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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1907-11-28
THE HOLLOW
TREE 49, !.
tcopyright. By Joseph B. BOwiss.,

We were lovers, Marie and I. We
played together on the lawn, or In the
gardens where my father was at work.
and sometimes We strayed away In
the wood close by, and searched for
farms and wild flowers to carry back
and give 70 Marie's mother.
On warm, pleasant days Maries
mother. Ms. Mason, would give us .
picnic. and the cook would pack a
basket Of goodies and we would carry
Il over to the wood and have our fesst
together under the big maple tree. We
were especially fond Of that old hoi-
low tree, and many frolic we had
Under Its friendly shade. Sometimes
We played II was safe aud brought
our banks" with their store of pen,
MES and hid then. deep down In the
hollow of the tree, and often II was
called the post Office. and We dropped
our scrawled letters In the box.
! One time I was up at the big stone
house and the nurse told me that
could never marry Marie. for she was
q rich little lady. and her father Col
Mason, while was poor and only the
gardeners son. ran far In the wood
alone that day and threw myself down
on the messy ground. and fear ]
cried. though was past eight and al
most man.
When went to school In the town
close by, did not see so much OF my
little sweetheart, for governess
came to the big stone house to teach
Marie. But I used to gather a bunch
OF flowers and then print letter very
plain so she could read 1t:
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RUSSIAN HfCII0i;S ARE Htlc
OPPOSITION CLAIMS VICTORIES
DouMAs' LIFE WILL BE
SHORT.

st. Petersburg Feb. IL. '-- Elections
were held yesterday in nine large Cit
les Moscow, Odessa. Titiis. kazan''
Wilma, Yekaterinslav, Astrakhan. ktsh-
inev and Yaraslav) of the tventy'fou'
which send members direct to parlia'
ment. Moscow having four members
and the other cities one each. The in
dications are of victory for the oppo-
sition.
In the several cities, notably Mos
COW, the question is whether the elee-
ton has been carried by the Constitu-
tional Democrats or the Socialists.
Elections Of peasants, workRen anu
land owners were also held yesterday
in several provinces, but no results
have been returned.
In spite of the evident opposition
character of parliament, Premier Sto-
lypin is quoted as saying that he hopes
to nurse along until summer before a
dissolution is necessary, but general
opinion is that the Constitutional
Democrats will be unable to hold
their colleagues in check and that the
new parliament's life will not exceed
two months.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-02-14
ARGUE BOND CASE.

Great Northern's Appeal 10 Heard in.
Supreme Court.
st. Paul, Feb. 1.-THE appeal Of the
Great Northern Railway company from
the order of Judge Oscar Haliam OF
the Ramsey county district court. on
the application of Attorney General K.
T. Young, for the State of Minnesota.
granting a temporary injunction
restraining the railway company from
issuing 6O,OOO.OO0 additional capital
stock without the consent Of the state
railroad and warehouse commission,
was argued Saturday before the state
supreme court. F. B. Kellogg and VIII
liam R. Begg, general solicitor of the
company, appeared for the appellant,
and Attorney General Young and Il. A.
Stone, assistant attorney general. for
the State of Minnesota. Chief Justice
Charles M. Start presided.
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While suffering from a temporary
At Of insanity Hamilton Wright, a
prominent citizen of Sharon, Pa, shot
ind killed his wife.
The boiler of Lehigh Valley loco
motive exploded at Easton, Pa, caus'
ing the death of William Mosher and
the injury of two others.
The steamer Parker was blown up
on the Tennessee river near Chatta'
nooga. The captain was seriously in
iured and a negro is missing.
A Rock Island passenger train was
derailed near Weatherford, Okla. One
man was killed and another fatally in.
iured. Both were stealing a ride.
]. A. Chandler. president of the
Greenville Industrial college, an insti'
tuition for the colored at Greenville
Tenn, was accidentally killed while
handling a pistol.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-02-14
NEWS Of WEEK SUMMARIZED
IMPORTANT EVENTS At HOME
AND ON FOREIGN SHORES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Washington Notes.

