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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-22
LOCHTNVARS AT THE WHEEL
Fascinations Of Chauffeurs Prove r.
resistible to Heiresses.
SEARCHING FOR SAFEGUARDS
the Matinee Idol as the Mascu-
line Hero of the
Hour.

What is society going to do about Il?
Here are it's young women. members of
It's most exclusive circles in this country
and connected by marriage with some OF
the greatest families Of Europe running
off with handsome young chauffeurs and
declaring they like It and have nothing
to regret. Such a situation is battling TO
the most astute OF parents and guardians.
Daughters must exist Chauffeurs must
exist. one can't, at all times, drive ones
own automobile. Therefore, II is neces-
sary that these dashing able mechani-
cally intelligent persons should not be
wholly exterminated from the surface of
the earth. Then how are our daughters
to be guarded from these strangely dan
gerous things, these creatures gifted with
uncanny powers OF fascination, which
enable them TO charm away from our
protecting guardianship girls who have
been so carefully brought up, that, as
we had supposed. no one Of less estate
than a million, save and except some i'm
pacunious foreign noble, has ever gained
the honor of acquaintance?
II is safe to say that when the disap-
pearance Of Miss Julia French and her
marriage to Mr.. Joseph Geraghty, a
handsome chauffeur, was chronicled,
about ten days ago. 10000 mothers Of at
tractive daughters sat up and gasped
hard, and straIghtaway put the family
chauffeur under a microscope. Here was
a new danger threatening their market
able array of offspring. How were they
going to solve the problem thus pre-
sented-how guard against the threatened
danger with that easy grace that de-
ceives the onlookers by seeming to ignore
the existence OF danger, even while It
the undoing Of the enemy?
All Precautions Taken.
So far as human forethought could
go. everything had already been done
to guard the flock from invasion from
without. The bars were up against all
corners Of lesser rank, against all who
could show no long line of cultivated
ancestors or who were not able to COM
pensate for the lack by their superior
standing.
Then came the shock of Miss Julia
Fench's marriage to Joseph Geraghty
And all OF a sudden the structure seemed
TO go stumbling down. flattened TO earth
by the dashing onslaughter OF an in
vlncible young knight. who blares his
challenge with a motor horn and comes
ON pellmell over the Gathering, falling
wall into the sacred Enclosure, snatches
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-22
FINED FOR HIS INDUSTRY
some Pithy Remarks of the Kansas
brand on the Activity of the
Assessor.

There are some queer things about ouI
system Of taxation. Here is an example
once upon a time the editor of this paper
became possessed of the laudable ambi.
ton TO own a home. Having managed to
save up few dollars he purchased upon
the payment plan some property which
had been taken in on mortgage by an
eastern investment company.
The house was in such bad repair tina,
II was not tit for occupancy. The cellar
was full OF stagnant water. weeds grew
rankly about the house, the porches were
rotted and sagging, the house implanted
The lot was couple Of feet above the
sidewalk, and the earth had washed and
caved. making It impossible The place
was an eyesoro and a menace TO health.
we wanted a home and saw its possi-
bfities.
II was located in a good nelghborhood
and from It we had a beautiful view
over a pretty valley. Being rather handy
with tools. we went to work before and
after office hours. We repaired the
porchos, painted the house, sodded and
terracod the yard and drained the cellar
and put in curbing and parking. We
worked early and late. until at last we
had, as many people told us, one OF the
prettiest homes in the town-and then the
assessor came around and doubled our
taxes.
We were fined because we had worked
hard and converted disorder into order,
ugllhess into beauty. and had wiped out
n plague spot In the neighborhood. It
is also true that the owner OF a few va
cant lots adjoining our place Immediately
advanced them in price, but neglected to
cut the tall weeds that grew on them.
1t may be added that his taxes were not
Notwithstanding the fact that
he held his lois at a higher price.
We have told this story because the
statement itself ought to cause someone
70 do some hard thinking There surely
is something radically wrong with a sys-
TEN of taxation in which a person is
fined for merely being industrious
Delphos CKan) Republican.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-22

