Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 4, 1910, Page 1

SEE THE BEE'S NEW HOME MAGAZINE PAGE THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. VOl P XXXIX—-NO. OMAHA, WEDNESD MAY AY MORNIN( 4, i, POISONS FOUND IN SWOPE'S BODY Strychnine and Cyanide Evident in Liver and Stomach of Victim, Testifies Expert, CHRISMAN ALSO AFFECTED ligns of Drug Also Present in Body of Colonel's Nephew. @psuLES CONTAINED POISON Yedicine Alleged to Have . Thrown Away by Hyde, Deadly DR. VAUGHN ON THE STAN, Not Telln Toxicologist from Ann Findings Arbor of Also and MBrings Into Court Samples of Drugn. KANSAS Vaughn Mics ont al 8 CITY, May toxicologist of Arbor regarded the as its iportant witness in the Syde murder began his testimony late arches for By him alone d also the ald of Dr. Walter 8. Halnes of Chleago, sald Dr. Vaughn, had verulted In the dlscovery of the following: Twenty-six thirty-thirds of a grain of sty in the liver of Colonel Th Swope. Slgns cyanide the A trace of the strychnine n the A suggesticn, but no positive de in the stomach of Chris- Strychnine in the contents of the stomach of Miss Margaret Swopee Cyanide capsules sald to have been thrown into a street by Dr. B. C. Hyde the night he wis expelled from the Swope residence last Decomber 18, Dr. v Ton state the and by tr today polson mad with hnine H “tomach ekidney oot of sya 1 entire mas of n m Swope, in Ause to hypothetical questions regard- convulsons suffered Thomas Chrisman and Margaret Bwope, Dr. Vaughn wald, in his opinion t had been coiused by the administra. tion of some convulsive poison. Cyanide or stryehnine would such symp- tems, sald the mitness While on the nd Dr. Vaughn produced Jhat was purported to be strychnine taken from the liver of Colonel 8wope. There was probably a two hundred and fiftieth of & grain of the drug In the case, said the expert. Ome-half a grain, he testitied, would kill a peerson. Dr. Haines sald strychnine taken from the stomach of Colonel Swope was not pure. 1t would have been impossible, admitted the witness, for him to have separated the foreign matter and retalned any of the drug. Mr. Walsh closed his examination at 340 o'clock. Testimony Nearly Ended The ry #howed Its effects first o the restlessness this afterncon. During a re- cess an appeal was sent to the judge asking that night sessions be beld. ‘Judge Latshaw #ald Le would make no decislon regarding the request until he saw how the stata progresses with its evidence. The bellef is that the prosecution will close its direct testimony by tomorrow night. No sign that any row had during the day was given when court opened this Walsh resumed his cross-examination of Dy, Haines. The attorney immediately pro- duced one of the books Dr. Haines, alded by a Dr. Pete n and began to in- terrogate him about certain passages in it Mr. Walsh read a paragraph advising ex- perts that if possible those retained by both the dcfense and the prosecution should eon- fer before a trial and thus arrange to get their testimony in good shape. ‘DA you write that?' asked Walsh. “1 cither wrote it or it was written by Dr. Peterson and I subscribed to it," replied Dr. Haines. Shortly prior to the course of a legal argument made reference notes." Springing to lis feot, Mr. Walsh pounded 4 table with his fist and shouted “Who stole the They were lost through the blundering of the prosecutor's offic “They were stolen ling, angrily 1 ask the court eutor for that re .mnm Latshaw “*Tha court WA the Judge Wito stole the Walsh, turning to Mr The jurors, medieal testimony their ehalrs. ‘I ean't say, but 1 them and refused to glve them up until t court threalened to send his client to jail nswered My Walsh canduct, and bout Dr. Haines ¢ Envelopes which and the cards upon whic ened were offered in evidel the paper made melted snow, Lestified the was possibiity of the found having come from any constituent part of the paper, sald Dr. Haines, who r estimony when court opened Tragment of a capsu What s the Reed Tha of Convalsions. n reply wig the by Colonel produce taken place by attorneys afternoon. Mr, wrote, Attorney noon recess, My stolen in the Conkling to grand jury notes? ' responded Mr. Conk to reprimand the prose- ark id Mr. Walsh to comment 1o make, Conk had Mr who followed tedious moruing, sat know who retained the prosscutor began the court an explana stopped on of his the verbal containes es Testimony. the they capsules fast Stains upon cyanide and witness, The were b no palson sur A sma was also exhibited cyanide?”’ asked his odor of My of bitter almonds,” re the od could hands aft testitied K the Haine Al The pot oA few mgnths, Lo & fuia wo wend ta preve sald the toxl Volatiiization preveuted, in a frogen, sald (h What are fatal do cyantde?” queried M “A third to u halt and from three 1o five answered D, Hal Attarney Walsh t the “What do you wmean strychnine? asked M:. Walsh An amount so smail that it cannot be welglied, ‘:vllnl the witness Farther estioning (Wontinued on This on the bandied be readlly ascertained cvanide had been physieian. ot cyanide 1 may disuppear from a body Aays or may remain for several " Embaim a den scape of the paison. i the tssues and polson. he cyanide fa would be measu body was s of strychnine and Reed Eraln of strychnine grains of cyanide, witness trace of developed that Page.) ond W |Bryan’s Daughter DANISH VESSELS Bride of British gA,UTE COLONEL| Army Officer| ‘ | | | Mrs. Ruth Leavitt and Lieutenant Reginald Owen Marrier at Bryan Home at Fairview. | Warships Boom Welcome to Roose- velt as He Travels from Copen- hagen to Helsingoer, BANDS PIAY AMERICAN AIRS| | National Music Rendered and Colors | of Denmark Are Dipped. v Staff Ma and we. From LINCOLN | Bryan Altham fat 10:15 | of (8pecialo—Ruth Lieutenant Reginald marricd at I'»I{'\lm\‘ few relntives and| TAKES LEAVE FOR CHRISTIANIA for Jamal located for Espiscopal ceremony | a Leavitt Ower ok only this pres nee A friends afternoon very and eft tima couple the where the some time, | Former President Due in Norwegian performed | Capital this Morning. Frank Huntington of . wouple stood the reception i in from an adjoining room, with Mr. Huntington and the bride * father. The bride carried a large of Lillles of the Valley, the favo- : of Mr. Bryan. The Mendelssohn | ch was played by Miss Marie of Omaha, who during «eremony played the “Angel Serenade, ter during the informal reception | | favorite selections of Mr, Bryan. Light re- freshments were served in the dining room | after the wedding. | he bride wore a om has been he Rev Crete z T % in parlor, the SHAKESPEAREAN SCENE VISITED Elsinore, the tion for Tragedy of Hamiet, Assumed Place of Ac- narpist Proves Tuteresting for Yankee Guest. May visit will in COPENHAC brief but enjoyable Roosevelt and party ing for Christiania. Today was given over chiefly to a motor trip Helsingoer. where the Roosevelts were entertained at luncheon on board the Scandinavian- American liner Queen Maud. Subsequently | the steamer carried the party back to| Copenhagen. 5 | The trip was the occasion ‘of an unusual | ipliment to Mr. Roosevelt. The l'lnwh‘ and Swedish government had ordered their | squadrons of warships to take positions | at intervals along the Danish coast be- tween Helsingoer and Copenhagen and when the Queen Maud steamed past Mr osevelt was accorded the honors. usually | pald only to royalty. | Following Denmark Mr leave this even- a | white princesse gown of Mugerie trimmed in lace and the groom grey business suit The wedding was a most happy en- | tirely informal and the presence of a | company of the most congenial spirits. The Bryan family; Mr. Berger, the father-in law of W. J. Bryan, jr., with Mrs. Bryan and her Infant daughter; Mrs. Evart of Omala, an intimate school girl friend of the bride; Mrs. Tanner, the wife of the president of college, attend by Mrs when in Jacksonville, 11, during the days when she was courted by the distingulshed Nebraskan: Mrs. Raymond of Lincoln and a few others. The groom i a lieutenant of engineers of the British army and for some time has been stationed at Kingston, Jamaica. He met the girl of his heart at Colorado Springs last summer and pressed his suit with such ardor that the won. Mr. Owen las heen at Fairview since Saturday and the intimate friends of the Bryan family who met him unite in the opinion that worthy of the woman he has for wite, Mrs. Owen, to wore i one, n the Play American Alrs. The flags on the warships were dipped the officers and men saluted and the