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The Omaha Daily Bee iiivo One's Monologue: I should worry because my sleepy competitor docs not au vcrtis." THE WEATHER. Fair VOL. XLIII NO 41. OMAHA, TUESDAY MORNING-, AUGUST 5, 1013 TEN PAGES. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. COMMISSION ORDERF RADICAL REDUCTIONS IN EXPRESS CHARGES Cut Costing Companies Sixteen Per Cent of Profits is Mandate of Interstate Rate Body, IN EFFECT IN NEXT OCTOBER Will Mean Loss of Twenty-Eight Millions to Firms. OTHE R REFORMS PRESCRIBED Changes in. Graduated Scale of Par cel Tariffs. FINDINGS OF LANE AFFIRMED United Stntea Divided lit Nine Hun dred and Fifty Blocks Aver asinB -'.BOO Square Silica. WASHINGTON, ,Aug. 4. Reductions in express rates which will cost the com panies fully $8,006.(100 a year, approxi mately 16 per cent of their gross revenue, were ordered by the interstate Coniraereo commission to become effective on of before October ii, 1913. Notable reforms lu practices also were ordered. Tho most important change prescribed by tho order is by way of modification of thu present graduated scale of parcel rates. One hundred pound rates for short -distances, either have been left unchanged or slightly reduced; for longer distances they have been lowered; for fifty pounds or less, .all rates have been practically reduced. - For packages of more than four pounds going more than !00 miles and less than 2,000 the new oxpress rates are generally lower than tho parcel post rat?s; for more than 3,000 miles the rates are practically the same. Comntlaston Affirms Findings. The report and order of the commis sion prepared by Commissioner John R. Marble are the affirmation of the find ing of Commissioner Lane, now secre tary of the interior. It prescribed a so called block system, dividing the United States Into &M blocks, averaging 2,500 square miles as originally proposed by Sir. Lane. The 000,003 different rates now published by the express companies wilt be reduced 'to lesB than 600,000 and the Interstate Commerce commission be lieves tho system points the way to a solution of the existing mare of freight rates. Test Case to-Be Made. The general impression in official quar ters Is that the express companies will attemp.t to test by legal means the con stitutionality of the commltslon's order. The reoulrtmcnt of .'the order 'of June 8, HQ. that label shall be(attached to enoh parcel, is modified- the extent that Jn ease, of shipments, of perishable property, consisting of two or more packages, tho label need bo attached to only one pack age. The express companies had filed state ments Indicating the loss of revenue under the proposed rates would bo In tolerable and argued strenuously that the establishment of the parcel post had de prited them of quite 30 per cent of the revenue they formally received from par cels of eleven pounds or less. They con tended that the express business could not survive tho losses from business sources. The basis of the classification pre scribed by. the' commission Is that all articles of merchandise of ordinary value trq to be carried at first class or ordi nary merchandise rates. Articles of food and drink, with a few 'exceptions are second class and are to be carried at 75 per cent of the first class rates. The rates for newspapers and period icals, as well as for bread and such articles for which specially low rates now are charged, are substantially the same as the present rates. A permanent committee has been ap pointed to revise the routes of express carriers to eliminate the circuitous routes which ate now a cause of con llderable complaint on the part of ship per's. The order Is for two years only. That period will give abundant opportunity for a test of these rates under various condi tions amounting to a normal average. In no other way can the absolutely property rate basis for repsondents be finally de termined. Respondents are also at lib rrty at any time to bring forward new (acts as a basis for a petition for modi Ucatlon of this or any other order. Lid at Washington is Without a Hole WASHINGTON, Aug. 4-The national capital awakened today to find that dur ing the thirty-one hours from midnight Saturday to 7 o'clock today it haa been a "Jagless" town. Not one arrest for drunkenness had been made by the police In that time and the police court docket was nJonesoms sight. The new and rigid excise law passed by congress was responsible for the wave of Sabbath purity. Southern Pacific Hit by Cloudburst SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4.