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The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-27
Boy and Girl Bandits: Youthful But
Successful.

Grand Junction, Col, July 49,
Gladsy Thomson, age II: Lillian o.
borne. age IA, Lee Baker, age 10 and
Virgil Wilson age II by the coroner's
jury verdict Ire held for the alleged
felonious drowning of Clark l..
Wolfkill, a wealthy bachelor ranch
man found in a creek near Clifton
Wednesday.
The evidence showed that the girls
and boys, lived in a tent near Wolf
kills ranch. On the morning of his
death. Wolfkill received $4,000 in a
horse deal. The two girls visited him
at the ranch. The money disappeared.
WoolfkilPs body was discovered on
,"e river hank.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-27
FOR SPEEDIER TYPEWRITING.
Machine ta Print SvIlah1es If Two or
Three Letters With a Single Pres
I'LL

The latest development in conuec-
ten with the typewriter is a machiue
to print syllables of two or three let
ters by a single pressure of the KEY
This invention calls for no specia
skill on the part OF the operator
There is the ordinary standard key
board, but the keys can be extended
to sixty or more The ~two-Ietter
syllables include the following: Be,
an CHI de, ed. is, in. no, st, un; and
among the three-letter syllables are:
All, and, who, are, end, has, the, our,
for, may, not, why, con, com, ing, acc,
dis, per, pro. When the operator has
become used to the position of the
syllables, and has memorized them,
it is expected that tipping will be a
o rapid process. For instance.
for the word accountant it is only
necessary to depress four keys instead
of ten, as on an ordinary machine;
"disunion'' is written by means of
three keys instead of eight; "misfor-
tune" and permission" also REQUIRE
only four keys each. The machine
possesses a unique pawl and escape
ment wheel, So arranged that when a
syllable key Is depressed the car
rage Jumps" a space equal in length
7" +he SYLLABLE. The type strikes the
ribbon through q metal guide. Add
ing machines have already been com
bined with typewriters and apparent.
ly we are to expect a compromising OF
attachments, in the universal desire
to produce speediery machines.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-27
Nan AspinWan Rode Horseback From
Pacific to the Atlantic. /,

New York, July 18.-Nan Aspiwall
the western COW girl who rode horse
back from San Francisco to New
York, is a native of Montana, where
she lives on her family's ranch. She
withstood the strain and hardships
Of the trip Of $500 miles splendidly
and says she will ride back. On ar
irving in New York she stalled
friends in a twelve story ONCE build
ing by riding her horse on to the
freight elevator and going to the tor
floor astride her horse in the eleva-
tor.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-27
Babyland August %.

Prizes for youngest babies with
teeth and oldest babies without teeth
are some of the unique offerings ro
be made at the baby show to be held
at the auditorium on August 25. En-
tries are coming in fast and there is
every indication of the show being an
unqualified access
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-27
o N PICKLE raj.

in Richmond By Her Brother Dis
D0dy ei Raleigh Girl Being Sought
covered at Medical College where
it Was Being Reserved EOr DIS
section Purposes In the FalIZMaa
Who Induced Her to Leave Home
Drops Dead.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-27
Governor Smith to Enforce Prohibi
ton

Atlanta, July 19.-Governor Hoke
Smith has taken a stern and unswerv-
"e -" de towards the enforcement
of the State prohibition law. In re-
fusing to grant the conmutation of the
sentence of ". L. Chapman sentenc
ed for running a blind tigar in Bib
Governor Smith announced that he
intended to withhold executive Gle
mency from all prohibition cases: NJ
matter what the recommendation OF
the prison commission. The prisor
commission had recommended mercv
toward Chapman.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-27
REVIVE MEMORIES OF so YEARS
AGO

Veterans Of Blue and Gray Assemble
on Manassas Battle Ground to Gel
citrate Historic Anniversary.
Manassas. Va, July 19.-On the his
toric ground at Blackburns Ford Cen
terville Union Mills where Sc years
ago today the skirmishes prior to. the
great battle was taking place between
General McDowell's federal forces and
the Confederates under General BeF-
regard, the veterans Of the Blue arr
Gray trudged today under the gut
dance of Captain James e. Herrel1
a member of the famous Confederate
Black Horse calvary who participat-
ed I'm the battle.
Many aged fighters renewed mem
cries OF the old days, r~ecounting the
incidents occurring in the same spot
SO years ago.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-27
Closing Prohibition Fight in Texas
State.