Appropriations aggregating $780,
1s0.5Gl are carried in the postoffice
bill. The postofi1ce appropriations for
The current year were $191, 670,562.
y bill was introduced in the house
making Sept. % Paul Jones day. in
the navy, and providing that all Amer
lean naval vessels In United States
ports shall dress ship on that day.
Senator Hansbrough introduced the
bill recently favorably acted upon by
the house committee ON ways and
means which permits small distilleries
TO manufacture denatured alcohol.
The omnibus lighthouse bill, carry.
ing an appropriation of $1.59S.500 for
the lighthouse establishment and an
additional sum of $4,000 for addi.
tional lighthouse keepers dwellings,
has been passed by the house.
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sane: that Evelyn Nesbit Thaw passed
a note to her husband during dinner at
the Cafe Martin on the evening of the
tragedy; that District Attorney Je-
rome has this note, and refused. On
the demand of the defense, to intro
duce it in evidence.
Threatened Thaw's Life.
The threat against Thaw's life was
made two years and half before the
tragedy occurred. District Attorney
Jerome objected to tile Introduction OF
the evidence, declaring the defense
was not understood by him to be one
of self-defense.
Mr.. Delmas replied that the defense
intended to take advantage Of every
legal defense allowed III the State OF
New York, be it insanity, seIf-defense
or any other legitimate justification of
the taking of human life.
Thursdays Proceedings.
New York, Feb. Q. - Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw told her story yesterday. To
save the life of her husband, charged
with murder, she barred to the world
the innermost secrets Of her soul. 1t
was the same story she told Harry
Thaw in Paris in 1903, when he had
asked her to become his wife-the con-
fession of one who fell. There was an
insurmountable barrier to her ever
becoming the bride of the man she
loved.
In the big witness chair she appear
ed but slip of girl, and she told the
pitiful story Of her eventful young life
in frank, girlish way.
Sad Story Of Her Life.
AS the young wife unfolded the mar
rative of her girlhood and told the ear
ly struggles of herself and her mother
to keep body and soul together; OF
how she finally was able to earn a
livelihood by posing for photographers
and artists, she won the murmured
sympathy of the throng which filled
every available space in the big court
room.
Then came the relation of the wreck
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Accidental Happenings.

VSSsNSusat sSoPpStuts9Ss
Fire destroyed ten store buildings at
Mound Valley, Kan, causing loss of
$4,000.
The Imperial porcelain works at
Trenton, N. j., burned. The loss is ses.
timated at 100000. 49,
An engine exploded at; Lexington.
KY, killing a switchman and fatally
injuring two trainmen.
Antoine Felix Garbe, United States
consular agent at Bena. Algeria, was
killed by falling from a bridge.
The woodworking plant of the Willis
Veneer company at Plymouth. N. c..
was destroyed by fire. LOSS. $3.50, 900.
A dozen wholesalers and commission
merchants were burned out in New
York. The total loss was about $3.50,
900.
A six-story building in Chicago, oc-
cupied by several manufacturing con.
Germs. practically was detroyed by fire
last night. The damage was estimat
ed at $4,000.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-02-14
JAP EXCLUSION
IS COAST DEMAND
SAN FRANCISCO DELEGATION
coNFERs WITH PRESIDENT
ON DISPUTE.
PATRIOTISM IS APPEALED TO
ROOSEVELT SAYS SITUATION IS
GRAVE AND MUST BE
SETTLED.

