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L] 4 | o \ THE OMAHA BEE B the most powerfnl business getter in the west, becanse it goes to the homes of poor amd rich. A NINE-DOLLAR HE OMAHA DAILY BEE VOL. XXXIX-NO. 188, OMAHA, THURSDAY TART DEMANDS PROMPT ACTION President is Dissatisfied with Prog- ress Congress is Making on Platform Measures. LEADERS AT WHITE HOUSE [} Men in Charge of Important Bills Summoned for Conference, COMMITTEES SENATE SLOW Chairmen Tell President They Cannot Get Members to Meet. MAY SEND SPECIAL MES\ Unless Informal Conferences Prody Decided Results Chief Executive May Take Drastic ures Himse! Mean- WASHINGTON, Féb. 16—The slow progress being made by congress in dlspos- ing of the important measures which the president has speolally urged upon Its at- tention Is causing him extreme dissatisfac- tion and he s taking measures to let that | fact be known. Today he was called upon at the White House, presumably at his own request, by several legislators in charge of the varlous measures and the necessity for prompt action, at least upon some of the minor matters of leglslation, was strongly urged by him. Among theso was Senator Beveridge chalrman of the committee on territories, who I8 looking after the Alaska territorial | bill; Senator Carter, who is fathering the pastal savings bank bill; Senator Borah who has distinguished himself by his active opposition to some of the features of the latter measure, and Representative Hayes ranked as an insurgent. be helpful In securing united action by the republican majority In the houss upon campaign platform pledges It v belleved the president desires that #uch measures as the Arizona and New Mexico statehood bill, the Alaskan terri- torlal bill and others of comparatively minor importance be actéd upon at once in order to clear the way for some of the larger subjects, at least those likely to give rise to prolonged discussion and con- | troversy. Senator Beveridge Is sald to have re ported that he found difficulty in getting his committee together to dispose of busi- ness, and a similar cofplaint comes from other quartere. The president will continue his personal investigations with the various leaders in the senate and house, and if this course dnes not ks&ll to promote speedy action in congress on the measures referred to, it is possible that he may feel called upon to send a special message to congress, placing the responsibility where it belongs. Garfietd on Ballinger 11 A _heprlag. 103ay, was, given by the full commities o1 puble linds to formér Sec: | retary of the Interior James R, Garfield, e discussed chietly the bill relating to the development of water power through the leasing of the public land adjacent to the )‘flktr. As a general principle he approved the proposition of Secretary Balinger, but sug- gested a number of vine:d the committee that attention must be glven to the questions involved. Mr Garfleld is of the opinion that the water power should be developed by co- operation of the federal and state govern- ments, He endorsed the suggestion of leasing the public lands adjacent to water sites to concerns which will undertake to develop power under conditions that will prevent monopoly. He suggested that 25 per cent of the proceeds from rentals should be pald by the natlonal government | gy, 1y “Eibert Warren Clark died here | to the states in which the veloped. Why net 75 per cent?" Smoot. Mr. GArfield sald that he had named 25 per cent, as that was the amount the states received from proceeds of forest re- rve rentals. M Smoot called attentlon to the power is de- asked Senator fact that it was costly to admiuister forest re- | serves, while it cost little to for water power development. Mr. Gar- fleld then sald he thought the states should recelve 76 per cent of the rentals. FFATALITIES FOLLOW STATE CAPITOL GRAFT CASES John E. ott, Chief Witness, Found Desd In Bathtub at Harrisburg. HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 16.