DAKOTA uQHJNJLSf mimjlo
MOTTO All The ffnri TTbcn It Ii Newt.
State Historical Society
VOLUMK XV 111
DAKOTA CITY, NKB., FllIDAY, SKPTK3IHKII 24. 11)09.
NUMBER 4
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SUMMARY OF THE NEWS OF
THE WHOLE WORLD.
BIO INDICTMENT OUT
MvlltAY AN l XI OTIIKltH II KM)
1Y KKIIKKAL Jl'HY.
Name Are Kept Sex-rct Well Known
Persons Said to lie In the lilst
Several of Tliom I ow n Men Con
splruoy In Dcfruu.l.
Jamos C. Maybrry and 84 alleged
associates were Thursday Indicted by
the United States grand jury at Con
cil Iiluffs fur the southern district oi
Iowa, charged with "(inspiring to de
fraud by Illegal use of the United
States mails. With the exception of
Maybrny and three or four others,
none of thoso indicted are In custody,
and for that reason the names of the
defendants were not made public. It
was stated, however, that the list in
cludes many persons known In crim
inal annals In nil parts of the country.
Although specific Items are not men
tioned In the Indictment, it is author
itatively stated that the amounts lost
by the alleged victims of Maybray and
others named will exceed half a mill
ion dollars.
This indictment, covering 27 type
written pages, Is the most formidable
document ever returned by a federal
grand Jury in the west. It Is said to
be based largely upon letters written
and mailed In Council P.luffs to pros
pective victims of the alleged syndi
cate, and on what transpired later in
that city. The men named in the in
dictment have not been made public,
but It Ik said that arrests will follow
rapidly. It is common report that
several Iowa men, including one or
two in Council Muffs, are named In
the bill. The charge Is conspiracy to
defraud anil misuse of the United
States mails.
a.DOd uvi:s LOST.
Idlest KMimale Placed on .Mexican
f- Mood Victim.
Gen. Trevino, military commander
of the district of northern Mexico, who
has directed the distribution of aid
through the section swept by the re
cent Hood, estimates the number of
lives lost f 3.00H. Two thousand bod
ies were recovered between Monterey
and Tarnplco. Gen. Trevino states ev
ery vestage of cultivation and the
homes and stores of the inhabitants
have been washed away and there Is
still great need of outside aid.
The property loss Is placed In the
millions.
KOlM) ;tll.TY OK GRAKTIXG.
Id Mci'ann. Chicago Police Inspector,
on leted.
i'oliee Inspector Kdward McCann,
hwRed with "grafting," was found
uilty by u jury at Chicago Thursday.
iiwitn? to the importance of the case
uards were on duty outside the Jury
"in -till night.
Sentence was not pronounced, and
i!! not be until after the hearing ol
:-j;uiuents for a new trial. The law
'. ill ' an Indeterminate sentence i
Girl 1 oil lid ;:t,cil.
duiiyman early Fild.'.y found a
i. ::i gagged and bound l.ing in a va
'ant lot in Avondale. a fashionable
residence section of Cincinnati. O. lit
notified the polii and the girl, uncon
scious, was sent to a hospital. She va
almost suffocated, but revived suffi
ciently to give her name as Acne?
Steiner.
Vhot While Necking Freedom.
Nineteen prisoners attempted to es
cape from the Jail at Osh. Asiatic Rus
sia, jail Friday. While walking out
for exercise they attacked their ward
ers, wounding live, and then made
i break for liberty. A military guard
fired on the fleeing men. Nine wen
killed, nine others wounded and one
got away.
Auto Turns Turtle.
Charles W. Ulodgett, of Chicago, a
raveling salesman, was killed, Albert
Westerberg was fatally Injured and
Oscar Johnson, Ernest Christians, m
and Fr?d Dengston were hurt Thurs
day night when an automobile in
which they were returning from Pel
vldere, III., turned turtle.
Girl's Ilody In River.
Mystery surrounds the finding of tin
body of Kate. Patten, aged 2 2, a shoe
factory employe, In the Ohio river at
Portsmouth, O:, Friday.
Sioux City Live Stock Market.
