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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-30
LEAPED TO DEATH.
New York Man Went Down From
Bridge. Instantly Killed by Fall.

New York, Oct. 29-Two men
standing at the base of the Sedgwick
avenue arch of Washington Bridge
saw mans body turning in the air
as it sped downward from the bridge
to the roadway shortly after P NJ.
yesterday. So far as is known, none
saw the man when he leaped. He was
instantly killed
Peter Ward OF No. 1921 Lind avenue
! and James Gallo, who keeps fruit
stand under the arch, caught sight OF
the body after it had fallen more than
half the total distance OF about 17o
feet from the bridge to the ground.
The man had removed all papers
from his pockets which might lead to
identification, but his watch fob was
inscribed with the initials &C. D." He
was about fifty years of age, feet :
inches in height, weighed $50 pounds,
had partly gray hair and mustache,
wore a gray sack suit, light overcoat,
carried a walking stick, and in his
WaistcOat pocket was case with eye
glasses. The body was taken to the
FOrdham mOrgue.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-30

made of brick from his fathers
brick yard; it is one of the Oldest IN
this rart of the county He was the
son of Asa and Mehitable Chamber
laim Dyer his father being one of the
first settlers of the town of Canaan.
Asa Over was also one of the pioneer
brick manufacturers of this section.
Mr.. Dyer was educated III the pup
lie schools of Skowhegan and Tor seT-
eral years taught school. Whlle 4
younr man he became proprietor OF
a drug store and continued as pre-
prietor for thirty three years. For a
mart of this time he had for partner
Mr.. George Gushing. After his long
service as a druggist he engaged III
brick-making assuming his 1ather
business and continuing it until 1891.
Since then, until within few years,
he has devoted himself to farming.
He enlisted in the army in 1861 when
he was appointed Licutenant-CNonel
of the 18th. Maine Noiuntee" Infantry.
He joined with his regiment the 18TH.
ARMY CORPS under General Benjamin
Butler. They proceeded to the lower
Mississippi where they took part III
the important military operations OF
the Gulf Department. After ferce
fighting and many hardships. IN the
autumn of 1862 he went with his regl-
mont to Pensacola Florida, where he
succeeded General Neal Dow as COM
mander of the Port. After Lee sur
render, Colonel Dyer went TO Georgia
where under government SUPERVISION
he was engaged assisting the negroes
to become self-sustaining. lie was
brevetted rigadier-General in Ma:2h
1S65 and the following September nc
was honorably discharged from the
army.
AS a citizen. General Dyer~has bril-
liant record. He has served ms town
as selectman six years. He has served
various years on the School Board ana
one wear was Town Treasurer. In 1861
and 1865 he represented his district IN
tho Maine Senate being a member OF
the Committee of Interior Waters. In
1879 he was appointed Inspector-Gen-
eral of Governor Nelson Dingley
staff. Since 1900 he has served SkoW =
hogan as Postmaster. He Is mem
her of Russell Post G.. A. X, ana IN
1899 was Department Commander OF
Maine. For many years he mas peen
trustee of Bloomfield Academy ana
the Coburn Free Library Fund. lie
was formerly trustee of the SHOW
hogan Savings Bank of which ne was
one of the promoters. He is free
Mason of high standing. He belongs
To Somerset Lodge +. and A. NJ, 70
somerset Chapter, r. A. NJ. and DC
Molay Commandery X. T. He IS a
member of the Methodist Church ana
chairman of the board of trustees
He has one son. Albert Forest, who Is
one of the principal business men OF
Skowhegan. General Dyer stands as
a typical representative of the best
Maine citizenship.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-30
COL. DODGE DEAD.
Noted Military Historian Was Native
Of Massachusetts,. Wrote Many Books.

