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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-04-14
GOING TO SUPREME COURT
Appeal Taken in Case against Chauf-
feur W. H. Benware.

The case of State vs.. William Henry
Henware. charged with manslauehter
which was tried in Chittenden county
court last week. will he appealed 10 tie
Supreme Court. r. +. Brown. attorney
for Mr. Benware made motion Fri
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-04-14

BE sure and Use that old and welitried
Mrs Winslow's Soothing 81.
rup, for children teething. 1t soothes
the child, softcns the gums, allays all
pain, cures wind collie and is the bes'
for Diarrhoea Twenty five
cents bottle.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-04-14

Foley's Kidney Remedy will cure ary
case of kidney and bladder trouble not BE-
yond the reac of medicine No redicir e
can do more. J. W. sullivan. q Churcn
St.
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But achievements have been wrought,
the benevolent interests OF the churches
have been presented, the regular means
Of grace maintained. and most pastors
have had tho privilege and Joy of re-
ceivirg into the church such as had been
led to Christ under their ministry during
the wear
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-04-14

Feel languid, weak, run down? Head
ache? Stomach "off" Just plain case
OF lazy liver. Burdock Blood Bitters
tones liver and stomach. promotes d.
gestion, purifies the blood,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-04-14
WINOOSKI STATION.

Edward Boiron Blanche Beaucage
Ben Carter, Lydia Laundry, Edward
Lange. Mrs Emma Smith Mrs r n.
SUN,
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ADVERTISED LETTERS.

List of unclaimed letters remaining un-
called for in the Burlington, VT, post
office for the week ending April s. 1910:
MEMS LIST.
Armstrong Hardware Co, Coleman
Specially Co., John Connors. A. Lawrence
Cooke, I.udie Danielson, Betrus Elgerson
Daniel Emery, G. NJ. Farnsworth, Will
liam T.. Haskell, J. r. Holmes. Raymond
Maple, Cieure IIonore Piriguiy, Dan
Ross, C. l.. rison. Chester ". Wilcox.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-04-14

''Findable" things can he found, at
hardly noticeable cost, through want ad-
vertising.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-04-14

FOUNTAIN PENS AT FREE PRESS.
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SAVINGS Of MANY
ARE THREATENED
Continued FROM page 13.)

the FIRST note IN full. either from the
sale of shares or other resources. j..
T.. Bernier, proprietor OF the Laconia
National. French daily newspaper in
Manchester. was elected vicc-president
of the New England Investment com
pany August Go, by virtue OF an In
vestmcnt OF certain sum OF money,
and by the same token, Victor Roy. q
Manchester undertaken and milk
dealer, was made secretary. and a. L..
Gadbois treasurer. on October 81.
"This Is tho first large money re-
ccived by the company" says Ne. la
Paine, who adds TINT because Of this
Investment. he and Bergeron withdrew
from office temporarily, but continued
on the board of directors.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-05

PROPOSALS viii be received at the Bureau OF
Supplies and Accounts, Navy Department.
Washineton d. C.. until 10 o'clock a. M. jan
uary IS 1910. and publicly opened Immediately
thereafter. to furnish at the naval training
station San Francisco. Cal. one cenfrifugal
pump and motor Applications for proposals
should refer TO Schedule 20s1- Blank proposals
will be furnished upon application TO the navy
pay office. san Francisco Cal. to the Bureau.
E. B. ROGERS. Paz master General. q. s. y.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-05

