LUMBER KING DIDN’T
WANT TO BECOME A
TRUST EMPEROR
T. W. Walker Declined to Form
Combination to Control
Output of Forests.
Minneapolis, Minn.. Feb. 24.-Content to
bo simply the largest individual owner of
timber in the world, T. B. Walker, the
Minneapolis millionaire lumberman, has
rejected the opportunity to become the
trust emperor of the world—to be greater
even than John D. Rockefeller, commonly
termed the richest man in the world, and
at that only a trust "king,” ruler of a
kingdom which would be puny compared
■with the empire of lumber over which Mr.
Walker might have reigned.
Mr. Walker disclosed this fact, at the
same time declaring he did not believe In
trusts, though characterizing John D.
Rockefeller, creator of the Standard Oil
trust, as “one of the best citizens of the
United States — honorable, Just and
square.*'
For the first time, too, the fact was
brought out that, whatever Mr. Walker’s
view ot a lumber trust may be, he Is him
self the greatest of lumber kings. For he
was introduced before the Minneapolis
chapter of the American Institute of Bank
ClerWas “the largest individual owner of
timber in the world,’’ and his statements
as to his position in the lumber world all
went to support the assertion.
Mr. Walker said that he Is not a believer
In trusts, and that, should there ever be
an attempt to form a lumber trust, he
would break up the combination. “Such a
trust, wrould, without doubt, be one of the
most powerful In the country,” he said.
“It would be capitalized at $600,000,000, as
against $100,000,000 for the oil trust. But I
have always maintained that if such a
move were made I would break up the
combination. I control enough timber
lands to make such a combination impos
sible In. case I antagonize it. I have been
appro%£)ied and asked to form and become
the mb^ager of such a trust, but I have
declined.”
AIMEE LLOYD, “WOMAN
IN BROWN” CONFESSES
Rochester, Minn.. Feb. 24.—Galled by
the monotonous life in the county jail
here, where she has been in confine
ment since October, and welcoming
most anything if it were a change from
a situation that has become abhorrent
to her, Aimee Lloyd, who was charged
with a series of bold forgeries and
swindles upon merchants and other
business men of Eastern cities as well
as of Rochester, appeared before Judge
A. H. Snow, of the district court, and
pleaded guilty to the indictment charg
ing her with obtaining money on a
fraudulent check. She was sentenced
to the state reformatory at St. Cloud.
She is a woman of wonderful beauty
and was once socially prominent in
Winona where her family still lives.
Mrs. Lloyd’s resolution to plead guil
> ty and begin her term came as a great
surprise to every person connected with
this extraordinary case. No court qual
ified to receive her plea of guilty was
convened here at this time, but Judge
A. H. Snow, of Winona, was advised
of lhe wishes of the fair defendant and
consented to come to Rochester and
hold a special term.
No friend or relative attended Mrs.
Lloycl in court and there were only
a few spectators of her humiliation.
The fact that her Winona relatives
have ignored her from the outset no
doubt had its effect in causing her to
plead guilty at once rather than stand
a long trial.
\ Mrs. Lloyd broke down when sentence
was pronounced and sobbed aloud. She
wouM make no statement, but her at*
torney, Thos. Spillane, said: "Mrs.
Lloyd had a good defense, but for fam
ily reasons I could not prevail upon her
to use it.”
The woman now admits that the man
Albert who called on her in jail, is her
husband. He has apparently forsaken
her.
AMERICAN OFFICERS
REGARD SENTENCE OF
GEN. STOESSEU JUST
♦ ♦
♦ STOESSEL’S FORMER ♦
-f SERVANT TAKES LIFE, 4i
■f SO GREAT IS GRIEF. ♦
♦
Hartford, Conn., Feb. 24.—Because +
4 of her regret over the conviction of 4
■+ General Stoessel at St. Petersburg, 4
4 Amelia Karris killed herself by in- 4
4 haling illuminating gas. The girl 4
4 was a Russian and had formerly 4
+ been employed in the general's fam- 4
♦ Hy. ♦
Washington, Feb. 24.—The sentence
of General Stoessel is regarded by
American military officers as the
logic pi consequence, both of the sui
rendpr of Port Arthur and Russian
military discipline.
