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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-03-22

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Two barDs and other outbdild .ngs.
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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-03-22
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Six room house. on North
side. s12.75 per month.
The Detroit times., 1909-04-15
KILLS HIS WIFE AS SHE
LAY IN BED, AND HIMSELF
Victim and Relatives Were Armed for
Attack But Husband Entered
House in Darkness,

KANSAS CITY, No, April 15.-
Frank Williams shot his wife, Addie.
In their home at Rosedale, Kans., a
suburb. at daylight today and then
shot and killed himself.
Mrs. Williams had been fearful OF
an attempt on her life and for days
had carried revolver and slept with
one under her rillos ready to defend
herself. Her son, James Goodell, slept
IN another room also with a revolver
under his pillow and a daughter and
son-in-law both armed with revolvers,
came TO Hive with Mrs. Williams.
Williams was recently released from
jail for wife beating and found that
his wife had begun divorce proceed.
ings. He swore he would kill her.
Before daylight today Williams crept
into the yard His wife's guards were
all asleep. He got a heavy post and
battered down the door, rushed into
his wife's room and fired a shot into
her brain before she awoke, killing
her.
The battering at the door and shot
aroused Goodell who fired three times
at Williams as he ran toward the back
porch. At the door the murderer
stopped and fred twice into his own
brain. He died an hour later.
The Detroit times., 1909-04-15
SLIT PERSONS VICTIMS
OF MICHIGAN. RAILWAYS
OF This Number D. v. r. Killed So
and Injured 1,2s7 in 1903
Other Figures.

LANSING. Mich. April 2O.-State
officials are today discussing the cas-.
ualties on Michigan steam and electric
roads during last year. In 1908, 3,l77
persons were victims Of Michigan rail-
ways. The Detroit United railroad,
running through the thickly settled
portion Of the state, reports that So
persons were killed and 1927 were
injured on its lines. Eleven passen-
gers. five employees. two trespassers
and 35 others were killed by this line
and SIS passengers. SO employees and
S33 others were injured.
OF the steam roads the Pere Mar
quette heads the list with a total OF
casualties. OF which 38 were deaths
and 326 injuries. More employees were
killed and injured on this line than
passengers, its total number OF injur-
ed employees being 1879, as against 1O4
passengers, while five employees were
killed as against two Passengers
On the Michigan Central II en-
ployes. 40 trespassers and 10 others
were killed, while not a passenger met
death on that line and only 10 were
injured, as against 11S employees, 40
trespassers and "a others. Not a line
in the state escaped without at least
one accident.
The Detroit times., 1909-04-15
WOMAN PLUNGEs g.
STORIES TO DEATH
Mystery in Suicide of Mrs. Hamil-
ton Who Had Suffered Intermit-
tently From Decisions.

NEW YORK, April l5.-Who is the
husband OF Mrs Anita ID. Hamilton.
who flung herself TO death from the
ninth floor or the Coronet Apartments
at No. 81 West Fifty-elghth-st., yester-
day? What Is the womans history E?
Why did she destroy herself?
These are questions which Coroner
Herburger and the police are puzzling
over today. The nearest solution they
can come to, amid the secrecy main
tanned by those who knew the woman,
is that she was the wife of former
banker named William Il. Hamilton,
who Is not To be found.
Mrs. Hamilton (she was registered
as such at the apartments) has been
III for more than a year. according 10
superintendent Pettigrew, OF the
house. Miss Anna Driscoll, a trained
nurse. was in constant attendance
upon her. She was with the woman
yesterday together with Mrs. John
Won Gerichten, OF No 3l2 West One
Hundred ~and Thirteenth-st., who is
repnted by some TO be Mrs Hamiltons
stepmother; by others. her sister.
Mrs. Won Gerichten throws no light on
the relationship.
had suffered internationally from delu-
sions, II she would care TO take
walk. She gladly assented, and while
the two other women were making
their toilette, che entered her bedroom.
She climbed upon a radiator, reached
a window, threw up the sash, and
flung herself to the courtyard below,
meeting death probably. the instant
she struck the fiagstones.
The police were called. They sum-
moned the coroner. whose investiga-
ton revealed the facts cited above.
He said he found, among other things.
that Mrs. Won Gerichten Is the widow
OF Jake" Won GerichteH, a famous de-
tective who served under Inspector
Byrnes.
When Mr.. Pettigrew was seen by
newspaper men I'm the afternoon he
said he understood that Mr.. Hamil-
ton" was out west and that he had
been telegraphed for. But last night
he told reporter that Mr.. Hamil-
ton was In Europe. where he had
gone for his health, and had been
cabled for
Neither Miss Driscoll nor Mrs. Won
Gerichten could. or would, throw any
light on the mystery OF who mr..
Hamilton" is. The prominent Wall-st.
bankers and brokers were called on
the telephone and said tney had no
knowledge Of any such man. Many
Hamilton families were also interview
ed, but without avail. The Hamilton
supposed to be the husband or the
woman is not in the directory or tele--
phone book. nor Is he In any OF the
0nancial directories
1t was learned from a florist in the
neighborhood that Mrs. Hamilton Wis
tied his establishment several times
with a distinguished looking. gray
haired man. He did not know who
this man was. Neither do the othec
tenants OF the Coronet apartments.
About seven years ago Mrs. Hamil-
ton lived at the Hotel Savoy. Her
handwriting is still preserved In an
old register.
The body is still In The woman's
apartments, and the authorities are
still working on the mysterious case.
The Detroit times., 1909-04-15
HARVARD BOY To
SPEND s12,000,000
This Is Yearly Allowance of Son Of
Rajah of Baroda Who Will
Rule Over Empire.

