The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922, November 11, 1909, Image 2
w -xx0mmijY- ..,-,. Ui 1 1 V Ft REPEATS CHARGES Glavis Wriies of Alaska Goal , Field Monopoly, ARRAIGNS RICHARD BALUNGER, Secretary of the Interior la Again Ac cused of Failure to Take Steps to Save Immense Beds of Fuel From Fraudulent Entry Deposed Govern' ment Employee Says He Was Re moved Unjustly by Mr. Taft. Now Yrk, Nov. 9. In nn article pre pared for Collier's Weekly of Nov. 13 and copyrighted by that publication U It. Glavis, removed In September from the oinco of chjef of field divi sion of tho goneral land office, naym (Copyright, 1309, by P. P. Collier & Bonn,) "From 1902 to 1909 1 was In tho field service of tho general land ollicc, for tho last two nnd u halt years as chief of Held division. In Boptcmber, 1909, I was summarily removed from my position without n formal hearing by Hlchunl A. Ualllugcr, secretary of the interior, by authorization of the president of tho United Stated. That removal wnB accompanied by the pub lication of a letter of the piestdcnt to Mr. Balllnger. I believe that my re moval was unfair. 1 believe tho presi dent's letter was grievously unfair, be cause Ju It tho president given weight to a charge against mo which 1 never linrt the opportunity to see or answer. The president status in his lotter that I withheld from him Information ra vornblo to my superiors. 1 do not Know of any such Information with hold by mo, nor am 1 conscious of do ing my superiors Injustice. Neverthe less, 1 should not now make miy public statement of tho matter were It not etllj possible to save for the govern ment many thousands of acres of coal lands which I believe tho land olllco may lriHho near future grant to fraud ulent claimants. Coal Lands of Inestimable Value. "The conl lands of Alaska owned by the government amount to over 100, 000 ncres. They are tho future coal supply of' tho untlon, of almost Inesti mable value. Possession of them by prlvalo Individuals means great wealth. A monopoly of them would be a na- tlonnl menace. "On Nov. 12, 19?". President noose volt withdrew ull coal lands In Alaska from public entry, hut previous to that tlmo thero wero about 0C0 claims filed, covering about 100,000 aires, nearly tho whole of the coal llelds. Tho law attempts to prevent monopoly of such claims by limiting tho amount of each claim nnd providing that each claim ant must take up the laud in his own interest and for his own use. This law has been interpreted by tho supreme court of tho United States to forbid speculating In coal lauds before entry, either by dummy entrymen or by pre vious agreements to consolidate claims after entry. Of these 900 claims to Alaska coal lands, among them the so called Cunningham group, the mujorl ty are fraudulent. (It Is asserted that tho Guggenheims nre seeking a monop oly of tho Alaska coal field".) l- "As to the urt'on u( :'.n land olllro on those claims. I a won that the land olllco ordered the Cunningham claims to patent without duo investigation when Commissioner Ballluger knew thoy wero under susplc;on; that while in olllco Commissioner Ualllugcr urged congress to pnss a law which would validate fraudulent Alaska claims; that shortly after resigning from of fice ho became attorney for the Cun ningham group and other Alaska ' claims; that soon aftor he became sec retary of the Interior lits office ren dered a decision which would have validated all fraudulent Alaska claims. A reversal of that decision on every point was obtained from Attorney Gen eral Wickersham. How Glavis Wan Dismissed. "I assert that in the spring of 1909 the land office urged me to nn early trial of these cases before the Investi gation was finished nnd when Secre tary Balllnger, ns the president has stated, know that tho Cunningham clajnts were Invalid. When I appealed to Secretary Ballluger