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PRICE FIVE GENTS

trip of a couple of weeks.
Mrs. Hattie M. Edwards left yes
terday for Olesburg, Kansas, where
she will spend the winter.
Charles D. Terwilliger and father,
accompanied by Paul A. Ralli, were
down today from Cow creek.
U. S. Marshal Capt. L. G. Davis
came up from Cheyenne Friday to be
present at the Warren meeting.
Vote . Straight Republican Ticket
Al. Handley came up from Fl.
Steele Saturday, where he has been
in the employ of the Carbon Timber
Co.
Mrs. L. W. McAnulty left Sunday
for a visit of a couple of weeks with
relatives and friends zeal Greeley,
Colo.
Mrs. Frank White and son John
were IN the city Tuesday from North
Fork. They report very bad roads
on account of snow.
G. A. Hanson, agent at Encamp-
ment, returned Friday from his trip
to Oklahoma, looking like the journey
had agreed with him.
Miss Jennie Campbell came down
Friday with the special from En-
campment to attend the Warren
meeting. She returned Sunday.
Vote q Straight Republican Ticket
DIR. Price was called to the ranch
of William Miser Tuesday to attend
their little boy, who had been suffer
ing with Group. The child is report
ed much better.
Mr.. Widrig has completed the IN
crete foundation for the harness shop
of w. c. Edwards and the work OF
erecting the building will be com.
menced at once.
George Arnold, river foreman for
the Carbon Timber Company, left
Tuesday for Nebraska and Indiana,
where he will spend the winter visit
ing relatives and friends.
Frank White shipped a car load of
fat COWS to the Denver Market Mon
day. They were all dehorned and
presented a line appearances. Mr..
White accompanied the shipmen mt.
Vote . Straight Republican Ticket
Miss Agnes Mahoney, of New
York, accompanied by her sister,
Miss Kate, couzens of Mrs. Kels P.
Nickel, arrived here last week ON a
visit, returning to their home Sun
day.
Mrs. DR.. Earle Crawford and two
little daughters, Lois and Helen, ar.
rived here from Green River on a
visit to the family of DR.. Crawford's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Craw-
ford.
o. G. Blacken returned Sunday
from a trip to Douglas, where he
went for a camp outfit left there
sometime since. He found his cabin
broken open and everything of value
stolen or broken up.
Vote . Straight Republican Ticket
w. HI. Large was in yesterday
from his South Spring creek ranch.
He says the snow still lies deep
enough to entirely cover up the sage
brush in his locality and it looks like
: winter had surely set in.
a One of D. S. Richmond's driving
animals broke his leg Tuesday be-
tween the ankle and the hoof. The
snow III soft and it is presumed
that he balled up and turned his foot
in running. Dave has him in a sling
and thinks the limb will get all right.
y Vote a Straight Republican Ticket
Taylor Pennock came down Tues
day from his Cow creek ranch, bring.
ing his cattle. He only brought $50
head of the bunch of 200 owned by
y him, which he was taking to the
Is ranch on Lake creek. Mr.. Pennock
y says the snow is very deep between
here and Cow creek.
w. r. Hunter and wife, accom-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-27

HONOLULU LODGE GIG, B. P. o. e.
Honolulu Lodge No. Gle, B. P. o. E., will
meet in their hall King street, near Fort, every
Friday evening. BY order of the z. R.
FRANK f. RICHARDSON, E. r.
HARRY A. WILDER, Secy.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-27

DR.. Petite to Take His Case IN
to the Supreme
Court.

The Supreme Court win be called on
to decide whether the act passed by
the last Legislature requiring the Ii
censing of veterinary surgeons. is CON
stitutional or not. D. John H. Pottie,
who is charged with practicing with
out license, will test the law.
= When the case was called in the
police court yesterday Prosecutor
Brown asked that it be continued be-
cause County Attorney Cathcart had
charge of it and he was at his home
Ill and would not be down town all
day.
Frank Thompson, for the defendant
said, ne would admit everything in the
complaint except the conclusion of law.
He wanted to get the case started on
its course. The court thereupon over
ruled the demurrer that had been in
terposed The defendant pleaded not
guilty It was admitted that Polite
had been practicing veterinary sur
gerry, medicine and dentistry without a
license, in Honolulu which is a place
of more than 5000 inhabitants. Upon
these admissions Judge Andrade inn
posed fine of $40 and costs. An ap-
peal was noted
The point on which the law is to be
fought is that it is class legislation.
1t requires veterinarians practicing in
places of 5000 inhabitants or more to
have license, while in places of less
than that they do not require Ii
cense.
In Waimea, said Thompson, 'the
largest cattle district in the islands,
a man could practice without a license
But in' Hilo he could not; though the
people of Hilo might take their stock
to Waimea to be doctored by an un-
licensed veterinarian
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-27
I WOMEN ONLY KNEW
What Heap of Happiness it Would
Bring to Honolulu Homes.