Houston, Tex, July 19.-Texas is
witnessing the concluding features
of the statewide. liquor" war which
ends Saturday with the election tt
determine whether the amendment
prohibiting both the sale and manu-
facture of Intoxicating drinks shall
be written into the State constitu-
ton. Both sides claim victory.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-27

Drops Dead.
Richmond. Va, July 19.-The hody
of ola Thaxton, the Raleigh girl VINO
died in the city home here March 80,
was located today in a pickle vat l
a local medical college. The corpse
was received by the college May IL,
according to the records and, as the
session was then practically over, 1t
/ was decided to keep it for dissection
in the fall. Though badly
blackened by preserving acids, the
| BODY is in an excellent state OF pre-
! ~eervation. 1t is not Known at this
time whether or not the body will be
shipped to Raleigh for burial, as Lee
! Thaxton, the girls brother, who came
! here yesterday to make an inyest1ga-
! ton. has made no application for 1t
and has not been seen by the police
authorities since yesterday afternoon.
It develops that Robert Riley, who,
it is alleged, induced the girl to
leave home and come to Richmond
six months ago, dropped dead in his
home here several days ago. lie was
formerly employed by the girls
father, John Thaxton, in Raleigh.
According to the story the girl told
Patrolman Campadonica shortly be-
fore her death, Riley and she came
to Richmond together last winter She
soon found employment but the wages
were small and in a few weeks
lost her position. Riley soon grew
tired of her, she said, and cast ner
off. She tried to find work again u
this time there was no work for her.
March 20 she was arrested as a veg
rant and was sentenced to serve ~
days in Jail. A week later she was
taken ill with pneumonia n dteo
three days afterwards at the city
home.
Richmond, Va, July 18.-Lee Thax-
ton. son of a prominent contractor OF
Raleigh, N. c., arrived in Richmond
Yesterday and began an investigation
TO ascertain whether his sister, Miss
Ola Thaxton, aged % years, who died
here March 9Th, was given burial as
the attending undertaken states, or
whether the body was cut to pieces by
students in the dissecting rooms of
the University college of medicine.
Undertaken John B. Billey says he
received the body from the City Home
and buried it in the potters field at
Oakook cemetery. A record in Chief
Health Officer Levy's office says the
body vas turned over to the medical
! college on May 10.
Miss Thaxton, who is described as
a beautiful girl, with deep blue eyes
/ and golden hair, came to Richmond
in search of work, taking a position
in the office of a tobacco factory. She
became i'll and died before relatives
we're notified. When letters ceasd to
reach Raligh Mr.. Thaxton concluded
to investigate and found his sister had
been dead these many weeks. He
promises sensational dnvelopments if
the matter is not satisfactorily ex-
planned.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23
THANKFUL TO BE ALIVE
nr Inmer NJ. MCGEE.

The Beef Trusts UP for trial, ''' '
Though the price of beefs up. too;
But. b'gosh, we can be thankful
That the Beef Trusts in a stew.
The poor are doing the turkey trot'
To eat they, can't contrive;
So the ordinary mortal
s lust thankful TO be alive.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23
Strange Objects in the Sky
BY GARRET p. SERV1Ss.

was illuminated by the sun it was bright
enough to be photographed, but when 1t
turned sidewise It was swallowed up in
the darkness of space.
The existence of such an object in the
solar system serves to recall attention to
the theory OF the German astronomer
Olbers, that the small planets called as
teroids may be fragments of a larger
planet which has exploded These frag-
ments, especially the smaller ones, may
be of almost any form, and, owing to the
attraction of the large planets, the orbits
which they pursue through the sky may
be gradually changed in position.
One of the principal objections to this
theory has been that we cannot well con-
ceive Of any force whichs could cause a
planet to explode, and he shattered and
scattered broadcast i'm space. But DR..
Gustav lie Bon, reasoned from the CNsln-
tegration characteriEes all matter, sug-
gests that explosions among worlds may
not be such inconceivable phenomena as
has been supposed
1T must not be forgotten" he says
that the atom, being an enormous reser-
voir of energy. is by this very fact COM
parable with explosive bodies. These last
remain inert so long as their internal
equlibria are undisturbed, but so soon as
some cause or other modifies these they
explode and smash everything around
them, after being themselves broken to
pieces"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23

