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Daily WHOSE BIRTHDAY TODAY? Look at Ihe Bee's birthday book on the editorial tape of each issue. It is snre to inttrest you. WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska Fair. For Iowa Fair. For weather report kpp paao 2. VOL. XL-NO. 143. OMAHA, FRIDAY MOHX1NG, DECEMBER 2, IDIO-TWELVE PACES. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. The Omaha DEADLOCK' OVER i'ULLALAN KATES Offer of Company to Make Reductions Opposed Both by Ra'1- ds and Attorney G WOULD CHEAPEN I). BERTH Decrease in Case of Son the Lower. ' for S. i D NEITHER SIDE IS Assertions that Cuts Are To and Too Small. STATES TO STAND ON PETITION Hallways Object to' Proposed Artlfla ' on Alienation thai Thr Mnst flenr Portion of Dnrilra of Pfprtiwi, CHICAGO. Dee. 1. An offer of the Pull man company to reduce the ratea charged foT upper berth In sleeping cam 20 per cent where lower berths were priced more than 1150. to make the price of uppera $1.20 as a minimum and reduce some lower berth rated, was oppored before the Inter state Commerce commission here today by attorneys general of four statea and by two rallroada. The Pullman company'a offer left unchanged Pullman neat rates and was to become effective on approval and acceptance by the commission. Opposition to the plan waa offered on the part of the railroad on the allegation that they would have to stand a part of the brunt of the lessened prlcea and by the attorney general on the claim that the reduction waa not aufflclent. "I don't think the If) per cent reduction represents the difference In service value of an upper and lower berth," said Attor ney General Jamea Bingham of Indiana. "It Isn't enough, I aland on our pe tition," raid Attorney General John S. Dawson of Kansaa. "Here, too,, agreed Attorney Luther Waltere, representing 'Attorney General Norwood of Arkansas. "It Isn't At all satisfactory," concluded Attorney General Charles West of Okla homa. Deadlock Hesnlts. . Commissioners Franklin K. Lane and E. K. Clarke, therefore, 'were confronted by an offer of voluntary reduction of ratea for uppera and alio a number of material re ductions on lower berth rates, which the railroads said were too large, and the state officials called too small. The whole mat ter came up on the combining of all com plaints against sleeper rates In one hear ing by the commission, following an order from the federal circuit court that pre vious cuta ordered by the commission were not Justified. Tha Pullman company'a reduction sched ule Included the following cuta on lower berth rates, upon which, aa on remaining existing rates, tha fO per cent charge for uppera,' .waa proponed. 4o" be applied: the effort being, according to the company'a representatives, to charge aa average of t mills per mile: Chicago to New York New York to Tampa .60 Poughkeepale , to ikhart . and Houth ' Heiul. Ind v... 1.00 New York to St. Augustine, Fla., or Savannah, Ga l.OJ New York to feast fit. Louis, III 76 "I'nchanged. New rates proposed by the company in clude these: Ft. Paul or Minneapolis to Seattle and Pacific coast points til New York to New Orleans S Chicago to San Francisco IS The former Mlnnesota-Paclflo coast rate was 112 and from Chicago to San Fran cisco $14. The commission will hear further argu ments, and if held advisable, will receive evidence In the apeclflo cases 'Combined In one bearing. ' Great Northern Protests. The Great Northern railroad, which owna Ua own sleeping cars, protested against the proposed reduction In rates on the ground that it. too, would have to meet the reduction and would have to stand the ei.tlre loss. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul roud, which also owns its own sleep ers, was represented, but no comment was made on the proposal. J. 8. Fernald,, assistant general solicitor of the Pullman company, said; "We decided that although the upper bertha cost more to build, furnish and maintain than the lowers, public discrim ination against the uppers required a re duction in their price. Where the lower berth la rated at 11.60 the upper will be tl.35 and In all Instances other than this thi upper will cost SO per cent of the lower. "Not a rate has been raised by this new schedule, but we are endeavoring to adjust all charges to correspond with the east ern standard of mills a mile. However, tha lower berth rate from Chicago to New York is unchanged." ONE BIO F0R BATTLESHIP Newport Rom (lewpaar Offers te Betid Vessel Within Six Million Dollar I.I salt. WASHINGTON, Dec. l.