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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-07
FIREMAN FREE OF
COWARD CHARGE
Longwasser, However, Is Fined
Three Days Pay for
Neglect of Duty.

The fire board yesterday exonerated
William c. Langwasser, a ladderman
of Truck No. 2, on a charge of cow
ardice, but fined him three days pay
for neglect of duty. Acting Chief
McDermit declared that during a
fire at 1913 West Park street August
10 Langwasser stood In the street
smoking a cigar and refused to en-
ter the burning buildings. The fire.
man persisted in disregarding orders,
the acting chief said, until Lieuten-
ant Caffrey came from the building
and talked with him for more than
ten minutes.
Langwasser declares he was stand
ing by his truck to ecove from ex-
haustion brought on by work at the
fire. He returned to the building, he
asserts, as soon as he was able. He
charges the acting chief with at
tempting to assault him.
Trial for Clark.
A trial will be given Robert Clark,
| of Engine Company Nc. IA, who re-
| signed from the department after
charges were brought against him by
| Captain Stimis on August 2, and then
requested that his resignation be
withdrawn.
Charges were entered by the acting
! chief against Thomas F. Cavanaugn,
of Truck No. 3, for entering a saloon
while in uniform. Cavanaugh was
injured on Wednesday last, when the
truck met with an accident while
crossing the Warren street canal
bridge.
A report from the expert account
ant who recently completed exam
lining the fire department pension
books, was most gratifying. The
books show the receipts to be SAL,
500. O9. with disbursements amounting
to SIG, 994.64. Cash in ban on June
26. S24, 626 %. The assets in 1911
amounted to $119. 926. 25, an increase OF
500, s17.15 over 1910. The financial re-
port of the department for SIX
months ended June 30 was $41,214.6l;
disbursements, $34, 334.05; cash In
bank, $751; 8 SO. The financial report
includes $40, s17.15. last year IN
crease. This brings the assets to
$104, 1876. Sc.
Petition for Boxes.
A number of people in the vicinity
| of Adams and South streets Sent IN
a petition requesting that a fire alarm
box be put in. The neares o IN
that vicinity is over half a mile away.
A letter was received from Bishop
| O'Connor thanking the board for ap-
pointing the Rev. M. P. Corcoran a
chaplain in the department. A letter
was also received from the Rev.
James Clayton Howard, of the Halsey
| Street M. z. Church, stating that he
would accept the offer of becoming
one of the chaplains.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-07
DINNER R FOR THE
DUCHESS DE LORENZA
Covers Laid for Twelve at Es-
sex Country Club.

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Wehrhane, OF
Llewellyn Park, West Orange, who
have as their guest the Duchess de
Lorenza, of Como, Italy, will give a
dinner party tonight for the duchess
at the Essex County Country Club
Covers will be laid for twelve.
The guests will be Herbert Lord
Captain James Burns, United States
army; Harry Fair, Elliott Foot, OF
New York; Miss Vroom, of Tuxedo;
Miss Toby, of Orange; Arthur Knoll
hoff, of East Orange. and Miss Wehr-
hane. The decorations will be asters
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-07
FEIGENSPAN TO ATTEND
BREWERS CONVENTION

Christian w. Feigenspan, of this
city, will attend the ~fifty-second an
nual convention of the United States
Brewers Association, to be held in
Boston, September Is. 10 and 20. This
will be the first time in twenty years
that the association has met in Bos-
ton.
As a member of the vigilance COM
mittee MI. Feigenspan will present
a comprehensive report covering
political conditions country-wide, af-
fecting the brewer, with especial
reference to the status of the prohibit
ton movement.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-07
1.-THE PROSECUTOR" TO
HOLD BOARDS AT JACOBS

James Lawrence Chaloner married
money. He started to use up that
money at a lightning clip, his wife
being powerless to stop him. At
last a murder was committed at a
resort Chaloner frequented, and he
was arrested for the crime. The
event proved that Chaloner had not
only married money, but a woman
with undreamed-of qualities of self
sacrifice. The story of her triumph of
woman's love is told in "The Prose-
cutor," Franklin Seabright's play of
civic life. which will be presented
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-07
MAY ARBITRATE TROUBLE
OFMUSICIANS AMI THEATRES

