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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07
Police Officer John TIsue.

The fifteenth in number for the
state, was the first witness called this
morning. He testified to the circum-
stances attending the arrest of Sam
ueis on the night of the murder, say
ing that when Samuels was told he
did the shooting that he replied,
You'll have to prove it, On the way
to the station Samuels attempted to
jump from the patrol wagon.
Police Officer Barney Conn saw
the defendant on the night of his ar.
rest. He was then asked by Assist
ant Prosecutor Weber to identity the
letters found on the person of the
accused, and the weapon found under
the bridge.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07

FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES.
keokuk Aerie. No. 6s3-Meets first
and third Wednesday of each month at
Eagles hall, 523 Main Visiting broth
ers cordially invited. Geo. j. D. Salzer,
w President; C. A. Noakes, secretary.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07
He Eel Dead.

PARIS, June Maurice Bouvier
former president of France and later
foreign minister, dropped dead today
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testimony for Defense

When the Jurors had taken their
seats. Judge Hamilton announced
that the rule" would be enforced
on the witnesses and they would be
required to retire from the court,
room.
The following witnesses for the de.
Tense were sworn:
DR.. Coffey, VIM. Neil, G. Chaser,
VIM. Coleman, Jas. Applegate Sam.
uels, R. E. Strohneier DR.. F. Brown,
Chas Buss, Harvey Samuels, Mark
Hesbacher, Ben Grow, Robert Rey-
nolds, Mrs. Robert Reynolds, Miss
May Chambers, James Means, Mrs.
George Adams, D.. F. o. Jackman,
of Bloomington, III
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07
William Neal.

William Neal. who lives on the
Canal road. had lived in Keokuk %
years. He had known Joseph Sam
uels for 90 years and was present
when Samuels fell from building at
Eighth and Des Moines streets. Wit
ness picked Samuels up when he fell
and placed him on some boards. TIE
distance of the fall was / 4 or Is feet;
Samuels complained of his head and
shoulders; he was suffering and bleed
ing all over and cried ooh my head
and shoulders Sometimes he would
answer questions and sometimes he
would not talk. Witness had Samuels
taken to his home.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07
Afternoon Session.

A half crowded courtroom of spec
tators witnessed the resumption IF
the Samuels trial at o'clock this at
ternoon. A keener degree of interest
was manifested since the testimony
for the defense was to be begun.
Twenty witnesses have been sub
poenaed for the defense.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07
B. P. O. ELKs.

Keokuk Lodge, No. 106-Meets first
and third Thursday nights at Elks
hall. Gibbons opera house block, Sixth
and Main streets. Club rooms open
daily. Visiting brethren cordially In
vited. w. H. Reimbold, E. R.; Leroy
j. Wolf. Secretary.
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tied as the one that had been used In
shooting Essie Samuels.
Prosecutor Craig offered the revol-
yer In evidence, which was objected to
by the defense on the ground O. in.
sufficient Identification and that there
had been ample time for some one to
have left a weapon at the place where
Mrs. Samuels was killed. This objec.
ton was overruled and the weapon
was admitted as an exhibit in the
case.
The letter supposed to have been
written by Samuels was admitted II
evidence over the objection of the de
Tense, which questioned its genuine
ness and handwriting.
The state then offered the 9 loaded
cartridges marked exhibit 2, and the
six empty shells and bullets in evi
dence. which were admitted ove- the
objection by defense.
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Adjourned Until 2 O'Clock.

Judge Hamilton continued the trial
until O'Clock in the afternoon. In
excusing the jurors until that hour he
admonished them not to talk of the
case among themselves or with others,
or to permit any one to approach them
concerning the case. The jurors We're
instructed to keep their minds open
and form no conclusions until the
case was finally submitted. With this
admonition they were excused to the
hour indicated
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07
The State Rested.

At this juncture, the state rested.
Attorney Hartzell said he was not
prepared to proceed with the defense
Immediately, not having anticipated
that the state would close SO soon,
and asked that he be allowed reas-
enable time in which to arrange to
proceed with the testimony for the
defense.
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t>RAIEkNAL CARDS
MASONIC.