That the sentence is justified is the
generally expressed belief. The con
sensus of opinion is that Port Arthur
was surrendered prematurely. The con
siderations which entered Into the mili
tary problem which General Stoessel
Ttad to face are summed up here as em
bracing a choice between standing out
to the last ditch, and in that way
keeping the besieging army engaged
and not free to strike at another point,
and surrendering because the ultimate
result was apparently hopeless.
The American articles of war pre
scribe death as the penalty for exactly
suel* conduct. Such a sentence, how
ever has never been carried out in this
country, although it was imposed in the
■case of General William Hull, who sur
rendered Detroit In the war of 3 812.
General Hull was subsequently cash
iered in lieu of the sentence because
of his previously excellent record.
COLD WAVE KILLS~
FRUIT IN SOUTH
New Orleans. I,a„ Feb. 24.—Early
fruits and vegetables, mostly Intended
for shipment to the North, have been
damaged by the cold wave the lust
two days.
WOMEN AID SALOON
MEN IN CAMPAIGN
Springfield, 111., Feb. 24.—Anna Wil
lard. from Chicago, heads the executive
committee that is expected to do great
things in saving the jobs of men who
met here today and formed the state
■organization of bartenders and hotel
and restaurant employes. Miss Willard
is not a bartender, but she is going to
help her co-laborers on the committee
who are. The work of killing off the
/, untl-Auloon movement is the most im
portant decision of the convention.
[ IN CONGRESS ,
T__ i
I
4 FLEET SURELY WILL 4
4 RETURN VIA SUEZ. 4
4 4
4 Washington. Feb. 25.—Confirm- 4
4 ntlon has been given to the re- 4
4 port that the American battle- 4
4 ship Meet, after completing its 4
4 voyage to San Francisco, will re- 4
4 turn by way of the Suez canal. 4
4- The information was given out 4
4 by Secretary Metcalf in answer 4
4 to an invitation from the Aus- 4
4 tralian government to have the 4
4 Meet, or at least some of its units, 4
4 visit that country. After expres- 4
4 sing his appreciation to Aus- 4
4 trnlla, the secretary said: 4
4 "The eventual movement of our 4
4 Meet has not yet been deter- 4
4 mined. While it Is probable that 4
4 the vessels will return by way of 4
4 Suez. I would be glad if some of 4
4 them could be sent by the Aus- 4
4 tralian route, but it would be 4 ■
4 premature to promise this." 4
♦ 4
HINSHAW, OF NEBRASKA,
TAKEN ILL AT FUNERAL
Spartanburg S. C„ Feb. 25.—Repre- ,
sentatlve Edmund H. Hinshaw, of Ne- j
braska, one of the congressional party
accompanying the body of Senator Lat- j
inter to the latter's home at Belton, I
became ill just before the funeral tralr j
reached here. Physicians were sum
moned to the station and it was found '
that Mr. Hinshaw was suffering from
bladder trouble. After they had ad- '
ministered relief the train proceeded tc
Belton.
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CONFEDERATE GRAVES
SHOULD BE MARKED
Washington, Feb. 25.—A joint resolm
tion for the marking of graves of sol j
diers and sailors of the confederate
army and navy who died in Northern j
prisons and are buried near the prison?
where they died, was reported by Sen
ator Foraker.
UNCLE SAM DOESN’T
PAY FILIPINOS’ SUPPORT
Washington, Feb. 25.—Secretary Taft
made an argument before the Senate
committee on the Philippines to in
crease the Philippine commission tc
nine members. The bill was ordered j
reported favorably.
“There is not a cent paid out of the
United States treasury for the support j
of the Filipinos.” This statement by j
Secretary Taft to the House committee
on insular affairs is regarded by the !
administration as decidedly important!
information.
The secretary made one exception, the '
small amount expended in charting the 1
rocks of the harbors by the coast and !
geodetic survey, and expressed th<*
opinion that the information thus
gained was cheaply obtained for the
benefit of the navy.
TO ENLARGE HOMESTEAD
TO 320 ACRES OF LAND
Washington, Feb. 25.—Representative
Mondell, of Wyoming, has introduced a
bill providing an enlarged homestead ir
the states of Colorado, Idaho. Mon
tana, North Dakota, Nevada and
Wyoming, and the territories of Ari
zona and New Mexico, by allowing any
person who is a qualified entrymar
under the homestead laws of the United
States to enter upon 320 acres of land
net exempted by law.
