The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 15, 1909, Page 1

MORE UNTIL THE A.-V.-P.. EXPOSITION OPENS LAST EDITION VOL. 11. NO, 71 oITY DILLY DALLIES IN THE CLEAN UP PROGRAM WHAT WILL SEATTLE 00 WITH HER CONSUMPTIVES? Unabated Interest te still being manifested In the two unfor tunate consumptives in the tuberculosis camp at Renton Junction, | STREET CAR COMPAN- JES ARE GIVEN | MORE TIME. Occurs at the Meet- . of the Board of Public Works. —_— more ‘and dody thing ¥ to port, bo te toward companion Pts thelr port aya reant of wor s ape « the ean Up { streets mMiatric! for the fair Mr. Bk wae in ie doar! Co lnsist upon 5 pompanios repairing ber the streets in the where the paving out. Uniess work within fifteen days rit done by the % and charged to Wants Action days haying clapsed day on on start that the street depart tw rep streets ttle Electric com Pee pattie Renton & City Bagineer Thomson ; fon, #0 far an It {the Beattie Electric com to Bupt. of Streets further Inquiry. Mr or maintaining that Garried out the direct ver Ohis pro os by ehairman moved that i ordered started by the | ‘otal whe further delay { Immediately pro- ‘anything that 1ook- | favoritism. After some 4 the board com | vith Mr. Bouillon» request) ate be treated| reports were turned on of the | TODAY formialty opened | the summer sea-| Attractions, Spray and the os- Fepeated tonight | @ay for the next and tomorrow are big crowds for the sights at La- have been long- this year, and, there will be @ A new permanent | ® joker house, by Wi be furnished much “(fly Cotte Press) NBAS CITY, Mo, May 15—A GS tato Randolph, 20 miles cast oe ‘mail cars fel! into the | fevers) = trainmen | but that no bodies | ‘The accident was | BURG, May 15—-Four! “Were killed and twelve ‘ in @ collision be- | 1 and freight train | Bear Collmar, The entered the home of Pulk, of 702 17th ay. N., 8nd 11 o'clock inst night valuable pieces of entered with a pase family was away their time to thor! the premises ‘said thin morning that the loss of his valuable pl which the burg: , as much as any of Of jewelry taken ANGLED BY A _ TRAIN meee in front of a rapidl: . pues tratn in order wee nw the toe Seo HF. Caldwell, station EM Weston on the Northern 4 Caught in the awiteh, Could extricate it the ran him down and body beyond recognt ‘Was a freight, and was ee Speed extimated at 26 mr. The engineer saw! m When he started on the run track, but failed to take te until he saw his foot | the switch and bring the! to the ground i the emergency brakes | “2p the train was too doomed man tor a stop Ameer! ag x I WAS 27 Yours of ago, and | in relatives live im and money families is daily belug received by The Star. 4s well as clothing, for the two young men and their the Anti-Tuberculosis editor of Contributors to this worthy cause may have the satis faction of knowing that they have given a new lease on life to at least two of the city's many sufferers from this dreaded disease The Star this morning turned over $i4 to the Anti-Tuberow joule league to be used for these league for other unfortunates: men, and to be used by the Since turning the above amount in The Star has received $8.60 more to at Renton, making In all a total of $71.97 be used for the camp recelved to date, The appeal for help for the two youg men ostablished in the camp at Renton Junction has touched many who have lost friends and relatives through consumption, and pearly every day there are & number of contributions recetved Kreat Interest in the plans of the AnthTuberculogis league from people expressing asking that thelr names be withheld from the list of contrib utors Since going to press yesterday &s follows Previously reported No name . ‘ Young women .. Cash (W. J. WO Mustetan Mre. K. Lukin A friend Western Washington Lumber Co. ., Lumbermen For Anti-Tuberculosis League—Cash Will you also help? The Star has received amounts ASAT 1.00 6.00 6.00 1.00 coonerees 100 ‘ eee 1.00 100 2.60 6.00 If so, addresa your contributions to Anti Tuberculosis Editor, The Star, who will turn same over to the sick men in the camp at Renton Junction ST NN = RI I GEORGE HELD INQUEST HELD TODAY OVER THE BODY OF MRS. GEORGE. That Mra. Elizabeth George came to her death by a bullet fired from) & S-caliber reyolver by her hus-| band, Arthur George, Inet Thursday, | was the finding of a corone jury! held at the Butterworth undertaking establishment today. Among those who testified was M.