St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 25, 1909

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Sf ee Re. i hie Ae. oe hie i Pe % ay b> Pre ee Ta: shy ‘ PS vy e a 2 , ’ mar he te 4 - . ; 5 e put in a fair way toward solution committee $2280, and the members thereby? thought they were doing handsomely by| But the other side of the shield is yet their former chairman. to be shown. Has a husband whose Then the Bills Began to Come In. wife has filed suit for divorce an equal When the bills began coming into right to chase his wife around the lot the committee the first of the following |2"4 implant a kiss if he catches her? month there was one for three $5 hats. Or, in such an instance, would the The bill was made out originally for | °°UTt uphold the right of a mother-in- four hats, but one was scratched off. law to interfere and drive away the pur- The “Crying Boss’ did not explain suing spouse? why the hats were bought, or who they} OPinions differ. Some who have dis- were for, but sent a note stating that cussed the matter hold that Judge Pol- he thought the bill a just one and that|/#rd made his ruling because of gal- the committee ought to pay it. lantry and sympathy, the beneficiary _ The bill was referred to the City Com-. heing a woman, young and fairly good- mittee, along with the others. There looking. was a lively debate over it. One com-

© ee - Not Determined. Thomas ierce of Boyle & Priest. counsel for the company, said that un- tik he could read the decision, he could 1.6t say what the.next iegal step woulc be. i any genuine dealing between them as separate and independent pare ties or corporations, The same mea controlied both companies, “yeted the controlling stock in each, as occasion demanded under the form ef duality. The dual organizing should deceive no one. Brought to a test before the courts in all its real import, it will not be toler- ated. Nor will such transactions be treated by any court under- standing them, as actual business transnctions, as contracts executed in geod faith, the result of mutual bargaining, and hence to be pro- tected and ‘validated by the courts of the Iand, What the Statutes Permit. While it is true that our statute authorizes one street railway com- pany to lease its property to an- other, it does so on the presumption that both corporations are organized and operated as distinct entities, in good faith, to serve the public, and that one actually desires to acquire by lease the property of the other. .The statute does not .contemplate that a group of men may create two street railway corporations, to op- erate the same system, both in the same place, covering the same ter- ritory, engaged in doing the same work, and then shift the assets from one to the other, under the guise of either leases or sales at their pleasure.

