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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-09-16

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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-09-16

WASHINGTON. d. c., September
James Sutton was disinterred and the
wounds tend to show that murder and
not suicide. was the cause of death.
Mrs. Sutton has declared that she will
carry the matter into the courts AL
though the court of inquiry absolved
the fellow officers Of Sutton, chief of
whom accused is Lieutenant Adams
Mrs. Sutton says she will give them
New-York tribune., 1909-07-18
RoELKER A POPULAR MAN.

Edwin P. Rocker. who OF the marine
officers with Sutton the night he died. also a
cassmate OF mine. and happened TO know him
we'll Rocker was popular with his classmates.
He had pleasant disposition. full Of fun. and
a clever talker. AS a midshipman he got into a
good deal of trouble infractions OF the regula
tIons, but this. believe. was due 10 supernuity
of life and spirits than to anything else. Ger
tain;y do not believe there is one of his class
mates who did consider him a thoroughly high
toned honorable fellow, and who did not respect
him SUCH
Rocker went on the cruise in 1906 and because
Of having many dement's or for some like rea-
son. held at Annapolis during the month
of September OF year. That is to say. he lost
his leave and had to stay at Annapolis while his
classmates on leave.
Later on Rocker, too, resigned from the Acad-
emy and the naval service and. like Sutton. he
got appointment In the marine corps and was
ordered the marine school OF application at
Annapolis. Both he and Sutton frequently went to
the midshipmens hops in the armOry at the Acad-
emy. and It WAS after of these hops that the
shooting occurred
According to the version of the afrair which
heard at the Academy and generally accepted Roe-
ker. Sutton and several other young marine Off
went to one of these hcps and later to Carvel
Hall. of the hotels where they stayed for Home
time. and where some of them, at least, had some
drinks. After leaving Carve Hall they returned to
the marine barracks. Sutton on the way back ap-
peared to be in ugly humor, and was rather
Quarresome. Finally ne .irew a revolver and fired
at one OF his brother officers Rocker according
TO this account, then jumped in him In an at
tempt TO take the revolver away before Sutton
could do damage to himself or any one else Roel-
ker. however, quick powerful enough
Sutton fired again, slightly wounding him. and
then turned the revolver and killed himself
OF course do not pretend to say whether this
account OF the lamentable affair is accurate or
not. II the heard. Certainly you
would have hard time convincing any classmate
OF Rocker that the iatter's conduct ON this occa-
sion was anything but courageous and merftorious
Rocker is slim, rather delicate looking man.
and because of his red hair called Red al the
Academy. Sutton was Of medium size uell built
and had very dark hair"
New-York tribune., 1909-07-18
GREAT MEXICAN CHURCH.
Edifce at Santo Domingo, Three Hundred
Years Old, Larger than st. Paul's.

Larger than Westminster, larger than St.
Paul's. Is the Church of Sento Domingo This great
edifce., renowned in many countries, Is known not
only for its size, but the beauty and magn!fi-
cence of its decorations and the many historic
events entwined in It's history, says THE Mexican
Herald The church vas built on consecrated
ground, having been tho site OF the martyrdom OF
two Dominican priests who killed by Indians
in the time Of COrtez
BY 1850 there were q number OF Dominican friars
in Oaxaca. and the question OF erecting church
and convent for the Of the order was agitated.
The exact date OF the beginning IS not known. but
It must have been shortly after the middle OF the
sixteenth century they began the work with a few
laborers who gave their services, and every mem
Der OF the order worked hard collecting funds.
a petition sent TO the King of Spain for as
sistance, TO which ne responded generously. From
time to time the King other contributions and
there was halt in the work.
st. PauIs Cathedralys IN London. measures $40 by
go feet and cost f747s54 74s754o pesos or some
100000 pesos less than Santo Domingo Some idea
II is considered that four buildings the size Of
Westminster Abbey could be set on the ground
covered by this Dominican temple. At the pres
ent time, however only small part of the church
is used for worship the other portions having been
converted into barracks by the government.
Owing to the great height and thickness of the
walls of the church it has been used for fort or
anyy and every occasion when necessary No wars,
however marred the serenity of the early Domni-
wealth. The library ranked among the great
est IA the republic. The interior of the church was
decorated in many places with pure gold.
santo' Domingo was turned into a barracks by
the French army OF occupation and the gold deco
ratous. the fine paintings ana costly adornments
were ruthlessy stripped from her walls. The friars
were driven out. and for six years the church was
a fort and nothing more. The accumulated gran
deur OF three hundred years was undone in a few
New-York tribune., 1909-07-18
| THE ]. CASE OF. SUTTON l''5
!. ~ sszt2e $ f;'.Ss -
DEAD MANS CLASSM4TE
DISCUSSES IT.
Temper Shopn at NaUaI academy
Version of Shooting Generally
accepted by Midshipmen.

