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unday Bee WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska Main or mow. For Iowa--(Jenc-rally tnr. For wpailier i( port eo pupe 2. NEWS SECTION PAGES 1 TO 8 VOL. xixXIX-NO. 20. OMAHA, SUNDAY M0KN1XG, OCR) HER 31, liHW-JSIX SFXTIONS-FORTY PAGES. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. The Omaha EXECUTIVE ENDS HIS RIVER TRIP President Will Be Gueit of Munici pality of Crescent City for Two Davg. r LUNCHEON WITH ARCHBISHOP Dinner at Pickwick Club and Play at French Opera. ATTENDS TWO FOOT BALL GAMES i Busy Day Ends with Supper at Famous Restaurant. PARTY BEGINS TO SCATTER Postmaster General Hitchcock Con to Ilostoti to Vote SeeretAYy Xanel Will Visit Points la Texas. NEW ORLEANS, La.. Oct. 30.-Presldent Taft arrived In New Orleans today to re new many old acquaintances and to enjoy two days of the hoxpitallty which he de clared a "few days ago he both "longed for and feared." From the moment of his arrival at 12;. TO p. m. on the light houso tender Oleander, which led a long trailing fleet of river packets Into port, the presi dent was kept on the go until past mld r.lKht tonight. Prsldent Taft ended hla river trip with an address before the waterwaya conven tion thla afternoon, In which he reiterated what he has said before, that he favored S- Issuance of bonds to carry forward iry deep waterway project which shall be approved by a competent board of en gineers aa predlcablc, and can be shown necessary to take care of the growing commerce of the sections. Thla address concluded, the president became the guest of the city. He lunched with Archbishop Dlenk at the letter's palace, attended two foot ball games, had I a dinner given In his honor at the Pick wick club tonight and went directly from there to a gala performance of "Lea Hu guenots," at the French opera house. A little supper at a famous French restaur ant after the opera brought the chief ex ecutive's busv day to a close. Tomorrow the president Is to have another s'renunus time. He will attend the Unitarian church In the morning, will have a long automobile tour, broken by luncheon at Jackson barracks and will at tend a sacred concert on the Tulane cam pus In the afternoon. The president re tires on hoard his train tomorrow night and leaves early Monday morning to - begin the last ten days of hla trip. Cabinet Members Leave. The president' party lost one distin guished member today and will lose an other. Postmaster General Hitchcock left tonight for Doston. to vote In the elect lona held there next Tuesday, 8ecretaryNagel of the Department of Commerce and Labor, will go from here to Fort Arthur, Galveston and Houston. While at Houston he will vlelt hi birthplace, six mile outside of that city. Secretary of War Dickinson will remain In New Orleans to make an address be fore the waterways convention Monday morning and will rejoin the president at Jackson. Miss., late Monday afternoon. President Taft thoroughly enjoyed his four and a half nlghta and five days on the Mississippi river, and although he has learned much of the difficulty that must be encountered in attempt to control that powerful waterway, he seemed today to be Just as enthusiastic aa ever In the be half that the Mississippi can be made to recognise a channel deep enough to handle all of the commerce that can be assigned to It. The torpedo boat flotilla which had been aent to St. Louis to escort the president down the river, but which bad been frightened away ' by falling water and had been scurrying down stream ahead of the presidential fleet, finally, was picked up by LMb Oleander, forty-five miles above the 'city thla morning. The four grim little vessels slipped along In the wake of the president's flagship for an hour or more, but the smoke from their funnels en clouded the entire fleet behind and finely they were ordered to ateam ahead at a full speed to New Orleans to await the president there. At Two Foot Ball UauV. -. Having developed into a, full-fledged base f ball "fan" during the summer, the presi dent started his career aa a foot bull enthusiast this afternoon. Trie committee In charge of his visit decided . that It would be too much of a tax on the Vresl dent to auk him to go to two foot ball game In one afternoon, but If he was