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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-23
WILL UP ANCHOR AND
AWAY THIS AFTERNOON
Naval Militia Ready for An
nuaI Cruise-Going to
Hampton Roads.

Two hundred District naval militiamen
will up anchor this afternoon about
O'Clock and sail away on their annual
cruise, which this year will last two
weeks and which will take them to Old
Point Comfort and to GARDENERS Bay.
L. l.. before they return to this city.
The miliatia will make their cruise
aboard the Ozark. the vessel which has
been assigned this year for the use of the
District Naval Militia, and which Is con-
sidered a better fitted boat for the pur-
pose than the Puritan, which has been
used in past years.
Commander s. W. Stratton, who ashore
is the director Of the bureau Of standards.
will have charge of the Ozark and Its
crew. He said today that the Ozark had
been put in readiness for the cruise and
should give a good account of herself
Fleet in Hampton Roads.
A good part Of the time will be spent in
Hampton roads, where the Ozark will
join the other vessels Of the militia fleet.
some half dozen in number, from Balti-
more. New York, Boston and other cities.
All the maneuvers and the cruise OF
the feet will be under the direction OF
Commander p. c. Marsh. U. s. n, who
Is in charge of the instruction of the
naval militia His flagship will be the
Chicago, which carries the Boston naval
militiamen.
The Navy Department has arranged to
let the militiamen have the use Of a
number of the regulation targets for big
gun practice at GARDENERS Bay. The feet
will practice battle maneuvers in Hamp-
ton roads. The men will practice
handling the big guns under every con-
dition, night attacks. finding the enemy
with searchights and maneuvering the
SbjnS under fire
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-23
Looking for Best Girls.

Every man in camp is asking hiJ
messmate whether his girl is coming
up Sunday" and not man who will tell
the truth. They're all scared, too, and
very much abashed when any one hints
at the fact that forty postcards a day
to the same lady ought to be able to in
duce her to come up and see the place.
Many a suardsman is certain to see
his best girl land here proud of the
fact that she knows a gallant soldier,
and then feel himself undergo fortunes
when he has to go on one of those hate
full details, such as washing the camp
dishes or doing the dirty work around
the company street. Then he will see his
best girl walking of arm In arm with
the lieutenant, who saw to it with fell
design that he should be peeling potatoes
instead of showing her around the camp.
Services Sunday in the. big chapel tent
of the regulars will probably be attend
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-23
Death of Centenarian.

CLARKSBURG, w. Va, July 23.-Sarah
Applebay. the oldest resident Of Clarks-
burg. is dead. She lived 100 years.
seven weeks and five days, but never
married.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-23

Charles Wilson, about thirty years
old. son of Alfred Wilson, a farmer re-
siding in Black Valley. three miles north
of Flintstone. Md. was fatally injured
in the runaway of his team which was
attached To hay rake.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-23
Ozark Overhauled.

The Ozark has been thoroughly over
hauled and repainted for the cruise. Her
guns have been put in frst-class condi-
tion and the magazine has been stored
with. ammunition.
The men will be well fed while they
are on the cruise, for the commissariat
of the Oza rk contains many canned deli
cacies, hams. bacon, vegetables. butter.
eggs and fresh meats. The once usual
coffee, hard tack and salt pork diet is no
more.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-23
No Trouble at Cape Gracias.

The cruiser Tacoma, recently ordered to
Cape Gracias a Dios on the east coast of
Nicaragua, where American interests
were reported to have been threatened,
has gone on to PrinzapulcO, several miles
north Of the cape and near Pearl Lagoon,
one of the strongholdS of the Madriz
forces. The movements of the Tacoma
satisfy the officials that affairs ut Cape
Gracias are tranquil and that the Ameri-
can residents are not in any immediate
danger.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-23
Report of Insurgent Reverses.

