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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-09-06
sLEUTH ROBBED BY SHERIFF
California Peace Officer Takes Starch
Out of Detective by Going
Through His Pockets.

Sn Francisco.-There Is a detective
In Chicago who was invited to dinner
as a guest of Sheriff Barnett of Ala.
media county, across the bay from this
city, and under the mellowing influ-
ence OF the occasion became. some.
what boastful OF his shrewdness.
ThereupoD Barnett distracted from
the Cher go mans pockets a watch
and all the money there was in them.
Later In the evening Barnett turned
over the articles to the detectives
companion. who was one of the party,
and explained the matter TO him.
Now Barnett displays with much
glee the following letter from Chi
cago:
II, the greatest detective of Chi
eago, am dagraced and Inundated.
The thought that have sleutbed
through the most dangerous places IN
Chicago aud New York and other
wicked cities Of the east should travel
across the continent to have my peck.
cts picked by the sheriff of Alameda
county, is so disturbing that | am be.
ing treated for insomnia by my physi-
clans"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-09-06
EUROPE NERVOUS OVER SPIES
Case Of EneIishmen Arrested In tho
Baltic Taking Pictures Reveals
Situation.

Berlin, Germany.-The case of fivS
Englishmen arrested on the charge OF
espionage while cruising in the Baltic
has directed public attention afresh to
the widespread prevalence OF spying
In Europe and the extraordinary
nervous alarm 1t is causing among the
powers.
Since the first of the year there
have been about fifty arrests in Ger
many for espionage. The majority of
these arrests were due to the unbound
ed apprehensions of the police or mill
tary officials. The majority of the per.
sons arrested were French. English or
Russian One of the last named was
an accredited representative of the
Russian government. In some In
stances ordinary tourists have been
taken into custody for venturing un-
awares into grounds which are under
military control.
The English prisoners were released,
the only evidence against them being
that, while sailing near the coast, they
took a number of photographs of the
scenery along the shore.
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BURLINGTON PHILLIPS

York City. Certain British laws must
be repealed before 1t can be recovered,
however, 1t is in one of the out-of-
way places of the world and very lit
tie is known by the general public
about It, The superstitious French
nshermen, unchanged In a hundred
and fifty years, still await the return
OF the fierce pilot to claim his own.
The Rock of Perez, named for the
adjacent fishing tvillage, is one Of the
true natural wonders of our continent.
when some CONFUSION of nature rent
the coast this rock was split from the
nearby mountain and left standing a
grim monument to the caprice of the
gods OF sea and land. Several hun.
dred feet high. with a comparatively
nat top, its sides are beetling and one
side Is about two hundred feet higher
than the other Once it was pierced
by three arches through any one Of
which small ship might sail, but now
one Of these has collapsed. leaving
Only the two huge galleries.
Captain Duval was a French priva-
teer who returned only small por-
ton OF his loot from English and 9TH
er ships to the French authorities.
and after the declaration of peace he
became an out-and-out pirate He
protected the French fishermen and
was generous with them. They, in
their turn, protected him as the Eng
lish peasant protected Dick Turpin.
At last he was hard pressed by the
English. and having In his service a
Micmac Indian who knew secret
trail to the supposedly inaccessible
Rock of Perez, he collected all his
caches of treasure In the maritime
provinces and brought them to Perce,
The Indian carried line to the top
OF the rock and hauled up block and
fall. Then two prisoners were hauled
up, and next Duyal himself. Boats
containing the great treasure chests
stood by below.
The tradition is that they were a
day ano a moonlight night getting it
all up. Then the Indian was sent
down and Duval himself was lowered
away. His rapier was dripping with
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-09-06
FORGET "HONOR THY FATHER"
So Says Kansas Hospital Chief In
His Report Of Young People OF
That State.