to go to aee Sewanee play the Louisiana State university, tr adherent of Tulane and Niwlsalppl Agr cultural and Mechan ical college were tnulstent that he should call In at their game aa well. The presi dent declared last night that he certainly would see the Sewanen game, for Captain Butt, his aide, and one other member of hi party were old Sewanee men. and tbey put In a convincing word for their aUiua mater. When this became known the president was besieged upon hi arrival here by requests to attend the Tulane game as well. It was said that It had been extensively advertised that he would be at the game and that It would be a Litter disappointment to thousands of peo ple If he did not. So Mr. Taft decided to go to both gamca. First he stopped In at Pelican Park and saw the Sewanee team make the final touchdown In a game which they won with apparent ease. Thence the president bad a six-mile automobile dash to Tulane Campus, where he saw the laat fifteen min utes of play In an evenly matched game, won by Tulane. 1 to ft. At the Tulane game the president's automobile wa stopped along the side llnee and had been standing there but a few momenta, when a lively scrimmage and a spectacular tackle oc curred right In front of his machine. At both games the president' car were filled with college cheers. Power of Courts 'j Martial Checked Premier Koret Orders Authorities at Barcelona to Send Cases to T Madrid for Review. , B-aJCKLONA. Oct. SO.-Preml ret to tod-ij telegraphic suspend the eaee u. , authorltii- f all coun miu-Lial uium me Knses euuiti V axanunea K' U f overuuieut Wheeler Brings Applause from German Ruler Roosevelt Professors Deliver Opening Lectures, Describing Americans as Conservative at Heart. RERLIN, Oct. 30. The emperor, em- ,p.rp" n ,,T!ncT Lo",,e 1cccu?!if ftr.0"' i Mats In the historic auditorium of the Tnl- j verslty of Berlin today w hen Roosevelt, Prof. Wheeler of California and ex- i Chancellor Moore of Harvard, delivered the opening lecturea of their courses. The I speakers each spoke In German for half 'an hour. Stated near the Imperial party were the American ambassador and Mrs. Hill and many distinguished Germans. President Wheeler's message from the new world was as to the power of publio opinion In the United States and he be- I Ban with the words: "The source of all ' .Power In the United States Is public ; opinion. The Oalifornlan declared that notwlth- standing their radical theories, their fierce spirit exhibited In elections and their pre dilection for novelties, Americans were essentially conservative. He was con vinced from acquaintance with William J. Bryan, he nald, that Mr. Bryan would have been conservative If he had been elected president, but If he had not proven con servative, he would have been bound hand and foot and gagged. At the mention of Mr. Bryan there was a stir In the audience among those 'who happened to know that the emperor' coun cillors of the Foreign office nad advised his majesty against giving an audience to Mr. Bryan when the distinguished American visited Berlin In 1907. President Wheeler described former President Roosevelt also as conservative In his Innermost impulses. The latter' capacity for understanding pub lic opinion accounted, the speaker said, for the great place which he held In the hearts of th American people. Prof. Wheeler outlined the -course of lectures which he will deliver on the func tlon of religious history. He said he would treat the subject In a historical spirit strictly. At the conclusion of the lectures the emperor heartily complimented both Americans after which the audience Joined In three cheers proposed by Rector Schmidt. Life Preservers of Liner Found Some Belts of Crown Princess Cecelie Said to Be Floating in Sea Off Coast of Normandy. NEW YORK, Oct. SO. -Officials of the North German Lloyd Bteamshlp company discredit the rumor emanating from Paris that Ufa belts of the Bteamshlp Crown Prince Cecele, belonging to that line, have been found on the coast of Normandy. Gustavo H. Schwab, the American repre sentative of the company says they have no anxiety, whatever, as to the safety of the passenger of th ship. The Crown Princess Ceclle left Cher bourg for New York at 7 p. m. on Wed nesday, and Mr. Schwab points out that her course would make it Impossible