Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 22, 1910, Page 1

N ¢ \ ) L4 { | (v | B b ., { g Wt caimness and amity prevatiing that; to| THE OMAHA BEE & clean, reliable néwapaper that is admitted to each and every home. THE OMAHA K Yl DAILY BEE! — e VOL. XXXIX-NO. PEACE PREVAILS | IN LOWER HOUSE Olive Branches Crowp Heads of Mem- bers After Last Week's Fray. PIPE OF TRANQUILITY SMOKED | | | | } | Republicans, Democrats and Insur.’ gents Wear Proverbial Smile, SPEAKER CANNON COOLS DOW % Z “Uncle Joe” Moderates in Attitude Toward “Mine Enemies.” NUMEROUS CONFERENCES PENDING | Republienns and Democrats Pre; for Providence. He was the guest of | Blg Meat Conmcerns in Tilinols, Colo- ing to Wola -uc-ur-—;-l:-':rnu" |3-u.m.o.r,‘ today of Seeretary and Mrs rathy New! $éer and Mibiiaia . » . e Augo Stokes Expect to Meet wit n Phelps Stokes, jr. hasged with, Vikitths Rewulars. At the meeting of the corporation an- [ nouncement was made of an anonymous Anti-Trast Act. M B 21T h | gift of 000 for the endowment of the WASHINGTON, arch L—The house | ., ivarsity elinie. “HICA G P possed through its first day of business, | o wue surther made known that by the| CHICAGO, March ,“‘ vEI(Hl_V;egksl:a!l-‘; following the great eruption of last week, recent death In.Fort Worth, Tex., of, J it had begun its investigation' for alleges with remarkable quietude when_adjoyrnment came there and tonight wag an alr ho observers of events in the last week, vas almost vnbelfevable. Peace ruled the day and this notwithstanding that Jess than ten days distant there s the sclection of a | new rules committee to be undertaken with all its embarrassing complicatic There were many elements tributed to today’s paciticatio crats, satiafied with the situition after the | four days of flerce strife o content to 16t matters drift for a while. The regular republieans, realizing from the violent outbursts in the press from varions Insurgents over the Saturday night speeeh of Speaker Cannon when he called them cowardly members, were most adrolt In their relatidns today with thelr Insurgent brethren, Insurgents who ‘voted for the ousting of Sueaker Cannon from the speakering were eminently satistied today with their ef- fort and llke the democrats were willing to let things) dvift quietly. ginale Note of Discord. or #0 of insurgents who had vated for the uylnllm of the speaker 1n: the chair. only to be rewarded. with a| withering Wast from the speaker, supplied | the enly discordant note. They reached the | capitel {n @ decidedly wrathtul and mili- tant trame of mind, | Several of them, like Representative Norrls of Nebraska, Madi- son of” Kunsas, Hayes of Celifornla and W¥0 or three othiers, gave at:once their views fully to the press, sparing no words in volcing their indignation at the way the wituatlon affected them, Two or three talked loudly of continued | Watfarc—of 4 further fight on the rules of | ho house, upoh Speaker Cannon, on the the selaction, 0 fthe new rules afE W1ong other “iides of Intn Notwithstanding their loud crles of renewed rebellion, however, they were met on all sides by smiles and foncillatory | Q-um- from the regulars. . Nok the least inflence in producing a sort of gendral aif of forgiveness. was the word that' cdme indirectly from the room of Speaker Cannon to the effect that — the speaker had ‘moderated in his - attitude toward the men he had denounced Satur- day night and there was almost a certainty. that “the speaker had been misquoted in his remarks” or somethidg; of that kind. Norris Bo for Payne. One of the qn.'