The Square-Dealer And The Shattuck Homesteader. (Shattuck, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 27, 1907 Page: 3 of 8
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KISSING IS
Peace— "You’ve a Queer Idea of
JURY MUST DECIDE
JHaywood’s Attorneys Asked Judge
Woods to Direct That the
" Prisoner Be Acquitted
THE STATE CLOSES ITS CASE
'The Defense Will Make Its Opening
Statement Monday Morning and
Begin the Presentation of
Testimony
Boise Idaho June 20 — The state
Wednesday mode dramatic production
and proof of the Goddard bomb and )
offering further contributions of the
testimony of Harry Orchard against
William D Haywood secured a rul-
ing under which a number of the de-
nunciatory articles published in the
Miner's Magazine official organ of
the Western Federation of Miners
will be admitted in evidence
To Justice Luther M Goddard him--self
fell the task of telling the story
of the finding and preservation for
use as evidence of the bomb with
which Orchard tried to kill him His
appearance on the stand added an-
other to the many dramatic scenes
and situation that have characterized
the trial and his testimony was clear
and minutely circumstantial The
veteran Colorado jurist testified that
the first information that he received
about the bomb came to him from Or-
chard's confession whlchwas shown
to him at Denver on February 13
190C by Detective McPartland He at
once returned to his home and in his
gate discovered the screw-eye whici
Orchard said he placed there It was
rusted and corroded by ten months’
exposure The witness said he ex-
amined the ground outside the gate
where Orchard said he placed the
bomb and found a slight depression
with the soil packed very hard around
it
The bomb was dug up the next day
"by General Bulkeley Weils while us-
ing a pocket knife to cut away the
soil and raised the pine box contain-
ing the bomb There was a small
phial on top of the box and attached
to the rubber cork of the phial was
a piece of rusted wire '
The bomb and its attachments were
at once taken to the office of the
Pinkerton detective agency and care-
fully sealed In wrappers and envelopes
that were signed by half a dozen wit-
nesses including Justice Goddard and
after that they were placed in a vault
to the door of which five seals includ-
ing that of a notary public were at-
tached There they rested until the
' following May 22nd when believeing
the Haywood case was to come to
trial they were removed in the pres-
ence of the same witnesses and all
save three of the forty sticks of giant
powder contained in the bomb were
exploded The explosions occurred in
the presence of the witness at a point
in the suburbs of Denver and of the
bomb itself 12 giant caps and two
wrappers torn from sticks of giant
powder were saved as evidence
Botse Idaho June 21 — The jury
wss not brought into court Thursday
morning until after Judge Woodward
bonded down his opinion a3 to tne ad-
missibility of certain articles from i he
M'ners’ Magazine as showing the uhl-
irus of the controlling ofceis of the
Western Federation of Miner f ton a"1 d
former Gov Steunenberg uul others
Judge Wood Bald he had decided that
many of the articles should be accept-
ed Tbese were the opes printed prior
to the death of Gov Steuneuberg As
to articles subsequent to that date
the court declared it had some doubt
and woud resolve that doubt in favor
- of the defendant
For the rt®t it was a day of read-
ing with Senator Borah as first read
c-r Judge Wood admitted many of the
strongly worded articles of the Min-
er’s Magazine in which Frank fateun-
enberg was bitterly denounced and as
one after another they were let in
' Borah read them to the jury These
were admitted as showing the animus
of the federation officials against
DANGEROUS
Making Youraelf Attractive!"
