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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-03-19
FARM NOTES.

Cows should be judged by their gen.
eral appearance, conformation, and
records as milk and butter producers.
Keep large grit, charcoal and oys-
ter shells before your older birds and
you will need no hospital.
Last years mistakes are all the
teaching needed for this years ad-
vancemeat.
One minute spent putting a tool
away saves at least two minutes find
ing it next time, If it can be found at
ALL
The prudent man considering new
scheme Is like a rat in one respect;
lie will not enter unless he can see
the way out. Trouble is, some traps
spring both ends at once.
Now it is the merchants association
of New York city that is complain
ing of the express companies. They
assert too much profit is being made
as inflated capital, and they ask that
the business be investigated.
Keep the henhouse clean. Great
piles of frozen manure underneath
the perches is not very good testi
monial for the owner and not much
encouragement for the hens to do
their best.
The little trees in the woodlot will
be larger some time. Cut out the
large ones and give them chance.
Save some of the best young hens
for. breeding purposes. Eggs from
thrifty two-year-old hens are pretty
sure to hatch.
Poultry manure is worth not less
than $12 a ton. But if you store it
where it will get wet, it will not be
worth much of anything.
You might about as well throw your
hen manure into the creek as to mix
it with ashes or lime. Peet or muck
is the best to use as an absorbent.
Queer that some folks never think
of providing shade for their hens in
hot weather!
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-03-19

Stamps up to the denomination Of
$500 have been issued by the govern
ment of Victoria. Australia.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-15
MANY BIDS ON
BRIDGE

Bidding was lively this morn
ing on the construction of the
new North 23rd street concrete
girder bridge. There was an even
dozen contestants for the job and
bids ranged from 1892 by Joe
Wells for the Wells Construction
company. to $74,240, by Lantz C
Peters of Seattle.
Commissioner MGregor did not
award the contract. He hesita.-
ed to let it to Wells, as the city
inspectors have had much trouble
with him.
The complete list of bids was:
Wells Construction Co., $43, ESQ;
Hurley-Mason company $4,000;
IS. Bertleson Sons, $56,200; P. q.
M'Hugh, e56,700; Chamberlain
Construction Co., Seattle, $751;
$50; MacAdam & Co., Seattle,
$59,8S2; International Contract
Co., Seattle, s60,05S; D. A. VIII
liams & Co., SCI, 900; Knoell
Brothers. s63,22O; Northwest
Bridge Co., Portland. S65,0O0;
Worter Brothers, $4,000; Lantz
& Peters, $74.240.
The bridge will be the first
of the concrete bridges to be built
in the city.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-15
Train Dives
Into Stream:
IL Drowned
Heavy Loss of Life Reported as Result of
Fatal Dash Off Trestle--- Victims Buried
Beneath Wreckage---Forty Injured

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Dee. Is.
AT least twelve persons were
killed outright and probably 40
injured when passenger train No.
IL on the Southern railway,
speeding southwark at the rate of
35 miles an hour, plunged over
trestle and fell 25 feet into
Reedy river. four miles north OF
Greensboro today.
Conductor Is Hero.
The dead and injured were bur
led under three feet of water
Conductor George Cable, the hero
of the wreck, dragged himself
nearly two miles to a station
though one of his legs had beer
broken in the crash and reported
the wreck.
Gould on Train.
George Gould and his son, Jay
Gould, were on the train but es
capped without injury.
The engineer and fireman ar
among the dead. Some of The
victims were buried under tht
wreckage in the bottom of the
river and for this reason no ac
curate estimate of the number
of dead can now be made.
r. H. Russell, private secre
tary of George Gould, was badly
injured, sustaining severe bruises
and being hurt internally. Jay
Gould was slightly bruised.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-15
MRS. EIARRIMAN'S $5O,OOO,OOO
BURDEN: HOW SHE CARRIES IT
Especial Correspondence

NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-The
first thing Mrs. E. H. Hartman,
widow of the railroad wizard
sees when She enters her new Of
|fice. at AIS Fifth avenue, is her
husbands picture hanging on the
wall over her own rolltop desk.
She would not turn her back on
that picture, and she does not
turn her back on the work that he
left unfinished.
Hers is the widows burden - q
$50,000,000 burden that is being
borne bravely on feminine shoul-
|ders.
Her hours are more rigid than
any Wall street brokers'. Out OF
her life's greatest grief has arisen
IA duty, and she has undertaken II
solemnly. No other woman in the
world ever had such a duty to
perform. His confidant in life,
she is using her knowledge OF
|Harriman's railroad secrets to
make his work endure after his
death.
Any mistake she would make
during her days grind, the
scratch of pen, Yes" or a
s"No" at the wrong time, might
snean millions to her. Every
proper move, however, adds to
her fortune.
1t is barely daylight at 6 o'clock
IN the morning on the summit of
Che Ramapo mountains, when the
n CONTINUED on Page Seven.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-15

