Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 27, 1909, Page 1

THE OMAHA BEE clenn, rellable newspaper that is fGmitted to each and every home. HE OMAHA DAILY BEER VOL. XXXIX—NO. 5. FIGHT ON HIDES IS WAXING WARM| Conferees Will Put Article on Free List, but Western Senators Pre- pare for Trouble, AGAINST CONFERENCE REPORT Several Solons for Duty First, Last | and All the Tim~ MAY ASK TAFT TO That is Trump Card Whic. Have in Reserve TO REDUCE RATE OF 1 ‘ This Seems Certain Now, if B Made Undatiable—Adjournment Now Seems Farther Away Then Ever. WASHINGTON, July 2—Hides will be put on the free list it boots and shoes and other manufactures of leather are reduced below the rates fized by the house biil. Unless the advocates of free hides are able to\carry out this bargain, the whole pro- &ram I8 fo be called off. A decision to this effect was reached by the tariff conferses today The conferees adjourned tonight until 11 & m. tomorrow, but the house members Will assemble half an hour earlier so Lhat they may ley thelr plans for executing their part of the agreement. It is expected taat they will have a report from the ho leaders as to the possibility of passing a rule conferring_ jurisdfction upon them to agree to lower rates on leather than those named in the house bill. Senator Aldrich hes Informed senators from northwestern states that he will not consent to the abolition of the duty on hides unless there is a material cut in the rates on boots and shoes and other leather £oods. In no other way, he said, can he et the votes necessary for the adoption of the report In the senate if it carries free hides. Senators from cattle raising states have insisted that the only way consumers can get any benefits from the removal of | the protection on hides will be by cor- responding reductions In the dutles on boots and shoes and harness. May Pat it Up to Taft. I, for any reason, parliamentary or otherwise anything should occur to upset the plan 1o glve the conferees jurisdiction to adopt rates lower than those named by either the house or the senate the confer- ence committee is holding what fs regardcd @s a trump card, in reserve. This provides for the preparation of a conference report putting: hides on the fres list and reducing the rates on shoes and other leather manu- faoturos, Tho report, it is sald, then would be pre- sonted to President Taft with the statement 1hAt the . confevess . had not .been able to mukter sutfléiént Votes to ure its adoption, ‘and 1t would devdlve upon Presi- Aent Paft to prooure the necessary support for the program. In the event of faflure, according to promoters of this suggestion, | the conferees would submit a report plac- | ing a small duty on hides and the house rates on leather. The president would be asked to g the necessary votes in the house to insure the passage of such & pro- gram by that body. Reluctance to Oppose President. Obnoxious as puch a plan would be to mont of the conferees, it is sald to have | becn suggested In all seriousness. Few of the conferees belleve that it will be in- cumbent upon them to resort to such tac- tics, however, for all of them realize that the criticlems, ususlly heaped upon mem- bers who oppose the administration view, make men hesitate to combat the presi- dent's will. On that account, It 1s gener- ally belleved that the compromise giving cheap rates on shoes and other manu- factures of leather in return for free hides will be adopted. Senator Warren sald today that the west- ern senators would not be representing thetr states it they were to consent to the abolition of the duty on hides in the In- terest of the manufacturers of shoes and other leather goods, unless manufacturers in New England and other eastern states are compelled to concede lower rates on leather products. While the western sen- ators take the position that the removal of the duty on hides will be Injurious to the cattle business, some of them say they will withdraw their protests, because of the Insistence of President Taft, if reductions are made all along the line in the leather schedule. Program of Conferees. The program on which the conferees are workiug 18 a8 follows: Hides free, as provided by the house, inst the senate rate of 18 per cent ad valorem. Sole leather, § per cent, the same as In the house bill, as against the senate rate of 15 per cent. Dressed upper leather, 7% per cent, as |order to complete the work to