SCORES INJURED BY
SEVERE EARTHQUAKE!
Another Shock Felt In Can
stantinople—Wire Service
Demoralized.
Constantinople, Aug. 12.—The
Turkish seaport of Oallopoli. 1SJ
miles west of this city, and the
town of Tchanak-Kalessi at the
narrowest part of the Dardanelles,
have been destroyed by earthquake.
Many of the inhabitants were killed
or injured.
Constantinople, Aug. 12.—Anotha
slight shock of earthquake was fel
here this morning.
Yesterday's quake was very sever
on the southern shores of the Sea a
Marmora. Telegraphic communicatloi
with the Dardanelles is interrupted
but reports have reached here that th
Greek -consulate was destroyed.
Tlie villages on the Sea of Marmot
suffered gyeatly and many of thel
inhabitants were killed or injured, i
•considerable number of the injuret
have arrived here for treatment h
the hospitals.
NO MORE GUARANTEES
PLACED ON JEWELRY
In Future Purchaser Must Take
Cuances—Stamp Has No
Virtue, Is Claim.
Kansas City. Mo., Aug. 12.—Here
after tile purchaser of a gold plated
watch takes the chances. The old in
scription, "guaranteed for 2U years,"
became entirely too common, and, so
far ms the American National Retail
Jewelers’ association is concerned its
virtue now is nothing.
A resolution was adopted at the
convention of the association today
abolishing the time guarantee on gold
plated watches and Jewelry.
The guarantee stamp, Jewelers say,
had gradually come to be placed on
all plated ware by responsible and
irresponsible firms alike. If the gold
plate did not last the full time, which
usually is the case in the cheaper
grade of watches and Jewelry, the re
tailer had to stand the loss.
Following an address by H. F. Dun
can. of Waltham, Mass., a resolution
was adopted providing that a commit
tee arrange with the United States
government for wireless time service
for the Jewelers. The plan is that
every Jeweler shall have a receiver to
catch the time flashed from the new
government wireless station at Arling
ton More accurate setting and regu
lation of watches than now is com
mon would follow, it was said.
WATER CARNIVAL AT
CHICAGO IS OPENED
Chicago, Aug. 12.—First neats in the
20 and 2S-foot class for motor boats
and the first of a series of races be
twe< n the sloop Michicago flying the
Chicago Yacht club flag and the Pa
tricia representing Canada, was the
program of Chicago's water carnival
and naval review which opened today.
The two yachts will race for a $5,000
trophy donated by Commodore S. O.
Richardson, of Toledo, and three races
will have to be won by the yachts car
rying off the cup. It will be the first
opportunity for Chicagoans to witness
an international race since 1901, when
the Canadians took the cup home by
defeating the Cadillac with the In
vader.
The British speed boat, Debutante, |
will appear for the first time in Amer
ican waters today when she starts in
the 26-foot class for motor boats.
POWER PLANT BURNS;
FACTORIES ARE IDLE
Jamestown, N. Y„ Aug. 12.—Explod
ing coal gas over the boilers at the
power plant of the Jamestown Street
Railway company and the Jamestown
Lighting and Power company set the
building afire early today and caused
damage estimated at $200,000. Traffic
on the local street railway and the
Chautauqua traction line was tied up.
Factories depending on electricity for
power are in idleness and several hun
dred persons are temporarily out of
employment.
PLAN SHAM BATTLE.
Sparta, Wis., Aug. 12.—Plans wore
announced today at Camp McCoy for
important maneuvers on the United
States military reservation Monday in
which all the regulars and National
Guard in camp will participate. There
is to be a long march and bivouac
overnight and before return to camp
a division into two armies and a sham
battle. Four thousand men will take
part.
“FIRE BUG" CONFESSES.
Greenfield, Mass., Aug. 12.—Bernard
C. Murray', son of a former fire com
missioner of Hartford, Conn., con
fessed to having set fire to 30 hotels
and public buildings in Connecticut
and western Massachusetts during the
last four months. While no lives were
lost in the many fires, there was con
siderable property lolsls.