for any life belt to drift to the Normandy coast since her departure. He also state that the finding of life belts and other ship appliances Is not unusual, as they are occasionally lost overboard by accident. Mh. Bchw&b adds that the ship Is equipped with wireless telegraphy, so that ready communication could be established. Six Forest Fires Burn in Hills Heavy Damage Being Done Through Destruction of Timber in South Dakota. DEADWOOD, S. D., Oct. 30. No less than lx forest fires are now burning In the Black Hills. The. most serious one, near Pactola, Is still unchecked, but making less progress today, since the number of fire fighters has been Increased. The Dead wood office of the forest service ha been notified of a fire burning north of Custer, another east of Hill City and one between Mystic and Merrltt and still another near Merrltt. This latter threaten ao much Homestak mine timber that the llotnestak force at Pactola has been recalled to aave Its own timber preserves. The damage done by the fire will be extremely heavy, run ning Into the hundreds of thousands. CATHOLIC PRELATES TO ENTER INTO POLITICS French Reparation Law, They Say, ta Responsible for Their New Attttnd. TOULOUS. France. Oct. 30. The congres of Catholios n session here under the presidency of Archbishop Marty today adopted resolutions outlining a political program. This latter alleges the right of the church to hold property. Including monasteries and convents, and demands the restitution ultimately of the church property forfeited under the separation law. , Archbishop Cabrlere of Montpeller de clared: "We must become political aa well aa religious chiefs as are the bishops of other countries." Arrested for Not Feeding Team, Then Stealing Feed Escaping prosecution a week ago for not feeding hla team, Sandy Rose, negro dray man, I now facing prosecution for bur. glary, on th allegation that he wa steal ing feed for hi horse. Rose wa captured early Saturday mim ing in the act of filling hi feed a.i from a bla In th Weir planing mill Lara. M Cuming atreet. and escaped from hi emp tor, D. H. Weir, in a chase across the cttn mona Into th underbrush. Weir Hied on hi fleetfocted prisoner four time with a revolver without effect. The police arreslrd Rose and he wa Identified by Weir at th city Jail. Th continuous theft of feed from th barn wa noticed by the Weir company and frlday .nlsh, Mr. Vlr armed himself and laid In , wait for the thief I A negro entered, th barn at 4.10 in th NINE PERSONS BURNTO -DEATH Fire Destroys Principal Business Block in St. Johnsbury, Vt., Early Saturday. ALL ESCAPE IS CUT Charred Bodies of Seven Persons Ar Reoovered from Ruins. TWO FALL FROM UPPER , Two Other Persons Are Probably Fatally Burned. LOSS IS FIFTY THOUSAND Strnrtare le Combination Business Office and Tenement Bulldlnaj and Was Owned by Cltlsens Bank. ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt., Oct. 30. When the ruins of the Cltlsens' Savings block had been wet down to a temperature whlrh made a thorough search possible. It was definitely learned that nine lives were lost In the fire which practically destroed the principal business building of thl town early today. Two other persons were prob ably fatally burned. The property loss Is estimated at SMI.000. Of the killed, two per son fell from the upper stories, while seven were burned to deefth. The block, a four story brick building, was a combination of stores, office, tene ments and assembly halls. It was owned by the Cltlxens' Saving bank. Charle T. Ranlatt, a printer, nr.d L. E. Darling, a laborer, were killed by falling from the fourth story while attempting to descend by ropes which had Den brought Into use, after the ladders of the fire de partment had been found too .short to teach the upper window. The person unaccounted for at Charles Cushman, hi wife, and child; Frank Tan ner and Mr. Tanner, Miss Rose Many Miss May Sleeper and a girl whose lift me could not be ascertained. Fleet Runs Ahead of Its Schedule Pacific Warships Reach Manila Bay ' Two Days in Advance of Time Set Uneventful Voyage. MANILA, eoct. SO. The United State Pacific fleet. Rear Admiral Sebree com mandlng. entered Manila bay at 3 o'clock thla afternoon, two day ahead of lti chedule. The voyage from Honolulu wa uneventful. FERRIS AND