The Daily Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 81, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 16, 1908 Page: 2 of 8
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RAYNER AIDS COL. flTBWART.
Requests Court of inquiry for Officer
Exiled to Abandoned Fort
TAMMANY TO MU
Includes Service In Two Wars and
Two “Near Wsra”— Retirement
Due to Wound Received In
the CVM War.
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Ban Francisco. — Rear Admiral
Evans’ two starrel flag fluttered down
from the oi the Connecticut in
the bay here recently. In three months
be will retire fron the active list and
trill then be able to look back on a
record which includes service in two
Wars, the civil aud the Spanlsb-Ameri-
f«»; two “near wars,” tho Chilian,Im-
broglio and the Bering sea sealing dis-
pute; command of two fleets, the'
Asiatic and Atlantic, and accomplish-
ment cf the transfer of the latter force
from the Atlantic to the Pacific via
Magellan in the longest cruise ever at-
tempted by a command of such size. |
An a flag officer he has had the most
Important sea command during the
period that the new battleships were
organized into a fleet and brought the
new system of target practice to its
present high stage of efficiency. He
brings his service afloat to a close
now because of ill health, which is par-
tially due to the wound with which he
began his conspicuous career at Fort
Fisher in tho civfi war.
Hi# life at the naval acad-ray was
an entertaining account of study, dis-
cipline and occasional escapades, cut
ahort by the civil , war, which called
the midshipmen into active service.
Then came the landing party at Fort
Fisher, when Resign Evans was shot
In the leg and lay for hours on the
sand dunes. He was sent to a naval
Washington.—Senator _ Rayner re-
cently introduced a resolution “author-
izing tho president to convene a court
of Inquiry” to consist of five officers
of the army to investigate charges
and accusations against Col. William
F. Stewart of the army.
CoL Stewart has been detailed to
serve until retirement at the aban-
doned military post at Fort Grant,
Arlz.
Personal peculiarities, chiefly a bad
temper, causing constant friction with
MORE CENTRAL LOCATION DE-
SIRED BY ORGANIZATION.
Present Quarter* Have Been Occu-
pied by the Democratic Body
8lnce 1868—One National
Convention Held There.
New York—Tammany Is to leave
Its historic home in East Fourteenth
street and move uptown.
A movement quietly began several
weeks ago among the sachems of the
Tammany society for the sale of the
old building and the purchase of a
modern, up-to-date one in the center
of activity is expected to reach a
definite stage soon. Charles F. Mur-
phy favors tho change, It is said.
One of the reasons of the secrecy
observed was that agents might quiet-
ly look for a site. It is. Intimated that
options have been taken on two or
three. It is expected that it will take
at least a year to erect a building suit-
able to the needs of the Tammany so-
ciety and of Tammany hall. It la the
present intention of the sachems to
his enlisted men arid associate of-
ficers, are cited as The cause of the
displeasure of,the war department olfl-
, UiapitTOrSMi ui Ji:c «ai ■»% w-*.
b Ital where a sur '-m determined | clals anJ °r Ule Pre*ia®at toward Cel.
to amputate hi* leg. and was only dis
suaded by a revolver In the hands of
hte equally determined patient, who
mis
Theofflcials do not disguise their wish
to get him out of the army, yet they
admit that the, e:ul could not be at-
tained through court-martial. So
they have adopted the plan assigning
him to duty where there is no duty
and in the most unpleasant surround-
ings to be found.
Col. Stewart is determined to serve
his full time In the active service, of
which ho has three years remaining.
He. therefore, has avoided commit-
ting any breach of regulations. When
ordered to the abandoned post at Fort
] Grant, Artz., he obeyed aud Immolat-
ed himself in the desert.
When ordered to the other aban-
doned -post at St. Augustine, Fla ,
SENATOR BORROWS SELECTED,
Michigan Man to Be Temporary Chair-
man of Republican Convention.
Chicago.—Julius Caesat Burrows,
who is to ba temporary chairman of
the Republican national convention,
has represented tho state of Michigan
mw’' |
|1It«keulothes!H
WIFE PHONES POLICE
ONE FINDS HUSBAND WITH
OTHER AND flOT BAT-
TLE RESULTS.
