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The Prescott daily news., 1907-05-16
EVELYN TIRED OF CITY;
 WANTS TO GO OUT WEST

ID RONCHO busting is the sport ID which Evelyn Nesbit Thaw has set her mind upon as the thing she would most enjoy. The solitude of western ranch, surrounded by snow- capped peaks and nestling in some valley far from the abode of others of her race, is where she plans to spend the remainder of her life with Harry Thaw, when he is free to leave the grim Tombs cellroom.
 T am so tired of this; oh, so tired" she said the other day. T want to leave it all-the crowds, the smoke, the big buildings, the lights, every thing that reminds me of the past.
 "I want to go west with Harry-just Harry and land when he is acquit- ted we shall go. 1 have been in the west. I know what it is. I want to get away from this dressing, dressing, eternal dressing, and wear a short skirt and sweater and ride bronchos astride."
 In reply to question. if she would
The Prescott daily news., 1907-05-16
Tackles TroIIeys in Europe.


 In districts where the construction of permanent tramways would be out of the question, owing to prohibitive Initial cost, there are in use in Ger many and France electric transport systems running on the ordinary roads, says writer in Engineering They drew their supply of electricity from overhead wires similar to those In use in tramway working. Provi- sion is made for passenger traffic by means of omnibuses run singly or with trailer, while goods traffic is handled by motor vehicles drawing two or three trailers The first of such lines was opened in 1901, and since that time quite a number of services have been inaugurated In diff ferent districts. The routes are for the most part comparatively short One of the longest lines is that of the Charbonnieres-les- -Binius, near Ly- ons, which is worked with six mo- tor cars of seating capacity of 3S passengers each. A line is also worked between the towns of Neu- enahr, Walporthain and Ahrweiler A line is worked regularly in connec- tion with an industrial center in the neighborhood of Wurzen, Germany, over which some 30 wagons are taken either way daily.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-05-16

go back on the stage if 1t ever became necessary for her to earn her living again, Evelyn replied with smile: No, indeed, would do anything else first. Dan O'Reilley told me mana ger almost wept on his neck and said, Think of all this notoriety going to waste.'"'
 Mrs. Thaw added that the stage had lost its attraction for her, and told of her early stage aspirations, saying: Tn Pittsburg, even as a child, I had longed to be a great actress. I thought I was going to be Sarah Bernhardt No. 2. My first rehearsal cured me of that.
 MT. Jerome told the jury I was a great actress. I wish he could have seen that rehearsal. 1 had one line to speak. It was something like Here comes the bride When 1 said it, MT. Lederer looked up and laughed. lisped a little then and I would say 'b-wide.' It took him all morning to teach me that one line
The Prescott daily news., 1907-05-16
To Tell Next Years Weather.

To predict weather a year in ad. vance is the latest feat that scien. lists are trying to accomplish The Technical World Magazine contains an article by John Elfreth Watkins in which he tells of the latest ad vances in weather forecastings and of the new United States astrophysi cal laboratory in Washington.
 Variations of the heat radiation of the sun are the basis for the new science of long distance weather pre- dictions, and special instruments have been devised to meet the re- quirements of this special work. One of the most interesting of these in. struments is the bolometer, which will detect variations in temperature of the millionth part of a degree.
 Through the work of this branch of the weather bureau the government hopes to be able to tell the farmer whether or not he will have a wet, dry, warm or cold season, so that he may regulate his crops accordingly The aims and methods of this new science are given a popular and inter. esting presentation and the article is we'll illustrated.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-05-16
OLD FASHIONED HOTELS STILL MAKING MONEY

the Grand Central, the hotel in which Ed Stokes shot Jim Fisk. It is still 8 fiourishing institution. When lilly Haynes, the proprietor, died year or so ago he left more than $1 100000. He also ran hotel in Boston. It was in the Broadway Central that the Thaw jurors ate their meals when they were kept together.
 Smith & McNell's is another old time hotel which has kept its enor- nous business in spite of the march up town. It is near the Washington market and close to the ferries that bring the passengers from the various lines entering Jersey City.
 The partners started in with a cof- fee stand in the market. Both of them became millionaires. Smith & McNell's has the reputation of feed- ing a greater number of people than any other hotel or restaurant in New York.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-05-16

URIOUSLY enough there are many V old-fashioned hotels in New York, many of them out of the belt where gay life reigns, which are still coin ing money for their proprietors. When John Jacob Astor built his fa- nous hotel at Barclay street and Broadway his friends told him it would be disastrous venture as the hotel was situated too far up town to , catch the trade. We'll the hotel is still doing business and the lessee is said to have made a great fortune out of it.
 Thousands of people who come to New York every year would not think of stopping anywhere else any more than their fathers and grandfathers would in spite of the fact that it is now in almost the heart of the busi- ness and financial district.
 Then there is the Broadway Cen tral at Third street, which used to be
The Prescott daily news., 1907-05-16
Lost In the Ninth.

