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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-06-07

SAN FRANCISCO, June GA few
minutes before the adjournment Of court
court this afternoon, the defense in the
Schmitz ease scored what they consider
. signal point during the cross examine
ticn Of one Of the prosecutions chief
witnesses, Antonio B. Bianeo. Until
the great fire, Blanco was proprietor Of
Lelmonico's one of the five French res
taurants from whose owners the mayor
and Ruef are accused of having extorted
thousands of dollars under threat
Implied II not expressed to prevent
the reissuance Of their liquor licenses.
planco declared that Ruef, the mayor or
anyone else never toll him if he did not
pay this money that he would not get
his license renewed.
Four witnesses were on the stand TO-
day: Officer Charles r. Skully, Secre-
tary Of the board Of police commission
els, former Police Commissioners Rea-
gan and DR.. Poheim, and Antonio Blanco.
The first witness tomorrow will be Jos.
Mulfanti, proprietor Of Delmonico's res
taurant. He acted as agent for the
ether French restaurants and handed
Ruef the money which the prosecution
claims was extorted and which the de-
tense maintained was paid purely as a
retainer and in the pursuance Of legal
cotract by which Ruef was to act as At
torney for the Frenchmen in the matter
OF securing renewal of their licenses
which have been held up BY Police Com
missioners Reagan and Hutton on
charge Of immortality.
Pierre Priest, who conducted the ne
gotiations with Ruef on behalf Of the
other restaurant keepers and himself and
whose names appear as the signature on
the contract alleged, is dead.
Reagan testified minutely as to the
suddenness and determined change a
the mayors attorney on the French Il
cense renewals-from advising their re-
fusal to demanding that they be grant
Cd simultaneously with the appearance
Q: Ruef as attorney for the restaurants
sad the testimony implicated the wait
ers of the union in the plot to expose
tae immortality Of these places as re-
suit Of union difficulties with their pro-
prietors.
Poheim told of the compiling by Rues
Of set Of bogus regulations for the
government Of restaurants, how he and
the boss laughed over these and how af-
ter they had been submitted by Ruef
to the police board, the holdup licenses,
we're granted. Blanco testified that he
and the proprietors Of the Pup, Del
monicos, Marchands and Tortonis had
raised fund Of $4,000 to be paid to
Ruef "As lawyer and political boss" for
Taking care" Of their licenses.
After adjournment Heney was asked
when Ruef would be called to the stand
He replied that he was unwilling to
say, as he did not want to give Camp
bell a chance to prepare for Ruef's ex-
animation,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-06-07

NEW YORK, June 0,--The case Of
Mira. Howard Could, who has instituted
a suit for separation from her hus.
band, was given its frat airing In court
today. The occasion was the hearing
Of thc arguments on the motion oi
Geuld's counsel 10 strike out certain 81.
iegaiiops IN Mrs. Gould's complaint.
Tho arguments Of considerable length.
were made and at the conclusion the
attorneys were given until Monday to
die their briefs,
The grounds ON which Mrs. Could h
suing her husband as shown by parts
of the complaint read by counsel for
Mrs. Gould are, First, the abandonment
OF Mrs. Gould by her husband, second,
the allegation that the habits and con.
duet OF Gould are such that II was I'm.
proper for his wife TO live with him,
third, that since September last he has
neglected his life and refused TO provide
Tor her except that he paid for her sup.
port at hotel since that time; and
fourth, that Gould treated his wife with
extreme cruelty, employed spies to
harrass her, caused her mail bag 10 be
tampcred with, maintained Illicit rela.
tions with women OF bad character and
employed an ox.eonvict and several New
York detectives 10 procure improper evi.
'denCe against her.
Delaney Nicoll said every allegation
against Gould win be denied when the
answer 10 suit Is filed, He maintained
that the charges, to which he objected
10 as scandalons and irrelevant did not
tend to support the allegations Of
cruelty. He especially objected TO the
charge that for three years Gould had
maintained Illicit relations with women
Of bad character and conducted himself
In this respect in an open and notorious
manner lie declared the charges were
made for the purpose Of putting the
defendant in an embarrassing position
and that In the other cases where such
allegations have been introduced the
court has stricken them out
"The allegations are decidedly sweep.
ing said he, 'the plaintiff did not make
any specification nor mention any spe-
e'iic case or even tell exactly what mis-.
conduct the defendant Is charged with
"'rhere Is absolutely no reason for
such charges In 4 complaint for sepera.
tion on the grounds Of cruelty"
In reply to Nicolls argument, Clar.
ence Shearn, counsel for Mrs. Could
said II defense will ask for q bill Of
particulars, specific charges will be made
OF so serious character that he would
not presume to mention them in court,
III the course Of his argument, He said
Mrs. Gould had tried to make the case
as little scandalous as possible and he
did not want to make the complaint any
more specific in open court. But II the
allegation that the defendant, for three
years, maintained Illicit and immoral
relations with women of bad character
and conducted himself notoriously and
openly IN this respect IL too general, he
said the plaintiff would make 1t more
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-06-07

