A he Omaha Sunday Bee NEWS SECTION WEATHER FORECAST. l or Nebraska In-cM !,1. l or Ion a Fair. For weather report ace rK 2. -A PAGES ONE TO EIGHT vol. l No. no. OMAHA SUNDAY MOHNFNd, .JANUARY S 1!M 1 SKVKX blXTION'S H)l.TY-FOlTK PAOKS. SIXUI.K COPY FIVE CENTS. ( i i WOOL GROWERS rm.n l KMi UlU Ail A l.ext uinen.i . national Associa tion ol tmeepmen vill lie H.la Here. SiiARP COrflivbi ON FLOOR Convention Conflict Over Designation of Meeting flace. CHICAGO STRum U Vnndy City Warehouse Men Make Strong light. VICTORY CAMPAIGN'S FRUIT Nrbraakaai Hmmy iruia Manrit tf wrltal Krirnl etatra .414 j .ttarrttral tu tavtara Annnnl Kkuw, loltfLAND. or.. Jan. 7-Specl6l lk ," n,"t,0 Lnd" gram, -Omaha won the next meeting of condition, the -'""".-. ..reed to at ii,... National Wool Growers' association d the caucuses with the under.tandln. fir r(ne nf the most eneraretic eonteats i witnessed on the rioor of tne convention tturlng -the halt century since the aesocla- j tion was founded. so tense haa been the, Strug-) for thenext meeting that the rtgu lar order of business was Oispenwed Willi and the convention proceeded haturaay morning to select the next piace ot meet ing, whfvh was to have been' the last'tnmg bitor tbe convention adjourned 'Saturday evening . The question of where the meeting should an was not so much a selection 01 a par ticular city, but tnose most in tens ted In the wool storage buainess wanted the anno tation to hold Its next meeting at some point aa tar east aa Columbus, O.. but t. rally centered their efforts on getting the nutting tu go to Chicago, where I he wool warehouse Is located, this house Is owned by a large number of wool pi 00 titers . who ave active support to the recommendation vital the convention go to Chicago. riank K. Oooding. former governor of luaho, was elected president ot the asso ciation to succeed his brother, Fred Good ing, who haa been president for three years. yoming .had expected to piace In nom ination the name ot Lr. J. At. Wilson of Douglas for president. Dr. Wilson had lavurad Omaha from the tirst and alood pat by that . city. Hla nam waa finally withdrawn and Wyoming voted for Frank K Uoodlng. ' . ' ftlmnaan of t 4r aa Ally. . Then came the struggle for the conven tion. W. L. Simpson of Cody, Wyo., walked to the platform while Secretary aiker waa reading a moat cordial Invi tation fioni Uovemor Aldrlch of Nebraska, 'l lie governor of Nebraska bad wired the association extending greetings and ' bid tilng it welcome to Nebraska. He assured the members his hearty sympathy with the wool growers' organisation and prem ised to be, on, hand la perasoaily great thera If th.v d;lt come to Nehraeka. V hert the cheera ot the wool men ' died aaay, fter Che giytertjor'a massage ha been read, Mr. Simpson made a speech of ten minutes, telling; what Omaha and Bou.h 1 Omaha' are dulng for tria sheep (rowers in handling the largest receipts of sheep aver senttto a single market and at the same time maintain. ng a market ateady t6 ationg. Me declared It 4 marvel of modern live stock Irandllng the way In which the t'nloa Stock Yards . Company of Sdutli Omaha had bandied from 00,000 to 10.000 sheep per day and maintained the market. Me cl.med by paying a high tribute to what Omaha Is doing all the time, day and night. tar In and year out, for the great states of Wycmlng. Colorado, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, l.'tah and Cali fornia, , This met with applause which continued 'for aeral nilnutea. . When the room waa ncy more quiet, former President Fred Uoodlng, who had Just given the gavel to hla younger brother, waa standing In front ot the house and a. doien , worker, for t'hicago were circulating among the state delegations. Mr. Uoodlng moved that the matter of selecting a place of meeting be left to the newly-elected executive com ttilttee. The' chairman had to call for a second and got It. Or. -James M. Wilson of Wyoming then asked for the floor. Whea Omaha Wlai. "L'onventlona are in the habit of handling their 'own business, and by the delegates who have paid , their own expenses," he an id. "We