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XXXIX-XU. 56.
OMAHA, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST .20, 1009-TEN FAGES.
SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS
FAWCETT STILL
IN THE LEAD
Omaha Man Has Few Hundred More
votei xnan Harrier for Place
on Judicial Ticket
OVER HALF OF STATE REPORTED
Indications Point to Fawcett as the
Final Winner.
NO DOUBT ABOUT OTHER TWO
Sedfwick is High Man, with Barnes
Closely Following.
0 OTHERS IN THE RUMINO
In Ninbtr of Conntlee t'nnteata for
Local Offices ForaUh the Only
Excitement of the
Campaign.
PiweiU still has a smalt lead over
Hamer for the third place on the reput
llcan supreme Judicial ticket, with almost
half of the precincts In the state and con
siderably over half of the vote In the state
heard from. The returns are not con
clusive, however, but from the best estl-
mates of the missing counties and the
jipresent standing of the two It Is thouaht
Fawcett hai the better chance for the
place. Sedgwick and Barneg are assuredly
nominated, with the former leading.
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Hall, 16 164 1 20 78
Hamilton... 278 206 212
Harlan, 16.. 104 116 10
Hayes 64 77 66
Hooksr .... 21 13 34
Jefferson .. 466 273 418
Johnson ... 236 158 204
Kearney .. m 146 130
K'ya Paha, 6 Si 20 28
Kimball, 1., 18 28 20
Knox. 1 24 17 4
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Madison, 14. 238 134 1S 133 X0
Merrick ... 154 130 114 1S9
Pawnee, .. 802 148 263 180 261
I'latta 117 88 44 23 80
Phelps S12 107 242 192 242
Polk, 2 64 60 50 15 36
Pierce 183 142 60 61 96
Ked Willow 837 253 229 284 270
Ttich'son, 7.. 84 23 60 61 26
Sarpy 2 86 67 88 77
Seward, 10.. 216 130' 151 107 161
Keunds. 15.. 176 132 110 72 163
Sherman .. 56 44 65 43 31
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V TOTAL8.
V"rnes 13.737
Mulleins 9,0;i9
Ci.bbey 9.742
Duffle .. 7,816
F.iwcett 11.44H
I lamer 10.92
S:dgwick i lt.iikt
Veiser ,6,332
Three Contests in Kearney.
M INDEX, Neb., Aug. 19 (Special.) The
primary contest here lyes somewhat warm
over three places. The contest was over
sheriff on the fusion ticket and sheriff and
county Judge on the republican ticket,
present County Judge F. L. Carrlco won
out by the decisive majority of about 10)
votes, aa against the other leading candi
date, O. I Godfrey. Mr. Godfrey was sup
ported by some republicans and some dem
Di i m. On sheriff George Golay won out
against A. A. Wyatt, former sheriff, and
A. A. Ransom, present sheriff, who was
running for his second term. The sheriff
contest on the fusion ticket Is as yet so
uncertain that it will take the official count
to decide. The vote on supreme coui i judge
was very light.
. BEATRICE. Neb., Aug. l.-8peclal.--The-
republicans of Gage county placed In
nomination the following ticket at the pri
maries Tuesday; For treasurer, E. L.
Hevelone; county clerk. J. H. Penrod; regis
ter of deeds. C. B. Hensley; Judge, H. 1.
Waldtn; superintendent of schools, Miss
Jessie Pyrtla; coroner, J. Q. Reed. The
rsce for sheriff between J. T. Moore and J.
i L. Schick Is very close, although the latter
' claims the office by sl votes. The demo
crats selected the following ticket: Treas
on f, O. P. Fulton; county clerk, J. W. Mc
kutsick; register of deeds. G. T. Reynolds;
tlierlff, Leo Galloway; surveyor, A. J. Pet
houd. '
NEBRASKA CJTT. Neb.. Aug l-Spo-clal.
) The primary election was alimly at
tended In this county on Tuesday and the
returns are not all In yet. In Belmont pre
i met tm o republicans voted, one for the
three men on the head of the ticket and the
other one for a candidate for sheriff. There
wtie five democratic votes cast In that
precinct and they voted for no one on the
reset but the candidate for sheriff. In
X'v.'er precincts the same thing happened.
I r the eoniniltslor.fr district L.. E. Jones
mat nominated on the republican ticket and
Jami White on the democratic ticket.
