Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 24, 1910, Page 1

» OLIVER SPITZER IS CALLED‘ 4 . (] » { ) cuft court, t THE OMAHA BEE lean, rellable newspaper that Is admitted to each and every home WEATHER FORECAST For Nebraska—Fair and warmer. For lowa—Falr and warmer. For weather report see page 2 VOL. XXXIX-NO. 29 Y DEVICES FOR CHEATING Government Plays Its Trump Card in Prosecution of Sugar Officiale, Man Convicted Last February Par- doned hv President. FRAUDS COMMENCED IN Bag of Lead First Used to Manipu- late Scales. 1894 % TWO0 KINDS OF SPRIN\“ "ER Witness Pald Wage Weighers with Mo nim by M £ the Defen2ants. NEW YORK, May 2.—The trum, fii tha prosecution of Charles R kecrotary of the American Sugar Redniing Company. was played at the opening of the Sugar trust underweighing conspiracy trlal _today when Prosecutor Stimson called s the government's first witness Oliver Spitzer, superintendent of the Wil-| llamsburg docks who some months ago was vonvicted of underwelghing and sen- tenead to two veara in the federal peni- tentlary at Atlanta. When Spitser took the stand, John B. Stanshfleld for the defense claimed that under the federal statute Spitzer, as a convieted man, could not testify. The sensation of the trial was then created by the declaration in court that Spitser had been pardoned by President Taft, Helke is on trial in the United States clr- with flve former employes of the American Sugar Refining company, on the charge of conspiring to defraud the government by underwelghing cargoes of sugar {mports. Witnesses have testified to the discovery of fraudulent devices on the sugar docks at Willlamsburg, whereby, it was alleged, employes of the so-called Sugar trust manipulated the scales so as to bring gpbout underweights On evidence of Richard Parr, a govern- ment Inspector, who made a rald on the sugar docks in November, 1907, and others, Spitaer, who was the dock superintendent at the time and for some years previous, was convicted, with four checkers em. ployed under hlm, ot commection with the conspiracy to perpetrate frauds whereby the government was cheated out of mil- llony of dollars In sugar duties. The four checkers—Bayle, Coyle, Kehoe and Hennessey—were semt to the Black- well Island penitentiary for a year. Spitzer 8Ot two years In Atlanta. He protested ignorance of frauds on the dooks. Men “higher up" were sought, and Helke, the sacretary of the trust, and Broest. ' GerBrevit, the refinery superin- tendent, were indicted. With them on trial now, besides four other former company checkers, 18 James F. Bandernagel, the re- finery cashler, who was tried with Spitser and the others. The jury disagreed as to whether Bendernagel had & part in the conspiracy, and ft was declded to retry Lim. Bag of Lead Firmt Device. As Spitger testitisd to the underweighing fravds on the docks it was developed that President Taft granted him an uncondi- tional pardon on May 18 Spitzer went back to the years 134 and 189, whem, ho sald, an Investigation he made developed the fact that the check- ers were affecting the weights on raw sugar by placiog small bags of lead on the beams of the scales, causing the reo- orded ‘welghts to drop below the actual, often as much as forty pounds on each draft In addition, Spitzer sald it was also the practice to stuff paper underneath the floors of the woales for the same purposs. He said that when Deputy Surv Customs Vall 100k office, thess devices were abandoned and the use of the steel «corset spring was begun and continued. Spitzer demonstrated in court the use of the bags of lead. Hoe walked over to the sample scale, which is one of the govern- ment's exhibits in the case, and indicated the beam the placa whero the bag w pended. Testifyln® regarding the us ¢ the wire spring, which superceded the bag of lead, Spitzer said that two styles of springs were used, a heavy one first and then & spring considerably lighter in velght, Spetzer's testimony regarding the welgh lessening device of the newspapers under neath the scale was a new development. Helke listened to Spitzer's testimony with tense Interest. Spitzer talked freely about the frauds, by which tile government was robbed of mil- lions of dollars. He said the use of steel springs was stopped after the sugar trust had pald the rebate to the govern- ment as & result of the federal court. In feply to an Interrogation of the proe- cution It he had ever reported the welgh- ing. frauds to anyone, Spitzer replied he had! informed & man named Leroy, who worked In the Wall street office of the sugar trust, Spitzer told of conversations he had with former cashier Jomes F. Bendernagel and -Superintendent Frank W. Gerbracht, twe of the defendants. The witness sald when e wanted