—The strange fatality that has pursued some of the prin- cipal figures in the capitol scandal was agaln brought to public mind today, when John E. Stott, one of the chief witnesses in the case, was found dead In the bath room of the house where he made his home while in Harrisburg. He I8 q;mn man in the case to dle. His death™was due to heart trouble, Stott was secretary of the Board of Pub- lle Grounds and Buildings, which let many of the contracts for furnishing the capitol that brought more than a dogzen men to the bar of justice. He was a witness in two lease lands trials and was to take the stand in the case | of Joseph M. Huston, architect of the capi- tol, whose trial will come up next month. Two of the six men who died were under a two yes trial and s’ sentence two were important witnesses Besldes these one of the many men under indfetment has been confined in an insane | asylum. SENATE MAY KILL POSTAL BILL Friends of Measur Semator Root's Amendment. enr Bond teet of WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Unless Senator Root can be Induced to withdraw or ma- terially modity his amendment to the postal savings bank bill, requiring the invest- whose atd might | changes which con- | | trict at the time of his death. one was awaiting | Niece of Elkins Tries Suicide; Tells Friends Announcement Made at Party Taken as a Joke by Ac- quaintances, KANSAS CITY, Feb. 16.—Miss Agnes kins, a nlece of TUnited States Senator Stephen B. Elkins of West Virginia, shot herself today at her room at a local hotel The bullet passed through her body balow the heart. The physiclans belleve she has a chance for life, A note found on the dressing table read ‘T am tired of lite and have no home or ands." iss Elkins s 25 years old about a year ago, and shortly after- she went to New York against the { her relatives in this eity to apply angagement on the stage. Senator duced her to visit him at Eikins, but could not change her de- to become an actress. She weeks ago to prosecute o against the % company for $25,000 injuries vear ago, but the case was Her mother K poi Why Miss Elkins tried to end her life is not known. She bought a revolver terday and later wrote several letters, Last night she entertained friends in her | apartment and told them, as they belleved, Jokingly, that she was considering suiclde. They laughed at her. After the revolver shot was heard Miss Elkins was found lying across the bed aad yes. Japan Pleased at Tariff Action | Papers Also Profess to Believe Hayes Exclusion Bill Will Not Pass, TOKIO, Feb. 16—The announcement that the United States will grant its minimum tariff rates to Japan, which was communi- cated to the forelgn office by American Ambassador O'Brien and published in all the newspapers, has been received by the | commerclal Interests of the empire with the liveliest satisfaction. It was stated at the foreign office today that the Japanese government never had doubted that the United States would thus reciprocate, proving to the world that America desired the best of trade relations with this country. COUNT BONI'S PARENTS NOW ARE SUING ANNA GOULD Demand She Pry Annuity of 35,600 Settled on Them When She Married Son. PARIS, Feb. 16—The Marquis and Mar- quigo. De Castellane have instituted suit against the Princess De Swgan for $13,69 back annunities which they allege the count and countess In the marriage settle- ment of 1598 engaged themselyos to pay at the rate of $5,600 a year. This annunity was pald until the Count and Countess Do Castellane were dlvorced when the count- ess, who was formerly Miss Anna Gould, refused to contribute further to the sup- port of her husband's parents, argued the case on behalf of the plaintiffs today and M. Clemenceau will reply a week from today. DR. ELBERT W. CLARK DEAD |Leading Towa Man Passes Awny at Grinnell After Long Public Service. | GRINNELL, Ta, Feb. 16.—(Specldl Tele- today of heart exhaustion after a long fll- ness. He was nearly 68 years old. He re- celved a severe injury from a fall two years ago and has never been well since. He leaves a wifc and one son. A public funeral will probably be Held Friday aft- ernoon. Dr. Clark came to Grinnell In 1§71 and | married Martha C. Brainard three years later. He was a trustee of Towa college |and state senator from the Poweshiek dis- He was for five terms a member of the eity council of Grinnell, twice mayor, a member of the | library board, president of the school | board for six years, and president of the Iowa State Medical society. He was rep- | resentative from Poweshiek county in the Thirty-first gencral assembly. As a medical | practitioner he was widely known and of I high repute. 'REV. MR, WARE AGAIN ON RANCH | Cleegyman Imprisoned Fencing Also Resu | tn Church. SIOUX FALLS, 8. D., Feb, 16.