| B Gallagher, w FOR THE OF HIS WIFE hotel, where George stopped after his divorcee, Walgren said George was excited Wednesday night, and that he did not sleep in hiv bed at the hotel, according to information fur- nished him by the chambermatd De. Charlee BH Cowan, on the stand, merely tentified aa to the im- mediate cause of death, which was due to the effect of the bullet, which entered the brain through the left temple. Detectives Charlee Phillips, Bad BIG. NEGRO WANTED IN TEXAS CITY HE BOASTED OF COM. MITTING MURDER, SAYS WOMAN. Police Are Trying to Lo- cate the Scene of | This Crime. | PSE | ‘Thomas, a negres, haw brought mation to the police that Geo, Williams, who wae arrest. ed recently on a charge of burglary, is badly wanted by the police In @ Texas celty for the killing of @ | mounted polleeman. The woman says that frequently | Williame has boasted to her of hav« jing killed the offleer, and has often }told her the story of how he gained his liberty through a clever ruse | Wille never k the woman Into hie confidence enough to give her the detalis of the crime, and the big negro ls wanted Bleanor clty where the jie not known. Telegrams have been sent to #ev eral Texas Gescribing Williams, cities eee ee ee * | * DEATH FROM MOST * PECULIAR ACCIDENT, * (By United Press) &® BANTA ROBA, Cal, May 15 ® —Charlos Cassint, a welbtodo ® rancher, is dead today as the result of a peculiar accident. ® Cassini took bis shotgun and went to kill a chicken for din ner, A fow minutes later he was found lying in the yard # with the top of his head blown off, it ts suppe that he stumbled and the gull was te charged accidentally * . i * * * * * Beeeeeee eee eee eeeee Rete thane eene FINDS WIFE MURDERED (thy Onion Press.) HARTBHORNE, Okta., May th Mra. George Hooks, wife of @ ree | taurant keeper, was found dead In bed in her home early today, She rented the house | Griffiths and Chief of Detectives! evidentiy had been murdered with at $11¢ Holly av. from Mra George, | Charies Tennant were also calied.[a butcher knife which lay near the trouble between the pair, and that once prior to their divorce Mr. George bad ejected his wife from the house, On the day of the shoot- tng, Mr. Gallagher wae away and did not see the shack where Mra George was Killed until between 7 and § o'clock that evening. John Walgren, in testifying, stated | that he had seen Mr. George on the night before the shooting. Walaren was formorly proprietor of the Grand SPE ST Se AT TS GREAT PREDIC man of this city, The detectives and hewspaper man testified as to the manner of finding the body, and the general condition yume at the time of their arrival, Chief of Detectives Charles Tennant tnforined the jury of George's coming to hin land surrendering, after having shot his wife. The investigation lasted about 30 minutes, the Jury bringing in their finding at 12:30. i] LOSS OF LIFE (By United Pree) WASHINGTON, May 15.-—-Death and destruction by fire in 1909 will eclipse all previous records with the exception of the years in which the Baltimore and San Francisco free occurred, according to the statement today of federht experts who are studying buliding materials This statement t* backed up by the records of fire losses which are carefully kept by these experts, One period to which they point ts the 16 days in April when five big fires tn @ifferent parts of the country result. ed in the loss of $6,000,000, the death of 2 persons, the Injury of « large ——e number and the rendering homeless of $4,000. “The people of the United States have not yet learned the lesson of the Baltimore and San Francisco fires,” said Richard L. Humphre engineer in charge of the structural material labratories of the United States geological survey. “Fort Worth’s recent experience, when more than 160 homes were devoured by the Manwe, is but a repetitien of what has happened tn the past and what will occur In the future untt! American municipalities wake to the situation and enact legislation whieh will absolute! yprevent the further construction of buildings that are not Mreproof. Special Announcement !! EXCLUSIVE Roosevelt Adventures IN AFRICA The Star has arranged a has contracted for the Telless Aerograph and Lense} It will present the blood sole eminent faunal naturalist, 'T great journalistic scoop, It Mombasa Liar Service by jess Photography. curdling achievements of the heodore Roosevelt, ex-presi- dent of the United States, and founder of the Ananias club, as often as they happen, and oftener, The rival press of the country stands dismayed at The Star’s big beat, and no wonde Mombasa Liar dispatch in Tt IT WILL BE LIONS BY WARRINGTON DAWSON, aff Correspondent of the United NAIROBI, Hfitish Wart Africa,) May 16.