The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 7, 1905, Page 2

- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH SON UNB POISON TRAGEDY IN HONOEULU. STANFORD INQUEST GOES ONipfiss® Doctors Find Continued From Page 1, Column 3.! im as various witnesses told their tories. The jurymen, in the graceful neglige of the tropics, sat | about the inner room in attitudes suggestive rather of personal de- sire for their comfort than of any decp sense of gravity of the dut that called them there. The inquest began with the ex-! amination of Miss Berner, who! had been the secretary, companion | and, it is whispered now, spirf} itualistic medium of Mrs. Stan-| ford, and who had prepared for| her the fatal dose of blcarbonalef f soda which, it has been said, caused her death. There course, no suspicion that is, of Miss Berner knew there was poison in | the bottle. Her preparation of the | dose, from her own evidence and | from all attending ¢ enoug umstances, | She told her story in a level, even voice, be- | ing no excitement beyond a ained attention to detail which ised her to weigh carefully 1NNOC every answer that she made to ! uestion, even. the most She listened with grave n to each question that was 1 o her and returned no answer she was very sure that the carefully uring the time| has elapsed since the death | her patroness. Miss Berner had { t left her own room until to-/| ay since the tragedy occurred. | She 1s well on to middle life— might have been called et many grave crises before fronted her and who me whe S one con ld know how to prepare to meet them. She wore a dress to- all white, with openwork nt, the sleeves long and full, the collar fitting closely. Her gray hair was combed in a rather wide pompadour, and she held her | somewhat long and thin ‘white | hands, upon which shone several | rich rings, clasped closely together | in her lap while she talked. Following Miss Berner, the | afternoen session closed with the: examination of Drs. Day and| Wood. : — DOCTORS SAY D \;H WAS BY STR CHNINE { AND NOTHING ELSE | 1 Autopsy “and ' Analysis Confirm First | Report of Tragical Ending of Noble Life. (By Cable to Associated Press,) | HONOLULY, March 6.—The inquest | into the cause of the death of Mrs. | Jane Lathrop Stanford, widow of the | late United Sfates Senator Lelang| *Stanford, who died here on the night of | February 28 under circumstances re. | garded by the authorities as pointing | — © ADWESTS. | | | | are made on modemn methods. In colored shirtg the colors stay. $1.50 and more CLUEYT. PEABODY & CO., Makers of Cluest aud Arrgw Collars, Sole Cause of Death. | cept that ieated could be discovered by the physicians. The body, Dr. Wood said, was first | far as post-mortem signs go, indicated | secretary for the last twenty years, | on the Pacific Mail Company’s steam- M Berner testified that Mrs. Stan- | | ford =a1a@ to her: “If I am not to stay in my San | Mrs, Stanford to seek advice on this | her arrival here she recovered her | =aid the witness, “was at half-past 7 | dispatches that when the soup = was | served Mrs. Stanford told the waiter it Strychnine Is to a case of strychnine poisoning, was begun this afternoon at the Moano Ho- tel, where Mrs. Stanford died. The evidence of the doctors was of vital importance and was heard with; deep interest. { Dr. C. B. Wood, one of the physicians who conducted the autop: testified that s found him and | were indicative was the he body had the ap- pearance of that of a woman of 65 years of age—one whp enjoyed good health. No other cause of death ext examined for external causes of death, but without result, and then for exter- nal appearances, for the reason that the physicians had been informed that there was suspicion of poisoning by the administration of strychnine. UNUSUAL RIGIDITY FOUND. One symptom of such poisoning, the doctor said, is unusual rigidity. Mrs. Stanford’s mouth was rigid and the teeth were locked. The neck was not rigid, and the muscles of the upper arm were relaxed. This would not be expected in a case resulting from rychoine poisoning, but the doctors informed that the undertaker had broken up the rigidity of the body so | as to put a gown on it, The forearms, Dr, Wood said, were | rigid to a marked degree, and also the thighs and