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Daily' Looking Backward This Day in Omaha fLlrty Twenty Tea Years Aft Sea ZOltovUl Fifa of oacn lssnt HE THE WEATHER. Cooler JL VOL. XLI-NO. 302. , OMAHA- TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 4, 1912 TWELVE PAGES. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. Omaha Bee RIVALS LINING DP INJOHICAGO Joseph B. Kealing of Indiana Reaches Windy "City and Opens Taft Headquarters. M'HARG BEINGS THE BRIEFS Roosevelt Man Ready to File Contest ' Papers with Committee. HOWELL'S STAND IS DISCUSSED Roosevelt Leaders Not Taking Part 1 in Controversy. TWO CONVENTIONS IN ARIZONA Taft and Roosevelt Men Meet In Same Hall and Nominate Six , Delegates Each to Chl ( " cago Convention. CHICAGO, JuneS.-The vanguard of the political hosts who are to make Chi cago their camping ground until the nom ination of a republican candidate for president arrived today and hotel" corri dors and republican national committee headquarters were thronged with the skirmish line. Joseph B. Kealing of In diana opened the Taft headquarter in readiness for tse arrival of Congressman William B. McKlnley. the head of the Taft forces, who is. expected before night. Ormsby McHarg, who Is to represent the Roosevelt men In contests, also ar rived with a batch , of briefs to be sub mitted to the committee in the hearings. The claim of R. B. Howell, elected re; publican national committeeman from Ne braska, that he should be seated in place of Victor Rosewater, the present com mitteeman from Nebraska, continued to be the main topic of conversation among the politicians. . Xot Interested in Howell. Mr.' McHarg and other Roosevelt lead ers said that' they were taking no part In the Howell controversy, and members. -of the national committee who are. Wed with the Taft. forces intimated that the claim of the Nebraska man . would bo quickly settled by the committee when It was formally presented. They took the view that as the national committee Is not recognized by statute the election ot a committeeman by state primary or by other; means would . not necessitate the setting aside of the precedents and change the membership before the completion of the convention. . Alexander H. Revell, head of the Il linois Roosevelt league, arrived from the Oyster Bay conference." He said that the general Roosevelt committee was ap pointed to watch the progress of affairs, and declined to discuss the question of th( temporary chairmanship which has been preferred to Senator Ellhu Root by the subcommittee on , arrangements. "The jrreat thing which we are working "for,.: laid 'TtfAeVell' ths nomlna ' tlon ot Theodore. Roosevelt v5? shall ' atTcJtto' that great idea and ,.pa 4Wi. atUhMotfito -ndnsent!4W.rti ifc . V "'fcisnboro of Tnit Sjaff. ' Joseph' B Kealingannounced that the Taft headquarters' staff would Include William Barnes." Jr., df New York; New all Saunders of Tennessee, Senator Mur ray Crane of Massachusetts, Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania, former Senator Hemingway .of Indiana, J: T Adams of Iowa, G. J. Diekema of Michigan. .Charles D. . Hilles, secretary to the president, is expected although the time fcjr his arrival is not now known. :'ledrlna-hans Given Certificate. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., June It-Governor Hadley, as permanent chairman of the republican state convention, certified today to ' the election of Thomas K. Nledrlnghaus as national committeeman for Missouri. If the national committee in Chicago seats R. B. Howell of. Ne braska, Neldrlnghaus will demand the seat of Charles Nagel, secretary of Com merce and Labor, who is the present committeeman from Missouri. Tito Delegations from Ariaona. TUCSON, Ariz., June 3.-Taft and Roosevelt delegates held state . conven tions in the same hall today and each elected six delegates to the Chicago con vention.' . ' An' uproar developed immediately after J L. Hubbell, chairman of the state cen tral committee, had called the gathering (Continued on Second Page.) The Weather FOR NEBFASKA Generally fair, ex cept unsettled in southeast portion; cooler. , FOR IOWA Unsettled weather, with probably showers; cooler in east portion. Temperature at Omaha Testertfay. Honr. 1 n.v oTiN S::::::::::::::62 51 a. m 66 . 