Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 31, 1909, Page 1

A 4. THE OMAHA BEE agclean, rellable newspaper that is a each an jnlllrd to each and every home THE OMAHA DAILY B WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska—Falr and warmer. For lowa—Partly cloudy; warmer For weather report see page 3 VOL. XXXIX-NO. 147. OMAHA, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 31, 1909—TEN PAGES. SINGLE COPY TWO (‘F,X';’g. MADRIZ WITHOUT |Committce Ready OFFICIAL STATUS| to Report on Rock g Y Island Scandal State Department Officials Recognize Him Only as the Leader of 4 feneral Belief that lhnipuhton‘ action. ! ’ e | 4, - of Stock Will Be Disci- ‘ SOME DIPLOMATIC NICETL %, plined. o : r %, K. Dec. 0.—A briet session ot | United States is only Country to the r,b"r,,’, of the stock exchange was Bl’etk thh Nic.rlzfll. \::l?h' i‘:’, on to recelve the report "N 2 three appointed to in- 3 . Quire Inte ""/ cumstances attending the CREEL'S IS GAINED | purchases a sales of Rock Island com- OBJECT mon on Monday morning, when the stock ¥ advanced, amid much excitement, from 50% to 81 and as suddenly receded again. The special commiitee has taken the ! testimony of & nymber of brokers, has ex- | amined the books of varfous members and has also listened to eompiaints from out- siders who were more or less affected by Rock Island’'s gyrations, Mexican Special Envoy Discusses | Status of Zelaya Affair, FRIENDLY TO THE UNITED STATES y» Poliey of His Government Is Un- | The finding of the committee was sub- derstood and Approved by Pres~ |;iieq to the governors and the subject ident Taft—Co-Operating will be acted upon by the governing com for Peace. mittee January 12, 1910. Although the strictest reserve is being maintained Dby the committee and the governors, it is be- lleved that the closing of the Rock Island incident will be accompanied by dis- ciplinary measures. Live WASHINGTON, Dee. Nicaragua presents in relation to 0.—The situation | some diplomatic propriety of in niceties recognizing the government of Madriz by the the Central American states. In the opin- fon of officials of the State department, Stock Presidont Madriz should receive no recog- nitfon on the part of Central American repubiies beyond that which would be a 1¢d to & leader of a faction. ause of the close relations maln- tained by Zelaya with Honduras it is ex- pected that that government may be fore- Exchange a Trust Kansas Court Orders Association | most In doing anything that will lend to at Kansas City, Kan, gthe: suthority of Madriz, but Dissolved. there would be a great surprise shouid such action be taken by Mexico without a previous understanding with the United | KANSAS CITY, Dec. 30.—Judge L. C. States. True of the district court in Kansas City It is pointed out here that as the United ! Kl'," + today declared that the Traders' | States 1s the only government that has | Ve Stock Exchange association, operating at the Kansas City stock yards is a trust broken off official relations with Nica- | &% the Kansas City stock varfs ls a trus ragua, there would n for spe- - & RN atonsio Pe" | trust law and ordered the assoclation dis clal n- clal recognition on the part of the Cen-| 4"y "rongering & decision in a suit | tral American republics were Madriz|, ., ¢ againgt the assoclation by the at: elected president under ordinary condi- o tions, dipl S et b the pa. | torney general of Kansas. ons, ar diplomatic relations with the "% | The Traders' Live Stock Exchange asso- tion Would be continued as usu ik, 8] il e 10" sasibommd. aeCHE Thuimbore, Wi | view of the statement that Madriz merely [ gca) principally in stockers and feeders headed one of two factions and was elected | (aiiie not fat enough for slaughter) by what has been declared to be & “packed | mp, gate brought a sult against the asso- | congress,” conditions should, In the opIn- | cyavion i o vears ago, alleging that the fon of the officials here, be stable before | oy o on'y foon o' Dinced such restric- | support 18 glven hlmd!n the form of -;fl tions on trade and commerce as to violats recognition &s president of the republic | o o e ool by other Central American governments.