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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-16
LAVA BATTLES ASCENT.
Attempt to Climb Mount Etna Has
to Be Abandoned.

CATANIA. Sicily, September 16.-An at
tempt to ascend Mount Etna was made
today. but it was Impossible to get nearer
than fifty feet from one of the craters,
owing to the intense heat and thick
smoke, In which no one could live.
The eruption of lava continues. Near
the source the river of lava flows swift
ly, outdistancing men who run along its
edge. Further down the volcanoes sides
the mass cools gradually and. fhickenins.
IL divides into four principal streams
and loses much of its velocity. Great
masses OF rock wrenched from the crat-
ers edge. float and roll down the slope.
slowly liquefyinS-
The constant cannonading of the vol
cano is fairly deafening.
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SAILORS ILL, ONE DIES.
Result of Eating Fowls That We're
Unfit for Use.

That there was some illness. produced
aboard the battleship Michigan by the
use of unfit fowls appears from re-
port to the Navy Department received
today from Capt. Usher. commanding the
shin The captain forwards without
comment the report of board OF survey
which examined the fowls and condemned
them.
1t appears that the chickens were pur-
chased in the usual manner ashore ana
that they were carefully examined and
we're apparently plump and sound and
fresh. Nevertheless. when they were
served for dinner, September q 1.-THE
Michigan being then on the southern
drill grounds, seventy-two OF the Siue
Jackets were made i'll before the next
meal was served and one of them dieo
subsequently aboard the Solace.
A board of three officers was appoint
ed to survey what remained of the chick.
ems, and although nothing wrong was
discovered ii was deemed prudent 10
condemn them, and they were thrown
overheard.
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NOTED BIRDMAN DEAD.
Edcuard Newport Succumbs to In
iuries Received in France.

VERDUN, France, September 10
Edouard Newport, the French aeronaut.
died today as result of internal injuries
received when he fell with his machine
yesterday.
Newport accomplished some notable
feats inu flying at Chalons. Last June.
competing in the preliminaries for the in
ternational aviation cup. he established a
new aerodrome record. covering ninety
miles at the rate of eighty miles an
hour He finished third in the contest
for this cup, which was won by the
American, Charles 7. Weymann. at East
church. England. Wcymann, on this oc-
casion, used a Nieuport~ aeroplane, one
of the fastest racing types yet developed.
AS the designer of this machine, Nieu-
port, won wider fame than he did in fly
ing. and it was I'm one of his own make
that he established the aerodrome record.
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PAULIS BOY STILL LIVES.
-
Johnson Being Detained Pending
0utcome of His Tniuries

Harry Paulis. fourteen years old. who
was accidentally shot by Paul ID. John
son, a companion. while returning from
a cunning trip Thursday night. is still
alive. Physicians at the Washington
Asylum Hospital said this afternoon that
his condition was about the same as II
was when he was brought there.
Paul Johnson is still Deing detained
at the house of detention TO await the
result of the wound Paulis sustained. IL
is probable an effort viii be made To
have him released on bond.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-16
Winthrop on Way to Europe

Beekman Winthrop, assistant secretary
of the navy, accompanied by Mrs Win
throp has left Washington for New
York. to sail on the steamer George
Washington today for Plymouth, Eng
land, to spend a month in Europe. Sec
rotary Meier is expected to arrive in
New York Saturday from England and
will proceed to Massachusetts. Rear
Admiral Nicholson will act temporarily
as Secretary of the Navy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-16
MULTIMILLIONAIRE A SUICIDE
Prominent Mine Operator Believed
to Have Been Despondent

Los ANGELES. Cal, September 16>-
Martin Costello. sixty-fve. of Tombstone,
Ariz.. prominent for more than a quarter
Of century In the development of mines
in the southwest and reputed to be a
northumberland, committed suicide here
last night.
Costello dressed himself in faultless
after-dinuer attire. left his FAMILY a,
home and rented a room in a lodging
house He folded his coat for a pillow
and lying down on the floor. sent a
bullet through his heart. dying almost
Instantly.
Dependency is believed to have been
the cause.
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BROOD TOO MUCH FOR HIM.
New Hampshire Man Ahsconds Upon
Birth of Twelfth Child.

NASHUA, \. H., September 16.-At the
age of twenty-seven years. the mother of
twelve children. none of them twins. Mrs.
Alfred Paauette was today taken in
charge by the county commissioners.
The twelfth baby was born this week,
and the husband and father forthwith
disappeared. leaving no provision for his
family.
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SHOT DEAD AND ROBBED
Paymaster David Steen of
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Victim of Thugs.

