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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-05
Baseball Managers Are
Victims of Ingratitude

Baseball is the only business sport.
game or whatever you may care to call
1t. In which they kick men out in the
cold world for making good" says a
prominent baseball man. Sounds
Take the case of Frank Chance for
illustration. Chance made money
hand over fist for Charles Webb MUIR
ply. Still Murphy fired him bag and
baggage. How can you beat that?
You just can't and that's all there is
to It:
Chance succeeded Frank selee as
manager Of the Chicago Cubs in 1905
n won the National league pennant
with the club. He has never been
worse than third with the Cubs. He
won four pennants and two worlds
championships and lost two worlds
series. clashes. The Cubs under
Chance have been one of the greatest
money making teams in the game.
e q ane SIS salary when he quit was
presented him with $4,000 worth Of
stock in the club the year he made
Frank manager. This stock has earn
ed 200 and 800 per cent dividends
every season for Chance. Frank sold
the stock for $4,000 shortly after he
and Murphy agreed to disagree. The,
lAouOlS UctNccu Murphy anu Su6nCe
was caused by Chances demand for
more salary.
Frank has been itching for a raise
ever ince he got wind Of the fabu-
lous sums paid Hugh Jennings and
Roger Bresnahan. The idea Of Bres.
nahan getting $4,000 a year and 10
per n OF the profits made Chance
green with envy Franks friends said
1t was an outrage for Chance to work
for an $4,000 salary. while Roger. who
had a team In the first division,
was drawing more than twice that
amount.
when Chance squealed for moro
money Murphy pointed out that
Franks stock was paying him hand
sOmcly. Then. when the peerless
leader insisted on getting a salary
boost Murphy worked himself in { o a
frenzy and decided that the Cubs
needed O new manager. .
"Bresnahan's friends contend that
he has been treated harshly by Mrs.
Helen Hathaway Britton.' continued
tho old sport. OF course. Roger has
40 such a record as Chances. but
you've got to hand II to him for
rounding up a financial winner for
Robson field three of the four a
he had charge of the Cards. Bresna-
han have made big money for
Mrs. Britton in 1911 or the lady never
would have given him the big contract
he signed last fail. which called for
10000 salary and 10 per cent of the
profits. The Cards did not Fare very
well this season. but Roger Is not q
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-05

against Person. Ordeman has some
big matches on for the winter months.
II Henry should come to Fargo and
should meet defeat al the hands Of
Person as is entirely possible. his
standing in the big matches arranged
for him would be hurt.
Thus the situation is explained.
Heffner said last night that some
time today he would receive a reply
from me Of the three men he wired
last night and that he would be able
to go on with the match. December II.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-05
NAv1N PURCHASES pITCUER.

Detroit. Mich. Dec. 6.-Presidcnt
Navin of the Detroit American league
baseball club today announced the
purchase of Pitcher Herman Nichols
from the Wyandotte. Mich. club Of
the Border league.
Nichols. who formerly pitched in
the South Michigan league. achieved
considerable prominence by defeating
Mullin and Dubuc. two of Detroit's
best pitchers and Blanding of the
Cleveland Americans. In exhibition
games played after the American
league season closed last October.
Nichols u q big right-handed twirler.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-05


Dam question to be probed" say
the headlines. A constant reader
writes that that is no way to talk
about 1t.
Walter Camp certainly must be adj
mired for his bravery. BY placing a
eleven. he will have maledictions ga
lore bestowed on him by critics Of the
United States-meaning the east.
All this wrestling talk that eman-
ates from Fargo reminds one of the
kind Of STUFF" that would-be wrestlers
and n or two real mat artists handed
out in this city several years ago. And
1t beats all how the wrestling fans
will fall for It.
Some one ought to gather Jack
Johnson's black body in a smale space
on the edge OF San Francisco bay and
catapult it to the deepest part OF the
Pacific ocean. And what a sick look
ing bunch of sharks would be thrash
ing the turbulent waters Of the big
pond the next morning.
Our own Frank Lohr is gallavantin'
around the subs Of Chicago. looking
for promising young material to fash
in the See-Eye' next year. And we'll
wager that he comes back with one
or two fellows that can scamper
around the diamond like one.year-old
colts. If Frank doesn't get mixed up
with c. Webb Murphy, he'll be all
right.
II such should be the case, one M.
~Stanchfield or other members of the
board of directors would show him
that Mr.. Murphy's tactics were not
unknown in this neck Of the baseball
world.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-05
SPORT FOR
WINTER SEASON

= = x .
Dam question to be probed' say
the headlines. A constant reader
writes that that is no way to talk
about 1t.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-05
REINsTATE PLAYER.