The arbitration committee of the
Essex Trades Council is expected to
be called 10 Monday to adjust some
differences which have arisen between
the Musicians Union and the man
agement of the Lyric, Odeon and
Washington theatres.
The union plano players and drum
mers employed at these houses have
been out since Monday because of
salary differences. The Lyric Thea
tire. it is said, has practically ac-
coded to the demands Of the musi-
clans
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-07
AGED FARMER SLAIN

WATERFOWL, N. Y. Sept. l.
Patrick Burns, 81 years of age, a
who lived ear Carthage,
twenty miles from here, was found
murdered in his home. A hired man,
who is said to have wandered in and
claimed New York as his home. can
not be found. Robbery was the mo-
tive. A considerable sum of money
and a rifle are missing.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-07

J. K. Fried; Richter, William Nay
lor; Catherwood, Robert Livingston;
Ephraim, Charles Sloane; Puss Rus
sell, Miss Mabel Estelle; Mrs. Brice,
Miss Sadie Radcliffe, and Maud Cath
erwood, Miss Virginia Wilson,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-07
PILES CURED AT HOME BY
NEW ABSORPTION METHOD

II YOU suffer from bleeding, itching,
blind or protruding Piles, send me your
address, and l will tell you how to cure
Yourself at home by the new absorption
treatment: and viii also send some of
references from your own locality II re-
uuested. Immediate relief and permanent
cure assured. Send no money, but tell
III Summers. BOX P. Metre Dame, nd
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-07

latter half of the week. beginning
Thursday, the bill will be dominated
by Gus Sohlke's Loly-pop Girls, In
a snappy musical act.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-07

next week at Jacobs's Theatre, for
merly the Columbia.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-05-01
Efforts for Bigger Pay--What Has
Been Effected in the Struggles
Which Have Taken Place
Since 1900.

Philadelphia, Pa-The suspension
81 coal mining in the anthracite re-
gions of Pennsylvania is the fourth
general labor disturbance in the indus
try in II years. In 1900, the miners
struck six weeks; in 1902 they were
out five and half months and in 1906
they again suspended work for six
weeks. In the 1900 and 1902 strikes
the coal diggers, through the United
Mine Workers of America, won an
increase in wages and readjustment
of working conditions. In neither
struggle, however, did the organiza-
ton obtain what it has in some of the
bituminous fields-straightout recog-
milton Of the union.
In the following year there was no
general movement, but 102 separate
strikes were recorded during the year.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-05-01
Preacher in Prison Three Years as
Murderer, His Supposed Vic
tim Appears.

Suffolk, Va.-The fallibility of
courts, the unreliability of circumstan-
tia1 evidence and the depravity of per-
jured witnesses all figure with Pc
culiar force in court drama which
had it's denouement here recently.
A man for whose murder another
man already has served three years
in prison on an eighteen year sentence
suddenly appeared and had his ident-
ity clearly established by dozens of
reliable witnesses. Both principals
are preachers and both are negroes.
Rev Ernest Lyons confessed to the
murder of Rev. James Larry Smith,
the man who apparently sprang from
the tomb to face those who had sent
Rev. Mr.. Lyons to prison. The rea-
son for the confession was disclosed
by the county clerk, George E. Bunt-
ing, who was neighbor Of Lyons at
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-05-01
Change Made in Rules Governing
Military Records.
Regulation Inaueurated by General
Ainsworth Prevented Profitable In
vestIgation of Valuable Papers
in Files at Washington.

