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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 25 Oct 1906, p. 7

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mmmmmmmmmmm K ;" -, • & & - S. *~ n*s;r*\ "^V*^ 4\:^C;5v^^^¥ Xr,\ 'JC; ^ ̂ v '" "<Ff" ;T*^ %i '^t'?\. **<%**"< *7,^ -%*.!?; % l^:?i t% THE • SPENDERS A Tale of the Third Generatioa By HARRY LEON WILSON t J O jt* - Copyright, byXAthrop Publishing Company. CHAPTER XXIL--Contistjsd. "And if you want to, you can be tile e with me. I ain't ever held anti­ ng against you, and maybe now I <$an do you a favor." If "It's right good of you to say ao." \ "Now, look here, ma'am, lefs you And me get right down to cases about ji|his society game here in New York." Mrs. Wybert laughed charmingly relaxed in manner. , I'm with you, Mr. Bines, fw^at , #bout it, now?" I "Now don't set suspicious, and tell :tne to mind my own business when I «sk you questions." , ; : "I couldn't be suspicious of you-- V #eally I feel as if I'd have to tell you * s everything you asked me, some way." r-. "Well, there's been some talk of #our marrying that young Milbrey. " fSTow tell me the inside of It." She looked at the old man closely, er Intuition confirmed bis 'own pro- stations of friendliness. I;.; "I don't mind telling you in strict Confidence, there was talk of marriage, '^nd his people, all but the sister, en­ couraged it. Then after she was en- aged to Shepler they talked him out f it. Now that's the whole God's to, if it does you any good." "If you had married him you'd V S*< |»ad a position, like they say here, tight away." "Oh, dear, yes! awfully swagger peo- --dead swell, every, one of them, v , ^There's no doubt about that." •<0.,"Exactly; and there ain't really any ^ Reason why you can't be somebody „M ifiere." , , "Well, between you and I, Mr. Bines, *' * X can play the part as well as a whole lot of these women here. I dont waht t €o talk, of course, but--well!" /: •" "Exactly, you can give half of 'em ; *;ards and spades and both casinos, f' ;i&Lrsi. Wybert." • "And 1 11 do It yet. I'm not through X./ I>y any means. They're not the only ' * \f>erf ectly elegant people in this town!" "Of course you'll do it, and you , ^could do it better if you had three or * .four times the stake you got." A "Dollars are worth more apiece in i S :plew York than any town I've ever it>een in." I "Mrs. Wybert,, I can put you right • pquare into a good thing, and I'm go- .,|tag to do it Heard anything about * *-^Consolidated Copper?" *• "I've heard something big was doing r j|n it: but nobody seems to knoW for ^certain. My broker is afraid of it" * • ' "Very well. Now you 4o as I tell you, land you can clean up a big lot Inside . tof the next two months. If you do as . , ft tell you, mind, no matter what you diear, and if you don't talk." " j Mrs. Wybert meditated. 1 "Mr. Bines, I'm--it's natulw that ' , Jfc'm a little uneasy. Why should you ^ : v^|want to see me do well, after our lit- jjftle affair? Now, out with it! , What are fffrou trying to do with meT What do Vf^you expect me to do for you? Get ;Jflown to"cases yourself, Mr. Bines!" ©; S ma'am, in a few words. My r - ^granddaughter, you may have heard, ' ^s engaged to an Englishman. He's . i^next thing to broke, but he's got a title - |ijicoming. Naturally he's looking fur : ;*noney. Naturally he don't care fur i' »|lthe girl. But I'm afraid she's infat­ uated with him. Now then, if he had a ^ ' '^chance at some one with more money _?«than she's got, why, naturally, he'd ^umpatit." M "Arent you a little bit wll^f* . J}j "Not a little bit. He saw you at ^Newport last summer, and he's seen \ * ;.you here. He was tearing the ad- pectives up telling me about you the llother night, not knowing, you under- "YOU THINK IT ovmw0r'[ stand, that I'd ever heard tell of you .