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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-12-31
BODY OF DRUcE ExhUMEp
Conn Opened and Charges Made that
IL Contained NothIng II
Disproved.

LONDON. Dec. 3O.-The body OF Thomas
Charles Druce in HighEate cemetery was
exhumed this morning, just forty-thr
years to a day after its burial The conn
was found TO contain the remains OF a
human body, thus exploding the romantic
tale told by Robert c. Caldwell and others.
who swore during the recent hearing of
the Druce perjury case that it contained
a roll of lead.
The ofiicial statement given out by repre-
sentatives OF the home office and others
who were officially present at the exhuma-
ton, not only definitely disposed of the
lead myth. but seems effectively to prove
that the body buried in 1864 was actually
that of T. C. Druce. The authorized state
ment follows:
The conn was asRsed and found to
contain the body OF Asl-aged. bearded man
the plate on the comm bore the name
Thomas Charles Druce.'
The Druce vault has thus given up its
secret after ten years of legal proceed
ings, which have cost, all told, a consid-
cradle fortune A large part of this money
was obtained from servant girls and other
workers who were induced to buy shares
in company formed to prosecute the
claims Of George Hollamby Druce against
the estate of the duke of Portland
The charge OF perjury against Herbert
Druce is effectively disposed of.
NEW YORK, Dec. SO.-Robert c. Cald-
well, whose testimony as a witness In the
so-cailed Druce case led to the reopen
ing of the grave Of T. C. Druce today is
now at the home of his daughter at New
Brighton. Staten Island. He is under
300 bonds to answer to a charge Of
perjury preferred by the British authort-
ties in connection with the story he told
in the London court. He was arrested
when he arrived here December 20 It is
said that his health has improved since
his arrivel. Caldwelrs story of the alleged
duel personality OF the Duke of Portland
was the real sensation Of one of the most
remarkable cases which ever engaged the
attention Of the British courts. The re-
opening Of the Druce grave today was
the final effort OF the government to prove
their charge that Caldwelrs testimony
was ''wilful and corrupt perjury" In
substance. caldwelrs story, upon which
the claim of the Druce heirs for the great
fortune and the title of the Duke of Port
land was based to the effect that the
Duke of Portland and T. c. Druce, a
London storekeeper were one and the
same. He had known the Duke OF Port
land under both names. he said and at
the request OF the duke had arranged a
pretended death and mock funeral of
Druce so that his dual personality could
be buried. He swore that the coffin ex-
humed today did not contain Druce's body
but 200 pounds of lead
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-12-31
PETTIBONE VIOLENTLY ILL
Condition Extremely Critical and
Possibility Trial May Not
BE Finished.

BOISE. Idaho, Dec. SO.-The illness of
George A Pettibone today caused an ad-
journment of his trial until tomorrow
morning Last night Petitions became
violently i'll and was taken to hospital
For a time his condition was extremely
critical. but today much improvement is
reported. Pettibone has been a sick man
all through the triai and has frequently
been taken to the hospital at night because
OF his suffering. but heretofore has been
able TO appear in court each day. 1t is
thought that his malady is incursble and
It is regarded as a question If the trial
viii ever be concluded. Judge o. n. Hi
ton Of Denver was entered as an attorney
for the defense today. He has been acting
as attorney for the Western Federation Of
Miners in the Goldfield controversy.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-12-31
ROBBERS KILL STATION AGENT
Large sum stolen from Baltimore a
Ohio EmpIOye, Body BE-
ing burned.

CLAARINGTON. o., Dec 30. - Edward
Hutchinson. the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
station agent here, was robbed and muir
dered at an early hour today and the
station was burned over his head. While
the railroad officials viii not talk about
the case. it is said that the murderers
got away with a large sum OF money.
The burglars bound and gagged Hutchin-
son. After taking his watch and money
they then ransacked the station. The
theory advanced possibly to explain the
eold-blOoded murder OF the station agent
is that the burglars were recognized by
him and decided 10 burn Hutchinson as
he lay bound in order TO conceal their
Identity.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-12-31
DARRoW READY FOR DOCTORS
Reaches Los Angeles and VIII Soon
Submit TO MRstOid Ope-
ration.

