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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-10-26
HOLD PASTOR FOR
KILLING WOMAN
Charged With Poisoning FIancee
10 Wed Heiress.
GOT THE DRUG TO KILL DOG
Rev. v. T. Rlcheson, Pastor OF a
Baptist Church At Cambridge,
Arrested For the Mysterious
Death or Miss Linnell.

Boston.-Clafenc Virgil Thompson
Richeson, an ordained clergyman of
the Baptist denomination, 80 years
old, and pastor OF Emmanuel Baptist
Church, OF Cambridge, was locked in
q cell at the Charles Street Jail and
will remain there until October 81,
when he will be given hearing in
the Municipal Court upon the charge
OF numbering Miss Avis Linnell, OF
Hyannis former sweetheart, in or
der to wed an heiress.
This state has had some mysterious
murders, the details of which have
been shocking to the communities
where they occurred, but never before
within the memory of the Oldest police
officer has there been more das-
tardly crime than the one this clergy
man is accused of having committed.
In effect, Richeson is charged with
furnishing a 19-year-old girl, to whom
he is said to have been engaged to be
married, and who, in the course Of six
months time would have become a
mother, with cyanide OF potassium,
and the inference is that he told her
that by taking the deadly drug she
would bring about a desired change
in her physical condition, when in
reality he furnished the cyanide, de-
ceived the girl as to the nature OF its
effect for the express purpose OF caus-
ing her death so that no ENHANCEMENT
might exist which could possibly pre-
vent his marriage to Miss Violet Ed
munds, OF Brookline, whose father is
m millionaire
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-10-26

Berlin's FIRE department costs a
little more than 100000 year, or
about 80 cents per tphabitant.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-10-26
Drug To XIII a Dog.

II Is hard TO conceive OF clergy
man committing a capital crime, but
II is more inconceivable TO imagine
that a minister of the Gospel could 90
TO a druggist and, with the purpose OF
numbering a young girl uppermost in
his mind, say to the man from whom
he purchased the deadly cyanide:
81 want to kill a dog" and then,
when the transaction is concluded, in
vite the druggist to attend the we'd
ding which was to be made possible
by the killing OF Miss Linnell. That
was the remark Richeson is alleged
to have made to William Hahn, a
Newton Center druggist, with whom
he became acquainted when a student
at the Newton Theological Seminary,
on the night of october 10, when he
visited the apothecary and secured the
poison.
Miss Linnell was living at her home
in Hyannis when Richeson became
pastor OF the Hyannis Baptist Church
in 1909. II was his first pastorate,
and while he was eloquent, he was
not very popular with all the mem
hers. Among those who worshipped
M the church was Avis Linnell. She
was a pretty girl, student at the
normal school in the town, and had a
good voice The youthful and good,
looking clergyman paid her markei
attention, and it soon became "undeN
stood" that the couple were engaged
to he married Members of Miss Lin
nell's family say that the engagement
was entered into nearly three years
ago and the girls mother says that
the wedding was to have been a year
ago this month, but was postponed
Avis showed a diamond ring, which
the clergyman gave her, and II was
said that the broken engagement was
renewed. Richeson became pastor OF
the Cambridge church in June, 1910.
having supplied the pulpit for several
weeks. his eloquence winning the con
gregation.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-10-26
ELY A WAR SCOUT.
First To Fly From a Warshlp-
Secuted For the Army.

secuted For the Army,
New York.-Eugene Ely was one OF
the best known of the American
aviators. His reputation was inter.
national as an expert, conservative
and experienced pilot. He has prob,
ably done as much as any other
American aviator in furthering mill
tary experiments with the aeroplane
particularly in connection with the
United States Navy.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-10-26

Reading. Adam W. Fisher, Read
ings leading bother, died of a COM
plication OF diseases in his sixtieth
year.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-10-26

Lewistown-Those who have fol-
lowed the woods for years say they
have never seen the nuts so plentiful
which is harbinger of much small
game and a cold winter.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-10-26
ALL OVER THE STATE
TOLD IN
SHORT ORDER

Mahanoy.-Edward Lindemuth,
former coal and iron policeman, was
found dead near the Pennsylvania
Railroad tracks at st. Nicholas.
Pittsburgh.-Hea rains through
out eastern Ohio and western Penn
sylvania the past few days were re-
sponsible for the loss OF five lives.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-10-26

