4 t CS14JC Jtiltott Mews. VOLUME 10 STOLEN BOY RECOVERED. Bandits Restore Boy to His Father Mon day Night In a Hotel at Cleve land, Ohio. GOT THE TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS. Ia the sixth column on the next page of this paper, it is told how a man went to one of the Public School buildings in SharoD, Pa., about half past 9 o'clock last Thursday morning, and told the teacher that little Willie Whitla, eight years of age, was wanted at home. The teacher excused the boy, and it was not until after dinner time that it was found that the person calling at -the school for the boy was a kidnaper. The kidnapers informed Mr. Whitla that he could have his boy for $10,000, and also informed him where to put the money so they could get it and not be caught by the officers, and inti mated that they would kill the boy if the terms were not com plied with. Ten thousand dollars seemed like a good deal of money but money was not to be compar ed with the life of their precious boy, and he let them know that he would pay the money. His in structions were to leave the mon ey at a certain place in a park at Ashtabula, O , on Saturday night, and at 3 o'clock Sunday morning the boy would be delivered to him at a certain hotel. He placed the money as directed, and wait ed for the boy; but the bandits were afraid to go to to the place for the money, and at 3 o'clock, Mr. Whitla went to the park and got his money. Mr. Whitla later got another letter telling him to go to Cleve land and at 2 o'clock, Monday aft ernoon, call alone at a certain candy store in the East end of the city, and there he would be told how to get his boy. With the $10,000 in five, ten, and twenty dollar bills, together with all the letters he had gotten from them, he called at the candy store promptly on time and there met a heavily veiled woman who ex amined the money carefully to see that none of it was counter feit, and looked at the letters. After taking the cash, she apol ogized to Mr. Whitla for the sor row and trouble they had occas ioned him and his wife, but told him to return to the Hollenden hotel in that city and wait patient ly until 8 o'elock that eveuiug, , and the boy would be there. Mr. Whitla went to the hotel as di rected, and while he puffed away constantly at one cigar after an other, he never experienced such a long afternoon before, and when 8 o'clock came and his boy was , not there, he became almost fran tic with grief. He felt now that he had been duped again, and that both boy and money were gone. . At 8.30 o'clock a little boy with his cap pulled well down over his ears, pushed his way through the crowd to the desk of the , clerk in the Hollenden hotel and asked eagerly, "Where's my Pa pa?" The kindly face of the clerk was turned upon the inquirer, and he said, "Who is your papa?" But the ears of the half-crazed father Bitting back in a corner had been quick to catch the fa muiar tones, and he sprang for ward, grasping the boy and cov ering his face with kisses, the stolen boy was again in his fath er's arms. In the meantime little Willie, the kidnaped boy, feeling com paratively safe in the hands of the kidnapers, for he was being treat ed kindly and even at this ti mo does not realize what terrible dan y der he was in, was being prepar ed for his return to his father The wr mac at the candy store had dono her duty. She com municated with the captors of the boy and told them that the father had made no ' attempt to trap them." The kidnapers were satisfied. So the boy was brought from his hiding place where it i was no one knowsto a car line SALE CALLED OFF. Big Cove Lumber Company Will Not Have Public Sale Next Saturday as Advertised. Since advertising for a public sale to be held at their saw mills in Ayr township on Saturday, March 27th, the Big (Jove Lum ber Company have asked us to tell the people that the sale has been called off. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Meliott, of Frankkin Mills came up Sunday and spent the time until Monday afternoon in the home of their' brother-in-law, B. W. Logue, in the Cove. Mr. Meliott was in town a little while Monday forenoon. McCOXNELLSHUHG, PA., MAKCII 25, 1909. z , NUMHER 27 m the East end of the city which would bring him into town quick ly. The kidnaper, according to Willie, was cheerful enough. A few rods from the car line the man stopped the boy. Pull ing a pair of smoked glasses from his pocket he adjusted them to the boy's headwith the remark : "You'll look better in these." The sides of the yarn cap were pulled carefully over the boy's ears. A slip which Willie was to hand the conductor was put in the boy's pocket. It read : "Send this boy to the Hollen den House, double quick." " With all arrangements