8 a. m 87 E 70 m 10 a. m 7 vi. u a. m 4..4 ; l 12 m 73 L 1 P- Tt r p- m : 75 i- Id. m 7 D j P- 76 S p.-in.. 78 p. m 76 7 P. m 78 8 P. m.. 71 Comparative Local RefTord. " 1912.1911.1810.1909. Highest yesterday 76 97 61 7J Lowest yesterday 62 73 64 58 Mean temperature 69 85 60 66 Precipitation....... 00 T T T Temperature and precipitation depart-' ures from the normal: , Normal temperature eg Excess for the day... 1 Total deficiency since March 1 S3 Normal precipitation 17 inch - Deficiency for the day 17 inch Total rainfall since March 1.... 5.73 inches Deficiency since March 1 3.68 Inches Deficiency for cor. period, 1911. 3.08 inches Deficiency for cor. period, 1910. 6.92 inches Report from Stations at 7 P. M. Station and State Temp. High- Rain of Weather. 7 p.m. est fall Cheyenne, clear : 68 70 , .00 Denver, cleaer 76 80 .00 Des Moines, part cloudy.. 68 76 .00 Dodse City, clear 80 , 90 .00 Lander, clear '. 74 76 .00 North Platte, clear 72 74 .00 O nana, clear "6 . 62 .00 l'.;oblo. part cloudy 80 J 90 .00 r.Hpid City, clear 62 ' 68 .08 Sal-. Lake City, clear 78 - 78 ' .00 Siir.ta Fe, clear.. 80 84 .00 ShuKan. clear H it .oc '..-: City, clear 66 73 .00 Valentine, clear 66 66 .00 L. A. WELSH. Local Forecaster. Up to the National Committee 1 11 1 Contests for Delegates to the Chicago Convention to Be Settled After Hearings May Determine the Outcome. . BY VICTOR ROSEWATER. Editor of The Bee and Acting Chairman Republican National Committee. ' South Dakota with its primary today winds up the list of states to select dele gates to the republican national conven tion. South Dakota has ten delegates, which are conceded in advance to the Roosevelt side and have been so. figured in all of the calculations, and .their selec tlon will be merely in the nature of & formality. ---. It is now plain that while both the Taft managers and the Roosevelt managers are loudly claiming to have enough in structed and committed delegates to con trol the convention and to elect their pre ferred candidate, that neither side has sufficient confidence In its claim to sit still and let the other do the proselyting. The next part of the combat, therefore. Is to be before the national committee, which is to convene, in response to a call I Issued a month ago, at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon next in the Coliseum at Chicago. Front responses I have had from various members of the committee. It may be set down without hesitation that every man who can be there will at tend or be represented by a proxy if unable to answer in person. Meeting- of the National Committee. ' The committee will hold its , sessions from day to day . continuously , from 10 o'clock ' in the , morning until 4 or 5 o'clock In the afternoon without interrup tion even for. lunch, which will be served in an adjoining room to a few at a time, as desired, so that the presentation of a contest. may go right along, and all. be within: reach of a "vote at any moment. Contests will be taken up by calling the states alphabetically, and be determined by a motion to put the names of a par ticular set of delegates on the temporary roll. ' Sooth Dakota Precedent. The South Dakota primary is a re minder that this form of electing dele gates is not entirely new and novel for the present convention. South Dakota chose its delegates to the last repub lican national convention in 1808 try direct primary, and, more than that'. South Da Taft and Eoosevelt Claim Controiof the OhioConvention , COLUMBUS, O., June 3. "No compro mise" was the slogan of both Taft and Roosevelt leaders as the hour approached today when they would go into conven tion to fight for Ohio's big six, the six degates-at-lrge, t-Jrge, to .than4loiiat' oi4mel.c4 eourt 1ft the wlr; pool wtiruat Chicago. f . - j cases in New' York 'last July.J?