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The Valentine Democrat GEORGE M. GASKILL , Editor. VALENTINE. T NEBRASKA- ATLANTIC FLEET OF TORPED BOATS HIT HARD IN A COAST STORM. DESTROYERTERRYSTRANDEI Two Seamen on the Salem Swept Oi erboard and Drowned and Vess Heavily Damaged Schooner Elois is Also Wrecked. New Yorfk. Five torpedo boat dc stroycrs belonging to the Atlanti fleet on Its way to Guantanamo fo the winter maneuvers , which wore ou in the violent storm off the coast , pu into Bermuda. The destroyers wen all of the new oil burning type thi Preston , Ammen , Perkins , Walker an ( Sterret. The Bixie , mother ship o these boats , also reached the same an chorage. The Bixie , the dispatch says lias spring a leak , necessitating re pairs , but to what extent was nol known. Wireless messages indistinctly re Delved in New York repoorted the United states torpedo boat dcstroyei Terry in trouble. The vessel's posi tion was given as latitude 36.21 north , longitude 67 west , which is a little northeast of Cape Hatteras. The ves sel was in communication with the steamer Tagus and the battleship South Carolina. No other details were received here. Further wireless advices from ves sels in communication with the Terry were to the effect that the destroyer's turbine engines and pumps were out of commission ; that all her stores were ruined and her wireless appara tus not working ' . A message received from the battle ship South Carolinajndicates that the disabled craft is somewhat further north than reported by the Tagus in a previous message , the battleship re porting the Terry's position in lati tude : J8.21 north and longitude G7 west. BULLDOG IS DEADLY WEAPON. An Illinois Justice of Peace Holds Owner to a Grand Jury. Banville , III. Justice of the Peace H. J. Hall has decided that a bulldog is a deadly weapon. Mrs. Cleo Wilson went to the home of Mrs. May Hensley , in Greene Creek. Mrs. Hensley , according to the testimony , sallied forth , reinforced by Q son , bearing a club and a powerful Sulldog. Mrs. Wilson and other wlt- Desses testified that Mrs. Hensley Seized her by the hair , the bulldog grabbed her by the leg and the boy struck her with tne club. She swore out a warrant charging Mrs. Hensley with assoult with a deadly weapon , to- wit , a bulldog , and Justice Hall held the defendant to the grand jury. Missouri Hotel Fire. Excelsior Springs , Mo. With the temperature at zero the Snap hotel fcurned. The sixty guests escaped , but one woman was injured. She was un able to hold with numbed hands to a rope , and fell , wrenching her back and suffering internal injuries. The building and contents , valued at $125- 000 , were a total loss. The insurance was $75,000. Advertiser is Dead. St Louis , Mo. Ewing Hill , 70 3'ears old , originator of street car advertis ing in America , died at his home in this city. He was a pioneer in the Held of advertising , was president of the western advertising company and had been a member of the merchants exchange for thirty years. He is sur vived by a widow and four children. Mrs. Roosevelt Recovering. Oyster Bay , N. Y. Mrs. Thoedore Roosevelt has been quite ill for several ' al days but is recovering. Two months ago she was injured by a fall from her horse while riding with the colonel. Her present illness is said , however , not to be the result of the accident. Live Stock Market. Sioux City. Cattle Good to choice cornfed steers , $7.00S.50 ; medium to good , | 5.50@7.00 ; good to choice grass steers , ? 4.50@6.50 ; good to choice fat cows and heifers , $5.00@6.00 ; grass cows , ? o.50@5.00 ; canners and cut ters , $2.75@3.50 ; bulls , ? 3.50@4.75- veals , $3.50@7.00. Hogs Prices range trom $5.60g ( > 6.1 f , with a bulk of the sales at $5.90@6.20. Sheep Lambs , ? 