The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current, July 10, 1911, Image 8

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    CAMPBELL GETS
BOOSTER JOE
Omahan Secretary of Leagua f g
i Seven Stales and Alaska,
THUGS ATTACK FARMER
TO DEVELOP THE KORTHWES
First Asa-gnrrent Win Be to Collect Ex
hlbits and Give Biggest Land Show
in St. Paul' Great Auditorium.
Sheffield Man Is Assaulted, but No
Robbery is Committed.
Sheffield, la., July 7. Leroy H. Tan
ner, a fanner living north weM of neie,
was the victim of thugs and no one
teems able to ilivine their purpose. ll'J
was driving home through the woods
when the assailants sprang out at him.
He was knocked unconscious and
when he fame to two hours later the
horse he was driving was beside him,
and he drove home, where a physician
was called
Mr. Tanner supposed that their mo
tive was robhery, as ha had consider
able money on his person, but neither
money nor watch were taken. He Is
entirely at a loss to arcount for the
cause of the assault.
From advertising a city of 18fi,(Kji
people to the secretaryship of a devel
praent league for the advertising o
the greatest section of the Amerkai
continent, U the unique advancemcn
Of Will A. Campbell of the Cominer
ial club of Omaha. lie becomes i
ort of general secretary for the Cora
merclal clubs cf seven btates and tb
territory of Alaska.
Into this lection of the Unltec
tateu during the next decade hun
lruds of thousands of people are to b
taken BJid the plan of an Interstate or
ganiatlon shows the extent to whirl
commercial club organization for tin
Iturpose of development is being car
ried.
Seven great states have organized th
Northwestern lievclopmcnt league anr
the Nebraska man is to he its excel)
tive secretary. The members of th
tirgaiilzatlou are the states of Mliine
ota, North and South Dakota, Mon
tana, Idaho Washington, Oregon ani
the teirltcry of Alaska. The rail
loadB of tho west are also backing thi
HEAT HATCHES CASE OF EGGS
Continued Hot Weather Gives Trouble
to Egg Buyers.
Algona, la., July 7. The continued
hot weather is giving some trouble to
the egg buyers of Algona. A case of
eggs was received at the egg factory
here, shipped from Ruthven, and when
opened to be repacked it waB discov
ered that the eggs were hatching.
One plump Plymouth Rock was al
ready out and was taken care of by
Hiram Reddles, an employee. The
brood is thriving well and Is living
evidence of the record breaking heat.
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NORMS ATTACKS
TAFT'S AIDE
Declares Secretary Hilles Heads
'Political Nsws Bureau."
SAYS IT SUPPRESSES TRUTH.
ELDORA BOY SEES
GOMPAIHON DROWN
Keeps Secret Until Next Day Be
cause of Fear of Whipping.
Eldora, la., July 7. After seeing his
companion, (ceil Smith, aged ten
years, drown In the Iowa river, James
Riley returned home and kept the se
cret until morning, because he feared
a whipping, ho having been ordered
hot to go swimming. Mrs. i'armclla
Smith, the widowed mother of the
drowned boy, spent an anxious and
sleepless night when her son did not
return, but hoped he hud gone to a
camp of friends, who were on an out
ing north of town. When the boy did
cot return she gave the alarm and a
por.se was organized and, aided by the
Riley hoy's confession, recovered the
body.
WILL A. CAMPBELL."
'(Secretar) Northwestern Development
, league.)
organization, particularly the liuei
owned and controlled by James J. Hill,
bo has always been a lender in str.ts
development. The state commercial
clubs and their immigration depart
tncnU are also in the league.
This shows how tho commercial
t'ub or development league Idea ha J
teen expanded. First the business
men of a town or city, which does not
vant to depend on natural growth, or
fcanlze a local commercial club, chum
ler of (iinmerco or hoard of trade. In
tome states these local organization
re handed together into county nsso
tiatlons or coiuiiierc lul clubs. Thru
these go In together and organize n
State federation of commercial chihs
to do the Inrper work for the st'tto
Now the state federations bind them-
elves Into a great leag ie, powerful In
U Influence, capitalized by the wealth
of a vast irea nnd assisted by the
most powerful transportation compa
nies, which ate ever ready to look
into and Invent In the far future.