BOSTON, Mass. April 15.-This is
a thumbnail sketch of Jaisingrao Gaik-
war, Harvard, 1912, son of the rajah OF
Baroda
Forty or so years ago this young
mans ancestors were the most war
like and barbarous OF the peoples OF
India. They fought necessarily, they
held savage carnivals. where human
life was held at nothing. The Gaik-
wars OF Baroda arranged great Ele-
plant fights and tiger fights, and
matched unarmed men against the
flercest animals of the mountains.
And now Jaisingrao Gaikwar. 10
year-old descendant of such rulers, A
smooth-cheeked, olive skinned, soft
spoken young man, bends over his lee.
lures on political economy. figures long
problems In higher algebra, and writes
weekly themes In psychology.
Pressed In the ordinary college
clothes, speaking English huehtly
Prince Jaisingrao can't be told from
the ordinary college freshman. He as
sumes no airs. and seeks the friend
ship OF his classmates. He is inter
ested In the crew and the eleven. an,
is popular.
The young prince has a million-dol
lar palace to go home 10, with foul
| solid gold lions In front, which tool
five years I'm the building. In his liv
ing room at home Is a rug four yards
square. composed OF diamonds, rubies
and pearls, interviewer with the gold
en fabric.
When this college freshman be
comes rajah OF India he will wear the
famous $12.000.0O0 necklace, struns
with 200 brilliants, each as big as q
hazel nut. Also a collarette of 500 dia
monds, among them the Star OF the
South, the nth largest diamond in the
world. When he drives forth he will
be drawn by royal bullocks loaded
down with 100000 worth of harness
He will have $12.000,00O a year to
spend
But Jaisingrao Gaikwar has brought
no barbaric splendor to Boston with
him-rather to Boston's disappoint.
ment.
His bare feet in the cold mornings
strike the ordinary boarding house
rug OF commerce. costing perhaps $12
in trading stamps.
He eats oatmeal, buckwheat cakes
and baked beans Among his friends
are young men who are working their
way through college by tending fur
naces and washing dishes
His studies are selected carefully
with a view OF fitting him for the
place he Is to occupy. Bx-Presiden,
Eliot assists him In selecting his
course. The young prince studies
earnestly.
The Detroit times., 1909-04-15
RAILROADS BEGIN FIGHT
ON FEDERAL COMMISSION
Want v. S. Supreme Court to Decide
Tnat Interstate Boards Powers
are Unconstitutional.

ST. PAUL, Mimi. April ia unit
Q dattack through the United States
courts against the Interstate Com
merce Commission as an institution,
has been started before Judge Fred
erick N. Dickson, special master In
chancery, In the federal circuit court
by a combination OF the Union Pacific.
Great Northern and Northern Pacific,
and nearly every other railroad opei-
sting west OF the Missouri river.
A final and conclusive decision by
the United States supreme court to
the effect that the powers and func-
lions authorized by congress and ex-
ercised by the commission, are uncon-
stitutional. is what the carriers are
after.
A recent ruling of the commission
Is TO be used as test OF the constitu-
uonal authority of that body This
ruling Is conceded To be typical one.
The case is the one in which the COM
mission ordered western roads to re-
duce the freight rates on lumber ship
ped eastward from the Pacific coast
The Detroit times., 1909-04-15
RECLUSE IN DESERT HAD
NO NEWS FOR Is YEARS
5riton Did Not Know QuQeen Victoria
Was Dsad-English Victory In
Africa Cheers Him.


