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The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-07-05
SECRET OF THE MAINE
WILL NEVER Be KNOWN
Declares Gen. Bixby-Decay Too
Great to Fix Cause of
Destruction.

Tampa. Fla, June 3O.-"The Sc
cret of the destruction of the battle
ship Maine will never be known"
said Gen. w. H. Bixby, chief of en-
gineers in charge of the work of
raising the Maine, on his arrival
here to-day from Havana. The de-
struction to the vessel was such,
says Gen. Bixby, and the deteriora-
ton has been so great that it will
be impossible to say whether the
ship was blown up from force
from the outside or inside. The
greatest force, however, was from
the inside, indicating that the for
ward magazine had exploded.
Whether this was from a sympathet-
ic explosion caused by a torpedo
from the outside, may forever re-
main a mystery.
Gen. Bixby says that unless the
fragment of a torpedo is found, there
is no way of connecting some out
side agency with the blowing up of
the vessel.
Relics found in the officers cabin
which was aft consisted for the most
part of rubber goods. Rubber door
mats look as though they had just
come from the factory. Rubber
bands, rules and triangles have been
recovered.
1--WE do not expect to find any hui
man remains" he said. THE
crews compartment has disappear
ed entirely. 1t lay in the vacant
place between where the bow now
lies and where the middle of
the ship was broken off. The bot
tom under this vacancy is bare of
wreckage."
Cen. Bixbv declared no further
revelations of consequence are ex-
pected.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-07-05
OF O'REAR
WANING IN ELEVENTH

Somerset, KY, June 30.-There is
lively scrapping among the Repub-
licans of the mountain section. The
most remarkable thing about this
party and the race for the nomina-
tion for Governor is the wonderful
change which has taken place with
in the past ten days-or whether it
is just the fact that the true situa-
ton has just come to light. Any
way, ten days ago it looked from
careful study that O'Rear would
surely make a clean sweep in the
entire Eleventh district, carrying
every county. by large majority,
but great change has been wrought
within the past ten days and now it
will keep the O'Rear followers hust-
ling if they get a majority of the
counties in the Eleventh district.
1t is now almost certain. so some
of the very best posted politicians
say, that e. T. Franks will carry the
counties of Monroe, Cumberland,
Adair, Russell and Clinton. These
are the very strongest Powers coun-
ties, and it is now an open and we'll
known fact that the Powers and
Bradley forces are lining up solidly
against O'Rear. In Whitley county
1t is said that Charley Finley will
see to 1t that the delegation from
that county will not be OF any aid
to o'Rear in the Louisville conven-
ton, though II may go uninstruct-
I'd. Bell county is sure to send a
delegation that will be for Franks
or Cox. while the county of Knox
will go uninstructed on account OF
having a candidate for minor Of
fee. but. as that is the home county
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-07-05

of Caleb Powers, it is easy to guess
where it will land in the State con-
vention.
In this county (PulaskD, where
the fight between these two factions
is always the strongest, there will
likely be some of a battle and it is
practically foregone conclusion
that there will be two delegations
from here, one for O'Rear and the
other one for Franks or Cox, but
probably instructed for some local
man. The developments of the last
ten days>show the fine Italian hand
of Senator Bradley, and that means
something in this district.
The Democrats are looking on
jubilantly for they anticipate a big
split in the Louisville convention.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-07-05
THE WHEREABOUTS OF
SHERIFF. YET UNKNOWN
Former Cashier of Utica Deposit
Bank, Who is Short
$4,000.
The Greensboro Messenger says:

