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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-21
.sThe Man From Home"

This astounding new play whlch mas
carried New York by storm equdliS
as successfully as it swept Chicago INTO
an enthusiasm which lasted for al
most one solid year in that most mat
ter of fact of cities, comes mere 10 Ihe
Grand opera house next Wednesday
and Thursday with matinee Thursday
The play has that original hunoT 70
which Artemus Ward and josh BIZ
iings first gave the distinction OF pup
Iicity. 1t Is as characterlstlcaIlyy
American as the chin whiskers and
shoe strapped trousers of Uncle sam
himself. 1.-THE Man From Home N
nropria persona has thousands OF
counterparts in the towns OF the MO
die west On the stage there IS a De
IghtfuI summoning back to memory
of the finer creations of john l. kay
rond and Sol Smith Russell
Daniel Voorhees, Pike, as AuLhors
Rooth Harrington and Harry Leon
Wilson have named their hero, m1ght
have been the owner OF the 1arIh
which George AIDE purchased IN Prooh'
Ind. He is the TYNE of when HoosIer-
dom is proud-a tail, lanky lawyer
with a nasal twang, who uses money
country speech and has the eVerIaStli!g
habit of getting his desired result III
49, own way-a sort of composite OF
the late tall sycamore of the wa
hash . vice President Fairbanks, sen
stor Beveridge and John W. Kern
minus the Whfskers-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-21

of the strike then raging among the
chauffeurs of one of the taxicab con-
Germs, and suffered a double disloca-
ton of the left arm, a confusion of
the leg, and a bruise on the head. The
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-21
At the Novelty,

There is a big singing act that has
been playing the leading vaudeville
theaters in the principal cities of the
country and packing the playhouses
to the doors at every performance.
This act is Otto FTechtl's celebrated
Tyro1ean Quintette, which the man
aEement of the Novelty theater has
secured for the headline attraction at
that playhouse for next week, pre-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-21
.Hnn..vrnonn Trail.


talked of event among theater-
eoers at present is the announcement
that the Princess Amusement company
1IiII bring the big Chicago success OF
last season, honeymoon II a. u,ri5axy
Grand opera house on next frtaay.
This will be practically the nrSt OF the
big musical successes to visit mere, anu
It is sure to be greeted by mouse
worthy Of the play.
those three twin authors of successfuI
musical comedies, Adams, Hough ana
Howard. who have with H 5nI19 diie,,1n
lv popular plays to the pubic IN me
Time the place and the girl, me
Girl QUESTION and ga Stubborn Gin
The story of the play is both an in
terestfng and amusing one 1t deals
with the inmates of sanltarlum
called SLEEPY Hollow Rest cure anu
a hotel known as Liberty Hall" the
guests of which are mainly mismated
Couples seeking divorce. Ex-husbands
and wives fraternize genialy on one
nervous wrecks of the sanitarium add
to the fun on the other side. To this
happy colony comes the nust1nS
salesman of a brand of baked oeans,
and it is not long after his arrival
that the fun wakes fast and furious
with his breezinesS and wit ne soon
turns everything upside down at both
the hotel and Sanitarium, makes enc
wrecks to their normal condition The
first act ends with his trying to elope
with the daughter of a rival manufac-
turer of beans, which is Interrupted by
The burglary of the hotel by q bunco
man, who is there trying to sell rake
mining stock.
The second act opens with garden
fete on the lawn of the hotel, the
guests of both places mixing with one
another, and causing many very funny
situations. 1t ends, as all theatergoers
wish plays to do, happily, with the
marriage of the salesman and his
sweetheart. The locale of the play,
lower California, furnishes great scope.
The Majestic.
The Majestic has next week one of
those popular Majestic Road shows.
The feature act will be Frederick B.
Bowers & Co., late of the Ham Tree.
company. The admirers of Frederick
v. Bowers will be pleased to learn that
he is being starred in advanced vaude-
VILE by Klaw & Erlanger. He comes
to the Majestic next week in college
Days" 80 minute musical comedy
which is proving bigger hit than any
three hour musical show on the road.
Mr.. Bowers, who has a dozen popular
song hits to his credit, has written the
lyrics and music for college Days
and in Darling" and IF That Were
Only Mine is adding tremendously to
his reputation. college Days" has a
company of 20 supporting Mr. Bowers
and elaborate scenery. 1t depicts in
merry fashion the fun and frolic of life
on the campus in the June days. An
other big feature act on the bill is Mrs
Jules Levy and family in musical
melange. Tom Gillen, Finnegan's
friend. is conceded to be one of the
greatest Irish characters on the Amer
lean stage. Cal Herbert. magician. ap-
pears on the bill. Clara Walker plan
fst and toe dancer, is a big card. Karl
Hummel in pictured melody and the
Majestiscope.
at the Novelty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-21

Mr.. William A. Brady, the theatre
cal manager, was, on October 10, the
victim, in New York city, of an auto
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-04-03
GEN. WELLS ESCAPED
Atte mpt Made to Kill Him by Blowing
Up His House.