—Preparationa are being! made today at the McMillan ranch for the biggest Hon hunt since that given for Winston Churehill several | years ago. | None of the party hunted yester- TO HIKE THE TALL UNCUT r! Wait till you see the first ie Star next Monday, May 17 A CORKER ee FO day, all being engaged in making ready their equipment Colonel Koonevelt will start on his firet extensive “lion drive’ next Monday, Bar Silver Quotations. NEW YORK, May 16. Hoted today at 62%, Bar silver i He testified that he had known of| besides John Quinian, @ newspaper |bedy. There Is no clue to the mur- lderer, nor Is a motive known. The body had been hacked and one arm broken, as if In a struggle, and was found by the husband when he re- | turned from bis night's work SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1909. PRICE ONE CENT THE SEATTLE STAR | EXTRA | WASHINGTON, § WIFE AND LOVER HOME MEANS MUCH FOR HER AND HER | CHILDREN. Star Readers More Than Generous to This Family. BY BONNIE WHEELER. “1 am eo happy,” sald Mra, f Youterday, when told of the project @n foot to bulld her a little home| "It tm too good te true, Now 1| ean keep my girl with me, and my} big boys will have | How can Lever thank the people for| | what they have done | Perhaps one of the tupny that have given #o freely to help the family of Jean Portier, who rarhly shot and killed his brother | jaed his « in-law & week ago, | | thought that his menerour gift would | be the means of keeping together | famify of six small chil but that te the case, and the sum total | of it all will be a tiny cottng Borep of garden and a farmily of chil- | dren just a# happy as they eqn be,| | with the cloud of thetr father's awful erioe hanging over them Means Much to Mother. Only thowe who are parents can/ fealize fully what this keeping 4/ hame intact will mean, Thete ie a/ girl Just budding Inte womanhood and four sturdy boys at the age when they need the wisest counsel and the closest care, and « tiny baby [not yet absolutely certain of his | tmy Steps without hie mothers hand. And now the heart Bick tro! will be able t watch over her little brood and hetp them te grow into upright citizens—heip them to outlive the blot placed meen their young lives by thetr father’s deed 4 nother's care not every "Ya Whe to help.” eaid a very} sweet volod over the telephone yes | terday. ol am going to get up a Benefit entertainment for Mra. Fu fer Do you think that would be @ood plan?” WH it be a good plan? Yes, with-| out a doubt, and no matter how @mnall thé proceeds of that entertain. | ment the spirit which prompted the after will add twofold to the gift. Pians an Entertainment. | Mrs. Thomas Taggart of 161 Maple jlawyers to not only SO VERY HAPPY FIGHT FOR SHIPPERS TO FORTIER’S | NEARING (By United Press) WASHINGTON, May 16.—Ship pers of Portland, Beattie and Spokane vill be given & hearing before the Interstate Commer Commiasion June 9, when the question of the on foreoment of the Bpokane rate de elsion, affecting the Harriman |lines, will be considered. The Spokane decision as affecting Jother roads be 1, but the Interstate Commerce Com jmission decided to grant a tempor Lawyer Promises to Go tary postponement because of the de the Bottom of This sire of the shippers that they be Case. |given & hearing as MAY DEVELOP HERE. It appears today rm ever that the ¢ |Interstate © While Jean Fortier still talks |“d the active heads of the trans about the his wife will de | continental rafiroads will re#ult in rive from bis life Insurance policy | revolutionizing freight rates when he is hanged for the murder | throughout tt inter- mountain of his brother and Mary Aon For. | country ter, Mra. Jean Fortier has retained fight for her husband's life, but also for the in te t she may have in Michael For tler's estate, and tn this cor tion & very interesting story as to the life of the murdered man and woman may develop. Attorney John M. Day, of the firm of Day & Brewer, has been retain ed by Mra. Jean Fortier to protect her property Interests. Mre. For tler claims half interest in the gro cery business at Denny station. It! w er thie disputed Interest that Jean Fortier shot and killed his brother Michael and later, after eluding pursuit, shot to death his brother's