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Daily Bee. A 1 HE THE OMAHA DLE ff to the Iiodm is read women -sells goods for 4t , WEATHER FORECAST. Tor Nebraska Shown1. For low a-"-Shower. For weather rcpor.. seo page 2. OMAHA, FRIDAY .MORNING, .-JUNE 3, 1910 TWELVE PAGES. SINCJLE COPY TWO CENTS. vol. xxxix-xo. :;cnv MKS. DOXEY TELLS TRAGIC CHAPTER i Woman Accused of Murdering Wil liam J. Erder Takes Stand in Own Defense. RAILROAD RATES STIR UNCLE SAMl TAFT ADDRESSES Fo.v Announces Campaign Plans For Presidency Former Governor of Missouri Tells Democrats that Doctrine of Equal Rights is Pai amount. BRYNMAWKQ1BLS Filing of Schedules by Eastern Lines Arouses Wickersham to Further Action. President Talks on Higher Education Before Graduating Class of Eastern College. COLLEGE TRAINING NECESSARY DEITIES CHARGES AGAINST HER Omaha Also Declares that She and Alleged Victim Were Not Married. MORPHINE CAUSED HER ACTIONS 31ames Her Husband for Drug Habit that Proved Master Over Her. VEEPS WHILE GIVING TESTIMONY knt Crosa-Rzaiulued by Lnwjf Who fur that Krldenre Dis credits Itself Mra. Grace Ulhani Questioned. ST. I.Ol'IS. Juno 2. Mr. Dora K. Doxey told In Judge Grimm's court today the a lory of her tragic acquaintance with William J. Krder, for whiiw d"Bth she Is on trial. She denied tliHt slip and Krder were married, but said tli?y agreed to pretend ! Ihey were In order that they might openly live, together. That Whs after Dr. Doxey had cast her off. she said. Intense stillness reigned In the narked and stifling room while Mrs-Doxey. tier - I vous, delected and pale, told her atory. Onc or twice she burst into tears, the first time when her aged father stood up lo be identified by her She threw all the blame for her slavery to morphine on Or. I.. H. Doxey, Jointly IridlctPd with her for Krdor'a deah. She denied that she had dnilnlslered any arsenic tc Krder. Mra. Doxey said PC Doxey knew of her relations with Krder and that Errr read er letters to and from the doctor. When Jhe concluded her tvatimnnv -AsK-lstant Circuit Attorney Newton, to the surprise f all present, announced that he would tint cross-examine her. Omaha Woman Teat tries. . Mis. Morris and M. Grace Latham, f Omaha, another sister, testified to hay tilt seen Dr. Doxey give his wife- mor jhlno. 'Jefferson Fuller, the accused wo man's father, told of his efforts to break ber of the morphine habit. With the testimony of three rebuttal wltnest.es who testified to having known Mis. Doxey In 1908 a$ Dora Dodge, the presentation of testimony ended and court d.lom-ned. ' The fudge's instructions will be given to Hie Jury tomorrow morning. Kadi aide will have two hours for arguments and the case will go to the Jury tomorrow afternoon. Mrs, Doxejr began her story by telling of er marriage' to Dr. Doxey, August 29. 1!S. Prior to thl she had been in St. Louts, tier relations with hlm,! aha said, were jftcnltrtplr stent.'' She testlffed she became iddlcled to moiphlne In March, 1907, when Dr. Doxey supplied it to Jior. "Sometimes I would take fifteen or six-, ieen grains In a single day," she testified. "I nevpr took Itws than half a grain at a 'ifclmc. On some days Dr. Doxey gave It to T)ie every hour. I remonstrated with him aiid begged hint not to do t, but he In sisted that he knew best what I ought to have. He pretended at times to be giving me other medicines, but it was really mor phine. I tried to break the habit, but he wouldn't let me." i "My iather saw how the drug affected me," said Mrs. Doxey, "and I promised him I would quit taking it. He knew all my trouble was due to It, but somehow I k could not quit. When 1 was without It I was wild. I wrb so nervouB that I could not bear It." Letters to Krder. Mrs. Doxey ald she continued to corre spond with Erder after her marriage to Doxey. Hie became acquainted with Krder on a visit here. Mr. Krder knew of my suffering and f my lire wlin i)?. noxey, j sue leacuied. "He wrote for me to come here and he would take care of me. 1 was thinking of a final separation from the doctor when Mr. Krder kept urging me and 1 finally consented. "i uune here in April, Krder met me at the station and took me to Ills , Siome, where 1 .remained almost a week, When 1 returned to Des Moines. Dr. Doxey had gone to Columbus, NVb., and 1 followed him." Mrs. Doxey related how Dr. Doxey In liia flight from creditors Informed her she must take care of herself and expect no assistance from him. and how she In des peration consented to accept ErUer's pro posal to live wltii him as his wife. She said she wks Introduced into the Krder family at first as Mrs. Dodga at Elders suggestion. He did not want his mother to know Mrs. Doxey waa a mar ried woman. 