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Omaha Daily THE OMAHA BEE a clean, reliable newspaper that Is admitted to each and every homo. WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska Tartly cloudy. For Iowa Fair. For weather report aee pag i. VOL. XXXIX NO. 2-'o. O.M.UIA, TUKSDAY MOU.N'INQ, MARCH 8, 1910 TWKLVK PACKS SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. The Bee. ! STRIKE FIGURES ARE CONFLICTING Car vas Made by Philadelphia Police Say Less Than Twenty Thousand Men Walk Out. ,fTHIS ESTIMATE IS DISPUTED Union Leaders Say Over Hundred Thousand Obeyed Order. LiaUOR DEALERS TAKE ACTION Saloons Wil Be Closed When Riots Develop Near Them. MAS meEtING AT LYCEUM Crowd of 4,000 Addrrnrl by Pratt, Mnrphr, Mahna and Othera niot in Front of 1111 Marks Ita Close. ' PHILADELPHIA, Marrh 7.-The police made a careful canvass today of the city's industries to ascertain the number of men on strike. The returns tabulated and made puMlo by Director Clay showed that 18,407 V persons had responded to the strike call. The police did not attempt to explain the discrepancy between these figures and those of labor leuders, who say 100,000 or 12,000.men are on strike. They declared that their total was the result of an actual F computation based on the returns of a complete ranvata and spoke for Itself. The labor leaders scoffed at the police figures and declared they were something like 100,000 too low. According to the police, establishments afi'ected by the sympathetic strike employ 54,964 hands. There are 121,239 employes In other estab lishments not affected by the strike and this gives, by the police figures, a total of 176,193 employes, of which number only 18.407 are out. Many have quit work, it to declared, not from sympathy with the striking carmen, but because they have been forced out by the action of certain branches of their trades. For Instance, it Is said, at a carpet mill, 800 dyera quit work and this compelled the shutting; down of the plant and the enforced Idleness of 2, WW otjher employes. Director Clay says that liTs list has bee ncomplled with the greatest care and that he has no reason to question its accuracy. No Leaven for Jarklea. The commandant of the Philadelphia Navy yard today promulgated an order forbidding the granting of leave of ab reree to men in the yards and on the ves sels during the strike troubles In this city. The effect of the order will be to keep the Jacklea from getting mixed up In any way With strike, disturbances. Another peace-making measure was an nounced today by Secretary Nell Bonner of the Retail Liquor Dealers' association In the action of the asioclatlon, requesting its , members atl welt 'a other cafe proprietor.!, to close their bars should disorder occur In the vicinity, and keep them olosed until the trouble subsides. A general willingness on the ' part of the proprietors to comply with the request was Indicated. One of the Incidents of the day was a ptrade of a small band of men, which was broken up by the polloe, without Just cause, the men claim. As the marchers passed a hosiery mill they attemptedto persuade the factory employes to Join the sympa thetlo strike. Tholr effort was unsuccess ful an dthe police clulm that the marchers became disorderly. Clubs were used freely and the marchors wore dispersed. Two ar- reMa were made. The master builders met late today at the Builders Exchange, adopted resolutions s condemning the sympathetic strike and dis cussed tentatively action against some of the bodies of men who joined the general strike movement. It la asserted that agree ments mude by the emplors with more than one of the bodies In the building trades, have been deliberately violated by the men walking out In the sympathetic strike. The resolution call upon the leaders 'of the labor organization, which ordered ' the general strike to reconsider their strike, to consider at once. Hlot Follows Han Merlins;. Four thousand men und women today attended a mass meeting of tho strikers In Labor Lyceum. Prat, Mahon, Murphy, Tracey and other leaders addrcsed the crowd. The elty administration was bitterly de nounced for Its attitude In the present crisis ond the speaker's were especially vehe ment In criticising the employment of nagro policemen. One of them declared: "Our rulers have put a club into the black man's hands with which to club out Itis white man's brains." The assertion by several speakers that the present fight was one for organized labor s very existence In Philadelphia evoked a noisy demonstration. Luatla M. Twining, a woman organizer of the Western Federation of Miners, was one of the speakers. Her pralae of Kugene V. Debs and the socialist move ment aroused enthusiasm. John M. Wall, an official of the Massa chusetts Central Labor union, assured the Philadelphia strikers that they would receive