8nch Is the orgnnlznt'on which Is to
devote Itself to the section between
the falls of St Anthony and I'uget
Kound; from the Klamath lakes to tho
Grand PoitniM of Lake Superior. That
the Influence of the association will be
latent lul Ik beyond question nnd other
tcrtloiiH of the United States nro
VoiiikI to follow ns they watch the
rt ven stntcs realize a new era of plo
steering-.
One of the fr!t assignments which
Mr. Campbell will have, besides work
ing out Feme details of the organlza
tion, win i to collect in Ft. Paul n
ast exhibit of the resources of th"
even state nnd Alaska, I. rinsing the
teirltory for which he Is tn work un
tPT one roof These will be first
shown In- St, Pnul in early December
t wfcnt will lm known as the North
Western I nnd Show. It will give tin
opportunity to show thousands what
there Is beyond the Twin Cities, In the
frent territory to which they are the
gateway.
A movement Is nlso on foot to lo
tale the Naticnal Apple show In St.
t'aul and It will be held in connection
lth the Northwest Ijind show. For
three years the apple show has been
Yield In Spokane, but the mnnnKetnnt
of this show has decided that It would
ttewt serve the purpose (if advertising
the orchards. of the west y holding
it In some pastern or middle western
thy. The Northwest Land show nnd
the Natlonnl Apple show tinder one
roof will mr.ke an exhibition larger
than anything of Its kind which will
lie held this year.
"I'll" Omnhn man Is peculiarly PHert
fur the executive secretaryship of tho
Northwestern Development league,
tinvlnx been In charge of exploiting tho
National Corn Impositions nnd n mini
1-er of other exposition having the de
velopment objec t behind him. He Is
aid to have brought 19,000 new
fcttlft-p Isto Minnesota In 1910 by ex
plotting that state through the Minne
sota Conservation congress called by
Covorror pberhnrt and worked out to
,i;i- c.-.U'i.t Mr. CVsipbell.
Des Moines Business Men to Buy Team
Des Mollies, July 7. President llig
glns of the Des Molneg baseball club
la expected In Des Moines today to
clone a deal for the Bale of the club
and franchise to iH-s Molneg business
men, who have made an offer and are
ready to form a company to handle
the team.
Nebraska Congressman Says Progres
sives Are Being Wronged by Con
spiracy of Big Newspapers Echo of
Shotwell Incident.
Washington, July 7. Charges that
Charles l. Miles, secretary to the
president, is acting as the head of a
"political news bureau" which "sup-j
presses truth" and issues "ungrounded
and false" reports as to sentiment
concerning presidential candidates
were made in a letter from Represents
ative Norrls of Nebraska, insurgent
leader in the house, addressed to the
Nebraska Progressive Republican
league.
Representative Norris charged that
the "suppressed" facts relate to senti
ment favoring the candidacy of Sena
tor La Follette for the presidency.
Ills letter was in answer to tele
grams from the Nebraska progressives
declaring their repudiation of Frank
A. Shotwell. who, they say, had re
ported himself as n agent of the
league and as such had given out sev
eral statements favoring the renomi
nation of President Taft.
Mr. Norrla charged that thevpro'
gressives had been wronged by a "con
spiracy of great newspapers" in sup
pressing news relating to the progres
slve movement. After referring to a
series of articles printed, Mr. Norris
lotter concluded:
"These various articles have ear
marks that strongly indicate they orig
inated In the White House. I do not
think that the president himself dic
tated them and I do not know that he
had knowledge of them, but it Is gen
erally understood that the. Information
came from his private secretary and
almost wl'hout exception these objec
tionable articles contain Items of In
formation that necessarily must have
come from one closely connected with
the White House.
"I am reluctantly led to believe
that the president's private secretary
is the bend of a political news bureau
that is making n determined effort to
suppress any sentiment in favor of the
candidacy of Senator Ia Follette and
to do this by the suppression of truth
nnd the publication of ungrounded and
false reports."
PLAN WORLD STEEL LEAGUE
GIVE LIFE TO SHERMAN LAW
Wickcrsham Discusses Recent Decis
ions of Supreme Court.
