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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 17, 1910)
The O’Neill Frontier D. H. CRONIN, Publisher, O’NEILL, NEBRASKA The Vienne coachmen, says a Parle contemporary, are easily frightened. The order heis gone forth that they are to set up In their carriages the taximeter. It has filled the good men with horror, and they have heM a meeting, at which a resolution was passed saying that tf the order be carried out their Industry will be ruined. In place of expending their superfluous energy in protesting and their spare cash In getting ap meet ings they should have sent a deputa tion to Paris to learn how to work the taximeter, for the "tochers" In the French capital have discovered a means of making them register dou ble. Curing Insanity and feeble mlnded ness by opening the skull and doctor ing the brain has undreamed of possi bilities, In the opinion of Professen Cassius C. Rogers, of the Chicago Col lege of Medloine and Surgery, after a summer's study In the Paris hospitals. He thinks that the cases of half of the inmates of Insane asylums are curable. Expressing these views to the Chicago Daily News, he added: "Dr Thierry <3e Martel's new trephine Is the only Instrument known that stops as soon as the skull Is penetrated and it comes In contact with the soft structures un derneath. This greatly lessens the danger in operations on the bead." He was a very beautiful fox terrier gmp, and he did not appear to be Very happy. He was fastened up near a pile of luggage on the northbound boat, and already the sympathetic pas senger had given him helf her tea In « saucer. The puppy was protesting that he wanted more when a little boy strolled up and regarded the dog with •n evident air of proprietorship. "I suppose," said the sympathetic passen ger, groping for something to say. "he’s a very well bred dog?" "Well," said the little boy, hopefully “he's not really well bred yet, hut we hope he will he when we've finished teaching him." A trained ostrich recently discon certed Its exhibitor at a music hall by continually endeavoring to break away from all restraint and to climb over the footlights Into the orchestra. The widely advertised act came to a sud den end, and the professor emerged from behind the curtain and apolo gized for the actions of his pet in about these words: "Lydles ami gen tlemen—HI lutm very sorry to disap point you this hevening. Wo are com pelled to eease our hengagement until the management engages a new or chestra leader. The one at present hem ployed ’ere 'as no 'air on top of *ls 'ead and my bird takes It for a heur."_ The first municipal lodging house for women has .just been opened in Lon don und has been named for Miss Margaret Ashton, who Is a member of the municipal council and an ardent advocate of woman suffrage. On tak ing her place In the municipal council Miss Ashton declared that she would never rest satisfied until the dlscrlini Eatlon against women by the city of ondon In furnishing cheap and decent boarding places for men arid not for women had been remedied. Thero used to be a great enmity between Minneapolis and St. Paul. Considering this Senator Clapp said nt a dinner In the former city: “I re member an, address on careless build ing that I once heard in Minneapolis. •Why,’ said the speaker In the course of his address, 'one inhabitant of St. Paul Is killed by aacldent In the streets every 48 hours.' A bitter voice from the rear of the hall Interrupted: 'Well It ain't enough.' ’’ Malaria, directly and Indirectly, kills more than 20,000 a year In the Mississippi valley alone. As vet our peat government and people seem able to grasp only highly dramatic forms Of death—sensational deaths like snake Wte, oholera and yellow fever. If rat tlesnakes killed 20,000 people here every fear the record would keep the coun try In tumult and confusion, If riot panic, all the time. , Since the death of the late king of the Cocoa islands, George Clunies-Itoss a peculiar legal situation has arisen with regard to his son and heir, John Sydney CJunles-Rttss. As the lslunds are under the Jurisdiction of no other country, and themselves possess no legal maclilnery for administering wills, J. S. Cluntes-ltoss has no means of establishing his claim to them by law. He can only hold the Island* by right of possession. Bismarck said a Russian only had •ense to steal a day's living, a Dutch man a year’s, but nn Englishman, said Bismarck, rarely stole less than a life's keeping. Bismarck said If there was one absolute undevlating rock-bottom fact In Anglo-Saxon makeup and char acter It was thievery all flowered over and spiritualized and hidden bv gar dens of