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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-09
EVEN BREAK IN
A DOUBLE-HEADER

A reorganzed st. Vincent base ball team
Washington barracks. The first game ended
cent team won the second by to 4. Both
games Were fast, demonstrating the ability
of the teams. Turner covered first in both
games for st. Vincent. and showed he was
the man to hold down that bag for next
summer. Symoniskie, in the box. pitched
good ball for the same team. striking out
eight, walking two and allowing only seven
scattered hits. MOffit also did fine work
at backstop. Ryan of the Engineers played
his best game of the season, handling
everything that came his way, besides MAX
ing three sacrifice hits. In both games
Mullin WAS the backbone of the Engineer
team. His fielding and stickwork We're of
nigh class. Meisters work in the box for
the Soldiers was good, especially his field
ing of several hunts In the second game
Moore pitched good ball for st. Vincent
while Ristor of the Engineers was hit
pretty heavily and would have had several
hits chalked up against him had he not re-
celved good support. Mullin and Ryan Of
the Engineers both kept up their good
work In the fifth inning Rountree of St
Vincent went to the bench. Moffit coming
in off first to relieve him behind the bat
Turner took first, while Weakly relieved
Holman in right field.
Next Saturday the Engineers will meet
the winners of the Independent League.
Sunday they will play the Rosedaes Both
games will be played at the Barracks
Score by innings:
FIRST GAME.
r. Wieenst ''.'......... % "a
SECOND GAME
St. snz vincent. % %
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EXCISE BOARD ADVERSE
FOUR APPLICATIONS FOR LIQUOR
LICENSE REJECTED.

At - o'clock tonight the Columbia Hotel.
1413 Pennsylvania avenue northwest, will
take down its barroom sign and close its
saloon business by order of the excise
board. The board announced today the re-
lection of the license after consideration of
the evidence against the place submitted
by the police of the first precinct
Saturday, when Thomas b. LeCuyer, pro-
prietor of the establishment, was making
application for a renewal of his privilege
MIR. LeCuyer will at once make applicat ton
for rehearing in order to present certain
testimony in his favor which he failed to do
at the hearing Saturday. 1t is his intention
to have a number of prominent local men
and some business men owning property in
the immediate vicinity of the hotel to APP
pear before the board in his behalf.
Has Busy Day.
Today was busy one for the excise
board. In addition to the turn down of
the Clumbia Hotel, Pierre nsagneur was
refused a license to conduct saloon at
1860 18th street northeast, as were Harry
Watson. who made application for license
to conduct a wholesale liquor store at 300
10th street northwest, and William Meehan,
who applied for a permit to conduct a bar
room at 402 I'd street northeast.
Mr.. Bonse:gneur. who is better known as
'Frenchy," at present conducts saloon in
the National Theater building. His lease
for the place expires the LIST of October and
for several weeks he has been searching for
a new and desirable location. Lie stated at
the hearing before the excise board this
morning that the place at 1850 18th street.
for which he applied. just suited him and
he saw no good reason why the license
should not be granted. "Frenchy' did not
have many indorsers to his application, and
when the hearing opened today he found
himself up against a petition signed by
nearly one hundred residents and property
owners in that vicinity protesting against
the issuance of the license.
The opposition to the application was
strong and was conducted by Albert f.
Shoemaker. attorney for the Anti-Saloon
League. In view of the opposition and the
fact that the neghborhood is already well
supplied with saloons the board rejected
the application.
Wants Transfer.
Harry Watson is conducting a wholesale
liquor store at COG Pennsylvania avenue
northwest and applied to have his license
transferred to the premises at 900 10th
street northwest. Strong opposition was
owners. q
In the case of William Meehan one Of
changing his place from a wholesale liquor
store to retail liquor place, general lily
known as a barroOm. his nelghbors OBJ
Jected and protest containing a number
OF names of property owners In the square
was fled with the board. In each of these
cases the forces of the opposition were led
by Attorney Shoemaker.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-09
NEW YORKER TRIES SUICIDE.
Shoots Himself After Writing Story Of
His Troubles

WORCESTER Mass, September "a
X. Goldstein Of New York tried to kill
himself at the Hotel Albany here yesterday.
lie discharged revolver into his mouth
the bullet penetrating the brain. He is in a
dangerous condition at the City Hospital
lie IS thirty-three years old and married,
though the police cannot learn his New
York address. He left the following obitu-
airy notice. written out with care on mourn
Ing paper:
Born in Panamuna. Russia Monday,
july p, 1874 Thirty-three years, one month
and hve days-died September g. 1907. Went
TO the public schools OF Worcester As I
grew UP 10 be young man had high ideas
Some ten years ago l went to London, Eng
land On my way home l played cards got
IN row with one OF the players and was
LIT on the head with a club. When | reached
Boston / married in haste and repented in
leisure My wife IS good wife and good
mother, but myself became a mailman"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-09
Pinochle, Greek StyIe.