Steunenberg and showing animus
against Justice Goddard and Gabbert of
the supreme court of Colorado whom
Harry Orchard swore he tried many
times to kill ‘The state introduced
in evidence the decisions of those
judges on the Colorado eight hour law
and the habeas corpus applications of
Charles H Moyer
To practically- every piece of tes-
timony offered objection then made
a motion 'to strike out and lastly took
an exception on the record To all
evidence connected with the general
conspiracy alleged by the state the ob-
jections of the defense included the
proposition that the acts shown were
not binding on the defendant and that
they were not connected with tne
Steunenberg murder and there was fre-
quent objection to the evidence of-
fered to corroborate the testimony of
Harry Orchardman alleged accomplice
in the manner provided by the state
Boise Id June 2 — When the state
Friday closed its case against William
D Haywood charged with the murder
of Frank Steunenberg the defense
made an unsuccessful attempt to se-
cure from the court an order directing
the Jury to acquit the prisoner Judge
Woods’ ruling which requires the de-
fense to meet with evidence the case
that the state has presented was made
at 5:15 o’clock and It was then ar
ranged that Haywood's counsel should
make their opening statement and
present their first testimony onMon
day riext v ' s ' 1
Attorney E R Richardson 'made’ the
principal argument in support of the
motion in a long carefully prepared
and eloquent argument
He took for his guide the Idaho stat-
ute which forbids conviction upon the
uncorroborated testimony of an accom-
plice and quoting many authorities in
support of his contention that there
must be convincing corroboration en-
tirely Independent of the testimony of
the accomplice and made an analysis
of all the testimony offered He de
dared that’ none of the testimony
could stand without the support of
Orchard's story and that the statute
specifically forbade its acceptance un-
der those circumstances
He also argued that' the testimony
of Orchard was the only showing that
in any way connected Haywood with
the crime and that the statute forbade
conviction under those circumstances
Senator Borah who alone spoke for
the state argued with like force and
eloquence that Heywood’s connection
has been independently shown and
that Orchard's testimony has been
corroborated by independent circum-
stances and evidence He also sub-
mitted a general argument to show
that the state had established the ex-
istence of a general conspiracy in
which Haywood was a participant and
in which he strongly developed the
alleged connection of Pettibone and
Simpkins
Clarence Darrow who closed plead
ed that there was not a shred of evi-
dence in the case capable of standing
without "the rotton thread of Or-
chard’s stbry” to sustain It and tbat
the plain provision of the Idaho stat-
ute made the duty of the court clear
Tried to Wreck a Fast Mail
Paola Kan June 22 — Missouri
Kansas & Texas fast freight No 431
second section was wrecked five
miles southe of here early Thursday
It 4 i8 believed ‘ that a gang of
tramps who have been loafing here
the last two days tried to wreck the
fast mail train which leaves here
at 3:30 o’clook Twenty-four hours
were required to clear the track
Crazed by Lightning 8troke
Kalamazoo Mich' June 23 — Frank
Steiner was struck by lightning
while trimming a spruce tree here
' Friday The shock left him clinging
to the branches bereft of reason
j Neighbors attracted by his chattering
were unable to make him understand
' their directions to climb down and a
fire truck had to be called to bring
the man down by ladders
A $7000 Fire In Garnett Kan
Garnett Kan June 21 — Sponta-
neous combustion is believed to have
started a fire in the J O MacAfee
furniture factory Wednesday which
caused a loss estimated at $7001)1
NEWS FROM FATHERLAND
A Brief Resume of the Most Im-
portant Happenings in the
German Empire
"Great Britain Is afraid of showing
the world in general and Germany in
pattlcular how weak ’ and utterly
worthless is a great part of her much
