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i \ ̂ V ' ' JDOCCX iiPiyi' >%. sj \\i« . , if- A-1 ?v - ;* L>, ^ kr^^s : &<**:&?& PARTIAL LIST EXHIBITS. * wv**»290 ?i'&.'-.i85 73 47 ®J iW"-. ;A?i'.V^- 72 General Exhibit# Corn Exhibits Wheat Exhibits Oats Exhibits Melon Exhibit Squash Exhibi ' • V mm fX . •, v$; pV"' ^, A^i® Pumpkin Exhibits .-«>.** 31 Potato Exhibits . >«%*»>• «* 30 Alfalfa Exhibits . 24 Alfalfa Seed Exhibit.5 Bean Exhibits .V.-.203 Teams of Work Horsfs.. 60 Saddle Horses 45 Pretty Babies 60 Native Blankets ......1 1230 Germantown Blankets %. 25 arrived a*theoffice of ifc* sur­ veyor of customs for appraisement. It was a dainty sllkey. thing, laven­ der in color, which lay on the table ot" Cashier Thomas for two hours. The garment was sent to the custom house by the postmaster at Somerset, Kir., who received it a few days ago through the mail from Japan. He dtd not send in the address of the owner. This was aggravating to the youii* women experts called in. "I know ev­ ery woman In Somerset," on® said, "and I'd Just like to know who Is go­ ing to wear that" For half an hour it puzaled Sur­ veyor Taylor and two or three of his men assistants to discover just what the garment was. - "It looks to me like the court gown of the queen of Zanzibar/' said Clay Miller/ who measures steamboats and aujjierintenda the loading of merchan­ dise at the custom house depot. "Don't you men know anything ft allf" exclaimed one of the women clerks, pushing her way through the puzzled group. "Why, it's a kimono." " "What in thunder is a kimono T" in­ quired Deputy Sam Barber. "They don't have that kind of thing down in Bath county, where I came from." Finally, when the officials decided that there was nothing dangerous about the garment, they started in fixing the value. It was estimated to be worth all the way from $1.50 to­ ll 50. The kimono was finally carried to a :r^ r-.. £•'.*• »'iff*1 • 4m Raflroad and Warehouse " mission Takes It Up, C0MPUUNTSARE IN A-" "**' YlHnolV^.n*r?r 'J Ordered to "lifxpfata A I* Itged Partiality In Transporting All,Classes of 'Act. Badly Congested. _j; ^ ' • v? • e» .•' i X EVENT of so much im­ portance that in the fu­ ture it may be looked baek upon at a mile­ stone marking the be­ ginning of a new era in the progress of the southwest was tlM 'i# first Navajo fair, which was held atShiprock / Agency, New Mexico, recently. j At Shiprock the past six years has been * period of preparation, a struggle for a position of y ivl advantage from which the ignorance and super- /: "r | stition pf a barbarous people might be attacked and the influences which have fettered them /- might be obliterated, so that, freed from its bond­ age, the Navajo race might take its place among 'the useful and beneficial elements of the nation, -contributing its share toward the industry and 5f enjoying its proportion of the advantages em­ braced in. the common stock. ^ - , How successful this preparation for and v'ginhlng of their civilization has been is soon :| apparent to the observer who visits Shiprock, be- -A/ comes acquainted With the superintendent and his assistants and realizes what they are achiev­ ing. $ ! How imports at the ehrMbmtk* of the Navajo Is to that section of the country Is also apparent when it is considered that there are some 30,000 ^ of them scattered over a reservation/ in New cloth and re-weaving It into a very fine, close, tight blanket. There were also many ' fine chief's blankets^ • the famous blanket with the^%lack-and- white cross stripes which were used by those Navajos who could afford them long before a white man ever saw them. '^But best and greatest of all was the fine col­ lection of soft gray- and black rugs made from the natural col­ ors of wool without any dye whatever and the beautiful outline blankets, tn which the Navajo has reached the highest perfection of the art. These blankets were judged by Frank Staplin, a Navajo blanket expert of Farmington, N. M., J. 2* Parsons of Durango and Miss Emma Loomis, of the agencMk and the first prize was awarded to a beautiful black, white and grey blanket of artistic design and remarkably even and clot* weave, shown «ln the center picture. The Navajo silver Jewelry is hand-hammered from Mexican dollars, which the traders procure for the Navajos. and many of the pieces are very beautiful in design and odd and exquisite as an ornament. The jewelry consists of rings, 'brace-' Sets, week chains, charms and many other article#. It