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The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-07
IN JAIL TWO YEARS.
Peter Ball, Whose Wife Has Re-Mar-
ried, viii Not Pay Alimony.

lola, Kan, April 7.-"Tu pay the
court costs and lawyers fees, but I'll
spend the rest of my life in Jail rather
than pay one cent of alimony''
This was the statement made in the
Allen county prison by Peter Ball, who
has been incarcerated two years as a
result of his contempt of court in re-
fusing to give $500 to his former wife
as decreed in the divorce granted her
at that time.
Ball refused to make the payments
as ordered by the court, and now,
after two years of Legal controversy,
he finds himself no nearer freedom
than the day he entered prison.
He asked the board of county COM
missioners to remit the costs. This was
court, offering to pay the court costs
and attorneys fees-but mot one cent
of alimony.''
The court has taken this proposition
under advisement, but the chances are
that Ball will lose here, too. At one
time, 1t is said, Ball showed signs of
weakening and might have settled the
case.
But this is looked upon as improb-
able now, due to the fact that Mrs.
Ball recently became the wife of the
marshal of Bassett, Kan.
Ball does not relish the idea Of pay
ing alimony to woman who now is
the wife of another. This plea for
sympathy, however, has been answered
by the staten ent that counsel for the
former Mrs. Ball offered to deduct a
sum from the stipulated aIimony equal
to the amount Ball was ordered to pay
her monthly while the wife remained
divorced
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-07

fly, but tell them of my good friend,
your Vegetable Compound, and that
there will be no backache and bearing
down pains for them if they will take
1T as have. 1 am scarcely ever with
out it in the house.
81 will say also that think there is
no better medicine to be found for
young girls to build them up and make
them strong and well. Ny eldest
daughter has taken Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound for pain
full periods and irregularity, and it has
always helped her.
ST am always ready and willing to
speak good word for the Lydia E.
Pinkham's s Remedies. tell every one
I meet that owe my health and hap
piness to these wonderful Medicines -
Mrs. j. G. JOHNSON, Scottville, Mich,
RID. 8.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and
herbs, contains no narcotics or harm
full drugs, and to-day holds the record
for the largest number OF actual cures
Of female diseases.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-07
CALLAHAN is SENTIMENTAL.
Voice Trembles as He Thanks Girl for
Playing Church Hymn.

Wichita, Kan, April John Gala
han, bank robber and convicted traf-
flicker in stolen stamps, has another
side that wasn't learned until his de-
parture for the federal prison at Leav-
enworth. One of his last callers was a
young woman who gave her name as
Miss Thompson" though that isn't
her real name. They were allowed the
use of the jailer's Office where sits an
organ. Just before the young woman
arose to go Callahan said: PLAY some
thing for me before you GO
His voice trembled as he spoke in a
low tone.
Miss Thompson" who has a sweet
face. stepped to the organ and played
an old church hymn.
Callahan closed his eyes while the
girl played and when she had finished
he arose and thanked her. There was
a different expression on his face than
that the judge and jurors saw during
his trial.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-07
HAS DUG 1000 GRAVES.
'OId Man Jeffries'' Has Been Sexton
of Cemetery Since 1889.

Columbus. Kan. April There are
probably 1000 people in the city of
Columbus. A man who had, with his
own feeble hands, dug graves that
would accommodate one for each of
the entire population of the town has
been taken to the Osawatomie asy-
lum. His name is A. L Jeffries. but
no one in Columbus knows him by
that name. There he was commonly
known as "Old Man Jeffries-"
He was bent and enfeebled with age,
being 80 years old, and for seventeen
years had been sexton of the principal
cemetery-in fact, the only cemetery
in Columbus. In that time he has dug
1000 graves there.
Old Man Jeffries' mind has weak
ened under the influences of eighty
two years and the little rooms above
the Oscar Crane book store in which
he has been living under the intermit-
tent watching of a neighbor roomer,
Charles Reynolds, will be cleaned out
and prepared for another and younger
roomer For Old Man Jeffries has
lived in Columbus since back in 1888
or hereabouts-and since about 1890
he has had entire care OF the city Gem
etery.
There are few families in Columbus
for whom Jeffries has not dug a grave
or set stone at the cemetery. The
keeping of the lot boundaries, the
preservation of markers on new
graves, the trimming of the grass
around the edges of tombstone, the
filling of sunken graves, these are in
cidents in the strange world in which
Old Man Jeffries has lived there.
Advancing age compelled him to
leave the cemetery last year and the
further encroachments of old age are
now taking him away from Columbus
with strange hallucinations in his mind
to close his life in a state hospital.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-07
NEURALGIA OF
The STOMACH
A Kansas Woman Tells of
the Knife-Like Pains
She Suffered.
After Eight Years of Treatment With
out Result the Patient Tried DIR.
Williams Pink Pills and Was
Quickly Cured.

