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New-York tribune., 1903-02-16
KILLS WOMAN AND POLICEMAN.
Murderer Had Been Convicted of Rcbbing
His Victims Stepfather

Lebanon Penn Feb. IA woman was shol
dead on the streets of this city last night before
scores of persons and the murderer Killed q
policeman before he was landed in Jaii. Inc
dead woman was Mrs Ira Baker, twenty-five
years old She was standing with her husband
and several friends when a man, who at the
time was not recognized. walked up and shot
her in the head. She died in ten minutes. The
murderer escaped.
The woman's husband suspected David Shaud,
twenty-ffv years old. who convicted, but
was out on bail pending application for a new
trial for robbing Mrs. Bakers stepfather, John
Brownserger. of $3.50 She the principal
witness aaginst him. The police at once began
a search and at midnight Shaud found.
He resisted arrest and, in desperate struggle
with the police, killed Cyrus Schaffer, one or
their number. The other policemen overpowered
him and locked him up.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-16
TOWNS FACE STARVATION.
Thousands of Cattle Dying in Colorado
Storm.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.

-
Colorado Springs, Col. Feb 15-This State is
storm bound, with snow from six inches to four
feet deep. ana with the tenperatur" ranging fr'
degrees above to 80 below The eastern and
southern parts Of the State. being mostly Plains,
faripg lest there is little wind, but the
mountain regions, and particularly those where
tie northern Slopes populated, suffering
the mcst severely. Small towns and hundreds Of
families iso lated and in danger from starvation
Many Casec CT suffering from cold AMI hunger are
reported To aGd to the danger, avalanches Of
snow imminent. AS the snow IS melting,
the slides If they will not include bow1ers,
timber and debris.
Trains are reported lost isolated and few are
making good time. Range cattle suffering; five
Morgan. They are freezing by droves, according TO
reports from other sections. The total loss may
reach hundred thousand head.
. Guthrie, Okla. Feb. 1.-THE worst storm of the
winter struck Oklahoma about midnight, and has
been raging with great fury since. Sleet and rain
were followed by a driving snowstorm, cold
norther accompanying On account of their good
condition damage cattle or wheat is expected.
The rain preceded by L dense FOG, the only one
known present residents of the Territory.
Kansas City Feb. 15.-Snow has been falling in
this city and Western Missouri at intervals for the
last thirty hours, and now covers the ground to a
depth of inches making 1t the heaviest fail
of the winter. Through trains are generally late.
and streetcar traffic here is hampered. The tele
graph and telephone companies have suffered.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-16
sly HE LOOTED HOTEL.
Woman Confederate, Police Decf"c'
Stole from Many Flats.

. ao.s ,rd also the Waldorf Astoria
is the charge that led to the arfest VI '
Rurte thrty-five years DID, ana "iiii'ii '
..+1-+hree wears old of No. 213 Ninth ave.
.r,a N. cause of their being held yesterday py
Magistrate Mayo sitting in the Jenersoh Mdi
kat nc lice court in 81 900 each Tor eAahina'oii'
According to the police, they nave ioo'eo o
fifty flats in a few months. and COX III ieaeu'
With several Waldorf Astoria employees. has
been looting that hotel for some 'iiie.
Burke woman. il is alleged would get engage
n,ents as a servant and suddenly disappear WIN
ANYTHING she could lay her hands on oi'en '
would stay in place only an nou'-
Nearly a. dozen complainants were IN court
es.ordav The principal ones were Mrs. Mar
earet Cross. of No 326 West Twenty-sixth-st.
I-.orga Hi, of No 213 Nipth-sve.. and John
u Eaeean employed in the Waldorf Mrs.
Cross declared that Mary Burke called on her
in answer to an advertisement, ana that d"
hour after she hired the woman she disappeared
soon afterward sui. case & dress SUIT aho d
snrinc oyercoat belonging to her husoano' were
missing They were valued at $50. The woman
was traced to her home. where. it is alleged she
admitted the theft and said she turned 'he
things over TO Cox. He in turn said ne So'u
them to waiter it is charged
George Hill who said he lived beneath the
prisoners room. declared that while he ana MS
wife were out shopping one night last week
some one entered his fiat and took apoul fo.'
worth OF clothing The police searched COX
apartments. They found IN a stove, fi,' ot
cIares a score of partly burned papers. which. IL
was discovered belonged to keegan he@San u !
Identified them as some he left in an oVercoat
which had been taken from the Waldor1-As-
toria Investigation showed that such an over
coat had been pawned by Cox. de also declared
that for several months many lockers besides
his own had been broken into and cleaned out
New-York tribune., 1903-02-16
OUT OF HOUSE ONCE IN % YEARS.
Hoboken Woman, Just Dead, Had Remark
able Whim.