&m evidences of the day's tendency toward peace was the nom- | ination of Majority Leader Payne for a place on the new rules committee by Rep- | yesentative Norrls of Nebraskd, leader of the insurgents #nd author of the resolution which precipitted the recent war. Repre- pentativa . Nowris said that as Minority Legder Clark wis to be a member of the | committes he beleved also Mr. “Payn should be on the committee. that eon- The demo- | wer The score ous W the situation and the bitterness rancor of the gradually (o dissipate. Whether It has in it ‘any greater significance thun that of a mere Incident of one legislative day cannot be foretold. # Che republican caucus on the selection the new rules committee, it was an- *mud by Representative Currier, chair- un of the republican caugus, would not | be hield before the latter part of the week, | probably Saturday night. | Nearly all of the lusurgents, both those | Wwho vAted for and agalnst speaker Situiday, anuounced that they intend to /enter the cavieus. Representative Hayes d one or two others, early in the day, Meclared (hey would not, under any cir- cumstances, enter the eaucus unless they pany, Bwift and company, Morrls and Nad assurances as to who thg new members |and the only thought Is to recover the company, Edward Tiiden, Louls F. Swift, of the commitiee would be and that they | bhody. Bdwa, d. .F Swift, Chailes H. BW‘Q O would be men satisféctory to the lnsur- ) A 4 ' Y Carton, . Frank A. Fowler, J. Ogden sl y \ . ‘GIRL CHARGED WITH MURDER | \rmour. Arthur Mceker, Thomas 3, Gon. Tnsubpents Wod ‘the Rules. | nors, Edward Morrls, Thomas E, Wilson Many of tie regular republicans volun- | Catherine Mayse of Massillon;, 0., ta | 7% “GMUE L téered the opinion that the Insurgents Accused of Giving Stryelini Fomtini Bl obarmeithat’ prioe $6° Mas 10 #howld be represented ‘on the rules com- to Sister. t . 2, Armour and company, Swift and com- Wltice. A fow, but only & few, asseried| AKRON, O. March 21—Chief Ertle of the | o7, A'Mmour & g X fhat they should not have representation. | Leaders of the insurgents sald/they would | hold no meeting before the republican | GAucus, if they had snything to say. They thought there was no need of it. | The democrats, through minority Leader Champ . Clark, acting for thelr cancus | ehalrman, Representative Clayton of Ala- bama, who is absent, called their<eaucus | on the rules commitiee Yuestion for next Wednesday /night. - Three of their selec- {ions are swre to be Representatives Champ | Clark of Missourl, Fitsgerald of New York and Underwood of Alabama. Nothing but | unanimity of sentiment is expected in the | demoeratic meeting. SoMme of (he committees began work today and by tomorrew it is expected that the_ grinding out of logislation, including measures of President Taft, will soom gatn be in full swing 3 Insurgents Wil Attend. Representative Norris, | :umu. of resplution which overthrew the old comnilttes. sald today: 3 "We do not inalst on representation. All we want is & committee of falr men. 1 have uo doubt the insurgents will enter the republican caucus unless something is lepends on the atthude of the. other It they want to accept the op- unity théy now have to go ahead, everything will be all right. What will buppen cannot be foretold.” Mr. Norrls sald there was no meeting of the insurgeats In slght, although they the rules | Taft Back to President Attends Meeting of Corpora- ! % { ‘ng of the Yale corporation, of which | dry season. |Bloo Half of the Nouse appeared to find something humor- na past fow days appearcd {home while the mother Was in the house |saild she bought | nam streets, Henry Resche, Yale Campus for Few Hours SUITTO DISSOLVE | MEAT COMBINE | re ‘,Bill in Equity Filed in Chicago to Windup Affairs of National Packing Company. tion at Which Big Gifts Are Announced. iI.IST OF DEFENDANTS LONG ONE NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 21.—Presi- £ nt Taft paid a briet visit to New Haven | Corporation, “ay for the purpose of attending the | Instrument Through Which Combination Acts. he Is a member. n He was met at the by Prof. John C. Schwab, as a COMPETITION . 