| mp. Co.Operative Live Stock Commission | Rumors that Admiral Kimball would be|o,mnany aiso at Kansas City stock yards, reprimanded for having called upon Mad- 'fijeq the original complaint against the riz at Mandgua were denled by Assistant|rTragers' Live Stock Exchange assoctation. Secretary of State Wilson. Assistant 8e¢- [n this complaint it was alleged that the retary of the Navy Winthrop character-|aggociation boycotted the members of the ized the rumors as peing absolutely with-' (o.Operative Live Stock Commission com- out foundation. pany, of whom there are more than 4. Admiral Kimball, according to the of'i" The defendant association will appeal the clals, has made no report of his call upon |cuge to the supreme court of Kansas City. Madriz, although he announced to Wash-| An action similar to the one brought ington his iniention io inspect condiuons |against the Traders' Live Stock Fxchange at Managus, % | assoclation is pending agnin#t the Kansas Creel Explains Mission. | City Live Stoek exehange. Governor Envigue Creel of Chihuahua, | i i fae Milatitian actarr, sees o], I NOmMPpPson Vigits Gautemala City the Assoclated Press today a staiment re- | sarding his mission to this country. Gov-! ernor Creel declared that he had accom- | piished his tagk with gratifying results. The resignation of Zelaya and sion of President Madriz had ended many ifficulties and prevented anarchy, he de- succes- Former Ambassador Seeking Bight-: of-Way for Extension of His ared and pecce and patriotlsm were now Railroad. | finding their way on both sides In | Nicaragua. The granting of asylum of | Zelaya by Mexico, sald Governor Creel,| GUATEMALA CITY, Dec. 0.—David E was in no sense an act of unfriendliness to | Thompson, the retiring American ambas- the United States. | esador to Mexico, who resigned his position | Governor Crecl's statement in fu’l, fol- [to devote his attention exclusively to the | Pan-American railroad, purchased by him, is now here. President Cabrera gave a | banguet in his honor last evening, at which | | the speeches were highly complimentary to | the United States The object of Mr ! Thompson's visit is to arrange for the con- tinuation of the Pan-American road inty » the press and to the public make the following state- First. missl, 1 hove completed the work of my on with gratifylng snd satisfactory SECRETARY WILSON WELCOMES |Schools of Nebraska, Iowa and Minne- NAVAL SIGNALS ARE REVISED |Action Follows Inquiry Into Colli DEAD LETTER OFFICE AUCTION | M | glven to the battleships was subject rea- PROFESSORS OF FORESTRY MEET Plans to Further Education Along this Line. sota are Represented. sion of Nebraska and Georgia. Bidding for Undelivered Parcels is Brisk—Uncle Sam's Cash is Counted and Found to be All Intact. WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Professors of forestry, representing practically all the | forestry schools in the United States, met here today with Gifford Pinchot for a discussion of plans to further education | along the forestry line. The conference | will continue tomorrow. Secretary Wilson | welcomed the conferees on behalf of the | Department of Agriculture and he was followed by Mr. Pinchot. The principal speakers at today's ses- sion were Prof. Henry S. Graves of Yale, Dr. Filibert Roth of the Unlversity of Michigan, Dr. Richard T. PFisher of Har- vard and Dr. Bernard E. Fernow of the University of Toronto. In addition to the institutions named there are represented at the conference the universities of Columbia, Lehigh, Maine, :sota, Nebraska, New Brunswick and From the Washington Herald. Evcry‘ Little Bit i‘l-elps /’__: é‘dufl»«;;_ff - WILL NOT STRIKE Big Four Employes and Officials Agree Upon Basis for Compromise Settlement. STATIONS TO BE INVESTIGATED COME AcRoSS “ oub More Pay at all Points Where Work Has Been Increased. PERHAM REACHES WASHINGTON Representative of Switchmen Will See Mediation Board Today. BUTTE SWITCHMEN ARE BACK Normal Conditions Again Prevail in Northern Pacific Yards There— Cross Appe in Boy- cott Cnse. CINCINNATI, O., Dee. #0.—A compromise has been reached between the telegraphers of the Big Four railroad and the manage- ment of the system and all immediate dan- ger of a strike has been removed. This is the of a conference held to between the telegraphers' committee and General Manager Van Winkle. The basis of the compromise rests on an agreement for the investigation of all st tions on the system and an increase of pay at such points where Increared work is outcome shown. The original demand of the operators was for a uniform 20 per cent raise. The telegraphers’ committee will remain in conference with Mr. Van Winkle for some time longer.in order that a new Washington, lIowa and Pennsylvania state | colleges and the Maryland Agricultural | college Naval Signals Changed. | Approval was today given by navy offl- clals of the y department to the report | of the board of inquiry into the collision of the battleships Georgla and Nebraska off the Virginia capes, during the recent drill, which recommended that no disciplinary measure be taken as a result of the ac- cident. The board held that the signal | | Tribunal Askeda to Broaden Scope of sonably to two Interpretations, and as this | py,ging te Imclude Foreign Com- happened none of the officers were to blame for an error of judgment. | caagtioe L ekt cie el One of the results of the colliston has uals. been a modification of the regulations so as to prevent another misinterpretation of this particular signal. Unable to fix the responsibility for the | propeller to the colller Vestal cutting a gash | in the side of the battleship Georgla. while recently in Hampton Roads, a board of in- quiry has recommended that no further action, be taken. This recommendation has been approved. It was shown in the testimony that the Georgia careened Just before being struck, and that the Injury was received below the armor line. Auction at Dead Letter Office. Lottery luck has so stimulated the de- mand for other people's property lost or strayed in the mails, that the Postoffice | department in its recent annual sale of undelivered articles accumulated at the dead letter office averaged 8 cents more for each parcel than the year before. A report today showed the recent sale Government's Contention in Famous Case Filed with Supreme Court. WASHINGTON, Dec. %.—In a printed brief of 268 pages Attorney Gemeral Wick- ersham and his special assistant, J. C. McReynolds, today presented jto the su- preme court of the United States the case of the government in the famous tobacco trust cases, which will be argued next week in that court. % The cases were tried in the United States circuit court for the Seutherm district of New York, which aftersdismissing the pe- tition as to foreign tobacco companies and some of the subordinate American com- panies, adjudged the others to be parties to an unlawful conspiracy and enjoined them from continuing their operations and from engaging in interstate commerce. Verdict too Narrow. The attorney general takes the -position that these findings, sweeping as they seem brought aggregate receipts of $10,373, | 0 have been, were not broad enough and averaging $1.35 for each of the 7,789 | e asked the supreme court to extend them derelict parcels, | to so widen their scope as to take in the The speculative demand for the pack- | {OT®l8n companies and some individuals ages whoso contents were only sparingly | Who Were relieved from the operation of made known and their value left an un. | the verdict. Many other extensions of the known factor, was reflected in the over- | Judgment are aiso requested crowding and the calling of police to| After showing that In 150 competition quell a possible riot and avert personal | Was free, the various coalitions are traced injury to the bidders. in the document and facts are given to Many of the parcels sold in the gov- |Show that the combination has grown ernment-conducted game of chance con- |until its combined assests amount to $400, tained prizes; others were virtually |OW,00. It is asserted that the combina- worthless | tion includes ali manufactures of cigars To count the colns and securities in the | of Charles H. Treat as treasurer it be- | made. —The resignation of President Guatemala, although the right of construe- | . forexport,and; Almoat. thres-fourgis of-she ADR WA s S000NE way f5r Afta to end | tion 1o the hordar hat alieady’been: granted | URitd States-tresaury it - bas “taken '&|Smoking tobacco and cigarettes for:domes- RIS e (s reoraiiog | to'the Central irailrod, &' Gustécii [committee of four persons supervising | tic sale, more than tiree-fourths of the e roiibanaet Rech Sction Das avoided | Americen enterpriss. Mr. Thom from thirty to forty counting experts, | piug, (wist and finccut tobaceo and almost il 0o <, s G b e almost two months. Upon the retirement | all of the snuff and little cigars that are | Third—The asylum granted by Mexico to ex-President Zelaya was in fu’l accord with the law of nations and under n | TOBACCO TRUST DEATH ASKED | con- came necessary for a counting of the con- tents of the vaults to be made for the | incoming treasurer, Lee McClung, to give It is declared that “the defendants have persistently exercised duress, have prac- sideration unfriendly to the Uniied States. | Methods of Corporation are Con- | P00 {Sesd »::;T;d n:::l uulm\rer:lu:;;)dsonn?aia‘:: “Fourth—The élection by the national| demmed by Brief Filed by Gov- A RIS el e pow ppi ;:‘-‘1::::; ”n', [l.'k:::;ui"fl’ N :‘;;“'Tn:: R ek 1Mr Treat a receipt for $1,259,001, .| Further it Is asserted that they have been 2 3 ; " b o the exact contents of the treasury. Not |actuated by a fixed purpose to destroy because it prevented anaichy, a second rev-| WABHINGTON, Dec. .