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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1912)
The O’Neill Frostier «... . ■■■ - - -■ .at D. H. CRONIN, FmMMimv O'NEILL,NCBHAB The kaiser refuses to listen to tni revolutionary strains of the “Mar seillaise.” Since bo came to the thron« he has never allowed the French na tional hymn to be played at his court, at any of the state theaters or by any German naval or military band. When he entertains the French ambassador at dinner or receives him In state and wishes to pay him musical honors, h< orders the musicians to play the old "Marchs de St. Denis," which la In ev ery sense of the word a Bourbon hymn. There are said to be at least 13 worn en In Boston receiving a salary of $10, 000 a year. Several of them are mem bers of the Business Woman's club, which Is the newest ciab In that city. Though organised leas than a year ago, this club now numbers Its members by hundreds. The object of the club 1» "to promote the common Interest ol women actively engaged In lines oi work directly connecting them with the business life of the community." A public test was recently carried on In the Thames of a new life saving Jacket. During the demonstration thl* apparatus was used by a woman and three men. The garment consists of a loose sack, about the length of an or dinary lounge Jacket, having a ribbing fitted with a substance of gr eater buoy ancy than cork. It Is so constructed that the heads of the users are com pletely out of the water, thus permit ting them to take food while In the water. There has been a marked Improve ment in the Sicilian sulphur Industry during the years 1910 and 1911. wber 4 15,584 metric tons were exported. Tht Improved demand for brimstone is at tributed mainly to Improved condition! of the wine market In wine growlnj countries. There Is also some Increast In the use of brimstone for lndustrla purposes, as In the rase of Sweden where It Is used In the preparation ol wood pulp. The Indifference of Europeans to the aesthetic Interest of the American peo ple is strlnklngly manifested In the announcement that the quaint bridge of boats across the Rhine at Cologne is to be replaced by a modern steel I structure. The mere convenience of the people of that city Is allowed to offset the advantages to the American tourist of reveling tn the romantic associa tions of this relic of a past age. Within the next day or two th« British Beekeepers association will at tain an object for which they have beer working for the last 20 years—the es tablishment of an educational apiarj under government auspices. All thai Is now wanting for the completion ol the scheme Is the arrival of six colon ies of bees at a small lnclosure whict has been prepared near the owl houss In the soologtcol gardens. A fine of $100, the first to be Im posed under the wireless telegraph law of 1910, was recently collected from ths captain of the coastwise steamer Sa bine, for sailing without a wireless op erator. The law requires all vessels that carry more than SO passengers and crew and go 290 miles or more without ■topping, to be equipped with wireless apparatus and to have a wireless op erator. The heaviest of all the cars on a lim ited train Is the dining car, which h ordlnally of a weight In excess of th« other car* by 10,000 or 16,000 pounds Between the ear construction and tht necessary kitchen equipment and lei box contents a full slsed standard din ing car tops the scales at 140,001 pounds when ready to make lta cus tomary run. The total sale of the Aroostook (Me.) potato crop of 1911 Is estimated at be tween 14.990,000 and 15,000,000 bushels leaving between 2,000,000 and 3,000,001 bushels that were sent to the starcl factories, used for seed and food pur poses here In the oountry or lost. Il Is figured that for crops sold the aver ago price was over t2 a barrel. The man who polished the first sheet of plate glass manufactured In the Uni. ted States died a few days ago. Hil name was Samuel Lewis. Mr. Lewli learned the trade of polishing plati glass In England before he came t< the United States. He went to worl for John B. Ford when he arrived It thlB country. Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, whosi reign began In 1411, Is crodlted by his tory with the Invention of fixed am, munition. In his cartridge bullet anf charge were united In a paper case It was not, however, until 1860 that tht first successful metallic cartridge wot patented—by an American. The Chautauqua Institution put q n'w emphasis on religious activities uus year, and to further this purpos< has created a new office, that of dlrec tor of religious work. The Rev. Dr, Shaller Mathews, head of the dlvlnltj school of the University of Chicago it to occupy the post. Cleveland once made a Joke. An ef fusive southerner burst In upon hln and exclaimed loudly: "Mr. President I owe you an apology." "What for?' ■aid Cleveland. "For not having callet upon you earlier, sir.” "Well." Bail Cleve and, curtly, “I haven't been lone some. At Winfield, L. I., ground has beet broken for a school for women, it wnlch plumbing, building, masonry an? other similar tradcH will be taught There will be room tor* 150 student! end more than half that number havt already been enrolled. In the French aerodome at Villa caublay a woll known aviator took ui on his monoplane his little son, wh! thus made his debut In the air at th, age of three years and a half. Western Oklahoma contains .-argo ■eposlts of gypsum than any state ti the union, it has been estimated thni there are 125.000,000,000 tons of tht material In sight In the state. Every German town will hereafte »eep a record of hard drinkers and doc tors Will have to report all person! who are addicted to habitual intoxica tion. An International exposition of book making and Its allied arts and science: •rill be held In Germany lii 19)4. The shrinkage and evaporation o! food when cooked by elecirlcty is ubou' one-third as great as when other nieth ods are used. Funds raised by popular subscrlptloi have given Pittsburgh. Pa., the thirt largest telescope In the world, a 30 Inch refractor. American gardeners suffer from thi fepredations of the gopher, a rat tine burrows In the soli and eats the root! of plants. There are more than 4,000 brewen 9* the United Kingdom. SUBURBANITES WILL PAY 5-CENT RATE ON ELECTRIFIED LINES State Railroad Commission Qives Company Right To Raise Its Fares. Lincoln. Neb., Aug. 12.—On and aftel September 10, unless the state railway commission’s order is appealed from, the Lincoln Traction company will put a partial zone system of fare collection Into operation In this city and vicinity The company will be permitted to charge passengers on Its College View line east bound to any point beyond the Intersection of Thirtieth' and Van Dorn streets a straight 6-cent fare and passengers on the Normal line getting on within the city limits and traveling beyond the Intersection of Thirty third and Sumner streets a similar fare. Passengers traveling from within the city to University Place or Have lock are also required to pay the faro of 5 cents straight Such Is the effect of an order Issued by the state railway commission today. The same rates ap ply on incoming cars. The following provision is attached to the above order: "That no change shall be made on any of the other lines as to the Issuance of school chil dren's tickets under the same condi tions as now existing aud that passen gers riding between University Place and Havelock In either direction, but not paslng the city limits of Univer sity Place westbound, and passengers passing between College View and Nor mal In either direction on the direct line, but not beyond the limits of Nor mal westbound, shall be permitted to travel at the present rate of Bix for a quarter fare.” On that part of the order relating to the amount to be set aside monthly for maintenance and depreciation, Commissioner Thomas L. Hall con curred, but the rate change did not meet with his approval. The order and opinion of the commission were writ ten by Commissionctr H. T. Clarke, Jr., and were concurred in by Com misloner H. J. Wlnnett. The commission finds that the straight 5-cent fare between Lincoln and suburbs will Increase company revenues $8,000 per year, but that with this addition the corporation will earn but 6.2 per cent on the physical valua tion fixed by the commission, $2,244, 649. DORMANT FRANCHISE IS REVIVED BY PROMOTORS Lincoln, Neb.. Aug. 12.