Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 12, 1909, Page 1

THE OMAHA BEE a clean, reliable newspaper that is admitted to each and every home. VOL. XXXVIII—NO. WEATHER FORECAST. Nebraska—Fair Towa—Fair and weather report For cooler sce page 2. OMAHA, MONDAY REDUCTION OF TWENTY MILLION imated Effects o ments to Payn Revenue FIFTY CHANGES & , ¢ Amend- %; on Z o Eight-Cent Duty on Tea l. g Produce Eight Milli %i FIFTEEN MILLIONS ON COFFEE Committee Must Make Arrangements to Offset These Losses. | | | COUNTERVAILING DUTIES GONE These Clauses on Crude mher Means Loss of wenty Milllons striking ¢ 01 ana 1 Another in Productiveness. ASMINGTON, April 11.—The estimates of the revenue which the Payne taritf bill will produce for the goverhment have been reduced nearly §20,00000 through the amendments made to the measure beforo It was passed by the house, and the senate finance committee will have to provide for making up this difference If the original estimates are to be met. The striking out of several countervailing duty Clauses on which no estimates were made probably will lessen the bill's productive- ness another $20,000,000. The amendment taking off the S-cent duty on a subtracted $7,000,000 from the esti mated revenues. The striking out of the countervailing duty on coffee and the maxi- mum duty provision for a rate of 20 per ad vviorem on coffee coming from countries which do mot glve the Htates the benefit of their most nation clause, disposes of what probably would be $16,000,00 in duties. Taking out the countervalling, proviso for lumber and for petroleum, two amendments | made by the house, means a lost oppor- | tunity to increase the revenues by several million dollars, it is estimated. By repeal- ing the manufacturers’ license tax for formers desiring to sell the leaf tobacco which they ralse, the house has withdrawn conisderable revenue under the internal revenue law. A slight Increase in revenue may be provided hy the increased tax on Turkish tiller tobscco, pineapples and barley and barely malt. Fitly Amendments Made. The senate finance committee materially reduced many of the schedules of the Ding- ley bill as it passed the house, but in order to increase the revenue producing power of the Payne bill the committee will have 10 take different action with regard to the latter measure. The fifty or more amend- ments, all of which were offered by the ways and means committee, have added a few more changes to the Payne bill as compared 19 the. present tarift law. In 1897 the senate committec placed a duty of 1% cents por pound on hides, which was later changed to 18 per cent ad valorem, as M now stands. The Payne bill, as it passed the house, like the Dingley bill when it went to the senate, places hides on the free list Under the Dingley law, hides have produced a revenue exceeding $3,000,000 annually means Maximam and Minimum Feature. Throughout its various provisions, In form, phraseslogy and rates of duty, there | any changes In the Payne bill as it | today from the provisions of the | Dingley law. Its maximum and minimum retaliatory feature, the additional method of valuation for the purpose of preventing under-valuations, and its provision for the $0,000,000 lesuance of Panama bonds and a $250,000,000 fssue of treasury certificates, are | It extends the drawback so that do- mestic raw materfal may be used In lie of other material for the purpose of col- | lecting a drawback, provided an equal amount of identical imported raw materlal | is manufactured into the same product upon which the drawback s collected. An in- herltance tax, by which it is hoped that 0,000,000 will be collected, is provided for internal revenue law Is expected to produce $1,800.000 additional revnue because of the increase in the tax on cigarettes. The two increases over the Dingley rates that stand out most promnently in the Payne bill ave those In the rates on wom- en's and children's gloves and hLostery Cocoa, which 1s now imported free of duty been made dutlable at the rate of 3 cents’ a pound. Unmanufactured mica has been reduced 1 cent per pound and the man- ifactures of mica have a duty levied upon them 2 centa per pound less than the Ding- ley vates. The duty on manufactured ba- | rites doubled | Contalns Many Reductions. The Payne bill contains many reductions from the Dingley rats of duty. The duties on lead ore and pig lead are materially reduced, while the lumber schedule is cut in half, The