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BOGUS LADING BILLS COST JILL $8430 J. C. Young, Alias W. Levine, With Aid of Innocent Accom plice, Accused of Swindle. COLUMBIA COMPANY SUES Forged Instrument Declared to Bear Every Indication of Genuineness and Kcgular Delivery Mad on First Sale. With forged bills of lading for grain, written on forms of the Oregon Short Lino Railroad Company. J. C. Young, alias W. Levine. is alleged to have de frauded the Columbia Milling Com pany of J8430 and then disappeared. A warrant charging him with uttering a forged bill of lading has been sworn to by C. J. Dutcher, secretary of the milling company. Young came to Portland last week and stopped at the Imperial Hotel. He advertised for a young man who knew the grain business and under stood market conditions, and this ad vertisement was answered Monday by George W. Ford, son of M. Ford, a millowner of Sheridan. Or. Young showed Mr. Ford the bills of lading and said he wanted someone who knew the Portland market to sell the grain for him. Young represented that his brother was a farmer near Twin Falls. Idaho, and that he had come to Portland to sell the grain for him while the mar ket was high. He said he intended to go into the commission business, and opened offices at E07 Chamber of Com merce building. S4SOO Cash Carried Off. Young left Portland with $4800 cash and a diamond ring purchased from Aronson's Jewelry establishment, for which he paid $1000 last Tuesday. The first shipment of oats for which he sold, through Mr. Ford, an innocent party to the transaction, the bill of lading for J6S0 was bona fide sad the oats came through to the Columbia Milling- Company from Twin Falls, Idaho. Forged bills of lading for ship ments of wheat were then sold to the, mill for 17800. a check for which was deposited in the United States National Bank. He then put bogus bills of lading to the amount of 12800 in the Scandina--ian National Bank and later presented a cashier's check for $3000 to take up thece bills. The bills were offered to the Balfour-Guthrie Company. They bore all evidence of being genuine and probably would have been sold had not the buyer been out when Young called. All of his money was withdrawn from the Scandinavian National Bank, but Young left Portland with more than $2000 still on deposit to his credit at the United States National Bank. This amount has been attached by the Co lumbia Milling Company. Hotel Also Loser. Young left owing a room bill of J18.50 at the Imperial Hotel, leaving behind a cheap suitcase, containing blank bills of lading, a shirt and sam ples of wheat and oats. The forged bills of lading were written by a bell boy at the Imperial Hotel at the dic tation of Young, who pleaded an in jured arm. Detectives Price and Mallett. of the Portland Police Department, were put on the case yesterday and are working on clews. When last seen Young wore a dark suit and overcoat and a black telescooe hat. Ha was about 30 years old. weighs 140 pounds, is five feet nine inches in height, smooth-shaven, of dark complexion, with sunken eyes and dark-brown hair. C. L. Dutcher. manager of the Co lumbia Milling Company, said yester day that the bills of lading looked as pood as a $20 gold piece and their genuineness had not been doubted. The first action taken in the matter was when the Columbia Milling Com pany's attorney yesterday morning filed a civil suit to recover $8430 from Young. News of the allegations in this suit got to the authorities and Deputy "District Attorney Pierce is sued the complaint shortly afterward. SHORTRIDGE WILL FILED ISailrond Director and Financier Leaves Million Estate to Widow. NORRISTOWN. Pa.. Jan. 8. The will of N. Parker Shortridge. director of the Pennsylvania Railroad, bank president and prominent Philadelphia financier, who died January 3 at his Wynnewood home, has been admitted to probate. He leaves his entire estate, valued at more than $1,000,000, to his wife. Eliza beth. J. Shortridge. absolutely. There are a number of bequests to Philadel phia charities, including the Divinity School, which depended upon the sur vival of the wife at his death. As Mrs. Shortrldge outlived her husband, these bequests do not become operative. There were several sums of some pro portion in case the wife was dead, some to persons whose relationship was not named. Among them was a bequest of $100,000. Parker S. Wil liams, of Lower Merlon, a namesake, is the sole executor. Mrs. Shortridge having renounced her right to serve. MUFFLE SNEEZE, ADVICE Physician Sajs Failure to TTse Hand kerchief Spreads Germs. ST. LOUIS, Jan. II. If you must sneeze, muffle it If you can't keep it in wear a silencer or imbed your face in the snowy folds of a handkerchief. The noise used to be about the only disagreeable part of sneezing that was known to humanity, but now Dr. Max C Starkloff. health