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STATE DEATHS


Special Fe.affI Zoo fhr In~felIigenrer
HARPEItS FERRY. ". Va. Nov.
~ Lewis y Dursf. who would have
been % years old to-day. died yes
terday evening 80 Tho Allegheny hos.
pital Cumberland. srom peritonitis.
Following au operation for appendi-
cit.s There WAS q rupture 81 the
appendix ahacoss Mr burst vas a
school teacher and lived ~ Levels.
Hampshire county. ". Va where his
BODY VIII boz takcu This morning Mr.
Ii1rs' had teen ~ mo hospital two
weeks INs body VAS taken in charge
hr John q Woiford. undertaken.
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WASHINGTON. d g.. Nov 90
Representative John Hall stephens
OF Vernon. Texas. and Mrs Lseffa
keenan,. ~ this city. we're married
here today hy Rev. ur B. p r,asel.
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SUFFERED AGONY
WITH ITCHING
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Over BODY. Parts OF Flesh RAJ.
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20 fear that J have not gathered
.r Iri"rt evidence 20 convince the
4rf ~ my clients insanity"
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employment Of sou 90 evidence 90
Houston Post.
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Mer's ard Young MEMS SO sIu.
s.-ae suits FOR $3.50 NsFAooEN's
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Beitx ObseGuies
Prom the 81 AlphonEuF CsfhoI,
Mohave County miner., 1911-03-25
MOHAVE COUNTY MINER
N C

Is one of the greatest weekly mining papers pub lished in the Southwest Its columns always brmfu of fresh and interesting mining news both local and general Its editors in touch with all the mining doings of the country and thoroughly conversan with all that apperains the mining game If you would keep posted the progress of mining the Southwest and particularly Mohave county and its surroundings you must subscribe for the Miner
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state legislature. to which Office he was
almost unanimously elected five times.
AT the expiration of that time he was
sent to Congress, where as Representa-
tive he served several years. In 1875
he became Governor Of the State of Vir-
ginia. Two years later he returned to
Congress, this time as a senator. In 1910
he was elected Vice President, and a
month later became President.
President Tyler considered the principal
measures of his term of Office the settle
ment with Great Britain in 1S42 of the
northern boundary of the United States
and in 1915 the annexation of Texas.
Abuse was heaped upon his head for
vetong two bank bills during his
term of Office. 1t was this which
President Tyler. always a lover of history
and poetry, had great deal of romance
about him. and the story of Robin Hood
was one of the legends which appealed
to him most strongly. And so it was
when he took his stand for the Constitu
ton and vetoed the bank bills that he
likened his being outlawed' by the
and to perpetuate the memory of the
affair he named his home Sherwood
Forest
Following the eXpira ton of his term of
Office as President, John Tyler retired TO
his Virginia home Later he was ap-
pointed a commissioner by President
Buchanan, and afterward made president
of the peace convention of 1862 When it
vas learned that the House had adjourn
olution passed at that convention Tyler
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anything else that his grave has been SO
long unmarked by fitting monument.
1t was his wish that he be buried at
his home. Sherwood Forest, in Charles
City county, Va. But the state of Vir-
ginia chose differently. and he was laid
to rest in beautiful Hollywood cemetery,
near Richmond, in what is known as the
Presidents section 1t was the original
plan to bury all of Virginia's five Presi-
dents i'm this plot, but only two, Presi-
dents Tyler and Monroe. now lie there
Even then fate had not finished. and an
other accident deprived him of the
monument to which his position entitled
him
Shortly after his death the state legis-
iature of Virginia passed resolutions au-
thorizing the governor to erect a suitable
monument out of the state funds. This,
however. owing to financial conditions.
was never done. And so the years rolled
by and the matter was left unfinished
until the action of Congress on the after
noon of March 3 last.
In the case Of all other Presidents, ex-
cept Thomas Jefferson, suitable monu-
ments have been erected by either pub
lie subscription or relatives. Only ten
feet away from the grave OF President
Tyler is the one OF President Monroe,
over which is one of the most ornate of
monuments ever erected above the rest.
ing place of a President of the United
States. Ii cannot. of course. be COM
pared withrthe monuments marking the
.r-F- = - U. cn. rn1 Lincoln. nor Is 1t
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is covered by a slab of polished Virginia
marble by feet. which in turn sup
ports large sarcophagus in the shape of
a coffin. with pillars and dome rising
above it. Around these pillars is an
ornamental cast-iron grating. The intri-
cacy of the pattern of the grating makes
1t almost impossible to see inside where,
on BRASS plate now dark with age, is
the inscription.
1t seems a strange coincidence that one of
President Tyler's fathers closest friends.
and a man whom he himself greatly ad-
mired, was Thomas Jefferson, the only
other President whose grave has been
the object of a memorial appropriation
from Congress.