brothers did not trust to luck They
chartered a sailing vessel, loaded it
with commodities likely to be in de-
mand among the miners and then sailed
for the Golden gate via Cape Horn.
After a narrow escape from shipwreck
they arrived at San Francisco and at
once opening a store they sold their
merchandise to. the eager miners at
fabulous prices.
ID o. Mills rapidly accumulated
wealth and when William C. Ralston
organized the Bank of California he
became its president. During the time
that Mills gave his attention to the
Bank of California it was the most
successful institution of a similar char
acter in this country. but when he de-
cided to remove to New York his con-
nection with the great bank was sew
cred. Disaster came under Ralston's
administration. Mills had continued to
be a stock holder, and when a financial
hurricane struck the bank he was quick
to go to the rescue. He contributed
largely to provide for the banks losses
and to reorganize it with new capital,
which placed 1t again among the fore
most financial institutions of the United
States The credit of this herculean
achievement was due more to him, per-
haps, than to any other man. Mills is
distinguished for a princely liberality.
He believes in distributing his prop
erty generously while living. He has
built therefore, one of the finest resi-
dences in this New York; city for
his son He bought. for his daughter,
Mrs Reid, at a cost of 100000 the VII
lard palace in Madison avenue. His
other acts of generosity are number
less He himself lives in fine style.
He paid the highest price ever paid per
foot for residence in New York when
he bought from J. p. Morgan for $l75,-
600 that gentlemans residence directly
opposite St Patricks cathedral in Fifth
avenue
After purchasing it Mr. Mills gave
a carte blanche order TO a noted dec
orator of New York, and during trip
to California the work of decoration
was done. On his return he at once
took possession of mansion of which
a shah of Persia might be proud He
was delighted with all that had been
wondrously wrought by the beautify-
ing touch. of splendid art; with the
richly carved woodwork, the gorgeous
ly picturesque ceilings. the inlaid walls
and floors and the tout ensemble of
orinetal ma agnificence. His content
Inent was complete, but a surprise
awaited him. 1t was the decorators
bill for s450.000. This, it is said, slight
ly disturbed his serenity. 1t caused
him to look with critics eye on the
splendid decorations which constituted
a study in the fine arts at such high
rates of tuition. As with the eagle
eye of a connoiseur, he perceived that
the bill was altogether too high. He
succeeded in getting, however, only
slight reduction.
Soon after taking up his residence
in New York he became acquainted
with William H. Vanderbilt, at whose
suggestion he invested very heavily in
Lake Shore. He made by this opera
tion no less than s2,700,000. This large
sum he devoted to the construction of
a palatial building on Broad street"
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-05

of intellectual and moral philosophy
and civil polity.
The sole condition that L shall i'm
pose upon this trust and foundation is
that the income only shall be devoted
exclusively to the support of this pro-
fessorship and that any surplus shall
be added to the original fund.
While propose TO commit this trust
to the keeping of the regents of the
university, confiding in their wisdom
to direct it to the promotion of the
studies to which it is dedicated. and to
the steady increase of human thought
and progress. and would limit it by no
narrow boundaries of transient opin-
ion, I desire to record my views as to
the nature of this professorship and
the character of man who should be
called upon to discharge its duties.
The studies included under the gem
eral title pertain especially to man. his
intellectual moral and social being.
and can never cease to hold a high
place in human learning, nor to have
a great influence on human welfare. In
the widest and most liberal meaning
they underlie laws, manners and re-
ligion and in effect, form the public
opinion of the world; and their teacher
should not be one who merely resorts
to them, takes them up or incidentally
adopts them, but one of philosophic
spirit, who shall devote his life to this
appropriate field of influence and noble
labor. To such man this professor
ship offers opportunities limited only
by his own genius and devotion.
For the above purpose / inclose my
check for the sum of $4,000 and will
be obliged if the board will signify to
me their acceptance of the trust
Hoping that this may result to the
advantage of the state and of the uni
versity I remain, gentlemen, very re-
spectfully. d. o. MILLS
1t is through the department of as
tronomy at Mount Hamilton, however
that Mills had become known as one of
the greatest benefactors of the Lick
observatory of the university He was
deeply interested in the progress in
that science and made a number of
gifts. representing a total value of
nearly $50, 900, but of far greater value
in usefulness to the university and
science.
gift of $51 900 for the equipment
and operation of an observatory in the
southern hemisphere at Santiago de
Chile is considered one of Mills great
est gifts to modern science and the
university For seven years from 1901
he has provided fund for the univer-
sity astronomers who have lived in the
south and made a careful search of the
heavens under the tropics.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-05

