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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-24
JACKIES SAVE LIFE
OF CAPTAIN OF TUG

Chicago, Oct 24.-Captain H. T. An
derson of the tug John G.. Mann and
five Members of his crew, owed their
lives today to the fact that the Jack
lea at the Great Lakes naval training
station aren't afraid of cold water.
When the lines with which the tug
Was towing a dredser parted off the
station ls'e yesterday they became
fouled in the propeller.
Anderson and his men took to tho
yawl, which was swamped in the
heavy seas. As they chung to the small
boat In momentary danger Of being
swept away, Lieutenant Henry Van
derwer who had observed their plight,
led 800 jaclies down to the beach.
A Ecore OF the sailors swan 100 yards
through the ley waves to the yawl, at
tached lines to 1t and the others
dragged 1t ashore.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-24
"A Gift to Every Woman
With Jiffy-Jell Desserts

Here is one-week offer which costs us
thousands of dollars. 1t can never be made
again. We make it to induce all housewives
to try Jify-Jell desserts and salads. You will
never know, until you try them, what delights
they offer you. So we want you to try them
this week.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-24

Charles Woll of Berwick, Pa, does
not like to live too long in one place,
so he has built a two.room house on
wheels, which he can move from town
to town as he pleascs
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-24
THE ISIS.

Here Is adventure for you-a story
teeming with the most amazing situa-
lions, the most thrilling experiences,
the most wondrous. death challenging
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-24

A new life preserver invented by a
Dane, consists Of cylinders filled with
OIL which serve as a brake. The life
preserver Is designed to save people
from burning buildings. being so con-
trived that they may be dropped to
the ground without injury.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-24
HORSESHOE DISTRICT,

The only productive part of the TIE
ton basin is the Horheshoe district.
Though conditions in this district are
such that large scale development is
impractiCabc, work now in progress
will probably make possible a some
what greater yield than that of last
season. There is little chance that
workable coal beds will be discovered
elsewhere in the basin. During the ex-
animation of the Teton basin several
reported indications of oil were inyes-
tgated, but these do not Indicate the
presence of oil in paying quantities.
ON the continental divide in r. IA
N, II. IS e., 32-inch bed of good
coal was found, but the area in which
1t crops out is not large and it's re-
motcness from lines of transportation
and suitable market makes It's early
exploitation doubtful
In the districts examined two sub
stances occur That are commonly mis-
taken for coal. namely, phosphate rock
and obsidian, a black volcanic glass.
The phosphate rock in these districts
Is unusually black and has ACQUIRED
a certain gloss through rock disturb
ance that makes its appearance very
deceptive as IN the Patterson creek
Burns canyon and Palisade creek 10
calities, where the deposits have hfth
erto been regarded as occurrences of
coal.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-24
REPORT ON THE.
COAL FIELDS IN.
EASTERN IDAHO.
Geological Survey, in an Elk
animation, Finds the Re-
suits Not at All Encourag-
ing for Output.
Only Productive Part of the
Teton Basin Is in Horse
shoe District and There
Large Scale Production Is
Impracticable.

Washington, Oct. 24.-In response to
no an examination of certain reported
coal fields in the eastern part of the
state was made last summer bv geol-
ogist of the United States geological
survey, department of the interior. in
order that any coal land present in this
part of the state might be classified
ana thus made available for local min
ing, so as to relieve the high prices
and threatened scarcity of fuel says
bulletin issued by the survey. This
work has just been completed and the
results are not at all encouraging so
far as the development of a local sup
ply is concerned.
The areas examined fall within four
districts: % The Willow Creek Car
ihou district, including prospects on
Willow creek, on John Gray's outlet,
and in the Fail creek basin; (2) the
Pine creek district, including the re-
gion between the head of Pine creek
on the northwest and Palisade creek
on the southeast and also Burns can
Eon; go the Teton basin, including
the valleys of Horseshoe, Mahogany,
Patterson and Trail creeks; ca the
Continental divide district, in 7. IA N,
Rs. IS and 40 f..
In the first two of these districts
coaly shale with some impure coal is
present in beds ranging in thickness
from few inches to or feet AS
a rule the coaly portions of these beds
are not persistent but wedge in and
oAt. Jumps of disable coal may be
obtained here and there, but CONNER
ctal development is impractcable The
rock formation in which these coal beds
occur is not the one in which the act
i've mines Of western Wyoming are To-
satCd.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-26
Ten Jurors Obtained
In Baf Murder Trial
Many TaIesmen Unwilling to
Believe Alleged Accomplices
of Four Defendants

