The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 23, 1903, Page 2

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1903. WELCOME DUKE AND DUCHESS Citizens and Members of Town Couneil of Dunbar Give the Roxburghes Grand Reception — ARE DECORATED e Distinguished Visitors™ Are Escorted to Their County | Seat by Enthusiastic Crowd EDINBURGH, Dec. 22.—The Duke 4 Duchess of Roxburghe arrived at bar to-night and were given. a magnificent reception. They were met at the depot by the provost and tt mbers of the Dunbar town ouneil, as well @s by the tenants of the Roxburghe’estate. Th Duck STREETS tenants were introduced to the | < (formerly Miss May Goelet of York), by the Duke, who' deliv- ered a brief speech to the tenants gnd | officials, | to the Dunbar municipal th ng them for their reception. the station, and they enthusi- 11ly cheered the couple. As soon as the Duke and Duchess entered the | carriage the horses were unhitched an arriage was drawn by the | coast guardsmen, preceded by pipers, to Broxmouth Park, the seat of the Roxt which is two miles dis- tant from Dunbar. The carriage was wed by 200 torchbearers. e streets of Dunbar were gaily rghes, decorated, and thousands cheefed the D nd Duchess as they passed. T was a grand display of fire- s in Dunbar and vicinity to-night. re Duke and Duchess of Rox- burghe will remain at Broxmouth Park for a fortnight —_———— COURTS GRANT DIVORCE TO UNHAPPY COUPLES Marriage Bonds Are Severed in Three | Cases—Stockton Couple Are at Outs. Thomas S. Williams secured a di vorce for desertion from Ellen E. Wi n Judge Murasky's court yes- Williams had been a benedict less than a year when his wife left He testified that the reason she was because he had written to a with whom she persisted in treating, despite his objections, and | told the physician he would not be re- | sponsible for her bills. He repented of | ctions later and asked his wife to urn to him, but she refus At the | separation they were living | ton. Williams, by stipula- tion, agreed to pay Mrs. Williams $68 a month alimony, with the understand- | ing that she was not to consider it a upon any property he might ac the future was granted a divorce Frank Gift on the ground of in-| fidelity by Judge Kerrigan. Proof of ol Gift Gift's wrongdoing was secured by Mrs. | Gift by means of a private detective. Judge Sloss granted Esther C. Mac- S ra's prayer for divorce from Arthur MacNamara. He de- h e Wiley wants a diverce from | B. Wiley on the grounds of to provide and intemperance.! married in San Jose eleven Sults for divorce were also jce L. Aldis against H. W. desertion and L. Morri st T. C. »seph Ruiz, proprietor of the Tivoli Theater, in Stockton, has been sued for | divorce by Lizzie Ruiz. Infidelity is charged and Florence Shafer, “hn works in Ruiz's place, is named as ¢o- respondent ——————— Better to be poor gold thar the best gilding. —_——————— Apvzm:mmm RICH MEN ARE NOT ALL HAPPY. Croesus, King of Lydia, Had Troubles of His Own, and There Are Others. Croesus, the John D. Rockefeller the kingdom of Lydia, was 1-to-do in worldly goods and chat- “As rich as Croesus” is a saying of w tels about 2500 yvears old. He had his trou- | bles, however, and some of them were full grown.. He wae taken captive once | by Cyrus and only saved himself from burned alive by quoting a saying m the sage. He finally had to kingdom for parts unknown. Many of the rich man’s troubles to- day come from high living and could be avoided eating all kinds of rich, heavy foods at irregular times, lack of proper ex- ercise, undue mental strain, unnatural stimulants, etc., and are commonly known as indigestion, dyspepsia and weak stomach. They are serious trou- | but not only can they | bles all right, be avoided, but can also be cured, and that without loss of time or proper food and nourishment. Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets are the certain relief of dyspeptics, rich and | poor alike. There i# no such thing as| stopping their onward progress now. A great nation has placed its stamp of approval upon their noble work. The ! .thousands and thousands of cures they | have effected and the happiness result- | -ing therefrom have made their name a household word throughout the land. The story of Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets can be told in a word. They actually do the work that the weak and wasted stomach is unable to do! “and allow it to.recuperate and regain it strength. They contain all the es- sential properties that the gastric Juice and other digestive fluids do, and they /digest the food just as & sound and well stomach would. They relieve the stom- ach just as one rested and refreshed workmean relieves the one on duty that is tired and worn, and Nature does her .own work of restoration. It is a