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the strengthening of property
rights. They have contributed to
the defeat of personal injury
claims against railroads and to
the breaking down of federal and
state regulation of corporations.
And to this end Judge Lurton
has worked with ability. He is a
scholarly man of Industrious hab-
its and no small vices.
He can write an unsound opin-
ion," said one lawyer, land make
1t sound like music OH the water
On one occasion, however,
Judge Lurton was eloquently 81
lent. That is remembered by law
yers as the time he overruled the
U. S. supreme court. The facts
were these: One Kelly had sued
a railroad for damages to COM
pensate for personal injuries re-
sulting from the failure of the
road to furnish safety appliances
required by the so-called coupler
law. Judge Lurton protected the
railroad by reading into the law
the necessity for due diligence.
Meantime the same sort of case
went from Arkansas to the U. S.
supreme court and the latter
body knocked out the due dill
gence" defense. Kelly applied to
Lurton for rehearing. Denied"
ruled the court. mo opinion"
that was all. Since then the SUI
preme court has interviewed and
taken the Kelly case from Judge
Lurton's court.
Judge Lurton, as a member of
the United States circuit court OF
appeals, found technical grounds
for declaring the employers liza
billy act unconstitutional. In the
application of J. K. Keen for an
injunction against voting certain
railway stocks Judge Lurton
found the Sherman antitrust law
not to be binding upon him or his
railroads, much to the satisfac.
ton of e. H. Hartman, whose
consolidation program was thus
made easy.
AS far back as the early '70s
Judge Lurton was known as a
partisan of the corporations as
against the people, defending the
claims of turnpike and early rail-
way companies to the subsidies
voted them by the state before
the war.
1t is recalled that when he was
a member of the chancellors
court he read a paper before the
Bar association arguing the en-
tire sufficiency of the courts to
curb trusts and monopolies, and
deprecating legislation of this
character.
Another paper read few years
ago is devoted to an elaborate
defense of corporations generally.
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Detective Is
VICTIM OF
Thief

Detective D. o. Smith has an
old sleuth case of his own to
work on now and is looking 70,
an umbrella member with red
whiskers.
Smith remarked to his wife the
other day that he guessed he
would have the family rain she'd
der mended-the gold handled
one.
Later a man appeared at the
Smith residence and offered to do
the job for only 40 cents. Mrs.
Smith handed over the umbrella,
and it hasn't been seen since.
Neither has the red whiskered in
dividual who volunteered to mend
1t. Smith has enlisted the whole
city detective force in the man
hunt and every pawn shop in
town will get an overhauling If
the missing article is not found.
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CONTINUE CHURCH
CELEBRATION
TONIGHT

The new church celebration OF
the First Congregational Church
society will be continued tonight
with a banquet. Last night an
illustrated lecture by Charles E.
Cutter was given in which he
showed the progress of the con-
gregation from the beginning, dis
playing some interesting pictures
of the early church properties.
Rev. E. T. Ford, pastor, also
spoke, showing how the church
had prospered, advancing from
debt of $1,000 on a $4,000 prop
erty in 1900 to a $4,000 church
free from debt in 1909.
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HAMILTON MUST GO TO PEN
DECLARES THE JURY
FORMER STATE OFFICIAL
FOUND GUILTY OF EMBEZ-
ELEMENT ON FIRST COUNT.

OLYMPIA, Dec. 14.-"Guilty
as charged" was the verdict
brought in at $3.50 O'Clock last
night by the twelve men selected
to try Ortis Hamilton. former ad-
jutant general of the national
guard, on a charge of larceny by
embeZzlement in collecting ST.
1873 of the states money and con-
verting it to his own use.
Hamilton took the news of his
conviction calmly. His attorneys
gave notice of an appeal today.
rhe other three charges against
Hamilton cannot be tried until
next February.
The penalty is under the indie
terminate sentence plan, from one
to ten years.
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I Judge Lurton was born in
GAINESVILLE, KY, but was brought,
as boy, to Tennessee. He grad
uated from the Lebanon School
of Law, the oldest institution pf
its sort in Tennessee. After about
four years as judge of the chan
cellors court he was elected to the
state supreme bench. where he
served 10 years. He was ap-
pointed to the federal court in
1898. His residence is in Nash
vile. He has two children, both
grown, and living away away
from home.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-14
SOUTH END TO PICK
HIGH SCHOOL SITE