PITTSBURGH, September l6.-David
Steen, paymaster for the Pittsburgh Coal
Company, was held up. shot dead and
robbed just before l o'clock today near
Bresto. about twelve miles out of this
city. County detectives have been dis
patched to the scene.
Steen was paymaster for the Pittsburgh
Coal Companys mines in this section, and
Saturday Is the regular payday for these
mines The Offices CT the Pittsburgh Coal
Company here close at noon. and none
of the officials HIS yet been reached. 1t
is said that Steen carried with him sew
eral hundred thousand dollars in cash.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-16
FRAUD CHECK SHOWERS
SW|NDLE RENO BANKS
Secret Service Officers al
Work on Two Counterfeit
Schemes.

Many counterfeit United States Navy
pay checks, which were forwarded to
Washington for collection from banks in
Reno. Nov, have been turned over to the
secret service. The checks purport to
have been issued by A. l.. Station, former
enlisting officer at Los Angeles. The
checks are printed on bankers safety
paper, but in other respects are said by
Treasury officials to be clumsy counter
felt
Secret service agents have also dis
covered in circulation more than thou
sand counterfeit transportation orders,
purporting to be signed by Rear Admiral
Nicholson. chief of the bureau of naviga-
ton. These are printed on pink paper.
The genuine orders are blue. Railroad
companies have been warned against the
fraud.
Chief Wilkie of the secret service branch
of the Treasury Department returned to
Washington yesterday from trip
through the west. and Immediately took
charge of the case. An arrest is expected
in the near future. Ten of the bogus pay
checks, made out for from $40 to S1VL
each, have already come to light in Wash
ington and more are expected.
The government will not lose any
money through the forgeries. as the
banks mat caSieu the OiueIS VIII pe
held responsible.
The scheme of the counterfeiter wa!
very simple. He had printed duplicate:
of regulation navy pay checks and trans
portation orders and then filled in the
necessary dates and names. He passed
the checks wherever he could and solo
the orders.
when men present themselves for en-
listment in the navy at the various re
cruitng stations and are accepted the,
are given orders on railroad for trans
portation to the point to which they arr
to be sent said Admiral Nicholson las
night These orders entitle them 10 free
transportation. The orders finally come
to the Treasury and are paid if properly
made odt and Endorsed. This man has
used my name. and in that way ha!
passed some of the orders.
1T is the first time the transportation
orders have been counterfeited, and the
first time know of that the navy checks
have been counterfeited."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-16
HOST KILLS HIMSELF.
Fires Bullet Through Heart After
Entertaining Card PARTY

CHICAGO, September 16.-After acting
as host at a card party given at his resi-
dence, George McMullen, thirty-two years
old manager of department for Armour
& Co. went to the bathroom and, seating
himself before a mirror. fired shot
through his heart. He was dead when
his wife reached his side
Mrs. McMulen said her husband had
been in good health and she knew of no
reason why he should commit suicide
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-16
Extending Postal Rank System.

Charlotte Courthouse. Dendron, Edin-
burg and GAINESVILLE. Va, are in the list
of third-class post offices designated to
open postal savings repositories October
Il. There have been so offices of the
third class made postal savings deposito-
ries up to date.
Woodbine Nd, and o1arksburg and
CroZet. VT. have been advanced to the
presidential class of post Offices
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-16
POST OFFICE SLEUTHS
RECOVER STOLEN MAIL
Over 1000 Business Letters
Disclosed by Confession Of
Man in Custody.

Inspectors Hal B. Mosby and L. II.
Mitchell of the Washington division of
post office inspectors have reported to
Carter b. Keene. inspector in charge. a
discovery made by them which resulted
in the recovery of great quantity of
stolen mail sent out from Norfolk and
points south, much of II business mail
for northern houses conta ming large re-
mittances.
There is now in the I.vnchburg Jail a
man who gives his name as David Lee
Madison Henderson. He is charged with
passing bad checks. Some of these
checks got into the hands of the III
spectors and were traced by them to their
makers, who were able to furnish the
date of their mailing.
Stolen at Transfer Station.
With this clue the inspectors discovered
that a pounch containing thirty-four mail
packages, including somewhere near 1000
letters was stolen at the time Of the
transfer of the mail between the Roanoke
and Hagerstown railroad post Office to the
Baltimore and Ohio mail train at Shen-
andoah Junction. w. Va, the night of
August ~.
it is claimed, that some of the checks he
passed We're obtained from package OF
mail stolen about that time, and he also
informed them they would find mail
pouch and some more mail, in the Gull
vert near the Junction. Search was made
and a cut mail pouch. with very large
quantity of business mail, was found by
them in the culvert. The mail had been
in the water, and was exposed to the
weather for about seventeen days, but 1t
was gotten in shape and sent on its way.
Henderson does not admit that he stole
and cut the pouch, however.
Checks and Orders Cashed.
Among the checks and orders cashed
by him was an Adams Express money
order for $50, which he cashed at Cum
berland and converted the proceeds into
clothes He was arrested September
by the state authorities of Virginia, and
made his confession to the inspectors
September Ii. He had already passed
about 500 worth of paper obtained by
him from the stolen mail say the inspect
Ors
After answering to the Virginia author
tiles for passing the checks the United
States will probably take him in charge
for robbing the mails.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-16
Spinners' Elect Thornton.

