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OF Itching. Blind Bleeding or Protrnding Piles
N to IL days or money refunded. SOC. .
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from going around with girls. instead
OF working their way up In their busi-
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Not a Fraternity Man

All the friends of the dead man agree
that he had a lively imagination, which
he used to advertise himself He told
all his associates that he was a grad
uate of Yale university and that he
attended the Sheffield technical school
affiliated with the New Haven institu-
tion. His family declare that he had
but a common school education. Boas
talked freely of being a fraternity man
and displayed what he said was his fra
ternity pin. The pin resembled closely
the pin Of the Alpha Tau Omega ma
tional fraternity. The University of
California chapter of the Alpha Tau
Omega fraternity at Berkeley said last
night that there was no member of the
organization named Boas, and they
had no information regarding the dead
electrician.
Mrs. Walker and Chief OF Police
Haley of San Jose are particularly en-
phatic regarding Boas ina ginative
talent
HE was always talking OF his col
leSe lie ana OF experiences he had mac
in Arizona and Mexico. but 1 thought
he was liar" declared Mrs. Walker.
Chief HaIey's Statement
At conference held last evening
in the office Of the chief of police of
San lose, which was attended by Detec-
tive Gallagher of this city Mrs. walker.
Miss Anna and Miss Iona Kelliper and
newspapermen. Chief Haley made the
following statement:
My opinion is that Boas wrote this
letter to himself and committed suicide
in a spectacular manner. have known
Miss Kelliper and her family for many
years. There is no doubt in my mind
that the girl is guiltless OF wrong
doing. We have examined the hand
writing in this letter and those which
he sent to Miss Kelliper and find that
the handwriting is Identical"
Detective Gallagher would not CON-
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same time. All rushed into the room.
They found the young man on the
floor beside his bed. He was in severe
pain.
Physicians were summoned, but short
ly after Boas died.
When the police were called they in
vestigated the letter and Immediately
turned their attention toward the San
Jose end of the mystery.
Harry Boas went to San Jose three
years ago and stayed until 1s months
ago. While there he roomed with Mrs.
c. G. Walker. SO South Fifth street.
While he was staying at the Walker
lodgings he met two girls, daughters
of Patrick Kelliper, a farmer of Ever
green, town eight miles west of San
Jose The older one, Miss Anna, or
Patsy" as her friends called her, is
about % years old and is employed by
the telephone company as an operator.
She was the one on whom Boas' life
eventually became centered.
The other girl, Miss Lena, is younger
lAdn utE sister ana ulu hOl culcA AibO
the Boas affair
HAS GOOD REPUTATION
Miss Anna Kelliper bears an excel
lent reputation in San Jose. Chief of
Police Edward Haley is a friend of the
family and spoke yesterday in the
highest terms of the girl.
But 1t developed that she had received
valuable presents from Harry Boas.
Among his effects in the Harrison street
home was the receipt for $50 paid for
a pair of earrings given the girl. Miss
Kelliper explained the present last
evening by saying that Boas wrote TO
her that he was going to send her a
present and that If she did not accept
ii he would never speak to her again.
The girl took the jewels. She insisted
that she was not in love with Boas nor
engaged to him. On the contrary. II
is reported in San Jose that she is en-
gagged to a young man in Portland.
But as recently as Tuesday Miss
Kelliper and Boas had long converse
ton over the telephone. and in the
young mans Office where he died was a
package containing a handsome set OF
hand painted china, which he was GO
ing to send to Sis as he called the
girl as a Christmas present.
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mt AiiheSils Uul dSSSHteu 10 the CIiiCl .
opinion.
Miss Goodson, a trained nurse who
lives at the Walker house, was closely
questioned by Detective Gallagher and
Detective ]. C. Hines of San Jose. They
were closeted with the woman for a
long time, and at the end of the inter
view announced that sne had nothing to
do with the case.
Her San Francisco Beau
While Miss Kelliper insisted on the
platonic quality of her friendship for
Boas, 1T was apparent from the letters
she wrote him that she was frequently
teased about her San Francisco beau,
and was not adverse to letting him
know of the comments that were made
on their correspondence.
On his part, Boas was always tell
ing his friends of isis" and planned
to go to San Jose at Christmas time
and see her.
Had he lived he would have today
become associated with Arthur H.
Simpson of the Ideal electric company
at Mission and Third streets in a new
enterprise. They were TO buy out the
business of the RosenthaI electric COM
pany in McAllister street near Fill
more. That he was able to embark on
a new venture is held by Boas' friends
as proof that he was not hard up finan-
cially.
An examination of Boas' stomach,
made by City Chemist F. T. Green, dis
closed strychnine in sufficient quantities
to have killed at least 10 men, the
process of digestion not having com
menced to any appreciable extent and
the food which the dead man had eaten
for supper was. recognizable. The stom-
ach showed the presence Of vermicelli,
potato salad and large pieces of meat.
These were also subjected to an analy
sis and showed the presence of poison.
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Walter Wilson, His Business
Associate, Tasted II and
Noticed Bitter Flavor
Miss Anna KeIIiper Admits Re-
ceiving Presents, but Can Not
Account for Death
Letter Received by BOas Is in
Handwriting Similar to That
in Letters to Girl

