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

\ o N 4 L O!‘ [N THE OMAHA BEE goea to the homes—is read by the Women-—sells goods for advertisers. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE VOL. XXXIX—NO. OMAHA, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 12, 1909—TWELVE PAGES. NAGEL TALKS OF NATURALIZATION Secretary Does Not Agree with Posi- tion Assumed by Head of the Division. DUTY IS TO PRESENT FACTS Office Not Concerned with Interpret- ation of the Law. \ MATTER IS FOR THE COURTS Number of Decisions Made Favorable to Admission of Syrians, COMMANTZ, % SURGEON SOLACE Seeretary Meyer Settl Over, De: soversy from Medienl Co ‘ary | And | - Y etfect WASHINGTON, Nov, Nagel of the Department of ( Labor expressed himsclf today Ject of the functions of the nal division of that department to quite differéfit from that embodied in the | Campbell, | recent ruling of Richard K. chief of that division, In opposition to the naturalization of Syrfans and others of kindred race. Mr, Nagel sald he saw no reason for any action on the part of the department that would cause uneasiness to any fmmigrants, There art several cases in the federal courts and decisions have been rendered | in siates as widely apart as Californla, Loutslana and Rhod Island, favorable to the Syrian: Secretary Nagel belleves that the per- sonal character of the applicant for clti- zenship {s more important than his nation- ality, Cones of 8 nded Offielnls. The case of the suspended officlals of the United States coast and geodedic sur- vey—Assistant Superintendent Frank W. Perkins and John "Gilbert, the hydro- graphic and topographle inspecto) cha:ged with Irregdlarities in administra- | tive methods—was today referred by Sece- retary of Commerce and'Labor Nagel to Superintendent Titiman for report and | recommendations, | This aetion is In accord with Mr. Nagel's | rule not to Interfere in the organtzation | ot a buberu without consulting the chiet responsible to the department. Dr. Tittman was' away at the time Act- ing Secretary MoHarg suspended the two officials and Auring most of the perfod of the investigation to leading to that action and has had no opportunity to officlally express hlmself in the matter. Mr. Nagel | bas alrcady. review the evidence in the | case. Surgeon Will Com: Solace. Secretary of the Navy Meyer today set- tied the controversy as to whether a line officer or a medical officer shall be placed in commmana’ of the hospital ship Sdlace, by A8stgnating Surgeon George Plckrel of the medical corps to command the vessel. The navigation of the ship will be In charge of & merchant salling muster. In reach- ing this decision Secretary Meyer adhered to the policy of the Roosevelt adminis- tration ‘Which stirred up much criticlsm from line officers. Search for Stolen Ca Efforts are being made by the Postoffice department Yo locate the fifteen letters contalning pald money orders and about $L500 in cash that disappeared last Monday from the desk of H. L. Johnson, superin- tendent of the money order division of the Washington clty postoffice. As the time of the theft Is well known it is belleved it will not be difficult to fix the muilt upon someone who wsa known to be In the superintendent's office when the pack- age disappeared. Ballinger Sees Taft. ‘The Glavis charges, bearing on the at- titude of the Interfor department towards the Alaska coal lands, were brought to the attention of President Taft today by Secretary Ballinger, The results, If any were not disclosed, | the secretary dedlaring as he was leaving I|husband, Adolphe Steinhel, | tlon na: | previous e \ o) T.nul Ship's 37 lwas mat nating Comi | ot passion she cried | tion, promptly and sternly replied: class of | :I'hre?;t_s t;) Open Door to Scandal by Mme. Steinheil | Alleged Murdress Declares She Will Involve Persons of High Standing. PARIS, Nov. 11.—The state at 2 o'clock | thds afternoon rested its case against Mme Steinhetl, murder of her and her step- mother, Mme. Japy, and the defense at once began the examination of fts wit- nessecs. The popular opinfon is that the prosecu- not made out a case against the priconcr and that she will be acquitted by the jury. Just as the prosecution evidence the prisoner renewed the implied threat she had several times made to broach scandal that would involve persons of high standing, but again, as on the oceasions, Judge DeValles' Invi- with her ‘revelations’ Today in a flash “My past con- accused of the tatlon to proceed with silence. out tains interesting chapters, Judge Dealles, unmoved by the Interrup- “You at perfect liberty to anything that ou please.” Mme, Steinhefl, however, went no further, and the case of the government was de- clared closcd The