i
THE O’NEILL FRONTIER'
D. H. CRONIN. Publisher.
J’NEIUL, NEEIRASKA
Panama hats ate In as good form as
ever for the country, and the fact that
they have been dropped by the “great
untubbed’’ has merely served to give
them an added fillip toward exclusive
ness. Of course, no man in his senses
would wear a panama in town. Next
to the panama for the country comes
citythe rough straw sailor hat for the
f city. This will have a black or dark
I blue ribbon. Fancy ribbons on straw
hats, unless they are in the wearer's
» club oi varsity colors, and thus symbol
ise something definite, are not to be rec
ommended. Frankly, they look a bit
Killy. With the flannel shirt for knock
| about many launderable cotton ties
will appear, and in these no pins are
worn. The fold collar Is tin1 only form
that is proper for morning, lounging
and “the open." lam cut russet shoes
were never appropriate for town wear.
| but belong in the country with the felt
hat and Norfolk Jacket.
Investigations made by ttie depart
ment of labor into tile attitude of large
corporations on the liquor question
have recently been made public. Circu
lars were addressed lo large employers
[ | of .labor throughout the country. Many
circulars, ns usually happens, were un
answered; bul more than 7.000 estab
lishments, employing 1,700,000 persons,
took the trouble to reply. Ill trans
portation lines alone 713 employers re
! I plied, representing 458,000 employes. Of
those who answered the specific Inquiry
I regarding liquor 5,303 reported that
means were taken to ascertain ibe
habits of employes and 1.704 stated
that they prohibited, either 4n whole or
n part, the use of Intoxicating drinks
by their employes.
I "Johannesburg as a town surprises
ami disappoints." writes a South Afri
can traveler. “It has been put up In
a hurry and is mostly built of eorru
gated Ton. There are finished build
ings. mostly In stucco, and innumerable
shanties. There are wide streets, but
they are all dusty. Commissioner street
1s the main artery for business. It is
there that In imitation of America, sky
scrapers have been built, which domin
eer over the town more than the old
fort does. Sunday 1n Johunnestown is
honored in the breach and not in the
observance. Johannesburg is a young
J thing yet, not out of its teens, but it
apes the manners of centuries.’’
--—
A huge electro-magnet has hern set
up in a certain hospital in England.
It drew out splinters of steel which had
become lodged in the eyes of patients.
In one Instance it drew out a piece of
a hammer head which had been driven
into the muscles of a patient’s upper
arm, and in another case drew out a
piece of a cold chisel in a forearm.
The success of the magnet Is said to
! have been complete, the fragments of
the metal appearing quickly on the pole
of the magnet. It Is suggested that
such an electro-magnet could be of
great use in military hospitals for the
removal of pieces of shelhand steel bul
lets.
Sir 'William Ramsay believes that it
ts quite possible that In some cases
bread is radio-active. He thinks that
the radio-activity would not do any
harm, as Is shown by the presence of
radium in the waters at Bath and at
i Wiesbaden. In both cases the water
has to be drunk on the spot in order
to get the fulkynlue of the cure. Sir
William UamsSy thinks that tills is
partly due to the radio-active proper
ties of the water. He is Inclined to
think that there are radio-active gases
In the air. The “freshness” of the air
at certain times, he believes, is due to
! their presence.
An English postmaster general would
earn the gratitude of plenty of people
who are proud to think that England
was the first country to print a really
fine stamp, tf he would somewhat get
that country provided with a stamp
which did not look cheap and nasty.
Why not go back to the splendid old
dark reds and dark blues and dark
violets and dark greens which dis
tinguished the stamps of the sixties?
As to loss, how Is It that the people of
the United States stand the expense of
printing what are at present the best
stamps In the world.
wnne making excavations recently
his farm near Gaieton for fireclay
for brlcX, It. L. Clark, the well known
politician, came on to a peculiar min
eral substance, globular-shaped, and on
breaking It found a crystallized forma
tion In the center, which looks to him
like a genuine diamond. He has had It
examined by several experts, and lie
has found no one who can see any dif
ference between It and any other dia
mond. It is hoped that Mr. Clnrk will
realize all the rosy hopes his remark
able find has Inspired.
An enormous amount of care and
labor and a great length of time are
required In the making of the turbines
of ocean-going vessels, and It is this
that renders the building of turbine
ateamshlps so expensive. The first
ocean liner of the turbine type recently
made Its maiden trip across the ocean.
