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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-29
Will Pass Out of Exist
ence, Jan. |, 1912.
Arrangements for Change Now
Being Perfected al Washington.
Is But One Of the Reforms OF the
New Code.

Washington, Nov. 2S.-In every state
OF the Union there will pass out of ex-
istence on January first, next, his
toric court practically as old as the
state itself. On that day II United
States circuit courts will cease to do
business at the 276 different places
they have been accustomed to meet.
Arrangements for this change are now
being perfected in Washington and
throughout the circuits.
The elimination of the circuit courts
was one of the reforms provided for
| in the new judiciary code, enacted by
Congress. on March 3, 1911, to become
| effective Jan. l, 1912. The code pro-
vides that after the latter date there
should be only the district courts. the
nine circuit courts of appeal and the
supreme courts The existence of the
circuit courts since 1891, when the cir
cult courts of appeal were created, has
| been regarded as expensive and super
| fluous.
The 90 circuit judges will not lose
| their jobs, as they will continue to
81. in the circuit courts of appeals and
help out in the district courts. All
the clerks of the circuit courts will
have their positions abolished. At the
same time restrictions will be placed
upon the amount that district court
clerks may draw as salary. Under a
special law the clerk of the district and
circuit courts in Eastern Kentucky
was entitled to $4,000 and fees for each
place in which either court sat. AS
each court sat in five different places
he was entitled to $4,000 a year If
the fees amounted to that much. 9th
er clerks were unusually favored by
special legislation. Hereafter il will
be impossible for clerk to receive
more than $500.
The passing away OF the circuit
Continued on Page Seven)
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-29
Must Go Inside
Or Be Elected,

Boston, Nov. ga street car con-
ductor may eject passenger who has
paid his fare if he refuses to go inside
the car or get off when the conductor
requests that the vestibule be cleared,
according TO a decision rendered. late
today. by the full bench of the supreme
judicial court. The court held that
while Il custom may exist which per-
mits passengers TO ride in the rear ves-
Thule of car, yet when conductor
notifies a passenger to get inside the
car or to get off that custom ceases
to be OF consequence.
The decision came up in the appeal
case of Norah A. Liversidge against
the Berkshire STREET Railway Co., who
had been awarded a verdict of $3.50 IN
the lower court for the death of her
husband who had been elected from a
car.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-29
Conditions and General Forecast.

Washington. Nov. 2S.-The indica-
tons are that the Lake storm will pass
down the St. Lawrence valley and be
attended by snow. Wednesday, in the
region of the Great Lakes, the Upper
Ohio valley. the interior of New York
and northern New England, followed
by fair weather in these districts,
Thursday. In all other parts of the
country the weather will be fair,
Wednesday and Thursday. The temper
azure will fall decidedly in the At
lantio states, Wednesday and Wednes-
daY night Storm warnings are dis
played on the Atlantic coast from Key
West to Passport. cold wave warn
ings are displayed in the Atlantic
states. The winds along the New Eng
land and Middle Atlantic cotsts will
be brisk and high west.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-29
Still Counting
Votes in Lowell.

Lowell, Mass, Nov. 2S.-Lowell, Tues
day, held its first primary election under
the new commission form of government
plan There were four candidates for
mayor, 81 for commissioner and So for
school committee. The addition of 5000
names of women to the lists of voters
caused the extension of the hours of vot
ing. so that the polls did not close until
9 o'clock in the evening. A very heavy
vote came out. Not single precinct
had succeeded in making any returns at
A NJ. and it is expected that no def
mite forecast of the result can be had
until long after sunrise
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-29
Wilson Goes Out
OF the Business,

Boston, Nov. 2s.-Darius Wilson OF
Foxboro, publisher of The Masonic
World, and known throughout the
country for his advertisements Offering
to organize Masonic lodges and initiate
members, retracted plea CT not guilty
and pleaded nolo contendere in the
United States circuit court, late today.
to charge of using the mails in a
scheme to defraud.
The charge had to do with Wilson's
offers of initiation sent through the
mail. Assistant United States District
Attorney Garland moved that the case
be placed on file, which was done. It
was explained that Wilson was so
years of age. in poor health and had
signed an agreement not to attempt to
organize Masonic lodges or initiate
members.
Similar indictments have been
brought against Wilson in Newark. ".
J.. and In st. Louis. Wilson forfeitinu
his bail In the latter city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-29
1T is STILL A PUZZLE.
Mystery of "Vermouth" Bottle and
Miss Tristann's Death Unexpl aimed.

