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BUSINESS CHANCE.

BUSINESS CHANCE-Good saloon, s,o0s an
other $3.50; grocery store, $500 Sl.1oo, Sl,SOl
CLAPP & co. Room % Baldwin block.
BUSINESS ASCE-For sale: Drug store;
doing good business: great chance for doctor.
invoice about $500. l.. CONFER, Goshen, IND.
BUSINESS CHANCE-We offer first-class fur
nished-room house. 20 rooms. doing $50 month
ly; rent only sos. See this. CLAHP < CO.
Room %. Baldwin block.
BUSINESS CHANCELLOR these over: Barber
shops from $500 TO 81, 500 all good locations
We have several good restaurants for sale chap
quick buyers. CLAPP * CO. Room p Bald
win block.
BUSINESS CHANCE-l00 LOTS FREE: first 100
applicants sending stamp will receive deed OF
a lot, size 25N100 feet, 70 advertise Westminster
Park suburb New York. 9th CENTURY
REALTY CO, s Wall St. ~. Y
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VIII Give Vaudeville show.

vaudeville show and dance will be
given by the degree team. Koerner Lodge.
No. ], / O. X. r.. at the South Side Tur-
ner Hall to-day. The entertainment will
be in charge OF DR.. Gustav Krumme.
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Cant. wirt's Birthday.

Capt Writ. who has been in the mail
service fer many years. celebrated his sew
enty-seventh birthday yesterday He col
lects mail in wagon and each day in all
kinds of weather covers forty miles
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CHICAGO. Jan SOP. f. Doyle. one OF
the prime movers in the organization of
the International Steam Engineers Union,
is dead at Mercy Hospital. Death was the
result Of an operation for appendicitis.
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LOST.


LOST-Fur boa Englishs. Saturday matinee.
Return 10 l26 W. Washington ST Reward
LOST-On Pennsylvania car. between Ohio and
New York SITS. plain black pOcketbOok con-
tanning a bunch of KEYS, some postage stamps
some street-car tickets and s.. 10 In money Find
or will please return 10 the Journal Office
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FUNERAL DIRECTCR-C. E KREGELO. III
22S n. Delaware ST Both Phones CSC
FLANNER g. BUCHANAN-sl0 N Ia. So. Both
Phones Cal. Lady attends all calls for ladies
and children. Automobile wagon insures prompt
ness.
New li6l ADAMS q KRIEGER Main lisa
Funeral directors. l5e n. IN Lady attendant.
TUTEWILER & SON.
Undertskers. l2S w Market st. Tel. 2is
JOHNSON. HASSLER q GEORGE. So Massa-
chusetts av. New phone. sos old. main 1899
FRANK A BLANCHARD Ureertaker ia N
Delaware ST Lady attendant Both Phones al
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
Old, Main sos A. NJ. RAGSDALE. New eos
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Private Ambulance Always Ready.
556 Massachusetts av
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NOTICE.

~ONNONNNON~NO,NN N>~~N~N~Nc1NNN|<~~
NoTICE-Justin A. kellogg. Counselor at Law.
NOTTCE-H F. KESTER, Clio Virginia av.. SAM
tery plumbing: special attention TO repair work.
Old phone. Main As5; new. 9165.
NOTICE-Have the leaks in the tin and slate
work of your house repaired by JOSEPH
GARDNER, 80 Kentucky av. Telephone 322.
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WATCH MAKERS AND JEWELLERS.
JEWEIRY-
Special Bargains in Diamonds for Christmas
watches. Clocks and Jewelry cheaper than ever
Victor Talking Machine. with 20 records, for
sale at bargain.
500 reward for watch can't repair.
Open every evening.
c. F. whitaker.
30 North Delaware 81.
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WANTED-For cash. secondhand power presses,
shears. punches. etc. Address Box 49, care
Journal
WANTED-Ladies and gentlemen-New begin
wishing to learn a good hrst-class dancing
act and get good start, call PROF RA1NO,
2S0 West Ohio street indianapolis. Phone lSs3,
Brown.
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Deaths.