& ventlon at United "t&tena.for Theodore E. Burton, temporary thafrmart (I'ttr vention, also declared there would pe no compromise in. the -convention and said that the gossip that the. delegation would be split was not founded on fact, "Cuy ahoga eounty's uninstrueted delegation of fifty-three stands forty-five for Taft and eight for Roosevelt'," said Senator Bur ton. Committee Chairman Watler Brown, leader of the Roosevelt camp, 'declared that his figures of 430 of thd 754 dele gates had been reached without counting any of the Cuyahoga delegation. : U C. Laylln, Taft's state manager, holds to the claim that the president will have 408 delegates. Hotel Workers Will Call Out More Men NEW YORK, June 3.-The strike of waiters and cooks ' for higher wages, Shorter hours and union recognition en tered upon its second week today with both strikers and employers claiming the victory. Of the two score hotels and restaurants affected, less than half a dozen had closed their dining room doors and the remainder appeared to be fairly well equipped with strike breakers. The hotel managers declared that, the strike was broken. Union leaders laughed at the statement and repeated their avowed intention of catling out the work ers in every hotel and restaurant in the city. "Before you know it," said business agent Elster, of the Workers' union, hotel workers of every kind, including the firemen and even the chauffeurs in the street will be with u. Before many days the hotels won't have any lights." Foreigners Flee s : from Chihuahua CHIHUAHUA, Mexico," June 3.-OnIy 106 foreigners out of a normal foreign population of at least 2.000, reside ' in Chihuahua today. Of the 1,000 Americans who ordinarily live here, only thirty-five men and seventy-one women remain. An official census Issued today shows that fears of an attack on the rebel city by the advancing federals has practically depopulated the town. Thirty thousand people inhabit Chihuahua In time Of peace, but today less than 20,000 are here and the exodus Is daily growing larger. Besides the Americans there are twenty six British subjects and thirty-three Ger mans. - Great Conflagration Devastates Stambul CONSTANINOPLE, June .-Fire to day, devastated a great area of Stambul, in the vicinity of Akhlr Kapusl (the stable gate). Enormous damage was done. Stambul is the Mohammedan part -f the Turkish capital and covers the whole area enclosed by the Theodoslan waiu of the city. It contains the Seraglio, the principal mosques, mausoleums cf the sultans, the baths, the public offices of the government and the existing remains of Constantinople. Akhlr Kapusl lead to the former site of the sultan's stables. kota then chose 'by direct prima "! present memoer 01 me repuoiica ttonal committee. The South D , member, Thomas Thorson, had. four yws ago the same kind of a certificate of elec tion, duly embossed with the great seal of the, state, that my impatient suc cessor is carrying around with him under guard. But Mr. Thorson never . thought to supplant the " preceding member " from South Dakota in advance , of the con vention, from which the title and author ity of the national committee is regularly derived. . - - Whlleconsiderable discussion has natur ally been ' "evoked . In - the ? newspapers generally by the peculiar, proposal of the Impatient gentleman. I 4iave yet to , find' any . comment In1" ' any newspaper offering him any word of encouragement or . consolation. - The New ' York Wprid ;calls it 's, high-handed attempt at ; force,-1: for- which' there is neither law nor excuse, and simply "an other manifestation of the Rough Rider spirit in politics." The New. York Even ing Post, ridicules It as a premature ap plication of the. recall, to national com mitteemen, and none of. the newspaper writers seems to tak-itlrtouslx.t:' ' Seating; . Arrangement "? at. Colleen'm. . For the", benefit of inquirers, I may say that the Coliseum at Chicago In its seating arrangements is to be almost identical with what it was four : years ago. j The platform,, or . rostrum. for the, chairman, .secretaries . and official staff Is to be south of thV center, facing north. rhls. platform win" contain seats for. not more than fifty or sixty per sons. ; Immediately adjoining in rows run ning east and west will be the tables for the press correspondents.' Facing the rostrum will; be the' delegates, and im mediately 'back of the delegates the alter nates. . The, spectators will have the scace, with raised tiers of seats! running around the edge of the building on the first floor and all of the gallery, There will be separate doors for the (lf ferent classes of people attending', . and no op portunity for spectators to ml ii with the delegates , and alternates. JL. Wise Says Archbald . Too Lenient in the Wire Pool Cases ; WASHINGTON. June S.