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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-06-06
Catarrh Cannot he Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach
the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or consti.
%tutional disease, and in order to cure 1t you must take
Internal remedies. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken in.
ternally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces. Halls Catarrh Cure is not a quack medi.
cine. 1t was prescribed by one OF the best physicians
In this country for years and Is q regular prescription,
1t ts composed of the best tonics known, combined
with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the
mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the
two ingredients is what produces such wonderful re.
suits In curing catarrh. Send for testimonials, free.
F.J: CHENEY g. CO., Props, Toledo, o,
Sold by Druggists. price 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-06-06

Boston.-"Some titles are bad and
some titles are worse, but there are
no good titles" a sarcastic American
father is said to have exclaimed
apropos of the marriage of a relative
to a foreign nobleman.
He was not altogether right, nor
was he altogether wrong. The Old
World is flooded with titles, good, bad
and Indifferent. The bad and the in
different greatly outnumber the good.
American girls have some Of the good,
possibly more of the bad, and, per-
haps, still more of the Indifferent.
: There is a heraldry office in London
that spends all It's time Strengthening
out the kinks in the peerage. With
some 500 American women married to
foreigners, duly handled as to their
names, some of the freaks of aristoc-
.racy's rating are apropos.
In America it is self-evident-
though some children disprove it
that a parent is superior to the child.
Yet an American woman is on record
" uloPIoNC LhC IdLIs lllS ldJS WluOW
of Isaac M. Singer married a sol
distant Due de ~Camposelice and later
M. Paul Sohege, a plain Frenchman.
But her daughter is Duchesse Decazes
among the French ~aristocracy, and
Duchesse de G~luecksburg in the high
lights of Denmark. If it isn't a LAST
of daughter understanding the moth
er, it is the nearest approach to the
condition.
Some of these daughters have be-
come duchesses of England, prin-
cesses Of Russia, duchesses of France,
principessae of Italy, duquesas of
Spain or Portugal. and still others
have obtained titles of the Holy
Roman Empire and papal titles by
marriage. There are said to be about
500 of them all told, but how do they
rank among each other? Where In
the scale Of high-sounding handles to
matrimonially acquired surnames doth
rank Lady Tennessee Clafiin Cook,
who is the widow of an English baro.
net, and who, through him, is Wis
countess Montserratin in the peerage
of Portugal? And why does not she
employ the higher Portuguese title In
stead of the inferior English one?
PecuIiarities of P~eerages.
The truth is that peerages are now
worthy Of but half respect. Only two
of them are really to be very serious.
ly taken, the English and the dignities
confined to the m~ediatized Teutonic
families. And the latter of these is
not open to American ambitions, as
Miss Mary Wister Wheeler OF Phila
delphia discovered in 1890, when she
was married to Count Macmillan Pap
penheim, Of that ilk, and learned
when Berlin heard of the event, that
she could never be more than a NOR.
ganatic wife.
Recently it transpired that English
titles are not always exactly what
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-06-06

The Protective Tariff league is out
against Secretary Taft. Does this
mean that all the standpatters will
also oppose the Roosevelt candidate?
IL so, the contest for the Republican
nomination has by 40 mean ended,
even il the Ohio machine has virtual
" surrendered to the big secretary.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-06-06

ANNUALLY, and Nine. Jusserand, wife Of
the French ambassador at Washing
ton, who was the daughter of George
Richards, Of Boston, who founded the
banking firm Of Monroe & Co., Paris.
Lady Gilbert Carter, wife of the gov
ernor of Barbados, was Miss Gertrude
Parker, of Boston.
The curiosities that have grown up
around the matter of nobility would
fill a volume. In England, where the
heraldry office is more than 1t Is else
where, the technicalities are best OBJ.
served.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-06-06

the wife Of a pasha. That dignity
isn't worth much, and In the matter
Of value Of titles Turkey. for once,
agrees with the rest OF Europe.
A Russian prince is a trayesty on
language. actually and literally. Prop
erly, he isn't a prince at all, according
to respectable English standards, but
the Almanach de Gotha mistranslated
the word "kniaz" that way, and the
mistake of significance has persisted
like the Almsnach. Its correct Eng
lish synonym is lord. The incident
that led to the present English trans
lation occurred at Paris. where a pre-
sumptuous one of these squireens ap-
peared at Louis XIV's court. ETY.
mologically, however, prince" is the
proper rendering.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-06-06
Telenhones in Boston.