There died yesterday in st. Marys HosPi'di'
Hohoken a woman who before she was TAKEN ~
the hospital on Saturday had been out Oh ilef
home only once in twenty-five years. III ''e
same period no person entered her nome eA0ep'
her hushs nd and her two sons, and not ONCE "'0
a meal cooked in the house The one occasio"
on which the woman left the house WAS li'
funeral of her husband, about ten years ago.
The woman was Mrs Bette Staao 7he "HS
eirhtv-two years old when she died her ho"ie
was at No 1;s5 Bloomfied-st., Hoboken. just
why she adopted her eccentric mode OF hVlhs -
not known. She spent most of her time VIZ"
hooks From the time she became reci"se
tho front blinds of the house were never opeheu'
All the meals were cooked and prepared at d
restaurant not far from the house.
About two years ago the nelghbors pe'h'lie
convinced that because the blinds were always =
closed and apparently no repairs had ever pee'i
made to the house il must be unsanitsrE' 1he
Board of Health Informed and an inspector
WAS detailed to investigate. He was met AT the
6oo, h,- Mrs Staab who refused him ad-
mittancc .u . o,,
Last week Mrs Staab was taken Ill., ana on
Saturday for the first time a stranger entereu
her home He was a doctor. He found ner SUI :
fering from dropsy, and advised her removal 10
he hosnita1
New-York tribune., 1903-02-16
TO OPPOSE NEW EXCISE LAW.
Representatives of Temperance and Relig'
ious Bodies to Go to Albany To-day.

Representatives of several local temperance So
eieties and religious bodies are about to go 10
Albany in special train to oppose a bill pro-
viding for the opening of saloons certain hours
on Sunday. The bill which is to be considered
by committee of the Assembly, has the approval,
ii is said. not only of District Attorney jerome.
but of Bishop Potter, the Rev Dr. Rainsford and
others.
Colonel 3. +. Watson, of No AS Park
speaking for the Church Temperance Society, of
which he is chairman of the executive committee,
said last night:
I'VE have made thorough investigation of this
question. and have found that the people of this
CITY and State as a whole do not want the saloons
open at any time Sunday. Our society is liberal
in its views this subject, but We don't believe
it right that the saloon should be permitted
TO have much influence that they can control
the machinery of the city or State. There are
some eighty bishops and d great many clergymen
of the Episcopal Church. the majority of whom
are not in favor of keeping the saloon on
Sunday Bishop Potter has been. / believe, in
favor of a liberal enforcement of the law. and SO
have been few others"
New-York tribune., 1903-02-16
NO PARTNER IN OPEhA.
Mr.. Conyied Says He Alone mn
Be Head

