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The Calumet news., 1911-12-11
WHERE 'NAMARAS
Will BE CONFINED
FAMOUS SAN QUENTIN PRISON
FILLED WITH MOST DEs-
PERATE CHARACTERS
OF WEST.

San Francisco. Dee. 11.-One of the
most notorious state penitontiaries IN
America. San Quentin prison, is now
placed at the head of the list of mod
el" institutions of that character. In
San Quentin penitentiary. on the bleak
rocky shores of San Francisco bay
James b. Mcnamara viii pass the rest
of his days and his brother, John j
Mcnamara, also under Sentence inn
posed on Tuesday by Judge Walter
Bordwell In Los Angeles, will spend
ten years. For although sentenced tC
fifteen years Imprisonment, under tho
California laws. John j. Mcnamara
viii get off with ten years. providing
his conduct is officially registered as
good.
Fifteen years ago San Quentin peni-
tentiary was the target of the journal
lists of that day. who are now either
termed "mucllrakers" or "reformcrs,'
according TO the opinions of the reader
| But, anyway. san Quentin was round
ly condemned before the Gays Of pris-
on reform began. a widely known cor
respondent of fifteen years ago, JohT
McComb. Jr., freely used the word:
"disgraceful," Shocking" and awful
in describing conditions at san Quen-
tin. Now all Is changed The prison
ers are employed at various industries
iute milling being the principal one
They are treated nationally, the idea
being to reform instead Of 10 punish.
When Prisoners Were Heroes.
To such a state of perfection has
prison discipline been brought that
when the night of March 3, 1910, the
iute warehouse caught fire. more than
10O prisoners-some of them the most
desperate men the annals of the coast
have developed-worked heroically all
night fighting the flames, dlsrosarding
their abundant chances to make a
break for liberty. Although 1000 rounds
OF ammunition stored in the eguardhouse
fell into the flames and bullets flew
in every direction, the convicts kept
right on fighting the fire. No one tried
to escape.
The Mcnamara brothers will not be
the only figures of national interest to
enter those gates above which is carved
into the stone: "Abandon hope all ye
that enter here" Prison reformers in
California have tried for years to have
those burning words effaced, but they
still remain. Abe Ruef, former po-
litical boss of San Francisco, is there
serving a fourteen year sentence for
bribery. He too, was caught by Will
liam j. Burns, detective Yes, Abe Ruef
is there. but it took special action Of
The Calumet news., 1911-12-11
BUILDS LARGEST OF NESTS
Jungle Fowl OF Australia Constructs a
Substantial Mound About Fiji
teen Feet High.

The Jungle fowl OF Australia is the
bird that builds the largest and most
substantial of all nests. II seeks out
a secluded spot and then begins the
work that will keep il busy for a
stretch of weeks, according 10 natural
lists who have studied the bird of Aus
tralia. IL gathers leaves. grass, twigs
and dozens OF other materials, weav-
ing them together so skillfully as 20
construct a mound that is qualified 20
Withstand any stress of weather.
The bird tolls away until It's mound
is about Is feet high, the ci.cumfer-
ence at the base being often 150 feet.
At the apex the nest is made. and
from this perch the bird is able to
see the approach of any one of its jun
gle foes in time TO take defensive
measures.
The bush turkey of Australia also
adopts similar methods In building
It's nest, although the foundation is
not so large. Instead of making a
moundlike base, the turkey constructs
one in the shape OF pyramid. Natu.
ralists say that 1t takes the combined
strength of several men to move one
Of these big nests.
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THE DUTCH MlLKMllD.
Her Picturesque Costume and Her 70
bust Style of Beauty.


bust Style of Beauty.
OF all iceland the particular costume
Of that province can be observed to
the best advantage on the island of
Walcheren.
A milbmaid Of Middelburg. for ex.
ample, is joy to look upon. Her spot.
less white cap brlstles at the temples
with kurgenkrullen like the antennae
Of prehistoric beetle. Her skirts are
ankle high and padded generously ut
the hips. If she be naturally round
and the skirts need no padding cir
cumstantial evidence of the fact is
sufficient to stamp her the belle of the
community.
The sleeves of her bodice are very
short and very tight. pinching the arms
above the elbows so that they might
be mistaken for n pair OF aggravated
cases of inflammatory rheumatism. OF
course the sun in all its glory strikes
the backs of these arms. for she al
ways walks with them akimbo. the
better TO balance the pals which dan
gle one from each end of a wooden
yoke enameled vivid robins egg blue.
But the redder the arms from the
rays of the sun and the tighter the
pinch of the sleeves. the flatter the
chest and the broader the hips. the
sooner will she cease to be n mere
milkmaid through the medium OF q
simple marriage ceremony in the vii.
lage kerk.-Travel Magazine.
The Calumet news., 1911-12-11
COMMISSIONS
REPORT ADVERSE
Catlnued from Page One.

