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Show JMMEII MESSAGE ' DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION. Reported by Houss Committee, ths Bin Carries Ovsr $24,000,000. AY ashing! on. Chairman Tawney of the house committee on appropria DARK: tlons oa Wednesday reported ths urgency deficiency bill. The bin carries a total appropriatin'! of $4,174,450, including the following Items: Treasury department, Ab Inmate of Illinois Reformatory Haity Thaw Escapes Death Pesaltj $1,058,337. District of Columbia, $304 134. for Kiiliaf . White, Only to he Tortured to Death by Inhaauui Military establishment, $4,080 875. Back and claims, pay bounty Seat to. JUM Hoosc. Prison Officials. $300,000. Naval establishment, $1 11,790. Department of the Interior, $344,047. Department of commerce United States After Being Chained Up for Hours, Hours' - Dellbera-tlon- , and labor, $553,900. After Twenty-fiv- e courts, $904,039. Postal service, and Given ths Cold Water Cure, Jury Dsclsrss Harry Thaw' ,8W. Isthmian canal, $12,178900. Not Guilty, of Murder Because .the Unfortunate Victim Is Left House of representative,, $78,753. of , Insanity at Tima Fatal on Concrete Floor With Judgments court of claims, $187,509. . Shots Were Fired. Back Broken. Auditor of accounts, $292,013. The total amount recommended la $784,905 lees than the total turn of New York. Adjudged not guilty of estimates presented to and considered Pontiac, 111. Members of the board Ihe murder, of Stanford White by rear by the committee. of managers of the Illinois reformason of insanity at the time the fatal tory in this city on Tuesday heard shots were fired, Harry Kendall Thaw FIGHT FOR ISLANDS. toriea from the lips of officers of the on Saturday waa held by the court to of brutality themselves Institution be a dangerous lunatic and waa or- Spirited Legal Clash May Occur Be- - and torture Inflict qd upon William twesn Mexico and United States. dered. confined in the .state hospital Hamlin, an inmate, whose death and for the criminal , insane At Matteathereof Mexico City, The disputed owner- the conflicting explanations wan. ship of gulf Islands off the Yucatan have raised a storm of criticism. a quick, transition from ths ooast worth $70000,000,- gives promise Admissions were wrung from ofIt dingy little cell in the Tombs which of a spirited dash between the Unit- ficers of the institution that Young had been the young home for ed States and the Mexlean govern-meat- . Hamlin was chained to the bare of more than .eighteen monthe to .the The heirs of J. W. Taylor, de- tbe solitary," hia wrists held by wards of the big asylum. ceased, claim to have acquired full handcuffs to a point even with the hours The verdict .came after twenty-fiv- e title from Pasquala Qulnan, who held top of his bead for twenty-tw- o hours of waiting, and when everyone the islands- by right of discovery. The tbe first day of his punishment, and connected with the esse had aband- Mexican government claims that the for sixteen hours the second day. oned all hope of an agreement ever property is Its territory. The islands On tho third evening when he waa being reached in this or any other in question are the Areas Keys, the up, his endurance gave out after five trial. hours, and after he revived from a largest of which is one and Four hours after the foreman's lips miles tong and about three-fourth- s ol faint, be either tried to commit suihad framed the words .Not guilty. a mile wide. They are located eighty-tw- cide or escape. Being chained up with the accompanying miles off Yucatan, and although again, he climbed up the bars of his insanity clause. Thaw, protesting that he was the Islands themselves are nothing cell, probably while In a delirium. He fainted tbe first day of his tor line, waa on hiu way to Matteawan. more than masses of rock, they are A little after nightfall he had been rich In guano deposits, which Pro- ture and the third night, and for long received in the Institution under com- fessor Hadlqy of Yale un'verslty esti- periods during these fainting apells mitment papers which directed hie mated at 30,000,000 tons be hnng by his wrists suspended from letention until .discharged by due a bar of bis cell, the legs too limp to John Burnt Joinsd Soup Lins. source of law." support hiu weight On his way to Matteawan, Thaw, London. Participating in the de The "cold water cure" was applied, llctated the following authorised bate In tbe house of commons on the quart after quart of Ice water being statement to a representative of the question of the unemployed, John thrown over him to .make him quit Associated Press: Burns, president of the local govern- shamming," and once it waa