davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-26
Sure to Win.
From Law Notes.

From Law Notes.
Justice Is. Of course loudly demanded
BY every litigant in court Of law, but
il is frequent infrnity of tie human
mind to confuse justice with ones own
cause The .a;c Thomas r. Reed used to
tell an amusing StSry 10 Illustrate this
tendency. He was once retained Dy an
.nternriSing client to prosecute an action.
On talking with the plaintiffs witnesses
Mr. Reed found tnat tier stories were
far frCm consistent. so he reported tne
fact to his client and advised that the
suit be dropped The client was somewhat
,,ert,lrbed bat told the attorney he would
have a talk with the witnesses and let
him know the next morning what he had
decided True to his word. he dropped
In bright and early. wearing the cheerful
look of one who has fought the good
fight 1--WE seen those witnesses, he
explained land they say they must have
seen mistaken wheE they talked with
YOU They all see il al Ike now. I've also
seen SOM OF the jurymen and they think
I'll win. Now, If there's such thing
Justice in law we can't lose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-26
Continued from Second Page.)

after covering $40 miles. They arrived
at Philadelphia Sunday evening and
Jamaica, l.. l., the next day. They re-
sumed the journey early Tuesday morn
ing. They were delayed considerably on
account of tire trouble. The party will
remain several days visiting relatives be-
fore returning home.
There is now no doubt Of the success
of the coming automobile race In Fair
mount Park. Philadelphia. October o. The
list of cars and famous drivers already
entered is sufficient to make the event a
winner beyond all possible doubt The
fact that all the money taken In from the
race is to be given to four OF the city's
greatest charities will make the financial
end of the affair come out on the right
side for in addition to seeing one Of the
greatest races ever held N America the
patrons of the event can feel that they
are giving aid to the most deserving OF
charities.
Herbert Lyle will pilot an Apperson:
Len Zengle. Chadwick; Willie Haupt.
Thomas; Milford, LoZier, and AL Hall.
WEIGH. Several military organizations
may serve as guards during the 2O-mile
race on this occasion. These will be in
addition to 1,2W police, mounted and on
foot. University of Pennsylvania students
have volunteered to serve as ushers
Oil paintings illustrating motor scenes
of all sorts will be a feature of the At
lanta national automobile show which
opens in that city November g. These
paintings are being especially prepared
for the big exhibition and measure
eight by twentyfour feet and are the
work of some of the very best artists
They illustrate scenes in connection with
motor car travel that are certain 10 be
interesting. \ score OF more OF them,
handsomely framed, will be used around
the elevated platforms and in various
other parts of the big auditorium armOry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-26
Deadheads Who Must Be Coaxed.

From Musical America.
Concert givers in Germany find it more
and more difficult to get an audience.
Free tickets by no means insure one. A
Berlin journal tells how audiences at
rec,taIs Berlin often has more than fifty
of them in one week. are apt to be made
up.
Miss N, who plays or sings, sends out
about 300 tickets, some OF them to promi-
nent persons One of these is the wife of
Prof X She kindly accepts the tickets
but has no intention of attending the
concert, so she gives them to her dress
maker who In turn bestows them on her
assistants, who possibly may go to the
concert. In one case 1t was found that of
200 free tickets only forty-seven were
used.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-26
Her Point of View.

t
Don't you like that quotation from
Shakespeare: The friends thou hast and
their adoption tried. grapple them to thy
soul with hoops of steel'?" he asked soul
fully.
Il think hoops of gold would be BETTER"
said the summer girl, shyly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-26

Miss l.. CIarine McCarty, the young
Washington pianist. recently returned
from Berlin, after two-year course Of
music with Xavier Scharwenka, will ap-
near here in recital in October. She will
he assisted on that occasion by her former
teacher, Mr.. B. Frank Gebest.
The choir of Epiphany Church has re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-26

Mrs. Blanche Muir Dalgleish will be the
soloist at the first meeting of the State
Of Montgomery county this
fall. The meeting will take place in Ken
sington next Friday evening and Mrs
Dalgleish will sing a group of songs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-26

The IDEAL wife-a bit of chimerical i'm.
agery that presides over the other mans
coffee polite.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-12
SAYS HE WILL WAGE WAR
AGAINST CEMENT COMBINE

