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COUNTY MOTTO All Tlic News When It Is News. M w - State Historical Society' VOLUME XVIII DAKOTA CITY, NEB., FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1910. NUMBER 27 ThAK OTA 11 ii WORLD'S DAILY HEWS CAREFULLY COLLECTED AND CONCISELY STATED NO ONE FOUND aLITE D11VI1 AND MISSIXtJ AT WKI.UXG. TON' XlMBini 80. Little Progress Made on Account of Frozen Ice anil Hiiro Trees nml Ikmldcrs Which Were Carried r Down by Great Slide. Elghty-Blx names are now on the list of dead and missing passengers, trainmen and postal employes who were carried down by the avalanche near Wellington, Wash., that destroy ed two Great Northern trains Tuesday morning. Statements of the number of laborers fighting the snow who were Bleeping on the 111 fated trains vary from twenty to thirty. An estimate of 100 dead Is conservative. All the dead were residents of the northwest. Of the Injured only one, Rev. Bishop Wlnget. of Chicago, was from the east. No one who has seen the wreckage has the slightest hope of finding any of the missing alive. The explorations have uncovered none liv ing and some of the bodies are shock ingly mangled. An avalanche of dry snow might have covered Ha victims alive, but the gorge at Wellington Is packed tightly with wet snow, Ice. huge trees and glacial bowlders of enormous weight Two or the bodies recovered were thoc- f the electri cians, who were living In a cabin at the edge of Wellington and who were carried 300 feet down the slope. All day a stream of men with picks strapped to their backs wound about the mountain path from Skykomsih to Scenic and Wellington carrying food and supplies for the injured. Some are digging for the bodies of friends or relatives. A few were sightseers and they were told they were not wanted. A laborer was caught taking trink ets from a dead woman's body and he was compelled to start down the trail at once. One hundred and fifty men are dis cing for bodies in the avalanche de bris. Among the bodies foufTW Thurs day were those of former Prosecuting Attorney 1?. M. rSarnhart, of Spokane; Conductor J. L. Pettit, who, after a trip on foot to Skykomish, went back to his post, and Mrs. M. A. Covington, of Olympia, who left Spokane to cele brate her golden wedding anniversary at Seattle. MOB LAW IX DALLAS, TEXAS. Citizens Lynch un Accused Negro U raffor. Allen Brooks, a negro charged with assaulting a 3-year-old white girl last week, was lynched at Dallas. Tex., Thursday by a mob of 5,000 men. At noon all the available militia men, extra polite and firemen were ordered to the Jail. The mayor issued an order closing all saloons. A num ber of negroes participated in the lyncnlng of Brooks. Brooks was in the court room awaiting trial when the mob surged past the officers on guard and threw the negro from the second story win dow, breaking his neck. A rope was then placed around the man's neck and the body dragged down Main street ten blocks to the Elks arch, where it was strung up. The police succeeded in preventing the body of the negro being burned. When the nttaek was made the militia and ex tra police were ordered out, but be fore they could reach the scene the mob had seized the negro. Following the lynching the mob marched to the jail and it wasfeared It intended to lynch two other negro murderers Burrell Oates and Sol Aranoff. The mob endeavored to bat ter down the Jail doors with heavy railroad ties. The officers tried to pacify the mob by assuring It that both of the negroes had been taken to Fort Worth. In an effort to disperse the mob the fire department threw streams of wa ter on its members, who immediately attacked the firemen and threatened to lynch them. The firemen, fearl:ig violence, rolled up their hose and li lt the scene. Star Witness KmN Lire. Walter Paifcn, 50 years old, who was expected to bo the t hief witness for the state in the prosecution of former county commissioners, Indicted at Til'tln, ., recently for alleged graft ing, committed suicide Thursday. Sioux City Live Stock Market. Thursday's quotations on the Sioux City livo stock market follow: Top beeves, $6.00. Top hogs," $9.70. British Army l"..