poured 1 am perfectly sane. now, but;I am ment board and labor leader in the down hie throat until he choked. After he waa injured he waa left lying on going to Matteawan on the advice of house, denounced the unscientific dis- the concrete floor of the solitary" my counsel, who thought It unwise tribution , of religious, philanthropic with only a blanket under him and to sue for a write of .habeas corpus and private charity, which he declared another over him, hie back broken In at this time. Counsel will proceed waa usually misapplied and diverted three places and his body paralysed, In the matter of my release Just as to the wrong persona. He told one ol all but the arms, for twelve hours besoon as they can get .together the hie own experiences recently when, fore the reformatory physician was proofs they will present that , I am after an official function, he Joined called. at present sane. I Am confident that 2,000 the unemployed at the VI I was In my POLICE SYSTEM FOR NEVADA. embankment my stay at Matteawan will be for a short period of time only." court .dress, he said, but pulled my It Is Now Believed That Trouble at Mrs Evelyn Thaw and Joslah Thaw hpt ewer my eyes and looked miser' . Goldfield Will End. were the only members . of the pris-sner-s able, and I got) njy bowl of soup pmd w I ", legislafamily in cqurt when the verdict hunch of bread." Reno, Nev. The Nevada was announced. .The yqung woman ture has passed the police bill, giving J thanked individually each member of Raffle for a Baby. this state a measure that Pfov lh July and followed Mrldttletxiiie TMlnn. tube Incensed at foTS" In HpffllCinf systenThf Minneapolis. example In shaking hands with them. riots, which, It is believed,' wlfl.qttlell All of the defendant's counsel were what ;they term an Insult to mothera slated with the verdict aqd declared hood," a number of women In Mlnne-- all trouble In the, Goldfield section it was Just what they had hoped for. palm are making an effort to compel at the present time and place the District Attorney Jerome was almost tie manager of a local theater to de- state In position 4o handle any fuss well pleased himielf. sist from "his announced plan of giv- ture contingency that may arise. , child Several members who were devout ing chances on a CRASHED INTO WORK TRAIN. to all women who attend a certain unton men, made a flght 1'n opposition nutinee performance, and they threat to the bill, while, the conservative Wreck Which Results in Death of en to secure an injunction to prevent members bave made a forcible Issue Woman and Child. it The theatre management says it and won the last Speaker Skaggs, Balt Lake City A woman and her Is a legitimate advertising scheme. who bn been taking a most active babe are dead, two men, another wo- The baby has beea provided and, if part for the union men, left hls.ichelr man and a child are badly hurt, elgh nothing happens to prevent, the hu- and voted. Skaggs . denounced, Ike unconstitumeasure ae teen head of cattle are dead, and man lottery will continue as outlined, tional and czar-llk-pernicious, and predicted of the holder to the child the going three work train bunk cars, two that the men who voted for It were i number. freight cars, a big gaa car and a loco- lucky digging tbelr political graves. motive are demolished as the result Jim Crow" Care to Bo Put In Uoe In collision between if a terrific rear-en- d Congressman Attacks Custom of Hein Oklahoma. two freight trains on the Oregon esses Marrying Titles. Guthrie, Okie. The separate coach Short Line road at Layton, twenty on In the house Washington. miles north of Salt Lake, at 11:48 law passed by the Oklahoma legislaMcGartn Representative Tuesday. session the ture of at the opening work bclock Sunday morning. Aj (in.) attacked the custom of Ameritrain was standing on the main line went into effect in the new state on can heiresses ae marrying European was measure The passed Saturday. when a freight train came around au emergency which provided that It noblemen. Declaring that he had no the sharp curve and crashed into the become .effective in sixty days particular person in view, he asserted rear end of the work train. The should theflr Colonel J. C. that "women are sacrificing niter its passage. women and children were on the and their honor on the altar' of work train. It is claimed the con- Graham .of Marietta is the author of Mill snobbery and vice." He asserted that ductor of the work train had failed to the measure. All Oklahoma rail rends comalmost every day Is a bargain day In have Intention of their signified put out a flag man to wain the apNew York, where you can buy any the law. of with tbe plying provisions i