Scoring two runs Tn the ninth
 ;,c m a hit, two bases on balls f~a an error, Atlanta took the |.ocond and closing game of the
 ,;oS with Little Rock yesterday r.tternoon. Castleton and .Lakaff |rore opposed on the slab, and |rbile honors: were about even in Lho matter of hits, Lakaff was the |stoadier of the the two, and with Ebe exception of the ninth, when he appeared to lose control, had br the better of the game. RESULTS YESTERDAY. Atlanta 4, Little Rock 3. Nashville z, Memphis 0. Montgomery ,, New Orleans 1. Birmingham 8, Shreveport 6. GAMES TODAY. Birmingham at Little Rock. Montgomery at Memphis. Atlanta at Shreveport. Nashville at New Orleans. SOUTHERN LEAGUE STANDING
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-05
PHYSICIANS SWEAR
CH|SOLM is SANE
State Asylum Authorities Salts
fled That His Mind Is
Sound.
NO EVIDENCE OF PARANoiA
Rigid Cross-Examination OF Doc
tor Who Testified Against
Bank Teller,

BIRMINGHAM ALA. May 4.--The
fourth day OF the trial of Alexander
L. Chisolm. former paying teller of the
First National Bank of Birmingham,
charged with having cmbezzled $780,
600 OF the banks funds, opened with
Albert Morton, paymaster of the Ten
nessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Com
pany, on the stand. Morton testified
that he had found the defendant very
accurate and had noted no change in
his deineanor.
Assistant Physician Joseph Leland,
of the State Insane Asylum at Tusca-
loosa. swore that Chisolm had been
under his Immediate care while at the
institution. 1t was his opinion that
the defendant did not have either
parcsis or paranoia. He did not be-
lieve defendant was insane DR.. w. D.
Partlow. senior physician of the State
Asylum for the Insane, swore that
in his opinion the defendant was not
suffering from paresfs. and further
more that he considered him sane.
DR. Partlow was subjected TO rigid
cross-examination regarding Chisolm's $
condition while the defendanl was an
inmate at the asylum.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-05
HUSBAND AND WIFE
DRAW OUT PISTOLS
Strenuous Dispute Over Posses
sion of Child, Which Mother
Tried to Take Away.
Isrecial to The rim es plspatch.l

Special to The TIM es- -Dispatcn.l
CHARLOTTE. n. c., May An un-
usual occurrence. which excited the
popuace of suburb and nearly re-
suited in tragedy, took place to-day
In North Charlotte. Recently j. NJ.
Durham and Mrs. Durham separated,
and the father last week in Davidson
Superior Court. legally secured the Gus
ftody of their four -year-old child. Mrs.
Durham, it seems, has been living in
Atlanta, but heard through the news
papers that her husband had secured
the child, and Immediately took tic
tain for Charlotte, arriving this morn
it.g She obtained a carriage, drove to
MIR. Durllam's home, In the suburbs.
and finding no one at home but the
child, started to take her away The
rather appeared on the scene. in time
20 frustrate the attempt, and quickly
the neither drew a pistol on him. Mr..
Durham was as quick. ana produced
another weapon, Both stood al bay
Tor ten lninutcS' With drawn pistols
rine of the excited hundred who Wit
ncssed the scene daring to interfere
Some one, however, 'phored to tho
uClce station, and Mrs. Durham, get
ting wind of the fact took to her
heels. \ thorough search Of the neigh
tcrhood fails to reveal her where
aEouts, but the Durham home is undol
guard, in apprehension of her rct,rn
ing,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-05
PRESIDENT WIFE
. HAD NARROW ESCAPE.
Yacht sylph Ran by Her Landing
and Crashed Into Tug
boat.
NONE ON BOARD WAS HURT
Engineer Misunderstood Signals
NONE ON BOARD WAS HURT
Engineer Misunderstood Signals
and Failed to Reverse, as
Ordered.