Thursday's quotations on the Si , us
My live -tuck market fillow: Top
I .. v. s. J VIM). Top hog.-, Js.20.
Riot Stories Denied.
An investigation i.f the ''reumsiaii
tiul und sensational reports circulated
in America for the last two days that
t!i"re had been fatal aim-Je w ish riot
ing st Kiev. Russia, lust week, shows
that the rumors lack t onrirmatlon.
Hundred Perish in Syria.
Torrential ruins have enuseil tht
ioss of 100 lives and the destruction
of GOO houses at Horns, a town of
northern Syria
RIOTS ON AT OMAHA.
Several Arc, Hurt and Cars Partnlly
Wrtckcil.
Klftht strike-breakers were Injured,
one of them perhaps fatal'y. and John
t'etrlcek, n bystander, was shot
through the nip and clc.ht cars were
partally demolished ns the result of
riots which occurred after d.irk Wed
nesday nlrrht In connection with the
street car strike which began In Oma
ha Inst Saturday.
The first riot call came from the
L'ar barn at Twenty-fourth and Vin
ton streets just before 8 o'clock. A
car was just being switched Into the
barn, when It was partially derailed by
a partly opened switch A number of
persons who were standing around be
gan Jeering the crew of the car and
a largecrowd soon gathered. Two other
cars came tip and a blockade followed.
A new building In the course of con
struction furnished ammunition for
strike sympathizers, and within a very
short time every window and door
in the cars had been broken with
bricks and stones.
Two hundred non-union carmen ar
rived In Omaha Wednesday from New
York. This makes the force of im
ported men 507, according to Assistant
General Munager Icnssler, with nearly
I'OO old men who did not go out.
Little progress seems to have been
made In the efforts to settle the strike
which has for the last four days seri
ously crippled the service in the city
and Council Bluffs. More cars were
run Wednesday than heretofore and
the company announces that a full
force of men has now been secured
and normal service will be resumed.
SIX l'KKSONS MI KDKIUID.
Kntire Kumtly Wlpi-d Out by Robbers
in Hurley, Vu.
Ah entire family of six persons was
murdered and the bodies of all but
one of the victims were burnad at their
home at Hurley. Kuchanan county,
Vu., early Thursday. The motive ev
idently was robbery, ns the owner of
the house, an aged woman known ns
"Aunt Betty" Justice, was supposed
to keep a large sum of money about
the place.
Mrs. Justice, her son-in-law, George
Meadows, his wife and three children
were the victims.
lilood hounds were rushed to the
scene and In a short time they took up
the trail of the supposed murderers
in a cornfield which adjoined the
home. The footprints of three men
were found Impressed in the soft soil
KAITIUX'Ia ONLY. TO TRIUMPH.
ttliodc Island Religious Zealots Await
a Coining Cataclysm.
True to their belief vhat a great up
heaval Is ubout to occur, whereby the
top crust of the earth will peel off
carrying the wicked to destruction and
leaving the " elect" in undisputed pos
session of the world, several Rhode
Island families belonging to the sect
known as the Latter Reign of the
Apostolic church ha ,-e gone to Dux
burv. Mass.. an appointed place, to
wult for the cataclysm.
The time set for the triumph of the
faithful Is Friday. September 24. at
10 a. m, Leaders of the sect through
out the country are now at Duxbury
Many of them heve disposed of all
their worldly goods and abandoned
heir occupations.
Three Heads Cut Off.
Three men. Rerruyer, David and
Liottard, were guillotined at Valence
Drome, France, at daybreak for a se
ries of atrocious crimes in the depart
ment of Drome. They often tortured
their victims with red hot irons. A
preat crowd witnessed the executions
and appluuded wildly every time tin
knife fell.
"Mnj." Nutt Dead.
Itodnla Nutt, last male survivor o
the late P. T. Harnum famous midge
troupe, died at his home In Dorches
ter, Mass., Wednesday, aged 6U years
Since his retirement nineteen years
ago, "Maj." Nutt, as he was known
had conducted a successful real estate
business.
Suffers a Broken Arm.
