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The Washington herald., 1908-01-24

traction lines is Duncan Mcdonald, who
is also president Of the pioneer company
IN the manufacture Of this type Of cars.
Chicago Joined in the procession later
with 10 cars, and duplicate order has
been placed. Then followed the Niagara
Falls traction lines, the New York City
lines, and the system Of the Public Ser
vice Corporation Of New Jersey.
The Washington herald., 1908-01-24

Only ten cents week, delivered at
your door-the daily issues of The
Washington Herald. Phone Main $780,
The Washington herald., 1908-01-24

Much interest is taken in the fate of
the Hepburn bill in the Senate. which
provides for the purchase Of the land Iy-
ing between Pennsylvania avenue and
the mall, for government use. A num-
Der of prominent real estate firms expect
commissions from fixing up deals for
many of the parcels with the government
commission when it shall be appointed.
The Washington herald., 1908-01-24

There have been many systems Of fare
collections since street cars came into
existence. First there was the little box
in which the patron dropped his fare
while the driver Of the old horse car rang
IL up. Then came conductors who col
lected the fares and rang them Up. along
with the cable and electric cars. In Louis
vile, Ky, and several other cities, they
did not adopt the conductor at the same
time they did the electric car. and the
motorman was always between the devil
OF running over some one and the deep
blue sea Of having a patron put a bad
nickel IN the slot Happily. they were
more careful OF the fellow IN front Of
their cars than they were Of the nickels
that went into the slot. and matters went
along reasonably WELL but even in Louis
vile there were many bad nickels taken
in. New York to this day represents
every stage Of street car development
from the old horse car which may be
lifted off the track, hauled around an
obstruction. and placed on the rails again.
Up 10 the most modern subway and ele-
waited line. Probably no city on the
Globe presents such a diversity Of ideas
in its traction service.
The Washington herald., 1908-01-24

Rumors are current in real estate cir
Cles that the property at the northwest
corner Of Vermont avenue and H street
northwest, formerly occupied as the an
mex of the Arlington Hotel, and more re-
Gently the temporary home of the Metro
p0litan Club, is about to be purchased and
rebuilt for business purposes. The prop
erty is owned by a New York man. and
the identity Of the purchaser has not as
yet been made public. The rumor in an
other form connect the sale of the prop
erty with one OF the perennial theater
deals, which are revived at regular in
lervals.
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The experiments Of introducing the
new feature of paying as you enter cars
has been attended with many amusing
incidents In Pittsburg a woman had her
nickel WOman-like, IN her mouth, and
the crowd behind were pressing forward
so briskly that she lost her head and
swallowed the nickel In Chicago there
was man who declared he would never
submit % the outrage Of having 10 stand
out IN the cold and search his pockets
for nickel He tried 10 board a pay
as-yOu-enter car without paying. and
when prevented he grew obstreperous
and landed in the police court. His reso-
luton cost him 100 street car rides ard
a whole lot of trouble besides
More street car men who have watched
The experiment say that the new idea
has demonstrated its value They point
out that wherever that type Of car has
been tried it has worked 10 the satisfac-
ton OF he patrons. Of the company, and
Of the employees. The stTap-hanger looks
/ upon IL as a G0dseud, since the arrange
ment stops the conductor from elbowing
his way through the crowd. II IS pointed
out that the patrons need only become
thoroughly acquainted with its advan-
taFeS IN order 10 be wholly for it. and as
for the traction companies. they find
that the additional speed with which
they are able 10 get their cars from one
end of the line TO the other the saving
Of expenses i'm accident claims. and the
saving OF fares that dishonest employees
would otherwise have appropriated. make
the new cars more than q paying invest
ment
But tie car companies realize that
much educational work viii have to be
done before the people of a city will be-
come rec0nclled 10 SO radical a change.
There are now 1000 street cars in op-
Grafton in the United States Their ap-
DroXimaJe cost is about Si0.m0OU The
average life of street car is in the
ucighboThood of twelve years II will
therefore be seen however successful the
new type of cars is it viii be a long time
before II can be generally adopted with
out retiring much valuable rolling stock.
That the pay-as-you-enteT car is coming
to stay however slow the coming may
be- is the opinion of most street car men
who have studied the records Of the ex-
neTimeuts with them. No race track
freGuenter ever studied past perform
anCes Of favOrite horses more carefully
than traction managers study new street
car experiments, for as evil is ever pres
ent with US when We would do good so
the street car manager eats and sleeps
with the proposition Of how to carry the
maximum number Of passengers at
minimum cost TO the company.
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REAL ESTATE NOTES.

