St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 17, 1910

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Pending action by the Coroner's jury, no official action was taken toward Hess. Chief of Police Purdy said that from accounts he had of the tragedy he believed the officer is blameless and that he would not be punished in any way. Boyer, «a young brakeman for the M. & O., Railroad, attracted Patrol- men Fancher and Healey by his cries for help at midnight Friday, and they found him arising from the pavement at Fourth street and Rail- road avenue, opposite Thomas Shan- non’s saloon. “Some fellows were trying to give me the worst of it,”’ said Boyer. ‘‘There were four of them. They went into Shannon’s.”’ The policemen accompanied Boyer, whose face was bleeding where he said the men had kicked him on the chin and forehead, into the saloon and he there pointed out F. J. Bischoff. Leav- ing Healey to watch the saloon, Fanch- er started with Bischoff to headquar- ters arid told Boyer to accompany him to make sure of identification. At Main street and Division avenue, Boyer jerked loose from the policeman and started to run. Hampered by the necessity of holding Bischoff, Fancher had little chance to overtake him. Thought Fugitive a Prisoner. The police station was a block away ond Special Officer Hess was just leav- ing it. Fancher called to him, “Get that man,’’ and Hess started in pursuit. Boyer turned through Division avenue, with Hess at his heels firing his revol- ver in the air. Apparently seeing he had no hope of escape, Boyer turned and shouted, ‘‘Get away.” Hess said he thought the man was armed and an escaping prisoner, and on that account fired at him direct. The bullet struck Boyer in the nose. An ambulance was called, but Boyer died on the way te the hospital. Boyer was not the first victim of Hess’ revolver. Joseph Hutchison was shot in the chest by the special officer more than @ year ago, when he and another man stopped Hess and Frank Florence, "Hess’ walking partner, on the viaduct over Cahokia Creek and demanded their money. Hess fired and Hutchison’s companion jumped over the viaduct ‘into the creek and escaped. Hutchison was identified as the man who had helped “hold up” a saloon in East St. Louls and is now serving a 10-year term in the penitentiary. Dr. M. R. Doyle, president of the East St. Louls Police Board, says that from the accounts he has heard of the kill- ing he does not believe Hess is to blame, but that the shooting was justi- fiable. He does not anticipate that there will be any charges against the officer. An inquest will be held late Friday afternoon. Chief Purdy believes the men who attacked Boyer were friends of his, and that was why he tried to escape on the way to the station. He thinks Boyer’s remark when the policemn approached bears out this theory. © POSTAL SAVINGS BAhK BILL IS IN DANGER; SENATE UNFRIENDLY WASHINGTON, June 17.—It was Geveloped on the floor of the Sen- ate that opposition to the program for concurrence by the Senate in the House bill to create postal savings er ” banks would not be confined to the Democrats. “Insurgent” Republicans are opposed to the House bill, and quite a formidable force is prepar- ing to insist that the bill be sent to conference. “But it might be tmposstble for the conferees to reach an agreement this session,” said Senator Smoot to Sen- ator Cummins, who had suggested that there should be changes in the House measure. +“Eiven that would be preferable to taking the bil as it ts,” said the "ace could make their Pf 9t session and no fesult to the coun- he delay.”’ in hssion was informal at -» to all parts of the imber, dis. ,osing the fact that there 0 general sentiment in any quar ‘the postal bank bill. | t : ; Drie SRots: POLICEMAN WHO KILLED FLEEING WITNESS; DIAGRAM OF TRAGEDY WAS ALLED AFTER DarTsecT- AND BISCHOFF UNDER ARREST WHEN Boyer BROKE LOOSE, ar/D T’o SHANNON'S \S'ALOOV Ia, OD FOURTH ANP RAILROAD AVE, TT —_—_—_—_ —— -—- —_—— —- NEW FORECASTER'S FIRST PREDICTION: FAIR AND CONTINUED WARM HERE THE TEMPERATURES. _iil.a LETTER HELD FOR POSTAGE BREAKS AWAY AT LAST AND —GUESS WHAT IT SAID? It Wanted the Post-Dispatch to Tell How to Perform Difficult Trick. The obliging postmaster of Cincin- nati notified the Post-Dispatch, June 11, that he was holding an important let- te: for postage. The notice stated that the important letter would be sent on promptly if tne Post-Dispatch would send 2 cents to pay carriage charges and bridge arbitrary. The Post-Dispatch, iike everybody else, wants to get all the important letters addressed to it. It put a 2-cent stamp in an envelope addressed to the postmaster at Cincin- nati. At noon of the fourth day the post- man left a letter bearing this inscrip- tion: “This is the mail for which you sent postage.”’ The letter was brief and to the point, like all letters should be. [t was writ- ten on a single sheet of paper, with grease spots at each end. The letter read: Dear Editor: Please let me know how to make a good ple crust. You shall help me very much. A BEGINNER. Among the myriad readers of the Post-Dispatch there are undoubtedly many persons who know how to make excellent pie crust. If some one will be kind enough to send in a receipt, the Post-Dispatch will gladly print it for the benefit of this struggling beginner, who is evidently ambitious to excel in the art of making pie crust and, judg- ing from the grease spots on the letter, je trying very hard. An oft- repeated tale. On Wednesday of this week, in this space, we told the public that the POST-DISPATCH had for five consec- utive months of this year, without exception, BROKEN ALL RECORDS for the volume of legitimate, bona fide paid advertising carried. This does not, as previously explained, include cheap city legal printing carried -at a price refused to merchants and obtained on a guarantee of a circulation exceeding $000 for the City printing and a circulation of 5% of the city population for the court printing. It has no refer- ence to special editions bought with pictures and free reading matter by special solicitors, nor dees it apply to advertising of pianos, diamonds, real estate or mules taken in exchange ) other papers for circulation pre- miums and coupons. But it does mean the regular, legiti- mate, bona fide paid advertising of the merchants and the general public at the regular rates of the paper which are always (in the POST-DISPATCH) as per our ecard of rates, the ‘‘same price for the same proposition.’’ A boy can buy as cheap as a man. All of this simply to call attention to the difference between legitimate and fake advertising. The record of st. Louis merchants’ advertising on Thursday of this week was Post-Dispatch . . 83 Cols. Globe-Democrat, Republic and Times added together . . 73 POST-DISPATCH excess over the other 3 combined. 10 columns, or 13 per cent. Post-Dispatch circulation for the first quarter, 1910 Sunday . 277.110 Dally . 167,601 Yesterday’s Temperature. 87 Minimum —- -—w» ‘LL BET JEFF AND JACK Ar@ FIGHTING MAD ABOUT 'T. “—; hope_ this new weather fore- caster will stay a while,”” said the man with a cold in the head, “ww acre quired the one with the cough. “He ought to stay long enough to learn all the ropes and le- vers’’—— **Yea?’’ “So that he won't make a mistake and pull the rope for De cember weather in June, and for winter climate in the summer.”’ “Muy ve Liie eauee the weather’s been so changeable is that we've had three forecasters already this year.”’ The official forecast: St. Louis and vic nity, fair and continued warm tonight and Saturday. The stage of the river is 16.7 feet, a fall of .2. Missouri—Fair and continued warm to- night and Saturday; warmer in west portion tonight. Illinois—Generally fair warm tonight and Saturday. and continuei - éé Circulation Books O>en to Al. FULLERTON SAYS NO $5000 SINEGURE S MEANT FOR Hil Presbyterian Field Secretary Discusses Graft Charges Made at Pittsburg EXPENSES TOO HIGH Soft Snap for “Dear Brother in West,” According to One Delegate. Salaries of $5000 annually and ho- tel bills of $5 a day are not in con- sonance with the tastes churchmen should have, in the opinion of dele- gates to the Pittsburg Presbytery, in session in Pittsburg, Pa., and a res- olution has been adopted there con- demning them as extravagant. Oth- er presbyteries are asked to join in the request to the General Assembly to be more economical. According to a news telegram to the Post-Dispatch Friday, Homer Castle of Pittsburg, one of the delegates, said: “A notable of expenditure of money is the creation of a place at $5000 a year for a dear brother in the West.” The Rev. Dr. B. P. Fullerton, sec- retary