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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-10

Boyle did not create the scene in
court he had threatened and did not ut
ter word prior to his sentence. His
counsel, however. made plea for both
Boyle and his wife. asking leniency in
both cases. He stated that until a re-
cent period the extreme penalty for kid
naping in this state was 10 years and
in view of the fact that the boy had
been treated with every consideration
and that all care had been taken not to
infiict unnecessary mental anguish upon
the parents, he felt leniency might be
asked for with propriety.
Both Collapsed.
Both Boyle and his wife collapsed
completely upon hearing their SEN
tences pronounced. When they were
started back to the Jail from the court
room, Boyle managed to walk with
assistance down the steps, but upon
reaching the front door he became
limp and unable to stand. He was
! lifted into the old fashioned omnibus
| in which the prisoners have been
| transported for several days between
the court house and the Jail.
When he was placed upon the seat
/ inside the vehicle, he was left for a
moment unsupported and fell nearly
| out of it before he was caught. He
was utterly unable to support himself
| and had to be held all the way to the
/ Jail and carried to his cell.
| Mrs Boyle was in even worse con-
! dition. She was unable to walk down
/ the steps from the court house to the
/ street and was carried by Sheriff Chess
and Chief of Police Livermore down
| three flights of stairs to the street.
/ She was lifted into the omnibus and
| when the Jail was reached she was
i again lifted out by these officers and
/ carried to her cell where she wept
/ violently No handouts were placed
| on either prisoner on the journey back
to their cells as it was considered un-
| necessary to manacle them in the con-
dition they were in
After Judge Miller of counsel for
the BoyIes. had completed his plea for
leniency in behalf of his clients.
Judge Williams told Boyle to stand UP
and asked him if he had anything to
! say as to why sentence should not be
pronounced Boyle merely said:
Nothing to Say.
Il have not" and shook his head
Judge Williams then addressed the
prisoner and told him of the heinous
nature of the crime of which he had
been convicted.
/ The court said:
"Mr. Boyle, the crime of child steal
i ing in ancient times was punishable
| by death. In Pennsylvania the law is
more lenient-"
The Judge said 1t had been stated
by the attorneys You took good care
Of him because he was your prize
package.
You had to treat him we'll" he
continued. ito get what money you
demanded. Since your arrest we have
investigated your record We find
YOU have been convicted in Mercer
court previously to your arrest for
4 KIDNAPPING You have been charged
with larceny receiving stolen goods
| assault and battery and escape from
jail and many other shady traneac-
tions. All these have had their in
fuence with this court in making US
come to the decision that we have
reached that your punishment shall
be the maximum sentence, imprison-
rnent for life"
After the sentence had been impos-
ed on Boyle he arose and said to the
court:
! "Your honor. you are wrong about
| my record"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-10
shot into Magazine of Explosives.

Washington, Pa. May 1O.-Steve
Page is dying in a hospital here from
injuries received when ma gazine
containing forty quarts of nitrogly
cerine and $50 pounds of dynamite
blew up.
Page and Morrete, both Italians, not
knowing what was in ii, pinned a tar
get on the magazine and began shoot
ing at it with their revolvers. Nor
rete was not hurt Houses mile and
a half away were shaken by the eX
pIosion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-10
TOWN IS BURNING.
Overturned Lamp Starts Confiagra-
ton in New Mexico.

Ell Paso, Tex. May 10.-Fire threat
ems 20 destroy the little town of Nara
VIA in northeastern New Mexico. The
fire started in the Midland hotel early
this morning, the result of an over
turned lamp and was still burning when
the telephone exchange caught fire and
wire communication was cut off. AZ
that time about $4,000 worth of proper
ty had been destroyed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-10
Daughters Of the Revolution Meet.

Boston. May 10.-For the third
time in the history of the organization
an annual convention of the general
society of the Daughters of the Revo-
ll1tion opened in Boston today The
forenoon was given over to a meeting
of the committee on credentials at
which the delegates to the convention
were enrolled. The rest of the day
was devoted to social recreation. The
real business of the convention will
heoi7 tomorrow
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-10
Kansas Dentists Meet At Wichita.

Wichita. Kan, May 10.-The Kan
sas State Dental association assembled
in Wichita TO hold its thirty eighth
annual convention today and will re-
main here until Thursday night The
business meetings and clinics will be
held in the city building. Seventeen
papers will be read and discussed dur
ing the convention, and 'Jwenty-four
clinics will be held.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-10
Killed by His Own Trap.