Topeka, Kan.-"Honor thy father
and thy mother" is a forgotten doe
trine In Kansas, declared DIR. T. C.
Biddle, superintendent of the Topeka
hospital for the insane, In his biennial
report to the state board of control
DR.. Biddle caustically arraigns the
young people of the state for their in
difference toward the old. After re-
porting marked Increase of senile de-
mentia since his last report, Dr. Blddle
says:
at appears that among Kansas
young people honor thy father and thy
mother has become an Anticipated
dogma"
DR.. Biddle declares most of the
cases of senile dementia are turned
over to the state because children do
not care to look after their afflicted
parents. They are willing TO pay the
state for keeping them. but will not do
the work themselves. The people are
harmless, simply having breakdown
because of age.
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blood and when he reached the boat
he stood up, and with a harquebus
shot at the tackle till 1t was cut clean
too high up the. rocks for any one to
reach. Devil Duval" sailed away and
never returned.
For years the winds battered and
the sun and rains rotted the ropes on
the walls of the rock till at last they
disappeared So many lives were lost
in attempts to scale the rocks and re-
cover the treasure that law was
passed forbidding any one to make
the attempt without the necessary le-
CALLED concession from the governor o.
the province of Quebec. Only the wild
sea-birds. making their nests in the
top of the rock. know the story of the
two prisoners and the chests of treas
ure on the bleak heights. But an air
ship could learn u
Carleton Island, In the st. Lawrence
river was an Quitting place for Tory
raiding parties and an arsenal was es-
tablished there. A pay chest was sent
to the post with large sum of money.
The chest disappeared and its loss was
reported to General Haldimand at
Montreal. In 1879. Colonel Horr of
Cape St. Vincent, received visit from
stranger, who requested the use of
boat and, being granted 1t, he rowed
to Carleton Island and returned in a
short time with a heavy iron chest
covered with clinging wet clay Col
onel Horr. thinking nothing wrong
helped the man row to the steamboat
landing and he was never heard from
again. In a few days William Majo.
one OF the owners of the island, sent
hoy into the pine thicket for stray
ing horses and there the lad found
the hat-stone-lined hole where the
chest had rested
There are two extensive areas of
buried treasure in the thickly popu-
lated parts of the United States. One.
the less err. is on the general lines of
Sherman's march to the sea. North
and south of II. plantation after plan
tation, town after town. hafye their
stories of treasures ranging from a
few hundreds of dollars to hundreds
of thousands which were buried for
fear the Union army would get them.
Many were never recovered because
of the failure of the owners to locate
the burial places. The surest way to
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ENDS PALA|S ROYAL
Famous Estate in France to Be
Transformed by Wreckers.
Noted Rendezvous for Many Well
Known Characters Centuries Ago
to Make Way for New Paris
Bourse or Board of Trade.

