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LIS ON GAMBLING
WEBSTER STATUE AT CONCORD
THE SUNDAY OREGQNIAN, PORTLAND, JANUARY 12, 1908.
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Council Bluffs Frank About Its
Depravity.
Do Wot Miss These Great Soap Bargains
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CRUSADERS BEGIN ATTACK
Iowa Town Wlrose Gambling-Houses
Thrive on Earnings of Omalia
and Other Places Backed .
bv Church Members.
COUNCIL BLUFFS. la.. Jan. 11. (Spe
cial.) The Monte Carlo, of the Middle
West, which for 15 years has thrived Jn
this city, and over whose heterogeneous
assortment of gaming tables it is esti
mated millions of dollars have passed,
appears to be in a fair way to be caught
in the swiff current of reform which has
been sweeping the country, and pass out
of existence. Asserting that Council
Bluffs is ruled by the gamblers, the Min
isterial Association of the city has taken
up the gauntlet and from now on will,
according to a prominent member of the
association, give its best attention to re
moving what they characterize as a
"stigma on the fair city on the Missouri,
founded by the Mormons -and built up
to its present pretentious dimensions by
the Gentiles."
The first step was taken ten days ago,
when the Ministerial Association called a
pedal meeting, to which Mayor McCrea,
Chief of Police Richmond, City Treasurer
True and other city officials were in
vited. The doors were closed- to news
paper men, but the proceedings were later
given to the press. The startling revela
tion was made that the city administra
tion has for years depended on the con
tributions of gambling houses, made in
the way of fines, and other similar vices,
and the receipts trom saloon licenses, for
one-half of Its entire running expenses.
City Treasurer True and other city offi
cials expressed the belief that with a
strict enforcement of the Iowa mulct law
and the closing of gambling houses and
similar institutions, the city would have
to be run practically without police pro
tection. Iowa's Only Gambling Town.
Council Bluffs is one of the belated
cities of Iowa, and of the country for
that matter, to consider, seriously, the
matter o -closing up gambling houses. In.
no othei.:lty of the country have gam
bling institution been given a wider berth,
and in no other city have they flourished
more than here. Backed by the popula
tion of Omaha and South Omaha, and
many smaller towns in the Immediate vi
cinity, four large clubs, all within half
a block of each other and all within a
hundred feet of the busiest corner in the
city, are run "wide open" without police
interference. Two blocks west a fifth
club is headquarters for the colored race.
The expenses of these places amount to
not less than a quarter of a million dol
lars a year. To this may be added fines
amounting to tio.OOO. and other expenses
such as "hush money," another $25,000.
It is easily plain that the receipts in a
year run far Into six figures, and some
have estimated- them as high as a mil
lion dollars a year.
Church Members 'Approve Games.
With this immense amount of money
flowing into the town, the .reformers
have learned that they 'have a long, hard
fight before them. Every person inter
ested In the retention of the gambling
houses says that they keep the town
alive. Indeed, the' city officials told the
Ministerial Association that they were
supported In their stand for a continuance
of these places by many prominent church
men. and had accepted tiieir advice in the
matter.
As soon as this statement was made
public the Kpworth League took up the
matter and appointed two members from
each league in the city to secure the
names of church members who had ad
vised such action.
All bets are paid in checks in the larger
clubs. No money Is In sight, except .when
a player buys checks or "cashes in."
The proprietors admit that a limit is
placed on bets. The fact that no person
is permitted to "shoot" more than $10 at
a single throw at the crap table, or to
place more than a dollar on a number
at roulette, marks the precision with
which the proprietors have figured out
what is required to keep down the win
nings. One of the leading gamblers ex
plained this fact like this:
Moderation In Their Greed.
"We don't want to win all the money
at one time. If we did so, the business
soon would be spoiled. Gambling in
Council Bluffs is an established busi
ness, and we expect to malnt'iAn it as
such. Saratoga, Hot Springs, Denver
and other cities were killed 1 heavy play
and other gambling houses rmve gone the
same route. And then, when the losses
are small, we have fewer complaints."