legs. The appearance of the feet, according to the witness, wo ndicate strychnine polsoning. The instep was arched, the feet turned in and drawn up at the toes. €. Stanford’s body, Dr. Wood said, was the color of violet or purple. He said that he had examined all the or- gans and had turned over to Dr. R. A. Duncan, Food Commissioner and Chemical Analyst of the Board of Health, the contents of the stomach. The left side of the heart was found to be contracted, while the right side was relaxed. On the left side he found one and a half teaspoonfuls of dark blood, while ‘the right side of the heart was nearly empty and without clots, The post-mortem appearances in known cases of strychnine poisoning, the witness said, corresponded with those found in the autopsy. The ex-| amination of the different organs fail- ed to show any sufficient cause of death due to disease. STRYCHNINE CAUSED DEATH. In reply to a question by Deputy High Sheriff Rawlins, Dr. Wood said that the post-mortem appearances, as strychnine poisoning. Dr. F. R. Day, another of the phy- sicians who conducted the autopsy, agreed with Dr. Wood that strychnine poisoning was the only cause of death indicated. The first witness examined by the Coroner’s jury was Miss Bertha Ber- ner, who had been Mrs. Stanford’s and who came to Honolulu with her er Korea from San Francisco. Miss Berner, who was examined by Deputy High Sheriff Rawlins, after she had made preliminary statements regarding her relations with Mrs. Stanford, testified that che latter had left San Francisco on the advice of her brother, her physician and her at- , who had told her it was not able to remain in the latter city. | Francisco home, and as the wet sea- son is coming on, rendering it inad- visable for me to go to my_ country residence, I prefer to go to Honolulu, as.it is warmer there.” Miss Berner continued: “The occasion which compelled question was the occurrence of Janu- ary 14, when she drank mineral water at her California residence and found it bitter to the taste. 'This water was afterward examined by a chemist whe reported that it contained strych- nine, I saw the written report made by the chemist at the time. MRS. STANFORD SAD. “On the steamer coming to Hono- lulu Mrs, Stanford appeared to be sad and troubled in her mind, but after spirits and fook numerous drives, which she appeared to greatly en- Joyor The witness here described a drive- taken by Mrs. Stanford to a picnic on the day of her death, the facts of which have been already referred to in these dispatches. She said that Mrs. Stanford seemed very bright, that she sang a little song and told the driver to proceed slowly so as to r‘]‘yf:lkg the drive last as long as pos- sible. At this stage of the examination Miss Berner showed signs of breaking down. She recovered, however, and described the luncheon of which Mrs. Stanford partook at the pienfe. This luncheon lasted from 1 o'clock until haif-past 1, after which the lit-! tle party started on its return to Hono- lulu. The carriage stopved at a store, where orders were given regarding a costume for Mrs. $tanford, and the party arrived at the Moano Hotel at §; o'clock. l Mrs. Stanford, the witness said, went directly to her room so as to rest ba- fore dinmer. “The next T saw of Mrs. Stanford,” o'clock, when she came to my room dressed for dinner. On the way to din- ner we storped at the room of Mrs. M. £ Grinbaum, to whom Mrs. Stan- ford spoke of how she enjoyed the day’s outing.” ATE SOUP ONLY. Miss Berner repeated the statement already made to the Associated Press correspondent and mentioned in these would be sufficient, as she was not hungry, having lunched heartily. After retiring to her room Mrs. Stan- ford asked Miss Berner to prepare her medicine, and the witness first placed on the table a glass of the mineral water desired by her employer and aft- erward placed half a t onful of bicarbonate of soda and one laxatjve tablet beside it. The witness then left | and it was therefore ordered and placed in the - iy 1905. s ¢ ibmdin FORMER MAID IS ONCE MORE ON THE GRILL Richm ond Relates - Conflicting Tales to Police. Butler Also Examined Again Continued From Page 1, Column 7. grill for nearly an hour and subjected to relentless questioning. BEVERLY IS FLUSHED. After the “sweating” the ex-butler and the pale liftle maid hurried out of the Hall of Justice and down Kearny street. Beverly was ° flushed and nervous, and Miss Richmond was pale as death. The pair have promised to report at police headquarters to-day, when they will again be questioned. The ex-butler and ex-maid were pho- tographed by the prison photographer. When asked the reason of this action, Captain Burnett said, “We may want the’ photographs for reference.” Following is Miss Richmond's story in full: A 8 It has always been customary for Mrs. Stan- ford to have a bottle of Poland water or & bottle of ome other still mineral water in her room to drink at her pleasure. She generally drank a glass of water about an hour before lunch and another about one hour before din- nmer. It was always my duty and my custom to see that a bottle of water was in readiness for her whenever she wanted it. Sometimes she drank one kind of water and sometimes she drank another. In this instance, for a change, ,she wanted a case of Poland water butler's pantry. As 1 said before, I always attended to tak- fneup the water (o Mrs Stanford’s room, On Fritay night, January 13—the night preceding the poisoning—I went to the butler's pantry and the butler took two bottles from the case and pulled out the corks, putting each cork partly back again. I then placed one bottle on the stairway for Nora to take up to Miss Berner's room and I carried the other bottle into Mrs. Stanford’s room and put it in the customary place on the washstand. I noticed as I did so that the bottle which I had pre- viously placed there had been partially emp- tied. This was about 6:30 In the evening. The next morning, which was Saturday, some- o SRl where about 10 o'clock, I was in Mrs. Stan- ford's room and 1 noticed that the partially filled bottle of the night before had been re- moved and that a quantity had been drunk from the bottle I had placed there Friday night. $iv: Stanfora_spent nearly all _Saturday downstairs and I do not think drank any of the Poland water from that bottle during that day. Saturday night at 0:80, as was my usual custom, 1 took up & bottle from the butler's pantry and placed it beside the bottle that I had taken up the previous evening, This latter bottle was, I think, nearly or partially filled and t was from this botile, which had been standing in her room all day, Mrs. Stanford drank that night and which has since, by Wakelee's report, proved to have had strychnine in it. WATER WAS BITTER. At 9 o'clock Saturday Mrs. Stanford came rushing to the sewing-room adjoining, where 1 was sitting, and “Richmond, Rich- mond, come and see what is the matter with the Poland water. 1 drank some and it nearly choked me, It burned me so that I ran my fingers down my throat and threw it all up.’ Mrs. Stanford was greatly excited. I ran across the room and poured some of the water into the glass, and as I was doing so Mrs. Stanford cried out, ‘‘Taste it, Richmond, taste it.”” 1 took a mouthful, and it was so bitter I at once spat it out. I then ran u to Mies Berner's room. She was in bed. told her of what had happened, and she jumped out of bed and together Wwe ran to Mrs, Stanford’s room. Mrs Stanford sald: ““Tagte the Poland water, Bertha; something is_the matter with It.” Miss Berner put it to her lips and said: “Oh, it is bitter! What is the matter with it?"" I then sald, *‘Mrs. Stanford, you drank some of the water out of the bottle this morn- ing, as 1 noticed some was gone when I camie in the room at,10 o'clock.”” Mrs. Stan- ford replied: *No, I did not drink any Poland water to-day. The first 1 drank was just a few minutes ago.” We all locked In amazement at one an- other. Tbat bottle of Poland water was in rs. Stanford's room wit hthe cork partially removed 50 ‘any one could remove it, from Friday night at 6:30 until 9 o'clock 'Satur- day night, when "ui" Stanford drank it Those are the fi the case. ner, “was the week after New Year's. I used it at the same time. The bottle was in a trunk which Mrs. Stanford took to San Jose. This trunk was sent to San Francisco on January 23. The bottle was taken from the trunk at the California-street residence. It was kept in a room to which the servants had access, but this room was locked | at night. The bottle was packed by me in a telescope basket for the Hono- lulu trip, and this basket was kept in the stateroom. May Hunt, the mald, | was with Mrs. Stanford part of the| way, but as the maid was taken ill I| changed places with her. The bicar- bbnate of soda was not used on the trip to my knowledge. CALLED FOR HELP. “After Mrs. Stanford retired on Feb- | ruary 28 I was aroused from my sleep by hearing my name called. I recog- nized Mrs. staptord‘s voice calling out: ‘Bertha—May—1 am 'so sick.’ “We rushed out and found her clinging to the frame of her door. Mrs. Stanford said: “‘Bertha, run for a doctor. “Mrs. Stanford walked two steps and then said: “ ‘Bertha, I am so sick.” “She placed her arm around my shoulders, leaning on me, and I led | her back to her room and tried to in-; duce her to sit down. She said: ‘I zve got no control of my body. I think I am poisoned. “I said to Mrs. Stanford: ‘Do sit| down,” and then I got hot water and | filled a glass and held it to her lips. | She said: “‘I cannot drink.’ “Her jaws were set. She turned her face to mine and I said, ‘Now, try to | drink,” and then she drank the hqt'l water. May Hunt and I were rubbing | Mrs. Stanford’s limbs when the doc- tor arrived. She had taken altogether about six or seven glasses of the hot water .when Dr. Hu{nphfls came. She sald to the doctor: RECALLS FORMER ATTEMPT. “‘Doctor, I think I am poisone Won't you brings a stomach pump? Then turning to me she said: ‘Bertha, tell the doctor what happened,’ refer- | ring to the San Francisco episode of January 14. “I explained this affair to Dr. Hum- phris and asked him for ipecac. He said that ipecac might affect the heart, and tried to comfort Mrs. Stanford, saying to her, ‘Don’t be afraid.’ -She said, ‘Another spasm is coming,’ and then® ‘My soul is prepared. I go to meet my dear ones. O God, forgive mc my sins.’ “The muscles became rigid. Then there came a profuse perspiration, fol- lowed by a violent spasm, and Mrs. Btanford died.” Attorney General Andrews ques- tioned Miss Berner regarding the bot- tle of bicarbonate of soda. The wit- ness said it was Mrs. Stanford’s cus- tom to take the soda only occasionally, and added: “No one knew of this custom, so far ag I am aware, but myself, May Hunt and Nora Hopkins, an employe af the San Francisco residence of Mrs. Stan- ford.” Questioned by Deputy High Sherif Rawlins with regard to the possibility of Mrs. Stanford having committed suicide, Miss Berner expressed pity for any one who could be driven to such a conclusion. “I have not read the newspaper reports of the case,” said she, “because they would distress me. Mrs, Stanford,” she said in conclusion, | *on a few occaslons said she hoped some day to rejoin her son and her husband, to whose memory she was always devoted, but this was not a frequent topic of conversation with her.”, Dr. Murray described the body as more like that of a woman of 65 ynul than 77. Every organ of the body was normal on examination. No disease existed, but the heart was a little fatty, The left side of the heart was contract- ed, the right side relaxed. The brain was in perfect condition and she was a wonderfully preserved woman. Thera was nothing to indicate natural death. When he first saw the body he at once; concluded that she had been poisoned | and his opinion was immediately form- ] ed that she had ‘been .poisoned by strychnine. ; 3ozt Dr. H. V. Murray and Dr. F. H. Humphris {!flflflkfl substantially the same as the other physicians. Dr. Mrs, Stanford for the night. This was, he last time Mrs, Stanford used bicarbonate of s0da from the same bot- tle. to my kuowledge,” said Miss Ber- Murray expressed an absolute opinion that strychnine caused death, which he was convinced was an unnatural one. There was, he said, an absence of_food in the sto ; Dr. Humphris bt Mri. Stan- — & ford’s mind was clear when he first treated her. He confirmed Miss Ber- ner’s statements regarding the final scene and said that at the last ap- proaching spasm Mrs. Stanford said: “What a horrible death to dle!” She never breathed again. Dr. H: phris expressed his optnion on the spot that death was caused by strychnine and he said that he still held the same view. He had no doubt that it was a case of strychnine polsoning. He wit- nessed the autopsy and