commissioner, says A sneeze is liable to spread disease. If you are near by when someone sneezes, and later you find you have rheumatism, blame the sneezer. The same also applies to gout, diphtheria, small pox and a hundred other things. You don't look your best, either, when you are sneezing. SOCIAL EVIL ADVICE GIVEN Suggestion Made That Women Be Driven Into District of Rich. NEW YORK. Jan. 8. "Drive the dis orderly women out of the Red Light districts Into the better residential quarters of the city. Then the rich, the people of power and influence who inhabit those parts of New York, will see to It that sucb women are swept out of New York altogether." This, declared Katharine Bement Da vis, Commissioner of Correction, would be one of the steps by which, were she Police Commissioner and had she the power, loose women would be forced from the city. "Girls of well-to-do families are bet- ter able to Drotect themselves against I vice than are the women or the ien- derloin," said the Commissioner. , - 'The morals of women in the Ten derloin are exactly as important. Drive dissolute women out of tneir nouses ml vnu throw them in the streets. "Clean up the Red Light district, drive them off the streets in the poorer quarters of the city, and you send them into the rich residential sections. Once you have done that, property owners and residents of such sections will see to It that they are swept out of town. "My problem, had I the power, would not be to clean up the whole city. Clean up the Red Light districts and the rest of the city will clean itself." When asked if such a policy would not tend to corrupt the youth of the residential sections. Commissioner Da vis replied sharply that the present policy corrupted the youth of the poor er sections. "Shopgirls, poor girls generally, are more exposed to corruption than the rich. Surrounded by sucn an evil, un nrntiwteii bv the influence of home, education or refined association, they have less, far less, to restrain tnem than have the rich. If the latter go wrong, it is their own fault. If the poor go wrong, it may be due to their, surroundings. "In driving this thing into the rich districts of the city you aren I enaan gering the morals of the rich as much as by keeping it in Red Light districts you endanger the morals of the poor. And one is worth exactly as much as thA other. "I don't believe in segregation. It would be Just as reasonable to have a section given over to all-night saloons, where men could get drunk and be as beastly as they wanted, as to have a section given over to this vice, n you are to have one, it is Just as rational for you to have the other. There should be no toleration on the "part of the city government of wrongdoing. "But wouldn't driving such women out on the streets corrupt the morals of decent girls? WouIdnJt the sight of finery worn by- women of obviously low character incite the poor girls to get like clothes in the same way "It wouldn't incite them as much as the sight of rich girls on Fifth ave nue parading In fine clothes that have been bought with money they didn't earn. Poor girls don t want to imitate bad women: they see tne moral ugn ness of their faces as clearly as you or I, but they do want to Imitate the rich, and 'the shop windows on Fifth avenue and the clothes that come from them are the strongest and most dan gerous excitement. "Rich girls, in fine clothes they don't earn, are a stronger incentive to im morality among poor girls than bad women walking the streets. "The social evil here in New, York can and ought to be abolished. "Pass a law imposing severe and equal penalties on men and women. If a woman be sent to the Island for six months, what right has a man to get off seot free?" "Would the streets of New York be safe for decent women if your plan prevailed?" "I believe they would. I do not think men are beasts. At any rate, tne streets should be made safe by the police. Police are men, you say. Well, by 1916 they may be women, too. I believe In this matter the solution lies in en forcing the law. and enforcing it equal ly as regards men and women. If this cannot be done under the present stat ute, a new law should be passed to make it possible. Had I the power and the support of the Mayor, I should do what I could to rid the city of this evil." Commissioner Davis repeated that much could be done by driving disor derly women to the better residential districts, keeping them out of the poor er and red light sections. Then, she repeated, the wealthy property owners and residents would see to it that "such women were driven out alto gether." "TOMMY" LANDS IN JAIL Proposed Flight With STeigbbor's Wife Stopped by Police. CHICAGO. Jan. 9. It Is a long way to Tipperary, and It's a certain gay "Tommy Atkins" that knows It now. He knows, too. that It's even longer when two try to travel it together. And it's likely