differential on refined sugar| Is reduced 5 cents per 100 pounds, Cof tonseed oil and tallow are placed on tho free lst, as well as licorice paste, posts and kindiing wocd. ihe free entry are 1 stands new | | | has has been fence | Provisions for under certain conditions, of bituminous coul, wood pulp and agricul- | tural nachinery have been incorporated. | The duty on print paper, upon the recom- | mendation of the house investigating com- | mittee, was considerably reduced. The most Important changes made in the wool schedule was the reduction of 5 cents in the duties on shoddy and top-waste, and! change from an ad valorem to & specitic | duty on tops, the general effect heing a slight reduotion. A concesslon to those | who urged that works of are be placed on | the free list was made by permitting the| free entry of objects of art at least twenty | years old Iron and Steel Red The iron and steel schedules guished through a general cutting duties, Iron cre is placed on the free list and material reductions are in the vates on plg iron, serap iron and steel bar iron, round fron, blooms, structural iron forgings, anchors, cotfon tles. steel rails, tn plates, wire and humerous other artl- les. One of the most important provis- lons of the bill is the Philippine free troc orovision, which permits the free entry of | every product of the islands, except “nd exempts from duty any articles ported from the United States into slands. The amount of sugar which be imported ix limited to 3,000 tons nually, and free Importation of to I8 restricted o 30000 pounds of wrapper, 300,00 pounds of filler tobacco and 0000 clgars, are istin in the rice im those may an the bacco | tunes | making gas, | per jand fifty minute | at San Quentin Fortunes Await Omaha Buyers of Coal Lands If Government Gas Engine Succeeds Lignite Beds of North Dakota Will Make Plutocrats. Many Omahans in sight belleve they have for of investments in Dakota should the govern- popularize internal combustion motors with which it has been experiment- ing and now declares will succeed the steam engine as a means of generating The Omahans bought the land, most of which Is In the Little Missouri country because it will grow wheat, and now they have found the lignite coal with which the prajries are underlayed, is to be and thelr holdings may be wanted shortly for coal mines Among the Omahans who have invested are J. W. Thomas, Dr. J. B. Whittacker, George F. Gilmore, Charlotte F. Fraisher. Mrs. H. M. Heller, C. J. Green, John Nich- olson, Thomas Matters, Ralph W. Brecken- ridge, H. H. Baldrige, Dr. A. N. Anderson and W. A. DeBord Most of the Omaha land owners, who may become coal miners, own a section of the land, some of them more ity of these lands Is the lignite In the northwest. feet in thickness. The government declares that In the internal combustion motors a ton of North Dakota lignite will produce the same number of horse-power for the same number of hours as a ton of the best bituminous coal in the world will pro- duce with an ordinary steam boller and engine, At 6 or 10 cents per ton the lignite on some of the farms owned by Omahans makes the land worth $150 to $200 per acre. Lignite sells in North Dakota for $1 to .30 ton, though almost every rancher In the Little Missourl river country has a onl mine or his own and the farmers who se steam plows, plow up the coal with which to fire the engines. The government says there are 500,000,000,000 tons of the lig- nite coal in North Dakota, much of which Is along the Missourl river. The electric light plants and pumping stations in the largest towns of North Dakota are fired with lignite and the 800 line has fired loco- motives with it ) because lands, the North ment power. used for In the vicin largest seam of belng forty-five Special Train tor Minstrels Al G. Field Shot Into Omaha at Rate of Mile a Minute Minute. The Overland Limited on the Union Pa- citic and all other trains on that road, run- ning between Grand Island and Omaha, were sidetracked Sunday morning to give a clear track for 14 miles to the Al G. Field Minstrels’ cars, running a special be- tween those two polnts in order to reach Omaba in time for a matinee at Boyd's theater. The show cars were to have been hooked into No. 4, leaving Kearney at 247 this morning, but were not, through some mis- take in orders, and epecial orders were issued from headquarters to “make good." The cars were hooked to No. 14, leaving Kearney at 8:47, and