Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 1, 1910, Page 1

THE OMAHA BEE & clean, reliable newspaper that is admitted to each and every home. VOL. XXXIX-—-NO. WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska-—Falr. For 1o Fair a For weather report see page 2 KINKAID DENITA Congressman Says His Coal Claim in/Alaska W and Tegal in Every OTHERS « IN GREEN Two California hyrunutlva Gov. Gillett Own Claims, STATEMENT OF MR. LACHLAN e He Says the Proposition is Entirely and Legal, GLAVIS STILL ON THE STAND Demeeratic -Members Ask Questions Intended to Accenmtunte Certminm Polnts Alrendy Tes- tified To. —— (From a Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Jan. 3l-—(Special. Tele- gram.)—Representative. M. FP. Kinksid, ‘whose Bame has been dragged into the Ballinger-Pinchot the testimony of Glavis, is eon- siderably annoyed but Is frank enough M saying thet he did have a few extra dollars In the bank and made an fn- vestment of his surplus mohey in an Alaskan coa) claim, He asserts that his investment was an gbrolutely legitimate one in every case, such as any honorable man might seek as an outlet for surplus monsy. Judge Kinkaid, in explaining his connec- tion with the transaction, sald teday, “T a1d contract for the purchase of an Alas- kan coal clalm in the summer of 1908, The owner residod at-Beattle, hence the pur- chase was consummated there, By letter, written to him from my home in Ne- braska, I employed Judge Ballinger to pass upon the title and otherwise represent me. It was an ordinary, stralghtforward busi- ness transaction, which will be conclusively established by evidence betore the investi- gation shall close.” Mr. McLachian’s Statement. Bxplaining bls connection with Alaska ‘coal claims, as brought out in the Bal- “ \inger-Pinchot Uinvestigation report, Mr. McLachlan of Calitornia today mentioned Governor Gillett and = Representatives Knowland arid McKinlay of California as Leing. Interested In the proposition with iihsel? and Representative Kinkald of Ne- " braska and a number of others. Mr. McLachlan declared that the propo- sition’ was entirely a legal and ethical one. A dozen or more men of prominence were Interested In what was known as the “Green group,” he sald. He aid not recall the names of all of his assoclates. Speak- ing of the Green clatms, Mr. McLachlan said: 9 “1f there has been any violation of law oin e T am not pware of It T into the proposition two or three years ago at the suggestion of Mr. Green, and have pald out so far about $4,000 In surveying and developing my claim. The land was taken up in the ordinary manuner of filing on mineral lands. “In the beginning I purchased the right of the original entryman, and 1 do not know anything about the manner in which his filing was made.. If there was anything wrong with it, it occurred before I went into it. I don't remember the name of the man from whom I hought the filing right. Willing to Sell Out, “I have not yet applied for a patent from the government because I have heen busy with development work. We have found coal on the Jand, but I do not know how much. A magazine article just published says my claim s worth $1,900,000, but i I can get my $4,000 out of it I will be glad. In fact, I would sell out for less than the amount 1 put in it. “The law provides that the army. and navy can have all the coal it wants from our claim at & price to be fixed by the government. If our claims are sold to a irust of monopoly the whole property re- verts, under the 18w to the government. “Not more than 100 acres can be held by one person and that is the amount of my olaim. The law provides also that there can be no consolidation of claims ag- gregating more than 2,60 acres. The group represented by Governor Giliett and Rep- sesontative McKinley, Knowland, Gillett md myself is within that limit. Glavis Still on Sta When the Ballinger-Pinchot investigat- Ing committee adjourned late today until next Friday morning at 10 o'clock Mr. Glavis was still on the witness He will be further questioned at that timé. Glavis was cross-qquestioned today Dby séveral members of the committee, the demodrats, taking by far the more promi- nent part in the questioning and framing their iterrogations in a way which elic Ited answers tending to accentuate ce: tain parts of testimony already given by the withess. At the close of the hearing Senator Nel. son oalled attention to the fact that the committes was proeeeding ‘‘feebl biindly, as thére was no one present