St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 23, 1913

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- Globe-De crat ae yan | combi ie Sa ce EE a OP OR ee tine hs Bar tte POT “To Rent Rooms thins ‘whe KNOW use. St. Louis’ ONE BIG Bountt Medium. - $125,000 ESTATE Former Missouri Postmistress, ot , “Why, Accused of Mailing Check, Is Named, in Mysterious Will. WANTS VIRGINIA FORTUINE F our + Brothers of Bachelor Who Died of Poison, Attack Will Which Came From Chicago. Mrs. Ella McClendon, a former Mis- sourl Postmistress, recently arrested on @ charge of using the mails to defraud a bank, is the claimant of $125,000 of the $200,000 estate left by George M. Nich- olas, a bachelor of Rockingham County, Va., whose death from arserric poisoning last August is an unsolved mystery. This was learned Monday by Assistant District Attorney Daues and Postoffice Inspector Reuter of St. Louis. They have been investigating the charge on hich Mrs. McClendon was arrested une 3 in Sturdivant, Bollinger County, where she was at one time Postmistress. Mailed Check to Banks. This charge was that she attempted to obtain, from a bank .in Georgetown, Colo., $900 of the money left by one John Rowan, who died at Gower, Mo. The letter sent to the Colorado bank bore the name of “Ed Sellers,” and inclosed a check with Rowan’s purported signa- ture, payable to ‘Sellers.’’ Postoffice inspectors say that ‘“‘Sellers’’ was Mrs. McClendon, and charge that she opened mail bearing that name. The discovery that Mrs. McClendon was a claimant to a much larger estate in Virginia, and that she waS the chief beneficiary of a will which made its appearance in a most unusual manner, struck the local Federal officials as an odd coincidence. Details of the Virginia matter were 1 received by Daues and Reuter in Mon- - @ay’s mail, and these agree with details telegraphed to the Post-Dispatch. Mrs. McClendon was held under $2000 bond at Cape Girardeau on the attempt- ed mail fraud charge. The St. Louis of- ficials did not know whether she had furnished bond. Will Sent to State’s Lawyer. ‘One of the remarkabie elements of the case, as told in dispatches to the Post-Dispatch from Harrisonburg, Va., is the manner in which the purported will came to light. On the fourteenth day after Nicholas’ death a package bearing what look like a Chicago post mark was received in the mail by Commonwealth’s Attor- ney Harrison. It contained a wallet ani several papers, one of them the pur- ported will. * A letter accompanied the package, and ini it the writer stated that, some time before, he had bbed Nicholas— he ‘did not fay where’or exactly when. He had read in the newspapers of Nich- olas’ death, he added, and having read the will, he thought it his duty to send it to the Virginia authorities, in order that the woman named as beneficiary should not lose her inheritance. The will bequeathed to Mrs. McClen- don the Nicholas “home farm’’ on the Shenandoah River, consisting of sev: eral hundred acres of fertile land and valued at not less than $50,000, and $75,- 000 in cash. The testator explained that tre. woman had cared for him in St. I 42 after he had been injured by a si et car in that city. The time of this occurrence Was not stated. Cash Estimated at $75,000. The residue of the estate was left to “my two brothers,” * Jt designated by name. This was sf Aewhat confusing, as Nicholas had te * brothers. He was not usually on $a terns with them all at once, by which two he would have favored / a any particular time would be a ri itter of dispute. The residue would be of considerable value, as his cash, deposited in 10 or 12 banks, is betieved to have beer much over $75,000, and as he held valuable land and securities. An official of Rockingham Courty, who had business relations with Nich- olas, said Nicholas once told him he had been robbed and had lost some money and papers, but that he did not go into details. When the first examination of Nich- olas’ personal effects showed no will, his four brothers took possession of the estate, and Charies H. Nicholas ob- tained appointment in the Probate Court as administrator. He gave $40,000 boni. with his three brothers as sureties. A!l the brothers are well-to-do, but their combined fortunes did not much exceed the George M. Nicholas estate in value. Begins Partition of Eatate. As administrator, Charles H. Nicholas began at once to divide the cash and other easily divisible assets. He had made only a start in this parcition when | = ~~ he learned of the purported will. four ‘brothers have employed counse: and will contest the will. They declare that they tLave