hands | plaved American airs Roosevelts had a | country | Accompanied by splendid #lew of the| several members of the cabinet, American Minister Eagan and other officials and friends, they motored to the castle of Frederikshorg and the National museum and then to Helsingoer, where they were luncheon guests of Viee Admiral Richelleu on board the steamer Queen Maud Following the luncheon Mr. Roosevelt was presented Informally with two loving | cups by the steamship company. The lov-| ing cups are of Copenhagen ware, one bearing the Danish arms and the other| the American arms, X representative of | the Royal Porcelain works gave Mr. Roose-| velt four placques, upon which were pic- tured scveral of the beasts of Africa. Joins Soclety. The Danish-American society of Chicago put Mr. Roosevelt down as a member, with | lils consent, of the development’ company which is reclaiming lands in the” Mstrict of Jutland for public purposes and pre- sented him with ten shares of non-dividend paying stock The Roosevelts about 3 he a is visited went on the bride, in 2 her friends In Lincoin Is a ter of her father. To them she has made good in her own right 8he has resided in Lincoln since early childhood, graduated from the Lincoln High school and later | atténded the Nebraska State university. In school and in play she has always been a leader, of the young people with whom she associated. During the last year, Mrs. Owen has filled many lecture en- gagements, and while she started out as the daughter of Mr. Bryan, she soon be- came recognized on her own account as a| most gifted woman and she was unable to ML the Jecture engugemonts. offered her. In many towns in- Nebraska lust fall she lectured in the interest of thé university extension and In practically every instance she was invited to fill a return engage- ment. Last winter the bride went to Germany to continue her studies and returned only last Sunday, The Rev. Mr. Huntington, who performed the ceremony, also married William J Bryan, jr. and Miss Berger last summer, | TOLEDO, May 3.—While Ruth Bryan was being married at Lincoln today to Lieu- tenant Reginald Owen, her former husband, W. H. Leavitt was here, arranging for a lecture to be given at the Young Men's Christian assoclation tonight on “Value of Art Training.” My, Leavitt declared he had given up his first intention of going to Lincoln to stop the wedding in order to sain possession of his two children, but that he would im- mediately start proceedings that end the opinion of worthy daugh- de returned to “Copenhagen and were cheered by large crowds. Going to the palace, Mr. Roose- velt devoted two hours to his correspon- dence. #rom Helsingoer the party visited inore, the assumed scene of Shakespear - Hamlet and where Copenhagen antiqua ians say recent searches have established | that Shakespeare and his company of actors actually performed the tragedy at| the castle. - Colonel Roosevelt walked the| ramparts, where, according the the ghost appeared. o'clock to play, | |One Vindication for Ballinger | toward 1 Supreme Court of District of Colum- bia Orders Charge Stricken from the Records. Speculators in Rubber Shocked| IAll Prices Offered at London Auction | Far Below Reserve Figures of Holders, | WASHINGTON, Bal- linger received what might be called one | vindication in the supreme court of the | District of Columbia today when a charge | that he had shirked his duty as secretary | of the interior was ordercd expunged from | the recora Tn an injunction proceeding In connection with homestead claims on the Siletz Indian veservation in Oregon the petitiol | that because Mr. Ballinger, a lawyer had been counsel for some of the claim- ants refu to pass upon the ca when came into office and delegated the work to his first assistant, Frang | Pierce, and had therefore refused to give the benefit of his judgment and had there- fore shirked his duty Secretary nger tion, declaring that | referred to Mr. Pler of business as the of land court out May 3.