Washington, Feb. 12.-Exclusion OF
Japanese from the United States that
will exclude is the demand which was
made of President Roosevelt by Mayor
Schmitz and members of the San
Francisco board of education during a
conference at the White House Satur-
day afternoon, when the Japanese sit
uation was discussed.
The Californians want treaty pro-
vision for the exclusion Of the Japa-
nese and law enacted by congress to
carry out the terms of the treaty. They
want an appropriation so as to enable
the government to provide inspectors
to detect japanese in this country in
violation of the law and all the ma
chinery for the administration of the
law. They also demand the deporta-
ton of Japanese who come here in vto-
lation of the law which they propose.
Appeal to Patriotism.
President Roosevelt stated that he
could not agree to such a proposition,
as he is unable to promise that con-
gress will enact the law demanded by
the /Californians.
President Roosevelt impressed it
upon his visitors that the situation is
grave and must be settled. War with
Japan will result ultimately, he said.
unless solution is reached. He urged
the hoard of education to recede from
its decision to provide separate
schools for the japanese, and made an
appeal to their patriotism.
San Franciscans Have Policy.
Mayor Schmitz and the members of
the San Francisco school board were
in conference twice yesterday and for
mally agreed on the policy they will
pursue in connection with the question
OF the japanese and the San Francisco
schools. The mayor and members Of
the board have refused to make any
statements as to what position they
will take when they call at the White
House to-day to confer with President
Roosevelt and Secretary Root.
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roborative Of Mrs. Thaw's testimony,
They also were offered as tending to
show the state of mind Of the de-
PENDANT just after he had heard from
her own lips the story of the girl he
loved and her relations with the man
it is claimed he killed as a result of
insanity inherited in part and induced
by stress of circumstances.
Fridays Proceedings.
New York, Feb. 10. - Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw again yesterday was the central
figure at her husbands trial.
Picking up the threads of her life'h
story where she had dropped them the
evening before, she brought the nara
tive down to her wedding in Pittsburg
on April 4. 1905, and their return to
New York following honeymoon trip
in the West. She declared she had
heard White call to her on the street
once after this, and that on another
occasion he had followed her in cab
White Tried to Kiss Her.
Mrs. Thaw declared yesterday that
Stanford White, during the year which
followed her experience in the room of
the mirrored walls, repeatedly sought
to have her visit him alone, and on
one occasion had attempted to kiss
her.
Il told Harry" she said, that MIR.
White had begged me, had pleaded and
cried and scolded and done everything
he could to make me come to see him
alone. refused and told Mr.. White
! did not care to trust him."
After her return from Europe and
during the months she would not see
Harry Thaw, because of the dreadful
things MI. White and his friends told
about him. she declared Thaw &C
cused her of improper relations with
the architect.
Il told him it was a lie and that I
had not" she testified.
The defense had Mrs. Thaw tell OF
another incident which has been cited
in her life-her acquaintance with
Jack" Barrymore, the actor.
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of that sirlhood at sixteen years o,

of that girlhood at sixteen years o,
age.
Ruined by White.
1t was the story of her meeting with
Stanford White, the story Of the
sumptuous studio apartment, to which
she had been enticed by the carefully
planned strategem of her betrayer-
the story of q glass of champagne. Q,
black, whirling sensations and of mir
rored bedroom walls. In short, she
told all the story of how her ruin was
accomplished.
Don't scream: it is all over; it ,s
all right"
And this was Stanford White?"
The question came from Dolphin M
Delmas. now conducting the defense oil
Harry Thaw.
Yes. sir"
Harry Thaw Weeps.
The stiffness of the great crowd was
its tribute to the effect of the girls
story. Into the narrative there entered
nothing Of the woman of the world
Thaw, with his head buried in his
hands, a handkerchief covering the
eyes, bent over the table as he sobbed
Mrs. Thaw was still on the stand
her direct examination uncompleted
when the day was done.
Letters introduced.
Once during the afternoon she was
excused for an hour while Lawyer
Frederick Iongfellow was sworn to
fix the date of certain letters written
to him by Harry Thaw subsequent to
the revelations Miss Nesbit had made
to him in Paris.
The letters which eventually were
offered in evidence after much object
ing by Mr.. jerome are regarded as cor.
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TO SAVE HER HUSBAND SHE
LAYS BARE ,tlNERMosT Sc.
cRETs OF HER SOUL.
BLACK IR{AChfRY OF WhITt
TELLS STORY OF HOW DEAD MAN
PLANNED TO WRECK HER
YOUNG LIFE.

New York, Feb. S.-The defense Of
Harry X. Thaw under the direction of
Attorney Dolphin M. Delmas of Cali
fornia began to assume definite shape
yesterday, and when an adjournment
was taken testimony had been placed
before the jury to the effect that Stan
ford White had been heard to make a
threat to kill the notwithstanding
the threat with the display OF re-
volver; that Thaw's actions following
the killing OF White on the roof OF
Madison Square Garden was consider
ed by several eye-witnesses
To Have Been "lrrational;"
that an uncle of the defendant was in
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Foreign.

