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The bee., 1908-05-21
Rusf case 70 Jurx.

San Francisco, Cal, May 2O.-The
case against Abraham Ruef, former
political boss of San Francisco
charged with bribery, which has been
under way in the superior court for
several weeks, was given to the Jury
Tuesday night After two days Civ
en- to closing arguments by counsel
for the prosecution and the defense,
Judge DoOling delivered long charge
TO the jury and sent them out for de-
liberation.
The bee., 1908-05-21

Pass at the base of Pixies Peak has
always carried an ample supply of
undertaker's delight since II was found
ed in August, 1859. The drink en-
poriums have been one of the features
of the city, and one entire block on
Colorado avenue is given over to these
joints and signs OF The Tenderfoot,"
BLACK TAIL" Antelope The Mug
get" Red Top Boots" and "Elk's
Horn" greet the eye.
The abandoned capitol was used for
q short time as drug store, then as a
dwelling for prospectors who hoped to
make a discovery on the South Platte
river. and finally the building was rent
ed to a son OF the Fowery Kingdom,
Sam Wah, who has since conducted a
laundry within its historic walls. Sam
Wah and two kinsmen are the only
Cinnamon engaged in the wash bust
ness in the city, and they must be &C
cumulating a goodly bank account, for
they pay $40 monthly rental for the
former capitol. The rent For a year
is great deal more than the building
is worth, but its owner wants Sc, 1000
for the old logs and the weather board.
ed front, as there are men who wish
to buy il for the purpose of removing
II to Denver, where 1t would doubtless
prove a drawing card as historic
curiosity. 49,, --at 49,
The bee., 1908-05-21
AMERICAN FIsHERs HID.
Seized Inside the Three-MiIe Limit
by Canadians.

Vancouver, B. c., May 1s.-The
American halibut fishing steamer
Francis Cutting, seized last Tuesday
of the northern end Of Vancouver
island by the Canadian fisheries cruis-
err Ke3tel while she was fishing inside
the three-mile limit, was Sunday for
mally turned over by Commander
Newcombe to the custody Of Collector
of Customs Bowel.
Acting under instructions from OF
tawa, Commander Newcombe Sunday
disposed OF the $1,000 pounds Of hall
but found ON the Francis Cutting
when she was seized. The fish were
sold in Vancouver
The bee., 1908-05-21
sLOHN Il cSZLRZZ1VG

poorer classes and has seen the want
and suffering that is often brought upon
the family OF worhngman through
his being incapacitated by an accident.
Sterling was born on farm and edu-
Gated himself by his own efforts. Aft
er his graduation he was superinten-
dent Of public schools in Lexington for
two years, after which he took up the
practice OF law. He was states attor-
ney for Mclean county for four years
and is now serving his third term in
congress.
The bee., 1908-05-21
STUDENT OF TRAMPs DIES.
PsnnlIess, Visited Almost Every State
In the Union.

Princeton, N. j., May 17.-Walter
Augustus Wyckoff, assistant professor
Of political economy in Princeton Uni
versity, famous for his studies OF
tramp life and social conditions, died
at his home here Friday night.
Prof Wyckoff was born in India in
1865, the son OF missionary. He
came to America, and in 1883 received
degree from Princeton He became
Interested in the study OF social condi-
lions. and without money Travelled
through almost every state in the
Union. He published his experience
In two volumes, called The Workers
The East" and "The Workers-The
West"
The bee., 1908-05-21
HarrIman.kahn Case Advanced.

Washington. May 1s.-The cases OF
Edward II. Hartman and Otto H..
Kahn against the interstate commerce
commission. involving the refusal of
Hartman and Kahn TO answer Ques-
tons put by the commission investi-
CATION some OF the operations OF the
Hartman railroads were Monday adj
vAnced ON the Docket OF the supreme
court OF the United States and the
hearing nxed fOE the next term OF
court
The bee., 1908-05-21
cOloRADOs FIRST CAPITOL.
Old Log Cabin at Colorado City, Now
Chinese Laundry.