Conscientious scruples against CAPT
tai punishment and unwillingness TO
believe the testimony of murder accom-
plices were expressed yesterday by so
many talcsmen who were examined as
prospective jurors TO try four alleged
conspirators TO the murder Of Barnett
Baf. the West Washington Market
man. in 1914, that the panel WAS ex-
hausted and Justice Tompkins ad-
iourned court until to-day. only ten
Jurors were obtained. Another panel
will be on hand this morning. and It
IS expected the two desired jurors VIII
be picked before noon.
The alleged cOnspiratOrs on trial are
Joseph and Jacob Cohen, Abraham
Graf and David Jacobs. They are
charged with instigatlng the murder
and with completely IN raising the fund
with which 10 pay the assasslns.
Deputy Attorney Alfred |. Becker
and Special Deputy Attorney General
James O'Malley are conducting the
prosecution. The defendants are rep
resented by Frank Moss, exState SEN
ator Alfred J. Gilchrist and Harry Copp.
District Attorney Swami, out OF whose
hands the case was taken by Governor
Whitman last May. has loaned his as
sistaat. George y. Brothers. as special
aid TO the prosecution.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-26
Held for Shooting
Girl After Joy Ride
Italian Youth Says Killing
Was Unintentional; Com
panion Arrested
By BRIGGS

Michael J. Nagliano, a twenty-one
year-old process server, of ga East
llSth Street, confessed yesterday, &C
cording 70 the police, to having shot
and killed Helen Wheelsn. seventeen
years old, Of 1868 East l27th Street, at
Willow Avenue and 1S4th Street, The
Bronx, early Sunday morning.
The prisoner, an Italian by birth,
when arrested by Fifth Branch detec-
tives, said the shooting occurred dur
ing fight which ended an hilarious
all-night automobile ride through The
Bronx.
Charged with homicide, Nagliano
was committed by Coroner Healy to
the Bronx County jail to await trial.
Harold Butler, forty-four, of 105 East
l2sth Street, another of the JOY riders,
was held also without bail, charged
with being an accessory after the fact,
in that he refused TO give the police
information about the shooting.
The fight began IN an argument be-
tween Butler and Frank Devlin, TWEEN
ty-eight. a private detective, Of $40
West 103d Street. over Miss Wheelan,
the detectives declare.
Devlln also was shot by Naglano.
and is in a critical condition at Ford
ham Hospital.
The Italian told the police that Dew
lin knocked Butler down several times.
The former then hit Nagliano, who be-
lieved that Miss Wheelan was carrying
Devln's revolver. When the latter
turned toward her, Nagliano, thinking
Devlin was seeking his revolver, began
shooting. The girl was not killed in
tentionally. Nagliano said.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-26
SAYS He Found Arms
In Mrs. MONEYS Room
San Francisco Detective F allied
to Mention Them in Re-
ceipt He Left Behind

San Francisco. June 95.-Detective
William r. Proll broke down the doors
OF Mrs. Rens Moneys apartment in
his search for evidence. he admitted
on cross-examination to-day in the
course Of the trial of Mrs. Mooney for
murder growing out of bomb eXplo-
sion here last July which claimed ten
victims. Last Friday. a cartridge, a
revolver and booklets explaining uses
OF powder and dynamite which Proll
said he found in the defendants rooms.
were admitted as evidence.
Proll testified that he left a receipt
fer the things he took from Mrs.
Mooney apartments. Attorney Max
well NcNutt. for the defence, read the
receipt TO the jury 1t did not con
tam the items of cartridges and book
lets or the revolver.
why did you leave them out Of
your receipt" Asked McNutt 81
found so many small articles it would
Rave taken too long TO have enumerated
them on the slip" was ProlPs response,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-26
SUann Learns Police
Tried to Shield Cocchi

