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IIEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN. ATLANTA, OA . SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1013.
$50,000 FEET-
Mile. Napierkowska, the famous dancer and the equally noted
“pedal extremities which she has insured for that sum are shown
When Mile. Napierkowska took the preoau-
her living on the stage she but fol-
.. « .v.v. u,. vogue which lias prompted European actresses to insure eyes, hair, shoulders, or
whatever portion of their make-up plays the greatest part in adding to their charm on the stage.
to advantage here,
lion to guard against accident to the members which make
lowed a recent vogue which has
Detective and Inventor Have, a
Squabble Over Price To Be
Paid for Its Use.
MOVIES FIGURE IN THE CASEi
Film for Which Sleuth Had
Posed About To Be Altered
When Law Interfered.
Of 'IS STILL HIM
At Gathering Just Held in Cali
fornia Col". Colton Tells of Hor
rors of Death Valley March.
IlliE IIS HOI ON
MID-PACIFIC ISLE
Ancient Altars Found on Spot
400 Miles Northwest of Hono
lulu by Scientist.
NEW YORK, May 10.—William J.
Bums, the detective, and the dicta
graph, the deadly little eavesdropping
Instrument that has won him fame in
the last three years in connection with
the McNamara case and the Colum
bus, Atlantic City, Detroit, West Vir
ginia and other notable graft cases,
have parted company. K. M. Turner
Inventor of the instrument, has called
in all dictagraphs leased by him and
in use by the Burns operatives In the
field. Frank H. Smiley, Arthur Bai
ley, E. S. Reed and David Barry, the
four Burns operatives who used Lite
dictagraph In the Columbus, Atlantic
City and Detroit cases and who, as
pseudo lobbyists, worked up these
cases to a successful finish, have like
wise bidden good-bye to their former
chief.
The action of Mr. Turner in cutting
loose from Burns Is the culmination
of a year’s misunderstanding with tiie
detective. Bums, it is charged, tried
to dictate who should be permitted
to use the instrument and objected o
paying the same rental for it as w&s
charged to other agencies that had 11
in use. He argued that he was enti
tled to a special price and should ha :e
other substantial concessions that
would give him an advantage over
other detective and secret service or
ganizations.
Dictagraph Worth Money.
In view of the prosperity that came
to the W. J. Bums agency following
the series of successful cases in whi fi\
the dictagraph figured, Turner said ne
could see no reason why the dicta
graph concern should not get some
thing more substantial than glory out
of It. He said lie had to eat and wear
clothes as well as Burns. If the dicta
graph could so largely increase the
revenues of a man who,used it .n
building up and clinching cases that
brought in their train a multitude of
other cases, the inventor protested
that the beneficiary should be willing
to pay for the instrument what others
■were obliged to oay for it.
Turner now says he made a mis
take in presenting Burns with several
dictagraphs and giving him a number
of others at the actual manufacturing
cost following the Columbus graft
case. This, the inventor declares,
made Burns think he should continue
to get them at cost. When Turner in
sisted that he was entitled to more
than an epitaph- or a niche in "Who’s
Who” for his years of patient labor
and his thousands of dollars of ex
pense in experimental work in deve -
oping the dictagraph. Burns is said
to have told the inventor that the dic
tagraph owed him a million dollars.
Turner retorted that he could not see
it, that the boot was on the other
foot, that to date the only one who
was on the road to getting the million
from the use of the instrument was
Burns.
Owed Burns a Million.
This was a little less than a year
ago. At their subsequent meeting
Bums, it is said, continued to tc'l
Turner that "he owed him a million
dollars." Turner, nettled by this, re
plied that Burns could search him,
that whatever money the dictagraph
had earned had been made without
thanks to Burns and tndependenlly
of him on its merits and that Burns
had contributed little to it.
The breach now widened and Tur
ner insisted upon placing Burns on
the same footing as other detective
agencies regarding the rental of in-
strumentf?. This led to some sharp
correspondence between them ani
frequent letters jacking un the de
tective about payments for dictu-
graphs his men were using.
Burns and Turner thus began to
drift apart, although the Burns
Agency continued to send for addi
tional dictagraphs as it needed them
in cases. .