BOSTON, September 16-The annual
convention of the International spinners
union closed here today with an address
by John Golden. international president
of the United Textile Workers. George
dent.
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Same Man on Both Jobs.

I'VE are paying little attention to the
forged transportation orders but are only
looking for them incidentally said As
sistant Chief Moran of the secret service
last night THE checks are what We are
after. We are certain both have been
prepared by the same man. as we traced
the checks directly to the place where the
book OF blank orders was found in Reno
The transportation orders are so differen,
from the regulation ones that few rail-
roads should be fooled.
Chief Wlkie said he had little doubt
the secret service agents would soon
catch the counterfeiter.
Just as soon as We make the arrest
all details will he given out, but in the
meantime We want to work just as quietly
as possible he said. Nothing would
have been given out at this time had i,
not been that we feared railroad compa
MES and banks would be swindled fur
Their"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-16
Creation of New Issue.

1t is thought by politicians that a sa-
lient issue. possessing features out of the
line of the time-honored ISSUES of the pc
Rod may come as a political windfall 10
Gov. Harmon and perhaps be seized upon
by the democratic party, so his course in
the feature will be followed with keen in
fereSt BY the politicians.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-16

Apparently in the best of health. Mrs.
Atwood Montgomery died suddenly at her
home near Rising Sun. Md, Thursday
night. She had just been enjoying a
feast of watermelon with her husband
and daughter when she was taken i'll.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-16

Norman c. Baker. aged forty-five
for q number of years engaged in the dry
goods business I'm Hagerstown, Md, died
at his residence Thursday night of con-
sumption.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-16
SHAKE-UP IN SIGHT
Aftermath of Wiley Row May
Prove Interesting.
OFFICIALS TAKE NOTICE
housekeeping in the Department
Intimated by President.
ALL QUIET AT THE BUREAUS
Chemistry Chief Declines to Amplify
Statement That His Vindica-
ton Is Complete.

There were no outward signs of excite
ment at the Department of Agriculture
today, following the statement of the
President that he exonerated DR.. Wiley
from ALI irtert Of wronsdoing in the APP
pointmeut of DR.. III. II. Rusby of New
York To, a sixteen-hundred-d dollar job as
an expert, where he was supposed to earn
his salary by working every day in the
year.
Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson is still
on his vacation in the west and it was
said al his office today that he had COM
municated no int.mation that he intended
to cut short his absence and return in
side the three weeks his original plan
had contemplated The same was true of
Solicitor McCabe, who is vacationins
somewhere beyond the. 1G0th meridian.
The members of the personnel board
Who stirred up the original row over DR..
Wiley were all at their desks today with
the exception of the solicitor. Assistant
Secretary HAYS was still the acting sec
Ietary of the department Prof. c. I.
Clarke was busily engaged in the minute
duties of the chief clerk of the depart
inent. and DIR. r. l.. Dunlap was still act
ing chief of the bureau of chemistry.
DR.. Wiley Remains Silent.
Dr. Wiley, the cnle1 OF the bureau. Wno
had testified before the congressional
committee that he could do nothing in
the pure food line because he was al
ways overruled by DIR. Dunlap and Solicit
tor McCabe, who constituted majority
Of the pure food board. remained at his
Bluemont farm. He said that he had
gone his conversational limit in saying
that he considered the Presidents letter
full vindication of his course and he
would not be enticed by telephone or
otherwise into further comment.
The thing however, that is interest
ing all the rank and file of the Depart
ment of Agriculture is, what might be
termed the sting in the tail of the Presi-
dents letter wherein he intimates that
there may be a thorough shake-up OF
the department made necessary by the
investigation OF the congressional COM
mittee. If such a general housekeeping
is started. the various bureaus of the
department do not know where it may
stop. Consequently the future is viewed
by them with considerable interest, if not
with apprehension.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-16

|. a. Leftwich Sinclair. special counsel
Cor the District of Columbia. resigned
today, to take effect November I. Mr..
Sinclair has been engaged in the work
of appraisement of the damages result
ing to real estate in the District by
reason of changes made in the grades
of streets in connection with the estab-
lishment of the Union railroad station
and terminals. That work being now
practically completed, Mr.. Sinclair will
enter on the practice of law. On re-
ceiving the resignation Commissioner
Judson prepared a letter Of acceptance
for Mr.. Sinclair. complimenting him on
the manner in which the work was
done, and especially on the fact that
thousands of dollars have been saved
for the District by the efforts Of the
special counsel.
The last report Mr. Sinclair made show
ed that the settlement of grade damages
had cost the District $3.50. 43S. 10 up to the
close of the last fiscal year. This figure
was less than previous expectations had
led the Commissioners to believe the cost
WOuld he
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CHURCH NOTICES.
DIED.