should be remembered that none of the prod­ ucts raised at Shiprock under the supervision of the superintendent and employes were permitted to participate for prizes, but every prize went to reservation Navajos for products purely their own. The vegetables and other agricultural prod­ ucts of the agency are, however, worthy of s$e- cia! mention, as they formed a fine exhibit tn was given the Navajos by means of Indian police; themselves and included, besides the ordinary and messengers--barely time to gather up what ' products of the section, many of the new vege- tfaey had on hand and bring it 4q without any tables brought from foreign lands by represent: preparation or opportunity to gather or make tives of the department of agriculture. anything especially for exhibitions Soqie of the Indian exhibits were brought if less than TO miles in wagons and on horsebadi:, by the Interested owners, and one lot oi 50 gen- buyer said it was worth $14. Later the kimono was bundled Into a box and started back to the Somerset postmaster, with In* structions to chcrge the owner 98.20 duty.--Louis­ ville Timet. ;n / .v, jgrger area than ail the New England states and W 4.. if includes thousands of acres of fine agricultural, i' r ?;-i mineral and timber lands, and Is almost com- pletely underlaid. with coaL The Increase of fk *'*? «'*"1 productiveness means an increase in the oat- fS* I Wr. pul of southwest. Their education and per- ^ ' " manent settlement upon small homesteads will j§^ ,v f leave a large surplus of land to be sold to whlt^ 2 i« /"% gettlers. Thus the work being carried on at jjp ' ";.r Shiprock has many points which commend it to |^v ^ the people who are interested in the development. f\-- *>i that section. • . '• P? **>he a fair this fall was not decid- T ' ed UP°Q 110(11 about two weeks before It was held, and when the decision was reached it was so late >\. in the season that it was necessary to arrange !>* ! -"- -I; , for it at ootfe. thus less than two weeks* not!t$ w*$ *'/ Under these circumstances the amount anjl., • .if V i quality oi the exhibits dbpiayeu was no less than remarkable. The extent to which they responded * to the call to bring in their products was a sur~ ""..Uprise to Major Shelton, the Indian agent for this. ^ reservation.; himself. He knew that they co«NM. .and would make a very creditable shoving. Two hundred and ninety general exhibits fys j'\' were received and displayed, while several others a" arrived too late to be accepted. These exhibits <« ; > contained from five to 60 articles each. Agricul- . ',t/| jt\iral products formed the chief part of the exhl- < • bitioii, but by no means all, as the famous Navajo _v< ifV ^ > blanket was there in many styles and sites, beau- "• ^ tiful silver jewelry of various and unique designs, '* old blankets of great value, a few buffalo robes, valuable pieces pf bead work and dozens'of other I { ^ 5 " products and curius, ancient and modern. Be- /• sides these ^ggne^ral exhibits there was the liv# , stock show. In which horses, milch cows, shevp :V ' and goats were numerous. ^>4^" *4 The sports consisted of foot races (the longest y*.'", i. - one Ave and one-half miles, in which 12 entered *nd 'our flnisbed)> horse races, games and amuse- meats. Each evening the Navajos provided their own amusement by participating in several pf their ancient sacred dances, which were both Interesting and entertaining to the visitors. ..7 *' r.s an example of how a li$t of prize winners at an Indian fair would r§acT, the following ex­ tracts are given: ^ , . i. , general exhibit of farm and garden products-- First prize, double harness, Barber-bit-cil-ly (the tatter is the winner's name); second, disk hacr- row, Happy Jack; third, cultivator, Be-kin-e-be- fourth; sho«el, Do-be-bit-see. ( , , Native blanket, all wool--First, cook stove, KJfl-le-che-ne; second, 100 pounds ttour, Lehtta Oliver; third, SO pounds flour, Be ka-da-na-be^ga; fourth, 25 pounds flour, Pel-e-cah-e-es-kin-e. „ Cleanest Navajo baby--First; #0 pounds rfour," Leana Oliver; second. 2» pounds flour, Ilostonrst- so-se. ,f .The Navajo blanket coUection, like all oOier ietibfbits, was a fine one. It contained ai^ew!4of the old-time bayetas. for which the Navajos first became famous. These trere originally made i»'.'