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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17
MAN OF MYSTERY
LEFT BIG FORTUNE
GEORGE D. DUNN, OF NEW YORK.
BELIEVED TO BE HEIR TO
RICHES OF &. ID. NELSON

SPRINGFIELD, MASS Special
This city's Man of Mystery" George
u. Nelson, died Tuesday after two
days illness, and Springfield is won
dering what will become of the $780,
OOO Nelson is believed to have left.
The friends who knew him best-and
they knew him little-are confident
he made no will. His only known
relative is a nephew, George ID. Dunn.
of New York.
where Nelson came from, who his
family was or what was his age are
things nobody in Springfield can an
swer. His age has been guessed at
anywhere from sixty to seventy years.
and this is about ali that is known of
his earlier days.
Some thirty years ago William
Bliss, president of the Boston and AL
Dany Road, ordered pair of fine trot-
ting horses from the West They ar
rived at Springfield in charge of
George ID. Nelson, and he never left
the town. Bliss took a fancy to Nell
son and set him to work on the rail-
road. Soon Nelson showed marked
ability and was put in charge of the
freight clearing department.
Nelson left the road to work for the
Nlnton family, who have a large es-
tate in Springfield. When Mr.. Vinton
died Nelson took charge of all the
property, and built a theater and a
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17
VA. WATERWAYS
To Be IMPROVED
100000 for JAMES RIVER-NOR-
FOLK HARBOR TO HAVE
$15O,OOO.

WASHINGTON, d. c. - Special. -
The river and harbor bill was held up
on account of the debate over the
mandamuS case. Virginia may get
some additional appropriations in the
senate, where Senators Martin and
Daniel will make the fight. 1t was
hoped that $150,000 would be given to
James River, but 100000 is all that
the bill carries. 1t is the purpose of
congress, 1t is said, to spend $1,000
600 on the James but at the rate Of
100000 a year thirty years will be
required for that sum. A stiff stand
Tor more. will be made in the Senate
The Virginia items IN the bill fol-
lows: 1000 for the Potomac River
at Mount Vernon; $4,000 for Cape
Charles harbor; $4,000 for Milford
harbor; $4,000 for Norfolk harbOr-
sum of this, not exceeding $4,000.
$ TO be expended in securing in
creased anchorage area at Lambert =
Point; S3OO,G for improving the
channel from Newport News TO Nor
ok ly the removal OF Thin bile
Shoals; $4,000 for AppOnfattoX
River; $4,000 for Dymer's Creek:
100000 for James River; $500 for
Nansemond: $1,000 for Nomini Creek.
S13,5OO for Onancocx River; $4,000
cor Pagan River; $4,000 for Kappa
hammock; $4,000 for Upper Macho-
doc Greek; $S.500 for Urbanna Creek;
$4,000 for York, Mattaponi and Pa
uIuHkey rivers ana AccOquOn creek;
$l2,10 for waterway on coast of Vir-
ginia; $4,000 for waterway from Nor
folk harbor TO Albemarle Sound, and
$4,000 for waterway from Norfolk
town to sounds of North Carolina.
There is an interesting story in con-
nection with the item of $12,1OO for
Waterway on the coast of Virginia" 3"
The water course in question is known
locally at "Cat River" The commit
tee balked at Cat River, and renamed
the stream.
I'VE imagined said a member of
the committee to me, that the river
had been used for drowning cats"
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17
BRITISH SITUATION is
ALL UP IN The AIR

LONDON Special. Confusion is
the keynote of the British political
situation here. With the Irish clam
oring for home rule and threatening
break in the Government block if
they are not needed, and with the
LabOriteS demanding immediate war
on the House of Lords, the Liberal
leaders are struggling to whip a def
mite and effective policy out of the
chaos. The Cabinet met again today,
to continue yesterdays discussion and
outline the terms of the Kings speech
to be delivered at the opening of the
new Parliament ten days off: There
was no diminution today in the popu-
lar interest in the doings of the Cab
met. When the ministers assembled
at the prime minister's official resi-
dence in Downing Street thousands
thronged the adjacent thoroughfares.
There was little in the way Of demon
stration, however. All of the men,
bers of the Cabinet appeared fatigued,
and the strain which has been kept
up since the Introduction of the bud
get bill In the last Parliament shows
no sign of relaxing.
IT is a group of tired men In whose
hands lies the immediate course of
England's history. The conference be-
tween Premier Asquith and the king
expected yesterday has been deferred
until tomorrow. BY then the Liberal
Government hopes to have it's plans
as we'll in hand as can without def
mite knowledge of the situation in Par
lament. That cannot be obtained till
the eve of the first session, at the ear
lest.
The belief that the Government will
push the budget to the attention of
the Commons and the House of Lords
before attempting to curb the veto
power Of the hereditary body, became
firmer today although there was no
NNh hA Tnl
sembled. The policies to be followed
by the ministry have been kept secret
with the utmost care.
1t Is, however, merely a matter of
precedence of, the two issues that now
hold the attention of\Great Britain.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17
STOLE MONEY so
He GOULD SEE GIRL
RICHMOND LAST WEEK, GIVEN
THIRTY DAYS IN JAIL.