-United States Attorney Wise of. New York before th house Judiciary committee today gave his opinion - of the Judicial conduct of. Judge Robert W. Archbald of the com- LArhbald fined most of the- eighth" otd defendants tl.OW each after, the had pleadsd guilty to criminal violations of he Sherman: law.-1' . ; -, ' jti Mr.- Wise Qtfessei , the view tha'sh. defendahts escaped with inadequate f$ie. He also ' gave 1 committee his reasons for complatnlnagainst the use of Iho nolle contendrjFpleas. Mr. Wlse'rwur. from the court reeds and reiterated, the objections . hej Ja made then to Judge Archibald's ruling. '' More Dock Workers in London Quit Work LONDON, June 3. It was estimated tTiat 110,0:0 men were idle' today along the Thames and Wecjway rivers. ' These include "dockers, 'carmen,' seamen, fire men and members of the builders trade. There Is a considerable Increase, as many union ' men joined their striking ' com rades during the week en3. On the other hand, however,' there were more men working than was the' case on Saturday. The Sailors and Firemen's union had not less than 600 men busy, to see 4hat members of the union "arriving on incoming steamers immediately went out. In some, cases applicants for work have been roughly treated by "these pickets. " ' ; , The position of the dockers is becoming very,' serious. ' Pawnbrokers . are refusing to accept further pledges, and unless the strike' is speedily ended ,it ...will mean' semi-starvation far many resident of the riverside. . : 1' .' v ' ;. :( , -' "4 ;- Crushed Fruit Ties Up Eight Trolley Lines CHICAGO, . June .3,-CTuehed strawber ries and cherries today prevented thous ands of persona in Chicago from, being on time for work. ; . A mammoth fruit Jam piled high in the street car 'tracks at the south approach to the Clark street bridge over the Chi cago river occupied exactly the right spot to bring to a standstill the oper ation of eight lines of trolley cars. The heap of fruit and the hour or more of confusion resulting to traffic " was v the consequence of a' collision between two heavily loaded commission bouse Wagon at one of . the most crowded , corners in the business district. Most of the passengers in the scores of delaed street cars finally deserted the conveyances and trudged angrily to places Of tolL ; ' Two Men Shot in Riot at Newark, N. J, NEWARK, N. J., June 3.-Two men were shot, one mortally, in a pitched battle between 500 rioting laborers and the entire police and fire department of Kearny, a suburb, in the main street of .the. town today. The fight followed an attack of striking laborers on work men digging a ditch. Chief of Police Tolen and a patrolman were guarding the workmen. The patrolman sent in a riot call and a general fire alarm, wMl Chief Tolen fought single-handed wttl; the mcb. He was felled by a cobblestone. but made his way to a .vacant house and opened' fire; on the strikers, who were routed 1 y the combined police fm-ex From the Cleveland Iplalri Dealer. VOTING BEfiM MH IOWA All 'Parties Are "Nominating Candi- ; tj dates tor State Offices. INTEREST CENTERS IN SENATOR - ' ' : . '' ' Contest Between, - Senator Ken yon and Lafayette Toons; for Re i publican . Nomination At tracts Most Notice. ' BULLETIN. DES MOINES, une 3,-The "first precinct in the city- of Des Moines to be tabulated showed Kenyon 141 and' Young 48 in the republican senatorial contest. For governir on the republican ticket Clark received 88, Holden 65 and Proud foot 21. ' i . The polls