^before. You could marry him in a t/fjjiffy if you follow my directions." J "But your granddaughter has a for- fptune." v "You'll have as much If you play • |khls the way I tell you. And--you *'j^piever can tell in . these times--she ^Bmight lose a good pit of hers." liL ^'8 very peculiar, Mr. Bines--your ^proposition." "Look at what a brilliant match it ||would be fur you. Why, you'd be ' ILady Casselthorpe, with dukes and jjcounts takln' off their crowns to you. '^And that other one--that Milbrey-- • "Jfrom all I hear he's lighter'n. cork-- '-»cut his galluses and he'd float right J~:iup into the sky. He ain't got any- ,;:|thing but his good family and a khirst." T "I sea. This Mauburn isn't good Enough for your family, but you reck- «|on he's good enough Cor me? Is that 'll§lt> now?" • "Come, Mrs. Wybert, let's be broad. ,,That's the game you like, and I don't , ̂ criticise you fur it. It's a good game "Sjltf that's the kind of a game you're IgfeuntiB' fur. And you can play it bet- '$&§tar'n my granddaughter. She wa'n't eantfur marry an American, anyhow. Now you like It, and you got beauty--only you need more money. Ill put you in the way of it, and you can cut out my granddaughter." •I must think about It. Suppose I plunge in copper, and your tip isn't straight. I've seen hard times, Mr. Bines, in my life. I haven't always wore sealskin and diamonds." 'Mrs. Wybert, you was i& Montana long enough to know ho# I stand there?" , 'I know you're A 1, and your word's as good as another man's money. I don't question your good intentions." "It's my Judgment, hey? Now, look here, I won't tell you what I know and how I know it, but you can take my word that I know I do know. You plunge In copper right Off, without saying a word to anybody or makin' any splurge, and here--" From the little table at his elbow he picked up the card that had an­ nounced him and drew out his penoil. "You said my word was as good as another man's money. Now I'm going to write on this card just what you have to do,-and you're to follow direc­ tions, no matter what you hear about other people doing. There'll be all sorts of reports about that stock, but you follow my directions." He wrote on the back of the card with his pencil. "Consolidated Copper, remember-- and now I'm a-goln* to write some­ thing else under them directions. " 'Do this up to the limit of your capital and I will make good anything you lose.' There, Mrs. Wybert, I've signed that 'Peter Bines.' That card wouldn't be worth a red apple In a court of law, but you know me, and you know it's good fur every penny you lose." "Really, Mr. Bines, you half-way persuade me. I'll certainly try the copper play--and about the other-- well--we'll see; I don't promise, mind you!" "You think o?er it I'm sure youH like the idea--think of bein' in that great nobility, and bein' around them palaces with their dukes and counts, Think how these same New York women will meach to you then!" The old man rose. "And mind, follow them directions and no other--makes no difference what you hear, or I won't be respon­ sible. And I'll rely on you, ma'am, never to let anyone know about my visit, and to send me back that little document after you've cashed in." He left her studying the card with a curious little flash of surprise. CHAPTER XXIII. THE AMATEUR NAPOLEON OP WAEL STREET. Ati the beginning of April, the sit­ uation in the three stocks Percival had bought so heavily grew undeniably tense. Consolidated Copper went from 109 to 103 in a week. But Percival's enthusiasm suffered little abatement from the drop. "You see," he reminded Uncle Peter, "It isn't exactly what I expected, but it's right in line with it so it doesn't alarm me. I knew those fellows inside were bound to hammer it down if they could. It wouldn't phase me a bit if it sagged to 95." "My! My!" Uncle Peter exclaimed, with warm approval, "the way you master this business certainly does win me. I t$U yon, it's a mighty good thing we got your brains to depend on. I'm all right the other side of Council Bluffs, but I'm a tenderfoot here, sure, where everybody's tryin' to get the best of you. You see, out there everybody tries to make the best of it, I told that to one of them smarties last night But you'll pull them in their place all right You know both ends of the game and the middle. We certainly got a right to be proud of you, son. Dan'l J. liked big proposi­ tions himself--but well, I'd just like to have him see the nerve you've showed, that's all." Uncle Peter's professions of confi­ dence were unfailing, ami Percival took new hope and faith in his judg­ ment from them dally. Nevertheless, as the weeks passed, and the mysterious Insiders succeeded In their desigd of keeping the stock from rising, he came to feel a touch of anxiety. More, Indeed, than he was able to communicate to Uncle Peter, without confessing outright that he had lost faith in himself. That he was unable to do, even If it were true, which he doubted. The Bines fortune was now hanging, as to