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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-09
COURT ASKED TO OFFICIATE.
Requested to Distribute Funds From
Sale of Old Cemetery.

Application was made to the District
supreme Court today to supervise the
distribution of a fund of $115 24S. Is,
arising from the sale Of the old Grace
land cemetery at 18th and H streets
northeast. The court is asked to refer
the matter to Louis A. Dent, auditor Of
the District Supreme Court. to determine
who are entitled. as certificate holders or
descendants of such holders, to share in
the distribution.
The petition was filed by Attorneys
Birney ~ Woodland on behalf OF Seymour
w. Tulloch. Benjamin y. Needs. Clar-
ence. f. Norment, William Tindala and
Odell S. Smith, members of the board of
officers of the Graceland Cemetery AS
sociaton. They tell the court that under
act of Congress of August 3, 1894 the
cemetery was ordered discontinued and
sale of the land provided.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-09
Fister, part parcel A: So Same to
same, another part of same parcel;
With Your Initial on Each Sheet,

Fister, part parcel A: so. Same to
same, another part of same parcel;
$40.
CONGRESS MISREPRESENTATION L. Jen-
nings ct ux. to George F. Wheelock
lot q. square 5942: SO.
VILLA PARK HEIGHTS-Clara A. Mar
den ct vir, Edwin R., to Alfred Berg
strom, lot 33, square 1926: $1SI. Same
to Cornelia E. and John w. Cronie,
lots 10 and II, square 43O2; $1,000.
VILLA PARK HEIGHTS-Clara A. Mar
den ct vir, Edwin r., to Oscar Greger-
son. lot . square 1925; $44S. Same to
William A. Ellis. lot &c. square 4oc6:
1915. Same to Edward Geissman, lot
g. square 4242: $59S.
ANACOSTIA-Minnie l.. Soper to Pierre
A. Soper. part lots 10. 1I6. III; SO.
MOUNT PLEASANT AND PLEASANT
PLAINS-John w. Pilling ct ux. to
David J. DUNCAN, part lot ]. block
10: SO.
FIRST ADDITION TO MANOR PARK
William S. Minnix ct ux. to Lille v.
McCullum, lots 35, 36 and 81, square
1888; $40 Lille V. McCullum conveys
same property to Allan McLane Albert;
so.
ADDITION TO BROOKLAND-Marga
NJ. Pennybacker to John and Monte
j. OConnell, lot g. block A, and lot 4,
block 40; SO
I STREET NORTHEAST between 9Th
and 7th streets-David j. DUNCAN to
Willard H. Davis, lot 112, square So7;
$40.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-09
Court of Appeals.

Present, the Chief Justice, Mr.. Justice
Robb and Mr.. Justice Van Orsdel.
Eugene Young was admitted to prac-
tice.
No. 2O77. Robinson agt. Gordon ct al.
decree on mandate of United States SUI
preme Court entered
No. 2460. Hayes agt. Huddleson: argu
ment continued by Mr.. ]. B. Archer, fol
appellee, and concluded by Mr.. j. ]. Oar
lington, for appellee.
No. 2475 Royal Glue Company agt
Lange; argument commenced by Mr.. r
J. Whiteford for appellant, continued by
Mr.. F. L. Siddons, for appellee. and con.
Guided by Mr.. W. G. Gardiner, for ap'
pol1aOf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-09
SOUNDED FALSE ALARM.
Jeremiah Murphy Sentenced to o.
couuan for $50 DAYS.

Circumstantial evidence which Judge
Pugh believed stong enough to convict
resulted In jeremiah Murphy being sent
10 Occoquan today for $50 days for sound
ing a false alarm of fire.
Policemen Lawton and Boswell of the
sixth precinct testified that Saturday
morning shortly after midnight ar
alarm was sounded from the box at the
corner of John Marshall place and
street northwest. They testified that
Murphy was only a short distance from
the box after the alarm was sounded.
Murphy denied the charge, but adj
mitted the truth of an assertion that he
had been drinking.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-09
DUELISTS KISS IN COURT.
Prove That Deportation on Same
Ship Is Safe.

