LIVE STOCK TRADE
TO BE BENEFITED RY
GRAZIN6 EXPERIMENTS
Forestry Service and Bureau oI
Plant Industry Join in Solv
^ mg Problems.
Washington, Sept. 4.—The depart
ment of agriculture has Issued a,
pamphlet which says in part:
The live-stock industry turns to ac-j
count one of the greatest natural re
sources of the west—the forage crop.
From the plains to the Pacific an as-j
tonishingly large proportion of the areai
Is grazing land. It is estimated that’
this region contains over 400,000,000
acres which are useful at present only
for pasturing stock. A map printed in
colors to bring out the main areas of
agricultural, grazing, and desert lands
was published not long ago. It showed
the grazing-land color spread like a
sheet over nearly all this vast domain,
which comprises something like one
third of the entire United States, with
relatively minor patches of the other
colors. In arid regions the range is
comparatively poor, but almost every
where enough forage plants can grow
to make grazing profitable.
The forest service, in cooperation
with lhe bureau of plant industry, has
begun a series of experiments to find
out how the carrying power of grazing
lands within national forests can be In
creased In a nutshell the problems artv
first, how to grow, and second, how to
utilize, the largest amount of forage.
The conclusions reached are likely to
have an important bearing on improved
use of the open range generally. The
economic posibilities of these experi
ments are enormous.
In the past the stockman on the pub
lic lands has simply taken what nature
offered him. But grazing tends to put
mature at a disadvantage. Plants
which propagate by seed, for example
have no chance when the seed stalks
are being eaten off all the time. In
many grazing regions the carrying
power of the range has been very great
ly reduced through the present methods
of use. Within national forests the re
striction of the number of stock to the
capacity of the range has already
checked the worst evils which result
from overgrazing. But the new investi
gations promise much greater things.
These investigations are to be carried
out tiinng three distinct lines—studies
of what can be done in the way of
Introducing cultivated grasses, studies
of range improvement througli better
knowledge of how wild grasses propa
gate, and studies of how to handle
both entie and sheep so as to reduce
the waste due to herding and tramp
ling. The present account deals with
the first, the introduction of cultivated
grass.
GIRL, DESERTED, IS
DEAD BY OWN HAND
A/Ian With Whom She Eloped
Leaves Her and She Takes
Poison.
Ciia siinali, Sept. 4.—Deserted by the
man who brought her here unde,
promises to marry her, Jessie Miller, q
handsome young woman, of Philadel
phia. committed suicide in the Ken
tucky hotel. She swallowed morphine.
The police are now looking for the
man with whom she eloped to Cincin
nati. but they have only the name
"Joe" to work on.
She had told a chance acquaintance
that she had eloped to Cincinnati with
"Joe," and that he had deserted her
here, leaving her penniless.
She gave him her jewelry for safe
keeping last night.
The girl was about 24 years old. She
and "Joe” had been living at the Ken
tucky hotel as Mr. and Mrs. John Ed
wards.
GERMANY AGREES TO
FORGED ARBITRATION
Withdraws Its Refusal and Will
Submit List of Cases for Ob
ligatory Reference.
The Hague. Sept. 4.—Germany has.
reconsidered her refusal to accept any
list of cases which the powers shall'
engage to submit to arbitration and
is now willing to approve a limited
schedule of cases for obligatory ar
bitration. This unexpected change in
the attitude of Germany was an
nounced by Baron Marshall von Bie
berstein, head of the German delega
tion, sit Saturday’s session of the com
.miltee appointed to examine the Amer
ican proposition on the subject.
Proposed Permanent Court.
In answer to the inquiry of President
NelidofT the authorities at St. Peters
burg have cabled him that Emperor
Nicholas, after recalling that on thei
occasion of the last conference he of
fered to give up the right of calling
•and organizing peace conferences,
which was not accented then, says he
will not repeat the same offer, hut (hat
the Pvtissian delegation is to support
any proposition concerning meeting of
conferences on the lines of the Anneri
esn proposition, namely, that the con-',
ference meet every seven years. I
The Americans have drawn up a new;
proposition with respect to the collec-'t
tlon of contractual debts, differing only
in form. It is principally intended to
do away with the numerous reserva
tions made when the first proposal was
put to a vote.