his helress away, while the onlookers
gasp in establishment, and Is gone at the
rate Of seventy miles an hour over the
country into the great without" from
which he sprang.
The heiress has deserted the glittering
possibilities, which might have been real
lied for her IL she had only been wise
and waited. She has braved the region
beyond the wall. with its threat Of pow
erty. obscurity and social obloquy. The
wall has failed to protect her from her
fiery captor, and the reason and logic,
which should have taught her TO resist
his pleas have proved equally futile.
The families of young and desirable
debutantes with brilliant futures find
themselves in the midst Of social chaos.
They shudder and gather their broods
more closely about them, and appoint
whole bevies of lynx-eyed maiden aunts
to watch their young nieces night and
day, and they look at their chauffeurs
and those of their friends through
lofgnettes and field glasses and micro
scopes and from every possible point of
view. and they wonder how II came
about and how innumerable other elope-
ments OF like nature came about, and
what is to be done about it, anyway.
Thrown into Consideration.
If. they say, it was only the case of the
chauffeur Of ones own family It might
be managed. But that isn't enough to
guard against, because IL seems that the
chauffeurs of ones friends are equally
dangerous. There was Miss French, who
eloped with a chauffeur only occasionally
employed by her family, and whom she
had met at a motor school, where she
had gone to learn how to run car her
self. There was Miss Silvey Speer, the
young daughter Of w. A. Speer Of At
lanta, Ca, heiress to more than St,OOO,OO0
and who secretly married young Russell
Thomas, who acted as a chauffeur in the
neighborhood. but who was not especially
employed by her father. Then there was
Miss Madeleine Zigler. daughter of
wealthy woman of Pittsburgh who ran
away with chauffeur only occasionally
employed by her mother, but whom she
had found time and opportunity to meet
elsewhere than at home.
1t is a question, after all, of looking the
chauffeur over, estimating his attrac-
tions, and seeking to arrive at the secret
Of his peculiar fascination for women.
There can be no doubt that he has such
fascination. Anyone who reads the News
papers will acknowledge at once that
this is the day of the girl and the chauf-
feur Where is the matinee idol OF other
years? He simply doesn't exist since the
chauffeur came into his own. Where
is the horseman who once dazzled the
Young society woman whorn he mot i,,
the course of business? He is too slow
for the girl Of today, and the chauffeur
has long since completely supplanted him.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-22

Genuine Mink Sets, at $40, sos, $50. SOS and $3.50
Fine Black Fox Sets at $50, SAC. 500. SIS and sos
Red and Cross Fox Sets at $500. $50. $40 and 500
Fine Brown Marten Sets at $40, SO, $50 and sos
Black and Natural Raceoon Sets, $50. sac $50 $40
Blended Sable Squirrel Sets, at &25, $50 and $40
Blended Brook Mink Sets. at $125O, SIS, $40 s25
Blue and Black Wolf Sets. SIC, s25, $50 and $40
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-22

the account by a form OF mental arith.
metlc peculiarly his own
Arithmetic Out of Date.
But" objected the Boer puzzled Al the
result, this is wrong. / have done the
sum with ready reckoner and Il Is diff
fcrent."
The trader paused a moment. Let me
see it," he sold. taking the book.
AIR he exclaimed. Il thought so
This ready reckoner Is last years. II is
out OF date"
And the Boer accepted the explanation
without a suspicion OF doubt
And these incidents. which have their
parallel today. show that change is work
ing but slowly in South Africa.--Johan-
nesburg letter I'm Chicago Inter ocean.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-22

