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The Washington times., 1903-09-03
BAL TIMORE IN THROES
OF PRIMARY CONTEST
Wachter- McCOmas Fight to
Be Decided Today.
REPUBLICANS STILL BITTER
Democrats Have Few Troubles, But
Their Ticket Is More
Complicated.

BALTIMORE. Sept. 3.-Democratic and
Republican primaries are being held to-
day in this city. The polls will be open
from a m. until p. M, and all the
rules governing a general election apply.
The saloons are closed and electioneer-
ing within the prescribed limits is pro-
hibited
Upon the result OF the Republican pri-
maries depends whether the organiza-
tion, led by Collector w. F. Stone and
City Chairman S. r. Mason, shall retain
control of the party machinery. or
whether the management of the party s
affairs here shall be turned over TO Rep
resentative Wachter and his friends.
With the Wachterites, under the name
of Union Republicans, are fighting the
Columbian Club contingent, most of the
adherents of former United States Mar
shall Airey and all others opposed to the
present leadership of Senator McComas
and Collector Stone.
Decides McComas' Fate.
The result today, it is believed, will
likewise decide whether the organiza-
ton or MeComas forces will control the
State convention, or whether the anti
organization combination, headed by
Representatives Mudd. Jackson and
Wachter, will have the upper hand. liz
every ward In the city the battle will
be fiercely waged. as the bitterness be
tween the two factions is intense.
For weeks both sides have been max
Ing preparations for the final struggle to-
day, and because many of the delegations
to the State convention from the coun-
ties are unp1edged. the State leaders OF
both factions are vitality interested.
Among the Democrats.
On the Democratic side. while the bal
lot is much more complicated, there is
no general fight, and except in one or
two wards. where there is a local con-
test for executive, no money is being
spent. The four nominations which are
to be made by direct vote-the two
judges OF the supreme bench, States at
torney and sheriff-come first on the
ballot In the order named. The mem
Der of the Democratic city committee
or ward executive is also to be elected
by direct vote in the primaries. and
follows the sheriff on the ballot.
Just below comes the name Of Edwin
Warfeld, heading seven delegates to the
State convention. While there is no
opposition to Mr.. Warfeld his friends
are working hard to have him poll a
heavy vote.
The Washington times., 1903-09-03
PETITION FOR RECEIVER
FOR IDEAL LAUNDRY CO.

Ralph NJ. Mckenzie, a shareholder, has
filed suit against the Ideal Laundry
Company, asking for the appointment of
a receiver. He says he owns 1000 shares
OF its stock and is president OF the cor
poration- He says further that Frederick
Rose. who was chosen secretary treas
urer Of the laundry company, has re-
moved all its assets from its old place
of business TO his farm on Lincoln Ave-
nue. northwest. Mr.. Mckenzie also says
the company is insolvent, its liabilities
being about 81 500. Eugene A. Jones Is
named as counsel for the petitioner.
The Washington times., 1903-09-03
An Important Commission.


The personnel of the commission is i'm
portant because OF the vast amount of
money involved in the sales. There have
been rumors that the railroads and lead
ing flnanciers OF the East will get the
lands for about SIS per acre and not pay
more than S10,000.0 900 in all. 1t is said
a pool of enormously rich interests has
been secured to gobble up the lands. but
this is not credited at the Interior De-
partment.
The law provides the land shall lie
auctioned of in such small lots that
individuals and private land companies
will have chance to secure desirable
lots.
On this basis OF small lot sales and
free competition it is asserted the land
should bring $500 per acre. or a total
for the benefit of the nations.
The accompanying map shows that the
aggregated area is in five different tracts
extending from Arkansas through 10
South McAlester and is traversed by the
sChoctaw Railroad. the Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas. and the Fort Smith and
Western, which last is owned by Mr.
Frick. the iron magnate- The Frisco
Railroad also taps the coal fields on the
east.
At first glance it might appear that
the Government had simply segregated
the coal lands for the benefit of the
railroads. but the truth Is that the
Geological Survey years ago mapped out
The Washington times., 1903-09-03
ALDERMEN ACCUSED
IN CHILD LABOR CASES
Serious Charges Made Against York
Magistrates.