—A Strong ar-|,'con’woy found to be missing from | competition and obtain monopolies olutlon and further complications with the | raignment of the method of the Ameriean nited States. | Tobaceo company and declaring that the Fifth—The elements of and the | “situation imperatively demands a decree | patriotism of the Nicaragn * finding | which will utterly destroy the unlawful thelr vay on both sides. | arrangements now existing and prevent “Sixth—80 far as Mexico Is concerned. |any similar ones in the future” is con- tha poiley rnment was friendly | tained in the brief submitted to the su- to the United States and has been well|preme court of the United States in be- understood and appreciated by President | pnaif of the government In the case against | Taft and Becretary Knox. They have both | peace ' the corporation to be heard by that| R . hiuiate me | tribunal Monday. The brief fs signed by SeveRth—The United Statea and Mexico iiorney General Wickersham and J, C continue acting and co-operating in|yrop. g " heial counsel. 1 nccord to consolidate peace in Central | y " . | The case comes to the United nerica, to give solid consistence to the ates su- Washington conventions of 1907 and to de- | PrE™e cOUrt on appeal. Uncle Sam'’s pocketbook. It was the quickest count ever made in the treasury and was absolutely nece: sary before Mr, Treat could be relleved c Competitors Disappear. “Competitors have graduaily—disappeared and the combination, strongly entrenched, unduly resiricts the business of those in the sesponsibilities “of the: offide. the trade and prevents others from enter- count included 156,521,317 silver dollar |, o Jreoes. | “Putting aside for the time the Sherman anti-trust law, the effect of under whicn Omne Killed, One will Die. DAVENPORT, Ia, Dec. 30.—(Special Tel- | the sult was brought, it was contended that egram.)—P. J. Evans, & switchman, was |(he combination under the name of the killed and Robert Witte, a fireman, was|Al:erican Tobacco company was lilegal pinned under an enzine for an hour and |When It was entered into in 18, because it fatally injured by the overturning of a|®af contrary to the common law. Con Milwaukee switch engine on the new |leRding for the right of congress to enact grade in Davenport, this afternoon anti-trust legislation, 1t Is asserted that velop a fecling of high respect to the in-| ternational court of Cartago.” ! Governor Creel will leave for home Im-| mediately after Janudfy 1 Zel Calls om Dias. right o freely buy, sell or transter MEXICO CITY, Déo. 30.—Former Presi- | . |property is not a fundamental clvil right dent Zelaya of Nicaragua. who has found | to be exercisad without limitation as in- | dent Dlaz at the natlonal palace today. | |adds the assertion that “lt is subordinate Zelaya sald the obje 5t his visit ‘was Ni fto public polley and e lawfully ex- is thanks for the col = _ |pressed will of congress. o el urtesies B8 | gnow shovels opened strong and advanced out by the yeilow dogs of the press. Why |“Coming to specitic instances relative ¢ Thilh vwad. 5616 étethony XI€0 | tnrough the day. The shorts were stam lub-l mz:: 1 Trl over 100 telephone calls |ine operations of Srust, it is- deciared y PRl T S peded by untavorable news from Eleventn | A0ut this thing. that substdntially wi red jobbers in Then Mr. Wakefield proceeded to take x SEEKS TO ENJOIN DRUG STORE | ana Dodge streets. : |New England were to throw out : & | a fall out of Officer Glover, clerk of the | jcependent products wore . thees i of L o 7 jeld, secretary and treasurer | > pro L, roduct: re ot LIQUOR LAW IN KANSAS “onn Waketie b oo jcourt, charging that he had caused the | yjadeiphis, New York and many othe: g sy of the Nebraska Power company, Is highly | issue of complaints and had given out the | sueciriea piaces. It is asserted that inde- Clalmed Aet Forbldd Sale for peeved because he was haled into police | matier to reporters, think of lt—to re- |, Jobbing in New York was destroyed Medical Purposes is Un- court Thursday morning for neglecting to | porters. b7, the orshatastion’ of the : Metropolitan constitution |‘clear his walks of snow, at 269 Farnam | Order w restored In the court room |ygbacco cumpany, .which was given ar TOPEKA, Dec. ¥.