All day yesterday Heinrich Conrled' t"c ~
rector of the Metropolitan Opera House Noiup. -
was busy receiving the congratolaton9 W
friends at his horne. No. 50 West seventy y-h So
t,a Vas en- busy he said hat he had not had time
IN consider further plans for the opera. 4,ii' -, -
riad announced definitely that there "ouiu o
ono head to the new opera conlpHns' anu -
tsaricb conrjea, thereby d;sposng of the ruif'ois
-. -, ,,ou,d associate with himself co-directof
.v to tho singers and conductors, Mr. Cohrieo sou
bo had not decided on any single one pu',
added .only the best is sood enough ioi 49,
York ,o ~. be
-. >r..boueA in the city. when opera Is not pe'"S
nroauced has always been a problem nus Pip ~
tem the new director has not had time 10 so pu'
he said last night: NO one put my 90
what shall be done -
ri7ad when IL became known that Mr. Conried
had obtained the lease of the Metropohiah oPei"
I4oDse will hold a meeting. MIR. Conrieo' 1eorse D.
Gould Jacob RI. Schiff. Henry Morgenthau' 'ai"e'
IT Hvde and William II. Mcintyre nave oeen
named directors Of the Heinrich Conried opera
COMPANY the new organization. To-day one Oh
the directors said four others will be CHOSEN. we
will try to organize he added. Tine Wnoie pio-
iect has moved so fast that we have hardly hao a
chance to settle anything. I haven't the least ioea
who the other directors will be. Ten times the
$50 900 named capital was offered, ana there
are SO many willing TO subscribe that only con-
sensus of opinion when we meet to-morro" "l'
decide. We snail Try 10 set 'oeo'"Vi :,
but it is possible that shall not be able 10 take
definite action them
As TO Mr. Conried's plans for opera, he ernpha-
sized yesterday that the best performers optall-
able would be chosen. but he believes that the
operas the thing Another innovation coh'erh-
plated in his plans the aboshing of the trips
from this city to Brooklyn and Phiadephia' "hicf'
Mr. Conried considers unfair to singers ana auui-
ences The repertoire will not be more GERMAN
than usual but works of all nations VIII DC pro-
NTH
operas possible
Mr. Conried intends TO continue managing MS
Irving Place Theatre as usual for the present re
does not know what provision will be made Tor us
future but his friends feel confident thaI so'n7
New-York tribune., 1903-02-16
DAMNABLE HEREsY, SAYS HILLS
He Thus Characterizes Statement THAT
This Is White Mans Country

That We might be saved from this new ,,s
damnabIe heresy that holds that this Is A WHIT.
mans country was the prayer offered bv d.
Newell Dwight Hills in Plymouth Church. Erook-
Iyn. last night. The prayer at the end If
a sermon on Lessons from the Birthday Of Ar,
ham Lincoln" In the sermon DR. Hills Ifd NOT
refer to the present condition OF the negro in tSs
South but spoke almost wholly OF the reli~Io..
side OF Lincoln's life In the hns prayer be said.
we ask Thee. o Lord. that Thou wilt raiss IN,
men who wsil from this and darnnatis
heresy that this IL white mars country snd
that there Is no place here for the black man.
raise up some widows son who is now at hjs
mothers knee to the task CT saving the bla1<
slaves not from the sftackles of iron bur from
the shackes OF prejudice. Save the black rars
from hatred; save the white from supercllious
Contempt: save the white man from his de1rada-
tion and lift him up until he learn 70 love
his fellow man. made in Gods own image"
New-York tribune., 1903-02-16
YOUNG SISTER HEhE-
She Lett Father of ConUicted Mr.
derer IN Europe.

Miss Mary Young sister OF William Hooper
Young who ON Friday was taken to sing oihs
Prison. where he is to serve HE seh'e"se iO'
the confessed murder OF Mrs Anna fuilt~ei'
arrived on the Philadelphia yesterday
Miss Youn, is the fancee of Harold EldredSe'
a nephew os senator-elect Reed Smoot, or Ctah
The wedding is expected to take place In tniS
city In the spring, some three weeks peiore
that of John w Young, the woman's father
Mr. FIdredge is high in Mormon Church circles
and Is now in Europe. doing missionary work
The two met in Paris, where~Miss Young was
with her father. He Is still in that city,
Where Miss Young went on leaving the pier
Yesterday could not be ascertained She could
not he found at any of the hotels. At NO. l"''
West Fifty -eghth-st., where John w. YOUNG
formerly lived, and where the murder OF the
Pulitzer woman was committed. 1T was said last
night that the Young family had left the mouse
the furniture being moved out on SATURDAY
Most of it had been taken to a storage ware
house but where one seemed TO know II
was said that Wesley Young brother OF MISS
Mary Young had been at the apartment as ia'e
New-York tribune., 1903-02-16
FREE RIDE HARD TO GET.
John Ford Suggests That Demand
For Return of Fare Be Made.

