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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-24
SUFFRAGE IN ALASKA
NOT A VITAL ISSUE
Madame Labadie Says There
Aren't Any Women Up
There to Vote,
Anyway.

THE suffrage situation in Alaskan"
There isn't any"
The women Of Alaska
There aren't any"
In this sweeping way was the tenth
star of the suffrage flag disposed Of by
Nine. Harriet Labadie, who has been
making a study Of life in Alaska
Mime. Labadie can't understand how
that woman suffrage bill happened to be
passed I'm Alaska, anyway.
Even the men up there haven't any
rights she said. 81 don't know who
would dream OF women's rights. The
only woman met up there who was in
terested I'm anything but bridge parties
and the first boat back to Seattle was
the wife of the Congregationalist min
lister at Douglas. Mr.. Edwards. from
Boston. Mrs. Edwards was from Bos-
ton, too. and that accounted Of course
for her desire to do something besides
play bridge. So she formed a little art
700 people 1t lasted pretty well. too. all
twenty women met and studied Copley
prints sent out from Boston to them. In
the spring they decided to give a little
exhibition and with the proceeds buy
some pictures for the schoolhouse.
They gave a little supper, too, and
charged % cents admission. Well. the
people came. Of course-anything is an
In, I,,.
supper begun than in came the sheriff
great. fat brute, and demanded a $50
license fee. OF course. the women
couldn't pay that, SO they had to close
their little exhibit. That's how much pub
lie spirit there is in Alaska.
AT Mrs Edwards's home / tasted the
only good food I had in Alaska. They
had "A wonderful fruit cake sent from
Boston the Christmas before and cher
ished-well. it was far more precious than
gold in that country
The cost Of living is terrible in all the
Alaskan towns. PAID 20 cents for an
orange. 20 cents for one egg. s. for
little steak for two and % cents for a
baked potato All the food has TO be
shipped there i'm the summer while the
waterways are open or course, the dog
sleds could cary it I'm winter. but 1t
would freeze. Everything is refrigerated
and canned. There is not a COW in
Alaska, and only few hens each sum-
mer. which die as soon as winter comes
They cannot live even in heated houses
in winter.
THE only fresh food we had was to-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-24
TO BE INEz MLLH0LLAND'
FOR N. J. SUFFRAGE HOSTS
Miss Cutting Picked to Lead Big
Votes" Parade by Women's
Political Union.

Miss Mary Stewart Cutting, Of Orange
has been nominated the "Inez Milholland'
Of New Jersey. The Women's Political
Union Of New Jersey has chosen her as
its herald. to lead il in the great annual
parade of suffragists, which takes place
Saturday in Newark.
Miss Cutting is the daughter of Mrs.
Mary Stuart Cutting, the novelist and
holds an editorial post on magazine.
She is an ardent believer in votes FOR
women, and has walked in the Writer'S
Division in every suffrage parade in New
York.
She will wear a white gown. white shoes
and stockings and a three-cornered Ma
poleon hat Of white felt, with purple
cockade. Also a long white military cape.
fastened at the throat with buckle, and
with the sides caught back 10 show the
purple lining Across her breast VIII
stretch the purple. green and white rega-
liza of the Women's Political Union. Then,
with a long golden trumpet she will an
nounce the coming of the suffrage hosts.
The parade will start from Lincoln
Park, Newark at $3.50. 1t will proceed
down Broad street to the foot of Mill
tary Park, swing around that park TO
the front OF Proctor's Theatre, where II
will disband The crowds will then pour
into the theatre, where great parade
mass meeting will be held. Two United
States Senators from equal suffrage
states will speak-Willam f. Borah. Re
nd MiIgo
Poindexter, Progressive Senator from
Washington. Everett Colby, Progressive
candidate for Governor. and James Riley,
Socialist candidate for Governor. will also
speak The last speaker will be DR.. Anna
Howard Shaw. president OF the National
Suffrage Association.
DR.. Shaw will march in the parade. hav-
ing Indignantly rejected an invitation TO
ride in a flower bedecked carriage es-
corted by young girls. She will lead a
delegation from the National Suffrage AS
ISOLATION bearing aloft the imposing suf-
frage map, showing the ten states Of the
Union in which women now vote for
President Mrs. Harriet Stanton Batch,
of New York, will lead a delegation from
the Womens Political Union of New
York. There will be a mems division also.
All down the long line of marchers will
appear banners bearing the names of
New Jersey towns and cities where suf-
frage organizations now exist.
Since the suffrage bill passed at Tren-
TON last winter about fifty new towns
and cities have come into line with suf-
frase organizations. Mrs. Nina C. Van
Wrinkle. president of the Women's Politi-
cal Union Of New Jersey, will preside.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-24
TILTED, SHE ASKS $4,000
HEART BALM FROM DOCTOR
Helped East Side Physician Pay
for Education on Promise to
Marry, 1t Is Alleged.

