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rrs. VOL. XLV- NO. 13,968. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEUTBER 14, 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FI AND SWORD 1 Rioters Attack Police Boxes With Oil. TROOPS NOW GUARD THE GITY Soldiers at Osaka Hold Anti Peace Meeting. FEAR OF MUTINY IN ARMY Organized Agitators Use Kerosene Against Police Threats to Mur der IKomura and Katsura. 1X0 Enmity to Forelgnprs. TOKIO. Sept. 14. (10 A. M.) Advices from Yokohama say that a riot occurred shortly after midnight Tuesday. The mob was made up of two sections, of about WOO. mostly coolies and outcasts. 'Eight police boxes wore demolished and burned. The mob directed its attack against tliroo objects, the poliee stations, the res idences of the customs officials and the hu-g commercial houses. Four hundred troops were sent from Toklo xn a special train a Mule before dawn, and soldiers are how guarding the Consulates, tne warehouses containing explosives and tho oU t&ttks. The Governor f the prefecture and the Mayor of Yokoliama. have issued procla mations instructing the poople to place confluence In the anility of the authorities to restore order. Six hundred Russian prisoners of war from Karafuto, who were staying at the different hotels, have been placed under a special guard. During the riot the police used drawn sword, while tho mob was armed with pistols and sword-sticks. The casualties amOhg the police wore three severely wounded and S7 slightly injured. Ninety olght of the mob are under arrest. The mob set Are to the police boxes by poaktag hats in oil, tiring: thorn and throw ing them at the object 0? atta'ck. TROOPS GUARD ALL- YOKOHAMA Agitators Have Posted Placards and Threatened to Burn Police Boxes. -YOKOHAMA, Sept. 13. (6 P. M.) Troops of infantry are .now guarding the foreign Consulates, churchos, convents and hotels, and cavalry arc patrolling the streets. One hundred and nlnoteon arrosts had been made up to noon. It is understood that the riot was In cited by agitators from Toklo. Inflamma tory placards were posted In the slums Tuesday, and were torn down by the poHee. The mob used many short iron bars and had kerosene ready, showing that thore was some organization. It had threat ened to burn all the police boxes tonight, which throat had been forestalled by the precautions of the troops. The city is now quieL No anti-foreign sentiment exists, and there is a growing feeling in business cir cles that the rioting is senseless and mls chlevous, and must be strongly sup pressed. RIOT AT THE COREAX CAPITAL Seizure of Land by Japs Resented by Natives, Who Are Expelled. VICTORIA. B. a, Sept 13.-Corcan newspapors tell of a serious riot at Seoul in protest against the appropriation of 50 equarc miles of Riverside land, embracing ten villages and 15.000 houses, by the Jap anese authorities on the score of military necessity. The villagers went in a body to Seoul to protest and were attacked by J a panose gendarmes. A riot followed, in which one gendarme was killed and many Coreans were wound ed. Subsequently a mixed force of Japa nese soldiers and gendarmes went to the desired district and drove out the inhab itants. This dispossession of the villagers has caused considerable ditrcss. THREATS AGAINST KOMURA Anti-Pea cc Agitators Talk of Be heading Envoy and Premier. VICTORIA. B. C, Sept. 13. Advices from Toklo state that Incondiary posters are being received at the Toklo Foreign Office threatening that Baron Komura "will be assassinated on his return from America. The Toklo Yorriiuri publishes the text of one, which says: "Baron Komura. our plenipotentiary in America, fearing Russian bluff, has made concession on concession, so that the vic tor of the war Is as tbe vanquished. If it is true, we shall take off the heads of Count Katsura and Baron Komura, and take suitable steps against their coadju tors." SOLDIERS JOIX IX PROTEST Osaka Meeting Alarms Government, Which Takes Stern Measures. OSAKA, Japan, Sept. 13. (Special.) Alarming symptoms appeared in the ranks of several infantry regiments quartered here when the soldiers learned tbe peace tm ard tat X 0lrx fctM meeting of protest against ending the war dh tSe Portsmouth terms. Before tho mac ting adjourned officers with a strong guard made their appear ance and arrested the ringleaders. Later, many soldiers who attended were arrest ed, and are now confined to their bar racks. Vigorous measures have been adopted to prevent a repetition of the oc currence in other regiments, and to stamp out all signs of mutinous conduct upon the part of soldiers. The outbreak has greatly "alarmed the government. The