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ONLY 2 MORE DAYS OF THE TRIBUNE’S BIG CIRCULATION CONTEST - ♦ t ' ; “ I Tribune Readers Weather- forecast. <>t Nebraska Patronize the advertiser who Light showers, cooler; fair west uses space in The Daily Tribune. part, Friday fair. MM ||, ... - ■_Tn|r_1|. _ III. ■■MMMMMWM PJ I —. ■! HUM.. / Vol. VIII FALLS CITY, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 14. I<M I Number i» PEACE COMMISSION A Council of Officers Called to Con sider the Proposals A 8TRUGGLE OF INTELLIGENCE - - — » Diaz is Placing His Army on Better Footing for Action if Negotia tions Should Fail. Laredo, Tex., April 13.—A peace commission reached Gen. Madero's camp west o£ Bustillos in ihe state of Chihuahua bearing the terms of the biaz government. The insurrecto Commander-in-chief called a council of his officers to consider the peace pact. Definite peace news will come out of Chihuahua very soon. Following the conciliatory policy of the administration, 20 political prison ers were released from the peniten tiary and more will receive amnesty soon. The report that Zacataas was cap tured by insurreetos under a leader named Meye, is partly untrue. Meye did shoot up the town but after a few volleys he .withdrew, Ills men satisfied with having illuminated the people with fear. Meye could have taken the place if he had wished and why he did not is known only to the insur rectos idea of tactics. The situation is one of the struggle of intelligence on the part of a few men like Limantour and DeLaBarra against the dynamics of facts. With no popular support, these men have succeeded so far in forcing a cam paign of justness and sobriety oil an excited people and they have a fight ing chance to win out. They ure pit ting brains against force and Patriotic ally making a fight that commands respect and sympathy. The announcement is made that after the 15th instant the pay of Mex ican soldiers will be raised from cents a day to $1. Active re ruiting will begin and a vigorous attempt will be made to increase the armyV fight ing strength. Army rifles : ml curt ridges have arrived from foreign ports, so that If the governmcn finds its efforts to satisfy the .ik.derist have failed. Ill Viejo, as Dia:: is famil iarly known to the people, will make a final fight for existence. The old liou of Puebla has lately proved him self capable of yielding to the facts pictured by the intellectual progress of his people, and he has shown a patience and a statcraft capacity quite unexpected, but there is reason 10 be lieve that lie lias nearly reached his limit of giving and if.the alto,native of doffing his sombrero to his fate or defying it is presented to turn, his reply will hi gunpowder. i bis will bring a sail awakening to him, lor the dictator who has devised Mexico out of his brain will find that ho will stand almost alone against t < new Mexico his own brain has created. LONDON TO PARIS WITHOUT STOP The First Trip in an Aeroplane Made by Frier—The Distance is 2SO Miles. Issy-Lcs-Moulineaux, France, April Ki.—Prier arrived here from London, having made the trip of about 290 miles in a monoplane without a stop. Prier left Hendon, near Ixrndon, on his (light to thin, suburb of Paris at o’clock ill t li • afternoon. Above the English soil the aviator found fog and squalls and, going higher and higher in an effort to obtain better weather ero sed ?he English channel near Dover at the height of more than 2,200 feet. Leaving the channel, Prier encoun tered line weather until he reached Heauvals, t iqilVs from Paris, and from that city the voyage was made through a haze. Prier was wildly acclaimed by a dense throng as he stepped out of his machine after alighting on the Issy aviation field.' The monoplane nsed by the aviator was the historic ma chine with which Alfred I.e lilane, the French aviator, won the $20,000 prize by finishing first in the great cross country race of 4tx miles on a cir cuit east of Paris last summer. TWO KIDNAPPERS IN PRISON Rogers and Wiggins Who Took Waldo