Cincinnati. Dec. 5.-The national
baseball commission today handed
down a finding in which It reinstated
Player Emery E. Olson to good stand
ing in organized baseball. Owing to
the fac that Olson had violated no
baseball rule during te period In
which he refused to report to the ST.
Louis American league club on ac.
count Of illness, no fine was inflicted
upon the player.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-12
METEOR|C SHOWERS DUE
Annual Display of Shooting
Stars to Be Visible in North
west Heavens Tonight.

From tonight to Wednesday night the
earth will pass through the thickest part
of the meteoric particles called by as
tronomers the "Perseus Showers" By
facing the northeast heavens many
swiftly moving shooting stars may be
seen in all directions, from the constel-
lation Perseus, disappearing along the
horizon and leaving a brilliant train in
the wake from their points of radiation.
The display this year. it is thought, will
be unusually brilliant, IS there will be
no moon to obscure the brightness of
the phenomena.
Astronomers have long since concluded
that these shooting stars come from the
collision of our earth with innumera BILE
fragments of a lost comet, for Ii has
been carefully calculated that the display
is directly in the path once followed by
this comet. There is. indeed. concentra-
ton of evidence which proves that there
must be some profound physical connec-
ton between comets and Swarms of me-
teorS.
1t is thought that the remains of this
comet, torn to myriadS of pieces and
now strewn along its former path by the
tidal action of the sun and following the
same path about the sun. is the direct
source of the annual meteoric showers of
Perseids. AS each dark particle of the
dense stream comes in contact with the
air of our swiftly revolving earth, it is
burnt up by the friction and We see the
result of this contact in shooting stars
as it We're. Some move swiftly. some
slowly, often giving variegated colors as
they dart across the eastern heavens.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-12
TYPHOID FEVER EPIDEMIC.
People of New Jersey Town in State
of Terror.

MOORESTOWN. n. j., August 12.-An
epidemic of typhoid fever which has
thrown this town into a state of terror,
with a total of more than thirty-twO
serious cases, has been traced by the
state board of health TO one man, who
was an innocent carrier of the disease
and himself immune from it's attack.
Soon after their investigation began the
state experts found the source of the
trouble in the milk supply from farm
which has long been regarded as one of
the model diaries of the country. In an
effort to determine the sources OF in
lection the inspectors made blood tests
OF all the employees of the place. The re-
ports show that the manager of the farm
is what is known among physicians as
typhoid carrier.
The man himself has not known he was
ill. On two recent afternoons. he says. he
did not feel very we'll. but attributed it
to the heat, or some other minor cause.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-12
FROM OCCULT INSIGHT.
John Armstrong Chaloner to Ana
I'VE Presidential Candidates.

RICHMOND, August 12.-John Arm
strong Chaloner. who recently CANNED
that he had received psychic message
from an old chum now residing IN
hades, announces that he has rented
Thompson's Hall in this city, in which ne
purposes giving a series of lectures. ana
lying the presidential candidates and
their policies from an occult insight.
Mr.. Chaloner says his analysis Will be
"coldly remote" i. e.. calmly scientific
rather than wildly personal. He will in
vite' twenty representative men from each
of the democratic, republican, socialist
and progressive parties to be present and
"heckle" him.
MI Chaloner especially invites laboring
men to attend. and says the silk stock
ing brigade will oblige him by staying
away"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-12
COBB STABBED IN BACK
Three Unknown Men Attack
Detroit PIayer-Injuries
Are Slight.

