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The Washington herald., 1909-02-22

The President has addressed a
letter to Senator Eugene Hale,
chairman of the Committee on Ap-
preparations. in which he declares
that the report presented BY Sena-
tor Hemenway is, misleading in
several particulars, and that in
MANY cases itsdisregards the facts
entirely. The short and ugly
word Is not used, but the President,
in paraphrases. intimates the Of
tense strongly. He takes to task
the membership for the limitations
OF the activities Of the Secret Serv-
ice, and SAYS It now proposes TO es-
tablish another Secret Service,
based along the same lines as the
present system
He insists that, under the direc-
ton OF Chief Wlkie. the Secret
Service has been of invaluable
service in running down criminals,
and adds that II has done this work
despite the opposition by Congress.
The letter OF the President also
denies that there are over 5000
men, employed in Chief Wilkes
service, and correctS the statement
BY saving 5iise-e are only I67 men
regularly on the pay rolls
The letter from the President
follows.
The Washington herald., 1909-02-22

The naval yacht Sylph. which is usu-
ally held at the Washington Navy Yard
for the use Of the President. got into
trouble this evening. She arri' ed here
from Washington this Afternoon and
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The Washington herald., 1909-02-22

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The Washington herald., 1909-02-22
Report Misleading.

by Senator HemenWay on behalf Of your
committee in reference 70 the Secret Serv-
ice matter. The report is inaccurate and
misleading in various important respects
and I desire 10 make certain corrections
IN reference to statements which appear
therein. and in the subsequent debate
Until last year the Secret Service, q
small body OF sixty or seventy men IN the
Treasury Department under Chief Wilkie.
was practically the only body Of public
servants engaged almost purely IN GRIM
inaI investigation. The Secret Service
men were assigned al different times 70
different departments 70 investigate crime
and criminals They were thus assigned
on different occasions. for instance. 10
the State and Navy Departments, but.
above all, TO the Interior Department and
the Department Of Justice.
During the seven years Of ny admins
traticu they were instrumental in bring
inK 10 justice great numbers OF criminals
] append herewith the occasions on which
they were furnished by the request Of the
Attorney General 70 the Department Of
Justice during the year 1907 and the first
six months Of 19lS They rendered invsl-
liable assistance in securing the cOnvic-
tion Of many kinds Of criminals of des-
perate character. and of many other Of
tenders of great wealth and Of social and
political prominence In not one single
instance during these seven years has il
been shown that their action jeopardized
any man who was not connected with IL
legal transactions In not one single IL
stance has i been shown that they took
any but proper steps against a criminal
No pretensa has been made that they did
not do their work against criminals eff
GENTLY.
Rendered Exceptional Services.
I desire 70 put on record my emphatic
belief that the Secret Service under
Chief WiIkie has been composed Of mer
Of an exceptionally high grade Of char.
acter and capacity, who have rendered
exceptional service 10 the public, and thai
Chief WHkie himself, in a very tryine
and responsible position. has shown
qualities Of the highest kind. and has
been one Of the main stand-5ys of the
government No other man in the gov.
ernment employ is SO dreaded and hated
ny Iawbreakers. and they especially de-
sire 20 see his activities. and those q,
Congress last wear forbade BY law the
use Of the Secret Service men 10 put :
stop 70 crime aside from eounterfeiting
and thereby not only hampered Justice
in other departments, but deprived the
Secretary of the Treasury. the of7cia
guardian Of billion and a half OF III.
nations actual money. Of the power ef-
fectively 10 exercise that guardianship
Moreover the Congress provided no sub
stitUJe whatever for the Secret Service
IN consequence, the Department Of Jus
tice was obliged 10 develop as speedily
as possible its own corps Of special De.
tectives TO take the place OF the Secre-
Service agents which It had previousl,
used, and the nucleus Of this force was
made up Of officers formerly connected
with the Secret Service and trained ir
ifs methods.
/ call your especial attention 70 IN,
fact that if the Department Of Justic,
had not taken this action there would
have been a complete failure 10 Ell
The Washington herald., 1909-02-22