Scandinavian American bank,
given his name as Horn, and a.
tempted to borrow money with
which to go East and claim his
imaginary inheritance. He was
informed that the loan would be
made If the proper security was
presented.
Then I'll look up my lots, 81
and he rushed out of the bank
in search of real estate. imagin-
ary or otherwise. He hasn't re-
turned.
AIT the Everglade roomins
house, 1909 a-2 Tacoma avenue,
no one had heard of Knowlton.
Cameron was there, however, ia
room 20.
The reporter knocked on his
door,
who's there?"
Mr.. Cameron is wanted. it's
very important"
The door opened and Cameron
himself, alias Horn, alias Knowl-
ton, was revealed.
He did not mutter 'Discoy-
cred" but said instead by way OF
explanation, 1T amt me you
want, it's my brother"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-15
DOES THE Mp BUY ITS WITNESSES AT 50 MUCH PER DAY?

and be measured alongside that
of the professional witnesses OF
the railway.
Attorney Boyle in his argu-
ment dealt roughly with Mean
dies. He said M'Candles had first
come into the linlelight as an N.
p man by his having fixed the
valuation for the state tbdelands
at a ridiculously low figure. Since
that day he has been on the
stand in every case tried by the
N. p. as a company witness.
His valuations are always a,
rockbottom, away below anything
that the usual witnesses for the
defense make II. Other profes-
|sionaIs OF the railway follow the
same course and then 1t Is sim
ply q guess on the part of the
jury.
rh ~'~~s--sr hre st.~ $50 -a,ri
abuse OF Justice become through
this long line OF condemnation
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-15
AUTO PLUNGES
| OVER HIGH BANK;
HEIRESS. KILLED

PASADENA CAL, Dec. t15.--
Harvey Bissell, the son of mill
iionaire manufacturer of Detroit.
Mich, whose six cylinder automo-
bile got beyond his control on
the Eagle Rock grade. yesterday
and plunged over a 100 foot EN-
bankment, resulting. in the death
of Miss Agnes Claypool, daughter
of Newton Claypool. wealthy
Indianapolis capitalist, and his
serious Injury, will recover.
Bissel has q broken leg and n
fractured collar bone. The young
woman was killed instantly.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-15
BLACKS IN PLOT
To ATTACK
WHITES
Arkansas Sheriff is Now Guard
ing Prison Against Mob Which
Intends to Lynch Six Negroes
for Murderous Assaults.

OSCEOLA, Ark, Dec. IS
The sheriff and a large force of
deputies are on duty here today
guarding the jail, ready to re-
pulse mob which is marching
from Shawnee with the announced
intention of lynching six negroes
held here upon charges of bar
barrie cruelties.
1t is alleged that the negroes
had an organized gang for the
purpose of attacking white peo-
pie.
Among their alleged victims.
was Mrs. Cummings, who was
wrapped in a feather bed which
was ignited, after her house had
Es5een robbed. One white man was
dipped into the icy waters of the
Mississippi river and then thrown
into a big tub of boiling water.
The six negroes incarcerated
here are alleged to have been re.
sponsible for many other depre-
dations. The sheriff has an
nounced his intention to fight If
necessary to keep the mob away
from the jail.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-15
1t Was a Fine ''Pipedream"
But Bank Wouldn't Lend
Any Money on 1t

Either laboring under the delu-
sion that he had inherited $751;
900, or looking for "easy money"
by claiming to be an heir, George
d. Cameron, 1909 1-2 Tacoma av-
enue, chimney sweep, JOB paint
er, carpenter and jack-of-all-
trades, excitedly rushed into the
Times office yesterday afternoon.
Find George Cameron, he has
fallen heir to $S1, 900. Hurry
up and put 1T dn the paper" he
cried.
He was told that the paper
had already gone to press, and
was asked for more particulars.
Cameron is an old chum of
mine. His grandfather has just
died In st. Joseph, Missouri, and
left him a fortune. You've got
to get this in the paper today"
Giving his. name as II. B..
wilton, with a fictitious tele-
phone number but the correct
address, Cameron then rushed oft
on his search for the missing
heir"
Investigation revealed the fact
that Cameron had visited the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-15
Woman Gets A Verdict
OF $4,000 Against
Banker Thorne
MRS. FRANCES BROWN RE-
COVERS FOR INJURIES SUS-
TANNED WHEN BANKERS
AUTO FRIGHTENED HER
HORSE.

