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4 I TIEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN 5 D ATLANTA, GA„ SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 1013. Heiress on Lone Hunt for Gold +•+ +•+ •!•••!• •!-•-!• +•-!- 11 Seeks Mine Grandfather Found SHERIFF llino's State’s Attorney Says Volo Vig,lantes Who Maltreated the Town Beauty Must Answer. +•+ + ••1* HUSBAND OF VICTIM TALKS Plans to Do Own Prospecting Miss Frances Leighton, an heiress of California, who is pros pecting through a section of the Sierra Madre Mountains in search of a gold mine which she believes her grandfather, a “Forty-niner,” discovered, but never made known. Recently she heard of the reported “find” and, securing a miner’s outfit ,sta- ed alone on the perilous trip through the mountainous wilds in search of it. Bdieves in Wife and Laments the Fact That His Illness Made Him Powerless to Aid Her. VOLO, ILL., Aug. 9.—Here in VoIj, Lake County, Ill., the women who rode Mrs. John Richardson, the town beauty, on a rail will have to answer to the grand jury. The State’s At torney Ralph Dady, says so. Gossip caused the trouble. Mrs. Richardson Is pretty. Her husband, who keeps the small country store, is a cripple. William Dunnfll, a brother- in-liw of the wife, was a frequent caifcr. The village women descended on th* Richardson Rtore, dragged her out on Juy 14 in the evening, set her astride a rail and bore her, struggling, screaming, almost raving, through th<- ' nain street of the little town, climax - I iig the incident by dumping her into y mud puddle by a roadside and A’arning her to “pack up her traps and go,” meaning thereby an ultima tum that she must forever leave Volo. And, paradoxical as it may seem, all of this happened within forty miles of Chicago. Slips Away During Night. After the vigilantes had dumped Mrs. Richardson into one pf the va i. Thousands of Templars Pour Into City, Which Is Lavishly Dec- • orated for Conclave. rious mud puddles which abound in the vicinity, the victim emerged from her oozy bath, went by a circuitous route back to her husband’s store, conferred with him and slipped away during the night. It was impossible to employ an automobile, buggy or other convey ance the night she left, and to remain over until daylight was out of the question, because members of the mob had warned Mrs. Richardson that if the sun rose unon her in Volo again they would tar and feather her. Her husband witnessed the abduc tion of his wife, but. being unable to rise, coold render her no assistance. It is estimated that at least half the male population of Volo witnessed the hazing *f Mrs. Richardson. In fact, 't is said that the women who commit ted the outrage had previously taken their hmbands and brothers into their confidence and that the proposition had beer indorsee, in family council. It was expected that Will Dunnill, brother-n-law of Mrs. Richardson would interfere in her behalf, but ho left Void a few hours before the at tack. Therefore, Mrs. Richardson’s husband being disabled, and her brother-n-law being absent, she was without champion. husband Defends Her. Just bifore Mrs. Richardson’s flignt from Vdo, her husband gave her $1,500. To a lewspaper man, Richardson said: “My fe is a good woman. She is not gully of the charges the other women nake. I won’t believe it. A woman vho has cared for me during my invalidism for the last nine years, who rmrried me when I was an in valid, Wowing there was no hope of my recovery, would not be guilty what tfry charge. “And to think that I was helpless to save her from the indignities which vere heaped upon her. H j r clothin; was half torn from her and amid Jers and ch #rs an$ the throw ing of mud and stones, she was rid den though the streets. It was n act of Middle-Age barbarism and hardly worthy of women of Illinois, who fcve just obtained the right to vote.” Mepwhile the women of Volo. who are opposed to have played the role of villantes, are calmly awaiting di- velotfnents. “Aly time the Sheriff wants us he knovs the road to Volo. We’re not goirt to run away,” they say. .OSES ELOPEMENT RACE. ijONTON. OHIO, Aug. 9.—George Aldander of Flovd County, Ken- ,ty, arrived here to-day in pursuit of^is daughter. Mims Oma Alexander, fiv minutes after she had been mar- rifl to Lawrence Jenkins. The fa- tbr said the girl was only 15 years oil and that Jenkins had induced her ti elope with him when she was on Hr way to school this morning. FLOVILLA, GA. $2.30 Round Trip $2.30 Tickets on sale daily Au gust 5 to 17. Return limit August 21. Account IN DIAN SPRINGS CAMP MEETING. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. DENVER, Aug. 9.