to croas-examine as the representative of “the other side” Personally, he said, he had no desire to question the witness here, It Was thought best that Glavis remain in the city until certain documents called for In the Interior dopartment have a rived and ben examined, In connection with these documents Senator Root moved that they should all be printed before being Introduced. At- tornéy Brandeis, representing Glavis and others, sald that many of the documents he had asked for might prove to be irrele- vant. Senator Root remarked that so far as he oculd see there Waa nothing Irrelevant to this inquify. Ballinger Favors Bill. Cross-cxamined by Senator Fletcher of Florlda, Glavis sald today that Mr, Bal- lnger, While commissioner of the laud office, had appearsd before the committes of eongress and by his testimony had fa- vored & bill which would validate all of the Alaske coal clalmy. He also saia that an affidavit filed September 4, 1305, by Clarence Cunningham had on it & backing which bore the firm name With which Judge Ballinger was connected. Glavig #aid that at the time Mr. Ballinger asked hin: not to proceed with his inyestigation of the coal elaims until after election be- cause of the alowness of campaign con- tributfons, no one was present to over- hear the cenversation. /The name of Donald A. McKensle was rquEDt prominently into the Inquiry this | (wroven when Glavis testified McKensle (Contisued o1 8soond Puge) I through | stand. | ay Look Into High Cost of Living %, ¢ and Clark Authorized to Bring gz "n Resolution for an In- ‘ vestigation. WASHINGTON, Jan. $1.—Foreshadowing an investigation by congress of ‘he high cost of living, the house ways and means gommittes today authorized Chairman Payne and Representative Clark, the mMajority and minority leaders in the house, to'eallaborate In the preparation of a reso- luthon providing for such Inquiry and de- finifig the form of procedure. N YORK, Jan 3.—Neither the anti- ™meat mpaign nor the general crusade for n lowering of the high of living showed any signe of exhaul y A women's mass meeting, ostpon Ay of elub women the postal card ham eclul, under | resicent, Mrs. Anita | inaugurated. tion, | the country and mak- | ais to stop using | Preparations were under way it was an- nounced today to have the Federation of Women's Clubs of America take up at its convention here on Friday a concerted movement to ask every woman in the coun- try to send a post card to President Taft asking him to take measures against monopolistic control of meat prices. Meat prices held abont stationary today. Retailers are showing a strong disposition further ete and Aiminishing ship- ments are helping them maintain thelr stand. Tillman Rests on Father’s Right Senator Says South Carolina Statute Gives Father Sole Power to Dis- pose of Child. "COLUMBIA, 8. C., Jan. 31.—Senator B. R. Tillman and his son, B. R. Tiiman, Ir, were present when the case of Mrs. B. R. Tillman, jr., against Senator Tililman and his wife for the custody of her two chil- dren was taken up by the supreme court here. Senator and Mrs. Tillman rest their case entirely on the statute law of South Carolina, which in part is as follows: POSTAL BANK BILL IN SENATE Senator Carter Makes an Extended Explanation of the Administra- tion Measare. ANSWER TO THE = CRITICS No Attempt is Made to Displace, Pres- ent System, WILL ENCOURAGE THRIFT Much Money Now in Hiding Will be Placed in Circulation, IN LINE WITH PARTY PROMISE United States is Oné of Few Natfons t Does Not Provide Method for Caring for Small Savings. WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—Senator Carter had no diffieulty in getting permission to proceed today with his speech in the sen- ate.in support of the postal savings bank bill, which he delivered in accordance with a previous notice, but the genaral consent did not extend beyond this courtesy. Mr. Carter took theé floor as soon as the routine business was disposed of, but before he had begun his remarks Senator Balley interposed to say that he assented to the taking up of the measure only for the purpose of speech making and that he would not agree to the displacement of the regular business, which i& the Alas- kan leglslative council bul. = Senator .Carter expiained _ihat 'thers would be no effort permanshtly fo dis- place the Alaskan bill b ’ The United States is the only firét-class power in the world to deny to, the people the privileges and the blei enjoyed by a postal savings bank, declared Sen- ator