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EW YORK came nearer having
a lynching . than she. haa for
many years when, GustaV Uen
nun brousht-frem prison to
. court last, week. leoaer beat ana
stabbed to death little l-yr-fild Oartla
,- 11 y land, tha daughter of Agne rlenouae,
Ms common-law wife. Hla reason wu
. that "Oartla was In th way.t Ha had
' three children of his own. Agnes Re-
noude told tha coroner" a Jury that aha
ran Into tha kltchan to be out or near
' '''In whlla Denser. a brawny fellow,
dashed her baby's head against tha wall
rand battered tha halplsas tot witav.hla
great flats.. After tha ' murder ah
. -washed and dressed tha body, and in
company with Denser carried It. wrapped
In a newspaper, to a far-away doorstep,
where aha left It. v.
' - Anea Renoude, who did not try t
Shield her baby daughter front tha mur
lieroui blows of her common-law hus
' band, is a poor, pale, oolorleea New
J York (lrl a child of tha tenements.
- She was born in tenement of Hell's
' Kitchen II years ago, and she baa lived
-aver -since n Manhattan Island, sonta-.
where west of Ninth avenue.
. The woman looks exactly as one would
expect., one . of - bar type tolok. the
. woman who not only did not try to
'av her child from tha man's brutal
' (1st. but who did ail she could to help
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Mm escape detection and punishment
Hers waa not a crime of violence, but
of apatby menial, moral and physical.
- When Agnes ' Renoude ,'snd Oustav
Denser were arraigned In tha weat aide
court yesterday morning each appeared
listless. He waa well dressed; she for
lorn and bedraggled. ' The police had
JfKf!UwayJh.drJ?a,eceaa tha hlnod.
alalns on it are valuable evidence against
her. Her old purple nnderaklrt But into
"elIeftheUwdrIneai ornefTaded-Un
. covert ooai,. witn its mile velvet trim
ttflnga, and her poor, old straw hat with
. a bunch of glaring red cherries on the
tide... , ' . .-,
- In court she kept twisting and un
twisting the long, strong fingers of Her
broad, thin ' hands. fihe Is a . slender,
' anemle little thing, not more than t feel
1 Inches tall, quite pale and girlish look
. Ing. Her . sparaa, light brown ballo ts
colled into a ,tbln knot above her puny
Beck.' .', '.' '' .
The forehead of the mother Is broad,
low and retreating, the top head low.
Her nose le long, thin, pointed and flat.
The mouth la weak, the chin receding,
, but rather- broad. The Jaw., la broad
and thick at the back.. Tbe eyes are
bluish gray, 7 but tha . long . eye-sockets
are notably- thick and strong. Tbe ears
re of medium else and shapely.
Especially high and thick . are ' the
cheekbones right under the eyas. This
prominence e . the sygomatie processes
la all the mors notable because the rest
' of the woman's face - Is so weak and
'characterless. ' Ciimlnaloglsta declare
that prominent, high, thick cheekbones
are typical of savages; or, when found
In civilised Individuals, Indicate a rever
sion to fierce savage, cave-dwelling an
cestors of bygone ages. ;
, These two characteristics, then, stand
out in. Agnes Renoude her. patl)ythe
Treault 'of poor feedlug and the lifelong
lack of light, air and cleanliness, and
her big,: savage cheekbones.
v - ' By Arthur Mee.-," r
'HE subject of . weather predic
tion Is at once fascinating and
tantalising. T" It U one that
tomes -very rear home to na-
y e r G oesty ycles f
tlons and Individual, for ite mastery
- would- save every year thousands " Of
lives and millions of dollars. .
Tat tbe clue to the vagarlea of the
her has vluded he effOTtJrwr long
generations of student. Attempts to
deal with the problem, have been made
for centuries In shoals and by all man
ner of peraons. from sober scientists to
empirical quacks with little knowledge
but immense aasertlvenesa.
As a general rule, however, It may be
laid down that those who a now moat
about the weather are the most modest
when it cornea to nredlotlon.
