St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 1, 1905
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—— a al EE — - “ 7 - - x. ie? * Roy r i “Well, Suliee, as hy “éheerfu!, fen tell you,”’ Son ‘But pa.”’ : tones, bout it, have you’ _hie long-lost boy, TUESDAY -— ST.LOUIS-POST- “DISPATCH —AUGUST 1, 1905. EE e LOST i “NOW PEPRISON ‘Geer — . "7 r ay7 , Roy Courtwright, Thought to Have Been Kidnaped* a Year . Ago, Run Away and Was Ar- , 6 rested for ‘Theft. 4 Meeting in Warden’ s Office, - Where Parent =Went -With | 4 News of Governor's “Phomise, » Tearful, shes bormctl | iho to the Post-Dispatc!, JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.. rst believed to jayt,.been kidnaped, then mourned as dead, Roy Court- Wright, a handsome, rotlicking youth of GG, whose sudden disappearance from bow Kansus City home u year ago pros ated his parents aiid completely baf- ea the police, tured tp today as an inthate of the Missouri Penitentiary. Clad in the regulation. prison garb came from’ nis’ workbench in the shoe factory this morning to greet ws father. An affecting’ sc@fe .ensuéd. dad.’ said Roy in a broken prugkhed uthe sears from ths eves and iriedty Wok ppy ana “it ain't Seen” naw fun here, 1! Aug. 1—At continued the boy in plead- “vou hav en’ t. told ma nothing be reply the elder Couriwright: shook head. But the expression on his ce Was more eloquent than words. It told only too plainiy, that the prodigal as forgiven. nom Pit J« all right, Roy,” said the father, covering his composure, “and the & rnor ts going 4¢.petden you.'” . Roy's face lit uURWUJLaamile. Plant- « a warm kiss on his fathers cheek % promised never 1D “be* at “bad” boy again. ~ " ‘'tlenry Courtw right” ‘Is a well-to-do ilackamith of Kansas City.. A consid- torable part of his fortune was dissipat- ed in the search for his missing boy. Hospitals, orphan ‘asylums and other institutions that might possibly have furnished «shelter forsthe absent. boy were visited but to fo purpose. Hroken- lperced- Mr. Courtwright abandoned the *farch. Not so Mrs, Courtwright. “Ray's mother hoped against hope that phe would find her bey -allve. Mother Ke ept Hop ing “We have searched every pine but in the prison,” said Mrs. Courtwright to hér husband one night. “Could Roy have been sent to the = You S£€. I TooK DE SAFE TO ME ROOM BE FORE | CRACKED IT SO DE P'LiCE INVADED ME PREM- ISES, SUE ‘EM FER Ags YOu 4 3%610.000 SvE DE JEDGE AN” JURY Toe ee The mystery of the disapp« Dr. Henry D. Stauf of 5953 Cates nue continues unsolved, although s of clews have been followed by family and the police. One report, received Tuesday morning, was that he was in Arkansas, and J. Goessiing, his wife's nephew and the Mah who is conducting the s€areh for him, began to telephone to towns in the neighborhood where it was reported he had been seen. Nothing-came of the inquiry. Dr. Stauf's family adheres to the inal belief that. his disappearance was the result of illness, and that he wa Mg 2) Ae o ; >" ; , ? - ‘ \ vs ae ~_, ae > 2" j - 1 4 3 ie Dae 5 1 ae anaes + - ’ > : : . - bie lated 9 > , He lo ue AS: mee ¥ "Seed ange A A. “ye aN : . . : a vi a. 5 Prug * a c.4 ‘ u Cae ‘we’ vee -t to es wag en tape ig) . ep meee gy y Yr .. oe € : Zs é . 