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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-16
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

John Is. Williams, Jr., 43 years old, of
10 Brooklne avenue, Brookline. and
Herbert $. Virtue. So years old, of Brad
ford road, Newton Highlands. were plac-
ed under arrest by the Boston police,
Saturday. charged with the larceny of
sS7,075 from Mrs. Mary l.. Rogers of 500
Beacon street, in connection with the de
luxe book cases.
Three persons were killed and eight
injured, several probably MORALLY,
Saturday, when an express train
known as the Atlantic City filler" on
the New Jersey Central ran into an
automobile stage at grade crossing
between Roosevelt and Perth Amboy,
n. j. The automobile, a closed ma
chine, resembling a trolley car, con-
tanned IL persons. There is no gate
at the crossing, The train, running
at an estimated speed of so miles an
hour, hurled the stage and its occu-
pants a distance of so feet.
A bandit suspected of being Frank
Smith who week ago escaped from the
Brighton, Col, jail, where he was held
for murder, entered the Denver & Rio
Grande station at Pando, 20 miles west of
Leadvile, Col, Saturday night. held up
the station agent, c. N Kinney, and
three other men, marched them down
the track, struck William Maxfield over
the head with his revolver and then shot
him dead. An hour and twenty minutes
later the bandit was captured by mem
bers of bridge crew. He now is In Jail
at Redcliff He gave his name as Burns.
but refused to answer any other ques-
tons.
Flames and smoke belching from
an ancient tomb in the old Eliot street
burying ground in Jamaica Plain,
Mass, called the fire department to
that cemetery, late Sunday. The fire
had started in some unknown manner
among Il considerable quantity of died
| leaves which had been blown into the
| tomb for several years past. The fire
was believed to be extinguished, but
| broke out a second time several hours
| later and necessitated a call The tomb
| was built in 1914, in memory of Will
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-16
CAPITAL JOTTlNGS.

The National Museum at Washing
ton has added to its historical colec-
ton four antique chairs that once
were the property of Alexander Ham
itoi1. Two of them were the property
of Maj Gen. Philip Schuyler of the
Continental Army, who bequeathed
them to his daughter the wife of Ham
ilton. The furniture is in excellent
state Of preservation and was loaned
to the museum by DR.. Allan McLane
Hamilton.
The appeal of New England state
and city representatives for special
rule in the House providing for imme-
diete consideration of the O'Shaunes-
sy resolution. to authorize an investi-
cation of alleged violation Of the
Sherman law by the New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad, will be
passed upon by the rules committee,
early next week. The New England
representatives in Congress confident
ly expect favorable action.
Enlivened by songs, speeches and
stunts recalling the early days of
American occupation in the Philip
pines, the 10th annual ''wallow" of the
Washington Corral of the Military Or
DEF of the Carabao. held. Saturday
night, was the most successful in the
hisory of the organization whose mem
bers comprise most of the army, navy
and Marine Corps officers who served
in the Philippines during the days
of the empire" from 1898 to 1902.
Colonel Speyer Cosby, chief aide to
President Taft. Saturday, received y
painting depicting the sinking of the
Titanic and the rescue Of some of her
passengers. Gilbert Gaul, a New York
artiet. offered ii as contribution to
the fund being raised for a memorial
in Washington to Major A. w. Butt,
President Taft's former aide, and +.
d. Millett, a Washington artist, who
persisted with the ship. The fund for
the memorial which will stand near
the White House, was raised among
personal friends of Major Butt and
Mr.. Millett.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-16
BOSTON MANS SKELETON.
Remains Believed to Be Those OF
Stanley Major of South Roxbury.

Aver, Mass, Dee. IA skeleton
found in the woods here, today, is be-
lieved to be that of a Boston man.
In pocket of the tattered clothing
about the bones was a watch bearing
the inscription City of Boston games
July 4, 1910. Second-449 yards
1t was Stanley Major of Roxbury, a
member of the South Boston A. c.,
who won second prize in the 440-
yards dash on Boston Common, July
4. 1910. and the police were endeavor-
ing to determine his present where =
abouts. Another possible means of
identification was found on the body
in the form of draft book of the
Wildey Savings Bank of Boston, num-
bered 65,479. Near the skeleton was
found a two-ounce bottle, empty.
Chief of Police Patrick ]. Beatty and
Medical Examiner Frank S. Buckley
said, tonight, they thought the case
was one of suicide, and that the bot
tie once held poison. The remnants
of a straw hat were about the skull.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-16
STOLE $4,000.
Bookkeeper of Derby Desk Co. Ar
rested for Larceny from the Concern

