HENRY STOKES Celebrates His 83Rd Birthday HARLAN's PREDICTION STORIES from the JURY ROOM

mmit tout STERLING GALT,EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR ESTABLISHED OVER A QUARTER OF A CENTURY TERMS-1.O0 A YEAR IN ADVANCE VOL. XXIX EMMITSBURG, MARYLAND, FRIDAY, JANUARY- 17, 1908 NO. 35 HENRY STOKES HARLAN'S PREDICTION STORIES FROM THE JURY ROOM ' UNFORTUNATE RUMORS OUR RAILROAD Forsees War And Warns Japanese--American Situa- Celebrates His 83rd Against Yellow Peril Judge,Lawyer and Clerk Tell Amusingi tion Not Dangerous History of Local Birthday And Trying Experiences Institution POINTED PARAGRAPHS IN SPEECH OUR DIPLOMACY HAS NO SECRETS LIFE IN THE OLD DAYS WHAT PROSECUTING ATTORNEY MAY EXPECT OFFICIAL STATEMENT Chief Justice In Address Before Navy A Sane View of Pacific Cruise of League Pleads For More Ships. — American Fleet.—Question of Japa- Interviewed By Chronicle Wants $50,000,000 a Year For Explanation Of Reasoning Of Jury Astonishes Assistant nese Immigrants. —Fair So- Low Rates Induce Growth Representative Ten Years Spent on Navy. District Attorney lution Can Not be Prevented. Of Manufactures. There is no such thing as friendship It is one of the misfortunes of the in- STEAM COAL AT THREE DOLLARS HARVESTER STRANGE VERDICT FOUND IN CELEBRATED PERJURY STORY OF THE FIRST between nations as there is between CASE evitable appearance on the Pacific of men. — — the fleet of the one Power which has the Wheat Shipped in Bulk as Cheap From Manufacture of Matches and Incon- Do you think that England cares a Fate of a Case After it Has Been Left to The Jury. —Recent Trial for Murder longest coast line and the largest inter- cent, or that Germany cares a cent, ests on that ocean, says the Philadel- Emmitsburg as From Rocky Ridge. venience Before Their C eneral And Disagreement on Account of Sentiment Against Having Woman's about the increase of our navy? phia Press, that hot rumor will be Death on His Mind.—When They Tried to Dicker —More Passenger Trains than Use.—His Intimate Connection respect for depends upon our With The Judge. — served daily on the international bill - Their us -of Any Steam Road of With The History Of This belief that we can take care of our- Incident When the Foreman Was a German. —Stories That Are True fare. Same Size. Corporation. selves.I want to see our navy such that And Interesting. —What Jury Will do is a Matter of Speculation. Such rumors have been appearing for no nation on the earth could think for a a year past. They do endless harm. moment of forcing a contest or enter- They complicate a situation always A Judge, a lawyer, and an old court "You may remember," The local institution most important ing into a contest with us. said the delicate but never dangerous. They clerk met one night at a club, says the court clerk, "a to the secular interests of this place is History tells us that immigration has murder trial not long have never had any basis. Washington Post, the membership of ago where a woman the Emmitsburg Raih?oad. Practically been from East to West. We have now was the defendant. American diplomacy has no secrets. which includes many men in public life, "She was riding in every pound of commodities coming in- 90,000,000 population in this country. a cab with a The diplomacy of a Republic which and got to discussing the fate of a case man one morning to Emmitsburg and every person com- Well, just across the Pacific there is when the man was must justify itself to 18,000,000 voters after it is left to a jury. shot and killed. The jury disagreed ing in or going out, is transported over another nation with an immense popu- at must be public. Some stages may be The three men have had each in his the first trial and there its line. If not a-big thing in itself it lation. There is the yellow race. There was a second private, but the avowed end can never particular line many opportunities for trial. That is the trial I know is a vital necessity to Emmitsburg; and are 400,000,000 Chinese. They are as about. be secret. knowing so-called secrets of the jury "There were three points on if not deeply rooted in the affections of strong physically; they are as strong which The Japanese-American situation is room. The lawyer has been on both the case rested—did the the people (no corporation ever is) they mentally; they are as strong in every woman's simple. The United States cannot with sides of the firing line in many legal brother-in-law buy the pistol would not like to try to get along with- way as we are. Near by there is