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THE NEW ERA
WAI-DEX, ... - COLORADO.
Missouri mules are worth SSOO In
the market. But that price applies only
to the four-legged variety.
Blessed are the peacemakers, at
least the one who is drawing $25,000
a year from Andrew Carnegie.
When a man’s celluloid collar ignites
from a locomotive spark, he must be
deemed guilty of contributory negli
gence.
Well, it is a sale bet that the new
straw hats will be so fixed as to make
your good-as-new last year s straw
look queer.
A London paper protests against
the careless handling of umbrellas.
Quite right. An umbrella is apt to
go off when you least expect it.
A Boston man has resigned a posi
tion paying a salary of SIOO,OOO a
year. That proves, anyway, that ha
is not suffering from dementia Amer
icana.
It may be true that a late spring
saves wear and tear on the lawn
mower. But then one may borrow a
lawn mower, and one can’t borrow a
furnace and fuel.
The Russians appear to be intensely
interested in Conan Doyle’s detective
hero. In St. Petersburg five dramas
clustering about the personality of
Sherlock Holmes are now on the
stage.
A sister ship is going to accompany
Peary’s ship and will carry a party
of tourists. Doubtless there are peo
ple who are not satisfied with hav
ing an ear frozen off by the fine cli
mate at home.
A bronze statue of John W. Mackay
in miner’s costume is to be unveiled
at Reno next September, on the occa
sion of the dedication of the Mackay
School of Mines, given to the Univer
sity of Nevada by Mr. Mackay.
Mortified and chagrined because his
16-year-old daughter insisted on con
stantly playing "Everybody Works
But Father” in his presence, a St.
Louis man is suing for divorce. He
is entitled to a hearing on the ground
of specific, persistent and intolerable
indignities.
Miss Maud Powell, born in Peru.
111., is now considered the greatest
woman violinist. She is famous be
cause she is a great artist and she
is great because she measures up to
the standard of violin playing estab
lished by virtuosos of the highest
rank, without any allowance being
made for the fact that she is a woman.
It has been found that misdirected
•letters, with the return address writ
ten on the hack of the envelope have
been sent to the dead-letter office. The
ruling of the post office department is
that clerks cannot be expected to look
on both sides of an envelope, and that
the proper place for the return addres*
Is the upper left-hand corner of the
face of the envelope.
A duke who had come to this coun
try for the purpose of getting a rich
•wife sailed for home the other day
without having found any American
girl with more than half a million
who would have him. Our heiresses
have progressed to the point at which
they can regard it as only fair that
they should demand something for
their money.
During the severe weather in Janu
ary the young queen of Spain ordered
that the number of rations given to
£he poor at her expense be doubled.
At the beginning of the winter she
gave orders for 1,000 rations a day, so
that now from her own private income
•he is paying for 2,000 rations daily.
Judged by the American standard, the
queen of Spain does not belong to the
class of the extremely rich. There are
at least 50 American women between
the age of 20 and 30 who have private
incomes greater than that enjoyed by
her majesty.
James Fitzgerald, judge of the su
preme court of New York, who pre
sided at the Thaw trial, was born In
Ireland in 1857. An intimate friend
says of him: "His keynote is force.
There is force in his straight stare,
his firm-set jaw and even in the in
sistent bristle of his clipped mustache.
And yet his gentleness—that certain
adjunct of all true justice—has more
than once moved the admiration of
the spectators of the late nerve-wreck
ing drama, and the women of the trial
had reason many times to be thank
ful for his native courtesy.
Prof. William Campbell of Colum
bia university, has been appointed
metallographer by the United States
government to take charge of all the
metallurgical investigations connect
ed with the testing of structural steel
which is being carried out by the geo
graphical survey.
Mrs. Lillie Dedereaux Blake de
clares that the American eagl6, "that
great bird which surmounts our na
tional insignia,” is a female. Per
haps that explains why so many men
squeeze a dollar before letting it go.
—Kansas City Journal.
John Bull has hit ou a neat way of
Interesting eastern potentates in the
rsecue of kidnaped British subjects.