ought to he able to ahow the people of this country . that we are big enough, to eelect a place of meeting with out putting the ' proposition up to the ex ecutive .committee." This little address was receiving such applause and Dr. Wlison was making such headway that Former President Gooding arose and walking to te platform with drew hla motion and moved that Omaha be made the unanimous choice of the associ ation aa the next place of meeting. The president put the motion and almost eveVy delegate Jumped to hla feet and jelled aye for Omaha. Then three cheera were ' given for Omaha aa the greatest bhrep market In the country and they were, given with a will. A number of the atate delegations had oted to endorse Omaha, among them W m(ng California and Ore-gon. Denver, Colorado Sprlnas. -Cincinnati and Holse were other candltlatea, but they were elim inated by the Invltattona of Omaha and Chicago. From the minute the Omaha delegation i arrived In Portland an a tlve campa'gn has been 'Waged to capture thla convention. The Omahana opened hgradiiuartera at the Portland, kept ocn limine, gave an auto mobile ride to the ladlea visiting the con vention and spread the gospel ot Omaha in the newaiMper. Those who put on the campaign were: A. H. gtryker, secretary of the bouth Omaha l-lve Block exi banes . Joseph Shoemakar of the I'nlon Hnk Varda Co.. WII. II. Wood,' Frank hVoti. C. U. Boguo, J. L.. Paxton. W. M. Karrar. i-'.i W t'ahow and Arthur J. C.inir-i- Thon from Omaha were: Fred Castle of I us Jler Grand. J. M. Guild, commissioner nf th Commercial club, and Will A. Campbell or the pur.ii, uy oureau of the t oinmerclal club. 'fakes I n Tailff laeallon. The principal resolutions submitted to the convention by the resolution comrnlttes Is lie dealing with the tariff. Th comml.t'e tavor h united front by members and growers in deieuae of the present schedule, i ha resolution aa.: ' vv reaffirm our belief In the American ..tent of piotectkin and unequivocally Indorse th application of It. principles as n bod led in th ' present arrangement of a-hedu'e K, aa applicable to th wool , tConiinucd ou feecvud Fag ) fourteen Standpat Senators Walk Out ' of the Iowa Caucus They Say Motion to Appoint Caucus Committee it Violation of Agreement. DK8 MUINK8. In.. Jn. 7.-F1f ty-three out of 104 republicans In the fowa ntt iand linuir of representatives have signed : a refusat to attend the house and aena 1 torlal caucuses called for today, the aen- jaie. at M o'clock this forenoon and the rnMPirrTim 'house at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Of the CUilUrX.illUU.jfrtythe r,fuMU twenty-six ara etand- pattce and twelve aie senyon progrei- Ives there In the house , In the senate er and two atu vitri are thirtee Kenyon supp' v ' obtained - x'-v-V had declined the on. ,y began the diawlng up A' yv-- a special senatorial piimary r to he Introduced when the legl.- latii, e convenes Monday. iJite thla forenoon the Iowa Insurgents 'yielded to the demand of tbe standpatters I that the legislature caucus today should ' hat lr an ttempt Is made to nominate a candidate ror i mien cave. -n.u,. i... .tandrattera will not be bound by any action that la taken Fourteen, standpat senators bolted the caucua called by .thexIowa senate today, when Senator Van Law of Marshalltown, j insurgent moved that the caucus name a caucus committee. The standpatters claimed that this motion was a violation or an agreement that the caucus should deal solely with the senate organisation and that no action ai.ould be taken looking towards the selection of a Cnlted Btates senator. After the standpatters had walked out the seventeen remaining named the taucus committee. Standpatters claim that under the agreement they are not bound by this motion and that they shall attend no more caucuses. The house caucus1 was changed to today. A written agreement has been signed by both factions tbat the caucus shall not take up I'nlted States senator till p. state binder or state printer. It ap pears that Paul PtlUman of Jefferson will be chosen speaker without opposition. Los Angeles Limited Kills Chris