The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 29, 1914, Page 6

ALASKAN ROAD BILL PASOED BY SENATE Measure Provides for a Line From Coast to Interior. WILL EXTEND 1.000 MILES And the Cost !s Not to Exceed ‘$40,000, OCO—Full Power Conferred on Presicent to Construct Road. Washington, -By a vote of 46 to 16 the sex passed the Alaska i bill, directing the President chase or construct 1,000 miles lvoad in Alaska at a cost not to exceed $40,000,000, Fifteen -Republi- cans, and Senator Poindexter, Pro- gressive, voted for the b1l, Senators Bacon, Hoke Smith and Williams, Democrats, voted against it. The bill.places upon the President nsibility for the selection of the from tidewater to the interior ka and the construction, equip-, and operation or leasing of such ti as he may construct or buy to constitute this route. The broadest powers are conferred upon the Pres!i- dent in carrying out his duties. The bill provides for a redemption fund into which shall be paid 75 per cent of all moneys derived from the gale. of public lands in Alaska or of the coal or mineral contents thereof. Machinery utilized in the construction of the Panama Canal is made avail- able for the construction work. Unavailing efforts to reduce the $40,000,000 appropriaticn authorized for the work were mage during the ves roe of Al men closing hours of the debate. Senator Hoke Smith sought to have the ap- ‘propriation reduced to $25,000,000 and Senator Smoot to $35,000,000, Among other amendments defeated were the Norris . amendment for government steamships to Alaska; the Poindexter amendment for the sale of Alaska coal at cost to Pacific coast points, and the Cummins substitute, limiting the construction to one main line, With the ‘consent of the territorial committee, the bill was amended be- fore passage to require the senate’s approval of the appointment of civil engineers receiving over $3,000 per annum; to forbid any payment for the good will of existing railways; giving injured employes the right to sue the government, and limiting the govern- ment's defense to those provided for in the federal employers’ liability law of 1908, 5 A similar bill is pending in the house. « STRING ON KANSAS NATURAL dudge McPherson Retains Right to Assume Control of Gas Com- pany Affairs. Kansas City, Jan. 26.—The property of the Kansas Natural Gas Company and more than 1% million dollars for gas consumed was transferred from the hands of the federal receivers to the Kansas state receivers by Judge Smith McPherson in the federal court here. But Judge McPherson wrote into the order a clause retaining the right to assume control of the gas company through federal receivers any time he should see fit. He ac- cepted the resignation of two of the federal receivers, but retained George Sharritt, the third. The reserve clause was written into the order almost as an after- thought. It came as a surprise to the attorneys of the various contending interests, to whom the other contents of the order was‘an open secret. FATAL WRECK IN MICHIGAN Five Persons Killed and a Score In- jured When Passenger and Freight Trains Met. Taecgou Mich., Jan, 26—Five per- sons were killed and possibly a score of others were injured when Michigan Central Passenger Train No. 70, from Saginaw, due here at 10:10 o'clock, collided head-on with a freight train about three miles outside this city. ~The baggage car and one coach of the passenger train were telescoped -and' every passenger in the coach was @ither killed or injured. ‘Access to the wrecked coach was obstructed by the walls of the bag- gage car, which completely incased ft. Inside this trap could be seen from “~E rank. Comerford, a Chicago lawyer, Is one of the humerous Democratic candidates for the United States sena- torship from Illinois. Some years ago he was a member of the Illinois legis- lature, oe NEW JOB FOR COL. GOETHALS NEW YORK WANTS CANAL BUILD- ER FOR POLICE HEAD. Army Officer Would Accept Mayor Mitchel’s Offer If Certain Con- ditions Are Fulfilled. Panama, Jan. 24.