1S ELIMINATED ntative of the Yale university, and An an automeblle direct from the %0 Woodbridge hall, .whers Presi-| Number of Independents Bought and Yey recelved him and where the ) mecting occurred Operated by Company. meating the president returned which was attached to the | Yng the eity at 45 over the CORPORATIONS . ALSO INDICTED & branch of the New Haven a| 4 - z violations of the Sherman anti-trust’ law, the federal grand jury today returned In- dictments against the National Packing company and ten subsidlary concerns. Immediately upon the announcemient of the Indictments before Judge Kenesaw M Landis, the government filed a suit seeking the dissolution of the National Packing company. The [latter action is known as a sult In equity, and besides those indicted sixteen firms and individuals are made de- fendants. In a statement issued o. behalt of the | National Packing company, Ralph Crews, | its geheral counsel, tonight gives some ink- | | ling of the determination to fight the gov- |ernment to the limit. His statement fols | lows: Colonel Reoeives Party of Americans| ‘The company was organized in Mn;‘ch.‘ 1903, for the purpose of economic operation and Takes Look at Rarnah Temple | ¢* o luin subsidiary corporations named by Moonlight. | Jointly with it in the Indictment returned | today by the federal grand jury for the northern district of illinofs. Its organiza- tion was directed by the best counsel ob- tainable, who then believed, and. now be- lieve, that Its organization and the opera- tion of its subsidlary companies In no way transgressed the provisions of the Sherman act, and in this respect it ls practically similar to nearly all the large corporations:| of the country. The total percentage of the business done by the, corporations con- trolled by the National Packing company forms but a small part of the whole pack- ing industry. This proportion could not Barrett Collins $000 is to come to the university to be afided to the fund of the class of 1881 of the academical department It was voted to continue the arrange- ments by which the services of a resident German lecturer. It was also decided to extend the membership in the graduate faculty to professors in the profesklonal schools who glve courses of Inxlmc:,on to graduate students. ) Roosevelt Party Reaches Luxor LUKOR, Upper Bgypt, March 2.—The Roosevelt family arrived here on the reg- ular express train from Shellal this after- noon. When the former president's party arrived at the station at Assuan—~today the plat- form was crowded with tourlsts and Egyptian officlals. The throng greeted the Roosevelts cordially and In turn was addressed briefly by Colonel Roosevelt. * The express for.Luxor was crowded with tourists returning to BEurope. A special car had been provided for the Roosevelt | constitute a monopoly In any sense of the family. [Phe scenery along the route gives | word. @ practichl illustration of the utility of the Disclaim Trade Restraint. great Aspuan dam works, which have| ‘Instead of operating o ‘restrain the enabled the natives to-eower the countty-'trade’ of its subsidlary companies, as al- #lde with wheat and other crops in the leged in the lnalelmt, it is & fact that the companies all havé shown & healthy in- Prinse and Princess | Eltal Frederick of | crease the tormation of the National. Hohengollern are expocted. here tontght.. | The -company is operated’ by its ‘officers Colonel Roosgvelt. Wired. his, regrets at [ purely. as. a\ competitive having missed .meeting Rev. McClenahan, | factor in.the trade. i head of. the American .mission at Assul. | - “The indictment today returned and the The newspaper men - were on handin force|bil In equity today filed by the distriet at- and # battery of.cameras, was directed |torney are directed at the organization and upon Colonel | Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt,| operation of* this, company. The opgrations Kirmet and Miss Ethel as soon as they | have at all times been frank and open. and came into view. we-are confldent that the courts will sus- Tonight Colonel: Réosevelt received 100 tain our contentions with respect to their Americans, who.are stopping. at Luxor and | legality.” had expressed a.desire to shake hands with| The indictments Include not only the Na- him. Later he togk a lpok at the temples | tional Packing company, but the Armour, at Karnak by moonlight. Swift and Morris companies, the St. Louts Dressed Beef anfi Provision cnm;;;u_ny ll’ulI individuals who dominate and control dhounds e Trace Lost Child these concerns. Little Doubt that Son of Mr. nn,d Mrs, The indictments include the National | Packing company and the Armour, Swift Dickens of Sioux Falls Was Drowned. | and Morris compantes. | | 1t is apparent from the bill and the {ndictment that the government regards the National. Packing company as the | jrstrumentality through which the packers | have been evading the anti-trust law and | by means of which they have been making thelr combination effective. SIOUX FALLS, S. D, March 21.