Hardin Lodge No. 2s.-Holds Its reg.
ular monthly meeting the second
Monday evening of each month.
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Puckachetuck Lodge No. 43, meets
every Friday evening at o'clock.
L. e. Witch. N. G.; Geo. ". I'M
mesart, Permanent Secretary.
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Puckechtack Encampment, No. {.
meets first and third Thursday even
ings of each month. VIM. c. Kun
me-, Scribe
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-08

1t often happens that the longer
family tree the more shady it Ia as
we'll
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-08

too. When the fight was over and afterward, when
some order came out Of the chaotic hell, this re-
port was turned in by General Sykes The
Twelfth and Fourteenth attacked by over
whelming numbers The ranks were decimated,
and Major Cltz severely if not fatally In
jured. Around his fate, still shrouded in mys-
terry, hangs the painful apprehension that a ca
reer NOBLE sodiery, so brave, has termfn-
ated on that field whose honor he CALAMITY
upheld"
Major Clitz went on the list of the dead and
what was left of his regiment mourned him as
few soldiers mourned
Suitable orders issued lamenting the death
of this hero of Cerro Gordo and Gaines Mills, but
before the period of the real mourning was over,
though the official kind had been over for months,
the dead came to life again Major Cltz had
been shot through both legs and in one or two
other places, but on his showing few signs Of
life the Confederates made prisoner of him and
sent him to Libby.
Major Clitz paroed. When he went back
into the service again and when the war was
over he put in twenty years campaigning on the
plains. In 1885 he retired after nearly half a
century of service, and went to live in Detroit
Mich Two years later his old command with
which he had stood in the bullet storm at Gaines
Mills passed through Detroit on its way to take
station at the posts of the great lakes There
were not many then in the Twelfth who were in
it in the old days, but it the same outfit with
the same old tattered reglmental banners.
Major (then GeneraD Clitz met the command
and old memories stirred him to tears The
Twelfth cheered it's old officer and then Detroit
left behind
Was it the stirring of old memories or what
was it? His old comrades in arms had been gone
but little while when Major Clitz went to the
railroad station from which the train bearing the
soldiers pulled out, and there purchased a rail.
road ticket for lake city which held a garrison
of United States troops From the hour of the
purchase of that ticket no one has been found.
soldier civilian, to say that he has ever seen
Major Henry B. Clitz. The army records give in
detail the story of his gallantry in battle and at
the end Of the shining record are these words
"Mysteriously disappeared in the year 1888"
There mystery of disappearance in the
case of Brigadier General Jasper A. Maltby He
died as the result of wounds received in action
His widow who survived him many years and who
died at st. Luke's hospital in Chicago held the
American flag and her husbands memory as the
most cherished things in life. Neither was ever
long absent from her mind
How many men are there today bar few old
soldiers, to whom the name Jasper A. Maltby
would mean anything unless it were coupled as
is the above with some specific information?
Yet this man Jasper A. Maltby was chosen by
General Grant. the advice of Mcpherson and
Logan, to lead. with his single regiment the most
desperate enterprise at the siege of Vicksburg
and, as some historians have it, one of the three
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-08


