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Omai Daily .Bee GOING ON A VACATION? Keep posted on doings at bom by hiring The Bee mailed to 700. Address changed as oftea as desired, TEE WEATHER. Local Showers VOU XLH-KO. 35. OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, JULY 29, ; 1912 TEN PAGES. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. A UNUSUAL ACCIDENTS : RESULT III DEATH OP TWO SOUTH OMAHAHS : Mrs. Lena Goodman Instantly Killed By Accident Discharge of Small Rifle. BOY HAD GUN OVER SHOULDER I Bullet Strikes Woman as She Bocks 1 Her Baby on Porch. MOTHER HILLED WHILE FISHING Is Struck By Missouri Pacific Train ) While on Tressle. BODY IS FOUND IN WATER - Botb Victims of Tkcic Cliw( Ae- cldents Were Sooth Omtki People . ? Who Had f.Gone to Sarpy t... " " . . . . - Death under K most unusual clrcura , stances came to two South Omaha DeoDla yesterday, the , victims both being on trips to Sarpy county. Joseps Miller was knocked from the Missouri Pacific trestle near La Platte while fishing and was IrtllA TUT- T .n r,lX : .... l stantly killed by a bullet from ' a rifle being carried over the shoulder by a young boy. ' Mrs. Goodman was sitting on a porch In Belle vue holding her small Her life snuffed out by a rifle In the hands of Ernest Meyers, .a' 10-year-old boy, Mrs. Lena o God man, wife of R. &. Goodman of 431 North Fifteenth street, South Omaha; was killed yesterday morn Ing at 7 o'clock as she sat rocking her 14-month-old babe on the front porch of the home Of George De Vol of Bellevue, with whom she and her husband were visiting over Sunday. The bullet, which was a twenty-two short, lodged in the base of Mrs. Goodman's brain and pro duced Instantaneous death. Shooting1 Accidental. .. r That the shooting was accidental ap- - peared from the fact that the young Meyers boy was carrying the gun over " bis shoulder at the time the weapon vas discharged. What ' caused the discharge of the gun could not well be accounted for yesterday morning, although it Is surmised that the weapon had been left cocked by the boy, who was hunting in the garden when the accident occurred. Mrs. oGodman and her husband and Mr. Mid Mra Alfred Meyers, the parents of Ernest Meyers, all reside in the same house In South Omaha. Saturday even ing the two couple made up a week-end party to visit over Sunday with .the De Vols, who are he parents of Mrs. Mey ers and the grandparent of Ernest Mey- Sitting on Porch. After spending a pleasant evening- the visitors arose " early yesterday morning Intent upon, many plans for the day. Mrs; Goodman, enjoying the cool of the morn ing, sat rocking her baby upon the porch (of the De Vol residence. Ernest Meyers, with his rifle, was hunting about the garden near the house. At the time of the shooting, the boy asserts, he was carrying the rifle on his, houlder, ' The explosion of the weapon and the death of Mrs. Goodman were 'instantaneous. Friends and neighbors hastened to the aide of Mra Goodman, but she was al ready dead. Mrs. Alfred Meyers took the frightened babe from, v tha Ann mother and placed it in the arms of. the bereaved husband, who Is. nearly pros trated by the shock. x : v-ui wicr Afmsirong 01 : opary ( county viewed the body which was turned over to Undertaker George Brewer for burial. Mrs. Goodman was 23 years of age and is survived by her husband, R. S. Good man and one child. y Knocked from Tressle. tWhile fishing from a tressel over a branch of the I Platte river early yesterday morning, Joseph Miller of Thirty-eighth aad T street was run over and knocked into the water where he was found dead somehuors later by members of his party.- Miller who was 'employed by the Union Stock yards left home Saturday even ing in a party composed of himself his brother Frank and Mr. and Mra Hull The party drove to a spot south of La Platte " Where they arrived 1 about ll o'clock and pitched their camp. , After the tents had been set up it was sug gested that all retire until, the morning but Joseph Miller ; who was a lover of fishing stated ttyat he had come out to fish and was going to begin at once. He left camp a little before midnight and was not seen again until yesterday morning when his lifeless body - was found in the La Platte river by the (Continued on Second Page) The Weather Forecast for Monday: 1 For Nebraska Fair. For Iowa Probably fair. ' ' For South DakotaGenerally fair. - Hours. Deg. a a. m...........77 a. m 79 7 a. m ....... 