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fLOCU 7tOt yOu.
A dry sob answered him. He turned
and leaned his elbows on the narrow
window sill, every nerve aching, but
powerless to comfort. He heard her
step. The door closed sharply.
Then he faced into the empty cell,
sat down on the cot and threw out his
arms, with a hopeless cry:
"Jessica, Jessica!'
Jessica left the Jail with despair in
her heart. The hope on which she had
fed these past days had failed her.
What was there left for her to do?
Like swift wind, she went up the
street to Folders Office She CROPPED
her way up the unlighted stair and
tapped on the door. There was no an
sWer. She pushed it open and entered
the empty outer room, where a study
lamp burned on the desk.
A pile Of legal looking papers had
been set beside it, and with them lay a
torn page OF a newspaper whose ia
m1llar caption gave her stab of pain.
Perhaps the news of the trial had
found its way across the ranges to
Where the names of Stires and Moreau
had. been known. Perhaps every one
at Aniston already knew Of it, was
reading about it. plying her. She pick
ed it up and scanned it hastily. There
was no hint of the trial. but her eve
caught the news which had played it's
N in no UT -
to the end.
Even in her own trouble she read it
with a shiver. Yet, awful as the fate
which Harry Sanderson had so mar
roWly missed, it was not to be COM
pared with that which awaited Hugh,
for, awful as it was, it held no shame.
In a gust of feeling she slipped to
her knees by the one sofa the room
contained and prayed passionately. AS
she drew out her handkerchief to
stanch the tears that came something
fell with musical tinkle at her feet
1t was the little cross she had found
IN front of the hillside cabin that had
lain forgotten in her pocket during the
past anxious days AS she pressed it
the ring at the top gave way, and the
cross parted in halves. Words were
engraved on the inside, of the arms-a
date and the name Henry Sanderson.
The recurrence of the name Jared
and surprised her. Hugh had dropped
tan old keepsake of the friend who
had been his beau ideal, his exemplar
and whose ancient influence was still
dominant. He had chung loyalty to the
memepto, blind in his constant liking
to the wrong that friend had done him.
She looked at the date It was May
lS. She shuddered, for that was the
month and day on which DR.. Moreau
had been killed. The point had been
clearly established today by the prose-
cution. To the original owner of that
cross perhaps the date that had come
into Hugh's life with such a sinister
meaning was glad anniversary.
Suddenly she caught her hand to her
cheek. A weird idea had rushed
through her brain. The religious sym
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mobilization against hatred and suspi.
cion, the courage that had dared for
child's life, the honesty of purpose
that showed in self surrender. The
prisoner, he said, had recovered his
memory before the accusation and as
serted his absolute innocence Those
who believed him guilty Of the murder
of DR.. Moreau must believe him also
vulgar liar and poseur. He left the
Inference clear: If the prisoner had
tired that cowardly shot he knew it
now; II he lied now he had lied all
along, and the later life he had lived
at Smoky Mountain, eloquent of fair
dealing, straightforwardness of pur-
pose, kindliness and courage, had been
but hypocrisy, the bootless artifice Of
shallow buffoon.
The session was prolonged past the
noon hour, and when Fielder rested his
case it seemed that all that was posi-
BILE had been said. He had done his ut
most. He had drawn from the people
Of Smoky Mountain a dramatic story
and had filed in its outlines with color.
force and feeling. And yet as he clos
ed the lawyer felt sick sense Of fail
ure.
+ Court adjourned for an hour, and In
the interim Fielder remained in little
room in the building, whittier DR..
Brent was to send him sandwiches and
coffee from the hotel.
''You made a fine effort, Tom," the
latter said as they stood for a moment
in the emptying courtroom. you're
doing wonders with no case, and the
town ought to send you to congress ON
the strength Of it! I declare, some of
your evidence made me feel as mean as
a dog about the rascal, though knew
all the time he was as guilty as the
devil"
The lawyer shook his head II don't
blame you, Brent" he said, 'tfor you
don't know him as do. have seen
much of him lately, been often with
him, watched him under stress, for he
doesn't deceive himself; he has no
thought Of acquittal! We none Of US
knew Hugh Stires. We put him down
for shallow, vulgar blackleg, without
redeeming qualities. But the man we
are trying is gentleman, refined
and cultivated man Of taste and feel
ing. I have learned his true character
during these days.
