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The Washington herald., 1908-03-30
Lucky Girls.

We may not leave a million plunks
To our beloved daughters;
We may not leave palaual yachts
For them 10 skim the waters.
We may not leave a will at all:
II We do what we write'u
Contain no bequest large enough
To coax the foreign title.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

AS an inducement for the men 10 attend
church, Michigan minister offers 10 post
the baseball scores. along with a lot Of
approved dope" at intervals during his
sermon. Perhaps he Is an enthusiast him
self. and understands the full persuasive
ness Of his scheme
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

Guggenheim has Deen
going some ever since
he left school and al 2
rapid gait. He Will
not be forty-one until
next December, YET
his success in business
has been phenomenal
Mr.. Gugge n h e ! N
graduated from the
public schools of Phil
adelphia. after which
h e s { u die d the
languages IN Europe
for two years.
His business special
ties are mining and
smelling. He and his
brothers a.-e perhaps
the largest shelters In
the United states. and
their operations have
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

The beef trust announces a scarcity OF
corn as the cause of the advance in the
price Of beef. This is perfectly natural,
Of course; the last corn crop raised in
this country being only third in point OF
size known TO its entire history
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30
StunE.

Now that we are married every pres
ent I buy you shall be something for
the house
"Oh. you dear, saw a beautiful re-
ception gown to-day"
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30
Ronndahnnf Ronte.-

Il understand she takes long walks for
her complexion"
Foxy girl Won't be seen going into
neighborhood drug store. eh?'
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

Some one complains that the convention
hall at Denver Will not be large enough
10 hold the Democratic hosts when they
meet in July. We think IL will. Free
passes on the railroads are strictly out
Of order this year.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

Prince Helie de Sagan says: Nobody
pays any attention 70 Boni- He is a
young man quite beyond hope of re-
form" Boni has received some pretty
hard knocks of late years, but nothing
quite equal 10 this.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

There is no certain cure for love and
poverty" says Paul Cook. in the Biz
mingham Age-Herald. Yes, there is;
when poverty isn't a cure for love. love
is cure for poverty. And vice versa.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

An enterprising investigator has dis
covered that John Hancock was "a snug
glcr," Samuel Adams "a defaulter," and
Abraham Lincoln "a ward boss" Now
guess what the said enterprising inyes-
tigator is.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

There is an angel for every saint in
Houston" says the Post OF that city.
And even that one must ind it tiresome
waiting for the saint TO show up.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30
Al the Last Ditch,

From the Dallas News
Graft is certainly getting to be dis
graceful when Pennsylvania politicians
are Jailed for practicing il.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

fortunately for all parties concerned.
the white man was shot I'm the leg and
the negro in the head. Had 1t been the
other way. doubtless il would have been
much more serious
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30
But RooseveIt's for Tart.

From the Atlanta Constitution
Hughes is for Hughes is a head
line in a New York paper. Anything
strange in that? Taft has not expressed
a preference for Fairbanks
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

Nevertheless and Notwithstanding. there
doesn't appear to be anything like a
stampede impending among those Ohio
patriots anxious to contest Senator For
aker's Senatorial seat.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30
Kner His Man.

From the Chicago News.
Perhaps the man who attacked Mayor
Busse's home and demanded 100000 re-
membered that his honor was once a coal
dealer.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

The Supreme Court of Missouri has
made the surreptitious purloining of fowls
a felony. Is this another blow at the
downtrodden colored brother?
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

Gov. john A. Johnson declines to ar
que with the Supreme Court OF the
United States. Those who have been
seeking for a conservative streak in Mr..
Johnsons makeup are welcome to this
evidence.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

An effort was made TO lynch an opera
singer in New Hampshire recently Evil
IDENTIFY. there is a limit 20 even New Eng
lands patience.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

Easter lilies will be so numerous this
season that they will be in reach OF prac-
TALLY everybody. so the florists say We
suppose. OF course, something else viii be
fashionable, however
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

A German scientist says nature fur
nishes a man with an entirely new brain
every sixty days. Some people just don't
seem to have any luck: that's all.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30
The Humorous Grind.