THE TEMPERATURES. _ 63 seers parted and he fell. o tl ‘ 7 aia un was pulled up @ lla the’ coroner cut. | . lowr mob dispersed neni Davis entered the home of H.- ton Padgett, a elt during his absence day ing, and attacked Miss Amy Padgett’s 16-year-old niece, | alone and asleep in her bedre fought the negro, and tenth. ra came to her assistance he 3 ‘through a window and escar y's was captured and admitted the « Miss Holmes was puatirtesns: I hic LYNCHING FEARED EARED FOR NE LAWYER, ACCUSED OF M , LIMA, O., May 1 —Remenn 4 : mob was forming with the intention lynching John W. Beam, the 7 ~~ torney under arrest here on th a é of murdering Mrs. Maude Diits @ day aight, caused Sheriff Van ¢ Gur to remove his prisoner from th * Hospital to the county na i Beam was escorted to heavy guard. Beam is now in the sti the jail and a guard is about him. Electric a hung around the prisoner's colt no one can approach it nout seen. —_— Residents of, Waynesfield, the f home of Mrs. Diltz, are sal ay : greatiy excited over the murder. ’. U. 8S. Beam, a brother of the and a wealthy citizen of his office and left for his Kentucky today. Negroes urged to leave, as they feared he mij lynched if he remained here. Marion C. Early, who has fought Bar- rie's battle through three trials in the Circuit Court and two in the Court of Appeals, has repeatedly stated that the result of the Barrie case would decide similar damage litigation with the ex- ception of cases before the Supreme Court, where judgments were for large amounts. One of these, the Krehmeyer ase, has been decided for the company. John A. Gilliam, attorney for J. Brooks Johnson, holder of a number of such claims, said the Barrie decision might not have direct bearing on Johnson's suits, which are against the stockhold- ers of the old company as individuals. Affirms Reynolds’ Judgment. The opinion, handed down by Appel- Jate Judges George D. Reynolds and R. lL. Goode, affirmed the judgment in Barrie’s favor rendered by Circuit Judge Matt G. Reynolds, after Judge Fisher had once decided against him. The original judgment was obtained in the Clayton Circuit Court. Strong language is used in expressing the Court’s opinion of the company’s plea. The decision savs: The whole history of the Transit and United Railways, as clearly demonstrated by the evidence in “this case, shows beyond room for cavil that there have never been United Railways Should Pay the - Plaintiff's Claim, Declares Court Jefferson and Geyer avenues, Feb. 1, 1900, and threw him out, breaking his leg. He got a damage judgment at vast accumulations, new cars, new Clayton, sought in vain to collect it equipment, new buildings, miles of in- jafter the “tripartite agreement” of creased trackage, as well as a vast | Sept. 27, 1904, and has since sued in the | sum in cash, admittedly $600,000, the Comtinued on Page 2, Column 1. Roosevelt Transit company in the operation of the system. It did not buy them— Shot a strange animal in Africa. Notwith- The official forecast: Showers and cooler Tuesday night; Wednesday. partly cloudy; westerly winds. Thea river is nt 19.6, a rise of .2. v3 ‘nae time in 24 dark, damp and drizzly hours, the sun arose Tuesday, stretch- ed himself on his feather bed of go00se-gray clouds, peeped through the curtains of his four-poster to see whether it Was really time to get up, yawned, § sat dreamily. gazing upon the world awhile and turned over for another nap. Far down on the earth below him the men and women who scurried about like ants were fretting and fum- ing about the weather. And the loudest buzz of complaint came from St. Louis, where some sort of cataclysm had tup- set the calendar and knocked November into the middle of May. Undesirable, Rain, on Scene. Pos: a day and a half scurrying clouds, reinforced by thick, black sm@¢ke from the factories across the river, had thrown a pall of gloom over the city. Just to keep the proceed- ings from being too dry, that undesira- ble, Rain, got out his garden hose and tried to wet down the ethereal muck that floated in and vut, up and dewn and through St. Louis. That didn’t help much. It reduced the soot to tne consistency of ooze, which solled aiixe the purple and fine ijnen of the patricians and the shirt waists and green fedora hats of the “com- mon peepul.’’ Pinch-Hitter Wind Falls. Throughout the night the rain con- tinued to fall. Old Pinch-hitter Wind tried to carry away the gloom and the muck, but he wasn’t in good form and couldn't get up @ greater speed than 20 miles an hour. Doors Forced With Hammers. Jailer Holland had hidden the keys and with sledge hammers the mob went to work tearing away the brick wall and the big iron doors. They cut a hole large enough to admit two men and after reaching the inside of the jail the mob succeeded in breaking the locks on the door leading to the hallway. “ Davis was in the west corner of the hall, huddled from view like a fright- ened beast. He was dragged from the jail, fighting like a demon, and his clothes were torn from his body. While the lynchers were at work Judge Grace pleaded with them for law observance. They would not listen to reason, and Judge Grace called them by name individually and dectared that they would be murderers and that he would have to punish them. Still they did not withdraw. Hanged With Bell Cord. While Judge Grace was talking the mob reached the negro and pulled him through the hole in the wall. The mob left the building with their prisoner and walked two blocks and halted. The negro was told to pray. He knelt down and murmured a few words in a trem- bling voice. Having no rope the mob got a bell cord from a street car, and with it ————— TAFT, ASSURED TARIFF WILL PASS, PREPARES FOR A TOUR President’ Will Leave Capital July 3 and Visit Five Towns in East. WASHINGTON, May 2%.—Senator W. Murray Crane of Massachusetts, who is “in the know’ at the capital, went to the White House yesterday and told the

