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Show -- JUDGE FULLER DEAD CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED 8TATES SUPREME COURT SUMMONED- BY GRIM. For but was unable to withstand the rushes and blows of the nps: SON WINS FIGHI furious giant. Every seat In the arena a mile and a half from the city was occupied, Court Shows No Mercy to Physician every Inch of standing room was Convicted of Poisoning MillionJEFFRIES eagerly bought, and yet hundreds BLACK MAN DEFEATS aire Philanthropist. ROUND OF IN FIFTEENTH were unable to get Inside the arena. It was one of the best attended pugiCHAMPIONSHIP BATTLE. listic contests In the history of the Kansas City. Dr. B. C. Hyde, congame. Col. of having victed, polsoued Sporting celebrities from every corThomas H. Swope, the millionaire Fight Was Affair From the ner of the globe were present, wnlle philanthropist, wax sentenced to life Opening Round, the Former Cham- - never at any previous contest were Imprisonment at hard labor by Judge there so many women present. plon Being Badly Punished In Ralph S. Late haw iu the criminal the Last Five Rounds. Three former heavyweight chamcourt here Tuesday morning. pions were at the ringside, John L An appeal to the utate supreme Sullivan, Janu-- J. Corbett and Bob court was filed by Hyde's attorneys, Fitzslmmons. the Nevada. Jack Johnson, Reno, and until It is taken up by the higher The purse which goes along with court the prisoner will remain In the ttant Texas negro, la still the cham the the of championship amounted to plon heavyweight pugilist county Jail here. of which 75 per cent goes to the J. James knocked out orld, having During the proceedings in court Dr. Jeffries in round of their winner and the loser gets 25 per fifteenth the 'same maintained deliberate the Hyde cent. In addition there is the profits demeanor that marked his conduct battle in this city on July 4. from the moving pictures, and tha the was from The fight throughout the long trial. He did sums to be derived by the prlu what attorneys said was an unusual itart, the negro blocking the former vast as a result of their having apof blows at clpala champion's every stage been After sentenced thing. having contest severe- - peared In a him championship he and game punishing and before he signed the affidavit for which has created more interest than the doctor calmly read y, especially in the last Ave rounds. appeal, At the beginning of the thirteenth any fight In ring history. through the long document word by Before the fight a moving picture It was apparent that Jeffries ound word, giving no sign of emotion. inthe per- mist lose, and bis seconds advised company purchased a Finally, having completed Im to cover up and save his terest in the pictures, buying a third usal he affixed his signature, turned toward his wife and engaged her in itrength. But Johnson kept savagely from Jeffries, a third from Johnson, from Tex Rlckard, the tfter his man until be had beaten and conversation. im down and was proclaimed the promoter of the contest. Gleaaon, HYDE CARESr WHO PEAPER. Twenty-twYears He Wat Presiding Justice in the Highest Tribunal of the' American Govern. merit, and Had Fine Record. o DRAWS LIFE SENTENCE 0 One-Side- d ' . 8 liar Harbor, Me. Chief justice- Melville W. Fuller of the United States supreme court, died of heart failure at Ms summer home la Sorrento at 6 o'clock Monday morning, July 4. The death bf'the Jphfef Justice ,yas entirely unexpected, as he had been In apparently good health lately and there had been no premonitory symptoms of any kind of trouble. On Sunday he attended church as usuaL and when he retired at night he was to all appearances in his customary health. To Chief Justice Fuller fell the honor of third rank for length of service as presiding justice in the high' st tribunal of the American govern menu For twenty-twyears he was chief justice of the supreme court of the United States, but Chief Justice Marshall presided over the court for thirty-fouyears and Chief Justice years. Taney for twenty-eigh- t Before Grover Cleveland sent his name to the senate on April 30, 188H, for confirmation as chief Justice, he was practically unknown except to members of the legal profession. In Maine, where he was born on February 11, 1833, he had been known as a well behaved, rather scholarly lad. He had gone to Bowdoln college and incidentally, there won most of - o $101,-00- - one-side- d tCopyrlifht. " 11110.1 five-sixth- TAFT'S