ship aboat |tound dead In Gordon park yesterday. |ana women called at the Bosechek home OMAHA, TUESDAY MORNING, JUL , 1909—TEN PAGES. SINGLE Important Suit for Rebate on Freight Paid Contractor Will Sue Omaha Road for | Money Paid on Rate Held to Be Excessive, Bult was filed yesterday in the district > 8. Elgutter, against the Chi- aul, Minneapolis & Omaha rail- way on behalf of the George W. Cralg coin- pany of Omaha to determine whether or not a shipper can recover damages after paying rates which the state rallway commission has declared excesstve. In 1W7 the George W. Craig company had & contract to do fifteen miles of pav- ing In Florence and it was necessary in 8,000,000 pounds of crushed rock. The rate over the Minneapolts & Omaha previous to 107 had been $ per car load, but pefore these large shipments were made, it was raised to 2 cents per hundred pounds. This made a dlifference of from $10 to 315 per car load. The cortractors protested to the State Rallway commission, and after a long consideration of the case & decision was handed down in June of this year declaring the Z-cent rate excessive and ordering ‘he tixed rate of 1 cent per hundred pounds This would have made a difference to the Craig company of about $3660 on thelr shipment and for that amount they are in- tending to sue. The rallroad company had a right to ro- test the decision of the commission within thirty days and take the matter futo court, but did not and have established the 1 cent rate as officlal. On the ground that the ex- cess over this pald by them should be re- turned under the ruling of the commission, the Cralg company files its sult. A eimilar sult for $1,00 will be filed by the Florence Lumber company for a similar case in which the rate on lumber was changed from 1% cents per hundred to 4 cents and then reduced agam by the commission. The settlement of the suits is very im- portant Inasmuch as it may determine whether or not shipment money pald over to a transportation company after a oro test has been made on a rate which is afterwards declared unreasonable by the commission can be recovered by the shipper Suicide Club is Disclosed by Death Cleveland Young People Believed to Have Made Pact to Kill Themselves, CLEVELAND, O., July %.—A club com- posed of disheartened factory employes, ad- vocating sulcide as the only means of at- taining tho peace of mind they crave and to escape the torments of thelir daily grind, is belleved to exist here. This fact was advanced today by the parents of Miss Hebecea Bosechek, 15 years oM, who was In addition to this the relatives belleved another girl, a companion of Miss Bose- chek, will end her life within the next few days. The mother of the second girl says she overheard her daughter and Mise Bose- ohek planning to kil themselves. According to those who know of the habits of Miss Bosechek the club consisted of six girls, four young men and a man end his wife. Most of them are employed in cloak factories. Yesterday after the death of Mise Bose- chek becamc known several young men to obtain books and newspaper clippings which the irl had in her room and which she would not let her parents ses. The #irl 18 known to have met with these young people at meetings held at various places. They are known to have read morbld Ut- erature and disoussed death as the only reliet for their woes. Flight Ends at Savannah, Ill. Balloon University City, Out After Lahm Cup, Alights Near Home, BT. LOUIS, July 2.—The balloon Uni- versity City, in which John Berry, pliot; John J. McCullough and John 8. Thurman ascended here last night in an effort to capture the Lahm cup, landed this morning at 9:30 o'clock at Savannah, Ill., after being in the air eleven and a half hours. BODY IS NOT CLARKSON Corpse Taken from Chicago Canal at First Thought to Be His, | Bross is & son of Re HEYBURN STANDS FIRM AS A ROCK Idaho Senator Will Not Join His Western Colleagues in Fight for Free Hides. STICKING POINT IN CONFERENCE When Adjusted Bill Can Quickly Be Bent to President. HOUSE MAY TAKE A TEST VOTE Lower Schedule on Finished Leather Goods Proposed, NEBRASKANS WITH PRESIDENT urkett and Brown are in Line With the Policy of the Executive in the Matter of Revision Downward. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, July 2.