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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-12
MAXWELL AGAIN Lowers
HlLL-CLIMblNC RECORD
Latest Victory That Of Billy Carlson,
Who Drove Famous Car Up Mount
Wilson in Twenty mine Minutes and
One Second

The latest word of victory comes
from Billy Carlson, one of the Max
we'll racing team, who took a stock
1915 Maxwell and drove it UP Mount
Wilson, in just twenty mine minutes,
one second; truly a most wonderful
performance when you consider that
the worlds record for this famous
climb was forty-two minutes.
Mount Wilson is known the world
over as a steep one, and one that is
most difficult for AN automobile to
climb. Sharp. turns, narrow road, al
ways snow and ice, slush, rocks, etc.,
make it a most dangerous one. The eie-
walton is 5000 feet, and the road
covers a distance of just nine miles.
This is an elevation of 666 feet per
mile.
Over these nine miles through the
snow, slush and ice, Billy Carlson
forced his sturdy Maxwell up, always
up, making an average of mile every
three minutes and thirteen seconds
around quick turns and over narrow
roads where little slip, a little mis-
judged distance and down the preci-
pice, mayhap, thousand feet both he
and the car would go.
The government observatory on
Mount Wilson kept the official score
of the race against time, and the Max
well and her driver brought down the
fastest record ever made at this place,
the previous record being made by a
Stutz, and the time forty-two minutes
This is but another example of what
this flexible, light, powerful Maxwell
c'sr is capable Of doing.
+. w. Shenk, the local distributor
in this territory with headquarters at
334 Chestnut street, Central Garage
has just unloaded anothr car load of
Maxwell roadsters and tourney cars
which are on exhibition and display.
Demonstration on application. Phone
724 Bell, 29S w. C. V.
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Strange, But True

"Isn' It human nature a funny
thing" said the philosopher at large.
"Take the average man when he goes
in the wash room of a big hotel or res.
taurant. If the wash room boys insist
upon getting in his way by turning on
the water for him, putting towel in
his hands or whisk brooming him, the
sole object of course being to extort
a tip, he says to himself, What do they
think [ am, an easy mark7' But il
they pay no attention whatever to him
he asks himself, What do they think
l ann, cheap skateF Queer ,isn It it?"
New York Times.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-12
Drop Promotion and Sale of zoline

Frank E. Sweet, secretary of the
Prest-O-Lght Company, of Indian
oplis, Ind, in letter under date of
December 10, 1914, to Troy B. Wild
ermuth, president of the Front and
Market Motor Supply Company, of
Harrisburg, says that the final expert
ments with zoline did not turn out TO
the satisfaction of Mr.. Fisher and his
associates and that they therefore de-
cided they would not be interested in
it's promotion or sale and would drop
the matter
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-12
15-Hour Endurance Run

The Biggest Endurance Run of the
Pacific Coast that's what the Port.
land (Ore.) Motorcycle Club is plan.
ming to make the annual New Year Is
Day event. The run will be a fifteen.
hour contest over a 30-mile course,
and the start will be made at midnight
of New Year Eve. Handsome awards
will be given winners of the run.
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Bronx Clubs to Unite

The amalgamation of the motorcycle
clubs of the Bronx, New York City, is
practically assured. There are now
some dozen or more clubs in the Bronx,
none of them very large, and at a
number of joint meetings the members
of these clubs have decided that one
central organization will be much more
effective. A committee has been ap-
pointed to look after the matter Of
consolidating.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-12
Russians Driven to Ships

Constantinople, Via London, Dec.
12.-An official statement issued here
says:
"Under cover of an man-of-war, tho
Russians attempted to disembark on
Thursday near Gounieh, south of Ba-
tum, Transcaueasia, in order to outfank
our troops. They were compelled to
retreat with heavy loss"
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-12
Motorcyclists at Exposition

Arrangements are being made for a
number of motorcycle events to be held
on the Panama-Pacific Exposition s
mile track during the fall of 1915. The
one-mile, two-mile, fve-mile, 1O-mile
25-mile and 100-mile championships
for amateurs and professionals will
probably be run at that time.
Plans are also under way for a mo-
torcycle tour from New York to San
Francisco, to be undertaken next
spring.
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Veteran Cyclist