Reports of reverses to the insurgent
troops in Nicaragua are confirmed in
cablegrams to the State Department from
Managua.
Consul Olivares at Managua telegra phS
that DR.. Madriz has announced that 400
revolutiOnists who had attacked the viii
lage of Comelopa were completely routed.
Casualties on both sides are said to have
been heavy, Gen. Valdez of the Madriz
forces being reported as seriously wound
ed. The consul learns from other sources
that sharp fighting is in progress between
Granada and Nondaime. but no accurate
information is available
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-23
WHY NORWAY ACTED
Position in Nicaragua Con-
troIIed by Conditions.
FOREIGN OFFICE EXPLAINS
Advised That Port of Bluefields Had
Been Closed to Foreigners.
WARNED VESSELS OF THE RISK
Statement Called for by Report That
United States Had Declared
Port Open.
FOREIGN OFFICE EXPLAINS
WARNED VESSELS OF THE RISK

CHRISTIANIA, Norway, July %. - II
was stated at the foreign Office today that
the action of the Norwegian government
in regard to the right Of the steamers OF
the Bluefields Steamship Company and
other vessels flying the Norwegian flag
to enter the port of Bluefelds declared
under blockade by President Madriz of
Nicaragua, followed the recent receipt OF
a communication from the Nicaraguan
government.
This communication, which came tc
Norway through it's legation at Havana,
set forth that the port of Bluefelds had
been closed to foreign commerce in con-
sequence of the conditions prevailing in
that country.
Thereupon the Norwegian foreign Office,
| through it's consulates on the Gulf OF
Mexico and in Central America, called
the attention Of Norwegian shipmasters
and ship owners to the risks incurred by
vessels running into Bluefields.
Caused by Washington Report.
The statement of the foreign office was
called forth by the report from Washing
ton that the State Department there, fol-
lowing the appeal of American shipping
interests at New Orleans, had declared
Bluefields an open port. AS the shipping
between New Orleans and Bluefields Is
chiefly done in Norwegian bottoms, the
actions of the two governmentS-one In
recognizing and the other in ignoring the
asserted blockade-ran counter.
The Washington dispatches further in
timated that the Norwegian government
had acted under a Misrepresentation as to
the Nicaraguan situation, and hence the
statement of the foreign Office explain
ing what it did and how it came to do it.
after Honduran President.
NEW ORLEANS, July 23.-Special dis
patches received here are to the effect that
Manuel Bonilla, former president Of Hon
duras, had left Belize with two schooners
carrying men, arms and ammunition
with the intention of overthrowing Presi-
dent Davila of Honduras.
Advices from Port Barrios, Guatemala,
say that the government of Honduras
has placed an embargo on all messages
to and from that country, and that it is
impossible to learn anything concerning
the progress of the reported uprising in
several towns along the east coast of
Honduras.
steamer said to have been loaded with
arms and ammunition for Bonilla is re-
ported to have cleared from Port Arthur,
Tex, last week for Port Cortez.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-23
Sight a Novel One.

1t is especially interesting to the mill
tary men here, and was ordered late last
night in a quiet talk at Gen. Wother-
spoons headquarters. 1t is believed that
no one here at this camp has ever seen a
provisional brigade formed at war
strength, and officers and men are very
anxious to give the sight much study.
Dress parade this afternoon will be
by the first District of Columbia Regi-
ment.
BY dint of had work the District OF
Columbia camps have been cleaned to
perfection, and Gen. Harries and his Of
fcers were complimented on the appear
ance of things last night. Camp cleanli-
ness has always been the Districts strong
point. This year the camp was hard to
clean, because of bad conditions left by
the previous guardsmen.
The District of Columbia will have the
honors tomorrow.
Cd Regiment, the band of that organiza-
ton viii play its best, and the show
event of the entire big day here will
rest on the shoulders and shoulder straps
of the District Of Columbia troops.
Thousands OF visitors are expected in
camp. The trains will run all day lone
from points far and near, bringing best
girls. little brothers. wives, fathers and
friends. The camp will probably be
Overrun with femininity from the time
the first car unloads until late in the even
ing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-23
ON A WAR FOOTING
Provisional Brigade of Full
Strength at Gettysburg.
A SIGHT NOT OFTEN SEEN
So Far Districts Soldiery Has
Fought No Bloody Battles.
SOMETHING LIKE WAR SOON
There Will Be Marching and Shoot
ing and Possibly Raids by Night.
Await Best Girls.
A SIGHT NOT OFTEN SEEN

ecjal From STAFF Correspondent.