first witness iptroduced by the de- |tense was a chauffeur, Mme. Steinheil gave him $4 for trying to |locate the “blue automobile” which was re- ported to have been seen Steinhell home in the Impasse Ronsin at § o'elock on the evening of the crime. This testimony was intended to show that Mme. Steinhell was anxious to discover | the identity of the assassin: Twin Cities After Indian Purchase Station They May Try to Get Depot from Chi- cago or Omaha or a New One. ST. PAUL, Nov. 1L—(Special)~St. Paul and Minneapolls jobbers are organizing to secure a larger portion of the trade of the Indian bureau. A meeting of prominent business men of the two citles has just been held, at which it was decided to present a petition to the Indian bureau to establish a depot rt the Twin Cities, and it this could not be brought about at least to secure to loca- tlon here of a purchasing agent with whom they could deal direct and to whom they could make dellveries. Some of the strong- est men in the two cities have been named on this committee and they are busy pre- paring data of the amount of supplies used annually In territory which they hold is naturally tributary to the Twin Cities, and also to make a showing of the distribution facilities of the cities. They have not yet definitely decided whether. theys. will ask for the removal of the Qmaha or, Chicago depots to this point’ or simply the estab- lishment of an additional depet here. There can be no doubt, however, that they pro- pose to make a determined effort to secure now golng to Omaha and Chicago jobbers and to which they are entitled. The movement has not progressed far enough yet to line up political influences in its behalf, but an effort in that direction will follow within a few days In addition the wholesalers of the two cities wiil ask the bureau to modify Its sys- tem of delivery and of payment, which they insist are onerous and practically pro- hibit anyone outside of a supply depot city from bidding on supplles. {Young Morton’s Engagement Off | Roller Skating Romance of Son of Joy Morton Apparently Comes to End. the White House that he had nothing to say. Reorganizing Navy Yards. Assured of presidentlal approval of his general plans for the reorganization of the navy yards and the bureaus of the avy department Secretary Meyer today began In earnest to work out the detalls. These he will make publie in a few days. BRINK IS FOUND GUILTY Convieted of Murder in Case Where Three Sheepmen Were Killea. BASIN, Wyo, Nov. 1L—(Special Tele- gram.)—For the first time in the history of range feuds in Wyoming, a conviction was obtained in a murder charge when the Brink jury this morning presented a ver- dict finding the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree, punishable with death. Presentation of the finding marked the end of the firft of five murder cases growing | out of the traglc Spring Creek rald April 2, last, In which Joseph Allemand and Joseph Emge, flock masters, and Jules Lazler, a herder, were killed, it Is charged, by a band of night-riding cattlemen. Today & jury was completed and the trial of Thomas Dixon on a charge similar to that on which Brink was convicted will begin. Two jurymen examined for service in the trial were excused by the court be- cause they declared they were biased in favor of the defendants and would not bring in.a verdict of gullty. The Brink calle’ went to the jury at 6 o'clock last night and it was considerably after midnight when an agreement was reached. According to reports, the first bullot stood eight for conviction and, as charged In the information, two stood for a secoud degree tinding and two for acquittal. GOTHAM IN ICY GRIP ¥s Trust Wouldn't of lceberg in Harbor, NEW ¥YORK, Nov. 11 want to show that the American Ice company has tight- ened its grip on the ice market so jhat even if & b man moved an iceberg Prosecutor Permit Sa 1L, Nov, 1lL.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Miss Hilda Bull, who returned recently from the east, where she sjent the summer; caused a flutter in local | soclety, when she yesterday announced that | her marriage to Sterling Morton, son of {Mr. and Mrs. Joy Morton, had been in- | definitely postponed. “Please say that the marriage has been | indetinitely postponed,” she sald. No reason was given for the postponment, The engagment which was the culmination of a romance of a roller skating club which met every week on the North side during lent lest year, was announced last spring. LUMBER COMPANY OBJECTS | musesatve wrst ht Rates Alleged to Be Charged by Milwaukee | Ratlroad. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Nov. IL—(Special Tele- | gram.)