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VOL. XLII-NO. 108.
OMAHA, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2'2, 19lL-TEN PAGES.
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THREE BIG BATTLES
WILL BEGIN SOON IN
EUROPEAN, TURKEY
(Armies of Balkan Allies Cross Fron
tier on All Sides and Turks
Are Retreating.
SMALLER POSTS ARE ABANDONED
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Bulgarian Army is Preparing to At
tack Fortress of Adrianople.
GREEKS ON THE AGGRESSIVE
Army of Sixty Thousand Ready to
Attack Town of Servia.
REGIMENT IS EXTERMINATED
Servian Detachment la Reported An
nihilated by Land Mines at
Point on the Frontier of
Kovipasar,
BULLETIN. ;
LONDON, Oct 21.-X column of Greek
troops was repulsed today when it at
tacked the Komiadls pass, which is held
by the Turks, according to dispatch from
Constantinople. Komladis pass is on the
Albanian frontier.
BULLETIN.
SOFIA, Oct. 21.-The Turkish warships
today bombarded the Bulgarian fort at
fcavarna. Tho customs house was de-
nroyeu ana several shopB and dwellings
Vvere damaged. Kavarna is on the Black
sea, twenty-eight miles northeast of
Varna.
LONDON, Oct. 2L-Three and perhaps
four big battles probably will be begun
within a few days on the territory of
European Turkey. Tho armies of the
Balkan allies have now crossed tho fron
tier on all sides, while the Turks are giv
ing up their frontier posts and abandon
ing small and unimportant towns, falling
back slowly on to their strongly en
trenched positions.
, The Bulgarian army will, it is thought,
hy the first to strike, the cause of Its ob
jective point, the fortress of Adrianople.
The main Turkish army is growing in
strength. If the Bulgarians allow the
Turits time, the sultan's army will out
grow that of the invaders. It was ru
mored 'today that two of the outer forts
of Adrianople had fallen into the Bul
garians' hands, and that the town of
KIrk-Kiliszh had been captured, but thero
was no confirmation.
The Greek army Is preparing to attack
the Turkish army of 40,000 men concen
trated at the town of Servia. The Greeks
are said to be 60,000 strong.
The Seventh regiment of Servian
infantry are reported to have been
virtually exterminated by the . ex
plosion of Turkish land-mines " after
crossing the frontier into the district of
Novipafcar, according to a news agency
dispatch from Belgrade,
Servian Column Advancing
BERGRADE,. Oct 21. A Servian column
commanded hy General Jaukovltch, cap
tured the Turkish entrenchments at the
village of Podujevo, near Mtrovitza, on
the road to Priehtina during the night
The Turks with their Arnaut auxiliaries
retired toward the south, leaving their
colors, several cases of ammunition,
eighty oxen and a large quality of forage.
Turkish prisoners taken by the Servians
Bay there were no regular TurklsB troops
engaged, the Ottoman force at Podujevo
consisting of two provisional regiments of
reserves and six companies of Arnaut
tribesmen, besides three batteries o ar
tillery. .
No details are given as to casualties.
American Aviators Enlist.
CHICAGO. Oct 21.-John Schaefer and
Robert Elliott, Chicago aviators, left to
,day for Washington, where they will en
list with, the Greek legation for army
service in the Balkans. The. arrangement
was made through the Chicago Greek
'consulate. They are to .fly two of the
aeroplanes shipped into the disputed terri
tory several weeks ago.
THIRD TERMJADSE WANING
American Voters Are Abandoning
" the New Party.
PROGRESSIVE IS MISNOMER
Number of Pertinent Questions Are
Asked la Regard to Relation of
Name to Principles and
Practices.
White Contradicts
Witness Against
Lieutenant Becker
NEW YORK, Oct. 21. James D. White,
a policeman formerly attached to Lieu
tenant Becker's "strong arm" squad, took
the witness stand in Becker's defense
today and swore that Becker had never
said to him in the Tombs that he (Becker)
would be praised in the end for killing
Crook Rosenthal
No conversation remately resembling
(this occurred, according to the 'police
man. This contradicted recent testimony of
James D. Hallen, a state witness, who
produced notes of what purported to be
such a conversation.
White also swore, as did two witnesses
who followed him, that Becker's raid on
'Rosenthal's place was "honest and
square" and not made for revenge, as
'the state charges, after Becker and the
gambler had quarreled.
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By CHARLES D. HILLES.
