St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 16, 1907

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PRESS DISPATCHES.

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NO, 87. : ST, LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 16, 1907 - PRICE ONE CENT

FAIRBANKS IN GLEE AT HOPE HE WILL SEE FOOTBALL JAMBOUREE BABY 6 HOURS 6 SLOMNDMOTHE SHED WI Neighbors Rush Into House, Carrying Out Woman and Child. L@NG WAIT FOR HELP

q Firemen Slow to Answer the Alarm on Account of An- other Blaze.

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! TWO MEN ARE HEROES. a But Never Will He Forget Dignitee, However Exciting It Be. Vice-President Fairbanks passed through New York on his way to New Haven to see the Yale-Princeton football game.—News tem.

United Railways Employes Stretch Line.of Hose to Building.

AYS Buttermilk Charlie: “T’m deeply impressed by this grand and glorious game. I can’t jump and shout like one that’s possessed, but I'm gratified just the same. On this great occasion permit me to say, how deeply I feel the truth that indeed there are times when one should be gay and ‘here’s nothing so young as youth: “T can’t shout ‘Rah, rah,’ my dignity bids me refrain from unseemly mirth, and an empty ‘Ha, ha’ I’ve found long ago is not justified by my girth. “But I do not object, if you think I should, to holding a little flag and waving it two or three times like this while the young folks are playing tag. More than this you couldn’t expect from @ dignified man like me, who belongs to the very select elect of the aris- tocracy.’’ AIRKWOOD FARMER WILL PAY $5 FOR HiS WIFE. WHO IS “LOST OR STOLEN” Three Children Disappear With Her, but They Do Not Count in “Ad.” LOST OR STOLEN—Will pay $5 reward for the return of my wife, irginia, or infor- mation leading to her discovery; disap- peared from my home on the Watson road, one mile south of Kirkwood, last Monday; weighs 200 pounds and has dark complex- ion; my three children, Chris, 18: Eveline, 1%, and Julius, 13, may be with her. Ad- dress Julius Koehler, Kirkwood, Mo. But a few hours after the birth of a blue-eyed baby girl to Mr. and Mrs. Herman Nieland of 1022A Hodiamont avenue, mother and child were rescued by neighbors from a fire which threat- ened their lives at 4:50 a. m. Saturday. The house Was in flames for 25 min- utes before the arrival of the fire ap- paratus, on account of another fire at the same time at 6427 Maple avenue, and it was due to the volunteer work of two United Railways linemen, who stretched a line of hose from the car sheds across the street, that Mrs. Nie- land and her babe were enabled to escape. | The baby was born at 9 p. m., and there had been little sleep in the home during the night. Towards. morning. however, weariness overcame them. The father was awakened by the smell of smoke, which filled the house to chox- ing. He sprang up, but almost fainted from the smoke, as he tried to make his way to the rescue of his wife aud newborn baby. es. Neighbor Is a Hero. It was then that a hero appeared in nt the person of M. J. Gallagher, a neigh- bor employed by the Empire Garden company. He assembled several others and they entered the flame-swept house at the risk of their lives. In one cor- ner of a room were three older children, huddled together in fear. Mr. Gallagher carried them out «- the house, singing | Julius Koehler, a farmer, 50 years old, ¥ to them to allay tl eir fears as the fire living on the Watson road, one mile a crackled around him. The nhe returned | ..yth of Kirkwood, will pay $5 in cur- and assisted in carrying the sick moth- rency for the return of his \200-peund , | er out. wife, Virginia. Koehler visited the office : The mother and baby were carried,|o¢ , Kirkwood newspaper Saturday and ' not much the worse for their exper!