Rogers are There Awaiting ’ Action of Grand Jury. Las Vegas, X. M . April 13,—Will E. Rogers, self confessed kidnaper of lit tle Waldo Rogers, the young son oi his own brother, A. T. Rogers, Jr., is in ti i tutorial penitentiary in Santa Fe, and Joe Wiggins, the ex-convict who insisted in kidnaping, is also again gazing at the familiar walls of the penitentiary. When arraigned Rogers and Wiggins waived preliminary ex amination and bond. Rogers, despite his written confession of his guilt, pleaded not guilty. Wiggins pleaded guilty, lioth were held to await the action of the grand jury. An Expert in Kansas History. Topeka, April 13.—Miss 7.u Adams, probably the best versed woman in Kansas history in the country, died at her home here. She was born in At chison January 31, 1839. afiCKE THE IOWA DEADLOCK WILLIAM S. KENYON WAS ELECT ED SENATOR. Like Dolliver Whose Old Place in the Senate He Will Fill He Is a Progressive. Des .Moines, la., April 13.—-Senator Dolliver’s seat In (the United States senate is to be filled by a man of the same political beliefs as the dead sen ator. William S. Kenyon, assistant attorney general and trust buster, has been elected senator to succeed Sen ator "Lafe” Young, who was appoint ed senator by the governor to servo until a successor to Dolliver had been elected. The election of Kenyon broke a deadlock of weeks and came only an hour and a half before the time set for the final adjournment of the leg islature. Doth houses agreed ■when they met that adjournment should be taken at 2:30 o'clock. The last ef forts to name a senator were then begun. Seventy-eight votes were needed to elect. The Democrats had 51 votes, and these were cast solidly for Por t or, the Democratic caucus nominee. On the fii'st billot Kenyon received 70 votes, the most lie had received since the balloting began. Deemer had 28 votes, all that was left of Young's strength. On the second and last ballot Kenyon received 78 votes, just the number needed. CUMMINS’ FAILURE ' COMPLETE Bankruptcy Proceedings Have Been Commenced Against Head of Carnegie Trust company. Xew York, April 13.—An involun tary petition in bankruptcy was filed here against William .7. Cummins, president of the failed Carnegie Trust Company, and now under indictment. The liabilities are given as $400,000. ! hyson .Merrill was appointed receiver with a bond of $100,000. Two other petitions in bankruptcy were tiled against Charles Arthur .Moore. Jr., a director of the Carnegie 'l rust Company, and Martin J. Con don, also a director. The liabilities ol* Moore are given as 2 million dollars, with assets of $100,000; and of Con don. liabilities, CV2 million dollars, and assets U miiilon dollars. The petitioning oreditors as to Cum mins are: Hermann C. Brewster, with a claim of $30,000’ for money loaned: Herbert Hatfield $9,000 for money loaned, and James S. Watson $80,000 for money loaned. They allege prefer ential payments and transfer of prop erty while insonvent. At Mr. Cummins’ hotel here it was said he was in Nashville, Tenn. COBURN PUTSOUT“BESTSELLER’5 Only 20,CC0 Copies of His Biennia! Re port Authorized and all Have Been Asked For. Topeka, April 13.—F. D. Coburn, secretary of the state board of agri culture, has not enough biennial re ports of the board to supply all who have asked for them. "It is too bad,” he said, “that the legislature did not make sufficient ap propriations to provide enough of these reports.” The legislative allows the board 20,000 volumes of the biennial. They are just being bound and as fast as the books are turned out by the printer they are sent out. The books will till be distributed in the next month and for the next two years the people who ask for the reports will receive a little postcard saying that the edition is exhausted and no more can lie prlatad. A Denver Counterfeiter Caught. Washington, April 13. — After a search of two years secret service men arrested Harry Reporter in Den ver and charged him with making the best counterfeit silver dollars over circulated in this country. The coins, made largely of tin and lead, were, almost perfect in workmanship and have been passed on merchants in Denver and on the street railway company there in great quantities in the last two years. A TWISTING WIND VISITED KANSAS From Eskridg to Leavenworth Towns Were Struck. SEVERAL WERE PERSONS KILLED Wherever the Funnel Shaped Cloud Touched the Earth it Created Wreckage and Carried Death. Topeka, April 13.