An enthusiastic motorcyclist of New
York City is A. A. Hill, editor of the
Automobile Dealer and Repairer.' -
Mr.. Hills experience in riding a two
wheeler dates back to the time of the
high wheeled bicycles. Later, when
safety bicycles were perfected, Mr.. and
Mrs. Hill cycled all over the East and
in a number of foreign countries. With
the advent of the motorcycle, Mr.. Hill
was one of the first to adopt its use.
And now, with Mrs. Hill comfortably
tucked away in the sidecar, he can be
seen almost daily chugging through
Westchester and other counties of New
York State.
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in Milwaukee, and it is planned that
the show will be the largest of its kind
ever held in the States, with the ex-
ception of the annual display at Chi
cago. The exhibit will be held in the
Auditorium under the auspices of the
Milwaukee Motorcycle Club, and the
dealers and accessory people have
pledged their hearty support. Tenta-
tive dates of the display are February
rs and 81.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-12
Sells Cars as He Wears snowshoes

e. W. Shaffer, an automobile dealer
in Carthage, N. Y, finding the roads
blocked by a heavy fall of snow So that
he could not use his demonstrating car,
strapped on his snowshoes and sold two
cars in one afternoon. Shaffer doesn It
believe in quitting business just because
the roads are impassable.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-12
Motor Cons Record

Motorcycle Patrolman Wesolek, of
South Bend, Ind, says that he has
travelled $500 miles on his motorcycle
at total cost of $3.50. This includes
the cost of riding costume as we'll as
oil and gasoline. Since the first of
April. Wesolek has arrested 67 per-
cons for speeding, 5S for intoxication,
and made 304 calls for the Board of
Public Works.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-12
: the REQ car, on their way to

service back of them the proposition APP
pears to be an attractive one.
Mr.. Winters is starting out this week
and making Reading, Lebanon, Allen
town, Scranton, Wilkes4Barre, Lancas-
ter, etc.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-12
.Milwaukee's Motorcycle Show

Riders of Milwaukee, Wis, will this
year be given the opportunity of view
ing the new motorcycle models in an
exhibit for two-wheelers exclusively.
This is the first time that showing of
motorcycles alone has ever been held
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not only in South America, but with
all countries not affected by the Euro
pean war
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-01-22
CLAIMED NEW YORK
TROUT HAVE CANCER

Albany, N. Y, Jan. 1s.-Many fish il
the h~atcheries of the state are infected
with goitre and cancer germs accord,
ing to a report mad to Governor Glyny
by Or. III. r Gaylord. director OF thu
state institute for the study IT malig,
nant diseases.
DR.. Gaylord made the startling as
sertion that rs per cent of the federal
and state ~hatcheries hat propagat,
trout are infected with concer.
For 10 months, DR.. Gaylord has urged
Conservation Commissioners Fleming
and Van Kennen to act on an investt
cation he has prosecuted for six years
Getting nothing but rebuffs, he ap.
pealed to the governor, who was s.,
impressed that there Is likelihood of q
shake up In the conservation depart
ment.
DR.. Gaylord found that about s pe,
cent of the 100, 600, 900 trout annual,
bred in New York state, many Of which
are served in the expensive hotels and
restaurants diclosed germs Of cancer
and goitre. There is no doubt, he adds
that SUSCEPTIBLE persons drinking wate1
which the infected fish inhabit acquire
the diseases.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-01-22
Lee SEATED;
GLASS TURNED Down
Maryland Senator Wins Con-
test-Alabaman Re-
ported Adversely.

Washington. Jan. 1s.-The Senate
election committee, today Z to 3 voted
to recommend hat Blair Lee, demo-
crat, be seated in the Senate to sue
coed Senator Jackson. republican Of
Maryland and by a vote of 9 to / de-
termined to report adversely on the
credentials Of Frank P. Glass, appoint
ed to succeed the later Senator Johns
ton. of Alabama.
The committee will report its de-
cision to the Senat Monday. The
contests arose under the new con-
stitutional amendment for direct
election of senators. Senators Bradley,
Sutherland and Dillingham;, re-
publicans, voted against seating Mr..
Lee. Senator Bradley, was the only
member Of the committee to favor the
seating of Mr.. Glass.
Glass was appointed by Governor
O'Neal, to fill the %unexpired term of
Senator Johnston. who died after the
direct elections amendment had be-
come a part of the constitution. Repre-
sentative Henry d. Clayton, was first
named but resigned his commission be-
fore the committee a passed on his
credentials.
The committees action, if sustained
by the Senate, determines that the
Seventeenth amendment is not in effect
without supplemental legislation and
that the legislatures of the states must
direct governors as to the method of
filling vacancies.
On the Maryland case, Senator Jack
son was appointed before the adoption
of the Seventeenth amendment to
succeed the late Senator Rayner. At
ter the amendment had been ratified.
Governor Goldsborough. a republican
called a primary election for United
States senator. In that election, Blair
Lee was victorious. In this case it
was declared that the election was
irregular because it had not been called
by the legislature. but the committee
held that Mr.. Lee was entitled to his
seat because he was chosen by direct
vote of the people, waving the
technically relating to the calling of
the election.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-01-22
CHINESE BRICANDS
TERRORIzE COUNTRY
American Missionary Shot in
Arm When Bandits
Loot City.