There were no fewer than 1.500,000
separate pieces used In the building of
the three turbines by which the vessels
were driven.
It might be observed cynically that
conditions do not change so much, af
ter all. In "The Practice of Medicine
In New England Before 1700,” ns ex
plained by Dr. Francis Brown before
the Bostonian society, It was a fact
that "a bold, rash, impudent liar" had
a better chance of succeeding In New
England than a “cautious and modest
gentleman, In the practice of physic."
One of the Russian survivors of the
Port Arthur siege narrates that he
•aw the following announcement on the
walls of a street tn Dalny. "The com
manding officer of the Second regiment
of Infantry, Colonel N-. has been
•sentenced to death by a council of war
for failure to support a neighboring
troop in a recent action. The sentence
wll> be carried out tomorrow."
The natives of Kikuyu. In the east
African protectorate, go about well
armed. They carry n stout, ace-of
•pades spear, a real buffalo-hide shield,
a heavy, double-edged short sword, a
club and several strong sticks. Their
principal "garment" is a plentiful coat
of terra cotta earth, and they wear
numerous articles of metal as orna
ments.
I One of the developments of Glas
gow’s municipal street car system Is
providing private early morning cars
for bringing home dance parties. A
car requistloned for such a purpose
comes at any required hour to the
point nearest the place where the dance
is being held and takes the dancers
to any desired point on the road.
This piece of news appears In a paper
published tn Port Louis, Mauritius:
"For having stolen 9 cents’ worth ot
charcoal a child, age 15 years, has been
sentenced by the district magistrate oi
Flacq to undergo nine months' lmpris
.. .' mi 'I
ROCKED THE BOAT
AND IT CAPSIZED
Three Omaha Boys Thrown
Into Lake and All
Drowned.
WIND HINDERED ESCAPE
The Bodies of the Dead Boys Were
Recovered Shortly After the
Fatal Accident—Runaway
Match Stopped.
Omaha, Net>.. May 3.—While five
voung men were fishing from a boat
in cutoff lake the boat capsized and
three of their number were drowned.
The dead are:
WILIiARD JOHNSON, aged 18.
OEOROE TEATS, aged 20.
CARE 1JNDQ1TST. aged 20.
When the boat capsized the three
!boys now dead started to swin to shore.
The wind was so strong that they yere
|soon exhausted and sank. William
Johnson and Rollle Ataman, the other
I boys, .'-lung to the boat and w ere later
rescued by persons who witnessed the
accident. The bodies of the dead boys
were recovered. According to Asltnan,
one of the dead boys began to rock the
boat. Standing up he lost his balance
and fell overboard, overturning the
"stoat as he fell.
in U W n vv n i mn i vn « ■
Creighton Couple Failed in Effort U
Become Wedded.
Norfolk, Neb.. May 3.- Telegraph
wires and the strong arm of the law
-enforced by irate parents won a, race
■against cupId between Creighton, Neb.,
and Fairfax, S. IJ.
Miss Adelaide Clark left home driv
ing from Creighton to Winnetoon,
where she took the train to Fairfax.
Arthur Hunt, a harnessmnker, had gone
the day before. The girl is 17 and
Helm 3fi years oid. When they applied
for the marriage license Judge Allen
refused on the ground that a girl so
young should have the consent of iter
parents. A message to Creighton
brought art order to arrest the pair,
and Sheriff Burns went to Fairfax to
bring them home. They were held in
ustody awaiting the offl tr’s arrival.
HIS STORY COMES TRUE.
Sinn Write* to His Wife of His De
miss and Later Dies.
(Omaha, Neb., May 3.—"i pent word to
my wife that I was dead, and now I
am going to live up to it,” said Roger
C. Sinn to his nurse at the county hos
pital. The nexl morning he died.
The story of Sinn’s life is a story of a
struggle with drink, a fondness for
which has estranged him from ills wife
and children and driven him from a
once happy home at Lonconnlng, Md.
He was at one time a respected citizen
of that place and joined the Masonic
lodge at Cumberland, a short distance
away. He was also an Eagle. Lately
his old friends have refused to have
anything to do with him, and a letter
from one of them to the Arcade hotel,
in this city, where Sinn stayed, hints at
some deep disgrace whicli has overtak
en his family on his account.
