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Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-22
TWO AMERICAN CRUISERS
SAIL FOR TURKISH WATERS

BEIRUT, Syria, April 21.-The situ-
alton at Alexandretta is critical. Panic
prevails everywhere. Thousands OF
refugees are crowding the city, which
is patrolled by marines from the Brit
ish cruiser Diana The British battle
ship Triumph has gone up the coast to
Ayas to relieve that place If possible.
At Boilan pass, above Alexandretta.
conditions are desperate. Hanjin is
threatened, but is holding out Tho
fanatics are threatening Marash.
Mersina, Tarsus and Adana are re-
ported quiet, but conditions are very
unsettled. There are ominous rumors
from many other places, and Northern
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Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-22
PUP CHEWS THROUGH
GAS TUBE; WHINING
SAVES WOMAN'S LIFE

@ SAN FRANCISCO, April 21.-The (
@ whining of a pup today saved the life I
q of its owner, Mrs. Catherine War (
q auarht, whose death 1t had almost
q caused. On retiring last night Mrs. (
8 Warquarht turned OF the gas supply (
g ing a little parlor heater at the heater (
q instead of at the wall fixture, and (
8 during the early morning hours the (
q pup chewed through the rubber tube (
q which was Allied with gas. Both (
@ woman and dog were nearly dead (
q from asphyxlation when the cries of (
q the animal were heard by G. III. Near, {
8 who broke down the door of the room {
q and rescued them.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-22
ROBBER ADvERTISES
GUILT TO SAVE MEN
UNJUSTLY ACCUSED

CHICAGO, April 21.-A thief with
"New England conscience has placed
the following ad In Chicago newspaper:
Personal-C. C.-Boys must not suf-
fer for crime 1 committed. Tell Judge
Kersten 1 confessed to you. Harry"
1t was not necessary to carry out the
injunction of the "ad" because the two
defendants on trial proved an alibi, but
il 1t had been needed Harry" was
ready to furnish an affidavit admitting
his guilt and proving the innocence of
the men unjustly accused.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-22
May Eliminate Medical Experts

FLUSHING, N. Y, April 21.-A
proposition for the elimination of ex-
pert medical testimony from the trial
of Capt. Peter c. Hains, jr., was made
today to the prosecution by counsel
for Hams District Attorney Dewitt
took the matter under advisement.
The morning session adjourned with
out another juror having been secured
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-22
THE NEWS SUMMARY
FORECAST

For Los Angeles and vicinity: Over
cast Thursday morning, clearing later
Maximum temperature yesterday, 81
degrees; minimum, So degrees.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-22
FOREIGN

Russia masses troops for military occupation
of northern Persia
Roosevelt arrives at Mombasa, Africa.
Armed struggle between factions in Turkey
delayed by compromise suggested by Tewfik
pasha.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-22
EASTERN

Smuggling operations at New York said to
be carried on by perfectly formed organization.
Six killed. nine fatally injured and fifty hurt
In storm in Ohio.
Secretary OF sails for Panama canal
zone
Grand jury will investigate alleged bribery
charges in legislature of Arizona
James Patten leaves Chicago to inspect crop
outlook.
Congressman from Utah file charges with
president, alleging western railroad discrimi-
nate in freight rates against inter-mountain
cities.
with hatpin.
Official reader of ID. A. r. shoulders all
blame for ''blunder' which threatened to cause
dissension in organization
Engineer. says proposed drainage canal at
Chicago would reduce power OF Niagara falls.
Dynamiters will attempt today to blow up
ice jam in Niagara river
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-22
old Guard Dies

SAN QUENTIN, April 21.-C. l..
Ellis. the Oldest guard at the peni-
tentiary, died last night of general de-
bilIty. He had served as guard at San
Quentin for forty-five years.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-22
COAST

Governor withdraws signature from full-crew
bill learning that 1t would work injustice on
railroads
Wife of resident Of Seattle disappears In
Portland man charged with theft of baggage
plans made at San Francisco to entertain
crews of Japanese training ships.
Judge threatens attorneys in Calhoun case
with punishment for contempt.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-22
SCHOOL BOARD
VICTORIOUS IN
ELECTION SUIT
RULING ON DEMURRER HOLDS
BOND ISSUE LEGAL
DECISION IN ALL POINTS BUT
ONE AGAINST SPENCER
Judge BIedsoe Declares He Sees No
Reason Why Entire Transaction
Was Not According
to Law
SWEEPING victory in favor of tn,