Boston, Dec. 15.-Robert II. Nc
Fawn of Somerville, bookkeeper and
cashier of the Derby Desk Co.. for IL
years, until last June, when he dis
appeared, is under arrest at police
headquarters charged with the larceny
of $4,000 from the desk concern. He
was located in Boston, last night, by a
bonding company detectives.
McFawn was given signed checks to
fl out to pay off employees and made
them out for amounts larger than ne
cessary. pocketing the balances, it is
alleged.
Shortly before his disappearance, he
was arrested at the instigation of de-
tect;veS hired by his wife and was
fined in the local court for living with
woman not his wife, in Winthrop
Much of the money which he is charg-
ed with having stolen is alleged to
have gone to maintain his Winthrop
home. McFawn is So years of age. Bal
was fixed at $4,000 which McFawr
was unable to furnish.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-16

Waterville Dairy Improvement AS
ISOLATION will meet. Dec. IS, at rooms
of the Woman's Association in this
city. Meeting called to order, at 1.30.
Dining rooms can be used by men,
bers, shortly after l o'clock, and those
who are in the city for all day. by
bringing cups, can have coffee with
their lunches. Prof r. w. Redman
of the University of Maine will speak
and has expressed desire to talk
with the members before the meeting.
SO it is hoped many will be present
and as soon after / o'clock as con-
Venient.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-16
Rose-Tinted Mountains.

The rosy light that tinges so beauti-
fully the SUBMITS of lofty, snow-cia
mountains before sunrise and after
sunset is due to the fact that the yell
low and red rays of light possess more
penetrative power than the blue. The
aforementioned rays make their way
through stretches of the atmosphere
which entirely arrest and turn back
the blue, and they do this the more
especially if the air is laden at the
time with extraneous particles that
augment their opacity.
When the sun is below the horizon
the red and yellow rays struggle on
through the air as far as the snowy
heights. dropping their associates b.
the way, and thus paint their heecA
surfaces with red and yellow tinted
light. This roseate afterglow is very
beautifully seen on the Jungrau. TIL
broad based cone is suddenly covered
in the deepening twilight with tn;
crimson hue of the rose, and this
gradually fades until the whole ha'
vanished into darkness.-Harper
Weekly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-16
SMALL HOPE FOR
LITTLE GIRL Who
PLAYS With FIRE,

Viola Pierson, the 3-year-old dansh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. b. G.. Pierson, was
burned severely, at about LEO p. NJ,
Saturday. while playing at her home
or. Cony street. 1t is not known
whether her clothing caught on fire,
while she was playing with matches
or while playing with the stove, for
her mother, who was the only other
person in the house at the time, was
working in room on the floor above.
The mothers attention was attract
ed by a cry of agony from the child
and running down stairs she saw that
the young child's clothing was all
ablaze and screamed for help. MIR.
Pitrson, who is employed as day por-
ter at Hotel North, happened to be
coming into the house from work just
as the frightened mother opened the
door and he Immediately seized the
child and began to tear off the burn
ing clothing.
Although he did some very quick
work ne could not remove the clothing
until the child had been burned Sc
verely all over the front part of her
body and face. If it had not been for
the presence, of mind of the father, the
chili would have probably been burn
ed to death before aid could have ar
rived. Mr.. Persons hands were burn
ed quite deeply in saving the child.
The attendant physician, late Sun
day evening, reported the girls burns
to be quite deep and of very criti-
cal nature and could not give much
hopes for her recovery at that time.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-16
VERY BUSY WEEK
AHEAD FOR CONGRESS,

