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Morris tribune., 1907-08-31

murder of Governor Goebel of Kentucky, has
offered to return to Kentucky and stand trial
under certain conditions which guarantee him
fair trial. Taylor has been in Indiana for
seven years, the governor. of that state refusing
to honor extraditon papers from Kentucky
Caleb Powers has been subject to series of
unfair trials in Kentucky for the same offence
and Taylor would have been very foolish to
submit himself to the same ordeal His present
offer will practically establish his innocence
before the bar of public opinion.
S +
Suit has been started against the Standard
Oil Co. in this state account of alleged dis
ordinations in the price of oil in the different
cities of the state. Prices have been made low
er in the cities where the Standard had to meet
the competition of the independents, and much
higher prices charged where there is COM
petition. The cold storage plants are guilty of
the same offense in their attempts to ruin the
local creameries. They pay good prices where
there is competition, and much lower prices
where there is It would be great bene-
fits to the farmers if the attorney general
would start some prosecutions along this line
also.
According to Senator Dubois, of Idaho, the
Mormons are fast becoming the balance of
power III the western states and unless their
ascendenCy in some way be checked there
is danger ahead as far as the political aspect in
that section of the country is concerned. Sea-
ator Dubois treated this subject in able ad-
dress delivered before the Aurora Chautauqu:
last week Monday. The senator said among
other things: "Plural marriages among the
Mormous performed by high officials of that
church in secret places, either in their temples
or in foreign countries, and the record is KEEP of
the plural marriages." continued the senator
"Unlawful cohabitation can be proven by cir
cumstantial evidence, the supreme court of the
United States having defined unlawful col1abi-
taton to be the holding out of the world, by
man, of more than one woman as his wife. The
leaders of the Mormon church exercise their
political power in order to protect themselves
in their polygamy, and when they found that
they had to go to the pententiary give up
polygamy they would give up polygamy and
with it their political power would disappear.
The Mormons absolutely control Utah now po-
litically, and United States senator governor
or congressman cannot be elected in Idaho or
Wyoming against the wishes of the Mormon
church. They are the great balance of power in
Oregon and will control the senators in
that state They are beginning to be very pow
erful in Nevada Unless checked they will be-
come the balance of power in the Senate Of the
United States. They have become an object of
solicitude to the great political parties and for
the first time in the history of the government
this Norman and polygamist question is becom-
ing question of partizan politics.
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WALSH TRIAL BEGINS.
Former Bank President Is Indicted on
100 Counts.

