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The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-04-11
TEACHER CURES GUM
HABIT BY OVERDOSE
Mixes Quinine and CompelsI
the Boys to Chew for
Hours.

Racine, Wis, April 9.-Principal Ed
gar s. Martin, of the McMynn school,
hit upon a novel plan to stop the gum
chewing habit among the pupils OF the
upper grades. 1t was heroic treatmentl
but Mr.. Martin believes 1t has worked
O. permanent cure. !
He stood a dozen OF the biggest boys
in the class in a row. in the presence OF
the entire school, furnished each with
a quid of gum and compelled them to-
stand thus all day. chewing vigorously.
When noon came the cnewers, ALL
though their jaws began to ache, Were
jubilant~a and defiant, declaring that they
would stick 1t out to the end and chew
as long as the principal desired them to-
do so. ~
But during the interim the principal
conceived an addition to his scheme,
which eventually brought the recalct-l
trants to terms. After recess they were
invited to help themselves to fresh
supply of gum. ~
A dozen mouths were opened and 81
dozen faces were wreathed in smiles inI
anticipation of the succulent mouthful.I
The Jaws set with a snap and the smiles
of satisfaction disappeared. Each looked
at his neighbor. and found there thoI
same expression that his own counten- 4
ance wore. For the willy principal hadI
smeared a large quantity of very bitter
quinine upon the gum supply during
the noon recess.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-04-11
WEDS HIS SUPPOSED
WIFE AS SHE DIES
Mrs. Thomas O'Brien Mods
Faint Assent to Priest in
Hospital.
FATHER IN EXPLANATION
Thirteen Years Ago Each Believed
That the Mere Marriage
License Was
Enough. @.

st. Louis. April 9.--With none but
khe sisters as witnesses, Mary Main
WAS married to Thomas o'Brien in the
little chapel of st. Mary's hospital, East
st. Louis. Seven hours later. at .
O'Clock yesterday morning, the same
sisters saw her die, with her husband
holding her hand at the bedside. To-
day she Will be buried from ST. HenryA
church. ...... .. r..
Mary Main was Mrs. O'Brien to tho
man, to the world and in the eyes OF
all but the law. For thirteen years
they had believed themselves married,
and O'Brien was proud of hersand their
seven children.
O'Brien is railroad laborer and lives
in a little cottage on the shore OF the
Cahokie creek, near the Relay station,
East st. Louis. He Is Al years old; his
wife was ten years younger. f.
Thirteen years ago, both unfamiliar
with customs and conventionalities, OBJ
tanned a marriage license. To them the
license was the equivalent OF a mar
riage certificate. IS.
Wife Becomes I'LL. ....
Mrs O'Brien became so i'll one month
ago she went to st. Mary's hospital,
suffering from necrosis. Her bones be-
came like lime and day by day her
condition grew worse. ..
O'Brien went to his priest, Father
Wiener, Of st. Henry's church, and told
him Of his sorrow.
'She is a good woman, father" he
said; "a good mother to the children
and II seems hard have to lose her."
conversation changed to church affairs,
and presently the priest knew and un-
derstood that O'Brien had never been
married, though he thought he was.
4! 'What?" asked o'Brien, the mother
Of my children not my wifeH" That
cannot be. OF course she's my wife"
+ He was made to understand and
vowed he would marry her as soon az
possible.
At the hospital, Thursday afternoon,
the woman lay still as death. Her
cheeks were as white as the pillows
upon which she rested. She was con.
scious, but could scarcely raise a finger.
An attendant placed rolling table
beneath the cot and quietly moved her
into the chapel and withdrew. The
candles upon the altar twinkled..
49,. Priest Reads Ceremony.
Father Wiener stood before O'Brien,
who stood beside his wife's cot and
read the ceremony, that had been de-
layed just thirteen years. Mrs. O'Brien
could hardly nod an assent to the ques-
tions. ".N D..
The priest and sisters withdrew and
Mrs. O'Brien was wheeled back into the
ward. "
Presently she closed her eyes and
dropped into a sleep. AS she slept the
nurses noticed a more peaceful express
sion than they had seen before.
O'Brien and his oldest daughter re-
mained at the wife's cotside through
the remainder of the evening and into
the night. Occasionally the physician
took the hand 'front.' the husbands clasp
long enough to feel the pulse.
At o'clock yesterday morning, he
felt for the pulse, placed the hand back
gently In the husbands and shook his
head.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-04-11
SON-IN-LAW TEACHES
WIFE TO DRINK; She
CANNOT STOP, NOW
Girls Mother Charges Young
Husband With Causing
Chronic lntoxication.
FAIR DRUNKARD is RICH
New York Police Judge Commits Her
to Catholic Retreat in
the Hope Of Effect
ing a Cure.