—Another complication has been added to the contest for water power rights on the Loup and Platte rivers. Some years ago what Is known as the Fremont project was started. This proposed to lake water from the Platte south of Schuyler and develop It Into power at Fremont, for distribution over the east ern half of the stute. This scheme lan guished for lack of capital, but some preliminary work was done, and the permission of a former board of Irri gation was obtained so that work need not be completed until 1916. L. D. Richards, of Fremont, and at torneys and engineers for the Kountze Bros., bankers of Omaha and New York, are here trying to find out if the Fremont Power company’s title Is good. The attorneys think it Is. Kountze Bros, are also behind a claim for wat er filed months ago by Engineer Charles Ross, of Omaha, but this 1b be ing vigorously disputed. It Is sus pected that they will drop this claim if the record in the matter of the Fre mont company is clear enough to just ify them pinning their chances of pri ority to that franchise. PASSENGER EARNINGS DON’T 8HOW SIGNS OF DIMINUTION Omaha, Neb.. Aug. 12.—At the office of the state railway commission the claim made by the passenger agents of some of the railroads that the au tomobile Is making serious Inroads In to tbelr passenger earnings Is gently pooh-poohed. Secretary Allen says that It is un doubtedly true that the use of auto mobiles In making summer trips and visits between folks In different towns la doubtless depriving the railroads of some revenue, but that nevertheless the figures on file with the commission show that the number of passengers carried and the amount of money earned Is steadily Increasing each year. During the year 1811 the seven rail roads in Nebraska received In pass enger revenue $13,196,180,95 and a total passenger train revenue of $16,682,099, 12. There were carried 10,750,475 passengers, or an equivalent of 63G, 939,484 passengers one mile. In 1909, there were 9,625,492 passengers carried, paying a passenger revenue of $8,468. 671 and a total train revenue of $10, 235,250. CHOPPING UP THE STREETS TO BE UNDER OFFICIAL EYE Fremont, Neb., Aug. 12.—Careless excavation In FremonCa paved streel sections prompted a lively session ol the city council and the outcome is a drastic ordinance by which the city will take over all activities pertaining to digging In the streets. Members ol the council, spurred on by muny com plaining citizens, declared that thous ands of dollars worth of damuge had been done to Fremont's newly paved sections by workmen for plumbers, th« gas company and others thut have oc casion to tear up the streets In order to reach pipes. The ordinance will b« unanimously passed, but It was per mitted to pursue the usual course ol three readings. SEVEN YORK BANKS UNDER ONE CONTROL York, Nob.. Aug. 12—Control of seven banks of York county. Including the First National bank, of York, has been sold by George W. Post to C. A. Mc Cloud and stockholders of the Farm ers' National bank, of York. The sale was on account of the falling health of Mr. Post. The Institutions affected are the First National bank, of York; the First Trust company, of York; the First Na tional bank, of Hrudshaw; the First National bank, of Benedict; the Farm ers' and Traders' bank, of Warn; the Bank of Lushton. the Blue River batik, of McCool, and the Bank of Thayer. MARINE BAND WILL APPEAR AT FREMONT 1- reutont. Neb.. Aug. 12.—Fremont's I oiTHn• tviaI club, which was stung by an ai-rui lane company that fulled to furnish a single successful flight at a t'lri" days' aeroplane meet last fall, wii' att-nipt to S( t Itself right with the pti. lie by giving a free bund concert re October 4. The i'riited States mu cme band, of Washington. D. C„ has Ik cit t nguged for the occasion. OSCEOLA—The rai„ ,hat fell hors IftFi night was four and a half inches, Ti ls wakes a total of seven liK-ter within 36 hours. r-»*— NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES REWARD—Annual convention of the Nebraska and Wyoming districts of tht Lutheran Missouri synod Is to be held at Reward August 14 to 20, Inclusive. More than 300 pastors, teachers and lay delegates, representing 300 congrega tions. will meet In St. John's Lutheran church here. Dally morning session* •f the convention will be devoted to reading and discussion of doctrinal pa pers. Business matters concerning the church will occupy attention of the del egates at the afternoon meetings. CENTRAL CITY—Mrs. W. H. Hone meyer, of this place, was almost in stantly killed and two men and a baby were Injured when an automobile In which they were riding was struck by a motor car on the Union Pacific rail road near the town of Polk. The acci dent occurred at a