The people of Council Bluffs, generally
accept gambling as an institution, and
many of them freely admit that it is
through them that they are able to get
some Omaha money. Several politicians
of prominence, one or two bankers and
other men of standing in the community
are said to have monetary Interests In
the clubs, and it 1b true that in many
Instances prominent business men "wink
the other eye" when anything is said
nbout closing up gambling houses.
MILITIA COMPANY TROUBLE
Explanation Is Made for Company
G, National Guard, Washington.
VANCOUVER, Wash., Jan. ll.-(To the
Editor.) Colonel Joint Kenxie. inspector
of militia for the State of Washington,
summarily disbanded Company G of this
city. This caused considerable dissatis
faction. Later Colonel Kenxie made a
statement through The Oregonian to
the effect that the officers of Company G
were "run" by the regular soldiers who
were discharged from the regular Army
and who had afterward Joined the militia.
This charge is disputed by the officers
and men of Company G and the following
statement is submitted and signed by
the Sergeant of Company G:
In answer to Colonel John Kenxie's
statement in The Oregonian of January
5. for the benefit of the public who
might be Interested in the matter of the
disbandment of Company G, at Van
couver. Wash.,- It may be well to say that
the Colonel must have been misinformed
in regard to the number of men who
have been trained in the regular Army
and who now compose the membership of
Company G. when the statement Is made
that "the company was disbanded be
cause of the fact that the majority of
the enlisted men In it were men who
were trained In the regular Army, while
the office were young and Inexperienced
men." "
It may be that from appearances, the
majority of the soldiers are old veterans.
But In fact there are but four private
soldiers of the company who have served
In the regular Army. Three of these
have been non-commissioned officers in
the company until recently, when they
resigned on account of being unable to
attend drill regularly.
In the statement made in The Or-
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In view oT the fact that the American
Patriotic CliJb is to celebrate Daniel Web
ster's birthday with a dinner at the Hotel
Portland next Saturday evening, a pic
ture of the 'Webster statue at Concord, N.
H.. is timely.
This statue .stands in front of the State
House and is of bronze, . with a . granite
pedestal. It -was presented to the State
of New Hampshire by Benjamin Pierce
Cheney, and executed by the sculptor,
Thomas Bail. Cast in Munich, Germany,
It was regarded as so perfect a work of
art that it was iplaced on exhibition there
by general request.
The unveiling and dedication of this
statue took place- June 17, 1S86. It was a
notable event in the history of the Gran
ite State. The venerable George W.
Nesmith, ex-Senator from New Hamp
shire, presided, and the orator of the day
was President Samuel C. Bartlett, of
Dartmouth College. Webster's alma ma
ter. The Rt. Rev. William W. Niles,
D. D., bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
diocese of New HsinpsM. offered the
opening prayer and addresses were deliv
ered by Governors Moody Currier, of New
Hampshire: David B. Hill, of New York,
and George D. Robfnson, of Massachu
setts, besides other dS'Stlnguished men.
Among those havbrig a place on the
program wan the Rev. William C. Shep
pard, now rector of St.. Luke's Episcopal
Church, Vancouver, 'ash.. but at that
time a college studemt. and residing ht
Massachusetts, although a native of New
Hampshire. He had been chosen the
poet of the occasion, ' and the original
poem which he r&d in the course of the
dedicatory ceremonies fonows:
ODE TO IHMEL WEBSTER.
O fair New Hampshire's noblest boo.
The mighty, glorious, and great.
Most cherished or thy native state.
The immortal and the sodlik'i one!
To thee we rear the modest token.
Of love and gratitude and praise.
And offer speech and song and lays: - -
But speak and sing 'in accents- broken.
We pra-tse thee for thy strong right arm.
