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Newport daily independent., 1906-02-24
GATES A CAME LOSER.
Story From Hot Springs Of iow Famous Specu!ator Plays Faro Fast ard
 ReCkiessly.

Hot Springs, Feb. 23. In one of the most spectacular plays at faro that have been seen here this season, John w. Gates, the new King of Wall street, lost between $10,OOO and $15, ,0O0 Wednesday evening. The news of his loss did not become gen. eralIy known until today, when it leaked out through attaches of rEe Arkansas Club, where Gates has been playing heavily since he arrived here.
 Gates and his party reached Hot Springs in a special car last week. The man, whose luck in stock speculations has been prac- ;ically invincible, started out at once to ''Buck the Tiger" He picked out the Arkansas Club as the field of operations.
 Every evening, after dinner, Gates could be seen at the club. On Wednesday he strolled into the place as usual. Taking a stand at the faro table, he began his sensational play. Chips at this table were being sold at $250 a stack.
 AND HE DIDN'T PAY A CENT.
 Gates bought S1,000 worth. Not cent did he produce. He did not even make memorandum of his purchase. All of that was done by the man who sold the chips.
 Gates lost his first $1,0O0 in less than a minute. He turned around to the croupier and got another s ,O00 worth. That also vanished like magic. For five minutes he played fast and furi- ously. At the end of that time he had lost just S10, ,000-f forty rounds of chips.
 After this short stretch of time his luck varied slightly, but he stopped between $10,000 and S15,00O to the bad on his even ing's play.
 While he stood at the table
 Geral of his friends were near
Newport daily independent., 1906-02-24

him, but they displayed no more concern over the event than he did, and he showed none at all. Hardly a word did he utter dur ing the time he was playing. When he spoke it was in guttural m0nosylables which no one save the c:oupier could understand.
 LIMITED AT ROULETTE.
 Mir. Gates is such a hard prop osition for the gambling fratern- ity here that he has been prac- tically barred from playing at roulette. At this game he usu- ally insists on doubling up and runs his bets as high as $l0O, GOO at clip. With the unlimited sums which he thus stands ready to place on his favorite color or number, it is almost an impossl- bility to get his money, and so the gamblers had to fix a limit for him. This he would not tolerate, hence he is now con- fning himself to faro. At the card game he is permitted to go as far as he likes, which is just what Mr. Gates wants.
Newport daily independent., 1906-02-24
Now Is Bas,y Today ?

Better, thank you Il fact, quite we'll. F2;. round and i.,. .oi fife and mischief. Pink and white flesh, dotted with dim ples. No cough, 10 indigestion.
 All on account Of
Newport daily independent., 1906-02-24
LIVERYMEN r FARMERS DRAYMtN

And all users of axle grease that want the best grease on the market and that recognize a good thing when shown it's merits, we recommend our Golden and Cas- tor Oil brands of Axle Grease. Il is put up in l pound tin boxes ard 3 pound tin buckets: For sale by all up-to-date merchants. ask for it and take no substitute. t is guaranteed to have no equal for quality on the market.
 WATERS=PiERCE
 OIL COMPANY.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-16
PANAMA CANAL
WILL HAVE LOCKS
Sea Level Proposition Is PraC-
tiCaliy Killed in House of
of Representatives.

Washington, June 15.-The house to-
day by a vote of 10 to Sc voted in
favor of a lock canal across the 18th
mus of Panama, the amendment to
this effect being presented by Repre-
sentative Littauer of New York.
With members Of congress sitting on
the short steps in the aisles of the
house. around the space IN groups, the
galleries filled and with Mr.. Burton OF
Ohio, pointer in hand, discussing charts
showing the difference between sea
level and lock canal. the house present
ed every appearance of a class room.
Mr.. Burton took position in front of
the maps and called attention 10 the
vital difference between the two types.
remarking that were the topography
understood it would be the very strong
est argument for the lock canal. He
said if the banks would not cave, if
large boats could go through without
running against rocks at the side and
could be properly steered. then a sea-
level canal would be the enterprise
which would be naturally preferred.
But such d canal. convenient for mod
ern shipping and prospective shipping,
would i'm the judgment of those who
haust twenty years or more in build
ing"
Mr. Bartlett of Georgia made a point
against the amendment Of Mr.. Littauer.
He insisted that the amendment was
clearly new legislation. and argued the
question from that premise.
The chair. Mr.. Watson on Indiana,
held the amendment in order. and with
out further discussion the Littauer
amendment was adopted.
If congress should send d measure
to President Roosevelt providing for
the construction OF a sea level canal
on the Isthmus Of Panama he would
veto it. This amendment is made by
authority.
The introduction by Representative
Iittauer today of the amendment to
the item in the sundry civil bill ap-
prOpriating twenty-five million dollars
to continue the construction Of the
Panama canal, providing that no part
of that sum shall b used in the con-
struction Of a sea level canal, was
done with the approval Of the presi-
dent.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-16
WIFE AND FRIEND
The MURDERER
Los Angeles Police Make Short
Work of Running Down
Foul Crime.