AN-
PRINCIPALS ARE "PINCHED”
FINCjflE
Can’t Agree on Division of Purse and
the Fight Is Declared a Draw-
Decision to Be Announced
in Police Court.
nr
Present Tammany Hall.
erect a large modern hall which can
be hired out for public meetings and
social gatherings.
Those advocating the change Insist
that It will be very profitable to Tam-
many, There ha# been recently a
great demand for the property on
which Tammany hall. Pastor s theater
and the Academy of Muetc stand as
sites for modern buildings. If Tam-
many moves, Pastor’* theater, owned
by the society, would have to go also,
and It I# regarded a* certain that the
entire block fronting on Ea#t Four-
teenth street would be purchased and
Senator J. C. Burrows.
In the United States senate since 1895,
whon he was elected to succeed Fran-
cis B. Stock bridges, who died three
years before hiss term expired. Mr.
Burrows' florae Is at KaJAmazoo. He
was an officer in the union army and
was appointed supervisor of Internal
revenue for Michigan and Wisconsin
in 18'J7. He was ejected a representa-
tive to the Forty-third, Forty-sixth and
Forty-seventh congresses and ap-
pointed solicitor of the government
treasury department by President Ar-
thur in 1884, but declined the office.
He was In the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth,
Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third and
Fifty-fourth congresses and was twice
elected speaker pro tern, of the house
of representatives during the Fifty-
first congress. His present terra of
service in the senate will expire
1 March J, 1911.
TO HUNT FOR THE POLE AGAIN.
Commander Peary Seeking
for Another Trip.
Washington.—Commander Robert
K. P<>»ry. who ha# gone to New York
thlthertiro went He was then ordered i modern buildings erected upon It.
back to Fort Grant.
Senator Rayner has looked up the
precedents and find# that the case
•presents violations of American law
unparalleled in time of peace.
TO HONOR FOUNDER OF Y. M. C. A.
Monument to Sir Georgs Williama to
Be Erected in United 8tate*.
New York—To assist In perpritt
ating the memory of Sir George Wtl-
VI V All TV tr \{*in «
The main Inducement to the change
s that Tammany hall 1# no longer
centrally located. A site not lower
than Thirty-fifth street and perhaps
even north of Forty-second street, t#
desired. >■
The existing building has been the
home of Tammany since 1868. when
the organization moved from Its old
quarters where Is now the New York
Sun building. The removal was:
marked by a notable parade of the
braves. In 186S the only Democratic
national convention ever held in this
city was held In the present building.
Horatio Seymour, who had declared
scenes which It gave to the reader. As
commandlag officer of the Yorktown
the author remained In Chilian waters
throughout the uncertain period fol-
lowing the Baltimore Incident at Val-
paraiso. Here Uls role waa diplomacy,
placating the Chilians, but permitting
them to see that the York town meant
business if trouble came. This was
successful service, and when the next
ticklish Joh came along, the Bering
vea sealing dispute, which also
brought a war cloud. Commander
Kvaus was senior officer present in
the North Pacific
He did well. His reputation was
made and the path laid clear before
him for command of the crack ar-
mored cruiser New York, which .went
to Europe and gare him opportunity, j_
which he Improved, to become the
friend of the emperor of Germany.
After that he commanded the Indiana
and at Santiago the Iowa. A gift for
epigram had enabled "FI Anting Bob
t» epitomise certain situations in a
manner which the public approved.
His remark that ba a certain contin
gsnry be "would have made Spanish
the court language of hades” brought
him no little popularity with the coun-
try at large- .
Near the elose of 1903. when the
secession of Panama had raised a
great rumpus is Booth America, P.ear
Admiral Kvans was ordered to pro-
ceed to Hoaotutu, which he did at an
average of more than 13 knots for the
battleships, the oldrst of which was
the Oregon.
This was a most creditable perform-
ance. A year later Rear Admiral
Evans retained home, expecting duty
on tfce lighthouse board, but Presi-
dent Roosevelt personally requited
bim to take command of the Atlantic
fleet He did so In March. 1906. It
then consisted of aix battleships. It
now has 1«
The Atlantic fleet bad gone through
a period of ascertain policy. Under
Rear Admiral fttggflMMI there were
complaint* tbit the men did not get
enough liberty or privileges, and It is
a fact that desertions were numerous
Bad re-erittstmeats few. Rear Admiral
Barker filled in between the Hlggln
son and Beans commands Tho tatter
brought wttb Mm as chief of staff,
CapL J. «. PUhbary. mad the two took
hold of the fleet with a firm grip. Tho
•mm» promptly given as much
as possible, athletics of every
wore e aeon raged, baseball
formed, regular
g championships
| Ml classes, and rowing
held.