A verdict of $4,000 against
Chester Thorne, the banker, and
in favor of Mrs. Frances Brown
was returned this morning by the
jury which tried the personal in
jury suit, after two hours of de-
liberation.
Mrs. Brown sued Thorne for
$4,000 for injuries sustained last
March when a horse which sha
was driving on the Pacific av.
enue road became frightened al
Thorne's automobile and threH
her to the ground.
She alleged that Thorne had
made no attempt to shut off the
noise Of the machine although h
could see how badly the animal
was scared.
While on the witness stand yes.
terday, Thorne stated that he
slowed down his machine and
went to the woman's assistance
when the horse showed signs o.
running away but that after he
had quieted It and proceeded or
his way, the accident occurred
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-15
GIRL DEAD OF
A BROKEN
HEART

CHICAGO, Dec. 15.-"A brOk-
en- heart" is the reason assigned
today by Intern McQuinn of the
Columbia hospital for the death
yesterday of Hazel Robertson Dill
lon, the 1S-year-old girl from
Saugatuck, Mich, who was found
lying unconscious in Lincoln park
by policeman on the morning
of Dec. 4.
Efforts to gain information re-
garding the young woman are
shrouded in mystery.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-15
How Two Plain DrunIks
Held Up the Interurban

pened. | know It's something
terrible" said one.
Maybe they're robbers" shud-
dered the other.
AL. Wheeler, a barber at the
Olympic Club shop. caught the
drift and remarked. "It's a cry
Ing shame when the Interunban
can be held up and robbed right
on Pacific avenue. and IN broad
daylight,
The women. being In recep-
tive mood, "Fel'' for this, and
that Is why you heard that wild
lrumor this morning.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-15
ATTORNEY BOYLE RAISES THE QUESTION CoNDENINA
TIoN sUTT-FRANK M'CANDLEss AND JOHN A. REA AL
WAYS ON DECK TO TESTIFY FOR RAILROAD.

Does the Northern Pacific rail-
way buy its so-called expert wit
nesses to testify in its condem-
nation cases as 1t would buy a
ton Of coal for dts engines or q
piece of rolling stock?
This is the question the water.
front owners who have beeu
fighting the cases in federal court
for the last year are asking.
In all the cases tried by the
company in the last year or moro
Frank M'Candles, John A. Rea
and one or two other profession-
al witnesses have always ap-
peared. Rumor says they get $50
a day from the N. P. as expert
Witnesses.
Attorney Boyle for the defense
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-15
SENT To PEN FOR
ASSAULTING GIRL

Mike Behun. a young Slavonian
who was convicted by a jury in
the superior court some months
ago upon statutory charge pre-
ferred against him by the father
of Anna Sabo, a 15-year-old girl,
was sentenced by Judge Easter
day today to not less than one
year or more than four in the
|penitentiary.
When asked whether he had
anything to say Behun related a
long story of how he had been
cajoled into staying at the Sabo
home near Orting by the father,
and how the parents as we'll as
the girl had been desirous of his
marrying her when she was lit
tie older.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-15
John D. to Star,
Chain of Drug
Stores?

(By United Press Leased Wire
CHICAGO, Dec. 15.-That John
d. Rockefeller contemplates es =
tablisihing a chain of drug stores
throughout the country is the
substance of a rumor current in
wholesale circles here today
Many of the by-products in oil
preparation are utilized IN the
drug trade, and the Standard Oil
magnate is said to have laid plans
by means of which he hopes TO
reap double profit in his ven
ture.
Agents believed to be repre-
senting Rockefeller have been n
many middle west cities negoti-
ating for the purchase of retail
stores.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-15
SLUM BE r s
100 HOURS

PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. 15.-
rolonged shrieks of morphine
fiend nearby aroused Charles Mel
son who had slumbered 100
hours, from his long sleep. Mel
son soon afterwards was able to
talk and today seems to be re-
covering. The doctors who pre-
viously diagnosed his case as the
African sleeping sickness, are now
inclined to look upon Nelson as
the victim of unconscious hyp-
Inotism.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-15
Graustark AAOAAOAN NAAyO McCutcheon

fpart of the big round globe on
which we, as ordinary individu-
ais with no personality beyond
the next block, are content to sit
and encourage the single ambi-
tion to go to Europe at least once,
so that we may not be left cut of
the general conversation.
Young Mr.. King believed in
Romance. He had believed in
Santa Claus and the fairies, and
he grew up with an ever increas-
ing bump of imagination, contig-
uous to which, strange to relate,
there was a properly developed
bump of industry and applica-
ton. Hence, it is not surprising
, that he was willing to go far
afield in search of the things that
seemed more or less worth
while to a young gentleman who
had suffered the ill-fortune to be
born in the nineteenth century
instead of the seventeenth. Ro-
nance and adventure, politely
amorous but vigorously attrac-
tive, came up to him from the
seventeenth century, perhaps
through the blood of some swash-
buckling ancestor, and he was
held enthralled by the possibili-
ties that lay hidden in some far
off or even nearby corner of this
hopelessly unromantic world of
| the twentieth century.
To be sure there was war, but
war isn't Romance. Besides, he
was too young to fight against
Spain; and, later on, he happen
ed to be more interested in foot
ball than he was in the Japs or
the Russians. The only thing
left for him to do was to set
forth in quest of adventures; ad-
venture was not likely to apply to
him in Fifth avenue or at the
factory or-still, there was a GER
tain kind of adventure analogous
to Broadway, after all. He
thought it over and, after trying
it for a year or two decided that
/ Broadway and the Tenderloin- did
not produce the sort of Romance
he could cherish for long as a
selt-respecting hero, so he put cer-
taiL small temptations aside, chas-
tened himself as well as he could
and set out for less amiable but
more productive by-ways in other
sections of the globe.
| We come upon him at last
luckily for us we were not actu-
ally following him-after two
years of wonderful but rather dis
illusioning adventure in mid
Asia and all Africa. He had seen
the Congo and the Euphrates, the
Ganges and the Nile, the Yang
tse-kiang and the Yenisei; he had
climbed mountains in Abyssinia,
in Slam, in Thibet and Afghanis-
tan; he had shot big game in more
than one jungle, and had been
shot at by small brown men in
more than one forest, to say
nothing of the little encounters
he had had in most un-Occidental
towns and cities. He had seen
women in Morocco and Egypt and
Persia and But 1t is a waste of
time to enumerate. Strange to
say, he was now drifting back to-
ward the civilization which we are
pleased to call our own, with a
sense Of genuine disappointment
in his heart. He had found no
sign of Romance.
| Adventure in plenty, but Ro-
mance-ah. the fairy princesses
were in the story boks. after all.
Here he was, twenty-six years
Continued on Page Seven
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in the Thompson case yesterday
limited to the jury at the appar-
ent injustice of deciding a case on
testimony brought in this man
|ner.
Property owners have protested
vigorously but there was no way
out of it. The company could
call what witnesses It pleased.
II 1t paid them on the side that
was its business.
The law, however, provides o
nominal fee Of a couple OF dol
lars a day for witnesses. That
Is supposed to be all witness
|gets. The defense has claimed
| that in many cases that was ali
their witne esses got yet their tes-
timony had TO so in to the jury
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-15
WIDOWS BURDEN
OF MRS. HARTMAN
TOLD BY CLOCK

@ a. m.-Rises with SER
wants at Arden, makes days
toilet and reads morning
Wall street news.
1880 a. m.-Breakfast.
8 a. m.-Steps into auto
for four-mile ride to Arden
depot.
500 a. m. to 0:35 a. m.
Rides on Erie train to
Jersey City.
9:35 a. m. to 10 a. m.-
Rides in another auto to
office.
10 a. m. to 1880 p. H.
Works.
1880 p. m. to 2:3O p. m.
Luncheon at st. Regis ho-
tel.
$3.50 p. m.-More work.
$3.50 p. m.-Shuts rolItop
desk for the day.
6 p. m.-Dinner with fam
lily at Arden.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-15
Digs Up ChiId's
Body in Back
Yard

PASADENA, Cal, Dec. 10
The body Of an infant unearthed
by Rev. J. Reef of Howard place,
while digging a hole in his back
yard to plant tree, is puzzlins
the police here today and an Of
ficer has been detailed to dis
cover its identity IL possible.
Rev. Reef had dug down two
feet, when his spade stru ,k
against a small box. He opened
the box and discovered the body
of baby which had been dead
probably for over a year.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-15
GENERAL WOOD
To Be CHIEF

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-Sec-
retary of War Dickinson today an.
nounced the selection of Major
General Leonard Wood. now cam
mander of the department of the
east. to succeed Major General j
Franklin Bell as chief OF staff OF
the army. General Bell will re
tire next April.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-15
tire next April
"rhe Internrhan has d.