-For a dls. tance of 1,000 feet the Southern Pacific tracks at Thtsbe. Nev., nineteen miles east of Sparks, are buried beneath boul ders, some of them weighing as much as ten tons, washed over the right-of-way 'ast night by a violent cloudburst. Travel on the Salt Lake division, the sompany announced her today, will be ielayed twelve hours or more. Bryan Cancels His Lecture Dates KANSAS CITV, Mo.. Aug. 4.-Wllllam Jennings Bryan, secretary of state, who was to have spoken at the chautauqua to morrow night in this olty, notified the management today that affairs In his of. flee would not permit Mm to fill the en gagement. Other eaniragements In Kan as have been cancelled. Olapp Wants to Know About Segregation of Whites and Blacks WASHINGTON 4. Opposed to segregation e Postofflce de- partmcnt, ot Minnesota was prepar Insist that Post- master grounds rleson explain the a department order provld h a separation of the o employes wo In contem- senator contends that the worked togther for a half nd he does not believe any greater need exists for their separation now than at any time In the past. The proposed plan. Senator Clapp says he lias been given to understand, would Increase the expenses of the department by ap proximately $150,000 a year. Whllo there have been no very strenu ous complaints from employes of postof flees, officials admit that vigorous pro tests against working with negroes have been filed by employes In tho railway mall division. On long runs the com plainants have, represented, white railway mall clerks frequently are compelled to eat and sleep' with negro clerks. They have made a concerted effort to have the condition remedied. With tho Incoming of the democratic ad ministration the postal employes' organi zation lodged petitions bearing several thousand signatures, asking Postmaster Burleson for relief. Large Increase in Exports During Tear Just Closed WASHINGTON, Aug. 4,-Inorease in the Industrial and commercial activity of the United States during the past fiscal year, as compared with 1912, Is disclosed by figures made public today by the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. These show there was a gain of almost 12 per cent in the valuo of exports of manu factures, manufactured materials and agricultural products. The Increase amounted to 262,000,000 and the total ex ports this year were $2,446,000,000. The Im ports increased almost 10 per cent, the gain being 1160,000,000, the grand total dur ing the year aggregating 11,813,000,000. Exports of iron and steel manufactures this year amounted to $305,000,000 against 1263,000,000 last year. The total exports of manufactures, other than foodstuffs, were valued at 11,187,000,000, against $1,020,000,000 In 1912. The copper -produced In the first six months this year "was '$09,000,000 pounds, against 736,000,003 pounds In the same period last year and tho exports of copper and manufactures thereof, ex clusive of ore, approximately $140,000,000 this year, against $111000,000 last year. Third Victim of ' Mrs, Brogan, Crazy Mother, is Dead . "i PHILADELPHIA, Aug. J. ,Mary Brogari, 9 years old, the third Victim Ot a crazed mother's knife, died today. Saturday Mrs. John J. Brogan cut the throats of threo of her six children Ana then killed herself. One of tho children, Thomas, 3 years old, died almost Im mediately and tho other two, Victor and Mary, were removed to tap hospital. Vic--tor died yesterday. Mrs. Brogan at tempted to kill her 13-year-old son, Jcseph, but ho escaped and locked, him self In a room. Mrs. Brogan became" in sune as the 'result of worry over the con dition of her other son, John, Jr., who la ill of typhoid fever. Mulhall Offensive to Michigan Senator WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. Senator Town send of Michigan today flatly dented Mulhajl's testimony that he had talked with htm and characterized Mulhall as a self-acknowledged eorruptlonlst. Emmory and Mulhall, when Townsend was a member of tho house, came to gether to his office and Mulhall made an argument about labor legislation.. "When he paused I asked him If he was through and when he said 'yes,' I said, 'well, this Is my busy day, you'll have to excuse me.' Therefore, it Is an unqualified falsehood