—A day of sultri ness and wind that blew straight ahead with great velocity gave rise to a tornado in central Kansas. T.he storm started near Eskridge in Wabaunsee county, about 25 miles southwest of Topeka, and traveled in a northeasterly direction. It was the old fashioned twisting wind and the funnel shaped cloud and wherever it dipped down to earth houses, barns, live stopk—everything in its path was caught up and dashed to the earth again. At Eskridge Tirst. Besides Eskridge, Ketawka and Whiting in Jackson county, Powhat tan and Robinson in Brown county and other smaller towns were partly wrecked. Two persons were killed and upwards of 50 injured in this stretch of country. ( Lawrence caught part of the force of the storm. There two persons were killed and much damage was done. Telegraph poles and wires were blown down and reports of the dam age came over telephone wires that worked badly. The storm struck Eskridge about 4 o'clock. Tho high school building, a 2-story brick structure, was blown down and 20 pupils injured. George M. Scott, an Atchison, To peka & Santa Fe engineer, who was in Eskridge at the time of the storm, says at least 13 houses were blown down * After h" left Eskridge, Scott said, he could see the tornado sweeping across the country for a distance ot ten miles, overturning houses, barns and Sheds in its path. lie heard of no one being killed in Eskridge. Fireman Blown From Cab. Benjamin Resch, a fireman in Scott’s engine, was blown out of the caab window and hurled across the street. The only injury he sustained was a slight cut on his head. The only damage caused by the storm in Topeka was to plate glass windows in store buildings. Five win dows in the business section were wrecked, but no one was injured. Horton, Wan., April 13.—A storm that dipped down on farms and villages and at times blew with the twisting peculiarities of a tornado pased over northern Jackson county and through Brown county in north eastern Kansas. A little girl who had sought refuge in a school house that was destroyed was killed, another is reported dead and many persons were injured. The homes of many farmers are gone, livestock lies dead along the storm's path and hundreds of barns between here and White Cloud in the northwest part of Doniphan county are blown aw ay. Lawrence, Kan., April 13.—The tor nado struck Lav, retire bringing with it a severe electrical storm, hard rain and some hail. Two women are dead and another k !i“' d to have been killed on a farm west of here. Four persons in North Lawrence are in Leavenworth, Kan., April 13.—A tor nado that struck this city did thou i sand of dollars worth of damage lo buildings and growing crops. Hail stones as large as pigeon's eggs pra< tically ruined every green house in the city and broke hundreds of win dows in residences. The ground was covered an inch deep with hail, which was driven by a terrific wind. The roof was torn from the residence ot B, B. Woolfe, a wealthy merchant and slanted against a drug store. Scores nf sheds and outhouses, were over turned. KANSANS CAUGHT IN A SMASH Judge Pollock. IV|ort. Aibaugh and Ex Gov. Bailey Had Loaned Money to Smith Grain Company. Kansas City, April 13.— Widely Known Kansans are among those caught in the Perry t'. Smith (train company failure. Judge John ('. Pol K k of the federal court and Morton Aibaugh, clerk of the United States court, made loans of Ik.000 on Smith paper and ex-Gov. Bailey lent the Smith company $13,Oku. They now hold uiovator recelnts on the Ivan I 88b Missouri Klevatoi company for wheat sufficient to satisfy their claims, but tliere is no wheat in tho elevator belonging to the Smith com pany. They will have to proceed against the elevator company to col : lect their money. Freight Agents to Kansas City. Kansas City, April 13.