-The Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock company submitted the only bids for the construc tive of the new z7,000-tun battleship au thorised to be constructed at a private shipbuilding plant. The bids were opened at the Navy department today. The other battleship authorised at the last session of cngrese will be built at the New York navy yard. The Newport Newa company will con struct the battleship in thirty-six months and guarantees twenty-one knots speed. It 1 generally believed at the Navy de partment that lack of competition for the battleship contracts waa due to the pub lication In the naval ' appropriation bill stipulating that the work must be done In accordance with the eight-hour law. Aa all the proposals of the Newport News company are under the f.000.Ktt limit pre scribed by law, it Is generally believed the cutupany will receive the contract. The two battleships will be the largest and most powerful vessels In the United btates navy. FIVE HUNDRED FOR A KISS launa Wldovr at Bareveport Given Judgment Attlait Man Old l'.aoauh te Kavw Belter. FHRKYEPOltT. 1.. I. L In the dis trict court yesterday Judge A. J. Murff held that the kiss of a young widow was worth t-'xX'. The decision was rendered In the casw of Mrs. Grace Hunter against J. K. Norman, former postmaster at OH City, this parish. It as at ths office that the alleged offense was committed. She sued for Ji .. Judge Murff admonished Norman that be lovki-d old enough to know better. Oil and Live Stock Interests Have Their Inning at Hearing Evidence in Eastern Case is Completed j and Agreement Beached for Ar guments to Begin January 9. WASHINGTON. Dec. 1. As the final chapter of the testimony In the eastern trunk line freight advance case, witnesses testified before the Interstate Commerce commission today that the Increases would seriously handicap the Independent oil and live stock Industries. G. W. Bolts, traffic manager of the National Petroleum com pany, contended that Instead of an increase a reduction In the freight rates was Im perative If the Independents were to be per mitted to exist. William w: Rorer of Philadelphia, a cer tified public accountant, who haa been examining the accounta of the Union Pe troleum company, testified that the com pany'a total volume of sales waa 13,000,000 annually, that Ita plant and equipment was valued at 130,000, and that the net annual profit waa J44.000, from which must be de ducted 120,000 for depreciation of property. 8. II. Cowan of Fort Worth, Texas, coun sel for the Cattle Kaisers' association and the American Live Stock association, said the advance spelled Injustice to his Inter ests, the increased schedule ranging from 10 to 19 per cent. James I. Whits' of Kansas City, traffic manager of the Burnham-Hanna-Munger company, stated that the Increasea carried an additional cost to them of 16,000 a year. This closed the testimony. Counsel for both aides In conference reached an agreement that Frank Lyon for the shippers should open oral argu ments on January , when the eastern trunk lines territory case would be taken up. The arguments In the western case, it waa agreed, would begin on January 16. Express Employes Accept Settlement Driven and Helpers Are Given an In crease of Five to Eight Cents an Hoar. NEW YORK. Deo. L-Flnal settlement of the strike among express company em ployes which tied up the express business of the big transcontinental companies In this city for several weeks recently waa effected early today, when a meeting of the drlvera and helpers voted to accept the terms offered by their employers. The men returned to work some time ago on the understanding that an adjustment aa to wagea and houra would be reached by December L The agreement now reached goes into effect today. An advance of ' from 6 to 8 per cent In wagea waa agreed to by the majority of the companies. It . was understood that there will .be further aegntlaUons with the Adama Express company officials, the men ot .that company not being entirely satis fied with the terms' offered.' but accepting the new schedule tentatively. The eleven hour day wilt rule for all the men and work on Sundays and holidays