—The Fullerton Lumber company of South Dakota today filed complaint against the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, the Stanley, Merrill & Phillips and the Duluth & Iron Mountain Rallway companies, alleg ing excessive freight charges on shipments of lumber over the defendant rallroads and | demanding reparation in the sum of $576. | cHIcaGo, closing its who testified that | In front of the | some of this business which they think Is| BANDIT KILLS BANK CASHIER Man Who Tried to Rob Institution at New Albany Also Shoots President. |LATTER DANGEROUSLY WOUND: Negro Chauffeur Who Refused to Aid Him Shot in Back. MAKES ESCAPE IN SKIFF He is Soon Overhauled by Police in Motor Boat. OFFICER = AVERTS LYNCHING Mob Which Prisoner thered on Bank is Told s Dead—Partly Iden- tiffed as Loutsville Furni- ture Dealer. LOUISVILLE, Ky. Nov. 1L.—I. Garry Fawcett, cashier of the Merchants Na- tional bank of New Albany, Ind., was killed, John K. Waodward, president of the | bank, was dangerously wounded and James R. Tucker, a negro chauffeur of Loulsville, | was fatally wounded this mornisg when a voung man, partially identified as Arthur Hall, a Loulsville dealer in second-hand furniture, entered the bank and after com- manding everyone to throw up his hands “and get In the vault” began shooting. Mr. Fawcett died almost instantly atter being shot through the neck and chest. Woodward was shot through the liver and intestines an1 Tucker was shot through | the body and may dle. Following the shooting the murderer rushed from the bank and tried to make his escape in an automobile which he had taken from the eurb in front of the resi- dence of its owner, Mrs, Walter Eecott, in Loulsville, forcing the negro chautfeur at the point of a gun to drive him to New Albany. But the chauffeur, paralyzed with terror and apparently incapable of action, sat still. The robber jumped from the car and sent a bullet through the negro's body. Turning to the river bank a distance per- haps of two blocks, the youth ran with the speed of a deer. He quickly appropriated | a skiff at the dock and was on his way to | the Kentucky side before the frightened citizens of New Albany knew what had transpired. Police Capture Man. An alarm was given through a me phone on a dredge boat and in a short time the police of the little city had started in pursult In & fast motor boat, capturing thelr man, and had brought him to shore only to confront the new peril of a lynch- ing. | By a clever ruse, however, Captain Adams of the police stood off the crowd of 200 which crowded around the dock as the police boat landed. Commanding the pris- oner to lle down the captain announced to the crowd that the man had taken polson and was dead, meanwhile carrying him to the patrol wagon and giving the word to arive ahead. & ‘bandit was ‘taken to the New Albany jall, A few moments later he removed to the southern Indlana re- formatory at Jeffersonville to escape the mob, which would not be quieted and which had assembled around the jail. In his cell at the reformatory the pris- oner refused to give his name and talked only under pressure. He said that he had been around Louisville for several days. | He aid not know Tucker, the chauffeur, | and declared that he was not implicated in the attempt on the bank. Refuses to Tell Name. “I won't tell my name. I have seven brothers and sisters. My father don't live with my mother and all of them are not within 600 miles of this place. | “I never smoked a cigarette, chewed nor | drank. Oh, yes, I smoked a cigar in Cov- ington ten years ago, but never agaln. 1| never was in trouble but once. That was | at Lexington, Ky., on Hallowe'en a long time ago." He seemed to be confused, but is appar- | ently not insane, He confessed that he! planned the robbery of the bank and says {1907, and by way of/information went into | why From the Washingtaon Star. Some Prize Varieties in the 1909 National ‘““Mum’’ Show. AMERICAN SYSTEM OF MONEY Senator Aldrich Addresses Des Moines Bankers on Currency Reform. Submarine Quake May Have Stopped West India Cable Communication is Interrupted with Kingston Since Big Storm in Islands. COMMERCIAL PAPER IN EUROPE Methods of Foreigners, € Adopted by United States Bees e of Conditions. -~ WASHINGTON, Nov. 1lL.—Weather re- ports from Kingston, Jamalca, which the weather bureau here usually receive daily, have falled to come from the West In- dian island since last Saturday, and the officials of the service Have been without Information resarding what has oceurred there since that time, There has been no general topfe diis- turbances indicated in the reports to the weather bureau from points in the other West indlan lslands and the weather bureau officlals are inclined to belleve that some submarine earthquake has caused the Interruption to the cables. No earthquake of any magnitude, however, has been recorded on the selsmographs of the weather bureau, or the coast and geodetle survey here. HALIFAX, N. 8, Nov. 1L.