Nevertheless, a . erhool ot ', Investi
gators has for a .long - time existed
which believes that the weather problem
le not beyond solution; that weathei
" recurs In cycles, and that It Is more or
leas Influence snd controlled by some
thing eutelds our mundane sphere, is
particular the sun. .
As every one knows, spots appesr from
time to time upon the solar disk. Indl
rtt the arew-nca f vent forces and
e-iMurbaaces. gome.ef these axe large
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''Denser Is a swarthy, slinking,1 little
man, , with , small, shirty, round dark
brown eyes and big yellow hands, whose
knuckles are knotted and whose" skin
Is tough-and calloused by much hard
work as a plumber. He Is under I -feet
I Inches In height, slender and wiry,
CT-ewarUy, with flna. straight." nun.
black hair, which ha wears plastered In
a fancy wave over hla broad forehead
tf is "a4ueeir foreheadbroaj ahdfhlgC
but receding aharply from . the , thin.
arched, black browa. The -man 'appai-ilx? me. and Ous lumned out of bed and
ently haa very little mentality,
- The most notable fact about Denser
head 'is the great breadth Immediately
above and back of the ears, ths region
where destructlveneas dwells, according
to the . phrenologists. - The Impulse to
destroy, to strike; to smash, is large In
persons With heads ahaped Ilka this..."
Deaser's mouth is thln-llpped and hard,
and It is scarcely hidden . by a long.
slender black mustache that looks Mon-
faTbYnd .r
short and . straight, the eyes set -close
together and the ears small but jutting
far out' from the skull. - The man's
hands and feet are big and long, Indica
tive of great muscular power. He waa
dressed in a neat suit of black serge
with a white shirt, standing collar and
white four-ln-hand tie with a pearl pin.
'I'm very sorry," said Denser, calmly,
to those who-saw htm in his cell. "1
don't remember anything to speak of.
Ask the girl. Whatever- she says- 'II
be right." -. . V.---, ,.- -;.' - .
in a cell near by sat' Agnes Renoude,
dry-eyed, listless, seemingly tired awyond
expression, yet giving no sign of grief,
"Ous didn't mean to do It," she said.
"He Just picked her up and hit her one
with- We-fisfc Then-he-purHef down on
the floor and she went awaysfi After
awhile -she fell over and didn't get, up
again. . ; .. , . .-. h.
enough to be eeeif with the-naked eye
ea haa been the caee several times In
the course of the present yar- ;
' To the sun we owe our light our heat
snd our very existence, and there la
nothing extravagant In the supposition
that the ebb and flow of the solar erup
tions may. exercise a powerful. If not s
controlling, ( force upon terrestrial
weather. ,..-j.. ,.,-
But there is a school of ,crltlce (and
a powerful school) who give all this e
contemptuous, dental and who - scorn
fully ask for proof of the connection be
tween any given spot or spots and the
meteorological conditions at the time of
their occurrence; and for the most part
they esk In vain. Bunapots come and
sun-pots go In cycles, but the weatbst
shifts and alters with apparently noth
ing regular or eycllo about It whatever.
Hot withstanding all this, the devotees
of ounapottery aa it la Irreverently I
called- byits-opponcntsr ga on steadily
with their Investlgatlona, and If ths
statements of H. W. Clough, In the
Astropbyslcal Journal, published by
the University of Chicago, are to be
believed, light le at length beginning le
break where mlt end darkness, have
hitherto' reigned.
,A continental scientist, Hert Bruck
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: "aug iid"t,"gaia ' Agnee Renoude,
"went out about 10 o'clock to see Mrs.
Mary Golden, at 133 West Forty-fifth
street. Bhs used to take cere of Gertie
as long aa I could pay her t) a week.
AVhen we got - home the four children
were In bed together, but Qua waa mad
because Gertie had been In his .bedand.
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rumpled'Il up. TGus got Into")is bed, and
1 went in wiin ui tour cnimren.