Washington. Dec 15.-The main in
quiry of the Money Trust investiga-
tion-that into the alleged concentra-
ton of money and credits in the hands
of a few financiers of New York will
begin, tomorrow, when the Puio COM
mittee of the House resumes hearings
temporarily suspended, Friday. Bank
ers from New York and outlying cities
and towns have been subpoenaed to
answer questions as to the extent of
Now York's control over the bank de-
posits Of the nation and the extent to
which . few men may control the chief
banking activities of New York
The financial inquiry will be the
chief feature of the final four days of
congressional activity preceding the
holiday recess. Efforts will be made TO
hasten conclusion of the Impeachment
trial of Judge Robert w. Archibald in
the Senate, but it is not expected that
the jurist's attorneys will close their
case, this week.
Appropriation bills will hold the floor
in both houses until the Christmas re-
cess, Thursday night.
The Senate has agreed to take up
the Sheppard- Kenyon bill, prohibiting
shipments of liquor into prohibition
states, Immediately after the opening
of the session, tomorrow. No indication
hes been given of the extent of the
fight that may develop over the bill.
Hearings before the campaign ex-
penditures investigating committee
will be resumed, Tuesday. William r.
Hearst, former senator from Ohio, and
number of others have been asked to
appear during the week.
Whether further action will be taken
by Congress toward an investigation
of the Grand Trunk and New Haven
Railroads in New England probably
will be decided, during the week, by
the House rules committee which held
hearings, last week, on Rep. O'Shaun-
essy's resolution for the appointment
of ar investigating committed
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H. kearney and Newspaper
Man Believed Drowned.
Pon'oon Of The o-AeropIane
Found in Pacific Ocean.
Two Men and Boy Rescued from
Balloon Blown Out to Sea.

Los Angeles, Dec. 15.-Horace
Kearry, the young Kansas City avia-
tor, attempting a hydro-aeroplane
| fight from Los Angeles to San Fran
cisco, is believed to have been drown
ed together with Chester Lawrence, a
Los Angeles newspaper man, who ac-
companied him.
| A pontoon of the hydro aeroplane
| "Snookums" was picked up, late to-
day, i'm the Pacific ocean by motor
boat off Rodonds beach and towed
into Santa Monaco by a party of fish
ermen. Thirty hours continuous
search for Kearny and Lawrence was
without result except that Glenn II.
Martin, a fellow aviator, nearly met
death while seeking the missing men.
Efforts at organized search have.
for the time, been abandoned.
Engine trouble. probably drove the
men to the surface of the sea, which,
smooth for months at a time, had been
agitated for three days by 30-mile
gale. A swelling, it is believed,
wrenched the pontoon, which has been
recovered This unbalanced the ma
chine and probably threw the men in
20 the water or dragged them down in
sudden overturn.
Glenn Martin in a fruitless effort to
find the missing men flew from San
Pedro, today, carrying Frank S. Gar
quit, secretary of the Los Angeles
Athletic Club. They We're followed by
Garbutt's power launch. Forty miles
up the coast Martin flew while Gar
butt searched the waves with powerful
glasses At Point Mugu, Martin, as
had been agreed, alighted on the wa
ter and replenished his gasoline sup
ply from the power launch but at
tempting to rise, found that the waves
would not let him. The launch took
the air craft in tow and headed back
for San Pedro, but near the break
water ran out of fuel and rolled help
lessly about until rescued. The aero
plane was wrecked.
In the hope that Kearny and Lawrence
might have effected a landing along a sec
ton of the Malibu coast inaccessible te
automobiles, a searching party left here
last tonight to scour a stretch of rocky
country.
Chester Lawrence. Kearny's passenger
was 26 years old and a graduate of Dart
mouth College He was born in New York
and his parents died when he was child
Lawrence came here about five years
ago and had been employed on local pa
pers since. He was married two year.
ago to Miss Blanche Robertson, daughter
of a banker at Ontario. Cal. He was
| member of Sigma Chi fraternity.
San Francisco, Dec. 15.-Eighteen
months was the period of Horace
Kearny's career as an aviator. He
was born in Kansas. % years ago.
Kearny flew at Los Angeles and Oak
land meets, and in tour of 105 days
through the Middle East, last sum
mer flew every day but one without
an accident. His father and mother,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Kearny, live in
Kansas City. He was engaged to
Miss Louise Mcpherson of Madison
vile, Ky.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-16
The Standing.
A LOST RIVER.
Kern River in California Never
Reaches Its Former Outlet.