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Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-14
UnwrHtenHbtory of Euents Leading Up to the
 Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

occupied by huge granite office build ing. By this time he had fully matured his plan to kill Mir. Lincoln, and he un. folded it to his fellow conspirators. Payne agreed to undertake the part of the scheme allotted him, which was to murder Mr. Seward, the secretary of state--a project that was afterward carried out, almost with success. At zerott, however, refused to have any thing to do with the business. He said that he had been perfectly willing to try to kidnap the president, but he drew the line at shedding blood. At the same time he made no attempt to interfere, and, as if to wash his hands of the whole affair, immediately left the city by train.
 What followed is q matter of fa- miliar history. Booth went to the the ater about 10 clock in the evening, mounted to the gallery, and, watching fora favorable opportunity, stole along the passageway that gave entrance to the president s box. In those days the chief magistrate of the nation was not guarded by detectives, as is now the case, and it was easy for the assassin to enter the box from the rear and shoot Mir. Lincoln in the back of the head.
 Of course, there was tremendous ex- citement and confusion, during which the assassin leaped over the rail of the box to the stage. Catching his foot in the flag that draped the box, he fell upon the stage in such manner as to break his ankle. Then, addressing to the audience the words, "Sic semper tyrannis!' with theatrical gesture, he turned and fled.
 Though the play at the moment was in the midst of the performance, mo- body had the presence of mind to try to stop him, and he succeeded in reach ing the alley alongside the tbeater and, mounting his horse, which had been left there in charge of boy. Before the hue and cry was fairly on foot he was well on his way toward Surratts- vile (now Clinton), Md, crossing the Eastern branch of the Potomac by the navy yard bridge.
 The story of the man hunt that fol lowed has been too often told to be,
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-14
How to Roast a Chicken.

Wash the chicken out well in two or three waters and add q little soda to the last water but one to remove any doubtful .odor Fill the body and crop of the chicken with stuffing of bread crumbs, butter, pepper and salt, sew 1t up and roast an hour or more, ac- cording to the size. Baste two or throe times with butter and water, after ward with its own gravy. Put little water into the dripping pan at first to prevent burning. Stew the giblets and neck in water enough to cover and aft CT removing to a hot dish pour this into the drippings. boil up once, add the giblets chopped fine, thicken with Drowned four. boil again and send to the table in a gravy boat
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-14
HONORED MAN DEAD
AT HOME IN THIS CITY, AGED 54 YEARS.

William Gaskill. one of the most high ly esteemed residents of Globe, died yesterday at his home in this city, hav- ing attained the age of 54 years.
 MT. Gaskill, who was native of Manchester, Eng, crossed the ocean thirty years ago and located in Canada, where he remained for eighteen years as an employe of the Canadian Pacific railroad, making his home at Ft. Will jams, Ontario. In 1900 he came to Globe and made his home here, eventu. ally becoming partner in the butcher ing firm of Ryan & Gaskill. Mir. Gas kill, who had been ailing for about sew en years, became so weak about two months ago that he was forced to go to bed. He died of locomotor ataxia.
 Mir. Gaskill leaves widow in this city, brother, Adam Gaskill, at Prest- wick, England, and two aunts at South port, England.
 The deceased, beloved by all who knew him, was member of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias, as well as of the Fraternal Brotherhood in Globe, Ft. Williams Masonic lodge No. 4l5 and the Ft. Williams and Ontario Sons of England Benevolent Society Guildford No. III.
 The funeral will be held Monday af- ternoon at 2 O clock under the auspices of the Masons, the Knights of Pythas and the Fraternal Brotherhood.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-14