Dr. Charles Pines. a prominent physician
on the East Side, was arrested yesterday
by Deputy Sheriff Fitzsimmons In a
breach OF promise suit for $1,000 damages
brought by Miss Frieda Messitta. lie
gave $500 bail. Miss MessItta alleges that
she advanced about $3.50 10 DR.. Pines TO
maintain him while he was studying al
the medical college Of Bellevue Hospital
and to pay for his education.
She did this she said. on his promise
10 marry her as soon as he had estab-
lished practice and 1t yielded SUFFICIENT
TO support her After waiting for several
wears Miss Messitta asserts. the physician
refused to marry her and became engaged
TO another woman, whose parents are
said 20 be rich.
Miss Messitta said that she has known
Or. Pines five years. When they hrst
met he was a medical student. and nav
ing means Of her own she advanced MN
about 81 go Or. Pines began the practice
of medicine in June. 1911. In Norwich
Conn. and later went 10 Hartford. sub
seouently he returned to New York.
DR.. Pines still promised and Miss Mes
sitta says M gave to her an engagement
ring and a wedding ring and even went so
far ar TO take out marriage license In
Jersey City. He still delayed the day OF
the wedding, however, and the alleged
delinquency continued until September H.
she SAYS. when he told the eXpectant
Young woman that he had changed his
mind and. anyway, that he did not care
for her Miss Messtta says she Is stu
willing to be married 10 DR.. Pines.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-24

Mrs. Norman +. Whitehouse, who Is
going to do some outdoor talking for John
Purroy Mitchell, will also be one Of the
speakers at the twenty-four-hour continu-
Gus suffrage meeting the Women's Politi-
cal Union will start tomorrow at .
o'clock p. m. at the Brooklyn Academy
Of Music.
This will be quite the worst offence the
suffragettes have yet committed In the
way Of oratory. one thousand four hun
dred and forty consecutive minutes OF II.
At the rate OF sixty words minute
but that's guessing. Anyway, Mrs. Har-
riot Stanton Batch, Miss Helen Todd and
others will keep ii up two hours at the
Academy.
Then Mrs olive schults will motor with
them to the corner of Atlantic and Flat
bush avenues. where through the colo
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-24
GIRL FOILS u. S. RAIDERS
Warns Jewellers, Suspected OF
Smuggling, by Phone.

Cleveland, oct. 23.-It became known
here to-day that the federal raid yester-
day on Jewellers suspected OF taking part
in a $4,000 smuggling plot was TO nave
extended to Buffalo, Akron, Ohio; Detroit
and several other points, but that arrests
were foiled in these cities by woman
who used a long distance telephone Az
result half a dozen suspects escaped the
government net.
The Cleveland raid led to the home OF
William Levi, pawnbroker and tewelier'
Ievi was arrested. but the Secret Service
operatives. under command OF John E.
washer. say that a woman who escaped
succeeded in getting warning 10 the sus-
poets in other cities.
The government alleges the smugglers
evaded the customs officials In bringing
in watches and other jewelry from Can
ada.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-24
MOTHERS TRAGEDY VICTIMS
One Kills Herself and Another
Dies to Save Children.

wilkes Barre. Penn. oct. 23.-Mary. ;he
three-year-old daughter Of Mrs. John
Most. was playing with matches to-day
when her clothing caught fire. The mother
heard the little ones cries and went 10
her assistance. but the daughter died in
a short time from burns
The mother became frantic, and, stand
ing in front of a mirror. shot herself
through the head. dying In few mo-
ments.
Ringhamton. y. Y. oct % -Oferins
her life that her two small children
might be saved from death by BURNING
Mrs. William Haga. died at Windsor this
morning. a gasolene iron she was oper-
ating caught fire.
Fearing it would explode and burn her
children, she carried the blazing iron out
doors. and In doing so received burns
which scorched parts OF her body TO a
crisp.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-24
JURY PICKED FOR MURET CASE

Eleven of the talesmen on the panel
before Judge Holt. in the United States
District Court. called 10 hear the coun-
terfciting case against Ernest Muret.
were excused yesterday because they an
nounced they were prejudiced against
Hans Schmidt. the slayer of Anna Au-
muller. who was Murets friend and al
legged accomplice In his counterfeiting
scheme. a.,
The Jury box was finally filled and a
truck bearing the printing outft. dies
and stamps which the prosecution VIII
use as evidence was wheeled into the
courtroom. The case will 60 on to-day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-24
MEMORIAL TO DIR. NEWCOMB
Widow to Give Window to Stony
Void Sanitarium.