Lock Haven.-Peter Kufskie, who
shot and killed Alonzo Smith in
jealous frenzy, in South Remove, on
July IS, was found guilty of murder in
the second degree.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-08-04
SAILED HIS GOOD SHIP
THROUGH BOILING SEAS

Seattle, July, 29.-Bringing the
news of strange phenomenon which
was witnessed at midnight on June
FL, in 16 degrees latitude, the Nor
wegian steamship Matilda, Capt.
Kjerland, arrived on the Sound yes
terday from the west coast of South
America ports.
Capt. Kjerland reports that for
two hours the vessel steamed over
an apparently boiling ocean, which
emitted light so strong that it was
possible for the officers aboard the
vessel to read their watches almost
as clearly as in daylight. The water
was milky white and the phenome-
non was accompanied by great heat,
Capt. Kjerland asserting that the wa
ter reached a temperature of go
degrees. Some of the water was
taken on deck by the officers and
sailors, but it lost it's milky appear
ance as soon as taken from the sea.
Two bottles were saved and will be
sent to the photographic Office for
examination.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-08-04
BRITISH CONSTITUTIONAL
CRISIS VIRTUALLY ENDED

London, July 31.-The constltu-
tionality crisis is virtually over. Inc
-Balfour revolt has been sQuelcn-
ed and Lord Lansdowne has the ad-
hesion of 31S Unionist peers to the
policy of letting the veto Dill 90
through unamended. 1t Is ngureo
that the revolving peers will not mus
ter more than thirty in the house OF
lords.
The government is not going to
leave anything to chance, and unless
Lansdowne guarantees that a sur
ficient number of Unionist peers Will
vote for the bill to overwhelm the
revolters the government will with
hold it until new peers are created.
AS Lansdowne and Balfour real
ize that creating new peers would be
browning calamity, it is expected
that they will give the required
guarantee, although doing so adds
enormously to the humiliation OF
their position and must intensity the
tendency to decentralization and dis
Indignation in their party.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-08-04
FISH TRAPS DAMAGED BY
UNPRECEDENTED TIDES,

Bellingham, Aug. damage to
fish traps approximating $150.O00,
and much greater loss by the
Gripping of the traps at the height
of the sock-eye run, was caused by
unprecedentedly high tides last Fri
day and Saturday, say trapmen who
reached this city today from the San
Juan islands. Fish Commissioner
Riseland has received a dozen official
reports covering the disaster.
For some unknown reason the
tides were two and three feet higher
than predicted in the tide tables.
and more than two feet higher than
ever observed during the history OF
trap fishing. and no provision had
been made for the high water.
Whole leads were swept away by
what watchmen declare to have
been a wall Of water speeding up
the channels, and long strings of
piles have disappeared. Many traps
can not be repaired in time to be OF
service during the remainder of the
fishing season. which closes August
%.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-08-04
DIG BIG DITCH QUICKER Than
CONGRESS- PASSES LAWS

Washington, July 21.-One of the
most important questions confront
ing the government heads concerns
the policy of operating the Panama
canal. The great ditch is being
rushed to completion faster than it
has been possible to rush congress
to sense of the necessity for pro-
viding laws and regulations relating
to the maintenance and operation
we'll in advance of its opening to
commerce.
1t is now too late for congress to
take action at the present session,
but if matters do not crystalline next
winter the delay will be calamitous.
Happily, however, there is prom
Use of action at the regular session.
which will not be entirely too late.
A year ago President Taft began
prodding leaders in congress to get
busy with problems that in their
peculiar way are even more import
ant thatn the work of construction.
On January 1, 1915, according to
the existing law, the president of the
United States is to ask for the as
sembling of the fleets of the world
in Hampton Roads After certain
official ceremonies have been gone
through with the fleets are to pass
through the Panama canal on their
way to San Francisco.
Canal Would Be Damned
If anything happened so that the
fleets were delayed in going through.
Col. Geothals pointed out to the COM
mission, the Panama canal would be
damned; and to guard against that
contingency he wants time for tom
ing up all machinery and for per-
fecting the organization. He stated
when he was here last winter before
the commission that the shipping in
terests of the world required eigh-
teen months notice at least of what
tolls were going to be charged in
order that they might make their
contracts. At his last appearance
he said he had ascertained from
transportation experts that the ship
ping interests ought to be given at
least two years notice
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-08-04
LINE TO COOS BAY
TO BUILD AT ONCE.

