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The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-04
FRANK P. SARGENT
DEAD AFTER LONG
PUBLIC CAREER
Commissioner of immigration
Had Filled Several High Of
fees with Credit.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.--Frank p
Sargent. commissioner of immigration
Department of Commerce and Labor
died in this city today of stomach
trouble after several months illness.
Mr. Sargent was "a years of age. He
was born in Orange. VT. For seventeen
years, from 1885 to 1902, he was chief OF
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men. In 1898 President Mckinley ap-
pointed him as a member of the In
dustrial Commission and, when he re-
signed from that body. he declined the
position of chief of the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing. He had been
commissioner-g general of immigration
since 1902.
He was thirty-second degree Mason
and member of the National Civic
Federation. He also was a member of
the Crepe Coeur Club, of Peoria, ILL.,.
and of the Fifty" club, of Philadel-
phia.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-04
CRACK SHOTS
Of STATE ON
THEIR METTLE
Are at Sea Girt for Annual
Tournament of New Jersey
Rifle Association.
DRYDEN TROPHY is
CENTRE OF INTEREST
Second Troop of New Jersey
Wins the Cavalry Team
Match.

SEA GIRT, Sept 4.-Weather condi-
shoot on the Sea Girt range today,
which marks the eighteenth annual
meeting of the New Jersey State Rifle
Association, the fifth of the New York
association, and also the first annual
meeting of the United States Revolver
Association. 1t also is the twenty-fifth
anniversary of Brigadier- General Bird
Spencer's taking charge of the rifle
meets. The tournament will be in
progress until Saturday night, Septem-
Der II.
A bright sunny day, with slight
marksmen, and no delay marked the
beginning OF the shoot, all the men
being on the line promptly at o'clock.
The matches scheduled for the day
were the Columbia trophy, the Cavalry
team and the Company team. There
were five teams entered in each of the
first named contests and thirteen In
the tyro match. The cavalry team
match was shot at 200 and 500 yards
and tyro at 200 only The Columbia
trophy shoot is at 200, 500, 600 and 500
yards.
Two stages in the Columbia trophy
match of 200 and 500 yards were COM
pleted today. showing scores as fol-
lows: Second x,egiment, $50; Fourth
Regiment, 522;' First Regiment, 5ls;
Third Regiment. 517; Fifth Regiment,
51S.
In the Columbia trophy match the
five teams entered were: The First,
Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth New
Jersey. The cavalry team match was
also contested for by i've teams, Sec
ond Troop. of New Jersey; Squadron
A, of New York; first and second
teams of the Second Troop. Philadel-
phia Cavalry, and the First Troop,
Philadelphia Cavalry. The first stage
of 200 yards showed the Second Troop,
of New Jersey, in the lead in the caval-
ry team match, while the same range
in the Columbia trophy match showed
close race between the Second and
First regiments, New Jersey, for the
honors.
The most important match of the
tournament will be for the Dryden
trophy. a piece of bronze valued at
$4,000, presented by former United
States Senator John f. Dryden, of New
ark, to be competed for by teams of
eight from the same branches of the
military service that are eligible in the
national matches.
Next in Importance probably is the
interstate regimental match for the
Briggs trophy, to be shot at the same
distance by teams of six men each.
This year the New York State Rife
Association has transferred its annual
shoot from the Creedmoor Range to this
mecca of the shooting experts. and the
United States Revolver Association is
here also. The tournament is under the
direction of General Bird w. Spencer.
the State Inspector general of rife
practise, and a large number of cups,
trophies and cash prizes will be awarded
to the victorious marksmen.
standing OF the Teams.
The standing of teams in two matches
now being shot is as follows;
Columbia Trophy-First, Second Regi-
ment, Now Jersey, 256; second, First
Regiment, New Jersey 254; third. Third
Regiment, New Jersey, $50: fourth.
Continued ON Second Page.l
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-04
Brother Hurrying to Join in
Romp Knocks Pistol from
Under Pillow.
WEAPON STRIKES HARD
FLOOR AND EXPLODES
Bullet Pierces Child's Abdomen
and She Dies Clasped in
Mothers Arms.
LspecIal TO the Evening star.l