New York, Nov. aS.-Who put bot
tie labelled WEYMOUTH but really
holding a disinfectant containing lys-
sol and carbolic acid, on the table be-
fore Alice Tristram, the Irish singer,
was the puzzle the coroner tried to
solve, today, at an inquest into her
death. The woman drank out of the
bottle last Saturday night, at the golf
house in Van CortIandt Park, and died
soon after.
Five business men who were drink
ing with the singer, the waiter and a
physician. called when the woman
dropped to the floor, have been sub
pcenaed as witnesses. The coroner
would like to know whether Miss Iris
tram herself found the bottle of dis
infectant in the kitchen and thought
it contained cordial or whether some
of her companions put it beside her.
The idea OF either suicide or murder
first entertained has given place tc
the belief that the woman died either
as the result-of her own mistake or a
clumsy attempt at practical joke.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-29
Special Session
A Certainty Says
Gov. Plaisted.

Governor Plaisted's attention was
called, Tuesday evening, by Journal
reporter to statement published in
Portland afternoon paper to the eff
feet that he changed his mind in re-
gard to a special session of the Legis-
lature and had about decided that no
special session would be held. This
statement was denied in unqualified
terms by Governor Plaisted. Said he:
THE same reasons exist now, which
existed when | first expressed my in
tentIon of calling a special session. l
have no reason to change my mind
but every reason to adhere to my orig
inal intention. made statement sew
eral weeks ago that ! should call a
special session and l stand by that
statement. The special session of the
Legislature will surely be called"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-29
The Stokes Case
Again Resumed.

New York, Nov. 2S.-W. F. D.
Stokes, the millionaire hotel man, was
put under renewed discrimination
today, when, after a two-days inter-
mission. due to the necessity of pick
ing a new juror to fill the place OF
one dismissed for talking indiseretely
about the case, the trial of Ethel Con-
rad and Lillian Graham, the two show
girls charged with attempting Stoke
life by shooting, was resumed.
Robert NJ. Moore the girls attorney,
questioned Mr.. Stokes upon letters he
had written to Miss Graham, the at
torney's purpose being to show by
Stokes testimony that instead of the
girl chasing him, as he alleged, he
was really in love with her The
most crushing part of your letter was
when you asked me 10 give your love
to Clarence" the attorney quoted from
one of Stokes letters, written in Chi
eago in 1906
THAT was a joke" explained the
witness. "Clarence was an old man
about 81 or 6S"
You joked with her throughout
the whole of that first year, when you
were trying to get her to visit you at
lexington"
Stokes was silent. other letters told
of stokes offering Miss Graham and
her sister, Mrs. Singleton, the use OF
his automobile, of sending her candy
of getting her a theatrical engage
ment. of giving her money and of be-
ing eager for her welfare"
Don't touch beer. wine or liquor,
he wrote. 1T will ruin your COM
nleyion,"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-29
Wholesale Muir
der Conviction.

Chicago. Nov 2s.-Four men We're
found guilty of murder in the first
degree and sentenced to death and two
boys were sentenced to life imprison-
ment by a jury. tonight, for the muir
der of a truck farmer on the outskirts
of the city, a month ago. The four
sentenced to death are Ewald and
Frank Shiblawaski, A. Philip Sommer-
ling. and Thomas Schultz. The two
sentenced to life Imprisonment are
Frank Kita and Leo Suchomski, both
16 years old
Fred w. Gruelzow was robbed and
slain in spite of his duplication for
life because he had a wife and baby
to support. All six confessed.
In his final plea for death penalties.
Assistant States Attorney Edward S.
Day made an unique closing argument
for the prosecution. 1t consisted sole
ly of excerpts from admissions made
by the boys to the police and on the
witness stand without comment.
The story he patched together was
in effect as follows:
Gruelzow nearly had reached the
city with load of garden produce
when the six boys set on him. armed
with two revolvers, two butcher
knives, club and a hammer. He
alighted from his wagon and was
struck down with the club. He plead
ed for his life on. his knees, offering
the boys all his possessions saying
he had a wife and a baby a month
old at home. The answer of the boys
was to beat him into Inconsistencies
with the club and hammer. After the
man was unconscious he was stabbed
four times in the neck with the butch
er knives. the body was dragged into
a nearby thicket, a club was rammed
down his throat and several bullets
were fired into the body.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-29
Jury Has the
Patterson Case,