when he says he talked with me confidentially," said Senator Townsend to the senate lobby committee. The senator went through the record and picking out the letters In which his name appeared, denied In detail Mul hall's testimony that he had conferred with him. "This man was personally offensive to me," said the senator in conclusion, "therefore I could not fall to remember If he hfid talked to me confidentially." South Dakota Grain Turning Out Well MITCHELL, S. D., Aug. 4. Special.) Practically all of the small grain In this section is cut. and the threshers are In the fields. The yield la keenlnir un in tho average of what was anticipated be fore the harvest began. Oats are. averaging from thlrtv.flv, tn forty-five bushels per acre and of a good quality. Corn la holding It own. r1rnlln tVi) there has been little rain In the past ten days. With the cool nights which have followed the hot days, corn has had a chance to recuperate and is still looking to be in good condition. Western Fisherman Are Out on Strike, VANCOUVER, B. C. Aug. 4.-Four thousand salmon fishermen strike on the Fraser river. Saturday the canneries annopneed that the price of fish would be materially reduced. Whites. Japanese and Indians joined In the strike and have called out the Indian women who worn In the can neries. Greek fishermen are tho only ones not yet on strike. Japanett strike pickets early today attached Greek fish ermen and threw their catch overboard. One cannery has 14,000 fish left on Its hands. to mm tQHPave centufcfWa Drawn for The Bee 'by Hal Cotfman. SHOTS FIRED .AT MALONEY Chief of Detectives Has-KaMrow Es cape from Unknown Assailant. POSSIBLE CLEW IN A LETTER' i. ii ii Black Hand Missive Written la Dls Kdtaed Hand and In Misspelled Words Thought to Be an Explanation. ka unidentified assailant tried to kill -nlef of Detectives Steve Moloney after he arrived Monday morning at his office. Two shot from a .38 caliber revolver were fired directly at hlra from tho back of a string of box cars about seventy-five feet rrom the window of his office at the police .station. Maloney heard the shots but paid no attention to them until a little later he went out into the yard of tho station and saw two holes from the bullets im bedded in the window sill near his desk. They were about an. Inch apart and there Is every Indication that they were fired by one acquainted with the use of pistols. Immediately after the shots were heard two policemen rushed out of the building in the direction from which the iound emanated, but there was no one In sight. It was not, however, until the markings of the bullets were discovered, that It was realized they were meant for the chief. , Maoney has not the remotest Idea who "has It In for him," unless It could be the writer of a note which he discovered Fri day afternoon lying on his aesk. It had likely been placed there while he was away at lunch. The message, on a dirty . piece of wrapping paper, had been wrlt jten by a person evidently attempting to uiBguise us source wun cruae penman ship and misspelled words.. It follows: "1 Aug 1913 Yore time has came I have follered you long time but nevcro get a chance to get you wher I want you. "Look out for me I mene bulsness. "VENOBNCK." In tho lower right-hand corner of the sheet a crude dagger with dripping point had been penciled. Chief Maloney seems to regard the whole matter as a joke and was little disturbed over it. "The chances are that some Third ward coke fiend got an overdose of the drug arid is trying to take it out on me. Any way, he missed me and I'm here, so 1 should worry," he laughingly said. Sophias Neble, Jr., assistant county at torney, who entered the building Imme diately before the shooting, rushed to the door and caught a glimpse of a short, heavy-set Individual, clad In a blue wilt, running up the alley on the side of the station, between Eleventh and Twelfth streets. Nebel says he had. tomethlng clutched In his right hand, but whether It was a revolver he coula not say. Extradition Papers for Emanuel Brito MEXICO CITT, Aug. 4.-ExtradltIon papers in connection with the arrest of Emanuel Castillo Brito. former provj fional governor of the Mexican state of Campeche, are being prepared by tho Mexican government for the immediate dispatch to the United States, according to officials here today. The documents will deal with the charge against Jlrlto of robbing the state treas ury and the local banks before taking to the hills in the rebellion. Evidence bear ing on the murder charge against Brito la on the way here from Campeche. jThe Bubble Charges Against the Democrats ip the Mulhall Case WASHINGTON, Aug. .