8 a. m .......79 9 a. m.i. 80 10 a. m........ 79 11 a. m 79 12 m.. gs 1 p. m.... go 2 p. m...... go 3 p. m 81 4 P. m 83 6 p. m 84 6 P. m. 87 7 p. Bl 84 Official record of emperature and pre cipitation compared with, the correspond ing period of the last three) years: l . . 1912 1910 1509 Highest yesterday .... 87 89 85 89 owest yesterday . 77 69 74 72 Mean temperature 82 . 79 80 SO Precipitation .00 .00 T .00 Temperature and precipitation depart ures from the normal at Omaha since March 1 and compared with the last two years: Normal temperature 77 Excess for the day R Total deficiency since March 1, 1912.. 98 Normal precipitation 13 Inch Deficiency for the day.... .13 inch Total precipitation. March 1.. 9.98 inches Deficiency since March 1 7.93 Inches Deficiency for cor. period. 1911 9.5 inches Deficiency for cor. period, 1910.13.09 lnche Railways Transport 997,409,882 Persons ; in Recent Fiscal Year , WASHINGTON, July 2S.-American rail ways carried more passengers during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911. than In any single previous year, but considerable less freight than was carried during the previous year, : C; These facts were developed in a prelim inary abstract of the twenty-fourth an nual statistical report of the Interstate Commerce commission, made public to day. : y The number of passengers carried was 997,409,883, an increase over the previous year of 25,728,653. The average receipts per passenger fob, each mile traveled was a trifle over 19 cents. The number of tons of freight handled was 1,7S1,6S7,954, a decrease from the previous year of 68,362,147 tons. The average receipts per mile tor each ton handlea was a fraction over -cent V.--'-' - y-':. During , the year 246.124.4 miles of line were 'operated, the total mileage of all tracks' being 362,710.18 miles. The roads employed 61,327 locomotives and 3,359,338 cars, a considerable .. increase in equip ment..' " y- ' ' , . . . The total number of persons on the pay rolls of the steam roads was 1669,809, a decrease of 29,161 as compared with the previous year. ; ,; ; j ' ' The par value of the amount o rail way capital was 219,306.935,081 Of the total capital stock outstanding 82.35 per cent paid no dividends. The aggregate amount of dividends declared ; during the year was 2450,195,376, being, equivalent to 8.03 per cent on dividend-paying stock. , : The operating revenues of the railways of the country for the year ended July 30, 9U, were 22,789,761669, while the oper ating expenses were 21,912,054,005. ' These figures " show "an increase in operating revenues of $39,904,234 and an Increase of operating expenses of 292,423,572. : " Kansas Court Decides ; Against Taft Forces TOPEKA, July 28. Supporters of Presl dent Taft lost today their final oppor tunity to keep the names of presidential electors who are favorable to Colonel Roosevelt's candidacy for president off the republican primary ballots, when the supreme court handed down a decision sustaining Judge C. E. Branine of Harvey county in dismissing the injunction suit brought by the Taft forces .to prevent county clerks from printing the names of the Roosevelt electors on republican ballots. - ' s , The court held that the questions In volved were political In their nature and the wrongs complained of were of a kind for which 'the courts are not authorized to grant relief. 41 ' The Taft men charged that as Roosevelt was not the nominee of the republican party men who pledged themselves to vote for him if chosen electors had no ngnt on a repuoiican oaiioc Taft supporters will carry the, case to the supreme court of the United States, it-was admitted tonigfit. D. W. MUlvane, who wJH bave charge of the Chicago headquarters of the Taft campaign, said that republicans, whom he refused to name, would go to Washington soon to have the case reviewed by the country's highest tribunal : " J 1 Mr. Mulvane denied, that he or former Senator Chester 1 Long would make the trip to Washington. - - Claude Allen to Die; Weeps with Fiancee WYTHE VILLE, ' Va. July 28,-aaude Allen, one of the HUlsville outlaws, to day was convicted of murder in the first degree for the killing of Commonwealth's Attorney William M. Foster. At a for mer trial he was found guilty of murder in the second degree for the killing of Judge Thornton L. Massie. Claude Allen Is the second one of the Allen clan to be convicted of first degree murder, his father, Floyd Allen, being the other. The case was given to the jury when court reconvened at 2:30 this afternoon. , After v deliberating for an hour and a half the Jurors slqwly Ued back into the jury box and the foreman announced the verdict When he learned that he must pay the penalty for his crime. In the electric chair, the prisoner broke down and wept bit terly, as also did his fiancee, who was with him In the court room. It was the first time he had displayed the least sign of emotion since his trial began. MILLIONS IN VAULTS BUT NO FUNDS TO MOVE MONEY '7 . . .