'GerUe -got out.ct bed. and camavail
to me soon after I got up,- and sat In s
chair la the kitchen. She was talking
pidfed her up and hit her with his fist
Then he went back to his bed.'
1 -When Gertie fell over t picked her
up. She ' moaned a little; . not much.
When I saw she waa dead I woke up
Qua He had had a lot. of beer, and
before - that . some whlaky; so . when. I
woke him-up he was kind of dopey,
."'Well.' he says, 'we got to get rid
of her.".' . . -: -
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- The woman told of washing the baby.
related In the World.
-When ws got home," she continued,
"Que didn't say anything but . good
night He took snot her drink of. beer
snd went to sleep In the kitchen. 2
tfould hear him- snoring in thejtltchen.
t don't think he could have slept if hs
knsw what he had dona, - I told him
about It In the morning, but whsn I
saw he didn't like It I didn't say any
mors. - rWe - thought -we'd better say a
man took her away, and so we told
Qua little girl to say that" , "
Agnes Renoude wept a little,' but as
soon es the polioeman came to take
her to the Tombs she stopped crying
and smiled encouragingly at Denser.
She does not seem to have forgiven him
for killing her baby. She acts ae If
there were nothing to forgive. . , -
' Denser declared that he : had been
ner, who has given minute attention to
the matter, elalma to have discovered a
It-year ' cycle . which governs . 1 the
weather. , He and others have collected
the record of a thousand yeara,.and the
results are so remarkable that they have
forced themaelvee on the attention of
meteorologist ;. '
...Ths -data given att collected'-with -tha
greatest careare very various, rang
ing from the general - temperature of
Europe to records of aurorae and Of
magnetic oscillations. It Is. unfortu
nately. Impossible to carry the bulk of
tbsm back beyond the Itth century. The
one remarkabU thing about these data
1s thst, on the whole, they all work out
In a II (or as Mr. Clough prefers it II)
year period, and thst with a regularity
which admits of no explanation but that
of the existence of some law some defi
nite controlling 'force.
Whs t- then,-ie that-force IX 1ef'VYhat- difference ths mere order 6f
claimed that Its focus - Is .. the Sun.
There . are ebout ., three ' waves of
solar activity te every 'century.
The spot period le usually given
as 11 years, but Clough gives cogent
reasons for preferring to call It II
years, of which period the - il-yeef
ryds Is only a factor.- It la, ef course,
not difficult to trace eolar disturb
treated for delirium tremens In Belle
vua thro years ago; that aver since
man hit blm. in the Jaw 'with brass
knuckles ha has lost bis memory whan
drunk, .and that ha remembers nothing
about killing little Gertrude or hiding
her body. Casually he remarked that
he had throe, children. Of Ms own and
hkd always been fond of children. .
,:..7This thing never -would, ' ' hap-'
pened," . he . declared. 'It ; It hadn't .a'
been .for the ..Oeary society. - They
wouldn't let ma have my children after
my wife died' until I got a houaekeeper
to take, cars of them, .'
The battered little body of Gertrude
Hyland was burled at tha expense, of
Carl Fischer Hansen, a wealthy lawyer,
who haa taken tbe cases of tha foster
father and the mother of the child.
Slayer, and . toother were pennlleaa,
but Mr. Hansen - not only ''proposed to
represent' them in -their light to escape
tha electric, chair, but to save from the
potter's field the tiny victim of tha
man s hate. v - ; . . - ;
. Mr Hansen said he believed tha only
hope for Denier was to prove he was
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'tisane when he. In a flt 'of aagp, beet
the baby girl to death. . It Is admitted
it will be difficult to establish such a
plea before a Jury. Public sentiment
Is ' unanimous ; that Denver's days are
numbered." - .'-: -.,';
'That .the same mode of punishment
ruu1 virtually
stood by and, without protest witnessed
the slaying of her child. Is a matter of
4W1H
That she was a party, to this horribls
crime that haa brought a shudder of
horror over New Tork and the country
is the general conviction. Bhe haa ad
mitted aha helped the slayer to conceal
tbe victim of hie unnatural passion.
