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The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-30
A GRAFT CONVICTION
A VERDICT OF GUILTY AGAINST POLICE INSPECTOR MCCAIN
 AT CHICAGO.
MONEY PAID FOR PROTECTION
Prosecution Proved That ofne'a' Levied Tribute on Dive Keepers 'n Tenderloln District-Penalty an 'n- determInate Sentence in Prison

Chicago. Sept. Backward McCann, police inspector, charged with graie ing was fouad guilty by jury wnlch reported in Judge Barnes court.
 Sentence was not pronounced, ana will not be until after the hearing or arguments for a new trial. The law provides an indeterminate sentence Tn prison.
 The charges against the inspector in charge of the Desplaines Street dls- trict were the most sensational which have been aimed against a police or ficial in years. States Attorney Way man charged that graft" aggregating mary thousands of dollars had been collected from disorderly houses in return for protection
 The chief witness against McCann was Louis Frank, a Russian immi- grant. who, although unable to read or write, has accumulated a fortune of several hundred thousand dollars in the West Side tenderloin. He and his brother, Julius. for years have exercised a marked power in West Side politics
 Louis Frank testified that he collect ed the protection" money from deni- zens of the teaierloin The first two collections, he said on the witness stand, were paid to Detective Jere- miah H. Griffin, who. he said, acted as agent for McCann. Thereafter, he declared. he had given the money to McCann in person.
 The rate for protection" was said to be $40 a month Several checks, each dated a month apart and calling for that sum, were exhibited in court A list of women from whom 1t was charged protection" money was regu- larly collected was read in court anu identified by both Louis and Julius Frank.
 McCann's defense was that he had suppressed and regulated vice in his district with so rigorous a hand that a conspiracy headed by Louis Frank was formed against him.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-30
Their Tickets We're Mixed.

"Joel Chandler Harris was only ex. celled by Stephen Crane in his pro found knowledge of negro character" !" said an Atlantan. MT. Harris on a train one day pointed to a typical old colored couple, stout old uncle and a stout old auntie. He said he'd play a joke on them. So he pretended to be the conductor. and asked them for their tickets. The old gentleman fished the tickets from his ragged vest.
 "'One O desc sah,' he said, is foh me, an t'udder one is foh her
 "'But which is yours and which is hers?' demanded Mir. Harris with pre- tended impatience.
 "The old man began stammerine something, but the old lady shut him up.
 "Dah now, yo' man. she cried, I done tole yuh yuh'd git us inter trouble. an now yuh see yuh done got de law on us.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-30
MOST RENOWNED OF SNAKES
Versatile Monster, Which Was known as the God Aeseulaplus, Nc-
 cording to Luoian'


 No snake that ever lived won great CT fame for the time than Alexander s. Lucian tells the story, George Harvey says in the North American Revle"' Apollonius, a master of the masic arts, had many disciples, among whom was a practiclng physician wno lived in Abonotichus, small town on the shore of the Black sea. mere Alexander was born of humble parent age and imbibed from the old doctor all that he had learned from Apof loniua of medicine and magic. soon he fell in with one Cocconas, shre"o tipster for the races and somewhat of juggler The two rogues joined forces and meandered about telllng fortunes. Arriving at Pella, they found great number of huge, harm less snakes, which lived in the houses, played and slept with the children and destroyed poisonous rats. Alexander promptly purchased one of the largest a veritable monster, so tame that It would coil about his body and remain in any desired position. Then he made human face for 1t out of linen, painted it ingeniously, and shaped 1t so that the mouth would open and shut by an arrangement of horsehair, letting the forked tongue shoot in and out at the will. of the master. Hav- ing ne further use for Coconnas, he either administered poison to him or let him die from some infection and returned with his snake to his na- tive town. There he declared himself a prophet and announced that the god Aeseulapirs was about to appear The people were credulous. excitable and eager for a new divinity.
 When the great day arrived Alexan- der pretended to discover in a puddle Of water a goose egg which he had placed there after removing the con- tents, substituting small embryo snake Just born and carefully sealing the shell with wax. When the multi tude had gathered be broke the shell and produced the tiny creature, which in a few moments grew to be the monster from Pella by the simple process of substitution. Thereafter the big snake, believed to be Aescula- plus, led busy life. He gave seances, told fortunes in writing, and even spoke freely with the aid of the prophets ventriloquial powers. Alex ander grew rich and powerful, kept a small army of retainers and spies, wielded no little influence over the government even at Rome and died at ripe old age in the fullness of bis renown. What became of the snake nobody knows. Probably at the last the prophet dispatched the faith ful creature to prevent the discovery of his deception after his death.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-30
He eot Fever in church.