5.25 < g > 5.50 ; yearlings , $4.25g)4.50- ( ) wethers. $3.253.85 ; ewes , S2.25 © 53.35. Six Persons Killed. Paris. In a collision between two trains at Henry , about seven miles from Paris , six persons were killed and twenty injured. Three passengers are expected to die. Four.of the cars wore wrecked. A misplaced signal is given as the cause of the accident. Storge House Burns. Houston. Tex. The main building , boiler house and storage house of the I Industrial Cotton Oil company , with e 10,000 tons of seed and other produce , c. * biirnod here. The loss i estimated c.t ( io be between § 500,000 and $750.000. si DETECTIVE BURNS SAYS BOOI WALTER KNEW OF M'NAMARAS GUILT TWO YEARS AGO. HE NEGLECTED TO PROSECUT Dropped Dynamiting Inquiry and W ; Admitted Into Labor Printing Par nership Former Executive Wlilir to Bare Details to Jury. Indianapolis , Ind. Former Mayc Charles A. Bookwalter , who , it J claimed , had sufficient evidence i his possession two years ago that Ii dlcated that Bridge and Structun Iron Workers' officials had caused d ; namlte explosions In this ) city , wa charged with gross negligence by B < tectlve William J. Burns in not pusl Ing the prosecution. Burns said the former mayo dropped the investigation and no long afterward was invited to becom a member of a printing firm doln ; much work for a national labo unions , and In which Samuel Gomr ers , president of the American Fed eration , is reported to him to havi been interested. Bookwalter denied that Gompen had been interested in the printinj firm , or that he knew him intimately He said the partners in the firm wen Leo M. Rappaport , counsel for the In ternational Association of Bridge am Structural Iron Workers , and Huge Thorsch , a long time friend of Gem pers. pers.Bookwalter Bookwalter admitted that two years igo he had told a score of prominenl lational labor leaders that he wafi : onvinced of the guilt of John J. Me- Samara and the Iron workers' union n connection with the four explo sions on property of Albert Von Jprechkel'sen in October , 1909. Bookwalter said he would bare all he details of the municipal investiga- lon which satisfied him that John J. xIcNaniara , as secretary-treasurer of he International Association o Jrldge and Structural Iron Workers ras the conspiring executive who aused the explosions in this vicinity. Bookwalter said that he had told ohn J. McNamara of the strong sus- icion against him and that In his onversations with a score of labor jaders he had placed the responsl- ility upon the iron workers' union. Washington. Samuel Gompers , resident of the American Federa- on of Labor , commenting upon a tatement by former Mayor Bookwal- jr of Indianapolis , said : "No person , living or dead , ever lade such a statement to me or even ave a hint that J. J. McNamara or ay one else was engaged in a dyna- iite plot or dynamite campaign. " Washington. President Samuel ompers of the Federation of Labor 2nies with all the emphasis at his > mmand the charge that he stood on , insulted in any way , an American ig while delivering a speech at the bor day celebration at Oakland , il. , last September. The accusation was made in re- > rts to the war department from of- : ers in San Francisco and Los An des. The most direct evidence ap- sars In photographs received by ajor General Wood , "chief of staff the army , and by Major General nsworth , adjutant general of the my. JAKE SHAKES SIX STATES emors Cause People to Rush from Homes Into Streets Damage Is Slight. Chicago. Chandeliers oscillated , ndows rattled and books were _ iken from shelves and tables in Chi- ? o as' a result of two distinct earth- ake shocks that caused some of the : iler wooden structures in the city sway and tremble , and sent hun- ? ds of inmates hurrying to the eets. Phe earth tremors extended through- : the state of Illinois , and were felt Wisconsin , Michigan and in four icr states in the Mississippi valley. Iowa three shocks were felt , and some parts of that state they were ch more severe than in this city. PORT J. B. SNEAD AND WIFE ladian Authorities Send Couple 'rom Country "Affinity" of Wom an to Follow In Near Future. Winnipeg , Man. J. B. Snead , said be a wealthy canal contractor of t Worth , Tex. , and Mrs. Snead , > , it is alleged , eloped with Albert Boyce