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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-01-30
Maxey Di.barmsnt Prooee dlnos To-day

MaXey DISbaFN0nt Pr0ceedIh06 Quay
Des Moines, Jan. 29.-The case OF
William r. Maxey, well known local
attorney, against whom disbarment
proceedings recently were instituted
by the Des Moines bar association,
was scheduled to be taken up before
Judge Bradshaw in the district court
today.
Maxey is charged by fellow practi-
TONERS with breach Of professional
ethics"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-13

Joseph r, Wilson, the kid brother"
OF President-elect Woodrow Wilson. Is
a newspaper man of Nashville, and has
numerous friends and acquaintances in
Georgia.
lie IS most likeable chap. and his
friends in Nashville are giving him a
"hoodoo dinner in the Tennessee capi-
tai tonight, by way of evidencing their
friendship, and because-weIl, because
ne is the next presidents brother, and
isn't a bit swell headed" about, even
If he is immensely proud OF it.
This Friday. 10, hoodoo dinner" is
to be Josh banquet-whateve that
is, eXactly-so the announcements saw.
and 1t will be participated in by about
20O OF young Wilson's friends and ac-
quaintances throughout the Volunteer
state
All the ancient and honorable Fri
day, 49, superstitions will be PLAYED
upon for the kid brothers." benefit
and the president elect himself is 10
come in for a lot of good-natured
banter
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-13
ROOSEVELT, BACK IN
NEW YORK, WILL GET
DOWN TO REAL WORK

NEW YORK, Dec 18.-Unrecognized
by a large crowd in the Grand Central
depot and greeted only by a few news
paper men and two relatives, Theodore
Douglas Robinson his son. Douglas Rob
inson, and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
arrived q 9:21 q. m, from Chicago, where
the colonel was the dominating figure at
the two-day organization convention Of
the Progressive party.
The colonel smiling and looking in the
best of health, waved his hand at the
newspaper men and shouted that he felt
bully" but refused to comment on the
Bull Moose convention.
Nothing to say. Nothing TO say at
all" he said, except that I'm going right
up to The outlook office and get down
to work"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-13
SAVE HALF YOUR MONEY

We are making a so per cent reduction in
all our Leather Goods We have hand satch-
els, pocketbooks, money folders coin purses
etc. all of which are going at half the orig
inal price. Come in and get some of these
great bargains. It will pay you to do so
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-13
N6GR0 SAVES LIFE OF
YOUNG WHITE WOMAN

SAVANNAH, GA, Dec. 13,-Miss
''1ln Cannon attributes the fact that
S'' is alive to the bravery of Sam Car
.eJt negro.
MISS Cannon was playing with the
t.,e child of her sister-in-law, Mrs. J.
buckley, when her clothing caugh.
'.e from an open CRATE. The girl ran
..' the hail, when she attempted 90
'''Aer the flames with a heavy por-
s', Failing III this, she ran screaming
60 The yard.
me negro, who had been attracted by
CRIES, pulled The burning clothing
IN Miss Cauuou's body. Both Miss
''-Y" and the negro were badly
.--A-a but both will recover.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-13
}. |. 0ICKEY EXECUTORS
SELL TUXEDO PARK LOTS

MIS-. Gertrude j. Dickey e. j. Dickey,
James l.. Dickey Jr, and Eugene Dick
.H executors OF the estate Of the late
J. L. Dickey have sold to Charles NJ
"s"sen the southeast corner of lot 9
w Tile Tuxedo park subdivision, PAGES
Jerry road. for $6910 The lot is 256X
..o,-&220.5x60U feet. They received
5L7Ao cash.
Lie same executors sold to the same
'-Se5 for $4,000, a parcel on Tuxedo
-.''e al the northwest corner Of lot 6,
Measuring Observation-Disclosures
Eugene r. Gambler has given to John
Williams ct al. papers OF transfer
a., 1He property on the south side Of
-'seWood avenue, land lot 10, Inman
FarE. S5x23o, for $1,000.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-13
CONDEMNED ITALIAN
INFORMS ON SLAYERS
OF SLEUTHPETROSINO