the same armed guards today, 10 pro
icct Orchard and the same courtroom
scenes except that among the spectators
The women to men were as two to one
There was another rush for admittanc,
and the doors OF the courtroom had I.
he closed at both sessions. 0rchars
finished his direct testimony at 2:35 ans
the cross examination had only reache,
the Coeur dAlene days OF 1899 whel
the court adjourned. The cross exami
nation will be continued tomorrow
morning.
Al the afternoon session, Orchard said
he started for Idaho two days after talk,
ing with Meyer and the others on the
subject. Pettibone helped him to get hi:
trunk ready. He put the Peabody
bomb, prepared for use at Canyon City
in the trunk. and took II along. Petit.
bone knew about this.
Before starting for Idaho," said Or
chard, MFR. Haywood gave me $40 in
cash. He had given me 800 before this
/ was TO send to Mr.. Pettibone for any
additional funds. Moyer, Haywood and
pettibone were all present when this ar,
rangement was made / went from
Denver to Salt Lake, spent four or five
days there, and then came on tc
Nampa, Idaho, stopping at the Com.
mercial Hotel.
II registered as Thomas Hogan. After
being in Nampa three days | went to
the Pacific Hotel at Caldwell. ] regis.
tered again as Thomas Hogan, I be-
gan at once to make inquiries about
Governor Steunenberg. This was about
September 6, 1905. l stayed in Caldwell
two or three days. | found out where
Steunenberg lived, and learned that he
was not at home. | came on to Boise
to try to locate him there. | was told
he was living at the Idanha Hotel.
"The Portland Exposition was going
on at this time, and / decided to go
there for a few days, Then went to
Seattle to look at ranch. Pettibone
had told me to do this, He thought it
might be a good thing to have a ranch
where we could hide out whenever it
became necessary, From Seattle went
to Spokane, and then to Wardner to see
jack Simpkins, told him what my
object was"
Orchard remained in the mining dis
trict for month, While he was there
be talked with Simpkins about kidnap,
ping the child of one of the mineowners,
but nothing came of it, Simpkins final.
" to. return to Caldwell with Orchard to
help IN the assassination OF Governor
Sieunenberg.
From Wardner, Orchard and Simpkins
frst went to Wallace, Idaho, where Or
chard decided to get rid Of the Peabody
bomb, Simpkins said it was dangerous
thing to have around, and he thought
Il had better be thrown away. Orchard
said he gave the bomb to friend named
Cunningham to dispose Of in the river.
lroceeiing from Wallace to Spokane,
Orchard said he and Simpkins bought
lc pounds of powder there to make Al
new bomb with when they reached
Caldwell. siinpkins bought pair of
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-06-07
specIar.

sp'utHus
~ Il titie,' ishsarln continued, Nv,
iid aot sAy whether the defendants 90
tions were adulterous or worse, but vi
win be glad 10 submit full bill Of par
ticulan II II II asked ior.' shearir
argued that II the court struck out thes,
allegations II would do the plaintiff an
irrepaable injury by not allowing hei
10 prove them when the time comes.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-06-07
BUENos AYRES CONFERENCE.
Chicago-New York Electric Air Line
Railroad in Court.

BUENoS AYRES, June 6,--The au.
thorities here contemplate calling con.
ference at Buenos Ayres quite independ.
ent of the Hague, the main object Of
which will be to define the citizenship
o. the children Of foreign parents who
are citizens according to Argentine law
while they retain their citizenship Of
their parents according to the laws Of
rise to conflicts Of authority with their
own.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-06-07
YESTERDAYS BASEBALL SCORES.
Coast League.

Al portland--portland 4. San Fran.
cisco /.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-06-07
DUKE OF ABRUzzI.
italian Cruiser varese Leaves 70
Jamestown.