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. SO.-Clarence
Darrow. the Chicago attorney, arrived here
from Boise at $50 this morning and was
driven in carriage TO the California hos
pital where examination Of his condition
will be made preliminary TO an operation.
for Mastoditis. Mr. Darrow was somewhat
worn from his Illness and fatigue Of the
journey. but was able to go from the train
TO the hospital carriage without assistance.
Mr.. Darrow was accompanied by his
wife. DR.. John r. Haynes will perform the
operation assisted by several other sur
geons and specialists.
"The case Of the state in the Pettibone
trial has none OF the strength shown by 1t
in the Haywood trial" said Mr. Darrow.
Il expect a prompt acquittal. The oply
reason why they are prosecuting the pres
ent case is that after the charges that were
made they could not very well back down
without making an effort Public opinion
in Idaho has undergone a change since the
Haywood trial and but little interest is
manifested in the present case"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-12-31
INDIANS ARE GOOD WORKERS
some TrOubIe Inducing Them 60 Ac-
auire Habit but II Finally
Succeeds.

RAPID CITY. s. D., Dec. so.-Cspecial.)--
The best evidence Of the progress made
by the Sioux Indians towards civilization
is the willingness they are showing to do
hard work or any kind OF labor for which
they are adapted. A few years ago It was
unusual for an indian TO do any kind of
manual labor. while today they can be seen
actively engaged with pick and shovel. en-
ployed at teaming or in other ways ac-
lively competing with white labor. In the
last two years during the construction of
the Pierre. Rapid City & Northwestern
railroad from Pierre and the Chicago. Mil
waukee g. 81. Paul from Chamberlain to
Rapid City. large humbers Of Sioux In
dams were employees by both lines. The
NJ r. N. w. ny. Crouch line) has
more or less Indians at work all the
time as section men or employed at rock
work in the quarries. The Utes. who re-
Gently created 50 much stir and were re-
moved to this locality. are now busy at
the latter kind of labor
Credit for effectlng this change In the
ways Of the red man is largely due to
Major John r. Brennan. agent at Pine
Ridge, who. contrary TO all predictions. be-
lieved that II given half a chance. the
Indian would be self-supporting. He in
augurated a system 81 the agency OF drop
ping from the ration roll all Indians from
is years OF age to Ss and giving them
work on the reservation roads dams and
bitches, paying 81 q per day for man and
$3.50 for man and team. The Indians did
not take kindly, to the new order Of things
at first. but when they realized it meant
either acceptance or going hungry. they
soon got busy and are now eager for work.
Two sons OF Chief Sitting Bull (the in
stigator Of the Custer massacre), are now
employed by the Northwestern as section
men and the sons and nephews of old
Chief Red Cloud are also earning a living
by the sweat OF their brow. The blanket
Indian is now practically a thing OF the
past with the educational advantages given
the younger generation at the government
schools and the older Indians fast learn
ing to make a living it is only matter
OF short time when the blanket Indian
will be classed with tine buffalo.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-12-31
KANSAS EDITOR NEAR DEATH
Colonel M. M. MurdOek OF wichita
Suffers from Illness that
May Be Fatal.

WICHITA. Kan, Dec. 3O.-COlonel Mar
shall NJ. Murdock. editor OF the Wichita
Daily Eagle, suffered a hemorrhage last
night and his death Is not unexpected His
physicians hold. out little hops OF his re-
cOYery. Colonel Murdoch is suffering from
a catarrhal condition OF the stomach. He
is 70 years old
Colonel Murdoch is one of the Oldest ana
best known newspaper editors in the south
west He Is a noted Kansas pioneer and
has bees In state politics since the time of
the border warfare. His son. Represanta-
tive Victor Murdock. is hurryinE 70 the
ps'aeneS bedside from WashinGtsn,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-12-31
NEW YORK RECTOR IN WEST
Rev. Jere KOde Cook Traced to San
Francisco.
COMMON LABOR NOW his LOT
show that He and
FlOretta whaIey Have Fled
Together and Being Dis
covered.