proaching train. thing from a yard of ribbon to i Emergency Increase In National Bank pound of flesh. Down 8hot by Highwaymen. Circulation. Portland, Ore. Held up by two Senator Aldrich, 3ettlers Not Tied to Homesteads Until Washington. on Ladd's Crystal chairman ol the senate committee on highwaymen Water is Turned Into Canals. Springs farm. Just outside the city finance, on Thursday favorably report- Washington, D. C. The senate on limits, south of Sellwood, five farm d his bill providing for an emergency passed Senator Hcybum's Tuesday bands were robbed at the muzzles of increase .a the national hank circula- bill granting leave of absence to w't :wo revolvers, and one of the men, tion. The report was anthorized at a Hers on government irrigation preAugust Schafer, a German, was shot meeting of the committee held, at imtown because he offered resistance to which all the Republican memliers lects who have made substantial e In arc land 's their but provements he thugs Schafer la now at SL resolution author present voted for a such In to water for critical a condition, iilng the reporting of the hill, and all get irrigation, hospital ibd the police who arrived at the the Democrats voted for the Hailey cave to last until water is turned Into icene of tbe Bhootlng soon after it substitute. Mr. Aldrich said he would nain canals Tbe senate also passed jeeurred are acouring the country for rail the bill up for consideration on ieyburn's bill appropriating $25,0DUtc bouu-iury- . the Washington-ldahhe robbers. Monday, February 10. LlBRESPECTiVE Of, FARTTf TO 'Pn.tkdenfa Vigorous Denunciation el Receives Approval of Members of Congress. "Wrong-doer- s SitutioB Not laprovinf, There Be inf Content Robots of Ploti ' Washington. The special mesas gs nnd Counter Plot. of the. president to congress on th . Vollto Held Restaurant la an lEftofi to Captors 'Conspirators and Are Met" . WAh a Storm of Bullets, the Conspirators Escaping. f Lisbon. While , outwardly. . every thing seems calm, pad peaceful, yet there ' lpa steady Increase of nervousness and excitement among all clease $f the population, owing to the constant nunors of plot and .counterplot pnd'the persistent activity of the police. who daily aad nightly examine the 'houses of suspects jand make 'On the nlffht of January 28 them was n bloody fight In a small restaurant on the outskirts of Lisbon. Suspecting the presence of n crowd )f' cmapirators, the police surrounded and raided the restaurant. The am thoritiea were right In the sural e, and they found the plotters armed subject of the employers liability act and injunctions In labor cases wal presented In the senate a few minutes after 12 oclock cm Friday. When Mr Latta, assistant secretary to the presi dent, entered the chamber there was but a handful of senators present The vice president at ones tore epee the big envelope containing the message and handed it t6 the assistant secretary of the senate, who Immediately began its reading. Printed, ooples of the message were delivered by Mr, Latta and were distributed to the senators. On the conclusion of tbe reading oi the message Senator Davie of Arkansas promptly moved that 10,000 copies of the message be printed as a public document. As the reading of the message progressed In the house numerous mem-herwere beard audibly to exclaim, "Most unusual, This is red hot, etc. The presidents vigorous denunciation of wrong-doer- s was greeted with as was his defense ol loud applause, With revolvers. federal Judges who punish offenders The policemen were met by a vol-le-y for violations of the law. was one them of of jbullete, and The frequency of the applause Inl killed ' and four wounded. .The creased as the reading proceeded. The s guar-dianto the managed kpep hum of conversation over the niessagq of law and order nt hay until subsided and the members followed the Later made their escape.. :hef word. But the climax came nam night a score of suspected agi- every the reading was concluded. tato rg were arrested and lmprlapned when Without regard to party, the memin one of the fortresses. bers loudly applauded, cheered, There Is almost a reign of terror their desks and gave other thumped dissident and the among republicans docWogresatats, and several of' the lead evidences of their approval of the pijt of these parties, Including Deputy ument After a moments' alienee the Almeida, Deputy Costs an Viscount applause broke out again, several mematemelrn, have been thrown Iptq bers, including Democrats, arising from prison. The house of Benor Alpola, their seats and clapping their hands. another of the dlssldept leaders,' is The message then, on motion of Mr, of New York, was referred to Jindqr