hypocrisy. The hope that the United States and Cuba would some day be linked to gether by a regular steamship service as speedy and luxurious as any be tween America and Europe, has been realized. Havana has been brought within less than a three days' sail of ' rsew York, and travelers may now en joy all the luxuries of modern ocean travel on the voyage. -- » __ i ±o ny to America from Europe, with cut traveling east. Is by no means the ' alf.icult task it would at first appear : to be, since the greatest width of sea to be crossed need not be over five hundred miles. The plan would be to go from North Britain to Iceland ' thence to Greenland, and thence to Labrador. The Lancet says in horror and dis gust: "The present legislative ma chinery, if it canjiot stop the abuse of preservatives, should obviously be scrapped and new works installed." This must be a painful confession against Britain's unfailing boast of honesty. There are some people who are al most finicky about appearances. T would not have run away,” said a man who was accused at the Stratford po lice court of escaping from custody, ‘but another man was arrested at the same time, and it looks so bad for one policeman to take two men." Italy's merchant marine has increas ed in tonnage efficiency rapidly in the last 15 years. Its value now approach es *1,000.000,000. The new subsidy law Will further Increase Italy's investment 1 In ships. Venice and Trieste are rivals I for the commerce of the Adriatic. The * Italian at home is a born sailor. 1 Dairying Interests of the Stavanger district, Norway, have become second duly to the fishing 1 rlustrv and its ’ dairy products find r.g iy sale in Eng- i land and elsewhere in competition with t the choicest dairy pi* iu-'U of Europe 1 and Canada. , ■ ALDRICH MAJORITY TO REACH 15,000 Hitchcock’s Lead Is 21,909 and County Option Issue Is Undetermined. Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 15.—Unofficial and •official figures from all but three counties In Nebraska Indicate Aldrich a majority will be about 15,000. The 89 counties heard from give this vote: Aldrich 121,828. IJahlman 106,718. Ald rich's lead, 14,610. The counties vet to be heard from are Loupe, McPherson and Sioux, which cast a totul of about] 1,800 votes. Kighty-one counties on senator givd these totals: t Hitchcock, 118,279; Burkett, 9 6,370. Hitchcock's lead, 21,909. The race on the remainder of the state ticket la close, with the chances favoring the republicans. Whether either or both houses of the legisla ture will be for or against county op tion has not yet been decisively shown This will require further returns from legislative districts to determine. Senator-elect Barthlng of Otoe, who was on both 'the anti-saloon league and liberal list of acceptable candidates may have tie cast the deciding vote ori county oplion in the senate. He re fused to state today how he would vote. —^— 4 MAN t?OES TO JAIL 4 4 FOR “TALKING BACK” 4 4 TO WIFE IN LETTER 4 4 - -y 4 Long Pine, Neb., Nov. IB.— 4 4 William H. Rlttenbush, a rail- 4 4 roal .roam of this town, ban con 4 4 eluded -that the next time lie 4 4 "Basses'1 his wife he will con 4 4 front her and say the words to 4 4 her face, instead of writing them 4 4 and then sending them through 4 4 the mall. y, 4 Last summer Rlttenbush and 4 4 his wife had some family trou- 4 4 ble. While oat on Ills run he 4 4 wrote her a letter In which he 4 4 expressed an opinion to which 4 4 she took exceptions. The letter 4 4 was turned over to the federal 4 4 authorities, who placed the lias- 4 4 band under arrest, charging him 4 4 with misuse of the mails He 4 4 served four months In lall 4 4 awaiting trial. The hearing 'has 4 4 Just been hud, with the result 4 4 that he has been found guilty 4 4 and sentenced to four months 4 4 making a total of eight months 4 4 In Jail for writing offensive mat- 4 4 ter to his own wife . y. NEBRASKA VICTOR DRAWS A CONTEST Sutton, Republican, Begins a Fight Against His Opponent. Omaha, Neb.. Nov. 15.—Tile board of county commissioners of Douglas county today decided to grunt the de mand of A. I,. Sutton, republican can didate for congress for the Second Ne braska district, who was defeated on the face of the returns by about 300 votes, that the voting machines used In Omaha bo opened and a recount had' County Attorney English advised the board that he had been unable to find any warrant In the law for such a proceeding, but the commissioners de cided to act notwithstanding his opin ion. It Is understood that attorneys for C. O. Lobeek, the democratic candi date will resist the opening of the machines. RATS SET FIRE TO HARTINGTON RESTAURANT Hartlngton. Neb., Nov. 15.