Lantau Meet Death Because of Deafness Caused by Accident at Same Cross . ing Twelve Years Ago. . WKST SIDE. Ia.. Jan. 7. (Special Tele gram.) Chris l.antau, about 0 years of age. a farmer living two mile sooth, of town, waa the victim of a tragedy this morning at the Main street Northwestern crossing, when he attempted - to ' drive cross with the IjPb Angeles Limited ap proaching at fifty miles an hour. "Tho engine- ttick the vhres and buggj' squarely, killing both horses, reducing the buggy to debris and carrying the wreck atre in which Lantau's body waa entangled for more than 100 yards beyond the crossing; When tha body, waa -removed from . the wreckage life wa sextlnct. . Coroner Burns, was immediately notified and after viewing the body and inquiring fully Into the clrcumatncea attending the accident decided that an Inquest was un necessary. Residents at Stockton have been notified. A peculiar coincidence bearing upon to day'a accident la that twelve years ago the deceased narrowly escaped death at tha same spot, the horse he was riding being killed by a fast train, Lantau receiving injuries ' which permanently Impaired his hearing, his inability to hear the eleotrlc crossing gong and . the shouted warnings of spectators being thought to be respon sible for the tragedy. . . ORIGINAL ''HELLO BILL" DEAD William, O. Meyers, Past Grand Gi. . alted Rnler nf KlWe, Paeaee Atrar la Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 7.-WIUIam G. Meyers, past grand exalted ' ruler ot the Order of Klks and said to be the original "Hello, Bill" of that organlxatlon, died at his home here today after a long Illness. Mr. Meyers for twenty-three yesrs wa. chief engineer of the plant of the Evening Telegrapfi of thla city and waa widely known. He attended nearly every national gathering of the F.lka, and when he en tered the convention hall from every side came "Hello, Bill." Mr. Meyers was also prominent In the Masonic order. LITTLE GIRL DIES OF FRIGHT Kami l.aarts nf Atlantic, la.. Was Scare r Fire, Is Dead. Who ATIJtNTIC, la.. Jan. T. Special.) Emma I Laarts. aged 7 years, died last night. She I was the victim of a school house fire which started In the roof. She got out aione ann aenned well In the afternoon and waa sent back to school, the blase having done little damage. The next morning she waa un able to get up and In another day she died. IMi' slclans say death was caused by fright. Strange Weather Forecast Shown on Hotel Register By an odd coincidence the Henshaw hotel today Is having aome peculiar hut consist ent weather. It Is, however. Inconsistent with that forecasted for today by L. A. Welsh, tne local .roinmi.iu. . ...u j quite different from the brand being en )o td by other hotels and out-of-doors. j Th Henshaw weather, Ihoua-h, la tndl ! rated not by the thermometer, but by the i register, which by reading down the Sat : urday page with "he skipping of a few name, leads: "Sample. Winter, Fierce, Billiard and Snow." To produce an un j desirable weather forecast one may In j terpolate the l ames ith a few articles, 'adverbs. preiK.sl lions and conjunction. Rut I the weather there wa. produced In thl. wis: , Early Saturday morning C. W. Sample. 1 traveling man of St Paul, registered. Me waa soon followed oy U. 1.. Winter, a real I rstat dealer ot Kansas City, and aa hour DEATH FOR TWO, ANOTHER DYING Walter Osgood, Idle and in Drink, Ends Quarerl with Wife by Death to Both. PEACEMAKER LIKELY TO DIE Ray Johnson, Butcher, , is Fatally Wounded While Interfering. MURDER THREAT MADE GOOD Husband's Oath of Blood Fulfilled by Triple Tragedy. WOMAN FLEES AND IS PURSUED Victim If anted to Her Bfi Homa of Mother trole on Street in the Fashionable Manseoiu Park District. . Wife murder, suicide and probably fatal assault on a peacemaker ended the rage of Walter Osgood, an unemployed ne'er-do-well In a street tragedy at 132S Park avenue, at 10 o'clock yesterday. Osgood and hts wife, orttce. were in stantly killed. Kay Johnson, a butcher, employed at the market of Georze Vraden beig. lol Park avenue, who struck Os good with his fist In an attempt to save