Special From Stan Correspondent.
GETTYSBURG. Pa, July 23.-For the
first time since publishing of the present
field regulations a provisional brigade of
several organizations of full war strength
will be drawn up for the inspection and
examination of army officers at this
camp Sunday morning at o'clock, a
very large part of the brigade being made
up of District of Columbia and nearby
troops, both regulars and National
Guards.
Full war strength is term little I'M
derstood by the civilian. who does not at
tend maneuver camps, except on two
dollar excursions, but has much signifi-
canoe for the army man. In the new
field regulations just issued by the big
guns" at the War Department several
pages are devoted to telling what the
full war strength of companies, regi-
ments, troops, batteries, battalions, etc.,
etc, is. 1t comprises the whole thing
just they would march off to war, with
cooks, trumpeters, mules and all. The
companies in camp now with only twenty
men in them would hardly make a cor
porars guard by comparison to what a
real war company is, with it's 1OS en-
artiticer and all the crew that follows the
captain after war is declared.
Makeup of Brigade.
The brigade will be made up as follows:
Fort Myer crack 10Th Cavalry will con-
tribute one full troop The Sd United
States Field Artillery, also from Fort
Myer, will contribute from it's second bat
talon one battery, which looks about as
large as two ordinary militia batteries,
when full war strength is taken into con-
sideration.
The Washington barracks will con-
tribute one company from the Sd Bat
talon of Engineers. The I'd United
States Infantry will contribute the regi-
mental headquarters staff, battalion
staff and two and half companies.
The Goth United States Infantry will fur
nish two battalion headquarters STATS
and two and a half companies.
The District National Guard will fur
nish two companies from the 1st Regi-
ment two companies from the I'd Regi-
ment each war strength company mean
ing lO6 enlisted men, and the 1st and I'd
West Virginia two companies each. The
regiment alone will have 1,5OO men in it,
There will be machine guns, engineering
implements, teams of all sorts; in fact
everything that the War Department be-
lieves is necessary for an outfit to start
to war on.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-12
BULLOCK LEAPS FOR LIFE
WHEN TRAIN HITS AUTO
San Mateos District Attorney Escapes Injury But His
Touring Car is Broken to Pieces

SAN MATEO, Nov. 11.-Leaping from
his automobile. which was stalled on
the Southern Pacific track about a
quarter Of a mile from Beresford, Dis
trict Attorney ]. ]. Bullock barely
saved his life yesterday afternoon when
the 5:45 southbound train from San
Francisco swept down upon him. The
locomotive crashed into the machine
and carried it more than 200 yards be-
fore a stop could be made. The auto
mobile, large touring car, was crum-
pied into a worthless mass of scrap.
Bullock's leap for life was made just
in time. Had he hesitated a second he
would have been killed. Bullock was
returning to his home at Beresford
after a trip TO Redwood City. He man
aged to cross the north track. but
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-12
Millionaire's Wife
Denies She Placed
PoiSonin His Food

WHEELING, w. Va Nov. IL
In a room in the tower of the
county Jail, filled with comforts
from her palatial home, Mrs.
Laura Farnsworth Schenck re-
NAMED today, detained without
privilege of bail, awaiting devel-
opments in the Illness of her hus-
band. John o. Schenck, a million
aire pork packer.
Arrangement of Mrs. Schenck
on charges of attempting to poi
son her husband by putting ar
senic in his food will be delaped
pending the outcome.
At the North Wheeling hospi-
tai, where Schenck was taken two
weeks ago. he is reported as i'm
proving, but still critically i'll.
That further arrests are to be
made was admitted today by
Prosecuting Attorney Handling
and Chief of Police Hastings. The
numerous suspects are expected to
throw light on the manner in
which arsenic or drugs may have
found their way into the Schenck
home.
At the Jail today Mrs. Schenck
was questioned anew, but she re-
peatedly declared her innocence of
any attempt upon her husbands
life. She is the daughter OF
poor family in Marietta, O., and
came to Wheeling % years ago
and found employment as do
mestic. She worked as such in
several homes until, 10 years
later, Schenck, who was then 81
years old and wealthy, married
her. They have two children,
Virginia. aged II. and Robert,
aged Z. who have been placed in
the care of relatives and who are
kept in ignorance Of the charges
against their mother.
Schenck is president of the
pork packing firm of F. Schenck
& Sons and is a brother of A H
Schenck, who recently announced
his candidacy for the United
States senate against Senator
Nathan B. Scott.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-12


when the south track was reached his
engine was suddenly killed The car
was directly across the track. Bullock
worked his spark and throttle for a
few seconds without avail. and was
about to climb out of the car to try
the crank when the headlight of the
locomotive flashed upon him. Bullock
did not wait to investigate the result
of the collision, but made his way
quickly to his home. The train service
was delayed for more than half an
hour.
An odd feature of the accident lay in
the fact that Franklin Swartz, who
succeeds Bullock as district attorney
OF the county, and Joseph H. Nash.
county clerk, were passengers on the
train.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-12