to ralse of the checkers' wages he was obliged to put the before Bendernagel and Gerbracht government welghers were favorites. those of the city weighers in the matter of wages. made to conceal this from the other work ers on the dock a any The Frauds Stopped by Bpitzer said that in the fall of 1906 b oblved & telcphous message which ca etting up In the frauds. i knpw Who sent the me [@rned him o be careful aprings 85 (he government ho doeks. itger sald fovember, 1607, infarmed by Mr. Gerbracht that the welgh- efs and himself would be taken care of. When the six welghers were diseharged, what happened?” “I paid them the same wages o at wy home,” replied Mr. Spitzer, who sa'd the money was given 1im cach week hy Mr. Gerbracht who left It in a package at h's wara “When @id this money ceasc®" “When 1 was sentenced last February, ayswercd Mr. Spitger. ephone. age, of the wirs was watehing that following the raid in v week tzer pald he Knew Secretary Helke, but | ymnnn-d_ on Second Page) the | matter | He sald every ctfort possible was QSpeed Censor’s He said he ala which by the government he was 1. iBrokers Secure | Duplicate Loans | | on Grain Receipts, |Albany and Chicage Grain Firm in ! Financial Tangle Which Prom- ises Sensation. | | ALDANY, N. Y., May 2~Through the al- leged manipulation of warehouse recelpts, {the firm of Durant & Elmore, grain | { merghants with offices in Albany, Chicago, | { Buffalo and Boston, has become involved | sational developments. merclal bank of Albany holds the com- | pany’'s paper for $300,000; the First National | | bank has $77,200 ard many thousands more said been of town institutions, | | According to a_statement by Vice Presi- {dent James M. Perkins of National | Commercial bank, the company is “hope- | fomsly: tnvoivea.” “We ase intormed,” sald | Mr. Perkins, “that eight or nine banks {hold the firm’'s paper, besides grain com- | | mission brokers with whom the firm has | | dealt and & numbemof inaividuals. The exact condition of the firm's affairs| J# not known, but an examination is under | (ay. Gibson Olv treasurer of the com-| pany, has charge of affairs at its Albany | oftice, according to members of the firm, but no statement from him about the shortage 15 forthcoming. Edwin Moore, | who was summoned from Chicago, is as- | sisting 1n the examindtion. The scheme by which the money is al- leged to have been secured was @ simple one. As soon as a car load of grain was shipped from Chicago for the local firm, the manager received a warehouse receipt | This was In the regular course of business. Later on the warehouse receipts are raid 10 have been so manipulated as to make | possible the heavy loans from the banks on the bills as security. The man whose duty Is said to have been to take up the warehouse receipts when the grain was actually delivered by the| railroad company, it is alleged, did not do| 50 and hence the geuulne bills were used over again. President Frederick A. Mead of the First | Natlonal bank sald today his bank holds $77,20 of the Durant & Elmire paper, bear- ling the personal endorsement of Messrs. Durant, Elmore and Oliver and secured by original bills of lading deposited as collat- eral security for the loans. Careful investigation led him to belleve | that the bank would be amply protected | trom any lo The Durant & Elmore company is under- stood 0 have grain in Oneonta and in Boston valued at about $100,000 and much additional grain in transit from the west. Trial of Mrs. Doxey Begins at St. Louis Columbus, Neb., Woman is Arraigned on Charge of Murdering Wil- — in a financial which promises sen- | The National Com. {are to have secured from out | | | | ST. LOUIS, May 2.—Mrs. Dora Elizabeth Doxey, whe, witly her husband, Dr. Loren B. Doxey, fs under indictment on the charge of murdéering Willam J. Erder, whom ft is alleged she married, was placed on trial here today. The defense asked a severance of the trials and the state elected to try the woman first. It ts charged that while she was the wife of Erder, and also that of Doxey, she | polsoned Erder with arsenia It developed | at the coroner's inquest that Erder ate heartily of a blackberry ple shortly before his fatal ilness. Erder djed in convulsions July 10, 1908, and shortly after it is charged that Mrs. Doxey seat Erders furniture to the home of Doxey in Columbus, Neb., and collected | Erder’s lite insurance. Mrs, Doxey, in an Interview last week, admitted sne married Erder while she was the wife of Doxey. She sald she was not responsible for her acts, as she was under the {nfluence of morphine which her hus- band sent her. Since she has been In jall here she has been cured of the drug habit. The coroner's jury returned a verdict that Doxey had a “guilty knowledge" of Erder's death. Last December the grand jury returned indict- ments. The_defense will «claim that Erder took patent medicines. Mrs. Doxey has an- nounced she will not live with her husband again. “1 will do nothing out of spite toward Dr. Doxey,” Mrs. Doxey sald, “but I pect to protect myself, | fore whatever cnse. ex He and I are quits is the outcome of this ch | GREATER NAVY IS | VOTED BY SENATE Appropriation Bill is Passed Provid- ing Big Addition to Sea ! Fighting Force. | TWO BATTLESHIPS T0O BE BUILT Monsters Will Be of Dreadnaught Type and Cost Millions. SUBMARINE SQUADRON APPROVED | | | Torpedo Boats and Destroyers Are | Included in Provisions. | CONDITIONS ARE TACKED TO BILL adad uction 1s to Be DI tributed and Must Be Built Undgr the Eilght-Hour Law. | A Work of Con | | | | | down, | WASHINGTON, May to 3, an amendment Burton to authorize only ship instead of two, the senate today passed the naval appropriation bil. *The ‘bill | carries an appropriation of almost $134,000,- | 0. 1t was before the senate for two days, | the *debate being confimed almost exclu- | sively to the battleship’question. | Two important amendments were adopted | today. One of them, offered by Senator Johnston, appropriates $460,000 «for the pur- o of torpedo boats “whose vitals are below the normal load line," the: other by Senator Jones, eliminating railroad; county and municipal bonds from - the securities | which may be deposited by contractors. The naval increase for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911, provided by the bill, is as follows: Two first-class battleships, to cost not exceeding $6,000,000 each, and when equipped with armor and armament about $12,600,000 each; two fleet colliers, to | cost not exceeding $1,000,000 each; five sub- marine torpedo boats, not exceeding a to- | tal of §2,300,000; six torpedo boat destroy- | crs, cost not exceeding $750,000 eack Senate More Gemerous, i The house bill provided for only four| submaries and no torpedo boat destroyers. The senate also added a provision that not | more than one of the battleships shoud | be bullt by the same company. The provi- | slon Mserted n the house requiring that the battleships and fleet colliers should be built under the “elght-hour law" was re- tained by the senate. The closing hour of the debate served to elicit two important historical revelations | by Senator Depew, which were given from Hs own store of information. One of them bore on the war with Spain and the other | on the Venezuolan embroglio with Great| Britain In’ the second administration of President Cleveland. The &tatement re- garding the Spanish was ellcited by an| assortion by Senator HeyBurn that the people themselves did not want wars, but Eenerally ybere compelled by théft rulers to submit to them. Taking fssue with the Idaho senater, Mr. Depew sald that popular demand had foreed the war with Spain on the country and that President McKinley was opposed to it He asserted that terms as favorable could have been obtained from Spain with- | out a confllet as with ar. “Does ‘not the senator belief that but| for the pressure of that time the presi- | dent would heve negotiated Spain off the| American continent?” asked Mr. Hale. * do," responded the New York senator “I know of my own knowledge that Spain was prepared to abandon Cuba and Porto| Rico to prevent humiliation if it could be| assured in advance of the acceptance of me" proposition.’ | He said President McKinley had not been | a strong enough personality to resist the popular will. Mr. Depew also related some history concerning the Veneszuelan episode of the first Cleveland administration. “An intimate who was also an intimate friend of Lord Salisbury, then the British prime minister,’ he sad, “told me that when the president’s message was promul- gated Lord Salisbury said to him,. * be- leve that on account of the rancor coming down from the revolutionary war and ac-; centuated by certain occurences In the civil war, America means to have a war with Great Britain at some time and I be- | lleve now is the best time, when Americ: has no nav. “The view of the overruled by Queen Victoria, but if Lord| Salisbury had the powers possessed by some of the English prime ministers the| lssuc certainly would have been tried out." Mr. Depew used the last Incident 23.