WASHINGTON. D. c., May AIRS.
.companyins her aboard tho yacht
Sylph narrowly escaped a serious acci-
dent as the boat reached Washing
ton yesterday on it's return from a
trip down the Potomac River.
Through some misunderstanding the
boat went past her dock and crash
ed into tugboat The shock was so
severe that the tlagpole of the Sylph
fell TO the deck with crash, mar
.rowlv missing Mrs. Roosevelt and
those with her, among whom were
Mrs Clifford Richardson of New York.
and Mrs Bacon. the wife of the AS
sjstant Secretary of State. Happily.
none was hurt.
Mrs, Roosevelt was entertaining a
party of friends aboard the. yacht, haN-
ing left the city at noon and return
ing to the navy yard at 3So'clock. For
a time following the accident there
was considerable excitemen: aboard
the yacht. but the ladies' We're as
sured that, there was no danger, and
the vessel was backed to her dock,
where the party discfnparkeu "lttout
further adventure.
J ~ +
or less damaged. The impression Is
that the engineer misunderstood an
order to reverse his engines as one to
go forward. resulting In the collision
The racing launch OF the Sylph was
badly damaged. The fact that the
yacht was not proceeding at u rapid
rate was regarded as fortunate. as
otherwise the damage would nave been
considerable
Captain Rosser c, Bulmer, the cap
tain of the Sylph, was at the White
house to-day. but for what purpose II
could not. be ascertained.
1t was said at the White House
later. that all the circumstances plainly
+; ;howed that Captain Bnlmer was clear
~ not at fault. The mistake, it was
said, lay with the engineers depart.
ment which had improperly inter
.prcted the signals. The President. Il
is said; is satisfied with Captain Bul.
.mer's explanation, and court. of in.
.Iuiry. which usually follows an acci.
dent OF this kind. will not be ordered
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-05
SHOE EMAKER GONE
NEARLY A MONTH
When Last Seen Had s51, and
Was Somewhat Intoxicated,
Gauntlet on His Bench.
Especial to The Tlmes.Dispatch. i

4 sTAuNTON. VA. May AIR. Rou-
ben Pratt, who mysterlously disap-
peared from this city on April 11th.
as stlu missing. A great deal of mys-
.ery surrounds his disappearance. he
was shoemnker, and drew pension
from the Federal government. He was
Chiefly emploX<d by tho Knowles-Arm-
strong Shoe Company and had a small
room opposite the store. on Main
Street On AprIl +th he made out his
pension papers and had them for
warded. and ON the 18th of April he
received his pension amounting to
S5l, and on the evening OF that day
ne was seen somewhat Intoxicated. No
trace of him has since been found. lie
left everything in his Office in perfect
order, with his bed made up, He took
nothing with him, a large black
gauntlet. bearing the name 81 L.,
Snuath, Ir.. Tiftin. o." wus found on
dis henoh, Mr.. Pratt came here from
Connecticut, He Is siAty-nVe years.
old STOPPING shoulders, has small gray.
mustache, and wears spectaelcs. it is
feared that ha met With foul piay,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-05
ROOSEVELT KISSED
BY LABOR THR0NGS
New York Speaker Calls the
President an Undesirable
Citizen.
SOCIALISTS BITTER ATTACK
Orderly Parade and Meeting, and
Sympathy for Miners Facing
Court in Idaho.
SOCIALISTS BITTER ATTACK

NEW YORK. May 1.-Two long lines
of men and women, probably 10000
OF them. traied In parade through the
streets of the upper and lower East
Side late to-day as demonstration
Of their sympathy for Meyer. Haywood
and Pettibone. the officeH; Of the West
ern Federation of Miners, whose trial
on the charge of killing ex-Governor
Stennenberg. of Idaho. begins next We'd
nesday at Boise, Idaho. Merging sub
sequently into one vast crowd at For
tieth Street and Lexington Avenue, a
few of the pnraders, 1000 or 5000 of
Them managed to crowd into Grand
Central Palace to wind up the dem
onstration, in one of the biggest union
labor and socialistic demonstrations
seen in New York iii a Ions time.
There was no disorder. The meet
Ing was called to order by John G..
Chase. secretary of the Socialist party.
who introduced Morris Hilquit as
chairman When the chairman men,
toned the name of President Roosc-
Welt 1t was received with storm
Of Kisses.
"If he has any information Regarding;
the guilt of these men of Indictment
to riot and bloodshed 1t Is his duty
to give that information 10 tho pco.
pie he said.
",ro US he said, the man who has
been elected to the highest office III
the land. and who uses his power
to trample downsmen whose very lives
may depend on TIL. openness and fair
ness OF the public mind, has violated
Ills solemn oath. He is the 'undesir-
able citizen"
Joseph Wanhope. editor of So
cialist newspaper. spoke for an hour.
He devoted much of his speech TO
the President and to the "capitalistic
subsidized press He declared that
Meyer. Haywood and Pettibone were
entirely innocent and their prosecution
was the result of great conspiracy
of the mine-owners, the finkertons
and Wall Street
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-05
PARENTS DANCE;
CHILDREN BURN