NORFOLK. VA, Feb. Ito get
money with which to buy a ticket to
Richmond, in order that he might
spend day with one of the chorus
girls with the In Panama" company,
II. {. McCann, a young sailor, stole
two pistols from one of the dressing
rooms of the CRANKY Theater here
last week, when the Cowboy and the
Thief was being played. He was ar
rested when he returned from Rich
mond last Friday. and in the Police
Court today he was sent to Jail for
thirty days by Justice Simmons. He
admitted he stole the guns, and said
he did so to get money to go to see
one of the girls of the I'm Panama"
company in Richmond.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17
SEARCHING FOR
NEGRO FIEND
Women in Terror and Citizens Go
TO Aid of Police-Many
Assaulted.

LOUISVILLE, KY Special. Resi-
1cnts OF Highland Park, a fashionable
organizing vigilance committee as
the result of attacks on women by a
negro. -
Led by bloodhounds, posses todav
searched for the negro. who late la st
night attacked Mrs. Clarence Adams
urday Mrs. Fred Gaumon was over
come by negro. Five suspects were
taken before Mrs. Gaumon TODAY. bnt
she was unable to Identify any of them
this section are in terror, and scores
or citizens have gone TO the aid OF m
authorities in hunting the culprii
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17
TAKES HUSBANDS
COIN AND LEAVES
mississippi Woman of Forty-five
and Boy Nineteen Are Lo-
Gated in BROOKLYN.

NEW YORK.-Special.- strange
romance of Mississippi boy of nine
teen and Mississippi woman of forty
five, was revealed here Friday when.
after search OF several weeks, A. va
ham Glassman and Mrs. Anna So4z.
both Of Greenville, Misl were ar
rested at 45 Pitt Streei\ Brooklyn.
rhey are charged with N~loping and
taking S3.S35 belonging to David SoItz
the woman's husband. They. were
found after the police had for days
watched the home Of Glassman's sis
ter and traced him to the Pitt Street
house.
There they found Mrs. Soltz and her
three-year-old son, Samuel the Young
est of six children, five Of whom she
left in Greenville. According to the
police, Glassman said Mrs. Soltz gave
him from 500 to $500 every time ne
asked her for money.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17
NEGROES SUPERSTITION
ABOUT ELECTROCUTED MAN

WINCHESTER, VA, Special. =
John Fitzpatrick, a Virginia ne
gro. who was electrocuted in the
Ohio penitentiary for n1urderin0
Druggist Steele, was buried M
Bridgewater Friday, but not till
Rockingham county authorities
took charge of the crOpse after
the negro population, through su-
perStitiouS fear, refused TO tuch
the coffin.
F1tzpatrick's body lay on the
depot platform all day in SIOO-
coffin, unclaimed.
While his relatives and town
and county authorities NyranoIed,
the body was removed last night
TO the cOlOred eNIthOdiSt Church.
Negroes now say the church il
deSecrated and will never attend
meetings there again.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17
V. VI. I. MATTER HAS NOT
YET BEEN TAKEN
RICHMOND VA

- - - ~ - ~ ~ ' a sNDeCl
The Senate Committee on Pt <
institutions and Education has not
taken up the Gravatt resolution IdSNS1
ing TO an investigation of the affairs
of the Virginia Military Institute at
Blacksburg.
The resolution has been pending. in
the committee for some two weeks.
ana. there is absolutely no interest in
the proposition so far as / have been
able to ascertain said a member of
the committee, who declined to make
any further statement on the subject
and who failed TO intimate in any vvav
his views on the matter.
mere IS not, however, the least
uouDt that the committee will. at its
meeting next Tuesday. call up the res
olutlon and make an adverse report
Ever since the charges and alIeya-
uons against the institute and Presi-
dent Barringer were first made Dub-
hc there has been an effort on the
part OF gentlemen who are more or
ieSs Ianlliar with the institute and
Us workings TO prevent any investir-a-
ton, holding that the charges so far
made are not sufficient to warra Mt
Ihe enormous expense of an investi-
cation.
Such hearing would last for some
Lour weeks or more, and the sending
Tor witnesses and papers. stenoeranhic
reports and the like would entail an
enormous expense on the State.
IL must not be understood. however.
hatthere is lack of disposition to insert
the probe at any point if If shall bo
demonstrated that there is ground for
any possible good to believe that the
interests of the institutions or the
state is TO be subserved.
For sometime past there has been q
EroWlnS sentiment against converting,
the General Assembly into an in0ui7
sitional body instead Of enacting leg
iSiaton that will prevent the neces-
slty Tor costly Investigations.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17