BiLLICK S ACCUSER
ADMITS HE LIED
Chicago, Feb. 25.—It was anon uncoil j
today that a sworn confession had beer !
obtained through the Instrumentality of I
Rev. P. J. O’Callaghan, head of the I
Paulist fathers of this city from Jerry
M. Vrzal, age IS, whose testimony in a
great measure served to convict Her
man Billik. the Bohemian fortune tell
er, in which Vrzal declared the evi
dence given by him was simply per
jury.
Billik Is under sentence to be hanged
March 20, the supreme court having
just affirmed the Judgment of the trial
court.
In the purported confession, young
Vrzal not only Impugns his own testi
mony but declares two of hts relative;
falsified on the witness stand. In an
affidavit the boy states that all of the
vital part of the evidence he gavf
against Billik was perjury, taught him
by a high police official and an assistant
state’s attorney, and specifically names
these men.
Father O’Callaghan has been Inter
ested in the case for some time; and has
repeatedly expresed his belief In Billik’!
innocence.
MARYLAND BREAKS
WORLD RECORDS IN
MARKMANSHIP
San Francisco, Feb. 24.—The record o
the recent target practice at Magdalena
bay shows that the Maryland made two
world’s records with three-inch and six
inch guns. Out of IS.65 shots per minute
with the three-inch guns the Maryland’*
men made 18.65 hits per minute, a perfec
record of 1,000 per cent without a singb
miss. This is the highest score ever mad*
with this particular gun. The Maryland
not anly carried off individual records
but also led in the highest score made
among all ships.
The range measured about 1,60ft yards
and the men were obliged to train theii
guns on canvas targets 12x20 feet in siz*
and checkered in black and white squares
Six cruisers participated in the shoot. It
the final score the following percentages
were attained:
Maryland. 78.89; Tennessee, 6S.24: Colo
rado. 63.68; Pennsylvania, 57.80; West Vir
ginia. 55.70; Washington, 55.50.
HERMIT LEAVES BIG
PILE OF WHISKY JUGS
FOR HIS MOURNERS
Columbia, Mo, Feb. 25.—James W
Turner. 81 hermit farmer living six mile.'
from here, who frequently declared ht
wanted a monument built of whlskj
jugs is dead.
On his farm is an abandoned eon
crib almost filled with empty whlslo
jugs, that Turner is said to have emp
tied himself during twenty years and
which he saved for his monument. I
t- averred that he drank not leas thar
a quart of whisky a day for 20 years
He was 45 year3 of age. He owned £
well stocked farm of 480 acres on whief
he lived the life of a recluse.
CZAR’S COUSIN WAS
TARGET OF PLOT
St. Petersburg, Feb. 25—Official an
nouncement was made today by tin
minister of the interior concerning thi
plct which was discovered and frus
lifted two days ago by the police, tin
object of which was the assasslnatioi
of Grand Duke Nicholas, second eouait
to Emperor Nicholas and M. Chtcheg
lobiloff minister of Justice. The de
tails correspond to those already given
The official announcement ascribes the
attempt directly to the social revqlu
lionary party.
POISON! GAS KILLS
BELMONT S DAUGHTER
New York, Feb. 25.—Mrs William
Proudflt Burden, who was Natlca
Rives, daughter of O. H. P. Belmont
and a society favorite in New York,
Newport and Washington, was found
dead In bed at her Fifth avenue home.
Death, the coroner decided, was acci
dental and due to gas poisoning. A dis
connected gas tube, which had led from
a chandelier to a drop light, so placed
that Mrs. Burden might read while
propped up In lied, had permitted a
flow of gas that filled the room and es
caping Into the hall finally attracted
the attention of the servants.
Mrs. Burden was 22 years of age and
since her marriage on April 17, 1907
she and her husband had heen occupy
ing the beautiful home of the latter's
father, the late James A. Burden, at
90S Fifth avenue. The discovery of her
death threw the household into con
fusion, and when the facts became gen
erally known created a sensation in the
social set to which the Burdens belong.
“Goodnight.”
Mr. Burden had spent the night in
another part of the house and learned
of hls wife’s death from the servants,
who had entered her room at 10 o’clock
In the morning. Entering the house at
11 o’clock at night, Mr. Burden had
noticed that a light was still burning In
his wife’s room, and passing the door
called out, "Goodnight." Mrs. Burden
responded, “Goodnight," in a tone that
Indicated that she was In her usual
health and spirits.