Atte mpt Made to Kill Him by Blowing
up His House.
Telluride, Colo, March 30.-Forme1
Adjutant General Bulkeley Wells mar
rowly escaped death or serious injury
at his home from a well planned effort
TO assassinate him with q dynamite
bomb. A stick of dynamite, or a pre-
pared bomb was placed under or Real
General Wells bed.
General Wells was sleeping, as was
nis habit, on an outer porch of the
house, and he was hurled with the
debris many feet from the wrecked
house. The side of the house wa
torn completely out, hardly a stick OF
the bed remained, and fragments of
wood were scattered over the neigh
borhood.
Though badly shaken up and bruised
to some extend, General Wells is sale
to have escaped without serious injury
General Wells took a leading part
in the suppression of labor troubles il
this state in 1904 and 1905.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-04-03
IDAHO NEWS.

The differences of the Presbyterian
church at Lewiston and the heirs OF
Mrs. Sarah C.. Thompson have been
settled. Mrs. Thompson left $4,000
and two sites Vt Lewiston for the
church, providing that two churches
should be built. The heirs fought the
bequest and the matter has finally been
settled by the church accepting about
$12, 900.
Doan and John Roman, brothers, re,
siding at Keuterville, have been ar.
rested IN the charge of threatening to
kill Ben Ponger. Another brother OF
the Romans will be arrested when
found on the same charge.
While they were warming some dyn.
amite ip a rock cut on Cottonwood
creek, near Clifford, recently, Ernest
Elder was instantly killed and Louis
Chermack was terribly injured by an
explosion of the dynamite.
Ten Missouri families have arrived
on Camas Prairie with several loads of
live stock. household goods and ma,
chinery.
Daniel Macintosh, editor of the
Kendrick Gazette, was married recent
ly to Miss Henrietta Lauterbach.
Nine telephone girls, headed by
Irene TObin. chief operator, walked out
of the Pacific State Telephone com
pany's Office at Lewiston Saturday be
cause their demand for an eight hour
day was not granted.
The Wardner order OF Odd Fellows
is preparing a celebI aIion of its ami
versary April 26.
If ever fruit men had a dificult task
the Juliaetta representatives can lay
claim to membership for their relent-
less fight on the San Jose scale. Bar
rels of spray have been used to drench
the trees, until it would seem that no
scale could live, but the fruit is shown
to be affected despite this warfare.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-04-03
OREGON SOUIRS.

A disastrous fire at Silverton de-
stroyed a business block, causing a
loss of $15, 900.
Fire broke out in the basemen of the
building occupied by the Queen City
Furniture company at Baker City re.
Gently and ragged for nearly three
hours, causing a los sof SIS, goo to $751;
900 to the proprietors, c. A. russo &
Son.
Warren Stephens, who for two years
has been wanted for horse stealing at
~Pendleton, has been arrested by Dep
uty Sheriff John Cummings at the Mar
tin Luther ranch, three miles from
Wallula, Wash.
Frank Shonewald, the butcher, of
Spokane, who was reported as acting
strangely at klamath Falls a few days
ago, escaped from his son, who was
taking him to his former home.
Freewater is to be an independent
school district. While located within
a mile OF the central school at Milton,
the people of the place have demanded
better school facilities than have been
provided.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-04-03
Northwest States
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
and MONTANA ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-crop outlook 10 Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