. That she waa tbe mother of the baby
whose -body waa thrown In the moat
advantageous hiding place does not yst
appear to have entared inte- her eaieu
latlona She : merely . sought to hide
from the gsse of the pubilo the crime
of the man she laved. -
It has not yst appeared that 'Ague
Renoude had a part Ip the slaughter of
her Innocent child. She only carried
out the orders of hsr msster. Bhe was
not even permitted to proclaim a moth
er's protest Bhe Was but the tool of
the monster, and shs did hie bidding In
silence and in fear. . - -
Associated with Mr. Hansen In the
case Is his assistant Alexander Mich
selson. Both have taken - the case In
all seriousness and with ths hope that
sonie loophole In the law can be found
to save Denser and the woman. It is,
however, the hope that betokens despair
so far as the man ie concerned. .
The attorneys for the pair have said
there ' Is no possibility that any other
plea than that of Insanity can appeal
td" the Jury In the caee of Denser.
Denser le still surly, and is indiffer
ent to the enormity of -his crime and
ite consequences. Agnes Renoude is
listless.,.. ,-':-,'..:,.'"
ances back for 300 years to the time of
the Invention of the telescope, and even
roughly fof centuries before that pe
riod, thanks td the references of Chinese
and other chroniclers,
- Hare, then, Is a great step In the
hitherto tangled science of meteorology,
It sho61d now be possible to make a
forecast very rough, we admit of the
probable temperature end , rainfall of
large districts like Europe, of the char
acter ef coming winter), of the probable
winas ana inunaerstorms, an.4 even Of
harvests, and of the price of grain!
Of eeurss, It Will not be feasible for
many a year to be accurate In date and
detail, but anyway, it look as though
a vitally Important etep had been taken
rendering a further mastery ot the sub
ject only a 'question of time. ., -l
la short It may well be that the hour
ie on the way when tbe vagariee of
the weather -will have to submit to ac
curate prediction, Just as those of the
movements of the heavenly bodies are
at present . -i't-. .
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From Kaarhee to Vaaea.
From the New rerk Evening Post.
words, msksstl It used to be readi "Da
pew said" the very a! gnat of mirth.
But new the attorney-general put into
a summons "the eald Depew," and all is
melancholy.
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TheOefmsh proverb: "There are only
twe good women in the world one dead
and the ether can I be found.'' ,
HAT J. It Thompson, the ex
change editor -of the new Tork
.Times,' waa murdered in nis
rooms in tha St. Jamea hotel,
in Weat Forty-aavanth street. New York,
soma tima between IS o'clock, Septem
ber 14. and daylight of tha morning of
September-1, seems fluite apparent to
the coroner, the police and Mr. Thomp
son's friends.. A day and a half, how-ever,-
of the mast careful Investigation
failed to disclose any motive which could
have, led to tha killing of the gentle,
kindly mannered old man, except that of
robbery. . , ' v ' 'l.L... '-
Thompson had begun ' his vacation
front bis duties In the Times office. He
hsd recently drawn several hundred dol
lars in money from a bank in which he
kept hi savings until they amounted to
enough for the purchase of bonds or
other safe Interest-bearing securities.
On tbe fatal Thursday night he left the
8L James hotel, apparently for his usual
brief evening walk through the streets,
returned at about : o'clock, and was
taken up in the elevator by negro bell,
boy named Waller. At about o'clock
Friday morning Mr. Thompson waa
found lying on tha floor of his room,
1th three cracks In his skuii. one at
tha back of the neck, one near hie left
at -Ala right eye. and with
several deep cuts 'In his scalp. There
waa blood scattered over a spsoe of sis I
feet square jon the wall near his head.
Hla room waa perfectly and neatly ar
ranged, and there -was not the slightest
apparent, evidence of any Struggle, hav
ing occurred-there. Mr, Thompaon'g
nocketa contained tit. hie watch and a
number of papers which showed no evl-
danoe of having beett examined.