simple, natural process that a child can un. derstand. without fear of results. Stuart's Dys- pepsia Tablets are for sale by all drug- gists at 50 cents a box. Druggists all know better than to try to get along without them, as the demand for them is great and universal. NON AQUA fistieiiimtiss rousands of persons were gathered | Morris for intemperance. | very | They are brought on by | You can eat all you want T T Warranted For Hunters, Peculiar Methods of Wall-Street Prqm'ote'rsAre Revealed in_ Shipbuilding Trust Correspondence Passing Between New York Firm and Paris\Ager}E Continued from Page 1, Column 4. be limited to.the amount of his se- curities; hut that there will be conse- quential damages to every party con- nected with the affalr.” BRINGS HARJES TO TIME. The letter criticized severely, in a | postseript, the impressions said to have been thrown out by the younger Har- | |ises, who was reported to be very much | prejudiced against the wholé affair, and it was said by the cashier | there was no market in New York for | the bonde. The writer addsr that he saw Harjes at once and threatened to turnthe account over to the Credit ' Lyonafse, and thereupon Harjes agreéd [[to tell everytning good, he could about | the personne] of the company -and the »u{lnb Efforts through other' sources 1alm were madde, according to -letters _,‘ and cablegrams quoted, to counteract the effect of various reports circulated | a8 'to the impending collapse of i underwriting scheme in New York. In one of the letters from! Paris ad- | dfessed to Alexander & Green, Alex- llander is quoted as follows: “I constantly say to all parties that | nothing-can be done in the way of as- sisting ¢he underwriters here to dispose of their bonds unless they frankly come | forward, when . notified,. asknowledge their liability and make their first pay- ment, when all“hands will‘unite in-en- {deavoring to sell any bonds they may wish to dispose of. “The Vicomtesse Dandignea sat by me at dinner last night. She had some { of Seott’s Union Iron Works stock and had just telegraphed refusing to sell it except for a higher price. I think I persuaded her that it would be good judgment not to stand, but I suggested to her that, perhaps, Scott would make her an offer in the securities of the new company which will be good enough to be attractive, as one of her difficulties { is the trouble of investing the money | #he may recefve.” | TELLS OF PLEDGE BY MORGAN. the | In another letter, dated July 11, 1902, | signed by Alexander, the statement is rmade that in investigating the Bank de Roma the writer learned that the Pope had $6,000,000 in that bank; that he had a similar sum with the Roths- childs and about the same amount in | England. | According to the World, “Drexels"” | was used in the correspondence to rep- | resent Morgan, Harjes & Co., and in one of the letters credited to Alexander appears the following: “I got a pledge from the Drexels | that everything good should be said of the enterprise.” One of the French underwriters was 1 named Schreyer, and the following reference was made to him in one of the letters: | “I hear he has $1,000,000 belonging to { one old woman to invest at his discre- | tion.” | In this same letter there is also this statement: “I have caused it to be known Yhnt a leading English banker has told me that I would get $1,000,000 in twenty- four hours—which is true, of course.” Another passage in this letter says: “I get down here every morning at 9 o’clock and am here-as late at 6:30.- T drive these men with all the energy which Mr. Hyde might have shown in the early days of the Equitable, and they drive, I am bound to say, very well. I am delighted with the Oppen- { heims. T have yet to find them fail in being absolutely true and accurate. I am glad to hear they are getting out of their trouble, and that they are like- |1y to receive, now that the British are on tick, about $750,000.” YOUNG A “MERE PROMOTER.” A letter dated July 28 sets forth that ]the situation had changed, and that | the writer had notified Oppenheim that | all the French investors would be held {to their individual liability. A post- script to this letter reads thus: “P. S§.—~Since writing the above Rog- niat (one of the underwriters) came in in a great state of excitement and said | that he had been to see Harjes and | asked whether they = knew: - anything | ebout the business; that he was accom- { panied by a man who spoke English | and he listened; that the cashier did everything he could to speak badly about the business, and said there were | no quotations for the securities in New York, and that they did not want fo have anything to do with it, although they would receive the .money for it. | Rogniat was very indignant and came to me. | "I saw Harjes, who said that he had very much prejudice against the af- | fair since seeing Young. I became very indignant and said that T had not in- troduced Young; that he was a mere | promoter, such as Mr.