government expected no trouble from thjarmy, and the fact that the spark of insubordination has burned but for a momont fljls many offi cers with dread of what could happen, if the soldiers should join with the people and tho riotous protests of last weok be re-enacted. YOKOHA3IA IS SCENE OF RIOT Police Boxes Burned and Many Po licemen Injured by Agitators. YOKOHAMA, Sept. 13. The meeting held at a theater yesterday . to protest against the terms of the peace treaty was followed by an anti-peace demonstration. Fourteen police boxes were burned, 37 po licemen injured and two civilians severely hurt. Many arrests were made. The police say that the meeting was the private doing of a professional agi tator, who charged an admission fee. The promise that there would be no. pop ular speakers was unauthorized, accord ing to the police, and the disappointed audience denounced the swindle and de manded the return of its money. The trouble finally developed into rowdyism outside the theater. At 5 o'clock this morning two com panies of troops from Toklo arrived. They have boon posted as guards at all the consulates and other Important points and quiot has been restored. 3IUST NOW DEVELOP COUNTRY Katsura Addresses Governors, Urg ing Moderation With Press. TOKIO, Sept. 13. (3 P. M.) In a speech before the local governors today Premier Katsura said: Tbe peace negotiations brought about through the good offices of President Ttoofc velt hare been concluded. During the IX) months of hostilities, the war was sueeess fully carried oat with united national sup port. Your earnest and efficient efforts in guiding the people of your respective locali ties are fully recognized. Now that peace has been restored, your further effertA are desirable In dealing with post-bellum meas ures so as to afford full play to the enter prising energy possessed by the nation In eo remarkable a dsgree. The national energy must be mj guided ao to realize an expansion and development commensurate with tbe ex tent of its victories. It Is highly regrettable that disturbances have occurred In the capital, but we hope that your local Men will remain at peace. Ia enforcing restrictive measures over tho press promulgated by an urgency ordinance, you are required to be guided by moderation. Wo hope that under your experienced guidance the nation will fully realize the frulto of lbs victories. NO ENMITY TO FOREIGXERS Anti-Government Paper Objects to Being .Glassed With Boxers. TOKIO, SejSt.' 13. (11 A. M.) The Mainlchl this' morning In its leader re sents the statement of the Kokumin, a (Concluded on Page 5.) CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER Tho Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 64 deg.; minimum, ST. Precipitation, 0.24 of an Inch. TODAYS Fair and warmer. Northwest! The Peace Treaty. Terms of armistice published. Page 4 Anti-peace riots at Yokohama. Page 4 Japanese soldiers protest against treaty and j mutiny is xearea. l'agv 4. Threats to murder Komura. Page 4. Komura 111 with typhoid fever and his de parture delayed. Page 4. Foreign. Hueiclan oilmen compelled to pay blackmail to bandits. Page 3. Conspiracy in Balkans to murder rulers. Page 3. Crisis In negotiations between Norway and Sweden. Page 4. National. Minister Merry goes to rescue American captive in Nicaragua. Page 3. Roosevelt rebukes French correspondent for faking Interview. Page 3. Great Increase in Portland postal receipts. Page S. Chinese boycott grows beyond control of orig inators. Page 3. Politics. Philadelphia refermers demand removal of Federal efflolal. Page fi. Domestic. Insurance man' tolls why bond syndicates are formed. Page 1. Increase In yellow fever cases. Page 3. Bigamist tells troubles with two wives. Page 1. Argument -of Taggart cases ends. Page s Sport, Pacific Coast League scores: Oakland 5. San Francisco 4; Seattle J. Tacema 0; Port land 7. Los Angeles, 4. Page 7. Pacific Coast. Linn County Republicans are In favor of love .feast. Page 7. Ironclad rules laid down In .contracts of Deschutes Irrigation Company. Page 0. Mother's company better for children than father's, says Washington Supreme Court. Page 4. Salem electric plant bought by Portland Con solidated people. Page C. Ex-State Senator Bunkers confesses con spiracy of boodllng California Legislators. Page 5. American Board Commissioners visit 'Whit man College. Page 0. Commercial and Marine. ' Recent advance In wheat checks selling. Page 15. De611ne in California wool market. Page 15. Unimportant fluctuations In stocks. Page is! Various factors depress Chicago wheat mar ket. Page 15. Pilots charge must be based on net tan nage, not gross. Page It, Steamer Tottenham sails with 3,780,000 feet of lumber. Page 14. Steamer Arabia arrives with rich cargo from the Orient. Page 14. World's Fair. .Missouri ceieorauon at Exposition - today. 