Coroner Scholar. Dr. Fuller,- tbe
brother-in-law Of Mr, Thompson, and
J M. Binninaham. said . at first
tha) all the appearancea Indicated that
Mr. Thompson bad an apoplectic aelsure
and that the wounds on bis head were
caused by the convulsions ; following
auoh selaure. ' Mr. Thompson ei
ployers mad such a row jver this ax.-nlanatlon-
of his Injuries that tha ooro-
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u,4Ooer waa Induced, after Mr. Thompson's
death, ta.maxe an, examinaiion or nia
wounds, and Coroner c holer then aald
that ba waa . very certain . that Mr.
Thompson, was the victim of a mur
derous assault.'. ' -
Associates of Mr. Thompaon in the
Time office say that It was his habit
to carry money In two separate wallets.
In on" hekept his spending money,
amounting to from f l to l&O a week.
In the other, which waa a large, black
flap wallet, he usually had from f leg to
1500. Within two weens ne nsu oeca-
J'"T 111 th prenn.f aeeeratef -tiia
Hands to take $100 from this flap wal
let to, land money, to en acquaintance.
and he remarked at that lme that . he
nearly alwaya bad at least 1200 on his
person. -Tha flap wallet was not round
in Mr. Thompson's ciotning or in ma
apartments after he was found disabled
in his room Thursday morning.
Fortv-elKht hours after tha murder. In
whloh time the room had been searched
by ' the police. Commissioner McAdoo
found one. of .Thompson's wallets in a
box. -'" - - '
Tha wallet found - by the-poltew com
ml sal oner in the murdered man'e apart
ment not the one which is said to
have contained about 1300 at the time
of the crime. The missing wallet waa
given to Mrs. . Thompson . recently by
Mrs. Adams, a relative, to replace the
old one. found by Mr. McAdoo, The wal
let containing the money and checks la
atlll missing. . . , c
The police are searching for . Isaac
Hutter, the bellboy, , 5 " .
About the middle of August Hutter
was given money by the patrone of tha
St James hotel to go to his home In
Nashville. He was threatened with con-
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Jacob H. Thompaon, th New York Editor And Entranc to St Jamea
, JeTurdcred. Prioto-dlasram 8howlri( Him at His Dealt and Position of
l saage IrfrrT.'' mTI mt'"" iT ''V?''f-.li I'ilS 2
inpflCXAf has the largeat orchard In
itne . woria. weaiey iove, at
Jacksonville, discovered that east
" Texas would grow peaches of as
good quality and nearly a largs as the
California fruit,, and a' Michigan man
found that m addition Texae would pro
duce a peach ready for the merkat It
to 11 daya ahead of California, That 1
how Roland Morrill of Benton Harbor,
Michigan, came to Invest $300,000 in 11, BOO
acres of land in east Tex for an or
chard..' '; ' '-. - "-,
This was In UOt .' About 1000 acres have
been put In treee each year since, and
the, fact that the land set to trees In
101 and 101 produced enough to cover
the purchase price from the net profits
befors the treee began to bear Is snother
demonstration - of the ' quality of eaal
Texas soil, and the crops of which It la
capable, 1 .
After yeare of poor price, decreasing
yields, and especially after -thoUvll
began to creep up from the Mexican bor
der mowing the crop as It went, a few
enterprising farmers 'began to figure on
something besides cotton. Wesley Lev
put out a pesch orchard in ltt Flaohes
and apple have been grown In Texes
for half a century, but nobody thought
ef putting out orchards for commercial
returns. Love, with one or two ethers,
began to grow peaches,- They made ex
traordinary profit Love now sells 111.