the man's wife, received a fatal wound in the neck. He Is dying at Bt. Joseph's hospital. Osgood shot his wife through the head and. turning the gun on his own temple, killed himself. The bodies of both fell In a death embrace on the pavement. The shooting was a fulfillment of threats made by Osgood. Mrs. Ofgood. a child-wife of but Id years, fled from him two days ago. She sought safety In the home of John J. Parrott, at the Park avenue addres. where her mother, Mrs. Jennie Florlne, was employed as house keeper. Osgood learned of hl wife's whereabouts and telephoned the home Fri day evening that he waa coming up to kill Mrs. Florlne Saturday, If her daughter did not return to blm Immediately. Osgood In Idleness. Osgood had not been working for three months, and his young wife supported both by working as housekeeper at the home of Ii C. flmlth at WI3 South Twenty-third street for nine weeks, when, tiring of this, she deserted him two days ago. He had made his home with his wife at the Smith residence. V'pon the disappearance of his wife, Osgood learned quickly whero she had gone and directed his anger at the mother, calling up and threatening her. "I'll sell my life cheap," he said to her over the telephone. "I'll kill you for thla and then myself." True to the given promise. Osgood ap peared at the Parrott home 8aturdny morning, demanding his wife. The young woman .ought safety in a bath room, locking herself in. While Osgood shouted hla demands and flourished hla revolver In the face of Mrs. Florlne. tha .mother faced him and InvlteA him a shoot. " Kill me, if you want to," she told tbe man, "but you must not take Grace away." Duvlng the brief altercation Hemic Parrott- 12 years old, ran to the-livery barn ot . Theodore Bteuben. 133S Park avenue, and Implored Steuben to come and proteot the women. Steuben hastened to the Par rott home and attempted to dissuade Os good. Osgood thereupon turned on Steuben and ordered him gruffly away, and as he did so Mrs. Osgood seised the opportunity to rush from the bath room out of the house. She hurried across the street. Intending to reach a telephone and call the police. Osgood pursued her and waa dragging the young woman back when Johnson, the butcher, Interfered. He atruck Osgood In the face with hla fist, staggering him a half dozen feet, and then turned to meet the oement worker's attack. Osgood fired at his assailant, bringing him down with one bullet and firing another shot astray. Shouts Kelt and Wife. ' The raging . husband then grasped hi. wife with one arm and shot her through the head, .hooting himself with another bullet. The husband and wife were probably In atantly killed. The bodies were taken to the coroner', morgue. Osgood met hi. wife several years ago at her home In Manaon. Ia. They were mar ried against the will of Mr.. Florlne in Omaha February 12, last. Osgood figured in a sensation about a year ago when he "tipped off" to the Jail lit hnrt IhH nlannf1 eai'mio nf th 1nlrtn p...fir tram rnhh-r. in th. roun.v t.ii . He had been taken a. a confident In the Plot, and feared he would be killed if he did not help carry out the murders and escape aa the robbers planned. Osgood suffered arrest previous to that time, on the charge of Impersonating a federal officer. When deputy sheriffs went to arrest him at Florence they wero held off from the home of Mra. Florlne, where he waa stopping, by Mrs. Florlne and tbe girl who waa afterwards to be come his wife. Later the man served a brief Imprisonment and was liberated. American Charted with Thefl, LONION.' Jan. (.