Logansport Ind. May 10.-Schuyler
Holley was instantly killed by a. trap
he had prepared to kill a thief that
had been raiding his chicken house.
He had arranged an old muzzle load
ing pistol SO that when the door of the
chicken house opened the pistol
should be discharged. He forgot to
disconnect the trap before he opened
the door. however. and the load was
discharged into his breast.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-10
Topeka Attorney Made Z. S. As
sistant Attorney General.
Place Given as Concession to
Governor Stubbs.
REWARD FOR SERVICE
New AppOintee a Devoted Ad-
ministration Supporter.
Position Pays a Salary Of Four
Thousand Dollars.

Robert Z. Stone of Topeka was to-
day appointed assistant United States
attorney general with headquarters at
Washington at a salary of $4,000 per
year. The appointment was made by
Attorney General Mickersham at the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-10
Sentence Is Imposed on Kidnap-
ers of Willie Whitla.
Man Gets Life Term and Woman
25 Years and Fine.
PRISONERS COLLAPSE.
1t Is Necessary to Garry Them
From the Court Room.
New Lawyer Has Been Hired to
Take an Appeal.

Mercer, Pa, May 10.-James H Boyle
was sentenced today 10 life imprison-
ment in the Western nenftentiary at
Pittsburg for the kidnapping of Billy"
Whitla. Mrs. Boyle indicted as Mary
Doe, received a sentence of % years
with fine of $1,000 and the costs of the
prosecution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-10
Weather Indications.

Chicago, May 10.-Forecast for
Kansas: Partly cloudy tonight and
Tuesday: warmer tonight and in east
portion Tuesday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-10
No Game at Pittsburg.
Too cold DO PLAY I'D Detroit.

Pittsburg. May 10.|Chicago-P Pitts
burg game postponed, cold weather
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-10

Detroit. May 10.-Detroit-New York |
game postponed, rain and cold
weather.
The La Jara chronicle., 1909-10-08

The Club Saloon has just re-
ceived, direct from the distillery, a
five barrel shipment of that fam
Gus Old Homestead Whiskey.
The La Jara chronicle., 1909-10-08
Fresh bread, fruits, vegetables,
meats, always at q. G. divers.

c. B. Christy leaves tonight on
business trip to Malvern, Iowa.
Burt Ryan has settled in Idaho
and his family expect to soon join
him there.
Thos. Courtney is here from
Roy. n. NJ He is representing a
st. Louis investment company.
j. f. Crowther writes from
Provo, Utah, that he is very nicely
situated at 373 E. 4th North street.
The Good Time social last night
was attended by fair crowd in
spite of bad weather Everyone
says that it was rightly named.
j. HI. Shemwell expects to leave
Sunday evening for Denver and
the east, intending to be absent
couple of weeks. When he re-
turns he will bring along a car
load of new settlers for the lands
of this vicinity.
Mike F. Geyer, who recently
purchased fine piece of land near
the Flintham farm, will leave to.
night for his former home in Ohio
to close up his business affairs
there preparatory to returning to
La Jara to remain permanently.
An interested citizen rises to in
quire why the fire engine and hose
are left in the middle of Main
street during all this inclement
weather, to rust, rot and become
thoroughly useless. The Chronicle
puts it up to the town officials for
an answer.
Speaking of one thing and
another and the new poStothce,
what is the difference between
Uncle Sam, a rooster and an old
maid? Uncle Sam says, Yankee
doodle-do," the rooster says, Cock
a-doodle-do," and the old maid
says, ANY dude'll do"
At the great Hudson-Fulton
celebration in New York this week
and last, the West Point cadets led
the procession the first day, ahead
of the L. $. regulars. Dennis
! McCunuitf was there and repre-
sented La Jara, if not outwardly,
at least in spirit He writes his
parents that it was great show.
John Beck, one of the leading
Mormons of Utah, purposes to
obtain tract of government land
in the state and to establish there
on a practical agricultural college
as distinguished from the theoreti-
cal institutions of the country.
His idea is to teach students to
utilize the desert lands and the
way is wide.
HI. O. Ellis sold the La Jara
drug store the first of the week to
Walter w. Seyfer who will take
possession the lst of next month.
MIR. Ellis has been identified with
LaJara business interests for many
years and his friends regret that
he has determined to bestow his
talents upon some other com
munity not yet determined. Mr..
Seyfer is too well known to need
an introduction. He too has been
in business here for many years in
another line and has won for him
self reputation for square and
honorable methods that is seldom
equaled. Bringing to this new
business these admirable qualities,
youth and ambition and strict
attention to business. the public
will find in the future as in the
past the La Jara Drug Store ever
attentive to the wants of it's pat
rons and a good place to trade.
DIR. Frederick A. Cook has SO far
manifested most admirable control
over himself. He has refrained
from any denunciation of his rival
and has conceded freely the prob
The La Jara chronicle., 1909-10-08
HOW'S THIS?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case Of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh cure.
F.J. CHENEY & Co, Toledo. o.
We, the Undersigned, have known +. j.
Cheney for the past II years, and believe him
perfectly honorable IN all business transac-
ttons and financially able to carry out any
obligations made by his firm.
WALD1NG, kINSAN Il MARVIN, I
Wholesale Druggists. Toledo, o
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces Of the system. Testimonials sent
free. Price rs cents per bottle Sold by all
Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-07-29
HERE'S A WAY TO SAVE DocToR
BILLS.