—Samuel A. Harrison | Street. He told the court he was & much |and Judge Crawford entered a plea of not |exciusive agency for ue sale of the trust of Kansas City, Mo, who owns a drug 8bused man and made sunging remnarks, gullty and declared the prisoner discharged | goods tore In Kansas City,' Kan., today applied | including the press, waich eared mention | Judge Pollock in | the matter. | prevent the enforce- Meanwhile the merry game of pinehing store liquor law | the ofenders gues on. Sergeant Carl Mad- The @rug store law prohiblts the sale of | Sen Is serving bank presidents, real estate uors for medicinal purposes by drug- | Magnates and the generslly prominent gists. It I8 cluimed that the law is cons | With warrants for violation of the snow rAry to the fourteenth amendment to the | ordinance. The police show a particular | comstitution of the United States and in [venchaut for bankers, Judge Crawford's confllet with the couttitution of the state | court Dromises to Jook like a director's of Kansas, which prt les that liquor may | meeting Friday morning. [ tha federal court ment of the anti-a: an injunction beforc to be sold for medieinal cclentific and me-| John Wakefield stood before the police ehenical purposes. judge's bench in & very bad humor. The sult Is brough! to test the validity | “Guilty or not gullty™ queried City of the Kansas drug s'ore law. which was | Prosecutor Dickinsen. enocted by the last log'slature. and the fact that Harrison is & res'dent of Missouri per- mits the suit to be brought In the federal wurt “It Is & rank injustice. & shame and a disgrace,” roared Wakefleld, ignoring the formal question. | "I object to belng singied out and balel | ‘Bank Presidents and John to prevent injury, a course of conduct not wmerely to reverse The attorney general &iso lays down the general proposition that | tne regardless of his refusal to enter a plea. | Bushwhacking Methods. Mr. Wakefleld started to leave the court| yi i3 gigo msscried tnat “bushwhacking room, then turned back to deliver another | meinods were resorted 1o in the use of phillipple on the police and press. { union iabels and the method n this pro- Well, now, Mr. Wakefleld," Interrupted | ceeding is denounced as “iniquitous’ and Prosecutor Dickinson with an upralsed | one such as is “inhibited by as clvilised hand, “you will have to excuse us, for we | conscience,” Indeed, it is delared that, ‘n'n:ee::;r;-u"::::e;n transact here. Now. | “he record contains much evidence and A 3 Pproceed with | yast deal of correspondence concerning the bl o | operations of these bushwhacking com- plaints were filed In pollce court panies which disclose amazing depravity against tormer Senator Joseph H. Millard, | 4nq show with clearness how these sinister president of the Omaha National bank, | agencies were effectively uttlized.” and L. L. Kountse of the First National | Tpe adverusing methods of the trust are bank and president of the Kountzs Real| eferred to as a means of influencing both Estate company. business and public sentiment and It 1is The University of Omaha is to be ar- i 000, on s By g g oy ot toacs | "4 hat bot less than $10,000.000 dollars some officer of ihe lnstitution of learning | (Contnued on Second Page) \BRIEF IN TOBACCO APPEAL |SAYS VERDICT IS TO0 NARROW the essential purpose of the Sherman law is | | Demand Ransom for Girl Kidnaped at Louisville Parents of Alma Kellner Receive Let- ‘ ter from Point in Ohio Asking | for $5,000. LOUISVILLE, Ky. Dec. 0.—Except to admit that & letter had been received to- day from some town in Ohlo promising the return of littie Ilma Keliner to her parents on payment of $,000 ransom, all Information was refused by the family. The girl dis- appeared Dqcember § and the demand for ransom rewved today, although it may not be genuine, brought with it the first real hope for her recovery. Frank Fehr, millionaire brewer and cousin to Fred Keliner, father of Alma, is golng to .Chicago tonight and although he sald positively his trip had nothing to do with possible negotiations with kidnapers of the Kellner girl, it Is belleved he is going to Chicago or elsewhere on such a mission. | The activity of the Pittsburg police today is believed to have commenced after the demand for ransom had been received by the Kellner family. Leaky Gas Stove Causes Two Deaths | Pioneer Des Moines Architect is One of the Victims of Water Heater. DES MOINES, la, Dec. 3.—William Foster, a pioneer Des Molnes architect jand theatrical man, and Louls Bemis of Spencer, Ia., aged 17, who was a guest at |the Foster home on Grand avenue, were found dead from asphyxiation in adjoining |bed rooms at the Foster residence early today. Mr. Foster had been dead several | hours. The younger man had been dead but a short time. A leaking gas stove in the bath room, into which both bed rooms open, was the cause of the tragedy. Mr. Foster was the owner of the Foster and |Grand opera houses, the two largest theaters in Des Moines. He has been prominent In theatrical circles for year Young Bemis is the son of Will Bemis, a banker of Spencer, Ia, and a grandson of George W. Bemis, formerly state treasurer jof lowa. |NEW BILL FOR MRS. FORD| Charge of Blackmail in Indlctment| | Brought to Cure Old | Defect. { | CINCINNATI, 0. Dec. %.