The greensboro Messenger says:
The whereabouts Of w. A. SheT-
rill, the former cashier of the Utica
Deposit Bank, is still unknown to
the officers of the bank and to the
officials of the bonding company, as
we'll as the officers of the Dayiess
county courts, all of whom are ca
ger to locate the man, as an indict-
ment has been returned against him,
charging him with the embezzle-
ment of $4,000.
There is but little doubt that e
reward will be offered by the Gov
ernor for the arrest of Sheriff., as
this will be recommended to him
by County Attorney Finn.
The matter of the shortage was
brought to the attention of the
county officials only after Sheriff.
had disappeared from this section
of the country and nothing has since
been heard of him. AS soon as the
alleged shortage was discovered
Sheriff. left Utica and went to Web
ster county, where he made an eff
fort to raise the money to meet the
shortage. At that time he stated
that he would surrender to the Off
Gals of the county at any time that
he might be wanted. but failing in
his efforts to cover the shortage, he
left Webster county.
When the shortage was first dis
covered neither the bank officials or
any of the officials of the bonding
company would prefer any charge
against the alleged defaulter and he
was allowed to take his departure.
When the grand jury convened, how
ever, he was indicted, and an effort
is now being made to have him ia
ken into custody.
The officials are of the opinion
that the offering of a reward will
cause his arrest.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-07-05
. @ c G q o G. G 9 G & Q @ @ G
G NEW sold OAKEN BUCKET" G
G O O O G G @ @ O @ O O Q O O

The old order changeth. No lon
ger do We sing of the Old Oaken
Bucket, but in it's place has come a
modern version which, while it may
lack in poetic meter, tells a tale
near the line of truth just the same:
"The old oaken bucket,
The iron-bound bucket,
The moss-covered bucket,
Don't hang in the we'll.
The doctors discussed it,
Health officers cussed it,
And threw the germ-crusted
Old bucket lowell
At any rate, the old songs dead
We use a sanitary cup instead"
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-07-05
Of Roaring Niagara Falls
In Biplane.
THE DARING FEAT OF AVIATOR
Who ScOrned Death in Wild
SwOOp Through a Mar
row Aperture.
FIRST VENTURE OF ITS KIND

Niagara Falls, N. Y, June 29.-
With the whir of his biplane motor
drowned in the roar of the cataract,
and man and machine momentarily
obscured in spray and mist, Lincoln
Beachey, the California aviator, tc-
day, after circling above the falls,
swooped beneath the arches of the
upper steel bridge and down the
gorge almost to the whirlpool.
Rising again between the sides of
the lower river, Beachey scared to
the Canadian side, where he made
successful landing.
1t was the first time that a bird
man had cut through the air cur
rents and mist clouds and leaping
foam caused by Niagara's falls and
rapids.
To add to the difficulty of Beach
ey's fight, light rain began to fall
as he took his seat in the biplane
shortly before 6 o'clock. He mount
ed upward, moving always in the
direction of the cataract, and when
ne crossed the American Falls he
was about 1000 feet in the air.
In a great sweeping circle he
swung toward the north and over
the Horseshoe Falls. Down the
river he flew almost to the lower
steel-arch bridge. two miles below
the Falls, then coursed to the west
and then south again, always drop
ping as he circled.
On his second circle he went well
to the west before beginning his
low fight toward the upper steel
arch bridge under which he was to
pass. Swinging again to the north,
and travelling about so miles an
hour, he came on probably not
more than 200 feet over the Horse
shoe and through its spray.
Once over the cataract, he lower
ed his plane, and, rushing with the
wind at a speed estimated at so
miles an hour. he dipped quickly
under the arch. AS he did so he
caught some of the wash of the out
let of the power tunnel, which
shoots out from the rocky side of
the precipice at that point. At no
time from his final dip until the
time he was clear of the structure
was the biplane more than 80 feet
above the spume. The space through
which he flew is 16S feet in height
and barely 100 feet from side to
side. The distance from the brink
of the falls to the bridge under
which he made the dip is about 400
yards.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-07-05
SAVED DROWNING MANS
LIFE-GOT A NICKEL