Full details Of "a determined attempt
10 sidetrack investigation of Alfredo
Cocchi" in connection with the murder
Of Ruth Cruger are expected TO be IN
the possession Of District Attorney
Swami to-day.
81 have learned of such an attempt
said Mr.. Swami yesterday. land eX-
pect 10 have witnesses before me to
morrow who VIII give full details. All
| can say now is that Mrs Cocchi had
nothing 10 do with the scheme 10 pre-
vent revelation of the truth
Governor Whitman yesterday sent
20 the District Attorney cablegram
which had been sent 10 him from the
State Department. which in turn had
received It from the Italian Ministry of
Foreign Affairs. The cable asked that
tire status OF Alfredo Cocchi as an
American citizen or declarant, II either,
be sent Immediately TO the Italian au-
thorities. Nothing showing that Cocchi
had declared his intention of becom-
ing an American citizen could be found
at the Hall of Records by assistants
Of the District Attorney, and II is be-
heved that CocchI still is an Italian
subject.
Inspector Joseph A. Faurot said yes
terday that he had received long
statement from Miss Consuelo La Rue,
a patient IN the Polytechnic Hospital and
a ward OF Mrs. Grace Humiston. rela-
tive 10 the operations Of an interna-
tional "whitc slave" syndicate. So fan.
be said. none of the information had
been verified II its truth could be cs-
tablishcd the statement would be of
great importance, he explained.
Commissioner Woods was in Wash
ington yesterday At Police Headquar-
tiers II was said that he would make
no reply TO the charges Of police inein-
cheney made by the Bureau of City
Inquiry, an organization with Tam
many affiliations. Commissioner Woods
will take the stand in the inquiry being
pursued by Commissioner OF Accounts
Leonard a. Walls,ein. and will then
cite figures and facts in defence Of the
department.
II was pointed out yesterday in
authoritative police sources that there
is no inclination on the part Of the po-
lice 20 defend the Detective Bureau on
charges Of inefficiency in the Cruger
case. The new Detective Bureau sys-
tenn, IL was said. had proved itself 10
be 90 per cent Efficient, but there have
been 2 per cent Of spectacular crimes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-26
Child's Cries Save
Mother from Suicide
Woman Says Task of Feeding
Six Little Ones Was Too
Much for Her

Day By day Mrs. Victoria BATH, OF
2ss East l5Ist Street, The Bronx had
watched the high cost of living climb
ever higher. Day b. day the appe-
tites Of her six small children had
mounted at least as rapidly. She had
said mo- hundred times 70 a hair
dozen little Oliver Twists who lookea
up. still hungry. from the plates they
had polished clean. Yesterday tne 70,
proach of those clean plates oecsme
too much for her.
Mrs. BATH ia now a prisoner, held IN
81 900 bail, for her attempt to escape
the clutch of the high price OF 1000
by getting out of the world entirety.
She would have succeeded. too, hsd
she not tried 70 take her tive-year-olo
daughter. Glenross, with her.
The child screamed when she tound
herself standing on the edge OF the
I4qth Street pier, looking down INTO
the East River. She held back when
her mother pulled her, and presently
man came along and frightened Mrs
BATH away.
4 little later she returned. but Glen
rosa was still reluctant to die and ner
screams attracted Patrolman O'Hare,
who arrested the mother.
In the Morrsania Court Mrs. Battl
told Magistrate Simms that she could
no longer keep her children from
hunger and that she could not bear to
1.-Two
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-26
6 Suicides Here;
Two Men Leap
From Bridges
Unemployment Leads Coal
Passer to Leap from
greensboro Span