for postpone ment he referred me to his subordi nates. The department of agriculture Intervened. I was superseded In the charge of the cases, and the man who superseded mo Indorsed my recom mendations, nnd the postponement was granted. Immediately thereafter l made my report In the Cunningham cases to President Taft and was dls nlssed from the service for Insubor dination. "The president has chosen to treat my report ns n charge of criminality. I made no such charge, nor do I make it now. The president's letter'ls a de fense of Mr. Balllnger nnd Mr. Den nett (commissioner of the general land office) from charges not made In my report to him. I was not Investigating either Mr. Balllnger or Mr. Dennett, but the Alaska coal cases." (The forthcoming article In Colljer's Weekly Is expected to reopen tho en tire I'lnciiot-unuinger dispute over the disposition of public lauds. One of the most bitter official controversies over known in Washington may follow, nnd the result may be tne retirement mini office of either Secretary Ballin ger or O.tfford Ploehot. chief of the forest sorvice.) Vcr fm's Boiy Caught by Fisherman, lii.'hieapoljs. Nov. 9.The body of l .'tiian, well drfwwl, v8. found' In, ' r:or by r fUliciman. CORN CROP OF 3J3 BEATEN Yeld Larger, but Quality 2 Psmts Be low Last Year's Record. VntihiiiKt'-n, Nov u. 1h ciop re porting board of tho department of agttcMltur. Jn a preliminary report, gives tho Indicated total production of corn for 100 a 2,707,310,000 bushels, against 2,003,081,000 ns finally esti mated last year, with tho quality as U.2 per cont, against 86.9 Inst year. Tho preliminary estimate of tho aver age yield per aero of corn is 25.4 bush els, against 20.2 Anally estimated last year. About 3 per cent, 79,779,000 bushels, of tho crop of 1908 is esti mated to have been in farmers' hands on Nov. 1, ngalnst 2.7 per cent, 71, 124,000 bushels, of the 1907 crop In farmers' hands nt this time last year. By states tho yield per ocrc, total pro duction (thousand omitted), and qual ity for 1908 corn nre ns follows: States. Yield. Iowa 31.5 Nebraska 24.8 Missouri 26.4 South Dakota... .31.7 Minnesota ......34.8 Prod'n. Q'ty. 294,219 87 190,565 86 215,028 79 65,270 92 58,464 92 The avorage weight per measured bushel of this year's wheat crop Is 58.0 pounds, ngalnst 58.33 pounds last year, and of oats, 32.7 poundos, ngajnst 29.8 pounds a year ago. Potatoes show n quality of 88.9 per cent, against 87.6 n year ago, with a total yield per acre of 10G.5 bushels, against 85.7 In 1908, an Indicated to tal production of 367,473,000 bushels, against 278,985,000 list year. EIGHT BURN IN FIRE TRAP Victims Cooped Up by Bars Across Windows of Brooklyn Factory. Now York, Nov. 9. Iron bnrrea windows prevented tho escnpo from death by fire of eight workers in Rob ert Morrison & Sons' comb factory in Brooklyn and flvo other men probably were fatally injured In making their escape from the hujlding. William Morrison, son of the owner of the plant, lost his lire In the flames while trying to rench tho safe and close Its doors. Ills lather wns among the injured. Luckily thero wero only forty employees In tho fac tory when tho flro started, for the spread of tho ilamcs wns rapid In tho Inflammable comb material. Many men Jumped from tho third floor win dows and' wore .Injured. Thoso who rushed to' tho rear found the windows barred and thero met their doom. TRIPLE TRAGEDY AT FERRY Man Kills Woman and Daughter, Then Shoots Self. San Francisco, Nov. 9. The ferry building arcade, crowded with thou sands of homeward bound suburban ites, was the scene or a double murder and suicide, when Ignnte Novlkow, a Russian laborer, shot and Wiled Mrs. P, A. Schultz, wife of n wealthy Sonoma county rancher, and her daughter, Betty. Novlkow then llred a bullet through his own head, nnd died within an hour without regaining