Hankow. China. Jan 20.-Dr.
L~iliegaard, a missionary of the Amer
lean Lutheran mission. was wounded
in n arm on January Is, in the course
OF fighting at Kwang- Chow. in the
province Of Ho Nan. An army of
bandits under the white Wolf" who
has been devastating the district, on
that date captured and looted Kwang-
Chow.
During the fighting. Mrs, Mason and
Mrs. Smith, escorted by Mr.. Mason, an
other missionary, abandoned the
mission houses and took refuge in a
farm house belonging to native Chinese
Christians.
The brigands are now ravaging the
southeastern portion of Ho Nan
province in the same way as they have
done the southern districts for some
time past.
The regular troops do not appear to
offer any serious resistance to the
bandits. In fact, the troops sem out
to pursue them and to recapture
Kwang-Chow. sent messages in adj
vance to warn the bandits, deliberately
permitting them to escape.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-01-22
MTHHOLDS DOODLE
and LOSES CONTRACT
Contractor Refused $4,000, 900
Job When He Failed to
Fix" Tammany he Says.

New York, Jar. 19.-Evidence tend
Ing to show that the state canal board
IN 1872 declined to award two con-
~struction contracts TO James G.. Stewart
after his refusal to contribute 5 per
cent OF his $4,000, 900 bid to q "Mr. Gaff-
ney.". was adduced at Attorney Whit
mans inquiry into political graft.
Stewart vas unable to tell Mr.. Whit
man whether. the alleged solicitor of
the money was James II. CARNEY, po-
Htical and business associate of Charles
=. Murphy. leader OF Tammany hall.
He said hat the man had merely in
troduced himself as MT. Gaffney,"
and announced that he had come to
collect a contribution in view of the
bids Stewards company had submitted
on the barge canal contracts. The
visitor told him Stewart said, that he
had come in place of "Mr. Carroll.
who was dead" n Mr.. Cram, who
was not collecting any more" Mr..
to were the late Joseph d. Carroll, for
mer treasurer of Tammany hall, and
J. Sergeant Cram, a prominent Tam
many hall politician.
How much did he ask you to sub
scribe?" asked MI. Whitman.
Five per cent on the contracts,
which was about $50, 1000"
did you think it was peculiar for
him to ask you to subscribe when there
was no campaign"
II resented it and let him know that
me. He left and said he'd see me
again."
District Attorney Whitman then
brought out hat although Stewards
company was the only bidder he did
not get the contract.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-01-22
STRAGGLING ARMY
AT END OF TRAMP

Maria. Tex. Jan. 2O.-The Mexican
FEDERAL soldiers and refugees who fled
to the United States from Ojinaga,
Mexico. began to arrive from the Dor
der today to entrain for Fort Bliss,
where they are to be informed defin-
itely. All the $500 soldiers and 1900
or more women and children were not
expected before night and it may be to-
morrow before they are loaded on the
10 trains which are to carry them to
When the van guard Of the column.
with Gen. Salvador Mercado and five
other Mexican generals arrived here
the marchers were still scattered
southwark in a continuous line for 70
miles. Major McNamee with a troop
OF caYalrymen formed the escort. while
behind the crowd of women, children
horses. burros and dogs, more cavalry
brought up the rear. The arrival here
OF all the refugees who are on tlls
footing Of prisoners of war, will end a
-four days march of CT miles over a
mountain road from Preside, Tex, on
the border to which point the soldiers
and women fled after the rebels at
tackled Ojinaga.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-01-22
SCRIBES TO WALK
TUNNEL
NeD York Newspaper Men
To Pass Through
Catskn Tube.