made and his tracks apparently well covered, the kidnaper took the boy's right hand in his.jrawny left and they continued briskly along l he car line. The lad skip ped gaily enough with bis com panion, the promise of seeing his "Dad" and "Ma" urging him forj ward. They chatted with each other. Willie says the man told him if anybody asked him who took him to the car line, to tell them it was" Mr. Jones." "Just tell them your name is Jones, too, if you want to," said the kidnap er. Presently a car came into view an the mysterious Mr. Jones drew the boy closer to him. "Well, Willie, you are going down town now and you will see your papa pretty soon," he said. This delighted Willie. He swung on the car quickly, accord ing to the conductor. "Mr. Jones" paid the boy's fare and then got off the car and disap peared. The boy gazed about the car for a familiar face. He saw no one he knew. Presently Edward Mahoney, who is a 17 year old boy, of jolly visage, came into the car. He sat down in the seat with the boy. Mahoney, like most every other person in Cleve land last night, was looking for little Willie Whitla. When his eyes lighted on Willie he started a conversation. "What's your name?" he quer ied. "Jones," answered Willie, true to his kidnaper friend. But Mahoney was not to be foolod. He called his friend Ram sey over from another part of the car and showed him Willie. He suggested that it might be the missing child. Then Willie show ed them his transfer slip, saying that he hhould be put off at the Hollenden Hotel, and they were convinced that they bad accomp lished more than had all the sleuths in the country. The boys, now willing compao-J ions, took Willie to the hotel, where he met his father as be fore stated. , Sharon is a town in Mercer county, Pa., near the Ohio hue, and is about the size of Cham bersburg. , ' ' A woman and a man were ar rested in Cleveland, Tuesday evening, having in their posses sion $9,790 most of it in the or iginal packages in which it had been taken out of bank by Mr. Whitla. ..The woman confessed that she had planned, and helped to carry cut, the kidnaping. Both were under the influence of liquor when arrested. RECORD OF DEATHS. Persons Well Known to Many of Our Readers, Who Have Answered Final Summons. ALL SEASONS ARE THINE, 0 DEATH. Joseph P. Oakland. Joseph Furr Garland, a native of Belfast township, but for sev eral years a resident of the west ern part of the State, died at his home in California, Washington county, Pa., Wednesday, Murch 12, llJO'J, aged 5!) years, 1 month, and 6 days. He was a son of the late John Garlaud, deceased, and a half-brotlnr of Job P., Rev. Thomas P., and John A. Garland all living in tins county. On the 8th of October, 1874, he was married to Miss Matilda B. Meliott, a step daughter of the late Samuel Lake, of Belfast town ship, deceased. Five children came to bless their union, one of whom, Willis dying in infancy, four surviving, aa follows: Cecil, at Orient; Mrs. Robert C. Red head, of Swissvale, and Miss Rose and Claude at home. Two years after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Garland united with the Baptist church, and have been consistent members ever since. They were both members of the church at California, where Mr. Garland took an active part in its work, he being superintendent of the Sabbath school at the time of his death. He was an Odd Fellow, a memhei of the Encamp ment, and a member of the Royal Arcanum. Mr. Garland went to California from Fayette county about 1!) year3 ago, and for a time was em ployed by Pittsburg, Virginia it Charleston railroad as a section foreman. Ho also taught school for a number of terms. Latterly, however, he had held the position of checkweighman at the Cres cent mine, where he was held in high esteem by his employers aud fellow-workmen. On the twelfth of February he was seized with a fainting spell, which possessed some of the symptoms of apoplexy and grippe combined. He was immediately put under the care of a physician and for a time his eventual recov ery was confidently hoped for, but so enervated had become his condition that he was unable to withstand the treatment given him. The California Kentinel says of Mr. Garland, that he was regard ed by all who knew him as one of nature's noblemen. Uuiformly kind and generous, he had no en emies. He was industrious and ambitious, not only for himself, but for his family, the home which he left proving his sterling worth in this direction. He will be sad ly missed by a large circle of lriends, who respected him as a citizen, and loved him as a friend. His part in life's drama was a minor one, but he played it well. Ben j AM&f "Mills. Benjamin Mills died at bis home near Gapsvillo, Bedford county, on Wednesday, March 10, from consumption. He was born at Emmaville, this county, on January 21, 18G0, and a son of Mr. aud Mrs. Isaac Mills. About 12 years ago he was united in marriage with Delia Emerick, who died in 190(5. Two children. Louie and Ramon, survive, be sides the following brothers and sisters: Emanuel and John Mills, Mrs. Denton Miller, Mrs. Furgi son Barton, and Mrs. Frank M. Lodge. Funeral services were held at Mclvendree M. E. church on Thursday, conducted by Rev. James Logue, of ClearviMe. In terment was made in the grave yard at the church. 