financial support from his state. Resolutions calling upon every man. woman and child in Phlladelph'a to quit work were adopted with cheers. B As the crowds were leaving the hall there was a grave outburst of disorder. Peveral cars wsre stoned in front of the place. The police, of which there were at least fifty within the radius of a square charged the crowd, which was. however, so deuxe that It dispersed slowly. The blurooats swung their clubs, felling several peibons to the ground, three of whom were so seriously beaten that they wers taken to a hospital. When the police fired their revolvers several times in the air. ths people scattered In all directions. Six arrests were made. After aonalderlng the strike situation for more than three hours this afternoon the board of directors of the United Business Men's association appointed a commutes of seven to call a convention of ths bank ing, commercial and trade bodies, business associations, religious and fraternal or V ganisations to take means to effect a set tlement of the strike. Geraaaa Unloa go Oat. Among those who Went on strike today tre al teen organisations In the group irermaa irsass unions, affecting nearlv ' 7.000 man. Thess unions Included musicians. Job prll.trs. textile workers, coppersmiths, coopers, carpenters, butchers, machinists, barbers, bartenders, slate roofers, cigar makers, boot and shoe workers, carriage and iiagun painters and metal polishers. Ths I brewery workers did not loin the (Continued on Second Page ) 1 Supreme Court Upholds Graft Decision Given Capitol Looters Lose Case in High Body and State at Once Files Suit to Recover. PHILADELPHIA. March 7,-The convic tion of William P. Snyder and James M. Shumaker, charged with conspiracy to de fraud the state In connection with the furnishing of the state Capitol, was af firmed by the state supreme court here today. Sny1- n a former state treas urer and ,, a former superintendent of public -f:"i- and grounds. Snyder a the Dauphv kur were convicted In court at llarrisburg on Dccemb ' and sentenced to serve two y pay 11 fine of $ri00 each and the rosecutlon. John II. Ran " Philadelphia, who had the furnlti. ' ,-t for the capltol, and William L.'r. .of Media, former state treasurer, v i e alleged fraud-1 ulent furniture t were convicted and received similar sentences at the same time. Sanderson and Mathues have since died. HARRISBURO, March 7. Actions In equity for recovery by the state of at least Ji.OOO.OOO alleged to have been Illegally paid to contractors for ths furnishing of the new state capltol, were entered In the Dauphin county court today by the at torney general's department. The actions are against the contractors, John II. Sanderson, deceased, and the Pennsylvania Construction company, the Btate officers having to do with the awards of the contracts and the approval of bills In payment of Architect Joseph M. Huston and the sureties of the contractors and state officials. The suits are the outgrowth of the cap ltol Investigation conducted In 1907 and are entirely separate from the criminal ac tions brought over two years ago. The commonwealth charges that Sander son, the principal contractor, received over $5,000,000 for furniture and equipment which was not . worth more than $1,600,000. and that the Pennsylvania Construction com pany received over $2,000,000 for metallic filing cases, wardrobes, etc., which were not worth mora than 1760,000. Court Holds Grain . Firm Under Law Judge Kelly Orders Nye-Scheider- Company to Stand Trial for Discrimination, PIERCE, March 7.-epeclal.)-The dis crimination case brought against the Nye-Schneldor-Fowler Oraln company at Iladra, Neb., was decided yesterday by Judge Kelly, before whom the case was tried last week, end the defendant company was ordered to appear and answer at the first day of the next term of district court on the discrimination oharge. Courtwrlght and Sldner of Fremont, ap pearing for the Nye-Schneider-Fowler com pany defended on the theory that their company could not be held liable on the complaint, unless It could be shown that their acta complained of were done with the criminal Intent to Injure or destroy the business of their competitor, and claimed that they raised prices at Iladra, higher than at any other point tn the state, purely for the purpose of getting a part of the business at a point where they were getting practically none. The. state was represented by C. H. Stewart, county at torney, who presented evidence to show that the defendant had lost money on every bushel of grain that had been bought at Iladra and that they had discriminated be tween the towns of Foster and Iladra. and argued from this that the only reasonable Inference was that the defendant pali these high prices at Hadra, not for the purpose of getting a business that was losing them money, but for the purpose of