-tli:iatcs. The British army estimates for 1910-11, issued Thursday, show a to tal for maintenance of $ 1 38, 00,000. This Is an Inert use over the estimates of the preceding year of $1,6 25,000. Tariff Kates for Austria. President Taft Friday issued a proc lamation extending to Austria-Hungary the minimum tar' ft rates of the I'ayne-Aldrlch tariff act TO IMPKOVK THE nssocni. Dakota And Nebraska Member to Seek Fluids. S. Waters Fox, a civil engineer of Kansas City, testified before the senate committee rtn commerce Wednesdny that It Is entirely feasible to mantaln a four-foot channel In the Missouri river Trom Fort Benton to Sioux City, t six foot channel from Stoux City to Kansas City and a 12-font channel from Kansas City to St. Louis. He declared the Missouri river erodes thirteen acres of land per mile every year from Sioux City to St. Louis, but that much of this erosion could be avoided by a proposed improvement of the river. Mr. Fox was in the gov ernment service on the Missouri river 25 years. Members of the Dakota and Ne braska delegations are planning to go before the senate commerce commit tee and make a strong argument for an appropriation at this session to Im prove the upper Missouri. Senator MeCumber, of North Dakota, has in troduced an amendment he will pro pose to the rivers and harbors bill for a new survey of the Missouri from Sioux City to Fort Benton. TO (JIVE HIS WEALTH AWAY. Rockefeller to Distribute Great For tune. Steps were taken Wednesday to In corporate the Rockefeller foundation In the District of Columbia. The bill for this purpose was Introduced by Senator Gallinger, and was referred to the committee on Judiciary. The purpose of the foundation Is to provide for a general organization to conduct philanthropic work along all lines. It is understood tho founda tion will be endowed by John D. Rockefeller, and that he takes this means to dispose of a large part of his wealth. The incorporators named In the bill, John D. Rockefeller, John D. Rocke feller Jr., Fred T. Gates, Starr R. Mur phy and Charles O. Heydt, are author ized to select associates, not to exceed a total of twenty-five, and it is provid ed that there shall not be at any time less than five. The Rockefeller foundation, accord ing to the bill, is organized to promote the well being and advance the civil ization of the people of the United States and its possessions in foreign lands and for the acquisition of and dissemination of knowledge; for the prevention and relief of suffering and promotion of any and all of the ele mentis of human knowledge. WRECKAGE IS FOUND. Evidence of Sea Tragedy on the Ta cillc Coast. That the portion of a small boat with some sail and oars, which has been found near Carmahan light by Indians, may be a relic of tho wreck of the schooner Susie II. Plummer is the opinion of Seattle shipping men familiar with the way evidence of sea tragedies is cast up on the Vancouver island coast. The Plummer left Everett December 5 for San Pedro, and on December 2 was sighted by the steamer Minnesota, waterlogged and a derelict. It is pre sumed that the crew left the stricken ship in the small boat. Cars Collide In For. Running at a high rate of speed In a dense fog, two trolley cars collided head-on In Springfield O., Wednesday and the two motormen, Joseph Aaror. and George Sherman, were fatally in Jured. The passengers, although shock ed, escaped serious injury. Franco Sends Soldiers. Fifty republican guards and ten sub-officers were dispatched by the French government from St. Nazaire to Guadeloupe Wednesday. They will be used in restoring the peace that has been disturbed by the strike of sugar cane cutters. Vote for Two Battleships. The house committee on naval at falrs Wednesday voted for tho con struction of two battleships, one repair ship, two fleet colliers and four sub marines. Bryan at Buenos Ay res. William J. Bryan has arrived at Buenos Ayres. lie was received by President Alcorta Friday, Minister Hherrell making the presentation. Reyes' Itoliiatlon Accepted. Tho state congress of the state of Nuevo Leon, Mex., has finally accepted the resignation of (Jen. Barnardo Reyes as constitutional governor of that state, which has been forwarded to Paris, France, where the general Is now living. Daniel Henley, of CI lira no. Dead. Daniel D. Ilcaley, who had been losely identified with republican pol Itics in Cook county, 111., for tho last twenty-five, years, tl led at bis home in Chicago Friday, ile had held several Important county positions. New Ruler for Brazil. Marshall Hermes Fonseca, the for mer minister of war, has been elected president of Brazil over the opposition candidate, Dr. Buy Barbosa, ex-presl-dent of the senate. Ilocf Trust Hearing Adjourned, The federal grand jury which has Oeen Investigating the altered "beef trust" held a session In Chicago Wed nesday t lasting only a few minutes, and then adjourned to March 14. IllRIED FNDFH SNOW. Great Northern Ttralns lilt bj a Huge Slide. Twenty-three persons are known to he dead, 25 ore missing and a score