all but some of the western properties, on the turn­ ing of the three stocks. Yet the old man's confidence in the young man's acumen was invulnerable. No shaft that Percival was able to fashion had point enough to pierce it And he was loth to batter it down, for he still had the gambler's faith in his luck. "You got your father's head in busi­ ness matters," was Uncle Peter's in­ variable response to any suggestion of failure. "I know that much--spite of what all these gossips say--and that's Ui I want to know. And of course you can't e^sr be no Shepler 'less you take your share of chances. Only don't ask my advice. You're master of the game, and we're all layin' right smack down on your genius fur it." Whereupon the young maa, with confidenco lrf himself newly inflated, would hurry off to the stock tickers. He had ceased to buy the stocks out­ right, and for several weeks bid bought only on margins. "There was one rule in poker yftir pa had," said Uncle Peter. "If a hand is worth calling on, it's worth raising on. He jest never would call. If he didn't think a hand was worth raising, he'd bunch it in with the discards, and wait fur another deal. I don't know much about the game, but he said it was a sound rule, and if it is sound in poker, why it's got to be sound in this game. That's all I can tell you. You know what you hold, and if 'tain't a hand to lay down, It must be a hand to raise on. Of course, if you'd been brash and ignorant in your first cal­ culations--If you'd made a fool of yourself at the start--but shucks! you're the son of Daniel J. Bines, ain't you?" The rule and the clever provocation had tnelr effect "I'll raise as long as I have a chip left. Uncle Peter. Why, only tp-day I had a tip that came straight v '» • > m -t . ' SrTct SfSSSSu St would reach me. That Pacific Cabl« bill is going to be rushed through at this session o£ congress, sore, and thai means enough increased demand to send Consolidated back where it was. And then, when It comes out that they've got those Rio Tiato mines by the throat well, this anvil chorus will have to stop, and those Federal Oil sharks and Shepler will be wondering how I had the face to stay in." The published rumors regarding Con­ solidated began to conflict very sharp- ly. Percival heard them all hungrily, disregarding those that did net con* firm his own opinions. He called them irresponsible newspaper gossip, or be­ lieved them to be inspired by the clique for its own ends. He studied the history of copper until he knew all its ups and downs since the great electrical development began in 1887. When Fouts, the bro­ ker he traded most heavily with, sug­ gested that the Consolidated company was skating on thin ice, that it might indeed, be going through the same ex­ perience that shattered the famous Secretan corner a dozen years before, Percival pointed out unerringly the vital differences In the circumstances. The Consolidated had reduced the pro­ duction of its controlled mines, and the price was bound to be maintained. When his adviser suggested that the companies not in the combine might cut the price, he brought up the very lively rumors of a "gentlemen's agree­ ment" with the "non-combine" pro­ ducers. "Of course, there's Calumet and Hecla. I know that couldn't be gnnned into the combination. They could pay dividends with copper at ten cents a pound. But the other independents know which side of their stock la spread witn dividends, all right." When it was further suggested that the Rio Tinto mines had sold ahead for a year, with the result that Euro­ pean imports from tne United States had fallen off, and that the Consoli­ dated could not go on forever holding up the price, Percival said nothing. The answer ta-that was the secret negotiations for control of the Euro­ pean output, which would make the Consolidated master of the copper world. Instead of disclosing this, he; pretended craftily to be encouraged by the mere generally hopeful outlook in all lines. Western Trolley, to, might be overcapitalized, and Union Cordage might also be in the hands of a pirat­ ical clique; but the demand for trolley lines was growing every day, and oordrge products were not going out of fashion by any means. "You see," he said to his adviser, "nere's what the most conservative man in the street says in this after­ noon's paper. 