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Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-10

Sweden is a land Of many charms, a
very haven Of restful pleasures. And, oh,
the self-sacrifieing hospitality OF its cheer
full homes! To the thoughtful tourist there
is a strange mysticism In nature and in
man there. not Of the gigantic. Ibssnesque
Norwegian type, but OF the heart Of things,
a land Of song and songs, where the
firsside tale that is told receives q touch
from mystical realms OF biissful lovellness.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-10

Sweden is coming to her old self again,
l hope, even n first through more agony
and q deeper crisis, what and when, only
the God Of history knows. M has had too
The sun., 1909-06-06
JAPANESE AND THE SEALS
Treaty WITH Russia to Protect Fur Ami.
mails being Drafted-New Seizures.

VICTORIA, b. G.. June 5.-That the
Japanese. and Russian Governments are
coming to an agreement regarding a
treaty for the protection of fur seals in
the North Pacific is the report brought by
the Empress Of China which has just ar
rived here. The Hoeh OF Toxic says.
The Russian Government intends to
conclude convention with Japan for the
protection Of animals in the Bering Sea-
The authorities Of the Russia commercial
department are drafting the treaty
More seizures of Japanese sealers have
been made. The Japanese schooner
Yeifuku Maru was recently taken by a
Russian cruiser in northern waters for
poaching on the sealing grounds and was
fined 500. The Mura Mar,i, which was
ordered conf1scated for poaching. has ap-
pealed to lrkutsk from the decision OF the
Hakodate Tribunal
Japanese sealers on the Alaskan coast the
Japan Matt says 1T is virtually impos-
sible for the Japanese authorities to
effectnally restrain these poachers. They
are the outcome OF the geographical
situation as much as OF the predatory
impulses which animate even twentieth
century humanity. But it is much to be
desired that the semblance of condoning
their lawlessness should be removed by
the adherence of Japan to the fishery
convention which exists between the United
States, England and Russia"
The sun., 1909-06-06
RILLIKIN At THE CONSULATE
God OF Things as They Ought TO Be'
Bothers the Russians.

The Russian Consulate at 8? Washington
square took one Of its troubles into the
night court before Magistrate Cornell last
pight. This particular trouble was the
person OF Benjamin Billikin. who has been
going to the consulate every day since
Wednesday last and maintaining that he
was the God Of Things as They Ought
To Be- In particular he asserted that he
ought TO be the cook for the Consul
General.
1T is not only that ought to be his
cook but l must be his cook" insisted
Billikin 70 o. E. Hagen. secretary to the
Consulate. on Friday. And he added:
by the way. do you know that you ought
not to talk into the telephone too much?
It's dangerous"
Mr.. Hagen assured Billikin that things
should be as they ought.
Yesterday Billikin returned and noticed
the sign on the door announcing that the
consulate Is officially closed on Saturdays
and requesting that only those call who
have imperative business. He took his
stopping every. one who tried to enter.
Don't you know. you ought to leave
the ul-General undisturbed?" he
asked each visitor. See that you do
Several persons who were handled
roughly by Billikin called the Consulate
on the phone and complained to Mr..
Hagen, who forthwith called Police Head
quarters. Policemen Mclaughlin and
Keller Of Mercer street station responded
and tackled the hardest job they have
had in many day.
Il am the God Of Things as They Ought
to Be- exclaimed Billikin. Never shall
! allow Ahriman to kick Ormuzd down
stairs And he pitched into the police
men. Affairs were not reduced TO the
status Of things as they ought to be until
half dozen OF the Washington Park
benches were kicked over and two uni
forms solied with mud. Billikin was Ia ken
to Mercer street station in patrol wagon
In the night court Magistrate Cornell
listened to the statements Of Mr.. Hagen |,
and the police. Then he committed /.
Billikin to Bellevue Hospital for observa- /
ton as to his sanity.
The sun., 1909-06-06
1000 MILE MISSION JOURNEY.
Bishop Strinser Starts on Visitation Tour
In the Far Northwest.