MONTREAL, QUEBEC. Dec. 10
Carlo Baptista, an Italian who is to be
hanged here on December 20 for muir
DER has confessed to the police that
lite was one of the gang that plotted the
assassination Of Joseph Petrosino, the
famous New York detective who was
'Aot TO death in Palermo. Sicily on
March u, 1909.
the prisoner revealed the names of
several other members Of the Camera
mat engineered the assassination. He
'ala they had deserted him and refused
10 contribute for his defense and he
wanted them hunted down.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-13

That Floyd county is in dead earnest
about enforcing the state prohibition
law Is abundantly attested in the fact
That Judge Maddox has sent four well
known white men convicted Of violating
the law to the county chaingang for
long terms this year. and that without
| the alternative Of fine.
Two Of these neu-one of them at
one time quite a prominent political in
ftuence in Fioyd-went to the gang"
without protest, but the other two car
ried their cases to the court Of appea Is.
In batch Of decisions handed down
recently, however, the appeals court at
tirmed the lower courts findings and
sentences, and now these defendants
must join the other two in the Floyd
county convict road camp.
Judge Maddox announced that he
would impose chaingang sentences in
the future, in the event defendants were
convicted by juries Of violations of the
prohibition law, and he has more than
| kept his word thus far.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-13
STRIKERS CAUGHT TRYING
TO DYNAMITE RY. TUNNEL

HACKENSACK, n. j.. Dec Ia
Strikers were discovered tempting to
dynamite shaft leading I'D the Erie
tunnel. near Edgewater \. j., today,
and were fired upon by deputy sheriffs
and railroad detectives guarding the
coal pockets and yards Of the Erie and
the New York and Susquehanna rail-
roads. The strikers returned the FIRE,
but no one was injured.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-13

lions Of the same in amazing good.
order,
The specific case in which Secretary
r,,k will testify is that of one James
snorr4r-an enterprising person, who
IN 1894, undertook to annex an entire
Georgia county, in spite of law which
limited his head right" to 1000 acres.
Brother shorter had a way of having
himself made out grant for 1000
.cras bounded and abutted by the
raid lands of the said Shorter" and
that was all the description there was
20 it.
What sort of rake off, the honorable
land court got for issuing these grants
nv the basketful to Shorter nobody
nowadays knows, but it must have been
M. and dandy pickings, anyway!
After q while, Shorter accumulated
IN Montgomery county grants to pal
-rv 1lStO0O acres of land-and that
vas going some, too, when one consid-
.r. that there were only 100000 acres
j.. The entire county.
How old Shorter managed to overlook
-a- remaining little cotton patch fur
risney food for thought.
by and by, the Legislature of the state
e4lfaued these old fake head right"
grants. and few people in the last 50
Years nave. undertaken to realize any
ming ON them.
ivory little bit, however, some swim
d.e~ gets hold of a grant" trades it
for something or other-and then the
secretary of the state Of Georgia has to
set busy explaining how the grant"
snt worth the paper it is written on.
executive Secretary Hardy Ulm has
been digging around in old state papers
Of one sort and another of late, and
some Of the things ne has turned up
are more than ordinarily interesting.
Among other things he ran across
recently is an old agreement between
j. Pierpont Morgan and jeremiah Mill
bank, on the one hand, and the Macon
ana Brunswick railroad on the other,
whereby Morgan and Millbank agree to
become trustees for the bonds Of the
road to the extent OF $4,000. The in
strument is dated September l, 1859.
J. Pierpont Morgan's signature to the
agreement was the thing that particu-
larly attracted Ulms eagle eye. He
got a blank bank check, filed it out for
million or so, and carefully attached
Aorgans signature to the bottom
thereof
He said lie had no idea Of attempting
70 cash the near check, but he wanted
10 see how one like that would look.
On the state pension lists there are
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-13

Captain Harry P. Meikleham, the
mayor town council police force SUI
preme court Justice of the peace-and-
lord high everything else of Linda.e
came to Atlanta last night to attend
a banquet to General Clifford Ander-
son at the Capital City club.
Captain Meikleham is one of the
most enthusiastic officers of the Geor-
gia National Guard and is particularly
fond Of General Anderson. under whom
he served for several years.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-13

