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Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-02-25
NEW YORK CENTRAL MUST PAY.
Supreme Court Upholds Verdict of
Lower Court in Rebate Case.


Washington.-The verdict of the
United States circuit court for the
southern district of New York. i'm
posing fine of s10S,000 upon the New
York Central Railroad company on
the charge of granting rebates to the
American Sugar company, was on
Tuesday affirmed by the supreme
court of the United States.
The rebates to the American Sugar
Refining company were given ON ship
ments OF sugar in 1903 from New York
to Cleveland and Detroit Six offenses
were charged and fines of SIS, 900 each
were imposed by the trial court
The government prosecuted under
the interstate commerce and Elkins
laws. Between New York and Cleve-
land the railroads published tariffs
called for a charge of 21 cents per 100
pounds, while the rate to Detroit was
23 cents. The cut in the first In
stance was cents and in the second
cents.
The court also rendered similar
decision unfolding the lower court in
the case of shipment to Cleveland in
which fine of $4,000 was imposed
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-02-25
HAS RUSSIA VIOLATED
THE PORTSMOUTH TREATY?
at Principal Points West. CT Har-
bin Closed by Russia.

Peking.-The situation at Hardin
Manchuria, arising from the insist
ence of Russia that she administer
the local municipal government, took
on critical phase a few days ago.
when the Russian authorities closed
all the Chinese stores and warehouses
at the principal points in the railroad
zone west of Hardin, because of the
refusal of the owners of these estab-
lishments to pay taxes imposed by the
railroad authorities. For some time
the negotiations in Peking between
Russia and China concerning the adj
ministratior of Hardin have been at a
deadlock, and China has alleged that
the Russian administration of Hardin
constituted a violation of the Ports
mouth treaty.
Sir John Jordan and w. w Rockhill.
respectively the British and American
ministers to China, lately notified the
Russian legation here that while Great
Britain and the United States did not
desire in any way to interfere in the
relations between Russia and China,
they would be under the necessity of
reaf1irming their previous treaty obli-
cations If the question of the munich
pal control of Hardin was raised In
this action, Sir John and Mr.. RockhiIl
acted separately.
II is reported here that all business
other than foreign over the railroad is
at standstill. The foreign business
IN 1908 amounted In freight collec-
lions to $500. 600
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-02-25
INDIAN RUNS AMUcK.
Noble RedskIn Creates Reign of Ter
ror in Cincinnati.

Cincinnati With an earsplitting
war-whoop, an unidentified Navajo In
dian war chief ran amuck in the
Union station here Sunday and before
he could be overhauled he had fatally
stabbed Mrs. Anna Devord of Hunt
ington, W. Va. and Max Meyers OF
Cincinnati, and seriously wounded Jo
seph w. Gordon of Cambridge, Ill
The Indian, with four Sioux war
chiefs from Kansas, had alighted
from a crowded train. AS the pas
sengers alighted from the train the
Indian, with yell. drew long dag
ger and started through the crowd.
slashing right and left. Mrs. Devord
was nearest to the Indian, walking
up the platform with child in her
arms. Before she heard the warning
cry raised by passengers, the Indian
had buried the dagger in her back and
then slashed her across the body and
arms. Before he could be overpow-
cred, the crazed savage had also stab
bed Meyers and Gordon.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-02-25
SPRINGS SENSATION.
Grand Jury Reports Bad State OF A.
fairs in Stockton, California.

Stockton. Cal.-The San Joaquin
grand jury filed a report on Tuesday,
after several weeks of investigation,
that is replete with sensations Ac-
cording to the report the grnad jury
found the town running practically
wide open. Illegal gambling games,
pool rooms, lotteries and opium dens
being conducted in various parts of
the town, in violation of law. and I'M
der the corrupt protection OF Chief
of Police Frank Briare." Chief Briare,
Captain Craig, Detective Donahue and
several officers are charged with re
ceiving presents, chiefly money, from
persons liable to be subjected to their
discipline. and Chief Briare, Captain
Craig and Officers Carroll and Gayou
are accused of misconduct. formal ac-
cusations having been filed against
them
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-02-25
Lives Of Thirty People Endangered
by Fire in Nevada Town.