a fast run made to Grand Island, where one of the road's powerful engines, with steam up, was wait ing. The show aars were attached and the long run commenced The first seventy-five miles was recled off at the rate of a mile a minute and the rest of the distance at a slower pace, the entire run of 146 miles being made in a fraction less than 170 minutes, or two hours It was a record run for a minstrel show on this section of the Union Pacltic. Conduetor Candish was in charge of the special. ORPHEUM IN SUMMER WILL GET NEW FITTINGS General Manager Beck Makes Brief Visit to Local House to Inspect Plan: Martin Beck, general manager of the Orpheum, made a brief visit to the local house Saturday, spending most of the time conferring with architects for the extensive Improvements to be made at the close of the present season The theater will be entirely redecorated and. fitted out with new opera chairs, the arrangement of the boxes will be changed and the seating capacity increased. The total Improvements will foot up to more than $20,000. Mr. Beck expressed him- self us much pleased with conditions here. He is enroute for San Franclsco, | where he goes to attend the opening of the new Orpheum house, which is sald to be the finest and most ornate theater in America. HIS NAME IS DENNIS NOW ndler, Whose Cognomen is Quiet, Will Go to Bad House. “Pearly” Chandler, first and real name otherwise unknown, bids fair to spend a good deal of his young life in state peni- tentiaries. Chandler is now Before coming here he did three years and one- half at the California state penitentiary and Saturday morning he got five years more from Judge Sears for breaking and entering a rallroad car Chandler appears to have had just two months of freedom. Pearly ¢ Kept SIX PERSONS PERISH IN FIRE Fire Destroys Several Business Blocks ~ and Number of Residences at Lenox, Mass. L0SS TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND Six Are Burned to Death and Number Are Badly Injured. TRAGIC FATE OF MISS§ FRENCH Jumps From Building With Hair and Clothes Ablaze. BIG FIRE AT MAYFIELD, KY. Four Large Warehouses Contal Three Hundred Thousand Poun: of Tobacce Destroyed by I cendiary Blase. LENOX, Mass., April 11.—8ix persons lost their lives, three others were badly burned and a property loss of between $200,000 and $300,000 was caused by the fire which started In the heart of the business seo- tlon of Lenox early today Four business blocks, two dwellings and two other structures were destroyed in a section bounded by Franklin, Main, Housatonic and Church streets. The fire is believed to have started from spontaneous combustion. The dead: BDWARD VENTRES, electriclan. MRS. BDWARD C. VENTRES. MISS LESLIE VENTRES, aged 12 years. MISS ALICE FRESCH, bookkeeper. MISS ISABEL COOK. hookkeeper. MISS MARY SPARKS, schoolteacher. Injured: Mrs. Catherine Root and her two sons, George and Arthur, severely burned. A fortunate shift of wind saved the pub- lie Nbrary and the fashionable Curtis ho- tel. In the hotel there were several eastern parties from New York and Boston. The loss of life occurred in the Clifford build- ing, where the blaze started, and resulted primarily from a serles of explosions among the turpentine. paints, ofls and] dynamite stored in the cellar. The death of Miss French was one of the pitiful tragedies of' thé fire. While the blaze in the Clifford block was at its helght a woman was seen to climb out of a flame- filled room onto a veranda on the second story with her night clothing and her hair ablaze. Staggering to the ralling the woman leaped to the sidewalk beneath, landing in a heap within five or six feet of the blazing walls. Some of the horrified onlookers at- tempted to rush in to drag her out, but the intense heat drove them back and not until the flames had practically dled out was the body recovered. While none of the beautiful summer resi- dences which have made this Berkshire town famous the country over were threat- | aned, many prominent New York Bos- ton soclety people were at the Curtls hotel, which was at one time threatened. MAYFIELD, Ky. Aprit 11.