11(B IV, Fine stock arriving for livestock Page 10. exhlblt. Aeronaut Beechey writes of his successful 1 uigav. .rage lu. Portland and Vicinity. Governor Joseph W. Folk and staff arrive to visit Exposition. Page 1. Supplies and wheel-scrapers sent up Colum bia River for new railroad. Page 1L St Johns Council troubles lead to libel charge. Page 12. American Association of Traveling Passen ger Agent meets In Portland. Pago 11. W. J.' Craln tells -story of burning of his bay. . Page 1.0. . v Witness in Wllllamson-Gesner-BIggs trial tens story oi meeting, with- Geener. Page lTu j: Engineers go on inspection trip to Columbia River Jetty. Pago 11. Newly wed man In JalL -Page 1L ' - t Booms launched for Republican url FOLK COMES TO SEE EXPOSITION Missouri's Governor, v0ne of Nation's Big Men, Arrives V With His' Staff. - PERSONALITY NOT -SHOWY Being "On the Level" Has Won Him Fame Today's Events at Expo sition Revolve Around DIs- tingulshcd Guest. HOW GOVERNOR FOLK AND STAFF WILL SPEND TODAY. The forenoon will be devoted to sightseeing at tho Exposition and about the city. 8 P. M. Attend Missouri day ex ercises in Auditorium. P. M. Meet the general puWic at an Informal reception In the Missouri building. 7 P. M. Attend elaborate banquet as guests of honor at American inn. By Arthur A. Greene, All the world thinks most as much of a man who is on the leVel as it does of a lover. People who use the Idioms of the street exhaust their category of tributes whon thoy say of one of us: "He is on the level' Because; men say this of "Joe" Folk, of Missouri, and be lieve it, he has come, to be within the very recent time one of the biggest fig ures in our National life. This young man, whom the decent Americans who live In Missouri have made their Governor, came to Portland yesterday for a few days and- It hap pened that I called upon him at his hotel yesterday afternoon. By this means it fell out that I had an oppor tunity of ranking- a cursory examina tion as to tho manner of man he Is. Physically Folk gives one the first impression that he Is large with a deep chest, strong arms and legs and the face of a student. His manners are easy and one is won over to him at once, be cause he has character stamped all over him. This is as apparent as the dollar-marks Homer Daenport used to GOVERNOR JOS Era W. put on Mark Hanna's, clothes. No one but a blind man or a 'dare-devil would approach the' Missourian with a prop osition' that "wasn't" straight, for. after looking him over, the conclusion comes naturally that here Is an honest man. Right Stamp of Dignity. - The Governor has dignity, but not In a virulent form. It Is the right and proper dignity which comes with re-' t-sponslblllties ' well accounted " for. not the kind some people put on when they wear long-tailed coats . and have as much as $2.49 In their pockets. The "difference is vast- for the one has brains In the head and the other sauer-kraut in the skull. All men may not agree with Mr. Folk, but all men must re spect him. His personality "is not showy. His voice is low and has body. If he sang it would be, bass, perhaps, but not the kind that wears a bearskin In grand opera. His qulot-spoken way and - his serious but unspectacular face impress me much as those of a certain frontier Sheriff whom I once saw. This Sheriff has a reputation of being an accom plished vloer-of-things. He had tamed La whole county full or. cow-puncners and was esteemed as a gun-fighter buc it required a court summons to get him to tell about it. He never tipped oft his plan of action but he Just quietly made people behave. Features Suggest Bryan. That type of man doesn't start out to accomplish results with a brass" band leading the way, but he gets results whether it is the civilization of the wild and wooly or the reformation of a state. Governor Folk seems to be of that-metal, or at leapt he waits until he gets results before be orders out the bond. His face la. a way suggests .Bryan, but he wears his hair .trimmed and has the grace to refrain from low-cut vesta ana wme string ties in tne ouynme. tie iooks i very much unlike the typical Southern politician, and -Is more the smartly-groomed city lawyer in his general, appearance. He wears glasses; and looks as If he bad.1mx3"- Yba I became the treasurer read much and studied more. His hand Is cordial but not particularly "glad," and I shouldn't call him a mixer. He Is in teresting In conversation, rallies a re strained smile now and