Chairman Republican National Com
mittee. NEW YORK, Oct. 22. (Special.)
Third term advocates say they cannot
understand what has happened to their
cause, why it has dwindled so In popular
support in the last month, why it has
been abandoned virtually by the great
army of American voters.
. An opponent, who has, had a keen in
terest in the progress of the campaign,
might point out reasons which in his
opinion tell why the American public has
deserted the third term party.
The progressive party so-called, in the
first place, was a name based on false
pretense. Men have usurped that Vord
"progressive" as a watchword to which
they were not entitled.
Is it progressive to profess to change
the organic law of the nation by de
stroying a part of it?
Is it progressive to take from the
courts the finality of Judgment which
has stood as a "bulwark of our liberties?
Is it progressive to seek to turn over
to an irresponsible democracy represent
ing only a minority of the American
people on the great issues of the day,
control of the federal government for
the next four years?
Is it progressive to question the au
thority and decisions of the United
States supreme court?
Many More Questions.
Is it progressive to refuse to abide by
the decision of a republican national
convention, if you are a candidate before
that convention?
Is it progressive to assert that asso
ciation with yourself turns a corrupt po
litical boss or a trust millionaire into a
"party leader," while association with
your adversary stamps everyone as "dis
honest?" Is it progressive to become a candi
date for a third term after your sworn
assertion that you never would?
Is it progressive to preach the "square
deal" but to ignore it in practice?
Is it progressive for a man who has
been highly honored by the republican
party to become the tall of the democ
racy's kite?
If those virtues constitute a progressive
is it any wonder the American voters
have resolved to reject those who repre
sent them? '
The fact remains and the voters have
come to realize that fact that the repub
lican party is the real progressive party
of the United States and has been sinca
its foundation.
Parallel to Greeley Movement.
A prominent republican recalled the
other day the Greeley movement and
how Its campaign speaker' predicted the
ruin of the republican party, that its
days of usefulness had passed, and as
serted the only way out for republicans
was to join the Greeley party. But
Greeley did not secure the electoral votes
of a single state in the union.
United States Senator Heyburn of Idaho
tr.ld of hearing his father and Governor
Curtin of New Jersey argue the Greeley
candidacy and of his father saying:
"Governor, It is easier to get out of the
republican party than it is to kill it or to
get back into it"
Governor Curtin got out and never
got back, afterwards going to congress
as a democratic member. There is a
wide gulf between the republican party
and thee democratic party and its allies,
and if a man goes floating along on an
anti-republican wave, he is likely to get
too far from shore to swim back. Re
publicans in this campaign have decided
to stay ashore.
The republican party and President
Taft its candidate, are true progressives.
Is not a party progressive that has ad
ministered the affairs of this government
for fifty years with only a brief inter
regnum, with the results which confront
us?. ' . .
Would you, dare say that the republican
party has not been progressive when it
has saved the nation from destruction,
reorganized it organized the great finan
cial system- of the nation, inaugurated
a settlement policy which has peopled a
vast territory, and brought about the
prosperity of the individual and of the
state?
aferely because someone claims some
thing which belongs to you, should you
concede Jhe claim or combat the conten
tion? One element has arrogated to Itself the
right to be called "progressive," has de
nounced the republican party as being
retrogressive, but this new organization
hag no record to submit
Party of Principle.
The republican party, on the other
hand, is a party of principles, not only
of men. Men come and go, but o'ur gov
ernment haa stood on principles since the
beginning.
John Hay, a republican 'of the highest
type, in his address at the fiftieth anni
versary of the birth of the republican
party, said:
"For fifty years the republican party
has believed in the country and labored
for It In hop and Joy; it has reverenced
the flag and followed it; has carried it
under strange skies and planted It on far
receding horizons. It haa seen the nation
grow greater every year and more re
spected; by Just dealing, by intelli
gent labor, by .a genius for enterprise;
it has seen the country extend its inter
course and its influence to regions un
known to our fathers. Yet It has never
abated one jot or tithe of the ancient
law imposed on us by our God-fearing
ancestors. We have fought a good fight,
but also we have kept the faith. The
constitution of our fathers thaa been the
light to our feet; our path is, and will
ever remain, that of ordered progress, of
liberty under the law."
President Taft will be re-elected if t4-
publicans are loyal' to their party s prin
clples.
El
DENOUNCE
"Now You Just Keep Your Eye on Me."