May IL has been set by the railroad
commission as the date at which the
hearing on the reasonableness of the
grain rates will be taken up at Ritz
Vile. This hearing will be made on
what is known as the Cunningham
complaint.
State Treasurer George G. Hills has
made the announcement that the state
was again on a cash paying basis.
Cyrus c. Poyntz, a farmer in the
Selah valley. near North Yakima, shot
and killed himself recently in a fit OF
dependency.
The $4,000 necessary for the Chill.
dren's Home at Spokane has been
raised.
Through eating wheat Which had
been treated with a solution of for.
m%aldehyde to check the growth of
smut, two horses owned by Guilford
Miller, a Whitman county farmer, died
recently.
The railroads announced a reduction
in the rates covering the shipment of
grain bags over their lines from the
Coast. which will go into effect May l.
After several years of agitation and
argument it is 10Y believed that North
Yakima is within reach of the paved
street stage.
The state Alaska-Yukon-Pacifc ex-
position commission has passed a reso-
luton appropriating $4,000 to be used
in constructing a building for an ex-
hibit of needlework by the State Fed.
Grafton of Women's Clubs.
The Hartman system lost it's case
in the supreme court Saturday, when
a decision was given in the appeal of
the Columbia Valley railroad against
the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Rail
way company. The North Bank road
commenced construction along the
north bank of the Columbia river in
section is, township l north, range 3
west, where the tunnel was bored
through a slight promontory. The
Hartman system sought to enjoin the
road from proceeding on the ground
that it is entering on the right of way
without legal right.
A h%orrifying sight greeted the family
of J.. D. Miller of Hansens Ferry re-
Gently, when his eight year old son was
lmest instantly killed by a work horse.
State superintendent of Instruction
R. B. Bryan lies in a critical condition
at his ranch near Wapato, and it is
feared he will not ecover. II is said
he has a blood clot on the brain.
Willis Ingalls, has sold 5000 acres
of pasture lands in the foothills east
of Waitsburg to j. s.. Galloway Of
Dayton for $4,000.
H. F. Grant, for many years man.
ager for the Seattle Electric company
and district manager for Stone & Web.
ster interests in the Pacific northwest,
has resigned.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-04-03
LATE SPORTING EVENTS.

r. 0. Wilson, an old.time horse.
! trainer, has been ruled off the turf on
the Pacific coast.
The Spokane a C track is beginning
TO acquire an air Of activity and the
winter boarders at the course are daily
receiving additions to their numbers.
Vienna.-In the chess tournament
| Saturday the American player, Mar
shall, defeated the Russian, Rubin
| stein. while Jones has good chances to
win his game against Cohn. Schlech-
tein is still in the lead.
In n week the Spokane city base
ball league will open it's season at
| Natatorium park. Everything is in
readiness for a fine season. The play
ers are better than ever before, the
interest taken in the league by the
public seems to be greater, and the
fine showing made by the boys last
season gives assurance that the league
will be well p~atronized this season.
London.-At the Oxford Cambridge
field sports at the Queens club Satur-
day afternoon l.. 0. Hull, Rhodes schol-
| al lIOLi AAtll6dlS hAodppOiiht mo
friends by failing to capture the 100
yard dash for oxford. He finished two
feet behind the Cambridge flyer, Nc.
Leod, in the slow time of 10 20 sec
onds. A. NJ. Stevens, Rhodes scholar
at oxford from Yale university, fin
ished first in the second event.
It is reported that Port Townsend,
| Wash, is to remove the lid against
fights.
Fred Creel is regarded as one of the
headiest and cleyerest boxers at Spo
kane. He made a splendid showing re
Gently against Louis Orsie and re-
ceived the decision after four fast
rounds. The two boys will meet again
next month.
Eddie Quinn, manager of the Spo-
kane Indians, says in S. A. Gregg he
has captured a phenomenal pitcher.
He comes from Idaho.
Tommy Burn, the American heavy.
weight pugilist, expects to leave Eng
land for the United States April T..
His early departure from England is
due to the illness of his wife.
To make money for the benefit of
the library fund at the state %peniten-
tiary a game of ball was played Sun
day afternoon between a team of pris-
oners and the Gilbert Hunt shop team.
II. F. Hillman of the New York Ath-
letic club broke his own worlds record
for the 600-yard run at an indoor meet
Sunday. Time, lib As. The former
record was TIA.
TyTus Cobb, champion batter Of the
American league last season, has at
last signed a contract to play with the
Detroit American League club this
year, and will join the team at Little
Rock for practice.
The trout season in Washington
opens Wednesday, April l, and closes
November Is.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-04-03
news OF The WORLD
SH9RT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS IF The GLOBE.
a Review Of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
Durinu the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