YORK, Pa, Sept. 3.-Joseph P Quinn
deputy factory inspector for this dis
trict, has sworn out warrants against
several Of the leading aldermen OF
York. He charged them with unlawfully
Issuing employment certificates TO chill
dren under thirteen years OF age
The warrants were issued under the
factory laws or 1901, which declare that.
after a careful examination, If a child
is under thirteen years OF age II shall
be unlawful to issue a certificate.
The Washington times., 1903-09-03
ORDER OF RECHABITES
MEET HERE OCTOBER 6
Delegations Will Attend Conven-
ton From Four States.

Local tents and members Of the Inde-
pendent Order of Rechabites are making
great preparation for the annual conven-
tion OF the High Tent OF North America
Of the Independent Order of Rechabites,
which meets in this city October 6 and
will continue for two or three days. The
convention was held last year at Mid
land, Nd. The meeting this year will be
attended by delegates from PennsyI-
vania. Maryland. Virginia, and Ohio
The membership is over 5000. OF which
the District furnishes about 400.
The session Will be held at 623 Louis
lana Avenue northwest, and will be held
daily until all business has been com
pIeted. An entertainment committee. rep
resenting the nine local tents, has been
appointed and will arrange for reeep-
tions, banquets, and amusements for the
visiting delegations. The headquarters
Of the delegates have not been an
nounced.
Among matters which will be consid-
cred by the convention will be the fu-
neral benefit fund ard the insurance fea-
lures Of the order. These were inaug-
urated about three years ago and have
proved successful Several proposed
changes in the bylaws have been taken
under advisement by the executive com
mittee
The officers OF the order are: High
chief ruler. John Abbott. jr., Lonacon-
ing, Nd; high deputy chief ruler, II. E.
Wagus. Midland. Md; high secretary, J..
II. Dony. OF Jehu Tent. Washington;
high treasurer. W. B. Kelly, Washing
ton; past high chief ruler. S. NJ. Ellis,
PittsDurg Pa
The Washington times., 1903-09-03
NO RECEIVER NAMED
FOR lie DROIT COMPANY
Justice Gould Declines to
Grant Petition.
AN ACCOUNTING IS ORDERED
Trustees Of Syndicate Must Administer
Affairs Under Direction of
Court.

After hearing argument In the Le
Droit Land Syndicate case Justice Could
today refused to grant the petition ask
ing for the appointment or a receiver
The court further ordered that the af-
fairs OF the syndicate be hereafter ad-
ministered under the direction of the
court: that the trustees be restrained
from disposing OF any OF the property
in question except by order OF the court.
and that the matter be referred TO the
auditor OF the Supreme Court OF the
District 20 state the accounts OF those
interested
The trustees are also ordered TO place
the books OF the syndicate at the dis
posal OF the Auditor.
The matter was considered on the pc
tition OF DR.. Charles W. Richardson and
other shareholders in the syndicate. who
asked the court to compel Thomas G.
Hensey and Mellen c. Hooker, trustees.
and Melville D. Hensey 10 make an ac-
counting OF the affairs OF the Organiza-
tion and also for the appointment Of
receiver.
About ten years ago the syndicate pur-
chased from Mrs. Amanda Dean tract
OF land for which the shareholders ara
asked 10 pay $780, 600. 1t is coatended
by persons who made afidavits that the
original cost of the land was only about
S120 600
The defendants are represented by A.
B. Duvall. E. H. Thomas. and John J.
Weed. and the complainants by Charles
H. MeriIIat, Mason y. Richardson. and
Carusi g. Sons.
The Washington times., 1903-09-03
STEAMSHIP NECKAR SAILS
AND EVERYBODY Is WELL

E. F. Droop & Sons have sent TO The
Times the following communication:
We are just in receipt Of a com
municatiOn from the North German
Lloyd Steamship Company, wherein
they informed US that the steamship
Neckar. after the bursting of the main
steam pipe Of her port engine, returned
10 Bremerhayen and sailed again Sep
tember for Baltimore, AT 10 o'clock
in the morning. She is expected TO ar
rive there on the 18th inst
The Lloyds cables thab passengers are
all well and no one was injured with the
exception or TWO engineers and five
stokers. AS there are so many possen-
gers on board this steamer for Wash
ington. we give you this information
which will be a great relief 10 the rela-
tives and many friends who are
anxious"
The Washington times., 1903-09-03
Over 100000 Acres, Worth
About $500 Per Acre,
and Containing Approx
mately 1000 Tons Of
Coal TO the Acre.
Railroads Said to Have
Made Active Prepara-
tiOnS for the Sale-Pre-
cautions Taken to Pro-
tect Individual.