Colorado Springs, Col.-Diagonally
across from Rum Row, on Colorado
avenue, Colorado City, stands the log
cabin which served as the first terri
torial capitol when Colorado City was
made the capital Of the territory in
1851. The building, however, was
used for this purpose but FIVE days.
The lawmakers decided that the ac-
commodatIons we're inadequate, and
adjourned to meet in Denver. Just
what accommodating the new capitol
was shy" OF Is not recorded, but 1t
could not have been that seemingly
necessary adjunct to law making
whisky. For II is a historical fact
that the city at the entrance to Ute
The bee., 1908-05-21
Missouri DEMOCRATS Meet.

Jefferson City. Mo-, May 2O.-The
Democratic state convention meets
here Wednesday to select delegates
to the national convention at Denver
AT a meeting OF the state COMMITTEES
Tuesday night, Speaker John M. At
kinson OF the lower house of the Mis-
souri, legislature was selected tenn
porary chairman. II Is said Senator
F. M. McDavid of Greene county N
slated for permanent chairman.
The bee., 1908-05-21
TIDAL WAVE KILLS 10000.
Chinese at Hankow Are EnguIfed az
They Sleep In Junks.

Seattle. Nav l4.--A tidal wave has
swept 10000 persons TO death in Han
kow, China. according to the officers
OF the steamer Titan. which has Just
arrived here. The tidal wave was
caused by the overfowing of the Yang
Tse Kiang river.
Three thousand Chinese, sleeping
In junks and small boats on the river,
were caught by the wave. which was
26 feet high, and drowned.
There is a large British settlement
extending for half = mile along the
river.
The bee., 1908-05-21
COMMISSIONER KILLS SELF.
Man Whose Office Was Under Fire
Sends Bullet Into His nraln-

Indianapolis, May 20.-JOhn Nc
0aughey, so years old, a prominent
plumber and former member Of the
Marion county board of commission
ers, committed suicide Tuesday morn
ing by shooting himself in the head
with q revolver as he lay in bed.
Two other members associated with
McGaughey on the board OF commits
siOners are under indictment on a
charge of accepting bride in connec-
ton with boilers sold to the county,
and while McGaughey had not been
indicted, it is believed worry over the
investigation caused him to take his
life.
The bee., 1908-05-21
cleveland Continues to lmprsvs.

Lakewood, ~ j., May 2O-Former
President Grover Cleveland shows
steady improvement, according to the
statement issued Tuesday night BY
Manager Becker of the Lakewood hO-
tel.sAactins for Mrs. Cleveland Dur
ing the past week Mrs. Cleveland has
left the patient number OF tn1s
and has been away from him all day
on several occasions
The bee., 1908-05-21
WYOMING Ins.rvets for bryan.

Cheyenne, Wyo, May 15.-The
Democratic state convention Thurs
day selected delegates TO the national
convention and instructed for VIII
liam Jennings Bryan. Resolutions
were adopted favoring the election OF
United States senators by direct vote
OF the people; fayoring an amend
ment to the Sherman antitrust law.
excepting labor unions from the ef-
feet Of its provisions. and opposing
the forest reserve policy OF the pres.
emit national administration.
The bee., 1908-05-21

nAnmOndsport May ao.-IAsuk
sslffidgea In Baldwin's asrOlroIps
waite Wins made twO sAeEt nloIAp
Tuesday. one OF 100 feet and Ansthes
% ace feet The maehiAe IL now -
hsVsd 10 have abundant ns,or ssN@g.
The bee., 1908-05-21
No Files on Him.

