TALENTINE DEMOCBAT
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ENVOYS AT JUAREZ FINALLY
AGREE ON TERMS AND WAR
IS CLOSED.
TROOPS WILL BE DISBANDED
Senor Carabajal , Representing Mexi
co , and Dr. Gomez , Madero , Sr. ,
and Don Suarez for the Insurrectos ,
Affix Signatures to Document.
Jaurez , Mex. An officially desig
nated representative of the Mexican
government and the revolutionists at
10 o'clock Sunday night signed a peace
agreement at the customs house here
intended to end the hostilities that
have been waged in Mexico for the
last six months.
Though covering only the principal
points negotiated thus far , the agree
ment practically records the conces
sions by the government of those de
mands which started , on November 20
last , armed revolution in Mexico.
Telegrams announcing the signing of
the agreement were dispatched
throughout Mexico to revolutionary
and federal leaders alike.
Constitntional restrictions prevented
the inclusion in the agreement of the
fact that the rebels will be permitted
to suggest to various state legislatures
the names of provisional governors
and likewise the fact that six of the
eight members of the new cabinet
have been chosen by the revolution
ists , but the agreement records that
President Diaz and Vice President
Corral will resign and that the govern
ment is to concentrate its attention
on desired reforms.
FIVE GIRLS BURN TO DEATH.
Fire Horror in the Town of Utica ,
Kansas.
' Utica , Kan. Five daughters of Mr.
iand Mrs. Harve Roach , of this place ,
Tanging in age from 7 to 16 years ,
were burned to death in a fire which
started in the Roach restaurant. The
parents were badly burned.
The mother of the five girls filled a
lamp with gasoline by mistake. Pre
paratory to ascending a stairway , lead
ing to the second floor room where her
daughters were asleep , she applied a
match to the lamp. An explosion fol
lowed , the fire being communicated
to a two-gallon can of gasoline , send
ing a burst of flame up the narrow
stairway.
Great Water Project.
San Francisco. Announcement has
been made here that the Great West
ern Power company will build , at Big
Meadows , in northern California , a
reservoir that will surpass in capacity
the Roosevelt dam and reservoir in
Arizona , and the Assouan dam in
Egypt. Sufficient water will be stored
for the irrigation of 300,000 acres.
Hitchcock Pleased With System.
Washington. Postmaster General
Hitchcock , impressed by the reports
of the sucessful operation of the postal
savings system , has decided to desig
nate hereafter for a considerable time
M 100 additional postal depositories each
week , instead of fifty , as announced
a month ago.
Entire Family Wiped Out.
Newark , O. The entire family of
D. W. Dodson , of Hebron , was wiped
out when an interurban car on the
Newark division of the Ohio Electric
railroad struck their buggy and killed
Dodson , Mrs. Dodson and their two
little girls , aged 7 and 4 years.
Seven Are Drowned.
Ludinghausen , Prussia A school
teacher and six pupils of a neighbor
ing village were drowned while bath
ing in an abaandoned marl pit. All
walked unwittingly into a deep hole
at the center of the pit None of the
r i seven could swim.
Record Price for Portrait.
London. At Christie's Raeburn's
portrait of Mrs. Robertson Willaimson
brought $116,500 , a record for a Rae-
burn.
Michigan Village Burns.
Kalamazoo , Mich. Fire destroyed
the business section of the village of
Scotts , near here. Loss $75,000.
Sioux City Live Stock Market.
Sioux City , lo. Saturday's quotations -
tions on the local live stock market
follow : Top beeves , $5.55. Top hogs ,
$5.80.
Mandamus Writ Filed.
Oklahoma City. Mayor-elect Whit
M. Grant and the commissioners-elect
have filed suit for a writ of mandamus
against Acting Mayor Lackey to force
the old administration to turn over
the offices of the city to the officers
recently elected.
Resort Keeper in Prison.
