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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-12-04

of Park and Scott streets at IL a. m.
Subject tomorrow. God the only
Cause and Creator" Golden Text
"Of old hast thou laid the foundation
of the earth, and the heavens are the
work of thy hands" Psalms 1925.
All are cordially welcomed to these
services.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-12-04

Misses Harriet and Frances Shields
will close their summer home at Fur
mace Grove, where they have remain
ed through the early part of the
winter, and return to Troy the latter
part of next week.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-12-04

At the special meeting of the Elk
tonight arrangements will be made
for attending the funeral of Brothe
Frank F. Corbett. During the pas
year three members, Rufus b. God
frey, e. j. Morrissey and Mr.. Cor
bett have died.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20
CAPTAIN HAMS WILL
HAVE TO GO TO PRISON
Army officer Who Killed William z.
Annls Given an Indetermlnate
Sentence Of Not Less Than
Eight Years.

Flushing, N. Y.-Captain Peter c.
Hams, u. s. A.. who was convicted OF
manslaughter in the first degree fer
killing William e. Annis at the Bay
side Yacht club last August, was SEN
fenced on Monday by Justice Garrett
son, in the supreme court, to an in
determinate sentence of not less than
eight years nor more than sixteen
years at hard labor in state prison
John f. Mcintyre, counsel for the
defendant, made the usual motion for
new trial on the ground that the
verdict was against the weight of
evidence and also contrary to law.
Justice Garretson denied the motion.
In passing sentence, Justice Gar
retson said the defendant had had
fair trial and had been defended by
experienced lawyers. A jury had
found verdict commensurate with
the requirement of law.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20
Noted Novelist Dead.

London.-George Meredith, the
English novelist, died May 10. the I'M
mediate cause of death being heart
failure, following an Illness which be-
gan several days previous. George
Meredith was born in Hampshire,
February IL, 1928. On the occasion
of his eightieth birthday he was
showered with congratulations from
all parts OF the world and was visited
by deputation headed by Anthony
Hope and presented with an address
signed by Algernon Charles Swim.
burne, Thomas Hardy, John Morley,
and more than hundred leaders in
art, letters and scholarship, Mr.. Mer.
edith's first poems appeared in 1851.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20
PLANNED BRUTAL MURDER
Of UNSUSPECT|NG HUSBAND
led Condemned Man Into Trap and
Then Fired Two Shots Into His
Body After He Had Been
Stricken Down.

Tacoma, Wash.-The victim OF an
alleged conspiracy entered into be-
tween his wife and Charles F. New
comb, a laundry wagon driver, Mar
tin Kvalshaug, 81 years old. was shot
down in cold blood about midnight
Saturday, Just after alighting from a
street car. That the killing was the
result OF carefully arranged plot.
was evident by an alleged confession
OF both Newcomb and Mrs. Kvals-
haug. In his statement to the police,
Newcomb said that he had stationed
himself at a point where he knew
that Mr. and Mrs. Kvalshaug would
pass on their way home from a dance.
He held large-sized rock in his hand
and when the couple we're opposite
him, reached out from his conceal
ment and struck down his victim ,
While Kvalshaug was writing on the
ground Newcomb commanded the
woman TO go away, he says, and he
then pumped three shots into the
PROSTATE mans body. Mrs. Kvalshaug
then picked up the revolver and fired
two shots into her husbands body.
Newcomb blames Mrs. Kvalshaug for
the killing, stating that the plot orig
mated In her brain. He said that the
murdered mans wife even led her
husband to the side of the road,
where the assailant was hidden, in or
der to make the attack more simple.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20
Helnze Again Indicted.

New York; Augustus Heinze. al
ready under indictment on charge
of generalization of his brother
Otto Heinze's checks, was arraigned
before Circuit Judge Hough on Fri
day on new Indictment charging
misapplication of the funds of the
Mercantile National bank in March
and October, 1907. He pleaded not
guilty with the privilege of withdraw
ing the plea and making any motion
his counsel might desire. Judge
Hough set the case for May 81, and
as Mr.. HeinZe is already under $4,000
bail, no additional security was
asked.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20
rhlrty-sevcn Injured in Wreck.