PEARSON. ON September II. 1871. at his
Residence 10th and lIamiin streets
BrookIand. ID. T.. WILLIAM l.. FEARSoN.
beloved husband OF Anna Il. Pearson 'nre
Thcckcrl.
Funeral from Oak lin chapel Monday. celtein-
her Is, AT o'clock pm. Relatives ana
friends invited TO attend
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Estimate of Damages.

At the time of the passage of the grade
damage act it was believed the damages
in the immediate vicinity Of the Union
station would reach 100000. Later Con-
gress passed another relief act for citi-
Zens in the southeast and southwest
whose property bordered on the Union
station zone. The figure mentioned in
the annual report is for all three sections
| in which claims for damages have been
heard. and is over 100000 less than the
original estimate for the immediate vi
entity of the Union station.
Mr. Sinclair is a product of the Dis
trict schools, and graduated as an Ii. b.
from Georgetown University Law School
in 1893. received the degree of LII. NJ. in
1894 and was admitted to the bar that
| same year. For several years he was
| connected with the late Andrew Brown
| trict. who died in 1905. Mr.. Sinclair
served as assistant corporation counsel
| under Mr.. Duvall. In addition. he acted
as president of the police trial board. In
1905 he was made special counsel for the
District to carry on the damage work
which he will relinquish November 1.
Mr.. Sinclair is member of the Bar
Association of the District Of Columbia.
is a director of the Chamber of Com
merce. member of the executive commit
tee of that body and chairman of the
committee on law and legislation. He
is member of the Board of Trade. the
Columbia Heights Citizens Association,
a member Of the official board and vice
president Of the Mems Club Of Foundry
NJ L. Church. and is a director of the
Lucy Webb Hayes National Training
School for Nurses. He will engage in the
general practice of law.
Work Is Commended.
The letter to Mr.. Sinclair from the
Commissioners, signed by Cuno H.
Rudolph, president of the board, follows:
THE Commissioners of the District of
Columbia accept your resignation as spe-
cial counsel engaged in the settlement of
claims for damages incident to changes
in grade in connection with the elimlna-
ton of grade crossings in the District OF
Columbia rendered by you September 16.
1911, to take effect on the first day of
November. 1911.
LAS you state in your letter of resigna-
ton, your work has been practically
completed. You have been engaged on
this work since May 2J, 1903. and your
services have been most valuable to the
District This work has been very
arduous, and has been conducted by YOU
in a careful and painstaking manner
with most advantageous results to the
District.
1.-The Commissioners desire to express
70 YOU their appreciation of the splendid
work YOU have done and to extend their
best wishes for your success in the prac-
tice of your profession
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Only Touch Worth While.

a thought which l hold above every
thing, said DIR. Davidson. returning to
ideals in teaching. lis the human touch.
It is the only touch worth while. Our
work is an intensely human business
that is why we need ideals. Any one
who can put into boys life a love for
the highest things in art and literature
and the highest things in life, is great
and mighty teacher wherever you find
him. Be optimistic in your teaching
Flee from pessimists as you would from
the plague. l say to you that the Amer
lean republic and the world are better to-
day than ever before"
In illustration of the human touch
the superintendent. in concluding his adj
dress, quoted a poem:
AS long MS the grass is growing,
AS long the waters run.
The heart will forever he winning,
AS the heart has forever won.
Commanding the battle of life
Till the battle Of life is won.
Capt. James F. Oyster, president of the
board of education. spoke briefly on the
desire of the board for good admins
tration THE board of education" he
said will support the officers of the
school system. Our first duty is to the
child: after that we look to your welfare.
| wish you Godspeed for the year"
Pay Tributes to Stuart.
Both Capt. oyster and DR.. Davidson
paid high tribute to. ex-Supt. of Schools
A. r. Stuart. DR.. Davidson referring to
him as the man who put into hearts
of the teachers and the people of the Dis
trict high ideals
Roscoe c. Bruce. assistant superintend-
ent of colored public schools, who has
recently been the object Of some adverse
criticism, was heartily applauded when
he arose to open the meeting. The clap
ping of hands did not subside until sew
eraI minutes after Mr.. Bruce arose.
The assistant superintendent asked the
teachers to give their undivided aid to
securing cooperation between home and
school and toward making the school a
social center THE last, however, said
Mr.. Bruce, lis another chapter which
ONLY the future will develop He also
urged the teachers to have the children
under them utilize to the fullest extent
all outside education facilities, such as
libraries. museums and other institutions
in connection with the school work.
At the conclusion Of the meeting the
three officials held an informal reception
tie teachers later comforting with the SUI
peryising principals and heads of derart-
men,s for more detailed instructions.