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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-01

I n was the unanimous. opinion OF the
| officers that it would be sater not "
| take any chances by exposing their
prisoners to the wrath OF the sharon
p%opulace.
Armed Guard at His Cell.
Mercer. Pa, March %. HeaVlly
manacled to Sheriff Chess n guaru-
| ed by several detectives, James BOYLE
one Of the kidnappers of little Billy
Whitla. was Brought here yesterday
from P~ittsburg and lodged IN tne
Mercer county Jail. His wife, II IS
said. will be brought here from Plus
burg today and the couple will be for-
mally arraigned on a charge OF klu'
mapping in a few days.
BOYLE feared violence on his arrival
in Mercer. and on the journey from
Pittsburg asked Sheriff Chess If he
thought the crowd would harm him.
The prisoner looked greatly relieved
when he saw only a scattering Of peo-
pie at the Mercer station.
Armed Guard at Jail.
Bowie was hurried into a waiting
bus and taken to the jail. An armed
guard was placed in front of Boyle's
call and q patrolman will be stationed
outside the jail all night. Sheriff
Chess said that the Jail would be
guarded until the trial Of the BOyles
wa over.
Word met the authorities were
bringing Boyle to this place caused
small crowds TO gather at all stations
en- route from P~tttsburg. Over 200
people fOcked about the train at
Grove CITY ard rccred in the car win
lows. There were no demonstrations
OF violence during the trip, but Boyle
clearly showed lie was n"rvous
Want Boy in Vaudeville.
Sharon. Pa. March 2S.-News that
james II. BoIIe had been removed to
the Mercer county Jail at Mercer was
received ere with little interest yes
elday. Eoyle escaped from the Mer-
Ger county i2il several years ago,
when confined there On a minor
charge. When informed yesterday
that Boyle had been returned to the
same Jail, James p. Whitla said:
Il hope they will take every pre-
TO keep him safely. He is a
dangerous man in the community"
Since Boyle's escape the Jail has
been rebuilt and is now considered
An offer for Willie Whitla to go on
the vaudeville stage at $1,000 a week
has been received by his father, who
merely remarked:
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-01
BOY IDENTIFIES
HIS KIDNApPfRS
Man and Woman Arrested at
Cleveland Are Confronted
by Willie Whitla.
ACCONPlICt TAKES POISON
Suicide Believed by Police to Have
Been Implicated in PlOt-Grard
Jury Takes Case.

Cleveland, March 25.-In the arrest
here last night of a man and a won,
an having 1890 in their possession
the police believe they have captured
the kidnappers of Willie Whitla. In
fact the woman in the case, who is
somewhat %befuddled, admitted that
she had been responsible for the kid
mapping. When placed in custody at
the central police station she said to
Capt. Shattuck: Il am the one who
planned the whole thing. There will
be trouble for me and HI in Sharon
tomorrow"
Beneath the woman's skirt was
found $3.50. All of it but $40 was
bound in packages with the original
slips placed OF the money when
Whitla took it from the bank still
around it.
Capt. Norman Shattuck and Detec-
tive Frank Wood made the arrests
In the East end of the city. When
near the police station the man broke
away from Detective Wood and ran
towards an alley. The policeman fired
two shots from his revolver into the
air and the man stopped. The WON
an made no attempt to escape
Boy Given Ovation.
Sharon, Pa, March 25.-The whole
borough of Sharon turned out last
night and participated in the demon
stration over the homecoming of
Willie Whitla, who, with his father,
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-01
COUNTY TREASURER is GONE.

st. Paul, March 26.-Peter w. Ehr,
resigned treasurer of Carlton county
is missing and a shortage of s3,S52.95
in the county's treasury was reported
to Gov. Johnson yesterday by Public
Examiner Anton Schafer.
Last July it is said a discrepancy
of $4,000 was found in EiIr's accounts,
but this was made good. it is claim
ed, by his bondsmen, and he was re-
elected to the Office.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-01
IMMIGRANTS MOVE WEST.

st. Paul. March 26.-About ten sne.
cial full-car consignments of immi.
grants. mostly from Northern Euro.
pean countries. have passed throupb
ST. Paul the past seven days. Others
nave passed through On regular coach.
es. immigration officials at the pnion
depot believe that more than 2ooO
Northern Europeans have gone West
through st. Paul, during the past
week.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-01