That waa the only contest In this county.
.TAKTON. Neb.. Aug. 1 (Special.) A
llgBl vote at the primary election yesterday
resulted In the following nominations for
the republicans: Clerk, A. Spence; Judge,
J. J. Hopper; treasurer, I. Nye; sheriff, J.
K. otucker; surveyor. C. Wegner; commls
Uhjfc Cd Daniel. For the democrats:
t M 4 A. Sharp; treasurer, August Fuchs
thVfrff. J. E. Kinney; superintendent, .
li Hyland; Judge, W. Comn; coroner, U.
IJerh. The candidates for superintendent
on the republican ticket are so close that
It will require the official count to deter
mine the nominee,
WAYNE. Neb., Aug.' 19 (Special. )-At the
primary election Tuesday the following
county officers were placed In nomlnatloa
by Uie republicans: J. H. Bohlanuer, derkj
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More Flood
Damage in
Colorado
Cloudbursts in Vicinity of Trinidad
Wash Away Bridges and Rail
road Tracks.
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Colo., Aug. 19 Cloudbursts
"olorado caused further dim
s late today. The downpour
Trinidad was said to be the
1901
rushing through Purgatotre
out several bridges and the
i Colorado and Southern rall
irn awuy In places. A force
put to work piling up sand
p the river in Its channel,
wall having given way in
many places.
In other parts of the state
condition, brought about by
heavy rains n ..he last three
the flood
unusually
daw ci
Improving.
Trains blocked In lonely mountain passes,
tracks washed awiy or li. some Instances
pitched into canyons hundreds of feet be
low, people driven irorn their homes to
seek safety with their belongings In higher
places, these were scenes revealed at day
break today along the overflowed Arkan
sas river.
Alarmed by another cloudburst at Four
Mile creek, near Canon City last night,
scores of people In the lower sections of
Pueblo and other points passed the night
In rescuing their household effects from
the danger line.
The famous Royal gorge, walled In by
rock 1.000 feet hlKh, has been washed by
a torrent for almost forty-eight hours,
and the railroad tracks have been washed
out. Trains on the Colorado Midland, the
Denver & Rio Grande and other railroads,
most of them carrying eastern tourists
have been detoured over circuitous routes.
One road had to detour Ita trains by
way of Alamosa, Colo., in the southern
part of the atate. a distance out of the
regular line of travel of more than 300
miles.
Not only the Arkansas river, but almost
all Its tributaries, are overflown. The
rainfall In the last two days has been
unusual.
Kansas Town is
Wrought Up
Williamsburg is Excited Over Mys
terious Disappearance of Five
. Persons.
WILLIAMSBURG, Kan.. Aug. 19 This
usually quiet town Is greatly wrought up
because of the mysterious disappearance
of five of its citizens within the last
five weeks.
The Rev. Wallace M. Stuckey, pastor of
the Christian church and well known as
an evangelist In Kansas, Oklahoma and
Texas was the first to go. He left a wife
and three children, who are destitute.
The four others who disappeared are:
Lorena Sutherland, aged 16 years; Harry
C. Thomas, aged '24; Wilbur r"ogel, aged
22 and Miss Maggie Tlmmons. aged IS.
WESTERN MATTERS AT CAPITAL
81 New Carriers for Omaha Poat
. of floe to nesrln Service Oc
tober First.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. ID. (Special. ) The
postmaster at Omaha has been allowed six
additional letter carriers to begin service
October 1.
Post Quartermaster Sergeant Robert C.
Easton has been ordered front Fort Porter
to Omaha for duty In the quartermasters
department to relieve Post Quartermaster
Sergeant Albert H. KraUke, who goes
to Fort Porter.
Rural carriers appointed for South Da
kota routes: Klk Point, route 1. Frank D.
Smythe. earlier, no substitute; Fulton,
route 1, Julius F. Goraud, carrier, no sub
stitute. The Packers National bank of South
Omaha has been approved as reserve agent
for the First National bank of Cedar
Rapids, the First National of Elgin, Stan
ton National of Stanton, Neb., and the
First National of Malvern, Ia
NEW GEYSER BREAKS OUT
Report from Yellowstone Park Says
It Throws Stream Two Hun
dred Fret. High.
SALT LAKE CITY. Aug. 19.-A telegram
from Mammoth Hot Springs. Yellowstone
park, reports that a new geyser has broken
i out 100 feet north of Fountain geyaer, play
ing TiO to 200 feet high. The eruption lasts
generally about one hour.