Must the American CIi

"Our cities are now n
mob state" writes Arnoi
ner, i'm the issue Of HarL Ii. ~. !.
for January 18th. "HaI ~
mands Of commerce and b
are not antagOnistic; as a
fact the contrary is true.
pays and pays well, not alone
ing healthier, happier and bettep
zens, but in dollars and cents. ~
the fear of expense that has TO a
great extent prevented our cities from
adopting plans for their imprOvement-
In America we have been SO careful
OF the individual that the community
mas been allowed to suffer. and the
conservation and jealous care of prf-
Vate interests has been carried to si,cb
a point that the most necessary inn
proNements are delayed or entirely
deteated- However, W do not DESPAIR
Tor our future. The love of beauty
IS growing rapidly. and while il was
once thought TO be the provocative OF
the rich. it is now understood. to he
the right OF every citizen. Art for peo-
pie must be better than art by the
people l believe that il is incum-
bent upon the State to take the lead
ana provide examples for the individ-
Gal TO follow
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17
FOUR ARE BURNED TO DEATH
IN FIRE IN PRINCESS ANNE

PRINCESS ANNE. VA.-Special.-
The wife o. Ernest Forbes, a negro.
her two nieces and her child were
burned 20 death in this county early
yesterday. Forbes built a fire i'm the
stove after arising and went into the
yard. The woman soon after suspect
ed that something more than the fuel
IN the stove was afire. Rushing down
stairs, she found the lower part of the
house in flames. She hastened back
upstairs TO get the sleeping children
out or the house, but before she could
40 so her own means Of escape had
been cut off, and she and the children
perished together.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17
Push on to Managna.

SAN JUAN DEL SUR.-Special-
General Chamorro and General Ma
els, of the revolutionary army are
pushing on to Managua from Muv-
muy, which they captured from an
inferior force of Government troops
according to dispatches received here
today.
The insurgents captured arms
FUNDS and supplies in the town, which
was defended by 500 men Of the Ma
driz army. The rebels numbered l -
zoo. Matagalpa, the capital OF the
ProVince, is in Chamorros hands and
Will be used as a base
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17
COMMANDER PEARY is
TURNED DOWN BY COMMITTEE

WASHINGTON, ID. Especial
The House Naval Affairs Sub
committee Friday reported ad-
Versely on the bill making Conn
mander *. Il. Peary a rear ad-
mlrai In the navy. This probably
Will kill the bill.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17
STOLE $500 FROM THE
BIRMINGHAM POSTOFFICE

BIRMINGHAM, ALA-Speciaf.-
unknown white youth about eighteen
years old reached through the stamp
window at the Birmingham postofIice
Friday grabbed a sack of money, about
$500, and escaped The robbery was
done so quick the boy was gone be-
fore the few who were in the Vicinity
nealtzed what had happened The
money was being counted by the stamp
clerk
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17
Hidden Bomb ExpIOdes.

PARIS.-Special- bomb hidden in
the wall OF rich leather manufac-
turers home at Graulhet exploded Fri
DAY with terrific force. 1t is believed
the outrage is the result of a strike
ol leather workers. who have been
OUT month. The explosion shook
houses Tor a hundred yards about.
shattering windows and causing orna-
ments 20 fall. No one was injured
however.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17
GETS TWELVE YEARS FOR
ASSAULT on CHILD

PORTSMOUTH, VA Special. II
c. Gates. thirty years old, a cigar
maker, was convicted at 1890 o'clock
Thursday night in Hastings Court for
attempting 10 criminally assault Mary
Peace, six years old. The Jury re-
turned the verdict giving Gates twelve
years in the penitentiary.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17

y never saw him at church before ..
Il know him. He is displeased with
the hearty welcome he is getting"
us he shy?''
No: ne came here expecting to get
snubbed."
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17
CHESAPEAKE STEAMSHIP
COMPANY.