then, and talks slowly. While you are with him you are conscious always that a keen, business like lawyer Is telling you about his case, never that here Is a statesman, an orator or a loader of men. You can't get the notion out of your head that the City of St. Loute-simply wanted to have the law on some criminal? and retained Joseph Folk, attorney and counsellor, that the State of Missouri became Involved In the litigation, and paid him a bigger foe to conduct its case. Xot PrcsIdcntlal Jur Appearance.' No, Folk doesn't have tho appearance of Presidential timber, but he may be. He may be orator, statesman, leader of (Concluded on Page 1-1.) TOLK. OT M3S8 OCM, WK- AJtRIYXD IX ES DEFENSE OF SYNDICATES 'BuSCromwell Admits He Gets . -Share of' the Profits They Make. MUTUAL LIFE BOND-BUYING Insurance CHflcrttl Explains Connec- .Hon AVJIth Trust Companies. -More Iiight on Xew York Life's Bonds. NEW YORK, Sept. 13. A vigorous dcr fense of . syndicates and. their operations In connection with the ir&urancebuslness and a frank statement of personal profits gained through thoir operations, made by Frederick Cromwell, treasurer of the Mu- ktual Life Insurance Company, was the feature "of today's session of the special committee appointed to probe methods of life insurance companies In this state. The defense of the syndicate was made by Mr. Cromwell soon after he was called to the stand. Before he was asked a question he bogged leave to sav a few words, nnd. , upon bolns directed to proceed, said: Syndicates Are Xcccssnry. Tbe law of combination wbleb affects finance as-'everythlRS" else bas made syndicates neces- of the Metual 'Life Insurance Company, the total lranpaeUons la my department now are- over $100,000,000 per annum. When our receipts were less 20 years ago It was quite possible for us to buy from bond dealers and pay the successive profits, but now It Is absolutely Impossible to boy advantageously large b.oeks of eecurltles. except as they are allowed by the combinations of capital, popularly calif d syndicates, and we bave to go Into thorn to get oar Investments and get them In sufficient size and at "ground-floor" prices. We could not make our Investments without syndicates and we are partners In every syndicate Into .which we go. I want to say further that unless we west lute these syndicates we would not be able to Invest our funds except by buying In small quantities and paying the successive profits to middlemen. I ask you. Mr. Hughes, and the committee, to consider that we have now over $450,000,000 of acsets and while we have over-$100,000,000 Invested in bonds and mortgages, we are constantly under the necessity of finding ad ditional Investments for our large accumula tions ef funds. It Is a condition which we meet and tbe exhibits are "hero whlen show bow wc bave to corn ply with It. Our !nvet- PORTLAND YESTERDAY. Ml ments arq such that, when Mr. Tappen I sup pose, about tbe roost widely known and hon ored bank president 'in his day In New York died, he left It as a condition that bis trustees should have one privilege, and that was to invest In tbe same securities as the Mutual Life Insurance Company. That Is the way we Invested tiur money, but we could not make the transaction of 100.000. 00O a year in the securities bought by this com pany without using syndicates. Cromwell's Personal Profits. The acknowledgment of personal prorlt3 was made In a tabulated statement which was presented to the committee after re cess. It showed that Mr. Cromwell had made a personal profit of $26,371 from syn dicate operations during- the last five years. In which he Individually and the Mutual Life Insurance Company had par ticipated. Mr. Hughes, chief counsel of the com mittee. Immediately took up an estimate of these sj'ndicate transactions in an ef fort to ascertain the manner in which these profits, were obtained. An Interest ing point was brought out in probing a transaction In the Pennsylvania Railroad V& convertible bonds. Mr. Cromwell made no personal profit, he stated, adding: "Of course, we are greatly interested in the Pennsylvania Railroad. I might say wo are the heaviest stockholders." Answering Mr. Hughes. Mr. Cromwell said the holdings of the Mutual in the Pennsylvania Railroad were 55,000,000 par. Among these transactions the connection of trust companies with the Mutual was brought out when it was stated that the 1.000,000 subscription to a Japanese loan was shared by the United States Mort gage & Trust Company andthe Guaran tee Trust Company. In explaining this. Mr. Cromwell said: AVhy Trust Companies Are Favored. We gave thene opportunities to the trust companies In which