-
American “city, yet to be selected, by
the Canadian and American associa
tions. The matter has been dlscuasod
St. Louis.—Mrs. Evelyn Jones, wife
of Dr. Eugene Jones, and Mrs. Ella
Vanderpool, wife of John E. Vander-
pool, a commission merchant, fought
four rounds in the presense of a large
open air audience fhe other night af-
ter Mrs. Vanderpool found Mrs. Jonea
rod Vanderpool together at Tenth aud
Olive streets.
They fought over two city blocks
with a throng of men and women fol-
lowing them like a '•gallery” at a golf
game.
' Mrs. Vanderpool, with her sister,
was walking west on Olive street,
when she caught sight of her husband
and Mrs. Jones.
Here Is the fight by rounds:
First Round—Mrs Vanderpool. ad-
vancing quickly, approached her ad-
versary from behind. She cleverly
'einted with her handbag and landed
i swinging left with her umbrella
Mrs. Jones turned and assume ! a de-
cisive attitude with a box of shoes.
Mrs. Vanderpool swung wildly with
her purse and Mrs. Jones clinched,
holding her opponent by the hair, hon-
ors even.
Second Round—Mrs. Jones, by clev-
er footwork, forced Mrs. Vanderpool
to follow her a block, to Tenth and
Locust streets. There was a rapid
exchange and a mixup, In which Mrs.
Vanderpool bored in with the brim of
h«*r pretty merry widow” hat, cutting
Mrs. Jones across the forehead First
Wood for Mr*. Vanderpool. Mrs. Jones
cams back with a poke In the ribs
i with her shoe box. Mrs. Vanderpool'#
Money t round.
Third Round—Mr*. Vanderpool
rushed Mrs. Jonea Into on alley. Mrs.
Jones landed a pivot blow on Mrs.
Vanderpool'# chin, drawing blood Mr#
Vanderpool countered on Mrs. Jon**'*
HUBBY LEARNS IT IS WRONG TO
NAB 8POU8E’8 APPAREL WHEN
SHE HA8 ENGAGEMENT.
Danville, 111.—Mrs. Edward Hardy,
22 years old, and pretty, 'phoned po-
lice headquarters and asked for tho
sergeant on duty. That functionary
answered.
“What’s that you say, madam?” ho
said into tho transmitter.
A response from the other end.
“W-wh-what? Your er-er-clo-clothe*.
Oh, yes. All of them? Didn't leave
a single thing? Sure, madam, er-er,
I mean yes, Indeed, madam, right
away.” And the sergeant got red
about the gills and called a waiting
copper.
TWe copper went to the streets as
fast as his legs could carry him. and
a few minutes afterward he came back
Commander
Peary.
She Appeared
Police Station.!
to the station wish Edward Hardy. 251
year# old. Mr. Hardy carried a baa* I
die under hi* arm, a large handle, and I
looked sheepishly towsrd tho sergeant,I
who told him to open it
A moment liter the charges tnadol
over the telephone against Edward!
Hardy by tils wife were substantiated.!
It was proved that he had left bomel
and had taken every stii—every|
on». well -ail of Mrs Hardy's clothe*
with him. and Mrs. Hardy just couldn't
leave the house That 1* why. of
course. *he telephoned the sergeant tc
apprehend her husband, and then getj
the clothes back to her In a* short
time as possible. *Bhe said she Justj
had to keep a dinner engagement In
an uptown restaurant In half an hnurj
Five minutes later a bicycle mosses
g*r delivered tho clothe# to MreJ
Hardy’s door. Twenty minutes lat*
—20, ladies, count 'em—she appears
at the police station, whore her hi
band was still held. In another firs
she had refused his overture* fo<
peace and domestic happiness aud ha
sworn out a warrant charging him wltl
theft, and in another five she ws
two blocks away snd sha had h*4
cloth**
"let you of.” Mrs. Hardy said «
her husband "Not much. The Jail
for jfbur*. Don’t you over think yod
ran stesf my clothes and leave me 1*j
the bouse to 1 cant even go to
work, and then get off You'll certain
|y pay for that, even If you won't su
port me.”