TRENTON, Sept. 4.--The practise of
keeping u loaded revolver under a pill
low was responsible for the accidental
killing today of Agnes Bole, the IS
months-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Willianf-Bole of this city, by her g.
year-old brother Willie.
The tragedy has Frustrated the par
ents.
In tho second-story front room of
the Bole home are two beds, one OF
which the mother and baby occupied,
While the father and son >slept in the
other. Shortly before I o'clock. this
morning the father. as is his custom,
INDUCED in a romp with the baby girl
before leaving for the Pennsylvania
railroad offices, where he is employed
Mr.. Bole WAS sitting on the edge of
one bed and the child was playing
about his knees. Willie awole and
started to leave his he'd to join. IN the
play In arising he accidentally pulled
the pillow, and the weapon, a 32-calibre
affair, dropped. The hammer struck
the solid wooden flooring, discharging
the weapon, and the bullet shot straight
at the little girl.
Mr.. Bole did not realize at first what
had happened, and III was not until the
baby began to cry that he knew she
was dying.
Catching the baby in his arms he
made a hasty examination and discov-
cred nasty wound in the abdomen.
Calling his wife, he rushed to a tele-
phone and summoned a surgeon.
The child died before the doctor
reached the house.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-04
Hudson Tunnels Base of Plan TO
Distribute Manhattan Mail
in This City.
RAILROADS MAY Buy
THE M'ADOO SUBWAYS
Hartman Said TO Be Back of
Plan in Order to Improve
Suburban Service.

Plans are under consideration by the
P0stoffice Department in Washington
for the establishment in Newark of a
great receiving and dispatching station
which will be auxiliary to New York.
The proposition, If finally adopted
VIII be put into effect when the sub
river and meadow trolley lines be-
tween Manhattan and Newark are
completed. This is expected before the
end of 1908.
The scheme contemplates that all
trains carrying mails for New York
shall unload into the proposed station
in Newark, where the mail will be
sorted and then be transferred by
various electric trains direct to the diff.
ferent postal stations in New York city
including Brooklyn
Reciprocally, the mail from the va
rious stations in New York would be
sent to the distributing stations in
Newark
Railroads Want Tunnels.
So far the scheme has not been
worked out in detail, but the general
plans have been received with favor by
the heads of the department in Wash
ington.
1t is said that in connection with this
plan the railroads entering New York
and passing through Newark are ar
ranging to take over the tunnels of the
Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Com
pany, as the McAdoo enterprise is
known. In the meantime, 1t is said,
two more tunnels under the Hudson
will be built between the Erie terminal
in Jersey City and the Manhattan ter
minal in Cortlandt street.
1t is said that Edward II. Hartman,
who is now Interested in the Erie, will
help to finance the plan for the new
tunnels in the belief that they will help
this road.
The Hudson companies have con-
tracted to build these tunnels three
years after the Erie suburban lines have
been electrified. 1t Is believed thai
under tine new scheme this electrifica-
tion is to be hastened and tho building
of the tunnels pushed.
The contracts for building the tun-
nels for the Erie provide that trains
shall be run from Manhattan to the
principal suburban towns along its
lines without change and with a large
as is definitely planned for the Penn
sylvania and is proposed for the
'Lackawanna Railroad.
The Hudson companies, which own
the completed tunnel and those being
constructed, have expended more than
$45,000.00 In 1910 they will be called
upon to pay notes of S15,000,000. They
are under obligation to raise money to
complete the tunnel along the Jersey
shore and the under-river tunnel to
accommodate the Pennsylvania SUBJ
urban travel. They must also COM
plete their tunnel along Sixth avenue
in Manhattan from Nineteenth to Thir-
ty-third street.
Officials at the Newark Postofice
are unacquainted with plans for the
proposed New York distributing station
in this city. They said today that the
plan might be only in preliminary
form at the present time. and that the
postoffice authorities would later make
inquiries locally about the feasibility
of It,
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-04
VIZ. LEEDS LEFT A
FORTUNE OF S3O,O00,0 900.

MINEOLA, L. T.. Sept. 4.-By the viii
of william 3. Leeds. who died in Paris
lite this spring, which has been filed in
the Surrogates Court at Mlneoia' prop
erty valued at more than $So,ooO'oOo is
disposed of.
10 his second wife, Nonnie Stewart
leeds. is left $1500O0 in cash, wearing
apparel. jewelry. personal effects ETC.;
hoy No. II at the Metropolitan Opera
House and the town house, 9S1 Fifth
avenue. for her life only. To his SON
Rudolph Gaar Leeds. is left s1,oOoooo
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-04
LAY DEATH TO BLACK HAND.

