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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 29, 1909)
TIIE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1009. nww-iwrp 1 1 17 COMPA W T7 O 1 ;'..'ii'iTii" tniiL; Mo MY MS t i i i i i WILL MAREtET ITS OWN OUTPUT OF AUTOMOBILES The United States Circuit Court, after a full hearing, refused in junction asked for in the interest of Studebakers to restrain the E. M. F. Company from annulling the selling contract between this com pany and the Studebakers and we are now free to contract for the sale of our product direct. In appointing agents, we shall give pref erence to those dealers who have previously handled the E. M. F. line. That's only fair for this isn't the dealer's fight and he should not be made to suffer. We have already signed up with several hundred '11 if -' "v "v r i 'It jj .1 1 from "30" ;'8 Sri E. M. CASE OF CONDUCTOR COOK State Department Looking After American Imprisoned in Mexico. LAWS' DELAYS ARE ' PECULIAE Stttt Department Official Explains lira son for Lone Walt for Trial Statute Does Not Per mlt Ball. WASHINGTON, Dec. i8.-Acting under the demands of labor unions, the State de partment has railed upon th? American embassy to Investigate sharply the matter of the Incarceration of Conductor James A. Cook, an American, who, was arrested and Imprisoned for alleged complicity In the robbery of freight trains on a Mexican rat'toad. Cook has been Imprisoned for some time without tilal and his friends In tl Is country have besieged both the White House and th State department with de mands that he be given Immediate trial or be admltttd to ball. In cases of tho klrd the latter alternative Is never resorted to under Mexican law. The text of the i ote addressed to the embassy Is not niad- public, although what purports to be a lopy of the note was published In an afternoon paper here to day. State department officials d'.'cllnd to paw whether it was authentic or without foundation In fact, but they d:d ai-knnwl-thst the United States diplomatic; representative In the Mexican capital has been Instructed to undertake an immediate and thoroiiKh Invr litigation Into the matter nd bring the request of the I'nlted States r-overnment to the attention of the Mexican Forrtgn office. Position of Htate Department. The department deplorws the stories based on, this action," suld a hltrh official of the State department tonight. 'The United States has taken steps to safe Kumd the rights of an American clti7.cn because the friends of that cltlxen believe those rights are not helng recojrnlzed. Prronally know Utile about the case, but I do know that the man In the case has not been Imprisoned nuc longer. It s lonft, as many tuspected persons undei the same charge hav been Incarcerated In this country awaiting trial. It Is entlraly natural that the friends of Cook should be anxious about him and should likewise exert every effort to have him brought a spe edy trial. The Idea of an Ami rlcan, pictured as helpless and subjected to per-a-cullon. languishing In a foreign lall, al ways will apptal to the tender-hearted. It Is altogether likely, however, tiiat tl.e Mexican law Is taking Its course." Cook, It Is said here, was a member of the brotherhood of luilway Trainmen be fore he went U Mexico to ork on the railroads there. ' This organisation Is a powerful one and closely allied with other railway labor organizations equally power ful. These labor bodies have brought powerful prestuie to bear, not only on the White House and the State department, but also on. congress, and the delegation fruin Kansas, the stats from which Cook halls, has taken up the matter. Peculiarities f Mexican Law. At the -present time the exchanges be tween -the United States and Mexico are purely friendly and Informal. They are being conducted through the regular diplomatic channels and on the part of ths department with a complete recognition of the peculiar laws governing the opera tion of railways In Mexico. Not the slight est friction, the officials cf the depart ment insist, has arisen as a result of the Interchange and ,a satisfactory solution of the entire situation Is a matter of only a few hours or days at the furthest. The existing delay in the matter of giv lng Cook a hearing Is well known hero. Under the Mexican law, the conductor of a dealers ana tor over o,UUUcars. Applications are pouring in upon us all Darts of the country. If you want and Flanders "20" cars, come to Detroit starting and