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4 CORPORATIONS t
4 SHOW INCREASE. 4
4 4
4 New York, Aug, 31.—Total interest 4,
4 and dividends payable by leading 4
4 corporations in September will r p- 4
4 rtsent *76,097,351 or which dividend 4
4 disbursements will contribute $P. 4
4 4*7,351, or an increase over the same 4
4 month a year ago of $7,3J5,fb . The 4 j
4 ir dux trial dividends aggregate i2.i,- 4 |
4 27,,947. S.eam railroads contribute 4
4 $u>,539,695 and street railways S529.709. 4.
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TUTOR WINS A RICh
GIRL, DOT $250,000
Newport, It. I., Sept. 4.—The ro
mance of an English tutor anil the
ipretty daughter of a Baltimore mtl
■lionaire, culminated in the marriage of
Burette Marguerite Hutton, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Gaum M. Hutton, and
Harold Adye Prichard, of Bristol, Eng
land. The ceremony was performed
in the fashionable Emmanuel church,
which was crowded with cottagers, Mr.
and Mrs. Hutton and their family have
long been summer residents of New
port.
Miss Hutton and Mr. Prichard met
last autumn, when the Hutton family
was traveling in Europe. He is a
graduate of Oxford, in the class of
1902. Not only did the woman whom
he married this noon fall In love with
him, but her family took such a liking
to him that when he proposed marriage
there were no difficulties in the way.
The Hutton family came here early in
the season, and at once began to ar
range for the wedding. Mr. Prichard
and his parents. Dr. and Mrs. AV.
Prichard, of Bristol, arrived on Mon
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Prichard will soon sail
for Europe, though previously they
will make a brief wedding trip through
this country. Mr. and Mrs. Hutton
and tlie Misses Hutton will go abroad
to visit them In the late autumn. Mr.
Hutton, father of the bride, is a re
tired business man of Baltimore, and
Mrs. Prichard's dot is $250,000.
B0XEED UIMJRIDEGROOr,
SET ON BRIDE S STEPo
Pittsburg, Sept. 4.—Having perpe
trated jokes on all his friends who have
been married, John McGraw. of Car
negie street, employed at the H. K.
Porter locomotive works, was given
the worst treatment ever accorded a
bridegroom in this city. He had an
nounced that he was to be married at
5 p. m. yesterday at St. Mary's Roman
Catholic church, Forty-fifth street. This
was done to fool his friends.
They were on hand an hour earlier,
and at 4:30 caught McGraw and his
bride leaving the church. He was forc
ibly taken and placed in a tool box. His
bride was sent in the carriage to her
home. The crowd carried the box
around for three hours yelling and toot
ing horns. The box bore the legend:
"He won’t be home until morning."
McGraw was locked In a vacant
house the remainder of the night and
at daybreak placed in the box again
and the box locked was set on the
doorstep of his wife's home with the
key to the padlock attached to the door
bell. McGraw today said he would
have all his fool friends arrested.
BOMB EXPLOSION
LAID TO GAMBLERS
Chicago, Sept. 4.—A dynamite bomb
tvas exploded in the front yard of the
residence of ex-Sherilf James Pease,
322 Dover street, last midnight. It
broke many windows and tore a hole in
his lawn.
The members of the Pease family
were home in bed and none were in
jured. The police have a theory that
the bomb was another of the series in
the dynamite war of the gamblers and
was exploded in front of Mr. Pease's
residence by mistake.
They think it may have been meant
for the residence of “Bud" White,
which is a two-story house similar to
that of Mr. Pease, but located at 1S19
.Magnolia avenue, two blocks away.
The entire neighborhood was aroused
by the noise of the explosion and Mr*»
Pease, running to the window, saw
three men getting into an auto 200 feet
distant.
The auto immediately sped away.