'Emmert Marshall Ott. Emmert Marshall, son of Wil liam E. Ott and his wife Mary El len Bivens Ott, died at their home lq' Ayr township, last Friday morning, after an illness of two weeks of acute tuberculosis fol lowing measles, The funeral M. E. CONFERENCE. At Harrisburg This Week. Bishop Ham ilton Is Presiding;. Revs. Bryner, McGarvey, and Pittinger There From This County. Three hundred clergymen, del egates, 100 visitir.g ministers, and about 2000 lay delegates are ex pected to be in attendance at the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the MethodistKpiscopal church which began its work in Harris; burg Tuesday and will continue in session until Monday of next week. The annual examination of ministerial candidates was held Tuesday morning. Forty young men- took the examinations. The conference has a rule that all clergymen before being ordained must take a four years' course under a board of examiners. There are about ten students in each of the four classes. Among the important matters to be taken up during the week in addition to those set forth iD the program is the devising of a dif ferent plan for the entertain ment of th3 delegates who attend the annual conferences. For over forty years the members of the conference have been entertained in the homes of the members ot the various Methodist churches of the city where the conference has met. It is likely that it will be agreed that each church of the conference be assessed a cer tain amount fortheentei tainment of the delegates. The large num ber of delegates who attend the meetings makes it a most difficult thing to find places for all of the ministers and iay delegates. PLEASANT SOCIAL EVENT. Miss Sallie Hoop Entertained Her Sun day School and Normal Class. The evening of the twenty-sec oud, ult., was spent very pleas antly, when Miss Sallie Ho'.p had her Sunday school and Normal class assemble at her home to celebrate Washington's Birthday, Much music was rendered by the class, after which a card was pre sented to each person present which proved to be names of pres idents and wives. After each president found his wife, the din ing room door was thrown open. On entering we saw Washington represented as seated in his boat crossing the Delaware, and the table loaded with good things to eat. Those present were Mr. and lrs. Taft W. H. Decker and Ethel Schooley; Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt and son Archie Geo. Sipe, Glenn Sipe, and Dolla Deck er; Mr. and Mrs. McKinley Thurmau Strait and Edith Sipes; Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland Cadiz Schooley and Sadie Sipe; Mr. and Mrs., Harrison Cleveland Strait and Lenora Docker; Mr. and Mrs. Garfield David Sipe and Myrtle Sipe; Mr. and' Mrs. Lin coln Clem Schooley and .Luella Strait. Miss Sallie has been an earnest and faithful teacher in Siloam Sunday school for a number of years, and the school feels very sorry to see her leave. The class went home hoping to spend many such times together, and thank ing Miss Sallie for her kindness. One Who Was There. was held last Sunday and inter ment was made in the Union cem etery. Emmert was aged 11 months. The parents have tho sincere sympathy of their many friends in this sore hour of be reavemcnt. PlTTMAN. Deep sorrow came Into the home of Rev. and Mrs. Charles R. Pittman, in the city of Tabriz, Persia, on the fourth of Febru ary, 1909, when pneumonia caus ed tho death of their only child, Charles Clement, aged twenty months. Mr. Pittman is a native ot McConnellsburg, and has been a missionary in Persia for almost ton years. - ; LETTER FROM ALASKA. William W. Peck, A Former Thompson Township Hoy, Is In Love With Our Northern Possessions. HE HAS BEEN THERE FIVE YEARS. The United States is a great country great in territorial ex tent, great in the intelligence and enterprise of its citizens, and great in the possibilities of future development. In the acquisition of vast territorial limits, we differ from those nations who have no better right to the space they oc cupy on the map, than that ot conquest wresting the territory from the rightful owners at the point of the sword. Uncle Sam is proud of his large farm of near ly four