we F. COMPANY, train which kills or malms a citizen or Is looted Is held without ball until he can be heard and his case passed upon by a court of first Instance, which corresponds with the American grand Jury. '' Cook was arrested last August and has been In prison since, all attempts to ob tain his release on ball having been re fused. Clearly Within Mexican lair. MEXICO CITT, Dec. 28. "The Mexican government has acted wholly within ils rights thus far and according to its legal methods . In the matter of the American railroad conductor, Cook, whd' is ! blng held responsible for the robbery of a freight train In his charge." sild Charge d' Affaire James O. Bailey of the United States em bassy tonight. "The crime with which Cooks stands charged." said Mr. Bailey, "Is not bailable under the Mexican laws and they have a legal right to keep Cook in custody six months before rendering a decision. He has now been In Jail four months. The cass Is waiting upon the return of the let ters from General Manager A. Clark of the Mexican line, which have to do with ihe character of Cook." Three Children Burn to Death House at . Pratt, Kan., Catches Fire While Mother it Talking with a Neighbor. FRATT, Kan., Dec. 28. Mrs. Henry Blan ton left her home this morning and went across the alley to talk with a neighbor. When she next looked at the houve It was a mans of flames and her three children were being burned to death. ,Help did not come In time to save tham. The dead: ROSEHV, a boy, aged 6 years. MYHTLE. t years. . MARGARET, 2 years. The house Is about a mile east of tho postoffice and with the exception of Mrs. Plnnton and a neighbor woman no one was near. Mrs. Blanton did not know how to act and ran for assistance. In the mean time the three-roomed frame structure caved In, burying the three children under the mass of flames. When men were sum moned finally tt was necessary to carry water for more than a block In boilers and wash tubs. Many men worked energetic ally, but their efforts did little g.wd. Mr. Blanton Is an engine wiper in tho nock Island roundhouse and was working. Dig ging for the charred bodies had commenced before he knew of the calamity. ANOTHER TERM FOR BULLOCK " ' President Taft Will Reappoint Per sonal' Friend of Roosevelt as United States Marshal. WASHINGTON, Doc. 28-r-It was an nounced at the White House today that Beth Bullock. United States marshal for South Dakota, is to be reappointed for another four years front January 13 next. Bullock has been known as ths close per sonal friend of Theodore Roosevelt and his reappointment Is said to be both a recog nition of what he has done as well as a compliment to ths former president CASHIER AND MONEY GONE Employe of Kxprese Company at Chi cago and Sao.OOS Disappear at nine Tim. CHICAGO, Dec. 28. A sura said to amount to IMOOO. and George A. Capron, cashier of tho United States Express company at the Englewood branch office In this city, disappeared Christmas eve. Detectives of the company all over the country are searching for Capron. Capron and the money disappeared while sl other em ploye wero at work In the same ronm. Several valuable Christmas packages are a. so reported to bo mlislog. will tell you Carnegie's Knee Much Improved; Out in Few Days Steel King Slips on Icy Walk in Cen tral Park and Suffers Injury. NEW YORK, Dec. 28. -While suffering considerable pain from his fall on the Ice. Ar.drew Carnegie showed much Improve ment today and expects to be out again in a few days. He was taking his con stitutional" in Central park yesterday, when he slipped on the Ice, severely In juring his left knee. He was unable to be present at a dinner at his hone last night, which he gave to Governor Hughes, President But ler of Columbia university and others, and ho was also unable to attend the meeting of the American Historical assoc.atlon and American Economic association at Carne gie hall last night. At the Carnegie home tt was said that his condition was not serious, but that ii had remained In his room on the advice of phys. clans. Mr. Carnegie had arranged for the din ner several weeks ago and had invlud among others President Taft. The pres, dent was unable to come to New York on account of the storm. The other guests assembled last evening, however, and weie Informed that tt was Mr. Carnegie's de sire that the dinner proceed without him. In his absence, Dr. Henry Smith Prlt chett, president of the Carnegie founda tion for the advancement of teaching, pre sided. After the dinner