^r§m'"the ;iyarn Obtained by unraveling woolen era! exhibiis, which deserves special mention, came from Sa-Noos-Tee, the vicinity of F L. NoeJ'a trading post. This lot contained the prize-win- nlnjg iassort^ient of silver work and other prize ."winners; *, / The success of the first Navajo fair, w;hich the unappreclative neighboring public had /Sup­ posed would consist of a few pony races and chicken fights, but which turned out t,o be an exhibit of agricultural products which probably equaled any other ever made in the county, for quality, and contained at least five times the quantity, is due entirely to the work of Major W. T. Shelton, the superintendent at Shiprock. It is true the Navajos were producing most erf these articles long before they ever saw or heard ( of Shelton, but they were not producing as muett, as well, nor as fine a quality as they have been, since coming Into contact with the influence ot the institution which he has founded. Neither could they have been induced to have brought together their most vsluable and cherished per­ sonal effects for public inspection but for the con­ fidence which this agency has awakened within them. We have therefore seen the first beneficial effects of education and proper example upon this neglected people. The changes which have been wrought upon those coming in contact with this institution have been so rapid and sweeping that , it challenges credulity. The difference between i them and the Navajos on some other parts of the reservation is so marked that they would not be ^ taken for the same people, and it is these differ- ; ences that commend the policies and practices initiated by Mr! Shelton at this Institution and places it in favorable contrast with other goverh- iOent' and private Indian schools. * m ** - CHAINEP TP WHEELBARROW v In writing of the Schlusselburg prison In Mo- Clure's, David Soskice tells of a prisoner who was chained to a wheelbarrow: "Schedrin had been condemned to hard labor In the convict mines of Siberia and for an atmmept to escape from there had been sentenced to be chained to a heavy wheelbarrow. When the order came for his transfer from Siberia to St. Peters­ burg, no conveyance could be found large enough to contain him, the wheelbarrow and the convoy < of gendarmes. Tet, as the wheelbarrow had be­ come a part of the prisoner, the gendarmes were afraid to leave it behind. It was therefore de­ cided to place Schedrin with his convoy In one cart and the wheelbarrow behind in another. For sev­ eral months, day and night, Schedrin and the gen­ darmes' galloped through Siberia on a troika (a (three-horsed cart or sledge), while another sped 1 behind them, upon which the wheelbarrow reposed --causing the deepest amazement among the peas­ ants in the villages through which they passed. Upon the arrival of the prisoner in SS. Peter and Paul he was once again chained to the barrow, and only after he had been, six weeks in the v Schlueeselburg was be finally detached from it and given freedom of movement within the narrow confines of his cell. "'When tbey unchained me,' said Schedrin sub­ sequently, 'I could not get enough movement. 1 wanted to run and run, and it seemed to me that I could never stop. How strange it Is that men who can enjoy perfect freedom of movement never realize the wonderful happiness that is theirs!'" SLAP AT OUR SENATE bn< ofr the friends of Representative Martin of South Dakota was making a strenuous complaint to Mr. Martin about the manner in which commit­ tee assignments were given in the senate. "A new senator, however able he may be, has no chance," said Mr. Martin's friend, "but If be't a thousand years old he can get the best cofnmit- . tee Job." 1 - . ' , - • • . "Tbat reminds me," said the South Dakota member, "of what Seth Bullock remarked to me when I took him over to the senate one time. After looking them over, Seth said: 'Gee, Martin! That looks like a soldiers' home in there.'"--Rochester Herald. iT/ . - * SprlngSeld.--Jnvestlgatiou by the railroad and warehouse commission has been started regarding the freight blockade which Is said to exist throughout Illinois. There is a storm of complaints. Threatened tie-up of mining and consequent suffering from cold In the big centers of population spurred the board to action. Chairman O. F. Berry sent the following telegram to the general manager of the Illinois Cen­ tral railroad: "Complaint is made to our commis­ sion that your road Is not distributing coal cars to'mines for delivery of coal equally, that cars are only sent to mines in which your company is inter­ ested. Is there any foundation for that statement? Please report at once." This