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BUTTER MAKERS IN COMBINE, IS CHARGED Suit to Dissolve Elgin Board of Trade and Association of Creamery Men. Chi .ago, Dec. 16.—The Elgin board of trade, popularly known as the "but ter trust" and the American Associa tion of Creamery Butter Manufac turers, were attacked by tlje federal government in a civil anti-trust suit filed Saturday for the dissolution of both concern*. Sweeping charges of a conspiracy to fix arbitrarily the price of butter in the interest of big manufacturers and cold storage concerns and to the detri ment of the farmers, other small con cerns and to the consuming public are made by Attorney General Wickersham, against the so-called trust, which he would destroy as a violation of the Sherman law. Butter making has drifted to the large manufacturers, the national ln N crease in volume of business has been curtailed and prices to the people of the country have been enhanced, es pecially during the winter season, by the operations of the "conspirators,” according to the government's petition In equity. List of Defendants. The follow ing are named as defend ants: Elgin board of trade. Charles H. Potter. Elgin; H. C. Christians, Rich field. Wis.; J. P. Mason. Elgin; Col vin W. Brown, Elgin; A. C. Hawley, Jersevvilli. 111.; American Association of Creamery Butter Manufacturers (unincorporated); James A. Walker, Chicago: George E. Haskell. Lincoln, Neb.; Wm. D. Howard. Fort Atkinson, AVIs.: George L. McKay. Chicago; E. H. Forney. Abilene. Kan.; Henry Brldgeman. Duluth; James H. Ruston, Omaha; Charles Harding. Omaha; Ar thur S. Hanford, Sioux City; Carl W. Kent. Kansas City: Henry A. Page, Toledo; Samuel Schlosser. Plymouth, ]nd.: William A. Tilden, St. Paul; Sam uel p. AVadley. Dubuque, la., and AV. T. Sherman White. Chicago. The bill is signed by Attorney Gen eral Wickersham. Janies A. Fowler, as sistant to the attorney geiieifii; United States Attorney Wilkerson. of Chi cago. and Stanley D. Montgomery, Al bert C. W^loh and Charles F. De Woody. special assistants to the at torney general. Would Stop Quotations. Aside from the dissolution of the two organizations, the government seeks to enjoin ,ne defendants from quoting or publishing figures purporting to be '‘market prices" unless they are based on bonaf.de sales of butter from de manding that the Elgin price be used as a basis in making contracts for butter: and from making fictitious or ‘ wash sab's" of butter to mislead as to the real price at which butter Is be ing sold. Tin price of butter fixed on the El gin exchange, the government main tains is not the result of free and open competition, regulated by actual boi a fide sales under the law of supply and di round. The price fixing com mittee of the beard is dominated and controlled, It Is alleged, by large but ter manufacturers krown as central izers and by crld storage • concerns. This, eorhmitt-e. the nresentat on adds, ♦•has acted arbitrarily and without any regard to a ctual values and fixed prices wholly in th" interest of the 'conspira tWrs.*" Price Boosting Allied. From May to August, when the bulk of the country's supply is made, the petition says, large centralizing con cerns are buyers, rather than aeliers of butter, buying up the surplus pro duct and storin', it for winter when the price is <nha:iiod. Consequent!v it is declared the prices of butter fixed by the board during the summer months have been almost Invariably below the price at which the product actually has sold up on the market, while dur ing the winter months the prices fixed have been somewhat above market and private sales. It is charged that the American As sociation < f Creamery Butter Manufac turers. composed of about 46 firms and individuals is used by the "conspira tors" to maintain these seasonable dif ferences in prices without regal'd to trade conditions or competition. All members of the association are re quired. it is alleged, to use the price thus established as tile basis of their contracts for the purchase or sale of butter. Before the summer of each year, the petition continues, the large centraliz ing concerns send reports throughout the butter producing area, contracting with small manufacturers for their en tire season’s output based on the figures of the E'gln board, usually V4 or 1 cent higher than the Elgin price, Vast quantities of butter are thus pur chased from farmers and others, it Is said, by members of the association. Plan of Alleged Combine. “If therefore,” the petition declares, “the price fixed by the Elgin board should fall below the real economic