SAN FRANCISCO. May ia spe-
cial dispatch from Sacramento states
that State Engineer Nat Ellery mas
declared that he will take steps to
break up what he alleges to be com
bine of the cement firms of the state.
Ellery recently attempted to purchase
..1,C.0 barrels of cement for state work,
and he was amazed to discover That ne
would be compelled to pay a large In
crease over the price demanded last
year. Ellery made the following state
ment concerning the alleged trust:
This secret alliance among the -FOUR
cement firms of this state is trying 10
force the state to pay $1.75 and $l.90
a barrel for cement when it is selling
in Southern California and points out
side the state for $1.30 a barrel.
II have positive information that the
Pacific coast is parceled out among
the cement manufacturers. For in
stance, there are cement companies in
Oregon, Washington and Utah, but
they cannot be induced to offer a bid
in California under any circumstances.
If we could get these outsiders in here
the trust would soon fall"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-12
TWENTY PERSONS
FEARED DROWNED
GASOLINE LAUNCH SINKS IN
OHIO RIVER
ALL BUT TEN BELIEVED TO HAVE
MET DEATH
Boat Overloaded with Party of Men
Employed by Pressed Steel Car
Company Near Plttsburg
Goes Down
IBy Associated Press. ]

PITTSBURG, May 11.-Twenty per
sons are missing and all are believed
to have been drowned, as the result o.
the sinking of a gasoline launch in the
Ohio river near Schoenville, four mile!
below Pittsburg, tonight
OF the thirty occupants of the ooa
only ten are known to have escaped.
The missing are;
Albert Graham, pilot and part owner
of the boat; George Thompson. for
merly of Altoona, Pa; Boots" O'Neiil
James Conner, Walter Low, Thomas
Kennedy, William Guthrie, Henry No-
gelei, Dennis Murphy, Tony Bole, -
Rusky and nine others whose names
have not been learned.
All were employees of the Pressed
Steel Car company at McKees Rock
plant.
They had been working overtime until
o'clock and left the works to cross the
river In the launch about S:15.
The boat is said to have been IN
tended for not over twenty persons
but all wanted to get across on the
first trip and thirty crowded in.
AS the boat sank 1t caused a suction
that took many of the men down with
it. Others attempted to swim ashore
but were chilled by the cold water ana
became exhausted.
One of the men who escaped by
swimming ashore ran to a telephone
and gave the alarm. Boats were ar
once put out in the hope of rescuins
some struggling swimmers, but the task
seemed hopeless.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-12
CALL PHELAN IN
CALHOUN'S TRIAL
FORMER MAYOR OF BAY CITY
GIVES TESTIMONY
HENEY EXAMINES NEW WITNESS
IN BRIBERY CASE
One of Central Characters in Prose-
eution Tells of Various Contro-
Versies Over Electric Troll
ley Franchises

SAN FRANCISCO, May 11.-For the
first time since the inception OF the
bribery-graft investigation James ID.
Phelan, one of the central figures in the
prosecution of the cases and mayor OF
the city for three terms, was called TO
the witness stand in one of the trials
when he appeared today to give evil
dence in the trial of Patrick Calhoun,
president of the United Railroads.
His examination was carried on by
Francis J. Heney, and the controversies
over the installation of overhead or
underground electric propulsion sys-
TENS on the lines of the United Rail-
roads, prior to the fire of 1906, was the
only subject of inquiry reached before
court adjourned.
Mr.. Phelan stated that as president of
the City Adjournment association he had
met with a committee of the board of
supervisors in 1905 to protest against
the granting of anfoverhead trolley per-
init for the Suffer street line.
Calhoun Objected
The petition of the company was re-
jected by the board in November.
The witness said that at these meet
ings Mr.. Calhoun had protested against
the underground conduit because it
gave but so per cent of the efficiency
gained from the overhead system.
Mr.. Phelan, what were the grounds
for your objection to the overhead troll
ley SYSTEM" asked Mr.. Heney.
First, because the wires and poles
were unsightly; second, because we be-
lieved San Francisco to be as good as
Washington and New York and entitled
to transportation as modern, and,
thirdly, because we saw no good argu-
ment in favor of the overhead outside
of the lesser cost of construction to the
company, matter with which he did
not think 1t necessary to deal.
"At one of our conferences Mr.. Cal
houn offered to give the amount of the
difference in cost for lower Market
street construction amounting to $780,,
900, to any organized charity we should
name, or to the Park Panhandle extern
sion work in which he knew me to be
Interested"
Mr.. Phelan was still under direct ex-
animation when court adjourned.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-12
MANY STILL PURSUE
NUMEROUS OUTLAW
PHILIPPINES GOVERNMENT ON
TRAIL OF MORO
Crime Becomes So Bold In Sulu ArchI-
pelago That Capture Is De-
manded-Outrage Are
Numerous

WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE Philip
pine government has determined TO
take into custody Moro outlaw known
throughout the Sulu archipelago as
Jikiro of Jolo.
For months many murders and rob-
berries have been charged to this band
and it's leader. The recent outlawry
has been so bold and extensive that
the authorities decided to take eXtraor-
binary steps to end 1t.
A gunboat is searching among the
smaller islands in the Sulu archipelago
and land forces are tramping the
mountains hoping to ensnare the out
laws into their hands.
On March ~ Jikiro is reported to
have led fifty Moros in an attack upon
the constabulary barracks at Siasi In
the hope of procuring arms and ammu-
milton.
The twenty-five soldiers within, I'M
der command of Captain Dewitt and
Lieutenant Bennett had an exciting
time defending themselves in the dark
ness.
The home of N. N Holmes, an en-
gineer and planter, within sight of the
barracks, was riddled with bullets, sew
eral entering a bundle of clothes left
on his bed.
A Greek sponge fisher on the island
of Latuan was subsequently attacked
by the band, but escaped with his life.
The murder of two white men named
Wolf and Cornell. partners in a small
trading business on the island of SINH
nor, is charged to the band.
The body of Mr.. Wolf was chopped
into over thirty pieces and scattered
over an area of several yards, and that
of Cornell was mutilated in much the
same manner.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-12
MINING PROMOTERS
ACCUSED OF FRAUD
JUDGE RENDERS INTERESTING
DECISION IN TRIAL
Court in Kansas City Declares Case
Involves Value of Prop
erty and Not of
Stock
S. Hill St. 234-244

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May lin
the trial in the federal court here to-
day of the Horn brothers, Raymond P.
May and S. H. Niger, charged with
using the mails to defraud in promoting
the Two Queen group of mines in Ari-
iona, James B.. Lynch of Philadelphia
produced letters, circulars and news
papers sent to him by the promoters.
These stated that the mine was In oper-
alton and that ore was being shipped
in paying quantities.
Lynch said he bought HOO shares of
stock on representations made in the
advertising matter.
J. H. Deaner of Saginaw, Mich, tes-
titled that he had bought stock on the
lnstallment plan, paying 81 a month.
When District Attorney Van Valken-
bergh offered as evidence a printed cir
cular describing the mining property
! Attorney Chester Krum, counsel for the
! promoters, objected.
1T is the value of the stock that is
being questioned and not the value
of the property" he declared. 1.-The
purchasers were solicited to buy stock,
not to buy the mine. The orders for
stock were filled according to agree
ment.
There is a speculative element in
buying mining stock. If there is a
bright prospect persons are willing to
pay well for a chance to have large
return"
Your distinctions are too refined"
Judge Phillips replied, in overruling the
objection. Il have always understood
that stockholder of a corporation had
some interest in the property of the
company. The value of the property
is the inducement that causes persons
to buy stock"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-12
RAILROAD FINDS MEN DO
NOT LEARN BY SUSPENSION
Burlington Ceases to Punish Infrac.
tion of Rules by Laying OFF
Employees

CHICAGO, May 1.-THE manage
ment of the Burlington railroad has
caused the practice of suspending ope-
rating employees for infractions of rules
on the ground that such punishment is
an Intellectual means of discipline.
Instead, the company has inaugu-
rated a comprehensive system of rec
ords which are at all times accessible
to the men and from which promotions
and dismissals from the service will be
made.
The time, however, when an engine
or trainman is called ION the carpet
and lectured and then laid off for nom
observance of the rules has passed.
In connection with the new spstem of
discipline, drunkenness, disloyalty and
INSTRUMENTATION are given as causes for
immediate dismissal without appeal.
The superintendent are urged by cir
cular to report for entry all commend
able actions by employees so that may
secure credit for efficient service.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-12
JUDGE INDUCES PRISONERS
TO ENTER PLEA OF GUILTY
Saves County Money by Visiting Men
in Jail and Persuadlng
Them