-Maurice Joseph Kp pley. an American, was remanded by How street police court today, charge, I witn beins; in possession of 1!.00J worth of notrs of the American Express company, whtcn were reported as lost by tho company last May. later a room was taken by Stephen A. I eral court to clear Its lease to the land Fierce of San Franclsoo. I Litigation haa been In vrogreaa ever since. About 10:90 o'clock Logan Pliszard blew Truskett asserted the pipe line company in from Newton, la. He announced that used undue influence on the Indian boy, Omaha was having some tine weather and spirited lilm awuy and finally bought fruin that he believed he should be able to sell a lot of paint and varnishes here thl. week, as spring la coming. "No," he said. I don't mean that there is a Mr. Spring comlng-l refer to the tea aon when people clean houi-e and paint. I travel for a paint company. R J- Snow, or a traveling man alio came in from Kansaa City and registered under that name, raid be thought he couldn't "fall'' for an interview on the weather. Tho traveling man contended that his name ! was Snow. "1 don't know Mr. Winter." he suiii. b'jt when Winter comes, or If Hlixzard blows lu I think I'll run up to the Sample room " There Is also a Mr A. N. Fast f o:n Chi- e.go etopplng ,t fhe Henshaw. uut 1,1. nam itu t weatbttrly. X "nil up r- waxxjirG it overtime O'""! Events OHIO OIL MAGNATE IS KILLED J..D. S. Neely of Lima is Shot by A. 0. Truskett at Caney, Kan. . CRIME RESULT OF A- LAWSUIT Trnakett, Who Is Prominent in KM aaa Affair.. Fired Tns a.n.t Thronah Hotel Door as III Victim Passed. CANEY. Kan.. Jan. 7.-J. D. ft. Neely, president of the Wichita Pipe Line com pany; presldei.t of the Lima (O.) Trust company and the head of several large oil companies, waa shot and killed at the Palace hotel here thla morning by A. O. Truskett. a prominent buainess man of Caney. The shooting was tho result of HtlKation over an oil lease. Truskett sur rendered Immediately. Truskett was taken by automobile to the county Jail In Inde pendence, Kan. The shooting occurred at the rear of the hotel. Mr. Neely had been sitting in the lobby reading a letter. Truskett, sitting opposite had been watching him closely. When Mr. Neely got up and walked to ward the rear of the hotel Truskett hur ried around to the .ample room. Neely passed hte door of this room. Truskett fired at him twice as he passed. One bul let passed through Mr.' Neely's heart and the other through his left arm. - When em ployes of the hotel reached the prostrate man he waa dead. President Neely arrived here yesterday on his regular monthly Inspection of oil lands and of his pumping plant recently erected hero. The killing Is believed to have been the result of a law suit now pending between Truskett and the Wichita Pipe Line company. Truskett refused to make a statement. His friends say the law suit weiKhed heavily on his mind and that frequently advisors had told him he was being do- celved by the corporation. Truakett'a la I ono of ,,,e olde,t nd "M- famllle. " ,he c,t.y' "'" dWorce1 wlfe Uv ,n I v icnua, rvaii ! Th i.ih Khii-li led to ih litivution be tween Truskett and the pipe line company waa to a tract of oil land four miles south of thla city. Hubert F. Goodman, a minor Indian, who owned the tract leased It sev eral years ago to Hugh Hronson, an oil man, who later disposed of It to Winkler. Anerfleld &. Kicks, a local oil firm for Item. Truskett paid thl. firm $;i,100 for the lease. Pine Company Claims Tract. j Shortly afterward the Wichita Pipe Line company claimed the lease of the tract I saying they had come into possession of it through a lease by Goodman to Fred C. I.osser and Herbert Scott, who were 'inter ested In ihe Wlchitni company. The com pany asaerted that the leasing to Truskett had been illegally done. Owen Owen of Caney, a neniiew of Sen ator oweu of Oklahoma, traveled witli the Indian boy, Goodman, from the time the rival clulma arose until the boy became of age September 24 last. It was said Owen was In the eniply of the Wichita company. On the date Goodman became of age Die Wichita coiuiany began action In the fed- lilm the leaie for Jj.OU FIRE IN HOTEL AT IOWA CITY M. Jam's la DnaiaKvd THPID-Hir Tboaaand Dollars by Karl) Morslnz Ulnae. IOWA CITY, la.. Jan. 7. (Special Tele gram.) The damage to the St. James betel by fire ti ls morning will amrunt to ilvf'C estimated. The Ines Is covered by insurance, chiefly In the Dca Moines, Anchor and Monomphali) la companies. The blaxe gained headway beruath tlie hotel 1 , lTt two loins he?o-e It could be leached. The Fink cigar sine suffered the heaviest. 