Hard to do homework with an ach-
ing back.
Brings you hours of misery at leisure
or at work.
If women only knew the cause-that
Backache pains come from sick kid
neys,
'Twou1d save much needless woe.
Doan's Backache Kidney Pills cure
sick kidneys.
Mrs. Selma Jones of 200 Main street,
Ansonia, Conn, says: 81 think If it
had not been for Doan's Backache Kid
ney Pills I would not be alive today.
Seven years ago I was In such a bad
state with pains and aches across my
back and other weakness that + was
obliged to keep to my room, and was
at times confined to my bed for six
weeks before I could get about. See
ing Doan's Backache Kidney Pills rec
commended, I began taking them and
inside of a week the terrific backache,
pains and soreness across the loins and
the headaches had vanished, as well
as the feeling of general weakness and
languor. The kidney weakness was
corrected and the dizzy spells had dis
appeared. strongly endorse the
claims made for Doan's Backache Kid
ney Pills.
Doan's Backache Kidney Pills are
sold by all chemists and storekeepers
at so cents per box, six boxes $3.50, or
will be mailed on receipt of price
by the HOLSTER Drug Co., Honolulu,
wholesale agents for the Hawaiian
Islands
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-27
Saturday, February 20, 1908

At my salesroom, 857 Kaahumanu St.
A fine residence on Young Street,
Pawaa.
Property has a frontage of so feet
on Young street and a depth of 1879
feet. There is a nice dwelling house
on the property containing Parlor,
Dining Room, Bedrooms, Kitchen,
Bath and pantry
Grounds are nicely kept.
Premises are now rented at s26. IS
per month. Under foreclosure pro-
ceedings this property must be sold
at the highest price bid
Here is your opportunity for nice
home.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-27
HAWAII CHAPTER No. 1, ORDER
OF KAMEHAMEHA.

Meets every first and third Thursday evening
Of each month at 1870 o'clock in Fraternity
Hall, Odd Fellows Building. on Fort street
N. FERNANDEZ,
Kusuhsu
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-27
APPEAL STANDS.

NJ. F. SCOTS motion to dismiss the
appeal of Kona Development Co. and
F. b McStocker. in the arbitration
matter between these three parties,
was denied by the Supreme Court yes
terday.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-27
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eating Illicit distilling cases, of which
there are about nine, yesterday.
Owing to the closeness of the Mar
shaTs office, where the grand jury is
constrained to hold its sessions, the side
door leading from the corridor by the
stairway is left open to admit air
There is nothing to prevent those pass
ing from taking a sidelong peep into
the secret chamber, but anyone paus-
ing to listen would quickly hear from
DR.. Rodgers. .bailiff to the grand jury,
who acts Cerberus just orEside the
door.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-27

COURT LUNALILo NO. $500, A. o. E.
Meets every first and third Wednesday even
ings Of each month, at 1880 p. M, in Pythian
Hall corner Fort. and Beretania streets. Visit
ing brothers cordially invited.
H.H. HANAKAHI, G. R,
JAS K KAULIA, P. O., T. 8.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-27

LEI ALOHA CHAPTER NO. 8, o. e. s.
a. Meets at the Masonic Temple every
N second Saturday of each month, at $50
Nk D. m. Visiting sisters and brothers are
~ cordially invited TO attend.
MINNIE FRAZEE, W. NJ.
LOUISE A. TRUE, Secy.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-27

COURT CANOES NO. s11O, A. o. T.
Meets every second and fourth Tuesday of
each month, at 1880 p. m, in San sAntonio
Hall, Vineyard street, Visiting brothers cor
daily invited to attend.
DIR. JOHN F. COWEs, G. r.
NJ, G. PACHECO, F. S.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-27

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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-27
BICYCLE THIEF SENTENCED.