At the urgent request of ,the mother Of the late
Lieutenant James Sutton. OF ths United States
Marine Corps. the Navy Department has consented
10 conduct another investigation TO determine the
cause Of the young officers death and draw away
once and FOR all any veil OF mystery uncer-
tainty which may surround It To this end the
department has ordered board Of inquiry to
vene at Annapolis July 10. and has subposnaed
witnesses to appear and testify before II.
1t will be remembered that Lieutenant Sutton
came to his death in 1897 from the effects Of a
bullet wound IN the back OF his head and that the
board OF inquiry appointed then to investigate the
tragedy reported that he had committed suicide
Details Of the affair too well known for repet-
tion.
In talking Of the affair to a representative Of
The Tribune former classmate OF Sutton's at the
Naval Academy told of his life at Annapolis. In
speaking OF Sutton he said: i'
Sutton entered the Naval Academy in the sum
mer of 1904 member of the class OF Os the
first remember hearing Of him was that he had
stood an excellent physical examination and made
high marks IN the physical tests Later Sutton
became well known. by reputation at least. to tho
members of his class and 20 the upper class men
Shortly after the OF the latter In September
of the same year several of them went into his
room to haze him. and the account OF their at
tempt. told me by Of my classmates VINO
in Suttons company, was this:
When the upper class men entered Sutton s
room he was sitting in chair behind his table
which was between them and the door. He looked
up. but paid further attention to them As soon
as the upper class men saw that he had no inten-
ton Of getting up and standing at attention, which
was one OF the things plebe was then supposed
10 do as soon as any upper class man entered his
room they ordered him to come TO attention ana
demanded why he hadn't done so when they en-
tered the room. al the same time advancing toward
him.
Sutton jumped up IN great excitement and
drew a pistol swearing that he would shoot the
first man that came near him. He seemed to have
lost all control OF himself. After some little de-
liberation the upper class men decided TO 'leaVe
and think they later called the affair TO the at
tention OF their class president
New-York tribune., 1909-07-18
STEAMBOATS,.
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LONG ISLAND SOUND ROUTES

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NEW HAVEN LINE For New Haven.
Hartford. Springfield and North. Lsave
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RICHARD PECK
Tickets. staterooms and information az
City Ticket Once. III Broadway. near
cortlandt ST. Telephone 5I2I CortIandt.
Also at \. 7. Transfer and Tourist Offices
and at Piers.
New-York tribune., 1909-07-18
THE "CoDE" AT ACADEMY.

AT Annapolis then It was against the so-called
code for an upper class to offer any physical
violence TO & plebe. One of the favorte pastmes of
the upper class TO walk up 20 a pebe and
hit at him, always calculating the blow SO that II
would fall short by fraction Of an inch II mad
vertently he happened hit the man. or even touch
him the plebe had perfect right to make per-
sonal matter out of It and settle It as SUCH II he
cared TO- Sutton knew this, and must have known
that the upper class men neither would nor could
him physical injury. Because OF this his ire
Inendous excitement. extreme anger and the draw
ing Of the pistol caused end Of talk for time
among the nidshipmen.
"On another occasion some other upper class men
went into his and started TO nun him Sutton
drew. knife this time and threatened 10 carve them
up unless they got out at tho Same time appearing
TO be in a towering rage. ......
THE upper class men certainly puzzled to
know what to do-how TO tfeat the case. And some
how the impression got around pretty generally
that Sutton was great 'scrapper. both ~itn hie
fists and any other weapon that might be at hand
His classmates, while truth forces the admission
that they did not uphold him In refusing 10 take
running were. tho whole not displeased at the
embarrassment he was giving the upper class men
They used TO say to cne another that sutton has
got 'eu all bIuned.' and for time 1t certainly
looked that way.
Exactly low Il was managed don't know. but
well on toward the close OF our plebe year, some
time III April May. 1905. they persuaded Sutton
to fight. II not. you understand. a personal
fight, but what was known as a ClAss INT
is the president of the clsss next above ours
picSe. a within ten pounds OF suttons
weight 20 fight him AS matter of fact in this
particular think the two men were 80 closely
matched TO weight that there was not over two
or three pounds difference either way. The fight
took place. and Sutton knocked out IN three or
four rounds. That enectually put end to his
reputation a scrapper and after that episode
do not remember hearing much about him one way
or the other 1t Is my impression that he had TO
resign before class went on the summer cruise
Sutton not popular man with his class
mates He never mixed with them much. and from
what little saw Of him personally he appeared to
be OF morose disposition and quick temper. That,
I think was the general impression my classmates
had OF him
when he left the Academy for his homo in the
Far. West expected to see him again, but
one morning not many months after that. he
showed up Annapolis with appointment
second lieutenant in the marine corps, and entered
the officers training school the marine barracks
at Annapolis
New-York tribune., 1909-07-18
FROM JOURNALISM TO PLAY WRITING.

