Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 12, 1910, Page 1

v « ( [} » ” WNEWS SECTION PAGES1 TO & / THE OMAHA DAILY BEE VOL. XXXIX—NO. 184, WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska. Partly cloudy Generally fair, For weather report sce page For Town OMAHA, SATURDAY ,\17)}?\'])1(}, FP)BRVIZ‘\liY» 12, 1910—SIXTEEN PAGES. ASH FOR RIVERS AND HARBORS Waterways Appropriation Bill Carry-| ing Forty-Two Millions Intro- duced in House. WILL COME UP MONDAY ,@mm Will Be Made to Expedite Its Passage. LARGELY AN ANNUAL BUDGET Contemplates Stated Amounts Yearly for Certain Projects. PLANS FOR THE MISSISSIPPI Six Feet Channel St. Paul to St. Lo Elght Feet to Cairo and Niné Below that Point—Million for the Missouri, WASHINGTON, Feb. 1l.-Waterway pro- ’fects throughout the country at a cost of $42,955,276, of which $7,200,4% is for con- tlnuing contracts, are provided,for in the rivers and harbors appropriation bill re- ported to the House today by the commit- e on rivers and harbors. ‘The bill will be called up In the house Monday in an effort to press the measure to passage as expeditiously as possible. The $7,000.000 odd outside the cash appropriations is for ex- wenditures which hercafter may be made under the continuing contract system. The bill is theoretically an annual budget, al- though no regular tivers and harbors bill has been reported since that approved March 2, 1907. All the projects already ment aggregate $252,017.40, Mississippt river from under improve- including the Cairo to the head of the passes., Further projects favorably | reported by the engineers, but not yet adopted by congress, amounting to $7,648,- 600, or a total of $339,566,00, including the projects provided for under the present blil, which would leave $29,000,000 yet un- acted upon, if congress adopts the present measure. The total amount required to complete ted projects, excopt the Mississippl i‘: foots up §10,629,100, and for the Missis- pi river $17,601,650, from the mouth the Missourl to the mouth of the Ohio; $18,600,000 thence to St..Paul and $9,550 from St. Paul to Minneapolt Projects Untinished Besides this the cost of projects, which congress, Laving started, presumably in- tends to complete, Js estimated at $9,346,- £00 and the canalization of the Ohio for & nine-foot depth. practically adopted in the bill apprcved March 3, 1908, is placed at $60,280,600, making a total of $177,617,400, which “‘congre qommitted to."” - v Notfolk, Va.; Moblle, Ala.; New York harbor, the great lakes, the Detroit river and other sectlons recelve great attention. ‘The biil prpvides not only increassd ap- propriations/ {or the ' tributdries of the Mississippl, but fixes a time limit when such permdnent jmproved channels shall completed. The policy adopted by the bR for the Mississippl river between Cairo and /the gulf anticipates an expendi- ture of $4,000,000 each year for twenty years, which will complete a permanent improved nine-foot channel from Cairo to the gulf. Of this $4,000,000 this year half is car- ried in the sundry civil bill, which will be taken up soon by the appropriations com- mittee. The middle Mississippi from the mouth of the Missouri to the mouth of the Ohfo will have a permanent eight- Toot channel 2,600 feet wide in twelve vears under the provisions of the bill, To enable completion in twelve years of the s!x-foot channel of the upper Missis- sippl from the Misscuri river to St. Paul the bill carried $300,000 in addition to a liko amcunt to he carried in the sundry efvil bill, Million for Missourl. The Missouri ‘river gets $1,000,000 and for the Ohlo approximately $5,000,000 a year for twelve years is contemplated. The bll provides for a board of en: glneers to copsider co-operation with the Illinols authorities for the waterway from Lockport to the mouth of “the [linols riyer, though the proposed appropriation of $1,000,000 for this waterway is not Yet / “made avallable pending further affirma- tive legislation by congress, An appropriation of $150,000 is made x;r commencing work under the Puget i ound-Lake Washington waterway, the Lake Washington canal, which is to pro- .vide for commercial, industrial and naval and milftary uses, a harbor near Seattle *I‘l,h about 25,000 acres area and 100 miles | re lifle, and contracts to the extent of ,160,000 for its completion are author- ized, conditioned on local co-operation. The bill also includes $5600,000 for ex- aminations, surveys and contingencles of rivers and harbors, $800,000 for emergen- cles and $60,000 for a permanent interna- tional commission of congress of paviga- tion. 