Chicago. Nov. 1.-THE trial of
John R. Walsh. former president of
the Chicago National bank, on the
charge of misapplication of funds of
that institution. commenced today in
the United States district court before
Judge A. B. Anderson. The indict-
ment under which the trial was
brought contains 160 counts. The Of
fense charged is punishable by a term
of from five to ten years in prison 1t
is believed that the trial will last
about one month.
The chief issue in the case is
whether or not Mr.. Walsh used the
funds of the bank to aid his own en-
terprises. 1t is also charged that Mr..
Walsh borrowed from his own bank
more than the legal amount of 10 per
cent of the capital stock. This trial.
however. will not touch upon this lat
ter question.
The defense will be somewhat of a
technical character. The government
claims that Mr.. Walsh substituted for
the money he is alleged to have taken
from the bank securities that were
doubtful. The defense will claim that
these securities were good and that
nobody ever lost a dollar because OF
them.
The greater part of today was con-
sumed in the selection of the jury.
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| in America and began action looking
to ways and means for the raising of a
sufficient fund to fight the present war
that its executive council reported had
been begun through the Manufactur-
! ers' association, with an available fund
of 81, 500, 900 on hand by the latter to
wage battle against organized labor
with particular aim by the Manufac-
turers' association against the efforts of
the American Federation of Labor.
The federation authorized President
Gompers to appoint special committees
for the consideration of both these queS-
tions, the committees to report during
the present sessions. President GomperS
also was authorized upon recommends
ton of the executive council and unani-
nous vote of the federation to appoint
a third special committee to provide
ways and means for the increased cir
culation of the American Federationist,
the official organ of the national body.
A resolution was presented by James
O'Connen, of Washington, calling for
report by committee of bill to be
presented to the next congress giving
the same relief at law to employees in
United States navy yards who may be
disabled by accident or to the heirs of
navy yard employees, who may be kill
ed while in the pursuit of their occupa-
ton as that enjoyed by persons employ
ed by private corporations. Another
resolution was presented by Mr.. O'Con-
nell asking congress to legalize the half
day holidays on Saturday during the
months of July, August and September,
which employees of all government navy
yards, naval stations, governmental
factories and arsenals have enjoyed by
proclamat ton of the president during
the past two years.
President Gompers again appears in
the role of politician. This time his en-
ergies have been directed against
Joseph G. Cannon, who will be candi-
date again for speaker of the house the
coming session of congress. A circular
letter has been sent out under the dt-
rection of President GomperS to the
20 600 local unions affiliated with the
national federation condemning Mr..
Cannon and to protest against his re-
election as speaker. This letter deals
with Mr.. Cannon's attitude toward
labor as far back as 1879, when he op-
posed the enforcement of the proclama-
tion issued by President Grant, but ig-
nored that the eight hour law for gov
ernment employees should be enforced
and That they be paid the rate of wages
they had been receiving for ten hours
Mr.. Gompers states that Mr.. Can
non voted against the safety appliance
law during the Fifty-seventh congress.
Mr. Cannon is credited in the circular
with forcing through the Fifty-n1nth
congress an amendment to the en-
ployer's liability bill, requiring parents
of an unmarried employe who was
killed to prove their dependency upon
him before they could recover dam
ages Mr. Gompers strongly urges Ia
bor organizations of the United States
to unite in condemning the speaker
ana what result this will have on Mr..
Cannon's presidential aspiration VIII
he awaited with interest.
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number of stockholders enrolled. Mr..
Carter says that the purchases average
not more than 20 or 80 shares to the in
dividual, that they appear to be for in
vestment rather than speculative pur-
poses, and that the orders come from
all parts of the country.
The transfer office of the United
States Steel corporation is a week be-
hind on its routine work The Union
Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads
report an increase in the number of
stockholders at the rate, since the first
of the month, of 300 a day. The Rock
Island road has opened between 500 and
600 new accounts in the last six weeks,
mostly in the common stock The num-
ber of stockholders of the Chicago Mil
waukee & St. Paul has increased by
500 in the last two weeks. The activity
in Pennsylvania railroad stock has
been so great of late that figures of
recent date are unobtainable
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SAME OLD PARDON.
1t Is Offered by the Defense in the
Caleb Powers Case.

Georgetown, KY, Nov. 12.-When the
case of Caleb Powers, charged with the
murder of Senator Goebel, was called
today it was found that many of the i'm
portant defense witnesses who were
absent yesterday causing a postpone
ment of the trial, were present and
Commonwealth Attorney Franklin, af-
ter the roll call of the witnesses,
promptly answered ready. AS soon as
Owens chief counsel for Powers. arose
and said:
Before the defense answers ready,
we desire to offer, as a plea of abate-
ment the pardon given the defendant
by Governor w. S. Taylor after the
commission of the crime"
Upon the request of Commonwealth
Attorney Franklin this document was
turned over to the attorneys for the
prosecution, who retired to examine it.
This is the same pardon which has
and which the courts have held invalid.
Judge Morris overruled the motion
for permission to file the plea and
pardon, after a vigorous objection by
the prosecution, the court holding
that the validity of the pardon was
not within the jurisdiction of the
court as the court of appeals had al
ready passed upon that question. The
defense, however, scored a point in
securing permission to make avOWal
of the pardon, thus getting that docu-
ment into the record over the en-
phatic objection of the prosecution,
which was allowed its exceptions. Con-
siderable argument was had on this
point and then court adjourned until
2 O'Clock, when the avowal with the
proof was filed.
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Man Who Swindled r.. A. Long
OF Kansas City
Is Believed to Be Under Arrest
at Pittsburg, Pa.
WORKING SAME GRAFT
Kept a List of His Victims In
His Grip.
Stung Him for $4,000" Op-
posite Levi p. Morton's Name.