Stone & Fairfax have sold for J. Thorn
as Mamie a tract of land embracing
twelve acres, at the head Of Massachu-
setts avenue extended. Just within the
line of the District of Columbia, adjoin-
ing the subdivision known as American
University Park.
The purchaser will hold the land for
investment. expecting extensive improve
ments in that section.
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Bv MARIA ALBANESI

Copyright 1907. by Maria Abanes AL rights reserved.
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Will Visit Australia and the Phil
ippines, Hawaii and Samoa
ON the Way.
RETURN BY WAY OF THE SU[z
II Will Be Greatest Naval Undertaking
in Hist0ry-Oficers and Men
Are Pleased.

Washington, March IS. Admiral
Evans b%attleship feet is going
around the world.
All doubts as to the final destina-
ton of the big sixteen were cleared
yesterday when announcement was
made by Secretary of the Navy Met
calf that the fleet. after leaving San
Francisco, will continue to the Orient
and return by way of the Suez canal
to New York. It will be the greatest
naval undertaking in history.
Secretary Metcalf announced the
future movements of the fleet after
the cabinet meeting yesterday. 1t will
leave San Francisco on July 6 "for
our Pacific possessions as Mr.. Met
calf styled it. The vessels will first
touch at Hawaii. where they will coal.
After that they will go TO Samoa, fol
lowing this mp by a visit to Australia,
where they will stop at the cities OF
Melbourne and Sydney. the invitation
of the Australian government to visit
that country having been supplement-
ei by a more cordial one from the
BRUSH dttibtSSauof MI. Bryce.
Target Practice in Philippines.
Leaving Australia the vessels are
to 60 to Manila and while in the Phil
ippines the annual fail target practice
will be held.
Thence the return will be made to
the United States via the Suez canal.
stopping Only at such ports as are
necessary for coaling purposes. The
date of their return to the states is
dependent entirely upon the amount
of time required for target practice
in the Philippines. The visit of the
battleships to Puget sound will be
made some time between the conclu-
sion of the grand review in San Fran.
cisco bay on May s and the date OF
the sailing e. the Pacific.
OFFICERS and Men Pleased.
Sen Diego, Cal, March 15.-News
that the American battleship feet is
to undertake a tour of the world
within two months after it's arrival at
San Francisco on May 5 was flashed
by wireless telegraph to the battle
ships of Admiral Evans command at
Magdalena bay late last night by the
government station at Point Iona.
There is every reason to believe that
It was received on board the vessels.
by officers and crews alike, with the
greatest degree of satisfaction. 1t
has general been understood for
some time in naval circles that the
trip back to the Atlantic station
would he made by way of Suez. but
the official announcement, coupled
with the early date of starting on the
second half of the worlds greatest
naval maneuver will give keen pleas
ire to the men already proud of the
notable achievements Of their fleet.
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Binds Two Mail Clerks and
Leisurely Rifles Registered
Mail Pouches.
COOlLY DOES WORK OF CLERKS
olays OF Car Five Hours and Receives
and Discharges Mail at All
Stopping Places.

Spokane, Wash, March ia lone
bandit boarded the mail car on the
w~est-bound Oriental limited, the fast
transcontinental train Of the Great
Northern railway, at Bonner's Ferry,
Idaho, before daylight yesterday
morning, bound the two mail clerks,
robbed the mail and escaped.
The robbery was not discovered un-
til the train reached Spokane at 800
a. m, more than Ave hours after the
bandit boarded the train.
Mail Clerk Bound.
The train carried the through trans
continental mail. much of it register
ed letters. The amount stolen will
not be known until the registered mail
has been checked up by the postal
authorities.
When the train arrived here at 900
o'clock the mail car was closed. EN-
pl0yes at the station opened the car
and found one of the mail clerks ~
ing bound on the mail sacks. The
As soon as the men were released
they said that a bandit boarded the
car at Bonner's Ferry, a town of $50
people, a division point about 100
miles east Of Spokane, where the
train arrived at 4:04 a. m.
Bandit Handles the Mail.
The bandit, said the mail clerks.
he'd them up, then bound them and
went through the registered mail. He
thGn said he would work the regular
mail and proceeded to do so.
At all regular stops he threw off the
mail and took on the outgoing sack.
though at some Of the smaller places,
where the train does not stop he did
not throw off the mail. He stayed on
the train for nearly five hours, jump
ing off at a junction two miles east
of Spokane.
AS soon as the robbery was discov-
cred the postal authorities here and
also the local police were notified. 1t
was discovered that all the mail had
been badly mixed.
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MUST PAY FINES OF $4,000
Burlington Railroad Also Loses Its
Fight-Fined for Granting
the Rebates.