REDDING, May 11.7~Iudge John L.
Childs of the superior court of Del
Norte county has a unique and effect
i've system of disposing of the criminal
cases in his jurisdiction at small ex-
pense to the county.
1t is his custom to visit the accused
in their cells and induce them to plead
guilty.
The judge explained his system yes
terday as follows;
Il have considerable leisure, and
when / hear that some alleged criminal
is in the county Jail 1 make it point
to call on him and perhaps leave him
a few papers. A day or two later 1
visit him again and perhaps leave him
more papers.
st repeat my visit at a seeming inter-
val and perhaps sit down and talk TO
the offender in friendly way. 1t usu-
ally turns out that by the time the dis
trict attorney is ready to file the in
formation against the prisoner 1 have
him in a frame of mind where he is
ready to plead guilty.
Seventeen accused men have plead
ed guilty in Del Norte in the last two
years through my ministrations. I find
it takes less time to induce them to
plead guilty than it does to try them
in my court before a jury. I know
that my method is very unusual among
superior court judges, and l may be
criticised, but it works, and it pays
up in the far corner of the state'
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-12
CASE OF COUNCILMAN
AT STOCKTON OPENED
CHARGED WITH MALFEASANCE
IN OFFICE
Alleged That City Father Extorted
Loans from and Sold Bogus Stock
to Saloon Men and Cor
porations

STOCKTON, May 1.-THE taking of
testimony in the trial of Councilman
w. T. Shepard of this city, accused
by the grand jury of malfeasance in Of
fee, began before jury in the superior
court this morning, Judge Smith pre-
siding.
In his opening statement District At
torney McNoble said he would prove
that the accused had used his official
position to extort loans from various
saloon men and corporation heads by
the use of threats of adverse action
upon matters of interest to them pend
ing before the council; that the accused
had formed a bogus corporation and
sold shares at 800 each to saloon men
and heads of corporations, the stock
being valueless.
The morning session was occupied
In an effort on the part of the prosecu'
tion to secure from Manager c. ID
Clarke of the. California Navigation ant
Improvement company an admission
that he had loaned Shepard 800 be-
cause he feared hostile action of the
councilman on an application the COM
mittee had before that body.
Objections to all questions along that
line were sustained, but Clarke adj
mitted that he would not have loaned
the money to Shepard had he not been
a councilman. He declared it a per-
sonal loan.
At the afternoon session the prosecu-
ton secured from Mr.. Clarke the adj
mission that he regarded as "holdup'
Shepards application for a loan. It
was also brought out that when Clarke
purchased of Shepard a share of stock
in the Todman Paint company he re-
garded Shepard as taking advantage
of his official position as councilman,
Clarke's company being a petitioner
The stock, however, Clarke declared
to be his own and not the company's,
the signing of the company's name and
affixing his under it as manager being
done by inadvertence.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-12
PRINCE WHO DISAPPEARED
DECLARED TO BE IN OHIO
Newspaper of Chicago Claims to
Have Discovered Lost
John Orth

CHICAGO, May IA newspaper
here today devotes it's entire front
page to the elaboration of an unequiv4
ocal statement that It has discovered
the lost John Ortiz" otherwise Arch
duke Johann Salvador of Austria,
prince of the house of Hapsburg, who
disappeared thirteen years ago after
marrying Ludmilli Stubel, an opera
singer.
The local paper says 1t discovered
"Orth" at gainesville, Ohio, working
as a machinist at SIS per week. 1t
has always been believed that the
arehduke lost his life when the schoon-
er Santa Marguerite sank off the
coast of Chile, but the gainesville
machinist says he and his beautiful
wife were not aboard the ship, as was
supposed.
The romantic couple, says the report,
drifted all over the world. In the Mt.
Pelee catastrophe the wife and two
children were killed.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-12
MRS. BOYLE REGAiNS HER
COMPOSURE IN NEW GARB
Awakens in Her Cell to Find Only
ConVict's Dress-Eats Hearty
Breakfast

PITTSBURG, May 11.-After the ex-
citing and wearing incidents of yes
terday Mrs. Boyle had a good nights
rest in the Western penitentiary last
night and awoke today much refreshed.
She is in good spirits and has regained
much of her old time vivacity. Her ar
rival at the penitentiary last night was
after the hour for retiring, and she
was given only a night dress, while all
her other clothing and ornaments were
taken from her. She awoke this morn
ing to find only the prison garb in her
cell.
Marching in line with the other pris-
oners, Mrs. Boyle smiled as she went
to her prison breakfast and ate hearth
ly. She was given permission by the
matron to make cushions and other
fancy work for her cell and materials
were promised her If she cared to do
so> 1t will be determined today after
a physical examination what character
of work she will be given. Probably she
will be placed in the kitchen or In the
sewing room.
BOYLE slept we'll last night and ate
heartily for breakfast and submitted
gracefully to the barber who cropped
his hair closely. Bertillon photographs
and measurements of the pair will be
made today.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-12
RESCUES YOUNG MAN
FROM HIS AFFINITY
CONTINUED from Page One,

