Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 9, 1909, Page 1

THE OMAHA BEE a clean, reliable newspaper that is admitted to each and every home. THE OMA AILY BEE Yor Nebraska F WEATHER FORECAST. Fair Falr hor report or Tows oF" wed sen pag VOL. XXXVII-NO. OMAHA, FRIDAY MORNI} APRIL 9, 1909—TWELVE PAGE COPY HOUSE NEARLY | READY TO VOTE Long Session Held Yesterday to Com- plete Several Bections of Tariff Measure. REPUBLICANS CAUGHT NAPPING | Democrats Amend Iron Ore Schedulei When Many Members Are Absent. CALL SENT FOR DELINQUENTS Committee Provision Is Reinstated After Their Return, SILK SUSPENDERS AND GARTERS Duties Are In- wreaned Becamse of Mistnke Made in Consolidating Paragraphs. on These Articles WASHINGTON, April 8.~Because of the numerous committee amendments (o the Puyne tariff bill, the house of representa- | tives was compelled to sit until late in the | evening in order to insure action on the| varlous paragraphs coming within the scope | of the special rule adopted last Monday | before the final vote fs taken tomorrow | At one time the republicans were caught | napping and an amendment by Mr. Clark | of Missourl was adopted fixing the rate of | duty on iron ore and steel wire of the No. 16 gauge at -cent per pound, but this was tirown out later. Fearing that he might not meet with such success again, Chalr- man Payne took his republican colleagues to task for absenting themseives from the chamber and appealed to them to remain in thelr seats. This was done. with the re- sult that in all the committee amendments he was sustained. | While occasionally there were outbreaks of bad temper, on the whole the session | assumed @ normal aspect and business pro- ceeded with a reasonable degree of facility ¥ pples and Coco Following a spirited debate, a committee amendment was adopted placing a duty of & cents m cublec foot of the capacity of barrels or packages of pineapples. The rate on crude cocoa, or cacao and leaves, reduced from 4 to 3 cents a pound. In @fder to meet the declsion in regard to the counting of threads in cotton cloths, paragraph 318 of the bill was stricken out and the provision of the Dingley law on the same subject was restored in its stead. Jucquard figured goods for upholstering, covers, etc,, composed wholly or in chief of cotton or other vegetable fiber, were given protection by levying a duty of 5 per cent ad valorem. . Staple Cottos A tax of 45 per cent ad valorem was als put upon tire fabric, or fabrics used for pneumatic tircs. The effect of this| provision will be to place the duty on the long staple’ goiton used. dn the fabrie. A duty of % per cent ad valorem also was | put upon cotton hieached and purified, whether medicated or not. The dividing line between the high and | low rates of duty en ofl cloth and linoleum | was fixed at eleven feet mstead of nine toet originally in the bill. It was twelve feet in the Dingley law. The amendment restoring the Dingley rates of | 45 cents per dogen pleces and .15 per cent| ad valorem on collars and cuffs composed of colton, was agreed to. In connection | with this change Mr. Harrison (N, Y.) took | occusion to eriticise the methods employed for presenting committee amendments. He argued that they should have been printed in the record prior to their presentation on | the floer. was | d Suspenders. Because of an Inadvertance in solidating the paragraphs covering and articles of silk and Indla rubbe duty on bindings, #arters and susp: was increased Mr. Hill (Connecticut) mittee amendment rters con- laces | the nders | offered a com- | to have retained the | duties now levied In the Dingley law. | Mr. Flugerald (N, Y), who said that he acted in the interest of all the American | people. whom he wished to see wear silk suspenders and garters, offered an umend- ment reducing the dutles 3 per cent ad valorem on suspenders and garters Upon a divislon vote this amendment was lost and the committce amendment agreed to Republic Cuught Napping. mmittee am ment increasing the on round iron steel wire smaller No. 16 was voted down, 156 to 146 and i its stead there was adopted a substi tute presented by Mr. Clark of Missourt, fixing the rate at % of 1 cent per pound A long wrangle ensued the right to amend any other portion of paragraph | ¢ The chair ruled that amend. | ments, except (o the Clark amendment which was adopted; were out of order. An appeal from the decislon was lost, 178 to 13 On the final vote the Clark ar nd- ment was defeated, 126 to 177, and the orig- na! Payne amendment was adopted. | Mr. Payne criticised his republican col- | leagues for leaving the chamber. He de- | claral the slow progress was due to that | 20 ] by has