we held large interests for very good reasons. We. as an insurance, company, need very large banking facilities for very large Interests. It goes without say ing that it Is better for us to use our "own companies than to give to Institutions with wnlch we bave no connection the handling of our large nvestments. For this reason we put men Into the directorate of these subrtdtary companies to look after the Interests of the Mutual. They are not there for the profit or the Interest on the paltry 100 shares they have to hold, but to protect the Mutual. It is natural we should wish to put In as directors of these companies the same men v as are on tbe board of the Mutual. I bave 100 abodes In these companies ""as a dlreetor. byt 1 have never made any secret of it. A result of our connection with tswe com panies In that In 14 yaro we bave made through them a profit of 10O,00O,00O for tbe policy-holders. This being the status of the case. It Is na tural we should help these subsidiary com panies to make money and should throw op portunities la their way. The men we put In them are not there for their own. profit. They never get a.dollar out of the Mutual unfairly and every cent they make through these truot, coropan!c and banks for the Mutual Is for the policy-holders alone. All for Policy-Holders Good. Just before closing the Inquiry for the day Mr. Hughes s'aidr "We had some talk this morning in con nection with another Insurance company's joint uccounts. Have you any of these-r" "No. sir; we bave not and. never have bad,' replied Mr. CromwelL "We have no partners in our investments;, thai Is, any Investmehts we make are made by the Mutual Life, and what is done for the Mutual Life Is done for the policy-hold-, ere.' Questioned further along this line, Mr. Cromwell told of the syndicate transac tions. "Have you any non-ledger assets?" queried Mr. Hughes. . "We have two one for $11,000 and the other for' $500. We have a memorandum of them with the finance committee, but they are not counted as assets. They are some shares that have no face value at present, and we have been holding them for any result that may accrue. Mr. Cromwell said the Mutual had never before these two questionable assets had any non-ledger securities within the past 21 years. The session closed with Mr. Cromwell still on the stand. Imnglnnry Prorit on Books. Frederick H. Shlpman. assistant treas urer for the last three years of the New York Life Insurance Company, was the first witness today. He was examined on syndicate accounts. The Toronto, Hamil ton & Buffalo deals were the first taken ud. and the accounta were gone into In vdetaii. "How could the New York Life," asked Mr. Hughes, "rotlre Toronto. Hamilton &. Buffalo bonds from the syndicate at 93 when it had bought them while in the . syndicate at 91?" ' "Because the market price In tho opin ion of C. M. Gibbs, the treasurer at the time, was then 99. We credited the profit, 1 J44.9S5, to profit and loss." f Mr. Shlpman In reply to further ques tions, said; the company raised the price - from 91 tb 99, but that the profit had never been realized, and the company holds the bonds at the present time. "The New York Life In this case," said i Mr. Hughes, "did not return bonds, as is customary, to the syndicate members, but ' took them themselves and credited on the i books a profit, which, in fact, has not f been made I" v 1 "Yes." Next Mr. Hughes turned to the Joint ', i account of Gpldman, Sachs & Co., and the New York Life in 1839. "The account was created in ordor to Invest In Chicago & Northwestern Rail road bonds with an agreement for equal division of profits. Mr. Shlpman said, it should not be called a syndicate. "How can you explain that on July IS. 1S99, you buy and sell 750 bonds "on tho same day according to your statement?" asked Mr. Hughes. "The only way I can explain It," Mr. Shlpman replied, Jls that the New York Life held these 'bonds and wished to sell them. Therefore It named a fair price and transferred them to a Joint account," "Now don't you see the purchase Is not for the syndicate but for the New York Life Insurance Company?" "I can't say, it was six years ago." Divides -Profiss With Syndicates. "Is it fair to say that the New York Life enters into an agreement with others and provides the money for the purchase 1-of the bonds and then gives the members of the syndicate tho profits of the sale?" "Yes." "Does it mean that the New York Life pays one-half of the profits to bankers to" get them to handle tho syndicates?" "Yes, I think It is sometimes advisable In. order tq get the business." The Chicago. Burlington &. Qulncy deal (Concluded a 2 ;n mm