The deep Kern river canyon, in the
high Sierra country of California. is
interestingly described In a report
just issued by the United States geo.
logical survey. Attitudes in the Kern
river basin range from few hundred
feet at the mouth of the rivers lower
canyon to more than $4,000 feet on the
hoadwaters over 100 miles distant.
More than so of the peaks in the basin
exceed 10000 feet in altitude, and many
of the lakes which, feed the upper.
streams are at an altitude of IL 900 feet
or more.
Kern river rises in glacial lakelets
among the high peaks of the Sierra
divide and on the Kings Kern and
Great Western divides. 1t flows di-
rectly southwark about 10 miles, then
southwestward to the mouth of it's
canyon few miles northeast of Bak-
ersfield, where it enters the south end
of San Joaquin valley. No water from
Kern river has reached the San Joa-
quin in recent years. The water is all
utilized for irrigation before it reach
es the larger valley, and the Kern be-
comes a lost river
The principal tributary of Kern rIv-
Ni - It's oOolI ItC DdSIu 10
vided into two lesser basins. differing
greatly in topography. The eastern
basin is characterized by comparative
iy low, fiat. and irregular hills, sepa-
rated by many intervening meadows
large and small; 1t is drained by the
south fork. The western basin is char
acterized by high glaciated peaks and
ridges and by deep canyons; 1T is
drained by the main stream. which
flows for a great part of its length
through a narrow canyon, Kern river
canyon proper is about 90 miles long,
one mile wide at the top, and 1900 To
1000 feet deep. The bottom of chs
canyon is several hundred feet wide,
and the average gradient is 100 feet
to the mile.
The description of this river and or
other rivers in the great San Joaquin
! basin is found in Water-Supply Paper
299 containing stream measurements
in the San Joaquin river basin. by TT.
d. MoGlashan and II. ]. Dean. of the
| United States geological survey, Just
issued in cooperation with the water
commission and conservation commits
sion of the state of California.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-16
ADULT board
Of Three Members To
Have the Control
OF All Athletic Contests Be.
tween Cony and Gardiner.
Prln. Stuart Of cony Submits Plan
To Gardiner High Read.

Principal Herman II. Stuart of Cony
High school has written letter to
Principal l.. II. Conant Of Gardiner
High school, endeavoring to get Gar
diner to consent to have an adult
board of three members control all the
athletic contests between these two
High schools.
The letter has been accepted by the
Augusta Board of Education and IL it
is accepted by Gardiner it will imme-
Giateiy take effect. 1t is hoped that
this agreement will put an end to
all of the wrangling and disagreement
between Gardiner and Cony i'll ath-
letics.
Following is IA copy of the letter sent
to Prln. Conant:
Dec. 10, 1912.
Mr.. L. Fl. Conant,
Principal of Gardiner High School,
Gardiner, Me.
Dear Mr.. Conant;-Whereas the ath-
letic relations of the Gardiner High
school and the Gony High school, for
several years have been such as to
arouse feelings of dissatisfaction in
one or the other of the two schools at
HtdTiA every aiHlellc Contest, L WISH
to submit to you the following pro-
posal, trusting that it may result in
preventing further difficulties in the
athletic relations of the two schools.
That the entire arrangement and
control of the athletic contests be-
tween the Gardiner High school and
the Cony High school be placed in a
paid Board of Control, composed of
three adult members. enc elected by
the Board of Education of Gardiner,
one by the Board of Education of Au-
gusta, the third to be selected by these
two. That the compensation of the
first two members be determined and
paid by the Board of Education elect
ing them. That the compensation of
the third member be determined by
the first two members and this and the
administrative expenses of the board
be borne equally by the two schools.
That no graduate, pupil, teacher or
coach of the two schools be eligible
to serve on this board.
Yours very truly,
HERMAN H. STUART.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-16
w. C. T. U. ENDORSEMENT
Given Kenyon Shepherd Bill at Pub
lie Meeting at Capital.

Washington, Dee. IA nationally
represented public meeting for the en-
dorsement of the amended Kenyon
Shepherd bill to prevent the introdue-
ton of intoxicants into Dry states
was held here, today, by the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union Nation
al and state officers of the union spoke
and numerous messages from various
parts of the country were read in fav-
or of the measure. Mrs. Mary Harris
Armour, formerly president of the
Georgia w. C. T. T., and popularity
known as the Georgia Cyclone" stir
red the audience to enthusiasm.
Mrs. L. NJ. n. Stevens of Portland
Me, president of the National w. c
I. u, presided.
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WOMAN'S HAT PIN
CAUSES MANS DEATH

Boston. Dec. 15.-The prick of a
woman's hatpin in the cheek, last
week, which at first was not consid-
cred of serious account, caused the
death of James Sinclair. chief of the
Caledonian Club, in the City hospital.
today. Sinclair received the injury
while attending house party in Dor
chester, early last week. A pin pro-
jecting from the hat worn by one OF
the women at the party struck Sim
clair over the eye as the party was
breaking up. The wound was a slight
one, but two days later Sinclair was
compelled to go to the hospital. Death
resulted, today, from oedema of the
brain.
Sinclair was As years old and a
prominent member of the Caledonian
and other local Scotch societies.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-16
RESCUED FROM BALLOON.
Nine Year Old Boy and Two Men
Saved, Miles at Sea.


