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Evening journal., 1911-06-08
BLACKMAIL
SAYS STOKES
Girls Declared They Had to
Fight Hotel Man for
Their Lives
SENSATION PROMISED
WHEN THE TRIAL IS HELD
By The United Press.

Dl Inc AnlItu
NEW YORK. June s-That sensa-
tional developments which will shake
the white light set Of New York to its
center will follow the shooting of Will
liam 2. d. Stokes. millionaire club
man, horseman. newspaper publisher
and hotel proprietor by Lillian Gra-
ham and Ethel Conrad was the as
sertion of Miss Graham in police
court this afternoon. The couple had
been held without bail by Magistrate
Freshie for arraignment on Monday,
when Stokes is expected to be able TO
appear against them:
II intend to secure Congressman
Martin w Littleton to defend us If
possible" declared Miss Graham, "and
II we are drawn in the case will
have something TO say. Stokes asser-
tion that We tried TO blackmai him
out Of S25000 is utterly false. He tried
to choke me to death and Miss Con-
rad and myself fought for our lives" "
Although Miss Graham was perfect
ly calm and collected her companion,
Miss Conrad, was on the verge of
Mysteries before the court proceed
ings were ended. She agreed In every
detail with the Graham girls state
ments and contradicted Stokes story
made public through his attorneys
Both girls insisted that Stokes forced
himself on them and that they had
no appointment with him.
Ielephoned to Them.
when he telephoned to me, said
Miss Graham to Police Inspector Rus
sell Il disguised my voice and told
him ! was the maid and neither
7 nor Miss Conrad was in He said
he would come up anyhow We didn't
want him around us.
1T is merely an accident that we
had those revolvers.' We got scared
few days ago and bought them for
protection. When Mr. Stokes burst
into the Fat he stormed and ragged
and demanded letters he had written
me. ] told him to get out and he be-
came abusive. He was choking me
dreadfully when Ethel came to my
assistance Then I got hold Of the,
revolver and IL went off, ] don't know
how. It Just went off,"
Blackmnil, Says Stokes.
At Roosevelt Hospital. where
! Stokes is reported 10 be getting along
nicely, he repeated his story that the
girls had tried to blaclmail him out
of $25,000 This was the second at
tempt, he said, as a week ago Miss
! Graham came to his office and de-
manded $780, When he refused she
threatened to kill herself and pro-
duced little bottle.
81 told her TO 90 as far as she liked,
said Stokes "She walked to the cor
ner OF the office and then I got up anC
(, took the bottle away from her ! smell
ed IL and found that Il contained Co
logne, Then had her elected from the
office"
Torrance McManus, counsel for
Stokes said that he did not think that
Stokes would be able to prosecute for
at least ten days He said the million
aire had fully determined TO prose-
cute both girls for attempted murder
and that nothing would induce him to
relent
The police are puzzled regarding
the whereabouts of the letters which
Stokes was searching for. He refused
70 divulge their contents but II was
intimated that If they are found they
will be utilized as evidence when the
case is brought TO trial.
Evening journal., 1911-06-08
AIRsHIP HITS A POLE.
Engine at Once Exploded and Aviator
Was Killed.

By The United Press.
ROME, June S.--Aviator Paemonda
Maria met tragic death today in
sight of thousands who were watch
ing his fly in the Tiber River circuit
races. Marra's machine struck a
telegraph pole and the engine imme-
diately exploded setting fire to the
planes. The machine fell TO the
ground and Maria was buried under
the wreckage. He lived only a few
minutes after extricated. Maria was
leading in the race at the time of the
accident.
Evening journal., 1911-06-08
CHARGED WITH
POISONING TWO
BY The United Press.