-Charges that the democrats of the senate lobby com mittee havo prejudiced the case made out by Martin M.- Mulhall against the Na tional Association of Manufacturers with out hearing the other side were made to day by fdrmer Representative James E. Watson of Indiana, who1 referred In a let ter to tho committee, to published state ments by Chairman Overman and Sena tors Reed and Walsh. He declined to appear before the committee, saying that il would be useless. "I much prejer," said Watson, "to take my case to another court." Robert 'M.cCarter, attorney for tho Na tional Association of Manufacturers, faced the committee with an objection to the same statements, Chairman Ovormart and Senator Reed declared there was nothing In the Inter view which could be taken as Indicating that they had prejudged the case. Cold Stare to Put Masher to Route CHICAGO, Aug. 4. Hatpins, clubs or whistles, like the Boston women use, are not necessary to squelch mashers a look . will do It This Is the opinion expressed I today by policewomen at two Chicago I beaches. One substantial, w,lde-eyed look, ! with a touch of scorn In It, will send the boldest flirt about his business, they say, "All you have to do when a man speaks to you Insultingly Is to look at him and he turns and runs," said Officer Mary Boyd. "I sometimes carry a little billy, but its for dogs; men are scared to death of me. "Look a man over from hat to shoes and from shoes to hat and ho will van ish," is the advico of Policewoman Emma Neukom. "Ive been all over the world and I never needed any weapons but my eyes. There are other nations, too. I sometimes start talking In French or Greek to mashers and they always run away. But a look Is the best" Cummins Would Cut Down Free List WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.-Senator Cum mins today Introduced his substitute for the metal schedule of the tariff bill, In dorsed by the progressive republicans. It would take from the free list cash regis ters, sewing machines, typewriters, lino types, castlron pipe, horseshoe nails, wroughtlron or Hteel nallB, steel raits, steel Ingots, blooms, slabs, billets, barbed wire, plglron and antimony ore. Adva lorem duties would be replaced by sped flc rates on many other articles. The National Capital Monday Ancmst 4, 1013. The senate. Met at noon. Senator Myers (democrat, Mont.) speak Ing on tariff, said he did not fear effects of new bill. Cummins bill to punish Impersonation of public men favorably reported. Senator Townsend before lobby com mittee denied 1m ever talked with Martin M. Mulhall. The Hoaae. Not In session; meet Tuesday noon. Reputation TO ENJOIN JAS ELECTION George P. .Semis Asks, Injunction, ad Temporary Order IssueST SAYS LAW IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL Dahlmnn to On Restrained' from Is ulna- n Call for Election and Ure from Keeping: Money oC the Gna Company, Injunction proceedings to provent Elec tion Commissioner Harley G. Moorhead from holding the gas election scheduled for August 19 was started Monday In dis trict court by George p. Bemls, who says he Is acting within his rights as a voter and taxpayer. A temporary restraining order was signed by Judge English, but Judge Troup will preside at the bearing, which was set for August 6. Attorneys for Mr. Bemls base their suit on .the ground that the act of the legisla ture authorizing the city council to accept an annual royalty In lieu of occupation, and llcenso taxns Is unconstitutional. "I am not enjoined from continuing preparations for the election," said' Elec tion Commissioner Moorhead, "and 'I am going ahead just the same. If tho courts decide the election shall not be held I will obey tho order." Mayor Dahlman also Is restrained -from Issuing a call for the election and Treas urer Ure f i oin holding the $10,000 which tho gas company put up to pay the ex penses ot tho election. Sweeping charges of unconstitutionality are, made In the petition and the city or dinance Is asserted to be "special legisla tion." Tho ordinance Is alleged to be' un intelligible and not capable of interpreta tion. The provision that the gas company shall pay the