—Fire of in- cendiary origin destroyed four large to- bacco warehouses here tod The ware- houses were owned by Lewis & Gordon, | Richara Wallrop, Sherril & Bearnett and | the American Snuff company, respectively. | These tirths are independent and have been buying a great deal of loose tobacco. The loss will reach about $2,000,000. There was | about 300,000 pounds of tobacco lost | Three Girls Are Killed by Train Three Daughters of Fred Foldorf Ru™ Down by Ill'nois Cent'ral Flyer Near Dubuque: DUBUQUE, 3 Central “Fiyer" struck and Kkilled Anna, Mabel and Ruby, aged 7, 8 |and 14 years, respectively, daughter of | Fred Foldarf, four miles west of here to- day. The girls were walking on the track toward the approaching train, but on ac- count of a high wind they had their heads | down and did not see the train. When the enginer ralized that the girlg diT not | hear the train it was too late to stop. April 11.—The Tilinois | instantly | Sewel's Term Is Reduced. CHEYENNE, Wyo., April 11.—(Special.)— Twenty-seven years of Thomas L. Sewell's term fn the penitentiary for the murder of Paul Morse has been cut off by the State Board of Pardons, which issued a full par- don to the convict. Sewell, who was a| prominent ranchman, he killed, was sent up from Ulnta county in 1906 to serve a thirty-year term. Now he is pardoned on the ground that there was evidence that the killing of Morse was not unjustifiable. Morse and Sewell quarreled @ horse herd and Sewell, when ar- rested for killing Morse, asserted that the latter first attacked him. There was no witness to the killing, which occurred at a lonely ranch in the Jackson Hole country. James Sears, sent up from Cheyenne in 193 to serve ten years for burglary, and Joel W. Long, sent up from Converse county in 106 to serve six years for rust- ling, have also been granted full pardons and are at liberty Long and Charles Hanson, | serving a term for stealing sheep, passed | through Cheyenne today, enroute home Ltrom the penitentiary over paroled while Ruling Against Form of Rebating Used by Packers WASHINGTON, April 11.—The practice of overvaluing dressed beef transported and of using such overvaluation as a basls for claims against railroad companies when the beef is injured or destroyed in transit must be stopped at once, according to a de cision reached by Attorney General Wick ersham the result of an investigation made because of complaints against one of he large beef pacing companies of Ch cago. There complaints alleged that the ompany had placed a fictitious value on dressed beef claimed to have been injured or destroyed in transit ‘The attorney gencral has company that it must stop and has suggested to the merce commission that it informed the this practice Interstate Com- issue an order y prescribing the investigation | by raliroads of all claims for damage or loss of property during transportation. The attorney general says that the plaints and Investigation .ghow calculated cost price of injured or de- stoyed dressed beef “is In excess of the actual cost price, because no allowance Is made for the large profits realized from the sale of the hides and other bi-products and the facts disclosed by the investigation show that the dressed beef, even when marketed without any damage, rarely, if ever, brings the amount fixed by your company as its cost price.” The attorney general's disposition of this case is the result of & recent visit to Chi to be made m- that the s was also the man |3 APRII 1 1909, 1 From the Washington Sunday Star. {COLONELS PLEDCING FEALTY Several Hasten to Reassure Governor of Their Loyalty. C. E, SPENS TOUTED FOR PLACE Admirer Writes Governor He Would Look Beantiful Wearing Sword ~-Byrne and Herryman Write Also. (From a. Btaft. ¢ L) LINCOLN, April li~(8pecial.)—The war ©of the colonels is on in dead earnest. While Colonel Fanning deserted and re- signed in the face of danger and other col- onels have threatened to resign and quit and leave the commander-in-chief to fight his own battles in his own way, other colonels are standing pat Colonel Marshall who has been referred to as a “long, hungry rooster.” Colonel Berryman, who has just been spanked by Mayor Dahlman fn a political fight in Omaha and Colonel Byrne, who smelled powder when a member of Governor Shel- don's staff, have to the front for thelr chief. Each has bared his good, right arm. drawn forth the trusty sword and stepped into the arena to do battle with Colonel Fanning, or any other who dares to claim the governor broke his word to his brewer friends. Each has written to the governor a let er pledging him undying devotion, prom- ising to stand forever by him, and to up- hold his good right arm whenever it needs the help of friends. In addition nomina- tions for colonels to fill the vacant and prospective vacant places