Sinn went to Bonesteel last fall to
take land, but spent all his money with
out securing any. He arrived at Oma
ha April 5 without money and stayed
eight days at the Arcade hotel. One
day the manager, William Hope, was
surprised 1o receive a telegram from
Maryland which read:
“Was there a strange man found dead
In your hotel?”
Hope took the message to Sinn, who
confessed that lie had written to his
wife to the effect that he was dead,
using the signature of the manager.
His idea was that she would send
money to pay funeral expenses, and lie
would use It to go home. He had al
ready written to her several times and
slie had not designed to notice his let
ters. If he could only get to see her
once more, and perhaps obtain forgive
ness for, Rome of the thin; he hod
done, he would be happier, lie thought.
Fader the circumstances, he thought
i there were no harm in the ruse he had
employed.
Tlie message was sent back to Mary
land that Sinn was at the hotel alive.
No money had come from his wife and
no news of her. Sinn became delirious
from the excessive use of liquor and
was taken from the hotel By the Eagles
to the county hospital. He died of de
lirium tremens, his pet aversion seem
‘ing to be multi-colored alligators. He
was about 30 . ears of age and had
three children, who were with his wife.
SON KILLS HIS FATHER.
John D. Osborn of Omaha Pays Life
for Bad Temper.
Omaha, Neb., May 3.-—While his
mother was dodging a shower of bricks
rained at her through doors and win
dows by an infuriated husband, Lee
Osborn leaped from his bed to protect
her and emptied a charge from a shot
gun into the head of his father, Johv
P. Osborn. The old man dropped ii
his tracks without a word and after ;
few convulsive movements of the limbs
there was no action to tell whether 01
not life was extinct.
The wife, running to where her line
band lay, saw that he was yet breath,
ing and tried vainly to call him bad
to life, while the boy. dazed by thi
awful consequences of his deed, sa
on the Vied as one bereft of reason.
Neighbors who heard the shot rushei
In to assist Mrs. Osborn and othen
telephoned to the police station. Thi
wounded man was removed to Clark
son hospital, where he died two hour
after the shooting without having re
gained consciousness.
For fear that Leo Osborn might re
slst arrest five officers were sent b
get him, Sergeant Cook. Detective
Baldwin and Horne and Officers Va
nous and McCarthy. They met wit!
no resistance, for the hoy was like on
in a dream. In the spot where he hai
pulled the trigger he stood before til
broken door, passing his bands acros
his dazed head and looking out int
the garden where his father had fnller
By his side, against the wall. stoo.
the shotgun. He suffered himself to b
led away to the patrol wagon witliou
n struggle.
BUILDINGS AT AUBURN BURN.
Several Structures Destroyed Earl;
Sunday—Loss, $5,000.
Auburn, Neb., May 3.—Fire brok
out in the billiard ball occupied by B
- Cl. Hubbs at this place, but before th
alarm could be given it had a gooi
start. The loss is estimated at fron
$3,000 to $3,500. with insurance
amounting to about $2,500. Roberta
loss is estimated at $1,000, with $50i
insurance. K&'ilmnn Bros.' lose is es
ilmated at $800, with $500 insurance
It Is understood that R. G. Hubbs hai
no insurance
l '
I
VALUES INCREASED.
Board of Equalization Will Add $20,
000,000 to Nebraska's Assess
ment.
Lincoln, Neb., May 1.—It ils ex
'peeled that the general assessment roll
of the state will be Increased $20,000,000
at next session of the board of equal
ization. The board will meet Monday,
but the sessions may extend through
several weeks. This estimate is based
,on the assertion that the railway valu
ations are not lowered.
Personal property, mortgages, bank
accounts, savings accounts, notes and
negotiable paper will be ilsted with
severity this year and orders have al
ready been transmitted to the county
assessors. If the classes of property
are not valued high enough in the opin
ion of the board they will he raised.
Collateral will have to be listed even
jin excess of the face value of the note
which it secures. Cash will also he
sought after and these deviations from
i 'the practice of last year as well as the
natural Increase in wealth points to a
'welling of the grand assessment roll.
—f
BEEF TRUST CASE.
District Attorney Baxter Goes to Chi
cago to Consult Officials.
Omaha, Neb.. May 1.—United Slates
District Attorney Baxter is in Chicago
conferring with District Attorney Mor
rison on matters pertaining to the beef
trust investigation.