NEW YORK. January Pietro Dutt
and Charles Van Cent. who had pleaded
guilty to charge Of engaging in duel.
embraced in Justice O'Sullivan's part OF
general sessions yesterday and were re-
leased on parole on condition that they
leave the country on La Savoie and not
return for ten years.
Judge O'Sullivan hesitated about having
them return on the same ship, but the
TWO prisoners embraced and kissed in
court To show that the breach was
healed
December 3. during a keg party in a
vacant lot at 18th street and 18th avenue
Quito and Van Cent quarreled about the
merits of the opposing armies in the
balkans. A duel took place with due
formality and twelve bullets found bill
At the end of the fusillade both COM
batants were arrested. much to their sur
prise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-09
BABY WEIGHS "a OUNCES.
Tiny Child of Minneapolis Alderman
Kept in Incubator.

MINNEAPOLIS. Mimi. January 9-In
carefully guarded incubator I'm the
home of Alderman Arthur w Selover,
acting mayor Of Minneapolis. there is
sleeping the smallest child ever born in
Minneapolis and alive, according to ply
scians.
The alderman's child is more than two
weeks old, but weighs only a few ounces
more than one and one-half pounds
Physicians declare the child probably viii!
live.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-09
FIND BODIES IN FIRE RUINS.
Twenty Hurt in Dash for Safety
From Lodging Houses.

SAN FRANCISCO, January 9.-Two un-
identified bodies have been removed from
the ruins Of two waterfront lodging
houses. destroyed by fire early today, and
other bodies may be found.
Twenty persons were injured in the
dash for safety and three firemen badly
hurt by the collapse Of one of the build
ings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-09
Auditor Kram Answers Crit
cism of Dissatisfied Clerks.
DISCUSSES NEW METHODS
Post Office Employees Transferred to
Piece Rate Pay Object.
HOLD A MEETING
It Is Contended That They Do Not
Represent the GIT Who Are
on the Same Status.

! Rumors, which have been rife for a
month, of a revolt in the auditors office
| of the Post Office Department, as the
result of the introduction of electrical
| machinery to do the auditing of the office,
| and the consequent transfer of a large
number of woman clerks to a piece-work
| basis of pay, eliminated last night in the
| gathering at the home of one of the
| clerks of ten of them to discuss ways
! and means of improving their condition.
| Reports of the meeting. which is said
| to have discussed the possibility of a
strike" and an appeal to members of
| Congress, are not taken seriously by
| Auditor Charles A. Kram who has super
vision of the new electrical machinery
and the work of the women. The clerks
who met last night are reported to have
| complained that they have been taken
| from the jurisdiction of the civil service
! and are fortunate if they can earn 500
| month
Calls Criticism Unjust.
methods in this Office" the auditor said
| today, has met with opposition In many
| cases the opposition was founded on in
dividual inefficiency and inability to meet
modern conditions. The criticism of those
employees QOeS an injustice 10 d corps OIL
clerks who have received a promotion in
salary by their transfer to the piece rate
roll"
The auditor said further that the piece
rate employees have the status of clerk
and have not been taken from under the
protecting arm of the civil service COM
mission.
"A majority of the clerks who were
transferred from the statutory roll to
the piece roll were formerly employed
in the bureau of engraving and print
ing at $1.25 a day" Mr.. kram said.
Their average rate of pay on the Statu-
tory roll of the auditors office was
STAB a year, or about $2.06 day. Under
the piece rate system their average
December, 1912, was s3.17. Twenty per
cent of those employees earned more
than 81 day for every day they
worked.
Will Get Leaves Of Absence.
Under the law as it now stands the
piece rate employees are not entitled to
leave of absence. The legislative bill
which passed the House of Representa-
tives December Q, 1912, changes this sit
uation. From and after the approval of
that act the piece rate employees will be
allowed the same leave of absence as
other departmental clerks.
THE conditions under which those
clerks work." continued the auditor, "are
as near ideal as it is possible to make
them. The office cannot be compared.
by any stretch Of the imagination to a
night are reported to have said. I am
sure that the ten clerks referred to do
not represent in any sense the 217 en-
ployes on piece rate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-09
Mrs. Fitzgerald Gets Divorce.

Justice Anderson today granted an alb
solute divorce to Mrs. Cecilia Fitzgerald
from Thomas Fitzgerald The custody of
their child is given to the mother.
Attorney w. A. Coombe appeared for the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-09

Dr.. c. X Messick OF Baltimore pur-
chased from trustees twenty-five acre.
Of land, containing a lithia spring. In
Indian Springs district. Washington
county. Md, for 5000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-09

dated May 81. 1906 filed.
Estate Of Nathaniel M. Macrea; will
dated November 2, 1908, filed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-09

II. E. Davis and ]. E. Laskey; defendants
attorneys, Douglas, Baker, Ruff1n & Obear
Riley agt. District Of Columbia; de-
cree for payment before January Is
or writ Of assistant to issue (by JUS
tice Could; plaintiffs attorneys. Clephane
& Clephane; defendants attorney, VIII
liam Henry White.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-03-13
GETS OFFICIAL SCARF PIN.
Wilson VIII Wear Miniature Seal of
the United States.