A SWEEPING victory in favor of the
u school children of Los Angeles In
~ the fight for better school faclli-
ties was won yesterday when the de-
cision of Judge Benjamin F. Bledsoe
of San Bernardino, who presided during
the hearing of the injunction suits In
stituted for the purpose of thwartins
the will of the citizens as expressed at
the school bond election in January
was received and filed in Judge Hut
tons department of the superior court
With one exception every contention
put forward by attorneys representing
Il. J. Spencer and the interests behind
him in the effort to nullify the election,
was defeated, and the court is appar-
emily in doubt even on this point, whlch
involves the secrecy of the ballot.
To determine the question an appeal
may be taken, or the attorneys for the
Los Angeles city school district and the
board of supervisors, defendants In the
action, may ask for a speedy hearing of
the case,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-22
Machine Plant Unroofed

At Wellington. south of here, the
wind unroofed the plant of the Amer
lean Machine company, partially un-
rooted the Big Four freight station,
knocked chimneys down and otherwise
damaged about fifty houses. The
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-02

from the depot when they go to spend
the day at the Knox farm. Another
conveyance is an old fashioned coach
ing car in which big and merry par
ties are taken out to inspect the farm
The mistress of this ideal American
home was Miss Lillian Smith. daugh-
ter of the late andrew ID. Smith CT
Allegheny. The popularity of her girl
hood has Geen retained in the home life
of Mrs Knox.
Mr.. Knox since he acquired Valley
Forge has had occasion to say re
peatedly that he is not of Revolu-
tionary stock. He is Irish on the pa
ternal side. and his mothers for
bears We're English. His grandfather
Withdrew from the Church of Eng
land, but Mr.. Knox has always re-
manned member of tne Protestant
Episcopal church. There were one
dozen children in the Knox family.
and Phiiander Chase is the eleventh.
He was named for Philander Chase,
who was bishop of Ohio in the middle
of the last century. The bishop was
an uncle of Chief Justice Salmon z.
Chase. Mr.. knox's bovhood friends
called him Phil" and he confesses
that he always liked it,
When he is off official duty the dig
nifty which is supposed TO hedge an
,ficial is not noticeable in him. He is
old fashioned in his ways. and when
he is smoking a cigar, of which habi;
le is fond, he is the personification
of old school democracy While the
! Washington home is noted for its;
hospitality. those who have visited
both places, the official residence and
the Valley Forge home, declare that
there is a oi6eience between the two
and that the difference is in favor of
the Valley Forge house.
While MIR. Knox is always access
iblc, he is not what is called mixer.
He. rather shuns Official society,
There is something in his appearance
and manner which suggests French
able of the eighteenth century.
Political Nic,onames.
When Mr. Knox was mentioned as
a presidential possibility last yea.
people made free with his Character
as is the custom in this country wher
there is prospect of such promo.
ton. All was good natured. of course
and grew out of some notable act o,
Mr.. Knox. Thus ne was termed "trus
buster" and then he was referred I,
as the young David" of the McKin
| ley administration And Presiden
Roosevelt factiously called him ..
sawed off cherub." IL any OF thes,
| appeilations ever had any effect upol
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20 NIHl2D EL7ZCEp%LD

He was graduated from the Uni
versity OF Virgin: when he was sew
enteen years old. Between that time
and three years later he had Published
three volumes of poems. THE Raven"
appeared in the New York Evening
Mirror Jan. %. 1915. He was paid $40
for it. It's authorship was credited 10
another for five months. He tried the
regular army for two years and then
returned to the field in which he be-
came so famous 1t is said that he
vas recognized in France before his
own country admitted his worth In
the words Of u biographer. the RIGA
currents of Irish, Scotch, English ana
American blood We're in his veins"
at the age of tweGty-siX he married
his cousin, Miss Virginia CicmIa. Lie
died in BALTIMORE oct. Z, 1919. The
monument which marks the site whore
he is buried was placed there quar-
ter of century after. There is an
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Mr.. Knox his most intimate
were never aware of it. Prot
public act of Mr.. Knox gave Ii
prominence than the visit he |
Paris in the interest of the
of the Panama canal. He invi
on that occasion the rights +,
of the canal company. on his
the canal company was paid
eco, and S10.G0O.000 was paid
anna.
The head of the Knox no
been before the public so long
tie need be said about it in t
nection. He was the SON of !
Knox, a banker in Brownsvi
yette county, Pa. Mr.. Knox '
in 1858. He was educated a
Union college, Ohio. and grad
the class of 1872. He was adm
the bar in Allegheny in 1875. s
unusually successful in his pr
In 1867 he was assistant
States district attorney in the
Pennsylvania district. In 1877;
came one of the firm of Knox
in Pittsburg. In 1901 he bee
torney general of the Unitet
in the administration of Presid
kinley. In 1904 he won
known as the Great Northern
ties merger fight.
BRUCE MI
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-02
\ 4 Valley Forge Home of Philander Chase Knox

