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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-21
TALES OF THE TOWN 2
TOLD IN FEW LINES
Pencil Stubs Picked Up AT
- Random.

Hammocks, tennis and baseball
goods, croquet sets. Holidays Book
| Store, Phone 246.
THE Mystery of the Nap, or who
| Swiped the Diamonds, is a romance
which the sleuths are trying hard
to unravel
The multitude thronged Americas
| busy streets yesterday. 1t was a
| typical Saturday throng, and they had
| the dollars.
Col Crawford Wheatley will go to
1 Atlanta tomorrow to@file application
for charter for the new bank to be
| established here.
The peach cannery here, it IS statedl
| has a pay roll of more than $1,000 al
week. 1t is enterprises like this THAI
build up a town.
The rattle of the ice wagon today
will be as sweet as the strum of an
aeolian harp to the sultry cit who
cusses and waits.
Today, June 21st, is the longest
| day of the year And in all probable
ity it will achieve distinction as being
among the hottest
Except for an occasional near
beer" drunk the police have little to
do and the docket of the police court
| is without an entry
1t is understood that parties are
] negotiating for the establishment of
a large dairy near Americas, modern
in all appointments.
Three white men who raised a
rough house at a prohibition drinkery
the night before were fined $40 each
in police court yesterday.
AS if it were not hot enough al
ready, the Georgia legislature gets
upon the track again Wednesday for
hot sprint of fifty days,
YESTERDAY was reckoned the hottest
of the season i'm Americas. The mer-
curry climber to go, and there was
no breeze to temper the heat.
Charlie Parker, the youthful Ameri-
Gus burglar, is doing we'll at the State
Reformatory, and a good record may
soon secure release therefrom.
Mr.. l.. w. Brown will occupy Sept
ember 1st property he recently pHr-
chased-the Wilson residence on
Jackson street, near the~depot.
Citizens generally will gladly wit
ness the departure of the tented cat
traction" which for weeks has created
bedlam near the Windsor Hotel
With three ball games here with
Lumpkin this week, and one game
Friday with Albany here, local fans
will have enough to howl about
Sumter's list of Confederate pen
sioners are to receive their pensions
for the third quarter early in July,
according to information sent out
The many friends of Mr.. Max Lit
tlejohn, eldest son of Judge and Mrs.
y. A. Littlejohn, will regret to learn
that he is i'll with fever at Green's
boro, N. c.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-21

Hammocks, tennis and baseball
goods, croquet sets. Holidays Book
Store Phone 246
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-21

The Mystery of the Nap, or who
Swiped the Diamonds, is a romance
which the sleuths are trying hard
to unravel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-06
TOOK JEWELS WORTH $4,000
DARING THIEF LEAPS AREA.
WAY TO HOTEL WINDOW.
Ransacked Wealthy Woman's Room
While She Was at Dinner.
Police Without Clue.

NEW YORK, October 6.-Leaping across
gap of five feet. using the edge of a
roof as his springboard and a four-inch
window ledge as landing place. burglar
succeeded in ransacking a room in the
Hotel Hawthorne, 20 West 10th street, and
making his escape with jewels and other
property valued at $4,000
So completely and thoroughly did the
burglar cover his tracks that policemen
from headquarters and the branch detec-
tive bureau in 9th avenue near 4Sth
street, have been unable to obtain any
clew to his identity or to trace any of
the plumber. They said the robbery oc-
CURED early in the evening September
II, but would give only information of the
most meager character.
Policemen Carteret and Murphy. who
are working on the case. said they could
not give out the name of the person who
was robbed. but from another source it
was learned that the victim was a wealthy
woman who returned to this city from
Europe the day of the burglary.
After experimenting the placing of her
trunks in her apartments, the woman left
her rooms shortly after o'clock to take
dinner in the dining room of the hotel.
When she returned she found the floor
streWn with valuable clothing. thrown
from the trunks, and the bag which had
contained her most valued property jew
els and treasures. all but empty. A clerk,
who was called found that a window
looking across the roof OF No. "a West
10th street was open. The latter building
is on the 9th avenue corner and its upper
floors are occupied by tailor shops and
living rooms. Its street door is left open
in the early evening.
Investigation made later by the police
showed that the burglar must have
entered No. a, and. waiting his chance.
gained access to the Hotel Hawthorne by
leaping over the narrow zap between the
two buildings. His escape was evidently
made in the same manner. The scuttle
on the roof of "A West 18th street was
found unlocked.
The police did not have complete list
Of the articles stolen, but said that from
information they had received the value
was about $1,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-06
OLD COIN WEIeHS 81 POUNDS
COLLECTORS GIANT POCKET
PIECE WAS COINED IN 1859.
Original Value Was Eight Swedish
Thalers, But Not It's
Worth $500.