Mrs. Burden had heen In the habit of
reading after retiring and this practice
recently led her to have a gas reading
lamp placed In her room. This stood
on a stand conveniently near the head
of the bed. At 10 o’clock, Mrs. Burden
leaving directions that she be called at
10 o’clock In the morning, dismissed her
maid and settled herself In bed with u
book. The greeting of her husband an
hour later was the last heard from the
room.
Passing through the hall on her way
to Mrs. Burden's room on the second
floor in the morning the maid detected
the odor of gas and hastily entering
the chamber found her mistress dead
The room was filled with gas, though
a window was open several Inches from
the bottom. The fumes were pouring
from the rubber tube direct into the
dead woman’s face. Mrs. Burden’s
physicians, Dr. Flnnicutt and Dr. H. H.
M. Lyle, were summoned, and they In
turn notified the coroner. The latter’s
Investigation showed that the tube had
been disconnected from the lamp. Hav
ing apparently become drowsy Mrs
Burden had reached from her bed and
turned off the lamp cock instead of tak
ing the troujole to get up and shut off
the gas at the chandelier Jet. In some
manner undetermined the tube became
loosened at the lower end and, slipping
off the feed pipe of the lamp, laid in
such a position that the flow of poison
ous gas was directed in the sleeper’s
face.
C'JAST LINE TO
BREAK RECORDS
Chicago, Feb. 25.—According to Pres
ident Marling a record has been made
in the construction of the Milwaukee's
Pacific coast extension never before
equaled in the history of railway
building. Mr. Failing and a party of
St. Paul officials returned last night
from an extended inspection of new
lines.
In the party was C. A. Goodnow,
•formerly general manager of the Alton
and also formerly general superintend
ent of the St. Paul road. It is under
stood that Mr. Goodnow was to accept
service on the coast extension work,
but Mr. Marling said that there was not
to be an appointment just yet.
The president of the Milwaukee an
nounced the opening of the line to bom
bard or Terry, Mont. This is the place
where the road crosses the Yellowstone
river and near where the Missouri rises.
SALESMAN WINS
AN IOWA HEIRESS
Chicago, Feb. 25.—The love of a
banker’s daughter for a traveling sides
man triumphed last night over parental
objection, and in a justice court at
Crown Point, Cupid chalked another
victory to his credit.
Miss Augustina Duncombe, daughter
of the president of the First National
bank of Fort Dodge, la., figures as
the heroine in the romance. Her mar
riage to G. H. Willington was per
formed only after the two had over
come innumerable obstacles. Immedi
ately after the ceremony Mrs. Will
ington returned to her home in Fort
Dodge, while the groom came to Chi
cago.
The two met three years ago. The
banker frowned upon the attentions
which Willington bestowed upon ills
daughter. Several months later the
couple planned to elope. Their ar
rangements were upset by the vigilant
father, who sent his daughter to
Europe. There she remained for two
years, but all the while she longed
to return to the United States, so that
sh< might meet her admirer.
Mr. Duncombe permitted his daugh
ter to return home last December, but
she and Willington did not meet until
three weeks ago, when she again paid
a visit to friends in Chicago.
DUMPING GROUND
OF ALL CRIMINALS
Nov.- York. Feb. 25.—That New York
Is a dumping ground for the criminals
of Europe and that Immigration au
thorities are to blame for this fact, Is
the opinion of' Police Commissioner
Bingham expressed In an interview.
"We have had records of 50 Italian
criminals." said Mr. Bingham, “which
would exclude them from this country,
or once here should bring about their
deportation. Out of these 50 only six
have been deported, notwithstanding
the fact that the police have been ready
to furnish the immigration officials at
all times with Information to keep out
and send out of the country these ha
bitual criminals.
ANOTHER DRYFU8 CASE?
Toulon, Feb. 25.—Chas B. Ullme, an
ensign in the Flench navy, has been
found guflty by a eourtmarilal of at
tempting to sell naval secrets to for
eign powers. He was sentenced to life
lmprlsonmeent and degraded from ills
rank.
CARNEGIE GIVES $1,1C0
FOR NEW PIPE ORGAN
Esthervllle, la., Feb. 24.—The trustees ol
the Methodist church met in the old
church Thursday evening and signed a
contract with the Estey Organ company,
presented by their representative from
Vermont. Mr. Nealy, for i pipe organ to
cost $2,200.