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 3O-The Call to-
day publishes an interview with the Rev.
Jere Kode Cook. formerly pastor Of St.
Georges church at Hampstead. l. l., who,
II is claimed. left his wife some eight
months ago. eloping with a 7-year-old
heiress named Fioretta whaley. The pair
have been located. Il is said, in a flat at 11se
Green street in this city. while search had
been going on for them all over the country.
A child has been born to them during the
interval, the rector working as a painter
and decorator. and when not occupied In
that line doing the hardest kind Of manual
labor for the support OF himself, his COM
panion and the child. He had, It is said.
lived quietly in Los Angeles before COM
ing here after he left the east
Inquiry this morning at the fiat occupied
by J. .Knode Cook and F1oretts whaley
revealed the fact that the couple had fed
with their child.
How Discovery Was Made.
The discovery of Cooke and the girl
whom he had fed with was made through
Captain Cleary OF the Morse Patrol agency,
who met the couple when they arrived
here last June from Los Angeles. When
the girls picture was published last week
in connection with a dispatch from Louis
Vile stating that Cooke had deserted Flo
retta Whaley and gave her away to q
family there who was educating her,
Cleary Immediately recognized the picture
as that OF the young woman whom he had
met as Mrs. Balcom-
Yesterday afternoon a representative
from a local minister called at the home
of the unfrocked minister and his COM
panion. where they had lived quietly under
their assumed name. Cooke, Yale grad
uate, worked at painting and decorating
and when hard pinched for work did any
manual work that he could get
The only notice ever taken of the coupls
by neighbors and those who lived in the
same building was to comment upon tbs
apparent happiness and their devotion oi
Baicom to the girlish mother and the baby
boy.
When the interviewer called yesterday Il
was lightning out of a clear sky. Balloon
or Cooke. admitted his identity, but SEN
the fragile mother and the baby into an
other room. asking the reporter to lowei
his tone, that she might not learn Of tn,
discovery OF their identity.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-12-31
SPARKS CALLS LEGISLATURE
Governor of Nevada NotiAes President
Roosevelt He VIII Bring Law
makers Together.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 80. Governor
Sparks of Nevada today wired President
Roosevelt that he is now preparing a
proclamation calling the legislature OF
Nevada into extra session. According 10
the presidents last communication to the
governor. the troops will now be ordered
10 remain at Goldheld for period Of
three weeks.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-12-31
BEG POURED INC SEWER
Internal Revenue Collector Destroys
TWenty-Three Hundred Barrels
at Oklahoma City.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okl.. Dec. 30-Twen-
ty-three hundred barrels of beer, valued
at 1880, belonging 10 the New State
brewery. was today poured into the sewers
of this city by United States Internal
Revenue Collector Charles Howard. The
brew was completed after Oklahoma be-
came a state. The state authorities would
not permit It's sale and shipment from the
state
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-12-31
shoe Factories Resume,

MANCHESTER, n. H, Dec M-The
factories Of the F. n. Hoyt company. man
ufaoturers OF boots and shoes, In East
Manchester, which have been closed down
Tor several weeks, resumed operations to-
day, Almost 10 hands. the largest force
empioyed in the factories since they be-
gan. were at work after the shops 0pspsd
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-12-31
DOMESTIC.

OO01EBEAD-
Sister Of the kaiser is brought into
Harden case as, one who furnished evil
dence to him for his articles. Page
Secretary Taft makes an address to
the members Of the Boston Merchants
association. Page
Rector Jerre Kode Cook of Long Island,
who left New York with F1orette Whaley,
was discovered in San Francisco.
New York workingmen do not want
strike. but they refuse to use non-union
material. Fage 1
Robbers kill a station agent for the
Baltimore & Ohio road at Clarington, o.
Page l
The woman whose body was found in
a pond near Harrison. N. J., has been
identified as a domestic. Page 1
Leading men of the country talk Of
labor troubles from a scientific stand
point at Madison. Wis. Page 1
heavy earthquake recorded at Wash
ingtOn on the seismograph. Page 1
Colonel Marshal Murdock, editor of the
Wichita Eagle Is near death. Page 1
Judge r. E. Lewis Of Denver has
quashed all indictments brought for al
legged coal land frauds at Denver
Page i
Governor Sparks Of Nevada says he
will call the Legislature to discuss the
Goldfield situation. Page i
Miner at Ellsworth after being en-
tombed three days was released by ac-
cident, having become a maniac.
Page /
FORE1GH.
There was little competition for gold
in London. demand from United States
having slackened. Page !
EHBRABKA
-aeatrlee company or she National Guard
to disband because state appropriation is
too small 1AGe 3
w. B. Rose, former republican state
chairman. Is out for Taft; republican
committee called to meet January at
! Lindell hotel in Lincoln. Page 3
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-12-31

Forecast tin p. m. Tuesday
For Omaha, Council Bluffs and Vicinity
Fair and warmer Tuesday.
For Nebraska-Fair Tuesday; slowly ris-
ing temperature.
For Iowa-Fair Tuesday: warmer in west
portion Tuesday.
Temperature a. Omaha Yesterday:
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-12-31

After this statement Count Kuno Won
Moltke himself took the stand. He de-
eiared that he had hardly slept for two
months He rejected the statement that
he hAbituaiiy used cosmetics 70 beautify
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-12-31
Page /
PoRExGN.