telegram reflects the most seri­ ous of the complaints to the commis­ sion. They have come from every sec­ tion of the coal fields of the state tra­ versed by the Central, One mining company reports that owing to lack of cars it has been able to operate only one-half day In. seven. Another says that it is losing $8,000 a week through •he failure of empties to arrive. All these complaints insist that the Illinois Central is taking good care of the minet< of the Madison Coal Com­ pany, which is said to be the property of the llinois Central or officials of that rOad. These mines are said to be plentifully supplied with empties. It Is said by operators here that In the Springfield district the Chicago & Alton has on its side tracks 100,000 tons of coal that it Is unable to move. This company issued orders a few days ago to handle Commonwealth Edison and Chicago & , Northwestern coal first. Other classes of freight are badly congested. Trainmen insist that the tonnage system in vogue is re­ sponsible for much of t&e slowness of freight movement. Chairman Berry later received copies from the general man­ agers of the Chicago & Alton, Illinois Central, Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Wa­ bash, Vandalia, and Big Four rail­ roads. Each of the general managers de­ nied any Intent on the part of Ms railroad to discriminate against any mines, and each declared his com­ pany was serving all alike, and if spe­ cific instances were furnished them by tbe board they would Investigate. CHINESE GlkL IN AlHERicA i > , A snap-shot of -Miss Wu Ting Fang, taken while !n» .nrrjT.uJ. .. ' '*'• •"'* »be was autoing recently, shows the young lady CUSTOMS MEN PUZZLED 'S* dressed quite in the style of the American girl, *' and apparently the same acute interest in the JN ** I "ftM.'/11 ttte. -i pieasant sport that her girl friends in Washington It took five men and three women al the cus- might feel. After all, it will be the women who torn house and the silk buyer of a Louisville de- will finally break down all barriers and make the partment store to fix the valuue of a kimono 1 whole wbrld more nearly akin. Wm**# > ;fc In one of ff|Of the New " if Sports, is con i)|« mnou'4 Treadmill Justice the fairly recent volumes York Court of Appeals Re- contained'the last ^chapter of dnd "extraordinary case, ^ which is a gross il!usfT#t!im* pf th®4 3J JUUerj^inableness and an extreme though characteristic example "of its The coyrt rfecord of the last to"" I& Curt' -fthd !v, luirjliy .what one might ex- |s«ct -for and order affirmed with cOfft, No opinion." These eig^T** word! mark the closed a siraple accident case In­ volving h6 difficult questions of law, which Ijad been in the courts contin­ uously for 22 years. It had been tried before juries sev> en times. "It had been argued iu ap4 Pellate courts 10 times. The final bill of costs In the case., not. including eXtTF.ordinary case- It [lawyers' charges or the cost of print- ci«;ht \. oi d3; "Judgment ing seven different volumes of testi­ mony, each of from two to thr^ hun­ dred pages, as required in ihe^fjroel- late courts on the various ,a^««ls, and not including arty of the llifdfcd- ant'A expenses whatever, is oirer $20,- 000.' A conservative estimate of the expense of this litigation not, includ­ ing lawyers' fees probably >»^gujUUbe $5,000.--George W. Adams in Ap|M%ic. ; ••!1 '• ^SWl^-Tw^ K Bella---phroree. n\ ;* •v \ In a number of the ' larger cities there has been noticed that there ts a greatly increased number of sewer ex­ plosions, and this has been attributed to the custom followed in garages of •emptying gasoline into the sewers. It is explained that the vapor of the gas­ oline collects at favorable points and is exploded by the heat naturally gen­ erated in these places. A technical paper of New York calls attention to >tiils dangerous condition and suggests &at some measure be taken to pre­ vent It. flari Corporation! Not Licensed. Rights of foreign corporations not licensed to do business in Illinois were defined In three opinions handed down In the appellate court. < The findings of the court that for­ eign corporations not licensed to tran­ sact business in Illinois may not oper­ ate in the state is considered of Im­ portance to the commercial world in general. Giving tbe finding of tb« court a broad construction one could obtain goods from an unlicensed foreign cor­ poration and then keep the bills as souvenirs. He would be exempt from suit. The reviewing court holds that unlicensed foreign corporations have no rights in Illinois courts. The ruling was given flrtt In tbe suit of Frank Simpson Fruit Company, a corporation organized in Kansas and unlicensed to do business in Illi­ nois, against the Atchison, Topeka ft Santa Fe Company. The next rulings were in suits be­ gun by the Erie & Michigan Railway & Navigation Company against tbe Central Railway Equipment Company, and in the case of the United States Gypsum Company against the Central Railway Equipment Company. It is a question upon which the su­ preme court of Illinois has never pass­ ed and the appellate court is the first reviewing body to discuss and deter­ mine the matter. ' Judge Baker did Ml concur in the decision. Ntw Precautions it Elgin. "Such a fire as occurred at the Jack­ sonville asylum is posible at the Elgin state hospital. WIrlni throughout the institution is In a ' angerous condition; We are now spending considerable money eliminating this danger, but until the whole hospital Is rewired the possibility of * similar tee will be great." "'l This was the statement ot Dr. V. H. Podstata, superintendent of the Elgin state hospital. ^ Give Up Books or Oo to Jail. _ By a decision of the suprwme court of Illinois the Rhodus br6thers, Birch F., Edward and Thomas, captains of high finance, whose operations have Involved them in all sorts of trouble with state and federal authorities, must spend six months In the Cook county jail unless they sooner turn over to John C. Fetxer, receiver, the books of the Mercantile Securities Company. The decision confirms the sentence passed upon the Rhodus brothers by Judge Julian W. Mack a year ago. State Fire Marshal Named. , , , , , . The office of state fire marshal* >nn- der the new law, which will be ef­ fective on January 1, has been filled by Gov. Deneen. J. W. ("Jerry") Di- neen of Albany is the man chosen for the place, the message says. The office, under the new law, is of great Importance, as upon it devolves the administration of new police pow­ ers in Illinois, Mr. Dineen will resign the post of "commissioner of the Joliet peniten­ tiary in taking the new office. The sal­ ary Is $3,000 a year. CrfmJ jng 'ij^re . . . . court "There were <,557 men Who served •as jarort out? of IT 11tl.'ij>jB|riri; dr; a n d c e r t i f i e d t o t h e - f o r • _ service," sets forth the'lipfet. "Thijjpl were 50,778 writs, capiases and sub- poenas certified to the sheriff during the last year. "The work of tbe indictment depart­ ment in the state's attorney's offl has been such during tbe year that *t deserves special mention. Of the 8,420 true bills drafted during the year by Assistant State's Attorney Thomas Marshall the r^cOi'ds show that only in three cases w?* the indictment successfully attacked upon technical grounds, and that not because of the fallacy of the indictment, but the vari­ ance In the proof. That Is a record which has no equal from the very founding of this court and deserves special praise and commendation. "There were 695 no-bills returned. A card system of indices has been established which, when perfected in a couple of months, will be a great aid to the state's attorney and all lawyers interested in previous Indict­ ments apd convictions of person*. Under the new system. Instead of searching the records from year to year it will be possible within a few minutes' time to get complete infor­ mation about every man who was ever indicted In this court. V "The loss of any indictment is'msde impossible by the system *>f keeping on file a special certified copy all the time, which does not leave this office at all." •' ^ ^ j Investigates Asylum -1*1 ril 1 "v Gov. Deneen Issued a statement de­ claring "the statements published rel­ ative to the fire at Jacksonville State Hospital for the Insane are misleading and exaggerated." He says the re­ moval of the 180 female inmates from the burning annex was done without confusion. "Ov ifee patients amoved from the building says thS governor, "five women attempted to escape, but were apprehended immediately; one wifttin 600 feet of the building and the other four within 100 feet of the building. Every patient Is accounted for in an uninjured condition, and all were com­ fortably housed for the night In the chapel and amusement hall. No pa­ tient and no employe of .the Institu­ tion was injured. One member of the city fire department sustained a frac­ tured leg when the engine he was driving turned turtle. The institution fire