—Communica- tion with Jamalea by the cables coming to this port s still cut off. Officlals of the cable compantes sald today they hoped to Ye able to get some word through from the sland before night. DES MOINES, Ia., Noy, 1L.—Senator Ald- rich talked here tonight to the local bankers' club, He again Wiscussél the ne- cessity for the reforma #he banking and currency laws withythe end in view o fpreventing future «panies like ‘that of details concerning the aperations of cen- tral banks In the countries of Europe. This bein gthe home of Senator Cummins, it had been expected that Mr. Aldrich would make some reference to that gentle- man, who has shown an Inclination to an- tagonize his policies, but If anything un- complimentary was anticipated by any persons they were dlssapointed. The il- lusion to Mr, Cummins was courteous, and being made in connection with a mention of the name of ‘the late Senator Allison it could not have aroused any but the kindest feelings. Mr. Aldrich was the guest of honor at a bankers' dinner, which was given at the Savery hotel. J. G. Round, president of the club, presided and Introduced the Rhode Island senator, whose reception was most cordial. In his address here, Mr. Aldrich spoke especially of the growing importance of the west as affording the best reason the people of Towa should desire a Grey Noncommittal On Tariff Program Canadian Governor General Opens he had no assistance. The most striking thing about the bandit is his good looks and his red hair, which is neatly cut. His face is effeminate. He is not over 20 years old, five feet six Inches | tall, wears a lemon-colored shirt with col- | lar attached, black four-in-hand tle, dark | trousers and a belt. Roosevelt Rumor Declared False Word from Supply Agents Says the Former President and Party Are Well. NAKURU, Nalvasha Province, East Africa, Nov. 1L—The supply agents for the American expecition at Narob! state that there is absolutely no truth in the rumor recently circulated that Colonel Roosevelt was {ll. All of the members of the party are now on Guas Ingishu plateau and well, the agents say. British | to them to join with him In devising a plan | table bank! system an d . . v i evisinaTheale’ Parliament with Plea for Do- that wou!d place the United States in ad- “minion Navy. vance of all other nations as a financla! center. Here he gave somewhat more at- tention than elsewhere to the important part that commereinl paper plays In the banking systems of the old world. This, he explained. was not done for the purpose of urging the adoption of the European plan in the United States, but to Indicate A possible means: of Increasing eredit In case it should be found desirable to go abroad for suggestions looking to an Im- prvement of our monetary system. Commerc! Paper Abroad. In the course of his discussion of this feature of forelgn banking Mr. Aldrich sald: OTTAWA, Ont, Nov. 11.—The second session of the eleventh Parliament opened today. The governor-general, Earl Grey, read the speech, by Sir Wiltrid Laurler's government in the Joint resolution of Parliament adopted last sesslon regarding naval defense, Wwhich simply enunciates the necessity for Can- ada undertaking a share In the empire's naval defense, maintalning autonomous control of its own navy, but working in barmony with the imperial navy. No definite answer was made as to The speech reaffirmed the position taken | R, BRYAN DECLINES TOTALR Run for Senator, FEAR OF DEFEAT CONFRONTS HIM Recent Conferences Before He Leaves for South America Full of Dem- ocratic Import—Howard to Front. (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Nov. 1L.—(Special.)—Demo- cratic leaders are demanding of Bryan that {he pay whether he intends to be a candi- date for the United States senate. have demanded of him an answer—yes or no, The question was put to him yesterday ahd Mr. Bryan answered equivocally. He sdid he would not be a candidate unless there was a demand for him to run. And the Commoner mail is being flooded with | letters requesting that he be a capdidate. Gilbert M. Hitchcock, through fn agent, has asked the question; W. of Grand Island tried to find out through Edgar Howard, and Governor Shallenberger, through his friends, has sought In vain for the answer. To each and every the presidential candidate has given the same answer: make the race, I will not refuse to accept the nomination.” Mr. Bryan does not intend to enter the race unless he is reasonably sure that he can be elected. He fears defeat. To friends he has indicated