Judge Baxter left for Chicago, and,
although tie has gone on business con
nected with the Investigation, the ex
act nature of it is not known.
1 The Omaha federal grand jury, which
Convenes here the first week In May.
will have a number of witnesses to ex
amine on the beef trust question. It Is
understood that Mr. Baxter's visit to
Chicago has to do with the manner in
which the local investigation will be
handled.
FIVE REASONS FOR DEATH.
Omaha Man Does Not Succeed in End>
ing His Career.
Omaha, Neb., April 29.—After crawling
Into a box car in a remote portion of the
| [Union Pacific yards, John Jones saturated
la. towel with chloroform and attempted to
end his life.
Convulsions, superinduced by the drug,
! caused him to yell with pain, attracting
the attention ol yard men to him. The
(poliee ambulance was called and Jones,
imore dead than alive, was taken to police
| ‘headquarters. ,
Dr. Arnold succeeded in bringing him
I out of danger. Jones acknowledges that
: lie did not give his right name and did
! not expect to. He said he had five rea
sons for wishing to die, the main being
that the only work he could secure was
ditch digging at 15 cents an hour.
His sweetheart, too. had jilted him and
gone , west with a rival suitor for her
hand. The third reason was that he want
ed to kill his rival, but had not sufficient
funds with which to hunt him up.
Another one was that his father and
mother were both dead, and he found him
self an orphan at 22 years of age. Sum
ming up the whole for a tifth reason, he
concluded he did not want to live any
how7.
in the surgeon's room he begged some
one to kill him. An empty revolver was
i handed him and he placed it to his temple
and repeatedly pulled the trigger and
I seemed greatly disappointed because there
| were no cartridges in the cylinders.
I Jones declares that he intends killing
'timself as socn as released from jail.
—♦—
ROBBER TRIED TO ESCAPE.
Holden, Who Shot Cashier of Bank
Hid in Prison Yard.
Lincoln. Neb., April 29.—William Holden,
I sentenced to fourteen years in the penl
| tentiary for bamc robbery, made a des
perate effort to escape from the peniten
I tiary. *
! Eluding his guards, he concealed himself
j in a bunch of broom handles in the prison
! .yards. He was missed soon after he dis
i appeared and guards were mounted on
the walls to prevent his escape. The prison
authorities knew that the man had not
i escaped from the yards and kept close
I watch. He was discovered at 1:50 this aft
ernoon and returned to his cell in the
prison.
I Holden is the man who entered the
Platte county bank several months ago,
! shot the cashier and escaped. Later he
was captured and sentenced to a long term
| xi prison. The wounded cashier recovered.
GRAIN MEN MEET.
Delegates from All Over State Attend
Seventh Annual Session.
Omaha, Neb., April 29.—The seventh an
nual meeting of the Nebraska Grain Deal
ers’ association is in session. About 125
delegates are here. The meeting this aft
ernoon is being held behind closed doors.
Omaha or Lincoln will be chosen as the
I next meeting place of the association. The
following are the association's officers:
James Bell. David City, president; W. B.
Banning, Union, vice president; H. G.
Vliller, Omaha, secretary and treasurer.
NO injRE GRLAT BATTLES.
Japanese Statesman Declares There Is
No Ne of Them N ow.
Tokio, May 1.—Count Okuma, for
' mer foreign minister, addressing today
i a committee of the progressive party
appointed to succor the wounded, esti
| mated the number of wounded and
! sick, as a result of the war, at 200.000
to 300,000. and the number killed or died
: of disease at 50,000.
The count warned the people to be
; prepared for a lengthy war, and ex
pressed the hope that the continuance
of the struggle would not affect na
tional sentiment. Nothing should shake
their resolution to continue the war.
He criticised the national diplomacy,
expressing C.e opinion that efficient
and timely diplomatic skill would have
prevented the Russian squadron from
1 coming to the far east. The count also
expressed the belief that the occasion
lor great battles had disappeared.
EASTER SEASON OPENS.
Three Days of Fasting Without Dis
| order as Yet.
Bt. Petersburg, May 1.—The three
days of hard fasting preceding Easter,
, accompanied by solemn services com
, memorative of Christ's passion, began
I today. Business of every character
, ceased and all government departments
. .were closed.
i The alarming reports circulated dur
ing the last few days apparently had
I little effect on the size of the crowds
, which thronged the churches where the
I tragedy of Calvary was vividly re
enacted.
i Permission has been granted to pub
lish in the capital a Jewish paper in
I the Hebrew language, to be called the
, ! Way. Bo far as known this is the
|'first time a paper published in He
I arew has been authorized in Russia.
