new "mono-raif line with the
McAdoo tunnel rs possibility. Bion
l.. Burrows says that it would be a
matter of the greatest ease to run the
trains from the 'mono-rail" road right
into and through the McAdoo tunnel
without interfering with the operation
of trains over the two rail line. All
that would be necessary would be the
laying of a single rail between the two
rails, and the installation of the neces-
sary overhead rails to preserve the
equilibrium of the "mono-rail" trains.
If this is done, it is asserted, pas
sengers can be carried from Newark
to the heart of Manhattan in ten min
utes. That he is willing to enter into
an operating agreement with the
"mono-rail" company, William Nc
Adoo, head of the tunnel company, is
quoted as saying.
This new mono-rail system, in
vented by the young Baltimorian, is
totally different from the various other
'mono-rail" systems, some of which
are in practical operation in England,
Ireland, Germany and Austria-Hun-
gary, and others of which are seeking
a foothold. 1t is entirely unlike the
system, for instance, for which f. B.
Behr, an Englishman, has been seek
ing a franchise between Atlantic
Ferry, Brooklyn and Coney island. On
Mr.. Behrs road the cars "straddle"
single triangular rail. In Germany
the ''mono-rail' system which has
been successfully operated is one from
which the cars hang suspended. In
Ireland there is a system in operation
very similar to the Behr system.
The young Baltimore engineers
plan, however, differs radically from
all of these, and is, according to his
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-07-25
cHEAp SUPPLIES FOR STATE.
Board of Purchase Adopts New Meth
cd Of polna Business.

Lincoln-The plan adopted by the
State Board of Purchase and Supplies
to buy supplies for the state institu
tons from dealers having the lowest
bid on the individual items, rather
than sticking to the old plan of CIV
ing the bidder with the lowest total
the entire contract for an institution,
has proven entirely satisfactory to
the state board at least. At the re-
cent letting more than few thou
sand dollars was saved. While 1t Is
impossible at this time to figure just
what amount was saved, reference to
few items shows that the saving
was a large sum. On one item alone
there was a difference of $30S, and
the highest bid on the item was only
$500. This was for apricots for a
state institution. The highest bid was
5000 and the lowest 1922. The total
bids made by these two firms were
very close together. On twenty five
items the difference was from So to
SO, and on fifty items, In some in
stances, the difference was $14 and
SIS.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-07-25
irrigation Case Argued.

Attorneys for the Belmont Canal
company who some time ago made
application for more water to be taken
from the North Platte river and who
argued their application before the
tate Board of Irrigation, have been
notified to file briefs with the board,
This company operates the Cheyenne
canal and irrigates $4,000 acres of
land. 1t was awarded 270 feet of
wants 400 cubic feet Parties down
the stream filed objections to the re-
quest, as did parties at North Platte.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-07-25

complete the eclipse of the present
system of railroad construction and
establish the "mono.rail' as pre-em-
inent, still another tremendous ad.
vantage is claimed and this is the
most important of all--the matter OF
cost
1t is the cheapness of the cost of
the system, which, II 1t is what is
claimed for it, threatens to revolu.
tionize railroad construction.
Means Immense Saving.
According to the estimates made
for the New York hackers of the
project, a four-track, elevated line,
such as it is proposed to build be-
tween Jersey City and Newark, can
be constructed for e75,000 per mile.
To build a four.track elevated road,
similar to the present elevated system
in this city, would cost 100000 per
mile This does not include the cost
of power or equipment-only the
structure and tracks.
The projectors of the new enter
prise figure upon building the eight
miles of elevated track between Jer-
sey City and Newark for $2,O00,00O
To build the ordinary type of elevated
road, with four tracks, would cost be-
tween $7,O00,000 and SS,000O00. 1t
is this cheapness of cost which in
spires the hackers of the enterprise
to hope that they will reap tremen-
dous profits, and that the success of
this initial road between the two Jer-
sey cities will be followed quickly by
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-07-25