On which the Nation leaned secure;
Thy heart so tender, fond, and pure,
That loved her with a love so warm;
And for thy tongue ao eloquent,
. And full of sweetest melody.
Whose tones rang out from sea to sea
Enrapturing a continent. .
Thy hand Columbia's lyre swept o'er, ' .
And made all Jarring notes agree; . -
Awoke the strains of liberty
And unity for evermore.
What though thy body's by the sea.
Beneath the Pilgrim's hallowed hill?
Thou ever llvesv llvest still,
Enshrined la grateful memory.
Within thine arms the Nation lies;
Thy mighty heart-throbs yet she feels; '
And as- of old thy music peals .
Throughout the land, along the skies. ;
Descend, ascend, ye cherubim.
Upon the ladder of his glory.
And bear aloft to God the story.
Our praises for the gift of him v
Him! him! Columbia's greatest son".
The mighty, glorious, and grand.
Most cherished of his native land
The godlike and immortal one!
gonian. ' the officers ar referred to as
"young and inexperience! men." In con
tradiction of this. I will say that the
officers, with few exceptions, are from
three to ten years the seniors of the en
listed men. in point of .age. The Captain
has had about eight yean;., experience hi
the National Guard and has been a com
missioned officer for four years. He has
also had the advantage of a thorough
course of training at the regular Army
officers' school, at Vancouver Barracks.
The First Lieutenant is a man of splen
did record in the regular Army, having
served eight years as an enlisted man, a
large portion of which service was as
Battalion Sergeant-Major in the Nine
teenth United States Infantry. He has
also served two years as a commissioned
officer In the National Guard
It was also charged that on account of
the number, of regulars conmseted with,
the company, the disipline of Company
G was lax. This is- as far fVom being
correct ns In either of the alTore-men-tloned
subjects. It is a matter of com
mon knowledge that the men yrho have
seen service in the regular Army are
far more susceptible to discipline than
the recruit who has been in tt-e habit
of doing as lie pleased.
It is true that not long ago lat non
commissioned officers, school, oC which
Colonel Kenxie . was Instructor, a Cor
poral of Company G, who had seen some
service with the regular Army, ques tioned
the Colonel's interpretation of a certain
movement in the guard manual, Chough
the Corporal little thought he was paving
the way to the destruction of the com
pany. It is not the- Intention of the members
of Company G to pose as a perfect -.military
organization,- but It Is not an easy
matter to be compelled to face the chs rge
of disbandment after a long, .hard strug
gle to do- the best possible under "the.
circumstances.
' I wish to say in defense of Colotxei
Kenxie that he has a hard position to
fill and when Instructed by politicians to
disband the company, it was not an ea.v
matter to find an excuse that would ext
actlv fit the occasion. 1
A SERGEANT, COM PANT 'G. N. G. W.
FORTUNE FOR SHOEMAKER
E BASED ON AGE
PARISIAN' SUES BECAUSE BRIDE
DECEIVED HIM.
Through Mother's Brother Gets Con
trol of Vast Amount.
BERLIN. Dec. 2S. Here's an interest
ing sto.ry of a shoemaker's luck. He re
sides in Munich, and was in poor circum
stances. A few days ago his wife took
a pair of shoes to Hausen. In the village
she saw a paper which announced that
Jonas Hederich had died in America two
years ago at the age of 9S. leaving a will
In the following terms:
"I die without heirs. It will be 'neces
sary to find collateral heirs in Bavaria.
Seventy-three years ago I emigrated from
the village of Hausen, near Eversburg,
with small means. By speculating in land
I acquired a fortune of J1.12S.O0O."
The shoemaker's wife returned to Mu
nich and told her husband what she had
read. The shoemaker remembered that
his mother was called Hederich. He con
sulted a lawyer, who established the fact
that the dead American millionaire was
the only brother of the shoemaker's
mother. Hederich had escaped to Amer
ica after killing a young peasant In a
quarrel. -
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10c up. Kiser. tis Alder sU
When He Finds Wife Is Older Than
. . She . . Said, Husband Alleges
"Mistaken Identity."