'CANDY BUTCHER LOSES TEETH IN COLLISION ON WABASH Two Passenger Trains Come Together Near Des Moines—Engineer May Die. » DES MOINES, Ia, Feb. 1li—Engineer Willlam' Rucker of Moberly, Mo., was probably fatally injured and three others were badly bruised in a head-on collision of two Wabash passenger trains near Des | Moines foday. Arch Bishop of Blue Barth, | Minn, travellng man, was bruised, as was | George Dearth of Des Moines. The mnewsboy was Knocked through a window and lost his teeth. the airbrakes on the train, which left Des Moines at T o'cloek, to work was re- sponsible for the erash. The other train was Incoming, dug here at §,0'clock. \ PRINTING CLERK AS LOBBYIST Semate Employe Who Promoted Post. master’s Olaims Re- signs. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Willlam Turner of Oregon, printing clerk of the senate, has resigned. Jt was brought out during p Tecent imvestigmtion of postmusters’ ¢alms for extra allowances between the vears 154 and 1574 that Mr. Turner had been active In promoting them. Adverse were made upon all of the resolutions bearing upon those claims. It s stated that inquiry at the govern- meutguinting office diselosed that & de- I Minting the reports was due to or ders Mr. Turner and this faet re- sulted in the resignation. of | r may be considercd as The tallure of | Ludden Has Few Words for Secretary of State Board of Educa- tion Replies to Charge Made by Deposed Principal. | [ (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Feb, 11.—(Special)—Luther P. Ludden, secretary of the State Board of Education, today issued a lengthy state- ment In which he defends the action of the board in asking for the resignation of Prin- | clpal Crabtree of the Peru Normal school. | Mr. Ludden says bluntly that Prof. Crab- tree is to blame for the trouble; that he | was insubordinate and would not obey the [order of the board; that he persistently ignored Dr. Shellhorn, the resident member at Peru, and conducted the school and regardless of the rules made by the board. The trouble, according to Mr. Ludden, be- gan a long time ago and came up first over the fees pald by students and the form of receipt to be used. In 1%§ a form of recelpt was adopted, the committee de- vistng it being composed of Mr. Ludden, Principal Crabtree of Peru and Principal Thomas of Kearney, After its adoption the | receipt was used at Kearney, but never at Peru. On’ one oceasion, when the board | haa declined to give permission for the employment of a music teacher at $100 per month at Peru, Prof. Crabtree employed | the teacher and pald the salary out of fees collected from students, and the employ- ment has continued ever since. despite the action of the board. Similar incidents are related, and some examples of the busi- ness management of the Peru Normal | #chool are set out to indicate the capacity 1of the principal for its control. | In defense of the board, Secretary Lur- [den says that frequantly when th [ters came up for action someone would {argue that Crabtree was such a strong |school man that he ought not to be dis- |turbed and that the board should overlook some things. This argument has always prevalled. As to the politics In the case, {he points out that as soon as Shallen- berger was elected, with a democratic legislature behind him, Crabtree went over to the democrats and alded in passing a bill to overturn the State Board of Educa- tion and put in a democratic arrangement. This proved a fallure, as the supreme court decided against the new and in favor of the old board. If the matter has political bearing it Is not the fault of the board that the prinetpal is on the wrong side. If “the fight has only begun,” as Prof. Crabtree is quoted as remarking, Secretary Ludden promises to make some further | disclosures that will give full detalls of certain proceedings hefore the legislature and in other way; ‘Fight ot Court With Senators Postponed Week Hearing Which Three Senators Re- fuzed to Attend is Continued | by Judga WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Whether the {Joint congressional committee on printing is an executive branch of the government outside the jurisdiction of the courts will not be declded primarily, at least, for two weeks. Justice Wright in the supreme court of the District of Columbia today granted an adjournment for that period in the man- damus proceedings brought against the committee by the Valley Paper company of Holyoke, Mass., citing it to show cause why the bid of the company to furnish paper for government printing should not be accepted. The congressmen of the committee, Allen F. Cooper of Pennsylvania, George C. Stur- gls of West Virginia and David E. Finley of South Carolina, were represented by ! counsel, The senators, however, Jonathen ! Bourne of Oregon, Duncan U, Fletcher of | Florida and Reed Smoot of Utah, standing lon the action of the senate, maintaining that the court had no jurisdiction over | them, were not represented. | The paper company maintains In its pe- tition that its bld on paper was the lowest submitted, and thrown out illegally. i Frees Lincoln of Charge of Fraud | Foreman of Famous Armstrong Trial Clears Almanac Story Just Before Death. BOONE, Ia., Feb, 11.