Rattle Creek, Mich., July 7 Attor
aey tleneral YVickershani spoke before
the Michigan State Bar association
here and discussed . the supreme
jourt's recent interpretation of the
Sherman anti-trust law in the Stand
ard Oil and tobacco cases. He gave
bis unqualified Indorsement to tue
court's application of the so called
"ruin of reason."
"Those who have thoughtlessly
yielded to the superficial conclusion
resulting from the application by the
chief Justice's rule of reason to the in
terpretation of the Sherman law," he
added, "can find but little to justify
the Idea that the Sherman law has
been made Ineffective by those two de
cisions, for precisely the contrary Is
established by those two great judg
ments. "The most cursory examination of
the decree in the tobacco case the
most casual consideration of the dras
tic and far-reaching remedy Imposed
makes It pevfectly apparent that the
Sherman law, perhaps for the first
time, has bcrn demonstrated to be an
actual effective weapon to the accom
plishment of the purpose for which it
was primarily enacted, namely, the
destruction of the great combinations
familiarly known as trusts.
SUIT TO DIVORCE
MINES jD ROADS
Gcvarnmaiii Renews Fight to Vi
taliza CoiMriities Clause.
JOHN J. M'NAMARA.
Head of Ironworkers Aeoustd
of Los Angeles Dynamite Plot.
TEST CASE OF LEHIGH RAILROAD
Blood Poison Proves Fatal.
Clinton, In., July 7. Conductor Wal
ter C Payne of the Chicago and
Northwestern load Is dead at his home
he-re ns a remit of blood poisoning,
which followed a slight scratch re
ceived on his hand while handling but
ter tubs.
CONDENSED NEWS
A report shows that suicide rate de
creased in lfill) as compared with the
previous year. '
Four waitresses In a hotel In Mount
Pcu'ono, Ta., were drowned In an Ice
poml near the hotel.
Homer r.eiijamln and his brother,
Lester, of Petersburg. Ind, were
drowned In tho White river while
bathing.
Two persons were killed and Ave se
riously Injured during a charge by the
police on a mob near the street car
barns at Mexico City.
A quarrel over a girl at a country
dance near Muskogee, Okla., resulted
in a light, In which eleven men were
t tabbed. Ono of the Injured will die.
Dr. Charles P. Honelson of Chicago
died of blood poison. Some time ago
he extuici.-d an ulcerated tooth from
a patient and received a small scratch
on his hand, resulting in blood poison
ing"
Fr. Haldane Clemlnson of Chlcngn
was taken to the penltentlnry at Jollet
to serve a life sentence for murdering
bis wife His lust words to jail com
panlotih and guards were that he was
innocent.
The cigarette hnblt Is the cnuse of
75 per cent of tho truancy cases, ac
cording to tho nnmml report of Truant
Otncer H. It. Howe to the Rock ford
board of education. Pool playing Is
reported as the next principal cause.
What Is Br. Id lo be the greatest oil
well ever struck In Oklahoma Is on
fire and oil Is being burned nt the rate
of Un barrels nn hour. The fire start
ed from a lantern carried by A. H
iimuun, a lease employee. Me was
Instantly killed by the explosion. The
well Is In the Osage nation.
A few minutes after It became
known that Frederick Prnger had
been found dead In bed at his home
ut Pittsburg, tieighhciis rushed to the
house and begun ransacking for 111
000 rumored to havn been hidden
somewhere nhottt the premises. It
look a squad of police to clear the
house of fo'tune hunters.
Through the heroism of his fourteen
year old daughter the life of John iVn
ker, a Gregory county (S. IV) home
fteadtr, v:u saved when he was over
tome by bent and smoko while trying
lo save Ms aiitoiuohllo from n burning
building. The. daughter rushed to his
rescue nnd succeeded in dragging him
from the burring structure.
Leaders of Industry Will Form Inter,
national Organization.
Brussels Belgium. July 7. 'i he
steel men concluded the business
which had called them together from
nine steel producing countries In a
brief Besslon and adjourned.
The conference appointed a commit
tee of thirty, made up of members pro
posed by each national group, to work
out a plan for nn International steel
organization mil submit It to the full
conference when called.
The American members of the com
mittee are Judge K. H. C.ary, chairman
of the board, and President A. J. Far-
rel of the United States Steel cor-
peratlon; Charles M. Schwab, presi
dent of the Bethlehem Steel corpora
tion; K. A. S. Clarke, president of the
I.nckawanna Steel company, and Wil
lis S. King, vice president of the Jones
& iJiughlln Steel company.