The Forked Deer River Baptist as sociation of Dyersburg, in Tennessee. built a new church and put in fur. mace, the first one in Dyersburg.
 On the night of the dedication of the church Mrs. Pettus and her son came in. The son had been suffering from chills and fever. but was con Yalescing. Mrs. Pettus asked for a nice warm place for the boy, and the sexton put him over a register.
 After the services had begun the boy leaned over to his mother and whispered: Nav. gotter go home; I'm gittin' sick again. I kin feel the fever comin' up my pants legs"
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-30
Leopard Attacked chlld

St. Paul, Sept. 22.-A crowd of BOO persons was thrown into a panic when a leopard which was exhibited on Payne avenue, this city, broke from It's cage. The animal attacked Martin Martinson aged four years, and in the presence of the bays father. tore the child's right arm almost from it's socket, and severed one ear. The boy would have been Killed had not Charles Reustrom, blacksmith, rush. ed from his shop and killed the beast with an ay.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-30
Wants the Powers to intervene.

Tangier, Sept. 22--rhe foreign beard has drawn ap protest to the powers against the action of Spain in the Riff territory, claiming this to be breach of the Algeciras agree ment and charging that the Spaniards caused the trouble by crossing the frontier and working the mines. The foreign board demands the interven ton of the powers to safeguard the in. tegrity of MoorIsh territory.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-30
Best In Existence.

T sincerely believe, all things con- sidered, Hunts Lightning oil is the most useful and valuable household remedy in existence. For cuts, burns, sprains and insect bites, 1t has no equal so far as my experience goes. ' --G. l.. Huntington, Eufala, Ala. For sale by all dealers.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-30
Why He Did Not Come.

Why didn't you come. Bobby, when first called to you?" asked a mother of her six-year-old son.
 Because you told me last week, mamma replied Bobby shrewdly. never to accept an invitation unless 1t was repeated. So many people invite you once out of politeness but really don't want you to come"
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-30
Why Pat Dropped.

An Irishman fell from house and landed on a wire about twenty feet from the ground After he had strug. gled moment the man let go and fell to the ground Some one asked his reasons for letting go Faith, was the reply, T was afraid the domn'd wire would break
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-30
They Should.

My honest conviction. based upon my own experience and that of my friends, is that Hunts Cure' will cure a larger per cent of skin troubles, es- pecially of an itching variety, than any other remedy. Certainly those afflicted with any form of itch should try 1t. o-J. 0. Monroe, Atchison, Kas. For sale by all dealers.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-30

Chamberlain Colie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is today the best known medicine in use for the relief and cure of bowel complaints. 1t cures gripping, diarrhoea, dysenterv. and should be taken at first unnaturai looeeness Of the bowels. Etsis eounliv valuable for children and adults. It always cures. Sold by all dealers,
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-30
RoIIer skatInu in shanahaI.


 Roller skating, which is again to be the winter craze, has become fash ionable pastime in China. A rink has been opened in Shanghai, and even the impassivity of the Celestial is ex- pected to give way to some extent un- der the influence of the new excite ment.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-30
An Indigestion
 Remedy Free

Many people who are otherwise healthy suffer from indigestion, or dyspepsia. When you consider that the stomach and allied digestive or gans are the most important organs of the body, it would seem that a dis order there IS to be taken very ser iousIy
 Dyspeptics cannot eat the things they like, food sours in the stomach. then chronic constipation begins, or. as is often the case, you have been constipated all along. and the stools are forced and But there is no use letting indigestion go untli 1t becomes chronic and under mines your health. It is good advice to suggest to you that you go to your drug Klst and get bottle of Dr, Caidwelfs Syrup .Pepsin, the wonderful cure for stomach, liver and bowel troubles. That is what C. Fowler, of Carson City, Mich, did and he is well today. Others who did the same and are cured are Ida A. For tune tune Of Grand Junction, Tenn. B. F tually considers that 1t saved his IKe You can obtain a 50-cent or ST bottle of the. druggist. and. taken according to di- It is liquid, acts gently never gripes. and besides the laxative effect contains exceptional tonic properties which tone the stomach. and that is what is es- pecially needed in indigestion.
 All sufferers from indigestion who have never used Dr. Caldweifs Syrup Pepsir can obtain a free test bottle by writing the doctor Ii will be sent direct to your lsofne without any charge. In this way thousands have proven to their own sat- isfaction Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin Is the very remedy they needed to cure in- digestion. When once you use this grand remedy you will throw violent cathartics, tablets: salts. etc, away
 If there is anything about
 your ailment that you don't ~n> W understand, or if you want
 W sN M any medical advice. write
 MA .A7 to the doctor. and he will
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-30
HERE IS RELIEF FOR WOMEN