to be a long, long time be fore Roy Weiddell. regimental barber in Company D, Eighteenth Battalion of h cnnri Canadian contingent, gets any nearer to Tiperrary or the trenches . .i T : 1 -,.... f,.r,r In F rance man me jaii, luuulj w. State of Illinois. This particular "Tommy" was arrest ed in the Dearborn station as he was about to board a train for Tipperary, via Ontario, with his neighbor's wife, Mrs. Winifred Holpin, 2021 Lane Court it;.. A c v..,- Poprv 7 f n 1 n i n ene-ineer mo ni-in" . - - - - . at the Francis Parker School, was at the station wun a policeman u the flight wai,iii and Mrs Holnin were ar raigned before Judge Prindiville on charges of disorderly conduct The charge against tne woman missed, but "Tommy." in his regiment als was found guilty and fined $100. But "Tommy" din't have $100, so he was ordered remanded to the county Jail. And it is there that "Tommy" mi -t,iia hi hravn comDanions are fighting the Germans unless somebody gets togetner sumo pays "Tommy's" fine. DEATH PENALTY FIGHT ON George Foster Peabody Heads Or ganization to Abolish Institution. NEW YORK. Jan. 10. The Anti Capital Punishment Society, which will work for the abolition of the death nenaltv in this state, has Just been or ganized here. George jroster reaooay is Jacob H. Schiff, Bishop David H. Greer, ctnhon s wisp. Mrs. H. Fair field Osborne, Rabbi Jacob Goldstein vice-presidents, and Miss Joanna uiecu Strange, secretary. The secretary issued this statement: "It the belief of the members of the society that capital punishment is wrong in principle, unfair to the indi- ; .i i - ,i wApk. a creat iniurv upon the public The society is making a real eiiort to persuauo iuo ,j i v . . o -islature to modify the law, substituting . . : ; fni- nnltn.1 nunish- ment The matter will be brought be fore the constitutional convention mui every confidence that in a very short tim. th state will be rid of the incon gruity of legal murder." MRS. WHITNEY OFF TO WAR New York Society Woman Returns to Aid Wounded In France. NEW YORK. Jan. 10. Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, who has endowed a u . tnr thA cam of French war victims, has returned to France. Mrs. Whitney came nome lor me Christmas holidays from Seuilly, where her hospital is located, ane win return there and remain for ten days or more. Among 190 cabin passengers on the , ..... m ...... anpletV fnllt. rranconia, ri ""-"J " The vessel carried also 100 second class passengers and 400 steerage. Mrs. Reginald Brooks, one of the m - t ..,hn,na slst-ors- of Vircinia. IHlllUUS A-Mtu uw. ... - ' left to visit her sister, Mrs. Waldorf Astor. John wanamaKer, jr., went iu London to take a place in his father's business there. Among the passengers also was Mrs. Mary Roberts Rhinehart. the novelist, who is going to France to study the hospitals. Mrs. Rhinehart is a trained nurse, CAMIHETTI FEARS HINDU PROPAGANDA Commissioner Says Oriental Phase of Immigration Is Menace of Future. ISLANDS ARE PROBLEM East Indians Now Able to Beach United States by Way of Hawaii. . Near East May Be Exploited by Steamship Concerns. .WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. Asiatic im migration, the "Hindu propaganda,' and particularly Immigration to Con tinental United States from Hawaii and the Philippines, are discussed at length in the annual report of Anthony Cam- inetti, Commissioner-General of Immi Sration, made public here today. "I believe It is quite generally . con ceded that Immigration from the Far East is detrimental to the welfare of the United States," says the report "not because it has heretofore been so extensive in numbers, but because of its peculiar effect on the economic con ditions and the possibilities of an al most unlimited increase in volume if left unregulated and unchecked. Our Oriental immigration problem, arising more than a Quarter ef a century agp, has never been satisfactorily . solved; the exclusion laws need many amend ments, not in purpose, but in pre scribed method. "The Hindu propaganda, as yet in its infancy, is calculated to give much trouble unless promptly met with measures based on and modeled to take advantage of our past experience in trying to arrange practicable and thorough, but at the same time un objectionable plans for the protection of the country against an influx of aliens who cannot be readily and healthfully assimilated by our body politic Moreover, other possibilities in this direction exist and it would be the part of wisdom for us to meet them in advance. Many Come Via Islands. "Immigration from the Near East has not as yet attracted much atten tion, largely because it has merged into European immigration and has de veloped along somewhat similar lines. It may reasonably be expected that Western Asia will be developed and exploited more and more completely by transportation companies whose busi ness profits