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4 A Virginia husbandman, 4
4 alarmed by the indecorous per- 4
4 formances of an ordinarily per- 4
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WOMAN SEEKS OFFICE.
Spokane, Wash., Aug. 12.—Mrs. May
Arkwright Hutton, suffragist leader
and member of the Washington dele
gation to the democratic national con
vention. announced yesterday she
would be a candidate for nomination
for state representative on the demo
cratic ticket.
QUIET IN ALBANIA.
Saloniki, European Turkey, Aug. 12—
It is reported that the Montenegrins
have evacuated the Mojkovatz frontier
and that the fighting has ceased. AN
bania Is quiet
BIG RAILWAY OIL
GRAB TO BE AIRED
Finder Of $5,000,000 Prop
erty Alleged To Have
Been Swindled.
Washington, Aug. 12.—An astoundlni
story of duplicity and fraud, in which
a poor prospector, it Is alleged, was
betrayed by a secret agent of the
Southern Pacific Railway company and
deprived of oil lands now worth at
auction more than $5,000,000, will be
told in a suit which Attorney General
Wlckersham has directed Special As
sistant Attorney General Willis N. Mills
to file against the railroad company,
according to a telegram to the New
Y,ork American.
The discovery was made while tak
ing testimony In the $18,000,000 action
now pending against the Southern L’a
ciflc. the Kern Oil and Trading com
pany, and the Equitable Trust com
pany, of New York, for the recovery
of 6,100 acres of oil lands In the Kern
river district In California.
The facts, as charged by the depart
ment of Justice, are these:
In 1911, John Jeans, an oil prospec
tor, discovered an oil seep in the Elk
hills In California, where the sands
were so Impregnated with oil that they
could be lighted with a match and left
burning for days.
Confided to Friend*.
The odor of gas was so strong that
Jeans could spend only a few minutes
at a time on the scene of his discovery.
Excited by the prospect for an immense
fortune, Jeans took a few friends into
his confidence. They were L. G. Sar
now. Division Superintendent Burk
haller, of the Southern Pacific at Bak
ersfield, and J. B. Treadwell, an oil ex
pert.
Although Jeans did not know it at
the time, Treadweli was the secret oil
agent and expert of the Southern Pa
cific Railroad company. He had on de
posit in three different banks In Cali
fornia more than $30,000, furnished to
him by the Southern Pacific to cover
the expense of his secret oil operations
In the railroad’s behalf.
Jean’s discovery was in township 30
24, about four miles east of what is
now Eastlands, in the McKittrick dis
trict. Adjoining it there is now’ a pro
ducing well of the Associated Oil com
pany, which is declared to be the great
est oil well yet found in any country.
His Bonanza Grabbed.
At the suggestion of Treadw’ell,
Jeans took him and Sarnow to the
scene of his bonanza. Treadwell, in hia
own handwriting, prepared location no
tices, and claims were filed in the
names of Burkhaller, Sarnow, Jeans,
Treadwell and Treadwell’s wife,
daughter and soninlaw, and the son
inlaw’s daughter.
Location and assessment work was
begun by the locators, each paying a
pro rata of the expense. They con
tinued their work until the amount
necessary to give them patent rights
was completed and they were ready to
apply for final patents.
Through Treadwell the Southern Pa
cific knew of the find and its value,
and while the propspectors were en
gaged In completing their title to the
lands under the mineral laws, the
Southern Pacific slipped through the
land office at Washington patents on
the lands under the agricultural indem
nity clause of the land grant act of
1866.
Obtained Surrounding Land.
Treadwell's dupes continued wrork
and expended money on the lands for
weeks after the railroad patents were
granted, in ignorance of the fact that
their fortune had been wrested from
them.