will not be required. The hew agreement establishes the open shop. The dragging of the negotiations through the last several days had caused fears of a possible Christmas tieup of express mat ter, but these were dissipated by the agreement reached today. Pennsylvania Gains Twenty-One Per Cent Population of Keystone State is More, Than Seven and a Half Millions Figures for West Virginia. WASHINGTON, Dec. L the population of the state of Pennsylvania Is 7.575,111, ac cording to statistics of the census made public today. This is an Increase of 1.31,99, or II per cent over ,902,U5 In 1900. The Increase from 1890 to 1900 waa 1.044.101. or 19. per cent. The counties ot Pennsylvania having more than 100,000 population are: Allegheny .....l.OlltfS Lehigh Berke 1K.2?1 Luxerne Blair 1S ,8 Montgomery 118, W.2 S43.1-S 1S,S'K) 127.W7 Cambria . Chester .. Dauphin . lelaware Erie li4,1S Northampton 1U9.21J Northurnber- l:.IM land 111.420 in. 90S Philadelphia. 1.64!.OOl 115. 517 Schuylkill .... Sc7,894 lrr 419 Washlnrton .. 14S.KM1 Fayette ljickawanna.. 2 S70 Weetmoorland 231. :H Lancaster .... ltf2.029York 136,403 The population of the state ot West Vir ginia Is 1.221,119. according to statistics of the thirteenth oenaua tnada public today. Thla la an Increase of SuI.SIS, or 17.4 per cent over 958,800 In 1900. The Increase from 1890 to 1S00 was 194,006. or 35.7 per cent Ranchman Barricades Himself After Fight John H. Dunbar Shoots H, H. Miller and Then Fortifies Himself in His House. VALKNTINE, Neb., Dec 1. (Special Tel egrerrl.) John H. Dunbar, a ranchman, shot and dangerously wounded Womer II. Miller, also a ranchman, at a plaice twenty miles southwest of Cody. They were hav ing trouble over Miller's sheep. - Dunbar is now barricaded In his house and Sheriff Roseeler has left with a posse to arrest him. It is thought he will make a fight and will resist arrest. Negro Holds Up Train Passengers and is Shot MEMPHIS. Tenet.. Dee. t Jack Thomas, negro, of Blythevllle, Ark., turned bandit tonight, terrorised and robbed passengers on a westbound St. Louis and San Fran cisco fast train and In the end was ahot to death by A. B. Walton, railroad watch man. The train had just started across the bridge over the MlsslaJppl on the outskirts of Memphis, when Thomas, revolver In hand, emerged thru a the doorway which separated the whits) read negro smoking compartments. In true frontier t)u) the negro com manded "handa up" and without further ceremony a score of handa went up. Then he passed his vlctuue aloug Into the (ee;ro BALFOUR'S COUP ONLY BOOMERANG? Leaders Assert Opponents Changed Policy in Last Effort to Catch . Votes at Any Cost. TARIFF REFORMERS LUKEWARM More Ardent Speakers Not So Ready to Endorse Fledge. UNIONISTS MUCH ENCOURAGED House-to-House Canvass Continues in Spite of Weather. LIBERALS NOT DISHEARTENED They Bee la Attempt to Change Issue aa Rffort to RrssU Power at the Sacrifice ot Prin ciples. LONDON, Dec. l.-The ultimate effect of the oppoaitlon'a attempt to unload the tar iff reform Issui for the purposes of the present campaign Is still in doubt. While the unionists were greatly encouraged by Mr. Balfour's sudden and surprising an nouncement that he would not object to the submission of the question to a refer endum, the leader's bold stroke haa far from disheartened the liberals, who find therein good ammunition and are accusing their opponents ot changing their policy dally In a desperate effort to catch votes and so secure power at any cost. Moreover, the more ardent tariff reform ers, who yesterday congratulated Mr. Bal four on his skillful maneuvering, were not so ready today to endorse his pledge. Speaking at Manchester, Andrew Bonar Law, unionist member for Dulwlch division of Carhberwell, refused "to eat my words," adding that it the unionists obtained an adequate majority at the polls they would be bound to enact a tariff reform measure. The flrat members returned to the new Parliament will be unionists. In many constituencies nominations will be made tomorrow and In at- least nine instances there will be no contests. -These Included the city of London seats and those held by Joseph Chamberlain and Jesse Colling of Birmingham and George Wyndham of Dover. House to House Canvass. The weather for the campaign scarcely could be worse. Outdoor meetings planned at many' places necessarily have been