praised navy” Count Ernest Reventlow
the famous German natal critic says
In an article which has created an
enormous sensation "and for that rea
son the British government has very
wisely decided not to have any naval
maneuvers As a consequence of recent
natal maneuvers the British admiralty
was forced to send scores of cruisers
which had figured on the active list to
the Kyles of Bute because it had been
made clear to all that they were about
us fit to go into battle as the czar's
Baltic squadron wus to fight the
Mikado's ironclads' The days when
Britannia ruled the waves are drawing
0 an end and no one needs really fear
the onee formidable British lion Eng-
land still has an overwhelmingly large
navy on paper but she dares do noth-
ing more tills year In the way of naval
display than to send part of her home
fleet on a show cruise Around the Bru-
sh Isles because most of the ships are
sadly in need of repair As long as
they are not subjected to any severe
strain they appear to be all right but
it the first attempt to put them to the
tse they would be put to In case of
war they wou’d break down” One
shudders to think of the stortn of in-
dignation which will break out In the
English press but the count says that
ie cares pothlng for that as he knows
every word he has written to be true
and Is ready to bet any amount that
he English government dare not con-
tradict him officially
Kaiser Wilhelm has had the satis-
faction of hearing his improvements on
classical opera applauded by a great
audience It was at Wiesbaden where
'lis majesty has been taking a little
est-cure Weber’s beautiful fairy
ipera "Oberon” was performed at the
opera house the version given being
the one containing the improvements
suggested by the kaiser When the
opera was performed some years ago
in Berlin the kaiser declared that al-
though It was a masterpiece It easily
-night be Improved He made sug-
gestions on the subject to Baron von
Hulsen director of the opera house
and to Major LaulTen dramatist-inordinary
to the kaiser The three then
out their heads together and managed
“o evolve a revised edition of "Oberon”
This was performed for the first time
at Wiesbaden and the kaiser was grat-
ified to hear the loyal approbation with
which it was received"
The musketry experts of the Swiss
army have been experimenting at Wil-
lenstadt with a new rifle bullet for
which several noteworthy properties
are claimed The caliber is the same
as that of the bullet now in use but it
velgh8 several grains less It has a
-joint of extreme fineness and of great
penetrative power as is proved by the
affects it produces -on forged steel
plates The trajectory Is so low that
ip to 600 yards no elevation Is neces-
sary while a new powder is elng used
that gives a higher initial velocity than
any other bullet possesses
The German police have just pre-
vented a retired French officer from
entering Elsass-Lothrlngen The of-
ficer traveled to Mulhausen by train In
order to see some member of his family
When the train arrived at the frontier
station a German police officer arrested
him The retired officer was iiVortned
that' the authorities possessed descrip-
tions of all officers in the district and
as he was one of them he would have
to go back It was in vain for the of-
ficer to point out that he had retired
from the army and was now a private
individual
On May 17 It was 100 years since the
arms of Friedrich the Great were taken
to the hotel of Invalids Paris and de-
posited there as the greatest trophy of
war ever captured by Napoleon the
Great But seven years later at the
approach of the allied armies the man
having charge of the building misun-
derstood the orders received by him
and set fire to Rome 1500 trophies in-
cluding the arms of Friedrich the
Great The metallic parts were after-
wards thrown into the Seine and no
trace pf them has been found since
On June 8 Kaiser Franz Joseph cele-
brated his forty-year jubilee as king
of Hungary and his majesty drove
tfiru the streets of Budapest The So-
cialists Improved the occasion bv
shouting: “Give us universal suffrage!”