Andrew Carnegie, through the efforts of
the pastor here, has donated $t,100 toward
the new organ.
The organ will b? Installed In the new
$25,001) brick church which Is nearing com
pletion and which will be dedicated ia
about six weeks.
RAILROADS THREATEN
TO CUT OFF MANY OF
THE COUNTRY STATIONS
Say They Cannot Get Operators
Enough to Otherwise Com
ply With New Law.
Washington, Feb. 22.—A proposition
Very serious to many thousands of peo-|
plo residing at. and in the vicinity ofj
small railroad stations throughout the,
country Is presented to the Interstate'
Commerce commission In informal pe->
tltton in which the Wabash Railroad
company asks for an extension of time
of the going Into effect of the nine
hour law which applies to railroad em
ployes who have the direction of the
movement of trains. It Is declared In
the petition unless the order of ex
tension Is made, either by the commis
sion or by congress, the only alterna
tive will be to close a large number of
stations on the Wabash road. This ac
tion, It Is recognized, will Impair the
efficiency of the service, result In pub
lIc inconvenience and Interfere with the
prompt movement of trains, but the
(Vabash officials assert they see no way
out of the difficulty Into which they
ivill be plunged by the operation of the
BW.
It Is pointed out In the petition that
In order to comply with the provisions
of the law, the company would have to
employ an additional telegraph oper
ator at each of the 245 stations on Its
line. Thus far, the company says it
has not been able to secure the services
of efficient and competent operators In
such numbers as wifi enable It to com
ply with the act.
Other railway companies have taken
substantially the same ground as the
Wabash. They maintain their absolute
Inability to secure a sufficient number
of competent telegraph operators to;
man their wires as the law, after the
4th of March will require. It is pointed
out that In complying with the law
their only recourse will be to transfer
the operators now In their employ to
stations of greater Importance and
larger traffic, thus practically closing
many of the small stations where now
the operator performs the duties of
ticket agent, freight agent and teleg
rapher.
The seriousness of the situation pre
sented by the railroads is realized fully
by the Interstate Commerce commis
sion, which will endeavor to reach some
satisfactory adjustment of the matter
before the law becomes operative.
UNION PACIFIC TO SELL
BOND TO PAY DEBTS
New York, Feb. 22.—The directors of
the Union Pacific railroad have decided,
acordlng to Information obtained to
day, to sell at the earliest possible mo
ment not less than 235,000,000 worth of
bonds to pay off Its floating debts. The
bonds will be secured by first mortgage
on 1,600 miles of branch lines In Kan
sas, Missouri, Nebraska and Colorado.
KIDNAPERS DRAW
LONG PRISON TEnM
Chicago, Feb. 22.—William Jones, also
known aa William Birmingham, and his
wife, Alzina Jones, were found guilty by
a jury In Judge Kersten's court of hav
ing kidnaped Lillian Wulff, a 12-year-old
girl, from her home in Chicago last De
cember. The punishment of Jones was
fixed at thirty years and thut of his wife
at twenty-five years in the penitentiary.
The Wulff girl was enticed from her
home in the southern portion of the city
,by Alzina Jones early in December last
’and forced to enter a covered wagon In
which Jones was waiting. A week later
the couple was found near Momcnce, 111.,
with the child In their possession. The
identity of the child was suspected by
a farmer, of whom Information was asked
by the abductors as they traveled through
the country, from widely printed stories
of the kidnaping. The authorities were
notified and Jones and his wife were ar
rested and brought back to Chicago with
their victim.
Jones under questioning by the police
endeavored to shift the blame upon his
wife, asserting thut It was to console her
for the loss of a child by death that he
took the child.
The woman declared, and so testified
at the trial, thut she was forced by Jones
under threats of death to steal the child
that he might train her to beg for him.
She declared that all the while she was
persuading the little girl to accompany
her she was menaced by Jones, who sat
In the wagon with a shotgun in his hands.
The Wulff child took the stand in court
and testified that after being taken pris
oner, which was accomplished by promises
of candy and a pair of new shoes, her
clothing was taken from her and burned
by the roadside and that she was whipped
by Jones on several occasions when she
attempted to escape. When found she
was clothed in rags. The case attracted
widespread Interest at the time of the
abduction, reports of the child having
been found being received from far and
near and numerous clews having been
followed before the recovery of the child
was consummated.