Denver, Col, Nov. 2S.-In order that
the jury may retire, tonight, TO con-
slider n verdict in the case of Gertrude
Gibson Patterson, charged with the
murder of her husband. Judge Alton
ordered a special session of the court.
All the afternoon until dusk in the
dingy little court room the defendant
sat, an elbow on a table and her cheek
resting on her hand, eoncealing her
coutenance from the spectators, her
fingers stretched across her eyes, shut
ting out the sight of Prosecutor Ben
son, as he painted the killing of Pat
terson as the deliberate climax of a
completely selfish life
Attorney Benson closed an impas-
stoned arraignment of the defendant
by exhibiting the coat worn by Pat
terson when he was shot. He pointed
to the predetermined hole in the back
and gave it to the jurors for closer
examination.
Attorney Hilton, for the defence,
painted his client as the unfortunate
victim of two men. He asserted many
of the assaults which Patterson was
said by witnesses to have made on his
wife would have justified her in
killing him.
At the night session Attorney Hill
ton finished his argument for the de-
fence. An hour was consumed in re-
ply by the prosecutor and the case
was given to the jury at $40 o'clock
Shortly after 10 o'clock Judge Alton
ordered the Jury locked up for the
night and said he could not receive a
verdict before o'clock, tomorrow
morning.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-29
THE WEATHER.
RAlN-SNOW-COLDER.

Washington, Nov. 2S.-Forecast for
northern New England: Rain, chang
ing to snow and much colder, with a
cold wave, Wednesday; Thursday, fair;
brisk and high west winds. Southern
New England: Clearing and much
colder with a cold wave. Wednesday,
Thursday, fair; high west winds.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-29

Preliminary steps were taken. Tues
day evening. in Portland, toward the
formation of Maine branch of the
American Peace Society. James l..
Trion, the New England secretary, was
present and a committee representing
different sections of the State was Sc
leeted to nominate list of officers
and incorporate the society.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-29

Boston, Nov. 2S.-The official tabu-
lation of the vote at the last state
election was completed, today, by the
Executive Council, and showed no ma
terial change from the returns on the
night of the election, the official piur
ality of Governor Foss being S102. Ro-
bert Luce. the Republican candidate
for lieutenant g~Yernor. received a
plurality of 41bl.
The constitutional amendments au-
thorizing the use of voting machines
and the taking of land and property
for streets were adopted by 1881 and
99215 majorities, respectively.
The vote for all candidates for gov
ernor was as follows:
Eugene N Foss, Dem, IL, s7s
Eugene n. Foss, Dem. Progress
sive, 3s,1so
Eugene n. Foss, no designation, 6,75e
Total Foss vote, 214.SS7
Louis A rockingham, Rep, 2O6, 7s5
James F. Carey Socialist, 1855
Frank n. Rand, Prohibition, 3,46l
Dennis McGoff, Socialist Labor, 49,
Total vote, 44o. or
Total vote in 1910, 40 S3l
Foss' plurality, $40.
Lieut.. Governor:
Robert Luce. Rep, 204, 46.
David L.. Walsh. DEM, 200. 81
Walter S. Hutchins, Socialist 1906!
William G, Merrill, Prohibition, $50
Patrick Mulligan, Soc Labor, 3l2:
Luce's plurality, AIS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-29
Boston Forecast.

Boston. Nov. 2S.-Forecast: Wednes-
day, generally fair: colder. brisk west
erly winds: Thursday, fair and colder
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-29
7-20-4
loo. CIGAR

Factory output-upwards OF 100 00g ally
Largest selling brand of I0cs cigars i'm the
world.-Fnctory. Manchester. N. Fl. DIFF
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-29

London, Nov. 2s.-Overnight con-
sideration of Sir Edward Grey's
CONTINUED on Page Twelve.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
CONNAUGHTS ARE
 COMING TO CANADA