NEW YORK, October 6-Anybody
needing a piece of small change should
20 quickly (and avoid the rush) to No.
"a Lexington avenue, Jersey City, the
home of c. F. Engstrom. coin collector
and antiquarian.
Mr.. Engstrom has in his possession one
of the four largest coins in the world.
The three other largest coins are the
same size as Mr.. Engstrom SO that Mr..
Engstrom is in no danger of being out
classed
Mr.. Engstrom's coin was minted in
1863, and bears the imprint of Charles X
of Sweden. The coin is Of bronze, OBJ
long, twenty-six inches long by thirteen
inches wide, and weighs thirty-one
pounds. 1t is stamped in the middle and
at the four corners with the royal stamp
of King Charles. but is otherwise as plain
as a slab of slate.
In the year 1859 money was not In free
circulation in Sweden. The ordinary
citizen used To pay most OF his blIls IN
farm produce and labor, and those who
had money used to keep IT in their cell
lars were unable to do a thriving bust
ness at the time. The average man
money was safe from all but professional
strong men.
In 1861 Sweden was at war with Rus
STA. The Russians scuttled a Swedish
man-of-war in Riga harbor. In 1901 Riga
harbor was dredged by the Russian gov
eminent and the ship raised. The four
big bronze coins were aboard. Two are
still In Russia and one in England. The
fourth came here to Mr.. Engstrom on the
Adriatic last Thursday.
On its face the coin is worth eight
Swedish thalers at the rate OF exchange
In 1863. AS an antique ii is worth 500.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-06

promptly and emphatically stated that the
charges of Mr.. Monnett were absolutely
false. In the signed statement he further
said that after the supreme court sus.
tanned the demand OF the attorneys 70,
the Standard Oil Company that the name
of the alleged briber be made: public Mr.
Monnett came to him. stated that he was
in g corner, and asked the privilege OF
naming him as the briber.
Neither Of the documents filed with
the supreme court directly charged the
Standard Oil Company or any Of its Of
f1cers or agents with any completely in
the alleged bribery. The amendment sim
ply stated that the said Squires had
claimed to represent certain Of those Of
fcials.
mo charges having been made upon
which 1t could act. the supreme court,
therefore. on the 10Th day Of December,
1880. entered an order upon its journal
as follows:
Ordered that the information herein
filed by the attorney general on the 18th
from the files. It not appearing that there
Is any competent evidence to connect the
defendant with the alleged offer to the
attorney general
This was the action. not of a single
judge, but of the entire court
Blocking of Testimony.
"Mr. Monnett has chosen to connect my
name with an order preventing his TAX
ing further testimony. The order to
which he refers had nothing whatever to
do with the bribery charges master
commissioner had been appointed by the
court. before whom the parties were to
take all their evidence in the main case.
In January. 1899. he filed a motion to
have this order rescinded and the witness
es brought directly before the supreme
court. That application was met by an
answer and affidavits.
II appeared at the hearing The court
had no information except that which ap-
peared on the face of his application. the
answer thereto and the affidavits regu-
larry filed. From these it appeared that
Mr.. Monnett. instead of taking his tes-
timony befor the commissioner appointed
for that purpose. was taking dispositions
under notices served for that purpose;
that the evidence he was taking had no
pertinency or bearing upon the matters in
litigation before the court and that he
fort to create some sensation, II possible.
Upon fun hearing the court ordered
that he discontinue the deposition pro-
ceedin.s and complete his evidence be-
fore the commissioner. as the court had
already directed him to do.
This is the only basis for the charge.
which is utterly false and untrue, that
there was any suppression of the taking
Of testimony. The charge is equally false
that the court or any member of 1t had
any information from counsel or at the
hearing so stated by Mr. Monnett
1.-The statement also appeared as ema-
mating from Mr.. Monnett that twenty
three boxes of day books and ledgers had
been burned. This statement is absolute
ly false. There was no evidence at any
time that single day book. ledger or
account book Of any kind whatsoever
had been burned at all. and the deposit
tions which Mr.. Monnett took in his eff
fort to establish that fact utterly failed in
their purpose"
MONNETT REPLIES.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-06