Mason City , lo. Henry Johnson was
sentenced to ten years in the peniten
tiary at Fort Madison by Judge Clyde a :
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STANDARD OIL ATTORNEY SAYS
COMPANIES AFFECTED BY DE
CISION WILL SEPARATE.
NO PLAN YET DECIDED UPON
tobacco Case Ruling Will Determine
Taft Policy President Satisfied
With Decision of Supreme Court ,
Despite His Former Views.
New York. At 26 Broadway ,
Standard Oil headquarters , offi
cials of the company seemed to be in
anything but a gloomy mood over the
Supreme court decision. Their atti
tude showed clearly that they had ex
pected such an opinion for some time
and were ready for it.
Two points are clear. First , that
there will be no contumacy by the
company it proposes to obey the de
cree ; and , second , that it will be some
time before any plans of reorganiza
tion are given out.
The company has Insisted through
out that no plans had been formulated
in advance of the decree , and the
statement made by Mortimer F. El
liot , general solicitor for the com
pany , takes the same attitude. He
said :
"Having only before us the press
reports of Chief Justice White's oral
opinion and the remarks of Justice
Harlan , and not having seen the opin
ion of the court in full , it is impossible
to make any lengthy statement. The
full opinion must be read and studied
by my associates and myself before
it can be Intelligently dealt with.
"It may , however , be said that the
Standard Oil company will obey the
decree of the court and that all the
companies embraced in the court's de
cree will carry on their business as
usual under the direction of their own
officers and through their own cor
porate organizations. "
Washington. Until the Su
preme court has rendered its decision
in the pending case of the tobacco
trust the administration will formulate
no policy based on Monday's far-reach
ing decision. The manner in which
the court will now apply the rule laid
down in the Standard Oil case to the
facts presented in the suit against the
tobacco trust become the paramount
issue with department officials.
So far as the effect of the decision
is concerned , both the president and
Attorney-General Wickersham declared
that they were perfectly satisfied ; and
neither would permit himself to be
drawn into any expression of opinion
with regard to the point made by Asso
ciate Justice Harlan in his dramatic
dissent Not even the quotations from
President Taft's previous utterances ,
which seem to put him at variance
with the majority view of the court
served to bring forth any explanation
from Mr. Taft. In conversation with
callers on this point , he merely re
ferred to the fact that every man was
entitled to a view on the circum
stances before the Supreme court had
passed on a case ; but once the court
had decided , It is the president's opin
ion that patriotic duty and a regard
for American institutions require that
every citizen loyally accept the view
of the Supreme court as his own.
YOUNG BOY SLAYS FATHER
Crazed Parent Orders Son to Pulf
Trigger of Shotgun and Has
Head Blown Off.
Greenwich , Conn. Prevailing upon
his twelve-year-old son to pull the
trigger , Fred Husted , forty-six years
old , a prosperous farmer , had his head
blown off with his own shotgun.
After years of toil Husted had just
succeeded in paying off the mortgage
on his SO-acre arm , for which -he re
cently refused an offer of $80,000. Re
cently he has been ill from grip. He
awoke from a nap , during which he
had had a frightful dream. The com
bined effect is thought to have tem
porarily crazed him.
Sending his wife on an errand to a
neighbor's house , Husted called to his
oldest son , Lester , that he was going
to shoot hawks , which had attacked
the chickens. Picking up his double-
barreled shotgun , which was always
kept loaded , he laid it on the kitchen
table and directed the lad to pull the
trigger. Lester hesitated , as his
father knelt on the opposite side of
the table , looking directly into the
muzzle , with his eye only four inches
away. Finally the boy snapped the
trigger , when his father insisted that
the gun was not loaded , but the lad
held the trigger with his finger and
there was no explosion.
The father then arose , again cocked
the gun and assured the lad the gun
was not loaded. The man dropped
to his knees again and ordered the
boy to pull the-trigger "to see how it
sounds. " The lad did so and the man
dropped dead instantly , the whole left
side of his head blown off.