wife, Mary Jane Fortier. Claim the Estate, Children of Mary Jane Fortier by her firet husband have come for ward to claim the entire estate, Jo- seph Forrest was appointed admin: | ® ietrator, and the business at the | » present time ls being conducted by | ore certain than nference between the ninerce Commission mone tA * * SAVED BY A SPIKE. * (By United Press.) * NEWPORT, Wash, May 15. % ~To the fact that a epike in the * his heavy lumberman'’s * ught in the floor of a * chute into which » wae ® thrown by James Harry, his # shift partner, Peter Abelt to. # day owes his life. Barry, in *® a fit of rage, attacked Abelt, # and after beating him * sembunsconsciousness, threw # him into the chute. But for ® the fortunate catching of the ® spike, be would have been #& plunged into the river below # and drowned. Friends rescued *& Abelt from his precarious po * sition, and captured bis assall- & ant into eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeteeee PREP ERPS SSR VSS the Forrest. brothers. | | “I shall secure the half interest | for Mra. Fortier,” sald Attorney | Day thie morning, “and 4! has asked me to defend her husband. This I will probably do, as I have known friends of the Fortier fam. IS THIRSTY A thirsty thief stole a case and a mew operative June | Leaf place ty the woman who ha Rit upon this scheme to wwell th j M FOUND fund to bulld Mrs. Fortier a home, and she will have her plans all laid The body of an unknown man, the) my Monday, and the date of the en- cause of whone death js & mystery, | tertainment will then be set was found tn the bay thie morning.| Fyem Renton very early The body was discovered floating | morning came a check for $25 for between plore A and B by & mah | he Fortier family, and a very cheer- aboard the Princess Victoria [ful little note accompanied it. 1’ He reported the case to Patrol! wager, Mr. Guy Taylor, that you man Hart and the latter bad the | malied that check bright and early |hody towed to the city dock, Where | tia morning, and that your day will lit was taken from the wat under | the just a» bright because of your direction of Coroner Snyder, |@enerous gift | ‘The man was attired as 8 Work: |” dre Mary C. Wolcott of Fremont man. He wore three sbirte afd | pas collected a fund from the people in a secreted pocket in the under \of that place, and yesterday turned shirt was $60 In gold, There was iit over to the family. She says the jnothing on bis person which mIaht | pusiness men of Fremont gave free- |lead to his identification. The body |iy and that her fund was collected j had been in the water about (Wo) with very little trouble. Bho gave to | months: Mra Fortier yesterday cash to the j amount of $4.90, groceries $1.60, and ‘YOUNG $ PLANS Gontiuton Up to 9 a. m, Today. AR APPROVED Mipamell ........6cee0 A young woman eee The plans of L, B. Youngs, #upet-/ Guy R Taylor tntendent of the light and water de- previously acknowledged . partment, covering the expenditare |p. R, P. of approximately $800,000 for exten~ sions and Improvements to the light-] ‘Total . | ing service, were approved last night at an informal meeting of the elty counci! members. Mr. Young's proposal includes ad- | ditional house and street Hehting fa- cilities for every ward in the city, 1A number of suburbs that fave bean [without ety Habte will be enabled Ito buy Hebt from the munietpal | piant after the extensions are made | which the proceeds from the recent | bond issue will permit ‘NO CLUES IN P. 0. ROBBERY i v rose.) | premeko h, May 15.— Postoffice detective and secret service men are here today for some : if leines to lead to the arrest of he! ACTRESS T0 WED robbers who yesterday morning | 6.00 26.00 171.60 10.00 teen S212.50 STEAMER’S ENGINES BREAK DOWN ON A TRIP TO TOWNSEN The engines on the steamer Lydia Thompson, on the Whateom's run to Port Townsend, bro down half way between here and Townsend this morning, and after her passen gore and freight were transferred to }thie Chippewa, ehe wax towed back impo port The Lydia i | the old wound, one of the relic of shipping days on Puget blew the safe in the postoffice and} escaped with about $8,000 worth of thie! 90.50) 60} ily for some time. “The legality of the marriage of Mra, Mary Jane Fortier and Michael Fortier has been questioned, but I cannot give any Information as to the truth of this, Of course, that question will have to-be brought up, and | wil) protect my client to the utmost of my ability.” Mrs. Fortier has turned