VICTORIA, B. c.. June 5.-Fout thousand
miles OF travel by canoe, by dog train
and on foot is involved in the series of
pastoral visitations upon which Bishop
strinSer OF the. Yukon diocese has Just
left Whitehorse. the measure of his zeal
being the better appreciated when it is
remembered that he was obliged to devote
alt the last winter TO the recovery of his
health at Kincardne. Ont, where Mrs.
Stringer' and their ohildreh will spend
the, summer.
Leaving Carcross on Empire Day. the
Blshop goes to Edmonton, from which
ceHre he will traverse the vast north
land interior to. Fort Macpherson, a dis
tance OF 900 miles, visiting the isolated
church missions en- route. From Fort
Macpherson he will continue northward
$50 miles to Herschel Island, in the Arctic
Ocean. where he with his wife was sta
toned among tho Eskimos six years ago.
After Waiting that mission post he will
return overland from the Arctic to Fort
Yukon, which he hopes to reach in time
to catch one Of the late steamers up to
Dawson. The Bishop expects to leave
Edmonton by june and to reach Fort
Macpherson by July 10.
The trip to Herschel Island and return
70 the mainland will consume three or
four weeks and he will have no time to
lose II he reaches Fort Yukon by the end Of,
September.
The sun., 1909-06-06
STEVENS ALUMNI INTERESTED.
Plan to Purchase More Of the Castle
Point Estate for the Inktitufe

Plan TO Purchase wore OF the Casue
Point Estate for the Institute.
The statement that the trustees OF
Stevens Institute of Technology in Ho.
boken have secured an option on a part
Of the Castle Point property. long famous
as the home Of the Stevens family, has
created much interest among the alumni
Of the institute.
Richard Stevens said yesterday that
the plots which the institute may acquire
belong TO his brother, Col. E. A. Stevens,
and the heirs OF Robert l.. Stevens. another
brother, The property includes the old
Castle, and its surrounding grounds on
the bluffs of Castle Point overlooking
the Hudson. Richard Stevens asserted
that under no circumstances will he
part with any Of his holdings in the estate
After the death Of Mrs. Martha B.
Stevens in 1899 the property, which en-
braced about twenty-five acres, was
among the heirs. Stevens Institute ac-
quired the southernmost plot from the
heirs Of John c. Stevens about four years
ago and converted it into an athletic
field The lands which the institute
wishes to annex adjoin the field, and an
active campaign will be carried on by the
friends Of the engineering school to riase
liic " III iAiI.i " pay Nl tAc
gage on the field, make needed improve
ments to the institute plant and purchase
the desired plots Richard Stevens owns
his original one-fifth share and also the
plot formerly belonging to the heirs of
c Albert Stevens. which he acquired by
purchase.
Castle Point was originally included IL
a grant Of Hoboken made on February s.
1858, by Gov. Peter Stuyvesant to Nicholas
Va rleth varleth died intaatata md his
laughter Susanna and her husband,
Robert Hickman, sold the property to
samuel Bayard, Manhattan merchant.
'or G5O0 in I'LL. Bayard willed 1t to
his son, William Bayard. The latter's
,states were confsoated by New Jersey
he became a loyalist. and in l7sa
he forfeitSd Hoboken lands were sold
o Col, John Stevens for Els,3eo. The
partition Of the. Castle Point property
vas made under The terms Of the will Of
edwin Augustus stevens. the seventh son
Il Col. John Stevens.
The sun., 1909-06-06
NATIONAL BALLOON RACE ON
FAIR WIND AT START OF LONG
DISTANCE TRIAL.