'That copper must nec­ essarily break badly, and the whole boom collapse I do not believe. There is enough prosperity to maintain a strong den^and for the metal through another year at least. As to Western Trolley and Union Cordage, the two other stocks about which doubt is now, being so widely expressed In the- street, I am persuaded that they art both due to rise, not sensationally, but at a healthy upward rate that makes: them sound investments!' "There," said Percival, "there's the judgment of a man that knows the game, but doesn't happen to have a dollar in either stogie, ani he doesn't know one or two things that I know, either. Just hypoaiecajte 10,000 of those Union Cordage^Snartes and 6,000 Western Trolley, and Duy Consolidated on a 20 per cent, margin. I want to get bigger action. There's a good rule in poker: if your hand is worth call­ ing, it's worth raising." "I like your nerve," said the broker. "Well, I know some one who has a sleeve with something up it that's all." By the third week in April, It was believed that his holdings of Consoli­ dated were the largest in the street excepting those of the Federal Oil people. Uncle Peter was delighted by the magnitude of his operations, and by his newly formed habits of indus­ try. "It'll be the makings of the boy," he said to Mrs. Bines in her son's pres­ ence. "Not that I care so much my­ self about all the millions he'll pile up. but it gives him a business training, and takes him oi^ of the plnhead class. I bet Shepler himself will be takin' off his silk hat to your son, jest as soon as he's made this turn in copper--if he has enough of Dan'l J.'a grit to hang on--and I think he has." "They needn't wait another day for me," Percival told him later. "The family treasure is about all In now, except ma's amethyst earrings and the hair watch chain Grandpa Cummings had. Of course I'm holding what I promised for Burman. But that rise can't hold off much longer, and the only thing I'll do, from now on, Is to hock a few blocks of the stock I bought outright, and buy on margins, so's to get bigger action." "My! My! you jest do fairly dazzle me," exclaimed the old man, delight­ edly. "Oh, I guess your pa wouldn't be at all proud of you if he could see it, I tell you, this family's all righ' while you keep hearty." "Well, I'm not pushing my chest out any," said the young man, with be­ coming modesty, "but I don't mind telling you it will be the biggest thing ever pulled off down there by any one man." "That's the true western spirit," de. clared Uncle Peter, beside himself with (enthusiasm. "We do things big when we bother 'em at all. We ain't afraid of any pikers like Shepler, with hia little two and fiv<* thousand lots. Ohl I can jest hear 'em callin' you hard names down in that Wall street--Na­ poleon of Finance and Copper King and all like that--in about 30 days!" He accepted Percival's Invitation that afternoon to go down Into the street with him. They stopped for a moment in the visitors' gallery of the stock exchange and looked down into the mob of writhing, disheveled, shout* ing brokers. In and out, the throng swirled upon itself, while above its muddy depths surged a froth of hands in frenzied gesticulation. The fiantl( movement and din of shrieks disturbed Uncle Pele". "Faro is such a lot quieter game," was his comment "so much more cals and restful. What a pity, now, 'fftinl -s Christian! 'V . . (TO BK COKTlNUCag ~ Ii •••-.I--i» PI.. • - •- I ZS THE MAGNETIC POLE MOVING SOUTHWARD? Scientists at Washington Say It Is, and that Amunctson Hasn't Located Only One. Scientists at Washington who have made a special Btudy of the magnetic pole are not ready to entirely credit the claims of Capt Amundsen that he has found or settled the position of the north magnetic pole, for if he has succeeded in finding one, there are also others. In fact magnetic north poles are many, and they are the most persist­ ently unsettled things at present known. Of course, no one expects to find a north magnetic pole stick­ ing up, lying down fiat or curving Inwardly, ingrowing, so to speak. It is sufficient to find a spot or point, of which one can truly say that it is the north magnetic pole or a north magnetic pole, or even that it was once a magnetic pole. In otaen times such a point used to be presumed and calculated from a very Insufficient data. From three points in the circumference of any cir­ cle it is easy to find the center, and this method was first tried as to the magnetic