anoth- with which safety to the peace of its own Pacific battles, the judge has sat in many im- the man was killed; did she out it. The Company has been awlays er nation of alert and ambitious people. take it into coast now, and of the entire American portant criminal cases, and the clerk the cab, and was it a local affair. It was incorporated by I believe that we will see within the a physical possibili- coast of the Pacific in future, permit has sworn thousands of juries and taken ty for the man to local people; the great majority of the next ten years an army of perhaps 5,- have committed unrestricted Japanese immigration. their verdicts. suicide? stock has been always held here and it 000,000 men in China, drilled and in- Japan has no desire to see its subjects, "There was a case not so long ago," "The man had been infatuated depends for its existence on local busi- structed by the Japanese, and when with first where they are liable to be mob- said the lawyer, "that received a good the woman, and that morning ness. Therefore, the obligations and that time comes they will be in a posi- he was bed, and, second, where they are with- deal of attention from the newspapers, to leave for Europe with his wife. benefits arising between the people and tion to say to us of the white race, drawn from the expansion of Japan in but after the jury's verdict nothing "You may imagine that the Railroad are strictly mutual. "You keep Europe as your country; we the prosecu- East Asia and its islands. more was heard of it. It was one of tion used every effort to settle The Emmitsburg Railroad Company will keep this country. Get out!" those But Japan cannot, without serious the -best illustrations I have seen of three points. The representative of was incorporators by act of Assembly I do- not say that we will have war in protest, accept an exclusion leveled how a jory can misconstrue the evidence the district attorney was a man who approved March 28th, 1868. The in- the near future; but looking into that against its subjects alone. It cannot and instructions of the court. had a reputation as a capable prosecu- corporators were: D. G. Adelsberger, future in seems certain that there will be ranked with China. It accepts in the "The defendant was a man who had tor and an orator of no small power. Joseph Brawner, Josuha Walter, E. S. be a conflict some day that will shake British colonies any law of exclusion been mixed up in a trial that attracted When the jury retired he felt that he Taney, Joseph Byers, Dr. Andrew the earth. If it falls upon us, and I do which bears on all alike. It will here. the attention of the country. At that had made out a good case. Annan, Isaac Hyder, George W. Rowe, not say that it will, I want to see our The United States does not desire to trial he was a witness and testified to "The jury disagreed and the district Dr. James W. Eichelberger, Sr., Chris- position to meet it. exclude the Japanese from Hawaii. HENRY STOKES, ESQ. country in a attorney made an investigation for tian Zacharias, Michael G. Adelsberger, certain initials which he was supposed the The whole difficulty is to harmonize I want to see the country in such a document which purpose of finding out what effect Lewis W. Walter and John K. Taylor. to have written on a the these conflicting propositions. In the [The following interview is one of a position that no nation on earth can ever was an important piece of evidence in prosecution's evidence had made. I Of these, all are dead except Mr. D. end this will be done. It is a pity that series which have been secured by THE dare to go against it. I want to see the trial. He denied that he had writ- am told that this is what he learned G. Adelsberger and Mr. E. S. Taney. : the press of a friendly Power like CHRONICLE. It was the original inten- $50,000,000 a year, for ten years, spent ten the initials, although there was "As soon as the jury retired, or after Under this charter the Company was France and some papers in this country tion to publish them at a later period upon our navy. I said that one year testimony to the contrary. they had smoked a cigar or two, authorized to build from Emmitsburg they make an adjustment more difficult. but it seemed appropriate to let Mr. ago at a banquet of this league, and I "When the trial was over he was in- voted on the three principal to a point on the Western Maryland proposi- But even this will not prevent Stokes' appear on his birthday as a wish to say it again.

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