PATTERSON, Sept 4-cause OF the
death of Vincenzo Sporteli. who was
found dead in the cellar of the Colt
Building. where he was employed as
assistant janitor, has not been deter
mined. but it is suspected that he was
a victim of the Black Hand because
his evidence sent two of the gang TO
taA Sta4A asxlAAA 9ss iAA ~sars each.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-04
MAXIM GUN-SILENCER is
SUCCESS ON FINAL TEST.

SPRINGFIELD. Mass, It. 4.-Hi-
ram Percy Maxim's gun-siencing de-
vice received it's final test here yester-
day at the hands of a board of officers
attached to the United States armory.
the test being to determine whether the
device would afford protection to skir-
mfshers oresharp-shooters advancing on
an enemy! The test is said to have
been entirely successful.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-04
Jersey to- Set New Stand
ard, Says Fort in Long
Branch Speech.
OUTLINES DETAILS TO
SHORE LAND OWNERS
Highway Would Skirt Sea for
Almost Entire Length
of the State.
OCEAN BOULEVARD PLAN.

rOVERNOR FORT in the
coast-boulevard plan urges.
The construction of magnifi-
cent highway between Atlantic
Highlands and Cape May, dis
tance of 1877 miles.
That the State take over exist
ing roads, build where necessary
and be in control.
That local committees be re-
lieved of repair expense in re-
turn for turning over highways.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-04
Frank Keenan, Draws Gun
in LaCkawanRa Depot,
Demanding Cash.
POLICEMAN CLUBS COCAINE
VICTIM AND HIS PAL
Finds Magee Struggling with Ex-
convict and Youth Who Also
Has Police Record.

Crazed by cocaine, Frank keenan,, re-
leased from the Trenton State Prison
three weeks ago after serving three
years for burglary, was captured today
while struggling with the ticket agent
OF the I.ackawanna railroad in South
Orange, whom he was trying to hold
up at tn o point of pistol.
The orLy fact which kept the incl
dent out of the category of real Jesse
James crimes was that Keenan, was in
a cocaine delirium and his pistol was
uploaded.
When Keenan, came from prison he
found that THE EVENING STARS
Anti-coca ire bill had become q law and
that it was not as easy to procure the
drug as formerly. His mother, who
lives at II Church street, South Orange,
said today that her son had gone to
bed as USUAL last night. 1t was after
midnight when he left the house and
awakened Louis Polio. IL years old. liv-
ing across the street. The latter got his
fathers revolver and the two started
out.
1t was several hours later that they
appeared at the ticket Office of the
Leckawanna depot and pounded on the
door until Agent John Magee opened it
and then keenan, poked the pistol into
lis face and demLnded:
.Give ua your money!"
Agent Fights the Pair.
instead OF complying, Magee seized
the gun. believing it to be loaded, and
gave the two callers a hard fight. They
We're wrestling about the rom, Magee
calling for help, when Patrolman Will
lam Smith arrived. Using his club
vigorously he laid out keenan, and
Polio. and then. with the assistance OF
the nervy ticket agent, marched them
to the station.
It was not until the station was
reached that 1t was found that the
pistol was not loaded. 1t Is not be-
lieved that keenan, knew this. He
acted peculiarly and a physician was
called, who said that Keenan, was
under the influence of cocaine.
When Keenan, and young Polio were
arrajgned before Police Magistrate J.
Martin Roll today keenan, was in such
n condition from the use of cocaine
that tha hearing was adjourned until
tomorrow.
in Trenton for breaking into and rob
bing the hardware store of Charles /.
Beck, 10 South Orange avenue, South
Orange Previous to that he had
served other terms for burglaries and
highway robberies in this and other
States.
Couldn't Master Habit.
When Keenan, left prison three weeks
ago he went to live with his mother.
He complained to her about his inabil-
ity to obtain cocaine.
Where he got cocaine last night is
a matter which the police are now in
vestigatipg. 1t is believed that he
bought 1t In New York.
Louis Polio has been trouble tosthe
police for some time, the police say.
and since the release of Keenan, from
prison he had been in his company
much of the time. The police believe
that Keenan, planned the attack on
the Lackawanna station before last !
night and got Polio, by prearrange- ,
rnent Polio, not knowing his father !
revolver was not loaded. gave 1t to
Keenan, and they then made their as
sault on Magee and the ticket office in |
an effort to get money.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-04
MORE NEW STYLE TROLLEY CARS.