The committee organized by mak
ing Judge C.ary chairman and W. D.
Pent .of Knglnnd, secretary, and ad
journed to meet again when sum
moned by tho chairman.
Judge On-y said he felt that distinct
progress lincl been made toward a
common world of feeling and practice
In steel nffnlrs." He Is satisfied with
the results thus far accomplished
tnrongh the International exchange of
opinion.
CONVICT NEVILLE
GIVESHIftlSELF UP
Comes Back From Nsw York (o
Serve Unexpired Month.
Lincoln, July 7. Weary and worn
out from beating his way from New
York state, where he had been since
breaking his parole over a year ago,
Ralph Neville, a convict at the peni
tentiary sent up from Douglas county
following his conviction for burglary,
returned to the folds of Warden Defar
hunty's Institution, a penitent and
weeping man. He gave himself up to
the warden and begged to be put back
In the cell, that he might serve out
the remainder of his sentence, which
amounts to one month.
Neville came the entire way from
New York to right the wrong he com
mitted when he broke trust with the
officers by escaping while paroled to
Dr. Williams of University Place.
Part of the way from the east the con
vict walked and part of the way he
rode brako beams of overland fliers.
At other times he was forced to be
content with freight trains. He arrived
at the state penitentiary dust-coveted
and begrimed with oil.
Jurors Get No Pay for Recess.
Lincoln, July 7. According to a dc
clslon rendered by Judges Frost, Cor
nish and Stewart of the district court,
sitting cn banc In the case of F. C.
Cochran against Lancaster county, a
Juror who is excused from duty from
Friday evening to Monday morning Is
not entitled to pay for the Saturday
Intervening. Juror Cochran sued for
$9, alleged to have been due on ac
count of three days of such Saturday
service.
TWINS WED TWINS.
STANDARO OIL TO BE SPLIT
Tablsr Brothers of Missouri Wed
Moore Sisters of Texas.
A courtship which begnn In April.
1910. between Lornnd and Lolnnd Tn
bier of Adrlnn. Mo., twin brothers, nnd
Alta and Alum Moore of Sun Marcos,
Tex., twin sisters, hns Just ended In a
double wedding.
The Tabler twins couldn't be told
part They never were separated
even for n day. Friends of the Moore
twins could not tell which was which,
and they, too, never hae been sepa
rated. Tho Tnbler boys met tho Moore girls
when on n visit to texns In April,
1910. The girls were students at the
Ban Marcos normal school. The hns
bnnds are tweuty-three years old and
the wives twenty-one.
8,000 AT ENDEAVOR MEETING
Plan a Reorganization That Will Not
AfTect Dividends.
New York, July 7. It is reported
here that within a short time plans
for reorganizing the Standard Oil com
pany of New Jersey will be announced.
The company, It is said, will undergo
complete disintegration and all sub
sidiaries that are charged with having
combined and conspired to monopolise
the oil trade will operate separately.
The company may be split Into fif
teen or twenty parts and each will
operate In Its own territory Independ
ent of other companies. The control
will continue to ho the 'same. It was
reported that under the reorganization
plan the earnings of the Standard Oil
company will not be affected.
Aviators Re-cross Channel,
Calais, France, July 7. The covey
of French nvliitors that descended on
the ICnglish coast last Monday, took
wing from Dover nt daybreak, and
half hour inter settled lightly on tho
soil of France. The flight of the
Strnlts of Dover was accomplished
easily. Vedrines led the way.
Lineman Fatally Crushed.
Omaha. July 7.- David Kirk, a line
man for the Omaha and Council nluff
street rail way, was crushed almost be
yond recogn'tioii under a reel of cop
per wire. He died at St. Joaeph'l
hospital, li'ivliig been so terribb
enisl ed that It was Impossible to savi
his life.
Board of Trustees Relieves President
Clark of Detail Work of Office.
Atlantic City, N. J., July 7. Bight
thousand delegates crowded Into the
Auditorium at the opening session of
the International Christian Endeavor
society. The feature was the annual
address of president Francis B. Clark.
The report of Secretary Shaw shows
an Increase of more than 1,000,000
members since July, 1909.