pole; but it wouldn't work. And now after many years' accumula­ tion of theory and fact the more er<K)ked that great circle, the imagin­ ary magnetic equator, seems to be­ come. In fact the proverbial dog's hind leg is a straight line in compar­ ison with it. There used to De talk about the magnetic, meridians and parallel lines perpendicular to the magnetic equa­ tor, but these are all now gone up, so far as great circles go. They are ter­ ribly devious and mixed up, although exactly obedient to certain magnetic laws. Tferee lMttdMd years ago the fact " . " / - V any discoveries made by others be­ fore hils time. Dr. C. A. Schott a pioneer magnetic engineer, who assisted in surveying and settling the new boundary line between the United States and Mexi­ co in 1847 and then entered the coast survey service in 1848, made, in 1890, a map of the region around the sup­ posed north magnetic pole. This re­ gion is shown by the elliptical figure in the map. The crop mark at Boothia Felix shows the spot discovered by Capt James Clark ROBS in June, 1831, where the dip of tlie needle indicated 89 degrees, 59% minutes, or nearly perpendicular to the earth's surface. Capt Ross did not have the oppor­ tunity to get any nearer to the nine­ tieth degree, and Mr. Roald Amund­ sen, the Norwegian, started for this region in the spring of 1903, equipped tor a stay of four years around this spot His magnetic instruments were especially constructed for this expe­ dition under the able superintendence of Prof. Neumayer, director of the German naval observatory at Ham­ burg, and Dr. Chree, superintendent of Kew observatory, England. It was confidently expected that Capt. Amundsen would be able to find a spot where the dip angle would be 90 degrees, and he may have succeed­ ed, as such a spot could not be far from Boothia Felix. But the greatest difficulty arises from the fact that the much-blamed spot moves. As the sec­ ular change in the earth's magnetism moves at present in a northwesterly direction at the rate of five-eighths of a mile a year, the north magnetic pole would be foun4. f<$r&fiC NEWS OF ILLINOIS. HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM ALL OVER THE STATE. • " - , ' m ' V' . i- *?• • 4£V;-*f CfttltallT IN can Man and Horse Have Narrow Escape From Death Near New Lenox-- •' > Both Jump from Car--Only * „ Slightly Hurt •' , • JOliet.--Cooped up in freight car with the train going down hill at 50 miles an hour, C. M. Rhem- my, of West Salem, 111., narrowly es­ caped being burned to death with his horse which was in the .same car with him, near New Lenox. Rhemmy was taking his household goods in the car to California. In the car also was his horse. The goods took fir® and the horse made frantic efforts to get away from the flames. Rhemmy forced open the car doora and tried unsuccessfully to signal the engineer to stop the train. Failing in this he made way, and the horse leaped through th8 open door. Rhemmy followed and landed in V pile of soft dirt. The conductor then noticed the burning car and the train was stoppad. Rhemmy was found un­ conscious but he soon recovered, hav­ ing sustained no serious Injury. The horse escaped with a few burns and bruises. VICTXPI^ OF -WYtTERIO AT BfftMINGH LAY BLAME TO BURGLARS . « House Breakers Are Supposed Have Ransacked the Premises , *iand Applied the Torch When '"'1' Work Was Finished. T0 0 Hap of Region Around North Magnetic Pole. (Schott 1890.) was discovered that the earth Is a great magnet Before that time the pole star itself was supposed to at­ tract the magnetic needle. Even Shakespeare was of this belief, which he expressed in the phrase "true as the needle to the pole." And Chris­ topher Columbus did not know what to think when he could find by his rude apparatus that the needle did not follow its supposed law. Scientific observations are being made now nearly all over the world, first as to the direction of the mag­ netic needle, whether east or west of the polar direction; second, as to its dip or inclination toward the center of the earth, and, third, as to the in­ tensity of the force which draws the needle downward or toward a fixed point when disturbed. A magnetic north pole is found whenever the magnetic needle points perpendicular­ ly to the horizontal plane of the earth's surface. This "dip" or down­ ward pointing of the needle was dis­ covered by Robert Norman, a seaman and instrument