—Thousands of Knights Templar are already here for the thirty-second triennial-convention, and it is estimated that when the convention formally opens Tuesday next more than 100,000 Knights and their friends will have arrived. All buildings are decorated in honor of the Knights, as are private dwell ings. The municipal and other public buildings have been elaborately orna mented and great arches have been built over many of the streets. Thou sands have been spent upon decora tions and illumination. Denver has spent more than fifteen times as much on its plans for the Knights Templar than it ever before expended upon any one convention. Sun to Shine All Night. At Eighteenth and Champa streets the huge figure of a Knight more than 60 feet in height has been erected. A searchlight will play upon it all night. At Fourteenth and Champa streets a “Colorado Sunset,’’ a marvelous elec trical display, has been built. It shows the sun sinking below the rinr of the mountains. Twenty monster search lights are placed behind the “sun,’’ throwing their rays into the sky to re semble the rays of the sinking sun. Over the Isle of Safety at Broad way and Sixteenth street, a reproduc tion of the Church of the Holy Se pulcher in Jerusalem will astonish the visitors. It measures 50 by 60 feet, and is lighted by searchlights on the tops of nearby buildings. Every arrangement possible has been made by the railroads to bring the Knights and their friends into Denver. More special trains will en ter Denver than entered Washington in the same space of time for the inauguration. The Pullman Company has reserved large space of ground on the outskirts of the city for a “Car City,” where the special cars and spe cial trains will be parked^ and where those Knights who so wish may live in the cars. Sanitary arrangements will be perfect. Stores of various kinds for the convenience of the car dwellers have been established. Two trainloads of automobiles from New York, sent here by New York Knights, have already arrived, and carloads of automobiles from other cities are arriving daily. These have also been parked on the outskirts of the city. More than 500 special trains and cars have already arrived. Ac cording to the railroad schedules, when the visitors really commence to flock in a special train will arrive ev ery eight minutes for forty-eight hours. / • Every State Represented. From August 1 to to-day more thart 2,000 automobiles reached this city. More than 1,000 other cars are on their way here. The delegates to the convention are from every State in the Union, and from Alaska. Hono lulu, Philippines, Canada, England, Scotland and Ireland. As the special trains began to ar rive, some 2,000 Colorado Knights ranged themselves at the station to escort the new arrivals safely to their hotels. Every hotel room in Denver has been rented. On Tuesday next the *»rand parade will be held. More than 50.000 Knights will be in line. Their white .plumes, costing $15 each, will altogether be worth $600,000. The regalia of the Knights on parade will be worth more than $1,000,000. Sixty-five bands will march with the Knights, the fees to the bands alone amounting to $22,- 000. Some 600 Knights’ commanders will be mounted on picked horses from the ranches of Colorado and Wyoming. Miss Frances Leighton Shows Same Intrepid Men's Farewell Kiss Spirit of the Argonauts .of ’49. Mistaken for Fight SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9.- With . the same dauntless spirit exhibited ; by her grandfather during the Cali- j fornia gold rush of ’49. Miss Frances Leighton, one of the wealthiest and most prominent socially of j the younger generation of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco, is on a prospecting tour through the Sierra Madre Mountains to-day in search of a gold mine she had learned her grandfather discovered but never developed. For many months Miss Leighton planned the prospecting tour before leaving to carry it out. Topograph ical bureaus supplied her with maps of the mountainous territory through which she planned to make her tour and several veterans of the gold stampede not only advised her against the foolhardiness of the prospective journey, but told her that there was one chance in a thousand of ever greeting civilization again if she lost herself in several untraveled sec tions of the mountain region that as yet have never been thoroughly ex plored. \ Nevertheless, Miss Leighton had great confidence in the belief that her grandfather did find the mine some where in the mountain fastness and she determined to find it, if it did exist, at any cost and without taking into consideration the hardships that confront her. Miss Leighton, according to reports which have reached her home town, is to-day prospecting at or near the West Fork Canyon, twelve miles be yond Mount Wilson. Grandfather Killed. Her grandfather. John Easton, was one of the first of the thousands of New Englanders to reach California, after a perilous journey across the prairies following the report of the discovery of gold in that State. Soon after reaching San Francisco, he left with his W’ife and daughter and a^artner and established a camp at Sierra Madre. Easton left the camp one day on a prospecting tour and never returned. Three days later his partner went out to search for him He was found crushed to death by falling rock. Before his death, however, he man aged to draw roughly on a piece of paper what is now believed to be the location of the mine his intrepid young granddaughter is searching for. Miss Leighton some years ago re ceived a letter from her grandfather’s j former partner containing the piece of paper on which he had drawn the outline of the supposed mine. N lt was ! on receipt of this letter and diagram that Miss Leighton planned to go in j search of the hidden gold. After months of careful study of the many maps, topographical bu reau reports and