house. This was last Sunday, and
young Eginton was not driving MS
team.
Father and son held a consultation,
at the end of which young Eglnton
willingly agreed to return to his home
and take up the old routine IN the OH
fields. He also came to the conclusion
that he was really not in love, and
was willing to renounce the woman
with whom he had eloped but few
weeks before.
It is said a stormy scene resulted,
as Mrs. Hinkson did not wish to re-
linquish George, for whom it seems she
had developed an apparent affection.
The father prevailed, and Sunday
afternoon, accompanied by Detective
Home, the trio left San Jose for Los
Angeles.
Detective Chapman remained in San
Jose to pay a number of bills contract
ed by the young man. ffallant to the
end, young Eginton held a farewell
parting with Mrs. Hinkson and in
sisted she be given car fare to Fresno,
to- which city she stated she desired
to return. The father gave her the
money, the final adieuX were said and
the romance was at an end.
The Egintons, accompanied by the
detective, arrived in Los Angeles Mon
day night.
Secrecy Is Maintained
Great secrecy is maintained con-
corning the affair, but the elopement
leaked out. Mr.. Eginton, sr., in speak
ing of the affair last night, deplored
the publicity that would result. He
said that he was the father of ten
grown children. all of whom were re-
spected in Los Angeles. 1T was but
the sudden impulse of boy, who be-
fore the temptation befell him had led
a model life," said Mr.. Eginton.
"The woman is undoubtedly pretty
and seemed to possess a wonderful in
fluence over my son. But after heart
to heart talk he quickly realized he
had done wrong and was as anxious to
return to his home as he was to leave
it. l have given the facts of the case
without reservation, and I am sorry for
the notoriety that must result.
George was always good, hard
working boy, but, like all others, ts
human. He has learned a lesson which
only experience can teach"
George refused to be seen by a re-
porter and was snugly tucked in bed
last night He was doubtless dreaming
of the vision of love that had so sud
denly been grasped from him.
Mrs. Hinkson, the woman with whom
George Eginton eloped, is now 10 years
old. She was married when &c. but
soon tired of domestic life and came
to Los Angeles. While in the Angel
City she has been employed at various
vocations, her last work being that of
a waitress.
She is said to be person of great
beauty, with winning and convincing
ways. 1t has been said that many gull
lible youths have paid homage to her.
She had married a wealthy rancher
and was given all the treats of life
that money could provide, but long
ing for the stage and to be free to en-
joy life caused separation soon after
marriage.
That George Eginton is a sadder and
wiser boy from his experience was the
parting remark of his father last night.
Every effort was made to hush the
matter up, all concerned in the case
being pledged to secrecy, but the part
ing scene of the young persons in San
Jose paved the way to publicity.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-12
NOTED EPISCOPAL RECTOR
TO BE TRIED IN ENGLAND

NEW HAVEN, Conn, May IL
Charges of transgressing the law of
the Church of England have been pre-
ferred against Rev. H. Herbert Hen
son, canon of Westminster and rector
of st. Margaret's church, and he has
left Yale after giving a series of re-
ligious lectures and started back to
England to stand trial.
The charges were brought by Rt. Rev.
Dr. Gore, bishop OF Birmingham, and
charge that Canon Henson, in opposi-
ton to the rules of the Church of Eng
land, occupied the pulpit at a working
mems institute in Birmingham, against
the protest of the clergy Of the do
cese.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-12
SoLoNS REFUSE TO VOTE
ON PROHIBITION MEASURE
Attempt to Make Missouri Completely
Dry Frustrated in Lower
House

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-. May IL
The Missouri house refused today to
consider in the senate amendments to
the statewide prohibition resolution
and sent it back to the upper house
asking that body to recede.
AS the senate probably will decline to
give up its changes In the measure, q
conference committee will be appointed.
The senate amendments to the resolu-
ton, which provides for popular
vote on the constitutional amendment,
were two. The first erased the house
provision that prohibition, If adopted.
would not become effective until 1913.
The second was a tax rider, increas-
ing the lawful rate for all taxing
bodies 100 per cent over the present
rate.