According to little business
transaction which took place to-day
at Ocean Park between life guard,
Charles Bassett, and George Hager-
land, after the former saved the life
of the visitor, 5 cents was sufficient
valuation to place upon a life.
Hagerland, who is from New
York, went in beyond his depth in
the surf and called for help. Bas-
sett responded and succeeded after
a struggle in bringing the man safe
ly to shore.
Hagerland gave a dime to the
man who had saved his life. Bas-
sett accepted the coin and handed
back cents, with the remark:
Here's your change. "-[Los An
geles cor. N. Y. Herald.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-07-05
PARDON FROM
GOV. WILSON
Was Shown and Prosecu-
tion Stopped.
lIInIIr nInrn nlnr lIlITurrc
NIGHT RIDER CASE WITNESS
Was Protected by Governor
When His Trial Came
Up In Court.
BILL TAYLOR METHOD USED

The Hopkinsville New Era says:
Instead of having to answer for
trial yesterday morning on indict-
ments charging, him with breach of
the peace and malicious shooting,
Arthur Cooper, confessed night rider
and one of the chief witnesses for
the prosecution in the recent sem
sational trial of DR.. ID. A. Amoss
on the charge of leading the night
rider raid on Hopkinsville. was re-
leased from all responsibility for
the offenses charged, on pardon
from Governor Wilson. The cases
we're set for Monday morning and
a number of witnesses were ready
to take the stand against Cooper.
r The presentation of the pardon bv
Attorney Stanley Bassett came as a
complete surprise and. acting upon
it, Judge Hanberry dismissed the
indictments.
The pardon is written on the usu-
al blank prepared for such docu-
ments and is not as long as some Of
them are, but the statements in It
are none the less forcible and sensa-
tional.
, One night recently Cooper is al
legged to have driven in company
with another man, to the Pee Dee
vicinity. 1t is charged that he first
visited the home of Finis Luttrell,
where he had boarded for a time
while engaged in organizing w. o.
w. lodges about eighteen months
ago, and to have insisted that Lut-
trell come out and talk with him,
but the latter declined.
He is then said to have gone to
the home OF John Osteen, arriving
there after midnight, and to have
aroused the household and to have
cursed in the hearing of the family
after Osteen had refused to let him
put his horse in the stable or to fur
nish him with corn for the horse.
Osteen says he stood it as long as
he could and then ordered Cooper
to leave, which he did, but that just
after driving away from the gate
; two shots were fired from the buggy
and the bullets passed through the
leaves of the trees in close proximity
to the house.
Cooper was arrested next morn
ing as he drove into town. When
the grand jury considered the case
they fist returned an indictment
for breach of the peace and later a
second indictment for malicious
shooting. The man who was with
Cooper was not indicted. The in
dictment charged that Cooper was
drunk in addition to the other Of
lenses.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-07-05
Born i'm AutomobiIe.

Akron, o., June 29.-When in a
speeding automobile, within two
blocks of her home, Mrs. Elmer Hall
gave birth to a baby boy to-day.
Mrs. Hall had been visiting at the
home of relatives and had started
for her home. Soon after BEGINNING
the return trip the bird approacheS
and the machine was given full
speed in an effort to reach the Hal
home, but the race was lost by ?
few minutes.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-07-05
OLD AGE OUT Or FASHION
IN THESE MODERN TIMES

Careful studies and measurements
have shown that our time of actual
maturity and arrest of growth in
physical characters, such as height,
weight and chest girth, is much la
ter than formerly supposed. In
stead of reaching, as was at one
time confidently stated, our full
height at IS, our full strength at 23,
and our full chest girth at %, as a
matter of fact we continue to in
crease slowly, 1t is true, in all these
respects until S5, Ss and even 40
years OF age.
BY living a beautiful, healthful,
active, happy life and keeping up
all our interests, we can grow and
develop and adjust ourselves and
feel that we are growing until we
are one day suddenly dead, with
out ever realizing in any distress
ing. or painful way that we are
growing old at all.
I Already old age has gone quite
out of fashion. The civilized, edu-
Gated man or woman of 20 is young
er than the savage OF 40 or the peas
ant Of so. What with steady spread
of regular vocations and country or
suburban homes and walking clubs
and golf. and gardens and automo-
bling and travel of all sorts. those
who would have been considered old
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-07-05
Hanniest Girl in LINCOLN.