In addition to the lands embraced in
the Jeans discovery, at the same timo
the Southern Pacific obtained agricul
tural patents on other sections of oil
land in the same district, adjoining the
ground worked by Jeans and his asso
ciates.
All the foregoing is stated by the
department of justice officials to be
based on documentary and other rec
ords giving the fullest proof of the
facts charged.
In addition, it is declared that
Treadwell's name appeared on nearly
one-half of the land locations on the
even numbered sections in the Kern
river and other California oil fields
and that wherever his name appeared
the real owner was the Southern Pa
cific.
Under the land grant act of 1866 the
railroad received no interest in the
even numbered sections along thi
right of way, whether agricultural or
otherwise.
Special Assistant Attorney General
Mills is now preparing the complaint
in the new action, and it will be filed
shortly in California.
SHOOTS WIFE THREE
TIMES FOR BURGLAR
At Least That Is Story Told Bj
Husband—Woman Thinks
Differently.
New York, Aug. 12.—Matthew O’Cal
laghan, a cotton merchant, living in a
fashionable section of Brooklyn, was
taken in custody early today on the
charge of shooting his wife. Lillian,
whom he declared he mistook for a
burglar.
Mrs. O’Callaghan said her husband
was Intoxicated and that the shooting
was deliberate. She was taken to a
hospital, where it was found she was
suffering from three bullet Wounds.
Her condition is critical.
Mrs. O’Callaghan Is 37 years old. She
told the police that she arose early
this morning and as she was leaving
the room her husband threatened to
shoot her. She said she saw he was
intoxicated and decided to hurry to
her soninlaw's apartment on the top
floor. Mrs. O’Callaghan said her hus
band fired three times through a glass
door panel at her. She said she had
been married six years and had never
had any trouble with her husband.
O’Callaghan told the police he
thought his wife was a burglar. He
is 60 years of age.
STATUES FOR WRIGHT.
Dayton. Ohio, Aug. 12.—Two Gryk
columns will be erected at Sims Sta
tion, between this city and Xenia as
a Wrigtft memorial, if rrvriibers of the
Wright memorial commission have
their way. The columns will mark the
exact spot from which the first heavier
than air flying machine, carrying a
man, rose from the ground.
EX-CONGRESSMAN DIES.
Bock Island, 111.. Aug. 12—William H.
Gest, circuit court Judge and former
member of congress from the Four
teenth Illinois district, is dead at hi»
borne Here, aged 74.
AMERICAN VESSELS
PAY NO CANAL TOLLS
Senate Passes Bill To Prevent
Railroads From Securing
Monopoly.
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Washington, Aug. 12.—Despite the
powerful influences that were brought
to bear by the ralroad interests of the
United States and Canada, working
through Great Britain, the Senate has
passed the Panama canal bill
and in it is Incorporated a provision
for the free passage of American owned
vessels engaged in coastwise trade. The
bill also provides for the free registry
of foreign built American owned ships,
provided they are operated wholly in
foreign trade, and is designed to pre
vent the monopolization of shipping
lines by the railroads. The bill was
adopted by a vote of 47 to 15.
The provision for free tolls, which
was fought out in the Senate Wednes
day, was indorsed again just before
the passage of the measure.
Attached to the bill as it passed the
Senate were two important amend
ments directed at trust or railroad con
trol of steamship lines. The tlrst, by
Senator Reed, would prohibit ships
owned by an illegal industrial com
bination from using the canal, and the
Becond, by Senator Bourne, would force
railroads to give up water lines that
otherwise might be their competitors if
It was proved that they were stifling
competition.
John Bull’s Friends Lose.
Opponents of the free toll provision
for American ships, against which
Great Britain made formal protest, car
ried their fight up to the last moment
of the bill’s consideration. Just before
its passage Senator Root moved to
strike out the section giving free tolls
to American coastwise vessels, and
Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia, moved
to strike out the provision for fres
tolls to American ships in the foreign
trade. Both of these motions were de
feated by overwhelming votes.