An epidemic OF suicide caught hold
of New York City yesterday. Between
morning and night two men killed
themselves by jumping from East
Rast River bridges, two other men and
a woman hanged themselves. and still
another woman asphyxieted herself
with GGs.
Frederick Homolka, coal passer
out of work, leaped from the north rail
OF the greensboro Bridge and dropped
10 his death in the water below. A
registration card in the coat. which
ne left on the bridge. led the police
TO 42l East Seventeen Street, where
the mans sister. Minnie. said that her
brother had been depressed and des-
perate because OF his inability to ind
a Job The body has not been re-
covered
Clad only in shirt. trousers and slip
pers. Leonard Gallitto. nineteen years
old. climbed on the rail of the south
promenade Of the Manhattan Bridge.
and before Special Patrolman Sweeney
could reach him jumped. He hit the
water close 10 tug, and was taken TO
Gouverneur Hospital. where he died.
Mrs. A. Louise Rose. seventy years
old. went TO her room at go West I'D
Street Yesterday afternoon, telling her
landlady that her daughter, Laura, an
artist. was coming IN few hours 20
help her pack. She was going TO the
country to-day.
When the daughter arrived she found
that the door of her mothers room
was locked. Repeated hammerings
brought no answer. and Miss Rose
then brought chair and looked over
tho transom. Her mothers body was
hanging from the wardrobe closet. She
had strangled herself with bit OF
clothesline. No motive is given for
the suicide.
The body OF a man believed TO have
been George Schmidt, former civilian
employe at Fort Slocum, was found
dead in Central Park, near the Nine
tieth Street and Fifth Avenue entrance,
yesterday morning. 4 moose was about
his neck and frayed bit of rope
dangled from n limb high above his
head. II is believed that he climbed
the tree, adjusted the rope and then
Jumped, breaking his neck and the cord
at the same time.
A man about forty-five years old. who
rented a furnished room al 2Il East
Seventy-eighth Street, last Friday, was
found hanging from the transom of his
door there yesterday. He had been
dead several hours. There was no clue
10 his identity.
Mrs. Mathida Essing. ffty-eght
years old. Of lOll Tiffany Street. The
Bronx. committed suicide in her apart
ment by inhaling Illuminating gas.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-26

Navor Mitchell was made member
o. the American Press Humorists' Ma
tional Association yesterday. and this
is the story Of how he qualified: It
took a long time, four hours at least
for the joke TO sink in, and those there
were of the humorous-elect from Gin
cinnati and points West who were at
first inclined to believe the Mayors
chestnut tree policy was the best he
could do in the way OF proving his
sense Of humor.
twenty-five perspiring members Of
the union planted the chestnut tree at
noon, in the presence Of City Halls
automatic crowd. which cheered wildly
az they saw the twenty-five lay inky
fingers upon the tree and settle il in
its cool mud bed.
Then. each with hand still on the
spade, the humorists looked about for
Mayor Mitchell. This was the moment,
they thought, for him TO pull his bon
mot. but the Mayor il seems had no
intention OF rushing prematurely into
jest. He had slipped back TO his oifice.
81 can't conceive why ] was selected
for this honor" he had told them
earlier The only time | am humor-
Gus is when | try 10 be serious
Tree Planted Without a Joke
50 the chestnut tree was planted
without a Joke to christen il. except
the one the twenty-five played on the
two Park Department gardeners, who
had TO come and finish shovelling in
TWO or three barrelfuls OF earth for
them.
This tree is not only a chestnut; its
a horse chestnut" observed Douglas
Malloch, who comes from Chicago. $50
we not only give New York the laugh;
we give it the horse laugh"
Whereupon the crowd said: "Ha!
Ha!"
From there the humorists went down
10 the Aquarium to freshen up their
fish stories, and over 20 call on their
old friend. the weather men, in the
Whitehall Building.
The municipal steamer Correction
was chortllng N the wharf. awaiting
their coming. and, presently. all unsus-
pecting, and quite forgetting Mayor
Mitchell and his undelivered joke, thew
went aboard
The ladies' will please 20 down the
winding staircase at once. We shall
follow presently" said Dixon Merritt,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-26
States Evidence Fails
To Stir Mrs. Gilligan
Alleged Slayer Indifferent to
Details of Autopsies and
Poisoned Organs

Hartford. June % Testimony about
nocturnal exhumations. autopses in
graveyards. arsenic in stomachs, livers
and other organs and the March an
alysis test failed to-day to move Mrs.
Amy +. Archer Glligan from the in
difference she displayed at the first
week Of her trial on charge of muir
dering one of five former inmates Of
her old peoples home at Windsor
Two former inmates told Of condi-
tons at the home. Of the sudden death.
May 80. 1914, OF Franklin r. Andrews,
Of Cheshire, Conn, for which Mrs.
Gilligan is being tried, and of her ap-
parent haste TO be rid of Andrews, so
shat Mr. and Mrs. Loren Gowdy might
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-26
Fall to Floor Killed
Ruth Cruger, Cocchi
Tells Italian Officials