crossing of the rail road, the occupants of the automobile apparently not seeing the approaching motor car. The automobile was wrecked ajid the motor considerably damaged. LINCOLN—R. D. Pinch, proprietor of one of the leading cafes of the city, was robbed of $150 shortly before 3 o'clock yesterday while standing on the corner of Eleventh and O streets. Three men performed the act In plain sight of the passing crowds. The robbers made their get-away by way of a street car and want to the Burlington depot, whence they escaped In some manner as yet unexplained by the police. No clew has yet been found. LEXINGTON—In a case tried he™ by a special term of district couf?, with Judge Grimes of North Platte presiding, wherein the state was trying a young man by the name of Young for murdering an Indian by the name of Blackhawk, the Jury was unable to bring In a verdict after being locked up for two days and two nights. The killing occurred at Gothenburg, Neb,, about a month ago and there was no eye witness. LINCOLN—I* K. Holmes, aywell to do brlckmaker, died last night from In juries received by being run down by an automobile. Holmes Uvea In the suburbs and was crossing the road to his home when run down by a machine driven by E. W. Truman, a laundry man. Truman says the electric lights from an approaching machine blinded him so that he did not see Holmes In time to stop. LINCOLN—Gilbert Hart, sent up from Dodge county, stepped out of the state penitentiary yesterday at the con clusion of a two year term for horse stealing and Into the arms of an of ficer from Michigan, who will take him back there to spend 12 years for a similar offense. Hart was sent up in Michigan for IB years. After he had served three, he was given a parole, which he Immediately broke by leaving the state. or-iiiaivrj—rorresi nryam, a young farmer living near Holmesville, was probably fatally injured by falling on the handle of a pitchfork which had been left sticking in the ground. He was working on a threshing machine ut his place, ahd as he went to Jump down he became impaled on the fork handle, which entered the abdomen from the lower extremities almost a foot. He Is 25 years of age. LINCOLN—Rather than submit to the extortion attempted by owtiero of land adjoining the state school for the deaf and dumb, at Omaha, the state board of public lands and buildings has decided that It will rent farm land upon which the youth attending that institution may experiment with corn and wheat growing. The owners wanted 31,200 per acre for fanft land. BENNINGTON — Fred Wendt, a farmer living four miles east of Ben nington. fell from a load of grain and broke his neck, dying instantly. The accident happened at the homo of a neighbor, where Wendt w-as assisting In the threshing. Wendt was about 35 years old. He leaves a wife and four small children. SCOTTS BLUFF—Dr. A. G. Emerson, who attempted suicide, and who also administered poison to his son, was given a hearing before a sanity com mission and was declared insane. Sher iff Aaron has taken him to the stlfte in stitution at Lincoln. Both he and the boy hnve recovered from effects of the poison. WEST POINT—The West Point Milling contparty hus abandoned all hope of ever being enabled to restore the dam at West Point which was completely destroyed by the floods of last spring. They are Installing s steam plant an.l in the future will de pend altogether upon steam power tc vun the mill machinery. ' BENNINGTON—Word from St. Ed vard, Neb., tells of the serious Injuries suffered by Mr*. James Killian, for merly of Bennington. A team of mulei hitched to a grass mower ran awa> with Mrs. Kitliah on the seat. She w-as thrown out, her hand cut off, her kfe severely lacerated and her body was bruised. LINCOLN—Three hours after she at tempted to stimulate a kitchen Are with kerosene, little Marie VanKlahck, ll years of age. died in a hospital. In het terror, she fought off attempts to heal out the blaze, and when she wrenched herself out of a rescuer’s hands she left part of her flesh in his grasp. DAKOTA CITY—Charles T. Barto, an old resident of Dakotu City, while engaged in a friendly scuffle, had the misfortune to slip and break his arm in two places. As he is just fO years old. the shock id proving very great. He lias been removed to Wakefield, Neb., where his relations are living, NELIGH—G. E. Ward, Bert AY. AVat tles and G. AY. Wurtsbaugh appeared