—Secretary LONDON, May 3—Rubber speculators re- ¢ something of a shock at today's fortnightly Sales of raw material In minc ing Lane, when lot after lot was withdrawn for lack of purchasers, The usua! buy were present, but there was no competition and the prices offered ranged from 1s to 15 64 helow the reserve price of the sellers. two parcels of the best smoked shieet were allowed to go at 11s 7d a pound, a the price realized at the last auction, in order to encourage buyers, but inahle to arouse the ved alleged of he One or below | least enthusfasm. | It s explained that buyers here are wait ing Turther advices regarding the 1 of American -manufacturers. 't slump in the price of raw material has | given the vubber share market a further | setback |CITY ELECTIO the autclonecrs wer denled the L the imputa- cases had in the regular courss latter had direct charge office affairs, and the | the charge. been requir ments e eneral struck ‘Southern Pacific May Cut Melon IN ST. PAUL Municipal ‘Tieket Beéing Chosen Minnesota Capltnl—Weather 1a Clenr. PAUL, Ml | munieipal eleetion 'ran | In NEW YORK, May cific 18 considering t its ofl properties, it the Mistribution of ' the stock to shareholders The value the thern Pac is " mately $100,000,000, The Southern for the dispo sald today, and proceeds through Pa a plan ST n. May 3 today (he weather is A full city ticket s to be elected Henry G. Haas, democrat, and Keller, republican, are the ean For the is clear | For ( Herbert ! dicates mayor P. propert to be of the " c sald approxi Can’t Eat Your Candy and Keep It; Class in Dilemma | cashte When wrinkled you were a tiny with & glorious burst of pleasure of a dance or sha ®ome immortality in the form 10 adorn the halls of the four b Euclid and A meeting to rveach a decision Indications probabilitie to be tdered odds are on (he striped candy Long It has beer for each departing class to leave behind a memorial Bt preeedent exponents’ each ana | succeeding class feared to brak it | L the poppy like e class buy £ bust stocking did you e start store | around to the corner { ting nice for muvver’ ana com | three sticks of Atriped candy | The candy was spon eaten it immensely “mavver’ didn’t mind |a bit. In fact she was rather glad to sce | you ‘have your little fun and smiled a bit | behind your back about the incident | The senlor class of the Omaha High { school 18 about to repeat the performance |of the tad. Chandler Trimble, preshent i has put the question before the class | “Shall the class money be spent lu to buy “some- or | pleture titution | spent with a back with Where years Virgh?" to have n You enjoyed in be reld 1 on Wednesday I the safe A are . to the school. 1t has been a cherished cherished mainly he party every wne | expected rom the New York Herald, WEATHER FORECAST Nebraska—Cloudy lowa—Falr; warmer weather report oo page For Ior For Warmer (. 0. P, LEADERS ARE CONING Before salling the Republican Club Dinner Will Have | Stellar Attendance. AFFAIR IN NO WISE EXCLUSIVE Every Republican Eligible to Attend if He Buys Mis Ticket in Time, Says President of Central Organzation. Acceplances of inviwations to attend Central. Republican club banguet next Monday evening at the Rome hotel indi- cate that about all the prominent leaders | ment precludes any further h of the party in the state will be in Omaha | case during the next five weeks. on that day. Besides thirty members of the state com- mittee, the following men now in the public | other men in the Muskogee town lot cas eve will be present: Charles H. Aldrich | David City, candidate tor the-gubernatorial | court adjourned until afternoon to allow | Klillen of Gage |Has! nemination, county Cha candidate for Colonel and Danlel | A probable candiuase. the senatorial William Hayward, nomination. trict, and Frank M. Currie, candidate in the Sixth district Walter A. George of Broken Bow, can- didate for state treasurer, and Lawson G. Brian, the present state treasuver, Who Is | seneral, ar to make an debt. Addison state. All address on a state out Wait, candidate for secretary of the republican state officers to be here, and the committee confidently expects that Former Governor Sheldon will make it convenient to run up to Nebraska from his Mississippl planta- tlon for this banquet “The Central Republican congratulated on the scove It is Biving its program,” said a business man applied for a ticket. “The educational value club is to to | of such a meeting is to my mind as great| as any other element. With