expected that battle viii ensue when
he is encountered. Noble, who is only
21 years old, is charged with three
other homicides preceding the killing
of Jailer Turner.
Persons who arrived here tonight
from Jackson, the county seat of Breat-
hitt county. said that reign of terror
existed throughout the county and that
hundreds of citizens had armed them
selves in view of the possibility of COM
ing in contact with Noble.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-12
LOWER PRICE FOR MEAT PREDICTED
BY HEAD OF ARMOUR INTERESTS

KANSAS CITY, Nov. 11.-Charles w.
Armour, head of the Armour interests
here, said today that he believed food
prices had reached their climax and
were now on the down grade.
General food prices are working to-
ward a lower basis" he said. 'The
cereals are getting down. People are
going to take advantage of lower prices
and that will have tendency to re-
lieve the stringency in meat prices,
especially pork.
But we welcome the time. for no
dealer likes to sell stuff at such high
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-12

NEW YORK, Nov 11.-Charged with
writing a threatening letter to John
D. Rockefeller, demanding $4,000,
Peter Lillijohn, % years old, is held at
police headqua rters here.
Hugo Kardoff, who accuses Lillijohn
Of sending the letter to him to be for
warded, made the complaint
Kardoff told detectives he received
two letters from Lillijhon this after
noon. One written in Hungarian was
addressed to the Standard oil chief
and contained the demand for $4,000.
The other was addressed to Kardoff
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-12
REIGN OF TERROR GRIPS COUNTY
AS POSSES HUNT FEUDIST'S SLAYER

LEXINGTON. KY. Nov. 11.-while
armed posses numbering more than 200
men searched throughout Breathitt
county today for Jacob Noble. who
killed sJailer Wesley Turner last Tues
day. the feudist eluded his pursuers
and at late hour tonight was in hid
ing somewhere in the mountains.
The posses sent out today, headed by
deputy sheriffs, have orders to arrest
the fugitive. dead or alive and it is
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-12
WOOD TO RECOMMEND
BETTER COAST DEFENSES
Will Urge Additional Fort6cations Immediately for
Paci6c---Special Agent Reports on Hart North
Especial Dispatch TO The Call

WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. 11-Ma-
jor General Wood, chief OF staff of the
army. will make report to Secretary
of War Dickinson replying to the Nc
Lachlan resolution passed by congress
asking for information regarding de-
fenses on the Pacific coast The report
will not be made public until congress
convenes. but it is believed that Gen
eral Wood will recommend that the de-
fenses of the Pacific be strengthened
and that additional fortffications be
erected Immediately.
Special Agent Taylor, who has been
engaged in investigating the immigra-
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-12
AUTHOR OF LETTER THREATENING TO
KILL ROCKEFELLER UNDER ARREST

and directed him to translate and for
ward the message to Rockefeller under
threat of death.
There was a second letter threaten
Ing Rockefeller with death, intended to
be sent If no reply was received to the
first
Of a firm Of Hungarian money ex-
changers where Kardoff, the complain
ant, is employed The prisoner had
trustingly sent his threats to the firm
for translation The police believe he
is crazy.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-12

prices as pork has been bringing for
several weeks. But when the packer
has to pay 8. 9. 10 and II cents for
live hogs, what has he to say about
prices?"
Armour said that II the farmers
would raise better hogs the pork prob
lem in this country would be solved
The aggregate increase in weight would
be enormous.
IF the farmers were to work harder
for healthy hogs. much less pork
would be condemned by the United
States inspectors" he said.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-12
DIVORCE GATEWAY
Will BE AVOIDED
Six Society Girls Dodge Marital
Mart and Take Vows of
Spinsterhood