of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions with headquarters in St. Louis, said this statement was in example error, and that so far as he knew no contemplated He was assembly two such positions were by the General Assembly. the years ago, and a delegate a year ago, but did not attend last May at: At- lantic City. The Rev. Dr. Fullerton further added linked his name with such a position was without moderator of that any discussion which foundation in fact. Owing to his ab- sence from the Atlantic City assembly, he is not positive, he said, that such positions are not in contemplation, but he has heard nothing of them. The Rev. Frank S. Brenneman of Carrick, Pa., started the discussion by declaring that members of a _ special committee at the General Assembly at Atlantic City, in May, were lodged at the Chalfont Hotel at a cost of $5 a day for their rooms, and the resolution urges that the expenses of delegates be limited to $2 a day, paid out of their own pockets if they must live more luxuriously th $2 per- mits. The full telegraphic repor to the Post-Dispatch of these criticusms was laid before the Rev. Dr. Fullerton, and he reiterated that he was in no way concerned in them. “TIT am working here as field secretary on a salary nothing like $5000 a year,’’ he explained, ‘and expect to continue in that position. I have never ‘heard of any $5000 positiong in contemplation, and do not think any are being planned.”’ Since the merging of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church with the Presby- terian, there has been much friction within the church Those in the Cum- berland branch who opposed the merg- er, principally because its identity was lost thereby, have entertained i!]-fee]- ing toward those who urged it mest strongly, and dispatches from Pittsburg say this was in a measure responsible for the criticism directed toward the General Assembly. The Rev. Dr. Fullerton was a member of the committee which completed the details of the merger. The Rev. Mr. Brenneman accused the General Assembly of “criminal extravagance,” and intimated that thefe was favoritism and graft, in that some of the delegates were per- mitted to turn in. bigger expense ac- counts than others. GIBBET READY; NEGRO GONE au REEEEEEE oe To Complicate Matters, Florida Governor Grants a Respite. WEST PALM BEACH, Fia., June 17. —All preparations had been made to hang George Fields, a negro, this after- The scaffold was erected and the rope had been tested and the wit- nesses had been invited. The only thing lacking was the negro. He escaped from jail at St. Augustine last night. Meantime, not knowing of the escape, Gov. Gilchrist wired a re- spite of a week pending investigation. LABOR BUREAU BILL FAVORED House Committee to Report Measure to Create New Cabinet Officer. WASHINGTON, June 17.—The House committee on labor today decided to report favorably a bill creating a de- partment of labor with a seat in the President's Cabinet. the excess to be noon. Aldrich’s Sen Seriously rl. NEW YORK, June 17—Richard §. Aldrich, son of Senator Nelson W. Ald- rich, of Rhode Island, is in of typhold fever at the Presbyterian Hospital here. iis condition is regarded as serious, The accompanying photograph of Montrose W. Hayes, the new weather forecaster was taken in hits office by a staff photographer for the Post-Dispatch, just after the official hat taken charge in St. Louis. EMPLOYES TOLD THEY MUST SMOKE TRUST'S CIGARS Letters, With List of Brands They Must Use, Sent ‘to Each Clerk. we ee The Tobacco Trust has issued thinly-velled commands to its 40,000 employes to smoke cigars manufac- tured by the trust, and boycott the products of its competitors. Letters to this effect, signed by Percival 8. Hill, president of the American Cigar Co., have been received this week by employes in all the St, Louis tobacco houses affiliated with the American Tobacco Co. Accompanying each letter is a pocket memorandum book, containing a ukase directing the use of trust- made cigars and a list of the chief monopoly brands. Extracts from Hill's letter follow: There are #,000 men holding posi- tions with the American Tobacco Co., the American Cigar Co. and the companies in which they are inter- ested as stockholders. Most of us smoke cigars. Our brands are for sale everywhere in this country. Are