maker, in 1576. The discovery of the "dip" of the needle helped the early philosophers to break away from the idea that the attraction for the needle was in the heavens, and especially in the region of the polar star. The Chinese knew the attractive power of the lodestone as early as the second century of the Christian era, and in the seventh century the Japa­ nese had a cart device on which was a magnetic figure pointing south. Norman left a drawing showing both the variation needle and the dip needle in one view, the variation nee­ dle being in the horizontal position and the dip needle 'pointing down­ ward almost vertically. Norman's book was published twice before Gil­ bert, the Elizabethan electrician, pub­ lished anything. He had the modesty of true genius, while Dr. Gilbert was a boaster, who rarely gave credit for But for this movement the pole spot should have been found near latitude 70 degrees 5 minutes and 17 seconds north, and longitude 96 degrees 45 minutes and 48 seconds west of Green­ wich. When Capt Amundsen has succeed* ed In making up his records, the re* suits, if correct will show the present location of the supposed north mag­ netic pole, and the distance it has traveled since June, 1831; from which also the rate of progress may be „ap- proximately made out while at the same time It will be understood that the magnetic pole has been traveling over an unbiased and perhaps very crooked trail from long before 1831 to the present time, and leaving tem­ porary north magnetic pole by the thousand all along the line. It will be noticed from Dr. Schott's map that the magnetic North Pole is not to be found within 20 degrees of the geographical North Pole. There­ fore, as the earth turns around on its axis, the magnetic North Pole des­ cribes a circle around the geographi­ cal North Pole every day. Conse­ quently, in addition to its regular line of travel, the magnetic North Pole may be said to "wobble around." But this need not be looked upon as erratic, as the geographical pole is known also to wobble around an im­ aginary central line lying in the gen­ eral direction of the pole star. After the magnetic pole has been definitely located, the questions will arise as to how it got there, how long it has been there, and, finally, what is the cause of it, and why is It any­ where at all. Comparison. "Dearest" be murmured, "yon lire worth more than all earth to me." "I should hope so, George, consid­ ering the kw price of real estate at the present time."--Milwaukee Sen­ tinel. FIRE RANGERS OF CANADA. Millions of Dollars' Worth of Timber Saved Through Their Laboi%| '•**^6 Canadian fire ranger goes ftitb the woods about May 1 and stays till October 1. Two men are always sent together as partners--usually a young man and one of middle age. Their duties are: First, to locate and "run" the boundary lines of the domain, blazing the way on trees and opening trails; then they must "travel" the tract once so often, placing on con­ spicuous trees along the trails and portages the government signs, print­ ed on linen, warning against the reck­ less building of fires and containing the definite rules to be observed. They are supposed, to keep watch of camping parties and people jour­ neying through the tract, to see that these rules are obeyed and that the game laws are not transgressed. In dry weather every part of the limit must be visited within a certain num­ ber of days. When the weather Is wet the duties are not arduous, for at such times the forest will take care of itself. ^ Millions of dollars, by means of this supervision of forests, have bieen .saved to the dominion of Canada and »to the individual owners of its vast stretches of timber. To the lover of nature traveling through the "silent places" the fire ranger's camp or shack is always a haven of welcome, for the lonely watchman of the for­ est never fails to bid you share the shelter of his roof and partake with him of his wholesome fare.--Four- Track News. Poor Show for Enemy. The palmist, regarding the young man's hand more closely, looked very grave. . ; i •• „ ' "Alas," she said, jU enemy will cross your path." But at this news joy rather than, terror illumined the face of the youth and a fierce light shone in his eyes. "If he does I'll get him sure," he muttered, and taking up his wind mask and his coat of pony skin ho harried out to the great blue car. , Building Loan Business Big. Peoria.