where in some condition s+iu hos ,os. T., h,
spark OF the spirit of life which moved him to
soldier deeds
necently brigader general of the regular
service many years retired, came to Washington
III tne IooDy OF hotel he met veteran as griz-
zled ana wr1nlled as he. but still of an upright
physical bearing. The general looked at the
man moment actually aghast and then with
words that came out in the disorder of route
step gasped:
John heard you were dead, l would as
have thought of meeting Clitz."
The two had been subaterns in Clitz's regi-
ment during the Civil war and after, and had
IoVed him 1t was perhaps the flashing thought
OF an anniversary of a disappearance at hand
that sent the returned soldiers thought to Major
Clitz when in the lobby of Washington hotel
he met the former comrade, who he had heard
was dead. The army archives bear stranger
records than that of this of General Henry
B. Clitz-he was only major, however, when he
won distinction by his gallantry. 1t is twenty
three years ago that Major Clitz was lost.
Twenty-three years, but a may be found
after twenty-three years.
Major Henry B. Cltz Twelfth infantry u S.
A., dead and buried and was alive again.
was lost, and-the other word that should natur
ally fit here is either yet to be supplied or for
ever is to remain unwritten. There are scores
of soldiers today old soldiers-but once soldier
always a soldier-who, in the memory of what
they may again clasp this side of the grave the
hand of Comrade Clitz.
Henry B. Clitz of Michigan entered West Point
in the year 1S41, graduating four years after
He schoolmate of Grant, Mcclellan, Sheri
dan and Burnside. Cltz went into the Mexican
war and won praise the field and a brevet
rank afterward for conspicuous gallantry at Ger
70 Gordo. Clitz a fighter. He proved this
fact every time he had chance, and during his
forty-fve years of service he had chances in
plenty.
When the Civil had been for time
Clitz found himself major of the Twelfth regu-
lars He transferred to that outfit from the
Third another fighting regiment. 1t came along
toward the time Of Mechanicsville and Gaines
Mills. The Twelfth and the Fourteenth ly
ing pretty close together. When the Gaines Mills
battle and wars hurricane at it's
height the Twelfth and the Fourteenth were given
a position to hold The two regiments were at
tackled by overwhelming numbers but the
bers weren't overwhelming for a long time
There wasn't any retreat in the makeup of those
two regiments of regular infantry. The wave of
battle simply had to come down them and
engulf them Afterward when General Sykes
wrote report about the Twelfth and Fourteenth
and the fight that they put up he said the ranks
of the Twelfth were "decimated." General Sykes
had probably never studied English Lessons for
English People" Unless things have changed,
decimated the cutting out of one in ten.
This is the way the Twelfth was "decimated." 1t
went into the fight with 40 men; came out with
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-08
Poor Woman Discovers 100000
in Old Trunk.
Bonds and Securities Had Been Lying
There for Thlrty-tWo Years
Steps Taken to Distribute
Money to the Heirs.

San Francisco.-Hidden in the bot,
tom of an old trunk which for 80
years has been knocked about in San
Francisco and Marin counties, a for
tune estimated at 100000 in Mexican
government bonds and securities has
been recovered in the home of Mrs.
Therese Louise Janson at Mill Valley.
In the probate department of the SUI
perior court Mrs. Janson petitioned to
reopen the estate Of her husband.
Charles j. Janson to whom the great
wealth belonged, in order that the
first steps may be taken to collect the
money and distribute it according to
law, between the aged widow and her
fiye daughters.
In response to this petition Judge
j. V. Coffey has appointed David
Craelius of Mill Valley, son-in-law of
the widow. administrator Of the es-
tate, and has authorized him to begin
collection.
Besides the widow who is now sew
enty-one years old, and who lives in a
modest cottage in Mill Valley, her
daughters, Mrs. L. Lindsey, 324 Clip
per street, San Francisco; Mrs. d.
Craelius, Mill Valley; Mrs. Ebba Hill
bon. Boiinas, and Misses Elizabeth
and Elm Janson Of Mill Valley, are
heirs to the unexpected find.
Charles J. Janson died in this city
February 2, 1879, leaving what his
widow and daughters thought small
estate, all of which he disposed of by
will. Mrs. Janson was named execu-
trix and within the proper time dis
tributed what she supposed was the
entire estate of her husband.
AT that time she discovered among
her dead husbands papers the Mexi-
can stocks and bonds. but was told
that they were worthless. Believing
this to be true, she cast them aside
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-08
FORTUNE IN GARRETT

and gave no thought to the documents,
merely keeping them as mementoes.
For many years after Janson's death
his family lived in this city and the
securities rested in a trunk. When
Mrs. Janson moved to Mill Valley, a
decade ago, in order to be close to
one of her married daughters, she took
the trunk with her and it has occupied
a place in the garnet of her home ever
since.
Recently she CHANGED to mention
the old papers while talking with q
friend. Curiosity caused the friend
to ask the privilege of examining the
bonds. From their dusty hiding
place they were brought forth. and
the friend began an investigation, with
the result that he discovered they
were evidences Of just Indebtedness
owing by the Mexican government to
Charles Janson.
After a family conference it was de-
cided that Craelius should take the
matter in hand He consulted with
Attorney Rufus G. Thayer of San
Francisco and the opening of the old
will case is the result
Janson had seen much service in
the employ Of the Mexican govern
government about 40 years ago. But
it was not until 1863 that the first of
the bonds were executed in his favor.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-08