Frank Williams, who was arrested on
Tuesday on the Mauna Loa, charged
with stealing bicycle from store
on Nuuanp and Kukui streets on Febru-
airy 10, pleaded guilty. yesterday morn
ing in the police court. When arrested
he said soldier on the transport
Thomas gave the wheel to him. The
Thomas sailed February 5, while the
wheel was not stolen until February
Is. Yesterday morning he said it was
soldier from the Buford. Judge An
drade said he had recently sent a boy
to the Reform School for three years
for stealing bicycle and he had hoped
this would have a deterrent effect on
bicycle thieves. He sentenced Williams
to three months imprisonment. Viii
liams was lately discharged from EN-
plovment on the Alameda
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-27

Meets every first and third Thursday of each
month, in K. of P. Hall, corner of Fort and
Beretanis streets. Visiting brothers cordially
invited TO attend.
J. W. ASCH, Sachem
A. E. MURPHY, c. of R.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-27
HONOLULU SCOTTISH THISTLE
CLUB

Meets on the hrst and third Friday, at 1880
o'clock p. m, in rooms in Oregon Block en-
trance on Union street.
J. NJ. MacKINNON, Chief
JOHN MACAULAY Secv
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-27

LEAH CHAPTER NC. 2, o. E. s.
a Meets every third Monday Of each
~ month, at 80 p. m, in the Masonic
x * Temple Visiting sisters and brothers
~ and members of Lei Aloha Chapter No
8, are cordially invited TO attend.
CLARA NJ. SCHMIDT, W. NJ.
ADELAIDE NJ. WEBSTER, Sec.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-27
INDICTMENTS.

Five indictments were returned by
the Territorial grand jury and ordered
BIZ Judge Lindsay to be placed on the
secret file. Frank Brilliante, charged
with assault with a weapon, is one
of those indicted. Charles Elvin, for
mer armorer at the police station, was
before the grand jury for threatening
Station Clerk Nielsen with a revolver,
in the receiving station, few nights
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-27

CANOES CIRCLE no. $40, O. o. F.
Meets every second and fourth Thursday OF
each month, at 1880 p. m, in San Antonio
Hall, Vineyard street. Visiting companions
are cordially invited to attend.
MRS. J. P. REGO, @. @.
r. J. BORGES. z. S.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-02-21
BUILT ON coNcERTlNA PLAN.
Liqhtkeeper Measures Six Feet Sis
Inches in His Stockings.

Like the towering pines that fringe
the North Carolina coast, upon which
he was born, in sight of dreaded Hat
teras, Fabius Evans Simpson, the as.
sistant keeper of Lazzaretto light.
house, at the entrance to Baltimore
harbor, can lay claim to be the tallest
lightkeeper in the Fifth lighthouse dis
trict, if not level with the tallegt in
the service from Maine to Rio Grande.
He is only % years old and is built
on the concertina plan. When he
rises from sitting posture one won.
ders how much more remains to be
unfolded before he is Strengthened out.
He is six feet six inches in his stock.
ing feet.
His parents were reared alongside
the sea, and he comes of a family that
has figured in the annals of the light.
house service. Alpheus w. Simpson
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-02-21
The Only Disestible. Kind,

A young man who is striving for DO.
litical honors and who, therefore,
feels called upon to do considerable
public talking, was recently waited
upon by a delegation of men residing
in one of the poorer regions of his
district.
He was greatly pleased when their
spokesman requested a speech from
him at an early date.
what kind of speech?" he asked.
"ln after-dinner speech" replied a
wag in shabby coat-Youth's Com
panion.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-02-21

their threshold. Her clothes were in
disorder. Her fingers were grimy and
torn as though she had been digging
in the frozen earth. Across her
throat were great bloody scratches.
All reason had fled. Her eyes were
wild, her speech incoherent.
The next morning a raving maniac,
Mary Ball was taken to the asylum
for the insane at Taunton, Mass.
But where were the children?
The distracted father asked it. The
excited neighbors echoed his question.
The county officials considered it
their duty to find out. Detectives
came from all over New England to
join in the searchs The Brockton En-
terprise offered a reward of 500 for
the recovery of the children, dead or
alive. Brockton citizens raised $500
more, and more detectives, profess
sional and amateur, f1ocked to the
scene.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-02-21

