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TIIE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 6, 1910. e-r. h ,, ,i yi: z- '.-or--' ill' SSL' ?; TO: ' r v rr; ' AO 6a f ftV- i READY FOR INTERVENTION jtjMTiTgtnlt in ITicaragua Hope United WU1 Act. i (KOYEiEirr is FAcnia defeat I. ''j Seaerals Hoi Fretjweat Conferences t- f . .. - frit Kuil HNlinli Talak Airwnrit flkoald Have Gear ate ( tae TJaltea Slates. WASHINGTON, March S.-Leadlng cltl Sens and partisans of General Estrada In Blueflclds, Nicaragua, Mem to recognise the fact that the revolutionary party doomed to defeat. Thta was ahown In a telegram reowlved by the Plate department late yes terday from Consul Moffat at Blueflelds, who stated In effect that the hopelessness of the revolutionary cause was fully recognised by prominent people thera and they strongly hoped that the United States would Intervene. In the absence of Secretary Knox none of the officials would predict what steps the United States might taJce looking; to a cessation of hostilities, but In some quarters the suggestion waa made that the United States would continue Its policy of non interference at least until one party or the other waa willing to lay down Its arms, lanrgeats Ready to Treat. BLUEFIELDS. Nicaragua, March 4 After three days of secret conferences there is today every reason to believe that Oeneral Estrada, the leader of the revolu tionists and his advisers reluctantly have acquiesced In the demand of American residents In Nicaragua that a reoeptlve ear be turned to any proposal of American Intervention, which will guarantee to them the rights domandrd and the denial of which caused the revolution. The original demands of the revolutionists, tnoluded the overthrow of President Zelaya, which was accomplished, and the restoration to the people of the constitutional and common rights of cltlsens which It was alleged had been taken from them under the regime of Zelaya. While Qenerals Estrada, Dlax and Rlrerla ''and the other conferees are contemplating the matter, their frequent calls upon Thomas P. Moffatt, the American consul, who also docllnaa to talk, give support to this view. It la safe to say that Oeneral Chamorros defeat has not altered the views -of the people on the east coast of Nicaragua aa to the guarantees that are necessary to peace. Undoubtedly they will demand the fulfillment of viry principle for which the armies have fought, as President Ma drli frequently has admitted the Justice of them. Attitade of American. The American Interests In Nicaragua will Insist that the 'payment of the revolu tionary debts must be a part of any agree meif reached and In this view of the' situ ation they have the adherence of the provisional government. Merchants have extended to the revolutionists unlimited credit on the assurance that the support of the United States lay behind the revolu tionists, and therefore, they argue that the Washington government Is In duty bound to safeguard their Interests. Nothing but Intervention now can stop the . war. Oeneral Mena has spread his forces between San Vlcent and La Manga, to resist every advance the government troope may attempt on Bluefietds. He Is also, busy securing recruits and ammuni tion, .while General Estrada .has stopped the pay of a small army of his staff of- , floi-rs who - were 'more ornamental than v useful. . Revolutionists la Fall Retreat. (',...' SAN JUAN DEL SUR, March 4.-The fltfrht of the remnants of the revolutionary army, led by Generals Mena and Chamorro, ' continues rapidly eastward. Oeneral Vas-V'- que, commander In chief of the govern .,!' ment forces, reports that many more ln turgont officers and enlisted men have sur rendered and that the trail followed by the revolutionists Is strewn with camp equip ment, rifles and cartridges. Generals Chamorro, Matuty and Zeledon, with scarcely 300 followers, arrived last -J c night at Las Lejaa and this morning must - have arrived at Muelle Le Los Bueyes, on the Mico river. I : ' Persistent Advertising Is the road to Big Returns. ' . IOWA BANQUET IN NEW YORK Tnree Jlaaered Hatvkeyes Gather (or Anaaal Feast la Gotham. . . NEW TORK. March 5. Sons and daught ere of Iowa and friends, to the number of 30ft, gathered last night at the annual ban quet of the Iowa 8oclety of New York, at Hotel Astor. It had been expeoted that Jonathan P. Dolliver, United States sen ator from Iowa, would be the chief speaker of the evening, but Illness kept him away. President Taft sent a letter of regret and James Wilson, secretary of agriculture,' a native Iowan. was also unable to attend. W. C. Brown, president of the New Tork Central railroad and a loyal son of Iowa praised the state for the large number of sons enlisted In the defense of the union In lflfl-1808. But I am sure," he continued, "that of .'it. 78,001) Iowa soldiers living or dead, not one would object to the statue of Robert K. Lee being placed In Statuary Hall, Washington." his remarks were greeted with cheers. Day After Day , , t-Az?1-1 raited Popular pkg. 10c. Family sUe 15c "Tho Momory Lingers" Tostum Cereal Co., Ltd., Battle Creek, Mich, U. S. A. Our Letter Box Ooatrtsattoms oa Timely Jeets, sTet Kxeeeejag Twe Km a area Words, Are Xante from Oar Beaters. The laelde Story. MARTINOTON, Neb., Feb., 3S.