CONSERVATION POLICY CLASP HANDS AGAIN President Indicates His Attitude by Withdrawal of Land and Appoint-- ' PRESIDENT TAFT AND COLONEL ment of Reclamation Board. ROOSEVELT GREET EACH LINES UP WITH INSURGENT3. As a Result Twenty Passengers Meet keeper, at Seugertle. An application for ball was refused by Police JusTerrible Death. tice Khoadet and the prisoner was O Twenty Mlddletown. person committed to the Kingston jail for were killed outright, three probably further examination. htirt and half a doxen were colli' Divorced Man Kills His Successor. erionsly Injured In a head-oEast St. IjouIs, III. One man and inn between a freight and a passen aer train on the Cincinnati. Hamilton a young girl were killed, another man A Davton railroad on July 4. Of the probably faaily wounded, and a third killed IS were passengers, If.e other man seriously Injured, when Robert victims being member of the pasen Higinbotham, aged 40, of Kansas City, aer crew. attempted forcibly to remove Ms A misunderstanding of order i daughter from the home of his for mer wife here Sundiiy. He killed the caused the disaster. The engine crews had time lo jump latter's bnst.aod and his own daughter. and all esoiped. Sad Ending of Reunion. Indiana Have a Plan. While on a motor trip Chicago. Indian chiefs Okla Oklahoma Clfy, a reconciliation which celebrate to , dan-reattending the Dig Sun, or willow had lust tak'i place between him near st Big Jam Jakes' crossing I self ahd his ife. George E. Ingersoll Clinton. Okla.. announced that they an automobile of Joliet. PI., have decided to build a number of was Instantly killed, his wife, Hattie. could be was so badly Injured that physicians tflti In which only Indians permitted to live. It Is planned that say she will die. and Charle Smith thee towns shall be governed coley of Joliet suffered a fractured skull 'by Indians, who shall have their own Saturday afternoon, when Ingots!!' stores and ships, doctors, lawyers and j automobile overturne4 on a hill three other professional and business men. miles out of Aurora. Ingersoll's body It Is bel'eved that this will break up j was found under the machine, Ms loeck having been broken the rovfrg habit of the Indian Three Killed by Explosion. Rode Over Cliff. Twin Fall. Idaho Three men are San Francisco. While engaged In scout duty during military maneuvers dead and seren others seriously In on the Corliett road. Private James E. Jured ss the result of an explosion Barton of Battery B. Fifth fiVd ar of giant powder in a roc quarry sea cliff at this city Toesdav morning. All the H!!er, rode too near a Twenty-thirstreet, over which both killed and injured ?e GrreVs. he and his horse were precipitated Over Dam to Death. .The animal fell on ton of Barton. Hill. Mo Swept over a mill Cedar wbe skull was fract ird and tobody darn in a fuhine t" on th Big th He w;. faKen bruised. badly rivet near here Tuesday afternoon condia In dying emergency hos;tal Oscar Bishop and Chare Kaiser o tion. Barton, who I a native of St. St. were drowned rhfn th I.oul. 21 year old. returned from the boat louis in the rauld?. capfczed la May Philippines Beverly, Mass. President Tatt has taken the first step in his own con servation policy by signing orders of withdrawal covering 8,495,731 acres of power sites, phosphate and petroleum lands. The president also appointed five engineer officers of the army who will constitute a board to' pass on the reclamation projects to be completed un- me recent, appropriation oi u-- r 120,000,000. It is hinted that there are other Im portant announcements to come with regard to the conservation policy of the administration. The president bus summoned Secretary Ballinger for conference Tuesday. The withdrawal orders signed by the president are the first spe cially authorized by the new law, Mr. r mm 7) MELVILLE W. FULLER. Chief Justice U. 8. Supreme Court. He had gone down to the Harvard law school for one year. Th'en be blossomed forth as a full (lodged lawyer and politician of aort in bis native city a of Augusta. From 1850 to 1888 he lived in Chi the prizes for elocution. high-minde- .cago. but attracted little attention outside his immediate circle of friends and associates at the bar, until he undertook the defense of Bishop Henry on a charge of heresy. He was a delegate to the national conventions of the Democratic partjr In 1864. 1872. 