-|j,serted an advertisement for his miss- ence, to the home of Mrs. Clara Sand-|i,g wife. His three children disappeared ler, a nurse, at 6059 Maple avenue. Both |¢,om home at the same time, but the are said to be doing well. farmer offers no reward for their re- The fire started in the kitchen of 1022] turn. Hodiamont, which is used at a restau-| Mrs. Koehler took very little clothing rant by James H. Harris of 1051 Su-/with her, but Koehier says that $260, burban Terrace. He had not yet opened | which he had in the house, was gone. the place for the day. His loss was $800. The Nielands lost $500 worth of CAR IN ALTON RUNS ON TWO TRACKS AT SAME TIME furniture. The damage would have been greater Queer Antics of Interurban Freight Likened to an Undecided but for the efforts of the two linemen, William English and John Daiey. The first fire company to reach the scene came on the gallop from Vandeventer avenue and Morgan street, all the ap- paratus in the neighborhood being en- Governor. gaged at another fire a few blocks} An interurban express car on the Al- ton, Granite & St. Louis electric line did a stunt that made it look like a ‘governor who couldn't make up his mind which he would rather be, presi- dent or senator. It ran on two tracks at away. Flames Sprend Rapidly. the same time. The car took the wrong switch at The flames spread to both sides. At 1024 John Ferretti, a saloon keeper, lost $300 worth of furniture. At 1020 Samuel Rosenberg, a shoemaker, suffered the de struction of etock and machinery to the value of $800. A frame house at 102] Second and Wicgler streets in Alton rri- had its roof burned off. The damagej|day night, but that didn’t stop it The | to the row of flats in which the fire/ front trucks kept right on going on the inbound track, while the rear trucks tried to keep up the procession on the outbound track. The brake fuiled to work and the car Kept on straddling for three blocks. started was, in’ the opinion of Assist- ant Fire Chief Shockey, about $4000. FIRE SWEEPS MISSISSIPPE TOWN WITH $200,000 Loss Five minutes before this fire started a stfil alarm was turned in from 6427 Cenvent, Theater, Hotel and Tele- phone Exchange in the Maple avenue, where two frame houses were blazing. It started in the rear of the grocery store of John 2 soapy who was caid to have been in nois during the night. The house at 6425, next door, quickly caught. : Mre. Aifred Oddy, aged 50, was awak- ened by seeing the side wall of the house in flames. She sprang from bed and, giving the alarm, ran to rescue her » Ge §-months-old grandchild and carried him Burned District. into the street. Her husband, daughter BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss., Nov. 16.— and son-in-law, awakened by her| Fire which started early this morn- screams, made their way safely from |ing, was swept by a high gulf wind through the town, destroying every- thing in its path and causing damage of about $200,000. St. Joseph's Convent, one of the most famous institutions of its kind in this section of the South, was to- tally destroyed, also the Catholic church, and parsonage. Other buildings destroyed were the Oisane Theater, Hotel Clifton, Cum- the house. Other Damage Done, berland telephone building and the Butler Building. The grocery store was damaged $1 NINE HURT IN AUTO COLLISION and its stock $500. The Oddys house was Crash on Way to Football Game: and -eir furniture, . "ane carried out by easnaak Four Seriously Injured. WATERBURY, Conn., Nov. 16.—Nin.: persons were hurt here today when tw: sutomobiles collided in a dash to th Yale-Princeton game at New Haven. Those seriously injured are Miss Car. je Emsiley, C. B. Bennett, E. B. Trues - | dale and L. F. Carberry.