The Ohio is First Away. Win indianapolis
second and New York Third-Bal-
looms Rise TO 5000 Feet and Float
s0uth-They May Land In Alabama.
IEDIANAPoLIs, June 5-With weather
conditions ideal and a crowd OF $1,000
people on the speedway four miles west
Of this city the national balloon race
got of this afternoon without hitch.
During the night and the early MORN
ing the balloons were filled with gas.
and during the remainder OF the day
while the crowd was assembling they
tugged at their fastenings as II anxious
to be off,
The crowd was enthusiastic and the
pilots and their assistants wore smiling
faces and were encouraged by friends
and relatives with predictions of being
winners and without any sembance OF
anxiety over their departure. Mrs. G. A.
Corey bride OF but few weeks, bade
her husband good-by when he got into
the Chicago and said she hoped that he
would not get back for several days, The
remark caused good humored laugh
from the crowd. which understood that
main longer in the air than its competitors
in the free for all race,
The Ohio, with W. H. Thompson as pilot
and j. Blake as assistant. was the first
to be sent off, and when half 4 mile up
the Indianapolis, with Goethe Link pilot
and j. r. Irwin assistant. was let go.
Five minutes later the Chicago, the larg
est balloon OF the three. was of with
c. A. Corey as pilot and Jack Bennett
as aid. The route taken 10y the three
balloons was almost due south. tho Ohio
rising to a distance OF nearly mile and
the other two gliding along at an altitude
OF about 5000 feet.
Major Hershey. 'the tiovsrnm ent
Weather Bureau representative. received
reports from Toledo, St. Louis. Des
Moines. Cleveland. Columbus and other
stations at o'clock and gave il IS his
opinion that if the balloons should stay
within 1000 or 5000 feet they would prob
ably land in Alabama, but II they should
60 up two or three miles they might catch
currents that would take them almost
due northeast, When A. IL. Forbes was
informed of this he expressed wish to
get into the high currents and especially
the one which, he said, is always blowing
east. He believed that this current would
rent in which the first three balloons |
were riding and would also separate hitn !
from those in the national race.
The New York, manned by \. II Forbes
and Capt. Harmon, was the frst in the I
race to leave the speedway. |
and it assembled almost perpendiculsriy ,
Tor quarter OF mile and then followed
n the course that the handicap racers .
had taken There was no evidence that ,
Forbes was trying to reach high currents. |
70 far as those below could tell. for when |
he balloon passed out OF sight it WIS .
hardly more than one mile up.
The Indiana, with o. y. Fisher and G. L. .
The sun., 1909-06-06

Run,baugh aboard. followed the, New
York at the expiration Of Ave minutes, and
then the st. Louis I'LL, with Albert Bond
and 81. E. Honeywell as pilot and aide,
was let 60. At intervals Of Ave minutes
the Cleveland, manned by A. a. Morgan
and j. H. Wade, the Hoosier. by Capt.
Baldwin and Charles Walsh, and the Uni
yersity City. by John Berry and Paul
Mccullough. were let of and took the
same course as their predecessors.
Two hours after the start G. A. Corey
dropped a note while the Chicago was
over the town Of Bargersville, twenty
two miles south, saying everything was
going well. The balloons were travelling
In nearly due south dissection.
The Ohio, the first balloon to leave, came
down at $40 o clock near Nashville. Brown
a distance Of about thlrty-nve
miles. Lack OF sand was reported a. the
cause Of the failure to remain In the air.
The sun., 1909-06-06
b. & O. STRIKE BREAKERS.
Railroad Says All but One OF Its shops
~ Are Manned.

BALTIMORE, Nd. June 5.-Baltimorea and
Ohio officers issued statement this
morning to the effect that the places Of all
the striking machinists had been filled
excepting. in the Glenwood shop, near
Pittsburg, and that this was expected
70 be IN complete working order by
Monday morning. The strikers assert
that 72s men are now out. 1t is said that
all the machinists are out in Chicago,
New Castle and Connellsville, with Isl
atPitte burg; Auburn, IL; Mount Glare, 22O,
and Parkersburg. 20.
Vice President Walter Ames of the
International Association of Machipists
ia" expected on Monday. He will take
charge of the strike.
The sun., 1909-06-06
Chas. d. Fowler Missing for Three Weeks.