Paris.-At last 1t is settled that the
old Palais Royal is to disappear, The
bourse. or Paris board OF trade, or
Wall street, or Fourth avenue, of
Paris. is about to take the place of
the old palace, which was the adorn-
ment of the Paris of our great-grand-
fathers. This center of frivolous and
corrupted Paris Of the distant past is
doomed to disappear beyond redemp-
ton. The Society of the Friends of
Old Paris are powerless to save it.
Indeed, it has been dead this many
day Ii has become cemetery
without mourning, a metropolis with.
out poetry. There is hardly dream
Of Its past that has not been de-
stroyed
The great square is given over to
children and their nurses, No gild-
ed successors Of the bedizened beau
ties of the past now promenade the
Galerie de Montpensier few be-
draggled creatures. nurtured by pow
erty. rather than by vice. occasionally
traverse this ruined Palace of Pleas
ure. Even the jewelry shops have
long since moved away.
In the beginning of the eighteenth
century the Palais Royal was a sort
of open-air club where people dis
cussed the happenings of Europe and
Of Paris from world politics to pri-
vate intrigues, big things and little;
the Versailles and the opera; the side
lights of history and the history of
sidelights.
When the Duke d'Orleans of that
iay-crushed with debts-suppressed
4 part Of the famous garden to estab-
fish shops. the shopkeepers made a
fortune. The Orleans family opened
the latter opened access for the Or
leans family to the throne from which
Louis Philippe fell for having trusted
the bourgeoisie too much.
The Palais Royal is remembered as
the place where Richelieu died, where
Anne of Austria saw the throne OF
young Louis XIV. threatened, where
the bogus financier, the Scotchman
Law, sought an asylum, where Phil
lppe Egalite after having voted
for the death of Louis XVI. had to
stand for an hour before his own
head was cut Off 1t is much remem-
bered for it's orgies during the Re-
gency. .5-
But to mans credit, be 1t noted, that
this old palace is most wildly re-
membered because here Camille Des-
moulins harangued the people and dis
tributed green leaves and rallied
hem to take the bastile the next day
Napoleon l. used the old palace as
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fleeing party SO 1t was dumped In the
shadows and horses were ridden
through the water to make 1t muddy.
Butler was killed. the raiders driven
away and the spoils await present-day
seekers.
While there is some doubt as to au.
thenticity. there Is said to be a &c..
100000 cache of Spanish doublons,
buried by Captain Kidd, on Esopus
Island in the Hudson river, not far
from New York City. while at the very
gate of New York is a forgotten treas.
IRE of many hundreds of thousands.
This famous treasure was lost when
the British frigate Hesarar, pay ship
sent In for the British soldiers during
the revolutionary war, went down In
the East river It will be easy to look
up the old Admiralty records and get
the full information that may lead to
the finding of the treasure.
The facts pertaining to Hopper
Smiths horde are as follows Der
Hopper" was very brutal and much
feared knight of the read on the west
shores of the Hudson from Nyack to
the Catskills and he robbed the
wealthy Dutch In an unmerciful man.
ner. He had no opportunities for
spending his ill-gotten wealth and
boarded 1t somewhere. At last he was
captured and before his execution at
Newburg confided to a keeper who had
been kind to him that he had sacks of
gold and silver and Jewels buried in a
pot on Storm King Mountain. Just
/ Forth of all-on-the-Hudson, some
tairty-five miles north of New York
City No search has ever been made.
In the hey-day of Mississippi river
steamboat traffic, great deal of sun.
ken treasure accumulated In the Ohio
Cumberland. Tennessee. Missouri. Red
and Arkansas rivers. pay boat on
its way to Grants army at Vicksburg
with more than two million dollars
aboard was fired by some of her crew
who Nneant to rob her The paymas-
| ter's men defended the money TIL the
boat sank. James B. Eads, who built
the Eads bridge at st. Louis and the
Eads jetties at the mouth of the Mis-.
sissippi, invented an apparatus by use
Of which he could reach some of the
treasure.wrecks in shallow water and
recovered several million dollars ALI
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Too Clean for Flies.

Berlin.-The notedly clean streets
Of the capital city Of the German en-
pire not only assist in keeping the
death rate low and please the eye.
but add as well to the comfort Of ev.
eryday life. At this season of the
year. while young America is being
taught to swat the fly" there is no
occasion to teach the Berliners any
such activity. Although window
screens are almost unknown here, SO
few flies can be found In any place
that they appear lonely. The city.s
admirable street cleaning methods do
not leave enough refuse to permit fiies
to breed.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-09-06
MARRIAGE LICENSE BY PHONE
Permit to Wed Issued to Minnesota
Man Over the Long-Distance
Wire by Clerk.

Minneapolis. Minn.-It lacked only
one hour until DIR. w. o. Fryberger
and Miss Mary Hughes. both of Min
neapolis, were to be wed at Miss
Hughes summer home, near Buffalo,
Mimi, when the clerk of the district
court refused a license to DR.. Fry
berger on the ground that the parties
did not reside in the county.
In that hour DR.. Fryberger called
the clerk of the district court in
Minneapolis. made an affidavit over
the long-dfstance telephone and re-
ceived a permission to wed by the
same way. the clerk Of the court at
Buffalo taking the fee for the Henne-
pin county office.
It is said to be the first case in
iIennepin county of license being
sued over the telephone.
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lose treasure is to bury it. 1t seems.
Tho earth in some mysterious way
spreads a mantle of oblivion which
can not be pierced by the memory OF
man and takes back to her bosom the
treasure that was wrested from her.
The other area is in the east, be-
ginnig at about Camden, N. j.. and ex-
tending north to Albany and thence
to Portland, Maine. In that field lived
the rich Royalist and Tory families.
The sudden turning of the tide found
the Tories in possession OF a. great
quantity of gold coin, gold and silver
plate and Jewels, and fearing they
would lose these, they buried them
and then fed. Comparatively little OF
It was ever sexhumed and the area is
dotted thickly with localities where a
search would be highly profitable. OF
them can mention a few only.
At Sound Beach, Conn. lives Mrs.
Jane Louden, 101 years of age. Her
husband, knowing that on the home
farm wealthy Tory family had buried
gold, hunted until he found several
pots containing several thousand dol
lars each. A neighbor also acquired
sudden wealth which he did not ex-
plain. Every one knew there was a
great joint family cache somewhere
near.
on Lord Edmeston's estate near West
Edmeston. N Y, his personal repre-
sentative. Perdifer Carr. had buried a
treasure. The property known as the
Burdick Farm, having been bought by
Henry F. Burdick in 1850, was the
site. In 1904 tenant named Cheese
borough plowed into a case OF china
and glass, breaking half of 1t before he
realized what the obstruction was. By
reason OF design and quality the re-
mainder. however, was worth small
fortune to dealers in antiques. 1t was
the Edmeston ware The law suit that
followed for possession made the case
famous. Where is the remainder OF
the treasure?
Joel Coryell, sexton at Romulus, N.
Y, digging grave on what was a
Tory estate in 1776. found a large
quantity of money in an old pot. The
grave belonged to Thomas Mann. but
Coryell kept the gold.
Walter Butler, the notorious Mo-
hawk Valley Tory, returned to the val
ley at the end of the war with force
of Tories and Indians to dig up the
treasures he had hurled and those that
had been buried by other wealthy
Tories who had told him where to re-
cover it in their behalf. When he had
finished his work and was returning,
the pursuing Colonials under Colonel
Marinus Willet, overlook the treasure
squad beyond Johnson's Hall on the
bank of the West Canada in northern
Herkimer county.
The treasure was too heavy for the
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APPs, ODD PEOPLE
Country Ruled by Gar is Barren
and DesoIute.
Few Persons Are Aware That There
Are Two Kinds of Lapiand-
Natives Never Live Long
In One Place.