the deadly power Of the powder, al
lowed his associate to experiment so
perllously with the white substance.
Charlevoix county herald., 1908-01-18
The Best of All Markets.

We are now buying cotton goods to
the value of $60,OOO,O00 to SIC, 900 900
annually, all of which should be made
in this country. Here is a $70,000,000
market right at home, good, profit
able, growing market. Why not work
for certainty instead of worrying
about supplying the Asiatics 10000
miles distant?
In ten years time this additional
market will be worth fully $4,000 900
or more year. And let 1t be remem-
bered that in supplying this market
We create innumerable other markets
for every article of food, shelter, cloth
ing and Injuries that would be re-
CURED by such operatives and those
dependent on them. The increase of a
home market is simply an endless
chain. If our foreign sales increase at
the same time, as they undoubtedly
will, well and good, but let us first see
to it that we do our own work. Then
let us treat all nations alike and buy
what we want and sell what they
want. 1t is working so well now and
has been for decade, that it would be
a pity, if not calamity and crime,
to make any change for the present.
Charlevoix county herald., 1908-01-18
The Tariff Not to Blame.

The New York Evening Post and
other perennial free trade papers are
pointing to the tariff as the cause Of
the present disturbance in the COM
mercial world. Should the Gulf Stream
be suddenly Jared out of it's course
or the Milky Way become impassably
obstructed the professional tariff rip
per would Immediately rear back on
his hind legs and belch forth heavy
volley of anathema against the tariff
The Dingley tariff law has accom-
plished hundreds of thousands of times
more for this country than it's trainers
ever dreamed. The function of tar
iff-the raising Of public revenues and
the creating of a home market-have
been fulfilled until the degree of pros
perity which the American people have
enjoyed under the present law has had
no parallel throughout all the history
of the civilized world.
Is the tariff responsible because q
man spends more money than he
makes, or contracts obligations which
he cannot fulfill?
Is the tariff responsible because
shortened crops in various parts of the
world increase the cost of living in all
parts of the world?
Is the tariff responsible because
cOterie of frenzied financiers meet be-
hind closed doors of room on Wall
street and capitalize new enterprises
beyond all reason, and because the
people who are anxious to get rich
quick harvest in securities which can
never make good?
In response to the hysterical clamor
which has been going on for several
years congress will probably under
take some revision of the tariff-after
the next presidential election-but IL
that revision is undertaken on the
basis of the demands of the average
professional tariff ripper this country
will see a period of business stagna-
ton, compared with which the present
nine-day spasm will be forgotten over
night.-Des Moines Capital.
Charlevoix county herald., 1908-01-18
THEATRICAL NOTES.

George Broadhurst has finished his
new play for Nat G. Goodwin. 1t will
be called "The Fastener"
Marie Doro's appearance in New
York as star in THE Morals Of Mar
Gus" proved so successful that Charles
Frohman Immediately extended the
time of her engagement.
THE Thief continues to be the
sensation of the New York season, and
it will play out the year at the Ly-
ceum theater Kyrie Bellew and Mar
garet Ellington have the principal
roles.
Cyril Scott will have a new play by
Cecil and William G. De Mile, to be
used when he concludes his season in
The Prince Chap" 1t is called THE
Trail first having been named THE
End Of the Trail
Miss Florence Gale, at one time a
leading lady of reputation in the
west has gone into vaudeville, appear
ing in a sketch entitled The Girl Who
Dared" 1t is an adaptation from the
German, and the New York reviewers
praised the piece and star highly.
An English actor, Robert Ganthony,
has written play on New York life,
entitled only an Actress" and has
brought it to this country to present
it himself. The plot turns on the mar
riage of an actress to wealthy New
Yorker and her attempts ito reform
him. Gotham life seen through British
eyes, and laid before the Gothamites
themselves. ought to be entertaining.
Brady and Grismer will produce
The Intruder" by Thompson Buchan-
an, city editor of the New York Even.
ing Journal 1t is not political play.
The person who intrudes is the hero's
second wife.
Miss Ellen Terry soon will present
a one-act play by Murray, the author
of "A Sentimental Cuss." The scene
is laid in a woodman's hut on the Ca
madam frontier and Miss Terry will
play the lead.
Charlevoix county herald., 1908-01-18
A SOLDIERS TRIBUTE.
Laid on the Tomb of Gen. Grant Last
Summer.