Cleveland police as the persons who
kidnapped him from the school at
Sharon, Pa, last Thursday and held
him for the $4,000 ransom, which
was paid by his father, Attorney
James p. Whitla, Monday.
Willie said the man, who gave the
name of James II. Boyle. was the one
who took him from school and carried
him through a %tortuous route to Cleve-
land, then to Ashtabula, back to this
city, and placed him in the house in
the East end. where he was held I'M
til the money was paid.
Woman Acted Part Of Nurse.
Willie also declared that the woman
was the one who cared for him at the
house where he was detained and
who acted the part of a nurse.
Boyle said the woman is his wife.
The police have no other Identified
tion of the couple than the names
given. So far as the man is concern
ed, the police believe the name is
correct. Boyle is said to reside in
Sharon and is a plumber by trade.
The woman, who is accredited with
being the wife of Boyle, declared soon
after her arrest that her Identification
would cause a sensation in Sharon.
When the Identification was complet-
ed Mr.. Whitla would say nothing re-
gcrding the woman. He said he knew
Boyle slightly.
Go Before Grand Jury.
Immediately after Willie Whit,a
had seen the men and women at the
central police station they were t~ken
to the county court house and ''2rC
appeared before the grand jury. IN y
were examined for the purpose ri aid
ing the jury in its attempt to fad an
indictment against the two prisoners.
Immediately after leaving the grand
jury room Mr.. and Mrs. Whitia, Willie
and the janitor of the Sharon school,
which Willie attended, left for Shl-
ron.
Accomplish Kills Self.
A woman known as Mary Diener,
who the police say may have been
an associate of the ~kidnappcrs, or
was implicated in the plot, committed
suicide yesterday by drinking NOR
phine. The woman drank the poison
while standing in front of a drug
store in the East end, not far from
the house in which Willie Whitla was
detained. She died in an ambulance
while being taken to a hospital.
THAT Woman Again? ,"
Mrs. Maud Forker, who is the wife
Of Harry Forker, brother of Mrs. |
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Student Kills Himself

Fargo, March %. - Said to have
been respondent over i'll health and
a~espairing over love affairs, F. Egge
Russell a student of the agricultural
college, yesterday committed suicide
by shooting himself three times in
the head.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-01
POISON RIVALS DIVORCE COURT.
Russian Woman Charged With Rid
dina Wives Of Husbands for Fee.

ding Wives Of Husbands for Fee.
London. March 2S.-A dispatch to
the Daily Mail from st. Petersburg
says that a oma named Popova has
been arrested at Samara, charged
with having poisoned at least 300 per-
sons during the last thirty years.
She made a business of Riding
wives Of their husbands for a small
fee.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-01

arrived here soon after noon yester-
day. A big parade was led by the
Bull Independent Rifles, a national
guard company. and the Bull Rifles
band, both named for Willie's uncle,
and thousands of persons marched
behind them through the principal
streets of the town to the Whitla
home, where fully 5000 persons as
sembled on the lawn, cheering and
giving every evidence of the public
participation in the family JOY over
the recovery of the little wanderer.
The band took a position on the
front porch of the Whitla home and
played several selections. In a front
room were the Whitla family and De
fantiNa Ward
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-01
WhitIa Thanks Everybody.

When calls were made for a speech
Mr.. Whitla appeared on the porch,
accompanied by Rev. Joseph Mozart
ney of the First Presbyterian church,
who spoke briefly.
Mr.. Whitla then addressed the
throng, extending his thanks to all
the officials and individuals who had
assisted in the search for the boy
and expressing the gratitude of his
family and himself for the sympathy
of the people, which. he said, had
done so much to help the family bear
up during the darkest hours of their
sorrow.
With the singing Of the doxology
by several thousand voices the dem
o~nstration was ended.
kidnappers Identified.
Cleveland, March 26.-Willie Whit
la yesterday identified the man and
woman held on suspicion by the
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-12-16
COUNTRY CLEARLY AT FAULT
Provisions for Taking Care Of Unfor-
tunate tuberculosis Victims Are
All Too Meager.