Members of the Pease family could
throw no light on the attempt to wreck
the residence.
GOVERNMENT CLAIMS
ROGERS IS A CRIMINAL
Washington, Sept. 4.—Successful in
its anti-rebate prosecutions of Stand-*
ard Oil, the United States government
will renew more confidently its effort.4
to force the dissolution of the trush
Out of the mouths of officials and
employes the government proposes td
establish the monopolistic character o4
corporations. This proof will be se
cured from more than fifty witnesses,
who will be examined in New York be
ginning Wednesday.
The policy to be pursued has beer*
framed with the utmost care, the In
tent being not merely to dissolve thk
trust, but to institute criminal prose
cutions of the “men higher up.”
John D. Rockefeller and John D
Archbold are entitled to immunity
through their appearance in Judge
Landis’ court, but Henry M. Flagler
Charles Pratt, O. H. Payne, William
Rockefeller. H. H. Rogers and other*
have no claim to governmental consid
eration.
CHINAMEN WORSHIP
GODDESS OF LIBERTY
THINKING IT A GOD
New York, Sept. 4.—Mistaking the
statue of liberty in the harbor here for
tlie American God, thirty-seven Chi
nese sailors who visited this port for
the first time, burned 750 Joss sticks in
reverence before the strange shrine.
When the Warwick liner, Braemer,
from China and Japan, slipped through
the dusk to anchor below Liberty isl
and. Wah Y’u, the oldest of tile Chinese
crew, rushed aft and chattered down
the hatch. A few seconds later thlrty
beven Chinamen piled out on deck in
tin excited state.
They lined up at the port rail while
Wah Y'u disappeared in the direction
of the temple, which they had rigged
up in the stern, and where Joss sticks
are kept.
NEW FIND OF LEAD PENCIL WOOD
Washington, Sept. 4.—Advices from
Manila say New York capitalists are
becoming interested in a report that
the woods of the Philippines have been
found available of use in making lead
pencils. This sort of wood has been
very scarce in all parts of the world.
ONE-LEGGED MAN SAVES CHILD
Milwaukee, Sept. 4.—E. A. McGrath,
a lone legged station agent at Stowell,
,1s a candidate for a Carnegie hero
medal.
Whtje sitting in his station lie was
signaled that an engine was approach
ing. He went out, and looking about,
•aw 5-year-old Emma Hamich playing
on the track.
McGrath hobbled up the track as fast
as he could, reached the child, dragged
tier from the rails, and then threw
himself Into the ditch just as the big
engine thundered by.
PENALTIES SURE TO
FOLLOW LAND FRAUDS
3overnmerit Proposes No Let
Up to Work of Running Down
the Grabbers.
HIRED TO BUY PROPERTY
Uncle Sam Learns That Paid Me»
Made Purchases—1,000,000
Acres of Coal Lands
Involved.
Washington, Sept. 4.—Big develop
ments in the western land fraud prose
rutions are yet to come. Within the
next few months. If everything goes
well, the government will be ready to
take steps for which it has been pre
paring for two years. Colorado, Wy
oming and Utah will be the scene of
the new developments. Following the
successful land fraud prosecutions in
Oregon and California, the Interior de
partment arranged for a thorough In
vestigation In a half dozen states, and
it Is now known that the results of
these Investigations, when they are
made public, will be startling. The In
vestigations have proceeded far enough
to show that an enormous acreage of
land, which formerly belonged to the
federal government, has unlawfully
passed to individuals and corporations,
and that practically the entire coal
,supply of Colorado, Utah and Wyom
ing. which formerly belonged to the
government, is now in the possession
of three or four big corporations.
It Is the Intention of the govern
ment not only to prosecute criminally
the Individuals who, it Is alleged, un
lawfully got possession of this govern
ment property, but to attempt, through
civil proceedings, to recover for the
government title to this valuable land.
The Union Pacific and Denver and Rio
Crande railroads and the Colorado Fuel
and Iron company are the chief of the
corporation offenders from whom re
covery will be attempted.