John II. Jamison. 2liO North Senate avenue.
eighty years. Paralysis
John Wilbur Johnston. Wayne township. twelve
DAYS. hamilton
Edmon Martin. ISIS Roach street four months.
pneumonia
Patrick Henry Wood. 1a0S south Senate ave-
nue.. twenty-nine years mitral nsuffciency.
Martin Hale $50 Wayne street. ninsty-one
years. seniliIy
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FOR SALE-REAL ESTATE.

FOR SALE-REAL ESTATE.
,1ooooo10oo@
REAL EsTATE-JOHN woCHER & BRO. buy
and sell real estate. stocks and bonds. If in
terested see them.
REAL EsTATE-Insure with 8. 5. CRUISE. ''old
No ITO e. Markes.
REAL EsTATE-Bargain in s. state St; vacant
CO. ~ +. Market st.
REAL ESTATE-Fine home, large lot, S0xl5o,
CS 6 ~ aye Re M rear Twentyrst e
REAL EsTATE-Fine new double house. north.
Il rooms rent $500 good d. nsighborhood' $500
REAL ESTATE-very fine and substantial block.
second square Massaehusetts av.. only $4,000.
y. VI. RALSTON 1i3 r. Market.
REAL. EsTATE-Fine building lot on College
ave. Twenty-eighth; 30 66-ft front by
$50. c. F. sAYLEs & CO. 127 E. Market.
REAL ESTATE-Wanted-Fa in this and adj
Joining counties, 40 to 50 acres, for many cash
buyers. NJ ARBUCKLE. 424 Lemcke block
REAL ESTATE-Fine up-to-date n. Meridian
st. home, rooms, center hall, $1,000 take
smaller as part. b. NJ. RALSTON, 143 E. Mar
FOR SALE OR TRADE-25-acre farm, about
miles north of city; house rooms, barn.
corn crib. springs. c. F. SAYLES & CO., 127
East Market st.
REAL ESTATE-An elegant i0-roOm modern
o on best o street 2P N9 s s9e ToR at
by Fet. 8. BAKER & LEPPERT, 485 Lemcke.
REAL ESTATE-For Sale-12O acres nice level
10 rooms large barn ten miles southeast: price
so per acre NJ. ARBUCKLE, 424 Lemcke block.
FOR SALE-Rich white river bottom farm. $50
acres. three miles south OF Indianapolis: price,
$3.50 per acre. well worth 500; belongs to heirs;
must sell NJ. ARBUCKLE, 424 Lemeke block.
REAL ESTATE-For Sale-One Of the best sites
in the city for a fiat; n. Alabama st. No.
2ls; lot SOxlS5 price. $4,000 for a short time
only. JOHN WOCHER & BRO, 20 n. Pennsyl
vania st.
REAL ESTATE-For Sale-One of the finest
homes on Central av corner lot, Sox2io; brick
house. twelve rooms two bathrooms; modern;
$3.50 JOHN WOCHER * BRO, % n. Penn
sylvania st.
REAL ESTATE-For Sale-Good residence. mod
improvements. on Broadway south Of Thir
tenth St; lot. S1xl67; worth $4,000; will take
S12. 500 if sold at JOHN WOCHER & BRO,
% n. Pennsylvania st.
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THE DAILY RECORD OF
TRANSFERS., MORTGAGES

The following figures show the daily
record Of real-estate transfers, realizes
tate mortgages and building permits:
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Business Exchange
81 FITZGERALD BUILDING
FOR Observation-Disclosures.


FOR SALE-Or rent: Invalid and reclining
chairs w. D. ALLISON CO.. 9o5 N Alabama
FOR SALE-Scales Trunks, Fire Proof Safes.
FOR SALE
Typewriters, all makes, s. up.
Machines rented, $3.50 per month.
TYPEWRITER EXCHANGE. % Monument pi.
FOR SALG-A restaurant, serving 80 TO 200
dinners daily; everything new close TO three
large factories; cheap if sold soon THE BUSI-
NESS EXCHANGE, 61 Fitzgerald building.
FOR SALE
A CARD LIKE THIS
Every Sunday for one year costs but 81 s5 per
month The Journal want page Is profitable to
the advertiser and reader.
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MONUMENTS.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS.