BY The United Press.
BALTIMORE. June s.--Mrs. Ida
Brooks Cohen, a comely young wo-
man, and Morris Cohen, arrested yes
terday on the charge of killing with
poison, Ida Cohen's husband and Nor
ris's wife, we're shortly before noon
today held for the action of the Coro-
ner's jury, June IA.
Former Congressman Harry Wolf,
who appeared for the prisoners, said
unless the State agrees to an i'm
mediately trial Of the accused he will
ask for a writ of habeas corpus.
Evening journal., 1911-06-08
SAYS OUR SOLDIERS ARE FIT
BY The United Press

% II NHIITU TENo7
WASHINGTON. June S-Uncle
Sans soldiers are trim and At, ac-
cording to Major John Q. Tilson, rep
resentative-at-large from Connecticut.
who has just returned from the camp
at San Antonio
He is the only member of Congress
who had made an extensive inspection
OF the camp. He will fight against
the retention Of political army
posts" and for big mobilization sta
fi~re
Evening journal., 1911-06-08
TAFT GOES TO NEW YORK.

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
WASHINGTON. June S-President
Taft left here at s.15 o'clock today for
New York city. He will spend the
afternoon reviewing school children
and making several speeches in
Brooklyn. Tonight he will speak be-
fore the Cotton Seed Crushers' Asso-
citation in New York
Evening journal., 1911-06-08
YALE STUDENTS EXPELLED.
Defaced Private Property and In.
suited One OF the Professors.

BY The United Press.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. June s--Plead-
ing guilty to defacing public and
private property by painting insult
ing inscriptions regarding a professor
they did not like, three Sheffield Scien-
tihc School students were fined $50
and costs each in Police Court today
They were also expelled from the
school, They are:
George Phillips Orlady. Of Hunting
don, Pa. a son Of Justice Orlady of
the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (;
Robert Henry Lang, of this city, anc
John Francis MacElhinny, of Port
Washington. N. Y.
Evening journal., 1911-06-08
SAYS FORCEPS
WERE LEFT In Her
BY The United Press.

BY The United Press.
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.. June s.
Charging that DR.. Emery Marvel Of
this city, who conducts a private hos
pital, left a pair Of forceps sewed up
inside her abdomen after performing
an operation, Mrs. Eva Folsom, wife
OF Rev. J. z. r. Folsom. assistant
secretary Of the Baptist State Con-
vention, has instituted suit in the Su-
preme Court at Trenton for S35, 900
damages.
The operation was performed in
September, 1908. IN this city, where
ell the parties concerned live.
Evening journal., 1911-06-08

The government records Of 1909 show that
Of the sos companies reporting to the In.
terstate Commerce Commission. no less than
s47, operating 15e657 miles Of road and
carrying over half billion passengers went
through that year without single fatality
TO passenger or train accident.
Evening journal., 1911-06-08
PUTTING IN NEW CURVE.

Workmen Of the Wilmington and
Philadelphia Traction Company are re-
moving an old cross-over and putting
in a new curve from Fourth street into
Monroe street today.
Evening journal., 1911-06-08

At a recent sale ia New York city Of ths
library Of the late Miles NJ. O'Brien. banker
and president Of the board Of education. q
complete set of the signatures of the Presi.
dents Of the United States from George
Washington 70 William II. Taft was sold for
c1n0
Evening journal., 1911-06-08
MARKFT QUOTATIONS.

Reported daily by F. D. Lackey &
Co.. bankers and brokers, members
Philadelphia Stock Exchange. S43
Market st.
Evening journal., 1911-06-08

For 80 years Lydia r. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound has been the standard remedy for
female ills. No sick woman does justice to
herself who will not try this famous medicine.
Made exclusively from roots and herbs, and
has thousands of cures TO its credit.
Wgs Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women
H4sF to write her for advice. She has
guided thousands to health free of charge.
hddr~-r FFr- Fhi~ ~ivi,assc. Lvru. Mass
Evening journal., 1911-06-08

Sept. July Sept.
$50 1874 27a.
Evening journal., 1911-06-08

VANDALIA. Ill.-Hazel Schmidt
aWoke from a seven-weeks' sleep
long enough to eat breakfast and
then returned to her strange slum-
Der.
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-25
FOREIGN.