As the bill passed it would permit
American coastwise vessels to pass
through free if their owners agreed to
sell the vessels to the United States at
a fair price In time of war or emer
gency.
The great fight of the day centered
about the provision to prohibit railroad
owned ships from using the canal.
Change House Bill.
The broad terms of the original
House bill, which would have required
every railroad in the country' to dis
pose at once of any such lines with
which it might otherwise compete, were
not accepted by the Senate. This was
modified so that railroads would be
prohibited only from owning steam
ship lines that may operate through the
Panama canal.
The Bourne amendment, however,
adopted later by a vote of 36 to 25. re
stored much of the vigor of the anti
railroad provisions of the House bill.
It provided that If the Interstate Com
merce commission should find that any
railroad had an interest in a competi
tive line of steamers and that such in
terest was injurious to the welfare of
the public, the commission might com
pel the railroad to dispose of its
steamer connections.
Senator Brandegee, chairman of the
interoceanic canal committee of the
Senate, made an ineffective fight on
the rigid provisions against railroad
ships. After the amendments had been
adopted to the House bill he moved
that the whole paragraph relating to
railroad control be stricken out. This
motion was defeated. 45 to 18.
Brandegree Plan Voted Down.
A subsequent proposal by Mr. Bran
degee to permit any ships to use the
canal, giving to the Interstate Com
merce commission power of control
over them, also was defeated.
The Reed amendment, against trust
owned ships, was called up for a sec
ond vote before the bill passed and was
adopted on final passage by a vote ol
36 to 23.
The completed canal bill finally was
passed with Senators Burton. Crane,
Gallinger. Lodge, Root and other op
ponents of the free toll and anti-rail
road features of It voting against it.
In the form in which it returns to
the House the bill adds to the general
scheme of operating and governing the
Panama canal provisions for the ad
mission to American registry of any
foreign built ships, owned by Ameri
cans, provided they are operated whol
ly in foreign trade.
T
BRITONS DISAPPOINTED
AT ACTION OF SENATE
London. Aug. 1.'.—British ship own
ers are Indignant at the United Stales
Senate’s action with respect to the
Panama canal. They admit that a big
trade is awaiting to be done as soon as
the canal is open, but are Inclined to
think th^ great preferential treatment
accorded to American ships will lead
traders to adhere to the old routes.
Representatives of prominent firms
have expressed the opinion, however,
that much might happen before the
canal is opened and that protests of
foreign powers might induce a change
in the American policy. The amend
ment permitting the registration of for
eign built vessels as American, it is
thought, may likely give Impetus to
British shipbuilding.
AID FOR REFUGEES.
Washington, Aug. 12.—Appropriation
of $20,000 for support of American ref
ugees from Mexico, now in Arizona,
was authorized today under a resolu
tion by Senator Smith, of that state
Tlie money would be deducted from the
$100,000 already appropriated for the
transportation of American refugees
at El Paso, Tex., to their homes In
this country.
steeiTcars prevent
DEATHS IN CAR WRECK
St. Louis, Mo.. Aug. 12.—But few pas
sengers escaped injury when the Mo
bile and Ohio train No. 2, en route
from Mobile to St. Louis, was ditched
near hero Friday evening. Relief trains
were sent from here. The train was
composed of steel cars which were
making their first trip, and trainmen
said the steel coaches prevented a lost
of life. The train was running more
than an hour late and was trying to
make up lost tin<£.
RELIGIOUS ORDER TO
FIGHT JHJBLIC GRAFT
Unique Plan To Purify Politics
Is Undertaken By Colorado
Folk.
Denver. Aug. 12.—A new religious or
ganization, non-seetarlan and unde
nominational with the avowed purpose
of purging Colorado's politics of all
uncleanliness, and of raising the stand
ard of every day living through
"Christ's teachings as thev apply to
practical problems and teachings of
life," has been given birth In Den
ver.