M0NUMENTS-A DlENER. 4p T. washington.
Tel 2525. Branch works Z. entrance Crown IAN.
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AUCTION SALE-G. ". McCurdy, real estate
and general auctloneeE. No. 2i5 West Wash
ington.
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All advertisements inserted in these columns
are charged a. the very low rate of cents a
line Blank dash lines at the Same price per
line. Telephone 23s and your ad will be called
fer.
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JOURNAL BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

FLORISTS
BERTERMANN BROS
New No. 2i1 Mass av-- z2s N Del ST Tel. $40.
SALE AND LIVERY STABLES
HORACE WOOD. Carriages Trans puck-
boards. etc) % Circle Tel Ioe7
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SUNDAY CHURCH SERVICES.
SpirituaIfsn.

THE FIRST SPIRITUAL.IST CHURCH-Corner
Alabama and New York streets. SUNDAY serv-
Ices at lO:45 IN. and 7:f5 p m. Mrs. Nellie s
Ncyes or Boston, insprational speaker, gives
paper and bring same to church Sunday evening
Mrs Noyes viii answer them. All welcome
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FOR RENT
FOR RENT.

EOh RENT.
FOR RENT-Iarge dining room and kitchen In
house where there are 26 roOmers. Inquire 80.
y. Illinois 81.
FOR RENT-Desk or office room with use of
phones, messenger calls and electric lights;
reasonable. 632 Newton Claypool Building
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VITAL sTATIsTICs-JAN. 80.


Patrick and Katie Gainlar. SIs Nickel street.
boz.
Mr. and Mrs Jacob vvhltstine. ris shelby
street, girl
O c. and Martha Bell. s0i West Vermont
street. boy.
John and Ida Pierson. 12os South illinois
street. boy.
Ed. ana Bertha AlmsaeId. 2iss Pleasant
street. boy.
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INDIANA TRUST co.

SELLS REAL ESTATE.
COLLECTS RENTS.
WRITES FIRE INSURANCE.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-23
No Battle in Panama.

PANAMA. Oct. 22.-General Davis,
Governor of the Panama Canal zone,
authorizes the press to deny the re-
port of disturbances at Culebra or at
any place in the zone or in its vicinity.
President Amador confirms General
Davis statement.
COLON, Oct. 22.-OfficiaI investiga-
ton by the military authorities dis
closes the fact that the reported pres
ence of armed men at Culebra is un-
true.
WASHINGTON, Oct 22-Modifica-
ton of the Hay-Bunau VariIla canal
treaty in several important respects
and the negotiation between the
Washington and the Panama Govern
ments of supplementary commercial
treaty, granting to Panama important
concessions, is what the Panamaians
hope to obtain as result of Secretary
Taft's mission to the isthmus, accord
ing to a statement made tonight by
Senior Obaldia, the Panama Minister at
washington .4---r-e- :
Widespread enthusiasm has been
aroused on the isthmus." said the
Minister. 'by the publication of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's letter to Secretary
Taft. President Amador has cabled me
that he has proclaimed this letter
throughout the isthmus, and that the
tide Of grateful feeling has already
turned in favor of the United States.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-23
FOOBALL PLAYER KID
NAPED BY A RIVAL
COLLEGE.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