"Well,'' said the other, 'if you be-
lieve in him, so much the better. You'll
make the better speech for it. Tell me
one thing. Where was Miss Holme?"
II don't know"
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I'VE are going to begin, qvl,ere qve left off. !"
want your judgment on the plans. An
lston is hanging on your condition,
Harry" he went on. There's a small
| CARLOAD of visiting cards downstairs
for you. But l imagine you haven't
begun to receive yet, eh?''
Tive seen nobody" Hugh spoke
hurriedly and hoarsely. 'Tell the doc
tor to let no one come-no one but
you.S I-Pm not up to it."
"Why, Of course not" said the bish-
op quickly. "You need quiet, and the
people can wait"
The bishop chatted awhile of the par
ish. Hugh replying only when he must,
and went away heartened. Before he
left Hugh saw his way to hasten his
own going. On the next visit the seed
was dropped in the bishops mind so
cleverly that he thought the idea his
own. That day he said to the sur
geon in charge:
He is gaining so rapidly have been
wondering if he couldn't be taken
away where the climate will benefit
him. Will he be able to travel soon?'' :
Il think sO.' answered the surgeon.
1--WE suspected internal injury at first,
but imagine the worst he has to fear
is the Disagreement. Mountain or sea
air would do him good" he added re-
fectively. "What he will need is tonic
and building up
The bishop had revolved this in his
mind. He knew a place on the coast.
tucked away in the expresses, which
would be admirable for convalescence.
He could arrange special car, and he
himself could make the journey with
him. He proposed this to the surgeon
and with his approval put his plan in
motion. In two days more Hugh found
his going fully settled.
The idea admirably fitted his neces-
sity. The spot the bishop had selected
was quiet and retired and, more, was
near the port at which he could most
readily take ship for South America.
Only one reflection made him shiver-
the route lay through the town Of
Smoky Mountain. Yet who would
dream of looking for a fugitive from
the law in the secluded car that carried
sick man? The risk would be small
enough, and it was the one way open.
On the last afternoon before the de-
parture Hugh asked for the clothes he
had worn when he was brought to the
hospital, found the gold pieces he had
snatched in the burning chapel and
tied them in handkerchief about his
neck. They would suffice to buy his
sea passage. The one red counter he
had kept-it was from henceforth to be
reminder of the good resolutions he
had made so long ago-he slipped into
a pocket of the clothes he was to wear
away, suit of loose, comfortable
tweed. ~
Waiting restlessly for the hour Of
his going, Hugh asked for the news
papers. Since the first he had had
them read to him each day, listening
Ifearfully for the hue and cry. But
today the surgeon put his request
aside.
after you are there" he said, 'if
Bishop Ludlow will let you. Not now.
You are almost out of my clutches, and
must tyrannize while I can -
A quick look passed from him to his
assistant as. he spoke, for the newspa-
pers that afternoon had worn startling
headlines. The sordid affairs Of a
r. ~ - :
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speeding toward her-to
pass the very town wherein Hugh
stood for his life-seemed prearrange-
ment of eternal justice. When the tele-
gram reached her she had already gone
by Twin Peaks. To proceed would be
to pass the coming train. At farther
station, however, she was able to take
a night train back, arriving again at
Twin Peaks in the gray dawn of the
next morning.
When the train for which she waited
came in. the curtained car at it's end,
she did not wait for the bishop to find
her on the platform, but stepped aboard
and made her way slowly back. It
started again as she threaded the last
Pullman, to find the bishop on its rear
platform peering out anxiously at the
receding station.
He took both her hands and drew her
into the empty drawing room. He was
startled at her pallor. Il know" he
said pityingly. II have heard
She WINGED. Does Aniston know?"
eyes," he answered. yesterdays
newspapers told it,
She put her hand on his arm Gan
you guess why l was coming homer
she asked. 1T was to tell Harry San
derson! I know of the fire." she went
on quickly, "and Of his injury. can
guess you want to spare him strain or
excitement, but must tell him!'