Under the name “The Liberal Con
gregation of Denver,” the organization
Is planning to hold monthly meetings
In the auditorium, with the Rev. Hi
ram Vrooman, of Boston, as Its
preacher and spiritual adviser.
Among the leaders of the new cult
are:
Judge Ben B. Lindsey. Tully Scott,
chief Justice of the state court of ap
peals: I. N. Stevens, prominent In pol
itics, and former Senator Frank A.
Moody.
Tho first meeting v ill be held Sep
tember 15.
GAS CONCERN MAY
STOP EXTENSIONS
Philadelphia, Aug. 12.—“We shall buy
no additional properties, erect no new
plants, declare no extra dividends or
plan any extensive or costly works
here or elsewhere until congress and
the legislatures of the several states
shaii finally determine just where cor
porations stand and the higher courts
define their intimate rights under the
law.”
Thus spoke Samuel T. Bodine, pres
ident of the United Gas Improvement
company, who is the potential voice in
the management of public utilities In
all parts of the United States aggre
gating several million dollars In capital
and employing upward of 200,000 men.
This ominous statement is regarded
here as a "notice from big business."
The United Gas Improvement com
pany and its closely allied concerns
owns or operates gas, electric light,
traction and telephone plants In Penn
sylvania. New Hampshire, Missouri,
Iowa, Indiana, Georgia, Illinois, Flori
da, Rhode Island, California, Minne
sota and West Virginia and holds mi
nority interests in many prosperous
service corporations in other states.
IRON COMPANY HEADS
ARE ASKED TO EXPLAIN
Cheyenne, Wyo.. Aug. 12.—Certain of
ficials of the Colorado Fuel & Iron
company are accused either of mis
representing stockholders of the prop
erty holdings of the corporation in this
state or of attempting to deprive the
state of 3103,525 in taxes in 1910, in a
report to the state board of equaliza
tion just issued.
The report sets forth that a reap
pralsement was made in 1910 where
by more than 319,000,000 was added to
the valuation of the property holdings
of the Colorado Fuel & Iron company
in Wyoming; that this valuation was
used in making a report to the stock
holders and continues:
"When the company came to list
its property for taxation we did not
get an increase of 19 per cent. On
the contrary, counsel for the company
appeared before the equalization board
and asked that the output for 1910
be placed at a figure 10 per cent lower
than the preceding year.”
ARRIVAL OF BIRDMAN
AWAITED IN LONDON
London, Aug. 12.—Thousands of per
sons lined the banks of the Thames
today to await the arrival of the hy
droaeroplanes in which the French
aviator, "Andrew Beaumont," (Ensign
Conneau, of the French navy,) had an
nounced that he inteded to fly up to
London from the mouth of the Thames.
Great enthusiasm was aroused when
an aeroplane carrying two persons ap
peared In view and alighted on the
river near Westminster bridge.
It was learned later that the ma
chine was not Beaumont's, but that of
an Englishman, F. K. McClean, who
had flown from Eastchurch, Kent, a
distance of about 56 miles, accompa
nied by a mechanician, for the pur
pose of welcoming Beaumont. His
flight consumed 90 minutes.
ANCIENT CARS CAUSE
RAILROAD ACCIDENT
Washington, Aug. 12.—Bad track and
old, unsafe cars were the cause of the
accident on May 6 on the New Orleans
and Northeastern railroad, near East
abuchle, Miss., in which nine persons
were killed and 5 Injured, according to
a report made to the Interstate Com
merce commission today.
The cars in which the casualties
occurred were two wooden tourist cars,
"one of which was built 26 years ago,
the other 82 years ago," says the re
port.
The report points out that the acci
dent shows the necessity for enforced
use of steel cars.