Carter of Montana. He spoke of the promises made in the last republican platform, as well as In several other party platforms, of the sup- port glven to the measure by former President Roosevelt and by Prosident Taft and also by a number of postmaster gen- erals of the last forty years, and out- lined the present bill. No Menace to 0ld Banks. Answering numerous objections which have been made agalust postal suvings banks Senator Carter asserted that they would not be a menace to the present system of the country, that the even It they were suf- ficlently numergus, could nbt reach -the “'Section 2866—The father of any ehild or children under the age of 21 years and not married may dlspose of the custody and tuition of such child or children Auring such time as they remain under the age of 21 years to any persons.’’ Undor this act his son deeded the chil- dren to his father and mother. .No effort has been made.to Assefl the character of young Mrs. Tiliman, but In his affidavit Senator Tillman says it Is probable the young wife would go to an- other state to get a divorce and remarry, in which case the children would be placed under a stepfather. “Thank God,” says the semator, ‘‘there 18 no duch thing as divorce in South Caro- lina.” Tom Johnson Said to Be Operated On Former Mayor of Cleveland Believed to be Under Surgi- cal Care. NEW YORK, Jan. 3Li-Although Tom L. Johnson, former mayor of Cleveland, is belleved to be In the city undergoing medical treatment, nothing definite could bo learned today regarding his where- abouts or his- condition. Marked reticence is maintained both by Mr. Johnson's triends and members of his family. The former mayor Is known to have been a guest at the Hotel Prince George for sev- eral days preceding Saturday last. He #uid to have left the hotel on that day. Dr. Thomas P. Guant, who ls ecredited with having attended Mr. Johnsom, de- clined today to say whether or not the ex-mayor was one of his patients. “Any thing regarding Mr. Johnson will have to be given out by his family,” was the physician's statement. Loftin E. Johnson, son of the ex-mayor. when asked today whether his father was here undergoing treatment and If so where he was and how he was, was equally re- ticent. VAN NORDEN THIEVES HELD Women chundTn.I Robbing Trust | Company President of $38,000 NEW YORK, Jan. 8l.—Bessie Roberts and May Willlams, the two women ac- cused of holding up and robbing Warner M. Van Norden, president of the Van Norden Trust company, of $25,000, reeently, were indicted today charged with rob- bery In the first Aegree, Japanese Domestic Loan. TOKIO, Jan. 8L—It was authoritatively stated today that the eabine: had decided to issue a four per cent domestic loan of redeeming outstanding flve per ¢ent bonds to a ifke amount. The Issuc price is to be %. people in the rural and sparsely inhabited districts whom the postal banks are de- signed to benefit. The postal depositories, he declared, would encourage thrift, would bring into circulation muech nouney now kept in hiding and impel foreigners, who now send much of their savings home for deposit in Bavings banks in their own countries, to place it in the care of this government. In referring to the countries which ready have such a system ‘he speaker sald: “Tt is operated in countries of llm- ited extent and those of broad territorial expanse with equal facility, sucsass and satisfaction.” Answering the objection that the estab- lishment of the postal banks would he “an unwarranted use of power by the govern- ment, he clalmed that “the blil but elab- orates a use to which the postal service is now subjected, for, as the report of the committee will show, a very large sum | of money In all the states and territories is invested In money orders payable to the purchaser and renewed annually at an expense of $3 per $1,000 as & penalty of thrift.” Purpose to Encourage Thrift. ““The prime purpose of the measure,” he declared, “Is to encourage thrift among the masses of the people by furnishin widely aistributed, econvenient and lutely safe dopositories wherein small sums may be placed at a low rate of interest with the faith and credit of the government pledged to the repayment of prineipal and interest on demand.” He held that if the commercial and other banks were widely distributed, they would not be. patronized to any erable extent by the class of people to whom the postal savings depository would | con- | furnish the needful elements of venience and absolute confidence. As to