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Show DUPED THE FARMER NOW FOR THE JUNE SENATOR ADMITS TAKING BRIBE BRIDES : n His Mysterious Malady i Illinois Breaks Down and) Tells Grand Jury Story Which May Get Others Into Trouble. Law-mak- COMMISSION SWINDLE EXPOSED AFTER SHARPER GETS AWAY WITH GOOD SUM. Springfield, W. Holstlaw of Offered , High Prices for Produce and Then Sold to Consumers Before Paying Farmer, Pocketing Money Without Psylng Bills. far-nie- ra d'opyngat. END OF iftio.) REVOLUTION BUMPED " picion. ' It Is believed be has beaded tor Nevada or Oregon, and the officers Estrada Insurgents Routed and Blue are searching for blm. Bisman leaves fields Bluffs Captured by Gov. a number of victims who will be ernment Forces. more than pleased to take the witness and contribute testimony that will mean a long term In the state prison for blm, providing be Is cap Dluefields, Nicaragua. The government forces, under cover of tbe fire of the gunboat San Jacinto, on Friday SEARCHING FOR FIEND. routed tbe insurgents and captured Blueflelds bluff. This loss to the EsBody of Little Alma Kellner Found trada forces probably ends the revoluIn Cistern. tion. The Estrada troops were under the Louisville, Ky. The discovery of Zeledon. Tbe of General command the mutilated and decomposed body of Alma Kellner In an old cistern ua force of Madrlz In the engagement Is der a parish bouse of St. John's Gath estimated at 600 and that of Estrada 200. The Estrada gunboats ollc church, on Monday, solved part at of the mystery surrounding ber disap- Blanca and Ometepe escaped up tbe Escondldo river. The government pearance. Lara and Chavarrt have not generals, of Alma was the daughter Fred L. Kellner, and since her dis- yet attacked Rama, which Is In the General appearance on December 8, Prank hands of the revolutionists. his Dluefields Estrada at defeat takes millionaire Fehr, a brewer, her uncle, has spared neither time nor money In calmly. He says be ttnends to make further resistance. search for ber. for are The police Joseph SAVED BY CYCLONE CELLARS. looking Wendling, former janitor at St John's church, who, since January 14. a little Several Families Have Narrow Esmore than a month after the disap cape From Terrific Windstorm. pearance of the Kellner girl, has been Pierce City, Mo. A tornado, which missing. formed northwest of here at 6 o'clock HEROES SALUTE PRESIDENT. Friday night, struck the western edge of town a few minutes later, destroyParade of Veterans Nearly Three ing ten buildings, several barns, and Hours In Passing Review Stand. swept southward. No one was killed. New York. Before the president of Cyclone cellars saved the families of the United States there passed In re Edward Greer. William Tate, John view on Monday what remains of Shylock and James Abernathy. In New York's contribution to the war each Instance the tornado swept tbe bouse from abore the boles where of the north and south. The president bad come from Wash men, women and children were hudIngton especially to see the soldiers dled together. The tornado swepb on pass the reviewing stand at the Sol- south, descending a few miles from diers and Sailors' monument on Riv here. Late advices tell of serious of three persons. erside drive, and as they trudged by they taunted their muscles, raised Senator Tillman Improving. their gray heads higher and sought Atlanta, Ga. Suffering from a seto show they were still fit and active vere attack of rheumatism. United The parade was nearly three hours RIn passing, but the president all the States Senator B. - Tillman of South this city last while stood bareheaded In the stand. Carolina arrived in was and taken to a Thrsday night bowing as the veterans passed by. local sanitarium for treatment. AlAfter the parade there was a short exerclse at the base of the monument. though suffering considerably, Senator Tillman walked without aid to an Dr. W. W. Blackburn, automobile. Curtis ,Wlns World's Priie. Tillman in charge, New II. Curtis flew who has Senator Is no connection between there says from Albany to New York- City In an tbe rheumatic stroke and the aeroplane on Sunday, winning the $10.