Quite number OF popular paywrights served
their literary apprenticeship journalists J. NJ
Barrie was reporter a Nottingham paper be-
fore he came 10 London. Henry Arthur Jones
wrote articles and stories from hoyhood and cid
not enter theatre until he eighteen years
of Hubert Davies for some years a
Journalist in America while Hall Caine, after
being trained architect, became journalist
and leader writer on the stan of The Liverpool
Mercury" and after coming TO London wrote for
The AthenaEn." Academy anc other papers-
Tit Bitk
New-York tribune., 1909-07-18
WHAT reousLgp HtM

Willie-say mother will it hurt to have this
tooth out?
Mrs slimson-Naturally: but It Will be so sudden
that you won't have time to think-just quick
turn and It will be ali over
Willie-Um-that's all that could happen to me IL
had my head pulled on.-Life.
New-York tribune., 1909-07-18
OLD GOLD AND SILVER.

GOLD. silver. platinum. diamonds. rubies
sapphires. pearls. emeraids pawn tickets
valuables bought John Daley. 654 9th ave.
New-York tribune., 1909-07-18
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New-York tribune., 1909-07-18
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Costing erlJs4o0snd upfor 1aI
ADDRESS C-uiseoSpt Write StarLi i.ss,
New-York tribune., 1909-07-18
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Phones: 526 Cortlanut- Night 81 Morn
ingside.
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cARTER'S Detective Agency. liS Nassau
st.-Reliable service al reasonable rates
Phone. 4S92-Beekman niEhtc. 53sl-Main
New-York tribune., 1909-07-18
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New-York tribune., 1909-07-18

WORKOUT gold and silver bought by R.
Longman's Sons. gold and silver rennsrs.
8 Jonn ST
New-York tribune., 1909-07-18
GAS AND ELECTRIC FIXTURES.

CRYSTAL and antique chandeliers: new
and secondhand: radiators, boIi-rs. and
krons. fsndsrA z. =. Brown 222 Canal q.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-22

form as proposed and so to produce
revenues which should be reasonably
expected.
A Democrat Scheme
"The Democrats favored the income
tax with a view to substituting it for
the tariff as an income producing
measure, thus minimizing the effect of
the tariff in promoting the industris s
of the country. In other words, the
passage of the income tax bill would
proposition to have a tariff for revenue
only, and would have interfered with
the protective policy to which the Re
publican party is pledged.
zone of the objections of the income
tax was it had been declared uncop-
stitutionaI by the supreme court, and
to invoke a second decision upon that
issue was to question the uniformity
of the decision of the supreme court
and to drag the court into a political
could not make for it's standing as al
impartial tribunal before the people. It
indicated a diversity of view between
congress and the court-the coordinate
branches-with reference to the consti-
nationality of the law. which it seemed
unwise to perpetuate in a form
statute.
But the income tax amendment
seemed quite likely to pass by vote of
all the Democrats and sufficient mum
Der of Republicans, therefore those
who were opposed to the income tax
amendment looked about to see if a
compromise could not be proposed less
Objectionable than the income tax
amendments which would satisfy
enough Republicans who were inclined
to favor the income tax to prevent the
passage of that amendment Such a
compromise was found in a proposal to
pass the present corporation tax and
also the joint resolution already refer
red to. submitting an income tax
amendment of the federal constitution
to the states. The provisions for the
corporation tax In the bill exempt all
corporations whose net income does not
exceed $1,000. 1t is therefore in effect
an income tax; that is, it taxes earn
ings actually made 1t is a tax upon
success and not failure
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-22
KATE BARNARD TALKS.
Tells New York Audience Why She Is
a Suffragist.

New York, Sept. 22.-Kate Barnard,
who is state commissioner of charities
and corrections in the state of Okla
homa, and who defeated her nearest
male competitor for that office by 1900
votes, told why she is suffraGist in
a speech before the Women's Trade
Union league.
I've been a suffragist for only six
months she said, land it is your hnr-
rid conditions here that have made me
one. 1t is your long blocks and your
fallen women and the old, haggaiI
faces of your children. In Oklahoma
the men will give us rights, but here It
seems you must have a vote to get any
thing.
1T is a dreadful thing Miss Barn
ard continued, ito think of the sorrjw
of womankind. Fifty thousand women
1 have just been learning are brough.
into the country every year and sold as
slaves under our very church caves.
and we won't even go among them 10
pray.
'If We cared anything about our sis
tiers who are dying, we would have our
churches in the tenderloin. But the
average favored woman can't see these
things The great problem of the age
Is to get her to see. but I don't know
how to do it. We stand here and i'm
agine we are good, and we are not
bit better than any woman who ever
fell. What makes a good woman fall?
It's her "a a week "
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-22