no knowledge that George M. Nicholas was ever in St. Toeuls. The will is written on cheap note pa- per with a pencil, and is not dated. - Under Virginia probate laws, a date 1s not atrictly necessary. Those who have seen the signature say it is to all ap- ~ pearance that of Nicholas, who wrote a very distinctive hand. George M. Nicholas was 72 years old, was a Confederate veteran, ard lost a leg at the battle of Rich Mountain, Va., (now West Virginia) in 1862. After the a war he became a country storekeeper Se oe ae County, and by shrewd oot. pare of one plece of land| sinever married. and lived fn The | Only nly Exening Paper in St. Louis Wit the Associated ‘Press News Service. VOL. 65. NO. 307. GENERALLY FAIR AND. WARMER FOR TOMORROW THE TEMPERATURES, -__————— “Papa, why do they want to re- form the cur- asked t spoiled m ioe hat, bat: it was fine.: rency?’’ Willie. to make it more elastic, Il believe.’’ “So the money will stretch furth- ey 9°" “I guess so.”’ “Do you know all about currency, papa?’’ “I’m pretty well posted, my boy.”’ “Well, if I had the dime you promised to give me last week and the money you shook out of my bank for carfare this morning and what I expect to get when Aunt Mary comes to visit us and then I bought a new catcher’s mitt, how much money would I have?” — Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Geuerally fair and warmer tonight and Tuesday. Missouri and Illinois: Generally taft to- night and warmer Tuesday in the north Stage of the river: 14.9 teet; change. TEAR BOTTLES JUST A no to Hide Powder Puff, Instead ~ of Crying Into Them. PNILADELPHIA, June 23.—The “tear bottles” which women of the Orient carried centuries ago were only a ruse. Several of these bottles are included in a collection of glassware which has been bought for $13,000 for the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania museum. In ancient prints and histories the women of fashion of 1009 B, C. are rep- resented as carrying the “tear bottles” in which to give vent.to their grief on public occasion. it now develops that when the woman raised one of the bot- tles to her eyes she was just dabbing powder gover a red spot on her cheek. Examination of the “tear bottles’’ in the museum collection disclosed traces of rouge, powder, paint and cold cream still sticking to the bottom of the glass. In the collection are many cream pots and oil jars for the toilet table wrought in wonderful designs and colors, which have become more beautiful after lying for many centuries in tombs of Egyp- tian cities where they were found. PARK WORKMEN LAY FOR COMMISSIONER’S CIGARS Davis Offers Them Box of 50 if They Lay Over 30 Stones a Day in Swimming Pool. Twenty-five workmen, building the new public swimming pool at Fairground Park, are laying for Park Commission- er Davis’ cigars. The more they lay, the more cigars they get. Thege workmen in the cigar Marathon are th who lay the stone flagging which wifeline the big pool. In order to hurry the work: and insure the comple- tion of the pool by July 7, Davis has promised to give a box of 8 cigars to the workmen whenever they lay more than 30 of the stone slabs in one day. The men won a box of cigars last Wednesday, the first day the offer was open, but since then they have failed to pass the 30 mark. FOREST FOR THE POPE Plan Is to Add Pine Woods to Vatican Gardens. ROME, June 23.—Owing to the im- paired health of Pope Pius X after his recent illness, it is understood negotia- tions are now going on between the Holy See and Prince Torlonia for the pur- Prince, which lies close to the Vatican gardens. This wood can be reached either by means of an underground passage or an archway, and would enable the Pope to enjoy a much larger area of garden. This section affords a magnificent view of the Roman Campagna towards the Mediterranean. | 4 “BLIND” FOR ROUGE. Women of 1000 B. ® Used Them wchase of a pine wood owned by the DOCTOR PREVENTS RABIES PATIENT, 80 M ENDING LIFE City Bacterfologist Tells How He: Had ta Deceive Man Who Later Died in Hospital. URGES DOG KILLING DAY’! Dy Harris Says 4 Persons Have Died From Bites in 18 Months; 3 Mad Dogs Loose. Downey L. Harris, City Bacteriologist, in suggesting, Monday, that a day be set apart for the killing of all stray, unli- censed and unmuzzled dogs, told a Post- Dispatch reporter a story of fact which, he said, should convince everyone of the need for such a day. This was the story: C. H. Hospes, 80 years old, of 7237 Michigan avenue, died at the city hospital. a week ago yesterday from rabies, the result of a dog bite. That has been told before. But the occur- rence of two days before his death has net been told. Story of Bitten Man. The old man called at my office on a Friday morning and told me he had been bitten by a dog, and that in the last few days he had been un- able to eat or drink. He felt that he was about to be attacked by rabies, and if this suspicion was true, he did not wish to let himself suf- fer such a horrible death. “I have two revolvers at home,” he said, “and they’re both loaded. If Iam going to have rabies, I beg you to tell me so now, and I will know what to do.’”’ It was quite clear, at the first ex- amination, that his fears’ were all too well founded. Of course, after what the tnan had said, I could not say what was equivalent to advising him to kill himself. So I told him I could not tell as to his case, but that he should enter the city hospital toesffake sure. He did so, and two days later was dead, after hours of the most dread- ful agony. Under such circumstances it was the right and even the duty of a physician,| to conceal the a froma patient, Dn Harris held. Three Mad Dogs Reported. Dr. Harris said three other deaths had resulted from rabies in St Louis in the last 18 months, and that three mad dogs had been reported in different parts of the city in the last week. “I hope,”’ he said, “that the Mayor will see fit to fix a day when peopde shall be asked to keep off the streets as much} as possible, and when deputy marshals and policemen shall have orders to kill all dogs running at large without muz-, zles. Favors a $5 License. “At this season, when children eut of school are running barelegged over the sidewalks and lawns, one rabid dog is an element of terrible danger. The tend- ency of stray dogs to become rahid is well known, and while this is not con- fined to hot weather, as was once sup- posed, the hot season is the most dan- gerous in that there is more outdoor life then and children are more exposéd. “The Marshal’s office cannot meet the situation with its appropriation of $5000 a year. But on one especial day, with the active help of the police, the streets might be cleared ef stray dogs.”’ Dr. Harris said he would favor in-| creasing the charge for dog licenses from $1 to $, on the German plan. He believes anyone who would pay %5 to keep a dog would take such care of the animal that it would not be likely to get hydrophobia. Snake Kills Boys in Bed. BEACH, N. D., June 23.—When Mrs. Dave Grant, residing 14 miles southwest of Beach, went to call her two sony, aged 5 and 7, she found them dead in bed with a rattlesnake lying between them. The previous evening, just after the youths retired, each complained that the other was pinching him. _- mmm For over 6 full years 325 consecutive Sundays This is an proached it. the Sunday POST-DISPATCH has led all other St. Lonis newspapers in the volume of business carried. unparalleled record. No other metropolitan Sunday newspaper in the United States has ever ap- On last Sunday, June 22, the count was as follows: Post-Dispatch, 246 Cols. Globe-Democrat, 184 Republic . .... 153 THE REASON: Sunday . . First in ng tore : 3 r 24 i Pe db. or Phe oe Average circulation first five months, 1943; 497, 286 | St. Louis’ ONE BIG New'gaper. Rrcertifne |. 7 ~ | - 316,533 {when the fight started. | ‘ nis protograpn oj tie Scene sion. Clark. ee ee ee TRE! Se sc i€® t@ et. Sergesrsees; F « Gate pele eer ee T-DISPA at ST. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 1913—16 PAGES. PRICE ONE CENT. ) EDITION __| FINANCIAL MARKETS SPORTS Oe em nen 'cptdicd tuady was made when President Wilson, breaking a precedent 100 years old, read his own message to Congress at the beginning of the present ses- Behind the President are Vice-President Marshall and Spetaker Copyright by G. V. BUCK. > oo TIN CUPS CARDS “OF MEMBERSH LID LIFTERS HELD Sheriff Looking for Street Car Fighters, Finds Beer at a Pic- nic at Eden Park. A new way of lifting the lid was stopped when Sheriff Bode and two deputies with tin cups in their hands raided Eden Park on the St. Charles rock road west of W'ellston Sunday aft- -rnoon. , Many thirsty St. up at the gates of Eden, waiting to ex- change their admission’ tickets for tin cups like those the deputies had, whea the news went forth that the gatekeep- er had been arrested. The plan for distributing drinks was to sell tickets which entitled the pur- chaser to a tin cup and all the beer he could drink. The cups were the apen Sesame to Edenic delights and served in place of membership cards. After Bode and . his deputies hal Louisans were lined j bought tickets and received cups they arrested Herman Kotter and Thoms: Redmond, who said they