you buying daily use? The first pages of the memorandum book enclosed give a list of the best distributed brands of each class of cigars that we make. Will you read these names and familiarize your eye with those brands which repre- sent them andask for tnem whenever and wherever you buy cigars for your own smoking or for your friends? “T’ve always thought I had a right to choose what kind of cigar I wanted,’’ said one recipient of these missives to a Post-Dispatch reporter Friday, “but I suppose I was wrong. I've got to smoke what the company wants me to, or they’d make things unpleasant for me. “Tl wonder if we have to buy those 50- cent perfectos that are listed in the memorandum beek. Say, I only make $15 a week, and a few of those half- dollar stogies would bankrupt me.” The list includes imported Havanas, from 16 to.50 cents each; clear Havanas, from 10 to 90 cents each, and blends for from 8 to % cents each. At the end several brands of S-cent cigars are listed. WILL REPORT “REFORM” RULE Committee Has Plan to Prevent “Smothering” of Law. WASHINGTON, June 17.—Thé de cision of the House Rules Committee today to report a “reform” rule, de- signed to prevent legislation being “smothered’ in committee, makes an- other fight on the rules in the House at this session improbable. The rule is practically that pre- : py the Democratic conference known as the Clark-Sheriey resolu-. them for your tion, --waw ea POEL OL LL AE! IIMA On atl ?. OOOO 4 Oa Pe OO POA PN OOO AI I OLLI PELL AA AAAI AO DRG RAT is Re no oe Min ws Official Starts His Re- gime With Excessive Heat but Promises to Reform Climate Within a Few Days. pore Montrose W. Hayes, the weather man in St. Louis, arrived at his office Friday with a new brand of weather, it is hoped, packed in his grip. He relieves J. Warren Smith, who goes to Columbus, O., to become an instructor in meteorology. The rains, the cold weather ani the sudden onslaught of high tem- perature which have been inflicted upon the city in a remarkable Spring and Summer, do not discour- age the new forecaster, who prom- ises to provide us with “good nor- mal weather’ from now on, “By a good normal climate,” he ex- plained, “I mean one where you can keep warm when it is cold and cool when the weather ig hot.” “Never believe all you hear about the weather,’’ is a maxim which Hayes rec- ommends to the public and which he practices in regard to his own predic- tions. ‘“‘Many times,’’ he says, “I have gone out without an umbrella and. got drenched. Then I weuld go home and read where I had predicted a storm. If I bothered abeut the weather after I left the office I would go crazy.” Not a Careless Forecaster. But it must not be gathered from this that Hayes is a careless forecaster. If he carries out his theory of weather predictions in St. Leuls the local Weather Bureau will seldom make 4 new ‘| mistake. ‘IT do not make an absolute predic- tion,” Hayes continued. “unless it is certain that there is ne chance for the prediction to go wrong. If the main in- dications show that it will be clear, but there is nevertheless some chance of rain, then I make. the prediction read, “Clear Thursday or Friday—with pos- sible rain.’”’ That puts persons on their guard and they may govern themselves accordingly. I call these ‘qualified pre- dictions.’ ”’ Hayes does not think the weather man ig an abused individual. “If you are on a trolley car or in @ a@rowded elevator or in a jam any place,’” he says, “you can be fairly certain. of hearing the weather or the weather man mentioned. But not once do I remember to have heard the weather man censured. People are ready to be tolerant of his mistakes.” Quite unlike the new forecaster’s for- getfulness of his own predictions is the manner in which Mrs. Hayes regulates her goings and comings by them. If Hayes says that it is going to be a nice day nothing in the world could induce her to take an umbrella along when she goes shopping—Hayes says. Starts Off Whh Het Weather, He has forecast weather in the Ar- gentine Republic and all parts of the United States, from New Orleans and Jacksonville to Helena, Mont., where it was sometimes @ degrees below sero; and has become so used to weather that it doesn’t excite him at all. Cold or hot, he takes it as it comes. “The weather,” he says. “like the poor, we have with us always. So