Wife (fondly)-DO you remember.
John. how you used OF an evening to
hold my hand. you funny boy. for
hours and hours7 How silly my old
boy used 70 be. INA
Old Boy (grumpily) - Nonsensa,
Jane, don't be stupid. / was always
practical aud businssslike. aid that
10 kssp you hom the piano. -Tatlss
The bee., 1908-05-21

An exact counterpart Of the Chester
Gillette murder case was revealed
when Alvin Heaton, is years old, con-
fssssd that he had murdered his
swestheart. Mary Stevens, In = can
ron hack Of tho town q 0rdeyille,
Utah. "
The bee., 1908-05-21
FATHER OF liberty slLL.l
CONGRESSMAN Sterling Author Of EN-.
ployers' Measure.

Washington.-Co Congressman John A.
Sterling Of Illinois. the father of the
employers liability bill, which went
through the house with only zone dis
senting voice, that of Congressman
Httleheld, is a man who has all his
life come much into contact with the
The bee., 1908-05-21

Us your husband against the book
makersr Inquired Miss Paprika.
Yes" answered young Mrs snor.
kina, but his scheme seens rather
hesrtless. He wants 70 put them out
OF husinens ~ winning ~ thsir noHsy
from them. -NEoAaAue.
The bee., 1908-05-21

Orders cali for the reassembling Of
the feet in san Francisco harbor not
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-11
kEAN TO GO TO
CHICAGO AS HEAD
OF DELEGATION
Custom to Recognize Senior Sem
ator Will Almost Surely
Be Followed.
GOVERNORS FRIENDS
WANT TO MAKE FIGHT
But 1t Is Believed Fort Will
Stand Pat on Recent
Victory.
rsnecial % the .Evenlng staf ]

TRENTON, May 11.-It can be as
serted as almost positive that the
chairman of the New Jersey delegation
to the Republican national convention,
to be held in Chicago on June Is, will
be United States Senator John Kean,
as the senior representative of the
upper house of Congress from this
State.
1t has been the custom for the senior
United States Senator by virtue of his
position to be chosen the chairman OF
the delegation, and it is thought only
reasonable that this custom should be
lived up to this year even though ear
nest friends of Governor John Frank
lin Fort have been booming him as the
man for the place
The latter fact has brought about a
condition of rivalry which, coming on
the recent bitter contest at the State
convention over the choice of dele
gates. has caused some worriment
among party leaders. They do not
think, however, that the Governor will
allow his friends to stir up strife on
this account after the successful fight
he made for the delegateship
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-11
FIGHT FUMES FROM
NAPHTHA EXPLOSION
WAY UNDER EARTH
Two LabOrers Have Narrow Es.
cape When Tank OF
Oil Ignites.
DRIVEWAY TORN UP
ONE HUNDRED FEET OFF
Mems Own Carelessness Nearly
Causes Their Deaths in
Longworth Street.

Two men narrowly escaped death to-
day when big underground tank of
naphtha at 10 Longworth street
exploded, tearing a great hole in the
ground and shaking surrounding build
ings to their foundations. Smoke from
the explosion poured through the sewer
where the men We're working, and
someone sent in fire alarm, which
brought the engines out on the run. A
driveway 100 feet away was blown up
as if by dynamite.
Tony Tarratto. of 1873 Calumet street.
and Joseph Katino of 60 Miller street,
laborers who we're working in the
Washington street sewer between
Longworth and Crawford Streets were
eighteen feet underground when the
deafening explosion occurred Through
small pipe connecting the tank with
the Longworth street sewer the smoke
poured in volumes upon the imprisoned
men.
Step by step, through the binding,
sitting fumes, knee deep in water, the
two men fought their way to the man.
hole at the corner of Washington and
Longworth streets. When they came
out into the sunlight Tony. who is an
elderly man. fell to the ground. He
was removed to St. Barnabas's Hospi-
I tai, suffering from the shock and IN
| haling the fumes.
The explosion is believed to have
been caused BY the men themselves,
who took down a lighted lantern with
them. They had been in the sewer
only a short time when the explosion
occurred.
A hundred feet away, the driveway of
the Laiblin Company, cleaners, was
blown up by the force of the explosion
| The fumes are said to have come from
a naphtha tank owned by the firm,
which was stored away under the
ground, and which Bernard Sacks, who
had charge of the workmen, says was
/ connected with the sewer.
When the fire engines arrived there
I was nothing TO do, as the tongue OF
fame which leaped from the manhole
at the time the fumes ignited had dis
appeared Tony Tarratto was taken in
the First Precinct ambulance to the
hospital
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-11