Washington.-With a few days
the military archives housed in the
war department in Washington will
be made accessible to students and in
vestigators-a step which students
and Investigators for years have been
endeavoring to have the government
take
Pending the issuance of the new reg
.ulations, the authorities in charge
have let it be known that those desir-
ing to consult the archives may obtain
permission at the Office of Secretary
of War Stimson.
The significance of this revolution
airy change can best be appreciated by
reference to a report made to the
president in 1908 on the historical
documents of the United States and
signed by Messrs. Worthington C.
Ford, Charles Francis Adams, Charles
M. Andrews, William A. Dunning, Al
bert Bushnell Hart, Andrew c. Nc
Laughlin, Alfred T. Mahan, Frederick
]. Turner and ]. Franklin Jameson.
They said, speaking particularly of
the acts of congress of July 27, 1892,
and August Is, 1894, which provided
that all military records of the revo-
luton and the war of 1912 should be
transferred to the war department and
there properly indexed and arranged
for use, that under existing condi-
tons at the war department their eff
feet has been to make these materials
entirely inaccessible to historians, as
may be seen by perusal of the regu-
lations Of 1897 and still in force.
Those regulations provide for
proper supply of information to per-
sons seeking pensions or admissions
to patriotic-hereditary societies, but
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-05-01
WHEN ROYALTY VISITS US
Writer Recalls Sundry Times When
Various Exalted Persons Failed to
Disturb Our Composure.

Writing on the visit of the Con
Aaughts to New York. F. D. Dunno in
the Metropolitan Magazine says:
other royal personages have looked
us over in the past The late king OF
England came to America before the
war and must have been extremely ac-
tive on his feet for at least 1O,0oU
old ladies are still alive who danced
with him. Princess Louise we al
ways remember with respect as the
first person who had the courage 10
speak out against the. filth and In
decency of the American sleeping car
of the time. We had Dom Pedro OF
Brazil with us for awhile. Ten years
ago we were favored with the pres
ence of Prince Henry of Prussia
Long before that came the king of the
Sandwich islands, an agreeable brown
potentate with taste for drawing to
inside straights. 1t is so long ago
that we can't recall whether the
sadies of New York made themselves
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-05-01
Big Loss By Country's Strikes

The 1902 strike was the greatest in
the history of the country. The union
asked for 20 per cent. increase in
wages, reduction in hours from ten
10 eight day and recognition of the
union The strike lasted from May
IL to October 23 Nearly $4,000
workers were idle and thousands of
railroad and other workers we're
thrown out of employment. The en-
tire national guard of Pennsylvania,
about 10000 men, were called into
service before the struggle came to
an end.
Loss Was Over $1oo,ooo,ooo.
President Roosevelt was instrument
tai In bringing the two sides together
and to agreeing to the appointing Of
the anthracite coal strike commission
to arbitrate the differences. The COM
mission visited many mines and ex-
amined 558 witnesses between Octo-
Der, 1902. and February, 1903. 1t
awarded a 10 per cent. increase in
wages to miners and reduced the hours
OF the men from ten to nine day.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-05-01
chanalna Famous Street.

The Strand. London's Broadway
will be more modern in appearance
within a short time. To widen thiA
narrow main artery of traffic many
buildings and a parallel street were
sacrificed, and while the traffic situa
ton was improved the general aspect
of things from the artistic viewpoint
was not. Since that improvement was
made great area on the north side
Of the Strand. surrounded partly by a
fence and having erected on it tall ad
vertising signboards rented by the
thrifty London County Council. has
been al eyesore to most persons.
Now the way has been paved for the
erection of handsome buildings on
this valuable piece of property.-The
krgonaut
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-05-01

fore congress the necessity of cutting
down this very clerical force, and as
consistently and regularly discour-
aged any historical students from in
speeding the records.
There are those in Washington who
say that General Ainsworth's resigna-
ton has cleared the way for the new
order of things about to be inaugu-
rated. At any rate, the records here
after will be open.
1t will be difficult to estimate what
an enormous loss to American history
these regulations have entailed The
military archives of the United States
contain much else than simply the rec
ords of military operations. AS one
man has put it:
THE army was so largely the ad-
vance guard of American civilization
in its westward march across the con-
tinent that the archives contain a
great wealth of material for the I'M
derstanding of pioneer conditions and
the early history of all parts of the
United States but the Atlantic sea-
board.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-05-01