Turner interested other agencies in
the dictagraph, and its use in im
portant cases by them, it is be
lieved, annoyed Burns. Realizing
that the breach between him and
Turner was growing wider, the de
tective sought for some other device
to take the place of the dictagraph in
the event of Turner’s taking away
from him the instruments he was
using. He tried the telegraphone, a
device made by Puison, for recording
the voice on a wire spool. While
the wire would take the impressions
of the sound vibrations made by the
voice it was so weak that it was of
no value for the purpose e mployed,
and he gave it up. Then Burns called
at Menlo Park to see Edison to in
terest him in perfecting a device, but
Edison was immersed in an impor
tant problem behind closed doors in
his laboratory and could not be dis
turbed.
Open Break Occurred.
Before the final break came one of
the large film companies had pre
pared an elaborate moving picture in
three reels entitled "The Band Swin
dlers.” in which Burns himself had
posed as the detective-, in this pic
ture Burns used the dictagraph to
trap the lobbyists engaged in the
swindle. Among other features the
film contained a scene purporting to
show Senator Gordan exposing the
swindler,s in a speech in Congress at
Washington. The dictagraph showed
conspicuously in the pictures. Half
a million circulars illustrating and
describing the film were printed for
advance distribution in the moving
picture theaters of the county. These
circulars also showed the dictagraph
and the text matter referred to its
employment in trapping the schemers.
As soon as Turner withdrew the
dictagraphs from Burns the detective
had the film company print new cir
culars. substituting the name of the
microphone device for the dictagraph
and a fixed pictur. was inserted in
the reels showing him -holding the
microphone in his hand.
Would Destrov Reel.
The dictagraph shown in the ree's
could not be eliminated without de
stroying the entire filrti, which is said
' to have cost $15,000. This the film
<XO
£
TO END JEALOUSY
IIH NAVY
Garrison and Daniels Are Ironing
Out Sore Spots in Their
Departments.
company was unwilling to do. By|
inserting the single fixed picture of
the microphone with its name in- 1
Scribed underneath tho picture the
mutilation of the whole film was
thought to be unnecessary.^ The
change from the dictagraph to the
microphone could be accomplished so,
far as the audience was concerned
with it.
Turner le.arned of the plan and
through his counsel, Leventrltt,
Cook & Nathan, of this city, threat
ened the,Jilm company with an in
junction. Counsel for the film com
pany heldti conference with Turner’s
lawyers on the day the films were re
leased at the Broadway, Savoy and
Herald Square Theaters, in this city,
and fought it out. Turner accused
the film iccmpany of lending itself
to a deception on the public to please
Burns. He showed' original copies of
the illustrated circulars, in the photo
graphs and text of which the use of
the dictagraph, was emphasized, and
then showed copies of the altered
version of the Circfilhrs, in which,
while the same pictures displaying
the dictagraph were employed, the
name of the microphone was substi
tuted for that of the dictagraph.
Fixed Picture Removed.
Counsel for the film company or
dered the removal of the fixed pic
ture of the microphone inserted at
Burns’ request and the elimination of
ail reference to any instrument but
the dictagraph. The pictures now be
ing displayed have thus been changed
back to the original form. Thus in
the first scrimmage Turner won
hands down.
"Our relations with Mr. Burns,
said Mr. Turner, who is president of
the General Acoustic Company of
this city, yesterday, "were very ami
cable until we began to ask and press
him to allow the dictograph to make
a living out of the work it was do-
ins for him. He became obsessed
with the idea that it was sufficient
remuneration for us to be able to say
that William J. Burns was using the
instrument. In other words, Burns
was to make whatever charges he felt
proper to his clients for the use of
this instrument in their cases and to
get the benefit of the enormous in
crease in profitable business .it
brought to his, agency, while we were
getting practically nothing but sweet
praise.” *
CHILDREN FORGETTING
GAMES, SAYS EXPERT
CHICAGO, ILL., May 10.—Children
of the present generation are forget
ting how to play in spite of the su
perior opportunities afforded them for
healthful amusement, was the asser
tion of Charles F. Weller, of the
playgrounds and Recreation Associa
tion of America, in an address here.
Mr. Weller’s conviction was based
on data gathered by an agent of the
association sent to Richmond, Va.
Milwaukee, Wis., and aKnsas City.
Mo., to ascertain how children of all
classes spent their time after school
hours. These cities were chosen bi
cause of their uniform size and pop
ulation.
Parisian Dancer
Does Not Like Us
Napierkowska, Soured by Her Ar
rest, Attacks People of
United States.
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, May 10.—Napierkowska, the
Paris dancer, who has just returned
from America, has made ..some very
plain remarks on ttye subject of
Americans. “Really, I have not
brought away a single pleasant mem
ory from the United States,” stye says.