4 * — az’ ED Ea oe om fe Py LEWIS BANK, jal Argues That Ratification of Payments Made to Deposi- | | tors Legally Binds Bank. | Judge McElhinny of St, Louis County Circuit Court has recelyed the supple- mental report of Judge Selden P. Spen- cer as receiver for the People’s United States Bank, The report is largely a re- ply to the arguments advanced by coun- se! for the bank in contesting payment by thé bank of the costs of the = -eiver- ship Tae court is expected to ddcide the Px penses of the receivership Saturday, When he will also hear the argument @éf Attore ney-General Hadley in-suppo#t of his motion to annul vthe court's older ter- minating the receivership In his . supplemental Riche Judge Spencer argués that the bank ratified the paymen.s made the reteiver tu depositors and by this action legally bound itself to pay the cost of such dis- tribution. “y should be glad to donate my serv- id Judge 8 Reer, “if it would y help ¢t deposfiors and ers, for in all the history of the world no more pathetic accumula- tion of money has ever been brought to publi¢ notice than the fund intrus ed to the People’s k. But I am not particularly anxious to make a persona’ for the benefit of now drawing compensa- donation to seg those who a tion tele fecent 7 —_—- ——_ GEOLOGICAL SURVEY NEXT]: Charged That Officials of Mix- ing Division Are Con- nected With Paper. Special to the Post-Dispatch. W ASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—Charges have been made that some of the officials of the mining division of the Geological Survey have a business connection with a mining publication and that through it are pushed seientific theories and practices which are worked out in the employment of the Government. The officials deny that such is the case and ask for the investigation. They do not deny connection with the publication as scientific writers, but that they = nga positions for any improper purp The matter wil 1 “s “thoroughly sifted. Work on School to Begin. Work on the new wing of the Domin- ican Sisters’ School will be .begun im- mediately, as $1000 has been subscribed and. much more promised at the parish meeting in St. James’ School, Tamm javenue, near Forest Park, Tuesday. , Is Strenu-— AF “VACATION | J udges Rest While He - ies From Juveniles — to Divorces. : C just now, as busy as a political orator atythe hot part of a campaign. . He is presiding over five’courts some days and four-courts every day. tion term’’ if court, but it is the other . judges who are restive. Tuesday he began his day at 9:0 a m., by convening juvenile court, For an hour heard truant and incorrig- ible cases) Then he hurried to the Courthouge and convened division No. 9, where heard civil cases,. divorce. motions damage suits for another hour. ) ‘then he rushed to the Four Courts and conyened division.No. 11, where he heard motions in be on nergy? vision a few minutes, hi es. | and ie eg he - heard, stmila ~ + hn ese ur penne BS oO b for the day he eretcd where the = court of criminal gor ae ee convened that. court an t minor ‘criminal onate: ‘until the a for the day was ended.’ $ Juvenile court does not convene day, 80 on the days when it is not op Judze Bishop has only four cour’ preside over. He is aitsing ie, No. for Judce Withrow and in t Criminal Correction for the who are absent on their vacations. hn shoe in the house up anne’ - 410 B roadwas.. : Every boy's for $1.50 at KILL ae WITHOIL, NEW YORK, Aug. 1.—Destruction of — une uito larvae by petroleum and the eding out of shrubbery in and New Jersey coast resorts most eliminated the pests, according to reports. Phe experiments with oil, begun two or three years ago, appea r.to have been entirely succssful. e pools with crude oil has been by systematic ditching at eo points, — which has competely obliterated the damp spots where the mosquitoes a... in former years bred .y the million, Children’s white canvas shoes and Oxfords, $1.50, for T5e at Boehmer’s, 410 Broadway. a nen ae = 2 but the mother believes ‘he young wom- ——_ ——_ an is now in St. Louis. Therefore she will remain eat 3647 Folsom avenue in the hope that her daughter may find her there. Miss Emmons went to the Mississippi County plantation from St. Louis, July” °9. She says she was employed by the old man, whom she met here, to b cone