—(Special Telegram.) —~Milton Logan, sr. aged 91 years, died this morning at 4 o'clock of old age, He is survived by a widow and six children. He | was a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln and also foreman of the jury in the famous | Armstrong murder trial, in which Lincoln {took the defense of Widow Armstrong's | son, who was charged with murdering a !Germln resident. One witness swore he w Armstrong strike the man by the light of the moon. Lincoln cross-examined the witness, got him to repeat his story, then, | according to the story, produced an almana showing there was no moon on that night, | thus freeing Armstrong. Latef It wa claimed Lincoln had the wrong almanac and changed the date, but Mr. Logan be- {fore his death denled this, saying he per- | sonally examined the almanac. The funeral | services will be held Sunday afternoon. f | l Mr. Crabtree| |COTTON administered its finances in his own way, | HIGH IDEALS ON. tion that Any Q" Coun~ " EXCHANGE Deals in Which Delivery is Not Made Are Iniquitous. DECLINES T0 GIVE DETAIS| Insists that All New York Contracts Amount to Delivery. ‘ CROP IS SHORT Production this Seawon, He Says, is Over Three Million Bales Less Than Consumption Last Year, WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—“I regard that question as an insult to me and to every member of the Cotton exchange,” declared Vice President Arthur R. Marsh of the New York Cotton exchange at today's hear- ing before the house committee on agri- culture on the anti-option bill. Representative Sims of Tennessee had asked Mr. Marsh if there was any way of eliminating transactions which did not con- template actual delivery, causing, in effect, business In contraventlon in the regular rules of the exchange. Mr. Marsh, with livid face, emphatically resented any Imputation that members of tho exchange countenanced fraud and cheating. Mr. Sims explained that what he meant was whether the business could not be so conducted as to'eliminate gambling, “not that Mr. Marsh or other members are con- sclously gullty of such practices.” Against All Intquity, “I am against all iniquity,” declared Mr, Marsh. “I pronounce all undertakings en- tered into by any human being with the intent of ‘not fulfilling that which he un- dertakes to do as iniquitous. The prasump- tion in business oireles is that an honorable man, holding an honorable position In the business community, is neither a fraud nor a cheat.” Mr. Marsh described the members and functions of the exchange and -admitted that there were some speculative transac- tlons. He insisted that the present system- of transactions amounted to actual deliv- ery, but declined to furnish any details of his own business to show just how much notual dellvery was performed under his contraocts. All Contracts Enforet ““The world 18 not producing enough cot- ton for its use,” he declared. “This year it is producing 3,000,000 to 3,00,000 bales less than it consumed last year. There has never been a time in the history. of totton when there has been more anxlety regard- ing the price of cotton than there is now. This will ebntinue until the world normally produces enough for its needs, or the needs are brought down to the production.” Chairman Scott asked if theré was much speculation In cotton on change or by its members by entering Into contracts for purchase or sale o fcotton with the hope of profit. “There is no member of the exchange,” wa§ Mr. Marsh's reply, “whose entire fortune is not responsible for his contracts with tellow members,” Cotton Crop Short. Mr. Scott read a letter from H. L. Scales of a New York firm, characterizing the cotton exchange contract as a menace. Mr. Marsh agreed that spinners could not at- ford to’ buy future contracts bn the New York Cotton exchange unless they exercise mercantile functions, *“Then how can the New York merchants furnish the spinners with cotton?’ asked Mr. Scott, “The spinner,” replied Mr. Marsh, “gets | his from the merchant, who has the true | New York stock scattered from one part | of the world to another. The New York stock is all the cotton In the world against which contracts have been sold to buyers In New York. Every contract on the New York exchange,” he insisted, “is enforcable and legal. Mr. Marsh characterized the Scott bill to regulate cotton exchange transactions as tutlle and unconstitutional. ‘ADVENTISTS SEEK NEW SITE Swedish Department Will Be Trans- ferred from Union College, Near Lincoln. The executive committee of the general conference of Seventh Day Adventists are secking & site near Chicago for a proposed Swedish seminary. When bullt the Swedish department of Union college at Lincoln, Neb., will be transferred to the new in- stitute, It is planned to afford the stu dents tralning In practical agriculture and fruit growing. THREE HURT IN COLLISION Two Freight Trains Come Together on the Missouri Pacific in Kansas. OTTAWA, Kan, Feb. 1L.—Three train- men were injured when Missourl Pacific freight trains Nos. 68 and 67 collided head- on near Garnett, Kan., early today. The injured men were Engineer White, Fire- man Landis and Brakeman Bolsbort, all of the eastbound train. Four cars were wrecked and sixty mules in one of the cars were killed. | school, has not got typhold fever. attending his case and I never reported it |as typhold. I never told anyone, newspa- per reporter or other, that he had it This is the statement of Dr. J. H. Vanee, the physiclan attending Mr. Carnaby, who was heralded by an evening paper Thurs- day as a typhold vietim, in the course of its persistent pro-typhold eampafgn. Dr. Holovtehiner, member of the Board of Education, asked The Boe If it wouldn't Publish this statement merely as a mat- ter of truth, so that parents reading the other paper might know that Mr. Carna. Dr. Vance Says High School -~ Janitor Has Not Typhoid “Joseph Carnaby, janitor at the high, by's sickness\was not typhold and might I am|be allayed in any excitement about the I malady existing at the high school. “We should be frank about & thing gy serious as typhold fever,” says the doctor, “and even If it is not the habit of some to utter the truth on other gocasions, they should all be honest In this. ““The fact that Mr. Carnaby’s own physi- clay says he is not afflicted with typhold and that he never gave anybedy the least excuse’ for saying he was, ought to be sufficlent. “I hope the parents whose children are in the high school will not be misled by the deceptive and baseless reports.” COTTON 'CHANGE From the New York World. SINGLE UNPERTURBED. TELLS STORY OF BRIRERY Senator Benn Conger Says He Gave Three Legislators $6,000. ALLDS SHARE WAS Details of Alleged Corrupting of New York Assembly Behalt of Bridge Concerns Told on Stand, & ALBANY, N. %, Feb, 11 ~Sefator Ben Conger told the tenate In detail this after- noon how Senator Jotham P, Allds de- madnded a $1,000 bribe nine years ago when they both were membeérs of the assembly and how Allds got it. The volee of Allds' aceuser, tense and low, penetrated to the farthest corner of the great chamber. Slowly he laid be- fore his colleagues a story of legislative corruption which even the previous reve- ations of the Investigation failed to par- allel. His story agreed in every point with that of Hiram G. Moe. He told how ne and Moe delivered $6,000 to three legisla- tors to protect the bridge Interests. Then he fixed his eyes on Allds and concluded as follows: “And Mr. Allds came out and passed me, saying, ‘I guess it's all right, Conger. It feels good.' " Conger added that none of the persons involved In the transaction other than Mr. | Allds are members of the legislature now. In 1901 he was a merchant in Groton, in the firm of Jay Conger & Co. At that time he was not active in the bridge busi- ness, holding only $1,000 stock In the concern. His three brothers, however, were active in the bridge business. Conger sald that in 1901 he was a mem- ber of the assembly and on the committee on internal affairs. He had several con- versations in that year with Allds, who was also a member of the assembly, re- garding highway legislation. Directed to relate a conversation the witness sald: Allds Demands Money. “Allds said to me, ‘Benn, you think you havé got the bridge bill bottled up in the internal affairs committee. Don't forget the rules committee takes hold soon. I understand there's something dofng on that. You had better get the American Bridge people up here and see the rules committes . Conger next told of introducing Allds to his brother. The witness sald: “He told my brother that the bridge bill was one of the ‘good things.’ He said: “We fellows up here have to have some expense money." “My brother said he did not want the bill to pass, as it would hurt his busi- ness. “Mr. Allds sald the rules committee would want 00 to kill that bill. My brother said that was too high and sald he would give §1,000. “Mr. Allds said that for $1,000 he would do what he could as a member of the committee, but he could not say what the other members would do.” The witness then related in detail the manner in which the money was paid. With Conger still on the stand the in- vestigation adjourned until 11 & m. Tues- day. John Newell, Albany agent of the Can- ton Bridge company, testifying today, con- firmed Moe's previous statement thut they had met In 1901 when Moe says he to Albany with the $6,000 bribe money. The thousands up- on thousands, and thousands, who dive into the sea of Bee Want Ads tomorrow morning from early candle light until late at night, represent every class. If you have an ad and capn't get down to The Bee office, and have a phone, call Douglas 238 and it will be all right. But do it earlv. $1,000 ! ame | | onto Ballinger Case Postponed Until Monday Morning Committee Adjo; After Informal Session at Request of Attor- ney Brandeis. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1l—-After a session lasting less than an hour, during which the tuture conduet of the case was Informally discussed, the Ballinger-Pinchot congres- slonal investigating committee today granted the request of Attorney Louls D. Brandels for an adjournment until Monday next, at 10 a. m. Louls R. Glavis, chief witness for the prosecution, was mot present when the committee met. Mr. Brandels telegraphed from Springtield, I, requesting the ad- Journment. George W, Pepper, attorney for A. C. Shaw and Overton W. Price, who were Qismissed from the forest services along with Gifford Pinchot, requested that a letter written by them to Mr. Pinchot be read as thelr testimony and that they be excused, to permit of their leaving the city. The committee decided to accept the letter infgrmally and to decide on Monday whether either Price or Shaw shall be called as a witness, One of the witnesges present today was Henry M. Hoyt, attorney general of Porto Rico, who reached the city today in re- sponse to a request from the committee. Mr. Hoyt has been mentioned several times by Glavis as having given him ad- vice on matters affecting the Alaska coal land cases, Mr. Hoyt at the time being the | speclal attorney for the United States, The committee has invited the editors and publishers of all the magazines that have recently been attacking Secretary Ballinger to appear and present any facts in their possession. Thus far two of the publishers have definitely declined, saying they had no information first hand in the matter, while a third has stated that he thought Mr. Glavis and Mr. Pinchot would give the committee more than he himself could pro- duce, although he stood willing to appear if requested. Some of the witnesses, especially those summoned from the west, are suffering much inconvenience because of delays in the hearing. RUMOR IN NEW YORK THAT ASTORS MAY BE RECONCILED Mrs. Astor Falls to Make U plication for Final vorce Decree. 5W /YORK, Feb. 1L--Tawyers in the sult brought by Mrs. John Jacob Astor for divorce from Colonel John Jacob Astor had nothing to say today report that the Astors may be raconciled. The report arose from the failure Mrs. Astor's counsel to apply within the last three days for a confirmation of the | interlocutory decree granted by Justice Mi It is the custom for counsel to apply at the earliest moment to the court to make final the decree of divorce. Mrs, Astor is now In Burope and Colonel Astor left the city yesterday. ‘The divorce proceedings were conducied last fall before Justice Mills and no names ere mentioned that would make difficut a reconclliation. regarding the | ot | JORN A, SCOTT PASSES AWAY, County Commissioner Dies at Omaha General Hospital of Heart Trouble. PRESIDENT OF ROD AND GUN CLUB | Deceased Taken to Hospital Week Ago and Death Hourly Expected ~—Resident of City Twenty Years. . John A. Scott, member of the Board of | County Commissioners and president of the |Rod and Gun elub, died Friday, atternoon | at (he Omaha General hospital at 8:2 o'clock, finally sucoumblug to a, disease against which he had made a gallant fight and ageinst the attack of which he had | lived days longer thax it was supposed he | could Mr. Scott had been il with arterial eclerosis, an_ affliction of the heart, which is an allment of slow progress, for a time. | He first went to the hospital January 6| and remained about two weeks. Then he | recovered suffictently to