street, New York, was the first of the
type Of tall office buildings-of steel
construction-in the world That was
built in 1850. In 1892 he built the Mills
building in San Francisco, which. how
ever, he has never owned in his name.
1t is the property of Mrs. Reid and
ogden Mills.
But his greatest interest was in the
Mills hotels, which he erected in New
York city for the purpose of giving
respectable accommodation to poor
men,"
Mills was married on September 3.
1854, to Jane T. Cunningham, daughter
of James Cunningham, a prominent
San Franciscan of that day. There
were two children, Mrs. Reid. who was
Elizabeth Mills. and Ogden Mills, who
married into the famous Livingstone
family of New York, and he has three
children, Baroness Granard, wife of
Bernard William Patrick Hastings
Forbes, eighth earl Of Granard in the
Irish peerage; Miss Gladys Mills and
ogden Mills Jr. Mrs. Reid has one
child, who was Miss Jean Reid now
the wife of Hon. John Ward, equerry
10 King Edward. Mrs. Mills died in
1888
Mills was member of the Episcopal
church and a vestryman in st. Thomas
church. New York.
He gave largely to church and other
charities and was generous contrib
utor to scientific funds.
The Mills hotels. of which there are
three in New York were intended as
places equipped and maintained in eff
cient modern fashion, where meals and
lodgings could be furnished to respec-
table men at nominal prices.
Mills always declared that he did not
class this enterprise as philanthropy"
maintaining that it was a sagacious
public spirit that prompted him in es-
tablishing them.
The hotels have been elf-supporting.
Not long ago Mills decided them and the
adjacent Mills dwellings to three trus-
tees-himself, his son, Ogden Mills, and
his daughter. Mrs. Whitelaw Reid
making stipuiations as to succession in
membership in the board which will
take the work on indefinitely.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-05
LOSS REGRETTED AT
UNIVERSITY HE AIDED
BY GENEROUS GIFTS

BERKELEY, Jan. 4.-Expressions of
deepest regard were heard on the cam
pus of the university from members of
the faculty over the death of the late
D. o. Mills, whose continued benefac-
tions to the institution have made him
a friend who has stood by with aid
financial and moral with hardly sin
gle parallel in the university's history.
He indicated his confidence in the
university" declared Prof. William Ca
rey Jones, author of the history of the
university and head of the law depart
ment. "at time when it was the CEN
ter of a storm of attack Mr.. Mills
was going out of the state to make
the east his home, but he showed his
belief in the university by making the
gift and aiding it with his moral sup
port
The Mills professorship was the first
chair which was put into operation, al
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-05
WAS SHREWD MAN
OF BUSINESS; NOTABLE
FIGURE IN WALL STREET

Interesting side lights are thrown on
the life of .. o. Mills by some of the
men who knew him from the time he
began his banking operations in this
state Lowell White and James Rolph
are among those who were connected
with the Bank of California in the COS
when Mills was its president.
Mr. Mills was a very sedate and re-
firing man. according to White. He
never gushed and he was never uncivil.
There was no excess of dignity. He
was very nice gentleman. 1t was
unusual for him to manifest any feel
ing. I can not conceive of his being
excited or misled. He had that calm
understanding which gave him capacity
to weigh and measure. There was not
a particle of sentiment apparent, but
he never took any unfair advantage in
his business.
Mills made il a rule never to lend
money without reasonable expectation
Of repayment. He did not believe in
combining business and charity He
was exceedingly cautious, yet one of
his maxins was The man who never
loses any money never makes any"
James Rolph, who was associated
with Mills in the Bank of California
and is still connected with the institu-
tion, styled Mills a careful. painstaking
man. According to Rolph it was due to
the efforts of Mills that it was possible
to reopen the Bank of California after
the Ralston clash The bank owed
large accounts in England and it was
due to the action of Mills in stepping
into the breach that it was possible to
get the foreign creditors to consent to
the reopening of the institution.
He looked daily at the bills receiv-
able" said Rolph in touching on the
attention which Mills devoted TO de-
tails. He was businessman from
the word 60. He was pleasant and
kind, but dignified. and never spoke OF
his philanthropic work, although lib
eral giver'
Henry Clews of New York, in his
book, Fifty Years in Wall Street" de-
scribed Mills as one OF the most nota BILE
figures seen. in Wall street; "a man
about 5 feet 9 inches in height, with
handsome. forid features and a firm
jaw, indicative of great decision of
character. He is one of the boldest
financiers in this country" continues
the sketch He has the courage of a
mans caution and conservatism when
the march OF events requires II.
Before the California gold excite
ment broke out he and his brother
were in the hotel business. He has
always been dependent on his own ex-
ertions He fought his way to opu-
lence such as a prince might envy by
his own keen intelligence and un-
daunted enterprise. On the
breaking out of the gold fever he and
his brother left their native town for
the fields of adventure, where men of
shrewd foresight and determined cour-
age achieved a success stranger than
the wonders of a Persian tale. The
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-05
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES
TO HOLD "BABY DAY.