agreed with the other physicians in their conclusion that death was caused by strychnine. ay Hunt, Mrs. Stanford’s . maid, tesfified practically the same as Miss Berner. In addition, she sald that [Mrs. Stanford had intended to go to | Japan. In one conversation with Mrs. Stanford she discussed the subject of the alleged attempt to poison her in San Francisco. Mrs. Stanford said: “How dreadful if I had died that time. People might have thought I committed suicide.” At to-morrow's session of the in- quest the chemists who made the an- alysis. of Mrs. Stanford’s stomach and other organs will testify. The inquest was adjourned at 7:80 D. m. It is expected that the chemists will give their testimony to-morrow. ey : NEWSBOYS MOURN BENEFACTOR Mrs. Stanford’s Death Causes Grief Among Street Gamins, That Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford’s tragic death is mourned by people in all walks of life is shown by the sor- row feit ‘by the newsboys. Every Christmas she gave a dinner to hun- dreds of little ragged gamins. The grief of her friends in higher walks of life and the sorrow of the students of the Stanford University is sincere, but not a bit more sincere than the grief of these little proteges of the philan- thropic woman, “She always thought of us. It ain’t losing no dinner that makes us sorry,” said one of the boys who had known of her bounty, “but she did not forget us. That's a whole lot. There’s millionaires and millionaires, but she was an angel, she was.” The street gamins have no halls or temples to hold memorial services in. But among themselves they say, “She did not forget us; we do not forget her.” This is as high a tribute as they can pay. e AT P S TR ' Old Tricks Played Over Again. The irresponsible youths who worry the life out of their employers have added another trick to their stock of accomplishments for relieving the tedium of toll by taking advantage of the inherent curiosity which forms so large a part of the average American's makeup. In the downtown section there are usually many large buildings in course of erection. Before one of these two or three of the aforesaid irre- sponsible youths will gather and silent- ly gaze skyward toward the workmen on the top story. After a minute or two of this, there has formed a small crowd, none knowing just why the others have stopped there, each watch- ing intently for some developmenmt at the top of the building. And then, after much solemnity, the ringleader of the trouble makers will turn to his accomplices amd ejaculate, “Stung again!” A method more in favor when time presses is to stop suddenly, gaze upward and utter fervently a long drawn “O-0-0!" Invariably half a dozen of the passersby will stop, umslly with one or two collisions, and ‘=tafe skyward, whereat the leader will mutter ‘“My—what rubbernecks!” to the intense discomfiture of the men, who realize that they ha®e been duped, and hurry on with imprecations.—New York Tribune. R —————— Ship Canal~With Long Tunnel. » The ship canal intended to connect the city of Marseilles directly with the Rhone has not advanced beyond its initial stages. It is now presumed that work will actually begin before Jan- uary, 1906. The law puts the total cost | at $13,703,000. The difficult work in connection with this enterprise will be the piercing of the tunnel of Rove. This tunnel will be 4.35 miles long and is expected to cost $6,378,457. It is not expected that the canhal will be open to navigation within ten years.—Consular Report. ./ IFFICUL FOR § AVALL Iaw of Succession Would Operate in Favor of Those ‘Whom Mrs. Stanford Made Beneficiaries in the Will SAID NOT TO HAVE KEPT HER PROMISE Agreement With the Senator Is Alleged to Have Existed That Survivor Should Pro- vide for the Other’s Kin Continued From Page 1, Column 5. husbahd of our daughter and what he sees fit to do will be of interest, but will not directly concern us.” LELAND LATHROP CONTENT. | Quite different in expression is Le- iland Lathrop. He is the son of Charles G. Lathrop and like all the nephews and nieces shared in the will of Sen- ator Stanford, receiving $100,000. This, he says, he is satisfled with and in re- sponse to the question whether he ‘would contest the will said, “I feel, and our family feels, that Senator Stanford .generously provided for us and we haye always understood that the money left by him to Mrs. Stanford was her own. We have regarded it as hers to do with as she liked.” “I personally feel no chagrin nor dis- satisfaction over the fact that I was not remembered. I have always been very friendly with Mrs. Stanford, but there were other members of the fam- fly who were even closer and were not remembered. k. “Senator Stanford had a brother in Australia whom Mrs. Stanford visited frequently and with whom she was on friendly terms, and' yet no mention is made of him. She knew him better than any other member of the Stan- ford branch of the family, with the possible exception of Josiah Stanford, to whose son, her nephew, she failed to leave anything. “That any one should be dissatisfled with the will seems to me to be a trifle ungrateful, as the Senator generously remembered all his kin. As to Mrs. Stanford, I suppose she thought—of course, I don't, know positively what she thought—but I have reason to be- lieve that she thought the generous provision made by Senator Stanford for:nephews and nieces was ample. “When Senator Stanford died he left $1,000,000 to each of his three brothers- in-law, Charles G. Lathrop, Ariel La- throp and Danfel Lathrop, now de- ceased. The income of the million left } to Danlel Lathrop was evenly appor- tioned between his three daughters, Mrs. George P. Lawton, Mrs. Amy Hanson and Mrs. Christine Gunning, now deceased. The two children of Mrs. Gunning draw the income of one- third of the million left to their grand- father, Daniel Lathrop, by Senator Stanford.” Mrs. E. R. Taylor, nee Stanford, a daughter of Josiah Stanford and sister of Josiah Stanford Jr. does not share in the dissatisfaction expressed by her cousin, Jerome Stanford. To her was left $150,000 at the death of Senator Stanford, and is perfectly satisfled with that. She declared positively last night that she would not contest the will. Mrs. Taylor is the wife of Dr. E. R. Taylor, dean of the Hastings Law School, and an eminent attormey. 3aslioy Ly SAY THEY BORE NO ILL WILL. Ex-Butler and Former Maid Stoutly Assert Their Innocence. SAN MATEO, ‘March 6.—According to accounts, Miss Richmond, who was Mrs. Stanford’s maid at the time of the first poisoning in San Francisco, and who left her service shortly after, has been connected with the best families of both continents. She came to California with excel- lent references, for Mrs. Stanford was very particular as to whom she took into her employ. For a long time Miss Richmond lived in England and there served the nobility. Then she came to America, and not being of a very robust nature she sought the mild climate of California. Albert Beverly, Mrs. Stanford’'s old butler, first came to the coast with Lily Langtry, having charge of her private car. Mrs. Beverly was also in the service of this famous actress. Their last service was with Mrs. Stan- ford. The pretty little cottage of the Beverlys on the outskirts of San Mateo is a scene of great unrest and anxiety. Mr. and Mrs. Beverly and Miss Richmond, who s living with them, have all the time plainly asserted their innocence of even harboring any il will toward Mrs. Stanford, but the knowledge that they are being con- stantly watched weighs heavily on them. All show in their drawn faces the loss Of sleep and the want of appetite. 3 Down at the Berner house just hack of the Stanford stock farm Mrs. Ber- ner, the aged mother of Mrs. Stanford's secretary, lies very ill with nervous collapse. She is 75 years old, and the thought of her daughter so far away and in trouble has completely un- nerved her. She has a terrible fear that Miss Berner herself may be the vietim of poisoning before she returns to her Palo Alto home. Adjourn Out of Respect. The Board of Supervisors yesterday adjourned out of respect to the mem- ory of the late Mrs. Jane L. Stanford on motion of Supervisor Eggers, who eulogized the deceased philanthropist. Thy appointed Eggers, Booth, Gallagher and D'Ancona to draw up resolutions of respect to '.;o memory of Mrs. Stanford. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Al Gyt refund the money It it E. W, Grove’s signature is on each Reciprocity in Trade. “What is your load of hay worth?” asked the coal dealer. . 