expenses of the election Is alleged to violate the state law providing that a corporation cannot pay money tor political purposes. Taxes Mlttlit Ue Uniform. The act of the legislature providing that the city may accept a royalty In place of occupation tax Is alleged to violate tho provisions of the constitution, which say the legislature has no power to release a corporation from paying Its share of taxes and that taxes must be uniform with respect to tho same kinds of property. It Is alleged that If a decree Is entered In tho suit now pending in federal court as provided In tho ordinance It would make the city admit that the gas plant Is worth more than $3,500,000, and, hence, that $1 gas could not bo produced at a profit and would be confiscatory. There fore, It Is alleged, the ordinance would be void and the city would not get $1 gas. Because other public service corpora tions are paying occupation taxes ot S per pent, the petition asserts, the gas ordinance would grant special Immunity and the gas company would be released from paymento aggregating more than $1,000,000 In twenty-five years. Attorneys for Mr. Bemls are D. C. Pat terson and Raymond Coffey. Armistice of Three Days On in Balkans BUCHAREST, Rumania, Aug. A three-day extension of the armistice be tween the Balkan states was agreed to today by tho peace delegates of Rumania, Servla, Greece, Montenegro and Bulgaria. This action was taken to enable the plenlpotentalrles to endeavor to reconcile the differences and claims of the various states. Rebellion in Southern J3hiha isjSuppr&ssed aM CelebratiM'Off IJONQKONO, Aug. 4,-The southern Chinese' rebellion has been practically suppressed and the declaration of lnde pendence of tho revolutionary forces ab rogated. In Canton the people are cele brating the ending of the uprising. It Is said General Lung Chl-Kuang, tho victorious commander ot the government troops from Kwang-Bl, has been ap pointed governor general of tho province of Kwang-Tung. The rebel governor, Chang, of Kwang-Tung, who said at the beginning ot the revolutionary movement that he disapproved of the Independent policy of the southern states, Is expected In Hongkong tonight He shot his two military advisers, Chang Chung-Ylang and Wang Suit-Sun, and an army officer, as he auspected them of intrigue. The artillerymen of Canton killed their lieutenant colonel and then matched to the governor's office, where they looted the treasury. One of the shells fired by the artillerymen fell In the prefect's of fice and killed twelve persons. Fighting continues along tho West river, where the rebels have captured a gun boat. Tho chief problem of the authorities l tho suppression of looters. Wood Beetle Being Eliminated in West WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. -A deadly little beetle less than a quarter of an Inch In length, but bearing the awe Inspiring name ot Bend roc tonus Mentlcolao Hop kins, which threatened to destroy mil lions of feet of timber. Is being elimin ated by the vigorous methods the forest service is applying. This summer already In the Ochoe na tional forest, Oregon, where thtB moun tain pine beetle, as commonly known, was doing most damage, more than 40,000 trees have been cut. Latest reports Indicate that the government apparently has the beetle under control. It Is claimed that almost as much Umber is killed annually by Insects as by fires. Army Mobilized to Drive Out Castro CARACAS, Vera Cruz, Aug. 4. An army of veterans and' some thousands ot re cruits Is being mobilized at the town of Maracay, fifty miles southwest ot the capital, These forces are expected to attack Coro, In the state of Falcon, and drive out Castro. They will proceed there In two divisions, by land and by sea. Another army Is being assembled at Barqulslmeto, capital of the state of !ara, 185 miles southwest of Caracas. This force will endeavor to cut oft Castro's escape Into the Interior. Tin people express confidence that the gov ernment will be able to aupress the re bellion. PRAYERS FOR THE PONTIFF ARE BEING OFFERED TODAY NEW YORK. Au. 4. Todv I. ii,- tenth anniversary of the election of Pope 1'ius a. ty the conclave of 1903. It Is tald that the only recoenlilm, of th anniversary at this time will be special prayers tor me ponttrr. The anniversary of the death of Pope Le0 xill ond the election and crownlnir of Pnn txn. -v will be observed together, November 15. WILSON IS RELIEVED OF AMBASSADORSHIP TO MEXICAN REPOBLIC Resignation of the Minister to Mex ioo is Formally Accepted by Seoretary Bryan. 