The final passage Of the bill through
untiring work on the part of the sena-
tors and representatives of Virginia as
well as others interested in it. Only
similar bill been passed-in the case of
Jefferson-and for that reason consider
able trouble was experienced In securing
favorable consideration. Once the bill was
favorably reported from the committee
on the library, to which 1t was referred
by both bodies.
It is to Senator Claude A. Swanson, the
junior senator from Virginia, that much
Of the credit for the successful passage
of the bill through the Senate must be
given. 1t was first introduced in 1908 by
Senator Martin of Virginia, but failed of
.assage. and so died with the end of that.
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however did not meet with Tyler's ap-
proval, and he made it clear that he was
the President and not simply acting
chief executive. This caused considerable
comment. Ex-President John Quincy
Adams wrote as follows concerning his
attitude in the matter:
II paid visit this morning to Mr.. Ty
Ter. who styles himself President of the
dent-acting President. which would
be the correct style. 1t is con-
struction in direct violation both of
the grammar and context of the Consti
tuition, which confers upon the Vice Pres
ident, on the decease of the President, not
the office, but the powers of the said Of
flee"
But little did ex-President Adams know
which were to follow the attitude taken
by President Tyler should be the same
as that of his successors who succeeded
to the Office through the death of chief
executive.
The wings gave Tyler still another nick
name and, under the leadership of Henry
Clay, waged war upon him, the partyless
President" However, socially, at least,
he was popular and at all his many en-
tertainments large crowds were in evil
dence. At one of these there was an
especially large gathering, more than
two thousand persons being present.
Some one congratulated him upon the
success of his reception, to which he re-
that L am a President without a party"
1t was during his term of Office as
President that the greatest accident
which happened in his life occurred. In
February, 1914, the Princeton made a
trial trip down the Potomac under Capt
r. +. Stockton. On board at the time
were President Tyler, members of the
cabinet. other notables and a large num-
Der Of ladies. AS was customary at that
time. a salute was to be fired while pass
ing Mount Vernon. Just as it was dis
charged the gun exploded at the breech,
killing five persons and wounding sew
eral others. Those killed were Abel P.
Upshur, Secretary Of State; THOMAS w.
Gilmer. Secretary of the Navy: Com
modore Kennon, chief of the bureau of
construction Of the navy; Virgil Maxcy.
ex-minster to The Hague, and Mr.. Gar
diner. ex-senator from New York.
President Tyler had the five funerals
from the White House, and the body of
Senator Gardiner lay in state there until
the day of the funeral. About the time
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made a speech on the steps of Rich
mond hotel, in which he urged Virginia
to secede. He was made a member OF
the Confederate congress, but died before
he took his seat.
There is one other office which President
Tyler held following his retirement from
the White House. He was appointed over
seer Of roads in 1S47 by some Charles
City county wings. This some of his
dent Tyler accepted the office and deter
mined to fulfill it to the best of his abil-
ity. BY law the overseer could summon
anybody and everybody in district 10
attend to the roads. A certain road was
rendered all but impossible by hills and
ravines, and the work of repairing it was
extremely. arduous. Tyler called out
everybody he could, even though it was
harvest time and the wheat stood in the
fields ready for thrashing The rich
whig landowners were appalled, when
they beheld their farm hands compelled
to leave the fields and work on the
roads, and they protested to Tyler. He
in turn, insisted that he was but doing
his duty. Finally they asked him TO re-
sign his Office. But he refused to do so.
stating facetiously that offices Were
scarce ano he was by no means assured
of another one should he do SO The mat
ter, however was finally arranged and
the crops saved.
Among the busts of Vice Presidents in
the Capitol at Washington is one of John
Tyler This was secured in 1898. and ~
by w. c. McCauslen. 1t is in the norm
vestibule Of the main floor OF the Senate,
and was purchased on the recomlnenoa-
ton of President Tyler's son, Lyon -.
Tyler who considers ii an excellent 1ke-
ness of his father.
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SENATOR CLAUDE A. SWANSON.
tary of War, I do not like this firing.
and believe l shall run" He thereupon
left his position directly beside the gun
and had just reached safety when the
explosion occurred.
However trying that ordeal may have
been to President Tyler at least it ended
in happiness. At the time of Senator CIR
diners death he was ACCOMPANIED on
board ship by his two daughters. Pres-
dent Tyler was so shocked at their great
loss and so DESTROYS of extending his
sympathy that he did all in his power
to lessen their grief. That friendship
ripened into love for the eldest daughter,
Julia. About three months later Pres-
dent Tyler left for New York. and con-
lecture was rife as to his going, reasons
of state and rumors of wars being given
as the cause. But in a couple of DAYS
the mystery was solved, for he returned
to Washington bringing Mrs. John Tyler.
nee Julia Gardiner. back with him.