SYRACUSE, y. Y, August 12.-Ty Cobb
was attacked and stabbed i'm the back by
three unknown men in Detroit early this
morning while on his way to the train
which was to bring him and the team to
this city for an exhibition game this aft
ernoon.
Cobb's agility saved him from serious
injury and possibly death. His injuries
are slight.
DETROIT, August 12.-The local man
agement Of the Detroit American League
base ball team said this afternoon that
nothing had been heard in Detroit re-
garding the stabbing of Ty Cobb until
the news reached here from Syracuse
The police had heard nothing of the re-
ported attack. and no other details were
available at the depot.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-12
TAKE DESPERATE CHANCE.
Handcuffed Prisoners Leap From
Train Going 80 Miles an Hour.

WHITEHALL. Mont. August 12.-While
handcuffed together. Melvin Jewell and
John Adams, convicts from the Montana
state prison. who were being returned
from Big Timber. where they had been
taken as witnesses. yesterday escaped
from officers by jumping from Northern
Pacific train travelling at the rate of
thirty miles an hour. The men leaped
through a window and rolled down a
steep embankment.
The spot where the escape was effected
is a wild one near the main divide OF the
Rocky mountains, where two overland
Northern Pacific trains were held up by
bandits about five years ago.
Two posses with bloodhounds are in
pursuit, but no trace Of the men has
been discovered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-12
FIGHT REBELS
United States Troops Capture
Ammunition Before Ii
Crosses Border.

Ell PASO. Tex, August 1e-In fight
last night between the United States SOL
diers and Mexicans near the International
boundary below Columbus, n. Mex,
soldier was shot through the body and a
Mexican smuggler's hand was torn of by
a bullet. A report was received today by
A. l.. Sharpe, collector Of customs at FL
Paso. and by Col. Z. Y. Steever. in COM
mand at Fort Bliss, Tex.
According to the reports, the shoot
ing was caused by an attempt of in
surrectos to smuggle ammunition TO
Palomas Mexico. opposite Columbus
Inspector A. c. Ash of the customs
service piloted the soldiers TO the
place
sharp skirmish resulted. and the
Mexicans were driven back. Col
Steeyer has been notified that the am
munition. about 10000 rounds, was cap
tured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-12
COURT HOLDS NEITHER
IN HOLD-UP SHOOTING
Lester Goddard and Robert
Jones ReIeaSed-JuStifica-
ton in Both Cases.

Lester Goddard. recently released
from the hospital. where he has been
receiving treatment for cunshoi
wound in his breast appeared in the
United states branch OF the Police
Court today. charging Robert Jones. a
negro. with shooting him. Jones APP
peared against Goddard in another
case. in which Goddard was charged
with attempted robbery
The testimony of several witnesses
showed that Goddard had held up sew
eral men. saying that he MAS lookinc
for Dougherty. one of the men charged
with the murder of the negro Spencer
The hold-ups all occurred on the Ben
ming soad. \ man named Gray. who
was a guard at the reform school. lent
his special policemans badge TO God
dard. which action cost him his posi-
ton al the school.
Jones said Goddard held him up with
a gun. but ii WAS proved to the salts
faction OF the court that he had moth
ing but a pair of pliers with him AT
the time. Jones shot him. thinking he
was trying to rob his wagon. When he
got into Washington Jones went 20 the
Police Court and told Of the hold-up. hat
did not know that he had shot Goddard
He said he meant only to scare him
away. After he was shot. Goddard
walked to the Benning powerhouse. near
where the shooting occurred, and later
was taken to the hospital.
Court Dismisses Case
Attorney Robert Miller, who represent
ed Goddard. proved to the court that God
dard was trying to get the reward offered
at that time for the arrest OF DoughertN,
the man wanted in connection witt
the Spencer murder. and the case was
dismissed on these grounds and the fact
that IL was not proved that any attempt
at robbery had taken place.
The court warned Goddard not to inn
personate a policeman again, and dis
missed the case against Jones on the
in shooting at Goddard as he did not
know what motive Goddard had i'm hold
ing him up. Gray, the former guard
the reform school came i'm for a severe
reprimand from the court. for lending his
badge to Goddard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-12
STUDY OF PARK CONDITIONS.
Annual Convention of Superintend
ents in Session at Boston.

ents from all parts of the United States
gathered here today to attend the 14th
annual convention of the American Asso-
citation of Park Superintendent. which
concludes its sessions Wednesday.
Questions relating to park supervision
and the best means Of making play
grounds attractive are among the sub
jects for discussion by the members.
Various parks in and around Boston will
be inspected and school children will take
in exhibition games and athletics on local
Fairgrounds. Papers on park subjects
by delegates from many large cities were
read.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-12
REVOLT AGAINST MURPHY.
Secret Conference of New York
Democrats Held at Rochester.