are dependent to a con siderable extent on filling the steerage quarters of their ships." Of immigration by way of the in sular possessions, the Commissioner says: "It will be observed that 15,51.: aliens came to continental from insular United States during the last seven years 10,948 from Hawaii, 3950 from Porto Rico and 614 from the Philip pines and that of these 10,740 landed at San Francisco, 3910 at New York and 631 at Seattle. "Aliens coming from Porto Rico have been handled with a fair degree of success, but those coming from Ha waii and the Philippines have given the service a great deal of trouble, the former with regard to he admission of aliens to the territory and their subsequent migration to the Continent and the latter with respect to the com ing of aliens to the mainland from the Philippines only, the immigration service having nothing to do with re spect to the admission of aliens to these possessions. Low Wages Cause Failure. "It has been regarded as desirable to encourage the settlement in Hawaii of European aliens and correspond ingly to discourage the settlement there of aliens from the Orient the idea being that the former does and the latter does not tend toward the 'Amer icanization' of the territory, which al ready has a large Asiatic population. Failure to retain the immigrants se cured through the exercise by the Federal Government of a liberal pol icy is believed to be due to the fact that the conditions of work and labor are unsatisfactory and the standard of wages too low. As soon as these Eu ropeans learn that much better condi tions prevail on the Continent they exercise the privilege, which cannot be denied them under the existing law. of moving thereto. Alien laborers from China and Japan settled or settling in Hawaii have no such privilege, the Chinese exclusion laws and the Japan ese provisions of the Immigration act of 1907 regarding laborers with lim ited passports being directed against their doing so. It Is worthy to be se riously noted, however, that with re spect to other Asiatics the law con tains no such provisions, so that Hin dus, Lascars and others may soon com mence, if they please, to use Hawaii as a stepping stone to the continent "The thorough Americanization of Hawaii is a matter which demands serious consideration and careful and prompt action. It never will be ac complished, in my Judgment under the present incomplete, ' haphazard meth ods. Conditions should be made such as to Invite the proper kind of labor ers to go to Hawaii from our own country if possible, and laws should be enacted that would induce them to remain there as part of a happy and contented population. Philippines Are Used. "The Philippines are too distant to be used with the same facility and frequency as Porto Rico and Hawaii as stepping-stones to the United States, nevertheless the Philippines are open to be used (and the attempt has already been seriously made so to use them) by aliens who would be excluded at our home ports. "For instance: The Hindus, having shown a decided inclination to come to our country, were imitating in many ways the wily methods of some Chi nese to gain admission. Ascertaining that passage had been engaged . for many of these people for the Pacific Coast states and for states as far east as Minnesota, steps were taken, by the adoption of new rules governing the admission of aliens from the Philip pines and by other methods, to protect the country from what appeared then to be' a determination to introduce an other race agitation on the Pacific Coast by the influx, unless checked, of great numbers of these people. "The subsequent attitude of their leaders in British Columbia and in the United States, and their ready ability to raise any amount of money required to litigate with the government con firms this belief. This situation has given and still gives the bureau seri ous concern, for should they come to the United States it remains to be seen whether the higher courts will uphold the lower on the points In dis pute, and if it should finally be held that' admission to the Philippines is a bar to action excluding them there from on the ground stated, the situa tion will be revived in most Qf its seri ous aspects." Alio Gaim Is 769,276. Of the flow of immigration the Com missioner says: "Immigration, Judged from the re sults of the year, has apparently and unless some affirmative action is taken by the Federal Government to restrict it. or steps are taken by Euro pean and other nations to reduce the steady stream of persons leaving the various countries of the Old World, we need hardly expect that tha number an nually entering the United States here after will fall far below 1.000.000." Immigration to the United States for the fiscal year aggregated 1,218.480, only 66,869 less than for the year 1907, which showed the greatest tide of im migration