In today's state-wide primaries closed at 8 o'clock tonight. Reports from ten of . the principal cities showed that the vote was little more than half the normal primary poll. V DES MOINES, June 3. As a result of the vote polled -up to an early hour this afternoon,' politicians today declared that Iowa's primary would be settled prin cipally by the poll .in three ; olties. Pes Moines, Davenport and Cedar Rajnd- H H uUe possible that before nightfall the county in, which Do Moines is situated. Both sides in the republiosn fight be tween United States Senator W. S. Ken yon of Fort Dodge and former ' Senator Lafayette Young of Ds Moines admitted thatVa heavy plurality In Polk 'county would determine final results. Ea'rly . reports indicated that the total vote In at least eight of the eleven con gressional districts In the sSate would be considerably below, a normal primary poll. It IS doubtful if many more than 135,000 votes on the republican side out of a normal of 210,000 will be cast. In the large farming districts fair weather played political Interest a poor second to crop interests . and in many places the farmers refused to leave their fields to vote. . . The Young managers, in addition to the First, Sixth, Eighth and Ninth districts in the southern half of the state, claimed an Increasing advantage in some portions of the progressive territory- in the north half of the state In which are located the Third, Fourth, Tenth and Eleventh dis tricts. The Second district, in which Dav enport is situated, is claimed by both sides. - The Fifth district. Cedar Rapids, also It debatable ground. Men familiar with the Iowa political situation predicted that the final vote would be extremely close with a possibility ' of an 'official t (Continued on Second -Page.) Sunday Civil Bill Abolishes Receivers (From a Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON. June S.-(Speclal Tele gram. )-The sundry -civil appropriation bill reported today by the house commit tee makes a sweeping recommendation to abolish the. off ice of receiver at the. sev eral land offices with 'the1 beginning of the next fiscal year, July 1, 1912, . The committee recommends that the work be done by a clerk ai a (salary not to ex ceed $2,000 per year. An appropriation of $33,000 Is made for continuing the re modelling of the. Lincoln postofflce, and providing rent and moving charges, should it be found necessary to vacate the office during the. progress of the work. ; -. " ' - Forty-five thousand dollars Is set aside tor beginning the construction of the Mc Cook public building. i-Xi,.-C " The following appropriations are mado for-Iowa public buildings: Dcnison. 385,000; Fort Madison. . f35.000; Iowa Falls. 310,000; Lemars, 116,000. ' South Dakota is recognised by the fol lowing appropriations for public build ings.' Raid City, 150,000; , Sioux ' Falls, $50,000;' Brookings, $35,000. ' The National Capital Monday Jnne 3, 1912. i The Senate. Met af noon. ." Naval affair committee placed back In naval appropriation bill provision for two battleships stricken out by. house. - Senator Rayner, offering an amendment to pension appropriation bill Increasing pension of wife of Admiral Schley paid high tribute to Schley and give' him credit for victory at Santiago. The House. Met at 11 a. . m. and considered legis lation on regular calendar. Passed bill to protect American trade and shipping from foreisn shipping trust. The Hero Counterfeiters ; : Plot to Kill' Judge : ;and Detective KEW YORK, June .-Behlnd the bars of the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga., seevral members of the Lupo-Morello gang ' of counterfeiters and 1 murderers, have hatched a plot to assassinate Will lam J. Flynn, chief of the local' division of the secret Service who ran the" counter feiters to bay, and Judge George W. Ray,' of the United States district court," who sentenced the coiners to terms of .from fifteen to thirty year's at hard labor. 