1876 and 1880. FATALITIES OF THE FOURTH. Killed and 1,384 Injured While Celebrating. Chicago. The value of a sensible Tad restrained observance of the Fourth baa again been demonstrated" ky the casualty list of this year" celebration. In almost every city and town where the sale and explo- Ion of fireworks were prohibited or restricted there has been a decided falling' off In the number of dead and Injured compared with previous yean This year's list of dead throughout tb country so far as reported total rear foe same total was 24. 44. The whole number of Injured last yaar was 2.361. This year It was only figures show enormoti 1,24. The conservation, not only of human life but of legs, arms, ears and eyes, which are so frequently the battered tar gels of destructible explosives. Twenty-fou- r !af MISUNDERSTOOD ORDERS. Roowevelt as president, inaugu- rated the policy of withdrawing public land under tne general theory of the right of the executive to do any thing in ne Interest of the public domain not prohibited by law. Presi dent Taft also signed orders of with drawal covering public lands and lands in national forests In Alaska in which workable coal Is known to oc cur, thus ratifying and continuing' in' full effect the withdrawal made by former President Rosevelt on Novem ber 12. 1906. Soldier for Reclamation Service. General Brigadier Washington. William L. Marshall, who recently re tired as chief- df engineers of the array, was appointed on Saturday con sulting engineer of the secretary of the interior In the reclamation aer vice. The position was created by Secretary Ballinger to asalst him in solving the engineering problems In volved in completing reclamation pro jects now under way. It was said at, the interior tjepartment that the new officer would not supplant F. H. New- el), "Urector of the reclamation aer- vice, whose fate has been the sub' Jert of much speculation. - United States ia too Rich. ' New York. Experts are coming to the conclusion that the trouble with the United States is that we are too rich and are consequently too extravagant It will be-- hard to convince the man who is trying his hardest to meet his bills tha this Is the cae, but statistics show a gradual incrpaae In the per taplla wealth of the country from $300 In 1850 to 11.600 In 110. And yet those" who have lived during both periods tell us the average man was pretty nearly as well off fifty years ago as he Is today, If not comparatively better off. Sen In Trouble.; Kingston, N. T. Ewlng Watteron, the eon of Colonel Henry Watteraon, the well known Louisville. Ky.. editor, was arraigned on Saturday at on a charge of assault la the first degree. It Is charged that who Is 40 years old. shot and wounded Michael Martin, a saloonWalter-ton'- s Ban-gertle- s Wat-terao- fa!l s one-sixt- h 1 r ' i Colonel Roosevelt in Direct Opposi tion to Secretary Ballinger. OTHER CORDIALLY. Oyster Bay, N. Y. Theodore Roose velt made It clear on Tuesday, not 'by direct statement, but by Implication Persistent Prophecy of a Coolness so strong that it admits of no misin terpretation, that he will support RepBetween the President and . resentative Miles Polndexter In his Proven False by fight for a seat In the United States Action of Two Men. senate from the state of Washington. 1 liey had luncheon together aitd a conference at Sagamore Hill and Mr. Beverly, Mass. For a full minute Polndexter departed jubilant. In en Thursday afternoon President Taft dorsing Polndexter for the senate, and Colonel Roosevelt stood on the Colonel RoosevVlt places himself broad veranda of the Evans cottage squarely In opposition to Richard A with bands upon each other's shoul- Ballinger, secretary of the Interior, ders, while delight shone in every line whom President Taft has so warmly countenof their defended. It Is the only stand he has ances. taken bearing directly or Indirectly on Colonel Roosevelt, who was visiting the Balllnger-Pinctio- t controversy. with Senator Lodge, 'had called to Both Fighters Made Fortune. pay his respects to the president 'his old frlena. was Johnson Reno, Nev. Jack 120.C0O richer when Jim Jeffries went They patted each other affectionately on' the shoulder. They laughed down for the last time In Monday's in a way that left not a single lin- fight. He took 60 per cent of the gering doubt as to the exuberance of $101,000 purse, which amounted to their feelings. They seemed utterly JCO.f.00. a bonus of $10,000 and he sold oblivion of the fact that others were his picture Interests for $r.o,(HiO. 3ft present. fries took a fortune out of the defeat And so it went throughout