Portland. Or, Aug. ii. p.
O'Brien, general manager of the
Hartman lines in the Pacific North
west announces that the Southern
Pacific Company at once will begin
construction of railroad to Coos
bay. The road will be completed
according to present plans in two
years and will cost 100000.
The railroad will diverge from the
main line of the Southern Pacific at
Eugene. Or, and cross the Coast
range in a westerly direction to the
mouth of the Siuslaw river. thence
following the coast to Marshfield.
The Coos bay country is one OF
the richest portions of Oregon, but
because Of its remoteness has re-
NAMED practically undeveloped.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-08-04
SPEEDING MUST STOP
ON MOUNT RAINIER.

Tacoma. August Determined
to stop speeding on the Mount Raj
nier road, Superintendent Edward
is. Hall today issued orders whereby
a record Of the movements Of each
auto and motorcycle entering the ma
tional park will be kept.
Machines found exceeding /, the
speed limit marked on sign boards
will be elected from the park and
another permit to enter win be OBJ.
tanned only from the secretary of
the interior.
Thirty-five minutes has been des-
ignated as the minimum time in
which machine may travel the six
and half miles from the west
boundary to Longmire's Springs, and
a similar limit has been placed on
the five-mile stretch from the
springs to Nisqually Glacier.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-08-04
"A TOILETTE WOOL SCHEDULE GOES
THROUGH AS COMPROMISE MEASURE

Washington. July 29.-Out Of
what appeared to be chaotic condi
ton in the senate, there suddenly
arose Thursday a coalition of Demo
Gratis and insurgent Republican.
which bowled over the regular or
ganization and passed compromise
bill for the revision of the wooleI
tariff by 4S to 80.
This new force in the senate
united on a material reduction Of
duty tariff all down the line ant
flushed with victory, is threatening
not only to pass the so-called farm
ers' free list bill, as it came from
the house, but to put through cot
ton bill as well. The insurgent.
want sugar and steel schedules in
cluded in the program.
Bill May Be Arranged
The house Democratic leaders are
not willing to accept the compro
mise wool bill as It passed the sen
ate, but they are more than willing
to meet the senate conferees. Chair
man Under wood, of the house ways
and means committee, expressed the
belief tonight that bill astisfac
tory to both houses was more thar
likely to be agreed upon.
Senator Penrose, chairman of the
finance committee, freely predicted
that President Taft would veto any
wool measure that might come ou1
of the conference. This statement
did not ruffle the Democrats, wht
announced they would insist on &
cut in rates far deeper than that pro
posed in the senate measure.
The Democratic leaders, in fact
are said to believe that their po
sition possibly would be greatly
strengthened if Mr.. Taft vetoed the
bill. The regular Republicans seen
to view the veto in much the same
light and are inclined to boast thai
executive disapproval would not, b.
to their disadvantage. They contend
that future tariff revision should BIZ
scientific
Bill a Compromise
The bill as passed by the senate
was drawn by Senator La Toilette
and was a compromise between the
Underwood bill, which passed the
Democratic house, and the origina
La Toilette bill, both of which were
forced out of the way by decisive
votes.
Some idea of the compromise may
ha had from the proposed rates or
wool.
The house bill proposed rate Of
20 per cent ad valorem. The origi'
nal La Toilette bill proposed 40 pei
cent. The compromise fixes thx
rate at 35. 1t is predicted that the
conference will put it at 80.
The result in the senate came
with surprising quickness. Thor.
ough organizations of the combined
forces was apparent from the start
Senator La Follette's wooden bill
offered at first as an amendment to
the Underwood bill, received but Id
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-08-04
Washington State
News Items