The South End is determined
to have a High school. Presi-
dent Bibb of the school board re-
Gently announced that plans were
being made to locate a High
school in this section of the city
and the South End Improvement
club will devote it's meeting to-
night to the subject of picking
out a site.
A number of available locations
have been proposed and there
promises to be an interesting dis
cussion over the matter.
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FL0UR|SHES GUN;
LANDS BEHIND BARS

By fiourishing a bulldog" re-
volver and otherwise conducting
himself in a disorderly fashion n
a Pacific avenue saloon Last night,
Robert Bergquist, laborer, con-
vinced Detective Williams that ne
was a dad man" and was taken
into custody.
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AND IT'S NEW

A thrilling story oil intrigue,
of adventure, of love as told by q
literary master. that's "Truxton
King" "a Story of Gruestark,
which begins in the Times tomor-
row. You can't afford to miss
the first chapter. This Is the
most expensive novel ever offer
ed to newspaper readers, and it's
new, only issued in September. ."
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BEST SELLER OF THE YEAR

"Truxton King" the best sell
ing novel of the year, begins seri-
ally in the Times tomorrow. This
latest book by George Barr Nc
Cutcheon was issued in Septem-
Der, and already 1t has become
the most talked-of work of fic.
ton printed in recent years. II
holds the breathless attention OF
the reader from cover to cover
Beginning tomorrow, the Times
will print this great story for Its
readers, having purchased the ex
elusive rights for its publication
in this city. 49,
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MAS0NS TO Install
OFFICERS TONIGHT

State lodge, No. 6S, f. & A. NJ,
will install officers tonight at the
Masonic temple. The "doiugs"
will begin at 1880. This will be
the twentieth annual installation
of officers.
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The body of Petrus Peterson,
who was killed near Butte, Mont,
several days ago, when a Milwau-
kee railroad bridge on which he
was working collapsed, was
brought to this city yesterday. He
leaves a large family, including a
brother, John, and sister, Mrs.
j. A. Hogberg, of this city. The
funeral will be held tomorrow
afternoon.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-14
Your Liner

Better stir up your liver little! Not
too much, just a little, just enough to
start the bile nicely. One Of Ayers
Pills at bedtime is all you need. These
pills act directly on the liver. Made
for the treatment Of constipation, bill
iousness, dyspepsia, sick-headache.
Sold for over go years.
AK your doctor If he knop, a better pill
for a sluggish hoer. Then 5ollow his adoiee.
Do as he says. Lave Co.
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SHlNCLE MILLS
CUT WAGES

ANACORTES, Dec. 14.-Local
single mill owners have declared
for the open shop and a 10 per
cent. reduction in the present
wage scale. All Anacortes shin
gle mills are in the movement. A
strike will probably be the re-
suit.
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Ebel Strom. aged 81 years, died
at one Of the city hospitals yes
terday. He had lived with a sis
ter, Mrs. Anna Hemsted, at VOL
lochet bay.
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Fur turbans in the latest styles
can be made from your discarded
muffs and neckpieces.
Hats reblocked, dyed and clean
ed. Prices reasonable. Plumes
dyed. cleaned, curled and l'emade
at the Modern Millinery. 6z2 Prov
ident Bldg, Pacific ave. Phone
Main 1888.
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Scott's Studio for photographs.
906 Pacific ave. **+
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MORTALITY NOTES

The funeral of Mrs. Lottie ia
cobs was held at noon today from
the residence.
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Royal Dairy Ice Cream. Phones
Main So, A 2195. ss
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Miss Nora O'Malley, aged 35
years. died of tuberculosis at one
Of The city hospitals Sunday night.
A brother, James, living at 2726
Bailey street, survives her.
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LODGE 42ss4. NOTICE,

The Club members of thu
Never Sweats are requested to
meet the grand master, Everett
True, ON important business. 49,
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Pictures, Frames, Rm. Mould.s
Decorating. Joseph Myers. GIT @. .
Orange County observer., 1909-05-27
ALL EUROPE IS OPTIMISTIC.

Against
~
Tinidity.