Five 5>core Ssleuths.
Denver is the seat of the present
operations of the government forces at
Work on thp alleged frauds. It is
learned here that for nearly two years
100 secret agents have been at work
In the states in which the interior de
partment had reason to believe that
fraud had been practiced. The work
pf these men has been reworded with
results far beyond their expectations,
or the expectation of the officials of
the interior department. The evidence
against alleged offenders is now in
shape for the department of justice
to take hold The judicial machinery is
In motion in Colorado, Wyoming and
Utah. Earl Cransford, United States
district attorney at Denver, a son of
Bishop Cransford, of the Methodist
church, is entrusted with the prosecu
tion of thp offenders. 1-Ie is to be as
sisted by able special counsel provided
by the department of justice. At the
recent sitting.of the federal grand jury
in Denver, indictments were returned
against fifty-six persons for land
frauds. Many of the indicted men have
been prominent in the business and
political affairs of the state. Among
those caught in the net were several
Missouri and Michigan men, who, hav
ing been led to believe that the gov
ernment was '‘easy." undertook to get
possession of the land without going
through the usual lawful formalities.
The work of this last Denver federal
grand jury was only a beginning.
When the jury meets again in the fall,
the secret service force which has
operated in the state under the direc
tion of Special Agent Wheeler will be
ready to submit evidence on which it
is expected to return a large number of
indictments. Unless the plans of the
government miscarry, some of the
heads of the Union Pacific, the Denver
and Rio Grande and of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron company will be indic
ted. With the criminal net thrown
around the alleged land grabbers, the
government will institute cicil proceed
ings to recover title to the valuable
coal lands of which it has been illegally
deprived.
Hired to Take Land.
The investigations have disclosed the
same methods used by the land grab
bers in Oregon. Men were hired to take
up land and on getting possesion to
turn it over to the corporation or in
dividual employing them. It is alleged
at least one million acres of coal and
timber land in Colorado, Utah and Wy
oming passed illegally from the govern
ment to corporations. The criminal
prosecutions and civil proceedings
which the government is about to un
dertake are the most Important of re
cent years. The evidence in hand
shows that the corporations have, in
some instances, mined most of the coal
and cut most of the timber rrom the
unlawfully acquired lands. Whether
the government shall attempt to re
cover the value of this coal taken out
of the ground and the timber sold is
now under consideration.
ii limy lie mat *. j. weney of Sun
Francisco, who so sucessfully prose
cuted the land grabbers In Oregon, may
be sent to Denver to assist District At
torney Cranston. He will be retained
if the government decides hts services
are needed. Mr. Cranston has made an
excellent record. The recent grand
Jury Indicted every man against whom
he submitted evidence charging land
frauds and the department of justice
Is confident of convictions. The secret
service men are confident they huve
woven an unbreakable web of evldenci
about the large number of offender!
high in the business, social and politico
life of the three states, Utah, Wyoming
and Colorado. Ethan Allen Hitchcock
inaugurated the investigations when he
was head of the Interior department.
"Pay dirt" had been struck before Mr.
Garfield become head of the depart
ment and if there has been any change
in the department's policy since the
change in secretaries it has been to re
double the efforts to put lawbreakers
in jail and recover lands for the gov
ernment.
WAS WORTH A MILLION. }'
New York. Sept. 4.—The estate left*
by Richard Mansfield Is valued at $800,
OGO. His will is to be read before the
funeral Monday afternoon. It Is be
litveil that the entire estate has been
bequeathed to Mis. Mansfield and her
eon. Judge Dittenhoefer, who Is named
as executor, cites the possessions of the '
deceased actor as follows: Stocks
bonds, rights to plays, $200,000: scenery’
costumes, dramatic effects, $200 000-'
house at 316 Riverside drive, $130j)00:
three estates at New London, Conn’
$150,000. Life insurance amounting '9
$250,000 is the rer.ld
LABOR DAY PARADE
STARTS A RIOT
San Francisco. Cuh. Sept. 4. The1
labor union parade yesterday resulted
in the shooting of two men by em
ployes of the United Railroads at noon.