The Irish parliamentary party has
unanimously reelected John Dillon as
chairman Of the party.
A fire involving damage estimated
Mt 100000 occurred in the most dan
gerous fire zone of London.
Lady Grenfell. eldest daughter Of
Lord and Lady Grey, died at the gov
eminent house at Ottawa. Ont.
Officials of the Congo administration
announce that the uprising in the
Manyanza district has been suppress
ed.
Prince Roland Bonaparte, son of the
late Prince Pierre, has been elected q
member Of the French Academy Of
Sciences.
The Prussian state railways are
about to begin the use of electric pas.
senger cars on three lines running out
Of Mayence.
DR.. Donald McAllister, fellow and di.
rector Of medical studies of st. Johns
college, Cambridge, England, has been
appointed principal of the Glasgow uni
versity.
Owing to acts of terrorism on the
part Of an anarchist in Barcelona, the
Spanish government has suspended
trial by jury in the captaincy-general
of Catalonia.
The London Times announces the
sensational discovery by Theodore Da.
Wis at the Thebes or Luxor, in Egypt,
Of the tomb and mummy of the famous
Egyptian queen, Teie.
Gen. Barahon, the Salvadorean revo
lutionary leader, has been captured by
the government forces, and the two
rebel bands which have been making
trouble have been destroyed.
The trunks of Princess Louise, the
divorced wife of Prince Philip of SAKE
Coburg-Gotha and eldest daughter of
King Leopold of Belgium, have been
attached in Paris for q $4,000 jewel.
er's bill.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-02-14
STEVENS NO GUTTER.

Did Not Say That He Will Resign Ca.
nal Job.
New York, Feb. ia Panama spe-
cial dispatch to the Herald states that
Chief Engineer Stevens makes EN-.
phatic denial of the report that he has
said he would resign if the digging of
the Panama canal was let to contract
ors. Mr.. Stevens, the dispatch says,
has in the past declared that he ia
vored contracting for the canal work,
and his latest statement shows that he
is still of that opinion.
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Domestic.

Frans Gotch, champion wrestler, de-
feated Farmer Burns in a bout at Bir.
mingham, Ala.
The Tennessee house has passed q
bill making it felony to keep place
where betting on horse races is allow.
ed.
| Gen. Booth, head of the Salvation
army, has accepted an invitation to ad.
dress the Canadian club at Ottawa in
March.
The Russian orthodox church has
decided to create new bishopric in
the United States. 1t will be located
in Chicago.
All conductors, trainmen and yard.
men Of the Southern railroad are to
receive an increase in wages aggregat.
ing 100000 a year.
The Speer anti-pass bill was defeat
ed by the Missouri house. 1t was de.
clared by the members that the bill
was not drastic enough.
Three governors. graduates OF
Brown university. have promised to
address the Brown club of New York
at it's annual dinner, Feb. IL.
| The Nebraska house of representa-
tives has passed a bill forbidding no.
boes to ride on trains and authorizing
the conductor to arrest them.
German exports to the United States
show remarkable growth. The total
value in 1906 was $3O.OO0,Oo9, against
$4,000, 900 in the preceding year.
For the first time in the history of
the New Orleans United States mint
Mexican money is being coined there.
Five million pieces have been con.
tracted for.
Senator La Toilette denies the an.
nouncement Of the engagement of his
daughter, Miss Fola La Toilette, late.
ly made from Madison, Wis.,. and wide.
ly circulated.
BY vote Of GO to 6, the Cincinnati
Congregation of Zion, founded by
Dowie and nurtured by Voliva, has de.
termined to cut loose from the parent
church in Zion City.
Henry Bradley, an aged negro. died
In Nashville, Tenn. Bradley claimed
to have at one time belonged to Dave
Crockett, the famous hunter and
statesman.
Clear Lake, Iowa, claims to hold the
record for the greatest number of &C.
togenarians. Out of a total population
of less than 1900 there are, by actual
count, 115 people who are eighty years
or over.
President Diaz of Mexico has ex-
pressed desire to visit Los Angeles
during the imperial council Of the
Mystic Shriners in May. Local Shrin.
ers are preparing for the expected Wis.
1t Of the executive of the Southern re.
public.
A curious thing happened at the
Swift poultry plant at Leon, Iowa, be-
cause Of the sudden change in the
weather. One hundred and sixty-five
geese and sixty.five turkeys died in one
day. Coroner Bowman examined
some Of the dead and pronounced the
cause Of death to be pneumonia.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-02-14
ALL READY BUT GUNS.