—A fire alarm was turned In yesterday morn ing at 6:30 from James Wheeeler's res taurant and chop house on Broadway, the volunteer tire company quickly re »ponded and extinguished the (lames. No great amount of damage was done Dn investigation it was found that the Ire was started by rats carrying Hatches into tlietr nests between the walls. It Is a brick veneered bulbi ng. EXPLOSION RENDS ‘‘U’’ LABORATORY Medical Department of Neb raska Institution Damaged as Result of Fire. Lincoln. Neb., Nov. 15.—A short cir cuit In the anatomy laboratory of the date university college of medicine lere this morning caused the explo ilon of an alcohol tank and a con lequent tire loss of about 315,000. The mlverslty is poorly provided with fire lghttng apparatus, but the city tire de (artment checked the flames before hey did much damage to the rooms >elow. Most of the loss, besides that o the building, was in anatomical and >steologlcal material. COLORADO RESULT IS VERY MUCH IN DOUBT Denver. Nov. 15. -The result of Tuesday's election for attorney general nd railroad commissioner Is still In loubt. The candidates on the republi an and democratic tickets are running o close that an official count probably dll be necessary to decide. I. N. Stevens, republican, for con rressman at large, has not given up lope. The republicans undoubtedly lected their candidates for supreme udges, superintendent of public ln truction and one regent of the state mlverslty. NEGRO GETS AWAY. Cairo. HI.. Nov. 15.—The posse frorv dounds. eight miles north of here, rhlch began a hunt for an unldentl led negro last night, was unsuocess ul. The negro Is said to have robbed drs. Robert Camp of her purse as she tepped from a train at Mounds. NEW YORK. Although he Is 7S ears old. John Spaulding, a veteran epubltcan will walk from New York o Poughkeepsie. 75 miles, starting next Jonday, to fulfill a bet on Henry L Itimson. He called on Mayor Qaynor nd announced hie Intention to start. DEMOCRATS CONTROL NEBRASKA ASSEMBLY Republican State Ticket Is a Winner With County Option in the Balance. Omaha, Neb., Nov. 14—Almost com plete returns from Tuesday’s election In this state show that the republican' itate ticket has been elected by plur-, llitles ranging from 3,000 to 15,0001 The latter figure represents the lead: £f Aldrich, republican, for governor) over Dahlman, democrat. For United] States senator, G. M. Hitchcock has: ivon over Senator Burkett by about) !0,000 majority. The next legislature, according to1 inofficial returns, will stand, 19 dem-l ocrats and 14 republicans In the sen-] ate, 54 democrats and 4<j republicans' !n the house. On the question of county option,, which was one of the principal issues! luring the campaign, opinions differ as, to the result. The democratic plat form opposed county option, while the republican platform Indorsed. It Is, Maimed by the advocates of the Idea that enough members of both houses, ire personally pledged to It to insure Its adoption. Big Vote for Norris. The majority for Congressman* George W. Norris over his democratic! jpponent, R. D. Sutherland, is 3,960.! with every county definitely reported! Vo such victory has ever been reg-1 /stered in the Fifth district by any] tandldate for congress, the nearest approach to it being when McKelghan) :n 1892 swept the district on the pop-1 ulist ticket in a three-cornered fight.) Congressman Norris carried 14 coun-' ties with the following majorities: ) Chase, 181; Clay, 472; Dundy, 235;! Frontier, 349: Furnas, 258; Hall, 638;, Harlan, 285; Hayes, 206; Hltchcocki 124; Kearney, 158; Perkins, 22; Phelps? 158; Rod Willow, 606; Webster, 236. ] Sutherland carried four counties! with these majorities: ’ Adams, 116; Franklin, 18; Gosper.* El; Nuckols, 13. 1 PIERCE COUNTY RETURNS COMPLETE AND OFFICIAL, Pierce, Neb., Nov. 14.—Pierce countyj official gives amendment, for, 740, against, 696; senator, Burkett. 736,! Hitchcock, 1,145; governor, Aldrich, 804) Dahlman, 1,162; lieutenant governor,! Hopewell, 778, Clark, 1,096; secretary! of state, Wait, 782, Pool, 1,096: auditor,] Barton, 823, Hewitt, 1,050; treasurer; George, 792, Hall, 1,092; superintend-l ent, Crabtree, 779, Jackson, 1,111; at-', torney general, Martin. 789, Whitney, 1,052; land commissioner, Cowles, 799,: Eastham, 1,064; railway comtnisslon-i ers, Clark, 796, Hayden, 1,072, Morten-,' sen, 617; congressman, Third district) Boyd, 723, Latta, 1,178; state senator) Eleventh district, McLeod, 766, Kohe) 1,116; representative, Nineteenth dis-J trlct, Record, 725, Kuhl, 1,126; county! attorney, Chas. Steward, republican' 1,224; county commissioner, Boll, re-: publican, 1,010, Fuelberth, democrat, 859. NEBRASKA DETECTIVES CHASE BANK ROBBERS Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 14.