-TO the Editor of The Bee: It Is my purpose to write a true and unvarnished history of the now famous Senate File 283, popularly known as the day-tight saloon law. The writer was secretary of the Judiciary com mittee of the house of representatives at the last session. Representative Niels Johnson of Burt was the original author of the measure, which was revised slightly by Senator King of Polk. Then It was Introduced In each body by these gentle men, respectively. Representative John son's bill, known as house roll 119, was Indefinitely postponed on the forty-fourth day of the session by a vote of 46 to 42. Senator King's bill was senate file 131, In form an amendment to chapter known as the Slocumb law, and much resembled the bill which finally passed. Senate File 131 was Indefinitely postponed on the nine teenth day of the session by a vote of 21 to 10. It would be profitless to enter Into the reasons, political and personal, which wrought the decisive defeat of this measure, where pronounced prohibitionists were found voting with the champions of wide-open. When house roll US was inde finitely postponed. Representative Johnson was gloomy, but hs remembers that the present Writer" ItHd him to brace up for his measure would be the law of the state in three calendar months after the adjourn ment of the session; and I pointed out to him the course which was finally pursued. A few days after this Arthur F. Mullen of O'Nell, proposed the same modus operandi. In a democratic caucus, at which I was not present. The Judiciary committee waa kept under strenuous strain; their business exceeded that of all the others combined. The writer, as their clerk, had an assort- ' ment of bills, which I called my Qod-and-morallty ' file. One -day Victor Wilson of Polk, chairman of the committee, said to me: "Bryant, can't you find a senate file to which you can attack the day-light provision as an amendment." I picked out No. 2S3 from the Ood-and-morallty file aforesaid. It had been introduced by Sena tor Wlltse of my home district and was an Innocent amendment to section 14 of the so-called Slocumb law, making that section apply to primary elections, changing the word: "Spirituous, malt and vinous liquors,'' to "Spirituous, malt or vinous liquors." and providing for forfeiting of license on conviction. Thirty senators had voted for the bill, only two against It, and one was absent. I attached Johnson's day-light measure to this bill as an amend ment. The Omaha members of the com mittee were absent when this bill was recommended by the Judiciary committee to the house with the amendment But the meetings were held at regular hours, and every one had an opportunity to be present. There were ten members of this commit tee, seven voted for the bill on Its final passage, and three voted against It. It Is true that the Omaha members had no knowledge that the committee had acted upon this measure, and I did not Inform them. I was In the habit Of calling In the members frequently, to get a quorum, but did not consider it any part of my duty to Inform them of what happened In their absenoe. It would serve no useful purpose to call up what happened in the house on Its final passage of .senate' file 283, except to state that on tlie passage fifty members voted for the bill and thirty-eight against It, This was one-less than the constitu tional majority.' 1 know this, for I was In the gallery, and heard the disputed mem ber Vote. Tet the names of these voting pro et con were' read over three times, and the members had three opportunities to correot all mistakes. Furthermore, at least three absentees were friendly to the meas ure and could- have bfeen brought In on call of the house. The senate concurred by a vote of 18 to 14. There was no general disposition to force this measure "abruptly on Omaha. Every reasonable man recognized the hardship. The friends of the measure proposed excepting cities of the metropolitan class, but a majority of the Douglas delegation spurned the com promise. As everyone knows, the supreme court has ' upheld the constitutionality of the law. It Is unnecessary tc say that I believe In the law, but I do not propose to discuss Its merits here. ' ; ' WILBUR F. BRYANT. - Thanks of Congress. FORT CROOK, Neb., March l.