WEST rRANcFT. AIICIr., May A.
-Four small children were burned to
death last night in tho home of Martin
Campbell. eight miles from here, Mt,
IN I'D Mrs. Campbell had gone to a dance
a mile away from riler home, leaving
their six little ones locked In the,
house. 4, They left n big jiifc in tho
stove. aud in some manner TINS ignlt",l
7ihe house, which was destroyed. The
children were awakened by ;ilt flames,
and the two oldest, aged eight and ten
years. managed to escape. ] he fcur
smaller ones perished
In midnight fire that destroyed the
home of Mrs, Frank Telford. at Hop
i,in's Station, n few miles south OF
flere, Thomas Corning, agcd twenty
seven years, was burned To death. ana
Mrs. Telford and her daughter, Sadie
aged thirteen, suffered fatal burns,
The family was asleep when the fire
Was discovered.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-05
NEWHOUSE FAVORS
THE EXPOSITION
Culpepcr Man Delighted With
Its Scope and
Beauty.

Colonel S. NJ, Newhouse, of Culpeper,
is stopping at Murphys Hotel, on his
way home from the jamestown ESpo-s
sition. where he has spent his time
since the opening. no says the builds
ings and grounds will be III thorough
order by the 1st of June, and When
completed will form one OF the grand-
est exposltions OF its kind ever seen
in any country.
mo people ever lived Who deserved
more credit than do the officers OF tho
expositlon." said Colonel Newhouse,
FOR their untiring energy and deter-
u1inatlon to mako 1T excell all others.
,cor the first five days of the Buffalo
Exposition the paid gate admissions
SHOW Ii,072, and for the same period
the Jamestown Exposition shows SS,66a
-peary three times as many as tho
Buffalo Exposition Tho total admis-
sons paid. etc, for the first five days
were 7a,00o. One can hotter jmagine
what the Jamestown Exposition IL
when Informed that the grounds cover
an area of four hundred acres and
that every inch of space mas been COW
cred by national and States buildings
and conces ssionaires, and that hundreds
arc turned away every day by Cover
nor Sherwood, begging and Offering
any price for space, No people feel
so proud of the exposition as 40 tina
5Virglnians. They are not only proud
oil the progress old Virginia has made
in this great show. bur aro proud OF
her state building, which is SO graz
ciously presided over by Mrs, Swanson,
assisted by,saoue OF virginia's most
charming ana ndacconplished ladies', Mrs,
l1eae. Indeed. no one deserves mora
credit for the splendid taate displayed
in the general arrangement OF this
Virginia building than does tho Covers
nor's Wife, No one knows betses than
idss. Swanson and Mrs. Beale how g
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-05
Child Had Been Missing
From Delaware Home
Since March 4th.
MURDER THEORY
STILL BELIEVED
Body in Fair state OF lrcscrva-
ton, With No Evidence of
scorching Spot Where
Found Burned Recently.
Face Buried in
the Mud.

DOVER, DEL, Mas ,-'rhc body OF
little Horace Marvin, who disappeared
from the farm of his father. n, KITS
hammock. near here. March i,h was
found this afternoon in a marsh in a fair
state OF preservation The spot where
tho body Was found is about a half mile
cast OF the farmhouse. toward tho Del
aware River. nitts Hammock is between
seven and eight miles from here and is
without communication with any place
From information brought by horse
man. II is learned that the clothes on the
child were the same as he were the day
he disappeared. The body was lying face
downward.
Dr. Marvin, al the moment the body
WAS found. WAS not ready to gay whether
the body Of his child was placed where 1t
was found, or whether nc believed the
child wandered into the marsh and lost
his life. Tic marsh was frozen over the
day the boy disappeared.
There is "A theory that the child was
murdered and his body placed in the
marsh, as the long grass where the body
was found was burned and cleared four
weeks ago. 1t Is said the body lay under
pile OF grass, and tina, the clothing
showed no evidence OF having been
Ecorched by fire.
The body was found by Ollie Pleasan-
ton, n ncichbor. who WIS cunning for
ducks on tho marsh to-day. He had the
body' borne to the house and covered
with a sheet. rlcasanton has figured In
the case since Horace WIS lost, having
FIRST reported that lie had seen the two
strange men who appeared therc in
quising about the topography OF the
country hree days before the disappear
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-05
EIGHT MEN DROWNED
FROM EISHlNG-RQAI