The carmen, it Is alleged, were attacked
by the paraders and claim to have,
opened fire in self defense. The trou
ble started at the Ferry, where, it is
.stated, Sutei street car broke through
the line of paraders. A mob of labor
union men followed the car, and at thq
lunction of Suter street the members
attacked it. The motorman. fearing his
life was in danger, opened tire ar\c|
wounded one of his assailants in th^*
1 leg.
A block further up an inspector was
attacked by the mob. He was suddenly
.struck in the face and ran from his
assailants. They followed him to tho
’coiner of Suter and Montgomery
streets, where they overtook him. Ho
drew a pistol and aimed at a labort
union man. who carried bricks in his
hands. The inspector opened fire and
shot the man through the groin. Six
.shuts were fired.
A riot call was sent into the police
and fire departments, and a force of
‘police and firemen were soon on thd
scene. The men who did the shooting
were arrested, but several rioters who
were seized by the police were released*
HEARST SCORES TRUSTS
THAT TEMPT OFFICIALS
Jamestown, YTa., Sept. 4.—Williar^
Randolph Hearst, in his Labor day ad
dress at the fair, said in part:
“Labor day should rank next to the
Fourth of July as a characteristic
American holiday. The Fourth of July
commemorates tho means by which wo
obtained our independence as a nation
and Labor day commemorates the
means by which we have made our na
tion the most powerful, the most proi
gresslve. the most prosperous of any
in the world.
; “Some nations have grown great by
conquering their weaker neighbor^
Others have grown rich by despoiling
dependent colonies, but this nation has
grown to be the greatest and the rich
est of all through the peaceful develop
ment of its own resources by the honest,
.labor of its citizens.
“In this country labor is universal
and is universally honored and appreS
elated. In this country there is nc
working class, but every man worthy
of the name Is a workingman.
“In this country' there is no class of
men that work with their hands whll&
another class work with their brains. In
America all men work with their brains
and when we say that American labor
ers are the most efficient on earth we
do not mean that their hands are dif
ferent than those of other men, but
that their minds are clearer, quicker
and more effective than those of other
men.
m inis country uie inernanies work,
the farmers work, tile clerks work, the
business men work, the professional
men work and even the millionaires
work. We have no aristocracy save
that of Intellect and industry, and the
proudest title of our most successful
millionaire is 'captain of industry.'
"In a country where all men are
working men there should be greater
community of interest, better mutual
understanding and sympathy. It Is In
behalf of this better understanding that
I speak today. I have no patience with
the prejudice which exists between al
leged classes when the classes them
selves do not really exist.
' There is no reason for hostility be
tween employer and employe, between
capitalist and wage earner.
"Capital Is but the accumulation of
wealth which employer and employe
create together.
"Wages are but the division of profits.
Both employer and employe are en
titled to their share of the profits, and
as long as the division Is just and
equable there is no occasion for con
flict. If the division is not Just It can
always be made so by arbitration, and
there Is still no occasion for conflict.
"Let us regard one another as fellow
workingmen and treat one another with
consideration and tolerance. Let us all
labor harmoniously to create wealth In
order that there may be (he greatest
possible amount to Lie Justly divided.
"A condition of class hatred such as
lias developed In Colorado Is a curse to
this country, and is valuable only as a
hideous example of a mistaken course,
Jo be hereafter forever avoided.
"I hope that such a condition has
been averted in San Francisco—from
which city I have Just come—but much
has been said In the east to misrepre
sent the union workingmen of San
Francisco. To set them right, to do
them Justice, it is only necessary to
state the exact facts with kindergarten
simplicity.
“You hear much today of how a may
or of San Francisco has fallen, but you
hear little of how powerful public ser
vice corporations tempted a wretched
human being with great wealth and
brought a once respected man to ruin
and di-grace.
“You hear much of how a mayor
elected on a union labor ticket is In
jail, but little of the fact that it was
in honest district attorney, elected on
the same union labor ticket, who put
Mm (here, an honest district attorney
who is doing his best to put aside the
rmyor, the man really responsible for.