~Voting offered by Mr. | ne new battle- prime minister was | to en- Mrs. Doxy's father, Jefferson Fuller, of Joy, 1il, and her sister, Mrs, D. M. Morris | of Evanston, Ill, took seats near the pris- | oner. When the examination of veniremen | began, M Doxey bit her lips clenched her hands. The defense obtalned, {ing. the numes of the had suppres The defense filed an application for a change of venue from Judge McQuillan's court. The case was sent to Judge Grimms' division for immediate trial and | by the court rul witnesses the state Showers of Meteors at Boone, In. | | BOONE, Ia., May clal Telegram.) | ~This morning small meteors struck Boone | | at Eleventh and Monroe streets, greatly ex- | »| citing people iIn that nelghborhood. Con | ) ~(Sp duetor W. B. Harrls has small portions this of minute meteors. The sub- stance I8 In the form of coal, apparently *| partly burned. It s believed the par- ticles are from the tafl of Halley's comet rain Appearance Since he has taken to the assignment of arresting automobile speeders, Police- man Eddie Morgan declares he can pass as anything but a policeman. “Pretty soon some wise tell me I'm under age," markd in aggravation Morgan's trouble over personal' appear- ance grew out of the refusal of several street car conductors to accept him as a free police passenger. Garbed In dust-cov- ered clothing, commonplace cap and high motoreycle boots, the officer aroused sus- picion. On four occasions Inélde of a week, | he declared, conductors had demanded to see his star after he had told them he was | a megber of the torce. Even a glimpse u(l the star was hardly sufficient for several | conductor will the officer re-| force an argument in favor of a strong navy and for the present authorization of | two new battleships of the Dreadnought | type. | Mr. Heyburn expressed the opinion that there should be a continued increase of the navy until the completion of the Pan-| ama canal | The demacrats voting for two battie-| ships were Clarke of Arkansas, McInery of Loulsiana and Taylor. The republicans voting for one battleship were Bristow, Burton, Clapp, Crawford, Cummins, Dixo; Dolliver, Hale, LaFollette and Page ALBERT J. SNELL FOUND DEAD Son of Murderea Milli a Noomink Chicage May 2.—Albert ot the milifonaire, Amos J murder here In 188 created sation, was found dead rooming house here today. CHICAGO, J. Snell, Snell, a in son whose wide: bed ead at a Juvenile | Causes Tangle of the street car searching scrutiny men. Each turned upon thelr passeng and, according to Morgan, turned up thelr nose. 1 still n't think ne of them said, ‘Would you like proot?’ I asked him 1 ond thought he didn't need gny mo Morgan's predic nent brought Jokes on his hoad at the station. you ain't big remarked ormed man. ‘ big as 1 ‘Do yo you're an officer,” related Morgan. me to arr He declde you on se » prof. al | “Maybe a uni-| u enough,” m as look, retorted Morgan. want any proof?; “You're plenty biK.'" soothingly remarked another officer. “Trouble with Morgan, you're 100 clever looking." sonny you |n From the Philadelphia Inquirer. Getting Into Full Swing. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. NORRIS ANDHINSHAW REFUSE! Alleged Slayer Nebraskans Will Not Agree to Caucus on Savines Bill. MASSACHUSETTS MAN HAS CALL Follows Precedeht to Have Majority arty Agrée on Postal Savings Bank Measure Before Gen- eral Discussion. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, May 23.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Representative Norris and Hen- shaw have refused to sign a caucus call for the meeting of republicans next Wed- nesday evening to consider the postal sav- ings bank bil. Others of the insurgents to refuse to go into caucys are: Davis and Nelson ot Minnesots, %z -pér and Lenroot of Wisconsin, Poindexter~-of Washington, Haugen of Towa, Gronna of North Dakota and few others, who did nbt even have a | chance to refuse to sign the call, Representative’ Weeks of Massachusetts, chairman of thg house committee on post- offices and postroads, in asking for a ‘caucus on such important measure is fol- lowing precedent extending over fifty years, He is asking for consideration of the bill by the mafority charged with legisation and it a majority should approve he will ask for a rule from the rules committee, which will prevent amendments being offered to the measuer as reported from the com- mittee. It Is expected that republicans will re- #pond enmasse to the call for a caucus and will meet the demands of the insurgents, who are holding out for a mandatory pro- vision, requiring funds to be retained in communitles In which they originate, more than half way. The call was not presented to Represen- tative Poindexter of Washington, and one or two other “insurgents.” The Insurgents base their action their desire not to be bound by of a secret caucus as they see the bill considered on house. Chairman Weeks of the committee on postoffices and postroads sald today that he had not doubht the bill would be made the caucus Wednesday night. He said It was the purpose to allow the freest dis- cussion and amendment of the bill