The Morning Post of London, says
there are isolated cases of the bu-
bonic plague at Glasgow and East
Anglea.
There is noticeable activity by the
Chinese government to stay the
spread of the plague, and sanitarf
measures are being strictly en-
forced in all the towns where few
weeks ago the disease was allowed
full swing. Instructions have been is
sued that every village burn its dead.
The shaft of the silver mine owned
by Cyrus w. Baker of Denver, at
Winnipeg, is now down fifty feet and
the ore is improving in value.
A special dispatch from ST. Peters.
burg says rumor is current that a
whole army corps of $4,000 men is
preparing to re-occupy Kulja. dis
trict of Chinese Turkestan.
Strained to the breaking point are
relations between Russia and China,
and Russia has notified Great Britain,
France and Germany of her intention
of making military display on the
Chinese frontier.
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-25
WASHINGTON.

All the developments now favor a
vote in the Senate on the Canadian
reciprocity agree -nent before adjourn
ment, March 4th.
In the court room of the United
States Court of Customs Appeals, the
recently established Commerce Court
held its first public session.
When the plans of the two battle
ships to be appropriated for by this
session of Congress are submitted for
final approval, it will be recommend
&c that the motive power be derived
fiom fuel oil exclusively.
DR.. Edwin Powell, a noted surgeon
of the Civil War and who was in
charge of clinical surgery at Rush col
lege in Chicago for several years, died
in Washington of heart disease.
The Supreme Court of the United
States found the mayor and certain
members of the council of Clay Center,
Kan, guilty of contempt of court 10.
destroying the subject matter of a liti-
CATION before it.
Representative Amos Lawrence AL
zen, who succeeded the late Speaker
i homas B. Reed as congressman from
the First district in Maine, is criti-
oally i'll with pneumonia and is not
expected to live.
President Taft's reciprocity agree
ment with Canada was ratified in the
House through the support OF an al
most solid Democratic vote. The Nc
Call bill, carrying the agreement into
effect, was passed, 221 to 80.
The Senate committee on agricul-
ture authorized a favorable repor
upon Senator GugSenheim's bill au-
thorizing the secretary of agriculturc
to enforce quarantine against impor
tations of potatoes affected with blight
and other potato diseases.
The United States Supreme Court
dismissed the suit of Clarence H. Ven
ner ct al, plaintiffs in error, VS.. the
Denver Union Water Company. the
Denver Water Company, the Farmers
Loan & Trust Company, defendants in
error, the ground for dismissal stated
by the court being want of jurisdic.
ton.
Enmeshed in an apparently hopeless
tangle over the joint resolution provid-
ing for the election OF United States
senators by direct vote. and in the
face of positive opposition from the
champions of the measure, the Senate
has appealed to President Taft to as
sist in getting night session in the
interest of dispatch of business.
Secretary Dickinson has given no
tee to the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company and the California & Atlantic
Steamship Company of the termina-
ton OF the existing arrangement
whereby those carriers are allowed 10
per cent of the total freight charge
CT goods transported between New
York and San Francisco via the Pana-
ma railroad.
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-25
GEN ERAL.

