The evening world. Newspaper, January 8, 1914, Page 1

__ PRICE ONE. CENT. B FIGHT FOR CHEAPER PHONES | IS BACKED UP BY GOV. GLYNN AND HIGH STATE OFFICIALS Aid Evening World in Demand for Physical Valuation of Company’s Property. YTRUST PAYS FOR WORK. “You Have Rendered an Ad- mirable Service to the Pub- lic,” Declares Governor. | By Samuel M. Williams. Oerrespondent of The Bvening World.) ALBANY, Jan. 8.—Complete readjust- Ment @f telephone cates in New York city Became assured to-day when the highest officers of the State took active Yaterest in The Evening World's fight for the public benefit. The Governor, the Comptroller, the att -General and the Public Ser- mmission ali hi Joined forces for relief of overcharued New Yorker: Glynn congratulated The Evening rong nits battle, saying: “You-have madé wonderful fight for the public and rendered an admirable service. ‘The Governor gave his approval to the plaa for an appraisal, under State auspices, of the New York Telephone Company's plant, to serve as the basis fer completo revision of rates. No special legislation ly necessary nor will the State be vvliged to spend a dollar on the physical valuation, The State will do the work. The compaay ‘will pay the bills, Under the law it could compelled to do th as was done bY the Insurance companies and the ,railroads in for: investigation: But, no invoking of law nor legisiativ ~\ compulsion {# necessary in this case, lephone coms volunteered to L y the money and meet the inveatl- 4 gators more than haif way. i] The arrangement for a scientific rate schedulé based on valuation was In dan- ger of falling through because of the) rigid retrenchments ordered by Gov: | Glynn in State appropriations. As near) as can be estimated tho telephone ap- pratsal will cost $150,000. COMPANY OFFEPS TO PAY THE EXPENGE OF THE APPRAISAL. In conference shied at adding to tie "8 expend.tures and asked whether some differ ment could nut be made, Then company, through ‘ts general counsel, C, T. Russell, offered to mburse the State for the necessary expenditure in- volved ib the undertaking. Various methods of p: Giscussed with the St and will be adjusted cedure Comptroller 0 thin a few days, Either the Comptrolier will advance the later by ine 1 make uired to she “money, to be reimbursed company, or the company posits with the State as req! the bills. ‘The one thing assured ist the work of relieving New Yorkers from exe sive telephone burdens will be pushed to OM quickest possidie completion, : Chairman Decker of the up-State Pad- Ne Service Cominission will have coin- plete chal of the case, He wil e ploy engineers and accountants, ‘ihe telephone company will open It» books th Page. PROVERBS “He Who Once Hits Will Be Ever Shooting.” And that is the way with World iser: a orld ads, had not “made » when first tried, how do you ink this truly remarkable World advertising record coul ever have been possible: ( 1,544,239 SEPAR, ORLD ADE. WERE MINTED. LAST YEAR— 711,805 Mere Than the Herald. Wortd..Aus. Lia They Succees! p FINAL | troops are reported to outnumber Vill, were | Che |“ Cireulation Books Open to All. Copattent nd Friday. y The Press 8 pacar ore York Work | MEXICAN REPOR: EBEL CHIEF ‘ED CAPTURED VILLA MISSING; FEARED PRISONER OF HUERTA TROOPS NoTrace of Rebel Commander, \ Who Left Chihuahua With Fighting Force Last Week. | GEN PANCHO eee OKLAHOMA'S BOAT.. FOUND BY SENECA 5,000 FOES AFTER HIM. Possibly Surrounded by Fede- tal Army South of Ojinaga and Forced Into Trap. (By United Pres.) PRESIDO, Tex. Jan, 8—Although there was considerable uneas‘ne! among nembbra of the Mexican rede! Junta ere ae to the whereabouts of Gen, Pancho Villa, !t was believed to- BY HUERTA’S TROOPS HELD LIVE MAN!" NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, (MAKER OF BISCUITS Rich Chicago Manufacturer Wires Girl’s Father to Pre- vent the Wedding. HE CAN'T STOP IT. For the Young Lovers Have Already Eloped and Have Their License. aar-old stenographer and she has been living | with her parents at No. 126 Irving | street, Jersey City, Edward Stolits, only twenty