cupied by General Henry Knox when
he was Washington's chief of artillery
1t was the headquarters of General
Knox when the Continental army was
in cantonment at Valley Forge in
Hts. 1t is in the garden spot of
300 acres. 1t looks out upon rolling
hills, wales, meadow and wood. Old
Forge creek babbles musically near
by. The present occupant of the house
claims no relationship to the family OF
General Knox He laughingly con-
fesses that for some time after he
took the property a good deal of his
time was taken up in denying that
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there was any connection between the
two families.
The industry of the farm is the
breeding of fine horses, although there
is an extensive. dairy on the place
which is under the management of
Reed Knox, one OF the sons, who re-
lieves his famous father of politics by
talking of cows and the best way to
make butter.
The crack team of the stables, which
is always trotted out for visitors, cost
$4,000. The chief delight of Mr. Knox
is to sit behind this team and engage
in spirited brushes with his neigh
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ZADJY2lN

and was elected When he was thirty
three years old he and Mary Todd
were married in Springfield. III. Two
years later Henry Clay was 4 candi-
date for the presidency, and Lincoln
espoused his cause. In that cemDHisn
he showed the qualities of a political
debater. Two years after he was
elected to the lower house of congress.
In 1854 he was an unsuccessful candi-
date for the United States senate.
Two years later the Republican party
had become a factor and Lincoln
was it's acknowledged leader in his
state. In 1858 occurred the famous
campaign with Douglas for the nomi-
nation for United States senator
and Lincoln was defeated. In this
defeat there was no forecast of his
nomination for president on the Re
publican ticket, bat that occurred two
years after, in 1850. No cam1at@-n like
that had ever been known before in
this country. His election made him
an international character. How he
got to WASHINGTON in time COR his in
auguration. March 4. 1861, is q singu
I lar chapter in politics. Thirty-one
days after he was in Office he was
confronted with the hittcreSt and most
stubbornly contested war in modern
times. The first gun was fred at
/ Fort Sumter April l.. 1861. He got
! the title of the great emancipator"
Jan. /. 1863 when ile signed the eman-
cipatiCn proclamation. ST, months
/ from that event the battle OF Gettys-
/ burg was fought and Vicksburg sur
rendered. In 1864 he was re elected
( president and was inaugurated for
/ the second time in 1865. Thirty six
days after, AppomattoX-end of hos
/ tilities. Six days after the surrender
Z he was aSsassinated.
! There were twenty four days diff
( ference between the birthdays Of Lin
coin and E.dSesr Allan Poe. The latter
was born in Boston. Jan. 10, 1899. At
/ the age of eleven Poe was an orphan.
The life of this master OF romance
was a struggle. His genius did not
come to its present stage Of recogni-
ton until he was dead. CONTRADICTORY
statements about his career occurred
from time to time, bus his place as a
genius in the literary world has been
fixed.
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~ N the site where Baron Steu-
ben drilled the ragged Con-
tinentals in TITS, while the
American congress was in
session at York, Pa, stands the ia
vorite home of Philander Chase Knox,
who will be secretary of state in the
cabinet of President Taft. The official
home is in Washington. being the
mansion that was built by George w.
Childs of Philadelphia. There is an
other home in Pittsburg, and still an
other summer home IS on the Beverly
farms in Massachusetts.
On the Valley Forge farm the home
life of the Knox family is seen at it's
best After the official strain at
Washington is over Mr.. Knox hastens
first to Valley Forge. There he plays
golf, gallops across the historic acres.
drives, walks. reads in his library or
on the great veranda, receives and en-
tertains his friends, walks under the
shade of the great trees, looks in at
the stables where his blooded horses
are cared for and, returning, plays
poker with any who may care to meet
him in the game in which he Is an
expert When all this is over he likes
to listen to young Phil play ragtime
on the pianola, which was put in to
please the young man. When not
otherwise engaged, Mr.. Knox can be
found looking at his flock of fine
sheep, which he says trims the lawns
as they should be trimmed. 1t is an
ideal life at Valley Forge. Every
member of the family enters into the
spirit of it.
Valley Forge is twenty-four miles
west=northwest from Philadelphia.
The entrance to the lawn of the home
is on the Forge road. one mile from
the old village. The mansion stands
200 feet from the pillared gateway.
The house is conspicuous on account
of the bright yellow hue of the walls
and it's roof of dark maroon colored
shingles. The antique windows are
quaint, some of them being glazed in
colors. Ivy. woodbine and red Ram
bier roses Chamber about the veranda
and the walls. Great native trees
shade the lawns The library, con-
tanning thousands of volumes. is on
the second floor A big fiat desk on
which are strewn the latest period
icals and books stands in the center
of the room. Spacious chairs suggest
rest and comfort. The drawing room
is furnished with solid mahogany
The dining room is in oak.
Picture of the Home.
The house is typical specimen Of
colonial architecture. and it was oc-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-02