- - lytic stroke of a few months ago.para000 prize offered by' the New York World. He covered the distance of Author of Gold Standard Law Dead. 127 miles In two hours and thirty-twJesse Ovcrnlreet. who Indianapolis minutes, and came to earth as calmly represented this. Seventh district of and as lightly as a pigeon, li s aver Ind'sna. In congress, from 1RSMJ to age speed for the distance SI. 06 miles died on Friday. Mr. Overstreet an hour surpasses any other record ItS, was chslrmsn of the committee on In disever made by an aeroplane long postofflees and post roads In congress tance flight, and In Its entirety, bis and was the author of the gold standfeat perhaps eclipses anything man ard law passed in 1SK0. He then behas attempted In a heavier than air came a member of the national monemachine. He was secretary tary commission. of the Republican eonaressional camMet Frightful Death. from lass, to 1o. headforemost paign committee Cleveland. Plunging v . Conspiracy down a flight of stairs and through the Charged. window of a door, William Raddatt's Manila Further eiamlnetton of the bead was almost severed from his United States drvdork Iwey. which body by broken glass on Sunday. Ills Is psrtly submerged at Olonaapo In wife and three young children tried Suhlg bar. has strengthened the belief frantically to extricate the man, but of those of the navy who hare held were unable to help blm and. drenched that the damage was done deliberateby tbe blood which poured from bis ly by a band of conspirators against wounds, they ran Into the street ahere be government. , tbelr shrieks brought a crowd. Red . Chose Ghastly Method of dalt was dead, however, before assisClad only In a tilebl rtil-tance could reach him. Mrs. William Stroker, 41 years old, Dr. Cook Going After Proof. committed suicide by throwing herNew York. Tbe mystery of the self In front of a train. She had apwhereabouts of tn. Cook, tbe Ameri- parently arisen from bed and hurried can says, has been solved. He Is In to the railroad tracks. Her body was rhe is believed . to badly mangled, Scotland, preparing for his trip to have been temporarily deranged. Blah, whence he plans to bring back his records of hi discovery of the Ninety-ene- . Is Howe Julia Ward north pole and bis Instruments, which Boston. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe are cached there. He also Intends to celebrated her t birthday here bring back tbe two Eskimos who ac- on Thursday. "Mr beal?h Is petfeet," "I companied him on his dash to the she said In a birthilay Interview. tured. y York.--Gle- nn o , Suicide-Chicago- e, nine-firs- feel full of youth." pole.. Jews Not Allowed a St. Petersburg.- - M. Health Resort. Friedman, the Jewish member of the dnma, who ha championed the cause of the Jews ordered whom the government ha banished from Russian cities and towns outside "th pale" rbst re Polish pro-- rifted secfinn of the duces and the rkralne, where they may legally reside has received enro- plaints that members of his race rfvlrg a) (he health resorts Its the faufs'ir ti take the baths and receive nW'r.i t? itmnt, were Immediately he local autborl'ies. .tr - - urday afternoon and confessed before tho grand Jury of accepting $6,000 In , bribes in the hist session of the and reports followed that eleven state senators and Republicans will quickly follow the same path. Holstlaw said that he was given $2,500 to vote for William Lorimer for senator by Senator John Bredcrlck of Chicago, who Is a powerful West Sldu politician. The confession of the Lorimer bribe was made more dramatic and striking by the fact that almost at the same hour Senator Lorimer was proclaiming himself to be Innocent In a statement before the upper house. Holstlaw, pale, trembling and ner vous, admitted to newspaper men af ter he left the Jury room that he had confessed and named the Chicago Benator and several other legislators as the corruption. sharing PATTEN IS The following, It Is reported, were the bribes Holstlaw confessed to ac cepting. For voting for Lorimer for Benator, $2,500; from the general cor from, the BIG SPECULATOR REPORTED TO ruptlon "Jackpot." 