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e. these two fires were in prog- 3 a third alarm was rung in from and enues. An en- was sent to investigate and found the alarm was false. JUDGE REFUSES TO CLAMP SUNDAY LID ON EAST SIDE _ Efforts of "Rev. John B. Harmon and other prominent ministers.to put the lid ‘on Bast St. Louis have fajled. _ In the City Court Saturday; Judge Moyers refused to grant the petition of ™ rs for a writ of mandamus Mayor Cook to keep the sa-

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WORK STOPS ON FOOT FENCE 5 COURT ORDER Apartment House Owner Gets Injunction Against Attor- ney Ottofy.

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The Structure Is One Hun- dred Feet Long and Is Opaque.

L. Frank Ottofy and his wife, Sarah B. Ottofy, and the Banner Iron Works, are restrained temporarity, by an order issued Saturday by Circuit Judge Sale, from proceeding with the erection of a high. metal fence between the Ottofy residence at 5820 Clemens avenue and the Clemens apartment house, which ad- joins. They must show cause next Thursday why a permanent injunction should not be issued against them. The order was issued at the instance of Claude E. Vrooman, proprietor of the Clemens. He alleges that iron bar- riers are beg erected against all the windows of the Clemens, shutting out the air and obstructing the view, and that the work is inspired by malice. The Banner Iron Co. is made a de- fendant because it is alleged that a contract has been made for the com- pany to do the work, Vital W. Garesche, one of the attor- neys for Vrooman, says that, when the Clemens was built, Ottofy offered to sell his property to Vrooman for $1k,- 0, but that the offer was declined. The fence is 100 feet long and 85 feet high. Ottofy says it is not a “spite fence,’’ but dwellers at the Celmens say it is. “IT don’t want to be placed in the light of bullding a ‘spite fence,’ ’’ said Mr. Ot- tofy Saturday. ‘I am just screening the windows of the apartment house because i have no desire to intrude on_the pri- vacy of those who live there. “The apartment house is yniy 15 feet from my line. If I were those people i wouldn’t want the family next door to iook into my windows. So vou see, I am doing them a favor by putting up the fence. ‘“T am merely assuring them that pri- yacy which they would enjoy if my residence were not so clcse to them and which they might have without the fence if they were always careful to pull down the shades.” The fence wi. be as opakue and al- most as thick as the outer shell of a battleship. Overlook the Yard. Mr. Ottofy’s yard is about all the scenery the dwellers on that side of the Clemens have a chance to seeand they have been enjoying the view, but they won’t do it much longer. They were so put out when the work on the spite fence was begun that they told the police about it and the work was stopped because the workmen had no permit from the Building Commissioner. Saturday Building Commissioner Smith decided that Mr. Ottofy does not have to have a permit to put up a fence inside of his own building line. “He can make it a thousand feet high if he wants to, so long as he braces it and makes it safe,’’ said Mr. Smith.

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Post-Dispatch Magazine Sunday, Nov, 17, 1907 Contents : Page Old-Fushioned Girls—Five New Creations by Noted Illustrators Never Before Published (in col- ors) The Big Black Cloud Which is Putting Furope in a Panic.... Unique Things That are Worth a NG i a ae eecnee $50,000 Worth of Artificial Bones in This Western Woman’s Body. Surgery Among the Birds Science Finds Proof in Missouri That Biblical Story of the Flood PD ca os tess The Remarkable Lawsult Over Jim Blades’ Foxhound and the Experience of a Reporter Who Was Taken for a Detective.... Cast Away Like Robinson Crusoe —A Thrilling Stery of Adven- ture in the Anmtaretic. by the Brave Mate of a Luckless Tes cctere ues ikea voiants The Love Letters of a Wee pen ere eee ee a back Such a Time Trying to Get the New “Hipless” Figure 8 Scientific Babies—They Have a Time of itt np ae a rh gett” Rae y . , st 4 2. . a teh a ‘ 4 * ia nd Sah

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Subpena for Wells at Instance of Warner-Priesmeyer Lawyer.