N the site where Baron Steu-
ben drilled the ragged Con-
tinentals in 1777-S, while the
American congress was in
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-02

light of children. His temperamess
was pre- eminentiy sympat brittle He
was well born and bred. Whether in
speaking about him or to him he was
always addressed in adjectives of en-
dcarment He belongs to that group
which includes Hawthorne, Longfel
low, Thoreau, Emerson. Lowell whit
tier and Margaret Fuller. lie was
graduate from Harvard in 1928 "nd
then went abroad. lie was twice mar
RED. a son who bears his fathers
name is The only surviving child OF Dr.
Holmes. As editor, humorist. critic
poet. novelist. he gained quick rccog-
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a years. The pages are crowded
with the names of illustrious
men. Centenaries to be observed in
the present year will accentuate this
fact. Few, if any, similar lists OF
statesmen, poets, artists and writers
can be found in any hundred years of
any era in which men of genius played
part. The realm of exploration and
discovery seems almost to have been
circled. Research in science has been
farreaching. Thought along all lines
has been evolved which the sages of
the preceding century would have al
lied with madness.
An English writer said few years
ago that if all history preceding the
year 1900 were lost there would be
sufficient in the events since that time
to satisfy mankind and prepare for the
future. This may have been an ex-
aggeration. but it contained some
truth.
The first centenary this year of the
most remarkable man in the history
of his country is that of Abraham Lin
coin. There was nothing in the OBJ
scure birth of Lincoln or in the twenty
years that followed to indicate that te
than that attained by the average
man. A rapid chronology of the man
tells the strange story that was
crowded into a life of dfty-siX years:
Born in a log cabin on a farm near
Hodgenville, Ky, Feb. u. 1909; as 6
struggling farm boy to Indiana in
1917; motherless a year after At the
age of eleven he was given to the care
of a stepmother. When he was six
teen years old his education at school
was finished. He was just twenty one
when ne rernossed to Illinois. the state
in which his career was fashioned.
Lincoln a War Captain.
He first emerged from private life
in 1882, when he became captain il
the Black Hawk war. The same year
he had his first defeat in public life
He wGs beaten as a candidate for tbs
Legislature. The following year he be-
came a country merchant IN the vii
lage of New Salem. In 1885 he was
again a candidate for the Legislature
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of changing his views when conditic
seemed to him to warrant q chan
Thus. after he had held to oppos
views, he became an advocate of Ir
autonomy, and as late as 1893 he
troduced measures for Irish self e
eminent in a mastery speech. He
tired from active life in March. Is
and died in his old home, Harvard
castle, May 10. 1888. He was bur
in Westminster abbey.
In the current year one will cas-
recall in the list of poets and auth
the name of Edward Fitzgerald, bt
in England March 81, 1909. He d
June IA, 1888. His works are not I
merous. The most important is
celebrated translation of the Rub
vat" of the Persian semipessimts
astronomer-poet Omar KhayyAfn.
beauty of Fitzgerald's poem is grea
admired. He was the friend
nyson and Carlyle.
Eminents In Music.
Somebody has said that it is
full whether the history of any
musician discloses, SO wide CO
ton of qualities as does that o
delssohn, the great German cor
who was born in Hamburg
1909. The mans life is ref1ecte
| thought, in many Of his best
sitions. All composers who m,
were entranced with his genius
of his customs was to have in
musical performances in his no
alternate Sunday mornings. Z
rected. his sister presided at the
and his brother played on the
while his second sister sang. II
in Leipzig Nov. 4, 1S47.
Chopin is another musician wi
be recalled during the year. if
he is ever forgotten. He was b
Poland March 1, 1909. He d
Paris Oct. II. 1s49. He was
the first of pianists, and his p
like his music, was marked,
biographer, by a strange and
ing grace.
What is pronounced the mo
pertaining book of genuine trav.
written" was the story of the
around the world by Charles
Darwin, the naturalist, who wa
in England Feb. II, 1909. No E
writer is held in higher esteem
country than Darwin. He wa.
nent in geology. zoology and
ALI countries honored him with
and other distinctions. He d
London April 19, 1882, and was
in Westminster abbey.
Few, if, indeed, any, English Pc
SO generally read and admired
country as is Tennyson. His S.
reserved and moody nature, kns
well in his own country, wa
known here save as accounts
characteristics reached Americ
! it was his poetry that appea
people here. He was born in E
Aug. 6, 1909, and died Oct. 6, 1ss
was created a peer with the
baron in 1884
Other noted people on the /
honor whose names will be esp
remembered this year are:
Kemble, the actress; Frederick
Barnard, the American edt
Richard NJ. Mines, Lord Hot
poet; Hannibal Hamlin, vicel
dent of the United States; JOB
Blackie, English critic; Jazz
she-, pioneer aeronaut: Mar
robert. French soldier; Jul
French statesman: Mary
Clarke, English Shakespeare
a. Dahlgren, American nava
Kit Carson, pioneer, and g
Russian author. All the
Were born in 1909.
. FRANK H. 81
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Americas "erand Old Man