Y the records of the
war department appears
the name of Henry b.
Clitz, who was a major
in the regular service.
and who rose to the rank
of a brigadier general OF
volunteers while in the
Union army during the
Civil war. Old army Of
ficers remember Clitz
well, but possibly mil
lions of civilians have
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-08
Wins A. 3. Degree at Barnard, but
Finds It Extremely Difficult to Sc
cure Work as Teacher.

New York.-After having surmount-
ed almost insuperable difficulties in
obtaining her A. B. degree last June,
Miss Margaret Hogan, the only blind
student Barnard has ever had, finds
that she did it only to encounter
others. The difficulties of equippipg
herself for work have given place to
those of finding it.
Immediately after her graduation
Miss Hogan began correspondence
with principals of schools in the west,
as she hoped to become located there
as teacher. She has found, how
ever, that her inquiries were late, as
all the vacancies are reported filled.
Her hope now is to give tutoring in
some of the subjects she studied at
Barnard-English, Latin, German,
French and history.
Miss Hogan became blind at the
age of five after an Illness. She was
left an orphan when seven years old
by the death of her father, and lost
her mother seven years after that. All
her education up to tbs time of enter
ing Barnard was obtained at the New
York Institution for tsa Blind, at Ninth
avenue and Thirty-fourth street.
While she was studying at Barnard
Miss Hogan attended lectures along
with another student who acted as
her secretary. This student TOOK
notes and afterward read them TO Miss
Hogan Miss Hogan then wrote out
embossed type. Her essays and ex-
ercises were written on a typewriter
such as people with normal vision
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-08

Their dates show that for the next
seven years he had distributed to him
large blocks of bonds, some of which
are war issues and others for differ
ent services.
Janson did not conceal his posses
sion of the bonds, but, like the widow
at the time of his death, he did not
consider them worth much, principally
because in those days Mexico was con-
tinually torn by revolutions. However,
he kept them and passed them on to
his heirs at his death for what they
were worth.
During all of the years they have
been in the possession Of the Janson
family no interest has been demanded
from or paid by Mexico and it is this
accumulation that makes up large
share Of the fortune.
Just as soon as the necessary legal
formalities here are concluded, Crae-
Illus will proceed to Mexico and pre-
sent the securities for payment. Since
there is no flaw in any of the docu-
ments, it is expected they will be paid
without demur.
There will be some additional delay
in Craelius starting south because Of
the fact that all of the papers in the
Janson estate were destroyed in the
earthquake of 1906. Many of these
will have to be restored from copies
or from memory in order that there
will ho IN, h.
ceedings, which will bring to several
families now in modest circumstances
unexpected wealth.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-08
Blind Girl Seeks Position

use. Sometimes Miss Hogan took
notes herself.
Miss Hogan was able to take her
course through the aid of a scholar
ship obtained by one of the principals
of the New York Institution for the
Blind, while the cost of her secretary
was borne by New York state. The
state makes an allowance of $500 a
year for a secretary for each blind
person studying at a college. At the
beginning of Miss Hogans fourth year
it seemed as If it would be impossible
for her to complete her course be-
cause of lack of funds. The members
of the senior class at Barnard took
the matter in hand and raised $3.50,
which enabled Miss Hogan to con-
tinue
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-08
FAVOR WOMAN COOKS AT SEA
Experiment on Pacific Coast Ships
Meets With Satisfactory Results
Paid More Than Men.