1,500; ' deals in desks for the legislature, HAVE LOST MORE THAN A $2,000. MILLION IN A DAY. Cutting Down Clerical Force. ' Washington. Aged clerks in tht Albany Miller Successfully Carries postoffice and treasury departments, who have either received notice ot Deal Through and Forces Leading dismissal or fear such notice, have be Short Interest to Settle With gun to think that they are the vic Him at His Own' Price. tims of politics. President Taft has Informed the national leaders that economy is going to be one of the big Chicago. The private settlement of assets of the Republican party. PresTheodore H. Waterman's "squeeze" ident Taft has also convinced his cab la May wheat; the unloading of lnet that his clerical forces of nearly bushels of September wheat every department must be cut down. by James A. and George V. Patten, This is undoubtedly due Jn a great and announcement of their with- degree to the declaration of Senator drawal from tbe brokerage Arm of Aldrlch that he could save the govern which , they have been members for ment $100,000 annually by running a generation, and, at least temporar- It on a business basis. ily, from business; a net decline In prices ranging from sV4c In Septem- President to Inspect Panama Canal. ber to more than 6c in May, made President Taft will Washington. Thursday, May 26, a day in wheat make his first trip to the Panama cadestined to take rank with other mo- nal zone since his Inauguration In mentous days on the Chicago board November, after the fall elections. It of trade. present plans are carried out Tbe James A. Patten left his office president has reached a tentative deThursday night wearing a smile, and cision to make a trip of Inspect loa to tn bis limousine had leisure to real- the canal upon a United States warize and estimate his losses at any- ship. He will be accompanied by Secwhere between $640,000 and $1,200,000 retary Dickinson, Secretary Meyer and for the day. perhaps Secretary Knox. If the presTraders are assured that Theodore ent arrangements are carried out. II. Waterman, the Albany miller, tbe President Taft will be away from leading long In May. baa carried bis Washington three weeks. deal through to a successful conclusion and forced tbe leading short In- Mother and Child Killed In Runaway. terests to settle with him at his own Price, Utah. In an accident caused price, generally believed to have been by an unmanageable horse attached around $1.14. Many efforts to gauge to a wagon tn which the family of his profits bare been futile. J. William Cox of Wasatch county were Is said to have been the leadhome, Mrs. Cox was Instant-- ! 'returning la this but chiefly ing short option, as agent for a big elevator concern. ly killed and ber babe, one year old, Several cargoes of actual wheat was Injured so badly that It died. The were delivered to 'Waterman during ICoxea, who live at Nine Mile, not far the .last ten days in an endeavor to from Harper, had 'gone to Myton to break the market Tbe latter bent, ao some trsdlng Saturday. When but did not break. they started borne the horse became Has Narrow Escape In Hotel Fire. frightened and ranin away, tbe anwagon Irribeing overturned crossing Kansas Cliy. Thirty-fivpeople gating ditch. were rescued from'th upper floors of I xing Brothers' building in Main street Patten Will Tackle Morgan. on Thursday when a gas explosion Patten versus Morgan In Chicago. started a speciscular fire that soon a desperate contest , for supremacy. enveloped the place. No one was That Is the situation now. James A. killed or Injured. John King, an at- Patten, stilt nursing the bruises retorney, Insisted on Jumping from his ceived la bis recent encounter with office window on the third floor, but the wheat bears on the board of trade, was restrained ty firemen, who drag- la to in the "fight engage preparing Ore ged him to the escape. Fifteen of bis life" with an of Wall army In a lailorshop on the girls employed fourth floor were" rescued". by firemen. street boars marshaled under the formidable leadership of tbe bouse of Easier for Chinese. t. P. Morgan It Co. Tbe battle will Washington. Chlha men lawfully, in be fought out In the New York cotton the United States Intending to depart market, and millions of dollars are for China or any other country with Involved In the outcome. the Intention of coming back, hereBroker Murders Wife and Priest. after will be able to obtain a return St Psul. P. J. Olbbons. a livestock certificate with less trouble. This