-Morgan con- stantly used in New York; said Rog- niat was the man, and’ that Rogniat told me this very day he would pay up the entire call, irrespective of whether there were any defaults.” WANTS A “CORDIAL” MESSAGE. | 1In the correspondence is included the following cablegram: “PARIS, Jnly 28, 1902.—MacCook, New York: Have Morgans wire Har- | Jes. Take cordial view of affair, Say properties valuable, personnel fine. Rogniat just told me will pay for un- | derwriters who may default, but wants | those paying Harjes encouraged. Have' read riot act Harjes to-day. Report quick., BEATTY.” MacCook, the World says, was the cable address of Alexander, and Green and Beatty was Alexander’s Paris ca- ble address. ——— SCHWAB DENIES ALL CHARG! | Files Answer to the Cross Bill of Shipyard Trust’s Receiver. Schwab to-day filed his answer to the ! cross bill of the United States Ship- building Company and James Smith Jr., its receiver, in the United States Circuit Court. The case is that of the company_ and its receiver against the New Y, Security and Trust Com- pany and ‘Schwab. % - Schwab takes up the various aile, tions and charges of the cress bill and says: “xd-nrthnlvumorhume one of the promoters of the shipbuild- ing company, or that I and a number of persons associated with me acquired the capital stock of the Bethlehem Steel Company, as averred in said cross bill.” Emphatic denial is made that he ever y| NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—Charles M.’ conceived any scheme of transferring to the shipbuilding company the stock of the Bethlehem company at an ex- cessive rate or upon conditions permit- ting him or his associates to control the shipbuilding company or to absorb, for his benefit, “all of its property and assets, to the injury of its creditors and of its ‘bona fide bondholders and stockholders, or otherwise.” Schwab denies that he ever made any false representations regarding the that | Bethlehem Steel Company and denies that his stock, on July 31, 1902, was not worth to exceed $7,500,000. Schwab repudiates any’ connection with.John‘W. Young and says he never caused the latter to propose to the shipbuilding directors to transfer 300,- 000 shares of Bethlehem stock, and $10,- 000,000 each’ of bonds, preferred and common stock of the shipbuilding company. He says: L “I admit that I am the owner and holder of upward of $9,000,000 of the $10,- 000,000 of the bonds, and upward of $9,- 000,000 of the $10,000,000 of the preferred and upward of $9,000,000 of the $10,000,000 of the common stock of the shipbuild- ing company, issued for the stock.of the steel company, but I deny that any associates of mine are the owners of the remainder of the preferred and commop stock so issued for the stock of the Bethlehem Steel Company, ex- cept that I sold and transferred some of sald bonds =and stocks to third ‘parties.” Schwab says the shipbuilding com- pany is not entitled to enforce any alleged indebtedness agaist him. He avers that neither he nor his associates conspired with the “dummy directors of the shipbuilding company” to have inserted in the mortgage to the Security and Trust Company and in the charter of the shipbuilding company provisions which would give him or them absolute control of the shipbuilding and steel companies, with the power to so ma- nipulate the corporations as to .cause default ip the payment of interest, thereby defrauding creditors, stock- holders and bondholders of the ship- buyilding company. Schwab says that he and his' asso- ciates had nothing to do with the with- holding by the Bethléhem company of the dividend payments on the 300,000 shares of its stock owned by the ship- building company fer the purpose of wrecking the latter concern. The de- fendant c-ntinues: “I deny that I or the Security and Trust Company, or the directors of the shipbuilding company or of the steel company, or any associates of mine, or'the reorganization committee of any of them acted fraudulently or in bad faith in the premises or for the pur- pose of destroying and wrecking the property of the shipbuilding company in the interests of myself or any asso- ciates of mine, and I deny that this suit is brought, at the instance of the reorganization . ‘committee an@ myself or any associates 0f mine for the pur- pose of carrying out the aforesaid or any other wrongful plan or of profit= ing and taking advantage of the al- leged defaults occasioned by any wrongful or fraudulent acts to the in- jury of the shipbuilding company or the bona fide creditors, bondholders or stockholders of the shipbuilding com- pany.” After specifically denying any and every charge of fraud, unlawful com- bination, conspiracy or wrgngful att in his connection with the alfairs of the Bethlehem Steel and TUnited States Shipbuilding companies, Schwab de- tails the history of his relations with the two concerns. He says that alter making a contract for the purchase of the entire capital stock of the Bethle- hem .company he communicated with J. P. Morgan & Co., stating that he was willing to turn over the contract to the United States Steel Corporation “without any profit whatever.” Morgan & Co. 