the charge that such a system might be held unconstitutional, he ans- wered that “The microscope has not been made which can disclose a difference in principle between the money order system and the system here proposed.” This system, he claimed, instead of be- ing a menace to the banks, would prove a source of strength to the financial struc- ture, He said that such da been the ex- perience wherever It had been tried. The blll now before the senate provides that the system be directed by a board of trustees to be composed of the secre- tary of the treasury, the postmaster gen- eral and the attorney general, which board shall report to congress at the beginning of each regular session. Every post oftice | authorized to issue money orders and such | others as the postmaster general may de- signate are to be postal depositories, al- though no account of less than one dol- | iar can be opened, and no patron may deposit more than $100 in one calendar month or more than $00 altogether, terest is to be at cent a year. the rate of two per City Plumbing Inspector John C. Lynch has returned from the national conven- tion of master plumibers, held last week at Trenton N. J. He comes home convineed that no eity in the country has anything on Omaha In the matter of safe and sani- tary “plumbing. “I listened to the papers and discussions,”. sald Mr. Lynch,' “and afterward, with others, examined the plumbing being put into small bulldings and into skyserapers. -n many instances the work does not com- pare at all favorably with the work done here on every bullding. To prove that the west has the prize workinan, let me in- stance the fact that I found three former Omaha Sourneymen superintending - the biggest jobs in New York City. Jospeh Conley, formerly with Hannighen here, is drawing §15 a day from a big tirm, and is making good at every step. '“Tony” Mo- Manus, also former'v with Hannighen, is Or;xz;ha Plumbers Boss Big Jobs in New York City drawing §12 a day as boss of a gang, and John Novak, who used to work in Omaha for Welchars & McEwen, gets a like salary, These men are about typical of other west- ern plumbers who have showed the eastern fellows & few polnts In high class plum- bing. “We liave the best workmen here In the west. I knew that before I went east, but what I saw confirmed the opinlon very strongly. “The plumbing work now being done on new bulldings in Omaha is equaled on but few bulldings In the east. The standard demanded here 18 higher, and the men who are putting their money Into Omaha structures insist on the very best, which is always the most profitable system in the end. Milwaukee will entertain the next con- vention of the muster plumbers. Omaha had the convention ia 1908 consid- | not | counting thereln accumulated iinterest. In- | sy 10, 30000 EARLY TO0 BED EARLY 70 RISE =\ N WA LRI Time To Be Stirring. ".1"‘.% IR | b i I\ (From Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Jan. $L—(Special Tele- gram.)—George W. Norrls is serlously con- sldering the advisabllity of becoming ‘a candidate for -the United States senate. Judge Norris teday outlined the reasons which seem to fmpel him to thfs cons clusion, although he has not definitely de- clded to make the step. Untll a fort- night ago, Judge Norris says he gave no thought to the senatorlal situation as it nright concern him personally. He has ‘been recelving 'letters all winter from constituents urging him to make the race, but he turned a deaf ear to them, and put the senatorship behind him, at least for the immediate present. Lately, however, he says, political con- ditions In Nebraska have undergone a change. He has noticed that resolutions adopted at the formation of some of the Burkett clubs, simultaneously with the meeting of the radical insurgents in Lin- coln, criticised the action of the insurgents and urged them to put a stop to the agitation in the interest of the party. These resolutions arounsed the congress- man's fighting blood and today he said: “It my Insurgency ls to be the test of my republicanism, then I think the sooner we know where we stand, the better “The more I study. the situation, the mors I am convinced that the Insurgent cause Is just, and I am willing to try conclusions along those lines. 