then, and later to bring it into the house under a speclal rule which would not permit of amendment on the floor It was pointed out that a combination of democrats and republicans might de- feat an attempt to bring such a rule into the house and Mr. Weeks admitted it was easily possible. If the bill were thrown open to amendment the floor, Mr. Weeks expressed the fear that it might be picked to pleces with amendments such as was done In the case of the rallroad bill. He contended that the bill was a good one in its present form Senator Burkett will leave Washington Saturday to be present at the memorial ex- ere under the ouspices of the Grand Army of the Republic at Lincoln on Mon- day. The senator makes the principal speech on that ocgasion. Th v of ‘the tr y has awarded the contract for the construction of the public bullding at Ottumwa, la., to Bart- lett & Klug of Cedar Rapids for $186,000. E endall of Sante appointed an expert farm Indian Agency, Orcgon upon the result preferred to the floor of the on secrets a8 to Ia G Neb., at has been Umatilla A little want ad in today’s Bee will find you a reliable servant. 1t will find the house you wish to rent or buy. It will secure a position for you. It will sell whatever you offer. It brings landlord and tenant together—borrower and lender face to face and does a thousand and one things that would be difficult, to do any other w Any ad 3 times, one cent a word. Call Douglas 238 and the ad taker will write your notice and place it for you. Everybody Reads Bee Want Ad of Jane Adams 1s Arraigned William Seyler, Who is Charged with Causing Death of Girl, is on Trial at Atlantic City. MAYS LANDING, N. J, May 28— Charged with having been responsible for the death of Jane Adams, 18 vears old, at the Million Dollar pler in Atlantic City on the night of February 4, Willlam Sey- ler was called to face a jury in the At- Iantic county court. The disappearance of Jane Adams and the finding of her body in the surf nine days later created a sensation in this seotion of-New Jersey. Seyler, who is & young married man of Atlantie City, aeccompanjed Jane Adams o & mroving plcture show on the pler. They were accompanted by Seyler's brother, Orvie, and Miss-Adams’ sister Alice, both younger than the principals in the tragedy. Later in the evening Seyler and Jane Adams went to the ocean end of the pler and the younger pair returned to their homes. Jane Adams never returned home and the following day the two Seylers dls- appeared. On February 13 the body of Jane was found in the surf at Chelsea. Susplclon having been directed to Seylers, search was made for them and a week later they were found in Peters- burg, Va. Willlam Seyler denled all knowl- edge of the death of the girl, but later | contessed, declaring, it is alleged, that Jane Adams met her death accidentally while With him near the end of the pler. Towa Will Take Action to Stop Raise in Rates Railroad Commission Will Ask Attor- ney General to Bring Suit to En- join Advances. the DES MOINES, Railroad commission today officlally an- announ that it will ask Attorney Gen- eral Byers to bring suit before the Inter- state Commerce commission if any of the railroads try to make effective the higher interstate rates which they have announced for the first of the coming month. If the | railroads do not restore the rates which have already been raised, the commission will take the same action. The proposed action is the result complaint filed today by the Grocer's company. . oriiclal to the railroads was issued. (DANISH ~ CABINET RESIGNS | Members Will Hand Resignations to I King on Return from London. , Ta., May 23.—The Towa of a Western statement | COQPENHAGEN, May At | of the cabinet today the min ized Premier 7 a meeting ters author- ahle to hand thelr resigna- tions to King Frederick immediately on his return from London In the recent elections the contest turned on the question of defense and the ra through whom the government had secured the dissolution of the Folkething in order to | get the defense bill of 1909 amended, were | defeated.” The premier and the minister of | the Interior were re-clected, but the min | isters of worship and commerce were not icals, 1 LEWISBURG, W. Va., May 2.—One of the big fights of the Southern Pr ibly was inaugurated today ttee on marriage and to report asse when the Alvor 8o divergent com called was upon procure 1ajority report were aba Dr. W Boggs, Atlantd, Ga., | W. Joplin, Red Eprings, N. C | report recommending radical | the contession of faith. Dr | Richmond, Va., and Dr. H mitted & substitute report that no changes'be made a ed. and Dr. m 1 changes Russell Ce recommending Southern Presbyterians Divide on Divorce Rules sbyterian | were | the views of its members that attempts to | heathen polygamists, submitted a | family “leming sub- | BOOSTERS GET TOWN DEPOT Wayside Will Have Occasion to Re- member Visit. NORTHWEST ON FRIENDLY TERMS Fine Exhibition of Spirit Shown at Chadron, Hay Springs, Rush- ville, Gordon and Valentine. LONG PINT, Neb., May 23.