Los Angeles, June 15.-AccOrding to
the police, who claim to have a full
confession in their possession, +. J.
StackpJle and Mrs. Arila Scheck are
guilty of the murder Of the woman's
husband, Joseph Scheck, who was shot
and instantly killed in bed at mis- home
on San Julian street here at o'clock
yesterday morning. Mrs. Scheck
claimed that her husband was killed
by two burglars whom she found in the
room where she awoke and who fired
when her husband awakened.
Mrs. Scheck AMI StackpOIe were
locked up in Jail last night following
the COTOneT's inquest, and were cOnfin-
ed in separate cells. They were put
through a severe questioning by Chief
Of Detectives Flammer for four hours
today. at the conclusion of which the
authorities announced to the newspa-
peTs that they had secured a fun con-
fessiOn of the crime, which they could
not yet give TO the public.
The police were emphatic in their
statements that tie mystery had been
solved and that all Ct the details Of
the murder had been learned 1t is
expected that the district attorney will
issue warrants against the man and
woman this afternoon. charging them
with murder. StackpOle, who is a car
penter. 81 years Of age. had known
the family for several months and was
on intimate terms with both Mr.. ana
Mrs. Scheck.
was Mrs. Scheck implicated i'm the
Staying Of SCheck?" was asked of Cap
tain Flammer
Il cannot answer that question at
this time but you viii be safe in what
ever you may publish The evidence
we have is conclusive, yet we are not in
a position TO make the facts known
Just now"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-16
COOLED OFF AT NIGHT.
Editors Close Convention at Home
of Vice President.

indianapolis, June 1.-THE conven-
ton of the National Editorial associa-
ton closed today with a reception to
the visitors at the mime of Vice Presi-
dent and Mrs. Charles W Fairbanks.
The convention elected the following
officers: President. p. 3. Harner, Lex
inStOn, y. c.; second vice president,
Will II. Mayes. BTOWnWOOd, Texas;
third vice president. Avery g Moore,
WeiseT Idaho; corresponding Secre-
tary, William A. AshbrOok, JohnstOwn,
Ohio; recording secretary. J. w Cock
rum. Oakland. Ind; treasurer, William
A Steele, Seattle.
The delegates will leave tomorrow
morning for a four days tour of Indi-
ana which will end Wednesday at
Chicago. where they will be the guests
Of the Chicago Press club for that day.
continuing their outing by water to
Detroit and thence to Montreal and
Quebec
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-16
STORMS GATHER
OVER RUSSIA
Distracted Nation Once More
TrenbIeS on the Brink
of Revolution.