-v ' j WASHINGTON, July ZU.'-iAn unprece dented situation confronts the United States treasury. With millions in cur rency piled In its vaults and a crying de mand for it throughout the country, the government has practically no- funds with which to pay for its transportation. There Is an urgent call for notes of the smaller denominations which cannot be met during the remaining days of July. The prospects , are that thousands of persons will be paid off In coin, and the result- will be ; that the tremendous amount of gold and silver stored in the subtreasurles will see the light of circu lation. - . ' -v , , This condition Is due to the fact that with the exception of 268 all of the al lowance for expressage on curency au thorised by the congressional, resolution continuing for the month of July, one twelfth of the last fiscal year's appro priation, has been consumed. GRAFTING ALDERMEN FILE PETITIONS FOR PRIMARJES DETROIT, July 28.-A11 of the nine aldermen under arrest on the charge ot accepting money for their votes in a street closing case will go before their constituents for re-election according to the list of primary candidates which was completed this afternoon. Alderman Glinnan and Alderman Rosenthal both out on 25,000 bail, filed their petitions to day.' - '- ' '' ';i 'i The effect of the alleged disclosures on the filing of primary , petitions was evident when shortly after the arrests were made, a rush to the city clerk's office of previous unheralded aldermanlc candidate developed. FACTIOUS SEEKING REPUBLICAN TITLE unairman jienneayjiopeiui 01 ''.v linjrton Insurgents and P f otNv i "" LINCOLN ;C0NVE TODAY Representatives of Both Delegations Will Go from Douglas. CONTEST WILL BE SETTLED Committee Will Meet Early to Un ; tangle All Differences. TWO CONVENTIONS IN PR0SPEST Both Wings Proceed trader the Theory That Rifht to Use Party Name Will Be Broasht Be fore Convention. Chairman Kennedy of the republican state central committee has not given up hope of bringing the regulars and in surgents together on a program to pre vent a spilt In the Lincoln convention. He went to Lincoln yesterday and has asked the memirrs of the executive com mittee to be there early to consider the mode of proceed ure and the probability of reaching some agreement ' The com mlttee meets at I o'clock to take up the contests. Representatives of both dele gations from Douglas county will be pres ent 1 : v" ' . , - '- ' , : .; The question of contests and the method of handling them is being looked up by Mr. Kennedy. The rules of the state committee provide merely that the execu. tive committee make up the roll having the power to decide the tentative roll. Few contests have resulted in this state. There was one four years, ago, when Platte countyhad two delegations. The executive committee gave the two delegations a Searing and seated one del egation. v According to the best figures available. although the filings are not complete, there will be 250 attests at Lincoln and probably still more will be subject to pro test on the ground of their not being eligible to sit in a republican convention. Word from Lancaster Is to the effect that both the regulars and the insurgents are proceeding on the theory that tbers will be two conventions and that the right -to use "the party, name will bt eventually brought before the court j'vt adjudication. ' ,: . "' 'r The executive committee, made up of six men, one from each congressional district, with Chairman Kennedy la mem ber ex-officlo, is: First district Ed Ferneau, Auburn; Second district A. W. Jefferies, Omaha; Third district J. C McNtsh, Wisner; Fourth district Anton Dredla, Crete; Fifth district, a W. Mo- Connaughy, Holdrege; Sixth district , N. r.. jacjjonaia, ri&aarney.., H.,-i. YoutMOlls Father T to Rob Him of $80 ST. LOUIS, July 28. Arthur P. Bittner, Jr., confessed late today that he shot his