in early days, Mr. Shelton has in sew
eral instances picked as policemen In
dams who have been known as bad i"
Some of the most valuable members
of the force have been engaged in
ugly outbreaks in the past, but the
agent has been justified in his shrewd
choice. for the DOMINIC of the official
blue has in every case served to elm
mate the ''broncho" in the redskins
disposition
One of the most Jealous members of
the force today was a leader in an out
break in what Is known as the -Four
Corners Country" where the states of
Colorado. Utah, Arizona and New
Mexico meet. Some "broncho" Indians
got into difficulty with a trader, who
quickly rallied dozen or more cow
boys TO his support. Shots were ex-
changed and the cowboys were com
PEELED to stand at bay in the hills.
where 1t seemed probable that they
would be massacred unless they Sc.
cured aid The trader volunteered to
attempt to get through the encircling
lines of Indians and said he would
hoist white handkerchief on a near
by bill If he got through.
When the handkerchief futtered on
the hill the Indians saw It and real
lied what it meant Two of them
struck the trail of the trader and start
ed in hot pursuit. One of the Indians
is now a policeman. He tells today
how he pursued the trader with MUIR
der in his heart and felt strong enough
to kill all the white men in the world.
But the trader halted just after round
ing the brow of tbs hill and when the
Indians cams ypcu him he had them
covered with rifle and ordered them
to throw up their hands.
When looked into the barrel of
that gum said the policeman laugh
ingly, Il didn't feel strong any more.
felt just as weak as little child"
The Indians both threw down their
guns at the traders direction. and aft
er he coniscated the weapons he rode
on to the nearest fort, and the cow
boys were relieved. Since that day
old Ya-be-nee mas been strong" for
the government, and most of the time
has been a Jealous and efficient men,
Der of the Navajo police force. Others
on the force have records" which
v~ey have atoned for by faithful serv-
ice in behalf of the law
The chief of the Navajo Indian po-
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-05-01

close the archives of the war depart
ment absolutely to American historical
investigators.
The regulations of 1897" which
thus clapped the lid on these public
documents is a long and elaborate
piece of literature. 1t is signed by
Daniel s. Lamont, as secretary of
war, and specifies as the chief reason
why the records cannot be used for
the compilation of statistical and 9TH
er data" the fact that "the limited
clerical force allowed by law Is insult
ficient to enable the department to
comply with such requests without
serious interference with more i'm
portant current work"
On the face of it, this appears plaus-
IDLE enough, but there is reason with
in the reason advanced. In short,
General Ainsworth, lately put on the
retired list, consistently advocated be-
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-05-01

agreeable to him in the historic man
ner of the Cannibal islands by ask
ing him in to pick an acquaintance
with them, but 1t is a fact of history
that the proprietor of a hotel in Chi
cago did meet him at the door and in
quire whether he wouldn't like to go
to his room and wash up Under all
these honors, as far as we are in
formed. the American public bore It.
self with some degree of composure,
but the arrival of the duke on a pure
ly social visit was too much for the
pent-up aristocratic emotions Of all sec
tons of the population. and they re-
ceived him with as great show of
fealty as though he were the reigning
prince and they his sworn subjects. !"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-05-01

ONE drops in at the Office Of w.
I. Shelton, agent of the Navajo In
dams at Shiprock. N M. at any
time of the day or evening the
chances are he will find one or
two blue-clad Indian policemen on
hand. They represent the central
detatl' of the reservation police force
There are eight or ten others scat
tered among the hills and mesas and
this little band has driven the outlaws
and whisky sellers out of territory
of 5000 square miles in extent.
The Navajo Indian police are hard
riders, game fighters and above all
things else. faithful to their agent,
whom they regard as a sort of walking
edition of Uncle Sam himself, says
writer in the Los Angeles Times. They
care little about the munificent salary
of $40 month the government pays
them for their services 1t is for
'Non-ton-ni-pez" (the tall captain), as
they term Mr.. Shelton, that they face
more dangers than fall to the lot of
the average city policeman, to say
nothing of hardships to which the COM
fortably housed metropolitan officer is
a total stranger.
I There is a certain element OF pride
in wearing the government uniforms
also and in the authority it gives the
wearer among his tribesmen-to say
nothing of the delights of life in the
saddle which appeal to any of these
horsemen of the desert.
1t would seem impossible for less
than a dozen men to keep order and
enforce the laws in a range of terri
tory as extensive as a New England
state, but the police under Agent Shell
ton have done it for eight years. Only
once was it necessary to call upon the
soldiers for assistance and that ~as in
subduing an Indian outlaw. By-A-lil-le,
who had gathered a number of sup
porters and was bent on leading a
Robin Hood existence in the most in
accessible part of the reservation.
When By-a-lil-le was finally captured
the Indian police were in the van and
bore the brunt of the fire which the
outlaw and his retainers directed at
the representatives of law and order
Choosing Candidates for the Police.
In choosing candidates 70 the In
dian police influential men among the
Indians are picked. Following sho ex-
ample of those who selected ir~Btier
marshals from among the -gSnmen"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-05-01