before Police Judge CasBidy en com plaint of Officer Jackson for fractur ing the speed ordinance. Being the first offense, they were given the min imum fine of 31 and ousts, which was nHicl. pniu. NICKERSON—Miss Linda Roth and Guy Spangler were quietly murrled and left for N'eleigh to spend their honeymoon with relatives. The groom is a well-known young business man of this place, and the couple Will rr.cko their home hare. ULYSSES—Material for the con struction of tie Iron bridge across the Platte river near Edholm has been shipped to that place by the lUVrlingtoti company and work will begin In the near future. NORTH BEND—Rainsford Brown e'l. the well-known Sounder* county hti"«eman, has bought the Ea.-Om rece de tvx property and will retire soon from the farm, taking up residence hire. WEST POINT--Albert Wagner, p well known citizen and a native of West Point, died yesterday ut the of 39. of tuberculosis, after some yta>* of suffering. He had been connected with the city police force in various capacities for so’Me timo and was g man of sterling character unu attain mer.ts. LINCOLN—It will cost the s-nte <"•! Nebraska £100,000 for coal for h-.a’v.. purposes ut the vailous state iu* -.'.u tions the coming year. The V'n-\*. o> cuUie lands and bulldinrs * - * j..c ) risked Its award of corthtv ts ..or of th.-i Institutions, local i.VtVa- -y'dw* iliv Ivin;; favofs<L RAILROAD TRAVEL HIT BY AVIDITY OF TASTE FOR AUTO LOCOMOTION Assimilation Of 30,000 Gaso. line Cars Makes Passenger Agents “Holler.” Omaha, Neb., Aug. 10.—Automobiles are becoming the bane of the passenger departments of Nebraska railroads, and the same condition is said to exist in all other states. Local officials admit that "business is rotten" and lay the blame at the feet of the autos. So serious has the situation become that the Burlington railroad went to the trouble of corresponding with the secretary of state of Nebraska to get data on the automobile question. It was found that there are over 30,000 automobile numbers registered in Ne braska, some of which are dead num bers and some motorcycles, leaving over 25,000 autos actually in service. This is one machine to every 48 citizens in the state. "People are now taking auto tours on their vacations,” said a Burlington passenger official yesterday, “instead of patronizing the railroads. What is more, the citizens desiring to go from one town to another, or business men living out of town, invariably use their cars instead of ours. The loss to the railroads is tremendous—greater than anyone would imagine." This Burlington official says that ac cording to data secured from the sec retary of state, 14,500 automobiles have been purchased by Nebraskans in the past 19 months. He asserts further that the amount of money expended on autos in that time in Nebraska ex ceeds the total profit to the producer and middleman from the entire wheat crop of the 19 months. "We have no way of coping with this situation," admitted the official, "but the road is securing all possible data in all states. It Is true that there Is one auto to every 100 citizens in the Uni ted States, which is a formidable ar ray.” The "dope" secured by the Burling ton likewise shows that there are but 17,500 automobiles reported in Nebras ka for taxation, although, as has been said, there are over 30,000 registered numbers, and probably 26,0000 active machines. The other big railroads admit that the “auto peril” is a very serious one, and is cutting down the passenger revenue fearfully ” FORTUNE COMES TO WOMAN WHO MADE TEDDY’S BRIDLE Hartington, Neb., Aug. 10—Lon Ly dlck, a harnessmaker of this city, has just received the surprising news that he has fallen heir to a. large sum of money. It is said that he is one of 60 heirs to inherit 130,000,000, an estate which comes down to them from a great grandmother and is invested in Pennsylvania coal and iron mines. The man to whom good fortune has come in such an unexpected form has lived in poverty for years and is scarcely able to write his own name. He and his wife both work at the harness trade and ljve and work in the same room. Mrs. Lydlck is advertised as the "only living woman harnessmaker in the -world” and won no little notor iety a few years ago by sending a hand made bridle to Theodore Roosevelt and receiving a personal letter from him in acknowledgment. MOTHER OR STEP-MOTHER TO HAVE THE CHILDREN? Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 10—Judge Risser has an interesting problem to decide, and that is whether the children of John Frederick, killed in a wreck near Phillips the other week, shall be given into the custody of their mother or their stepmother. The stepmother says she loves them and wants them, and that since they have been with her and Frederick she has become much attached to them. Frederick and his first wife were di vorced four years ago. He was given the children, their mother being ill and Unable to work to support them. The mother of the children says that the separation of herself and her husband was caused by his attentions to the woman who is now also his widow. HUSBAND’S FIRMNESS DRIVES ELOPING WIFE TO SUICIDE Grand Island, Neb., Aug. 10.—A tragic ending of domestic discord took place when Mrs. Ray Edwards, unsuccessful in the effort to get her husband to take her back, swallowed carbolic acid and soon thereafter died. They had lived happily until three or four weeks ago when she ran away with a telegraph operator from Lexington. After her first disappearance, she returned and informed friends that the only thing she had against her husband was that he was too good to her. She again went to Lexington and Edwards filed suit for divorce. Last night she again returned from Lexington, called on her husband at the waterworks station and sought his forgiveness and pleaded that ho take her back. His interest in her, to thut extent, seemed dead, and ht declined. While he left the plant for a few minutes she went to a nearby drug store, bought the acid, drank it and left the station before the hus band's return, dropping on the street a block and a half away. Doctors were at' once summoned but could not save the woman’s life. COURT DECISION* IN WAY OF THE EXPORT OF POWER Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 10.—If the Ne braska Power company, the Babcock project for harnessing the Loup river, wins out in its litigation with rival companies, Sioux City and Council Bluffs are scheduled to be benflciarles of the electrical current and power de veloped. The record tn the appeal case from Platte county, where an injunc tion suit was won by Babcock, shows that these two cities are to be in cluded. There is still a stumbling block in the way. When E. L. Kirk, of Sioux City, sought to get water power rights on the Niobrara river, the state board of irrigation refused on the ground that the constitution and laws did not per mit of transmission of power thus de rived beyond the borders of the state. The supreme court upheld this view. FUMES OF GASOLINE THE CAUSE OF DEATH Fremont, Neb.. Aug. 10—Overcome by the fumes of gasoline, Clare Bunt, aged 21. son of Rev. P. O. Bunt, a Metho dist minister at Alexandria, S. D., died in the Burlington storage pit, near the Burlington passenger station, about 6 o'clock yesterday evening. Until six weeks ago, when the Fremont carriage factory was destroyed by fire, young Bunt was employed there by his uncle. John Bunt, the proprietor. He secured temporary employment at the Burling ton station as baggageman three weeks ago. STEEL MANIPULATION PERNICIOUSJE SAYS Chairman Stanley Of Investi gating Committee Gets Speech Into Records. HIS REPORT IS REVISED House Democrat Flays Rockefeller and Morgan and Pays Tribute To Carnegie, Iron Master. Washington, Aug. 10.—The absolute divorcement of the ownership of rail roads and industrial organizations was declared by Representative Stanley, of Kentucky, In the House last night as the one preventive of such a monopoly as he described the United States Steel corporation to be. Mr. Stanley spoke for an hour and a half, reviewing the work of the special committee which investigated the steel trust for several months. When he began less than a score of representatives were present. Representative Cline, of Indiana, pre sided. The speech was a review of the re port which was recently submitted for the majority of the committee. It was an elaborata excoriation of J. P. Mor gan, John P. Rickefeller and others who have figured in financing the steel in dustry. Mr. Stanley was frequently in terrupted, and several of his assertions of facts were challenged by Represent ative Gardner, of Massachusetts, repub lican, who prepared the minority re port In opposition to the maiority re port. Brick Bats for John D. The Kentucky representative re viewed the story of