—(Special.) —Some interesting Information concerning | Rev. G. C. Ware,, formerly s pastor at | Rapld City and other towns in the Black | Hills, who some months ago completed a | term 1n sail for alleged land frauds in west- ern Nebraska, was given during & business visit to South Dakota by E. E. Long of Mullen, Neb. Long states that Rev. M Ware 13 again living on his ranch near Mullen, and each Sunday goes to Mullen land holds religious services In one of the | churches. He has organized several other | churches in that region and, aceording to Mr. Long, Is doing a great deal of good. Long states that Rev. Mr. Ware, having been tried out, has a fellow feeling for a man who is down and out, and that large number of such men In the region where he lives have been placed upon thei feet by him and started out in life anew a Metropolitan | M. Bonnet | HARRIMAN LINES ' NOT COMPETITIVE Mr. Stubbs Says Union and Southern Pacific Never Were Rivals in Real Sense of Word. NO COMPETITION TO ELIMINATE Says Each Line Had Class of Business | of Its Own. ] HAWLEY'S NAME BROUGHT IN | Witness Says Colorado Magnate Did Not Understand Situation. BUSINESS OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC Through Traffic from board to Atlantic Seas nd and Asiatic Business Over Same Route Only Nominal, Por | NEW YORK, Feb, 15—J. C. Stubbs, gen- | eral traffic director, and E. J | castern general freight mamagor for the Harriman lines, both testified today that there was no real competition between the | Southern and Union Pacific rafiroads prior to their amalgamation in 1901 by the late E. H. Harriman, The United States gov- ernment is suing for a dissolution of the Harrlman merger, on the ground that both | s are compeing lines, barred by federal | | statute from uniting to leiminate compe- | | tition. | | In support of his contention that two lints could serve the same terminals and yet not compete for business, Mr. Stubbs cited the traffic over the “Shasta Route™ (Southern Pacific) and the Oregon Trans- portation company, a water route, between San Francisco and Portland, Ore. The steamship service, he sald, was better than the raiflroad service, except that it was not dally, and the rallroad in-its growth took nothing from the tseamship line, but orlginated new business. Therefore the two lines did not compete. ““We made an effort to get some of this business,” said Mr. Stubbs, “but we gave it up and quit, and that was before the merger."" Edwin Hawley's name was brought into the testimony when Mr. Stubbs declared that in his opinion there was no real com- petition between the Unlon Pacific and the Southern Pacific’s gulf route to points in Colorado and Utah. Attorney Severance for the government | called Mr. Stubbs' attention to the fact that Mr. Hawley had declared when a witness that the Colorado and Utah bu: ness was as eagerly sought by the South- ern Pacific as the Union Pacifle. “Mr. Hawley s a competent man, but I | don't think he understood what the term competition means. If he though a moment he would not have ‘answere that way,' sald Mr. Stubbs, Mr. Spence tesfified that tae Southern Pacific had never been a serious factor in the coast to coast trade. It was the vol- ume of business originating in the south nd southwest, ho said, that made the “Sunset Route" (Southern Paciflc) a factor | {In California. The business of the South- ern Pacific between the Atlantic seaboard and Portland, Ore., for 190, h sald, was |only .16 of 1 per cent. of the company's total, the Colorado-Utah business only .63 of 1 per gent and the Aslatio business of the company over the same route only .06 of 1 per cent. C. A. Severance for the government of- fered a formal objection of these figures | when he got the witness to add that they wero supplied to him by an auditor and that he could not personally vouch for their accuracy. Part Played By Independent Packing Houscs)| | Federal Grand Jury Will Try to Determine What Portion of Bus- iness They Handle. CHICAGO, Feb. 16 {ow many ‘“inde- pendent” packing houses are there In this | country and what proportion of the meat ! business do they handie?" | This will|be the trend of questioning to- | | morrow by the federal grand jury, which is hearing evidence in the government in- | vestigation of the called Beef Trust. At the close of today's session Patrick Bren- nan, president of the Independent Packing company was summoned to appear. With | ovidence already obtained from James A Agar, president of the Western Packing | and Provision company, one so-called “in- | dependent,” it is expected the jurors will | be put into possession of facts relative to | what competition, if any, has existed in | the meat business. Since 1903, it was de- | clared by a lawyer in the case today, the | ‘independents” have flourished under a writ lssued by Judge Grosscup enjolning | the packers from aking advantage of their position to wreck smaller concerns. The | consequence was sald the lawyer ,that the | little packers were able to buy cattle and hogs at the same price pald by the big packers and were also able to sell dressed meat at the sawe price as the big packers. | This was offered as an argument that no trust exists ,although both buying and elling prices appeared to be without the eclement of competition. | | | | Just Six Drinks of Whisky | Tie Up the Union Pacific| ment of postal deposits in United States | bonds that measure probably will feated in the senate. The friends bill practically admit that this is the tion. be de ot situa- HOGS AT K. C. New Wigh RMecora is ¥ the Third Co Day. KANSAS CITY cougeoutive day Feb. 18 8 new For hog record tl mark was reached loads breught this price. Several the the thira was [ hed at the local market today when | car- RAWLINS, Wyo., Feb. 16.