: A Lincoln, Neb., girl writes: 81
had been ailing for some time with
chronic constipation and stomach
trouble. l began taking Chamber
lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets
and in three days I was able to be
up and got better right along. I am
the proudest girl in Lincoln to find
such a good medicine" For sale by
all dealers. m
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-07-05

Right in your busiest season when
you have the least time to spare,you
are most likely to take diarrhoea
and lose several days time. unless
you have Chamberlain's Collie, Chol-
era and Diarrhoea Remedy at hand
and take dose on the first appear
ance Of the disease. For sale by all
dealers. m
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-07-05

All locals of the American Socie-
ty of Equity are urgently requested
to send delegates to the county I'M
ion July 7 and 8, 1911. There will
be much important business to come
before the body and a full delega-
ton is urgently called for.
24t4 HENRY NJ. .PIRTLE, Sec'y.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-07-05
Summer Colds

Are harder to relieve than winter
ones but they yield just as readily
10 treatment with DR.. Bells Pine
Sold everywhere. Look
Tor the Bell on the bottle. m
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-07-05
All Skin Diseases

Yield readily to treatment with D.
Bells Antiseptic salve. We gua-
antee it. Csc box Sold every
where. r
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-22

Kaimuki, Pohukaina, Kauluweia, Ka.
lihi-kai and Kahaluu.
The City and County of Honolulu is
given the power to estimate the
amount required for interest and sink
ing fund in repayment Of the bonds,
which is a mere matter of computa-
ton, and a territorial official bases the
tax rate upon that estimate and COM
putes the amount of the tax. A terri
torial official turns the amount of this
tax over to the city ana county, and
all the city and county has to do is to
turn the amount back to the Territor-
ial official, so that the Territory may
pay the interest on the bonds and
maintain the sinking fund, a circuIa-
ton of funds involving much needless
! bookkeeping and accomplishing no
reasonable or useful purpose. After
providing for this elaborate and cir
cuitous system, the law gives the Ter
ritOrial auditor the right to deduct
these interest and sinking fund
charges from the amount of any war
rant otherwise issuable to the city and
county, the effect of which is that the
bare power so carefully provided for
of having these funds pass through Of
ticers of the city and county is finally
taken from the municipal government.
The municipal government, as
shown. is pOwerless to obtain revenue
in excess of that specifically provided
for it, irrespective of the question as
to whether its revenue is adequate for
the burdens imposed upon it or not
The Territory, however is granted the
power of imposing an additional prop
erty tax not exceeding one-fourth of
one per cent to prevent deficiencies in
the Territorial general revenues 20
meet estimated probable expenditures
under Territorial appropriations. 1t is
estimated that the equivalent of tax
rate of one-sixth of one per cent which
the county is granted under the new
system for permanent improvements
will amount to approximately $125,737
year This amount can only be ex-
Ipended, however, for the specific pur-
pose mentioned, and no portion of it Is
available for the current or running
expenses of tn municipality. The
proportion of the income tax collected,
which under the old law belonged to
the city and county, could under that
law be used by the city and county
for its current expenses. The share of
that income tax that came to the city
and county in the year 1910, and was
available for the current expenses of
the municipality, amounted to $1O1,-
431.52, The whole income tax under
the new system is now part Of the
Territorial revenue.
At the outset, the City and County
lof Honolulu was granted but a skele-
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-22

ton of a charter, and the numerous
acts passed by the legislature since,
instead of broadening that charter,
have, if anything, narrowed and com
plicated it. No real authority is grant
ed the municipality, such as is ordinar-
lily found in city governments. The
Congress of the United States has
granted to our legislature by the Or
ganic Act of the Territory full power
to create within the Territory coun
ties and city municipalities, and the
remedy for the present complicated
system with its divided authority and
which grants to the City and County
of Honolulu scarcely the semblance of
a shadow of power, is wholly in the
hands of the Territorial legislature.
Very truly yours,
FRED w. MILVERTON,
First Deputy City and County Attor-
ney.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-22
MILVERTONS OPINION upon THB law