II you have pains in the back urinary
 adder or Kidney trouble and want a cer. .alh, pleasant herb relief from women's Ills try Mother Gray's "Australian.L Leafm If ie sale, reliable regulator. and relieves all fe. male weaknesses including inflammation and ulcerations. Mother Gray's Australlan-I,eaf is soid by druggists or sent by mail for 5Oc Samplf sent FREE Address, The Mother Gray Co., Le Roy. NY.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-30
Street Car Men Accent.

Chicago. Sept. 1S.-By decisive majority the street ear employees cS this city voted to end the wage con. troyersy. which has lasted more than two months, and accept the latest proposition offered by the companies.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-30

Your complexion as well as vo,,n temper IS rendered miserable bv a d;a Ju' ordered liver. By taking chanhas. ha ialn,s stomach and Liver Tahlets' ye,, vc,, can improve both. Sold by mi dssl- ou
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-30

Foley's Kidney Pills cures back ache, rheumatism, kidney, bladde and urinary trouble. Do not risk having Bright's disease ordiabetes. Sold bs Jackson Drug aud Furniture Co.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-30

If there is anything about your allment that you don't understand, or if you want any medical advice. write to the doctor. and he will answer you fully. There Is no charge for this service. The address Is Dr. ". R. Caldwell, boa Caldwell bldg, Monticello. IL
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-28
W|LK|E IS QU|ZzED
BY COMMITTEE
CHIEF OF SECRET SERVICE DE.
PARTMENT BEFORE HOUSE
BODY ON APPROPRIATIONS.

Washington, Jan. 27.--What is de-
scribed as one of the most thrilling
hearings of this session took place
this afternoon in the rooms of the
house committee on appropriations
when the sub committee in charge of
the drafting of the sundry sivil appro-
priation bill had Chief Wilkie of the
sercret service on the witness stand.
He was asked for information concern
ing the conduct of his office, being
questioned by the members whose
names have figured in the secret serv-
ice controversy.
For more than three hours Mr..
Wilkie was piled with questions in
regard to the secret service. The fact
was brought out that although the
limitation placed upon the expenditure
of the money for secret service last
year reduced the number of men en-
ployed by the secret service under
Chief Wilkie by nine, those same nine
men were placed on the rolls of the
o. justice.
Chief Wilkie said counterfeiting had
increased rapidly during the recent
financial stringency and that there was
need Of an increase to $4,000 of the
Of $4,000 Of last year
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-28
NEWS OF THE RAILWAY WORLD

Patrick's hospital for treatment. MI.
Sturtevant is threatened with typhoid
fever.
H. w. Daub of the Milwaukee road
left yesterday for Hunters Hot
Springs where he will take O. course
of treatments for rheumatism. Mr..
Daub will be away about six weeks.
V. ]. Applegate, general superinten-
dent of the Streeter & Lusk contract
ing firm of Clinton, is reported very
i'll and unable to attend to his duties,
Mrs. c. ]. Leonard left yesterday
for Butte where she will visit with
her sister, Mrs. ]. L. Sampson.
Conductor Bill" Merritt is reported
on the sick list and unable to take
his run.
Assistant Trainmaster Fred Grant
returned to work yesterday, following
siege of illness.
Ray Carlow, one of the force OF
clerks in the office of Chief Dispatcher
Showalter, is reported ill with tonsol-
tits.
Operators Lindson and Lucky of
Sada have resigned and will leave the
service of the Northern Pacific. c. F.
Williams of Bearmouth will also leave
the service.
Telegrapher E. p. Malone, who was
brought in from Olive several weeks
ago for treatment in the Northern Pa
cific hospital, has been in a very Sc
rious condition, the result of an alb
cess. Mr.. Malone is now reported out
of danger
Telegraph Operator Mccain of Spo-
kane, who has been confined to the
company hospital here for the past 10
days, has been compelled to submit to
the amputation of his left foot on ac
count of blood poisoning.
Operator F. V. Lux, who has been
working in the Northern Pacific depot
telegraph office here for several weeks,
has been assigned to a trick at Sada.
Agent Gus Thiering of Thompson,
who has been in town on business, re-
turned yesterday.
Physicians stated last night that
Dispatcher r. c. Harding who has
been i'll at his home for two days, Is
threatened with an attack of typhoid
fever.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-28
RAILROAD BREWT|ES