Battleship Minnesota Will Be Deliver.
ed to Government on Feb. ~.
Washington, Feb. 1.-THE navy de-
partment is informed by the Newport
News Shipbuilding company that the
first-class 16,000-ton battleship Mime
sofa is complete, excepting matter OF
ordnance equipment, and will be deliv-
cred to the government at Norfolk
navy yard on the 9th inst.
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One Man Killed.; Six Imprisoned.
Boone, Iowa, Feb. 12.-P. A. Turnell
was instantly killed by the explosion
of a boiler at the Eclipse mine. Six
other men were imprisoned in the
mine. but were rescued unharmed.
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Dies In a squalid Room.

La Crosse, Feb. 12.-Charles H. Gi-
rard, once a leading dentist and one
Of the most prominent men Of La
Crosse, committed suicide in a squalid
apartment in this city, where he had
taken up his abode.
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VILLAGE swept Awav.

Naples, Feb. IL. - A severe snow
storm has caused serious damage on
the Calabrian coast. At Marina dt
Catanzaro. a fishing village. a tidal
wave practically carried the village
away. The loss of life was slight.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-02-14
Get the Terror.

Paris, Feb. 1.-THE police arrested
the ringleader of gang of fifty crimi-
nails who have terrorized the depart.
ment of Pas de Calais and the Belgian
frontier for two years, committing
many robberies and murders.
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NINE DIE IN STORM.
Fatalities and Suffering In Canadian
Northwest.

Fatalities and Suffering IN Canadian
Northwest.
Winnipeg, Feb. IL. - Details Of the
tragic side of the recent bhzzards
which swept the Canadian Northwest
are just beginning to come in, and as
far as they have been received they
give promise of longer list Of dead
and more intense suffering than have
been known in this part of the country
for manv years. Manitoba, Saskatche-
wan and Alberta all contribute to the
list, and the authenticated reports that
came in yesterday alone include list
of nine dead, six of them being in one
family, and five cases OF serious freez-
ing.
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Barrymore Proposed Twice.

Barrymore PROPOSED TWICE.
Il thought him very nice," she said,
"and one day at Mr.. Whites studio
he said, Evelyn, will you marry me?'
I said, I don't know He asked me a
second time, and again said, I don't
know Mr.. White told me I would be
very foolish to marry Mr.. Barrymore,
and my mother said SO. too, and we all
quarreled and the upshot of the whole
thing was that Mr.. White said l ought
to be sent away to Achool, and I was
sent to New Jersey.".
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Kill poos Not Muzzled.

Winona, Feb. 12.-At a special meet
was passed and signed by Mayor
Latch ordering that all dogs in the city
be muzzled or be killed.
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Neck Broken bv AssaiIant.

NECK Broken by ASSaItdht.
Memphis, Tenn, Feb. 12Mrs. Mer.
cedes Donovan was felled by an I'm.
known assailant last night with blow
which broke her neck, while she was
returning from a shopping tour. Rob-
berry was evidently the motive for the
attack. She died witL..:. a short time.
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Seven Mlners Entombed.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, Feb. 10. - Seven
miners are entombed in No. 10 colliery
of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal
company at Wanamje, and there is
little hope of rescuing them. Fire
broke out on the fourth lift and is
burning fiercely.
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Leg Crushed by Engine.

Leg Crushed by Engtae.
st. Paul, Feb. 12.-Andrew Jackson
was run down by switch engine III
the Omaha yards and his right foot
was severed. He was taken to St.
Luke's hospital and his leg was ampu-
tated.
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Explosion XIII. Nine Men.

Lorient, France, Feb. 10.--As a re.
suit Of an explosion on board Torpedo
Boat No. 339 of the French navy yes
terday nine men are dead and two
men are injured.
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Robbers CAPTURED.

Erie, Kan, Feb. IL: - Three men
who blew open the safe in the post
Office early yesterday and escaped
with 500 in stamps and money were
captured.
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Middies Fall Down.

Washington, Feb. ia report re-
garding affairs at the naval academy
shows that thirty-eight midshipmen
will be dropped on account of deficien-
cies.
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FINDS HUSBAND DEAD.
Farmers Wife's Discovery in Going to
the Barn to Hunt Euqs.

Groton, S. D.. Feb. IL. - When the
wife of William Marschrider, a farmer.
went to the barn late yesterday aft
ernoon to search for eggs, she was hor
rified to stumble over the dead body OF
her husband.
1t is believed that while at work in
the barn he suffered a sudden attack
of heart failure and probably died in
stantly.