LOS Angeles, Dec. 1.-two men an6
a 9-year- old boy in the basket of n
captive balloon, that was parted from
it's cable at Venice, a seashore resort,
by a 30-mile gale, were rescued, to-
day, four miles out at sea, 10 minutes
after the balloon fell into the wa
ter. Capt. George Childs of the mo-
torboat Music dragged Sidney Hamp-
ton aboard. while the crew of the mo-
torboat Mischief picked up John Wag-
goner and the boy. some distance
from where the balloon basket had
sunk. The gas bag with it's vents
pulled wide open, was fast being de-
flated and threatening momentarily to
drag the men and boy beneath the
water, when the motorboat sped
alongside.
The balloon parted from its cable
under the strain of a high wind and
shot upward. Telephone calls were
Immediately sent to San Pedro and
wireless stations flashed warnings to
Catalin island.
The motorboat Music went to the
rescue. The balloon basket struck the
water with a splash and almost i'm
mediately went under. But Hampton
and Waggoner, the latter with the
child in his arms, We're up above it.
clinging to the web of ropes spread
over the bag.
The -rescuing boats were beside
them almost instantly and Hampton,
conscious and almost drowned, was
taken out of the cordage and drawn
aboard the Music. The crew of the
Mischief found Waggoner swimming
a few feet away with the boy, Charlie
Jordan, and saved them both.
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Remembrance Bazaar.

A Remembrance Bazaar will be held
from to r. NJ. Thursday, Dec. II, al
the Methodist parsonage for the benefit
of the new Sunday school building.
This bazaar is given independently oil
any organization, but Mrs. Dunnack has
been assisted in preparing for it by many
friends from Maine to California, who
during Mr.. Dunnack's pastorate, have
been attendants of Green Street church
and still retain an interest in their old
church home.
They have sent beautiful gifts and
these have been attraetively priced
which will make the bazaar a bonanza
for those who are still in doubt as tC
what to give for Christmas Admission
10 cents.
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Wednesday, Friday and Saturday of

Wednesday, Friday and Saturday of
this week will be Ember days in the
Catholic and Episcopal churches.
Catholics observe Ember days as days
of fasting and abstinence. In st.
Marks church, there will be even
song. at P. NJ, Wednesday, and, on
Friday, evensong, followed by prayer
book instruction, at 7.30 P. M; Sat-
urday, also st. Thomas day. Mathis
and Holy Eucharist, at 7.15 A. M,
ievensong, at P. NJ, altar guild. at
p. NJ, and choir rehearsal. at 7.30
p M
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An anvil rusty with age, undoabted-
ly used a century or even longer ago
by the Franciscan friars when the old
mission at San Gabriel was in the
making. has been discovered and
taken to Los Angeles. The anvil was
unearthed by Pacific Electric work
men. Their spades came in contact
with it beneath the ruins of an old
adobe less than two hundred feet from
the mission. The anvil is sixteen IN
ches high and five inches wide. II
narrows toward the point from a
square base, and weighs nearly hum
bred pounds. 1t is of foreign manu-
facture and different from anything of
the kind now made or TO be found in
this country. The ancient iron will be
placed in the Country Museum Build
ling in Exposition Park.
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Colby College.

Several of the students spoke extempo-
raneously at the conclusion of the de-
bate held at the chapel, Friday evening,
on the following subject: Resolved, That
Colby Should Take the Initiative in
Forming Maine intercollegiate Debat-
ing Society" 1t was voted that the cor
responding secretary, Ray /. Haskell. IA
open negotiations with the other colleges
with the view of establishing a Maine
intercollegiate Debating Society.
A large number of the upper classmer
who have taken the course in public
speaking offered each year by Prof. Her
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The Eugene E. Marson property has
been purchased for st. Mary's Catho-
lie church. This property includes the
lot with house, carriage repository and
blacksmith shop and is located just
north of the church property. Nc
changes will be made in the property
until spring and FIR. Michigan stated
Sunday night, that plans in relation
to it had not developed sufficiently to
make them public.