moment OF outsetting For conveyances
for the party there were the two double
seated buckboards used on the canyon
trip the previous day. and one other with
a single seat: but there were only two
drivers. the third man. who had brought
the single-seated rig from Copah. having
been prevailed upon by Ford to disap-
pear.
Ford directed the distribution OF the
trippers arbitrarily. and was amazed
when the president acquiesced without
protest. Mr.. Colbrith. the doctors wife,
and Penfield. were to go i'm the leading
vehicle: Aunt Hester Adair. Miss Van
Bruce and the doctor In the second. and
Ford drove the single seated third. with
Miss Alicia for his companion.
think you must have taken Uncle
Sidney unawares." said Alicia. when the
caravan was toiling at slow footpace
along the rough wagon road paralleling
the Horse creek grade.
You mean that he might have objected
to Your driver? You are a whole lot
safer with me than you would be with
ahead
"Oh. no; I didn't mean just that. But
you know he usually plans all the little
details himself, and
And the fact that somebody else plans
them Is sufficient excuse for a rearrange-
ment. That is one of the penalties he
pays for being the big boss" laughed
Ford. Since the yesterday was now safe
ly yesterday and today was his own.
there was no room for anything but pure
Joy.
You are big boss too, aren't you?"
she said. matching his light -hearted
mood
Il was. in a way. until your uncle came
over and eclipsed me-
And you will be again when Uncle Sid
orbit" ~ " @'' ~ " MS
THAT remains TO be seen. There is yet
nIQnfv Of time for him In, n hOliGh
manently. before he goes on his way re-
joicing'
But you are not going to resign, you
know" she reminded him.
Am 1 not?" Then he took his courage
by the proper grip and went on with
sudden gravity. THAT rests entirely with
you"
Mr.. Ford. Aren't you a little unfair?'
She did not pretend to misunderstood
II am open to confinement" he az
firmed
1T is making me Uncle sidney's exc
cutioner on one hand, or yours on the
other"
He pressed the point relentlessly.
There are only two horns to the d.
lemma-either Mr.. Cobrith or a man
named Stuart Ford will have to walk the
official plank. Because Mr.. Colbrith is
your relative I'm willing to be the victim.
But you must say that It is what you
wish. That is my price,"
II say it is unfair" she repeated. why
should you put the burden of the decision
upon poor me?"
Because If you were not concerned
there would be. to put IL in good Hiber-
MAN. only one horn to the dilemma-and
your uncle would be impaled upon that
one
Mercy she shuddered. in mock dis
may. THAT sounds almost vindictive.
Are you vindictive. Mr.. Ford?"
(To be continued tomorrow.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-06
Tells What he Wanted to Prove by
Squires' Testimony.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, October 6.-Frank
S. Monnett. formerly attorney general OF
Ohio. after reading the statement of the
Standard Oil Company's attorney al
Cleveland. said:
what a pack of malicious lies!'
He then dictated a statement in which
Tolle's statements as to the supreme
court proceedings. He concluded:
This same s. H. TolIe. who gives out
this interview. and Larry Neal both at
torneys of record for the Standard OF
Company, we're the attorneys l referred
to in my interview as asking the court to
have me stop taking the dispositions be-
fore E. B. Dillon of Columbus: Ohio.
NO one ever said that the Standard o.
Company called a meeting of the board
of directors and passed resolutions order
ing $500. 600 or any other sum to be in
vested in the attorney general of Ohio.
"If all that c. B. Squires said was true
I did not expect to establish by testimony
that the board of directors officially act
ed and ordered anybody to be bribed. but
did intend to show whether SQuires haG
received a telegram from .Abner Mckinley
or whether Charles n. Haskell or Rookie
Teller had been at any time at Squires
house or whether Squires had been in
town with them or whether Haskell OF
Mckinley had Offices in New York at A.
Broad street at that time.
II did intend to find out. if possible. how
Squires knew Senator Foraker had had a
conference with me at Washington on the
Standard OIL case and how he knew a
settlement was contemplated by the
Standard Oil Company through Foraker
IF he was dreaming all OF this 1t was a
happy coincidence and one worthy careful
investigation from a psychological stand
point.
mfr Tolle forgets to quote all Of
Squires' interview in the New York
World. where he says he knew all of
these parties for many years prior to the
statement when Squires corroborated my
original charge. that he was to have i'm
munity If he gave up the real parties.
''And he forgets that Squires claimed he
was being backed in his Manhattan Fire
Insurance Company case by the Standard
Oil Company and forgets Squires remain
ed out of Ohio as far as 1 have been able
to ascertain, and has remained in New
York ever since the attempt at bribery"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-06
XXI.
The Man on Horseback.