the after- at Johnson's hands. He received 40 noon. When Colonel Roosevelt was per cent of the purse, amounting to president and Mr. Taft was secretary $40.4f0; the bonus of $10,oon, and he of war. the meetings of the two men sold his picture Interests for $;G,000, in the executive offices--a- t Washinghis total $117,000. The own ton were always characterized by the making ers of the picture films are calculat Thurssame cordiality as was shown ing on a million dollars profit. day. White House attaches who witnessed the meeting Thursday afternoon Father Slain by Insane Son. said it was Just like the old days. Hill City. Kan Buck Ilant. who . There was a rapid fire of convents-tlon- recently escaped from the Insane asy The. meeting was everything turn at Parsons, Kans., went to the that the friends of President Taft borne of George Plant, his father, here have claimed It would be, and the early Tuesday, and crushed the old persistent prophecies of those who mans head with a hammer as he lay coola all tl.at have Insisted along Plant then cut his father's ness had developed between the two aaleep. from ear to ear. The other throat men proved false. member of the family escaped. Plant But what of politics entered Into was recaptured and will be returned remthe conversation, what words of to the asylum. Ten years ago ha iniscence, what exchange of experi- killed his brother. ences during the last sixteen months, no one on the veranda other than the Victim of Celebration. two friends themselves knows. The New York. The second death In public was not taken Into their conn New. York City a a result of the dtnee. Fourth of July celebration occurred Tuesday, when Mary Med win. 1C Special Session of Colorado Solons. to the effect Denver. Governor John F. Shaf years old. 'iccnmled suffered of burn Ignition of through roth, returning Sundsy night from at an exploding firecracker. extended trip east, announced that her dres bycelebration the Fourth the call for a special session of th Ijist year los of four oflive in this caused the vsriou to consider legislature city. fledges in the last Democratic slat platform, will Issue within ten day Going to Sea With Aeroplane. and that the date of the session v. II Atlantic City. Glenn H. Curtis be on or before August 9. This wll flight directly bring" It Into life while practically all Made an ocean over 6:30 at the Tuesday night of the Democratic county convention! the are In session, and It Is the gover The trip Included a flight along nor's program to use their eipectet entire front of the city, about a mile shore and 1,500 feet above the lnlor uient of his action as a rlnb off ocean. The successful flight was tha to compel favorable action on hir second or.e attempted, the first result . program. Ing in a mishap that nearly sent Cut lis into the ocean. American Prisoners. Keeping Bliiefteld. General Rivas .of the Newell Nest to Go. Madrix force has refused the fifopo- Mas. The reorganltaflon Beverly, sltlon of General Mena to exchange the wa di American engineer, William P. Pitt of the reclamation service thre-homan, for Colonel Salamanca. Pitt cussed on Tuesday at a man a prisoner at Biupfields Bluff, conference between President Taft no while Salamanca wa raptnred by the and Secretary Ballinger. Although could be obtained official In'ormation In on Pearl the attack provisionals It wa reported that the future plan lagoon. The Madriz steamer Venus with the for reclamation work do not Include San JaHnto. made an attack Satur the retention of Frederick II. Newell a the director of that service. day on Yagon Point to retake the customs house at that place, but were Cairo Lynchers Must Stand Trial. Several men on board the repulsed. Cairo, PI. Men indicted by a spe steamer were killed. rial grand jury last February for at Entire Family Dead. tacking the county jail to take out Boulder. Mont. Mr. Teresa Hart negro, will have to stand trial, accord was the fourth victim of the powder In4 to Judge W. W. !uncan, who de Mercan'iie cided on Tuesday that the law azainst explosion In the Grave Trial of Jul 4 moii was constitnMoral. died warehouse. She company men come will twelve the up fex Hart The death wiocs out the entire Toes'lay in the circuit court. family, all victims of the explosion. jBHw 0, 1 n smlle-enwreathe- d h RIckard's partner, retains his Interest. They paid Johnson $'0,000 for his Interest and Jeffries and Rlckard together $100,000. When time waa called the men In Jeffries' corner