There was little competition for gold
in London. demand from United States
having slackened. Page
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-02
Good Words for Farmers.

Each week the New England Far
mer devotes about half Of it's first
page to some quotations, which it
calls little Sermons For New Eng
land Farmers, but which are just as
good for any other farmer. That you
may see how good some of them are
we quote those from the last number:
The withered leaf is not dead and
lost, there are Forces in it and around
it, though working in inverse order;
else how could it rot?-Thomas Car
LYLE
And this our life, exempt from pub
lie haunt, finds tongues in trees, books
in the running brooks, sermons in
stones, and good in everything Will
liam Shakespeare.
The great cities grow like creeping
paralysis over freedom, and the man
from the country is walking i INTO
them all the time because the poor
restless fellow believes wealth awaits
him on their vements-Owen Wis
ter
Flowers are the sweetest things
God ever made and forgot to put a
soul into.-Henry Ward Beecher
Farmers may we'll be congratulated
on the interests of farmers in econo-
mic and political affairs and on their
independent thinking and independent
voting.-John M Stah1
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-02
formerly belonged

Mr.. Takayama formerly belonged
to the Japanese army. He was
major of artillery in the war between
Japan and Russia He is highly edu-
Gated and is possessed of considerable
wealth. His colony enterprise is
sanctioned by the Japanese govern
ment. 1t is his purpose to conduct
the affairs of the colony on high SCI
entihc principles. This applies not
only to agriculture but to various 9th
er lines of industry which he is pre-
pairing to introduce here.
Aside from his colony enterprise at
Deepwater, Mr.. Takayama has about
two thousand acres in rice at Ray
wood, Tex, on the Southern Pacific
Railroad, about forty-eight miles from
Houston. The sale of the product
raised this season on this private
farm will bring him a small fortune.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-02
Reduced Express Rates.


Have you had any experience with
the express companies? If so you
have no doubt been angered by the
excessive and exhorbitant rates
charged Farm and Home has set
going movement to try and get the
rates reduced by the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
In the last number there is printed
a petition and request that the sub
scribers sign it and get as many 9th
ers as possible to do the same and
send it to the publishers. If our
readers will also do this, it will help
on the good work and we have put
in copy of the petition which we
shall be glad to have you cut out and
circulate for signatures, when you
have secured as many as possible,
send it to the address given below:
The movement gathers force daily
to hale before the interstate COM
merce commission the express COM
panies charging such extort1onate
rates. The plan of compaign was an
nounced in Farm and Home Oct. IS,
and already hundreds of signatures
have been received to the petition
printed in that issue It is again
printed on this page Copy or cut it
out, get all the signatures possible, and
send direct to Farm and Home,
Homestead Bldg, Springfield, Mass.
Also write strong letter to Inter
state Commerce Commission, Wash
ington D. c., asking that body to do
the right thing toward lower express
rates.
The railroads themselves are wax
ing up to the injustice practiced upon
them and upon the public by the ex
press companies The Great North
ern system has always run it's own
express, freight and sleeping cars
Another big railroad has just an
nounced the formation of subsid-
larry company of it's own for con-
Quoting the express business on its
own lines, though it does not need
any intermediary concern for this
purpose. Meanwhile, express com
panies are doing everything possible
to induce congress to shove up the
postage on periodicals and to defeat
even local parcels post, but the days
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-02
-
Japanese in Texas.