20 land claimed by
certain parties in
Montg o m e y
county, Georgia,
onder an old So
called mead right"
Issued by the state
court Of land
Grants back in
1874
That land court
must have been a
famous and rum
old court, all
right.
rEr4 c.v1't
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-13

no" 81 new names that everybody will
approve of heartily.
They are 80 blind Confederate SOL
diers who, under an act passed bv the
last legislature, have had their PEN
sions increased from $50 per annum to
$100
About 500 new names were added to
the pension roll this year. by reason of
the new law and otherwise-but these
81 somehow, viii seem a little more
welcome to the states pittance than
any OF them. of course.
solicitor General Joseph e Politics.
friends throughout Georgia will be
pleased to learn that he is rapidly con-
Valesclng in local sanltarium from an
acute illness, necessitating a slight on
Grafton, for which he has been under
treatment. for the past ten days.
Solicitor Pottle is the brother OF
Judge Robert n Pottle. OF the state
court Of appeals, and is personally one
OF the most popular and widely known
men in Georgia.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-13
SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
BY JAMES B. NEVIN.

secretary Of State Phil Cook leaves
.7norrow for Lake Charles, La, where
-, GOES to testify as to the color of title
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-11-02
(PAlD POLITICAL ADvER-
Tl0IN0,)

his bank to pay out a small
amount yearly in return for the
privilege Of looming out the state
money. Mr.. Hanna, while in con
gress proved his farslghted "busi-
ness ability on more than one
occasion. Not only did he stand
with 'thc interests ON every
measure, but he voted to continue
paying himself 20 cents a mile
for railroad fare to and from
Washington. This is more than
six times the cost Of Transports
ton, and is considered by many
congressman a small means Of
"grafting." In this vote Mr..
Hanna was an intensely good bus
mess man. Good for WHOM?
Nobody has ever questioned the
contention that Mr.. l.. b. Hanna's
illustrions relative, the late Mar
Gus Hanna, who corrupted the
governmental agencies Of the peo-
pie in 1896, was a good business
man. John d. Rockefeller and j.
d. ArchbOld Of Standard Oil
fame, j. Pierpont Morgan, head
Of the money trust, and Mr.. Per-
kins, the steel magnatc, are all
good business men, The mon
cy changers who conducted their
nefari0us business were doubtless
good business men, but this did
not prevent them from being
scOurgrd from the temple. The
argument that j.. b. Hanna would
make a good governor for the
people of North Dakota because
by %loaning money to North Da-
kota farmers at good rates OF in.
he has accumulated a small
fortune is absolutely fallacious.
Il. B. Hanna should be Judged by
his record and that alone. This
bristles with instances
where Hanna has proved a good
business man, out in every case it
has been for Il. B. Hanna himself
or the interest with which he has
always been allied.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-11-02
. GOOD BUSINESS MAN

We are told that Hanna is a
good business man and his record
would indicate that he is. It is
argued by some that because Mr..
Hanna has been able to accumu-
late a considerable portion Of this
worlds goods in the shape Of
money that he is the man for gov
ernor Of the state. Here is a sam
pie Of Hanna's business astute-
ness when his interests and the
interests Of the people Of North
Dakota came in conflict during
his term iii the state senate.
When the bill was up requiring
the state to charge the banks a
small rate Of interest on the state
money deposited with the banks,
Mr.. Hanna showed his good bust
ness ability by voting against the
bill which would have required
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-11-02
PARENTAGE
OF SETTLERS Law
Records Show That Hanna Had
Nothing to Do With New
Measure.