Since the weather was rather threaten
ing and the promise of October in the
inter-mountain region is not to be lightly
trified with, Mr.. Colbrith pressed .for an
early start on the seventeen-mile buck
board iauDt to Copah over the detour
survey.
1t was by his express command that
the private-car party was called at day
break. and that breakfast was served in
the Nadia at & o'clock. And at seven
sharp. which Glanced to be the precise
time Of day when .Adair's Communicated
Italians were spiking the last of the dis
placed rails into position at the gan In
the track thirty-three miles away. the
buckboards were drawn I'D at the steps
of the presidents car
For reasons charitable as we'll as prac-
teal. Ford had planned to leave Frisbje
out OF this second dance of attendance
upon the president. The track LAYERS
were Well up toward the head of Horse
creek gulch. with Brissac to drive: bu:
during the night the Louisianian had re-
ported in with a touch of tain fever
and Ford had asked Frisbie to 60 up and
take his place.
This was one of Ford's peg drivings for
the day. and another was timed for the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-06
KEEPS ON HER MANS CLOTHE2
immigration officials Let Miss John
SON Go as "Mr. Woodruff"

NEW YORK, October 6.-The Ellis
Island immigration authorities. who had
detained Miss Mary Johnson. Canadian
woman, when she arrived here on the
American liner New York under the as
sumed name of Frank woodruff and
wearing mems clothes. decided to allow
her to proceed to her destination-New
CARRIED in masculine attire.
Miss Johnson, tifty-one years old and OF
appearance. had declared to the
authorities that having been born unpre-
possessing as a woman, she had found
herself practically shut off from earning
a living. and that only as a man had she
been able during the last fifteen years to
earn a regular income book agent
and maintain her responsibility.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-06
Coming to Washington.

The visit which the Jr. o. L. A. NJ. OF
Baltimore paid TO their brothers OF Coun-
Gil No. 80 at Annapolis. Nd, July % last
was so greatly enjoyed that another trip
has been arranged to this city Friday, &C.
tober 10. They will be received here
by the twenty councils of the Jr. o. L.
a. NJ and the Grand Oriental Court OF
the District of Columbia. The order is
making every effort TO take al least 900
members on the coming excursion. The
committee in charge of arrangements
comprises Messrs. Harry L. Brown, w.
J. Wilkinson and G.. b. Cunningham.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-06
Proposed New Trolley Line.

wILLIAMSPORT. Nd. October Cit
is authoritatively stated here that a troll
ley line will be built between TINS place
and Martinsburg. W. Va, AFTER the COM
pletion of the bridge now being construct
ed across the Potomac river. Several
PENNSYLVANIA capitalists who are at pres
ant interested i'm electric railways in this
mart of the state. il is understood. will
finance the project. The new road will
he built to connect with the electric rail-
way now i'm operation between here and
Hagerstown. whereby pass enger and
freight traffic relations can be arranged
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-06

Rev. Alfred ]. Herman Of Mainvillc. Pa.
has been elected pastor of the Utica Re-
formed charge of Frederick county. Md.
to succeed Rev. s. Nj. Hench. The charge
comprises Utica, Zion and Pleasant Hill
churches.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-06
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
IN WASHINGTON.