Marquis Ito. japanese resident gen
craI of Korea, viii leave Toxic for that
country on April p.
san Francisco citizens, in order to
insure the success of the prosecutions
Of graft cases now going on, have ask
ed the board of supervisors TO appro-
pirate $4,000 for expenses to help out
private subscriptions.
President Jordan of Stanford univer-
sity has issued q statement to the ef-
feet that ne upholds every act of the
student committee which recently sus-
pended more than 40 students, and that
no protest can be made to the board
Of trustees.
A tornado struck New Boston, Iowa,
eceutly. demolishing a church, a dozen
freight cars and injuring a number OF
people.
The Aldrich currency bill passed the
senate by a vote of AZ to 16, in the
main o party vote. The bill has been
before the senate since January ?.
The duke of Abruzzi has left London
for Italy.
The English premier is still gravely
i'll.
It is said the engagement between
the duke Of Abruzzi and Miss Elkins
is for the most part imaginary, as the
duke could not decide the matter with
out the consent of the king, which he
has not yet asked.
A shipment of four OrpingtOn chick
ems was billed recently from Missouri
to Nine. Ignace j. P~aderewski, at Nor
ges, Switzerland, by Ernest Keller
Strauss, for $500.
Mrs. Grace Nelson Stensland, daugh-
ter-in-law of Paul O. Stensland of Chi
cago, now serving a term in the peni-
Tertiary at Joliet for wrecking the
Milwaukee Avenue State bank, is going
on the stage as a grand opera star.
Admiral Evans, commanding the At
lantic feet, is at San Luis Obispo, Cal,
taking treatmenat at q mineral springs
resort.
It has been decided that the Atlantic
fleet shall make a short visit to Auck-
land, n. H., on its way from Samoa to
Sydney, Australia.
Openwork hosiery is not lace wear
ing apparel" The board of United
States general appraisers has so de
cidCd.
King Victor Emmanuel Saturday re-
ceived J. p. Morgan in private audience
and couversed with him an American
affairs. The king manifested keen in
terest in the approaching campaign in
the United States.
The first through train passed over
ne Shanghai-Nankinra railroad Saturday,
a distance of $50 miles.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-04-03
SENATE PASSES ALDRIcu
BY Vote of AZ to 10 It Goes
Both Ankeny and piIes "0uah-

BY Vote of 42 to 10 Il Goes
Both Ankeny and Piles vo,saHOueh-
Amended TO change the press
reserve law and in other nav, oank
the Aldrich financial bin We uculars
by the senate on a vote % passed
Senators Anksny and Piles . ls.
ington voted for 1t. AS nov wash.
the law allows an issue of oauended
currency up to $500, OOO. 900 70 sseney
banks, secured by county ana uauonal
pal bonds approved by the uuniei
of the treasury. secretary
The rate of interest naid
banks on this circulation is W the
one half of n per cent a ne LEG at
the first four months, and tbroo Tor
OF one per cent thereafter Ourths
est rate Of not less than ono inter
is liked on government deposits cent
Banks not In serv ci,io1
keep four-ffths of the reouirad must
cent eserve in their vaults oS per
OF national banks are prohibit ,Dau0ers
vesting deposits In stock or saa'" IN
OF corporations in which III tues
officers hold positions, and . Yang
OF Imprisonment from one to five r%a
is provided. This amendment EARS
other fixing similar punisbmon. an'
classifying bank securities wero LOT
ed by LaFolette. '''uf'
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-04-03
STORM STRUCK CENTRAL STATES
Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Michi.
gan Get a Share.

A destructive tornado swept the
county near Wilmathville. blowing
away several f~armhouses and killing
two persons.
A damaging storm swept oyer Indi-
ana early Saturday, doing much dam
age TO buildings, wires and trees. At
Petersburg roofs were blown off and
stock was killed by falling barns. At
Muncie and vicinity the storm was
the worst in 20 years, many buildings
being blown down.
A tornado destroyed several resi-.
dences and barns two miles south of
Monmouth, H., iniuring a half dozen
persons. one seriously.
Al kalamazoo, Mich, the storm did
heavy damage.
Peoria, Ul.-The storm which swept
this part Of the state did most of its
damage at Pckin, where residences.
barns, outbuildings and one distillery
were destroyed. The loss will aggre-
gate $4,000, and many narrow es,
capga from death occurred.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-04-03
MONTANA ITEMS