years old, the party of the se:- ond part in this romance, is the eon of & wealthy biscult manufacturer in Chi- cago, Since October he has been court- ing Misa Stenage from a point of van tage as a roomer in the Stenage home. DOESN'T WANT SON TO MARRY TYPIST; FOR ‘WITCHCRAFT ‘High State Officials in Fight for Cheaper Phones ALLEGED WIZARD IS PUT ON TRIAL Ex-Baptist Minister Arrested in Hoboken While Trying the Black Art. WOMEN SHIELD HIM. First Charge of the Kind Since Women Were Ducked in Salem. Through the streets of Salem in the early years of the seventeenth century it was no uncommon sight, #o history relates, for some poor sld woman to be dragged, shrieking, to Jali, while bering her a mob clamored the accusation that she was a witch. In somewhat more modern Hoboken a man was led to Jail followed ‘by the same crying crowd and arraigned {n court to-day chai with “teaching and practising witch- oratt.” ‘Phe man fs Chris P. Christensen, Qn Wotnesday Miss Marie started for the'law Office of Charles Ostrom, Wash- ington street, for her usual s graphic dutie,. fhe never reached there. Mr, Ostrom received a telephone mes- that she was {l) an@ could ndt @ to work. ‘Mr. and Mra. Stenage were atartied Wednesday when their daughter falled to return home. They were too upset to notice that thelr young roomer from Chicago was not In his apartment. Se: { F is The blow fell to-day when Ste day there was no foundation for re- Seaman, However, Perished received telegram from Chicago, ports that he had been captured by shite ER, a" aligned by the older Rtolitz, It urged Federals. : Despite Efforts of the Stenage to prevent the marriage of his Villa le i i daughter to the biscuit manufacturer’ Rta er SE bad Doctors. son, Gtolits's telegram reeked with La Mula P fury and statod baldly that he “wouldn't day night. The opinion is exp |have his son marry a stenographer for ; males. an 5 . ould din The derelict destroyer Seneca, an-| tha world;” hi ed he wou! military en that y Bina ene ae the rebel ebleftain| onorea off Tompkinaville, 8. 1, to-day [OWN the boy. He had no visible means have encountered a Federal force of 4,0 under Gen, Benjamin Argumedy, reported recently to be advancing to raise the rebe! siege of Ojinaga. If x0, it Is probable a battle has been fougn’ wih of La Mula Pass. Argumedo's * send word to Coroner Vail of Michmon Borough that it had on bodies of men who lost their lives 1 the Oklahoma disaster. Corgner Va! directed ‘that they be t ley's Yorone: vether an mquest Vail sail he forces greatly. The Federals of Ojinaga, encouraged by recent success, are assuming the| Aggressive. One thousand troop: by Gen. Pascual Orozco, last nignt, taking Chihuahua roid towards La Mula F Tt is believed they went out to engage Villa's forces below the pass or to effect @ Junction with Argumedo. If ft true that Argumedo has attacked Villa it ts prob- able Orozco's force has Joined the at- tack. . Orozco took ‘4 wagon train heavily |taden with foodstuffs suffictent for a | campaign of considerable length, There hax been no fighting in the im- mediate vicinity of Ojinaga since Mon- However, at the re the Seneca. Capt, Johnstone left once to report at the Collec at the Castom House In M An official of the marine ¢ of the Gulf H ing Company went t gue in Stapleton this afternoo! west of Capt. hattan, eo as those of Simon oiler; and an Gunner, Gunderson, a sailor known only day afternoon when th were} The hope of the Gull Refining Cor | iamer, where the pretty stenographer compelled by lack of ammunition to| any oMclala that the second lifeboat) ag gpending her vacation, After that jabandon (nelr advanced positions and pift off from the Oklahoma With | iQy “corresponded, and in October retire five miles {rom the Federal fortl- aboard might #tilt be @floas ) vung stotitz came Kast. Mr. and Mra | feations, No move was made during | %#* “stivated Ty the report made 0) | denage are waiting hopefully for the j the: vignt attack the: city <mhie| 2ebt: SUnDFIER, fe SABE Mie of the) newlyweds to run out of money and canged Gen zay to belleve reports