ELEGANT PASSENGER STEAMERS
COLUMBIA" AND AUGUSTA"
For OLD POINT COMFORT and NOR
FOLK, VA.
Steamers leave Baltimore daily Tex
cept Sunday at $50 p. NJ, and leave
Old Point Comfort at 600 A. NJ. and
Norfolk at 200 A. NJ, where connec-
ton is made with the Rail Lines for
all points South.
"YOrk River Line.1
ELEGANT PASSENGER STEAMER
ATLANTA"
For WEST POINT and RICHMOND,
VA.
Steamer leaves Baltimore Tuesday.
Thursday and Saturday at 5 P. NJ. and
arrive West Point at 7:45 A. NJ. and
Richmond at 9:20 A. NJ.
Steamers call at Gloucester Point
Clements Clay Bank and Almonds.
STEAMERS LEAVE BALTIMORE
FROM PIERS IS AND 10 LIGHT
STREET WHARF.
Through Tickets to all points NAV
be secured, baggage checked and state
rooms reserved from the City Ticket
Offices, 119 E. Baltimore street. AR
THUR w. ROBSON, Agent, 127 E. Bal
timore street, T. H. Diener & Co.
Agents, 217 E. Baltimore stree. ]. H.
Eager, Agent 500 N. Charles street, or
the General Offices, Light and Lee
streets, Baltimore, Nd.
e. J. CHISM,
GenI. Pass. Agt.
N. CHAPMAN,
Asst. Gen1. Pass. Agt
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-04-07
WILL HANDLE ALL
COUNTY BUSINESS
COUNTY ATTORNEY MATHERS
WON'T HAVE AN ASSISTANT
NOW.

County Attorney Math.r, stated
today that there would likely not
he an assistant county attorney
appointed 10 succeed Smith Natson,
Who has resigned to take the place
of assistant attorney general. \ con
ference between MIR Mdthcrs and
the county commissioners was held
this week and Mr. Mathcrs offered
to try and do the work without th,
assistant and thereby save the ,ouu.
ty the amount of the salary. The
amount OF work that has been done
since statehood by the county attor
nry's Office would hc surprising to
many as they have disposed of
hundreds and hundreds OF cases that
had accumulated prior to statehood
and were left IN the county attlr.
ney's Office 10 be disposed of. Prob
ably no county official has done
the amount of work that has been
done IN the Carter county attorneys
office. For several months after
statcho Il two assistants were en-.
ploycd. After some a., the cases
were disposed Of the services Of
one assistant were dispensed with
and the work since that time has
been looked after 10y Mr. Mathcrs
and Mr. Matson Each have been
faithful workers and the result is
that Mr. Mathers thinks that be can
now do the work Of the Office him
self
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-04-07
CONTRACT AWARDED
FOR RF|LTER|NC PLANT
CITY COMMISSIONER ACCEPT
BID OF GEO. ERIcHSON WORK
BEGINS AT ONCE.

The city commissions yesterday
afternoon awarded the contract for
the installation of the filtration plant
To George Erickson of thi. city. His
bid was sl0.i37 Th epuut will be
Installed about half way between the
city lake ana the stand pipe aud will
have capacity OF one million and
five hundred thousand gallon Of good.
pure water, daily The plant consists
of three complete flters each with
a capacity OF five hundred thousand
gallons per day They are so arrang.
ed that either one. or all of them.
can be operated at the same time. or
in case of fire or for other cause, that
all the pressure may De wanted at
once, the filters can be entirely cut off
from the main. The filters are equip
ped with a number of pipes. valves
extending through and just ON the in.
side of the filter, the bottom Of the
filter Is covered with n layer Of gravel
and on this cover OF coarse sand and
is guaranteed to produce water that
is 9S per cent pure. Tho plant is
also arranged that the water can be re.
versed and the filters cleaned at any
time. Authorities on the subject who
have examined the water at the lake
say that the filth that would accumu.
late in a year. will not amount to
more than two wagon loads \ shah
low pool will be made near the plant
to hold the impure water that has
been run through the filters in clean.
ins, a brick house SO by i2 feet, will
ne erected for the plant, work on the
plant Will BEGIN within short time.
With the capacity of the plant this
should take care of the fltcring pro.
position In Ardmorc for many years.
for at present the amount OF water
used daily is only about four hundred
and fifty thousand gallons and there
would have to be a great increase in
the number of water consumers 10 use
what could be filtered in day.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-04-07