father early this morning from the rear of an automobile truck in which the elder Bittner, and another son, Edward, were riding. The wounded man is In a hos pital with two bullets in. his brain. ' Toung Bittner said his purpose was to rob his father of about 280 which be be lieved bis father carried. He admitted be had planned the robbery two days previous and that he borrowed a revolver from the home of his fiancee without her knowledge of the purpose. He declared he had not intended to shoot but that the hanunerless pistol was discharged be fore he realized it ; ; s - Bittner has been estranged from his family because of his attentions to his fiancee during business hours. FALL FROM PARACHUTE -CAUSES DEATH OF HEIFIELD CANTON, O., July 28,-When 1,000 feet in the air 4he rope attaching the trapeze bar to his parachute broke and Thomas Heifield, aged 32, of Springfield, 111. fell to his death here this afternoon. His body struck in the aoft earth of a celery field head first and ; was burled to the knees. The accident occurred almost lm mediately after Heifield, watched by 2.000 people at Myers lake, an amusement re sort, cut loose from his balloon. In the crowd were two sisters of the aeronaut KERMIT R00SEVELT TO BE y RAILROAD MAN IN BRAZIL OYSTER BAT, N. T., July 28.-Kennlt Roosevelt second son of the ex-presldent sailed from New York today for Brazil where he is to enter business as a rail road man.. Colonel Roosevelt, who ob jects . strongly to having matters con cerning his family made known, declined to give further information regarding his sons plans. , j ', ;' ; ;-', "Kermit has started for Brazil to go into the railroad business," was all he would say. ; 'j FIFTY-TWO BUSHELS TO ACRE IN BUFFALO GIBBON, Neb.. July 21-(Spedal)-J. S. Nelson has threshed ha following fields of wheat southeast of Gibbon on the line of the new railroad from Hast ings to Gibbon, on what is known as the John Manfull farm: Thirty acres, mak ing 1500 bushels, or an average of fifty- two bushels to the acre; fifty acres. making 2,200 bushels, or an average of forty-four bushels to the acre. This wheat is the second crop raised on alfalfa land that, had been in alftUfa several years. The quality is the best REPUBLICAN CITY, Neb., July 28. (Speclal.) Threshing is the order of the day In this locality not The wheat la the beet ever marketed in this town. testing from sixty-two to sixty-four pounds per bushel ' Brown Gifford, liv ing just south of this city, threshed 100 acres which turned out thirty bushels per acre. , The prospect for ' a bumper crop " of corn was never better this time of the year, the recent rains putting the ground in the best of shape. ; " AXlkxwA ft ' C' From the Washington Herald. OVER BMONDOLLAR MAM Exports of Manufacturers from United States Surpass Estimates. GREATEST .IN ALL . HISTORY Flffaree from Department of Com ; merce and Labor Show Stnpend Total 1 or Salea 1 Abroad t ":;r;';: AmerTlractbrleW;'"':: WASHINGTON, . July Si-Exportation of manufactures In the fiscal year just ended more than Justified toe estimate of the bureau of statistics, department of Commerce and labor. That the total value would , in 1312 for the first' time cross he billion dollar line. That bureau, which has, Just completed its flyures showing the exportation of manufactures, states the total value of manufactures ex ported in the fiscal, year at 21,021,753,912, of .which 2674,302,903 was - the value of manufactures ready for consumption and 2347,451,015 that of manufactures for fur ther use in manufacturing. Stages of Increase. Thin does not include foodstuffs1 which have undergone a process of preparation for manufacture, since the bureau groups articles of that class under the general heading of "food stuffs" exported. This 21022,000,000 worth of ,. manufactures ex ported in the fiscal year 1912 is more than double that, of 1903, three times that of 1898, four times that of 1896, five times as great as in 1894,, practically six times as great as in 1890, and ten times as great as in 1876, the value of manufactures ex ported in a : single yoar never having reached as much as 2100,000,000 until the year 1873. Comparing 1912 with 1902, a decade earlier, the totals are: Manufac tures ready for consumption in 1912, 2674,009,000, - against i 2322,000,000 In 1902; manufactures for further use in manufac turing in 1912, 2347,000,000, against 2132,000,000 in 1902; total manufactures exported in 