p Culler Service this afterHool | ome nome, seeking forgiveness, two thousand rebels under Gen. | bodies brought in were found | ee eee wovies Herrera had reinforced pond ifehoat ‘Ths other ay Ortega, were exagerated nt AE) Bhiag b ‘DIVIDE $4, 000, 000 Beata heel Jswent away and crowned eneca sighted it > HUERTA STRONGER, “one of the men in the boat wax alive BY CHANCE DRAWING |’ OPINION, | “hen we Bor Alongside” sald Capt = Johnston, “We hustled him aboard and ____— President tM. Brown of the ‘1 over him for two hours, but We -Phree Heirs Who Could Not Agree Raliways of Nexico, vd his wife, sailed to-day on the for Vera Cruz, Mexico. Mr wad that 10 0 uiumalte outcome ould tel! what the he Mexican situ. en the dey board three n to MoGin- undertaking rooms at Stapleton. Jid_not_know Wi did not see why he should act unless asked to do so by the Federal officials. he took: charge of the bodies Johnstone of the Seneca at} ore OMe partment ntifled the bodies brought in hy simon- as all night of support anyway, cried the telegram, ay and ft waa up to Stenage to foil the in 1 exploded, for it was the frat intimation he and his dis- tracted wife had that their daughter had run away to get married. Phen he read the telegram aguin und became indignant. Mr, Stenage declared with vigor that he didn't know anything about the marriage, and didn't care a tiuker’s darn whether the lad was din- owned, and he didn’t want his daughter to marry anybe above all, he rexented the “only a stenographe: | And, for that mi. he didn't want 118 daughter to marry a biseult manu ‘ er, Stenage and young Mr. Stolitz were married nu one seems to know. They got a marr license In the City Hall In Jersey city ‘Monday. Since then nothing has been heard from then Tho young coupl jn y | | | \ { | met in Chicago laat Seitle Dispute by “Blind” Pick- ing of Numbered Slips. Jan, & SP RINGEIEL Drawing vimbered siipa off tof a box ation Would be. jh think myself,” sald Mr vas the met » to ateigp jvthat Huerta's ition is we Sind’ we vouldn't Th the $1,000,000 6m @ Rows otvonter, As to what be says wreck ani we sv FT atitenell, real raising t nitions by tw. Disa HOUNTED | oe heirs consis ” i 1 suftie well inf Lia Hid ang Feal entate, stock mid bonds siditions to else an opi rei Sean fiften,, (ners Mie Go 1. Raup and Blrs honeful that ve ware: In ow he Janie e elayeed wea inate Hrs her, Yuk ita cia ea CAL WRAL WTI SER) ey phi on the Delaware oust. she pall: 4 ; yep en ‘ Hine THCRUS UF ete on a division ppra sere Avked what be though! avout liverta ea ap hank eG ” ie. were agpointed and the pr ie ty pas Wilkan, Mr. Brown | ha —- 1 numbered, Three sine yvegpond aad ould man SAILING TO-DAY, eee bie da, daples : oP. ue. Canada, . on MM. STEAMSHIPS DUE TO-DAY, = vitae sigissnun ‘rm. JUAREZ WINNERS. Sam. AM nam. Alisizence, Gan Biv Passoula, Bayles Camezeais, IasT RAC Usorecavauins first: Mue Racer to Wank to 4, Los second ot Meelieka, 12 who prociaims himaelf the President of the Peychical Research society, with ae ddnhkes Tuxedo Building, Fifty-ninth strect and Madison avenue, Marhattan. The following throng was composed chiefly of women, but thay ‘were not calling for Christen Ife. Inatedd, they were arguing with the po- declaring that Christensen's that he was the person of ‘‘supernatifral powern" that he claimed to be, and that Ie the police wédn’t watoh out lie would call down some dreag calamity on their heads, ‘To-day some thirty or forty of the same women, many of them handsome- ly gowned and bearing ‘evidences of Prosperity and culture above the or- dinary, were in Recorder McC court prepared to testify that Christen- wen had proved to thelr satisfaction the truth of his wonderful powers, but the had no mind to undergo a rigid examination then And there. SLEPT ALL NIGHT IN HOBOKEN CELL. He had spent all night in a cell, His fur coat evidently had been used for a pillow, and his frock coat and white walstcoat beneath it were diy rum- pled. Also his tempor He asked shortly for an adjournment till Satur- dey, wot It and left court through the ency of w surety