lection. A stringent law inadequately
enforced and secretly evaded is the
worst 1ing that can be possibly of
fered e the public. because it gives
color tdclaims which have no founda-
tion ar4 fact"
In ddermining the physical value of
railroa@ in relation to their securi-
ties ndy outstanding, the commission
puts aide as entirely out of the qucs-
ton ay attempt to scale down out
standifg securities on the ground that
constitutional difficulties. public ex-
pedieny, and confidence i'm American
railroad investments would forbid IT,
Situation is Complex.
Tho. commission feels that railroad
development has gone so far and such
vulIme Of securities has already been
ISSUED that the only questions Of real
Importance are whether ii is desirable
for tie federal government To regulate
the Bsue of future securities, and. II
So, o what extent and in what man
rer. The complex relations between
securities already outstanding has
made it impossible to treat the ques-
ton Of future regulation as it might
have been treated If those securities
were not already IN existence.
In cases where it is found that the
issled securities exceed the physical
valuation, the commission is not i'm
ilyor Of forbidding further issue until
the deficiency is made up, because the
principle If generally applied might
prevent railroads from securing capi-
t9l necessary for the service of a COM
munity.
by empowering the Interstate Com
merce Commission to enforce publici-
Is and to make physical valuations,
the commission believes there will be
no necessity for law to require ap-
proval in advance for issues of socuri-
lies Advance authorization, the COM
mission holds. would tend to create on
The part of the investing public, an inn
preston of a guaranty or official rec
otnition of values which no admins
Jrative authority could safely give.
The commissioners do not believe that
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HERE AND THERE


At the Paris university there arc
some 1000 girls studying, about one
tenth of the entire corps of students.
This year there are 144 more girls
than last year and only two more men
than last year. When all the figures
have been thrashed out It becomes
evident that feminine matriculation is
now Increasing yearly seventy times
as fast as that of the men, and the
French dominies are wondering what
all these girls are crowding to college
for.
The Calumet news., 1911-12-11

The process of making salt at the
springs in Salinas, Mexico, is very
simple. The water which contains 4
to per cent salt, is pumped into
tanks; ii is then evaporated to 25 to
2S per cent. beginning to crystalize at
Is per cent. The water is then drain
ed off and the salt swept out.
The Calumet news., 1911-12-11

Three petrifed redwood trees that
have been pronounced the very largest
in the world, have thus far been un-
covered from the debris of the noun
tain side, only "A short distance from
the famous Bohemian club grove in
Sonoma county, California. This point
Is near the little town of Occident one
of these prehistoric monsters. that
make the pyramids of Egypt modern
by comparison in their ages. measures
.twenty-three feet I'm diameter and is
$50 feet in length. The other two pet
.rihed trees are thirteen and twelve feet
i'm diameter.
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travelling Near Lake Chad.

There are native towns not remote
from the Lake Chad region of interior
Africa where a white mans lte isn't
worth a nickel. Lieut.. Boyd Alaxan.
der, the British explorer. WAS pIt To
death in one Of them recently
Lieut. Alexander and his Portuguese
collector, one Jose. had ercampeL un
der tree in the outskirts of Tama
Suddenly they were surrounded by a
band of yelling savages. One. mere
STRIPPING. seized a gun and shot the
lieutenant ana the Others fell upon
him with clubs The Portuguese toss.
ed his finger rings TO the natives. and
while they were interesting them.
selves in them Jose leaeped to his sad
die and escaped.
o 0 o o o . o o o o
. ADVERTISE IN THE NEWS, :
90 o o
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CONFECTIONERY g. FRUITS.