The body of Erick Hill, a well
known saloon man of Elliston, who
had been missing, was found fright.
fully mutilated in the Blackfoot river.
There was a bullet hole through the
head, the hands were nearly cut off,
and the throat had been slashed from
ear to ear. Robbery was the motive.
Phil Miller, secretary-treasurer of
the Butte aerie of Eagles, has been ar
rested on a complaint charging him
with the theft of $3.50 from the lodge
If which he is an Official.
Montana residents are the posses.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-04-03

sors Of publications T great age-one
the Bible and the other a copy Of a
Pennsylvania newspaper. The Bible
was published in England in 1889, less
than so years after the discovery Of
America by Columbus, and was one
of the largest books on which NOV
able types were first used. George W.
Sutlif is the possessor Of a PennSyl-
vania Journal of November s, 1880.
1t is yellow and musty, redolent Of the
days Of Washington.
V. T. Tusinger, walking delegate of
the Missoula Cooks and Walters
union, has suddenly disappeared and
no trace has been found as to his
whereabouts. A few days before he
disappeared Tusinger caused the ar
rest OF Walter Wilkey, treasurer Of
the union. who had left town and gone
to Helena with the funds OF the union
in his possession. Wilkey secured the
funds to square the account and was
released from Jail in Missoula and re-
turned to Helena. On account of hav-
ing expressed himself as being very
bitter against the walking delegate, he
was arrested in Helena again Sunday
upon request OF Missoula officers who
suspect Tusinger met with foul play.
Wilkey will be held until the case al
be further investigated.
The great Shoshone river irrigation
dam in Wyoming, of which the first
stone was laid Saturday, will throw
81, 900 acres of arabic land open for
settlement. OF this, 1900 acres will
be watered before fall. The water will
be taken through a tunnel, known as
the Corbett tunnel, to the Garland fats
and thence to Prannis and Lowell,
Wyo., rs miles away. The land to be
irrigated is all rich and highly desir-
able. The project is under the aus
pieces of the United States government.
The annual meeting of the Montana
Bankers association will be held in
Billings this year, the date being July
q and 20. The place and date we're
decided by the executive committee a
few days ago.
Horror stricken at the fate he had so
narrowly escape, William Kinney, a
we'll known resident of Kendall, be-
came a raving maniac, and the fear
of death killed him. Kinney, while
fishing, was seized with an attack of
epilepsy and fell into the water, where
he was rescued and ~resuscitated with
great difficulty. Realization of how
close he was to death unbalanced Kin
ney's mind and it took four men to re
strain him.
Articles of Incorporation for the
Gallatin Valley Electric railway have
been filed at Bozeman. This is taken
to mean that the road will be built and
that work will be started on it soon.
The road as projected will run from
Bozeman to Salesville and south and
west to Three Forks, passing through
the richest portion of the Gallatin
valley.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-04-03
CASTRO ATTACKS ROOSEVELT
Willy President of Venezuela Also
Makes Charges Against Root.

Caracas, Venezuela, via Williamstad,
Curacao.-'The United States propos-
es to raise the flag of conquest in
South America. Secretary Root, under
the influence of the president, and in
spired by Americans holding claims
against Venezuela, is following a pre-
meditated plan to create a conflict with
this republic
So declares President Castro,
through his official organ, Ell Consti-
tutinnal.
In an editorial entitled, What Does
Roosevelt Want?" the publication.
which is recognized as Castro's official
organ, says that the American govern
ment does not intend to recognize the
Gnality of the decision reached by the
Venezuelan courts and the mixed COM
missions.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-04-03
Ends in Trauedy.

st. Paul, Mimi, March 91.-William
u. Trainor, a vaudeville actor, shot
and killed Mrs. William Prior, an ac
tress with whom he was travelling. in
an apartment at the Clarendon hotel
early Sunday morning and then com.
nltted suicide. Mrs. Prior vas about
20 years old. An open letter found in
he room after the murder indicated
NAT Mrs. Prior had threatened to
cave Trainor.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-04-03
BAYLlss WAS KEEN owINDLER
Five-Thousand-MiIe Chase to Arrest
Alleged Cunning Insurance Thief
LiVina DECLARED Dead.

New Nork.-Goyernor Hughes has
been asked to sign rcquisition papers
10 bring to New YORK Ira J.. Bayliss,
said 10y officers of the Prudential Life
Insurance company to be the most dan
gyrous swindler in their experience.
There are living in New York state
today more than a dozen persons who,
fl rs charged. have been officially de
clarcd dead by BGyliss. who carried
out bogus funerals and forged death
certificates and uudertakers' permits
to enable him to collect the money of
The p1Iicyholders.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-04-03
Hayti Unearths a New Plot.

Pert Au Prince, Hayti.-A fresh con.
spiracy against the government has
been discovered in this city. The
leader of the plot, General Alarraque.
who was arrested March "A on sus.
picion of conspiring against the presi.
dent and who was released with four
others on March "a, took refuge Sun
day afternoon in the French legation
witt two officers.