KEYES ARE TAKEN TO BASIN Men Who Turned State's Evidence In prime Creek Case Placed Un der Heavy G-nrd. SHERIDAN. Wyo.. Oct. 30. (Special Tele gram.) Fearing possible Interference In re moving Charles Ferris and William Keye from the county Jail here to Basin, wher they will testify against five cattlemen, charged with the murder of Allmand, Emge and Lazier, In the Spring Creek raid last spring, a militia guard of ten nonoommls stoned officer and men under command of Captain Arthur Parker accompanied the prisoners, leaving Sheridan last night. Every effort was made to surround their movement with ecrecy. They arrived Basin today. Keys and Ferris have been In Jail here five months. It Is now defi nitely known that when the murder cases come to trial soon, these men will tell ail they know about the tragedy resulting from the raid of the sheep camp. They will testify In effect they were induced to accompany the party as traders, but not for the purpose of murder. Ferrl and Keyes witnessed the killing, but did not participate In It. Both have been prom ised Immunity from punishment. LEADING KNIGHT OF PYTHIAS DIES AT NASHVILLE HOME Dr. R. L. C. White, for Twenty-Two Years Supreme Keeper of Rec ords and Seals, Passes Away. NASHVILLE. Tenn., Oct. 30. Dr. R. L. C. White, one of the most widely known men in the south and for twenty-two year supreme keeper of record and aeal of th supreme lodge. Knights of Pythias, died at hla home In thla city today aged 65. Edits Newspaper for Diversion. BIOUX FALLS, 8. D.. Oct 30. (Special.) The people of White Lake are proud of Miss Re Palmer, who ha Just returned to that place from the region west of the Missouri river, where for more than a year she lived on a homestead and during her spare time edited two weekly newspapers, which she established In that part of the state. She recently made final proof on her homestead and after selling her two newspaper decided to return to Whit Lake and take a needed rest from her strenuous experience on the border of clv-lUzation. morning and started to help himself at, the feed bin. Wslr covered him with a revolver and announced that h would march th theif to th police station. "No alr, not nie," reylled th prisoner, leaping through a tiny window. Weir followed, shooting a h ran. Th. bullet went wide of their mark. Rose was arrested by Dttectlve Dong hue and lieitfeldt. i u hlJ for burg lary. Last week Roa wa rraled by Harry woulreg, human .pfheer, on th charge that p had allowed his team to tand in th barn lhr day without food or water. Rose satisfied Jud ft furl that It wa not hi fctgtect and dis charged. "When I get out of dl I iro moat cer tainly guln' te sell dam horses," rtmarked Saudy. "Dey't oue shore ttowdoa,' -i OFF VA- FEEDING IN From the De Moines Register and GRANT WINS BIG AUTO RACE Alco Car Has Easy Victory in Landing Vanderbilt Cup. MATSON WINS LESSER TROPHY Leader In First Ronnd, lie Takes the Mssaapeqoa Stake Hnrroon Se cures Wheatley Prise Strang's Hard Lark. MOTOR PARKWAY. I I. Oct. 30.- Under circumstances which turned the event Into the holloweHt mockery of an automobile race ever witnessed on - Long Island. Harry F. Grant, driving a sixty horse power Alco car today, won the fifth Vanderbilt cup race, completing twenty-two circuits of a 12.64 mile course In four hours, twenty-five minutes and forty twe seconds. Edward H. Parker at the wheel of a forty-five horse power Flat was second, five minutes and sixteen seconds behind the winner. William Knlpper, driving a forty horse power Chalmers-Detroit, was In third posi tion when the race was declared off by the official. Only two other cars, the Merceder, driven by Wlshart, and . the Atlas, driven by Knox, were on the course to the end. Although run under unsurpassed weather conditions the race w as marred In Us early stages by simultaneous presence on the course of three separate sets of car run ning three distinct races over the sam course, and In Its final period after the smaller cars had left the circuit, by ac cidents so numerous that but five of the fifteen Vanderbilt cup entries were left a contestant. Not until the beginning of the twentieth lap,' when the Flat dlsloged the Chalmers Detroit for first position and wa Itself passed In the back stretch by the Alco, did anything like genuine enthusiasm