NEW YORK, June 6.-The Italian
armored cruiser varese with the Duke
OF AbrNzzi, on board, win leave the har.
Dor today for jamestown, Va, to take
part in the naval review at the expo.
sition scheduled for June 10. Later the
Italian squadron will go TO Boston and
Halifax and Quebec win be visited be-
fore the return to Italy,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-06-07
ORCHARD ADDS TO HIS
BLOODY Confession
Gives In Detail the Murder Of Former Governor
Steunenbtrg With An Internal Machine.
CRIME WAS FIRST SUGGESTED BY HAYWOOD

Orchard SWore the Assassination Of Steunenbeg Was Conceived
by Haywood Was Jointly Plotted by Moyer Haywood, Petit
bone and Himself and Was Financed by Haywood
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-06-07
Northwest League,

Al Seattle Seattle 4, Aberdeen s.
At spokane-spokane .. Tacoma 10.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-06-07
MONEY FOR LEGAL FEES
French.R h.RestauantProprie
titled Money Was Not Ex-
torted From Him.
RUFF ACTED AS HIS ATTORNEY

The Defense Contends the Money al
legged To Have Been Extortsd Was
Paid Ruef For Acting As Attorney In
Securing Renewal Of Liquor Licenses
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-06-07
ORCHARD OPENS THE WAY FOR HIS OWN EXECUTION

ORCHARD ALSO DETAILED THE WHICH HE
TRIED TO MURDER GOVERNOR PEABODY JUDGE GODDARD JUDGE
GABBERT SHERMAN BELL DA We MorFAT FRANK HEARHE
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-06-07
WAS txTREMELYCRUEL
Mrs. Gould Also Charges Him
With Abandonment and Con-
sorting With Other Women.
ANNOYED HER WITH SPIES

The Defendants Counsel Characteristics
the Complaint A Seandslous and Ir.
rcvelant--plaintiiis Claim Their capa-
bility Of Proving the Allegations
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-19
SOCIETY EVENTS.

Mrs. e. A. Day entertained the Tues
day afternoon Bridge Club.
Robert D. Foote entertained at a
shoot at the Golf Club last Tuesday.
Mrs. William e. Wheelock enter
tanned at bridge on Tuesday at her
Morris avenue home.
Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Castles enter
tanned at Mardi Gras dinner at the
Whippany River Club last Tuesday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Kountze are at
their place on the Mendham road. Mr..
Kountze is convalescing from an at
tack of pneumonia.
Miss Helen Humphreys gave alunch-
con to her debutant friends on Lin
coins Birthday at her home. The
guests included Miss Foote, Miss
Cauldwell, Miss Ethel Cutler, Miss
Cooper and Miss Dennis.
The sewing society for the benefit of
Memorial Hospital will be held on
Wednesdays in Lent at four O'Clock at
the house of Mrs Francis S. Hoyt, "a
Elm street. The first meeting will be
on Wednesday, February goth. The
fee is one dollar
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-19

Kellogg Durland gave a graphic ac-
count of conditions in Russia before
the Friday Evening Club last Friday
evening. He had spent year travel
ling about Russia and Siberia, some
times with officers of the Russia army
at other times with members of the
Revolutionary party during which
time he had seen the Gar, interviewed
some of the principal officials, and Wis
tied the exiles in Siberia. He took
many photographs while there Illus
trating the results of the government
as administered.
George T. Allen as administrator of
the estate of the late Thomas Malley
under direction of the court has sold
the real estate at auction. The house
on Bellview Terrace brought 800
which was above the mortgage of 49,
500. Mrs. Malley was the purchaser.
The barn property on Grant street Was
sold to Fred Armstrong for S25 the
mortgage being $1,000. The stone
quarry on Watnong Mountain went to
George FL. Ross for $25 and the quarter
interest in the MalIey homestead was
sold to Mrs. William Mooney for 1926
the property being mortgaged for
81, 500.
The Hanover township school meet
ing held on February 7th resulted in
another failure. The Whippany pro-
position was defeated according to
the latest story because the Whip
pany residents did not want it located
on the site suggested near the Meth
odist Church preferring a location
nearer the centre Of the village. The
defeat Of that proposion of course cut
down the amount of money needed
but at the end was resolution pro-
viding for the bonding of the town
ship for $50, 900 for the building of all
the schools mentioned on the ballot
when not near that amount was
needed with the Whippany PROPOSE
tion out. A new advertisement
must be prepared and another cleo
tion held, when it is probable that an
other site for the proposed Whippany
school will be specified.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-19
A Play at Morris Plains.