PENROSE AND HILLES
Financier Denirt that He Under--
to Underwrite Rooseve ; -j.o " :
Convention Csf i
BIGGEST V SEASON
Demands that Senator and Secretary
Retract Statement.
RYAN GIVES TO PARKER FUND
Magnate Testifies He Contributed
Forty-Five Thousand Dollars.
WANTED TO SAVE ORGANIZATION
He Says Me was Sore Parker Could
Not Be Elected, bat He Paid
Party's Debts to Keen
It Alive.
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Allen's Trial Postponed.
WYETHVILLE, Va., Oct. 21. The trial
of 8yd na Allen, leader of the Hillsvtlle
outlaws, charged with the Carroll county
court house murders, has been postponed
from October 28 to November 7. This
also postpones the trial of Wesley Ed
war" '
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.-Gorge W.
Perkins today denounced as an "unmiti
gated falsehood" the charge that he had
underwritten the Roosevelt pre-conven-tion
campaign this year In the sum of
$J,000,COO. He testified that his total con
tributions were $122,500.
Rising from the witness chair before
the Clapp committee and shaking a
clenched fist, Mr. Perkins shouted:
"Among the long list of unmitigated
lies throughout this campaign, that state
ment perhaps ought to be placed at the
top, because It is the largest.
"I am in hope that Senator Penrose will
be here today. He made that statement
on the floor of the senate, and he ought
to be required to prove It, or like a gen
tleman he ought to take it back. There
is not a scintilla of truth in it from .A
to Z."
"Just a minute," interrupted Chairman
Clapp. "All that Is necessary is that you
deny it. All that the Committee can do
Is to determine the proof or the absence
of proof."
Mr. Perkins was not to be stopped.
He continued: VI want to know where
I stand. I want to know whether I can
be charged with those things on the floor
of the United States senate and not be
given a" opportunity to disprove them."
He insisted that Mr. Penrose should be
brought before the committee and say
whether his charge was "mere hot air."
He did not believe the senator should be
allowed to "get away with the situation."
"Did you ever enter into arrangement
to underwrite any portion of Colonel
Roosevelt's campaign?" he was asked.
"Not one dollar," said Mr. Perkins.
"Do you know of anyone else under
taking to do so?"
"I do not."
Annanla Halo for Utiles.
Taking up accusations by Chairman
Hllles that the International Harvester
company had made, large contributions
to .the, Ropsevelt campaign. Mr Perkins
declared wtih heat: '
" "This is an absolute falsehood, made
out of the whole cloth and if Mr. Hllles
has any reason to believe that contribu
tions have been made by the Harvester
company, he owes it to me and to others
to have the books of the company audited
for the purpose of proving or disproving
the accusation." i
Here Mr. Perkins rose from his seat
and protested that he had been "Vllli
fled" as no other man had been and he
insisted that the committee require his
accusers to prove their charges.
Senator Clapp replied that the com
mittee had no means of doing that.
"If I were president and a subordinate
should make such a charge as Mr. Hllles
has made, I should make him prove It
or dismiss him from office," replied Mr.
Perkins, still standing and shaking his
hand violently.
The chair reminded him that he had :
been brought to Washington to speak In
his own behalf.
Makes Demands for Proof.
"That Is fine," he said, "but what I
want to know is whether the committee
is' going to bring Senator Penrose or Mr.
Hilles back and compel htm to make !
good.'" ' 1
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
ROOSEVELT STARTS FOR HOME
Colonel Leaves Chicago Hospital for
Oyster Bay.
EARLY BULLETIN IS FAVORABLE
Patient is Slightly Restless, bat In-
flamatlon Has Decreased In
dications He Will Stand
the Trip Well.
Mr. Perkins contended that if would bejMrg RooSevelt
CHICAGO, Oct 21.-Colonel Roosevelt
left Mercy hospital At exactly 7:20 a. m.
for the station, where he was to board a
Pennsylvania railroad train on which he
was to make the Journey home. He was
token out of ths hospital on a wheel chair
to an automobile ambulance. The colonel
was accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt
When he was ready to depart, the col
onel said he was feeling well, but that be
cause of his restlessness ' during tho
n'ght was somewhat sleepy and honed
he would be able to get some rest after he
reached his berth. He was cheerful and
expressed pleasure that he was so soon to
be on the way home.
He awoke shortly before 6 o'clock and
was given his morning sponge bath and
rub down. His breakfast. consisted of
bacon, three soft boiled eggs, buttered
toast and a pot of tea. Mrs. Roosevelt
had breakfast with her husband.