The Public Service Railway Company
VIII equip its belt lines in Jersey City
with pay-as-you-enter cars this month.
The next line to be equipped will be
the Greenyille,
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-04
BODy OF ONE VICTIM OF
LAUNCH TRAGEDY FOUND,

ATLANTIC CITY. Sept. 4,--Kate
strickland's body was picked up ten
miles of Longport yesterday by Cap
tain Charles Adams. in his yacht. and
was brought ashore The body of
Charles Bateman, OF Philadelphia, in
whose launch the two went out III
storm, was not found.
County Physician Souder DECIDED NOT
to hold an inquest. as 1t was evident
that death was due to an accfuent.
The launch was found bottom up In.
Great Egg Harbor Bay.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-04

Coleman National Business College.
once open every day and right this week.
Fall opening all this weelS.--Ady.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-04

KoCTE,S HOTEL. Ss4 BROAD STREET,
near City Hall; tonight Halupka's Hungarian
s Orchestra .-Adv
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-04
standing of the Teams.

The standing of teams in two matches
now being shot is as follows:
Columbia Trophy-First, Second Regi-
ment, Now Jersey, 256; second, First
Regiment, New Jersey, 254; third. Third
Regiment, New Jersey, 250: fourth.
Continued ON Second Psge.l
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-07-16
RoADLESS AMERICA

| From the maledictions scattered
broadcast in the mire of roadles.
America by despairing hieyclists 6f.
teen years ago hopes Of better things
have taken root, So writes c. +
Carter in the Technical World Maga-
zine. No gift OF prophecy is now re-
quired TO forsee time when these
hopes will have so far materialized
that team, il it is a good one, will
be able to haul an empty wagon over
the gumbo roads OF the Mississippi
valley in spring, and the public high
ways OF the south will be so well
buoyed that light draught automo-
biles may navigate them in compara-
tive safety.
From every part of the country
comes the same encouraging news.
Sixteen states now have highway
commissions that are trying in vari-
GUS ways to supply the greatest need
of the nation, which is good roads.
At one extreme is New York, which,
in 1905, voted to expend fifty million
dollars in building roads. Under the
plan adopted the state will build and
maintain 1882 miles connecting the
principal cities, and pay onehalf the
cost of 400 miles of local roads to
be built by the counties.
At the other extreme, is Iowa, the
third state in the Union in extent Of
road mileage, where the use of the
public highways is so vast that if
.eams enough could be assembled to
10 in one day all the travelling done
n the state in year the line would
each once and a half around the
,arth, which doles out an annual ap-
'ropriation OF $1,000 to defray the
expenses of the state college faculty /
While acting in the capacity OF high
way commission. With this intro
luction the author writes OF what is
icing done and what can be done to |
ransform roadless America, and the
rticle is illustrated with fine photo
.raphs.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-07-16
BEES AT WORK
graphs.

Three hundred billion bees made
enough honey last year to fill train
of cars enough to reach from New
York to Buffalo. AT the low whole.
sale rate of ten cents pound it was
worth $25,000,000, and if the 100000
bee keepers Of the country had work
ed as industriously and skillfully as
did the bees the weight OF the output
would have been three times as great
as the value $75,000,000.
Not only did the little workers con-
tribute that vast supply of pure and
delicious food product to the nation
but as they made it they treated it
antiseptically with formic acid thus
preventing impurities or decay.
In one year the bee hives sent to
market product worth nearly as
much as the barley crop; three times
as much as the buckwheat crop; &c.
100000 greater than the rye crop and
nearly 100000 greater than the rice
crop. All Of the rice and buckwheat
grown on an aggregated area of g.
1861 square miles did not reach to
The value Of the honey by $l5l,259.
To appreciate these results one
must necessarily strive also to ap-
oreciate the number Of insects at
work That is rather difficult for
hree hundred billion stretches a long
way beyond intelligent human com
'rehension. The human mind doesn't
work well, in anything mathematic-
lily greater than thousands. .-Techni-
al World. /
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-07-16
PROPOSALS.
~N--~SN~~N-~~~>-N~-~-~~N-~
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN


NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the undersigned will receive
bids, at his office in the City Of Hood
River Oregon, up TO July 18th, in
elusive, for transcribing and indexing
all records of Wasco County in any
way affecting. real estate situated in
Hood River County, all transcripts
to be typewriter in record books to
be furnished by Hood River County.
Bids should specify the amount per
folio Of one hundred words for
transcribing and indexing said rec
ordS separately. A bond in the sum
of three thousand dollars will be re-
quired to insure the faithful perform
ance. of the contract The right is
reserved to reject any or all bids.
A. ]. DERBY,
County Judge Of Hood River County.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-07-16