—The annual convention of the National Vasocia tion of Local Freight Agents ts to he held in Kansas City June 20 to June 24. About 800 delegates will attend. STORM DESTROYS A TOWN k SIG HEART OKLAHOMA WAS PRACTICALLY WIPED OUT. Eight Persons Are Known to Have Been Killed and 25 Injured While 400 Are Homeless. l’awliuska, Ok., April 13. Wight per son', are known to have boon killed, between 25 ami 30 injured many fatal ly, and tho entire town of INg Heart, 15 miles south of hero swept away j by ti tornado. Big Heart has a popu 1 ; ion of about 400. Only one building is said to remain .tanding. Three of I ini Known dead have hern recovered. They are: John t. rns. Fred Ham mond and William Marlow. 1 he cyclone iortned southwest of the city, according to reports received It're. li appeared in the traditional funnel form and came without warn ■lng People lied from the crashing buildings only to be struck down in tbe streets by flying timbers or picked up and carried away through the air. About ion Indians were camped near th' village. The storm struck them brsi, tearing clown their tents and top< o and scattering them about. V' r ! of the Indians are reported to have be *• filled and injured. The first news of the disaster was i' •<■ ved a I’awhuska about an hour after the tornado had passed. A re lief train carrying physicians and nurses was imntedia; dy organized and sent from Tawlni !.a. \nother was organized at Avant. south of Hig Heart. The dead and injured will be brought here or taken to Tulsa, where proper hospital facilities and medical attention can be had. Fully 400 people are homeless. Meeker Ok., \pril IT Four per sons were killed in a tornado that visited this city. A score of houses were wrecked. Many miles of tele phone and telegraph wires were torn down. CONSPIRACY TO EVADE A LAW That is the Charge Made Against Railroads and Elevator Men by Kansas Officials. Topeka, April 13. A mandamus suit was brought in the Kansas su preme court by John S. Dawson, at torney general, against the railroads hauling grain from Kansas to Kansas City and against tIn* big grain eleva tor operators in Kansas City, Kan., to compel the elevators to allow the in spection and weighing of all grain en tering the Kansas City markets. The elevator companies named in the suit are tlie ones which a. short time ago gave up their licenses as public warehousemen. The petition recites that in order to protect the grain growers of the state the grain inspection and weighing law was en acted to provide a uniform system of grain grading and weighing. It is as serted that all the inspection and weighing charges are advance charges Dial it is the duty of the railroad com panics to collect those charges. The petition charges that the rail roads and Die elevator men have en tered into an unlawful conspiraaey to ! evade the law passed by the 1911 legislature raising the fees for the in spection and weighing of grain, by re fusing to advise Die grain inspector when the shipment of grain is re ceived, and the elevators refuse to al i low the Inspectors to weigh or inspect ; the grain in their warehouses. TO WA1CH OVER THE CHILDREN Representative Barnhart Has Intro duced a Bill to Create a Bureau for That Purpose. I - Washington, April 13.—Asserting | Dial the government has bureaus to | improve the condition of pigs, poui | t rj and most every other kind of animat, but nothing of the sort for i children, Representative Barnhart of j Indiana Introduced a bill to establish ! a children’s bureau in the department I of commerce and labor, the estimated | cost of which will be $33,000 a year. The bureau will report on infant [ mortality, birth rate, physical degen eraey, juvenile courts, desertion, dan gerous occupations, diseases and care of children employed and every other factor in the health, elilciency, char : acter and welfare of children. ARE THANKFUL Prosperity