worked hard for five “Can't you afford to| oon and tomorrow or | than over such o committee mouths said slay this after mornig in order to vote on this bill?" The rs briar root, briar wood and Jaurel was increased from § to 2 per cent ad valorem The tobacco schedule was amended 50 as fix & duty of 7 cents pound if un stommed and §1 & pound if stemmed, on all | filler tobacco Imported from countries | which prohibit similar importations, he here on [ AUGAR SENATORS ORGANIZE | Members From Beet and Cane § Fight Philippine WASHHINGTON, April & producers and - e representing | beet migar states al ference teday | formed an organization intended to Include | the senafors from cane sugar the | object of which Will be to safegu the | industry against the development the sugar industry In the Philippine istands In competition with the United States Mr. Smith of Michigan today lutroduced and the senate adopted, a resolution call Ing upon the secreiary of agriculture for full statistics relating to sugar The amount of tax levied on sugar Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria- Hungary, The Netherlands, Belgium. Spain ltaly and Denmark, is called for in a reso (Continued | sugar | senators states, rd on Second Page) | | | | 3, —Governor Shatt | dicker for campalgn. | Gays she had Shallenberger Denies Any Deal From 4 LINCOLN, SoWer denled the state- ment of Charles etz that he had made a the brewery support In his race for governor. The governor made this statement: “Interested persons, in their exclied frame of mind over this bill, are likely to make erroneous statements, “I don't consider that a charge of this sort carries much welght, under the ecir- cumstances, but in order to clear up any misapprehen T will give the facts as I remember them. “The conversation to which Mr. Metz al- ludes took place during the primary con- test between Mr. Dahlman, Mr. Berge and myself, while I was at the Paxton hotel in Omaha conferring with my workers of that city. The question came up whether or not Dahlman was to have the solid support of the brewers, the votes they con- trol and the money backing it was re- ported they stood ready to put Into his campalgn. It had been represented to me that Dahlman would likely the united support of the Mquor elements and Berge had the best show to land the tem- perance vote. That made it look as though 1 would be left out in the cold, and I was receive | strongly in the netion of withdrawing from the race. 1 did not want to go up against @ big fund contributed by the brewers in Dahlman's interest. My friends at Omaha, who were strongly opposed to Dahlman, urged me to stay in and to convince me that the brewers would keep hands off they offered to bring In Mr. Metz and have him make a statement 1 agreed to the arrangement and someone telephoned for him. He then came to the room in the Paxton and stated that he was taking no part in the fight. That is how it came about. I did not go to him, nor dld 1 even send for him. “It tsn't true that T solicited the support of the brewers in any way. The meetir was arranged by my friends solely to sat- Isfy me that the brewers were not putting up a large sum of money for Dahlman's This was not done at my | stance, but to reassure me that th would be a fair fleld and a reasonable chance of winning. On this showing I was persuaded by my supporters to give up the idea of withdrawing. “If 1 sald anything on that occasion about the Slocumb law, which I do not recollect, | it was what I have sald many times, which was that as a regulatory statute I consld- ered the Slocumb law the best one any state ha “It is a matter of pretty common knowl- edge, T think, that Mr. Dahlman got the votes of the liberal element in the pri- maries. The only support coming to me from that source was given by men who | thought Dajiiman could not he elected and Modjes;k;a. is Dead After Long Illness | Noted Polish Actress Passes Away at Island Home fornia, in Cali- LOS ANGELES, Cal,, April 8 ~Mme. Hel- ena Modjeska, the famous Polish trage- dlenne and one of the most noted actresses of the American stage, dfed at 10 o'clock today at her lsland home at Bay City, Orange county, at the age of , after an illness of about two months. For several been unconscious and her death was almost hourly expected. Bright's | diseaze, complicated with heart was the immediate cause of death. Gathered around the bedside of the note actress when she passed Away were Count Bozenta, husband of Madame Modjeska, Ralph Modjeska and his wife, a son and daughter-in-law, of Chicago, and Dr. J. C Boyd, the family physiclan Funeral arrangements have not yet been announced trouble, Mme. Modjeska’s Omaha friends had been expecting her death for many days. Mes- sages of condolence have been sent her son from here. THREE MILLIONS FOR THEATER Mexico Will Spend This Amount of | mey n National Playhouse, MBXICO, budget CITY, April to the natonal congress more than $3,000,00 for a new national theater, $4,900,000 for educational purposes, $11,500,000 for tmproving irrigation faciilties and the water system of the federal dis- trict, and $1,000,000 for a monument to com- memorate the 1Mth anniversary of Mexican independence next year 8.