Therell be gurgling and gooins
a-plenty next Friday afternoon when
It's wee smiling infants of the Associ-
ated Charities will meet in the rooms
of the organization, 1900 Jackson
street, for one large and joyous taby
day.
Besides being a reception in arms.
so to speak, there is to be a medical
examination and a general examina-
ton by the authorities of the Associat-
ed Charities.
The various families and foster
mothers who have had the babies in
charge will receive their remuLera-
ton
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-05
MILLS ESTATE WORTH
MORE THAN 500, 600, 600

YALL street reports the
Nv wealth of ID. o. Mills to
w have been in excess of
$4,000, 900.
The funeral of the dead finan-
cier will he held privately at
NiIlbrae Friday afternoon. The
remains probably will be shipped
east and inferred at Tarrytewn,
n. Y. His son in law. WhiteIaw
Reid. United states ambassador to
Great Britain. will leave London
TO attend the burial services.
Hundreds of kilograms of con-
doIence have been received from
all parts of the world by Mrs.
Reid.
Mills built what was probably
the first skyscraper type of office
buiIding in New York, in 1850, the
Mills building in Broad street.
The work I'm which he was most
interested was that of the Mills
hotels. in New York, which were
buiIt for comfortable accommodate
tion of poor men at minimum
cost.
Mills gave s135,OOO TO the Uni
yersity of California to further
philosophical study and astrO-
nOmicaI research.
He left n son, Ogden Mills, and
daughter. Mrs. Whitelaw Reid,
and four grandchiIdren-Mr John
Ward (Jean Reid, daughter of
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid; the Baroness
Granard (Beatrice Mills), Miss
Gladys Mills and Ogden Mills Jr.,
children of Ogden Mills.
He was vestryman of st.
Thomas church, New York city.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-05
MAY VETO COUGH
STREET FRANCHISE
Mayor Taylor Will Act on the
Seven Block Concession
Before Retirement
Street Railway Privilege Stands
Little Chance of Executives
Approval

Mayor Taylor will in all probability
veto the Cough street railway fran
chise ordinance.
Asked if he would take this action in
regard to the bill of intention finally
passed by the board Monday, the
mayor simply said:
We'll. l will pass upon it. 1 might,
of course, leave the measure to be
passed upon by my successor, but I
am not that kind. I will pass upon the
bill"
The mayor has 10 days in which to
approve or disapprove any ordinance
Doctor Taylors term ends Friday at
midnight, consequently if he failed to
act upon the bill Mayor elect Mccarthy
would have one week in which to de-
eide whether to approve the grant of
another 25 years to the United Rail-
roads-the only bidder-or to veto it.
Should Mayor Taylor veto the meas
ure, his veto will be read in the first
meeting of the new board next Mon
day. According to the charter it will
then be entered in the minutes, be pub
lished FIVE days and come up for con-
sideration at the next meeting of the
Mccarthy board. The question will
then be put:
Shall the franchise pass despite the
objection of the mayor?"
1t will take IA votes of the new
board to override the veto of Mayor
Taylor, retired
Mayor Taylors action in the prem
ises is fairly certain. While the
Cough street grant has been repre-
sented as a mere permit for a seven
block switch around the Fillmore
street hill southwark from Grove, it
confers on the receiver 20 year privi-
lege over an untouched street in the
heart of the city and one of the best
connecting links in the transcity traf-
fic.
The people have grown tired of be-
ing tied to the tail of Calhoun'S char
lot" was Mayor Taylor's comment on
their three to one Endorsement of the
Geary street road construction. Con-
tinuing he said:
This is great. The people of
San Francisco have taken a great
step toward freedom The Geary
street road will now be built and
run by the people and for the peo-
pie.
This marks an epoch. 1t means
civic freedom. San Francisco will
now put through the water buSl-
ness. That will be the greatest
thing which will have ever hap
pened for our city. Some day our
with wonder at the things we have
stood for and suffered. Public
utilities, run by private hands, are
run to squeeze money out of the
publics necessities. Run by the
people, they will be run to give
service to the public.
Mayor Taylor will hardly end his
term by initiating the grant of a street
railway franchise to a private corpo-
ration.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-05

though. the professorship of oriental
languages and literature was founded
earlier but not made effective until
1890.
The deepest insight of the million
aires thoughtfulness is discerned in
the letter to the board of regents max
ing the gift of a professorship, as fol-
lows:
MY interest in the institutions over
which you preside and desire to con-
tribute to the benefit and support of
good learning prompt me TO propose
to you the establishing of permanent
foundation in the nature of a trust
fund, of which the income shall be ap-
piled TO the maintenance, in the Uni
versity of California, of a professorship
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-05
w. T. HESS, Notary Public