Mrs James Edward Newcomb' presi-
dent of Stony Void. will give a window
10 the sanatorium in memory of her hus-
band. Dr James Edward Newcomb. The
presentation will be on Sunday In the
Memorial Hall at Lake Kushaqua, n. Y.
Bishop Sidney G. Partridge, of Missouri,
who was a Yale classmate Of Or. New
comb, will dedicate the window. Adj
dresses will be made by DIR. Hermann NJ.
Biggs. DR.. Birkett OF Montreal, and DR..
Trudeau. OF Saranac.
DR.. Newcomb was closely identified
with Stony Void and was the examin-
ing physician and a member OF the medi-
cal board
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-24

gray hours Of the night they viii plead
for votes for women Many speakers
will be on hand. and as fast as one falls
exhausted she will be -arried TO the rear
to be revived with not coffee by Mrs.
Batch. the chaperon OF the talk-icst
Police are anticipating unanimous
march OF the Bowery bread line across
Brooklyn Bridge 10 the meeting. OWING
10 the announcement OF the suhragettes
that they will se:ve coffee and sand
witches to the audience as well as speak
ers
All day Saturday the meeting will plough
on. winding up with n speech al o'clock
by Mrs. Eugene Boissevain. the beauti-
fullest suffrage bride.
Mrs. Boisseyain will also speak at the
regular tea of the Women's Political
Union at the headquarters. No. 70 West
42d street on Sunday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-24
AIGRETTES MUST STAY OUT
Registration Won't Get Plu-
mage Through Custom House

Washington, oct. 23.-The algrette prom
lem was up again to-day. The Treasury
Department announced that "A certihcate
of registration of aigrettes and similar
plumage by people going abroad cannon
serve as a permission to bring such ar
ticles back into the United States
Under the new tariff law, aigrettes on
or off mats are absolutely prohibited from
passage through United States custom
house.
The department also ruled on the ques-
tion of fur sealskn garments taken out
Of the country and brought back. The
New Orleans collector was advised that a
certificate of ownership of such garments
must be issued by customs collectors at
the port Of departure only after adequate
evidence has been produced to prove that
the garments are not made from pro-
hibited sealskin
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-24
ARGUE BECKER CASE DEC. |
Court of Appeals Sets Day toI
Hear Lawyers.

Albany, Oct. 23.-Arguments in the cases
Of Charles Becker, former police lieuten-
ant, and the four gunner who are under
sentence of death for killing Herman
Rosenthal, was set to-day for December
by the Court of Appeals. The gunmen's
cases previously had been set for Noven,-
Der q.
A statement given out by the court ex-
planned that the new date was chosen In
order that Judges Cullen and Gray. who
retire on December 81, may participate In
the decisions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-24
FIRE DRILL SAVES PUPILS
1000 March to Safety from
Burning Schoolbouse.

Manchester. Conn, oct -o.-0N'ee'
handed nupils were imperilled by fire in
the Pine District Grammar schocI TINS
afternoon. but all were marshalled in the
Are drill and we're marched to safety. The
building. a three story structure was de-
stroyed.
The South Manchester Library Build-
ing was partly burned. and I'm all eight
houses were destroyed and six others
damaged The plant OF the Cheney
Brothers silk mills was endangered Tor a
time Fire apparatus came from Hart
ford
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-24
HOSPITAL COWS INFECTED
tuberculosis Found in Nearly
Third of Matteawan Herd.

Beacon. n. Y. oct 23.-Twenty-six Of
The sixty-eight cows at the Matteawan
State Hospital have been found 10 DE
suffering with tuberculosis by Inspector
Jackson. OF the State Department OF
Health who made an inspection of the
stock last week
The condemned cows have been sepa-
rated from the herd and will be treated
oy veterinary surgeon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-24
Daily Bill of Fare.
SATURDAY..