Given a Hotel,
Record for
l ow Sidney Spence stumbled Into the
hotel business, aa told by himself, was one
of the most diverting addresses during the
recent convention.
"I have been In the business only about,
five years, and I guess I am the only man
who ever had a hotel given to blm out
right," said he. "I had been a traveling
man and was, as usual, trying to make a
small town down in southeastern Nebraska
on a freight. I wasn't walking, but might
aa ell have been walking, for it took
that train about six hours to go thirty
miles. It was in the winter and I was
tired and cold. Shubert was the town I
was making."
"It wea late when I got to the little
dinky hotel, and the landlord told me he
was Just quitting the hotel buslnens. It
began to look as if I would have to go
to bed supperlees. ' But I pulled through,
and In talking with the landlord after sup
per he proposed to give me the hotel. He
was tired of the business. I found he was
in earnest and as I had promised myself to
quit traveling whenever I could find any
thing else to do, I acoepted his offer and
wrote the house that I had quit traveling.
"Well, I went at that hotel the next
morning, and wrote my wife, and she came
up to Shubert and we were the whole
thing. The houae had ten rooms. There
were three chairs In 'the dining room and
a fair sized table. The bedrooms were fur
ntabed with old wooden bedsteads. There
wasn't an Iron bedstead In the house. I
was porter, wood carrier, landlord, assis
tant cook and assistant chambermaid, and
waited on the table as a aide Issue. My
the work that didn't. "We oUaned
COLLISION IN
ATR AVOIDED
Glenn H. Curtiss Skillfully Onides
His Machine Above Another
at Rheims.
FINE DEMONSTRATION OF SKILL
Frenchman Approaches Him at Right
Angles.
PLANES
TURNED
UPWARD
Machine Rises Instantly and Collision
is Averted.
WRIGHT BROTHERS FILE SUIT
Aeronautic. Society of New York and
All Persona lalna; Carting Aero
planes Are Char Bred with
Infringement.
RHEIMS, Aug. 19. The American avia
tor, Glenn II. Curtiss, at sundown today
added a dramatic feature to the trial
flights of the aeroplanes entered for the
contests of aviation week by skillfully
guiding his machine above another aero
plane thus averting a collision.
The feat was accomplished when, for
the first time In history three heavier than
air crafts were maneuvering at the same
time. All were flying rapidly when sud
denly Curtiss saw M. Dumanset In an An
toinette monoplane approaching at right
angles and on the same level with htm
Curtiss, realising the danger elevated his
planes. His machine Instantly shot up
ward and soared safely over the French
man. The thousands of spectators who
lined the aerodrome watched the meneu
ver with abated breath, but when they
saw it successfully and brilliantly car
ried out they applauded the American
wildly. The third machine in the air at
this time was that of M. Tlssandkr.
Fine Demonstration of Skill.
Experts tonight were agreed that Mr.
Curtiss had made a fine demonstration of
his skill and ability to control his machine.
They declare that his bi-plane Is a real
racer.
The wind, which had been blowing for
two days, suddenly died out at sundown
and the aviators rushed to the sheds and
dragged out their machines. Thousands
of eager spectators crowed about them,
but mounted gendarmes and dragoons soon
cleared the aerodrome so that the trials
could proceed. Count De Lambert In a
Wright model was the first to start and
made a complete circuit of the aerodrome.
M. Tlssandlcr also on a Wright bi-plane
followed him.
Then the Curtiss machine. looking
smaller and more compact than the others,
was placed in position for a flight. Cur
tis still was limping and used In walking,
a gnarled stick which was presented to
him by the village cure, but, like M
Bleriot, who -before crossing the English
channel in his monoplane- threw aside his
crutch, Curtis mounted the seat of his bi
plane unencumbered.
American Thlnka Quickly.