price of butter, as fixed by the law of supply and demand, the profit ac cruing from the corresponding crop in contract prices goes to the largo centralizers on every pound of butter which had been purchased In advance under contract based upon the Elgin price." The system by which the price of butter is fixed Is not generally known to the widely scattered producers, ac cording to the petition, “but on the contrary, the price Is published throughout the United States In news papers and otherwise without any ac companying statement of how th<i price Is determined; and readers ol quotations thus published, and parti cularly farmers and other small pro ducers of butter and sellers of butter fat, are led to believe that the price quotations are prices established by actual bona fide sales and purchases of butter In open competition upon the Elgin board of trade. The alleged combination and con spiracy is said to have been formed "some five years ago." Officers of the American Association of Creamery Butter Manufacturers deny that the organization has ever at tempted to fix the price of butter, or that it has any connection with the Elgin board of trade. BUTTER DEALERS HAVE NO FEAR OF OUTCOME Elgin, 111., Dec. 16.—Elgin “butter barons’’ have no fear of dissolution by the supreme court of the United States. “Lack of knowledge of the manner in which the board operates and fixes quotations,” Is given by President Charles H. Potter as the basis for the suit. “When the supreme court of the Uni ted States is fully informed on this subject, as I have no doubt it will be, I believe the action will be dismissed,” said President Potter this afternoon. The Elgin board of trade was organ ized in 1872 and chartered in the law of Illinois in 1879. In 1896, the quota tion committee was organized. Pre vious to this date, the price of butter was quoted between the figures of the three highest sales. How Board Is Named. Under the arrangement adopted in 1896. a quotation committee of five members, two of whom are usually producers, two dealers and one a brok er, is elected. The board convenes each Monday and acts as a primary market. A call board is maintained on which the receipts of the New York market are first announced. Producers than place their supply before the board and offerings are made. The prices are for actual sales upon which butter is de livered. it Is stated. After the call board has closed, which usually Is 15 minutes after the meeting is called to order, the quota tion committee meets and recom mends a price which it considers equit able. From this committee an appeal can be taken to the board as a whole, which is often done, it is averred, and a new price sometimes higher and sometimes lower can be fixed. “If enjoined, we will obey the In junction,” sa si President Potter, “but we don't expectf to be permanently en joined. But for the Elgin board, which is composed of producers and dealers from every part of the dairy district of the country, the price of butter would bo much higher than It Is at present. Case of the "Centralizers.” “In reference to the centralizers the | government names in its suit, I wish l to state that these men are benefac tors of. instead of ‘conspirators’ against the producers and consumers. During the months of May. June and July the supply exceeds the demand. This surplus is purchased by the so called ’conspirators’ and placed in cold storage. In the winter months there is | practically no butter produced and be fore the Elgin board of trade quota tion committee was named, the price of butter in winter often reached 50 cents a pound. Now it sells for 35 cents most of the time or around that figure for fresh extras. "During the 40 years I have been In the butter business there has never been a day when the law of supply and demand did not control the price of butter." FAMISHED WOLF PACK SLAYS FOUR PERSONS Great Danger to Portuguese In habitants From Starving Animals. Lists n. Dec. 16.—Famished wolves yesterday devoured four persons in the neighborhood of a village in the prov ince of Ileira. Large packs of the starving animals have < ome down from the gorges to the roirra Da Estrella, whence they have been driven owing to the deep snows, and they are terrorizing the low ccuntry. They visit lonely farms at night, and persons traveling alone along the roads are In constant dan ger A great hunt was organized yester day l.y the country inhabitants in the provinc e, of Beira. More than 200 men participated and they succeeded in rounding up and killing more than 100 wolves. Eight of the hunters were Lsull;.' bitten. SrfiiOUS DISORDERS REPORTED IN CHINA Amoy. China, Dec. 16.