nra injured as a result of the avalancho which swept down the mountainside above Wellington, Wash., at the west portal of the Cascade tunnel ealy Tuesday morning. The avalancho brushed two Great Northern trains one the .westbound Spokane express and the other an overland mail train, off tho narrow ledgo of tho high line, hurling them to the bottom of the can yon 200 feet below; Coupled to the Spokane express was Superintendent J. H. O'Neill's private car. "This was carried over the preci pice with the rest of the train, Three locomotives, four powerful electric motors used to haul trains through the Cascade tunnel, tho depot at Wel lington and tho water tank were also carried over und buried under tons of debris. Most of the dead are believed to have been passengers on the west bound Great Northern express bound from Spokane to Seattle, which has been stalled in the mountains since last Thursday. They were asleep when the slide came, The other train was the transconti nental fast mall wh'ch carried no pas sengers. Twenty bodies have been re covered, 15 or twenty are Injured, and 25 are missing. The two trains were in charge of Conductors Parzybook and Pettit. both of Everett The fate of the train crews Is not known. The prlvato car of Superintendent O'Neill, of the western division of the Great Northern, was attached to tho express and buried with the rest of the train. It Is feared A. E. Longcoy. private secretary to Superintendent O'Neill, Is among the dead. O'Neill, who has been directing the fight agains the snow blockades for the last ten days, was not 'n the car at the time and escaped injury. ROMANCE KNDS IN TRAGEDY. Man Ssloots Ills Sweetheart and Kills Seir. A romance which began years ago in the little town of Dillonvllle, O., ended in Chicago Tuesday in a suicide and probable murder. Frank Marsh. 27 years old, who is said to be a member of a prominent Ohio family. aftr probably fatally wounding Grace Hall, shot himself and was found dead In the apartments of tho young woman at 2222 Wabash avenue. The couple arc' said to have been sweethearts in Dillonvllle. The young woman left the town and after a long search Marsh Is said to have found her in Chicago Monday evening. In her periods of consciousness at a hes pltal the woman said Marsh entreated her to marry him and return to their former home. On her refusal, she. de clares, he shot her and himself. Tho woman so'd she had married since leaving Dillonvllle, and that she has a child several years old. Charged with Manslaughter. John T. Moughan, the Btate trooper Who on Saturday last at South Bethle hem, Pa., shot and killed Joseph Szambo, the Hungarian striker, at tho Bethlehem steel works, was arraigned In Easton, Pa., Tuesday and gave ball amounting to $5,000 on a charge of manslaughter. Gamble's Bill Approved. , Senator Gamble has obtained a fa vorable report from the senate com mittee on Indian affairs on his bill restoring annuities to the Santee Sioux Indians, who were denied government funds on account of participating in tho Minnesota massacre of 1862. One Killed In Mine. William Douglas, engineer of tho McAlester Coal Mining company at Buck, Okla., was killed and Paul Thinckher and Case Manual, miners, were badly Injured Tuesday when a cage "n which they were riding drop, ped to the bottom of the mine Bhaft. Taxlcah Company Falls. The Chicago Taxicab company, cap italized at $500,000 and owners of about 100 taxlcabs, Was placed in tho hands of a receiver Monday. It was announced the mpany would con tinue to do business and all obliga tions would be paid in full. Taft's Itrother-in-Liiw Chosen. Trof. Louis J. More, brother-in-law of President Taft, was Tuesday elect ed dean of the college of liberal arts in tho University of Cincinnati. Prof. More was professor of physics in the University preceding his election Tuesday. After a fcpirltcd debute the bill per mitting women to vote at municipal elections in Baltimore was killed in the house Tuesday, 67 to 21. This ac tion, it Is believed, m a!s adversely the fate of the other pending bill grant ing women state wide suffrage. Grand Forks, N. 1)., Tuesday reject ed the commission plan of government by a majority of 49 In a total voto of 967. Y. M. C. A. Building Burns. Tho ruliroad Y. M. C. A. building et Rotterdam Junction, N. Y., belonging to the Boston and Maine; railroad, was destroyed by fire Tuesday. Three em ployes of the road perished. Meets French President. President Fallleres received Charles W. Fairbanks at the F-lysee palaco in Purls Monday. Ambussudoi1 Bacon uri'ented the former vice president. Nebraska tST Week A