--Chicago was selected as the contention city for the twenty- eighth annual meeting of the Building Association League of Illinois, to be held next July. President J. N. C. Shumway, of Taylorville, said: "Building and loan associations in the state are satisfied with the laws as they stand to-day, and trust they may not be disturbed. We seek to protect legitimate building associations, and in no way desire to interfere with the banking business in this state or any Other state." Secretary Vasen, of Quincy says the building association business in the state of Illinois was never better than now and that more Irasiness was written in the last year than in any preceding year. ^,| Boost 'tor Deep Water Way. I Peoria.--In anticipation of the de­ velopments to come from the na­ tional deep water way convention to be held in St. Louis October 22, a mass meeting of Peoria business men was held. As a result 100 representa­ tives will be sent to the convention to work on the proposed deep water fray from Chicago to the gulf. | llliopolls Warehouse Burns. fllllopolls.--A two story frame stor­ age and warehouse, the property of H. M. Faith, an undertaker, was com­ pletely destroyed by fire, together %ith two tons of clover Hay, a quantity of baled straw, tfro new Round Oak heating stoves, a number of second-hand stoves and repairs and a $1,000 furnace. Cass County Court Matters. | Virginia.--The suit of J. F. Mat tfcews, of Beardstown, against J. W. Yates, also of that city, was settled When about to come to trial. It Is un­ derstood that the claimant was paid $200. His claim was for damages for personal injuries. He is said to have been beiten with a pistol in the hands of Yates. Arrest Boy as Murderer. Marion.--Cllno Barham, aged 12, was arrested on a charge of killing Harry Davis, aged eight, his cousin. The boys were in an apple orchard near Spiltown, two miles north of this fclty, when the Davis boy was shot, it is alleged, by Barham. The little prisi oner declares the shot was accldentaL Kewanse May Have Cheaper Gas. Kewanee.--The Kewanee Light and Power company made a proposition to reduce the price of gas from $1.50 per thousand to $1.25 Immediately and one dollar in five years if the city council will give 25 years extension to both gas and electric franchises now held, which have 19 years yet to run. MHItia to Go to Richmond; ^ Chicago.--The First regiment I. N. G., is to attend the dedicatory exer­ cises at Vicksburg, Miss., October 25. This announcement was made definite­ ly by Col. C. R. E. Koch, secretary of the Illinois Vicksburg park commis­ sion and member of the local C tee in charge of the affair. First Auto Law Indictments » Bloomlngton.--The grand jury of Livingston county indicted Fred Maer, of Jollet, for alleged violation of the state automobile law by frightening a team owned by Peter Miller, a farm­ er. This is said to be the first in­ dictment brought in Illinois for this offense. Boy Sucks Pencil t&trtiiJ; Dies. Kewanee.--Eugene, the six-year-old son of E. J. Molone, of Lombardville, southeast of here, choked to death on the tin rubber holder off a lead pencil. Would Pickle Horse for Food. Waukegan.--On complaint of peo­ ple who saw him cutting up a dead horse, the police compelled Chris Loh- fink to stop his work and bury the animal. Lohflnk said he intended to put the horse flesh. In pickle to eat during the winter. Judge Bethea Convalescing. Dixon---Judge Sol H. Bethea, wb^o has been confined to his room at the hotel here for some weeks, has so im­ proved be wiU in a few days be ou t a g a i n . - ' " V . " * !""• Asylum Inmate Killed. Lincoln.--Samuel Krfekzner, an in­ state of the state asylum, was instant­ ly killed while driving a team of mules across the Illinois Central railroad tracks. Krexzner was thrown 30 feet. One hand was torn from the wrist and the flesh was torn from his face. V > . v ' 4 ' - ' - ' - ' University Official Accepts Pulpit. Bloomlngton.--Rev. George Turner has resigned as field agent for Milli- kin university to accept a call to the pulpit ot the .Cumb^l|^!rmsb|teri. an cburch at Mattoqa. Birmingham, Ala.