8he denied she married Krder, but she said she consented to have Krder tell that they were married because of Krder'a family. Attorney 'Johnson then exhibited to the witness a copy or the marriage license affidavit made at ('layiwn. Mo., ami signed by Krder and Mrs. Doxey. "Did you ever see- that paper before?" lie asked. "Not that 1 have any recullection of, until the other day when 1 saw It in ccurt." tilie said she firrt learned of Krder's life insurance after they went, to housekeeping. Ki'der, she said, told her he was going to lmvy Jils policies changed to her, as he nag rJT ssxlPlayf ul Little kuo't of her replies lo the doctor's letter tie Part of l'le Herself. Mrs. Doxey, in relating the events' of the Wi da pfs.-lf t days before Krder became III. said she ate a part of the blackberry pie Which figured in the case. 8he denied the pie niaJe Krder 111. She said slis did not give him any medl L in other than that prescribed by the physician, fhe deuied giving Krder arsenld in any form. The money she said she wrote to Des Mulnes about was to come from the (rotate of Dr. Doxe's father. Mrs. Doxey was followed on the stand by her slater, Mrs. D. M. Morrja of Kvanslon. 111., who has been her companiou during the trial. -1 "Her statements were loo Incredible as it ' a.ood," said Assistant State'a Attorney Newton, when he was asked whv he did not cro-e xamine all. Doxey. . r llaiidrral mix In Uklahswa. - Qjl'UOKK. Okl.. June 2 -The tempt, a 1,,rtieie today reached K degrees, the ljlfl-t of th season in Oklahoma, injury 0 ciopa is teatvi. PT. I.OflS. June 2. Missouri democrats of all factions at a dinner here tonight heard former governor Joseph W. Fo'li announce the principle on which, ' It Is said, he will seek the providential nomina tion In 1!12. The dinner was In charire "f men who have been promoting the boom of the former governor. 'The doctrine of equal rights should fu made a living, vital and controlling force In the government," said Mr. Foil;, after he had listened to democrats from all part of the mate tell the gucMs that the former governor Is Hie 'man they should endotp-e for the presidency. "The demociatic party." cotitliun-d Mn. Folk, should insist upon the stamping out nf the graft and corruption from every de partment of government; the eradication of all special favors, including bounties, subsidies and a tariff for any purpose other than if venue. "We need the honest, sincere enforce ment of the laws we already hate and the regulation of the rates of public utility corporations upon a reasonable basis that Justice may be done the people and a fair return fur the amount actually invested be afforded." Other principles named by the spealtei were the preservation of the rights of the stale to self government, the " restriction of American terrltnrv In the Western Hemisphere as a necessary corollary of the Monroe doctrine, the extension 'of American trade by removing the restric tion upon commerce, a Just Income taT, the election of I'niled States senators by dirtct vote and unrelenting opposition to tbe domination In public affairs of special Interests and thi elimination of such in fluences from politics. Des Moines Doctor Rob Apartment Housesin Memphis J. C. Brown, Who Called Himself Dr. E. E. . Fuller, Commits Twenty Robberies in Tennessee City. MEMPHIS. Tenn., June 2-Admlttlng having committed at least twenty burglar- i I - lf.mnhla H 1 1 i tl nr tVl ria t tWO 1T1 0 Tl t ll S l a in ... t uu, n a - HI 1 1 1 n laaiiiuuawiq ....... v .. he had quarters as a physician and attri buting his absence at night to the exact Ions of his profession, J. C. Brown, form erly of Dea Moinfes, la., is Imprisoned here tonight while the police are gradually re trieving the numerous bits of Jewelry