Loveloclx, Nevada.-Property valued
at $4,000 was destroyed and the lives
of thirty people endangered by a fire
that ragged in the business portion OF
Lovelock at 3 o'clock Saturday morn
ing. The blaze, due to an exploding
gasoline light machine. broke out in
the Stag Inn, a saloon, and quickly
spread to the Franklin hotel. filled
with sleeping people. Half a block OF
business houses we're destroyed before
the volunteer fire department got the
fire under control.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-02-25
Jockey Finds Fortune.

San Francisco.--John Douglass, q
24-year-old boy employed at the Mann
hotel in this city, has received WORD
from New York law firm that he Is
named in the will OF Colonel G. H
Warfield, recently deceased. as the
inheritor of $4,000. Douglass for
merly was polo pony jockey. and
rode for Colonel Warfield, who be
came attached to the boy and kept
him in mind when drawing up his
will. The lucky youth says that he
will travel in europe for a time.
Douglass father is c. K. Douglass.
an attorney of Los Angeles.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-02-25
CLARK TO FIGHT TRusT.
Montana Millionaire at Head Of Pow
erfuI Powder Manufacturing Co.


San Francisco.-Backed by the in
terests headed by Senator William A.
Clark OF Montana, a powder manu-
featuring company, beginning opera
tons with capital of 100000 will
shortly erect plant in one OF the
bay counties and engage in active
competition with the powder trust, &C.
cording to a statement made in this
city. Associated in the enterprise, it
Is said. will be John Birmingham,
formerly general manager of the Du.
ront Nemours Powder company; j. A.
Folger, head of local mercantile con.
Germ, and former state Senator Chas.
NJ. Belshaw. 1cr plant, it is believed.
will be located in the vicinity of An.
tioch. The powder trust operates nu-
merous factories in this state, and
several of these are located on the
shores of San Francisco bay.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-02-25
Cannot Collect Gambling Debt.

Carson, Nev.-That a gambling debt
cannot be legally collected in this
state was in effect the unanimous de
cision of the supreme court of Neva.
da, when It reversed the, lower court
in the case of Burke & Co. of Gold
field versus Hamilton Buck. The lat
ter had given Burke check. the value
OF which he had played and lost upon
games. The following morning he or
dered the bank to refuse payment
upon the check Burke & Co sued the
bank and obtained judgment
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-02-25
FARMER JURORS NOT WANTED.
Standard OIL Company Objects to Be
Ing Tried Before AgricuIturists.

Chicago-The retrial of the Stand
ard Oil company OF Indiana was unex-
pectedly delayed on Tuesday, when
Judge Anderson, In the federal court,
quashed the panel of $50 veniremen
because of the large proportion OF
farmers among those summoned
1t was farmers jury which
brought in the verdict making Judge
Lands fine OF 500 100000 In the origi-
raj case possible Attorney John s.
Miller, of the defense. promptly re-
minded the court that the panel con
tanned three Chicagoans.
1T looks like design, OF strange
coincidence" commented Judge An
derson II do not want to start in
this hearing feeling that there Is
something not quite fair. | think
this panel ought to be set aside.
will instruct the jury commissioners TO
put In 100 names of men, good pro
portion of whom shall be good busr
ness men from Chicago and Cook
county"
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-02-25
Evans congratulates sperry.

Minneapolis. Minn.--Rear Admiral
Rcbley ID. Evans. who took the great
battleship feet part way around the
world, and whom congress thus lar
has failed to make a vice admiral
telegraphed the following to Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Rear Admiral
Sperry: admiral Evans presents
his compliments to Rear Admiral
Sperry and congratulates him on the
splendid work he has done. He hopes
that congress viii make him a vice
admiral. which he richly deserves"
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-02-25
Unsuccessful Attempt to Secure an
investigation.

Washington.-App bills
mainly occupied the house on Tues
day. The sundry civil bill was con-
sidered. but the progress was slow.
The Notifications, executive, legisla-
tive and judicial, diplomatic and con
sular and postoffice appropriation
bills were sent to conference. Mr..
Clark of Florida unsuccessfully at
tempted TO secure. an investigation
into the writing of a letter by Secre-
tary Bacon, apologizing for Mr..
Rainey's remarks regarding President
Obaldia OF Panama.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-09
A FISH MYSTERY.