fer deeds were drawn up and were 70 b
signed on a given night.
When the evening came the magnat
drove UP 70 the farm with a bag OF gold
All was ready. but the Boer insisted tia
the money must be counted out befor
his eyes. The other agreed. He set gu
1000 sovoreigns in lines on one side o.
the table.
There Is a thousand pounds" he said
Then at right angles he laid out 10
gold coins.
THAT Ia 100 pounds" he explained. sc
! you have the hundred thousand pounds
And the Boer signed the deeds and
trekked away into the unknown with tho
gold, happy in the thought that he had
sold his farm for a record price.
IT Is not difficult to believe such a
story, when one remembers that the
chosen legislators Of those old Beers ad-
vanced publicly IN the Radical those
quaint ideas, reprinted in an appendix to
Sir Percy F'itzpatrick's book. The Trans
vaal From Within
ono OF these old parliamentarians de-
nouncod a proposal 10 erect post boxes
In Pretoria as eXtravagant and effeInl-
nate.
Letter writing IA Nonstrosity.
"IIo could not sec" he said, why
people always wanted to be writing let
tcrs. lie wrote none himself In tho
days Of his youth he had written q let
ter and had not been afraid to travel
fifty miles and more on horseback and
by wagon 60 post H. and now people
complained II they had TO go a mile"
rfat 90.
hear that goddess people IN johannesburg
had insulted the Almighty by firing
bombs at the sky in time Of drought
TO endeavor TO bring rain. The Rand
railway was only built through the sub
terfuge OF calling It tram" Fierce
discussions arose on n proposal 70 de-
stroy locusts and some members were
80 offended at tho ties affected by their
more up-to-dnte colleagues that they pro-
posed that the size and shape Of the neck
ties worn by legislators should be defined
by law.
At one time In Johannesburg oranges
were at famine prices, and an oriental
trader went out with a cart 20 farm on
which there we're many trees. lie offered
6 shillngs a 100 for the fruit, and In order
TO keep count arranged that for each 100
oranges placed on the cart he should put
'tickey" Ga 3-penny piece in the far
mer's hat. When the hat had become
about half fun Of "tickeys" the trader
purposely looked away for a few mo-
ments. The Boer did Just what the trader
expected. lie hurriedly plunged a hand
into tho hat and thrust a handful Of
"tlckeys" into his pocket and when the
trader paid for the oranges according to
the number OF "tickeys' In the hot the
Boer did not realize that he had robbed
himself OF shllllngs Q pense for every
Hickey" no had put into his pocket.
But the Boer was never match for the
East End dealer. A farmer who had had
some transactions with a trader took the
precaution Of arming himself with
ready reckoner. The trader worked out
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-22
HOME OF The SIMPLE LIFE
Section of South Africa Where
Standpatism is the Rule.
RURAL PICTURES FROM BoERDOM
balloon Ascension n SIystery 90 tho
Natives aud Letter WritinE
ma Unusual Occupa-

A few days ago Capt Spelterini. the "a
nous aeronaut, made the first balloon
ascent ever witnessed in the Transvaal
rising TO a height OF 1000 feet above
Johannesburg. As he was descending
near the Free state border two Boer
farmers noticed the strange apparition
in the sky. They were much perturbod.
They seized their Mausers and deliber-
ated whether Il would not be advisable
20 shoot the mysterious aerial intruder,
which seemed TO them e. be some I'M
known monster of the air Happily they
hesitated long enough TO see that there
were human beings in the curious globe
But the incident should serve to re-
mind those who expect exceedingly rapid
development IN rural South Africa that
many Of tho quaint ideas Of the simple
NoortrekkerH still cling TO the weld. The
old type Of Boer farmer IS disappearing
before the advance OF education But
he is going slowly II you read the
Dutch papers you will stu find very
earnest and very indignant correspon-
dents protesting that the destruction OF
locusts is a blasphemous attempt to OPP
pose the will OF the Almighty, who had
sent the bCOufHe as punishment lot
the sinfulness Of the people. You will
find farmers declaring that the natural
diseases Of stocl; should not be inter
fered with. and suggesting that all the
government veterinary surgeons should
be turned Osit OF the country.
simplicity of the Beers.
The traders and prospectors IN the
Transvaal tell many a delightful story
Of the simplicity Of these old Voortrek-
kers. whose hospitality unfortunately
was often but III repaid.
one Of the best known of these stories
relates how a well.known mining mag
nate purchased rich gold bearing farm.
IL was at the time THAT the Beers first
began to realize thae some of the in
trudlng strangers into their country
were unaccountably willing TO pay large
sums for land. Prices rose. not because
the farmers had the faintest idea of the
value Of the sums thee demanded. but
simply because the large amounts
sounded we'll in their ears. SO when
this magnate wished 10 buy a particular
farm he was met with demand for
eiO0Oo In gold The owner would not
hoar OF anything less. He did not know
what 100000 meant. but the sound of
the globular sum pleased him. At last
the mining man consented. The trans
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-22

Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph II. Choate cele-
brated their golden wedding anniversary
at their home in Stockbridge. Mass, last
Monday. Nearly 500 invited guests at
tended the reception.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-01-05
outside, but heard plainly everythir that transpired."
 Sisters Vivid Dream.