New York.-A young mechanical en-
gineer, for a little more than three
years, has been mystifying and anus
ing persons living near his father
home at Windsor Hill, just outside of
Baltimore, by his experiments with a
single rail railroad that he has con-
structed.
Recently all the newspapers in the
city contained the authoritative an
nouncement that John H. Starin, who
has made millions in transportation
enterprises; Charles Stewart Smith
and Woodbury. Langdon, all members
of the Rapid Transit commission, were
to back a company which will build
this young engineers single rail rail
road from Jersey City to Newark.
Formal announcement of the incor-
poration of the new "mono-road" COM
pany is expected soon to be- made in
Trenton, and this, it is announced, is
to be followed in the next four or five
weeks by the announcement of deal
by which the new company has &C.
quired a franchise and terminal sites
in the two cities--rights presumably
owned by some existing company In
side of a year, it is promised, mono
rail trains win be Swimming across
the marshes from Jersey City to New
ark, realizing the newest slogan in
modern rapid transit:
ITO Newark in ten minutes"
idea is Revolutionary.
If what the young Baltimore en-
gineer confidently claims for his
"mono-road" be true-and he has con-
WINGED such hard-headed business men
as Starin, Langdon and Smith that it
is true-modern railroading will be
revolutionized by his invention. 1t
will relegate to the scrap heap the
two-track railroad the ponderous, coal
eating locomotive and the big, heavy
eight-wheeled cars along with the
stage coach and the paddle-wheeled
steamboat. His new invention, If his
claims are we'll founded, is as far
ahead Of the locomotive-drawn train,
running on two tracks, as the flying
machine is ahead of the balloon.
That trains will run easily at a
speed of $50 miles an hour on single
rail in perfect safety, without vibra-
tion and the swinging side-wise mo-
ton of the present day railroad trains,
. and that tracks and cars can be built
and operated at less than half the cost
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-07-25
Resort to u. S. Court.

Lincoln-The express companies
have sought refuge in the federal
court rom the threatened state SUI
preme court injunction, commanding
them to obey the Sibley rate re6uc.
ton law. The express companies
cases are now on the same basis as
the railway cases and will be taken
up for argument in few days. At
torneys for the corporations allege
that state courts have no jurisdiction
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-07-25
Prize Boozer at TAYLOR.

Taylor-Emory Anyder got intoxi-
Gated July 8, drifted into a canyon
southwest of Taylor and emptied six
quart bottles of whisky before he
came out on the morning of the 9Th.
Sheriff Evans has charge of him now,
and will hold him for Sheriff Richard
son of Custer county, who will take
him to Lincoln to be treated for dip
somania.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-07-25
Sail for AlIeaed SLAYER.

Pawnee City-Ernest Frank, under
arrest here charged with the murder
of his wife, was admitted to bail by
Judge Raper in the sum of $4,000 to
appear at the October term of the
district court. The amount of bail
was readily furnished Oy old neighbors
Of the accused.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-07-25
without being steadied by the over
head arrangement.
Cars Will Be Light.

WITHOUT DelnS SJeduleu Dy the over
head arrangement.
Cars Will Be Light.
Then, the cars are to be extremely
light as compared with modern rail
road cars-another element contribut-
ing to high speed They will not weigh
over seven tons.
Right here, in the two points just
referred to, is the great. advantage
claimed by the hackers of Engineer
Tunis's system. Mr.. Burrows in de-
scribing it's advantages said that en-
gineers had long recognized the fact
that the great sprawling cars of the
present, with their immense weight,
are theoretically wrong.
These big heavy cars are in effect
houses set upon wheels" he said
"These wheels are placed four feet
eight and one-half inches apart with
the center of gravity between them.
The first and greatest essential to the
whole system is that the cars must be
heavy in order to remain on the
tracks. Here, then, is the whole key
to railroad inefiiciency that in a sys-
tenn whose only excuse for being is
the ability to make speed the prin-
cipal requisite should be great weight.
In short, having to overcome grayita-
ton, they start out by making it i'm
possible. 1t requires no great mechan-
ical ability to discover that a one-rail
track is greatly superior to two-rail
track, if one goes no further than to
see that one wheel will only have half
the obstacles to overcome that two
have"
Economy in Operation.
Still another claim for the mono-rail
trains is that they can be operated
very much cheaper because of the
economy in power it is possible to
realize According to railroad men,
from Is to 80 per cent. of the power
used to operate trains is lost in the
sidewise, swinging motion of cars.
The Tunis mono-rail trains, it is de-
cared have a straight ahead motion,
without any side-swing.
Nothing which ever. moved on
WHEELS CdH equdl IhS SpSSu Cldllntu
for the Tunis "mono-rail" trains. One
hundred miles an hour is an easy mat
ter, and the cars can be pushed to $50
miles without any difficulty, And,
while the cars are going at this speed,
it is claimed that the motion is so
gentle that passengers are barely
aware of the fact that they are NOV
ing. The jerky, swinging motion of
two-rail trains is declared to be en-
! tirely absent,
AS If all this were not enough to
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-04-24
DEATH or H ?. HALL
End Of Veteran Editor Cane With
Startling Suddenness.
HAD EENACTIvE TO TRELsST
'fferk Of Senate Committee and News
paper Correspondent at Time
Of Final Summons.