—Serious dis orders have broken out again at llinghwa. north of this city in the province of Fu Klen. Several hun liecl government troops have been dis patched there to suppress the disturb at ces. Only recently the rebels in !tb to i a severe defeat on a detachment of government troops. WILL LOCATE BUFFALO IN WIND CAVE PARK Washington, Dec. 16.—Representative Martin has been advised that the de partment of agriculture is carrying out the law of the last session of congress, which appropriated 626,000 for pur ■ hase of land adjacent to Wind Cave National park, In which to keep buffalo. The land will be fenced and buffalo voi from various places, including 26 from the New York sot)._ GIVES COCKROACHES DEADLY PNEUMONIA Denver Man Discovers New Method of Exterminating Household Pest. Denver, Colo., Dec. 16.—H. A. Baker, inspector for the city board of health, has discovered a new way to kill cock roaches. It is to give them pneumonia. This is done, not by sprinkling the floors and so causing the roaches to get their feet wet, but by feeding the bugs a preparation which causes their lungs to become inflamed, producing a disease whose symptoms closely follow those of pneumonia. The preparation is a secret one. and Baker declares that he intends to put it on the market. It is efficacious only in the case of roaches. The other in sect pests which infest houses have no lungs, and therefore can not have pneu monia. The roach, the most highly developed of the insects, has a com plete outfit of respiratory apparatus, just like the larger mammals. KANSAS FARM OUTPUT. Topeka. Kan., Deo. 16.—The value of Kansas farm products, including live stock for the year 1912, was $40,000,000 more than that of any previous year, according to a report given out by F. D. Coburn, secretary of the board of agriculture. The value of such products, the report says, aggregated $540,155,476._ _ FIVE TRAINMEN ARE TRAPPED IN WRECK Cumberland. Md., Deo. 16.—Five trainmen were killed today near Glen coe, in the wreck of a Baltimore & Ohio train consisting of two engines and 42 coal laden cars when, with its brakes suddenly refusing to work, it dashed eight miles down a mountain side before both locomotives and every car leaped from the rails and plunged Into the dltph. BRYCE ANTICIPATES FRIENDLY RELATIONS Retiring Ambassador Confident All Difficulties Easily Can Be Arbitrated. New York, Dec. 16.—Regret that James Bryce, the British ambassador, was about to retire from that post, was expressed at a dinner here in his honor last night, coupled with the hope that he would find himself able to attend the celebration in this coun try in 1914 of the one hundredth anni versary of peace between Knglish speaking people. The dinner was given by the American committee in charge of that celebration. “It is said that Mr. Bryce is re maining here as sort of holdover to settle the Panama canal' proposition,” said Joseph H. Choate, one of the speakers, "and if that is so he may be with us in 1914. when the celebra tion is held. But I have heard that he and President Taft are doing all that can bo done to settle that con troversy, and if they can do it, it will be settled.” Mr. Bryce reviewed the treaties lead ing to a settlement of the Canadian boundary dispute, the Newfoundland fisheries question, the matter of the use of the waters on the boundary and minor points long at issue, and con tinued : “All these treaties furnish an admir able illustration of the dictum once de livered by Mr. Root that where two nations and governments desire to come to a fair agreement it is always possible for them to do so. With good will everything can be accomplished." LONG WIN D COPPER RUNSH ETOOEATH Pittsburgh Patrolman Finds Stray Donkey and Fatal Chase Results. Pittsburgh. Pa., Dec. 16.—Patrolman Dave Lennox, who walks a beat in Soho, established his reputation as a -long-winded man today when he ran a mule to death. Lennox saw the animal at Fifth and Justine streets, apparently not engaged at anything in particular. The mule took a kick or two at Lennox when the policeman tried to lug him to the city stables. When the vagabond started running out of fifth street. Lennox took after him. The pursuit continued through the Oakland district and back on Sec ond avenue to Soho bridge, nearly three miles. “I caught him at Greenfield ave nue," said Lennox. “I was winded myself, but that old skate acted as though he had been kidding me. He seemed frisky as a kitten. He walked along right gently for a while, and at Hooper street the old skate laid right down on the stones and croaked." TWO ARSON SUSPECTS MAY DIVULGE SECRET Insurance Adjusters and “Fire Bugs” Alleged to Operate In Conjunction. South Bend, Ind„ Dec. 16.