mi Form State News RECORD SEASON Or' BVILDING. New Hotel lit Hastings to Cost $100, 000 Other Buildings. Building operations in Hastings will be conducted on an extensive scale during the present year. A large amount of structural work is already planned or under way and there Is prospect of much more being started in the spring. Probably the amount of money expended there for building this year will exceed that of any like period for tho last decade. The new hotel, which will cost be tween $100,000 and $125,000, Is prac tically a certainty. Over $50,000 hns been raised by popular subscription and It Is believed the remainder will soon be forthcoming. The Blackman & Fuller wholesale grocery firm hns arranged for tho construction of a large warehouse. Stephen Schultz will erect a building for the farm im plement and automobile business and the Hastings Foundry and Iron Works Is building an establishment, which when equipped, will represent an In vestment of approximately $100,000. The Masons of Hastings will spend about $20,000 for reconstructing and refurnishing the local temple. Tho Dominican sisters of the Cath olic church will spend about $15,000 to complete the' repair and improve ment of their academy building. This structure, built many years ago at a cost of about $80,000, was purchased last year by the citizens of Hastings for $8,000 and transferred to the sis ters. The sisters spent $10,000 to make a little less than half of the building serviceable, and they are now planning to reclaim the entire struc ture. The Christian church is planning a new building to cost about $25,000. The city is adding new machinery to its lighting plant that will cost, in stalled, about $25,000, and an election will be held next Monday to authorize Intersection paving bonus in the sum of $50,000. A district has been creat ed in which the intersection paving will cost, aprnoxVniltely, $9,000, and others are in process of formation. THREE CHILDREN DEAD. Many Schools Are Closed by Scarlet Fever Epidemic at Kaerucy. The scarlet fever epidemic In Buffa lo county still continues to spread, and there seems to bo no limit as to where the disease may stop. Tho Kearney Military academy has been under quarantine for some time past. One case hns been reported nt the dor mitory of the Nebraska state normal school; schools .all over Buffalo coun ty are closed and still the fever spreads. One family in Elm Creeii lost three children and three more are near death's door. The father of this unfortunate family, Joseph Grea briel, lies in the Kearney public hos pital, with his life , hanging by a thread, suffering from an attack of pneumonia contracted while attending the funeral of one of his babies in a bleak cemetery near'Elm Creek. The disease seems to have flourished more In the rural districts thnn in Kearney, there being only two or three cases within the city limits. The case ut the dormitory of the normal is well guarded and there la little chance of it spreading among the students. Footless Murderer Slay Recover. Arthur Anderson, the negro Who killed Arthur Newell, a white orphan boy two weeks ago at Hastings, Is win ning out in his game fight against odds for recovery from the amputation of both feet. llo was exposed seventy hours In temperature close to zero and when captured his feet were frozen hard. For several days following tho operation his recovery seemed Impos sible. Charged with Stealing Comb. The case in the district court at Kearney of the state of Nebraska against John Doe, a young man ac cused of breaking Into the palmer hotel at Ravenna and stealing a hair brush and comb, was dismissed. The evidence submitted was too circum stantial to secure conviction. Fireman Hurled from Train. R. L. Pardue, fireman, on an extra Burlington freight passing through Yutan, while under a delusion Jumped from the moving train, badly spindl ing one ankle and sustaining a couple of deep gashes on Ills leg and one on his cheek. Mrs. Susanna S. Fentress, who was tho oldest person In Polk county, died ut Osceola Tuesday at the age of D years und 3 months. Her death oc curred on tho anniversary of that of her husband sixteen years ago. Fremont Digs I'p Cash. Fremont has the money In sight for a bull team and Manager Gilbert Pal mer telephoned President Sievcrs -of the fctnto league, that tho forfeit of $500 would be furnished In a few days. City Hull Bonds Curry. Fifteen thousand dollar bonds for the new city hall were curried nt Co lumbus Tuesday at a special election by a vote of 698 for to 78 agulrutt. CONDICTOU SHOT AND ROBBED. Ioldup Seriously Wounds Railroad Man nt