1a loam in , , llfl f in IT tfl SllOOt IIODO) f.'lfv I ... dr4v,n from th,r r,n. hl the fir which started at Z o'clock. Coming and Going in Omaha jjnvy ,. HIS of the Week, as Viewed by The Bee's Apostle of New Life is in Chicago Jail Evelyn Arthur See, Head of New Cult, and Two Girl Disciples Are Arretted. CHICAGO. Jan. ".-Evelyn Arthur See. aelf-dmiared apostle ot a new life. In whk'h all beings will be perfect, appeared In the municipal court today to aswer to charge of disorderly conduct, following police Investigation ot his apartments and his "absolute life" colony. Two girls, ono 19, and the other 17 year old, who admitted in court they had for months been living with See unchaperoned, also appeared In court under the aame charges. ' Mona Reea, the elder of the girls, was destined, according to the plan of See, to be the mother of the first "nearly perfect" child, she herself being almost perfect, ac cording to the cult.' teachings. The other girl, Mildred Bridges, wa. striving to at tain that .late of purity, she declared, that would place her on a plana with the Bees sin. Mrs. Felicia Rees, mother of Mona, fiao was Interested in the colony and spent much of her time teaching lis principles. She told the police she approved her daugh ter's living with See, aa all were "perfect, and hence, sinless." Sec, In court refused services of an at- torney, saying he had the counsel of Uod and would purify the court room. The hearing waa poatponed until and Sec refused bail. January lit Duluth Boy Bandits Are Lodged in Jail Lads Who Robbed Hotel and Shot Po liceman Captured in Lum ber Camp. Pl'LDTH. Jan. 7 William N. Muxxard Algot Johnaon. the two boy bandits who held -tip the clerk and night porter of a local hotel yesterday morning and then killed Tollceman Chesmore.' who arrested them, are today lodged In the Duluth city Jail, awaiting a formal complaint against them. The hoya were brought In at ) o'clock this morning from a lumber camp twenty-two miles north of thla city. John son expressed regret over his pert in the affair. He Is only IS years old and says he Is glad that he did not do any shooting. Muxzard maintains a sullen demeanor. He la several years older and la bflleved to hkve planned the hold-up. He was the one who did the shooting. Two Killed tn Wrrrk In Texas. ABBOTT, Tex.. Jan. ".Two northbound Missouri. Kansaa A Texas passenger trains collided during a (og here at u o'clock this morning, causing the death of two persons. Dr. K. Aking. dentlat. of Dallaa and II. D. Reynolds. Pullman conductor, of Austin. Several persons on both trains were slightly Injured. Attempt is Made to Kill King Alfonso at Malaga MALAGA. Spain. Jan. 7 -W hat 1. be lieved by many to hav been an attempt on the life of King Alfonso took place dur ing hi. brief vl.lt here Thursday and threw his attendants Into a panic. The king. accompanied by Premier' mass fully realised Just what had hap Cantlejas. General Azpar. minister of war, p ned Kerndarme. had closed in about the tnd Arala. Miranoa. minister e.f marine, spot from which the report arose. It was had arrived here from Madrid, enroute fori Melllla for a week's slay In the vicinity of the Sptnlsh town In Morocco. At the railway station his ma lest y was ac lalined by a great throng that Joyously followed the carriage In which he drove with the maor to the palace of the gov- trnetr general. Arriving at the palace, the king stepped OW7T AGENT" Artist STOUT PAROLEJJAUSES ROW Release of Hall County Murderer Rouses People of Doniphan. CONTEMPT FOR SHALLENBERGER Preparation Made Karl y l ast MhtJrs should receive a reasonable amount .on irri.. So .Notice of Hearing; to Officer. . GRAND tStAND. Jan. (Special Tele- gram.) Information from Doniphan thls morning la to the effect that the proposed demonstration .f disapproval of ex Gov ernor Shallxnberger and W. H. Thompson I of thla city had been postponed until tonight, with the view that with more farmers In the village the demonstration can be made more emphatic. News of Stout'a parolo became generally known here only this morning. "Rotten" Is the general com ment. . "We'll probably hang