The natient long, suffering people of Manhattan
have been keenly interested in the announcement
that they are entitled TO free transportation on the
Manhattan Elevated Railway between 40 a. M
and D D. ul and p. and $50 a. m. If no seats
are obtainabe. But second thought theS nave
been puzzled know how to get these 1ree rlus-
When the West Side Citizens Transit Reform COM
mittee Of One Hundred, in its appeal to Attorney
General Cunneen said that there a clause in
the company's charter providing that the passen-
ger must carried free if no seat could be founo
for him outside of rush hours. old-tmers, grown
gray hanging 10 straps from Harlem to PARK
Place shook their heads sadly, mur1nuring- ON.
not The company's too foxy for that Less know
ing ones have been hopefully asking how they are
TO avail themselves of their right to ride seated or
free.
other Yesterday. Very well; but how am 10 get
my money back after I've given my ticket 10 get
on a crowded train? Go to ticket seller ana be
laughed at? Again. how am l to get on the tram
without paying my fare?' His friend agreed lnd'
it looked somewhat dubious
II shouldn't want to be thrown around the sta
ton by a porter and afterward turned over 10 a
policeman for not giving up my ticket, he SAID
If a free fare provision existed against the sur
face roads it would be easy to make a test case.
but with the elevated road persons have said
it would be impossible. When ex-senator John
Ford one of the Committee OF One Hundred, was
asked about this yesterday, he said;
Let the passenger refuse to pay his fare untii
he is sure of getting It's to the public.
YOU know That point hinges on the present meth
cd of collecting the tickets The Manhattan 3 Rail
way Company has not the shadow or rlSnt 10
make a person surrender his ticket before he Is
sure of transportation. even -
'.Tbe hest way to test this would be to surrender
the ticket then. if seat could be found 10 ASK
for of fare. which being retused Drls % SoirC
against the railroad The courts would certainly
have to decide in the passengers favor. because
that clause in the charter admits OF no denial An
other way would be to refuse to give up the tlcKeC
before of This would proDaDiy
involve arrest for disorderly conduct, and would
not be desirable. . .,. - .,,
'SThe railroad should collect the tickets on the
trains, out-the present way IS so mucn chettpeI!
Here one man collects the tickets; II they were
taken I'D on train. for each train, pos
sibly even conductors, would be necessary. II
is only another instance of the companys 5 over
riding all passengers rights ~, -.
I'VE believe that the Attorney General VIII take
nrompt action on the article submitted to MN,
but you suggest interesting point peheNe d
test case would win out in the courts -.
James S Lehmaer chairman of the committees,
indorsed Mr.. Ford's arguments heartily
New-York tribune., 1903-02-16
STRIKE OF COLORADO MILL MEN.
Three-fourths of Cripple Creek Mill Ore May
Be Tied Up.
fBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.

Colorado Springs Col, Feb. 15.-The strike of
the Standard mill employees, three hundred
strong ordered by the Western Federation of
Miners, began at midnight with the closing of
the mill. The strikers demand increased wages
for men getting less than SIS a day, that the
mill be unionized, and blackistng stopped.
The Standard is operated by the United States
Reduction and Refining Company, which owns
also the Colorado mill. The capacity of the
two equal to one-half Cripple Creeks mill
ore productions Besides these mills here the
company the Union and National and
Metallic mills at Florence. and the United
States smelling plant at Canon City, whose
total capacity is 5000 tons monthly. All these
plants may be closed, and in that event only
about - per cent. of the company's mill ore
could be treated.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-16
CLERGYMAN breaches TO SPIRITS.
MI Wendell. of Trenton, Admits It-Also a
Mesmerist and an Osteopath.
lRYI TELEGRAPH no rHE rRIBUNE. |