Neuralgia is irritation or infamma-
ton of a nerve. When the nerves of
the stomach are inf1aned the term neu-
ralgia of the stomach is used. Tho
treatment is the same as for a 2 other
form of neuralgia and consists of a
proper tonic, nourishing food ano rest.
Mrs. Mary E. Thorpe of No 1925
Riley street, Atchinson, Kans., was
cured of long standing case of neural
gia of the stomach by DR.. Williams
Pink Pills. She says:
For more than twenty years suf-
fered from neuralgia of the ste ach
which was frequently so bad th,.t was
confined to my bed for days at a time.
had knife-hke pains in my tonach
and each year they grew worse and
worse until finally the doctors, who
had been treating me for o''er eight
years, said they could do nothing to
help me and gave me morphine to ease
tho pain;
"a friend then recommended DIR.
Williams Pink Pills ard l began TAX
ing them. My case was a stubborn
one and took about four boxes before
/ could see that they were helping me.
But with the fifth box results came
rapidly and soon l was entirely cured.
have had no return of the trouble and
4bA AOW III NCAy SOOU uCdlO11, bllduES W
DIR. Williams Pink Pills"
DIR. Williams Pink Pills contain the
elements necessary to make new blood
and, as the nerves get their nourish-
ment from the blood, have been found
invaluable in wide range of diseases
of the blood and nerves, such as ana-
mia, rheumatism, after-effects of the
grip and fevers, neuralgia, nervous de-
bility, and even St. Vitus' dance and
locomotor ataXia.
DIR. Williams Pink Pills are for sale
at all druggists, or will be mailed to
any address, postpaid, on receipt of
price, so cents per box; six boxes for
81. so, by the DIR. Williams Medicine
Company, Schenectady, N Y.
Those who are interested in the treat
nnent which cured Mrs. Thorpe can
obtain further information by writing
for the booklet, Nervous Disorders"
which we send free on request.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-07
GRAssHoPPERs HAD TEETH.
school Teacher Tells of How They Bit
His Legs and Feet.

Wellington, Kan, April I'll. j.
Walton of Belle Plaine, a younger
brother of L A. Walton of Wellington,
was here today to draw school money
as treasurer of the old Meeker district.
No. %.
Mr.. Walton is living on the claim
his father, the late G. c. Walton, took
up in 1871. He was only a child when
the family came to Kansas, and as a
boy of eight riding after cattle in the
summer of 1874. the grasshopper year,
remembers wildly the way the hop
pers bit and chewed his bare legs and
feet. But the next year the farmers
raised a bumper crop of everything
and speedily forgot their troubles.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-07
TAKES HIS OWN LIFE.
Drug Fiend a Suicide When Wife Re-
fuses to Live With Him.

Newton, Kan, April AFTER he
had notified his mother. deaf mute,
that he would kill himself because
his wife would not return to him. Ar
thur Paxson. 25 years ole. who had
been twice in the insane asylum be-
cause of the excessive use of morphine,
drank carbolic acid at his home here
and died almost instantly.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-07

V e ge t a Bile Com
pound and Sanative
Wash have done me.
I live on a farm and
have worked very
hard. / am forty
five years old, and
am the mother of
thirteen children.
Many people think
1t strange that / am
not broken down
with hard work and
the Para 0f INV fap,
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-07-28
FROM DRINK
TO GALL0WS
llAlejandro GalIegos Hanged
in Penitentiary at Flor
ence, Arizona
SHOT DOWN HIS EMPLOYER
Fathor and Wife of the Victim
Pleaded With Governor for
Clemency.

(By Special Leased Wire to New Mexicanj
Phoenix, Ariz., July 2S.-Over the
protest of Henry G. Yaeger, father of
his victim, Alexandra Gallegos, the
murderer of Louis D. Yaeger, was
hanged today in the territorial peni-
tentiary at Florence. He thanked the
widow and parents Of his victims for
their efforts in his behalf and bade
goodbye to other convicts awaiting
execution before mounting the scaf-
fold. In contrast to the constant ner-
vousness, fright and despair he dis
played during imprisonment, Gallegos
died bravely.
Henry G. Yaeger made several ap.
peals to the governor for commutation
of the sentence of the murderer of his
son to life Imprisonment but in vain.
He said that Gallegos was intoxicated
when he committed the crime and had
no knowledge of his act.
Louis Yaeg@r, the victim, was a
sheep man, and Gallegos a herder,
formerly in his .employe. Without
provocation, Gallegos shot Yaeger
twice with rifle On May 9, at Hum
boldt, Yavapai county.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-07-28
ROBBED WOMAN
IN CEMETERY
Mrs. Leon Guggenheim Shot
Down at San Francisco
by Ex-Convict
HAD SERVED FIVE YEARS Term
Assaulted While She Was Plac.
ing Flowers on Grave of
Her Son.