One of the remarkable features of the murder of Chitwood was the start ling dream his sister, Mrs. Ben God man, who lives in the Rag Weed val ley district, on Clear Creek, told friends in this city she had the night her brother was murdered.
 was awakened by terrible dream the night they killed Oscar, she said to friends in this city. ''In my dream I saw plainly the men talk ing him out of his cell and shoot na him. l heard him cry, For Gods sake don't kill me, and I heard the shots fired, too. I could not sleep after this. My dream came to me early In the morning. Finding I could not go to sleep again, I got up, dressed, looked at the clock. It was ? a. m. I remained up for the remainder of the night"
 Attorney J. L. Graham, counsel for Chitwood, stated today he had been re- tained not only for the prosecution of those who killed Oscar Chitwood. but also to bring heavy damage suit against the sheriff of Garland county for the acts of his deputies in permit t. ting the killing of their prisoner.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-01-05
Short Session to be Resumed Today and Tariff Commis-
 sion Will Be Big Issue.
TO SPEAK ON LORIMER
Report Other Important Mat ters to Be Considered in
 Senate and House.
International News Special


 Washington, D. C., Jan. 4-W:th only fifty working days to it's credit before the short session ends Con- gress starts in tomorrow with the Headers determined that nothing 4n the shape of general legislation shall be attempted except the author. .zation of the Tariff Commission and legis- lation pertaining to the protection o1 the Panama Canal.
 In the Senate the Dorimer case and the consideration of the proposed Tar if Commission will be productive of debate and both will be used as buff fers to consume time and present ac t on on propositions to which the or ganization leaders are opposed.
 Thus far only one appropriation bill the urgent deficiency, has been passed in the Senate. The, Indian, Rivers and Harbors and pension bills are in committee and one of these will be re 
 The unfinished business is the ShiT Subsidy measure which has not yet been discussed, and which may be called up at any time for consideration and vote.
 Conservation will come to the Front February 15 when the senate under an agreement reached last session will vote On the subject to create the Alp palachian reserve on the Atlantic coast.
 Senator Owens, of Oklahoma, will , address the Senate tomorrow in op- position to the committees report Il the Lorimer case and Friday Senator NeWlands WSll speak on the Tariff Commission. Meanwhile the various supply bills are to be put into shape and then held in committee until the readers are ready for them to be sworn into the hopper. The maya and the sundry river bills will be pro. i;fic of debate
 In the house, legislative, executive and judicial bills will be taken up to- morrow. After it is disposed of the bill of the navy, army, postOffice, mils- tary academy and sundry civil appro priations will be we'll along to compile. ] tion. It is probable the military b.l will be the next to be taken up. The 1 fertilization bill will be held back be- cause of the light over money for for. tifying the Panama Canal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-01-05
THIRD MAN IN
 CH|TWOOD CASE? Special Grand Jury May Be Called to Further Inves-
 tigate Lynching.
TO SUE THE SHERIFF
Sister Tells That She Saw Lynching in Dream the Night it
 Occurred.

Hot Springs, Jan. 4.-If the public demands it, Circuit Judge Evans, it is said, will summon a special grand jury to continue the investigation of the murder of Oscar Chitwood, for which crime the eoroner's jury has or- dered Ben Murray, chief deputy and John Ruth erford, deputy sheriff held without bail.
 There appears to be "a universal sentiment among the people that the grand jury take up this work immedi- ately and ascertain, if possible, who the others, were as indicated in the verdict rendered by the coroner's s jury. That others beside the two men men toned we're implicated no one who has had anything to do with the investi- gation will deny
 This crime, now that the eoroner's jury has completed it's work, is char acterized as one of the most atrocious and terrible in the history of Garland county.
 Had No Chance For Life.
 Tt made me sick to listen to the testimony" said Carlton Taylor, one of the jurors. ''Chitwood did not have a chance for his life They went to his cell and told him they were go- ing to take him to the city jail, from there be transferred to the peniten tiary at Little Rock. He believed them. When he stepped outside the jail they seized him, choked him, in tend ng to render him unconscious, after which they would have hung him on the same gallows that Harry Poe, the negro, was executed. Chit wood managed to cry out, and then they shot him to death
 Some of the witnesses, prisoners in the county jail, stated they heard Rutherford tell Chitwood that he was going to take him to the city jail. Chitwood seemed glad to leave the county prison. When he stepped out side, the witnesses said, they saw two hands reach up and grab Chitwood by the throat. He tried to step back in- to the jail, but Rutherford, according to witnesses, told him to go ahead saying the persons outside were going to help him (RutherforD convey Chit wood to the city prison" said Judge Wood, prosecuting attorney after the verdict had been made public.
 Another juror said: We heard testimony to the effect that Chitwood cried out. Oh, MT. Houpt, for Gods sake don't kill me. Let me stand trial.' These witnesses who were prisoners in the jail, could not see
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-01-05
Famous Northern Pacific Chicago Train Held up in
 Seattle City Limits.
R OB B ED M ALL CA R
Two Masked Men Shoot Mail Clerks, Get Big Sum and Make
 Getaway.
International News Special