St. Petersburg. June 1j.-The press is
unanimous in its profound pessimism
over yesterdays events in the lower
house of parliament. The situation is
strained to the breaking point The at
tempt of the military prOcuratoT, Cen
eraI Pavloff. in behalf of war minister
Rudiger to shift the responsibility for
the military executions to the minister
of the interior. $ a palpable evasion of
the issue raised by the house and has
echoed throughout the country The
result is that storm of Indignation
has been aroused and is being aug
mented by the cool attempt of the gov
eminent to invade the inviOlability of
the members of parliament and its de
mand for the expulsion of NJ. UlianOff.
Whether the government dareS follow
up legally the refusal of the house to
expel NJ. CIianOff and its Haunting of
procuraJor Pavloff is now the question
Unless the government is definitely
resolved to give battle the GOrenykin
ministry must fall into the chasm be-
tween it and parliament. which is now
Uubridgeable.
NJ 'AIladin, leader Of the peasant
workmen group. openly boosted from
the rostrum yesterday that the death
of the ministers would be the country's
rejoinder to the governments refusal
to abolish the death penalty. Some
Of the papers believe that yesterdays
events definitely fOreshadOw the gov
ernnent's intention TO dissolve parlia-
ment and they emphasize the military
conspiracy of the officers of the guard
regiments which is progressing IN
checked before everybody's eyes, at the
capitol.
It is significant that the Novoe
Vren1Va. hitherto a thick and thin
supporter of the government is silent
today.
The Rech and the Strana, which its
liberal papers best keep their heads in
times of stress, sadly comment on
rapidly waning chances of an under
standing being removed between the
emperor and parliament. To consider
that the only hope now lies in the en-
perOr's discarding his evil advisers i'm
mediately and trying the experiment
of surrounding himself with repre-
sentatives of the people.
The agitation among the wOrkmen
here is increasing and several strikes
are already in operation. At a meet
fLe of 5000 social democratic workmen
last night it was declared that par
lament had engaged in futile talk for
a month and had done nothing and
that the wOrkmen must have recourse
to a general strike. Representatives of
the bakers announced that the bakeries
would be closed in a few days and that
the city would be without bread.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-16
Good Enough for Packers.

Doubtless it suits the packers, who
object to thorough going inspection,
much better than the senate amend
ment and / have no doubt that not
only the packers, but their allies in
business and those stock growers who
are influenced by them. would prefer it.
But I am convinced it would, in the
long run, be a heavy blow to the
honest stock raiser and the honest
packer to adopt these provisions rather
than the far better ones contained in
the senate amendment. for as COM
pared with the senate amendment this
proposed amendment, which you tell
me is that of the majority of the house
committee would hamper in the most
grossly improper fashion the secretary
of agriculture in doing the work which
you have appointed him to do, and
Will prevent even SO much Of this work
as can be done at all from being well
and thoroughly done
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-16
HILL BEST MARKsMAN.

i Washington. June 1.-THE complete
rHcords of rifle pistol and carbine fir
iTfZ- of the United States army for 1868.
which has just been published, shCW
Abraham Hill. sergeant in the tWeT-
ty-fourth infantry. stationed in the de-
partment of Dakota. 10 be the best
shot in the army. The percentage Of
POSSIBLE :hots made by Hill on slow
fire. timed fire and skirmish fire was
$3.50. The three others at the head
Of the list after MIN were Captain
Rufus z. Logan. eleventh infantry. de
partment Of Missouri S5-1; Sergeant
William A. CantTell, fifth infantry.
S467; Otto s. Hahn, sergeant in second
cavalry, department IF LuzOn. SL.67
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-16
EARTH STILL SHAKES.

san Francisco. Cal. June IA Sc
we're earthquake was felt here at 9:41
D. m. Tt lasted about five seconds. It
was probably not heavy enough to do
dana &c, though possibly it may have
caused some Of the walls of ruined
buildings TO fall.
Two more slight earthquake shocks
were experienced here at 1855 tonight.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-16

oh that Leander! Isn't he
the limit Tries to play golf
with Pepper, but of course he
gets off wrong. TomoTow's
Funny Section.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-16
CHANCE TO BUY TOWN LOTS
Uncle Sam to Hold Auction of Prop
erty in @uchesne, Nyton and
Randlett Tomorrow.

Washington, d. -, June IS. 1906
Government sale Of town lots in Du-
chesne Myton. and Randlett townships
TTintah Indian Reservation viii take
place at the land Office Vernal. Utah.
on July seventeen. These townsites
are located in Duchesne Valley near
the eastern boundary OF Utah.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-16
Swings the Big Stick.