One strange feature of sea life
of the tropics is the regular recur-
renee of migratory swarms of fish
of very small size that return in
huge numbers year after year with
such absolute regularity that the
natives calculate on the event on a
certain day in each year and even
within an hour or two of the day.
One such swarm of fish forms the
occasion of an annual holiday and
feast at Samos. The fish is not un-
like the whitebait for which the
English Thames has so long been
celebrated, and each year it arrives
at Samoa on the same day in the
month of October, remains for a
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-09
TREMENDOUS POSSIBILITIES.

The following is quoted from a
recent prosperity speech of a south
ern congressman:
Has it ever occurred to you,
Mr.. Chairman, that the cotton cloth
made in South Carolina annually
would make a sheet big enough to
cover the entire surface of America
and Europe and lap over on the
toes of Asia? Or, if all the cattle
she raises in each year were one
COW, she could browse on the tropi-
cal vegetation along the equator
while her tail switches icicles off
the north pole, and that her milk
could float shipload of her butter
and cheese from Charleston to New
York? Or, if all the mules we
market each year were one mule,
1t would consume the entire annual
corn crop of North Carolina at one
meal and kick the spots off the sun
without swelling its sides or shaking
its tail? Or, if the hogs we raise
annually were one hog, that animal
would dig the Panama canal in
three roots, without grunting, and
it's squeal would be loud enough to
jar the cocoanuts off the trees along
the canal zone?"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-09
SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS.

The following pupils passed the
examination in addition to the
number mentioned in previous
issue of this paper:
BETHANY - John Maddaford,
Margaret Tamblyn, Alice Ward.
DREHER - Lila Haag, Lillian
Baytleson, Clifford Price, Harry Ehr-
hardt, John Phillips, Helen Bortree
Angie Beesecker, Frances Whitaker,
Ray Osborne, Levi Hops, Elizabeth
Beehn, Charles Ehrhardt, Theodore
Sieg, Lawrence Barnes, Catharine
Gilpin, Carrie Woltjen, Elma Dunn
ing, Mabel Smith.
TEXAS and SEELYVILLE-Fre
Saunders, Raymond Short, Helen
Emo, Daniel Moules.
WAIMART-Howard Wilson.
SALEM-Elba Alt.
HAWLEY-Robert Schultz.
Elmer Hine. Helen
DaVall, Lila Hine.
Willard Surplus, Albert
Latham, Joseph Piscko.
j. j. KOEHLER, Co. Supt.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-09

day or, at the most two days and
then disappears entirely till 4, the
same day of the following year.
Why it comes or whence no curious
naturalist has yet discovered, nor
has anybody traced it's onward
course when it leaves the Samoan
group, but the fact is unquestionable
that suddenly, without notice, the
still waters Of the lagoon which sur
round each island within the firing
ing reef become alive with millions
of fishes passing through them for
single day and night and then dis
appearing for year as though they
had never come.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-09
BIG TREES AT EXPOSITION.

The whole front of the Forestry
Building at the Alaska-Yukon-Pa-
cific Exposition is a colonnade of
huge fir logs, not one of which is
of greater diameter than feet.
The task was not to find in Wash
ington's woods logs large enough,
but logs small enough. In every
one of the 124 huge logs of the
colonnade is sufficient clear lumber
to build five-room bungalow, with
enough in the rough left over for a
woodshed and something in the
way of fence. 1t is the largest log
house ever erected. Any one of the
big sticks is 40 feet high, and all
of them were cut within a radius
of fifty miles of Seattle.
During the exposition the struc-
ture will house the states forestry
exhibit, the manufacture of lumber
being Western Washington's chief
industry. To help out the display,
the United States Government has
installed in the building the only
timber testing plant in the West,
and this will be allowed to remain
when the exposition is over.
When the fair is at an end the
Forestry building will go to the
State University, by which it will be
used as forestry school, and it
also will prove a valuable asset to
the City of Seattle as a scenic point
for tourists, for the building is set
with background made up of beau
tiful Lake Washington, the snow
capped mountains and a timble of
forest upland transcending in it's
grandeur.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-09
TRYING TO SAVE
THE BEAST
The Grounds on Which a New Trial
VIII be Asked for the MUIR
derer Barbuoto.