consciousness. No cuuso for the shooting has been learn ed. Tho girl was a member of the MuslclnnR' union of this city. BIG WASTE OF INFANT LIFE Federal Experts Declare 200,000 Die Annually From Preventable Disease. Washington, Nov. 9. Two hundred thousand children die mutually front preventable disease In tho United States. Such Is the assertion of the United States census bureau, which has Just completed a compilation of vital statistics for 1938. The bureau refers to this mortality as a waste more serious than race suicide. Pres ent day knowledge of sanitary meas ures, It says, should step in and Btop tho waste. CHICAGO GRAIN AND PROVISIONS Features of the Day's Trading and Closing Quotations. Chicago, Nov, 9. Continuance of an enormous movement of wheat in this country had a weakening effect on the market here today and resulted' in final losses of 'jT,c, compared with Saturday's close. Corn was dragged down by a bearish government report and closed nt net losses of 'Kc to A !J'iC Onts also closed easy, but pro visions were firm. Closing prices: Wheat Dec, 1.02Vfc;.Mny, $1.02.1 Corn Dec. 57Tf,S'5Sc; May, 59" Wic; July, 590. Oats Dec. asySSc; May, 41g1 ll'i-c; July, 39M.C. Pork Jan., $20.43; May, $19.87'j. Lard Jan., $11.55; May, $U.27(j- Ribs Jan., $10.35; May. $10.2716. Chicago Cash Prices No. 2 hard wheat, $1.04MI1.0EV, No- 2 corn, 63 G3Vic; No. 3 oats, 3Sic South Omaha Live Stock. South Omaha, Nov. 8. Cattle Re ceipts, 5.600; steady to strong; jtaUve steers, $4.5018.00; cows and heifers, $3.25ft'5.15; western steers, $3.50 6.25; Blockers and feeders, $3.0005.23; calves. $3.50(3-7.00; bulls and stags. $2.754.50. Hogs Receipts, 2,100; 5Wc higher; heavy, $7.757.85; mix ed. $7.75(07,80; light, $7,657.75; pigs, $0.307.25; bulk of sales, $7.70'7.80. Sheep Receelpts, 9,500; 1020c high er, feeders higher; fed muttons, $4.85 5.40; wethers, $4.0O4.75; ewes, $3.S5fc 4.40; lambs, $6.25(7.25. Chicago Live Stock. Chicago. Nov. 8. Cattle Recolpts, 23.000: lOfffiloc higher: choice cattle wore scarow and the best sale wns $8.50; common light short red steers sold at $4.50(55.50. Hogs Receipts, 23.000; 5i3'10c higher; the top was SS.15. with the bulk of the good hogs at $7.8508.10. Sheep Receipts, 30. 400: ftnn; good to oholce lambs sold ttf ?7J)07.2 and the hulk o( tho -le, slrable sWjTwent at '$4.4&4.75. ' ' STEINHEIL TRIAL Two Witnesses Galled for Prosa- culion Aid Woman, NO TRACE OF POISON FOUND. Family Physician Denies Testimony Attributed to Him Before Magistrate. No Direct Evidence Implicating De fendant With the Crime Has Yet Been Adduced Public Interest in the Case It Higher Than Ever. Paris, Nov. 9. With tho opening of the second week of the trial of Mine. Marguerite Stclnheil, who 1b accused of murdering her husband, Adolphe Stelnhejl, nnd her stepmother, Mine. Japy, the public interest Jn the re markable caso Is higher than ever. No direct evidence Implicating tho pris oner with tho crime yet has been ad duced, while the conflicting stories told by the witnesses and the brave duel of the accused in her fight ngalnst the Judge Js turning the sympathy In her favor. Mmo. Stelnhell professes to have the' greatest confidence In her ucqulttal. Mine. Antanzlo, wife of one of Stein hell's models, and Dr. Archary, the Stelnhell family physlcJan, though called by the state, both testified tn favor of the accused, the former In sisting on the frenzied condition of the woman on the morning nfter the crime, and the doctor contradicting in the most categorical fashion the testi mony attributed to lUm bofore the ex amining magistrate. Dr. Balthazar, a toxlcologlst, testi fied that ho found no trace of n nar cotic in the stomach of cither M. Stelnhell or Mine. .Japy. WANT FOUR NATIONAL ROADS Farmers' Congress Goes on Record for Improvements. Raleigh, N. C, Nov. 9. legislation to establish four national roads from tho Atlantic