“What a narrow minded people they
are—how utterly impervious to any
beautiful impression! I cannot un
derstand how any one can sincerely
admire them or their customs, or
their towns without any monuments
or trees, and hardly any museums.
“They are hardly civilized. They
jostle you in the street without apol
ogizing. Any charming or styli3h ob
ject one sees over there invariably
comes from Europe. They have mot
the slightest feeling of elegance of
any sort. In fact, 1 am completely
disillusioned about them.”
La Napierkowska complains bitter
ly of her prosecution on a charge of
Indecency, saying that the dance fo**
which she was inarched off to the
courts like any ordinary criminal in
New York had previously been given
by her in several smaller cities with
out the slightest objection.
The judge, who had the intelllgen e
to have her released, is, she says, the
only exception which proves the rule
of general barbarism in the United
Slates.
BABY CLOTHES HIDE DOG
RIDING ON STREET CARS
ST. PAUL, May 10— Ogndy, a full-
blooded, “high-brow” Boston terrier,
aided and abetted by his mistress, Mrs.
Ada Gregory, has hit upon a plan of
evading the street car company’s rules
against carrying dogs on the cars.
Mrs. Gregory figured out a way to
get the dog to a photographer to
get his picture taken. Eaby clothes
were procured, upd Candy was soon
all “dolled out” in the latest of infant
finery, even to long lace petticoats and
a knit cap. Then with Candy In her
arms she got on the car.
The trip was completed with the
dog still wrapped in infant attire.
When the picture had been taken the
return trip was made the same way.
GOVERNMENT PLANS TO
USE “MOVING PICTURES”
WASHINGTON. May 10.—No two
cabinet members have harder posi
tions to fill than the officials who hold
the portfolios of War and Navy.
Secretary of the Navy Josephus
Daniels and Secretary of War Lindley
M. Garrison have fallen heir not only
to all the routine business of their
departments, but to the score of petty
prejudices and dislikes which have
existed in the army and navy from
time immemorial.
In the navy, for instance, there
always is the feeling that the officer
who occupies a “desk job” at Wash
ington is liable to get more credit
than his brother officer in command
of a ship at sea. The officer who is
near the secretary is liable/to de
velop more influence than the com
mander who is away from the seat
of government.
Hence, when Secretary Daniels is
sued his now order, making sea duty
a paramount consideration to promo
tion, there was a cheer of joy from
the naval officers who had seen sea
service and who believed that at last
they had come into their own. This
order, however, followed by the re
moval from the position as chief of
navigation of Commander Andrews,
has caused the officers who formerly
held “deck jobs” to fear tho worst.
Secretary Daniels has taken sides
actively with the sea officers against
the “desk” officers. But Secretary
Garrison has thus far succeeded in
preventing himself from becoming a
partisan in the line-staff feud of the
army. He had indicated thus far that
he may be the man to bring the fac
tions together and do away with the
enmity that found its outcropping at
the las: session of Congress When Ad
jutant-General Ainsworth was retired
and Representative Hay, of Virginia,
tried to force Major-General Wood
from his position as chief of staff.
Should he bring the officers of the
line and the officers of the general
staff together in peace and harmony,
he will have done a greater service
for his country than had he won a
dozen battles
One fact indicates that he is try
ing hard A few days after he came
into office Representative Hay, chair
man of the House Military Affairs
Committee and a sworn enemy of
General Wood, called at the War De
partment.
Previously Secretary Garrison had
retained General Wood as chief of
v, t*aff and had had several conferences
with him. When Representative Hay
called he and the secretary had a
nice long talk, and after a while the
secretary called in the newspaper
men.
"Mr. Hay and I agree on all sub
jects pertaining to this department
in a general way,” said Secretary
Garrison.
Mi. Hay nodded assent.
“Is that not so?” the secretary
asked Mr. Hay.
“It is so,” said Mr. Hay.
CINCINNATI JUDGE‘SAYS
TIPS SHOULD NOT BE GIVEN
CINCINNATI, May 10.—"Do not tip
any one. It is decidedly un-American
to tip any one who pets paid for what
he does. I hope that neither you nor
any one else will tip a public serv
ant.”