—A new in-| dictment against Mrs. Jeannette Steward- | Ford, alleging blackmall, was returned by | the Hamilton county grand jury today. It| is designed to cure possible defects in the similar charge returned several weeks ago. | | Charles L. Warriner, former local treas- urer of the Big Four rallway, was before the grand jury two hours before the bill was returned. larrval in this country, schedule may be perfected and points in the controversy setiled, but it s belleved now there will be no further serious sliua- CHARGE ROUSES PARIS PAPER tion. Trouble on Illinois Cemtral. Matin Declares National Honor De-| WASHINGTO! Dee. %0.—The lllinois mands End of White Slavery. I\il‘nlrn! s the only raflread whose dispute | with its telegrapher operators has been | officlally calied to the attention of the PART OF FRANCE IN TRAFFIC| government mediation board. H. B. Perham, representing the labor in- terests involved in the swi.chmen's strike, Report of Immigration Commission | .. cring at St Paul, arrived here late to- Shows that Majority of Exporta- |day for his conference tomorrow with the tions Were from that mediation board. Mr. Pertam called at Cowntry. {the Interstate Commerce commission office, but did not ree either Mr. Knapp or Mr. Neill. The cross appeal of the American Fed- eration of Labor in the Bucks Stove and Runge case, in which that company sought to enjoin the federation from boycottiiz the goods of the company, was docketed today In the supreme court of the United States. . This is the case in connection with which the contempt proceccing agalist President” PARIS, Dec. %.—The Matin today de- clares that the investigation of the United States Immigration commission, which placed France first among the nations as an exporter of so-called white slave re- cruits constitute a national disgrace, and appea’s to the government to commence immediately pour parlers with Washing- ton for the suppression of the traffic. The paper insists that Fr-ice in reality is the -most decent country on the globe |Gompers [rector Mitchell and Secretary ' and one where home life and virtue are|Morrison © 1o the courts of Washing- most beautifully exemplified, yet abroad, |ton and resu'ted in sentences of Im- and especially in America, scandalous French literature is circilated and the ex- prisonmer proceedr all of them. The contempt having been brought to the tent of the white s'ave trade has given it|highest ¢ 1t by the process of a writ of the reputation of being the center of de- |certiorari Loth branches of the case prc pravity. Paris, the Matin says, Is plc-|ably will ce heard by the court about the same time. tured as the modern Babylon and adds “The government must intervene. It is| Cross Appeal in Boyeott Canse. a question of humanity and national| BUTTE, Mont, Dec. 30.—The strikers, honor.” | who as members of the Brotherhood of WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—The report of | Railway Trainmen went out in sympathy the immigration commission showing the with the local members of the switch- nationality of the girls deals especlally,| men's union, returned to work at the so far as natlonality Is concerned, with | Northern Pacific yards here today and importations and trials in the courts. | the situation here is now It shows that of eighty-two women de- | ported from the port of New York on ac- | count of prostitution between January 1.| %7, and December 1, 1%%, fcrty-six were | French, thirteen Hebrews, thirteen Ger- mans and ten Itallans. Of the 205 women convicted in the night court of New York from November | 15, 1908, to March 15, 1903, on account of oliciting on the streets and practicing prostitution, 1512 were native born and 581 were forelgners. Of the foreiguers 154 were normal, Damage Suits Against Standard Independents Crushed by Trust Will Sue if Dissolution Decision is Upheld. French and 25 Hebrew, the next largest| L e number being sixty-nine Germans. | On this point the commission sald SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Dec. 3.