John D. Rockefel ler’s acquisition of the Missabe iron ore range. He told picturesquely of the manner in which Mr. Rockefeller’s al moner, the Rev. Dr. Gates, conducted the negotiations with the Merrill broth ers, discoverers of the range. He as serted that $400,000 was the price which Rockefeller paid for property which he afterwards sold for $80,000,000 in stock of the steel corporation. “Was not this statement of Leoni das Merritt on the ’ transaction with Rockefeller retracted?” asked Mr. Gardner. “It was,” answered Mr. Stanley, ex plaining that Mr. Merritt signed a re traction when a settlement was made with his brother for $400,000. Representative Gardner asked Mr. Stanley if this portion of the story of steel was not struck from the report by the other majority members. Mr. Stan ley said that It was and that he told it on the floor to get it to the pub lic. Boquets for Carnegie. "The gentleman should not convey the impression that it was not made public,” said Mr. Gardner. "Every new'spaper in the country printed it when the testimony was given.” "Oh, the newspapers are printed to day and lost tomorrow. I want to get it in the imperishable records,” said Mr. Stanley. The Kentucky representative traced the growth of the steel trust through its processes and described how An drew Carnegie had forced it to buy him out by threats of competition. He said Carnegie was not afraid of Morgan or the Morgan banking syndicate. "Mr. Carnegie paid more attention to making steel billets than to issuing bogus bonds,” he said. "He was an iron master, not a stock broker and a high class gambler.” The holding company and the protec tive tariff were pointed to as the bul warks of the steel trust’s strength. The holding company was described as a “pernicious device,” and the forma tion of the steel trust was termed a "scheme that exceeded the dream oi the most avariacious scheme maker that ever lived.” Mr. Stanley declared that the steel trust levied a tax on every man, Woman and childd in the.United States. ISLANO IS ATTACKED BY BAND OF PIRATES Chinese Marauders Clash With Portuguese — Details Of Fight Unknown. Hong Kong. Aug. 10.—A band of pi rates today attacked the small Island Colowan, In the vicinity of the Portu guese dependency of Macao, at the mouth of the Canton river. Details of the fighting have not reached here. Reinforcements consisting of a de tachment of 40 Portuguese soldiers have been hurried to the scene from Macao. Since the fighting which oc curred in July, 1910, between the Chin ese and the Portuguese on the island of Colowan, owing to a dispute over the question of its ownership, a military post consisting of 150 Portuguese sol diers has been stationed there. WHITE HOPE PRACTICES ON INNOCENT CITIZEN Oklahoma City, Okla, Aug 10—If Carl Morris, earstwhlle “white hope,” could land as effective a blow' on the Jaw of Jack Johnson as he did on Alonzo Min nis near Choctow City yesterday, he would be champion, according to the story told In the superior court here to day, where Minnis had applied for an injunction to curb the big fighter. Minnis also had Carl arrested on a charge of assault and battery. Morris, according to Minnis, came to his home near Choctow City and at tempted to put him off a piece of land owned by the fighter’s mother. Minnis asserts he rented the farm until next July and refused to leave. Then the former aspirant for pugilistic honor landed one blow on his Jaw. Minnis took the count and after being revived sought aid of the law. AIR NAVIGATOR’ MAKES F|RSTj.EG °F PLIGHT Havre, France, Aug. 9.—Ensign Jean Louis Camille Conneau, of the French navy, who flies under the name of An dre Btaumont, has accomplished the first stage of his journey from Paris to London in a hydroaeroplane. Start ing from Paris on July 26, he followed the course of the Seine and landed to day on the sea front here. He intends to proceed along* the coast to Boulogne, there cross the English channel and then fly up the Thames from its mouth to London. SUSPECTED FORGER TELLS LIFE STORY Man Held At Kansas City Had Cashier’s Checks Totalling $55,275. Kansas City. Aug. 10.