l due to a revision of the regulation commission man of South St. Paul, effecting Chinese Immigration Just Miot and killed his wife at their home wad by Commissioner General of in that city, A few minutes later r.ibhons rang the door bell at the Immigration Kefe. home of Father E. J. Walsh, young Taft Resents Imputation, pastor of St Augustine's Catholic W a hlneton. President ,Tafl on church, and, as the door, was opened, Friday sent fo Chairman Tawney of fired two shots Into the priest's head, the boiiM1 comm;tte on appropria- killing him almost Instantly. In Jail tions a teller expressing deep resent- Gibbons said bis wife made a confesment at the criticism passed by Dem- sion in which the name of Father ocrats In the house debate on Thurs- Walsh was mentioned. day on the (raveling cupenses of tbe president. The president says he Is White Woman Cot Ahead of Teddy. especially (tistreosed ty "toireested j New York Mrs. Ma Fleischman, reflection on southern hospitality." j wife of the Cincinnati millionaire, who I In this city with her husband, bear Young Gould Runs Away From School New Britain, Conn Edwin Gould. Ihe distinction of having penetrated Jr . son of Edwin Gould of Ardsley on tbe African Jungles even farther thaa the Hudson, and second son of the former President Roosevelt did. The late Jay CScrold. wjs found on the Fleischmans returned from a hunting street here early Monday and taken trip on the steamer Manretanla and. to the police station. Young Gould slthrjiigh Mr. Fleishman refused, ran awsv frow school In Fnmfeet Ou- j thrmigh modesty, to discuss the report. ter lest Friday and armed here f'jot-scr- e It Is said he had many thrilling adand weary. venture with wild animals legls-lautre- Salt Lake City. After swindling of Utah and southern Idaho out of, more than $ 1.500 worth of produce, eggs and poultry, by fraudulent use of the malls, a man who has posed as a commission merchant under the name of "B. 8. Biswan," with headquarters in this city, has disappeared. His operations began a month ago and were of such an Ingenious nature that for a time they baff'ed the farmers. Offering higher price for produce to the farmers, and then selling to consumers before paying the farmers, Bisman collected a great deal of money and disappeared when he had MEANS strained his credit to the point of sus- Land State Senator D. Luka broke down Sat 111. Banquets V siting Officers. Buenos Ayres.- Rear Admiral minister of marine, gave a dinner Friday night to the admirals and commanders of the foreien sqnadrons which are here to pa'iicipate; In Argentina's centennial celebration. The admiral toasted Irs g'tests as the meeneer of peace and amity. Rear Admiral Staunton. roromsndef of tbe American vlHlng squadron, respond ed. saying that the Argentine navy would prove to be the sore guardian of the country's" prosperity. President Alcorta was present. Ret-bede- r, I e , Negro Lynched by Mob. Montgomery, Ala Reports of the lynching of Jfff Mats. a negro r Deputy Sheriff a Acton mine, has been recpjveri i here. Mafson m cap tired ly ny Sheriff H'tiicy and Pepon fit Shelby erintv. .eieen Birnrrigham. and Acton, Thursday rooming. At II 'clock ft g sail the deputies were near Pelham, Sheioy Intercepted county, by a mob from (eon. The s negro was taken from the and mob aril prisoner disappeared Scott-Taylo- D-p- ffir-er- lnt the wo4s. --- j TO BEGIN j j i ; i; THE FOR FITTED DAINTIES BREAKFAST TABtE. 1 Bobbv sat un and threw off thn af- ghan impatiently. "I feel fine now," he said. "I guess I'll go out for awhile." His father shook his head. "Hold on a minute," he commanded. "Where are all those perfectly terrible sensa tions you had yesterday when you stayed home from schoool?" "Oh. well, that was n whole dav and a night ago," protested Bobby. "A feller could get well of most anything in that time." Especially as this la Saturday aft ernoon," Bald his father, thoughtfully. "You considered yourself a pretty sick boy yesterday." "I was," said Bobby. "Gee, I felt something fierce! 