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Show IHT RAIDERS SOUTHERN PACIFIC PROSECUTED 1L BE SOLDIERS SET TO FOR REBATING FLIC CITIZENS Masked Men Visit Kentucky Town and Chastise Ten of the Residents With Switches. County Judge ia Warned That Hit Immunity From Similar Punishment Depended Upon Friendship He Was Expected to Show Tobacco Growers' Organization. CHARD Government Will Institute Suit, the Existence of Extensive System of Preferential Rates Being Alleged. ns Company of Infantry Will Attempt to Preserve Order at Fairbanks, Alaska, Daring Strike. are to Washington. Prosecutions be instituted by the government against the Southern Pacific company and against certain officials of that on allegation railway organization that they paid rebates to shippers. Information which is to be a basis for these prosecutions was obtained by Franklin K. Lane, of the interstate commerce commission, last autumn in the course of an extensive inquiry made by him into the affairs of the Southern Pacific company. By direction of the interstate commerce Commissioner commission, Lane visited the Pacific coast and for several weeks conducted his inquiries into the alleged charges of rebating which had reached the commission. Commissioner Lanes report of his investigation, including a transcript ot l the testimony taken by him in a hearing as an interstate commerce commissioner, was made public on Saturday. The report has been approved by the commission and a transcript of the report and of the evidence adduced at the hearing has been transmitted to the department of Justice for such prosecutions under the law as may be warranted. Trouble is Outcome of Demand for Higher Wage and Shorter Hours, and Attempt to Operate Mines Independently of Western Federation. Washington. By direction of the president. Acting Secretary Oliver on Eddyville, Ky. Night riders 300 strong visited Eddyville at 1 oclock Sunday morning and whipped ten men, four of them white and six negroes. The white men, who are suffering from sore backs as the result of a severe chastisement with switches, are: Police Judge C. W. Rucker, Lesel Woods, former city marshal; Press Fralick, who occasionally acted as deputy city marshal, and Grace Robertson, a saloon porter. The connection between the whipping of the white men and the negroes and the tobacco war in western Kentucky is not apparent and no one has been able to offer any explanation. None of the victims was known to be either .active or influential in opposiTRAIN HITS STREET CAR. tion to the farmers pooling movement No attempt was made at de- Motorman Disregards Signals, With Thursday ordered a company of infantry from Fort Gibbon, in Alaska, to Fairbanks, in that territory, to preserve order during the mining strike in that section. Telegrams from Fairbanks to the attorney general stated that open air mass meetings are being held by the striking miners, and that threats of violence have been made. The distance from Fort Gibbon to Fairbanks is 155 miles, and the troops the will be carried by sleds over route, which is said to be a very good one. If there is urgent necessity for the presence of the soldiers at Fairbanks they can get there in four or five days. But under ordinary conditions the trip takes six or seven days. Fairbanks is in the center of a minDisastrous Results. ing country, with a population of or 8,000. Persons in Washington O. were Seven Toledo, persons killed and a dozen injured when a Big familiar with the conditions existing Four passenger train struck a Toledo at Fairbanks say the trouble is the outcome of a strike a year or more & Western electric car at the Michiago for higher wages and shorter West in Toledo Central gan crossing hours for miners. This the operators, Saturday night. however, refused, and their determiof the nation to operate their mines indeAccording to an wreck, which occurred shortly after 8 pendently of the Western Federation oclock, the conductor stopped at the cf Miners may, it is feared, lead to crossing to flag the car across. See- trouble. ing the train coming, he motioned tc the motorman to stop, but this signal EXPRESS COMPANY IN TROUBLE. was either misunderstood, or not seen or disregarded, for the car came Accused of Carrying Mail in Violation The ahead, with sickening results. of the Postal Laws. motorman was among those killed. All Cincinnati, O. Violation of the posthe ambulances in the city were hast mail laws by carrying first-clas- s tal the scene of summoned and the ily wreck was soon thronged with excitec matter was charged