1 do not deny any man the right of an honest dif- ference with me, but I denoy that any man has a right to question my republic- anism, oven though it may be along dif- ferent lines from that of some people in the fifth district. “I do not say that I will get into the senatorial race,” sald Judge Norris, “but I am more serlously considering It than ever before. Whether this s the physcho- logical moment or not, I don't know. This I do know, however, that the time seems propitious for trying out some things that concern up republicans and should it be decided that the primary bal- lot law recently passed permits an ex- pression on the part of the voters for United States senator, I may get into the tight. “1 40 not desire It to be understood that T am deciding the question elther way at the present time. I do not com- sider it necessary to declde the matter at the present time.” Dry Farming Discnssion. Judge Norris supported a motion made today In the House while the agricultural bill was under consideration Increasing the appropriation for dry farming from He called attention to the vast empire west of the 100th meridlan which eould be used for agricultural pur poses, if properly tilled and sald that the experiments of the department of agricul- ture justified these conclusions. He gave an interesting description of the Campbell system of soll culture und urged the adop- tion of tae motion. It was defeated, how- ever, by a close vote. Postmaster General Hitchcock has de- (Gontinued on Second Page. The Want Ad col- umns today offer exceptional oppor- tunity for those in business Or for those expecting to enter business by listing under “‘For Sale Miscellaneous,” everything necess- ary as show cases, counters, billiard tables, fixtures, stocks, etc, Have you read them? Would Impeach Gov. Haskell in Bank Fraud Case GUTHRIE, Qkl., Jan. 81.—Reference to a possibility of impeachment of Governor Charles N. Haskell and other state officers 1s made in a resolution made in the lower house of the legislature here today by Representative Humphrey: The resolution demands an Investigation of the Columbla Bank and Trust company, jwhich falled at Oklahoma City~ last fall |owing depositors over $1,000,000, and it calls |upon Attorney General West to bring be- fore the legislature matters which he had previously stated were belng considered by the grand Jury at Oklahoma City, when that body was discharged recently by order of Governor Haskell. The resolution {s based upon a letter written by the attorney general at the time the grand jury, which it was knokn was Inquiring Into the affairs of the fatled pank, Was discharged. At that time Mr, West criticised the acts of certain state officials alleged to bo concerned in the institution. The resolution says: “Such charges, If true, might subject ther governor of this state to impeachment and the officers to whom reference is made to impeachment or removal.” Police Briber is Given Sentence Inspector McCann of Chicago Has Term of One to Five Years Im- posed on Him, CHICAGO, Jan. $L—Edwara MoCann, former police inspector, who was convicted of accepting bribes, was sentenced to from one to five years in the penitentiary by Judge Barnes in the eriminal court today. Immediate application wds made to Jus- tice Orrin A. Carter of fhe lliinols supreme court ‘for a writ of supersedeas to stay the execution of the sentence until the ap- peal from the judgment of the lower court was passed on by the highest tribunal of the state. The writ was granted, SIX THOUSAND FINE AND Miss Doris Griffith, Agent for D. H, Tolman, Appeals from Usury Semtencs. HARTFORD, Conn,, Jan. 31.—The appeal of Doris Griffith, agent for D. H. Tolman, a money lender, from the sentence of §6,000 fine and sixty days In jail, imposed by the supreme court for alleged usyry, will be carried to the supreme court of the United States, Chlef Justice Baldwin of the Con- necticut supreme court having decided to allow a writ of error to issue on condl- tion that Miss Griffith file a new bond of $8,000. This it Is understood will be done SIXTY DAYS FOR LOAN SHARK | Succumbs to en Acute Attack of Pneumonia. ILL ONLY SINCE FRIDAY LAST Had Attrnded the Theater Thursda: | Evening Although Complaining for Several Days of Being ) m. Willlam A. Paxton, jr., dled at 6:30 Mon- day evening of pneumonia. He had been sick only since last Friday. Thursday evening last Mr. Paxton at- tended the theater, and it is supposed that he then contracted the cold which later developed into the attack of pneumonla that carried him off. Mr. Paxton leaves surviving him his wife, who was Miss Georgla Sharp of Cleveland, an adopted daughter 8 years old and his mother. Deceased was the only child of the late Willlam A. Paxton, belng