—8ix drinks of whisky, distributed equally between two telegraph operators at Dana, tied up the whole Union Pacific system in Wyoming Saturday, aceording to admissions made to- | ‘d.\\ by the raliroad officlals. | The operators were not until familiar with the effects of whisky, an did not Imagine that such & small amount could put them ‘“under the table | The day was Lincoln's birthday and they decided drinking whisky was the only proper way of celebrating, ‘Let's g0 after more boose one of them after tha celebration had | Prosressed 5o far as the six drinks. Saturday | suggested | agreed | about the traims? “Ill fix 'em,” sald the first, and he at | onco swung the red signal board to hold | all the fast mail trains, and hung out a | slgnal on the station door, saying This station s closed.” ‘Now, then,” sald the second operator, | “this 1s Lincoln's birthday, and the Union Pacific will have to get along without us for today.” | A Eood time was had by the operators, | but the road officals, could not see things the way they did, and the two were ar- | “Sure” the other. “But how | corporated and | pending before congres | with From the Clevelind Leader. Had to Come to It. 'SHIRT T00 SHALL FOR TAFT| Indian Scout Holds Back Present He 3 Planned to Give. GOVERNMENT TOWN LOT SALE Will Begin Amctioning Them Off April 8 in Rupert, in Southedn Idaho Irrigation Dis- triet, WASHINGTON, Feb. 16—Escorted by Commissioner Valentine of the Immigra- tion bureau and General Indian Supervisor Holcombe, fourteen representgtives of the Crow Indlans of Montana came to the White House today to protest to the pres! dent against the opening of thelr reserva- tion to settlement as proposed'in a bill in- troduced in the senate by Senator Dixon. One of the members of the party, an old Indian, who had been a scout of Custer, had brought with him an elaborately em- broidered war shirt for the president, but at the sight of the proportions of Mr. Taft and having In mind the diminutive size of the shirt he refrained from presenting his offering. Work on Dam Suspended. Owing .to, cold weather wofk has been temporarily suspended on the Belle Fourche dam, but fifty men and thifty teams are enguged on a ocut below the tunnel in the south canal and it lr suzdoted. thls work will be finished by ths end of “the niotrth. A large force of men is employed by the contractors of the Belle Fourche Valley rafiroad bullding bridges ac the Red Water and Belle Fourche rivers, Owl creek and Indlan creek laterals. Town Lot Sale. Little towns have sprung up so quickly in the once arld deserts where, Uncle Sam has established irrigation projeots: that not only farm lands are in demand, but town lots are selling at falr prices. Business openings In those places which seem prom- 1sing are being reported to the reclamation service. In the new town of Rupert, in the Mini- doka project in southern Idaho, the gov- ernment will begin auctioning town lots on April 8 They are 6x140 each and have already been appraised at from $25 to $76 each. ¥ The village has a population of 500, is In- is on a rallroad. Cheap power is developed from a government dam and contracts for supplying some of it for lighting Rupert and for commerclal and manufacturing purposes have been approved by the secretary of the intertor, Rupert already has an $18,000 pubilc school, several fraternal socleties, five churches and & woman's culture club. The First National bank of Naper, Neb., has been authorized to begin business, with $25,000 capital. J. M. Flannegan is presi dent, G. A. Erickson vice president, C. G. Crosby cashier. John V. Fry was appointed postmaster at | Fernaid, Story county, Ia., vice R. Hilburn, resigned. Albert E. Feuerhelm, appointed rural car- | rter route 1, at Dolton, 8. D. Towa ‘Traction Men See Taft. A delegation of interstate electric rail- road officials told the president today that they strongly objected to that pro- vision In the Interstate Commerce act, to exclude