—(Spe-| It is admittedly the opinion of the' de- clal)—Bloodhounds brought from Beatrice, | Partment of justice and l\he grand jury Neb., for the purposs of traeing Millard | which, at Judge 'Landls’ directign has Dickens, aged two years and four months, [ been investigating the meat industry -for son of Mr. and Mis. J. W. Dickens, who [the last two months, that if the National reside om Beaver creck some miles south- | Packing company Is broken up the alleged west of Sloux Falls, having thres times |eviis of this combination will be remedied. gone to a particular point on the creek, List of Defendants. where the ohild doubtless fell Into the| The dcfendants to the bill are the Na- water and was drowned, the distracfed [tional Packing company, G. H. Hammond mother of the missing ¢hild has finally | company, Hammond Packing company, been compelled to reluctantly admit that |Omaha Packing company, Anglo-American the body of her echild lles at the bottom | provision compary, ‘Fowler Packing com- gf the o | pany, United Dressed Beef company, St. The child wandered from the yard of his|youls Dressed Beef and Provision company, Western Packing company, Colorado Pack- ing and Provision company, MNew York Butchers Dressed Meat company, Continen- !tal Packing company, Armour. and com-4 answering a telephone cdil, For several days the mother hoped against hope that her child would yet be found alive and well, but now all hope has been abundoned |pany and Morris and company were par- ties to an unlawful combination to fix prices and restrain trade in fresh meat; that on that day sult was brought by the United States under the Sherman antl- trust law to prevent their violations of the law &nd that as a result of that suit, Judge Crossoup on February 18, 1902, filed | Masslllon uolice arrived in afternoon with a warrant charging Cath- Akron this erine Manz with murder. It s said Cath- erine admitted to the police that she had purchased strychnine last week, and that when she left the Manz home, she knew her aister, Elizabeth, was dead. Catherine the strychinne for an- | ) othei person. (Continued on Becond Page, Burglar Sfirrendc;rs to Bluff i After Twelve Hours’ Siege Resche was discovered in the plumbing shop by J. B. Johnson, proprietor, Sunday afterncon. ‘He pursued the man to the {Tear of the Wead bullding wien the burg- | !ar dived into a coal chute. | The police sent a’ squad to search the building, but the man could not be found. | Officer Fleming donned a suit of overafls |and crawled all through the . excavations beneath the bullding without discovering the hidden burglar. A watch was kept Twelve hours at bay In the basement of the Wead building, Eighteenth and Far- a burgla Who took refuge ‘from his pursuers there Sunday afterncon surrendered Monday morning to a polceman’s blute. “Well, we'll have to turn the hounds in there and let them tear him out,” said one of the squad, which visited the building for a second fruitless search Monday morn- ing, as they stood in the hearing of the OMAHA, TUESDAY MORNING, 4R Independent | had declined to arbitrate | points on the ground that they were points 29 22, MARCH 191 From the Washington Star. )-TWELVE PAGES. Differences Are Compromised with Western Railroad Managers. DANGER OF BIG STRIKE REMOVED Senfority Question s Settled nnd Mat- ter of Advance in Wages Will be Arbit¥nted Immedi- ntely. [ CHICAGO, Marsh 21.