born in Omaha September 24, 1866 He attended the public schools of this city, ‘going through the grades and the High school. He afterward attended college at Racine, Wis. After graduation he returned to Omaha and be- gan his business training with his father, For geveral years he managed a large rarch owned by his father, ncar Ogalalla, and his fondness for life in the open coun- try was evidenced in the name borne by his daughter, Prairie Paxton. up personally the care of the vast inter- csts left to him. He was a heavy stock- holder in the Union Stock Yards company, and was president of the Paxton Real Is- tate company, the Paxton-Gallagher com- pany and ihe Paxton-Vierling Iron Works. His Interests fn the affairs of these large €01 cerns Wes always keen and active, and his advice was highly valued. Mr. Paxton was prominent in the soctal ife of the citv a3 weli as in business ci cles. He was a commuricant of All Saints’ Episcopal churech and was a liberal eon- tributor to all charitablo causes, as well to all public cnterprises. He held mem- berehips {n the Omaha club, the Fleld club, Country club, Happy Hollow elub and in the Elks order. In all of these organit zations his genial qualities and great Mber- ality ot'hand and mind continually won and held the admiration of his fellows. As the years passed Mr, Paxton was proving him. olf a worthy son of his father, and proms fsed to make a8 great an impross on the life of his nativé eitx as the latter had made gn an earlfer day. Sinck Jast April Mr, lvingfin His new home, ealled Fairacres, west 8t Dundce and facing Elmwood park. This home had cost something over $:0,000 and its owner took great pride In planning and bullding it. It I8 from this new home |the funeral will be held, at a time to he | announced later, W. J. Burgess, who for sevoral years was assoclated with Mr. Paxton in theat- ricla matters, speaking of him last night, sald that words could not convey his es- Paxton had baen WASHINGTON, Jan. SL.—More than half of the merchandise imported under new taritf law enters the United States free of duty. This is shown by the bureau of statisties in monthly statements of im- ports since the new law went into effect August 6, 190, In the month of August the imports en- tering free of duty amounted to 45.32 per cent; in September, 40.25 per cent; in Oc- tober, 5061 per cent; in November, 5411 per cent; in December, (6.9 per cent; the average for the five wmonths period being L5 per cent. Except for 150, when sugar was ad- witted free of duty, this ls & larger per- Half of Merchandise Ent—ers Country Free of All Duty the | any previous tariff law. | the | centage was 49.63. | passed the $200,000,000 mark in 1850; th centage of imports free of duty than under Prior to that time highest annual average importations free of duty was In 1841, when the per- | The total vaiue of all merchandise enter- ing free of duty reached $100,000,000 in 1873, 000,000 in 1891; $400,000,000 in 1891, m,wz.»;l in 1905; 3000000000 1n 1907 and In the cal- endar yeap just ended was practically $700.- 000,000, the figures being §699,799,771. The prineipal articles in this total of non- dutlable imports for 150 were hides and | wiins, India rubber, pig tin, raw silk, fi- bers, cotton, coffee, tea, cocos, chemicals, ‘art works and undresged furs. | FILLIAM A, PAXTON IS DEAD On the death of his father, the son took | | tien) ! bers TWO CEN SWOPE'S DEATH DUE 70 POISON Chicago Scientists Find Large Quar tities of Strychnine in Viscera of Late Millionaire, O PROSECUTIONS WILL FOLLOW Attorney for Estate Says Arrests Wil Be Made Soon. DR. HYDE FILES TWO SUITI Husband of Mr. Swope's Neice Ask for Heavy Damages. SAYS HE IS FALSELY ACCUSE] Defendants Are John G. Paxton, At torney for Swope Estate, and Two Kausas City Physie clans, ! 5 . Py C P TR Ty CHICAGO, Jan. $1.