One young man, kidnaped in Turkey,
was released only on the payment
of $76,000, and now the British gov
ernment wants the sultan to pay it
back
MEXICO TO FIGHT
EIGHT THOUSAND MEN FULLY
EQUIPPED AND READY
FOR WAR.
FOUR GIVE UP THEIR UVES
Nineteen Men Accused of Complicity
in Attempt to Assassinate Presi
dent Cabrera May Be
Executed.
City of Mexico. —Full confirmation of
the suicide of four prominent Guate
malans and the imprisonment and sen
tencing to death of nineteen men sus
pected of complicity in the attempted
murder of President Cabrera early this
month, has been received.
According to a private telegram the
four men who gave up their lives be
cause of the incident were Dr. Julio
V. Blanco, Dr. Joenge A. Villa, Dr.
Eclieverria and Baltasar Rodil, a civil
engineer. All of the men were wealthy
and belonged to the first families of
the republic. They had not hereto
fore been identified in any of the poli
cies of the country.
Mexico City, Mexico. —Mexie© has
8,000 men, fully equipped and oil a war
footing, now on the Guatemalan fron
tier. Distributed at strategic points to
the south of this capital are 8,000 ad
ditional troops, which can be twins
ported to the border on twenty-four
hours’ notice.
While there is a disposition in offi
cial circles to modify the tension be
tween President Cabrera and the Mexi
can government, it is admitted on all
sides that should Guatemala’s presi
dent carry out his intention of execut
ing the nineteen men accused of com
plicity in the alleged attempt to assas
sinate him, Mexico will be forced to
intervene.
A. P. Hawley, an American business
man who has just returned from a trip
to Guatemala and other Central Amer
ican republics, says:
"Two days after the alleged attempt
it was known in Cenetral America that
the whole business was a badly-garbled
plan framed up by Cabrera himself in
an inspired moment to arouse the sym
pathy of the country and of the neigh
boring republics in his behalf. All he
got was a thinly-veneered note of re
gret and sympathy from the various
countries, which are, as a matter of
course, obliged to accept the statement
of the government.
"In Guatemala City everyone knows
the explosion of a few harmless pow
der caps was a prearranged affair.
"Cabrera had another motive. Nine
teen men were arrested, charged with
the crime, and aftr fastening the
charge on them he is going to show
his magnanimity to all the world by
pardoning each and every one of them.
This little play is to gain confidence of
the outside world.”
AWFUL DEED OF MANIAC.
Girl Shoots Mother, Tries to Kill
Father, Then Ends Her Own Life.
Chicago.—Miss Phillanen Swinnen,
crazed by love, arose from her
bed at 2 o’clock in her home
101 Pierce street, walked to he •
mother’s bedroom and shot her
dead, fired two shots at her father.
Joseph T. Swinnen, as he fled, aroused
by the shots, and then killed herself
with the two remaining bullets.
The powder set the dying girl’s
clothing afire, and as she rolled on
the floor In her last agony, she set the
building afire.
The girl’s aberration is said to have
been caused by a love affair which
ended sadly a year ago, when she was
declared insane and committed to
Dunning. Her father secured her re
lease and was her bondsman.
The parents were asleep when the
girl arose and secured a revolver,
walked to her mother’s room and with
out a word fired two shots into her
mother’s body, killing her instantly.
The father slept in an adjoining
room Aroused by the shots, he leaped
and ran screaming to the outer door,
clad only In his night clothing.
"You must die,” shrieked the
maniac daughter as she leveled her j
weapon at the fleeing man, and fired
two shots at elose range. Both bul
lets missed their aim. and the father
ran screaming into the darkness with
out. The girl turned, stepped into the
room where her slain mother lay and
deliberately turned her revolver to
ward her' body and fired the re
maining two bullets into her side.
The shots set her nightrobe afire
and in a moment the entire garment
was blazing. Life still remained in
her and the agony of the blaze caused
the dying girl to arise and run madly
around the room. Every where she
went she set something ablaze. At
last, as the room became entirely en
veloped in flames, she sank again to
the blazing floor and died. Her
charred body was found less than two
feet from the burned remains of her
murdered mother when the firemen
extinguished the flames.