making their competitor take a business at such prices. If they took It at all, that would eventually put them Into bankruptcy. KING EDWARD IN PARIS Traveling; Incognito Dike of Lan caster, bat Will Visit Falllerles. PARIS, March 7. King Edward arrived in Paris today. Although traveling Incog nito as the duke of Lancaster, he will pay a visit to President Fallleres tomorrow, later leaving for Biarritz, where It la be lieved the engagement of IKng Manuel of Poj-tugal and the Princess Victoria Patri cia, daughter of the duke of Connaught, may be formally announced, as the queen mother Amelia and Marquis de Soveral, the Portugese minister to Great Britain, await his majesty there. ARM PRICKED IN FRENCH DUEL Sreonda Then Stop Combat Over Alleged Insalt to Woman. NICE, France, March 7. Dr. Doyen, the French scientist, and Captain Van Langen donck of the Belgian army fought a dued at the Hippodrome at noon today. At the second attack Dr. Doyen pricked the cap tain's right forearm, whereupon the seconds stopped the combat. The duelists were reconciled. The affair followed a scene In the Casino yesterday when the scientist accused the captain of having Insulted Mine. Doyen. Can Slave Wife Displace Later Wife as Pensioner? The question of whether marriage of slaves during the slave-holding days Is a legal marriage Is one that Is Interesting the pension department In two or three cases now pending in ths Omaha district. In one case, Eben Jackson, a former slaves, was married to a slave wife, accord ing to the custom of those days. A family of four or five children was born to them. Subsequently the slave wife and children were sold elsewhere into slavery and the family permanently separated. After the emancipation, Eben Jackson entered the United States army and served until the close of the war. He came north and married and reared another family. Later he died and now his widow is an ap plicant for a pension. During ths investi PORTLAND GATE STAYS CLOSED Supreme Court Amends Order of Interstate Commerce Commission ' for Through Rate. ' VICTORY FOR HILL INTERESTS Tribunal Holds that Sound Cities Have Through Route East. ANOTHER LS NOT NEEDED Desire, of Tourists to Go Via Portland Not Important Factor. ANOTHER CASE IS DECIDED Court Holds that Commission Haa No Authority to Order Connections , Made -on Complaint of Branch Hoad. WASHINGTON, March 7. Twice today the Buprome court of the United States an nulled Important orders of the Interstate Commerce commission because the com mission had exceeded Its authority. One of tho orders required the Northern Pacific Railway company to Join with com peting roads ' in establishing a through route and Joint rates from ' the east to Puget Sound points via Portland, Ore. The other order required the Delaware, Lack awanna & Western Railroad company to grant a' physical connection -with the Rail way Valley Railroad company at Summit, N. J. In the Northern Pacific railway ease the court held that this railroad already main tained a "satisfactory or reasonable route," from the east to Puget sound points and as lorg as such a route was In existence, the commission could not require the road to Join In another route. The court took the position that climate, scenery and a desire to visit along the routes south of the Northern Pacific did not make the latter's route "unsatisfactory or unreasonable," and to hold otherwise would be giving an artificial meaning to the words of the statute. "The condition tn the statute Is not to be trifled with," said Justice Holmes, in announcing the opinion o fthe court. In the other decision it was held thAt the commission did not have power to re quire a railroad subject to the Interstate Commerce commission's order to grant a connection with a branch railroad upon complaint of the branch railroad Itself. The court refrained from deciding what was a branch railroad, one of the points in the case. In the HIU-Harrlman litigation the Union Paoirio railroad sought to route lta trains from the Missouri river to Seattle by way of Portland and to give Missouri river pas sengers' the same-ftii a. us was charged from St. Paul and Minneapolis to Seattle. The lower court decided In favor of the Ilarriman system. Then began the fight of the Northern Pacific to compel payment of regular fare by Union Pacific passengers from Portland to Seattle over the former's line In lieu of the through ticket system. This probably will mean that the Union Pacific will have to meet the rate of the Burlington Route on its tickets to Seattle by way of Port land. HYDE WILL PLEAD TODAY Accused Doctor Will Not Be rested Until He Appears In Conrt. Ar- KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 7. Dr. B Clarke Hyde, against whom eleven Indict ments were returned by the grand Jury last Saturday, charging him with killing three members of the Swope