■ 11 this debauchery and dishonor.
"While it Is the fashion to criticise
"an Francisco Just now, I venture to
assert that the only difference between
San Francisco and some other cities
is that San Francisco Is punishing her,
• orruptionlsts. !
“There is many an official elsewhere
who lias stolen office or dealt in public,
property who would fare like Schmitz
i" there were more honest and fearless
district attorneys like Union Labor I
Langdon.” ,
_-A-_
WAGES NEVER SO HIGH
AS THEY ARE NOW
New York, Sept. 4.—More than 5,000,
100 men and women, members of the
.ibor unions, spent the day celebrating)
;he one day of the year set apart in!
>nost states and territories of the union'
is a tribute to those who earn their,
fully bread by brawn and brain. From,
ill parts of the country comes the in
formation that the laboring men and
women fared well In the last twelve
Months, and that the day is celebrated'
with enthusiasm. There have been'
.'swer labor controversies than usual,'
and only four serious strtkes. 1
The general situation throughout the
country Is good from a labor stand
point. Wages, according to reports in
the hands of the federal bureau of
abor, were never so high In this coun
try as now. nor were there ever before
50 many men at work. Hours have
shortened rather than lengthened and
tlie remuneration, according to the
govern ment experts, generally kept'
pace with the increased cost of living.
HAYWOOD THE ORATOR
AT OMAHA CELEBRATION:
Omaha, Sept. 4.—The greatest Labor'
Jay parade that ever marched the
streets of Omaha was pulled off today.';
fen thousand members of unions were
represented in the procession, con
spicuous among whom were a large
Jivlsion of the striking telegraphers,
with the women members In carriages
carrying a banner indicating their de
r.ands.
Wm. D. Haygood, of the Western
Federation of Miners, spoke at Syndi
cate park this afternoon.
FISH THREW HARAHAN
OVER UPON A TABLE
New Version of Eye Witnese ta
Trouble in Illinois Central
Directors’ Meeting.
| FIGHT WILL BE BITTER
j Road’s President Returns to Chicago
Grimly Vowing Vengeance
—No Quarter to Bo
Shown.
Chicago, Sept. 3. -James Theodore
Harahan, president of the Illinois Cen
tral, arrived In Chicago fresh and smil
ing. His face, on close inspection,
(showed no traces of the blow dealt hint
by Stuyvesant Fish, deposed president
.of the road, in the directors* meeting in
yVevv York
Concerning the physical encounter
which took place between him and Mr.
(Fish, President Harahan maintained
an ominous silence. It was the silence
of *one who has been caught once, but
never will be again—who Is concocting j
a far more thorough revenge than a
(squabble of words or a blow with the
(fiat on the jaw.
By a Witness.
A new version of the encounter Is
•given In New York by an eye witness,
This man said Fish did not actually
strike Harahan. What really happened
he said, was this: Mr. Fish accused
Mr. Harahan of being a mere tool of
Harriman. After the motion made to
adjourn the meeting had been acted
upon by the president it was that Har
ahan called Fish a liar.
Immediately Fish rushed some fifteen
feet to where Harahan stood, grabbed
him by the neck, and threw him over
backwards on a table. While Harahan
was not struck, either while he was
down or afterwards, it was only after
he had turned purple in the face that
he was allowed to get up None of the
other directors Interfered.
nil uiu ui uuyc.
Mr. Harahan himself on his return
cleared up two points in the contro
versy. He stated emphatically that the
break between him and Mr. Fish did
not occur when he was elected presi
dent in November, 1906. but had been
a matter of five years’ standing before
that.
As to the cause of the severance of !
the old friendship, Mr. Harahan re- I
fused to give any information, but It |
was learned from one of his close |
friends that it arose ever what Mr. !
Harahan regarded as improper treat- i
ment he received from Mr. Fish in a I
financial deal involving Mississippi
properties.
Fight to Be Bitter.