PARIS, Jan. 11. (Special.) After
sad experiences in his youth a provin
cial official determined to contract a
marriage in which he would have
naught to fear In his riper years from
the frivolity of a young- bride. But
now he is suing his bride. Not that
she is of unsafe age. On the contrary,
his grievance is that her age is only
too safe. He wanted a mature bride.
but had not bargained for an excess
of. maturity. When he first met her,
three years ago. It was In her drawing
room at teatime, by the mellow light of
shaded lamps, and when she men
tioned that she was 33 it sounded
plausible. He was then 33 and the
difference in ages was not too great
to be got over.
Six weeks later he led his blushing
bride to the altar, and two minutes
before saying the fatal word discov
ered her to have been born in 1858.
She was 46 instead of 39. and the reve
lation was a shock. Still he said yea,
"as it seemed too late to back out,"
and she became his wife.
He made other discoveries. Creditors
poured in. and records of his wife's
past came to his knowledge. He had
not expected that at 4S she had no
past, but she appeared to have more
of a past than he was prepared for.
Three convictions were proved against
her, and she had been famous in the
demi-monde for ten years. One day
his brother-in-law said thoughtlessly
befoVe him, "Our mother, who died In
185.' This was a fresh blow. How
could his wife have been, born in 1858
if her mother died in 1S56? She con
fessed then that her birth dated back
to 1848. She was ten years older than
he thought when he married her, and
17 years older than she told him when
he proposed to her.
--. He wondered how much older she
n-ught not become If he went od - mak
ing discoveries and brought this ac
tion. He petitions for annulment of
the -marriage on the ground of "mis
taken identity." The wife rejoins that
he knew very well what he was doing
wben he married her. "I don't care if
she is 80, I will marry her. I want the
motiey." he told a third party, according-,
to one witness. Besides, he said
many Parisians were still charmed by
start' of 60. A member of Parliament,
whc". signed the register at the wed
ding,' said that if the bridegroom did
not gtiess his bride's age. he was the
only one who did not.
Mattxa Demange argues that decep
tion fit age. even if proved, could not
amount to a substitution of persons,
and thtxt the suit must fail. The woman
wa sth3 same woman, even though she
turned - out to be 60, instead of Just
over 40. as plaintiff pretended he be
lieved h-er. Under the circumstances
the question is whether the woman is
or is not", the same in the eyes of the
law whom the plaintiff meant to
marry ? nt'. is a nice point for the courts
to decide
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FICE EMPIiOYES.
Deprecates Calling to the Utmost
and Declares It Elicits the Su
perlative of Cowardice.
LONDON. Jan. 4. "Of all the qualities
of man I find nothing so astonishing as
his sheepishness, docility and cowardice.
When these qualities are developed to
their utmost by civilization and poverty
in the middle class you get the clerk. I
have been a clerk on a stool in a very
genteel office myself, and probably I
would have been there yet if I had not
broken loose in defiance of all prudence
and become a professional roan." .
That is pert of an interesting article
by George Bernard Sbaw, based on a
chapter in his life and apparently intend
ed to call attention to his greatness. But
on closer scrutiny all this is seen to be
one of Mr. Shaw's characteristic show
man's tricks for arousing his reader's in
terest before preaching a serious doctrine.
So, after leading up to a hard rap at
the poor middle-class parents who over
estimate the dignity of clerkships and
under-estimate the dignity of labor, Mr.
Shaw continues:
"You cannot make an Arab a clerk; you
cannot make a North American a clerk,
but you. can make an imperial English
man a clerk quite easily. All you have, to
do is to drop him into a poor middle
class family with a father who cannot
afford to keep him, give him capital to
start in life with or carry his educa
tion beyond the elementary stage, but
who would yet be disgraced If the son be
came 'a workingman .Given these cir
cumstances, what can the poor wretch do
but become a clerk?