"Where will you land?" was asked the
HammondFport, N. Y. expert
'I will land right here," answered Cur
tiss, ana smiling, he started his motor
After a short run over the ground the aero'
plane ascended and made a wide turn and
then described evolutions back and forth
over the aerodrome. Meantime M. Duman
set had started across the field In one of
the Antoinette machines. Suddenly It
seemed to the crowd below that a collision
between him and Curtiss was inevitable,
but the American proved a quick thinker
and gracefully swerved his aeroplane up
ward and steered It safely over that of
Dumanset.
curtiss, true to his word, landed without
accident at his place of starting after hav
ing been In the air four minutes. The altl
lude readied by him was 150 feet, fifty
reet higher then any of the others. Count
De Lambert and M. Tlssandter each made
flights of twelve minutes during the even
ing. and Hubert Latham took a few short
spins about the course and was given an
ovatiot. by the spectators. M. Bleriot came
out on the field with his monoplane, but
darkness prevented his making a flight,
Cnrtlaa Pleased with Machine.
After his skillful flight Mr. Curtiss said
i am entirely satisiiea with my aero'
plane, wnicn the recent accident has not
In anywise hurt. I used an eight-cylinder
motor today. The only trouble I expert
enced was with the propellers, which re-
volved so fast that the draft from them
(Continued on Second Page.)
He Makes
Self in Business
the house up and started Into work
Our patronage was small at first
but we actually made it pay. I
hadn't been running the hotel quite a yea
when they elected me mayor of the town.
wife was chief cook and did the rest of
"Some time afterwards I received a tele
gram from Falls City to come down there
and take charge of the New National
had got an I liked the business and wanted
to spread out a little more, so I rook up
with the proposition. It was a twenty-room
house and In pretty good shape. Th
owner, a bachelor, told me that the othe
landlord had skipped out. So I quit th
Shubert hotel and went at the Falls City
proposition. The hotel was about t
uiocks irom inc Business center o
the town and the patronage wa
very light, about three or four traveling
men a day some davs
"I was my own hotel runner, and Just
about the time I got started one day dow
at the depot I saw a card advising travel
Ing men to keep away from I-awrence
Kan., on a certain day. as there was some
kind of a convention there. That card wa
an inspiration to me. I wept right back u
town and hadi lot of green cards printed
inviting all traveling men to visit Fall
City, and the New National hotel particu
larly, on that day, March 17, as It was th.
landlord's birthday and he was going to
give a hotel opening that would tempt th
gods. Work? Of course it worked. I had
seventy-five traveling men at my house
that day. It paid big. Well, that s-arted
my trade, and It haa been keeping rp at
pretty good rate ever since
From the Washington Herald.
PATTERSON ROASTS PINCH9T
Asks Transmississippi Congress to De
nounce Chief Forester.
CHOKED OFF BY DELEGATES
Committee Favors Admission of Art-
sons nnd New Mexico as States
and Establishment of De
partment of Mines.
DENVER, Colo., Aug. la Despite the ef
forts of leaders in the Transmississippi
Commercial congress to prevent the Intro
duction of the Pinchot-Balllnger contro
versy, former United States Senator
Thomas M. Patterson of Colorado prepared
an attack on Gtfford Plnchot this morning.
which was curtailed In part by the action
of the congress In declining to give addi
tional time to Mr. Paijrrsen. who Wtajmd
to present a resolution- lh fuller form than
allowed by the rules of the congress.
Senator Patterson's resolution cited that
board of inquiry composed of Mr. Plnchot
and four other scientists some time ago
reported that the boundaries of the forest
reserves are not definite and many places
include graslng and agricultural lands. He
declared, therefore, that additional laws
are not necessary, but that the president
now has the authority to declare these
boundaries In a more definite way, thereby
dividing the forests from the arable lands
and saving to the people many thousand
acres of land now held in reserve as forest
lands.
Mr. Patterson declared, Inasmuch as Mr.
Plnchot has himself concurred In a report
which says that the boundariea are untrue,
It will be no illegal act for the president
to give back to the people the lands to
which they are entitled. This, he said, is
the contention of the people of Colorado,
who believe that they are being deprived
of lands to which they are entitled under
the homestead act.
Mr. Patterson asked that he be given
twenty minutes In which to present his
resolution, but the delegates declined to
take this view, and his remarks were
curtailed to three minutes and no action
was taken.
No answer was made to the argument
of the former senator.
Resolutions were offered this morning
endorsing the proposed enlargement of the
harbor works at Galveston, Tex., and ask
ing an annual appropriation for rivers and
harbors.
More Plnchot resolutions were offered
when A. M. Amnions . of Colorado aHked
that laws be requested opening for entry
such lands as are not timbered yet held
as reserves. Also that private capital be
given the first opportunity to develop
water power, instead of the government.