family and attempting to kill eight other persons In the Swope home, will be arraigned to plead to the charges In the criminal court here this afternoon. Dr. Hyde will not be placed under arrest before he appears In the court room. He Is already under a $50,000 bond on the charge of murdering Colonel Thomas H, Swope, preferred by John Q. Paxton on February 10, and the county prosecutor did not deem It necessary to order his arrest on the grand Jury charges before he was arraigned. PEARY WILL NOT SHOW PROOFS Discoverer of North Pole Saya Con tract with l'ahliaher For bids It. WASHINGTON, March 7. Robert E. Peary today declined to submit his proofs that he discovered the North pole to tho subcommittee of the house naval com mittee. Through Representative Alexander of New York he Informed the committee that the existence of a contract made months ago with a publishing company would make It impossible for him to do so. MRS. HOLMES WANTS DIVORCE Wife of Base Bail Manager Allea-ea Deaertton and Nonaap port. SIOUX CITY, la., March 7.-Mrs. Edna Holmes has filed suit for divorce from William "Ducky" Holmes, the new man ager of the Toledo American association team, on the grounds of nonsupport and desertion. Mrs. Holmes filed her suit with the county clery at Rapid City, S. D., near where she resides on a claim. gation of the case It has appeared that his slave wife is still living, old and decrepit; and she, too. Is claiming a pension as his widow. This case la similar to two others In the Omaha pension district and the .question up to the department Is, which are the lawful widows of the dead soldier? The second marriages In each Instance were per formed In conformity with law. The crux of the question touches the pe culiar status of slaves, as chattels, during the alavery days. Were their marriages even Vcgardcd as common law marriages, where ths man and wife were afterwards sold apart aa such. chattelsT It is up to the pension department to de cide the question A j 4 i &! I'l l i ll;! m 1 'I,:!!!!!! 1 ljLe-jfcv r M -f - Ull yif'l 1 , From the New York Herald. FEAR OF TAFFS NEW BILL Union Pacific Bought Southern Pa- cific, Stock to Get Around It. REASONS ' FOR BUYING ROAD Otto Knhn Says Harriman Fcnred Interests Hostile to Him Were About to Acquire 1 IIr pone of Bis; Bond Issue. NEW YORK, March 7.-Otto Kuhn, mem ber of the banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., testified this afternoon in the govern ment's suit to dissolve the Southern and Union Pacific merger that 74,000 shares of Southern Paclflo stock were- purchased by Union Pacific last January. The purchase was made, says Mr. Kuhn, because of the bill before congress regard ing the holding of 60 per cent of the stock of subsidiary companies. The bill, modeled along the line of President Taft's recom mendation was, that a holding 'company would have to relinquish;' stock-In- a snb sldlsry company unless a .njajority of the shares truro heVd. - . 1 - Some of the phases of the western rail road situation which led the late Edward H. Harriman to take control of tire South ern Pacific were developed today by Mr. Kuhn. Mr. Kuhn was a member of the Southern Paclflo directorate and took an active part In the purchase of the Southern Pacific by the Union Pacific. Mr. Kuhn described the circumstances of the purchase of Southern Pacific, which began with the authorization of $100,000,000 of convertible bonds In 1911. He said that previous to the death of Collla P. Hunt ington the Union Paclflo had knowledge there was an effort on the part of the In terests hostile to the company to acquire the Southern Pacific, through which the Union Paclflo was able to got into San Francisco. Reason for Baying; Southern Pacific. "During Mr. Huntington's lifetime, Mr. Harriman sought to make arrangements for the continuance of tho relations be tween the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific," said Mr. Kuhn. "The Union Pa cific was anxious to secure the Central Paclflo division. An offer was made to buy the Central Pacific and other efforts made to make the status quo botween the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific per manent and unalterable; "When Mr. Huntington died the situation became more grave. We knew that inter ests hostile to the Union Pacific were seeking to resume control of the Southern Pacific. So when the opportunity came to buy the Southern Pacific stock we were glad to avail ourselves." Mr. Kuhn said a reason for tho large issue of bonds was due to the rumor that Hill interests were going to purchase the Burlington railroad. The Union Pacific wanted to get a participation in any pur chase of the Burlington to protect itself and It would need money if this participa tion was granted. Mr. Kuhn said it was learned later that the Hill Interests had secured control of Burlington. "Mr. Hill and