advice from old-time ; miners, Miss Leighton treated her- I self to a complete miner’s outfit and ! started on her tedious journey up the mountain. To Work Alone. She w’ill do the entire work alone, staking her own camp, preparing her meals, making surveys and using the pick and shovel whenever she be lieves she has struck the right trail. Her outfit includes several changes of clothes, a heavy pick and shovel, a mountain mule, or pack animal as they are called in that section of the country, a complete dining and cook ing outfit, a pack of playing cards which will afford her her only amuse ment while practically a prisoner in the wilds, needles, thread and many other useful and necessary articles. She wears most all the time a pair of regulation top trousers, similar to riding breeches, with canvas leggings and a plain but heavy mountain shirt. If the gold mine really exists, every one of the young woman’s friends believe that she will not return until it has been found. Ardent Osculation at Railroad Sta tion Causes Commotion Among Passengers at Gate. NEW YORK. Aug. 9. —“Smack!" A score of persons hurrying to and fro in the Pennsylvania Railroad sta- tior: yesterday stopped short. “Smack!" The sound was repeated. Turning in he direction from which it seemed to emanate, the curious among the persons in the station saw two well-dressed young men in each other’s arms. Both men were of athletic build and none of the persons who stopped to watch their antics from a distance cared to interfere. When it seemed as if the taller of the two was about to be thrown, they separated suddenly. Then the gates to the train shed were thrown open and an announcer called upon all intending passengers bound for Jamaica, L. I., and points east to go aboard the waiting train That seemed to be a signal for & re commencement of hostilities. "fimack!” STire enough. It sounded again dis- ctly, but there was no mystery about *e cause this time. "Good-bye, Pierre,” said the taller man; “don’t forget to write.” And a fourth time they kissed before parting Raze House While Occupant Is Away Workmen of Grade Crossing Com mission Destroy House of Man Who Blocked Work. Mends Own Socks To Let Wife Vote Illinois Husband Consents to Do Washing to Prove Housekeep ing Isn’t Hard. CENTRAL FALLS, R. I.. Aug 9.— While John Barber was in Boston this afternoon, a wrecking crew, under od- ders of the special grade crossing com mission for Central Palls, demolished a cottage house he owned on Cross street, and then started in to saw off a corner of the Barber Livery Stable nearby, j When his land was condemned. Barber ! demanded $ r >,000 for the property, but was allowed only $3 500. The grade i crossing commissioners sold the cottage to Nicolas Bertozzi, but Barber would not let Bertozzi on the premises. CHICAGO, Aug. 9.—Just to prove to an expectant world that he was a good husband, Wayne Colby stayed home, mended the socks, tended the children and washed dishes while his wife cast her vote in the first elec tion under the universal suffrage law recently enacted. “Just to show that it is not such a terrible thing for a man to stay *t home and do the housework on the occasional voting dav,” said Colby, "I thought I would help Mrs. Colby out with the washing.” The first woman to cast her vote in the State was Mrs. Fannie Coleman, of Wamac, near Central Illinois. Sh** was accompanied to the polls by her husband, O. W. Coleman, and both voted for Village Trustees. Prince Chased by Laundress +•+ +•*!• +»d* +•+ +•+ She Asks $50,000 on Love Notes +#+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ He Is Gone on His Honeymoon Picturesque Location Will Add to Grandeur of Palaces of Mam moth Panama Exhibition. By HAMILTON WRIGHT. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9—The palaces of the Panama-Pacific Inter national Exposition have been plan ned upon a massive scale to conform with their impressive natural sur roundings. The site of the exposition at Harbor View lies within the city limits as a crescent upon the shores of San Francisco Bay, just inside the Golden Gate. No more picturesque location, nor one more appropriate to the celebra tion of a great maritime event could be imagined. On the south, east and west the grounds are encircled by towering hills of varying contours rising successively from 250 to 900 feet above the sea level. Upon the north the site opens out upon the harbor of San Francisco. Site Natural Amphitheater. The central portion of the site lies slightly above the sea and is encir cled on three sides by gently sloping ground; within a short distance from the boundaries of the*, site these slopes change to steep hillsides and thus the site becomes the floor of a huge am phitheater from whose sides the ex position will be seen stretched out below. To the east and south the residence section encircles the ex position grounds, and to the west and southwest the site embraced by the wooded slopes of the Presidio mili tary reservation, dark with cypress and eucalyptus and interspersed with occasional vistas of green valleys. The exposition buildings, built upon an axis east and west, will face the bay upon the north; they will paral lel the stream of the great incoming trafiie of the world through the west ern gate of the United States. Ship# entering the harbor will pass before the exposition grounds. The harbor itself w r in be a part of the greaL theater upon which will be staged the world’s jubilee and the Golden Gate will be the ’entrance to the theater. A'marvelous panorama will be af forded visitors on ships coming through the Golden Gate. As one looks from the harbor he will see there main groups of exposition buildings. There will be the great central group comprising the four teen exposition palaces to be devoted to general exhibits; there will be the group upon the left hand or east end devoted to amusement concessions and covering sixty-five acres; this will be the\ “midway.”'