1912, 21022,000,000, against 454,000,000 in 1902, having thus increased about 125 per cent during the decade. This growth in the exports of manu factures is more rapid than that of the other clesses of merchandise. Manufac tures' formed 47 per cent of the exports of 1912 against 334 per cent In 1902 and 18 per cent in 1892. Ttls incheaslng share which manufacturers form of the ex ports occurs chiefly at the expense of food stuffs, which formed but about 30 per cent of the exports of 1912, against approximately 38 per cent in 1902 and CO per cent in 1893. : ' What i Sold Ahead. -The principal articles forming this bil lion dollars' worth of manufactures ex ported are iron and steel copper,' mineral oil .manufactures of wood, leather and manufactures thereof, cotton manufaov tures, cars and carriages, automobiles and manufacture thereof. ' The total value of iron and steel manufactures ex ported in the year was 2268,000,000, against 99,000,000 in 1902, a decade earlier, and 29, 000,000 in 1892, two decades earllerThe chief growth in the exports of iron and steel manufactures has occurred since 1899, the total value of the exports of iron and steel never having touched the JIOWOO.OOO line until the , year 1900, and only crossed the $200,000,000 line in the year 1911, when the total was 2231,00,000, against 2268,000,000 In the year just ended. Machinery alone amounted in 1S12 to $115,- 000,000 value, and this does not Include agricultural implements, of which the year's exports amounted to 235,500,000, or automobiles and parts thereof, which amounted to practically $28,000,000, , - laereaee In Aatomoblles. Automobiles showe perhaps the most j rapid growth in the list of manufactures exported, having been,-as above Indi cated,, 228,000,000 in 1912, against less than 21000,000 in 1902, a decade earlier. The total value of complete automobiles ex ported in the year la 221600,000, and to (Continued on Second Page.) One Really Can't Afford Two Luxuries 'Going to send your family, away this 'Nope; we're taking ice thiEree&son." Foreign-Language v Editors Commend "President Taft NEW YORK. N. T., July 28,-The editors and publishers of the foreign language newspapers in the United 8tates have Issued an address to their readers and constituents advocating the re-elec-. tlon of Taft and condemning Wilson foe his attacks Upon 'laboring men and foreign-born Americans. The document is subscribed by a committee represent ing 120 different newspaper publishers in foreign languages, of which Frank L. Frugone, publisher of "Bollettlno della Sera," is chairman. ' RAT INFECIEDWIIH PLAGUE Bubonio Germs Found in Rodent on ;V New Orleans Wharf. CITY OFFICIALS ACT PROMPTLY Fight ' to Exterminate ' Carriers ef : Dread Scourge Will B Visor ooaly Made Menace Exists . Two Years In England. NEW ORLEANS, July ; 28.-Bubonlc bacilli were discovered today on a rat found on the water front here. Tha dis covery was made aft- sevs-1 hundred rodents had been examined here in the lost few weeks. After the report of the chemists to the effect that germs of bubonic plague had been found. Dr. J. H. White of the Marine hospital and Dr. Willi am O'Reilly, city health officer, held a conference. Each Issued a statement to the effect that there was no cause for appresenslon and that the fight against rats would be continued until they are wiped out Dr. White's statement follows: "One rat infected with plague has been found on one of the wharves of the city of New Orleana - 8o far none has been found elsewhere. ' Every possible precau tion is being taken and there is no cause for any apprehension. ' Exists In England. , "Rat plague has been in England for more than two years, but because it has been vigorously fought no human cases have occurred, and the city health office of New Orleans has already taken meas ures to combat this small beginning so vigorously that there can be no possible thing left undone to wipe it out entirely and ultimately eliminate all rats from New Orleana ' ; ; v. ' , . "I am in a position to know the truth of these .statements and I vouch for the absolutely honest and vigorous action of Dr. O'Reilly ,ln this emergency." A conference of health - officers of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas will take place here Monday. Methods for preventing intro duction of bubonio plague into this coun try and the question of quarantine regula tions should the disease gain a foothold at any southern port will be discussed. OFFICIAL CALL ISSUED FOR ; NEXT IRRIGATION CONGRESS SALT LAKH CITY, Utah, July 28.