BREAKFAST Baked apples. sausage
cornmeal pancakes coffee.
LUNCHEON.-Broil oysters on toast
compete of prunes and apricOts Danish
style). cookies. tea.
DINNER.-Tomato soup, steak with
fried onions, grape catsup, mashed pota-
toes, creamed cucumbers. orange jelly,
coffee
A DANISH COMPOTE.-Combine few
stewed apricots with some stewed prunes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-24
FOREST FIRE PROTECTION.

, Casolene railway speeders are used BY
tho Forest Service for forest fire protec-
ton purposes. They follow trains on
&C., grades where sparks thrown out
by forced draft are likely 10 cause the
starting OF fires along the right OF way
Engineering Record.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-24
Called Her Good Wife"

He described the visit which Mrs Eaton
made TO her married daughter Mrs June
Keyes in Medford, three days before the
admiral died.
The day Mrs. Eaton went TO June's
home. said Mr.. Geogan. "she bade the
admiral an affectiOnate farewell. and left
him in the barn with a man who was
buying a load OF hay. He said as she
left. There's a fine woman. She's a good
wife. Mrs Eaton spent that night at
the home Of June Keyes. We will show
YOU that when she said, I'll go home and
attend 10 him. there was no sinister sig
nihcance attached to her words.
when she reached home she had no
breakfast. She said 10 the admiral. Don't
you want some breakfast and he re-
piled. I've lost one breakfast already;
don't want another
He was in all day, and Mrs Eaton
said. 4 guess I'll call a doctor She
walked to the window and saw the doctor
coming. DR.. Frame visited the admiral!
but couldn't find anything seriously wrong
with him. She ministered 70 his wants
like an affectionate wife all day, running
Up and down stairs and waiting on him.
The movements Of the accused widow
In the week Of the admral's death were
described in detail by the lawyer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-24
Drunk on BattIeship.

Rear Admiral Charles Z. Clark, com
mander Of the battleship oregon on her
famous voyage around the Horn, gave
testimony as to the personal habits or
Rear Admiral Eaton. AS president OF the
Naval Examining and Retiring Board, ne
said. he declined a request from Rear
Admiral Eaton for an assignment TO a po-
sition on some naval board, because he
had heard Of habits Of intemperance on
the part Of Eaton. To this Admiral Eaton
replied that he had been forced, on &C
count Of Illness TO take something Whlcn
caused this condition.
Lieutenant Holden c. Richardson. now
on duty as an aviation instructor at Ham
mondsport. y. Y, testified that while
junior watch officer Of the battleship Mas
sachusetts, in 1905 he had seen captain
Eaton. then master OF that vessel, IN
condition of apparent intoxication. he
had never noticed any odor of liquor from
his breath but had seen him staSger anu
act in way like an intoxicated man.
Lieutenant Richardson told of one occa-
sion when. on the way to the Azores.
Captain Eaton appeared on the bridge
dressed IN paJdHds, anu saw
which. if carried out, the witness SAID
would have put the battleship in danger
of collision with other vessels OF the
squadron At another time the witness
saw Captain Eaton. while seemingly IN
toxcated hold mast" or court, on the
lattleship. and i'm that condition sentence
two seamen for drunkenness.
In cross-examination Lieutenant RIch-
ardson was asked why, If the condition OF
Captain Eaton was so serious that the
ship and the lives of those aboard were
endangered, he did not make report oi
the situation 10 any one except the snip
surgeon and the navigating ofhcer. me
Witness declined TO answer on the GROUND
that he was not on trial.
admiral Clark took the witness slaho
again at the request of District Attorney
Barker and was asked whether II was not
the duty of an officer in such circum-
stances as Lieutenant Richardson de-
seribed TO make formal report. Admiral
Clark replied in the negative, but SAID
that II was customary TO report SUCH
situation TO the executive officer OF the
ship
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-24
EATON DRUNK IN CHARGE
OF BATTLESH|P, IS STORY
Appeared on Bridge of the
Massachusetts in PalamaS,
Giving Dangerous Orders.
MAN OF DUAL PERSONALITY
Naval Men Tell of Bibulous
Habits - Widow to Contend
Admiral Died from Arsenic,
Self Administered.