The National Association for the
Study and Prevention of Tuberculo-
sis states that there are in the United
States at least 100000 consumptives
who are so poor that they cannot pay
for proper medical treatment in tuber-
cluosis sanitoria and hospitals. Some
of them can pay small amounts
week for their maintenance, but the
great majority of them cannot pay any
thing. For this large class of pa
tents the entire country has provided
only 10000 beds for the free treatment
of tuberculosis. IN Alabama, Arkan-
sas, Idaho, Kansas, Mississippi, Mon
tana, Nevada, North Dokota, Okla
homa, Oregon, Philippine islands,
South Dakota, Texas, Utah, West
Virginia and Wyoming there is no
place where the consumptive without
means can be treated but in the jails
or the insane asylums OF these states,
and in most cases he will get no treat
ment there. Sixteen other states pro-
vide less than so beds each for poor
consumptives. In only two states,
Massachusetts and New York, have
beds for needy tuberculosis patients
been provided, so that at least one
in ten may find place for treatment.
In many of the other states not one
in fifty of the destitute consumptives
can find a bed in a hospital or sana-
forum.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-12-16

til they will he literally skyscrapers within CEN
fury.
In one of these big buildings while the machin.
cry will be out of sight, domestic affairs will be so
mechanical, even automatic, that you can get al
most anything the family needs simply by turning
on a switch or pressing button.
The fat dweler of that distant day will not be
bothered with servants or the servant problem. BY
pressing a button the Christmas dinner will come
up noiselesssy from the kitchen on the mechanical
waiter or perhaps in pneumatic tube.
After your Christmas dinner is over the dishes
will disappear silently and swiftly as you could
wish Some sort of mechanical dish washer In the
kitchen will take of them--or, what is more
likely, they will be made of cheap composition
and will be destroyed by burning after they are
used once The antiseptic precautions OF the mod
ern surgeon will be common to the kitchens of the
next century and hygiene will be a real science.
When you have eaten your Christmas dinner, If
you want to go out for the evening you can press
q button and aerocab will come to the landing at
your door. Or if you prefer it, you may drop down
the pneumatic elevator to point so 100 feet
below the surface of the earth and be whirled
through the pneumatic subway at dizzy rate Of
speed to your destination Only the speed will not
make you dizzy You will not be able to feel It.,
You may sit in your cushioned car well lighted and
warmed and ventilated by some process yet to be
discovered and before you realize it the miles will
speed away and you step out to the opera or the
play.
If you prefer to remain at your apartments the
kaleidoscope attached to your telephone may be
connected to any theater you DESIRE and you can
sit in your easy chair and smoke while you the
play projected the wall like the most perfect
moving picture. All the stage settings will be there
TO make the play seem real. and the improved tele
phone will bring every shade and subtle infection
Of the actors voice to your ear.
1t seems certain that this kaleidoscope arrange
ment-the exact word to describe it will be coined
after the process is discovered-wi be one of the
trtumphs of the coming century It will enable yoJ
TO see theeperson you are talking to over tele
phone.
The flight OF the coming arship probably win b.
so rapid that the business and even the sal
aried worker, If he loves the country, can have
villa or cottage at great distance from the cit,
and go to work in his airship at slight cost
On Christmas day in the good century To com
this flight in the air will be the means Of man
family reunions that impossible now fey
hours will take one 70 the most distant part Of tn
country. and the practical cessation OF business
during the holiday week will leave all free to fore
gather with the loved ones and pay deferred visit
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-12-16

TO him, 1t does TO the little Johnny Of today
The lad OF the next century will want a model
of the latest airship in his Christmas stocking He
will expect a working model too-one that will
sail through the fiat like a live bird and perhaps
carry his own weight.
Within the last hundred years steam and cleo
tricity have been developed and it is entirely rea
sonabe to imagine that within the coming century
will travel through the air as commonly as
they travel over the land. The automobile,
the trolley car the railroad train and the horse as
a draft animal-all will be gone Men will use
the EARTH as the birds do, for resting place for
their homes and the principal source OF food sup
ply: but when they want to move from place
10 another, they will mount into the ether,
the birds do, and fay swiftly and safely to
their destination.
II is probable that there will not be a wheeled
vehicle of any kind on the streets of great city
on Christmas day, in the year 20O9. Our tunnel
system will have developed until the vast subter-
ranean net work Of bores chutes and pneumatic
tubes will carry the heavy traffic of the city
without noise or confusion The streets will be
given up to pedestrians-to those who walk for
pleasure or wish to travel short distances. The
sidewalk as 1t is will be no more, but the en-
tire width of the street will be given up to foot
passengers. There will be neither car tracks nor
moving vehicles to annoy.
The suburbanite who does not fly to work in
2OO9 win be shot through pneumatic tube, trav-
cling the five, ten. fifty miles Of distance in a
space Of time that may be only few seconds, and
certainly cannot be more than a few minutes. 1t
may be that few people will walk anywhere in
the year 2009. When man learns to fly he will
scorn walking as too slow means of progress
Perhaps Observation-Disclosures who no
doubt win live in immense apartment buildings
towering half mile from the ground, may go
for weeks at a time without setting foot to the
earth.
A with the passing OF the Christmas sleigh there
VIII be no longer any need for rendeers for Santa
Claus. He. too. will travel by airship and while
saY ed Santa Claus will be a myth, the new Santa
Clans win be as real as the bewhiskered and be-
furred boys who now entertain the children in the
department stores.
II Is not hard 10 imagine that the big stores
WIN eayelop the santa Claus idea TO the point that
Christmas purchases will be delivered Christ.
Inas eve By an airship driver made up to imper'
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-12-16
TEACH A LESSON in TRUST
Christians May Learn Much from
Contemplation Of the Birds
Of the Air.