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Free hides continues to be the real stumbling block In the way of an agreement between the senate and house conferees on the tdriff bill. And, strange to say, Senator Heyburn of Idaho is the one recalcitrant holding out for a duty on hides among western senators whose states grow more hides by 100 per cent than dees ldaho. Western senators, and Inciuded in that category are Smoot and Sutherland of Utah, Carter and Dixon of Montana, Warren and Clark of, Wyoming and Borah of Idaho, will yield the question of duty on hides it the boot and shoe manufac- turers of New England will agres to a reduction of the duty on leather and leather goods below the house schedule. It 1s understood that every one of the senators mentioned, who have stood un- alterably for duty on hides, will abandon their position, providing the manufacturers of New England will submit to a cut on finished product commensurate with thelr concession. But Heyburn is stubborn, and has been labored with not only by his own delegation, but by the president, to yield his objection in view of other tavor- able schedules, including lead, zinc and wool, In which his state is most vitally Interested. House May Vote While on the face of things but little progress was made today by the conferees, this one thing seems almost certain to happen, that efther by resolution or by rule, the house, when it meets tomorrow, will be called upon to vote on a lower finished product schedule affecting boots nd shoes than was contained In the houss bill. For several hours today Chairman Payne of the ways and means committes had the boot and shoe schedule under conelderntfon with experts of the Treasury department and representatives of that in- Austry with a view of shaping up a para- graph that wowld be acceptable to those senators who have made a fight against tree hides, and that resolution is expected to be presented tomorrow to the house, cr Inter In the week should some unex- pected obstruction present itself to del its Introduction, Nebraska Senators Consistent. The Nebraska senators have been con- sistently supporting the tariff on hides, but are willing to accept free hides provid- Ing suitable reductions are made on the boot and shoe schedule. They have been olosely In touch wtih the president in his fight for substantial reductions, and If the bill as now framed up shows decreasss In the steel, woolen and cottorn schedules from the senate bill, together wtih tree ofl, free {ron ore, free hides and a substantial reduction on boots and shoes, as some of the conferees prediot, it would not Le surprising to find the Nebraska senators voting for the bill, thereby supporting the hands of the president. Depends on the Shoe Men. It in expected the boot and shoe industry will make a stubborn fight to keep the duty on the finished product. Should the manufacturers command any eonsiderable following it {s hard to predict when con- gress will got away. Should the New England shos manufacturers agree to a lower rate it fe belleved the conterees could reach an agreement In twenty-four hours And congress adjourn by August 4 But there Is seemingly no possibility of this occurring. “Uncle Joe" Cannon made a bet today that congress would not adjourn until Au- gust 15. That may give an idea of the situation tonight. Hinshaw Names Bross. Congressman Hinshaw has named Philip F. Bross of Wahoo supervisor of the census for the Fourth Nebraska district. Mr. . H. Bross, a former commander of the Grand Army of Ne- | braska. He !s a University of Nebraska | From the Washington Star DELECGATES REAEH VLlNCOLN Advance Guard for Today's Conven-‘ tion Indicates Good Attendance. LITTLE FRICTION ANTICIPATED New State Committee Well Selected and 1t Will Probably Organi: Tonight—Few Democrats Here. (From a Statt Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Neb., July 25.—(Special Tele- &ram.)—The advance guard of delegates to the republican state convention reached Lincoln tonight and brought Information that a fairly good attendance will be on hand tomorrow. Otoe county sent word through Will Hayward that the entire sixteen delegates from that county would be on hand, and Douglas county I8 ex- pected to send o great majority of its delegation. The Indications are be no friction at all the only chance for over the delinquent of the state affairs. that Is remote. The resolutions will probably be referred to a committee, and tonight 1t is anfici- pated that several bouquets will he dls- tributed in the resolutions, and that the convention will have