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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-11
GIRL IN HER TEENS
VICTOR OVER BEAR
She Kills Bruin, Who Had Dis
puted Path With
Her.

Fort Townsend, September 10.-Miss
NARY schmitz. girl in her teens, re-
cent!y mad battle with a bear in
which she came out Victorious.
MISS Schmitz was employed at the
Hotel Merrymere. summer resort a T
Lake Crescent. The other morning she
decided TO visit her parents. who live
IN the heart of the Olympic Mountains.
thirty miles from the lake The only
Ioao TO ner nome is trail running
through the dense forests, without a
habitation along the entire route. The
tran. in places. is impossible for a
morse and she started out afoot.
Before starting one of the guests
presented her with "A revolver and A
belt filled with cartridges, instracting
her to use it to protect herselY against
man or beast.
She had proceeded fifteen miles when
she sighted bear in the trail coming
toward her She shouted, thinking
that the animal would take to the
bushes. but instead 1t continued TO
advance.
She opened fire. Afer several shots
the bear left the trail. giving her the
right OF way.
- hen she reached the place where
the bear took to the bushes she found
blood. and on investigation she found
the animal few yards from the trail
lying dead as the result of one of her
shots
Miss Schmita continued her Journey.
reaching her home late that evening,
and telephoncd her adventure to the
hotel at Crescent a party left the
next morning to bring the bear to the
resort.
The report of Miss schmitz's ad-
venture was brought here by Judge
Lester Sill. of the Superior Court OF
this county who has been at Lake
Crescent for the last ten days.
Miss Schmitz was reared from early
infancy on a farm in the Olympics
She is strong and athleic and knows
not fear. She never fails to attract
the attention and interest of all Wis
itors to the summer resort at Lake
Crescent.
New York artist painted her pic
ture and it is now in an art gallery
in that city.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-11
CONTEST LIKELY
OVER HOUSE SEAT
Goochland and Fluvanna Have
Separate Nominees for
Legislature.
RUTHERFORD OR TAYLOR
Apparent Blunder May Result in
Appeal to State
Committee.

AS a result of what seems a blunder
on somebody's part, contest is likely
to arise over the nomination for the
House OF Delegates from the district
composed Of the counties of Fluvanna
and Goochland. An appeal to the State
Democratic Committee at its coming
meeting is not improbable.
1t seems that A. ]. Taylor, of Flu
wanna, and John rutherford, OF
Goochland. were the candidates for the
nomination Mr.. Rutherford, who is a
practic.ng attorney In Richmond with
his home in Goochland. filed his name
with the Democratic committees in both
counties. Inasmuch as his was the
only name received in Goochland, that
committee regarded the matter as set
tied. and no names for this Office were
placed on the ticket in Thursdays pri-
mary.
Mr. Taylor. It is stated, filed his name
with the Fluvanna committee only.
That body, with two names before It.,
placed them on the ticket. with the re-
in the county, against 29s for Mr..
Rutherford.
Therefore. Mr., Taylor Is nominated in
Fluvanna and Mr.. Rutherford in Gooch-
land. The presumption is that Mr.. Tay-
Tor took 1t for granted that Fluvanna
was 10 name the man. inasmuch as the
last member, Stephen NJ. Shepherd, who
has since died. came from Goochland
Should both men insist on running
in the November election, a Republican
might easily slip In, since the vote OF
that party In the district is consider
able. The State Committee may be
asked to effect a settlement
Judge Nelson Defeated
Complete returns from Campbell
county show the defeat OF Judge Frank
Nelson, the Incumbent. by A. b. Martin
1t also appears that mistake was
made on the night OF the election in the
statement that T. j. Payne had won the
nomination for the House from Am
herst, since the count shows that Wal
ter P. Massie is nominated
James II. Harvey has won In Nelson
county for the House.
Sundry other nominations are vet to
De made by convention. especially in
the South west. The last convention OF
all Will be that in the Fifth Senatorial
District, which, is set for October IT,
only few days before names must he
hled with clerks to he placed on the
Official ballots. DR.. a. c. Crockett. of
Max Meadows, is so far the only can
didate.
me Republicans of the First District
VIII meet next Saturday. Senator a It
Lincoln has been Endorsed for renomi-
nation by his home county of Smyth
out there is said to be doubt that he
VIII accept. Should he decline or.
should he be nominated and defeated.
no one OF the six Republicans in the
last Senate will come back.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-11
BROTHER AND SISTER
REUNITED BY DREAM
They Were New York Waits and Hod
Been Sent to Separate Homes
In the West.