Washington, March IS. - The pro
reeding by the government against
the Armour Packing company, Swift
4 Co., Morris & Co. and the Cudahy
Packing company, all of them Operat-
Ing IN Kansas City, Kan, under
which the companies we're each fined
$4,000 by the United States circuit
court for the Western district of n,
SoUrl, on the charge OF receiving
Iat@s contrary to the provisions
the Elklns act. was decided by the
supreme cour OF the United States
Yesterday adversely to those compa-
MES.
Announced by Justice Day.
The courts opinion was announced
by Justice Day, who held that the Ell
kins act is applicable to t%ransporta
ton anywhere and an offense is not
confined to the initial point. He also
held it app icable alike to shipper and
carrier.
The decision Of the lower courts in
the compiler entary case against the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail
way company, holding that company
responsible for granting the rebates
to the packers and filming that com
my for the o~ffenSe. was also affirm
The opinion was ]concurred in by
Justices Harlan. White, Mckeuna
and Holmes.
Without Jurisdiction.
Justice Brewer dissented from the
view of the court on the ground that
the decision would work a violation OF
contract, "which.' he said, Shocks
his sense OF Justice"
The chief Justice and Justice Peck
ham crncurrad in Justice Brewer
decision. They also held the Missouri
court to be without jurisdiction.
Justice Moody took no part IN the
disposition OF the case
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Domestic.

Capt. Daniel Stewart, ninety-four
years Of age, died at Upper Alton, Ill.
after lying in bed twenty-seven years,
during the greater part of which time
he smoked a pipe.
William E. Dodge, Jr., city editor OF
the Missoula Daily Missoulian, died
after a brief illness from ptomain pois'
oning. He worked on Twin City pa
pers before going West.
John T. Dover. secretary Of the Y,
M. C. A. at Worcester. Mass, has been
notified that he is heir to a fortune OF
$40, O0O, 900 left him by an uncle who
died in Melbourne. Australia.
The anti-tip ordinance, a measure
designed to prevent the publication OF
information on races and betting fea'
lures was passed by the Los Angeles
city council over the mayors veto.
Mayor Busse and the heads Of the
Chicago police department decided
last night to take steps for the estab'
lishment of a municipal alien bureau,
It's purpose will be to prevent an
archists from coming to Chicago.
In sending the skin Of an albino
deer to a taxidermist to be mounted
Elias Ahola, a farmer living near
Maple Ridge, Delta county, Mich, got
into trouble. The deer being placed
on exhibition, investigation of the rec
! ords disclosed the fact that Ahola was
| not provided with a hunting license at
| the time he shot the animal. The
| farmer was arrested and fined and his
| white deer was co%nfiscated.
The program of a campaign tC
+ bring about prohibition Id Louisiana
when the legislature meets next May
has been announced by the Louisiana
Anti-Saloon league.
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WALSH GETS FIVE YEARS,
Judge Anderson Overrules Motion for
New Trial,

NEW btIGts
Chicago. March 15-John r. Walsh,
former president of the Chicago Ma
tional bank of this city, and convicted
OF ILLEGAL use of the funds of that in
stitution, was yesterday denied a new
trial by Judge Anderson of the Unit
ed States district court and sentenced
to serve five years in the federal pen
itentiary at Fort Leavenworth.
AS soon as the court had announced
his decision refusing to grant a new
trial, the attorneys for the defense
entered, a motion in arrest of judg-
ment. On which they argued for some
time. 1t was generally thought about
the court that they would con-
sumo two or more hours in giving
their reasons for the granting Of this
motion, but Attorney Hart. who pre-
sented it, ceased speaking in about
thirty minutes. Judge Anderson then
promptly overruled the motion, and
sentenced the banker to five years in
Fort Leavepworth.
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NEWS OF TIE WEEK IN tPITOMf
important Events at Home and on
Foreign Shores Briefly
Told.
Washington Notes.