taken by Brown during his nightly 'travels. So far ten watches, besides numerous other trinkets have been. recovered.. - r Brown posed as Dr. E. K. Fuller, and but for tala lingering ldo long ,'irt the neighbor hood of a house he visited udme nights ago, would still be at liberty. Me was recog nized by an occupant and his arrest p fol lowed. According to his own declaration he has served terms of Imprisonment at Leaven worth, Kan., Guthrie Okl., and Cassvllle and Jefferson Cityi Mo., for burglary. Brown declares he will offer no defense. Asks Rehearing on Inheritance Tax x Attorney General of 'South Dakota is Not Satisfied with Decision of Supreme Court. PIERRE. S. D.. Juue 2. (Special. I At- tol.ney General Clark is not satisfied with the findings of the supreme court In the McKennan inheritance tax- case, In which It held that the state .inheritance tax law as It stands Is unconstitutional.. His con. tentloit is that tho law In his opinion is good and he has filed a pellion for rehear Ins in the case which will act as a stay In proceeding i.nttl it is argusd and a second decision reached. The decision was of more than local Interest, as it has brought out Inquiries from many county treasurers as Jo further collections of this tax under the court ruling. CONDITION OF COTTON CROP tveraav ' l !Serly Oit- I'rr Cent II latter Than It Mas One Vear Abo. .WASHINGTON'. June 2. The first cotton report of the season by the crop reporting board Issued today shows the condition otj the growing crop on May 26 was S2 per cent of a normal, as compared with M.t peri cent on that date last year and M.9 per cent, the average for the last ten years. The area planted with cotton this year . L.u. , ..... Is about 33.19ti.w0 acre, or about WJ.S per cent, compared with 32.'J;.O0O aciei last year: an Increase of about DOt.uOU acres, or i.8 per cent. 4'arprater Noinlnntltin t'oui'irmeii. WASHINGTON. June 2. The suiiale to day confirmed the nomination of Fr. d V. Carpenter, former secretary to President Tuft, as minister to Morocco. He will leave for his post at Tangier shortly. Maul Monkeys full of tiicks broke the inuuot-- valuable notebook one of tuc "monks had ony of official life Thursday morning. The) aken. The license Inspector had on a new monkevs were in tho Vposscssitin of two!""1 tnat look'''1 bad 10 " monkey, o he . .. , ' . . threw It Oiit the window and cha rd ltalans, who wera seeking a permit framL,....,.,, .., ... . tna-en , boaneider onto tne counter. .Mayor Dahlrr.an to exhibit them on thej AH the time the Italians weru uniting like streets. First the monkey keepers planted ! angels and gurgling to their peu. "Nlc-e-a themselves in Llcen-e Inspector Schneider's ' da monk; no-a hurt da in.ui. Just-a play office, where they were found at an earl ! da little-a tr.ck; data all.", hour by Councilman Bridges and Assistant! But fohneider called lu a j'anltjr and had Gas Commissioner Butler. j him lake the two me.i and their pets to In attempting to Investigate the clever-1 Mayor Dahlman's office. Here the monkeys ness of the monks, Butler lost his last lock tried to repeat their antics, out the mayor of hair, and Briirres received a sldo sw ipe i lassoed them, then roped and Vd them from a playful paw that sent hlni to tne dentist. II also lost a 10-cent cig-ir, out of which he was taking a lot of anticipatory satlsfact'ou. When Schneider showed up lie was Introduced to the monkey by Council man McGovern, who thus created a diver sion which enabled him to gel back a WESTERN MANAGERS IN SESSION Traffic Directors in Chicago Consid ering Problems of Case. INJUNCTION DOES NOT APPLY Iowa Commission Points Out Weak ness in Complaint. IT COVERS RIVER CITIES ONLY Points 1 Ions Not a tbe Missouri Are lH)ina the Increased Hates Railroads to Hold a Conference. WASHINGTON, June I. Attorney Gen eral Wickersham said today that he had not given any thought lo the question v.iudher the government should take action looking to injunction proceedings against the Interstate Commerce commission. L'nltl he learns more of the conditions under which the rates had been filed, XIr. Wickersham said he was not prepared lo say what the government might do. The attorney general pointed our-that conditions