NEW BURLINGTON LINE IN PROSPECT Directors Approve Branch Be tween Kearney, Neb.,1!and a Montana Point. Cheyenne, Wyo., Feb. 11.—The Bur lington railroad directors have ap proved of a new line from the Bur lington's connection with the Union Pacific in Montana to its terminus at Kearney. Neb.. General Manager Hold rege of the Burlington stated in a hear ing before the state engineer of Wy oming. The hearing was for the purpose of listening to a protest by the Burling ton against the erection of a power ■dam on the Big Horn river by S. A. Boysen. The Burlington claims a right ■of way through the Canyon, and it will Interfere with its purpose if the canyon Is blocked by a dam. tills being the only route out of the Big Horn basin in Wyoming tor the road, the Burlington NOTORIOUS FEUDIST KILLED BP HiS SON 4 NO REMORSE 4 4 OVER TRAGEDY. 4 4 Jackson, Ky, Feb. 10.—Beach i 4 Hargis, who killed his father, Judge 4 4 James Hargis, yesterday, made a 4 4 statement today in which he said 4 his fattier attempted to assault 4 4 him when he went into the store 4 4 before the shooting. He expresses 4 4 no remorse over the tragedy. 4 Jackson, Ky., Feb. 10—Former Coynty Judge James Hargis, for many years member of the state democratic execu tive committee, accused of complicity In many murders and a prominent fig ure In the feuds which have disturbed Breathitt county for several years, was shot and instantly killed in his general store here by his son, Beach Hargis. The son fired five shots in rapid suc cession at his father, who fell dead while his clerks were waiting on cus tomers. The two men are reported to have had a quarrel several night ago, when the father. It ts alleged, was compelled to resort to violence to restrain his son. Young Hargis. It Is said, has been drinking heavily of late. Judge Hargis, it is said, spoke to his son about his drinking and a quarrel resulted. Father and son stepped behind a counter in the store, when the son, after only a few minutes' conversation, drew a re volver and fired five shots. Four took effect, the noted mountain character falling dead. Young Hargis was arrested and placed In jail. He was raving like a maniac and the officers were com pelled to drag him to Jail. Purchased Own Casket. Judge Hargis will be buried in a casket which he himself purchased about a month ago. Some time during the early part of last month Judge Hargis went to the National Casket company at Louisville and requested that he be shown the most elaborate coffin the company had In stock. Noth ing suited him and he finally ordered one along his own ideas, costing $1,500. The following telegram has been sent to the company: “Express the casket selected by James Hargis, as he Is dead. “Mrs. (Judge) James Hargis.” TRAIN JUMPS TRACK; NO ONE IS KILLED Olean. N. Y., Feb. 10.—The Pennsyl vania express train from Baltimore was wrecked today near Franklinville, 21 miles north of here. No one was killed. Sixteen persons were more or less injured. The coach, sleeper and locomotive were thrown into a small creek. Among the injured are; Wilson Guggenheim, A. C. Nell, C. W. Townsend, of Washington; L. P. Claw son, Toronto; W. C. Blackmore, Chi cago; W. Kilmer, Olean, N. Y.: Kugene Kleist, mayor of North Tonawanda. IN CONGRESS NO INCREASE IN PAY OF POSTAL EMPLOYES Washington, Feb. 10—"In the face of prevailing business conditions on which postal revenues are based, and in view of the large increases granted last year, I think it is extremely im probable that the committee will this year recommend any general increase of salaries of postal employes outside of the regular classification advances.” This statement vaus made by Chairman Overstreet, of the House committee on postoffices and post roads. EXPOSITION GIFT PASSES; OPPOSED BY BURKETT Washington, Feb. 10—During the de bate in the Senate on the Alaskan ex position Senator Burkett said the prop osition to hold the exposition did not originate in Alaska. “It has been put forward,” he said, "by a lot of boomers of Seattle, who propose to boom their real, estate and their own private in terests.” "The men that promote this exposi tion." said Senator Burkett, "are not the men who have to bear the re sponsibility for the bins incurred. They start an exposition.” he said, "and unload their ideas on the com munity and then demand our money and the money of every nation on earth to pay for it." The bill was passed. LARGE ADDITION TO NATIONAL FOREST PARK Washington, Feb. 10.