1 never felt worse In my life." "Then don't you think you ought to be very careful today?" "If It was going to be anything It would have gone and done it by now," said Bobby. "Besides, I feel swell.' I wouldn't 'a' laid down here, only mamma said I bad to. I wish I knew what did it" "What did you do on Thursday that was particularly festive?" "Well, It was like this." Bobby be gan. "Nellie Foster she made fudge. and, of course, I got some of It It was swell, all right, only Billy didn't get a big piece and he whispered that there was too much choe'lut 1u It I didn't say a word, but teacher she heard somebody whisner and she said for me to go out of tbe room and wait downstairs for ber. I said I didn't whisper, and she said: 'What makes you always take that attitude. Robert?' "I said I wasn't taking any attitude all I had was fudge. "Then she got mad and sent me home, because she said I was imper tinent Out in the yard I saw Jimmy. His brother's got scarlet fever and be cau't come to school, but he watts for us fellers outside. He had an a Dole and he gave It to me so's I'd tell hlra some thing Susie Herrlck said. I had enoueh of Susie Herrlck when she was In my room at school, but Jimmy likes her.' "Was It a good apple?" "No," said Bobby. "But I wouldn' let on that I was stung, so I ate It' "Did you go home then?" "Sure not," acknowledged Bobby "There wasn t any hurry. Ma and Jimmy went over to tbe park and I got some peanuts for tbe sautrrela. Wa couldn't find any squirrels, so we ate the peanuts ourselves. I'm going to plant peanuts and see how they erow Billy be planted some last year and watched for 'em to come un and then long about July he remembered tney were cooked. "I thought Billy lived In a flat" "He does, but he borrowed our yard to plant the peanuts. You know that big white house on the corner of aun Mary's street?" w-- e "Yes." Many Kinds of Cakes Suitable for the Morning They Are Served Excellent Method of Using Up the Stale Bread. All breakfast cakos should be served piping hot on heated plates. They are best If made after the family Is at ta ble, for tho least standing produces which makes the leathery quality thorn so IndigeRtlbli). A hot cake, lightly made and deftly cooked, is as digestible as any bronkfast food to the average stomach. When cooked, a thick Iron griddle must be used, and a good way to grease this la to smear It with a rag lightly touched with fresh butter. If grease of any sort la lavishly used, the cakes will be fried, of tough consistency, and without the delicate tuste required. Maple sirup, strained honey, and brown sugar, are proper sweeteners for any cake, but these must be put on only after the delicacy has been buttered. Never turn the cake over until one side has browned. One turn Is enough. Sour Milk Griddle Cakes. Take 2 Hi cups flour; one-hal- f teaspoon of suit: two cups of sour milk and 14 tear spoons of soda. Mix and sift floi-r- , soda and salt together; add one egg well beaten and tbe sour milk. Drop by tablespoonfula on the smoking grid dle, and when puffed up and cooked at tbe edgca, turn. Maple sirup goes especially well with these cakes. Stale Bread Cakea. Take V cupa Vt cups of fine stale bread crumbs; of scalded sweet milk; two tablespoon- fuls of butter; two eggs; one-hal- f cup of flour; one-hal- f teaspoon of salt; 3Vi teaspoons of baking powder, Put the milk and butter with the crumbs and ' soak until these are soft; add tbe eggs well beaten, then flour, salt and baking powder, these all mixed together and sifted. Cook as directed above. Kat with brown sugar or mo. lasses. Buckwheat Cakes. Take one-hal- f cup of fine bread crumbs; two cups of scalded milk, one-hal- f teaspoon of yeast cake, one-hal- f salt, cup of lukewarm water, 14 cups of buckwheat flour, and one tablespoon of molasses. Pour milk over the crumbs and soak half an hour; add dissolved in lukewarm salt, yeast-cak- e water, and then buckwheat sufficient to make a thin batter. Let this rise over night; In the morning stir well, and put In molasses and teaspoon of soda, dissolved In tbe quantity of lukewarm water given, and cook aa griddle cakes. Hat with maple sirup. Southern Waffles. Take cups of flour, three teaspoons of baking powteaspoon of salt, one cup der, one-hal- f of milk, tbe yolks of two eggs, the whites of two eggs, and one tablespoon of melted butter. Mix and sift tbe dry ingredients; gradually add the milk, yolks of eggs well beaten, butter and whites of eggs whipped stiff, then cook In a