Here is a soldiers tribute laid on
the tomb of Gen. Grant by one Of the
Illinois Grand Army men who, coming
home from the national encampment
at Saratoga Springs last summer, Wis
tied New York city and the shrine
there on the Hudson:
AT THE TOMB OF GEN. GRANT.
High on the Hudson rivers shore.
Above the city's din and roar,
Towering to the azure skies,
Entombed, the nations hero lies:
Ulysses Grant, born to command,
And save from ruin ruptured land;
A man OF war, of words but few
The wealth and worth OF peace he knew
And. conquering. his words were these
(To friend and foes Let us have peace
His fame will live while freemen dwell
Within the land he loved so well.
Here I stand in awe and wonder;
Again 1 hear the roar and thunder
OF the cannon see again
The boys in blue charge DER the plain,
My comrades falling as they bear
Old Glory through the sitting air;
I hear the captains frantic voice
Amid the tumult and the noise,
Cheering on to death his boys;
Again upon that field blood-red
see the windows of the dead:
And there beneath the southern sun
They sleep to-day i'm graves unknown,
No shaft or tablet to disclose
Or mark the spot where they repose.
M. III. Peters.
Charlevoix county herald., 1908-01-18

Reub's hands. and as ! neared the
top OF the ladder. Peter. seized and
swung his 240-avoirdupois onto my
lame foot. Bracing his feet and taking
firm grip he said, Nov, tam you,
fetches YOU"
Just then I Strengthened out my
foot, which allowed my big old unlaced
shoe to come off very suddenly, land
ing on big Peters head and shoulders.
AS the train moved slowly on and l
stood upon the roof, looked back and
saw big Peter on his feet again, shak-
ing his fist at me and trying to say
something In every language at his
command. / called back to him in a
loud voice, Il have fulfilled my prom
Use; have that chicken, and you may
keep that old shoe for luck"
Then came back to me above the
noise of the cars. well, pc tam, eef
it ee5 not to Machor. Dot ees adj
rigid. It'd not know it vas you. You
PEGS very welcome to dot shicken.
Goot efening."
Charlevoix county herald., 1908-01-18
Just Then My Big Unlaced Shoe
Came Of.

behind on account of lame foot, to
come up on the cars with "the stuff"
Quartermaster-Sergt Reub Robb also
remained back to take charge Of
Quartermaster stores The train on
which we were to take passage was
not ready to pull out till about dark
on the evening we left. After seeing
our goods safely stored inside, Reub
aud / climbed up and took passage on
the roof. 1 had forgotten about my
promise to visit our neighbours chick
en- roost till Cur train had moved up
and come to a halt near their quar-
ters, when / said to Reub: This re-
minds me that / am under promise to
steal one of those chickens that are
roosting in the oak near that shanty.
| must make good that promise. Now,
be ready to grab the chicken when
hand it up. to you" / then descended
the ladder and quietly approached the
roost. Things seemed propitious-''all
was quiet on the Potomac" After
brief reconnaissance | felt pretty sure
that there was nobody at home A
chicken, all unconscious of its fate,
was roosting on a lower limb within
my reach. BY clasping its head in one
hand and its feet in the other | had
succeeded in reaching the cars with
out any mishap, but just as the tgain
was starting, to enable me to
climb the ladder let go of the chick
ems head, whereupon il let out a most
unearthly squawk, which aroused and
brought out after me, pell-mell, big
Peter Dinkerscheets, who all "unbe-
kuownst" to me had been left to hold
the fort" yelling, You steals shick-
en-, hah, Tam you"
After had landed the chicken into
Charlevoix county herald., 1908-01-18
Denver and BRYAN.