Bologna. Italy, June Is. Searching
examination of Alfredo Cocchi, slayer
OF Ruth Cruger, was continued to-day
by the police authorities, and many
additional details Of the murder were
brought TO light.
In the course Of the examination
Cocchi made a statement which prom
ises 10 lead TO the solution Of the mys-
terry surrounding his escape from New
York. When the prisoner said he had
sailed from New York on February II
he was asked by the judge TO explain
what he had done during the two days
after his disappearance and before he
embarked.
Cocchi tried TO change the subject.
He asserted he had sailed as a me-
chanic aboard a British ship.
The judge then pressed Cocchi more
closely. Still avoiding the subject Of
his haven during the two days, the
confessed murderer gave additional de-
tails Of the crime. at variance with
some he told when admitting the crime.
He declared he had smothered Miss
Cruger TO prevent her from screaming,
but she struggled, and he struck her;
The girl fell, he added. and her head
must have been struck IN some vital
spot during the fall, for he suddenly
discovered she was dead. In an at.
tempt 70 conceal the crime he carried
the body into the cellar, and buried u
in a hole which had been used for the
storage of gasolene
The Judge then brought Cocchi back
TO the two days in New York. me
prisoner declared he had spent two
DAYS and one night before sailing for
Italy in the house Of priest in Charl-
ton Street. New York
When Cocchi returned recently 10
Bologna the police say his relatives
were surprised and even fearful that
something serious had occurred. In
reply 10 questions. COcchi said ne had
left New York because Of the jealousy
Of his wife. and also that he desired to
ioin the colors. Shortly afterward, a
letter arrived from Cocchi's wife in
which is said to have asserted that
Cocchi had eloped with a girl eighteen
years old. after borrowing her total
possessions, Sl5.
Cocchi nervously denied the allega-
ton. asserting that the charge was
due to the usual Imagination Of his
wife. He told. however, about Miss
Cruger going to his shop 70 have her
skates sharpened. When further par
ticulars arrived, Cocchi wept, declar-
ing that he was victim Of persecution.
He did not confess, however.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-26
Mayor Has His Little Joke,
Lands Humorists at Bellevue
Funny Men Start with Horse Laugh New York, Then
Take Sail on the Correction and Step Ashore
at East River and -Twenty-sxth Street

Of Nashville, Tenn, president of the
association.
Certain better halves and humorists
shot Mr. Merritt a suspicious glare AZ
this, but Mrs. James Lee hurried them
along.
"Sh." she whispered, Don't lie.
when it's on us"
HumOrists Restored to Good Cheer
The suspicious ones had their re-
venge a bit later, when jovial laughter
foretod the coming down the winding
staircase of the nations foremost hui
morists restored TO their natural state
of good cheer.
"Who are those ," said the suspicious
ones loudly, Don Marquis? Is that
Don Marquis ?"
What's his name? Ted Robinson
Where does he come from -
A lost purse provoked comment from
Newton Newkirk. who writes "All
Sorts" for "The Boston Post"
81 won't touch it, said he. at may
be empty, and then the joke would be
or me-"
Up the Hudson they sailed merrily
and back around the Battery in order
to give the Western visitors the chance
TO ride under the Brooklyn Bridge and
ask If il were really true il vas likely
to fall down. Still on up the East
River. II was growing late.
I'VE must be turning back pretty
Soon," said the humorists, IF we're
going to dress for that cabaret to
night"
You bet we arc, too" spoke up John
l. Higginbotham, OF Detroit i've got
two suits. and | intend 20 show 'em
off"
Still, vigorously onward went the
Correction, and turned inland only
when a great red brick pile doomed at
the left.
"Bellevuel" groaned the city fellows.
Bellevue? That's the Morgue, isn't
il >" said the guests. Did you think
we were dead ones"
1t was a mournful procession which
plodded hotelward through the desert
region Of East Twenty-siXth Street.
Now. do you suppose muttered Roy
Moulton to Homer Croy, as they toiled
up the elevated steps, could il be that
funny fellow. Mitchell. knew where he
was sending US on his old boat"
At 10 o'clock the cabaret at the Hotel
Majestic got under way. Daniel Mayer
did his best for the dead ones" by
providing II corps o. live dancers.
Everything was funny as long "a they
kept off the subject Of the Mayors best
Joke.