J >~NN"S
We find an article telling about their
success with crops this season, in the
Tribune Farmer, as follows:
Industrious Japanese colonies re-
ceive a cordial welcome to Texas.
The coast county, bordering on the
Gulf of Mexico is especially adapted
to rice growing, and it is there that
the Japanese find conditions similar
to those in their own counary.
There are two thriving Japanese
colonies in Texas One of them is at
Deepwater and the other at Webster.
The two colonies are about eight
miles apart, but they are conducted
as entirely separate institutions.
The Webster colony is the lar
ger. At Webster there are ia
panese women and number
of children The male members
of the Deepwater colony have no
he1p-meets with them O. Takaya-
ma, who is at the head of the Deep
water enterprise, has taken steps, how
ever, to establish here a typical Jap
anese village, which will have several
hundred inhabitants in the course Of
the next year or so. He has arranged
to bring native women silk weavers
from Japan. Other Japanese artisans
will also be brought here, and the col
| onists will live practically the same
kind of life that they have been used
to in Japan The houses will be con
structed of bamboo, the same as If
Japan, Mr. Taykayama says.
The Japanese children at the Web
! ster colony attend the public schoo
there with white children, and nc
| thought Of objecting to them has en-
tered the minds of the white people OIL
that community. They are quiet, obe-
dent students, and are quick to learr
the interesting things that are taught
them out of American books.
Mr.. Takayama has planned to edit
cate the children of his Deepwate1
colony in American schools. They
will be provided with all the advan-
tages afforded by the Texas public
school system.
The present male members of the
Deepwater colony are all graduates Of
the Japanese agricultural college. II
is stated that they are as fine farmers
as have ever left Japan They are
fast adapting themselves to American
customs
This has been a most successful
season for the Deepwater colony
Their yield Of rice to the acre was
much larger than that of American
rice farmers whose land adjoins the
colonys cultivated tract. Not only
was the yield larger, but the Japanese
have sold some of their product for
81 a sack They made the expert
ment Of transplanting five acre field
of rice. The beds were carefully Sc
lected and laid off Is feet long by 4
feet wide, swith a space of foot and
half between each bed The five
acres were transp1anted in two days
by ten Japanese. This method is fol
lowed largely in Japan, and it was Mr.
Takayama's desire to see how II
would work in Texas. The results
have been far more successful than
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-02
Porto Rico Will Soon Compete With
Florida.

A correspondent OF inc ain Dooell
News says:
We had the pleasure of visit this
week, at San Juan, Porto Rico, from
President Roosevelt, and they enter
tanned him in great style.
The city was gaily decorated with
bunting and flags.
The president came to San Juan
from Ponce in an automobile on the
2Ist, stayed over until the morning
of the 22nd and then took a special
train for Aricebo, where he again
took the automobile for Ponce, trav
cling through the center of the island.
did not get to see him myself as
he came one day ahead Of his speci
fed time, but the Americans were
we'll represented at the reception ten
dered him, and that he attended on
the night of his arrival in San Juan.
Some of my neighbors who were with
him at San Juan hill in Cuba, were at
the reception and he knew them and
gave them cordial greeting.
He spoke of the coffee of Porto
Rico and promised to try to do some
thing for the coffee industry of the
island during the two years he has
yet to serve
One of my friends and neighbors
who was with President Roosevelt at
San Juan hill, presented him with
box of fine Porto Rico grapefruit
They held the train at Bayamon while
he picked the fruit for himself This
generous friend of mine is Mr. E. G.
Norton, an old time Florida boy, who
is here and doing we'll at orange and
grapefruit growing.
Porto Rico, before many years, will
be one of the greatest fruit growing
islands of the entire West Indies and
will give my old state of Florida a
hard race in growing oranges and
grapefruit, especially as here we have
no cold weather, and orange, grape
fruit and mango trees grow all the
year around and you can pick ripe
fruit Of one or more Of these kinds
on almost any day you SO desire.
I am now. building me I3-room
house near Aricebo and hope to have
my family here to spend the summer
with me- I also intend it for the
entertainment of members of our
company whenever they come here on
a visit.
The house will be on a slightly hill
overlooking the railroad and the At
lantic ocean and surrounded by or
ange and grapefruit groves-a lovely
place to spend the summer as we'll
as the winter
Mr. Bergen is here from West Palm
Beach and has charge of our mango
business. He don't like the red mud
SO we'll but I guess he will get use1
to it in time-when it rains here we
have plenty Of mud and it sticks.
1t would be good idea for any one
that can to pay visit to this island
for it has as almost perfect climate
as any place in the world can posi-
bly, have.
We have had no storms since 7
have been here and it has been de-
liOhtfu1 all the time The +apnpera