No Haywood, Jury Yet.
Boise, Idaho. —As expected, the sec
ond special venire has been exhausted
and no jury has been secured to try
Haywood. The court has adjourned
and Sheriff Shad Hodgln lias three
days to summon sixty-one more tales
men. One of the twelve examined
was qualified, against a protest by-
Clarence Darrow, and he will probably
be excused by peremptory challenge
when the jury box is full again. This
Juror is Harmon Cox, a retired farmer
and former carpenter, who is also a G.
A. R. veteran.
Darrow tried for more than an hour
to disqualify him, and during the cross
examination lawyers, judges and spec
tators all lost their patience and Dar
row actually got angry under the prod
dings and tantalizing objections and
comments made by Borah and Hawley.
After the eleven men in the box were
excused from court counsel for the de
fense protested against the manner In
which the two venires had been drawn
and pointed out that farmers, mer
chants and bankers were summoned
and that working men, either union or
non-union, were not included in the
panels.
DON’T WANT DEBS
HE WILL NOT APPEAR IN BOISE
DURING HAYWOOD TRIAL.
“FAKE REPORTS ’—TIERNEY
Suspect Is Locked Up and Dire Threats
of Assassination Are Being Made to
Chief of Police.
By John I. Tierney.
Boise, Idaho. —Eugene V. Debs, the
leading apostle of socialism in the
country, lias been requested by Attor
neys Richardson and Darrow to stay
away from Boise during the progress
of the Haywood trial. Debs has replied
to the letter of Haywood’s counsel an
nouncing his acqquiescence in their de
sire.
The correspondence was perfectly
friendly. Debs accepting the reasons
advanced by Richardson and Darrow
ar sufficient.
The socialist problem ’s a serious
find difficult one for the lefense attor
neys. A dozen representatives of as
Harry Orchard.
many socialistic publications are at
tending the trial, and each is at odds
with the other.
There is no denying that some of
these publication have grossly exagger
ated conditions, and while the Intent,
may have been to assist the defense,
their work has operated to excite pub
lic opinion against the Colorado pris
oners.
The writer for one of the leading So
cialist papers in the country acknowl
edged to me tonight that he had sent
out false reports to his paper ever
since the trial begun.
"I am now up against it,” he said,
"because I have got to make good on
my previous telegrams."
It is that sort of thing which excites
the resentment of the people, and
which, more than any other cause, will
add to the difficulty of securing a fair
trial for Haywood.
The request to Debs was made be
cause of* a statement published over
Gov. Frank H. Gooding.
Denounced by Haywood Defense at
Endeavoring to Prevent a Fair
Trial.
his signature a year ago in which lie
declared for an armed demonstration
jif the Colorado men were executed. I
have heard many references to this
threat, and there is no doubt that it
has aroused bad feeling here.
’Phe unfortunate part of it is that
whatever is said or done by socialists
that in any way bears a relation to
this ca3e is turned against the man
who is on trial for his life.
Following tlie? arrest of Carl 11. Dun
can yesterday a number of stories of
the wildest character were put in cir
culation. He was represented as an
other hired assassin engaged by the
miners’ union to put an end to Or
chard, a sort of a destroyer to destroy
the destroyer.
One of the detectives of the private
agency which figures prominently in
the case solemnly assured me that
they "had the goods on him;" that he
was sent there by one of the Western
Federation unions.”
There is no question that Duncan is
a crank of the dangerous type, and it
is the part of wisdom to hold him in
custody. He will be arraigned Friday
on a charge of carrying concealed
weapons and burglars’ tools.
Chief Francis has refused to get into
a panic over the fears expressed by the
private detectives, and while he recog
nizs ills danger of permitting his pris
oner to run at large, he is acting with
good sense and moderation.
Big Auto Run.