—The annual carries “orrespondent.) 2 (Special Telegram.) | DUTY ON HIDES AND IRON ORE These Two Schedules Are Occupying the Attention of Senate Commit- tee on Finance. WESTERN SENATORS COUNT NOSES Move to Test Opinion Regarding Tariff on Hides. SENATE BILL NEARLY READY Committee Begins Work of Inserting Rates, COMPROMISE IRON ORE Duty Wil Probably Be Placed at 20 Cents a Ton, Half That Provided by the Dingley Law, WASHINGTON, April 8~Western sena- | tors today started a canvass of the senate | to determine the sentimen. in relation to putting hides on the free list or assessing a duty upon them. If a majority of mem- bers are found to favor free hides, as desired by the hous the senate committee on finance will accept this verdict. By this method it is argued that long debate over this question may be avolded. It 1s the Intention to discourage general | debate when the tariff bill is reported to | the senate next week and begin work at on the adoption of the committee | amendments. The committee continued all day and until late tonight inserting rates in the bili {and will be ready to report all but the | administrativs features to the senate on next Monday. The present intention of the senate com- mittee on finance is to place a duty of 20 i cents per ton on fron ore. Under the Ding- ley law iron ore is dutiable at 40 cents per ton, while the Payne bill puts it on the free list. The decision of the senate com- mittee fs in the nature of & compromise and was brought abqut by the insistence of Senator Burrows and his colleague, Senator William Alden Smith Tron ore is one of the products which have given the house and senate commit- tees a great deal of trouble. While some of the ore producers admitted frankly to the house committee that they could stand their share of reduction If there was to be a general revision of the tariff downward, few of them were willing to admit that they could stand free ore. Some of the principal iron ore ranges of the United States are located in Michigan, particularly the Mesaba range, and the industry is one of supreme Importance to the state. Untll yesterday It was practically con- ceded that the senate committee would agree to free ore. It Is asserted that a majority of the members of the committee belleve the industry would not suffer ma- tertally If the duty were taken off of fron ore entirely. It is recognized, however, that in order to get a tariff bill through congress trades of various kinds must be made and this is one of many. Vife of Rector Gets a Divorce| once | Decree Issued in Chicago Frees Mrs. Anna Brown from Episcopal Clergyman at Creighton. CHICAGO, April 8.—(Special Telegram.)— Mrs. Anna Brown secured a divorce from | Rev. Marcus Brown, former rector of St. Albany’'s Episcopal church here, but now doing mission work at Crelghton, Neb | Mrs. Brown obtained the decree on grounds lof crueity. She recited eplsodes which tended fllustrate the tempestuous disposition of her husband. On one occasion, she testi- fied, that when she had remonstrated with Inim for striking one of thelr sons, he hurled & chair at the boy, rendering him | unconsclous. Brown was transferred to the mission in Crelghton after his domestic | discords. Blshop Anderson sald he could not say whether the church would take cognizance of the divorce or not, since the clergyman is now serving under the juris- | diction of Bishop Willlams of Omaha. MODIFY COUNTY OPTION BILL es Measure After parate Vote in Towns of 10,000, ! to Al- JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, April §—The use today passed a bill amending the local option law %0 as to allow separate votes on the subject in citles of 10,000 popu- lation. It Is a county unit measure and is | designed as a substitute for the Peraberton | bill, defeated last week, which exempted cities of 25,000 population. It is sald that the measure passed today will receive fa vorable consideration in the senate. J. B. Rahm Ta Chance to Do a Good Turn| Rahm company, head of wiil J. B the United Supply &et a check from Sloux City within a day or two as a refund for carfare pald for & young woman whose name Mr. Rahm did not