OMAHA. Oct 22.-Because Alfred
Cooper, right tackle of the Bellevue
College football team. was expected to
win to-day's game with Creighton Uni
versity Of Omaha, he was last night
kidnapped by students OF the medical
department Of the latter school and
was kept in confinement all night.
Just before the game today his
whereabouts became known to the
Bellevue people and his release was
demanded by the president, on pain Of
the withdrawal of the Bellevue team.
Cooper was released, but was unable
to take part in the contest and his
team lost
Cooper's capture was effected by a
ruse and he was taken in q hack to a
vacant house. With irons on wrists
and ankles. he was guarded all night
At one time he escaped but was re-
captured
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-23
GERMAN SPIES SAID
TO INFEST ENGLAND
Activity of the Kaiser's Agents
Alarms Great Britain.
Special Dispatch to The CAN

LONDON, Oct. 22.-Germany's mill
tary and naval plans concerning Eng
land are causing renewed discussion in
authoritative quarters owing to REPORTS
that coast towns are infested with
agents Of the German army and navy
in the guise Of common statesmen. 1t is
alleged that these agents are making
photographic and topographic maps,
ascertaining number and disposition of
British troops and locating the main
depots of ammunition and supplies 1t
is said that the Investigations of the
Teutons extended to the islands about
the British coasts and all the neigh
boring waters that the Kaiser might
have occasion to use in effecting an in
vasion Of this country
1T is no longer naval and military
men alone whom this German peril dis
turbs," said a colonel in the regular
army today. 'It is beginning to tell
upon the ministry and on every obser-
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-23
BIG DISCREPANCY BETWEEN
ESTIMATES AND RETURNS

NEW YORK, Oct. 22-The F1nancier
says: The feature OF the official state
rnent Of the New York Associated
Banks last week was the remarkable
discrepancy between the cash move
rnent as reported IN the statement and
that which was estimated upon the
basis OF the traceable changes In this
item during the week, the official re-
turn showing a gain of s3,5S5, 500 while
the estimates indicated a loss Of s23e. =
300. Inssmuch as In the previous week
there was quite as remarkable discrep-
ancy between the officially reported
and the estimated movement of cash.
the former showing a gain Of s311, 400,
while the latter recorded an increase Of
s., ,S75. .o00-it seems probable that the
discrepancy last week was due TO the
adjustment OF averages in the cash
item. q large part Of the gain In the
previous week, as shown by the esti-
mates. being brought over into last
week.
II also appears likely that the re-
R1arkably large increase last week was
due 10 the unrecorded movements OF
money hitherto from the interior or the
ADEEuLE o. flLL44 !" cLlE Oh LuuQS DI H.
stftutions IN neighboring cities because
OF the opportunities offered patrons Of
these banks for speculation in the
booming stock market Deposits were
increased last week by ss,55s, 900, as the
result OF which the required reserve
was augmented $1.6ss. $50; deducting
this sum from the gain Of 81. .5s5. 500
cash as above, left 81. SGT. .o50 as the in
crease in surplus reserves to 81, ,S53, ,925,
against s17.s44450 year ago. Com
puted upon the basis Of deposits less
those Of So. 30. 200 public funds. the
surplus is $2S.eS4,475. Loans were ex-
banded s., 3,e17. 600. probably rejecting
borrowing incident TO the stock specu-
lation. The statement made a bad
proof. the sum Of the increase in loans
and OF the gain in cash being sS93. 500
greater than the increase in deposits.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-23