She Countered on Mrs. Janes* Hat.
Honor*
after a conference with President
Roosevelt, to Ret. if possible, the $50,*
0(»0 necessary to take him on his ninth ^ making the feather fly,
expedition In search of the north pole,
has been in the service.of the I nlted j j,*oljrth Romd—Mr*. Jones, (hough
States navy sine# 1*81. In his last ; b thl|1([ heavily, cam# up smiling,
attained 84 do-1
HEN WAS A KITTENNAPPER
Triad to Adept a Litter and Battls
with Mother Cot.
a
Quarters of Tammsny Hall from 1812
to 1868.
on the pisiform of the convention that
ho was not a candidate, was nomin-
ated for president.
Monument to
William#.
George
Informally for some time, but no con-
ctuaion ha# y**t been reached. How-
ever, at the conference of internation
at committee#, to be held in Atlantic
City soon, tho subject will be taken
up, a location chosen and the pre-
liminaries arranged. It t» probable
that either New York or Washington
will bo the fortunate city. The above
design is by Mr George FrMBpton, R.
A., ono of England’# foremost sculp
tor#.
Shut Out from Hi# Own Show.
Chari*# Frohman Isn't quite certain
yet whether he ever will be able to
understand the working# of the true
bred Briton's mind. In a letter I saw
from him tho other day he related hi*
latest encounter with It.
In London recently ho decided to
witness a performance at the Duke ol
York'# theater—one of his hou#e#
Not until he entered the lobby did h«
recall that he had left hi# card cage
and other mean# of Identification In
his other clothe# while changing to
evening attire. As happen* often In
such cases there wa# a new man on .
the door. He chocked Mr. Frohman,
who vainly attempted to tell tho cere
bns who h# was. / *\
•It make# no difference. governor”
was hia reply. *T don't know you and
you can't go in without a ticket or t
pass."
Puzzling Problem Solved.
In these day# of the perplexing serv-
ant girl question snd the can't-keep-
the-cook Joke It le interesting to note
that there are some striking excep-
tions to the general rule. The Cht-
rago School of Domestic Art* and
Sciences at Its recent annual meet-
ing presented a gold medaJ to a maid
who ha# served continuously in one
family for 34 year#, and placed, on a
roil of honor the namea of ten other#
who have kept one place for from II
to 20 year#. Mr#. Nelson Thomasson,
the lucky employer of the prize win-
ner. said: “In my opinion, the servant
problem would‘be solved speedily if
the old-time affection between servant
and employer could be revived. Eliza
stay# with us because she like# us and
we like her. She Is one of the fam
fly. She has risen above rule# and
regulations, which are as unnecessary
in her case as they would be In mine.
She goes out when she thinks It con-
venient and stays in when ahe think#
It advisable. When she sees work to
he done she docs it"
trip, 1*98 to 1902, be
Br«es IT minutes north and named the
most northerly land In the world.
Cape Morris K. Jesup, Commander
Peary was born at Creeton, Pa. in
1856 and was graduated from Bow-
doin college. He entered the United
Stater navy as a civil engineer snd
has been employed In the engineer
corps when not on his arctic expedi-
tions His discoveries have gained
for him.a number of medala from
scientific societies.
Could Not Pass thO Examination.
A dilapidated specimen of n man
stopped a Kansas City merchant on
the street one morning and asked for
B cash donation. "Mister." he said in
s plaintive voice, “I hain't had any
work to do for more'n a month, an' I'm
powerful hard up.”
“Been out of work for a month.
said the merchant. "What is your oc-
cupation”' “•
"I work in the packing house when
I can get anything to do."
•‘In tho killing department?”
“No, sir; In tho cuttlng-roora.”
"Then you can tell me, perhaps, bow
many teeth a cow has on her upper
„
••Why—or—no, sir. I never no-
ticed.”
"That’s too bad," said the merchant,
putting hie hand in his pocket. The
dime I am going to give you would
have been n dollar If you hadn’t failed/
in your examination.”—Youth’s Com-
panion.