manifest itself. Aleot Far In Lead. For a brief period ls" seemed that a close finish would be witnessed, but In--the twenty-first and twenty-second lap Grant widened the gap that separated hi in from the field and finished practically alone. Up to within one lap of the finish, the officials were at odds a to the number of laps which the leading car had finished and It was only after a vigorous protest from the entrant of the Alco that the correct reading of the time card was an nounced. The time made by the winner was equivalent to 604 miles an hour, for the entire distance of 278.08 miles. The small car races run simultaneously with the day chief event, respectively the Massapequa sweepstakes and the Wheat ley Hills sweepstakes were won, the first by Joe Matson driving a twenty-five horse power Chalmers-Detroit, and the second by R. W. Harroun, driving a thirty-two horse power Marmon. The Massapequa wa won in 2 hours, a minutes, eeonds. Martin Doorley, driving No. 46, Maxwell, wa second, and Arthur Sea, driving Maxwell 44, third. The Wheatley Hllla sweepstake was won by R. W. Harroun, driving the Marmon, who covered the fifteen laps of the course. or 189 GO miles, in S hours, 10 minutes, 21H seconds. The only othercar to finish wa the Columbia, No. 33, driven by Wilcox Starters in the Race. The starter in the three events wer as follows: Maasapequn sweepHtake. class 4, dls- tance ten laps, 12t.40 miles. Cr Driver. Chalmers B. Brown. Hucli-on Oeorie Atnilee. ( halmera J" Malaon. Maxwell Arthur Zee. Mnwell Thomas Cuatello. Maxwell Martin Doorley. Wheatley Hill sweepstakes, class 3, dls tance fifteen lap, lhil.uO miles. Car. DrtTr. Marioo A. M union. Mnnnon R. W. Jlarroun. Columbia R W. Wllrox. Moon Philip Walls. Vanderbilt race, clause 1U2, distance twenty-two laps, 278.0 miles. Car. Driver. Flat ' Lwti Strang Simplex L- A. Mltchall. Flat - E. A. Haarua. Atlaa ... Appereon C'halmera Alco .... rhalmera National National Marmon . Klal Muirk ... Harredea Uaata . . . .... Elmer Knox. Huah N. Harding. ..-.William Knlppar. . ... H r. Orant. , L. R. Lorrlmar. .... J. D. AlUrn. . ...diaries C. Mori. .. -. Harry Btlllman. . ...B. H. Parker. . ... Louie Chevolet. . ...Spencer C- w lahart. Jue fteymour. PATRICK M'MAHQN STILL HELD BYTHE OFFICERS Con f eased Marderrr of Van Royen Family Makes . Admissions that . Imlleet Others. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 30-Further sensational information implicating per haps persons close to Jomea MrMahnn, the confessed triple jnurderer, sentenced yes terday to life Imprisonment in the Kansas tate penitentiary, wai ecured from Mo Mahon last night by Sheriff Al Recker Just before the dooi of the prison closed behind him. "The Information got from Jim last night la the most sensational yet," laid Sheriff Becker today. "It Implicates at least two additional persons In the crime." While the sheriff" office I toJay Investi gating the new story, Patrick McMahon la being held. fat.ick was kert In the Kana City (Mo.) police station last nltiht F.rly , F, , ,4y ,ft,rnoon when tney received per today under the traln of ltt wee. htjtIrplor,. o:ice frfim Iien Morton, overseer broke down and became vlolfnt, decla'.in.t ; of streeis for the auburb, o.derlng them to tvery one waa a detective attempting to Cinfue him. Oa the way back to Wyan dotte county, Kansas, Patrick, made sev eral attempts to escape from the sheriff s motor car and fought desperately. Several physician who examined th prisoner today said he waa aufferiug frgin tsiupor--ry tuaaalu. IOWA AND MILKING IN WASHINGTON Leader. North Pole Scene Burns With Fatal Result for Girls Two Students at Loretto Academy Die from Injuries Received While Acting as Eskimos. KANSAS CITY, Oct. 30. Miss Virginia Owen of Independenc?, Mo., and Miss Mamie Tierman died today from the ef fects of burns received during an enter tainment here last night at Loretto acad emy, a fashionable boarding school for girls. Miss Mary Maley, who wa se verely burned In an attempt to save her schoolmates, was ,ln a critical condition today. All the girls wore light cotton Eskimo costumes. The stage of the Auditorium had beeti decorated with settings to repre sent the discovery of the North pole, and there was much cotton and tinsel. A min iature globe stood in the center of