EldridGe is a man of middle age,
with a wife and family He owns a
power boat. and he makes frequent
trips to the government grounds at
Sandy Hook. On Saturday night at IL
o'clock he started from Sandlass's
Hotel, Highland Beach, to take five
soldiers to the barracksl He put off
from the dock, and that was the last
that the Highland people saw Of him.
This morning a little after o'clock
his boat was found on the shore half
way between the two points. with its
nose rammed hard in the sand and the
engine still going.
Immediate report of the affair to the
Highlands authorities started them on
the hunt for his body in case he has
met with violence. 1t is thought in the
little seaside village that he was MUIR
dered by the soldiers
Others think. however. he has simply
made another disappearance, a thing
he has been guilty of frequently, and
will turn up later when he is out of
money.
The five men. though their names
could not be obtained from the authori-
ties. were reported present in their
ranks and on duty They claim that
they were landed and that E,ldridge
started back to the Highlands No
effort has been made SO far to prevent
the escape of the men from the govern
ment grounds, and the officers thus far
refuse to entertain any complaints
Mrs. Eldridge, wife of the boatnlan,
today told the government authorities
that her husband had $40 i'm his pockets
Saturday, and that she fears he was
robbed and perhaps thrown overheard
Eldridge is prominent among the Jer-
sey coast boatmen. He has two chill
dren
Prosecutor Henry NJ Nevius said
today that he believed that Eldridge
met with foul play He will have a
search made of the bay with the hope
of recovering the mans body.
The missing mans boat was found
about seventy-five yards from shore by
Captain George Carter, of the sloop
Annie Amelia.
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SHOOTS PUPPY
At RISK OF MANY
SCHOOL CHILDREN
Playful Animal Had Snapped at
Mans Heels, SO He Got
Shotgun.


That among several hundred school
children in the vicinity none was shot
down today when, at Pioneer street and
Frelinghuysen avenue, Charles Stau-
fenberg. angered at the playful snap
ping of a puppy at his heels, fired both
loads of double -barreled shotgun into
the dogs breast, may be regarded as
little less than marvellous.
The shooting occurred after he had
chased the dog through the crowd Of
children bound for the Miller Street
School, and. according to Charles Kautz-
man, owner of the dog, reekleesly
brandishing his gun meanwhile
KautzElau, who is a saloon- keeper
at Frelinghuysen avenue and Wander
pool street told his story to Judge
Howell in the First Precinct Court
where he went seeking an officer OF the
S. p. C. A. He said that the skye ter
rier puppy shot by Staufenberg had
followed a former employee, and as
Staufenbcrg came along the dog play
fully snapped at his heels. When the
animal fastened its teeth in one of the
mans trousers legs Staufenberg became
enraged, ard shaking off the dog ran
to his home at Miller street and Free
linghuysen avenue and got shotgun.
Returning he chased the animal
through a crowd of school children. un-
til, finally cornering it, he fired the con-
tents of both barrels into its breast.
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$1,000 REWARD
FOR CAPTURE Of
GUINNESS HARPy
District Attorney Says Lam-
phere Aided WomaniH Re-
moving SuitOrs.
KILLED WOMAN WHEN
SHE PREPARED TO FLEE.
Ponds Are Dragged for Missing
Head - Victims Hand
ClutChed Slayer's Hair.
Especial to the Evening Star ]