San Francisco-Woman cooks have
been installed on several coastwise
vessels, and the experiment is report
ed successful. Capt. Henry w. Crosby
of tug and barge company is profuse
in his praise of the woman cooks.
They're SOBER" he said, land make
better bread. Then there isn't any
probability Of mutiny. The gallays
are kept much cleaner and the sailors
and passengers alike appear to be bet
ter satisfied with the home cooking"
Members of the petticoated sea cook
force are being paid IS per month
more than the man cooks.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-08
dents in New York City streets dur
ing the last ten months.
Patriotic Chickens.

Mountain View, Cal.-Patriotism to
the ultimate degree is exemplified In
new breed of hens now Haunting the
national colors at the poultry farm
of DR.. l. G. Royte here. Bright red
of head, pure white of body and indigo
blue of tail, the bowls came into the
world short time ago. There are
several of the varihued birds and DR..
Royte asserts that the extraordinary
plumage is the result of long expert.
mental observation. He has named the
new breed the patriot"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-08
Street Cars Still Favored
Demand for Service In New York
City Has Doubled In Last Ten
Years-Autos Kill Ninety.

New York.-The annual statistical
reports of the New York departments
convey the information that 10000
600 persons rode on the city's car
lines during the last year-twice as
many as in 1901.
The health department reports show
11,195 births. as compared with 6,571
ten years ago.
Deaths and marriages show small
increases. The actual death rate has
declined from 20.2 to 10 per thousand.
Ninety persons were killed and S55
injured in automobile and cab acct
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-08
Chicago Man is Also Ordered to Give
His Waees-Judee VIII Deter
mine Christmas Gifts.

Chicago.-Sentenced to walk the
floor for two hours each night with his
baby In his arms, was the fate of Pat
rick Knight, arraigned in the court
of domestic relations the other day,
on complaint of his wife, who charged
non-support.
When Judge SABBATH saw Mrs.
Knight with the baby in her arms he
ordered the husband to take the child.
knight took the baby. while the
mother talked with the judge.
The baby's hands stole up and car
essed the fathers face. He smiled.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-08
Walk Floor With His Babv

The wife turned to look, and smiled.
too.
That's betetr." said the Judge to
Knight "1'll dispose of this case right
now. Knight, l sentence you to go
home with your wife and walk the
floor with the baby two hours every
night from now until December 20.
Besides that you will turn your wages
over to your wife every pay day.
On December 20 you will come here.
and you and l will discuss the kind
of Christmas presents you are to buy
for your wife and baby"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-08

more a m l ! | ar V
known In the darker
days of the country's
history as the Wash
burns Lead Mine
Regiment" Maltby's
name was brought
back not long ago
sharply to memory
by the death of his
widow in st. Luke's
hospital, Chicago. She
was a little snow-hair-
ed woman who had
borne life's burdens
for just the time al
lotted by the Psalm
list. During the days
that this woman lay
Ill at the hospital of
the Beloved Physi-
clan. if her eyes wan
dered about the walls
of her room, it is
probable that for the
first time in many
years when within
any room chosen by
her as an abiding
place, they failed to
rest upon the folds of
an American flag.
The stories of Gen.
erals Clitz and Malt
by were stories of
sterling patriotism, of
action and of wounds
received in the dis
charge of duty. Mys-
terry has added its in
terest to the life's
story of Major Clitz.
perhaps one should
say to his deaths
story, though there
is always a possibil.
ity that at a great
age the major some
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-08

200. They say
M a ] o r Clitz
( o u G h t that
day as he did
at Cerro Cor
do, only a lit
tie more so.
The regulars
resisted siren
uously for an
hour or two.
Finally some
of the men
saw M a ] o r
Clitz go down.
A big wall Of
gray was fall
ing on them
Just then. and
many others
wont Il q w n
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-08

well nigh forgotten him. After the short
Official story of his service written on
the now time-stained paper hidden
away in a vault of the war depart
ment, these words appear: "Mysteri.
ously disappeared in the year 1885,"
The disappearance of Henry B. Clitz
Is one of the mysteries of army life.
On other records in the war de-
partment are brief official lines, also
on time-stained paper, telling of the
career of Jasper A. Maltby, colonel
or the Forty-fifth Illinois infantry.