against the Amerpeople, impeding rather than aidin; ican Express company in a suit filed the work of rescue. in the United States district court here Wednesday by District Attorney BUYS A NOBLEMAN. McPherson. This suit was the first gun in a Daughter of Former Chairman of the campaign which the government proIsthmian Canal Commission poses to wage against common carGets a Title. matter riers for carrying first-clas- s New York. Miss Theodora Shonts, contrary to law. In the information daughter of Theodore P. Shonts, for- which Attorney McPherson filed he Express merly chairman of the isthmian canal alleged that the American carried a letcommission, was married Saturday at company on January 6 to Cincinnati. noon to Manuel Theodoric Bernard ter from Belton, Texas, De The letter was from Mrs. Will Brown, Duke DAlbert De Luynes, of Belton, and in it she ordered from Chaulnes, of Paris. The Duke De a glove company twelve pairs of Chaulnes is 29 years old and a mem- gloves and enclosed an express order most ber of one of the aristocratic for $2.47 in payment. Attorney Mcfamilies of the French nobility. He Pherson claims the letter did jot rehas a house in Paris and an hereditary late to the business of the express castle in one of the French provinces. company, and that the envelope did Theodore P. Shonts, the brides fa- not bear a postage stamp, as required ther, is now president of the Interborou- by law. gh-Metropolitan company, which operates the New York elevated railLIABILITY OF RAIROADS. roads and subway. New Bill Introduced In Congress by Thinks of Valentine for Sister in Face La Folletto and Sterling. of Death. Washington. A comprehensive emChicago. Stretched out on an oper- ployers liability bill was introduced ating board in the Englewood Union in the senate and house on Thursday hospital Saturday night, where two of by Senator La Follette of Wisconsin the staff physicians were cutting off and Sterling of Illihis lacerated little legs in an en- nois. Representative The authors say the bill has deavor to save his life, Hermann Hill, the endorsement of the Brotherhood a newsboy, 9 years old, demanded oi of Locomotive the BrotherEngineers, the doctors: Say, whichever one ol hood of Locomotive Firemen and nickel oul go you guys thats got my and the Brotherhood of Railand buy a valentine and send it to my road Trainmen, and is intended to sister. I promised her one and she is meet the recent decision of the suThe little fellow had preme court waiting for it. by which the employers been run down by a street car whil6 liability act of June 11, 1906, was deselling papers. clared unconstitutional. for-ma- stroying stored tobacco. After the whipping had been administered the mob awakened County Judge W. L. Crumbaugh and warned him that his immunity from similar enpunishment hereafter depended tirely upon the friendship he was expected to show the tobacco growers He was told that his organization. gray hairs alone were responsible for his being spared this time. The only tobacco man visited was J. M. Bradshaw, who is a tobacco prizer for one of the growers Mr. associations. Bradshaw was ordered to close up a billiard hall which he owns. HINTS AT SECRET TREATY. " Dispatches Would Indicate That Germany is Creating Trouble in Europe. from Washington. Cablegrams London and St Petersburg recently published in American newspapers on the Balkan situation and the North sea treaty, questioning Germanys sincerity with regard to her announced policies regarding these matters, were called to the attention of Baron Sternberg, the German ambassador at Washington, on Sunday. The ambassador declared the published statements made it appear as if Germany is creating' trouble in Europe by refusing to adhere to the rules of reform in Macedonia laid down by the "Muerzesteger programme, and even hinted, he added, at the existence of a secret treaty between GerThese many, Austria and Turkey. statements, he declared, are absolutely false and unfounded. Hitchcock Resigns tff Manage the Taft Presidential Campaign. Washington. Frank H. Hitchcock, first assistant postmaster general, concluded his service with the government Saturday, and on Monday handed his resignation to the president. In a short time he will take up the work of managing the Taft presidential campaign in earnest Mr. Hitchcock will take a few days vacation before he enters upon his political work. He will make his headquarters in this city. Mr. Hitchcock will be succeeded by Dr. Charles M. Grand-fielnow chief clerk in that office. Banker Sent to Jail, San