In choosing Denver as the conven-
ton city the Democratic national COM
mittee has probably favored Bryan
all it can. Denver is, SO to speak, in
Bryan's territory. But at the same
time the committee has gone as far as
is might in taking the party away from
1.-The enemy's country" and from the
dissatisfied south. No one pretends
that Mr.. Bryan is the favorite of the
whole Democracy. He is disliked in
the south and he is not acceptable to
the east He is the strong figure in
the party simply because the opposi-
ton is totally unable to unite upon
another man. We violate no confidence
in saying that a majority of Demo
Gratis would prefer another candidate
than the Nebraskan, but they are
widely at variance on the question as
to who that other should be. In that
situation there is hopeless drift to
Bryan and the selection Of Denver
practically closes the question. That
selection is indicative that the candi-
date for vice president may also be
chosen from that region, though such
action would be contrary to all po-
litical precedents.
Charlevoix county herald., 1908-01-18
OLCOTT ONLY HALF IRISH.
His Father Was Yankee, as Are All
His Relatives.

Concerning one of our popular tour
ing stars the questions are often
asked, Is his real name Chauncey o.
colt? Is he really an Irishman? To
a newspaper man the other day the
player of Irish drama unburdened him
self upon these points as follows:
MY mother was born in Ireland
but my father was a down east YAM
kee, and his family were Yankees for
five generations before him. / was
born in Rhode Island and grew up in
York state. All my relatives are
Yankees, so Yankee, in fact, that |
thought of changing my name when
Mr.. Pittou wanted me to become an
Irish star. | am named for my grand
father, Chancellor Olcott. Mother was
a Brennan, and | was going to take
the name of Brennan for the stage.
But, strangely enough, my grandfather
Brennan secuted the idea. L wouldn't
give cent to see an Irishman play
an Irishman,' said he in the most de-
licious of brogues. However would it
sound to say that Dan McClusky
would be seen as Michael O'Hara?
Not bit of it, my boy. Stick to the
name of Olcott. An Olcott as an Irish
man-that might be worth SEEM
"And so / continued as Chauncey
Olcott, and have always been thank
ful that did. It's a good name, and
the Chauncey-it's euphonious and
friendly. No one ever thinks of call
ing me Mr.. Olcott-It's always Chaun.
cey, even when they first meet me-"
Charlevoix county herald., 1908-01-18
TARIFF PLANK OF 1896.
Proof of Mr.. Bryan's Facility for
Changing Issues.

Mr. Bryan continues to assert that
among. the virtues of the Democratic
platform of 1896 was plank declaring
in favor of "a tariff for revenue only"
Does he forget, or only wish to con.
ceal, the true story OF that plank?
In 1896 the Democratic tariff plank
omitted the word only" The omis
sion was not a clerical error, an over
sight or an unconsidered trife. 1t was
made consciously, after full considera-
ton and with Mr.. Bryan's unqualified
approval. The purpose was the it'll
lation and allurement of the Silver Re-
publican voters of the west, who in
sisted on some guarantee that the
protection principle would not be rad
ically attacked in the event of the
candidates election. 1t was putting
the platform in accord with Bryan's
cross OF gold" speech, in which he
said, IF protection has slain its thou
ands, the gold standard has slain it's
tens OF thousands sentence also de-
liberately composed to reassure the
Silver Republicans
Mr.. Bryan, after some years as
furious free trader abandoned tariff
reform for new political attraction;
as he has since abandoned anti-im-
perialism and free silver. He may be
a man of untainted sincerity, but his ia
cility OF switching to paramount issues
is feature of his career which cannot
be denied.
Charlevoix county herald., 1908-01-18
WHAT KINFOLK OF ACTORS DO.
Many Relatives of Stars Also in the
Business.