There will be a Washington cele-
bration at st. Virgilius hall. Morris
Plains, next Thursday evening, Feb.
81. The celebrated Hickory Farm y
beautiful New England drama, will
be presented by the following excep-
tionally good caste: Ezekiel For
tune, A. f. Steel; Uriah Skinner
Fred Miller; Gilbert Darkwood
Thomas Manning; Jack Nelson, Ed
ward Fables; Laurence McKergan,
William Dryer; Detective Rankin,
John Reynolds; Jessie Fortune,
Theresa Fullerton; Mrs. Pricilla
Dodge, Mrs. T. J. Ellis.
There win be specialties between
the acts. Special songs by the cele-
brated singer, Kathryn Scott. Rob-
ert Carroll, pianist. All are invited.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-19
Letter to James Clark
Morristown, N. J.

Dear Sir: Some people are disap-
pointed in painting it doesn't come
out as they thought it would.
CB Edwards, Of Edwards & Brough-
ton, printers, Raleigh. n e, painted
his house Reynolds three years ago
he had used 30 gallons paste paint be-
fore and bought 80 gallons Reynolds,
had 16 left.
Paste paint is extra-thick with
White-waSh.
Mayor w w Carroll, Monticello,
Florida, says: My painter said it
would take IS gallons to paint my
house it took 20 gallons Reynolds.
His house is the best paint job in
town; and he says Reynolds is the
whitest white of all white paints.
Jones & Rodgers bought gallons
Reynolds to prime Mr.. Pratt's house
at Merkel, Texas. 1t painted two
coats.
The reason for nobody guessing lit
tie enough Reynolds is they learned
in a bad school other paints.
Yours truly
IL @. T. RAYNOLDS g. co.
p. 5. George e. Voorhees, sells our
naint
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-19
General Markets.

New York Feb. Is.
WIEAT-Steady Liverpool cables, ligh
offerings and covering caused wheat t,
rule steady in face of large northwest re
ceipts, big increase on passage and lib
eral worlds shipments; May, S4 11-16:
S47sc.: July S41aaS4ssc.
TALLOW-steady; city, 6Ac.; country
61ka7c.
HAYS Steady; shipping, 75aS5c-; good tt
choice, $1a1 10.
STRAW-Steady; 6Oa671sc, VA
enthusiastically; marrow. $2.20a2.25; me
dunn, s1.471sa1.5O; pea, $3.50; red kidney
$2.sOa2.321s. 49,.
HOPS-Dul; state, common to choice
1906, 18a23c 1905, 8a11c.
BUTTER-Firm; extra western cream
cry, official price. SS1sc; street price, Saizs
S5c. extra nearby prints, SEC.
EGGS-Steady; nearby fresh and west
ern fresh, Csc at mark.
CHEESE-Firm; New York, full creams
fancy, 141aa14a4c.; do, choice. l4Ac-; DO.
fair to good, 13%a14c. rs
LIVE POULTRY--steady: fowls. lac
old ROSTERS 9a10c.; chickens, 1oa14c.
ducks, 14a15c.; geese, 125ka14c.
DRESSED POULTRY = Steady; fowls
choice, 1916; do, fair to good 121ha1sc
old ROSTERS, 10c.; nearby chickens 14s
&c.; do, western, 10a141kc.s nearby tur
keys, choice to fancy, 1Sa20c.; do. west
ern, 16a17c.; do, fair to good, 14al5c.
nearby ducks, 14al5c.; do, western, ia
14c.; nearby geese, 10a12c.; do, western
9a11c.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-19
PIANOS
Big bargains this month.

Chfckering, Gabler, Kranich & Bach Brad
bury Many others. 500 up. Easy terms.
Delivered free in your home Send postal
for catalog and list.
PEAsE co, 10 NEW ST., NEWARK
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-19
Y. NJ. c. A. NOTES.