become candidate for governor He
was admitted to the bar some yea
ago while living in Kansas ana prac.
ticed law for FIVE years lie was
elected county attorney without oppo.
sition and Willingly rcmarHcI that he
had made a proposition to the demo.
Gratis of oklahoma TO elect him with.
out opposition for goveruor. but they
had courteously declined to do so
Among other kinds of work The can.
didate has done is also the duties he
once took upon himself l- being the
publisher OF a newspapcr He has
made a success financially lud that
one fact will have u great deal to do
with his getting the nomination for
the republicans are seeking 10 man who
Is able To make the campai-u
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-04-07
IS YEARS IN BUSINESS.

Fifteen Years in Business is the
title 0f book issued by Hops broth.
ers, New York, makers OF Memo cor.
sets, in commemoration of their fif.
toenth business anniversary. II com.
prisos a history Of their business.
showing how, from "a humble begin.
ming, they have in fifteen years built
NJ one Of the msot important corset
industries in the world
II describes the gradual expansion
of the Memo business in foreign
countries, showing how this Ameri.
can product has acquired fo1thold
In Great Britain and the colonies.
In Germany and in other European
countries. The principal foreign Ne
mo factory, at Stuttgart, Germany,
is one of the largest in that coun-
try and Is equipped with the most
modern American corsct.making ma
chinery.
1t demonstrates how American In.
Ncntive genius and energy are actu-
ally transferring the center of the
worlds corset industry from Paris
10 New York. As a result the impor-
tatiOn of German corscts has prac-
tically ceased and the American mar
ket for French corscts has dwindled
la al t.rhf
most French corset manufacturers
who export to this country are now
eagerly copying such Memo inven.
tons as are insuificiently protected
by the rather futile French patent
laws.
II reveals the fact that the great
Memo business has been built up
practically on newspaper advertising
and the further interesting fact
that Kops Brothers were among the
first corset manufacturers 10 use
newspaper space to introduce their
product 10 the general public
The first Memo corset newspaper
advertisement appeared Jan. 10, 1899.
Memo advertising now appears regu.
larly in the leading American cit
les during eight or nine months of
each year.
The book closes with the rather
important announcement that Kops
Brothers are perfecting still greater
OF worldwide charac.
ter whereby they expect in due time
to still further emphasize American
supremacy in this important indus.
try
II seems TO me that this book
should interest nearly every business
man simply as a recital Of the meth
DDS whereby great success has been
achieved by a popular American
firm, and it should be especially in.
teresting TO newspaper publishers
and the newspaper advertising fra
ternity. because Memo success is
50 closely Identified with the liberal
and continuous use of printers ink
J, W. MORTON, Jr.
New York City
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-04-07
Notice OF Sale OF Real Estate by
Guardian,

In the matter OF the guardianship
of Marec, Claude and Murdie Roberts
No tice is hereby given in pursuance
OF an order of the County Court of the
County of Carter, State OF Oklahoma
made on the 9Th day OF April, 1919
the undersigned Tuck Roberts guar,
dian of the estate OF Maree Roberts
Claudio Roberts and Murdie Roberts,
will So. p private sale TO the highest
bidder, subject 20 confirmation by said
court on Saturday the 30th day of
April, 1910, at 10 O'Clock a. NJ, at Ard.
more all the right. title and interest OF
said Maree Roberts, Claudio Roberts
and Murdie Roberts, In and to the
following described real estate sit
uate in Carter County, State of Ok.
lahoma, to-wit:
(Marce RobertsJ. The Northeast
Quarter of the Northeast Quarter Of
Section Thirtyfour (3p, TOWNSHIP
Two t2) South and Range Two (2J
West, tChickasaw NatiOn.J (Claudie
Roberts,, The Southwest Quarter oi
the Northeast Quarter of Section
Thirty.iour, l3b Township Two (2I
South and Range Two (2) West,
tChickasaw NationJ tMurdie Rob
ertsJ The Southeast Quarter OF the
Northeast Quarter OF Section Thirty.
four ,3D Township Two CD South
and Range Two t2l West, (Chickasaw
Nation.)
Said real estate will be sold on the
following terms and conditions, to-wit:
Cash.
Bids for the purchase thereof must
be in writing and must be filed in the
County Court or delivered to the un.
dersigned az Ardmore Carter County,
Oklahoma.
Dated the 9Th day of April, 1910
TUCK ROBERTS,
Guardian.
CHAMPION 4 CHAMPION,
Attorneys.
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