London, August 12.-(Special.)-The Duke and Duchess of Connaught will go abroad for a month, returning in Septem- Der to pay a visit to the King and Queen at Balmoral.
 Their royal highnesses are already mak- Ing preparations for their departure for Canada on October 6. Extensive outfits are being prepared for them and for Princess Patricia. who intends to avail herself of the facilities for tobogganing. skiing. curling and skating, which are the chief pastimes of the winter season in Ot- tawa and Montreal.
 Her royal highness became expert at these games while visiting her sister in Sweden.
 The Duchess of Connaught Is fond of golf and has played a good deal in the early part of the season at Bagshot, where there is short private course. As the daughter of the famous "Red Prince" the duchess was a bold and fearless rider, and she will probably be seen in the sad- dle frequently in the dominion, as she is taking out several horses.
 Under the regime" of royal duke government house. Ottawa will be a cen-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
Communicated
Manslayer Carnival Begins With New Regulated Saloon
Sheffield Whites and Negroes Already the War Path With Knife and Pisto-Saloon Opposition Presents Few |. Pointers Regarding the Whisky Campaign

learns about them the more alarmed and disgusted they become. It must hurt and we respectfully decline the saloonists prayer to please let up.'
 Who Furnishes Funds.
 Who is furnishing and has furnished the fund to carry on the expensive campaign the saloonists have for some months been engaged in? Who fur nished the preliminary money for the purpose of securing names to the pc tition for the election? Who paid the agents who canvassed the county se- curing these signatures on the prom carefully avoided a discussion of the provisions of the Smith Liquor bill? Are the saloonists willing to make the list of the subscribers public?
 Will They Answerf
 The saloonists spent five hundred dollars ($500) in propounding the Sa- loon Opposition league certain ques- tions. We answered them and pro- pounded a few Can the saloonists an- swers Will they answers
 The Warrior Barbecue.
 The citizens of Warrior arranged q barbecue and addressed an invitation to the Saloon Opposition league and the saloonists. The saloonists replied they didn't want to agitate the people Three thousand people who wanted tc be agtated gathered and heard tht Smith bill shot to pieces. Where wal the 'Fleeing Sauadron?"
 Pertinent Questions.
 The hog will return to his wallow and the dog to his vomit, but will sen sible men, having shaken off the putrid filth of the saloon, with all it's degrad ing, debauohing influence, with its rec ord of vice, crime, defiance of all law and decency, again open their arms to it's vicious, insidious and iniquitous evils? The saloon has been tried it has been weighed In the balances ant found wanting. The monstrous, gi gantic whisky trusts and brewing in. terests of the north are spending thou sands of dollars In an effort to bring back all these evils. Do they care fol the welfare of our community? Dc they love your boys, or care for thell future? Does any sane man doubt thai their sole object Is the filthy profits they expect to wrench from our peo. pie? They expect a harvest of millions of dollars. and what will be your har. vest? Degradation, tears, widows an6 orphans begging for bread, drunker fathers and brothers, a debauched ant degraded electorate. imbeciles, crimi nals, drunkards. Let us stand firm if the face of this battle array of the whisky interests of the north, let us strike them with all the vigor of man. hood, as did our valiant fathers in tho days of the eos. In the language oi Stonewall Jackson, We will give then the bayonet" at the ballot box.
 SALOON OPPOSITION LEAGUE. c. P. BEDDOW, CHAIRMAN.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

Sheffield, Ala, has just instituted
 he new, well regulated saloon. On August 10. Cole Holland was severely but by Schockley. On the same day
 negro ran amuck in Sheffield and httacked white man with a butcher knife. All were drunk or drinking, on
 iquors from the well regulated sa
 oors. Of course these liquors were
 he pure food kind. required by the Fmiia bill. All made from cane from
 nc sugar cane favored with juniper.
 The Fleeing "Squadron."
 The saloonists write the people that he saloon provisions of the Smith bill lre things of beauty and a joy forever.
 f 1t Is, why doesn't Victor Torinni, in th9rge of the fleeing squadron" put
 legal Adviser Shapiro, Dr. Elkourie, seon Friedman, Benjamin Leader and Ihe other members of the fleeing squadron up before the public in joint discussion.
 Publish the Names.
 If the saloonists are fighting the blind tiger, in order to reduce the con- |sum ption of liquor, why do they fear to accept our challenge to publish the names of subscribers to their fund |hlong with names of subscribers to |ours. We charge that the whisky in |te"r sts are assisting in financing the light of the saloonists. We will pay Tor publishing list of their subscrib- |ers under oath of their chairman. Who Wish the Saloon. C, r.e. to the headquarters of the Sa- |loon Opposition League and we will |show on the saloonists petition for this |election the names of citizens of this bounty who have been notoriously |cha ged as violators of the prohibition |lavs. of men whose places have been |raided, of men who have been placed lin jail for violating liquor injunctions. I've will show you the name of Wray, land many other equally well known |citizens. Come and have a look and then decide who is fighting the blind tigers
 Remember the Peerless. Do you remember the Peerless saloon with its seventeen murders, the open |saloons in every block, the drunkards upon the streets, the whisky bottles found in the possession of negroes with pictures of nude women upon them, the criminal assaults committed by ne- groes, the disorganized condition of labor? All these existed during the times of open saloons If you want these conditions to return, vote for the open saloons. the thirty rum hotel and restaurants, the whisky corporations and the whisky excise trust.
 The Smith Bill
 The saloonists in a page advertise ment ask why we will continue to as- sault the Smith Liquor bill. The prin- cipal reason is that the Smith Liquor bill is the platform upon which the saloonists stand and it's features are so iniquitous that the more the public
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
SOUTHERN RAILWAY

