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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-10
Denies He Was Drinking.

G. C. Hawks, the young bookkeeper
who. Saturday ut midnight appeared at
the police station with a cut i'm his scalp,
seeking the arrest of a street car motor
man and conductor. alleging they had
assaulted him. denies that he had been
drinking. Hawks says that he does not
use any form OF intoXicants
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-10
FEDERAL OFFICIALS u
GRANTED A HEARIl

WASHINGTON. July 9.--Secretary
Commerce and Labor Nagel. e'ommissi
er General OF immigration keefe
Commissioner OF Immigration Willsam'
New York Will be given hearing ton
row by the house committee on ruler
the resolution OF Representative Sui
asking a thorough investigation OF
administration OF the Ellis island
ton.
Members OF the committee he
members OF the American foreign !
cietics who declared the immigration
were not properly administered NJ
island and Commissioner Williams
uucstcd an opportunity To testify.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-10
Off OIL Coast Trip.

Mrs. j. Uesselbcrg and daughter Ma
tilda of San Francisco who nave been
visiting in this city at the home of Mr.
and Mrs Lochwitz, 755 East Second
South street. left last night for an ex-
tended trip along the Pacific coast. Miss
from Smith college at North Hampton.
Mass, and her mother was there at
tending the commencement exercises,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-10
EXCURSION TO OGDEN

VIA Oregon Short Line July 18th, for
Merchants Get Acquainted outing
at the Hermitage in Ogden canyon.
Round trip $l00, TweDty-four trains.
600 p. m. City, Ticket Office, Hotel
Utah.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-10
CONDITION OF GATES
REPORTED UNCHANGl

PARIS. July 9.-The condition OF "
w. Gates Is reported as unchanged
day. : late statement issued py
Gress, the attending physician indicn
that Improvement began yesterday.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-10
Young Couple Wed.

An informal wedding OF last week was
that OF Robert p. Moore and Miss Olene
9. Grunig. both OF this city. The mar
riasc ceremony was performed by J. u.
Eldredgc, Sr- Saturday afternoon. The
young couple Will be at home To their
friends at 45J First avenue
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-10

Everybody invited to attend the
wedding of Salt Lake and Ogden at
Hermitage, Ogden canyon, Wednesday,
July 12. Round trip to Ogden S1,00 on
all railroads
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-10

Every Sunday via Salt Lake Roo
S2.75 round trip to Eureka. Mammo
or Silver City. Train leaves union
tion 7:45 a. m.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-10
Sailors Have Day On.

KEEL, July ga big contingent OF
fjcers and bluejackets from the AMER.
squadron took part In the athletic "
here TO-DAY Baseball teams composer
cadets played an exhibition.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-10
TINTIc EXCURSIONS

Tribune Reporter printing co.
&C West Second South Phone T1a
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-10
Worth Of Discipline.

The speaker then narrated the story
~ the mother who found her boy fight
Ing with number ot other boys in the
street, and who carried him across the
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-05-26
The Foot Note.

Well do share by turning out first-cIass,
bang up, A No. paper, for which you may feel
proud to work. Call, write, 'phone wire for
subscription blanks and further particulars.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-05-26

Your sure success in your LIES work. Better
pay better position and the first step upwards to f-
tUre greatness. The triumph OF ambition over etF-
argy. Also SO cash prizes distributed among COM
pettors who turn i'm 10 subscriptions.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-09-14

sequendy Cleveland was nominated
lor .he .hjrd lime as .he Democratic
Candidate for President and the
Omaha Platform was promulgated.
T~beroupon Capt, Burkit resigned as
e%Iector, and espoused the cause Of the
new party. AT a later date he was
nominated by the Peoples Party for
Congress in the 4th Dist. and in 1895
the nominee of the party for Cover
nor, Being defeated in both these
c~anvasses, but always endorsed by
his home people, Capt. Burkitt
retired from the political field, not
as a disgruntled politician, but a live,
active, enterprising citizen, ready and
willing to aid and promote the develop
ment OF the community in which he
lived, and 1t was during the nlnetIes
he as secretary Of the Board of
Directors of the Nashville and Mis-
sissippi Delta Railroad was con-
spicuous in promoting the building OF
the road which now extends from
Okolona to Calhoun City. In 1902
Capt. Burkitt was appointed by Gov
Longino a member of the St. Louis
Worlds Fair Commission and served
in that capacity with his accustomed
energy, intelligence and fidelity
as his final report as Secretary of the
Commission to the Legislature will
clearly show, The Peoples Part,
having d%isbanded, and many of it
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-09-14