* The right- hand group upon the Presidio Mili tary reservation and nearest the Gold en Gate will be devoted to the pa vilions of the States and foreign na tions. Tropical Boulevard Feature. The main group of buildings will lie between a tropical garden or boulevard running east and west along the fringe of hills nearest the city upon the south, and the espla nade along the shores of San Fran cisco Bay upon the north. The tropical boulevard, to be known as the “Alameda,” will be 1,800 feet In length and 300 feet wide; it will be glowing with fountains, lagoons, statuary peristyles and arcades and, secluded from the winds of the bay, it will be transplanted with a profu sion of semi-tropical trees, plants and flowers, including the orange, ba nana, olive, myrtle and every variety of palm. The east end of the Ala meda will open out with a plaza upon Van Ness Avenue, one of the princi pal boulevards of San Francisco. The west end upon the Presidio will be surmounted by a commemorative arch of triumph. The prevailing color tone of the ex position will be an ochre, a tawny buff, several shades removed from white, but in the distance giving the effect of white, but wijl not he glar ing under the brilliant sunlight of California. In the courts there will be a marvelous blending of colors; Pompeiian red, strong Italian blues, vermilion and orange will predoml nate. The court system Is unique In that it will permit each architect, ar tist or sculptor to present some dis tinct conception without clashing with the exposition architecture and coloring in its entirety. Miss Freese, a California girl, who at a Secret Marriage Be came the bride of Prince Sultkowski, of Austria, and a Snapshot of the Prince. City Babies Win Over Those From Country Score Highest In Physical and Men tal Efficiency Tests at Chau tauqua Show. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 9.—City-bred babies triumphed over those from the country In the Twentieth Century Baby Show held at Plasa Chautauqua near Alton. Ill. The prizes went not to the pret tiest babies, but to those who scored highest In physical and mental ef ficiency. First place in Class A for babies from eighteen months to three years, was won by Cooper Stanton White, of Alton. In Class B for babies from six to eighteen months the winner was Gil bert Craig, of East St. Louis Of the eighteen babies entered, none scored less than 946. None of the coun try babies entered won a prize. ALL SMS TO AT KNOXVILLE Exhibition of Best Breeds To Be Feature of National Conser vation Exposition. Uses Boot as Strop; Shaves With Knife Pioneer Indiana Man Has Never Owned Razor, Mug or Barber Soap. CONNERS VILLE, IND., Aug 9.— Zaecheus Adams, Jackson Township. Fayette County, has shaved himself twice a week for 54 years, but never owned a shaving mug. a razor, a strop or a hone. It is Mr. Adams’ pride that he keeps his razor, an old Wade &. Butcher cleaver, twice as big as a com mon razor, in the finest trim with the least trouble of any man in the county. He w ears old style, high-toped boots and still has one pair which he bought 26 years ago. Wishing to shave, Mr. Adams first puts on these boots. He then smacks the razor blade back and forth along the bather leg of the left one for a minute or two. His next operation la to moisten his face with rainwater no perfumed soap for him — and then he just shaves. Sultkowski, Who Won Rich Girl and Had His $100,000 Debts Paid, Is Accused. LOS ANGELES, Auk. D.—An angry laundress from Vienna is in Los An geles looking for Prince Stanislaus Sultkowski, the noble Austrian who came here several months ago. wooed in his gallant way and won the beau tiful Miss Marie Loui.se Freese, had his debts of $100,000 paid by Father- in-La w r Freese, and received from the same source an annuity of $20,000. The laundress. Mrs. Clara Melcher. declares that the Prince brought her to this country on the promise that he would marry her. After a hasty, private marriage, ths noble Prince and his American Prin cess disappeared. The father-in-law- says they are “not In the country, * and no more. Los Angeles society wondered at the quiet wedding. An elaborate church ceremony had been planned, but the plans were abandoned at short notice. She Asks Federal Aid. Society was in the midst of this wonder when entered Mrs. Melcher. She appealed with her story to th« United States immigration inspector, and was supported by Adolph Dan- zieger, a lawyer. The Prince de clared, Dnnzieger said, that the woman had annoyed his family in Austria, and to get her away from Vienna so he could return home with his American wife, he had