—The ex posure of an alleged "arson trust" com posed of Insurance adjusters and oper ating throughout the entire middle west causing scores of fires and many thou sands of dollars loss will follow. It Is said, the arrest of Ben Kahn, former South Bend merchant, and Ben Frank lin, of Chicago, accused of firing the clothing store owned by Kahn on April 12, 1912. Tne two men arrested in Chicago are now held here in default of bonds of $20,000 each. Prosecutor Chester R. Montgomery, who, with Captain of Detectives Will iam Casidy, has been working on the case, declared that the trial will bring out the fact that insurance adjust ing concerns make a practice of set ting fire to heavily insured mercantile establishments on a commission basis. Franklin is charged with being the operative for the alleged "lire bug" combine. Kahn, who owned the store Is accused of engaging the fire adjusters to cause the explosion and lire result ing in the destruction of the stock. MASQUERADER PROVED TO BE REAL HOLD-UP Los Angeles. Cal.. Dec. 16.—"Tag, you’re out,” said Conductor W. K. Price playfully, as a man with a cheese cloth mask covering his face boarded an Angeleno Heights street car early this morning. A crowd of masqueraders returning from a dance had just left the ear and Price thought the masked man was one of the same party. "Mistaken,” said the latter, gruffly, “you’re it,” and thereupon poked tho muzzle of a big revolver against the conductor's ribs Before Price realized what had happened he had been re lieved of $15, and the masquerader had disappeared. EXPRESS COMPANIES MUST SHOW EARNINGS Washington, Dec. 16.—Orders were issued by the Interstate Commerce commission today requiring the ex press companies doing an Interstate business to file with the commission by February 1. 1913. statements show ing a comparison of the effect of ex isting rates and those suggested by the commission. The comparison will be made the basis of reduced rates to be ordered by the commission. SCORES ARE SAVED BY VALIANT FIRE LADDIES Pittsburgh, Pa., Dec. 16.—Fire, be lieved to have been of incendiary or igin, destroyed 20 stables, warehouses and residences in Braddock, a suburb, early today. Scores of men, women and children were rescued oy firemen, a dozen of whom suffered slight In juries. The loss Is estimated at $1(0, 000. PARCELS POST PUNS ARE GIVEN PUBLICITY Postmaster General Urges Pub. lie to Become Acquainted With the Rules. Washington. D. C., Dec. 16.—Regula tions to cover the workings of the new parcels post system, which is to go into operation on January 1 next, were made public by Postmaster General Hitchcock today. The new system will be effective throughout the entire pos tal service at the same time and will affect every postofflee, city, rural and railway transportation route in the country. Every precaution will be taken by the postofflee department to have the mails moved with the usual dispatch, and all postmasters, superin tendents and inspectors have been di rected to familiarize themselves and their subordinates with every phase of the new system. Mr. Hitchcock today expressed the hope that the public familiarize itself with the nature of the new service be fore attempting to use it. Information will be available at any postofflee in the country in a few days. Law’s Provisions. The regulations provide that parcels of merchandise, Including farm and factory products (but not books and printed matter) of almost every de scription Up to 11 (Pounds in weight, and measuring as much as six feet in length and girth combined, except those calculated to do injury to the piails in transit, may bo mailed at any postofflee for delivery to any address in the country. Delivery will be made to the homes of people living on rural and star routes, as well as those living in cities and towns where there is delivery by carrier. Where there is at present no delivery by carrier the parcels will go to the postofflee, as is the case with ordinary mall. For a fee of 10 cents a parcel may be insured, and if the parcel is lost in the mailB an indemnity to the amount of its value not to exceed J50 will be paid to the sender. The law provides for the use of dis tinctive postage stamps, and there Is now being distributed to postmasters for use in the parcels post system a set of stamps of 12 denominations. Par cels post maps, with accompanying guides, are to be sold to the public at their cost, 75 cents, through the chief clerk of the postofflee depart ment. UNCLE SAM AFTER CANDY TRUST NOW Operates “In Derogation of Common Rights of All the People”—Wickersham. Philadelphia, Dec. 16.