niece Of his former wiGe) in the city
Of Huntsville, Ala. BY whom be has
two children, Ruth, now abou, two
and a half years old and Ed Russell,
a boy Of seven months,
Capt Burkitt has long been promi-
nent in the fraternaI orders and in the
politics of Mississippi. AS the W. M,
Of Houston Lodge, he entered the
Grand Lodge in 1878. In 1879 he
was elected Grand Master Of Missis-
sippi Masons and in 1904 he was
the Grand Commander Of Knights
TempIar Of this state. During his
thirty-eight years Of membership in
the Grand Lodge he has missed but
one meeting. For several years he
served the State Alliance as its
lecturer, and at that time knew and
was probably known, personally. by
more men than any other man in the
state.
Capt. Burkilt was first elected tc
the Mississippi Legislature in 1885,
where he served until 1890. He was
elected as a delegate from the state
at large to the Constitutional Conven.
ton Of 1890 and in 1891 was agar
returned to the Legislature to serve
until Jan. LIST 1896.
AT the State Democratic Conven
ton held in May 1892 Capt, Burkit
and Mai. Vardaman we're named a
electors for the State at large. Sub
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-09-14

leading principles having been
espoused BY the Democratic party,
Capt. Barkiu re-naiIiatad with the
party Of his younger days and in 1907
was returned to the Lower House Of
the Mississippi Legislature. where he
was a conspicuous figure in the
sessions of 1908 and 1910. For the
next four years he has been chosen to
represent in part the counties Of
Chickasav:, Calhoun and Pontotoc in
then State Senate and it his health
permits his friends have no doubt he
will give a good account Of his
stewardship by zealousIy guarding the
interest Of the taxpaying masses,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-09-14

Schrimsher near Huntsville, Ala, on
Sunday morning December Both 1866
by whom he had nine children, only
four Of whom are now living, nomely:
Mrs. Jennie Cary, at present en-
ployed at the |. |. and c. at Columbus,
J. Howell Burkitt. a clerk in the
House Post Office at Washington D.
c, Mrs. Mary King, wife Of H, E.
King, D. D. Grand Master Of Masons,
9Th Dist, and Mrs, Bonnie Dossett,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-09-14

Born ia Tennessee July 5h l843,
educated in the common schools and
County Academies until fifteen Yeas
Of age; worked in a store as sales
mar and bookkeeper for nearly three
years; enlisted in the Confederate
Army June 28.b 1861; parole dated
May 18th 1868; laugh, school until.
April 1872; married 20 Miss Matte
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-09-14

and furnished more homes for work.
ing mems families than any other of
our enterprising citizens. On Dec.
24th 1905. Mrs. Matte Burkitt de-
parted this life, mourned by husband,
children and acquaintance as a
model vile and mother, and a kind
obliging neighbor, On Sunday morn
ing Dec. 30, 1906 Ia little more than
a year afterward) Capt. Burkitt was
married to Miss Bette Mitchell Ia
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-05-12
The end.
Playing Varsity Ball.

Harry e. Campbell, son of A. E.
Campbell of Skunk, this county,
a freshman at Bucknell University.
has been given permanent posi- ton
playing left field on the varsity
base ball team. He has played
every game scheduled and is the
making of major league player.
He was captain of the Bucknell
Academy ball team last year. He
played with the Towanda high
school team four years ago.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-05-12
Trial List, May Term, 1911.
Return Day, May Is, 1911.