He reflected moment. He thought
he guessed what was in her mind. If
there was any one who had ever had
an influence over Hugh for good it was
Harry Sanderson. He himself, he
thought, had none Perhaps, remem-
bering their old comradeship, she was.
longing now to have this influence ex--
|erted to bring Hugh to better mind,
thinking of his eternal welfare, Of his:
making his peace with his Maker.
Every WELL" he said Come" and
led the way into the car.
Jessica followed, her hands clinched
tightly. She saw the couch, the profile
on its cushions turned toward the win
dow where forest and stream slipped
pasta face curiously like Hugh's.
Yet it was different, lacking the others
strength, even it's refinement And
this man had nodded Hugh! These
vague thoughts lost themselves in. !.
stantly in the momentous surmise that
filed her imagination. The bishop put
out his hand and touched the relaxed
arm
The trepidation that darted into the
bandaged face as it turned upon the
girl1sh figure, the frosty fear that
blanched the haggard countenance.
spoke Hugh's surprise and dread. tt
was she, and she knew the real Harry
Sanderson was in, Smoky Mountain
Had she heard of the chapel fire.
guessed the imposture and come to
denounce him. the guilty husband she
had such reason to hate? The witch
Ing limbs stiffened. 'Jessicay' he said
In a hoarse whisper.
Harry" said the bishop, "Jessica is in
great trouble. She has come with sad
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the long hospital the air
was cooi and filtered.
drab figures passed
with soft footballs and
voices were measured
and hushed. But no
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Harry stood again in the
obscure half darkness of
his cell it came to him
that the present had a
farreaching significance;
that it was but the handi-
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VI Harry Sanderson = that
M had been Jessica's sole
az thought. The news that
M the bishop, with the
HEkS-- man she suspected, was
ON' r.,
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-05-04
SOUNDS LIKE FAKE.

RENO, New, May 3.-A bottle con-
tanning the following note was fished
out of the Truckee river by fisher
man. three miles west of Laughton
Springs, at o'clock today.
1.-TWO men took me off the train at
Verdi and have had me down the
river about three days. l am about
crazy. Help me if you find this.
(signed) "AGNES HAMILTON"
There was no time or date on the
note. The police department turned
the note over to the sheriff's office
and an attempt will be made to trace
the sender.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-05-04
Court Holds That commodities Clause" Is COnstitu-
tionaI But That Government Goes too Far in
Its Enforcement Roads May Be Inter-
ested in Commodities Transported

manifested today in the reversal of
the circuit courts commodities clause
decision affecting the anthracite coal
carrying railroads.
These cases had been decided by
the circuit court favorably to the
railroads In that the clause of the
Hepburn rate law, which prohibits in
terstate railroads from carrying COM
modities carried, manufactured,
mined or produced directly or indi
rectly by the roads, was declared un-
constitutional.
The general impression had been
that the decision would be affirmed by
the supreme court. When, therefore,
there was a reversal instead of an
affirmation, the interest was much
magnified When again it was found
that the reversal was based on tech
nical grounds and that the effect was
really favorable to the railroads, SEN
timent took another turn and those
who had been anXiously awaiting the
announcement were much puzzled.
The decision was announced by JUS
tice White, who declined to give out
more than summary, showing the
net result of the courts finding. Be-
cause of the courts delay in an
nouncing it's conclusion, it was gen.
orally supposed that the court would
be found to be much divided. Only
one dissenting opinion was announced.
ization in enacting the law, the court
comedies the right to legislate and
it is believed that if so disposed con.
gress might enlarge and extend t?l
scope of the provision.
The decision sustained the pro-
visions of the law exempting timber
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-05-04
TWO RECEPTIONS
TO JAP SAILORS
San Francisco Extends Hearty We'll
come to Admiral Ijichi and
His Gallant Men.
JACK AS ENTERTAINER
Shows NippOnese Sailor Men Good
Time on Board American Cruisers
While Officers Are Being Enter
tanned a Brilliant Social Function.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 3.-Two
formal receptions to Rear Admiral
Ijichi and his commanding officers
of the Japanese training squadron,
Aso and Soya, and dinner on board
the West Virginia, given by the chief
petty officers of the Pacific fleet to
the officers of similar rank rank from
the Nipponese vessels; minstrel
show aboard the United States flag
ship to 200 Japanese enlisted men, by
the iackies of the American cruisers,
and a dinner to the Japanese warrant
officers by Uncle Sans warrant Off
GERS at the Brunswick cafe followed
by a theater party at the Orpheum
marked the second days shore enter
tainment by the United States navy
and the San Francisco commercial
and civic bodies to the Japanese ma
val cadets and blue jackets now Wis
iting this port.