over all her interests to Day & Brewer, who will attend to everything for her. ing before Judge J. B. Yakey for formal arraignment, and given seven di in which to make | bis plea. He appeared very calm, jand except for the worried look in | his eyes, does not show any traces ‘of the strain under which he must be laboring, He was dressed in a neat dark sult. : JAPANESE ARE GOING CRAZY faces an Internal menace, according to theh statement of Dr. K. Sato, director of the Aoyama hospital for the insane at Tokyo, who Is a guest at a local hotei. The advance of ) civilization in Nippon is resulting tn an increase of insanity among all classes, according to the physician, who deciares that the spread of tn. sanity is due to the sharpened strug gle in Asia. Dr, Sato is making a j tour of the asylums of the United | States } ‘ENGLISH YOUTHS MAY | BE FORCED INTO THE ARMY (iy Untied Press.) LONDON, May 1 With certain exemptions, every elish youth between the ages of 18 and 21 will | be compelled to serve a term of four jcontinuous months in the territorial jarmy, If a measure now being pre |pared by the National Service ny United ' CHICAGO, May 15.—Japan today | half of beer from the store room of }theh Turn Verin hall, on 8th ay. jnear Pike st, last night. Ernest ‘Avila, the Janitor of the hall, re ported the theft to the police. ) nah LOOTS ROOM A. Lindquist, of 225 Weller st, reported to the police that some Jone entered bis room and stole a |of Idaho mining stock and a Rock- lof the brown leather varlety and |had a strap around the middle. | ‘KILLS WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN---SUICIDES (By United Press.) ROYLESVILLE, Ind, May 15.— An inquest is being held today over) the bodies of Henry Williamson's wife and two children, whom he | murdered befoe committing suicide | The principal witness at the inquest |today was Mary Roswell, the little whter of a neighbor, who was sleeping with the Williamson chil- dren and witnessed the tragedy, FE RLAD EEL ES OE OS * * WEATHER FORECAST. * * «Fair tonight and Sunday; * ® light west winds. * PRESS REAAGS EV AES JAP 1S MOBBED IN NEW YORK | (By United Press) | NEW YORK, May 15.—Funaubiki Leikichi, a Japanese restaurant | keeper, was badly beaten by a crowd near the Grand Central sia tion late last night started In a subway cay, when a white man refused to allow the Jap- anese to occupy a seat with him. When the two left the car hot words passed and a fight followed. A crowd quickly gathered and took The trouble | stamps and money There has not been a single clue} obtained. The work was that of experts and that they escaped in a launch soon after the robbery ts the accredited theory, Suspicions a trio of young men wha n about the city for a week | but who have not been seen singe late Wednesday night FIVE ARE DROWNED. HACKENSACK, N. J., May 15 Five persons—tour girls and a young man, members of © party of eight were drowned when a boat in which they were attempting to crom# the Hackensack river during a storm capsized, The rersidning three await to the shore. The girls became frightened and stood up, thus adding to the unsta bility of the boat, which waw turned over, (My United Press.) NEW YORK, May 16.—As the | fiancee of an English | May De Sousa, a young day, after arriving yesterday from igiand on the Hner Lusitania Miss De Sousa stayed hardly an |hour in this elty, but the interval | Was fong enough for her to natvely adinit the truth of a report that she ‘Was engaged to wed a man of title *| will not tell the name, but he's noble just the same,” abe sald PThese are family things, you see, bad he gave them all to me,” show tug coral ornaments of old design TODAY'S TREASURY REPORT, WASHINGTON, May 15.--The treasury department today shows receipts, $1,976,071; disbursements, 32,520,000. | actress, ie epeeding homeward to- | the white man’s part. The Japan ese was faring badly when the po- lice interfered. The Japanese was arrested on the other man’s com plaint }league meets with the approval of pariiament. Lord Roberts, prest dent of the league, is one of the most enthuslastsic sponsors of the measure, and will introduce it In the house of lords this month. | ‘TWO CANOES ARE ROBBER CUTS HS VICTIM TO RIBBONS), SFOLEN R. Towne, an employe of the (By Unttod Preas.) United States assay office, reported OAKLAND, Cal., May 15.