Trenton. N. Jas President of the
United States, Woodrow Wilson will
Continue to wear an Official scarf pin.
Former Mayor Bechtel, of Trenton,
presented the Governor with a nina
ture seal Of the United States to take
the place of a similar pin bearing The
seal of the State of New Jersey, that he
has worn since occupying the execu-
tive chair here. Previous to his cleo
ton as Governor, and while he was
president of Princeton University, he
wore a pin bearing the seal of the
University-the coat of arms Of the
Duke of Nassau.
When asked what he planned to do
with the State pin, Governor Wilson
spilled:
Il shall keep it." he said, "and when
I am past the age of~ediscretion I may
run for Governor Of New Jersey"
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-03-13
NEW REVENUE ACT,

Finance Committee Presents Bill for
Raising Revenue During the Next
Two Years.
Raleigh. N. c., (Special.)-A portion
OF the general plans Of the Finance
Committee was introduced in the
House when the bill which deals with
the inheritance tax, the income tax, IL
censs tax and franchise tax was pre-
scented.
The inheritance tax feature was
changed by the committee so as to
eliminate exemptions from taxation
for any persons except widows, hus-
bands and 1ineal descendants. Machin-
cry was placed in the act to enable the
department at Raleigh to keep in touch
with all estates settled in the various
counties and to ascertain the amount
Of taxes which had come to the State.
The weakness of the former law
seems to have been largely in the exc
cution thereof and it was for the pur-
pose of giving more efficient execution
that the many changes were made by
the present Finance Committee.
The income tax was made a grad
uating one, ranging from $1.00 to $500
on the hundred and that part of the
act prohibiting newspapers from pub
fishing the income vas stricken out.
Among the license taxes, many new
features were added, the most import
ant probably being a tax on the gross
sales of all drinks containing cocaine,
caffeine or any of the salts or deriv-
atives thereof. Provision is made for
the wholesale dealers to purchase
stamps and in the event that stamps
are so purchased, the retail dealer is
not liable to taxation. This item will
collect quite a good deal of revenue
from the manufacturers of Coco Cola
and Pepsi-Cola and like substances.
The franchise tax IN railroad com
panies was changed so as to range
from $500 to $1,000 per mile instead
of from $500 to $500 per mile in the
former act. The express com
pany tax was changed from a gross
receipt tax on interstate business to g
mileage tax of $500 per mile on the
famount of mileage W which it does
business. The telegraph tax was
changed from a gross receipt tax or
Interstate business to a mileage tax o.
$500 per pole mile.
n hoASAl0O q III "a - ROA
cent on the issued capital stock was
placed on all corporations, both do
nestle and foreign. This tax is placed
upon the total issue of capital of do
nestle corporations and on foreign
corporations II is placed on total issue
Of capital stock, which property owned
and business done by the foreign cor,
porations in the State bears to the
property owned and business done out
side of the State.
These are the main features of the
bill and no reference is made to the
acvalorem tax on real and personal
property. These items will be dealt
with in bills that will De introduced
later in the session. Neither is refer
ence made to the machinery to be used
in putting the revenue act into opera
ton. The machinery of former acts
will probably be changed considerably
and will be embodied in an act to be
introduced later.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-03-13
col. KERR ON THE JOB.
Preferred Being Active Governor to
Wearing Silk Hat and Seeing Wilson
Inaugurated President.
News and Observer. Feb. 24th.O