Francisco. R. E. Ragland, president of the Citizens State bank, which recently suspended, was on Saturday sentenced by Police Judge Con-la- n to six months imprisonment for exhibiting a revolver in a rude and threatening manner to J. Pomansky, a depositor in the bank, who sought to recover his money. An additional sentence of three months imprisonment was imposed on the banker for carrying a concealed weapon. Ragle nds attorneys gave notice of an appeal. Must Worry Utahs Surveyor-Genera- l Along on Same Old Salary. efWashington. An unsuccessful fort was made in the house on Saturday when the legislation, execution and judicial bill was under consideration to amend it, increasing the salThe proaries of surveyor-generalposed increase would have given the surveyor-generaof Utah $3,000 inl stead of $2,000. Representative Howell made a speech in favor of the increase, in which he chided his fellow members for increasing their own salaries and denying the increase to others. s. 7,-0- eye-witne- DRIVEN FROM HOME BY WATER. Farmers Are the Victims. Springfield, O. The Farmers Cooperating Harvesting company of America, a corporation organized by Out of Work. William N. Whitely, known as the Pittsburg, Pa. Spreading ruin and King, has gone Into the hands disaster in its path, the annual flood Reaper of a receiver. C. S. Olinger of this of the rivers and small streams of this city has been named in that capacity section holds Pittsburg in its grasp. by the court. The concern was incorThe record flood of last year, when porated five years ago, following the the water reached a stage of thirty-si- organization of the binder and one-hal- f feet, caused damage trust, known as the International Harestimated at $10,000,000, but sufficient vester company. Large amounts of warning was given this year to save stock were sold by Whitelys agents all over the United States, principally much property. A conservative estimate places the among farmers. number of men thrown out of work by the flood here at 20,000. This great Fighting Bob Evans in Better Health. increase to the army of unemployed is Washington. The navy department expected to result in much suffering. has received the following from AdFor weeks charitable organizations miral Simpson of the Chilean navy, on have been soliciting funds for the un- board the cruiser Chacabuco, which employed, and now additional ap- piloted Admiral Evans fleet partially peals have been made for contribu- through the Strait of Magellan: tions to assist the flood victims. Talcahuano, Chile, Feb. 12. Adhave A great number of families miral Evans requests me to inform housemove to their been compelled hold goods to upper stories. They go the department from the fleet, at sea, Tuesday, 4 p. m., bound for Callao to and fro in skiffs. On the north side of Pittsburg the via vilnaiaiso: going on well. Adpolicemen are patroling their beats in miralEverything Evans much better in health. skiffs. Floods Cause Great Damage at Pittsburg and 20,000 Men Are Thrown x Stockmen in Conference at WashingCould Add Millions to Texas. ton. Fort Worth, Tex. B. F. Yoakum, head of the Rock Island railroad lines, Representatives of Washington. addressed the State Association of western livestock associations held a Commercial Societies here on Satur- meeting Saturday afternoon to discuss day. His speech discussed problems pending legislation regulating grazing of development which the country on public lands. No conclusion was faces. He declared there is but one reached, but it was the sentiment of position or demand for which he will the meeting that no legislation could Among give up his present work, and that is he passed at this session. to be governor, so that he could de- those who attended were Nudo Mcof Colorado, velop the state. He said he could Kenzie, A. E. Desicqules S. H. bring five million people to Texas In J. C. Underwood of Wyoming, Pot-te- r four years if he was governor of the Cowan of Texas, Messrs. Pinchot, and Byrnes of the forest service. itate. so-call- i Bomb Placed for King. Lisbon. It has been learned that a bomb was found under the landing stage where King Carlos landed on the day of the assassination. It had failed to explode because of a derect in the fuse. A number of persons have called at the late home of Buica, one of the dead assassins, to give for the money to his mother-in-lasupport of his children. The proprietor of a department store has opened a subscription for them with $1,000, also giving ;hem free use of theij house. Accident in Richest Asphaltum Mine In the United States