New York, April 9.--Mrs. Annie
Clark, 80, wife of Frank b. Clark, q
cracker manufacturer, was arratgned
In police court on charge OF habitual
drunkenness and committed to the
House Of the Good Shepherd until
April 10, in the hope Of curing her.
Mrs. Clark, fashionably gowned. went
80 court In her handsome turnout es-
Sorted by Court officer Baton. who
served the warrant. Her arrest was
made on charge preferred by the pro-
baton officer. Miss Annie Virginia
Roome, at the solicitation. of Mrs.
Clark's mother, Mrs. Nevens.
Mrs. Nevens blames her son-in-law
for her daughters fondness for liquor.
She said they were married eleven
years ago and that he left her in
March, 1906. Since then, Mrs. Nevens
said her daughters addiction to drink
had increased. Mrs. Nevens went to
live at $50 Penn street, and 1t was
then she decided to appeal for Mrs.
Ciark's commitment.
Mrs. Clark stood erect before the
bar while the charge was read and
then in q clear, even tone said:
Who Is 1t that makes complaint
against me? I protest. While 1t may
be taken for granted that am an
habitual drunkard, or addicted to the
constant use Of liquor, 1t seems to me
that PoliSe magistrate mas ho IiBnL
under the law to send me to an insti-
tuition, or to punish men in any way,
on the charge that has been made.
THE court must understand" she
continued, that am not a vagrant;
that 1 have no family; that l am de-
pendent on nobody for support, and
that the use of liquor Is a privilege Of
which l can avail myself and the law
toes not deny me that privilege"
Judge Higginbotham was amazed at
hrs Clark's argument and seemed puz-
tled as to what action to take, when
the woman's mother entered the court
room and pleaded with the magistrate
to send her daughter to some institu-
tion to be treated for alcoholism.
Mrs. Clark renewed her argument
when her mother had finished, but the
magistrate committed her to the House
Of the Good Shepherd.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-04-11
HUSBAND OF CLOAK
MODEL GETS DIVORCE

New Haven, Conn.,, April 9.-Judge
Shumway Of the superior court,
granted a divorce to Edwin Kenneth
Norton, Of Riverside drive, New York
city. Judge Shumway finds that the
eli i'm of Norton of improper conduct
On the part Of his wife is true, and he
sustains the charge, in which George
jenkins, of Hartford. is named as CO.
respondent.
The pair eloped in 1906 while Norton
was n student at Yale, Josephine Bir-
ney, the bride, being a cloak model.
When Norton's father learned of the
wedding he sent his son to Europe.
Edwin Norton, of New York city
president of the tin plate trust, put
detectives on the track Of his SON 8
wife. They shadowed her to Hartford
where she had gone to work, and saw
her with George Jenkins, who was
Ramed as correspondent.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-04-11
oOET KNEW IDENTITY,
BUT NOT WAY HOME

Berlin, April 1O.-The Deutsche Zei-
tung, daily paper here, relates an
amusing incident about Gottfried Kel-
ler, the well known German poet.
While celebrating with several friends
the success of one of his books, Keller
suggested Just one more glass until
he was not so very clear as to his way
home.
AS he walked along without paying
much attention to grace of motion or
to the straightness of the path, Keller
thought II was taking too long to get
home. Meeting little boy, he asked:
Say. little man, do you know where
Gottfried Keller, the poet, lives?"
The youngster, recognizing the poet
from pictures in newspapers answered
joyfully:
why, you are Herr Gottfried Kel-
ler."
, "I am not asking you who I am,
but where live" the poet responded.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-04-11
REJECTED -FOUR
TIMES IN A week
HE WEEDS WIDOW
Grandfather, Aged Sc, Is Finally
Welded to a Great
Grandmother.

Freeland, Pa, April 10.-William
Cover. a carpenter of this place, and
Mrs. Mary Strause were married at the
home OF the brides daughter, Mrs. Will
liam McClelland.
The bridegroom is Sc and has sew
eral grandchildren, while the bride is
his senior by a few years and Is a
reat-grandmother. The bridegroom
lost his first wife a few months ago
in drowning accident in the Lehigh
river at Bethlehem, and last week sur
prised his friends by announcing his
intention to remarry.
He went counting in a business like
way, and in one week had proposed to
and was rejected by four widows re-
siding in this place.
Rebuffed, but not discouraged, he
continued his search for a wife until
he met Mrs. Strause, who succumbed
to his Establishments.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-04-11
HEIRESS WHO RUNS
AWAY, HOME AGAIN,
Due TO A TRICK
Guardian kidnaps Miss McCIan-
ahan From Train, Taking
Her to New Canaan.