<All questions in dispute betwaen 1A 77,000 “on-went- Syt grle will' be ‘amicably settled, according .to an arrangement reached today: through the ald of United States Commissioner of Labor Q. P. Nelll. It was agreed by W. 8. Carter, president of the Brotherhood of Locomd- tive Firemen and Enginemen, and his com- tee, representing the forty-seven rallroads involved, to settle the controversy in the following manner. The qliestion of senfority, or’the promo- tlon of old-time firemen over new men, and the question of new representation by the ‘union of firemen who have been pro- moted to be enginemen, are to be com- promised | before any arbitrgtion is at- | tempted. The demand of the men for an increase in wages of 12% per cent s then to be submitted to arbitration under the Erdman act. In previous negotlations the raijjroad had agreed to arbitrate the wage question, but the other two of discipline and authority only Federal Ald Brings Peace, It was learned that both sides were brought to an agreement to ‘compromise through the insistance of Commissioner Nefll that something/ had~ to be done quickly./ Mr. Nelll informed each side that mediation had been in progress since last Thursday and that apparently no progress had been made. He declared that unless action was taken within twenty-four hours he would |demand representataion .and it was agreed to leave the matter of an ad- vance in wages to arbitration. _7‘___ © /OFFER Proposal of Philadelphin Company is Not Satisfactory to Men PHILADELPHIA, March “21.—Although Mayor Reyburn yesterday added his- ef- forts to those of other influential politi- olans who havé been striving for a settle- ment of the street car strike, the men are 8till holding out for terms which will In- clude the recognition of only on grievance committee, It was this démand that caused’ @ dealock between the company and the men before the strike was de- clared more than four weeks ago. The committee of ten, having the gen- eral strike in charge, today issued a state- ment that the situation as far as it was concerned was unchanged and that the battle was still on W. D. Mahon, president of the Amalga- mated Assoclation of Street and Fleetrle Railway Employes, returned at daybreak from a final conference in Senator Pen rose's office, where heyhad gone to inform he senator that the local executive com: mittee of the striking carmen had voted CARMEN REJECT PEAU (Continued on Second Page.) Read the want ads today. Read every one of them. You will get close to all classes; the man who wishes employment, and the man who employs; the man who sells and the man who buys; the man who loans and the man who borrows; the man who Is quitting business and the man who man they could not locate. “T give up. Don't put the dogs on me," replied the fugitive, crawling out with tear showlng thhough the grime and coal dust of his night In the coal bins. At the police station the prisoner gav over the' bullding all night, and it was on thelr second trip Monday mornink that the beseiged Reache surregdered, Resche was formerly in the employ of | the Western Heating and Plumbing com- pany/ but was discharged after u trap had | { were n & position to get together at a |DI8 hame as Henry Resche and confessed been laid for him and he was caught steal- ‘moment's notice. {0 haviug robbed the Western Heating and | ing brass from the \shop. ‘The democratld position apparently was company, In whose store he was |, The detall which captured the burglar on Becond Page.) ™y G seen Sunday, & week before, On that raid Was nt Cook, “Detectiv Da: he took forty pourds of brass. o | Patullo and Van Deusen. is beginning. These and others— hundreds and hundreds of others. Read what they say, and if it whets your appetite to use a want ad, call 238, and you will find a cheerful crowd to wait upon yea managers mittes, and the general managers' commit- | FIREMEN'S DISPUTE SETTLED| Many Grafters Will Be Arrested 0 in Pittsburg strict Attorney Announces He Will Proceed Against Men Named in Klein Confession. PITTSBURG, Pa., March 21.