LAPORTE, May 1.-THE City Coun-
ell will tonight offer $1,000 reward for
the capture of Mrs. Belle Guinness or
any of her accomplices This resolu-
ton will be passed in spite of the fact
that the farm of the arch-murderess
is outside the city limits.
Mrs. Belle Guinness. the arch-slayer,
is now believed to have poisoned her
three young children, and while she
was preparing for flight. fearing arrest
because of her unparalleled atrocities,
to have been slain by Roy Lamphere,
the drunken farmland, whose atten-
tions she had spurned.
Lamphere is then believed to have
decapitated the harpy's body and
thrown the head into nearby pond
on the farm After killing Mrs. Gun
ness. Lamphere. in order to efface
trace of his act, in all probability fired
the house.
District Attorney Smith thus ac-
counted today for the headless torso
of the woman in the ruins of the farm
house.
ssStrs. Guinness Is dead" he said,
''and Roy LHmpherc was her slayer.
believe that Lamphere was also the
woman'S aceompIIcc in her series of
murders. and that. stated with the orgy
of blood, he determined to XIII the
vampire when he learned that she
planned flight"
Contributory evidence that Lamphere
was the accomplice of Mrs. Guinness in
her crimes was supplied today by DR..
J. II. William Meyer, coroner's physi-
clan, who declared that in his examina-
ton of the slain body of Andrew Hege-
lein, of Aberdeen, S. D., he found a
bunch of hair clutehed in the hand of
the murdered man.
John Wheatbrook, a farmer who en-
ployed Lamphere, is the man that sup
piled the district attorney with the in
formation that apparently places the
! responsibility for the death of Mrs.
Guinness upon Lamphere.
Wheatbrook's statement follows
"The last thing Lamphere told me
Monday night" said Wheatbrook to-
day at his farm, was: "'Dont wait
for me if am not here sharp at 6, for
| if | am late, I'll walk home: I don't
mind When [ drove past again az s
O'Clock Lamphere was in there and l
didn't stop even to inquire if he had
been in, as he seemed to be so willing
| to spend the evening in town, and I
knew that he likely would be around
I the saloons
y Farm Hand Drank All Night.
/ Lamphere went on tour of the
saloons oe Laporte after leaving
Wheatbrook, and after five hours of
dissipation wound up at the cabin OF
/ "Nigger Liz" as the negro woman is
| known to the police and Laporte's linn
| ited underworld
"When I returned home Monday
night. noticed that his tool chest was
gone I saw the tracks coming and
lContInued ON second Pase.l
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SOLDIER AMUCK
|. KILLS THREE AND
WOUNDS 8 MORE
Private OF First U. S. Cavalry
Stays Comrades in Far
Manila.

MANILA. May 11.--A telegram re-
oeived by the kdjutant general tonight
announced that Private Mike Beacham,
of the First United states Cavalry,
ran amuck, killing three and woundipg
three of his comrades, one mortally.
The dead are: First Sergeant William
Hoey, Private G. Wilson and Private
Thomas Woodward. Private Edward
Woodward was fatally wounded, All
tbe men were members Of Troop II.
First Cavalry.
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Orchestra starts on another weeks engaEemenF
tonight Tc listen TO them is 2 piea@Ms'
Kochs Hotei sd BroSd street. --AdY
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TORNADO DESTROYS
TOWNS, CLAIMING
SCORES OF VICTIMS
Terrific Storm Sweeps Northwestern Oklahoma.
Ripping Houses to Pieces, Costing Several
Lives and Manning Others.
ELEVEN PLACES HIT BY FEARFUL CYCLONE
AND COUNTY SEAT HAS BEEN WIPED OUT
[speclal d the Eyenipg star.l


RNoUR a
-
- ouy dands
Cooley
casu are said o
The known casualties At ArneN1an named Hale killed. half
County Seat Desire
wholly
of Rchmond
baepd
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Oklahoma, close to the Texas and Kan
sas State lines. AS far as learned it
traversed four counties and covered a
distance OF seventy FIVE miles i'll length.
Yesterday and last night there was a
terrific rainfall in this part of the state,
following oppressive weather.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-11