represented the American Mutual Aid Society, in whose name a picnic was being given. Residents in the neighborhood of Wellston have frequently complained that picnics at Eden Park are mere subterfuges for lifting the lid. Bode and his deputies are looking for four men who had a fight on a St. Charles car near Wellston as it was returning from Eden Park about 3 o'clock Sunday night. John W. Biggs, 2915 Fall street, was arrested after hw had been knocked down by the motor- man of the car with the handle of the controller. The other men jumped from: the car and escaped. Before the men left they tore the head- light from the car and threw it into 2 ditch. They tried to remove the tail lamps, but were unable to remove them from their sockets. The car was crowded with passengers Many tried t% get out when the trolley pole was pulled off and the car was darkened as the man fought fiercely on the rear plat- form. AMERICAN LEAGUE. | 8 8 4.5 3°98 FIRST GAME. BROWNS AT CHICAGO. ZPo@en CCl) roore TO@elIL O acprrserteh Browns. Baumgardner and Agnew: White Sox, Cicotte and Schalk. Umpires, O'Loughlin and Hil- debrandt. , NATIONAL LEAGUE. 28.46 4 t:-078 FIRST GAME. BROOKLYN AT. NEW. YORK. CIC STYeC) a ee NEW YORK, ; olefojiroyeter, J) CF. Batteries: Brooklyn, Ragon and Miller, New York, Fromme and Mey- ers. Umpires, Klem and Orth. BROKEN STAIR GOT ICEMAN IN COURT Leong Gee, Chop Suey Mer- chant, and George F. Kiesel, | Ice Dealer, Quarreled. A squabble over a broken marble step flowered leading to the storked and chop suey restaurant of the Hong Tong Lo, Sixth and Market-street. too proprietor of Hong Tong George F. Kiesel, Gee, ice Man, an of his friends into Justice of the Peare Luce’s court Monday. One of Kiesel’s drivers dropped a heavy cake of ice on the mar one day in March. The step was Leong Gee waited the ice man’s visit and demanded, with much the next. day Oriental eloquence, fixed. that the Strike”Delays Repairs. Kiesel, who lives at 104 Sout street, was summoned and agreed have the step fixed. He obtained an es- timate from a marble setter that but the marble set- cost would be $5.35, ter Was sorry. big downtown building and done. Kiesel waited for the settleme: strike and did not present his until the morning of June 2°. discovered pay the Kiesel said t fixed he would amounted to $24. all -right, damned business.”’ Then Kiesel rant in time to scize a cash ‘without money in it) Kiesel told his story. Leong Gee preferred not to take ness stand, but had a substitute in the person of Fred C. Hussman, tendent of police horses. Chinese Code of Honor. Hussman said that Gee was honeat and was willing to pay his debts. that under the Chinese code of honor he couid not pay for the ice until the step was fixed, as one of the the code required that the place be left in as good condition as when rented. Luce took the case under advisement for a few minutes and decided that the ice man’s willingness to pay and the Chinaman’s refusal to tell where he intended to move was sufficie fication for the filing of the attachment suit. He entered a judgment for the for $19.15, the amount of the bin estimated cost of fixing the step. TONIGHT | BAND CONCERT Lyon Park—Fischeg's Band, o'clock. There was a strike marble sétters, due to differences at a until strike was settied no work could be Then that part of the furniture was gone from the restaurant. Gee told him that when the step was bill, but asked where Hong Tong Lo was moving, and Gee told him, Kie- Sel said, that “it was none of his very brought an attachment suit, the Constable reaching the restau- and 12 flowered panels with dragons and storks on them. In that way the trouble got to court. He was willing to deduct the cost of fixing the step. eof k Leong io, his d many ble step broken, step be h Tenth to the of the it of the bill he ice which hat was I -_-_ -_— —_— —_— —_ —_ — rezgistar the wit Superin- but rules 23 it was the bill nt just.. ice man less the 7 to 0) enterprise” President Wilson’s Address to Congress Urging Quick Revision of Currency Laws “Not Enough to Strike Shackles F.om Busi- ness,’’ H=> Says, Re:crring to Tariff L-gis- lation and Asks Immediat> Action. queens WASHINGTON, June 23. RESIDENT WILSON’S | ad- ~ dress te Congress follows, in full: Mr. Speaker, Mr.