—The president has signed a proclamation creating ad ditions in the Trinity national forest, California. They amount to 350,471 acres. The additions are contiguous tracts of timber lands lying mostly in Humboldt and Trinity counties. They make the total area of the Trinity for est nearly 1,600,000 acres. The value of the timber included in the addition is estimated at $4,600,000. COUNTRIES TO UNITE IN SAVING NIAGARA Washington, Feb. 10.—Preststent ef forts are to be made in congress to prevent the re-enactment of what is known as the Burton law passed in 1906, governing the disposition of the waters of Niagara Falls. The object of,that enactment was to conserve tha waters of the falls against the en croachment of commercial enterprise, It was destined as a purely tempon ary measure to be supplanted by a gen eral convention or treaty on this sub-i ject between the United States an 1 Canada and which is intended ti| cover also the disposition of other wa4 lers forming a boundary line between the two countries. The Burion law expires In less than a year and a half. HOUSE PASSES THE OMNIBUS CLAIMS BILL Washington, Feb. 10.—The omnibu I claims bill, carrying a total allowing $316,000, In payment of claims for stored and supplies furnished the army of the United States during the civil war, claims of volunteer officers for service pay, and claims by churches, colleges and other societies, was passed by th House today. The bill carries recommendations con forming to the findings by the court of claims under the Bowman act. Among the larger amounts are; Illinois, $S,8U0; Missouri, $17,300. GIRL ACCUSED OF FORGING CHECKS HELD TO GRAND JURY Chicago, Feb. 10.—Estella Taylor, a young woman from Minneapolis, who was recently arrested in Galesburg, III., on a charge of passing numerous forged chocks in this city, today was held to await the action of the grand Juiy in bends of tl.GOO. In a prelim inary hearing it was contended that the young woman was insane. RAILROAD EARNINGS TO DECREASE—HILL Great Northern Magnate Does NotTake an Optimistic View of Situation. Now York. Fob. 11.—James J. Hill, chairman of the board of the Great Northern railway, says the coming summer will show a decrease in rail road earnings over last summer. "I am not so much of an optimist," he said, "as to predict that railroad earnings thi« summer will not be be low those of last summer. I am sure they will be. But there are more peo ple in this country than ever before, they are people of fair intelligence. What the country needs now is rest. Bet us have rest and let a stop be put to this ghost dancing; everything will work out all right. "Things aro quiet enough every where, but up in the northwest we are feeling it less than in other places. We have no large industrial plants there. The farmers will plant as much wheat as ever. I should say the per centage Idle equipment on Great Northern was somewhat loss than the percentage reported to be idle on roads of the country as a whole." BUYS OUT THEATER TO AID A HOSPITAL New York,Feb. 11.-Mrs. William K. Van derbilt, jr., again has come to the aid of the Nassau hospital In Mlneola, B. I. She ts deeply interested in the institution which is near her summer home, aJid has aided 1 the management in many ways in the | past. A short time ago it was feared the | Institution would have to be closed for ' lack of funds, but later it was arranged to keep the hospital open. Now Mrs Vanderbilt has panned to give a. big benefit to reduce the debt under which the hospit&l has struggled. She has arranged with the management for a spe cial matinee performance of “The Merry Widow,” to be given in the New Amster dam theater Tuesday, February 11, and has bought out the entire house for that j day. X BCXIB rtmi UVACB Will W OU1U auu the audience promises to be one of the notable society gatherings of the winter. The tickets will be placed on sale at Ty son's agencies In the hotels as well as at the theater. All of the Long Island colonies in tho Mineola section are interested in the hos pital. and it is anticipated there will be a general response to the plan for aiding the ; institution arranged by Mrs. Vanderbilt. 1 Mrs. Claience H. Mackay and Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont are others who have con i trlbuted generously to the hospital's needs j in the past. CORPORATIONS WOULD WELCOME SUPERVISION SAYS GEO. W. PERKINS New York, Feb. 11.