The coroner rendered a verdict of
suicide.
40,000 Manchurians Homeless.
Harbin , Manchuria. Forty thou
sand persons at Kirin are homeless
as a consequence of the recent con
flagration In that city. The money
loss Is estimated at $20,000,000. Four
thousand shops , fifteen banks and 8-
387 other buildings were destroyed.
Killed Trying Out Aeroplane.
Los Angeles , Cal. A. V. Hardlee ,
m amateur aviator , was killed at Dc-
ninguez field while trying out an aero-
Diane. Hardlee came here recently
Torn Ohio.
THE SUSPENSE IS OVER
ILLINOIS UPPER BODY ASKS THAT
LORIMER ELECTION INQUIRY
BE REOPENED.
WASHINGTON TO GET REPORT
National Senate Is Requested to Take
Action in Matter State Senators
Who Bolted Hopkins , Primary
Nominee , Are Criticized.
Springfield , 111. By a vote of 30 to
10 , the Illinois state senate , after an
exciting session , adopted a resolution
submitting to the United States sen
ate the report of the Helm investi
gating committee , which declared that
Senator William Lorimer would not
have been elected in May , 1909 , had it
not been for bribery and corruption ,
and calling upon the federal senate to
take action in the matter.
To this resolution was added an
amendment criticizing those senators
who bolted Albert J. Hopkins , the
primary nominee to succeed him
self. '
A second resolution declaring there
was tangible and definite evidence of
wrongdoing and official misconduct on
the part of Senators John Broderick
and Stanton C. Pemberton and asking
that the Helm inquiry be extended to
May 31 was first given a black eye
by Lieutenant Governor Oglesby , who
said it was extending the life of a
committee beyond the life of the leg
islature , and then defeated , 39
to 8.
Washington. Senator La Follette
gave notice in the senate that he will
call up his resolution providing for a
reinvestigation of the Lorimer case
next Monday , immediately after the
conclusion of morning business. The
senator will make a statement to the
senate of reasons why he believes the
reinvestigation should be ordered and
will press for the passage of his resolu
tion at the earliest opportunity.
START OF CORONATION FETES
King George Dedicates Victoria Me
morial , Emperor and Empress of
Germany Being His Guests.
London. The presence of the Ger
man emperor and empress and their
daughter , Victoria Louise , who , rumor
says , is to be given in marriage to
the prince of Wales , at King George's
dedication of the great Victoria me
morial , and the opening of the Festi
val of Empire marked the beginning
of the three months' reign of merry
making with which the British empire
will celebrate the coronation of the
king and queen in June incidentally
putting millions - of dollars into the
pockes of British tradesmen.
The dedication ceremonies took
place near Buckingham palace , where
the great monument to the late queen
overtops the Mall and rears its stately
proportions high in the air , crowned
by a gigantic bronze statue of Peace.
After the ceremonies were over the
royal family , together with their Ger
man guests of honor , repaired to the
palace for dinner. This will be fol
low ' by a royal entertainment in the
evening , which will include among
it : guests the many prominent Ger
mans who make their home in Lon
don.
Names Cohalan For Judge.
Albany , N. Y. Daniel F : Cohalan.
chief adviser to Tammany Chief
Charles F. Murphy , will probably suc
ceed James A. O'Gorman upon the
supreme court bench. Governor Dix
sent his nomination to the senate and
it was reported favorably by the com
mittee on finance.
Predicts Big Wheat Crop.
Portland , Ore. The Commercial Re
view of this city says that the. outlook
for a bumper wheat crop in the Pacific
northwest is favorable
PEACE SEEBflS SURE
DIAZ AND CORRAL WILL RESIGN
BEFORE JUNE 1.
Madero Will Act as Chief Adviser to
De La Barra , Who Will Become
President ad Interim.