MRS. J. HENDRICKSON MCCARTHY.
Teacher OF piano. Pupils thoroughly prepared
for advanced conservatory work. Special at
tention TO beginners and those out Of practice.
40 Bryant st. NV. 40 wks. $50: 3 lessons wk.
se1Q nc,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-06
NIh0TIL T. N Ii n T.,
Attorneys for Standard Oil Company
C. B. Squires Named.


After waiting until April Is. a period
of twenty-sx days. he filed in the su-
preme court of Ohio a document styled
bill of information. This was merely a
rambling statement that somebody had
approached him with suggestion that
there would be at least the sum of 500, =
00O for him if he would agree to discon-
tinue proceedings against the Standard
Oil Company. He still named nobody,
giving the same reason.
THE attorneys for the Standard imme-
diately filed with the court a motion re-
quiring the attorney general to name the
man who he claimed had approached him
and to appoint a disinterested person to
investigate and report promptly to the
supreme court upon the truth and falsity
of the charge.
After waiting twenty-five days he filed
a second document. in which he names as
his friend who had attempted to bride
him, Mr.. c. e. Squires (who had never
in any manner been connected with the
Standard Oil Company. formerly of
Cleveland but then of New York. The
friend named promptly. and of his own
motion. publicly denied the charge. and
since its recent revival, in signed inter-
view. appearing in the New York
World of September 26, 1908, again
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MONNETT REPLIES.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-02-28
The Tennis Champions Joke.

Genial and unaffected wherever she
goes. Miss May Sutton. the tennis
champion, makes friends even of those
whom she defeats. In their home in
southern California the Suttons are
leaders in the social life of the neigh
borhood. although they are by no
means wealthy people. Their house is
filed with valuable silver in the shape
Of cups and other trophies captured by
the clever daughters at various tennis
tournaments.
The facetiOus view that Miss May
can take Of even her own defeat is
shown by the following story which
she tells apropos of one of her early
repulses:
Il had been so sure of winning that
1t made my disappointment all the
greater when failed'
Then she smiled-and Miss Sutton
has generous smile.
Il was as disappointed as a huckster
who used to live in Los Angeles and
was noted for his penuriousness. The
huckster, coming out Of patrons
house one day. saw a small boy feed
ing apples to his horse. Pleased to see
the animal getting an excellent meal at
no cost to himself. he patted the boy
benevOlently on the head and said:
"That's right, my boy. Always be
good to animals. And where did you
buy those nice apples?
Il didn't buy Them the boy answer
ed. 4 took them out Of your wagon"
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-02-28
An Indian Lawyers Dilemma.
Miss Julia st. Cyr. the only India

Miss Julia st. Cyr. the only Indian
woman lawyer in the United States.
recently got into trouble. She was
accused of having accepted an excess
i've fee from an aged squaw who was
her client. Miss st. Cyr Is a Winnie
bago. and whenever the copper colored
brethren or sisters get into trouble
they HE themselves to the lodge Of
this tribeswoman. who has learned to
read the talking leaves at Hampton,
Va, and other institutions designed to
initiate poor Lo into the wiles and wis
dom of the palefaces Now, Miss ST.
Cyr has evidently made a practical
study of juries. for at the crucial point
in her trial she shed few gentle fem
mime tears. The tears fixed" the jure
all right, for she was acquitted. but
every Indian In the courtroom, dis
pleased by this exhibition of weakness.
clapped on his hat and stalked indig-
nantly out. Now it looks as though
Miss st. Cyr in winning her case may
lose her clients. for it is hard to make
the Indians understand that tears ju-
diciously applied are part of the pale
faces court procedure.