PARIS Oce. 29.-Colonel Theodore A.
Dodge. the military historian of New
York and Paris, is dead at Versailles.
He WAS born at Pittsfield, Mass, in
1912.
His father was \. S. Dodge, the
vell-known writer and his mother
Emily Pomeroy. Sent abroad at ten
wears old. he was at school in Belgium,
received a thorough military education
in Berlin, studied at Heidelberg, and
was graduated at the University "f
London in 1850. He is also an LII. b.
of Columbia University On the out
break of the Civil War Dodge returned
home. enlisted. and served in every
rank from private to the commander
OF a regiment.
With the Third and Eleventh Corps
he went through all the battles of the
ARMY Of the Potomac from Fair Oaks
on. and was wounded at Manassas and
AT chantilly, and lost a leg at Gettys-
hurg. At Manassas his regiment. the
one Hundred and First New York
Volunteers. lost the third highest per-
centage in killed, wounded and
missing in one engagement of any
regiment during the war-seventy-
four per cent. Being ordered to duty
in the War Department on recovery
from his last wound, Colonel Dodge
was given a commission in the regular
army, received four brevets for
gallant service, and in 1870 was placed
on the retiring list for wounds re-
ceived in the line of duty.
He crossed the Atlantic over thirty
times, was familiar with every part of
Europe, repeatedly went through the
Orient, and once circumnavigated the
globe In writing his histories Of the
Great Captains, it was his habit to
pass over the ground covered by Their
campaigns, and to make his own
sketches of battlefields. In writing
Hannibal he crossed and recrOssed
the Alps a score OF times to determine
the route of the greatest Carthagin-
ian; in writing Caesar" he journeyed
round the entire basis of the Mediter-
ranean, and he was able, to correct
many Typographical errors, which had
crept into history.
He was member of many military
and historical societies., of the ST.
Botolph, Country and Papyrus Clubs
or Boston, and was once president Of
the last. Colonel Dodge married in
1865 Miss Jane Marshall Neil. who
died in 1881. In 1898 he married Miss
Clara Isabel Rowden of Boston, who
has been his collaboration in most Of
his works He resided for many years
in BrOOkline.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-30
JAMES LUCAS DEAD.
Was Guard at Capitol Prison During
Civil War Guarded Body of Lin
coins Slayer.

Lafayette, Ind, Oct. 29-James Lucas
aged so, who was a guard at the old Capt.
tol prison in Washington during the civil
war and played an important part in the
capture of J. Wilkes Booth, slayer of
Abraham Lincoln, died here on Tuesday.
On the night President Lincoln was as
sassinated Lucas was on duty. He was
the leader of the posse that followed
Booth. When the slayer of the Pres-
dent was killed and his body returned to
Washington it was Lucas who was APP
pointed to guard it. He watched the body
in the prison and on gunboat after the
body had been removed from the prison
under cover of darkness. Later he was
| on the staff of officers who held the
court-martial over the remaining con-
| spiritors.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-30
Gen. Isaac Dyer
Has Had Brilliant
And Notable Career,

Skovhegan, Me-, Oct. 29.-(Speclal).-
General Isaac Dyer of Skowhegan,
the oldest Postmaster in the State OF
Maine and d man of whom SkoWheSan
is proud will on November l celebrate
his eighty-ninth birthday.
Mr. Over was born in Canaan, later
lived in Bloomfield and now in SHOW
hogan and has always made his nome
in the same house At the time of his
birth this town was called Canaan;
# was later changed to Bloomfield and
then assumed the name OF SkoWhesan.
His nome is on Madison Avenue ana Is
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-30
DEADLY TETANUS.
Samuel Olsen Of Brooklyn Will he-
cover Seventy-five Thousand Units
Antitoxin.

New York, Oct. 29.-With the aid of
crutches. Samuel Olsen, of Al Woodruff
street. made his way through the corrl-
ders of the Long Island College Hospital
yesterday afternoon. His life was saved,
the physicians say, by the great quaint
ty of anti-toxin he took and the constant
daily attention of his wife, whom he mar
ried in the institution, when it was be-
lieved he was dying of lackjaw
While at work at the foot of Joralemon
street six weeks ago Olsen stepped on a
rusty nail. Tetanus set in. and on Oct.
the sufferer was taken to the hospital,
where Drs. White. Dukeshire and Barber
worked on him. the medical men say
that seventy-tive thousand units of anti
toxin were injected into the base of Oh
sens spine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-30
ALL HIS MONEY FOR SERVICE,

Kenosha, Wis, Oct. 29.-The dying
wish of Francisco Andreola was graft
fed when he had the biggest funeral
ever seen here. He had $1,000 saved
from many years of labor and made
an ante-mortem request that all of it
be spent for funeral. A brass band
OF forty pieces preceded twenty six
carriages. The church will receive
several hundred dollars for masses.
He had no family, his wife having
deserted him. .L,~5E t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-30

Constipation causes headache: nausea,
dizziness, languor. heart palpitation.
Drastic physics grippe. sicken. weaken the
bowels and don't cure. Doan's Regulets
act gently and cure constipation. p
cents Ask your druggist.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-30

Don't let the baby suffer from eczema,
sores, or any itching of the skin. Doan's
Ointment gives instant relief, cures quick
ly Perfectly safe for children. All drug
gists sell it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-30