MIpDLETowN. n. Y. June 5.-Charles
d. Fowler. a prominent horseman OF
Fshkin Landing. has been missing from
homo for three weeks. The last heard
trom him was in this city. where he trans
acted some BUSINESS and was supposed
his bppearHnce and his Continued absence
has alaIped his family, The fact that he
generally carried considerable money
leads to the fear that he has met. with
foul play. He is a nephew Of President
]. p. Fowler OF the New York, Ontario
and Western Railroad.
The sun., 1909-06-06
OASIS on 4 MOUNTAIN.
Tennessecan Finds One. Spot Where HI
Can Sell Mhiskey With ImpunIty.


BRIsroL, Tenn, June s.-W. P. Conger
of McMinnville has found a spot on the
top of the Cumberland Mountains. In
Seouatchie county, where the State pro-
hibition law. which becomes effective on
.aly /, cannot touch him. He is now
having saloon erected there.
The spot is eighteen miles from McMinn-
vile. and there is no schoolhouse within
four miles of it, 1t is reported that Con-
ger has leased all the land for four miles
around in order to prevent the erection
of schoolhouse. Ten or twelve barrels
Of whiskey and lot OF case goods are now
at McNlinnville awaiting transportation
TO Conger's place.
Regular hack lines will he esta blished
by the enterprising saloonist to furnish
LIQUOR 10 the neighboring towns. As the
Legislature does not meet until 1911 be
expects to make fortune
The sun., 1909-06-06
DE DICATE WELLESLEY LIBRARY
College Girls and Faculty Hold . Cere-
mony in the Rain.

WELLESLEY. Mass. June 5.-The corner
stone Of the new Wellesley College library
was laid in drizzling rain this afternoon,
in the presence of the faculty and students.
Standing beneath a shelter, Mrs. Pauline
Durant. the venerable widow OF Henry
Fowle Durant. oficiated at the ceremony.
The members Of the faculty. headed BY
President Caroline Hazard and Dean
Ellen F. Pendleton, marched to the library
site in academic gowns followed by the
students.
The library is to cost $2So.oo The
students and alumns completed a fund
Of $l25, 900 two years ago, thereby secur-
ing an endowment OF like amount from
Andrew Carnegie.
The sun., 1909-06-06
John Fritz Gives Lehish ss0, ,ooo.

South BETHLEHEM. Pa, June 5.-A
feature of alumni day at Lehigh Univer-
slty to-day was the announcement OF a
gift OF $50 600 from John Fritz Of Bethle-
lhem the iron manufacturer and metal
lurglst. " no has been trustee Of this in
stitution for more than thirty years. The
gitt Is TO be used to establish and equip a
modern engineering laboratory.
The sun., 1909-06-06
Chinese Students to Meet At Colgate
University.

UTICA, June 5.-The Chinese students
who are attending colleges in the eastern
portion OF the United States will meet
at Colgate University Hamilton, for a
August. under the auspices Of the Chinese
Students Alliance. About e0o repre-
sentatives from various Eastern colleges.
especially Yale, Harvard. Cornell and the
University OF Pennsylvania, will attend,
Wu ,Iing-fang. the Chinese Minister at
Washington, is expected to be present
Tor lew days and will deliver two ad-
dresses.
The sun., 1909-06-06
Texas Aeroplane Files Again.

BROWNSVILLE. Tex. June SIN an
other flight in his aeroplane to-day Prem.
tiss Newman sailed through the air q
quarter of mile with perfect control
Of the machine and alighted without q
Jar.
The sun., 1909-06-06
SERIOUS FLOODS AT FERNIE.