The birds teach us how to live In
reference to our future. They do the
best that they can In providing for
themselves; then they trust in God
for their tomorrow. We are hidden
not to drag tomorrow into to-day. We
are not to add the burden of to-mor-
row to the burden of to-day. And
what is tomorrow? Whence comes it?
No man can tell. Tomorrow Is the
next thing that we are to come upon;
but 1t is a riddle not to be solved.
We cannot see one day before our
selves. Our future belongs to God. 1t
is enwrapped with many folds. No
human hands are def enough to take
off the folds that the mystery of to-
morrow may be read. One of the
wisest and most beneficent provisions
which God has made for man inheres
in the fact that he cannot see and
know what lies beyond the horizon of
to-day.
Our imagination is winged; its tend
ency is to fly into the future. While
we should use foresight in reference
to our future, we are not to yield self
to thoughts of tomorrow that chafe,
that rasp, that devour. Such over
anxious thoughts waste our nature,
dissipate our nervous energy, and
prey upon our vital forces Such
overanxious thoughts distemper our
imagination, bring our mind into a
morbid condition and destroy COM
pletely the serenity of our soul. AS
the gardener seeks to keep weeds out
of his garden, so should we seek to
keep such thoughts out of our life.
AS the way to take care of the har-
vest is to take the best possible care
of the seed-time, so the way to take
care of tomorrow is to take the best
possible care of to-day. God, having
shut us up within the limitations of
to-day, says: Work we'll to-day, and
when tomorrow comes you will have
| the strength to meet its problems.
Life comes to US, not in long
stretches, but a day at time. Living
day by day is the secret of all true,
brave, triumphant living. If we live
our life according to the doctrine that
Jesus teaches, when he says: Behold
| the birds of the air." we live day by
day Then is our life richer, our hope
brighter our outlook fairer and heaven
seems nearer. Blessed are they who
make to-day sweet with conservation
to duty, fragrant with the breath Of
Christian prayer. and holy with work
we'll done in their Masters name; and
then for tomorrow trust him who
feeds the birds of the air.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-12-16

probably will have provided for you a combina.
ton of telescope and moving picture machine by
means of which you can connect your room with
the toy department and see the display by wire
or perhaps by wireless-and at the same time you
get prices and leave your order with the clerk by
telephone.
But perhaps the woman of 2009 will enjoy the
mad rush of the shops much as she does to-
day during the holiday season, and then she will
go TO the big store and order her toys and pres
ents. The store could deliver them through the
pneumatic package tubes which will go to all
parts of the city, but 1t will be more poetic to
have them delivered by Santa Claus.
Christmas eve a score or a hundred Santa
Clauses will set out from the various shops with
their airships laden with Christmas gifts to be de-
vered at the various addresses. 1t Will no longer
be necessary TO deliver all goods in the rear of
the big apartment building but whether you live
on the twentieth or two hundred and twentieth
story Of the big house you will have your own
private airship landing, and while the family Is
gathered at the door to receive Santa Claus the
airship will settle the landing and the cheerful
Merry Christmas" Of the aeronaut will greet you
he hands in the packages.
The Christmas tree of a hundred years from
will be electrical marvel. Festoons and
wreaths of rainbow colored lights and "chasers"
viii scintate from its green branches. But the
presents that hang on 1t will be even more won
derful.
There will be dolls as large as the little girls
who will receive them. There will be dolls that
can walk and with the improved Photographic ar
rangements of another century there will be dolls
that can talk and others that sing beautiful
songs. Some of them, no doubt will be able 10
dance gracefully and to do tricks that would seem
miraculous II performed by an automaton to-day.
The mechanical toys of 2OOs will be marvels of
perfection. The most imaginative man cannot
possibly conceive of the new things that will be
invented in the way of machinery but it is safe
TO assume that the wireless transmission Of power
will be perfected. Wheels win spin without any
visible motive power. Power may be taken from
the suns rays or wireless power stations may be
operated by the waves, the waterfalls. or the
winds. Before the coal supply is exhausted the
need for coal. either for warmth power, will
have passed away
And whatever tFiumphs men make In the in
dustrial world they impart to their games and
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-12-16
Love Beyond Redemption.