Dr. John B. Murphy arrived at 6:30
a- m. and with Dr. William B. McCauley,
the nous rurgeon, dreeted thej colonel's
wound for the last Urns be fort his de
present .This oormultaiion ,wjifor the
part u re. At the came time a consultation
was held, at which Dr. Scurry j Terrell,
the colonel's specialist. Dr. Arthur B.
Bevan, Dr. Alexander Lambert, the
Rooseevlt family physician, and Dr. John
B. Golden,- Dr. Murphy's assistant were
purpose of establishing the icolotMwi
actual physical condition, with la view
of taking precautions necessary to make
the journey east as comfortable 'and as
safe as possible. .'
Morning- Bulletin.
At 7:10 a. m: the following official bulle,
tin, was issued:'
Pulse, temperature and respiration
normal. Wound still discharges a little
serum. There Is less Inflammation.
Point of location is sensitive to pressure
and bullet can now be distinctly located.
General condition good.
DR. JOHN B. MURPHY.
DR. ALEXANDRE LAMBERT,
DR. A. I). BEVAN.
DR SCURRY L. TERRELL,
Long before time to leave the hospital
Colonel Roosevelt was fully dressed and
over his street clothes he wore the heavy
inrmy overcoat he had on the evening he
was shot. The hole in the right breast
was not distinguishable at any great dis
tance. The colonel walked from his room to
the wheel chair in the corridor 'He was
accompanied by Dr. John B. Murphy and
A BIG HIT
YORK, Oct. 20 To the Editor of
The Bee : I wish to congratulate
you on your Nebraska Develop
ment number issued today. Thp
next Nebraska legislature ought
to appropriate $20,000 to send
this publication into the eastern
states to let the people there see
what Nebraska is really like.
WILLIAM C0LT0N.
MR.N WAIT ASK FOR APPEAL
Secretary Wishes Supreme Court to
Act on Electors' Case.
MAY REJECT THE APPLICATION
Judges of the Upper Tribunal Are
Adverse to Considering the
Matter on Such Short
Notice.
LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 21.-Speclal Tele-gram.)-Seeretary
Wait this morning
made application for an appeal to the su
preme court of the decision by Judges
Cornish, Stewart and Cosgrove granting
a writ asked by the Taft republican state
central committee requiring him to place
the six Taft men chosen by the commit
tee as republican electors on the official
ballot Instead of six men nominated In
the April primaries" as republicans', but
since turned bull moosers. The judges Of
the supreme court are averse to hearing
the case, claiming it is unfair of, Walt
to ask for an appeal on such short no
tice. It Is ths opinion of the republicans
at Lincoln that the case will not be
heard. (
When notified of the appeal, John I
Webster, as attorney for the republican
committee, announced over the telephone
that he would waive all formal notices
and technical differences and be ready
to arrive the case on, its merits at once
If the supreme court so desired. He ex
pressed himself so confident of the jus
tice of his case and the law and de
cisions sustaining it that, in his view,
affirmation by the supreme court of tho
decree already Issued was certain to
follow, and would still further strengthen
the position which the Taft men have
taken all .hlong.
easy to prove what had been contributed
to the campaign fund from the treasury
of the harvester company. He said that
he was a member of the board of direc
tors of that company and chairman of ths
finance committee and knew that not a
cent of the company funds had been
given to aid Colonel .Roosevelt
Mr. Perkins gave Vs contributions to
the Roosevelt pre-conventlon fund as fol
lows: To the -New York state committee.
S15.0C0; to E. H. Hooker, for the national i
fund, $22,500; to the Washington bureau,
132,600; for polls, etc, in New York and
Brooklyn, $16,000; sent to other states,
118,600; to E. W. Sims, $17,000.
"This statement is absolutely complete,"
said Mr. Perkins. "My total contributions
were $122,500."
('lushes with Ponierene.
'When -Mr. Perkins resumed testimony
h repeated that he thought the commit
tee had confused the amounts contributed
to Colonel Roosevelt's campaign in such
a way as to make the aggregate appear
larger than it really was. He placed In
the record a statement showing that
campaign expenditures in England dur
ing a general election for 6TiO members
of Parliament amounted to $$',000,000.
Senator Oliver summed up testimony as
showing $iS2.000 contributed, by Mr. Per
kins, Frank A Munsey, Dan R Hanna
and William Fllnn.