IF the bill should go through in the
form that the majority of your COM
mittee proposes, it might be that
should sign il as working a certain
slight improvement over the present
law. but, if so, I should accompany it
by a memorandum explicitly stating
how grave the defects were, and I can
not even promise to sign it. because
the provisions about the courts, as well
as about other matters, are so bad
that. in my opinion, if they had been
deliberately designed TO prevent the
remedying of the evils complained of
they could not have been worse.
1T seems to me that the sUrest way
to keep our foreign trade and, in
deed, our interstate trade likewise
in a thoroughly unsatisfactory condi-
ton and to prevent its resuming
the position which it formerly had, is
to enact the law in the shape proposed
in the amendments submitted to me by
you.
Sincerely yours,
Theodore Roosevelt.
Hon. James w WadsWOTth, Chair
man Committee on Agriculture House
of Representatives
Committee on Agriculture. House Of
Representatives, Washington, D. g.,
June -, 1906.
Wadsworth Has His Inning.
MY Dear Mr.. President received
your letter last night. You are wrong,
very, very wrong, in your estimate of
the committees bill. It is as perfect
a piece of legislation to carry into
effect your own views in this question
as was ever prepared by a committee
of congress. Every member of the
committee is absolutely honest and
sincere as yourself in his desire to Sc
cure the passage Of a rigid meat in
spectiOn bill. They know the meaning
Of the English language.
ITO show you how unreliable the
information is upon which you base
your opinion Of the bill. I call your at
tentiOn to the following language in
your letter: There is no provision for
making the plants accessible at all
hours TO the inspectors
IF you will turn TO page 4 of the bill
copy enclOsed), line ,, you viii find
the following words: And for the pur-
pose Of such examination and inspec-
ton. said inspectors shall have access
at all times to every part of said es-
adjustments Can the English Ian
guage be made any plainer2
Turn also 70 page 6, line Is, and YOU
Will find this language: The secretary
of agriculture shall cause an examina-
Continued on Page 2.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-16

Always up-to-date.
Always newsy.
Always clean.
The Salt Lake Herald.
A Newspaper.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-16
What the President Says.

The correspondence between the
president and Mr.. WadswOTth is as fol-
lows.
The White House. Washington, June
H. 1906
My Dear Mr. WadswOTth:I have
gene over your bill very carefully, and
not only obtained a report from Mr.
MCCabe. as I told you l would. but also
obtained a report from Mr.. Reynolds
on it. I am sorry to say the more
closely I investigate your proposed
substitute the worse I find it Almost
every change is one for the worse; so
that it hardly seems necessary for me
to enumerate them. Perhaps the
amendment as you have now drafted it.
is not quite as bad as It was when
you submitted it TO me in the first
instance, but it is very, very bad
There seems to be one point in which
1t is possible that the amendment is
even worse than the original amend
ment if as seems likely. there is no
provision for making plants accessible
at all hours to the inspectors. In any
event 1 am sorry 10 have to say that
this strikes me as an amendment
which, I'd matter how unintentiOnally.
is framed so as to minimize the chance
of roofing out the evil in the packing
business.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-16

admitted that the Second South bid
was reasonable considering the engin-
GERS estimate
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-16
TEDDY SWINGS
HIS BIG STICK
Reads Riot Act to Committee of
House of RepreSen-
tatiVeS.
MUST HAVE OWN WAY
WARM EXCHANGE BETWEEN
PRESIDENT AND WADsWoRTH.

Washington, June 15.-Chairman
wadsworth of the house committee on
agriculture tonight made public the
correspondence between President
Roosevelt and himself regarding the
meat inspection bill prepared by the
committee.
The president in his letter says that
almost every change in the house
amendment was for the worse and in
his judgment so framed as to mimi
miZe the chance of roofing out the
evils in the packing business In his
reply Mr.. WadSWOTth declares the
president is very, very wrong" in his
estimate of the committees bill. calls
attention to provisions in the bill and
concludes with an expression of regret
that the president should feel justified
in impugning the competency of COM
mittee of the house of representatives
You have no warrant for IT" says Mr..
WadSWOTth in closing.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-21
Summary of News
(Continued)