such roads from the operations of the Interstate | Commerce law. At present they have the right under certain conditions to force the steam rallroads to make joint rates them and to exchange traffic and they wish to retain this privilege. Repre- sentatlve Pickett of Towa introduced the delegation, which included W. J. Ferris (Continued o#Second Page.) A waiter In a res- taurant, who had learned stenogra- phy, found a po- sition yesterday through a Bee want ad. The little treasures will find places for boys and girls, because business men requiring help are scanning them religlously, morning and evening. A Bee want ad will do won- ders. It places you in touch with concerns and people, im- possible to reach any other way. If you pay rent on a phone, it will be all right for you to call Doug. | rested. They will be prosecuted, charged Xvum delaying the malls. 238 for anything you wish, Roosevelt and Kermit Off on Elephant Hunt Ex-President Leaves Main Expedition in Search for Big Game Along Congo. GONDOKORO, Mouaan, Nile, Feb. 16.—~The Smithsonlan Afrl- cen sclentific expedition s expected to arrive here at 10 o'clock to- motrow morning. Definite news as to the hour of arrival was brought by a special runner who reached here today. Colonel Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt left the expedition for a day's hunting of elephants and glant elands of Rokaf, on the Congo side of the Bar-El-Jabel. Rokaf is a few miles to the south and west of this place and the hunters have Invaded the territory upon the special and eagerly accepted invitation of the Belglan authori- ties. Colonel Roosevelt and Kermit are ac- companied in the Congo by E. B. Haddon, the British district commissioner, stationed at Mpuma, Uganda. Commissioner Haddon met the expedi- tion at Kiriba camp, sixteen miles to the south of Gondokoro. A commodious brick house has been placed at the disposal of Mr. Rodsevelt. Nine runners in the vaa of the expedi- t_lon have arrived. on the Upper Tug Seen Sunday Was Not the Nina Hope Raised by Report of Steamer Bayview Proves to Be Groundless. WASHINGTON, Feb. 16—The tug re- ported to have been spoken off Montauk Point on Sunday by the steamer Bayview and which was thought to be the Nina, was the naval tug Apache. The fate of the missing Nina is as much of a mystery as ever, Naval officers this morning expressed themselves as of the opinion that the Nina had gone down at sea with all on board. While the search will be continued for some time it i apparent that little or no hope is entertained that the Nina ever again will be heard from. Taft Bills Before Land Committee Hearings on Consevation Measures Will Be Held Before Sub- committee. WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—All of the ad ministration bilis providing for the con servation of natural resources will be con sidered by a subcommittee of the senat committee on public lands to be com- posed of Senators Smoot, chairman; Clarke ot Wyoming, Dixon, Chamberlain and Hughes. Hearings will be given TILLMAN TAKEN SUDDENLY ILL Attack, Due to Old Complaint Hardening of Arteries, Declared Not Serious. 1 ot WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Senator Till- man of South Carolina was taken sud- denly 11l on the steps of the capitol today Later he was removed to his home, where he is now under the care of a physiclan The attack is sald to have been a recur- rence of the senator's old trouble, harden- ing of the arterfes. His physician did not regard the attack as serious. Late In the day at Senator Tillman's home it was sald the senator was feeling much better, Effort to Free Former Peoria School- master Ends Abruptly. PARDON BOARD IS INVALID Act Creating Body Declared Void by Supreme Court After Hearing Begins—Case s Sensa- tional. JOLIET, 1il, Feb. 16.—The appcal before the Stats Parole board for a parole for N. c. Aay upon the receipt of tidings of the su- preme court affecting the constitutionality of the Pardon board. Attorney General Stead notified the mem- bers of the board that in his opinion fts further acts were Invalid He announced that he had not studled the supreme court declsion and would give a more definite opinion later. come to oppose his plea for a parole, de- parted for thelr homes tonight. PEORIA, Iil, Feb. 16.