Lincoln. II. C. Johnson, a Burlington con ductor returning home In Lincoln af ter completing his run, was held up as he crossed a viaduct, and when he re sisted was shot twice by his assailant, ono bullet entering tho neck, the other his right forearm. Tho robber then grabbed Johnson't grip and ran away. Tho holdup occurred within fifty feet of the Western hotel, where the wounded man was taken, rhyslclans who attended Johnson were unable to predict tho outcome of his injuries. CONDITION IS WORSE. Long Exposure May Prove Fatal tc Frank Goodwin. The condition of Frank Goodwin Is not encouraging, according to reports from h's home near Hastings. Good win is the young man who two weeks ago crawled half a mile over a frozen prairie to a straw stack after having his right hip dislocated by a hayrack falling upon him. For a time his pros pects for recovery were bright but pleuro-pncumonla has developed as a result from his long exposure. Gordon Wins Oratorical Contest. The Gordon and Rushvllle high schools clashed In debate at Gordon on the leaguo subject: "Resolved, That Labor Unions Are, on the Whole, Bene ficial." Gordon High school, repre sented by Helen Jacobson, Ross Rash and Hazel Reynolds, supporting the affirmative, won first place. Qordoif high school will now debate with the winner of the Crawfof d-Chadron de bate, which will occur next week. Raising; Funds for Monument. A move is on foot and a sum ha been rained at Nebraska City for the purpose of erecting a monument over the grave of Charles W. Tierce, who was one of the earliest settlers in this state. He en me here in 184 8 as a ur veyor and laid out the greater torlloti of the southern and eastern part of the state, and remained there up to the time of his death, last year. Wants to Prevent SMonlng. Before the Fremont city council City Superintendent Waterhouse filed a pe tition for the placing of arc lamps above tho steps of each of the seven school buildings. Tho superintendent asks for fifteen lumps onMhe theory that young peoplo use the school house steps as places for spooning and ho objects to it, as being of doubtful propriety. The arc lamps he says will prove tho remedy. Oratory at Hurvard. Twelve contestants were entered In the Harvard high school declamatory contest, which was held Friday even Ing. The Judges gave first place to Agnes Johnson, who recited "Uncle Daniel and the Steamboat;" second place 4o Ruth Stein, who rendered "So Was I," and third place to Sewall Townsend, who gave "Centralization In the United States." Will Test School I .aw. The county superintendent of Buffa lo county has filed a complaint against William Nutter, of Kearney, for de taining his 14-year-old daughter, Inez Nutter, from attending public school. The action Is brought ngalnst Nutter to test the compulsory school law In this section and should the county win other cases will be filed Immediately, Water Power Plans at Wymore. A citizen of Wymore states that he will Invest $10,000 In a water power plant If he can be shown that that sum will bo all that is necessary. A sur vey of tho Blue river will bo made at once, and plans and estimates made. It is thought that a dam can be built at a point a few miles below the town at a very small cost. Two Welcome Arches. The Commercial club at Lincoln It figuring on the construction of two electric arches across the main street of the city with which to welcome visiting delegations to conventions. It Is proposed to erect one across P street at the corner of the federal stjuare and the other across O street ut a place yet to be designated. Nearly 101 Years Old. Mrs. Dor.i Rarstlck, of West Point, one of tli ti oble.vt women In Nebraska, will celebrate her one hundred and fii'dt birthday In about a fortnight. She attends church regularly, visits her relatives and is in full possession of her physical powers und mental fac ulties. Trenton Loses to McCook. Tho debuting teams of the McCook und Trenton high schools held their debate, at Trenton. Tho question, "Resolved, That Labor Unions are, on tho Whole, Beneficial," was affirmed by Trenton und denied by McCook. The McCook team won the debate. Wymore Wants iood I loads. Tho Wymore boosters' club is enter ing an active campaign for good roads In the south half of the county HUNDHEDS LOSE LIVES Ifl IDAHO AVALANCHE Burke and Mare Are Overwhelmed by Huge Masses That Slide Down Mountain. FAMILIES T2APP2D 13 CLEEP Enowslides That Destroy Propcrtj and People Started by Chinook Winds and Warm Bains. Sixty Uvea have been lost, It la fear ed, in two great snowslldes which brought dismay to the .mining towns ot the rich