million square miles, and prouder still of the lac; that he has from time to time enlarged his possessions , by buying and paying for the land thus added. In 18G7, when from Russia he bought Ala ka, comprising about a half million of square miles of territory, for $7,200,000, he was the butt of all manner of jokes for wanting to monopolize the ice business, and getting a country where a fellow could call on his sweetheart in the evening, talk nice things to her for about four months, and still get home before daylignt. But the little more than forty years since that time has shown that our Uncle Samu el was the same shrewd Yankee in that deal that he was when he made the Louisiana purchase, or bought Florida from Spain. The cost to United States of Alaska was a little less than a dollar and a half a square mile, and the gold and silver that it is producing, the great beds of coal that underlie its hills and valleys, tho immense forests of timber that cover its vast areas, all go to make up a wealth that makes every citizen of the. Country richer. The following from Wm. W. Peck, a native of Thompson township will be read with inter est by his many friends. William went to Ketchikan, Alaska, five years ago, and from his letter we may helieve that the longer he stays there, tho better he likes the place. He says: "Ketchikan is the best city in Alaska, and in a few years will be the largest. When 1 came here five years ago, there were no hotels, but all kinds of gambling dens, two dance halls, and, of course, plenty of saloons; for it would seem that the saloon is the pioneer of Amer ican civilization. To day Ketchi kan has a population of twelve hundred people and no gambling places or dance halls. We have two hotels ono that cost $40,000, and the other nearly as much. We have three churches, two schools one for the Indians and one for the Whites; two general stores, eleven saloons, a bank, a wireless telegraph station, a saw mill, a daily newspaper, and in the Ketchikan District, there are six canneries that each put up from forty to eighty thous and cases of salmon every sum mer. The New England Fish Company is building a Cold Stor age plant near this place. They now have four large fishing boats, and will soon have a steamer run sing between this place and Se attle. They will employ nearly two hundred men. There are twelve or fifteen nines gold and copper in the Ketchikan District each em ploying from thirty to one hun dred men, and each shipping two or three hundred tons of ore ev ery month. I look for this sum mer to be the best Ketchikan has ever seen. There is plenty of work wages from three to five dollars a day. We have lots of rain and snow her& but it is the moat healthful country that I have ever found. You may think it gets very cold here in the win ter, but it doesn't The ther mometer registered one degree below aero here this winter and MEN ARE TRICKY. Next Time Sheridan Deshong Wants to Send His Wife to Buy Clover Seed, He Will Go Himself. P. Sheridan Deshong is like most married men, he spends touch of his time planning some pleasant surprise for his wife. He knew that last Monday would be the 27th anniveisarv of her birth, and just how to manage to get her away frcm the house long enough to get a first class birth day party on the carpet, bother ed him not a little. At length he hit upon the scheme of telling her that he would be very busy about home that morning (which was no lie) and that she would be do ing him a great favor if she would go over to E. V. Meliott's and buy some clover seed. Of course, he asked her in such a nice way that she couldn't refuse, and she was soon off. She was scarcely out of sight, when he got busy, and the result was, that when she returned, about thirty of her friends and neighbors had pos session of her house, and the sur prise was complete. From this time on, it was much like the oth er surprise parties you have read about a good dinner, a joyous time, and a day spent very pleas antly. Those present were : U. S. Deshong and wife, D. M. Kline and wife, F. R. Shives' and wife, E. H. Fohuer, Samuel Truax, Sheridan Deshong and wife, Charlie Meliott, Walter Truax, Harry Divel, Fred and John Hockenterry, D. G. Shives, Os car Deshonju', Chas. Hockenberry, Mrs. Cora Sipe, Mrs. Anna Feig ley, Mrs. Sarah E. Deshong, Bes sie Hess, Mary and Edith Desh ong, Blanche Feigley, Ada Sipe, Ada Deshong, Ethel Sipe, Mattie, Wreatha, and Melva Deshong. One Who Was There. TO HUNTERS. Every One in Favor of Protecting Deer, Keep a Lookout for Deer Dogs. While W. H. Duvall was cross ing Sideling Hill Mountain last Sunday on his way to W. H. Dan iels, ho heard e dog north of the Pittman road, and pushed his horse to the main deer crossing. He was there