The committee on resolutions favor the
admission of Arizona and New Mexico as
states and the establishment of a national
department of mines.
Walter Gresham, who designed the Gal
veston sea wall, was the principal speaker
of the morning. He described the harbor
works and the plans for further improve
ments. W. P. Borland, member of congress from
Missouri, spoke on western development.
Detroit Paator Dlaappenra.
DETROIT, Aug. 19-Rev. Carl 8. Jones,
associate pastor of the large North Wood
ward Avenue Congregational church In this
city, has disappeared, leaving nothing to
explain the mysterious fashion In which he
dropped out of sight after preaching a
sermon on August 1. His relatives, who
made public today the fact of his diseau
pearance. think that hard work may have
unsettled his mind.
Please bring your
Sunday Want-Ads
in as early as possi
ble Saturday.
They are retelTed for Sunday as
late as 8: SO p. m. Saturday, but
ft le beat to get them in early to
Insure proper classification.
If you cannot come down
town use the telephone.
Call Douglas 238 and ask
for the .Want-Ad Department.
CfiMwA time Mi
Greek Flag
Hoisted at
City of Candia
Emblem is Ag-ain Flying; Over Largest
Place in the Island
of Crete.
CANEA. Island of Crete, Aug. 19 The
armed inhabitants of Candia, the largest
city of Crete, today reholsted the Greek
flag In the presence of a squad of militia,
who were powerless to prevent the proceed
ings. A conflict was averted through the
Intervention of the metropolitan, who
begged the officers to confine the soldiers
to their barracks.
The consuls of the powers have demanded
that the government of Crete give a writ
ten guarantee, that the Greek flag will aot
be hoisted after the departure of the Inter
national squadron. Th government re
plied It will do so when order has been re
stored at Candia.
LONDON, Aug. 19. Greece's reply to the
last Turkish note regarding Crete has been
communicated to the powers. Its terms ar
conciliatory and diplomats here consider
that It should be satisfactory to the porte,
to which it was delivered today.
The note regrets that after Greece's pre
vious assurances the Turkish government
still complains of the attitude of Greece In
! Rumelia and Crete. It says that the Greek
government deplores the anarchy and agita
tion which have ruined and decimated the
population of Macedonia, irrespective of
race and religion, and It points out that as
soon as the new Turkish regime gave
grounds for the hope that the situation
would be Improved, the Greek government
did all In Its power to assist In the re-establishment
of order in Macedonia and intends
to continue that policy.
Regarding Crete, the note reiterates that
the Greek government will conform with
the decisions of the four protecting powers
and will abstain from encouraging any
eventual agitation in that Island.
HARD BLOW TO LIQUOR CLUBS
Alabama Honae Paaaea Stringent
Bills to Precent Dlatrlbntlon
of Intoxlcanta.
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Aug. 19.-B.V an
overwhelming vote the house today passed
the anti-club bill, by the provisions of
which event the most sanguine anti-pro-hlbitlon
leaders believe clubs will be forced
to cease the sale of every sort of liquor.
Evtry application for a charter must bear
the promise not to allow liquors aold or
distributed or stored.
Million Dollars in Bogus
Mexican Notes Captured
LOCISVILLK, Ky., Aug. 19-Dreams of
wealth centered In a brass-bound trunk
containing 11.000,000 In counterfeit Mexican
peso notes were shattered for John C.
and Marlon Roberts, brothers, here today
when Deputy United States Marshal
Klaydes arrested Joiin Roberts in Shelby
county with the money In his possession.
Since the hour of the arrest this morning
there has been unravelled in the custom
house of Louisvilie and ir central police
station a remarkable tale. John Roberts,
sitting In the office of the secret service
bureau here today, coolly said that he
would plead guilty at the October term of
federal court and seemed resigned about
spending a majority of his years In the
prison at Atlanta, Oa. He had only wanted
to get rich, he said.
It was through Marion Roberts that the
counterfeiters were apprehended and their
plan to defraud the Mexican government
out of $1,000,000 exposed. Marion Roberts
some days ago offered a Louisville broker
a high commission to dispose of some Mex
ican money for him. The broker notified
Chief of Police Haager, who at once en
listed secret service men and a trap was
set for Marlon Rohsrts. Since Marion
Roberta was arrested Monday the police
learned fTom him the information which
led to the descent upon John Roberts at
Simpsonville today.