the stage and around this were grouped the actors, some seventy In number, each dressed to represent an Eskimo. Shortly after the tableau started Miss Owen stepped over a lighted candle and In a second the flames had been communicated to the other girls and decorations. The girls became hysterical, but the mother superior and other of the Sister of Loretta urged those In the small audience to use their wraps to beat out the flames. The fire was ex tlngulshed before the fire department ar rived. Odds Now Given on Tom Johnson Cleveland Campaign Ends Today, Is sues Being Rather Hazy Over Traction Matters. CLEVELAND, Oct. JO. Comparative apathy ha characterised the municipal campaign which will draw to a close today. Mayor Tom L. Johnsoti Is the democrat candidate to succeed himself for a fifth consecutive term. He 1 opposed by County Recorder Herman C. Daehr, the republican candidate. There also Is a socialist candi date. There Is more or less of a haxe about the Issues. Mayor Johnson Insisted that the street railway question was settled. Mr. Baehr maintained that It was not. Every polm In the street railway situation, which has been an Issue for nine year I In the hand of an arbitrator. Federal Judge R. W. Taylor, who Is officially binding th city and th car company to thing they have already agreed to. There will be a three-cent fare to begin with. In the betting on the election Baehr waa favorite at the outset. Later it became an ven bet. Now there ar alight odd on Johnson. Wright's Pupils Get Jolt in Fall Engine Stops While Aeroplane is in Mid-Air, but Descent is Made Safely. COLLEGE PARK, Md., Oct. 30.-Without warning the Wright aeroplane stopped to day while Lieutenants Huinphreyes and Fouluts were rapidly sailing over the gov ernment aviation field. The airship was at an altitude of about twenty-five feet when the engine stopped. The aeroplane came down In good position without In juring itself or the passengers. A cog of the gear wheel attached to th magneto broke, causing th trouble. Surprise is Too Great; Man Dies Horace Colson, Wealthy Iowa Farmer, Expires from Excitement Due to Party. WAT Kit LOO, la.. Oct 30. A surprise party proved fatal to Horace Colsan, a wealthy farmer, laat night. When a score of friends appeared unexpectedly at the Col.an home his excitement became so great that he collapsed, dying twenty min utes later. Omaha Business Men Living in Benson to Work Roads Omaha business men clad In overalls and brogans wielding pickaxes and shovel on Benson ilreets Is a possibility of th near future. la fct several prominent Omahana al- 'mai fell out of their cushioned office chair report to h u at 7 oMock haturdiy morn ii'g ir pmtkI l i do two day' work on Or phaiibgn iver.u;. The notice was couchtd In lek-al terms and phra&ea and made no bones of the fact that It was an urgent case that called out the Omaha reserve to do wenlal duty for ike atalur V Jacff Ware Returned to Penitentiary Attorney is Preparing- to Sue Out a Writ of Habeas Corpus to Secure Release. (From a Staff Correspondent.) DF.S MOINES, la., Oct. 30. (Special Tele gram.) Warden Saunders of the Fort Mad ison penitentiary (refused admittance to Leroy Ware, the1 defaulting Corydon banker, sent back to the penitentiary on orders of Judge Towner, till advised over the long distance telephone by Judge Rob inson of the State Board of Control to take him in temporarily. Attorney Livingston, acting for Ware, was In Des Moines over night- He also prepared a writ of habeas corpus and started for Iowa City to get Judge McClain of the supreme court to sign It, he being the closest Judge. W. U.Sllngerland, superintendent of the Iowa Children's home, who sued the Dally News here for $52,000 damages for slander, was today given a verdict for $100, by the Jury. The Polk county grand Jury, In making Its flnnl report today. Ignored the charges against Ben Murrow, held on a coroner's warrant for the murder of his brother, Charles Murrow, on their dairy farm, east of the fair grounds. Indications today were stronger In favor of a peaceful settlement of the difficulties in the Iowa Coal Miner's union than slnco the convention waa called. President J. P. White has a big majority and thla I con tributing to quiet the opposition. The wit nesses called to testify may not be