People Leaving the Town-Many Drowned
In Elk River. B. c.
FERNIE. B. c.. June 5.-The main part
OF Fernie is in danger and families are
moving to safety on account Of the Elk
River being in the worst food In years
Residents in the river Hats have lost
heavily.
Shacks. lumber and bridges are being
washed away. Two men were drowned
at Waldo trying to cross the river and
three bodies were seen floating past here
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-07-28

Little Rock, Ark, July 27.-(Spe- ciaD-W. Y. Ellis, of Pine Bluff, shot and killed Nathaniel F. Willis, of Indianapolis, Ind. when the two met for the first time in Judge Guy Fulk s private chambers in the Pulaski coun- ty court house this afternoon at $40 o'clock. Willis was killed instantly, after running from the room into the hallway. He died on a cot, occu- pied last night by one of the Dill jurors, and was trying to make a statement to his mother when the end same. Two shots were fired, bat the first entered the ceiling when Ellis revolver was struck and knocked in the air by Lou Gibson, clerk of the court.
 The shooting created the widest excitement and came like a thunder bolt from a clear sky. A small sized panic ensued in the big court room across the hall. when renorts from the gun were heard. Women. men and children, listening to the evidence in the Dill case ran over each other in leaving the building, the first inn pression being that a mob had formed to lynch Earl Dill. =.
 Following an order issued by Judge Fulk Monday at the instance of Will lis, giving Willis the custody of Little Mary. his siX-year-old daughter, for ted days, Judge M. A. Austin and Ellis appeared before Judge Fulk to resist the order of the court. FL lis. was standing behind Judge Fulk, who was sitting on one side of the table in his room. Judge M A Austin and Senator Jeff Davis and his client, Willis. were on the op- posite side of the table. Willis was standing directly back of Judge Aus tin and Senator Davis, who were seated. The order was argued calm ly by the attorneys and it was fin ally agreed that Willis should have the child for ten days. Little Mary IS at Fayetteville and while Judge Fulk was writing the order and the attorneys were trying to decide which was the best place to turn the girl over to Willis, Ellis drew a revolver from his hip pocket anC
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-07-28

Continued on Page Four.)
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-07-28
" !, ELLIS KILLED N, P, WILLIS
 WHEN THEY MET FACE ID FACE IN JUDGE FU[K'S COURT ROOM AT CAPITAL

charge of the body and moved it 10 their undertaking shop. Later Un- dertaker Rubel appeared with an or der from Jeff Davis. directing that the body be turned over to him. Coroner the body at their place for an in- quest and at late hour tonight the undertakers were wrangling among themselves as to who should prepare the body for burial
 Much Trouble for Mrs. Ellis.
 The trials and tribulations of Will lis, his wife and the much-sought Lit tie Mary runs back for some years. Willis and Miss Hattie Bell were mar red in Indianapolis April 9. 1898, at which time Willis then a reformed thinker was conducting the Willis Home Cure for the Liquor Habit in stltution. They lived together six years. separating and neither getting o ui'oi1C. ADOul llFe years ago Willis kidnapped the little girl from the mother, while she was stopping with friends in Indianapolis. Mrs. Willis located them and filed habeas corpus proceedings before Judge AL len in Indianapolis. She recovered the child and Willis appealed. He lost again in the higher court. Later, at wfcrdsville, Ind, while Mrs. Willis and baby were with their aunt there, Willis again instituted habeas corpus proceedings to win the girl. Again Mrs Willis was victorious She then moved to Maiden, Mo-. where her brother Harry Bell, was in busi- ness. She lived there several months until Willis began to annoy her again and Bell sent his sister and Little Mary to Spokane Wash She secured position as stenographer there, hop ing to remain out of reach of Willis( She learned that Pinkerton detectives had been shadowing her, and taking fright that she might lose Little Mary, Mrs Willis again hurried away, go- ing to Los Angeles with daughter of her employer. On the day Willis arrived in Spokane. where he was called by the Pinkerton men. Mrs. Willis departed for Los Angeles. Again he was outwitted. and his de- tectives were set to work to locate her whereabouts. Mrs. Willis, fear in. that she might be discovered, hurried to Pine Bluff. where her brother, Harry Bell had engaged in business as manager and stockholder for the W. B. Nimmons Company, heading manufacturers Bell took her in with the baby and declared that he would protect her. To avoid fur thar trouble with Willis, Bell legally adopted Little Mary the papers be- Ing issued by County Judge James Gould. This was done to compel Will lis to hold Bell responsible. in the courts for the little girl. Mrs. Willis suffered several nervous spells and breakdowns and was critically ill on several occasions. Willis was not long coming to Arkansas. He insti- tuted habeas curpus proceedings be- fore Judge Jesse Hart at Little Rock, to recover Little Mary. Bell was made the defendant. Little Mary was produced in the Little Rock court and later when the final hearing was had Judge Jesse Hart, then chancellor. declira ed to hear the case. It was th's action that caused Senator Jeff Davis and Hart to part partnership. Judges Lea and Winfield heard the case and Bell was awarded the child
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-07-28