to the Pacific, the strengthening of tho "oleo" lnw, a law prohibiting railroads from charging a full trip mileage rate In excess of tho rates of tho states through which the trjp extends, the enactment of n pos tal bank lnw. Increasing the banking privilege to stnte agricultural schools and colleges, nnd the extension of pub lie works were recommended In reso lutions nt tho Farmers' National con gress. The congress also placed' Itself on record in favor of tho enactment of a law modernizing the parcels post sys tem, urged congress to appropriato money for denatured alcohol distill eries at selected agricultural experi ment stations and favored government nld to public roads. WARRINER STOLE $634,000 Cincinnati Treasurer of Big Four Re turned $100,000. New York, Nov. 9. The loss to tho Big Four railroad through the alleged defnlcntlons of C. I Warrl;ier, Its local treasurer at Cincinnati, ultimately will amount to about $500,000, accord ing to a statement issued In New York by Albert II. Harris, vice presi dent of tho Now York Central lines, Including tho Big Four. "Tho amount of tho defalcation," I sajs tho statement, "has been ascer tained to be $634,000. Warrlner has turned over to the company n sum nmountlng to more than $100,000 and thero will be received from the Amer ican Surety company on Its bond, $50, 000, leaving n net amount of the short age something less than $500,000. The method which Warrlner adopted was to cover his defalcations tn the Item of 'cash In transit.'" ALTMANS FORCED TO TRIAL Alleged Bomb Throwers Seek to Have Case Continued. Chicago, Nov. 9. Counsel for Vin cent nnd Joseph Altaian, who are ac cused of throwing a bomb which dam aged a manufacturing plant here in 1908, sought to have tho case contin ued on the criminal court call when tho state's attorney disclosed that a witness Is expected to testify that he aided the Altmau brothers In making a bomb. Judge Tuthlll ruled that the case proceed and the work of selecting a Jury begnn. TRIAL OF DR..CLEMINSON Policeman Testifies Against Physician Accused of Killing Wife. Chicago. Nov. 9. The trial of Dr. Haldene Clcmlnson, who Is charged with the murder of his wife, Mrs, Nora J. Clcmlnson, was resumed In the crim inal court here. Policeman F. E. Strum, who accompanied Dr. Clemtn son to a hospital when Mrs. Clemlnson was discovered, testified that when he arrived at the Clemlnson homo Dr. Clemlnson seemed to be laboring un der n great strain and wns sobbing, al though there were no tears In his eyes. Upholds Oleo Law. Washington, Nov. 9. That the law requiring dealers In oleomargarine to mnke returns of their business applies to corpoiatlons was held by tho su preme court of the United States In deciding the ease of the United States vs. the Union Supply company In fa vor of the government. School Strike in Cleveland Ends. Cleveland, Nov. 9. Tho 500 striking stjnlents n the West high school re turned to their class rooms pending nuftl action b' the board or odupotloaJ JAS. GRAHAM The Leading Dealer in wmmmaMmmmmmMmmmMmnmmammmmmmmmmmKmmmmmm . Groceries and Provisions Fresh and Cured Meats mm toe m Northwest Corner Box Butte Avenue and Montana Street y .kkk i, in a, iiwin minnaim .. j mBi ,HHHHHiSHBilSSHHlHHiiliflH t. B ',;iMK;$?wHslswslsBa5JSMJBsMslE,,BHfca Best Equipped, Most Up-to Date Exclusive Meat Market in Western Nebraska Shop open from 6:30 a. m. to 7 p. m.; Saturday and pay days, open till 9 p. nt; not open on Sunday during winter Prompt Attention to Phone Orders We purchase good dressed beef and pork in the carcass. Call at our shop before selling MH Pone 50 m Hit lull MARKET I. W. Herman, Prop. Miss Rose C. Herman Casitier and Bookkeeper Jos. Skala, - Meat Cutter Jake H. Herman Stock Buyer Louis Skala ( Sausagemakers John Herman i and Butchers Wm. C Herman - Delivery Boy Phone 131 Residence Phone, 375 s ""!M '4 1 if