—Surrounded by an array of strong witnesses, Robert Scholes, state's attorney for this county, left this morning for Joliet, where he will oppose the petition for parole on the part of New- ton C. Dougherty, convict No. 9,510, ex- county superintendent of schools, Whose case will esme up before the parcle board at 2 lelgek this ‘afternoon. In his effort to fight the granting of a pardon Mr. Scholes Is accompanied by D. 8. Long, president 'of the school board and st vice president of the Peoria Mer- ohants' association; former President J, M. attorneys who hendled the case which con- victed Dougherty, and E. A. Pratt, who represented the Everett Auditing company of Chicago, together with members of the pre There will be but two members of the pardon board at the hearing, Garrett de Forest Kinney, the Peorla member, having withdrawn on account of the local interest. Should a pardon be granted at this time Dougherty will in &1l probability be paroled to his son, Horace Dougherty, who is now in Chicago. Mrs. Annle Edwards Dough- erty, his wife, and daughter, Miss Mabel, are also residents of Chicago. Newton C. Dougherty, who was super- intendent of schools here, was indicted five years ago, pleaded gullty and was given ¢1 indeterminate sentence at Joliet penitentiary. His arrest caused a great sensation in financlal, educational | and soctal circles of the country. Jolylet, the safe of the school board was blown up In the library building, and “serip” damaging to the Interests of Dougherty were secured. done, it is sald, by Eddle Tate, a convict who had just been released from Jollet, and it was charged the conspiracy was “hatched” and Instigated by Dougherty in the penitentlary at that time. MANEUVERS AT MANILA BEGIN WITH ATTACK ON BLUES é\'c.rly 10,000 Troops Wil | gaged in Strategle Movements ! in Philippices. MANILA, Feb. 16.—Tne Blue army, Gen- ‘ral Danlel Brush commanding, began its iorthern movement today. This force a: sumes the defensive in the execution of the land maneuvers. The Red army, Commander Templin M. Potts, will em bark on transports on Thursday and pro- ceed to the north coast, where it will begin an attack upon the Blues. The program permits a landing and an ad vance upon the enemy at any point avail able between Sublg Bay and the Lingayen gulf. Nearly 10,000 troops will be engaged lin the maneuvers. Major General Willlam H. Duvall, the umplre, will depart for the scene of activitles on Friday Feb. 16.—The tem- has fallen from 30 to # degrces |since yesterday in northern Texas, Okla- |homa, Kansas and JIowa. A remarka |@rop is recorded at Abilene, Tex., where |the temperature s 24 this morning atter an §2 reglstered yesterday KANSAS CITY, Mo, Feb. 16.—An treme fall in temperature, ranging from 0 degrees at Sedalia, Mo, where it was 8 above zero today, to 22 degrees at Fort Smith, Ark., where it was 25 above, was recorded in the southwest during the last In parts of Kansas a blinding snow storm, accompanied by high winds, pre. valls, and In northern Oklahoma sleet and a wind storm are reported. At Muskogee, Okl telephone wires were prostrated by a violent electrical storm accompanied by hail and sleet. ex- Fifty Degrees Drop in the Mercury in Parts of South In this city. where the 1 degrees since yesterday, | zero tnis morning. | INDIANAPOL Ind, Feb. heaviest snowfall of the year in Indlana centercd over Indlanapoils today Street car and rallroad traffic im | pedea | GUTHRIE, | that struck c today has interfered with rallroad | And telegraph and telephone service temperature fel it was 9 above Mtra was Okl., Feb. 18.—A Many wires are down and the street car system | in this city Is unable to operate its cars. | At the State Agricultural department Is predicated that there will be | Oklahoma. The storm continued during the day. | high wind added to its severity. Dougherty was abruptly terminated to- | The friends of Dougherty, | aud the delegation from Peorfa that had | Maple, members of the school board, and | to forgery of | scheol funds to the amount of about §750,000 | After he had served about a year at| This job was | Be En- | - | and under | 16.~The snowstorm | itral and western Oklahoma | traffic 1t a heavy | loss of live stock on the ranges In western A | comin WEATEER FORECAET. For Nebraska—Partly cloudy. For lowa—Generally fair For weather report see page 2 COPY TWO .C 'HERB DOCTOR IN SWOPE CASE | Colored Man Tells of Receiving Large Sums for Treating Members of Family with “Yarbs, |SAYS MEDICINES ARE HARMLESS Tested All of Them on Himself Before Giving to Patients, WITHOUT A LICENSE His Name is First Brought Into Case by Mrs. Hyde. |GRAND JURY CONTINUES WORK “DOCTOR" |Dr. G, Dr. T. Twyman, Hyde Who Suceceeded in Care of Slok ut Swope Home, is Before Inguisitors. KANSAS CITY, Feb. Chase Jordon, 16.