With this advice, Judge Fricke dis
missed Mrs. Louisa Smith, who was
arraigned on a charge of failing to
have a garbage can covered. She was
cited to appear in court by Mounted
Patrolman Rason. Mrs. Smith said
that the collectors of garbage were
rough In their handling of the can
and lid, and that they threw the lid
to all parts of the yard. She said
that three weeks ago she found tne
cover of the can lying in the car
tracks twisted out of shape.
“Besides. Judge. I do not Up any
body, either.”
This remark drew the statement
from the Judge. However, he will
help the police to enforce the cov
ered garbage can ordinance.
WASHINGTON, May 10.—Moving
pictures are to show what the Depart
ment of Commerce is doing for the
people of the United States.
Secretary Red field decided to-day
that such a system of education would
be of great value both to his depart -
ment and to those interested in its
work. He appointed a committee to
confer with a New York moving pic
ture concern.
PITTSBURG MUSICIANS
PUT BAN ON RAGTIME
PITTSBURG, May 10.—Goodby
“rag.” welcome Straus in Pittsburg!
Between acts at the playhouse or as
the diners chat in the cafes and res
taurants and even when the lignt
fantastic is tripped “ragtime” will be
a relic of the past in this city.
This remarkable evolution in the
music world of Pittsburg is all due to
the untiring efforts of j. Vick O’Brien,
instructor of music in the Carnegie
School of Technology, who by untir
ing efforts at last has secured the
agreement of practically all the or
chestra lenders in tho city to forever
eschew the “brain storm” in music
and play the compositions of the mas
ters and the near-great.
DENVER, COL., May 10.—Only four
of the “Jayhawkers of *49.” a large
party of gold seekers, whose suffer
ings on the trail to California thrilled
the country lr> the days of the great
gold rush, are living to-day.
These four held a reunion in Cali
fornia the other day, not far from the
scene of their rescue, when they
staggered out of Death Valley, mere
shadows of the trackless desert there
months before. Colonel John B. Col
ton, whose home is In Galesburg, Ill.,
but who has extensive property In
terests In the West, and who always
attends the reunions of the “Jay-
hawkers of ’49,” gave some interest
ing facts concerning this most disas
trous of Western pilgrimages here
the other day.
The members of the party were
called Jayhawkers because so many
of them were from Kansas. Colonel
Colton and the Illinois delegation
started from Galesburg on April 1,
1849, headed for the California gold
fields. The Galesburg party had an
eight-ox team, and left to the tolling
of the church bell. A few months
later, while wandering about Death
Valley, with little hope of escaqe,
some of the members of the party
said they could still hear that bell
ringing. The party made the journey
to Omaha and westward along the
main highway of the gold seekers,
the Platte River.
Left Salt Lake.
On the advice of the celebrated
trapper, Jim Bridger, the party left
Salt Lake and travelled due South to
what was known as Little Salt Lake,
where other large parties were met.
It was decided to depart from the
travelled trail an ; strike due West to
the head of the San Joaquin River,
instead of going the roundabout way
via Los Angeles.
A larger part of the party agreed
to take the short cut, and 110 wagons
Started westward from Little Salt
Lake. After a few days of travel
the party came to a seemingly end
less gorge about 2,000 feet deep,
whose walls were about perpendicu
lar.
From this point the party entered
a trackless waste. Few, if any. white
men hail penetrated Death Valley at
that time. The existence of such a
place was known only in Indian tra
dition. Soon the Jayhawkers came
face to face with horrors of which
they had never dreamed. Days and
nights of toiling across the dazzling
sands brought no relief in the form
of water. Occasionally the party
would come upon some alkaline
water hole, but the cattle were drop
ping fast owing to thirst.
Horror Never Forgotten.
“The horror of those days and
nights in Death Valley will never
b€ forgotten by any of those who
went through it all,” said Colonel
Colton, who, as historian of the “Jay
hawkers of ’49.” has collected many
volumes of personal reminiscences of
the survivors. “I weighed more than
150 pounds when I began that trip
and weighed sixty pounds when 1
was rescued. The others had lost
flesh in proportion. We were pois
ened by alkali, and many of us be
came delirious. Pour rnen died. Two
dropped by the wayside and gave
up the struggle. A third, an un
known Frenchman, became crazed
from thirst and wandered off into
the desert and was never seen again.
The fourth man died after we had
-tumbled upon the headwaters of the
Rio Santa Clara.
“There was a woman with us,
and she bore up better than most of
the men. We called her 'th • little
woman,’ and we call her so to-day,
for she is still living. She Is Mrs.