II the house and the senate concur
In an action just taken it will cost $40
instead of IS after July /, 1908, for a
foreigner to become a citizen of the
United States.
Secretary Taft has signed an order
for the abandonment of the military
post known as Fort Keogh. Mont, The
post IL not needed for the accommo-
dation of the troops in hat section.
A favorable report has been ordered
by the house committee on public
lands of the bill which passed the SEN
ate making available under the Carey
act additional arid lands within the
state OF Idaho.
An Official denial has been made to
the state department of the recent re-
port that the German government in
tended to 60 into the petroleum bust
ness and monopolize that industry
within Its territory.
Senator Nelson Of Minnesota has CIV
en- notice of an amendment he will
propose to the Aldrich currency bill
requiring national banks to pay 2 per
cent interest on weekly balances OF
government deposits of money.
The house committee on Indian at
fairs has ordered a favorable report
on a bill authorizing the secretary of
the interior to lease allotted or un-
allotted Indian lands containing min
erals in any Indian reservation for
mining purposes.
The house committee on merchant
marine and fisheries voted to report
favorably the Goulden bill providing
that every vessel Of American regis
ter entering ports Of the United
States shall carry such complement OF
licensed officers and crew as in the
judgment of local inspectors may be
necessary for her safe navigation.
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AUSTRALIANS ARE DELIGHTED
Remarkable Demonstration Greets An,
Of Visit of Fleet.

uOuVCCTVlCIsl OF WISH OF FlCSt.
Sydney, March II. - There was a
dramatic scene yesterday at a great
gathering of citizens, when at the
conclusion of an address on the sub
ject of national defense, the premier,
Alfred Deakin, read a cablegram an
n%ouncing hat the American feet of
~battieships would visit Sydney and
Melbourne. He called for three
cheers for the United States and the
audience arose en- masse and respond
ed with deafening hurrahs.
The prime minister said hat he was
sure that such a welcome as an Amer
lean feet had never known outside Of
its own country would be accorded it
by Australia. and the cheering that
followed this statement seemed evil
dence of the fact that the Australians,
ora and all, have a feeling stronger
t. mere friendship for the Ameri-
car people and their navy.
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TWO DIE IN DUEL IN HOTEL.
Iowa Men Kill Each Other in Battle
in Their Room.

Sheridan, Wyo,, March II. - Mys-
terry surrounds the death Of w. S.
Buncker and Herman Hanken, who ar
rived here from Iowa Saturday night.
They registered ct the Pepper hotel
and retired to the same room. Guests
of the hotel heard some loud talking
between the two men. followed by a
number of shots in quick succession.
Buncker was found lying dead
across the foot Of the bed, a revolver
his head. Hanken was lying on the
foar dead from a bullet through the
he'd. But one empty shell remained
in each revolver.
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Grimes and Criminals.

W. W. Mckay Of Tenino. Thurston
county, Wash. killed his wife and
three children and then shot himself.
Charles White, a prisoner under
sentence for five years at Fort Madi-
son, Iowa, for burglarizisg ]. H. An
drew's residence, sawed his way to
liberty during the night.
Charles J. Vanni, an importer of for
eign newspapers In New York, was
fined $3.50 for violating the penal code
In selling biasphemous literature.
Vanni was arrested by Anthony Com
stock for Offering for sale French and
italian anti-clerical publications in
which were alleged blasphemous car
toons.
A Japanese was arrested at Riepe-
ton, New, after a hard struggle, in
which he almost chewed OF two fin
gers Of q man named Clinton. Clin-
ton, who Is a drafstman, was ap-
preached by the Japanese, who asked
him II he would 60 with him to San
Francisco to get drawings of the for.
tifcations there. Clinton Indignantly
refused, he says. and held onto the
japanese until officers arrived.
James Rathbon entered the kitchen
h the home of Judge r. Hall at Oma'
ha, where his wife worked as a serv
ant, shot and killed her and then
committed suicide. The couple had
been separated.
With q bullet wound In his fore
head and q cheap revolver and q BIZ
bic ct his side, the dead body Of q
man supposed to be Andre Mitchell
was found in an empty freight car
= the Wabash yards at st. Louis.
Apparently the man had committed
suicide and had been dead a couple
e days.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-03-20
PUBLIC PRINTER RESIGNS.
StiIIinos Quits Job as Result Of !nves-
ticatior Of His administration

StiiiinpS QQilS JOD dS NeSult OF iHHSS-
tigetion of His Administration.
WASHINGTON. March 1S. Public
Printer Charles J. Stillings yesterday
rendered his resignation to the pres;
dent and it has been accepted. Mr.
Stil'ings' successor has not yet been
named. Mr.. Stillings' resignation is
the result of an investigation into the
conduct of the government printing
office under his administration.
The Investigation was conducted by
w. S. Rossiter. chief clerk of the cen
sus Office, and his report Of the opera
tons of the office is now in the hands
of the president.
Mr.. Rossiter reports hat he found
no evidence of fraud or serious irregu-
larity. He says. however, that there
have been minor irregularities,
chargeable in most cases to bad ad
minjstration. and hat the methods Of
keeping the books are open to crit
cism.
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Personal.

