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‘2, NO. 49 ONS CHALLENGE GUEPTED BY FOWLER Jersey Man Introduces Resolution Which Will! the Speaker of His Remaining Power and Re-| Him to Mere Presiding Officer. By Usted Pree) _ WASHINGTON April 2t.—introducing a resolution which, If with atrip the speaker of all power except that of a mere ‘afficer, Representative Charles N. Fowler of New Jer. Nil aceepted Cannon's challenge to follow up the Gale the finn sure the absolute fre ea* Fowler «i thon committees ee members one from the minority and one from ay ay, em; to select all members of the standing The mn directs the census bureau to draw “iom of the reates (we $0 cents off on the bar pin three weeks down a dollar a ton few days. otf arter of a cent a rentation insiet on immedin msideration of the r nm. Th itaetf, he ation May 2 referred to the i Fowler some i tines rth and south and dividing the coun ibe fat as prac ) seven séctions, each with a popu ye appre ply same as that of the other The house members within each | nection will select. one of | their number as a member of the com mittee on committees. mocratic congressmen of standing committees, and 7 re publieans will select the republican members of these committees. The two sections of the committee on committees, the resolution pro- sc vides, are to act separately * The dissolution of the speaker's Fall in Seattle and powers, so arrogantly abused,” said York—-Good News| Astgb! is absolutely essential to re cane government We bave already eliminated the speaker in the rules committee. It lide housewife smiles. [is now time that we should strip ‘at this fall in prices re the speaker's office of the power iby local dealers to appoint commitives and should sown BU per cent in six | limit his functions to the single duty of presiding over detibera tions here principle of just representatic from the standpotets of population. geography and the peculiar nee ness interests of each section will secure for the majority ied the minority separate committees Mr. Con-)to # t the membership of the ecause the respective stand committees. taken a Fowler's resolution was read prices of | After it was finished, points of or jer were raised by Paine (rep. agh the whole-|N. Y.) and Manu (rep. IL). Hard vanced reduced} Wick (dom raised the have kept the/ Point that no quorum id high w prevent, and Payne moved that Rrerage citizen was not| Call of the house be made. . Whe reduction of the The resolution eurprised the regu- Shut was buying od | '8Ts and the insurgents both. The figure After the opening partia rs in explaining that | ™ skirmish a he Been a drop helped foree| to put marked down) the stuff that goes on the ha ution simple redue-| thr ed 1% cents, beans Scents a bushel, potatoes Gents per barrel. eggs) off 2 cents per bushel, | f oat Products 15 per cent goods of fresh culeasnat d crumple re The wholesalers fresh creen stuffs have into the market so for new jemocratic members oration cf a free, represen emewife. The resolution will establish have ap amid a de silence in the house Be retailers: shetves at| realest confusion followed Ite pre Jower than six weeks} as that of ACID VICTIM redu nearly cm ited Pree) SAN FRANCISCO, April 21 Ruth Wilson, the 18-year-old vietim of an acid thrower, will retain her sight, according to a bulletin Is sued today by the physicians who have been attending her The girl was removed | Mount Zion hoxpttal to he | late yesterday. The ba: taken fr ough exa € the left eye which ¥ by the acid, con }¥ineed the specialists that the eye ball was not permanently injured Taree, ork: Rmounting t0| ‘The search for Van Camp Hed ‘ nouns }fern, the young man who Is want pee © meat trust) ed in connection with the affair is being continued. Thus far no race of him has been found (LOCK OF HAIR MAY | CONVICT WOLTER _ GRIPMAN Is HURT a? youre 0l6, 0 grip-| NEW YORK, April 21.