Causes Two Deaths and $100,000 Damags. Grand Junction, Colo. In an explosion of dust in the mine ot the Gilson Asphaltum Mix company at Dragon, Utah, Wednesday morning, two Greeks were Instantly killed, and the mine, one of the richest of its kind in the United States, was damaged to the extent of $100,000. The explosion was caused, it is believed, by one of the Greek miners dropping a match on the floor and igniting the gilsonite dust. The bodies of the two men have not been recovered, and It is not believed that they will ever bo, as they are probably cremated. Water thrown on the flames seem to add to the fury of the fire, and there is no hope of saving the mine in that way. More than 100 men are now working, trying to smother the flames, but are meeting with indifferent success. There are 200 men employed in the mine. The night shift of 103 men had just got out of the mine, and the last of them were but 100 yards distant when an explosion occurred. The miners rushed to the entrance, and there were two more explosions, more violent than the first. Windows in the cabins about the mine were broken, and there was consternation in the camp. Mexican Miners Attempt to Kill Every American at the Santa Rosa Mine, in Sonora, Old Mexico. Windstorm Strikes Mississippi and Texas, Ten Being Killed and Many Injured. Districts Visited by Disastrous Twister Were Sparsely Settled or the Loss of Life Would Have Been Much Heavier. . Miss. Three small Miswere practically detowns sissippi molished by a'tornado on Friday. Reports of the number killed range from six to ten, with the smaller number Mossvllle, Service probably correct. and Sovo are the towns destroyed. They are all in Jones county, and all are very small, being merely a handful of scattered dwellings. The tornado Btruck them about noon, and in most instances is reported to have carried the buildings in its path completely off the lots on which they stood. Nearby fields were covered with wreckage, and the branches of trees were littered with small household articles. Meridian,' Tucson, Ariz. An attempt to kill every American at the Santa Rosa mine, in Sonora, twenty miles south of Douglas, was made recently, when Mexican employes placed sticks of dynamite under a boarding house, the company store and the foremans and The residences. superintendent's fuses attached to the dynamite were timed for the explosions to follow The each other in quick succession. hour selected was during the evening meal, when all the American miners were in the boarding house and the foreman and the superintendent In their respective residences. The first explosion was at the boarding house, it was demolished. Fifteen nnu eating, were blown through the roof, sustaining broken legs and arms, but there were no fatalities. The store was completely demolished. Tom Fagin, the foreman, and his wife were in their home, but the dynamite failed to ignite. The superintendents office was demolished, but he was out of the building and escaped. Governor Torres has been notified y and rurales under Commander are already on the scene. Eighteen Moxlcans are under arrest at the mine. The attempt to destroy the Americans is believed to be the work of sympathizers with the revolutionists under arrest at Los Angeles, who believe the prisoners are being persecuted by Americans. There had been no trouble at the mine previously, and no other cause Is conceivable. Kos-terllsk- Four Killed at Tyler. Tyler, Tex. A tornado swept over the principal residence portion of Tyler at 4 oclock Friday morning, causing the death of four persons. The LEAD. UNCLE WANTS SAM TO dead are: C. A. Francis, aged 28; his child. Mose wife and Member of English Parliament AdvoLee, a negro, aged 80. Francis was cates Use of Silver Bullion. for the Dallas News. Ills dead Frewen of ngent Washington. Morton was found 100 yards from his lody England, member ot parliament, wrecked home, and the body of his CANT SUSPEND LAW. Bpoke before the house committee on child was found In the street. Mrs. and on currency banking Wednesday, Francis body was In the wreckage of Interstate Commerce Commission Anin explanation of the old Goshen systhe building. Six persons were seriswers Query of Railroads. tem which provides a reserve of silare Irwin FrankThey injured. ously anImportant Washington. An ver bullion to be held as security lin, Mrs. Franklin and four Franklin nouncement was made on Tuesday by silver trade in Issued against paper, children. One of the children Is exthe interstate commerce commission denominations of $2.50 up to $10, not to die. They were caught in its attitude toward the reredeemable in gold, but in silver. Mr. pected the wreckage of their home. Twelve respecting Frewen said that all hope of interna- buildings were wrecked. The tornado quest recently made b) the operating tional bimetallism had disappeared, came up from the southwest and tore vice presidents of the railroads of the nine-hou- r United States that the and that tire Goshen plan could be al- u path through Tyler 10 feet wide. law, relating to the employment lied in this country without disruptWELCOMED BY CHILEANS. of train dispatchers, telegraph operaing the present currency system. He tors and tower men, be suspended by declared that it would be more applicThe commission temporarily. able here than in England now than American Fleet Passes Valparairo, Is the Saluted by Entire Chilean Navy. commission holds, in brief, that it it would have been years ago. His to extend the time idea was to have the United States Valparaiso. The great American haB no authority adopt it first, and then let England fleet of sixteen battleships, under the or suspend the operation of the law, case or cases in a take it up. command of Rear Ajflmiral Evans, except in particular been held and has a which hearing Friday afternoon good cause shown for the extension Pacific Fleet to Search for Missing passed Valparaiso and continued on its voyage north- asked. Man. ward to Callao, Peru, the next stopWashington. A man by the name ping place. All Valparaiso and thou- Jury Failed to Convict Woman of of,, Jeffs, and whose home is, said to sands of persons from every city , in , , Murder. have been in Connecticut, is believed Chile witnessed the passing of the Dora McDonald, who Mrs. Chicago. to be Stranded on one of the Galapa- fleet. President Montt and the other has been on trial here since January gos or Tortoise islands situated off high officials of the republic came out 20 on the charge of murdering Webof South America. A from shore to greet the battleships, the west-coaswas acquitted by a jury ster Guerin, prominent person from Connecticut and almost the entire Chilean navy in the crimnal court on Tuesday. The Interested in Jeffs case, has written exchanged salutes with them as they verdict was reached after six and one-ha- lf to the department asking that one of swung around Curaumllla Point and hours of deliberation, the jury file, the vessels of Admiral Evans fleet into Valparaiso bay in single Chaca-bucretired at 1 o'clock. The decruiser Chilean the headed having by stop at the islands on their way from who is the widow of Michael boat five Chilean fendant, and torpedo Calloa, Peru, to Magdalena bay and the former millionaire C. McDonald, make a search for him. The request destroyers. gambling king and political leader in will be complied with. Should Keep Their Mouths Shut and Chicago, received the verdict without apparent emotion. During the trial Obey Orders. Child is Dead as Result of Eating collapsed. N. Y.With plain she had frequently West Point, Poisoned Candy. words of advice as to their future duRobbers Loot Missouri Bank. Kansas City. Ruth Miller, the of and ties the hardships advantages Miller Charles of daughter Willard, Mo. The Bank of Willard of Kansas City, Kas., is dead from an army career Secretary of War was looted of $10,000 by five robbens the eeffets of eating candy from a Taft on Friday presented diplomas to early Tuesday morning, after the safe box of cheap bonbons sent through the 108 members of the graduating had been blown open with nitroglythe mail to an elder sister, Ella Miller. class of the United States military cerine. The explosion aroused the The secretary impressed citizens and a street battle followed, The candy is believed to have con- academy. were comtained strychnine, and Ruth Miller upon the young men who amid a fusillade of missioned as second lieutenants in but the robbers, eatdied in agony ten minutes after their made way to a hand car shots, the various branches of the army A posse comrail. Four bonbons. other some of the and by escaped ing that the military service must ever children of the family were affected be subordinate to the civil govern- posed of business men and another by the candy, but they suffered only ment, and that it was their serious headed by the sheriff and composed of temporary distress. There is no known duty to keep their mouths shut and deputies quickly foimed and started In pursuit. No citizens were shot durmotive for the sending of the candy. obey orders. ing the battle. Says Public Servants