3 el e, now,” d the honest agri- culturist. “When I buy a load of coal frcm you I don’t ask what it's worth. 1 ask you what your price is and I pay | it. This load of hu‘i will cost you $10.” Weak solutions may be all ‘right in :lhamhtrv. but they don’t go in poli- ICS. pected being A Pittsburg Press. OQUBTEDLY CAUSE OF DEATH DETECTIVES » £ MEDHE - o) EACH MOVE Are Silent Concerning Strychnine Found in Nob Hill Mansion. Police Doing Their Utmost to Conceal Fact That They Hold an Important Clew to the Mutder. The detectives still refuse to give out apy information concerning the bottle of strychnine they found in Mrs. Stan- ford's residence. In fact, they are do- ing their utmost to discredit the story that was published exclusively in The Call as to the finding of the poison, the purpose evidently being to conduct this phase of their investigations in ab- solute secrecy. The discovery of the strychnine bot- tle in Mrs. Stanford’s own home may have the greatest bearing on the mys- tery and for this reason, it is asserted, ' the utmost secrecy must be maintained | that the important clew might not be spoiled. The finding of this poison had much to do with the decision to send Detectives Callundan and Rey- nolds to Honolulu. It is understood, however, that no” person has been connected with the purchase of the poisonous crystals. If 80, the bottle is without a label show- ing from what store it came. This would be very 4ikely, for the poisoner would at least take the precaution to remove the label, even though bung- ling method was shown in trying to hide it. Those who have been in Mrs. Stanford’s employ at the Nob Hill mansion deny that she ever kept any stryehnine. “There are no rats or mice there,” explained !?rmer Butler MacWhinney yesterday, “and there was never any occasion to use pofson in the house. e None of us ever saw the strychnine. Of course, Mrs. Stanford might pos- sibly have kept the poison without my knowing it.” The probabilities favor the theory that Mrs. Stanford had no strychnine in her home, and that some servant purchased it. It is further to be as- sumed with good reason that the poison which caused death came from this bottle. The attitude of the detectives being so strict as to sifence, it is impossible to gain any detalled information in re- gard to the bottle. They have the bot- tle in their possession and as they are successfully guarding their secret everything for the public at this time must be left to conjecture. Captain Callundan of the Morse agency is credited with the possession of the strychnine bottle, and there is remote possibility that he took it with him to Honolulu to produce at the in- quest which he expected would be de- layed until his arrival there. Mean- time the search of the drug stores goes on quietly in the hope that the great missing link In the mystery, that of the identity of the person who bought the poison, can be discovered. The stout denlals of the detectives that they have found a bottle of strychnine is a reasonable course for them to pursue, yet there is much strange about the entire investigation. Various people connected with them are given to making denials in a man- ner thaf, is absurd. NEW SEAL FOR INDIANA RADICAL CHANGE FROM OLD Ladies Took Charge of. Matter and Got Up Design to Harmonize ‘With Real Conditions. Indiana has a new State seal. It is a beautiful feminine affair with the man on the original seal replaced by female figures and with several other improvements which bring it thorough- ly up to date. The State has not yet accepted {t, and it is said that it may | not until it goes In for woman suffrage, | but the seal will be ready when that times comes. In the meantime it heads the fine let- ter paper on which the Daughters of Indiana in New York write their epis- tles. The Daughters are members of an organization which has just been formed and which held its first social | meeting at the Hotel Astor recently. It was fhere that the design of the seal made its appearance and was regularly adopted by the Daughters as the insignia of their organization. A seal is one of the first essentials of such a society, and Miss Susan Ketch- um, an artist and second vice presi- dent, was chosen to improve upon the State design. She did this with such success that