no serious differences over the adoption. tonight there win in the convention, any ruction being assessments of some But a fight over ‘Whedon Will Prestde, C. O. Whedon has been selected chatr- mand and J. M. O'Nelll secretary of the convention, and no doubt this organiza- tlon will be made permanent. The new state committee will be selected tomorrow and it will hold & meeting to- morrow night, and It may select a chalr- man at that meeting, after a consulta- tion with the various candidates. Both the republican and the democratic conventions will be free from any requests from the Nebraska Temperance union. The executive committee of this new organiza- tion met tonight and passed a resolution that it would not ask any conventlon to take a stand on the liquor question this year, but next year it expected each po- litical party to endorse county option in its platform. The Douglas delegation will meet at the Lincoln hotel at U o'clock in the morning and organize. Few Democrats in Town. James Brady of Boone county and four others from Boone and John M. Gilchrist of Omaha tonight represent the delegates to the democratic state convention to be = e THEY'RE OFF! B ank Cashier Steals Large Sum and Flees Leaves Note Saying He Has Gone Forever and Slips Quietly Away. TIPTON, Ind, July 3.—The First Na- tional bank of this city, one of the old financial institutions of northern Indiana, 18 closed and its assistant cashier, Noah R. Marker, has disappeared, taking with him between 350,000 and $60,000, which was all the cash that was in the bank's vaults at the close of business last Saturday afternoon. Marker, after sweeping together the money, set the time lock on the safe so that it could not be opened until 9 o'clock this morning, and left the city on a trac- tion car for Indianapolls at 8 o'clock | Saturday evening, telling his wite that he would spend Sunday with his father and mother in Indlanapolls. Nothing more has been heard from him here. Marker left a note ‘on the desk of his brother, Willlam Marker, cashler of the bank, saying that he had gone forever, and that he had taken enough money to pay his expenses. The fact that he had emptied the cash box of nearly $00,00 was not known until the time loek gave admittance to the vault this morning. Whether or not Marker had previously taken money from the bank's funds, and had covered up the defalcations by making | false entries In the books, cannot be| known until the arrival of a national bank | examiner. The directors of the bank to- | day decided to suspend the bank's opera- tion until the bank examiner shall have taken charge of the books. Marker had been connected with the bank nineteen years. He was the repub- lican candidate for mayor of the city four years ago, ayd was defeated. He was an| active church member. He is 8 years old, and has a wife and two children. Collector Loeb ‘ Lays Down Law 6BJECT T0 OCCUPATION TAX Corporations Appear Before Council and ask Modifications. PASTEURIZED MILK UP AGAIN Arguments on Both Sides Listened to and Matter Put Off Until Next Week When it May HBe Settled. Public service franchised will not accept the new occupation tax| without demurrer. Representatives of two corporations™ APPEAYEY ~ before—the clty council committee of the whole Monday atternoon to protest against the ordinances as drawn and amended, and & representa- tive of a third appeared to ask that the ordinances be put over for another week. Judge Ben S. Baker appeared for the Independent Telephone company and alleged discrimination. Attorney Edgar Morsman appeared for the Nebraska Tele- phone company, with the assertion that the clty has no right to place a tax on toll sorvice. President G. W. Wattles ap- peared for the Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Rallway company, and asked that action be deferred for one week. The cpuncil listened to the omissaries trom the corporations, but took no action, Councliman Berka, chairman of the ju- diclary committee, having charge of the ordinance, said that the city attorney, to whom they were referred, would be un- able to have the measures In shape be- fore Tuesday evening of next week. At that time they will come up for final passage. Lewis Pleads for Street Railway. This brought forth objections from §. Arfon Lewls, who sald he represented the West Leavenworth Improvement club. Mr Lewls sald he wished to be heard again before the ordinances were to come up for final passage, and when Chalrman Funk- houser eaid that now wes the time, he asked that leniency be shown the street rallway company. He sald that he was | afraid that if the ordinances were passed | state capltol, where the with the 3 per cent tax provision the com- | pany would not bulld the extension to Elmwood park, and asked that the council walt until the extension is bullt Councliman Bridges replied to this re- “There Will Be no More Kow-towing | to the Rich,” He Declares | Firmly. | | NEW YORK, July 26.