under which the eastern roads had filed their rates might be entirely dif ferent from those In the west. It Is now too late for the government to take any action toward extending the scope of the injunction granted by Judge Dyer at Hannibal, Mo., so as to cover other rates than those referred lo In the bill In equity filed by the Department of Justice against the Western Trunk LJne associa tion. This was made plain at the depart ment today. The government included in the bill such rates "as wire called to its attention and the failure to embrace all the tariff ad vances made by the association, It was said, must be laid to the doors of the shippers. Revised freight rates, effective July, 5, were filed today with the Interstate Com merce commission by the New York Cen tral & Hudson River company, the West Shore railroad and the Delaware, Lacka wanna & Western rallioad. There is somo advance In the commodity rates. An advance In commodity freight rates, eastbound from Chicago to New York, was filed this afternoon by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad company. It will take effect July 1. The average increase Is approxi mately 9 per cent. Railroad Managers Meet, - CHICAGO,' June 2.-Pi esldents and traffic managers of railroad t centering In Chicago met here today to consider .problems which recent rate decisions have brought to a climax. E. P, Ripley, president of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe system, took the Initiative In calling the meeting, which was held in his office. The discussion turned on a defense against the assault of the government on the recently enjoined advance In freight rates in Western Trunk line territory. . The meeting as secret, but' it Is known rnat tne presidents are agreed that any action taken might be concerted, but not sufficiently so to come under the ban of the la. &y I n jnncllou Fnlls. DES MOINES, la., June 2.-(t-peclal Tele gram.) Iowa shippers and manufacturers became alarmed today over the reports that the injunction asked for by the gov ernment in the federal courts to prevent the incrcasein railroad rates falls to In elude the schedule which affects rales to niosi oi ine iowa potnis. rney took it up vvlm Hie attorney general and railroad commissioners, and they immediately wired to Attorney General Wickersham to have Iowa points included In the suit. it was also Hated that unless this is done an Independent suit will be com menced here. Order Served uu Roads.' ST. I.OL'IS, June 2. Service In the In Junction suit of the government against iweniy-nve western railroads to restrain thm fioni advancing freight rates was obtained on officials of three of the roadt here today. Deputies t'lom the United States marshal's office served the ordet at the headquarters of the Missouri I-a clfic, abash and 'Frisco systems. ine announcement last night that the defendants proposed a vigorous contest of the restraining order granted by Judg David f. vyec or the United States cir cult court at Hannibal, Mo., Tuesday. tnougn not unexpected, was taken in shin pers" circles here to Indicate eoncluslvel tnai me government naci caught them napping. The action coming as It did was a com- I plete surprise, so much so mat otflcfnis here were unable to decide quickly upon " .u eiiaei telegraphic conference yesterday that th general conference of railroad counsel to be held In Chicago tomuiiuw waa agreed ill un. from information' obtainable this morn'- log the old freight rates are in effect " .11 points on .ailroads having gene." headquarters here. None of the official, ...,iilH rrmll tiimnelf In li mi.il..l .... .... would rermlt himself to be quoted on the question of rates today. Monkeys City's Officials I and Messenger Wilson escorted the aston ished party to the sidewalk. Later the men gut their permit. "Those animals will add some j,.y to ihe day for th children," aid liie mayor. "even If thev do like to maul bald-headed I men.-' i Another SVom the Cleveland leader. BLEACHED FLOUR CASE IS ON Ed P. Smith Says Northern Millers Are Real Prosecutors. BLOW AT WINTER WHEAT STATES Wheat from Nebraska and Kansas Makes Floar that l ailchtly Tel low Denies that Blanch ing: la lajnrtona. KANSAS CITY,-. Mo.. June S.