One of the best known brokers in
New York city is Tommie Russell,
who some years ago created the part
of Little Lord Fauntleroy" in the
play of the same name. He is a
brother of Annie Russell, the actress,
and now that he has retired from the
stage he is member of that large
army of unprofessional relatives of
professional people.
Elsie Janis has taken care of her
relatives about as we'll as any other
star. Her mother is with her con-
stantly and she persuaded her man
ager, Charles Dillingham;, to place
upon his pay roll several Of her male
relatives.
Joe Weber's brother is one of the
business attaches of the Weber Music
hall.
A couple of Lew Fields brothers are
actors and one of them gives pretty
good imitation of Lew.
Young Heron Miller, a son of Henry
Miller, gave an imitation of Henry in
The Gay White Way till he left the
cast of that attraction.
A brother of Ada Rehan wrote a
spirited defense of Laura Keene in u
biography of which the relatives of
Miss Keene approve.
One of the nephews of Richard
Mansfield is upon the stage and for
time he was in Mr.. Mansfeld's com
pany.
The three sons of the late Joseph
Jefferson are i'm the theater-two OF
them as actors and one of them as a
manager.
No sooner did Alexander Carr make
hit as Shubert star than his
brother became an actor.
Olga Nethersole's brother, Louis
Nethersole, has been business man
ager for Frank Daniels and other
stars, and he has also helped direct
the tours Of his sister.
Max Beerbohm, one of the cleverest
of the English essayists and dramatic
writer's, is brother Of Beerbohm
Tree the atcor-manager, and Forbes
Robertson, another English actor-man-
ager, has relatives who are well up in
the artistic world.
Daughters of MIS-. Patrick Camp
bell, Ellen Terry, Lillian Russell, and
other actresses have become more or
less conspicuous in the affairs of the
theater
Owing to the exigencies of booking
Charles Warner, the English actor
who is in vaudeville in this country,
has found himself playing in theaters
managed by interests opposed to
those in which his son, II. b. Warner,
has been appearing.
Sarah Bernhardt's son, Maurice. is
deeply interested i'm the theater and
has done some good work in it, but
not as an actor. He writes better,
his mother thinks, than many other
writer's about the theater and she has
several extensively bound collections
of all that he has written.
The theatrical instinct has run in
families like the Robertsons, the Ber-
ignores, the Jeffersons, the DreSs,
and other families which with zach
generation have given actors end
actresses to the stage.
Charlevoix county herald., 1908-01-18
THE "BLACK TERROR"
One of the Thrilling Incidents of the
Civil War.

The winter OF 1862, says Mr.. E. Will
liams, in his Sketches of War His
tory" was spent by the union army
in trying to gain a foothold on the
high grounds in the vicinity of Vicks-
burg, on the east side of the Missis-
sippi. All attempts had failed. At last
1t was determined that the army
city, while the vessels of the navy ran
the batteries. Two of Admiral Por-
ters vessels, the Queen and the In
dianola, got by the forts, only to be
captured and turned to confederate
use.
The river curves in form, so that
any vessel must be -nder the fire Of
the batteries for eight or ten miles.
The admiral finally decided to send
down dummy monitor to draw the
fire away from his main tactics. An
old coal barge was selected, and in
II hours was transformed into a for
midable gunboat.
Pork-barrels formed the smoke
stacks, old canvas played the part of
quarter-boats. The furnace was made
Of mud, intended to furnish only black
smoke instead of steam. Such was the
Black Terror, shining with fresh coat
of coal-tar, and with an immense
Quaker gun protruding from the
open port.
Under the cover Of the night the
monster dropped downstream, smoke
pouring from the pork-barrels. the
furnace burning damp oakum, and
with no one on board, not even war
correspondent 1t flew the Stars and
Stripes, and black flag ornamented
with skull and cross-bones.
Slowly the boat made its way, car
ried by the current. Suddenly it was
challenged by shot from battery.
The craft deigned no reply, but
stood steadily on it's course.
Then came the concentrated fire Of
all the batteries.
Still no reply. Sped by the five-knot
current, it proudly moved with impress
sive majesty, apparently uninjured.
The heavens Numbered and the. earth
shook. Never" says Admiral Porter,
"did the batteries of Vicksburg open
with such din. Shot flew thick about
the devoted craft"
The Queen, under the confederate
flag hearing the firing, came up the
river to investigate. 1t saw the mon
ster gunboat, paying no attention to
the batteries and clearing directly
down upon it, and turned heels and
dashed down the stream.
The dummy, passing safely all the
forts, steered by the eddy, landed on
the west side Of the river as skilfully
as pilot could have done it.
Some federal soldiers rushed to it,
saw what it was, and pushed it of into
the current. Down 1t drifted toward
the captured Indianola. The officer
took one look at the bulky form, and
with promptness laid two big guns
muzzle to muzzle, and blew up the
boat. Then he escaped with his hun
dred men to the land and over the hills.
The Terror calmly drifted on until it
caught fire and burned.
Charlevoix county herald., 1908-01-18
Free Traders Could Do It.

The tariff ought to be kept in poll
tics so long as there is custom
(Me.) Sun.
Right you are. The tariff will stay
in politics as long as that, and much
longer, too. The Sun will help to
keep it in politics by so much as il
helps TO keep alive Democratic hatred
of protection. Keeping the tariff in
politics has been of vast value to the
American people. II has kept the pro-
lection party in control of national af-
fairs for long term OF years, and af-
forded the country the opportunity of
taking the lead of the world in wealth,
in progress and in prosperity. There is
not the slightest prospect of keeping
the tariff out OF politics. Free traders
could do it by ceasing to be free trad
ers. 1t could be done in no other way.