Stamford, Conn, April 10.-Miss Giles
Gamble McClanahan, the eccentric
heiress of william McClanahan, OF
New York, who ran away from the
McClanahan homestead In New Ca
naan, accompanied by her nurse, Miss
Annie Phillips, and LILLIAN Richter, OF
No. 81 East Eighty-sixth street, New
York, and Dora Zeeth. of New Canaan,
two girl friends, has been taken back
to New Canaan.
Just as soon as Miss McClanahan
and her friends got to New York they
called on Attorney H. A. Herold, OF. No.
1876 Broadway. Miss McClanahan asked
the lawyer to do something to rid her
of the restraint under which she was
held She desired to have control Of
her estate and said she was competent
to manage 1t.
Attorney Herold called DR.. c. H.
Scoville her conservator, by telephone,
and the physician went to New York,
where he had a long interview with
Mr.. Herold. After the interview DR..
Scoville employed detectives to locate
Miss McClanahan.s They found her and
arranged with the nurse to take Miss
McClanahan on a trip into Connecticut.
Miss McClanahan and the nurse
boarded an express train at the Grand
Central station late last night. DR..
Scoville, who was on the train, kept
his eyes On Miss McClanahan and just
as soon as the train crossed the New
York state line he took a seat near
her.
At Stamford, the New Canaan
branch train was on a siding waiting
to pull out. and before Miss McClana-
han realized what was happening she
was hustled aboard 1t and taken to
New Canaan. She Is now being held
under strict guard. DR.. Scoville, 1t Is
understood. will apply to the probate
court for her commitment to a ssni-
tarium.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-04-11
"BRAlNSTORM" Is
THE LATEST DRINK

Wilmington. Del, April 9.-Have you
had one yet? No? Well, according to-
pat" Dougherty. its inventor, you had
better try one. Pat" twirled long
spoon in one and as he handed 1t over
the bar he exclaimed:
"There isn't a headache in 1t. It's
lust Is cents-that's all"
Further inquiry developed the fact
that Pat" originated the name forI
the new concoction while 1t was set
ting" Sort of q sizzler," he mussed,
"a regular brain Storm"
According to Pat" 1t is made OF
Irish whisky, benedictine, vermouth
and a dash OF orange bitters. A lump
of ice is added and In the words of the
inventor, 1t is allowed to Thaw."
Those who are acquainted with the
ingredients are of the opinion that O
few drinks will dispel the theory of
those who contend that there Is No
such thing as brain storm"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-04-11
POET GENE WARE
ASKS A PENSION
"IronquilI" Promises to Give
His $I2 a Month to a
Little Girl.
IS IN PROSE-
Former Official Who Used to Issue
Orders in Verse, Will Aid
a Soldiers Sis
H ter.

washington. ID. c., April 10.-Eugene
F. Ware. OF Topeka. "Ironquill," ex-
commissioner of pensions, genius. ec-
centric and litterateur. who used to is
sue general orders in verse In the PEN
sion Office, and who looked after the
interests OF nearly 100000 pensioners,
while he would not apply for the PEN
sion that he had himself earned, has
changed his mind.
He has asked for a pension, and he
did II in plain prose. .-#
1t caused a sensation in the big pen-
sion bureau when 1t was noised about
that Deputy Commissioners Davenport
had received in a personal letter from
the ex-commissioner an application for
a pension. Mr.. Ware doesn't believe in
the pension system, though he does be-
lieye In pensions for really needy and
deserving soldiers. But he always drew
a line of distinction. His theory is that
man who served his country well,
and whom the country afterward
served so well that he does not need the
pension, ought not TO ask 1t. Having
plenty of money OF his own, he would
never join the army of pensioners.
But he has reformed. Under the new
pension law which gives a pension to
every honorably discharged soldier who
served ninety days, when he reaches 81
years of age, Mr.. Ware Is entitled to
S12 a month. In applying for IL he
wrote that he had never expected to
ask this pension, but that there was
a little girl in Topeka whose brother
was soldier in the Philippines, and
Is her sole support. . ......
II am going to take this pension In
my own name, because can't get II in
her name" he wrote, and turn it over
to her"
Deputy Commissioner Davenport
promptly announced that this was the
best excuse he had yet observed for
Ware to write some verse and said
he would at once send the letter back
to the ex-commissioner, with the re-
quest that the application and the ex-
PLANTATION be submitted in appropriate
rhyme and meter. Meanwhile there
will be no delay about approving the
pension. ss ..'... .atsF
Apropos of the new pension act, 1t is
stated that the unwillingness of q large
number Of well to do pensioners to have
their names published as such is re-
sponsible for the withdrawal of the rule
making public lists of persons as they
are placed on the rolls. This informa-
tion Is now denied to the newspapers
Many thousands of rich men draw pen-
sIons. and among the people applying
under the new act ii is said the ma ajor-
fly of new pensioners are of this class.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-04-11
NO BATHS IN TEN
YEARS, IS SENTENCED