Mrs. Frank Hall, of Washington, D
C, who was accompanying her hus
band in the Munsey reliability run
from Washington to Uoston and re
turn, suffered a broken arm at Allen
town, Pa., Thursday when the ma
chine In which she was riding collided
with a telegraph pole.
Shot by Assassin.
George W. Summervllle, a proml
nent Minnesota lawyer and politician
was shot and perhaps fatally wounded
while sitting in his law office at Sleepy
Kye, Minn., Wednesdr;- by a man who
says his name Is John Hayner. Hay
ner was arrested.
Robbers Dyiiuinllc Safe.
Robbers entered the bank of Ames,
.uenty miles south' of Knld, Okla
Thursday, dynamited the safe, rltled
it of its contents and escaped. No
. itement as to the amount of money
e robbers secured has been give
ill by the bank officials.
Find Play Kuseri d.
Mystery surrounds the death o
Mrs. Emma Oberg, 81 years oh
whose charred body was found In tii
ashes of her home, five miles west o
Savonburg, Kan., early Thursday
WetM WurMcd by Hrys.
After a hard fight put up by th
"wets" In the local option election i
Staunton, Vu., on Juiy 22 last, the con
test was decided In favor of the
"drys," the latter winning by 22 votes,
GVLF SIOKSfsKYKHK.
Southern ConM 1'jist of Texan Hit by
T iiiH-st.
After attaining a velocity of 60 mlle
an hour at New Orleans at 7 o'clock
Monday night the West Indian hurri
cane which struck the Louisiana and
Mississippi gulf coast has been re
duced in Its Intensity. t left In its
wake four dead at New Orleans and
perhaps others along the pulf coast,
though no definite advices of mortal
ity In other sections have been thus
far received.
The property loss In New Orleans
will exceed $100,000 and many houses
were unroofed and frail buildings In
numerous Instances were partially de
stroyed. With all wires down It Is Im
possible to ascertain the loss of life
or property along the gulf coast.
Mobile was thoroughly alarmed
over the threatened cn-idillons caused
by the storm.
The wind Increased In velocity until
i gale of 40 mlle-i an hour was sweep
ing the city. The waters of Mobile bay
were backed up beyond Water street,
more than two blocks from the river
front.
Blowing steadily all day at a velocity
between 50 and 00 miles an hour, the
ind at Pensn;ola, Kin., Monday af
ternoon Increased to hurrlcnne speed.
Shortly before .dark the weather hu-
eau displayed the hurricane signals
and all vessels In the bay hurried to
shelter.
Residents of Woolsey and Warrlng-
on and all along the bay shorewest
of Tcnsacola came up to the city on
ars ami are housed In the hotels nnd
with friends, leavintr their homes to
the mercy of the elements. The tide h
higher than known for many years.
Heports are that the seas are breaking
over continually on Santa Rosa Island,
ut those who were at the Fummer ho.
1 there were brought to the city. Nn
loss of life has y t been reported.
LINK OF DIHIGIIILKS.
iermany Promises t Orgniil.c nit All
Xavlgat ion Company.
If present expectations are fulfilled.
Germay will have dirigible balloon.-!
and aeroplanes carrying passengers be
tween Iierlln and the principal cities
of the empire by May, 1910. The Air
Navigation company, which Is to per
form this service Is being actively
supported. Twenty financial institu
tions and men of wealth have bought
stock.
The company has arranged to buy
Zeppelin, Pnrsefal and Gross dirigible.
balloons, as well as some of th(
Wright aeroplunes.
SCALK SI(.NKI) HY UNION.
Pence Assured for Three Y'ears on Clii
curo Car Lines.
Peace for at least three years was
assured in the street car situation in
Chicago by the signing Monday by
union officials, representing the em
ployes of the Chicago Railways com
pany, which operates the north und
west side lines, of the wage scale of
fered by the street car officials. The
scale is practically the same as that
accepted a few days ago by employes
of the south side lines.
Material concessions are granted the
men.
CROWD THROWN INTO PANIC.
Kscnpoil Lcotard Attacks Child, Deal
ing Terrible Injuries.