—Distriot At- torney Blukely at the opening of criminal court today made ‘the ‘stitement that he Johnny Kiein er “corroborattve evi- dence” regarding alleged councmanfq i regularities of 1908, and that be would Pro- ceed’ against the persons named in Kieln's confession to the "“fullest extent of the law. ‘Hours before the assembling of the grand Jury the crowded offices of the distriet at- |torney and the general air of suppressed excitement about the court portended a sensational day. A score of indictments are expected to issue from today's grand jury session. Captain Klein refused to add to his state,, ment made Saturday. To eliminate useless delay in handling the cases reported to be certain to come up out .3! the former counclimgn's confes- sion, county judges conferred /during the morning as to the advisability of one. of | their number sitting as a ‘‘committing magistrate,” and” upon informations made by the district attorney issue bench war- rants, thereby eliminating much of the red tape ordinarlly accompanying proceed- ings In graft trials. HOLLAND NOT AMONG LIST OF SUSPENDED STUDENTS Injustice Done One Member of Law Class of University of Nebrask: | LINCOLN, March 21.—(Special.)—Chan- cellor Avery (his afterhoon corrected a statement published In the Sunday news., papers regarding the suspension of ftive students from the University of Nebraska. The three studepts who were reported to have been given’tho slighter sentence were 1. J, Langer of Wilber, H. L. Wilson of Crawferd and Y. C. Holland of Seward, T]ll&hhmem was erroneous In that Y. €. Holldna not one of the men who was suspended. The report was correct in regard to the other students. Holland Q1 not recelve any sentence for alleged misconduct and was In attendance at his classea this merning. The following is the officlal statement {ssued to Mr. Holland this afternoon by Chancellor Avery in order. to correct the erraneous statement regarding lh\uudenxs‘ reported suspension: “Mr. Y. C. Holland: My attentlon has been called to/a statement in the Sunda papers of March 20 stating that you were suspended rom the urdversity until after the Easter rceess. This statement is er- roneous; you have not been suspended, and you are at liberty to use this note in any way you see fit, “SAMUEL AVERY, Chancellor.” and $10,000 Fine. Two Others Are Given Six Months in Jail and $100-—Only Beginning of Their Trouble, as States Have Canes. _TWO YBARS AND $10,000 FINE Hory Forbes, Kenosks, Wis. Clarence Forbes, Ohioago. LA MoCoy, Balt Lake Oity, Clarence Class, Chicago. ‘Willard Powell, Jacksonville, Fla. FIFTEEN MONTHS, $100 FIN Bert R. Shores, Farmington, Ia. George M. Marsh, Seattle. SIX MONTHES, $100 FINE. ‘Winford 8. Harris, Spokane. Frank Scott, Pender, Neb, “big store” gang for the next two, years g0 to their new homes this evening. MABRAY CANC IS SENTENCED Chief and Nine Others Get Two Years TWO0 DRAW FIFTEEN MONTHS | Leavenworth’ penitentiary fare will have to taste good to Mabray and nine of his and possibly somewhat longer. It all de- | WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska For lowa- Continued fair. Fair to cooler For weather roport see Page FORTY-FIVE ARE DEAD IN WRECK Rock Island Train from Des Moines to \SL Paul Ditohed Near Green Mountain, Ia, ARE ) TWENTY-FOUR INJURED Several Fatally Hurt and Death List May Exceed Forty. X TRAIN HAD BEEN DETOURED Sent Olver Great Western Tracks Be- cause of Burning of Bridge. PARTIAL LIST. OF THE VICTIMS of the -rmrn_\.lr'nu; Rodlex Taken from Debris Only Four Are Adens tittedt Sleepers Damaged. r Car and Two MARSHALLTOWN, Ta., March #1.