fired at Willis. Clerk Lowe Gibson struck the weapon and the ball i'm bedded itself in the wall several feet
 above his head Willis ran around Senator Davis and Judge Austin and headed for the door, Ellis follow
 ed around the table and reaching the door, took his revolver in both hands, rested it against the door fac ing and pulled the trigger again. The ball passed through Willis heart. skinning his left arm as it went. Will lis staggered down the hall to the ing the shots. Sheriff Roberts rushed out of the court room door just in time to catch the falling man. Willis mother arrived at the same time from an adjoining room and the two lifted
 Willis onto cot where he died within ten minutes. He never spoke word though he tried several times to do so.
 Judge F'ulk asked Ellis for his revolver and he handed it to the jurist Sheriff Roberts and several deputies took Ellis away and lasc might it was learned that the shec- if had taken him to Newport until the excitement subsidies. The action of Jeff Davis, who denounced the kill ing. drew a large crowd to the seceno, but there was no talk of violence Ellis, An inquest was held over Will lis body tonight
 Willis was we'll known in Little Rock where he frequently viste in an effort to secure possession pt his little daughter. He was under indictment here for perjury, it be- ing alleged that he offered a bribe to chambermaid at the Hotel Ma rion, during a hearing of a previous proceeding in which the little girl was involved, to get the servant to tesri- fly to an immoral act which the former Mrs. Willis had never been guilty of. He tried to get the servant to say that she had seen men com ing from Mrs. Willis room at the hotel.
 Senator Davis, Judge Austin and Judge Fulk were frightened out of their wits when the first shot was fired Davis jumped up and yelled for them not to 'let him shoot me"
 and he made for the door. but Will
 lis made the exit first and Davis 1 hurried back into the room, when F.
 lis followed Willis.
 Mrs. Willis, mother Of the dead
 man, collapsed after the shootin :
 and had to be carried into an office from the gaze of hundreds of cu-
 rious people. She did not know
 how badly her SOD was injured, but
 wrung her hands and wept pitifulIy
 when told that he was dead Ellis and his mother arrived in Little
 Rock Monday morning.
 Ellis is nephew of Mrs. Mary ICulver, a millionairess who owns the Majestic Stove Works in St. Louis.
 Little Mary Willis was named for
 her grand aunt and the latter is said
 to have been anxious to adopt her.
 Healy and Roth, undertakers, took
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-07-28
ADDING 10 THE
 PARKER ROAD FUND
M ore Than Thousand Dollars Se- cured is5 the Soliciting Committee iesterda, and Fund Now Exceeds Ss7,3OD-Thr Subscribers.
:. + l. l. !. j. ]. I. I. ]! !. !. I. i. + + + The Parker Road Fund. +
* <. + J. j. + I. l. !. <. l. s. I. l. I. l.

The soliciting committee securing the bonus for the Parker road added more than 6 thousand dollars to the fund yesterday. after only a few hours work. The committee has secured more than $S75OO to date and al though the fund is now growing slow ly, they are confident of success. The subscribers listed yesterday and the amount subscribed by them follow: