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THE HERALD
1 PR INQ FIELD - COLORADO
UNCLESAMLOSES
ALASKA COAL
OVER HUNDRED MILLION DOL
LARS INVOLVED IN
SUIT.
CASE WILL BE DROPPED
GOVERNMENT HAS LITTLE HOPE
OF WINNING FUTURE
CASES.
Seattle.—The government lost Its
first battle In the effort to punish the
alleged fraudulent locators of Alaska
coal lands.
Judge Cornelius H. Hanford, in the
United States District Court, in over
ruling the motion to instruct the jury
to acquit Charles F. Munday, E. E.
Siegley and Archie Shiels, sustained
all the vital points contended for by
the defendants.
The ground on which the court re
fused to grant the motion to acquit
was not raised by counsel for either
side in the suit, but by the judge him
self.
It leaves the government so little
room to stand ond that it is said to be
practically assured that the prosecu
tion will be dropped.
The lands in question are tile Eng
lish, or Sir Edward Stracey group.
They are the most valunble coal lands
in the world, being richer even than
the Cunningham claims. Estimates of
their vijlue range from one hundred
million dollars to a much larger sum.
The defendants, together with Alger
non Stracey, a brother of Sir Edward
Stracey, were indicted at Tacoma last
fall, charged with conspiracy to de
fraud the government. Stracey re
mained in Vancouver, B. C., and avoid
ed arrest. After the jury had been
completed counsel for the defense
moved for instructions to the jury to
acquit the defendants.
The argument of the attorneys for
the defense was based almost en
tirely on the contention that the 1904
law applied to Alaska coal claims in
stead of the general land law of 1873,
while the attorneys for the govern
ment insisted that the prohibitions of
the law of 1873 should be read Into f
the law of 1904. Inasmuch as the
law of 1904 in terms permits the as
signment of coal claims, the defend
ants' counsel argued that it was not
Illegal for the defendants to agree to
assign their coal claims.
Furthermore, defendants’ qounsel !
contended that if it were legal for a
locator to assign his claim, it was
equally legal for any person to buy
as many of such assignments as he
could pay for, thus removing the very
foundation from the indictment upon
which the defendants were Indicted.
“A foreign corporation,” said the
court, “cannot lawfully acquire or
hold a coal claim in Alaska, elthe.*
in its corporate name nor in the
name of any agent or trustee. There
fore, for the reason that the indict
ment charges a conspiracy to acquire
coal claims or proprietary rights to
coal claims in Alaska for a foreign
corporation, it must be sustained as ;
m valid indictment and the objection
to the introduction of evidence must
be overruled.
"The court will, however, instruct
the jury that to justify a conviction '
of the defendants under it, the evi- |
dence must prove that the object of
the conspiracy, if any, must have
been to perpetrate a fraud by secur
ing coal claims or proprietary rights
in coal claims in Alaska for the Pa
cific Coal and Oil Company."
Turkish Revolt Increasing.
Rome —Information received at the
Quirinal indicates that 15,000 Alban
ians are already in revolt and that 60,-
000 more ire preparing to take the
field. Montenegro and Bulgaria are
said to be encouruging the rebels
with the idea of making reprisal»
against Turkey.
New Battleship Commissioned.
Washington.—ln accordance with
the plans of Secretary Meyer for the j
Atlantic fleet of twenty battleships [
after July 1, 1911, the battleships
Maine, Missouri and Ohio have been j
ordered in commission June 1. They ;
are now in reserve in the navy yards, i
Aged Navy Hero Dead.
Philadelphia.—Commander Edward
B. I-atch, I'. S. N.. retired, died at his 1
home in Merion. During the Civil war
he served on the Hartford, and was :
retired in 187 S.
Major George Rue Dead.
Hamilton, O.—Major George W.
Rue, who is credited with capturing
the guerilla chief, John Morgan, dur
ing the Civil War, is dead.
Tunnel Shortens Route.
Bern, Switzerland. —The boring of
the $15,000,000 tunnel through the
Alps under the Lotschberg, in the
Swiss canton of Oberland, finished
last week, is a work which will short
en the railway journey from Italy to
London from two to three hours.
Bush Heads Gould Road.
New York.—Reports continue that
B. F. Bush, president of the Western
Maryland, is the head of the Missouri
Pacific.
Race Riot in Deleware.
Laurel, Del.—lntense feeling against
the negroes of the town was evident
among the whites here following the
recent outbreak, when a party of des
perate blacks shot up the town, killing
one man and wounding sev. ral, und
further trouble is feared.
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.
The outlook for afruit crop in Colo
rado is good.
Plans are on foot to build a high
school at Gill.
The Main hotel at Pueblo has been
sold for $90,000.
Potatoes have jumped from 90 cents
to $1.15 per 100 pounds.
The net worth of the city of Den
ver is $19,677,330.30.
Thos. J. Burns, a resident of La
Junta since 1880, is dead.
Pueblo may have an aviation meet
of three days during April.
William E. Winthrow, city attorney
of Central City, is dead.
James H. Kay, a resident of Denver
for twenty-three years, is dead
E. L. Sholtz was elected president of
the Retail Association of Denver.
A postal savings bank will be estab
lished at Colorado Springs July Is*.
The Boulder and Weld reservoir is
tc be enlarged in the near future.
The North Park Rifle club has been
organized at Walden with fifteen mem
bers.
It is estimated that 20,000 acres of
grain have been planted in the Gree
ley district.
H. P. Smith of Estabrook has shot
a mountain lion measuring seven feet
from tip to tip.
It is likely that a creamery will be
established in Kersey in connection
with the ice plant.
For the first time in history there
will be no spring elections held this
year in Central City.
Miss Martha Stevenson of Yampa is
on trial at Steamboat Springs, on a
charge of stealing cattle.
Burglars entered the L. J. Hardware
Company's store at La Junta and stole
a quantity of knives and guns.
The first annual meeting of the
Western Colorado Teachers’ Associa
tion was held in Grand Junction.
The War Department will permit
three Colorado National Guard offi
cers to attend the war maneuvers in
Texas.
An artificial ice plant to cost $4,000
will be built immediately by a com- ,
pany composed of local men at Ker
sey.
Otto Costello, aged five, has been :
put on record as the youngest case '
of intoxication ever treated by a Pu
eblo police surgeon.
For the first time in the history of
the present city administration a wom
an has been arrested in Greeley on i
the charge of bootlegging.
Some 500 acres of tomatoes have ;
been contracted for the cannery at
Ft. Lupton with 40 acres of pumpkins, :
75 of beans and 75 of sweet corn.
\ Other towns will probably join with
Cafion Cityl in the big celebration there
May 12 and 13 over the opening o: |
the road to the top of the Royal
Gorge.
The liberal stopover privileges and
low summer rates which the railroads ,
1 nave announced for Colorado points j
are expected to bring more tourists to ,
th* Pike’s Peak region than ever be- '
fore.
Work along the inlet and outlet
ditches of the Milton reservoir near
Greeley has begun. Men and teams
are on the jof and the numbers will
be increased as other works get under
way.
A landslide at Lookout mountain, j
one-half mile down the gulch from
the portal of the Roosevelt tunnel,
Cripple Creek, will block the Canon
City & Cripple Creek railroad for
, weeks.
| The Western Slope Teachers' Asso
ciation met in Grand Junction for a
two-days' session. A special train
j brought about 100 teachers from Moni
' rose and Delta, making about 200 In
, attendance.
' Accused of stealing several hundreds
of dollars from the Colorado & South
ern railroad, L. F. Freiger, aged twen
ty-six, formerly station agent at Su
perior, is being sought by railroad de
tectives.
C. A. King, superintendent of the
Saratoga mine, Idaho Springs, was in
stantly killed when the skip in which
he was descending the Sun and Moor,
shaft dropped 300 feet to the level of
the Newhouse tunnel.
Greeley, Denver, Boulder, Longmont
any many other Colorado towns are to
be supplied with power and light gen
erated by the big hydraulic plants of
the Central Colorado Power Company
at Boulder and Shoshone,
i During the meeting of the religious
| educational association to be held at j
j (Tree 1 ey~.\T> ril - 6 to April 10, Judge A. Z" i
Blair, who disfranchised 4,000 voters
for five years in Adams county, Ohio,
; will be one of the speakers,
j William G. Evans, president of the
1 Denver, Laramie & Northwestern rail
! road, is in the East to resume nego
-1 tiations for financing the extension of j
the road beyond Steamboat Springs,
j where they were interrupted by the
j death of Mr. David H. Moffat,
j One girl was seriously hurt and the
j lives of fifty others jeopardized by the
explosion of giant powder caps near
1 the Washington school at Cripple
Creek.
Seventy-five ladies of the W. C. T.
j U. of the Western slope met in Mont
rose for a three-day convention, the |
fourth annual gathering of this organi
zation.
! A purse containing SBO in green- I
backs belonging to G. M. Wilcoxson, a
ranchman near Pueblo, was devoured I
by six small pigs, and as a result the .
, pigs were butchered.
I Over 500 hundred people from Wind- !
, sor, Eaton, Greeley, Fort Collins and j
Johnstown attended the funeral of •
Adam Hahn, the pioneer Windsor busi
ness man, at Windsor.
The Grey Nuns’ Canadian order of ,
l the Catholic church is considering
! Colorado Springs for the erection of a
I sanatorium which will be built in Colo
rado or New Mexico.
Greeley has 411 automobiles and mo
tor bicycles and, estimating the value
of the automobiles at SI,OOO each, and
the motor bikes at S2OO each, Greeley
has $150,200 invested iu the two.
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO
ALL COLORADO
PEOPLE
Stopovers on All Tickets.
Denver. —A circular issued by the
Western Passenger Association an
nounces that stopoverß will be allowed
on summer tourist tickets this year at
all points within the final limits of
the tickets. The privilege is extended
to tickets routed east and west.
Pueblan Heir to Big Estate.
Colorado Springs.—Henry B. Sny
formerly of this city but now of
Pueblo, and a resident of Colorado for
fifty-one years, is one of three heirs
to an English estate valued at $600,-
000, according to press dispatches
from Chicago, which Mr. Snyder cor
roborated.
C. A 8. Ry. Opening Delayed.
Breckenridge.—The Colorado &
Southern will/ not be able to open its
Breckenridge-Como line until April 15,
on account of the difficulty experi
enced in clearing the line of snow. Sec
tion men and plows have been at work
removing the snow for the last two
weeks, but they have succeeded in
completing only about two-thirds of
the work.
Colorado Water Filings.
Denver—An examination of the fil
ings on water rights in Colorado, re
corded in the office of the state en
gineer during the last two years, com
pels the Inference that if there is any
thing more valuable than gold in this
state, it must be water. In seventy
water districts, embraced in five di
visions of the state, there have been
within the last two years, 2,297 ditch
filings, carrying a total of 334,297 cu j
bic feet of water per second, and 1,506
new reservoir filings, claiming a total
of 972,017,612,847 cubic feet.
New Park for Colorado.
Washington.—The President is ex
pected to designate the Monument Na
tional park in Colorado upon the re
port of a special agent of the land of
| fice sent there to investigate. The
; new reservation embraces a tract of
: about SOO acres lying between Pali
sade and Grand Junction, containing !
palisades and peculiar rock forma
tions. Representative Taylor took
! the matter up with President Taft
some time ago and the secretary of
; the Interior requested the general land
office to send an agent there to inves-
I ligate. The report is expected danly
and it is believed will be favorable.
It is stated at the Interior Depart
ment that President Taft concurs In
the views of the new secretary of the
interior that Congress in granting the
Fort Lewis Indian lands to the stat?
of Colorado did not intend to convey
to the state the coal underlying. The
President, it is stated, will recommend
to Congress the enactment of legisla
tion to make explicit the intention of
i Congress to conserve tell coal under
the lands for the use and disposition
of the general government. Should
j such legislation be proposed it is the
1 intention of all of the Colorado mem
bers of the House and Senate to op
pose its enactment the grant of the
lands to the state in their opinion hav-
I Ing been entirely unconditional.
Gift Involves Coal Dispute.
Denver. —There are members of the
national administration who seem to
live in mortal terror that the state of
Colorado is going to get something (
for nothing from the government.
Congress recently turned over to the
state the Indian school at Fort Lewis !
and about 700 acres of land to be
used for the support of the school.
In return the state agreed to main
tain the school.
I Now some members of the adminis
tration. notably the new secretary of
the interior, have discovered that
there is coal under this land and in
a letter to the President, the secre
tary expresses the opinion that this
coal was not given to the state and
that it is still the property of the na
j tional government.
The entire transaction was supposed
, to have been closed and the governor
has accepted the land on behalf of
the state. The land was given with
! out reservation and, in the opinion of
state officials, now belongs wholly to
1 the state.
Gov. Shafroth has received a copy
of the letter sent by Walter L. Fisher,
the new secretary of the interior, in
j which the opinion is expressed that
coal to the value of $2,000,000 lies un
der the land.
; Federal officials, however, have
strange and wonderful ideas about
1 conditions in Colorado and Gov.
Shafroth has written to all of the
Colorado representatives asking that
they use their influence to see that
no effort is made to deprive Colorado
of the land it has received. The
\ state in taking the land assumed upon
! itself a grave responsibility in agree
ing to maintain an expensive school
for an indefinite periou.
County Commissioners Liable.
Brighton.—By a ruling of District
Judge McCall at Brighton county
commissioners or their bondsmen are
liable to the county for any moneys
| expended by them in an illegal man
ner.
Potatoes Bring High Price.
I Greeley.—Potatoes advanced to $1.25
; per hundred at Eaton, with the price
at $1.20 a hundred here, and dealers
! are expecting these prices to remain
j steady.
New Railroad Building,
i Trinidad. —The division office build
■ ing of the Colorado & Southern rail-
S way, which has been under constrjc
-1 tion for several months, is completed
and will be occupied at once. It is a
handsome brick structure of two
stories and cost $12,000.
Trout Fry are Planted.
Greeley.—Of interest to fishermen
of northern Colorado is the news ‘hat
40,000 trout fry were planted recently
in the upper Poudre.
$3.50 RECIPE CURES
WEAK KIDNEYS, FREE
RELIEVES URINARY AND KIDNEY
TROUBLES, BACKACHE,STRAIN
ING, SWELLING, ETC.
Stops Pain In the Bladder, Kldneya
and Back.
Wouldn’t It be nice within a week or eo
to begin to say goodbye forever to the
ecaldlng, dribbling, straining, or too fre
quent passage of urine; the forehead and .
the back-of-the-head aches; the stitches
and pains in the back; the growing mue- i
clo weakness; spots before the eyes; yel
low skin; sluggish bowels; swollen eye- :
lids or ankles; leg cramps; unnatural
short breach; sleeplessness and the de
spondency?
I have a recipe for these troubles that
you can depend on, and If you want to
make a QUICK RECOVERY, you ought
to write and get a copy of It. Many a
doctor would charge you $3.50 just for
writing this prescription, but I have It
and will be glad to send It to you entire
ly free. Just drop me a line like this:
Dr A. E. Robinson. K-254 Luck Building,
Detroit, Mich., and I will send It by re
turn mall In a plain envelope. As you will
see when you get It, this recipe contains
only pure, harmless remedies, but it has
great healing and pain-conquering power.
It will quickly show Its power once you
use It, so I think you had better see what
it Is without delay. I will send you a
copy free—you can use it and cure your
self at home.
PA'S ANSWER.
j "What is an Indeterminate sentence,
pa?"
“Matrimony, my son."
IS EPILEPBY CONQUERED?
New York Phyelclans Have Many
Cures to Their Credit.
New York, April 4.—Advices from
every direction fully confirm previous
reports that the remarkable treatment ;
for epilepsy being administered by the ■
consulting physicians of the Dr. Water- j
man Institute Is achieving wonderful
results. Old and stubborn cases have
been greatly benefited and many pa
tients claim to have been entirely
cured.
Persons suffering from epilepsy
should write at once to Dr. Waterman
Institute, 122 East 25th st, Branch 63,
New York, for a supply of the remedy,
which Is being distributed gratuitously.
Saving Trouble.
The husband of a fashionable wom
an. whose gowns are at once the ad
miration and despair of her feminlno
acquaintances, was discussing the
cost of living with a friend at the
j Union League the other night.
| “By the way,” ventured the friend,
" —er —don’t you have a good deal of
trouble keeping your wife dressed In
the height of style?”
I The woman’s husband smiled and
then shook his head, emphatically.
“Oh. no," he said, ‘‘nothing to speak
of. Nothing—nothing to the trouble
I’d have if I didn’t.”
Comparison.
“What do you think of the Idea of
an extra session of congress?”
“Well,” replied Farmer Comtossel,
“some extry sessions is like some ex
try newspapers. They ain’t enough in
'em to justify the hollerin’.”
Constipation causes and seriously aggra
vates many diseases. It is thoroughly cured
by Dr. Pierce’s Pellets. Tiny sugar-coated
granules.
Nothing chloroforms a church quick
er than a minister dosed with dignity.
Better general health is sure to follow
1 the use of the natural Herb laxative, Gar
ticld Tea. It corrects constipation.
Some sermons come near being dem
onstrations of eternal punishment.
FAMOUS DOCTOR'S
BT2I PRESCRIPTION.
tTTrVXTFV a deceptive disease—
x thousands have It and
TRniIRT F don’t know It. If you
1 KUIDLL want good results you
can make no mistake by using Dr. Kil
mer’s Swamp-Root, the great kidney rem
edy. At druggists In fifty cent and dol
lar sizes. Sample bottle by mall free,
also pamphlc-t telling you how to find out
If you have kidney trouble.
Address, Dr. Kilmer A Co., Binghamton, N. Y.
COLORADO
LEGISLATIVE
DOINGS
Priority Measure Passes.
After a prolonged debate the Sen
ate, by a vote of twenty-two to thir
teen, passed on third reading the Car
penter bill with the Parrish amend
ment, which places reservoir rights on
the rule of priority and repeals that
; provision of the act of 1901 prohibit
, lng the owners of reservoirs from im
| pounding any water from the natural
1 streams when It Is required In ditches
for direct Irrigation. The amendment
bill will now go to the House for final
enactment or rejection.
Senators Cross, Stephan, Tobin and
Crowley, who have waged vigorous op
position to the bill and its amendment,
declare that, if the bill Is enacted by
the House, petitions to invoke the ref
erendum will be circulated and filed
with the secretary of state within
ninety days of adjournment of the
Legislature.
Throughout the debate, which virtu
ally covered the entir§ domain of ir
rigation Jurisprudence, the supporters
of the amended Carpenter bill laid
stress upon the claim that the act of
1901 is unconstitutional in that it sub
ordinates senior reservoir appropria
tions to Junior ditch appropriations:
while the opponents of the measure
waged their fight against its passage
from the viewpoint that, if enacted,
it will place the future agricultural de
velopment of the state under the con
trol of the reservoir companies, will
greatly assist the government in its
assertion of title to water in this state
for use in reclamation projects in oth
er states and that the water from the
natural streams of Colorado can be ap
propriated for agricultural purposes,
impounded in reservoirs and used for
the generation and sale of power.
The Legislative committee that is
investigating the charges made against
Judge Greeley W. Whitford by the
State Federation of Labor spent one
day in reviewing the tesitmony given
by the sixteen coal miners in the con
tempt proceedings which terminated in
their being sentenced to Jail for a term
of one year.
The search and seizure bill Intro
duced by Representative Ardourel of
Boulder and advocated by the Prohibi
tion people of the state, was defeated
by a vote of twenty-nine to twenty-six
in the House. This bill, which
the same rights to officers to search for
and seize liquor In dry territory that is
given in seizing gambling devices, was
held up by the temperance committee
until a report was demanded by mem
bers of the House.
The Moffat Tunnel.
Senator Gove is in receipt of the
following telegram from John A. Por
ter of Denver, who is on the Pacific
coast in reference to the tunnel and
| its construction:
I “The passage of pending tunnel bill
iu Colorado Legislature is certainly of
the greatest importance to Denver and
the entire state. Judging by many sur
, veys made by the Mot fat road, it would
: unwise to limit the length of
• proposed tunnel to five miles when
one approximately a mile longer could
! be located at the most advantageous
place considered from both an engin
| eering and'financial point of view. A
tunnel entering the Divide almost in
i a direct line from Tolland would avoid
possible competition from a deeper
one, would materially shorten distance
and avoid climbing on maximum grade
a winding line from Tolland to mouth
of a five-mile tunnel. The state should
not hesitate at additional cost to ob
tain a safer and more far-reaching in
vestment. —John A. Porter.”
The opponents of the tunnel have se
cured an amendment to the bill that
would defeat the purpose, requiring
the Moffat road interests to deposit se
curities with the state to guarantee
the tunnel bonds. And this in additlor
to the provisions already in the meas
ure making the road itself security for
j the cost of construction.
| With the recommendation that they
be placed before the committee of the
whole for favorable consideration and
j final passage, the bills making the
State Normal school at Greeley a
teachers' college and providing for a
; normal school training as a condition
to the granting of certifictes by coun
ty superintendents, were reported by
I the Senate committee on education
and educational Institutions.
By a vote of twenty to fourteen, the
Senate ordered the hybrid bank guar
antee law on the calendar for special
consideration. This bill is a mixture
of Senator Gove’s measure for a rigid
I banking code and of Senator Crowley’s
bill to enact the mutual bank guar
antee act of Texas. The measure was
reported favorably by the banking
committee three weeks ago. When the
report was made. It was stated that a
motion wouldbemadeto strike from the
hybrid bill all of the Texas bank guar
antee features and to retain the Gove
provisions which seek to make bank
guarantee rest on sound banking op
erations.
Edwin McCrillis, secretary of the
State Board of Live Stock Inspection
Commissioners, was put through a
three hour examination by the Joint
legislative committee from the House
and Senate, aided by representatives
from the attorney general’s office. The
committee is making a thorough inves
tigation of, the charges made against
the stock board, following which a
public report will be made of the meth
ods employed by officers and em
ployes of the board.
The Senate committee on labor re
portel the Bellesfield bill for a men’s
eight-hour law for the favorable con
sideration and passage by the commit
tee of the whole, except that the bill
will exclude cement works and steel
manufacturing plants from the opera
tion of the act. With this amendment,
recommended by the labor committee,
the bill will go on the calendar end
will, if enacted, make an eight-hour
day in all mines and underground
workings, mills, smelters, cyanide and
chlorination processes, and at coke
ovens.
AN ANGEL OF MERCY
Miss Holman the Florence Night
ingale of the South.
How One Woman Ha* Become Foster
Mother to Many Thousand* of
Poor and Needy Southern
Mountaineers.
Raleigh, N. C. —There is a small,
slender woman, with quiet manner
and quiet eyes, knojvn to hundreds,
nay thousands of rich and poor in
this state, who has suddenly found
herself called to become foster moth
er as it were to millions of people
in the United States whom she has
never seen.
i She is Lydia Holman, a trained
nurse. For several years past she
has been an American Florence Night
ingale in a wide region of this state.
Alone in the midst of the victims of l
a hundred years’ war with the for
gotten mountaineers and backwooas
j men have waged in the south with
nature’s grim, primeval forces, she
has fought many narrow local preju
dices and local selfishness to bring
them the aid which her two trained
hands could give In sickness and in
maiming accidents.
Suddenly, when she had no thought
other than that she was destined, by
opportunity and by choice, to go on
indefinitely doing her lonely best for
the alleviation of their needs, the oth
er women of the land discovered her
and her charges. Within a year a
national organization sprang into pow
erful being, planned to meet gigantic
necessity with more than gigantic
means, and bearing her name as its
watchword.
! Miss Holman was practicing her
j profession in Philadelphia when a
! few days prior to Christmas, 1900,
she was summoned to Ledger, this
state, to attend a patient suffering
from typhoid fever. The patient re
covered. The mountain folk, who
knew typhoid precisely as they know
death —for the fever invariably
brought death in their section—were
astounded at the miracle. Whatever
: prejudices they might have cherished
against women doctors failed, to apply
to this one; for a doctor they insisted
she must be if she could save the
doomed as summarily as that. They
flocked to Miss Holman’s dwelling,
were told she was simply a nurse,
grinned incredulously and demanded
that she cure them of every com- I
plaint the hardy mountaineers had
in stock.
She gave them of her skill and her
remedies for a period of four months
| and then returned to Philadelphia.
I But she could not dispel from her
mind the picture of these simple peo-
ple and their patient suffering, and she
returned to them. She has been in
their service ever since, nursing them
and pointing out the way to a more
hygienic manner of life. If she has re
ceived any pay for her services it has
! been generally in potatoes and garden
| truck, for the people of Mitchell coun
ty, which has been the chief seat of
her labors, are very poor. Primitive
barter prevails for the necessaries of
life. The cabins, about 16 by 18 feet,
are usually of two rooms, where a
family of from six to ten children eat
and sleep. But the Bible is In every
household and the very language
draws its inspiration from the sub
lime English of that universal font.
In the district where Miss Holman
has been carrying on her work there
are nearly 40,000 people In dire need
of help from the outside world and
in tho entire south there are close to
3,000,000 white people similarly
placed. Nurses, doctors and social
workers are urgently needed among
them and these will be furnished as
rapidly as possible through the Hol
man association. While the center of
activity is still in Mitchell county,
the reform move will extend through
out the state and also in West Vir
ginia, Tennessee and Kentucky.
WITCHCRAFT DOCTOR PINCHED
Pennsylvanian Placed Under Arrest
for Practicing the Superstitions
of a Century Ago.
Reading, Pa.—Elmer X. Palm has
been arrested on the charge of prac
ticing witchcraft. John Madimann Is
the complainant. An infant of Madi
mann wns suffering from marasmus,
and the mother, hearing of Palm’s rep
utation, called him In. He prescribed
medicino for the child, but failed to
help it.
The "doctor,” as Palm is called, de
clnrcd that a porton living In ’ tho
house had cast a spoil on tho bnby.
Tho only occupant besides the Madi
manns Is tho mother of Mrs. Madl
mann. Palm also said that he could
break every hone In tho body of tho
person who had cast tho spoil on tho
child by saying a few magic words.
Tho Information that somo one In
tho house had cast a spoil on tho
baby preyed on the mind of tho moth
er. and she feared that her family
would bo broken up If her husband
learned the facts. Tho latter, how
ever, took a different view of the mat
i tor, and caused tho arrest of Palm.
PROBABLY does.
Howell—My wife 1b a woman of
few words.
Powell—But doesn’t she make the
few work overtime?
Preponderance of Evidence.
"Sorry,” said the constable, "but
I’l\ have to arrest ye—you been
drlvin’ along at the rate of 50 miles
an hour.”
“You are wrong, my friend,” said
the driver. ”1 wasn’t, and here’s a
ten-dollar bill that says I wasn't.”
“All right,” returned the constable,
pocketing the money. “With 11 to one
against me I ain’t goin’ to subject
the county to th’ expense of a trial."
—Harper’s Weekly.
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