—'“There will be no | | quest by reminding Mr. Lewis that the tension to certaln members of the last legislature, providing they would defeat the amendment to the charter compelling | the company to pave streets between the| aiso in session he tracks. out and built, argued This charter amendment was cut therefore the extension will the councliman. Further i COPY TWO (I corporations | be | WEATHER FORECAST, For Nebraska—Local showers, For lowa—Local showers. For weather report see page 2 NTS 'BATTLE RESUMED WITH THE MOORS Spanish Forces Under General Marina Again Attack Moorish Tribesmen, RIGID PRESS CENSORSHIP |Madrid Newspapers Must Submit Their Dispatches to Military. BAD QUARTERMASTER SERVICE Spaniards Were Badly Handicappe( in Fight of July 23. SOLDIERS EXHIBIT BRAVERY Only Their rage lamitous Disaster—Madrid Greatly Disturbed Over War £l & Prevented Ca. tion. MADRID, Spanish July % —Fighting betwaen the forces under General Marina and |Moorish tribesmen was resumed outside ot | Meltlla at 9 o'clock last night General Linares, minister of war. Interview today announced that the | bilization of Spanish troops would soon | reach 24.000, thereby bringing General Ma rina's effective force up to 40,00 men, but account of the extent of territory on the RIff coast to be covered he considered it doubtful whether that number would suffice, and conkequendly the formation of new brigades would continue. General Orogo's division and the Gibraltar brigade | will leave here today for the Riff coast General Linares declares General Marina enjoyed the full confidence of the govern- ment and that he would remain in com- |mand and be glven every man he asked for. in an mo. on Rigld Press Censorship. The Madrid newspapers have been no- tified that hereafter they will not be al- lowed to print special dispatches from the seat of war until thelr accuracy has been confirmed by the general staff. Foreign correspondents are forbldden to telegrapk any except official news. The government denfes it Intends to sus pend the constitutional guarantees in Cata- lonia and other provinces. BARCELONA, via the Frontier, July 2. —~In order to prevent further anti-war manifestations, the police and & mounted clvil guard are patrolling the streets with orders to disperse crowds by force. Quartermaster Serviece Poer. HENDAYE, France, July %.—A minla- terfal circular has reached the Spanish | provincial governors, instruoting them to stop all communications for the interior or abroad relating to military operations and movements of troops. The governors are also reported ordered to suppress pop- ular manifestations. All suspicious dls- patches are held up. The entire liberal | press s protesting agaiust these measures. | Mafl advices received here from Madrid say that the quartermaster's servios during "the fighting outside Melilla July 2 was defective. The troops repeatedly ram out of ammunition and were forced to fall back. The battery was useless and mo- mentarily fell into the enemy's hands. Only | the bravery of the men, who fought with bayonets and clubbed muskets, prevented a disaster. The Heraldo Intimates that | the state of slege will be extended to | other Spanish provinces. Great excite- ment and apprehension are reported at Madria. BARCELO! A, July %.—A general strike was declared here today as a& protest | against the Spanish-Moroccan war. The | government replied by proclaiming a state of siege, which 18 equivalent to martial .aw. \ |Riot Call Ends Colored Convention Brothers of Friendship Tries to Hold Convention at St. Paul, but Factions Fight, ‘ ST. PAUL, Minn., July 2.