A nice line Of candies. fruits. canned
goods. and the standard brands OF
cigars and cigarettes. We manufac-
ture ice cream. Wholesale or retail or
ders. Michelini & Bertzssa. Phrne sIsL.
The Calumet news., 1911-12-11

the California legislature last session
to get him there, although he had been
under conviction OF the lower courts
nearly four years. The legislature sim
ply prodded the Supreme court. and
that august body reversed itself over
night, and a few days later Ruef was
on his way to San Quentin. In taxi
cab, it is true, but still on his way
there.
Ruefs first act when he was settled
in San Quentin was 10 organize a sun
day school class, which ne still Is
teaching. His second act was to or
ganize, with the help Of his powerful
political and financial friends through
the state, body whose object is to
help the men released from prison. 20
find them employment and to support
them until they can get on their feet.
BY these two moves Ruef won the sup
port Of the san Quentin Bulletin, the
most active paper in the city in the
prosecution of the graft cases and
considered Ruefs bitterest enemy.
Ruef had not been In san Quentin a
month before the Bulletin was advo-
eating his pardon.
Mrs. Botkin Died There.
In San Quentin have been hanged
and imprisoned the most notorious
criminals and bad men of the coast
.Cordella Botkin, wife Of a former Kan
sas City banker, died in san Quentin.
she murdered two women. She came
from Nebraska. Her maiden name was
.Cordelia Brown and the town OF
Brownsville Neb., was named for her
father. In 1872 she was married "a
Welcome a. Botkin, connected for
years with the Missouri Valley Bank
.of Kansas city.
They moved to San Francisco. Mrs
Botllin became enamored of John L.
Dunning, an Associated Press war
correspondent and through Jealousy
sent poisoned candy To Mrs. Dunuing
in Delaware. The candy killed Mrs.
Dunning and a woman friend hrs.
Botkin was sentenced to san Quentin
for life, but died I'm prison March :,
1910.
Serving a life term in San Quentin
penitentiary is now Albert George
Vereneseneckockockhor, for obvious
reason known under the alias OF Hon.
He was involved in the Botkin case and
was convicted of the murder later of
Mrs. Mary Clute.
William Henry Theodore Durant,
probably the most flendish and abso-
lutely unnatural criminal America ever
held, was hanged at san Quentin, Jan
I, 1898, for the murders of Blanche La
mont and Minnie Williams. He was
known as the church belfry murder
er," and the deaths of many other
young girls were laid to the hands of
this degenerate.
Two sailors were hanged at San
Quentin oct. is, 1895, for the murder
on The high seas Of Maurice Fitzgerald,
second mate of the bark Hesper, the
ship around which so many writer's of
verse and prose have woven poems and
tales.
Dozens of other infamous criminals
of the coast, stage robbers. bank ban
dts and brutal murdCrers, have either
died i'm cells or at the end of the gal
lows at this California penitentary.
The Calumet news., 1911-12-11
CHICAGO DECORATING CO.

Artistic interior decorating in most
modern style. Paper hanging, tlnting
hardwood finishing. Picture framing,
plate moulding. mirrors resilvered. fur
niture refinished. +. Pentzold. Phone 3s7
The Calumet news., 1911-12-11
NATIONAL BILLIARD Hall.

Six regulation billiard and poor ia
bles that are kept in good condition.
with good lights and courteous atten-
tion. Leading brands cigars and cigar
cites. Agts for Markham's box candles
The Calumet news., 1911-12-11
CENTRAL HOTEL.

Osceola Street, Laurlum.
Special rates by week or month
Special attention to transient trade.
l.. I. Distel. Phone 267-L.
The Calumet news., 1911-12-11
JOHNSON Mj'.llNER.
Hecla street.

A large selection of the seasons lat
est creation in millinery is being dis
played. along with stunning models
from our own wo-krooms.
The Calumet news., 1911-12-11
LAURlUM BUSINESS DIRECTORY
What Do You Expect of Your Baker

What Do You Expect of Your Baker
Good baking? Clean shop2 Modern
equipment? Courteous salespeople? I?
This you may at least expect of us If
We are your bakers Phone us your
special orders EGGEN & HOYEM.
The Calumet news., 1911-12-11
NELSON TIE GROCER.

We try TO supply our customers ev-
cry wish and want ~ carry ing fresh
line of fine groceries. cur Quality ir
high, cur Isices low. phone Si7J
aIs, Osceola n
The Calumet news., 1911-12-11
M. E. o,eRIEN INSURANCE.

Insurance is good sound business
propos-''"~ and man cannot do bet
ter in taking a life insurance policy
with the Detroit Life Insurance Co.
First Nat. Bank Bldg, Laurium.
The Calumet news., 1911-12-11
SPECIAL SALE SATURDAY.
HAIRpREsslNe & sHAMpoolNc.

Bring us your combinss. We will
make them into switches Parlors for
electrical facial massage. manicuring
and cliropody. Mclaughlin & Kelly.
over Faucet & Guck's office
The Calumet news., 1911-12-11
MAC Lsop's LIVERY srAsLe.