Physicians Give Free Advice By
Which Parents. May Proit.
It's a matter Of general interest just
now how ones physical condition an
be got into shape to best receive the
benefits of the summer season. Espe
cally Is this true Of the children. They
have become run down by a winter OF
unnatural manner of living because Of
ill-considered food and much time
spent indoors. Spring m with lite
sunshine, its fresh vegetables and all
else inv~igorating, but the children are
In no condition to receive natures
remedies.
Many parents call In the family
physician. Many other parents take
advantage of what the physician .oi0
them when he was first called in con.
sultation. All good family physicians
say: Give the children Castoria."
Healthy parents know this remedy OF
old, for they took 1t themselves an
children. 1t was more than thirty
years ago that Castoria made a place
for itself in the household. IL bore
the signature of Charles H. Fletcher
then, as it does to-day. The signature
Is its guarantee, which is accepted In
thousands Of homes where there are
children,
Much is printed nowadays about big
families. DR.. William j. McCrann, Oh
Omaha, Neb.. Is the father OF n OF
these much-read-about families. Here
Is what he says:
las the father Of thirteen children
/ certainly know something about
your great medicine, and aside from
my own family experience l have, in
my years Of practice, found Castoria
a popular and efficient remedy I'M ala
most every home" :
Charles H. Fletcher has received
hundreds of letters from prominent
physicians who have the same esteem
for Castoria that DR.. McCrann has.
Not only do these physicians say they
use Castoria in their own families,
but they prescribe it for their pa
tients. First of all it is a vegetable
preparation which assimilates the
food and regulates the stomach and
bowels. After eating m sleeping.
and Castoria looks out for that, too.
1t allays feverishness and prevents
loss Of sleep, and this absolutely with
out the use OF opium, morphine or
other baneful narcotic.
Medical journals are reluctant to
discuss proprietary medicines. Halls
Journal OF Health, however, says:
Our duty Is to expose danger and pes
cord the means for advancing health
The day for poisoning innocent chJL
dren through greed or Ignorance
ought to end. To our knowledge Cas-
toria is a remedy which produces com
posture and health by regulating tho
system, not by supplying 1t. and our
readers are entitled TO the informa>
ton"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-07-29
SUCCESS TALKS
DIR. MADISON c. PETERS.
OUR GAINS ACCORDING TO OUR PAINS.