obtain and who went broke in Omaha Wednesduy Mr. Rajim was reading in his hirty-first near Pacific street Wednesday evening, when he got an opportunity buy & young woman a raflroad ticket sim- ply because he had the window curtain up 1t was hardly an hour until the last train left for Sioux City when Mr. Rahm's do bell rang. 1t was answered by one of his children, Mrs. Rahm being In th e oung woman wak the child showed ber into the Rahm was reading T've got to go to Bioux City and have only 75 cents to my the plain, pointed woman made She was a stranger to Mr. Rahm and sald she learned his name from some boys across the street and decided to ask hin to pay rallroad fare to Bloux City, as the only people she knew in Omaha lived in the next block and were not at home. “I've failed In my studies at school ne.s St. Loul id the jyoung wom=a I States home on and where Mr announced room My name, the Rahmn ' was statement young her kes Strange wrote my father and he was to meet me In Omaha. As he falled to meet me, I went to the postoffice and expected a let- ter Did not get that. Then I thought of the family which we know here. They are not at home. I saw you sitting n the room reading and here 1 am to ask my fare to Sloux City. Wil he you to pay do it? Mr. Rahm telephone. him you deliberately walked called a son-in-law and asked take the young woman the train and buy her a ticket. The son-in-law | obeyed. but, like Mr. Rahm, forgot to ask the young woman's name. All she sald was her father knew Hu. | perintendent Park of the Union Pacific rallway.” Mr. Rahm. “so I invested the small amount and will get it back." HEAVY SHOCK AT MESSINA Vielent E to the said hguake in Stricken Olty ed by Subterranean Rumbling MESSINA, April 8—A violent earthquake was experienced here last night at 9.4 selock 1t was accompanied by subter- ranean rumblings From the Minneapolls Journ: More Revision Coming of a Much eeded Variety. JOHND.'S PROFITS ARESM;LL? Attorney Milburn Ridicules Standard hkel‘, Big Money. Idea LOSES PATIENCE WITH KELLOGG | Lawyer Says Corporation Have Made More by Loaning Money at Compound terent. on Jould ST, burn, heading lawyers here the Standard’'s array of in defense of the govern- ment's now celebrated suit to have great corporation with its many millions of capital, declared illegal as & violator of the Sherman act, this morning resumed his argument commenced late Tuesday ing. The four dignified judges United States circuit court, sitting en banc, are following the noted lawyer's address with marked attention, but do not hesitate to propound perplexing questions to him, when his meaning is not quite clear to them. His answer, however, s always ready and apt. This morning Mr. Milburn devoted sev- eral hours to replying to special Attorney General Frank B. Kellogg's charges that the Standard had earned the enormous profit of over $500,000000 upon a ecapitalization of $97,260,000. This $700,000,000, Mr. Kellgg charges was both enormous:and unreason- able. That the defendants had made either enormous or unreasonable profits, Mr. Mil- burn denied at the commencement of to- day’s argumes: In no uncertain terms. That the profits exceeded the sums paid out as dividends, the attorney said was true, but that such surglus had been used 10 the extension- of apd construction- of other properties. Attacks Kellogg's even- of the heory of Profits Another statement was that the value of the provertics owned by the Standard of New Jersey, which the government secks » dissolve, capitalized at $97,260,000, really possesses interests worth ndt less than $200,000,000. “And, marked declared emphasis, Mr “the Milbum, with government's | theory for estimating profits, as set forth | in the petition, is unsound In law and does | not accord with business principles or the facts of human experience. It is even dif- fleult to discuss such a proposition with patience.” The attorney pointed out that the funda- mental fallacy in the government's posi- tion was that It tailed in any way to recog- nize the enormous cumulative effect of compound Interest Taking as a basic proposition properties of the Standard in 1852 wer worth §70,000,000, as testified to by Mr. Archbold, the attorney quoted from a table to show that compounded at 7 per cent from 1882 to 1996 the original $70,00.000 would reach the very comfortable amount of $35, 065.086.74. Assuming that this 7 per cent had been added to the capital, irrespective of dividends, Mr. Milburn sugge:ted it might In a way explain the rapid and ap- that the | parently phenomenal growth of the Stand- ard's assets, “It's but a matter of a pencil, a bit paper and a school boy to figure it out— no lawyer