A crowd of 30,000 persons was
thrown Into a panic when a leopard,
which was exhibited In St. Paul, Minn.,
Monday, broke from Its cage. The
animal nttacked Martin Martinson,
aged 4 years, and in the presence of
the boy's father tore the child's right
arm almost from its socket, and sev
ered one ear. The boy would have
been killed had not Charles Reustroir..
a blacksmith rushed from his shoj
and killed the beast with an ax.
Gntor In Nominated.
The first Independent body of cii
zens of Greater New York to nominate
a candidate for mayor for the ap
proaching municipal election selected
Monday night for this honor Supreme
Court Justice William J. Gaynor, of
I'.rooklyn.
Fire In Mcrldan, Miss.
Five dwelling houses and the plant
of the Merldan, Miss., Planing ami
Creosote mills burned and with a stiff
gale blowing the fire department made
slight progress against the spread of
the flames.
Collision of IlieyclcH.
A collision of bicycles Monday at
Rrldgeport, Conn., killed Victor Yazc
nar and seriously hurt John Downey,
brother of Tom Downey, shortstop of
the Cincinnati National league team.
Downey will recover.
Spaniards Advancing on Moors.
It Is officially announced that thn
Spanish troops at Melllla have com
menced their advance against the
Moors.
Illshop Ward Head.
nishop Seth Ward, of the Methodi.'
Kplscopal church, south, died at Tokln
Japan, Monday afternoon.
Pioneer I'liyslciun SiircuinlM.
Maj. Joseph K. Hume, a pioneer
Missouri physician, died In Kansas
City. Mo., Mouduy. aged 87 yeurs. lit.
served through the civil war in the
i'irst regiment, Missouri guards, rising
to the rank of major.
Gardner Defeats Inglisi.
The ere v of the battleship Minneso
ta, by defeating the crew of the Ver
inont Thursday, won the champion
Hhlp of the Atlantic Meet for cutter
rowing.
NEBRASKA STATE NEWS
c
News of the Week
in Concise Form
OMAHA SIRIkK COMINUKS.
Meeting or I'.inclpnls Held, hut No
Progress Made.
Although many more cars were run
on nil lines of the Mnaha and Council
HlufTs street railway Tuesday than on
any previous day since the strike be
gan, not an Instance has been report
ed of i r.y : ii:' ti.e Imported i lew.:
being interfered with. The cars have
not been very well patronized, either
because the public sympathizes with
the strikers or fears that violence may
develop.
At the request of Mayor Dahlnian,
Preslden Wattles and representatives
of tho street car men's union nu t with
the members of the city council to en
deavor to find a means of adjusting
the difficulties, but no progress was
made.
Tho representntl es of the men ask
ed for arbitration, but President Wat
tles declared that the company had
nothing to arbitrate.
The street car company Is insured
against any damage It may suffer
during the strike. President Wattles
says the general Indemnity insurance
policies carried by the company will
protect It in case f loss of property
as a result of the strike.
CLOUD1H KST IN ITKNAS COUNTY
Foreslyht of Conductor Saves Rurlinjr
ton Train from Wreck.
A veritable water spout fell In the
southwestern part of Furnas county
and at Stamford, In Harlan county,
last Saturday night. Tho rainfall was
at least eight Inches, coming in a lim
ited time. Stamford was flooded.
Store buildings were flooded to u
depth of a foot and cellars filled. On
the Rurllngton railroad there was
three washouts between Stamford and
Orleans. A'a easthound passenger train
escaped a wreck by the thoughtful
ness of Conductor Kniight, who walk
ed ahead of the engine for three miles,
where he found a blind washout. It
wa.s forty feet ncrosa and twenty feet
deep. The storm was accompanied
by a heavy fall of hall. Chickens,
rabbits and small pigs were killed by
tho hundreds. The bridge at the.
Stamford mills Is washed away. The
water was three feet deep In the prin
cipal streets of Stamford. It was the
worst storm ol its kind ever known
In the Heaver valley.
WILL ASK CARNKG1K FOR SL'M.
Oinalui Wants $.-.0,000 from Steel
Magnate for New liulldlng. f
Andrew Came gle will be asked to
jive $250,000 for a new publle libra
ry building In Omaha and then tho
present public library building will be
used for a free museum.
nils program was outlined by Pres
ident Haller, of the library board, to
the city council and that body Is agree
able. Instructions were riven the le
gal department to prepare an ordi
nance to be introduced, declaring it
expedient and necessary to vote bonds
In the sum of $75,000 to buy a site for
proposod new library building.