OF II 81GAM Attempt to Keep Two Families Ends- in -Grief and Prison Cell. .' HOW ftE FOOLED HIS WIVES Lured Into Bigamous Marriage by Street Flirtation, He Is Found Out After Three 3Ibnths of Xervous Strain. AXIOMS EVOLVED BY A BIGAMIST. When a woman gets hold of a man's coat, he might as well give up and marry her. No man who marries two women on & small Hilary can afford cigars. Let him make cigarettes; it's cheaper. If a man marries two women, when the first one scolds at nrght bo had better turn over and go to sleep. No man ought to try to fool a lot of women. Most any man will marry a woman if she begs long enough and bard enough and furnishes the money for the wedding. Two women are no good. They bother too much and make trouble. If a man's first wife Is good to him, he will like her better than any other woman. CHICAGO. Sept. 13. (Special.) Tho above philosophical deductions are made by Stanley Sobleszclk. confessed bigamist. In relating hia experience with two fam ilies on a salary of $13.50 a week. By phil osophy anu strict economy Sobleszclk managed for four months to exist In ap parent happiness, dividing his time be tween two West Side homes. Out of the discovery of his dual life has come the Imprisonment of Sobleszclk, the grief of two women who believed him true and a life of hardship in future for one of the women and her five little ones. There was no system about Sobleszcik's expenditures on the two homes. He spent his money as he got It and, when It was gone, he went, without complaint un til, he sot more. "It there was any shortage any week, I made ray second wife stand for It," he explained today at the county jail. She had friends. My other wife had nobody to help her. I thought it was right to take the best care of my first family." Caused by Street Pllrtatlon. Sobleszclk declares his second marriage resulted from a street flirtation. Three years ago he worked as a blacksmith in West Lake street. Across the street was a factory where Kate Galus worked. They met on the street once, he says, and there began the acquaintance which ended In Sobleszcik's being drawn Into a bigamous marriage., "I couldn't get out of marrying Kate," said Sobleszclk. "She would have me. I finally married her to keep her from jumping In the lake. There'3 no sense of a man trying to get away when a woman gets hold of him. It's all off then." It was three days after the marriage with Miss Galus at St. Wenceslas Church before Sobleszclk could get free to return to his Paulina-street home. " 'I suppose you've been away having a good time with your friends again, my wife remarked to me," said the prisoner. "I did not say anything back. I turned over and went to sleep." "Did she keep on talking?" Kept Qnlet and Let Her Talk. "Women always keep on talking;" said Sobleszclk, "and when a man's wife talks he better keep still. If I'd talked bacK she'd have knocked my head with a poker. I kept quiet and let her talk." The prisoner Insisted he would not have stayed away from his children any longer than the three days he gave up to his honeymoon with his new wife. The new Mrs. Soblesczik proved a Jealous woman. On his return to her home, after three day3 at his first home, she demanded tearfully to know where hor husband had been. "I would Just laugh at her when she wanted to know where I stayed." said Soblesczik. T wouldn't tell her anything-. Then she'd talk and scold for hours. A jealous womkn is like a tom cat. She will yowl all night and let nobody sleep. 3Iore "Women, More Trouble. 'The more women a man has, the more trouble. They all want money. I got along- all right, though, for, when I was out of money, that was all there waa to it. I was short all the time, but, when I was, I had to stand for It. "My worst trouble was arranging- my hours so the women 'wouldn't leari about each other. I got a good system worked but. I would go to see Kate after work and stay until late In the evening-. Then I'd go home, and the next evening; I'd go home for a few hours -and then go back to Kate. But It was no use; they found me out at last and I ( don't know as I'm sorry. The buslness of trying- to keep two women happy all the time was too much for me. It mude me nervous." Wives 3reet nnd Compare Xotes. Sobesczik'a wives met and compared notes In Justice Severson's court while waiting; for a chance to testify against the man. who Is held In default of $3000 ball. "Each had an infant and they learned there Is only nine days' differ ence in the ages of the children, wh6 have been named Walter and John. The little ones so closely resemble one an other tnat some persons in the court room thought them to be twins.