ROCHESTER. n. Y. August 12.-Near-
Iy all the democrats who are here to hold
a conference this afternoon with view
Of founding an anti-Murphy faction of
the party met last night in secret con-
ference to discuss the questions for to-
days meeting. The call for the meeting.
issued by the Nassau county committee,
is a protest specifically stated against
the dictation and domination of Charles
+. Murphy
After last nights conference commit
tee was announced to formulate sugges-
lions to present to the conference this
afternoon. The conference plans to make
it possible to elect anti-Murphy delegates
to the state convention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-12
PLANS To ENTERTAIN
COMING CONVENTION
Work of Committee Represent
ing Commerce Chamber
and Board of Trade.

The joint committee of the Chamber
of Commerce and the Board Of Trade
planning the entertainment of the Con-
gress of Hygiene and Demography con-
sdered at meeting begun at noon to-
day the plea of representatives of the
International Association of Applied
bring thousand delegates to Washing
ton for the two days during which the
convention will meet here
The committee decided to call special
meeting at noon Wednesday to take
up the matter. 1t will then be de-
termined whether the financing Of the
two conventions will be undertaken as
merged proposition
Plea for the Chemists.
DR.. David T. Day and Prof. E. c. Num-
row, representing the chemists, appeared
before the committee. They explained
that it was already planned to entertain
several hundred of the delegates to the
convention. which would meet in New
York. and who will be received by the
President at the White House September
4. The attendance in Washington could
be augmented to LOCO, it was set forth,
If the business men of Washington would
agree to contribute a sum to make a fund
enabling the expenditure of s. for the
entertainment of each visitor.
John Dolph, chairman, presided over the
meeting. DIR. ". c. Woodward secre-
tary; DR.. Tom A. Williams, DR.. Frank Il.
Gibson. and Secretary Grant of the
Chamber Of Commerce were present
DR.. Gibson's Program.
DIR. Gibson, as chairman of the sub
committee on entertainment, submitted
suggestions for the entertainment of the
delegates to the Congress of Hygiene and
Demography. A smoker, a trip to Mount
Vernon, trip to Fort Myer for spe-
cial drill, trip to the aviation field with
special flights, a visit to the new wireless
towers. a reception at the art gallery, a
sightseeing trip in automobiles a trip
through Rock Creek Park and a visit to
Indian Head were proposed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-12
MRS. FROST IS HELD
FOR INQUEST TOMORROW
Philadelphia Woman Is SuS-
pected of Having Killed
Husband.

PHILADELPHIA, August 12.-Mrs.
Frieda frost, proprietress of an up
town saloon. who was arrested yester-
day on a charge of having caused the
death of her husband, William frost
within d week after her marriage to
him by administering poison. was COM
mitted to prison today for her appear
ance tomorrow. when an inquest will
be started. Edmund Guenkle. barten-
der for Mrs. frost, also was commit
ted as a material witness in the case.
which the police declare will have de-
velopments.
After the arrest of the woman, the
police say, they found a druggist from
whom she purchased poison Monday of
last week. or shortly before her husband
was taken ill. At the hearing today a
coroners detective testified that In his
investigation of Trost's death he learned
that Mrs. frost. who was a widow when
she married second time, was deeply
in debt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-12
GOES TO HEIGHT OF 5000 FEET
Mrs. Jane Wildman in Initial Flight
as Professional AViatrix.

SAN FRANCISCO, August 12.-Mrs.
Jane Wildman of Philadelphia. who wish
es to become professional aviatrix,
made her initial flight yesterday to AL
media marshes, across the bay from this
city She rose 5000 feet and circled over
Oakland before descending. She was &C
companied by Roy Francis, an aviator.
Mrs. Wildman stood her first test well.
She said she liked sensations and that
her best substitute for the aerOplane
heretofore had been ninety miles an hour
on a motor cycle.
The aviatrix is the wife of Frederick
Coils Wildman. who at present is in
London. She is visiting San Francisco
for a few days.
IT am from Reno" said Mrs. Wildman,
land that tells the story
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-12
FOR CURE OF HUNCHBACK.
Physicians at Johns Hopkins Per.
fecting a New Treatment.