Boston is the greatest telephone
user in the world, according to the an
nual report of the New England Teie-
phone & Telegraph company. Every
day in New England there is an aver
age Of 935, 1858 telephone conversations.
In Boston there is a phone for every
II persons.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-06-06
Prince Owns Gambling House.

The prince of Monaco, who uns
Monte Carlo, was married to Alice
Heine, of New Orleans, and the pres.
ent heir to the gambling receipts is
her stepson. Prince Reched Bey
Czaykowski is a Turkish diplomat, but
not very important as a Turk. Miss
Edith Collins, of New York, wa the
princess maiden name.
Boston is not wonderfully well rep
resented among the titled Americans
abroad. Foremost, perhaps, among
Boston girls of this description is the
countess of Edla, who, on June 10,
1869, married the late king consort of
Portugal, Ferdinand. She was Miss
Elsie Hensler, and received the NOR
ganatic dignity Of Countess Edla,
which she still bears.
Then there is Lady Playfair, nee
Miss Edith Russell, who visits Boston
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-06-06
DucaI System.

There are dues in France, but their
only value is as contributors to the
governments income, by the sarcas-
tically graded scale that puts more of
a price on them the farther up
they go. One exception may be made
to this general rule, for the royalists
still hold levees, and to them a title
is instinct with meaning and dignity.
The fourth Due de Dino, who unsuc-
cessfully INDUCED his prediction
for American wives on two occasions,
would be entitled to enter this society,
and either she who was born Eliza
beth Curtis of New York or the pre-
viously divorced wife of Frederick
w. Livingston could have accompan-
led him during their reigns over a
heart whose unhappiness became
rather well known at divorce court.
The royalist society constitutes the
worth of a French title, but only two
per cent. Of all titles of La Belle
Paris and elsewhere in France are
legitimate. The others are jokes.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-06-06

II You Work, Work Well.-Never do
any kind Of work which Is not worth
doing In the very best possible man
ner, A a thing is not worth doing
well, II IS not worth doing at ali.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-06-06
Many Times a Duchess.

There is one American woman who
is a duchess on four commonplace
counts. This is the Duchesse de Dino,
who is the same of Talleyrand-Pe
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-06-06

The vatican grants titles. The par.
venus work so hard getting titles unto
themselves that really respectable no
bility have got out of the habit OF
using their legitimate ones. Prince
Ferdinand Colonna married Miss Eva
Bryant Mackay, but in that family the
title is dlsregarded. They consider II
really more ~aristocratic to call each
other simply Don" and Donna" The
Rospigliosi and Ruspolin familles,
which together number nearly a dozen
American women among their wives,
are as aristocratic and as particular.
Yet eve persons with the plain
lame Of John Smith will very likely
admit that Don Francesca E0spigliosi
is quite a come-down from Prince Gu.
seppe francesca Maria Filippo di Ros-
pigliosi-G ioeni. duca di Zagario, prin-
cipe di Castiglione, marchese di Gu
Llama, conte di Chiusa, Barone di Val
corrente, Barone della Miraglia, Signor
di Aidone, di Burgio, di Contessa and
di Trapetto, Roman noble, patrician
Of Pistoja, Venice and Genoa.
There are 200 dukes, 900 marquises
and thousands of counts in Spain, &C.
cording to a recent account. Legiti.
mate Spanish nobility, or, better, arts.
tocracy, is called the g~randezza, in
English the grandees. 1t was insti-
tuted by Emperor Charles v. in 1920,
SO that Spain could be just like other
countries in one respect.
They began a dozen In number; the
legitimate members of the ~grandezza
now are 200, and after that the popu.
lar deluge that includes the butcher,
the baker and perhaps the candlestick
maker. The duke de ARGOS, who was
once Spanish ambassador at Washing.
ton and has just retired from the post
at Rome, is a real Spanish nobleman,
and he married Miss Virginia Lowery,
Of Washington, when he was In the
latter city.
A curious feature of the Spanish no.
bility is the manner of inheriting 1t.
The dignities descend from father to
son, but if there Is no son the daugh-
ter takes the title, and it is conferred
on her husband what time she mar
ries.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-06-06

In all except the mediatized fami.
lies-formerly royal German families
there are women to represent the
greatest country without a nobility
Even at Constantinople, where you
a buy the order Of Osmanieh and
the lower grades dirt cheap, there is
n of u women. She has had the
wings of her dignity clipped, but she
is still Margaret Fehim Pasha.
Her husband was, till a few months
ago, chief Of the Yildiz secret police,
likewise a distant relative of the
sultan. The German ambassador OBJ.
jected to a little pleasantly of his,
and Fehim Is now in real exile. But
his wife, who was a circus rider, mar.
ried a week after rencontre, is still
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-28
HARTMAN EXAMINED.
Gives Testimony Concerning Railroad
Transportation, but Refuses to
Anewer Some Questions.