in history. As 633,805 aliens left the United States during the year, the net increase of population through immigration was 769,276. AUTO BOLTS, ICE SAVES Crowd on Wechawken Ferry In Peril as Car Plunges. NEW YORK, Jan. . Gustav Rein berg's automobile ran away with him on a West Shore ferryboat plunging its owner and a horse and wagon Into . . iji.ii.mn i? ircr a Hcfiro of Dafiseil- gers narrowly escaped being swept into the Icy water. Reinberg. who cannot swim, saved himself by clinging to a cake of ice. The horse swam ashore. The French touring car went to the bottom and. the delivery wagon is a derelict ' . Reinbergs was the first car to board the West Point which left the West Forty-second-street slip at 3 P. M. yes terday. Just ahead was a delivery wagon, owned by W. Leonard, of 624 ,.i l. - lla siriwr JORBDh rjievciiui & , tin.-.. j - - . -r- Herst was kicking his frosty feet against the dashooard ana cuugraiumv ing himself on being the first off the V. , As the craft swung around into the procession ot tne canes, ujiuutB stepped to the front of his car to crank i . T-i, - .aif.t.,,,!. was not working. That accounts for the fact that the clutch was in. With a rJJ&r the machine leaped for ward, carrying its owner spread-eagle on the hood. The self-congratulatory expression frozen on his face, Joe Herst leaped wildly. He had decided not to be the first one off the boat Only about 200 yards separated the West Point from its Weehawken slip, and most of the two-score passengers had crowded on the forward deck. Only one of them, a chauffeur, grasped the menace in the hurtling automobile. He Jumped for the car, both arms out stretched to seize the clutch. He missed his mark by inches. In a flash the disaster was over. The delivery wagon and its reluctant horse were the slightest of obstacles to the powerful machine. The iron scissbrs gates at the bow laid down before the attack. Straight as an arrow the car clove the crowd and plunged into the river. The horse and wagon were shunted sideways as it dove. Thrown clear, Reinberg struck the water a dozen feet away from his ma chine. He grasped frantically at the ice cakes beside him. Half a dozen of those first seized were too slight to support his weight, though giving him the buoyancy sufficient to plunge on ward after the next one. THORN AGAIN DISAPPOINTS Plant Brought From Old English Abbey Stays Flowerless. NEW YORK, Jan. 10. The Glaston burg thorn in Trinity churhcyard dis appointed its friends again this year by failing to put forth the "white but tercup" blossoms with which It never fails in England to greet January 7, Christmas day according to the old time calendar. But those who went to the church yard to see how the thorn was getting .,-i . .. i , n .p. it had re- sponded to the day that Spring filched from Winter on January, ana, aimuue lacking in bloom, gave signs of sturdy life. The thorn was brought from the ancient Benedictine Abbey in Somer setshire a year ago last Fall and plant si direction of CU U11UD1 - - Dr. W. T. Manner, rector of Trin ity. It a sprig oi tne original vnua tonbury thorn, which legend says was an offshoot of the staff of St. Joseph of Arimathea. It had been feared tnat tne mom, M not live, but it is vigorous in its second New York Winter, and pernaps may duv Christmas blossoms another year. HUSBAND SAVES FAMILY Mother and Three Children Arc Snatched From Gas Fumes. tTTrn Ann Tan 8 - mother and Wiiv.AU", , - - three children were snatched from death by the heroic efforts of the hus band and father, who, almost lifeless from the gas fumes that had overcome his family, fought a heroic battle with the strangling poison and staggered to a window. The man who won the struggle with death was Daniel Walker, 16 South Racine avenue. His suecessrui struggle with the gas fumes saved the lives of his wife. Mrs. Mary Walker and their three children, Lloyd, 9 years old; Harry, 8 years old, and Raymond, 5 years old. MAN DISTRUSTS . POLICE Prisoner Gives Money to Friend and Now Asks Help to Find Him. CHICAGO, Jan. 9. Samuel Gasman, peddler, did not trust the police. He had been reading stories of graft and collusion with thieves and had little faith in officers. When arrested for peddling without a license, he refused to turn over to the captain $90 found in his pocket Instead he gave it to a fellow countryman. Recently he appealed to the police to help find the man to whom he gave the money. They will assist WIFE'S DINNER HER RUSE When Hubby Sits Down, Handker chief Wave Brings Officers. NEW YORK, Jan. 10. "Come out and take dinner with us for old time's sake, -r, faii wnB Mrs. Lav E. Zeiser. Union Course. Queens, to her husband, Jacob, widely Known in vauuomic, under the name of Willet. Zeiser, who bad not seen his wife in nine months, responded, and when a handerchief was waved out of a win j ; .Bnl, a ahArfiTfl officer and uw ' " served papers in divorce, according to his story In tiueens court. JOB AWAITS MR. BRIST0W Kansas Governor-elect to Appoint Senator on. Commission. mrtTlWlTA Va. Tar, 11 JoSATlh L. XVruan, Bristow, United States Senator, will be appointed to a place on the Kansas Public Utilities uommission wueu mo term in the Senate expires, March 4. i . i.im. A rt h 1 1 r P.MMnpr has an- uwtciuui " r-i J thai fianutn, RrislOW h&S aC- cepted the offer. The place carries a salary ot 4wuu a year. The popular drink among: the peasants ot Russia is called quass. It is mad by Douriiur warm water over rye on barley meat It Is a fermented liquor and la very sour, kilt has been used for years by these poverty-stricken people, - . A Word of Precaution. JUST wherein lies the reason for the use of vegetable preparations for infants J and children? . "Why are any bnt vegetable preparations unsafe for infants and children ? .Why are Syrups, Cordials and Drops condemned by all Physicians and most laymen ? Why has the Government placed a ban on all preparations containing, among other poisonous drugs, Opium in its variously prepared forms and pleasing tastes, and under its innumerable names? These are questions that every Mother will do well to inquire about. Any Physician will recommend the keeping of Fletcher's Castoria In the house for the common ailments of infants and children. Slffl. : - ""7 1.M,I., ALCUBUl, 3 r EK CENT. Avegeiauie rreparaton kTAS- similallng HEfbodantfRiiia tingtlieSiomaisafflLBowJsof T i TV . it T J ness ana tesu.uiuauu nan Opium -Morphine mrtfoeraL nuiii Alt t, U a . jjBfHtfOi&DrWMnnnxm jttxJama JbdcttcSJlt- ill n i.VliW . . L.rM.fwAni ApeneaMcmeay iin-"''T" tlon , Sour Storoadi.Dtarrtm ar EVttbDWJCTV Worns.ionvuowieacT.v.. Uncc nv SlKKP. HESS miiAiMu. Facsimile aignarare The Centauh CompasS Exact Copy of Wrapper. AGED J FAINTS IN HOUSE Sudden Collapse of Pioneer of Marion County Startles Legislators. MR. GILL GIVES FIRST AID As Representatives at State Capitol Discuss Question of Adjournment Veteran or Jny Sessions Gives Way in Faint. STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Or., Jan. 15. (Special.) John Minto, the vener able ola pioneer and veteran of many legislative sessions, succumbed to a fainting spell in the hall of the House of Representatives this afternoon and tonight is reported to be in a serious condition at the home of his son in this city, where he was removed after he had sufficiently recovered. It has been the habit of Mr. Minto. in spite of his age. 93 years, to visit the Legislature and listen to the pro cee lings. He has been here three or four times this week. This afternoon he came m and tooK a seat beside his friend. Representative John Gill, of Portland. After a time he rested his head upon the desk, appar ently asleep. Presently Mr. Gill no ticed that Mr. Minto was breathing un usually heavy. Speaker Adjourns House. . The House had just finished its dis cussion over adjournment when Mr. Minto utterly collapsed. Speaker Sell ing from his position, saw him topple over in his chair and, heedless of the entreaty of members who wanted to be excused from the session tomorrow morning, brought down his gavel and announced that the House had ad- l0Byttat time Mr. Gill and others sit ting near him had placed Mr. Minto in his chair. The chair was placed near an open window and efforts made 'to revive him. Senator Wood, who is a doctor, was called and administered to him. , . ... Later Mr. Minto was taken to the Speaker's private office, where he soon recovered partially. He then looked smilingly into the faces of hia many anxious friends gathered about. Pioneer Not Afraid to Die. "If death were as easy as that no one would need to be afraid to die, he commented much to the surprise of very one "You are not going to die, Mr. Minto, they assured llm. . "If that were passing. It certainly would be an easy passing." he con tinued, and - then urged those nearby to nay no further attention to him. "You boys are making entirely too much fuss over me," he protested. Taxlcab Take Mr. Minto Home. Within an hour he apparently had recovered his normal strength and ex pressed a willingness to go home. He was taken home in a taxicab. Mr. Minto was a member of some of the legislative sessions of the early history of the state and in all his later years has taken a keen interest in legislative affairs. He has made It a habit to visit the Legislatures In their turn every two years. This year he r Mil ffi -n f ! 