Governor Shallen bergery. In effigy tonight," tald a deter mined business man over the telephone to night. "The farmers of this section are gathering in town and are a sore bunch." County Attorney Cleary unqualifiedly de clarea Talse the statement attributed to ex-Oovernor ' Shallenberger, that "the county attorneys of Hall and Adams coun ties were notified of the hearing in ad vance." and declared today, noon belne- uhowa thl. Btatement that he did not even I ww ,h, . v,.n ,h Nmm n.rni. a had been had, and had reason to believe that If one was had It was before Governor Shallenberger spoke to h?m about the case over the phone. . In this conversation the governor asked tha county attorney what the sentiment of the people seen was and Mr. Cleary re plied that at the time of the trial auch sen timent' was that Stout should have been hung and he knew of no great change tn the sentiment at the present time. , From .the further conversation had Mr. Cleary gained the Impression that the gov ernor would not even dream of etxendlng the parole. It Is expected that petitions will be sent to Governor Aldrlch from th two counties Immediately to recall the parole or that tha legislature will be petitioned to repeal the law under which thla parole was granted. The Indignation ia augmented here by the fact that only a year or so ago Frank Wallaga. the slayer of Hllllf, whose home Wallage had broken up, was paroled after a year's Imprisonment. K.(;otKHM)ll WILL UAMI PIT sballenberser wave Mtont la lu No srnir Hardened Crlmlunl. (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN. Jan. 7. (Special.,) K Gover nor Shallenberger has shown a determina tion to stand pat on the question of the (Continued on Second Page.) down from the carriage and turning for a moment again acknowledged the salvos of applaus and then entered the palace. As the door swung closed behind him an ex plosion in the crowd outxld drowned the cheers. IWore the alarmed and stampeded found that two persona has been slightly Injured, but no other harm done. An official account of the incident sa It waa uniiniKirtant. A civilian dropped "a pistol enclosed In a box." No forth r tie j talla were made public, Yesterday the king and hi party boarded the royal atbl Ulralda and proceeded for j Melll!. CARNEGIE TRUST COMPANY CLOSED Shadow of Joseph G. Robin on Well Known Institution Causes Third Bank Failure. WAS DEPOSITORY OF CITY FUNDS New York Once Had One Billion on Deposit DEPOSITORS PROBABLY SAFE President Howell Says Situation Could Have Been Saved. VARIED HISTORY OF INSTITUTION Leslie M. Shan- Acted na President nnd llcsliinrd aa fteanlt of Dla agreement with Dickinson Fallnre o Surprise. NKW VORK, Jar. 7 A third bank, v,i eh lh- shadow ot Joseph O. Robin, tho in dicted promoter, had fallen, elnsrd lis doora today and tonltht the stnte superintendent of banks is In control of the Carnegie Trust company, an Institution with wide south ern and western affiliation. An application for th." appointment af a commute- to take charge of the person and estate of Robin ffm denied his rtstor, Dr. Louise Roblnovltch. he Justice Ooff today In (he rtate supreme court. I'nlted States bankruptcy moneys, state and city fund, are all tied up. homln) In varying degre--. of sufficiency. The rompnnv wti named ,he official dpositiry ot federal receiver, and trustees of bankruptcy appointed by the I'nlted State, district court on applica tion of Leslie M. Shaw, who for a perl id was its president, after his resignation from the treasury riennrtmont. A bond of S2j0"n was given, but lhre ara now on deposit t"i0i Involved In composi tions and settlements, all of which will be Indefinitely delayed. Th cits, which at one time had ll.0.Vy) on deposit, still haa J&V4, 000 secured by the Individual bonds ot the directors. The state has JJt.OUO on deposit, amply secured by IIOO.OW bonds. Depositors May Not Lose. The amounts to be paid to the depositors and stockholders will not be known until the state superintendent make public the report of hi. findings, hut William A. Keener, one of the director, and formerly of the firm of Keener A I.e wis, counsel for the company, said tonight: "Bank on what President Howell says, the company will pay dollar for dollar.'' President Joseph T. Howell, who waa in duced to resign the presidency of tha Fourth National bank of Nashville, Tenn., to take charge of the Carnegie Trust com pany, three months ago, waa similarly! op timistic. 