is required,” added Mr. Milburn. Lawyer's Figures Interest, Even taking the value of the properties of the defendant in 1882 000 as claimed Wy the government—the attorney sald compounded at § per cent from 1882 to 1906 It grew to $333,271,000, which was but 186,128,583 less than the actual assets of the latter the year as shown by the accounts of corporation “Why," sald he. “if we had never chased a gallon of oil ital expeditiously and have made as much pur- but loaned our cap- carefully, we and recalling the high (Continued on Second Page.) Beautify your lawns and gardens, at the same time help to make Omaha the garden spot of the west. Onour classified page under the caption of *‘For Garden and Lawn,’’ is a diree- tory of reliable florists and nurserymen, people who have been established for years and: who are building up a per- manent business in Omaha., Beware of peddlers and canvass ers, as they are often unreliable, here to day and gone tomorrow Deal with the men who advertise, as they merit your patronage and are always here and can only suc- ceed by furnisning what they prom- ise. Have you read the want ads. vet today? LOUIS, Mo., April 8.—Attorney Mil- | the | of | could | Jules Lumbard Is on Death Bed at Chicago Home Famous Singer, Formerly of Omaha, Is Credited With Raising 20,000 Troops. CHICAGO, known Lumbard, as a cam- April 8.~Jul throughout the country palgn singer and republican worker and of the few remaining characters of the Lincoln campaign, is dying at the home of his sister-in-law in this city. President Lincoln credited Lumbard with ralsing 20,000 troops for the northern cause during the civil war. Late in the struggle when the fever for enlistment had greatly waned, Lumbard stood on the court house steps In Chicago and sang “Rally Round the Flag, Boys,” with a spirit and fervor which resulted in raising several com- panies. In every republican campaign since his powerfu! voice has been raised in song for the party of which he was an enthus- lastic member. For many years the old singer was in charge of the Pennsylvania road's traffic affairs in the Transmissippi territory, with headquarters at Omaha. Fifty Buildings Are in Flames Fire is Sweeping Through the City of Manchester, New Hampshire, one MANCHESTER, April 8—The tenement house district of the southern section of the city, covering an area of nearly & square mile, and occupled mainly by for- elgners employed In the cotton mills and shoe factories, was swept by fire today Within two hours fifty bulldings had been destroyed or damaged in the area from Jim street eastward to Beach street, and from Auburn street north to Cedar. A gale was blowing and scon after the outbreak help was asked of Concord, Nassau, Lowell, Portsmouth, Dover and Rochester. With the ald of the firemen thus summoned, the conflagration was soon under control. The loss is estimated at $100,00. Fully 2,000 persons were made homeless. MILWAUKBE, Wis., consin speclal from Winneconne, Wis, says: Fire today destroyed nine business bulidings on May street, entailing a loss of | $20,000; partly covered by insurance. MIDLAND, “Texas, April 8.—Fire here today caused a loss of $30,000 in the busi- ness section of the city. Ome hotel, two banks and many stores were burned. April 8.—A Wis- Champion Butter Cow 1s Killed Animal Producing 712 Pounds of Butter a Year Takes Fatal Fall Into Ditch. COLUMBIA, Mo., April 8—Pedro's Es- tella, the champlon butier Jersey cow of the world, is dead. She died at her home, the Missouri Agricultural college farm, at | Columbia, last night | In twelve months she produced 712 pounds | of butter, fully 100 pounds more than her | nearest competitor. Estella was in good | health, but stumbled Into a ditch and was unable to get Wihen ald reached her she was too far gone to recover The university statistician figured that the income from Estella for one year | would have kept an average student in the University of Missour! for a like term. | LIQUOR FIGHT IN MiSSOURI Advocates of Constitutional Amend- ment Win Two Points in House, MEASURE SENT TO ENGROSSMENT Intended (o Make Revenue Amendment Up Deficlency Should Any Occur Is Defeated. Tax n JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, April §-The lower branch of the Missourl legislature adjourned tonight until tomorrow, with the prohibition constitutional amendment pend- ing for engrossment. The prohibitionists won two points today during the session. They forced the adoption of the minority report recommending the amendment for passage, putting It the calendar for engrossment and by a vote of 7 to 62 they defeated the tax amendment to make up the deficlency ‘In revenue should the ame: ment carry. The tax “rider’ allowed a lev of 2% cents for state purposes and 2 per cent for county and city purposes. The prohibtionists attempted to force question through to engrossment, but antis caused an adjournment after an amendment had been offered allowing the general assembly to fix the tax in case the amendment should carry at the polls. The debate probably will continue until noon tomorrow, as other amendments are to be offered. Gale from West Sweeping Boston on the the Hurricane Passing Over New Eng- land, Carrying Havoc to Coast Vessels. BOSTON, Mass, April 8 frcm the middle west is passing over New England today at velocities ranging from fifty to ninety-two miles an hour. Such a | gale has not been experienced in many years. Three barges were reported to be In distress off the southern Rhode Island A little sloop was driven on the end many vessels lost sails he hurricane shore. of Cape Cod and and other gear. The highest wind velocity that reported in New England for sixteen vears was reported from the Blue Hill observa- tory, where the register showed ninety-two miles MICA has been hour, SCHEDULES Reduces Duty Hlooms and Slabs, an Also Steel Ingo! - on April 8. WASHINGTON, 8.—~When consid- eration of the Payne tariff bill was re- sumed by the house today, further com- mittee amendments in the nature of verbal corrections was taken up and adopted. The mica schedule was struck out and an- other one providing that unmanufactured mica should pay a duty of § cents & pound and 2 per cent ad valorem, and that mica cut or trimmed mica plates and all manu- factures of mica should pay 10 cents per pound and 2 per cent ad valorem. Steel Ingots, blooms and slabs were duced from 1 cent to §-10 of a cent pound. The ad valorem proposition boiler and plate iron or steel was stricken out and the duty made specific, in some cases the rate being reduced A vigorous fight was waged on an an ment increasing the duty on round Ir | wire smaller than No. 1% to 1% of a cent a pound the proposed increase was the farmer. end or 16 gauge from It was claimed an ste Restless Natives New Peril to Roosevelt Hunting Party MOMBASA, British East Africa, April §.— According celved Mullahs of the nalis inhabiting lesert the of to here the protectorate native reports r the country north of are showing further signs unrest and are the northern Kenya province, The restlessness first be evident some six months ago, and [tnere has been apprehension of trouble in the dry when travel over the trail massing on boundary of 1 | came season Is easicr Thia aistrict always & territory (o watch closely tives do g0 out bear to the northern has been When the na- for trouble they gencraly westward, in the direction of the settled districts and the good hunting grounds. There is today some local anx ety, particularly as a majority of the protee torate groups are at Berbera, In British Somallland. It 1s sald here that the lonial office In London has issued instruc- tions to the governor of the protectora to surround Mr. Roosevelt on his hunting trips with every possible precaution nls satety 8ir H. Hesketh-Bell, governor and com mander-in-chlef of Uganda, will Uganda April 28 for England. Mr for leay Ro velt and his | Usanda by 8 vincial | The plaus for the | Roosawelt party | It has been velt 18 to tuke hunting trips with guide named Silva, who is far hant hunter. For the firet fortnight of thelr stay, the Roosevelt party will be the guests at Athi river of Alfred Pease a well known las a larg estate at Kilina fort night they will George McMillan at Ju F. J. Jackson protectorate details of party. A local hunter recently oblained an phant in the cannibal country welghed 280 pounds. Mr. Delamere, a game range an entomologist, and Mr bers of the local Natural have been appointed Mr. Jackson to talls of M party will be recelved in C. Tompking, one of the pro- commissioners huntin reaching that ot Portuguese trip of completion, Kermit Re short sep are decided a number rate Indian as an Sir hunter Thekl be the Ja ranch lieutenant governor of the 1s at Mombasa arranging the the reception to the Roosevelt who a The second Buests of ele whose tusks Percival Anderson, mem- History soclety, & sub-committee to confer regarding the de Roosevell's recepti REVISED | outrage on | the | | | Official | pronouncea |18 | held prior | from SHARP WARNING FOR NICARAGUA Indications That United States May Send Ultimatum to Central Amer- ican Government. CIPHER TELEGRAM MUTILATED Dispatches From Charge Gregory Are Interferred With, INCIDENT CAUSES ANNOYANCE Diplomatic Communications Are Held To Be Inviolable. MORAL SUASION HAS FAILED United States and Mexico Are Again Considering Means for Ending Intolerab State of Afta WASHINGTON, April §.