constant pollen surveillance. Payne ; im official note leaned on Thursday the committee on the state of the denies'' that the government Intends Union. go proclaim "a state of siege In Porte' .kal aad declares that a majority of FLAG SOLD FOR S4.250i opinion suports Premier public Franco. While Bugle Used at Balaklava Bring The police on Thursday discovered' the Sum of $500. a new store 'Of arms and confiscated! them. The flag of the American j London. Bernardino Machado, one of the raj r and Balak-lavChesapeake ' publican leaders, has been . summoned two of the most valuable bugle," to testify before n polios court regard-relics of a collection of antiquiJug hit alleged connection with recent1 wsj, ties that belonged to the late T. G. covern-inevepublicaa piota against the. ' Middlebrook, were secured on Thursf day st the suction sals of the collecBLUC.fSUNDAYS FOR MISSOURI , tion for American buyers. The Chesa fiag was captured Jn the flght th In! peftke Judge .'Declines to' Interfere-Wiwlth.the.Britleh ship Shannon In 1813, force msnt of Sunday Rest Law. and; there was good bidding for the f Kansas City. Judge fimith MePhsr- - faded sod tom piece of bunting, the pan, in the United States district oourt' authenticity of which is vouched fox . iera, on Thursday handed down n de- -' in a written, history of ownership jclslon declining to interfere with the since Midshipman Grundy of the royal of the coputy officials of this county In the) navy . came . into possession enforcement of the Missouri statute, trophy nearly a century ago. The flag was sold for $4,250 to a London art ipaaklng unnecessary 'labor on Sunday, .a misdemeanor. The decision Is a dealer, who also purchased the bugle jrlcfory for Judge William H. Wal- for $500, leas than half what Mr. Mid In hie dlebrook paid for It ten years ago. I lace of the criminal court,-whfampalgn for Sunday observance baa was upon this Instrument that the or (caused the Indictment of .2,000 stage der of the light brigade to charge at folks and theatrical managers and at- the battle of Balaklava was sounded. taches as well an hundreds of storekeepers for alleged violation of the Attempt to Blow Up Family of Mint iBundsy law. Superintendent in Colorado. Trinidad, Qolo. The residence ol Michigan Girl Who Shot Her Father A. Alexander, superintendent of the Turned Loosed Frederick mine of the Colorado Fuel . Cadillac, Mich. It took a Jury it Iron company, twenty miles weal minten Just Thursday evening of utes to find a verdict of ac- an this city, was partly wrecked bp explosion of dynamite early Friof a Pearl quittal Harper, The explosive had been placed day. flfteen-year-ol- d killgirl, charged with a bed room in which three under 'her father, Melvin Thompson. ' ing were sleeping. All the inThompson .had come home Intoxi- children cated in the night and had threat mates of the house escaped with ened to kill the girl and her mother, alight Injuries. It la believed that the the girl breaking his skull with a explosion waa caused by miners who stove poker when he attempted to had been discharged. . . - man-of-wa- a 1 ni carry out his threat China, .Jgpan and India to Make at Home. 8tel enormous steel at Hankow, China, by a company .composed largely, of Chinese capitalists for the purpose of supplying steel for the construction of the various railroads In central and northern China, but It is believed that the plant will at some time become a factor In the general steel trade of the far east New ateel plants are also being projected in Ja pan and India, the total coat of the three plants being In excess of $25 New, 'York. An plant is to be rected JAPS ON THE DEFENSIVE. Military Preparations Not Directed Against Any Single Nation. Tokio. At a sectional committee meeting of the diet on Friday, M. Oishi was asked against whom were Japan's military preparations directed. Minister of War Tcrauchi replied, saying that they were not directed against any single nation, but against eventualities on the Pacific, where Japan has a long coast line from Saghalien to Formosa. Deed of Boilermaker. Salt' Lake City. Morbid because hie wife, who left him on account of Mu brutally mistreating her, would not return to him, and crazed with ' drib k,' Edgar Bowman of Los Angeles, a boilermaker, shot and fatally wounded the woman la a rooming house In iUs city about 11 oclock Thursday plght, and then turned his smoking weapon upon himself and blew out his own brains. The young wife was visiting friends when Bowman entered the room and began shooting. Jerome Makes Masterly Plea for Conviction of Harry Thaw. New York. William Travers representative of the people, "made a masterly plea on Thursday that Justice be done