w. r. Every, general claim agent Of
the Northern Pacific, with headquar-
ters at st. Paul, was In Missoula yes
terday calling on the railroad officials.
Mr.. Every has recently been appoint
ed to succeed ]. F. Newton.
Chief Special Agent w. J. McFet-
fridge of the Northern Pacific stopped
off here yesterday, while on his way
east from the coast. He was accompa-
MED by ]. F. Hindman, who will re-
main here for a day or two on COM
pany business.
s. s. Koehler mechanical foreman
Of the Milwaukee, stopped off here yes
terday on his return from Deer Lodge
to Huson.
Frank Turk has been assigned to
the extra passenger list. His car will
be taken by Jack Kilcoyne, while Tom
Byall will have charge of Anton ST.
korski's car. Kilcoyne and Byall have
been assigned to the west local runs.
L. H. Wright, telegrapher Of the
Northern Pacific depot office, who
has been spending the past 80 days
on the coast, is expected home today.
]. A. Chamberlain, district engineer
Of the Milwaukee, who has been visit
ing in the east, is expected home to-
day.
M Sturtevant, contractor on the
Milwaukee line at Taft, arrived in Mis-
soula and will probably enter st.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-28
READY FOR BUSINESS
FEBRUARY |
REGULAR FREIGHT SERVICE TO
BE iNAuGURATED ON CUTOFF
FIRST OF MONTH.

superintendent Rapelje yesterday
announced that on February regular
eastbound freight traffic would be di-
ierted over the new main line between
Paradise and ST. Regis, reaching Mis-
eoula by way of DeSmet All passen-
ger trains will continue to pass over
ne mountain until some time in the
spring.
Mr.. Rapelje declares that the new
cutoff is one of the finest pieces of
roadbed on the division, being con-
structed almost entirely of rock and
gravel, and, while the distance around
the Evaro hill is about 20 miles
greater than over it, better time can
be made on account of the straight
and level grade over the cutoff From
Paradise to DeSmet. distance of "a
miles, the track is absolutely new and
has ccarcely a curve from one end to
the other.
The opening of this piece of road to
regular traffic means many changes on
the old line chief of which will be
the closing of a number of block sta
tons between DeSmet and Paradise
and the releasing of much of the
helper power now detailed to service
on the west side of the hill The
locomotives thus released will be
placed on the main line and will be
used to handle freight business.
No positive statement has been made
relative to the stations to be closed
on the old main line, but it has been
suggested that they will be Sada, Oh
i've and Mcdonald, while on the new
main line Nine Mile will be closed as
a regular station. A bulletin was is
sued from the office of Chief Dis
patcher Showalter yesterday advising
all operators that applications for po-
sitions at offices between DeSmet and
Paradise are now In order. At French
town, Lothrop and Rivulet there will
be openings for operators on the sec
ond and third tricks. At Iron Noun
tain and ST Regis junction the third
trick is open, while a full force Is re-
quired to fill the vacancies at Pontus.
Applications for these jobs must be
received at the office of the superin-
tendent in sufficient time to enable
the officials to make the assignments
in time, so that the station force at
each place can be on hand before the
opening of the line
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-28
PLEADS GUILTY.
cial to The Daily Muscular.

Special to The Daily Muscular.
Wallace, Jan. 27.-David Waller
pleaded guilty in the district court this
morning to the charge Of assaulting
and robbing Davied Meier of Spokane
The crime was committed in the vi
cinity of Enaville last fall. Waller,
Meier and third party had been
drinking in an Enaville saloon and
when they ended their conversation
they started to walk down the tracks
of the Idaho Northern railroad. Wal
Ter, thinking he was unobserved by his
companier stepped behind Meier and
struck him in the head with a blunt
instrument, telling him to the grouno
and leaving him in an unconscious
condition.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-28
RAILROADS POPULATE
CITIES
SUBURBAN TRAFFIC TO BUSINESS
CENTERS Is OF IMMENSE
PROPORTIONS.