Secretary Hitchcock has received the
names of a large number of prominent
persons who are desirous of represent
ing the Government on the coal land
commission, which is to dispose of the
segregated coal fields OF the Choctaw
and ChickasaW nations of the Indian
Territory. This commission is provided
for by a supplemental treaty between
the United States and the Indians, and
Is 10 consist of a representative named
by the United States, one named by The
governor of the Chickasaws. and third
named by the governor Of the Choctaws.
It was stated at the office OF Secre-
tary Hitchcock yesterday that while
many men had been suggested for the
position on the commission no action
had yet been taken and that none would
probably be taken until the return OF
President Roosevelt.
The commission. when appointed, will
have until July 1905 to sell the coal
lands. which have been segregated by
the Geological Survey and comprise
about 440 900 acres. The coal under this
land is variously- estimated to be worth
from $25 to $500 per acre. Under the
terms Of the treaty the land is to be
sold in lots OF $40 acres each, and expert
coal men say that each acre carries
about 1000 tons OF coal The experts OF
the Geological Survey will not make any
statement concerning the amount of coal
they think will be found in the lands
although they have frequently been asked
for an opinion.
The Washington times., 1903-09-03
TOLD SECOND HAND
An Interesting True Tale of Feeding.

An Interesting True Tale of Feeding.
bright, young woman OF Coin. Iowa,
who keeps her eyes open, tells an inter
esting and true story of her chum's ex-
perience with food
She says: She had nervous dyspepsia
for several years and when an attack
came on she would go to a physician and
get some relief up to last year, when
she had the grip which left her very
weak and then her stomach collapsed
and refused to retain anything but the
very simplest foods. Soon she could not
eat even those and for seven days she
had no nourishment but raw egg and
milk and she was told by a physician
that change OF air and scene might re-
store her TO partial health, but she
would never again be we'll and would
probably die of consumption of the
bowels.
She always complained of terrible
distress after eating which was soon fol-
lowed by vomiting yet she was so
hungry all the time that she would try
10 eat. One day she read an article about
Grape-Nuts and asked her father to get
some and he went out and bought a
package. She took a tablespoonful moist
ened with a little milk. The taste was
delicious and satisfying and to every
ones surprise there was absolutely no
pain or trouble IN her stomach after eat
ing il.
After a couple OF hours she called for
some more Grape-Nuts and this time the
amount was doubled and soon after eat
ing IL she fell into a sound, natural
sleep. sleeping for several hours, some
thing she had not done since her illness
without the aid of morphine. She con-
tinued TO use Grape-Nuts alone for one
week improving rapidly all the time and
then began to increase her diet as her
returning strength and appetite made
this possible.
-Four months from the time she first
commenced the use OF Grape-Nuts she
became a comparatively healthy girl
quite strong and vigorous eating, sleep
ing and working much better than she
had done for years She and all OF her
friends feel that she owes her life TO the
scientific food Grape-Nuts." Name given
by Postum Co, Battle Creek, Mich.
Lock in each package for copy OF
the famous little book. The Road 10
Wellville."
The Washington times., 1903-09-03
WASHINGTON NEGRO
ACCUSED OF FRAUD
S. 2. Mitchell Arrested on
Charge of Swindling.
GOT MONEY FROM NEGROES
Pretended to Promote Hanna Bill for
Pensioning Ex-S x-Slaves-Friends Be-
lieve in His Innocence.