000 worth of peaches annually from loo
acre.. Ha tried to gat neighbor to put out
orchards. Soma did,, but a majority eald
it took too long to gat returns, so they
stuek to cotton. Than tove and tour or
five neighbors tried tomato. Thsy
raised enough to ship ' a- car in 1M7 to
Denver. They were in -the market early
and got good prlceev- They made hug
profit a guaged by the return en cot
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In that year there, proba If wire not
aumptlon, but whether, he returned front'
Nashville la not known..
iJk. subscription wag started to which
most of the patrons of the hotel con
tributed. , Mr. Thompson, however, re
fused 'to append his name to the Mat.
saying-that Hutter at various times had
been inattentive and discourteous ' to
him. .'.
- tr the theory -that the- young -negr
bora UwlU to- M Thompson, the polio
have aaked the Nashville authorities to
look out for ' the negro and place him
under arrest. ' , v--
-A they hava nO"dsflnlte knowledge
that Hutter ever left the city, the head
quart era dateotivee are also looking for
him. . 1 .. ,,,'.''
. In the face ot the facts the theory df
euiclde advocated by the police la ridicu
lous. - Coroner Be holer admitted freely
after the Inquest that Mr. Thompaon
could ' not possibly have' Inflicted the
wounds, from which he died, upon- him
self. ,'i -. -
When the hotel employes entered tbe
robm there were blood stains on the wall
alx feet front the floor. . They seemed
to have been .made by the rapid whirl
of a bloody weapon. They, would have
been three inchea over Mr. Thompson's
head had be atood under themw -t -
The" management or the Btr?amei
hotel denied yesterday that It was cus
tomary for anybody but the night clerk
and tha maids on. tbe varloua floors te
carry pas keys to the rooms. v
But Mr. Plntmont the Janitor at No.
It Fifth avenue, where Mr.' Thompson s
brother-in-law, Mr. Fuller, la engaged
In business),, declares that ea one occa
sion when he took a package to the
hotel for, Mr. Thompson hs wee admit
ted to the room by a negro servant with
a pass key. . The detective have not
yet found this negro servant, but It is
evident that they believe- that If they
can identify him they wU) hold the clues
not only to the murderer of Mr. Thomp
son, but to the thief who stole 180 from
Miss' Bldebo them . and a - valuable sla
mond-studded. cigarette case from Mr.
Leslie Coggin In the seme hotel.
The "management of. the Bt ' James
hotel adhere to their original declara
tion that no one was In Mr. Thompson'
room the night he met hla death. Dur
ing the three years he lived at the hotel
no on had ever noticed a light In hie
room. . Tet on the morning h waa found
dying the gae was . burning brightly.
Apparently the watchman whose duty tt,
100 ear of fruit and vegetable from-the
stat of Texaa shipped to outside mar
kets, The care required te haul out the
shlpmente this year would make a train
60 miles long, representing a value of a
quarter of a million dollar. 1 And they
represent an industry In ltr Infancy.
There are S7 counties In east Texas, a
territory larger than Connecticut Rhode
Island, Delaware and New Jersey 00m
blned, adspted to ths -culture of fruit and
truck. When that part-of these counties
on which- cotton cannot be grown profit
ably le put to growing fruit and vegeta
bles the produot will be M times what
It Is today. - .. . '. .'..J-
When the Morrill orchard was laid out
end the first l.OOO acree cleared Mr.
Morrill planted . between - the tree . 101
acree of potatoes. By the middle of July
tie had a crop from which he could dig
Ua bushels to the acre. He sold them
at St cent a bushel. The few he left
m the ground sprourtd, and "by- October
t he hsd a second crop, a fair variety,
from the same ground, and they brought
mors 'than half the price of the first
crop. The next year hs tried tomatoes,
nd now, ae fast as the ground I cleared
It I let in peach, apple or pear trees,
and between the rows' he raise truck
to pay for the land while the fruit treee
are growing to an at when they Will
begin to bear. . '. ,
Morrill ha a large peach Orchard near
Benton Harbor. When he first wsnt to
Texas hi idea was to rats early peach!
In Texaa, get the benefit of the high
price of first ahlpmente, then go te
Michigan and market a late crop, Bui
he etaye In. Texaa He haa a atatlon oa
the corner of hie farm, put up a hotel,
a store, and Morrill, Texas, is now a
thriving town, sprung from an orchard
in a section that 10 year ago was
thought good only for cotton, and not
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was to patrol the hall did not make a
note of this.