First class livery and prompt cab
service day or night. Hacks furnished
for funerals and etc. baggage hauled
to and from trains Special attention TO
boarders. Malcolm Macleod. Phone 90.
The Calumet news., 1911-12-11
COPPER RANGE HARDWARE CO.
COPPER CITY eoTTLlNe WORKS

Our sNft drinks are pure. healthfui
and invigorating. Made by moderO
sanitary machinery. enabling us to
quote special to parties and entertain
ments. Phone 241.
The Calumet news., 1911-12-11

The trustees of Vassar college have
discontinued the seven graduate schol-
larships established i'm 1899. -Four hon
orary non-residential fellowshlps of
$500 will be offered for five years to the
members of the Senior class, on the
basis Of good scholarship and unusual
excellence in some line of study The
Iboard will also offer three resident
graduate scholarships for tuition only.
The reason given for this change is
that the trustees believe that graduate
students can get more profit i'm a uni
versity where the equipment is greater
and more specialized.
Mrs. Mary Warren and Miss Kate
Shea hold the curious jobs of waste
basket searchers to the government 1t
Is the business of these two women
to look carefully over the contents of
the waste paper baskets used in the
treasury department i'm Washington
and save from destruction any money
or bonds that may have fallen into
them by accident. Mrs. Warren has
been in the treasury department for
nearly forty years. Miss Shea about
ten. II is estimated that together they
have saved .the government more than
a million dollars. Mrs. Warren once
found $4,000 in a waste basket
Panama is to have the largest and
hest equipped docks in the world. A
strip of land two miles i'm length has
been set aside for the purpose. There
will be a turning basin 27O acres i'm ex-
tent with 1,000-foot piers, and a width
between pier ends of 1900 feet. Only
steel and concrete will be used in con-
struction, and the most approved ap-
pliances for loading and unloading
freight. will be supplied. All of the
work will be done electrically. Escala-
tors, automatic motors and endless
contrivances of the Hamburg type will
be installed. 1t will be possible TO
send freight from New York to san
Francisco i'm fourteen days, with the
use of this machinery i'm connection
with the canal, which is as fast or
faster than ii is carried by rail. The
saving in time between North and
South American cities will also be con-
siderable.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-27

saw the letter of July 10. 1910, to
which this postscript Is said to be at
tached. 1t was sent to me by MIR
Carr, Secretary Ballinger's pricate
secretary. at Beverly. on July 1.-THE
next day. I read the letter at Beverly
IN August with other papers and sent
them to the White House. 1t was
remained there until April &C. 1911.
when 1T was. by request of Secretary
Fisher. returned to the Interior De-
partment. and 1t was after this that
Miss Abbott says she cav tho letter
with the postscript attached. Mr.. Carr
saw no such postscript when he sent
the letter to me. I did not see 1t when
1 read It,
stronger evidence of the ralsity and
mallciously slanderous character of the
alleged postscript could not be had Its
only Significance Is the light is throws
on the bitterness and venom of soma
Of those who take active part,in every
discussion of Alaskan issues. The IN
tensity of their desire to besmirch all
who invest in that district, and all who
ministration, operates upon the minds
of weak or depraved human instru-
ments and prompts the fabrication of
such false testimony tes,tI as this post
feature OF the case. but 1t is so full
OF lesson that ought to be taken
10 the heart of every patriotic citizen
that I cannot pass It over in silence
When made this order I was
aware that the condition OF public
opinion In reference to investments in
Alaska. famed by charges of farud-
some we'll founded and others OF a
hysterical and unjust or false char
acter-would lead to an attack upon
1t and to the questioning of my mo-
tives In signing 1t. remarked this
when made the order. and I was not
mistaken. But a public officer. when
iirmative action in the public interest.
has no more right to allow fear OF
unjust criticism and attack to hinder
would to allow personal and dishonest
motives to affect him. It is easy in.
cases like this to take the course
which timidity prompts, and to do
nothing but such course does not
inure to the public veal"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-27
TOLD TO PUT LEWIS
OUT OF BUSINESS
Sensational Charge Made Before
Investigating Committee
of House.