apparatus was in perfect working order. The fire loss will not exceed $30,000." i The governor said there were 1,500 patients in the institution and the false reports may have unduly alarmed relatives. The burned section of the central hospital for the Insane wlli be rebuilt at once. The trustees of the asylum and the state architect hfeld a meeting at Jacksonville with . Dr. Carriei, the superintendent, at which, plans were broached. The damage done by the conflagra­ tion is estimated at between $20,000 and $30,000. Investigation shows that the fire started at eight o'clock in the north annex In a room which was used for storing brooms and mops. Three wards of the north annex were con­ sumed. Don't Overfeed Idle Horses. The Illinois Humane v soeWty, through Its secretary, George A. H. Scott, has sent out suggestions for the care of horses when they will be idle. Owners are warned not to feed unex­ ercised animals the aame rations as on days when they are worked, and. gives some rules of procedure and "first aid to the injured" for applica­ tion when a horse becomes sick. The disease which- attacks the horse so treated is "azoturla," commonly but erroneously called "spinal minin- gitis." The overfeeding, accompanied by lack of exercise causes acute pain and often death. The society suggests the rulesr . • . • •' if. Sent for a veterinary aurgttafe.* Call for an ambulance, ^ .While waiting for the veterinary and ambulance procure whiskey and ginger. Release the horse and blanket him. Open a New Savings Bank. A new savings bank and trust com­ pany, with a capital stock of $1,000,- 000, will begin business In Chicago about April 1, in quarters on the Clark rs&i&ef side, main floor, of the Commer­ cial National bank building. Its chief owuerB Will be the present stockhold­ ers of the Commercial bank, but tiw two institutions will be connected in no other way, say incorporators. The state auditor of public accounts at Springfield issued a permit to George M. Eckels, John D. Hood, William H. Quinlan, Dan Norman and James E. Randell of Chicago for the organisa lion of the "Commercial Trust Savings Bank of Chicago," with a capital stock of $1,000,000. It simply means another trust com­ pany and savings bank for Chicago," said Mr. Randell. ^ , ^ Chicago. -- The lives of more than Btiy Supplies Next Month. « %00 passengers in a West side charttabftr tttftftn- „i_,ro train w Thfl^^rbiMfr1!' "Investigating tbe Cherry feortar has summed. The Jury hopes that by the time It meets again missing witnesses can be iocsted and tbe coal company will be ready to remove the bodies of the 202 men •till in the mine. The company offi­ cials discourage the latter view and seem disinclined to reopen the mine; "Many of tfie widows' are growing lift-' patient and relying on the county au­ thorities for action. They assert that the Inspector believes from the tem­ perature of the mine that the fire 1* out and they insist that the bodies be recovered and burled. . Waukegan.--Police of Waukeg&n and Kenosha are seeking a man who posed in Kenosha aa a national bank examiner from Fort Wayne, he claimed to be an alderman. Me sought access to the books of tha Kenosha National bank and wheft de­ nied this and exposed as a fraud he left the city hurriedly, came to Wauke­ gan, passed a worthless check for $18. and escaped. The man arrived at Ke» noaha and addressed the council, tott­ ing what he was doing as an alderman at Fort Wayne. complimented the KenotAftt council, saying it seamed to become of* the best hevhad ever seen. ^ Golf. -- Miss * Tinee Aplestil, 22 years old, a waitress, employed In the Glen View Golf club,, was struck apd instantly killed by # Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul train here. Miss |ApIestil had gone to (tbe station fc*» greet friends who were to ipeiid Christmas with her. She started to lead her guests, Jfcirs. Mary Mnlonfe, Marguerite and Belle Malone aid Irene tlajrlngton, to the club. They failed to notice another train, and Miss Aplestil, who was in advan< was struck and killed. Chicago.--The dismembered body of a 'man found on the Ulint^s Central railroad tracks at West Sev- enty-second street was Identified it that of J. D. Calligan, a lineman em­ ployed by the railfoad company. Cfti- ligan is believed to have been run over and killed by a passenger train while walking along the tracks. Both hit legs were cut off, his right arm sev­ ered at the shoulder and his left arpn. and hand crushed. Calligan lived near South Lincoln and West Sixty thtjpd street. , Chicago. --^William Kohler wtt. burned on the hands and lace and twelve girls employed in the Co­ lumbia laundry. 