Mayor Wells was summoned by a sub- pena issued Saturday to testify as a witness at’the trial Monday of Dele- gates Warner and: Priesmeyer, charged in an indictment with accepting a bribe of $500, alleged to have been paid by Henry Ascher for the passage of his garage bill by the House of Delegates. The subpena was issued at the in- stance of Attorney Hiram Moore, repre- eenting Warner and Priesmeyer. Mayor Wells, according to: Judge Moore, will be asked what he knows of the $1000, which he is alleged to have furnished for the detection of any person seeking profit from the Ascher bill. At the time the subpena was requested Judge Moore filed a demurrer to the in- dictment. In it he sets forth that the grand jury charge fails to state facts that are sufficient grounds for any charge of crime against the defendants. The indictment is also held to be de- fective on the grounds that in it there is an impreper joining of distinct of- fenses;-end it is charged that the in- dictment is multifarious, ambiguous and obscure because it fails to apprise the defendants of the acts charged against them. ROCKEFELLER SAID TO HAVE STOWED AWAY $100,000,006 WORTH OF FEDERAL BONDS Oil King Is Government's Creditor by One-Ninth of People’s In- terest-Bearing Debt. NEW YORK, Nov. 6-—IJt is % current report on Wall street i his afternoon that John D. Rockefeller has stowed away in the vaults of the Staidard Trust Co. $100,000,000 worth ef Gorr»rmnent bonds. If this report be true, 0d its authen- ticity Is said to be assur: 1, the ofl king is the creditor of the Gov «ment to the extent of a little lesss t 1) one-ninth of the interest-bearing dei‘ »f the peo- ple. The significance attached to Rockefel- jler’s holdings is the fact tiat this amount of bonds Is held out preventing the national banks to that « «tent from increasing their circulation | y deaposit- ing the bonus With the Treas ry. Mra, Bradley Will Test fy. WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—In the jull following the adjournment of court over the week-end, Mrs. Bradley's attorners are devoting their time eka

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WE O HUSBA GA Mrs. Hall Declares He Was Delirious From Typhoid Fever.

Special to the Post-Dispatch. SEDALIA, Mo., Nov. 16.—Mrs. A. H. Hall appeared in the Circuit Court here today as the principal witness in de- fense of her husband, a _ billiard-room proprietor, accused of bigamy. Facing the legal wife of Hall as she sat on the witness stand was Etta Flor- ence Smith, the Tennessee girl who, after marrying Hall, lived at the Hall home here for ten days, along with the legal wife of Hall and his two children, who thought the young woman was Hall’s niece. Miss Smith is a witness for the prose- cution, which relies upon her testimony to convict Hall. As she sits in the courtroom, in a strange city hundreds of miles from her Southern home, she is a center of interest for the many women who are attending the trial. More than one Sedalia woman has openly expressed her sympathy for the girl. Matrons and even young women have gone to her and told her how sorry they are for her. Several times she has wept as some kindly mother of a family has put hand on her shoulder. and bade her be of good cheer. Mrs. Hall, the first wife, crossed the courtroom several times to speak words of comfort to her husband. “I know you couldn’t help it,” she said, This will be the defense which Hall’s wife will make for him. She will protest that a strange influence forced him to break the law by mar- rying Etta Smith at Finley, Tenn., Oct. 2. Says He Was Delirious. Mrs. Hall says she can prove that her husband was delirious from typhoid fev- er when he left home late in September and that instead of going to Howard County, as he had meant to do, he wandered to Finley, Tenn., where he met BEtta Florence Smith, 17-year-did daughter of a planter. That Hall was as one in'a dream is Mrs. Hall’s belief. She says that Etta Smith knew he was married. On the witness stand Saturday she said: ‘We were married 12 years and my husband was a good man until this awful thing happened. After he was ar- rested for bigamy I asked this young woman why she did this and she said she knew Mr. Hall had a wife, but she married him because she was tired of living at home.”

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ROOSEVELT MAKES NEW STATE; SCORED BY ITS GOVERNO

—_—_— Haskell Denounces “Public Offi Who Construes Constitution to Meet His Own Desires.” 7

SAYS OKLAHOMA MERITED ~— STATEHOOD LONG AGO

Reminds Those Who Gather to Witness auguration That They Are Not There to Worship President--Frantz Refuses to Attend Ceremonies,