A petition in circulation at Che
halls proposes to establish commits
sion government.
Fire Saturday afternoon destroy.
ed the Methodist church at Ray.
..lond. LOSS, $500.
King County Commissioners have
awarded contracts for road construc.
ton aggregating nearly $4,000.
H. N. Richmond has transferred
his interests in the Richmond Paper
Co. to the Zellerbach Paper Co., OF
San Francisco. The firm name will
remain as at present.
Work is in progress on the new
macadamized roads in the Stanwood
district. Four miles will be improv.
ed. Crushed rock from Waldron Is
land will be used.
Three new state banks have been
chartered by State Bank Examiner
]. L. Mohundro. The new institu-
tons are to be opened at Redmond
Steptoe and Morton.
Mill owners and timbermen con-
template petitioning the state fire
warden asking that he compel the
Northern Pacific Railway Company
to put an oil burner engine on its
Moclips run. The coal burner has
set number of fires.
Ten million feet of lumber within
the Wenatchee national forest is now
being offered for sale by the district
forester, George H. Cecil. with head
quarters at Portland The timber
will be sold to the highest bidder
Bids will be opened August 2Sth al
Leavenworth, Wash.
The Puget Sound Bridge & Dredg.
ing Co. has been awarded the con.
tract for dredging of Willapa rive,
and harbor, by Maj. Kutz of the U
S. engineering corps. It's bid OF
1857, 1925 was the lowest of four
submitted. Tacoma and San Francis.
co firms also competing.
The Mexico Maru, of the Osaka
Shosen Kaisha line, arrived at Seat
tie last week, 5 days out from Yoko-
homa, establishing a new wireless
record for the fleet. 1t got com
munication with the North Head sta
ton on the Columbia river while
1893 miles OF coast. The Seattle
Maru held the record before with
$50 miles.
Inspectors of weights and meas
ures,' who are in the department OF
public utilities at Seattle have be-
gun enforcing that provision of the
ordinance requiring every package
of food to have stamped on it the
net weight. Notices were sent to
the manufacturers and sellers of all
foods three months ago and second
notice was sent in July.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-08-04

votes, those of the insurgent Re
publicans.
The Underwood bill itself was
voted down with equal facility, only
the Democrats and Senator Brown
of Nebraska, supporting it. Their
came Senator La Follette's motion
to reconsider the vote. Democrats
having secured their desired record
vote on the Underwood bill, Joined
him in the vote to reconsider.
The Underwood bill was ther
brought back to life and Senator La
Toilette offered the compromise bill
that had been agreed upon. 1t wal
attached to the Underwood measure
as a substitute for the terms of thai
bill, and passed by a vote of 4S tt
I 80, all without hitch or tumble
Democrats voted solidly. The in
surgents lost three Northwestern
Repubilcans-Borah, of Idaho
Jones. of Washington. and Dixon, Of
Montana, but they gained Senator
McCumber.
House Open to Persuasion
Democratic Leader underwood
said that the house would be will
ing to meet the senate in compromise
and that an agreement would be
reached between the two houses.
The important features of the
new La Toilette bill which the sen
ate passed this afternoon compared
with the present law and the Under.
wood house bill, are shown in the
following:
Raw wool, first class:
Wool on skins, present law, 57.71
per cent ad valorem; Underwood
20 per cent; La Follettee, 80 pei
cent. Wool not on skins, presen,
law, 47.24 per cent; Underwood, 20
per cent; La Toilette. 35 per cent.
Raw wool, second class, present
rate, 44.96 per cent; Underwood, 20
per cent; La Toilette, 10 per cent
Top waste. etc., present, 1898 pei
cent; Underwood, 20 per cent; La
Toilette, 25 per cent.
Shoddy, noils, ETC., present Al pei
cent; Underwood, 20 per cent; La
Toilette, Is per cent.
Wooden rags, mungo, ETC., present
35.40 per cent; Underwood, 20 pei
cent; La Toilette, rs per cent.
Combed tops, present, III pei
cent; Underwood, 25 per cent; La
Toilette. 40 per cent.
Yarns, present, 1858 per cent;
Underwood, 80 per cent; La Fol.
lette, As per cent.
Blankets and f1annels, present
95.77 per cent; Underwood, 80 pei
cent; La Toilette, SIS per cent.
Clothes, dress goods. fabrics and
wooden cloth. present, 96.74 per cent;
Underwood, As per cent; La Fol
lette, IS per cent.
Carpets, present, SO per cent; I'm
derwood, rs per cent; La Toilette,
35 per cent.
Mats and rugs, present, 62.95 per
cent; Underwood, SO per cent; La
Toilette. 35 Der cent.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-08-04
PRESIDENT LEAVES ROOT OF MATTER
UNTOUCHED, STATES CLIFFORD P|NCH01