BALTIMORE. Nd. August 12.-Phy-
sicians at Johns Hopkins are perfecting a
new treatment for Potts disease. COM
monty known as hunchback, eliminating
the old mechanical devices. Grating of
bone forms conspicuous part.
The operation is performed in a similar
manner to that for the stiffening of the
knee joint. as was done recently by NOR
Using the knee plate in one of the tendons
of the leg into the joint. after the tough
and fbrous tissue surrounding the bone
had been removed. thus generating the
necessary bony tissue. The fibrOus tissues
az removed were preserved and returned
TO the upper and lower joints, where a
continuous bone was produced. thus OBJ
literating the joints.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-12
TARRYT0WN STIRRED UP.
Candidate Will Run
Again in School Election.

TARRYTOWN n. Y, August r.
Keen interest is being taken here in
tomorrow's special school election, in
which Mrs. Ellen NJ. Milton. known as
the John D. Rockefeller candidate.
will endeavor to obtain votes to re-
elect herself In the regular election
last May. the opposition succeeded in
finding enough supporters to tie the
vote and a special election was or
dered.
The opposition to Mr. Rockefeller's
choice will probably be weaker this
time. as Mrs Millions rival for the
trusteeship recently sold his house
here to Mr.. Rockefeller. and moved
away.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-12
Lecture Course for Brides.
Foreign Correspondence Of The Star.

Foreign CORRESPONDENTS Of The Star.
VIENNA July %, 1912.
Lectures for brides is the name of
the latest course started by the Viennese
institution for popular instruction
known as the Urania. and now advertised
all over the city. The lectures will
cover such subjects as housekeeping.
cooking andrhygiene. Though mainly in
tended for those who are about to be or
have just been married, all girls over
seventeen will be admitted. The course
will last for eight months, there being
lectures on two evenings q week. A
small fee is charged for the course, but
the poor can obtain tickets free.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-12
Caused by Poison.

An autopsy performed by coroners
physician, the detective said, showed
that Trosts death was caused by poison
and that he had discovered that the ac-
cused woman purchased a small quantity
of poison from druggist near her home
Monday of last week.
He added that he could find no justi-
fication for Mrs. Trost's allegation that
her husband had died from injuries re-
ceived by falling from a trolley car
Mrs. frost, who was the widow Of
Frederick Hartman, was married to
frost August !. Her husband was
taken i'll August 5, and died August 4.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-12
TWO MAN BATHERS PERISH.
Small Boy Weeping Over Their
Clothing Attracts Passers,

NEW YORK, August 1.-THE sight
Of a three-year-old boy sitting on the
bank Of the Hudson river, weeping
over mems clothes which he seemed to
be guarding, led to the discovery last
night that two men had been drowned
while swimming. The bodies were
later recovered. The victims were
William Lobohitz and his nephew.
Harry Lorrelley. 1t was the latter's
baby brother that was guarding the
clothes.
The child was unable to tell the po-
lice anything Of how the drowning Oc-
CURED.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-12
KILLS WIFE, CHILD AND SELF.
Unexplained Triple Tragedy in
Pittsburgh Hotel.

PITTSBURGH. August 12.-Frank Ken
yon shot his wife through the heart, shot
his eighteen-months-old baby and then
killed himself with a bullet from the same
revolver in the Lafayette Hotel, at Lib
erty avenue and Grant street, at noon
today.
Kenyon, accompanied by his wife and
child, registered at the hotel Saturday
from Turtle Creek a suburb. No cause
is known for the crime.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-12
RAFFLES DEEMED INSANE.
Chicago's Educated Burglar Will Be
Sent to Hospital.

CHICAGO. August 12.-Physic at
tending Jacob Guthrie. who has been
termed the educated burglar and
forger." today expressed the opinion that
he is becoming violently insane. He
was ordered removed from his cell to the
jail hospital.
Guthrie set fire to the bedding ON his
cot in Jail Saturday night, but Jail off,
Gals declare that he did not attempt to
commit suicide. He has been held to
the grand jury on charges of forgery
burglary and larceny. the value OF his
loot being estimated at $4,000.