The police drove the crowd back with
drawn sabers and several persons
were wounded The kaiser granted an
extensive amnesty mostly to people who
had been convicted of lese majeste The
city was beautifully decorated The
royal family attended services in ‘ the
cathedral In the forenoon
Kaiser Wilhelm has rented th'e great
stock farm at William Field In the
neighborhood of Lexington Ky Horses
for the officers of the German army
will be bought in all parts of the
Southern states and gathered at that
point whence they will be shipped to
Germany
The Hagenbeck Zoological Gardens
near Hamburg have been formally
opened A feature of this institution Is
that the animals are allowed to roars
about as freely as possible
Kaiser Wilhelm Is generally praised
for hjs courage in dropping his friend
Count von Eulenburg as soon as he
found out about the latter’s question-
able methods
The population of Berlin was 2088-
123 April 1 and there was a decrease of
11040 during March
A cave filled with stalactites has Just
beeri found at Ruheland Braunschweig
A number of American ' physicians
are to be invited to take part in the
Sixteenth International Medical con-
greaa which is to take place at Buda-
pest in 1909 under the auspices of
Kaiser Franz Joseph of Austria To
help defray' the expenses the kaiser
the kingdom of Hungary and the city
of Budapest have each donated )25000
Mrs Kruger the midwife of Waren
Mecklenburg is 55 years old and she
has had charge of 5000 confinement
cases
The high school of Mainz is the flfst
1 one in Hessen to furnish books and
stationery free of charge to the achol
A1e$on amtim
MAKING FIREWORKS
IT HAS DEVELOPED INTO A BIG
AMERICAN INDUSTRY
And It Has All Been Worked Out
from the Ancient Chinese Fire-
cracker — How They
Are Made
The manufacture of fireworks has
developed from an imitation of the
Chinese firecracker to an industry of
vast proportions in the United States
Also from the humble and com para
tive harmless cracker the product has
been developed along the most com-
plex yet scientific lines until the mas-
ter of ceremonies at a full fledged mod-
ern fireworks exhibit must needs be
a man with a comprehensive knowl-
edge of the explosives he is handling
The Chinaman having invented
gunpowder a few thousand years be-
fore it came into use in the western
world invented the firecracker so long
ago that the incident of its birth has
been lost in the shuffle of history but
curiously enough the Chinaman in
this respect has stood at the Initial
point of development as he has in all
else that pertains to his life He still
makes good firecrackers but they are
of the same model and power as he
has used for hundreds of years The
American having stolen the Idea pro-
ceeded to develop it along lines truly
indicative of the American character
— flamboyant pyrotechnic and loud
The Chinese cracker is a small affair
considerably more so than the crack
er to buy which the small boy toiled
In the gray dawn carrying water to
the elephant but at Chinese New
Year's and other festival times a
string of their firecrackers suspended
from the end of a bamboo pole will
explode — every one of them — and
there will be no "slzzlers” nor blanks
found in the string Which goes to
show that the hand-made Chinese
article Is still honestly made and that
western methods of cheap machine
manufacture have not Invaded the
cradle of the firecracker
But as all things American have de-
veloped to prodigious proportions
leaving in the past the memory of sim-
plicity so the firecracker of history
each year finds a smaller place in the
demonstrations of America Instead
there have come the rocket th'e bomb
the set piece and the appliances for
pouring forth torrents and volcanoes
of multi-colored fire It is the manu-
facture of these goods that has grown
to such size and commercial conse-
quence The preliminary in the manufacture
of nearly all fireworks is the making
of the case The Quality of paper
varies from the commonest straw-
board to the finest bank note paper
Cases for skyrockets require a fine
grade of paper called rope board The
paper is first pasted and then rolled
over a mandrel The drying process
takes four or five days and the case
then is ready for for charging They
vary from two to 20 Inches in length
and from one-quarter of an inch to two
inches in diameter' The loading of
skyrockets up to the last four or five
years has been done by hand but the
machine now takes the place of the
hand loader A spindle placed in the
center of the case causes a cavity aB
the material is packed in around it
The materials are scooped in ham-
mered down until it is of rock-like
hardness and then the spindle is with-