Mrs. Jones claimed to have been at on*
time a member of the Salvation army
In Evanston, 111., and admitted having
been convicted several years ago In Kan
sas City for horse stealing. For this crime
she was sentenced to serve two years’
Imprisonment, but was paroled after hav
ing served two months.
Jones also was charged with having kid
naped a child In Kansas City. This child,
Ella Cates, was found in an Institution
In Dubuque, la.
EDISON’S PLAN IS
NOT PRACTICABLE,
SAY CEMENT MEN
Des Moines, la., Feb. 22.—Members
of the Iowa association of cement
users. In annual convention here to
day declare Edison's plan for mak
ing cement houses will not be a suc
cess. They declare the cost of moulds
will be enormous and that all houses
would look alike, thus det acting from
popularity.
Sioux City sought to land the next
convention, but Des Mclnes offers a
new coliseum as an Inducement, which I
probably will result In the selection
of Des Moines.
BODY CUT TO PIECES
BY THE MURDERERS
New York, Feb. 22.—The dismemj
, .bered body of a man believed to be aa
'Italian was discovered In a dump on the :
i Flat Bush section of Brooklyn today. 1
' .The trunk had been cut In two i*jrtlons. |
j The arms and legs are missing, while
the face Is so slashed as to make the !
! features almost unrecognizable. The
1 severed portions of the body were
wrapped In oilcloth and t/ed In two sep
arate packages.
i “STAMP BIDDER”
SCORES ONCE MORE
Boston, Mass.. Fob. 24.—Abraham
White, the “postage stamp bidder," Is
the man behind the throne who profited
by Baldwin Bros.' coup whereby they
obtained approximately $3,000,000 ol
the recent issue of New York city
bonds at nn average cost of 104, mak
ing a net profit of about $126,000.
White came over to Boston today and
took part In a meeting of the stock
holders of the Massachusetts Bonn and
Guaranty company, which certified the
$166,00 check of Charles A. Baldwin,
W. A. Baldwin. S. B. Tlngloy and A. E.
Held, In whose name the allotment was
made. Incidentally White was elected
president of the company.
White Is jubilant at his latest coup.
It makes the sixth of the kind that he
has worked since the day ten years
ago when, as a telegraph operator, he
took advantage of a message he heard
going over the wires and, by the In
vestment of 44 cents lit postage stamps,
obtained an allotment of $1,500,000 of
United States bonds that netted him
$200,000.
...
j IN CONGRESS
JOHN MITCHELL MAY
BE SENT TO PANAMA
Washington, Feb. 24-That John
Mitchell, the retiring president of the
United Mine Workers of America, may
be asked by President Roosevelt to
go to Panama and mnko a report on
labor conditions. Is one of the re
sults which may accrue from u con
ference on Panama affairs at the
White House. The president. Secretary
Taft and Colonel Goethals considered
not only the labor phase of the Isth
mian situation, but many others. Col
onel Goethals received final Instruc
tions and will sail for the Isthmus
next week.
No conclusion was reached as to the
appointment of Mr. Mitchell, and It ts
understood that James Reynolds, the
president's Chicago packing house In
vestigator. also was considered for the
same work. The necessity of having
accurate information on labor condi
tions on the Isthmus has been empha
sized recently by numerous minor
complaints which are coming to
Washington. It Is considered desir
able nlso to have expert Information
on the manner In which the reforms
ordered, as a result of the Investiga
tion of Miss Betts, have been made ef
fective.
Reductions In forces are being
made by the canal commission In the
divisions of building, construction and
that of mechanics; also In the clerical
force on the isthmus. Notwithstand
ing these facts there has been a con
siderable number of unemployed me
chanics and clerks migrating to the
Isthmus recently, but their chances of
securing employment are very remote.
The commission Is anxious that prom
inence be given these facts, ns any
vacancies will be given to former em
ployes who have not left the Isthmus.
Some time ago President Dolan, of
the Steam Shovelers’ and Dredgers'
union, went to Panama to see how the
shovel men were getting along under
the new management as to hours of
duty and pay put In operation by Sec
retary Taft. In a letter to the presi
dent. dated “Canrtl Zone. February 7,”
Mr. Dolan says as a practical man he
feels that this Is one of the best
equipped and handled jobs that has
ever been carried on In the world.