, Jacob H. Thompaon was about II
year old. He wa a bachelor, and of
a retiring, 'studious- disposition. He
epent his time in his ''leisure hours
visiting with hie few-relatives In this
city, and vicinity,' snd In reading. ' Hs
was altogether lovable and ganeroue In
hi relation with hi associates. It is
told of him-that his greatest grief in
life waa when he discovered , that ens
of ths office-boy In the Times office
had been overlook in hi , annual dis
tribution of II - til to his -youthful
friend In a vary quiet, unostentatious
way he enjoyed the confidence of many
men prominent In American, national
Ufa The late Thome B. Reed mad It
a nearly invariable practice to call- on
Mr. Thompaon at the Time office when
ever passing through New Tork.
Inspector Flood sld: '"This Is ons
of the moat panting case which have
confronted th polio In a long time.
It Is quit apparent that Mr. Thomp
son waa murdered. - It I quit apparent
that he wee Viciously assaulted with a.
blunt inatrumsnt and that his head was.
beaten against tha sharp corners of his
bookcase and tha door casing after he
waa knocked down; the blood-andhair
on the baseboard show thla. We are
aa completely at a loss td eccount for
any-motive for the murder of 'Mr.
Thompson aa could , jposslbly be, except
robbery. ,, - ': -. 'i I,
' "Of ooure,'tt would be easy enough
to eay that a sneak thief was In the
rooms when Mr. Thompson came In at
half peat I o'clock Thursday night atid
remained - In - oonoalmnt ;- until ilr.
Thompaon wrote a letter to- his niece,
Mrs. Wendell (la which we learn- that
he said he would certainly call upon her
in Orange next . week), and.. had re
moved his cults, end then upon being
discovered struck Mr.' Thompson down
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Tbe police Jieve taken Into considera
tion the fact that Mr. Thompson dur
ing the last three monthe haa repeated
ly complained of the conduct of one of
the employee of the hotel, and had eald
that ha hoped to bring about' this per
son's dismissal for Insolence and Impu
dence. . Csptaln Gallagher, . Coroner
Be holer. Inspector Flood and others have
talked with aD the employe of the
hotel, but have been unable to get any
information of value from them. "
Hotel in Room of Which He Was
Hla Bodjr When Poufii
Th posalbtlltle W - th new ind ustry
in east Texaa are described by N, B.
Hudnsll of Tyler. "Who. in speaking 0
experiments In diversification, said:
"There la no telling what can be done
by diversified farming In east Texas In
the next 10 years. We are young in the
business, but you can get some' Idea from
what I have been able to accomplish on
my own farm. I have five acres ot Jap-'
neee plunt trees, and each acre cdntalne
KM tree, making M0 tree in all. They,
began to bear at-two year old, and have
never failed to bear full crops, and ae
the trees grow older the crop gets heav
ier.' I shipped them In regular 14 quart'
strawberry oratss. During the ' seaaon.
Just closed ' my trees produced 'on an
average of five crate-to th'tree.nd
the averege price obtained for them waa
II per crate, eo you can see for yourself
that my plum orchard brought me more
than. 1400 an acre. . Thla sounds 'fiahy.'
I'll admit, but Is really a little less thao
I actually got from each acre I had la
plums. I have W acre In peach trees,
and only 10 acre ot thsm bora fruit this
year;, the remaining 10 acrea are -young
tree. From th 10 acre that bore fruit
thla year I sold R.ISO worth of peaches. ,
I also have a kVaore apple orchard, with
but a little more than one-third of It In
bearing. - My apple orchard, brought me
thla year over H.00O." ,
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Somoaatratloa.
From the Tonkere Statesman.
Bhe And did you ever propose t a
H Tea., and I'll never do It sgsln!
Th girl Jumped at my proposal and up
set the boat ' . .
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quarantine against the Taggart divorce
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