—After hav ing maintained silence for more than a week, William J. Renk, who was ar rested on a forgery charge under the name of Arthur H. Frank and whose people, he say a, reside in Oshkosh, Wls., has made a sworn statement to the police authorities in which he gave a history of his career. He was ar rested after It had been ascertained he had ordered of a printer blank cashier checks on 20 hanks. In his luggage at a hotel were found 85 cashier checks totaling $55,275. In his statement today Renk said he was born In Chicago and that his father, Nicholas Renk, now resided in Oshkosh, and that he had a wife liv ing In Waukesha, Wls., from whom he had not been divorced. He said he had served nine months in the house of correction at Chicago after having been convicted of a charge of embez zling $300 from a life Insurance com pany. Since then, he said, he had been In many cities of the country and in Washington. D. C., last July had mar ried Miss Mary T. Judge as Arthur H. Frank. TONG WAR MAY COME AS RESULT OF RAID Chinese Slave Girl Rescued From Plight—Chinatown Is Arming. San Francisco, Aug. 10.—Because I Seem, a Chinese slave girl valued a. M ,500, was rescued from a den in a raid by the police Wednesday evening and taken to a mission home, there is portent of strife in San Francisco’s Chinatown. The tongs are muttering, and the hatchet and gunmen are arm ing. while the police squad is seeking the tong leader, who is supposed to have been the owner of the girl. The Four Families tong, of which the girl's former master was a mem ber, accused two others of the tong of having informed the mission of the girl's plight and the accused men have been served with notice to appear and exculpate themselves or prepare for death. ULTIMATUM IS SENT TO TRACTION HEADS Chicago Car Men Say Strike Is Inevitable Unless Of ficials Meet Demand. Chicago, Aug. 10.-—An ultimatum from street car and elevated railway employes that the traction officials must answer definitely the demands of the men for higher wages this aft ernoon was placed in the hands of the street railroad officials today. Union men declared a walkout seems inevitable if the traction officials re fuse to act on the demands. A strike, one is called, would af fect the employes of all the surface lines and the elevated roads. Mayor Harrison has announced he will do all he can to bring about g settlement. ENGLAND WILL STUDY OUR INDUSTRIAL LAWS London, Aug 10—Sir Gergoe Askwlth, chairman of the industrial commission of the board of trade and famous as a successful mediator in industrial dis putes during the lust few years, is to be sent shortly by the British govern ment to Canada to investigate the working of the industrial disputes in vestigation act in the Dominion. Dur ing Ids trip, Sir George probably also will visit the United States, where he will make a study of the latest indus trial legislation. Sir George Askwith's trip to Canada indicates that the government is de termined to attempt to remedy by leg islation the conditions which have kept the British Isles in a constant state of industrial warfare for the past 18 months. He is undoubtedly the best informed man in the United Kingdom on industrial questions and he enjoys the confidence of both capital and la bor. MUST IMPROVE SOIL OR IMPORT PRODUCTS Chicago, Aug. 9.—America is facing a famine unless agricultuf-al conditions are vastly improved, according to pre dictions made by speakers at the an nual meeting of the National Soil Fer tility league yesterday. ••Statistics show that the agricultural situation in the United States has been so neglected that within 20 years we will be forced to import our principal food products from foreign lands." said Howard H. Gross, president of the or ganization. “We are facing an inev itable famine unless the soil is greatly improved.” The officers elected are: President—H. H. Gross. Treasurer—Davis R. Forgan. Directors—Frank G. Logan, F. A. De lano, E. S. Conway, Clarence S. Funk, and John S. Goodwin. An advisory committee selected in cluded James J. Hill, chairman; Presi dent William H. Taft, William J. Bry an, "Franklin MacVeagh, Champ Clark and Samuel Gompers. ASK NEWSPAPERS^D IN LOCATING WOMAN Columbus, Ohio. Aug. 9.—Newspapers lire being depended upon to unravel the mystery of the disappearance of Mrs. Ethel Keating Boggess, wife of Dr. John S. Boggess, formerly of the United States marine hospital service, according to a statement of her fath er. Pictures of Mrs. Boggess have been sent to newspaper agencies at Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City with a mi nute description of the missing woman and it is hoped that this will lead to some clue of her whereabouts.