Mr. Harriman at that time were anything but friendly. Mr. Harriman was a newcomer and aggressive. After they got to know each other better they came to respect and admire each other," said Mr. Kuhn. Unable to secure a participation in Bur lington, the Union Taciflo Interests bought Into Northern Taclflc, said Mr. Kuhn, but with no Intent to create a monopoly of commerce. Two Clericals Killed. LISBON, March 7. Two bombs wre hurltd Into a room where a party of clerical candidates were dining tuday and the explosions kllltd two of tho dlnors a-.ii wounded seven others, including the pr est who was presiding. Easter is in sight. It is not too early to begin to prepare for it. There will be hundreds of things necessary. Hundreds of dealers have received Easter finery and are ready to display it. In the "Tor Easter Column" in the Want Ad Page, will be found their announcements. About everything required is listed there. Have you looked them overt There to Stay. Passenger Train Has Thrilling Race With Snovvslidc Canadian Pacific Track Near Field Covered Twenty Feet Deep Few Seconds After Train Passed. VANCOUVER, B. C, March 7.-A Cana dlun Pacific passenger train had a thrilling race with a gigantic unowslide Saturday afternoon Just east of Field, on the western slope of the Rockies. The engineer opened the throttle and tho train dashed down grade, escaping by only a few feet. The train was westbound express No. 97. The engineer heard plainly the thunder of the avalanche booming down the mountain side. He opened the throttle and the race between the tra n and the cnowsl.de wai on. The last car had Just got by a steep point when tho slide struck the rails not ten feet behind. An enormous mass of packed snow and Ice, carrying big tree trunks, covered the rails to a depth, of . twenty feet. The train was stalled at Field, and news of the slide was not received vntll to-iay. This evening only twenty bodies had been recovered from the debris of Saturday morning's accident on the Canadian Pacific near Rogers puss at the summit of the Selkirks. Eight hundred men are clearing the track. On account of the danger of slides, they work only during daylight. Tho rails In many places are burled to a depth of eighty feet under a mass of trees, Ice and snow. It has been established definitely that no one directly in the path of the avalanche escaped alive. The official list of victims Is placed at sixty-one, deupite a report from Winnipeg that it was ninety-two. BROTHER OF NEGRO WANTED IS SHOT TO DEATH BY MOB Two White Men Are Shot In Pursuit of Slayer of Superintendent Strlhltllna;. TAMPA, Fla., March 7. A brother of tho negro, Ellis, who killed Superintendent Stribbling at Palmetto yesterday, was cap tured at the Willow Springs on the Little Manatee river and shot to pieces by a mob of citizens today. Before the capture of the negro two more white men were wounded today near Pal metto by the negroes who were being sought by the posse. One of the men shot, J. B. Morgan, a section foreman, will die, and Max Burnett, a farmer. Is seriously hurt . Both were members of the posse. MONACO ASKS CONSTITUTION Monte Carlnns Tell Prince They Are In Only Absolute Monarchy In V.'orld. MONTE CARLO, Monaco, March' 7. Half of the subjects of the principality marched to the palace, and waiting upon the prince of Monaco, yesterday, demanded a constitu tion, declaring that Monaco was the only absolute monarchy remaining on the face of the globe. The prince received a deputa tion from the crowd 'and promised to con sider Its wishes. OHIO STEAMER IN CORNFIELD Iloat Stranded In Illah Water Now in Prrlloo Condi tion. CALLIPOLIS, O., March 7. The steamer, Virginia, which ran into a cornfield at Willow Grove, forty miles north of hero, yesterday and was stranded, was In a peril ous ponltlon today owing to the water falling. Strenuous efforts are being mnde to draiv the steamer Into deeper water. The boat belongs to the Pittsburg & Cincinnati Packet line and I valued at S45,on0. Climbs on Cable Over Raging River, Carrying Rescue Line A crawl hand over hand along a tele phone cable wire yesterday Berved to re .C Je four men Imprisoned on an Island where tlio bridge crosses the river at Valley. Oscar Scobey, an Omaha linemun, risked his lll'o to save Oscar Talcirtt, Georg Johnson of the office of County Surveyor MoHilile and two other men who had been marooned on the Island from Saturday nlsht, when the Ice went out, carrying the bridge with It. Hcobey carried a ropo attathed to his waist and this served to get a row-boat serous to the Inland. When Scobey had landed In rafety another rope was attached to the boot by County Surveyor Mcllrlde and the other men In the rescuing party on tho mainland. The skiff was then pulled over by ths a kBH IV. I PARK GETS BIGGER JOB Union Pacifio Superintendent Vice President Illinois Central. WILL