When Blaydes confronted John Roberts
the chief counterfeiter admitted that l.e
was behind the plan to dispose of tiie Imi
tation lUO-peso notes through the broker.
DONKEYS IN POLO GAME
Wild, Weird and Wonderful Play
Startles Field Club Spectators.
FAIS WOMEN SWOON AT CARNAGE
Boll Flaht Held at Close of Day, Panl
Beaton, the Matador, Giving; Coop
de Grace to Noble Andaln
slan Victim,
That nolo Is a ereat game. For hair
raising escapes and heartrending excite
ment It has Spot ball and horse racing
lashed to the mast. One does not wonder
that the eastern colleges gave It up as
murderous. At the Field club Thursday
afternoon the visiting tennis players enter
tained several thousand people with polo
and a real bull fight.
Th first match which followed Uie
parade of the players was between a
motley bunch of Foreign Potentates and
four Happy Hooligans. By a vigorous use
of the mallets the players managed to
advance their mounts to the middle of the
field In less than half an hour after tlrrfe
was called. Captain Glbbs and Lieutenant
Haskell, who had charge of the festivities.
nt them lined UD and threw In a email
Mzed basket ball.
A wild scene of carnage began. Lafe
Young, who captained the Potentates
shouted out to his men that the real object
of the game was to knock the ball between
the goal posts. The donkeys that were
pressed Into service 4s polo ponies waddled
around with a look of blank amazement on
their faces, wondering why the brutes on
their backs were yelling like mad and
pour ding them over the launches with
croquet mallets. Every player who missed
the ball (that means all of the players)
either swatted his donkey under the chin
or fell, off with the force of the blow.
Time was called before anybody had been
able to get within thirty feet of the ball
and it wis decided to have the captains
race to decide the match. Ray Farrell,
running for the Potentates, urging his
gallant steed Into a speedy walk, got in
ahead of Johnny Woodworth, chief Happy
Hooligan, by about three hours, ten
v inutes and one-fifth second.
Spectators Swoon.
Omaha had been Introduced to polo. Fair
women In the gallery witnessing the awful
scene, swooned twlth laughter) and many
a brave men turned away his head. Juan
Francisco Potter, with a Mounted Equine
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He showed Blaydes the trunk, which with
Roberts was brought to Louisville today.
Roberts said that had, a perforating mr
chine and a device to number the bills
reached hltn when he had expected them he
would have been In Mexico a week ago.
Roberts is a son of a former Judge in this
city.
Will Koenlg, a printer, also has been ar
rested in connection with the case. To
night Roberts is in Jail under a $15,000 fed
eral bond.
The police late tonight announced that
J. M. Fetter & Co. were the brokers ap
proached by Marion Roberts, who took the
duties as promoter of the concern. Ills
"scheme." as explained to the brokers, and
detectives posing as brokers, Is the most
gigantic swindle idea on record, ac
cording to the authorities here, and con
templated no less than a counterfeit cor
poration with counterfeit stock certificates,
its business to he done with counterfeit
money.
Though all cash and collateral were to be
false, Marion Roberta told the brokers,
who are indignant that they were made
the object of the proposal, that the money
he "made," Mexican or American, as de
sired, was flawlessly accurate and could
not be detected. He proposed, according to
them, to counterfeit stork certificates of
corporations as solid as the Pennsylvania
and Louisville A Nashville railroads, and
the Louisville Railway company. He pro
posed that tliev buy real stock with fake
rr,oney tnd give counterfeit stock certifi
cates In any exchange they might make.
TAFT AT WORK ON
HIS SPEECHES
President is Devoting: Much Thought
to Addresses He Will Make
in the West.
PERSONNEL OF THE PARTY
It Will Be One of Smallest Ever Ac
companying an Executive.
MANY LETTERS TO PRESIDENT
Friends Fear He May Meet with Auto
Accident
MAN FROM MISSOURI CALLS
Senator Warner Dlaenaaea Political
t'ondltlona In the "Show Me"
State with the Presi
dent. BEVERLT, Mass., Aug. 19-Presldenl
Taft Is giving some thought to the man)
speeches to be made on his long western
and southern trip, and also to his annual
message to congress. The president has
thought out the general pls.n of his mes
sage; he has several cabinet orricera at
work on the details of certain phases of It
and he will not lake up the work of assem
bling the document until a Week or so be
fore congress is to gather.