—F five known dead, and tiventy-four Injured several fatally, was the result of the wreck of a Rock Isiand (rain which was being detoured on the Chicago Great Westeen tracks, four miles north of Green Mountain, Marehall county, today. Prof. L. W. Par- vish of the lowa State Teachers' colle. Cedar Falls, died shortly sfter ching the hospital in this gity. st of! Dead. MILTON PARISH, Cedarville, Mo, JACOB NAUHOLZ, Cedar Rapids, Ia., conductor of trgin No. 21, ROSS, Cedar Rapids, tireman HOSS CHARTE Cedar Rapids, | man, \CHIE PRICE, Cedar Raplds, colored porter. N R. A. ROBIN of engine No , L. W. PARRISH, Cedar Falls, profossor: Towa State Teachers' college. | MRS LEWIE, Valley | D, Lowis. | "W W. TGGERS, care Ellis hotel, Water- | 100, I LYMA | HE brake- SON, Cedar Rapids, engineer Junetion, wife of D, Waterloo, RHC COCK, West | buyer, ANTHONY PHILLIPS' Waterloo: GEORGE P. BUNT, Waterloo. FRED L. COLTON. Washington, la. Liberty, stoek | H. L. PENNINGTON, Gulesburg, Il ember Galesbure lodge, Brotherhood of | Railway Trainmen, | THOMAS G STTS, Cedar Raplds, traveling man G- G- EVANS, West Branch, half of head of MRS, WALTER DAVIS, Waterloo. JOHN BANBRIDGE, Hartford, Ont F. F. FISHER. West Branch, la. WILLIAM FLECK, Vinton, a. INGEERET L. TANGEN, Northwood, Ia, | EARL T. M&IN. cashier First National | bank, Williamsfield, Iil. Nc?(-zs,«u C. HOUPY, Minncapolis, mail erk. ANDREW J. WHITE, colored, St. Paul, JENNIE YOUNG, Vinton. LAUREN ALLSCHWAGER, Ogden, la. TEN WOMEN, unidentified. TWO MEN, unidentified, one of whom is supposed from chrd in his\pocket (o bo a rostdent of Delnart, Tex unidentiiied. onc ubout 3 | yentn of e the bt Fhant 18, The Tnukell, The injured: Irene Sowan, Waterloo, Ta. J. 8. Goodnough, Cedar Rapids, la., fire man, . W. Thompson, Vinton, Ia. (& E. Tkgleston, ‘tarmer, ‘Home near Vin- on, In. | izzie Anderson, Vinton, fu.s ugust Swansen, Vinton, la. Florence Winn, Waterioo, la Mrs, L. Patterson, Loulsiana, Mo. | | Nora Wilcox, Loulsiana, Mo. Charles Davls, Indlan, Minn, head in- jured, splinter through abdomen, injuries Pprobably fatal, P. J. Bwift of the Daily Reporter staff, Waterloo, right leg broken; injuries very serious, Dr. G P. A W, Newman, Mount Vernon, Mo. Russell, Grand Forks, Minn, Mrs. P. A. Russell. A. § McDonald, Perth, N. D, Mrd.' A, 8. MeDonald. J. Switzer, Waerloo L. M. Walln, Washburn, L. D. N. D. pends on how well or ill the gang can} 7 &l :\l,\nt;:.l’lm. ll?r\ll:;lul,"‘mn' manipulaté the poor debtors' oath. They | Mys Willlam Teats, Reinbeck, Ta S| Alfred Abraham, Claremont, §, D. John White, Des Moines, Rock Island Two years in federal prison and $10,000| tine. i The Iimit of punishment provided by law | was handed out to’ the convicted Mabray | pllot Miss Olga Swanson of Vinton, scalp torn nearly off. William Moody, Menominee, Wis. C. J. Lamb, Chicago. Ao Frank Scott. The prisoners sentenced 1o this morning by United States Frank B. C deputies and guards, ver the Burlington and the raiiroad will Pprovide a special car for the accommodas charges. Where They Go and How Long. John C. Mabray,-Leon Lozler, Tom Robinson, Willlam Powell, Clarence C Bd Leach, Eddle K. Morrie, 8, 38, and to pay fines of $10,000 each. y county pail Oak, Ta., and to pay a fine of $100. Scott is the man from Pender. was accused of having brought into meshes ‘of the gang John Hermelbrecht, the old ‘mer of Bancroft, Neb., dropped $5,000. and acquitted on that charge court at Council Bluf in the Monl‘m;. in His present sen- the United States mails. Bert R. Shores and George N. (Continued on Second Page.) Arithmetic Plays Part in Trouble Between States WASHINGTON, March 21.—One of the biggest jobs of arithmetic a justice of the supréme court of the United States has confronted in a long (ime faces the one who Is assigned to work out the alleged indebtedness of the state of West Virginia to the commonwealth of Virginia, growing out of the former's setting up in business for Itself during the civil war. Charles E. Littlefteld, special master, has Just reported op the claim of Virginia that | West Virginia shoula have a proportion of | Virginia's indebtedness preceding the | breaking away of West Virginia. In eo! IDI"n( his report, Mr. Littlefleld had be depended upon, THe amount West Virginla will be called | to pay Virginia varies anywhere from ! upol $3,200,000 to 38,660,000 1In Virginia 15 asking West about $11,000,000. The difference in the amounts reported vaty, according as to whether the court apportions the debt of Virginia by pop+iation or by valuation of property, and whether slaves