nit a multi-millionaire to leave his
fortune in trust so as to keep it in
mass, and then impose a heavy and
graduated inheritance tax, which
shall enable the state to share largely
in the proceeds of such large
accumulations of wealth which could
hardly have been brought about save
through its protection and its aid.
1.-THE use of the income tax itself
for this purpose will, 1 think, never
be very successful because of de-
fects already indicated-the difficulty
of finding the income upon which to
impose the tax and the opportunity
perjury will offer to escape it. 1t
seems. therefore, that the present
congress has taken the wisest course
in adopting as much of the feature
of an income tax as conforms to the
constitution and by recommending an
amendment to the constitution which
shall enable us to round out and per-
feet this corporation tax so as to
make it more equitable and so as to
make it an instrument of supervision
of corporate wealth by federal
authority 1 doubt not that the in
formation thus obtained may be made
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-22
BRITISH ROADS SAFE.
Not One Fatality in United Kingdom
During Year of 1908.

During the year 1908 not one pas
senger was killed or injured on Brit
ish railroads. In England, Scotland,
Wales and Ireland travel has become
so safe that an accident of any kind
is startlingly unusual. The remark
able record of a year without the
slightest injury to any passenger is
certainly one of which the British
railroaders may feel justly proud.
After contemplation of such a re-
port the natural inclination is to
make an unfavorable comparison of
the railroads of the United States of
America. The current year has not
been marked by many disastrous
wrecks, but the two or three years
preceding were periods of destruction
not equaled in the history of Ameri-
can railroading. In 1908 official re-
ports show that 610 passengers We're
killed. The death list, including pas
sengers and all others, totaled more
than IL 900, while the total of injured
was more than 111,00O.
OF course, the vastly greater mile
age of American railways is in large
degree accountable for the tremei
dous difference between the British
and American figures, but even this
does not suffice to explain everything
America has gone speed mad, and
the railroads are affected and afflicted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-22
RAILROAD NEWS.
Santa Fe Operated Road for a
Year Without a Fatality.
Company Carried Over Twelve
Millions of Passengers.
DUE TO THE EMPLOYEES
Without Cooperation 1t Could
Not Have Been Realized.
Other Items of Interest in
Railway Circles.

A record of which any railroad could
well be proud has been reached by he
Santa Fe, according to stateme ats
which will appear in the forthcoming
annual report of the Santa Fe, which
will state that this great western sys-
tenn has been operated for one yeII
without the loss of life of a single pas
senger. A clean record of this kind is
a great achievement.
This report which will be issued soon
will contain this record for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1908. For twelve
months previous to this date the re-
port will show that the Santa Fe ca
ried 12605,697 passengers, without a
single fatality to passengers. This re
port covers not only the Atchiscn
proper but the entire system, includ-
ing the Gulf lines, the Coast lines, and
every branch road of the big system,
which covers all the territory between
Chicago and the Golden Gate and the
Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico.
When the size of the system is con-
sidered and the great diversity of con-
ditiOnS by which it is affected the rec
ord is little short of wonderful. From
the low level country of the Great
Lakes, the road passes through the
rolling prairies of Kansas the noun
famous regions of Colorado and New
Mexico and the lowlands of Texas. The
company operates mileage of 1854
miles. Railroading in the different sec
lions especially in the mountain coun-
try means immensely added difficulties
in safe operation. Operation of such
mileage with this record must moan
the expenditure of a lot Of money .or
heavy rails, ballast and equipment.
But even with these conditions per-
feet a road cannot be operated with
such record unless the employees Of
the great system are working in perfect
harmony. The Santa Fe employs near
ly $4,000 men and to their work mere
than any other thing this record must
be credited. This record doesn't mean
that few employees have not been
killed. Many have sacrificed their own
lives in the saving of employees. En-
gineers have stayed at the throttle
facing certain death in order to give
the company a clear record A little
over a year ago the California Limited
was wrecked near Wakarusa Engineer
Hadley Rossiter stayed at the throttle
until the passengers were saved, only
to find that it was too late to save his
own life Many other cases could he
told of the employe heroes
This record stands as the greatest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-22
a Brain

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by proper food will have
incentive and power for
successful work.
Gr0pe-NuIS is a true
brain and nerve food.
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barley. it contains the
elements of vital energy
= quickly absorbed by
the SyStem-Which nour-
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There's a Reason"
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