London. Optimism, the real thing,
which is willing to back itself heav-
lily. reigns in Europe this week. Even
the groans of the budget victims and
the lurid threats of the French strik-
ers are unable to suppress or discour-
age it.
I The truth is that pessimism has
exhausted itself and that reaction was
bound to come. Long years of <politi-
cal crises and sociological upheavals
have lost, for the time being at least.
their power to hold financial and
commercial enterprise in check.
The result is that, after fourteen
years of steady depression, the Lon
don Stock Exchange and the Cont
mental bourses also have witnessed a
genuine boom within the last few
days such as has been unknown since
1895.
This sudden return of public conf
| dence is largely psychological move
ment. There is more idle capital in
England to-day than perhaps ever in
Orange County observer., 1909-05-27
LURED his WIFE TO DEATH.
Husband Surrenders and Takes
Police to Where Body Lies.
George Yes, at Perth Amboy, n. ~
Said He Determined to Shoot Ills
Wife Because She Was Cnfaithful.

New Brunswick, N.J.-George Yes
walked into the police station at
Perth Amboy, about 6.15 a. m. ana
said to Night Sergeant MulligaI:
GIVE killed my wife and want 10
be locked up The policeman coulo
hardly believe the man, he was so IN
different.
"Well, if you don't believe me I'll
take you to her." said Yes.
Policemen Quinlan and Hardy
went with the man, who guided them
to St. Mary's Cemetery, on the WOOD
bridge road, and in the rear OF the
burial place they found the body OF
woman with several bullet wounds in
her head. Yes says that he and the
woman came here from RoadstoWn'
N. J., three days ago and went to live
in a tenement house on Hunt1n gton
street, Perth Amboy. He sa1o ne
discovered that his wife had been
nnfaithful to him and determined 10
kill her.
In the morning he asked the wom-
an to- take a walk with him, and,
guiding her to secluded spot IN the
cemetery, he coolly pulled revolver
and fred three shots. When she fell
he fired again.
He says he thought the matter over
all night and decided to give hlmsel1
up to the police. Prosecutor Boor-
aem has set detectives to work on the
case. as the man cannot be convicted
on his unsupported confession.
Orange County observer., 1909-05-27

J. -. construction OF his tidewatef
railroad which he had planned as an
enduring monument for himself. he
Gently. he took steamship load soh
friends to Norfolk to witness the cer-S
.emonieg attendant upon the openlns
Of that road to traffic. At the tlms
he looked as sturdy as though anotn-
Or half century might be his portlOA.
No one suspected that his time was
nearly at an end, although It nag
heen known that he has not been ~
GOOD health for some years past
The extent of Mr.. Rogers fortune
is nnknown even to close friends.
The best estimates placed It from
$4,000. 900 to 100000, ,00O.- A trlne
more than two years ago he was re-
nuted to have $1O0,000,00 In the
asilent panic" of March, 1907, which
laid the foundation for the great
panic the following October. he was
the heaviest individual sufferer His
losses at that time were figured at
from $3O,OO0,000 to 5O,OOO,00o :.
Rival financiers, generally believed
to have been captained by j. Pierpont
Morgan, who had been camping on MS
trail for years, gave nlm no mercy
in the spring of 1907.
Dozens OF ClIucS NIL Iso50io Adu
done the same things to others, grind
! ing up the poor and rich in his
money-making machines, but it was
a crushing blow when he was caught
himself. ~
He never got over it. The worry
and anxiety brought on the stroke Of
apoplexy from which he suffered In
the summer of 1907 and after that
he was never again the same resolute.
fighting, aggressive Rogers.
Ho ceased specuiating, avoiding
financial combats and devoted himself
to putting his affairs into quiet, con-
'servativo channels.
Rogers has been credited. : lth be-
ing more of factor in this success
of Standard Oil than Rockefeller him
self. He had the imagination to see
the tremendous possibilities in the
future of OIL and he frequently forced
Orange County observer., 1909-05-27

doctors think that he was victim OF
heart disease.
The millionaire had come in from
his country home at Fairhaven, Mass,
and the outing had seemed to do him
good. When he appeared at his Office
he was apparently in good health.
He had not even complained of feel
ing i'll.
Few men have been more promin-
ent in the business life of this coun,-
try than Henry Huddleston Rogers.
Sixty-nine years old at the time of his
death, he was the vice-president and
director of the Standard Oil Corpora
tion, which very largely owned its ex-
istence to his keen intellect. For full
half century he had been an active
factor in the commercial life of this
country, and the effect of his sudden
death will be felt on both sides of the
ocean.
A director in twenty-five or more
corporations, he was heavy stock
holder in score of others, in which
his genius for supervision was always
| relied on. In more recent years he
has devoted himself almost entirely
Orange County observer., 1909-05-27

