White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-11-22

way. AS soon as the rear basement
windows we're broken to allow the
escape of the smoke and fumes, the
effect of the TAM gradually cleared
the basement, so that the firemen
could work quickly and effectively in
extinguishing the flames.
Vice Flourished in Children's Home.
Thatfor years young girls have been
corrupted in the o~rphanage main
tanned at Los Angeles by the Child
ren's Home Aid society under the
jurisdiction of the juvenile court of
that city, was the statement made at
San Francisco. by Ida Niles, IL years
old. and a former inmate Of the
home, whose accusations caused the
arrest of Superintendent Herbert w.
Lewis In Los Angeles. and in San
Francisco of DR.. Charles S. Morse.
and Mrs. Florence Widup.
Lewis, who was So years old, and
for many years a national figure In
philanthropic work, vas arrested on
a statutory crime. DR.. Morse and
Mrs. Widup are in the City prison at
San Francisco. charged with perform
ing a criminal operation on the Niles
girl. Following his arrest and sub
sequent release on bail, Lewis com
mitted suicide by swallowing cyanide
potassium. He maintained his ino-
cence.
According to Ida Niles, Lewis was
her guardian appointed by the Los
Angeles Juvenile court. and was In
like tanner appointed by the court
as guardian over all the other girls
In the institution. Her accusations
charge Lewis with criminal misccn-
duct toward her for a period of two
years while she was in the home I'M
der his legal guardianship. She
names also a number of other young
girls who, she alleges. were also
victims of the superintendent.
This period, according to the girls
story. closed last July when Lewis
brought her to San Francisco, pos
ing as her father at hotels in Mon
terey and San Francisco. and finally
left her after getting her a Job.
Twice subsequently Lewis visited
her, she says, one giving her SIS to
help pay DR.. Morse for the operation.
Ida Niles story Of her betrayal is
n of the most fragrant II its kind
that the police officials have had to
listen to. they say. The girl is a pro-
duct of institutional life. She has
known little but ~orphanages. except
at periods when the institution Of
fcials found her employment out
side. She does not remember her
father. Her mother died nine years
ago, but before that the girl had liv-
ed long in an orphanage in South Da-
kota. She has three sisters and a
brother, but she does not know
where they are. She says she will be
Is in December, but she looks three
years younger.
Eight years ago she was given by
the South Dakota home to the family
of VIII Carpenter. who brought her
to Holtville, in Imperial county.
Three years ago the Carpenter family
placed her with the Children's Home
Aid society in the home at Los An
geles, the Juvenile court at that time
appointed Lewis her guardian.
With intervals of work, Ida was in
the home for a year until July. 1912,
II is with the latter part of hat pc
Rod that her story begins.
Lewis, although he steadily denied
that he had mistreated the Niles girl
or taken her to San Francisco, had
offered his resignation as head of
the o%rphanage. He was at liberty on
$4,000 bail. which was arranged by
a score of friends as soon as it be-
came known that he had been arrest
ed on a charge of taking his ward to
the Hotel Atlas and there engaging
adjoining rooms as father and daugh-
ter under the alias of A. ID. Stuck
man. 1t was the finding of his sigma
ture on the hotel register hat is be-
iieyed TO have broken down his re-
pudiation of Miss Niles story.
Copper Difficulties May BE Settled
Soon.
Copper Interests are of the opinion
that difficulties growing out of
seizure of vessels carrying cargos
destined to neutral countries will be
amieably settled. and that shipments
of the metal to Italy. Holland and
other ports in dispute will resume.