She rushed the fighting and forced
Mrs Vanderpool Into a corner. Anoth
or hot exchange ended In a hair-clinch.
In the breakaway Mrs Vanderpool
struck Mr*. Jon** In the aldecomb.
knocking out three teeth
Then the gong sounded and the
fighters were requested by the man-
agement to step Into the wagon and
take a ride to headquarters, where
the derision would be announced.
As no agreement coold he reached
as to n division of the puree, the of-
ficial In charge declared the fight a
draw. Both combatants were placed
in the holdover on crosa-chargea of
disturbing the peace
"That woman was with my hus-
band." aald Mrs. Vanderpool. "I
caught her snd I'm glad of It."
"I don't deny that ! was with Mr.
Vanderpool," said Mrs. Jones, "but I
Just happened to meet him on tho
street while 1 was out shopping.”
While the fight was on the man who
was with Mrs. Jones disappeared. An
hour later Vanderjx>ol arrived at head
quarters accompanied by a bondsman.
•*l want to bail them both out,” h*
said.
(Steady following Vanderpool cam#
Dr. Jones, husband of Mrs. Evelyn
Jones.
“It's nn outrage.” he aald. “Why,
my wife was away from home only
half an hour. I have the greatest eon-
fldence In iter. I will stand by her
la Snn* **
Wilke# bar re, Pa—An old hen own*
by Alonso Mauser of Grovanla, nes
ha.*, has th* maternal instinct
strongly developed that the other
having failed to mother anything els
she tried V «dopt a nestful of you#
kittens, and sought stoutly for th#
possession with the mother cat.
For the last two weeks the hen h*
tried In every way that her brain i
suggest to nest on every egg sh
found, but Mauser did not want
to hatch and repeatedly threw her
neats which the had made. He
a daily fight with her over the ms
The hen discovered the other d*
that tb* mother of a litter of kittea
bad left them for a few moments, an
ahe promptly took them for her
When the mother cat returned the
waa a battle until Mauser, nttrm
by the noise, arrived and locked
hen in a coop
Wherein W# Differ.
The duchese of Marlborough, at the
dinner given in New York In honor of
Mrs. Humphry Ward, said: S“Fr©m
earliest childhood English women an
made to feel the obligations of Indi-
vidual responsibility snd society itself
demands adequate fulfillment It la
this sense of obligation that we Amer-
ican women should foster and de-
velop."
Not In Favor of College.
Mrs. William H. Taft I# not In favor
of the college education for her daugh-
ter but will not oppose her If ah#
wishes to take It. Mrs. Taft says that
she thinks for th# work that a woman
will do In th# world in her own home
an academic education Is sufficient
Her daughter will gradual* this year
at a preparatory school at Bryn Mawr
and will be fitted to enter th* college
If the cars* to.
and see that Justice is don#.1
"I knew you would," said Mrs.
Jone*. “Of course, I know Mr. Van-
derpool. Wo noed to be neighbors.
Mrs. Vanderpool Is so Jealous She
had an Idea that a woman wearing a
brown skirt was trying to win her
husband from her. I happened to be
wearihg a brown skirt to-night and
sh* attacked mo. It’s all a horrible
mistake."
Mrs. Jone# and her husband wont
home together Mrs. Vanderpool and
her husband did noL
Girl Sleeps: Eye* Are Open.
Muskogee. OMa—Apparently s!«
Ing with her eyes open, suffering
pain, but taking no nourishment
actually not sleeping, the caae of ML
Dolly Smith, 19 years old, has baffif
local physicians. She complained
feeling ditty a week ago, and
Ing on her bed has not been ab
move since. She lapses into tint
setousnees and appears to be d
The attending physicians have
sorted to the old-time method
bleeding, bat tt*> change In her
dltloo is perceptible.
throf
Three Days in a Quicksand.
Alton, 111—Buried to his w*«*t
quicksand after he had been
Into a pond by three men, Tony
24 year* old. stood in the water
days, according to his statement
he was found wandering along “
tcrurban street car track half r
Early tbs other day some togs
near him and he succeeded la
glag himself from th* sand. He
not ascribe n reason for haring
thrown Into the pool
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