ZAPATA REFUSES TO
LAY DOWN HIS ARMS
Mexico City. Aug. 12.—The status of
Emillano Zapata, leader of the rebels
in the south, is unchanged. The gov
ernment commission, which went to El
Jllguero to consult peace terms with
him, returned today, bearing a report
of failure. The commission warned
Zapata that on August 25 a measure
providing for the suspension of per
sonal guarantees would go into effect
and the government would renew its
campaign against him.
OLD LAW RESTORED.
Washington, Aug. 12.—American reg
istry to wrecked foreign vessels rebuilt
in American shipyards at a cost equal
to three-fourths of their appraised
value would be granted by a bill passed
today by the Senate. It restores a re
pealed law.
HUGE ORDERS UNFILLED.
New York, Aug. 12.—The unfilled
tonnage of the United States Steel
corporation on July 31 totals 5.957,079
tons. This is an increase of 149.733 tons
over the tonnage of June 29, last, and
compares with 3,584,085 tons on July
31, 1911.
DREAM WINS AGAIN.
Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 12.—The re
turn race from Bermuda, between the
motorboats Dream and Kathemma, was
won by the Dream on time allowance,
both boats passing the finish line at
#ne of the oceanjders here today.
EX-BANDIT NOMINEE
OF THE DEMOCRATS
A1 Jennings, Former Oklahoma
Train Robber, Named For
County Attorney.
Oklahoma City, Okla., Aug. 12.—A1
Jennings, train robber in the early ter
ritorial flays ami member of the no
torious DAlton gang, received the dem
ocratic nomination for county attorney
in Tuesday's primaries over half a doz
en opponents.
Jennings made a novel campaign,
narrating his bandit performances.
"A train robber who Is trying to lend
an honest life Is far better than a pub
lic official who, under the guise of re
81>ectablllty and honesty, robs the peo
ple," he declared. "Tho present court
house gang are greater robbers than
was the Dalton gang.
"I have stolen more than J100.000
from trains In this territory," he shout
ed, "and 1 have ridden away with It
tied on behind my saddle In a seamless
sack. But I was caught at last, and
my greatest desire now is to prove that
I can b« an honest official."
Jennings was serving a long term
sentence In the penitentiary when he
was pardoned by the president.
PRISON GARB FOR
TRUST OFFENDERS
Washington, Aug. 12.—A step in the
direction of legislation to provide prison
sentences for those who violate the Sher
man law was taken in Senate today.
Senator Kenyon's motion to discharge
i'le interstate Commerce committee
from consideration of his bill to make
prison sentences imperative was passed
wtthout a tight. Senator Clapp, chair
man of the committee sanctioned it.
saying the committee did not have time
to take it up further this session. In
response to questions to Senator Smoot,
Senator Kenyon said he would not
press the bill this session unless the
session was prolonged.
The action taken, places the bill on
the calendar when it can be forced to a
vote next session. The failure of cor
poration senators to fight the motion of
Kenyon today was a surprise.
Senator Kenyon said later if oppor
tunity offered next week, he would try
to get a vote on the bill. He will also
urge House leaders to pass it. He was
enabled to get the bill out of committee
today only by the fact that he threat
ened to delay the canal bill unless his
motion was acted on.
Senators Cummins and Kenyon will
both make a fight next week to fores
consideration of the uniform classill
catlon bill. Appeals are coming from
state railway commissioners all over
the country to pass the hill. State
Railway Commissioner Thome, of Iowa,
has strongly urged it.
LOBSTER CAUSING
QUAKER CITY ROW
Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 12.—This city
is agitated as never before over a ques
tion which baffles solution. Wherever
one goes It is being discussed. Argu
ments have arisen, fights have followed
end arrests resulted. Homes have be
come disrupted and the whole city is
practically divided into two factions
over the controversy. At the present
rate the problem probably will reach
the supreme court of the United States
before the end of the year and become
a national question.
The question is: "What is a lob
ster?"
It was handed up to a higher court
here today by a poHce magistrate af
ter he had spent a week In conferring
with the leading lobster authorities all
over the country.