Has Hit tlie Guardians ot People’s Gash, BETTER CONDITION THAN EVER The Banks Have Passed Through a Tight Place But Now Are Stronger Than Before—Guaranty Law Helped. Kansas City, Kan., April 13. -Easter is to become Thanksgiving for the 200 Kansas bankers who began a ses sion of two days here yesterday. Prosperity has hit lhe guardians of the Sunflower slate's cash. Every one of the delegates spoke of it yesterday. Kor i lint reason John T. Denton of Urenola, state senator struck Jflfl re sponslve chords when he said: "Only one tiling is lacking In this convention. Wo sturted our praise service without prayer. I ask this convention to vote to open the session with prayer to-marrow morning." Kansas hanks now are in better con (lition than ever before and are en tering a now era of business prosper ity, according to J. N. Dolley, stale bank commissioner. There has been a great and wonder fill change in the conditions of th» Kansas state hanks, especially in the Iasi '.Mi days," Mr. liollcy said. ".Not very long ago not a day went by that several state bankers did not come 10 my ofllce in search of aid. The banks passed through a semi panic and the money markets were light. But now the farmers are hap py. They have had good crops. The cattle men are getting good prices for their products. And we have had an overhauling of the slate hunks, a cleaning up, so to speak. The state hanks are prosperous. And we must not forget now that we are pros perous again to thank the hanks of Kansas City, which so generously came to our rescue in opr hard limes. They gave us assistance when we needed It." Several banks testified to the bene fits Die state hanks have received un der (he guaranty law. Senator Denton said that since last spring his bank had released $125,0(10 of cattle paper that had been put up because stock growers could not sen their product after spending much money getting them in condition for the market W. Allendoerfer, assistant cashier of the Commercial National bank, ox plained I he Mdrich currency law. W. T. Atkinson, president of the Armour dale State Hank of Commerce, spoke on "Kansas City, Kan., Clearing House." (iov. Stubbs will speak this after noon on "Kansas: What She Stand* For." Mr. Dolley will talk on "The Hank (luaranty Law." The conven tion will close with an address by Judge It. A. Hureh of the Kansas su preme court on "Obi dlence to Law. TO THE DEFENSE OF HEALERS The Christian Science Church Has Engaged Counsel for Two Accused of Illegal Practice of Medicin. New York, April 13.—For the first time the official head of the ( hristian Science church lias decided to give voluntary help to ils praetlonors when prosecuted by public officers. Aroused by the action of the medi cal society of the county of New York, which has charged two Scientists with illegal practice of medicine, the Chris tian Science board of directors of Hot ton has retained Samuel Cntermeycr of this city lo defend their practice of "healing.’’ Heretofore, it is said, the church lias given only unofficial ad vice and assistance to its members. The two practitioners against whom <ases are pending in the New York courts are Willis Vernon Cole and Wentworth Byron Winslow, both of whom are registered in the Christian Science Sentinel as qualified praction I ers. DEPENDS ON PROGRESSIVES If Six in the Senate Vote With the Democrats the Schedule Will be Revised. Washington, April 13.—If the 41 Democrats of the senate vote with six ! Uepublican progressive senators, who [ have declared themselves favorable to the house farmers free list tariff, that measure will become a law if not vetoed by President Taft. The vote on the bill under the cir I cumstances given would stand: For free list 47. Against free list 4 1. i Ttiart) aifl IV UAuuhlinans $u tiiu United Slates senate who recently met. and voted themselves "progres sive." Two of this number are not In Washington. Of the remaining ten. M\ will vote for the bill Introduced In the house Two aro openly against it and two aro noncommittal. Curtiss Guild, Jr., to Russia. Washington. April 13.