-To the Editor of The Bee: In connection with the article In this morning's paper. I desire to Invite your attention to the following ex tract from the official Army Register for 1909, which will show that you are In error In falling to include the name of Oeneral Howard In the list of officers who have received the thanks of congress: "Officer now In the army who, by name, received. - the , thanks ' Of congress : HOW ARD. OLIVER O., MaJ-Oen. Ret 23 Jan. 64. Language of the Joint resolution of congress: 'The gratitude of the American people and the .thanks of their represen tatives in congress are due and are hereby tendered to MaJ.-Oen. O. C. Howard and the officer and soldiers of the Army of the Potomac for the skill and heroic valor which, at Gettysburg, repulsed, de feated, and drove back, broken and dis pirited, beyond the Rappahannock, the vet eran army of the rebellion.' " Very truly yours, ' A. W. LANE, Second Lieutenant Fourth Infantry. One will lind Tpasfllies . ' a constant dellgnt. The food is crisp and wholesome and so dainty and tempting, that it ap peals to the appetite all the time morning, noon and night. ' Some folks have pro nounced Post Toasties tho choicest flavored bits of cereal food ever produced. 4 j. FORTY BODIES TAKEN OCT Total Death Lilt at Wellington ia Estimated at 118. ALASKAN SLEDGES FOR BODIES No Trace of Mall Tar and Sevea Clerks ana Weiahere Property Loss Will Exeeod Mllltoa Dollars. WELLINGTON, Wash., March S.-Those digging for bodies In the snowy tomb of the avalanche made little progress yester day and late this afternoon only forty dead had been brought out, leaving forty-five passenger and. railroad men, and an un known number of laborers in the gorge, where two Great Northern trains were burled Tuesday. The searchers are working by day only. The total number of dead Is estimated at 111 The Great Northern railroad today sent In fifteen Alaskan sledges, on which the bodies will be taken to Skykomlsh. Superintendent O'Neill's private car, con taining the bodies of Trainmaster A. B. Blackburn and Secretary Longcoy, was found today. Of 700 sacks of mall carried away by the avalanche, only ISO have been recovered. There la no trace whatever of one mail car and seven clerks and weighers. In sums places cars are known to be under seventy feet of trees, snow, earth and rocks. Loss Over Million. The Great ftcrthern Is using all the resources at Its command to open the track. Superintendent O'Neill estimates the actual loss to the" road by destruction of property at 11,000,000. Cold rain and in creasing fear of snowslldes added to the gloom of Wellington today. Two bodies were aent down the track, and the others, warpped In ' blankets, are lying In a rail road building. The recovery of bodies will be slow until the locomotives arrive to pull away the giant trees, whose trunks and branohes are Interlocked about the dead. The rain, falling upon snow already packed so tight that a shovel will not enter It, Is turning It to Ice. ' The working force In the avalanche ruins now consists of ISO Americans. Three of the Greek and Slavonian laborers stole clothing from the debris, but they did not dually rob the bodies. The misconduct of these men aroused such Indignation that the railroad officials sent all of the seventy- five foreign laborers away. Edgar Lemmon of Hunters, Wash., whose body and that of his wife have been found, was formerly a leading attorney of Seattle. All the wounded In the temporary hospital here are recovering. Deer Farming is Profitable Chief of Biological Surrey Says New Industry Would Lower Price of Meat. WASHINGTON, March 6. "The high oost of meat problem will solve Itself and the price will be reduced two-thirds If the peo ple will raise deer on the farm and are permitted to kill them," deolared Charles Merriam, chief of the biological survey, be fore a house committee today. He said that deer farming could be carried on prof itably In any part of the United States. Dr.. Merrlaim also told the committee of the slaughter of wolves, prairie dogs, gophers, rats and ground squirrels in Cal ifornia. The latter, Dr. Merriam said, were Infested with bubonlo plague germs and that the department was doing everything possible to exterminate them. "if these animals are allowed to carry