San Antonio, Tex. September 10
george Cooley came to San Antonio
last spring from Atchison. Kan, when
The soldiers did. and has remained
mere since as kind of camp follower
"heh Cooley was eight years oil
ne ana MS sister, six years old, were
sent out from New York along with a
nu'hoer OF homeless children. y home
was found for the boy with a Kansas
farmer and he remained with his fo,-
Ter parents until he was Of age. The
sister was taken on to some other
point, an1p by some means the bow
heard she was brought to Texas.
cooley determined to find his sister
If he could, and his trip to the CITY
with the army was for the purpose of
ascertaining If she were here. Some
weeks ago he heard that n young wo-
man VINO was New Yorker" as
such children are sometimes called.
had married a young man near George
town, Tex, and that the counla ha1
gone to Fayetteville. Ark. to live Tn.
more Cooley thought of this young
woman the stronger became his CON
viction that she must be his long lost
sister
Finally. he dreamed one night that
the young woman was his sister. and
mat she hoped some time to see tha
nFother she had not seen since they
parted years ago at Atchison. Kan.
The next morning Cooley left for
tayetteville, where he found the Young
married couple, and a small scar on
the young womans forehead made tho
Identification complete. Cooley do
cared he would have known her II
ne had met her in the street He is
now going to Fayetteville to make hi,
home with his sister.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-11
new OYSTER ROW
ON JAMES RIVER
Tongers Claim Warwick Plant
ers Are Encroaching on
Natural Rock.
FIRST skIRMIsH TODAY
State Fish Commission to Take
Up Trouble in Nor
folk.

Another skirmfsh In tho intermina-
BILE war between the tonsers and plant
ers in the oyster bottoms of the James
Will be considered by the State Fish
Commission, when 1t meets in Norfolk
at noon to-day. Members of the COM
mission were in the city last night on
their way to the meeting.
1t seems that the Warwick county
tongers have put in claim that the
planters have moved their stakes from
the rented grounds into the area of
natural rock This is denied, and the
commission has had its surveyor at
the scene to determine the truth
Should the Irregularities complained
OF be established, and prove fragrant.
the commission will presumably order
an immediate removal of the stakes
TO their proper position. On the other
hand. If the matter allows of a pre-
sumption of a prior mistake in sur
veys, time will possible be allowed to
make the change. 1t has been found
in the past that differences in surveys
have accounted for complaints on this
score. for. like doctors, surveyors
differ.
The existing contention is but a
phase of the ever-recurrent dispute be-
tween the men who are licensed as
tongers and who are privileged to take
oysters from the natural public oyster
rock. and those planters to whom the
State has leased ground for the pur-
pose of private cultivation. On the
one hand the tongers point to the
constant temptation before the planter
to move his stakes out over the often
rich natural rock, while the planters
assert that the tongers poach on their
property and try to give them endless
trouble. The State Fish Commission
says it is almost powerless, since the
irregularities in the lines make accu
rate policing of the public ground "a
practical impossibility.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-11
"P0IS0NED PEN" MUST
HAVE BEEN IN CHURCH
Enstnn Pastor Criticized About Ser
mons Not in Public

Easton. Pa. September 1o.-The
poisoned pen" mystery in Easton stiil
grows deeper since the arrest of Miss
Harriet Dewitt, who will be tried in
the United States Criminal Court in
Philadelphia Monday. September 49,
Rev. E. e. Snyder was mentioned as
receiving anonymous letters, as also
were Rev. A. H. F. Fischer. of st.
Paul's Lutheran Church; Rev. Charles
R. Trowbridge, former pastor of st.
Peters Lutheran Church. and Rev.
Charles II. Bonner. pastor of Trinity
Evangelical Church. and Harry G. Seip.
member Of Council, Easton.
There were often criticisms of SER
mons Many of Mr. Bohner's sermons
have been printed in the newspapers.
but there were criticisms of sermons
that were not printed
In the latter cases 1t is contended
the writer of the letters must have
been either persons who were present
to hear the sermons or have been told
about them by some person who did
hear them.
AS Miss Dewitt is not member O.
either congregation mentioned, the
question arises as to who did the pen
printing of the letters and who heard
tss<~sIss,...-c-r ccmr,Ssssaed Of,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-11
BAL TIMORE MAY
GET CONVENTION
Virginia Democrats Looking to
Next Years State and Ma
tional Gatherings.
ELLYsoN is SILENT YET
Member of National Committee
From Virginia Has Made No
Promises.