—'The ‘candy trust” of Philadelphia was attacked by Attorney General Wickersham in a civil anti-trust suit filed here today against the Philadelphia Jobbing Con fectioners' association. Members and officers of the association have com bined and conspired. It is charged, to coerco candy manufacturers from sell ing direct to retailers, to consumers or to Jobbers other than members of the association. The government declares that ths acts of the association complained of are "in derogation of the common rights of all the people of the United States” and in violation^ of the Sher man law. The attorney general asked for injunctions against their continu ance. The individual defendants are offi cers or members of the association. The individual firms comprising the association handle, it is pointed out, the products of candy manufacturers of New York, New Jersey, Maryland and Pennsylvania and other states. By their combination and conspiracy, it is added, they refrain from purchas ing from all non-association candy manufacturers or from manufacturers who sell direct to retailer or consumer in and about Philadelphia. NEW YORK CENTRAL SAID TO RE TRUST Stockholders Begin Action for Dissolution — Ohio Bond Issue Opposed. Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 16.—A protest was filed here with the state utilities commission by stockholders of the New York Central railroad against the ap plication for an Issuance of $24,000,000 of bonds by the railroad for improve ments in Ohio. It is declared that the i abroad is a trust and a suit, will be brought for its dissolution under the provisions of the Sherman law. The letter of protest was signed by C. H. Venner & Co., bankers of New York, as stockholders in the New York C'ontral and Hudson River railroad and the Michigan Central railroad, and also by the Continental Security company, of New York, by its secretary, Charles E. Robinson, as stockholders in the Michigan Central. Representatives of the protesting stockholders are expected here Mon day, when the application for the is suance of the certificates will be heard by the utilities board. . t T STEAMER TERRA NOVA GOES TO SCOTT’S AID Christ Church, New Zealand, Dec. lfi. —The Antarctic steamer Terra Vova sailed from this port today to the re lief of Captain Robert I1'. Scott, antarc tic expedition. The Terra Nova will proceed to Mc Murdo sound and it is expected she will arrive at Captain Scott’s base at Cape Evans the middle of January. JACOBSON NOT SLAIN BY PASTOR, SAYS JURY Houlton. Me., Dec. 16.—‘‘Not guilty” was the verdict of the Jury in the caso of the Rev. Charles N. Emellus, Mrs. Annia Jacobson and Edgar Jacobson, tried here on tne charge of murdering August Jacobson, husband of Annia. and father of Edgar Jacobson, at New Haven. Emellus has studied theology at Augustana college, Rock Island, lit . QUAKER CITY WOMEN FIGHT EGG PRICES Corner Boosted Price to 72 Cents—Market Sold Eggs for 24 Cents. Philadelphia. Dee. 16.—The campaign against the alleged corner In eggs be gun yesterday by the Housekeepers' league, was renewed todav with In creased vigor. Every enndler that could bo found was kept busy all night In specting eggs to supply the demand from all sections of the city. Additional stations were opened and 43 were In operation at daybreak. Auto trucks, furnished by public spirited owners to aid the women in their cam paign against the high cost of living, were kept busy carrying the eggs to the sales stations. The various settlement houses, where social workers arc taking an active part In the campaign, were open for business In time to sell the 24-cent eggs. The retailers, who are blamed by the women for the high prices that have been prevailing, are showing signs of capitulating. Two large chains of stores today offered their customers eggs at the prices set- by the House keepers' league, which is front 6 to 20 cents less than they have been charg ing. "You may say that we are In this light to stay," declared Mrs. W. B. Derr, president of the league. “If they attempt to put us out of business by slashing prices, we will have accom plished the very thing for which we are working. Our source of supply is adequate to meet the demand, what ever It may be. "While it Is too early to announce our plans along other lines. It can be said that we don't Intend by any means to confine our campaign to one against the high price of eggs. We have made