TAKE PLACE OF R. G. RAWN Came to Omaha tn 1800 and Has H turn from Brakeman on the Union Pacific at the Age of Eighteen. W. L. Park, general superintendent of tho Union Pacific, has been elected to the vlco presidency of the Illinois Central, to succeed R. C3. Rawn. Mr. Rawn was some months ago elected president of the Monon Route. Mr. Park Is now in the east. Mr. Park spent his childhood days near Klmlra, N. T., as his ancestors obtained from the government a large tract of land In Chemung county, through the construc tion of military roads during the latter part of the seventeenth century. In the late '50's', r-oloncl Joalah B. Park, father of W. L.. moved with his family to Ovid, Mich., where he engaged In engineering and .construction of railroads until the breaking out of the civil war when he was elected and commissioned captain of Com pany D, First Michigan cavalry. At tho close of the civil war, Colonel Park moved his family to Omaha, arriving on a steamboat at the foot of Douglas street In August lSGft, there being no rail roads across Iowa at that time. He en gaged In the task of surveying government lands until his death In June 1873. Product of the' Weat. W. L. Park can be considered a product of the west, as he gained his early educa tion In such schools as the west at that time provided. He first attended Mrs. McCullum's private school and later went to Seagrave'a academy at Thirteenth and Farnam streets, where he had as playmates children of the leading families of Omaha, who are now leading citizens of this city. Colonel Park moved his family to North Platte, where young Park attended the public schools. Colonel Park at one time ran a newspaper and learned how to ex press his thoughts with printers' Ink by assisting around the office. W. L. Park entered the service of the Union Paclflo as a brakeman and at the age of 18 was a freight conductor and at 22 was a passenger conductor. During hU time In the service Mr. Park employed his time reading law and in other studies, es pecially pertaining to railroad work. At 30 he was made assistant superintend ent of the Nebraska division of the Union Pacific, end In 1900 he was transferred to the Wyoming division as superintendent. In June, 1904, Mr. Park was made general superintendent of the Union Pacific, which position he has held until the present time. Thus Mr. Park has risen from the ranks and understands the needs of the. men, an J it Is said that all under him have the ut most confidence In him at all times. He it was, as chairman of the general com mittee representing the conductors and brakemen, who arranged with 8. T. Smith, then general superintendent, the first mile age basis of pay for trainmen. NEW YORK. April 7.-At a meeting of the board of directors of the Illinois Cen tral today W. L. Park, general superintend ent of the Union Pacific railroad, with offices at Omaha, was elected vice presi dent to succeed I. O. Rawn. He will be In charge of the operating force, with offices In Chicago. Watklns' Charges Unfoanded. FRANKFORT, Ky.. March 7.-The re port of tho special committee sppolnted a month ago to Investigate the statemrnt of Senator Watklns to the effect that four senators had sold out to the liquor Inter ests for 120,000 was made today. The re port says there was no foundation or such a statement. marooned men,' who then rowed back. The second rope attached to the skiff had its other end on mainland and served to help guide the boat across the river, Which was full of floating Ice, not unlikely to wreck the skiff at any minute. Talcot and his party were nearly famished when rescued, for they had been without food Blnoe Sunday night. Otherwise they were none the worse for the accident. They had been on the Island Masting at an Ice gorge, not wisely, but well. The gi-rge went out, but It csrrled both ndo of tho bridge, which meets the Island 011 either side and ends where the Island makes connection. The bridge went out at 10:30 Saturday night and the rescue was effected at f p. in. yesterday. CUDAHV WILL NOT RE PROSECUTED Lillis is Recovering from Wounds and Will Go to His Home in Day or Two. GENERAL C0WIN IN KANSAS CITY Father cf Mrs. Cudahy Says She is Innocent of Any Wrong. TELLS STORY OF THE ATTACK Mrs. Cudahy Says She and Lillis Had Been Ridinj. ASSAULT FOLLOWS RETURN HOME Air. t'ndnhy Had Previously A n noaaeed lie Win Going Ont of Torrm ami His Appearance Was I'nexperted. KANSAS CITY. March 7 Jere S. Hills, president of the Western Exchange bank, who was assaulted by John P. Cudahy, the millionaire packer, when the latter found tho bnnker In his home Sunday morning, will not prosecute his sssallant. Chaiges of disturbing the peace, pre ferred against Cudahy by Bryan Unrter- i wood, a policeman who Interrupted the punishment of the nocturnal visitor, will probably be dismissed with a nominal fine