—Col, George W. Goethals, chief engineer of the Pan- ama Canal, recently was tendered the position of police commissioner of New York (City by Mayor Mitchel, and in reply to the letter sent him by the mayor, through George W. Perkins signified his willingness to accept the post under certain conditions, These conditions were that he should be permitted to remain on the Isthmus until the canal is completed and in suceessful operation, and that he be given complete control over the po- lice department. \ Colonel Goethals, in his letter to Mayor Mitchel, said that under no circumstances would he accept the commissionership unless these condi- tions,were agreed to. He added that, as he would still be an army officer after his ‘work here was completed, he would not resign in order to ac- cept Mayor Mitchel’s offer, but that he would take the position if Presi- dent Wilson gave him permission to retire, Colonel Goethals insisted he. must have complete control over the police department in case of his acceptance, including the right to dismiss incom- petent men without their having the right to appeal to a court which would have the power to annul his dis- missals. In other words, he demanded that the law Which gives the courts the right, on appeals from the commis- sioner’s decision, to review cases and reinstate men with back pay, he re- pealed by the legislature. Colonel Goethals said that the con- ditions he imposed seemed prac- tically preclude his becoming.the head of the New York police department. When the offer was first made, he said, it looked attractive to him, but investigation slowed him that the police commissioner's powers were too limited to make it possible to car- ry into effect reforms such as he might propose. WANT MINERS TO BUY MINES Resolution Before Indianapolis Con- vention to Set Aside Money for This Burnope: than $8,000,000, some of which was Seon. ‘| Gevernment Offered Okla oma Laid Commerce Commission Makes Report on Road’s Failure. A BIG PROFIT FOR OFFICIALS In the Scramble to Fill Their Pockets the Future of the System Was Lost Sight-Of, Says Report to President. Washington, Jan, 27.—Financial operations, which include the acqui- sition of lines through syndicates which profited to the extent of more Pocketed by the road’s pwn officers; are cited as among the underlying causes for the insolvency of the St. ‘Louis & San Francisco Railroad -Com- pany, in a report-to the senate by the interstate commerce commission on the Frisco lines receivership, No rec- ommendationg.are made by the com- mission, E, E. Clark, the ‘chairman, stating in a letter of transmittal ad: dressed to the President that they were not called for in the resolution ‘adopted by the senate last summer directing the investigation. The report shows that the funded debt of the railroad May 27, 1913, when the receivership was ordered, amounted to 82.63 per cent of the to- tal capital Nability, the total capital at.that time amounting to $295,633,- 933.72, of which only $51,364,100 was capital stock and $244,269,833.72 was funded debt, including equipment trust notes. That the interest bearing liabilities of the Frisco system exceeded the stock liability by 375 per cent “and wete wholly disproportionate when compared with the capitalization of other carriers, including those in the territory west of the Mississippi river,” is asserted by the commission, which submits figures for eight select- ed railroads showing the average ra- tio of funded debt to capital liability to be 53.65 per cent. The report further declares that the inability of the Frisco to meet its obligations seemed to have been ap- parent for some time prior to the ap- Plication “for a receivership; that strenuous efforts were made by its of- ficers to tide over financial difficul- ties from day to day; that money was borrowed from all available sources until every avenue of assistance was. exhausted, marketable securities be- ing either sold or pledged as collat- eral under the numerous loans, and that notwitstanding this exhausted financial condition, the Frisco sold to Speyer & Co. of New York $3,000,000 of its general lien 5 per cent “ponds, a transaction which the commission declares warranted condemnation. Summarized, the commission's re- port attributes the insolvency of the Frisco to these eauses: Disproportionate capitalization. The acquisition of new lines, The financing by the Frisco of the New Orleans, Texas & Mexico rail- road and other South Texas lines. The desire for an entrance into Chicago, resulting in the assumption of heavy fixed charges in the acquisi- tion of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad. HAS THEIR BANK ACCOUNTS New York District Attorney Is Busy Securing Evidence of Graft Among Politicians. - New York, Jan, 27.—With thie bank accounts of sixteen politiefans, includ- ing Charles F. Murphy of Tammany Hall and James E. Gaffney, alleged “bagman,” now in his possession, build a line from the eastern terminus Kast. Stockton Axson: of Princeton Univers sity, to Road Builders, and Hasn't Fulfilled Contract. Washington, Jan. 26.—The claim of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Rail- way Company to $62,000,000 damages against the, government for the -lat- ter's failure to turn over alternate sections of land along its line through Oklahoma, will furnish one of several important oral arguments to be made before the supreme court. The railway’s claim arises out of the spectacular railway building race fostered by the government in 1866. In that year congress offered to grant alternate sections of land, as soon as the Indian title thereto should be extinguished, along a line of railroad to be constructed across the present state of Oklahoma to Den- ison, Tex., to the first railroad to of the Union Pacific on the Kansas and Missouri state lines<to the south- ern line of Oklahoma. The race was open to three rail- roads, the Kansas & Neosha Valley, the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Fort Gibson and the Union Pacific. The Kansas & Neosha, which since has become the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, won, The government has not, how-. ever, turned over the land, contending that the land in question never be-|. came a part of the’public lands of the United States. The railroad asks $20 an acre damages. The court of claims decided against it. SISTER OF MRS. WILSON ILL Mrs. Margate A. Elliott Under Care of Trained Nurse in Berkeley, California. Berkeley, Cal., Jan, 24—Mrs, Mar gate A, Ellioit, sister of Mrs. Wood- SYSTEM AND ‘ECONOMY Itis the constant aim of this bank to encourage the useful habits of sys- tem and economy. liable way to success. It is the only re- The perma- nent success of every individual or firm is due to the forming of the habits of System and‘Economy. _ The Farmers Bank will .help you form these habits, they invite you to open ani account and deposit regular- ly. The bank offers real Security for your Deposits, having a large Surplus Fund. ouvA row Wilson, is ill at her home here. She has been under the care of a trained nurse for six weeks and her condition was such that she was not permitted to see visitors, Prof. Ed- ward Elliott, her husband, who is @ lecturer on international law at the University. of California, is in the Mrs. Elliott is a sister of Profs KILLED WHILE AT HIS BATH A Chicago Manufacturer Electrocised While Using a Small Massage Machine. Chicago, Jan. 26.—Lazarus I. Silver- man, president of a manufacturing concern, was electrocuted while using a small electrical massage machine in his bath. Mr, Silverman was dead when his son found him,- On his chest, with the motor running at top speed, lay the massage apparatus, the casing so-hot it had burned the flesh. The machine was connected with an ordinary electric light socket. A Grade Crossing Gets Four. - Fort Smith, Ark. Jan. 24,—Mrs, Max Goshea probably was fatally hurt, her husband badly injured and her two children slightly hurt when @ motor car in which they were ri ing was struck by a freight ind a@ grade crossing here. Killed An Insane Patient. Woodward, Ok;~—Jan. 26.—Facts were brought light, of the killing of a patien) the Oklahoma Asylum for the Insane at Supply, near’ Wood- y three guards. One of the endants is under arrest, but the others escaped, Funston Coming Home. 2 Honolulu, Jan. 26.