(By Special Leased Wire to New Mexican)
Burlingame, Calf, July 2S.-James
Grelick, a former convict, who was
arrested last night near Colma, was
identified today as the man who shot
and robbed Mrs. Leon Guggenheim
yesterday while she was placing flow
ers on the grave Of her son, in the
Home Of Peace cemetery.
. The Identification was made by en-
ployes OF the cemetery. The prison
or will be held In the county Jail pend
ing his trial.
He was released from San Quentin
last Wednesday, having served five
year term for robbery committed in
Oakland.
Grelich had been under surveillance
by the authorities ever since he left
prison. A warning was sent out BIZ
Warden Hoyle, who learned Of the
open threats the prisoner had made
among his fellows Just before his re-
lease He said he intended to kill all
ct those responsible for his arrest in
Alameda county and also to even
fcores with the warden.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-07-28
COST NOT A
POSIACE STAMP
TennesseeCoal and IronC Com.
pany Financed Without
Bankers
SALE PREVENTED A PANIC
1t Also Stamped Out Further
Competition With the
Steel Trust.

(By Special Leased Wire to New Mexican)
New York, July 2S.-That the finan.
cling of the Tennessee Coal and Iron
Company syndicate in 1905 did not
cost as much as a postage stamp
was the declaration made today by l.
&c. Hanna of Cleveland, Ohio, before
the Stanley steel trust investigating
committee
Mr.. Hanna. who was a manager OF
that syndicate before the company
was absorbed by the U. S. steel corp.
Grafton in 1907, also testified that the
main purpose of the men who took
over the Tennessee company in CON-
petition with the steel corporation was
tc develop the great mineral resourc-
es rather than the mechanical equip
ment of the property.
I'm the organization of that syndi.
cate" Mr.. Stanley asked, did you em-
rloy Mr.. Morgan or any other finan.
cial syndicate to float your bonds?'
THE financing of the Tennessee
Company did not cost as much as a
postage stamp" Mr.. Hanna said
There were no bankers employed"
Did you ever get an order for steel
rails from MIR. Hartmann" asked the
chairman.
"YesF Mr.. Hanna replied. "Mr
Hartman gave us an order for 157,
200 tons of steel rails
! How long was it after Hartman
gave you this order" asked Mr.. Stan
ley, "till you learned that your com
pany was in trouble in Wall Street,
Il don't remember exactly, but
| think it was several months"
Prevented Panic.
At the time of the sale of the Ten
ressee to the U. S. Steel Corporation
Mr.. Hanna declared that the Tennes
see Company was in good financial
condition and had no need to sell but
the sale was necessary to avoid the
failure of Moore & Schley and the
threatened spread of ruinous panic
"The whole financial situation ir
New York was acute" said Mr.
Hanna. land the fear among the wis
est financiers was that it would grow
worse and PASS beyond the control O
men,"
! In the transfer, the witness admit
ted, not dollar changed hands, thu
transaction being executed by tn
exchange of stock. The effect of thu
transfer, he felt assured, saved thu
Gay and was the turning point for tht
better in the panic.
/ In response to questions by Repre-
sentative Gardiner, Mr.. Hanna stated
that since the U. S. Steel corporation
took over the Tennessee Coal anC
Iron Company and it's vast interest
no competing steel companies hao
been organized in the United States.
Union Pacific Drops.
New York, July 2S.-Pressure
against Union Pacific dropped that
stock under 1873 during the midday
with simultaneous heaviness in the
ccal shares, Lehigh & Reading selling
materially under yesterdays closing
| prices. Other active issues declined
in sympathy. but the recession failed
to induce any considerable volume OF
selling and becoming very dull. The
market closed steady.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-07-28
WILL REDUCE
DUTIES SLOWLY
Chairman Underwood Ex.
plains to House Changes
in Cotton Schedules
RECIPROCITY WITH MEXICO
Representative Burleson In
PRODUCES Resolution to That
Effect.