lNeWS ana observer, reD, A4tn.)
Col. John P. Kerr, private secretary
to Governor Craig, will not go to the
Wilson Inauguration. He cannot wear
the regulation silk hat and without it
he would feel as out of place as the
o~ne-legged nan at the dance, as lone
Is a genuine Christian at a Texas
campmeeting.
Yesterday, thirty-six of Coll Kerr's
best Asheville friends issued a petition.
to which were attached their sigma
lures, imploring him to observe the
headwear traditional in diplomatic So
ciety. DR.. George T. Winston readily
gave his name to the cause and State
Chairman Charles A. Webb delivered
the memorial in person. These things
moved him not. He cancelled his ho-
tel contract, called off his agreement
with the railroad and announced that
he would stay at home.
Colonel Garland Thomson, execu-
tive secretary, begged him to be re-
spectful of the rules. you would
not stand for individual tastes in every
thing" Colonel Thomson said. Sup
pose a c~ountryman with one gallus, a
growth of beard three weeks old, over
all breeches and Alamance shirt and
b~arefooted, should have shown up at
the governors reception and demanded
entrance, would you have admitted
him? No you wouldn't. You might
have dissembled your love of freedom
in dress, but the fellow would have
asked you why you kicked him down
stairs. And yet, you would stand for
a breach of the rules when it comes to
wearing silk hats"
mo, I wouldn't, Garland" Colonel
Kerr said. 81 just ainter going to
Washington. I'll stay at home rather
than wear one of them. That's as
consistent as I can be"
Asked what is his special kick
against the silk hat, Colonel Kerr adj
mitted that he has none but he cannot
now remember that any great idea was
ever born in a begun. Imagine Ma
poleon apsotrophizing the pyramids in
a plug hat or st. Paul laying aside his
silk cady preparatory to preaching to
the church at Corinth. / just don't
want one of the things on my head
though I recognize the right OF every
body to be miserable a la mode that
wants to-"
Colonel John Kerr,
Executive ONCE, Raleigh, N. G..
Dear Sir: Whereas, 1t has come to
the knowledge of the undersigned that
you have declined to recognizeithe ira
ditions that require you, as an official
from the commonwealth, to wear a
high silk hat at the coming Inaugural
ton. We firmly, but kindly and like
a father, insist that you adopt the
regular head-gear on this occasion in
stead of doing violence to the pro-
prieties.
We trust that our remonstrance may
have the desired effect.
We shuddder to think what would
happen il you show up in Washington
without the glossy tile.
The Bourbon news., 1913-04-11

Piof. George w. Chapman. Super
intendent of the Paris Public School
last night rendered his resignation to
the Board of Education to become
effective at the close of the present
term of school. which is in June.
The Board of Education met at the
school buildii g last night to consider
the resignation.\ The matter was
brought to the attention of the Board
at conference held Wednesday.
When the News went to press last
night the Boaro was still in session.
1t is not known who will be selected
as the successor Ito Prof. Chapman,
who it is understood has been elected
to the superintendency of a school in
Georgia.
The Bourbon news., 1913-04-11
PARIS, KENTUCKY, FRIDAY, APRIL II 1913
Council TransaCts Little Busi=
ness.

The City Council in regular session
last night transacted .but little busi-
ness. The finance committee asked
for more time to make report on the
propusitionYof the Board of Trustees
of the W. w. Massie Memorial Hos
pital for the city to ,make an appro-
priation to assist in maintaining the
institution.
Upon motion of Councilman Kenney
and Iby the unanimous vote of the
Council it was ordered that the Paris
Gas and Electric Co., which Is now
substituting electric street lights for
the old gas burners, be requested to
maintain the gas lights in use and
after May l assume the payment of
the salary of the street lampligbter.
Messrs. A. L. Slicer and S. w. Sum-
hIers presented to the Board petition
from number of property holders Ion
South Main street. protesting against
the erection of an addition to a stable
owned by CalW yeod & McClintock.
The Improvement committee was
ordered to confer with the owners of
the property in an effort to induce
them to erect the structure in the rear
of the present building. A permit for
weeks ago.
Through Councilman Parrish, who
presented figures to the Board showing
in the past few years and in the face
of the many improvements made in
the city there had been no material
increase in the city's assessment, an
order was obtained to instruct the City
Assessor to give careful attention to
taking the assessment of the property
in the city this year.
A number of building permits were
granted and the usual number of &C
counts were allowed.
....Police Judge E. B. January: sub
mitted his report for the month of
March. which is9as follows: Amount
of fines assessed, S77.50; amount re-
plevined. $1,000; fines collected. S98 /;
suspended. $40, worked out. SIP. so.
The Bourbon news., 1913-04-11
Sturdevant Acquitted at Exam
lining Trial.