NEW YORK, September cit was only
last Saturday night that Capt. Toole of the
Oak street police station told the Greeks
who frequent the coffee house of Alexander
the Great at Madison and Catherine streets
that they must stop playing cards for
money over their coffee. Last night Capt.
Toole found them at it again and seven
men were taken to the station house and
locked IN.
The Greeks had been playing a game
which requires two packs of cards and
which they called pinochle. although it
bears no resemblance to real pinochle.
Capt. Toole declares he's going to stop the
little gambling games which are carried on
nightly in every coffee house and hotel in
the Greek coloS- -s1--~-.-t .'~,-r4
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MURDER AT YAPHANK
Men Quarrel and One Fires Shotgun's
Loads Into Others Breast.

RIVERHEAD, L. l., September 9.-Austin
Ritch, twenty seven years old, of Middle
Island was shot and instantly killed early
yesterday morning by Christian English of
Yaphank in the latter's home. Both loads
of double-barrel shotgun penetrated
Ritch's heart and made a terrible wound
DR.. c. A Baker. who was called, said the
young man died instantly.
English. who is fifty years old. went to
the home of Constable Davis, about a quar-
ter of a mile away, and gave himself up
He hasn't told the whole story of the shoot
ing, but admitted that he and Ritch had
quarreled. After an inquest held yesterday
English was held on a charge of murder
He was kept under guard at the coroner
house.
Neither Ritch nor English married.
There were other persons in the house at
the time of the shooting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-09


Judge Bingham was a delegate to the
democratic national convention in 1876
which nominated Samuel ]. Tilden for
President. The democratic state convention
in 1881 nominated him for the Ohio SUI
preme court bench. but with the balance
OF the ticket he was defeated. In 1856 he
was very strongly commended by the
bench, bar and citizens of Ohio, irrespective
of party. to President Cleveland for judge
of the sixth United States judicial circuit.
Judge Howell Z. Jackson, then United
States senator from Tennessee, however, re-
ceived the appointment.
April %, 1887, while occupying a place
on the Ohio common pleas bench. Judge
Bingham was appointed by President Cleve-
land to be chief justice of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia.
AS a lawyer Chief Justice Bingham
ranked among the foremost of the Ohio
bar. He was earnest and forcibe. in
dustrious and thorough. While he had
marked success in his cases. whether to
the court jury, he seemed more at ease
i'll the argument of legal propositions to
the court.
On the bench his success was more
marked than as a lawyer.
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News Briefs.

II. Packer TrOxeN. a Pennsylvania tele-
phone hneuan, fell from pole a distance
or forty feet AT Williamsport Pa and es-
capped unhurt. He touched a live wire and
was thrown to the ground Not "a bone was
broken.
While going to work at the Weldy Powder
Mills. at Tamaqua, Pa, where he had been
employed for thirty-three years, Cornelius
Wagner was decaptated by a freight train.
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Becomes Prosecuting Attorney.