Harlan P. Hail.. who died at st. Paul
last week, was veteran in the news
paper business IN this state and was
personally known to thousands of peo-
pie throughout the Northwest Mr.
Halls death was due to heart disease
and was sudden and unexpected The
end came quietly and without warning
while sitting in the Office of st. Paul
physician. An attendant believing he
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-04-24

was asleep. went to arouse him and
dfscoverei he was dead 5fr Hall,
although IN failing health had been
as clerk OF the senate committee ON
general legislation he prepared week
ly legislative, letter, which IEas been
appearing In this and other newspa-
pers throughout the state
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-11
HEIsLERS GIVE BONDS
Father and Son Charged With Assault
With Intent to Commit Murder -
Held Under $500 Each.

Special to imes-Republican.
Grundy Center, Oct. 11.-As predict
ed in Wednesdays Times Republican,
another chapter was enacted in the
Heisler murder case yesterday when
information was filed charging Heisler
and his father with assault with in
tent to commit murder. They We're
brought into justice court and bound
over to the grand jury under $1,000
bonds each, which they promptly fur
nished. 1t now develops that Heislers
father was present at the time OF the
assault and made no effort to protect
the girl, but some claim that he even
urged his son on to extreme measures.
1t is also learned that Mrs. Heisler
would have been a mother in about
four months, and this adds greatly to
the Nervousness of the crime. Both ia
Their and son are now under bonds, and
indignation runs high against them
both about equally. Mrs. Heisler is not
yet dead, but is said to be beyond
any hopes of recovery.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-11
Law, However, Sides With
Adopted Parents Against Nat
ural Mother, of Corwith
CHILD ABDUCTED ON STREET
Mrs. Alice Thake Fled to Her Home,
But Judge Smith of District Court at
Mason City, Issues Writ of Habeas
Corpus for Childs Return to Adopted
Parents.

Special to Times-Republlcan.
Mason City, Oct. 11.-Snatchihs her
baby from the carriage of its adopted
mother. Mrs. Alice Thake of CorWlth'
is making a frenzied effort to RETAIN
possession of her baby. At moment
of sorrow and encouragement. owing
to family troubles, she signed the az
ticles of legal adoption giving the child
into the hands of her husbands brotn-
err and his wife, Mr.. and Mrs. IL. "
,rhake The natural mother was pur-
sued by the adopted mother OF the
home with her child in her arms, and
barred the door against all comers
TODAY, Judge c. p. Smith of the dis
trict court, issued Il writ of habeas
corpus for the return of the child TO us
adopted parents. The petition Tor the
writ recites that Monday, While Mrs.
Alvina Thake, adopted mother of Irene
Sophia Thake one year of age, was
wheeling the child i'll a carriage on the
streets of Corwith, the natural moth
err, Mrs. Alice Thake, darted from an
alley, and, snatching up the child fled
After waiting till the jury was sum-
moned and the case ready for evil
dence taking. j. +. Jenkinson, OF ROCK
well. a hotel keeper of that place I'M
der indictment for selling intoxicants,
plead guilty. He was fined $500.
A case which is creating consider
able interest is that of the state VS..
Homer Holcomb. Holcomb was arrest
ed for assault and battery upon the
person of his hired girl last August
He was convicted in a justice court and
appealed the case. After celebrating
sixteen hours over the evidence the
jury disagreed. Holcomb and the girl,
according to the evidence, quarrelled
and the girl went upstairs to pack her
belongings, preparatory to leave, when
she was followed by Holcomb, who
she saws struck her