New York, Jan. 20.-A party of New
York newspapermen will today make
what is probably the most remarkable
walk that any group of men has I'M
dertak en-
Their walk will begin at Ashokan,
N. Y, in the Catskill mountains, and
end in Brooklyn. Although they an
ticipated a rough pathway, they don't
expect to suffer from exposures to the
weather, for the entire trip will be
made underground. They are going to
walk throughout the entire length Of
the newly opened Catskill water supply
aqueduct FROM the Ashokan dam under
the Hudson river, down the whole
length of the tube. passing under the
Harlem river, Manhattan island and
East river.
The first days march will TAX the
party IL miles to High Falls, which
they hope to reach tonight. There are
one or two siphons in the way which
may be too full of Water for anybody
but divers, out the explorers hope to
be able to navigate the entire distance
without coming up for air.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-01-22
MYSTERY SHROUDs
DOUBLE TRAGEDY

San Francisco. Cal, Jan. ia
woman known as Wood, "a
years old, seized a revolver and shot
herself dead early this morning at q
A. B. Wood, and a friend, Edward Rob,
erts, as Roberts was attempting to
dissuade Wood from committing sui
eide. Wood then tool the weapon and
killed himself.
Earlier In the evening, Wood, who
had made several suicidal threats, had
left q note to his niece in which he
said he would take his life.
Wood had been to q picture show
with Edward Roberts. Roberts left
him at Woods hotel and went to his
own home, where he found Miss Wood
in a state of hysteria. She had found
the note from her uncle, saying that
he had decided to kill himself. as he
had lost his money and his friends had
deserted him.
Roberts and Miss Wood FASTENED to
the hotel and burst in on Wood. Rob-
erts and Miss Wood upbraided him for
what the nm termed a "ghastly
Joke" Suddenly she took a revolver
from a bureau drawer and Shot herself
through the heart.
Wood leaped across his niece's body,
snatched up the weapo and shot HIM
self through the heart. Both died with
in a few minutes.
ROBERTS SAID that Wood until two
years ago was on the Tennessee SUI
preme bench. He came to San Fran
cisco about a year ago.
According to Roberts. Wood had be.
come involved in a political matter
that caused him to leave Tennessee
He said he did not know his friends
real name and assumed that he had
adopted the name OF WOOD after
coming to California. He said Wood
had a son living in Memphis and a
daughter in Dexter, Mo. Wood was 81
years old.
In San Francisco Wood engaged in
n restaurant business, but six north,
ago he sold his business. His niece
Roberts said, had literary aspirations
and wrote short stories. and motion
picture scenarios.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-01-22
Mine OWNERS IMPORT
NON UNION WORKMEN
Strikebreakers Arrive to Take
Places Of Striking Cop
per Miners.

Houghton, Mich. Jan. 2o.-The ar
rival OF Al strike breakers from New
York furnished the only development
this morning in the copper miners
strike. Soo after they reached here
the men, mostly Germans, went to
WorR at h Quincy mine.
anthony Lucas, prosecuting attorney.
Tor Houghton county, announced that
lO9 cases We're docketing for trial at
m January term of the circuit court
which beings next Monday. In these
cases there will be 10S defendants and
the charges against them including
creating disturbances to murder.
According to the length of the docket
several weeks may elapse before he
case OF the So union leaders and
strikers indicted recently for con-
spiracy Is reached. No steps have been
taken yet to extradite Charles H.. Meyer.
president of the Western Federation of
Miners n the six other indicted
leaders who are outside the state.
Because of the refusal of Charles III.
Mover. president of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners, to accept the money,
the $4,000 collected from the citizens
OF the copper country for relief of the
families bereft by the Italian hall dis
aster on Christmas eve, many be re-
turned to the donors.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-01-22
CLAIMS EXTRAVAGANZA,
ENGINEERS DECLARE

Kansas City, Mo-. Jan. 19.-Three en-
gineers testifying today in the trial of
Don A. Noun Day and his Wife,
charged with misuse of the mails in
the sale of New Mexico land, said q.
plan of irrigation outlined by the Noun
Days licked 1.-The important essential
water"
v. *. Jones, a government engineer,
testified that streams the defendants
proposed to use in feeding reservoirs
for ~irrigating 100, 900 acres in the Upper
Pecos valley, New Mexico, carried too
little water for such q purpose. This
testimony was corroboratea by z. S.
Rice, chief engineer for the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe railroad, and Geo.
e. Morrison, a hydraulic engineer.
Mr.. Rice said his company had no
record of a proposed branch railroad"
which it is alleged the Noun Days re-
ferred to as to be built across the a
lev.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-01-22
.DES MONIES MAN IS
Arrested AS BANDIT
Nolen alias Jones Suspected Of
Robbing Passengers Of
Southern Train.