IT belongs TO THE EVENING STAR
readers now. You can win some
part of its value in fhe Quotat on
Contest. Read announcements on
Page 2 and send ia your answers.
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The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-11
SUSPECT SOLDIERS
OF SLAYING AGED
NAVESINk BOATMAN
Broken Oar and BOOd-StainS in Boat Of Charles
Eldridge, Missing Since Saturday Night--Last
Seen Rowing Men to Fort Hancock.
WIFE FEARS HE WAS KILLED FOR HIS MONEY:
men At THEIR DUTIES PROTEST INNOCENCE
special. to the evening start

HIGHLANDS NAVESINK
Edridge
o
the body which $ front
Highland Beach, take the five soldiers
the
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tcpyrght
SON the mulmInnai president Of the great eosnopoan M
Company bills IN his der Nhen
4h T. Makay announced
the maid III lne Miss Beatrice
MT welsoomu
Leave 9 bargain The doctor showed
OF llustrous and certainty
patient
old yerson mao oeel
of complete nervous
put twice on D
more city Ha ana VINO was
whose once neuroogsts
as one Miss Beatrice nad
On Glen avenue
Newark father say III
household shopping
xsrkst streets, promising to return ior Mt nSe' ~ -
NINTH -
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All these places are twenty-ilVe miles.
from railroad. Wires arc down and
it is difficult 10 obtain details Grand
is the largest of the seven. and it has
only few hundred inhabitants.
The scene of the tornadoes is the
northwest corner of the old border of
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THIS IS THE EVENING STARS WONDERFUL
STORY ABOUT WHICH ALL NEWARK is TALKING
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scontinucd ON Ninth Psse-'
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YOUNG sHOPuFTER ON PROBATION,

Fannie Schrencel, II years old. Of II
Rankin street. who was caught shop
hitting in a Market street department
store was today turned over to the
Probation officer.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-04-25
Love Potions In the Middle Aces.


In lecture delivered before the AS
sociatlon Of Surgeons of Munich by
Professor Klein on the subject OF mar
cotics the speaker said that the process
Of reducing the sensiblities Of patients
with view to making operations
painless was known and practiced IN
the middle ages. Tie narcotic was
known then rs Il love potion and
recipes for compoundlng 1t have
come to us from our ancestors. Pro.
fessor Klein said that the story Of
Tristan und Isolde" showed that the
love potion was only narcotic. Bish-
op TheOdOrus Of Cberyira wrote pre-
scription for pain destroyer in the
twelfth century which contained OPT.
um, morphine and hyascum. A med
ical work printed in 1850 contains the
first known treatise on inhalation, and
We now inject under the skin the
soothing mixture which in 14GO was
inhaled. a love potion prescribed In
1897 by Hieronymus Of BraunschweIg
opium and a number Of use
less ingredients Many Of the mixtures
known as love potions were lost in the
course Of the Thirty Years war and
were, redlscovered later to serve again
In the field Of science
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-04-25
The .saltnatar Man.

The saltpeter man Of the first half OF
the seventeenth century was hated
even more, II that be possible, than the
window pepper" of those more recent
days when light was subject TO heavy
taxation. Before the importation Of
saltpeter from abroad as an important
ingredient in the manufacture OF gun.
powder II was a crown monopoly, and
agents, popularity known as saltpeter
men, were sent all over the country to
seek for It In stables, pigeon cots, pig
sites and indeed In almost all other
places the soil of which was supposed
to be impregnated with animal matter.
The injury these men did and the irrl
tation they caused by digging up floors
and pulling down fences were great.
No householder was free from their
visits, which were rendered especially
odious from their being empowered to
impress carts and horses for the pur-
pose Of carrying away the mineral and
the utensils employed In Its manufac-
ture. This CALLING domestic tyranny
though, of course, not to be compared
with things Of far greater moment
was no doubt one Of the factors In the
national irritation which made the civil
war possible. The monopoly was put
an end to by parliament In 1G5G.--Lon-
don Athenaeum.