-Kdward P. Smith of Omaha, .attorney for the millers in the bleached (lour case which is being tried In the federal court here,- made tile opening statement to the Jury today when tie said the case In. not litigation between the government and several sacks of flour that had been .seized aa the government's brief seemed to Indicate, but a suit be tween the millers of Minnesota and the Dakotas. whose flour Is naturally . white and the mlllera . of Nebraska, .Kansas. Missouri and Iowa, whose wh.eat produces a flour that is just a bit yellow. . The government alleges that : the process used by the mlllera in bleaching flour adul terates it In violation. of the fetleral pure food and drug act. It i charged that ele ments are Introduced Into Ah flour which nesiroy-j. me nreao- - mj4ig .. possibilities and' when taken Into the stomaoh, : form gasea which affect the lunga and attack the blood. Attorney Smith argued that bread made from bleached flour doea not have this effect. , . . First Testimony Taken. . John M: Mitchell of St. Louis, president of a oompany that manufactures machln ery used In a certain process for bleaching flour, was the -first witness called. He testified that his company Installed the machinery used by the Lexington Mill and Elevator company at Lexington, N'eb where the flour seized by the government and forming the basis of this suit was manufactured. B. O. Perry, a grocer of Greencastle, Mo., testified that he bought the flour, 625 sacks, from a salesman of the Lexington Mill and Elevator company and after selling twenty-eight sacks a United States marshal seized the remaining sacks In his posses sion. He said he bought the flour uncle'.- a guaranty and that no representation was made to him as to whether the flour was bleached. Ha said the Lexington mill re placed the flour seized by the government. Dr. James H. Shepard, professor of chem istry at the State agricultural college of South Dakota, qualified as an expert on the chemical processes Incident to the man ufacture and bleaching of flour. His testi mony waa a thorough technical description of these processes. IOWA ROAD INCORPORATES . IN SOUTH DAKOTA Forest till, Fertile A Mason CI tr Llue Files Articles at Pierre. PIERRE. June 2. (Special.) Articles of Incorporation have been filed with the sc retary of state for the Forest City, Fer tile, and Mason City railroad company, with headquarters at Watertown, S. P., and the privilege of a business office at Forest City, Iowa. It is capitalized at HOO.twO, and the purpose of the company Is the construction of a line of road thirty miles long In the counties of Wlnnebaso, Hancock, Worth and Cerre Gordo, Iowa. The line Is to start at Forest City, Iowa, running in en easterly direction to Fer tile, and from there In a south-easterly di rection to Mason City. The incorporators lT the comPanarlT - K10- C.,N """"Ph" C; S' C- FSt Cl ' i,owa; , eJhelmo, Baldwin,- Wisconsin A' B,ler,n- M J' llaw,ey Va,";town 1'- 1- The wants Turn to them If jou want a servant they will bring one to your door. It you want a position they will find one for you. If you have something to sell they will sell It for you. If you have lost something they will find it for you. It you have found something they will be the first to tell you who lost it. H you can't comu down town to the office, call Doug las A cheerful staff will write the ad for you and see that it gets proper classifica tion. Everybody Reads - r.ee Want Ads. Investigation Committee Reports - Gerbracht Tries to Put Blame for Fraud on Spitzer On Cross-Examination He Admits that Havemeyer Ordered Him to Reduce Test Figures. NEW YORK,. June 2. Ernest W. Gcr- bracht'a effort to put the responsibility for sugar iinderweighlng frauds solely upon Oliver Spitzer, former superintendent of the .American Sugar Refining company's Williamsburg docks, or by implication upon men now dead, waa attacked by Federal Prosecutor Henry L. Stimson, at the re sumption of the sugar conspiracy trial to day. , Mr. Stimson questioned Gerbracht on cross examination. "Now -I think that you said H. O. Have meyer directed you to falsify the reports on the testa of raw sugar?" said Mr. Stlm- aon. . "1 never said any such thing." exclaimed Gerbracht. ;' "Npw didn't you make, the tests lower than their true figures'!" asked Mr. ftim son. . '. ..' "Yes." i "And didii't Mr. Havemeyer tell you to?" "Yes." ' "So now you don't object to my saying that Mr. Havemeyer directed you to falsify the test?" . "I dc; he did not." . Mr. Stimson . asked the witness to explain the difference. .'