Among those who take an early in
terest in the national party gatherings
of next year there seems to be an i'm
preston that the Democratic National
Convention will go to Baltimore. That
city is very active ana has an organized
propaganda for the purpose of secur-
ing this big meeting. A fund OF
100000 has been guaranteed. which is
ready to be turned over to the Demo-
cratic National Committee. and in addi-
tion the building of a convention hall
which will seat $4,000 persons has been
promised.
Lieutenant Governor j. Taylor Ely
son is the member of the committee
from Virginia, and will have vote on
the selection OF convention city. He
said yesterday that he had made no
promises TO any one. He is in receipt
of many communications regarding Bal
timore. and has also been asked to
favor Louisville. The convention does
not go to the highest bidder, the loca-
ton as regards political significance
being always considered.
The Democratic National Committee
will meet in Washington in December
for the purpose of choosing conven-
ton city and of naming time for the
ocratic standard bearer in 1919.
The Stntc Convention.
The Virginia State Democratic Con-
vention Will probably he held about next
May, according to custom. The place
and date will be selected by the State
Committee after the time of the ma
tional convention has been fixed. There
is some talk of a movement to bring
the State body TO Richmond
1t is rather expected that sentiment
VIII largely crystalline in favor of one
or the other candidates during the com
Ing session of the Legislature. Politi-
cal leaders swarm in Richmond at such
times. and views on these matters are
exchanged, Members of the Leglsla-
lure naturally go to their homes en-
thusiasts for somebody.
Under the primary system now in
vogue, the Democrats of Virginia meet
only once In four years, when dele
gates are elected to the national con-
Nention. The body is then confronted
with the duty of making a platform
which VIII cover both national and
state Issues. 1t is expected to indorse
tarin reform and other time honored
principles of the party, and at the same
time to express its opinion on the sub
Jects of State and local taxation, the
iquor question. primaries and all such
matters, although at such times no
state campaign is ever in progress
.lhe result is that in the following vear
each candidate for Governor makes his
own platform, which binds nobodv
save those who enroll themselves under
his banner.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-11
.MAsslE BACK IN. SENATE
Defeated Senator STROBE In Hard
Fought Campaign.

Very pround of his victory in Thurs
days primaries over Senator Aubrey
Z. Strobe for the seat from the dis
trict composed of the counties of Am
herst and Nelson. Bland Mass!e re-
ceived the congratulations of his
friends IL Richmond last night. Mr..
Massie is not a novice In legislative
experience. for he is former member
of the Senate, to which he has just
been nominated after one OF the hard
est fights of the year.
Mr. Massie carried his home county
of Nelson by ISL majority, against a
majority of 172 for Senator Strobe in
Amherst. making a difference of 179
in favor of Mr.. Massie in the district
Prohibition and the cause of Mr.
Jones and Mr. Glass, with both OF
which Senator Strobe was Identified,
played important parts in the con-
test and made the fight spectacular
and of interest generally to the peo-
pie of the State.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-11
Democrntic cInb to Meet.

Announcements is made by Secretary
X. T. Shiiiett, of the Washington Ward
Democratic Club, that the regular
monthly meeting will take place to-
night In Frat"rnal Hall. Because of
election of officers and other important
business TO come up a full attendance
of the II embership Is urged.
Auto md Chr Collide.
The little god of things as they
ought 10 be watched over the occu-
pants of skidding autor.obne. when
1t coliided with a Lakeside car in the
Barton Heights section of the city
late Yesterday afternoon. and spilled
them INTO the street. The automs bile
was considerably damaged. but the
pas sengers escaped practically unhurt
j. b. Carpenter, VINO was driving. sus-
ta!ned few slight scratches. which
we're repaired in short order by Dr.
X. w. Miller
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-11
CERTAIN BEATT|E
HAD FAIR TRIAL
Father of Murdered Woman IN
willing, However, to Com
Il ment on Verdict.
SYMPATHY FOR BEATTIE, sR.
Cannot See How Prisoner Can
Successfully Appeal and
/. Escape.