Juliette Brier, of San Jose, Cal., and
she remembers the events of sixty-
four years ago as if they had hap
pened yesterday. How she ever lived
through those three months of suffer
ing none of us wes ever able to figure
out, but she kept her courage when
the bravery of most of the men was
at a low’ ebb
Reach Fertile Valley.
“On February -i, Tom Shunnon and
myself, who were slightly in the lead
came upon a fertile valley, where
thousands of cattle were grazing
under the care <>f vaqueroo. We saw
a gleam of red through the trees,
which proved to be tho roof of a
great ranch house. We had come
upon the estate of Fenor del Valle,
known as the Ranch San Francis
quito, a cattle ranch some eleven
leagues square.
The vaqueros looked at us In
amazement as w’e staggered toward
them. We looked like so many walk
Ing skeletons. There were thirty-six
of us left in the party, and w’e were
all given every care and attention by
the kind-hearted proprietor of the
ranch. For two weeks we remained
there, until we gained sufficient
strength to proceed . onward. Every
year I have made it a practice to
visit this ranch.”
Colonel Colton, though well In hfs
eighties, is strong and vigorous. He
remained in the West and won a for
tune there, and became acquainted
with many of the characters lamous
in frontier history.
The first reunion of the “Jayhawk
ers of ’49” was held in 1872 at the
home of Colonel Colton In Galesburg
The last one waj3 held at the home of
Mrs. Brier in San Jose. The other
living members of the “Jayhawkers”
of the gold tfail are I- Dow Ste
phens. of San Jose, and John Gros-
cup, who lives about forty miles from
that place.
LOS ANGELES, May 10.—On a lone-
ly "little volcanic island but a half-
miles wide, which rises out of the
Pacific 400 miles northwest of Hono
lulu, there once lived a race of pre
historic men, who have left behind
them evidences of a fantastic form
of religious worship entirely unlike
that of the natives of any of the
other Pacific islands.
This is? one of the remarkable facts
brmyglUjDacJkJjjj^Geoi^^
naturalist of the Bureau of Biological
Survey of the Department of Agri
culture from a Government scientific
expedition to the chain of sgnall
islands extending between Honolulu
and Midway Island, the relay sta
tion of the Pacific cable.
The Island which shows signs of
former human habitation is known as
Necker Inland. It is formed entirely
of volcanic rock, and Is no larger
than a few good-sized city blocks, be
ing less than three-quarters of a mile
across at Its widest point.
Almost Inaccessible.
Owing to the peculiar structure of
the Island, rising, as it does, 300 feet
from the surface of the sea. with
sheer chills, and surrounded by
threatening boral reefs, it has been
regarded as inaccessible.
Willetts succeeded In making a
landing on the Island by swimming
from a boat. After making his way
to the foot of the formidable cliffs
through the rough and shark-infest
ed sea, he pulled himself to the top
over the rocks. So far as is known.
Willetts is the second man who has
ever been on the island within hu
man recollection.
When the daring naturalist reached
the top of the cliffs, he found, on
the highest points, altars, construct
ed, evidently, hundreds and perhaps
thousands and thousands of years
ago.
There were several of these, each
one placed on a rock eminence, all
constructed of great slabs, hewn out
of the volcanic formation of the island
and built with an evident great ex
penditure of human labor.
The locations of these altars on
the hill tops indicated that the an
cient inhabitants were sun wor
shipers.
A few rough-hewn stone images,
which have been taken from Necker
Island, are entirely different from
those used in the worship of the early
native inhabitants of the Hawaiian
Islands.
Idolatrous Gods.
The strange fact which impressed
Willetts, as he observed these an
cient altars, was that here on this
desolate Island, with nothing but the
beating sea for hundreds of miles*
in every direction, the ancient in
habitants expended their greatest ef
forts in their Idolatrous worship, and
the principal works they left behind
them were the altars which they
had raised to their gods.
One of the most remarkable scien
tific discoveries made by the expedi
tion was the finding of a new .species
of hair seal on Pearland Hermes
Reef, which had never before been
visited by whites.
This species of seal was, there
fore, entirely unknown to the world
of science. Skins and skeletons were
brought back for the National Mu
seum at Washington.
The reef where the new Hawaiian
seal was* discovered was so named
because two ships, the Pearl and the
Hermes, were wrecked there and the
crews of both vessels lost.