'assumed the contract as syndicate manager, with authority to turn it over to the steel corporation. If, however, the Morgan firm disposed of it to other parties Schwab was to receive the greater part of the profit. He says that on June 9. 1902, Lewis Nixon and D. Le Roy Dresser asked him ‘to underwrite $9,000,000 first mort- gage bonds of the United States:Ship- building Company. Prior to that he had no connection with ahy such com- bination. On this subject he continues: “Nixoh and Dresser informed me that the properties were of great value; that they had been appraised by com- petent appraisers.” In view of this, Schwab took the un- derwriting “upon the same terms as other underwriters, providing the new company would give preference to the steel corporation in purchase of materi- als. - Subsequently the bonds were of- fered to the public in the United States and Europe.” On June 1, 1902, Nixon and Dresser told Schwab they wished to acquire the Bethlehem Steel Company, in ordeg to. transfer it to the shipbuilding com- pany, making payr-nt therefor in bonds and stock of the new company. They offered $10,000,000 each of bonds and common and preferred stock. Schwab then opened negotiations with Morgan &' Co., offering to provide the capi‘~' necessary to rei:nburse them for the actual cost of the shares of the Bethlehem company to the syndicate, and $5,000,000 in stock. This offer was accgpted and Nixon and Dresser were so informed. Then followed Schwab’s illness and his absence from the United States” Upon his return he found the shipbuilding company in financial dif- ficulties and-learned, for the first time, that many of the representations in the prospectus of the -hlpbullding plants were false. Last April, George R. Sheldon and Charles W. Wetmore of New York, rep- resenting & syndicate which had pu chased $13,750,000 of the bonds and stock of the shipbuilding company, conferred with Schwab, looking to a reorganiza- tion of the company. Schwab said he desired to take ‘back the Bethlehem stock, returning to the shipbuilding company the bonds and stock he had received. Subsequently, for that pur- pose; hé purchased from J. P. Morgan ‘& Co. $5,000,000 of stock, which had been delivered to them for-the United States Steel Corporation, and arranged to ‘ac- |’ quire all the remaining hontu ‘and stocks. Schwab adds: “I was then and have ever since been L To Cure a Ocld in One Day. and am now able and willing to return all the securities received by me or Messrs. Morgan & Co. and to rescind the whole transaction and I hereby tenller the same for that purpose.” Sheldon and Wetmore declined to con- sider such a proposition, as they stated the principal value of the whole enter- prise consisted of the Bethiehem com- pany. Schwab then agreed to a plan of reorganization with them, suggest- ing an assessment upon first mortgage bondholders. He says: “As to the charges in the cross bill that I acted in collusion with the re- organization gommittee of the ship- building company in an attempt to forcd the insolvency of said company and to wreek it, I aver 'that such charges are 'false and malicious. I aver that James Smith Jr., receiver of,| the shipbuilding company, knows that such charges are untrue. “I am informed and believe that upon such an examination and ap- praisal it will appear that the net work- ing capital of the seven constituent companies, excluding the Bethlehem company,” does not exceed the sum of $1,500,000; that'a great part, If not the greater part thereof, may be wasted and lost by the continuance of the re- ceivership and that such shipbuilding plants cannot be operated and kept working as going concerns without the addition of very large sums of money as necessary working capital.” Schwab closes his defensé by denying every charge of fraud, misdcing, un- lawful combination and confederacy, and “humbly prays to be hence dis- missed with his reasonable costs and charges in this behalf most wrongfully sustained.” —_——— REVELATION ANGERS COUNSEL. Schwab’s Attorney Wants Some One Punished for Glving Out Letters, NEW YORK, Dec. 2. —The hearing in the United States shipbuilding re- ceivership proceedings was continued until to-morrow, because of the illness of Counsel Untermeyer of the suing bondholders. Before the examiner