The annual members entertainment
of the Y. M. G. A. Boys Department
was held Friday evening in Associa-
tion Hall. The feature of the enter
ment was A Parlor Athletic Meet. +"
The various events were burlesques of
the usual athletic meets.
The first event was as follows:
The broom and basket contest. In
this the contestant, seated in a clothes
basket suspended from a broom held
on two chairs, attempted to knock
four handkerchiefs from the backs OF
the chairs with a billiard cue.
The next event was potato race.
This was followed by a cracker and
water contest. The contestants tried,
one to eat cracker, while the other
drank a glass of water with spoon.
The athletes who had been saving
their strength for the shot put were
considerably surprised to learn that
this consisted of tossing in peanuts
into mollasses jug.
Bert Moodey awarded those who had
scored the highest number of points,
handsomely decorated lemons. The
boys who were handed a lemon''
were 1. RICHTER, P. Pierson, F. Ray
mond, I'll. Viedt and e. Scheure.
The awarding of prizes was followed
by spread. The menu was cacoa a
la mud, concrete sandwiches and al
legged angel cake.
The social committee was Bert
Moodey, Chas. Fetzer, Ned Guerin and
A. E. .Karn.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-19
RAILROAD NOTES.

The Lackawanna round-house at
South Orange caught fire early Tues
day morning from the explosion of a
barrel of gasolene. In trying to get
the locomotives out of the burning
building one engine was backed into
the turntable pit blocking the rescue
of any more of the engines. Four or
five locomotives had the cabs burned
and we're otherwise injured by the
fire.
The railroad painters are putting the
last coat on the walls Of the passen.
ger station. The interior of the
building will be gone over rather
thoroughly and the freight house
office will also receive attention.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-19
Y. NJ. c. A. Entertainments.
Or OF THE CHRONICLE :

EDITOR OF THE CHRONICLE
The question Of Y. NJ @. A. enter
tainments which was raised by ga
Patron is not satisfactorily answer
ed by either your editorial or Mr..
Claghorn's letter. Both are generally
correct as far as they go but they
do not go far enough.
Some twenty or twenty-five years
ago the Association decided to give
courses of entertainments. as other
Associations were, and still are doing
Not to make money, but to furnish
wholesome entertainment for it's
members and friends and ifpossible to
keep away some of the shows
which infest every town.
From 800 to 5000 were paid for
talent for the course of five numbers,
and tickets were sold for one dollar,
single admissions, thirty-tiye cents.
The movement was popular and sue
cessful, financially and socially, but
the room was too small, and tive or
six years ago the committee decided
to 90 to the Lyceum-secure the
and still sell course tickets for one
dollar, relying upon reserved seats at
one dollar each, to meet the balance
of expenses. The first year the house
was all sold and there was a net pro-
fit of $3.50 The second year the
house was, by mistake, over-Sold by
some twenty seats and the profit was
nearly 800.
Such condition of things could
hardly be expected to continue and
there was falling off the third year,
the decline being helped along by
evident mismanagement.
First. instead OF waiting in com
Portable hall, men women and child
rem who wanted to secure reserved
seats were required to slime up" in
the street and wait for the door to
open. That plan ended in semi
riot. Next, boys who had hustled to
secure free tickets for themselves and
their families were asked to show
their love for the Association by
working for nothing and buying
their own tickets; a noble self-sacri-
ticing thing to do, but for some rea-
son the boys didn't do it.
This year young man was hired to
canvass. He gave part of his time
and covered a part of the town.
! Another move was TO raise the
price of tickets to two dollars and
have no reserved seats, as is done by
the Friday evening club, with single
admissions Seventy-hve cents.
The Friday evening events are
lectures which can generally be
heard distinctly in all parts OF the
building, but even then the salts
faction is not general by any means.
The Star Course Entertainments
! have been worth much more than
the price charged, but when families
had TO jump from four or five to
eight or ten dollars or stay at home,
many of them felt compelled to
choose the latter.
Again when "show" comes to
town the people hear of it, but even
Conwell's lecture was not widely
heralded, not a Show-card | believe
in the windows and not bill on the
boards, while thousands OF people
have gone twenty or thirty miles and
paid dollar each to hear him.
Is it wonder that the entertain
ments did not pay
Tickets will not sell themselves,
but if the entertainment committee
will get busy" and push the work
they will find that the people of Nor
ristown will appreciate their efforts
and that high grade entertainments
can be made to pay.
@. q. SURDAM.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-19
WANTED

WNNTED
Position as farmer, by Sussex county
man. understands farming and caring
for stock: wife good butter maker.
Good references. A. j. Bell, 102 Main
street, Madison