—Bitterness be- tween factions resulted in a riot when the | Brothers of Friendship, a colored organisa- tion attempted to begin its annual national | convention here this morning. Both fac- | tions tried to obtain possession of the old meetings were scheduled to be held, and there was & hand-to-hand conflict on the steps. A riot call was sent In and police reserves and | an ambulance were sent to the scene. The police s0on quelled the riot, which was bloodless, and Walter M. Farmer of | street rallway company promised this ex-|Illinols, claimant of the title of grand | master of the organization, The order is now in session. The Sisters of the Mysterious Ten are re. was ejected. | EDITOR IS FOUND DYING graduate and late secretary of the repub- |held tomorrow. Judge George P. Loomis | MOTe kow-towing to the rich by the customs | o nises from the company would avail B / against 16 per cent In both the house and| CHICAGO, July %6.—The body of a well nate bills. | @ressed man which was taken from the| Boots and shoes, 10 per cent, as against | drainage canal today, led the police to % per cent In the house bill and 20 per | think for a time that they had solved the oent in the senate bill. problem of the whereabouts of Joseph R | Saddlery and harness 2 per cent, as| sgainst ® per cent in the house bill and 40 per cent in the senate bill. According to Seoator Warren, the story | that beef packers are engaging extensively | o the tanning business, and will be the| principal beneflolaries of a duty on hides, has been used by the “free hide lobby” in manufacturing sentiment againet the pro tection esked by the cattle industry. He submitted figures to Senator Aldrich to be used in refuting this argument. Mr. War- ren declared that the three largest packers in the United States annually tan 1.363.60 hides, which, he said, is only 7 per cent of the, entire domestic production. He denied that the beof packers are able to control the leather marke Opposition to Free Hides. mm\w‘ Who were entrusted with the of canvessing the senate, reported to- day that it would be Impossible to adopt & report providing for free hides. Tiese senators conferred with some of the house | leaders, and were informed that under | Present conditions It s Just as \mpossibl to pass & report through the house with- out free hides. This Information was cow- municated 10 the conferees and convinced them hat it would be futile to spend any more Wme trying to reach an agreement, uniess goncessions were made to the cattle interests in the form of reductions in leather. According to the leaders tonight the plan ——ee | Clarkson, former judge of Kenosha, Wis., who hi been missing for several days. Friends of Clarkson's hurried to the| morgue tonight, and after viewing the body, declared that It was not that of| Clarkson. lican courfty committee of Saunders county The senate today confirmed the nomin: tion of Ferd Reichmann to be postmaster | at Dallas, 8. D, George M. Nattinger of Omaha and R M. Gillan of Auburn arrived in Washing- | ton today, en route to the annual conven- tion of bullding and loan associations to | be held in Philadeiphia this weel. (Continued on Second Puge. ) | Are the democrats of Douglas county in of court? contempt Mayor Dahlman says he does not know | and does not care, Assistaat City Attorney ! Dunn says he hopes 80, and Comptroller | Lobeck says he thinks contempt proceed- | ings would stand. Boss Flynn says he is| not worrylng in the least, as he did not| vote for the resolutions adopted Saturday | by the democrats In eounty cenveation. These resolutions “deplored the unseemly action of judges of the supreme ocourt' in holding the “noupartisan” judiclary law unconstitutional, this rullng being termed by the democreis &8 an attempt to over- | throw the will of the people. The resolu tions contain the statement that the judges | themeelves each has an interest of $27,000 in the outcome of the election and the (Continued ou Bevond Pags) ruling nullifies & law “demanded by the| Local Democra State Supreme Court | all complicity, us I had nothing to do with | the resclution and 44 not vote either ts Defy people and calculated to elevate the dig- nity, honor and usefulness of the courts.” “I don't know whether the resolutions we adopted are In contempt of the su- preme court and I don't care, either,” sald | Mayor Dahlman. “I had & hand in It, and will be in Lincoln Tuesday and would just 8s soon be haled up for coatempt pro- ceedings as not." Assistant City Attorney Dunn sald: T hope we are in contempt, for then it would help the party. I would like to see them arrest the entire county delegation when it arrives in Lincoln to attend the conven- tion. They ought to have John Reagan there to prosecute’ “None