are (o be classitied as population or as property supreme court has not indica round numbers Virginia to pay The whut eteps it would pursue It West Vir- | Einla were to refuse to pay the amount it decrees s due Virginla, In the suit of gang Monday morning by Judge McPherson at Council Bluffs, with the exception of ! the federal | prison Will be taken to Fert Leavenworth Marshal rk and a force of special The trip will be made | tion of the United States marshal and his | Clarence | Forbes, Ed' McCoy and Harry Forbes were each sentenced to serve two years in the tederal prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., | Frank Scott was sentenced to six months | at Red Néb,, who the who In February Scott was tried district tence #s for getting illegally tangled up with Marsh | Wilbur Neese, Rook Falls, 111, Krnnk Swhnson, Wilton, N, D. Jenkins; St. Lou D. Hill, Musca) on, 8, Pritchard, Cedar Rapids. A. 8. Brown, Waterloo, Francis Swanson, Burlington. Will_H. Arnett, Independen €. W. Petersori, Cedar Raplds, W. L Southwell, Wasaington, la. Edward Will, Muscafins, E. L. Burdgé, Davenport, Two Cars Telescoped. The wreck resulted when the engine left the track and stuck in the bank ‘in & deep cut, while going at the speed of twenty- | five miles an hour. Tie sudden impact caured the Pullman slesper to telescope the smoking car just behind, driving the | mleeper clear through the car, The smoker in turn telescoped the wom- {en's duy comeh. In these two cars the death loss was ap- palling, there belng cighty passengers in {the women's coach and almost as many in the smoker. In the sleeper only two were killed and five or six huft, according to Pullman Conductor B, W. Jay of this city, The tounty coroner and one of the physiclans Of the rescue party were badly i hurt by belng thrown from an autulance | when making a breakneek race for the hospital. A temporgry morgue has been established here. Every physician i and | nurse In the city was rushéd to the wcene In automobiles, while tivo wpecial trains wete made up and rushed to the sceme. The wounded were brought to Marshalltown and placed in the aCtholle hospital the ¥oung Men's | Christlan associatfon and eevty available apartment house, | Thirty-four bodies had been recovered at 2 o'clock, with every indleation that more are benheath the wreckage, The death {list may go above forty. F. W. Cherry of :I')ifl(‘llnll, 1a., who assisted fn the rercue, ported that he helped carry thirty-seven bodies to the grass beside the rallvoad ! tracks. The number of wounded will reach | sixty or sevgntly, with many of them fas | tally mJou Bodies Horribly Mangled 4 | The bodies were fount horribly mangled 'ana broken up. My, Cherry reported find- ing m head severed entirely from a body, ater the body was found, minus a log, and luter the misMing feg. One of the linjurca men had a splinter from af”oak beam, half a8 big s & man's wrist, thrust entirely through his bedy. It required the calculate the vecelpts and expenditures of | South Dakota to compel North Carolina | Strength of thres men fo hold the vietim ) an emptre during & long period. The prob- lem was complicated by wartimes and by eonditions such slavery that have long #ince passed away. Before the court an- nounces its final decree In the case It is probable that one of its members will be called upon o look into the intricate prob- lems, where law and its application cannot to satlsfy wan alleged Indebtedness, 'the court decided that it North Carolina did not satisfy the tlaim within a specified period, the marshal of the court should sell certain property of the state from the east door of the capitol In Washington. North Carolina settled within the period siven by the supreme court. [and pull the spimter from his body, The injured - w terribly cut and mangled, Arms legs Wire brokin, hips brokes, chests crushed @nd some but Klightly re- |sembled human forms, Some ook thelr | Insurics siolcally witd bravely, others werw screaming hysterfgally and stll others were |#0 far goue that only wWeak mbans ceme