- The official call for the twentieth annual national irrigation congress, to be held at Calt Lake City September 30 to Oc tober 3. inclusive, was Issued today by Francis G. Newlands, president of the organization. It, was in this city that the first Irrigation congress meeting Was held, In September, 189L OMAHA MAN EXPIRES AFTER SHORT ILLNESS . BEATRICE, Neb.. July 28.-(Speclal Telegram.) W. W. Ev of Omaha, died suddenly here tonight of paralysis. Ha was taken 111 yesterday at Ellis, near which place he owns a farm. He loaves a widow and two children. cummer?" BIG JOBS FOR BULL HOOSERS Lancaster Teddyites Looking . for Ahead to Pie Counter.- ASPIRATIONS ARE EASILY NOTED Plan to Fix Things so That la Event of Lightning trlklng They ' - , - ' ' Will Be la ' , ' : ' : - ;;;-' i Line. -'", (From 4 Staff Correspondent) LINCOLN, July 28.-(Specla.l.)rlt is evi dent that the leadership of the so-calltd progressive wing of the republican party has slipped away from Governor Aid rich. While the governor was in favor of some plan being devised which would result in a harmonious convention next Tuesday, the result of a meeting held last night by the bull moose delegation from Lancaster county disclosed tha tact that the fixing of things has gone be yond the governor. ; ; : ' , The fellows who have been running" the bull moose business of the political game have used the governor as a means to an end, and that end the gathering in for themselves the pie which may be on tap should thitfgs go to their liking and the reu!t of the national election be Teddyfled. It has got to that point that the governor's election Is of little conse quence to them. The governor has no offices to dlstribue, as they have tl eir eyts on, but if George Norrls is elected to the senate and Paul Clark to the house and Roosevelt tov ihs presi dency, such little things 'a t,t offices can go way back and alt dowa.''yX' Dividing! tJsj'the Jo.ltf r It is said that in the event : tM tha bull moose program goes througti 1 that C. C. Flansburg, who ran the resolution part of tha Lancaster county convention, will insist on being appointed . United States diHtrlot attorney, ', Frank Corrick, who ordered tile chairman i& rule on a motion when : the chairman seemed to falter, in the same convention, and who is slated for stato chairman, wants Ross Hammond's Job as . revenue collector. George Adams, .chairman of the bull inoosers' convention, la said to have h,ls eye on Judge Mungers job, while H. M. Bushnell, who has never forgiven 'the re publican party because he was not re appointed postmaster of Lincoln, wants to step Into Postmaster Slzer'a shoes up at the federal building. T : There may be some fellows out in the state who are looking with longing eyes at the job counter, but they will see when they attend the state convention Tuesday that the ' Lincoln bullmoosers consider ' themselves aa entitled to the pick of the political pie and the balance of the state can take the hamburger and cheese sandwiches, Lancaster Propones Fight. , e All this was evident by the action of the bull moooera at their meeting at the Linden hotel last night Most of the I Lancaster delegation was ' present and they proposed to fight (t out no mat ter whether the state ticket went down or no. They may favor a division of the candidates on ; the electroial ticket but when it comes to a recognition of Presi dent Taft as tha republican nominee for the presidency, jthe whole bunch of moosers bellow loudly against such ac tion. They want Norrls and Clark. In dications point , to a big scrap If Lan caster Insists on running things' with a high hand, for it is said some progress ives from out in the state, who are dele gatea to the state oonventlon. will ire slst that the state lcket la more Im portant than the candidacy of the First district wouldbe oongressmean. : 1 Qnerle for the Qnernleo. OXFORD, Neb., July 26,-To the Editor of The Bee: At the Furnas county con vention, candidates for state - delegates were required to tell who they were going tr support for president. Four declared (Continued on Second Page.) ROOSEVELT'S CRY OP FRAUD METBYCLEAR ANALYSIS OF CHARGE Contests Brought at Chicago, Re riewed Individually, Show Bad Faith of Bull Koose, STATEMENT FROM WHITE HOUSE President Taft , Give ApproTal to , r Document Published. RESUME OF THE SITUATION Chairman Hillei Has Prepared Brief ,;a ; Summing .Up'r h i HEARING SHOWS H0LL0WNES3 , Little Foaadatloa la. Honor or Fact for Most et Contests Invtl grated Prior' to Conven. ' ',. , ' ' . n " ' Hon. . .'