Parts of the wreckage could be
seen for many years by passing
steamers,* but before the Willett* ex
pedition no one had ever succeeded
in making a landing on the Island.
The Government expedition was in
charge of Commodore Salisbury, U.
S. N.. retired.
RICH FATHER JAILS SON
TO BREAK BAD HABITS
CHICAGO, May 10.—After twenty-
four hours of revelry, Lloyd Goodrich
passed a nightly recently in a police
station at the request of his father,
Alfonso Goodrich; a wealthy manu
facturer. who hopes the experience
will do his son good.
The elder Goodrich said:
“I have got my son out of trouble
at least twenty-five times when he
has been arrested or near arrest. I
love him dearly and would give him
a half interest in my business, which
Is worth $250,000, if he would brace
up.
“All I have done has been useless,
and 1 will see what a few weeks in
tho workhouse will accomplish.”
Small Boys Turn
Wild Lion Loose
Actress Easily Calms Beast and
Excitement in Freight, Yard
Subsides.
WEST ORANGE, N. J., May 10.—-
Mme. Lalla Selblni’s lion, Pete, was
loosed from a box car in the Erie
freight yard here to-day by two boys
who were Investigating “empties. ’
The freight yard Is walled In. so th*
lion would not have been able to
hurt any one except the boyB, and
they hid under the car.
Policeman Bernard 1 Heslin stood on
a wall bf the yard and shot his pistol
at Pete, but didn’t hit him. The Hon
paid no attention to the shots. The
two boy's under the car seemed safe
enough, but the wild horses of Joe
Amento, whose stock yard adjoins the
railroad, were wilder than had ever
been thought possible.
It was Joe who came to the rescue.
He used to be a cowboy. His first
throw with the lasso caught the
beast's shoulder. When the line slack
ened Joe got a half pitch around
Pete’s hind legs. The ex-cowboy had
the lion pretty nearly where he want
ed him when Mme. Selblnl appeared.
While a big crowd shouted advi'C
to which she paid no attention Mme.
Selblni entered the freight yard and
unsnared the lion. She patted the lion
on the head, murmuring:
“What have th<? naughty men beer,
doing to my poor Pete.
Together Mon and actress walked
back to the freight ear and Pete en
tered it as mild as a lamb.
Man in Minnesota Insane Asylum
Thought to Be George D,
Ramsey, Lost for Years.
Kansas Coeds Yell
Loudest of Any
They Also Are One-Fourth Inch
Taller Than Average College
Girl, and Much Stronger.
LAWRENCE, KAN., May 10 —
Kansas college girls should be able
to talk longer, yell louder and for a
longer time than any other girl stu
dents in the United States, accord
ing to Dr. Margaret Johnston, of
the department of physical education
of the University of Kansas.
The Jay hawker co-ed is also taller
and stronger than her Eastern sis
ters. The average Kansas girl is
about one-fourth inch higher than
the Wellesley young woman. The
average weight of the girl at Welles
ley is 116 pounds, at Kansas 11T.
In strength and lung capacity the
Kansas girl reigns alone. The aver
age capacity of the German girl is
147 cubic inches; Oberlin girls can
inhale 141.2 Inches of ozone and
Wellesley girls 150 cubic inches.
The Kansas girl tests 165, which
is far above the average for the
United States.
Arctic Race to Find
John Franklin’s Body
Captain Peter Bayne Says He Will
Beat Discoverer of Blonde Eski
mos in Reaching Goal.
SEATTLE, May 10.—Captain Peter
Bayne, the explorer, announced to
day that he will head an Arctic expe
dition in an effort to recover the body
of Sir John Franklin.
Captain Bayne claims to know the
location of the explorer's body na
well as the point at which a number
of records were cached.
Ho declares that he will beat Ste-
fanaon, discoverer of the tribe o?
blonde Eskimos in his race to Vlc-
torlaland.
WOMAN ROBBED OF PURSE
WHILE KNEELING IN PRAYER
LOS ANGELES, May 10.—While at
the devotional altar in St. Vibianas
Cathedral this morning Miss M. Ham-
brose, of San Francisco, was robbed
of a purse containing $37, according
to the report she made to the local
police to-day. Miss Hambrpse’s only
companion in the pew was another
woman, of whom, however, she is un-
able to give a description.
WASHINGTON, May 10.—It was
suggested to-night that the myste
rious patient in the Minnesota State
Hospital for the Insane at Rochester.