Plymouth, Mass, Oct. 2S.-Rear Ad-
mlral Joseph G. Eaton. whose widow. Mrs.
Jennie May Eaton, is on trial here charged
with his murder. was painted in the open
ing address Of the defence to-day as a
drug fend and a man of dual personal
ity. veritable DR.. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
Francis J. Geogan. VINO made the open
ing argument, said II would be shown that
Admiral Eaton was addicted to the use OF
liquor and drugs 10 such an extent that he
endangered his vessel and the lives OF
men under him when in the navy
The death Of the admiral was due.
Geogan insisted, 20 arsenic self-adminis-
tered This was obtained. he said. from a
Boston physician, who supplied the ad-
miral in all with $500 tablets containing
the poison, 10 be used as a medicine.
Geogan announced that Mrs. Eaton the
defendant. would take the stand and tell
the story Of her life. After outlining the
principal points OF Mrs Eatons story,
including her divorce from her first huS-
band. her marriage TO Admiral Eaton and
their removal to the Assnippi farm to
raise chickens, Geogan touched on the
events Immediately preceding the ad-
mirars death.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-24
Left Nothing but Debts.

We will show you there was no fric-
ton between Mrs. Eaton and her hus-
band right UP TO the time OF his illness.
he said. There was no misunderstood
ing
Mr.. Geocan said it would be shown that
the admiral left Mrs. Eaton nothing but
a heritage of debts. and that she could
have no motive for desiring his death
on the other hand he said. she had as a
motive for keeping him alive the fact
that an income OF $500 year, repre-
senting the admiral's retired pay. ceased
IN his death leaving the widow without
any means Of support for herself, her
mother and her daughter. The defendant.
the attorney added. would not hide be-
hind a cloak of insanity nor ask for
special privileges on account of her sex.
DR.. T. Fremont Smith, OF Washington.
the first witness testified a considerable
length regarding the admirars habits Of
intoxication during his first wife's illness
and her death.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-06-20
NOTICE, CONTRACTS FOR BRIDGE LUMBER,

Sealed bids are invited, to be opened
Monday, July 7th. 1918, at 200 D. M,
for 100000 feet of bridge lumber, di.
mansions to be furnished as needed,
largest sizes:
Cap stills, 10 x 10 x IS.
Stills, 10 x 10 x 20.
Floor braces, 2 x IL x %.
Flooring, 2 IL x l8.
Posts, 10 x 10 x length governed by
height of bridge.
Braces, 3x 10 x length governed by
height of bridges.
Fence posts, a 10.
Fencing, | X 6 II.
Floor Joist, 3 x II x ID.
Bids to be made for lumber at mills.
and delivered at Macon, all lumber to
be white oak or post oak merchantable
bridge lumber, lumber to be delivered
as needed and within sixty days.
Exact specifications for lumberneeded
now on file in Clerks office. See Spe-
~cifications for Bridges. Successful bid
der to Immediately furnish bond for
amount of his bid. The Board re-
serves the right to reject any or all
bids.
BY order of Board of Supervisors.
this June 18th, 1913.
JOHN A. TYSON, Clerk.
by w. .. BARNES, JR., d. G.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-06-20
Land for Sale.

by virtue of the authority vested in me
by a consent decree entered by consent of ali
parties to the cause and the o wners and lien.
ors OF the land in question entered at the
April term, 1913, of the Chancery Court OF
Noxubee county, Mississippi, in the cause OF
w, A. Cade, ct al versus w. +, T'riplett eft nj
NO 1896, | have for sale either by public or
private sale the following lands in Noxuhee
county, Mississippi, to-wit:-
20 acres off of the South end of Lot Is.
and all OF Lots rs. 10 and % in Section 4
aud IS acres OFF of the South end of Lot % in
Section . all in Township 16, Range 16.
SAID lands may be purchased in large o,
small quantities and as all of the parties
owing the same are adults and have SO
agreed am authorized to sell on this land in
large or small tracts whenever a price is of
iered that u aect ptahle TO the owners.
JOHN A. TYSON,
"a, Special Commissioner.
This the 10th day OF May, 1913
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-06-20
Center Valley Items.

The fresh mountain air seem!
to Undue the spirits of the con.
victs with a desire fer liberty, as
three of them have escaped while
making the mountain road near
here.
Mrs. Johnson reports that hei
daughter, Mrs. Luther Brown ,
who has been so i'll is much in .
proved.
Mrs. IT, Z. Haynes and chi d.
rem spent the week end win,
Mrs. Chairman last week.
Misses McDade of Laurel are
guests of Mrs. N. A.. Wilder.
Mrs. D. +. Wilson and Mrs.
Jim Gurley have been on the sick
list this week.
Miss jamie Coleman left Sunday
for Tuscaloosa where she has &C.
cepted a position with the Semit-
Solvay Co.
Henry Thomas and Pun Shep-
herd were here Sunday.
Books have been ordered for
the Sunday School library, We
hope this will make our school
evermore interesting and pro-
gressive.