Mr. Harahan also wished It under
stood plainly that lie owed nothing to
Mr. Fish; that Mr. Fish was not re
sponsible for his rise in the railroad
world, and that his connection with
the Illinois Central did not begin until
his election as second vice president by
the board of directors in 1890.
From Mr. Harahan’s entire attitude
it was evident that the fight is to be
a bitter one from now on—that no
quarter will be shown. The enmity be
tween the two men, which mirrors
forth the struggle of the forces for and
against E. H. Hartlman, will come to
an issue in the annual meeting of the
stockholders of the road to be held in
Chicago, October 16.
BAER BLAMEsThANNA;
READING ROAD REPLIES
Philadelphia, Sept. 3.—The Reading
railroad today made answer to the suit
filed by the federal government to
break up the coal monopoly. The an
swer of the company, of which George
F. Baer is president, is a general de-»
nial of the allegations of the govern
ment.
The answer says the advance in coal
In 1900 was brought on by the intimi
dation of the miners and the refusal
of the government to send troops to
enforce the law and protect the coal
companies,*a» .veil as by the importun
ities of the late Marcus A. Hanna, who
it is alleged was anxious to break the
strike on account of the impending
presidential election.
SENT WARNING THAT
BRIDGE WAS UNSAFE
New York, Sept. 3.—Thomas Cooper,
of this city, who has been consulting
engineer in charge of the work on the
huge (antilever bridge across the St.
Lawrence river, which collapsed Thurs
day evening, keenly feels the accident
which caused seventy-nine men to lose '
their lives. In a statement made to I
a reporter today he reproached himself
for not having visited the bridge for !
two years. Ill health prevented him j
doing so, and he has been attempting |
to release himself from his position for j
that reason. Mr. Cooper made the
statement that, the inspector told him |
things did not look well, and he tele- |
graphed the men In charge of the work
to get off the bridge and stay off until
it could be examined. Cooper does not '
know whether the warning was re- I
ceived before the accident.
SHOW TOO NAUGHTY
EVEN FOR EDWARD
Marienbad, Sept. 3.—King Edward ;
hns administered a rebuke for the i
singing of indelicate songs In places
of public amusement, and his action,
which was taken publicly, has created
intense excitement in Marienbad.
His majesty entered a cafe chantant
and after listening to one or two num
bers of the program, he walked out as
a protest ugainst the scandalous na
ture of th» performance. A Viennese
company was jilaylng. His majesty
was followed by the duke of Teck and
other members (if his suite and all the
Americans snd Englishmen present.
•'This is hortible, appalling," said
the king to a member of his entour
age, and the accuracy of his descrip
tion of the performance is admitted
on every side.
BRITAIN PLANS
AERIAL FLEET
Aldershot, Sept. 3.—One military
secret has been kept in England. It
is learned Just now for the first time
that for the past two years the con
struction of a military airship has been
in procres3 tiere and it is probable that
•within the next month Aldershot will
see the first of a British aerial fleet
floating over the parade ground*.
SWEDISH PRINCE HAS
THE TIME OF HIS LIFE
New York, Sept. 3.—Wilhelm, Duke']
nf Sodermanland and grandson of King
Oscar, of Sweden, reached New York
from Newport by rail, and gave an.
Informal dinner at the Hotel Astor,
to the officers of his cruiser. the>
I'ylgla, and a few others. After that
he started out In the direction of Coney
Island In an automobile.
The prince, as he was known at
Newport, announced before he had
been here two hours that he was sick
of fuss and feathers. When he re
turned from Oyster Bay he added that
all official obligations had been dis
posed of with the visit to the pres
ident, and he hoped to find time to,
see all that was Interesting here dur
ing the remaining four days of his
visit.
At Coney Island.
At 11 p. in., with ex-Sherlff Buttling
guiding them, the prince and his little
cartage, with their hosts, arrived at
Coney Island in touring cars. They
speeded to Dreamland where a big
crowd had gathered to see a real live
sample of royalty.