Trenton. Feb 15--The Rev. Hugo Wendell, pastor
of the largest German church in this city, will be
cited to appear before the Lutheran Synod to an
swer charge of heresy. if a request made TO that
body by members of mis- congregation is complied
with The beliefs OF Mr. Wendell challenged
by German newspaper published in this city.
which charged him with being spritualist and
quoted a number of his utterances to substantate
tho charge
Mr.. Wendell tonight denied that he a spirit
ualist in the accepted sense OF the term. but said
be did have communion with the spirit world.
Every day preach to the spirits for hours he
declared ''and when I through | always
very weak. | am ordained as minister of the
q preach whether in the flesh In
the spirit 1t is true Also he continued, that /
have practised osteopathy. / have diploma
doctor of mesmerism. Many persons have been
cured by my treatment without the use of drugs. "
New-York tribune., 1903-02-16
CHARGED WITH RoBBINe CIGAR STORE
Mrs. w H. Clark Also Said To Be Victim of
Clerk

Charged with the larceny OF goods from the
Trlttod Cigar Stores Company and also with having
in his possession jeWelry- young clerk who said
he Alexander Smith. employed at the Flatiron
suilding sterc of the company. and living at No II
West Nineteenth-st-. was arrested last evening
The prisouer employed the cigar store
To- six weeks. Recently presents given premi-
ums and stock have been missing. complaint
wss made Captain o'Reilly who put detectives
on the ca 81. In the prisoners were found
many of the missing things including a large
number Of cigars.
~ the station OF the detectives said that A
woman Who had jenelry worth sac wanted
the prisoner also. Among the articles lost were
ru.e diamond rings and a pcar-shaped diamond
mir The woman is Mrs. William II. Clark. OF No.
- West Tprenty-first-st., said to he tho widow of
ext ,r1,orafion Counsel Clark. The prisoner said
The jepelry part of il had been given TO him by
Mrs. Clark
Al me station il was said that the prisoner 8
real name was Alexander Thigpen-
New-York tribune., 1903-02-16
OCEAN RACE IN GILES
Phladel,,hia Beats Her old RiUal
the Lucaiild.

The American Line steamship 1h'aue'p
and the Cunard liner l|ucahia feacheu ''e'
piers yesterday after close hhSh anu o 'Voe'
trim The Lucania left Liverpool on Fepruary
ann the Philadelphia sailed from Southampton
on Tho same da,- Both encountered a series OF
GALES and high seas. on Friday the l3th' the
worst weather WAS encountered. On that oay
violent squalls followed each other, and the sea
was exceptionally high. On the same DAY 'ie
Philadelphia made 3S3 knots and the Lucahia
:S36
The vessels were in wireless communication
on the 11th when they sighted each other III
the afternoon. The Lucania soon passed ansau s,
aud was lost TO sight as night fell On SATURDAY
the Philadelphia caught up to the iIucahia az, ~
took the lead which she maintained 10 'he
lichfShip
New-York tribune., 1903-02-16
POLY" ALUMNI JUBILEE FUND.
They Will Try to Obtain s1o0yooo-The In
stitution's Plans for Moving

The fiffefh anniversary Of the Polytechnic lnsti-
tute Of Brooklyn win be observed year from
June The Alumni Association has determined 10
raise a Jubilee fund of 10000 which will be pre-
scented TO the trustees of the institute that oc
casion 10 assist them to carry out their plans for
TIE development OF the school. At meeting of
the Alumni Association Saturday night steps
were taken IL start the fund.
Tho frlteta..s of the Polytechnic Institute have
in mind a plan abandon the present site. In
gf.-inrsfop-sf and obtain 4 more suitable one I'm
2 less thjckly settled part of the city. Sites on
the Eastern Parkway have been considered, ana
sor,e AZ ftg~ trustees favor going far as
fftrhmo0d jiill in suitable place can De
found nearer The present buildings are ir the
f,e.y+ ~ IA. business district only short block
f-crn -Fulton-st- The site T. noisy one ano en-
.gr1i-, e55it43 10 scholastic pursuits There Is no
-.err <or ezransion snd not shadow Of 9
cs
New-York tribune., 1903-02-16
SAVANNAH LOSES GOOD SERVANTS.
Only Worthless Ones There Now; Those Of
Any Value Sent Here.
ley TELE inAPH TO THE TRIBUNE. ]