The case is that of John Haudocaur,
a chef in a local hotel, who was arrest
ed on a charge of cruelty to animals
for placing a wooden peg in the first
Joint back of the claw of a lobster to
prevent it from snapping. The lob
ster was on exhibition In the window of
the grill, where It was seen by a mem
ber of the women’s branch of the
Pennsylvania Society for the Preven
tion or Cruelty to Animals.
WOULD GIVE COAL
LANDS TO CITIES
Washington, Aug. 12. — Secretary
Fisher has a plan to allot government
coal lands to cities, which in turn
may operate them under certain regu
lations to supply municipal needs us
well as those of ditizens.
As a first step in the plan. Secre
tary Fisher recommended that con
gress pass a bill granting 640 acres of
coal land to the city of Grand Junc
tion, Colo., and meanwhile the interior
department has withdrawn from entry
the land the city desires.
Cities In Colorado. Wyoming, Utah.
Montana, Idaho and other public lands
in states west of the Missouri river
would bo most vitally effected by Sec
retary Fisher’s plan.
The general bill he offers would au
thorize the secretary of the Interior In
his discretion to patent 640 acres of
government coal land for each city,
and 160 for each town under condi
tions providing for prompt and con
tinual development of coal deposits, the
prevention of any assignment or trans
fer of the land, the safeguarding of the
health and safety of laborers mining
or handling the coal, the prevention of
undue waste of mineral resources and
other restrictions.
ACTION IS DEMANDED.
Criminal Prosecution Of Dissolved
Trust Heads Urged.
Washington, Aug. 12. — Immediate
action on Ills resolution to Instruct
Attorney General Wickersham to
bring criminal prosecutions against
officers of the Standard Oil and Amer
ican Tobacco companies was asked In
the Senate today by Senator Pomerene,
of Ohio.
He presented a motion to have the
judiciary committee discharged from
further consideration of the resolution
pending In the Senate more than a
year, but finally withdrew it after It
had been arranged that he should have
a hearing before the commute Mon
day. _
TROOPS CALLED mjT.
Mexico City, Aug. 12.—Troops have
been ordered to Tomlin, Durango,
where they will protect an English
mine against the possibility df a strik
ers' outbreak. Trouble between ttie
mine management and the workmen
has been in progress for several days.
NO AID FROM UNCLE SAM.
London, Aug. 12.—A Tien Tsin dis
patch to the Exchange Telegraph com
pany on dhe Russo-Japanese treaty,
says it Is reported that China appealed
to the United States to Intervene in
he” behalf, but that the government
at Washington refused to do so.
PLANNING DEFENSE
OF GREATEST CITY
Troops Begin Campaign To
Defend New York From
Imaginary Foe.
New York, Aug. 12.—New York City
presented a warlike appearance early
today as long columns of troops In full
campaign equipment marched through
the streets, followed by wagon trains,
und concentrated at the different trans
portation points. The troops were ths
Headquarters Hirst and Second brig
ades and several troops of the national
guard of Manhattan and Brooklyn, and
they were making the first move In the
great war game to be played for the
next 10 days among the hills of Con
necticut.
Officially the "war" is known as ths
“Connecticut maneuver campaign," and
the problem Involved Is the defense of
this city from an attack of a foreign
army advancing from Boston.
Some of the troops proceeded by
train to the scene of action while oth
ers departed eastward by Long Island
sound steamers.
By this evening all of the organiza
tions will be at their stations, as yet
unknown except to commanding offl
rpra
DETROIT SCANDAL
INVOLVES OTHERS
Detroit, Mich,, Aug. 12.—Sensational
developments in *he local aiuermanic
graft scandal occurred today when
Presecuttng Attorney Shepherd an
nounced that before night about 20 al
dermen would be placed under arrest
on charges of conspiracy to defraud the
city In connection with their official
positions. The nine aldermen recently
arrested on a similar charge are also
Included among the 20 new arrestH.