Minn., who has forgotten his Identity
and his past, may be George D. Ram
say, usually called “Jack,” who dis
appeared from Washington in Sep
tember. 1908. George D. Ramsay is a
son of Rear Admiral Francis Munroe
Ramsay, retired, and his grandfather
was Martin McMahon, of New York,
once Minister to Paraguay.
Members of the Ramsay family are
keenly interested in the suggestion
that the man in th© Minnesota asv
him may be their missing relative.
They have found no trace of “Jack”
Ramsay since he vanished in 1908,
although circulars bearing his de
scription. have been sent to evei r
part of the county.
The description of the "man who
forgot,” as furnished to the Navy De
partment, says he is about 40 yeats
old. This would tally with the age
of “Jack" Ramsay. The height of the
man at Rochester is five feet five aijd
a half inches.
If that is correct," said u relative
of "Jack” Ramsay to-night, “then the
man is not Jack. His height was five
feet nine and a half inches.”
Ramsay was married. His wife and
three children moved to Los Angeles
after he disappeared. He never saw
service in the navy.
Kisses No Mark
of Love’s Degree
Wife Considers Osculation U-nneces*
sary After 20 Years of Marriage.
Received Many Postcards.
STEUBENVILLE, OHIO, May 10.
—The evidence in the divorce suit
of Andrew Smith, a wealthy farmer
of Island Greek Township, against
Mrs. Smith was heard before Judge
C. H. Smith to-day. Smith alleged
he had not been kissed in seventeen
years and his wife received too many
postcards from other men.
Mrs. Smith admitted she probably
had not been as free with oscula
tion as Avhen first married, but she
said she did ndt believe kisses indi
cated the degree of affection after a
couple had been married many years.
About 200 postcards, some bearing
printed messages, such as “I aid
yours” and “I’ll not forget you,” wer«
offered as evidence by the husband,
The wife admitted receiving th*
cards, but said that a printed mes*
sage “did not mean anything,” as a
written message would.
She said Smith had received card*
from women and she was “not a bit
jealous.” She said Smith had treat
ed her cruelly, and added, “but I Ilk*
him pretty well.” They have been
married twenty years.
ROAD HELPS SWITCHMAN
TO FIGHT “LOAN SHARK"
KANSAS CITY, MO., May 10—Th«
legal force of the Missouri Pacific
Railway, under orders of President
B. F. Bush, have taken up the case
of Dan Dugan, a switchman, in his
efforts to save his wages from as
signment by a Kansas City (KarwJ
“loan shark."
Dugan borrowed $40 in December,
1909, to help a brother switchman
pay his wife’s burial expenses. Al
though Dugan has paid $16, the
“shark" says he still owes $80.
Dugan has off* red to pay the prin
cipal and a legal rate of interest,
but has refused to pay a usurious
rate.
FEE SYSTEM EVIL AS
LICENSING OF BURGLARS
12 HALF-FARE TICKETS
TRANSPORT MAN’S FAMILY
COLUMBUS, OHIO, May 10.—
“Give me four full fare and twelve
half fare tickets to St. Louis,” said
a man in the Union Station. The
ticket seller looked over the man’s
shoulder and saw twelve children,
none of whom was over eight years
old. The purchaser was Daniel N.
'Velter, an iron worker, of Sharon,
Pa,
CHICAGO, May 10.—Henry Nell,
father of the mothers’ pension bill,
and who was lately elected a justice
of the peace In Oak Park township,
announces that he would serve with
out fees and would Introduce Chris-
tion methods into the work.
“I accepted this office with the In
tention of abolishing the entire sys
tem of judicial fees,” said Mr. Neil.
“The system is as evil as would be
the licensing of burglars.”
Mr. Neil has written letters to all
the ministers in Oak Park township
asking iheir advice on what should
be the Christian attitude of a justice
of the peace toward existing laws
and customs.
VETERAN “JACK TARS” ARE
NEEDED FOR CENTENNIAL
WASHINGTON, May 10.—Secretary
Daniels announced to-day that his
service is greatly in need of veteran
“jack tars” who are familiar with the
technical details of the almost forgot
ten art of rigging sailing vessels.
The services of these ancient mar
iners are needed in order that the
brig Niagara, recently raised from
th* bottom of Luke Erie, may be rig
ged properly for the centennial cele
bration of the batle of Lake Erie.
It is the desire to have the vessel,
which was* Perry’s flagship, rigged as
nearly as possible as she was when
the valiant commodore trod her decks.