the disease the whole country will be In danger," he said. He said wolves were Increasing In num ber In this country, and that their annual depredations on cattle herds of the north and northwest amounted to 113,000,000. ITALIAN DEPUTY MUST ' FIGHT THREE DUELs Cliallena-es Are Result of Too Free Use of Names of Two Noble Women Daring Debate. ROME, March 5. As a result of having permitted himself to play too freely with the names of two noblewomen during a stormy debate in the Chamber of Deputies today, Eugenie Chlesa, the well-known re publican deputy, must fight three duels. Count Glacomi Morando and Generals Pru dente and Fecla are the challengers. Big. Chlesa addressed an Interrogation to the government on what he asserted was the Influence of the Austrian Baroness Siemens on the Italian army by reason, he alleged, of her having been on friendly terms with the Lieutenant General Tran credl, Saletta, chief of etaf:, and afterwards with General Feoia, the commander of the grand maneugers. General Prudente, undersecretary of war refused to answer the deputy, whereupon Chlesa heaped Insults upon him and the army and also declared that the Duchess Utta had been a great favorite of the late VUng Humbert. Deputy Marando, who la a nephew Of the duchess, Immediately boxed Chlesa's ears and then he and Gen erals Fecla and Prudente challenged Chlesa to combat. ELKS CHOOSE NEW OFFICERS Sidney W. Smith Saeceeds W. 1 W. Cole as Exalted RalerI. W. Mlaer Re-eleeted Secretary. , Omaha lodge No. 39, Benevolent and Pro tective Order of Elks, at the twenty-fifth annual election, Friday night, chose the following officers to serve during the com ing year: Bxalted Ruler Sidney W. Smith. Esteemed Leading Knight Dan B. Butler. Esteemed Loyal Knight Robert W. Pat rick. Esteemed Lecturing Knight Walter P. Thomas. Secretary I. W. Miner. Treasurer Charles L. Saunders. Tiler Joe J. Kaspar. Trustee (three years) Moses N. Fllnn. Representative to Grand Lodge U. W. Shields. Alternate Representative to Grand Lodge John A. Rlne. Sidney W. Smith, the new exalted ruler, Is a well known attorney and succeds W. W. Cole as wlelder of the gavel. Mr. Miner suceeds himself as secretary. TRAVELING MENH0LD RALLY Meotlaaa Will Bo Hela at Paxtoa Hotel Mareh 18 sat Maren 10. Saturday, March U, Is set for the an nual meeting of Omaha Post A of the Travelers' Protective association. Supper will be served at the Faxton hotel at 6:30 o'clock, which will be followed by a busi ness session. Elections of officers and delegates to the state and national con ventions will be held. The state convention Is scheduled for Grand Island, April tt and a. March M the Omaha post will hold membership-getting rally at the Paxton. Business sessions will be held at 9:30 and at 1:30 wyh a luncheon at L noon. Poor Farm to Be Separated From Hospital County Commissioners Vote to Di vorce Two Departments and Re tain Medical Advisors. The Board of County commissioners voted unanimously Friday afternoon that the medical advisory committee of the hospi tal shall be continued, and that the poor farm and hospital features of the Institu tion be separated as soon as possible. Prising of these resolutions followed a meeting with a number of the members of the medical staff among whom were Prs. H. B. Lemere, F. W. Coulter and F. W. Lnke, who constitute the medical advisory committee. That system received the support of nearly all those present, only Commissioner Tralnor and Dr. W. O. Henry arguing the possibilities of the chief of staff system. Dr. Coulter made the principal talk In favor of separating the poor farm and the county hospital. 'It Is Impossible as things are now." said he, "that we shall ever make the hospital efficient. Whisky and opium are being brought bock Into the hospital by paupers and smoked and drunk among the Invalids even If not given to them." It was agreed that there Is difficulty In finding ways and means for the separation and It wsj asserted that even If the poor farm Is moved out some dlstanoe from the city, the old building will be far from a modern hospital. "But the Improvement thus, over present conditions would be vast," said several of the physicians in chorus. Dr. A. C. Stokes spoke with regard to the plans of the board of regents of the Uni versity of Nebraska for the foundation In Omaha of a hospital In connection with the college of medicine and extreme desira bility of the combination of this with a county hospital. "The atate will have comparatively few patients to send here," said Dr. Stokes, "and will appropriate annually a large sum for its maintenance. It Is a great pity if