ueTeE IbhTDuOtO.
The Middletown Times-Press
hears that upon the ground that
evidence which did not relate to the
case and had a tendency to pre-
judice the jury was admitted, Ex-
Judge Henry B. Fullerton will ap-
of John Barbuoto found guilty of
murder in the first degree week be-
fore last. Mr.. Fullerton will i'm
mediately carry his appeal to the
Appellate Division.
Mr.. Fullerton contends that Mrs.
Gaetano's story describing the Grim
inal assault on the night of the
murder should never have been ad-
mitted, inasmuch as Barbuoto was
not on trial for assault, and that
the admission as evidence by court
of the assault story prejudiced the
jury against the accused. There
were also other points to which Mr..
Fullerton made strenuous objection
during the trial but which were ad-
mitted.
Mr.. Fullerton will further attempt
to show, in his appeal, that the ver-
dict was not justified by the evil
dence, and that there is very
grave doubt as to who actually did
the shooting. The shooting is ad-
mitted but there is some uncertain
ty who actually did it. MIR. Fuller
ton contends that Mrs. Gaetano was
seeking revenge on Barbuoto and
that she practically swore his life
away as result. She was the only
one during the trial who swore that
she saw Barbuoto do the shooting.
On the other hand, Mr.. Fullerton
will contend that as the night was
rather dark, and that all hands were
indulging in gun play and further
that as result of the excitement
which was but natural, it is prob
able that Mrs. Gaetano was mistak-
en- as to who actually did the shoot
ing.
Upon these grounds the appeal
will be made. The briefs are being
prepared now.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-09
MURDER AT NICHOLSON.

The local papers give the follow
ing particulars of a Wyoming coun-
ty tragedy:
Roger Greenwood, aged forty-five
years, was killed Tuesday morning
of last week at | o'clock by a shot
from a gun alleged to have been
fired by Henry J. Sprague, at
Sprague's home on the outskirts of
Nicholson. A coroner's jury, sum
moned promptly after the shooting,
rendered a verdict charging Sprague
with the crime.
Greenwood was shot in the breast and
the wound was inflicted at such short
range that the breast bone was caved
in by the force of the discharge, the
victim dying almost instantaneously.
he gun used was an ordinary fowling
piece, the shot discharged being what
is known as No. s. The shot scat
tered over the dead mans face and
hands, which he had raised in vain
for protection, but it was the wound
in the breast that proved fatal.
Sprague and Greenwood worked
at the Moses Shields company's stone
quarry at Nicholson. Sprague was
a fireman at the quarry and Green
wood was stonecutter. Both men
were about the same age, and both
came originally from England.
Sprague is a married man with three
children; Greenwood is survived by
a wife and four children. They
have been comfortable were it not
that both men drank heavily, partic-
ularly after pay days. Sprague and
Greenwood were paid on Saturday
and had been drinking up to the
moment of the shooting. So far as
could be ascertained however,
Sprague and Greenwood got along
fairly well together when sober, but
Sprague could not tolerate Green
wood when they were drinking.
Both Mrs. Sprague and Mrs. Green
wood were, it is said by neighbors,
companions, and Mrs. Greenwood
was in Spragues home when her
husband was killed. The neighbors
say she had been there from very
early hour that morning and shortly
after her husband died, she was
found lying unconscious on the porch
of Sprague's house with her scalp
lacerated, but only superficially so.
How she got the wound was not dis
closed.
The jury brought in the following
verdict: We find that Roger Green
wood died from gunshot wound in
fiicted by Henry ]. Sprague.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-09

Sir Oliver Lodge computes that there
are 15,625,OOO.0OO, ,O0O, 900, O,OOO,-
O0O,0OO,000 electified corpuscles of
ether to every cubic inch of space in
the universe. If you don't believe it,
count 'em for yourself, since NO two
c' the"' touch each other. Still. as
they are in rapid motion, you may
miss few OF them.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-09

There is no national holiday by
federal enactment. The President
recommends the observance of
Thanksgiving Day, and most of the
states have passed laws to secureits
observance. The Fourth of July,
which is observed - az tre states,
is covered by state laws.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-09

Try an ad. in The Citizen. You
knew it pays 10 aeve-t'eA.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-09