1 "There la no reasonable doubt." h. .aid, "that depositors: will be paid In full. In the event of careful liquidation th at ock hold- inoir noioing. i ne amount one rrom nan KB wmti , Mam vj liiv. i i.v lAiiauin will gregate approximately 40 per cent of the deposits. "in twenty-four hours sufficient money j would have been provided to meet the re- quiremcnts. Negotiations were virtually concluded which would have met , all tha exigencies of ihe situation. The brief re spite needed, however, waa not afforded." No Connection with Other Banks. Several of the directors of the company are directors of the Nineteenth Ward bank, and Bradley Martin. Jr., whose name still appears on the stationery 6f the trust com pany aa vice president, although he re cently resigned, is now president of the Nineteenth ward bank. II .aid tonight that there Is no connection whatever be tween tho two institutions, and that he closing of one would no affect the other. In 1U0, when tho Carnegie Trust com pany waa under the presidency of the late C. C. Dickinson, who died mysteriously last Man, an effort waa made to, cnrisqll date the Carnegie Trust company, the Nine teenth Ward bank, the Twelfth Ward bank and the Van Norden Trust company, under the management and name of C'arnegl. . Although Mr. Dickson had been a state bank examiner, he was not persona grata to the state banking department, which for bade the merger under a ruling that It would he impossible for a trust company to consolidate with state banka. Recently the Van Norden Trust company changed Its name to the Madison Trust company and Bradley. Martin, Jr., waa elected presi dent. Closing; " arnrlar, The cloning of Uie Carnegie company to- jday was no surprise In financial circles and j caused little disturbance on the stock ex change. A brief fall In the market was quickly met by supporting orders and at the close the tone was' firm. On tha street the uncertain status of the company had been a matter of common knowledge. in its Driei career It wa organised In IMG It had already passed through one serious period of depression and had known four presidents. The first was Charles C. Dickinson, whone family is still in litiga tion with Insurance companies over tils death. He whh interested In experiment, looking to the transmutation of metals and his brother, Stanton C. I ilcklnson, ad vanced the theory that lie was killed by Inhaling polninoiis ga'es In a laboratory te.it. on this theory (ho family sought lo collect ITO.OtJ accident inKurance. An j autopsy iK-rfui med by experts for the com pany showed, however, that death wa. the I Immediate result of pneumonia and RridKht H dli-ease. Mr. Dickinson resigned and got Leslie M. Shaw, then retired from the Treasury department, to Mined Mm. Mr. Shaw proved a very successful business getter and succeede-d In having many weHein baiilis name the Carnegie as their deposi tary, but be did not agree with Mr. Dick inson, who still retained a large sharer lu directing the policy, and resigned. Mr. I'lcklneon became rtsd.nl again, but lld n't succ.-ed In gaining the confidence of influential banking interests. He wa active and energetic, however, In estab lishing connections with southern busims men. Through hl Influence WlUlaiit J. Cummlnga, formerly of NaMivill,!, Tenn., uerume a shareholder and the wa' thus raved to the r. Hld' nry fur wa Mr. Howell. Dlcbiaaein Healgiis. Hut befoie Ihls time Mr. Dickinson had alieudy ome Into conflict with the state banking di-partrrnnt. Hla plan for a merger with Iwo slate banka and another trust company was dit. allowed, to the re lief of conservative bankers. The Intima tion was conveyed that his resignation would be acctptabl and It was so n ten- den d i John li. livichiiiaii. affillaUuua alios 1