abandoned. The house-to-house canvass ing, however, continues and there Is no letup In the usual Indoor demonstrations. The leaders are keeping hard at it. Home Secretary Churchill la leading the van of the government forces, address ing two or three meetings every evening, besides making brief speeches during the day while traveling from one end of the country to the other. ' v Frederick E. Smith, a barrister and writer for the WaJtoa division of Liverpool, Is tunning a good aeooad 4o the 'secretary, while Chancellor Lloyd-George, John Burns and. other effective speakers , from both sides are keeping busy. Lord Lansdowna la ahowing great energy In support of his proposals for tha reform of the House of Lords. Today he ad dressed a big meeting at Portsmouth in the Interests of Lord Berestord, whose seat for Portsmouth Is seriously threatened by tha liberals. Sir Edward Grey has arranged to reply to Lansdowne. , The weather has Incapacitated many can didates and speakers, among tha number being Lewia Haroourt. - secretary of state for the colonlea, and Reginald McKenna, first lord of the admiralty. The women, as usual In England, are tak ing a prominent part In the campaign and residents of the east end, where the work ing class communities live, are frequently diverted by the appearance of motor cars filled with fur-clad women. COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST EXECUTOR OF YERKES' WILL Widow Allrarea that Louis Owsley Is Misapplying Pnnds and Aska for His Removal. NEW YORK, Dec. 1. Alleging on in formation and belief that Louis Owsley has "wasted and Improperly applied" the funds of the estate of Charles T. Yerkea' and that he turned over to the Chicago Rail way company $4,494,000 par value bonds at a price that gave a heavy loss to the estate, Mrs. Mary Adelaide Yerkes, . widow of the traction magnate, today applied to the aurrogate'a court for his -removal as ancillary executor of tha Yerkes will. Owsley lives In Chicago. CHICAGO, Dec. 1 Similar action In opposition to Louis Owsley's executorship of the Charles T. Yerkes estate aa that taken in New York la in the probate court here. Mr a. Yerkea questions Owsley's offer to sell 4. 494,000 in bonds for SO per cent of their par value. She asks the sale be for bidden. KANSAS CITY MAN'S APPEAL W. It. Clarke Says Government of At berte Wronafnlly Cancelled Contract with Him. EDMONTON, Alberta. Dec. 1. W. R Clarke, president of the Alberta & Great Waterways Railroad company, haa ap pealed to the United Statea government authorities for protection from a loss he says he will surfer as a result of what he clalma Is the autocratic action of the gov- mnmeui oi anoiner country in cancelling a contract wltn him for a railway to be built to the north. Clarke Is a resident of Kansas City. section of the car, emptying their pockets as they went along. Four had been divested of their purses and trinkets when Walton appeared cn the scene, summoned from the rear platform by a fare collector, who had escaped the eye of the negro. Walton fired as he entered the coach, the bullet striking the negro Just above the heart. He staggered and attempted to aim his weapon, but Walton continued his fire two other bullets lodging in the negro's body. Thomas toppled over when the last bullet struck blin and was already dead when the aatchntan made his wsy throngh the now panic-stricken passengers. One of Waltcn's bullets went alld. striking an uni dentified negro and lufUctiug a slight wound. From the Minneapolis Journal. MISS tAFT MAKES-EER DEBUT Daughter of President. Greeted by So ciety of Washington. ' ' THIRD DEBUTANTE IN TEN TEARS Eietatln asd Mrs. Taft Present Grn rlona Yeans; Wsntn at Brilliant Bceeptlon to orflclnl Circles' -" of Capital. (From a Staff Corrspondent.) WASHINGTON, Deo. 1. (Special Tele gram.) Washington society today for the third time in less than a decade welcomed a White House debutante In the person of Miss Helen Taft, who made her debut this afternoon in one of the most brilliant social functions of the season. The. daughter of President and Mrs. Taft was presented at a reception given between S and 7 o'clock, membera of the diplomatic corps and official circles, aa well aa other residents of the capital at tending;. Mlsa Taft may be described as the at tractive . type of the old fashioned girl aa contrasted with the modern