Kansas City.-Two persons are ex-
pected to die and thirty-fve others
are more or less seriously injured rs
n result of local Chicago & Alton
passenger train No. IA being derailed
two miles east of Odessa, Mo-, Satf
urday. Only the engine remained on
the track, the tender, combination
baggage and passenger car, and two
passenger coaches being derailed. So
far no explanation of the wreck has
been found. 1t has been learned that
the front wheels of the tender were
the first to leave the rails.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20
KANSAS TOWN DESTROYED
BY DEADLY TORNADO
T.~ister Also Visits Missouri sno
Oklahoma, Ten Being Killed and
Scores Injured in Three States

Kansas City.-A series Of tornadoes
in Kansas. Missouri and Oklahoma
late Friday killed ten or more per
sons, injured fifty-five, laid waste one
town, wrecked a. train and did great
damage to property.
Twenty-Five were injured by
storm that swept over Mount Wash
ington and Paramount Park. suburbs
of Kansas City. At least two of these
are thought to be fatally injured.
The town of Hollis. Kan. near Con
cordia, was swept away. Here three
were killed and ten injured.
The Eckstrom family, consisting OF
five persons, is missing. Their house
is in ruins and it is thought they are
dead.
Near Great Bend tornado killed
two and injured twenty.
William Ackerly, a Santa Fe engi-
neer, and Frank Nicholson, con-
ductor, were killed while with a
bridge gang between Great Bend and
Kinsley.
The tornado wrecked the workman
of which Ackerly was engineer and
blew it into ditch. Several mem
bers of the crew were blown one hun.
dred feet. The pile-driver toppled
over, crushing Ackerly to death in
his cab, where he remained with his
hand upon the throttle.
Al -Hoisington, Kan, tornado in
jured a number and greatly damaged
farm property. 1t was not so severe
however, as that passing over the
other portions of the state.
At Pond Greek, Okla severe
windstorm slightly injured four per
sons and unroofed several bouses
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20
SENSATION
IN HASKELL CASE
Discharged Oklahoma Grand Jurors
Make Grave Charges Against
Government Attorney.
Declare That Efforts Were Made to
Intimidate and Coeree the Jury to
Return Indictnents Against
Governor Haskell and others.

Tulsa-Sensationai allegations con-
corning the official conduct of Sylves-
ter r. Rush, special assistant to the
attorney general and United States
District Attorney Gregg of the north
ern district of Oklahoma, are made
in two petitions filed in the federal
court here Tuesday afternoon in con
nection with the Muskogee town lot
fraud cases. One OF the petitions is
signed by certain members of the
grand jury that was discharged on
Saturday by Judge John A. Marshall
upon motion Of District Attorney
Gregg, who asserted that the jury had
been subjected to improper influences.
This petition refutes this charge
and, in turn, makes serious charges
against both Messrs. Gregg and Rush.
1t alleges misconduct before the jury.
efforts to intimidate and coerce the
jury to return indictments against
Governor Charles NJ Haskell and the
other defendants regardless of and
contrary to proof presented, and petit
tons the court to investigate the
jurors allegations
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20
FROM REPORTER TO GOVERNOR.
Washington Newspaper Man Chosen
as Chief Executive of Alaska.

ington.-President Taft on
Tuesday announced the nomination of
Walter e. Clark. a Washington news
paper man, attached to the New York
Sun bureau, as governor of Alaska, to
succeed Governor Hoggatt resigned.
Mr. Clark also for years has been the
Washington correspondent for the Sc
attic Post-Intelligencer and is unusual
ly well informed on Alaskan affairs.
Regarding Clark's appointment as
governor of Alaska. the statement was
made at the White House that the
action was taken on account of the
importance of getting a special con-
sideration for Alaska with a view to
bringing together conflicting interests
and permitting the natural industrial
DEVELOPMENT of the country.'
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20
kansas widow Klns Man.

Topeka. Kan.-W Wednesday at Little
River. Mrs. Myrtle Brewer. a pretty
widow, with wealthy parents. visited
the marshal and said that she had
killed a man and asked TO be locked
up. The officers investigated and
found the body of Fred Arm, a bridge
carpenter. in the yard of Mrs. Brew
er's home. He had been shot through
the heart. Arm was 50 years old. He
was regarded as quiet and inoifen.
sive, and sentiment is strongly against
Mrs. Brewer. who is being held in
jail at Lyons
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20
MINERS CHARGED wlTH FRAUD.
Nevada Company May be Prosecuted
for Evasion Of Bullion Tax.