Freddy Muth, 7-year-old son of a
rich Philadelphia, who was kidnapped
last week, is recovered by means of
a ruse on the part of the police and
newspapers, and his abductor is cap
tured.
Stockholders of the Equitable Life
Assurance society, by vote of 667
to so, authorize amended charter, pro-
viding for mutalization
Sweeping injunction issued by Judge
Quarles is served on striking molders
of Allis-Chalmers company
Samuel Gompers, at meeting of
the executive committee of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, denounces
congress for its failure to pass the
laws demanded by labor.
Senate passes a bill giving pen
sion of $50 per month to General
Bragg of Wisconsin.
President and house committee com
promise their differences and perfect
a meat inspection measure. The gov
eminent pays the cost; court review
omitted.
Senator Tillman makes vigorous
effort in the senate to force an in
vestigation of the Walsh bank failures
and severely criticises Comptroller
Ridgely. A letter from William Kent,
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-21

read In the debate, tells of excessive
loans long hidden Senator Hopkins
is chief spokesman for the defense.
Speaker Cannon, in a magazine ar
tlcle, says the country, instead of 60
ing to the dogs, was never more pros
porous, good or full of promise.
International Harvester company
and International Harvester company
OF America admit their guilt under
the Arkansas law, Of restraining COM
petition and agree to pay fines of $1O,-
900 each.
State Senator Parker declares in a
speech at the Life Underwriters ban
quet that the free electors of Amer
lea will not long permit the few to
tax them.
Plans for a scientific investigation
of the packing plants are agreed on
by the board of experts and work
Will begin today. A report is expected
in ten days.
Charges of wholesale graft in gov
eminent powder contracts are made
against the Du Pont combine. of which
Senator Dupont is the head, by Rob-
ert S. Waddell, a powder manufac-
turer of Peoria, in circular sent to
all members of congress.
Kansas is sending out the strongest
appeal in her history for men to work
in the harvest fields, it being estimat-
ed that $4,000 more toilers than now
are in sight will be needed to save the
wheat crop.
J. P. Morgan's new library and the
Spanish museum of Archer M. Hunt
ington, are now nearing completion in
New York.
Arthur w. Jeffray. scion of veal
thy New York family, runs away with
and secretly weds his first cousin.
New York janitor shoots and SER
iously wounds a careless tenant who
dropped a bottle of vinegar, narrowly
missing his wife.
Charges against President Roose-
welt made by Chancellor Day of SYRIA
cuse university are refuted and evils
of corporations are attacked by Bishop
Samuel Fallows. who breaches at the
University of Wisconsin.
National Editorial association tables
motion to ask congress to exempt edi-
tors from the anti-pass clause.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-21
CALL FOR POPULIST STATE
CONVENTION

| A state convention of the peoples
independent party of the state of Ne
| braska is hereby called to be con-
vened in the city of Lincoln, Neb., on
the 18th day of August, 1906, at 2
o'clock D. m. of said day with head
quarters at the Lindell hotel in said
city
The purpose of said convention is
to put in nomination candidates for
the following offices:
One United States senator
Governor
Lieutenant governor.
Three railway commissioners.
Secretary of state.
Auditor of public accounts.
State treasurer.
Superintendent of public instruc-
tiOn
Attorney general.
Commissioner of public lands and
buildings.
And to transact such other business
as may properly come before said
convention.
The various counties in the state
of Nebraska shall be represented in
said state convention by delegates
chosen in said counties at county
conventions held by delegates in the
peoples Independent party in said
counties, and said counties shall be
entitled to delegates at said state con-
vention in numbers as follows:
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-21
Secure Fresh Evidence

Craig-Court Attorney Taylor and
Sheriff Phipps are said to have Sc
cured fresh evidence against Jesse
Headley, who is being held on a
charge of numbering his father.
They are said to have discovered
on the Headley place a sort of cart
made of the running gear of all ele-
vator, with body Of boards. A wit
ness is said to have seen this cart
being trundled across the fields by the
Headley boys in the direction Of
where their fathers body was found
on the day he was murdered
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-21
Lincoln to Welcome Bryan

The people of Lincoln are prepar-
ing a monster reception to welcome
w. J. Bryan upon his return to the
city from his eastern travels. Mayor
Brown announced that arrangements
were already on foot to make the well
come home the greatest event ever
pulled off in Lincoln
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-21
New Candidate

York-Dr. J. B. Conway, ex-state
senator and one of the pioneer resi-
dents of the state, has announced HIM
self as candidate for governor on
the republican ticket
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-21
Platte County Convention

Coiumbus-The republican central
committee of Platte county has de.
cided to hold the republican county
convention on Thursday, August 2, at
the court house. There will be 116
delegates. The primaries occur on
Monday, July 30.