—A lock of Be Madison st. cable line,| yellowish brown hair ma ily injured yesterday electric chat When the grip on his car Mitangied with the cable him through the front Me car. He w20 injured|s Me head and his ankle | girl w 1 » be The Car was at the foot of f th st, from home fs more good hews for 4d meats of —_= p before § tepor od the « LOR pork a: Wery hea MOTHER ACCIDENT DISON CABLE; ig send jock of halr that came FUNNY STORY CONTEST there was an of funny stories in the mail NE the ny Story Editor” certainly enjoyed the y t y enjoy MOE CONGu mre the read The Star is MOY a check { Written a r . MB Wastepape, | Remember, + y needn't be « r ink of the you know nd it o, addres o the The Sta e Ae otd tur opera MH on deetors FAK open the wey big batch this hour © person best fun must be ubmitting the es m be in by paper Saturday, de of the Seve went into se rules were not ot funniest Funny Story morning “ (Continued on Page Eight.) MAY SAVE EYES OF 0 HE RIN 120,00 BEE TW YEARS This Is Wife’ s Charge, Also| That He Mopped the Floor With Her —. Di-| vorced Now. | » longer will bodied seaman lot the | Martha Paul Weber, able | be the star pacron! Seattle saloons, His wife. Weber, today secured & divorcee from him after he had Spent two years trying to consume $16,000 worth of whisky and beer the wife says, in Seatt loons, | That would be 160,000 drinks of j boowe or 320,000 glasses of beer, ac: | heording to current pp | | The woman told Judge Tallman | this morning that she had the $16,000 when she married him and that her husband at once got busy in trying to give the money to bar tenders. roause Working interfered with his drinking he stopped work. The woman told the court that hie days was given entirely to drinking, and in the evening when he returned home Intoxicated on liquor bought with her money, “he mopped the floor with her.” Went to Germany. To sober her husban him on a trip to Germany. There he continued to drink as usual. The mly difference was that instead of heating her at home he beat her on the streets. He never contributed she said, for anything Tallman granted the }Woman a divorce. It was the | woman's second failure. She was divorced from her first husband and married Weber six months after:| ward BRYAN GLAD HE (3 NOT IN WATE. HOUSE Thinks He Was Pretty Lucky That He Didn't Get There and Was Able! to Visit South America.! up she took (Ry United Prem) | CHICAGO, April 21.—Wm. J.| Bryan, in a speech before the Chi cago Newspaper club lagt night, de- | his defeat for the presidency has had its compensations Tam a very lucky man fn many ways,” said Mr. Bryan. “Outside ot particular line, lucky in all | ways, and | am not sure I am not lucky enough in that pect. 1 jealled upon President Taft yeater- | day and we bad a pleasant chat. 1} am satisfied I am enjoying life fully as much as he He congratulates me on the op unity I had of visiting South rica, and I asked him if had ever read Emerson's ‘Essay Compensation,’ and he said he had and t wae greatly interested in it. Well, then, I tol@ him that as one of the compensations for not |having bi ected president 1! had had the opportunity of visit South America while he was denied that opportunity Mine was n peaceful trip down| re. I did not bunt game. 1] hav so 0 muca fighting back in polities that 1 don't go out for othe | game ng of his absence from this country, Mr. Bryan said New York newspaper said ne democratic party got | bottes when I was away than was here 1 thought I hiee sofortunate that it mented on the fact that the pi Hid nc when I was away, when th a back the wher was 8 com after I « t upon ha edit for ASSASSIN IS ON TRIAL AT CAIRO (By "Untied Press) } | / | ee tk THOUSANDS ARE LOST nall « Phone Main 9400. Ind, 441 kh me * * o * * - * ” - . ~ * * . * ” ~ * a * * * * + SEATTLE, WASH,, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, Teddy in Gay Paree 1910, | ‘SAME OLD ROOSEVELT; ‘HE CALLS THE SUN A “LIAR” | (By a Staff Correspondent of the United Press.) PARIS, April 21.