In the early morning the train shed
gives first sign of the newborn day.
Before the dawn is well upon the city
the great arcs that run into those dis
tant vistas in wonderful symmetries
are Kissing and alight, and the first
of 500 incoming trains is feeling its
way into the gloom of the shed. Some
few trains have started out with the
early mails and the morning papers,
but the great rush into town is yet to
begin.
Even before dawn a thousand little
homes without the city have been
awake and fretful The gray fogs of
the night lie low and lights begin to
twinkle, lines of shuffling figures find
their way to the nearest railroad sta
ton. 1t is very early morning when
these begin to pass through the gates
From the broad concourse at the head
across the tracks, Is still struggling
with the fog that rests across the
yards without. The earliest suburban
trains slip in from those yards and
come to a slow, grinding stop within
the shed. Before the wheels have
ceased turning, the first of the work.
ers is off the cars and running down
the platform. In Is seconds the plat
form is black with men.
There are to be a great many more
of these trains, a great multiplication
of men, within a little time. The
broad platforms have been cleaned
and cleared for the coming of the
mighty army-the army of those who
live within the city walls. Before 7
o'clock the trains begin to increase,
to follow more and more closely upon
one another's heels. The earliest
trains bring the day laborers; men in
jeans and jumpers, with their pipes
and their penny papers, an occasional
scrub woman blinking sleepily under
the brilliant ares. After o'clock
there are more Women--clerks in the
big stores-and the men who work
in the wholesale houses. The trains
come closer and closer-two or three
of them stop simultaneously on differ
ent tracks under the great vault of
the shed, and they are heavy with
people. There is a constant clatter of
engines, stamping and putting. drag
ging their heavily loaded trails and
swapping them quickly out of the way
for the others to follow The electric
lights under the roof of the shed go
out with protesting sputter, and you
realize that the day Is at hand. This
mighty army of those who live in the
city walls is flocking in--in an in
creasing current now. There Is an
endless procession from the track
platforms and through the concourse,
a stream of humans finding it's way to
it's day work.
Do you want figures so that you
may see for yourself the might of this
army? Binghamton, N. Y, is a city;
little less than $4,000 persons live
there. If the whole population of
Binghamton-every man, woman and
child-were poured through the por-
tails of this terminal on any morning
of the six mornings of the week, it
would be about equal to this great
suburban traffic that we have been
watching. In a single hour--from
7 till SIS trains have arriv ed, I'M
der the roof of the shed and dis
charged their human freight.-Edward
Hungerford, in Harper's for Feb
ruary.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-28
DRAFTING STATEHOOD.
MEASURE
HOUSE COMMITTEE ON TERRI.
TORIES RUSHING ITS WORK
TO COMPLETION.

Washington, Jan. 27.-Every effort
is being made by the house committee
on territories to report the Arizona and
New Mexico separate statehood bills
by the end of next week The state
hood bill is being framed by the re-
publican members of the committee,
but will be exhibited to the minority
members before hearings are held by
the full committee.
The bill, PROBABLY. will provide for
grants of lands by the federal govern
ment, instead of grant of money as
has been done in some cases to the
territories that have been granted
statehood. These grants of land are
to be primarily for the purpose of IL
quidating certain territorial debts. A
thorough investigation of the debts,
both county and territorial, In New
Mexico and Orizona, is being made
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-28
GRAND JURY PROBING
FRAUDS IN OKLAHOMA

Muskogee, OKLA, Jan. 27.--The in
vestigation of the alleged town lot
frauds by the federal grand jury here
continued today. No report of its
work was made public, but it is said
that the jury will insist that witnesses
be called from the Indiana agency
and the Dawes commission which has
charge of the Indian allotments.
1t is reported tonight that Governor
Haskell's friends on tho grand jury
will ask that at least two members
Of the Indianola Contracting company
be called to testify, and that they will
admit they were wholly responsible
for the scheduling of dummies and
that the governor, as president Of the
company, had nothing to do with the
procuring of the names improperly
used.