--It la believed that all of die bodies have been re­ covered from the buil'ding destroyed by fire Thursday night on Third ave­ nue. The total dead stands at ten, with two men so seriously injured by jump­ ing that they may not recover. The origin of the fire is still a myv- tery, although the consensus of opto* ion seems to be that the house set on fire. There were 21 boarders In the hot almost all of whom were street rail­ way employes. In addition them were three other persons^ Mrs. Wat- ley and her two sons. All have baa» accounted for. The dead: W. N. Nichols, street car conductor; D. B. Neal, street car conductor; W. B. Taylor, street car motorman; G. C. Preston, conductor^ Edward Caldwell, motorman; E. B, Hensbaw, conductor; George IX Burns, motorman; Williato T. Hall, conductor; W. B. Livingstone, rolfiipg mill man; Olie H. Hlnes, employe IHp- mlngham Flint Glass company. The injured: C. E. Hentch, street car conductor; G. W. Troutman, mo­ torman ; C. E. Keith, street railway employev„ All fhe dead and injured occupied rooms on the second Btory of the house. The flames enveloped the en­ tire building when the fire was dis­ covered and it was with the great eat difficulty that the persons on the low­ er floors made their escape. They saved -nothing. Every piece of furni­ ture in the house was burne$. The fire is thought to have been of in­ cendiary origin. Burglars have been detected on th« premises twice within the last two months and Mrs. Watley thinks the house was burglarized and then set CMS fire. Thieves were discovered at work during the progress of the flames and the police were called to keep guard. The ten charred bodies are at the morgue, where it is impossible to teO one from the other. The names gives are those of the missing, the numbei corresponding with the number <4 c o r p s e s f o u n d . * • , * ^ i START8 REBATE INVESTlGtATlbll • Affaira §f Santa Fe to Be Probed Federal Grand Jury. Los Angeles, Cal. -- United States District Attorney Oscar Lawler Friday afternoon started the mar chlnery of the United States govern­ ment in an investigation of the Santa Fe rebate situation in southern Cal­ ifornia. He would not discuss the situation , but it is known that Mr. Lawler had the United States marshal's office send out subpoenas for certain gq?tH Fe railroad officials, local truck-com­ pany officers and officials of the local furniture concerns. These officials are directed to ap­ pear before the United States grand jury with books and papers as exhib­ its bearing on freight rate charge^ agreements and arrangements. • -- "'F- BEGAN SENTENCE MONDAY. . Former Senator Burton Has Gone tar Ironton (Mo.) Jail. Abilente, Kan.--Joseph Ralph Bur­ ton, former United States senator from Kansas, began serving his six months' sentence at Ironton, Mo., on Monday. He was accompanied to Ironton by Mrs. Burton, who will re­ main in that town until her husband'a release. ; p' * Troops to Quell Indians.' Washington.--Upon the application of Gov. Brooke of Wyoming, Secretary Taft, by direction of the -presideat, has instructed Maj. Gen. Greely to dispatch a troop of cavalry to Wyo­ ming to round up and return to reservation the Ute Indians Earthquake in Idaho. Xontpelier, Idaho.--A sharp earth­ quake shock which occurred at 6:2d o'clock Thursday evening was felt over a wide area, points SO miles north in Idaho and 60 miles east ha Wyoming reporting the disturbances Father and Son Burned. Independence, Kan.--In the destina­ tion by fire early Friday of the house of J. W. Yelkins, two miles north of Deering, Yelkins and one son were burned to death. Three other bers of the family escaped safely. Liabilities of Over a Million. Turin, Italy.--The liabilities of banking house of Zuckermann Cot. which closed its doors Thursday, am estimated at about $1,200,000, and It is believed that the assets amount to about the same sujsl 'pm Hurt in Railroad Smash. New York.--One man was severely hurt and several others were cut and bruised Friday when a Long Island railroad train crashed into a line ot empty cars in the yards at the Bot* mont race track siding hero. ; Cuban Treasury Has $12,000b00Qk Havana.--Maj. Ladd reported tfli Gov. Magoon Wednesday that he hadl finished counting the funds in the da- ban treasury and found that they to- totaled a little more than $l*.<MMMMt mostly in American gold. > Taft and Party Arrive. , Old Point Comfort, Va.--Secretary of War Taft and Mrs. Taft Assi: Secretary of State Bacon and Mm. con and Gen. Funston arrived at Point Comfort on the battlsahlp itiana Wednesday. -13 1 .A. .\*r , ,.> iJ" * * 11. /-.a. . ,..A* .1SU .!ik , feA ^ ""kr * .1.. ? j* .'A -';

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