the beginning of October. A few nights be-
fore DR.. Palisa had discovered new
asterold in that quarter of the sky, and
at the same time he noticed that what
he had taken for the image of star
on his Photographic chart had dlsap-
peRred.
On October 3 he, was astonished to see
close by his new yasteroid another object,
which appeared to be moving rapidly
away. He repeated his observations, and
ON the following night they were con-
firmed by Herr Pechule at Copenhagen.
Then, owing to cloudy weather, combined
with the dlmming effect of full moon
light, the strange object was lost to view.
But on October 26 It was photographed at
the Greenwich observatory. Curiously
enough, however. on the very next night
the Greenwich astronomers were unable
to find the object, and it appears not to
have been seen since.
It's curious conduct as to visibility, now
appearing plainly and now disappearing,
led to the suggestion Of Mr.. Crommelin
already mentioned. According to this the
object while it could not be less than a
couple of miles broad, may be 50 thin that
when turned edgwise toward the earth II
cannot be seen. When the broad face
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23

uTlHbS u nearer 10
The earth than any
other body except
the moon. More
over, it seems to
have a most ex-
traordinary shape,
as,if it were a huge
slab of rock or
metal, very thin in
proportion to its
length and breadth.
At least that is the
suggestion offered
by Mr.. Crommelin,
the calculator of
the orbit OF TIaley's $
comet,
This remarkable
object was first
detected by DR..
Palisa Of Vienna at
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23

street. II you have
any time YOU
might call on her.
I'm sure she would
be glad to see you.
II must be very
hard for her TO
start out alone for
herself In a strange
city. But since her
fathers death 1
think they are In a
pretty bad way.
lie left nothing but
their home and the
lot adjoining II,
and they've already
had to sell the lot.
"Well, enough OF
this. Anna is wash
ing today and I
have to get sup
per. with much
love. MOTHER.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23

If AN Actress PAINTED
~ 0+E POST OFFICE wOULC
A LETTER CARRIER
EROkV s HOW 0AE
GENTLEMAN TO H6
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23

Astronomers have been greatly puzzled
Of late by curious apparition in the
heavens which is supposed to be a new
asteroid, or small planet, travelling in
an eccentric orbit which, at times
hrinpa a. paarer IN
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23

Il forgot TO write you that Laura Will
son is In New oYrk. Her mother told mo
she had a position In some big law office
and gave me the address OF the place she
Is boarding. No. West TwentI second
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23

Put Up TEHD SElL nCkEK
FOE DAE jE,ow PEDDLE
RIO oGsAnn MG4 PLAH m NE
oArto SWALLOW SWoRoI
HELP oUTtI me ARAo
TROUPE RIDE NE BUcE,NS
DONKEY DO a FEW CApp
WitHJ q
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23
OUT or M THEATRE &.

NO rlICkEL SHOW HANS
Can MAX 6 AdE LET RN
tH Foe MUTE ~
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23

The Leather Trust is thankful
For the tariff that protects;
The fact that people must wear shoes
5 Is proof that Il collects
The MIX Trust cries for ten-cent milk
And butter forty-five;
30 the ordinary mortal
Is just thankful he's alive.
The CRATER. too, is thankful
That the taxes got a boost.
He'll get his little rake-off
when the money is unloosed.
The thankful landlord sees his chance
To raise US four or five;
SO the ordinary mortal
Is Just thankful he's alive.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23

solid foundation should be laid for
every fabrie-balleon house or stone
chapel.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23

The harons Of the Sugar Trust
Are thankful TO a man
That sugar reached its highest
Since the civil war began.
With coffee almost doubled
For the trust knows how to thrive
The ordinary mortal
Is just thankful he's alive.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23
LEAVE That WoMAN 6E

ntE- Help TASE pOwH
me TGrITS PALS naGM on
HAE TRuokS LEAD DtG
HoTSGJ DOWN. mo- /
SLEEP W,nl Them FROM
ONE 10 -OUR TIL.Lws
GET 70 NE NEXT TOWN
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23

YEA 30 I'M A SWORD
5NA LOWER NOM IN A
oAE S'hIG cIRCUS 'oohT
SCI Up 7nL u A m cu1
rs a one NI6H- S1AAo
ST'ow Help PAek
Evening star., 1911-01-12
FIRES |NJURE A SCORE
One Fireman Falls Four
Stories Down an Airshaft
While Attempting Rescue.