—The presi dent announced tho appointment or Curtiss Guild, Jr., ns ambassador to Russia to succeed W. \V. Rookhill who goes to Constantinople as ambassador. BALDWIN'S LATEST PLANS EXPLORER WILL CIRCLE THE POLE ON AN ICE BARGE. Starting From Bering Strait He Will Drift Over Into the North Atlantic In Four Years. Kansas City, April 13. -Around the North polo with nn ice floe as a barge u 1,900-tnllo trip In four years—that Is the latest plan of Rvelyn IJrlggs Baldwin, the Arctic explorer. Mr. Baldwin slopped long enough In Kan sas City on (ho way lo his old home In Kdnn, Kan., to tell of his project. “1 am going to run a steamer of about 6,000 tons Into an Ice floe some where beyond Bering Btralt. There are little bays and harbors on those floes, you know. Then I will let the ship freeze right Into that floe or innko it fast by n rt i fir Ini means and Just stay In tho floo as It drifts around tho half circle and over Into tlie North Atlantic. The course of tho lloos Is Just, ns exact as clockwork, and It will take me four years to make the trip. “1 shall drift within 100 miles of the pole at n speed of a little less than two miles a day. That will give plenty of time to leave the ship and run over to the pole and also It will afford opportnlty lo explore the 3,000, 000 square miles of unknown epace in the frozen North. 1 intend to start in 1912 or 1013. 1 shall take 25 or 3U men and the trip will cost $500,000." “The natural barge or raft formed by tho ice floe la to bo stocked with timber and oil and provisions of nil kinds. You may ihink that the floes will crush the boat, but they won’t be cause it will have a sloping bull which will enable It. Just to clip up when B Is caught, between two floes and ride on top of them." THE DAILY BASEBALL GAME The Three Big Leagues Open the Sea son With Rain Interfering at Two Points. National League. At New York—Philadelphia, 2-4-1; New York, 0-2-2. At Cincinnati - Pittsburg, 14-17-1; Cin cinnati, 0 4-(i. At Boston—Brooklyn, 1 4 0; Boston, 2- G-2. At Chicago—St. Louis, 3-4 1; Chicago, 3- 10-0; called on account of dark ness. American League. At. Philadelphia—New Y’ork, 2-7-1; Philadelphia, 1-5-3. At Detroit—Chicago-Delrolt no game; rain. At St. Louis—Cleveland, 3-9-7; 8t. Louis, 12-14-1. At Washington—Poston, 5-7 4; Wash ington, S-ld-2. American Association. At Louisville -Kansas City, 4t>-2; Louisville, 3-7-1. At Indianapolis—Milwaukee, 0-3-2; Indianapolis, 1-7-2. At Toledo Minneapolis, 7-1C-7* To ledo, 4 8-2. At t olumbus — Si. Paul-Columhus no game; rain. daily”market report. Ivauaa! cits A prll 13 1 'little <' >m ! Ir I,-I ;.leers. $5,304/0 f,ft; heifers, $1,460) • shakers and feeders, $4.7506.00. ii, Bulk of sales, $6.0506.30. Sheep - l.amlis, $6.6009.00; good to choice ' w«*lhc-r». $4.65^5.15; ewes, $2.85fc&.00. I'lilrago, April 13 -Beef—$5.15 t. 7*»; tows and heifers, $2.60^5.80; j shirkers and fc***derw, $4.00<Ji5.7o. Iln^s - I Built of sales, $6.10®6.35. Sheep... $S.(W© | 1.90; lambs, $4.7506.26. i St. Louis, April 13.—Beef Steers. $6.00 0 6.50; Stockers and feeders. $4.0006.76; Lows and heifers. $4.6005.SO; Texas I steers, $4.3506.66. Hogs—Pigs and llchls. $5.7500.50. Sheep—Natives, $3,5005.00; lambs, $5.7506.40. Grain. Kansas City. April 13.—Close: Wheal— I May, S3 He. July, 804$, : Sept., S0y»e. Corn —May, 47July, 4SHe; Sept., 4878e. Chicago, April 13.—Close: Wheat—May, ssi.o ; July, R5%c; Sept., 8344c. Corn— May, 49c; July, 50e; Sept., 51c. Oats— May, 31Hc; July, 31V4c; Sept., 31H*-. St. Louis, April 13.—Cash: Wheat— steady: track No. 2 red, 8841891'; No. 2 hard. 86®96e. Corn—Higher; track No. 2 49 He; No. 2 white, 49H05OC. Oats— Stronger; track No. 2, 32He; No. 2 white, 33He. Rye—Cnchanged: 94c. Close. Fu tures—Wheat lower; May, 86V*c; July, Corn —Lower; May. 4Si ■; July, 19>* 049 ,■ Oats—Higher; May, n v . July, 31He. Produce. L -.is t'ii , April 13.—Egg; . 161- dog. (Poultry Hens, 14e; spring, 13 : turkeys, 15b' . butter, creamery, extra. 20c. pack ing stci' t, l'." a Potatoes, Colm udo, D ot) 4l 1 115