Methodist Conference.
The most important feature of the
business session of the Methodist con
ference at Lincoln Tuesday v.ns the
passing of a resolution to back up the
work of the anti-saloon league in Its
temperance campaign. It is known
that the league is to wage a vigor
ous campam-m in the coming elections
and will exert every inlluence to place
In the various ofllees men who are
known to stand upon the temperance
platform.
Coal Mine lit Peru.
The company In charge of the new
coal mine at Peru la now selling coal
In largo ipiaidltles at the mine. This
mine has been lea. cd to an experienced
coal miner, and the woik Is being
pushed. A new tunnel has been open
ed to the west of the old one, making
It possible to take out tin a I rap
Idly. Recount Is Denied.
Judge Hosteller dismissed the action
brought by Ira Wollve cgainst tho
Lexington school board, the demurrer
of the defendant being sustained. The
action was brought to compel a re
count of the votes in the recent school
board election, which e,
small .majority.
Aged Mlsf-I'inarj Cm
A paper Is belli); ii
friends of W. V. Set:, w
inied by a
ol' .lob.
c-.ilat. d
by
for about
fifteen yeais has been
Sunday school ml .!.. ..tiry
ern part of the state. t!m
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iig as .1
la
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"1 b.inu
lor the
. 1 1 1 1 y for
to provide idii ieet Inci.i
Old gentle. .Ill II to li e ollll
the next y ir.
Albion Man I: -.ippiiii's.
J. C. l!.it-.ford. a ies! lent ol Albion
for the past fifteen yeais. mysterious
ly dlsappeai ed and no tin"
has been found. lie v. ii h 1
ran a dinim; hall at lie Imr.
is suppo.-a I t.i h ' e i V . I'
than $400
Adjutant ' b-iii n ! " i: i i
LOS Apgel. .-, Wlii'l o I ) - i
a meeting of the Na'.'i mil '
nation.
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Is faiol y
v. Ir-i i' ho
not less
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CLAIMANT I OK F.STAT H.
Wife or Vilitisl Heir to Tcvuuisch
Property Appears,
Another claimant for the estate of
John Wii -..M a:ul wife, said to be val
ued :.t ah. .tit $30,000, has made her
appearance in ToctiMueh. John Wll-
: on und w it
f:.mi lee. e
ago. lie w
and fo; ye;,
him.
I'olh .Mr.
h.-.d it son who lan away
. a is youth, many yean
s his futher's namesake
s the aged couple sought
. a.,d Mis. Wilson died In
ulthin the ptist few years
H heving ace mipiishcd the
! if of tin !r lives, again
i eeu :i ,-eli
ami
w lib i
i
i one a ;
( to sc.. the
I heir . .- t.'
' should e'.a
the i'e;'t:i
I lia e hi en
n
The Wilsons left
ir i on. In caie he
:h.
;n il t
of t
a :.
thiiY'tive years. Since
e ( Id people there
;li' r "!' e'uimaats of
'in' has "made good."
man aged perhaps 45
the mote y,
A nice look I
or T.O jem-s eiiii" to Tecuniseh lust
week ami i'1'iiivi si-,. 1m the wife of
John Wi'mii, Jr., and that her husband
Is living, though she has not given bis
whereabouts, she said she would cm
ploy an atton i y and make her claim
for the Wilson fortune. Mrs. Wilson
claims to come from Texas.
IIO.MK IS llDI.Y MANAGED.
Hoard line's No Graft, but a Condi
tlon Not at All Desirable.
Members of the board of publle
lands and buildings went to Grand Isl
and, where they went to investigate
the charge ugalnst the commander,
Hll Harm s, preferred by Adjutant Jo
reph McGraw.
The board has not yet made its for
mal report, but it had been practically
.agreed that the report will be to the
effect that the home Is not UAhig con
ducted as It should be and that there
Is a lack of harmony among the em
ployes and consequently dlssehslon
among the members. Insofar as the
charges of graft is concerned the board
will report these charges were not sus
tained. SLl J AND HO!) KKARNKY MAN.