a careful survey of the prices of meats nnd other articles of food and we shall wage the same sort of warfare where the public Is charged too much.” Sold for 72 Cents. One hundred and fifty dozen eggs were sold yesterday at stations In var ious sections of the city by members of the Housekeepers’ league In the first day of their campaign to break the corner which they claim has been maintained by retail dealers here. Eggs that have been selling for 49 cents to 72 cents a dozen were sold by the women at 24 cents. Such was the de mand at the 40 stations In operation today that only Inability to secure enough eandlers prevented even a larger number being disposed of. As a rule, the retailers maintained their former prices for eggs. The wholesale price for "strictly fresh" eggs advanced here from $9.30 to $9.60 a crate of 30 dozen. —f WOMEN TO EXTEND THEIR ACTIVITIES Philadelphia, Dec. 16.—Encouraged by the success of their campaign to reduce the cost of living through the sale of "selected" storage eggs at a price from 6 to 20 cents a dozen cheap er than has heretofore prevailed, offi cers of the Housekeepers' league today announced tlielr intention of broaden ing the scope of their activities. Guar antees from farmers In Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia to supply the league with other foods at prices w hich would enable their dis tribution at a much less cost than now charged by the retailers have been received, according to Mrs. Daniel W. Simpkins, vice president of the organ ization. "We are much pleased so far," de clared Mrs. Simpkins. "We are re ceiving encouragement from all sec tions, even from points as far away ns Boston. There Is a deal under considera tion," she continued, “that may help us in extending our movement so that other products may be placed on sale at prices within reach of every class,” Since the inauguration of the cam paign for lower prices the league has disposed of 18,000 crates or 640,000 dozen eggs at 24 cents a dozen at 60 stations in different sections of the city. Next week It is the Intention of the women to Increase tlielr selling stations to 300 and it is expected by those In charge of the work that the crusade will be the means of breaking the cor ner, which they claim existed in the commodity prior to the opening of their campaign. DOG BISCUIT NO JOKE TO HER AT LUNCHEON Ouest At Bridge Party Sues Hostess for Price of Broken Tooth. New York. Dec. 16,—Miss Harriett Condor., of No. 4927 Burbuns avenue, Paterson, at tire Conclusion of a bridge party In her home a few days ago served lemonade and cake to her guests. Miss Helene Wenton. of No. 693 Blast Thirty-sixth street. Paterson, was one of the guests. She took a piece of supposed cake from the dish and tried to bite into it. It resisted bitterly. 'Stale." said Miss Wenton to her self, but being polite decided not to comment, for she and Miss Condon were intimate friends. Making herself a martyr, she con sumed the whole thing. Then a laugh broke from the young women around her "You wore fooled that time, Helene.” they chuckled. "That was a dog bis cuit you ate." Miss Wenton, in no Joyous mood, rose Indignantly, got her hat and coat and hurried from tile house. On Satur day she began suit for *36 against Miss Condon, alleging that the dog biscuit had broken one tooth, dis lodged a gold filling In another and hnd so otherwise Injured her that the dentist's bill was *35._ FLEET AT VERA CRUZ. Vera Cruz. Mex., Dec. 16.—The booming of big guns of the American warships today announced the arrival off Vera Cruz of the battleships Min nesota, Kbubbs. Michigan and South Carolina, under command of Rear Ad miral Fletcher. ROBBERS GETNEWELS WORTH FULLY $25,00C New York. Dec. 16.—A *25.0.00 dia mond robbery In u BTfth avenue Jew elry shop r.'ss discover:'! today, when Josepl. Varja, head of the Varja Jew elry company opened Ills store fo: business. The establishment was en tered during the night through a hole laued In the celling after the wall oi the building adjoining bad been Merced. BECOMING EXPERT AT JURY DODGING Kansas Women Hide from Dep uty With Subpoenas, They Are “Not At Home.” Independence, Kan., Dec. 16.