1 One of the men ' told the plot. Which was hatched last December, when two Slciallans who - visited Ignaslo Lupo, known as "The Wolf," were told to kill the secret service chief. Even' while the ' trial of this gang of counterf elttrs was - going on Judge Ray, received a threat of death at his home in Chenango county, in a letter that read : "If Lupo, Morello and their compan ions sre not liberated you will die like a dog. We have killed better nW than you or Smith or . Flynn." ! ' The Smith referred " to was Abel L Smith, the assistant United States at torney. Who presecuted the counterfeiters. Chief Flynn said he knew that this gang, which knows who killed Detective Petrosino In Sicily, was seeking his life. Chief Flynn said th . L,upo ling 1 bd Jeemdu to. .Atlanta.- priaon th,dpath j$ oartaln Italians and that three of them had been' killed. ; ' ' ' .V- 1 Charges Husband With Sending Her Poisoned Flowers CHICAGO. June 3.-Mre. Rose Ebeling charged today ' that ' her husband had sought to harm her by sending her a box of poisoned flower. The accusation was made In a bill for divorce filed in the circuit court against. Frederick Ebeling. -The complaint avers that the. flowers were sent her. after she had instructed her attorney, to prepare the divorce plea, and that the fumes of the flowers,, which were American Beauty roses, overpowered the servant, who, although warned from the box by : Mrs. Ebeling, opened the package and removed, the roses. ' .. Mrs. Ebeling eays that her husband has property in California and Missouri' and an Income of $200 a month, 1 The flowers were received by Mrs. .Ebel ing Saturday,-, and -Sunday ' afternoon, when Ebeling 'appeared at' the house he was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct. The city chemist will' be asked to examine the roses to .determine whether they contained poison of any kind. Senate Committee -Amends Naval Bill WASHINGTON, June " 3.-rThe , senate committee on naval affairs today restored to the naval appropriation bill provision for two battleships, stricken out by the house. In addition to the battleships the senate committee provides for eight submarine torpedo boats instead of four voted by the house;' retains the house provision for six torpedo boat destroyers, two fuel ships, one to be built in a Pacific coast, navy yard; a tender to destroyers and a submarine , tender. The committee struck out the bouse elght-hpur restriction on government con tract work; adopted an amendment In corporating the . Hobson plan for creat ing of a national, council- for, defense, and provided the grades of' admiral. and vice admiral for the commanders-in-chief and second offlcerajn command respect ively;' In -.the Atlantic and Pacific f.eets, while they hold such commands. . The committee fixes the term of all en listed men at four years, with provision for . voluntary extension of service; au thorises the secretary to , buy war ma terial abroad In an emergency', and pro vides, for the $1,000,000 round-the-world wireless system -which the house threw out of the bill. V Pardon is Granted '..V 7 to Willard N. Jones WASHINGTON, June 3. President Taft today granted an , unconditional' pardon to.WUlard N. Jones of Portland, Ore., convicted of land frauds In the famous cases in which the' late Senator Mltche'l of Oregon and Blnger Hermann, former commissioner of the general land off!c were alleged to have been implicated. The pardon was based an the ground. 1 that improper methods had been pursued in filling the Jury box from which tho Jones Jury was Crawo. , . i , . L0R1HER IS WASHINGTON Declines to Answer Question in Re ' gard to Resignation. - ' CASE TO COME PP ON TUESDAY Senator Kera Opens for 'Minority Senator Dillingham Leads for Defenses-Debate Will Last Two, .Weeks,. , WASHINGTON, June S.