(By Special Leased Wire to New Mexican)
Washington, July 2S.-Discussion of
the cotton revision bill began in the
House today. Chairman Underwood
CT the Ways and Means Committee,
opened the debate with a complete
explanation for the provisions of the
bill, the amount of revenue that will
be produced by it, and defense of
the reductions over the present tariff
measure.
The bill, it is expected, will be pass
ed by the House next Thursday, Au-
gust 8.
"a reduction from Al to 20 per cent
in cotton is too radical, I have heard
It said,' declared Mr. Underwood in
explaining the bill.
1--WE don't propose a radical reduc.
ton but we hope to reduce every tar.
if schedule before we get through to
a revenue basis but not in radical
way"
Reciprocity With Mexico.
Reciprocity with Mexico similar to
Canadian reciprocity is proposed in a
resolution introduced today by Repre-
sentative Burleson of Texas, calling
en- President Taft Immediately to
start negotiations with Mexico "look
ing to free commerce between the two
countries"
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-07-28
MINERS ARE DISCUSSING
AMALGAMATiON OF UNIONS.
Many Delegates Favor Immediate Mer.
ger Of Western Federation With
the United Workers.

(By Special Leased Wire to New Mexican)
Butte, Mont, July 2S.-Considera-
tion of the resolution introduced las,
week by John Vickers of Butte local
No. 1, to provide for the amalgamation
of the United Mine Workers of Amer.
lea, and the Western Federation of
Miners, occupied the majority part of
the session of the Federation this
morning.
Many delegates were in favor Of
immediate amalgamation while others
pointed out that, by recent refer
endum vote, the membership at large
OF the Western Federation had rec
commended a certain course OF action
in order to bring about such result
and therefore opposed the adoption OF
the resolution at this time.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-07-28
ONLY ONE MEMBER
OF CREW SAVED.
Steamer John Irwin Dashed to Pieces
on Rocks of Beaver Harbor,
Nova Scotia.

(By Special Leased Wire to New Mexican)
Halifax, N. S., July 2S.-The steam
e1 John Irwin struck rock and sank
off Beaver harbor last Tuesday morn
ing. VIM. Mcleod of Halifax, was
washed ashore on hatch at Lisom-
be, 80 miles east of here, and is be-
lieved to be the only survivor of the
dozen or more men in the steamers
crew.
Was a Coal Carrier.
Halifax, N. S., July 28.-The Irwin,
coal laden, left Port Merton, c. B..
for Halifax, Monday morning. That
night terrific storm swept the Cape
Breton coast.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-07-28
.OENEEN WAS
IN ON GAME
Thus Testifies Chicago Attor.
ney Before Lorimer
Committee
an ELEVEN IHouR DEAL
Hines Made Hurry Journey to
Springfield With All Money
Needed.

(By Special Leased Wire to New Mexican)
Washington, d. c., July 2S.-Testi-
Tying before the Senate Lorimer com.
mittee today. Alfred E. McCordic, a
Chicago attorney, declared that Writ
H. Cook, repeated to him the day il
is alleged to have occurred, the con-
versation over the long distance tel
ephone in which Hines is said to have
stated Lorimer must be elected and
that he was going to Springfield "witn
all the money necessary"
Cook had testified that he had over.
heard this conversation in Chicago
and that the man at the Springfield
end of the line was supposed to be
Governor Deneen.
The conversation is alleged to have
occurred the day Lorimer was elect
ed.
McCordic, who testified today, is
Cooks attorney.
In detailing wnat Cook told him on
May 25 or 26, 1909, McCordic said:
He said Mr.. Hines had told the gov
ernor that he had just come from
Washington, and that it was the de.
sire of President Taft and Senator AL
drich that Lorimer should be elect
ed and Hopkins defeated and that
he was prepared to furnish all neces.
sary funds and would be down on the
next train.''
LAS matter of fact are you not a
promoter and broker?" asgked Mr..
Hanecy in cross examination.
"Oh, no." replied McCordic.
Other questions were asked which
counsel explained were intended to
show that McCordic had been con.
nected with an attempt to make Hines
confess.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-07-28
C|GARET F|END
ADMITS MURDER
Seventeen Year Old Bell Boy
at Iroquois Hotel Kills
Broker
COLD WATCH AN0 $500
Aged Financier Put up Des-
Aged Financier Put up Des,
perate Fight Against Being
Chloroformed.