President Tyler was not only the first
man to become President at the death of
the chief executive, but also the first
President to bury his wife from the
White House and to bring his bride there.
The first Mrs. Tyler was an invalid for
many years and died in 1912. OF the five
Presidents which the state of Virginia
has given to the nation, President Tyler
was the last. Up until the time he as
sumed the duties of President he was
the first man whose name did not con-
tain an ga and even today there is but
one other man in the list about whom
the same can be said-Theodore Roose-
welt
John Tyler was born in Charles City
county, Va, March 10, 179O. He Is de-
scribed by his as having grown I'D
to the age of a schoolboy with "a slender
frame, prominent, thin Roman nose, silky
brown hair, bright blue eyes, a mis-
smile, a silvery voice and the
favorite of his father" At the age of
twelve he entered William and Mary
College and graduated when he was
seventeen. At nineteen he was admitted
to the bar. and Immediately entered upon
such a large practice that he became
known as the boy prodigy. He was only
tWenty-one when he vas elected ito the
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3tond. Va. Wednesday OF this week
marks the 121st anniversary of his birth
Apd the passing OF few weeks more
ehan the forty-ninth anniversary OF his
4eath. And with the enactment of the
bill into a law, the only unmarked grave
OF a former President will be honored-to
Tho extent OF $4,000. for that is the maxi
mum OF the authorized expenditure
Sfhe memory of but one other President
S4homas Jefferson. has been so signally
tbnored by congressional action. There
" now a granite slab at the head of
YSier's grave, but ii can scarcely be ac-
counted a monument. for it was erected
by the company that operates the Gene
wv.
Etyh in Office President Tyler was de-
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y the closing hours
OF the Congress
that adjourned on
March 4 a bill
was passed author
izing the erection
OF a monument
over the grave of
John Tyler, the
tenth President of
the United States,
in Hollywood
cemetery at Rich
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NEXT Wednesday the
i 12Ist Anniversary of
His Birth-Thomas Jefferson
Only Other Executive So
Honored Bill Passed in
Closing Hours of Last Con-
gress = Maximum Expendi-
ture to Be $1o,ooo-Tyler
Buried in a Richmond, Va,
Cemetery With Only a Sim
pie Slab to Show His Resting
Place.
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BRITISH TOWNS RULED
BY WORKINGMEN
Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
LONDON. March Is, 1911.
THE ina Utility of the aldermen of
Dublin to make up their minds
concerning the salary to be paid the
city's lord mayor, who is a newsvend-
err resulting in remarkable fluctua-
tions, first from $4,000 a year to 5000,
then up to $4,000 again, and finally
back to the lower figure, draws atten-
ton to the fact that the Irish metropo-
lis is not the only city in the United
Kingdom that can boast of a working
man mayor. 1t is a question whether
Great Britain cannot show more
democratic record in this respect than
the United States, popularity supposed
to be the land par excellence Of I'M
restricted opportunity.
It has happened. in two cases at
least. that mayors of English COM
munities have actually risen from the
workhouse. VIII Crooks, one of the
most interesting representatives of
1.-The other half" was born in the
workhouse, and it is impossible to
imagine a more humble beginning than
that Yet he was elected mayor of
Poplar and a member OF parliament.
One of the most respected citizens of
the city of Davenport. Alderman Horn
brook, who served as mayor with dis
tinction, was born in the workhouse
OF the same town.
-
A former mayor Of Leeds, the great
est of Yorkshire cities, Alderman
Scarf by name, was the industrious
dispenser of penny sweets from behind
the counter of his modest store, when
he was not maintaining the dignity of
the highest Office in the gift Of his
fellow townsmen. The contrast seems
even greater when it is said that he
put off his apron to don his robes OF
office to welcome the late King Ed
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bottle.
William Wilkins. then Secretary of
War. was saved by witticism. See
ing that the gun was about to be fired
he exclaimed jokingly. "Thoueh Score
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49, 9t rq96fs@ZSY1 %!
Every Man
BY Herl
defend indefense position Right your blunders
or you'll urong
When you're in you're the 10rong side Of the wall
The barrlcade is behind you, not before you.
You're exposed-bound to be discovered You have
weaknesses to must not only demonstrate that
mistake accident but also the
idea that meant to be
When acknowledge weakness display STRENGTH A
Just need eble stands
be undermined
hfaibiity is human impossibizy All men are inperfec
oil Judgment is unreliabk
An accurate brain has been knoun-a precise skill ha.
never been shown. shame fail but shameful
thing to deny fair failure
You create dsfyust when you seek prove that YOU can't
We fear seacnowedged PROJECTIONS doubt those
who doubt ttemseLpes
Only aDes and fools seek conceafter evident characters
Coneet does not Disguise but it dsoses incapabiit
boast Is not boostyo can't lift yourself by the boot
straps Of brzeeadocio
The will Of circumstance stronger than anv
determinations complete destiny is within your
absoute CONTROL
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SO far as the accidental part is con-
cerned, to have followed him even be-
set him through life, and after his death
ii has been more of an accident than
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No sooner had John Tyler succeeded to
the presidency through the death of Will
liza H. Harrison. one month after his in
auguration, than the nickname of his
wing enemies began to be almost too
true. At the very start the cabinet re-
fused to concede that he was the Presi-
dent. and insisted that he was the Vice
President acting President. Even the
letter they wrote conveying to him the
news of President HaVrison's death was
headed ITO the Vice President" This.