bors. AT one time this team held
the record, 2:101h. 1t was made while
Mr.. Knox held the ribbons The per
Torrance gained for the owner the
reputation of being the best horse
man in the United States.
When the family first went to Val
ley Forge it consisted of Mr.. and Mrs
Knox, three sons-Phil junior, Hugh.
Reed-and the daughter, Rebecc:i.
The latter married afterward, becom
ing Mrs. James Robert Tindle o.
Pittsburg. The love of the family for
this home was expressed py Mrs.
Knox to a friend in Washington when
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-02

she said. 1--WE exist for a few months
in our Washington home, but at Val
ley Forge farm we live"
The Family on the Farm.
All the family reunions are held at
this farm. The table in Washington
is supplied from Valley Forge farm.
The fowl, the vegetables and the fruit
are raised on the old home farm.
Every new kind of vegetable or spe-
cial brand of stock or fowl that comes
into market is duplicated on the
farm. A four horse vehicle, the device
of Mrs. Knox, conveys visitors to and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-02

milton at home and abroad. AS citi-
zen he was public spirited and gentle
Gladstone the Reformer.
1t remained for coinmoner of Eng
land to leave an indelible impress on
the time in which he lived. William
L. Gladstone was that man. The cen
tenary OF his birth will occur Dec. %,
for he was born in Liverpool on that
date. 1909. Iie deserved the title that
was bestowed upon him in the after
noon Of his life, Grand Old Man of
He vas prime minister
several times during the reign of
Queen Victoria. He was a power so
long ago that il seems as if he lived
in very remote age He ruled the
British empire before Balfour was
born. Churchill had not opened his
eyes when Gladstone was a force
Strenuous in many respects, in diplo-
macy Gladstone was always fair and
always for peace. 1t was said of him
when he was at the zenith of his
fame that he was the embodiment OF
reform. Born a Tory, he left that
party in 1S45. He held to the privilege
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-02

other monument to him in Richmond,
the city he loved so well. Near Poes
araEe is that of the man who slew
lincoln.
Aeimes, Americas Grand Old Man"
II the "gambrel rooted" house IL
Cambridge. Mass. Oliver Wendell
Holmes. our s.grand old man of let
tcrs.' was botn Aug. %. 1863, and he
died in Boston Get. {, 1884. The Sc
renity of his life was the same ct
home and abroad. Honors came to
him wherever he went. lie WAS The
consolation of age as he was the de-
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/ EMARKABLE history was
\ made in the last hundred
years. The pages are crowded
with the names of illustrious