Ci y of Mexico. Peace In Mexico
seems assured. President Diaz and
Vice-President Corral will resign be
fore June 1. An armistice covering
the entire republic has been signed.
Minister of Foreign Relations de la
Barra will become president ad in
terim.
Francisco I. Madero , the revolution
ist leader , will be called to the City
of Mexico to act as De la Barra's chief
adviser and as the greatest guaran
tee possible that every pledge made
by the government will be carried out.
As viewed by the public it will be
virtually a joint presidency pending
the calling of a new presidential elec-
tion.
tion.The
The cabinet will be reorganized.
The minister of war will be named by
De la Barra. The foreign office will
be in charge of a sub-secretary named
by De la Barra. Other cabinet offi
cers will be chosen by De la Barra
and Madero jointly.
A new election will be called within
six months.
Political amnesty will be recom
mended to the chamber of deputies.
These are the conditions upon which
President Diaz will compromise , as
announced by Minister of the Treap-
ury Limantour. Virtually they are ad
mitted in high quarters to be a com
plete surrender to the revolutionists.
The resignation of Diaz and the
joint regency of De la Barra and
Madero are said to constitute a guar
antee so complete that the original
insurrecto demand for 14 governors
no longer needs to be considered.
The cabinet was in almost continu
ous session for two days notwithstand
ing the severe illness of President
Diaz. The president's entire face is
infected from an ulcerated tooth. His
upper lip is swollen far beyond its
normal size and his face is inflamed.
He speaks with the greatest difficulty ,
but , while he is in severe pain , his
condition is not alarming at this time ,
despite his advanced age.
The government's conditions were
telegraphed to Judge Carbajal at
Juaref with instructions to submit
them to Madero. Soon after the terms
were submitted an armistice covering
the entire republic was agreed upon.
Inasmuch as the government be
lieves it has made every concession
that the revolutionists have requested ,
it is firmly believed that a treaty of
peace will follow.
GIVES FORTUNE TO NURSE
Walter E. Duryea , Millionaire , Long g
Cripple , Leaves $1,500,000 to At
tendant in Will.
New York. By the will of
Walter E. Duryea- , the crippled ath
lete and broker , the bulk of his for
tune , estimated at $2,500,000. goes to
Miss Eleanor Peregrine , a trained
nurse who acted as his housekeeper
for the last twelve years of his life.
She is given $50,000 outright , $30-
000 in trust , a house in Montclair , N.
J. , and all the residue of the estate
after certain legacies have been paid.
Her total share is thought to be worth
$1,500,000.
French Defeat Morocco Tribes.
Paris. Advices received at the
ministry of war state that a French
detachment was attacked by Moroccan
tribesmen near Debdou during a fog. tl :
The enemy was repulsed , but two tltl <
French officers were killed and twelve tl
men killed or wounded.
Japs to Build Dreadnaught.
Tokyo , Japan. The Japanese gov
ernment has decided to build a new
dreadnaught cruiser of 25,600 tons , a hi
sister ship of the one already ordered hia :
in England. IE
HITS LABOR CHIEFS
NEW PROCEEDINGS AGAINST
GOMPERS AND OTHERS.
District of Columbia Justice Would
Punish American Federation
Leaders for Contempt.
Washington. On its own Initiative ,
the Supreme court of the District of
Columbia instituted proceedings for
alleged contempt , against President
Samuel Gompers , Vice-President John
Mitchell and Secretary Frank Morri
son , all of the American Federation of
Labor. The sentences of imprison
ment Imposed on these men by this
court were revoked by the United
States Supreme court , and the case
was remanded to the district supreme
court.
The United States Supreme court ,
In setting aside the sentences of im
prisonment , held that the case on
which the lower court had acted con
stituted a civil contempt against the
Bucks Stove and Range company , and
that the offense was punishable only
by a fine to be recovered hy the
wronged corporation.