New York. —Official announcement
ment of the schedule of the fourth an
nual American Automobile Association
tour and contest for the Glidden and
Hower trophies has been made by F.
B. Hower, chairman of the A. A. A
touring board.
The tour will cover a total distance
of 1,519 miles and take fifteen days’
elapsed time. The actual running time
will be twelve days, others being spent
for stopovers. This makes an average
of 12C* miles a day for the tour, al
though the longest day’s run Is 174
miles and the shortest ninety-seven.
The start of the tour will he made at
Cleveland, Ohio, on the morning-of
July 10th. The schedule will include
Chicago and a number of other cities
and the tour will end at New York July
24th.
GENERAL BELL MAY BE CALLED
I
Dispatch From Boise Says He Will B<
a Witness.
Boise, Idaho. —General Shermai
Bell will be given opportunity to testify
ut the Haywood trial. He will not b(
called by the state, but his name wil
he included among tlie list of witnesses
for the defense.
This peculiar turn of affairs —a con
dition where the man most eordiallj
hated for his activities against the of
flcials of the organization now on trial
is to be summoned to their aid —arises
not from any of the late utterances ol
General Bell. The defense long age
decided to call him and the reason foi
it was explained to me by Clarence
Darrow today.
“We have always regarded Bell as
our enemy,” said Darrow. "He has
fought the federation in- season ana
out of season and has dealt some right
lusty blows. But we never had tc
guess as to his position. As he says
himself, he has always been in the
open with his face turned toward us.
"On each of my trips to Colorado 1
•made every effort to see Bell. I had
been giveq a good line on the charac
ter of man he is and 1 earnestly desired
an interview with him. I don’t know
how much he knows, but a man wlic
has filled the position he occupied fot
two years must necessarily be in pos
session of facts which are material tc
this case.
"We have no means of compelling
General Bell to attend the trial, but
we are perfectly content to put the
proposition up to him and trust to Ills
sense of fair pla£ and square dealing
There is no doubt in my mind but that
he will be here when wanted.
"It is a significant fact that the state
which has scooped the entire Wesi
for witnesses, fails to include the name
of Bell in its list, although there is nc
man in the western country who has
had better opportunity to view at first
hand the many events and incidents
which will be brought into the trial.”
Kidnaped Girl Returns.
New York. —Restored to her fathei
after seven months of wandering. Anns
Einsig, a beautiful girl of 16 years, told
a remarkable story of captivity and
cruelty by gypsies. She was recovered
after the police had raided a camp ot
gypsies at Wakefield on complaint ol
the girl’s father. William E. Einsig, ol
Eastchester, Pennsylvania.
Two weeks ago the girl escaped from
a band of gypsies near Williams bridge
and went to the home of Samuel M
Spear in Boston road. Mr. Spear and
his wife had seen the girl at the canif
and when she appealed to them the}
took her in. From her they learned
the details of her remarkable expert
ence.
October I was taken by the
gypsies from Columbia, Pennsylvania
wtere I went to a fair,” she said
“They loaded me with finery and prom
ised me all sorts of things and I went
with them. When I got on the road,
though, they treated me cruelly. Thej
took my clothes away from me, giving
me oniy gyray things to wear and
made me waif on them.
"I could not get away because I had
nothing to wear and was watched all
the time. Even at night, when I would
try to steal away, I would find some
one of them watching me. Finally 1
gave up all hope of escape and settled
down to a gypsy life.
Last fall the band reached Williams
bridge and leased a plat of ground on
which to pitch a camp from Mr. Spear.
He and his wife saw the girl, who is
strikingly pretty, and were attracted
by her blonde beauty. They knew she
was not a gypsy, but all efforts they
made to talk to her about herself were
frustrated.
When the girl got away two weeks
ago Mr. Speer kept her in secret at the
house until the gypsies left. Then he
telegraphed her father, who arrived
last night. Mr. Einsig went to Wake
field by mistake and caused a police
raid on a band of gipsies there. After
he learned of his mistake he went tc
Mr. Spear's home, where father and
daughter were reunited.
Want to Sell State Lands.