I'oiiml I'nctiiiscleiis with his Head on
Railroad Track.
Dick Heed, a younn' man, was found
lying with his hind on the main" line
I'hion Pacing track" In an unconscious
Ponditlrin' fienr the freight house at
Kearney. Doctors were cailed and re
storatives used. Reed told a story that
he had been slugged and robbed. The
bruises on bis In ad and the fact that
he was known to have considerable
money on h!s per.'on lend color to the
story, lie was able to give a meager
description of the men who did the
slugging. Reports are the suspeeta
have been arrested at Lexington.
Reed's condition Is not dangerous.
Did,:e County Paying. Roods.
County Treasurer Koell at Fremoni
paid off the l-sue of court house bonda
amounting to $2R,O00. The county
now has only $70,0ti0 of bonds out
standing. There Is about $55,000 In
the sinking fund to meet them and
the levy of this year will be sufficient
with this amount to take them up.
This will place the county out of debt
Riddiii;; for Indian Ijtinds,
The sale of Inherited Indian land
north of Walthlll has attracted more
attention than any sain for a number
of years. There are offered 3,500
acres and a large number of parties
interested outside of the reservation,
are bidders.
Aceiisi'd of Horse Stealing.
George Ihcwcr is in Jail at Valentin
He is charged with stealing five head
of horses from JuKan's ranch on the
Niobrara river. The horses aro being
held at Myannis. This Is the second
time this young man has been in the
Jail for horsestealing.
Wires Under Ground.
A movement hus been started to pui
the electric wires on O street, In Lin
coln, underground. The city Is tired
of seeing so many wires stretched
along this thoroughfare and the cru
sade has started for I ho removal of
wires and poles.
Omaha Street Car Strike.
The nmtoimen and conductors of
the Omaha and Council Hluffs Traction
company went out on a strike Hutur.
day. The trouble had not been ad
Justed Sunday night.
Stale l'.ils Hoods.
-date Treasurer Ihi.in has bough!
ol
of
Garl'.eM county bonds to the amount
$10. OHO, to net the state 4 4 per
cent.
The county Issued funding
Iiollds
I
l iinils fo- Y. M. .
The boosters for the new Lincoln Y,
M. C. Hul!dlng reported $20,000 col
lected the llrst day. The committee
expect to raise $ I on, una In ten days.
Money for
rlre Cuttle.
. . Secretin y Mcllor i
for $K23 from the An:
Itreeders association.
e.ived a chick
rieaii Shorthorn
ThlH represent
the amount the association gives In
premiums to the exhibitor at th Ne
J braska state fair.
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COS
PrtsiJent Ootlir.-s AlJrkh-l'ayne
Bill l:?st Which Hvcr Was
Pus si J by Congress.
ADIIITS IT HAS A FEW FAULTS
CHIms Revision Was Downward and
S.y3 Act rnl'l'.led Party ried
Favors Tostal Banks.
In h's ppceih at Winona, .Minn.,
President Talt stamped tlio Payne bill
"tho best tariff law the. Republican
party ever passed." In a 7,00()-word
speech he made a detailed defense of
the entire measure, vigoiously uphold
ing the action of Ucpr'-sei'tative Taw-
ney of Winona, w h j supported the bill,
ond ('eclnilng t'aa! had the bill been
deieated or had iie, Ta.'t, vetoed It, tho
Repul.llcan prtr.y would have been do
nmnili7..'d. the tariff agitation would
have caul limed. Im .iness w ould have
been stalled and p. o.-.pei !! y halted and
tho other piedi'.j ot the Republican
parly, tu carry out the policies of
Koosoj'lt, would luxe been Impossible
of redemption.
"All 1 In. ,o tu say," declared tho
President, "Is in rcspec, to Mr. Taw
ticy's action and my own In signing
tho bill. 1 believed that tin; interests
of the country, the interests of tho
party, required me to sacr'tlce tho ac
complishment of certain things In the
revibiou oi" the tariff which 1 had
hoped In order to maintain party soli
darity which 1 believe to bo much
more important than the reduction of
rates in one or more schedules ot the
tariff."