not sleeping or connecting the surfeits
of an irregular feast, but up and stir
ring .
Gain Is according to pain-they are
twin brothers, they resemble each other
so closely, their most intimate friends
cannot tell them apart-the one plants
the tree, the other cares for 1t until
the fruit Is matured. .
Life ia not a spirit, but a long,
steady climb James Whitcomb Riley
says he tried for 20 years to get into
one magazine back came his manu-
scripts. He kept on. He got In.
Better to pick, pick, pick, one bush,
than be chasing after 20 better bushes.
There Is a place for you, young man,
n there Is a work for you to do.
Rouse yourself up and go after 1t. Put
your hands cheerfully and proudly to
honest labor.
A Spanish maxim runs: HE who
loseth wealth, loseth much; he who
loseth a friend, loseth more; but he
who loseth his energies, loseth ALL"
Charles Dickens said: 1.-THE one
se~rviceahle, safe, certain, remunera-
tive, a~ttainable quality in every study
and pursuit is attention"
BE a whole man at everything. Sid
ney Smith said: Daniel Webster
struck me much like a steam engine in
trousers" -.
Butler, who exhibits in his "Hudi-
bras" an amount of wit, comic illustra-
ton, curios and out of the way learn
ing that Is absolutely p%ortentous, kept
a commonplace book, in which, accord
ing to DR.. Johnson, he had deposited
for many years, not such events and
precepts as are gathered by reading,
but such remarks, similitudes, illusions,
or differences as occasion prompted or
inclination produced. Such" adds
Johnson, lis the labor Of those who
write for Immortality"
Have an aim and work till you &C.
complish 1t. Phillip of Macedon lost his
eye from a bow shot, when the soldiers
picked up the shaft they perceived
upon 1t these words: ITO Phillips
Eyer The archer had an aim that ac-
complished something. 1t Is the boys
who will work who are needed. The
lowlands are crowded, but there is room
for the industrious IN top.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-07-29
Tragedy of Doria's Life Like
That of Cho- Cho-Sa in
-. MADAME Butterfly"
SENTENCED TO PRISON

Lucca. Italy, Specialize curtain has
fallen on a real life tragedy in the ca
reer Of Giacomo Puccini, the opera COM
poser, that was quite as pathetic as the
stage story Of Cho-Cho-San, the little
japanese heroine of Puccini's master
piece, Madame Butterfly"
The climax-which has set all Italy to
recalling the tragic affair and to ex-
claiming, "Ah! What an opera 1t would
make!"-came when Signora Elvira
Donturi Puccini, the composers wife,
was sentenced In court to serve five
months In prison for having caused the
suicide of Doria Manfred, a beautiful
little serving maid in her villa. She ac-
cused Doria of being Puccini's mistress.
The girl, a peasant INT scarcely more
than q child, crept out of the villa and
swallowed poison.
Two years ago., when the girl was
blossoming into a most fascinating
womanhood, her father died. She was
left homeless and in want. Peasant
like, she turned to the grand signor'-
the famous composer''-for protection.
He took her into his villa as serving
maid, with the consent of his wife.
Doria became es useful about the
villa as she was ornamental. She
seemed as devoted to Signora Puccini
as she was the composer. But at last
the signora, herself of peasant origin
and no longer either young or beautiful,
became jealous and suspicious of tha
picture like serving maid.
One day not long & she made the
open accusation that Doria's interest
in Puccini was greater than that Of
q servant In a master.
''6ignor!" said the girl. Always has
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-07-29

tracted patience" Lord Lytton says "it
IL fine observation strengthened by
fixity OF purpose"
Hard labor is the one method of at
tanning excellence. What an untiring
worker was Lord Brougham-his love
Of work became a habit and such was
his love OF excellence that 1t was said
Of him. that II his station In life had
been that OF q shoeblack, he would
never have rested until he had become
the best shoeblack in England.
James Watt, when a boy found sci
ence in his tops. John Hunter, the re-
markable anatomist, whose improve
ments I'm his chosen line of work laid
the foundations for all the progress
made since his day, said: MY mind
is like a beehive, but full as II Is of
buzz and apparent confusion, II Is yet
full OF order, regularity and food, col
lected with incessant industry from the
choicest stores of nature"
Jenner, whose vaccination was de-
nounced by the medical profession as
"bestial' and proclaimed ''diabolical'
from the pulpit-convinced 1t was prac-
teal, he never stopped till the merit OF
his discovery was recognized and his
cause at last publicly honored.
Michael Angelo, frequently rose in the
middle of the night, fixed a candle, by
the light of which he worked, on the
summit OF a pasteboard cap.
Milton In one OF his few passages In
which he gives us a peep into his pri.
vate life, says: MY morning haunts
are where they should be. at home
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-07-29
A GIVEAWAY.
CONVICT WIFE, OF PUCCINI
LIFE PLOT FOR NEW OPERA

been kind to me like my father. that
is gone-no more than that"
DO not lie to mel. exclaimed the
composers wife. She then struck the
maid full In the face.
Doria, shocked, humiliated and heart
broken, made her way tearfully from
the villa. Within an hour her body
was found in the grounds her beauti-
full face contorted from the agony OF
poison.
Puccini, when he heard of his pro-
tegee's death, had a bitter quarrel with
his wife, and separated from her at
once. When the authorities inquired
into the suicide, he told them what
he knew. Signora Puccini was arrested,
tried, adjudged guilty and sentenced to
prison. She will also have to a to
the surviving relatives of Doria Man
fredi a sum Of money, the exact amount
to be determined later by the court.
Dramatic justice, surely. And-what
a chance for an opera!
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-07-29
The Morning Crouch.