mre coming into the governor, so that the enlistment of colonels may be kept up to the full quota, An Apollo Belvidere, One tax payer and defender of the falith has proposed the name of C. E. Spens, the handsome general freight agent of the Burlington The nominating letter reads as follows Dear Governcr Shallenberger: Tn days of piping peace. when the gold and epaulette are cast into the furnace, not out of nmbrage at the architect the of. and swords are violently thrust into their #cabbards, or are bent broken or de- stroyed, by way of adding sparkle to ana- thema; when cursings instead of blessings fill the air, my thoughts turn to you. If you want to find tolerance for error, even’ though it should be your error; If you want a friendship that will not for- #ake you or deny you thrice, or at all, before or after the cock crows: If you want a loyalty that is unwavering and not tempted by greed, whose sword will sup- port and defend you with, as weil as with- out. gold-embroidered habilment or pin- nacled shako; If you want courage, someone to do the right for the right's sake; if you want the divinest of Apollos, whose heartbeats keep time with truth and pro- gress, and whose promptings will be to follow you. right or wrong; if you want integrity, friendship, manhood, intelligence, aiscipline, courage and a well-ordered mien to comport therewith, on your staff, 1 re- spectfully suggest the name of Mr. Con- come these lace (Continued on Second Page.) “I’'m delighted with your new wo- man’s column on ”» the want ad page, said one of our wo- men readers: “My hairdresser was sick and looking over the ‘Everything for Women' column I found there was one near my husbend's oftice om the same floor, whom | knew noth- ing about.” For the conwenience of our wo- men readers, many small ads are run together under this head. It makes it easy to find what you want. Have you read the want ads, cago by his assistant, Wade R. Hilis, yet, today? SIGNS OF SPRING Creek Indians Make Complaint Oklahoma Militia Accused of Arrest- ing Full Bloods not Conneoted With Crazy Snake's Band. WASHINGTON, April 11.—Word was re- celved by Commissioner of Indian Affairs Leupp yesterday from Eufaulila Harjo, head man of the Four Nations council, saylng that the state .militla, In its at- tempt to capture members of the Crazy Snake band who participated In the recent outbreaks, are arresting fullblood Indians in no way connected with the Snakes or their troubles and .sking that the federal government prevent the further arrest of innocent Creeks and demand the release of those already In custody. Instructions have been Issued directing Agent Kelsey in Oklahoma to protect innocent Indians. Centennial of Miami University Oldest College in Ohio Will Cele- brate Its Hundredth Anni- versary in June. HAMILTON, O. April 11.—Mami uni- versoty, the oldest Ohio college, will cele- brate its centennial at Oxford, June 12-18, President Taft, who is expected, Is par- ularly Interested in Miami university be- cause his father-in-law, John W. Herron of Cincinnatl, since 1880 has been presi- dent of the board of that institution Whitelaw Reld, ambassador to Great Britain, of the class of 186, has also prom- ised to be present The colleges of the south will be repre- | sented by Presldent F. W. Hinitt of the Central University of Kontucky, and of the ) west, by President Albert Hill of the Uni- | versity of Missourl. | t Indicted for Embezsling BIOUX FALLS, 8. D, April 11 The United States grand session here, additional nd Funds. ~(Special.) jury, now in has returned a number of indictments. Among the indlct ments returned was one against Anson Wagar, formerly United States commis- sioner at Dalias, Gregory county, who was removed from office last fall by Judge Carland of the federal court for failure |to turn over to the United States land office at Mitchell trust funds which had been placed n his hands by homesteaders in the Rosebud country, with which to make payments on the purchase price of their lands. The amounts which the in- dictment charges him with having em- bezzled aggregate in the nelghborhood of $260. From two homesteaders he fs charged with having taken the sum of #8580 cach, this being the largest amount taken from any one homesteader. UNCLE SAM PAYS FULL RATES Government Can Get no Special Con- tract for Seattle Exhibits, COLONEL CODY IN WASHINGTON He Talks Enthu [ 1y of pects of Western Ofl Fields and Benefits of Irriga. tlon Projects. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, April 1l.—(8pecial )—¥For been cast- ing about for a railroad which would give seventy car loads of to the Alaska- Not number of freight cars will be required to transport the national capi- tal end of the government's display and It of money Ui some time the governme it the best rates on exhibits from Washington Yukon-Pacific less than that exposition means & whole lot Being more or cided to ask the rates the whole soon found that his own laws and that the publisl ¢ tariffs among the ' rebaters’” ables. Wherefor pelled to pay the regular ask for special privilege The first rain load being made up to the Pacific required for the on a coast. Th st completed and less canny of nt at anything would nd ¢ ex irty transportation ernment butldings at the exposition are now ready for the has Seattle, but he land other is hibits days will The of the exhiblts as soon as they arrive. the history of our expositions the govern- ment has never yvet falled to be ready with exhibits on its bulldings and day. The Philippine exhaustive in two government wailan exhibit, which the government and Honolulu business intere to ship next week exhibit past and now, exposition display from brought out over the teams and other north Notable among the ported £65,000,000 Muc nterior grounds. was in country. Aside from the regular exhfbit furnished from Washington to expositions, the Seat- | tle fair will have some unusual interesting attractions. The national our national Alaska history, Hawall and mountains. make one of the esting life savers, a (Continued on Second Page.) w sts, h of points winter orn exhibits Kol mu livellest exhibits it ever undertaken, having besides the intc complete mint and assay office which will take the crude ore the hich will is now on its way from Manila transports. was augumented The assembled by will on the has trafls by dog conveyances. thus dust seum ha. especially ilippines, partment Pros- freight Sam de- rallroads to offer special outfit he was up against one of less than him undesir- Uncle Sam will be com- rate and no me very now nd will soon be on its way gov- installation opening Ha- the be ‘ready The Alaska exhibit has been dribbling Into Seattle for six months is being moved out the Alaskan been trans- from Dawson, Fairbanks, Nome and the Susitna ar- ranged articles and materlal of an histori- cal nature as will impart a knowledge of more the and that part of the country west of the Rocky Treasury wil has TARIFF BILL IN THE SENATE }It Will Probably Be Known as the Payne-Aldrich Measure Because of Numerous Amendments. FULL COMMITTEE AT WORK Democratic Members Will Be Called Into Session Toda; MONTH'S DEBATE IS EXPECTED Measure Will Probably Be Ready for Conference in Thirty Days. ATTITUDE OF THE MINORITY Few Set !n'erhe;—:lll Be Made and Democrats Will Probably eir Etforts to Amendments. Confine WASHINGTON will begin taritf bil April J1.—The senate consideratioh of the Payne early this week, and because of large number of changes which have ben made in it by the senate com- finance, it probaBly will hence- be known as the Payne-Aldrich bill Tt s oxpected the measure will be re- ported to the senate on Tuesday, but the day cannot be definitely fixed untll after a meeting of the full committee on finance tomorrow. The bill. as originally intro- duced in the house by Mr. Payne, has been under consideration at the hands of both the and the minority members of the finance committee ever since the day it was presented, but so far there has not ben a joint meeting to consider it. As is usuaily the case in (he preparation of tariff bills, the republican majority has assumed the right to indicate the senate's attitude toward the bill, so that whatever | amendments may be ‘suggested when it is returned to the senate will be the result of their labors. | The calling of the democrats s largely | formality so far as the schedules are con- | They will, however, be asked to over the work of the majority mem- bers, and if for any reason they should ask delay a day or two it probably would bo granted. In all probability, however. they will make little or no obfection to the reporting of the bill by the repub- | ticans. its the mittee on forth majority | cernea. Few Set Speeches. Tt Is not expected a great many set speeches will be made in the senate, while not accepting the protective principle, the democratic members realize the measure will be