spending to the medaille militaire
granted in recognition of valor, and
equivalent to the Victoria cross. The
French mothers who bring up eight
children ask for the badge of courage,
and Nj. Reynald, the senator, approves
them, but he cannot hit upon name
for the new legion. The senate Is tt,
be left to choose the title. The pen
sion claimed for brave mothers is not
exorbitant. 1t is to be only 20 francs
a year per child. I'VE commend their
moderation" adds Senator Reynald,
and as spokesman of the committee
he proposes the scheme to the min
istry of the interior. with a strong
recommendation for approval.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-05-01

/ lice is Doctor John. one OF the pes:
orators and most influential men gen
orally In the tribe The Indian has a
weakness for oratory. and Doctor John
| Is a speaker whose f1uency would
rouse the envy of some of our famous
| silver tongued" statesmen. But his
| gift of eloquence is not all of Doctor
Johns qualifications. He knows every
| hole and corner of the reservation.
and when he is told to get" an Indian
he brings in the culprit no matter to
what unfrequented art of the noun
tains or plains he has to travel.
Above all. he is strong TO- the gov
eminent and the white n, MS ways,
and uses his powerful influence In get
ting the Indians to spend less time
dancing and more time cultivating
their crops. Doctor John speaks few
words of English, and most of his or
ders are received through the agency
interpreter, but he is more valuable to
the agent than many of the men who
boast education at the white mans
schools.
Several times the Indian police have
had combats with horse thieves who
have undertaken to run stolen herds
into the Businesses of the reservation.
So many horse thieves have been cap
tured by the Navajos that the horse
stealing gentry now give the reserva
ton a wide berth.
Stamping Out BootIegging.
In stamping out bootlegging the
police have rendered efficient aid
There is little or no liquor brought on
the Navajo reservation. The white
men engaged in this traffic have had
a sad experience at the hands of the
government agent and his police, and
stick to the dry" towns adjoining the
reservation, where there is less vigil
ance in evidence.
"If the Indian police err at ALL it is
in excess of faithfulness in carrying
out orders" said Mr. Shelton recently
81 had that proved in laughable man.
ner not long ago. A tramp applied at
| the agency for work, but | told him
there was nothing and he went on his
way. That night l thought Of some.
! thing he might do II he were really
/
in earnest about earning an homes.
dollar, and l told one of the Indian po
| lice to catch up with him and tell him
| that | wanted to see him.
THE tramp didn't know what &
| wanted and refused to come. Whet
he persisted in going on his way the
! Indian policeman roped him, tied hin
hand and foot and came Jogging bach
to the Office with the tramp on his
horse The tramp was furious and nc
explanations that l could make would
soothe his wounded feelings. He
spurned the work | offered and finally
had to order him off the reservation
by the shortest route-which didn't
| happen to be the one he was taking
when the Indian policeman caught
him.
There are no frills about the Navajo
Indian police. They ride hard mouth
ed little ponies and ride them with
little mercy. Some of the police are
sheep owners and wealthy. Most of
them are farmers and own little
punches of cattle. Big Man. Big
Horse, Shorty, Red Goat, Black Horse
and Oliver Jones are the names OF
some of Doctor Johns assistants IN
preserving the peace of Navajo land