The following dispatch was sent out
from Dover, Del. last night
II have no opinion to express on the
conviction of Henry c. Beattie, Jr.,
Cor the murder of my daughter" said
Robert V. Owen, father o; the muir
dered girl at his home here to-day.
He had just finished reading in The
Times Dispatch the full address OF
Prosecutor wendcnburg before the
Jury.
When questioned, however, he be-
came more communicative THE de-
, 1endant had fair trial." he declared,
"before one OF the brightest and most
humane judges in the country. Prose-
cutor Wendenburg and Lawyer Harry
Smith, for the defense. are two of thu
most careful and brilliant men in the
South. Nearly every objection raised
during the trial was decided in favor
of the accused How he cen success
FULLY appeal i cannot see, although I
/; am sure nothing will be left undone
TO save him from the electric chair"
Mr.. Owen, who, with his wife. is
raising the infant son of the muir
sdered woman at their Dover home,
then dwelt upon the opposition of his
brothers and himself to the arrest of
HRe young husband when II was first
proposed. He said Scherer. the prin-
cipal dessctive In the case, was in :
-sistent. Finally when the accused was
arrested Mr.. Owen said he had the
young man tell him his story of tho
tragedy.
Heard senttie's Story.
The father continued: when I
reached my brother Thomas. after an
all-night ride from Dover, immedi tely
after the murder, my son-in-law. in
The present of others, told me practi-
cally the same story that he testified
to during the trial 1 was not sus.
picious with the exception of once
when it flashed through my mind that
it would have required astonishing
speed to catch the alleged midnight
assailant with whom Beattie says he
grappled
Henry was not an inebriate. HIS
closest friends cannot account for his
aeed. In fact, his friend Wells told
him: cannot believe you did it. But
II YOU did you should be electrocuted
Inc law is now taking its course"
Both Mr.. and Mrs owen have an
Intense feeling OF sympathy for the
white-haired father of the slayer. The
families have been friendly, for years
MT. Owen having known Mr.. Beattie
4enior. intimately for thirty-fve years
On several occasions since the mur-
der the father OF the victim has de-
clared that his friend, Mr. Beattie,
Senior, could not help what had oc
CURED.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-11
BAILEY CONFIRMS 1T
VIII Retire Mt End of Term In the
Semitic.

VIII -ietirc Mt End of Term in the
Senate.
Fort Worth. Tex. Sept 10-United
States Senator Joseph w. Bailey to-
day confirmed the report that he would
retire from the Senate at the expira-
ton Of his term in 1913. and would
locate in this city. Mr.. Bailey said he
would move here when his term eX-
PRED. and that he and his son. now 2
student in the law department of the
University of Virginia. would open
law offices here.
In statement issued this Afternoon.
Mr.. Bailey Cancelled all speaking ap-
pointments In the State.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-11
REFUSED TO MOVE
Salesman VIII Have to Answer Charge
of Disorderly Conduct.

OF D1hOrUerIy Conduct.
Refusing to move when ordered to
do so while standing in Broad Street.
near Eighth. last night, L. Michaels,
who gave his occupation as a travel
ing salesman. was arrested and taken
to the Second Police Station.
He was charged with disorderly con-
duct and furnished bail for his ap-
pearance this morning in Police Court.
Richard Johnson. colored. was ar
rested on warrant alleging that he
entered the home Of Estelle Stewart.
colored, of 1912 Calhoun Street. and
carried off a small sum of money. He
was locked UP at the Second Station
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-11
SEEKS MISSING MAN
Absence OF Chesterfield Insurance So
Hector Causes Alarm.

officers from Chesterfield county yes
terday enlisted the services OF the
Richmond police in q search for Miller
Davis an insurance solicitor. who lives
on the Petersburg Turnpike. near Stop
No. 2. and who disappeared from home
two days ago. He has wife and
child and they are alarmed at his alb
sence. fearing that he may have met
with foul play. No trace of him was
found at a late hour last night
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-15
WIDOW OF SUICIDE
GUARDS 100000 SECRET
Refuses to Tell Husbands Story, and
His Property Is Held Back.