Cortez, Colo. —The board of direct
ors of the Montezuma valley irrigation
district have inaugurated a campaign
to induce the State Board of Land
Commissioners to sell all state lands
lying within the district.
In all. the state has some 8,000 acres,
some of It the finest land In the state,
and it is the belief, of the board
that the state should sell this land and j
allow it to bear part of the burden in i
building the big water system in the {
valley. A petition asking for the sale
of the land is now being circulated and \
will probably be presented to the board
the first week in June by Secretary W.
F. Mowry of the district board.
Work on the big water system of the
Montezuma valley irrigation district is
is now in full blast, sub contractor W.
H. Crawford having a force of some
150 men at work, with more teams and
men coming in every day. The first
work being done is the building of the
Narraguinep reservoir in the north
part of the valley. Next week a large
force will be placed on the Ground Hog
and by the first week in July the work
will be strung throughout the entire
valley.
Land Cases Create Interest.
Denver. —A contest over desert land
commenced in the United States land
office, promises to be of far-reaching |
importance in that it may affect the j
titles to thousands of acres of arid
land in the West, the question to be
determined being whether prairie
lands can be taken up under the des
ert act.
James M. Acree, a farmer living
near Keene in Weld county, brought
the contest against Mrs. Nannie M.
Jackson. He claims that, the tract of
320 acres in dispute is not properly
desert land, as he has cultivated crops ‘
on it for two years. He claims he did .
so to test the value of the soil to see
if it was worth filing on. He sent in
his application three days after Mrs. '
Jackson had sent in her papers.
The case Is unique because of the
fact that for the last two years there
has been an unusual amount of rain- ;
fall in Colorado, and a large area has
been put under cultivation which has
heretofore been considered impossible
without Irrigation. The question will
probably be referred to Washington
for final decision.
IS LAID AT REST
MRS. McKINLEY’S BODY LAID
AWAY BESIDE MARTYRED
HUSBAND.
PRESIDENT AT FUNERAL
One of the Largest Attendances Ever
Witnessed in Canton Pays Last Re
spect to a Good Woman.
Canton, Ohio. —Side by side in the
McKinley mausoleum in Whitelawn
cemetery the martyred President and
his beloved helpmeet are sleeping the
last long sleep together. With a char
acteristically simple but beautiful cere
mony all that was mortal of Mrs. Mc-
Kinley was laid at rest near the bier
of her departed husband, and the
prayer she had uttered each day for
more than two years, that she might
join her beloved one, was answered.
Al> Canton was in mourning in mem
ory of the dead. The funeral was one
of the largest in the history of the
country. Besides the people of her
heme town, hundreds from other cities
had gathered.
President Roosevelt and party ar
rived and were taken to the residence
of Chief Justice Day, where luncheon
was served. Accompanying him were
Secretary of State Root, Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson, Secretary of the
Interior Garfield, Surgeon General
Rixey, Secretary Loeb and Secret Ser
vice Operative Sloan.
The President, Vice President Fair
banks and their party were taken to
the McKinley residence, where the
brief and simple funeral ceremony was
observed.
The casket rested in the same place
where the body of President McKinley
reposed while in the family home after
his death. Dr. Buxton, present pastor
of the First M. E. Church, and Dr.
Holme, former pastor, had charge of
the services.
Only four musical selections were
sung, the same as were used at the
funeral of the President. A quartet
sang “Beautiful Isle of Somewhere,
“Lead, Kindly Light,” and “Nearer My
God to Thee.” Mrs. Clark and Mrs.
•Green sang a duet, “The Angel,” by
Rubinstein.
After the services the cortege left
for the Westlawn cemetery. The Pres
ident’s carriage followed the family
carriage and next in order were the
members of his party, then the officials
of the state and city. The procession
was more than two miles in length.
The services at the cemetery were
brief.
The pallbearers were Judge Henry
W. Harter, John C. Dueber. Joseph
Biechele, Robert A. Cassidy, George B.
r rease, who were honorary apllbearers
at the funeral of President McKinley,
and Austin Lynch, R. S. Shields and
Judge C. C. Bow. Secretary of the
Treasury Cartelyou was in charge of
arrangements at the McKinley home.