-Senator Lorl rneii arrived here today from Chicago. He. declined to answer dlrectli-' when asked if he had any Intention of resign ing, and when asked about the reported poll of the state, which Is said to be against him, replied he knew nOhtlng of It. The senator declined to duscuss his plans further than to say he expected to speak In his defense. ' ' ' The fight over Senator Lorlmer'g elto tlon will come up In the senate tomorrow when Senator Kern, leading the force which seek to unseat the Illinois senator; will make the first speech In what prom ises to be at least a two weeks' debate. The majority of the members of the Investigating . committee have reported that the charge that, Mr. Lorimer'e, elec tion was brought by bribery and corrupt Hon,, has not benproyen.;.. Senator ,DUt llngham, ahairman 40 a, the 'committee, Will lead the, defense.": and sugnort tM contention that the senate haying eaea exonerated him eanhdf ty him again on practically: IMMm 'chiiins. '.-1 i Senatof tea of- Tennessee, Senator Kenyon ot Iowa and others are eipected to speak against Mr. Loriraer and. many wjIMpeak for him. flenator Lorimer IH be. In his seat and expects to speak in his own defense. Cost of Living Now is Highest on Record NEW. YORK, Juhe 8. It costs more to live in till , the month of June, 1912, than ever before in the history of the United States, except perhaps during war time. Prices today aie on the average nearly 10 per cent, higher than one year ago, ac cording' to trade authorities. " ' v V ' Food products ' are the highest on re cord. Meat, eggs, butter, fish", potatoes, coffee, . tea, sugar, salt, molasses, rice, beans and peas average 22 per eent higher" wheat,' "corn, oats, barley, flousj .tc.S3 per cent "higher. Fruits are the only things good to eat that have grown cheaper during the last twelve months, but they are stlll"hlgher than in 1910. Leather products cost . 12 per cent and chemicals and drugs 13 per cent more than a year ago. Textile goods, howeveiy are a trifle cheaper. The aver age Incrtase In foods Is nearly 30 per cent, which means that the house wife must pay $6 to fill a market basket that only cost her 16 to fill In June,,l9U. , The biggest advances have been In meat prices, , beef 26 per cent; ' hog iproduete 40 per .cent and mutton over '60 per'; cent Dealers lay the Increase to last year's hay crop, which was poor and the gen eral high cost of animal provender. Poor crops are also held rsponslble for dearer breadstuffs. Economists differ as to the reasons for the general upward tendency of all commodities during recen yeard-."Vtjivh has been world-wide. " - ' , " Conditions in Cuba , . Are Improving WASHINGTON, June S.A. distinct Im provement in the conditions In the neigh borhood of Daiquiri, , Cuba," Is reported to the State department, todays from the New York headquarters. Of V the Iron company whose plant , was threatened by the Insurrectos. There Is a lack of encouragement, however, In reports from other points In Cuba.' The consuls while not reporting any actual uprisings,- in dlcae the existence of unrest. , Although the Cuban government has reported a '"victory over the Insurgent bands In' the neighborhood of El Cobra, Stats department advices are that the situation there Is still threatening and It Is expected that the Paducah will carry out Us.. original' orders and sail to San tiago, the . nearest port to El Coba, a soon s its commander feels It safe to do so. TOM WATSON CHARGED WITH MISUSE OF MAILS THOMSON, Ga.. June 3.-Thomas E. Watson was arrested at hi hnme hr j this afternoon . on a federal warrant, jrhnrglng lilm with sending obscene matter ! throueh th man. k,.v,.. several friends will go on his bond. His arrest grows out of a publication In his magazine of an article said to reflect on I the Catholic religion. TAFT FAVORS AN - OPEN meeting: President Writes to Chairman New Suggesting When Contests Are x Heard Doors Be Opened. . , WANTS PRESS MEN ADMITTED ' Members , of Republican National : PREPARE TO HEAR - CONTESTS ' Two. of the. Candidates .Hare Head quarters at Same HoteL POSITION OF SOUTHERN . MEN Nebraska Situation Dlscnsaed, hnt tt ' la Hot Thong-ht It Will Tako Los j to Reaeh Decision on tko ' ,1 ' x .Y . Claims of - Howell. " , : ': -j OYSTER BAY, June S.-Colonel Roose- .1 veil Issued a long statement. umv ; waring aciiiiiio.j j the election of Senator Boot as-chair- man, of the national repuoucan envU- j tlon. ' " ;" ' '"' ' :.