Coeur d'Alene district in Northern Idaho. At 10:33 o'clock the other night a snowsllde swept down the mountain, striking the Mttle town of Mace and burying twenty five houses and their sleeping occupants in a mass ot snow and Ice at the bottom of the canyon. At 5:30 a. in. the next day, another slide rushed down on the town of Burke, crushing a score ot houses under thousands of tens of earth and snow. There Is fear that the number ot dead at Burke may be eVen larger than that at Mace. Decause ot the larger population of Burke, about 900, the houses were closer together. Mothers hauled their children to the side hills; brothers dragged little sis ters to places of safety, and when the slide struck many ot the homes were deserted by fear-stricken women and children, while the bread providers were rescuing Injured at the stricken sister town. , Old-timers In the Coeur d'Alene dis trict had been sounding dally warning to .Mace, Durke and Black Bear that because of the record depth of the now, slides were Imminent. For six teen winters these towns have cs caped devastating slides and so strong had the confidence of the miner resi dents been that their homes and fami lies were safe that no precautions hid been taken. The little .mining town of Mace lies between precipitous mountain sides, a straggling line of cottages in the creek bottoms, bisected by the lines of the Northern Pacific and Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company. Its one In dustry !s mining and Its big mine is the Standard. With scarce a dividing line perceptible the towns of Black Bear, Gem, Mace and Burke form a long string of houses for six miles. Mace Is divided into two parti, known as Upper and Lower Mace, re spectively. The catastrophe occurred In Lower Mace, where dwelt about 300 miners employed In the Standard mines. Most of these men were unmar ried and lived in the Hotel Standard. Reports are that this hotel was In tho path of the avalanche. ( Though first reporta of the disaster were that the town of Gem, Idaho, a mile above Mace on the same side of the canyon, had been overwhelmed, later news Indicates that the town ej caped. The slide was half a mile long and thirty feet deep. Thlrty-flve Italians, sleeping In in outfit car on the Northern Pacific sid ing, who were swept away with lujlr car in the bottom of the canyon, used the tools in their car to dig themselves out. Chinook winds and warm rains start ed the Burke snowsllde, which Increas ed in velocity with every foot, down the mountain until It gained such headway and force that only blinding mist and a roaring warned the score of families of miners of Its approach. Surface trams were crushed and twist ed and cabins were ground to atoms. $200,000 BONDS ON $720 PLANT. IlllnoUnn'a Suit In Indiana Iteveala tiaa Company's lloldluira. The suit of D. E. Brooks, of Illinois, to prevent the disposal of land which he deeded In connection with the pur chase of $75,000 of bonds issued by the Itushvllle Gas. Heat nnrt Water Company, litis developed some sensa tional racts in respect to that corpora tion. It has been found that the total holdings of the company are worth not to exceed I'O, yet on the nlant of this alleged value it Issued $1'00,000 of bonds und sold $75,000 of the ls3uo to Brooks, taking In exchange real estate in Chicago und some farm land tn Illinois. The corporation was formed with Owen L. Carr as president and r red Carroll and John and Henrv Wal- ters as directors. Bonds were issued and a mortgage covering the $720 gas plant in favor of tho Farmers' Bank of Rushvllle for $100,000 was made. The farmers Bank become merely the pny- er of the interest. Brooks hnmrht $75,000 of these bond on the Fupposl- Hon that the bank was tho trustee. He now wnnts the court to prevent th ale of the property lie traded. FIND EDUCATOR POISONED. tryckulue la Illaouvcrrd n the Stomach of I'rof. Ynuirhn. Poison was found In the stomach and liver of Prof. J. T. Vaughn, edu cator and author, in an analysis mada by Dr. Paul Schweitzer ofthe Univer sity of Missouri. Strychnine was lo cated in the amount of nearly one grain. Tho grand Jury of Adair Coun ty, according to a long-distance tele phone message, will immediately take up the case and indictments are ex pected. Mrs. Vaughn Is related to sev ral of the wealthiest families In Nortfc Missouri, as was ber husband. tl FACKEKS ARE INDICTED. Elx Leading- Companies Also in Net of Grand Jury. Twenty-one officials of the so-cal'.ed meat trust and six of the leading pack ing companies of the country were in dicted by the Hudson County grand Jury in Jersey City. The