the society gave the artist a hearty vote of thanks. The present Indiana seal has a group of mountains outlined against a rising sun with a buffalo at the foot of the mountains on the left, with treés and a wood chopper on the right. In the new seal the mountains have been low- ered half their height, the buffalo has disappeared, so has the wood chopper, and three female figures appear in his place. A “I have lived in Indiana ail my life, said Miss Ketchum, explaining her changes, “and I have never seen any mountains there, so in their place I have put hills. The buffalo lying at their feet I have left out entirely. There are no buffaloes in Indiana, and the buffalo is practically extinct, anyway, and quite out of place. We do not even have a woodman sparing a tree in our seal, but a wood chopper. We have no trees to spare in Indlana, so I have taken the man out altogether and in ‘his place I have put two ladies and a little girl."—Exchange. —_————— PLANS FOR EXPEDITING QUSTOMS APPEALS CASES Secretary Shaw Complains of Need- less Delay in Reaching Final Decision in Importers’ Cases. Leslie M. Shaw, Secretary of the Treasury, who has been interested in a more expeditious disposal of cus- toms appeal to the Federal courts: has succeeded in reaching an under- standing with the' Department of Jus- tice whereby Assistant Attorney Gen- eral McReynolds will visit New York and confer with United States District Attorney Burnett with a view to clear- ing the court calendars here. Mr. Shaw has held the opinion ever since he took his present office that appeals of importers from decisions of the Board of General Appraisers were unduly delayed by attorneys for their personal gain. It is claimed by the Secretary that lawyers delay the pros- ecution of Issues as lons as possible in order that similar protests may ac- cumulate before the lower customs ribunals. $ In““ilmu.ncu where the test case is decided in favor of the importers’ con- tention, the remuneration accruing to lawyers is larger than when the |1\u involves many cases on the board's suspended files. When the importers "rru-urym i Dwan:aehm to make rtem on all the entries involved in the test Htigation. T{x‘are are many who maintain that the delays complained of by Mr. Shaw are unavoidable.—New York Commer- cial. . World’s Dleepest Mine. The deepest mining shaft has been sunk to a little more than a mile in Cape Colony, and the deepest bore hole has reached the same depth In Silesia. It is said that there shculd be no in< surmountable difficulties in carrying a shaft down twelve miles. An approxi- mate estimate has shown that to reach a depth of two miles the cost would be Ten years would be re- quired and a rock temperature of 122 degrees Fahrenheit would be found; while to pénetrate twelve miles would cost $25,000,000 and weuia take eighty- five years, the rock temperature ex- 272 degrees Fahremheit. vy College Language. “Now that the college vacations are over,” said the man who has several sons in the universities, “I'm just be- ginning to adjust myseif to the real Epglish language again. While~ my children were home there was much slang talked about the house and I tried to keep pace with it, not to use it, of course, but to understand what it meant. The term the boys used the most was the verb ‘hop.’ Jack would ‘hop over to Brooklin’' to see his aunt Alice, or, it might be, he weuld onliy ‘hop upstairs.’ But it-was always ‘hop.’ Then they were talking about the chance of my oldest son, who is a jun- for In_college, being president of his class In senior year. ‘No,’ sald the youngest, ‘Tom can't get that; he doesn’t throw out his chest enough.’ That meant bring himself prominently before his classmates. Still another term was to ‘get pushed back for’ so much money, meaning to spend it. But the most remarkable term of all was that of my daughter, 15 years old, who is at boarding school. She speaks of all her boy friends as ‘genties.” "—New York Tribune. ——————— Germany exported 34,717 tons of toys, valued at £2,786,274, in 1903, ;;lyl the 11.ondon Board of Trade Jour- DOAN’S PILLS. , COMMON PROPERTY Public Praise Is Public Property, San Francisco People May Proit by Local Experience. : Grateful people will talk. . 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