Return Day, May Is, 1911.
l.-G. W. Bigger VS.. John Manuel
No. AZ May Term, 1906. Framed Issue.
Plea, ,-"N on. Assumpsit' etc.
Scouton Mullen
2.-Ira B. Yonkin, Administrator OF
John Yonkin, Deceased. vs.. George J =.
Litzleman. No. "a September Term.
1909. Scire Facas sur Judgment. Plea
Payment.
Cronin. Scouton
3.-rhomas d. Rouse VS.. The Lehigh
Valley Railroad Company. 46 Decem,
ber Term, 1909. Trespass. Plea,-"Not
Guilty"
Scouton. Thomson.
4.-Patrick Connor VS.. Margaret Con,
nor, Administrators of John Connor, De,
ceased. No. SO May Term, 1910, AS
sumpsit. ea,-"Non Assumsit."
Thayer. Walsh.
'5.-Sillick J. Steinback vs.. f. G Trek;
Ter and II. c. Trexler, trading as the
'Treyler and TurreI Lumber Company
No. 81 September Term, 1910 Tres
pass. Plea, ,-"Not Guilty.
Scouton. Mullen.
6.-John II. Crimmins vs.. w. F.
Randall. No. 94 September Term, 1910
Assumpsit. Plea, -"Non. Assumpsit,'
payment, set-otf, and the Statute OF Lmi
tations, with leave to give special mat
ter in evidence.
Mullen J. C. Ingham.
7.-Caroline Brink VS.. Curtis Stroup
| No. December Term, 1910. Defend
ants Appeal. Plea, ,-"Not Guilty"
Scouton. Mullen.
Prothonotary's Office.
Laporte, Penna.,
April 3, 1911,
ALBERT +. II EESS, Prot'y.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-05-12

age the execution, so that unique
plan was finally carried out. The
scaflold was arranged so that the
prisoner would be jerked up from
the ground instead of shot down
through a trap. A weight twice as
heavy as Kamm, was hung in a loop,
attached to a rope the cutting of
which would release it and let ii
jerk the moose rope, pulling the man
upward for five feet.
This release rope was managed
from inside the court house, out of
sight of the people and the condemn
ed prisoner. The only man inside
the room was Sheriff WILDER, who
was to await the signal from his as
sistant. A. clip of the AK on the re-
lease rope would effect the execu-
ton without anybody seeing who
performed the grewsome task. The
mechanics of the plan proved per-
feet, and at no time did Sheriff Will
bur see Kanlm after he had left his
cell on the death march.
1t was expected that Kamm would
confess the part he and Mrs. Veiten-
gruber took in the planning Of the
crime. But he went to his death
without making any statement ex-
cept that he had no hard feelings
against anybody, that he felt his
soul was accepted of its Maker and
that all his SINS had been forgiven.
After the hanging of Kamm, at
tention was turned to Mrs. Neiten-
gruber who was then still IN Jail,
though in state of mind bordering
on acute mania. Public opinion
consented to the theory that the wo-
man knew nothing of the killing it.
self and that her guilt consisted only
in helping to conceal the crime.
Her mental condition prevented
trial at that time.
Before the next term of court
came around Mrs. Veitengruber had
made her escape and nobody ever
tried to capture the poor creature.
For months afterward fisherman and
Others who frequented the deep
woods of Sullivan county reported
seeing the tracks of woman in out
of-the-way places, and several times
it was said a woman had been seen
running away through the woods.
If the unknown was Mrs. Veiten-
gruber, her hiding place was never
found, and there is no record against
her in the court house at I.aporte.
Kamm's body was buried in a
lonely spot in the woods near La
porte on the road to Lake Mokoma,
and his grave, which is marked by
a large rock, is viewed with awe by
the visitors to the town. There en-
circled by a mass of weeds and un-
dergrowth were deposited the re-
mains which have no doubt long
since vanished into dust, of the only
man ever sentenced in the county of
Sullivan to "swing by the neck un-
| til dead"
The end.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-05-12
High School Commencement.