the guests went to Carnegie hall. Mr. Carnegie was taking one of his usual constitutionals in the pork, where he Is a familiar figure on the walks, when the accidont occurred. He slipped and fell heavily on his knee end was unable to re gain his feet. For several minutes he lay prostrate, for the walk was almost de serted at the time. Finally a park employe assisted him to tho shelter of an oid tower. A man who said he was a friend of Mr. Carnegie, but withheld his name, arrived at this Juncture and summoned a cabman from a nearby stand on Fifth ave nue. The two then made a "pack saddle" with their hands, and seated upon this, Mr. Carnegie was carried to a cab and taken home. TAUGHT IN OMAHA COLLEGE Patrick M. Smith, Janitor of Apart ment House, Found Dead In Seattle, j SEATTLE. Dec. 28. Patrick M. Smth. aged 67 years. Janitor of an apartment house, who was found deed in his room last night, recently recetved a letter from friends in Ireland saying he had fallen heir to 130,000. He refused to return to fe'.alm his legacy, although an offer to send $1,000 for his expenses was made. He had become despondent over his appetite for drink and felt that ths money would do him no good. Smith told friends that he once taught In an Omaha college. GRAFT CHARGES IN BUFFALO Chamber of Commerce Find that City la Paying; High Prices for Work Poorly Don. f v. BUFFALO, Dec St. An extravagant use of puSllo funds, favoritism to contractors on friendly torms with ths administration and other shortcomings are charged against the executive branches of the city govern ment in a report submitted to the trustees of the Chamber of Commerce today by the municipal affairs committee of tho organi sation. No cliarg of graft la mad against any if your territory is still open. official, but the report alleges that It Is shown from city records that supplies and work have been paid for by the city at from S3 to 700 c per cent above market prices; that work has been Inefficiently c"0f7e.' and that the pay rolls have been carrying the names of scores of men who make but slight return to the city. The committee recommends a new city charter along the lines of the Des Moines plan. . . , . Mrs. Ford's Trial V Is Postponed Defendant Unable to Appear Because of Pall on Icy Walk Her De murrer is Overruled. CINCINNATI, O., Dec. 28. Mrs. Jeanette Steward Ford, the woman who Is charged with blackmail In connection with the em bezxlement of $043,000 from the local office of the Big Four railroad, will not be brought to trial until January 10. Mrs Ford's attorneys asked for a continuance on the ground that their client had sus tained a severe fall on the frosen pave ment and was unable to be present. Mrs. Ford's attorneys also filed a de murrer to the Indictment, claiming that the alleged blackmail levied on Charles L. Warriner, former Big Four local treasurer, and now und?r sentence of six years hard labor tor his share In the defalcation, was, if committed, a misdemeanor and not a felony. The demurrer was overruled late today. . Tho postponement of the trial means that Warriner will be still held In the local Jail, as he Is to be the principal witness. When the Ford trial Is concluded he will go to Columbus to commence his sentence In the state penitentiary, .. WOMAN CHARGED WITH MURDER OF TWO SONS N Mrs. Paul Sonnecalf of Loveland, O., Accused of Dentins; Boys to Death and Burning; House. LOVELAND, O., Dec. 28. Charged with the murder of her two boys and with having set fire to her home to conceal the crime, Mrs. Paul Sonnecalf was ar rested this afternoon In an apparently de mented condition. The bodies of the boys, one aged ( years, the other 3, wero found In their home utter the fire had been ex tinguished. The heads of the children had been crushed by some blunt Instru ment. ' Their father was absent from home at the time the fire was discovered and Mrs. ponnecalf was found walking up and down In front of the burning house wringing her hands and calling hysterically for her boys. She will be held to the common pleas court for trial. The woman la unable to give any co herent account of the tragedy. NEW PLAN OF SUFFRAGISTS Bio Biampa with Words "Votes for Women," to be Attsched to NEW VORK. Dec. .