—An evi dent reluctance among Independence, society women to respond to call fori Jury service, brought an announcement today by Justice Clark, that he “In tended to have a woman Jury In every case In his court, where the testimony Is not likely to be of an embarrassing! nature." He said women had more time for Jury duty than men. Deputy Sheriff Edward Wadraan re ported he had found It practically im possible to serve subpoenas upon .half, of 12 prominent women summoned, as Jurors In the case of "Jim” Blue to be tried tomorrow charged with “shooting up” an lnterurban street car. In many cases he said he wae met at the door by a butler or maid with the Information that the mistress was “out of town,” while at the same time he could see the "absentee” at an upBtalrs window laughing at him." Says 8he Had Batter Return. On his way to his office this morn ing Justice Clark saw one of the women on the street. An hour later he received a telephone message that Bhe was “out of town" and could not serve. He replied. “She had better be In town tomorrow." That the many persons Interested may be accommodated at the Blue trial. Justice Clark will move his court temporarily to the Commercial asso ciation rooms. They Wanted Suffrage. "There is nothing about the drawing of this Jury to smile at," said Justice Clark. "The trial will be simply a reg ular, dry-as-dust legal proceeding, with women In the Jury box Instead of men. The women of Kansas have asked for suffrage. They have ob tained It. With suffrage comes their liability to Jury service. No right minded, patriotic womar. can take of fense at being summoned upon a Jury henceforth," Those selected for Jury service are: Mrs. T. J. Booth, Mrs. T. B. Coveil, Miss Kachel Pugh, Mrs. A. C. Stich, Mrs. George T. Guernsey, sr., Mrs. J. T. Davis, Miss Nellie Barrett, Mrs, M. F. Wood. Mrs. Harry Sinclair, Mrs. Roy Jones, Miss Sadie Hebrank and Mrs. O. W. Uhrich._ INDEMNITY GRANTED WOUNDED AMERICANS Mexicans Must Fay Those Who Suffered From Bullets Fired Across Border. Washington, Dee. 16.—Twenty-three Americans who were wounded or who#* relatives were killed or wounded by shots from across the Mexican border In April or May, 1911, should recelva indemnity aggregating $86,000 from ths Mexican government, according to a report to congress by a commission of army officers authorised to Investigate the cases. All claims of Mexicans In jured on the American side by bullet* from Mexican revolutionists or fed erate were disapproved. The commission reported that Law rence F. Converse and Edward M. Platt, Americans, who were captured on American soil by Mexican federal* were not entitled to indemnity, although the Mexicans committed an interna tional wrong In crossing ,the border. Converse and Platt claimed $50,000 The following claims were approved, the amounts being reduced In each In stance: For Injuries at El Paso, Tex.; Adolfo Vnreta, gunshot wound to daughter. • *3,000; Virginia Moorhead, wounded through body. *3,000; Abundlo Sota. gunshot wound to wife, *4000; Edwin G. Heaton, wounded through leg, *2 000; Celia Griffiths, husband killed, *15,000; A. R. Chandler, son killed, *12, 000. For injuries at Douglas, Arts.;. Emma Larsen, personal Injuries, $1, 000; Elmer E. Crowe, shot through the body. *7,000; Francis Williams, shot through body, *5,000; John Kane, shot! in foot. *4.000; Joseph W. Harrington brother killed, *16,000; William R. White, leg wound, *2,000. IMPORT OF LUXURIES BREAKS ALL RECORDS Americans Spending $1,000,. 000 Per Day for Jewels, Finery, Champagne, Etc. Washington, Dec. 16.—Imports of luxuries Into the United States dur ing October were probably the highest on record. The bureau of foreign and domestic commerce of the department of commerce and labor estimates that luxuries arc coming Into this country at the rate of $1,000,000 a day and If that rate holds good, it is estimated that imports of luxuries will aggregate $250,000,000 for the calendar year 1912. Art work amounted to approximately $14,000,000 for the month as compared with $4,500,000 during October of last year, tobacco, cigars, diamonds, and other precious stones, laces and em broideries, feathers, natural and arti ficial; decorated china, toys, cham pagne, cordials and other articles of that class all were shipped into this country in large quantities during Oc tober. _ _ FIREMEN OVERCOME. Chicago. Dec. 16.—Six firemen fight ing a blase on the third floor of the '.nodicine factory of the J. B. Scheuer company, at 22 west Kenzie street, were overcome by the fumes of chem icals today. Comrades rushed to their rescue and carried them down a fire escape. _ _ FRUIT MEN DECLARE WAR ON ALIEN BUGS Kansas City, Mo.. Dec. 16.—War on alien bugs which Immigrate to this country In the folds of Imported nur sery stock wa* continued at the final session today of the Western Associa tion of Nursery men. C. L. Watrous, of Des Motnes, ad dressed the delegates on "Bugs, New and Old.” D. J. Ttghe, of Billings, Mont., spoke on "Nursery Development in the Northwest."