Senator Pomerene wanted to know I
whether Perkins had any. memorandum
cf the $19,500 sent to various states.
"I kept no memorandum," said Mr
Perkins. "Why didn't you ask a member
of your own party for a memorandum?
You didn't ask Mr. Ryan to account for
his $450,000."
"I am not heer to be lectured," inter
rupted Senator Pomerene.
Mr. Perkins rose from his chair and
shouted, "I know what you are here for
all right, just as well as I know what 1
am here for."
Mr. Perkins said that the several items
in the 1904 list put in by Elmer E. Dover,
credited "G. W. P." with contributions,
probably were contributions obtained by
Mr. Bliss from men suggested by Mr.
continued on Page Two.)
To avoid a crowd at the station Colonel
Roosevelt boarded the train In the ruil
road yard at Twelfth street, half a mile
away. The, train was then backed into
the terminal train . shed, where the
colonel's baggage' was received." ' fi-
Plrst Stop at Gary.
GARY, Ind., Oct. 21.-Colonel Roosevelt
announced that he was not feeling any
j discomfort from .the motion of the train,
when his party stopped here for a few
i minutes to send last telegrams east.
'It isn't bothering me at all," he told
the correspondnts. "If the whole trip is
like this, I shall get along fine."
Patient Resting Well.
FORT WAYNE, Ind., Oct 21.-The fol
lowing bulletin was issued at noon by
Colonel Roosevelt's physicians:
Colonel Roosevel Is resting well and is
verv comfortable.
ALEXANDER LAMBERT,
SCURRY I TERRELL.
Dr. Lambert said that the patient s
condition was so favorable that It was
deemed unnecessary to take a record of
his temperature, pulse and respiration.
"He looks like a well man," said Dr.
Lambert, "but it is necessary that he be
kept to himself and have absolute rest
"There has been some further bleeding
of the wound today, but only the normal
dribbling, which shows that the wound is
healing as we hoped it would."
Dr. Lambert Installed himself in a
state room adjoining Colonel Roosevelt'
and kept the patient under constant
observation. At several Indiana towns
there were crowd a but respecting the re
quest of the ' physicians they stood
silently.
Nurse Who Poisoned
Patient May, Die
YON KE RB, N. xf, Oct. 2L-Mlss Flor
ence Harris, a nurse who collapsed in
the Yonkers Hotnoeopathetlc hospital yes
terday after causing the death of Mrs.
Alice Haight by administering a poison
In mistake for a harmless drug, was still
unconscious today and it was feared she
might not recover. She has been ab
solved of all blame.
Opinions in Hard Coal
and Union Pacific
Cases Are Delayed
WASHINGTON, Oct 2X.-For the first
time In many years the supreme cc-url
today let the initial decision day after
the summer recess pass without announc
ing a single decision. Decisions were
expected in the "hard coal case," the
''Union Pacific merger" case or the state
rate cases.
The supreme court today advanced for
early consideration cases Involving the
constitutionality of the white slave acts;
the conviction of Charles Helke, former
secretary of the American Sugar Refin
ing company, charged with sugar cus
toms frauds; the validity of the Indict
ment of United Shoe officials and the
title to valuable oil lands claimed by
transcontinental railroads under the land
grant acts. Ail were set for hearing on
January 6.
LIGHTNING HITS A BALLOON
Two German Aeronauts Killed by
Fall of Three Miles.
BIG GAS BAG EXPLODES
Airmen Are Caught In Storm and
Attempt to Avoid It by Rising)
Above It Victims Are
Prominent.
BERLIN, Oct. 31. The announcement
of the death yesterday of Lieutenant
Hans Gericke, winner of last year's in
ternational balloon race in the United
States and head of the team of German
defenders In the races to be held from
Stuttgart next Saturday created a pro
found sensation here today. He was
thrown from his balloon at a height of
three miles by the explosion of ths gas
bag, which Is believed to have been struck
by lightning. His side, Lieutenant Steler
also was killed.
Oerlcks and Steler were making a trial
flight to test the new balloon which they
.'xpected to use In the international races.
Just above the town of GrosaenhaJn they
.... .hi.u,..s,vmHi .V.I.VII IIIVJ C
tempted to avoid by rising above the dis
turbance. When a mile In the sir the
craft was caught la en eddy and became
unmanageable. After a terriflo rush
straight upward, the bag burst.
Fifteen Thousand Feet High.