drawn When the rocket is fired the
large surface of material In the spin-
dle cavity catches fire at once caus-
ing a tremendous pressure of gas
which pours out of the Bplndle cavity
causing the rocket to shoot skyward
The colored stars which go in the
head of the rocket or bomb are com-
posed as follows: Red nitrate of ba-
ryta chloride of potash and Bhellac
green nitrate of baryta yellow oxll-
ate of soda Purple and blue are com-
posed of various preparations of cop-
per while the making of the other
tints are trade secrets
The Roman candle Is charged as
follows: Sets of cases are placed on
pins and there is scooped In first a
quantity of clay which prevents the
The red firecracker in her hand—
(Beside her lips ’twas duller
’Twas in her hand you understand
I hut compare the color)
A frown was on her gentle brow
“Be careful please!” I shouted
"Best let an expert show you how"
"Just like a man!” she posited
"Firecrackers are” I gravely said
“Alive with risk and danger
They strike at the devoted head
Of friend or passing stranger
They must be handled with dispatch
Or all the risk is doubled
First one must try to find a match"
"Just like s man” she bubbled
"You light the match and touch the fu
And when it ia ignited—”
She seemed to tremble in her shoes
But said she was delighted '
That thia was quite the best of larks—
“See how the file has wriggled
Until by turns it flames then sparks"
"Just like a man!” she giggled
cracker while her eyea
and wide with wonder
this one must be wise
And not make any blunder
Observe now that I let it drop
Just when the flame was glinted
Close to the charge Now it will pop"
"Just like a man?” she — hinted
explosive composition from burning
the hand then a charge of gunpow-
der and on top of this are placed the
colored atara in the proper sequence
of color On top of this comes a com-
position called fuse which makes the
Intervals between the discharge of the
stars - After the fuse rammers are
brought down to pack the material
the operation being repeated as often
as required The candles contain from
two to 35 stars The finishing con-
sists of covering the candle and pro-
viding a quick match for easy igni-
tion Quick match one of the important
features of fireworks manufacture la
made from specially prepared wick
soaked in a solution of gunpowder At
the proper-time it is wound oft on
frames and just before It is dried it la
sifted over with very fine powder la
order to make it extra quick in action
It is then cut in lengths of about sis
feet anjworked Intp what is known
as match paper after 'which it la
placed in manila paper cases and
joined together Fire at one end of
quick match leaps to the other and al-
most as quickly as would electricity
The quick match is fitted out on what
are known as lances or rods of bam-
boo For set pieces the design Tm
sketched by an artist and then scaled
so it can he enlarged to any size Thj
regulation set-1 pitece frame is 10x8
feet and is divided into squares a foot
large The design is outlined in rat-
tan pegs are driven into the rattan
and on these pegs are fastened the
quick match lances referred to
Sulphur saltpeter and charcoal en-
ter largely into the manufacture of
fireworks and for particularly brilliant
effects steel and iron filings are added
FASHIONS FOR MEN
The Fourth of July Coat
For men and boys — only thing foi
the national holiday
SOME FAMOUS FOURTHS
1776 — Declaration of Independence
signed at Philadelphia
1778 — Clark took Kaskaskia
1778--The Wyoming massacre
1780 — British evacuated Williams-
burg 1788 — Great celebration in Philadel-
phia apropos of the ratification of the
constitution
1802 — J Q Adams delivered his first
address to the United States senate
1804 — Pioneer weekly mail stage
made its trip from Philadelphia to
Pittsburg
1807 — Garibaldi the Italian patriot
was born
1817 — Work began on the Erie ca-
nal' 1826 — Death of John Adams
1826 — Death of Thomas Jefferson
1828 — First spike driven for the Bal-
timore &Ohlo railroad
1831 — Death of James Monroe
1833 — Carolus Duran the great
French painter was born -
1845 — United States annexed Texas
1848 — Peace proclaimed between the
United States and Mexico
1848 — Cornerstone of the Washing-
ton monument laid in Washington
'1851 — Cornerstone for the capltol
extension was laid
LITTLE CAUSE FOR WORRY
Mora er Less Glittering Bait Held Out
to Cow Punchers
Over in the Salmon river meadow
country in Idaho ranged a wild and
woolly bunch of long-haired cow
punchers whose knowledge of the
world was confined mainly to trips
after cattle into surrounding counties
Into this reckless but verdaut com-