—8everal “The opinfon of our agents, secured by |thousand damage Suits against the Stan- talking with persons familiar with the situ- "dard Oil company of New Jersey are to ation, is that the percentage of French|bo instituted by the Independent ofl re- women who practiced prostitution before finers if the United States supreme court compared with |upLolds the decisions of the clrcult court their total number, is decidedly larger for the Minnesota district ordering the cor- than the percentage of Hebrews who have poration dissolved. Thomas L. Hisgen, the engaged in that business before cominz.” |recent presidential candidate of the inde- M. Jusseraud, the French ambassador, perdence party, who i§ now the president read with iInterest a copy of the Paris of the Petroleum Marketers' association, to- dispatch regarding the attitude of the day announced the program undertaken by Matin on the white slave traffic in the ! nis organization. United States, but he positively declined | The independents will base the proceed- to express himself on the subject. |ings on a section of the Sherman anti-trust “COW GIRL” KILLED BY HORSE "W WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.~The appeal of the Standard Ol company from the de- Well Kmown Woman Wild West cision of the circuit court of the district Rider Falls Before Moving Pletare Machine. {of Missouri In dissolving the corporation £ K "umn the anti-trust law will be docketed CA CITY, Okl, Dec. 0.—Mrs. E. J. \in the United States supreme court Mon- Milhan, known throughout the country in | gay Wild West shows as the “Cow Girl,” died | In view of the great importance of the here today’ from injuries recelved late yes- | jicues involved, a motion will be made on terday. She was riding for a moving plc- | penaif of the government at that time or ture concern when her horse fell upon her. - on the Monday following, to sdvauce the Mrs. Milhan lived in New York and was | cgse for ,,,_,5\‘_ ik Rescued in M'ALESTER, Okl, Dec. 30.—After having Ylv;——n entombed (wenty-elght hours in a | smoke-llied cut of the Bolen-Darnail com- | | pany's coal mine, near bere, Buperintend- | | e John Brown was rescued alive but un~: onsciolus this morning. Had his rescuers | {ialled to reach him, Brown would surely | | have died within amother hour. As it is | | | | | \ | nis conditicn 1s serious, but the mine phy- | sicluns belleve he has a fighting chance | | tor lige | Erown, who s a well known mining man | of Hartford, Ark., risked his life in a| berolc atiempt to rescue Angelo Asnicar, a shot firer, who was entombed following | an explosion on one of the lower levels of | | the mine late Tuesday. Brown apparently | | bad not reached even close to the point [ where Asnicar had been overcome when he | himself succumbed to the foul gases and | { smoke that choked the various passag The shot firer's fate still remains unknown, ‘fhe explosion cecurred just as the day foree was emerging from the main shaft and before the Bight shift had entered the mine. Asuicar had remained below to set off a Entombed Mine Official is 25 years old. A | USUAL FLURRY IN CALL MONEY Year-End Boost in Rate Not as High as it Formerly Has Been. NEW YORK, Deec. 3—-The usual year-end flurry In call money took place today, Nick of Time| number of shots and this work evidently |change Quring the noon hour, after open- had caused the explosion. | Ing at 5% per cent. The rise was attri- 80 much smoke beiched from the shafts|buted In part to belated borrowings and that it was impossible for rescuers to en. |t the belief that early in the coming ter and immediately men were set to work | MONth much new financing would be en- tunneliing in an effort to reach Asnicar, | B8ged in. It finally became apparent that this would | Only twice in the last ten years, last be useless and Superintendent Brown vol.|Year and 19, has call money falled to unteered to enter the mine with pit boss | WOrk higher than today's figures in the Weatherford. The smoke had become less | fin8l quarter. Stocks were but slightly dense and the chances of success seomed | Affected by today's advance in money. favorable. After these two men had been | down several hours those on the surface | became alarmed and additional \ CARS COLD; PRESIDENT HELD rescuers started in after the two men Weather- | Traction Magnate Arrested in Clune ford was found unconscious after a briet einnatl for Pal to Kelp search, was brought (o the top and soon r»- Steem covered. No trace of Brown could be -—— found. CINCINNATI, Dec. 3.—An Indictment Party after party volunteered to go after | was returned today by the Hamilton Brown, however, and the attempt at s | county grand jury against W. Keisley rescus was kept up constantly day and |Schoepf, head of the Cincinnat! Traction night il this morning. They were success- ful just at davlight today, when one of the men stumbled upon the superintendend- ent’s prostrate bocl/ & few yards below the first V= company, charging fallure to keep the tem- perature in certain street cars up to the standard of 0 degrees Fahrenheit, pro- vided by statute. A fine of from $100 to $500 1s provided for viciation of the law.