Washington, July 29.-Gifford
Pinchot, former government chief
forester and now president of the
National Conservation Association,
has issued statement declaring that
President Taft leaves the root OF
the matter wholly untouched" in his
message to the senate, denying that
there could be any monopolization
of the water front of Controller bay
Alaska.
Good Excuse Hard
Mr.. Pinchot's statement follows:
'tThe presidents defense of his
course in the Controller bay affair
shows how hard it is to make a
good excuse for bad mistake. II
leaves the root of the matter wholly
untouched In spite of all explana-
tons, the fact remains that Mr.. Taft
in opening the lands around Con-
troller bay without notice to the
public, had given the interests be-
hind Ryan an opportunity to &C
quirs the key to the channel of Con-
troller bay before the public knew
what was going on.
1.-THE map, which is a part of the
presidents message, supported as it
is by the testimony of Mr.. Graves,
of the coast and geodetic survey, be-
fore the congressional committee
now investigating this question, ap-
pears to show that the mile and q
half of harbor front taken up by
Ryan, together with the tracts which
the government retains and on which
it prohibits private entry, does ef-
fectually control the valuable por-
ton of the channel.
Lands Should Be Held
But whether the president is
right or whether the map is right.
and whoever Ryan and his associ-
ates will be shown to represent. it
is true and will remain true, that
the lands about Controller bay
should never have been let go. The
public win agree with Col. Roosevelt
that these terminal lands ought to
have been kept in the public lands.
The sO-called -Pinchot
investigation opened the eyes of the
public to the extensive and success
full efforts which are being made to
monopolfze the resources of Alaska.
THE facts developed by this in
vestigation constituted q solemn
warning and a call on the executive
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-08-04

for special watchfulness in protect
ing public property in Alaska.
Favors Government Control
''Tha president is right when he
says that what Alaska needs is de-
velOpment, but no legitimate devel-
opment of the harbor front on Con-
troller bay has been and can be
proposed that could not proceed as
we'll and as rapidly under suitable
lease ON government land as on pri-
vate land. So long as these terminal
lands remained in government own
ership no one could monopolize the
harbors. The moment any of them
passed into private hands the danger
of monopoly began.
"The president denies that in
granting Ryan's request for the op-
ening of Controller bay by the exec
utive order of October % there was
an element of secrecy and quotes a
press dispatch of the same date an
nouncing his action.
''But Mr.. Taft does not mention
that on the day he signed the order
and notified the press in Washing
ton, Ryan's surveying party was
ready in Alaska and that by Novem-
Der 1. or four days after the order
was made, and before the govern
ment officials in Alaska had been
notified of the order, they had be-
gun survey of the Ryan claims on
Controller bay.
The omission of the customary
thirty days notice to the public that
the land would be open to entry gave
Ryan what he wanted. It cut OF all
chance for any competitor to locate
on the terminal lands until after
Ryan had made his selection. No
amount of newspaper notices to the
country after the executive order
was signed could in any respect in
terfere with the pre-arranged work
of Ryan's agents or enable any rival
to enter a foot of land on Controller
bay except what was not wanted by
the people whom Ryan represent
ed"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-08-04
LAND WITHDRAWN
FOR RESERVOIR SITE.

Washington, July 29.-Approxi-
mately 1920 acres of land near
Roslyn, Washington, have been with
drawn from entry by the secretary
of the interior. The lands are near
the Yakima irrigation project, and
are reserved pending an examine
ton as to the practicability of build
ing a reservoir on them in connec-
ton with the project.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-08-04
Olympia Ready for Elks.

Olympia, July 29.-Preparations
are being completed for the enter
tainment of the Elks of the state
during their two-day convention in
Olympia, August 16 and II. The
automobile owners of the city, and
many from the county, have turned
their machines over to the Elks dur
ing the time the visitors are in town.
They will be used throughout the
two days.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-08-04
Old Portsmouth For Relic

Washington, July 31.-The old
naval sailing vessel Portsmouth. now
used as a quarantine ship at Nor
folk Va, will not be dismantled un-
til congress passes upon the propo-
sition to fit her to sail around to
San Francisco to be preserved there
as relic. The Portsmouth raised
the flag at Yerba Buena, now San
Francisco, in the war with Mexico.
1t is estimated the repairs will cost
$4,000.