When jokelets stale begin 10 get
In course of time.
Their points may serve a jester yet
Done into rhyme.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30
PERFECTLY NnfnrnI.

FINN the Brooklyn StandaTd-Union.
Well, a man can't help being born a
duke; and who could help falling in love
with an American girl7
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30
A LITTLE NONSENSE.
ne no THEnnnRE.

Some men declare,
Who seem 20 know.
Our cruisers wear
Their plates too low.
But others rise and this deny;
Assert they wear their plates too high.
We nsortals lay
Are fairly freed
And cannot say
Which side to heed.
We wish the man who rules the States
Would fix the style in armor plates.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

people the fallacy Of judging a Cracker
colonel by the magazine pictures and the
dialect and makeup the average L. T.
c. show gives him.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30
CAPITOL GOSSIP.

Simon Guggenheim. junior Senator from
Colorado. is natiye OF Philadelphia.
Contrary 20 the old chestnut about that
city and is citizens being slow. young
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

Puzzle: DO the malefactors who failed
to get on Senator La Follettes little list
feel flattered or discouraged?
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

The average Southern Republican State
convention is proceeding these days just
as IL there were no laws against assault
and battery
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30
Wasted Advice.

ITS the little things that count. Don't
be grump. Compliment your wife on
her new hat when you so home tonight. a"
My wife amt got any new hat" re-
sponded the other party to the sidewalk
conversation, with a rueful smile.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

Mr. Tom Taggart's victory in Indiana
viii be viewed by some Democrats. per-
haps, as not an unmixed blessing.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30
In RIncI, and White.

IF Bryan is elected, he can't be fooled
/ as 70 his friends"
Why not?"
There's the subscription list to the
| Commoner"
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

We suspect Senator Davis may manage
to deliver his next speech I'm the United
States Senate without throwing quite so
many bouquets Arkansasward
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

Good thoughts are no better than good
Dreams says the Badger CMinn) Her
ald-Rustler. Yes. they are; good thoughts
are voluntary, good dreams Involuntary.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

From the Baltimore sun.
Kentucky ought 10 try shooting daylight;
through some OF the night riders.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

Evidently. Mr.. Nelson w Aldrich is
still able to pick his way along. even
amid wilderness Of near-busted trusts.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

Sour milk may be conducive to long
life. as that English physician says. but
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

bench 1t appears the Judge didn't realize
the Importance OF living up to a grand
old name
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30
Win n DuI1e ns Son-in-Iaw

From the New York Mail.
One of our leading Senators may YET
spell it Sonny Italy"
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

The only small thing about Congress-
man Littlefield is the front section of his
name.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

Begin now 20 resolve not to believe
everything you see or hear day after to-
morrow.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

DR. Hill appears 20 have suffered th'
usual fate OF the innocent bystander.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30
Scenes from Real Life,

I'm full of sentiment. I'm taking home
some lmburger cheese to-day"
"Why?"
Anniversary OF our engagement. Ny
wife was eating limburger the day l pro-
posed
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

Mr.. John d. Rockefeller. on his way
North from Georgia, says the people Of
Augusta ''act. look. and talk like human
beings" This should show a number Of
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

vote lacking only two Of being
Gus. the Virginia legislature has
removed Judge Blackstone from the
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30
Booming Ahead.

How are you getting along with your
100000 company"
First rate. I've selected a fne-sound-
ing cable address. and got my stationery
out OF hook. All need now is the price
Of desk room somewhere
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30
The Reason.

Yes, his affairs must be running
smooth"
He looks mighty Slick
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

Uncle Joe's" Congressional district
declares for tariff revision and Uncle
Joe" That is certainly a cute way of
playing both ends against the middle.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30
SUPERIOR Man.