The one thing in the Payne law with
which the President Is not wholly
pleased Is the wool schedule, but he
declares that further revision of the
tariff by the present Congress cannot
be thought of. He suggests that the
bill he given a thorough trial for a
couple of years to tho end that Repub
licans may agree upon what is deBlra'
ble. He extols the creation of the
tariff commission, of which he an
nounces an Intention to make the
broadest use. He congratulates the
country ou the passago of the corpora
tion tax.
It was the most Important speech of
his present trip nnd enme directly In
the woke of a speech delivered at Mil
waukee during the afternoon in sup
port ot postal savings banks and
after several references . bad been
made by the President during the day
to the limitations of the powers ot
the chief executive, and his great de
pendency u lion tho House and Senate.
Speaking In Milwaukee on postal
savings banks, he said: "I uphold
the doctrine of postal savings banks,
because I believe they will till in this
country a long-felt want."
From carefully compiled statistics
which the President had culled from
the financial records of other nations,
ho showed that the United State is
the sola civilized tuition on earth that also intended to give full consl dera
ting neglected to provide the people , tlon to the character of the tariff Mil,
with this means of laying aside their'
humble savings. He showed that in
thirty-tw o States of the Pnlon the sav
ings bank Institutions are Inadequate
to meet the needs of the people; he
declared that, far from being a disad
vantage to our financial system, the
postal pavings banks would serve a
useful purpose, namely, to enable the
government to buy up, with the funds
that will thus come to hand, the $700,
0(10.000 of 2 per cent bonds that are
Just now distressing the treasury de-
pnrtment. The President pleaded for
postal savings banks as an induce
ment to poor people to Bavo.
FIGHT FOE THE PENNANTS.
Standing of Clulia In the Principal
Ilaae Hall l.caur.
NATIONAL UlAUUE.
W. L.
w.
.68
.47
.47
.39
Pittsburg 102
36 Phlladel'a
45 St. Louis
63 Brooklyn
68 Boston . ,
Chicago ...5)2
New York. 80
Cincinnati .70
AMtKICAN I.KAUUK.
W. L.
. .90 bl Cleveland
.87 53 New York
..82 f)9 St. LoulH .
..70 70 Wash'gton
Detroit ..
Phlladel'a
Boston . .
Chicago .
.68
74
73
80
.60
.39 102
ami:kicax association.
W. I..
w.
.77
.75
.74
.68
Milw'kee ..88
Loulsvlllee 88
Mlnn'polls .86
Ind'polls ..80
72 St. Paul ,
73 Columbus
73 Toledo . . ,
81 Kan. City
DYNAMITE MANAGER'S HOUSE.
Uaploalnn al Itealilrnrr ot Tin riant
Olllclal Oeeura Darin Strike.
The residence of Charles I. Gibson,
general manager of the Strutbers plant
of the American Sheet and Tin Plate
Company, near Youngutown, was dyna
mited Sunday. None of the occupants
Of tbe house was injured, but all were
thrown from their beds. A strike has
been in progress at the mill for sev
eral weeks, and Gibson has been ac
tive In efforts to reopen the plant un
der the open shop plan. Tbe escape ot
the family was remarkable. A large , walk on lli-M Hall Fatal.
brass shell, filled with dynamite and j Walking on the railing of the Pan
fitted with a cap and a fuse, was e- iher Hollow bridge In Scbenley Park,
ploded In a cellar window directly un- Pittsburg, on a bet, l.ugt Brazaleone,
der Mr. Gibson's room. The house age,i 40, lost his balance and fell t
was badly damager" fleatn lt)o feet below.
CHICAGO HOST TO TAFT.
Sreeta President with Eerie w, R
ceptlons, Mass-Meeting and Ball.
President William Howard Tafl
ipent Thursday as the guest of tha
people of Chicago, and was vastly
pleased at his reception. The popular
lone of It was what appealed to him
first, and most. Aside from that was
Its Infinite variety. Kverjr class and
condition of people had a share In It.