New York; II. Hartman, head
of the Union Pacific system. spent
Monday in a recital of portions of the
intimate history of the financial opera
tons of himself and his associates be-
fore the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, which. in behalf of the gov
ernment, is investigating consolida-
tons and combinations of carriers, re-
lations between railroads and commu-
nifty of interest therein, their rates,
facilities ard practices
Special counsel for the government
made particular attack on the. reorgan-
ization and financing of the Chicago &
Alton railroad by the Hartman syndi-
cate, and their action, with challenge
by counsel for the railroads OF the
right of the Interstate Commerce Com
rlossion to inquire into the private
transactions of an individual, consti-
tuted the two chief events of the days
proceedings.
Mr.. Hartman declined to tell what
proportion of the preferred stock of
The Alton sold to the Union Pacific be-
lcnged to him individually, and the
way was paved for taking the question
into the Federal Courts. The point
iaised involves a material Limitation
On the inquisitorial power of the com
mission, and is of serious Importance
10 the whole question of interstate cor
Ioration investigation.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-28
FREIGHT RATES CUT.
A Change That Is Expected to Help
Denver Jobbers.

Denver.-More important for some
reasons than any rate reduction which
the railroads into Denver have yet
made, was the readjustment an
nounced by the Burlington, affecting
200 stations where Denver products
are sold, and opening up to local manu-
facturers the long-coveted Black Hills
territory.
General Freight Agent c. f. Spens
OF Omaha, and General Agent j. F.
Vallery of this city. called on Thomas
Scott, secretary of the Colorado Manu-
facturers' Association yesterday and
informed him that they intended to-
re-adjust their freight rates in favor Of
Denver to all points on their lines as
iar east as Holdredge, Nebraska, as
Ear north as the Montana state line, in
cluding the stations on the Guernsey
branch, and, most important of all, as
far north as Spearfsh, South Dakota
IN the Black Hills territory around
Deadwood. To the cities in the latter
territory Denver is given a differential
under the Missouri towns of is cents
on first and second class goods and 10
cents on third and fourth class. For
example, the rate on FIRST class goods
from Omaha to Deadwood Is Sl.45,
while from Denver to Deadwood it will
in future be only s1.30. The rates ap-
ply from Denver, Colorado Springs and
Pueblo and will go into effect April 1st.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-28
RAILROADS MUST PAY.
Nebraska Counties Win Suits for
Taxes.

Washington. - The cases of the
Union Pacific ana Burlington railroad
companies against the various county
treasurers of the state of Nebraska,
involving the tax rate upon the prop
erty of the railroads, and calling into
question the administration Of the Ne
braska state tax law, were decided ad-
versely to the railroads by the Su-
preme Court of the United States to-
day. The decision was announced by
Justice Holmes.
Omaha.-The decision of the Su-
preme Court OF Nebraska tax cases
means that the railroads parties to the
suit must pay into the treasures of the
sixty-one counties interested an aggre-
gate of about $4,000 of taxes now
due, including penalties. This includes
the taxes for 1904. 1905 and 1906. The
railroads had rendered about So ZOO, 900
as what they considered the proper
amount of their taxes SO that the
amount really involved was about
100000. However, the other roads
operating in Nebraska have paid their
taxes under protest, and had these
cases gone against the state would
havc demanded n refund of about one
'nird OF the amounts paid.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-28
PAYS AllmoNy ALL in PENNIES.
Saloon-keeper DoIes Out SO Week
in Coppers to His Wife.