Fire destroyed the main warehouse
OF the Southern Cotton Oil Complain
at Granl. La. The loss is $150,0OO.
Joseph d. Rockefeller, cousin of
John d. Rockefeller, died at his home
II South Bend, Ind, at the age of 90.
The Tennessee Packing & Provision
Company, a s2,00O,OOO corporation of
Nashville, has been thrown into bank
ruptcy.
Z w. S. O'Brien, forty-two years old,
cne of the best known trainers of trot-
ting horses in the United States, died
at Waukegan, III.
Fire destroyed the Calumet ele-
Vator, a six-story structure, in Chica-
go, containing 100000 bushels of
grain, causing loss of 100000
Six nuns driven out of Portugal by
the Republican government which de-
throned King Manuel have arrived in
New York en- route to Baker City,
Ore.
The Full Grew" act of Arkansas
has been held to be constitutional bv
the United States Supreme Court. All
railroads in the state must carry full
crews.
Mrs. William A. Clark, wife of for
mer Senator Clark of Montana, was
successfully operated on for append.
cities in Roosevelt hospital in New
York. Senator Clark was at the hos
pital while the operation was being
performed
Charles F. Morek, professional,
though comparatively inexperienced,
aviator, was forced to dive into the
Hudson river with an aeroplane while
trying to fly from a point near the
New Jersey palisades to Central park
On Manhattan island. He narrowly
escaped with his life.
Seven persons lost their lives in
fire which destroyed the home of j. d.
Hardin in Sutton, w. Va Only Mr..
hardin escaped. the six remaining
members of his family and a little
girl who made her home with the Har-
dlns perishing in the flames Natural
gas caused fire.
The West no longer has monopoly
on irrigation. The agricultural East,
with its abundant anual rainfall, has
found it profitable to emulate the ex-
ample Of the West, and is learning the
value of irrigation. Even the swampy
lands OF the South are now being sue.
cessfuIly cropped through artificial ap-
plication of water.
To provide pure milk for New York
children the Sinking Fund Commis.
sion has authorized the leasing of
twelve sites for depots. The work of
distributing the milk supply is to be
under the jurisdiction of the Board Of
Health.
Danny Mcmahon, at one time
widely known pugilist, was found dead
ID his room in Detroit. He was thir-
ty-five years old The room was
found full of gas escaping from an
open jet. Coroner Burgess decided
McMahon's death was the result of an
accident.
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-25
SPORT.

Art Edenfield, wrestling champion
C Kansas, threw Jack Brauman of
Denver twice within an hour at Wich
ita.
Ad Wolgast. lightweight champion
has been matched to fight George
Memsic twenty rounds March 18th AT
Los Angeles.
Willie Gibbs of Philadelphia and
Tommy Dixon of Memphis, feather
weights, fought ten fast rounds to
draw in Kansas City.
At the end of twenty rounds of the
best fighting seen in Leadville, Colo,
in years, Referee Charles Boyne raised
the hand of Peter JensoH, the Bat
Ting Dane" of Denver, into the air.
thus signifying that he had defeated
kid Ross of New York.
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-25

try Peruna, and after using four be
ties can say was entirely cureds
Unable to Work.
Mr.. Gustav Himmelreich. Hochhsinn,
Texas, writes:
= For q number Of years I suffered
whenever took cold. with severe at
tacks Of asthma, which usually yielded
to the common home remedies.
Last year. however, suffered fon
eight months without interruption 70
that could not do any work at al.
Tho various medicines that wers pre-
scribed brought mo no relief.
After taking six bottles Of Peruna,
two of Lacupia and two Of Manalin. I
am free Of my trouble SO that can do
all my farm work again. can heart
Ny recommend this medicine to any
ono who suffers with this annoying
complaint and believe that they win
obtain good results"
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-25
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
OolNGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN

During the recent cold spell the tenn
perature has stood at twelve degrees
below zero at Cripple Creek Colo.
w. H. Corbett, president of the Will
lamette Iron Works of Portland, Ore.
one of the largest plants of its kind
on the Pacific coast, is dead.
Declaring persons guilty of small
thefts are unknown to the authorities,
citizens of Fort Lupton, Colo, are
planning a vigilance committee to
crive thieves out of town.
Southern Pacific train No. 10, east
bound, known as the China-Japan fast
mail, from San Francisco went into
the ditch one and half miles west
of Palisade, New. Several persons were
seriously injured.
Reports from the Pan Handle of Tex
as state that throughout north Texas
where peach and apple trees are in
blossom and vegetation of all sorts
has been green for two weeks, the
temperature touched freezing. Rail
way traffic is blocked.
The summer hotel at Moclips,
Wash, containing 1926 rooms, one-half
of which was washed into the sea,
probably will have to be abandoned,
as large part of the remaining wing
Is hanging over the water and may
iall with high tide.
The United States Army transport
Buford which will carry a cargo of
rovisions for the relief of the famine
victims in North China, will sail from
Seattle March 10th, according to an
announcement made by the relief
committee of the Seattle Commercial
Club
Using one of his hydro-areoplanes,
Glen Curtis alighted ON the water
alongside the armored cruiser Penn
sylvania, at San Diego, Cal, and was
Ioisted on board. Soon afterward the
aeroplane was dropped back into the
water and the aviator flew away to
his hangar on North Island.
Two hundred lawyers in all parts
oI the country acted as jury to de-
termine the proper fees TO be. allowed
attorneys in a Kansas case, and one
i'iIi Nhith Ff',''' WIN S't
$500: another firm that sought $780,
600 will receive $500, and third
who asked $4,000 will get what he
asked.
Twenty years after the crime was
committed, GOV. Cruce has honored
the requisition for James Bremen, a
wealthy farmer of Kiowa county,
Oklahoma, to be returned to Woods
county, Kansas, to stand trial for the
murder of Sam Woods, the founder of
Woodsdale, Kan, and pioneer OF
Stephens county.
That twenty-five million of the hun
dred million dollars rehabilitation
iund raised for the Gould lines would
he used to double track the Rio Grande
from Denver to Salt Lake was the
statement made at Salt Lake by a
hugh official of the Gould system.
The work, he added, would be tin
shed by 1915.
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-25
To Educate State Farmers.

Fort Collins.-Colorado's Agricultur
al college on wheels has started from
Fort Collins to carry education to the
farmers of the state Never before
has there been an attempt to send out
such a well equipped institute train
in the interest OF the farmers OF the
Nest as that prepared under the di-
rection of c. H. Hinnman. director Oh
institute of the college, and which has
started on a five weeks tour.
These exhibits occupy four cars. Ia
one of them women will find exhibits
ing; the department of domestic sci
ence showing how to cook food, how to
choose the proper cuts of meat, how
to decorate the home and to do other
things which will fall upon the wives
and daughters.
The department of animal husband
ry is CARRYING along one of its cham
pion hogs to show the farmer what
scientific feeding and proper care will
produce in this branch of the industry.
and the dairy department will show
what can be done by the proper handl-
ing of a COW with an exhibit of fifty,
eight pint bottles of milk, compared
to eighteen bottles from the ordinary
COW.
In the horticultural exhibits are
samples of fruit and vegetables, the
Of Df orchards and
gardens, and C. l.. Fitch, Colorado's
potato expert, will show what kind OF
potatoes can be raised in Colorado
sail, also his model potato cellar for
the storage OF spuds.
For the first time many Colorado
ans will have an opportunity TO see
the Grimm alfalfa. which promises so
much for the state, Two specimen
plants growing in pots are on the
train.
In the veterinary science exhibits ] 5
one of the most complete collections o.
tubercuar LESSONS prepared by DR..
F.. Kaupp, pathologist at the college.
and one of the most prominent Neter
inarans in the country. This exhibit
shows the effect of tuberculosis on the
various animals.
The department of irrigation engin-
eering has prepared, under the direc-
tion of F. d. House, head of the de
partment, complete reproduction, in
miniature, of bitches, head gates and
other apparatus for the carrying and
measuring of water on the farm, and
the department of mechanical engin'
eering will show examples of work in
wood and machinery construction done
by the students in that department.
In fact, every department of the
college, together with the school OF ag-
riculture, where the boys and girls OF
the lower grades can get practical
training for farm work, is represented
in the exhibits, comprising an agricul-
tural college in itself on wheels.
IN addition to the practicable ex-
hibits, there is an immense quantity OF
literature especially prepared to aid
the farmers to clear understanding
of everything shown on the car, and
also in following their own particular
industry.
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-25
Western Slope Heard From.