—Paria bestirred herself at an ur y early hour for the French ital, 11:20, to welcome Theodore Roosevelt, In lepite of the untimely hour for ar riving, a great throng was present at the depot to welcome the Amer lean. Many notables were in tenda of the station to welcome Roosevelt, among them being M Roosevelt said The statement Jusserand, French ambassador to la an unqualified falsehood, and the United States. the San must have known it wae a The Roosevelt party went to the falsehood when it printed it home of American Ambassador Ba The American business men in | con and remained there until they Parts will give a reception to | attended a formal luncheon at the Roosevelt at the embassy, and embassy. Later Rooscvelt called President Fallieries will tender upon President Fallieries at the him « banquet | president's palace and upon For On Saturday Roosevelt will lex eign Minister Pinchon at his office. tare at the University of Sorbonne Both Palliertes nd Pinchon re Monday the city will present the turued the visit by calling upon’ American with a gold medal at the Roosevelt at Ambassador Bacon's city hall. Tuesday he will vintt home. Fallieries placed his box at| the Saumur military academy SWOPE JUDGE “TBI LE (hy United Press. KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 21 Latshaw again ruled in fa) oe ene vor of the prosecuttor when | bevane date eine he decided that attorneys for Dr } B. C. Hyde were not entitled to have prod court certain let rs written by Chicage xicolo gists to Attorney Paxton, adminis trator of the estate of Col, Thomas H. Swope, for alleged mur der Dr. Hyde ix on trial Attorney W nad demanded that Attorne produce let ters from I and Hol whict alleged to the Comedie Francaise tonight at| the disposal of the Roosevelte. The} bill Includes “Uncapotce” and “Oc dipe Rel” In ‘the course of the Rooverelt commented * patch appearing tn the New York Sun quoting him as saying that the Methodiets Rome were worse than the Catholics, and that when he returned to America he would | take. steps to have them driven from Rome. afternoon the ro author's NORTH ¥ aki N Judge today 8 year «porting Riny B toen, in eee ee have expressed the n t nol ® poison was tt Mar-|® Showe tonight garet Sw or t J ' * de moderate south found by Tom Swope * Claimed to Have Contained Cyanide! yp wake kkk hh hkke Pear! Kel and Fri wind Col. Swop urne tand and he death of tim: witness # JOLAFT oncerning haek Hunton, ov Only twe filed 1 maretage VALLI HUGHES TO THE SUPREME BENCH By United Presed YORI Play ball!” is heard the land, and there'll be Joe Cannon playing bullseye for the of public scorn throughout others than [finger | was simply THE NO HOPE FOR ENTOMBED MINERS Gas Drives Back All Who Enter Mulga Mine — Probably 40 Dead. (By United Press) BIRMINGHAM, Als., April 21.— Four times rescue par attempt od to enter the Ten e ming to day, and cach time they were driven out by the gas fumes before | any trace of the entombed men was found or any bodies dis covered BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April 21 The Tennessee mining company's hoapital car today took # number of gas helmets to Mulga, where prep arations ar made to send men into th where 1 white men and 26 negroes wer mbed | by an explosion tate yes y / The mine fe badly wrecked and| the work of rescue is proving ditt cult. It is believed none of thone imprisoned in the death pit #ur-| vived beton mine : | BIRMINGHAM, Ale, April 2 Tt ts belt that the 40 miners en tombed tn the Mulga mine of the Birmingham Raliway, Coal and) Iron company, are dead | The rescuers who worked frant cally all night attempting to re move the twisted tron cages which block the shaft, declare that the aves permeate every cr f the mine, and it is bardly | a human being.to exist fr ponsible the death Boon the explosion large | forces of men were 5 work | in an effort to reach the men prisoned in the shaft ans were employed wit MRK THAN [a WEAKER REDDING, Conn, April 21—-A physician's bulletin, iseued at 8} o'clock today, announces that Mark | Twain is weaker than he was at! midnight. The bulletin states that probably he will become weaker during the day The patient waa resting comfort ably this morning In spite of his Increased weak nena, the writer Was brighter today than he hae been for a week past He gave out a statement himsell } for the comfort of his family i 1 am thin My «roatest ing as well trial is. that I see my friends Twain's only daughter, her band, the doctors and the only ones siek room. Albert Bigelo yne, the literary assistant for years, | has been refused permis } him | There are conflicting tales re! garding the humorist and bis life-! long friend—the cigar. That he is king, though im great mo tion, seems probable The oxygen treatment has abandoned for milder forms of } stimulation an ever cannot hus nurses are allowed to enter the sion to see |\COOKS AND WAITERS MAY GO ON STRIKE and waiters want ter he ym staurante Ma cause the coc they will strike they want |the others are lof the | Grigware | Huitt and Keating were SEATT . ONE CENT Sikws"sranne to CONVICTS SEVZE A ENGINE AND ESCAPE Most Desperate Men in Federal Penitentiary at Leaven« worth Force Engineer to Batter Down Gates With Locomotive—Soldiers and Deputies Give Chase. (By United Press.’ LEA\ WORTH, Kan most dangerous cc Five of the prison here in the prison out overpowered the yards, forced the ¢ into the Iwo men, comotive countr ind ¢ unarmed, v uickly recaptured, but armed and er that they, not be taken alive Forty soldiers boarded fugitives The exes nine mile would guards of the pris« nd a I company of tarted in pursuit Tie TO BUNK ~ POLICEMAN, PINCHED , Game Sprung on Wappy’ Chauffeur Reacts — most De Pawnbroker Is Involved ever recorded Sears! Als. Charles Morris, late of Franeisc and John Feinbloom, pawnbro it 1409 Third av., are “lay. Morris special train and I convicts r hiding tn god cel from the prise a Phe conviets are Arthur Huitt ank and Thomas Ke ati 7 sentenced to the prison ite. n the pri risoners ¢ break of 1 caped and th killed by guard that escape convicted ¢ Grigware of the cific train robbers teneed from Om#ha tured in Idaho after the 1 believed that got their arms from was 0 was one of the San gates t four miles, wh ein's automobile by a broken bridge rday “Wappy” drove to the The two men wh " Grand hotel. He went in- and recaptured were Be " ; ing in with the ma John Gideon ‘ Along Morris, who = h t edin a Wkely victim. usual hard T ELVE PERISH The Plausible Story. Ww 1 tory « ce having had dia In SERVIA FLOOD monds, of going broke and pawn- [me 4 diamond worth several bun- for & $50 note, going broke again and being in need of $10. He proposed t Weedin buy the BELGRADE, Servia, April 21 pawn check for $10, and pay $50 Servia is again in the grip Of) to get the diamond out floods, a result of torrential rains.| “Tye no money now,” said At Kragujevatz 12 deaths have 0c-| Weedin. “I'll meet you at § o'clock curred and the damage to property| at the Alaske or ts enormous Weedin kept the engagement, The whole and paid over the $10. Then he jevatz to Lap arrested Morris. Aiter that he tutles, resembles went to Feinbloom’s pawnshop, eral villages bave been inun¢ and seized the diamond ring. He it is feared a large number found that the diamonds were persons and thousands of sb flawed and the ring at most wasn’t and cattle have been drowned | worth more than $20. The State Law. T. R. WILL O. K. | ‘The ‘ TAFT, THEY SAY | Pawnbrokers must record at station every 24 hours (hy United Press) ransaction of the previous day. The ticket showed that the ring * WASHINGTON, D. C., Aprit 21,—"Roosevelt upon his return | "Ad —_ tay ve Aveit 18, and no to America wit!” support. the | Tecord of the deal had been made. present administration fromthe | »icom, and the pollee demartment Ground up Thies positive | secured other evidence tending to statement today by one of the | SPeured other ev Porix most prominent of Taft's ad | nat Be. wae teverrad te viners, ie the latest senaation |PURCO game, in political circles. ; The statement was made in rom the pr a way that the inference was intended to be drawn that Roosevelt has given his word to Taft and that the inner circle of Taft's friends are aware of the fact The statement, coming after the announcement yesterday that Senator Root is soon to de part for The Mague and the be lief that he will see Roosevelt while abroad, has increased interest in the statement comes ty ed Premey from Kragu of 20 Sev country a distance a vast lake law provides that the under war- rants peutor’s office, Work on tarium Will Start New Sani- he opposition of the Sound th north ew Henry tubercu- be constructed berculosis as y to begin the ground do Henry as the site sanitarium, the @ rict who lar camp will Being as the gas in that comet's tail doesn’t have to go through you meter, don’t worry too much about gagging to death on May 18 ommis: Will He Use Thi SUDAN SOLDIERS THEM FOR IT AND SAID Ft PRESENTED THANKED FOF ROOSEVELT WITH AN AX AT 4— WOULD TAKE T HOME KHARTUM, T. R WITH HIM WHAT