in the case of Harry Kendall Thaw. Vindictiveness, sneers, insinuations, all were lacking; logic, analysis and a calm consideration of the facta were their substl-- ' tiles. It was no blind appeal for the vengeance of the law that Mr. Jerome ' Addressed to the Jury, but ever and al-- ' ways there waa the note of fairness, even at times of mercy. Governor Threatened With Death. Portland, Ore. A special dispatch to the Oregonian from Troutdale, Ore., states that Governor George E. Chamberlain baa received an anonymous letter demanding that John Branton be released from the Oregon penitentiary, and threatens, If the governor refuses, the fate of Governor Steuuenberg of Idaho and former Sheriff Harvey K. Brown of Baker county. Branton was sent to th state p Ison from Cottage Grove Ore., fe Attempting to kill a man fo his life kiurance. Awful e, 1 ASM THE ACES , - white-bedde- d - one-fourt- h o . . 1 Dob Csrlos of Portugal sad Crown Prince Luiz Phillippe Murdered by Band of Anarchists. Second 8on of King Also Badly Injured, While Queen Amalie, Has Narrow Escape From Death Lisbon In Stats of Uproar, Lisbon. King Carlos of Portugal and the Crown Prince Luis PhiUlppe were assassinated on Saturday and the diy la in a atate of uproar. The king's second son, Manuel, was slightly wounded, but Queen Amelia, who strove to save the crown prince's life by throwing herself upon him, , . wss unhurt. . r A band of men waiting at tbq corner ,of the Frees de Oommerclo and tbe Hua de Alraenal suddenly sprang toward the open carriage in which the royal family were driving to the i- ;- ill. ,wil e u - Battleships st Punta Arenas. Punta Arenas, Stfalts of Magellan. The American battleship fled', steamed Into Punta Arenas harbor Saturday and came to anrhoi at 12:50 p. m. Almost the entire popu lation had gathered on the hill1 behind the town and the jetties fringing the water front to witness the coming of the friendly ships of war, ami the Chilean representatives who are here to greet the visitors in the name if the republic and hid them welcome on the were gathered deck of the Chilean cruiser Chaci-tuiclying In the roadstead. V.' un-ilil- Taft Refuted to Talk Politics. Cleveland, O. Secretary Taft, accompanied by Colonel Clarence Edward of the army and McKinley of California, arrived Wednesday, and wax met hv a recentlon committee headed by Herrick They wen taken to the Union club, where an Infornril luncheon was served. Later Secretary Taft addressed a meeting of the local Red Cross society. Asked If then- - ns any truth In the report that he intended to resign from the eahlnet. Secre tary Taft replied In the neg&itre. He de-- j dined to talk politics. Diamond Swindler Mqkea Sensational Charges Paris Henri Lemonle, who is charged with obtaining money under false pretenses from Sir Julius Charles Wernher of the De Beers kilning company in an alleged diamond swindle, in upholding his innocence, before the examining magistrate on Saturday, swore that the diamonds exhibited by Wernher as having been sold to him were substitutes and not those that Lemonle had manufactured. Lemonle announced that he would prosecute Wernher in the English court! for swindling. Acted ae Good Advertisement. Naples The first presentation here of Richard Strauss' opera "Salome was the occasion for much excitement. The clergy, which denounced the libretto as Immoral and Its author, Oscar Wilde, ae a heretic, urged women of the Catholic faith not to attend the performance, and It was decided by the mansgement not to produce the opera. At the last moment, howerer, the announcement was made that the Vatican had removed Its prohibition, and the theatre was crowded to overflowing. Oil Tank Struck by Lightning. San Luis, Obispo, Cal. The was started Monday afternoon Unngn-KXma- ' n an oil tank bclorglng to the Union Oil company at Port Huron by a stroke of lightning, consumed, with heir contents, the tank which was first set on fire and three others belonging to the Standnrd Oil company. No other damage was done, although it was thought at one time that noth- ing could nave the Marre hotel, the a Port Harford wharf and several belonging to workmen around the oil tanka. rot-vge- Legality of Expenditure Questioned. Big Packing Plant Burned. an need of Washington. The Kansas City. Fire of unknown orl-lcuxAmerican merchant marine as an in the canning department started the formed to the Illary princl navy floor of one of the twin n aecond the pal topic of dNcusslon In the house naln buildings of the $2,000,000 packof representatives on Wednesday during plant of Nelson Morris tt Co., near ing consideration of the urgent .lie Kaw river In Kansas City, Kan. appropriation hill. The de- Monday night, threatened destruction bate was precipitated by Mr. Littleif the entire plant and caused a Iom field of Maiae, who questioned the le- i ntimated at $750,000 before it was All effort a .to . save the 'ontrolled. gality of the provision of the hill $1,000,000 to supply s de'list main building, In which the fire ficiency for coal for the navy caused tarred, and, the box factory was by transfer of the battleship fleet ihandoned within a liulf hour' aftei from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 1 1 flame were dl.ooveied.