an- nounced the adjournment - Guthrie, counsel for Schwab and others, made a statement regarding the publication of the letters and telegrams that passed between the firm of Alexander & Green regarding the French under- writers. Guthrie said in part: “I desire to call the examiner's at- tention to the publicafion in a news- paper in this'city this morning of the letters, telegrams and cables which have been the object of examination at several hearings before ydu. - “Those letters, telegrams and cable- grams were not exhibited in evidence becguse Mr. Alexander felt constrained to plead privilege and confidence, be- cause they were the private communi- cations from members of the firm in relation to the private business of their clients. Pending the rufing of the tourt.on the question of admissi- bility of these communications, which you said you would certify to the court, and while these letters, telegrams a cablegrams were claimed to be privi- leged, they were furnished to a news- paper and published this morning. We understand this publication to be a direct contempt of court, and that the person guilty of causing their publica~ tion is guilty of a gross contempt. ‘We ask you, therefore, that at the next hearing we may temporarily suspend the taking of testimony of complain- ants’ witnesses and take testimony as to the person who gave publication to these letters, telegrams and cable- grams.” Wollman, associate counsel with Samuel Untermyer, replied: “If there is to be an insinuation that Mr. ‘Untermyer or myself had any- thing to do with giving publicity to these communications, I here declare that it is absolutely untrue, Neither Mr. Untermyer nor I had anything to do with giving out these letters, tele- grams and cablegrams to the’ press. Mr. Guthrie Knows there are many copies of them in existence and that coples could easily be obtained. = T was as much surprised at seeing them pub- lished this morning as Mr. Guthrie could have been.” “1 hope so, for the good name of the bar,” exclaimed Mr. Guthrie. “You have done much in this case against the good name of the bar, Mr. Guthrie,” replied Wollman. “Your course has been reprehensible. not know, nor do I care, what the law is, but the persons who gave these communications to the press ought to be punished. I do not object to Mr. Guthriels insinuation when Mr. Guth- rie knows, as he does, how easy it is to get these copies.” Affer some further discussion be- tiveen counsel it was agreed they should co-operate in an effort to learn who gave out the communlcnflona in question. —_——————— OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC COAST Several Changes Are Made in the Postal Service and More Patents Issued to Inventors. WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—Postmasters com- missioned: California—Samuel W. Metcalf, Sle- son. Fourth-class postmasters appointed o e iy T B pme Frenct. Sulch; Shasta County, vice Hattie L. Hubbard, resigned. 'Army _orders—First Lieutenant Charles W. Farr, aselstant surgoon, goes {rom Fort Reno, Okla., to Fort Mason, Cal. Contract Surgeon James B. Pascoe, now at San Francisco, is ordered to the Philippines. The following patents were issued to-day: Calitornia—Granam B, Babcock, Coronado. brake: Reuben C. Bake: nga. coaling bin: b 5 Ben, asslgnor onerhall o L ¥ Los Angeles, Street rallway switching mechan- ism; Henry C. Black, San Francisco, can body I do; UNION LABELS ON THE DEAD Chicago Funeral Processions Are Placarded to Prevent Violence on Part of Strikers PEACE IS IN PROSPECT S PR Liverymen’s Association nnd Former Employes Seem. Dis- posed to Resort to Arbitration ST CHICAGO, Dec. 22.—The Liverymen's Association at a meeting this after- noon decided that unless a peaceable settlement of the drivers’' strike was reached to-morrow it would open for business with non-union employes and would appeal to'the courts for an in- Jjunction to prevent the strikers inter- fering in any manner with the driving of carriages orghearses. Word of the injunction proposal reached the strikers just as a vote had been comvieted to | submit the jsspes in the controversy to arbitration and the action of the employers was bitterly criticized by the men. No announcement of the re- sult of the vote of the strikers was made, but the general impression was that arbitration had been accepted. At the time the men were voting on the question of conciliation the myem- bers of the Liverymen's Association decided to submit the whole dispute to arbitration; provided ‘that the strikers took the inTtfative and that the demand | for a peaceable settlement ceme troml the men. In anticipation of the propo- sition being accepted by the men a com- mittee was appointed to receive any overtures that the union might be will- ing to make. The union officials were