..',". ' v . t WASHINGTON. July 28.-A statement' approved by President Taft upholding the validity of his nomination by the Chicago convention, waa made public at the White House today. It reviews every contest, before the republican national committee and the credentials committee ot the con ventlon, and asserts that each contest, waa settled logically, upon Its merlta The . statement waa aubmltted.to the cabinet at a recent meeting and received the ap- , : proval of the president's official family. Toe statement ; which Is a . lengthy , document of 144 printed pagea ta a de tailed denial ofhe charge that the re nomination of President iTaft was ac L compllsbed by the seating of fraudulently elected Relegates to the convention. It takes up Individually the 238 contest In stituted by the Roosevelt forces against Taft delegatea who were seated, and pre sents evidence In each, ot these cases to show, that the Taft delegatea were regu larly elected. - . - A resume of the statement prepared by Charles D. Hllles, ; formerly President Taft'a secretary and now chairman of the republican national committee takes up each contest briefly, ;,; -..V; This resume opens with the declaration' ' that the Roosevelt contests, aa originally filed before the national committee, wr not Instituted in good faith. Majority of Contests Prlvoloas. ' "The total number of delegatea sum-; moned to the convention," says the re sume, "wig 1078, with 640 necessary to a. choice.' Mr.: Taft had" 661 votes on the firsthand ,only , ballot, and ? waa declared the nominee. , There were instituted against 238 of the delegatea regularly elected for Taft, 1 contest on behalf ot RooaeveJt These contests were avowedly Instigated eot-for the purp4-ot really seouring seats "In the' eonveatioa, hot for "" the purpose of adducing evidence which would lead any -fespectabie court to en tertain the bontests, bkit tor the purpose of deceiving the pubuV.lhta the belief that Mr. . Roosevelt had more votea than, he really had, aa the conventions and primaries were in progress fdr the selec tion of delegates., The 238 contests were reduced' by' abandonment formal or In aubstance, , to seventy-four. ' The very y fact" of , the 164 frivolous conteste itself ' reflects upon the genuineness and validlty of the. remainder.", y ; , The resume then enumerates the con testaand reviews the arguments In each case. The review of the evidence In the oonteata embraced in the White House statement is testified to by Victor Rose water, chairman of the national commit tee, and Thomas, It Devine, chairman of' the credentials committee. As an ap-s pendlx, the statement carries in detail the vote in, the. national committee on. each of the contests, and a statement of -the dates of tha Taft and Roosevelt con- y venUons in contested sutea' The object , Of the latter is to show that the Roose velt delegates were chosen after the regu lar eonventlona had named Taft repre-' sentatlvea . . : ': - . 'Motives Unworthy. . Another appendix Is the report of the, ' credentials committee to the convention. In which the statement Issued by the Roosevelt committeemen attacking the majority of the committee was answered.' In discussing the charge the report said: "The statement as a whole In it in. ainuatlona of combination of unworthy motive, in lta recital of alleged facta, la grossly and maliciously untrue. It waa Intended to convey the , Impression that the time for hearing cases waa so limited as to prevent their being properly pre sented to the commlttea The untruth fulness of this statement Is clearly shown by the records of the committee and tha (Continued on Second Page.) In many places there are those who make a living mrely through t he buying "and sell ing of stoves through want ads. ; Maybe this does not ap , peal to you as a business, yet it shows how money can be made or saved if you are in need of a stove or have an old one to sell. It 6oon will be stove time, you know. ' - Bee want ads go Into thou sands of homes. These people must have stovee. Maybe they ( want a new ' one maybe a second-hand one.' Perhaps you nave a stove you wish to eelL But no matter whether you wish to buy or sell Bee want ads will do the business. Tyler 1000