LOS ANGELES, Cal, April 10
Lost in the desert for 1fteep years,
Albert Courtney, a mining prospector
and British subject. heard today for
the first time that Queen Victoria was
dead The name OF Theodore Roose-
welt was strange to him, and not an
echo OF the Boer war had reached his
ears. Naturally ping pong. diabolo
the plays OF George Bernard Shaw,
the defeat of Bill SQuires, the SUI
fragette movement-all the great facts
and occurrences of recent years, were
matters Of which he was ignorant.
Courtney was a recluse. and did not
see a book OF newspaper during the
entire period from the time he buried
himself In the desert until he emerged
therefrom In San Bernardino to ask
among other questions after Queen
Victoria's health. low Is the queen?'
was one OF his first queries. He was
told, once his question was under
stood, that IT is now King Edward.
An automobile shot past, and the
man from the desert backed hastily
into a doorway for protection
And so Queen Victoria Is dead
HI can-ardly believe IT," he murmured,
but the victory in South Africa raised
his spirits. and he gave three British
cheers on the spot.
Courtney is 20 years Of age, and is
we'll preserved. physically and men
tally.
The Detroit times., 1909-04-15
AD vALOREM BILL
UP TO GOVERNOR
House By SS to 5 Passes Senate
Measure Taxing Telegraph and
Telephone Companies.
lFrom . staff correspenden..,

LANSING. Mich, April 1.-THE
house yesterday afternoon by a vote
OF So TO 5. passed the senate I'D
valorem bill taxing telegraph and
telephone companies. The insurgents
had fought for the passage OF the
senate bill, saying the party was
pledged to do so. and after IL was
announced that the senate bill had
been reported out by the house COM
mittee on general taxation the rebels
said they were willing and anxious
to push the legislative work and con-
clude the session.
The Ave solons who voted against
the senate ad valorem bill were
Boussum, McCabe. G. A. Miller.
Morgan and Stevenson.
The measure passed by TIE house
Is known as the FairbaIks-Anhut
ad vaiorem taxation bib for tele-
graph and telephone companies. Guy
Miller, OF Detroit. in long speech.
opposed the bill. He said those COM
panies with gross receipts not ex-
ceeding $500 viii escape taxation
and offered substitute covering his
contention. Re said the house COM
mittee on general taxation, of which
he Is chairman. never had any intent
to hold up the bill; that Speaker
Campbell never attempted To infiu-
ence members OF the committee and
that the committee had reached the
Dill In Its regular turn last week.
when 1t would have been reported
out but for the unpleasant incidents
In the house. Miller said the SEN
ate bill would not stand a test in the
courts because IT makes the taxation
or these companies three times az
great as other properties. therefore
IL is not equal taxation. Rep. Flow
ers said he considered the bill I'M
constitutional because il exempts GER
tain parts OF property. Fouch said
the encouragement called the meas
ure constitutional and the Republic
can party was pledged to pass such
law.
The members. tired of the debate
voted down Flowers amendment &c
the measure and the bill was agreed
to In the same form as 1t passed the
senate. The bill is now up to the gov.
ernor.
Speaker Campbell, in statement
said:
Il voted yes on the senate ad valor.
er bill because l deemed it the duty
OF the legislature to redeem the par
tvs. pledge. l opposed the passage OF
similar bill during the last regular
and special sessions because I deemed
1t unscientific. Some companies. un-
der the old bill, ould'escape taxation
notably the express companies. A
large number of my constituents arc
stockholders In one OF the independent
, companies and the same objections ex-
list In my mind regarding the presen:
BILL I realize, however. that the par
| TVS pledge must be redeemed"
The Detroit times., 1909-04-15
WhiteIaw Reid, American Ambassador,
Spends Money Like Water in England

LONDON, April 16.-Not In many
years has there been such lamentation
In English society" as there Is Just
now over the prospective retirement
of Whitelaw Reid from the American
embassy In London.
Setting aside all questions OF politl.
cal preference or prejudice, Il is safe
TO say that no American ever got
quite so close 10 the best people"
in England az has Ambassador Reid.
Incidentally. he has made the London
embassy difficult for his successor TO
fiji He will need mUney-lots or It.
Under the Reid regime the embassy
has become multi-millionaire's post
To be sure. II English society" un-
derstands that the new ambassadors
Is poor man, II will undoubtedly
make allowances for an ambassador
IS quite a different thing from taking
him TO your heart--as English "socie-
ty" has taken Reid.
Reid has been popular because he
has manifested marvellous adapt
ability to English ways and has done
things "-Eocially-in exactly the right
way. The things he has done couldn't
have been done without money. For
instance, Ambassador Reid pays $780,
900 year rent for mis- town house III
London and $4,000 for Wrest Park.
bis country place in Bedfordshlre.
Well, his salary is $l7.500
The pcpular-outside-i is that
England is ruled BY the king. his cab
met and parliament. This is not true
at all. Parliament makes the laws. OF
course. but the actual administration
the branch with which the ambassador
has TO dds conducted by small
group OF men, some OF whom hold no
official position whatever.
Al present the actual government OF
England is In the hands OF sort OF
committee" consisting Of King Ed
The Detroit times., 1909-04-15
The Times Sporting Extra Was
Gut First, AS USual--Itt'S Pink