The mother of Joseph Santos Re
laya, president OF Nicaragua, is dead.
William Conroy Evans, manager OF
the foreign department of Armour &
Co.. died at his home in Evanston, ILL.,,
81 pneumonia.
John Teagle, formerly one Of the
best known Independent oil refiners
IN the country, is dead at his home in
Cleveland, aged sixty years.
John BURY. a well known electrical
engineer and inventor of the BURY
printing telegraph system, died sud-
denly at his home on Staten Island.
Gen. William Clendin. aged sixty
three. inspector of the Peoria internal
evenu district, Is dead of heart fail
ure. He served with distinction in
the Civil war.
Fred Ketchum, who for several
years played center field on the Lin
coin. Neb., baseball team, dropped
dead from heart disease in his room
at Binghamton, N. Y.
John L. Smithmeyer, a noted archi-
tect, died OF carcinoma at Washing
ton. Mr.. Smithmeyer designed and
superintendent the construction Of the
congressional library. He was sew
enty-six years Of age.
Mrs. Catherine Backus, widow Of
Charles Backus and a daughter of the
late Col. Thomas A. H. Edwards, u.
8. A., Of the Black Hawk and other
indian wars, died in her sixty-seventh
year at Yankton, S. D.
Edmonde de Amicis, the noted Ital-
ian writer of travels, died at Bor-
dighra from congestion of the brain.
He travelled extensively and was a
master In the art of describing the
life and natural aspects of foreign
countries and cities.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-03-20
TRAILING BANK ROBBERS.
Posses Making Effort to Surround
Men Who Robbed Tyro Bank.

~Pawhuska, Okla, March Is. - The
three Tyro bank robbers are known
to be in the Usage hills. three miles
from Bi2hart. The bandits were seer
yesterday morning and posses from
Ochelata, ~Pawhuska, Avant and HON.
my are hurrying to the neighborhood
in an effort to surround them.
A farmer living near Bighart gave
the clue to the whereabouts Of the
robbers. He saw them ride past his
house on the way to the hills. AS
soon as they were out of sight he
mounted a horse and rode into Big
tart to give the alarm.
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DENY LitLEY'S CHARGES.
investigating Committee Hears Sew
eral Witnesses.
WASHINGTON. Marc

Washington. March 1S.-Admissior
was made yesterday before the special
house committee Investigating the
charges of Representative Liller OF
Connecticut regarding the legislative
methods Of the Electric Boat cOmna-
ny, that money had been paid by the
Electric Boat company to certain
newspaper men to prepare and dis
tribute news concerning submarine
boats,
A number of other witnesses were
examined during the day, and they
entered general denials to Mr.. Lilley's
charges.
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Will Investigate Jerome.

Albany, N, Y, March 1S. - Gov.
Hughes yesterday appointed Charles
Andrews, former chief judge Of the
court CT appeals as commissioner to
take testimony and report his find
ings in connection with the charges
recently preferred against District At
torney Jerome
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-03-20
Parke Wins From Kelly.

Milwaukee, March 1S.-Billy Papke
of Spring Valley, H., was awarded
the decision over Hugo Kelly of Chi
caro- in a ten-round bout at the Hip
podrome. under the auspices of the
Milwaukee Boxing club The bout
went the limit.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-03-20

Four negroes in all have been
lynched in connection with the dou.
BILE murder Of Warren Hart and his
Wife near H~awkinsville, Ga. Two
were shot for interfering with the
mob. Other negroes are implicated.
and it is feared more lynchings will
follow. Many Of the negroes are
leaving and the others are all in hid
ing.
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QUITS STAGE FOR CHURCH.
Robert Downing, Veteran Actor. Con
verified at Revival,

Washington. March 1S.-Robert l..
Downing has forsaken the stage for
tie church after thirty years behind
the footliehts. He was converted"
in the Rhode Island Avenue Methodist
church, where a revival has been in
progress for five weeks. He has al
ready been urged to conduct ~evangel
istic services in Washington and is
preparing for the work.