.. " "I mean there waa no true test In polari zation," said Gerbracht. . . "Why did you use the polarization test if It was not true, to fool the sugar grow ers?" "I don't know," answered the witness. Reward for Slayer of Little Kellner Girl is Growing It Will Probably Reach Ten Thou- sand Dollars Indications Sus- pect Went to Europe. LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 2.-Vith the contribution by the city council last night of 12.500 to the fund which will be offered for the arrest and conviction of the slayer of Alma Kellner, whose body was found burled in, a cellar of St. John s paroachial prooiemaucai. unless they Join the repub school, .the sum ' has now reached Sj.DOO. I leans In supporting tho rule to limit Ucbato This will be augmented probably today by j on tho bill it Is Impossible tc- predict how an offer' by Governor Wilson of JiOO on I long the debate wia last and everybody Is behalf of the atale. Smaller subscriptions Interested to l-ao?' -(th which side the In- of from ti to J1U0 were tendered today by citizens of Louisville, and It is expected that before the end of the week the reward will reach S10.000. Chief of rollce Lindsay says that he has received information which leads him to believe that Joseph Wendling, the miss ing Janitor, remained In Louisville as late as March 1. GRAIN BROKERS ARRESTED Albany, X. V. Men Are Charged Tlth Srrlnrillna; by Manipulating; Bills of I.adiua. AI.BANT. N. Y.. June J.-Gibson Oliver, treasurer of the grain firm of Durant & Klniore, ar.d Henry C. Palmer, former freight agent of the Delaware & Hudson railroad, were arrested today on charges growing out of alleged manipulation of bills of lading. It Is claimed the firm was able to borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars. Oklahoma to Vote on suffrage. GUTIIRIK. Okl.. .Tune 2. Whether women will be granted suffrage in Oklahoma will be decided at the regular election to be held In November. The last obstacle in the way of voting on this question was ret moved yesterdav. Business Man's Profits From Deal in Water Bonds A well known business man In Omaha is telling bis friends how he made HX In ten minutes Tueaday morning by sn opportune purchase ot Omaha Water com pany bonds. He admits t tin t there wis an element of luck in the transaction, but u4o takes credit for his foresight. ' Idly thinking that a decision in the Water ronmpanj a cao was about due from i the lust two years on theso bonds. When Washington, he happened to meet Sam j they were at M) to sears ago, an Omaha Bums, the bond broker, on the street and man bought twenty-five at tills price, which inquired about the bonds. This was aboutjeost him KO.OGO. At the pieaent price they 11. X) o'clock. Acting upon the impulse, lieiate worth l-fc.Oou. INSURGENTS' PLACE IN DOUBT Action on Postal Savings Bank Bill . Not Known. LENGTH OF DEBATE PROBLEM lowans In fancna Secure Number of Amendments to Mesiure-' toni " mlttee to Revise Court IPractlce. WASHINGTON, D. C, June 2. (Special Telegram.) Without attempting to reflect In any manner upon the position of the so called Insurgent republicans on the postal saving bank bill their absence from the house republican' caucus last night defeated the vreeland amendment to the bill, which provided that forty-seven and one-half per cent of the deposits could be withdrawn for Investment In bonds or other securities of the United States and that seventy-two and one-half per cent should remain on de posit in banks in -each state and territory willing to receive the same under the terms of the act. The Vreeland amendment waa defeated by five votes and had the republican mcm- I bers of the Nebraska, delegation plus two Insurgent-nembera. from'th Iowa delega tlon been In caucus, the Vreeland amend ment would have been adopted Instead of the Davidson amendment which provides that nft exceeding thirty percent of the amount of