The shattered instruments which the
balloonlsts carried on their flight were
examined today. The recording appara
tus showed tby were. riding at a-height
of 6,000 feat when they were suddenly
hit by a Vertical gust of wind which
pushed them, straight up with the viol
ence of a hurricane to a height of more
than 10,000 feet.
At this altitude the bag burst either
from' the sudden change In pressure or,
as Is more likely, from being struck by
lightning.
SECRETARY
KNOX
NOTINCLINEO TO
IS
INTERVENEJN MEXICO
Returns From Japan and Has a Talk
with Ambassador Wilson Over
Mexican Situation.
NO REASON FOR POLICY CHANGE
Conditions in the Southern Republio
Said to Be Growing Serious.
REBEL LEADER CLOSE TO CAPITOL
Two Unusual Deaths
at Burlington, Iowa
BURLINGTON, la., Oct. 21.-Two un
usual deaths occurred in Burlington in the
last twenty-four fours. L. C. Grommell,
a street car motorman, was accidentally
asphyxiated. He lived alone and it' is
presumed was boiling some water in a
vessel over a gas stove, fell asleep and
the vessel overflowed, f extinguishing the
gas and causing the vapors to flood the
room, killing both Grommell and his dog.
Mrs. Katherlne Krekel, aged 72 years,
was found dead in a chair by her daugh
ter this morning. The old lady Insisted
on living alone and It is supposed she had
been dead two days when discovered.
United States Will
Not Interfere With
Affairs of Mexico
WASHINGTON. Oct. , 21.-9ecretary
Knox and Bansford S. Miller, chief of
the far eastern division of the State de
partment, constituting the . special em
bassy dispatched by, the president to
Japan to represent the United States at
the funeral services of the late Emperor
Mutsuhlto, returned today to Washing
ton. As ranking member of the cabinet Sec
retary Knox is "acting president" in
Washington. He finds many problems
pressing for consideration, principally the
situation in Mexico, which he will discuss
with Ambassador Wilson, waiting here on
his way back to Mexico City.
While the United States Intends to. ad
here to its policy of noninterference in
the Internal affairs of Mexico, the State
department has made It plain to the Ma-
dero government that measures to pro
tect Americans in the troubled aone must
not be relaxed.
These representations It Is understood
include intimations that the lines of com
munication from the Interior to Vera Crux
and Tamplco, the principal ports on the
Atlantic side, must be kept open for the
exit of Americans.
While some students of the question
believe the United States might take
measures on its own account to keep
open an avenue of escape for Americans
as it did In China and Nicaragua, officials
here do not regard such a development
as likely.
ROADS PERMITTED TO RAISE
RATES ON COOPERAGE
WASHINGTON, Oct. ' 2L-Increases
averaging about 25 per cent in the
freight rates on cooperage, Including
butter tubs, drums, well buckets, kits,
etc., from Chicago, Memphis, St. Louis
and other points along the Mississippi
river to Rocky mountain destinations
were approved today by the Interstate
Commerce commission. The suspension
of the tariff making the advances was
ordered vacated.
LAND WORTH HALF MILLION
iSOLD FOR ALMOST NOTHING
DUX.UTH. Minn., Oct 21. Half a mil
lion dollars is declared to have slipped
through the hands of Marie A. Solms
Ortmann, widow of the late Charles L.
Ortmann, a Detroit, Mich., millionaire,
whose death occurred fourteen ' years
ago, according to clams made by her
and Waldemar Ortmann, a ton, in, a
lawsuit brougnt today in district court
The widow and son are suing James
Swan, a Detroit attorney, ' and the
Mooswa Mining company, in which he
is Interested, for the title to 640 acres
of mineral land on the Mesaba iron
range. Swan, it is claimed, while act
ing as administrator of the Ortmann es
tate sold the MO acres for $1 an
acre to his family physician, who later,
It is said, reconveyed it to the Mooswa
Mining company, of which Swan is de
clared to hold one-fourth of the stock.
The property is now valued at $500,000
by the heirs. Rudolph Ortmann, Chi
cago; Edward W. Ortmann, Portland,
Ore.; Stephanie K. Dott, Detroit, and
the late Marie M. Owsley, Greenwood,
were made parties to the suit.
On plaintiffs' complaint of fraud and
conspiracy she and her son ask that the
deeds of conveyance of the 640 acres be
set aside.
Diaz with a Large Force in Very
Outskirts of Vera Cruz.