Should Not Act Lectures Club Women. Saved the Cows and Left Son in Burnas Attorneys Against Government. New York. Mrs. Cora F. Trow ing Barn. of caused consternation in a meeting of Borah Washington. Senator -While his son was bePa. Oxford, Idaho created the first spirited debate the West End Womens Republican in the senate on the bill to revise club Friday by stating that until ing cremated in a burning barn at and codify the federal laws by offer- women had learned how to hold legal i leasant Grove, the father and a numwere risking their ing an amendment making it a penal elections in their own clubs they had ber of neighbors offense for any United States senator no right to demand the ballot. She lives to save horses and cows which or congressman to appear in court said that women voted for the officers could not get out of the stable. The as an attorney in any case in which of their clubs because they liked the boy, Joel L. Pusey, eight years old, the government may be interested. way a candidate dressed her hair, or had kindled a fire in the barn. The Borah took care of the debate alone because they disliked the woman who hay caught fire and the lad was soon in support of his resolution, while placed the opposition candidate in surrounded by flames. The father and Women should study Senators McLaurin, Clay, Teller, Hey-bur- nomination. neighbors hurried to rescue the catcivics, she said, and become qualified tle. Not until the flames had been and Sutherland opposed it. to vote intelligently. sxtinguished was the boy missed. Indian Outwits Posse. Opera Singer to be Deported. Wont Be Caught Napping Again. Butte, Mont. Advices from the a York. Miss J. Trabellinf, New of The ministry state that the St. Petersburg. north Mosney, whom the officers feinger from the La Scala grand opera war is preparing plans for the speedy fugitive are looking for in connection with the house in Milan, Italy, who, she said, conversion of Vladivostok into a first-clas- s to this country hoping to secure murder of Robert Holmes, has com- came fortress, involving expenditures an engagement at the Metropolitan or pletely outwitted the officers under the Manhattan opera, house, will be of about $6,000,000. Completion of the Sheriff Shoemaker of Helena and has deported. This action was decided work within three years is held to be effected his getaway. The posse men upon by the immigration authorities mperative in order that Russia may have lost every clew of the Indian out- on Friday. The singer had twice been not be caught napping as at Port Arlaw, who is believed to have made his admitted to this country, but when thur in case of future trouble with way into civilization. There is a sus- she arrived for a third visit, two la pan. Russian strategy in any fupicion that a man seen riding on the weeks ago, she was sent to Ellis ture war with Japan will depend upon cowcatcher of an engine into Cascade island and an investigation of her the ability of Vladivostok to hold out was Mosney. case ordered. for a year without assistance. d t o n half-bree- Oenie Immunity Contract. San Francisco. That there was not a single allegation of fact in the affidavit of Abraham Ruef with reference to his understanding with the prosecution for immunity, was the declaration of Assistant District Attorney Francis J. Heney on Wednesday after Henry Ach, counsel for Ruef, had occupied the entire morning with argument and the citation of authorities in support of his motion for a vacation of Ruefs arraignment on the United Railroads' trolley franchise Indictments. Insurance Company on the Rocks. New York. Attorney General Wiliam S. Jackson announced Friday that ha had decided to ask for the appointment of a receiver for the Mucomtual Reserve Life Insurance pany. The legality of certain liens imposed upon policies has been ques tioned by the authorities. Attorney General Jackson said his decision to ask for a receiver was based on the report of State Superintendent of Insurance Kelsey, who contended that .he company is insolvent, with a de icit of $1,717,114. Kill Robins for Food. New Orleans. The announcement hat about one million robins have jeen killed by hunters this winter in I ouisiana, is made by Frank M. Miller, president of the Louisiana Audu-ao- n society. Following this announcement George E. Hotell, a government expert here to investigate the habits f the robins, said that the government may prove that the eastward movement of the boll weevil had been facilitated by the reckless destruction of the robins. The birds are Oiled for food. |