—Chief of Po-. lice Malone last night received word) from Endicott, Neb., that two detec-; tives whom he sent there on the re port that the Beattie, Kan., bank rob-! bers were in the vicinity, had located! the suspects and engaged them in a! pistol duel. There were three of the! alleged robbers and they opened fire! on the detectives, but did not harm! them. The suspects escaped to the! country and the officers are chas ing them. FIERCE BLAZE BRINGS DEATH IN ITS WAKE, Two Buried Alive and Four Badly Hurt in a New York Conflagration. New York, Nov. 14.—Two persons were killed and four seriously injured today in a fire that destroyed two upper! floors of the Rosalind apartment house; on Manhattan avenue in the upper: west side of the city. William H. Ab-j bott, a real estate operator, 45 years) old, Jumped from a front window onj the llfth floor and was impaled on aj picket fence, dying instantly. His wife,. 40 years old, was burned to death. i Serious injuries were sustained byj three other occupants of the building, and by one of the firemen engaged in' putting out the blaze. But for the he roic work of the fire fighters it is prob able that many more persons would) have lost their lives. Miss Alice Cullen, 25 years old, a; telephone operutor, who lived on the! top floor, was the most seriously in-' Jured of the rescued tenants. .Her! clothing was ablaze when the firemen! reached her and she was taken to a! hospitul severely burned. Two other fires of the morning oe-! casloned much excitement. The annex to the Algonquin hotel on West Forty-) fourth street, was wrecked in one) blaze, destroying the apartments of! I^rederick Thompson, the theatrical! man, who escaped with some of ills most valued trophies. KNIPPER WINS CHIEF EVENT AT SAVANNAH: Savannah, Ga„ Nov, 14.—Taking thei lead in the first lap and maintaining itl to the end, "B!lly', Knipper, driving aj Lancia car, won the Tiedeman tro phy today. His time for the 11 laps] of 190.3 miles was 3:15:22.67. In addi-! tlon to the trophy, Knipper took down' one prize of $1,000, and other accessor-' les. The Savannah challenge trophy.) 276.8 miles, was won by Joe Dawsoni in a Marmon, in 4:23:39.98. Washing-' ton Roebling, Mercer, running a closei second, collided with some obstrue-i tlon on the track and was stopped, temporarily, within five miles of the! finish. DESPERATE CONVICT WIELDS BIG KNIFE Concord. N. H„ Nov. 14.—Deputy Warden Frank R. Bailey, of the state prison in this city, was seriously wounded, and Dr. Ralph E. Galllnger, the prison physician, and son of Unit ed States Senator Jacob H. Galllnger, was cut In the wrist by a man know ry only as “John Doe,” who is serving a. life term for murder. The prisoner came on the two men from behind and •tabbed them with a luiife. COLERIDGE WOMAN ACCUSEDJK MURDER Eye Witness Tells of Conversa tion and Final Tragedy End ing In Murder. Hartlngton, Neb., Nov. 10-Murder la the first degree will be the charts against Mrs. Maggie Davis, who yes terday was bound over to the circuit court on the accusation of killing ira Churchill. B. F. Halo was introduced as a wit ness for the state in the hearing and testified to having been in the barn when Mrs. Davis came In and walked over to the place where Churchill was milking a cow. He stated that shef said: “You know what I told you, would happen if you lied to me?” Churchill admitted that he had kiiowf} of her threats. Then he saw Sirs. Davis fire four times in rapid succession and also saw Churchill fall oft the chair. During the hearing Mrs. Davis was very nervous and cast furtive glances continually in the direction of Mrs. Churchill and the latter's motherln law, whoj-e the wife, who had been made a widow by a jealous woman’s gun, sat weeping throughout the hear ing. Mrs. Davis killed Churchill last Wednesday evening near Coleridge, and has since been in jail here. As the next term of court convenes November 14, it is thought that the ?ase will go over to the March term as the attorneys can not be ready for trial on such short notice. Mrs. Davis is held without bail and will remain in lall until the time of the trial. HUBERT LATHAM FLIES IN BALTIMORE EVENT Baltimore, Md., Nov. 10—With thous ands of persons gathered in the streets, upon roof tops and at every point of vantage witnessing the spectacle, Hu bert Latham, the French aviator, flew over Baltimore today for the 6,000 prize offered by the Sun and Evening Sun. Latham used his 60-horse power An toinette and consumed 42 minutes, 10 seconds in making the round trip from the aviation field, covering an approxi mate distance of 22 miles. On landing at the field on his return Latham said his engine worked