ENtsDurg, Pa, Nov. 12-B. r
Smitn or FIT. Smith, Ark, is in taiI
mere on suspicion of having practiced
rorseries In various cities. Local a.
tectives assert that Smith Is wanted
IN kansas City, the Bankers aasoo,a-
ton OF that city Offering a reward 81
Sz'OoO for his arrest on charses Of
Forgery aggregating $4,000. Smith
registered here as Paul Hallowav. 9i.
plan' according to the detectives. was
TO secure from public libraries booL.
OF local biography from which he oh
.alneo portraits and facsimile sigma
lures of his intended victim. Select
ing one man as a victim his alleged
pan was to present forged endorse
ments from other prominent reas9-
money. Hee MN
In MS room was found a biography
oa1 Fennsylvania, with notes
oPposlte the names of prominent oan-
ltansts and the police believe he W..
apout ready to begin Operations here
Inere were also portraits and ri0na-
tn lures OF many New Yorkers. A visit
ing card and bogus letter from Chos
M. Schwab. 1t is alleged in4ro6ncad
smith to Levi p. Morton and onnosits
Mortons name is written: "StunE him
nar nor $4,ooo: Thomas A. Edison's
with ]. p. Morgan and the comment
on the great financier is: "Too ooi6s
could not touch him"
Known in Kansas City.
Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. IA man
known here as James M. Rfdrewav-
aas 6enton Smith, Is believed to be
Yesterday on charge of forgery. The
man was arrested in Denver severa1
months ago and returned to Kansss
lily TO stand trial on a charge Of
a
ISL. According to the charge Ride
way or Smith, represented to I-o1e
mat he would give him a write m IN
an eastern magazine and secured his
cneck for $3.50. The write up was NOT
Forthcoming, and the man was az
rested. At his preliminary hearing he
was released on bond. but failed fo
appear when his trial was called. !. IT
a small scale. No reward was ofvsrsd
for his arrest.
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A Woman Is Thrown and Another
Through a Mirror.

Greensburg. Pa, Nov. 12.-Passen-
ger train No. %, the Pennsylvania
special eastbound on the Pennsylvania
railway, was wrecked at 1925 this
morning at Larimer. IL miles east of
here, in q rear end collision with a
freight train. Brakeman Herbert
Scott of Derry sustained a broken
arm and was severely cut and bruised
One women was thrown through a
glass door and another through a
large mirror in a Pullman car and
both severely cut and bruised. These
three were brought to a hospital on
the relief train. Several others slight
ly injured were treated at the scene.
1t is alleged the towerman neglect
ed to throw the switch and the train
ran ahead, crashing into the freight
standing on that track. The passen-
ger cars were not seriously damaged.
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RICHER BY $3,OOO,OOO GOLD.
Money Scarcity VIII Not Last Much
Longer With Chicago Banks.

Chicago, Nov. 12.-With Chicago
banks the richer by nearly $500 900 in
gold, it is confidently stated that the
tension of the money scarcity will not
be prolonged beyond a few weeks.
While the banks continued to engage
more gold abroad the clearing house
rushed the work of getting out it's
''cashless checks in small denomina-
tious which will be used locally in lieu
of currency
1T was the general opinion at the
meeting of the clearing house that the
tension had been appreciably relieved"
said John J. Mitchell president of the
Illinois Trust and Savings bank. "All
of the gold reserve cities reported the
situation much improved. The report
from abroad is that London is getting
gold plentifully from the continent,
thus making it less difficult for Ameri-
ican. banks to engage gold in Great
Britain. I have engaged S500,0O more
making a total of So, 100000 for this
bank"
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DUE TO A SMOKER.
Fire in New Haven Hotel Costs Four
Lives.


New Haven, Conn.,, Nov 12-F1annea
sweeping through the servants rooms on
the NTH floor Of the Hotel Garde IN
meadow street, early today, burned to
death four employees, while a fifth NAV
not recover.
The dead:
Isaac Levinport.
John Usa, dishwater,
Jacob DUNN, check boy
Henry --, dishwasher
Four other employees were seriousIv
hurt, although many of them made
hasty exits through dense smoke by
means of the stair cases and fire es-
capes. The loss is upwards of S2O. 900
Miss Elizabeth G.. German, a sales
woman for Boston firm, and Frederick
H. Myer, son of the proprietor, both of
whom were i'll. were removed In safety.
The fire is thought to have started
from a smouldering cigar or cigarette
stub. few minutes after the guests
has been aroused, the flames were
spreading through the servants quart
ers and the flremen later found bodies
in that part of the building
The Hotel Garde is one of the best
known houses for travelling men in the
state and was filled with guests when
the fire broke out. Peter Antuzan. q
fireman at the hotel was taken to the
hospital but will recover.
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MRS. FISKE SPEAKS.
The Noted Actress Addresses the
American Humane Society.