738 North Clapk street, and members of tftree families residing above, were .driven to the street by flames. Several of thegirln narrowly escaped suffocation In the fire, which was caused by a gas ex­ plosion in the basement of the laun­ dry and which spread rapidly through the building. The cause of the explo­ sion is unknown. * i Springfield.--'The^ petition bur Glenn Voliva. successor as head of Zlon City, to John Alexander Dowie, for a writ of habeas corpus to secure his release from the McHenry county jail, was denied by the Illinois supreme court. Voliva Is servihg sentence for failure to pay a Judgment of $10,000. He will kpend ChVistmfc.e In jail. ^ Chicago. -- Harry McCuilum, forger, who is without fingers or thumbs, wes sentenced to 30 days, in m by Judge Crowe after being con­ victed of passing a worthless check for $23 on M, Roeling, a saloonkeeper* 6358 Evanston avenue. Despite hit crippled hands, he is said to be able to forge a signature. He returned the $23 to Roeling, and, therefore, «H not held to the grand jury. Kewanee. -- After a recount of the ballots in the election of Novem­ ber 16, to fill the office of judge of Kewanee's new city court, Judge Geat, in Henry county circuit court, entered an order declaring H. Sterling Poriie- roy elected. Mr, PomerQr^vs plurality pf 24 on the original returns over Judge C. C- Wilson, who contested the election, was increased to 26 on tint recount. Bloomington. -- Police magistrate W. P. Eicher. who slapped R«f- R. RusSell while the latter was In th» pulpit of the Christian church at Al^ rowsmitb, was fined $55 for assault. The clergyman proposes to file infor­ mation against his assailant before tfie grand jury. Bloomington.--Police Magistrate W. P. Eiche, who slapped Rev. R. Rus­ sell while the latter was preaching 1* the pulpit of the Christian church at Arrowsniith, was fined $55. The cler­ gyman proposes to file an information against his assailant before the grand jury. j. Kewanee.--Immediately after witt­ ing his two visiting daughters a "Mer­ ry Christmas" John W. Tuttle.^v* widely known pioneer of Stark coqp. ty, fell dead of heart disease, p Bloomington.--Bernard Flynn and Miss May McDermott, both students of the University of Wisconsin, eloped from Madison and were married here. Mr. Flynn is from Pittefield, III., ant the bride resides in Madison. Officials of the 17 Hons of Illinois have been instructed to file with the office of the state board of administration estimates on all supplies needed by the institutions and on salaries and wages paid the employe®. The estimates for supplies will be made for three months, except in specified cases, where the esti­ mates are to be made for a year. Sal­ ary and wage estimates will be made for one month. Advertisements for bid* will..fet-Ui** serted about January 1. Will Succeed Ousted Sheriff. " ; Fred D. Nellie, treasurer of Alexan­ der county, was appointed by the county board of commissioners as sheriff of Alexander county to fill the vacancy caused by the removal by Gov. Deneen of Frank E. Davis, from whom a mob took two prisoners and lynched them. It is understood that Mr. Davis will start suit for reinstate xiient as sheriff, directing the action against Nellis. Since the removal of Davis Coroner James M. McManus has been performing the datltt of Die offioe. elevated train were imperiled by fire. The blaze was In a rear coach of st train on the Douglas Park branch ot the Metropolitan road, at the l.avfn- dale avenue station. The prorppt ac­ tion of-Guard Frank Qulnn ami W. J. Powers, a passenger, prevented a spread of the flames and a serious panic. ^ Traffic was delayed for totfte time. Paxtonl--The contract for paving the streets of Piper City, fwd county, was lejt to Contractor Finley of Hoope- ston, at $14,780. Chicago. -- Miss, Ethel Eitelhuber. 356 Wendell street, whose life was saved. by a corset steel that turn­ ed the bullet when she was shot at through a window, said she had dreamed she was to be attacked mean­ time. John Schreckel, a special police­ man for George W. Jackson, Inc., 20 West Chestnut street, was sought by the police. The shooting, Miss Eitel­ huber said, took place precisely as the had dreamed it would. Sterling, -r- Mrs. James Dlck. gritr- ;ng over the death of a ton #' year ago. committed suicide In btr home.