perfectly and he had no trouble In managing his craft. He estimated that his altitude over the city was about 2.600 feet. GENERAL UPRISING DUE IN HONDURAS President Davila’s Rule Is Threatened on All Sides by a Growing Spirit of Revolt. New Orleans, La., Nov. 10—A general uprising in Honduras, with all of the old enemies of President Davila paro ticipating in the movement for his overthrow, is imminent, according to advices brought here last night by passengers on the steamer Orleanian' from Celba and Puerto Cortez. These arrivals say the revolutionary spirit is spreading throughout the lit tle republic, and while the people gen erally do not sympathize with the ac tion of General Valladares, the revo lutionary' governor of Amapala, they* are willing to again rally to Manuel Bonilla, who many believe to be mak ing preparations to revive his revo lution against Davila. As an Indication of the preparations' that are going forward for a concerted movement against Davila, General Me dina, former commandant at Ceiba. has gone to Amapala to consult Valladares and has been joined there by General Lara and Matuty, who were prominent In the recent Nicaraguan revolution. Medina, who is a noted fighter and one of the most powerful political lead ers In Honduras, only recently turned against President Davila. He was cred ited with crushing the Bonilla revolu tion last July. ROBERTS IS ACTING HEAD OF TREASURY _ Washington, Nov. 10.—For the first lime, since Leslie M. Shaw quit, an Iowa man is head of the treasury de partment today. George E. Roberts, di rector of the mint, as acting secretary In the absence of Secretary McVeagli and the three assistant secretaries. COOK AND PEARY ARE BRANDED AS HUMBUGS Knud Rasmussen, Great Navi gator, Says Neither of Them Reached Pole. Copenhagen. Nov. 10.—"Neither Cook nor Peary has a shadow of truth in his claims. "No living explorer nor Eskimo has been within hundreds of miles of the North Pole.” This is the conclusion reached by Knud Rasmussen, say missionaries to Greenland, who have returned here. The missionaries say, too. that thej? bring details of Rasmussen’s cross examination of the two Eskimos. Ah wetah and Eturishuk, upon whose testimony Dr. Cook relied for corrob oration of his claim. After closely questioning these and other Eskimos. Rasmussen is certain that the pole Is still unconquered. Rasmussen, an experienced Arctic explorer, is the Danish inspector of Greenland. His mother was an Eski mo. his father a Dane. Whatever Ras mussen says about Arctic exploration is accepted with the greatest faith here. He was a partisan of Dr. Cook at one time. COUNTRY BANK IN OHIO IS LOOTED BY THIEVES Toledo, Ohio, Nov. 10.—After blowing a portion of the vault through the celling with nitroglycerine, three rob bers took $2,000 from SoJether bank, a private institution at Jerry City, Ohio. 33 miles from Toledo, early to day. The men escaped in an automo bile. It Is believed the men who robbed the Metamora bank early Monday morning, getting $4,000, were involved in the Jerry City affair. GILBERT HITCHCOCK ISSUES STATEMENT ON ELECTION RESULT Declares He Will Stand for the Interests of the People Re gardless of Party. Omaha, Neb., Nov. 12.—Congressman Gilbert M. Hitchcock this morning is sued the following statement in the World-Herald: "To My Friends in Nebraska: From the bottom of my heart I thank the host of personal and political friends in Ne braska who united to give me such a magnificent majority for United States senator. I prize that majority as much because it is a vote of confidence and vindication as because It assures me a seat In the Senate of the United Siatflf **' "I realize full well that this result was only brought about by the sympa thy and support of active and enthu siastic men in all counties of the state. Many of these men I know personally. Many others I know only by reputation and correspondence. I thank you all in this public way because I shall not be able to thank many Individually. "I thank also the many newspapers of the state which have supported me so vigorously and so effectively. I In clude in this not only the democratic, populist and independent press which with few exceptions ably fought my battles, but I Include also a number of progressive republican papers which likewise advocated my election. "I feel Impelled also to acknowledge the considerate treatment which I re ceived from such Important papers as the Omaha Dally News, the Lincoln Star and the Sioux City Tribune. Though business competitors of my newspaper and opposed to my party In politics they accorded to me treatment wmcn was coin just ana generous, t particularly thank my neighbors in Douglas county for a vote