Ous denomination. ''No, thanks, car
carry this grip myself" Then sh,
made her way to the depot
The labors of the day were ended
Mrs. Watson and several of her board
ers were out on the front porch in rest
full enjoyment of the "cool O. the even
in'."
"Yes, Miss Wright's cuttin' a wide
gwath, accordin' to the papers," the
Iandlady was declaiming to the little
milliner, a new boarder. "Today's
Clarion said as how a furrin noble.
man appeared to be gettin' the inside
track. That's why he's lookin' more
moped than usual tonight" pointing
through the open window at a solitary
man In the shabby sitting room, his
head leaning wearily on his hand. an
unopened paper on his knee.
HE amt been the same man since
she left" continued Mrs. Watson in a
lowered voice. In love. with her?
Land sakes, l should say he was! Ev-
cry one could see ID except Miss
Wright Why didn't he up and tell
her? Why, child, they were both too
poor! Miss Wright didn't make no
more'n her own keep, an Mr.. Lang
don has mother an sister to support
back in Ohio. An when Miss Wright's
uncle died an left her all that prop'uty
Of course that put her out'n his reach
for good. He's too proud a man to live
On his wifes money. It's a dreadful
pity, though, for if ever two people
were cut out for each other Just
then she turned her head and saw
Dora Wright walking up the path.
For the land sakes alive" ejaculat-
ed Mrs. Watson "rhls amt never
you! How glad am to see you, an
how well you're lookin'"
Considerable time was consumed in
congratulations and explanations Then
Mrs. Watson hurried upstairs to see
about a room for her unexpected guest.
and Dora went into the parlor and
seated herself beside Mr.. Langdon.
Have you missed me. Roberto" she
asked.
Missed you? echoed Langdon. He
thought how intensely he had missed
her How, during the two months of
her absence, he had longed for the
sound Of her voice, the merry laugh in
her eyes!
Its like dream to have you SIT.
ting beside me, Dora. / don't under
stand it. For the first time in wears
you had got comfortably away from
the everlasting grind and were free TO
spend your time as you liked, yet here
you are back again in the hot, dusty
city in the middle of August. Now.
Dora, what's the reason?"
"Well, one of the reasons is that this |
talk about money making you free is /
all nonsense. Money made me a slave
for two months. Instead of doing what /
wanted ! had to do what anybody
Else wanted.
Il had to be outdoors when was
cold and indoors when was hot.
Aad to sit through two hour dinners
81 y e
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-07-16
Taking Advantage
Of Leap Year.
BY ANNE HEILMAN.
Copyrighted, 1905, by Associated
Literary Press.

Dora Wright had practically mas.
tered the difficult art OF being poor
when fate presented her whimsically
with abundance While she was still
wondering what she was going to do
with II all some relatives swooped
down upon her and whisked her of to
Newport for the season.
About two months later Miss Wright
returned from an elaborate function
very late one night, or, rather, very
early one morning.
Bidding her aunt and cousins good
night, she wearily ascended the stairs
10 her room, her shimmering ball dress
billowing gracefully around her slender
figure. One hour later she walked
briskly down the same stairs attired in
q natty linen travelling suit and carry
ing small satchel.
Il am going away for a visit" she
Informed the astonlshed butler as he
unlocked the front door at her COM
mand. you'll find a small trunk.
locked and strapped, in my room.
Please send it to this address," hand
ing the man card and bill of gener.
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Logical.


The man wearing a deaf and dumb
placard stood before the Judge.
"Your honor" he said, 81 do not
wish to take undue technical adyan-
tage. do not claim to be without
hearing or speech. The words deaf
and dumb without qualification, are
words and nothing more. Supposlng
had worn a number on tag? Would
that have made me guilty Of asserting
myself a dog or an automobile?
Moreover, your honor man may
be deaf and dumb constructiyely.
That's my status during business
hours"
Your reasoning is excellent" re-
spOnded the court, "and, though | send
you to Jail for thirty days, you are not
to be deprived of the right to consider
yourself constructively free" - Phila-
delphia Ledger.
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to leave and had reached the door
when the clerk called after him.
"Look hero, stranger, Take one Of
these small bells for your cow, aud
you won't have half as much bother
finding her, for when you hear the bell
you will always know that she can't
DO far off,"
He bought the bell,--Judge.