Had dyspepsia or indigestion for years.
No appetite. and what I did eat distress
ed me terribly. Burdock Blood Bitters
cured me."-J. H. Walker, Sunbury, Ohio.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-30

Never can tell when you'll mash fin
geer or suffer cut, bruise. burn or scald
Be prepared. DIR. Thomas Eclectric Oil
instantly relieves the pain-qnickly cures
the wound.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-04
CITY PAYROLL
GROWING

City employees are drawing their
pay today for the month of Janu-
AIRY. The payroll is steadily
climbing by the addition of new
men and the creating of new po-
sitions> and increasing salaries,
and it Is this month $46,722.74.
The library shows one of the
largest increases. Salaries have
been boosted in the library until
the payroll Is Just about 80 per
cent higher now than it was a
year ago.
The payroll is divided as fol-
lows: Library, $940; light, So
850.S5; water, $6,695.46; salaries
$30,236.17.
The council last night ap-
proved the payroll and also pass
ed the new salary ordinance which
boosts the pay of the chief of de-
tectives to 500 a month, increas-
es the receiving tellers in the
treasurer's office 20 $50, boosts
the assistant line superintendent
of the fire department from $85
to $95 and the supply driver from
$50 to SIS and added $25 to the
$50 paid the humane officer In
the past.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-04
PRESIDENT IS ACCUSED
OF CONSPIRACY
Roosevelt and Hearst Charged With Being In
Plot to Defame Governor Haskell of OkIaho-
ma In Resolution Put Before SOlOns
(By United Press Leased Wire.)

GUTHRIE, Okla, Feb. 4.-Ac-
cusing President Roosevelt and
Editor william Randolph Hearst
with conspiracy to defame Gov
ernor Charles N. Haskell of Okla
homa, a resolution was today in
troduced in the legislature, but
action On it was deferred until to-
morrow.
The resolution says the indict-
men voted against Governor Has
kell yesterday in connection with
the Muskogee townsite land fraud
investigation was indirectly in
spired by the president and Hearst
as the result of bad feeling grow
ing out of the presidential cam
paign of last November.
Senator Hoddie objected to any
consideration of the resolution,
which was introduced by Senator
d. M. Smith. The indictment of
the governor has aroused bitter
feeling in administration circles
here.
Governor Haskell will determ-
inc later whether or not he will
go to Muskogee In person. 1t is
said that arrangements are al
ready being made there for him to
enter his appearance.
The resolution says in part:
"Whereas, it is the belief of
this senate that the pretended in
vestigation was instigated for the
purpose of blackmailing our chief
executive, and be 1t
"hesolved, That we condemn
the purpose and motives prompt
ing such action and believe that
the day has come when long suf-
fering people resent such insults. +"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-04
HOLDING
INQUEST
CORONER CONDUCTING IN
QUIRY INTO DEATHS OF
TWO MEN WHO WE'RE ELEC-
TROCUTED MONDAY.

Acceding to the requests Of citi-
zens who asked that the deaths of
Arthur w. Charlson and John R.
Ohrstrom, killed Monday morning
by a 1,100-volt current of elec-
tricity, be investigated, Coroner
G. d. Shaver empanneled q jury
this morning and spent the great
er part of the day holding an In
quest. The jury was occupied all
morning in examining the remains
of Mr.. CharlsOn, at Mellinger's un-
dertaking parlors, and of Mr..
Ohrstrom at his home, 1414 South
Ninth.
At 1880 this afternoon the for
NAL inquest was begun in the SUI
perior court at the court house,
evidence being taken from city
electricians, consulting electrical
engineers and attaches OF the
West Coast Wagon company and
the Younglove Grocery company,
where the men were killed.
1t is not probable that the Jury
will be taken to the scene Of the
accidents.
The funeral of Mr.. Ohrstrom
was held at 2 o'clock this after
neen from the Danish Lutheran
church, South Thirteenth and L
streets. Fairweather lodge of the
Masonic order had charge of the
rites at the grave in Tacoma Gem
etery.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-04
KLEIN IS
DEF|AN I
IN COURT
MYSTERIOUS SELF STYLED
MESSIAH is ARRAIGNED ON
CHARGE OF ASSAULT WITH
INTENT TO COMMIT CRIME
OF MURDER.