used. Tibaldos Now Fugitive on Sea MutinOUl Clew of Torpedo Destroyer th P.K.1 H,rJ T- Tt A SA1 AV ftV. VIA. 41VW MVUMU' ing at Large. ATHENS, Greece, Oct. 30. Tibaldos' min iature rebellion ha been suppressed, ac cording to an official government an nouncement. Nevertheless the torpedo boat destroyer Velos, with its rebel crew. Is roaming in unknown seaa. Several offi cers, sailors and workmen In the dock yards at Kalamis have surrendered. Three of the revolters were killed and a number wounded when a shell from the government's land battery struck the mu tinous torpedo boat Sphendona during the engagement yesterday. The rebellious force at the arsenal on the Island of Salamls surrendered today. AH of the vessels of which Tibaldos took possession have returned home with the exception of Velos,- upon which It Is sup posed Tibaldos haa taken refuge. MAY COTTON JUMPS FIVE DOLLARS IN WEEK Contlnnatlon of Bullish Action Keeps Market In Ijroar Heavy He. Mains In New York. NEW VORK. Oct. 30. A continuation of bullish action In the cotton market sent May deliveries up to the fifteen cent level this morning, that position selling at 15.01c at the opening, while December sold at 14.S5C, or 16 to 17 points net higher on the big gains tn Liverpool and bullish visible supply figures. Business was sensationally active at the start, but became rather less excited later, with fluctuations very nervous as the re sult of heavy realising and rumors of less satisfactory conditions In some of the southern spot markets. At the opening this morning May cotton was $5.35 a bale above the opening price of last Saturday. WILSON HELD ON FRAUD CHARGE AT KANSAS CITY Kansas School Teneher t'nable to Give Bond and Goes to Jail pending: His Trial. KANSAS CITT, Oct. 80 United ' States Commissioner John M.Vs Nuckols today bound Thaddeus S. Wilson, the Garnet, Kansas, school teacher, over to the grand Jury on a charge of using the mails to de fraud. Wtlaon pleaded not guilty to send ing a threatening iftter demandlnn 4V..000 from R. A. Long, a millionaire lumber dealer. Wilson could not furnish a $3,000 bond and was remanded to Jail. "You are hereby notified to appear," Is aid without any effort to sofieji the harsh terms of the command. Notices were received among others byl A. L. Reed. F, A. Brogan, Z. T. Llndsey and E. 11. fprague and A. J. Love Consternation prevailed In the several office of these men when the notices were first handed around One dollar a day was the penalty for delinquency and as each of them own real em ate In Benson monkey ing wl'h the civic authorities there Is serious business for them. finally someone discovered at the bot tom of the notice a statement that It would coat $2 te cominunte the work on a cash ba.sis. The business men heaved a sigh of relief a they rued for tlielr check books. TAFT ADDRESSES THE DELEGATES President Makes Extended Speech to Lakes-to-Gulf Waterwajs Association. HAS FUN WITH CONGRESSMEN Long Voyag-e Made to New Orleans Without Loss of Man. BONDS FOR OHIO RITER WORK Executive Favors Issue to Amount of Sixty-Three Million Dollars. PRESIDENT KAVANAUGH TALKS Head of the Association, In Ilia Annul Aildrena to Convention, Says Time to Art Ilaa tome. NEW ORLEANS, 1., Oct. SO. Presi dent Taft celebrated the successful termination of hla trip down the Missis sippi river today by addressing the dele gates to the convention of the Lakes to the Qulf Deep Waterway association, which has as its object the improvement of the Mississippi river and it tribu taries. 1 On the arrival of the president dele gates and visitors sprang to their feet. Many mounted their chairs In order to get a better view of the bowing, smiting big man who waa working his way through the double line of secret service men and police officers. He stood on the platform a moment greeting Tresljent Kavanuugh of the waterways association and then bowed his appreciation of th applause. President Kavanaugh presented him with a handsomo gold hedge and then In troduced Oovernor Sanders of Louisiana, who In turn Introduced the president. The applause broke out again and was rein forced with some vigorous Yale yells. When It died away President Taft com menced his address. Safe Voyage of Fleet. The president began by having a little . fun regarding the trip down the river. He