company, whi representative finally arrived and went on his bend of $1,000 Christensen was arrested In Odd Fel- lows’ Hall in Washington sireet, where some hundred women and about ten men had gathered last night in answer to Christensen's advertisement that he would induct a Hoboken chapter of his society at the meeting. Two of the ten men were Detective Sergeants Quinn and Maillon of th Hoboken potice, who had read the advertisements They @ short man about forty, with the blond hatr and coloring of @ Dane, which he says he tx, attired™in conventional frock coat, who sought to entertain his listeners with » lengthy |lecture on spiritualism and succeeded {only whetting their appetites for what was to come. Kut at last he |Hnished and stepping dowsrto the front of the rostrom from wh he spoke, Weclared that he would now exhibit hus wers, ASKED THEM TO WRITE QUES | TIONS ON PAPER. ‘1 can communicate with the dead,” aioe anneal bh es Janid he. “1 have supernatural powe that will convince the moat skeptica Al that you shall write ‘nar person now dead with w lyou wish to communteate and mall ine oor alee ye Qiestion which y with Ine to put. FP shall be blindfolded | so tha vi mposnible for me to | jresd what ou write, yet 1 shal A youth se was Har istant, abe him with ow raned for | el snd everyhod handkerelti ward Yy n their a ry ma valve n Utne 1914. GIRL WHO ENDED COUNT’S PROPOSALS BY RESCUING HIM. MADE THE COUNT PROMISE 10° STOP PROPOSING TO HER California Ga Wou Wouldn’t Save] Act and the girl was held ae 2, materia! witness. Ball was tarnished ‘Sr Him Until He Pledged Himself. Miss Rosamond Hotsford, tall, 20° PAGES dark, very pretty and just nineteen years old, arrived to-day on the American linar St. Paul from, Southampton. Her father, who acogmpanied her, !s Churles Bote- ford of California, in Loa“ Angeles, anothe; Cal, They pave a home in Pasadena, and ‘a third in Munich, Miss Bote- ford has been abroad six yoara atudy- ing languages, Bhe ts Italian, French’ and German: considerg mountain climbin; est accomplishment. Bhe is the only woman profictent ta Byt ene} her greal who ever climbed Mount Aletechorn in Sw!tze land, which In 4,182 metres to the eum- mit. She was caught in a snowstorm at the top for a day and a half without food, The pretty Callfornienne had @ r mance which her father told on her, An Italian count sought her hand, but she couldn't see the count, because when she went climbing the count} uldn't keep up with her. One day she a him “for keeps.” They were alfn on the mountain and*her sultor dropped to his knees In the snow and proposed, He slipped through the snow and fell] Alden I., Palmer and his newly made Three Preterred stockholders Bring into evice. Bhe called down to him| wife. Happy in their love and happy @ Galt. that hig ret Bue yon con-| in the romance which brought them) 0 1 oF someph oT, meDad dition that he would never propose in behalf of Joseph 7, MeDadéen, sen He weakly consented und he | tOsster, they went away to s00 tbO | tnering A, & 8. F. Cooper and lowered him a rope world all over again with wads and@ |p’ Ceenard, preferred stockholders wh —— wads of wealth to t them where |the Union Pacific Ratlroad Cot 7 they pleased, to buy anything whloh | 445) rt $30 000 SCHOOL BLAZE vaerit appeal to them, ‘Theirs waa hot [Toon vocere. ale. Cerpastes y BLAMED ON MILITANTS St. Paul’s Gymnasium and La! oratories at Cheltenham, Eng., suffragetton staan QUESTION THAW’S GUARD, Admit Slayer ¢ onal article have a you « tlnied the “professor 41 will show you how great is my power by teliing| fram it the name of the ye fon #ho handed it up A woman passed forward a wateh te was a man's gold watch, and finger: | 1k a moment tae “profggso:* an- od Sher s Nas the tuithals Amt wae } Tre woman @inounved loudly that | (Comuaued on Second Page.) CONCORD, NH, Jan Commission to-day | of Marshal of Th le dangelous, Memvera of b- wae Croft iouse in Penrith, Bi Are Destroyed, ‘There the fainily had dwelt ‘ourt, Seiw PERMIT 3 4st CHELTENHAM, Fog, Jan, &—A gaa, | tries Mise pee i pain Sal Anethes vive Obiek |ow