Men Are Four.
Men are four, says the old Arab proverb:
1 He who knows not and knows not he
knows not,
■ He is a fool: shun him.
• He who knows not and knows he knows
l i not.
He is simple; teach him.
i He who knows and knows not he know*.
He Is asleep; wake him.
1 He who know s and knows he knows.
} i He is wise; follow him.
COMMERCE BOARD !
ASKS FOR A WRIT
Demands That Railroads Be
Forced to Obey Its Re
cent Order.
AS TO LIVE STOCK RATES
Allegation Is That Present Adjustment
of Tariffs, on Live and Dressed
Meats Is Inequitable, That
Railroads Won’t Obey,
Chicago, May 3.—An injunction to re ,
strain the Chicago Great Western and
seventeen other railroads from mak
ing a discrimination in prices between
shipment of cattle and shipment of
meat to Chicago was asked of the
United States court Saturday by Dis
trict Attorney Morrison.
The petition is based on a recent de
cision of the interstate commerce com
mission in the case brought by the Chi
cago live stock exchange. Being un
able to enforce its decision the inter
state commerce commission appealed to
District Attorney Morrison and he
filed the petition for an injunction.^ The
petition was submitted to Judge Kene
saw M. Landis and he ordered that the
defendants be served with copies of the
complaint and make answer by June 1.
Complaint Made a year «go.
Oil April 3, 1904, the Chicago live
stock exchange filed a complaint
against the railroad companies, alleg
ing that the rates charged by the de
fendant companies, carriers of live
stock in carload lots from points in
Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota and Wiscon
sin to Chicago, as compared with the
rates charged on the products of live
stock, were unjust and unreasonable,
and that the raisers of stock were sub
ject to an undue and unreasonable
prejudice and disadvantage by reason
of the rate charged for the shipment of
product of live stock from Kansas City,
South St. Joseph. South Omaha, Sioux
City and South St. Paul to Chicago and
points east.
On this complaint the commission on
January 7, 1905, ruled against the rail
roads. The decision declared that the
defendant railroads exacted higher
rates for transporting live stock prod
ucts to Chicago from points west,
northwest and southwest.
Discrimination Hurts Business.
The commission declares that such
discrimination is not justified by the
difference in cost of transportation or
other reasons and subjects, the traffic
in cattle and hogs at Chicago and oth
er places and those interested therein
to undue and unreasonable prejudice
and disadvantage and gives to the traf
fic in the product of hogs and cattle
and the shippers and localities inter
ested In such traffic undue and unrea
sonable preference. The railroads are
said to have disregarded this decision,
and the rateH remained as before.
The railroads named in the bill aside
from the Great Western are:
Burlington, Cedar Rapids and North
ern.
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and
Omaha.
Chicago and Alton.
Chicago and Northwestern.
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy.
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul.
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific.
Hannibal and St. Joseph.
Illinois Central.
Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council
Huffs.
Minneapolis and St. Boms.
Missouri Pacific.
Missouri. Kansas and Texas.
Omaha, Kansas City and Eastern.
Wabash.
Wisconsin Central.
Prayer of the Bill.
After setting forth the proceedings
before the interstate commerce com
mission and its findings the ill recites
the following prayer:
"That on final hearing hereof a de
cree may be entered granting to the
complainant a writ of injunction to re
strain the defendants from further con
tinuing in their violation of and dis
obedience to the said order of the com
plainant, the interstate commerce com
mission.
"That the decree may be entered re
c,firing said defendants to pay such a
sum of money not exceeding $500 for
every day after a day to be named in
such decree, that they shall respective
ly fail to obey the injunction."
nAILnUAUd lit I BUSY.
Heads of the Lines Organize to Defent
“Vested Rights” Against Regu
lation of Any Kind.
Chicago, May 2.—Alarmed at the wave
of public opinion sweeping over the coun
try In favor of government control, rail
road presidents are organizing.
The defense planned is in the line of a
campaign of education through bureaus
which are expected to feed the press with
literature or. the railroad side.
In addition railroad officials everywhere
are expected to seize every means to sow
the gospel of non-interference by the gov
ernment with the rate making power.