ROOM 11I2. CALL BUILDING
At residence. 1850 Page street. between
D. m and p. m Residence telephone
Park 2797-
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-05
Set Date for Corporal Test

The new examination for police COR
poral will be held by the civil service
commission in the Mission high school
building on Saturday, January %. All
patrolmen are eligible after six months
service for admission to the examina-
tion and over 400 took the examination
which was thrown out by the commits
sion upon the protest that the con-
testants in one room had been allowed
a few minutes time over the allow
a0Ce-
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-05
PROPOSALS

OFFICE CONSTRUCTING oUARTERMASTER.
Fort Mason, san Francisco. Cal, December 81.
19O9-Sealed proposals. in triplicate. for con-
structing supply road 10 pumping station, Pre-
sfdfo OF San Francisco, Cal, VIII be received
here until II a. m January s, 1910, and then
opened. Plans, apecincations. blanks and neees-
sary information obtained on application En-
velopes containing proposals should be endorsed
Proposals for Roads, Preside OF San Fran
CISCO CAL and addressed to MAJOR GEO.
Mex WILLIAMSON. ouartermaster. q s. A
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-05

He considered his greatest achieve
snent the establishment Of the Bank
~ California. but he was sensitive on
that matter and preferred not to have
II referred TO.
In 1856 he bought the estate at
AfiIbrae There are 1900 acres in the
property, and il has been kept intact
n 1869 he built this home in which
lle died and he had made a practice OF
spending his winters here. ever since
ne moved TO New York in 1886.
Mr.. Mills was one Of the first, II
not the frst man TO construct an office
building Of the modern type. His
building. the Mills building in Broad
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-05
Will Destroy City Bonds

City bonds to the value of s9,046,000
will be destroyed by Treasurer Nc
Dougald Friday. The $4,000 bonds, for
some are of less denomination than
$1,000, will be placed in a cancelinS
machine and several hours time will
be required for the perforation of the
securities Before this is done the cou-
pons will be cut from each bond and
the mass placed in a portable furnace.
The burning of the coupons them
selves will take place somewhere in
the vicinity of the city hall and prob
ably upon the ground space cleared Of
the old structure.
McDougald will have two disin-
terested witnesses who will watch the
separation of the coupons, the cancel
ing of the bonds themselves, the placing
of the coupons in the furnace and the
incineration. The witnesses will then
make affidavit to the destruction and
this document will be filed with the
auditor
The bonds to be destroyed are of the
1904 issue, bearing S15 per cent in
terest. and after being offered for sale
without bidders in three different
months recently were ordered cancelled
by the board of supervisors two weeks
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-05
RHEUMATISM

Munyon's Rheumatism Remedy re-
lieves pains in the legs. arms, back.
stiff or swollen joints, in a few hours.
and cures IN a few days. Contains no
deaden the pain 1t neutralizes the
acid. drives out all rheumatic poison
from the system
Price 25 cents at all druggists.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-09-09

Mrs. George Bethers and child
rem returned last Friday evening
from visit at Philomath.
G. N. Thompson came up from
Waldport Monday and has been
attending the fair this week.
Postmaster and Mrs. W. F. Ready
of Waldport have been in Toledo all
week attending the fair.
Henry Gorke came over from
Dallas Monday evening to see the
fair.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-09-09
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
US. Land onlce, Portland. Oregon

July 2S, 1910.
Notice is hereby given that Burt B. shcp-
herdson, OF silctz, Oregon, who on June 18th.
1902 made homestead entry, Serial No Ol99s,
for Lot and wl9 neA of nwl4, Section :, town
ship l0s south, range 10 west, willamette Meri.
dian, has fled notice OF intention to make
final Communication proof to the land above de-
scribed, before Ira Wade, County CLERK OF Lin
coin County, nt Toledo, Oregon, ON the 9th
day of September. 1910.
Claimant names as witnesses:
W. S. Hall, f. A. Richardson. DR.. NJ. F. Claus.
ius. and Roy Butterheld, all of siletz, Oregon.
ii. u. HIGBY Register