Sixteen more arrests were made be
fore noon. Seven of the aldermen also
faced the original bribery charges as
follows:
Andrew J. Walsh. Louis Broszo,
Louis E. Tossy, Frank J. Mason. Thom
as E. Glennin, Martin Ostowskl, David
Rosenthal.
The new arrests were: H. C, Hlndle,
Wm. Koenig (Candidate for mayor),
George E. Ellis, Thomas Lynch, Pat
rick O’Brien, Joseph Merritt, William
Zoeller, Richard, Watson and Stephen
D. Skrzyckl.
Those newly arrested were required
to furnish $5,000 bonds and those for
merly taken In custody were released
upon furnishing surety to the amount of
$2,000.
MIMIC WAR BECOMES
REAL; THREE SHOT
Springfield, 111., Aug. 12.—Three mem
bers of the Illinois National guard were
shot Friday near Camp Lincoln by a
farmer. Those Injured are:
Howard Bodlne, Co. L, of Peoria;
left hip Injured.
Lawrence Layer, Co. A, of Pekin;
■hot In back.
Charles C. Dwyer, Co. A, of Pekin;
shot In right arm, left leg and back.
None of the men were seriously In
jured. They were placed In the hos
pital at Camp Lincoln and gave med
ical treatment.
Members of Co. I, Fifth Infantry,
were maneuvering north of Camp Lin
coln and In advancing upon the enemy
they were compelled to puss through a
hurnyard. As they proceeded two men
were seen standing on the porch of a
house but a short distance away. One
was elderly, while tile second was
about 28 years old. Without warning
the young man, according to the of
ficers at Camp Lincoln, fired twice
with a shotgun, the shots striking
three of the men. The soldiers were
without ammunition.
BERGER WOULD NOW GO
FOR HANFORD BACKERS
Washington, Aug. 12.—The men who
pulled the strings to which Judge Cor
nelius O. Hanford, of Seattle, danced
off the federal bench rather than stand
trial before an Impeachment court may
be themselves under fire from the de
partment of Justice before long. Rep
resentative Victor Berger, of Wlscon
son, the lone socialist In the House,
who filed the original charges against
the Seattle Jurist, believes that the
really vicious influences, the "men
higher up," can be reached by the law.
and he has held several consultations
with officials of the department of Jus
tice with this end In view.
STATE ASKS DEATH
PENALTY FOR WOMAN
Chicago, Aug 12—The fourth Chicago
woman to face trial this year on the
charge of killing her husband was
scheduled to appear in the criminal
court today. She Is Mrs. Florence
Bernstein, 22 years old, widow of George
Bernstein, who was found In bed shot
to death on the morning of May 5.
Mrs. Bernstein Is the first woman In
years for whom the state has asked the
death penalty.
While dying Bernstein charged his
wife with having shot him without pro
vocation. Mrs. Bernstein asserts she
acted in self-defense.
CARNEGIE IN FAVOR
OF INCOME TAX LAW
London. Aug. 12.—Andrew Carnegie,
in unveiling a statue of Robert Burns
at Montrose, Scotland, made a plea for
Justice for the millionaires of the
United States by the imposition of an
Income tax. He said England in one
direction is far ahead of the United
States, for it compels every subject
to contribute to the support of the gov
ernment proportionately to the Income
he enjoys under the state’s protection.
The millionaires of the dominions and
the United States, he said, had hitherto
escaped this just taxation, but their
day is coming.
WANT PURE MILK.
St. Joseph. Mo., Aug. 12.—in a fight
for better milk the board of health
caused 49 warrants to be issued for
dairymen on the allegations that the
milk offered for sale is deficient In
butter fat._ _ _
SHONTS TO RESIGN.
New York, Aug. 12—A meeting of the
directors of the Toledo, St. Louis &
Western Railroad company was held
yesterday at which it had reported
that Theodore R. Shonts would resign
as president and that a general rear
rangement of operating officers would
be made.