why bother about mu. ° Hayes started Friday by ordering fair and not uncomfortably warm weather. But his fellow-forecaster in Chicago, brought down a hot wave upon the city hour Friday to mix a new drink in % WITH ORIGINAL BRAND OF | GOODS NOW IN ST. LOUIS Ne eee NEW ROOSEVELT DRINK PROMISES PREAT RESULTS Six Nations Contribute to Cocktail Named in Honor of Bwana Tumbo. (En- (France). Recipe for Drink to six nations contribute: (Italy). Dash of kirschwasser. Honor Bwana Tumbo NGREDIENTS of “Papa” Harris’ Roosevelt cocktail, to which One-half jigger of San Juan rum. (Cuba). One-quarter jigger of vermouth. One-quarter jigger dry gin. gland). Dash of absinthe. many). Serve in Venetian (Austria) cock- tail glasses. (Ger- Inspired by the home coming of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Henry W. (‘Papa’) Harris, the eminent artificer of mixed intoxicants, retired to his study for an honor of “Bwana Tumbo.”’ At the end of that time the inventor cried ‘‘Eureka!’’ and announced to the world the birth of the “Roosevelt cock- tail,” guaranteed to make a mollycoddle bite a malefactor of great wealth, or a milksop thras.. a Rough Rider. ‘“‘Papa”’ Harris seizeu a bottle of San Juan rum and splashed a half jigger. of it into an Austrian cocktall glass, for every moment in concocting the po- tent mixture must be 4s strenuous as possible. Into this he stirred a dash of aosinthe with violent flourishes of a spoon. Then he threw into the glass « quarter jigger of vermouth and a quar- ter jigger of dry gin. Shakes Mixture Vigorously, A dash of kirschwasser completed the formidable conglomeration, which was shaken vigorously until it was at the point of explosion. That was the pre- cise moment at which to swallow it, ac- cording te “Papa” Harris. A fly which absorbed a drop of the cocktall spilled on the bar promptly attacked the saloon cat, drove her into a corner and forced her to scream for mercy. A globule falling on a sand- wich in its dotage impelled it to leap about the free lunch counter with youthful abandon. “Papa” Harris is looking for some St. Louls member of the “Back from Hibe Club”. on whom to give the cocktall « eyo ment in San Francisco Reno Wanted the Battle. -_s © By Associated Press. : SAN FRANCISCO, June 17. companies of militia under arms should any attempt be made to here this morning from Sacra- mento and presumably is now in conference with the Governor. Neither of them can be located. SAN FRANCISCO, June 17.— ‘‘Tex’’ Rickard announced today on receipt of a telegram from Morris Sullivan of Goldfield, Sullivan guaranteed to the promoters. ‘Sullivan is an able,’’ said Rickard. ‘‘I have no it is hardly possible that any one city will raise Goldfield’s bid. BY ROBERT EDGREN. RE A Staff Correspondent of the New York World and Post- tech, | » Ca: =: sPooreiany wr Bre Fe Om SAN FRANCISCO, June 17.—Tex Rick- ard looks a little pale around the gills, the St. Francis Hotel, where his head- quarters are. ; “The men will figat July 4 In spite of all the opposition on earth,” said Tex. “I'll pull this fight off on sched- ule time’ if I have to go to the sage brush. All the sawing in the world isn’t me now. “I have just seen Johnson with Jeffries over the have promised to stick want te know. “You can put it white and swear of July is going championship settl that every man I have ings with will get every I've promised. I'll put up and stick to all my agreemen : : : : pubge i : : ‘ p’ “a g 4d , 7 , 5 . Ver: IP e 5 and) Pree iid 1) ‘ . 1a re he had - iy Hf ‘ $ : He if : = - ; oie ie 5 ae AE al bie. r we . wa + y sis * F s . - Pp y 4 ang sm, A ee “. wy : ae ; apy KETO . 7 bars oe [ * today, according to dispatches. i 2 " : o re : " re pull it off. Gen. Lauck arrived ‘ * { 1 s - , iit, oe # ¥ ub ‘ef hoe wf Ku Pere Z ‘ * aq x 4 a7 £ z An ' é oe , i ye ‘ » evr se ry . re Makes Official Announce : > and ready to stop the Langford. — Nev, that the Jeffries Johnson fight would be held there July 4, $120,000 old friend of — mine and absolutely depend- , FE Mining City Gets Contest After, Guaranteeing $120. = Gov. Gillett Reported to - = Have Taken Steps to Stop-- Ketchel-Kaufman Bout. ae tant-General Lauck to have two details but know the man. You go to Go d unless a much = better offer should come from = = some other Nevada City. I think — * Fe ee Sy. yee ot Shs st’, hs po