Steps are to be taken to convince the ship
pers that their interests lie with the rail
load managements, rather than with a
commission clothed with the power to say
what is a fair rate and compel its adop
tion.
One eastern railroad president says:
“The railroads are in a life and death
struggle, and, of course, we are going
to do everything in our power indi
vidually and collectively to defend our
selves and our rights.”
A second said:* “We have delayed too
long. We should have had an organiza
tion long ago to disseminate our view's.”
The eastern presidents took the initi
ative some time ago by establishing a
bureau under the management of J. H.
Maddy, who is also press agent for the
Erie. Mr. Maddy has just completed a
transcontinental trip from New York to
Chicago, the Twin cities, ail the Pacific
coast cities and back to Chicago by way
of New Orleans. The purpose was to visit
the newspapers and ask them to use mat
ter setting forth the railroad side.
Following this lead the western presi
dents have authorized Slason Thompson
to employ experts and being a separate ed
ucational campaign in the entire western
territory. Expense will not be spared.
BRITAIN FOR FRANCE.
English Minister to Morocco Announcet
That Purpose Ir. to Support the
French Policy.
Par's, May 1.—The British minister tc
Morocco, Mr. Lowther in an interview
with the Temps correspondent at Tangier
joday made the official declaration that
the purpose of his visit to Fez is to sup
port the French policy in Morocco.
TO BE WEDDED SOON. \
- !
Report in Washington is that Secre* I
tary of Agriculture Wilson
will Go to the Altar.
Washington, May 3.—There is a re
newed gossip that Secretary Wilson,
the most venerable member of the cab
inet, is to be married, perhaps before
the beginning of the summer, although
no definite announcement has been
made. The lady is said to be one of
the clerks in the department of agricul
ture. She is connected with some of i
the best families of the east, and is
a handsome widow of middle age. It
is‘ said that the approaching marriage
is what is keeping Miss Wilson in Eu
rope. She cannot tolerate the idea of
a stepmother, and is said to be taking
a special course hi music, with a view
to taking up classes in the University
of Iowa, where she taught before her
father entered the first McKinley cab
inet.
The Graves Wedding,
In diplomatic circles here there is
a good deal of interest in the recent1
marriage of Colonel C. H. Graves of
Duluth, the new minister to Norway!
and Sweden, growing out of the fact,
that his wife, fromerly Mrs. Wright,
is a divorcee, it is pointed out here
that the aged King .Oscar is more out
spoken than any European sovereign
against divorces and has more than
once caused the ostracism of aspirants,
for honors in the dual kingdom on ac
count of divorce troubles. People will
watch to see how he receives Colonel
Graves and his new wife, and what
the latter will be able to do to over
come the intense prejudice of the king
and court.
*
W LL FIGHT COAL TRUST
Government Ownership of Mines is
Plainly Making Progress in
German Empire.
“Washington, May 2.—The controversy
in Germany over government control of
trace is discussed by Consul General
Richard Guenther at F’rankfort in a let
ter to the department of commerce. He
says:
“The annual report of the chamber of
commerce of the district of Essen, chief
center of the German iron and steel in
dustries, Krupp Steel works, etc., for the
year 1904, has been sent to the Prussian,
minister of commerce. The report dis
cusses at length the contemplated move
ment: of the government to obtain a con
trolling influence over the coal trade by
acquiring coal mines now in the hands of
private individuals and joint stock com
panies. The object is to check the power
of the coal trust and to prevent monopo
listic abuses whereby the consumers and
the industrial interests may be injured
and the miners subjected to rigid rules
and low' w'ages.
Fights the Government.
“The Essen chamber of commerce
whose members are mostly mine owner*,
and iron and steel manufacturers, takes
strong ground against any governmental
control of Industrial Interests, and says:
“ ‘The state, already the owner of coal
mines, can, by joining the coal syndicate
(trust), exert a moral influence over the
latter. But if the state wants to go be
yond this and means to check other com
bines and concentrations, then it can only
do so with any prospect of success by ex
propriating to a large extent the iron and
transportation interests as well as those of
mining. It is mainly this consideration
which has caused the elementary move
ment among industrial circles against the
attempt of the government to obtain con
trol of the Hioernia coal mines, for this
was generally viewed as being but the in
itiatory step toward a progressive acqui
sition of the coal mines by the govern
ment.