said the "dangers great had all been run" and that the fleet had come through without the loss of a single man. Mr. Taft taunted the congressmen and gov ernors for having .reairted to the hu mlllntlng device or land transportation at one stapo of the Journey. x The president declared that no progress had been uiada In river navigation in this country In tho lasf fort or fifty yenrs. The waterways of this country, Mr. Taft declared, must bo used eventually to carry the bulk of heavy merchandise. nonds for Ohio ltlver. The president's declaration that he fa vored the Issuance of bonds for carrying out the Ohio liver Improvement aH one of ln aPProvea precis or tniana waterways called out a burst of applause. The Ohio river Improvement will cost $68,000,000. Mr. Taft tald that he also favored bonds for alt other, Improvement, Including th Mlssis- i slppi. Just as soon as a feasible project can be decided upon and can be shown to be necessary1 and Justifiable. The Ohio river gives the bulk of business to the Mississippi, the president declared, and ev ery Improvement of a tributary tended to lnrrense the value of the great watr high way" to the gulf. The president told of the Improvements to the MiKslRsppi on the way down, and er-prcially In protecting the banks from u further sloughing off at the outside of the bonds. The engineers say they need $4, CO0.000 mor a year to carry out thl bene ficial work as It ought to be earrled out, and that It was a shame congress did not give it to them. Tint for Action. In conclusion President Taft declared that the time for ortaory was past and that It was now time to get down to brass tacks. He said: It Is now up to you gentlemen to decide what you want, what it will coat, how long it will take and what the renult will be. Once that Is done, you can com mand, not ask." He paid a compliment to trw) men ol New Orleans and predicted that if the dele gates to the convention remained here twe or three days thy would forget that there, was such a thing as a liver. Time to Act Has Arrived. "The plan for a deep waterway Js an accomplished fact. What we need now li action," declared W. K. Kavanaugh, presi dent of the Lakes-to-the-Qulf Deep Water way association, lu his address at th ' opening of Its convention today. "Th history of the Mississippi river has been a story of Inaction and of niggardly appro priations, which have been fought through the rivers and harbors committee, and through congress without rhyme or rea son," said the speaker. "The whole valley Is sick with the congestion of Its trans portation system, and only this deep water way can relieve It. Tho people of the Mis sissippi valley must have definite assur ance that this carrier is to be completed at a certain date, and that date must not be much more remote than the completion of the Panama canal." Mr. Kavanaugh said that the people looked to President Taft for the execution of the great tack. He referred to the executive's trip down the river, saying: "He has seen the richest farm lands in the world crumbling from Its banks, dis solving in its waters; he has aean levees Uiat protect 32,000 square miles of this rich alluvial threatened by these caving banks; he has seen the remains of uncom plete revetments that have been torn away by the river, because a neglectful congress had not provided for their completion, and he has seen a tliouf and-inlle channel un burdened by a single modern vessel, the docks of Its many cities unmarked by a single Installation of modern terminal apparatus. River Partly I'ndrr Control. "There was a day when the Mississippi was considered an untameable stream, which shifted lt channel and dtvoured Its banks at will. Today we are able to show the president of the United Ktates two remark able changes: One of these is a liver which. In its most difficult and most read ily snlftlng parts, has been bound down by the engineers to a fixed channel, with per manent bunks; that lias been forced to scut' Us own it( and permit the passing of dfeper ships. "The other is u gieut garden land of soil worth from $100 to an acre, capable of producing In crops every year enough money to pay many times over the entire cost of producing a fourteen-foot channel from Chicago to New Oileant., and this soil protected from waste only b loose i