attend one regular | meeting of the Board of County Commis- siorers and one committee meeting. Dur- ing this short period he resumed living at the Millard hotel. | Becoming {1l again, he returned to the! hospital a week ago, and fok three days grew rapldly worse. Early this week It seemed as though he could hardly survive | each hour. Physicians, by administering j oxygen, were able to prolong life one weeit He was consclous part of the last few days and his dying hours were comforted | ernoon. COPY TWO CI GRAND JURY FOR SWOPE MYSTERY Special Panel \-NE‘MAM Investiga- tion Into Death of Millionaire's Nephew., SWORN STATEMENT OF KURSE Chrisman Swope Died Soon After Taking Medicine in Capsule. STORY LIKE MISS KELLAR'S Disease at First Was Nothing But Typhoid Fever, |BIG ESTATE IS APPRAISED |Its Value is About Three and Halt Millions—Inheritance Tax, Which Goes to University, | $175,000, KANSAS CITY, Feb. 11.+-Tt was asserted | today that the special grand jury which | Wil meet tomorrow to Investigate the | Swope mystery was summoned more to in- | vestigate the circumstances surrounding {Chrisman Swopes' death than to: probe further into the manner and cause of the |death of his uncle, Colonel Thomas H. Swope. And again it will be a nurse who wiil give the important testimony. In the hands of the Swope attorneys is the sworn statement of this nurse, Miss Houlehan. This statement is even as dra- matlc as the story related by Miss Pearl | Keller on the witnessstand. It tells of her being MO Bwope io care for Chrisman Swope, who was stricken with typhoid. The nurse describes minutely the symptoms, those of the stralght ty- phold patient, the high fever, the irregu- | lar pulse. And then it tells of the corivulsions In which Chrisman Swope died. It was about 0 o'clock Sunday afternoon, the nurse states in her affidavit, that she was told | Chrisman had been given a capsul, Thirty minutes later followed the convulsions, al- | most identically the same as those in which Colonel Swope died. The nurse tells of the injegtion of one-fortleth of a grain of strychnine, and later of the use of & nitro- glycerine Injection. This was Sunday aft- The next day Chrisman died. All this the grand jury will hear when it meets to probe into the Swope mystery. Hyde Keeps Silence. In the whirl of legal battles, formal ac- cusations and veiled charges, the attorneys for Dr. Hyde keep silent. “We are not ready to talk yst" Frank P. Wal-h sald. “Dr. Hyde will no: tell his story until he tells it to the jury that tries him for his life, it he is tried. Then he will explain everything and knock the props out from under all the charges." The appraisement of the Swope estate to- day showed s total value to be about $3,500,000. The University of Missouri will receive G per cent, or $17,000, of this amount, as inheritance tax. Henry Jost, first assistant prosecuting attorney, sald it would require ten days or more for the grand jury to finish its Investigation of the deaths. Witneases will not be disposed of hastily, he salid. It was stated at the prosecutor's office that the examination of witnesses before the grand jury will begin tomorrow after- noon. The grand jurors summoned by the mar- shal today ar T. J. Green, Kansas City, dealer; K. D. Sprucl, Dallas, farmer; Wal- ter Rider, Independence, real estate dealer; John H. Moody, Independence, real estate dealer; James G. Burnley, Buckneer banker; & I Montgomery, Biue Springs, banker: Willlam Warren, ~Grain Valley, hardware merchant; Jullan Jackeon, Lone Jack, farmer; Robert Howard, Lee's Sum- mit, farmer; Fred Taylor, Kansas City, manager drygoods company; Joseph Lyz: ter, Kansas Clty, manager drygoods com- pany; H, C. Gardncr, Kansas City, buyer for wholesale grocery company. The preliminary hearing In the justice real estate by the presence of a sister, Mrs. James | Laverty of Westport, N. ¥. Another sister, | Miss Isabelle Scott of Merchantville, N, J., | and two brothers, Heibert Scott of Com- | den. N. J., and Theodore W. Scott, who is | a pharmacist in the United States navy, | row stationed upon the Soles, survive the | deceased. | Funeral services will be conducted Sun- day afternoon at 2:30 o'clock afh All Salnt: church. The pallbearers will be Frank Boyd, George Engler, Loring Nebergall, | Albert Bloom, F. D. Wead and John Morton. | County Roavd WIll Act. | News of Mr. Scott's death reached the | Board of County Commissioners at a meet- ing of the committee of the whole. A regular meeting of the board was scheduled for this morning, and It was determined to | meet then, appoint a committeo on resolu- | tions and adjorn out of respect to Mr.