that defeat for the sena- torship would be his everlasting undoing | from a political stapdpoint. But he is so | anxtous for the office he will not say posi- tively that he will not be a candidate. Holds Many Conferences. | So in order to be in u position to make the race, If he decides to-do so on his own platform, he has been holding some important conferences. Personally he de- sires to run on a platform committed to county option, but he has thus far been | unable to convince Governor Shallenberger, | Mayor Dahlman or Edgar Howard that is & wise move. A1id while Mr. Bryan is trying to get the party leaders to act harmoniously on the | liquor question, the party leaders are try- Ing to get him to come to a decision on the senatorial matter. Here Is what the would-be candidates are up against: Mr. | Hitehcock 1s a provisional candidate, so one He Avoids Saying Whether He Will | They | on the heels of that answer comes the talk | put in circulation by Bryan followers that | H. Thompson “If there is & demand for me to| WEATHFR FORECAST. For Nebraska-— Fair: colder. For lowa—Fair: colder For weather report see page 3. cory TwWO CEN S, FIVE ROBBERS FOUND GUILTY Jury in Federal Court Convicts Over- land Limited Train Holdups After Two Hours of Deliberation. LIFE SENTENCE STARES THEM ALL Extreme Punishment Must Be Meted Out to Quintet. CONVICTED ON ALL THREE COUNTS No Need for Idaho Authorities to Rearrest Bill Matthews, | FIFTY DEPUTIES WATCH FIVE Extreme Precautions Taken to Guard Bandits Who Are Brought Back Jat Hear Pro- nouncement by Jury. from to in the indictment re. five mall robbers w Jury in the Overlan¢ case last night al Gullty turned against the verdict of Limited mail 8:15 o'clock The jury went out at 4:30 yesterday aft ernoon and after a short session adjournse to dinner, returning to the jury room at i o'clock and at 7:15 reached an unanimous jct of guilty as to each of the de fendants on all three counts of the indlot- ment. The penalty Is life imprisonment The convicted men are D, W, Woods, Willlam Matthews, Lawrence J. oGlden, Frank Grigware and Fred Torgenson. So ecarly a verdict was hardly expected, and excepting District Attorney Goss, As- stant District Attorney Lane and Judge T. C. Munger none Of the other lawyers was about the building and had to be tele- phoned for. The accused men were hurriedly sent for and were brought into court under a strong guard of deputies and officers. ‘The rumor that the jury had reached a verdict spread rapldly and a fair-sized crowd began as- sembling when the prisoners reached the bullding. The jurors then filed in and were asked by Judge Munger If they had reached a verdict. Foreman J. G. Rob- ertson replied In the affirmative and the | verdiét was handed to Judge Munger to see If it were in proper form. He then handed the verdiot to District Clerk Hoyt, who read the verdict deolaiing cach of the men gullty of each count of the indictment. Judge Munger asked the jurors It this was their true and unani- mous verdict and they replled that it was. New Trial Will Be Asked, Attorney MacFarland, on behalf of de- fendants Torgenson, Woods, Grigware and Golden, gave notice that he would file a motion for a new trial. Mr. Fleharty, for Matthews, made a similar announcemerit. The court sald that the government wag anxlous to finish up the case and that he would expcet the attorneys for the con- victed men to file thelr motion as early a spracticable, and ggve them untll this | morning at 9 o'clock th filé thé motion. The convicted men took the verdict |ealmly, but on the face of cach was an expression of bitter disappointment. Golden remarked ax he stood up to have the | handeuffs placed on him again: “Well they jobbed me sure enough.'” While in the United States marshal's of- | fice, before being returned to the jall, | Woods observed, with a snarl: “Well, they ! would have hanged us if they could.” Matthews, Torgenson and Grigware had | nothing to say. | Grigware's brother, Edward Grigware | trom Spokane, was in the court room when [the verdict was returned, but Mr. Grig- ware, the father of Frank, was not there, Elaborate precautions to guard the pris- | oners were taken. Fifty deputies. crowded tha corrldors to prevent any overt act | elther on the part of the men of by friends | outside, as found the the robbery | ldaho Officers Ready, | There was some little speculation | to the provabliity of Matthews being found gullty on all counts, but even had he es- caped conviction he would have been Im- mediately arrested by Sheriff Felix M. Pugh of €pokane, as a fugitive from jus- tice, for fleeing under a $5.000 bond for cattle stealing. Sheriff Pugh had a bench warrant ready to serve immediately, should Matthews have been rel wed, “Matthews and T are old acquaintances, sald Sheriff Pugh. “We had a little shoot- Ing scrape nineteen years ago in Washing- ton. 1 was after him and his pal, John Miles. I haed the men cornered and we | began shooting. 