Grand Junction.-The Moffat tunnel
for which a bill has been introduced
III the Legislature providing for a
bond issue of s5,000,0OO to have the
work constructed by the state, will
meet with the violent opposition of
every commercial organization on the
Western Slope if the projectors of the
measure do not definitely include in
The bill clause that will forever pre-
vent the tunnel from being used for
the purpose of carrying Western Slope
waters to the Eastern Slope.
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-25
England. Oldest School.

A controversy hiss arisen in England
~ to which school has the right to
claim greatest age. There are two
schools which were founded in tho
early part Of the seventh century-ths
Kings school. Rochester. and the
Kings school, Canterbury. Justus. on
his appointment to the see of Roches-
ter in 604. made provision for a school
in connection with the cathedral. Au-
gustine established the Canterbury
school about the same time. ST. Pc
ter's at York dates back to the elsv.
enth century
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-25
Palisade Land High.

Grand Junction.-The high value of
Falisade peach land may cause the
Grand Mesa Coal Company to close
Its mine. 1t is hemmed in because it
has no road into Palisade from the
mountains to the north, and the
orchard land owned by Walter Stokes
lies between their mine and the town.
This strip of land, forty rods long and
sixty feet wide, which the mine own
crs want for road, is held at $4,000.
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-25
Western Slope Development Congress

Grand Junction. - The official call
for the Western Slope Development
Congress, to be held in Delta March
22nd and 23rd, has been issued by
President Horace T. De Long, and
copies will be sent to all chief men
OF Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico,
Arizona and Utah and to all CONNER
cial bodies, associations and clubs in
those states who are interested in the
upbuilding of the Western states in
general and the western slope in par
ticular.
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-25
Natural Gas at Tiff.

Iliff.-I. A. Collard who recently
struck flow of artesian water on
his farm adjoining Tiff at a depth of
4cO feet reports enough natural gas
to heat and light his buildings. Mr..
Collard and other property owners in
that locality are considering the or
ganization of company to bore a
Geep well in Tiff and believe that
there are good prospects for oil here.
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-25
COLORADO NEWS
Gathered from
All Parts of the State
Company Exonerated.

Trinidad.-The verdict of the coro-
ner's jury on the Cokedale explosion
has been made public and confirmed
the forecast made recently, exonerat-
ing the Carbon Coal and Coke Com
rany.
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-25
Cold in Gold Camp.

Cripple Creek.-At 12 o'clock Mon
cay the temperature was IL below
zero. 1t CEASED showing early in the
morning. For the first time this
winter it was necessary to use snow
plows on the upper Cripple Creek
road
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-25
Tho Test Of Intellect.

The Test Of Intellect.
Il wonder why Mrs. F1imgilt regards
her husband as stupid. He has been
very successful in business"
Perhaps" replied Mr.. Meekton.
hes like SO many of the rest of us
who can't possibly learn to keep the
score Of bridge game" 4
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-25
Cheap Form of Flu

Cheap Form of Fuel.
A Welsh rabbit may be cooked ON
an electrical chatting dish at an s1-
pense OF " cents for current
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-25
Doctors Said
Health Gone
Suffered with Throat Trouble

Mr. B. W.
D. b . mes,
ex = Sheriff
OF Warren
C o u n t y.
T . nnessee.
In . letter
fr o m Nc
n in n willie,
T . n nessee,
writes:
'T b q d
{ h r o q {
I r 0 U b 10
. n d h a d
tn r . e doc
tors treating
m e. A ! !
failed to do
m Q q n y
& o o d. and
p r opounced
m y health
gone. I con-