—Will-| to the pollee last night that he had fam H. Winslow ts dead from the in-| two canoes stolen on theh night of jurfos received at the hands of a) May 11. One was the new Indian robber who attacked him as he slept! girl model of the Rushton canoe and at his home at Sunol early in the | the other an Old Town canoe, City week, Winslow's body was cut to | Detective Jack Barck reported that | Hbbons by his assalla) nd he did three canoes were packed across the hot recover consciousness after be portage into Lake Washington the ing brought to a hospital In this | night following the day the two clty. | boats were stolen from Towne. _ SHOOT HUSBAND MRS. JEAN FORTIER SAYS KILL HIM SHE IS ~ ACCORDING TO PLOT } See ILLICIT LOVE AFFAIR IS BROUGHT TO | CLIMAX. Woman Admits Her Part in Crime When Arrested. | (By United Press.) TACOMA, May 16.—-Mre. Martin Kvalshaug and Charles F. New. combe, 4 laundry wagon driver, are nder arrest at the city jail today jcharged with the murder of Martin Kvalshaug, who was shot down in jcold blood at midnight last night Just after alighting from a Eleventh | street car at Twelfth and Junette streets Kvalshaug wae the victim of @ conspiracy between his wife and the man now under arrest, After being closely questioned at the police station for several hours to day Mre. Kvalshaug admitted that she and Newcombe formed a plot to get Kvalehaug out of the way. Trouble Starts at Dance. Newcombe and his wife, who live at 3716 South K street, attended a dance given by the Woodmen at Paliles hall jast evening. Mr. and Mra. Kvalshaug also attended the dance, but, owing to rivalry of long standing between the male mem- bers of each family, Kyi jordered his wife not to dance with Newcombe, Newcombe beeame tn- censed at the action and, it is charg. ed, preceded Kvalshaug to thelp jhome and shot Kvaishaug to death |as he returned with his wife from * | the dance. | Death Was Instantaneous. Five shots were fired at very | close range. One took effect In the man's breast, another in his neck, janother in the chin, one over the |right eye and one under the chin, Death was instantaneous. At the time of the shooting Mra, \Kvalshang was several feet ahead of ber husband, she says, taking up this position, evidently, In ac cordance with a prearranged plan, | The firing of the five revolver ‘shots attracted many persona, among whom were Officer Darnell, who lives near the scene of the murder, and J. 8. Webb, janitor at the city hall. | Suspect Is Arrested. As Darnell and Webb neared the spot where Kvalshaug was shot the Jean Fortier appeared thie morn-| suit case containing 6,000 shares Officer stationed his companion at a specified point on the road wil Was ford gold watch. The sult case was O'ers to stop any persons com his way. Webb soon stopped a man who approached rapidly and seemed |yistoly excited. The man gave hig iname as Newman, and said that he | belonged to the Orden@f Woodmen, Webb allowed the man to pass the Incident was not remem! until the arrest of Newcombe today, Wife Guilty of Intrigue. Mrs. Kvalshang has been Intimate with Newcombe for some time ang |the man has been the disturbing element in the Kvalshaug family for several years, It is claimed, on account of the woman's fondness for Neweombe. She separated from het husband two years ago and the two | stayed apart for some time. Finally, | through the efforts of neighbors, |they were reconciled to each other, | On one or two occasions Mra. Kvalk shaug has gone to the Woodmen | dances alone and on some occast Newcombe has accompanied her home, Kvalshaug cared little for dancing and beeame very jealous lof Neweombe's attention to Mra, Kvalshang. Although it was known that @ |Jealous strife existed between the two men, last night's occurrence jcame As a complete surprise to all | who knew of Kvalshaug’s affairs. STREET CAR HELD UP (Ry United Prose) MILWAUKEE, Wis, May 15-4 masked robber held up a street cal here early today, shot and wound the conductor, robbed him of $88, and escaped. The hold-up took placd at the end of the Fond du Lac ling Conductor Schults had stepped to the rear platform to adjust the trole ley when a bullet whizzed past hi |head. A second shot wounded him, jand then the robber approached the | car, ordering Schulta, “Hands up.” | CHECK H OUNTS. | All the bonds and securities in the office of State Treasurer John GQ Lewis have been chocked up by the investigating committee at Olympla jand found to be O. K., according ¢ | State Senator Pliny L. Allen, chal man of the committee. The coms mittee will resume its work on next Wednesday a a