young woman, whose ataying at home long enough to meet the frienda of the family for a debut reception is really regarded aa a queenly concession. - Miss Taft haa been a good student and most of her holiday pleasures have been with her home circle. She has traveled and her ideas have been formed from a personal view as well as from books. She Is JuFt as fond of the pleas ures suitable to her age as any girl she knows, but she can also subordinate their number when other uses for her time are suggested. Like Mlsa Roosevelt. In some waya Miss Taft la not unlike the last White House debutante. Miss Ethel Roosevelt, as both mothers have had similar ideas aa to the bringing up of their daughtera and desired as little pub licity as possible to attend their move ments. Assisting her moth.;r, however, and sometimes. It is expected, taking her place at White House formal functions, Miss Taft will have a more striking position than has ever before been enjoyed by so young a girl. Her friends say that she has the poise and confidence and a regard for whut is due to others that will stand her well In this regard, if she is called upon to assume more than the enjoyments of her own home and of those of her friends'. Everybody wants to entertain In her honor, and a number are already able to announce the dates on which they may Invite their friends to meet her. A long Ust of dinners, balls, cotillons, luncheona, etc... will oc- (Continued on Page Two.) A new heading on the first Want-ad pagC.-For Christ mas." This classification will run from now until Christinas. Shoppers will find it most useful, as nil sorts of pretty and useful Christmas presents are advertised. Look this column over; it will help you Bolve your Christmas prob lems. Have you read the want ads today! Dare He Do It? President Taft's ' ; ; ..-Message'Before;;.;',. Cabinet Meeting Document Considered for Two Hours and Several Slight Changes Made Special Message Comes. WASHINGTON, Dec. L After having been revtaed three times, President Taft'a message to congress was submitted to a special cabinet conferenoe today. Consid eration of the document occupied more than two hours and it is said that several alight changes were made. According to the latest report1 the message will be ready ' for distribution Friday night or early Saturday. Following his regular message President Taft will, send a special message to con gress, embodying the report of the board of engineers appointed to consider the reclamation projects in the west under the S2Q,0U0,000 appropriation made at the last session of congress. The engineers have reported on a number of projects and it is said they have recom mended some for completion and the aban donment of others. Ethel Leneve Not on Board the Majestic Dr. Crippen's Former Companion Re ported to Have Taken Passage, but Search Fails. NEW YORK, Dec. 1. Though the offi cers of the steamship Majestic declared on Its arrival lr. quarantine last night that Miss Ethel Leneve was not on board. Immi gration officials and others made a care ful search of the vessel today when It docked to see If the woman companion of Dr. Hawley H. Crlppen, who was hanged for killing his wife. Belle Elmore, waa a passenger. Not a trace of Mlsa Leneve could be found. EYEBALLS ARE IDENTIFIED Uoy Who Left Home to See World Be. lleved to Ilnve Been Killed by Train. PEN3ACOLA. Fla.. Dec. 1. Two eye balls picked up today along with mangled fragments of the body of a young man who was killed by a Louisville & Nashville railroad train near here, were partially Identified as the brown eyes of a Pensa cola youth who left his home recently to see the world. The mutilated parts were brought to Pensacola and several persons declared they recognized the eyes of tha boy. A corroborative similarity waa found also in the hair picked up at the acene. Post Compares Ballooning to Beer, Aeroplanirig to Whisky NEW ORLEANS. Deo 1. Ballooning Is a barrel of beer, aeroplanlng a drink of whisky," said Augustus Post, who, after establishing an American balloon record with Hawley, entered an aeroplane meet here today. "If you are thirsty you want the beer; for stimulation, whisky," he continued. "They have been working with the balloon fur lilt years. It is only within the last three or four years that much has been done to develop the aeroplane. Walt until they have worked more than a century with the aeroplane aud wa can tell where the two aland." GOVERNORS 'HAVE GOOD TIME Somber of Speeches Prepared for Con ference Are Not Delivered. TOO MANY SOCIAL FEATURES Neat Session Will Be Held at Spring Lake, N. J.