from Texas to Canada , left e for Minneapolis , oyce and Mrs. Snead were being 1 here ws undesirable citizens in lada. .Mr. and Mrs. Snead were ac- , ipanied to the train by private de- ' ! ives. Boyce , the authorities here ' , will be deported later. * rgeLabor Leaders With Murder. : uscatine , la. O. C. Wilson , Social- alderman of this city , and busi- 5 agent for striking button work- together with forty other proml- : labor leaders , were arrested here 'ged with conspiracy to murder other grave charges. Punished ; Kills Father , idalia , Mo. D. M. Woolet , a farm- living near here , attempted to itlse his eon , Boyd Woolet , four- y.ears old , with a strap. The boy and killed him. THE CONGRESSMAN'S FIRST SPEECH AS HIS COWSTITUWTS IMAGINED t FROM HIS QWM DESCRIPTION AS IT REAUY APPEARED ft OHIO REPUBLICAN INSURGENT REJECT RESOLUTION TO IN DORSE LA FOLLETTE. DEFEAT OF TAFT IS ASKE1 oinchot and Garfield Speak Agains Indorsement of Any Candidate- Platform Principles Adopted Fo low Those of Chicago Conference. Columbus , O. The Ohio progres slve Republican conference here b ; a vote of 52 to 32 refused to indorsi Senator Robert M. La Follette as i candidate upon whom the progres gives could unite for the nominatioi for president at the Chicago conven tion. tion.After After refusing the Indorsement o the league , the delegates voted , 81 t < 11 , In favor of a resolution , as a per sonal expression of the delegates laming Senator La Follette as "th < iving embodiment of the principles ) f the progressive movement , and the ogical candidate to carry them tc successful fruition. " Gifford Pinchot , who declared thai ie spoke only for himself and in no vay for Theodore Roosevelt , and for- ner Secretary of the Interior Gar- ield were the leaders In the debate tgainst giving any candidate an in- [ orsement Senator Works of California and ater Senator Clapp of Minnesota rere vigorous In urging that the Ohio TOgressives concentrate their efforts a working for the election of La 'ollette. A declaration of principles adopted nanimouslywas substantially the ne * prepared by a committee ap- ointed at a meeting of progressives f the western reserve. On the ques- on of national policies , it followed tie line of the platform adopted by ie progressive conference In Cni- ago. tENSUS EMPLOYES TO GO iwing to Lack of Funds 1,000 Men Will be Dismissed During January. Washington. About 1,000 census jreau employees are expected to re- jlve notices of dismissal before the id of January as the result of the ifusal of the house of representatives i sanction the $1,000,000' appropria- Dn asked for by Birector Burand for ie maintenance of the bureau. Mr. urand was noncommittal as to the : act date of the dismissals , but ad- itted that such action was contem- ated. OTHIER 4-TIME GOVERNOR ist Instance in Which State Officials of Rhode Island Will Be Sworn In for One Year. Providence , R. I. For the fourth ccessive term Gov. Aram J. Pothier 3k the oath of office. It is the first ae since the adoption of the state nstitutlon in 1842 that'a governor s been inaugurated for four con- : utive terms , and it Is the last time 2 state officials will be sworn In one year. Seeks Divorce from Stallo. Cleveland , O. Mrs. May Harrington illo , formerly wife of Ban R. Hanna , 3 filed suit for divorce from Edmund Stallo , formerly a Cincinnati attor- 7 , but now of New York. Cruelty I gross neglect are charged in the Stove Explodes ; Woman Dying. Mxon , 111. Mrs. Thomas Burkhart dying from burns received here m the explosion of a kerosene ve. Her husband was also severely ircd. j ASSERTS MORGAN FLEE CONGRESSMAN SAYS Hr LEFT TC AVOID SUBPOENA. Financier's Testimony Is Desired Bj Stanley Steel Committee ConcernIng - Ing Tennessee Coal Deal. Washington , B. C. According to a statement made by an eminent mem ber' of congress , J. Plerpont Morgan made a hurried trip abroad to avoid testifying before the Stanley steel committee concerning the purchase of the Tennessee Coal & Iron company by the "United States Steel corpora