passed, and they are not disposed to cause ungecessary delay. (‘onsequently most of the discussion by the democrats will be upon the merit of amendments which wiil be offered. Some of them will, however, demand considerable time, ‘The general policy of republican members will be to do little talking. The prevailfig opinion is that no less than a month will be required for consideration of the bill by the sena The house will have a perlod of leisure and while the senate is wrestling with the | tarief biil the lower body will meet on Mondays and Thursdays. When census bill, as passed By the senate, will attention, but little or no other will be undertaken. Speaker Cannon will begin to prepare for the ap- | pointment of the house standing commit- tee, ‘which probably will be announced prior to the final adjournment of the ex- tra session. President Tatt Attends Church Executive and Wife Worship at St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church. only the receive business be n be | WASHINGTON, April 11.—President Taft attended Easter services at St John's Episcopal church, of which Mrs. Taft is | a member, today. Afterwards he was com- | pelled to hold an informal reception on | steps of the church. A large crowd was | waiting outside to get a glimpse of him | The president made his exit from the | ehurch in advance of Mrs. Taft and it | was while waiting for ber that a large number of persons passed by and saluted | him. When Mrs. Taft came forth the im- promptu reception was abruptly halted. BURLINGTON TRAIN IS WRECKED NEAR BRESTON Two Killed and Nine Injured When Easthound Flyer Leaves Track. by TACOMA, Wash.,, April | were killed and nine oth the wreck of which left Tacon the Northern ralled Clllum neer and cause 11.-Two people s were injured Burlington train No, 14 A yesterday afternoon on Pacific The train de mile west of Bristcl, between nd Ellensburg, last night. Engi- Franklin J. Hammond of Tac reman Johnson were killed. of th unknown of was ong The accident ix BURLINGTON, A visit la, April 11 tells of (8pecial.) dispateh from St. Louls the there of Mrs. Minnie A. Shepherd of Burliugton to discover If possible the place of residence of Mrs. Mary Kink trom whom she desires to secure some in- formation concerning her birth so as to enable her to- establish her identitly and right to certain estates left by a relative. Investigation here has discovered Mrs. Shepherd, who lves with her family oulctly on a rural route a few miles west of Burilngton. The odd thing about Mrs. Shepherd's quest for the relative St Louls is that the latter, while writing to her, refuses to make known her location, and thus completely baffles her niece in searching for her. In one letter Mrs. King sald she would come and see Mrs. Shep- her aunt, herd, but later wrote tha if she died Mrs. Shephe where she had been livir Mrs. Shepherd ance and will earnest for her was left parentless at childhood is prosecut. her her the information will be able to considerable King for * known her action in 1 She evidently she Mrs abo A estate ot be matter does not she has wrilten one or two scolding letters putting her naime In the papers in an effort o learn the where- to Mrs. Shepherd for abouls of Mrs Kings an uncercain meet the mysterious aunt and secure from desired claim t rd 8. " has engaged mysterious e T refusing to mal wish Burlington Woman Hunts for Mysterious Relative e was ill, would be legal er mearch relative. arly age If ‘she it s large ,‘ reason her Veetured very publicity told assist- | She and can possible tion where and| ¢ trange Striking a s Bristol at high sped track and ran nearly its on the ties before \gine turned com il car slid down of the river. H was among the in- a sharp curve th etrain Ift the own length e the nea coming to & stop, pletely and the track the Hewitt, Quincy Jured. MOSQUITO AND HOUSE FLY UNDESIRABLE CITIZENS Citles Begin Organised &0 Amal These Menaces to Health, over n edge m, nd hern Cam n NEW south house ORLEANS, notified April 11 —~The entire the mosquito and the fly that they undesirable citis The liealth authorities are opening | an early campaign against these dissemina ot | tors of The it the or has are zens deadly diseases mosquito s The house fever and n cnly disease spre distributes malaria, typheid | ot as the direction of sur Dr. eon J. 8. White hospital who * fought yellow in a regular set of laws and regulations have been devised for southern cilles. the the marine pver