In addition to being proven
guilty of violating the United
State postal laws by the post
master general, Congressman
Hanna is also proven to be a gi-
gantic faker, and a coarse one at
that, by none less than United
States Senator Borah Of Idaho.
Mr.. Hanna is now making a
campaign on the representation
that he is responsible for the new
homestead law. He is going over
the state and particularly through
that part Of the state lying west
Of the Missouri river, holding up
the new homestead law and claim
credit for its passage.
Borah Author Of Bill
Hon, Frank O. Hellstroin, the
Democratic candidate for COVER
nor, wanting to know something
about the new homestead law,
wrote to Tinted States Senator
w. b. Borah for a copy Of it, and
= record Of its Introduction anl
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-11-02

reached the voters, there is every
reason to believe that Mr.. Sweet
would have secured a lot OF votes
where Roosevelt strength Is
most pronounced.
In Rome, As Romans Do.
"Ianna's peculiar Hopping
from Taft to Roosevelt, and again
back to Taft, is not a perform
ance that is calculated to inspire
confidence. However, if Hanna
could succeed in giving the voters
in the western section OF North
Dakota the impression that ne
was still in favor Of Roosevelt, it
would bring him a lot Of votes.
1T was therefore necessary to
work quietly and secretly to
bring about this result. The wires
were laid. The machine was set
going, and as soon as the leaders
Of the county organizations out
West secured their portions Of
literature from Progressive head
quarters, they carefully extracted
all the campaign thunder in favor
of Sweet, dumped it in the waste
basket and replaced it with the
picture of Hanna and newspaper
editorials in his favor.
Appear as Roosevelt Man.
"In those sections where Taft
appears to have II bit OF strength,
Mr.. Hanna appears as one OF his
most devoted supporters. On the
other hand, in those sections
where Roosevelt is strongest Han
mas henchmcnt are busy creating
the impression that Roosevelt and
Hanna are a pair of Progressives
with but a single thought, whose
hearts beat as one
eff one adds to the above the
fact that he abused the %franking
privilege and broke the postal
regulations in order to secure the
nomination in the primary cleo
ton, that he tried to take the
credit for the new homestead law,
in which he had no part whatever,
it must be admitted that Mr..
Hanna has been engaged in a
shameless effort to pull the wool
over the eyes Of the people.
"What can the voters expect of
a candidate for the most import
ant Office in the state, who makes
use of his intelligence and ingen-
nity, early and late to humbug
the people?"
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-11-02
Hanna's First Day in Congress

Here is the record of llanna>S
first progressive day in Con
greSs:
First--he voted for Joe Cannon
FOR speaker.
Second-llc voted against new
rules to curb Cannon, as proposed
by Progressive Republicans.
Third--Hc voted for the adop.
ton of Cannon rules.
Fourth He voted against
Champ Clark's resolution to re-
form the house rules, so that the
power Of The speaker should be
curbcd. " ,rsg
Fifth-lle voted for the Tam
many-Fitzgerald resolution. a
fake reform in the house rules
proposed by the Tammany-Stal-
wart Republican machine.
1t was Hanna's vote that help
Ell keep cannon ana CannOnlSm
in power until there were enough
progressive Democrats and Repub-
licanS in the House to overthrow
the Tammany-Stalwart Republi-
can machine.
Hanna was away from home
then and he thought his five reac-
tionary votes on his first day in
congress would not react against
him at home, but there is a man
il Congress-, Hon. Robt. M. La
Toilette, who kept his eye on Han
ma and told the people "back
home" how Hanna started his
career in congress.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-11-02
Heads Minot Commission.

Such a standing in a commun-
ity and unanimous esteem a on
ly be attained by clean personal
and public. conduct. As president
of the city commission of Minot,
Mr.. Halvorson has made an unus-
ually good record, so good that
his home people, regardless of
party affiliations, are doing all
they can to send him to Congress.
This sentiment has spread
throughout his district in particu-
lar, and he is spoken Of in high
est terms in other portions Of the
cfn4a -
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-11-02
SLEUIH Tells
Of PEN AFFAIR
Alleged Burns Detective Asserts
Wholesale Prison Delivery
Was Planned.
Two were PROMISED JOBS?
Deputy Warden Said to Have
Blocked Completion of the
Whole Plot.
two were PROMISED JOBS?