oxysm had overtaken him? And poo.
Archibald, when he was %, remem-
bered that on the night when hc was
81 he had hidden his bride Of an hour
in dungeon, where none of the merry
wedding guests might find her, while
he went to bring her wine and cake
from the wedding fesst. And al he
went down the winding stairs the
hand of time had touched him, setting
him back seven years and blotting out
all memory Of what had happened
between his fourteenth birthday and
his twenty-first. And so it happened
that when, with his twenty-eighth
birthday, came memories of the
twenty-tirst, he remembered his bride
and went to take her the cake and the
wine, and behold! there, meath the
wedding veil, lay the bones and the
dust of her whom his retainers had
sought for weary months.
Then there is Sir Gilbert Parker's
''The Right of Way" the tale of the
young lawyer who, struck on the head,
roamed among the loggers, his brain
blank, until another and an equally
great shock restored reason. And to-
day Booth harrington isscontributing
to Everybody's in "The Guest of Cues.
nay story on precisely the same
line, of q brilliant mind stricken and
then restored in both instances by
shock.
And If the alienists now studying
Mrs. Balls case decide that shock
alone will restore her reason and pro.
vide the key to the mystery of the two
lost children, will the law permit
them to apply the test, to administer
the shock?
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-02-21
Woods Thoroughly Searched.


Every inch of the frozen woods
into which the woman and her chill
dren had disappeared was raked over
The Avon reservoir, beyond the woods,
was dragged. Farmers all around
Brockton neglected their affairs in
their frantic efforts to unearth the
bodies Of the two little ones. The pc.
lice matron of Brockton was sent to
the asylum at Taunton in the hope
that talking, woman to woman, she
might obtain some clew from the de-
mented mother. But she came home
with word that her attempt had failed.
Mrs. Balls mind was blank.
Then came a day when some chill
dren playing in the woods near the
suburb of Holbrook, five miles from
the Ball home, came upon some juve.
nile raiment-a boys blouse, two
union suits and little girls under
skirt. These were partially but not
completely identified by the distract
ed father, for man-like, he was not up
on the details of the family wardrobe
And then, while searching parties
raked and scraped the woodland in
which these garments had been found,
the father received word that his wife
seemed to be quite rational again.
Mothers Memory Gone.
So to the Taunton asylum he hur-
ried alone. Unaccompanied by hys-
tertcal women or keen-eyed detectives,
he hoped that in a quiet, heart-to-
heart talk with his wife he might OBJ
tain some clew to the whereabouts of
his children.
Il took my children under my cloak.
They were cold and crying. The rest
is blank"
Behind that moment of motherly in
stinct when she stretched out the pro-
lection Of arms and wooden folds to
envelop her shivering children, Mrs.
Balls memory cannot go. Sometimes
she gropes wildly for facts, and says a
woman in red automobile took the
children away. But always she real
ICES that the children are gone, that
none can find them, and that behind
the veil Of her clouded mind lie the
facts which she cannot reach.
Grave physicians and alienists have
visited this woman, striving to decide
whether it is q lapse Of memory pure
and simple, or return of the mental
.malady from which she suffered four
years ago. At that time she was con-
fined to the asylum because, on the
death Of her youngest child. she had
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-02-21

father Of the young man, was keeper
of North river light station, and his
uncle. Fabius Evans Simpson, is now
in charge of the exhibit of the light
house board at the jamestown expo
sition. Another uncle, A. ]. Simpson,
is keeper of Southwest Point light, all
in North Carolina. Young Simpson
says he will stick to the business, be.
lieving he has inherited an ambition
for the service in which his family has
figured for many years.
He could not furnish a full length
picture of himself. He said he tried
to get photographer in North Caro-
lima to take all of him, but the artist
said he could only do it in sections.
and then paste them together, which,
he thought, would give an idea of his
clients towering figure. To do 20
the photographer wanted to charge
extra for the second section, and tie
picture was not taken.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-02-21