- Governor Woodmw Wilson Will Be the Host. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. l-fioma of the governors attending the third annual conference here will leave with carefully prepared discourses on Intricate subjects tucked away for future reference. The eoclal feature of the conference baa been paramount, and haa taken so much time that little business has been transacted. At the session this morning general dis cussion of Governor Hadley's address of yesterday waa taken up. He apoke on 'Employera' Liability and Workmen's Compensation." Various Ideas were given, but each waa to the effect that our laws on these . subjects were Inadequate and that the states should carefully revise them. The appalling death rate on rail roads and In mines of thla country were compared with the lower rate In European countrlea In discussing the vast differ ence In laws of foreign nations and ours regarding the liability of employers. . Aa Interesting Flsnre. Though not a member of tha confer ence, one of the interesting flgurea at thla meeting la Gamaliel Bradford of Boston, who was accorded the honor of addressing the body, even though It was pressed for time. Naturally, the governors liked his speech, advocating more power for the chief executive and curbing of legislatures. He bears a remarkable re semblance to Speaker Cannon and came from Boston on his own lnatlative to preach a doctrine which he thinks will materially aid the statea and crystallse the movement for a yearly conference of governors that will bring- benefits to the Jeraey bad great advantage over other states In laying ita Walms for the next meeting of the governors. It is the only state represented by a governor and a governor-elect and the place they asked tha conference to convene la remote from .those aoclal activities that the visitors have partaken Of here. The theory Is advanced that more real work will be done at Spring Lake, N. J., than would be done at any state capital where the residents naturally would want to shower entertainment upon such a distinguished assemblage. Other statea wanted the next conference, but two talking for New Jersey uid the addod inducements of Hiring Lake over a capital won and Woodrow Wilson was made tha host Following a discussion on the subject of employers' liability and workmen's com- (Continued On Page Two.) MEMPHIS, Tnn.. Dec. L-A three daya' aviation tournament opened here today. Among those who will take part are Mol sant. Barrier, Garroa, Simon, Hamilton, Friable and Seymour. A feature scheduled for todsy Is a tri angular sixteen mile flight from the avia tion grounds over the city and along the Mississippi river with a return to the start ing point The program also includes a five mile raoe between Seymour and Hamilton. Owing to the cold, hlsh wind prevailing, it Is doubtful whether the long distance flights wUl be attempted, FLEGE T1UAL ON; CALL VlTiN ESSES Taking- of Testimony Apainst Farmer, Charged with Murder of Sister, is Commenced. NEIGHBORS TAKE THE STAND Members of Hendricks' Family Talk of Fatal Day. DEFENDANT SHOWS DEVOLVES Accused Man Seen with New Weapon Before Tragedy. HIS ACTIONS ARE QUESTIONED Says ftuaupect Uetraed I nasaal AnsU ety In Manner Coroner nnd Sheriff Tell of Finding; the Uodr. PONCA. Neb., Dec. 1 (Special Tele gram.) Taking of evidence against William Flege, charged with the murder of h a sister Louise un June 3t, began this after noon with the testimony of wltnessea early on the acene of the murder. Nineteen wlt nessea have been sworn by tha state. Evi dence thus far Introduced relates to the finding-of the girl' a body near the home, the arrival of neighbors on the acene, the coroner'a investigation and the purchase of a revolver by the man on tril. The Jury waa completed at W;30 o'clock thla morning after ninety veniremen had been examined. All challenges were ex hausted by both the prosecution and the defense. ' The opening statement occupied the aea sion after the completion of ths Jury until noon. The prosecution early raised objec tion to the argumentative nature of the presentation of the case by the defendant's