y vacancy occurring in the office of the
prosecuting attorney of Vinton county the
following November, the future chief JUS
tce was appointed to that position by the
court of common pleas, and in 1851 he was
elected for a term of two years and re-
elected in 1888 serving five years. In Oc-
tober, 1850, he was elected democratic rep
resentative for Ninton and Jackson coun-
ties, and served in thelegislature during
the years 1896 and 1867. Although strongly
urged to accept a denomination to the leg
islature, he declined, desiring to devote
himself to his law practice. He was COM
unanimous nomination for the office of
judge of the court of common pleas for the
second subdivision of the judicial dis
trrct" composed of the counties of Vintoni
Jackson, Pike, SCiOto and Lawrence. TheN
democrats being in the minority in that
subdivision he was defeated by a small ma
joritN He was honest. cultured human,
and on and off the bench was quiet and I'M
assuming. His knowledge of Jurisprudence
in both the law and equity was extensive.
1t may be said of him that exceptionally
few of his decisions have been reversed.
Chief Justice Bingham was married No
yember u, 1850, to Susannah F. Cunning of
Fayette county, Ohio. Mrs. Bingham died
August ., 1886. leaving two sons and two
daughters. The judge was next married
August s. 1855 to Mrs Lin c. Patton
daughter of the late United States Senator
Allen T. Caperton of West Virginia
He was a delegate from the eleventh con-
gressional district of Ohio in 1850 to the
democratic national convention. held first
at Charleston, S. c.. and. by adjournment
at Baltimore, and was an eyewitness to the
thrilling proceedings of that body. In Janu-
airy, 1861 he removed to Columbus, Ohio,
where he resided until he removed to this
city.
Judge Bingham in 1865 became chairman
OF the state democratic executive COM
mittee and so discharged the duties of
the office in the important campaign of
that year to receive the general COM
mendation of his party and friends Be
cause of its interference with his profess
slonal duties, he declined further service
in the position. From 1867 to 1871 he was
by election solicitor of the city of Column
bus, Ohio, and from 1868 TO 1868 he served
as a member of the board of education of
the same city. and was reelected to the
board in 1872. In March, 1873, he was
nominated by his party as a candidate for
judge of the court of common pleas. for
the fifth judicial district. and at the cleo
ton the following month was elected with
out opposition. He was twice reelected,
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News Briefs.

The Eby Shoe Company and the Lititz
Shoe Company. both of Lititz, Pa, have
been consolidated under the name of the
Lititz Shoe Company The former was cap
italized at $4,000 and the other company
at $4,000 and they together employed 100
hands.
Mrs. Addie Thomas has brought suit at
Paris, ILL.,. for a divorce from Calvin
Thomas on the ground that she made mis-
take in the brother she was to marry. She
thought he was Alvin q ..-i-- nj brother,
she alleges. - : = - ~ -
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Judge Bingham's Career.

Edward Franklin Bingham was born Au-
gust IL, ISIS, at West Concord VT He was
the fifth son of the late Judge Warner Bine-
ham and Lucy Wheeler Bingham, and was
descendant of Thomas Bingham, who
emigrated from Sheffield, England, and get
tied IN Norwich, Conn, in 1853 Chief JUS
tce Bingham received his early educa-
ton at the public and select schools of
Vermont, and later at the Academy of
Peacham, of the same state, and at Mari
eta College, Ohio. In 1916, while on a visit
TO Ohio, he determined to make that state
his home.
After spending brief period at Marietta
College, he read law with his brother Harry
at Littleton. n. H, concluding, as he com
menced his law studies under the late
Judge Joseph Miller of Chillcothe Ohio
lie was admitted to the bar by the supreme
court of that state in May. 1850, the late
Chief Justice Hitchcock presiding The
legislature had the preceding March created
the county of Ninton, and June l, 1850, he
opened law office at McArthur the county
seat of the new county. Although a total
stranger. he soon found warm friends and
SteadfaSt clients.
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Delegate to National Convention.

each term being for five years, to the
same position without opposition.
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ing, when Clerk John r. Young received a
marked copy of a Columbus. Ohio, paper,
sent by Mr.. Harry Bingham a son of the
late chief justice and an assistant clerk in
the District Supreme Court, containing an
account of the demise of his father.
Attorney Henry +. Davis announced to
Justice Gould. presiding in tn Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia the death
of the former chief justice and stated that
at another time he would Apay merited
tribute TO the learned, patient Judge and
admirable man. Edward F. Bingham He
spect TO the memory of the late retired
chief justice the court adjourn.
In granting the motion to adjourn Justice
Gould stated that he heard with deep
regret of the demise of Justice Bingham
and considered it BETTING that the court
over which the dead jurist had So ably pre-
sided should suspend its session out of
respect TO his memory
Judge Bingham was seventy-nine years
old, and wnen appointed by President
Cleveland as chief justice of the Supreme
Court of the District was serving as Judge
of common pleas in Columbus Ohio He
presided over the local courts until MAY,
1903, when he voluntarily retired to the
deep regret of the entire District bar, by
all of whom he was greatly loved and re-
spected as patient, courteous gentleman
and honored as a learned, painstaking
Judge. After his retirement he lived at a
local hotel during the winter and spent the
heated term a his commod;o Gus country
home near Union, w. Va, where he died
Three children survive Judge Bingham
Mrs. William II. Mitchell of Littleton. n.
H., +. 7. Bingham of Alliance Ohio and
Harry Bingham, assistant clerk of the local
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-06-12