(By Special Leased Wire to New Mexican)
New York, July 2s.-Paul Geidel. a
II year old boy,-slight of stature,
slick of attire, sharp featured and
with the smooth sallow complexion of
the youthful cigarette smoker-was
arrested here early today as the muir
Cerer of William Henry Jackson, the
aged Wall street broker who was
found brutally killed in his hotel apart
ments on Forty-fourth street yester-
day. Geidel made a full confession to
the police.
Robbery was the motive according
to the lads statement, but the murder
retted him only Sc in cash and a gold
watch which he pawned for SIS.
Geidel was a bell boy at Mr.. Jack
sons hotel, the Iroquois until last
Friday when he was discharged. He
was without money. Il climbed into
the bath room of Mr.. Jackson's apart
ments through transom on the cor
ridor," said Geidel in his confession.
"He awoke as l was preparing to
drop the chloroform soaked rag over
his face and instead of going uncon-
scious at once with the drug, he be-
gan desperate fight. hit him hard
in the face and he sank down helpless.
Then the chloroform did the rest"
GeideI Swiftly Indicted.
New York, July 28.-Geidel was this
afternoon indicted by the grand jury
on charge of murder in the first de-
gree.
Love of clothes and finery caused
Geidel to attempt the robbery which
ended in the killing Of the broker.
Jackson had been liberal Upper
and the bell boy believed "he had
money in every pocket"
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-07-28
TRUST ANXIOUS
TO Be GOOD
Asks Attorney General Wick.
ersham for Permission
to Dissolve
AN ELECTRICAL COMBINATION
Not Anxious to Defend Itself In
Federal Courts Against
the Government.

iBy Special Leased Wire to New Mexican)
Washington, D. c., July 2S.-Attor-
neys for the Electrical Trust have
submitted to Attorney General Wick
ersham decree which it is said they
are willing to have entered against
the alleged combination in the gov
ernment's suit for dissolution. The
significance of this move is that the
trust is willing to dissolve without a
fight.
1t is said that with some probable
modification the proposition may be
acceptable to the department of JUS
tice.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-07-28
MADERo SHIPS STOCK
INTO UNITED STATES.
Cattle Barons Of Mexico Follow Suit
Because of Approaching
Election.

(By Special Leased Wire to New Mexican)
San Antonio, Texas, July 2S.-Re-
garded as significant is the activity
of the Madero family in moving thef
cattle out of Mexico. Thirty cars
were moved yesterday.
The railroads report that other cat.
tie barons of Mexico are also active
in sending their cattle to the states.
Their desire seems to be to clean up
before the election in October.
In the late revolution, cattle were
the nainstay of the insurrectos. Many
Diaz sympathizers contributed unwil
lingly to tneir larder.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-07-28
INCREASED DEMAND FOR
STOCKS ON WALL STREET.

(By Special Leased Wire to New Mexican)
New York, July 2S.-The lower
prices established by the recent heavy
selling OF stocks resulted in an in.
creased demand for stocks and the
market made rapid headway in the
early trading. A few issues made
further advances, including American
Tobacco, preferred, which rose two
points. The coal stocks were again
in steady demand. Bonds were steady
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-07-28
S S s s S s s s s s s S s s <
RECEPTION ON AUGUST ", &

On August %, at 10 a. M, at
Santa Fe, the semi-annual
meeting of the managing COM
mittee Of the School of Ameri-
can Archaeology, will be held
in Santa Fe, bringing here
scientists and other persons Of
national renown from various
parts of the United States.
Many Of these will arrive the
day before. On August %, the
board will visit the Rito de los
Frijoles to conclude it's ses-
sions. On the evening. August
%, reception will be rendered
the visitors, that will be one Of
the great. social events in the
history of the community. A
meeting of the Woman's Aux
iliary Committee will be held
tomorrow forenoon at 1O:3O,
at the Palace of the Governors
to perfect arrangements for the
reception. The date and place
for the meeting was selected
at the meeting at Providence,
Rhode Island, last December.
S s s s S S s s s S s s & e
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-07-28
JOHN r. WALSH Is
REFUSED A PAROLE.

(Bv Special Leased Wire to New Mexioan)
Washington, D. G. July 2S.-The
federal board Of parole has decided
rot to consider the case of John R.
Walsh, the convicted banker, to whom
the president recently refused exec.
utive clemency, unless the remaining
indictments against him are in way
disposed of.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-07-28
MRS. HARTMAN AND
DAUGHTER IN SAN FRANCISCO.

(Bv Special Leased Wire to New Mexicar,)
San Francisco, Calf, July 2S.-Mrs.
E. H. Hartman and her daughter, Ca.
rol, arrived here today from the east.
They will remain in California for
several weeks of rest and recreation.