PROTECTION FOR FOREIGNERS
United States May Get Into the Con
troversy When the Mall Steamer
Slauranra Attempts to Dle
charge Its Cargo.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2l.-Offlcial in
terest here today centered upon the sit
uation In Mexica, where the rebellion,
whloh has been In progress for months,
has taken on a new and formidable
phase as the result of General Felix
Dias.
The return to Washington of Secretary
Knox from his Japanese trip; the pres
ence here of Henry Lane Wilson, am
bassador to Mexico, and Interesting and
Important developments in the military,
situation art Vera Crui within the last
two days, were elements that served to
concentrate attention on the Mexican
trouble.
Secretary Knox was accompanied f ion:
Chicago to Washington by Mr. Wilson
and he found himself upon his arrival
here this morning well Informed of ai:
save the very latest developments. Prob
ably in ctnsequence, the conference
whloh was expected to take place be
tween Secretary Knox and Ambassador
Wilson was deferred for a time. How
ever, the ambassador probably will have
an opportunity to discuss the situation
and receive any suggestion that may be
thought necessary for his guidance in
the confidential talk with Secretary
Knox before the latter leaves Washing-'
ton tomorrow night to Join President
Taft at Beverly.
The one fact that appears clearly to
day la that, although the ambassador
has conferred at length with Acting Sec
retary Adee and the officials of the State
department who are charged particularly
with the conduct of Mexican relations,
nothing he has communicated has in
fluenced the officials to change in any
respect the clearly defined policy of non
intervention in Mexico.. This is quite
true, even in the faoe of semi-official
admissions that the- revolutionary
movement . la - Mexico, haa . assumed- a
much more serious aspect than ever be
fore and that a coalition between the
rebel leader Zapata, who for the last
year has maintained a formidable re
bellion almost within sight of the Mexi
can capital, and General Felix Dlaa, re
puted to be supported by the powerful
Sclentlflco. party that might jeopardize
the very existence of the Madero gov
ernment. So far. however, it cannot be
established that these leaders have
agreed to make common cause.
The military situation at Vera Crue. ac
cording to the last reports to the depart
ment, was extremely Interesting. Though
there was , promise of an Important, and
perhaps decisive battle between the rebel
DlaJ forces and the considerable army
that General Beltran has assembled undei
the government standard on the outskirts
of the city, it was confidently expected
that the important foreign interests In
Vera Crui would escape Jeopardy and
loss of the Uvea of the noncombatants
be averted by an agreement between the
two commanders to do their fighting out
side of the olty limits.
General Beltran has said that he would
personally do all he could In conformity
with orders from his government to cap-
ture the town to protect it from destruc
tion. Furthermore, he told the foreign
consuls that he would trannsmit to his
government their request to refrain from
bombarding the town or fighting in its
streets.
For his part General Diaz, who is in
complete possession of the city proper,
offered to the consuls all possible guar
antees to life and property so long as ho
maintained control. With the leaders on
both sides in this frame of mind, the
consuls felt reassured.'
According to today's reports everything
in Vera Crux is unusually quiet and
orderly and is likely to remain so un
less the federal gunboats start to bom
bard the city. General Beltran' a forces
were about ten miles from town.
A possible element of trouble is the
issue of a decree by the government of
ficer in charge of the gunboats, declaring
th port of Vera Crux closed. Indirectly
this may drag the United States navy
into the affair, as the American mall
ship Siguranca has appeared in the har
bor and Is there to discharge the cargo.
If the federal naval commander persists
in regarding the port as closed and re
fuses to permit the ship to unload, the
situation would exactly parallel that in
Rio harbor nearly twenty years ago, when
the American navy broke a rebel blockade.
OFFICIAL ,nT TREASURY
OF DARKE COUNTY, OHIO
COLUMBUS, O., Oct. Zt.-Accordlng to
the report of state examiners today, of
ficials of Darke county have paid out
illegally $2)1,148.54 within the last five
years. The report states that the publio
treasury was "boldly looted" by padding
bills, paying for work never done, paying
for contracts twice over and paying for
labor and material at exorbitant prices.
The county officials used the ' court
house for drinking and carousing, it is
said.
New HmtWRi- Heaulatlon Held Up.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 21. Regulations
to restrict . further the size and limit of
the weight of personal bagKage of travel
ers, adopted by almost, all railroads in
the United states, were suspended today
by the Interstate Commerce commission
until April 29.
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