indictments are the outcome of the exhaustive in vestigation which the grand jury haa conducted for the last month into an alleged conspiracy to maintain the prices of food at an exorbitant figure. The men Indicted are the leaders in tho business coterie that controls the country's output of meat. Some of them are many times millionaires and men whoso names are known through out the world. For the most part they are residents of Chicago, the center ot the meat packing industry of the United States. The indicted men are: J. Ogden Armour J. Watson Ar mour Arthur Meeker ndward Morris Louis F. Swift F.dwnrd F. Swift Kdward Tlldon L. A. Carton Thomas Wilson, Tho. J. Connors F. A. Fowler Charles H. Swift L. 11. Heyman J. E. Bathgate, J Oeo. J. Edwards F. B. Cooper D. E. Hartwell Ira N. Morris II. B. Darlington I C. Patterson A. A. Fuller The companies indicted are: National Packing Hammond Pack Company ing Company Armour & Co. O. H. Hammond Swift & Co, Company Morris & Co. The indictments charge the packers with 'willfully, unlawfully and feloni ously devising, contriving and Intend ing for their own excessive, Immoral and unlawful profit and gain, to In jure, defraud, prejudice, damage and oppress the public and people of said city and said county ot Hudson." Ev idences of conspiracy are mentioned In the Indictment to the effect that tha defendants agreed upon their unjust and extortionate prices and purposely restricted the supply so that only a limited amount could reach the estab lishments in Jersey City. There were witnesses before the Inquisitors, It was learned, who testified that ther was a systematic method by means of which each company was to send ast only a limited number of can. EIGHTY IN PERIL ON FLYEB. Twentieth Century Limited, Bound to Chicago, Derailed. For a reason not let determined, the west-bcund Twentieth Century limited on thu Lake Shore Railroad waa de railed at-OlnistorlfB'alls, 20 miles west of Cleveland, the other day. The train waa running at a speed of sixty miles an hour. Two or three passengers whose names have not yet been learn ed were only slightly injured. Th train was running as a double-header and had a straight track. All the -leven cars were derailed, but were not thrown mora ttufTi a few inches from tho tracks. Neither locomotive was de railed. Five hundred or 600 feet of track Was torn up. There were prob ably eighty passengers aboard tha train, which was due in Chicago at 9:30 a. m. A second train was made up at Cleveland and sent to the scene of the wreck. The passengers were taken aboard this train and sent to their destination. ASQUITH IS HELD IN COMMONS. Flrat Trial uf Strength oo Chamber, laln'a l'Ueal Amendment. The first trial of strength in th new English House of Commons oc curred the other night at a crowded session when Austen Chamberlain's fiscal amendment was rejected by a vote of 2Sj to 254. Speeches wera made by Mr. Balfour, leader of the opposition; Chancellor Lord George and others. The government may re gard the majority of thirty-one as satisfactory, aa there was no cross voting and no evidence that the dis contented groups intend to try to over throw the ministry. All the nation alists. O'Brlenltes as well as Ued mondltes and three liberals abstained from voting. The laborites voted with, the government. GIRL CAPTURES TWO ROBBERS, fees Them nob Father, Chaaea Iloth mid Alda In Arreata. To the courage of Carrie Montgom ery, 17 years old, Is due the captura of two highwaymen who had assaulted her father, Joseph, and robbed him of G0. From the window of her home on the outskirts of Kansas City Miss Montgomery saw her futher struck Jown. Rushing out, she pursued the ebbers. One highwayman turned and ,'elled her with a blow. She was threat ned with ibath if she persisted In following. Undaunted, the girl re lumed tho chnso until detectives, who tad been notified by neighbors of tha Montgomerys, took up the pursuit and raplured the men. CANKER 13 SAVED FROM PRISON. Uiuuexota Court Slvvokea Drew's Sentence und Orrtora New Trial. Tho Minnesota Supreme Court set nsldo tho conviction of A. Z. Drew, former president of the failed Bank of Humline. Tho conviction was secured on a charga of accepting deposits nftcr the bank was insolvent. The court revokes the sentence of two years' im prisonment and orders a new trial be cause of error In the lower court. Drew has been out on bail. The bank, which failed Jan. 15, 190S, was a email State institution. SIOO.OOU Plant Burns. The pattern storehouse of tha Minna- Qua plant ot the Colorado Fuel an! iron company waa destroyed by Are. Tha loss Is $1,000,000.