Justice Lamar , in handing down the
opinion , called attention to the fact ,
however , that If the lower court felt
aggrieved it could have brought crim
inal contempt proceedings in the
premises and have inflicted a jail sen
tence.
The lower court has been quick to
take advantage of the opportunity af
forded to reopen the case. As the
labor dispute which brought the case
into court had ended it was presumed
the matter would be allowed to drop.
Justice Wright of the district su
preme court , who imposed the sen
tence on Messrs. Gompers , Mitchell
and Morrison , in Instituting the pro
ceedings anew appointed Joseph J.
Darlington , Daniel Davenport and
James M. Beck , counsel for the Bucks
Stove and Range company , as a com
mittee to inquire "forthwith" into the
question of whether the labor leaders
lad violated the court's order.
DSBORN BOOSTS CANADA PACT
Michigan Governor Declares 95 Per
Cent , of the People of His State
Want Reciprocity.
Washington , D. C. Governor Chase
S. Osborne again boosted the presi
dent's reciprocity program and com
mended Representatives Young and
Loud of Michigan for supporting it.
"Ninety-five per cent , of the people
of Michigan want it , " he said. "Sixty-
seven per cent , of the country papers
of the state are for it and at a recent
debate ' at the Michigan State Agricul
tural college , at whicn the president
and dean opposed reciprocity and
younger members of the faculty fa
vored it , 1,100 students , all farmers'
boys , voted 3 to 1 for it. There is no
doubt where Michigan stands on the
issue. "
Governor Osborn also was congrat
ulating himself that Colonel Roosevelt
had made public use of an expression
used by him recently in Introducing
the colonel to a Michigan crowd and
that was :
"I am the kind of a progressive who
wishes to stay on the track. "
PACKERS WANT NEW HEARING
Federal Judge Grants Permission to
Defendants to File Motion to
Reopen Their Case.
Chicago. Judge George A. Carpen
ter , in the United States district court ,
allowed counsel for J. Ogden Armour
and the other indicted packers to file
a motion for a rehearing of their de
murrer to the indictments. The mo
tion was based on the decision of the
Supreme court in the Standard Oil
case.
The court declared that he would
not hear oral arguments and directed
the attorneys to file briefs within one
week. The court then told what he
believed is a fair construction of the
decision and the whole proceeding
t
ended in less than fifteen minutes.
Judge Carpenter held that the Su
preme court must regard the Sherman
anti-trust act , under which the de
fendants have been indicted , as a pen
al statute.
SAY LORIMER SEAT BOUGHT
Helms Committee Reports That His
Election Could Not Have Been
Procured Without Bribery.
Springfield , 111. The report of the
Helm committee on the election of
William Lorimer to the United States
senate was sent into the senate by
the chairman.
The document recited the facts of
the investigation and said It was evi
dent from the evidence taken that the
election of Lorimer could not have
been procured without bribery and
corruption.
No recommendations were made In .
the report for taking the matter to the .
United States senate and outside of
the recital of the facts set forth pn
there was no comment.
Name Carson as Moderator.
Atlantic City , N. J. Rev. John F.
Larson of Brooklyn was elected mod
erator of the Presbyterian church on
he second ballot by the general as
sembly in its one hundred and twenty-
Jiird session here.
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Plane Falls ; One Dead , One Hurt. tin
Rheims , France. A monoplane carTing - tiP
Ting Lieutenant Paul Dupuis and P
Pierre Mante Bournique fell from a E
leight of 250 feet Dupuis was killed fzh
md his companion probably fatally h
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State House Too Small.
J. II. Broady of the state commis
sion appointed to revise the statutes
of Nebraska called at the siate house ,
to urge the board of public lands and
buildings to set aside rooms at the
state house for the commission. State
Treasurer George , Land Commissioner ,
Cowles and Attorney General Martin ,
made a trip through the state house
to inspect the rooms , but arrived at
no decision. The physical valuation
department of the railway commission
and the revision commission both de
sire the offices of the secretary of the-
senate. The railway commission de
partment may be obliged to hire rooms
outside of the state house. The re
vision commission will -probably hold ,
its first public meeting June 1 to re
ceive suggestions from attorneys and
citizens.