Reno, Nev.-In recommending to ].
f. Bradley, sheriff of EsmeTaldo
county that he levy an arbitrary as
sessment against the Pittsburg Silver
Peak Gold Mining company for bull
Ion taxes for 1908 and the first quar-
ter of 1909 State License and Bull
lion Tax Agent J. f. Haley, in an open
letter to that official. outlines alleged
discrepancies in the statements of the
company that may result in a great
scandal and possibly form the basis
Of criminal prosecution. He prae,ti-
cally charges that the company has,
under guise of incorrect and mislead-
ing statements of production and net
profits of the mine at Blair. New.
av~ ided the pavment of thousands Of
dollars of bullion tax to the state.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20
Chances Gun for Pen.

Nairobi. British East Africa-The-
odore Roosevelt. who is at present
the guest of George Mcmillan at the
Juia ranch, whittier he repaired from
his camp at Machakos, in the AtAi
river district. on Saturday spent his
first day at the ranch in his room,
resting. He, however, began work on
q series of articles describing his adj
ventures up to date. Mr. Roosevelt
has found time to visit parts of the
Mcmillan estate and to discuss the
prospects of sport with S. F. Selous
the well known English hunter, and
his host.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20
HOLD-UP ON THE
GREAT NORTHERN
bandits Turn Engine Loose After
Looting Car and Cause Wreck,
Twelve Being Injured.
-Four or Five Men Were In the Party,
II Being Reported That They Sc
cured at Least $4,000 for
Their Nights Work.

Spokane. Wash.-In the holdup of
the Great Northern passenger train
No. between Colbert and Mead
shortly before midnight Saturday
Night, twelve persons we're injured
when the engine and mail car, run
wild" down the track by the bandits
after they had rified the mails, col
nded with the remaining cars of the
train The bandits detached the en-
zine and mail car from the train, ran
them down the track a considerable
distance, and then, after the regis
tered mail had been opened, sent the
engine back to collide with the stand
sng cars.
The conductor saw the wild cars
coming down the track at the rate
Of twenty-five miles an hour when
they were a considerable distance
away and he and one OF the train
mon placed a tie on the tracks In
m endeavor TO stop their wild flight
The engine and car were partly
stopped by the tie, but plunged into
the standing coaches
When the train reached Colbert
some switching had to be done.
While the engine crew was busy att
the work. two men suddenly appeared
In the cab OF the engine and. thrust
ing revolver against the body on
the engineer, ordered him to do as
commanded.
The engineer and his fireman
obeyed The car was coupled on to
the train and It pulled out. After the
train had proceedd a few miles the
engineer was ordered to stop and he
and his fireman were forced to dis
0ount from the cab.
Two of the four or Ave men that
we're seen then went to the door or
the mail car and ordered It to be
opened. Their command was obeyed
by the mail clerk. Meanwhile two
other bandits were with the engineer
and fireman, who were uncoupling the
mail car and the locomotive from
the rest of the train.
Hastily climbing into the cab. the
putlaws opened the throttle and dash
cd down the tracks-how far Is not
known. AS soon as the conductor
was aware that there was a hold-up.
he ordered a brakeman to the rear OF
the train to prevent collision, aud
he had another brakeman cut the
telegroph wire and send word to Spo-
t<ane. A third member of the train
Grew was hurried to the station with
the news.
It is reported that the bandits OBJ
tanned d large sum of money from
the registered mail the amount being
placed at 100000.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20
southerners Object.

washington-The presence Of VIII
liam T. Vernon. the register of the
treasury. who is a negro in the res
taurant of the house building on Fri
day aroused the ire of several south
ern Representatives in the house.
They complained to the management
of the restaurant, and there was talk
of filing a protest with the speaker,
who. as chairman of the building com
mittee, forms the regulations govern
ing the restaurant. 1t is possible a.
effort will be made to have negroes
excluded from the restaurant
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20