written her to come to America. An attorney, who was first ap proached by Mrs. Melcher and then retained by the Prince, said he sug gested to Mr. Freese, the Prince’s father-in-law, a payment of five or ten thousand dollars In settlement of the woman’s claims, but Mrs. Melcher, i through her lawyer, declared that she i would have $50,000 or nothing. She ' has love letters which she says prove her claims. The Prince and his American bride are believed to be on their way to Austria where Stanislaus is taking his Princess without fear of being mo lested by the insistent laundress. Prince Lauds Girls Here. The Prince is lieutenant of the Second Dragoons of the army of the Austrian empire. He came to Amer ica in December and lost his heart to the girls of America, whom he likened to “the flowers of the spring.” He is a nephew of the Grand Duke of Birlltz. His home is the Castle Tres- ternltz, near Markburg, Austria. The following tribute to American girls, of which the Prince delivered himself, was widely published: “They a-re splendid, charming, graceful and fresh, like the flowers of the spring. The girls of Europe gen erally have followed outdoor sports. They are mostly large and strong, often the equal of their husbands in strength. “My idea of a girl is found right here In America. I have been mo*it hospitably received and have met many of them* Their sweetness, their KNOXVILLE, TBNN., Aug. 9.— Birds for the poultry show that Is to be held In connection with the Na tional Conservation Exposition In this city during the months of September and October are coming to Knoxville all the way from California. Word of the coming of the California birds has Just been received by the poultry de partment. Interest, in the poultry show is country-wide. From almost every State in the Union will be brought to Knoxville poultry of different kinds. Already it is assured that the poul try show will be the biggest thing of Its kind ever held in the South. It will be in fact as well aji name “The Madison Square Garden Show of the South.” Textile Exhibit a Feature. A most comprehensive exhibit of the great textile Industry of the South is assured for the exposition. Progressive manufacturers of Green ville, S. C., have just signed up for a large amount of exhibit space in the All-South building of the expo sition and the greater part of that space will be devoted to the textile Industry. In addition to the Greenville tex tile manufacturers a number of other concerns of like nature in the South, from Knoxville and elsewhere, wdll make exhibits, and thus this indus try, constantly increasing In impor tance In the South, will receive great attention. The different processes through which cotton goes from the seed to the loom and after will be strikingly shown In the different ex hibits. Veterans to Visit Fair. The Department of Massachusetts. Grand Army of the Republic, will spend at least two days in this city in September. The stop will be made by the Union veterans either on their way to th*» G. A. R. encampment in Chattanooga or while returning from that city. Word of the Intention of the Mas sachusetts men to visit Knoxville has been received from General Thomas J. Ames, of Leominster, commander of the department. For General Ames the visit to Knoxville will have an added interest. Fifty years ago he participated in some of the engage ments in the vicinity of Knoxville, and since that time never has been back to see where he fought. The Department of Massachusetts Is coming South in two special trains from Boston. The veterans will trav el in style. They will be extensively entertained during their stay in the exposition city. It is planned to have a large number of veterans of the Confederate army In Knoxville on those days so that they may extend to the men from the North the right hand of fellowship and greeting. The acceptance of the Massachu setts men to visit the National Con servation Exposition is only one of a number of acceptances received by the management to the invitations sent out by them generally to G. A. R. men, posts and departments. trimness and the wonderful manner in which they wear their clothes have ’got me going,’ as you say. Their fig ures and their style surpass the Europeans. Their dignity and grace and the democracy I have found in so many are winning, and I do not blame Europe’s noblemen for coming to America for their brides.” BACHELOR, 107 YEARS OLD, GIVES SINGLE LIFE CREDIT LOS ANGELES, Auk 9.—Daniel Turner, a veteran of the Civil War, residing at Santa Monica, who cele brated his one hundred and seventh birthday to-day, thanks his judgment in remaining single for his long life and apparent good health at this ad vanced age. "My life was never blighted by worry or sickness because I never married,” said “Uncle” Dan. “Mar ried men die younger than bachelors. Sometimes death is a welcome relief to the man who gets a modern wife.” It would !>• difficult to find mors conscientious, sfficlsnt and painless dsntlsts In Geor gia than tha gantlemsn who own and operate the NEW YORK AND AMERICAN DENTAL PARLORS 28 1-2 and 32 1-2 PmoNtm Street, Over Bonita T hoot or No student* AH experts !n their profession. Eight to twelve rears' experience They adver- W. J. 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