The personnel of the president's travel
Ing party has been completed. While thi-
trip promises to develop Into the longest
ever made by the president, the party un
questionably will be the smallest. Besides
the president there will be John Hays
Hammond, Captain Archibald W. Butt,
military aide; Wendell W. Mlschler, assist
ant secretary; Dr. J. J. Richardson of
Washington, D. C; James Sloan, Jr., and
L. C. Wheeler of the secret service an,!
Major Arthur Brooks, the president's con
fidential messenger. Six newspaper men
will accompany the president.
Secretary Meyer Arrives.
President Taft combined a little of the
business with Ills golf today. He nil t the
secretary of the navy. Mr. Meyer, at the
Myopia club this morning and talked de
partmental matters over with him, both
before and after he had played around the
elghteen-hole course and had lost a two
ball match to Captain Butt, his military
aide, by 1 up.
Tomorrow the president will have Mr
Meyer for an opponent at Myopia. He ex
pects Attorney General Wlckersham for a
conference on matters relating to the rail
roads and Interstate corporations during
the afternoon.
Stories that have gone abroad about the
great speed at which President Taft's
chauffeur takes the president along the
smooth oiled roadways about Beverly have
prompted many letters from timid ad-,
mireis of Mr. Taft, urging that Robinson,
who drives the president's car the great ui
part of the time, be directed to exeroise
more caution. Home of the writers have
enclosed clippings from newspapers telling
of fatal automobile accidents both in tlil.s
country and abroad.
The president does like to go fast wnen
out in a machine and the day is fine, but
to reassure those who have taken the in
terest to write it was officially announced
today that Robinson has specific instruc
tions not to exceed twenty miles per hour
at any time and that the needle on the
speedometer, which remains at the maxi
mum speed until reset, never nowadays
shows a fraction above the twenly-miiu
mark. The president's car Is passed by
nearly every other car on the road.
Mrs. Taft la fond of fast ridin but Uio
late afternoon trips are modest affairs --j
far as speed is concerned.
Senator Warner Calls.
Senator William Warner of Mlssuuii, who
la spending the summer at Naham, had an
hour's talk with the president this after
noon. Mr. Taft was with him, and whiie
the call was largely social, Senator Warner
found time to discuss a bit of politics. The
president la anxious that Missouri, having
been won twice In successive presidential
years, shall be kepi In the republican
column.
Charles P. Taft, the president's brother,
who, with Mrs. Taft, has been visiting at
the, Boardmans at Beverly farms, will leave.
Monday next. Charles Taft will go down
to his big ranch near Corpus Ciistl, Tex.,
before many days, to prepare for the wel
come to be extended the president when
he visits there In October. Mr. Taft will
spend four das on the ranch, the longest
stop he will make at any place during bis
12,000-mile trip.
KAISER TO WATCH WRIGHT
Emperor William Exnecta to
American Aviator Fly lu
Berlin.
See
BERLIN. Aug. 19 -Orvlll Wright arrived
here today from London.
Mr. Wright la to make a series of public
flights on the Tempelhof parade grounds
in the suburbs of Berlin. If he Is ready
by the end of the month Emperor William
probably will witness one of his exhibi
tions. The emperor Is coming to Beillu
to review the Berlin and Potsdam garri
sons and to receive Count Zeppelin, Who is
expected to make his long voyage from
Frledrtchshafen to Berlin August 2$. The
two masters of the different schools of
aviation will then meet ar.d compare meth
ods. '
Mr. Wright in his- flights here will use
an aeroplane built in Germany. He went
out to the shops at Tegel today and ex
amined the craft.
A pamphlet written by Captain von
Hildebrand on the Wright brothers is be
ing widely sold in Germany. Home pride
is taken in the fact that the grandfather
of the Wright brothers was a German.
WICHITA IS REAL WET AGAIN
I.lqnor gelling: and fiambllng Is II e
aumed After Fire Months' af
' Prohibition.
WICHITA. Kan., Ang li After five
months of strict prohibition, liquor selling
and gambling were temporarily resumed
here last night. Owing to a quarrel be
tween the police and the city commis
sioners, because the latter failed to pass
an ordinance prohibiting the sale of Imi
tation beer, the police vigilance relaxed
and a carload of beer was sold during the
night.
It is said the recall will he Invoked unless
the commission restores full (.gohiblliOD at
once.