—Brig. Gen. Fred- erick Funston, relieved from command of the Department of Hawaii, “has sailed for San Francisco on the liner e Indianapolis, Jan. - 28.—The Louis- | District Attorney Whitman -has start- Ventura. ville, Col., Miners’ Union -has a reso- lution before the convention of the United Mine Workers of America for the purchase of min®s. It urges that all available funds on hand be used to buy mines and that this-policy be pursued until all the mines in the |on the bank accounts of many other HOGS—Bulk of‘sale: country are the property of the miners’ organization. Another reso- lution requests that the organization establish an old age pension fund and a*home for disabled miners. ~ CRANK AFTER CROWN PRINCE ‘When Crazed Man Rushed Towards German Heir Attendants Quick- ly Qyerrewersd Him. - Berlin, Jan. 4b attempt to at-| a manaic in his sleep. Moore jerked SHEEP—Lambs tack Crown Prince Frederick William -|of Germany was made when he was ed a search of the records of every bank in the state in an effort to ob- tain evidence showing the existence of a plot to loot the state of vast sums of money. Whitman expects to get his hands politicians. If legal obstacles are put’ in his way James W. Osborne, spe- cial investigator for Governor Glynn, will aid the district attorney. borne has state-wide authority, so that in case Whitman may desire ao counts outside his district Oevorng will order _ the probe, Became Maniac in Sleep. Columbus, Jan. 27.—Awakened| by a rough shaking, Mrs, Murray Moore found her husband had become his. wife from. bed,~-dragged her. through @ window to a porch roof and THE GENERAL MARKSTS, Kansag City, Jan. 27, 1914, CATTLE—Steers +3825 @ 9 35 Selected feeder: 735 @ 850 8 10- @ 8 45 760 @ 8 00 600 @7 15 84%@ 89%@ @ - Scapienroaa No. 2 mixed. OATS—No, 2 ‘white, HAY—Timothy Prairie... wuGs--txtra }CHICKENS. . CATTLE—Steers « Texas steers HOUs—Butchers Muttons . QQOeeeas Beacseesesse sts * We have money to Farm Loans Abstracts nish abstracts to any examine and perfect titles to same. Investments | interest on time deposits. W. F. DUVALL, President, Arthur Duvall, Treasurer. VALL-PERCIVAL TRUST 0. CAPITAL and SURPLUS, $100,000 FARMERS BANK BUILDING, BUTLER, MO. of interest with privilege to pay at any time. We havea complete set of Abstract Books and will fur- loan on real estate at a low rate | real estate in Bates county and We will loan your idle money for you, securing you reasonable interest on good security. We pay J. B. DUVALL, Vice-President, W. D. Yates, Title Examiner. MISSOURI PACIFIC COBRECTED OCT. 19, 1918 NORTH. No, 202 K. C, Joplin Mail & Ex... 8:30 8. m, No, 206 Kansae City Accommodation 7:108. m. No. 292 Local Freight, does not car- Ty passengers. No, 208 8t. Louis & K. C. Mail & Ex am, Ro 210 8t. Louis Limited. 10:50 p.m. habia oe pevieslatingl does not car- ee p.m, gi ge WEST AND SOUTH. No. 901 8t. Louis-Joplin Mail @ Ex.’ 3:00 a. m. No, 900 8t. Louis Limited... 3308. m, Ko. bases Freight, ry passengers, Ko, 207 K.0. & Joplin No. 205 Nevada Accommodation. INTERSTATE. WEST. No. 608 Madieon Local Freight, car- -—. eles passeugers... Ko. 687 Madison Accommeda: ~ BAST BOUND ARRIVALS, No. 688 Butler Accommodation... No. 004 Butler Loos! Freight... Freight trains X Nos. 608 and 004 en: Ce Attorney at Law | Office 01 No San : _PROFESSIONAL DR. J. MeCHRISTY Diseasu's of Women and Children a Specialty BUTEER “MISSOURI Offieé Phone 20 House Phone 10 “DR. 1. T. HULL Dentist Entrance same that leads to Stew- ard’s Studio. North side square Butler, Missouri DR. H.)M. CANNON « DENTIST Butlek, : Missouri East Side of the Square Phone No. 312 T. C, BOULWARE Physician & Surgeon .| Office North Side Square, Butler; chil- Mo. Diseases of women and | dren a specialty. : B, F. JETER, Notary Public East Side Square Phone 188 OR. ROBERT E. E. CRABTREE _ Diseases of Children, it ,TELEPHONES. Residence S4t “tice in Gench Bldg: T, J. HALSEY, M.D. 0.0. roadly speaking, Responsibility ot is determined by eo: sade