New York.-James Brown. saloon,
keeper at The Forge. Brook Haven. on
Long Island, near Southampton. pays
his wife 50 weekly aiimony He pays
it in pennies.
Every Saturday he appears at the
office of former Justice George w. Hill
dreth with bag full of coppers.
dumps them on the Office desk and
makes a fair count before the eyes OF
the justice Sometimes. when he can't
get 300 pennies. he puts in a nickel
If it is grim joke. the saloon
keeper does not admit 1t by word OF
smile. He says he does business in
pennies, and It is handy to use them
in allopathic doses when paying ALI
mony.
Mrs. Brown. who has three small
children TO support. accepts the cop
pers in the same outward spirit they
are given.
Never scold him." she tells Mr.. Hill
dreth. Il am glad enough to get them.
and II pennies are his business me
llum. they are my hard cash
wouldn't know how to spend dollar
BILL"
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-28
KILLED WIFE AND CHILD.
A Degenerate at Denver Wanted to Be
Free to Go With Another Woman.

Denyer.-For the love of another
woman, and she with a police record
as a professional thief, Benjamin G.
Wright, the police claim, coolly muir
dered his wife and five-year-old daugh-
ter with mysterious but quick-act-
ing poison. and then feigned coma
tose condition all day yesterday to
avoid the discovery of his CHASTITY
crime. His mind still possessed of the
horror of his deed, Wright is said to
have confessed the double murder,
telling Chief of Police Delaney, in the
presence of witnesses, weird. grew
some tale, rambling in construction,
barren of detail, but Illuminated with
the reiterated acknowledgement that
he was responsible for the extermina-
tion of his family.
The dead bodies of Mrs. Wright and
her five-year-old daughter were found
lying on the floor of the bathroom OF
their four-room home, at 374 South
Pearl street, early yesterday morning.
The husband and father was lying
near, unconscious and seemingly
barely breathing, when the police am
bulance arrived. None of the bodies
showed any signs of the manner OF
their death, and quick poison, leaving
no trace behind, such as cyanide OF
potassium, is believed to have been
used. Wright refuses to divulge the
drug. and it is believed he is protect
ing someone else.
Making stronger the proofs of guilt
against him, Wright admits the infatu-
alton for Stella Good, a police charac-
ter.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-28
Steve Adams Case.

Wallace, Idaho.-The state closed its
case against Steven Adams this morn
ing, saving for the last hour the
weighty testimony OF Bulkeley Wells,
former adjutant general of Colorado,
who told of the confession Adams
made to him while the prisoner was
en- route from Boise to Colorado. in the
custody of Detective S. c. Thiele and
Deputy Sheriff Johnson.
adams had been talking to me
sbout the Independence explosion in
The Cripple Creek district" testified
General Wells. Il asked him where NO
had gone after the explosion, and he
Paid ne had gone up to Idaho. He
went up into the northern part oi
Idaho. In the st. Joe river district, and
helped Simpkins bump Off two men
who had been giving Simplins trou-
BILE in connection with their timber
ciaims."
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-28
FL. HEARNE DEAD
succuMBs TO PERIToNiTis AF.
TER A BRIEF ILLNESS.
HEAD oE THE C. F. AND /.

since Coming to Colorado Four Years
Ago Mr.. Hesrne Had Built Up .
magnificent Business for the Com
pany.
DenVer-Death ended the suffering
OF Col. Frank J. Hearne. president OF
the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company,
at f45 O'clock last Monday night in
ms apartments in the Brown Palace
hotel. The body win be taken to Kan
sas City tomorrow and the interment
Will occur in that city Thursday. Mrs.
Hearne and her son. William, and Mrs.
r. b. Armour and Mrs. Edward Smith,
sisters Of the deceased, will accom-
pany the body TO Kansas City. Colonel
Hearne was sixty years of age when he
uied, and had been president Of the cor
poration named about four years.
Directors of the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company will elect a successor to
Colonel Hearne at some date yet to be
announced. ]. +. Welborn, vice presi-
dent, VIII be the executive head of the
company until the successor of Colonel
Hearne is chosen. The deceased was
wealthy man and leaves an estate
probably worth several million dollars.
He was man of high character and
hA' oooOtldttS anu tIuDlOytS uHiAtu III
paying tribute to his worth and gener-
osity last night. Peritonitis, which at
tackled him about a week ago. caused
death. No operation was attempted, as
1t was deemed unwise.
The deceased leaves wife and one
son, William L., and three sisters re-
siding in Kansas City. Missouri, Mrs.
Kirk Armour, Mrs. Edward Smith and
Mrs. George Nettletop, wife of the
president of the Kansas City, Hapni-
cal Fort Scott railroad.
The body win be taken to Kansas
City, leaving here at 2:3O tomorrow
afternoon and arriving there about
$3.50 Thursday morning. The funeral
will be held from Armour chapel.
During these four years Mr.. Hearne
had remained in active charge of the
company until some weeks ago when
he was first stricken with the grip,
and his marvellous executive ability
had built up for the Wall street owners
the largest industrial corporation in
the West. But this zeal on Mr.
Hearno's part and the overworlk Incl
dent to it broke down his health.
Mr.. Hearne recently purchased the
residence at 1875 Grant avenue, built
by Donald Fletcher and later acquired
by Col w. f. Hughes. Pending the
completion of some alterations or
dered by him the Hearnes were max
Ing their home in the Brown Palace
hotel. Mr.. Hearne'5 salary from the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company is
caid to have been s25,000 year.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-28
Paid the Grazing Fee.