republicans of all shades of opinfon to listen to, and with such a man as Governor Eberhart of Min nesota to discuss the general issues, can where every man who attends wil get & good deal of benefit.”” “The officers of the club again desire to emphasize the fact that this is not an in vitation affair in any sense,” said President Ryder. “Our membership runs into all wilks of life and want every repyolican to feel free to attend if he buys his ticket in time. Over 200 tickets have already been sold and the capacity of the bunquet hall is which we expect to be fully taken by next Saturday cvening. We have made a good many reservations already for people outside of Omaha who want to attend and shall ry to accommodate everybody who sends his application i time. rnor Eberhart will arrive in Omaha next Monday morning and during the day will be in the hands ot a reception commii- tee, which Is now being selected. The c already has tenders of enough automobiles 1o give the visit ride about the eity, ride will only be for t 1 I we Gov but »se who arrive of course, the arly Governo enough in the day to accompany Eberhart on the sight-seeing trip, will start from Hotel Rome at an hour t be announced in the Saturday evening and papers. This many Sund morning trip planned because pected visitors have not seen Omaha in all its glory for and have conception of the great development mads I beauty in the last a grea several years littla along the lines of five years. New Bank Vierr PIERRE D. M (Sy cles of incorporation have Favmers' arity bank of long string of Incorporators of the instl President, Alfred N s cial)—Arii been filed for the Peever, with The officers [ w ition president Hammond are Boharis; viee ] Begin the week - ' with a Want Ad in The Bee through The Bee. If you want through The Bee If you have anything gell it through The Bee If you have something you wish to buy, buy it through The Bee. If you want & house or a plece land, get them through The It you get one a Job, get it to sell of Bee If you are in & hurry call Doug- las 235 and you will find & cheer- ful staff ready to serve you. the rles O. Whedon oftincomn, announced | candidate for congressional nomination In the First dis- |(he be who | rs from outside of Omaha | which of ihe ex- |Haskell Town Lot Cases Are Continued \BRYAN MUST HIRE A HALL Refused Permission to Speak in Ne- | braska City Court House. Trial of Governor of Oklahoma and | Associates is Postponed Until | Next Term of Court. Action of Otoe Commissioners Pro- vokes Indignant the Peerless | Protest from Leader—Will Speak Next Week. | TULSA, OKl, May 3.—The trial of Charles N. Haskall, governor of Oklahoma, and five other men in the Muskogee town lot cases this afternoon was continued until the next {term of the federal court. The postpone- | LINCOLN, Ma. (Speclal Telegram.)— ing in the | Willlam J. Bryan has been refused per- {mission to speak in the court house at Nebraska City tomorrow night. As a re- sult he will postpone his meeting in the Otoe . county city untfl some time next week, when he will hire nother hail. Thix actlon on the part of the county commis- {sloners of Otoe caunty. lpk: stifred up the {prestdentlal eandidate to a nigh degree Haskell asked for a continuance on the (and from thfs timé on the fight In the [ground that the government had denfed |intense, is a statement issuea by Mr. Bryan him access to documents in possession of [ranks of the demoratic party will be most Department of the Interior. These | this morning. | papers, he declared, would show that when | “I have just been informed by a Ne- the Creek town lots were disposed of in |braska City démocrat that the county com | 1901, the government approved of the trans- action. vester Rush, speclal attorney ued that Governor Haskell and | his co-defendants were attempting to bring | about delay They have asked the government for { hundreds of documents without knowing what the papers contain,” sald Mr. Rush “These defendarts are on a tishing expedi- tion in the hope that somewhere how they will be able get something that will be of value to their defense.' It was declared that the Department of the Interior had telegraphed that all of the papers asked for had been forwarded here. NEW ENGLAND ROADS WILL ADVANCE RATES that He Incren f June. (From a Staff Correspondent.) More delay in the trlal of Charles N | Haskell, governor of Oklahoma, and five | | was experienced tdday when the federal 21l s attorney to prepare his argument for a continuanee; 5 |®llow me to speak in the court room to- |morrow night on the nitiative and refer endum. The reason glven by my informant \was that the people in that county arc |opposed to my position on that subject. 