tion. tion.It It has just become known that for the past month or more the most prominent Bemocratic corporation lawyer in New York has been work ing quietly in behalf of the Stanley committee gathering information as to this deal. It Is declared that Mr. Morgan learned of the activities of this lawyer investigator , and started , as he himself expressed it , for "Egypt as fast as he could go. " The Stanley committee Is particular ly anxious to ascertain at first hand the exact plan of purchase , how the money was paid and how the property of the Tennessee Coal & Iron com pany was delivered. These points can only be made clear by the books of J. Pierpont Morgan and company , fiscal agents of the Steel corporation. SAYS MORSE OFFERED BRIBE Banker Accused By Prison Warden of Attempting to Influence Him by Money Tender. Atlanta. That Charles W. Morse soon after commencing his prison l.erm offered him $1,000 , which he con strues as an attempt to bribery , is : he charge made In a formal state- nent by Warden W. M. Meyer of the ! ederal prison at Atlanta. Meyer said he gave Morse permis sion to send a cipher telegram buying ! ; ome gas stock and that a few days ater Morse came into his office and ! laid : | "Warden , I made $2,000 on that i leal and I want you to have half of , ' tn I The warden said he promptly told ' , Iorse never to offer him money again , .nd advised Attorney General Wick- Tsham of the incident. An investl- ! ; ation by the department of justice , | he result of which has never been aade known , was made Immediately. , RREST STOPS POISON DEATHS iince Berlin Liquor Dealer Was Tak en Into Custody Fatalities Among Shelter House Inmates Cease. 1 Berlin. As no deaths from polson- igs have occurred among the inmates I the Municipal Shelter house since ie arrest of the dealer who had been jlling cheap groceries , wood alcohol j , ad adulterated whiskey to the vag- \ mfs , the authorities believe the ' luse of the illness has been found , j here have been 162 cases and 72 ' jaths reported since Becember 26 ! id there are 20 persons still serious- ! ill. ! Atwood Falls Into Ocean. Boston. Harry N. Atwood , thie avla- r , fell in the ocean off the Point of nes in his hydroplane. He was res ted and recovered after a few hours , lysicians , after a careful examina- m , said that he would suffer no"lll "ects from his cold plunge. Tufts College Junior a Suifeide. Medford , Mass. Albert B-.fPecker. member of the junior class at ifts college , committed suicide in 3 room here by Inhaling g s. No > tive is known for the suicide i ! ( CASHIER BARES GRIM ALBION BANK MAN CONFE8SE HE AND SON FORGED NOTES. Both Were Officials of a Manufacti Ing Concern and "Lent" It Money $144,000 Involved. Battle Creek , Mich. H. M. Dearin cashier of the failed Albion ( Mich National bank , and his son , P. 1 Bearing , pleaded guilty to charges < embezzlement and forgery. The were bound over to the Detro grand jury and bonds were place at $25,000 each by United Stat < Commissioner Clark. The men wei arrested at Albion Tuesday , as result of the closing of the ban ! The shortage amounted to $144,02 The men confessed that they ha been forging the notes for over li\ years in order to finance the Coo Manufacturing company , of which th younger Bearing was secretary an treasurer and the eJder president. The Cook Manufacturing compan was having a hard time financially , s the father permitted the son to t'org notes to protect its credits. This b < gan In 1905. The money was insutt dent , so Cashier Bearing aided hi son , until their forgeries reached $144 000. Not until Bank Examiner Hei bert Johnson came along Saturda last was the situation discovered am the bank closed. The arrests of the two men followei a dispatch from Washington statin ] that Comptroller of the Currenc ; Murray had announced that the forget notes , which caused the failure of th < bank , amounted to $144,088. MAY ADD CABINET OFFICE Civil War Veterans Opposed to Ower Bill Which Would Create Public Health Head. Washington. The Owen