~8trychnine was four throughout the viscers of the late Colonc Thomas H. Swope, the Kansas City millior alre, according to a report made by Dn Walter 8. Haines, Ludwig Hektoen an Victor C. Vaughan to John G. Paxtor executor of the Swope estate, today, Th same polson {s also belleved to have beer ofund in the liver of Chrisman Swope, | nephew of Colonel Swope, but it was ar nounced that the examingtion of his organ. had not been completed to tho satisfaction of tho toxicoiogists and would be continued Although Virgtl Conkling, the prosecutin: attornoy of Kansas City, refused to make any statement. Mr. Paxton sajd that crim- Inal prosecution would follow thelr return home. The following statement was given out by Mr. Paxton after his conference with the doctors: Paxton Makes Amnonnceme: “On account of the widespread fnterest in the fnvestigntion that has been made into the couse of the death of Thomas H. Swope, 1 feel It proper for me to make public the fact that Dr. Hektoen, Dr. Haines and Dr. Vaughan, as the result of their Investigutions extending over a period of several woeks, give to me thelr opinion that Mr. Swope died from the effects of polson.” The Kansas City party returned home to- night and will be present at the inquest to- morrow. Those present at the autopsy held at the university besides Mr. Paxton, Mr. Conk- ling and the three doctors were, Attorney James A. Reed, an associate of Mr. Pax- ton in the Swope estate; Coroner E. E. Zwart and Thomas H. 8wope, a nephew of the dead millionaire, The conference lasted several hours and {every bit of the evidence submitted by the toxicologists was carefully considered | before the statement concerning the find- ing of polson was made pul Hoch of the threa doctors dec! at _he “way | Batisfied beyond any t stryehnine was present in various places In Colonel Swope's organs. While 1o one would make a statement that strychnine itself was administered, Mr. Paxton sald that all were satistied [that a drug containing strychnine In large ! quantities had been given the dead man, |Mr. Paxton and Thomas Swope were | ereatly agitated by the report. Mr. Swope | would make no statement concerning his | susplcions or future plans, but Mr. Paxton | was emphatic in his predictions that crim- inal prosecutions would follow immediately after the return of the party to Kansas City. When pressed to name the person or persons under suspigion, Mr. Paxton | absolutely refused to name anyone. {pr. mypE “FILES Two s sUITs Man Alleged to be Implicated, Asks $700,000 Dumasnes, KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 8L.~The filing |of damage suits dgainst an attorney and two physicians connected with the Investi- gations of the deaths of Colonel Thomas H. and Chrisman Swope by Dr. B. C. Hyde, | the Swope family, physiclan, for sums ag- gregating §700000 marked his . active trance into the case hera today, The defendants ave, John C. Paxton, Dr. |Frank J. Hall, & bacteriologist, and. Dr. Edward L. Stewart, asking additional dam- |ages aggregating $000,000 for alleged de- { famitory statements made by them against the plaintitt in connection with the death {of the Swopes, Mr. Paxton, who for many years has been the Swope counselor, is now in Chi- cago with attorneys for the Swope inter- ests ‘and the coroner and prosecutor of this county, cenferring with the three chemists who recently have been examin- ing the organs of the two dead Swope men, Dr. Hyde is related by marringe to the Swope family, haviog married the daugh- ter of Mys, Logap O. Bwope, mother of |Chrisman §Wope, OF, Hyde hus bess as- |Soclated with moine of the leadsem g siclans of Kansas Citv. Fermerig me | etty surgeon, was secretary nr%— -E'. sourl State Medicul soclety and a me: ber of the staff of the city hospital, The part of the petition in which Mr. Baxton's alleged statement is qudted fol- lows: “I belleve that Colonel Thomas H. Bwope and Chrisman Swope were polsohed and did not dle from natural causes, and I be- lieve that Dr. Hyde (meanin§ the plain- tff) polsoned or caused them to be po's- oned, and thereby causcd thelr deaths. Apd 1 belleve that he (meaning the plaln- Inoculated the Swope famlly with typhold germs and caused several mem- of sald family, including Margaret Swope and Ludy Lee Swope, to contraet typhold fever. tever. “And that he (meaning the plaintitf) at- tempted to polson sald Margaret Swope and Lucy Lee Swope, weaning thefeby and Intending to mean and charge, and belng understood by him who heard such state- ments to mean and charge ihat plaintiet had murdered Thomas H. Swope and Chris- man Bwope, and had attempted to kill and murder Margaret Swope and’ Lucy Lee Swope, and was therefore guilty of the erlme of murder and was lable for capital punishment therefor, and alfo Bulity of the erime of assault with intent to kill, and llable to convietion and punishment thersfor Ju the penitentiary * STATEMENT BY HYDE Brother Took White PlIL Oy Dr. Twyman, KANSAS CITY, Jan. 81.-Mrs, B. ©. Hyde In & signed statement this afternoon declared that Chrisman Swope shortly be- fore he died he had taken some ‘‘white MRS, Prescribed pilis” prescribed by & physiclan In Kan-