Rockefeller to overcome instructive
caution and embark upon wide extern
sions of the business.
Besides, Rogers had complete
knowledge of the intricacies of the
business, and was gifted with execu-
tive genius. He proved himself ?
master mind in organization. Before
long he became trustee of Standard
Oil, then he rose to be vice-president,
and in the early '90s he was president
Of the company.
BY the death of his father H. H.
Rogers, Jr., becomes man of conse-
quence in tho world of finance
Just how important this position
will be depends largely upon the
terms Of his fathers will. If the
elder Rogers left an estate of $780,
Gao, 900 and has bequeathed the bulk
Of it to his only son, young Rogers
will have many responsibilities
thrust upon his shoulders in addition
to the great wealth.
Young, Rogers is twenty-nine years
old. He was graduated from Colum-
bia College in 1901, but year before
was married to Miss Mary Benjamin.
Orange County observer., 1909-05-27
BANDITS ROB FAST TRAIN
Take Seven Bags Of Mail at
Omaha, heh<
Masked 1ien Disappear Fifteen Min.
utes After They Cover Engineer
AID Firemcn With Their Guns.

Omaha, Neb.-Four masked ban
dts held up the. Chicago night ex-
press on the Union Pacific Railroad
in the suburbs of this city, and es-
capped in an automobile with regis
tered mail valued at 100000. The
hold-up was carried out with remark
able quickness and success. Fifteen
minutes after the bandits covered the
fireman and engineer with revOlvers
they had looted the mail car, and dis
appeared with seven bags filled with
registered mail for New York. Pas
sengers, trainmen and mail sorters
were cowed by scores Of revolver
shots fired into the air. A brakeman
tried to attack one of the bandits.
but he was driven back by several
shots at close range, two of the bull
lets cutting his clothing.
The hold-up was within mile Of
the house where Eddy" Cudahy was
hidden by the kidnaper, Pat Grove,
few years ago. The Union Pacific
off cials made known that they would
demand an investigation of the police
department for failure to make the
slightest move against the robbers.
The hold-up was less than three miles
from the Union Pacific station, in the
heart of the city. The revolver shots
alarmed persons for half a dozen
blocks on both sides Of the track.
Several men who ran >frOm their
homes fired after the robbers in the
automobile. but it is not known il the
bullets took effect The bandits re-
piled with revolvers, but all their
bullets went wild.
The Union Pacific has offered
$4,000 for the capture of each of the
bandits. or $4,000 in all. The train
was entering the city from the West
and was due to make only q short
stop before continuing the run to
Chicago. The speed was about forty
miles an hour, and the train was ap-
! preaching a cut when the engineer
saw a fire blazing in the middle of
the track. He threw on the emer-
gency brakes. and the express ground
to a stop within fifteen feet of the
fire, which had been built Of paper
and dry sticks. Two bandits sprang
up into the cab and pointed revolvers
at the heads of the fireman and en-
gineer.
The bandits rode off cheering de-
risively and firing shots. They head
ed out of the city. but evidently
turned when they we're out Of sight,
for one of the pouches was picked up
empty at Jackson and Fortv-third
streets, within a few blocks Of police
headquarters.
Orange County observer., 1909-05-27
HENEY PAID BY SPRECKELS.
Later Makes Startling Admissions On
Witness Stand at Calhoun Trial.