round or square wam Iron. Strained honey Is delicious with one-quart- one-quart- "Well, who do you s'pose Is going to live tnere? Just Mamie Kelly!" said tJooDy. triumphantly. "I 'most fell over when she told me. Gee, abe'lt be these. more conceited than ever when aha got three lilac bushes and a woodshed SAVES LABOR IN KITCHEN in her yard." "You were telling me what you did Dish Drier, Easily Made at Home, 7 nursday. Will Be Found of Immense Help Oh. so I was. Well, then I got to Housewife. some popcorn and we went home luncn ana 1 was awful hungry. I ate a lot and I took three bananas school, so's I wouldn't be hungry the afternoon. I was coin m w one to Billy and one to Nellie Foster, oui nrst tmng 1 knew ate them a 1 was awful sorry I had when Nellie Foster gave me a big piece of choc' -" scnooi. it was some quashed from her carrying It In a bag nut it was awful good. I got her Ice cream cone, but she didn't want and I had to eat Vm both myaelf.-neve- r seen saw a girl that dldi Ice cream before." "It Is rather unusual." "She felt awful Lad about It; she was afraid I'd be mad. specially they was nickel ones, but I didn't care much. Mamie Kelly gave me two big pickles, but the rones wss gone by that time, so she didn't get v-- lie be-cau- any." "But you ate tbe pickle "Yep. I did." acknowledged Bobby, sheepishly. "But I said Thanks' Just aa Sam came along, and she gave him one, too. Then, of course, Sam be ajave us some choe'lut creams. Say, there's a place he knows about where you can get lots of 'em for ten cents. Gee, but they're swell!" "Were they tbe beat things you bad that dayr "I should say not!" cried Bobby, with enthusiasm. "Why, I had three pieces of atrawberry shortcake for dinner." "Well, perhaps It was the shortcake that saved your life." "Mamma thinks It was the medl cine." said Bobby. "1 certainly feel fine now. If I auy here I'll Juat weaker and weaker till I can t get get up, so I'd like to go outdoors. There's a ball game over In the big lot and I'm to pitch." Wild Ride of Arizona Boy. "Are you sure you ought to go?" Globe, Ariz Thomas Gardner, a "Ob, yea. I can't see bow Eve year-olboy of Thatcher, rode a any to keep a feller In bed it belps j when be m:le a minute low a seven mile sick like tbst without any reason Inmbrr flume Saturday and arrived st gets Anyhow, there's Billy whistling for the end of bis thrilling Journey un- - me." hurt. Tommy was playing at the head "All right," laughed his father. ' Go of the flume. In the Graham 0101m but be careful not to est any ahead, u:ns. He slipped and f?n irdi th trash today." ' wafer and was carried at the speed Bobby paused a moment at tbe door. of etpres train down the flnme. "Honest, papa." be said, seriously In (which stretches Is alwcst perprn-- j "I'm awful careful what I eat, and t d'cilar. He was scra'f het high ly don't like trash. Honest. I don't" about the face and arms, that iai I THE DAY t am sending In a diagram of my dish drier. It has been a great help to me as I have a large family and lots of dishes to do. The plates are washed, rinsed and placed In the lower half of the spindles to drain and dry aaucers and small plates In tbe upper half, and cups, glaaaes, milk Jill! bottle and pitcher are hung on tbe spindles at the top. There Is a small groove In the board at the bottom for the water to drain Into tbe sink, It Is built on an Incline. Any carpenter ran build It at a small cost-Bo- ston Globe. Velvet Sponge Cake. 8lx eggs; one cupful of flour; one Beat tbe yolks and cup of euear. whites f the eggs separately. Divide the sugar Into two enua! parte, besting thoroughly a half cupful of tbe sugar into each one of tbe two bowls Of egs:a. Then mix together, and stir a tin very lightly In the flour. hot Butter welL Pour In the mixture, and bake a half hour in a very hot oven. liet Sausage With Apples-Taka half pound of sausage and six apples. Cut four of the apples Into thin slice, and cut tbe remaining two Into quarter. Fry them with the sausage to a fine, light brown, and lay the s'ia;eB In tbe renter of the dish and the api'ics around. Garr.irh with quartered apples. e Pickle Sandwich. Chop line a Httl salawfl and elked encumber pifkle, pour. over It a littbs melted butter, dust with red peeper and salt and spread. |