“ ‘In the opinion of this chamber it
would prove a futile undertaking to re
sist the movement of economical concen
tration. and would be injurious to eco
nomic interests. Opinions may differ as
to the value of danger of such concentra
tions, but there is no doubt of the fact
that they cannot be averted.’
Calm Is Unanimous.
“Since these statements were made the
great strike of the German coal miners
has occurred, and, though ended by sub
mission to the miners, no lasting peace
has been established. Public opinion has
sustained the miners; the government has
sympathized with them and promised to
redress their grievances by means of ap
propriate legislation. The expectation
that their demands will be satisfied is
what brought about the temporary sur
render and prevented action against the
owners of the coal mines. But their en
forced submission increased their embit
tered feeling and augurs ill for a perma
nent state of peace in the coal mining in
dustry.’8
■ ■ • •
CHANDLER’S JOKE.
—
New Hampshire Man Gathers in Vicv.
President Fairbanks, but Fails
with Shaw.
Washington, May 2.—Ex-Sonator Will
iam E. Chandler, president of the Spanish
claims treaty commission, has a vein of
quiet humor which sometimes proves em
barrassing to statesmen with presidential
aspirations. His work on the commission
doesn’t involve much labor, and yester
day while swinging about his office chair
he suddenly conceived the notion of draw
ing out the views of Vice President Fair
banks, Secretary of the Treasury Shaw,
and Senator Foraker in connection with
the presidency. He prepared an identical
letter to each, about as follows:
*'My Dear Mr. Secretary Shaw: In my
opinion you ought to be the next presi
dent of the United States. Your eminent
fitness for the office, your high patriotism
and demotion to tne principles of the party,
and your popularity with the people all
tend to make you the logical candidate of
the party of which you are a most dis
tinguished leader today.
"Wm. E. Chandler.
‘‘P. S.—I have written similar letters to
Vice President Fairbanks and Senator
Foraker.
*'P. S.—Please don’t forget me.”
It is said Vice President Fairbanks took
Air. Chandler seriously. He seemed to
draw the impression from Chandler's let
ter that he had notified Secretary Shaw
and Senator Foraker of his support of the
vice president's candidacy. He warmly
thanked Air. Chandler for his commenda
tion and cordial indorsement, and ex
pressed his gratification at the notification
given his rivals.
Secretary Shaw answered Air. Chandler
in the vein observed by his correspondent,
lie said:
*'I am glad of your good will, and also
glad to see you are broad enough to en
tertain a similar idea of other great men.”
ARGUING NAN’S CASE.
Defense Begins Summing Up of State'i
Evidence Without Any of its
Own.
New York, May 3.—When the trial of
Nan Patterion was resumed today her
counsel, Mr. Levy, formally announced
the defense would rest on the state's
case, and then begin his closing argu
ment for the prisoner. - —_
TOM PLATT'S IDEAS
ABOUT ROOSEVELT
“Obliged to Bear That Bulldog
Grin an Hour,’’ He
Wrote.
LOVE LETTERS OF A BOSS
Woman to Whom He Wrote Them Now.
Sues Prominent Men Who, She
Aleges, Conspired to Get
Them from Her.
Omaha, Neb., May 2.—Miss Mae
Catherine Wood of Omaha—the woman
with whom U. S. Senator Platt of
New York became entangled in a
Washington loye affair and whom it is
alleged the senator settled with by the
payment of $84.000—has sprung a new
sensation involving men in high places.
Miss Wood incorporated Senator
Platt’s love letters to her in a book
which she proposed to publish under
the title of "The Love Letters of a
Boss.”
She accuses William Loeb, secretary
to President Roosevelt, Robert J.
Wynn, consul general to London, and
J. Martin Miller, consul to Aix ia Chap
pelle, with conspiring to obtain the
manuscript of the book, and in a suit
filed in the district court here she sues
them for $35,000 damages.
"The Love Letters of a Boss” was a
book never printed. Miss Wood ac
cuses J. Martin Miller of securing the
manuscript from her under false prom
ises ard afterwards by threats and
duress compelled her to give lip Sen
ator Platt’s letters and to sign receipts
for $20,000 which she never received.
Feared Platt Would Marry Her.