Look at that girl eating ice cream and
fancy pickles, growled the man in the
fashionable lunch emporium.
Queer mixture"
"Outlandish, Waiter, bring me some
| caviare and charlotte russo"
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

why something suddenlike and startling
doesn't hapen about now.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

"Au trouble and Inconvenience growing
out Of the scarcity Of water in the new
mining camps OF Nevada are rapidly dis
appearing" said o. J. Smith. mining op-
orator. OF Goldfeld, al La Normandis
yesterday. They have quite as much
water in Goldheld now as will satisfy the
requirements of the camp
Going down a certain street Of Gold
field the other day. noticed sign on
building which proclaimed the fact that
baths were 10 be had there. I went IN
and announced that I would like 70 get
bath.
The fellow in charge handed me a
ticket and took my money.
." We'll. see here. said I. I don't want
a bath ticket. I want a bath
Oh. you'll get a bath all right said
the bathhouse manager. Let me see
your ticket No. SIS. There are about
/ SD persons ahead Of you Come around
! in about three or four weeks
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-02-24
Hickey Bond Too Small.
Mackenzie Asserts
Freeing Banker on $4,000 Bail
Mistake, if Nothing More,
Says Financier
sFEoIAL DIspArcH no THE cALL

RENO. New, Feb. 23.-Donald Mac
kenzie, the new president of the state
bank and trust company, arrived in
Reno last evening and left on a later
train for California. Following the
departure of t. B. Hickey. who left
last night for San Francisco, the pas
sage in the same direction of Mac
kenzie is looked upon as significant.
When interviewed last evening be-
tween trains Mackenzie said:
While 1 do not desire to make any
insinuations regarding the departure of
Hickey at this time, 1 wish to say that
the placing OF man charged with so
grave a crime as that with which he
has been accused under a bond so
trivial as $4,000 is a most regrettable
circumstance. 1t was serious mistake
on the part of the justice of the peace
at Carson, to call it nothing worse.
81 may seem to speak with feeling on
this topic. but it is something which
concerns very deeply not only myself
but every other depositor in the state
bank and trust company, and 1 may
say every citizen of the state of Ne
vada-certainly every bank depositor.'
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-02-24
TOO PLUMP TO
DON NN[THfRSO[E
GOWN; QUITS
Pretty but Chubby English
Actress, Katherine Stewart,
Resigns in Huff
Balks When Forced to Play
Court Dame in Velvet
and Tinsel
Differences in Troupe, Begun
Here, Cause Five Members
to Leave Company
SPECIAL DIsPATcH TO THE CALL

NEW YORK. Feb. 25.-"Because
it was physical impossibility to
hook my 200 pounds of embonpoint
into one of Miss Olga Nethersole's 20
inch waists was obliged to leave the
Nethersole forces when reached
New York" explained Miss Rather
inc Stewart today.
The pretty though somewhat
chubby English actress was telling
why she had Cancelled her engage
nent, and also about several other
members of the company who had
quit because they considered tha,
they had had enough of petty fric-
ton during the long tour through
the western states. 1t developed
that FIVE different members OF the
company, including three English ac-
tresses who sailed today on the Etru-
ria, had left Miss Nethersole because
of differences which began in San
Francisco.
The costumes I wore through the
west were some that belonged to the
star and fitted her charmingly in
their day. continued Miss Stewart,
but when in 'Adrienne Lecouyreur" l
desired to dress my part of court
dame with the utmost nicely of de-
tail found thar the management
was content TO supply me with an old
blue velvet riding habit Of the year
one I looked like chorus girl.
Fancy me in blue velvet. pearl trim
mings and tinsel-why ] looked more
like a hippodrom than court dame, :,
and Miss Stewart laughed merrily.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-02-24
"BLACK HAND" THREATENS
TO BLOW UP MAGAZINE
United States Arsenal, Contain
ing Powder, Menaced Follow
ing Discharge Of LaborerS

NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-In a letter
signed BLACK Hand" and addressed to
Commander Braunsmueter of the United
States naval magazine at Iona island,
the threat has been made that the enor-
nous stores of smokeless powder on
the island will be blown up unless the
married men discharged from employ
ment on the island January /. 1908, be
put back to work al once. There are
5000, 900 pounds of smokeless powder
and other explosives stored in the
magazines.
Secret service men are searching for
the writer of the letter. The letter,
which was in box letters, hand written,
was mailed at the Haverstraw post
Office two weeks ago. 1t was as fol-
lows
IF the married men that were dis
charged from Iona island are not taken
back again at once all the magazines
on the island will be blown up. The
writer does not fear death.
BLACK HAND"
Among the men discharged, most of
whom were laborers, there were many
Italians.
Since the receipt of the letter every
approach to the island has been guard
ed day and night by marines.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-02-24
POLICE PLACE BAN ON
BIG MASS MEETINGS
Philadelphia Foreigners Are
Wroth at the Firm Stand
of Authorities

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 23-The ac-
ton of the police in preventing the
meeting of a number of societies and
organizations in the foreign settlement
in the southern section of the city has
caused much i'll feeling among the for
eigners. The action followed an order
by Director of Public Safety Clay, in
which the police were directed TO stop
the anarchists from holding any meet
ings. The order was given in conse-
nuence of the riot that followed the
parading of unemployed foreigners on
Thursday.
The meeting of a Jewish beneficial
society was stopped, as was also one
that was to have been addressed by a
well known lawyer who was to have
talked against "anarchism." Despite
the police vigilance, the professed an
archist did hold meeting in a hall.
a lawyer and prepare to advertise and
hold big meeting SO that they can
test the law and see whether they have
the right of free speech.
The central labor union today placed
itself on record as opposed to parades
of the unemployed" by refusing to at
tend a labor meeting in the northern
section of the city unless given asSur-
ances that there would be no parade.
I'VE want to keep out of such dem
onstrations. They won't get any one
work and they lead to trouble" Is the
way one of the delegates expressed it
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-02-24
POLICE CHIEF is SHOT
DEAD BY CRAZED NEGRO
Son of Murdered Officer Grabs
Fathers Pistol and Wounds
the SLAYER

FAYETTEVILLE, n. c., Feb. Is
Chief of Police Benton of this city was
shot dead in front of his home today
by negro, Sam Murchison, crazed with
drink This man shot two negroes a.
few minutes before he killed the chief.
Murchison was captured an hour after
the shooting. He is suffering from a
wound in the thigh, inflicted by Chief
Benton's 16 year old son, who, just after
his father was shot seized the dead
officers pistol and pursued the mur-
derer. A crowd gathered and. tried to
take Murchison from the officers and
lynch him, but the prisoner was landed
In a cell after a hard struggle
Another shooting occurred tonight.
when another negro attacked several
white boys and, while resisting arrest.
shot a policeman and possibly fatally
injured him. There is great excitement
in the city and military companies are
on duty by order of the governor
year ago Chief of Police Chason
and Holyman Lockamy were killed in
a blind tiger raid and third policeman
was wounded.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-02-24
UNION MEN INDORSE
ROOSEVELT'S ACTION

ATLANTA, Ga. Feb. 2S.-Fifteen
hundred railwaymen, representing all
of the different labor unions whose
members are employed with railroads
centering here. met in mass meeting
today and adopted resolutions indors-
ing Presidents Roosevelt's action in or
dering an investigation of the reported
cut in wages to be made by railroads
when the so called nine hour law goes
into effect March + Another resolution
denounced the attempts OF the railroads
to reduce wages, and action was taken
looking to a permanent organization Of
those represented at today's meeting
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-02-24
Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs
Calls the Police
Woman Servant After Six
Years Service Grows Angry
and Makes Threats
srEcIAL. pIspArcH 10 rHE cALL