^ MMtMM > i
t LEAK IN NAVY £
♦ BEING PROBED. ♦
4 4
4 Washington, Feb. 24.--An effort Is +
4 being made by Secretary Metcalf to 4
4 ascertain the source of the Informa- 4
4 tion alleged to have been furnished 4
4 to magazine and other writers who +
4 have criticised the constructive fea- 4
4 tures of the battleships of the navy. +
4 With this object in view he has 4
4 caused letters of inquiry to be ad- 4
4 dressed to various officers including 4
4 Lieutenant Commander Win. S. 4
4 Sims, inspector of target practice +
4 and naval aide to the president and 4
4 Lieutenant Commander Frank K. -4
4 Hill, now connected with the gen- 4
4 eral hoard of the navy, requesting 4
4 categorical answers to certain lead- 4
4 ing questions on the subject. 4
•e 4
FOR 8-HOUR DAY
IN GOVERNMENT WORK
Washington, Feb. 24.—The House
committee on labor is nearing a re
port on the Gardener bill to enforce
the observance of an eight-hour day
in all work touching directly or indi
rectly government projects. The best
available information at the time is
that a majority of the committee will
report adversely on the bill.
ARMY BILL GIVES
PRIVATES MORE PAY
Washington, Feb. 24.—The army ap
propriation bill's provisions for increas
ing the pay of soldiers finally repre
sented a compromise, as the measure
came from the House commltee.
Nothing whatever was done for the
officers, even for those of the lowest
ranks, who are conceded in many cases
to need consideration even more than
the privates.
Rut the measure makes provision for
increased pay of privates and noncom
missioned officers, In a measure which
Is expected to Increase somewhat the
desirability of the army service as an
employment for men. It provides that
the private at his first enlistment shall
hereafter be paid $15 per month instead
of $13 as now; on his second enlistment,
$18 Instead of $16; third enlistment, $21
instead of $18; fourth enlistment, $22
instead of $19; and so on, until at his
10th enlistment he will be puld $25 In
stead of the $22 now allowed.
The noncommissioned officers are
given snug Increases; while members of
bands are given their present wages,
plus an amount which is thought to
equal their probable eurnlngs from
playing for private hire, and a proviso
Is inserted that army musicians shall
not hereafter compete with those in
private life by thus playing for enter
tainments for hire, There has been
much complaint against this practice
In the past.
NO EMIGRATION TO
AMERICA BECAUSE OF
LACK OF WORK HERE
Antwerp, Feb. 24.—Emigration from
tills port 10 the United Rtatis has prac
tically ceased because of the belief that
it is now very difficult to get employ
ment there.
OUR NAVAL POLICY IS
DEFENDED BY PERKINS
Washington, Feb. 24.—A defense of
the policy of sending American battle
ships to the Pacific ocean, maintain
ing that tlie vast expenditure on the
new navy was fully warranted, was
made lri the Senate today by Senator
Perkins, of California.
"The policy," he said, "which sent
the fleet to the Pacific Is wise and
.necessary if we are to retain on that
ocean the prestige that will give a
lair, open field to our sea trade."
RIOT IN PARADE
JOF UNEMPLOYED
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unemployed throughout the country +
and prayed that they may be given +
♦ an opportunity to subsist. >
Philadelphia, Feb. 24.—The marching of
nearly 1,000 foreigners upon city hail,
where they said they Intended to make
demands upon Mayor Reyburn for work,
precipitated a riot in Broad street late
yesterday afternoon, in which* twenty per
sons were Injured before the police dis
persed the marchers and arrested four
teen of them.
The men, most of whom were Italians
and Poles, marched from the foreign set
tlement in the lower section of the city.
The leaders and a score of others car
ried red Hags having a black border. When
they reached Broad street a few blocks
below the city hall, several wagons at
tempted to pass through the line. The
drivers were dragged from their seats by
the marchers and beaten.
Policemen ran to the rescue and a riot
call was sent In. The motor bicycle police
were sent through the center of the city
and rounded up the entire mounted police
squad, the big reserve street squad and
all patrolmen, who were hurried to the
scene in wagons and automobiles. Pri
vate carriages wrere even pressed into serv
ice. A number of persons who were
watching the paraders got Into the first
disturbance, and when the big reserves
hurried down upon the marchers a gen
eral riot was In progress.