an assistant housekeeper on his plan‘a- tion. which is near Barfield, 12 miles from Blytheville, and but a short dis- tance south of the Missouri state Lne. Warned to Escape. the plantation, wrote, there Miss Witt. who was introduced to her the housekeeper. The first ‘evening of her arrival at the place, on | returning from milking, she says she |found the old man _ discharging the | housekeeper. Miss Witt, wrote, | urged her to leave the and she tried to do so, but was prevented, She she and the old man were the only white persens on the pianta- tlon, which comprises 2000 acres, and that there hundreds of nezr around them. added that she was permitted to ride horseback unattended. She said the old man refused to al- low her to take her clothes or to leave | without them until the $22 which naid for her railroad fare and other expenses to Barfield was repaid. Mrs. Hamblin, upon receiving. the first letter, telegraphed to the Missis- sippi County officials, asking them to help her daughter. She says a deputy sheriff wrote that the old man claim d the debt, and the officials therefore could do nothing in the matter. Mrs. Hamblin then wrote to Chief of Detectives Desmond, who immediately took the matter up to the ex‘ent of communicating with the Missics'ppi County officials. They have not, as yet, she At was a as sne plice, Sa V8 es were She $4.00 Blankets reduced to. 4495 Blankets reduced to. £4.75 Blankets reduced to *5.00 Blankets reduced to he | , By mail to any address © cents a month. > EDITH KENWARD DEAD. Playwright’s Body Is Cremated at Pere la Chaise. PARIS, Aug. 1.—The body of Edith t, formerly a the-: atrical Manager in New York and later | the Paris correspondent of a New York | dramatic paper, was cremated today at iPere la Chratee. Her deatn was the result of an in- tensely painful Internal ¢comp!aint which necessitnted numerous. operations. GIRL OF 15 AND COMPANION FOUND Mary Wimmer, Who Disap- peared With Married Man, Writes From Cincinnati. Mary Wimmer, 15 yeare old, of 618 Villa avenue, who disappeared last Wednesday at the same time Milton A. |Philips of 6678 West Park avenue left has been located In Cincin- tler pare nt* received a letter from her, stating that she was staying with relatives at 1527 Richmond é@treet in that sity and asking permission to stay there. A new dispatch from Cincinnati states that Philips is alse in that city and is staying :t a hotel, though he has ®>en to see the girl. Mrs. ee has heard nothing from her husba NEW YORK, Aug. 1.—Mre, Lawrence Townsend, © wife of ‘the United Sta es ieee a Pan | pee was: one of the passenge the steamer Finland which. arrived today from. Antwerp. Rondcips Oo. Prosecutor Dead er. Me. Aug. 1. aris Lam Attorney. Wanted Money for Trousseau. replied to his telegrams of inquiry. with . 160 with Plain. Swiss Curtains, full ruffles, $1.10 WOING? fas cates Plain Swiss Cuntatnis: “My daughter remained in St. Louis after my husband and I, leaving our home in Clifton Heights, went to Anna, O., on account of his health,’’ said Mrs. Hamblin. “She was engaged to be mar- ried to John Grat, a farfwer, of Alham- bra, Ill, and when she heard of the opportunity of employment in Arkan- sas, she thought she would be be.ter able to earn money there for her trous- seau. So she took the position. I knew nothing of it until too late.’’ Miss Viola Karl of 2353 Benton street says she was engaged as was Miss Em- mons, meeting the old man at a house Ot Ge Wa cos val $1.50 value .. Antique Lace Curtains — scrim center—$6.00 and $7.00 values ........$4.95 $3.25 and $3.50 $5.50 and $6. 