Cleveland, o.. April 9.--Judge Fielder,
In police court, sentenced a man to
q year and a half OF cleanliness.
John Artl, arrested for neglecting
his four small children. hasn't taken
a bath In ten years, Humane officer
Poole told the Judge.
II have arrested him on almost every
minor charge" the officer said, "and
have tried for ten years to make him
keep clean"
Unwashed for ten years, eh?" COM
manded the court. 'I'lI fix him so he
won't be dirty for long time. / shall
send you to the workhouse with in
structions to the superintendent to keep
you there eighteen months and put you
to light labor and have you scrubbed
twice q day during your incarcsra-
ton"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-04-11
BOY KILLS Ex-PREsIDENT.

City Of Mexico, April 10.-General
Manuel Lizadro Barrillas. ex-president
of Guatemala, was assassinated here es
he sat in a street car. AS the cal
stopped young man little over IL
years old, climbed aboard, and rushing
to the general stabbed him twice
the first blow severing the juglar vein,
the second cutting his face. The gen.
eral died instantly.
The assassin was captured, He
gave his name as Jose Estrada, and
his home at Ocos, Guatemala. Mem
bers of the Guatemala colony here
think Estrada was a paid assassin
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-04-11
COREY LEASE IS
MADE OUT TO READ
mr.. AND MRS. y
Owner of the House Stipulate9
That Contract Shall Be
So Worded. .:

New York, April 9.-It became all
most certain today that William Corey.
president OF the United States Steel
corporation will marry before many
months.
An agent, acting for Mr.. Corey,
leased, for a year, the home of Mrs-I
James Martin, S03 Fifth avenue. Be-
fore Mrs. Martin would grant the lease
however, she demanded 1t be made out
for Mr.. and Mrs. Corey. The fact that
Mr.. Corey's agent willingly met this
restriction is taken as a sure indica-i
tIon that Mr.. Corey will take another
wife before moving into the Martin
house.
Meanwhile, Mabelle Gilman Is living
in the Paris chateau. ~.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-04-11
COMES TO A eRIEvIous FINISH

New York, April l0.-A venerable dea-
con Of Bloomfield Center. N. j., got Off
a trolley car there las night.
Miss Dolly Gray, who seemed to be
in Joyous spirits, danced up to the dea-
con, took some fancy steps and kicked
off his high hat. -.
the hats OF several dear old men" az
she called them. a.e.
A policeman arrested Dolly and her
hair turned color in a single night, but
not gray
Short black hair bristles were on her
head when the wig was removed.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-04-11
PLOT 70 WRECK TRAIN FAILS.

New York, April 1O--"There is nothing
new in the discovery credited to Fillmore
the Pittsburg cobbler by which coal
ashes may be treated chemically so as to
burn for q long period and give greater
heat than pure COAL" said Leander Ham
mond carpenter.
Mr.. Hammond claims that for a long
time he has been burning coal dust in his
stoves at home after he had saturated 1t
with secret chemical.
As result OF his experiments. the car
penter says that he can make one ton OF
coal dust so treated last a whole year In
heating an ordinary sized house.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-04-11
KENISON GETS "a
YEARS, KILLING EDITOR

Scots Bluffs. Neb., April 9.-Judge
Crime yesterday overruled a motion for
O new trial, and K. S. Kenison, who
was convicted of murder in the second
degree, for killing s. d. Cox, received
sentence Of twenty-four years in tho
penitentiary. Kenison broke down and
wept when he received his sentence
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-04-11
BANK LOOTED TEN
DAYS AFTER OPENING

Chicago, April 9.--In the trial of ex-
Judge Abner Smith and other officials
of the defunct Bank of America, Clar-
ence s. Darrow testified today that the
bank was looted" by +. Il. Greelman
and Abner Smith within ten days from
the date the institution was open for
business.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-07-17