St. Petersburg.-Among the curious
peoples in the Russian empire is one
race-the Lapps-who, though under
the Cars rule. practically are indie.
pendent. for the very good reason that
the Russian troops cannot get at them.
Every schoolboy has heard of Lap
land. in northern Europe, but few of
use know that there are two kinds of
Lapland. One Is ON the very verge of
the continent, in country so barren
and desolate that about the only liv-
ing creatures in it are the reindeer
IN which the northern Lapp subsists
the wolves, which live on the rein
aeer, and the Lapp himself.
In this region the herder Lapp
roams at will. The country is more
passable in winter than in summer,
since it is traversed by numerous
nvers and marshes that can be cross
ed only when frozen over, unless the
traveller carries his boat on his back
But with the coming of winter the
b4apps utilize the icebound rivers as
Fthoroughfares in their travels. They
Nhc OOot iOid6lA6 biouhub anu
the places where shelter may be af
forded for weeks encampment.
The resting places Of these nomads
within the arctic circle depend upon
the moss patches, the food of the rein.
deer. When it has been eaten off the
ground these people must strike camp
and go elsewhere. AS herd of a hun
dred deer will soon strip half dozen
acres of the moss growth it does not
take long for them to eat up every.
thing around the settlement, even the
shoots of the birch and willow trees
as far up as they can reach. So away
goes the band, and the place may be
deserted for several years, since three
or four seasons are required for the
moss again to spread over the ground
wherefrom 1t has been eaten. This Is
why the Lapp wanders through valley
and over plain. as does the tribesman
of the desert. He must move to live,
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WHOLE TOWN QUITS PHONE
checotsh (okIa.) In an Odd Protest
Against Poor Service Rendered
by Company.

gChecotah. okla.-IndividuaIly and
collectively, Checotah has its receiver
sbwn. All the telephone receivers In
Mbwn are down as protest against
What the patrons of the telephone
company characterize as poor serv-
ice. "Centrals" most seductive words
uttered In an effort to get the sub.
scribers to "hang up or answer calls
have been of no avail and the citi-
zens assert that they will not allow
the phones to be used until improve
ments In the service are made.
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GIVES WEALTH FOR APPETITE
"Diamond Jim" Brady of New York
Shows Gratitude to Johns Hop
kns Hospital.