Joshua Klein, accused of as
sault with intent to murder Dora
Culbertson, was arraigned before
Judge Easterday of the superior
court this morning and entered a
plea of not guilty.
The mysterious man, who is
alleged to be holding two Tacoma
girls, Miss Dora Sauvageot and
Miss Rose Karasek, in bondage in
Europe, was cool and self-compos-
ed as he was led into the court
room, and faced his accusers, Miss
Culbertson, Mrs. Sauvageot, and
the throng of curious people with
defiance in his eye.
After the arraignment Attorney
George, representing Klein, ap-
pealed to the court to reduce the
amount of bail from $4,000 to
$1,000. The court, however, said
that only when it was absolutely
proved that Klein could not pro-
duce the bond, he might reduce
the sum.
No date has been set for the
trial, but 1t will not be held until
the middle of March, when a new
fury has been empanneled.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-04
WILL BAR
UNCLEAN
FOOD
CITY ATTORNEY DRAWS A
MUCH NEEDED ORDINANCE
TO INSURE CLEAN FOOD
SUPPLY FOR TACOMA.
CLUB WOMEN ARE
BEHIND MOVEMENT

When the ordinance prepared
today by City Attorney Stiles at
the request of the club women of
Tacoma is passed and enforced
citizens will be able TO know that
what they eat is at least clean.
All bread will have to be baked
by clean bakers, wrapped in para
fine paper and stamped with the
firm name before it goes out, as
will also cakes and other bakery
products. All places where foods
are sold must be kept clean and
wholesome. No footstuffs will be
allowed exposed where dust or
flies may bet to them. No decayed
or unwholesome food of any kind
will be permitted to be sold or
exposed for sale. No person af-
flicted with tuberculosis or amy
other communicable disease will
be permitted to handle any food
stuffs. And the clean places will
be posted by the, health commits
sioner SO all may know where the
sanitary places are.
For several weeks the club
women of 80 different organiza-
tions have been quietly pursuing
a campaign for better and cleaner
food. The ordinance drawn by
City Attorney Stiles embodies
their ideas and is radical and COM
prehensive in it's scope.
The women will appear before
the health and hospital committee
of the council next Monday at IL
O'Clock in the council chamber to
advocate the passage of the meas
ure and for the appointment of a
special food inspector to enforce
the law.
The ordinance gives the inspec-
tor authority to confiscate any
food product found offered for sale
which is not wholesome or clean,
or is kept under conditions dan
gerous to the public health.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-04

REMOVAL.
PLANNED
SOLONS AGAIN TALKING OF
PUNISHING OLYMPIA BY
TAKIN CAPITOL SITE
AWAY - SEPARATE DIS
TRICT PROPOSED.
(Times Special Service.)

OLYMPIA, Feb. 4-To take the
capitol from Olympia and put 1T
down on a spot on Puget Sound
between Seattle and Tacoma Is
the program of a coterie of SEN
ate and house members. 1t Is
quite likely that within few days
a bill will be introduced in either
house instructing the governor to
appoint commission for the
purpose of studying the question
of selecting a site and reporting
at the next session of the legisla-
ture.
The new capitol city, according
to the gentlemen behind this plan,
will be in a district of itself, SINH
lar to the District of Columbia
land will have that form of gov
|ernment. This will take the capi-
tol out of politics.
Different persons in the past
have advanced many reasons for
the removal of the capital from
Olympia and the actions of Presi-
dent Ruth of the senate, men,
ber from Thurston county, has
|crystalized this animosity towards
Olympia to the point of definite
action.
1t is also a part of the gener-
al scheme If this plan is adopted
to work to bring all the state in
|stitutions to this new district, in
|cluding penitentiary, reform
schools, insane asylums. This,
however, is only tentative feat
ure. The main object appears to
be to teach Thurston county and
Olympia a lesson. The threat to
remove the capital from Olympia
has always been a club over the
men who represent Thurston coun-
ty, but none has ever reached the
obnoxious pre-eminence of Sena-
tor Ruth. Ruth organized the
senate, and organized against
some of his friends. He played
Indian" and has continued these
tactics trying to block at every
step local option, the race track
bill and all progressive measures.
AS the presiding member he has
CALLED the progressive members
Ion the floor beyond endurance
and they are about to retaliate.
If Olympia should ever be in
danger of losing the capital by
reason of Ruth's activities, he
would be retired to private life SO
suddenly that it would blister him.
Olympia, minus the capital, would
be q sorry spectacle, and none
know II better than the residents
|of Thurston county.
When the bill to appoint this
commission is sent in, 1t will be
notice to Thurston county that
Senator Ruth has to be good.
Ruth will either experience q
|change of heart or make a fight
for 1t, and If he fights 1t will be
not only for his political life, but
the financial life Of Olympia.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-04
THREE MINISTER'S CLIMB
FIRE ESCAPE TO HEAR
BILLY SUNDAY PREACH
lBy united Press LEASED Wlre.l