-- n - . tl ican sympathiser NevertheleA the stirring events of the last few weeks have prepared tbil'1 people f6?'toome dlsdbvery startling culmlnation--Thof plot after plot, 'as well as thS discovery of many secret stores oLsveap-onand ammunition, had demonstrated beyond peradventure the existence (of a determination on the part of a large body of the Portuguese to overthrow the present Conditions and proclaim A' republic. " Among the first to be called into the critical situation created by the assassination was Premier Franco, the dictator of the kingdom. Fnulco waa protected by a squadron of cavalrymen as he hastened to the palace, and there he conferred with the queen and high officials of state on what immediate action should be taken. It Is understood that Queen Amelle will be regent during the minority of Prince Manuel who isj now In his nineteenth year. , e, Accused of borttor'flirou ghost try, ereaeunong those who havj working politically, for the esta ment of a republic, and sorrow" pressed on every band at tbe ful end of tbe "king And the crown ' -prince. ij At the first bluity it .would seem as the though, the assassination work of anarchists and not of republ- ld Viu-mnt- - palace, and, leveling carbines Which they hud concealed upon them, fired. The king and crown prince, ..upon whom the attack was directed, were each shot three time and they '.lived only long enough to be carried to the marine arsenal near by, where they ' expired. Almost at the first shot the king fell bark on the cushions dying, and at the same moment the crown prince waa seen to halt rise and then, sink back on the seal .Queen Amelia Jumped up .and threw herself toward the crown prince,, in an effort to save hie Ufa at tbe coat of her own; but the prince already, had received his death wound. The tragedy occurred at about 6:30 lu the afternoon, ae the, royal family waa returning from,. (he Villa .Yicosa, where they had been sojourning, A strong guard was in attendance, but as the party came into the Praco de Commerclo, a public spare, the assassins leaped to tbe carriage and began ahooting. In a moment, all waa terrible confusion, the king" and crown prince being shot down without the slightest chance to nave themselves. Police guarde sprang upon the regicides, the number of whom Is somewhat uncertain, and killed, three of them and captured three others. - One of these committed suicide after being placed In priefth. It Is charged that one of the murderers waa a Spaniard. -r. .rs Qieicoltylooded murdeg has y o Goldfield Engineer Knocked on the Head. Goldfield, NeVi Charles F. Hine, a mining engineer, was knocked on ths head with a gun and brutally assaulted and robbed Friday night on Miner street, within a block of the Hotel Casey. The crime was committed at 11 oclock In the evening, while Hlne waa on bis way home. Hlne could give but a vague description of his assailants, and there la little chance of tkclr detection. Miner street leads from the Hotel Casey to the passenger depot of the Clark road, and la unlighted by the city. 000,000. ADD-PRIN- CE As Shylocks Among Employee of. Railroad Company. Omaha.- - Complaint made by a Union Pacific employe to his department bus revealed a growth" of the money loaning by its wealthy employe, often at usury as great or greater than that required : by licensed chattel loan concerns In tho city. Immediately this condition of affairs came to the notice r Vice President Mohler, he issued a formal order threatening prompt discharge for any employe of 'the road known-;tbe loaning money toother men iu 'j the serViCe. j Pressmen May Now Strike.,. Efforts of the United it. C'incinr.ji Typothetae of America to forte the ' Pressmen ' International Printing a and Assistants' union of North to livn np to an alleged agre- ement whereby thb eight-hou- r work day would not be Instituted until after January f, 1909riu-- t with defeat In the United States court SatiAilay, when Judge Thompson handed down a dechdon in which he says the union committee dijl 'not bave the power to bifid the union by the, agreement it entered Into withithe committetfTronr) Am--erle- -- the typothetae. |