Boston, Nov. 12.-The thirty-first an
nua1 convention of the American HUI
name society was begun in the First
Baptist church here today and will con-
tinue tomorrow and Thursday While
the first two days are given up mainly
to consideration of further work in an
imal protection, child labor juvenile
courts and other matters relating to
children will be given a thorough hear
ing and discussion in Tuesdays meet
ing Several papers read at the MORN
ing session were brief. The speakers
and their subjects were:
Clarence NJ. Abbott, special commits
sioner. Neglect of Range Stock in the
Northwest Mrs. Minnie Maddern
Fiske of New York, ''The Blacklist Stain
on Our Civilizations" James NJ. Smith,
general agent of the Rhode Island So
ciety, "Stock Transportation Abuses
and How to Avoid Them" Secretary
George H. Scott, Chicago, "Transporta-
tion of Poultry and Secretary Guy
Richardson, Boston. THE Work of the
Massachusetts Society for the Preven-
ton of Cruelty to Animals and the
American Humane Education Society,"
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BRYAN AND CANNON.
That Is the Way TIIIman Sizes Up
Next Years Ticket.

Danville. Ill, Nov. I'm an in
terview today. Senator Tillman Of
South Carolina, declared that Presf-
dent Roosevelt will not accept third
term and that Speaker Cannon will
be the Republican nominee.
Bryan" Mr.. Tillman said, will be
the Democratic nominee without a
doubt. He is the greatest living Dem
ocrat and the proper man to entrust
with the affairs of our government"
The senator declared that the pres
ent financial situation need not worry
the people.
This country" he said, "has reach
ed point in its prosperity where fin
ancial fiurries in the money centers
do not affect It,"
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EVERYTHING WAS RED.
Even the Speeches at Haymarket
Memorial Meeting.

Chicago, Nov 12.-One thousand
men and women representing IL trade
unions, singing, Turner'S and other So
cieties, gathered in Brands hall last
night to revere the memory of the
anarchists of the Haymarket riot The
hall was a creation of red decorations.
From the top box on either side of the
stage hung large red flags alongside
the Stars and Stripes.
Joseph Schmidt, treasurer of the
Haywood-Moyer Benefit association,
opened up the oratorical fireworks
with a flaming speech in German.
Music by an orchestra and choruses of
men and women followed. T. P.
Quinn, prominent as municipal own
ership agitator during the Dunno ad-
ministration, spoke in English.
"The five Haymarket heroes" he
said, "were martyrs of liberty-not
their liberty, but that of an enslaved
people. The policemen who raided
the Haymarket meeting violated every
principle that the men of rs laid
down their lives for. The man who
threw that bomb never was found.
We sometimes hear apologies for the
act but 1 never have been one of the
apologiZers-I never will be-.
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LAST OF THE MOHICANS
He Goes to the Poor Farm at His Own
Request.

Waterbury, Conn, Nov. 12.-Thomas
Ford, the last full blood Mohican In
dian few days ago became an inmate
of the Plainville town farm at his own
request.
DR.. Sunrise, a full blooded Oneida In
dian, who was in a pitiable condition
was also taken there, but after a few
days disappeared suddenly. 1t has been
learned that he is cared for by friends
DR.. Sunrise is a proud old medicine
man and was one of the powers of the
Oneida tribe many years ago. In Presi-
dent Lfncoln's administration he was
the presidents special envoy among the
Indian tribes through the west whom
he taught Christianity.
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PUTTING MONEY INTO STOCKS.
People of Small Means Are Not Hoard
ing Their Cash.

New York, Nov. 12-Brokerage houses
here, which make a speciality of dealing
in small lots of standard industrial and
railroad shares, continue to be swamp
ed with work, and houses with foreign
connections report a wave of buying
orders from Europe which is unprece-
dented- Probably the most striking
feature of the financial situation at
present is the big scale on which this
investment buying by persons with
small savings is going on.
James L. Carter. in charee of the
stock transfer department of j. P. Nor
gan & Co, is authority for the state
ment that in practically every import
ant railroad stock listed, the new stock
holders who have recently invested
their savings chiefly in small lots. rep
resent from 25 to so per cent Of the total
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THIS is THE ooLDEsr DAY.
Mercury Drops to Twenty-four De-
grees in Early Morning.