some Bcheme cannot be worked out whereby the county will get the benefit of this." i Further Charge of Fraud Against Financier Ham Head of Defunct Mexican Concern Accused by Bank of Montreal of Securing Big Sum Wrongfully. .MEXICO, March 5. Abuso of confidence In the handling of 1.SC0.C0) pesos (J760.0O0 gold) was formally charged against George I. Ham, president Of the suspended United States Banking company, by Manager 8. ,U. Saunder of the Bank of Montreal before Judge Mlramon In the Seventh court of instruction here yesterday. At the same time negotiations for a settlement out of oourt of a claim of Harwood A. Simpson, a mine owner, who had also charged Ham with breach of trust In connection with the disappearance of certain mining shares, which had almost reached completion, were halted by the court. As a consequence of these negotia tions Ham -was ordered again placed In communicado for a perjod of ten days. Simpson and Ham and their attorneys were In the court room. Ham's attorneys were prepared to hand over the money In settlement of the claim when the trans action was called to the attention of the court, Judge Mlramon at: once declared that such a settlement would , permit the arrest of Simpson for compounding a per jury. It developed that Slmpnon hod once given Ham a power of attorney which con tained statements said to contradict testi mony more recently given in the present case. The court declined to permit the withdrawal of Simpson's charge. The charge brought by Manager Saund ers alleges that Ham, by resorting to misrepresentation, had obtained from the Canadian institution a loan of 1,600,000 pesos a few days before the United States bank closed Its doors. ' The money, It Is charged, was devoted to other purposes than those advised when the application for the loan was made. SEED CORN TESTS DIFFER Where Ears Are Soaked the Per eeataare Is Strongly Agnxlast Resalts. CREBTON, Ia March 6. (Special.) A testing of seed corn was made here re cently by P. C. Winters and Thomas Maxwell for the farmers of the county, from corn brought In from different farms about the county, and It was found that only about one ear out of every thirty five germinated. They also made a test of the 1908 crop, hi which the rate was about 80 per cent good. The concensus of opinion among the farmers seems to be that neither crop, will pay to risk planting from to any extent and many of them are preparing to buy tested corn to plant, where they have not saved good seed from the 1908 crops. Reports from over the state as regards seed corn tests show that In some local ities where the corn waa gathered before the freese and allowed to dry out well and that has been kept In a good dry place. Is testing out In some Instances 90 per cent or over, but the' results are variable and In many Instances the corn Is very poor and will not pay for using at all. There seems to be an alarming Indiffer ence In some localities In regard to making the tests, and will react on the farmers to the amount of millions of dollars In this year's crops, unless they arouse themselves to the Importance of using good seed. IOWA ORATORICAL CONTEST First Prise Is Woa by Henry Cole maa a Nesre, front Cornell College. CEDAR RAPIDS, la.. March 6. Henry Coleman, a negro of Cornell college at Mount Vernon, with his oration, 'The Philosophy of the Race Problem," tonight won the state oratorical contest here. Harry S. Hamilton of Morningslde college, Sioux City, was second, and Miss Pearl Bailey of Coe college. Cedar Rapids, third. Salt Rheum Comes In itching, burning, cosing, drying and scaliag patches, on, the faoe, bead, hands, arms, legs or body, and the Itohlng is commonly worse at eight, when It Is sometimes almost Intolerable. SaK rheum cannot be eured by outward apolloatloBa. the blood aasst be poriftod and tho medtetne to take 1a Hood's Garsaparllla rhtoh has eared this aratsteot and trouble some disease la thousands of oases. Got Hood's fiarsarpartlla today. In usual liquid form or tablets caDe Sana tabs. " rijT " TTJ t mil MM SohmoUer It XtieUe PBAKI BY THE Schmollcr & Mueller "pa "Bar p' EEC 55c Kg ohmollM k Kueller Read then call -and be convinced that this is not a fake sa)e of cheap pi anos. Every new piano we sell is hacked by a guarantee. This is an opportu nity that piano buyers cannot afford to overlook we had 218 the remaining 190 PIANOS MUST BE SOLD IN THE NEXT TEN DAYG We sold 28 pianos here Saturday the first day of the sale there are just 28 more added to the great list of over 33,500 satisfied Schmoller & Mueller customers, who had "looked around" and investigated before buying. Fifty-one years of Piano selling has gained for the house of Schmoller & Mueller th confidence of the great purchasing public. THE REASON FOR THIS PIANO GALE These branch stores were closed because of the increasing demand of retail dealers la Nebraska and Iowa for the agencies for our artistic hand-made 8chmoller & Mueller and our other lines of. pianos. J , We closed these branch stores in the above cities only and moved all the highest grade planoa here to our Omaha warerooms, 1311-1313 Farnam St., then turned the required territory over to our wholesale department. HERE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE MANY BARGAINS: THREE FINE 12.15 $250 !275 450 300 1500 400 3o0 375 400 500 1660 Light & Co., mahogany case, sale price S95 Standard, rosewood case, sale prloe S10O Erbe & Co.. mahogany oase, sale price fllS Knabn, rosewood case, sale price.. $195 Victoria, ebony case, sale price f138 Knabe, unrepaired, sale price $14S Iecker Bros., ebony oase, sale price 160 Fenwlck, golden oak cane, sale prloe $1T Flucher. mahogany case, sale price $188 Bteger. golden oak oase, sale price gl8 Decker Bros., mahogany case, sale price.. S'iSS Emerson, mahogany case, sale price 830 We are the) general western distributers for the world's standard Stelnway, Steger," Weber, Mehlln, Emerson, Hardman, A. B. Chase, The Artistic Hand Made Schmoller Jfc Mueller, "The Piano with the Sweet Tone," and twenty other high grade pianos. ' If you want a good piano and want to save money, call and investigate or write for full particulars and complete price list and special terms. Make your own terms, take the piano you want, a free stool and free scarf. SchmoSier E?uuye.!er Fiario6 1311-1313 Farnam Street, Phone Douglas 1625 THREE MEN ARE SHOT DOWN Victims of Street Tragedy at Scotland Neck, N. C, Are All Prominent. ONE IS BR0THEE OF GOVXRBOH B. . E. Powell, a Storekeeper, Meets Three Officials and Begins Shootlaar Without Any , Warning-. SCOTLAND NECK. N. C, March In state Senator E. U Travis and Represen tative A. P. Kltchln, brother of Governor W. W. Kltchln, and of Congressman Claude Kltchln of the Second North Carolina district, and Deputy Sheriff C. W. Dunn, all of Halifax oounty, were shot down on the main street of the town yesterday afternoon by E. E. Powell.. Travis and Kltchln are seriously and Dunn fatally wounded. According to the btst information ob tainable Powell met hlr three vlotlms walk ing along the street together. He ap proached Senator Travis and asked him his reason for. not replying to a letter he hud written him. Representative Kltchln thinking that Powell was out of humor, placed his hand gently on his shoulder and uttered words Intended to placate him. Powell drew a pistol, shot Kltchln and In quick succession fired on Travis and Dunn, both falling to the ground. Powell then walked to his store, secured a shotgun and barricaded himself In the place. No effort waa made to storm the place, but tonight he surrendered and was taken to Jail In Halifax. The bullet which struck Kltchln at. close range entered the face below the eye and was later taken out below the ear by sur geons. The ball which laid Travis low, knocked out several teeth and spilt his tongue. Dunn was hit below the left shoulder blade, the bullet ranging upwards, I J Committee to Welcome Teddy Mayor Oaynor Names 150 Prominent Men, Headed by Cornelias Vanderbilt NEW TORK, March I. One hundred and fifty prominent Nee Torkets were named yesterday by Mayor Gnynor to comprise the committee which will give Theodore Roosevelt a welcome home from his hunt ing expedition In Africa. Cornelius Van derbllt heads the committee as chairman, the second name being that of Mr. Loeb. The committeemen Include the following: Beth Low, Otto Uannsrd, Herman Rid. der. General Horace Porter, Lev! P. Mor ton, Andrew Carnegie, Joseph H. Choate, Ellhu Root, Jr., Paul Morton, George F. Cortelyou. John Fox, president of the Democratlo club; John Hays Hammond, J. P. Morgan, Jr., and Lloyd C. Grlscom. NAPLES, March . Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Ethel Roosevelt sailed on the steamer Schleawlg today for Alexandria, Egypt. They expect to meet Mr. Roosevelt at Khartoum. Mrs. Roosevelt gave Instructions for the reservation next month of an apartment at the Hotel Excelsior here to be occupied by the Roosevelt party. I Persistent Advertising la tte road to Big Returaa, j. 1131 'Ell Bchmoller Mueller BohasoUev si SAMPLE PIANOS, $65, 1600 Chlckcrlng new, sale price 500 Chase, walnut case, sale price J75 Krakauer walnut case, sale price 360 Adam Schaaf, oak case, sale price...,..,,, 326 Kurtsman, walnut case, sale price J.iOO Sieger, mahogany case, sale price... 