! consider in the duplication Of the
work and cost and a diversion of pro.
fits made from the system. The rail-
roads carry the express freight with.
out providing extra facilities. They
could handle some of the business
themselves and thereby add to their
own profits, which they claim to be so
small as not to justify reduction in
rates: also some of the money going
into the 1924, DOC, 600 watermelon would
have gone to the postal department if
we had a parcel post system. MIR.
Hill says that the railroads are not
making money enough to keep their
plants up to the capacity demanded
by the country's business. Charges
are made that railroad demands for
carrying the mails are excessive in
some cases. That somebody is max.
ing big money out OF the railroad
plants is shown by the express profits.
If part of those profius should 60 to
the railroad owners the roads and
eventually the whole people would be
gamers,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-07-17
Sad End Of Ash-6urning Scheme.

Early in the pact spring the an.
nouncement was widely made that Mr..
John Gilmore, q cobbler OF Altoona,
Pa. had discovered a method Of treat.
ing ashes so they would burn like
coal and give out as much heat as
tha at fuel.
This story was taken seriously at
fret, says the Butte Miner, and the
method Of treating the refuse of furn.
aces and stoves was described in de.
tail by the newspapers of the country.
In due course scientists who con.
Quoted experiments along this line de.
cided that the shoemaker had not
made q new discovery, and that, as q
after OF fact, there was hardly any.
thing in his claim, although it is FIRE.
~quently found that ashes contain
cinders and unconsumed carbon that
can be thoroughly burned If subjected
to q second attempt.
There is, however, q sad sequel to
this announced discovery Of the AL.
toona cobble, for he found q hacker
Of his alleged invention in the person
OF Dr.. H. X. Hoy, q wealthy physician
Of the town mentioned, who had known
the man of boots and shoes for years.
DR.. Hoy had faith in the ash.burn.
ing recipe, and he put up considerable
money to exploit it, although not
enough to injure him financially, but
when the scheme was shown to be q
fake the doctor received an immense
amount of "joshing,' and his mail
ever since has contained numerous
letters making fun OF him.
This so preyed upon his mind that
it changed his disposition, and last
Friday he committed suicide by TAX.
ing carbolic acid. This is, indeed, q
sad ending of an otherwise harmless
hoax, which was sprung upon the pub
lie in good faith as far as the part
played in it by the Altoona cobbler Is
concerned.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-07-17
EXPRESS COMPANY PROFITS.

No commission will ever be able TO
find out the extent OF the profits made
out OF the carrying business in this
country, but the recent handing out OF
III, OOO, 600 OF surplus profits by the
Adams Express company reveals one
branch Of it which has made many OF
our multi.millionsires Within ten
years CSC, OOO, 600 have been paid to
shareholders of this company in add.
ton to regular annual dividends,
which may represent as high as 40 to
SO per cent. return on the capital &C.
tually invested in the business.
Others of the big express companies
are paying large dividends. In one
way and another the officials of the
express companies are linked with the
railroads. 1t t%ranspired last summer
that Hartman was . heavy owner OF
express company stock and able to
manipulate the vast surplus OF one OF
the transcontinentsl corpora atoms.
Aside from the question Is to the res.
condolences of the rates charged by
the express companies there is . poin'
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-07-17
TIMBER WOLVES.
The Cunning With Which They Trap
and Kill Deer.

dto V'' oSS
Probably of all animals there is none
which has more exciting experiences
than a timber wolf. The wolf Of tic-
ton is a gaunt. hungry, evil looking
animal. The wolf Of reality in the
north is slick and fat and about so
pounds for females up to 40 for males.
He never chases rabbits, but is willing
to finish the remains of an owls sup
per. But If some II has put a rab-
lit down doped with poison he gener-
ally polishes that morsel of.
They hunt deer by preconcerted plan.
The pack station themselves down
wind. Then one makes a circle and
comes wind rights on the deer, which
may be lying down or feeding, and Of
course makes a dash. eve realizing
that there is a circle of death dealing
enemies before him. When the deer
Is coming in full jump the wolf first
makes a short spring Of six or eight
feet. but the next is from twenty to
thirty feet, and before the deer real
ICES danger his end Is certain.
But If he chances to get OF his doom
Is sealed, and within three to seven
miles he is run down or corralled.
They seem to get rvo and excited
and to know that there is no escape
and turn to bay. and that ends it.
st. Louis Post Dispatch.