Today has been the coolest of the
season by several degrees and the
mercury did not get above the freez-
ing point until after noon and then
by but a single degree. That is not
the worst of it for this is the warmest
part of the state and the guess is that
the mercury is just few degrees
above the zero point in the north
western part of the state.
The cold in this locality has been
of the damp, muggy variety, though
the forecast indicates plenty of sun
shine for tomorrow and a welcome ad-
vance in the mercury. The wind has
been blowing from the west most of
today at the rate of eight miles an
hour and it has assisted in adding to
the disagreeableness of the day. The
temperatures for the daY were:
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WORKING OVER TIME AT MINT.
81 100000 in Gold Coin Delivered to
the SubtreasurY


Philadelphia, Pa, Nov. 12-The Unit
ed States mint today delivered $1,000
900 in gold double eagles to the sub
treasury in this city. 1t is stated that
within the next three months the mint
here will coin $52,000,000 in double
eagles.
This enormous amount of gold will be
distributed among the subtreasuries in
various parts of the country and will
be employed to relieve the money strin-
gency.
The local mint is well equipped to
contribute it's share of the shower of
gold that has begun to fall upon every
part of the United States. Many of its
employees are working overtime. how
ever, it being nightly occurrence for
coin hunters, adjusters and others, to
work as late as 10 o'clock, the usual
hour for quitting work being A o'clock.
New machinery has recently been in
stalled in the mint and its efficiency
was demonstrated in the operation of
the Split collar" a device for putting
stars on the edge of the newly designed
eagles. There are forty-six stars on
the edge of each piece because of the
approaching advent OF the new state of
Oklahoma to the union.
The machinery at the mint is capable
of grinding out four thousand of these
mint enough bullion for the manufac-
ture of 900 in double eagles but
more bullion from various sources is
being diverted to the big institution.
AS soon as $150,000 in half dollar
pieces and a similar amount in quar-
ters are sent out from the mint, within
a day or two the attention of the work.
ing force there will be devoted ex-
clusively to the task Of meeting the
for gold.
Small Bank Closes.
Chicago, Noy. 12.-The Ravenswood
Exchange bank a small institution in
the suburb of Ravenswood, closed its
doors today. The bank is small and has
no connection with the Chicago clear
ing house
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MRS. BLEAKLEY IS ILL.
Mother of Incubator Baby Suffering
From Nervous Prostration.

the Incubator baby and who has
been cited to appear in the United
States circuit court at 2 o'clock, on
November IS, is suffering from a ner-
vous breakdown as the result of the
trying experiences that she has been
going through of late in her attempt
to hold fast to her child. Mrs. Bleak
ley still remains in the city and ex-
poets the arrival of her mother, Mrs.
Ora Thompson, who has been of aid
to her daughter in the battle that she
has been waging to hold to her child.
Mrs. Thompson is generally credited
with being quite a strategist.
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COAL IS SCARCE.
Residents of Somerset. Neb.. Appeal to
Railway Commission.

Lincoln, Neb.. Nov. 12.-Asserting
that the cold weather has caused un-
told suffering on account of scarcity Of
coal, the residents of Somerset. Neb..
today appealed to the state railway
commission for relief. John w. Nc
Connell of Somerset declared he had
bought coal in Denver August 2, and
paid for it. The consignment was ship
ped October 10 and failed to arrive.
The railway commission decided to re-
quest the Burlington railway to supply
the town with coal at once.
Several other complaints have been
received.
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D. M. FERRY DEAD.
Was Overtaken by Heart Disease Dur
ing the Night.

Detroit Mich, Nov. 12.-Dexter NJ.
Ferry, head of the great seed house
which bears his name, was found dead
in bed at his home here today. He re-
tired last night in apparent good health
and died from heart disease during the
night.
Mr.. Ferry was chairman of the Re-
two years, delegate at large to the ma
tionaI Republican convention in 1902
and an unsuccessful candidate for tho
Republican nomination for governor in
1900, when the campaign was unusually
warm.