immediately notified of = the decision reached by the employers and the lat- ter, it is understood, will have a reply ready to-morrow morning. The first-“union label funeral” since the strike began occurred to-day. The funeral was arranged by Undertaker G. M. Marks, the corpse being removed in a “dead” wagon bearing the plncard‘ proclaiming that the vehicle was ownedl by an undertaker paying the —union scale. The carriages containing the mourners were similarly labeled. The funeral of John J. Kelly was held under cover of darkness on account of | the possibility of violence. The services | had been announced before the recall | ofvpickets Jast night. After simple home | services an undertaker's wagon con- | veyed the remains to a railroad depot, | from which the corpse was shipped to | St. Paul, Minn. The body of Mrs. Chtherine- Master- =on, the mother of Rev.John Masterson, was borne through the streets to the Church of the Holy Family on an un- dertaker’s truck, which was used in| substitution for a hearse. Six pall- bearers walked bareheaded beside the | flower-strewn coffin, and following them | came a procession of urners. Fifty | carriages had been asked for, but none were provided, and more than 200 pers sons \}-erg prevented attending the bu- rial. One of many other .funerals from which hearses were withheld to-day | took place not far from the Masterson home and led to the charge that liv- erymen had entered into a pool or com- | bination to prevent the use of hearses | for bearing dead to the graves. After engaging' a hearse for a funeral Un- dertaker Marks, who yesterday signed ihe union scale, was refused by a liv- ery owner the use of the vehicle. For two hours the funeral was delayed while the mourners awaited a hearse. ‘When none could be had a “dead” wagon was used. gl i ST LI COMMITTEE THAT ERECTED DEWEY MONUMENT REPORTS James D. Phelan, W. G. Stafford and R. H. Fletcher, constituting a sub- committee of the general committee in charge of the building of a monument | to the American navy in commemora- | tion of Commodore Dewey’s victory at Manilla Bay, have issued a report cov- ering the labors of the general commit- tee and the consummation of its spizn- did undertaking. In the report it is set forth that in answer to the call of the committee, corporations and citizens subscribed the sum of $34,005 51 for the erection | of the Dewey monument, which, added to the value of the work done by the Park Commission in excavating the site of the monument and 8 concrete, which is placed at $15632, but for which no charge was made, brings the total cost of the monument up to $35.537 51. The report contains a list of subscrib- ‘ers to the fund, a synopsis of the ex- penditures and a description of the monument. The sub-committee in its report ex- _tends tfanks to all who contributed to the cause and to those that labored to carry the plans of the general com- mittee to completion. The general committee included tha following named citizens: James D. Phelan, chairman; Claus Spreck- els, vice chairman; Irving M. Scott, vieo chairman; R. H. Fletcher, secretary; E. B. Pond, - treasurer; F. W. Van Sicklen, Vander- Ly Stow. R F. Schwerln, George D. Clark, ord, E. W. Hopkins, C. L. Patton, W e eon Sloas, Joseoh 8, Tobin. J H. Reinstein, H. G. Platt, Colonel C. H. Mur- phy, Charles Bundschu and Charles Hirsch. ———————— O’Hare’s .Victims Doing Well. Newman Shebina and Ethel Penny, who were shot on Dupont street by Dan O'Hare, who ‘ended his own life after the shooting, are in a fair way toward recovery. Shebina left the hos- pital yesterday afternoon and Ethel Penny is doing as well as the doctors forming and seaming machine; James L. Doyla and H. Ebrett, Los Angeles, u-lc'nor to Boyle,| machine for perforating cyllnam same, pfo- ducing eylindrical bodles: E. Caton, Slgnor to Caton's Foundry and Maching’ Con San Jose, clod crusher; Earle E. sh-vm-n. Aas- signor to Standard che clmro Co., Los Angeles, clowure:. Wares G. Sy cnbhalt &> 3, Tasvict: San Ln Ohlm boller alarm: l‘ndnll M. Hflllnml, educational appliance; Adnlg! remer, llc mento, deco¥ duck; Wlllll olll'lld'f. l ,_ass! ents to lmntlon Pmfllm mknnmm to M _Oregon—Jam: A. Gavitt, Pcnd!oton, blu:ih Wlfilnl\on— ddfll' Ellis vis, Lester, automatic t nun !aruo A. ng means for"discharging Eore’ vetatning vaive i "‘-' The town of Crowley, 'ly. center of the rice industry of the Unn— ed States. It is surrounded by ovqr 200,000 acres of fertile flelds, which over 1,000,000 bags of rlee are now marketed annually, at a valuation f over $3,000,000 vuy. | Inquisitive friend. could wish. Dr. Murphy is of the opinion that the bullet did not enter her bod: but glanced along a rib. side and back, what yellowness of the skin, what constipation, bad taste in the mouth, sick headache, pimples and blotches, and