—That managers j of the giant corporations would wel- i come supervision by the federal gov- | eminent, was the opinion expressed j by Geo. W. Perkins, of the firm of J. i P. Morgan & Co., tn an address be fore the students of Columbia univer sity. Mr. Perkins defended the big eor i porations as a natural outgrowth of | business conditions and declared that it lias accomplished great good and Is capable in its further developments of accomplishing much more. “There is scarcely a corporation manager of today,” he said, "who would not welcome supervision, could he but feci that it would come from the national government, acting through an intelligent and fair minded official, but to be faced with the re- i quirements to report to and to be sup ervised and regulated by 40 or 50 gov ernments with varying ideas and laws, of course, suggests difficulties that arc almost insurmountable. National su pervision, under a law requiring that < i those who supervise should be prac tical men thoroughly versed in their j calling would solve most of our diffi j culties. I “It is almost heresy to say that j 1 competition is no longer the life of j ■ trade, yet these have come to be fact , j as applied to the old unreasoning and < unreasonable competition by the con- 1 ditions of our day. “The spirt of co-operation is upon us, it must of necessity be (hr next great form of business development and progress.” •‘GEN. ” COXEY TELLS YOUNG TRAMPS TO SETTLE DOWN; VOTE St T.ouis, Feb. 11.—Boy tramps who (vere drawn here by he national con vention of the unemployed, now In ses sion, and who were no* permitted In the councils, which were limited to ' ho boes,'' held n > ice-ting: at which ad dresses were made by men of reputa tion among the wanderers. “Kansas City Kid” was the guest of honor, be cause his "moniker" (monogram) is on more water tanks than that of any oth er traveler, and short speeches, brim ful of advice, were delivered by other well known tramps. “New Haven Kid" contrasted condi tions In the East and West and said his experience had been that a tramp Is more liable to arrest in the East than the West. "Kid Murphy." of Spring field (Illinois), advised against the use of "white line” (alcohol and water), saying it caused many holdups. "Jersey Bed," who recently returned from Africa, advised tramps to keep away from the sea because they had to work hard on ships. "Gen." J. S. Coxey urged the tramps to settle down, that they might be vot ers by the time his bill came up for action In congress. Rev. John Fills and Dr. Reltinan. who styles himself “King of Trumps.” also spoke, urging the tramps to become "hoboes" and seek after work. ONCE WEALTHY MAN IS CHARITY PATIENT St. Louis, Fob. 10.~i>r. .Tamos Shephard Oabanno, founder of fnshfomible Cabanno Place and once owner of most of the land there, now valued at millions of dol lars, has been taken to the city hospital, a penniless patient. HALL F0UNDGL1LTY OF LAND FRAUDS Portland, Ore.. Fob. It —Former Unit ed States District Attorney John H. Hall, Indicted for conspiracy with the Rutte Creek Land. Live Stock and Lumber company, to maintain an al leged Illegal fence which Included ;o, 1)00 acres of public land In Wheeler county, today » as fna%& guilty. The trial ti>« been bitterly fought on both sides. JAPANESE LABOR IS MENACE SAY UNIONS Denver. Feb. 10.—The wage workers of Denver have perfected a permanent organization for the nurpoee of pro tecting themselves against the Invasion of Japanese labor into Colorado. Il will be known as "The Yellow Peril Exclu sion league.” Members pf the indus trial unions are advancing the move ment. During the past few months Japa nese laborers have been imported into Denver and Colorado by the hundreds. They are entering every line of trade, It is nce successfully fought the Standard >11 company, building with his grand lon, W. L. Mellon, a pipe line to the ieaboard, which they later sold to the Itandari for *4,500,000. rHREATS AGAINST LIFE MADE FRANCO FLEE Lisbon, Feb. 10.