/. r. Robertson, who asserted
he was an operative Of the Will
liam j. Burns detective agency,
and who was confined for some
hours in the state penitentiary,
last night declared in Fargo that
an attempt at a wholesale peni-
Tertiary delivery had been frus
trated through his efforts.
Plan Intended for Revenge.
+ This delivery Of prisoners, he
said, while waiting for a train at
the Northern Pacific depot, had
been planned by former guards
at the pen as revenge on Warden
Hellstrom, now candidate for gov
ernor on the Democratic ticket.
Promised Job, He Says.
Robertson, in his own state
ment, made in writing last night.
charged that two Of the former
guards had been promised jobs at
the pen in the event Of the elec-
ton Of Il. B. Hanna, republican
nominee for governor.
Finds Alleged Traitors.
TIL Burns operative had been in
Bismarck only a short time, he
said, when he made the %acquaint-
ance Of several former guards at
the pen. These men, Charles Ma
son, James Kelly, Perry Strock
aud Dickson, he said, were found.
very treacherous toward He'll
strOm.
Some Conversation.
At one Of the meetings Of the
gang, which Robertson said last
night that he attended, Kelly is
said to have made the remark that
he let one man out, Mason then.
said, according to the detective,
too bad you didn't let the
whole push out" Kelly then said,
Robertson declared, "Oh, well, it
isn't too late now"
Decide Upon the Date.
1t was planned, according to
Robertson, to get one man inside
the pen. Robertson was selected
for this Job. He declined. The
name Of Niles was then mention
al and Robertson said last night
the gang" seemed satisfied he
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-11-02
(PAID POLITICAL ADVER.
TIS1NU.)

was IN Narrh anN congressman
Hanna was notified by the post
master general that he waS VIC
hitting the law in using his OF
fetal frank for correspondence
other than "Oiicial or depart
mental business Congressman
Hanna continued to violate tn
law as proven by the f0lIowin!
! circular letter sent out to the yOt
crs in North Dakota:
"IIousc Of Representatives,
Washington, May 20, 1912
My dear sir:
"'This letter is IN the form o
n circular letter. | would like Il
! have written II personal letter Il
lcVcry friend in North Dakota
but il is n physical lmposSibllit,
for me to do so. ! am, as yol
know, n candidate for governor
OF our state. Should ! be nOmin
Dtcd and elected, ! will give to the
state u good, clean, economical
business administration, and dr
my best in every way to build
up the state. ! have had II years
experience in public life, 10 years
in our state Legislature and near
Iy four years here in congress.
have had more than rs years OF
active business life and have al.
40 farmcd extensively in North
Dakota.
"IAp state needs u business I'd.
miuistration. There is no bust.
ness in the state as large rs the
states business itself. | have
had the preliminary training to
fit me for the care Of the states
business. Will do my part to
hold the taxes down as low as pos
siblc and ut the same time to keep
the various institutions OF the
state in u high state OF efficiency.
The school fund Of North Dnko-
ta amounts to millions. 1t should
be safeguardcd and cared for and
! shall give very careful conSld-
Grafton to the Investment of the
school funds Of the state and to
the investments now in force, and
will in every way SO conduct the
affairs Of the state as to merit the
approval Of you and the people
Of North Dakota.
81 will sincerely appreciate
your help and support in the com
ing primaries, and should | be
nominated and be elected as gov
ernor, will give to that Office the
same careful, conscientious care
and attention that | have given to
the office which | now hold.
81 would be glad to hear from
you and thanking you for your
kindness, and assuring you OF my
appreciation, | am,
"Sincarely,
(Signcd) "L. B. Hanna
fragrant Violator of Law.
Is Congressman Hanna u fla
grant vio!ator Of The law or not.
The postmaster general said it
was n violation Of the law to even
sent an official letter with a non
official postscript attached, as in
the letter to Mr.. Cabaniss. and
yet, Mr.. llama goes ON and sends
whole circulars pertaining to
nothing but his candidacy for
governor through the mails with
out postage. Think of it, SlS,750
in stationery and stamps on five
circular letters alone, to say moth
ing about letters with postscripts,
If Mr.. Hanna will wilfully and
persistently violate the law as a
member Of congress what can be
expected of him should be be Ell.
ected governor Of the great state
of North Dakota?
Is this the kind of Cuisines adj
ministratlon' he proposes to give
North Dakotae
Is he trustworthyY
Can you consclentlously vote
for such a mane
Think il nunr