worth reciting here. Riding southward, Booth paused at the house of a physi elan, Dr. Mudd, about thrty-six miles from Washington, to have his ankle set. Meanwhile on the road to Sur rattsville, he was joined by young man named Herold--a half-witted fel- low, who had been a sort of hanger-on at Ford s theater, and, as was natural, great admirer of Booth. He was af terward hanged, together with Payne, Atzerott and Mrs. Surratt, but persons today who are best acquainted with the details of the assassination are of the opinion that he was innocent of com plicity in the affair.
 Although federal troops were SCOUT ing the country on both sides of the Potomac, in pursuit of the assassin, a number of days elapsed before he was finally run down, on farm not far from the Rappahannock river. The barn in which he had taken refuge was set on fire, and, after Herold had come out and surrendered himself, Booth, who declared his intention to fight to the last, was shot through crack in the building by a sergeant named Bos- ton Corbett.
 Corbett received a great deal Of ap- plause for this act, for which he claimed and received part of the reward which had been offered for Booth, dead or alive. As a matter of fact, however, it was very unfortunate that the matter should have terminated in such way. If Booth had been captured instead of killed the lives of two persons, after ward hanged, though almost undoubt- edly innocent, might have been saved through his testimony.
 There never was adequate evidence to show that young Herold was impli- cated in the conspiracy or concerned in the crime. Of Mrs. Surratt the same thing might be said. But public senti- ment was passionately infamed, as was natural under the circumstances, and de- manded victims. Consequently, Mrs. Surratt and the half witted youth per ished on the scaffold with Payne and Atzerott.
 The bullet fired by Boston Corbett struck Booth in the neck, severed the spinal cord and killed him instantly. His body was put aboard little steam CT and carried up the Potomac to Wash ington navy yard, where it was trans ferred to the monitor Montauk at night. What became of it from that time on is more or less of a mystery. The un- derstanding is that it was removed from
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-14

the monitor and buried under the old penitentiary at the Washington arsenal but official records on the subject are surprisingly incomplete, and even to this day the final disposition of the as- sassin s remains is carefully kept se- crct, known only to very few per sons.
 A story has often been published to the effect that Booths body, about four years after its burial in the man ner described, was dug up and trans ferrcd by friends to cemetery in Bal. timore. There is not the slightest truth in such a statement, however, the fact being that the skeleton, strung to- gether with wires, is still preserved and in the possession of the government, though hidden from public view. The war department could tell where it now is, if it chose.
 The body never underwent any proper
 Identification, and there are not a few persons today who actually believe that it was not Wilkes Booth who was shot to death in the barn, but some other man. Published reports in the newspa- pers have even gone so far as to iden- tify one individual after another as the assassin, who, according to the theory thus promulgated, made his escape and lived for many years, under an assumed name, in this or that part of the eoun- try There is no reasonable doubt, how ever, that such notions are utterly with out basis in fact.
 Mir. Lincoln died at 7:20 clock on the morning after he was shot, in a small brick house directly opposite Ford s theater, to which he was car ried. This house is now Lincoln mu- scum, filled with memorials of the mar. tyr president, including the tall silk hat which he wore on the fatal night, the chair in which he sat when the bullet was fired, lock of his hair, the cradle in which he was rocked as an infant, wreath from his coffin, rail of his own splitting, and great variety of other such objects.
 Most interesting of all are photo graphs of the execution of Payne, At zerott, Herold and Mrs. Surratt, in the yard of the penitentiary. The first pie ture in the series shows the reading of the death warrant, while friendly per sons shelter Mrs. Surratt from the sun with umbrellas-the day was fright fully hot. In the second photograph the executioners are putting black caps on the doomed prisoners, and in the third the latter are seen swinging from
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-14