such ' funds deposited may bo withdrawn by trustees, requiring that a residue of sixty-five percent shall remain on deposit in the banks of the state of tcr ritory. Iottii Secures Amendments. In the caucus of last night, Iowa showed up large in amendments adopted, Repre sentative Good securing an amendment to section 9 of the bill which authorizes the board of trustees to take from a bank's securities public; bonds, certificates of in debtedness, sewer and wafr bonds un municipalities supported by taxing power and which trf board may deem sufficient to Insure safety and prompet payment of deposits which the trustees may make in solvent banks. Congressman Dawson, who has labored earnestly for the past-aga of such a bill, secured an amendment am to the invest mcnt of bonds or other securities of tin; United Slates from the fund which tho act provides tor when in the Judgment of the president the public welfare and tho in- teiests of the United States requires. Just what position the Insurgents purpose taking on the postal savings bank bill now perfected by tho republican caucus Is I surgents purpose to play when tho postul savings bank bill comes up for consider- t ation. Wywniluu 1. anils. The house committee on public lands to day made a favorable report on the.41on dell bill to moke vacant, lands within what was . known as the Fort Bridges Military reservation and which the state of Wyo ming undertakes to reclaim and settle. It is believed that some of these lands can be reo!imed and settled only In that way. There are about 7,(KK) acres of land accord ing to surveys made by the state of Wyo ming that can be Irrigated as provided by the Carey act now lying worthless within the old Fort Bridges reservation. fcUortculiiK 1. hit's Delay. Ralph W. Breckenridge of Omaha was in Washington for a short time today on his way to Omuha from New York, where t he was In attendance upon the committee of the National Civic Federation, appointed to draft the revised court practice act. A subcommittee of the committc-e appointed by Judge Alton B. Parker was appointed at the meeting yesterday to whip Into shape suggestions for new procedure In equity casea and If possible to bring about a (Continued on Kecond Page.; bought ten of the.-u- at .35 each. Lefore lie reached his office ten minutes later a message had been flashed over the wires giving the information that the United states supreme court had decided that the city must purchase the water plant. On receipt of tlila news, the bonds went lo rar, which made the man HM. This is but mi instance of profit made in Dissents from View that Education Unfits Women for Life Work. ALSO DISCUSSES MARRIAGES Says that Motherhood is Normal Status of Woman and Happiest. HOME AND FAMILY THE NUCLEUS tnlla This the Illuhest Meal, lint, Saye that t.lrla Are- Sot failures If They Do Sot Weil. PHILADELPHIA. Ouno l.-Prefldcnt Taft In his address to the graduates of Bryn Mawr college today on woman's col lege education spoke In part as follows: "Your president has asked me at this commencement lo sny something In respect to the higher education of w-oincn. It Is, of course, a themo most relevant and ger-. mane to the occasion, but It Is one of which I hesltato to speak in the presence of those who havo made It their life atudy and whose opinions In regard to the matter are of so much more real weight than my own." The president reviewed the advances made In educational advantages for both sexes since 1S00. Continuing, he said: "I dissent from the view that an aca demic education unfits a man or woman for business.. It may be that the tastes that lead one to an academic education are not those which Insure business suc cess, but the assertion that the mental discipline, the power of reasoning, the cul tivation and comparison of ideas, are not of assistance in business transactions in ' which the highest quality of the mind are actually In action, can hardly be true. "But it is said that women are not all going into the professions and so that the education necessary as a basis for a pro fessional career is not needed by those women who have a competency - or who look forward to marriage and motherhood as the chief end of woman. Itraaon for Kilncatlon