Nothing is SO consolIng to wor-
ried man of affMrs as to know that he
can always find harbor of refuge in
his home.
Hence advises an observant wom-
am, the wife should seek always to
make the home an abode of peace.
Her troubles and perplexities should
be reserved for discussion when he is
comfortable and at leisure. and not
sprung upon him the moment he en-
tees the house at the close of his
days work.
Many men fight their way success
fully through years Of anxious toll
only TO be broken down at last by the
frets and jars OF ill-managed house
holds and the incessant gabbIe Of
wives who insist on deIuging them
with their domestic grievances.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-06-12

works, fumes, etc. 1t has built S76
miles of wagon road in mountainous
country and into heretofore inaccessi-
bic regions. 1t has erected and in OD-
GRAFTON 727 miles OF telephones Its
own cement mill has manufactured
10000 barrels OF cement, and the pur-
chased amount is $4,000 barrels It's
own sawmills have cut s,036,O00 feet.
board measure. of lumber. and ESQ.,
600 feet have been purchased. The
surveying parties Of the service have
completed topographic surveys COW
ering 1890 square miles. an area
greater than the combined areas OF
Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The
transit lines had length Of 1890
linear miles, while the level lines run
amount to 24,218 miles, or nearly suE-
ficient to 60 around the earth.
The diamond drillings for dam sites
and canals amount to 47,515 feet or
more than nsse miles To-day the
service owns aud has at work 1,154
horses and mules. 1t operatives nine
locomotives. 22S cars, and % miles
of railroad, 80 stationary engines and
n steam engines. 1t has constructed
and is operating five electric light
plants. This work has been carried
on with The following force: ClassI-
fied service, $50, including Washing
ton Office; laborers employed directly
by the government, $500; labOrers
employed by contractors, 6,100. VI =
total of 10000. The expenditures now
total about sl.OOO,OOO per month. Tho
excavations Of earth and rock amount
to 33,O0O,000 cubic yards. or about one
fourth the estimated yardage Of the
Panama canal. AS a result of the 0D-
erations of the reclamation service.
eight new towns have been estab-
lished, 100 miles OF branch railroads
! have been constructed, and 10000
people have taken up their residence
} in the desert. &C. ]. Blanchard, Sta
] tisticIan, u. s. Reclamation Service.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-06-12

Because Of the discovery 81 vast
deposits of meerschaum in the noun
tains Of New Mexico IT is likely that
the monopoly Of that mineral here
tofore held by the Turkish govern
ment win be broken. and pipes of
that material will be lessened in cost
Until recently all the meerschaum
used in the commerce of the world
was produced from a mine in the
plains Of Eskihi-sher, Anatoly, Turkey
in Asia. In those mines are employed
10000 men. The output Of the mine
was owned by the Turkish govern
ment and it kept the price up.
1t is said that enough meerschaum
has been discovered in Grant county,
New Mexico, to supply the worlds
needs.
There is a popular belief that meer-
schaum is petrified sea foam washed
up ages ago and solidifed by some
strange process of nature. Meer-
schaum is a mineral known to scien-
lists as "sepiolite." It is composed
principally OF silica and magnesium.
1t is found in assures in the rock,
where volcanic action has forced it up
to the surface.
Meerschaum is used not only for
making tobacco pipes, but because OF
is unique properties Of resisting a
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-06-12
THOUGHT u CASE or "BAT.s
Condition Of Senator Curtis Mads
Theory Reasonable.