Starting a world wide work on
larger scale, the board of trustees re
lieved President Clark of the deail
work of his office, to permit him to
effect closer interdenominational en
deavor Other officers were re-elected.
Showers Bring Relief.
Washington, July 7. Thunder show
era In the north Atlantic states drove
the heat wave from what was practic
ally Its strongho'd, and the country
generally Is freed from the sweltering
conditions of the Inst five days, show
ers mainly bringing the longed for re
lief.
Kills Wife and Himself.
Cedar Itapids, la.. July 7. Ouy Sells
shot and killed his wife by firing
three bullets Into her body from a ro
volver. nnd then fatnlly wounded him
self
The glutton Is always thlnklngnf
what to Is going lo eat. the dyspeptic
of what ho hns Just eaten -New York
Tresa.
Co-nplamt Charges That Railroad
Really Owns Coal Transported, Buy
ing It at Nominal Loss and Depend
ing Upon Profit From Freight.
Washington, July 7. The govern
ment will renew the fight to disasso
tiate the great coal-carrying railroads
trom their virtual control of mines and
thus vitalize the commodities clause
of the interstate commerce law. A
test case against the Lehigh Valley
railroad was filed in the United States
court in Philadelphia.
That the Lehigh Valley Railway
Coal company, Cox Bros., Inc.; the
New York and Middlefield Railroad
and Coal company and the Locust
Mountain Coal and Iron company are
not bonaftde coal companies, but mere
ly adjuncts to the Lehigh Valley rail
road and are "devices for evading the
commodities clause," is the govern
ment's principal complaint.
It is also alleged the Lehigh Valley
with the object of removing compe
tition, has caused the Lehigh Valley
Coal company to contract at a loss for
the output of other anthracite operat
ors, has transported the coal over its
own lines and through the coal com
pany has fixed the prices In New York
and other markets.
The government charges that al
though the buying of coal from other
operators hns been done at a loss to
the coal company, It has enabled the
Lehigh Valley railroad to transport
the coal over its lines and profit from
tho freight charges.
Coal Company a Dummy.
To support its claim that the coal
company is merely the "dummy," the
government, cites that the officers of
the railroad and the coal company are
the same nnd that certain members
of the directorate are members of the
directorate and executive committee
of the coal companies. Among those
named are: Eben B. Thomas, George
F. Baer, E. T. Stotesbury and James
A. Middleton.
The government's complaint also
said that since the capital stock of
the coal company had been owned by
the railroad It has paid no dividends,
that millions of dollars have been ad
vanced by the railroad to the coal
company which have never been re
funded and that the railroad has paid
the interest on the coal company's
bonds, being compensated, the govern
ment claims, by the earnings of trans
portation of coal over its lines. .
By proving that the Lehigh Vnlley
railroad is Actually the legal owner of
the Ti-hlgh Vnlley Coal company's
anthracite, or has a pecuniary interest
in it, the government hopes to bring
its case Into line with the recent de
cision of the supreme court in the
onimod'ty cliim-e case, strike down
dummy coal companies and force the
coal carrying railroads from their con
trol of miner..
Separate From Coal Case.
While in effect the government's ac
tion is a blow at the so called coal
trust, the case Is separate from that
suit, which is now on appeal to the
supreme court.
In the government's original com
modities clause ac tions against anthra
cite roads, which was begun In 1908,
the courts held that a railroad com
pany might own stock in a coal com
pany and not violate the commodities
clause If It 'I'd not own or have any
Interest In the transported coal of that
company.
With thnt decision the commodities
clause wns considered by many a dead
letter, hut Attorney General WW-
hanl carried the case to the supreme
court, whre it was decided thnt the
government might amend Its com
plaint and Involve the question of fact
ar to whether the railroad has any
Interest In the coal which it transported.
Judge Gray of the United Stntes cir
cuit court of the Eastern district of
Pennsylvania signed an order at Wil
mington, Del., permitting the filing of
the amended complaint. The govern
ment is represented in the action by
the attorney general, James A. lV.wler,
his assistant, nnd Edwin P. Gro'ivrmor,
specinl nsslstnnt attorney general.