The receiving vault, which is still
guarded by United States regulars, will
be the resting place of the body of
both Mr. ana Mrs. McKinley until the
magnificent mausoleum built by public
subscription, is complete, probably
early in September.
Among those present during the ser
vices were Mr. and Mrs. George Bar
ber of New York, Mrs. Mabel McKin
ley Baer and her husband, Dr. Herman
Baer of New York; Miss Helen McKin
ley of Cleveland, Mr. and Mrs. Fayette
McWilliams of Chicago; former Post
master General Gary and Mrs. Gary.
Senator Knox of Pittsburg, Senator
Dick and Mrs. Dick, former Comptrol
ler of the Currency Charles G. Dawes
and Mrs. Dawes, and cx-Governor Her
rick of Cleveland.
The sons of two former Presidents
met at the funeral —Webb Hayes of
Cleveland and James R. Garfield.
Mrs. Fairbanks, wife of the vice
president, could not attend owing to
illness, but sent a floral wreath.
The steps that had been taken to
guard the President were elaborate, but
not ostentatious, and there was no un
toward incident.
"He” Was a Woman.
Phoenix, Ariz. —“This is the body of
Nicholai Deßaylan, who. was for
twelve years my secretary,” said Baron
Scliippenbach, Russian consul at Chi
cago, when he witnessed the opening
j of the casket in which was the body of
! the man-woman whose life mystery
i was disclosed by her death here last
' December.
The physicians who held the au
topsy in December and other witnesses
who knew Deßaylan in life were all in
waiting. The examination of the body
was proceeded with later, in the pres
ence of only the baron, Undertaker
Feinberg and the physicians, when the
necessary proof of sex was made es
tablishing that the deceased was a
woman.
Where is James Doolittle?
Y. M. C. A. officials of Denver are
trying to locate James W. Doolittle,
1 who formerly worked for the Portland
Cement Company and for the Denver
Omnibus and Cab Company.
It is thought by his wife, who is
now in Dorchester, Massachusetts,
that he may have gone to Goldfield,
' Nevada.
j Some few weeks ago his daughter,
! who had been in a Boston training
school for nurses, caught malignant
diphtheria, died and was buried within
sixteen hours. Since then Mrs. Doolit
tle has used every means at her com
mand tv find her husband, that she
might tell him the sad news.
Women May Not Hang.
Santa Fe, N. M. —It is stated on
, what appears to be the best of author
ity that Acting Governor Raynolds has
decided to either grant a long respite
to, or commute the death sentences of
Mrs. Valentia Madril and Alma Lyons,
i her colored servant girl, condemned to
die at Hillsboro June 7th, for the mur
der of the former’s husband.
• The chances are that Governor Ray
nolds will grant the prisoners a respite
sufficiently long to carry their case
over until the arrival of Governor
George Curry, who is now on his way
from the Philippines to assume bis of
fle* here.
GAMBLING DID IT
CITY CLERK OF COLORADO TOWN
CONFESSES TO EMBEZZLE
MENT.
IS SHORT ABOUT $13,000
Admits That Stealing Has Been Going
on Long Time and That Life
Was a Living Hell.
Telluride, Colo. —The total amount
of money stolen by P. A. Lilley as
city clerk of Telluride, secretary-di
rector of the Telluride School Board
and treasurer of the local lodge of
Elks, will reach between $12,000 and
$13,000. Of this amount the city of
Telluride loses $5,195.16, the school
district over $6,000 and the Elks be
tween S3OO and SI,OOO.
Lilley has made a confession of his
wrong-doings, *but says he cannot, es
timate the exact total amount he se
secured.
"Gambling is the cause of my down
fall." he said in a cell at the county!
jail. "I have been doing this for over
five years and expected to be discov
ered months ago. Life has been a veri
table hell during the last year, for I
knew that sooner or later the truth
would come out.”