Il.
NLW YORK, Feb. 2S-Alarmed by
a disturbance made by a woman serv-
ant, Mrs Hermann oelrichs tried twice
today to obtain the aid of the police at
her home, East Fifty seventh street.
After six years of service. during
which no complaint had been made
against her, the woman suddenly be-
gan to act strangely this afternoon and
made threats against Mrs. Oelrichs and
other members of the household. Find
ing that argument was of no avail,
Mrs. Oelrichs discharged the woman
and then went to the telephone to can
a policeman; but before she could de-
liver the message the servant had left
the house. She returned tonight, ac-
companied by several other women,
and made another demonstration, de-
claring that she had been falsely ac-
cused of having stolen toys while in
San Francisco with Mrs. oelrichs last
month
Again Mrs. Oelrichs tried TO call a
policeman, but again the woman
slipped away with her. companions. She
left her trunks in the house, and Mrs.
Oelrichs said that she would have a
deputy sheriff examine them to learn
whether or not there is any founda-
tion for the story of the stolen toys.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-02-24
PRETTY GIRL
AIDS LOVER
IN HOLDUPS
Seventeen Year Old Tacoma
Lass RObs Citizens at
Pistols Point
Conversation in a Cafe Leads
to Capture of Maid and
Her Associates
Gang That Terrorized Two
Cities for Many Weeks
Confesses Guilt
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL


TACOMA, Wash, Feb. 23.-At-
tired in boys clothes and carrying a
large caliber revolver. pretty II year
old Hazel Potter, daughter of well
known Tacoma lurnberman, has ac-
companied Harold True, her II year
old sweetheart. and aided him in
some of the most daring holdups
ever perpetrated in the northwest.
With the capture of the girl True
and Fred Frons, lo year old youth
who formed the third member of the
gang, detectives have cleared up the
mystery connected with a series OF
daring holdups which for four weeks
made citizens afraid to go unarmed at
night in downtown or residence dis
tricts.
True confesses to a score of holdups.
nine of which he admits were success
full His sweetheart witnessed most of
these and admits she actually partici-
pated in several Nine men who, dur
ing the last four weeks, reported to the
police that they had been held up and
robbed, delivered their money and jew
elry with trembling hands to these
fearless juvenile robbers. True says
he held up three men on First avenue,
in Seattle. three weeks ago and com
PEELED each to give him money and
vaIuables.
While plain clothes men OF the Ia
coma police force worked ceaselessly
night and day, following every clew
which might lead to the capture OF the
bandits whose operations marked a
carnival of crime seldom experienced in
this city, True, his sweetheart and
Irons operated cooIly and without fear.
1t was by the merest chance that the
detective overheard a conversation be-
tween the girl and her lover at a local
cafe which furnished clew and result
ed in the capture of the daring Juvenile
robbers.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-02-24
LOCATE RICH LOOT OF
BAKER, GENTLEMAN THIEF
ValuabIes Worth Thousands
Stolen Here and i'm Eastern
Cities Recovered
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE cALL

BOSTON, Feb. 2s.-Thousands OF
dollars worth of loot gathered in a
series of postofice and express rob-
berries between San Francisco and Bos-
ton perpetrated by James A Baker,
fashionable crook and gentleman OF
leisure in Boston, New York and San
Francisco, has been found here by de-
tectives at the Hotel Essex and in pri-
vate lodging houses. The valuables In
clude postofice and express money or
ders and packages. The loot was To-
Gated through the confession of Baker,
who is now under arrest in New York,
awaiting the arrival of Boston police
men.
One of Bakers accomplices is said
to be Jack Raymond, another fashion
able hotel habitue. The money orders
he stole were forged and passed on
various merchants throughout tho
country. Baker also confesses to a
murder committed at Darlington, w.
Va. December %, 1907.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-02-24
FEUD LEADER TIED TO
TREE DIES OF EXPOSURE
Tom Hatfield Succ umbs to Tor
ture Inflicted by Foes in
Kentucky Mountains
spECIAI. DISPATCH no TEE CALL

SPECIAL DlSPAlCd IO .IHE CALL
LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. 23.-Tom
Hatfield, who was caught by feud
enemies in the mountains along the
Trigg river in West Virginia two
weeks ago and bound to a tree. where
he was left to starve and freeze died
at a hospital here.
He was found by a traveller and
brought to Louisville Both legs were
amputated and several fingers were so
badly frozen that they dropped off.
Members of the Hatfield clan are VOW
ing vengeance.
HATFIELD did not recover sufficiently
to tell who the men were who captured
and bound him. He was one of the
leading figures in the famous Hatfield
Mccoy feud