-'. ' CHICAGO, June J, President Taft ha written tOvChairman. Harry 8. New of arranKements for the n'attonaV republican convention mif getting that the meetings or me uuww committee, at "whlch contests are heard j be' thrown open "to the press- and to the) "j public: N ' .. ; . , ' The president's letter , wss received at the' paUonal -committee ' headquarters to Aav in he suatests . that Mr. New take up with the tmmlttee the matter of open neanngs, ana mum. finda it Do'sslble the deliberations oyer the contests, 280 of which hava al ready heen prepared 'for-submission,, oa carried on in open sessions. Chsirman New expressed tne opinion tonftfht that the action taken by the president will , have great weight with 1 a. MtnmltiM. This, taken In connec tion with the previous request of . Colonel Roosevelt for publicity of the contest ar guments: indicates that the doors prob ably will .be 'thrown' open, atleast to newspaper men. when the committee takes up the contested delegate, cases Friday morning. :' i ,No Expresslnsl Opinions. i Few members of" the national commit- , tee had reached Chicago tonight, and of ' those , here none would express a def inite opinion as to the action of the com mittee, on the matter of public argu ments. The president's letter was the chief subject of discussion' at political neaoquartcrs vumib " for publicity Of the hearings is declared ty hi Supporters now here to Indicate , that the vTaft manager believe their contest cases r strongly prepared, Th Taft headquartexs' Was opened to day '..hy. Jos.ph.. JKsUngpf Indiana, but. up W late hour tonight only two eastern representatives of th epresident had reached CHIcatO, John Ryan and A. A. ' Krly '"nf 'the publlolty bureau. Mr. tfHVi ursed Dlredtor McKlnley by telegraph today ;to hurry to Chicago and he Is expected to reach, tne city tomor- row,' morning. ' ' - ;; -; J ' ': t The Roosevelt , nd the- Taft headquar ters have been' established in the simo noiei, .Aiexanuor 11., Illinois headquarters,; who returned this morning from cvster' Bay, today gave tut a statement-,tonlht, .outlining what ' he says is Colonel Roosevelt's ( attitude toward -convention .organisation.. '' The Roosevelt Plan. w are assured absolutely that there. will be V-clear, majority fjr Colonel Robsevelt on the first ballot," said Mr. Revell.'' '"The proposition inlght is to , devttlop "the sirengh .hroughout- tho , 'convention .preliminaries,'' so that It ultimately will ' be concentrated - In tho nomlnatlcJh of Colonel Roosevelt. "Absolutely 'nothing 'else, has,'' or '"will ; be considered byColonel Roosevelt .or , by- bis" friends prior to '.or " during , tho , , :KdvWn"W Sims. ' who is . acting boa 1 of , the Chicago Roosevelt , headquarterB -unn th arrival' as, Senator Dixon, mado I public, a telegram . received . front Oscar I R. Hundley, a Roosevelt leader m Aia- bama; Mr. .'.Hundley said that the two ; Ai.ata (mm th Third .Alabama dis-' trlct, instructed for -President ,TafU had, given' aj.wrltten. statement that, they t woilt support . Roosevelt, because , they j believed 90 jjer eent of. their .oonstituoncy f favored his gemination, "fi . , - , . v . The . southern , delegate-. .s4titlon ..was " vigorously discussed : by j two members of the national committee who reached, Chicago today. Henry Chubb, com-1 mltteeman for Florida," declared It was' "a 7f flection upon '-the integrity of' Florida rputylcans': to hint . that. thy,J would not stand by their instructions for. President Taft.. , ' , - - -j . -t Florida for Taft. .'":''--ly ; "Florida's twelve . delegates are in-'" strurted for Tart," said Mr. Chubb, "and they will vote for him through thick and' thin.". .- i. -;:-,. for . Arkansas, said . southern committee men and delegates would organize before' the convention to fight any proposal 'to' t'-. The man or woman who is seemingly tied . . to some occupation that is uncongenial and poor-pa jdng can very soon see1 a brighter out, took j by daily - reading arid using The Bee class ified pages. "Positions of all kinds" are daily of- fered arid money-mak-i in chances crop- out eyery. little while. -J Watch and - your chance will appear and in The Bee. ? . - Tyler 1000 J X