Al usual The Detroit Times the first local paper bring
the the opening baseball game the eager who had
been unable to get to the field the inspiring contest
For than Ave minutes Immediately following
cuon Of the game The Times robust pink in evidence
cuvey all through the business portion Of the city Times
carriers At meet the crowds emerging from the park
papers giving correct totals of the game played.
In addition to the Of the American league
Detroit and st. Louis The Times carried full racing re-
suits entries along with the usual of upodate sporting
and comment
Keep touch with Tigers by The Times extra
It's first it's best IT'S PINK!
The Detroit times., 1909-04-15
GEN. BUTLER DIES.
Was Ex-Unlted States Senator and
Soldier Of Confederacy.

COLUMBIA, 8. c.. April 15.-Gen.
Marion c. Butler, formerly United
States senator from South Carolina,
who had been III for some time owing
TO advanced age, died at his home here
shortly before midnight last night He
was a gallant soldier of the Confeder.
acy and for long time after the val
was dominant figure in South Care.
lima politics He lost his political
hold when the Gilman faction became
dominant.
During the SpanishAmericsa war
Gen. Butler was major general In
the United States army and after.
ward wac appointed a member OF the
Cuban peace commission. He is sur.
vived by his widow and three chill
dren. He died within SO yards of
the convention hall In which the Sc
cession convention met. Gen. Butler
was a nephew Of Commodore Perry,
The Detroit times., 1909-04-15
5000 ACRES AWARDED.
Government Gives Land to Settlers In
Emmett County

MARQUETTE, Mich. April 49,
Three thousand acres OF farm land
In Emmett county. which was claimed
by the Grand Rapids and Indiana rail
road. was awarded to lower Michigan
settlers at the federal office here yes
terday. Litigation over the land ex
tended for more than twenty years
the courts recently deciding that the
title was vested In the government.
Twenty settlers had located on the
land, a few Of them as q result Of pur'
chases from the railroad. Yesterday
the farms were formally awarded to
these various homesteaders, all vi
whom we're present in person.
The Detroit times., 1909-04-15
BROTHER AWARDED 500, 900.
Alfred Shepard Sued for Part Of His
Fathers Estate.

BATTLE CREEK. Mich. April 15.--
Judge North has awarded Alfred
Shepard 100000 Of the fortune of
David Shepard. one of the founders OF
Battle Creeks Nichols q Shepard
thresher industry. An appeal will be
taken to the supreme court. Alfred
Shepard sued Freedom Shepard, his
brother, for his share of the estate
left by the father, claiming that he
was ignored In the will because Free.
dom used unlawful influences over his
parent. Freedom replied that Alfred
had received. his share of the fortune
while his father was alive.
The Detroit times., 1909-04-15
ENTRYMEN TO MAINTAIN
RIGHTS TO SURFACE LAND
Regulations Governing Administration
OF Surface Rights Law" Promul-
gated-Severai Million Acres
Affected

WASHINGTON. April 15.-Reguia-
tons governing the administration Of
the "Surface-rights law" enacted by
the last congress. were promulgated
yesterday by the department Of the
interior.
The law Is compromise measure,
allowing entrymen to maintain their
rights to the surface Of the land, even
II 1t be afterward discovered that coal
lies beneath the surface.
The regulations issued stipulate that
the law will Apply to entries made
prior 70 iix;passase a. well as &c
those madS anorkardf 1.-The land,
have been classified by the govern
ment az coal lands after the date OF
entry.
In cases where the classification Is
subsequent to the passage Of the law
entryfnen may elect either to receive
a patent, reserving to the United
States all the coal In the land. or TO
deny that the land is chiefly valuable
for coal. He must take either course
within sixty days after he files the
original entry.
Where claimants file denials Of tho
coal character Of the land, hearing
will be ordered and II the land Is
classified as non-coal, a regular patent
will beg ranted. II the land has not
been already classified as mineral. the
burden OF proof will be upo nthe Unit
ed States to show that the land Is
chiefly valuable for coal.
These regulations apply to several
million acres OF land In the Dakotas.
wyoming, Montana, Utah and other
western states.
The Detroit times., 1909-04-15
kAzoo MAN KILLS SELF.