| Scott's memory. ‘ Mr. Scott was born in Pennsylvania and was in his forty-elghth year when death came. He had been a resident of Omaha twenty years. Coming here he at once engaged in the real estate business, which he prosccuted successfully.© He had for many years been the Omaha representative |of the East Omaha Land and Trust com- pany. He was the organizer of the Omaha Rod {and Gun club and has been its president since Its inception several years ago. John A. Scott succeeded the late M, L. Kennard for the long term on the Board of County Commissioners. A pecullar and colncidence s connected with Mr. Scott and his predecessor on the board Mr. Kennard was taken seriously Il a short while before the republican primaries | last year and later was taken to Chicago (Continued on Loan of $7,000, Through Taxicab Window 000 Arrainged 5. NEW YORK, Feb, 1.—In a determined effort to prevent the attorneys for the and Independent Telephone com- panies from calling J. Plerpont Morgan to the witness stand in the hearing before a notary here, his counsel today revealed Just what the famous financler hsd to do With the $7.00000 deal. It shows how easlly and quickly great financlal matters are handled tn Wall street. “H. P. Davieson, a partner in the Mor- n firm, was the only one who knew of the transaction,’ sald one of Mr. Morgan' lawyers. “After ho had made all arrange ments he sought Mr. Morgan to tell him about it and obtain his formal consent. Mr. Morgan had just left his office, bu Mr. Davieson caught h's taxicab at the ocurb and through a window of It told Mr. Morgan the principal detalls and that the Morgan firm was to pay R. L. Day & Co. 7,245,000 for the Ohlo and Indiana com- That was the first and only thing n ever heard of the matter. But he sald to Davieson: ‘All right, go ahead with the deal and close it up. I'm in al hurry mow to keep a luncheon appoint- ment.' “That is all Mr. Morgan knows about it." | with | ean tak court at Independence on the charge of murder against Dr. Hyde by John G. Pax- ton will be continued from time to tisy, It was announced today, pending the final ort of the grand jury. If the grand jury returns an Indictment agalnst any one the case in the justice court will be dismissed. Practically the same result will be reached it no indlctment 1Is returned, as in that case there probably will be no further ef- forts to prosccute any one for the deaths in the Swope family, Battle of Lawyers. i Following the sensational developments in the Swope case yesterday, when Dr. B. C. Hyde was arrested, charged the murder of his wife's uncle, Thomas H. Swope, and a grand jury was summoned to convene tomorrow and make thorough Investigation of all the clrcumstances surrounding the Swope mystery, a battle of lawyers to se- cure the depositions of important witnesses in the damage suit brought by Dr. Hyde agalnst John G. Paxton for alleged slander was resumed today. . In this civil sult Dr. Hyde demands $50,000 actual damages and $0,00 punitive dam- | ages because Mr. Paxton wrote a letter to Stewart 8, Fleming, an exccutor of the Swope estate at Columbla, Tenn., contain- ing statements which Dr. Hyde charges slandered him, Mr. Paxton had been summoned to ap- pear at the office of Frank P. Walsh, Dr. Hyde's leading attorney, to give his depo- sition in the case today, It was beleved that Mr. Paxton's testimony would occupy several hours' time, Members of the Swopo, family also had been subpoenaed by Mr. Walsh, Hyde's Temporary Advantage. At the present time the Hyde forces scem | to have obtained an advantage In the tak- ing of depositions. Mr, Paxton's attorneys no depositions today, as they had subpoenaed witnesses to testify in another civil sult brought by Dr. Hyde, but which was dismissed yesterday as & part of the | strategy of the Hyde attorneys. The testimony of Dr. Chasses Hatred | Chase Jordan of Kansas City, Kan. who | at one time prescrived medicine for the | Swope family, may be injected into the | deposition-taking. Every effort has been | made to subpoenae Dr. Jordan, but he is 11l with pnewnonia and -the subpoenae | #ervers so far have falled to reach him. Since Dr. Hyde's arrest the records of | Willlam Jewell college, a Baptist institu- tion at Liberty, Mo., Irom which he was graduated In 1592, have been searched. It developed that Hyde's record as a student was excellgnt, and that he was popular with both his instructors and class mates. Dr. H. G. Parker, present head of the department of chemistry, at Willlam Jewell college, who was a class mate of Dr. Hyde, says that as & student of chemistry Hyde was one of the best la the class and that