Brockton, Mass.-"I opened my
cloak and took the children under it,
one on each side. From that time till
woke up everything is blank"
Twenty-Five trembling words, spok-
en- by disheveled, shaking woman,
yet behind them lies the tragedy of
a wrecked home, the remarkable dis
appearance of two human beings as if
the ground had opened to swallow
them, and mystery which has baf-
fled the keenest detective minds of
New England.
A mother calling at the schoolhouse
door for her boy and girl, three fig
ures disappearing into the woods, a
great storm cloak flung open to shelter
two small forms-a blank of "a hours,
and then disheveled, quivering
mother-form being hurried to an in
sane asylum.
What happened during that period
of mental death?
And where are the children?
On Monday, December 2, soon after
nine o'clock, Mrs. Mary r. c. Ball,
wife of John Ball, left her home at
26 Holbrook avenue, and walked hur-
riedly to the Winthrop school, where
her children were engaged in their
studies. Mary Grace Ball, aged nine,
and Thomas Ball, aged seven, were ex-
cused by their teachers at the request
of their mother, who was apparently
quite composed and natural in her
hno r3p1 hot
coats and toques and mittens and trot-
ted down the schoolyard path, one on
either side of the tall, cloaked figure.
Children Went Joyfully.
Joyous anticipations were aroused
in their childish minds. Christmas
was at hand. Perhaps they were 60
ing shopping! Perhaps they were 60
ing to the woods to gather evergreens!
AS to where they really went, directly
from the schoolhouse, opinions differ.
This may have been because Brockton
had something else to think about
during the next few hours. The Ball
home on Holbrook avenue was in
flames. There was fire to be put out
and to be discussed, and it was so un-
fortunate that it happened while Mrs.
Ball was away shopping!
However, since the tragedy has be-
come the sole topic of conversation
in the little manufacturing city of
Brockton, one man recalls that he
saw the mother and her children to-
gether about $3.50 o'clock that after
noon. Two children, who knew the
Bail family well, claim to have seen
the mother without the children on
Brockton street at 4:30 of that event.
full Monday afternoon.
But the one tangible piece of evil
dence is that Mrs. Ball, unaccompanied
by her children, stopped at a lunch
cart for mouthful of food at Avon.
a little town just north of Brockton,
4on Tuesday evening, December 8.
Later that night she was found by
nearby farmer, A. L. Pinto, in his barn
and was ordered away. The children
{ were not with her. Pinto did not
know who she was and took her for
some poor, drunken wretch.
instinct Led Woman Home.
Y Two nights later, on Thursday, De.
sscember s, Mrs. Ball staggered into the
home Of Mrs. Baxter, who lived d.
rectly opposite the Ball home in
! Brockton. TIE Bakers were terrified
81 NV tho figure which atumhlad acrnas
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-02-21

lives. And who shall say at what in
slant reason was dethroned, or what
act Of her own or another swept like
a sharp knife through the lettering
brain and left it blank?
Perhaps Mrs. Ball knows to-day
where the children are, and, with
demoniac cunning, refuses to let the
father claim his own flesh and blood
Perhaps, If she would, she could lead
the searching parties to the very spot
where the silent forms are buried.
Perhaps her mind was never a blank.
But history, medical and otherwise.
gives her the benefit of the doubt.
Resembles Famous Stories.
Who does not recall Julian Haw-
thorne's great story, Archibald NAL
maison," whose hero. from brain
shock, reverted every seven years to
the mental state of seven years be-
fore, recalling in minutest detail every
thing that had happened when this pc
culiar psychological and mental par
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-02-21
Maxine Good.

II shall blow out my brains"
"That will prove the truth of what
papa said"
what was that?'
That you looked like a person who
would blow out the gas."- Houston
Post
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-02-21
In New York.

His cigar was very bad one.
do you smoker" he asked the lady
beside him at the cafe table.
"Only in self-defense," she answered
with averted head.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-02-21
Shock May Restore Reason.

sembles her former unfortunate state.
Then she was violent and noisy. Now
her mind is simply a blank. And DR..
Goss, superintendent of the asylum,
who has been studying her case, be.
lieves that unless her brain receives
some terrible shock her memory will
never be restored. Her recollections
Of what happened between the time
she took her children under the shell.
ter of her cloak and reason resumed
its sway in ward of the asylum will
be aroused only by shock as great
as the one which robbed her of rea.
son.
And what shock was that?
This is the question which is baf-
fling physicians, detectives and rela>
tives of the unhappy family.
Did Mrs. Ball accidentally set her
house on fire, and then, in a spasm of
terror, race away with her children
from the results of her carelessness?
And If so, at what psychological
moment was her reason destroyed
at sight of the flames, or when she
found herself alone in the woods with
her children?
Or did she feel the approaching re-
turn of the dreaded malady, and, fear
ing for the future of her children with.
out her care and oversight, spirit them
away? And, if so, where did she
leave them?