00 Blankets reduced to $6.50 and #6.75 Blankets reduced to full hemstitched ruffles— CMG GO, CU LOCUST - OLIVE Sale of Manufacturers’ Sample Blankets The entire sample stock of the most noted Eastern and California mak-. ers of Blankets, together with the leftovers of our ow. stock (some of the latter are slightly soiled), at a reduction of ) $1.50 to $6.50 per pair less than regular prices The reductions warrant buying liberally, whether for present or future use. $7.00 and $7.50 Blankets reducéd to . $2.50 $3.75 and $4.00 $4.50 and $4.75 | An Opportunity for Housefurnishing Special Prices on Lace Curtains: Curtains— .$4.95 ee $5.50 | ....- $6.00 Tambour Lace % 3.00 value $ 9.00 value $10.00 valtie Cluny Arabian Curtains— $6.50 value .... $8.00 value $9.00 value ...... $8.00 and $8.50 Blankets reduced to $9.00 and $10.00 Blankets reduced to $11.50 and $12.50 Blankets reduced to $14.50 and $16.50 Blankets reduced to Fine $5.00 and $5.25 | $5.50 and $6.00 $6.00 and $6.60 - $7.50 and $8.50 $9.50 and $10.00 Curtains— . $16.50 , $19.50 . $18.00 . $22.50 .$41.00 Arabian values. values.... values.... values.... values.... values... values.... values.... $25.00 $30.00 $27.50 $35.00 $37.50 $55.00 $60.00 $67.50 on Franklin avenue near Grand avenue. Sitting in Five ZA ; j Judge Bishop of the Cireuit Court is, © i7 roi as Woe ad Y cat eA ae ae to $3.50 ® - cs . moist — pihces in and about the Long tay nkil of = reinforced ee A A ttt GAIN, $50,000, NW LICENSE RECEIPT Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Payments for Licenses in J aly Were $848,191.49. License Collector P. J. Clifford has is- | sued a comparative statement of his, July collections, showing.a marked jin- crease over those of 14. The total] collections in July, 19644, were | $789,459.77 and in July, 1905, | $848,191.49, | showing an increase of $49,.731.7 In July, 194, the amount paid by mer- chants for licenses was $410,250. 76. In July, 196, they te $424.897.55, making an increase of $14 In July, 1904, manufacturers, = for licenses, $360.119.86, and July, 1906, $39), 195. 49, which shows - increase of $30,076.13. $100, 000 tor Educi:tion. Special to pad Post-Dispatch. ~ ROCHESTER, N. Y., Aus. 1.—By the deuth of Lemuel 5. Morgan at Manitou | becomes available for 000 ris’ “education at the University of ochester. _ . The POST-DISPATCH is. the ony ‘Louis -¥ with Associated Rosenheim’ , .8¢.=5 a odd : cae ¢ = phe a tr 3 a = oS" =. 7 j aS" a Ree ae Our entire stock of Summer M illinery been placed in three lots, as follows: LOT 1——Chotce of the very best Hats for.. $5 LOT 2—Choice of Hats w’ th $10 and $12..$3 LOT 3—Choice of Hats worth $5 and $6..$] ola St. Aes, Removal Sale rt Ae 75ce TO $1.50 EXCURSION ae HILL, LVCCHFIELD. HILLSBORO. NOAUMIS. 25% Off on all Jewelry, Novelites, Combs, Bags, Belts, Verls, Neckwear, etc., for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday Only. No delivery and no C. 0. D. during this sale, Ss Toggery, o ne, Ss. my | via B'G FOUR ROUTE, SUNDAY, AUG. 6th Train Leaves Union Station at wa Important Mtrts to a “Nea ring the Willion Mark,” The 10,071 little wants prin in the Post-Dispatch were more important than any. other news of the day to ma ‘ thousands who read ae) ‘i 2 to a few who didn't. Want advertising utilitarian. Evening and Post-Dispatch more to you a mere newspe t ti ‘nto a means a which you .may things, «et things, find people or univ publicity. acta thie thought 1 is = La an, > Fu £ aes P ats Ya ak 2 4 . ’ 43% Tay 9 oe ‘ Be aes ges ae) Te . pee ne a . re biter a SR Ge ae a Pr aes BRE PS Se > wot * . Lae Ri . 5 Ets a Ax aera “i * iv This is what is known as the “vaca- F: . e Pate 4 .. a r - Lak FR. . a } be. ae *. >. ~, — * ~, * ns, Age od 2 ~~ hve ik cage A ee Pgs a : a an = a is “Se >. Ai Eeers ys 20 eet a £ oy oes. 5 eee 3 Ge & es we a. A ee rah Se tes ae S : : ™ — cag ae oe , Ay 7 < as a ew" ~ Lae eso Oe i R j* . : - p
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