fire, supposedly wet by “aronettes,” alty Cs He: peep ¥] ¥ire Comminatoner Robert Adamson y dentroyed “ve gymnasium and] CnCUeh te pay ie ccined nurse. Last | Will aak the Hoard of Ketinate while Bis cal and chemical laboratort Me ae ; friend, the Mayor is prestding to-mor-ow af ries of} Neison went with a fam- (j Bt. Paul's Training School here, ‘The fre |; wuim Beach, Mia, One day [for the establishment of « Chiat of Bikd Apparently was incendiary and the Palm peach just about to take {renu of Fire Prevention at 0,000 a year, were inclined to blame tt on the the Com: jmyasion 40 not expect Jerome to appear. | RICH MARRIED MAN AS A WHITE Ln J. M. Foster Fled From Jersey T: With Pretty Stenographer and . Government Sleuths Catch Them at Mobile. FATHER MADE MILLIONS IN CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL, | ee Registered as Man and Wife 4 Southern City and Were Rre- paring to Sail Away. {BpetiaT te ‘Fhe Mvening World. MOBILE, Ala, Jan, 8.—J. M, Poster of Browa’s Mill- in-thePines Pa and twenty-year-ol@ Pellet 1, @ beautiful att! of the came plas ware arrosted bere today, Poster {s aboused of violating the Maoh White Slave \ Baas both, $2,000 for Foster and $500 for Miss Bradiey. ee: Foater, who Is the millionaire son of the president of the Tnternational Cortes spondence Schouls at Scranton, Pa., running @ farm at Brown's Mfils, cloped with Miss Bradley, whose people live in Pembertom, N. J., on Dec. ih. ‘The man wife and child. The couple reached here on Dec. # and registered at the leading hotel ef ~ the city as man and wife under an sumed name, They made né parti attempt to conceal themeelves and parently did mot fear pursuit, It is Heved they were getting ready to take’ @ chip to some foreign port. *y ‘THERE GO THE BRIDES ! THIRTY-ONE OF 'EM--31, NLLON ONE STEAMSHIP! The Palmers in a First Class oy ha Romance—Crowds for Send ‘The newa that Foster and the . were missing was concealed Off and Rice by Tons. membere of the families of we velr | UunUl It wae certain that ¢hey had gone” - away together. ‘Then the police authorte ‘The Cunard liner Franconia sailed at] ties were notified, as was the Govern= noon to-day for the Mediterranean| ment bureau having to with: the Prosecution of offenders charged with taking @ woman from one Mtate to am’ cruise and carried away the record ist of passengers for the trip, There were) os 0 ; immoral purposes. 437 in the aaloon, It was @ honeymoon | a, sist way iy ne ship for fair, not leas than thirty-one! of the United @tates Gov t. brides being up board. ‘There were Joy-} naa trailed Foster yar oun crowds to see the bridies off, a ton) phitadelphia to porting he eel Oa joe rive and smiles and blushes and —_—_— |To STOP U.P. MELON CUTTING rowen, ‘The happiest. couple on board were complaint late today tn the the story of Lady Bountiful, nor of Prince Charming,” but @ remance as |clewe Guus sumes wo Prevent te pretty as either, ‘The hi atince | S28 te Arenseen Sore meer ne lee 5 tame to her out of the sca, Hterally |"1On 000 o jtimore aad Ohio stock 40 common atockholders, _ ‘The papers were served on Otte H. Kahn of Kuhn, Loeb & Co, the road's fiscal agents, and the case will be ar guea in Special Term of ¢he sunceme the waves at her feet, hs him back to life, as formerly Ming Sarah washed up by William HH. Swarthout, Deputy Fir 1 omme red Lene eeeeaeee od. usen [Chief of Brooklyn, hae been in char; fee a with a cramp. You, gentle rend- {0% the burean since the retirement Deputy Chief Wiliam Guerin by fom mer Commissioner Johnsen, ft is une derstood that the Mayor or Fire © mianioner 4 for the jou er. the maa was Alden Ll. Pale xave him firat ald The two were often on the sands after Bhe t suid to her his .temperatur frends this morning, ” sis name! piace on last Tues- 1 took The wedding t | doned regarding Thaw's mental » day at the Fifth Avenue Prapbyterian dition ond asked If he thought w harsh. | would dangerous if adm —_ —_ TR hime eats FOR RACING 8E3.PAGE i to present an ence t ¢ >- Ustiod ie New York Vhs SUNDAY WORLD WANTS ne of of the WORK MONDAY WONDERS. irom your