which ap parently disregarded all party lines to express good W'ill and confidence, j "My one regret of the campaign is that Mayor Dahlman and some others |on the ticket with me were not suc cessful. "I deeply appreciate the responsibil ity as well as the high honor of being United States senator. I hope to meet that responsibility and shall do my best to merit the honor. "To those who have supported me as i well as to the electorate at large, I pledge myself again to stand in the Senate of the United States for the in terests of the people without regard to party, class or creed. "Gilibert M. Hitchcock.” ALDRICH PLURALITY GROWS IN NEBRASKA Seventy-Three Counties Com plete Give Dahlman’s Op ponent Lead of 11,290. Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 12.—Complete re turns have been received ny The Lin coln Daily News from 73 counties. These give lhe following totals: Al drich, 100,165; Dahlman, 88,865. Al drich’s lead, 11,290. Two years afo these same counties gave Sheldon, 105.184: Shallenberger, 111,066. The total vote on United States sena tor from 67 counties was: Burkett, 82, 309; Hitchcock, 101,844. Hitchcock’s lead, 18,536. In the First district, with Cass coun ty missing, Maguire has 14,348, and Hayward 13,718. In the Second, Lo beck has 15,978; Sutton 15,557. in the Third, with six counties missing, Latta has 13,381 and Boyd 10,178. In the Fourth, with only Polk county missing, Sloan has 19,880 to 18,266 for Good. In the Fifth, with three counties missing, the vote is, Norris 16,854, Sutherland 13,636. In the Sixth, with 18 counties missing. Kinkaid has 12,909, Taylor 12,914. Not enough returns have been re ceived on the legislature to Indicate decisively whether it shall be democratic or republican, or for county option or against. MISS ANGLIN LIKELY TO LOSE HER VOICE Popular Actress Is In Grave Danger of Suffering an Ir reparable Injury. Chicago, Nov. 12.—Margaret Anglin, one of the most popular actresses on the American stage, is in great danger of losing her voice. Dr. George W. Whitfield, who is at tending Miss Anglin, declares that the condition of the patient’s noso and throat was such that a loss of voice sufficient to embarrass her stage career might result unless immediate improve ment follows. Miss Anglin Is at the home of Mrs. O. McG. Howard In Glencoe resting, preparatory to an operation on her nose, which will be performed within the next few days. "Miss Anglin’s condition is very grave indeed," said Dr. Whitfield. “1 cannot for the life of me understand how she was able to work as long as she did with her vocal affliction. ‘Her vocal chords are in terrible con dition. I have prescribed absolute quiet for her and have Issued orders that even her very intimate friends in the city be denied the privilege of visiting her." OIL CASE GOING ON. Jackson, Tenn., Nov. 12.—Jury and witnesses to the suit of the govern ment against the Standard Oil com pany of Indiana, which began yester day, charged with violations of the anti-trust law, had a half holiday to day. In the meantime the attorneys in terested checked over a few thousand of the exhibit to be offered by the prosecution. GERMAN BANKS WILL TAKE TURKISH LOAh Berlin, Nov. 12.—The Dutsche ban] Is at the head of a syndicate of al the principal German and Austria! banks, including the Rothschilds which will take the Turkish loan o 4J7,000,000 Turkish (approximately $31, 600.000). The price is 84 with interes Ht 4 per cent. The loan will be secure< by the custom revenues at Constants nopie. RICH SMUGGLERS HAVE BEST OF IT AT GOTHAM PORT Names of Plutocratic Offenders Withheld If They Pay Fines to the Treasury Department. New York—Special: The enforcement of the tariff law as administered under the Taft administration at tho port of New York, works out this way: Phillip Sevasta, a musician and lead er of the Bronx Zoo orchestra was sen tenced to serve nine months on Black well’s Island, because he imported a harp for his own use and later sold it to one of the pupils. Collector William Loeb will submit to the Treasury department at Wash ington several compromise proposals that have been made by some of the largest importers in New York for a settlement out of court of the discrep ancies the collector’s experts have found in customs duties paid the gov ernment through undervaluations. The collector declines to give the names ot any of these importers. Mr. Loeb declared that between $1, 000,000 and $1,500,000 would be received by the government under these com promises. In each case the government must forego its right to any action in court or any attempt to enforce an impris onment penalty against the guilty im porters. Many Frauds Confessed. Experts