Much has been written about the
Indian blood Of Charles Curtis, the
new senator from Kansas, but Mr.
Curtis experience as a householder in
Washington must have tendency to
obliterate the memory of his fighting
brave ancestor. sitting in majestic
pride before the open Zap Of his tepee.
one night, when Mr.. and Mrs Cur
It's returned from the theater, It was
discovered that the latch key had
failed Of transfer to his evening
clothes pockets, and no amount q
prolonged pressure on the front door
bell could elicit response from the
darkened house
Finally Mr.. Curtis attempted to
climb the back fence and force pane
try window 1t was no time to remens
Der ones copybook maxims, and Mr.
Curtis leaped without looking. Into tho
cindery depths Of half-flled ash can
he descended. Then Mr.. Curtis and
the ash can gave an imitation Of tho
little pig who hid IN his churn and
rolled down hill tosescape the wolF
When the new senator returned to
the front steps. where his wife sae
patiently waiting, Mrs. Curtis was u'a.
reasonable enough to ask which part
CT the can had given the bEnck eye.
Wen 60 to the hotel for the rest
OF the night, was his firm rcjoinder.
In the early morning they stole out
from the hotel and took a ear bound
for the home, where children and cook
were sure to be astir by this time
The car was filed with men ara
women going to work, who regarded
the advent Of a couple. evidently frora
the mcringue Of life. with primisivelT
candid curiosity
For Mrs. Curtis. although having tto
worried, maternal expression naluFas
to a night away from the children,
was in irreproachable theater appa-s;.
i while the senator's garments were
symbolic Of humility. being still hs-
grimed with the product OF his iau.
macy with the ash can. and it had be-
come necessary to bandage bis af-
fIicted eye.
Senator and Mrs. Curtis sat them.
selves down glimly in a concr.
Suddenly a voice. from the olser
end pierced the car ruInhlc
4 wonder where she found 1sm.
Magg it said.
The soul Of the biz clnef w:lnin
Senator Curtis struggled uiaa Nv
sense OF humor and tho sense "a kul
fmor won Human Life.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-06-12
Use comnressed Air.

Compressed air is now used in the
large iron foundry at the Schenectady
works Of the General Electric com
pany for almost every operation con
nected with the making Of finished
casting. Although the machinery in
the other adjacent shops is operated
entirely by electricity. in the iron
foundry, where the operations are
scattered and intermittent, com
pressed air was found to be advan-
tageous for small power services. The
air is supplied al 50 pounds pressure
by number OF electric motor-driven
compressors Of different capacities.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-06-12

Peruvans as Engineers.
Next to the Romans, the ancient
Peruvians were perhaps the most eff
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-06-12

ficient civil engineers. Their roads
were marvellous. and one, the highway
from Quito into the Chilian dominion,
was one of the most remarkable roads
the world has ever known.
It was 20 feet wide and 1000 miles
in length, passing over snow capped
mountains, through canyons cut for
miles through the solid rock, and
across turbulent mountain streams
and rivers. The feat Of constructing
this road might well try the skill of
our best modern engineers. Sunday
Magazine.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-06-12

high degree Of heat and Its ready
absorption Of water, it is put to vari-
Gus electrical and mechanical uses.
In the mines of New Mexico solid
block Of meerschaum weighing AZ
pounds was taken out. 1t was the
largest block Of meerschaum ever
mined. New York Financial News.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-06-12

Perhaps the Danes selected the
raven for their standard out Of feel
ines Of gratitude. for before the in
vention OF the mariners. compass they
must have found him extremely use
ful. The only method Of determining
whether land was near was to let
loose raven. II the bird saw land he
sailed away forever; if he did not he
returned to the ship.-London Chron-
icle.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-06-12
IN oIL Il eALLEoaNlA
Shipped lu Great Tanks, Like sa
Much Petroleum.

The sale OF olive oil constitutes one
of the largest items of revenue to Cal
iiornia. Although olives have been
grown there for more than hall
century. the quantity of fruit sold oat
side Of the state before 1900 was in
significant.
Forming themselves into ain esso-
citation, a number of the large grow
ers have taken steps since then to
compete with Italy and France in sell
ing their product. and have succeeded
to such an extent that. according to
Moody's Magazine. they manufacture
a large proportion of the 25O,OO0 gal
Ions Of olive oil at present produced in
this country
One ton of olives usually yields 50
to S5 gallons of oil
For the eastern trade the California
association has established an exten'
siye bottling plant in New England
to which the oil IS actually shipped
by the carload in tanks. like SO much
petroleum. One of the large olive
orchards alone contains no less thar
100000 trees, which will give an ides
Of the magnitude Of olive growing.