Washington. July 2s.-The sensa
tional charge was made before tho
House committee. investigating the
Post-Office Department. to-day that
Leonard Goodwin. Chicago lawyer
and brother of Russell p. Goodwin. as
sistant attorney general of the Post
Office Department, was eXpIoitinf, mail
order houses throughout the country
telling them he could arrange any
.roupie they might have through de-
mai of mali privileges. etc
The charge was made BY T.. G. Lewis
president of publishing company in
81. Louis. recently denied the second
class mail privilege. Lewis also do
ciared that post-ofice Inspectors at 81
Louis had been told to use woatcver
methods they pleased TO put Lewis
OUT OF business. and 10 shut Lewis
up oetore The next campaign"
ms was the campaign of 1905.
Lewis said a Rochester y. Y, man
Aao written to him that Goodwin was
the man he nu.;ht to employ ana ..a,
MN out o: his trouglcs with tho rost
office inspectors.
MS man later toll me-" said Lewis
ters." VIC 50.
Lewis testified that he eur.lcyed
Ton detectives, who went ~
oooowin's office, representing them.
serves as in patent medicine mail nrdar
business. and In trouble win Tho ,os,.
Office officials 'o''
An afidavit was presented sworn ~
~ these detectives. in which thew de.
tiaFed that Goodwin told them he had
nandied thousands of cases like their
ana mat he could fix it SO the, wouId
not be bothered by post-office insnec-
eots. He told them. the detectives
Swore, that all they would have - do
. you'd be to say to the inspectors.
Gentlemen. we may have done wrong.
.ne past out we are trying to live
up % inc laws" and this Goodwin said
"ouso De all that was necessary.
one OF the detectives told Lewis co
sne latter testified. that post-ofrice of
neeiais and inspectors at ST, Louis h.o
toiu MIN they would be upheld nv tho
department in whatever methods 49,.
"'eo 10 put Lewis out of business
ar. Lewis accused the Post-omco
Department of having sent on, 81.
mus OF copies OF the speech delivered
~ senator Burton in response ~ ~.
" senator Jenries Davis. of Ark,,ras
e.. the department for its action
- 'he Lewis case. Mr.. Lewis said he
"au learned that many persons ~
wrote to the department reoues,i,
copy OF the Davis speech were sen, In
copy of the Burton speech.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-27
DID STOCK YARDS
HELP L0R|MER I?
Heads OF Big Chicago Concerns
Probably Will Be Called
as Witnesses.
CLASHES AT DAYS HEARING
Editor Kelley Put Through
Gruclling Examination by
Senator's Counsel.
CLASHES AT DAYS HEARING

Washington. July 26.-Thc r:oss-
examination of James Kelley. general
manager and editor of the Chicago
Tribune. was completed to-day before
the Senate Lorimer committee. Not
since the beginning OF the iuvestiga-
ton has witness been put through
the gruelling examination that Mr..
Kelley experienced at the hands of Ell.
bridge Hanecy. counsel for Mr.. Lori
mer. Time after time the editor let
the sarcastic remarks OF the attorney
pass with nothing more than a shrux
of the shoulders, but a, others he
countered and retaliated. throughout
the day, the object of the attorney an
peared to be to establish II possible
an ancient grudge of the Tribune
against Lorimer.
The committee, after the cross-ex-
animation, asked the witness lust two
questions. One was whether the edi-
tor believed the story OF state Repre-
sentative Charles A. White whose al
legged confession of graft in the IL
linois Legislature was first printed by
the Tribune.
Il did and do" was the answer
The other question was directed at
what Mr.. keelcy had in mind when he
his conclusion about having been
Fwindled. when he paid George CLAWS
$500 for books that Claws. claimed
showed that Loiimer, when in the
House, received money from lobbyists
In Washington, in a fight made b. the
Fireproof ma gazine, of Chicago for
the mail privilege. He had not gotten
IN opportunity TO explain on cross-ex-
animation
In this connection Mr.. Kelley also
said yesterday that Claws told him
ex-Representative Tawney. OF Mime
sofa. was mixed up in the deal
When ! came to Washington few
days ago" Mr.. Keeley replied. Mr..
Green. attorney for CLAWS, came to me.
and said that II ] would ask the dis
trlct attorney to be easy on CLAWS he
would tell ME, where the book was. The
trunk full of books had dwindled 10 j
memorandum book Mr. Green said
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-27
RAY MORGAN SOLD
TO WASHINGTON

Danville. Va. July 26.-Ray Morgan.
conceded to be the best shortstop in
the league. played his last game with
Danville on the home grounds this at
Danville club to the Washington cinb
of the American League for $1,000,
Scout Duke Farrell has been In the
city for several days observing Nor
made, one OF $1,000 II delivered at the
end OF the season. or $500 II deliv-
cred at once. 1, Is understood he win
report Sunday Morgan has made a
splendid record. He played with the
Goldsboro team OF the Eastern Caro-
lima League last year. He has been
hitting over 800 and Is one Of the hest
base runners In the league.