No sooner had the prince entered
than he said: "I want to see the In
cubator. I must see the incubator.”
But his guides whirled him off to see
"Creation,” leaving the incubator to
the last. They wished to whet the
royal guest’s appetite for the other
spectacles.
Deputy Controller McCooey and
Captain Wclborn, secretary to Deputy
Police Commissioner Bugher, took care*
of the visitor. They escorted him,
through every amusement place in
Dreamland, guided him up to the top
of the big electric tower, where he saw
the great city by night and then, aft
er many exclamations of:
"The Incubator! Let me see the In
cubator.” The royal guest was taken
to Dr. Fishers apartments and
promptly became interested In Fannie
Jones who weighed seventeen ounces
«hen taken In charge a short time
ago. The hosts thought they’d have
to drag the prince away, he was so
absorbed In studying the tiny human
i reature that lay wrapped In soft cot
ton.
Shoots the Chutes.
Fred Thompson had kept his Luna
park ablaze all night awaiting the
party, and a dense crowd poured In
to the enclosure to see the royal
stranger. Mr. Thompson threw the
doors of every amusement place in
Luna park wide open for his highness
and attendants.
The prince didn’t miss a single at
traction. He shot the chutes with the
zest of a red-blooded school boy and
nt 12:30 a. m. was still bustling about
smiling and having the time of his life,
BICYCLE RIDER
FALLS 50 FEET
TO HIS DEATH
While Crowds Watch Man Loop
the Loop Handle Bars
Break, Causing Fall.
Jefferson, fa.. Sept. 3.—Luclle Qor
Inan, who perforins the sensational
feat of diving from the loop from a
100-foot Incline, at the White carnival
on a bicycle, went down yesterday aft
ernoon to his death.
At the place where the man and bi
cycle speed through the air the handle
bars suddenly broke nnd the young
man fell head foremost fifty feet to the
ground.
A cry of horror went up from the
large audience and they rushing
round him saw him as he lay uncon
scious In a mushed heap.
Doctors were called, but gave no
30pe for his recovery. Aside from a
serious fracture of the skull, his body
s mangled and bruised.
INFATUATED WITH
GIRL BALL PLAYER,
HE LOSES HIS LIFE
'owan Falls Victim to Girl't
Curves; Slips Off Deck of
Boat and Drowns.
Davenport, la.. Sept. 3.—Death in
file Mississippi was the fate of John
Behrens, who ran away from home a
fortnight ago, while Infatuated with
the pitcher of the Boston Bloomers
oaseball team.
Young Behrens fell off 'he Bloomer
girls' private boat ' Nellie," anil was
lead when rescued Hi- parents, who
',-ad opposed Ills devotions to the fe
male h 'setull star, are now oro.-u i toil
telephone^ujrsT
[ I TEEN PERISH
Mattoon, 111.. Sept. 3.—Fifteen per
sona were killed and about fifty in
jured in a head-on collision between
nn interurban express train consisting
cf a motor car and trailer and a trac-i
tlon car on the Mattoon and Charles-}
town electric line.
The crash occurred in a sharp curve •_
one mile west of Charlestown, and was
due to a confusion of orders receive^
over the telephone, which worked'
badly. *
The cars approached each other at
a high speed and the impact was sq
terrific that the motor car and trailer
were telescoped by the traction car.
The passengers, nearly all of whom
were en route to the Cole county fair
at Charlestown, were crushed and
maimed where they sat In their seats.
Telephones are placed every few
miles by which orders are transmitted
to the conductors and motormen of the
cars passing over the road.
CURB BROKERS A^E
NOT TO BE OUSTEtt
New York, Sept. 3.—The application,
to oust eurb brokers from Broad street
lias been denied by Judge Guy in su
premo court. James Allen, an attor—
.toy, wifi an ofSce near the spot, was
the complainant, raying the curb trans-.
ct.ons l'.terferred with his business,
"ojlisei fa- the brokers submitted the;
’ n i f i ther tenants in the vi
f,;n.v they were not tits'}
■' curb brckaca