One of the prettiest, most inter-
esting and instructive commence
ments ever held in Sullivan County
took place in the school auditorium
Tuesday evening when class of
six graduated from the Laporte
High School. They We're: Grant
Carpenter, Frank Drake, Oliver
Rose, Harry Hunter, Helen Car
penter and Tresken Buschhausen.
Afteropening music by Killgore's S
Orchestra, an address of welcome
was made by Oliver Rose, followed
by the address of the class presi-
dent, Grand Carpenter, who also
gave fine Grafton on "Reciproc-
ity.' This was followed by an
essay, "Rome Was Not Built in a
Day." by Tresken Buschhausen,
who compared the building of that
ancient city with the building up
of child life. After more music
Helen Carpenter gave an essay on,
'The Swing of the Pendulum, y
which was an interesting summary
of the development of the world in
scientific and intellectual lines.
The class prophecy was then given
by Harry Hunter, who has the
sunny road to success well laid out
for the members of the class.
Frank Drake gave a very able
essay on ''The Post Office; Its
Facts and Possibilities" describing
the progress of the postal service
from the beginning to the parcels
post and giving an incite into the
possibilities of the future.
After music by the orchestra
Ex-Supt. F. w. Meylert delivered
an address to the graduates and
under graduates. He named sew
eral characteristics necessary to
success in school work, one OF
which was that regularity in attend
ance is absolutely essential to
the proper school training. The
valedictory address was made by
Helen Carpenter and contained
both humor and pathos.
Upon presenting the diplomas to
the class Supt. Killgore gave a
short but very interesting talk to
parents and students. He said
that education is not preparation
for life without work but the
process Of qualifying for a life Of
service to one s country and Creator.
The program ended with music.
The room was tastefully decorated
with the colOrs of the class, ole
gold and silver, and in the center
of the stage was displayed the motto
"Thus Endeth Our First Lesson. y
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-05-12
E XECUTORS NOTICE

L Notice is hereby given that let
ters testamentary on the estate of Il.
j. Ingham, late of the Borough of
Laporte, Sullivan County, Pa, de-
ceased, have been granted to f. IL.
lngham, resident of said Borough
to whom all persons indebted to
said estate are requested to make
payment and those having claims
or demands will make known the
same without delay.
f. III. INGHAM, Executor.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-05-12
Jury List For May Court.

The following names were drawn from the
proper Jury-wheel to serve as Jurors for May term
1911, commencing May Is.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-05-12
STORY OF THE MURDER
OF JOHN VE|TENGRUBER
Continued from last week. J
A Dramatic Denouncement

A Dramatic Denouncement.
On the afternoon of the fourth day
of the trial the little son of Mrs.
Veitengruber was placed on the wit
ness stand to identity a suit of cloth
ing presumed to have belonged to
his father. 1t was an old suit of
homespun. The boy declared that
the clothing was his fathers and he
added that it was the only suit that
his father owned.
Then was enacted a scene SO dra-
matte that jury and spectators were
nonplused. Before the boy bad
finished speaking Mrs. Veitengruber
sprang to her feet and pointing her
finger at Kamm a few feet away,
shrieked in the German Language:
"He didit!"
With that she became raving
maniac.
Instantly upon her accusation, and
with an action impelled almost un-
consciously, Kamm shook his finger
at the woman and whispered:
"Hist, Anna Hist!'
This sudden and startling episode
caused the court to adjourn forth
with. Mrs. Veitengruber never
again appeared in court. Her mind
was jrreparably gone.
A few months later when, one
night she escaped from the Jail, lit
tie effort was made to find her. So
her fate is unknown, though there is
a we'll founded belief that the man
ner-of her death, the place of it and
the place in which she was buried
are known to some.
On the night of the day on which
Mrs. Veitengruber tore the veil of
secrecy from the crime Kamm, in
his cell in the Jail, to his counsel
made confession that he had killed
the old man, but declared that he
had done it in self defense.
Kamm said he was at work in the
woods when Veitengruber approach
ed him with a knife and attempted
to strike him; he defended himself
and hit the old man in the top of the
head, killing him. He carried the
body to the foot of the big hemlock
near the shore of Elk Lake, and it
lay buried there three weeks before
the storm during which the windfall
occurred and the tree was over
turned.
He said he had been to the tree
the evening when the McCarty
brothers came for their cows, and
from a hiding place nearby he heard
them talking about the fresh digging
and their suspicious. 1t was then
that he determined to get rid of the
corpse. That night he took bed.
tick and digging up the body,
wrapped it in the tick and weighted
it with stones; then he walked into
the lake until the water was up tC
his armpits and let it sink to the
bottom. He told his Lawyers ex.
actly where he had entered the lax e.
: and designated by the location of q
certain stump where the body could
be found.
The winter was so intensly cold
that Elk Lake was frozen to the
bottom. An effort was made tC
verify the story told by Kamm, but
it was failure because of the thick.
ness of the ice. Court adjourned fol
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-05-12