How do you rise in the morning. s-.
Gloomy and sad and sour,
Or glad of the rest hat was given You
And brave for the battle hour?
Do you rise from your couch at day
break
With a smile for your loved ones true
Come. tell me, now, is a churlish frown
The best that they get from you?
Do you rise In the morning merry,
Or gloomy and cross and sad?
Do you growl and snarl at your morning
meal
Because the coffee is bad? .
Don't do it, for life has troubles,
All, many, and greater, too,
For the simple things In the morning
hours
To bother a man like you. >,
Get up with a smile and whistle;
Get up with O CHEEKY word;
Fol a morning crouch, when You think
OF II,
My brother, is so absurd, s....
Reserve your growls and our bitter words
For the time when a real grief frets you;
What chance have you in life's big affairs
II a trifiing thing upsets you?
Detroit Free Press.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-07-29
MUNYON'S
Eminent Doctors at
Your Service Free
Not a Penny to Pay for the Fullest
Medical Examination. .

II you r in doubt as to the cause
Of your disease, mail US a postal e.
questing a medical examination blank
which you will fill out and return to
Is. Our doctors will carefully dag,
nose your case, and If you can be
cured you will be told SO If you can.
not be cured you will be told so. You
are not obligated to us in any way, for
this advice Is absolutely free. You are
at liberty to take our advice or not, as
you see fit. Send to-day for a medi
eel examination blank. fill out and re
turn to us, and our eminent doctors
wiz diagnose your cas- thoroughly
absolutely free. .
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Philadelphia, Pa.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-07-29
The Disappearance of "old Glory"
From the Atlant


What has been the cause OF. the dis
appearance OF old Glory from the
ports Of the world? Can it be that
America cannot produce merchant sea-
men in this money grabbing age?
Hardly! But to show that the Amer
C merchant marine has ceased to
exist, and to convince my ""-.3ers that
l speak the truth, l wou!d 40 to give
an experience of my own. Four months
ago while passing along the Liverpool
docks on an electric train, l saw the
stars and stripes flying at the peak of
a sailing ship. This so tickled me that
1 broke my Journey and walked back
half a mile to get a closer look at the
curiosity. Arriving at the dock, 4
found the ship to be the Homeward
Bound, of San Francisco. On ques-
tioning the dockmaster as to the num-
Der OF American ships he had berthed,
In his position as dockmaster, he re-
piled, This is the first American ship
I have berthed In my IL years expert
ence on the docks"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-07-29
shootina for ciaars.
From the Chattanooga Time

From the Chattanooga Times.
During the maneuvers the subject OF
rife shooting frequently cropped up 40
of the officers messes.
I'll bet any one here a box OF ct-
CARS" said Lieutenant A., that / can
fire 20 shots at 200 yards N tell
without waiting for the marker the
result of each one correctly"
"Done!" cried Major b., and b
whole mess turned out early the next
morning to witness the experiment.
The lieutenant fred.
Miss" he announced calmly.
Another shot.
"Miss!" he repeated.
A third shot.
Miss" |...
Hold, hold on!" put in Major b.
"What are you trying to do. You're
not firing for the targeti"
"0f course mott" was the cool re-
Spouse. Pm firing for those cigars
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-07-29
Pointed Paragraphs.

Politics and morality are seldom on
speaking terms.
Many a so-called orator is merely a hui
man photograph.
Love 10 q disease that nothing short of
marriage will cure.
Cupid makes a mistake when he crafts
a bud on an old shrub.
When you meet a stranger get busy and
tell your troubles first.
But for the limelight many a theatrica;
star would cease to shine. r
It's a pity a man can't put up a plaster
on his conscience when It hurts him..
A vegetarian say that his good health
is the result OF eating no meat and cnew-
ing 1t well. -
There would be fewer old bachelors II
single men were not allowed TO associate
with married men.
After q boy has spent a year at college
he resembles the picture in ~readymade
clothing establishments. .