-The National Woman's Suffrage association has started an "Indirect plea" campaign through ths distribution of neatly printed stamps In the malls. The new "rotes for women" stamps are half again as large as the Lincoln l-cent stamp and ars printed In various shades of blue, with five pointed stars at each of tho four' corners representative of ths four stats, whera women are permitted to vote. Beneath a scales of Justice are ths words: "Taxation without representation is tyranny." Don't experiment with unknown medi cines when you have a cold. Take Cham berlain' Cough Remedy and bo cured. the agency for E. quickly, wire us before Council Bluffs COMMUTATION BOOKS ISSUE City Council to Interview Railway Company Today. WILL BEQUEST CONTINUANCE Ruling; of Interstate Commerce Com mission on Ten-Cent Fare Leaves Problem Open to Posalbl Com prom Ise. Will the Omaha & Council Bluffs Street RallTtay company. In view of the recent ruling of the Interstate Commerce commis sion relative to the 10-cent fare between Council Bluffs and Omaha, abolish the commutation books, by means of which persons traveling dally between the two cities enjoy a 6-cent- fare, Is one of the questions which the Council Bluffs council committee will ask the officials of the com pany to answei at the conference to be held this afternoon. There has been considerable apprehension cn the part of those who use thee com mutation hooks that they will be discon tinued by the company now that the Inter state Commerce commission has ruled that the company must furi.lth transfers from the Council Bluffs cars to any part of Omaha. In view of tho fact that there Is a ques tion whether the street railway conany has any valid franchise In Council Bluffs the city council had expected to be t'.ble practically to name Its own terms to the company, but now the rltuatlon Is changed somewhat and city officials are inclined to the opinion that the company may use the commutation ticket question as a "stuffed club" over the council and the citizens of Council Bluffs. The committee Is urging that the com mutation books be continued. The Commercial club Is represented at tlie conference by a committee consisting of E. H. Doollttle, M. F. Koher and George Hamilton. The city council committee will consist ot Mayor Maloney and Councllmen Klgdon, Jensen and Younkerman. HIS IDENTITY IS ESTABLISHED Demented Stranger Finally Locates Ills Relatives. '.In O M. V.MMK'je;!!. tho dementi d stranger ho war taken Into custody by tho police tarly ono morning In Novenib.r after he had taken popsesMon of tho sum mer ktuhen of a residence on Knepper and Klr.-t streets, end was iont to at. dernurd's hospital, was 111 and slightly deranged when he left his home In Fort Lupton, Colo., is the information received in one of the answers to the several let ters of inquiry sent out by Harry M. Brown, cl.-rk of the district court. At the time he was taken Into custody Youngbeck was found to have among his possessions a ticket from Fort Lupton to Fond du Lac, Wis., and ho said he was en route to attend the funeral of his father, but was unable to give the name of his parent or othtr relatives. Recently his condition under treatment at the hos pital improved and he was able to give the name of the bank where he did busi ness in Fort Lupton and the names of his brother and sister, the former In Fond du Lac and the latter in Bin fort, N. D. Mr. Brown wrote to all of these. Tho letter received yesterday by Mr. Brown was from ths Fort Lupton bank. It stated that Youngbeck had lived there for some years and left about six weeks ago In response to a telegram announcing ths dualh of his father. The writer s.iia that In hi Judgment - Youngbeck was slightly demented and was sick at the t.mt lis left Fort Lupton. tUicloscd with Uie DETROIT, Council Bluffs letter from the bank was one from Young beck's mother, who Uvea at Knowles, Wis., making Inquiries as to her son's departure from Fort Lupton. Tho letter from the mother shows that Youngbeck'a relatives had caused search to be made tor him In Omaha, Chicago and Milwaukee, but that they did not suspect ho was In Council Bluffs. In talking with Dr. J. M. Bars tow of the board of Insanity commissioners re cently Youngbeck stated that h owned a fine ranch at Fort Lupton and that a cer tain attorney in Denver was employed by him by the year to attend to his legal business. The letter from the bank, how ever, discredits this statement. It says that Youngbeck'a only property consists of a threshing machine outfit and a few unpaid threshing bills. The latter Young beck left with a man In Fort Lupton for collection. As a result of such collections Youngbeck, the bank says, has about $100 to his credit and It will honor hla check to that amount.. Nothing further will be done In Young beck's case until word la received from some of his relatives. Should hla condi tion continue to Improve he will probably be permitted to continue his Journey to his sister In Fond du Lac. If he does not recover his normal mental condition he will either be turned over to his relatives or his case referred to the state board of control, as he has no legal residence here and would have to be regarded aa a state patient. 