—Nicaraguan mu- tilation of official dispatches to this gove ernment and continued grave conditions in Central America are under the earnest con- ideration of the Washington government Investigations have convinced the officlals here that cipher dispatches passing between John H. Gregory, the American charge at Managua, Nicaragua, and the State depari- ment at Washington were purposely mutil- ated during Nicaragua's unusual military activity. it would be surprising, in view of the unsatisfactory conditions which prevail, it American government shquld at any tin take active steps to end the existing state of affairs in Central America and notify Nicarague that henceforth peace must prevall at all hazards. Moral suasion with Nicaragua has falled to accomplish (he objects sought, that of impressing it with the desire both of the United States and Mexico that there be a cessation of condi- tlons which keep other Central Americun epublics constantly guessing as to what may happen and that tend to the impover- ishment of the people because of thelr fears of the future. Intervention In Central American affairs has been talked of un- officlally repeatedly Cruiser North Dakota Enroute. American war vessels are still retained in Central American waters and only terday the crulser North Dakota sailed from Magdalena bay for Amapala, Hou- Guras, in the gulf of KFonseca, In which #ome of the naval activity maintalned by Nicaragua has manifested itself, An Interesting side of the political situa- tion in Central America became known in Washington today. Some time ago dis patches indicated that Nicaragua had in- tentions involving Costa Rica, which has not been engaged in any of the embroil- ments which have characterized the history of Central America. It now appears from news just received that an election was about to be held In Costa Rica at the. times which leads to the Inference that Nicaru- gun’s reported attitulle towdrdd it {s buy part of the working out of a polftical plan which has been hssoclated with the re- ported ambition of President Zelaya to be- come a dictator of the destines of Central America. The government has feit particularly an- noyed the mutilation of Charge Gregory's dispatches. Diplomatic com- munications between a minjster and his government are held to be Inviolable and any interference with them was serfous. Mr. Espinosa, the Nicaraguan minlster, was among Mr. Knox's callers today, not the bee over Tramp Poisoned by Hand Out Member of Cooks’ Union Stricken After Eating Jelly Given Him by Woman, PITTSBURG, Kan., April 8.—Poisoned by the food he begged at the door of & kindly faced country woman was the fate of C. Davis, who died at the police station here today. Davis, who had a passbook showing that he was a member of the Cooks' union of Des Moines, la., arrived here penniless The police saw him slip from a frelght train on the outskirts of town and planned to watch him. Last night a patrolman found Davis at the depot supposedly drunk. He was taken to jail Shortly after being placed in the jall corri- dor Davis called to the chief that he was il and said that he had eaten a plece of bread upon which jelly had been spread by a woman whom he had asked for some- thing to eat City Physiclan Bogle was called and I trouble ptomaine pofs- ptomaine presumably having been in Jelly vis oning the GOVERNOR HUGHES’ PRIMARY KILLED AT STORMY SESSION New York win Republican Organizatio Support Bill Amending 1 Law. April 8. ~Governor of direct nominations em- bodied in the Hinman-Green bill was r pudiated by the assembly judiclary commite tee after a stormy sesslon last night which lasted well Into the morning hours, and the committee today reported the bill ad. versely to the assembly, where Ita defeat confidently predicted Instead, the republican organization pro- poses to support the primary bill of As- semblyman J. 8. Phillips, which amends the clection law relative to the conduct of primaries by requiring primaries in those rural localitics where no officlal primarles are now held Tt is required that primaries shall not be to August !, except In prasiden the polls shall be open p. m ALBANY Hughes' plan general tial years, and that noon until 7 SEEK WATER. FIND DIAMONDS German o Be Southwest Very BERIAN gene the April 8—~The latest fintellf- from German Southwest Africa say e discove of diamonds at Luderits mportant than was ut first supy Diamonds bitherto haye been picked sandy desert, but al- tempts to bore for water led to the finding of blue earth pockets containing dlamonds similar to the Kimberley and other Souil stones, ies a up African