And the President hndn't a dull mla
ute. Consider how the pendulum
swung hack and forth:
Welcomed formally by Chicago's
lending citizens; welcomed Informally,
enthusastlcnlly and whole-heartedly,
by two hundred thousand whool chil
dren who formed a solid wall of war
ing color along twenty miles of
streets, and cave volte to one long-
Joyotm shout of greeting; ' received
next In the splendid Gold Room of the
Congress Hotel, and dined by the
wealth, brains and Industry of th
Empire City of the West at the Com
mercial Club luncheon; another swing
of the pendulum and ho was delving
Into art an interesting himself In tho
problems of the Chicago Beautiful;1
still another swing and, with silk hat
doffed for the more comfortable derby.
he Is seated In the midst of thirty
thousand baseball devotees the great
est "ran" of them all munching pea
nuts, clasping the hand of the mighty,
Chance and not even neglecting the
humble umpire; "stretching" with the
crowd at tho opening of the "lucky
seventh," sitting through the game till
the Inst man was retired; and then
yet another swing, and he is back
among the elect again at the Hamil
ton Club dinner;- then labor's turn,
and he has striking words of approval
and hope for organized labor. Finally
be Is received In society's waiting
arms for a few minutes at the bank
er's ball, and then the farewell and
Godspeed. Chicago set a pace which
It will be difficult for the forty other
cities that the President Is to visit to
keep up with.
President Taft swung the red signal
of danger in the evening and warned
the nation that to head off a revival
of old abuses It must stick to the
Roosevelt policies. Then he pledged
messages to Congress calling tor ac
tion to eradicate the evils and held
out promises of the needed reforms.
Before an enthusiastic audience that
filled Orchestra Hall he dwelt on the
danger of being blinded by prosperity
and of falling back into the old ruts
and returning to old evils and abuses
In the management ot corporations
and In business methods In general.
The warning followed a prophecy a
note of joyous optimism in which the
President declared that, with the tar
iff bill out of the way, confidence bad
returned to business and commerce
and that a period of expansion, of de
velopment, of tremendous growth was
ahead of the country.
The utterance was followed by an
enthusiastic demonstration, men and
women on the main floor and In the
galleries getting to their feet and wav
ing their handkerchiefs while they
shouted and cried their approval.
After the ovation had died down the
distinguished speaker stated that later
In his 13,000-mile tour he would dis
cuss at much greater length the ques
tions on which he had touched and
I Vi n f at antnn Diana I tt Vi 1 f, 1mimV tlA
which has been adopted and which
has been subjected to ftrltlclsm."
The reference to the Roosevelt poli
cies was almost the closing sentence
In the President's address, coming as
a climax to a stinging criticism of tbe
courts, in which Mr. Taft brought his
bearers to tbelr feet in another tu
mult of acclamation by declaring:
"The administration of criminal law
In this country is a disgrace tb our
civilization." He suggested remedies.
chief of which was tho idea of a corn-
mission to be provided for by Con
gress to look into the cause of the de
lays in the federal courts and to de
vise a system that would secure rapid
and inexpensive Justice to litigants in
he federal courts and that would
serve as a model to the States in re
forming their Judiciary systems. It
was a short speech, but filled with
pith. In point ot duration It was only
thirty-one minutes long, but every sen-
'ence contained 'an idea.
llaarra' Victim Severcl? Hart.
Harry Kirk, aged 14, a freshmnn In
he Coshocton, Ohio, High School, Is
near death with a fracture of the
skull sustained In an effort to save his
hair from being clipped by sophomore
hazers. In running away from the
liazers Kirk fell Into an open cellar
way, striking the basement floor on
his head. Surgeons removed part of
lis skull.
Itobbrra Take Victim' Clotkca.
Milton Garfield, living at Falrview
a suburb of Birmingham, Ala., was
held up Sunday night by two white
men. who took off his clothes at the
point of a pistol and sent the young
man to his borne, a distance of several
hundred yards, naked. The robbers
ieenied angry because Garfield had
inly $1.6."..
I nlvrraltjr Mars an E-taa.
Richard Hocker of Kansas City, who
was dismissed from West Point recent
ly, was denied admittance to the Uni
versity of Kansas. Tbe reason given
was that be was an expelled student
'roni West Point.