(By United Press Leased Wire.) }
SEATTLE, Feb. 4.-Frustrated
after vain attempts to enter the
opera house in Olympia on Mon
day night. where the meeting or
Billy Sunday was being held, three
Methodist pastors Of Seattle. Rev.
T. e. Elliott. Rev. =. L. Benedict
and Rev. o. III. McGill, went to the
rear ofsthe building, climbed the
fire escape into the second story
over the grfdiron, and after strug-
Cling for ten minutes In pitch
darkness. emerged. dust begrim-
ed and weary, to the stage below.
where they were greeted by Lieut..
Gov. M. 3. Hay. ~
Not until yesterday did the A.
cret Of how the ministers entered
the opera house through the
crowd, hall al hour late, get out.
The pastors were With the Seat
IA delegation from the M1nister1sl
cderetiou, Hhich h1d gone a
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-04
DEA DL0Ck
ON TRACK
BILL
lTimes Special Service.l

OLYMPIA, Feb. 4. Both
houses of the legislature today
took action on the squabble over
the racetrack bill of yesterday.
The status of the bill now is that
it has been passed by the house
with the emergency clause, and by
the senate without the emergency
clause.
Both houses this morning .ex-
plunged from the records all ac-
count of the transmission of the
bill from the senate to the house
yesterday and the refusal of the
house to concur In the elimination
of the emergency clause.
The probabilities are that the
house and senate will have a
deadlock over the emergency
clause. and that the bill will be
withheld from the governor for
his signature for a considerable
length Of time.
A delegation representing the
Brotherhoods of Railway Firemen,
Conductors and Engineers is hold
ing meeting this afternoon with
rhe KING county delegation TO
urge the delegation to use its In
huence and vote for a bill to pro-
vide electric lights for locomotive
headlights and full sized cabooses.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-04
NOT TAMPER|NG
WITH JURY LIST
IN COOPER CASE
(By United Press Leased Wire. }

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Feb. A.
Judge Hart, who is presiding at
the trial of Colonel Duncan Coop
er, his son, Robin, and John ID.
Sharp, accused of numbering form
er United States Senator e. w.
Carmack, announced from the
bench at the opening of court to-
day that there had been intima-
tions in the press that attempts
had been made to tamper with
the jury list.
In justice to all concerned" he
said, 81 want to say that the box
from which the names are drawn
is In the custody of Circuit Court
Clerk Lewis HIT. The names in
it were placed there two years
ago. The box has been sealed
ever SINCE"
The court then drew a new
venire.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-04
lcavalry regiment, which was hast

cavalry regiment, which was hasti-
ly summoned, were the only
sounds on the street. Lincoln was
tenderly carried to a little house
across the street from the theater,
and the great men of the nation
called to look at him before death
came. His wife, too, was at his
side.
Capt. Catch and his brother re-
mained in the house, and when
Lincoln died, early the following
morning, they assisted in carrying
his body to the funeral car which
bore it away.
Catch and his brother then re-
turned to the theater and meas
ured the distance Booth had leap
ed from the presidents box to the
stage. 1t was IA feet.
eve saw Booth fall on the
stage, the spurs on his boots hav-
ing caught in the folds of flag
which was draped about the presi-
dents box.
He brandished dagger, shout
ing: "The south is avenged!"
Capt. Catch and his brother OBJ
tanned the cuffs worn by Lincoln
on the night he was shot, but they
were stolen 15 years ago. Catch
works on his farm every day, and
lives alone with his wife.
"The events of that night are
burned into my mind" he said.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-04
OFFICER IS
ACQUITTED
(By United Press Leased Wire. }

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
GIBRALTAR, Feb. captain
Qualtrough of the battleship Geor-
gia was today acquitted Of the
charge of appearing in an intoxi-
Gated condition at a recent recep-
tion given at Algieres In honor of
several officers of the Atlantic
fleet.
Captain Qualtrough's defense
was that he was fatigued and at
times acted in a manner that led
some to think he was under the
influence of liquor. He was court
martialed under orders from Ad-
miral Sperry.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-04
MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Marriage licenses have been is
sued to Hugh Boyle and Grace
Gallagher, to F. l.. Davidson and
Margaret r. Brooks, to Orville H..
Vance and Marie Hayes, to Thorn
as Holmes and Hannah Byron, to
Herbert M. Robinson and Kath-
crime Markham, to. l.. CALI and
Katie Santini. and to Jesse F..
Shaw and Mrs. Allie A. Odemark.