dispatch from Thomasville, Ca, an
nounces the arrest there OF negro
named S. P Mitchell, of Washington.
charged with having obtained large sums
of money from the ignorant negroes of
the South, on the pretense OF promoting
the bill, introduced by Senator Hanna in
the last Congress. providing for the
4, pensioning of ex-slaves- The principal
complaining witness is B. w Wilson, or
F. B. Wilson, who alleges he gave
Mitchell $50 for this purpose 1t is
charged by the Georgia authorities that
Mitchell has been using his position as
president of the National Industrial
| Council as cloak for the collection OF
| large sums OF money not devoted 10 the
promotion of this bill which Senator
Hanna has disclaimed, saying that he
is known has no chance of ever passing.
Offices on D Street.
| Mitchell has lived in Washington for
three years past, and holds the position
accredited to him. the Offices OF the
National Industrial Council being at SOB
|
Calvin Chase, negro lawyer, whose Of
fee is in the same building, called the
attention OF the Postofice Department
to similar operations by another Wash
| ington negro. and asked that a fraud
/ order be issued, request in which. Mr.
Chase says, Mitchell warmly supported
him
Yesterday Chase received a letter from
Mitchell, inclosing a circular which,
starting with a similar accusation
against him in the Chattanooga Times
of August 13. emphatically denies his
guilt. claiming that someone has been
masquerading in his name for fraudulent
purposes.
Seeks to Prove Alibi.
Mitchell disclaims having been in that
part Of the country at the time of the
alleged frauds. For these reasons
Chase, and Attorney Frisbie. of the Ma
tional Industrial Council. are positive CT
MitchelPs innocence in the present case.
and are confident that he will have no
difficulty in clearing himself.
Mitchell has been bound over for the
county court In the sum OF 500. the
case being set for September 9.
The Washington times., 1903-09-03
WOMAN ATTACKED BY DOG.

Mrs. William Bradley, of 900 Twenty
third Street northwest. was sitting In
her home yesterday. when a large dog
entered the house and attacked her Her
husband came to her rescue and fright
ened OF the dog, wounding IT, but it es-
capped before it could be killed. Mrs.
Bradley escaped with bad fright
The Washington times., 1903-09-03
Seeks to Prove Alibi.
ARMY CHAPLAIN APPOINTED.

The Rev. Daniel H. F. Fleming. OF
Leadville, Col. has been appointed q
chaplain in the army. Mr.. Fleming is
an Episcopal clergyman and was chap
lain of the First Colorado Volunteers in
the Philippines
The Washington times., 1903-09-03
LIEUTENANT EDIE VISITS HOME

Lieut.. John r. Edie, U. S. ", has beea
in the city two days visiting his mother,
Mrs. Julia Edie. at 72s Twentieth Street
He left yesterday for Annapolis TO re-
port for duty aboard the Hartford
The Washington times., 1903-09-03
$1,000 to Niagara Falls and Return via
B. & o. R. R. September II.

Special train Of Pullman parlor cars and
day coaches from Washington $50 am. Tickets
good for ten days Stopoyers returning Via
Philadelphia. thence famous and picturesque
kehigh Valley route. Other excursions SepteIn-
Ac- 2S and October ..
The Washington times., 1903-09-03
SUN KILLS TWO IN PARIS.

PARIS. Sept. s.-Intense heat has pre-,
vailed in Paris since Sunday. The 'ther-
mometer yesterday recorded 80 degrees.
and several sunstrokes, OF which two
were fatal, resulted
The Washington times., 1903-09-03
Ice Holds Up Mails

Captain Healy gives In his report de-
tails of his unsuccessful efforts TO reach
Point Barrow in the Thetis with the
mail and supplies for the missions and
whaling stations at the most northerly
point of Alaska.
At Icy Cape nearly 1000 miles from
Nome and ahou, 200 miles from the Gov
ernment rescue mission, a solid ice pack
Of immense size was encountered. This
made it necessary TO turn back to Nome.
The mail was left to be taken north in
Eskimo canoes and IL will be months
before IL will reach IL. destination
The Washington times., 1903-09-03
DISTURBANCES FEARED
IN VICINITY OF NOME
Natives of st. Lawrence ISL
and Are Uneasy.
EXTRA MAN TAKEN TO ISLAND
Bureau of Education Believed Further
Protection Needed-Mails for
Point Barrow.

Discomfort among the natives Of St.
Lawrence Island, in the region OF Nome,
has led 10 fears of disturbance there.
according to a report received by the
Revenue Glitter Service of the Treasury
Department from Capt. NJ. A. Healy,
commanding the revenue cutter Thetis.
In his report, under date OF August l9,
Captain Healy says he is going 10 ST.
Lawrence Island. taking 10 that station
an employe of the Bureau OF Education.
In view OF the discomfort among the IA
tives, Captain Healy says Mr.. Hamilton,
of the Bureau OF Education, thinks II
would be best to have an extra man on
the island. and Thomas Richards, for
merly a boatswain In the Revenue CUT
ter Service has been detailed.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-10-10
TO PLAY FAIR.