International News Special
 Seattle, Wash, Jan 4.-The North ern Pacific Railways crack through Chicago tra Il known as the North Coast Limited No. ?, Conductor o, F. Kittridge,. was held up to night at about o'clock at Argo, within the city limits of Seattle, and the mail car robbed alter the bandits had shot down Harry O. Clark, in charge of the car, and fired at Clerk Reid, his assist ant.
 Clark was shot in the mouth The bullet knocked out several teeth and lodged in his head. He is disfigured for life and perhaps dangerously wounded. Reid escaped, owing to the bad markmanship of the band ts, and continued in charge of the car the train proceeding after Clark had been removed from it and returned to Seat tie. There were two of the robbers, both masked and there is little doubt that they made big haul as the car contained an unusually large amount of registered mail matter.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-01-05
TWELVE YEARS
 FOR GALLAGHER Man Who Shot Mayor Gay nor is Given Speedy Trial
 and Convicted.
ADJUDGED SANE MAN
Hurriedly Placed on Trial-Steamship Employees Testify That He Made
 Inquiry.
International News Special


 New York, Jan. 4.-''Twelve I. years at hard labor n the penitentiary and then until the cost of prosecution was paid was the sentence pronounce ed this afternoon on James J. Gallagher. who shot Mayor Gaynor, in the court of Oyer and Temmer, in Jersey City. Having been adjudged sane yesterday Gallagher was put on trial today on the charge of assault on Street Com- missioner Edwards, on board the liner Kaiser Wilhelm de Crosse, on August 9, last.
 Such rapid progress was made that the jury was chosen and the state had presented it's evidence before noon. The verdict was returned in forty minutes. No testimony was offered in the defendants behalf. At torney Simpson rested his case with the request that the charge be dis missed on the grounds that no intent on Gallagher's part to kill Edwards had been shown.
 Three employees of the steamship company were the first witnesses for the prosecution and they told of Gal lagher's inquiry as to the presence of Mayor Gaynor on board.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-01-05

"l do not intend to build any new bridges or work the roads to any great extent between now and July and therefore consider it waste Of county funds to employ a bridge and road commissioner at the present time. It means q saving of about $75 per month for the county if l look after the bridges and roads and l intend to g.Ve them my personal at tention antii July anyway
 When he tondored his resignation MT. Barraqae stated that he did not think his services were needed by tho county at th+s time and Chat the county judge and yar.ous road oyer seers could perform the duties Of the office aceeptably, without the aid of a road and bridge commissioner.
 Judge Philpot will have the county teams at work in various parts of the county from { me to me until d gen. eral system of road work is 10 be out lined in July.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-01-05
WILL CONTEST
 CASE RESUMED "Lucky'' Baldwin Estate Wrangle Taken Up Again
 in Los Angeles. w A N T S 5 5000 0 Beatrice Turnbu!i Identified By Her
 Mother as BaidWins
 Daughter.
w A N T s 5 5000 c

International News Special
 Los Angeles, Cal, Jan f.-After an adjournment over the holidays the hearing of the "iucky" Baldwin will contest ease, ill which Beatrice Anita Tnrnbul is seek ng to recover a daughters share of $2,50o,000 or two Il nths of the $12,000,000 estate, was resumed in Judge Rives' department of the Superior Court at ? o'clock this afternoon
 Mrs. Lillian Turnbull who had pre- viously undergone five days of cross examination by the attorneys for the Baldwin heirs, Was again on the stand today and at the close of the session Garret McEnerny, the leading counsel for the defense, announced that they had not concluded with Mrs. Turnbull and her cross examination would be resumed when the court convened tOmmoroW morning.
 Several sensations were sprung dur ;ng the afternoon, the first surprise occurring when Beatrice, the 17-yeur- old claimant was formerly identified by her mother, as the child of her uu- ion with "Lucky" Baldwin