1'ETITIOXS NOT SIGNED BY MANY City Not In Mood for Election on Commission Plan. Those in charge of the canvass to secure the necessary number of signers hav de cided to defer completing ths petitions now In circulation asking for a special election at which the people may vot upon the commission plan of government in Council bluffs until the latter part of January. Up to date the people have not shown any undue haste to sign the petitions and the consequence is that they lack about two thirds of the required number of names. Advocates of the proposition say the lack of signatures Is due to the fact that the people generally have been so occupied with business and pleasure during tho holiday season that they have not had time to give the matter the attention they otherwise would. It Is estimated that the several petitions which have been In circulation now for several weeks have not received more than M0 names, If that number. Before the mayor opn act upon the petitions about l,JX signers are needed. O. J. McManus. one of the leaders in the movement, said yesterday, that he had no fear but the required number of signers would be se cured, although It might take a little longer than had been anticipated. Mr. Mc Manus declared there Is no politics back of the movement to secure the commission pian or government ror Council Bluffs. ( MarrlaK Licenses. Licenses to wed were issued Monday to the following: Name and Residence. Richard Delano, 'i'ekamah, Neb Mattle DeOroat, Tekamah, Neb William N. Stoel, Burlington. Wis. Ira M. Troubrldge, Nellgh, Neb Henry Koch. Bently, la Minnie Harlse, Bentley. II Age. .... 24 .... lit .... 69 .... 43 .... B) .... 23 Tine of Dairymen Nearly V p. Local dairymen have but four more days In which to have their cows tested for tuberculosis In accordance with the new pure milk ordinance.' Those who have not compiled with this provision of the odl nance will bo proceeded against at once by Inspector Smith. The ordinance requites that all dairy cows must be tisted bfoi January 1. "Some or the dairymen. It Is said, have been delaying tho test pending 5 tt M. F.' MICH Council Bluffs the decision by Judge Snyder In the case . brought before- him to- test the legality of. :, the ordinance. While Judge Snyder haa not yet handed down his decision. It Is generally understood that his ruling will.' only affect the right of tho city to require dairymen and milk dealer to take out a license. TruTellns; Man Held Up. J. R. Clawson, who says his homo Is In Kansas City, reported to ths police that he waa hold up last night about 10 o'olock by a negro and a whit man near Hol land's lumber yard on South Main street. The negro shoved a gun Into bis face and ordered him to throw up hla hands, which he did promptly. Tho whit man pro ceeded to go through hla pockets and found 115, which ho appropriated. Mr. Clawson says ho la a traveling man' and has bean stopping at th Millard in Omaha and that ho had com to Council Bluffs to call upon friends. Arrested tow Whipping Pupil. , OAKLAND, la., Deo. 28. (SpeclaJJ Thla place la somswhat stirred up over the ar-' rest of Prof. V. L. Mangun, superinten dent of th Oakland schools. Th trouble grew out of the punishment of Rodney, apn of Loman Roy, In BchooU Prof. Man gun left Friday evening to spend th Christmas vacation at hi home in Mt. Vernon, la., At Avoca ho was Inter cepted by a constabla and placed under arrest. Mr. Mangun soon procured a bondsman, and continued his journey. LEFFERT'S JBWILRI store, new lo-ri, cation, 602 Broadway. "A manly Ameri can's favorite brew A manly Amerlcan that means you " THE ECU YOU LIKE MAVC A CASK tINT MOMC DOUGLAS 420. IND. A-1420 FRED KRUG BREWING Co. rOUNOKO SO YEARS AQO Una Do It Wow Tomorrow A. M. too late. Tsko a CASCARET at bed time; get '-' up in the morning feeling fine and dandy. No need for sickness from over-eating and drink- ' ina. They turelv wait leep and help nature help you. Million, lake them and keep welL tit I CAiCABRTfl ino V. v . . .. treatment, all druggist., biggttt nrller In tits wui id. . Uuuuii bo a uouUi. 'V1