How the Republican Standard-Bear-
er Is Keeping His Promise-A Con-
trast Between Democratic and Re-
publican Methods.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-10-10
POLITICS.
TWO INTERESTING LETTERS FROM BALTIMORE.
One Contrasting the Democratic and Republican
Campaign Methods, the Other on Chairman
VandNer's Master Hand

Wachter out of politics, necessary, ana
very necessary as Vandiver realized, and
as the rest of his party realize now. Both
Of these incidents showed his hand clearly
because the defeats were so remarkable,
and because defeats of such character EN- J.
phasized the play Of the man against odds
even better than winning fight where the
odds are not so apparent, and where Van
diver himself keeps in the back ground as
much as possible.
RIGHT now he is at the same old post,
watching, guiding and directing. Word
comes in that man, way out In some re-
mote corner of the state, is kicking and
working against the ticket. Then little
later perhaps change comes over that
man. and he gets down to energetic work
AFTER a sudden trip to Baltimore.
Murray Vandiver is great harmonlzer,
but that is not his strongest forte, this lies
in his delicate working of the many differ
ent sized, and very tangled and uneven
wires, which lead up to keyboard under
his hands, the complex keyboard of Demo
cratic politics in this state, for playing
which, Maryland has never seen his equal.
BALTIMORE.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-10-10
A Master Hand.

Correspondence of the Democratic Advocated
The play of trained hand in any game
is more than interesting, but when that
game reaches the plane of politics, with
the size of the hand increased to whole
state, and the wires to be played on, reach
ing the full length and breadth of it, and
tangled through every county, even enter
ing the metropolis, then the play is inten-
sifed in its interest and becomes absorbing.
As hot campaign wears its length
along, the play of that past grand master
at the art, Murray Vandiver, the Demo
cratic State Central Committee Chairman,
begins almost imperceptibly, at first, to
unfold itself before the men in closest touch
with him, but not until the end and the
final show down, does the state as whole,
and do the people over its entire area real
ize what an expert this man is; and the
realization comes then just as surely as the
campaign ends, it matters not whether the
result be victory or defeat, for some Of
Murray Vandivers shrewdest and finest
moves have been made in losing year
lost because the odds were too great even
! for him.
Look back over the losing campaign Of
'97, when Senator German was the issue,
and when the State went on Republican
landslide by from fourteen to seventeen
thousand; did the state as whole realize
that it was Vandiver's work that made
the loss of the legislature, not II, 600, but
matter of just 3S votes, and these scat
tered over three counties?
A thing like that smacks of the won
derful? A defeat is defeat to be sure,
but think of a popular majority of over
II, 900, reduced by the skill of one man
to measley 3S votes, and widely scattered
| at that.
Frank G.. Wachter himself probably
does not know that what reduced his usu-
ally heavy majority for congress, in his
last fight, to a margin, just victory and
nothing more, was not the strength OF bis
opponent among the Hebrew voters, who
usually supported him, but the hand in the
game which Murray Vandiver played,
coming out of the state and into the city
for once in the concerted effort to knock
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-10-10
INTERVIEW WITH WELLINGTON
He Says Williams is McComas' Man,
and That Will Kill Him.
Allegany Republican Ticket VIII Be De-
feated.
Interview in Baltimore News


Ex-senator Wellington, when seen by
the reporter for The News, expressed fol-
lowing views:
THE Republican nominees for Sheriff
and State Attorney in his county, he
said, Twill assuredly be beaten. They re
beaten already, and my opinion is that the
whole ticket will 90 down with them. The
people here are determined to beat Nc
Comas, no matter at what cost, and that s
the only way to do it Its a great pity
so far as Williams is concerned, for he
an excellent man. a man for whom | have
the warmest personal regard, an unques-
tionably square man. But he Is McComas
candidate and that will kill him.
The fact that MIR. Williams has dis
avowed an Indebtedness to Mr. McCo
mas was brought to Mr.. Wellington $ at
tention.
''He has the earmarks, said the ex
Senator, ''and he'll be defeated. an
sorry, but it is necessary.
Mr.. Wellington says that his ancien
following in the county is still true to hin
and growing. The Republican worker
here, however, speak of him as Demo
crat and say he will support the solid Demo
cratic ticket this fall y