"In a genteel modification of this course
I became a clerk myself. My father was
a corn merchant and mlllowner, and, like
99 men out of 100. . pursued a routine he
didn't know anything about and attrib
uted his difficulties vaguely to want of
capital. He landed In the bankruptcy
court, and as a result I spent 44 years
in an office before I was 20 years old.
"I may have had a comparatively, easy
time, but I didn't get much pay as a
clerk, of course, I was always learning'
even though I reached a position of re
sponsibility. One of the worst things
about being a clerk, I found, was that I
always dreamed myself back in the office
during sleeping hours, my employer thus
swindling me by annexing a portion of
my out-of-ofBce time.
"One of ray clerkly acquaintances was
an ancient bookkeeper long since dead
whom I asked one day if he intended to
make a bookkeeper of his son. He was
usually mild-mannered, but suddenly he
became vehement to the verge of fury
and declared that, rather than see fiis son
a clerk, he would have let him die in the
cradle. I wondered whether there was
any clerk alive who really liked being, a
clerk and who would choose that occupa
tion for his son.
"When the bookkeeper died my em
ployer offered me his Job, but I refused.
He wanted my place for a relative."
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RIVALRY.
Mrs. Leslie Springs Coup Over Mrs.
Maxwell by Accompanying Fam
ily to Malta for the Winter.
LONDON, Jan. 10. The "Connaughts'
American menage," say the society wits
when they speak of Mrs. "Jack" Leslie
and Lady Maxwell, without one or the
other of whom the Duke and the Duchess
of Connaught seem reluctant to cross the
street.
The rivalry between Mrs. Leslie (nee
Jerome) and Lady Maxwell (formerly
Sellna Bonyngs) for undisputed posses
sion of the Connaught family excites
amusement among the two women's
friends. They believed Mrs. Leslie to be
the one indispensable to the Connaughts
until Lady Maxwell got in the good graces
of the Duchess, who, people say, rather
resented Mrs. Leslie's "bossing" the fam
ily, particularly the Duke. Lady Max
well, more diplomatic, does not try to
manage the King's brother and his wife,
carefully avoiding any proprietorial airs.
The betting was all on Lady Maxwell,
and Mrs. Leslie'6 fondest friends and
dearest enemies were awaiting her final
discomfiture, when .she made a splendid
coup this week.
She left London with the Connaughts
for Malta, and it was thoughtfully an
nounced that she was "going all the way
with them" which, the wits said, she
has been doing for some time. Lady Max
well went no further than the railway
station with the Connauguis' other friends
to see them off.
Two days afterward 4he newspapers an
nounced that Mrs. Leslie had returned
from Paris, an announcement so gratui
tous that it is suspected an enemy of
Mrs. Leslie prompted it. It was immedi
ately whispered, too, that Mrs. Leslie
had a row with the Duchess.
However, this counter blast was given
publicly:
"Mrs. Jack Leslie will be the guest of
the Duke and Duchess of Connaught in
Malta until Spring."
It remains only to add that Lady Max
well has been invited to visit their royal
highnesses but for a short period.
AGED PAIR IN ELOPEMENT
Man of 80 Runs Away With a
Bride of 72.
GENEVA. Jan. 11. (Special.) Being re
fused permission to marry, a man aged 80
and a woman aged 72, eloped from a home
for aged people at the little town of Dorn
birn, near Lake Constance. The couple
were married and passed a week away
from the home. Having spent all their
money they then returned, and as they
agreed to live separately were allowed
to re-occupy their former quarters.
Norwegian Storthing Meets.
chkistiania, Jan. if. i ne nrsr
session of the Storthing was held to
day. The sitting was brief, as the
ceremonial opening by King Haakon In
person will not take place until Janu
ary 13. M. Berner was re-elected presl.
dent.