1 1 -: " "i." 11-1 01 ITO Children Letters from Prominent Druggists addressed to Chas. II. Fletcher. S. J. Briggs & Co., of Providence, R. I., ay : "We have sold Fletcher' Castoria in our three stores for the past twenty years and consider it one of the best preparations on the market." Mansur Drag Co., of St. Paul, Minn., says : "We are not in the habit of recommending proprietary medicines, but w. never hesitat. to ssy a good word for Castoria, It is a medical success." Hegeman & Co., of New York City, N. Y., say : "We can say for yonr Castoria that it is one of the best selling preparations in vat stores. That is conclusive evidence that it is satisfactory to the users." W. H. Chapman, of Montreal, Que., says : "I have sold Fletcher's Cas toria for many years and have yet to hear of one word other than praise of its virtues. I look upon your preparation as one of the few so called patent medicines having merit and unhesitatingly recommend it as a safe household remedy." GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS BEARS the Signature of THE CKNTAUH COMMNr. has been more than usually attentive, owing to the presence here of Mr. Gill, who has been his close friend for a long time. It is reported that he has expressed nMl.Aa in nia in t 1 1. TToURA iimucu, niDiiwo ,v m.w ... , - . i 1. . hf. ..1- cnamoer anu luubu wuw .. lapse this afternoon were fearful that nis wisn mignt oe ruiiineu. Mr. Minto will be 93 years old on October 9. JOKER DISTURBS PARTY "Police Are Coming," Says Some one by Phone to Hostess. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 12. "The police are coming!" called out Mrs. Dave Meagh er, who was giving a party to friends and their children recently. Every one in the room at the West End home gathered about Mrs. Meagher, as she stood at the telephone, to hear the rea son why. "I never heard of such a thing," Mrs. Meagher said to the party on the other end of the line. "You say some one walking past complained of the noise? Why, it's ri diculous," she said. "Yes, but even if a report is a report, you men at police headquarters don't have to follow it up now and spoil our good time. "A whole wagonload of policemen are coming? Why, I never heard of the like," Mrs. Meagher said. "You scamp," she said; "I thought it was a joke." And then the party learned that a friend, working late in a downtown of fice, had hit upon the plan of repre senting himself as the police to relieve the tedium of adding columns. That was what happened then, but the end is not yet. OUT OF HOSPITAL AND IN Clerk, Shot Twice In Three Weeks, Thinks He's Wrong Victim. NEW YORK. Jan. 8. Michael Walsh, a young clerk of 102 Meeker avenue, Williamsburg, is back in his cot in St. Catherine's Hospital today with another bullet in his body. Some one took a shot at him three weeks ago and laid him up with a wound in the thigh. Last night, not quite a week after lie had left the hospital, he was potted again from a doorway and brought down with a bullet in his leg. Walsh left his house about 7:30 and started for a bowling alley a block away. He had gone only a few eteps when there were two reports and he fell with a broken leg. It was at the same hour one evening three weeks ago that he was on his way home when he was shot down. Walsh says he has no enemies, and thinks he is being mistaken for some one else. FENCE SAVES ROBBERS Twelve-Foot Obstacle Gives Freedom Alien Police Pursue. NEW YORK, Jan. .10. With only an inch board between thera and the police reserves, four burglars, who had cut a hole In the rear wall of Childs' rest aurant and broken open the cash drawer, escaped. The burglars were on the safe side of a 12-foot fence when the police arrived. The ticket taker at the L station at Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue informed a patrolman that a guard on an L train had seen two suspicious men on the roof of Childs' building. Reserves were called, who searched the building. f,.j tha hrtln In the rear wail. the nro Ken c&sn iw - - . j n i. .t nktrar mm ter in the restaurant, ana rour mov ing figures in the rear yaro. oi w. When they climbed Into this yard. Cry Fop mm N W YORK CITV they found themselves facing a 13-foot fence. They could hear the men on the other side of the fence, but when they climb ed it the men were gone. It is thought . v auanA.l thrmlB-h a house Oil Twenty-fourth street. A few days ago a mi oi nun... -tools was found in the yard of 403, it is thought there had been a plan to rob Childs' restaurant, the United Cigar store and Schneider's Jewelry store, all of which are in a row. &PRln .contalna mora than 11,000,000 acraa of nnnrmluctlv land. WHAT CAUSES COLDS? This question and "How to Prevent Colds" is asked a thousand times every day. A cold is really a fever, not always caused by the weather but due to a disordered condition of th blood or lack of important food elements. In changing seasons fat foods are essential because they dis tribute heat by enriching the blood and so render the body better able, to withstand the varying elements. This is the underlying reason why the medicinal fats in Scotfi Emulsion quickly overcome colds and build strength to prevent more serious sick ness. 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