—(Special Tel- egram.)—As & result of the visit of the Omaha boosters to Wayside the people of that new Nebraska town will get a depot. General Manager Frank Walters of the Northwestern says so, and the visit will be long remembered by the citizens. Way- #lde gave the trade exeursionists the wel- come into Nebraska and ‘It was such an enthusiastic one, o many people coming in ffom the surrounding country that the raliroad officlals were convinced the town needed a depot. When the train pulled in just before 7 o'clock an anvil was booming and a dozen young women, living on claims from five Lo twelve miles distant, appeared on horse- back, some racing along with the train to reach the station on time. Then the new depot sprung. The citizens surrounded . F. Miller, the general freight and passenger agent, and placed in his hands a petition signed by more than one hundred, ask- Ing for a depot and an agent, The Omaha business mén were also asked for a ph: siclan, lawyer and drug store and a bank. General Hanager. Walters joined the party at Chadron. The Boosters presented the petition and declared they endorsed it and Wayside surely deserved a depot Judging from the spirit of the place, and number of good people living around it. “I will give them the depot If you will furnish the bank, drug store, and lawyer,” sald Mr. Wattler, “We will give them a bank," sald David Cole. There's no bettet place for a bank, and in less than a year Wayside shall have a bank. ‘“T'he deal I8 closed,” sald the rallroad man. © “Wayside gets a depot as soon as we can get up to it. In a year or less we will bulld,” Thus, the excursion, running in Nebraska, has scattertd sunshine all the way. The experlence at Wayside s one of the visible proposition was physiclan evidences that Omaha trade excursions ure | not alone good for Omaha, but a boon to the country through which they pass, The business men of Omaha mean what they say Wayside will get some Omaha money Invested there as a result of the \L\IY’ Many other small stations have attracted equal attention. Chadron, Hay Springs, Rushville, Gordon, lentine, Ainsworth vied with each other see which town could give the Omaha vilstors (he best reception and before the day was half done It was evident the towns v to along. the Northwestern line recognize what | Omaha 1s dolng for the state of Nebraska, even as Omaha recognizes its debt small towns and farms of the state. necessary for A. W. Jefferis to talk” at every station. in New Mexico, ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., May North- eastern New Mexico 1s in the grip ¢ heavy snowstorm tonight. The storm dently « continuation of the one that swent southeastern Colorado yesterday, s cen tered at Folsom. It is feared great loss of live stock will result. Favor tal Savings Banks, CLINTON, Mass., May 22.—Resolutions favoring postal savings banks were passed today by delegates representing 8,000 f’ the New England division of the > ierman-American alliance at the annual convention here today to the It was “make a Snow Storm | Dr. Boggs wanted to debar from baptism and the Lord's supy Dr Cecll was in favor of missionaries exercl Ing discretion In etxending membership 1o claiming Kreat result from requiring ing discretion In extending membership (o Dr. Boggs met this with the state ment that It was the duty of the chureh to care for those cast off Dr. Boggs opposed the church's continy ng to allow “wiliful desertion’ of divorce that herdships would as a cause | | moving | Minneapolis, Kan polygamists | From | and | Evidence RAILROADS ARE ~ NOT SLEEPIN Accumulating that the Battle for Better Rates Is Just Beginning. SHIPPERS BEING URGED TO QUIT Intimations Gently Conveyed that Kioking is Dangerous. PURCHASING AGENTS ARE BUSY {In Meeting Today the Missouri River Towns Will Be Heard. SUGAR AND COFFEE ALSO GO UP Whatver Action Once, Taken Must Be at the Advanced Schedu of Rates Takes Effect in One Week, - When the shippers of the Missouri river valley meet at the Omaha Commercial club today they will find that the railroads have been on the job since the rate meeting in Chicago last week. Evidence of the efforts of the railroads to induce shippers to individually nullity { their action taken in resolutions passed at | the Chicago meeting will be shown at the meeting, This evidence has come into the possession of the leaders of the present movement of the shippers In the form of correspondence