Take the Citizen. Why not.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-16
A Ghostly Whisper

have always been able to drop off to sleep at
and I rarely dream This night was no exception
I was soon in perfectly happy state of oblivion,
when suddenly l heard, in sharp staccato whisper:
Frank will die at o'clock. Frank will die at
o'clock
I awoke with start, threw my wrapper and
ran through the hall to my patients room. Ny friend
was sitting at the side of her husbands bed and he
was resting quietly as when 1 left him. Naturally
did not say anything about my dream" as 1
termed it. and yielding her persuasions, returned
to my room, furious at allowing myself to be dis
turbed when / knew how much l needed this rest.
1t was then o'clock I went back to bed resolved
to make the best of the few hours sleep had
allowed myself At 4:30 was aroused by my friend,
who anxously explained to me that she had noticed
a change in her husband and had thought it best to
wake me. Ny first glance told that her fears
had been far from groundess / astonished, in
fact, at the condition of my patient His face
cyanosed his respiration labored and he gave every
evidence of an acute cardiac dilaton. While has
tly administered strychnne told the wife to tele
phone for the physician He arrived at exactly five
minutes past 5 But the already dead
That was my first case ola curious coincidence"
shall call it?
A few years later l was called to New Rochelle
on typhoid case was day nurse at first but
after the patient grew better the night
dismissed and I was placed in charge My patient
and his wife two of the dearest people have
known with that charming old fashioned sweet
and culture that / suppose requires too long
cultivation for the speed of our modern days, and
they lived in of those charming old fashioned
houses that also fast dying out with the gentle
folk who built them.
These two old persons had been lifelong lovers and
had never outgfown the habit AS all their children
had married and moved away felt very happy that
after time they spared bit of their love for each
other bestow Naturally I became very
much attached to them both. The wife slept in
room to her husbands, and was given
of my just narrow hall. After my pa
tient became stronger I would go to my room at
night, leaving both my door and his standing wide
OPEN and if he wanted me, instead of ringing bell
and so riskng disturbing his wife he would just call
my name softly, and as l very light sleeper that
was all that was required and / up on the in
slant and ready to do what he needed
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-16
Called by Telepathy

One day while ] this case ] received mes
sage which demanded my immediate attention in the
city. AS it late before l finished my business 1
decided / would remain night in the city, my
patient really would require attention that any
one else could not give him. 1t ! o'clock when
] got to bed, thoroughly tired out and as usual /
went TO sleep at
Suddenly | heard a whispered Miss Brown" from
my patient "Yes" r answered was my custom,
and started up at go TO him. The action
woke and II took minute two to realize
where was and that ] have been dreaming.
] switched on the light TO the time, SO that L
might know how many good hours sleep there was
still in for me, for ] wanted to catch the 8
o'clock train and I turned with sigh of graft
tude when discovered that it only 10 minutes
past
oh Miss Brown, how nice TO have you with us
againl" said my patient the minute he the
] didn't disturb the little mother l missed
you sorely. Why. once l even caught myself calling
your name
Vow can't believe that You'd better be care
ful or your wife will be jealous the thing you
know" ! said teasngly
Indeed II IS true" he answered q happen even
to know the exact time, for picked my watch up
just after | had said your name. It was 10 minutes
past 2"
Is this another coincidence? Possibly Or is there
in truth a subiminal self endowed with higher per-
ceptire faculties which and hears and far
away from the body, going forth and gathering
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-16

hands tull for this disease is quick and sure. But
had seen enough of if to almost welcome call to a
severe attack OF the grip, where would not be inn
mediately confronted, in the other malady, with
almost inevitable defeat. My patient was an aged
man who lived alone with only daughter She
was unusually devoted to him, for it seems her
mother had died when she was very young and her
father had assumed complete charge of her.
Throughout his entire illness she never lett him
during the day. but usually at night | was able to
persuade her to lie down in the next although
she would run in every few hours to inquire for him
and ask if she could do anything for me.
On the ninth day my patient doing SO well that
planning to leave at the end of the week. That
night the daughter surprised by saying directly
after supper:
Miss Brown. am going to sit up and watch with
you tonight"
why, really there is need for it, | answered.
"for your father has had splendid day Now, do
go to bed, and truly promise to call you if there
is the slightest change in him"
She hestated moment, and then, looking almost
ashamed of the admission, she said:
Il don't know why but something seems to tell me
that father will want tonight Indeed it IS not
don't really know what it IS But
must stay here tonight" she ended with sudden de-
termination and so had allow her to remain and
tucked her up in big chair next to the bed
At o'clock my patient sleeping quietly.
AT 10 o'clock he was still all right It was about