counsel. The contrversy over this point often grew heated. Witnesses for the . state were sworn nt the opening of the afternoon session. Henry Lesser, executor of the estate of the defendant's father, first to arrive on tho scene after the rumor of murder had spread over the countryside, told of the finding of the body. Lesser was the first witness called by the state. Body Mine; at Gate. The body of Louise Flege was lying near the gate Inside the yard on her back, with hands extended ' and limbs straight, ac cording to the witness. There was a bullet hole near the center ot the left cheek and one over the right breast The clothes were burned around the wound and the sunbonnet was nearly burned up. There waa blood on the dress from below the knee to the bottom. Dr. Williams of Wayne, Dr. J. . R. Graham of Allen, coroner of Dixon county, County Attorney Kingsbury and . Sheriff Maskell were called. They arrived at t o'clock the morning of July L . Heftry Hendrleksr., testified that June 30 William Flege "Was " at ' his'oroe and. cams Into the field where he and his boy were plowing corn. The witness said Flege went home and later came back, saying his Bister Louise had been shot. Hendrick and his son, Henry, went to the Flege home and saw the body lying in the yard. Dr. Graham testified that a post mortem was held after midnight and the wound" In the cheek was found to extend thaough the head to behind the right ear. The bullet could not be found. The wound In the right breast showed that the bullet entered Just above the nipple and lodged in the spinal column Just below the stomach, passing by the fifth rib, according to the coroner. John C. Graetner, formerly an undertaker at Wayne, arrived with Mr. Beckenhauer, his successor in business, at U o'clock and applied enough embalming fluid to check decomposition. Fleae Ordered Weapon. Henry Hendrick, Jr., testified that some time last spring Flege had written' a letter ordering a revolver from a Chicago mall order house. He said William had shown him the letter sealed and ready to be sent. Hendrick bantered him to open It and let him see the contents and offered him a dime, which Flege accepted. Hendrick says he tore the letter open and threw the order away, telling Flege be was foolish. This ended that deal, but Flege three weeks later exhibited a revolver such as was named In tne order he had torn up. The afternoon of June 80, he said, Floge came out where he was plowing corn and acted In a very strange way, looking down cast. All the witnesses testified to strange actions by the defendant, at the home on the fatal night and at the funeral and on other occasions. -- RATE OF DISCOUNT REDUCED Bank of Knajland Annooneea Cnt te Fanr and One-Half Per Cent. LONDON, Dec. 1. The rate of discount of the Bank of England waa reduced today from S to 4Vi per tent. The lower rate, which the market hardly expected thla week, was only decided upon after a pro longed discussion by tiio directors of the bank. The raBt fortnight, however, wit nessed a parked casing In the monetary situation and a ttra'ly ve In ls bank's reserve. Exchange on the Argentina and India, from which tho danger of gold with drawals was mostly tt.M-Mcimd, Is now decidedly more (auraMe to London, while discount latea on continental centers are lower. Egypt, it is expected, will furnish the bulk of the Indian told requirements. The proportion of Uie bunk'e ruserve to liability this week Is ViZ, per cent; last week it was Gi ft per cent. HOURS UNDER LOAD OF LUMBER Homesteader, Who lies Both Lena Broken. Finally llrwued by Neighbors. SIOUX FALLS. S. D Dec. 1 . (Special.) To lie for a period of tlx long hours under an overturned load of lumber, with bntli legs broken, was the distressing experience of Patrick Waterbury, a Tripp county homesteader, who renldes south of the little town of Hhoemaker. He was return ing to his homestead with a load of lum ber, with which ha expcct.'d to construct a new dwelling house, and while going down a steep hill the wagon tippej over, buryiiig Waterbury under the lumber. Ills legs having been broken he wan unable to do anything for himself. After lying under the lumber for six houra, he waa dis covered by another homesteader named Reed who chanced to pats along tha roe J and who had him taken to a plsce where he could receive the medical attention JUUi be rev.uUaJ, J