—The secret and sud len iliglit of Franco, the former pre mier, from Lisbon across the frontier nto Spain, accompanied by his wife mil son, was caused by the threats of leath which had been made against lim Since the murder of the king, franco has been in receipt of many etters, all threatening vengeance. Al ready Franco as dictator had been dotted against and had gone about pro moted by armed guards, who alsc watched his house lest t h o ee who op posed his iron rule should do him harm ind of late to these were added the mmity of those who held that Franco was responsible. Indirectly at least, fot the tragedy of Saturday last. Two of Franco's ministers also have lisappeared. VERY WEALTHY WOMAN TO WED SELF-MADE MAN New York, Feb. 10.—Mrs. Anna tVeightman Walker, widow of Robept J. Walker, of Philadelphia, and daugh ter of the late Wm. Welghtman, made innouncement today of her engagement to Frederick Cortland Penfleld, diplo mat and author. The engagement is of recent date, although Mrs. Walker and her fiance have been friends for years, it was not intended to announce the betrothal until months later, but rumors had spread so it was decided to in -ke it public at once. Mrs. Welghtman Walker inherited n fortune of $40,000,000 under the will of her father, the late Wm. Welghtman, >f Germantown, Penn., who gained his wealth In manufacturing drugs. Fred erick Penfleld. a typical diplomat, is a silfmade man, at one time having been a reporter on the Hartford Courier. WHAT IS SAUSAGE? HERE’S THE ANSWER Chicago, Feb. 10.—"What Is sausage," was determined by United States food experts after a day s conference in ilie Auditorium annex. The commis sion holds: "It shall contain no larger amount of water than the meats from which Is is prepured and If it bears the imjnc descriptive of composition or origin, It must correspond to such descriptive name. 'Blood sausage' shall be distinguished by fresh blood from neat cattle or swine.” II HI. ■■■!! ■■■mil ■■■-!■ .1 III . I —■ .I JOBBERS WILL ASK CONGRESSTO OUTLAW EXPRESS COMPANIES Association Declares There Is No Reason Why They Should Exist. Sioux Falls, S. D.. Feb. 11.—H. M. Jones, of this city, president of the Weotern Fruit Jobbers' association, an organization embracing all the territory west of the Mississippi river, an nounces that his organization expects to ask congress before the end of the present session to enact legislation out lawing the express companies. Immediately following the special re port of the Interstate Commerce com mission upon the business of the ex press companies of the United States, the associate 'n will begin lis organized effort to have the express business de clared Illegal. It was this organization which, two years ago, fought the private car lines all through the session of congress at which the railway rate bill was enact ed. A special committee of the Sen ate spent seven weeks hearing the evi dence collected by the association. As a result of the rate bill, which re quires the railroad companies to own the equipment necessary to transporta tion, the private car lines have been ended. This was accomplished when the Senate voted down amendments to the rate bill introduced by Senator Kittredge, of South Dakota, to recog nize the private car lines as common carriers. Work of Auociation. It was alsa the work of this organiza tion that put a resolution through con gress a year ago, directing the Inter state Commerce commission to Inquire Into and report upon the express busi ness. The commission appointed Spe cial Examiner Brown, who has hejd meetings in Omaha. Kansas City, Chi cago, Dallas and Fort Worth. The fruit jobbers’ association was represented by its attorneys at these hearings, and the express companies by a number of lawyers headed by Frank Stockton, at torney for the Wells Fargo company. Frank Baines, an attorney of Omaha, is now making a brief of the evidence, in behalf of the fruit Jobbers’ associa tion, which he will present to the com mission. The attorneys for the express companies will make a plea for their clients. This will probably be done within a week. The association hopes that the Interstate Commerce commis sion can make Its report to congress within a fortnight, or a month at the latest. Upon that report and its show ings, the association will ask congress to abolish the express companies as a needless tax upon the shipping Inter ests of the country. Fight to Finish. "The report of the commission," said Mr. Jones, "will show that 90 per cent of the business of the express coin psnies is done by employes of the rail way companies. The express com panies have no railroads, no means of transportation. They own practically no