Seeing in society's matrimonial mart
nothing but a gateway of sorrows lead
ing to divorce court, six debutantes
Of last season have Saken the vows Of
spinsterhood, houting the cherished
edicts of Mamma Grundy, flying in the
face OF all convention, with youth
ful enthusiasm discarding man and all
his works. The champions of feminine
liberty are:
Miss Agnes Tillman, Miss Dorothy
Van Sicklen, Miss Lillian Van Worst,
Miss Anna Olney, Miss Marion Davis
and Miss Josephine Johnson. In all
they form as dainty cluster as can
be found in a seasons bouquet of buds.
They have vowed with solemnity, sin
cerity and ceremony that never as long
as the moon rises in full and spring
sings its song through the trees, never
while diamonds sparkle and bells
chime, never while maid waits and man
woos will they consent to be shackled
with the bonds of marriage.
Chivalry's Days Dead
And this they have done because they
have found the world as it is, because
in seasons whirl they have observed
that glamour fades and romance passes
away, because they see that the prince
cuts a sorry figure in a divorce court
and because they realize that the days
of chivalry died with the days when
knights ceased garbing themselves in
tin clothes and coal scuttles. 1t was
on the eve of her debut that one of
them learned of the ways of the matri-
monial mart.
UP to that moment life to- her and
her five companions was a happy dream
of waltzes, flowers music, gimcracks
and whatnots, all eliminating in the
peal of a church organ booming out
the wedding march. 1t was the av-
erage dream of the average society
girl and the indications were that it
would be realized. H
Then one Of them CHANGED to read
something that some unpleasant person
with n1isanthropic ideas had written
about the marriage market.of society
how girls are presented like wares to
be disposed of as soon as possible, if
not at high, figures, then at reduced
rates that become lower each year until
the premium of a dowry may be offered
Therefore, the vows of spinsterhood
Mamma Grundy Cracks Whip
According to their views the rosebud
is presented and the eligibles view her
dispassionately and critically. Mann
ma Grundy cracks her whip:
What am 1 offered, my merry mas
ters? Here we have her-blonde. beau
tiful, accomplished. Plays the piano.
sings and talks with an English ac-
cent. Hurry up, gentlemen, please;
don't keep the lady waiting"
Such is the idea the six have formed.
of the matrimonial mart, and they dis
covered that society contained certain
elderly members of the spectator class
who waited for a girl, longing to an
nounce her engagement to some man
any man-before the close of the first
season.
They studied the question, did the
six maids, and going into it still
deeper concluded that the usual SEQUEL
of divorce did not appeal to them.
They learned that it was an unpleas-
ant process and that the simple way
of evading it was to remain single.
why acquire husband they
asked, who later must be disposed of
by law?"
Tbev asked the ouestion Of tben,-
Continued ON Page 2, Column 5
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-12

ton office at San Francisco. arrived in
Washington today and made a report to
the secretary OF commerce and labor
The report, which deals with the action
of Hart North, suspended immigration
commissioner, was not made public.
Taylor. who was transferred from the
treasury department for the purpose OF
Investigating Hart North, will return to
his regular duties. The department Of
commerce and labor refuses to discuss
the investigation now under way. Moth
ing is to be done apparently until Com
missioner General : Keete has looked
over the San Francisco situation.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-12
MRS. D. F. WALKER CITED BY COURT
FOR TAKING SECURITIES FROM UTAH
ESpeeiaI Dispatch to The Call

SALT LAKE, Utah. Nov. 11.-Service
was secured in Seattle today upon Mrs
Althea Walker. widow of D. F. Walker.
whose sole heir she is to an estate in
San Mateo county, California, valued at
81, 500, 900, and her son and daughter
About three weeks ago the fedtral
Mrs. Walker and others from removing
certain negotiable securities. valued at
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-12
| ONDON HOTELS DEPEND ON TRADE
PROVIDED BY AMERICAN VISITORS
Especial Gable TO The Call

than British patronized the hotel in
that period; 39A per cent of the guests
were British, per cent French, per
cent German, 12A per cent South
Americans, Austrians and travellers
from all parts of the world.
But the Carlton is outdone by many
hotels in the Bloomsbury district Half
their guests are Americans
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-12

hundreds Of thousands Of dollars The
restraining order was not served at
the time because Mrs Walktr and her
children took an automobile out of
town and headed for Washington state.
The United States marshal of that state
notified the local federal officers to-
night that service had been made. Mrs.
Walker is required to appear in the
federal court here within 10 days.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-12

LONDON. Nov. 11.-That London
hotels depend on American visitors for
a profitable existence has been proved
again by Walter Harris, chairman of
the Carlton hotel company.
Harris made the remarkable state
ment that. of the guests of various
nationalities at the Carlton last year,
3s per cent were Americans.
Nearly 5 per cent more Americans