Lee Sturdevant, charged with killing
Henry Story, colored, at the construc-
ton camp of Hough & Spradling near
this city. several months ago, was
acquitted at his examining ttrial in the
county courtiW ednesday afternoon be-
fore Judge DenisiDundon. The NEGRO
through his attorney, Mr.. Wade Whit
ley, entered 81 lea of self defense,
which wasssubstantiated by the evil
dence introduced at ..the examination.
The killingsoccurred on the night of
October u last year, following an ar
gument over game of cards. 1t de-
veloped at the trial that number of
negroes we're engaged IN both card and
crap games in one of the shanties at
the camp, and Story. losing all of his
money in one of the games became
very abusive toward Sturdevant. 1t
was also brought<out at the trial that
Story blew oqtfhe lamp in the thouse.
and fiourishing his revolver in a reck-
less manner frightened the inmates,
who fled from the building.
When on the outside Story drew This
revolver and fired two shots in the di-
rection of Sturdevant. who it appeared
was leaving the camp, when fthe latter
returned the fire, emptying three
chambers of his revolver. One bullet
took effect in Story's head, inf1icting a
wound from which he died at Lexing-
ton hospital seeral days later.
After hearing the5 evidence Judge
Dundon dismissed the warrant against
Sturdevant. At the instance of
County Attorney George Batterton a
warrant charging him with carrying
concealed weapons was issued. This
warrant was also dismissed by Judge
Dundon, who held that the evidence
introduced did not support the charge
as none of the witnesses had seen
Sturdevant with a revolver in the
house and failed to SEE him draw the
weapon when he fired in defense of his
life.
Sturdevant. who was employed at
the camp of ID. b. Lacy & Son, es-
capped after the killing, but returned
to Paris last week and was taken into
custody by Patrolman Fred Link. He
claimed to have returned to Paris to
surrender to the authorities.
The Bourbon news., 1913-04-11
Battle Club Will Meet Boomers.

The Battle Creek Club will meet the
College BIoomer Girls IN their opening
exhibition ganesa at White Park Sunday
afterno on.
The Bourbon news., 1913-04-11

For rheumatism you will find moth
ing better than Chamberlain's Lini-
ment Try it and see how quickly it
gives relief. For sale by all dealers.
The Bourbon news., 1913-04-11
Bourbon Man Weds in Lexington

Miss Mary Booze. of Lexington.
was united in marriage to Mr.. w. r.
Stipp. of this county, on Wednesday
evening, April 9, at the home of the
brides aunts. MissesiKate and Anna
Boone. in Lexington The Rev. j. w.
Porter officiateh. The bride wore a
suit of blue with pretty hat and car
ried sweet pease. She is the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Boone. of
Frankfort. Mr.. Stipp is a popular
yo ung man of Bourbon.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-15
DR.. ROBT. M. RUSSELL
ELECTED MODERATOR
Atlanta Clergyman Suggests Name Of
United Presbyterian Church For
All Three ORGANIZATIONS.

Atlanta Ca. May 15.-Or. Robert n.
Russell, of Westminster college, New
elected moderator Of the United Pres
hyterian assembly IN session here Dr..
Russell succeeds Dr. Hugh c. Ball, of
San Francisco.
The name of Dr. Russell was placed
before the assembly by Dr. G. D.
PrOLdfit. Of Des Moines, Ia. No other
nominations were made and DR.. Russell
was declared elected by acclamation-
DIT. G. A. Beatty. Of Atlanta, in pre-
senting the gavel to the new mOdera-
tor, spoke Of the proposed union be-
tween the United Presbyterian church
with the southern church and declared
the organizations should be called the
United Presbyterian church
To Observe Labor Day.
A recommendation that Labor day be
observed in the churches of the de-
nomination led the suggestions made
by the committee representing the fed
eral council Of the Churches of Christ
In America The committee believed
that sermons appropriate to that day
should be preached by all pastors.
Praise For w. }. Bryan.
secretary OF state Bryan'S decision
to serve no liquors at his state dinners
was lauded by the committee on tenn
perance and other reforms. This
said the committee in its annual re-
port seems almost as IL the millennium
had arrived in Washington.
me the progress IN temperance
reform, taking the country as a whole
has not been especially marked during
the year" says the report. there have
been some victories that are Outstand-
ing and inspiring The overwhelming
vote of West Virginia in favor of the
prohibition of the saloon in that com
monWealth was a surprise to both the
friends and the foes of the reform 1t
indicates an increasing sentiment in
favor Of prohibition that is little short
Of astonishing
Blow at Liquor Traffic.
IN addition to this. there was the
enactment of the Webb-KenvOn inter
state commerce bill in the closing davs
OF the last congress and its passage nv
an overwhelming vote by both the
house and the senate over the veto of
the president, which is regarded as per-
maps the Severest blow ever struck at
the liquor traffic and Indicative of q
nationwide sentiment not even dreamed
Of by the most sanguine friends OF
temperance"