Savannah. Ga, Feb. 15-Several hundred negro
domestics of the better class have within the last
few months been sent to New-fork by an agent
here OF an employment bureau, leaving this city
with only inferior servants, and the police have
been called to stop the practice An almost
prohibitory license is placed or immigration agents
in every county in this State and the police have
local represen tative of the Newly ork
bureau that tbA license will be collected if any
more negroes sent North.
The sAnd1n/ Way of the negroes first called
to the attention. of the Mayor by the authorities of
New-York who comolained that many of the nc
eroes soon became public charges. The servants
however. being secured from other parts OF
the State and twenty shipped to-day from
here by
New-York tribune., 1903-02-16

as 10 o'clock last evening and had taksn .o,,.
OF the more fragile furnishings away win E,,,.
II was said that he had left word that he ,.,,is
be back there this forenoon for other things N
No one could be found about the ana rf,,,s,.
mouse WHO Knew or would tell where the Young
family had moved to The elevator bo,- 80
asked il there were not other Mormons Hvirs
in the house, that might know bur he sr,sIsS
and shook his head. and said.
NO they've all gone. We've got EN- all o,,, $.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-16
w. G. CALDWELL ABLE TO SIT UP.

Charleston, w. Va. Feb. 15.-W. C. Caldwell.
member of the legislature from Wheeling, and
chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. was
able TO get out of bed to-day, but he in bad
Nv battered condition He expects TO be in his
seat tomorrow the House of Deputies. 1t is
said that his colleag que from Ohio County. Mr..
Schpyabe will offer a resolution to investigate the
failure of local officials warrants on ID. X.
Hanna and John Winders. who are accused of as
sauting Mr.. Caldwell.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-16
DISAGREE ON GRAVE RoReIno CASE.

Indiana polls. Feb. i5.-After being out forty
eight hours the jury in the of DR. j. c. Alex
aiider failed to reach agreement and was dis
charged this morning. On the final ballot the vote
stood. eight for acquiia and tour for conviction.
The ATTORNEYS for the State have not decided what
they win do The ma jortv Of the tnrors say that
the question Of the sanity Of Cantrell received
little consideration.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-16
TALK OF A RECEIVER FOR AsBuRY BANK.

IRY TELEGRArH TO THE TRIBUNE.1
Asbury Park. n. j., Feb. 1a-unconfrmed rnmors
nre afloat that the stockholders of the First Ma
ttonaI Bank will ask the government to appoint
Edmund Wilson. Red Bank lawyer. receiver for
the institution. officials OF the Monmouth Trust
and safe Deposit comrsny today declared they
could not say phen the concern would open again.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-07-14
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Cheap Breeding Fowls.

July begins the dull season in the
sale of high priced birds and eggs.
Fanciers anxious to get old birds out
of the way to make room for the
younger breeds coming on will let go
of birds now at prices they would not
have considered earlier in the season.
AS the summer advances and fall
comes on these fowls will slip back TO
the old price, as would be right after
feeding caring or through tie season.
Now is a very good time to invest in
breeding birds. The chicks will be
late hatched. but will have good
start on thoroughbreds for another
year, aud If 1t was merely for a start
you bough. the thoroughbreds can
sell them further on in the year at
an advanced price. First Of July is
not too late to buy eggs If you are
prepared TO take care of late chicks
These last few years September and
October have been warmer months in
which to raise chickens than May and
June, and the late chicks grow fast
est and hesIthiest with US.