Denver.-Says the Republican: Act
ing United States District Attorney
Ralph Hartzell has dismissed the case
Of the federal government against An
drew Novel; a ranchman living in the
neighborhood Of the Park Range forest
reserve.
Proceedings had been begun against
Novel; in the United States District
Court In the federal building on the
charge Of Illegally grazing his cattle
nn the government range and refusing
10 pay the range fee assessed by the
federal government.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-28
sus-TReAsuuRy aoaeep.
Sum Of si7s,ooo Disappears at Chicago
and Clerks Suspected.
,hicago.-The Tribune saws:

Chicago.-The Tribune says:
One of the largest-if not the largest
-thefts from the United States treas
ury has been unearthed in Chicago.
There was theft OF s173. 900 from the
local sub-treasury last week. The
money has disappeared as completely
as II 1t had vanished from the face OF
the earth.
The authorities here and In Wash
ington have been working night and
day on the robbery since it was dis
covered
Chief Willfie of the United States Sc
cret service has been keeping in
formed by telephone and telegraph of
every development. and he win leave
Washington to-day to take personal
charge of the Investigation.
Secretary Shaw of the Treasury De-
partment was told of the gigantic theft
when in Chicago last week and was in
conference with Sub-Treasurer William
Boldenwick and secret service officials.
The money was stolen either a week
ago Saturday, the next day, or last
Monday. The chances are it was abb
stracted Monday, The loss was dis
covered Tuesday.
All the money taken was in bills OF
the denomination of $1,000. $4,000 and
$4,000.
After a week Of searching investiga-
tion, Saturday there came a glimmer
of light. A faint clew pointed in the
direction of a certain clerk, and that.
following up, directed the finger OF sus-
picion to another employe, a close as
sociate of the first man.
These men were summoned into the
inquisition chamber and one at last
broke down.
Among those under surveillance is
George w. Fitzgerald, who was in
charge of the teller's cage from which
the money was abstracted, but he in
sists he has no knowledge of how the
money disappeared. Fitzgerald, in a
statement tonight, said he thought
some of the employees had stolen the
money. He declared 1t would have
been an easy matter for any of the
twenty-five or thirty employees, who un-
der the present system have daily ac-
cess to his cage, to make away with
ths money without his knowledge.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-28
LEGISLATIVE NEWS AND GOSSIP
House Proceedings.

In committee OF the whole in the
House February 21st the following
bills were perfected and recommended
for hnal passaE..:
ii. B. 172. Hea.y-To permit the Uni
yersity of Colorado to do away with
lie preparatory department.
II. b. 3l3, Ksily-To have public
trustees appointed by the governor in
stead OF the Supreme Court, and to re-
uuce the terms of ONCE Of such trus-
I. es from three years to two years.
H B. 345. Collins-That district at
torneys shall be paid all expenses nee
essarily incurred in travelling from
county to county in his district.
s. b. q. Anfenger-ln relation to
aiimony
S. B. 10. Anfenger-In relation to the
settlement OF estates of deceased per
sons.
S. B. SS. Parks-To cut of mileage
and salaries Of boards of control of
state institutions.
s. B. SO, Parks-Amending law in
reference to admission to the bar.
II. B. 157, O'Connoll-To prevent
yivisection and other mistreatments OF
animals.
Enactins clauses stricken out:
II. B. 266. Young-To designate Pho
ncer day.
S. B.. 81, Parks-To abolish mileage
In sheriffs' ofices.