Referring to her lawsuit, her book
and Senator Platt, Miss Woods said:
"Despite the reports to the contrary,
I never brought suit against Senator
Platt for breach of promise, nor did
I intend to do so. I was afraid the
senator might agree to fulfill his prom
ise and marry me, and, if there is any
-one thing which would be more humil
iating or disgusting or lower than to
be accused of suing this man for
breach of promise, it would be to be
obliged to marry and live with him.
"BUt, say, that book, ‘The Love Let
ters of a Boss,’ would have made good
reading, and it would have been in
tensely interesting to the public.
Platt’s Idea of Roosevelt.
"In one of his letters the senator,
referring to a luncheon at the White
House, said:
" ‘I expect to attend a luncheon at
the White House today, and will be
obliged to endure that bulldog grin
for an hour.’
"And another letter read something
like this:
" ‘Sweet and Lovely: Your letter recon
ciled mo to the election of Odell, which oc
curred the following Tuesday. Pray for
mo; the prayers of the angels availeth
much.’
"In another letter he referred to a car
riage ride through Central park, saying he
hoped in the future I could ride in a char
iot; that I had glorified and made beauti
ful his carriage for him the next time he
should use it.
"I don’t know whether to think the de
fendants in this suit were in league with
Senator Platt when, as I allege, they se
cured the manuscript of my bodk, or
whether thew were employed by enemies
of Piatt who wished to secure tlie man
uscript for purposes of their own. How
ever, the facts are that my book was se
cured by unfair means. I once offered to
return all Senator Platt’s Itters to him.
but at that time he refused to accept
hem.
Didn’t Get the $20,000.
‘‘As stated in my petition, I never
brought suit against Platt, and conse
quently could never have compromised
the suit, although it was claimed that I
had done so, receiving $20,000 for so doing.
I was practically forced to sign such pap
ers, and also to sign receipts for $20,000,
but I never received any of the money.
When I left New York, after my papers
were taken, I was handed my traveling
expenses and a pass to Buffalo. I still
hold the pass as evidence of this. But
that point is all covered in my petition.
"The sheriff will be watching for Wil
liam Loeb, the president’s secretary, as
he comes through Omaha from Colorado
with the hunting party. If he comes to
Omaha the papers in this suit will be
served on him.
"If Mr. Loeb changes his route and goes
east through Kansas, it will show that he
is afraid of this case. But in that event I
will file suit in some other city where the
defendant can be found.
"And they need not think this one suit
is all I have; I will soon file others that
are indeed more sensational than thi»
one.’’
History of the "Romance/
The petition tiled in the cast reveals
much of the history of Mae Wood’s rela
tion with United States Senator Platt. It
recites that early in 1903 Mae Wood was
engaged to marry "a prominent man In
the United States senate, Senator T. C.
Platt. 71 years of age," and "who pretend
ed to be desperately in love with her."
Because of such engagement she "had
received attentions from him which couM
only be excused on the ground of said en
gagement," and because of his conduct
she "cancelled the engagement on April
15, 1903."
It w'as then that Miss Wood determined
to publish Senator Platt’s love letters, as
"compensation for the peculiar humilia
tion and persecutions she had been sub
jected to."
The petition then recites that the de
fendants, Robert J. Wynne, William Loeb
and J. Martin Miller "conspired with each
other" and with Senator Platt or his po
litical enemies, she is not certain which,
to secure possession of the manuscript, as
well as the original love letters written
by Senator Platt.
J. Martin Miller, a detective, so the pe
tition recites, passed himself off to Miss
Wood as a publisher and she made a con
tract with him for the publication of "The*
Love Letters of a Boss," giving him the
manuscript and paying him $25 for ex
penses.
"Decoyed" Her to New York.
Miller, the petition goes on to recite, "de
coyed" Miss Wood to New York for "the
ostensible purpose of proofreading copy on
the book." Miller not only refused to give
up the manuscript, but demanded the
love letters written to her by Senator
Platt, as well as letters written to her by
Lillian T. Janeway. Miller displayed a
United States secret service badge, and
threatened to arrest and search her un
less she gave up the letters.
Thus frightened, Miss Wood, according to
the petition, went with Miller to the New
York Life building, being "hustled in by
the back alley," and introduced to A bra- jg
ham H. Hummel.
After being held "under arrest" for two- ■
days by Miller, the petition alleges. Miss fl
Wood surrendered the love letters, arid
signed two pretended receipts for $10,00i> /
each: but that no such amour.is were ever
paid to her by Platt or any p- . son acting fl