1 shall endeavor to arrange a meeting there tiext week in another hall or out of doors. {In_the meantime it is worth while for the {people of Nebraska to inquire what special interests there are in the state that arc 0pposed to the discussion of public ques |tlons, as well as opposed to giving the peo- ple & chance to vote on public questions.” | H. H. Hanks was here from Nebraska Clty last night and said the people of that | county apparently were opposed to Mr. | Bryan's plan, but he believed if the presi- dential candidate and Senator Buck met in |joint debate that the audjence would in | struct the senator to favor the extra se: sion and Jinitfative and referendum, Mr. Hanks sald Senator Buck had in- |formed Mr. Bryan that if he was convinced |that his constitueits favored the extra |session he would change his views and vote for the initlative and referendum, — Ralroad Line Relocated. PIERRI, D., May 3—(Speclal)—The Belle Fourche Velley Rallway company has |flled with the secretary of state a plat of |change of location in thelr Iine east from Belle Fourche. They cut out a loop, saving several miles, and in the change leave the government townsites on sections 20 and 2, townghip 9 north, range 6 east. about a mile |off their line as it is located by the chang mahan Married n Chicago. The new schedules will be filed at once | CHICAGO, May 8.—(Special Telegram.) with the railroad éommission and also |Mr. Otte Larsen of Omaha and Miss | with the Interstate Commerce commis- [Kairby of Knoxville, Tenn ston llcense to marry here tod or some- to | Annonncement s Wil Passenger First are < May passenger railronds betwe the Atlantic tically A rates movement to in- on many \of the the Mississippi river and rd will become prac- | N Iingland by June | recent announcement of the New York, New raitioad the Boston & Albany managements they had declded of the increased seak general in 1. Following the an advance by Haven & Hartford Maine and Hoston & today stated that ralse rates because of operation. The ralse on the Boston & Albany will average about 12 per cent and will take ef- tect on June 1 w to cost 2, | | were granted - DO IT NOW If the census enumerator has not got your name, or those of friends, fill out this coupon, cut it from The Bee, fold it on the dotted line and drop it in the nearest mail box with the address on the outeide. Postage and envelope are not necessary OFFICIAL BUSIN UNITED STATES CEN CHARLES L. Supervisor SAUNDERS, of the Census, Federal Building, Omaha. Name Address Name Address Name Address WEDNESDAY MEETING POSTPONED 1 miesloners of Otoe county have refused to| nma RADICAL CHANGES IN RATLROAD BILL Section Seven Intended to Legalize Traffic Agreements Stricken from Measure, |TWO0 AMENDMENTS PENDING Cummins and Elkins Withdraw Sub- | stitates and Provision is Killed. POSITION OF THE REPUBLICANS Each Faction Contends that Standing on Platform. it s SECTION TWELVE ALSO GOES OUT Provision Authorizing Puarchase of Stocks of Competing Lines Meets Even Quicker Demth——Com- ment by Dolliver, WASHINGTON, May 3.~Moves of a rad {dcal character in connection with the rai road bill eventuated when the measure was taken up In the senate late this afternoon Chairman Klkins of the interstate merce committee atl once announced tha! | he would move to lay on the table the Cummins amendment to the traffic agree ment section. He coupled (his statemen with the announcement that a majority of [the committee would then support an |amendment by Semator Clay to strike ou{ the whole of aection 7. Senator Cummins gained recognition and withdrew his amendment A motion was then made by Senator Clay to strike out the section. Section 7, which occasloned all the trouble never was perfectad in the senate. The Cumming and the Elkins-Crawford provis