In the main hall of the Merchants
Exchange building, decorated with in.
termingled Japanese and American
flags, the Oriental officers met theil
Occidental army and naval brethren
and their civilian hosts under the in
ternational signal flags 81. B. E." the
worldwide symbol for welcome,
while upward of thousand private
citizens added by their presence t.
the official greeting accorded the ma
riners from over the ocean. In th
evening the white and gold ball room
of the Fairmont hotel was the seen
of the most brilliant official receptio
that San Francisco has Witnesse
since the visit to these shores a yea
ago of the globe-circling Atlantic bad
tleship fleet. This was followed by
late supper at the Fairmont Norma
cafe where, amid the draped colors {
the two great nations of the Pacific
400 invited guests invited by Japar
ese Consul General Nogi, sat at tn
tables. Brief addresses were made {
both functions by chosen speaker
from among the guests and hosts
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-05-04

WASHINGTON, May 3.-That the
Commodities clause" of the inter
state commerce act of 1906, known as
the Hepburn rate law, is constitution
al, was in effect declared today by
the supreme court of the United
States. The decision was announced
by Justice White. The court reversed
and remanded the decision of the
United States circuit court, but the
only directions were to enforce and
apply the statute as it is now con-
structed.
Briefly summarized, the decision of
the supreme court in the commodities
clause cases, holds the law to be con-
stitutional, but it does not concede
the contentious of the government as
to it's scope. An especial exception
was as to the ownership Of stock in
different corporation which, it was
held, did not constitute such owner
ship as would prohibit the transporta-
ton under the terms of the law. 1t
was also held that ownership of the
commodities applied only to the time
of transportation. If before trans
porting it the railroad company has
in good faith parted with commodi-
ty, it may carry it. The principal
point of the decision was in relation
to the railroads holding the stock Of
subordinate companies and on that
important point, the finding was ia,
vorable to the roads.
Justice Harlan dissented on the
stock feature, but otherwise the de-
cision was unanimous. 1t has beer
many day since decision of the
United States supreme court has beer
received with as much interest as was
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-05-04
UNDER AMUSEMENT.
Application to Restrain Sheriff Not
Disposed of.

ESPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE)
BUTTE, May Sin the district
court today Judge Lynch took under
advisement the petition of the Inter
state Telegraph company for an in
junction restraining the local officials
from interfering with it's business
The sheriff raided the telegraph Of
fees and charged that messages re-
lating to betting were being carried.
A similar injunction, asked by Al
bertson Bros, who operate saloon IN
the same building and had been re-
ceiving race quotations through the
Interstate, has been taken under ad'
visement by Judge McClernan. De-
cisions in both cases are expected not
later than May 10.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-05-04
NEGRO MAID IS
A STAR WITNESS
Testified That She Told Captain Hains
That His Wife Was Drunk
With Annis.
LACKS FERMENTATION
Testimony to Show that Hains Broth
ers Went to Yacht Club on Appoint
ment to Inspect PrOperty.-Wit-
nesses Say Hams Was Irrational.

FLUSHING, L. l., May with Ii
of the defenses witnesses disposed of,
the Hains trial started on its third
week today. Perhaps the most i'm
portant testimony on behalf of Capt.
Peter C. Hains, Jr., charged with the
murder of William e. Annis, came just
before adjournment when Lee Bugg,
a real estate dealer and a member of
the Bayside Yacht club where Annis
was shot, testified that he had dis
cussed the merits of certain property
adjoining, the yacht club with Thorn
ton j. Hains, the defendants brother,
and at one time made an appointment
with Thornton Hains to meet him at
the yacht club. Bugg's testimony
tends to show lack of generalization
on the part of the defendant and to
corroborate that of Thornton Hains,
who testified that he and the children
went to the club on the day of the
tragedy to see Bugg or his partner.
Jesperson, to inspect the Bayside
property.