offers very low round trip fares to WASHINGTON, RICHMOND, NOR FOLK. August 10. Consult Ticket Anent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

ter of magnificent hospitality. such as ob- tained in the days when the Duchess of Argyll was hostess there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
WANTS FEMALES
 AND SOME BIRDS

Constantlnople, August 12.-(Special.) J. Ex-Sultan Abdul Hamid has evidently completely recovered from his recent se- rious illness.
 In a letter addressed to his brother the reigning Padishah Mehmed ", he asked him to be SC good as to send him a num- Der of female slaves and a quantity of birds. Abdul was always exceedingly fcnd of birds, especially pigeons, and in 1-.t seclusion at Yildiz-Kiosk used to spend hours in their company.
 The kindly Mehmed readily compiled with the wish of his banished brother, and a whole wagon full of women and birds have just been dispatched to Sal onica.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

Almost as Slow as Nature Gibbs-I noticed you were late at the theatre last night. l suppose your wife spent the deuce of a time putting on her hat
 Dibbs-No; putting on her hair.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1911-11-09
Texas Industrial Congress

Dallas. Texas, October 80. -
The Texas Industrial Congress
will hold It's third annual CON
yention in Dallas on December
20 The big feature of the meet
/ ing will be an exhibit of SAMPLES
/ of corn and cotton raised by the
men. women, boys and girls who
have competed for the SO. 900 lu
prizes offered for the b,st
yields of those crops. The prizes
are deyided as follows. For the
best combined yield Of corn and
cotton on ten acres OF each first
piize s., 500: second 81. 500. third
$3.50 fourth $500. fifth $3.50. and
ten prizes OF 500 each for the
ten next best results. For the
best combined yields from Two
acres of corn and two acres OF
cotton, first prize $1,000. second
$3.50: third $500. fourth $3.50. and
ten other prizes Of 500 each for
the next ten best results. An
OF these prizes will be- paid in
gold. The average yield Of the
fifty leading contestants is
40 37-lO0 bushels OF corn and
/ BIZ bales of cotton per acre.
Some of the contestants have
secured a yield Of over 100
bushels Of corn and Of more than
two bales Of cotton per acre.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1911-11-09

GRAND SPECIAL. PREMIUM
To the place sending the biggest list OF sub
soribers outside OF Lubbock county,
$500 in cash.
To the place sending in the next biggest list
OF subscribers. $3.50 in cash.
To he place sending in the next biggest list
of subscribers, $50 in cash.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1911-11-09

The great want of this world
is men; men who are honest,
sound from center % circum-
ference. true % the hearts core.
men who will condemn wrong IN
friend or foe. IN themselves as
well as others. men whose con
sciences are as steady as the
needle 10 the pole: men who
stand for the right If the
Heavens tOtter and the earth
falls: men that never flag nor
finch. men that have courage
without shouting. men IN whom
the currents of everlasting life
run still, deep and strong; men
who DO not cry or spoil their
voices b. be- heard On the streets
bat will not fall or be- discour-
aged tll Judgment D. SET on
earth men who viii not De-, men
who are NOT too lazy b. work nor
200 proud 90 boz poor men who
hold their places and keep them;
men who are willing % eat what
they have paid for Home Cir
II.