San Francisco, Cal.-At the trial OF
Patrick Calhoun, Rudolph Spreckels
on the witness stand admitted that he
had been paying monthly salary to
Francis J. Heney, leader of graft
prosecution. Not only Spreckels but
Heney and his associates have per-
sistently denied that the prosecutor
received a single dollar from Spreck-
els, and just after. .Heney was shot a
movement was started to raise fund
for Heney.
Spreckels on cross ss-examination ad-
mitted he had paid between $500 and
5000 a month to Heney for three
years. This is outside of large sums
which Heney received by the United
States Government.
Spreckels was not a good witness
for the prosecution, but on cross-ex-
animation Calhoun's lawyers extract
ed some interesting facts, one of
which was that Abe Rueff offered, if
Spreckels would get a syndicate to bid
on proposed city bonds, to call
strike on the United Railroads and
nobody else would lid on the bonds.
Orange County observer., 1909-05-27

Woman Doctor Fire Heroine.

| Woman Doctor Fire Heroine.
Chicago Julia G. Strawn. a
physician, carried her aged, paralytic
| father through fire in their home to
safety. She then assisted her mother.
Boy, Sixteen, Kills Physician.
Morgan City, La.-Dr. Allen S.
King was shot and killed in his office
by Leroy Olivier, sixteen years old,
who sought to avenge the blight cast
upon his sisters life.
Photograph Strike Breakers.
-Photographing the nom
union carriage drivers was feature
of the cabmen's strike. THE pic
lures here will enable us to recognize
the originals later explained labor
leader.
Adler Sentenced to Six Years.
New Orleans, William Adler,
convicted of wrecking the State Ma
tional Bank, of which he was presi-
dent, was sentenced to six years in
the Federal prison at Atlanta.
Ont of Work: Killed His Wife.
Norfolk, Vain the presence OF
their little daughter, Eugene PEBBLES,
a young iron molder, out of work, ap-
parently insane, killed his wife with
an axe in a boarding house kept by
her twin sister.
Wealthy Philadelphian Asphyxiated.
Philadelphia. - Gilbert Parker, a
wealthy resident of Wyncote, was as
phvxiated by gas in his room. He
had drawn up chair beside a gas
radiator 1T is thought he tainted
while reading, disconnecting the gas
tube.
Frightened to Death by Searchlight.
Foroche, La.-Adeline Hawkins. a
negress, was frightened to death by
the powerful searchlight of the bat
tleship Mississippi. on it's way up the
river to Natchez. ''It is the judgment
light" she exclaimed, and fell dead.
Cincinnati. Ohio. = A carload of
wheat sold here for S153 bushel
This price has been exceeded but
once before in this city, in 1876,
when wheat sold at $215 bushel
Held For Employers Murder.
PHILADELPHIA Harry Rosenzweig
was committed to prison without bail
charged with the murder of his en-
ployer, Harry Victor, cigar mere
chant.
Orange County observer., 1909-05-27
Fourteen

it's history 1t is widely dispersed.
chiefly among the middle classes, who
have been waiting for years for con-
ditions that make investments attrac-
tive. Their patience is now exhaust
ed, and the use to which their cav
ings are being put are significant.
American stocks, however, are
finding many purchasers, but the pop
ular idea seems to be that reorgan-
lied South Africa offers sounder eco
nomic conditions and better opportu-
mites than any other market. The
leaders of finance are of the same
mind as the public regarding the gen
eral situation
The chief factor, of course, is easy
money, which seems likely to con-
tinue. Next, it is argued, the power
for mischief of the present socialistic
Government is we'll nigh spent. It is
political certainty that they will be
driven out in disgrace the moment
the country gets an opportunity to ex-
ercise its will upon them.
Orange County observer., 1909-05-27
STRIKE. TIES UP RAILROAD.
The Georgia Refuses to Run Train
Till State Gives Projections.

Augusta, Ga.-The Georgia Rail
road is completely tied up by the
firemen's strike, in which the strikers
assert that ..hevswill drive every negro
fireman from tho road. The road did
not try to move trains, announcing
that it has the men, the means and
the equipment to proceed and will do
so when the State agrees to protect
its property and emplo..-es.
Governor Hoke Smith wired to
Sheriff of McDuff1e County to CO.
operate with the municipal authori-
ties and to summon all deputies nee
essary to protect life and property.
The road announced that all
freight accumulated at Atlanta for
Augusta and points beyond would be
moved by the Central Of Georgia and
Seaboard Air Line.
The Georgia RAILROAD runs I'll
miles from Atlanta to Augusta and
has branch lines. It is operated by
the Louisville and Nashville, lessee,
the Atlantic Coast Line being joint
lessee.
Orange County observer., 1909-05-27

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