"The Interurfban has been he'll
up"
What"
Sure, right at the corner of
Ninth street. and Pacific avenue. =
This was the word passed down
Tacoma's main thoroughfare like
wild fire about s o'clock thi.I
morning
OF course It was only a joke.
II began with two women who
got highly excited when a couple
OF drunks were thrown into the
police patrol wagon.
MY goodness what has hap
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-15
AGED COUPLE
OPEN FIGHT TO
REGAIN HOME

The suit of Coleman Devine and
his aged wife against the Nor :
'thern Pacific Railway company,
in which they are seeking to get
back their home near East ID.
street, was begun before jury
dn the superior court today.
On Sept. IS, the old people
were ordered to abandon their lit
tie home where they had lived for
25 years and later their cottage
WAS torn down by the railway
company.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-15
Of
BATTLE IN
NICARAGUA
LONG EXPECTED FIGHT BE-
TWEEN INSURGENTS AND
DICTATOR'S TROOPS PRE-
CHbITATED-ZEL pRIS-
ONER IN OWN PALACE.

NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-Uncon-
firmed advices from Colon indi-
cate that the long expected battle
between the insurgents and Ze-
laya's troops in the vicinity Of
Rama is taking place today.
The revolutionists have pre-
cipitated the engagement.
Four machine guns and a thou
sand new rifles, with a million
rounds of cartridges, were con-
veyed to Estrada's headquarters
before daybreak.
A rumor to the effect that IN
attempt was made to assassinate
Zelaya in his palace shortly af-
ter midnight. is current today.
1T was reported that Zelaya and
Madriz are virtual prisoners 10
the presidential residence.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-15

cases that citizens who have
watched the trials are be9oming Z
disgusted.
The condemnation cases of the
Northern Pacific against Fhonp-
son was finished in federal coiiri
last night and the jury brought
in verdict for the defense for
vs. $15, 900.
The next case will be thai
against w. H. Cushman, deputy
city clerk, who has a long strip
of waterfront south of the Baker
tract on the Narrows.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-15


.Copyright, 1909, by Dodd, Mead
& Company. Published. Sept, 1900
CHAPTER l.
Truxton King.
He was a tall, rawboned rangy
young fellow with face so
tanned by wind and sun you had
the impression that his skin
would feel like leather if you
could affect the impertinence to
test it by the sense of touch. Not
that you would like to encourage
this bit of impudence after a look
into his devil-may-care eyes; but
you might easily imagine some
thing much stronger than brown
wrapping paper and not quite so
passive as burnt clay. His clothes
fit him loosely and yet were gra-
ciously devoid of the bagginess
which characteristics the appear
ance of extremely young men
whose frames are not fully set
and whose joints are still parad-
ing through the last stages of
college development. This fellow,
you could tell by looking at him,
had been out of college from two
to five years; you could also tell,
beyond doubt or contradiction,
that he had been in college for
his full allotted time and had not
escaped the usual number of "con-
ditions" that dismay but do not
discourage the happy-go-lucky
undergraduate who makes two or
three teams with comparative
ease, but who has great deal of
difficulty with physics or what
ever else he actually is supposed
to acquire between the close of
the football season and the open
ing of base ball practice.
This tall young man in the
panama hat. and gray flannels
was Truxton King, embryo globe
trotter and searcher after the
treasures of Romance. Somewhere
up near Central Park, in one of
the fashionable cross streets, was
the home of his father and his
fathers father before him: a
home which Truxton had not seen
in two years or more. 1t is wor-
thy of passing notice, and that is
all, that his father was a manu-
facturer; more than that, he
was something of a power in the
financial world. His mother was
not strictly social queen in the
great metropolis, but she was
what we might safely call one of
the first ladies IN waiting"
Which is quite good enough for
the wife of manufacturer; espe-
cially when one records that her
husband was a manufacturer of
steel. 1t is also a matter of no
little consequence that Truxton' s
mother was more or less averse
to the steel business as a heritage
for her son. Be it understood,
here and now, that she intended
Truxton for the diplomatic SER
vice: as far removed from sordid
steel as the New York postoffice
is from the Court of st. James.
But neither Truxtons father,
who wanted him to be a manufac-
turing Croesus, or Truxton's S
mother, who expected him to be-
come a social Solomon, appears
to have taken the young mans
pr, ate incIinations into consid-
Grafton. Truxton preferred a
life of adventure distinctly separ-
ated from steel and velvet; nor
was he slow to set his esteemed
parents straight in this respect.
He had made up his mind to
travel, to see the world, to be a