of the customs have exam ined the books of many wealthy im porters and have secured confessions in many instances of these undervalu ation frauds. Collector Loeb says the authorities at Washington must pass upon all these cases. in no case have the experts gone back more than two years. It is said that if they did pro ceed further the amounts taken from the government by under valuations would be shown to be nearer $6,000,004 than $2,006,000. United States District Attorney Wise refuses to discuss the matter. He lias received word that the department of justice is co-operating with the treas ury department in these secret com promises. The establishment of Duveen Broth ers, the art and antique dealers, as well as all consignments to them are under the strictest surveillance. Ap praiser Wanmaker said there was no truth In the story of a "ruby rug” worth $100,000 which had been invoiced at $1,000. Prison Sentences Promised. It has been again announced at the federal building in the names of Judges Holt. Hough and Hand that hereafter the prison as well as the financial pen alties prescribed for smugglers and other customs swindlers will be rigid ly enforced. This new policy was decided upon by the department at Washington after Mrs. I. Reynolds Adriance, wife of a: Wealthy Poughkeepsie banker, was per mitted to pay the tariff duties, with several thousand dollars in penalties, on jewelry which she alleged to have attempted to bring from Europe with out making proper declaration. Antonio Zucca, for years one of the most prominent leaders of Tammany Hall, a former coroner, president of the board of assessors and a school trus tee, who presided at the Cooper union meeting the other night, at which John A. Dix, democratic candidate for gov ernor was the principal speaker, ap peared before Judge Martin to plead to an indictment against him for ex tensive customs frauds. Zucca Not Represented. Zucca was not acompanied by coun sel, and Judge Martin fixed his ball at $5,000, which was furnished by Luigi Peirano, of No. 32 Mulberry st. Zucca is head of one of the largest cheese importing concerns in the eoun- * try. whose offices are at No. 25 West Broadway. The charges upon which he was arraigneil cover a period of only two years. There are 16 counts in the indictment. The maximum penaltiy on each count is a fine of $5,000 or two years in prison, or both. Other cheese importers are said to have been indicted at the same time as Zucca. but they have not been ar raigned nor their names made public. Zucca is a member of the executive committee of Tammany Hall, presi dent of the Italian-American Demo, tratlc association and the local Italian chamber of commerce. He is a direc tor of the Italio-American Trust com pany, the Italian Savings bank, and the Italian Benevolent association, and treasurer of the Fruit Exchange and the Liberal Emigration league. He has been decorated three times by the king of Italy with the cross of the crown of Italy and also decorated by President Crespo of Venezuela. Collector Loeb received the other day three $100 bills wrapped up in an old card case. There was one line of writ ing, apparently in the hand of an old. woman: "Conscience Fund.” ---• Brother3inlaw. From Judge. In an English town a gentleman and a countryman approached a cage In the traveling zoo from opposite directions. 'This cage contained a very fierce looking kangaroo. The countryman gazed at the ^ wild animal for a few minutes with mouth ^ and eyes both open, and then, turning ta the gentleman, he asked, “What kind of animal is that?” “Oh," replied the gentleman, “that is » native of Australia.” The countryman covered his eyes with his hands as he exclaimed in horror, “Well, well! my sister married one of them!” Had Done It Too. From Harper’s Bazar. Knicker—Banking interests sometimes buy what they don’t want, to avert a panic. Bocker—As I buy my wife a dress. The Return to the Fireside. Now' stalks November from the frosty verge Of northland regions, far remote and cold, • While Boreas pipes a wild dissonant dirge. As bold and rough as battle cry of old. The fast departing charms of autumn’s reign, A cavalcade of sweets from field and grove. Lend vastness to the grey enclouded plain. And bowered aisles no longer breathe of love. The cheerful cry of insect life is stilled, No bird song wakes the soul to morning praise. The lurid sun rays with dense mists are chilled. And nature veils her face with purple haze. ^ Yet happy hours await the rounded year, The full fruition of the season’s hope— For now shall indoor Joys more blest appear, And fireside cheer the heart’s best treas ures ope. —Addie B. Billington, in the pee Moines Register and Leader.