NEW YORK. January 12.-Twenty fire
men were injured, one perhaps fatally,
and damage aggregating $4,000 was
caused by series Of five fires early to-
day. Fireman Leo Hackbarth fell four
stories down an airshaft and through a
skylight in burning Harlem tenement.
The physicians in the hospital where he
now lies say he cannot recover. He was
assisting a woman tenant to escape when
he fell, but she was not hurt, nor were
any of the occupants.
Five firemen were severely burned when
liquor and drug importing house on
Pine street caught fire, and twelve were
injured, five seriously, in a blaze which
destroyed five-story building on Duane
street. Two small blazes, one down
town and one in Harlem, caused slight in
jures to two more firemen.
Evening star., 1911-01-12
BRITAIN SWEPT BY GALE
live-Savers Kept Busy Res.
cuing Sailors From Vessels
on Storm-9ound Coast. :

LONDON. January PA gale of hurri-
cane force. accompanied at many points
by a heavy snowfall, broke over the
British Isles early today Much damage
was done both on land and at sea-. y.
Huge seas were running on the coast.
and many minor wrecks. but with few
casualties. were reported
The bays were filled with shipping
which had sought shelter from the storm,
and exciting scenes were witnessed as
many Of the small craft dragged their
anchors and were driven ashore. The life
saving crews were busy taking imperiled
sailors from their boats.
Seaside towns were invaded by the high
waters and suffered considerably.
Telegraph lines were blown down at
many places inland.
Evening star., 1911-01-12

1--WE demand from the Sixty-first Con-
gress, nov convened in its final session.
the enactment OF a bill creating a per-
manent non-partisan tariff commisaton.
having functions and compensations
analogous to those enjoyed by tho inter
state commerce commission, including
the power to require the giving OF testi-
mony under proper conditions and safe
guards. and for proper purposes. the
functions OF the commission being tho
ascertainment OF all technical, industrial
and statistical facts necessary or useful
to Congress in the framing OF tariff legfs-
lation and to the executive In the admin
istration OF tariff laws. the commission
to report the results OF its work and ind
ings to either Congress or the President
as called for .4tsa
Calling upon Congress in the above
resolution to create a tariff commission at
this session, the National Tariff Commis-
sion Association convention adjourned at
noon.
Endorsement was given to ''the proposal
Of President Taft that hereafter the work
of tariff revision, whenever required. shall
be accomplished, schedule by schedule.
or preferably one subject at time. each
subject to be so defined that items that
are interrelated shall be grouped to-
gether, rather than by the sweeping re-
vision OF the entire tariff. to the end that
revision may be accomplished in q more
orderly. accurate, scientific and impartial
manner. and without disturbance OF busi-
ness inevitable to a general tariff rsvt-
sion.''
suffragists Seeks Recognition.
With demand before it for expression
of sympathy with the cause OF woman
suffrage. and with two suffrs gists present.
one sitting as a regularly appointed dsle-
gate,s the convention, began its second
days session at the Willard Hotel this
morning.
Miss Belle Kearny of Mississippi pre-
sented her credentials. signed by Gov.
Noel Of Mississippi. and was accorded
the privileges Of the convention as q rep
resentative of that state. Mrs. NJ. v.
Evening star., 1911-01-12
MAY LEAVE BOSTON.
Institute Of Technology in Need Of
Maintenance Fund.

BOSTON, January 12.-Unless the Mas
sachusetts legislature. acts favorably on
the petition asking that the annual ap-
preparation for the Massachusetts, Insti-
tute of Technology be increased from
$2J, 900 to 100000. for the next ten years
the institute may leave Boston and To-
cate in some place where it's maintenance
will be cheaper. This statement Is made
in a letter from Richard c. MacLaurin.
president Of the institute. to Mayor John
Fitzgerald of Boston.
In his letter President MacLaurin said
the institute was about to embark on a
policy Of development and move to a new
Site, and that he would use his influence
to have the new site in Boston, although,
owing to insufficient financial support, the
institute must be forced far away onto
a cheap Site
President MacI.aurin concludes his let
ter by asking Mayor Fitzgerald to lend
his assistance in supporting the petition
for an increased appropriation before the
legislative committee on education.
Evening star., 1911-01-12
RUSHING RESCUE WORK.
Searching Ruins of Burned Building
for Missing Men.

CINCINNATI. Ohio. January l2. = A
rumor that Chris Meentz and Fred Selm.
fireman and engineer. respectively, of the
burned chamber CT commerce building,
were possibly alive under the ruins of
that structure caused the 25O searchers to
work like Trojans today in removing the
debris. 1t was thought possible that the
two men were in some protected corner. in
the hydraulic engine room and were stll
alive.
Investigation has failed : to locate
George Hayman, a reporter on the Gin
cinnati Enquirer, who was reported as
missing last night. Hayman was at work
at the fire and was seen to enter the
building just before the roof collapsed.
Evening star., 1911-01-12
HIS CRAVING FATAL.
Young Man Deprived of Cigarettes
for Two DAYS Dies.