were Sam Berger, James J. Corbett, "Farmer" Burns, Abe Attell, Roger Cornell and Boh Armstrong, the colored fighter.. Johnson's seconds were Billy De- laney, the veteran trainer who made Jeffries the mighty fighter that he was In the days when he defeated Corbett and Fitzslmmons; Slg Hart, Al. Kaufman, Doc. Eurey. Professor Burns, and Stanley Ketchel, time keeper. The receipts from the sale of seats are estimated at 250,000. Over 20,000 pople were present. Tex Rlckard. the man who. against all bidders, secured the staging of the greatest fight of the age. Is one of the most picturesque characters n the west a mining man, eports- man and all round business man, who It la safe to say, will clean up at least half a million dollars as a direct result of having secured the manage contest, ment of the championship Rlckard Is the Idol of the western sportsman, and his choice as referee of the contest waa popular, the sports men knowing that he would be absolutely square in his decisions. While Jeffries waa not actual- counted out, he was saved only y shame by his rom the crowning friends pleading with Johnson not to ait the fallen man again, and the towel was brought Into the ring from bis corner. As they came to the center for the Sfteenth round, Johnson went after Jls man savagely. In quick succession knocking Jeffries down three times. leffries ach time falling against or As Jeffries staggered an the rope. o his feet the third time he bad &een sent to the floor, the big black prang at him like a tiger, and with a succession of lefts to the jaw sent Jeffries down and ouL As the fallen victor. one-sixt- Thompson n eight-minut- I' Knocks Out Sullivan. locatelio. Cyclone Johnny Thompson of Sycamore, 111., now holds an undisputed lead over Pete Sullivan ot of Salt l.ake. Monday night at tha Poestello opera house Sullivan's see-othrew In the sponge In the ninth n round to savo their man from a knockout. car-tai- JAMS RACE RIOT AFTER FIGHT. 3. JEFFRIES. fighter hung through the ropes, hutt friends and admirers dreds of hi rushed close to the ringside and pleaded : "lon'l let the old man get knocked out- - Stop It." AS Jeffrie wa helped to hi cor oer he said: "I am Dot a good fighter any longer, t could not come back boys, I could not come back." Jeffrie wa dragged to hi corner bleeding from Dov and mouth and a on th face. He had dofen black, closed eye and swollen fea ture and he held hi head In hi hands, daxd and Incoherent. Johnson walked out of the ring without a mark on hi body except slight cut on his lip. which was the received la cpeBlfig of a wound ct Several Persona Are Killed and Many Badly Hurt. Chicago Rioting broke out all ove the country on the evening of the 4th, between whltea, angry and sore because Jeffrie had lost the fight at Reno, and negroes, jubilant that Johnson had won. A white man was shot In Arkansas, nd a negro fatally wounded at Roanoke, Va., but the tension that exist, ed everywhere vented itself chiefly In street scuffle. There were disturbances In New York, Plttaburg and Philadelphia, New Orleans, Atlanta, St Louis, Little Rock and Houston. K the night progressed the rioting rew more seriojs. In New York disgruntled white tired a negTo tenement; at Mound. III., a negro constable wa killed and another man wa training Johnson kept up a rapid fire con mortally wounded' street rioting versaflon during the fight. Joking and broke out In Kansa Cily. Pueblo and second taunting Jeffrie and hi Norfolk, and two negroe were shot Jeffrie fouaht grimly and silently In New Orleans. Prayed for Johnson. Washington Prayer that Johnson might be the victor In his battle at Reno, wa offered in some of the col ored churches here Sunday night. l Rev. W. A. Gibbons at the Mount Baptist church, asked: "That In , ire Johnson was the victor, the pubamateur affair participated In by po-p'- lic would accept the verdict and di cia the hacifnda. Senorita Duran Justice to him. regardtes of color of wa In Imminent peril daring one staee previous conditions, and that be might of the fight and Riix and Flor rtih-c- be returned to his aged mother and to hr ail. The Infuriated bail spared to do much for the cauee and goied tiife woman and the two men. uplift of our race." Tragedy at Bull Fight. Pueblo Mexico. One woman and twi men were killed, during a bull fihi In ihe San Antonio Tc7.oyr hacienda Sunday afternoon. The deal: Lo'i; Rnia, Snirifa lxila manaeer of the hacienda; Ijoui Fiorex. n cowboy. The fight waa an e d Car-ne- |