God was in Christ, reconciling the
world unto himself."-2 Cor. v. 10.
Let us take care never to suppose
that the blood Of the cross was needed
to make God love us, to appease his
vengeance, or to wiring from his un.
willing hand an edict of redemption.
The love of God lay behind the cross.
Jesus was God-"God was In Christ
reconciling the world unto himself"
The Father does not love us because
Jesus died, but Jesus died because the
Father loves us.-Rev. F. B. Meyer.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-12-16
HABITS CHAIN
Certain Habits Unoonsciously Formed
and Hard to Break.

An ingenious philosopher estimates
that the amount of will power neces.
sary to break lifelong habit would.
If 1t could be transformed, lift weight
of many tons.
1t sometimes requires a higher de-
gree of heroism to break the chains Of
a pernicious habit than to lead for.
lorn hope in a bloody battle. A lady
writes from an Indiana town:
From my earliest childhood Twas
lover of coffee. Before was out of my
teens / was miserable dyspeptic. suf-
fering terribly at times with my stom.
ach.
Il was convinced that It was coffee
that was causing the trouble and yet
could not deny myself a cup for
breakfast. At the age of SO l was IN
very poor health, indeed. My sister
told me was in danger of becoming
coffee drunkard.
"But never could give up drinking
coffee for breakfast. although It kept
me constantly i'll, until tried Postum.
learned to make it properly according
to directions, and now we can hardly
do without Postum for breakfast, and
care nothing for coffee.
Il am no longer troubled with dys-
pepsia, do not have spells OF suffering
with my stomach that used to trouble
me so when drank coffee"
Look in pkgs, for the little book. ''The
Road to WellviIle." There's a Reason"
I, Ever read the above letter. A new
one apPsass fEosa time g tine They
lateEssts
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-12-16

We are not surprised, therefore tnaI
Il should cost Paul crucifxion. The
surprise is that we should ever hope
to possess this supreme experience at
less cost. No one'surrenders the house
to Jesus as Lord without a draft of
Gethsemane's cup. And yet It Is the
fullest, freest life. In a day when self
ishness is paraded as a divine right;
when men of great possessions, in gold
or talents, complain and rebel the mo-
ment they are asked to honor their
stewardship by just service and sur
render-in such day It is not easy
and therefore II is imperative, that all
who feel the charm of Jesus should
recognize his unique elnlu1s. The cross
in our experience must be as real as the
cross on the Hill, until he gains his
throne within. Then his sovereignty
becomes an abiding Joy, and obedience
to him luminous passion.
The churches Of all lands have great
need to rid themselves Of what one
speaker at the recent Students Chris
tan Movement conference called "ac-
cumulated undiscipleship," both within
them and around them. Admiration
must ripen into fellowship, fellowship
into surrender, surrender into unmin-
gled gladDess. Social reform at home,
missionary enterprise abroad, both are
means of expressing the sovereign sig
niflcance Of life as wonderful instru-
ment-the most wonderful on earth
capable of the highest use in pleasing
the Lord Jesus Christ
Crown us with this success at least,
o Christ, to say.
AT the close of day
Your work is done: / am pleased!'
From the Christian Work and the
Evangelist.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-12-16
Tahhed and Filed.

Mrs. Crawford-You must love your
husband very dearly if you save all
the letters he sends you while you're
in the country.
Mrs Crabshaw-Im keeping them
for comparison, my dear. I'm sure to
catch him in lie.-Judge.