NEW YORK, January 12-John Mich
els, a young cooper. is dead in a Brooklyn
hospital because he was suddenly de-
prived of cigarettes for two days, after
he had been addicted TO their constant
use for fifteen years.
Michels was arrested on a charge of
stealing jewelry. Before he was sent to
Jail he asked his friends to keep him
supplied with cigarettes, but they were
unable to do SO. He had been in the
habit of smoking eighty a day. he said.
He was in. Jail only two days when
he was. taken very i'll and was sent to the
hospital. His death followed shortly
afterward
Evening star., 1911-01-12
HIS SKULL FRACTURED.
John w. Peters. Cornell Freshman
Hurt by Accident to Toboggan.

ITHACA. y. y. January !. John W.
Peters. a Cornell freshman. is lying at
the Cornell infirmary with a fractured
skull as result OF toboggan accident
yesterday. His recovery is doubtful,
Peters was ont with large party Of
coasters on a toboggan slide constructed
al the edge of the lake. They had just
left the end OF the chute and were travel
ing at a terrific pace across the lake
when the toboggan overturned and sent
them fying in all directions across the
Ice. The others were only slightly injured
Evening star., 1911-01-12
UPHOLDS POOR SPELLERS.
Andrew Carnegie Writes Sympathet
ically to Wellesley Students.

NEW YORK. January 1.-THE recent
tidings from Wellesley College to the
effect that half of the young women
students there are deficient in spelling
has aroused sympathetic response
from Andrew Carnegie. and in an open
letter he hastens to congratulate the
bad spoilers on their independence. He
urges. that the young ladies be allowed
to follow their bent.
They no dout spell their words as
they hav been taut to pronounce" he
says, land are therefore tc be compli-
mented II they continue they will
improve our language. They hav my
sympathy. hope they will continue
IN show their good sens. 1t is the
stupid old fogy educationalists who
force the teachers at Wellesley to spell
wrongly and annoy the students, not
the young ladies' who are at fault"
Evening star., 1911-01-12
HOME FOR BRITISH SUBJECTS.
Mrs. Bryce Heads Movement for
Aged Men and Women.

NEW YORK, January 1o.-The Imperial
Order OF Daughters Of the Empire in the
United States, of which Mrs. James
Bryce, wife of the British ambassador, is
honorary president. announces plans for
the building of home for aged British
men and women In this country. Il The
institution will be located I'M suburban
New York, probably on Long Island,
where a suitable site has been offered to
the society free Of charge. - ). -.
Evening star., 1911-01-12
READY TO REPEL BANDITS.
Armed Guards Will Be Carried on
Union Pacific Trains.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. January 12-
Bandits WHO are ambitious TO hold up
Passenger trains on the Utah division of
The Union Pacific will encounter here
after the most improved rifles in the
bands OF mon who know how TO use them
Under orders from the division superin-
tendent. effective today. every passenger
train viii carry an armed guard The
pre- caution is the result OF the robbery Of
the Overland Limited last week.
Evening star., 1911-01-12
FIVE FIREMEN INJURED.
Hurled by Back Draft Down Stair
wav of a Burning Building.

men, including two deputy chiefs. were
caught in back draft last night on the
third floor Of burning factory build
ing at 1OS-11O Duane street and hurled
down the stairway to the second floor.
All were injured by the fall, but man.
aged to reach the first floor and were
carried out by rescuers. The injuries are
not believed to be serious. The dam
age is estimated at $15O,OOO.
Evening star., 1911-01-12
May Not Open Waterways Bill.

Hearings on the rivers and harbors bill
we're concluded today by the Senate COM
mittee on commerce The committee.
although it; has. received recommenda-
tions for new projects. has not yet de-
cided that the bill shall be opened for
such items. AS 1T passed the House the
bill carried nearly all OF ethe projects
indorsed by the army engineers. Presi-
dent Taft desires that no new items be
added. and it is said that the committee,
which will meet again Monday, is strong
ly Inclined to meet his wishes.
Evening star., 1911-01-12
Clubhouse Damaged by Fire.

WATERTOWN, Mass. January 12-
The former home OF the Commonwealth
Motor and Driving Club. which since No
vember IL. when 1t was raided for illegal
liquor selling. has been closed. was DAM
aged to the extent of 10000 by fire late
last night. Firemen of five surrounding
towns assisted In fighting the flames and
prevented the destruction of other build
ings worth $125,OOO.