several weeks, pending the return of
weather condition that would per-
nit search of the lake to be made.
The ice h,d melted early in
March, and the body of Veitengrub-
er was found, wrapped in the tick
and weighted down with stones, pre-
cisely as described by Kamm in his
statement to his counsel.
A coronor's inquest, under the di-
rectiOn of district attorney, was held,
and the fact was determined that the
cash in the head could not have
been made with an ak while Veiten-
gruber was on his feet. as stated by
Kamm in his story of self-defense
According to the evidence of several
surgeons who were sworn in the
case, the man must have been lying
down on his side when the blow
was administered. This fact cor
roborated the theory that Kamm
had killed the old man as he lay
asleep in his home, and that Kamm
and Mrs. Veitengruber had hand
in the sewing of the corpse in the
bed-tick and its concealment in the
waters of Elk lake, half a mile away.
On the afternoon of March 5, after
three days of trial, during which
the chain of circumstantial guilt was
woven about Kamm and his history
of self defense shattered the fate of
the prisoner was decided by a jury
composed of John d. Robbins,
Joseph Yonkin, Jscob Hoffa, David
McNamin, jeremiah Hunsinger,
Benjamin Vaughn, Vennevills
Wentzell, Fraacis S. Baumgardner,
Daniel Vaughn, Joseph Daddow,
Gottlieb Bartsch and Peter C. Little
1t was O'Clock on the evening of
March 5 that the Jury retired, and at
$3.50 the little bell on the court house
was rung AS signal to the judge
and the court officers to come and
receive verdict. The prisoner was
led into the court room and heard
the jury pronounce him guilty of
murder in the first degree. A
motion for a new trial was made.
1t was argued before judge Wilmot
on May q, 1856. The petition was
refused, and the following sentence
imposed, the big woodsman stand
ing tike shaking aspen to receive
it:
The court sentences you, John
Michael Kamm, that you be taken
hence to the place whence you were
taken, within the Jail of the county
of Sullivan, and thence to the place
of execution within the yard of said
Jail when the warrent of the execu.
tive shall direct it, and that you be
there hanged by the neck until you
are dead; and may God have mercy
on your SOUL"
Kamm was hanged in the month
of July following. The demand to
see the execution was so great that,
instead of arranging the scaffold in
side the Jail, it was built just outside
the court house wall, in full view OF
the crowd of men women and child
rem gathered from forty miles around
to witness the execution.
Sheriff Wilbur tried hard to avoid
hanging the condemned murderer.
He was tender-hearted man, and
during the time Kamm was i'm Jail
the two became fast friends. Kamm
made confident of WILDER, and aft
er the sentence of death he had even
asked the sheriff to direct his mind
for the end.
WILDER, for all his repungance,
could find nobody who would man
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-05-12

Two weeks from next Tuesday
will be Memorial Day, May 80.
It is time to begin preparing for a
fitting celebration.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-05-12

hereby announce myself as candi-
date for the nomination for the Office of
Commissioner of Sullivan County, subject
to the rules OF the Republican Party.
A. A. LUDY.
Mar. "a. 1911. Hiltsgrove Pa.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-05-12
Subscribe for the News Item.

You can get warm meals at all
hours at Smith Boudman's hotel
Sonestown, Pa. adv.
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w A N T e .

w A NTED
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either locally or travelling. Now is
the time to start. Money in the
work for the right men. Apply at
once and secure territory.
ALLEN NURSERY CO., Rochester, N Y.
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The Best place
to buy goods

IS often asked by the pru-
pent housewife.
Money saving advantages
are always being searched for
Lose no time in making a
thorough examination of the
New Line Of Merchandise
Now on
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