Maj. John Hams, brother of the
captain, concluded his testimony at
the morning session. Most of the ses-
sion was occupied by the questioning
of army officers, government employees
and the negro servants who were en-
ployed in Captain Hams household
when he was in the Philippines. The
army officers testified to conversa
tions with Captain Hains during Jul!
and August, 1908, and characterized
his speech and conduct upon these oc
casions as irrational.
Lilly Sawyer, a negro maid EN-
ployed by Mrs. Claudia Hams, testi
fed that she had told Captain Hahn
all about "The coins on" of Mrs
Hains and Annis while the captain
was away. She said she told the cap
tain that Mrs Hams was often ou
all night and that she and Annis woul
come to the house intoxicated. TIL
witness showed belligerent spiri
under cross-examination.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-05-04
Nam Who Was Trapped by Detectives
and Accepted Bribe Before
Witnesses, Tells Story
of Shame.
TOLD TO CONFESS
After Former Supervisor Is Caught in
Crooked Work, He Is Advised to
Tell What He Knows to Incriminate
Other Men.-JurOr Macbeth Us Not
Disqualified.

SAN FRANCISCO. May 3.-Dr.
Charles Boxton, a former member of
the Schmitz board of supervisors, was
the star witness in today's session of
the trial of Patrick Calhoun, presi-
dent of the United Railroads. Boxton
was trapped by VIM. j. Burns and 9TH
ers of the district attorneys office,
and whose confession precipitated the
original exposure of the Schmitz ad-
ministration, was called upon by the
prosecution to relate the full story of
the occurrences at the home of G. M.
Roy, a skating rink promoter, in 1907,
when Boxton, in full view of witnesses
concealed behind the folding doors,
accepted number of marked bills
with the understanding that he would
vote for an ordinance favoring lib
eral administration of skating Kinks.
Later, according to the witnesses,
he had been visited by William j.
Burns, who advised him to confess
Boxton said he went to Roy, who con-
frmed the decision that he had been
trapped, adding that it was the work
of two of Abraham Ruef's lieutenants
who had turned against their former
adviser.
John F. Ferry, the tenth member oi
the former board, called as witness
was excused by both sides during the
day, and the prosecution will call an
other witness tomorrow.
Judge William P: Lawler engaged
in the case during the day, and sale
there will be no action tending to-
ward disqualification of Otto Mac
Roth, the juror whose wife was in
iured through the action of con
ductor of the United Railroads.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-05-04
DAY OF BRUTE FORCE IN AFFAIRS
OF NATIONS DRAWING TO AN END
Peace Conference of The
Hague Has Resulted in
Supreme Court Of Ma
tiOns Which Will Soon
Decide all of the Worlds
International Disputes.

CHICAGO, May 3.-"We have met
in this second National Peace con-
gree in the interests not of an unre.
realizable dream, but of great al
ready triumphing REFORM" said DR..
Benjamin F. Trueblood, secretary of
the American Peace society, in today's
session of the second National Peace
conference "rhe peace movement has
passed it's theoretical period. 1t is far
along toward the completion of it's
practical STAGE, continued the speak
er.
THE men and women, now a great
host, who believe that the day is past
when blind brute force should direct
the policies of nations and preside
at the settlement of their differences,
are now thoroughly organized. One
hundred years ago there was not a
society in existence organized to pro-
mote appeal to the forum of reason
and right in the adjustment of inter-
national controversies. Today there
are more than 500, nearly every i'm
portant nation having its group of
peace organizations" DR.. Trueblood
mentioned some of these and told of
the work they are doing. Continuing,
he said:
"It is this far-flung pacific public
| ~ hn nrlI n
| Stan;iiv, crossing oil boundary lines,
disregarding all language barriers,
organized and having its definite well
digested program, that constitutes the
real strength and the promise of the
peace movement. Out of this has
come all the rest-the limitation and
restriction of war, the splendid tri-
umphs of arbitration, The Hague con-
ference, the international court of ar
bitration, the beginnings of world
parliament and of a supreme court OF
the nations. 1t is on this intelligent
organized public sentiment, to which
governments are compelled to lister
that we must still rely absolutely fol
the accomplishment of what yet re
mains to be done to bring the nation!
) t) sane and rational relations to eacl
other and to relieve them from thu
torturing nightmare of militarism
with which they are still obsessed.
"The position which the peac'
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