Baltimore. Md.-In gratitude to 1t
for having restored his appetite, "Dia-
mond Jim" Brady of New York has
given $4,000 to Johns. Hopkins hos
pital here, it was learned. After suf-
fering for near six months from stom-
ach trouble, during which he could not
indulge In the luxury of dry toast
without being savagely revenged dur
ing digestion. Mr.. Brady was able to
sit down to his first big meal the other
night. The menu which was served
was as follows:
Cantaloupe, cherrystone clans.
chicken gumbo tstrained), sea bass,
wine, broiled squad turkey. string
bean salad, demi tasse, cigars. cham
payne.
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by no American city except Los An
geles, where there are "a instruments
per 100 population. Copenhagen and
Christiana also have good service,
and 1t is well patronized; but London,
Paris, Vienna and ST. Petersburg are
far down in the list of telephone-using
cities.
The relative use of the three great
methods of communication first
class mail, telegraph and telephone
in the United States In 1909 was 400,
0.4 and 5s.7 per cent. respectively,
white in Europe during the same year
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called, because 1t belonged to the Re-
public of Doges.
The ambassador OF Spain has the
Palazzo di Spagna, which for GEN.
turtles housed the grandees OF that
country. The German ambassador Is
housed in the Palazzo Chaffarelli.
which from the heights of the capitol
frowns over the Eternal City below.
The Japanese ambassador lives in the
historic Palazzo Altiere, erected in
1870.
Ambassador O'Brien understood
this situation and set to work to find
a proper residence, which for time
seemed impossible. He signed a con-
tract to occupy gorgeous apartment
In the Palazzo Barberini. most i'm
posing structure Of the Renaissance.
begun In 1924. and finished by the
ubiquitous Bernini, whose works con-
fIont one at every turn in Rome.
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SMALLEST BABY" THRIvEs
Philadelphia infant Reaches Weight
of Almost Two Pounds and is
Near Seven Inches Long.

Philadelphia.-Russell Daley, the
smallest baby ever born here. is max
Ing rapid strides at the University
hospital Now nearly two weeks old.
he has attained a weight of one pound
eleven ounces and length of six and
three-quarter inches. The physicians
say that his digestive apparatus is nor
unforeseen circumstances.
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ADMIRE AND USE TELEPHONE

tically two-thirds of the telephone
business of the world is therefore con-
centrated in the United States. This
represents an investment of $1,729.-
100000, which is certainly great
sum, in view of the fact that last year
was only the thirty-fifth since Profess
sor Bell invented the telephone.
Statistics recently filed show that
In Stockholm there are 1873 telephones
per 100 population. figure excelled
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NEW U. S. PALACE IN ROME
Thomas J. o'Brlen. Ambassador to
Italy, Has at Last Found Suit
able Residence.

Rome.-Thomas j. O'Brien, the
American ambassador has at last
solved In most suitable way the
question of his residence as the rep
resentative of a power like the United
States.
In Rome the ambassador OF great
country can hardly live. without losing
some prestige, In a modern house or
villa, The residence which the French
ambassador occupies. the Palazzo Far
nese. is a national monument in itself.
The Austrian ambassador lives in the
Palazzo Venezia q stronghold, So
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resting place for his heroes after each
campaign.
Almost all the characters of his 'Hu-
man Comedy passed through 1t. 1t
was the home of the worlds vices.
where men came and went, grumbled,
shouted jostled, blasphemed; 1t was
the haunt of gamblers and libertines,
Of officers on half-pay, rascals on full
pay, OF millionaires who came to pos
sess everything and Bohemians who
came to see everything.
But all are gone! Now one dimes
there with ghosts. The covers are
still correctly laid in the restaurants
bearing illustrious names, but few
diners darken their doors. Everything
speaks of world that has passed and
Of vanished society.
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Figures Show That Americans Most
Greatly Appreciate This Modern
Aid to Business.

There are few aids to efficiency so
useful as the telephone, and it In
something we may be proud of that
In this country alone 81 per cent. Of
aIl the instruments and 617s per cent.
al ali the wire used in telephone serv-
=, "a the world are employed. Prac-
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SAW Bio school of Whales.

New York.-Captain Collins of the
Wilson liner Galilee, which arrived
here, says he passed through school
Of fifteen big whales on Rockaway
He threw coal at them to scare them
away from the propeller.
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Patience and Poultry.

A man doesn't need a big lot e.
money to build up profitable poultry
business. But he does need lot of
patience and perseverance mixed with
an ardent desire to get hen under.
standing
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the percentages were 74.4, II and
23.9 respectively. The total numbers
of messages sent by all three methods
In the two divisions were practically
the same-about $1,000. 900, 0n0-En
cheering Record.