lo-dewnn.ullthmu 3 The great alterative and tonic MUST SUFFER DEATH PENALTY Frank H. Bumess, Who Shot the Captain of a Schooner, Is Found Guilty of Murder —_— ADMITS OTHER KILLINGS N Assures Jurors That He Bears| Them No T1l Will and Wishes | Them a Merry Christmas i Qe NEW YORK, Dec. 22—Frank H. Burness, 44 years old, who shot and killed Captain George B. Townsend of the schooner Charles K. Buckley on ! November 10, because Townsend would not. pay him $6 30 which the prisoner alleged to be due him, was convicted | to-day of murder in the first degree. The murderer, who admits having killed three men besides Townsend, in- | sisted that he did the deed with pre-| meditation and in a full realization of | the consequences. Burness smiled | broadly when the jury was being polled. | Judge Crane said he would sentence Burness on Monday. Burness then| asked the Judge if he would be permit- | ted to say something. On being gl\renJ the privilege he said: i “There may be an idea in the minds of some of the jurors that I hold a grudge against them for faving found me guilty. I wish to say that I do not feel in that way in the slightest, and all Y can say is I wish them all a merry Christmas.” ‘When asked, what he thought would | be the result of his act he ccolly re- plied: “I only see dne way out of it.” “What is that?"” “Why, the chair, of course.” —_——— CITY SHOULD CLEAN AND SPRINKLE THE STREEI'S; | Merchants’ Association Addresses Let- ter to the Board of Works, Urging the Adoption of Scheme. | The members of the Merchants’ As- | sociation have addresed a circular to the Board of Public Works requesting | that body to consider the plan of hav- | ing the streets cleaned and sprinkled | by thd city instead of letting the con- tracts out to various contractors. The association asks that the matter be | taken up and passed upon by the board by the first of the year, when | the present contracts will expire. The association argues that the work can be done better and cheaper by the | city. The association urges that in- spectors and workmen be appeinted and all placed under civil service regu- | lations so that there may be no fight | over the award of patronage. The | matter will probably be taken up and | discussed . by. the board at the next meeting. —_—— “Dummit is a queer fellow,” observed | the man with the incandescent whisk- ers. “What has he done?” asked the “Wanted them to get the Daughters of the Revolution to aid in that agitatio for merry-go- rtunds in the parks."”—Baltimore Amer- ican. DR. SHOOP’S REMEDIES. Shoop’'s Rheumatic Cure = Costs Nothing if It Fails. Any homest person who suffers from Rheu- matism is-welcome to this offer. For years I searched everywhere to find a specific for Rheu- matism. For nearly 20 years I worked to this énd. At last, in Germany, my search was re- warded. I found a costly chemieal that did not aisappoint me as, other Rheumatic prescriptions had disappointed physicians everywhere. I do not mean that Dr. Shoop's Rheumatic Cure can turn bony joints into flesh again. That is tmpossible. But it will drive from the blood the poison that causes pain.and swelling, and then that,is the end of Rheumatism, I know “h s0 well that T will furnish for a full month my Rheumatic Cure on trial. T cannot cure all cases within a month. It would be unreason- able to expect that. But most cases will yieid within 30 daye. This trial treatment will con- vince you that Dr. Shoop's Rheumatic Cure is & power against Rheumatism—a potent force against-disease that is irresistible. My offer is made to convince you of my falth. My faith is but the outcome of experience—at actual knowledge. Iknow what it can do. And 1 know this so well that I will furnish my rem- edy on trjal. Simply write me a postal for my book on Rheumatism. I will then arrange with | a-druggist in your vieinity so that you can se- cure six bottles of Dr. Shoop’s Rheumatic Curs to make the test. You make take it a full month on trial. If it succeeds the cost to you is 35 50. 1t it fails the loss s mine and mine alone. It will be left entirely to you. I mean that ex- aetly. If you say the trial is not satisfactory I don’t expect & penny from you. I have no samples. Any mere sample that can affect chronic Rheumatism must be drugged to the verge of danger. I use no such-drugs, for it is dangerous to take them. You must get the disease out of the blood. My remedy does that even in the most difficult, obstinate cases. It has cured the cldest cases that I ever met, and in all of my experience, in all of my 2000 tests, I never found another remedy that would cure one chronie case~in ten. Write me and I will #nd you the book. Try my remedy for a month, for it can't harm you anyway. If it falls the loss is mine. 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