the new system are first, the amount
that would be realized by the imposi-
ton of a tax of one-half of one per
cent upon the real and personal prop
erty enumerated; second, the amount
that would be realized by the imposi-
ton of a tax of one-siXth of one per
cent; third, road and vehicle taxes;
fourth, license fees fifth, fines and
costs in circuit court; and, sixth, fines
and costs in district courts. IrrespeC-
tive of the actual needs of the city and
county, it is limited almost entirely to
these sources of revenue. 1t has no
voice whatsoever in the fixing of the
tax rate. If its estimates for current
expenses exceed what would be pro
duced by a tax OF Une-half of one per
cent, the Territorial auditor has the
power to arbitrarily cut the estimates
down. The authority as to the public
schools is so divided as to render it
doubtful whether the scheme is work
able, and constant differences of opin-
ion are bound to arise as they have in
the past as to the respective liabilities
of the Territory and the city and coun-
| ty in this and other matters Not
withstanding the elaborate provisions
contained in the acts which apparently
give the city and county power in re-
L IN n
| granted to the city and county is that
of paying for new buildings planned
by the Department of Public Instruc,
ton and paying for the repair and
maintenance of school buildings and
grounds. but the estimates even for
this work are not to be made by city
and county officials, but by Territorial
officers. The new system also pro-
vides for the issuance of bonds, but
even when the proceeds from these
bonds are expended for strictly county
purposes, such expenditures are made
not under the direction of city and
county officials, but under the direc-
ton of a commission of five persons
appointed by the governor, only one Of
whom need be a city and county Of
fetal. The power to issue bonds is
vested in the treasurer of the Terri
tory, with the approval of the gov
ernor. Out of the bond issues there
has been appropriated by the legisla-
ture the sum of 100000 for the con-
struction of belt roads and bridges in
the City and County of Honolulu, the
sum of $4,000 for certain land dam
ages in the City and County of Homo
lulu, the sum of $4,000 for Waialua
water works and Lualualei-kai pipe
buildings in the City and County of
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CONTINUED from page elevenO

CONTINUED from page elevenO
sixth of one per cent for permanent
improvements. The City and County.
of Honolulu prior to 1911 was entitled
to one-half of the income tax in said
city and county, but under the new
law this source Of income has been cut
OF. The city and county is not en-
titled to any portion OF the general
property tax upon either real or per
sonal property used in connection with
such public service corporation as tel
ephone companies, cable companies,
steamship companies, railroad Compa-
MES and the like, when such proprty
is used in connection with the bust
ness of transmitting intelligence or
transporting passengers, mail or
freight from one island to another, or
to vessels at sea or to other lands.
Additional revenue, ii is true. is grant
ed to the City and County of Honolulu
by Act 103 of the Session Laws Of
1911, which provides that all liquor
license fees shall be paid into the city
and county treasury. These fees APP
proximate $4,000 per annum, but out
OF this amount the act provides that
the City and County Of Honolulu shall
pay the expenses of the Board of Lii
cense Commissioners Of the city and
county and the salaries fixed by the
board of all officers appointed by il
upon acquisitions made by the chair
man of the board to an amount not to
exceed $1,000 year, so that the net
amount receivable by the city and
county in this connection is only about
$S7,500. The 1911 session of the leg
islature also passed an act providing
that all moneys paid as fines, costs or
forfeited bail in circuit court cases
should be paid into the treasury of the
county or city and county in which
such court has jurisdiction Fines and
costs in the first circuit court from
July l, 1911, to November 30, 1911,
amounted only to the sum of S2075,49,
while the expenses of that court dur
ing that same period of time amount
ed to over $11,50O These expenses,
which include salaries of court clerks,
stenographers, probation officers, in
terpreters and general court expenses,
are all made by the new act a charge
upon the revenues of the city and
county, so that the turning over of
these fines and costs to the city and
county with the attendant liability re-
suits in seri0Ns burden instead of a
benefit to the municipality.
The principal items making up the
revenues of the city and county under