A conspiracy against Mr. Lincoln, in which Booth, Payne, Atzerota and a number of others were entanglcd, had already been on foot for quite while. Those in the plot had met repeatedly, for the purpose of talking itiover, at the Kirkwood house (where the Raleigh hotel now stands) and other placess But the plan in view was not to kill tho president. He was to be kidnapped. car ried south to Richmond, and there kept as n hostage, in order to compel the fed eral government to come to terms, cs- pecially with regard to an exchange of prisoners.
 It is not unlikely that this extraor- dinary project, about which there was more than dash of the theatrical, orig mated in the imaginative brain of Booth himself. But circumstances did not work out favorably. There was one occasion on which it might possibly have been carried through-when, as had been announced, MT. Lincoln was going to be present at an entertainment at the Soldiers home, just outside of Washington. An attempt was to be made to seize him, either on the way thither or coming back, But, at the last moment, important business inter vencd, and Secretary Chase was sent instead.
 This failure, when the scheme seemed actually on the verge of fruition, so dishcartened the plotters that most of them backed out, abandoning the con spiracy. Such, in fact, was the situa- tion that had arrived on the fatal morn ing of April n, when Wilkes Booth came to Ford B theater to get his mail, and learned, incidentally, that the pres ident was to see the play" Our Amer. ican Cousin,'' with Laura Keene, that evening.
 It was about half an hour after noon when the young actor, getting up from the steps of the theater on Tenth street, licked few particles of dust from his irreproaehable pantaloons, and walked away. Nobody knows what he did dur ing the afternoon; but early in the eve hing he met Payne and Atzerott at the Clarendon hotel, on the southwest cor ner of Ninth and F streets--a site now
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-14
MEDICINE DOSES FOR BABIES.
How to Give Young Children Castor
 Oil and Powders.


 "Isn't there any way of giving baby medicine so that the whole household Is not upset and at least three doses are administered before he gets one?' asked distracted parent. Indeed there Is. Like everything else, 1t Is simple when one knows how, and even castor oil will slip down in second, however baby may wish it wouldn't. Castor oil should never be given without first heating it little. This does not mean getting 1t hot nor put ting burning spoon into the little mouth. The object of heating is mere ly to thin little the consistency of the heavy oil, and the most gentle warmth will do this. This change alone makes the liquid go down more easily.
 When this dose is to be given it is well to call in a member of the family to act as assistant Put baby down on the bed on his back and have ready small napkin or other bit of linen wrung out in cold water. Fold this flat just large enough to go under baby's chin up to the ears. Give this to the assistant and instruct her in her duty, which is merely that of hold ing the wet compress against the chin at the psychological moment This second Is when you gently hold the in fant's nose, which you are to do just as you put the oil well back into his mouth, but not in the throat, which would then cause him to choke.
 Holding the nose destroys the sense of taste, and the wet compress causes flow of saliva that helps to send the medicine down. The thing necessary to success Is that all shall be done together and that the oil shall fall on tie precise spot on the tongue-that is io say It should drop as close to the s1-clt as it can without going into the thro1.. To put it too near the front of the mouth gets it all over baby's gums and gives him full benefit of the nasty flavor. If an infant fights at taking any kind of liquid medicine 1t may be given in this way, but as rule the little one swallows any un- consciously.
 If medicine in a powdered form is to be given think the simplest and for young child the best way is to give it dry. Open his mouth and have the dose ready on the point of spoon Drop this quickly well back on the tongue and then nurse or give him a bottle at once.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-14