Seattle. Notwithstanding that he
would never earn an honest living
Larry Kelly, known as King of the
Smugglers, left the Confederate
army after Lees surrender at Apo
mattox. Kelly says he has kept his
word. He will, now approaching his
seventeen birthday, start serving an
other prison term. He must serve one
year in the United States peniten-
Hiary on McNeirs island for SNUG
Cling He had just finished serving
a term when he was arrested on the
present charge.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20

Boyersville, nl.-Henry Williamson,
a well-todo farmer living two miles
east of here, killed his wife and two
little children and then committed
suicide. After shooting them he beat
his wife's body with a poker. Then he
shot himself A neighbours girl was
sleeping in the same room. She was
not molested. She says that when
Williamson shot his wife it awakened
her, and when she saw him pointing
the gun at her little playmates she
covered her head and believes she
was unnotsced.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20

Washington.-The supreme court of
the United States decided adversely
to Goodrich in the case Of George
Goodrich's right as a widowed son-in-
law of the late Thomas II Williams
of San Francisco to participate in the
distribution in the estate of Mr.. VII
liams. valued at about sl.500000.
Goodrich. who married one of Viii
liams' daughters. resided In New
York and after the death of his wife
failed to receive any notice of the dis
in which he was not included in VIII
in which was not included in Will
liams' Will
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20
Japanese Poaehers Il Jail.

Juneau, Alaska.-The United States
revenue cutter Rush arrived Monday
from Sitka with the captain and crew
OF the Japanese sealing schooner Kai-
sen Maru. which was seized in Re
doubt bay May 4 for cruising within
the three-mile limit The alleged
poachers We're taken to the federal
JAIL where they stu remain The
bonds for each has been fixed at $500.
except the captain. whose bail Is ST.
600. The skins seized on the schoon-
er are held by the federal authorities
pending the iury's verdict
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20
Saved BY Cyclone Cellar.

Kansas City. Motive members
of the Eckstrom family supposed to
have been killed in their home near
Hollis. Kan. in a tornado. and Chas
Quance, a ranchman, wao was believ-
ed to have succumbed near Larned.
Kan, escaped unhurt to tornado eel
lars The fact became known Satur-
day. when wire communication. de-
moralized by the storm was resumed
with these points. The known dead
from the storm in this part of thei
southwest are three and the injured
fifty-one.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20
monkeyed With Wheat Market.

New York.-The formal announce
ment Of the suspension of the firm OF
Tracy & Co. was made on the New
York stock exchange on Tuesday. An
involuntary petition in bankruptcy
was filed against the firm and re-
ceiver was appointed to take charge
OF its affairs. The receiver said that
no statement as TO the possibility OF
reorganization would be issued until a
complete examination of the books
had been made The collapse of the
firm Is said to have been due almost
entirely TO the firms transactions on
the Chicago board of trade.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20
Photographer Blinded by Explosion Of
Bottle OF Coffee

indianapolis am badly burned
and blind" was message slowly
licked in the Panhandle railroad dis
potcher's Office at Logansport, Ind,
late Saturday night from G. e. Frazel
an operator In block tower near
Marion. A freight train was ordered
TO stop at the place and the crew
found Frazel suffering terrible agony
from burns. He had been sealded by
the explosion of bottle of coffee he
was heating on a stove and had felt
his way TO key to cali for help.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20
Hotel Man Killed by Drunken Guest
Whom He Had Elected.

Portland. Ore.---A cable from Cor
dova, Alaska, says that ]. w. Nc
Namara on Monday night killed T r
Carpenter by shooting in the throat
and cutting the jugular vein. Nc
Namara formerly was prominent
Elk OF Portland Mcnamara, it is al
legged had been drinking and was
put out of the hotel by Carpenter.
Carpenter was known all over Alaska
and was a heavy property owner. A
strong guard has been placed around
the Jail to prevent lynching
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20
"Adam Cod Placed on Trial.