—~How Chessing & colored man of City, Kan, who advertises him- ‘minjster of medicines” medical | doctor and ddetor of liyer ‘and gall stones and minlster of herb, Bmnedies componded by himself, obtained from $10,00 to $20,000 NO PAROLE FOR BIG FORGER |or the Swope sy war s e anorbers | tor' here today. | Me as called to give a deposition fn the | #lander suit brought by Dr. B. C. Hyde | against G. Paxton, executor, for the Swope | estate. The “doctor's” name was first brought | Into the Swope caso when Mrs. B. C. Hyde issued @ statement expressing confldonce in her husband's fnnocence and eaying that Chrisman Swope used Jordan's remedies, Jordan gave his deposition after much pro- test, as he clalmed his ministering to the Swope's had nothing to do with the case. Jordan testified that his medicines were harmless “Yarbs' 'as he called them. He sald they were compounded from roots and herbs obtained In foreign countries and dug in the woods in this viclnity. “But how could you tell whether these {herbs were polsonous or not?' Attorney Frank P. Walsh asked him. | “Why, that's easy,” replied Jordan. “I'd chew them. If they didn’t hurt me cer- tainly they weren't polsonous and certainly they wouldn't hurt my potients. That's the theory work on.” The herb man claims to be & South | American. He was raised by a negro {named EIl Jordan in Texas. There is no record of his having a physiclan's license In Kansas. Witnesses Before Grand Jury. Six witnesses testifled at a short session of the grand jury today. They were, Dr. G. T. Twyman, the Swope family physi- clan; O. B. Gentry, a drugsist of Indepen- dence of whom Colonel Swope purchased & ‘compound containing strychnine; Benjamin Smith and R B. Fieldw; undertakers' as- sistants who alded in the removal of Col- onel Swope's body from the vault; Sylves ter Spangler, Colonel Swope’s contidential agent, and John G. Paxton. As previously announced, the prelimin- ary hearing of Dr, B. C. Hyde, set for tomorrow morning In Independence, wil be continued by Prosecutor Conkling. The continuance will probably be for one week. Word was recelved from Drs. Ludwig Hoktoen, Victor Vaughn and Walter S. Haines today that they would not arrive here until Saturday. Thelr testimony will probably not begin before the grand jury until Monday. Twyman's Testimony Important. Dr. G. T. Twyman's testimony is said to be of the greatest importance, as it has A direct bearing on the death of Chrisman Swope and the spread of typhold fever in the Swope home. Dr. B. C. Hydo treated the members of the Swope family until after the death of Colonel Thomas H. Swope. When the | nurses announced they would leave the house unless Dr. Hyde ceased his treat- ment of the patients there, Dr. Twyman was called, and it was he who notified Dr, Hyde that his services were no longer de- sired by the Swopes. Dr. Twyman was summoned to appear in the office of Frank Walsh to give his deposition im the civil suit after he has been excused by the grand jury. Miss Lucy Lee Swope also was subpoe- naed today to give her deposition in the | sult brought by Dr. Hyde agamst Joha G. il’nxlun for alleged slander. ‘iCHAMBERLAIN VISITS HOUSE | Taritt Reformer Surprises Friends by | Walking Inte Commons and | Taking Oath. LONDON, Feb. 16.—For the first time since he was striken with paralysis years | ago, Joseph Chamberlain put in an appear- |ance in the Houss of Commons today took the oath as a member of the | new parliament. The advent of the tariff re- | former created a surprise for the offlcials and members who were belng sworn in. Mr. Chamberlain walked with Wifficulty, Mr. Chamberlain moved to the speaker's chalr and shook hands with Mr. Lowther, after which he made his way slowly from he chamber, within which so many stir- ring episodes of his life have occurred, SNELL WILL IS OVERTURNED | Court Decldes avor of Sons Disie herited in Favor of Grand Nieee, | | SPRI) nel FIELD, 1ll, Feb, 16.~That Colo- Snell was of unsound mind disinherited his son, Richard favor of his grandniece, Mabel ara, 18 the judgment of the me court in a decision handed 1 The decision 18 the outcome . Of three sensational trials held in Clinton, in which many letters were rcad and the cccentricities of the milllonaire described. 1 BUTTE MINES MAY SHUT DOWN | Hoistl Thomas when he Snell, in Snell-MeN 1llinols sup down today. & Engineer ceaune of Mine Denert Dispute with Owners. Feb, 18.~A shutdown of ning operations in the Butte district threatened by reason of the action of jority of the holsting enginecrs in de- 1§ thelr posts today when o from the mine owners in the matter of | furisaictional disputes w not forth- The men Involved are mombers of | the luternational Englneers' union, No. 313, | Posts | TE, Mont,, cossions

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