A young woman went to a New
York lawyer the other day and told
him that because her husband when
dying had induced her to listen to a
secret he said was slowly killing him
and because she agreed to hear it,
though he imposed the condition that
they die together Immediately after
ward, her sisters-in-law In the City of
Mexico refused to let her have the
property he left, amounting to $780,
900.
She said she had never told the Sc
cret and that she never would. The
lawyer has learned that last winter,
when she lay in a hospital recovering
from the wounds inflicted by her hus-
band upon her Chose inflicted on him
self caused his DEATH, she refused to
submit to an operation for blood poi.
soning because she was afraid of tell.
ing the secret under an anaesthetic.
Four letters have been sent to the
City Of Mexico to sisters of the dead
man. In these the lawyer has tried
to bring about an understanding with
out the necessity of court proceedings.
Elsa Muchweck Torrea is the young
widow Her husbands name was
Raul Torrea. She came from Naum-
berg, Germany, few years before she
met the young Mexican in New York.
He was twenty-seven and she was
twenty-five last summer when they
decided to be married. They went to
the city hall on Oct II, 1910, got IL
cense and had an alderman marry
them.
Mrs. Torrea has told her lawyer
that they planned to go to the City of
Mexico, where he had been an in
structor in a military school, but the
husband proposed the double suicide.
Since she got out of the hospital
Mrs. Torrea has filed ancillary letters
of administration with the surrogate
and has been appointed Administrative
of her husbands estate under a bond
Of $4,000. A friend to whom Torrea
wrote has told her lawyer that Rich
ard Torrea, Rauls father, left $780,
900 when he died and that about $780,
900 Of this was to go to Raul.
Her demands upon the estate have
been met by the demand from the Sis
ters that she tell them the reasons
that led Torrea to make the suicide
agreement.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-15
FIRST HARVARD TO
STUDY AT HARVARD.
Descendant of Founders Cousin Will
Take Four Years Course.

For the first time in Harvard univer>
sity's 275 years of life Harvard ID
entered as a student. Lionel de Jersey
Harvard of London, under circum-
stances most unusual and sentimental,
will take his place In the class of 1915.
He Is member of the original John
Harvard family.
John Harvard died in 1898, two years
after the university which was later
given his name was founded. Thorn
as Harvard was his second cousin.
The Harvard who is coming to Ameri-
ca is descended from Thomas Har-
ward and prepared for college at the
same London school at which John
Harvard prepared for Emmanuel col
lege, Cambridge, 800 years ago.
In 1S47 Edward Everett, then presi-
dent of Harvard university, wrote to
George Bancroft, minister to Great
Britain, asking Mr.. Bancroft to deliver
some books, including a set of Quincy's
History Of Harvard" to the Rev.
John Harvard of Plymouth, England.
Louis A. Holman of Boston went to
England in 1908 for several months of
work involving antiquarian and other
research. At the home of ]. Nav
son Harvard, grandson of the Rev.
John Harvard, he found two sons,
Lionel, now eighteen, and Kenneth,
now fourteen. An older son, John, had
died.
Nothing was then said regarding the
future attendance of one of the sons
at Harvard university, but when Mr..
Harvard later wrote that financial OBJ
stacles had compelled Lionel to give
up his ambition to attend Emmanuel
college, which John Harvard attended,
Mr.. Holman talked to those in authori-
ty at Harvard and to few Harvard
alumni. The result was few interest
ed graduates agreed to provide a fund
ample to care for the tuition and ex-
penses of the young man during his
four years course.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-15
FLYING OVER MOUNTAINS.
Fowler Starts In Transcontinental
Flight for Big Prizes.

San Francisco, Sept. 12.-Robert G..
Fowler first of the aviators to start
in the long transcontinental aeroplane
journey from this city to New York,
began his trip in the presence of a
great crowd. Just before he started
Fowler kissed his mother and she
sobbed God bless you, my boy" Then
he rose about a thousand feet in
the air and headed due east for the
flight to New York, which if success
full, means $4,000 in prizes.
Reports from along the line of the
Central Pacific railroad, which Fow-
Ter Is following, show that the aviator
is averaging fifty-five miles an hour.
He passed Sacramento, SS.S miles
from this city. His fight east Of
Sacramento for the next hundred miles
cannot be so rapid, as he will have to
mount over 1000 feet to clear the sum-
NIT of the Sierra Nevadas.