-President, gentle- men of the Congress: It is under the ' compulsion of what seems to me & clear and imperative duty that I have a second time this session sought the privilege of addressing you in per- gon. I know, of course, that the heated season of the vear is upon us, that work in these chambers and in the committee rooms is likely to be- come a burden as the season length- ens, and that every consideration of personal convenience and persoral comfort, perhaps, in the cases of some of us, considerations of person- al health even, dictate an early con- clusion of the deliberations of the session; but there are occastfons of public duty when these things which touch us privately seem very small; when the work to be done is so press- ing and so fraught with big conse- quence that we know that we are not at liberty to weigh against it any point of personal sacrifice. We are now in the presence of such an'occa- sion. It is absolutely imperative that we should give the business mén of this country a banking and currency system by means Of which they can make use of the freedom vf enter- prise and of individual initiative which we are about to bestow upon them. We are about to set them free; we must not leave them without the tools of action when they. are free. We are about to set them free by removing the trammels of the pro- tective tariff. Ever since the Civil War they have waited for this eman- cipation and for the free opportuni- ties it will bring with it.- It has been reserved for us to give it to them. Some fel} in love, indeed, with the slothful security of their depend- ence upon the Government: some took advantage of the shelter of the nursery to set up 2 mimic mastery of their own within its walls. Now both the tonic and the discipline of liberty and maturity are to ensue. There will be some readjustments of purpose and point of view. There will follow a period of expansion ond new enterprise, freshly conceived. It is for us to determine now whéther it shall be rapid and facile and of easy accomplisnment. This it can not be unless the resourseful busi- ness men who dre to deal with the new circumstances are to have at hand and ready for use the instru. mentalities and conveniences of free enterprise which independent men need when acting on their own in- itiative. It is not enough to. strike the shackles from business. The duty of statesmanship is not negative mere- ly. It is constructive also. We must show that we understand what busi- ness needs and that we know how to supply it. No man, however cas- ual and superficial his observation of the conditions pow prevailing in the country, can fail to see that ene of the chief things business needs now, and will need increasingly as it gains |! in scope and vigor in the years im- mediately ahead of us. is the prop- er means Ly which readily to vitalize ite credit, corporate and individual, and its originative brains. What will it profit us to be free if we are not to have the best and most accegssibie instrumentalities of commerce and What will it profit to he .qutt. of one ae monopoly if we. are main im the grip of anoties ad us af more effective kind? How are we to gain and keep the confidence of the business community unless we show that we know how hoth to aid and to protect i? What ‘shall we say it leaving all dine except the tariff just as we found it? The tyrannies of busi- neses, big and little, lie within the field of credit. We know that. Shall w> not act upon the knoOwledge? Do we not know how to act upon it? If a man can not make his assets avail- able at pleasure, his assets of capac- ity and character and resource, what satisfaction is it to him to see op- portunity beckoning to him on every hand, when others have the keys of credit in their pockets and treat them as all but their own private posses- sion? It is perfectly clear that It is our duty to supply the new banking and currency system tie country needs, and that it will immediately need it more than ever. The onty question is, When shall we supply it—now, or later, after the demands shall have become re- proaches that we were so dull and so slow? Shall we hasten to change the tariff laws and then be iaggards about making it possible and easy for the country to take advantage of the change? There can: be only one answer to that question. We must act now, at whatever sacrifice to our- selves. It is a duty which the cir- cumstances forbid us to postpone. I should be recreant to my deepest convictions of public obligations did I not press it upon you with solemn and urgent insistence. The principles upon which we should act are also clear. The coun- try has sought and seen its path in this matter within the last few years —gsees it more clearly now than it ever saw it before—much more ciearly than when the last legislative pro- posals on the subiect were made. We must have a currency, not rigid as now. but readily. elastically re- sponaive to the sound credit, the ex- panding