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The United Railways, lessor and ewner, has taken back unto itself, uot only the property leased, but its

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SEs ar oe ; a it did wot buy back the road; it ousted the putative tenant and moved in. It paid no adequate price for the improvements, additions and new as- sets received. Those assets were, in equity, charged with a lien in favor of this creditor in an amount equal to their full value, and that amount is ample to satisfy the just demand of this creditor plaintiff. The Mnited

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Railways Co. of St. Louis, possibly the best equipped, certainly the best managed street car system in the country, a magnificent and valuable property, can well afford to pay this plaintift. Being in possession and ownership of those assets, it has made itself liable to do so to the ex- , tent of the plaintiff's claim, and it - should pay that claim. Attempt at Evasion Charged. In another place the transaction,

Standing he has ex- tensive knowledge of natural history he was unable to identify it as : was shot all to pieces. St. Louis Children Will Be Given Valuable Prizes for aiding in the identification of this_strange beast See the . south E blustered just enough to rattle H the windows of St. Louis homes and make the timid think he was blowing a gale. Instead of knocking Rain out of the box, he just fanned. Hundreds of workers carried umbrellas or wore raincoats when they started downtown. Deliberates After a Nap. They felt like cheering when they saw the sun peep out, just before 8 o'clock, but there was a sudden revulsion of feeling when he went back to sleep. After taking his morning nap he awoke, apparently refreshed. The last seen of him ne was sitting on the edge of his couch tossing pennies to decide how long he should stay awake, Evidently the coin turned “*heads,”’ for the sun bounced out of bed and seemed bright and chipper nearly all morning. Ph apse ae te 4g cooler tonight; Weitoos fnoie> Thr reatening a- ae weath ight and ednesdiy. w showers; cooler in axtreme

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mitteeman declared that the committee might have to pay the salary of Jep’s chauffeur and the repair bills on the automobile if it established the prece- dent of paying for his hats. “Why should we pay for hats Jeptha lost on the election?” asked another member. “I move that we send the bill ‘back to him.” The motion carried. MRS. TAFT TAKES SHORT WALK Not Likely That She Will Make Trip to Pittsburg. WASHINGTON, May 2%.—Mrs. Taft, whose condition has been the cause of some concern to the President the past —s — — improved today, being able to leave her room the White House. ee It is not Mkely, however, that she will be able to accompany the President to Pittsburg the latter part of the wee

germ, which has been eradicated by lack of contact, game? cape by pleading the Chicago germ the-

cota Sho 5 2er eu re » (as. Bek : att wil op whe work both ways, as the world knows. Another ramification—can . the love be reconveyed to the un- loving spouse by a kiss bestowed un- der catch-as-catch-can rules of the Or can the unwilling kissee es- ory as to kisses, which has nothing to do with the love germ? The popularization of the Pollardised kiss will be followed, it 1s predicted, by a decrease in the number of divorce cases that come to trial.

Miasourian Is Sentenced to Ha LAWTON, Ok., May 2%.—A now ites was refused John Hopkins, formerly of Kingston, Mo., recently convicted of murdering his wife, Anna, in Lawton Oct. 2, 1907, and today He was sen- tenced to be hanged on July 2.

cane Torus ter Raat hadi. NEW YORK, May 2%.—Convicted ot merous celebrations of the tercentennary

|rbing « aronicen an of @ conte, De- | ‘ee President that the tariff bill surely will be out of the way by the end of June. Thereupon Mr. Taft completed arrange- ments to leave Washington July 3. He will spend the Fourth at Norwich, Conn., when the town will celebrate its founding. He will then attend the nu- of the discovery of Lake Champlain. July 6 will be spent at Fort Ticonde- roga, July 7. at Pilattsburg, and the 9th at Burlington on Vermont Day. He will gu from Burlington to his summer home at Beverly, mines. . * ar. st

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