munity there came the ' smooth-
tongued representative of a wild
west show who hired several riders
at a high salary to do a hair-raising
act the chief feature being that they
should appear to be thrown from their
horses and dragged by the foot ‘
After they had practiced in a corral
for a while one of them loosened
himself and rising from the dirt dis-
heveled and dazed inquired:
"Say mister ain’t this ruther dan-
gerous? We might git killed"
“That’s all right” chirped the
how’s representative cheerfully
“Your salary will go on just the
same” — Llppincott’s Magazine
THE REORGANIZED NEW YORK
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
The new Board of Trustees of the
New York Life Insurance Company
chosen by the policyholders under the
Armstrong laws has taken charge of
the company’s affairs and has begun
the work of reorganization (
In choosing the principal officers c
the company the Board has adhered
to the idea that a life Insurance com-
pany should be managed by life in-
surance men The new president is
Darwin P Kingsley a college bred
man of good New England stock who
has been In the company's service in a
variety of capacities for a period of
nearly twenty years In the parlance
of life insurance he "began with the
rate book” and has advanced step by
step up to his present position
The first vice president of the com-
pany is Thomas A Buckner who has
Berved the company for more than a
quarter of a century — indeed has
never had any other business connec-
tion Associated with these men are
others long trained in the company's
service each an expert in his own de-
partment of work Wm E Ingersoll
who has for many' years had charge
of the company’s great business in
Europe is one of the second vice pres-
idents and will continue at the head
of the company's office in Paris
Rufus W Weeks who has been in
the company’s service for nearly forty
years ranks next to Mr Buckner as
vice president and continuous as chief
actuary of the company '
The policyholders have expressed
their belief in this company in 'no un-
certain terms The upheaval in life in-
surance within the last two years has
resulted in a great deal of misunder-
standing and policyholders alarmed on
matters which were not very clear to
them have Ibeen disposed1 ®ive up
their contracts at a heavy- sacrifice
This has not been true in the k’ew York
Life to any great extent The com-
pany bad $2000000000 Insurance ou
its books when the life insurance in-
vestigation began and while the laws
of the State of New York now do not
permit any company to write over
$150000000 a year (which is about
one-half the New York Life formerly
did) the company’s outstanding busi-
ness still exceeds $2000000000
Policyholders generally will be still
further reassured by this action of the
Board as it places at the head of the
company to protect their interests men
of thorough training and unexception-
able character
Her Disease - v
One day Marjorie aged three want-
ed to play doctor with her sister
Marjorie was the “doctor” and she
came to make a call on her sister
who made believe she was jick “Do
you want to know what you’ve got?”
the doctor asked after a critical ex-
amination "Yes” faintly assented
the sick woman “You’ve got dirty
hands” said Marjorie dropping In dis-
gust the wrist on which she had beea
feeling the pulse
Knotty Point to Decide
Ts a goat a sheep?” is a zoological
question that the commissioners of
this county have been called upon to
decide officially There has long been
a state law providing that the county
shall reimburse farmers for sheep
killed by dogs A R Harward of
Mlffln township has filed a claim for
$50 for Angora goats so destroyed—
Columbus correspondence Pittsburg
Dispatch
Advanced
"Hiram” said Mrs Kornkob to her
husband who was reading the Weekly
Screech "they say that Jones man
who has taken the farm next to our
Is mighty intellectual”
"I guess he is” replied Farmer
Kornkob “He knows four different
almanacs by heart” — Milwaukee
Sentinel
Napoleon’s Famous War Horse
Marengo the famous war charger of
Napoleon Is said to have been the
greatest borse known to modern his-
tory The emperor rode Marengo for
the last time in the battle of Mount
St Jean where the horse received hi
seventh wound The steed died at the
ago of 36 years
Water Remarkably Pure
The water of Loch Katrine in Scot
land Is wonderfully pure It hold
only quarter-pound of alluvial deposit
to every 1000 gallons of water The
Thames averages four pounds to the
1000 gallons
v Comlug events that are calculated
to separate people from their coin are
always heralded by an advance agent
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