and contracting credits of every-day transactions, the normal ebb and flow of persona! and cor- porate dealings. Our banking laws must mobilize reserves; must not per- mit the coneentration anywhere in a few bends of the monetary resources of the ecuntry or thelr use for specu- lative purposes in_su’ 1 volume as to hinder or bmpredeé or stand fi the way of other more legitimate, more fruit- ful uses. And the contro) of the sys- tem of banking and of issue which our new laws are to set up must be public, not private, must be vested in the Government itself, so that the banks may be the tnstruments, not the masters. of business and of Indi- vidual enterprise and Initfative. The committees of the Congress to which legisiation of this character is referred have devoted careful and dispassionate study to the means of accomplishing these objects. Thev have honored me by consulting me. They are ready to suggest action. I have come to you, as the head of the Government and the responsible lead- er of the party in pe action now, while & e serve the country elit ic we should, In a clear & counsel. I appeal to. yc Agnes [CROWDED HOU: Ise to Sacrifice Even Health to Give Wait i in Rain to Get. Seats in Capitol. | ee eS a | By Associated Pree: — WASHINGTON, June 9.—Bearing . personal plea for immediate action by — Congress to revise the banking and ee rency laws that business may be ‘ala, House of Representatives today and { sonally read his address on the su té both Houses of Conant a in joint oe. elty that attended his first. e, when he upset presidential isadisioas more than a century, today’s visit « the President to Congress took on. deeper significance. On hig first he delivered a message, long antich} urging the carrying out of the pledge for immediate revision _ tariff. ot. His address today Was an cnpil cvery member of the House » and Senat to lay aside personal cons : sacrifice comfort and ee Py te *. ‘and rétovm of the nation’s banking tem. Only in that way, he decketae 7 could the country secure the benefits of the tariff revision soon to be completed, The administration currency bill was not introduced in the House as expect- ed. Representative Glass explained that until] seme details were changed he ceuld not present it to the House. He expects to introduce the bill this week, however. “It is perfectly clear that it Is our duty to supply the new barking currency system the country needs that it will immediately need it na than ever,” said President Wise “Shall we hasten to change our tarif? laws, and then be laggards about ing it possible and easy for the coun to take advantage of the change? can be only one answer to that ques» tion. We must act now, at whatev sacrifice to ourselves,” The vigor of his short message h ’ rigid attention of his large audience throughout its delivery. As on his first appearance before Congress, the cham-— ber was filled with Senators and RY gre sentatives, galleries were crowded men and women from the official set and corridors about the gallery doors were jammed with those unable to gain entrance. | The President gave no direct Indorse- ment to the Glass currency bill, which ts to Morm the sis for the Democretic revision of the banking laws, but in in- direct language made it known that at had been prepared with his counsel and approval. : ~The committees of Congress to — a legislation of this character is have devotei careful and poser study to the means of accom those objects,"" he said in conclusiegs: “They have honored me by consulting — me. Long before the capitol doors were — opened hundreds of persons lined up pa @ steady rain, hoping to get im te. president Wilson. Although the tendance had been rigidly to one eard of admission for each meee the President's family and the 8 circle, hundreds clamored for sion. é Ratlings were erected near the > trance doors. guards placed in of the entrances and a “ticket per’ installed, into which the appeared. a resolution adopted iast week a recess just before 1 o'clock and chamber promptly at 1, the Senate pt ceeding in « body to the House. Secretary Laker. the center door of the hall at ] of the Senators, marching two just after 12:30 o'clock.. The Vic dent took a seat beside Speaker C and the Senators took the seats in Although shorn of somé ae the nov- They are ready to suggest action,” ber of either House and provision for The House and Senate had aii ' semble in joint session in the Houne s ec in meeting tariff revision, President i Wilson, for the second time went to: the : (od ¢ “en 4 . Ve < 3s ber, led by Vice-President Marshall amg Vice-Pregident Marshall appeared 4 a