As a result of the disclosures made,
all gambling houses in Telluride were
voluntarily closed by their proprietors
to anticipate threatened action on the
part of the city and county authorities.
The downfall of Lilley, who says he
lost every cent he stole in local gam
bling houses, has caused public senti
ment to turn against these places and
it is doubtful if they will ever be al
lowed to reopen.
When Lilley was arrested, the own
ers of the six gambling houses here
intimated that they would make up a
purse and reimburse the city to the
amount of the city clerk’s stealings,
but when they learned that the total
sum he wrongfully took would reach
between $12,000 and $13,000, they de
cided to do nothing but close up in
stead. There is some talk of bringing
legal action against the proprietors of
the places where Lilley is known to
have lost, money.
As soon ns it was discovered that
Lilley had stolen money from the city
a hasty preliminary examination was
made of the books of the School Board,
of which the city clerk is secretary-di
rector, and also the books of the Elks’
lodge, of which he is treasurer. A few
hours’ work uncovered fraudulent
school warrants aggregating over $6,-
000. How this bogus paper escaped de
tection for so many years is a mystery.
Lilley would issue small warrants
against the School Board on account of
supplies for the new high school build
ing. material and the like, which S. A.
Bailey and S. R. Fitzgerald would sign
and countersign as treasurer-director
and president-director, respectively (J
These warrants would be so prepared
that it would he an easy matter to
raise the amount from a few dollars to
hundreds. Lilley would then forge the
name of the alleged payee and cash
the paper either at the hanks or at the
gambling house or saloon.
Bailey is vice president of the First
National Bank of Telluride and stands
high in this community. He is at pres
ent out of the city, but when lie re
turns an expert examination of the
School Board books will be made.
Fitzgerald, the president-director of the
board, is a well-known attorney and like
Bailey, enjoys an unimpeachable repu
tation for honesty. These two men.
their friends claim, had the utmost
confidence in Lilley's integrity and
never suspected that he was false to
his trust. They left the details of
management of the board entirely to
Lilley and l» fisted him implicitly. They
never questioned the warrants they
signed, because the amounts called for
were always small. Lilley was custo
dian of the school records, which he
took pains to see did not come under
the inspection of either Bailey or Fitz
gerald.
As treasurer of the Elks’ lodge. Lil
ley drew checks in favor of himself
and cashed them. Tie is under bond
and the lodge will lose nothing.
The expert examination into the
books of the city clerk was completed
this morning. It appears that Lillov’s
wrong-doing as a city official began
during March. 1906. and continued un»
til the day he was arrested. Lilley
was under a SI,OOO bond furnished l>v
a surety company for the faithful
formance of his duties as city clerffj*
Lilley did not handle any of the city’s
money and the bond was more to pro
tect the town against the loss of its
hooks and records and to insure the
faithful performance of duty on thq
part of the city clerk.
“Little Boy Blue” is Married.
Chicago.—" Little Boy Blue” of ’Gene
Field lame has grown up into a real
romance.
The secret came out that Frederick
Skiff Field, son of the late poet, lias
married Mis Anna Hild of the LaSalle
Theattir Company, and that she is now
Dn her way to Boston to break thq
news to her mother.
"Th« Time, the Place and the Girl”
was the play that lured young Field
(Tot, his father used to call him) into
the theater. He found the girl, and the
question of time and place were set
tled within a month after a midnight
Bupper.
So they went to Evanston late Mon.
day night in an auto, were married by
Justice McCulloch find hurried hack to
Chicago with promises not to tell.
No Fight In Sight.
San Francisco. Notwithstanding
the reports that Britt and Nelson are
sure to fight and the fight to take
place some evening just before the
Fourth of July, Jimmy Britt declares
that, he has not been informed of the
bout by his manager and knows ol>so :
lutely nothing about it.
"There is a report that Nolan and
my brother have made nil the arrange
ments," said Jimmy. "1 want it under
stood that I am not in my
charge, and Qiat whatever
ments that are made will be made by
me. Of course, 1 want to fight Nelson,
but I know nothing about any match.”