BOSTON, MASS, May 4,--The fishing
schooner Mystery, which returned from
the banks last night, reported the loss of
eight men last Tuesday on'tho southern
edge of Browns bank, sixty miles from
Capo Sable. Tho men set out In four
dores to place the travis. a heavy fog
set. in, and in the thick weather the men
were evidently unable to find the
schooner Captain Steele cruised about
the locality all Tuesday and "Wednesday,
and unable to find the men set sail for
Boston "Wednesday night
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-05
STEEL SCHOONER is
DESTROYED BY FIRE

SEATTLE, WASH. May i--Loaded with
lumber, the full rugged steel schooner Arthur
Fitger lying outside salmon bay near the
West Point lighthouse. was burned last
night The cargo, worth $4,000. was de-
stroycd Both cargo and vessel We're in
s,,red The crew of twelve men. In the
forecastle when tho flames broke out. ga TIL
cred up their belongings and. lowering
llfehnat. ascaped to the shore
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-05
Salvation Army Meeting.

Major w. G. Hunter and Captain j..
LYONS. of the Salvation Army Corps, con-
dilcted an open-air meeting yesterday at
noon at Seventh and Broad Streets. The
meeting was very successful in point of
numbers and Captain and Mrs. Fowler
expressed themselves as being very we'll
satisfied with its result.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-05
The CHASTITY Find.

when Ollie Pieasanton came upon
the child's body he found the clothing
intact His tins wooden recfei- was but
toned up securely about thn body and
not an article of clothing which ~
had on when he disappeared WAS mss
ing. His knit cap was pulled over lis
fact and his rnittens were on his harGs
DIR. Marvin saSs he searched over tho
same marsh ne.yrIy every day since th.
disappearance, and with detectives
burned the grass of the place four
weeks ago, but saw no signs OF the
body.
The theory that tho child has been
recently placed where he was found is
supported by the fact that DR.. Marvin
as we'll as the detectives Etood on
the spot when they burned the tall
sage grass from II. Further than this
the marsh has been trampled over
time and time again within the past
week by neighbors, and no sign OF
the child was seen.
DIR. Marvin went on a run to the
place described hy Pleasauton aud
gently picked up tho littl., form, pull
ing his cap from tho face to make
sure that 1t was his boy. Being salts
fed that 1t was his son, the doctor
wrapped the remains in n sheet and
carried him to the house, where he
notified tho family.
Suspects Foul Play.
DR.. Marvin is convinced that his son
met with foul play. Shortly after
the body was found he said: Though
arm unable to examine Horace close
ly until the coroner arrives, am Ger
tain he was murdered his body
brought back and left lying on tho
marsh to give the impression that he
wandered out there and died. The
clothing showed no signs OF having
been burned as would undoubtedly
have been the case had the body lain
there when the fire swept over the
marsh.''
The doctor would not allow an
examination to be made by any one
until tho coroner and a physician had
made a full and complete investlga-
ton.
Attorney General Hastings and his
deputy Will see TO the examination OF
the body. and II foul play is shown, to
order arrests II possible.
Detectives who have been on the
case arc inclined to the belief that
the boy wandered into the marsh anu
from the farm on the day OF his dis
appearance, and being overcome by
the cold. fell exhausted where the
body was found
Began Prompt Search.
Sheriff F(artnatt. of Hcnt county
Del, was informed on the evening oil
his son, Horace, Jr, had dlsappcarc,
that morning. The sheriff inmcdiatcl,
offered all the aid in his .,owcr, auc
the next morning the countyysid was
notified, with the result .iiGl twenty,
fvc or thirty pf he mel CnbOrinE farm.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-05
BRING GREATEST
SINGERS TO CITY.
Movement to Develop Work Of
Wednesday Club Along More
Ambitious Lines.
FESTIVAL A GREAT SUCCESS
Appearance Of Herr Burgstaller
Notable Feature Last Night.
House Sold Out.
WHAT CONDUCTOR
THINKS OF CHORUS

II think thnt Richmond people
should bc very grateful to Mr..
Mercer. He has trained the finest
children'x chorus that have ever
henrd, and In doing NO. he must
have displayed great patience and
perseverance,. The performance of
the children was quite remarkable,
and II was all owing to him. II
have seen no others equal to
thcm."-Emil MoIlenhauer. director
of Boston Festival Orchestra, In
statement yesterday.