1 shot Matthews through the arm twice, and he got me once in the |1eg. Miles was burled. Matthews got away. 1 was after him for horse stealll He is one of the most desperate men in the west and we are gl to get rid of him. “In Germany all notes, taxed or untaxed, must be covered by an amount of specie equal to one-third of the total issue, and an amount of bankable bills equal to the other two-thirds. Those bills are what we would call commercial paper. They must bear the names of two solvent parties, and must not run for more than ninety days to answer the standard fixed for bankable NAPLES, Nov. 1L.—Mrs. Theodore Roose- velt and her daughter, Ethel, motored to- | day to the village of Sant Agnello, near| Sorrento, where they visited at the home | of the late F. Marion, Crawford, Mrs.| Roosevelt sald that she would return here | in the spring to meet Colonel Roosevelt. Eleven Ho;nes Willam Decker for no reason does not want his 10-year-old son, David Decker, but there are at least eleven other men or women willing and eager to give the boy a home. Ten applications to adopt the lad have been made either to Judge Estelle, Proba- tlon Officer Bernstetn or Miss Heller, prin- cipal of the Detention home, Judge Estelle had three letters, one caller at his office and one long distance phone call about the boy, all Thursday morning. Miss Irene Mason, formerly & nurse at the Child Saving Institute wrote Judge Estelle that she was now living with her mother on & ranch on the Niobrara, that into New ¥ bor he wouldn't get a chance to sell & pound,” was the rejoinder Of Special Prosecutor James W. Osborne today to objection by counsel for the Amer- fean Ige company to his line of questioning witness at the trial for alleged violation ‘,_uu state anti-monopoly law. they had adopted one infant and wished to take David Decker, too. Mrs. Fred Ellis »f North Bend wrote that she would like to take the boy and so did Lawrence Gris of St. Edward. Next a South Omaha woman, who did not give her name, called and asked where she could see the boy, Whom Father Has Spurned | proximation Open to Boy saying that If he was attractive in appear- ance-as the child indisputably is—she would ask to have him given her. Judge Estelle had hardly ushered her to the door when the telephone rang and Thomas Head of Pender put In an application Meanwhile inquirles were being received by Miss Heller and Mogy Bernstein, three each, making a total of eleven applications The matter has not been decided and the boy will be given to the person whom Rev. A. W, Clark of the Child Saving Institute selects, subject to the approval of Judge Estelle. “These appiications rather quicken one's faith in hunian nature” said the judge “When a man is so unnatural as Willlam Decker it shocks everyone, but the fact that there are so many warm-hearted and kindly people who wish to adopt the boy is positively spiritually refreshing “David Decker will have & home, all bills. In France they have a provision that what are bankable bills there must bear thetr names and must be written the same limit as to time as the German bills “In Great Britain the custom is to. re-! quire two names of English citizens, one of | whom must be acceptor. Of course you are aware of the difference in terminology | of our commercial paper and theirs. Our | people use promissory elther with a siogle name or with endorsers. No such | thing as a promissory note is known in| the ordinary experience of any of those | eountries. They do give a form of obliga- | tion with mortgages, and sometimes with | collateral, which I8 perhaps the closest ap- | to our form of promissory | note. There, If a wholesaler sells a re- | taller goods of gny kind, or a dealer, wholesale or retail sells to a customer any article, the wholesaler or the merchant, whover he may be, makes a draft upon the | purchaser and that draft is accepted. The | paper 1s known as a bill of exchange. It is for a real transaction, and those bills | are bankable and they are the foundation | of the credit system of the countries I| have named.” | Mr. Aldrich also took of slon to explain that In referring to forelgn banking sys- tems he had no intentlon of urging the adoption of any of them. “In making this statement to you as to the character of these banks I do not want | w leave gny opportunity for any mis- understanding whatever,” he said. “It is not the purpose of the commission—it cer- right, in spite of his father. (Continued on Second Page.) whether Canada