from a raflway purchasing agent. In this correspondence the rallroads are good buyers of goods At the same time weekly have appeared with long articles placing emphasis statements, At the meeting today at the Commercial club, it is expected that all of the im- portant cities on the Missourl river, from Kansas City to Sloux City, will be repre- Invitations to those in many other in Nebraska, lowa and to the east- ward have been issued. E. J. McVann of {the Commercial club's traffic bureau, has acceptance from many of the . while others who have made no are probably to be here, What the action of the meeting will be |1 do not know,” sald Mr. McVann. “The meeting represents a collection of indl- viduals, not an organization.” The schedule of advanced rates flied with the Interstate Commerce commission be- comes effective one week from the date of the Omaha meeting. Action to be taken will pecessarily have to be immediate. The plans now are to make the meeting open to the press and pulle, as was the Chicago meeting last week. That a meeting was held by the railroad attorneys with reference to the rate agita- tion among the shippers was reported yes- terday. 'This was denled by each of the Omaba raliroad attorneys approached. “There was no meeting-of that kind," sald James B, Kelby, general solicitor for the Burlington. “The whole affalr s a tempest fn a teapot and the agitation can- not be serfous.” Coples of Letters Secured. Coples of a letter sent out by the rail- roads to shippers following the hostile declarations of the Chicago meeting have found thelr way into the possession of Mr, McvVann. Following s a spscimen of the letter and enclosed ‘“ready made’ reply which the recelving shipper is expected to slgn and mall back, or else tell why he | wilt not Chicago & PFastern'Tllinols Radlroad Co., Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad Co., Old Coloney building, Chicago, May 18, 1910, T. J. Powell, Purchasing Agent, Gentle- man: If you feel as we presume you do that business of the country cannot flour- ish unless the railroads are able to pur- chase freely, you will doubtless be willing to sign the enclosed and return to me promptly It unwilling to sign, please return the blank to me with statement to that effect. Yours very truly, T. J. POWELL, Purchasing agent. |We recognize the fact that our business 13 largely affected by the amount of ma- al that railways purchase, which fs now reduced to a minimum, and at con- sequently minimum prices, because their net earnings are and will be reduced by the great Increase in operating cost, and it 1s almost impossible on their prospective earnings to sent a good reason for in- vestors to purchase thelr securitles, or make loans, The only way to change this situation is to increase thelr earnings, now and prospectively, by an advance rates, We sonable railroad organs same reply in do not endorse or advocaté unrea advances, but we deprecate any in opposition to the proposed that is based upon a denial of business reasons or puts forth deductions that are misleading, incorrect or unfair, as has been done. The condition exists; it must be remedied both In the Interest of the rallroads and ourselves; and jus- tice, after calm and careful .analysis, is all we ask for, and it cannot be obtained by appeals that are born of general Judic isolated conditions, or opiniol movement advanc pre- Personal MORE ARE RATES ADVANCED Sharp Increase Ar "ON rail and freight sugar coffee from Atlantic points to destinations in the line territory was aunounced today by i the filing of tariffs with the Interstate Commerce commission. making Increases on those commoditles ranging from 18 per it to M per cent The tariffs were as of the and 1910, coffee on Sug Announced., May sea anl Cotfee WASHINC n and sharp in- on séaboard western trunk filed Western will The by Mr, Trunk Hosmer, Line as- effective on increased rates will and sugar iIn car loads New' York, Baltimore, Phila- Boston Duluth, 8t. Paul, and Omiha. The citles all have w York to is made from nts a hundred pounds, 17 per cent from 31 to 42 cents, 8 per cent New York to St. Pawl and Min to 12 cents a hundred poundij 36 per cent; and coffee 21 per cent. From New Yorl o Kansas City and Omaha sugar Is ad vanced 3 per cent and coffee 8 per cent Haltimore Kansas City the advance both sugar a 2 per cent. From Philadelp points the advance on both su 18 38 per cent. From Philadelp! points the advance on both cof sugar per cent. From Hos Duluth advance on sugar la' 15 p and coftec % per ceat Kro . 0, to fr and soclat J apply delphia to s City I polnts of those the rates. From Duluth an advance on sugar 3 to 42 « on same on coffee « From to ar Omaha to thowe and coff on Is 2 o the cent on