power. therefore propose q toast to
two distinguished men Of America,
President Roosevelt and President
Diaz.,,''
After the toasts were heartily down
ed Collector F. S. Stratton followed
with a short address. He reviewed
mainly the great Presidents OF Amer
lea. both of the United States and
Mexico. He dwelt extensively. how
ever, on the career and work of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and the work Of the
United States and Mexico in the CIV
ilizing and advancing Of the worlds
interests He finished by reviewing
the connection between the history Of
California and Mexico and a hope that
the friendship of the United States
and Mexico would continue forever.
PERKINS GREAT HIT.
Consul General of Mexico Cayetano
Romero responded In a short speech to
the toast to President Diaz. He was
followed by Senator Perkins, who
spoke as follows:
Mr.. President Honored Guests, and
Friends: I esteem 1t a great privilege
to have the honor Of joining with the
people Of California in welcoming to
our State the distinguished Vice Presi-
dent. the ambassador. Secretary Of the
Treasury, and General Of the Army, OF
our sister republic OF Mexico. We are
glad to greet and salute them in our
homes, and assure them. as our neigh
bors and friends, that they have a very
warm place in our hearts
The sentiment proposed. Our Cor
dial Relations with the Republic Of
Mexico finds a tender, responsive echo
in the hearts Of our people. and our
National Government at Washington
is most desfrous OF maintaining these
very pleasant relations During all the
years that your very able ambassador.
Hon. Don Matias Romero. represented
the Mexican Government at our ma
tional capital he was welcomed at the
White House and Department Of State
| by the several administrations as If he
were to the manor born: and his death
was mourned by our people with the
same sorrow as that felt BY his own
ceuntrymen.
THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT.
THE existing treaties between Mex
/ leo and the United States breathe the
comfy, amity and courteous friend
ship, that should characterize two re-
publics. whose mission 1t is to promote
I the welfare of their people. These treat
les ratified by both Governments en-
brace those tokens OF honor and respect
which are due between nations on the
I ground Of right and justice There is,
however. a strong bond Of sympathy
between the Mexican form OF govern
ment and our own Your constitution,
adopted forty-seven years ago. and
continued In force with few amend
ments, is similar TO our own. and the
/ Mexicans. like the Americans. love and
reverence their constitution. the great,
fundamental law Of the land. Your
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-23
Presidents Prompt
Action Stops
Trouble.
DiSturberS in Indian Ter
ritCry Are Placed
Under Arrest.
Federal Agent DispIssseS Whites by
Giving LO Square Deal and Is
Severely Beaten
Special Dispatch to The CAN

CALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON,
WASHINGTON, oct. 22.-It was stat
ed al the Interior Department to-day
that the threatened land war on the
Choctaw and Chickasaw reservations
in Indian Territory has been stamped
out by prompt action on the part Of
Government officials. personally di-
rected by the President.
There has been considerable grum-
bling OF late among the white people
Of the Territory directed against Col
onel Charles H. Shepherd, chairman
Of the townsite commission 10 ap-
praise sites in the Choctaw nation. 1t
was alleged that Colonel Shepherd ap-
praised lots too high The trouble
eliminated about a week ago. when
Shepherd was enticed some distance
from town and severely beaten. He
was left for dead. but after regaining
consciousness managed to crawl back
10 his hotel.
The matter was reported TO Wash
ington at once and taken to the Pres
ident Colonel Shepherd is an old
soldier and was at one time COM
mandant Of the Soldiers Home at
Bath. y. Y He is a friend and per-
sonai appointee of the President. Mr..
Roosevelt Immediately ordered an in
vestigation and the arrest and pros
ecution Of the guilty parties
The assailants have not been appre-
hended. but Colonel Shepherd report
ed their names as Wilcox and Engles.
He said they knocked him down,
jumped on his face, kicked out three
teeth and bruised him so that his eyes
were swollen shut for some time
Colonel Shepherd also reported that
his sale Of lots at Hugo was interrupt
ed and interfered with by an tnsolent
crowd, headed by Mayor Jones Of that
city and r S. Overstreet, one of the
leading citizens. These men openly
advised all who attended the sale not
10 buy. saying that they would buy
q lawsuit with each lot They caused
this statement also 10 be printed in
Paris, Tex, newspapers
Overstreet and another leader Of
the mob named Charles Dick were
arrested Overstreet pleaded guilty to
the charge Of disturbing the peace and
was fined $50 and costs. Dick gave
bail and his trial will be held Mon
day.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-23
DENIzENS OF THE DEEP
FIGHT BATTLE TO
THE DEATH.
Special Dispatch to Tn. Call.