Atlanta. Ga. Jan. IA man who h
in Jail here, the police believe, is the
bandit who last night terrorized pas.
sengers IN q southbonnd Western and
Atlantic passenger train near here, and
robbed them of several hundred dol,
lars. The prisoner, who was arrested
near the scene of the holdup, gave his
name as John Jones, and said he lived
In Atlanta. The police, however, say
he is James Nolan OF Des Moines, Ia
ton, Ca, after a pistol duel with Car
q. Heard. county policeman, who wa,
a passenger and who was slightly
wounded during the encounter. Thu
when arrested told the police that
he was a carpenter and had gone Il
Bolton in search of work. He claimed
to know nothing OF the robbery AMI
no trace Of property taken from thu
passengers was in his possession. He
locked UP as a suspect.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-01-22
SHIP GOES DOWN:
SO PERSONS DROWN

Hamburg. Germany. jan. 1s.-No
doubt remains that the German
steamer Acilia is lost with its crew OF
AZ. and So passengers. A telegram
here today says that the bodies Of two
Of her officers We're picked UP TO-DAY
among a mass of wreckage in Moat
channel, north of Pitcairn island. Terra
Del Fuego. Indians in the vicinity de-
clare that a big steamer sank there
some time ago.
The Aciiia was a vessel of 5000 TONS
net, built in 1900, and chartered by the
skosmos line. She left Corral, Chile. on
October "a. for Hamburg.
telegram from Valparaiso IN
Wednesday last reported the finding OF
two of the Acilia's boats in Aguirre bay.
Terra Del Fuego, containing the bodies
of her second mate n two seamen.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-01-22
FLIRTING SQUAD
OF M COPS
Official Sirens to Lure Chi
cago Washers to Their
DownfaN.

Chicago. Jan. 1s.-Ckicago's expert
ment with -policewomen has proved so
successful that Maj. M. L. o. Funk
houser, second deputy superintendent
of police, today announced that he
would ask the city council for funds to
employ Is more women police.
THE women bluecoats have done a
wonderful amount of good" said Ma
jor Funkhouser. THE 10 we have on
the force have been assigned to dance
halls and the curbing they have done
there mas been conducive of much good.
W. need more ~policewomen. We
want Il squad. what might be called a
flirting squad, to look out for the OBJ
noyious flirts and Washers who ter
rorize girls in moving picture theaters
and in the downtown section"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-01-22
HOUSE TAKES UP
STEEL CAR BILL

Washington. Jan. 20.-Legislation to
enforce the use of steel passenger cars
was taken up today by the House com
mittee. Representative Esch's bill to
replace all wooden cars by steel ones
within four years was opposed by G,
a. Post. president of the Railway Bust
ness association. He asked that the
Interstate Commerce commission be
empowered to determine the time and
the character of new cars.
Mr.. Post declared that the cost of re-
placing the wooden cars now in opera
ton with steel cars would aggregate
1892, O00, 600.
"If the transformation were at
tempted within four years" he said. 1T
would mean an expenditure by the rail-
roads of about $9S,175,00 a year. II
done in 10 years it would be about $39,-
10000.
"Would it not be IN anomalous
situation for the branch of the govern
ment to say Thou shalt spend while
the Interstate Commerce commission
in its rate decisions says: Thou shalt
not earn"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-01-22
MANY DEATH CLAIMS
FROM AUTO ACCIDENTS

Des Moines, Ia, Jan. 19.-The Iowa
state Travelling Mems association. is
holding a lively annual meeting today,
with a big attendance. At the business
session, a proposed amendment which
would deprive members of benefits il
injured in warfare or riots was de-
feated. 1t was held that travelling
men now near Mexico should be pro-
tected and that those hurt in strike
riots should be allowed damages.
Amazing figures showing the. in
crease of automobile accid -nts were
read. Cne-fifth of all claims the past
year were due to automobiles as
against one such claim in the preceding
year.