when the case comas to trial March 15. This will end the affair Insofar as punish ment for Cudahy la concerned. Judge W. T. Johnson, legal representative of Lillis, made known tonight that thera would be no prosecution of Cudahy. "We have no desire to take any legal steps against Cudahy," he said. "There will be no prosecution." Lulls' condition Is Improving rapidly. Nurses at St. Mary's hospital said tonight he would be able to be removed to his homo tomorrow morning. His wounds will be slow In healing, It is believed, but they will not prove serious. Mr. Cudahy has taken apartments at the Coates house, a downtown hotel. Ha refuses to say whether he will return to his home. Efforts to locate John Moss, tha chaffeur who Is believed by Mrs. Cudahy to have disclosed the presence Of Mr. Hi lls at tho house, haa proven unsuccessful. Ueneral Cewis Talks. Into the arms of her father, General John C. Cowln of Omaha, an attorney of national reputation, Mrs. Cudahy rushed at her home tonight. The general arrived here on an evening train and wen at once to the Cudahy home, where his daughter had been waiting for him . since Sunday morning, when she telephoned him to come at once. Not realising what had happened. General Cowln delayed his departure. An other message from his daughter caused him to hasten..- Briefly, -Mrs, CUvftthy leld ner story to her father. It was practically the same shs gave out in a statement today. According to her story she and Lillis hod been auto mobile riding, returned home and were seated In the library resting, when Cudahy entered. General Cowln was much affected by his daughter's story. "My daughter Is innocent," he saJr, firmly. "I am as certain of that as I am of the virtue of Jesus ChrlBt." "I regret exceedingly that Cudahy was so cowardly as to say 'he has ruined my home' Ho did this for his own protec tion. ' Why did he rtot think of thess dear children who must suffer from this un true statement." The general was unable to say whether a divorce would resut from the trouble In tho Cudahy household, Statement of Mrs. Cudahy. This afternoon Mrs. J. P. Cudahy was Induced to make a statement regarding her husband's attack upon Jere S. Lillis last night, declaring it was the culmina tion of a long line of brutal treatment. This last act, she said, would result In the separation of herself and husbarl. Mrs.' Cudahy 1 was lying on a davenport In her room as she made htr statement. One of her eyea was badly Swollen. "This was done Saturday ; night," she said, "and I have no deslrt to receive visitors today. It was terrible thing that ' occurred. And It was all caused by an I automobile, a new runabout that Mr. Lillis had just ordered." I Mrs. Cudahy then told the Story of the I attack. Her husband, shs said, attended I by his chauffeur, Johann Moss, had found Mr. Lillis ahd Mrs. Cudahy at the Cudahy home. "It was last Friday," said Mrs. Cudahy, "that Mr. Lillis received his new run about. I had the first ride lt the other one, and I told Mr. Lillis 1 Wanted the fir-: ride in this one. He salfl I should have It. I told Fenn, our chauffeur, that day that Mr. Lillis had gotten his new car and that I was to have a rid In It In cidentally, I remarked that Mr. Cudahy was going out of town, down to Grain field, Kan., I believe, to look a some cat tle. ) "Well, Fenn must have been 'bribed by Mr. Cudahy. I have always bnen good to that boy and Mr. Cudahy was always fussing at him. That Mr. Cudahy's going out of town would have had anything to do with my riding with Mr. Mills would be ridiculous. "Mr. Cudahy often says he Is going out of town and then never goes. Hi probably does that nine out of ten times.' t Auto tilde with MlllS. "Friday the car Was unloaded and In the afternoon we took a rids. Tha Wenther was fine and we sped over the Rock roads. Saturday Mr. LUlls said I should see the car. We went out Saturday afternoon and then drove out to the country club for dinner. Then we decldtd to go down to the Baltimore Instead, which we did. We stayed there only long enough to eat and then went out. As we went out I said to Mac, the head waiter, that- he should sea Mr. Lillis' new car. .' A "We went riding In the evening again. When we came home Mr. Mills was going to drive away, when I asked him to oome Into the house. We went Into the library downstairs and had been talking only a f-,w minutes when Mr. Cudahy (Mrs. Cudahy always called him Mr. Cudahy) rushed Into the room. He must have come Into the house through, the billiard room. He was accompanied by Felin (J jhann Moss), the chauffeur. They se'sed Mr. Mills and began beating him. Mr. Cudahy had a thing that he uses in ths car snd he beat Mr. Mills over ths head with It." Here Mrs. Cudahy looked over at the table near her couch and said: "There It Is, there, see the blood on the end." "The thing" to which she had allud.d