1 TO BE EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 14 William Hale, Friend of President, Mentioned for the Vacancy. STATEMENT IS MADE PUBLIC) Retired Official Says Ho Always Acted with Best Intentions, HAD EXPECTED COMMENDATION Uejfnrried aa a. Factor In Mexican Io lltlcal Situation, It la Desired thnt Mr. Wilson Remain J WASHINGTON. Aug. 4.-Secretarj Bryan today announced the acceptance ot tho resignation of Henry Lane Wilson as ambassador to Mexico and. made tho, following statement: "Ambassador Wilson's resignation hail. been accepted to take effect October 14. The part which he felt It his duty to tako in tho earlier stages of the recent revo lution in Mexico woutd male It difficult for him to represent tho views of tha present administration In view of tha situation which now exists." The ambassador, in tho ordinary prac Uce, Is entitled to sixty days' leave," exclusive of Sundays, which accounts for tho fixing of tho dato of October 14 in tho announcement. In the meantime) no appointment can be made, as a vacancy will not exist until that date. Consequently the American embassy In) Mexico will remain in charge ot Secre tary O'Bhaughne.fsy, corresponding la status with the Mexican embassy In tho city ot Washington, which, la now con ducted by Charge Algara. The announcement followed a confer once with Secretary Bryan, to which Mr. Wilson had been summoned from New Tork by telegraph. Earlier Mr. Wilson Intimated that he expected Ills resigna tion would be accepted almost any tlmu and pointed out that ho had tendered is three times since March. 4. Tho resignation will be followed by an announcement ot policy toward Mexico by President Wilson. No intimation oC what the announcement would be waa permitted to leak out, but there wcro as surances that armed Intervention waa out of the question, and there wero rea sons for believing tho announcement would deal with this government's atti tude toward exports -of arms to Mexico, , ' , P rji. I e S n ilJCo Btlo m h ndji Sir. Wilson bcan ambassador to Msx ico In 19861, aftdr dlplOmaiio .service in Chile, Belgium and Grooce. lit had fori merly been in law and banking In Spo kane, Wash. Whllo ambassador to Mex ico he was surrounded by a succession of stormy political evonts beginning with the abdication ot President piaa anfl the uprising against Madero which ro sulted. In that ruler'a death. He took m prominent part as dean oC the Mexican diplomatic) corps In bringing about peaca between Felix Diaz and Huerta. Ho Waa alternately praised and condemned for his part In that Charges ot partisanship were made against him to the State do partment. When the ambassador waa recalled! from Mexico City less than a month ago for consultation, as the official announce ment wont, It was freely predicted thai he would not return. These prediction! wero strengthened In diplomatic circle by tho froo manner In which he publicly discussed political conditions in Mexico. In his conforenco with President WIN son, Secretary Bryan aad the secretary of .the foreign relations committee Mr. Wilson advocated at least a rettrlctei recognition of the Huerta government and other measures to which the admin lstratlon was opposed. When that be came known It was certain tha accept anco ot his resignation was only a mat tor of time. Wilson MaUea Statement. Mr. Wilson after leaving the State dot partment dictated tho following state ment. "I believe the president and the scre tary In the consideration ot the question are actuated by the highest patriotism and with the best intentions to both court tries. I am Unaware of what solution oS the existing situation is proposed, but t trust it will bo found satisfactory. X have no pride of opinion with reference to my own recommendations, claiming foj them that they were conscientious and represent the views ot 38 per cent ot thtt Americans and foreigners in Mexico." It became known that the ambassador'! conference with Secretary Bryan at tlmesj (Continued on Page Two.) The Limit of Your Dollar One hundred cents make one dol lar. Yet when -you spend your dollar how efficient is it? Do you get 60c, 80a or lOOo worth7 The answer is squarely up to you. It depends upon your method of spending. 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