of this martyr business for me," sald Boss Fiynn. “I wash my hands of way." | probably win has been selected temporary chalrman, and | it he gets to town he probably will also serve as permanent chairman Senator Hrady and Mr. Gilchrist were {unable to say what would happen at the convention tomorrow other than it would be peaceful and quiet and harmonious. The democrats’ may have a hard fight over the selection of a chairman of the ate committee because many of the members of the party are anxious for Tom Allen to let loose, and Mr. Allen has signi tied that he is anxious to retire. The job be offered to Chris. Gruen- request of Governor Shallen- ther at berger. the There are as many little ads under the head of ‘*‘Annouce- ments,” as there are big ads in the whole paper. Don’t overlook them if you are a close buyer or if you want to be well posted as to the best places to buy. Have you read the want ads yet today? agents of this port,” announced Collector | Wiltam Loeb, jr., today, “no more skip- | through-easy subserviency. Heretofore the | poor school teacher who had taken a frugal |trip abroad has had all the worst of it, are going to have more revenus and { tewer disgruntled citizens." Py placing customs desks on both pas- senger decks of incoming liners, instead of only one, as formerly. Mr. Loeb was | recently able to clear the Lusitania in one hour, ageinst & past average of three, and he says ho expects eventually to cut the time to thirty minutes. 1 feel proud,” he added. ‘“that we have lessened the clearing time thirds, we have increased the customs re- celpts 100 per cent.” |but trom now on we | quicker clearances, on while two- he said. Pastuertsed Milk. The counell tackled the pasteurized milk problem again, but after listening to long nothing, Oklahoma Newspaper Man Wounded Mysteriously in Office at Tulas, TULSA, Okl, July 26.—Mark Bassett, arguments from both sides, postponed| .y, o¢' the Datly News, who was found p -| - ::“" “.“‘“ next week. A resolution pre-| . ;. 404 in a printing office here yester- | valled that no arguments be recelved at day, was still unconsclous today His | the mext meeting, but that the council bef o B S TP e polt left free to thresh out the question alone.| U 0 OB R B O rassett At The council voted to allow City Klec uiclde o ttacked by mome trictan Michaelsen & third assistant in.|'mPted sulclde or was attacked by | with murderous intent. There secms | spector during the busy season. The| o WIT TArTAreRs TIPS | electrician showed the council that his de- | @ A0%e N k partment is self-sustaining, that about 50 more inspections were made during the| AVIATORS ~ARE DECORATED first six months of 1%9 than during the same period last year, and that it is im-| Wright Brothers possible to get over the ground with only Recognized by L Honor, July ~Orville and Wilbur a one (Continued on Second Page.) NAIROBI, British East Africa, July 2.—) | Colonel Roosevelt and his son Kermit have | | accepted & number of dinner engagements |in their honor for the next ten days. On | July 3 Mr. Roosevelt and Kermit will dine | with the stewards of the East African Turf club. Kermit has secured several mounts In the races to be run here on Thursday and Saturday The Roosevelt party will leave rob: Dinner Dates and Races Occupy Time of Roosevelts PARIS, Wright, the American aeroplanists of Day- ton, O., and Henry Farnam, the Hnglish aeronaut, were today decorated with the | Legion of Honor for their achievements in aviation. Hart O. Berg, the European busi- ness manager of the Wright brothers, and Alberto Santos-Dumont, the Brasillan | aeronaut promoted to officers of the August § for Nalvasha, & stop being made | Legion of Honor at Kijabe, forty-four miles northwest ot this town, where Mr. Roosevelt will lay | PENSION FOR the foundation stone of a new bullding to | be erected by the African Inland mission, | Perstan an American organization. | Anauity Edmund Heller, the soologist of Roosevelt expedition, arrived here this | morning with specimens obtained by the expedition on the shore of Lake Naivasha. The collection will be packed here and for warded to the Smithsonian lnstitution. were FORMER SHAH ent Offers Ex-Rulew of 825,000 tor Lew ing Country. Gover the TEHERAN, July 26.—~The new Perslan | government 18 prepared to offer Moham- med All Mirzs, the ex-shah of Persia, an | annusl pepsion of 35,00 on conditien that | he leaves Persia without delay,