Here comes the handsomest man in the United Statesl"
 Young Harry Ford, who made the re- mark, was standing on the sidewalk in front of his fathers theater, in Tenth street, in Washington. The date was April l4, 1865.
 The man of whom he spoke, J. Wilkes Booth, was approaching from the direc- uon of E street. He was yOung-only 70 years of age-and faultlessly dressed. II was not without good reason that Ford spoke of him in such terms of admlration; beyond question he was one oi the handsOmest men of his day.
 It was just about noon, and Booth vas coming to the theater, as he did every day, to get his mail. An actor | profession, he was for the time being unemployed, but found it convenient 10 nave his letters addressed to Ford g..
 when he reached the theaSer he passed a pleasant word with Harry, asking him if there was anything new. nary could not think of anything in P'lueular, except that President Lin 'O'a and Mrs. Lincoln were coming to See the show that night. A messenger Iau arrived only few minutes earlier S''n request that box be reserved ,Of the White House party. They were O nave thp unno- bov on tho r;oht of the stage.
 lne eolloquy between the two young p 'n tasted only a minute or two. Then l,. Y,'u went into the theater, got his ,o., ,'' came out, sat down on the steps, T," % n's mail and remained there for a ,r,, V "nile, apparently thinking. Fin h ue rose to his feet and walked down SS,, Ie street again, in the direction from 'IIcn he had come.
 A woody will ever know what were m;,, thoughts that passed through the h. oi the actor as he sat there on bjs steps after putting his letters in ,s,. pO'Aet, But there seems to be good nsn,a .n to believe that during those mo. den, 'ne plan to assassinate the presi. tenn., "ere hrst formed. Here was a Bow s . opportunity to avenge at one and ~. 'ue fancied wrongs of the south, Seize % <. insane impulse bade him to
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-14
How to Clean Gold Lace.

Gold or silver lace can be cleaned if it is dropptd in a pint of boiling water containing a quantity of white soap and amrAonia. Do not attempt to rub lace, b.t rinse it carefully and pin to a tcwel to dry. Warm spirits of wine will remove the furnished appearance should it remain, though usually am monia will remove the dull luster, but it may injure the color of a silk thread should it be interwoven in the lace
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-14
Chamberlain Cough Remedy the Most
 Popular Because It Is the Best

"I have sold Chamberlain s Cough Remedy for the past eight years and find it to be one of the best selling medicines on the market. For babies and young children there is nothing bet ter in the line of cough syrups," says Paul Allen, Plain Dealing, La. This remedy not only cures the coughs, colds and croup so common among young chil- dren, but it is pleasant and safe for them to take. Fer sale by All Drug gists.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-14
How to Cook Rice Japanes. Style.

The Japs excel in cooking rice, and their method is exceedingly simple. Put one cupfu, of rice which has been thoroughly washed over the fire with five of fast boiling water. Add salt and when it has boiled for fifteen minutes set the saucepan uncovered fin moderlte oven. In fifteen minutes the water will have completely evap- orated and every grain be distinct and fluffy. Nct n grain will stick to the saucepan.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-14
How to Take Fruit Stains From Linen.

For removing fruit stains there is nothing more effective than the sul- phur bleach. Lay a spoonful of sul- phur on plate and sprinkle with few drops of alcohol. Over this place a tin funnel with the point upward. Touch lighted match to the alcohol, wet the stained linen and hold the spot over the opening in the point of the funnel. The sulphur fumes will re- move the most obstinate stain, seldom requiring more than one application. Rinse and wash the linen at once to prevent rotting the material.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-14
How to Take Oujnine.

Some people cannot take quinine be- cause 1t goes to the head. To over come this take a quinine capsule. re- move the. cap. then fill the cap with cayenne pepper. replace the cap and tnke as usual. and the head will suffer no i'll effects from the quinine.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-14
How to Make Cranberry Sauce.

Put one quart of cranberries over the fire with half pint of cold water and let them cook until broken to pieces. Add pound of sugar and cook until this melts. no longer, as lengthy cooking tends to make the sauce bitter. Take from the fire and set aside to cOol
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-14
How to Keep Salt Dry and Free.

To prevent salt in saltcellars from becoming damp and lumpy. when fill ing them put in ten to twelve pieces of rice. This will not come through the holes in the cover of the saltcellars. but will break the Jumps of salt and gather the moisture. Thus the salt is always dry and fine.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-14

the gallows, while soldiers ranged along the walls of the prison yard look down upon the dismal spectacle--the final ter imitation of wretched and horrifying tragedy.