bill , which should it become a law , will create a new cabinet officer as head of the de partment of public health , is meeting ivlth opposition on the part of the old soldiers , and also on the part of the secretary of the Interior and commis sioner of pensions. The bill provides 'or the taking over by such depart- nent , if it is organized , the entire con- , rol of the present pension bureau , aid the old veterans seem to be op- > osed to such a transfer of their in- erests. They say : "To transfer the pension bureau from he department in which it was or- ; anized and developed would be a lardship upon the veterans who deal vdth it and are familiar with the nethods of the present department nd the bureau chiefs. It would be he substitution of doubt for cer- ainty. " It is also proposed to transfer the rolunteer Soldiers' homes to the new epartment. It is suggested , however , hat the home for regular soldiers be etained in the war department. The veterans are being urged to ommunicate with their representa- Ives in congress and express their pposition to the passage of the bilL 1FRED T. DICKENS EXPIRES on of Famous English Novelist Dies of Heart Trouble in New York Hotel. New York. Alfred Tennyson Bick- ns , son of the famous English 'au- lor , Charles Bickens , and godson of ie late poet laureate , Alfred Tenny- m , who arrived in this country from ustralia last October for a lecture i > ur , died suddenly here at his apart- tents in the Hotel Astor. Overcome by weakness while seated j L the hotel smoking room , Mr. Bickj j is was escorted to his rooms. Bocj j > r Burt , the house physician , quick- . reached his side , but he succumbed jfore the physician completed his agnosis of the attack. Afterward ' ie doctor said death resulted from jart failure , superinduced by acute j digestion. USSIANS HANG 16 PERSIANS ! rar's Court-Martial Exacting Heavy Toll for Casualties Suffered in Tabriz Invasion. Tabriz , Persia. Sixteen Persians sre hanged by order of the Russian mrt-martial in connection with the cent attack on the Russian troops. The Russian court-martial is exactj j g a heavy toll for the casualties suf-1 red by the Russian troops. The ofi i : ers composing the court-martial are ring the prisoners In batches , and In ' larly every case the accused are con- j mned to be summarily banged. - - - - i Admits $5,000 Gem Theft. St. Louis , Mo. R. Paul Bunlap , aged enty-three an artist and athlete , ; is arrested at his father's residence , st after he sat down to dinner , and ; er confessed to Chief of Betectives lender that he stole fifty diamond igs and other jewelry from the store \ John Huetter in Cleveland Thanks- . ring day. Sixteen rings were tied to t > undergarments. . i May Recognize Republic of China. ! Washington. So intense is sympai i f throughout the United States i th the Chinese nation in its strug- ; for liberty that a rapidly growing itiment exists in congress favoring j recognition of that country as a Dublic. Wind Kills Indiana Man. Ferre Haute. Ind. Wind blew down sixty-foot smokestack at the Moses rner glass factory , killing David yle , an employe , and injuring two FIGHTS POSTAGE INCREASE American Newspaper Publishers' s Delation Committee Attacks Plan to Double Rates. Washington. Awarm attack on- Hitchcock's plan to Increase the sec ond-class postage rates la contained la. a bulletin just issued by the postal committee of the American Newspa per Publishers' association , Don C- Seitz of the New York World Is chair man of the committee. The bulletin. says : "The extent to which the post. office department does not carry sec ond-class matter is well revealed in. the following abstract of inquiry oC publishers conducted by house com mittee on expenditures in the post- office department ( William A. Ash- brook , chairman ) concerning the vol ume , weight and handling of the out put of publications entered as mall matter of the second-class for the fiscal year ending June 30 , 1911 : " 'Inquiry was made of all publish ers , approximating thirty thousand , of which nearly seventeen thousand are weekly publications. rj " 'More than ten thousand returns- were received , embracing sixty-six. plus per cent , of all tonnage of pub lications. " 'The publications reporting repre sent an annual output of more than. six and one-half billion copies , the- weight of which was one and three- quarter billion pounds. " 'These publications delivered by mail in such period weighed 633,012- 902 pounds. " 'They delivered by their own car riers , newsboys , and news companies 840,466,574 pounds , of which an unas certained percentage was carried to- destination by express and other rail shipments outside the mail. They de livered by express , " 202,729,510 pounds , . and by other rail shipments 121.491- 748 pounds. The rate by express and , rail varies from % to 1 cent per- [ jound , but the bulk of these ship ments went at a rate of % to yz cent. per pound. " 'The post office for the year end ing June 30 , 1911 , handled 951,001-- 369 , and excluding one-half million. \ pounds free in county matter , it re ceived one cent per pound. ' "All this goes to add to the ab surdity of the proposed Hitchcock leg- slatiou doubling the second-class rate- 'rom one to two cents per pound , and imiting the 'privilege' to publications .hat carry as much reading matter as- hey do advertising. "The proposition was stupid enough. vhen the postal deficit , reached $17- ' 00,000 two years ago. It becomes- ) reposterous in face of a surplus. "What business has a transnorta- ion corporation , which is all the post : office is , to prescribe how a business hall be conducted ? "Newspapers cannot afford to ex- iand their columns beyond the call > f the day's news , nor can they be * xpected to control the requiremonts- f their advertisers who have a right D reach the public as copiously as-- hey care to. "It cannot be assumed that such , egislation will ever get by congress. ! ut publishers are requested to fight- tie theory that the right to send their utput by mail is a "privilege. " The' gures show it is not. "The post office is a badly man- ged business. That is all. We- hould fight its dictation , its censor- hip and its inefficiency. " Impracticable Suggestion. Robert Henri , the artist , was talk- g at a tea at Sherry's , in New York. . > out the Latin quarter. "In the Latin Quarter , " he said , "in : tle streets off the Boule Mich , it Is- issible to get a oed dinner for 15- mts and even at that there's many- Latin Quarterite goes dinnerless. " Mr. Henri smiled and sighed. "One spring afternoon , " he resumed , s I was sketching the horses of the- een bronze fountain in the Luxera- nirg Gardens , a youth stopped and Iked awhile. "The spring sunshine on the youth's , at brought out ail its shabbiness iner- essly , and I ventured to hint : " 'Look here , old chap , why don't yom ve that coat turned ? ' ! "He smoothed the shabby sleeves * efully. " 'I would , ' he said , 'if it had three- les. ' " The Connoisseur. Joseph E. Widener , being congratu- ed at the Ritz-Carlton in New York ; the excellence of his father's pic- * es , smiled and said : 'Yes , my father has been a discreet [ lector. He is not like the New rk millionaire whom Sargent vis- d. 'Sargent was taken by this millions - s ' through a huge gallery of dubi- s Rembrandts , Titians , Raphaels and : trillos. "Mr. Sargent , ' the millionaire said , , zing pompously at the long lines of jt , dingy canvases , 'I have decided- leave my pictures to some public ia- Lution. What institution would vou rgest' "I suggest , ' said Mr. Sargent , 'an titution for .the , blind. ' " Turn to V/ccden Flooring. [ "he use of wooden Scoring is on the rease in Italy , taking the place or i former extensive demand for isar- , tiling and cement. Oak , larch an.l ch pinp are mostly adopted , and but le , if any maple , birch or beech has- ; n brought to the market. What Was in Her Heart. 'Tell ' me , " he sighed Mt ll ' lutiful maiden , what is in your \ irt ? " The girl gave him a look of- disdain , and then vouchsafed-