1760 Etelnway & Pons, sale price 1800 Hardman, parlor grand, sale price.; i. $760 Emerson Grand, mahogany case, sals price. I? .8tJe,r plny"N mahogany case, sale price. $1,600 Bleinway Concert Grand, sale price $750 Berry Wood Electric Piano, sale price.... Aged Chippewa Indian Chief Blows Out the Gas WASHINGTON, March 5.-One of the moat picturesque chieftains of the Indian race and his nephew, both members of the Chippewa tribe In Minnesota, were found dead In a local hotel yesterday, the victims of asphyxiation. The dead chief was Pay-PaumWe-Che-Walsh-Kung, more than 95 year old, and his unfortunate companion was A-Ne-Way-Aush. Aooustomed to the light from the campflres of their primitive life and later' to that from the candle and the lamp. It Is believed one of the red men blew out the gas which ended their existence and sent them to their "Happy Hunting Grounds." This was the second visit of the chlof to the capltol of the ' Great While Father," his first Journey to Washington being nearly forty-four years ago, when he came as one of the signers of the treaty of 1SG5 between the United States and the Chlpoewas. Notwithstanding the fact that he was ap Fortius r'vi ,u.H:i w. . Vi lnlfcHMiua 1 norms groves. There are oo frosts, floods, droughts, cyclones cr earthquakes. Irrigation (or fruit trees la usDeoessary. Our climate is the finest In the world, Winter or Bummer, N coogba, eolda, rheumatism or levers no sunstrokes or heat prostratloas. Flowers, Fruits and Sunshine afl year round In the Isle ol Pines. Every month is harvest time. You eaa Cw three crops a year. Ne cold barren winter t eaoWe while the grouaei idle, krtnsing la aw Imwm. The Isle of 1'ines l In every sense as American ' Colony. Yoa will feel e( home there. Over 6.0UO Americans (tome Kasiith and Canadians) are Interested there and over M ol the lead Is owned by tbem. American settlers are Uere st goodly numbers to bid yon welcome. Book Sent FREE Let us tend you tree our large, beautifully Illustrated, 88 page book, "McKINLKY. IS LB Of PINES," containing blr SOO-acre orange and grape trait groves, entirely planted to 45,000 treat, hundreds ol acres ol rlvate groves, pineapple fields. iobaoco plantations, vegetable (artiest, typical homes ofAmer wan settlers, good roads and biidg-ee, hotels, town ball, schools, general stores, etc., all accom plished in lour short years by the untiring efforts ol the com. pany and the cooperation ol enterpriauig American settier. MAIL COUPON TODAY A lew hundred dollars In vetted now will make yon independent in the next few yeart. 'lot price el eiar lead it advanclaa' raf4l becute ef eatilve Utme meats we are Una. Yea caa save raweey kr kwrfaia mw. Fill out the Con poo and send it today lor our tree bowk, eontalmAg full laoriaatloo about oar proposition. q c ehiaelb tt ataeUer LOSE Piano Co Q 43 p fi Mueller ehmoUer fc Kttelle $00, $85 EACH .St .am .179 .lass .Sais .S4H0 .S400 .$460 J41S 450 40 proaching the century mark, the old chief strength of character had made him a power with his people, and his final visit was aa a member of a delegation fcppdlhted by a council of his band at Bols Fort res ervation, near Orr, Minn., to oonsult with the Indian Office regarding payments which they claimed were due them under the treaty of 1S68, and concerning certain lands In dispute. . ' ' The dead chieftain was, aiways a friend of the whites, and while , he possessed a record for peerless leadership and bravery In the lnter-Indtan conflicts, particularly With the Bloux, he nevr raised his toma hawsagalnst the conquerors of his race. The old man held tenaciously to; the tra ditions of his race and almost to' the day of his death wore the blanket " Only re cently he deserted his wigwam for a tog cabin. to FfftiM You Can Make $3,UUU to 55,UC0 A year from ten acres of our frostless, fertile, fruit and truck land, prowlnir oranges, grapefruit, pineapples, winter vegetables, lemons, limes, bananas, berries, grapes, figs,, tobacco, coffee, cocoa, cocoa nuts, paeans, almonds, eto. ( The Isle of Pines Is 90 mites sooth of Havana, Cnba only tour days ironi New York be fast steamers. It is aa Island of. eternal June, swept by Ocean breezes end protected by the warns waters ot the Oulf Btream trora the bllghtnlng frosts wblch devests! colored plates and over W0 vlewa ol Usi ISLE OF PINES CO. US rUtk Areas New York. N. Y. Please send me, FREE, yonr book. "MoKmley. Itle of Pines,'' iups, etc' describing your land. Kam No. and St . , . . . . City. . Stats -........, fmeha Bee, S-S-10 J