property. In most cases their offices are simply rented. All that is required , by them is desk room in which to col lect their money and small storage rooms from which to make deliveries. "Yet these express companies are capitalized at tremendous sums. The shippers are paying dividends on blue . sky to enrich the stockholders of these < companies. We not only pay the rail road companies for transportation a sum they are willing to accept from the express companies as sufficient, but we must pay the express companies an ad ditional sum. We are paying twice for all transportation carried by the ex press companies. "It should be understood the West ern Fruit Jobbers’ association is in this fight to stay. We will keep at It until a law Is passed that refuses to allow any but common carriers to ac cept freight for transportation." ADMiRAL DEFENDS UNCLE SAM’S SHIPS AGAINST MUCKRAKE - I Washington, Feb. 10.—Admiral Converse today submitted to Secretary Metcalf a report upon the results of his investiga tion Into the recently published criticisms of the designs of American naval vessels. It is not probable its contents will be made public until the president has had an opportunity to read it, if then. It may be stated the report undertakes to dem onstrate as clearly as possible the figure* and comparisons of foreign navies. The scale drawings can establish the fact that the fighting ships of the American navy at the date of their design were the best ships in the world of their class and that they are today comparable on even term! with the ships of any other navy. DREW CHECK FOR 1,000 ! KISSES; WIDOW SUES ’ i Newark, N. J., Feb. 11.—When th< breach of promise suit of Mrs. Mar garet Ives, a widow, against Edwin G. Koenig, an ex-widower, comes up fot Jersey adjudication next spring, the friends of both litigants promise to at tend In large numbers. Mrs. Ives, who at the decease of hei husband was supposed to be a woman of large means, begun her suit against Koenig yesterday. She sets forth that until it was known that the late Mr Ives had left little instead of much, she was besieged by suitors, of whom Koenig was the most ardent. i Koenig, she avers, wrote her 81 in- i teresting letters and gave her a check 1 that she couldn't cash. ] The check Is on the federal bank, and | Is for "one thousand kisses," payablt I to Mrs. lies. The check was duly pre i seated, it seems, and a facetious tellei wrote on the back of it: 1 "Bank cannot honor. Maker will havi : to pay In person." j Koenig married another woman, and now Mrs. Ives demands $50,000 dam- , ages. _ _ ARE INDICTED FOR RCB3ING UNCLE SAW Portland, Me., Feb. 11—Geo. Frederick Terry, general manager of the Sawyei Publishing company, at Waterville, and Henry W. Boshan, who for a numbei of years handled second and third clasj mail matter In the Waterville postolfice were Indicted in the federal court todaj for alleged Joint conspiracy to defrauc the government out of postage. It i: alleged the government has been robber of many thousands of dollars a yea* ' lor se*erul years. > .".*.. ■"""» JOHN 0. WILL PROVIDE PLAYGROUND FOR BOYS New York. Feb. 8.—Great summer playgrounds, where city children may hum Indians, is the latest philanthropy in which John D. Rockefeller intends to use part of his wealth, aided by a new reerult to the army of philanthro pists, Harold McCormick, John pi’s Chicago soninlaw. Captain Jack Crawford is authority for the statement. He says he is t® have direct charge of the first play ground to be-opened on a tract of wild erness in Michigan on Portage lakes about 12 miles from the town of Man lstie. The plan provides not only for a playground, but for a systematic su pervision of the boys’ summer play, which will be largely along the lines of hunting, trapping, woodcraft, swim ming, military exercises. Regular ex ercise In the old tricks of the wild and woolly west will be employed and. the boys will go on weekly expedi tions. There will be stage coaches for ths boys to save from the attacks of ban dits, the outlaws being other boys of the vacation crowd. There will be a. typical oldtime frontier post where ths lads will learn the life of the mounted, service. FOUR FIRES AT ONCE IN PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia, Feb. 8.