of Women. "It Is even suggested that the highest education of women rather unfits thein to discharge the duties of a wife and mother; that In some way or other It roba them of a charm and gives them an intellectual In dependence that Is Inconsistent with their being the best wives and mothers. I ut terly dissent from this view. The com panionship of married life la the chief charm and reason for, .its .balng o far as '. it relates' to the two persons ronceriMMt, The enjoyment of the home, with children and the training of them, are, of course, among the most important duties and pleasures of married life, and It certainly does not detract from the power of a woman to make a good companion or to teach and train her. children up to high ideala that she should have the advantage of the higher education. It is not essen tial that a woman who knows much must conform to the unattractive manner anrt ways of the conventional . blue Htocklng that she should make the es.t'jit. of her knowledge a source of disco l tort to thosa with whom she associates or that she should lose her interest in the sentiment and emotions of life or fail to have an ap preciation of beauty and romance. "I am quite ready u. . oiucde that mar riage and motheti:uo.i a-.c a normal utalua for women, and, ot;ior things being equal, she 1h happier in that condition than in any other. But this W far from saying that a woman's life ir a failure because sh has not married uml that her life may not he a fttlluic bscause she has married. The home and th family are the neucletis of the hlfihcst happiness, but if olrcuni utances are such as to force women to ac cept husbands whom they do not reepect and love and whom they would not many except to escape a life of poverty,, the home and the family are not Ukejy to be a model or to furnish an Ideal." "We cannot be blind to tho general move ment l-.i favor of openi.ig niofeand more occupations not dependent , on . physical strength to the female He. Kilucntlon of Mothers, "I do not think we can estimate the enormous advantage that the present gen eration has enjoyed, and tha,t the future generations are to profit by, In the increas ingly sound and thorough education of th mothers of families. "1 do not think we can estimate tho in creased happiness that men and women have experienced who, as husband? and wives, 'have enjoyed the higher sense of companionship that is made possible by the association of ideas between two thoroughly educated people. "The higher education of women should bo sought wholly without regard to a pro fessional or matrlnion al fulute. The mental discipline that It afford, the mental pleas ures that it makes possible, the enjoyineir of reading and study that It invites are enough In and of themselves to he compen sation for the effort In securing It. "Before I close I wisJi to call attention t.) one advantage that I think there Is In tin Independent woman's college. It may he that my view of this l inspired by that sense of infallibility which Dr. David i-':ar Jordan ascribes as a result ot the training at Harvard or Yale, but whatever Iff cause. 1 cannot help giving expression to it It seems to me that there must be a clon. analogy in t lie benefits derived from lite association of life In P.ryn Mawr and thoss which every graduate of a college and un, verslty like Yale values ever more highl than he does the mental discipline arid the learning which he acquires from his collet." course The friendships that are formed In col lege, by uu association of four years ut i time of life when out nature are mallea ble, when or characters are being formed when we aro nut old enough to have h:d our selfishness indurated, when we luspou.I more quickly to the motions, when our Ideals of friendship and our actual friend ships are more nearly the same, are more enduring than friendships formed there after. They are friendships that bear the tooth of time and the trunt of absence. They are friendship that can be taken up upon a moment after an Interval of twenty ye.it und s em as fn-j.li hud frugruut as fl-mer of tiie friendship when It firm budded llnuurr uf Discontent. "There Is one danger of a cuili-go i-d n. tlon and four yeaia' life under colleg.; la-