NEW YORK. April 15-Joseph
Israel. a wealthy retired merchant OF
this city. who formerly lived in Kal
amazoo. Mich, committed suicide yes
terday by jumping out OF hotel win
dow. He was SO years old and had
been an invalid for sometime. De
spondency over ill-health is supposed
to be the cause OF his act.
The Detroit times., 1909-04-15
! SON KILLED; MOTHER DYING.

PORT HURON. Mich. April 10
Mrs Harvey Woolman. OF this city
whose son was killed I'm railroad ac-
cident in Montana Easter Sunday
night, Is almost dead from grief. Her
husband Is bedridden and her daugh-
tiers are also I'll. Arson Woolman. her
son, when the locomotive shops clos
ed down several months ago. went To
Montana TO seek work. He secured
employment as a railroad fireman.
The Detroit times., 1909-04-15
ADMITS ROBBING MAN.
John Edwards Says That Companion
of Victim Was In DEALT

BATTLE CREEK, Mich, April 49,
John Edwards. who was brought oack
from Billings. Mont, over 1000 miles,
admitted yesterday that he robbed
Matthew Simmer Of $500 by imper-
sonating an oficer and searching
Simmer while the latter was being
taken home In an inebriated condition
by John Hodges.
Edwards charges that Hodges was
not doing the good Samaritan stunt In
taking Simmer home; that on the con-
trary he was also in on the deal, ac-
cepted his share of the swag. and af-
forwards spent it all in South Bend
carousing Hodges, painter Of con-
siderable responsibility, is under ar.
rest
The Detroit times., 1909-04-15
80 KILLED IN RIOTS.
Mayor Of Mexican Town Tried to Stop
Religious Procession.

CITY OF MEXICO, April 15.-Thir-
ty-two persons were killed In the riot.
ing at Valardena, mining camp In
Coahuila, on Saturday, according to
news received here today. Fourteen
OF the rioters were put to death by
the government troops and others
were imprisoned. The rioting began
when the mayor of the town tried to
stop a religious procession headed by
the village priest. A thousand parish
toner's followed the priest. Father Ra.
mon Valenzuela, wishing 10 see the
burning OF Judas.
The Detroit times., 1909-04-15

recognized. Sometimes the members
are almost ignorant OF their relations
one TO another But they control Eng
lands rulers are cronies He enter
tains them. not only in formas. OIL
cial way. 0ut I'm his own family circle.
They do The same by him.
The ambassador what the
country's rules are thinking and do
ing. and therefore knows England's
policies.
The Detroit times., 1909-04-15

month to favored shippers under var
ious deceitful guises.s The implied
promise Of immunity from the penal
sections OF the Hepburn act will be
the signal for the secret rebate to re-
new its youth and flourish" Z.
The Detroit times., 1909-04-15

ward, Prime Minister AsquIth. former
Prime Minister Baltour. Foreign Min
lister Sir Edward Grey. Lord Esher.
First Lord of the Admiralty Sir John
Fisher and Sir Felix Cassel.
AS a body this committee" is I'M
The Detroit times., 1909-04-15
Crushed 20 Death In Well.

SPRINGFIELD. o., April 15.-The
body OF John Toler. who has been
lying dead. covered with stone at the
bottom OF a 70-foot we'll for five days
was recovered today. His head was
crushed and he was mashed almost
fat. Death was instantaneous. Toler
was walling a well with boulders when
the accident occurred
The Detroit times., 1909-04-15

IL finds its way into the best homes
for reasons not far TO find. The repu-
tation Of stroh's Beer IL universal and
OF long standing. Phone Main ais for
a casa
The Detroit times., 1909-04-15

Busiuess-iike Prfstrnn. No fuss and
no feathers. The plain. neat kind that
looks right. Times Printing Co., No
rs John R.-st Phone 1898.
The Detroit times., 1909-04-15

yeb Printing done right. IT. mes Print
fnW Co. Is John R-st. Phone tf96
The Detroit times., 1909-04-15

Ai-s.ader. Umbrs'ias- ~ sS<rs~
The Detroit times., 1909-04-15

only Detroit Daily with Direct LEASED
Wire Connection.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1909-04-29

Latest May records at Smiths mus
ic store.
Graustark will mean more to you II
you read the book first. Forty nine
cents, at Bucknam's.
Sunset League, o. E. s. has may
baskets for sale, today and tomorrow,
at Simpsons Drug store.