—Four fires early today, all burning at the same time, caused damage estimated at $200,980., the first fire started on the freight steamship Arls, lying at the wharf, loa the Delaware river. Before the name* on the steamer were extinguished, firs' broke out In the drug store of Jacobs' Bros., in Chestnut street, which was( damaged to the extent of $75,000. Ths Macey Furniture company, adjoining, suffered $10,000 damage. The third firs1 occurred at American and Locusti streets, where a large three story build ing, occupied by publishing firms, was completely burned out. The fourth fire started at Marshall! and Rltner streets where four dwell ings were damaged and 20 persons forced to seek shelter from the snow storm. $120,000 FIRE IN RACINE, WI8., CLUB Racine, Wis., Feb. 8.—Five firemen, were injured and a loss of $120,009 was the result of fire in the rooms of ths Racine club early today. Eight men were on ladders on the south wall of the structure when it fell. HURON LAND OFFICE IS DISCONTINUED Washington. D. C., Feb. 8.—Under an 'xecutlve order signed by tho president, he commissioner of the general land ifllce has published a notice of the dis ;ontlnuance of the Huron land offlcs md the transfer of the lands, business md archives thereof to and Its con lolldatlon with the Pierre land dls rlct, the office of which district Is !o .■ated at Pierre. The transfer and consolidation will become effective April I, 1908. Local ifflcefb at Huron will discontinue bual less at the close of business hours on March 31. 1908. The action was recommended In view >f the small range of unappropriated tubllc lands In the Huron district as veil as the cost of maintaining said >fflce, under sections 2248 and 2252 of he revised statutes. SERMAnTaCKIES MUST NJT TATTOO Berlin, Feb. 8.—The practice of tat oolng on the bodies of bluejackets, so vldespread In all navies, and more so n the American and Brltfsh navies han in others, has Just received a se vere blow from a Hamburg physician lulled to attend a sailor of the Ger nan battleship Deutschland; who was luffering from a mysterious wasting lisease. The sick man, with others of hts nessmates who toined with him only i year ago, permitted one of the older :eamen to tattoo on their breasts ths (lcture of their ship as a souvenir of heir period of service. Shortly after vard the young sailor went on the lick list. The ship's doctor not being ib!e to effect a cure, he consulted a ipecialint, who decided that the patient vas suffering from cutlcular tubercu osis. and on investlga^'on It was dis ■overed that one of the other recruits in whom the tattooing needles had teen used Immediately beforehand, had ieen afflicted with the disease sines hildhood. Both men have since been liseharged from the navy as unlit for urther service. The special st reported to the au horitles that other and even more ■lrulent diseases could be transmitted rom one person to another In this way, ind the naval authorities are now do ng their utmost to discourage the prac lc« of tattooing. A Dusseldorf doctor has discovered i simple and painless method of re novtng tattoo marks without leaving icars. After Injecting a pain killer iround the tattooed surface, he makes in Incision and raises the skin contain ng the colored substance, which as a ■ule does not penetrate deeply. He hen entirely punches out the ink with i many pointed instrument or scrapes t away from the inside with a lancet, md then replaces the skin, which In i few days resumes its natural famil ies without Inconvenience to the pa VIRS. SHONTS IS NO SMUGGLE^—THE CASE WILL BE DROPPED New York, Feb. 8.—-The treasury depart ment, It was learned today, will take no urther action following the raid by cus oms inspectors on the home of Theodor® y. Shonts for alleged undeclared gowns mported from Europe by Mrs. Shonts and Ler daughter, Theodora, who is to marry he Due De Chaulnes February 1*5. Mrs. Shonts Is said to have satisfied 10th the president and Secretary Cortel ’ou that there is no cause for confiscation if the gowns on a charge of smuggling. It Is said on high authority that th® ase will be dropped. _AST OF MURDER > SUSPECTS CCN ESSES; GETS LIFE SENTENCE Boudler, Mont., Feb. 8.—Geo. Hast ngs, the last of the Clow murder sus pects, the trio who held up the North jrn Pasific train near Butte last May tnd murdered Engineer Clow, today •onleased to the crin.e and was given l life s.ntence. Henry Gruber con 'essed yesterday. George Towers was tent to the penitentiary tor yy 3 ear* ast week.