Kansas City.-Following a motion
for q change of venue in the case of
James Sharp, known as Adam God,
charged with the murder of police
man here last fall, nine witnesses were
introduced by the defense in an effort
to show that fair trial could not be
given Sharp in this court "The gen.
eral impression is that Sharp Is a re-
ligious fanatic, that ne is a crank and
that he must be crazy is It not?'
Prosecuting Attorney Conklin asked
several times on cross-examination.
The reply was usually an affirmative
one
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20
JAPANESE STRIKERS STAND PAT
Five Thousand of Them Are Out In
Hawaiian Islands.

Honolulu.--With no prospect OF re-
ceiving recognition from their EN-
pioyers the 5000 Japanese plantation
hanGs on strike in the Hawaiian is
1ants are politely but firmly standing
pat and are quietly awaiting develop
ments.
The plantation strike in the islands
which was begun May 10, was the re-
suit of determined and long stand
ing agitation on the part of the Jap
anese laborers on the sugar estates
for an increase of wages from $40 to
ez2.50 month.
1'he Sugar Planters association un-
Willingly brought about the agitation
by flooding the islands with Japanese
workmen toward the close of last,
year.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20
.oIrI Charged with Awful Crime.

st. Paul.-Louise Arbogast, the %
yearold daughter of Louis Arbogast.
the wealthy butcher who was killed
In his home recently, was arraigned
in police court Monday morning and
later committed to jail on a charge of
murder The girl is a handsome bru-
nette and prominent socially among
the German residents of ST. Paul. II
is believed she is insane Investiga-
ton has disclosed that the girl had
been a victim of fortune tellers, and
their tales are held responsible for
her mental condition
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20
MARSHALL oIsMisses JURY.
Utah Jurlst Upholds Charges CT Mis-
conduct in Oklahoma Land Cases.

Tulsa, Okla.-Upon motion of the
government, Judge John A. Marshall
OF Utah, in the United States court
here, on Saturday dismissed the
grand jury impaneled May II to rein
vesigate the Muskogee town lot
fraud cases. Judge Marshall upheld
the governments contention that the
jury had been subjected to improper
influences. The melton to dismiss
the jury was made because 1t failed
to find indictments against G. w. Tur
ner and w. T. Hutchings. Following
the dismissal, Judge Marshall order
ed another grand jury of sixteen men.
Judge Marshall also ordered all wit
nesses subject to the call of the
court
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20
Western RaiIroads Protest.

Chicago.-A petition was fled in
the United States circuit court here
on Tuesday by seven western rail
roads asking an order restraining the
interstate commerce commission from
enforcing its order reducing the class
rates on merchandise shipped from
Chicago and St Louis TO Denver. The
order viii become effective June /.
The railroads insist she new rates
win give CHICAGO shippers an adyan-
taee of % cents a hundred IN rates
over Missouri river shippers and an
en- advantage to St. Louis shippers OF
% cents.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20
Laborers on Banana Plantations start
Trouble.

Washington exists at
Buehelds on the east coast of Nicar-
aqua. and the gunboat Marietta. now
directed to proceed to the scene. The
difficulty. which has been attended
with serious disturbances. apparently
has been between the laborers on the
controlling the export of the fruit
banana plantations and the interests
and from reports at hand is believed
to have had its inception over the
question of wages.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20
Garden Party Given by Mrs. Taft

Washington.-Dip Diplomatic, official
and social Washington gathered in
large numbers between 5 and z
O'Clock Friday afternoon under the
big trees in the rear of the White
House. to attend the second of the
four Friday afternoon garden parties
arranged by Mrs. Taft A buffet
luncheon was served from a tent at
the west end of the grounds. The
Marine band was seated near the east
entrance An innovation was intro
duced by Mrs. Taft, who invited the
men to wear short coats, flannel
trousers and straw hats.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20
KILLED BY PiLE-DRIvER.
Horrifying Accident Occurs Near Sail
Lake City

Salt Lake City.-Two men we're
killed at the Jordan River power
plant of the Utah Light G. Railway
company, on Friday, when pile
driver broke from its nloorings and
IN its fall to the ground disconnected
and brought with it the high tension
wires of the Telluride Power com
pany.
Merton r. Wheeler, electrical en-
gineer, was struck by falling wires,
carrying current of 10000 volts,
and burned to death. William ID.
Freckleton, laborer. was caught un-
der the wreclage and fatally injured.
Andrew Weston. a iaborer. was pain
fully injured.