Special to the Post-Dispatch. Indian Territory the forty-sixth ‘time to meet his own desires.’’ The Governor said:: + “We are not assembled here to wor- ship the public officer who ultimately conceded us our rights, when we reflect that long ago, from overy standpoint jof population, wealth and intelligence, this area was entitled to all the blessings and privileges of statehood; and now to thank the public officers in over-gracious terms who have finally performed a long and un- justly deferred duty would be in the nature of hugging the feet of a dilatory debtor who finally pays his just in- debtedness. Denounces Centralization. “It is with regret that we notice a disposition on the part of some high in authority to look: upon the Con- stitution of the United States itself as even a little thing, to be used when it meets the wish of its executor and to be construed and bended when at var~ jance with his will. There is no more dangerous practice to be tolerated in any public officer, I care not whether he bend it for a good purpose or for a bad purpose, than to assume the right to construe the Constitution from time to time to meet his own desires. ; “Those anxious to centralize power in the Federal Government must blush when they review the condajtions un- der which we have lived for years. Our freight rates are double those in the adjoining states. The lumber trust, the coal trust and other like combinations have fattened by unre-" stricted robbery of our people. If Federal control is such a good thing in a State, why has it proven 80 ut- terly inefficient in a territory?” Gov. Haskell dwelt at length upon what he termed the oppression of the’ country by the trusts, and then dis- cussed the financial situation, saying: “You can look for immediate relief wherever you please. When you tire looking elsewhere, you will agree with me that the quickest road to financial relief is to close the New York Stock Exchange and free the currency that it dominates and turn it into the channels of legitimate commerce. | “Let the Eastern banks pay our Oklahoma banks what they owe them and should pay in currency on de- mand, and we can market our prod- ucts now ready for the buyer and vastly increase our own wealth.” When he had finished the Governor announced the appointment of Robert L. Owens of Muskogee and Thomas P. Gore of Lawton as United States Sen- * fused to ride do with Gov Haskell, or with the in- auguration. The other retiring officials of Oklahoma were not invited to particl- pate. tet How New State Was Maée. WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.-—With a pen made from @ quill plucked from an eagle captured in Oklahoma, President Roose- yelt at 10 o'clock today signed the proc- GUTHRIE, Okla., Nov. 16-—Just after President Roosevelt affixed his signature to the proclamation that made Oklahoma and was bitterly araigned by the Governor-elect of the new State Charles N. Haskell, in his inaugural address. =e Prefacing his remarks with the statement that the citizens who had gathered in Guthrie to witness the inauguration were there ‘‘to worship the public officer who at-last had conceded to Oklahoma the privilege to which she was entitled long ago,’’ the. Governor denounced the President’s policy of centralizing in the Federal Government, declaring that there was no m dangerous policy to be practiced by a public officer than that’ ol assuming ‘‘the right to construe the Constitution from time particularly.

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“ae z > rg * BONFIRE CAUSES FATAL BURNS TO -COUNTY WOMAN Mrs. Annie Pietz Dies in Hospie tal From Accident at | Her Home.”

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Mrs. Annie Pietz, aged 56, a widow,of 9670 Columbia Bottom road, St. Louls — County, died at the Mullanphy Hospital =~ at noon Saturday from burns. Her cioth- : ing caunght fire while she was burning leaves in the yard of her home Friday | afternoon. Mrs. Pietz was attended by a physi-+ clan in the neighborhood and remained at her home Friday night. She was taken to the hospital In an ambulance Saturday. She was burned about the shoulders, breast and hands, the e upper part of her clothing havig caught fire from the burfiing leaves, — LABOR OPPOSES FEDERAL OWNERSHIP OF RAILWAYS © A. F. of L. Declares Itself After in (: Hot Fight by Vote of 154 to 50. a. NORFOLK, Va., Nov. 16.~—Aftera hot fight the American Federation of Labor ye declared its opposition to Government ownernship of railroads and mines by a vote of 14 to 50. enue The federation stands pat in its ion that telephones should be controlle@ by the Government. eae “DELIGHTFUL,” SAYS FORAKER= OF CALL ON THE PRESIDEN “If We Discussed. P cy Have Forgotten It,” Sena- tor Evades. WASHINGTON, Nov. .—Our are delightfully pleasant,” — claimed Senator Foraker of Ohbto as he left President Roosevelt's ¢ The Senator, after a 2-misutes’ oo ference with the President, said

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