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the Sixtieth, Congress. Again in 1909
the late Senator Daniel introduced the
same bill for Senator Martin. This time
it was referred to the committee on the
library, where it remained unconsidered
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Congressional Memorial John ~ Unmarked

perhaps as massive as several others,
but so far as ornateness is concerned it
easily takes first place.
The body Of President Monroe lies in a
brick vault five feet under ground. This
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until late in the present session. Then
came Senator Swanson to fill the unex-
pired term of Senator Daniel. He took
Senator Daniels place on the committee
on the library and at the first meeting
he attended had the bill favorably con-
sidered. But he went even farther than
that, and on the same day on which it
was reported by the committee it was
passed unanimously in the Senate.
The bill then went to the House. where
1t was taken up enthusiastically by Capt.
John Lamb of Richmond, Va, who sup.
ported that bill instead of introducing
similar one he had himself prepared The
bill was reported by the House library
committee several days before the adj
journment of Congress, but it was only
by a strenuous effort that Capt. Lamb
had the matter brought up for vote,
and even then he had to overcome q
threatened objection on the part of Rep
resentative Mann of Illinois, who how
ever finally withheld it.
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ward and Queen Alexandra in ms
name of Leeds when they opened an
extension to Leeds University
Another workingman mayor can
boast of a similar royal association.
The Welsh city of Cardiff chose VIII
liam Crossman working stonemason.
to be it's lord mayor during year IN
which King Edward had PROMISED 10
paw a visit to the city. The late KING
became SO interested in this man or
the people that he determined to show
it in an unprecedented manner, ana.
much to Crossman's surprise, tapped
him on the shoulder with SWORD ana
said: Rise, Sir William"
Alderman Bond has several times
been mayor of Plymouth. but those
who knew him years ago when he be-
gan his career a boy in local So
ncitor's office would not have pre-
dicted that he would one DAY De the
citys chief parsonage.
The police force in England would
hardly commend itself to the casual
observer as stepping stone to the
mayoralty, yet two chief executives
have reached their high position by
that route Kingston on-Thames sew
eral years ago elected Councillor Clarke
mayor. His admirers made two un-
successful attempts before they sue
ceeded In landing him in the mayors
chair, largely because the proud resi-
dents of the town found it impossible
to resign themselves TO the rule OF
their former policeman.
Blackpool. the Coney Island of Eng
land, once selected Alderman Brodis
to the mayoralty, despite the fact that
he was particularly fond of telling OF
his experiences as member of the
force in Manchester
Timothy Owen, one of the most
popular residents of Aberaven, Glamor-
ganshire was a signalman on rail-
road when his neighbors expressed
their desire to invest him with tho
ONCE of mayor. On the occasion or
his first visit to church after assum-
ing the high Office he had curious
bodyguard in 800 raiiwaymen. headed
by the general secretary of the labor
union to which he belonged
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F0tner OF the OH.
the accident occurred Judge Upshur had
been called upon to give toast. Pick
ing UP an empty bottle, he remarked that
1.-THE dead bodies must be cleared away
first" He again took up bottle, which
was likewise empty. and repeated the
lest OF moment before. Finally, how
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l. 01AAN~0 l. A0O6k1ANH0
Kaufman ~-~~--
To be downed unfortunate; to remain downed piabl;
only to lie down contemplate
You can't exceed the immediate Of your
Force must be developed grow gradual Brains must be
trained We stumbling blocks
Obstacles essential to education.
Problems the zeal of solution
We gain poe through occasionally losing balance-te harder
the bump the greater the incentiUe avoid thereafter
Until the Aviator imperied by aw in his bplane he
not that it can be bettered.
Mistakes the of Progress.
Are made different mold-do your veins flow with
unique boodthat set yourself aboue the genuses the
mighty captains the iusous scholars the founders of
industries and the builders Of nations?
We all earbo and all inherit the restrictions Of
kind We only Cody in humility and in modesty
When ourselves without sin, without Deakness,
without mistake, insult the High Power
which alone is Omniscient
No great but that he can be fault When
you distinction which human has yet
ren.vhen you declare your equality with Duiny-you afront
intelligence.
Your bray adverses your breed The uoice Of the the
choice of an