PORTLAND. Oct. 22.-A report
here tells of battle to the death
between a sea lion and an octopus.
The battle was witnessed by the
keeper of the lighthouse at Northwest
Seal Rock. near Crescent City, Cal.
The fight occurred close to the light
house.
The water was first seen to be vio-
lently churned up, then a sea lion rose
to the surface. The tentacIes of a
huge octopus were wound about the
lions body in death grip, render
ing futile its every effort to escape.
Finally the lion turned and bit off
one of the tentacles and devoured it.
The process was continued until every
arm was gone, when the lion pro-
ceeded to gorge itself upon its van
quished foe- Other sea lions seized
upon the carcass and it was soon de-
voured-
The octopus was fully twelve feet in
diameter
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-23
Paid Agent Spends Large Sums
in Futile Quest Of Information
DerOgatOry to Mr.. Roosevelt
Sensation Fails to Develop
Special Dispatch to The Call.

revolution, but to obtain this would
require considerable money. Smythe
made draft on the Democratic COM
mittee, which, the representatives OF
President Roosevelt discovered, was
paid in full. This expenditure of money
proved futile, for the expected sensa-
ton did not materialize.
Ii is evident that President Roose-
yelt indorses the conduct Of Barrett
in Panama despite the doubts cast
upon his negotiations by Obaldia, the
Minister of Panama. President Roose-
welt to-day gave personal instructions
to Barrett to return to Panama on
November 10 to make preparations for
the visit of Secretary Taft, one week
later
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-23

yer Of any competence in England. 1t
accounts for the repeated warnings of
the National Review, Nineteenth Cen
tury, Fortnightly, Spectator, Times and
minor organs Of public opinion 1t ac-
counts for the extraordinarily lavish
decoration of the Nelson Monument
this year.
Kaiser Wilhelm's strenuous naval
and military policy, his strong pro-
Russian activities, and the threatening
ambiguity of his attitude with regard
to the foremost questions Of world
politics to-day may in reality contem-
plate no harm to Britain, but they en-
gender uneasiness here like that
created in Berlin by Frances formation
of a fourth battalion after the Franco
Prussian war. Britain is compelled to
shape its policy with marked reference
to the Kaiser's bold and enigmatic
mind and the vast and warlike ma
chine that mind is destined to direct !"
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-23
Narr omcer Die in ItaIr.

FLORENCE. Italy, Oct. 2z.-John
Livingston Dinwiddie Borthwick,
chief engineer in the United States
navy (renred), with the rank Of lieu
tenant commander. died here to-day
from nervous prostration. Engineer
Borthwick was 81 years OF age. He
viii be buried at Sorrento.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-23

CALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON,
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.-Clifford Fl.
smythe, who was American Consul at
Cartagena, Colombia. in the second
Cleveland administration, is declared
here TO be acting as a Democratic
agent in Panama The State Depart
ment is in possession of information
which, it is asserted. viii enable it to
smother any attempts OF the Demo-
Gratis TO show that President Roose-
welt conntved At the revolution which
made Panama free. For several weeks
every effort has been made to nulIify
the search Of Smythe for documentary
evidence damaging to the administra-
ton.
Smythe, il is declared, appeared in
Panama last month, ostensibly to
investigate the Panama situation for
a syndicate of American newspapers.
He was received cordially by the
American officials. He let drop some
remarks which caused the authorities
to closely watch the character of the
information he gathered. Nothing par
ucularly suspicious was discovered
until Minister Barrett returned to the
United States
CABLEGRAAIS GO ASTRAY.
When Barrett arrived at the state
Department he was asked WHO is
Smythe?" and was told that a certain
Government official outside the State
Department had received from Smythe
cipher dispatches which had been in
tended for George Parker, chief of the
literary bureau of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee. The dispatches were
In the regular telegraph cipher of 1901
and il was no trouble to translate
them Barrett said he knew Smythe,
and suggested that the dispatches con-
tanned Information for the Democrats
National Committee.
1t is authoritativeIy stated that one
OF the dispatches informed Parker that
Smythe had sent an agent to Bogota
10 search for information damaging to
President Roosevelt, and that ne was
on the track OF strong documentary
evidence in Panama which would con-
yict the President OF completely in the