To Re-locate Fifth Meridian.
State Engineer Robert Harvey has ,
gone to Dundy county to finish relocat
ing the fifth guide meridian which
careless surveyors in years past man
aged to lose. Many land owners ia
Dundy county do not know whethei-
they live on their own land or on some
other person's land. Mr. Harvey is an
expert at finding lost lines and he has
about completed one of the most diffi
cult jobs ever attempted in this state.
Government surveyors give him assist
ance and the cost of the work to the
state was greatly reduced.
Tribute to Prof. A. E. Davisson.
The Nebraska prison association
held a meeting at which resolutions
u.pon the death of Professor A. E.
Davisson , an officer of the organiza
tion and one of the best known prisoa
workers in the state , were passed.
Judge Manoah B. Reese , president of
the association , gave a short talk on
the life of Professor Davisson after
which a committee consisting of Rev
M. A. Bullock , J. E. Miller and C. F.
Harpham submitted the resolutions
which were unanimously adopted.
Richmond Will Retrench.
Chief Clerk Richmond of the house
Df representatives has decided to
break a precedent in his compilation
of the house journal , thereby reducing
the volume about a third and savins
the state about $500 , which is half the
sum paid Richmond for making up the
journal.
It has been the custom in tha past
to print in full the entire title of a
bill every time mention of it was made
in the record. This involved the print
ing of the title nvelve different times.
The house journal of two years ago
contained 1.1G8 pages. Richmond ex
pects to hold the present one down to
750 pages by using the short cut
adopted.
To Enforce Anti-Free Gift Law.
Food Commissioner W. R. Jackson ,
has given notice to jobbers and mer
chants that after July 1 the state
food , drug and dairy department wilt
rigidly enforce the laws of Nebraska ,
which prohibit the sale of food prod
ucts in packages containing gifts , pre
miums or prizes. He gives notice in
advance so that dealers may dispose
of any stock that may be on hand.
The food commissioner has the sup
port of Governor Aldrich , who is head
of the department , in this matter.
The First Military Ball.
With two score cadet officers pres
ent in full dress uniform and with over
200 couples in attendance , the first-
military ball of the state university-
was held at the city Auditorium Satur
day night. A feature of the event was
the issue during the evening of the
"Gatling Gun , " a newspaper giving a ;
,
full description of the costumes , a ros
ter of notable guests in attendance , ,
and items of interest in connection ;
with the cadet body of the university
Copy Sent to Printer.
The first bundle of copy for the senate - -
ate journal has been sent to the
printer , T. E. Sedgvdck of York , by-
Secretary W. H. Smith of the state
senate , and the latter expects now to.
Spend most of his time in Seward. al
though he will retain his office in the-
state house for a few weeks.
Candidates for Senator.
W. H. Thompson of Grand Island- ;
ft-ho was a tentative candidate for-
United States senator in 1910 , is quot
ed as saying he would again be in th&
race next year. Governor Shallenbei-
ger is an announced candidate. So far
Senator Norris Brown is the only an
nounced republican candidate.
Governor Aldrich has appointed
John Dobson of Edgar bee inspected
for Clay county. Bee inspectors are-
permitted to charge fees for thei/
work , and these fees are retained.
Val Keyser , superintendent of farm
ers' institutes , has resigned his posi
tion , the resignation being effective
July 1. He is at present on a. trip out
in the state , but it was said at his of-
Bce at the state farm that he had not
decided what work he would take up-
ifter his resignation becomes effec
tive. It has been reported that he
might enter the farmers' institute de
partment of Iowa state college. Mr.
Keyser has been superintendent ot
farmers' Institute work since 190S ,
Slaving been assistant superintendeni-
LOT two years prior to that time.