llons were offered as tomplett substituees for the section. The Cummins provision would have legalized traffic agveements but would have eompelled the rallroads to | procure the approval of the Interstate Com merce commission before making changes ot rates The Elkins-Crawford provision would authorize the making of agreements, but would not permit the railroads to enforce changes of rates without first obtaining the approval of the commission. ¥ ition of Insurgents. The insufgents claimed that this provis jon would repeal the Sherman anti-trust law 80 far as it applied to raliroads and would put an end to competition as to reites Both factions contended thelr amendments were In compliance with the republican na- tional platform. Senator Stone made a long politieal speech, and then & vote was taken on Mr. Clay's motion. No request was made for a roll call and section 7 was struck out by a viva vocs vote in which there were no negative: e Section 12 met oven quicker death. Sen- ator Nelson made a motion Killing this section, which would authorize railroads to buy all the stock of the lines in which | they already own 50 per cent of the stock. With hardly a word of comment it was or- dered eliminated. . Debate was then resumed other features of the bill « in relation te Comment by Dolliver. insurgents have reached the re spectable status of being treated as bel ligerents,” commented Mr. Dolliver, just prior to the convening of the senate, Not only Mr. Dolliver, but also other insurgent senators were of the opinion that the enate proceedings today would mark an epoch in the history of the raii- road blll. The Insurgents were divided im opinion as to the probable fate of the Cummins améndment. Some of them were not so sure that it could ha beaten by the regulars, even with the assistance of those senators who had agreed to vote against it with the understanding that the agree- ment provision would be withdrawn sub~ equently. They appeared hopeful of suc- and indicated their preference for the egulation of traffic agreements by such a provision. Discussing the program of the regulars, Mr, Dolliver said “It is like driving off the roof the man | who is thatching it in order to burn the house,” he said. “We would prefer to go and bill. “We are certalnly getting on,” continued My, Dolliver. “Our war status is recog- nized. We are to be dealt with wnd right to treaties and to enter alliances Is established, he perfect the our make Inte RESIDENT TA INTERESTED Execative Reads Dispatches Whashington on Situat CINCINNATI May f—President Tafy 1 with-keen fnterest the dlspatches from Washington, dealing with the eritical sftu- atlon in which the administration ratlroad bill had betn placed. e had { the news, hé sald, however, over from Washington president would make comment publication regarding the attitude of Insurgents In the senate and house. ward the measur everal times of late to those talked him, it has seemed president was about to make some state- vegarding the situation in refrained, evidently, in the matters would right themkeiven Tatt is far from having lost all hope 15 bolleved he is discouraged by of support from men who nominally to the party. As there scoms to by of & working majority in el of congress the for ihe various administration measures seem any- thing but bright presidant explained wan sufticlent] latest details of the him r o, r recelved the tede phone The v no to- who have that the witih ment but he has that My congress hope it the lack bhelong lack branch a rer chances The toda Acquainted situation in to commer that with he the Washing the ton 1o allow road bill But the of erviewe Many orted the on rall norning papers publish ar LI suggested obit his uary the ¢ in obituaries are premuture,” re- president i Klopement at Onawa, | ONAWA, la, May (8poctal.)—Vernis { terrington and Miss Myrtie Hall, two well known young people of Onawa, failing to gain the parenial blessing of (he young woman's father and m eloped Satur day evening and after driving to the try were united in martiage at the of D. Arndt, the groom's employer. Th happy couple are now awalting the fore glieness and usual parental blessing upos ocensions of this kind. They will make | their home on & farm south of Lowi .