but a minute, when a heavy doe landed in the road, well run down, with her mouth open, and her tongue out. In another minute there was a black backed hound appeared pursuing the deer. Duvall had nothing to shoot, the dog with, and so he stoned the dog off and it ran down the mountain. After Duvall went up the mountain a little farther, he heard a hound break out south of tho Pittman road which he be lieves was the same hound. He listened until the dog got over into Swope's Gap. This djg will kill all the does between the pike and lietsy Meliott's Gap by the first of June if he isn't killed. This is the third chase that Du vall knows of that dog having in the last two weeks. He is a hard dog to head for he only tongues once and twice in a hundred or two hundred yards in a deer chase. v Kill this dog and prosecute the owner, that is what he will get if Duvall can head him. - Hunter. ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW Miss Fannie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Rotz, near Chambersburg is spending two weeks among her Fulton county relatives and friends. "old timers" say it has boon the coldest in eighteen years. "I would like to be back in Old Fulton for a visit, but to stay 'excuse me' for - Alaska is the only country for mo. I would be glad to get a letter from any of my friends in Fulton and the same will be answered. Enclosed find one dollar for which please extend my subscription to the Fulton County News." Yours truly, WlLUAM W. PCK, Ketchikan, Alaska. . Snapshots at Their Comings and Goings Here for a Vacation, or Away for a Restful Outing. NAMES OP VISITORS AND VISITED Mrs. George W. Hays is visit ing her mother, Mrs. Eliza Mich aels, at Everett. Hayes Morgret, was a business visitor at the County Seat last Saturday. Mr. Joseph Sipes, of Licking Creek township, was in town a few hours last Saturday. W. H. Peck, of Gem, was in town a few hours last Saturday attending to business. Riley Deshong, of Sipes Mill, and Morgan Deshong, of Andov er, spent Monday, in town. Mr. George S. Me.lott and daughter Pearl, of Sipes Mill, spent a few hours in town last Saturday. David Gordon, of Thompson township, spent Monday night in the home of Albert Harr and wife, m Tod township. S. H. Hockensmith was in town transacting business Tuesday. Ho has sold his farm to David Strait, Hustontown. Miss Ivy LaMaster and Mr. Roy Stoner, of Mirkes, Pa., spent Saturday and Sunday with Daniel E. Fore, Esq., at his homo in Tod. S. II. McLucas, of Ayr town ship, on Tuesday moved over to the Daniels farm, near Harrison ville, now owned by Denton Hen dershot. Mrs. W. E. Bair, of Greenhill, and Mrs. Emery Hessler, ot Sal uvia, spent last Friday in town with the former's cousin, Mrs. Max Sheets. Lemuel G. Cline and wife were in town Monday. Mr. Clme was arranging for the advertising of his sale which will be held on Saturday of next week. He has a lot of fine stock for sale. Miss Blanche Morton who has been engaged as stenographer in one of the departments of the Philadelphia Press is at the home of her parents, Hon. and Mrs. Pe ter Morton, on account of ill health. Mrs. Geo. II. Unger, of Ayr township, who had been visiting amonp friends and relatives in the west during the past nine weeks, returned home ltst Fri day. Her husband met her m Harrisburg last Wednesday, and Mr. and Mrs. Unger went across the river and visited Rev. Wolf and family until Friday morning. Thursday Mr. and Mrs. Wolf and Mr. and Mrs. Unger spent in Harrisburg, going through the Capitol Building.and seeing many other points of interest in tho State Capital. Mrs. Unger visit ed her sister Henrietta, and brother George M. Bender, m Illinois; Louie Unger Powell, S. J. Comerer's family, and many other friends and acquaintances, and says she never was among a cleverer set of people in her life, and will always look back ' upon the visit as one of the most pleas ant times 6he ever had in her life. Rev. Herrmann Sperling, a student in the Theological Semi nary at Susquehanna University of Sohnsgrove, Pa., who is spend ing part of his Spring vacation with his friend Edgar Alexander, preachod a very able sermon to a large and appreciative congrega tion in the Lutheran church kst Sunday morning. Mr. Sperling is a graduate of Breklum Univer sity, of Breklum, Germany. He is now taking a two years' course at Susquehanna for the purpose of learning the English language. Considering that he came to this couutry only seven mouths ago with practically no knowledge of the language, his progress is really remarkable. Rev. Sperl ing will preach a sermou in Ger man, in which language be is par excellence, in the Lutheran church next Sunday morning, at 10:80. ' i
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