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M'NAMARA DEFENSE
. SPRINGS A SURPRISE
Alleged Dynamics Refuse to
Plead to Murder Charge. :
Los Angeles, July 7. The defence
In tho McNamara dynamite conspiracy
case sprung a surprise when John J.
iVlcNamara, the accused Indiana labor
leader, nnd his brother, James B.,
were called into Judge Bordwell's de
partment of the superior court.
Both men were summoned to plead
to nineteen charges of murder, the re
sult of the destruction of the Times
plant. In addition, John J. McNamara
was expected to plead to the charge
of conspiracy to destroy the Llewellyn
Iron works. Instead, he challenged the
jurisdiction of the court, claiming that
It had no right to exact a plea on
either the nineteen charges of murder
or the Llewellyn lion works Indict
ment because he was extradited from
Indianapolis not for murder, but for
alleged dynamiting.
A motion for the quashing of the in
dictments was made in the case of
James B. McNamara, who entered no
plea whatever, holding that the Indict
ments against him should not stand
because the grand jury was biased
and because Earl Rogers, who acted
as a special district attorney to aid
the Inquisitors during the investiga
tion, had previously been active on be
half of the Times and the Merchants'
and Manufacturers' association during
the search for evidence.
The prosecution met the move of
the defense with a motion to disallow
the pica to jurisdiction. An argument
on the relevancy of John McNamara's
action ensued.
TIHEN CONSECRATED BISHOP
Riot Jn Amsterdam.
Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 7.
There wns hot fighting In the harbor
district here between rioters on the
one hand and police and troops on the
other. 'I he stilkers. stoned the police
and the troops replied with the'.r
riiles. Th- striking shipping men
then produced revolvers nnd In the
fusillade thnt followed a number of
persons were wounded. The troops
ultimately roiled the strikers nnd
Inter patrolled the streets In strong
detachments.
s Wendling Begins Sentence.
I cml.il!e, July fi with no further
hope held out to him before the high
est court in the state had confirmed
his sentence to the penitentiary for
P.to. Joseph Wendling, convicted of
the murder of eight year-old Alma
Kelluer, wag taken to tho 3tnte penl
tennary et riankfort to commence
rvlne his sentence.
Notable Gathering of Catholic Digni
taries at Wichita.
Wichita, Kan., July 7. Monsignor
John Henry Tihen, formerly chan
cellor of the Catholic diocese of Wich
ita, was consecrated bishop. He will
go at once to Lincoln, Neb., to take
charge of the Lincoln diocese.
There was a most notable gathering
of the Catholic dignitaries In Wichita
for the consecration ceremonies.
Among those present were Archbishop
Glennon of St. Louis, head of the prov
ince In which Wichita Is Included;
Bishop Hennessey of Wichita, who Is
the consecrator; Bishop Scannell of
Omnha and Bishop IJUies of Kansas
City, co-consecrntor8; Bishops Matz
of Denver, Janssen of Belleville, 111.;
Ward of Leavenworth, Cunningham of
Concordia, Meerscheart of Oklahoma,
Burke of St. Joseph and Innocent
Wolf, abbot of the Benedictine order
of Atchison.
In addition to these nearly 30O
priests from the neighboring statee
took part In the ceremonies.
FARMERS FEAR HOPPERS
Appear in Numbers and Effects of
Depredations Are Noticeable.
Titonka, la., July 7. Grasshoppers
are putting In their appearance In
great numbers and the effects of their
depredations are plainly noticeable
:ind now the farmers are worrying for
fenr they will get Into the corn fields.
They are not nearly so thick as they
were twenty yenrs ago, when they laid
wnste to everything. The farmers are
now In their oats fields harvesting the
crop. Most of those who are cutting
sny thnt not only the crop will be
light, but the quality will not be up
to former years.
Stolen Mail Pouch Found.
Hampton, la., July 7. A pouch of
fit !t class mall that was stolen from
nn Iowa Central train, or the local
station of that, road, last November,
was found In Breed's lake, three
miles from here While diving from
a pier In the lake, a swimmer struck
the pouch lying on the bottom. He
brought it up. The letters had been
opened and wer In bad condition as
A remit of the soaking they received.
Fort Dodge. In.. July 7- William
Heller, a miner for the Plymouth
Gypsum company, was killed by &
blast, of tthkh be was u;ianre. "