shall build its own navy or have it bullt in Great Britaln, or make a cash contribution pending the establish- ment of a neucleus for s Canadian fleet. Regarding tariff changes the speech w equally nencommittal, Indications are that the naval polley wil be the principal subject of discussion this session, THOUSANDS OF CHICKENS BURNED WITH PLANT Bullding Full of Poultry is Destroyed by Fire at Hutchinson, Kansas. HUTCHINSON, Kan., Nov. 1L—Eleven thousand chickens wefe burned to death when fire destroyed the plant of the United States Packing company here early today. Lioss $50,000. The headquarters of the United States Packing eompany are in Chicago. as He has already served one term in the penitentiary for horse stealing, and s a bad man all through." There is but one penalty fixed for the crime for which the bandits are convicted | and that i life imprisonment. In the event of the motion for a new trial being overruled by Judge. Munger | this morning, the five men will be taken fade away nursing a severely brulsed dig- [to the federal prison- at Leavenworth at nity, 8o long as Mr. Bryan remains non- |the earliest practicable moment. committal there will be no candidate an- | Judge Munger finished his char to the nounced in the democratic party. | jury at 4:40 last evening and the jury re- That the democratic leaders are worked | yyoq a+ 450, up over the actlon of the three times pres- | py.ivior Attorney Goss finished his clos- idential candidate, is due to the fact that | - » ing ment at 3:60, beginning his argu- Saturday Mr. Bryan will leave for a tour . 4 ment at 1:0. Tt was intended to begin the of the South American republics and his final " t at 1:8) but J. M. Mact return to Nebraska is not looked for until | 0 “TEUmCnt ® e i land, attorney for four of the defendants, In the middle of next summer, pr o e misunderstood the hour for reassembling next August after the noon recess, thinking It was 2 Because of this the de- Maomrp - o aping to o | 0'clock. The delay cauged Judge Munger to censure the attorney Mr. Goss' argument was In a large meas- s W. H. Thompson and Governor Shal- lenberger has his following. Should either | announee his candidacy and start his cam- | palgn, he fears just before the time ex- pires when a candidate may file, Mr | Bryan 1s lMable to hear that popular d mand for his own candidacy and have some_ of his friends file his name. Then it would be up to Hitehcock et al quietly to eladers have* Bryan that he com (Continued on Second Page.) | Man Higher Up CaughtAirn Sugar Trust Weighing Fraud NEW YORK, Nov. 1l.—Evidence which is confidentally expected to reveal the “man higher up,” iIn the sugar welghing frauds unearthed durin the term Henri L. Stmson as United States dis- triet attorney for the southern district of New York has been placed In possession of the government, of a federal indictment soon to be filed ainst one of the officials of the Ameri- can Sugar Refining company Since surrendering the duties of United States district attorney. Mr. Stimson, act- ing as & special United States attorney general, has had In hand the work of of | company, | it was authoritatively | | stated today, and is being used as the basis of ~=—— |ure a reply to the arguments of Mr. F' harty and Mr. Macfarland, and was di- | rectea principally at the outset to the de- | fendant Matthews, whom he characterized | as one of the principal malefactors in the robbery and equally gullty with the other four. He reviewed the testimony In a gen- eral way and observed that the Eist of | Mr. Macfarland’s argument was ‘Poetry, | and Pinkertc He stated that it | pray bullding up the ernment’s case aga it » 5o AEAINSL | 0, g ot pleasant to prosecute men, but of- vindicated thfe custom house weighérs and the em- | ployes of the American Sugar Refinin | tended law must be who are charged with hll\hu;‘ LAt Things' Coun conspired to defraud the United States! “The hundred or more exhibits presented of $2,000,00 of sugar duties. The Inquiry | by the government,” sald he, “point with is now approaching a climax. | an accusing finger at these five defend= Mr. Stimson refused to diseuss the nature | ants. Better had it been for thess men the mew evidence obtained by the| when they bought thelr tickets at Kansas government, but it was learned that| cyty for Omahu to have bought them for e‘\:\::.‘.:nxulux-::;:fi"-()r;rnj"f:: !‘rf;:r:l;:*:fl:: Leavenworth, It was the little things that ' were the undolng of these men. A chila conclusive enough to make practicall: - o enoug P Yar v | finding a strap that he thought would tain the indictment of a high official the American Sugar Refining company. 1muke a good strap for his dog is another vindication of the axiom applied to the