Some of the marchers drew revolvers
and began firing at the police, and the
mounted officers, riding into the center
of the fight, used their batons right and
left upon the heads of the leaders.
In the melee three policemen were shot
and slightly wounded and Charles Munn,
who was watching the fight, was struck
In the leg with a stray bullet. Reserve
Officer Plott was beaten unmercifully and
is in a hospital, as is Policeman Smith,
who first went to the reacue of the driv
ers. Henry Drudlng, one of these, wag
beaten and nearly stripped of his cloth
ing. Fourteen participants in the dem
onstration were severely clubbed and had
to be sent to a hospital.
The claah occurred directly in front of
one of the big hotels in Broad street,
and for a time it looked as though the
marchers would sweep Into the place,
Joseph Trol is declared by the police
to have been the leader of the marchers,
while Dominic Donnetti and Michel Cos
tello were assistants. Donnetti, accord
ing to witnesses, is the man who shot
one of the policemen, and with the other
two he was locked up on charges of In
citing a riot and assault and battery wltk
intent to kill.
The other eleven prisoners are charge*!
with inciting a riot. Nearly all those ar«
rested carried weapons of some sort.
SAME CONDITIONS
OBTAIN ABROAD
Sunderland, Eng., Feb. 24.—In view o#
the recent demonstrations of the unem
ployed here, whose ranks are being aug
mented daily by the engineers allied t*»
the shipbuilding trade, 300 men from thp
royal artillery garrison have been drafted
to assist the police should the occasloni
arise. The engineers went on strike two
days ago after voting not to accept a
reduction in wages.
COLLEGIAN TIED TO
T.:EE in A BLIZZARD
BY HAZING PARTY
flu'.esburg. III., Feb. 24.—Clarence
Robinson, a student of Hedding col
lege at Abingdon, during the worst
blizzard, was tied to a tree In Hedding
college park and almost perished from
exposure. Only his pluck saved him.
He was gagged and bound hand and
foot and carried to the west campus
and tied to a tree. The snow was
blinding, and he soon was benumbed.
Toward midnight he freed himself, but.
unable to unbind his feet he crawled
six blocks through a foot of snow to
his boarding place. He was assisted
into the house, where he collapsed from
exhaustion, but recovered.
The faculty Is making a close Inves
tigation.
28 MEN KILLED
tN EXPLOSION IN
POWDER FACTORY
Berkeley, Cal., Feb. 34.—With a forca
that shook the entire bay region like an
earthquake, the packing house of tl»«
Hercules powder works at Plneole, 14
miles north of here, blew up. In the
explosion four white men and 24 China
moil were killed. Ten tons of dynamite
went up in the terrific blast. W. W.
Stillwell, foreman of the packing house,
was blown to atoms at his post at
duty.
The Hercules plant is owned by the
Dupont Powder company, and Is used
for the manufacture of black powder of
high explosive power. The loss to the
company Is placed at about $100,000.
No definite cause can be given.
PIPE HER SOLACE
AT 102 YEARS
New York, Feb. 24.—Mrs. Sarah.
O'Brien nut up In her bed at St. Fran
ces hospital und called for her pipe.
Then she looked around on the ward
full of old women and smiled:
"Well, children, and how Is the health
of ye, Clod bless ye nil? Never did I
expect to see this morning when James
O'Brien led me into good Father McGll
llcuddy's church In Ballycarra. It la
102 years old that I am today, children,
and ye make me think of a nursery full
of babies.”
The old women in the ward, ranging
from 60 to SO years old, gathered around
her bed and congratulated her as one
of the sisters brought her black clay
pipe filled ready to light. The centen
arian puffed for a smiling moment.
"Girls,” she then said, looking around,
"it is smoking ye ought to bo, instead
of drinking that black coffee of a morn
ing. Ye'll never live to be a full-grown
woman like me If ye don’t take to tha
Pipe.” _ _ _
SALARIES TOO HIGH;
TO REFUSE LICENSES
Jefferson City, Mo.. Feb. 24.—Superin
tendent Van Diver, of the state insur
ance department, announced today that
when the state licenses of the Metropol
itan, Equitable and Prudential Life In
surance companies expire March I, ho
will refuse to grant licenses for next
year because of the act passed by the
‘ last legislature prohibiting the licensing
; of any company which pays is oiiicera
salaries over $1.0,660 par annum.